 The Craft Foods Company, makers of craft oil, presents Willard Waterman as the Great Gildesleeve. The sleeve is brought to you transcribed by the Craft Foods Company. Times getting short. You have only a few more days to enter Craft Oil's contest. The sensational Name the Cake contest that awards the winner a new Ford Victoria every year for five years. Get entry blanks at your groceries tomorrow. It's easy to enter. And you may win a new Ford every year for five years or one of 1,850 valuable Dormire electric appliances. More details in a few minutes. Well, you never know what to expect when a boy empties his pocket. Sometimes it's pieces of string, marbles, tin foil, keys that won't fit anything and some things you can't even identify. But this afternoon when the Great Gildesleeve's nephew Leroy emptied his, there was a roll of electric wire, a dry cell battery and a cast-off light switch. And for the last couple of hours he's been pretty busy. Now I'll attach this other wire to the switch and snip it off. That should do it. Leave it off when your uncle's there. What makes you think I'm up to something? Because it's so quiet in here. And I know you ain't doing your homework because you usually have the radio going full blast. You're up to something. Bertie, I got the whole house wired. All I have to do is flip this switch. You going to blow it up? Nah. I'm going to have some fun with Uncle when he comes home. Come again? Why don't you answer the door, Bertie? The doorbell ain't ringing. I land. I hang that doorbell sitting here down on the dead floor. You got the longest arms I ever saw. Well, heck, I can even make the telephone ring. No fooling. Just by flipping the switch. Leroy, where'd you learn all that hocus-pocus? I picked it up at school. Uh-oh. Here's Uncle. Make him answer the phone and doorbell when they ring. Okay. I can always give him a job. Where is everybody? Come in a skirt, please. That's an astute observation, Bertie. Thank you, sir. Where's Leroy? Down and about, up and down, here and there, somewhere around. I'll catch him the next time around. Yes. Can we have dinner a little early? I have a date with Miss Henshaw tonight. The new school principal? Yeah. A little night school. Oh, I got to go check the ropes. All right. I'll get the door. It's funny. Nobody out here. I know the doorbell rang. Bertie, you heard the doorbell, didn't you? That's strange. Oh, well. I wonder what's in the evening paper. Unfounded hello. Nobody there. Yes, they hung up. Oh, my goodness. I wonder if some kid rang the bell and ran. Yeah, I'll bet that was Leroy. Oop. I've got the door open and the sill rings. What's wrong with these chimes? Must be a short in the wiring. Better take a look. What's this wire? I think of how well I'm dealing with Irene Henshaw. Glad the school needed a new principal. And she grades me pretty high. If I try to hold her hand tonight, I wonder if she'll give me an F in deportment. Well, at least I'm going to get an A for effort. Hello, Srockmore. Hello, Irene. Come in. Thank you. Well, you're right on time. Yep. Always make it a point never to be late for school. Couldn't wait to get here. Look, I have a couple of apples for the teacher. You brought apples? They're in my cheeks. It must be Nithya. Yeah. What should we do tonight, Irene? Do you mind if we just stay here by the fire? Do I mind? I had a dreadful day at school. Everything seemed to go wrong. I'll do my best to make you forget. Let's sit here in the couch. Yeah. This is much nicer than going out. You bet. Say, you're a vision of loveliness tonight. Thank you. It's quite a get-up you're wearing. Low in the back and buttoned high up the front. Cute dress. It's just a little print. I must say you publish it well. Srockmore, you're such fun to be with. You bolster my ego. Well, we do get along great together. You're such a comfortable man to be around. He's comfortable as in the old shoe. I wonder if I should throw another log in the fire. No, no. Let it flicker. I love the interesting shadows it throws on the wall. I can see our shadows over there. Let's see if I can make a rabbit with my hands. He used to do this when I was a kid. That's very good. I'll make a companion for him. Good. How's that? Quite a bunny. Let's have our rabbits touch noses. Look, they like each other. Mm-hmm. Yeah, Irene. Yes? They say the Eskimos rub noses when they kiss. So I've heard. I wonder if we should forget the rabbits and play Eskimo. Do you think it's that cold in here? Irene. Gracious. Who could be at the door at this hour? Probably a Northwest Mountie. Excuse me, Dr. Morton. What a time for the doorbell to ring. Evening, Miss Henshaw. Oh, Mr. Jensen. You told me to report what I found out about them dead busted bells at school. Yes. Well, we can't find out a thing. Oh. Well, why did he come by? Except the inside. We'll have to decide what to do. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Jensen. Well, hi, Mr. Gillers-Eave. I didn't know our War Commissioner was keeping company with our school principal. Well, pretty hard man to keep up with where the women are concerned. Jensen. Why can't you fix the bells at school, Mr. Jensen? Well, I can't seem to find out where them boys caught the wire. You think some boys have been mucking with the bell system at school? That's why it was such a difficult day. We had bells ringing at all hours. You did? That's weird. A class would just get settled. The bells would ring and they'd get up and leave. Yes, sir. We had a regular traffic jam this afternoon. It was all them bells ringing at once. Sounds like a part, really. You haven't any idea what boy did it. No, but I'd be tempted to expel the one who did. I had worn these britches. That's what... Maybe he didn't realize what he was doing. Who? Well, whoever did it. I know this. I can't go through another day like today. I'm going to get to the bottom of this. First thing in the morning, I'm going to call a special assembly and somebody is going to account to me. She means... I'll point out how everybody in school is being inconvenienced and if the boy has any honor at all, he'll step forward and take his medicine. Well, I'm sure Leroy... Leroy? Leroy? You're any boy. Whoever did it. We'll realize his mistake by tomorrow morning. Any boy who would do a thing like this must be a headache to his parents. Well, I'd better say good night. Yeah, I'd better go home too. I think I have a headache. Fill a light in Leroy's room and I'll go up and read the riot act to that boy. Oop! Bell's again. He's got everything wired. That young man's going to be in for a shock himself. I never saw Irene so upset. And there's another thing he broke up my date. Leroy! Front and center. Out of bed, young man. On your feet and give me an accounting. Oh, you mean our doorbell. I forgot to disconnect my wires. Leroy, they're not the only wires you've been tampering with. I know all about what you did to the school bells. All that. I have nothing to do with it. But boy, you should have seen this hen show. She and her tizzy. And you should have seen Mr. Jensen. I've seen Mr. Jensen. Yeah? Did he get the bells fixed? They're waiting for you to tell them where you crossed the wires. Now come clean. I am clean. I don't have anything to tell them. Oh, Leroy, the finger's pointing at you. Look, I didn't do it, honest. I just picked it up. Well, you picked up a hot potato. Tomorrow morning, you're going to march up to Miss Henshaw and confess. I am not. Leroy, careful. Why should I confess? Because it builds character. Now go to bed and think it over. But I'm innocent. And stop insisting you're innocent when I keep telling you you're guilty. What a character! Irene must have laid down the law. Exactly, Leroy. I'll tell her myself and tell her I know he's implicated. Maybe she'll go a little easy on the boy. He isn't malicious. Come in. Hello, Irene. Hello, Mr. Gilver-Sleeve. Irene, yes, we are in school, aren't we? Yes, we are. The reason I came to Miss Henshaw is to talk about the bells. Oh, they became such a problem. We disconnected them all. We're going by watches until we find that I know the source of the trouble. You do? This is very embarrassing and painful to me, but the boy who did it is afraid to confess himself so I'm doing it for him. Who are you talking about, Frank Morton? Well, my nephew Leroy. Leroy? Is he smart enough to rig the wires? I mean, I didn't know he was scientifically inclined. Yeah, now don't be too hard on him. It may mean that he's just gotten in with the wrong crowd here in the school. I didn't know we had a wrong crowd in our school. Well, the principal doesn't always know what's going on. Oh? The boy can pick up plenty of mischief in the school like this and bring the ideas right home. Mr. Gilver-Sleeve, it has been my experience that if a boy has received the proper training at home, he isn't likely to get into much mischief at school. Well, I mean, let's not criticize the way I bring up Leroy. Well, let's not criticize the way I run this school. But I feel I know you well enough to tell you the boy got his wires crossed here in your school. Well, I think I know you well enough to tell you the boy's uncle is a little haywire. No, I read. I'm very busy. Good day. Well, if that's the way you want it, good day. I'm found it. I'm only trying to get Leroy straightened out. Lend a helping hand and she steps on it. See, Jensen's still working on the wires. Found out where the trouble is, Jensen? Not yet, commissioner. Well, perhaps I should help. I feel a little responsible for this. Did you do the tinkering? No, Jensen. Let me have your pliers. I see a wire way back there. It looks like it's dangling. Oh, I must have missed that one. Here. Yeah, it goes right here, I guess. Dad, bust it now. The kids will change classes again. Yeah, and here comes Miss Henshaw breathing fire. I'm getting out of here. She's already scorched me. The Great Kilda Sleeve will be back in just a minute. Listen carefully. If you'd like a new Ford Victoria every year for five years. Tonight's the last time we're broadcasting details of how to enter Kraft Oil's sensational name the cake contest. Tomorrow, get a green-capped bottle of Kraft Oil at your grocer. You'll find the recipe for the cake that needs a name printed inside the label. And also be sure to get the official entry blank that gives easy contest rules. Just bake the cake, enjoy it, and decide on a name that describes it. The name you send to Kraft Oil may win a brand-new Ford every year for five years. You get a deluxe Ford Victoria the first year and then trade it in without further cost to you on the newest model every year for the next four years. 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No, but principal didn't see him do it. True, but... Of course not. But we know he rigged the bells here at home. That I saw him do. Yeah, you see, and it happened the same day. What do you say to that? I'd say just like his uncle. Right? Mr. Gilder Sleeve, when you was in college, who put the cow in the dean's office? Oh, that was an amusing prank. Yes, but did the dean think so? Well, I don't want Leroy doing everything I did. But when he does get out of line by George, I want him to admit me. Here he comes. Maybe he'll take this more seriously if I give him the cold shoulder. I'll let him know I'm so shocked I don't want to have anything to do with it. Hello? I got the bells fixed at school. Well, I hope you enjoyed your fun. All the kids did. I suppose the culprit never admitted it. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. I wonder who did it. I did not. Let's forget it. I can go to a movie tonight. That'd be a slow way to forget it. I don't think I care to attend the movie with you, Leroy. Even if I pay my own weight? Sorry? What's the matter with you, Wank? Something's happened between us, my boy. The old spark is gone. I like young men of character. I'm loaded with it. I just don't slot it. Yeah. Well, if you don't want to go to a movie with me, let's eat, and I'll go with Piggy. I don't think I even care to have dinner with you. You don't? I'll eat now, and you can eat later. Why don't I eat now, and you eat later? That's not a first crack at it. What a callous boy. What can I do for you? What can I do for you? I don't want anything. I just wanted to get out of the house and away from Leroy. The boy got the mumps or something? No, I'm purposely ignoring him because he wired those school bells and won't admit it. I'm giving him something to think about. What are you doing, baby? I'm just putting these cosmetics on the shelves. No, a woman uses a lot of camouflage these days when she goes to sleep. Yeah, I guess so. They may not put much on their backs, but I don't know what a woman really looks like. You should know, Pee-Pee, you're married. Yeah, I think I'll take some of this stuff home to visit Pee-Pee. Mr. Goversey, if I have a new line of perfume here, any time you'll need a gift for the new school principal. We aren't getting along right now. You don't care. That's Leroy's fault too. I tried to explain the situation to her and she didn't show her how to row. You might want her to get out of the back way. Do I? Yes, you can. Hello. Hello, Mr. Pee-Pee. Good evening, Ms. Henshaw. Brock Morton, I'm so glad to see you. You are? We found out who caused all the bell ringing in school. Leroy's fingerprints? No. No. Leroy had nothing to do with it. He didn't? No. Well, that explains a lot. Yeah, it explains why Leroy wouldn't admit he did it, Mr. Goversey. Well, he'd rigged all the bells at home except the burglar alarm. I'm afraid you owe Leroy an apology, Brock Morton. Yeah, I'll say I do. I jumped to conclusions. I assumed too much. Yes, you did. I really wronged the boy. I was short-sighted, unfair, unfair. All right, TV. You can just help me out. I owe you an apology to Brock Morton getting upset with you. I'm sorry. Well, I'm sorry for what I said too. Maybe we should go somewhere and be sorry together. How about tomorrow evening? Tomorrow evening? If you want some place to go and have a Sunday, I'd be glad to whip up a masterpiece to top off your evening. Highlight of the evening. Well, no, I wouldn't say that. He's going to be my desire here, too, Leroy. Yeah, I can't wait for him to come home. What a break for me. Boy, what are you up to now? Well, they say you should pay for your mistakes and I'm just going to pay. So, I'm going to leave the field to you. Leroy? They found out who fouled up the bells at school. Leroy, I'm sorry I thought it was you. Ah! Now, my boy, suppose we go to that movie you were talking about. I don't think I want to attend a movie with you. Oh, come on. We'll eat dinner and be off for an evening together. I don't think I care to have dinner with you. But, Leroy... Sorry, Aunt, but something has happened between us. Like you said, the spark is gone. No, Leroy, I made a mistake. You sure did. But I want to make it up to you. It's too late, Aunt. You've stifled my genius. What? Just when it was starting to burn. What genius? My electrical genius. I might have been another Thomas Edison or an Alexander Graham... That is if I had better equipment. Better equipment? I could have kicked down the Hogan Brothers with switches, wire batteries, transformers. I could take that and invent anything. Oh? But I guess if you ever caught me doing something practical like specializing in electricity I'd get the treatment again. My boy, I want you to have that out there. No. Leroy, please. I owe it to you. Say you'll accept it. Okay, Aunt, if it'll make you happy. Later tonight, do you, Irene? It'll be fun. Yeah, I thought it'd be nice to stop by the house and have some Bertie's cake and hot chocolate. You come in. Bertie has a nice fire going. Yeah, let's go over and sit down. Here comes the hot chocolate and the cake. Well, such service. Bertie's a jewel. Easy, Miss Angel. Hello, Bertie. Now put the tray right down here by you two and leave you to shift for yourself. All right, Bertie. We'll manage. Thank you. Good night. Oh, it's beautiful, Bertie. I've been hearing a lot about your cake. Yes, ma'am. Yeah, Bertie's quite a cook. Good night, Bertie. Good night, Miss Giltie. That recipe for this cake won the first prize at the county family, Miss Angel. Really? Do you cook, Miss Angel? Oh, my goodness. Not very much, I'm afraid. I know you're the school principal, but principals all know how to cook. They get married, too. As well. You and Mr. Giltie could study a side of me together. He likes the moon, too. Bertie. Of course the moon's fine when you're courting, but after you're mad, there's nothing like knowing how to make a hot biscuit. I'll remember that. Bertie. Good night. Good night, Bertie. At last. Right, George, we have quite a time trying to be alone together. The school custodian, wasn't it? Yeah, about those school bells. You know, I made it up to Leroy, though. Got him the finest electrical outfit Hogan Brothers had. I got him on the right track. He's doing constructive things with it. He even fixed this lamp. Yes, indeed. A very complicated three-way switch. See, it's on bright now. It is a little bright, isn't it? Yeah. Good luck. Now it's dimmed. That is better. I can even make it dimmer. Why did the burglar alarm? Drake Gillis-Lee will be with us again in just 30 seconds. Just a last reminder to get your entry blank for Craft Oil's Sensational Name the Cake contest at your grocers tomorrow. It's the easiest contest in the world to ever. 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