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Dublin's Prime Minister de Valera warns the people of ire to be prepared for war But he says Ireland is continuing its policy of strict neutrality in the spreading hostilities In his warning de Valera said war might come to Ireland quote as a thief in the night Moscow the red Russian army is striving to drive the Germans into a full Napoleonic retreat on all three Russian fronts and tonight They're still sweeping the Germans before them in the north the center and the south Canberra, Australia the Australians have started blackouts and in Sydney the people of sandbagging buildings Unitions workers are keeping war industries going 24 hours a day They've also offered to abandon their holidays and Australian youths are flocking to the recruiting stations in increasing numbers London the British Communist Party urges the closest coordination of the Allied forces an official statement describes the Japanese attack as Fascism's offensive for the enslavement of the world. This report came to you from the NBC newsroom Craft presents the great gilder sleeve Each week at this time from Hollywood, California craft presents Harold Terry is the great gilder sleeve written by Leonard L. Levinson We'll hear from the great gilder sleeve in just a moment The first maybe some of us accept progress without giving it much thought By nowadays most people take the wonders of radio and the airplane for granted yet when you stop and think these modern developments are really Astounding and of course, there's been a lot of progress in foods, too Take margarine for example modern margarine like parquet the margarine made by craft What people who haven't tasted margarine for a long time are amazed when they discover how deliciously good parquet taste That's because parquet margarine isn't just an ordinary margarine It's as different from old-time margarine as the modern optimal deal is from the horse's carriage You see parquet margarine is outstanding because of the rich delicacy of its flavor Although because it's an economical source of food values your whole family needs Yes, unlike old-time margarine parquet margarine contains important vitamin a 9,000 units in every pound Besides that parquet margarine is about as nourishing and wholesome and energy food as you could serve So don't put it off try this delicious modern margarine tomorrow. Remember it's parquet T-a-r-k-a-y And now let's visit our friend the great gilder sleeve beef for month of November $24 and 32 cents. I never saw such a clean family in my life Groceries for the month a hundred and three dollars We're such a hungry family either Gas, water and oh, hello Leroy light for the month amount of two. What is it Leroy? Uncle what I just hate to mention this to you Leroy if you hate it so much don't do it, especially if it's about money You combed your hair put on a tie and tucked in your shirt Anytime I see so much change in you it means a little more change out of me Well with Christmas practically, you know, I'm a little shy. It's shy. You don't seem very shy to me What about all those Christmas presents you were making in your manual training and handcraft classes in school? Oh, all my plans were haywire. Yeah, gee. I made a keen smoking stand for you uncle Morse. Well, only I could never get the legs even I must have sold them 30 times. Well, say I'm good just as soon have a footstool wouldn't you Yes, of course I fixed all your favorite things each for lunch. Is anything special you might be wishing for in addition? Yes, Bertie quit stuffing me just so you can hit me for another advance on your salary Well, Mr. Gilsley, you positively can read my mind even before I make it up Bertie I can't let you have any more advances your salary is so overdrawn right now that it needs a blood transfusion But I don't need my January salary, I just want to nibble into February Bertie you've eaten halfway through March already That's bad, but I made some powerful miscalculations in my Christmas figures I added up to zero and all the time. There should have been a I'm having enough trouble with my own bookkeeping by George I wish I had the bookkeeper here that I had at my girdle works. He was a wizard with figures Speaking of figures my second account is all in a mess. I'm gonna need $50 more for my Christmas shopping No, I'll see here all of you Won't be any more money available in this household in the first of the month Well last Monday I rushed down to the bank and put all our money into defense bonds and stands Yes, I'm afraid I overdid a little bit though. I gave them all our ready cash What have you been using for spending money? Well my dream you remember my collection of rare buffalo nickels They've gone the way of the buffalo But I don't mind though I want to do everything I can to help I'm all right up myself. I want to join the Japanese army Look for them people for just one day that's all See what you mean Anyway, we won't mind skipping a few things this Christmas will we children after all half of what we buy each other always winds up in the Store room anyway. Hey, I've got an idea. Yes, let's see what we can sell out of that store Yes, come on everybody come on must be a million things in here. Yes What I tell you look oh Look, maybe I can tell that old dress for but you don't promise that to me miss Mars Oh, isn't that dress for him a little a little little for you birdie No, I just measure everything on that and then I multiply by three and that's me Yes, I see well, you know, are you certainly outgrown that old scooter of yours there Yeah, but I'm telling Buck it's buck. Yes. That's what we call the iron deer in the corner Oh, that stand out on the lawn. Yeah until one Christmas Eve when grandpa 40 was Santa Claus and tried to ride at home all night long There's a powerful lot out in that animal. It ought to be worth some money Valuable when a country scrapping Yes, sir, I think we can get a little dough out of that deer I'll tell you what we'll do if any of you can sell it there you can keep the proceeds Yes, of course birdie. However, I'll deduct the money out of your April wages Maybe this will be the beginning of my entire Plan these days Okay, who's just talking Oh, I'll get the money to buy margarine that's all chemistry said I like so much for Christmas Yes, this is the cemetery line works felt speaking. How can I be a services officer? It is miss Why well, yes, we are in what form is this iron? Oh, we won't dribble about prices miss Electric iron darling the face for that lovely voice of yours Hawkins of the sister-large the mysterious and bewildered in order of the daughters of clear-painting from the Grand Exhausted ruler of the Pyramids Yeah, brother, that's me. I work on Parkside Avenue Well, hit your horse to the wagon and top right up here. I Said you a piece of junk. There's really a piece of high-class jump What is it Joe, but it's something in the shape of a mule only it's got his head stuck in a hat You've been running to the door like a strip of all carpet skinner. What does he do? Well, how much is he gonna pay 80 cents a hundred pounds and that gear must weigh a couple of thousand pounds at least oh No, you're all you'll be lucky if it weighs 200 pounds. Oh, but it looks heavier than you welcome what you must weigh over Never mind what I weigh over Don't forget that deer's hollow, and I'm not I Wear shoes and he doesn't between a dollar and a half and $2 That's Leroy We really ought to try to get a better price if you called any other junk dealer to bid against your mr. Skinner No, I haven't well if you had a wait a minute I know how we can get a decent sum for our cast iron cast off How long the competition is despite to the pudding my boy that mr. Skinner had a little competition I know you're gonna pretend you're another junk man aren't you uncle more? Oh you went and gets there But mr. Skinner won't see it's a regular super duper Do you think so? Well, let's try it then you just introduced me by some other names some Pseudonym and I'll keep boosting the price up Unless you put on a hat and coat you better get old one. Oh, yes Oh, John, I bet that's him now Skinner. Well, I find an old overcoat and hat. Tell me quickly Roy Oh, yes I better get something for you I come back with that real junk man Here's something I've always wanted away Are you sure that you're mr. Leroy Forester? Well, then who's this fat chin here with the doibie hat and the old army overcoat What's so funny young man, please to meet you sir Hey, what kind of a junk man are you given? I would have pleased to meet you sir And say I never heard of no local dealer with the name like pseudonym Are you a member of the JMCA? No, however, I am a member of the YMCA I mean your junk and metal collectors association. Oh, are you sure you're a legitimate junk man? You sure don't talk like one. Oh, well, that's because I come from Boston. Yeah, we talked this way up that way Okay, okay, yeah, only one thing kind of watch your step around this town get it got it Say how much will you give me for the swell iron deer, huh? Well, where's the rest of the scrap you want to sell? That's all it is. Isn't it enough for Pete's sake? You mean you dragged me all the way here for one rusty mildew chunk of metal venison You mean you don't want it a we'd like to have this little number up in Boston. Yes, buddy I'll give you a $2 for it. Hey, if you give that much your way up your beam, mr. Pseudo hammer, but that ain't worth it at all. I'll give you two and a quarter You little overbearing overbitter you can't do that to talk more than P pseudonym I'll wipe that nasty little grin off your face and just about I bid $3. Well, I'll show you the two can play at that game I'd bid $3 if I said Your cheapskate I'll make a $4. Oh, you do. Well, you can have it bumper belt. I'm through No, don't go. Aren't you gonna make another bid? I should say not I wouldn't give a cent more than 375 I'll give 380 I See it all now You ain't no junk man. Yeah, I could tell from that derby hat you're wearing. You're nothing but a pawnbroker Yes, that's it a pawnbroker Uncle Mort they call me Hey kid, you better take my offer this guy don't look reliable to me Okay, it's a deal. I'll be back this afternoon for this hunk of junk by the way, sweetie Yeah, I'll give you a buck for that hat and coach you're wearing you will Yeah, what do you say so? You go ahead and shop as far as your 375 will take you I'm going into this bank And remember Leroy go straight home as soon as you're finished. Say, who is this fellow coming this way? I don't know. His face is mighty. Oh, yes, of course. Hello, Mr. Llewellyn. Oh, Mr. Gillis. We've I Like to have you meet my nephew Leroy for us. Please to meet you, Mr. Forrest Or may I at last you as we war? Mr. Llewellyn was formerly your cousin Octavia secretary Leroy. Well, that's what make you a quintance. I gotta go now. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Hey say Llewellyn. How does it happen that you're still in summer field? Well, I was in such a rush to resign from your cousin's employer. I neglected to collect my last week's salary. Oh I see. Did that leave you in an awkward financial position? Let me stand at high and dry. Yes Well, we I'm rather discouraged and depressed. Oh Now now Llewellyn. Oh chap. Remember every cloud has a silver lining. Okay, every cloud has a silver lining. So what? Can I take a silver lining to my way and waity and say here, Mrs. Waffety, this is to pay the rent. Or can I slice it like baloney and have it for lunch? Or can I use the silver lining in my shoes instead of weather? No, no, no, of course not. I didn't realize your predicament. Well, it happens that I need some clerical assistance. Would you like a job? Oh much emphatically. Oh Do you know anything about bookkeeping? Oh, yeah, double entry, plopping and wars, wedges. Let me recite my experiences. It isn't necessary. I'll give you a trial. You will. Yes, I really need a bookkeeper badly, and I imagine that's just how you keep books. Oh You don't know how quiet I will am. This means I won't have to take the job that was offered to me. Oh, you had a position you could have taken. Oh, yes, I could have gone to work waiting news flashes on the radio. They said I'd be a woo-woo. First of all, somebody swiped Buck the iron deer. The man I sold it to was here just now and we couldn't find it any place. Of course not. The man I sold it to just hoarded away. You're going to mess. Mr. Skinner is coming back in three hours. Well, just get him to refund all his money. I can't. I spent it. Besides, he told me to have the deer here or he'd go to the police station. What for? They ain't got no deers there. Only bulls. I can't deliver what he thought he was paying for when he bought what you just sold. Well, say that over again and take out the lump. I'm calling in my disappearing iron deer. Hello. Here, come over to the jam. The jam? What's wrong? You remember Mr. Skinner who bought the deer for $3.75? Yes. Well, he didn't. How could he didn't? Well, when he came to pick it up, Birdie had already sold it to somebody else. And now Skinner says he's going to have me arrested if he doesn't get the deer back. Oh, my. And I had a lot of matters to straighten out with Mr. Llewellyn here this afternoon. Well, what's to him later? Huh? What's wrong with your ears, Birdie? Mr. Llewellyn said let's do them later. Oh, huh. There's only one thing to do and that's to get the deer back. Who'd you sell it to, Birdie? Joe's people's bush. Oh, yes, Joe's bush. I've heard that name before. Where is his place of business? Any alley. No. Where does he transact his affairs from? Oh, from a horse and wagon. Oh, no, no, Birdie. What Mr. Gildersweave is driving at is, where does he live? Where does he sweep? Where does he get his telephone calls? At the corner, 33rd and the railroad track. What do you say? Well, let's go to the well or twice. Yes, we've got to get that deer back before that Skinner returns. Oh, that reminds me, Mr. Gildersweave, isn't it a little bit late in the season to be hunting deer? Yeah. Who's that, Llewellyn? Yes, sir. All right, Mr. Mailman, you lower the other end. Yeah. You boys in the middle, steady now. Yes, steady. Thank you very much, boys. Oh, I'm pretty tuckered out. Yes. That believes you don't keep yourself in condition, Llewellyn. Well, shall we move Bucket back into the storeroom or let him stay here in the hallway for Mr. Skinner to pick up? Of course, Llewellyn. I was hired as a bookkeeper, not as a longshoreman. Well, let's leave it right here for Skinner. Now, remind me to tell Bertie that her friend, Joe Bush, charges $7 out of her April wages to get this metal moose back here. Yes, sir. You know something, Mr. Gildersweave? Every time I look at this statue, it reminds me of something. Anybody you know? No. I just can't work like just what it reminds me of. Oh, well, come with me, Llewellyn, and I'll show you where to wash up. Oh, gladly. Something like that's an old Halloween prank. Thank you for a very lovely lunch, Mr. Feld. Oh, don't thank me, Miss Marjorie. Thanks to some of the align works. After all, everyone's going to pay for it. They will? For sure. It's a necessary expense. You know, like entertaining an out-of-town buyer. Only in this case, it's an in-town seller. Boy, what a line. You could use it as a leash for an elephant. Oh, look, somebody moved the deer out of the storeroom for us. I wonder how they knew you were buying it. Well, I'll have my men loaded onto the truck. Oh, Pete, you and Charlie can come in here now. It's terribly nice of you to give me twenty dollars a buck, Mr. Feld. Are you sure it's worth that much? Oh, yes, yes, of course. They're not putting iron like that into deers these days, you know. No. Not meant to feed them spinach. Then what are you going to do with it? Use it as a radiator cap for a tank? No, no. We'll break it up with hammers and convert it back into pig iron. Well, that was a bright idea, telephoning us. Yes, wasn't it? It won't everybody be surprised when they find out that I sold it. The skin will back again, Uncle Moore. I'll get it. Yes, all right. Well, thank goodness. Now, Lee Roy can let him cart that deer away and we'll have the whole matter off our chest, the well. Good weddings, too, I say. Yeah. Certainly wasn't worth all the trouble it took. Now, Lee Roy got three seventy-five, and it cost me seven dollars to get it back after Bertie sold it. Of course not. We left it in the hall. Can't you use your eyes? Oh, it isn't fair now. Well, it couldn't walk away. Did you move it, Llewellyn? Me? After the struggle and trouble I had getting at food at one door? Oh, sir, my mother never weighs any foolish children. Well, go in there. I am, sir. What's the meaning of this intrusion? Oh, it's you. Oh, for God's sake, how many different people are you? First a junk man, then a pawnbroker, and now to pop around here. He's our Uncle Moore. Oh, he's your Uncle, too. Not exactly. I think he's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and probably two other fellas. Hello, Uncle Moore. Say, what's going on in here? This man, Skinner, bought our iron deer from Lee Roy and now it disappeared for the second time. Oh, my goodness. I just sold it to the Somersfield Ironworth for twenty dollars. Twenty bucks? I know one day you didn't want to ten it over to me for three seventy-five. Oh, better give him back his money, we boy. I can't. I've spent it already. Well, then you better give it to him out of the twenty, Marjorie. I've spent all mine, too. Oh, jumping jeeps. Well, I'll have to give you the three seventy-five, mister. Oh, I know you don't. What about all the time I wasted? And the cab fare, and the two tips for the truck, and the profit I'd have made selling it to the ironworks. You gotta give me at least ten bucks for my trouble. Ten bucks for one buck? Why, you can go down in the river and take a good jump. You can take a good jump in the lake for yourself. Yeah, well, I'll sue. Excuse me, Mr. Gil, this way. Can I speak to you privately? What is it, Llewellyn? You remember that there was something about that deer that reminded me of something? Only, I couldn't recall what. Yes, yes, yes. What is it? Well, I just wear collected. Iron deers like that are scarce. They're wear antique. They are? They are? Yeah, I went somewhere that they were vanishing for them from Melicana. They're worth anywhere from a hundred and fifty dollars up to collectors in a museum. Not so loud. That mule skinner will hear you. You think we should pay him the ten dollars and get rid of them? Absolutely. Now we should wash white down to the iron works and whisk you the deer before they wake it up. Oh, that's right. Wake it up. We'll have to pay them back, too. Twenty dollars there. Ten dollars to skinner. Seven dollars to Joe Bush. That's thirty-seven dollars that's going to cost me to get the deer back. Llewellyn, you better be right about the value of that iron casting, or... Or what, Mr. Gil, this way. Or else I'll clown you. Holding that statue carefully in the rumble seat. I'm tweeting as if it were very flat, Joe. All we have to do is drive across town and see what the antique dealers will offer. Wasn't it marvelous that we caught Harry? I mean, Mr. Phelps. Oh. So he ordered them to break up, Buck? Yes. Well, I was going to tell you about that, Marjorie. I found out that young Phelps was going to save that thing as a souvenir. He was? Yes. But it wasn't his to keep. It belonged to the company. Oh, yes. Fat chance any company would pay twenty dollars for two dollars worth of scrap metal. That young man bought it for himself. He did? Well, I wonder why. Yes. If you don't know why, nobody else does. Yes, we've... This is Mr. Abernathy, who's an expert on old hitching post-sundials and iron tears. Yeah, how do you do, sir? Oh, I'm glad to meet you. I thought there was no use woding and unwoding the statuary till it's authenticity was established. Yes, that's right. Go ahead, Mr. Abernathy. Climb up and examine it to your heart's content. Well, well, thank you. Well, say, this seems to be rubber an unusual item in fine conditions. It is? Oh, that's good news. Well, there are several simple little tests. Like the sound it makes when you knock on it. Oh. Oh, just listen to that. Isn't that music to the ear? I don't know. Does that mean it's genuine? Yes. And it certainly is music to the ear. Yeah, I think it's wonderful. It's like finding buried treasure. Say, I like this item. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll bring it in and I'll give you a check for a hundred and sixty dollars. How bad is it? Now, wait a minute. I'll make it a hundred and seventy. Hey, cut that out, Leroy. That's a very nice offer, Mr. Abernathy. We'll take it. Hello, Ellen. I suppose you help me lift it out and then hand it down to me. Okay. You grab hold of the legs, Mr. Gilligan. Yes, all right. I've got them. And I'll be careful. Most of the welling is always careful. Yeah. Easy now. This is worth a lot of money. Watch out. It doesn't get away from you. Oh, it's all right, too, but it's got to off. We slip, we wump. What? Oh, look out. That's the last time we'll ever try to pass that buck. The great Gilder slave will be with us again in a few minutes. You know, food shopping is getting to be a science these days. Yes, I certainly take my hat off to you housewives. You know a lot about the quality and nutritional value of food and how to serve your families really tasty and nourishing meals and still keep within your budget. And that's why I'm sure so many housewives are asking for parquet margarine instead of just saying, some margarine, please. They know, you see, that parquet margarine is the modern margarine. Outstanding because it tastes so good. Outstanding too because of its fine quality and because it's a nourishing and wholesome year-round source of vitamin A. Yes, and these women know that parquet is an all-purpose margarine. Delicious for table use, a real flavor shortening for baking and just about perfect for pan-frying because it adds flavor and doesn't spatter a stick to the pan. So take a tip from these wise housewives. When you go to your food store, don't just ask for margarine. Ask for parquet margarine ask for parquet margarine. Then you'll know you're getting margarine at its best. Yes, tomorrow, ask your food dealer for parquet. P-A-R-K-A-Y. It's the delicious modern margarine made by Kraft. How can you whistle and chuckle and grin when we've just smashed $160 worth of iron deer? I want to wait till we're alone, honk. When all buck busted up, something that was hidden inside of him can only out. It did? What was it? Hey, it's a great big water money. Oh, my goodness. Maybe that crash was for the best. There's nobody else around here. Let me see it. See you, honk. Cut the string, Leroy. Oh, darn it, we lose again. It's Confederate money. Good night. Original music heard on this program was composed and conducted by William Randolph. This is Jim Vannan, speaking for the Kraft Cheese Company and inviting you to be with us again next week for the further adventures of the great Gilder Slave.