WWJ Playhouse 41-08-21 xxx Miss America of 1926

WWJ Playhouse 41-08-21 xxx Miss America of 1926

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The WWJ Playhouse every Thursday evening.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
At this time, the WWJ Playhouse brings you an original
drama written especially for this program.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
The Night's Player is the story of a woman who
was Miss America.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Nineteen twenty second.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, and now, or we'll have
to wait until they quiet town.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Let us turn back time to the easygoing war three
days of the summer of nineteen twenty six. Calvin Coolidge,
unaware of impending disaster, sits idly in the White House.
Jack Dempsey is still a heavyweight Champion of the World,
but he won't be for long. Stanley Baldwin is Prime
Minister of a smug, satisfied and sleeping England.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
George Julie is on his way.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
To winning twenty seven games for the Cleveland Indians. Adolf
Hitler is an obscure political agitator in Germany, just recently
released from prison.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
And of course, all America's singing singing.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Horses in a little Spanish town and the Black Bottom
and Penelope Simms, radiant in a one piece bathing suit,
stands on an improvised runway in near Atlantic City's boardwalk,
ready to be crowned Miss America.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you please, and now,
it gives me great pleasure to present to your the
silver loving cup emblematic of the title of Miss America.
Lady piggel me, Miss Penelope Simms, the Miss America of

(02:14):
nineteen twenty six.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Penny, oh, Penny, my dear, this is the happiest moment
of my life.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
Propt.

Speaker 6 (02:28):
It's just wonderful.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Luther here's proud of you too, my dear. I only
wish your mother was here to say, jee, sure.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
Is great, Penny, sure is great?

Speaker 7 (02:37):
Thank you, Luther.

Speaker 8 (02:38):
Only I suppose now you'll be traveling all over going on.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
The stage in the Hollywood. Maybe forgetting all about us,
spokes Luther.

Speaker 7 (02:46):
I'll never forgett you.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Gosh yesty Luther.

Speaker 9 (02:50):
Here he's embarrassing in front of all these people.

Speaker 10 (03:03):
A thousand dollars from the Norse from the peach down
face Poday, like eight hundred dollars, Miss Simms.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Will your picture in the Venus burn by hundred taking
Aaron Dawson Billowy ride tires, Miss Sims, Mike.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
You're handing.

Speaker 11 (03:24):
Really you fo here at the Metropolitan Theaters have been
so wonderful to me.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
And and now because I know you've been so.

Speaker 6 (03:33):
Nice, nervous Miss Sims, Miss Simms plus screen Simms after
don't be.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Nervous, Miss Sims.

Speaker 6 (03:42):
After all, a stream test, there's nothing to be frightened up.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
Are you ready?

Speaker 7 (03:45):
Well, I guess I'm as ready as.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
I ever will be fine. Now just take it easy,
all right?

Speaker 12 (03:51):
By camera action, Penelope Darling, if you'll only marry me,
I promise you nothing but luxury, palm beat in the winter,
Newport in the summer.

Speaker 11 (04:08):
Jenny, you're so sweet and generous. But I must think
of my career.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
I have everything in the world, almost everything. Motor car's
estates are yacht. If you'd only marry me, I don't
have Dick.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
I can't think of marriage now. My career must come first.

Speaker 13 (04:26):
I can place at your feet social position, wealth, a
life of ease, whatever your heart desires.

Speaker 14 (04:38):
When I was Miss America, when you were Miss America,
that was in nineteen twenty six.

Speaker 7 (04:50):
Right now you're in the course of the curities.

Speaker 11 (04:52):
In nineteen twenty nine, I was Miss Cocomo once myself.

Speaker 7 (04:57):
Miss Cocomo. Why you come, man, there's some flowers for
one of you.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Things that's some sucker.

Speaker 7 (05:02):
Cent What do you mean that's for one of them?

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (05:05):
Which one?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's the handwriting, and I ain't hired to figure out
no codes.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
Maybe it says Miss Simms, and maybe it says Miss Smith.

Speaker 5 (05:12):
They're you a cuties. You'll figure it out for yourself.

Speaker 7 (05:15):
I'm sure that's for me. There's that?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
So well?

Speaker 7 (05:18):
What makes you so sure? I've been expecting flowers? Oh
you have?

Speaker 11 (05:22):
I suppose you've been running around with an undertaker, kiddie.
If there's anything around here that's ready to be infombed,
it's you. But you're just sitting here waiting for the
Prince of Wales to get wine to.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
What he's missing. Take your hands off those flowers. I
will not their mine. Oh they are. Hey, they're tearing
the boss, all the people and get to have a
rite to their lifelong they yarn. What's more, I'm gonna
take a picture. Fills the hands out of my hair.

Speaker 11 (05:46):
I'll take care of you, Miss America of nineteen twenty six.

Speaker 15 (06:02):
Well come to me, Step right up, gin, step right
up here.

Speaker 10 (06:07):
See the kind of bleisque you'd like to see, just
the way you want to see it.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Plenty of seats folks, no waiting.

Speaker 10 (06:12):
The show's going on now. See the thirty gorgeous ladies
of the ensemble. Try eating gents, conm for yourself.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
What's more.

Speaker 10 (06:20):
As a special out of attraction this week only, we
have Penelope Sims, Miss America in person.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Yes, sir, gent just this is the real article, not Ami.
What do you mean Miss America? You heard me, brother,
I said Miss America.

Speaker 10 (06:35):
You don't bleaeve me stepped inside and see for yourself.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Listen, you can't kid me. I can't her? Well, little boy,
somebody did.

Speaker 13 (06:45):
She was Miss America in nineteen twenty six and this
is nineteen twenty three.

Speaker 10 (06:48):
I was a smart guy her. Listen, boy, you want
to run along your business? You're bothering me.

Speaker 11 (07:10):
Sake away?

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Fred?

Speaker 9 (07:12):
Where are you? Huh?

Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (07:14):
What's you?

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Miss Simms?

Speaker 7 (07:15):
And he calls in there for me?

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, let me say.

Speaker 16 (07:20):
Oh, yes, there's that gentleman who called.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
What gentlemen?

Speaker 16 (07:23):
Oh, w's the one who's been calling. There's your key
and your phone calls?

Speaker 7 (07:29):
Oh him?

Speaker 3 (07:31):
What's the matter, Miss Simms? Don't you like that?

Speaker 11 (07:33):
Fella?

Speaker 7 (07:34):
Fred? Do they pay you to be night clerk in
this hotel? Or do you pay them?

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Uh? What do you mean?

Speaker 11 (07:40):
You have an awful lot of fun minding other people's business,
don't you.

Speaker 7 (07:43):
Well, no, miss, I know it's not the waldorf Astorian.

Speaker 16 (07:46):
Oh maybe I do kind of mind the people's business
a lot more.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Nice should. But well I've never had a family.

Speaker 7 (07:54):
Forget us, Fred, think that I'm not called before eleven?
Will you?

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Hey? Yeah, I will? But Miss Sims, Yes, what is it?
I remember you? What do you mean you used to
be Miss America, didn't you?

Speaker 7 (08:08):
That was a long time ago.

Speaker 16 (08:09):
Oh maybe it seems that way to you, But well
I'm older, and it seemed just like yesterday that I
used to see your pictures in all those ads.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
Well, you don't say it anymore.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
It didn't turn out the way you thought it was
going to, didn't.

Speaker 7 (08:23):
I'll say it didn't.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
You just thought they were going to keep on laying
the world at your feet. Fur coats, trips, evening gowns yours.

Speaker 11 (08:31):
I'm gonna get all those things, yes, Fred, I am?
You bet I am.

Speaker 16 (08:35):
You know I've seen them come and i've seen them go.

Speaker 7 (08:38):
What's that got to do with me?

Speaker 6 (08:40):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (08:40):
Don't you have a wish that you had a home
of your own instead of having to put up in
cheap hotels.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know, a good husband, maybe a couple of kids.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
I've got my mind on only one thing.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
Fred, Uh huh. What about this fellow that's been calling
you out?

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Well?

Speaker 7 (08:56):
What about Oh?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
He's been in here a few times. Seems like nic.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
It's no follow to me.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
Too bad you're not a woman because he's looking for
a wife.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
That's what I figured.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
You two could get married and settle down an Ashkosh
in a little white cottage.

Speaker 16 (09:08):
With wing to marry him.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
He always struck me in Listen.

Speaker 11 (09:12):
I don't know why I bothered to tell you, but
get this straight. I'm going to amount to something yet,
and I'm not throwing myself away on anybody. I'm sorry, madam,

(09:41):
but I didn't mean to be ruined.

Speaker 7 (09:43):
I don't believe you didn't mean to be a young woman.

Speaker 5 (09:45):
But whether you meant to be or not, you were.

Speaker 7 (09:46):
But I've shown you everything we have.

Speaker 11 (09:48):
And I've been dealing here in this talk for twenty
five years, and in all that time I've never never
been treated this way.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
All I can say is that I'm sorry. This is
nineteen thirty nine, you know, and customers are supposed to.

Speaker 11 (09:59):
Have some right, But madam, I've shown you everything you
asked to see. I can't see that it's my fault
that the store doesn't carry exactly.

Speaker 7 (10:06):
What it is you had in mind. That's not the point.
All very well if you what was that you said,
young woman? It doesn't matter. Oh it doesn't. Well, I
weren't that. I don't like to see anybody get in trouble,
even though they deserve to be. I'd report you to
the management as far as I'm concerned. You can go
right ahead and do it.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Well.

Speaker 11 (10:22):
Of all things, I've never been treated so outrageously in
my life.

Speaker 17 (10:26):
Oh, miss Simms, I just haven't to notice this little scene.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
Mister murder that woman wasn't I know?

Speaker 17 (10:32):
Nevertheless, the policy of the stores that customers must be
feated with respect under all circumstances. But I if you're
not willing to conform to our policies, perhaps you'd better.

Speaker 11 (10:40):
Oh all right, I'm sorry, very good, said Miss Simms.

Speaker 7 (10:46):
Oh nothing, I was just thinking that I'm a girl
who used to be miss Amer.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
Oh but that was more than ten years.

Speaker 7 (10:53):
Ago, it was thirteen years ago.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
Then it's high time you forget it.

Speaker 7 (11:15):
I'll get supper, just as fast as I can pop.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
That's all right, Benny.

Speaker 11 (11:19):
I don way why anybody would ever build a kitchen
miss size.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
It's beyond me hard enough.

Speaker 11 (11:24):
Room to turn around?

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Then? What's that, Penny?

Speaker 11 (11:26):
Oh? Nothing, miserable little of partons?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
There? How things go with the store today? Penny?

Speaker 7 (11:34):
Please pop?

Speaker 11 (11:35):
I don't feel like talking.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Something go wrong?

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (11:38):
Nothing was wrong. I stand on my feet all day,
that's all. I'm tired.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yes, say I am sorry.

Speaker 7 (11:44):
You have to work when you do feeling sorry? It
doesn't help matters any I.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I could just make a little more, but you don't.

Speaker 7 (11:51):
So why talk about it?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I guess you right? Why talk about it? Give me
part of the paper with you?

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Well?

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Course might hear what part you want?

Speaker 8 (11:58):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (11:59):
Any pride?

Speaker 11 (11:59):
I don't care, just so I have something to look at.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Al right there?

Speaker 7 (12:03):
Thanks? Now, who's that Luther?

Speaker 8 (12:06):
I guess?

Speaker 7 (12:07):
Aren't he even wait until we have supper?

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Oh? You shouldn't be so hard on lutheror Penny. I'll
let him in.

Speaker 5 (12:13):
He'll be alright with me.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
If Luther dwn ever comes here again?

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Hello, after sir, come right? Help Luther. Luther's had his supper?
Count on that?

Speaker 5 (12:23):
Well?

Speaker 11 (12:23):
I first may hope he has You don't have enough
for an extra person, Penny.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
You shouldn't be that way after all, Lutheran.

Speaker 11 (12:30):
I know just what you're going to say. He's been
waiting for me to marry him all these years. Alright,
let him.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
Wait, Penny, Penny, he's coming up the hall any minute now.

Speaker 11 (12:39):
I don't care what he hears. Believe me, I'm not
dead and just waiting to be buried.

Speaker 7 (12:43):
And until I am, he's Penny here.

Speaker 8 (12:46):
Hope I mean, is now?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
And please try to be nice. Ami. How are you flying?

Speaker 5 (12:52):
My bofe clying?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
Come in?

Speaker 8 (12:54):
Guess it's a little early, but I had my supper
and didn't have anything to do.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Work here, pull up a chair for sure thing.

Speaker 8 (13:02):
Hello, Penny, I just happened to be going by O'Brien's
drug store.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
I remember that you'd like those chocolate covered caramels.

Speaker 7 (13:09):
Let's put them on the table, little bit.

Speaker 11 (13:10):
I don't want to spoim at supper.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
Yeah, sure, it's been kind of warm today, hasn't.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
It's been pretty warm?

Speaker 5 (13:17):
All right?

Speaker 3 (13:18):
How is everything at the shop? You can't complain it's
your same can't come.

Speaker 7 (13:21):
Listen to this?

Speaker 5 (13:22):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Penny?

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Do you remember Addie Fox a Fox.

Speaker 11 (13:25):
He's the man here in town who first got me
interested in the Miss America contest.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Oh, yes, I remember.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
He's a fellow plant that got me off the platform
at Atlantic.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
City, isn't he?

Speaker 7 (13:33):
Listen?

Speaker 11 (13:33):
Pop, He's got an ad in the paper. He's looking
for photographic models. That's so, I'm going to see him
first thing in the morning.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Well that's fine, but how about your job?

Speaker 5 (13:42):
That's job?

Speaker 7 (13:43):
I hate this.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
I suppose you don't get anything from Fox Dog.

Speaker 7 (13:46):
Gets something, all right, you can count on that.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Hey, cant I seme want something burning?

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Penny the pork chow.

Speaker 7 (13:53):
Get lots of work from Artie, and.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Then if the pork chops Penny, they're burning to.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
Wait, both of you.

Speaker 11 (13:58):
I'm starting out again from scratch, and this time I'm
gonna get someplace.

Speaker 5 (14:09):
Oh well, well, well, Penelope, Si each other?

Speaker 6 (14:16):
Yes, a long time, no sea in sweetheart, you're a
sight for sorride, you think so?

Speaker 5 (14:21):
I certainly do.

Speaker 6 (14:22):
Park your beautiful self right here, honey, want you right
and get a good look at Oh, thank you just
as lovely as Evan.

Speaker 11 (14:29):
You're flattering in the yard.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
Oh no, I'm not.

Speaker 7 (14:31):
You're one person I can't keep my age from age?

Speaker 6 (14:34):
What's a person's age got to do with anything? Why
you don't look at dale? And you're did in Atlantic
City in nineteen twenty four?

Speaker 7 (14:40):
It was nineteen twenty six.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Five, nineteen twenty six. Oh, yes, nineteen twenty six. And
now what I said?

Speaker 7 (14:46):
He said nineteen twenty four.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Well, I was a slip of the tongue, Just a
slip of the tongue.

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Tell me about yourself. What have you been doing?

Speaker 11 (14:52):
Oh, I've managed to keep busy, been in several so
no complaints.

Speaker 5 (14:56):
Are you well?

Speaker 3 (14:57):
Now that's fine. What are you doing in town?

Speaker 7 (15:00):
I've been well, just resting the last few months. My
father's getting kind of war.

Speaker 11 (15:06):
Well, I understand me.

Speaker 6 (15:07):
Time and you know how you're sure when the years
start creeping up in the old folks.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Well you wanna be with him?

Speaker 5 (15:13):
I remember your old man. He's kind of a nice guy.

Speaker 11 (15:15):
Yes, popped awful.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Seek.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
I suppose you're married?

Speaker 7 (15:18):
No, No, I'm not married on you?

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well that isn't because you haven't had the chance.

Speaker 7 (15:22):
Oh I've had loads of supposing.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
I'll bet you have. Weren't that I wasn't a maryan kind?
Penelope too late and that's the way it is.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Maybe that's why I'm not the marrying kind.

Speaker 7 (15:34):
Then you're engaged, darh Well, not exactly engaged.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I mean you haven't enough.

Speaker 7 (15:38):
Yeah, that's it. We we have sort of an understanding.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, sweetheart, I wish you a lot.

Speaker 6 (15:44):
So lucky, and believe me, if any of your kids
are even half as good looking as their mother, one
of them will be Miss America some day.

Speaker 7 (15:50):
There's nothing that would make me happier. But I shouldn't
be taking up your time like this.

Speaker 6 (15:56):
That's all right, honey, that's all right. My time is
your time whenever you want it.

Speaker 7 (16:01):
But I came to see you about something special.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
All right, go right ahead. What is it? Well?

Speaker 7 (16:05):
I I saw your ad in yesterday's paper.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh yes, the one for photographic models.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
You see the audio, isn't there I really need?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Oh no, no, of course.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
Well, after you've been in Harness a long time, I
know how it is. I was just thinking that we're happy. Well,
now that's just something once or twice a week I
did composing for advertisements a few years ago. It is
the work isn't new to the artist.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
No, I understand. Well, I'll tell you, honey. Suppose you
drop back in a couple of days.

Speaker 7 (16:34):
Then you mean you haven't.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
Oh no, no, no, no, you see the setups like this.
I'm just the agent for several commercial photographers in town.

Speaker 7 (16:42):
Then you don't.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
I don't really hire the girls come here and I
send them out to the different studios. But you've said
the whole things up to the individual photographers. You see
right now, they're looking for kids.

Speaker 7 (16:52):
Oh I see.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
Oh, don't get me wrong, darling high school kids. You know, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, that's.

Speaker 8 (16:59):
What they're looking at.

Speaker 7 (17:00):
And I really don't look the same.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
Well, that's just the way things go. One month, they're
looking for anybody who's sort of cute. Next month it's
the older that is, the more mature type. They want
real beauties like you.

Speaker 7 (17:14):
I think I understand that these high.

Speaker 6 (17:17):
School kids, they don't care if they're good looking or not,
just so as they're sort of attractive.

Speaker 7 (17:23):
You're cute, Yes, I know what you mean.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
But you'll leave your addressing phone number of the girl
at the desk. I'll see if you get some work.
Sweet At one of these days, you'll get a call.
And believe me, when some of those shutter snappers get
a ganderit you.

Speaker 7 (17:35):
I think I'd better go now, Adie, what you heard?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Baby?

Speaker 7 (17:37):
Well, I intended dropping in thron to do.

Speaker 6 (17:41):
And well, I guess a man has no right to
stand between a woman and a bargain.

Speaker 7 (17:45):
I'll drop in again sometimes.

Speaker 6 (17:47):
Anytime, Penelope. I'm a swell seeing you and talking over
old times.

Speaker 7 (17:51):
Yes, it was nice talking over old times.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
And don't forget give your phone number to the girl.

Speaker 7 (17:58):
I won't forget.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Good goodbye, goodbye, and drop in anytime. Thanks poor kidding.

Speaker 11 (18:30):
Now, of course, you ladies know that the cosmetic art
is very ancients, and it's this very art that this
store has hired me to tell you about it. For
thousands of years, women in all parts of the world
have used beautifying oil's, annointments and different kinds of coloring
on their cheeks and lips in order to make themselves
more attractive.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
Yes, indeed, and why do you think they did it? Well?
How do you think Cleopatri got Mark Anthony?

Speaker 11 (18:51):
And how do you think Madame Pompadour captured the King
of France Louis the fifteenth? I believe he was, And
how do you think Lady Hamilton won over Lord Nelson?
And and there's the thrilling romance between our own Wally
Warfield and the Duke of Windsor Well. I suppose we
can catch a duke if we've use hat and self
fut decreed, No, madam, satin self cream can't go quite
that far, and it's guarantee. After all, you must admit, fadam,

(19:14):
that a jar of satin self beauty cream with a
duke in every jar is just a little bit too
much to expect for the small sum of.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
A dollar and a half.

Speaker 11 (19:22):
But and this is something of interest to every woman,
you too, can have a skin as soft, as smooth,
as caressingly lovely as that of any duchess or any queen.
And the trial jar of satin silk beauty cream, which
will last you three months, is being sold specially this week,
and this week only, for the small sum of one
dollar and a half. Ladies, never again will you be

(19:44):
able to buy this product at this price. When this
week is over, the price goes back to the regular
price of two dollars and a half.

Speaker 7 (19:51):
But as I was saying, why do women want to
be beautiful?

Speaker 11 (19:54):
There's one reason, and only one reason a woman wants
to get a husband suppose she already has a husband
then wants to hold it or get another one. Nevertheless,
and in spite of this fundamental fact, most women know
little or nothing about the art of making themselves beautiful.
Although cosmetics have been used for centuries, almost since the
time of He who was the mother of us all,

(20:15):
very few women know how to apply makeup. Now, if
you'll all step in a little closer so they can
get through the aisles back there, I'll demonstrate the proper
way of making up.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
Thank you, ladies. Well, we're all kind of cozy here,
aren't we.

Speaker 11 (20:30):
The first thing, of course, is the use of a
proper foundation cream. And that's exactly what Saturn Silk beauty
cream is. Now, after you've removed the old makeup with
that stuff ransom, I say, after you've removed the old makeup.

Speaker 7 (20:44):
I bought some and it was ransom. Besides, was just
to make anyway. I'm sorry, madam, but I'm sure you
must be mistaken. Oh no, I'm not.

Speaker 11 (20:52):
I'm sure you purchase some inferior product. You must beware, ladies.
Are the many imitations of Saturn self beauty Cream on
the market.

Speaker 7 (21:00):
Truly a product so successful, sat and so beaudy cream
that I bought. Very well, I don't.

Speaker 11 (21:05):
You'll just bring back the unused portion and the jar
will gladly refund your money.

Speaker 7 (21:10):
Perhaps you expected too much more than the claims we make.

Speaker 5 (21:14):
It's no hair on my face.

Speaker 11 (21:16):
I'm quite sure the hair was there in the first place, madam.
That woman doesn't now, as I was saying, lady, the
first step in the art of proper makeup is to
remove the.

Speaker 7 (21:26):
Old makeup of.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
It looks like there's going to be a war over there,
and you're a browther. Ye, yes it does. I think
that fella Hitler means business all right, looks that way.

Speaker 8 (21:54):
Have another chalcler penny? What I just said? Well, you
have another chocolate?

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Oh nothing, One more won't hurt you.

Speaker 7 (22:01):
You don't have to think about your figure.

Speaker 8 (22:03):
Well, uh no, I guess I don't.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
Well you're sure. I better go down to the corner
and get him to the back here, and.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
Please turn the radio off.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Don't you like the radio? Penny? Gee? I thought that
was pretty.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
I'd rather have it all all right, I'll turn it off.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Is there anything you want me to get your penny?

Speaker 7 (22:19):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:20):
You were I guess not.

Speaker 8 (22:21):
Mister Simms all right, Penny, what is it You're You're
kind of tired, aren't you?

Speaker 7 (22:31):
What do you expect I work all day, don't I?

Speaker 8 (22:33):
Yeah, sure, that's what I meant. Besides, you and me,
we've known each other a long.

Speaker 7 (22:39):
Time, longer than I care to think about.

Speaker 8 (22:42):
Well, I'm making pretty good money now, Penny down.

Speaker 7 (22:44):
At the shop, lou sir, what are you trying to say?

Speaker 8 (22:47):
Well?

Speaker 3 (22:47):
Uh, I know how much your career means to you.

Speaker 8 (22:51):
At least that's the way you always put it, my career, Penny,
ever since we were in high school together, even since
I first saw you, I thought you were the most
beautiful girl I ever.

Speaker 7 (23:02):
Saw you, still think so? Sure I do, well, at
least somebody does, Penny.

Speaker 8 (23:09):
Yes, Penny, I've never had nerve enough before. I don't
I tell him that I got enough right now. But well,
what I'm trying.

Speaker 7 (23:19):
To say is, are you trying to ask me to
marry you?

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah? Yeah, That's what I'm trying to do.

Speaker 8 (23:25):
But well, I'm just an ordinary guy, Penny, and you
you're you're so beautiful and everything.

Speaker 7 (23:32):
Don't talk so much and.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
You mean you you won't know.

Speaker 7 (23:37):
I don't mean that I I'll marry you.

Speaker 8 (23:44):
Gee, Penny, I don't know what to say. Get married
soon anytime you say, just whenever you want to. And
and Penny, can I kiss you? I always wanted to,
but somehow I just never got up enough nerve.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
Careful, Hey, Lucien, just kiss me on the cheek?

Speaker 11 (24:27):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (24:28):
Can I can?

Speaker 9 (24:30):
I just take another look at her? No, you wake
her up?

Speaker 5 (24:33):
But chee Betty, come.

Speaker 9 (24:35):
On in the living room, alright, and tiptoe.

Speaker 8 (24:38):
I'm as careful as I can.

Speaker 11 (24:40):
Turn the light out and do it quiet.

Speaker 12 (24:43):
Uh huh.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
I'll open the door. I'm afraid you might too much
do it.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
I guess she's all right now.

Speaker 8 (24:51):
Yeah, gee, I can't get over the fact that Glory
had jeans such a beautiful baby.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
I guess she takes after her mother.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
Alright, uh huh.

Speaker 8 (25:02):
But give me a penny there and let your homey
old husband put his arms around you.

Speaker 7 (25:06):
Please, lu he or not? Now, I have so much
to don't.

Speaker 8 (25:09):
Forget that stuff. I'll I'll help you do the dishes.
It's not the dishes, what you got that's gotta be
done right away.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
I wanna finish this new bonnet for Gloria.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
Jay you making her a new bonnet?

Speaker 7 (25:19):
Yes, I just have to have it done by tomorrow morning.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
You do what foreign old.

Speaker 11 (25:23):
Luisa I told you about that prettiest baby contest they're
having downtown.

Speaker 8 (25:27):
Oh yeah, say Gloria Jane Sharley with that contest hands down,
Well she doesn't.

Speaker 11 (25:32):
It certainly won't be my fault. Believe me, my daughter's
going to amount or something.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
The WWJ Playhouse has presented Miss America of nineteen twenty six. This,
of course, was an original drama written by Myron Golden
and directed by Ernest Rika. The original music score for
the Playhouse was composed and conducted by All Affairs Say.
If you wish to see one of these dramas in

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our auditorium studio, why not write, phone or call at
the studios of WWJ for your tickets. There's no charge
and we'd be glad to have you with us. Next week,
the WWJ Playhouse will bring you a comedy entitled Manners Incorporated.
So won't you join us here in the studio or
at your radio at nine thirty next Thursday night. The

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characters and situation in these dramas are purely fictional, and
there are no intentional relations to real people or events.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
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