July 17, 2025 • 30 mins
A comedy-variety show featuring the titular comedian's array of characters and sketches, delivering laughter through slapstick and satire. The show's humor appeals to a broad audience.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
When Santa Clark comes around your way, I hope that
he will bring Norge applying for your home, and then
you two will sing. You won't know what you're missing
if you don't see Norge.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Transcribe from Hollywood. Norge a division of borg Waner, manufacturers
of America's most modern automatic and ringer washers, gas and
electric ranges, water heaters and home freezers originators, and world's
largest manufacturers of self defrosting refrigerators. Norge presents The Red
Skelton Radio Show with Red Skelton, David Rose and his orchestra,
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Lorene Puddle, Pat McCain.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And Jane Tuter.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Will be me Rod O'Connor, and now the star of
our program, the Man with the station Wagon, Physike and
the Convertible Face.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
MGM's clown, Red Skelton.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
The characters in our show are fictional. Any similarity to
persons living would be better off dead.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Problem.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
The Skelton scrap Book of Satire a story entitled the
Little Christmas Tree.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Well, we'd better get into the theater and get things
ready for our Christmas show.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Hey, look who's coming down the street. Oh, yes, the
start of our show.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Junior.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, his mother's sure like she's had her hands full,
doesn't she.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yes, well, I'll go in and get the costumes ready.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ye, I'll go around and run up the actors.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Don't sell me like that.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Now, wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
You're the star of the Christmas pageant and you don't
want to be late.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't want to be in it to begin with.
That stuff is sissy stuff. Why playing with girls.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And stuff like that? If it ever gets back in
the sunk patrol, I'll be demoted from a stinker.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
To a sniff. You should be proud to be in
the show. I'm not.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
What is there to be afraid.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Of the audience?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's why who're afraid of make say out there him
big eyes staring at you.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
You never know if they've got apples your thing, they're
gonna pro at you or not. Boy, I hate my mind.
I'm not going to the play. Oh yes, you are,
your lad, I'm not you. You Let meet the other
under a bank man head on the sidewalk. You're wasting
your time, junior. We've been trying to pound something into
your head for years.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
You'll love I'm telling you better stop acting like this.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
If Sandy hears about it, well that's all.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, maybe he won't come this year. Maybe he's still
stuck in the chimney.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I put bear trapping their la years. Oh okay, I
know what Pop bought you for Christmas?
Speaker 8 (03:07):
You know that big bottle of perfume.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That's sixty dollars bottled.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Oh no, he shouldn't have.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
He didn't. I'm here at the stage door.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
How careful going up the stairs?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Pale blubber boy?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh there you are. We've been waiting for you.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do you know your lines?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Do?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I know them? Frontward and backward?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Good?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
But I'm so scared your public.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I'm outside way.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
El Loreen and jur Well here's your Christmas tree costume?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Those lights work?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yes they do?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Oh good, this is one Christmas I can get lit
up before Pop done.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
These the wires don't have any shorts in them? Do they?
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I have short done?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
He wouldn't want Junior to get electrocuted.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Oh good, heavens no, he's wearing his good suit.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well shall we get dressed?
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Unr?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Why did I have to be a Christmas tree? Why
couldn't that be a widowing you?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Oh you dreamer?
Speaker 8 (04:03):
You there you are?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Now see how it fits?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Right, over your head, Rick, how I look?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Wait the mirror, Wait the mirror, le michi qui he
meet me? Let you sticking out?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Well, they're supposed to. They're supposed to be the tree drunk.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh, it's a quick time you ever saw, not need dat.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You knew you behave You're on right after Jeane Cuter
does her number When the World Was Young, David Rose
and the orchestra will play for her.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
They call me coquette and mademoiselle. And I think I
like it, Yes, quite well. It's something to be the
dawning of all the ground.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Up the bell of a ball.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
There's another place as gay as hoy.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
There's another wor.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
MOPy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I love what I do and I love.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
What I see.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
But where is the school girl that you used to be?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
The about.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Swan little memory.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
Of s.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Or Maxley's.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Talking of scar Who the stars were strong?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Aly last Long?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Where the world was Papia A reason j PO shot twenty.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Hesapmation anaser called the Confiderlation.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Salzachord, You love.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Love All.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Shocks the dream.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
If any wives are listening, will you please cover your
ears tightly now so you can't hear me. This is
for husbands only. How about being a really generous Santa
Claus this year? How about trading in your old refrigerator
on a beautiful new Norge Jet self defroster. There's a
gift that will keep on giving year after year. For
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everything Norge makes, Norge makes right. It's a division of
borg Warner, you know. As for the features women wanting refrigerators,
this Norge has them. For instance, in a recent survey
of ten thousand readers of McCall's magazine, women ranked in
order the five features they wanted most. They were automatically frosting,
a fresh meat drawer, a full wit fraezer, adjustable height shells,
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and moist cold for fresh foods. The Norse Jet South
defroster has all five, plus other features women ask for,
including room for a dozen quart bottles. It's still not
too late to visit your Norge dealer, and you won't
know what you're missing if you don't see Nords.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Here ye, here ye.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Tis time for a Christmas story.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Our story begins in the forest.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Where giant red words and tiny fir trees grow.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
This story is of a little Christmas tree who heard
a voice in the whispering winds.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Each living thing is here to serve a purpose. Now
you are growing in mother Nature's storehouse, But soon man
will come and take you away. Some will become houses, churches, furniture.
But regardless of how you may be used, remember it
is my will that you serve well.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
And one day two men did come into our peaceful
little forest, and they rode in on horseback. They were
all tired and dirty.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
They were.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Who or come work?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Sid Why don't you say stop?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
That's why I didn't say stop.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Are you okay?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah? Help me get my head off of this gooper hole.
You gotta gopher. I'm in this hole over here.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Hey, why don't you get rid of that stupid horse?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
This is silver, brother, old stainless steel.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You know. Every year around this time, I get a feeling.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like I'd like to give something away, but I ain't
got nothing to give. I think I'll go over to
the bank and get some money and give you half
of it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The bank is closed.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I wasn't going to make out a withdraws.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Then, I why dont your reform and take home an
honest man's page.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I will you show me where he hides and I'll
take it home. One thing I'm honest about. That's fighting.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well, how about that horseleef? I hear you fought? Was
that an honest due?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
For sure? I even let him have the first shot.
Then I stepped behind that big rock.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And quibbed him.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, I don't know about you, follow, but I'm reforming.
There's too much stealing in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah you hear about that honest election they had in Russia.
Five guys voted against him. Services were an hour later.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Hell, look dad, I'm other. Nature's provided away for us
to earn our keeping, not steal it.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
You going a little cool? No, I got that I
want in television.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You don't get this now, it'll soon be Christmas. Yeah,
come on, let's chop down a lot of trees and
go down and sell them to the city folks.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, I don't know them, finger awful big anything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well chopped the little fir trees, fir trees.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Yeah, well a lot they won't think of.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Next, imagine going out in your backyard and picking a
dozen of.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oranges and a couple of mink coats.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I well, see that one up there, looks pretty good
way up there, sort of special like in it.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
Yeah, Hey, ain't we got enough trees that I oh
one more up there, that little special tree, that's the.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
One I want.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
Ook.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We've been climbing for that tree for three hours, and
I'm mighty hungry.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Oh what are you griping about? My hands are frozen.
I've been holding my pants up with my tea. That
ain't easy. Why no teeth?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
They forget about food, start thinking about women.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'd rather think about food and women.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, boy, I hope I'll never get that home.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Hey, look there's when there's that little tree up there.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Let's go get it to a call of the day.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Huh See what's that black thing walking around under it?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Bird?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Looks like a bear?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Well, made friends with him? You know, my brother made friends.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
With a bear once, and the bear like him.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Sure he eat all of them. I'll fix that bear.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Give me that six shooter there, I'll put him away
to rest. Boy, all right, I'll lay down, give him
my gun back bear.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Oh look that bear run?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah boy?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Well how are you coming with that tree?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Why?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I'm working like a little beaver.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Take bigger?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Right, Well, come on, let's go. We gotta sell these trees,
and so, along with a lot of other.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Widow trees, we were loaded on flat cars on the
railroads and we were.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Taken into the city.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
There we all stood looking at the tall buildings, so
different from the tall mountains, and the stillness. The people,
by the thousands were walking through this man made force
arguing about me price, and the man who was selling
the trees was fifty unhappy.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
He was.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Real only wait so long as the music don't come,
I go right ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You know America's foremost conductory.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
There here, I am Old Clym cad Ittle hop for
the Christmas tree Man.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
They call me the Christmas tree Man because my head
shots your point, they ain't too good either. And I've
got a feeling that for the twenty fifth it's gonna
get worse. Boy, business sure is bad. My head freezing booo,
my ears must have come untied. It's getting coward For
the minute, I just saw Frosty the Snowman go inside
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to get warmed up.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Well, well, now four hogs don't run in all faint.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Well, robber girl, how are you today, Rose, Well, don't worry,
it'll go back to its normal green again.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, what is colding?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
And my goose pimples are working in two ships to
the bonfire there few. Nope, Well maybe I could like
the fire?
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Haven't you lift the fire?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
You know? I figured the log would last longer this way.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Now, here's a book of matches.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
What a book of matches?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Have you read it?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
She didn't get that? Here for it myself?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh gee, just ad that hand?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
So man, I'm not kiak.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
How do you know? He's hands and he ain't gotten
on the car yet?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Any man on a Cadillacs hand?
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Boy, that's Rod O'Connor. Howdy howdy there?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Would you like to buy a Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
We let depends? What are you having? A real? Cheap trade?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Turn bites?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Hermites?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah? What are you expecting?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Owls?
Speaker 8 (16:08):
What do you want to play?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Why have you not?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
For about two dollars?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Two dollars?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
There's a nice Harry's Boon stick over here.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
No, no, no, I need a tree real. Let me
look at something for two dollars.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Well it's a little high for a look, but you
can afford it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Go ahead. Uh you've got anything cheaper than two dollars,
I'll take it. What do you have?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
I'll tell you sporty.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Here's a package of seeds, but I don't think they'll
strap my pippin.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Or are you sure got some scrawnye stuff around here?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
That's my girl you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, hey, she's really something.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah I've heard that before.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
But what.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Maybe I help you take out a tree, mister O'Connor's I.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Get sickening about that. Hey, here's a brown tree over here.
I'll let you have for a dollar a brown tree.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I've never heard of that before. Is it something new?
Speaker 8 (17:21):
No, no, it's very old. Here's one already decorated. How
about that one?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's an orange tree?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It is?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Well, I thuck those light bulbles were a little juicy.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
This is a nice little tree. How much this is?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Ten dollars?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
There's I'll take it all right.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Well, let's fine. If you need any more, just let
me know. I'm opening the year around, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And so I was bought and it was.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Taken to a beauty living room, and everybody seemed so happy,
and it would Christmas music place.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now, let's hear that weekly homemaker hint from Jane Masters,
co director of the Norge Home Economics Department.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
During the holidays, you like breakfast to be special, but
often you're too busy to fuss. Well, here's a time saver.
When you make waffles, bake some extras and freeze than
the refrigerator. The next day or next week, just heap
them in the toaster. You'll have fresh, hot waffles as
quick as you could toast bread.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Say that's all right, And there's plenty of room for
all kinds of frozen foods in the big cross top
freezer of the new Norde Jet self Defrosted. There's space
everywhere from top to floor and even in the door
room for a dozen tall bottles, a meat drawer deep
enough for a big rose, movable shells, including one with
a lift out section so you can store the holiday
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turkey without frouding extra shells, and a four temperature butter
bank in the handy door. And of course you'll never
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Speaker 5 (20:56):
It's Christmas Eve and we're making a last minute check
of by.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
This to be sure we haven't forgotten anyone. We pause
for a second and off of a prayer for our neighbors.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
We wish all of them a merry Christmas. The children
have hung up their stockings that have been shoot off
to bed.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
In the stillness of the room stands a young fir tree,
the tree of the christ Child.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
The stillness changes our thoughts.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
We hear the tiny tree speaking.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
So now I know what I am.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'm a Christmas tree, but a confused little Christmas tree
because I don't know why I am here? Why was
I chosen from millions to widow trees get like me
to stand in this room?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
And although I'm very young, in a few days, I
will wither away, and my.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Green coat will fade, and me needles will drop far.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Why am I am?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I standing here? All decorated?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
What good are decorations if your deeds are not remembered.
They hang decorations on heroes too, Yet, heroes, like Christmas trees,
are forgotten, only to be remembered if they're needed to
serve another purpose. Beneath my branches gifts are placed. They're
wrapped in gay colors and tied with bright ribbons. These
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are the tokens of friendship, the spirit of Christmas, from
those who gave from their heart.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
They gave her the goodness? Shall we stopping here to receivers?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Speak?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Oh, here's another package?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Where's it from?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
From your boss? What it is?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Maybe it's the thing. I think with all his money,
he'd give out with something worthwhile?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
It is why I was brought here?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Am I serving me? Purpose?
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Is this the true meaning?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
The spirit of giving?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Don't they know that Christmas is the birthday of Christ.
It's not a holiday for the greedy? Why am I
standing here anyway?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
What is me purpose?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
A cat? Get somebody on your roof? It's windeer?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Oh, I remember the sounds of their little hooks.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I remember?
Speaker 8 (23:21):
How do you used to play around me?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Branches out in the fort?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Somebody coming down at killy.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Mery?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh they're all asleep.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
Really, I think I'll just resh for a second. My
what a beautiful Christmas tree?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Thank you? But I said thank you?
Speaker 8 (23:56):
You said I was beautiful, and I said thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Old Santa Claus's ears are playing tricks on him. I
could have sworn that that tree spoke.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I did say any flood.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
But why in such a sad way Christmas trees are
supposed to be happy?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Why I can't be happy. I was told by a
kind voice that I would deserve a purpose.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Or YA can't figure.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Out what it is.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well, haven't you ever been happy?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yes, I was happy back in the forest.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I remember how every spring the same birds who flew
south for the winter would return and rebuild their homes.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That the blizzard had destroyed in my branches.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And how the wind would blow through me fur and
make whispering music, and the bird would join in and
sing with us.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
We were the sounds of the earth, a symphony unwritten.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I was happy then, because there at least I knew
what my purpose was.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well, you're making music now?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
No?
Speaker 9 (24:51):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Yes, doesn't it do you good to know that you're
bringing happiness? You just wait until Christmas morning when you
hear the last of all the little children. And how
proud you'll be when they dance around you. Oh I
wish I could be here to enjoy it with you.
You see, I've never seen nor heard the children after
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I leave their presence.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Well, why don't you stay around, Danny clare Well.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
For some reason, I have never been asked.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Far.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
It seems that after folks get what they want, Santa
Claus isn't needed until the next year when they need
something else.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And why do you keep coming back, Danny Clare.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Because the children need someone to put the spirit of
giving into their little hearts without greed. I come back
each year hoping to find men living not by man
made laws, but by the Ten commandments.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So be happy, little Christmas tree. You do have a
very wonderful birth.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
How can And I'd be happy they've cut me off
with the wood. I'll be dead in a few days. Well,
I'll even know my purpose fouteen here.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Where maybe old Santa Claus can help you understand. You know,
tonight I paid a visit to a place and not
two of my reindeer cold, it was dark to see, and.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
We ran head on into an iron curtain.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I should have known I wasn't wanted when I didn't
see one Christmas tree to help light my way. There
wasn't one child stocking to be filled, not one church
holding services, and it was a great, vast place, all
without spiritual guidance.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You mean they don't have churches.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Oh yes, yes, they have churches, and people are free
to attend. But if they do, they can no longer
be members of the party. And only members of the
party receive ration cards.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yes, yes there were churches.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
But they were not used for worship, little tree, They're
used as museums to belittle the true spirit of giving.
Now do you understand your purpose for being here? As
long as you and all other little trees like you
can stand in a home at Christmas, the world will
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know that freedom of man is still here, and that
God's prayer peace on earth, good will towards men is
still alive.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Yet, Danny c Lord, I do see it now.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh, I feel too much better because now I understand
my purpose for being here.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Good, well, I must be on my way.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Very Christmas. Marry quickly.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
For Nick year and every year, and maybe Nick here
you'll be asked to stay longer than just over the holidays.
Merry Christmas, Chanty Claus, Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
This is Ron O'Connor saying.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Remember in refrigerators, home freezers, gas and electric ranges, washers
and water heaters.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Everything Norge makes. Norge makes right.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Take time out to stop in at your Norge dealers
and see the new Norge jet self de Froster, the
newest and finest refrigerator in the famous Norge line. Find
out how smart it would be for you to right
in your old refrigerator on this beautiful new Nord. Think
about what a wonderful Christmas president would make for the
whole family, a gift that would keep on giving year
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after year. Yes, see the new Norge jet self defroster
at your Norge dealers right away and now until next week.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
This is Red Skelton saying thanks for listening and reminding
you that you won't know what you're missing if you
don't see Norde.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Join us again next week for the Red Skeleton Show.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Red Skelton has.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Heard in this program for the courtesy of Metro Goolden
Mayor Studio. This is a copyrighted feature transcribed from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
This is the CBS Radio Network.
When Santa Clark comes around your way, I hope that
he will bring Norge applying for your home, and then
you two will sing. You won't know what you're missing
if you don't see Norge.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Transcribe from Hollywood. Norge a division of borg Waner, manufacturers
of America's most modern automatic and ringer washers, gas and
electric ranges, water heaters and home freezers originators, and world's
largest manufacturers of self defrosting refrigerators. Norge presents The Red
Skelton Radio Show with Red Skelton, David Rose and his orchestra,
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Lorene Puddle, Pat McCain.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And Jane Tuter.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Will be me Rod O'Connor, and now the star of
our program, the Man with the station Wagon, Physike and
the Convertible Face.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
MGM's clown, Red Skelton.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
The characters in our show are fictional. Any similarity to
persons living would be better off dead.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Problem.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
The Skelton scrap Book of Satire a story entitled the
Little Christmas Tree.
Speaker 6 (01:44):
Well, we'd better get into the theater and get things
ready for our Christmas show.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Hey, look who's coming down the street. Oh, yes, the
start of our show.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Junior.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, his mother's sure like she's had her hands full,
doesn't she.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yes, well, I'll go in and get the costumes ready.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ye, I'll go around and run up the actors.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Don't sell me like that.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
Now, wait a minute.
Speaker 7 (02:02):
You're the star of the Christmas pageant and you don't
want to be late.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I don't want to be in it to begin with.
That stuff is sissy stuff. Why playing with girls.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And stuff like that? If it ever gets back in
the sunk patrol, I'll be demoted from a stinker.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
To a sniff. You should be proud to be in
the show. I'm not.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
What is there to be afraid.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Of the audience?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's why who're afraid of make say out there him
big eyes staring at you.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
You never know if they've got apples your thing, they're
gonna pro at you or not. Boy, I hate my mind.
I'm not going to the play. Oh yes, you are,
your lad, I'm not you. You Let meet the other
under a bank man head on the sidewalk. You're wasting
your time, junior. We've been trying to pound something into
your head for years.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
You'll love I'm telling you better stop acting like this.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
If Sandy hears about it, well that's all.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, maybe he won't come this year. Maybe he's still
stuck in the chimney.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I put bear trapping their la years. Oh okay, I
know what Pop bought you for Christmas?
Speaker 8 (03:07):
You know that big bottle of perfume.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
That's sixty dollars bottled.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Oh no, he shouldn't have.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
He didn't. I'm here at the stage door.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
How careful going up the stairs?
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Pale blubber boy?
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Oh there you are. We've been waiting for you.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do you know your lines?
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Do?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
I know them? Frontward and backward?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Good?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
But I'm so scared your public.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
I'm outside way.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
El Loreen and jur Well here's your Christmas tree costume?
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Those lights work?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Yes they do?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Oh good, this is one Christmas I can get lit
up before Pop done.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
These the wires don't have any shorts in them? Do they?
Speaker 8 (03:46):
I have short done?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
He wouldn't want Junior to get electrocuted.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Oh good, heavens no, he's wearing his good suit.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Well shall we get dressed?
Speaker 8 (03:57):
Unr?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Why did I have to be a Christmas tree? Why
couldn't that be a widowing you?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Oh you dreamer?
Speaker 8 (04:03):
You there you are?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Now see how it fits?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Right, over your head, Rick, how I look?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Wait the mirror, Wait the mirror, le michi qui he
meet me? Let you sticking out?
Speaker 6 (04:14):
Well, they're supposed to. They're supposed to be the tree drunk.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Oh, it's a quick time you ever saw, not need dat.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
You knew you behave You're on right after Jeane Cuter
does her number When the World Was Young, David Rose
and the orchestra will play for her.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
They call me coquette and mademoiselle. And I think I
like it, Yes, quite well. It's something to be the
dawning of all the ground.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
Up the bell of a ball.
Speaker 7 (04:52):
There's another place as gay as hoy.
Speaker 9 (04:57):
There's another wor.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
MOPy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I love what I do and I love.
Speaker 8 (05:05):
What I see.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
But where is the school girl that you used to be?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
The about.
Speaker 7 (05:23):
Swan little memory.
Speaker 8 (05:30):
Of s.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Or Maxley's.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Talking of scar Who the stars were strong?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Aly last Long?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Where the world was Papia A reason j PO shot twenty.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
Hesapmation anaser called the Confiderlation.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Salzachord, You love.
Speaker 9 (06:54):
Love All.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Shocks the dream.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
If any wives are listening, will you please cover your
ears tightly now so you can't hear me. This is
for husbands only. How about being a really generous Santa
Claus this year? How about trading in your old refrigerator
on a beautiful new Norge Jet self defroster. There's a
gift that will keep on giving year after year. For
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everything Norge makes, Norge makes right. It's a division of
borg Warner, you know. As for the features women wanting refrigerators,
this Norge has them. For instance, in a recent survey
of ten thousand readers of McCall's magazine, women ranked in
order the five features they wanted most. They were automatically frosting,
a fresh meat drawer, a full wit fraezer, adjustable height shells,
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and moist cold for fresh foods. The Norse Jet South
defroster has all five, plus other features women ask for,
including room for a dozen quart bottles. It's still not
too late to visit your Norge dealer, and you won't
know what you're missing if you don't see Nords.
Speaker 8 (08:36):
Here ye, here ye.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Tis time for a Christmas story.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Our story begins in the forest.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Where giant red words and tiny fir trees grow.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
This story is of a little Christmas tree who heard
a voice in the whispering winds.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Each living thing is here to serve a purpose. Now
you are growing in mother Nature's storehouse, But soon man
will come and take you away. Some will become houses, churches, furniture.
But regardless of how you may be used, remember it
is my will that you serve well.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
And one day two men did come into our peaceful
little forest, and they rode in on horseback. They were
all tired and dirty.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
They were.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Who or come work?
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Sid Why don't you say stop?
Speaker 5 (09:42):
That's why I didn't say stop.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Are you okay?
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Yeah? Help me get my head off of this gooper hole.
You gotta gopher. I'm in this hole over here.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Hey, why don't you get rid of that stupid horse?
Speaker 6 (09:58):
I can't.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
This is silver, brother, old stainless steel.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
You know. Every year around this time, I get a feeling.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Like I'd like to give something away, but I ain't
got nothing to give. I think I'll go over to
the bank and get some money and give you half
of it.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
The bank is closed.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
I wasn't going to make out a withdraws.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Then, I why dont your reform and take home an
honest man's page.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I will you show me where he hides and I'll
take it home. One thing I'm honest about. That's fighting.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Well, how about that horseleef? I hear you fought? Was
that an honest due?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
For sure? I even let him have the first shot.
Then I stepped behind that big rock.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
And quibbed him.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, I don't know about you, follow, but I'm reforming.
There's too much stealing in the world.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Yeah you hear about that honest election they had in Russia.
Five guys voted against him. Services were an hour later.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Hell, look dad, I'm other. Nature's provided away for us
to earn our keeping, not steal it.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
You going a little cool? No, I got that I
want in television.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You don't get this now, it'll soon be Christmas. Yeah,
come on, let's chop down a lot of trees and
go down and sell them to the city folks.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well, I don't know them, finger awful big anything.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well chopped the little fir trees, fir trees.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Yeah, well a lot they won't think of.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Next, imagine going out in your backyard and picking a
dozen of.
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oranges and a couple of mink coats.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I well, see that one up there, looks pretty good
way up there, sort of special like in it.
Speaker 10 (11:34):
Yeah, Hey, ain't we got enough trees that I oh
one more up there, that little special tree, that's the.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
One I want.
Speaker 11 (11:50):
Ook.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
We've been climbing for that tree for three hours, and
I'm mighty hungry.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Oh what are you griping about? My hands are frozen.
I've been holding my pants up with my tea. That
ain't easy. Why no teeth?
Speaker 4 (12:06):
They forget about food, start thinking about women.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
I'd rather think about food and women.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Yeah, boy, I hope I'll never get that home.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Hey, look there's when there's that little tree up there.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Let's go get it to a call of the day.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Huh See what's that black thing walking around under it?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Bird?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Looks like a bear?
Speaker 5 (12:28):
Well, made friends with him? You know, my brother made friends.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
With a bear once, and the bear like him.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
Sure he eat all of them. I'll fix that bear.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Give me that six shooter there, I'll put him away
to rest. Boy, all right, I'll lay down, give him
my gun back bear.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Oh look that bear run?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah boy?
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Well how are you coming with that tree?
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Why?
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I'm working like a little beaver.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Take bigger?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Right, Well, come on, let's go. We gotta sell these trees,
and so, along with a lot of other.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Widow trees, we were loaded on flat cars on the
railroads and we were.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Taken into the city.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
There we all stood looking at the tall buildings, so
different from the tall mountains, and the stillness. The people,
by the thousands were walking through this man made force
arguing about me price, and the man who was selling
the trees was fifty unhappy.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
He was.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Real only wait so long as the music don't come,
I go right ahead.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
You know America's foremost conductory.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
There here, I am Old Clym cad Ittle hop for
the Christmas tree Man.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
They call me the Christmas tree Man because my head
shots your point, they ain't too good either. And I've
got a feeling that for the twenty fifth it's gonna
get worse. Boy, business sure is bad. My head freezing booo,
my ears must have come untied. It's getting coward For
the minute, I just saw Frosty the Snowman go inside
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to get warmed up.
Speaker 4 (14:45):
Well, well, now four hogs don't run in all faint.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
Well, robber girl, how are you today, Rose, Well, don't worry,
it'll go back to its normal green again.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Yeah, what is colding?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
And my goose pimples are working in two ships to
the bonfire there few. Nope, Well maybe I could like
the fire?
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Haven't you lift the fire?
Speaker 8 (15:21):
You know? I figured the log would last longer this way.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Now, here's a book of matches.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
What a book of matches?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Have you read it?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
She didn't get that? Here for it myself?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh gee, just ad that hand?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
So man, I'm not kiak.
Speaker 8 (15:44):
How do you know? He's hands and he ain't gotten
on the car yet?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Any man on a Cadillacs hand?
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Boy, that's Rod O'Connor. Howdy howdy there?
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Would you like to buy a Christmas tree?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
We let depends? What are you having? A real? Cheap trade?
Speaker 8 (15:57):
Turn bites?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Hermites?
Speaker 5 (16:04):
Yeah? What are you expecting?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Owls?
Speaker 8 (16:08):
What do you want to play?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well?
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Why have you not?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
For about two dollars?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Two dollars?
Speaker 8 (16:16):
There's a nice Harry's Boon stick over here.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
No, no, no, I need a tree real. Let me
look at something for two dollars.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Well it's a little high for a look, but you
can afford it.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Go ahead. Uh you've got anything cheaper than two dollars,
I'll take it. What do you have?
Speaker 8 (16:36):
I'll tell you sporty.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Here's a package of seeds, but I don't think they'll
strap my pippin.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Or are you sure got some scrawnye stuff around here?
Speaker 5 (16:49):
That's my girl you're looking at.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Yeah, hey, she's really something.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah I've heard that before.
Speaker 5 (16:57):
But what.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Maybe I help you take out a tree, mister O'Connor's I.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
Get sickening about that. Hey, here's a brown tree over here.
I'll let you have for a dollar a brown tree.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I've never heard of that before. Is it something new?
Speaker 8 (17:21):
No, no, it's very old. Here's one already decorated. How
about that one?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's an orange tree?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
It is?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Well, I thuck those light bulbles were a little juicy.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
This is a nice little tree. How much this is?
Speaker 5 (17:44):
Ten dollars?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
There's I'll take it all right.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Well, let's fine. If you need any more, just let
me know. I'm opening the year around, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And so I was bought and it was.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Taken to a beauty living room, and everybody seemed so happy,
and it would Christmas music place.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Now, let's hear that weekly homemaker hint from Jane Masters,
co director of the Norge Home Economics Department.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
During the holidays, you like breakfast to be special, but
often you're too busy to fuss. Well, here's a time saver.
When you make waffles, bake some extras and freeze than
the refrigerator. The next day or next week, just heap
them in the toaster. You'll have fresh, hot waffles as
quick as you could toast bread.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Say that's all right, And there's plenty of room for
all kinds of frozen foods in the big cross top
freezer of the new Norde Jet self Defrosted. There's space
everywhere from top to floor and even in the door
room for a dozen tall bottles, a meat drawer deep
enough for a big rose, movable shells, including one with
a lift out section so you can store the holiday
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turkey without frouding extra shells, and a four temperature butter
bank in the handy door. And of course you'll never
have to think about defrosting again. For the Nords Jet
self defrosted dissolves frost automatically every night, so fast. Even
ice creams stays frozen. Go take a look, for you
won't know what you're missing if you don't see Nords.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
It's Christmas Eve and we're making a last minute check
of by.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
This to be sure we haven't forgotten anyone. We pause
for a second and off of a prayer for our neighbors.
Speaker 5 (21:05):
We wish all of them a merry Christmas. The children
have hung up their stockings that have been shoot off
to bed.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
In the stillness of the room stands a young fir tree,
the tree of the christ Child.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
The stillness changes our thoughts.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
We hear the tiny tree speaking.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
So now I know what I am.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I'm a Christmas tree, but a confused little Christmas tree
because I don't know why I am here? Why was
I chosen from millions to widow trees get like me
to stand in this room?
Speaker 4 (21:44):
And although I'm very young, in a few days, I
will wither away, and my.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
Green coat will fade, and me needles will drop far.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
Why am I am?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
I standing here? All decorated?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
What good are decorations if your deeds are not remembered.
They hang decorations on heroes too, Yet, heroes, like Christmas trees,
are forgotten, only to be remembered if they're needed to
serve another purpose. Beneath my branches gifts are placed. They're
wrapped in gay colors and tied with bright ribbons. These
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are the tokens of friendship, the spirit of Christmas, from
those who gave from their heart.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
They gave her the goodness? Shall we stopping here to receivers?
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Speak?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Oh, here's another package?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Where's it from?
Speaker 5 (22:36):
From your boss? What it is?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Maybe it's the thing. I think with all his money,
he'd give out with something worthwhile?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
It is why I was brought here?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Am I serving me? Purpose?
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Is this the true meaning?
Speaker 8 (22:55):
The spirit of giving?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Don't they know that Christmas is the birthday of Christ.
It's not a holiday for the greedy? Why am I
standing here anyway?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
What is me purpose?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
A cat? Get somebody on your roof? It's windeer?
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Oh, I remember the sounds of their little hooks.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
I remember?
Speaker 8 (23:21):
How do you used to play around me?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Branches out in the fort?
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
Somebody coming down at killy.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Merry Christmas?
Speaker 9 (23:33):
Mery?
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Oh they're all asleep.
Speaker 11 (23:42):
Really, I think I'll just resh for a second. My
what a beautiful Christmas tree?
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Thank you? But I said thank you?
Speaker 8 (23:56):
You said I was beautiful, and I said thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Bye.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Old Santa Claus's ears are playing tricks on him. I
could have sworn that that tree spoke.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I did say any flood.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
But why in such a sad way Christmas trees are
supposed to be happy?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Why I can't be happy. I was told by a
kind voice that I would deserve a purpose.
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Or YA can't figure.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Out what it is.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Well, haven't you ever been happy?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Yes, I was happy back in the forest.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I remember how every spring the same birds who flew
south for the winter would return and rebuild their homes.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
That the blizzard had destroyed in my branches.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
And how the wind would blow through me fur and
make whispering music, and the bird would join in and
sing with us.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
We were the sounds of the earth, a symphony unwritten.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I was happy then, because there at least I knew
what my purpose was.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Well, you're making music now?
Speaker 8 (24:50):
No?
Speaker 9 (24:51):
No?
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Yes, doesn't it do you good to know that you're
bringing happiness? You just wait until Christmas morning when you
hear the last of all the little children. And how
proud you'll be when they dance around you. Oh I
wish I could be here to enjoy it with you.
You see, I've never seen nor heard the children after
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I leave their presence.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Well, why don't you stay around, Danny clare Well.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
For some reason, I have never been asked.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Far.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
It seems that after folks get what they want, Santa
Claus isn't needed until the next year when they need
something else.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
And why do you keep coming back, Danny Clare.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
Because the children need someone to put the spirit of
giving into their little hearts without greed. I come back
each year hoping to find men living not by man
made laws, but by the Ten commandments.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
So be happy, little Christmas tree. You do have a
very wonderful birth.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
How can And I'd be happy they've cut me off
with the wood. I'll be dead in a few days. Well,
I'll even know my purpose fouteen here.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Where maybe old Santa Claus can help you understand. You know,
tonight I paid a visit to a place and not
two of my reindeer cold, it was dark to see, and.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
We ran head on into an iron curtain.
Speaker 6 (26:26):
I should have known I wasn't wanted when I didn't
see one Christmas tree to help light my way. There
wasn't one child stocking to be filled, not one church
holding services, and it was a great, vast place, all
without spiritual guidance.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
You mean they don't have churches.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Oh yes, yes, they have churches, and people are free
to attend. But if they do, they can no longer
be members of the party. And only members of the
party receive ration cards.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yes, yes there were churches.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
But they were not used for worship, little tree, They're
used as museums to belittle the true spirit of giving.
Now do you understand your purpose for being here? As
long as you and all other little trees like you
can stand in a home at Christmas, the world will
(27:32):
know that freedom of man is still here, and that
God's prayer peace on earth, good will towards men is
still alive.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Yet, Danny c Lord, I do see it now.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Oh, I feel too much better because now I understand
my purpose for being here.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Good, well, I must be on my way.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Very Christmas. Marry quickly.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
For Nick year and every year, and maybe Nick here
you'll be asked to stay longer than just over the holidays.
Merry Christmas, Chanty Claus, Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
This is Ron O'Connor saying.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
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in your old refrigerator on this beautiful new Nord. Think
about what a wonderful Christmas president would make for the
whole family, a gift that would keep on giving year
(29:09):
after year. Yes, see the new Norge jet self defroster
at your Norge dealers right away and now until next week.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
This is Red Skelton saying thanks for listening and reminding
you that you won't know what you're missing if you
don't see Norde.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Join us again next week for the Red Skeleton Show.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Red Skelton has.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Heard in this program for the courtesy of Metro Goolden
Mayor Studio. This is a copyrighted feature transcribed from Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
This is the CBS Radio Network.
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