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August 21, 2025 • 29 mins
A spin-off from a popular series, this show centers on a well-meaning but bumbling character whose everyday misadventures provide wholesome entertainment.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Clap present, The Great Guilders Leave.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The crowd Che's Company, who wal go? Bring you bringing crows?
The every Thursday night present each week at this time,
Harold Perry is the Great Guilders Leave, written by Leonard L.
Leven And now let's visit our friend, the Great Guilders Leaves.
He prepares to have breakfast this morning with his niece

(00:34):
and nephew, Marjorie and Leroy.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Good morning, Marjorie, my dear, Good morning, Leroy.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Happy George Washington's Bursday elk it's what?

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Oh yes, of course, today's a twenty second same to you, Leroy.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Pretty sick something special for breakfast just because of the holiday, anchimalt,
so be sure noticed?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh you can't help noticing her special fixers. Marjorie, you
weren't here for dinner on Saint Valentine's Day, but she
serves the liver in the shape of a heart.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And on Lincoln's birthday he filed the bacon and toast
up like a log cabin.

Speaker 6 (01:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yes, but he takes such pains to make everything look
so appropriate.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
I think she's coming out.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Oh yes, morning, half body, Good morning, Bertie, what's this?
No prunes for breakfast.

Speaker 5 (01:23):
No, I cannot tell a lie them cherries.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Oh I see, I suppose you'll bring in little hatchets
to break the eggs.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
No good, this morning we have an a lexingtnomalist.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's lexingtonomalist. What's that?

Speaker 5 (01:38):
It's the kind you don't put on the fire till
you see the whites of their eggs.

Speaker 7 (01:48):
It's a small a revolutionary Yoh yeah, that sounds very
good for the Constitution, you get it?

Speaker 5 (01:58):
Yes, yes, your napkin.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
All her nice red napkin, py roy white one front
of the morn and a blue one for me.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Gee, buddy, you certainly got the spirit of the seventy
six today. I bet you make the cake in the
shape of Mount Vernon.

Speaker 5 (02:10):
No, I don't think to be able to do that.
So I made a Baltimore cake.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Is why Baltimore pretty?

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Because that's the closest I could get to Washington? Stop going.
I don't see how I pick all them things, do you?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Well, it's too bad you ain't going to have a
tea party today. You could fix the Boston cream pie
for me.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
Oh no, So.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
You both go ahead and I'll be right back with
the crypto.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
All our Paul here.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Jeepers the hook. You don't come out riding a horse.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
With a pot of the way.

Speaker 6 (02:48):
Yeah, damn.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
Do you know what Paul Revere said when he finished
his ride?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
No? What did he say? Whoa?

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I know it's corny, but everybody bitey stop Leroy.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I think it's terribly nice and ready.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
To do all these things.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Yes, Leroy, I don't know a better way of digesting
your history than eating it. Oh, that reminds me. Did
you go down to see the dentist yesterday about your
loose tooth? Leroy? Well?

Speaker 7 (03:13):
Did you?

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Young man? Who may seeing? I'm not talking to myself
and Marjorie isn't a young man named Leroy? Yes?

Speaker 6 (03:19):
I meant you.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh, I see?

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Well did you did? I? What?

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Uncle Robin?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
WoT?

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Did you see the dentist yesterday?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
The Dennis? Oh you mean doctor Cottams?

Speaker 8 (03:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah I saw him.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Well what did you say?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
He said?

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Whoa?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
You find you eat? Say? Hello? What did he say
should be done about your tooth?

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Oh? He said absolutely nothing.

Speaker 6 (03:40):
That's strange.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
I thought it was ready to be pulled, Leroy? Are
you sure that? Young man?

Speaker 6 (03:43):
Where are you going?

Speaker 4 (03:44):
I saw I go for a walk before you're eating breakfast.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Come back here, Leroy. Now tell me did you go
to doctor Cottom's office yesterday? Oh me, let's not go
through that routine again. Now did you or didn't you?

Speaker 4 (03:57):
Well, yes I did, but Leroy, you said you did
and he said there was absolutely nothing to be done.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I did not. Uncle Lord asked me if I saw it. Well,
I did on the street and he said, hold of me,
And I never said that. He said there was absolutely
nothing to be done. Unc said, what else did he say?
I said absolutely nothing, and that's just what he did.
He said absolutely nothing.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
No. See here, early right, you stopped trying to deceive me.
That was just as bad as telling a deliberate falsehood.
And on George Washington's birthday too, he wouldn't have done
anything like that.

Speaker 4 (04:32):
No, really, Leroy, I don't know where you pick.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Up that's bad habit.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Goodness knows. I tried hard enough to set you a
good example.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, how about last week when you told the cash
here at the movies. I wasn't probe yet, so you'd only.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
Have to pay a dime if oh, well, well that
was it. I mean, sometimes even I need to be reminded.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I remember that, Uncle.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's all right, and also remember that it always pays
to tell the truth.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
Mus mister guiltily. But there's a gentleman, he had a team.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh a gentleman.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Well, I'm not exactly a gentleman.

Speaker 6 (04:58):
It's a policeman.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I can't imagine what in the world one of those
dumb flat feet.

Speaker 9 (05:03):
Well, well, hello, off there, what can I do?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Excuse me for disturbing your breakfast?

Speaker 10 (05:09):
But do you know who owns that car has been
parked in front of your house all night?

Speaker 1 (05:12):
The car in front of this house? Well, no, I
can't imagine you me not there? Why? Uncle more, that's yours?

Speaker 6 (05:19):
It is?

Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh, well, thank you for telling me, my boy. Yeah,
I guess it's mine.

Speaker 6 (05:24):
Officer.

Speaker 10 (05:25):
Don't you know it's against the law to leave a
car parks in the streets all night?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Mister Oh, I know, I never heard of such a law.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
But Uncle George, I mean Uncle Mary, only last week
you mourned me about leaving.

Speaker 9 (05:35):
The car out.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Oh did I mind me? Bye, George, it's George. That's right,
my dear, They just slipped my mind. Officer. I won't
forget it again.

Speaker 10 (05:44):
I'll say you will not have to pay a pine
in traffic court, just so you won't forget to show up.
Here's the summons, goodbye.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Oh yeah, well what were we talking about?

Speaker 3 (05:54):
You were saying it always pays to tell the truth.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
Oh yes, I'll furthermore, yes, Leroy here, Oh yes, come
right in, Oscar.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
I heard as fast as I could, mister Gildersleeve. You
bring all the books. Good, set them down right here
on the desk.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
There we are.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
You know, ever since you called me, I've been wondering
why you want the forest or of state.

Speaker 9 (06:21):
Account brought here on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
It's Judge Hooker. He runs a probate court and I
have to account to him for Leroy and mind us
the state. So he likes to snap the whip every so.
Oh yes, I've met the judge.

Speaker 7 (06:31):
He's quite a whipper snapper.

Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yes, Oscar.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
He found out about the estate taking over Quiggs's drugstore,
and he phoned a little while ago that he's coming
over to question.

Speaker 6 (06:39):
Me about it.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Oh, now I see why you wanted the books.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Say how'd we do during the last.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Month, Leroy? Let me handle this. How did we do, Oscar?

Speaker 9 (06:47):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (06:48):
Much better?

Speaker 7 (06:48):
We only lost two hundred and thirteen dollars.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Is that considered good.

Speaker 8 (06:53):
All.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
That's a decided improvement over the month before when we
lost three hundred and seventy eight dollars.

Speaker 9 (06:58):
If this keeps up, maybe we'll get out of the
red and be in the pink.

Speaker 6 (07:01):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
I wish we never got mixed up with that drug store.
It's getting to be such a headache. It'll ston start
to break even just from the asper and I buy that.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
Well, mister Gildesliga, I hate to say I told you so.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, Well, then don't there's a prophet you're a total loss.
I never wanted to operate that cut great medicine market
in the first place. And you know that, say for more, how.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Did we get into the pharmacy business anyhow?

Speaker 6 (07:23):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Well, if the estate owns the building, Leroy, we rented
the store to mister Quiggs, but he spent more time
trying to train his cap to do tricks, and he
did taking care of his business. Finally, the cat got
so good and business got so bad that he took
the cap to Hollywood for a career, and we took
the drug store for the red.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Jeez, does that mean I can have all the banana
splits I want?

Speaker 8 (07:45):
It?

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Does not? Young man you think banana splits grow on trees.
I have to account Judge Hooker for every panic.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Well, I thought you were the executioner of our state, don't.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's executively Roy. Executioner is a man who kills off.
Oh that's what Judge Hooker will accuse me of doing.

Speaker 7 (08:00):
Now, don't you worry, mister Guildersleeve. The profits you made
for the rest of the estate up are greater than
any loss in curd at the drug store.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yes, but that won't satisfy old droop snoot, drop snoot. Well,
little pet name I have for Judge Hooker, Leroy is skipping. Well,
it's a good thing you're here, Oscar. You can explain
everything to him.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
Oh I don't think i'd be of any help, mister
guilder Sleeve.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
No, why not?

Speaker 7 (08:21):
Oh, the judge doesn't like me very much, so if
he's coming, i'd better go.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Wait a minute. What's wrong between you and Judge Hooker.

Speaker 7 (08:27):
Well, when he ran for reelection last time, it just
so happened that I was president of the Get the
hook for Hooker Club.

Speaker 9 (08:33):
Well goodbye, Oh.

Speaker 8 (08:48):
All right, Gillisleeve, now out with it. What's the big
pill like you doing? In the drugstar business.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Well, it's like this hooker, eh, Leroy, don't you want
to run along outside while I talked to the judge?

Speaker 8 (08:59):
No Joy's day, after all, this concerns him too, Sit.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Out, thanks, Judge. Hey, you can I call him by
your pet name?

Speaker 6 (09:07):
No?

Speaker 1 (09:07):
No, no, no, quiet Leroy, Yes.

Speaker 8 (09:10):
And don't interrupt, my boy. This is just the same
as a court hearing.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Court hearing. It is raise my hand.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
Do you want to tell the truth? Ol fool? For
nothing but the truth?

Speaker 5 (09:18):
To help you?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Sit downly, Roy, I'll look here, Judge. Just can't we
do this some other time?

Speaker 8 (09:25):
I'm too busy these days, even have to work on
George Washington's birthday. Well, speak up, yellowsly.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Well, it's like this hooker, old pal, and just.

Speaker 8 (09:34):
Cut out the old pal business, yellowish lee. This is official.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
Oh yes, your honor.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
If the estate had a wonderful chance to pick up
this business for practically.

Speaker 8 (09:42):
Nothing, I see was it in good shape when you
took it over?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Well, it is a going concern.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
About Uncle mort Would George have said that?

Speaker 1 (09:49):
George?

Speaker 6 (09:49):
What George? Oh? Yes, that George?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
If I get you, Leroy, well to be frank, Judge,
it had been a going concern at the time. We
got it and it went.

Speaker 8 (10:03):
Well. How did you happen to take it over in
the first place?

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Well it was this way, it's leroy. Are you sure
you don't want to go out for a walk or
something cheaper?

Speaker 3 (10:11):
No, I don't want to go out for a walk
or anything. I figured all that more fun here.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
Yes, so I'm figuring too, whether or honor we were
dragged into this affair by a trained cat. What did
he do?

Speaker 8 (10:22):
Sell it to you?

Speaker 1 (10:24):
No, he didn't sell it to me.

Speaker 8 (10:25):
You little know, little know what Guilder's leads.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Oh, you little know what I was going to say?

Speaker 8 (10:33):
Gets going? Come on, get going?

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yes, all right, jud If the farmer owner of this
pharmacy is I mean, they're the former owner of this pharmacy.
He's a former owner of this pharmacy, neglected his business
and fell so far back in his rent that one
day we found ourselves in the bicarbon of the ice
cream soda business our ours have been doing. Oh business
is a good deal better now than at first?

Speaker 9 (10:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (10:55):
For more?

Speaker 3 (10:56):
Tell it, judge, how much more money you didn't lose
this month than you did last?

Speaker 8 (11:01):
Losing money? You have no business risking the estates funds
like this, Giller Sleeve, I want you to get rid
of that place at once, or I'm going to get
rid of you as executors faster than that. Do it quickly,
Killer Sleeve.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
Good bye.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Jeems just looks serious.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yes, you don't realize how serious it is, Leroy, I've
been trying to sell that place for months. I can't
get a decent offer. Why not, because right now pharmacies
are a drug on the market.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
We'll hear from the Great Yilder Sleeve again in just
a moment. Meantime, I think you'll all agree. It's always
mighty helpful to have a good reputation. Well that's certainly
true of Parque March when the delicious margarine.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Made by Craft.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Lots of people first tried Park margarine because it's made
by Craft, and just about everybody knows Craft's reputation for wholesome,
fine tasting foods. You see, people figure that since Miracle
whip and the other Craft products are outstandingly good, Park
margin must be mighty good too. But what makes people
keep right on using Park margarine is its delicious, appetizing

(12:09):
flavor that makes it taste so good spread on bread
or toast or rolls. Yes, and that goes for cooking too.
Park margin is a real flavor shortening for baking, and
you like it for pan frying because it doesn't spatter
or stick to the pan. And remember park margin is
a wholesome, nourishing energy food. And besides that, every pound

(12:29):
of park contains nine thousand units of vitamin A. So
why not find out how good margarine can be by
trying delicious parquet Marginin tomorrow? Remember ask for park pa
r Kay Park made by Kraft. Now back to the

(12:59):
great guilder slave. It's Monday morning, and Uncle Morp is
no closer to finding a buyer for the drug store
than he was yesterday.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Good morning, Uncle, have a nice rip.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I had no rest, my dear. I tossed and turned
like a scow in a storm, and I finally dropped
off to sleep at about six o'clock and had a
nasty nightmare in technicolor. Yes, all I can remember about
it was the judge Hooker was crossing the Delaware to
buy a trained cat at a Hollywood drug store, and
I was doing the rowing.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
You take things too much to heart, uncle, Yes, not forget.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
About business for a while.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
I wish I could, but I'm all strung up like
a zither. Maybe today I can get a deal started
for that high priced, cut rate drug store, if I
could get the judge off my neck and Leroy out
of my graying hair.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
But Meroy got to deal with it.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Uncle. Well you remember that Washington's birthday lecture about truth
I gave him yesterday. Oh yeah, Well he's appointed himself
my personal censor. It's rather inconvenient when you're discussing business.
And if I'm to get rid of that prescription, well,
sometimes it's going to be necessary to my What.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Are we gonna do today, Leroy?

Speaker 1 (14:06):
I don't know what I'm gonna do. But you're going
to school, aren't you? Oh? No?

Speaker 3 (14:09):
Today? The holiday too. No school on Monday when Washington's
birthday falls on Sunday?

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Right, Oh my goodness, Leroy, why don't you go to
a nice movie today?

Speaker 6 (14:19):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (14:20):
Several movies. I'll give you the price.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well, no, I want to go down to the drug
store with you. I figured out a way to save
a lot of money. How Leroy, Well, I can work
there after school on Saturdays. Is a solid jerker. I
bet I make a swell banana splithered, I could sell
a lot of no, Leroy, We're trying to sell a
whole thing at once, not one banana at a time.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
You better go to the movies if you know it's
good for me. See have the lord.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
Why don't you get the City Drug Company to buy
almost all the other drug stores in town?

Speaker 1 (14:52):
Yeah, that's just it. They're too darn independent. I want
to see the manager, and he said he'd take it
up with the board of directors. You know, a big
business brush off.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
But uncle, don't you know.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
The City Drug Company is owned by the Summerfield Investment Corporations,
and that's controlled by missus Southbury Twitchell.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Twitchell. I thought that old greyhound on the bush line.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
He does also the Twitchell Steam Laundry, the Merchant's National Bank,
and four five apartment houses.

Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, i'd underestimated missus twitchelle.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
You gotta show out the drug store lunks.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I don't underestimate her that much, Leroy, But somebody sold
her all those.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Other things, Yes I did, uncle.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Oh, I know she'll be over at Red crophead quarters
this morning.

Speaker 8 (15:40):
Why don't you.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Drive me down now?

Speaker 5 (15:41):
And just thought of tay, will you get into conversation
with it.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
I don't think it'll do any good.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
I'll go on, you've got away with the ladies.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Uncle, Yeah, if I have, then she's no lady. I've
just met her three times and we already hate each
other's if we've been friends all our lives.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Oh, but it won't do any.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Harm to try.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
I need to ride down there.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, I mean too, I'm going to a movie.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Well, I don't know what to say, stupid mister Gilsley.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
But there's a gentleman here.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Oh, great jumping jeeps. I forgot to put the car
in the garage again last night. If you hold him there, Bertie,
while we sneak out for the back and drive away.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Gee wish hunt. George Washington never did a thing like that.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
George Washington never got a traffic ticket, either of you.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Come on, this ain't no police.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Oh he isn't. Oh well in that case, I was
only joking, Leroy, what why cars. I wouldn't do a
thing like that on the legal holiday after George Washington's birthday,
would I? Well, I wouldn't bring the man in, Bertie.

Speaker 8 (16:41):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Oh, by the way, did he say who he was?

Speaker 5 (16:43):
He said.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
He from the city and about the drug storms goes
to find out how much everything in it is worth.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Oh wait a minute, Bertie, don't let him in. He
must be from the assessor's office. I can't see him now,
Why not Uncle Marre? He asked a lot of questions.
I don't feel right about answering with certain people around here. Bertie,
you tell him that I've gone.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yes, but Uncle Moore, you told me yesterday that we
should always tell the truth.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
That's rightly right.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
We are gone.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
We will be by the time Bertie gets to the
front door. Come on, children, we're sneaking out the back way.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Take a look at you before we're going to meet
missus switcher. Uncle lay, I don't be nervous.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
I'm not a bit nervous, Madrie. Maybe i'd better throw
away my cigar. It's not what did I do with
that cigar?

Speaker 3 (17:29):
It's throw away?

Speaker 1 (17:30):
What? Yes, let's not get excited. How do I look
my dream?

Speaker 8 (17:34):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Just fine, my, but you're a handsome man. Wait a minute.
May remember what Uncle wat said about tell her the truth?
But I really think soly Roy, I host your uncle
while I pull a ThReD.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Yes, looking smoothly mister Gilslee.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Uh, you mean you are, my dear Honest, I never
saw two more active numbers and they I'll scratch your
back if you'll do the same for me, society, How
am I saying something nice to me? Jane?

Speaker 1 (18:04):
All right, be right, goodbye, and enjoy yourself at the movie.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Okay, see you later, song March.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Good Bye, goodbye, good bye. Well, maybe I'll be able
to speak freely now. Ever since I talked against Bibbs
and a little White lives, Leroy has been an impediment
in my speech.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
But let's go in now, and remember just stop getting
the conversation with her casually and bring the subject of
drug stores up in.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
A very offhand, man off hand.

Speaker 8 (18:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
They say it's lucky that we're meeting her here in
the Red Cross Center in case I have any trouble
with the old battle hacks. Oh, don't think of it.
Come on in now, all right, keep your fingers crossed, TP.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Hello, Dye, Hi, Henrietta, help you Ruth, Oh, missus Twitchell.

Speaker 5 (18:42):
Oh, it's so niceeing you again.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Oh, I'll do my dear well.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Good bye, Uncle Moore, thank you ever so much for
bringing me down. Oh, by the way, you know, Missus
Salisbray Twitchell.

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Don't you wanco more?

Speaker 8 (18:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Yes, of course, how are you this lovely morning, Missus Twitchell. Fine,
you know it's a It's a mighty curious thing, Missus Twichell.
But I just discovered that we're business rivals.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
I suppose you're talking about my laundroot. What are you
doing taking in Washington?

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh no, no, nothing like that. Just a drug store.
Drug store? Oh yes, you know, a place where they
sell postage stamp sandwiches and once in a while a
bottle of fly spray.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
I am aware of drug stores, mister Gildersleeve. I just
don't happen to remember that.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
I own any well.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Well, think of that, Marjorie. Missus Twitchell has so many
drug stores she doesn't know she owns any well.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
I think my unclemented city drug chain, Missus Twichell.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
Oh yes, I see, well you can.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
I see you a second. You forgot to give me
the doll for the show.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Oh well, just assume as I'm finished, leroy. As I
was saying, Missus Twitchell, we have acquired the ownership of
Quiggs Drugstore. And while it's not what you might call
real competition. At present, we're considering branching out, and we
may soon give you a run for your money. Yes,
if we've got plans to put a drug store on
every corner downtown.

Speaker 5 (20:06):
Remember George Washington, George Washington.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yes, we're gonna call them the George Washington drug Stars. However,
missus Switchell, we might consider selling out since we have
so many other interests.

Speaker 5 (20:20):
That is a very good idea.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
Oh do you think so?

Speaker 1 (20:24):
You?

Speaker 5 (20:24):
Indeed, I had so many other interests myself. I sold
all my drug stores to a New York jay last month. Goodbye.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
Oh, this is one of my bad days, oh, Ernie.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yes, now, maybe I'll get a little piece and quiet
for a while.

Speaker 6 (20:53):
Leroy ain't with you.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
No, he's gone to see a movie. I always enjoy
the movie Showleroy sees I can rest so nice while
he's there.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Excuse me for stand so, mister Guilfley, But you think
to be acting kind of skitterish lately.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Sky, Oh you mean nervous.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
Well, yeah, if you prefers your language without any play
up to it.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
I suppose I have been a bit jumpy. Leroy has
been trying to make another Joyge walking on me, and
I've been telling the truth until I'm red, white and
blue in the face.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
Well what you need is a little red.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Yeah, that's right, And thank goodness you got rid of
that tax assessor. You imagine what a tax bill i'd
have with Leroy around to come up the works?

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Mister gilty?

Speaker 1 (21:34):
Why should I sch mister Gillis Sleeve. There's nothing to
hear me here, is there?

Speaker 5 (21:37):
Yes, that's struck the man.

Speaker 8 (21:38):
He's writing a living low.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
I couldn't get rid of him.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Oh, sometimes I'd like to be a hermit if I
could find a nice, warm cave. It's all right, Bertie,
it isn't your fault. Well, I didn't know anybody was
waiting for me.

Speaker 6 (21:50):
How do you do, sir?

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Mister Gildersleeve?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Here, that's me.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
My name Showers, mister Gildersleeve.

Speaker 6 (21:54):
I'm from the city.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Oh yes, the maid told me you want to get
evaluation on that drug store.

Speaker 9 (21:58):
All that's right.

Speaker 10 (21:59):
I've been on there several times and never could cut
you in, so I came out here.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
I hope you don't mind, not at all.

Speaker 1 (22:04):
Hey, your taxes and help smash the axes. That's my slogan.
Suppose we get down to the drug store now, so
you can get a small idea of what to assess us.
Have you got a car?

Speaker 3 (22:14):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yes, but I'm saving rubber, so I left at home.

Speaker 9 (22:17):
I think that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Oh, a splendid idea. In fact, I like it so
much I'm going to leave mine home too. Come on,
we'll walk. I didn't realize it was so far down here.
It neither did I remind me to feature to a
corn plaster. Well, let's get started. Just haul out your

(22:42):
notebook and shoot the questions to me.

Speaker 10 (22:44):
All right, Suppose we begin with those neon signs outside,
the ones that read quigs open all night pharmacy.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
What do they work? Oh about twenty five? Twenty fifteen
dollars for the both of them?

Speaker 6 (22:55):
Are cause they.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Look like they cost a lot more.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, that's true, but they haven't much sale value. Where
are you going to find anyone named Quiggs who is
not only a druggist but also stays up night.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:06):
No, on second thought, I don't think they're worth more
than ten dollars.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
Signs ten dollars now?

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Inside?

Speaker 10 (23:13):
How about the soda fountain that looks very nice and new?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, the seats are pretty worn. I'll show you what
I mean, young man. I wonder if you mind standing
up a minute. Oh, leroy, what are you doing here?

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I'm having a double nut chocolate Sunday with whiptam an
eleventh foss pay to wash it down?

Speaker 1 (23:30):
What's the matter? Are you getting tired of banana splits?

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Yeah, that's three of them already. What do you want
that man doing on?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
Nothing that needs concern you, my boy? Excuse the interruption,
missus showers?

Speaker 6 (23:40):
Now what were we saying?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
How long have you had that soda thoun?

Speaker 8 (23:43):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Quite a long time? Oh? Not one?

Speaker 3 (23:46):
What don't you remember he paid three thousand dollars for
right after the first of the years.

Speaker 9 (23:50):
Three thousand dollars, Eh, isn't it lucky?

Speaker 1 (23:53):
I have my little nephew here to remind me.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Say, do you want me to help you in casha?
Forget anything else?

Speaker 6 (23:59):
Hun?

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Why don't you have some more nice ice cream? You're
a growing boy and you need the vitamins.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Well, but I'll have to wait a little while before
you need anymore. I'll just tag along with you.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
Oh, that'll be Ducky, yeah, Donald Ducky. Now what is
your next question, mister Showers. How about these other fixtures.

Speaker 10 (24:18):
There's the gar account of the perfume displays and these
glass cabinets.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
Oh, well, the tellent truth.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
They're new too, yes, to tell the truth. If the
bill for them came to forty four one hundred dollars, well.

Speaker 10 (24:31):
That takes care of the fixtures.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
How about the merchandise?

Speaker 10 (24:33):
Have you got an inventory?

Speaker 3 (24:34):
What's an inventory?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
On't something invent leroy? Please? I have enough headaches as
it is. An inventory is a list of all the
things a drug store has that are just as good
as the things folks come in for that you're out of. Yes,
I suppose you took one last month. I suppose we did.
I'll have to ask the cashier. Oh, misscaps there, yes.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Oh helloly to hear this, lady, A little Nettie was
just in here looking.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Boy?

Speaker 3 (24:56):
Did you feel it gushy much to see him?

Speaker 7 (24:57):
Misus?

Speaker 8 (24:57):
Here?

Speaker 3 (24:58):
He is right besides you?

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Hello, Lela.

Speaker 6 (25:02):
Ms Kapstaf.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Would you please bring out the drug inventory we made
last month?

Speaker 8 (25:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:06):
And don't forget the ones with cigars and candy and
hardware and taking powder.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh, yes, I was forgetting them, wasn't I bring them all? Here,
miss Capspath.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Alrighty, I'll be right back, and I danty where they are,
either in a state or by the ware.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
Behind the kitchen.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
While we're waiting, don't forget to tell a man about
the big refrigerator we have downstairs and that new dishwasher
in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
Keep it up, lee Roy, and you're going to be
the new dishwasher in the kitchen. Oh yes, missus Showers,
I had forgotten about them. You see, they set us
back somewhere in the neighborhood of.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
The eight hundred dollars and twenty one.

Speaker 10 (25:45):
Then, well, the boy has an uncanny knack for figures.
He'll probably turn out to be in the camp and
when he grows.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Up, if he grows up, oh well, here comes miss
Kapsack back with the inventory to give.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
I also found that this is all the merchandise. He
blatamby and enjoyed.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Taking my tattoos. O, yes, you might as well. Here
you are, mister Showers. Is there anything else you'd like
to know. There's a matter of good will and outstanding account.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Oh gee, we got a lot of good will on account.
We got so many outstanding accounts, Leroy, out of you
all got another word out of your.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
I should judge that good will was worth about fifteen hundred,
two thousand dollars and our accounts receivable.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
I was telling you, miss if there's the bookkeeper about them,
only yesterday and he said, a damn ount you run
a thousand, and.

Speaker 7 (26:35):
He thinks you.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Thank you, Miss Capstaff. That'll be all.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Are you sure there's nothing else?

Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, miss Capstaff, you've gone enough. Oh, thank you, And
now missus Showers, if you got all the information you want?

Speaker 10 (26:49):
Yes, according to my figures, the evaluation on this property
will run to about twenty eight thousand, five hundred.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Oh twenty eight thousand, five hundred jumping jelly beans? How
much of a tax will we have to pay on that?
I might as well confess this to guilders leave. I'm
not the tax sucsessor. What you're not? Why did you
say you were?

Speaker 6 (27:11):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
You just got that notion all by yourself. You see.
I figured I could get a pretty low honest valuation
on this store if I let you go ahead, assuming
that I was.

Speaker 6 (27:19):
But then who are you?

Speaker 10 (27:21):
I'm an appraiser hired by the City drug chain. They're
going to make you an offer to buy this place
based on the figure that I just got a jill
give that.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Wonderful Yes, my boy, I hope you've learned your lesson
from this. Honesty always pays Leroy, the.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Great killer slave was they worn't again in a few minutes.
But right now, let me reminds.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
You mothers and housewives. But these days call for energy.

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why the energy producing foods are so important. Foods like
parque margara made by craft. You see, park margarine is
one of the best energy foods you can serve. It
helps to refuel the body and replace energy used up
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(28:11):
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(28:33):
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Speaker 3 (29:01):
Well, we certainly put that deal across. Didn't die unk?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yes, yes, leroy, And now that all I have to
worry about is where to invest that money again?

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Oh no, you don't come more. I know just where
it will be saved us and do the most good.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Oh where's that, leroy?

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Good old United States Defense part.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Of course, Uncle Sam can put to work every dollar
we can spare. Good Night, folks.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
We want this again next week at the same time
for the further adventures on the Great guilders Lays.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
This program came to you from Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
This is the National Broadcasting Company OO
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