 You're about to be entertained by some of the biggest names in show business for the next hour and 30 minutes This program will present in person such bright stars as Eddie Arnold Eddie Cantor Jack Carson Olivia de Havilland Bill Foster Tommy Henryk Martha Ray Evelyn Varden Meredith Wilson, and my name darlings is to Lula Bankhead The National Broadcasting Company presents the big show America The big show 90 minutes with the most scintillating personalities in the entertainment world Brought to you this Sunday and every Sunday at the same time as the Sunday feature of NBC's all-star festival And here is your hostess the glamorous unpredictable to Lula Bankhead Mornings, this was the week for spring cleaning. I picked a very sunny day and went to the racetrack. What a cleaning And when I got home, I went to work on the house cleaning I started with the medicine cabinet Hundreds of little bottles of pills taking up all that space so I emptied all the little bottles into one big bottle Sleeping pills reducing pills Appetite pills liver pills. I didn't feel quite right the other day So I shook the bottle up it took a pill slept two days lost six pounds and woke up eating a chopped chicken liver sandwich One chopped chicken liver sandwich coming off. Martha Ray Mustard on that sandwich Martha. No, I wasn't ordering a hold your mustard. I don't want a sandwich hold your sandwich Martha, please will you be quiet hold your tongue girl? That's better What is this short-order character you're doing here? Oh, didn't you know? Well, that's the way I broke into the movies You see when I first went out to Hollywood I figured that somebody might discover me if I took a job as a waitress in a Hollywood restaurant and sure enough Just like in the movies a talent scout came in one day and he says who is that beautiful girl? So I went over and found out Well, how did you finally get into the movies darling? Oh, it was easy You see one day a director came in took one look at me and he put me in the pictures a director took one look at you and Recognize your talent and your ability. No, he recognized me. I'm his sister That was relatively easy Tell me darling. What have you been doing lately now? Where did you get that lovely suntan in Miami? Really Miami where Miami where that's where oh Florida of course you were on vacation Well, I worked in the nightclub, but during the day I was on the beach. Oh, I wish you could have seen my bathing suit Nobody else could Oh, I see you were one of those bikini bathing suits. Huh speak up girls speak up Oh, you know the bikini bathing suits a very scanty swimsuit named after that coral reef in the Pacific the bikini at all Well, Mime was named after nothing at all No, I know what you mean. Oh, I wouldn't buy one of those bathing suits unless the label said guaranteed not to shrink Well, that's what it said and they were right. That was the only thing that didn't shrink the label How did you swim in it barely? You see I had a job on the beach there as a life-saving guard really darling doing what saving lifeguards Saving lifeguards, you're supposed to save women and children from drowning. Well, you save who you like and I'll save who I like Yeah, but Martha I'm more interested in your nightclub act You see when this show takes a summer vacation I'll have three months before we come back in the fall and I thought maybe that I could play that nightclub you own in Miami Martha raised five o'clock club, isn't it? Yes, it's the five o'clock club and thanks for the club to do that But to do a tell me have you ever been on a nightclub floor too often darling Already to there's nothing to it. You slip the waiters a few bucks and they applaud for you Oh clack if they don't all clack them in the head But I don't think I'd have the nerve to get out on a nightclub floor. I'd be bad Well, that helps Look to do I'll speak to the man owns the nightclub where I worked He's a nice guy, but sort of a well a kind of a goon. I've known him for years He lets me use his caban on the beach during the day I had the sun in the morning in the goon at night Simmer down buster if you want to sing Martha I wish you'd sing that beautiful thing you sang on our show a few months ago We've had loads of letters asking for it again. You mean that old black magic. That's the one baby Ladies and gentlemen one of the greatest ballad singers of our time miss Martha Ray Weaving that old black magic Melody's darling, how about that beautiful sit fan arrangement if you please? That black magic Has me in its spell That That I feel so well as I see Down my spine It's the same old witchcraft like a leaf That's caught For your lover that I in a speed under that old black magic color In a speed Semper divine or what I would give if I could sing like that Give my regards to Does that sound like Martha Ray? Sounds more like sugar Ray mean by that Jack Castle my voice Jack Well, I'll I'll give it to you straight from the shoulder to Lula and That's where your voice sounds like it's coming from straight from the shoulder. I Can't understand it. I adore music. I listen to recordings tunes keep running through my mind all day long I'm so full of music. I'm full of harmony. I'm full of melody. I know what you're full of but You're singing to Lula. I happen to know something about putting over a song. I can help you Oh, Jack if you can I'll put my career in your hands good Well now first I'll put my future as a singer in your hands good now and now where do we start? With your throat put that in my hands. Well, you know first. Let's analyze Martha Ray's singing Now she really sells it. Mm-hmm. Of course in your case, it's gonna be hard to even give away, but Yeah, you have this wonderful big orchestra 47 men around Well, they should off your singing with 47 men around darling. Who wants to sing? No, no, I mean you have 47 fine musicians. You should take advantage of heaven knows I've tried I Think I see what you mean. Well, let's take let's take all black magic and see how you do with that That old black magic has me in its spell I'll try that Having one of your bad spells Magic that you we baby sell it It sounds like spot welding does Those icy fingers up and down my spine Take it that same old witchcraft when your lips read mine Well, I don't know about the craft part, but the whip well never mind Let's take it down further where it goes a flame with such a burning desire Sell it to the baby That only kiss And put out for the fire Well, did I sell it honey? Sort of a fire sale Why don't you give up saying now just a minute another Martha Ray you'll never be you'll ever get Out like she does you you haven't got the large mouth. She has Forget it. There must be something else you can do something else. Yes, listen here. You futed it from a Dennis Morgan picture You've overgrown Milwaukee Freddie Bethlehem you I was wrong. You have got a big mouth Look, I wasn't trying to belittle you when you're singing you can't have a rate with a singer like Martha because you just haven't got the Physical equipment It isn't as if you haven't got as much or even more but it's just When it comes to singing when it comes to singing you've got the wrong kind Martha has a natural feel for singing. She really Belts out a song why can she and why can't I well she has the vocal cords for now I'll admit you can hit hard notes and I guess the larynx for it. Yes. I guess she's sitting pretty. She has the background for Well, you have quite a bit of background yourself. Why don't you go put it down somewhere? Well, I present our next song Ladies and gentlemen, we are privileged to welcome to the big show an actress whose gifts of charm and eloquence Whose powers of portrayal and interpretation have won for her place in our hearts to Academy Awards for outstanding performances and pictures and most recently the plaudits of Shakespearean scholars for her triumphal revival of the immortal Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York Here is Miss Olivia From the stage of the Broadhurst to the stage of our big show in the center theater Missed Olivia de Havilland and the famous chord scene from Romeo and Juliet ill-feeling between the great houses of Capulet and Montague in 15th century Verona Italy has reached a stage of explosive tension Unknown to both families, however Juliet daughter the Capulets and Romeo son of the Montague Have been secretly married at noon of this very day Juliet awaits her marriage night Does not yet know that Romeo to avenge the killing of his friend McCutcheon Has meanwhile slain her kensman Tibbelt in a duel By the window of her tower bedroom. She awaits the coming of her nurse Who is to bring the rope lad of cords so that Romeo can come to her Before the nurse arrives with the tidings of tragedy and eager Juliet speaks her soliloquy Girl up a pace you fiery foot its deeds taught Phoebus lodging Such a wagoner as Phaethon would whip you to the west and bring in clouding night immediately Spread thy close curtain love performing night that runaways eyes may wink and Romeo leap to these arms and unseeing Lovers can see to do their amorous rites by their own beauties Or if love be blind it best agrees with night civil night Thou sober suited matron all in black and learn me how to lose a winning match Played for a pair of stainless maiden hoods Who'd my unmanned blood baiting in my cheeks with eye black mantle till strange love grown bold Think true love simple modesty Come night come Romeo come the day in for thou shalt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than you snow on a raven's back Come gentle night Come loving black brown night give me my room when he shall die Take him and cut him out in little stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish son I have bought the mansion of a love But not possessed it and Though I am so Enjoying So tedious is this day as is the night before some festival to an impatient child that have new robes and may not wear them Oh here comes my nurse and she brings news that speaks but Romeo's name Speaks heavenly eloquence Now nurse what news what has thou there the chords that Romeo badly fetch I Me why does our ring thy hand and cannot thou that does torment me thus this torture should be roared in dismal hell That Romeo slain himself eyes to prison eyes near look on liberty To all miss this that blows so contrary Is Romeo slaughtered and his tibble dead my dearest cousin and my dear the Lord Then dreadful trumpets on the general do they all banish it Romeo's hand shed tibble's blood it dead It did the last the day it did Serpent heart It with a flowering face Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant fiend angelical just opposite to what thou justly seems Oh nature what has thou to do in hell without its power the spirit of a fiend in more That deceit should dwell in such a gold trust no fate no honesty and men All perjured all for swan all not all can give me some aquavita These griefs these walls these sorrows make me a Romeo Listed be thy tongue for such a wish He was not born to shame Upon his brow shame is a shame to sit but is a throne where honor may be crowned soul monarch of the universal earth. Oh What a beast was I to chide at him will you speak well of him that kill your cousin? Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Shall smooth thy name when I thy three-hours wife have mangled it but where poor villain Didst thou kill my cousin and cousin would have killed my husband Foolish tears back to your native spring My husband lives that tibble would have slain and tibble's dead that would have slain my husband. Oh This is comfort Worse of an tibble's death that murdered me I would forget it feign but oh it presses to my memory like damned and guilty deeds to sinners minds Tibble's dead and Romeo Banished that banished that one word banished it has slain 10,000 tibbles That word is father mother tibble from your Juliet all slain banished There is no end no limit measure bound in that word's death. It is my father and my mother nurse Weeping and wailing over tibble's course Will you go to them? I will bring you the Wash they his wounds with tears Mine shall be spent when there's our dry for Romeo's banishment Take thou those courts Poor hopes you are beguiled both you and I for Romeo is exiled. He made you For a highway to my bed But I am made die maiden widowed Come courts Come nurse Halt to my wedding bed and death Not Romeo Take my maiden head Stay in your chamber. I Will find Romeo to comfort you. I what well where he is Your Romeo will be here at night. I'll to him. He is hid at Lawrence cell Oh Find him give this ring to my true knight and bid him come To take his last farewell Olivia to havel and a magnificent performance darling and so ably assisted by miss Evelyn Varden Olivia my dear would you mind coming here for a moment? I must say a more tender a lovely Juliet I've never seen thank you very much to Lula except of course when I play it Oh and now Olivia we are not going to have a typical petty squabble between two actresses are we my sweets Well, I didn't intend to start one But you say when you appeared in Romeo and Juliet your performance was better. Oh, I didn't say it was better than yours No, no, I merely gave it a different interpretation Compared to yours my performance had more depth and more width No, it's gonna be that kind of a routine Well, don't blame me to Lula. I was on my way to the dressing room when you called me over and told me about your performance in Romeo and Juliet What's so funny about that? Oh Nothing, I was just trying to picture you climbing over the garden wall and looking up at the balcony at Juliet Not only that but I revised the part a little I will admit it may have been too drastically revision of Juliet because it Didn't play as I hoped How about Romeo? He wouldn't play either As for criticizing you my dear I only saw you for the first time here I haven't seen the play, but I'd give anything to see you in it for 80 will do it But I'm more interested in these revisions you say you made in the part of Juliet. What were they? Well, as you know, Olivia darling Juliet was supposed to have been only about 14 years old a young girl with old ideas Oh, and you revised it to an old girl with young ideas Just a minute snake pits I happen to have been 14 years old when I played it only 14 that's right Despite that tender age My Juliet was in the finest Shakespearean tradition. Well, of course darling, you had the advantage of working with the author You have been listening to Meredith Wilson and the big show orchestra and chorus I'll take just a moment before we continue to say that this is NBC the national broadcasting company The big show This is the national broadcasting company Sunday extravaganza with the most scintillating personalities in show business The big show the Sunday night feature of NBC's all-star festival is brought to you by the makers of Anderson For fast relief from the pain of headache neuritis in your algea by RC a victor world leader and radio first in recorded music first in Television and by Chesterfield the only cigarette that gives you mildness plus no unpleasant aftertaste The cigarette that brings you being cross me and Bob Hope the big stars in this program are Eddie Arnold Eddie Kenner Jack Carson Olivia de Havilland Phil Foster Tommy Enric Martha Ray Meredith Wilson and his big show orchestra and chorus and every week your hostess the glamorous unpredictable Tallulah Bankhead Well darlings, what do you think last week? We received two awards on this show and this week comes another from radio and television mirror magazine Voted the favorite newcomer to radio. I hope you won't consider this bragging which it is But I just love the inscription on that radio and television mirror ward favorite newcomer I'm intrigued with that word newcomer. It has such a youthful flavor about it It's been so long since I've been a newcomer to anything Anyway, I felt so good about it that I thought I'd celebrate last week and go out to the ball game I held it cab and who should drive up with maxi taxi the gentleman who reminds me so very much of Eddie Taxi lady So where do you want to go lady? Take me out the ballpark. Oh the game between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers Which team are you gonna root for? Well the Giants are my team But when they're not playing I'm for heaven forgive me the Yankees I'm sorry. This is a Brooklyn taxi. Go get yourself a Yankee taxi I'm not gonna stand here all year waiting for another taxi look at her your Brooklyn can always wait till next year so can you Will you let me get into this cab? I've got to get there in time for the flag raising Oh, they don't raise the pen and flag today. That's on the opening day Tuesday I am not discussing the pen and flag when I show up there. They raise the confederate flag Hey, thanks. Are you happy step right in mister just a minute. This is my cab to Lula Remember me Jack Carson? Unfortunately, I do But I've already engaged this taxi. She's young. She's lovely She's engaged to a taxi You kindly step aside Jack. Yeah, but the driver said the cab was empty. So I'm taking Look if you two fellows are gonna fight over the cab Come on, I'm in a hurry. What's your hurry? Are you playing shortstop today? Pee-wee Reese. You ain't a pee wish. She ain't either I want to get up there in a hurry because I'm a Yankee fan I'm going up to see them lose again lose again. The Yankees won the game yesterday I am talking about the Yankees that lost the game between the states Hey, you keep your coachman. Come on. Let's go step on it. Come on. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Where are you going? Things with yogi bar table discussion here about the cab around table discussion with these squares I'm sorry, but the driver gave me the cab. Well the cab is empty and I'm taking it now just a minute just a minute Well, yeah, no fighting everything can be settled peacefully and according to law Everybody knows that possession is nine-tenths of the law and since the taxis are my possession owned in partnership with the finance company We've called up the finance company hold a board of directors meeting and decide who should get the care Or we can go to the one higher authority the taxi driver's creed. Okay, okay, anything. Let's get going Okay, the taxi driver's creed quote any mining any meaning mighty maxi the other one who gets the taxi. Okay, mr You win that's me Thank you driver. Let's go now just a minute to low as long as you're going up to the game Why don't you let me go with you? You are a taxi with me holding hands necking wanting a kid Oh, no, I promise you on my word. I won't do it. Then who needs you Who needs her come on me Jack, I'll give you a lift, but you haven't got a car Martha. Who needs a car? Come on hop on we'll go piggyback Let's go. Okay, lady. All right Well, Miss Bankhead, it's a pleasure for maxi the taxi to be driving you again, huh? Oh, that's bankhead for you can't pick a horse can't pick a cab You know I am driving you instead of the mother to screwballs. No Why are you driving me instead of the mother to screwballs because I feel we southerners should stick together Southern ain't you from Alabama? Yes, and you sudden Boulevard in the Bronx Y'all You know I heard you on the radio last week was bankhead and you was terrific if I may say so you may Sure got a great show even the kids like you only last Sunday my little home and says tune in the radio uncle Tallulah's on Uncle Tallulah how sweet you ought to come up and meet the family sometime this bankhead any time you just name the year Yeah, nothing like having a family. That's what I say. How do you like kids, Miss Bankhead sauteed? I Chated myself as a child. You don't like kids, huh? Oh, I have nothing against the little darlings. It's just that they're so sticky Oh, you'd love my little hymen. He's one of your biggest fans listens to you all the time By the way, would you mind autographing this picture for him? Why I'd be delighted. Here you are just a second Why should I sign this? It's a picture of Ava Gardner. Look the kids never seen you. Let them live a little I gather you think I'm unattractive. Oh, I wouldn't say you was homely. Thank you. On the other hand You know Humphrey Bogart I would say you're a great deal like my cab the paint ain't what it used to be but the motor's still running Well, I've been thinking of trading myself in on a new Ford Maxi, I'm gonna be late for the game. Can't you hurry darling? You show people are all alike even when you're going someplace to relax you in a hurry. You should take things easy Miss Bankhead. Yes, I suppose you're right little rest never hurts. Nobody for example Don't you feel better when you go to bed at 9 30 and drink a nice glass of warm milk When I go to bed when and drink what? It's a matter. Don't you drink milk? I did once on a dare I take it you don't like milk. I can't stand the stuff. It makes me violently healthy I'm partial to Coca-Cola with a yogurt chaser. Oh Maxi Maxi can't you go any faster. It feels like we're standing still. We are standing still. I stopped for a light Well, hurry and get away. What's a rush the red light classes with my dreads Besides, I don't want to miss the ball game. Relax. I'll get you there here. Have a smoke. Oh, thanks Got a light? Yes. I've got one Ah, say that's good. Should be it's clear Havana. I never smoked the panatella shape before What on earth was that? It's that sailor on the corner. He's whistling His bank had closed the door. He's only whistling for the cab Oh, well, I couldn't take any chances If I was wrong, I'd never forgiven myself Now we can go miss bankhead. The light just changed. Oh, just a moment. I think you better throw the cigar away Why that sailor just saluted me You know something miss bankhead the guys you smell good No, well that's the nicest thing anyone said to me all day That's the same perfume you was wearing the last time I drove you. How do you know? For a week the cab smelled like a barbershop This happens to be imported perfume. Yeah I bought my wife a bottle of that stuff once. It was going the same day. How come my brother-in-law drank it Oh, what a guy that merited. Oh, what a guy He was a fella. Here's a fellow My brother-in-law he's a he got hysterical when they raised the telephone rates from a nickel to a dime It meant they had a retool to make smaller slugs Never had a scent to his name, you know, doesn't he work work Miss bankhead you are talking about an individual who is green on one side from sleeping on pool tables Every time he shakes hands with you says excuse the chalk But one thing I'll admit a dinner time he comes home and helps my wife in the kitchen She does the cooking. He does the eating. Well say What are you going to do with a guy who uses a salami for a watch fob? Hey, that gives me an idea miss bankhead. Are you still single? Why? Let me put it this way. Would you like to save some money on your income tax? Naturally Marry my brother-in-law How will that save me money? You can deduct them as a total loss You two would be a good combination. He's stupid and you got money I am not interested think it over miss bankhead after all you are not getting any younger No, but if you'll read my press notices, you'll find I'm not getting any older rather Well, here we are at the uh, you should excuse the expression yankee stadium. What do I owe you a dollar 75? All right. There you are dollar 75. Thank you now about the tip. Oh, yes, of course the tip. Here you are 25 cents Miss bankhead the last time you gave me a five dollar tip. Yeah, but the last time I didn't know you were a brooklyn fan. Good morning Good morning How do you like that 25 cents? 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Well, who do you think who should come up to the left field box where i was sitting and say How do you do miss bank? But old reliable himself tommy Well tommy i've been looking for you to come up to bat. Where have you been? Oh, i'm coaching this year miss bankhead You know in this business by the time you get to be 35 you're all through playing and not me darling When i was 35 I mean when i get to be 35 i'm good at the tar too You mean you're going to stop playing too? Oh, no i mean the retire from the theater i'm going to keep on playing Well in your business i guess you can but towards the end of last season i was having trouble getting to first base I've been having that trouble for years now When that did get on third base and somebody would hit a long high ball. I'd have trouble getting home Me too one long high ball and i'll have trouble getting home Introduce me go away. Tell me tommy. Oh, come on. W. R. Come on Introduce me. Hey, who's the creep? This creep just happens to be tommy henrik. I mean this is tommy henrik This is tommy henrik. Do you mean to say you've never heard of old reliable? Oh, I know who you are, but who's tommy henrik? This happens to be one of the greatest all-time yanky ball players He's been with them since 1937. Oh ball player Hey, you know, I don't understand baseball tommy. Maybe you can wise me up on the game What would you like to know miss creep? Isn't he sweet? Tell me about baseball. Well to start with cut. That's enough about baseball. Let's talk about us old boy Now mouth if you want to learn about baseball, there's nobody who can tell you more about it than tommy henrik. Go ahead tommy Well, first, I guess you have to know that there are nine men and four bags You mean that men and women play together? I'm tommy you Just nine ball players to a team. Haven't you ever seen a ball game? Oh sure. You know my favorite ball player is um He's uh Oh, uh, what's his name? Oh, you know the one that looks like joe demaggio Looks like joe demaggio. Yeah Well, I remember seeing the paper one day joe demaggio's double wins game I adjust you mind if I cut in here. Oh jack. This is tommy henrik. This creep is tommy henrik Glad to see you. Glad to know you jack. You know, I was once in baseball. Yeah, what position did you play? I was in left field. Oh an outfielder. No, no, I sold hot dogs One day an awful thing happened. I dropped a whole tray of hot dogs in the left field stands Oh, that's terrible. What did you do jack? Well, it didn't take me long to clean him, but I had to go all the way around to right field to sell them tommy This is something I happen to know about you. You're quite a singer aren't you? Oh, I don't know during the winter. I sing some barbershop quartet numbers Well, how about singing something for us? Well, I can't do much without the other three fellas Oh, what a phlegm's excuse I sing. I don't need any excuse like that I've heard you sing miss bankhead. There is no excuse Three other fellas indeed. I'm a whole quartet by myself. Listen to this darlings in spite of my code I Sing a little tenor Sing a little baritone Also sing a little bass. I have a most peculiar voice Full of charm and grace You can have your pericom or your son not turn your ping, but they can't take my place I sing a little tenor Sing a little baritone You'll never make it miss bankhead. You want a bet step aside buster. 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It's the new singers single series 54 all-time tin pan alley tunes by nine of america's brightest recording stars And speaking of rca here is one of their biggest recording stars The guitar playing sweet singing tennessee plow boy eddie onald Hi, it's a little honey. Well, i'm fine eddie, baby. Nice to see you. How you been lamby pie Oh, i'm fair to middlin. I'm having a little trouble there myself Well, how's everything down home? How's the mint crop on your farm? Oh, we got a big crop of mint this year about 10 glasses full Oh, that's slim pickings. What have you been doing since you came up north eddie boy? Spine Well, good for you. Where are you stopping in town eddie? The dixie hotel Well, naturally seen in the shows Well, I saw the tennessee williams play. Well, naturally in south pacific. Well, naturally Mr. roberts elee A lovely play if I ever saw one and have you taken it into the sights while you've been up here Yes, I took in a few of them There's one site you got to take in eddie every cell who comes up here rushes right out there the first thing to enjoy this site Which one is that to lula? Grant's tomb Eddie honey, we better stop talking like this. We're in enemy territory How about you singing that newest rca victim recording of yours kentucky walls? Well, I'm aiming to well. I am ahead honey child Mary's how about some music for eddie onl? If you please We were lost in that night in kentucky By that beautiful harvest move And I That was lucky but it all In day to sue as I sit here I see I smile and I long and that beautiful kentel by that beautiful This moon and I Was a boy That was lucky but it all too soon as I sit here And I long Once more and that beautiful kentel Two northern gentlemen who have something to say about some of the finest tobacco in the south Bing Crosby and bob hope now here's chesterfield's answer to serenal de bergerac bob hope I'd top easy dad, but we only have a minute here to sell chesterfield Okay, well let's get to it better tasting chesterfield is the only cigarette that combines for you mildness with no unpleasant aftertaste The mildness is a cinch to prove you just make the chesterfield mildness test You know open a pack and enjoy that milder aroma then smoke them And you'll know that chesterfields are milder and chesterfield leaves no unpleasant aftertaste That fact has been confirmed by the country's first and only cigarette taste panel So make our cigarette your cigarette the reasons go together like this By chesterfield chesterfield the one that proves its case Yes, chesterfields are milder milder plus no aftertaste Open the pack and give them a sniff then you'll smoke them Well darlings we have more show for you But that'll be in just a minute after ed hurley he says This portion of the program has been brought to you by the makers of anison for fast relief from the pain of headache Neuritis and uralgia by rca victor world leader in radio first and recorded music first in television And by chesterfield the only cigarette that gives you mildness plus no unpleasant aftertaste The best cigarette for you to smoke And now to lula blossom honey if you want to ring your ever-loving child I should do it This year darlings is nbc the national broadcasting company This is the big show and to lula bank yet is about to introduce her next guest Yes, ladies and gentlemen at this time for to lula if you don't mind I'd like to introduce this fellow. He's from brooklyn. I want you to meet him for more reasons than one if you know what I mean miss bankhead Of course duty I mean eddie See this fellow's a very good catch. They've been trying to catch him for years miss bankhead May I present a young man who has become generally recognized in the nightclub and variety world as brooklyn's ambassador to the united states phil foster Well phil, what do you think of her? For this you brought me all the way to new york You know, I don't like to leave brooklyn unless there's a special purpose. I got a tire and a jacket for what for what? I want you to meet this girl Go on since when is the girl where a buster brown haircut? Boy what some guys will do to get out of the army Just a minute you my name is to lula bankhead to lula What kind of name is that? I never heard of such a name. Come on. What's your real name? Tessie? Please that's no way to come on the deals off Give me back my brooklyn's feet How can I say to the fellas in the corner? I want you to meet my friend to lula to lula They'll run me out of the neighborhood and what my grandmother called her. How about to lula? to lula I knew I mispronounced Get out of my neighborhood Besides in my neighborhood there's something bigger and more important than girls right now And i'm talking about the brooklyn dodgers. You see you're looking at a real brooklyn dodger fan And I want you to know right now people if you ever get a chance to see a game at ebbitt's field Don't miss the opportunity. What a game. Believe me. What a game Sometimes the ball game starts and it defies with it Now you know all ball games in brooklyn start at 130 the game starts 130 have passed seven in the morning You'll find this fella standing in line something like this 7 30 in the morning. He wouldn't wait on line as long for a job 11 o'clock he else to somebody open the gate You preach I'm sweating my sandwiches are spoiling Amen Finally open the gates if the waiting line's so long you figured this guy went to the front row front seat Wouldn't you not this fella His favorite seat hatched to be in a 15th row behind a pole He don't like baseball At one o'clock somebody in a subtle brooklyn voice will suggest that the ball game is about to begin something like Here comes the brooks This fella said let me look I could see 2020 20 inches one eye 20 inches from the other This is let him pitch This fella's are out of one This fella said let him put that fella said okay hat would never pitch a ball game I bet you're half a buck the first ball jolt rolls to the strike put up for shut up Put your money where your mouth is I bet you're half a buck against your glass to send your home blind take one once let me do it This goes on until about the 19th when a brooklyn's leading two to one Possible and the center field bleachers begins to talk to hat in the picture to hold the league Hat is only 10 miles away But he's gonna hear this boy this boy's talking pretty loud. He sounds something like Pitch them joe Intention to talk to you people that live in brooklyn have been to brooklyn It's my intention to talk to you people having any intention ever going to brooklyn You see we people from brooklyn realize that Whatever you want from life, you can find any block in brooklyn. It's like a little nation in itself What are you looking for candy store, drugstore butcher, baker, doctor, whatever you want and any block in brooklyn Now with this in mind Also, any block in brooklyn is a thing called a book This is not to be mistaken with the book of the month This is the book of the block My block the book's name is fat melvin He's a felitex 30 sunbeds 40 sunbeds if he gets a down the quarter bet he lays it off in the next block One day there's a tremendous rain the kind of rain that wipes out ball games Now if you know fellas that hang around corners You know what they like to bet on things better than anything as long as it's a mind bet There's always one fellow say a picture me This is not so bad. There's always a guy next to him says i'll take half the bed So one day there's a tremendous rain can't go to better than it up to go to the movie got to go to a movie when it's raining Do you see where fellas go to movie when it's raining up go to colors They hide along the wall and every so often they push it out in the rain just to see if it's raining But he get to the theater always say to one fellow lay it out The guy that gets caught buys a ticket walks inside. He says to one fellow. You owe me 45 cents The fellow says i'll pay you I'll pay you guys say pay me now when i watch the picture Now they sit and watch the picture one ends in about the start of the western picture So fat melvin turns around to the seven fellas says look man I don't like to watch a picture unless i got a little action on it Guys say what are you talking about? I say how many guys you figure ought to get killed in this picture This is 15. He says you got a bet Not a happy to betting on a picture One guy gets killed two four five all of a sudden they shoot an indian and he falls off the wrong side of the mountain Now we have a little trouble The seven fellas say the indian is dead Fat Melvin says he's hanging by a tree on the other side of the mountain Can't see him what an argument finally decide if at the end of the picture need his death to prove it One way or another they all go behind the screen or see if he's hanging This goes on until 13 men are dead one minute left to go to the end of the picture and things are very exciting Because the hero's best friend is a fellow by the name of killer He's got two villains lined up against the wall. He says i reckon i'm gonna let you have a boy's wipe y'all clearly Get you off the face of the area Now fat melvin figures out very quickly 13 plus two he loses he pays off So from the seat he begins to talk to the picture Something like uh, what do you want to kill him for? That's all you gotta do is kill people You gotta kill him kill him in another picture The seven guys yell and Don't be so bloodthirsty bang bang two shots ring out the book can't look one fella says one guy is dead The other one's wounded 14 and a half Fat melvin keeps talking to the picture kid live Live kid you're too young to die I don't care about the money I don't care about the money live Melvin 10s answers how do you like that for miserable eight dollars they prove a picture That was just hilarious feel faster. You must drop in again sometime darling And now how about a little music meredith wilson has an exciting arrangement of a famous spiritual swing low sweet chariot So here meredith wilson's big show orchestra and chorus to present it As always that was simply divine darling come here meredith Yes, mr. Bankhead Now without getting into too long a discussion with you meredith I just want to say that your orchestra and chorus number this week was simply thrilling inspiring beautifully done Would you like for me to play it again? Over my dead body Well, that's a date. I am when it happens. I'll come and play it over you I'll make a note of that and don't bother darling. It'll be my pleasure, mr. Bankhead Hey, don't be so happy. I'm not going till I'm good and ready Oh solula I'm not ready What are you talking about going not going you're too young to be talking like that. Oh, thank you darling That's the sweetest thing that's been said on this program for weeks Now you say something about me something young about loretta Oh Yes, I guess you're right a man who's as old as he looks. Yes, and a woman is as old as she likes Hello, mother. Hello dad. Can I go at the circus tonight? Can I huh? Can I please uh, please dad? Please mother huh in the circus, please can I go please get off my lap? Tolula stop talking to him like that. I finally got a son and you're gonna make him neurotic. Come here, baby Come here Yes, daddy. See daddy likes me Yeah for you mommy Isn't this no My son the first thing you've got to do is to learn to sing with your old daddy. We'll make records See you bring a little money into the house and we'll split half and half Did you take arithmetic yet? No daddy will split half and half 90 for me and 10 for you now Here here is a beautiful song. It's called when you and I were young maggie blues. Come on gary. I mean jack Why Wait a minute. There's something not kosher here. Well, what's that? You're hogging the microphone Through the hill The green now the maggie You still Getting hot now Eddie Arnold, huh? Well, well, wow I think we ought to repeat the last eight bars. Don't you do you wet? Well, what do you think we ought to pick it up Edward boy from the green grave, huh? That's a pleasant thought The green is a broken time. We're out. I see a harmony chamber Well done boys and now let me get in here and do a little something Yeah, I was wondering about that to lula about what Martha Well, I I was wondering about what you do on this program You know, all I've known so far is divine Merited very well done boys Iliasville Where you all stopping while you're in town later, honey? darling Over my dead body step aside buster Well done darling. You have the makings of another to lula bank here Uh, do you think the world is ready for two to lula bank here? That's what I keep telling her But what I started to say to lula before I stepped on your life Is that it's a surprise to me to see a big shot legitimate actress like you doing a bit here on radio After all I I always think of you as a what as a heck of a great actress. Oh, I'm Martha darling. I'm deeply touched I actually believe you really mean that you do And I must be a heck of a great actress too I'll figure that out later Meanwhile, I'm going to do something here that no other actress has ever done. I believe I'm going to read that classic poem Dedicated to our national sport which opens its season this week a poem by earnest there Casey at the bank This poem was immortalized with the late the wolf hopper And I would like to try and give you my impression of his interpretation The outlook wasn't brilliant for the mudville nine that day The scores stood four to two with but one inning more to play And then when coonie died at first And barrels did the same a sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game A struggling few got up to go in deep despair The rest clung to the hope which springs eternal In the human breast They thought if only Casey Could but get a whack at that We'd put Casey at the bat But Flynn proceeded Casey as did also jimmy blink And the farmer was no good and the latter was a fake So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy set For there seemed but little chance of Casey Getting to the bat But Flynn let driver singled to the wonderman of all And Blake the musty spies tore the cover off the ball And when the dust had risen and the men saw what had occurred There was Blake safe at second And Flynn the hug and then from five thousand cloaks Who went up a luster yell It rumbled through the valley It rattled in the dell It knocked upon the mountain top and recoiled upon the flat For Casey mighty Casey Was advancing to the bat There was pride in Casey's bearing as he stepped into his place There was ease in Casey's manner And a smile on Casey's face And then responding to the cheers He lightly ducked his hat No stranger in the crowd could doubt To us Casey at the bat Ten thousand eyes were on him as he rubbed his hands with it Ten thousand hands applauded as he wiped them on his shirt And then while the writhing pitcher ground the ball into his hip Defiance gleamed in Casey's eyes They sneer curled Casey's lip And now the leather-covered sphere came hurling through the air And Casey stood out watching it in lofty grandeur there Close by the study batsman the ball and heated sped That ain't my style, said Casey Steve the Impa said The benchers black with purple There went up a buffer wall like the beating of a storm waved on a stern And distant shore Kill him, kill someone in the stand And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand With a smile of Christian charity Great Casey's visit shun He's still the writhing termots He made the game go on He signaled to the pitcher once more the spheroid flew But Casey's still ignored it And the Impa said See red and maddened thousands And echo on such fraud But once gone for a look from Casey and the multitude was hard They saw his face go stern and cold They saw his muscles strain And they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again The smile is gone from Casey's lips His teeth are clenched in hate He pounced with cruel violence his baton on the plate And now the pitcher holds the ball and now he lets it go And now the air is shattered by the force of Casey's blow Oh Somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright Somewhere bands are playing Somewhere hearts are light Somewhere men are laughing Somewhere children shout But there is no joy in muddle Mighty Casey had Struck out Divine Tallulah, simply divine my dear. Well, thank you jack darling. Haven't you ever wanted what happened to good old Casey when he got home after the game? Well, as a matter of fact jack No, I never did Well, uh, now let me show you see Martha Ray and Ivan were worrying about that We figured that after the game Casey got home and was comforted by his darling wife Something like this I simply do not know Honest to Tommy Henrich, I simply do not know It was just just one of those things I I was Watching on television You can call me anything you like, but don't you call my little old bat blind? Little slugger So there I simply do not know That plunging neckline sweatshirt you make me wear It was bad enough before with all those people in the stands staring at me But now with everybody staring at me on television this when I go to bed. I'm only gonna let them televised my hands I simply Don't know Something must have got in my eye Yeah, yeah that girl in the box with a dirty blonde hair. What dirty blonde girl I never noticed any girl in any game. It was just when that Dirty blonde ball came over to have too much kerp. I mean the ball Ah, shut up and answer the phone Hello Hello, Casey And this is Tallulah darling In the right field box remember Uh Uh, hey, hey, who's that on the phone Casey? Not that blonde dame in the box. Yeah, let's uh, no, no, no, it's it's it's the coach Well coach, what's going on aren't you meeting me tonight darling? Did you get my signal signal? Oh, oh, yes Yes, your signal. I flashed my mirror at you I'm sorry the sun got in your eye and made you strike out. Oh, that's all right Well, honey, where are you going to meet me tonight? Oh, yeah, yes coach. I'll uh, I'll meet you in the locker room Locker room, how cozy, darling Uh You want me to come over so for some practice? Well, if you feel you need it, what time? Okay, nine o'clock tonight for practice, huh practice at night. Yeah Well, yes, Martha. This is practice for night games Now just a minute that don't sound like no coach to me. Give me that phone I'll bet us that dirty blonde Hello, you and you stay away from my man. You're here or I'll bat your brains out. I beg your pardon Hey, well, what do you know? It is the coach We hope you'll be with us next sunday when we'll have with us fred allen Joan Davis Portland Huffer Judy Holliday Liza Kirk Herb Shreiner Fran Warren and others And of course our very own Meredith Wilson and the big show orchestra and chorus until then May the good lord bless and keep you Whether near or far away Martha may you find that long Or wait here golden day Meredith May your troubles all be small ones And your fortune 10 times 10 Olivia We may walk with sunlight and a blooper may there be a silver lining Back of every cloud you see fill your dreams with sweet tomorrow Nevermind Tommy Hendrick may the good lord bless and keep you Till we meet forget may the warm And may the good lord bless and keep you until We meet again Mullings and godspeed to our armed forces all over the world who hear these broadcasts each week The big show is produced and directed by d. Engelbach And written by goodman ace selma diamond george foster mortgreen and frank wilson This is ed hurley. He's speaking