 show yeah as honest Harold the homemaker let's look in on the little town of Melrose Springs home of that popular radio entertainer honest Harold the homemaker it's morning now we find Harold and his mother at the breakfast table Harold is a little dreamy thinking of his date last night with the lovely dancing teacher Theodora I saw you last night and got that old feeling Harold what is it mother you haven't touched your big Tina son and I bet I know who you're thinking of Theodora yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh I forgot here's the morning mail oh yeah well let's see it mother maybe Theodora sent me a little billy-do hope there aren't any dewey bills what eh skip it mother was intended for a joke oh oh what's this a letter from Charlieville why it's from my old high school sweetheart Laura Bell Breckenridge oh I remember her she was awfully sweet on you and she was awfully sweet too let's see what she says dear Tootsie Roll that's what she used to call me in home economics I made a Tootsie Roll pie once let's see I heard you sing on your radio program yesterday and it brought back memories of that night we went on the hayride together gosh I remember that hayride with Laura Bell what else does she say Harold let's see if you'd like to see me again after all these years just sing that song you sang to me on the hayride for you that's the first song I learned on my mandolin oh gosh little Flora Bell Breckenridge we were engaged practically she wore my gold senior class wringler finger turned green and just think mother she wants to see me again but Harold you wouldn't want to see her now of course now I'm true blue to Theodora just nice to know I'm still so attractive though you and Theodora have been going together for quite a while now have you ever thought about getting engaged well I've thought about it I'd like to see my son settle down just think one of these days I'll be a grandmother what mother you'll bring your little family over to see me on Sunday and I'll say hello Harold and hello Theodora and hello little Harold and hello little Harold Dean and hello little Gerald and hello little Gerald Dean mother and hello little Norman stop it mother I'd never be able to afford all those hop along Cassidy suits little Harold Dean mother's pretty cute all right not a bad idea though getting engaged with Theodora she's a wonderful girl and being engaged is still one step from being married but old brother what's that last step how's the veterinary business I'd say it was going to the dogs you might say it when nobody else would oh I'm only joking Harold I'm waiting for Pete we're going to the park and build a snowman you care to join us well sounds like a lot of fun doc but I really can't I'm on my way to Theodora's oh better be careful Harold or someday you'll be deserting the ranks of us eligible bachelors oh well don't never get around doc but I am thinking of getting engaged well congratulations of course I haven't asked the lady yet thought I might go by this morning ask her that 64-dollar question howdy boys hello Pete hey Pete our old friend Harold here is thinking of getting engaged well he's lovely he's engaged he uses Burma Shave if Harold is going to be engaged we ought to give him a shower shower okay I'll bring the soap lemon after see you walking down the aisle here comes the bride wiggling from side to side here comes the group I go into his door ain't that a dude you certainly is I think I'll elope hope my little dancing teacher is in must have borrowed those door chimes from Carmen Miranda it's Harold you healthy theater that you'll be thrilled when I pop the question hello Harold how's my little gum drop this morning yeah tootsie rolls and gum drops yes I'm the candy kid Theodora we've been going together quite a while now yes I've been seeing you just about every night and I've been a bachelor for an awfully long time of course that's kind of hard to understand being such a ladies man ladies man you said it by just this morning I got a letter from an old sweetheart of mine she said our romance could flame up again all I'd have to do is pour in a little lighter fluid oh so you see I must be still pretty attractive Harold I just received a letter to from an old sweetheart of mine you did yes Charlie Cathcart oh we were very fond of each other back home oh you were yes we used to have such good times together he sent me some old snapshots here's one the two of us canoeing on Groundhog River who's that in front of the canoe why that's Charlie I thought it was a groundhog here's a picture of Charlie on a picnic he's drinking a glass of water while he's standing on his head that's not so hard to do if you got a flat head he was always doing cute things like that show off he said he might come here for a visit my it would be a lot of fun to see him again it would oh Harold what did you come in to ask me nothing good bye give my regards to Charlie flat top oh shut up Charlie Cathcart supposed she thinks I'm jealous well I could make her jealous if I wanted to one word for me and Flora Bell Breckenridge had come flying in the first bus all I'd have to do is sing our song on my radio program this morning by George I'll do it as we used to say in home economics what sauce for the goose is best described on page 13 musicians about ready to go on the area now hit it Yasha radio listeners this is honest Harold the homemaker ladies I'm gonna start my program this morning with a very special song dedicated to a very special young lady I hope you're listening it's for you I will gather stars out of the blue for you for you a string of pearls out of the getting tired of waiting around this bus station that darn bus from Charlieville is late again never been on time since that bus driver started running an egg root on the side what are you doing here I've been looking all over town for you oh Harold I heard you sing that special song on your program this morning you did it was so sweet of you to sing that just for me huh you see and Harold I was just teasing you about Charlie cat got that I make my little teddy bear jealous jealous no when you came to see me this morning I had a feeling that you were going to propose well I did think we might get engaged oh isn't that wonderful why don't you ask me now well I accept I've got to get back to the dancing Academy I have to give a chance to listen see you later lover boy hey that was a quick engagement I didn't even get a ring well glad it worked out this way guess I'll go home and tell mother the good news who's that he God's Flora Bell Breckenridge that's the most romantic thing you ever had you called to me on wings of song and I came on a gray hand bus trip ticket you haven't changed an itty bitty bit new suit we snuggled together and you held me closer and closer will you ever forget it I sure won't I cracked my mandolin Laura Bell there's something I've just got to tell you and I just don't know how to say it I know what my bashful sugar plum is trying to say you do you want to tell little Flora Bell you still care but I still care to look Harold I'm still wearing your senior clash ring it's kept your memory green yes sure has did you want your ring back oh no no you keep it right there on your little green finger I wouldn't have happened if I hadn't heard you sing on the radio yeah I knew I should have gone into television he will return for the second act of our story honest Harold in just a moment Jimmy Stewart will be the special guest on the CBS Bing Crosby show tonight that you're guarantee of some very amusing sketches plus some of that wonderful Crosby singing the Bing Crosby show is heard every Wednesday evening on most of these same CBS stations joined Bing and Jimmy Stewart just a little later this evening and now back to Harold Perry as honest Harold the homemaker well when a man becomes engaged to a woman that's serious when a man becomes engaged to two women at the same time that's murder yes one of these days wedding bells may be ringing for honest Harold but who will be the bride I hope it's the adora what am I gonna do about Flora Bell oh quiet well it's afternoon now and we find honest Harold at home in his living room talking over this weighty problem with his mother who owes me my son you do have a problem engaged to two women yeah I wonder how the court of human relations would handle this where is Flora Bell now Harold Flora Bell is waiting for me right now down at the mall shop gosh mother I don't want to be engaged to Flora Bell what am I gonna tell her well son the only fair thing to do is go down and tell her that you made a mistake that's not gonna be easy Flora Bell's always had an awful temper she's liable to turn on me like a wounded puma well Harold it'll take courage but we hemp's have always had that oh just look at that picture on the wall your grandfather climp trap him there was a brave man you can just see courage sticking out all over his face oh that was his beard one day out west climp trap was walking through the woods all alone suddenly he ran into a bear the bear growled at him whoop did your grandfather run away no he just growled right back whoo the bear grabbed your grandfather and they began to wrestle first the bear was on top and your grandfather was on top then the bear was on top mother who won the first fall well when it was all over your grandmother had a new bear skin coat yes climp trap had real courage Harold mother you're right if grandfather can do it I can do it of course you can just take another look at that picture all right brother what a beard mother are you sure that isn't the bear isn't this thrilling Harold what's that Flora Bell after all these years us two sitting in the same old malt shop in the same old booth in the same old way yeah and I'm in the same old trouble the only the only thing different is now we're engaged the floor bell is something I've got to talk lucky here here's where you called our initials on the table HH loves guess who know what that means HH loves guess who oh sure that's Herbert Hoover loves Harry Truman you mean it oh no hit me and tell that our love will last as long as this table hmm wonder where I can hire some good termites I'm gonna be Frank I pardon me what'll it be folks what oh well I'll have a chocolate malt nice and gooey chalk malt lots of goo right jar what do you have sir and give me a chocolate ice cream soda with chocolate ice cream chalk soda with chalk ice right jar oh Harold remember when we used to order one strawberry soda and two straws yeah and we'd sit there sipping our sodas and spoon in yeah why don't you lean over like you used to and kiss my ruby lips I better get this thing over with Flora Bell pardon me sir what I have to change your order right a chocolate ice cream well give me vanilla okay chalk soda with vanilla ice right jar Flora Bell I've been thinking about this engagement of ours so about I hope we're not gonna be engaged too long so do I well Flora Bell I have to be brave and pardon me sir oh for heaven's sakes what now we just ran out of vanilla ice cream well give me tutti-fruity one chalk soda with toot fruit right jar not toot fruit I mean Flora Bell something I just got to tell you and right now all right what is it well Flora Bell hello my goodness Doc howdy boy Pete what are you two doing here we just come down to tell you Pete and I are gonna give you an engagement party tonight engagement party that right boy for you and you see you later well isn't that thoughtful of you gentlemen giving an engagement party for Harold me what how's that ma'am yes Harold now I got engaged this morning at the bus station you sure get around boy aren't you gonna introduce me to these two charming gentlemen charming gentlemen oh yeah Flora Bell this is Doc and Pete goodbye fellas just a minute Harold looks like we'll have to make some new plans for the engagement party tonight yeah we're gonna have to change the wording on that cake what do you say your name was again miss Flora Bell Flora Bell let me write that down fellas go well I guess we better be going goodbye miss Flora Bell goodbye come on Pete we better get going for Harold changes his mind yeah I declare that Harold is a regular Tony Martini so that's what you were trying to tell me you sweet little old titty roll we have an engagement party tonight but Flora Bell you've just got to listen pardon me sir what is it now there you are one chalk malt lots of goo and one toot fruit thanks and by the way I just heard about your engagement the drinks are on the house why don't you go up there with him honest Harold you're just a coward sat in that mall shop all afternoon and didn't tell Flora Bell all you did was have four tooty fruity delights rum flavor and I'll tell her tomorrow just keep Theodora from finding out about that engagement party tonight well I'll think of something where's my little honeybee been all day honeybee oh I've just been buzzing around Harold yeah this is our first day of being engaged what are we going to do to celebrate tonight Theodora maybe we better wait and celebrate some other time what what are you going to do tonight I'm gonna be engaged I mean busy now Harold you're keeping something from me I wonder what I'd see if I could look inside you for tooty fruity delights Theodora Harold Theodora howdy for hello boy you two again I heard we just want to know what time you wanted to have the party tonight's not now party yeah Doc and I are giving Harold an engagement party tonight I'm sunk why Harold that's why you're acting so funny you are going to give me a surprise party to celebrate our engagement did you say you wouldn't have an engagement well ain't that a doozy you have to change the frosting again but I thought I thought I'll talk to you later I'm very busy boy you sure are you must have a bicycle Harold before we fix the cake again you're gonna make any more stops today yeah if we don't wear it out before we eat it scrambly we'll see you tonight and Harold don't get no more ideas boy I swear we're almost out of ice cute fellas just think how your little Theodora is going to have her name on your engagement cake I hope there's enough room the station cage JP hello Gloria hello Harold congratulations on your engagement which one what are you engaged to two girls I know this sounds ridiculous Gloria but yes I know one thing Harold what's that you're in trouble no kidding gosh it's just like a case I read about in the paper the other day the fella was engaged to two women just like you he was yes but he got out of it all right he did how Gloria he died both shot him one with a 32 and one with a 45 that makes 77 all together yes Gloria shot him at an engagement party right between the demi-tas and your dirt see you later Gloria I'll send you my forwarding address I gotta see a man about a greyhound bus that is wonder what time the next bus leaves no wonder where I should go I could go to Washington DC and be a music critic now it's safer here I ought to be ashamed myself sneaking out of town like this what would grandfather Clem trap say he to go on to the engagement party and face them both by George that's what I'm gonna do they can't scare me I'm not afraid I'm not there you are floor bell I've been looking all over for you or bell please don't shoot I'll put your name in the cake I'm gonna shoot you you're not but I am gonna break your little old heart what I'm sorry but I can't be engaged to you huh I've been keeping something from you you see I'm practically engaged to a man in Charlottesville a big grain merchant grain merchant yes the poor man called me today and said if I didn't come back he just go to seed floor bell do you mean that you were engaged to two people at the same time yes can you ever forgive me well sure what the heck want to hold me to my promise oh no that is I'll give you that's big yeah that's me oh well goodbye ding dong lucky fellow you certainly get out of things yeah yeah yeah guess I'll go to my little old engagement party now I will gather stars all of the blue for you Harold the adora Harold what's this I hear about your being engaged to another woman oh that well that was nothing she's gone and our engagement is off well I think we'd better call ours off too what but the adora I don't think my gay little bachelor is quite ready to settle down yes well maybe you're right yeah and maybe we shouldn't see each other for a while oh and for how long well say until tomorrow night tomorrow night yeah let's a date see you then goodbye yeah to lose picking up for the last time have you sure now what you want us to write down on that cake boys I'm a bachelor again boys I'm a bachelor again let me right there what come on I'll buy you both a double 2d fruity delight oh you have just heard the Harold Perry show honest Harold the supporting players tonight included Jane Morgan Parley Bayer Mari Alden Shirley Mitchell and Dick Renna and featured Gloria Holiday as Gloria and Joseph Kearns is old Doc Yak Yak Norman McDonald directed and the music was composed and conducted by Jack Meakin honest Harold created by Harold Perry was written by Jean Stone Jack Robinson Dick Powell tomorrow nights on CBS the famed star of the Metropolitan Opera of South Pacific and now of the movies eight seopinza is your star on suspense radio's outstanding theater of drills mr. pincer will be heard in a nude well drama aria from murder another fine attraction on CBS tomorrow evening will be Bruce Cabot as the hallmark playhouse star in the golden herd CBS invite you to hear eight seopinza on suspense and Bruce Cabot on the playhouse tomorrow evening on most of these same stations stay tuned now for the Bing Crosby show which follows immediately on most of these same CBS stations Bob LeMond speaking this is CBS where Edward R. 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