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He'll be here pretty soon. Why can't he come on time. This is important Rochester. I'll soon be out on a personal appearance tour and I haven't played my violin in front of an audience since I was at the Palladium in London. I want to get my fingers back in shape. Why what do they do to them. They didn't do anything to them. You know you may not know it but men like Heifetz and Isaac Stern put so much importance on the dexterity of their fingers that they massage them with creams and lotions. That's because they're lively who depends on the nimbleness of their fingers. I know what you mean boss my cousin goes through the same thing. Oh is your cousin a musician. No he's a milker at Adore. A milker. There's never a rough pull with my cousin. Rochester look Rochester I hired you as a butler. If I wanted to be entertained I'd have gotten Georgie Jess hall. Anyway I can't understand. Oh that must be the professor now. Well Professor LeBlanc I've been waiting for you. Hello Mr. Benny I'm sorry that I am late. That's all right. Have you had lunch. I never eat before I give you a lesson. Shall we shall we go in the den. By the way professor I had new hair put on my violin bow. Is it good there. Oh yes yes the man at the music store said it won the Kentucky Derby twice. Please I am a violin teacher not a straight man. Let us commence with the lesson. Yes Rochester hammy my violin. Here you are boss. Now give me a ready start. Professor shall I shall I start with the minuet. We wait a minute. No no no much of any I have told you so many times it isn't that that that that that you must slide slide. Perhaps it would be better if first you did some exercises. Very well. One and two and three and four I wish I was in Singapore. Bend your wrist and slide your finger. Pull the switch don't let me linger. That is enough. That is enough. You may try the menu at the game and don't forget to slide. Oh yeah. The the bow flew out of my hand. Now where did it go. It is stuck in the ceiling. Oh yeah I get it. No but professor you're too short you can't reach it. I was thinking of standing on your violin. Never mind I'll get it myself. Rochester answer the door. Yes boss. Even I sound more than he does. Hello Miss. Come on in Mr. Benny's in the dance. Is he reading. Oh it's taking a violin lesson. Yeah you ought to hear him play it sounds like he's plugging a live chicken. Well I came over to show Mr. Benny this new copy of Look magazine. His pictures on the cover and so is yours Rochester. Mine. Yes I just got it at the corner newsstand. Well. You sure look forward to their Rochester. Is that a cane you're holding. No that's the handle of a broom. What. As soon as the picture was taken I had to get right back to work. That's all I do around here scrub the floor do the laundry wash the dishes make the bed. Well Rochester I know you work hard but who else would Mr. Benny get to do it. Yes I know Mr. Benny would like to see the magazine I'm going to take it into him. Can't you see I'm in the middle of a lesson. I know Jack but I thought you might like to see this. Well I'm on the cover of Look magazine I think it's an awfully good picture don't you professor. And paper he looks so harmless. That's the cause of my blue eyes underneath I'm a regular Mickey Rooney. In the story about you there's a line that says Jack Benny is the greatest comedian the world has ever known. It says that about me yes. Jack are you sure you have been down to the corner newsstand why that line is written in pencil. I told Rochester to use ink I'm married would you mind waiting in the living room so I can finish my lesson OK. I like the picture fine Rochester but he said you should have used ink. Oh you found out yes. Well what are you laughing at. You can see what I did to the copies on the Avenue. What. Down there he's holding the room. Rochester I don't think that you. Oh I'll get it. Yeah Livia what are you doing here in Fort Knox. Nothing in particular. Where's Jackson. He's in the den plucking a chicken. Well taking a violin lesson huh. Yeah I'll see you around. I know you don't come on in. I know that that new Cadillac drove up in the beauty. Yeah Dallas. Oh then the Maroon convertible is yours. No that's Alice's too. Oh then that little English car with the right hand dialysis. Oh for heaven's sake Phil if he owns all those things what have you got. Alice. Well I'd better go in the room I want to see the old man up and like going into a cold pool you can't take it all at once. Well here goes live. Professor do you think. Oh hello Phil are you a cover boy. Oh Professor Leblanc. Bonziic too far rigged far must see. What does that mean. Good help to all from Rex all. Phil I didn't know you could speak French. Sure Jackson I know two sentences that's one of them and the other one always gets the face left. Well I'm taking a violin lesson what do you want to see me I want to talk to you about this personal appearance we're going to make now look I thought that in arranging the show I'll open up with 20 or 30 courses if that's what I like about the South and you come hold it below. I mean that's one song you're not going to sing on the tour now wait a minute Clyde you're prejudiced against the song let's ask someone who's imperial that's impartial. I don't care what it is. Hey Professor Leblanc what do you think of that's what I like about the South. I'm going to show me the three to the. Hey that it goes that's the line that always gets the face left. That's what I thought now Phil you better start rehearsing your musician you know we play our first show in Pasadena on May 10th and then we open in Wichita Kansas May 16th Kansas that's a dry state and it's not not anymore. Oh good I've got two trunks I thought I'd have to leave at the border. Phil Phil B. A. R. R. M. O. P. P. Barma. We're opening in Wichita on the 16th regarding OK OK Jackson see you later. Mr. Benny please I haven't got all day. Let us finish the lesson OK. Oh tell me Professor do you really think you can make a great violinist out of me. Well I think I can do something but it will take time. How old are you. Why. How much time have we got left. No well look for that if you don't feel that you're capable of teaching me the violin why do you keep taking money from me. I feel that that in itself is an accomplishment. Now who's that in there playing the piano. Dennis Dennis I'm taking a violin lesson get away from that piano. Mr. Benny I want to rehearse the song I'm going to do on the program that's why I've got the sportsman Quartet with me. Hello hello hello. Can I hear the song later. No the boys have to leave. All right go ahead I'll listen to it now. Would you mind repeating that. The clocker. The clocker told Jackie McGee. The jockey of course passed it on to the horse and the horse told me. You know it's funny but everybody seems to be having trouble picking winners. The other day I was at San Anita and a friend of mine come up to me and said am I mortified that to me in the big handicapped. There's a positive snap. Just go better on the horse called the sheep. He'll walk off with the crown. Why do you have to fall down. By the way that's what happened last week. What a disastrous joke. The clocker. The clocker told Jackie McGee. The jockey of course passed it on to the horse and the horse told me. And then I met another friend of mine. Ah hello there old boy he said to me I had 20 across with no chance for a loss. I figured I'd already won. But the horse threw a shoe and had a belly ache too. And besides was just in for the run. The clocker. The clocker told Jackie McGee. The jockey of course passed it on to the horse and the horse told me. I've torn off the nags. All those banquets are bagged. They run without reason or rhyme. So I quit they improve. Ah yes I know you can quit too. Why I quit at least 10,000 times. The clocker called Jackie McGee. The jockey of course passed it on to the horse. Ah yes and the horse he told me. How do you do? There's a sleeper they say in the fourth race today. It's a filly called Rockaway Road. She comes on with a voice and she'll win if she's a boy. But at least she'll be tired if she's shown. Silly horse. The clocker. The clocker told Jackie McGee. The jockey of course passed it on to the horse and the horse. Dennis that new song as well will be fine on the program. Now professor let's get on. I'm going home now and catch up on some sleep. What? On account of daylight saving time I had to get up at one o'clock in the morning and drive my mother downtown. Why? She had to change the big clock on Eastern Columbia Broadway at night. Personally I'm all confused by this daylight saving time. You're what? I'm all confused by this daylight saving time. Dennis don't worry about it. Lots of people here in Los Angeles are confused. But you know why we turn our clocks ahead don't you? Yeah it'll give us an extra hour of smog. Well Mr. Benny before I leave would you like to buy a life insurance policy? What? I say before I leave would you like to buy a life insurance policy? A life insurance policy? Yeah somebody sold it to me and I don't want it. Look kid I don't know what kind of a policy you got but why don't you want it? Well it doesn't pay off until I'm an old man. Why do you want to sell it to me? Well you can collect on it now. Dennis go home will you? Okay. Mr. Benny please let us call the lesson fini. No no no professor I want to be perfect when I start my personal appearance tour. With this tour you are making how many places will you appear in? Oh 21 different cities. Oh then that you take up the entire summer. No professor I'm gonna appear only one night in each city. That I can understand. Come on practice practice. Okay maybe I better try my theme song. Huh? I think that'll be good enough. Oh darn it. Mr. Benny put down the violin for one minute. I want to talk to you. Uh-huh. Sit down please. Yes sir what is it professor? Maybe if I explain this in a way that you are familiar with you will understand. All right all right professor go ahead. Now look have you got a lucky strike cigarette? Yes yes good. Now put it in your mouth and I will light it for you. Thank you. Now let me explain. People should get the same pleasure from a violin as you are getting from that lucky strike. Yes yes. If your bow arm is free and easy on the draw your thorns will be round and firm. Yes. And if your thorns are round and firm the theaters will be fully packed. Say say that's right. And another thing Mr. Benny when you play the violin think of a lucky strike smooth and mild. Uh-huh. And remember in a lucky there is never a rough ball. That that's right that's right there isn't. So in your violin there should never be a stinker clinker. I'll I'll I'll I'll remember that professor. Thank you. Now continue please. Yes yes professor. Oh it's that door again. Rochester Rochester. Oh Mary I'll get it. It's Livingston. Why Mr. Kitzer. Livingston is Mr. Benny home. Yes he's in his stand taking a violin lesson. Oh bless. You know a man who wants to improve himself musically has a wonderful ambition. For instance you take my nephew Patrick. Now Patrick. You have a nephew named Patrick. There was a mix up in the hospital. And your nephew is a musician. That's your boy is a one man band. No. The best one man band in the country. With his mouth he plays the harmonica with his left hand he plays the gilipon with his right hand he plays the piano and with his left foot he plays the drum. What does he do with his right foot turns the music. He has long toes. Oh Mr. Kitzer you're joking. But seriously speaking Miss Livingston Patrick is a great musician. In fact he wrote that new song which is today on the hit parade. What song is that. If I knew you were coming I'd be called a herring. No. No Mr. Kitzer the title is if I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake. This is a different song entirely. Well look Miss Livingston since Mr. Benny is taking a violin lesson I don't want to bother him because when Mr. Benny plays the violin it is so beautiful I get goose pimple. I break out in a rash. Miss Livingston you're joking. My. Oh well I got. I got to be getting myself along. Please tell Mr. Heifetz I was here. And give the gentleman my best regards. Goodbye. Goodbye Mr. Ketzel. Who was that. Mr. Ketzel but he laughs. Oh Mr. Benny please. Oh now professor I'm sure that I've got my violin solo down pat from my stage show but what do you think I should play for an encore. Mr. Benny I would not worry about an encore. Just take your money and go. Let us go back to the exercises. Okay. Oh Jack. Oh for heaven's sake what now. Well Jack that fellow who stopped you on the street a few weeks ago was at the back door. Stop me on the street. Oh yes that's the fellow who asked me for a dime but I gave him 50 cents. Mary tell him I'm I'll go talk to him. There's no business like. Oh hello there Mr. Mr. Bonie. John now. Oh yes I keep forgetting your name. What do you want. Well I haven't eaten all day and I thought maybe you give me a meal. Well I'm sorry Mr. Bonie but I don't think we've got any food in the house right now. That's funny as I come up the walk I heard someone plucking a chicken. Now wait a minute I don't mind helping a fellow out but why don't you try earning some money. Have you ever thought about getting a job. Oh sure only this morning while I was shaving the mirror said hey you I said who the mirror said you I said me the mirror said yeah. Why don't you go out and get a job you know good loafer. Now to me those are fighting words but I wasn't full enough to stop me thing. The guy in the mirror had a razor in his hand. Look look. Then I realized holy smoke you with me. Mr. Saboni you mean to say that you've never done any work. Oh once I had a job I was a nutcher at the Burbank Theater for two years. But why did you quit. I didn't quit. My flashlight burned out and I got lost. But I'm glad I'm not there anymore. Every time the girls come on it made me so Well Mr. Saboni here's some change go get yourself something to eat. She thanks Mr. Benny. No wonder your picture is on the cover of Look magazine. Oh you saw too. Yeah. I would just hang around the corner drugstore. I just hang around I wasn't doing anything. I didn't feel like doing anything. So I just hang around all of a sudden I look at the magazine counter and I said holy smoke Look at that picture. I know that guy. That's Jack Benny. He gave me 50 cents. The drugger said what? I said that's Jack Benny gave me 50 cents. And that's when it happened. What what happened. All the bottles fill up the shells. Mr. Saboni I'm taking a violin lesson so go get yourself something to eat. OK. Goodbye. Gee but he's a strange guy. Mr. Benny please I haven't got all day. Oh yes. One of our great national hazards is fire. Each year more than 10,000 people lose their lives in fires and in nine cases out of 10 these fires were caused by carelessness. Be sure it doesn't happen to you. But that match or cigarette out before you discard it. Take every precaution you can to prevent fires. Thank you. In a cigarette mildness means enjoyment and scientific tests prove lucky strike is milder than any other principal brand of cigarettes. These scientific tests are confirmed by independent consulting laboratories and they prove lucky strike mildest of six major brands tested and no wonder it takes fine tobacco to make a fine cigarette and L.S. M.F.T. L.S. M.F.T. Lucky strike means fine tobacco fine like naturally mild tobacco so for a milder tasting cigarette with never a rough puff smoke a lucky you'll enjoy the smooth rich taste of Lucky's fine tobacco you'll prove to yourself what scientific tests prove lucky strike is milder than any other principal brand of cigarettes. Yes the next time you buy cigarettes ask for a carton of lucky strike so round so firm so fully packed so free and easy on the draw. Ladies and gentlemen I want to thank Frankie Fontaine who played the part of Mrs. Silvone and we'll be with you again next Sunday night at the same time. Meanwhile come in to Benny. Yes you start your personal appearance tour in Pasadena. Yes yes that's right Pasadena. What night Wednesday night May 10. Where is it going to be held in the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Thank you. By the way who are you. I'm the fellow you hired to ask you these questions. Oh yeah. He's heard of her dentist day and the day in the life of dentists day. 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