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Yes next time you buy cigarettes ask for lucky strike So round so firm so fully packed so free and easy on the draw The Lucky Strike program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston Phil Harris Rochester Dennis Day in yours truly Don Wilson Ladies and gentlemen as you all know last Friday, October 21st was Halloween and people young and old all over the nation were bobbing for apples Yes, sir. So now we bring you a man whose gums are so tender. He had to bob for applesauce Jack Benny Thank you. Thank you. Hello again. This is Jack Benny talking and Don Now that was a very funny introduction bobbing for applesauce. You know, it's certainly clever I mean the way you expose all my faults and defects People enjoy it too. Yes, yes You know Don Don, there's a man in Pomona who gets up at four o'clock in the morning Looks at a thermometer and then broadcast frost warning. I know well one more introduction like that And you'll be his master of ceremony And incidentally Halloween is on the 31st not the 21st Another word Don didn't mean any harm. He was just trying to get a little laugh. That's all Mary We want big laughs on this show if Don has any little laughs. Let him ship them east of Fred Allen And speaking of Halloween Allen looks like he went bobbing for oranges and got a smudge pot caught under each eye Use them to warm up the audience Say Jack is Fred Allen older than you are is the older Mary This is cruel, but I've got to tell But I must ask me again Mary Is Fred Allen older than you are is the older Mary Allen died in 1896 what you hear on Sundays are transcription I Wonder how he gets those transcriptions up here But getting back to Halloween Don, what did you do last Friday night? You have any fun? Oh, I had a wonderful time Jack I went to a masquerade party really what did you go as I let a chain drag from the back of my belt and what is a gasoline truck? Don always thinks it's something unique doesn't he Mary? Yeah, I remember last Halloween He painted lines across his back and what is a football field? Was a good illusion except that the field spread out too much around the ten yard line But everybody has fun on Halloween especially the kids say Jack Did you find out who put that sign up in front of your house? No, no, I didn't what was that Mary? Somebody took a chop-sui sign off a Chinese restaurant nailed it over Jack's front door Mary chop-sui sign I was Jack mad. No, we just put a come on on Rochester and went into business Oh, I just did that for a gag But I had a lot of fun Friday night to Don you know I went to a Halloween party in Beverly Hills, and I met the most wonderful girl and she was so cute You know she came dressed a little bo peep little bo peep. That's a cute costume. What did you wear Jack? Well, I didn't know I was going till the last minute So I just wore an old costume. I found up in the attic, but kids I gotta tell you about this girl She wore a little black mask that seemed to oh, I don't know. She was just wonderful Now I really went nuts about her. Well, I never heard you talk like this before I can't help it when she came through the door. I looked at her and she looked at me and I Could just feel something run up and down my spine Mary, you know what that means your costume was up in the attic longer than you thought it was This girl didn't say much but as we were dancing she would look into my eyes and call me Pumpkins yeah, and I called her little bo peep. She was really the mr. Benny after the program is over Do you mind oh hello Dennis? Hello, mr. Benny after the program is over. Do you mind if I did you just get in? Yeah, mr. Benny after the program is over. Do you mind how do you feel kid fine? That's good. I had double pneumonia this morning, but I'm all right now Then a stop being silly if you had double pneumonia this morning. How could you come to the studio? Did you take penicillin? No, I took the Sunset bus Look kid kid all you had was a slight cold. That's all how did you catch it? Well on Halloween I wanted to play a trick on my father So I put a pail of ice water over the door so when he opened it the water would fall on his head But you put the ice water up there for your father. How did you catch the cold testing? Oh It worked every time Look Dennis if I'd have known you were gonna stay at home on Halloween I would have taken you to a masquerade party at the Beverly Hills Club Oh, I was supposed to go to that party with Phil, but my folks wouldn't let me so Phil went alone Phil was there See that's funny. I didn't see him. What was he dressed as little bo peep? Kiss me pumpkins No, no wonder he wouldn't take off his mask dance with you all evening. Not only that Livy He even asked me if he could drive me home No, yeah, say Livy. Have you ever seen the lights of the city from Mulholland Drive? Can't understand it. How could he shave so close? Why didn't you tell Jack who you were what in spoiling old man's evening? All right, Phil look at you fooled me you had your little joke now. Let's forget it forget it nothing I want them nylons. You promised me Alice can you You're not getting those nylons, and I'm not putting you in pictures either Now look, we've got a show to do so Jackson Hey Jackson Come here. Phil we've got to get on with the show. I know all right, but Come here just a minute. I want to ask you something. Oh, all right What what is it? Look at me. Do my eyes still twinkle like two stars in the summer sky. Oh Boy do you fall for everything you hear? I Really put one over on you, but now go ahead Phil pick up that stick and let's have a band number Okay pumpkin never mind, but I still can't understand how he could shave so close You know, I should have known it was Phil when he stopped at every house knock on the door and said trick or drink I do not tell the fellas what happened when I introduced you to that girl in New York, Mary What happened very well Jack went up to her apartment turned the lights down low Put one arm around her waist and whispered darling I want you to have something to remember me by Mary then he took off his troupe pulled out three hairs and stuck them in her locket Well, that just shows how much I thought of her anybody else could grow them back me it cost $30 Now look kids, we've got an important play to do tonight. It's very important. So let's get on with it Go ahead down with the introduction. Okay Ladies and gentlemen for our feature attraction tonight We're going to present our version of that stirring thrilling Warner Brothers production dark passage Story concerns an unfortunate man who is serving a life term in the state penitentiary for murder But wait, why should I tell his story? Let him tell it I've been in this prison for now to 20 years. What are you in for curly arson arson? Yeah, I signed some other guy's name to a check Wait a minute. That's not arson sure it is. I signed it arson. Well, I'll have a spoon, but you're sure What are you in for murder? Yes, my wife. I was married to her for one year and then I killed her. Here's her picture Hmm What took you so long? I couldn't face it Tell me curly. What kind of clink is this anyway? Oh, it's not too bad as long as you don't break the rules But last year they threw me in solitary confinement solitary. Yes for too long months They kept me in a cell all by myself 60 days. I was in there all alone alone alone alone Gee that must have been awful. No, I'm crazy about myself What if I hadn't had a mirror I would have gone nuts Well, this jail could be worse. Hey, wait a minute. Why did the lights turn dim other testing the electric chair? Slugger Wilson goes in there in a few minutes Look here comes the guards with them now so long slugger so long curly Hold still Wilson while we strap you in there now guard get ready to throw the switch Please don't please don't please throw the switch Oh Wilson it'll be easier for you if you stop squirming now stop squirming. Oh darn it. That's a third cherry broke this week Gee curly, I thought slugger Wilson was supposed to go to the chair in June here It is November took him four months to eat his last meal Hey, what's that some guys in the next cell they sing all the time Hmm, why do they always have such good singers in prison? I hate that stuff me too We'd be happy Happy could be We want someone to take us out of prison Or send us an LSM like the saints we used to crack As the man who knows where the best tobacco goes, that's why we light up a lucky listen to FD boom There's a man can try to do Hey curly You know I say Who's that guy coming down a corridor, huh? Oh him. He's a playwright trying to get some atmosphere for a prison play Let me see. Hey, I know him. That's Norman Krasna He'll be heartbroken to see me here in prison. Hey, Norman Look where I am gee what a sense of humor Well, I better shave hey curly, where's the hot water you kidding a no hot water in this cell what no hot water Why ain't gonna stay in a jail like this? Hey guard All right, take me to the war Take me to the war for devils. They're doomed For devils they'll go crazy as I pass the women cells guard said Stop went back for the guard the old gentleman sitting behind the big desk and said a warden What kind of a prison is this anyway? What kind of cells have you got here? No hot water no mattresses on the buns and our television set doesn't work either And the food is bad too really what did you have for dinner last night? Well, let me see We started with soup your entree hash your dessert pudding your age 38 I look warden. I ain't gonna stand for this kind of treatment. See you'll stand for it and like it Now go back to your cell. I won't go back to myself. Either. Let me out of here or send me to the electric chair Yeah, hear me send me to the electric chair. I'd love to but our light bills too high now Now get back to your cell and stay there Confused things on the outside were in terrible shape Financial instability political unrest and worse of all there was nowhere to go nothing to see I was touching the lonesome road from the jail towards the city Want to lift it a town big boy I stood there staring for a minute. I couldn't speak. I just couldn't speak That's better I can see your face now Hopping the car blew eyes and I'll take you to town Okay, miss miss the call but you can call me Lauren Lauren if you don't feel like calling just whistle Hop in you've been in prison, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah, how did you know I saw the picture? You know it's well driving along sitting next to you I've been in prison so long I've forgotten what girls look like Glorious fragrance that lovely odor What is it gasoline my tag flakes? Where would you like me to take you? I don't know this time of the night. It's too late for the Palladium and Too early for breakfast at Brennan's I don't know where to go. I'll tell you what you can ride up the top of Mohawk and drive and park No, thanks. I was up there on Halloween Hello, Lauren. I'm in trouble. See I just broke out of prison and they'll be looking for me in a few hours Well, that's your problem. I know a plastic surgeon who can change your face and nobody will recognize you say that No, why should I go to the trouble of having my face changed? They might catch me anyway. You'll still be ahead Okay, I'll try it and I'll pull a couple of jobs that'll make me rich Yeah, that's what I'll do. I don't get your angle big boy. Have you ever thought of going straight? You know, I kind of like you. You ever thought of getting married. Yeah Sometimes I think I'd like to get married Settle down in a vine-covered cottage with a wife and have 10 or 12 children Get out, mister. This is as far as we go Huh, what? This is where that plastic surgeon has his office. Good. Let's go in She was wearing a long tooth Walk down the hall. I began to feel frightened nervous afraid Lauren sensed how I felt and walked over to encourage me. She kissed me When I came to I was in the doctor's office He was feeling my pulse with one hand and my wallet with the other Finally he said mr. Benny as long as I'm going to change your face. Who do you want to look like? I don't know. I just don't want to be recognized Well, I can make you look like a young man or an old man Or if you really want to disguise yourself I can put some glass in the back of your head and make you look like a stew to bake You know how the windshield wipers would drive me nuts Then If you think looking like a stew to baker would do the trick go ahead very well, I'll call my assistant Oh dr. McNulty here. I am dr. Shall I gosh you sure lost up this guy's face Look, I'm in a hurry. Let's get on with the operation very well I'll go in the next room and put on my gown Say dr. McNulty will it hurt much? Oh, no, he's the best plastic surgeon in town really Uh-huh ten years ago a man came in to have his nose straightened out So the doctor sat him down in a chair stood behind the man reached down and grabbed the patient's nose in both hands It began pulling up he pulled and pulled and pulled and all of a sudden Didn't the guy sue why should he today that man is Bob Hope Well, I hope my operation turns out okay. How do you feel mr. Benny? 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