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- 0:00From the elections are beginning to come in. NBC will interrupt for any outstanding
- 0:06election developments. We would like to thank the Democratic and Republican parties for relinquishing
- 0:14their time that this program could be heard. The medical clients offers proved positive
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- 0:54Red Scouting with David Forrester and his orchestra, a singing starrned Alice Gg,
- 0:58Perrison, Bernad Felton, Papa Wiful Cleth and you're a sully Rod O'Connor.
- 1:14That's a pleasure to bring himut for Golden Mares Popular Committee of the Star.
- 1:18They're all the singarette programs, Red Help, Thank you very much, and
- 1:30good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Nine O three Rod, nine O three,
- 1:34Red Red Catcher. Let me in on that. Surely someone besides you
- 1:37knows what it means. Nine O three means, yes, Rod, there's
- 1:41only one other guy, Kilroy. Well, you know that beautiful girl that
- 1:47came in last week and said Nino three, Yeah, Well, I haven't
- 1:49kind of showing her around, thinking she might give me a clue, you
- 1:52know, like a picture. Yeah, she's pretty as a picture too,
- 1:55you know, Yeah, she's in focus all over to say by the little
- 2:00laughing this week, I see, Yes, I read the small print in
- 2:04my contract. Yeah, could run away with a shell. I get along
- 2:13with your camera hobby. Well, I think I'm beginning to click now.
- 2:15I'm just getting onto my four by five speed graphic. What is that?
- 2:19Four by five mets? That means four out of five of my pictures come
- 2:22out blank? Was it hard to work a speed graphic? No, it's
- 2:27very simple. First you consult your light meter, then you check the distance
- 2:30finder, then you set your limbs opening, and then the shutter speed,
- 2:34and then click and you've got a picture. No, you forgot to put
- 2:36the film man, but you had your own dark room. Yeah, we
- 2:40forgot to pay the light bill last morning. Oh she did come back girl
- 2:49with that last week. Mister Skelton, I don't mean to bother you when
- 2:53you do. I was wondering you're interested in photography. Could I have prose
- 3:04for you sometime? Well? I really don't know. Well could you take
- 3:14my picture in a bathing suit? Well? Yes, but it's rather chilly
- 3:16for me to be running around the baiting when you think it over and when
- 3:23you want to call me, I'm in the book. Well, can't be
- 3:25too choosy where we live these days. Good Bye, Now, I'll be
- 3:30seeing you, mister O'Connor nine o three, nine o three. Well,
- 3:38it looks like she's got your number. Yeah, I'm not even a Well
- 3:43now, folks, we have a surprise for Red. Here's mister Koi Watson
- 3:46with the Los Angeles Press Photographers Association. Go here to buy me up.
- 3:52No, we finally decided to accept you as one of our members. Now
- 3:54that you've learned to operate your camera correctly, we want you to be one
- 3:59of us. Red. We've listened to your show and decided that you should
- 4:08really be a member. The boys like me. Huh yes, yes,
- 4:11we figured you'll be needing a job anytime at the rate you're going. Now,
- 4:18this is not my business. You know that my mother doesn't know that
- 4:20I'm on the radio or in pictures. At the fact, she's never seen
- 4:24me break her heart if she knew I was in show business. She thinks
- 4:27I'm a bookie. But seriously, Red, the Boys of the Los Angeles
- 4:40Press Photographers Association recognize you, as do thousands of others, as one of
- 4:45the greatest showmen in the country, and as we also know, having worked
- 4:48with you in the past years, that you are one of the most cooperative
- 4:53stars in Hollywood. But above this, we consider you a regular guy and
- 4:57a real fellow. And it was with these thoughts in mind that we,
- 5:00the news photographers representing the Los Angeles newspapers, national news syndicates, and the
- 5:06national Motion picture news reels, voted to make you an honorary member of this
- 5:12association, and so in behalf of our ninety seven active members. Hi,
- 5:15the president of this group, takes sincere pleasure and presenting to you your gold
- 5:21membership card in the Los Angeles Press Photographers Association. Well, thank you very
- 5:27much. I'm all right read, but don't forget to draw the slide now.
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- 5:59They werotating tars than the new Raley. Scientific tests of America's six leading brands
- 6:03based on the method used by the United States government. Tests certified by a
- 6:09jury of fourteen doctors have proved conclusively no other leading cigarette gives you less nicotine
- 6:15less throat irritating tars than Rawley's, So smokers enjoy than you smoother and better
- 6:19tasting rallies. And remember medical science offers proved positive no other leading cigarette gives
- 6:26you less nicotine less throat irritating tars than the new Raleigh cigarettes. And now
- 6:39three red and uh a Nader is going to sing tonight. A garden in
- 6:43the rain is just a god little lame. A touch of colors, guys
- 7:06of bird, the range drops kissed the flow, the blasting raised that percy
- 7:25of perfume. Thank you thing said, Sure he was charing beyond compact to
- 7:46babe, it was just that I listened with you, was just listen game
- 8:01rain. But then the sun came out again and samples happy, Oh the
- 8:15way. Surely he was charmed beyond complete to do. Maybe it was just
- 8:30that I was with you, Joe. But then the son came out again
- 8:48and samples happen, Oh to night castire. The story is in a Skelton
- 9:16scrap book of satire is about photography. Our characters are fictional. If you
- 9:22can picture such people living, you'll find that they're out of focus and should
- 9:26be overexposed. Character twenty seven is entitled you want to see a picture?
- 9:31I doubt if there's a father alive who hasn't proudly forced the stranger to look
- 9:35at the photograph of his wife or children. And Willie Lumplump is our victim
- 9:48service, Sir, what are you gonna have? You serve tea here?
- 9:58Oh? Yes, we do. Why I was in the wrong place,
- 10:03mister lap lamp? Well, well, what are you going to eat today?
- 10:07Food? For a change. I'll hurry it up. But you haven't
- 10:13honored yet. I'm in a hurry. I'll order a wallow meating. He
- 10:18got any meat? I likes to meet? You? Got what I mean?
- 10:20Yes, Sam? We got chicken roasted toasted fries, dude, And
- 10:24I like chicken, chicken, chicken. I've beaten some like chicken the last
- 10:28two years. I'm getting a foul mine. I don't have a cup of
- 10:37tea. A cup of tea? Do you mind if I sit here,
- 10:41buddy, not at all. I'm just having a cup of tea. You
- 10:46know I usually drink can he coffee keeps me awake. My name is Long
- 10:52Thompson. I didn't catch your name. I didn't throw it. It's wooly
- 10:56ump for him? How do you spell with two lumps? Neck? Oh,
- 11:05here's your teeth? Anything else I can do for you? Yeah?
- 11:09Homer nos while I drink it. Brother, you have what is generally known
- 11:15as bets and the belfry. Yeah. And what's more, they ring a
- 11:18chime every hour on the hour. By the way, how is your wife?
- 11:26You trying to start an argument? I like it. If I'm married,
- 11:31I don't know. I was track. Oh how old were you when
- 11:33you got married? We were both twenty nine. I'm thirty two now I'm
- 11:37my wife twenty six. Anyway, I'm celebrating my wooden wedding anniversary. Wooden
- 11:46wedding, that's five years. Oh, we'll been married too. But she's
- 11:48a blockhead, you boy, and she nag rude wine nick nag. Now,
- 11:56I guess I'm lucky. My wife's an angel. I'm sorry. How
- 12:00long have you been dead? I didn't mean it that way. I meant
- 12:13that she's kind. Oh, I should we have three kids? Have you
- 12:16been blessed? Yeah? We ain't got any. Well, maybe you be
- 12:22happier if you had a youngster. You can watch them grow up and follow
- 12:26your footsteps. Oh, they couldn't follow my footsteps. I hardly made it
- 12:30here, Mosel. Don't happen to have a picture of your wife on you?
- 12:35Dah? Yeah, I mind, that's why I got this shocked express
- 12:39you know? I mean, don't you have a photograph? No? I
- 12:43can't get a picture developed. They're afraid to stay in the dark room with
- 12:46a face. You'd be lots happier if you carried a picture. Would you
- 12:50care to see the pictures of my wife and kids? No? I wouldn't.
- 12:56What did you say, I said, No, I don't want to
- 12:58see him? Just a second, wise guy. I am a proud father,
- 13:03and it's been the customs since the beginning of photography for a man to
- 13:05carry pictures of his kids. Thanks why I never liked the Indians, do
- 13:09you They didn't stop with carrying pictures. They carried the kids to lone.
- 13:13Take a second to show him. I don't want to see him, Bob.
- 13:18If you don't mind, Bob, I don't want to see him.
- 13:28I came in here for a cup of tea, nothing else. Look all
- 13:35the time I was in the army, I allly did was looking pictures going
- 13:41across the ocean in Italy every five minutes. Some guys can watch your picture
- 13:46my wife. Good, I did watch your picture of a kid? Yeah,
- 13:48I kid, youse. Kids have some of the ugliest things. I
- 13:52haven't Now I'm I don't have to look at them things anymore, and I
- 14:03don't want to see yours. If you don't mind, I'll just have my
- 14:07tea. Look wise guy, Yeah, let go my lapel. You're going
- 14:13to look at my family pictures? Are I'll take you out to my truck
- 14:16and wind you around the cranks. Now, come on, let go my
- 14:18suit, will you? Hey, Bob Hope, he's got an award for
- 14:22being best dressed sportsman. You know you know what he was wearing at the
- 14:26time. But what have bing Crosby shirts? You truck clim Oh? Well,
- 14:33why didn't you say that? Here? You don't have to if I
- 14:35any chance to have a picture of your beautiful wife and kids when you do,
- 14:39Uh, would you really like to see them? Would you really would?
- 14:45Is really? Well, let's not get sickening about it. Gosh,
- 14:52I ain't showed them for so long. I almost forgot what they look like.
- 14:56It's been all ten minutes. Let's see what I do with them.
- 15:00Here are here my wallet. I've got some pictures of my kids. Hey,
- 15:05it kid looks like Abraham Lincoln. Give me back that five dollar pill
- 15:13had too many wrinkles for young prick. Now medical science offers proof positive,
- 15:28no other leading cigarette gives you less nicotine less throat debritating tars than the new
- 15:33smoother, better tasting Ray. Yes, proof positive, no other leading cigarette
- 15:39gives you less nicotine less throat irritating tars than the new Ray. That lovely
- 15:45star of the Shocking Miss Pilgrims, Betty Grable says, quote, I've read
- 15:50reports and medical science has proved no other leading cigarette gives you less nicotine.
- 15:54Let's throat irritating tars. That's why I've switched to Rallies for smoking place right,
- 16:00Betty Grable. Those tests were based on the method used by the United
- 16:03States government. So friends enjoy than you smoother, better tasting Ray. And
- 16:08remember, medical science offers proof positive. No other leading cigarette gives you less
- 16:14nicotine less throat irritating tars than the new Raleigh cigarettes. David Forrester. Now
- 16:26introduces a new number by Gil Baumguard, one of our outstanding young composers.
- 16:30It's called Frustration. Chapter twenty eight is entitled Amateur Photographers. Children are always
- 19:33interested in pictures, and a great pastime for them would be let them have
- 19:37a camera of their own. Junior, where are you, dear? Are
- 19:49you in the kitchen near the cookie jar? No, I'm in the living
- 19:56room, Junia. How would you like to do something? Well, I'm
- 20:03not kind of weak from life of sleep, you know. I didn't take
- 20:06me now for well, I wanted to send John an Errand to the drug
- 20:10store. You mean when they got their ice cream cones pineapple flow. Yes,
- 20:15I'm still a little weak, but I think I can hobble down now.
- 20:18I'm not going to give you money for any of those things, Junior.
- 20:22They're bad for your stomach. Well, I won't follow them here.
- 20:25I'll just take them and didn't fit them out, you know. But I
- 20:27only wanted to get the film I left there to be developed. Oh you
- 20:30mean the grand clok. Yes, I'm dying to see how they came out.
- 20:33They'll be blurred like they always you know, world we get can't get
- 20:37nothing and focus. That's because he's nearsighted, beer sided. And while you're
- 20:47at the drug store, ask the man to reload this box camera for me.
- 20:49And here's a dollar and a court Okay, okay, all right,
- 20:52now you take that and read keeat what you're supposed to do at the drug
- 20:56store, Well, get your pictures, reload your camera, and pick up
- 21:00a few gum drops. I didn't say anything about gum drop, I know,
- 21:03but you will when I get home. Do you want to take your
- 21:08dog? No, he got fleas. I don't want to take h embarrass
- 21:11his meer. Gush he squatches right out in the open. Will if it
- 21:17had so many fleas, why don't you give him a back? Never,
- 21:19boy, I wouldn't give him anything. I wouldn't take myself. Come on,
- 21:25if we're gonna Junior, be careful crossing the street. The car might
- 21:27hit you don't have bumpers, No, they don't. And you don't want
- 21:33the cave in front of a car in Okaya. Oh, I'm sorry,
- 21:52little not okay, I'm not hurt. You just knocked me down with your
- 21:56aunt you see. Well, goodbye, and remember nine o three, nine
- 22:03o three. I got a feeling of stuff like that. It's gonna make
- 22:07me lose interest in me. Tricycle wall, get a funny shot, won't
- 22:18nobody looking. I think I'll spend some of these schools around at the county.
- 22:23Junior stopped. Stop spending these empty schools around. Well, you're too
- 22:26heavy with your people in them there. I can't explain them with a Hey
- 22:30when my grandma want them pictures, she left her to be developed, and
- 22:33she wants you to reload the box camera here. Well that's simple. Let
- 22:36me have the camera. Sun. Look, don't call me Shane if you
- 22:38don't mean it, because my grandma. You're awful quick on the uptake,
- 22:41you know, Junior, I'd love to have a little boy like you.
- 22:48You've been drinking and prescriptions to get anxious. I'll here's your camera, all
- 22:53of it. Now you better get home. Okay. I want to learn
- 22:55how to take pictures. I haven't the time the teacher, you got time
- 22:57to sweep up the store? No I have. Can you better show me
- 23:00how to take picture? I said, beat it? Oh yeah, not
- 23:07going to tell me that boy, you don't kill me. Oh all right,
- 23:11take pictures with this camera. I had just looked through this little window
- 23:15on the top movie big fat head. Will you and when you see what
- 23:18you want, push down on this little level. Yeah, just turn this
- 23:21little nobb until you come to another number. Well here I am three years
- 23:23you and I didn't know that. Well, live and learn. I always
- 23:26said, this is the rate you're learning. You won't live long now.
- 23:30It all comes to a dollar twenty five. Here's a dollar. Take it
- 23:33out of that doughter's not enough. I can't take it out of that.
- 23:37Well, give it back to me. I don't force money on anybody.
- 23:41Your grandmother must have given you more money, another quarter perhaf No she didn't
- 23:45know. And what if you got your fist doubled up like that for I
- 23:48still hit you in the nose if you try to take this quarter out of
- 23:49the other head. Oh so you do have another quarter? All right,
- 23:55take a take it down. No means enough to meet me, poor little
- 23:57piggy back. I'll go to bed with it. He's shepperate and well,
- 24:03I'm sorry, junire. Here's a peppermint con soul. I don't want one.
- 24:06You don't know I want to. Here's your camera. Goodbye, Come
- 24:10on skip me, come on by, come on my one. A nice
- 24:19day. Everybody looks so happy widow. Does they know I room in the
- 24:25streets loose, brand new one boy, that's really new? What you matter?
- 24:33But you never ground unless there's something wrong. Don't you like that car?
- 24:37Or you just growl them like everybody else cause you I'm gonna take a
- 24:41picture of the car. Throw the grandma here? You mean you get him
- 24:45getting down the fixed? Shoot tastes. There's one standing here all by himself.
- 24:48I think I'm moozy over and see what's cooking around? Hey? You
- 24:52missed? Then? Okay, kid, keep moving. We're doing a little
- 24:55job on the inside. Nothing but a big fag out where you there's your
- 25:02grandmother? How do you know? You know? You know? Mike dog
- 25:07don't like you? He goes, that's tough. Don't get going, kid,
- 25:10Head from home before you get hurt. Well I can get hurt there.
- 25:11I guess he's fast. You know, Hey, why didn't you go
- 25:15in the bank with you buddies? They won't let me go with him.
- 25:18I don't use puns. Oh, I couldn't use that guy either, now,
- 25:22Uh, don't you know? I do like you? Look, I've
- 25:26never seen somebody so henry looking at me like since I looked in the mirror
- 25:29last. I never seen nobody that yet moving kids. When my friends come
- 25:32out of that bank, there's leble to be some fireworks. Fireworks. Well
- 25:34again, you wouldn't mind having a little punk like me around. Then I'm
- 25:40warning her for the last time. Oh you got a water place, so
- 25:41too. I can see you done your cook squirt me with it? God
- 25:45squeak me on your way here, don't go, and I don't be carry
- 25:51the ripping. You see how he's frowning at if he protects me, well,
- 25:53come on and get come under the car and protect me. I'm going
- 25:57to count three, and if you ain't out of sight, I'm gonna take
- 26:00your picture. Foot you can't take my picture? Come on, I can't
- 26:03take Come on? Good? I right? Is that you? I?
- 26:15You know I've been running to fast house way beyond me? So? Oh
- 26:18yes, why here's a sheet. I mean, I'm cattletail Gray. What's
- 26:22happened? Well, I was walking past the bank and she men jump out
- 26:25a great big crn and went inside. And they had guns, old cannons.
- 26:27They got dirty looking bunch of bank robbers. They want how do you
- 26:32know they were a bank cropping? They all look like comforty bull guard.
- 26:36Now, who could I don't know about eight to five? Whoever? They
- 26:37say looking for me? No, no, no, don't roll up with
- 26:40your door up to cover. They're gonna take me for a while. Don't
- 26:47how did that birdcake? They'd have to take me too. Maybe they're enough
- 26:53room, you know, Kay, it's off John. We just received word
- 26:59that Junior was a with the snow Bank horn up. I ain't talking telling
- 27:02me, mousspe what about a round the block away? He said he saw
- 27:04the boy take a picture of one of the banders escaping. No, the
- 27:07insurance company would pay two thousand dollars for the pictures, they say identify the
- 27:10boutles ten thousand dollars. Couldn't it t keep me in bubble gum for the
- 27:14rest of me life? W I'll go get the camera. I go get
- 27:17the tell now hit it under the port. There you is. You were
- 27:21no money making rascal. You. I'm gonna see if the pictures you're in
- 27:25focused. Look at the pictures. See red and black on one side and
- 27:29yellow stuff in the middle. My eyes must be getting bad. I don't
- 27:33remember taking anything like that. Well, you can save your money. Here's
- 27:37the film took it out of camera and dog blank, oh soon you didn't
- 27:41has to be developed first. Now she tells me, sorry, fish competence,
- 27:47Well you stay here, I'm gonna go catch them crooks and get me
- 27:49bubble gum money. You're too little, No I'm not. I take some
- 27:52rocks with me. Now put your jumps on their head so big. When
- 27:56the ambulance come, the pumps will ride. Now have to walk behind the
- 27:59wire, gosh, sneak up to their hideout, and no riddle me to
- 28:02pick with a fute gun and nick got gun. And then they're gonna keep
- 28:06right on working, gonna blow me down the fifteen gun fire and there I
- 28:11will be dead, a hero against crime. No, no, no,
- 28:18he scared me. Is a little hard. In the same time, let's
- 28:30scalpon there the course of Briny to Alice a balcony parsas again one of us
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