May 6, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:12):
The Chicago Motor Club presents the Wayside Theater. Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen, your host, the Chicago Motor Club welcomes
you to the Wayside Theater each Sunday at this hour.
Thousands of playgoers listen in on this half hour of
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dramatic entertainment. You'll all agree a good plague gives variety
and change to your days. It's like taking a trip
into another land. Perhaps there are some of you folks
in the Wayside Theater audience who are planning on taking
a real trip by motor, train or plane. If that's
the case, you'll be interested in the remarkable travel service
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enjoyed by Chicago Motor Club members. The club's Touring and
Foreign Travel Bureau arranges every detail of even the most
complicated itineraries a motor trip in this country.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Or abroad, a long or short winter.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Cruise, or any and all journeys by bus, train, plane,
or ocean liner. But this is only one of twenty
six club services and benefits fully explained in an absorbing
free booklet. It's yours without obligation if you just write
to the Chicago Motor Club or call Franklin one eight
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one eight. Tonight's play, entitled Food Forethought, was written by
Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen, and now the Chicago Motor
Club's Wayside Theater presents the first act of Food Forethought.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Does the breakfast appear to be satisfactory? Midden?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes? Sin then astready?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I think I heard him coming, Medow, Good morning, my dear,
good morning, Good morning, med Some, Good morning, mister Blackfurst.
Well what have we for breakfast this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Diet number eighty nine, sir? A cool, crispy.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, well that's fine, fine, looks mighty healthy too, it is,
well let the old medal. Yes, well, let's get started up.
I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Oh you dear. Now, here's your duke and your raw carried,
and it's got something very special this morning, A bowl
of fresh parsley.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
O good for me?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh course, John, Oh, you look so wonderful that you've
been on your diet, eating correctly. It's made a new
man of you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Oh sure, I told you all. I feel just great
for such energy. When you started going to those diet classes,
you certainly changed our lives.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He is, John, We're dedicated to health, now, aren't we are?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
And do you remember the way we used to eat.
It's terrible. I don't know how I ever did any
work at the office. Oh for me, A gless of water?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, no, no, no, no, not till you finish your
mustn't mixing?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, I mixed extra work for my stomach, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Speaking of the office.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Reminds me the head of my bookkeeping department is he's leaving.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh, dear, we got someone else.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm I'm thinking of promoting young Herbert Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh yeah, he's the one that got married three months ago.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
That's a good man who and tend to push him
right up.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now are you sure that he has a happy home
in John now having met his wife?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I suppose I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh, by all means, John, a wife is so important.
Now look at me. A wife can help her hinder
a man in his work, even jomp. By the way,
she another pancake.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But Amy, I've had sufficiently.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
No, no, do you've got to eat? Here's three more
and there syrup and got it and darling, whatever is
the matter. You've hardly touched your fried potatoes.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Amy, My dear, I'm gaining weight.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Of course you are, Dear. I want you to. I'll
bet you were never fed like this before I married you.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No, no, I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Amy, And mother always says you've got to feed a.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Man to keep a happle.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Oh, Amy, I'm sorry, but I really don't think I
can eat any more. We had such a big dinner
last night, a cream chicken, those sprinters and the CaCu.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Babe.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Now, Darling, you'll have to keep up your strength.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
But Amy, I'm a bookkeeper. I sit all day at
the office.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Oh but Darling, you use your brain counting up all
those figures. You've just got to eat so you can
do your work.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Well, eighteen twelve was thirty six? Is thirty six?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Dear me?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Four cents off? Oh? By my sleeping, it's only ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Oh, I just got to wake up. Oh if I
could just find that four cents.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did you tell Herbert that I want to see miss Ellison?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Right, it's going a few minutes ago and at the
Black Gun.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
But he didn't dance that. Shall I try him again? No?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, never mind, never mind, I go see it myself.
If anyone wants to see me. You say, I'm in conference. Well, Herbert,
my Bael, Herbert Wirebert, run, is it time to get
out for amy?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Time to get up?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Mm, Herbert, huh, what's the meaning of this? Oh, mister Blackburn,
I'm sorry. I must have dozed off idea an employee
of mine sleeping in the middle of the morning.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yes, I realize it's a very serious matter, mister Blackburn.
I don't know how it could have happened all of
a sudden. My head felt heavy.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Are you sick? No, something must be the matter. It
looks sluggish if you aren't eating right. Oh, I eat
very well, that's it. Some people eat too much? Yes
they do, don't they stop themselves? Now look at me,
I'm white awake. You know what I had for breakfast?
A carrot and a bowl of Parson.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yes, I know how highly you think of the rudimentary food, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, I want to impress on you, Herbert, vitamins an
important for a man's life.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yes, sir, I know.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
But this matter of my going to sleep, mister Blackburn,
it won't happen again.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
No, I suppose it will. This is the first time
I've had anything to complain about, so I just forget it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh, thank you very much, mister Blackburn.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Then then what I came in here for Herbert. You
may be in line for promotion.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh you mean promotion up of course.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Of Brown's leaving, and I'm thinking of giving you his job.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And as long as I'm thinking about pushing you ahead, Herbert,
I thought we might as.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well get better, aquait. Why?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yes, What I mean is I'd like to visit you
a little home sometime soon and bring my wife.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Well, Amy, and I would be honored mister Blackburn. Quiet,
possibly tonight if I were just a telephone.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Oh sure, we're free tonight, go ahead, call up a
little all.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Right, give me Dresden one four one please? Would about
eight thirty be all right? Mister Blackburn? Oh sure that's fine. Hello, Amy,
This is Herbert. Mister Blackburn has something he wants to
talk over with me, and he thought perhaps seeing mister Blackburn,
missus Blackburn could come out this evening.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, about eight thirty.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Well, no, I don't think they could come any earlier, Amy,
But but mister Blackburn's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Very busy, Amy, he wouldn't have time to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
What's that she wants to talk to me? Here? Here?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Let me have that phone.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Herbert.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Hello, Hello, missus Davis. Oh, yes, of course I've got time.
I say, sure, sure, of course, we'd like to come
to dinner. But what's that Hm. Yes, yes, we'll be there,
Missus Davis. And now don't go to any trouble though,
Missus Blackburn and I are just simple people. You give
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us some plain, raw vegetables and an apple apiece and
we'll be happy. Well, yes, goodbye, Missus Davis. Herbert, she's
going out right now to the store, says she knows
just the sort of a dinner we like.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
There, Missus Davis, hie white potatoes and four pounds of
sweet potatoes. Anything else?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Oh my, yes, I want lots of things today. Let
me check my list, flower, baking, powder, potatoes too.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Well, I've hardly started special dinner to night.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Oh, I should say, you know, Herbert said, that's my husband. Well,
his boss and wife are coming, and I think it
may have something to do with Herbert's being promoted.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You don't meet it, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
And I talked to mister Blackburn on the phone that
mister Blackburn's the boss, and he sounds so nice and
such a funny man that all he wanted for dinner
was raw vegetables in an apple.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's good. Some of these big shots like the kid.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
All right, Oh, but he didn't fool me for a minute,
because I know how a man liked to eat.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Sure way to a man's hearts through his stomach, As
the fellow.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Said, that's right, and I'm going to see that the
boss is pleased. I'm going to cook the biggest dinner
we've ever had.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Come.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I'm your club.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Have you ever been in a room full of people
when suddenly you're called to the telephone. No matter how
hard everyone tries not to overhear what you're saying, the
conversation SAgs in the middle, and every word is heard
all over the room. Well, tonight we're presenting two telephone conversations,
and you needn't feel embarrassed about eavesdropping, because the Chicago Motor.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Club wants you to hear every word. Hello, Hello, dear,
this is Tom. Yes, yes, I know I'm two hours late,
but that I've been trying to scrape on the enough
bail to get out of here. Bail, not jail, well
not yet anyway, And don't get excited. I've been picked
up by a traffic policeman. Of course, I didn't do
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it on purpose, but I need fifty dollars and quick.
How long will it take you to get down here?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What the boss is already there for dinner? Well, I'm
here and I want to be there.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh hurry, all that time and trouble and inconvenience when
he might just as well have been like the Chicago
Motor Club member.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
We'll listen to now. Hello, Hello, dear. I'll be a
few minutes later. I'm sorry, but I was picked up
by a traffic policeman. I had to go to the
police station. My Chicago Motor Club Membership Card took care
of my bond, and I'll be on my way again
in two minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That Chicago Motor Club Membership Card is a worldwide bail
bond friends, good for any amount up to five hundred dollars.
It's the club's offered to guarantee a member's appearance in
court later on. Chicago Motor Club members are the most
careful drivers in the world because the club constantly stresses
the importance of safety and protection for motorists and pedestrians alike.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
But even the most careful driver might break a minor
traffic rule, and that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Valuable little membership card saves time, trouble, and inconvenience. The
member merely displays his card and goes right on his way,
driving more carefully. You may be sure the club's free
booklet explains all about it, and we're going to see
that you asked for it. This evening, between acts two
and three of tonight's play, we'll have a musical intermission
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instead of our regular announcement. You will have ample time
to write the club or call Franklin one eight, one
eight and ask for that interesting free booklet entitled spend
Less to Own and drive your car.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Now the second act of Food Forethought.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
God, Oh my goodness, they're here and I haven't changed
my dress. Well, everything else is ready, I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Hello, Amy, mister Blackburn let me off a little early.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Oh I was afraid they'd come early too.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh no, they'll be here in half an hour.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh that's fine, man. Oh I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Herbert, and I've got the most wonderful dinner I've been
cooking all afternoon.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Amy, Mister Blackburn said he didn't want no, Herbert, you
didn't go and believe that.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Come on into the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I'll show you well, Amy, what's that I smell?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Oh, it might be anything sweet potato pie or black
walnut cake, or the stuffing in the roast pool. But Amy, look,
Herbert cheese dumplings. They'll melt in mister Blackbrind's mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But Amy, mister and missus Blackburn don't like heavy food.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Herbert Davis, you know my dumplings are always a flight,
is there?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes, yes, of course, my dear.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
But you never should have cooked all these rich things
while the kitchen is literally piled.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Up with food.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Naturally, I've been working all afternoon just so your boss
would be happy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
What he won't be.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I've been trying to tell you he and his wife
eat only vitamins and greens and simple things.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Well, then they'll appreciate a good square meal, deer, Amy,
not now, please.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Now listen to me, darling. Mister Blackburn's thinking of giving
me a promotion.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Up. You just can't put this orgy on the table.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Orgy.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Oh, but you've never tooken to me like this before.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Don't cry. Now, we haven't time. I'll tell you. I'll
help you.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We'll get something else ready, something else, Yes, you'll grate
up a cabbage or something a cabbage.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Why, yes, a cabbage would be very nice, and I
can run out and get some grapes to go with it.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Herbert Davis, If you think you're going to put any
such things on.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
My table, Amy, I'm very nervous. Now, let's not argue.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I argue. I'm not arguing. I just won't have it,
that's all. I won't have it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Amy.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
We've been married three months now, and I suppose there
comes a time in every man's life when he must
put his foot down. Now I am the master of
this household, and for dinner, we're going to have cabbage and.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Grapes, all right, and have it, but I won't be
here to see it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Amy, for are you going out? But you can't do that?
What fo mister Blackburn thinks.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I don't care what he thinks. Stop calling me.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Around her, Amy, take your hat off.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
No, and you've only self a think. It's all your
fault being so unreasonable. I cook a beautiful din.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I'm denying that you're an excellent cook. Amy.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
But well, I have been meaning to tell you I
haven't felt really well since we got married.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
What No, stuffed me and stuffed me like a well.
I don't like to say this, but like a pig.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Every time I got up from the table, I feel
as though I'm ready for market, ready for market.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, I've heard enough. I've done everything to make you happy,
and now you turn on me.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Lifely, I'm not turning on you, Ammy, it's my stomach.
What are you getting that suitcase out for?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm leaving you, and not just for an hour, Herbert,
for good. I'm going home to mother.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Amy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Please, I'll just take the few things I brought with me, Herbert,
nothing that you gave me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
For about one life. Tell mister and missus Blackburn.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Tell him not to come. I don't care there.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I suppose I could do that.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
M m there.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Hello, is this mister Blackburn's residence? Or may I speak
to him?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, dear, he's he's already gone.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh my, Well did you get them?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes? I mean no, they're on their way. They'll be
here in a few minutes. Amy, you can't leave me.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I can, and I'm going to.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
But don't you see, Amy, mister Blackburn is a great
believer in the happy home.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I can't tell him we've been quarreling that I haven't
any wife.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You'll have to tell him sooner or later, Herbert, because from.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Now and you haven't. I'm going and I'm not coming back.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Where is the little lady?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I uh, she's What is the matter, Herbert, Something terrible
has happened, mister Blackburn.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Amy, is she's ill?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh that's a shame.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yes, and it all happened so suddenly she had dinner started.
But now we'll have to go out somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh but should we leave her now? Maybe I can
do something? No, no, no, no, there wouldn't be anything.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Maybe the poor dear hasn't been eating ry, probably too much.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Start.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yes, now is this the bedroom?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, no, please, missus black.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
What there's nobody in here?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
What?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No? No? You see? Amy? Well, well I had this
enter to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Why that's awful.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Shouldn't you be with her?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Come along?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We will take you right over. No, no, no, that
won't be necessary. The doctor says, it's really nothing serious. Oh,
there someone at the door, Herbert.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I forgot my cookbook, but Amy, oh dear, heaven, it's
a cookbook mother gave me, and I've got the heaven.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Who's this?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Oh it's just well, Herbert, when you answer me, who
is this woman?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Well, it's it's oh, mister Blackburn. I might as well
tell you it's my wife. What but she isn't there, No,
she isn't. You See we quarreled, mister Blackburn. She's leaving me,
and I had to tell you something.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
About old things. He lied to watch John.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Let me do the talking, Herbert. I came here intending
to give you a promote.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yes, sir, but I don't expect i'll get it now.
Not only that you're fired.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
The second act, i'll food per fox.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Come to a club.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, here is where you yourselves
take part in tonight's program.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
That is, if you want to know why the.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Chicago Motor Clubs seventy eight thousand member families actually spend
less to wann and drive their cars, this is your
chance to learn all those money saving facts merely by asking.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
For the club's free booklet.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
We're going to have a two minute musical intermission right
now while our orchestra plays.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You write down your name and address.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
A penny postcard will do, and have it all ready
to mail to the Chicago Motor Club, Chicago or its
nearest branch office or better still, just pick up the
phone and call Franklin one eight one eight. Special night
operators are waiting your call, and you won't miss any
of the play. We're all set to go, friends a
musical intermission, while you take quick advantage of this unusual
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opportunity to write the club or call Franklin one eight
one eight and ask for your valuable free booklet.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
And now the third act of food Forethought.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Well, mister Blackburn, if I'm fired, I suppose I'm discharged,
But if.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You just let me explain more, I don't want to
hear another word out of you. Herbert, I said you
were through when I am at it? Where to put
my hand?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
John, you mustn't get too excited?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, who wouldn't get it?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well? Is that for your digestion?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
My digestion? That's good. You realize I haven't had anything
to eat?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Look good, dear, you're hungry.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Well, I'm sorry. We haven't mowed the lawn lately. Herbert's
been telling me how you go in for greens?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, Amy, please making fun of me behind my back?
Where you No, No, Emmy doesn't understand, say she doesn't,
young woman? I eat what's good for me?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Dear, because Telly or a raw carrot?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It requiet Isner, that's what I need. Amy, have we
any yes?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
In the ice box?
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Shall I get you a raw carrot? Mister black Oh no,
don't need me help from you now, John, it'll do
you good.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Pierre.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
This must be the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh my, Josh, Josh, Look what.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Pies? Cakes?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
What is all this?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It was to have been your dinner, mister Blackburn, my dinner.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Why I wouldn't eat such food? But look at her
dunk lease and pork.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Gross with stopping job.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yet no wonder about a week like this. Doesn't have
a happy home. He'd never be a success in life.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Eh you see, Amy, they wouldn't have liked your dinner.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Well, anyway, here's my cookbook and I'm leaving.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Amy.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Wait now just a minute, let go her I'm going,
but Amy, you can't go now I've lost everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I'm sorry I spiled your story, Herb.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm not thinking of that. I realize now that nothing
matters except you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Herbert. You've hurt me too deep.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
But please, m there they go, quoting again at her.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Find me that carrot?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yes, dear, yeah he did, Yeah, yeah, thanks you.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Know what, others enough roast here to feed an on it. Yeah,
it's disgusting. They look at the juice oozing out from
between the meat and the stuffing. M thick brown color,
M sugar sugar, that's happening, yes, dear.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
But it isn't sugar, but of course it is.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
It's nothing of the kind. That brown color is made
by adding Worcester share thoughts.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And now I guess I also know what that is.
My mother always flavored her meat with the brown sugar
and vinegar.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
But this is like my mother's John Wooster share, you can.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Smell it, real ar. Give me that knife.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Better get a little less crusty pot that that's just
like card. Mm tastes like candy too.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
H and John, be careful with that knife. Well shall
I take it in my fingers?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Of course, tasted on sugar.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
No, John, what's sir?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And we'll decide this. Where's that wife or Herbert?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Herbert Herbert? Missus Davis, No, she's gone, mister Black. My
wife is leaving nothing.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I can say, wait, wait, wait, don't go out of
that door, Missus Davis, come.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Here, and I amy, they're eating your rose.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh, mister Blackburn. Are you enjoying it? Can I get
your plate?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
No, no, I have what some argument?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Did you put brown sugar in this ropes?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Brown sugar and vinegar? And what's she said? See? John?
I said I could smell it.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, it seems we're both right now, of course you are.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's pretty hard to tell what's in things by just
looking at mister Blackbing. Now you take these cheese dumpings,
you never guess there was cheese in them until you
tasted them.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Try one, but amy, mister wait waiting, mhmm yep, cheese
all right.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
And you take this cake here, you'd never think it
was full of black walnuts.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Who seem there? Taste that?
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Uh, mister Blackburn, If you're not going to eat that
raw carrot you're holding my I'd like it very much.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh sure, sure take it? My boy taking him missus David.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
So what sort of pie is this?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
John? Don't have that pie?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Whatever? It's come over you. You've been tasting all those.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Rich things, Yes, so I have, by George. They taste
good to me too, mister Blackburn. And after all you've said,
I over and seeing this food and smelling, and it's
made me realize I've been praving it for months. Yes, second,
tired of eating rabbit food. E huh, I'm fed up
on being started.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
At my job and you think you turned on me
with Oh, yes, I'm afraid you are, mister Blackburn.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Herbert turned on me too.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, I didn't name it.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
It's just that I'm tired of eating too much. That's
what we coiled over, mister black.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Oh so that was the problem, my dear.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Were you really feeding him like this every day? Well,
it's all good food.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I don't say it is, missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Y I'm that's your good piece of cake.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yes, it's really very rich, mister black Well, whatever, John.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
If you eat one rubber, I'm gonna leave. I suppose
I may.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
As well go to but Amy, no, no, stop this nonsense.
You know what women are, funny, Herbert Man's got to
tell them off on some wie John on him, you know, right, see, Herbert,
you gotta take.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
A ferm hand.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
H Yes, sit down, Amy, No, Herbert, she did. That's
a stop Herbert.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's the stuff. Emmy, listen to me.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Please don't look at me like that, Herbert. I thought
I was doing right serving you all those rich things. Dear,
it looks as though we've both been wrong. I tell you,
if you'll loan me your cookbook, I'll give you my book.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I'm diet, Amy, Amy. What's the matter you're so white?
Huh she's going to faint.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
M No, No, I'm not Herbert. It's just that well,
I guess I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Why, of course you are, poor darling here to have
a bite of my carrot.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Thank you, Herbert. You know, Johnna, I'm beginning to m
the cake doesn't look rather than nice.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Go ahead, take a peace, Oh, nor darms.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I have too much fun twenty years.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, but we may have to sell it now that
I'm out of work.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Oh nonsense. Herbert isn't fired anymore ready, y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh no, no, of course not.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Starting tomorrow. You're ahead of the bookkeeping department. That is,
if you still got a wife from a happy home.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Oh well then it's uh, it's kind of up to you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I'm not going to leave you, Herbert, and from now
on you're going to have a happy home.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Aa me, darling.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yes, you know what Mama said, seed the man to
keep him happy.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Well, I'm not going to anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But Amy we've got to eat something, but.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I've got a new slogan now, Darling. The way to
a man's heart may be through his stomach, but you've
got to watch the traffic.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Lights the Wayside Theater production. I'll boot forco come to
a cloth.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Be sure and be with us again next Sunday evening
at the same hour, ladies and gentlemen, when the Chicago
Motor Club's Wayside Theater presents another play of the week. Meanwhile,
you'll have plenty of time to read and enjoy the
club's valuable booklet entitled spend Less to Own and Drive
your Car.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
That's a mighty intriguing title. Agree, And that interesting booklet.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
With all its important money saving information, is yours merely
for the asking. Just send your name and address to
the Chicago Motor Club, Chicago or its nearest branch office,
or step to the phone right now and called.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Franklin one eight one eight.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
By the way, friends, don't forget the Chicago Motor Club's
weekly broadcast of The Parker Family tomorrow evening WBBM at
six point thirty. In the cast of tonight's play, You've
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heard our popular stars. Olin Soulay in the part of
Herbert and Patricia Dunlap playing Amy. They were supported by
ethel Owen, Bill Bouchet, and Herb Butterfield. Heard on tonight's
program were the musical selections Let's have Another cup of
Coffee from Face the Music, This Can't Be Loved from
Boys from Syracuse, following the Sun Around and if You're
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in Love, You'll Waltz from Real Rita. This is Vern
Smith speaking for the Chicago Motor Club w BBM Chicago,
The Chicago Motor Club presents the Wayside Theater. Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen, your host, the Chicago Motor Club welcomes
you to the Wayside Theater each Sunday at this hour.
Thousands of playgoers listen in on this half hour of
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dramatic entertainment. You'll all agree a good plague gives variety
and change to your days. It's like taking a trip
into another land. Perhaps there are some of you folks
in the Wayside Theater audience who are planning on taking
a real trip by motor, train or plane. If that's
the case, you'll be interested in the remarkable travel service
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enjoyed by Chicago Motor Club members. The club's Touring and
Foreign Travel Bureau arranges every detail of even the most
complicated itineraries a motor trip in this country.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Or abroad, a long or short winter.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Cruise, or any and all journeys by bus, train, plane,
or ocean liner. But this is only one of twenty
six club services and benefits fully explained in an absorbing
free booklet. It's yours without obligation if you just write
to the Chicago Motor Club or call Franklin one eight
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one eight. Tonight's play, entitled Food Forethought, was written by
Mildred Hark and Noel McQueen, and now the Chicago Motor
Club's Wayside Theater presents the first act of Food Forethought.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Does the breakfast appear to be satisfactory? Midden?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yes? Sin then astready?
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I think I heard him coming, Medow, Good morning, my dear,
good morning, Good morning, med Some, Good morning, mister Blackfurst.
Well what have we for breakfast this morning?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Diet number eighty nine, sir? A cool, crispy.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, well that's fine, fine, looks mighty healthy too, it is,
well let the old medal. Yes, well, let's get started up.
I'm hungry.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Oh you dear. Now, here's your duke and your raw carried,
and it's got something very special this morning, A bowl
of fresh parsley.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
O good for me?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Oh course, John, Oh, you look so wonderful that you've
been on your diet, eating correctly. It's made a new
man of you.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Oh sure, I told you all. I feel just great
for such energy. When you started going to those diet classes,
you certainly changed our lives.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He is, John, We're dedicated to health, now, aren't we are?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
And do you remember the way we used to eat.
It's terrible. I don't know how I ever did any
work at the office. Oh for me, A gless of water?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
No, no, no, no, no, not till you finish your
mustn't mixing?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, I mixed extra work for my stomach, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Speaking of the office.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Reminds me the head of my bookkeeping department is he's leaving.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Oh, dear, we got someone else.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Well, I'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
I'm I'm thinking of promoting young Herbert Davis.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Oh yeah, he's the one that got married three months ago.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
That's a good man who and tend to push him
right up.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Now are you sure that he has a happy home
in John now having met his wife?
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I suppose I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Oh, by all means, John, a wife is so important.
Now look at me. A wife can help her hinder
a man in his work, even jomp. By the way,
she another pancake.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But Amy, I've had sufficiently.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
No, no, do you've got to eat? Here's three more
and there syrup and got it and darling, whatever is
the matter. You've hardly touched your fried potatoes.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Amy, My dear, I'm gaining weight.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Of course you are, Dear. I want you to. I'll
bet you were never fed like this before I married you.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
No, no, I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Amy, And mother always says you've got to feed a.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Man to keep a happle.
Speaker 6 (04:20):
Oh, Amy, I'm sorry, but I really don't think I
can eat any more. We had such a big dinner
last night, a cream chicken, those sprinters and the CaCu.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Babe.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
Now, Darling, you'll have to keep up your strength.
Speaker 6 (04:32):
But Amy, I'm a bookkeeper. I sit all day at
the office.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Oh but Darling, you use your brain counting up all
those figures. You've just got to eat so you can
do your work.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Well, eighteen twelve was thirty six? Is thirty six?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Dear me?
Speaker 7 (05:03):
Four cents off? Oh? By my sleeping, it's only ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Oh, I just got to wake up. Oh if I
could just find that four cents.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Did you tell Herbert that I want to see miss Ellison?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Right, it's going a few minutes ago and at the
Black Gun.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
But he didn't dance that. Shall I try him again? No?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, never mind, never mind, I go see it myself.
If anyone wants to see me. You say, I'm in conference. Well, Herbert,
my Bael, Herbert Wirebert, run, is it time to get
out for amy?
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Time to get up?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Mm, Herbert, huh, what's the meaning of this? Oh, mister Blackburn,
I'm sorry. I must have dozed off idea an employee
of mine sleeping in the middle of the morning.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yes, I realize it's a very serious matter, mister Blackburn.
I don't know how it could have happened all of
a sudden. My head felt heavy.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Are you sick? No, something must be the matter. It
looks sluggish if you aren't eating right. Oh, I eat
very well, that's it. Some people eat too much? Yes
they do, don't they stop themselves? Now look at me,
I'm white awake. You know what I had for breakfast?
A carrot and a bowl of Parson.
Speaker 6 (06:32):
Yes, I know how highly you think of the rudimentary food, sir.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Well, I want to impress on you, Herbert, vitamins an
important for a man's life.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yes, sir, I know.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
But this matter of my going to sleep, mister Blackburn,
it won't happen again.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
No, I suppose it will. This is the first time
I've had anything to complain about, so I just forget it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Oh, thank you very much, mister Blackburn.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Then then what I came in here for Herbert. You
may be in line for promotion.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh you mean promotion up of course.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Of Brown's leaving, and I'm thinking of giving you his job.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh that's wonderful.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
And as long as I'm thinking about pushing you ahead, Herbert,
I thought we might as.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Well get better, aquait. Why?
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Yes, What I mean is I'd like to visit you
a little home sometime soon and bring my wife.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Well, Amy, and I would be honored mister Blackburn. Quiet,
possibly tonight if I were just a telephone.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Oh sure, we're free tonight, go ahead, call up a
little all.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Right, give me Dresden one four one please? Would about
eight thirty be all right? Mister Blackburn? Oh sure that's fine. Hello, Amy,
This is Herbert. Mister Blackburn has something he wants to
talk over with me, and he thought perhaps seeing mister Blackburn,
missus Blackburn could come out this evening.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yes, about eight thirty.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Well, no, I don't think they could come any earlier, Amy,
But but mister Blackburn's.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Very busy, Amy, he wouldn't have time to talk to you.
Speaker 7 (08:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
What's that she wants to talk to me? Here? Here?
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Let me have that phone.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Herbert.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Hello, Hello, missus Davis. Oh, yes, of course I've got time.
I say, sure, sure, of course, we'd like to come
to dinner. But what's that Hm. Yes, yes, we'll be there,
Missus Davis. And now don't go to any trouble though,
Missus Blackburn and I are just simple people. You give
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us some plain, raw vegetables and an apple apiece and
we'll be happy. Well, yes, goodbye, Missus Davis. Herbert, she's
going out right now to the store, says she knows
just the sort of a dinner we like.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
There, Missus Davis, hie white potatoes and four pounds of
sweet potatoes. Anything else?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Oh my, yes, I want lots of things today. Let
me check my list, flower, baking, powder, potatoes too.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Well, I've hardly started special dinner to night.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Oh, I should say, you know, Herbert said, that's my husband. Well,
his boss and wife are coming, and I think it
may have something to do with Herbert's being promoted.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You don't meet it, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
And I talked to mister Blackburn on the phone that
mister Blackburn's the boss, and he sounds so nice and
such a funny man that all he wanted for dinner
was raw vegetables in an apple.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
That's good. Some of these big shots like the kid.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
All right, Oh, but he didn't fool me for a minute,
because I know how a man liked to eat.
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Sure way to a man's hearts through his stomach, As
the fellow.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Said, that's right, and I'm going to see that the
boss is pleased. I'm going to cook the biggest dinner
we've ever had.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Come.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I'm your club.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Have you ever been in a room full of people
when suddenly you're called to the telephone. No matter how
hard everyone tries not to overhear what you're saying, the
conversation SAgs in the middle, and every word is heard
all over the room. Well, tonight we're presenting two telephone conversations,
and you needn't feel embarrassed about eavesdropping, because the Chicago Motor.
Speaker 8 (10:25):
Club wants you to hear every word. Hello, Hello, dear,
this is Tom. Yes, yes, I know I'm two hours late,
but that I've been trying to scrape on the enough
bail to get out of here. Bail, not jail, well
not yet anyway, And don't get excited. I've been picked
up by a traffic policeman. Of course, I didn't do
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it on purpose, but I need fifty dollars and quick.
How long will it take you to get down here?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
What the boss is already there for dinner? Well, I'm
here and I want to be there.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Oh hurry, all that time and trouble and inconvenience when
he might just as well have been like the Chicago
Motor Club member.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
We'll listen to now. Hello, Hello, dear. I'll be a
few minutes later. I'm sorry, but I was picked up
by a traffic policeman. I had to go to the
police station. My Chicago Motor Club Membership Card took care
of my bond, and I'll be on my way again
in two minutes.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
That Chicago Motor Club Membership Card is a worldwide bail
bond friends, good for any amount up to five hundred dollars.
It's the club's offered to guarantee a member's appearance in
court later on. Chicago Motor Club members are the most
careful drivers in the world because the club constantly stresses
the importance of safety and protection for motorists and pedestrians alike.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
But even the most careful driver might break a minor
traffic rule, and that.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Valuable little membership card saves time, trouble, and inconvenience. The
member merely displays his card and goes right on his way,
driving more carefully. You may be sure the club's free
booklet explains all about it, and we're going to see
that you asked for it. This evening, between acts two
and three of tonight's play, we'll have a musical intermission
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instead of our regular announcement. You will have ample time
to write the club or call Franklin one eight, one
eight and ask for that interesting free booklet entitled spend
Less to Own and drive your car.
Speaker 9 (12:37):
Now the second act of Food Forethought.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
God, Oh my goodness, they're here and I haven't changed
my dress. Well, everything else is ready, I'm coming.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Hello, Amy, mister Blackburn let me off a little early.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Oh I was afraid they'd come early too.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh no, they'll be here in half an hour.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Oh that's fine, man. Oh I'm so excited.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Herbert, and I've got the most wonderful dinner I've been
cooking all afternoon.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Amy, Mister Blackburn said he didn't want no, Herbert, you
didn't go and believe that.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Come on into the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I'll show you well, Amy, what's that I smell?
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Oh, it might be anything sweet potato pie or black
walnut cake, or the stuffing in the roast pool. But Amy, look,
Herbert cheese dumplings. They'll melt in mister Blackbrind's mouth.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
But Amy, mister and missus Blackburn don't like heavy food.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Herbert Davis, you know my dumplings are always a flight,
is there?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yes, yes, of course, my dear.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
But you never should have cooked all these rich things
while the kitchen is literally piled.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Up with food.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Naturally, I've been working all afternoon just so your boss
would be happy.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
What he won't be.
Speaker 6 (14:11):
I've been trying to tell you he and his wife
eat only vitamins and greens and simple things.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Well, then they'll appreciate a good square meal, deer, Amy,
not now, please.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Now listen to me, darling. Mister Blackburn's thinking of giving
me a promotion.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Up. You just can't put this orgy on the table.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Orgy.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Oh, but you've never tooken to me like this before.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Don't cry. Now, we haven't time. I'll tell you. I'll
help you.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
We'll get something else ready, something else, Yes, you'll grate
up a cabbage or something a cabbage.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Why, yes, a cabbage would be very nice, and I
can run out and get some grapes to go with it.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Herbert Davis, If you think you're going to put any
such things on.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
My table, Amy, I'm very nervous. Now, let's not argue.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I argue. I'm not arguing. I just won't have it,
that's all. I won't have it.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Amy.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
We've been married three months now, and I suppose there
comes a time in every man's life when he must
put his foot down. Now I am the master of
this household, and for dinner, we're going to have cabbage and.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Grapes, all right, and have it, but I won't be
here to see it.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Amy, for are you going out? But you can't do that?
What fo mister Blackburn thinks.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
I don't care what he thinks. Stop calling me.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Around her, Amy, take your hat off.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
No, and you've only self a think. It's all your
fault being so unreasonable. I cook a beautiful din.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I'm denying that you're an excellent cook. Amy.
Speaker 6 (15:44):
But well, I have been meaning to tell you I
haven't felt really well since we got married.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
What No, stuffed me and stuffed me like a well.
I don't like to say this, but like a pig.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Every time I got up from the table, I feel
as though I'm ready for market, ready for market.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Well, I've heard enough. I've done everything to make you happy,
and now you turn on me.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
Lifely, I'm not turning on you, Ammy, it's my stomach.
What are you getting that suitcase out for?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I'm leaving you, and not just for an hour, Herbert,
for good. I'm going home to mother.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Amy.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Please, I'll just take the few things I brought with me, Herbert,
nothing that you gave me.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
For about one life. Tell mister and missus Blackburn.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Tell him not to come. I don't care there.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I suppose I could do that.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
M m there.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Hello, is this mister Blackburn's residence? Or may I speak
to him?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh, dear, he's he's already gone.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Oh my, Well did you get them?
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Yes? I mean no, they're on their way. They'll be
here in a few minutes. Amy, you can't leave me.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I can, and I'm going to.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
But don't you see, Amy, mister Blackburn is a great
believer in the happy home.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I can't tell him we've been quarreling that I haven't
any wife.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You'll have to tell him sooner or later, Herbert, because from.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Now and you haven't. I'm going and I'm not coming back.
Speaker 7 (17:17):
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Where is the little lady?
Speaker 7 (17:28):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:28):
I uh, she's What is the matter, Herbert, Something terrible
has happened, mister Blackburn.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Amy, is she's ill?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Oh that's a shame.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yes, and it all happened so suddenly she had dinner started.
But now we'll have to go out somewhere.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Oh but should we leave her now? Maybe I can
do something? No, no, no, no, there wouldn't be anything.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Maybe the poor dear hasn't been eating ry, probably too much.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Start.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yes, now is this the bedroom?
Speaker 5 (17:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
No, no, please, missus black.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
What there's nobody in here?
Speaker 5 (18:04):
What?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (18:05):
No? No? You see? Amy? Well, well I had this
enter to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Why that's awful.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Shouldn't you be with her?
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Come along?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
We will take you right over. No, no, no, that
won't be necessary. The doctor says, it's really nothing serious. Oh,
there someone at the door, Herbert.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I forgot my cookbook, but Amy, oh dear, heaven, it's
a cookbook mother gave me, and I've got the heaven.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Who's this?
Speaker 4 (18:33):
Oh it's just well, Herbert, when you answer me, who
is this woman?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Well, it's it's oh, mister Blackburn. I might as well
tell you it's my wife. What but she isn't there, No,
she isn't. You See we quarreled, mister Blackburn. She's leaving me,
and I had to tell you something.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
About old things. He lied to watch John.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Let me do the talking, Herbert. I came here intending
to give you a promote.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yes, sir, but I don't expect i'll get it now.
Not only that you're fired.
Speaker 9 (19:10):
The second act, i'll food per fox.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Come to a club.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, here is where you yourselves
take part in tonight's program.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
That is, if you want to know why the.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Chicago Motor Clubs seventy eight thousand member families actually spend
less to wann and drive their cars, this is your
chance to learn all those money saving facts merely by asking.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
For the club's free booklet.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
We're going to have a two minute musical intermission right
now while our orchestra plays.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
You write down your name and address.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
A penny postcard will do, and have it all ready
to mail to the Chicago Motor Club, Chicago or its
nearest branch office or better still, just pick up the
phone and call Franklin one eight one eight. Special night
operators are waiting your call, and you won't miss any
of the play. We're all set to go, friends a
musical intermission, while you take quick advantage of this unusual
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opportunity to write the club or call Franklin one eight
one eight and ask for your valuable free booklet.
Speaker 9 (21:32):
And now the third act of food Forethought.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Well, mister Blackburn, if I'm fired, I suppose I'm discharged,
But if.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You just let me explain more, I don't want to
hear another word out of you. Herbert, I said you
were through when I am at it? Where to put
my hand?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
John, you mustn't get too excited?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Well, who wouldn't get it?
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Well? Is that for your digestion?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
My digestion? That's good. You realize I haven't had anything
to eat?
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Look good, dear, you're hungry.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Well, I'm sorry. We haven't mowed the lawn lately. Herbert's
been telling me how you go in for greens?
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Oh, Amy, please making fun of me behind my back?
Where you No, No, Emmy doesn't understand, say she doesn't,
young woman? I eat what's good for me?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Dear, because Telly or a raw carrot?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
It requiet Isner, that's what I need. Amy, have we
any yes?
Speaker 3 (23:06):
In the ice box?
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Well?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Shall I get you a raw carrot? Mister black Oh no,
don't need me help from you now, John, it'll do
you good.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Pierre.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
This must be the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Oh my, Josh, Josh, Look what.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Pies? Cakes?
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
What is all this?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
It was to have been your dinner, mister Blackburn, my dinner.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Why I wouldn't eat such food? But look at her
dunk lease and pork.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Gross with stopping job.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yet no wonder about a week like this. Doesn't have
a happy home. He'd never be a success in life.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Eh you see, Amy, they wouldn't have liked your dinner.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Well, anyway, here's my cookbook and I'm leaving.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Amy.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Wait now just a minute, let go her I'm going,
but Amy, you can't go now I've lost everything else.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I'm sorry I spiled your story, Herb.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm not thinking of that. I realize now that nothing
matters except you.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Herbert. You've hurt me too deep.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
But please, m there they go, quoting again at her.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Find me that carrot?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Yes, dear, yeah he did, Yeah, yeah, thanks you.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Know what, others enough roast here to feed an on it. Yeah,
it's disgusting. They look at the juice oozing out from
between the meat and the stuffing. M thick brown color,
M sugar sugar, that's happening, yes, dear.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
But it isn't sugar, but of course it is.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
It's nothing of the kind. That brown color is made
by adding Worcester share thoughts.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
And now I guess I also know what that is.
My mother always flavored her meat with the brown sugar
and vinegar.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
But this is like my mother's John Wooster share, you can.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Smell it, real ar. Give me that knife.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Better get a little less crusty pot that that's just
like card. Mm tastes like candy too.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
H and John, be careful with that knife. Well shall
I take it in my fingers?
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Of course, tasted on sugar.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
No, John, what's sir?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
And we'll decide this. Where's that wife or Herbert?
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Herbert Herbert? Missus Davis, No, she's gone, mister Black. My
wife is leaving nothing.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
I can say, wait, wait, wait, don't go out of
that door, Missus Davis, come.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Here, and I amy, they're eating your rose.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
What?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Oh, mister Blackburn. Are you enjoying it? Can I get
your plate?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
No, no, I have what some argument?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Did you put brown sugar in this ropes?
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Brown sugar and vinegar? And what's she said? See? John?
I said I could smell it.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, it seems we're both right now, of course you are.
Speaker 5 (25:40):
It's pretty hard to tell what's in things by just
looking at mister Blackbing. Now you take these cheese dumpings,
you never guess there was cheese in them until you
tasted them.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Try one, but amy, mister wait waiting, mhmm yep, cheese
all right.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
And you take this cake here, you'd never think it
was full of black walnuts.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Who seem there? Taste that?
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Uh, mister Blackburn, If you're not going to eat that
raw carrot you're holding my I'd like it very much.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Oh sure, sure take it? My boy taking him missus David.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
So what sort of pie is this?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
John? Don't have that pie?
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Whatever? It's come over you. You've been tasting all those.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
Rich things, Yes, so I have, by George. They taste
good to me too, mister Blackburn. And after all you've said,
I over and seeing this food and smelling, and it's
made me realize I've been praving it for months. Yes, second,
tired of eating rabbit food. E huh, I'm fed up
on being started.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
At my job and you think you turned on me
with Oh, yes, I'm afraid you are, mister Blackburn.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Herbert turned on me too.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
No, I didn't name it.
Speaker 6 (26:50):
It's just that I'm tired of eating too much. That's
what we coiled over, mister black.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
Oh so that was the problem, my dear.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Were you really feeding him like this every day? Well,
it's all good food.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
I don't say it is, missus Davis.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Y I'm that's your good piece of cake.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yes, it's really very rich, mister black Well, whatever, John.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
If you eat one rubber, I'm gonna leave. I suppose
I may.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
As well go to but Amy, no, no, stop this nonsense.
You know what women are, funny, Herbert Man's got to
tell them off on some wie John on him, you know, right, see, Herbert,
you gotta take.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
A ferm hand.
Speaker 11 (27:31):
H Yes, sit down, Amy, No, Herbert, she did. That's
a stop Herbert.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
That's the stuff. Emmy, listen to me.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
Please don't look at me like that, Herbert. I thought
I was doing right serving you all those rich things. Dear,
it looks as though we've both been wrong. I tell you,
if you'll loan me your cookbook, I'll give you my book.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
I'm diet, Amy, Amy. What's the matter you're so white?
Huh she's going to faint.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
M No, No, I'm not Herbert. It's just that well,
I guess I'm hungry.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
Why, of course you are, poor darling here to have
a bite of my carrot.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Thank you, Herbert. You know, Johnna, I'm beginning to m
the cake doesn't look rather than nice.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Go ahead, take a peace, Oh, nor darms.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
I have too much fun twenty years.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Yeah, but we may have to sell it now that
I'm out of work.
Speaker 3 (28:37):
Oh nonsense. Herbert isn't fired anymore ready, y'all.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh no, no, of course not.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Starting tomorrow. You're ahead of the bookkeeping department. That is,
if you still got a wife from a happy home.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Oh well then it's uh, it's kind of up to you, Amy.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
I'm not going to leave you, Herbert, and from now
on you're going to have a happy home.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Aa me, darling.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yes, you know what Mama said, seed the man to
keep him happy.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Well, I'm not going to anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But Amy we've got to eat something, but.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
I've got a new slogan now, Darling. The way to
a man's heart may be through his stomach, but you've
got to watch the traffic.
Speaker 10 (29:12):
Lights the Wayside Theater production. I'll boot forco come to
a cloth.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Be sure and be with us again next Sunday evening
at the same hour, ladies and gentlemen, when the Chicago
Motor Club's Wayside Theater presents another play of the week. Meanwhile,
you'll have plenty of time to read and enjoy the
club's valuable booklet entitled spend Less to Own and Drive
your Car.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
That's a mighty intriguing title. Agree, And that interesting booklet.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
With all its important money saving information, is yours merely
for the asking. Just send your name and address to
the Chicago Motor Club, Chicago or its nearest branch office,
or step to the phone right now and called.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Franklin one eight one eight.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
By the way, friends, don't forget the Chicago Motor Club's
weekly broadcast of The Parker Family tomorrow evening WBBM at
six point thirty. In the cast of tonight's play, You've
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heard our popular stars. Olin Soulay in the part of
Herbert and Patricia Dunlap playing Amy. They were supported by
ethel Owen, Bill Bouchet, and Herb Butterfield. Heard on tonight's
program were the musical selections Let's have Another cup of
Coffee from Face the Music, This Can't Be Loved from
Boys from Syracuse, following the Sun Around and if You're
(31:39):
in Love, You'll Waltz from Real Rita. This is Vern
Smith speaking for the Chicago Motor Club w BBM Chicago,
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