 Hollywood with our guest star Norma Jean Nelson cookie on the Blondie show and featuring the Luke Costello Junior Youth Foundation Award. Every Saturday morning on this program some lucky boy or girl received hundreds of dollars with valuable gifts and the Luke Costello Junior Youth Foundation gold trophy for good citizenship. Every boy and girl in the country is eligible for this award. We'll tell you how to win it later on the program but first let's have some last with our stars but Abbott and Luke Costello what were you doing down at the ocean this morning? Oh I bought a boat from a sailor called Captain Epsom. Captain Epsom? Yes he's an old salt. Oh what do you want with the boat? You know nothing about the sea? Oh I know all about the sea Abbott and today I'm gonna tell the kids a story about Moby Dick. Moby Dick? Yes and I tell the story all by myself and I don't need any help from you whatsoever. Why don't you go over to the Tom Brenerman's program and show him what a real old woman looks like. Go ahead with the story. Well okay now Moby Dick was a great big whale and he was a really a mammal. A whale is a mammal. Yes he was a mammal. He was not a mammal. His name was Dick. He was a papal. Seven kiddles. Now shut up let me tell the story. All right go ahead. Now Moby Dick was a great big whale and he lived in the ocean and he loved to swim. When the water came in it came up he'd swim in and when the water went out he'd swim out. He swam with the tides. Yes he could I have that again. He swam with the tides. Tides. He didn't wear any tides. He was so big he couldn't get a pair of tides on to fit him. Now nobody could catch Moby Dick. When anybody came after him he'd squirt water through his nose. No no spout. Spout. Yeah spout. Spout time you kept your mouth shut let me finish the story. Now one day Moby Dick was swimming along and he passed a shark that was chalking up his cue. See what kind of shark? Who said that? I did that's in case you asked. This was a pool shark. Listen when you get out of here I'll bank your head in the side pocket. Now well Moby Dick was hungry so he grabbed a great big clam. Abalone? Yes. So he what was that? Abalone. Abalone. This is no bologna Abbot this is the whole truth. Who said anything about bologna? You did. I did not. You certainly did then what did you say? I said abalone. Yeah yeah see he said it again. No no no no no no you dummy. I said the whale was eating abalone. Where would the whale get baloney in the ocean? He was eating a great big clam. Abalone is a clam. How do you like that they're making baloney out of clams now? They don't make baloney out of clams. The kind of clam I'm talking about is abalone. A clam is abalone? That's right. How do you like that? One of us is nuts. Abba why don't you go baloney up and let me finish my story. Oh you mean clam up? Oh didn't you just tell me that a clam is abalone? That's right. Well if you don't shut your clam I'm going to hit you over the head with that baloney. Now Moby Dick was a friendly whale and he liked to play with the fish especially the guppies sure he what was that? Guppies guppies. Haven't you ever heard of guppies? Oh I listen to guppies all the time. Guppies tavern? Now Moby Dick was swimming along one day and he ran into a swordfish and a swordfish lunged at Moby Dick and Moby Dick lunged at the swordfish. What happened? They had lunch together. Of course Moby Dick paid the check he was a very wealthy whale he owned drugstores all over the country. Wait a minute what drugstores does a whale own? Abba haven't you ever heard of whale and drugstores? Now Moby Dick didn't feel so good so he went to see the Dr. Fish. Dr. Fish? He was a famous sturgeon. Sorry, sorry. When he got to the sturgeon's office there was a walrus in there having a tooth pole. Not tooth tusk. Yes he... What? Tusk, tusk. Yes, well tusk tusk to you too. And a couple of poo poo. Now also in the sturgeon's office was a big fish with band-aid stuck on both sides of his jaw. What was the matter with him? He was plastered to the gills. Then a quartet of fish came in and started singing. Wait a minute just a quartet of fish. Oh sure what a quartet? First tuner, second tuner, barracuda and bass. This is ridiculous. What happened to Moby Dick? Oh it was a very very sad ending. It was. One day he swam away and nobody ever saw him again. Costello, I'll tell you where he went. Abba, you keep out of this. I started this story and I'm going to finish it. Now whales are just like elephants. They have a graveyard where they go to die. No matter where a whale lives he goes to the whale's graveyard to die. Whales swim thousands of miles from the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean and from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean against currents over reefs through storms, hurricanes, typhoons and monsoons. They swim to the whale graveyard and when they get there they die. They die? Yes, it's the trip that kills them. Hey slaughters, thanks for kids everywhere. Look for a silver lining. Don't be offended if I preach to you a while. Tears are out. Make your very biggest troubles. Nelson, but you know her as the daughter of Dagwood and Blondie and here she is over here this morning and bringing you some snow. What snow? You came from the dentist talking you feel so cheerful. He wasn't in. Gold with gold or silver. He walks in this town for the last fella. Okay I heard the jokes you were telling with Johnny. I'll tell you what I'd like to do. I'll give you 50 cents if you'll go back to the Blondie show and tell them with your father. Nothing doing. Why? Well he gave me a dollar to come over here and tell them on your show. Come here Costella. Oh hello Cookie. Who is your father? He's probably home rehearsing to be funny on the radio so he sent Cookie over here to try to put try out some of his bum jokes on us. Oh yeah? Well Mr. Costello I'll have you know that my father is a great radio comedian and he comes from a famous family while his grandfather chased the Indians out of Pennsylvania. Yeah. What program was he on? Costello you stop picking on Cookie. She's proud of her family tree. I'll never forget the time you looked up your family tree. What happened? He got hit on the head with a coconut. Oh sure. Why my little nephew Bobby in Paterson, New Jersey he has three feet. Costello how do you know? How do you know he has three feet? Well I got a letter from my sister yesterday. She said dear Lou you should see the baby now. He's grown another foot. That Costello Cookie. I saw a dad this morning and he told me you were going to the dentist today. Did you go? Oh I don't like to go to the dentist. Well I don't blame you Cookie. I haven't been to the dentist since I was ten years old. Yeah but don't tell me you made those plates yourself. Do you like to go to the dentist? Oh sure Cookie. You see when I was your age I had so many wires on my front teeth people thought I was trying to swallow a birdcage. Really look like a birdcage? They must have. Every night when I went to bed the canary used to sleep in my mouth. Cookie Costello is right all kids should go to the dentist. What's wrong with your teeth Cookie? Oh I hurt them eating animal crackers. Well they're little soft cookies. Animal crackers couldn't hurt your teeth. Well the kind I ate were dog biscuits. Well Cookie when you got a toothache there's two things you can do stay home and suffer or go to the dentist's office and suffer. Do you brush your teeth Mr. Costello? Oh Cookie that's the first thing my mother taught us kids do. Yeah there were nine kids in Costello's family. Did they all brush their teeth? Oh sure it was a pretty sight in the morning. All nine of us kids used to rush to the bathroom to see who'd get first crack at the toothbrush. I put the dentist's office. Yes I send my wife to the dentist every day Cookie. Why? Of course the dentist is the only man in the world that can tell her wife to shut her big mouth and get away with it. Costello my wife's mouth is not that big. Not big. I've seen bears crawling out of smaller holes. I'll go to the dentist if you'll go with me. Oh nothing doing. Last time I went there to the dentist he put six drills and a lot of other tools in my mouth and then at six o'clock the whistle blew. What happened? He hung a red lantern on my nose and went home. Oh enough of this nonsense. Cookie wouldn't you like to sing a song for the kids? Oh sure. Oh good. You want Costello to help you? No I think Cookie's gonna sing a song all by herself. Yes she's got a very pretty voice and I want you to get a load of this. Okay Cookie here we go. Music please. Hang on to your seats kids. Here we go. Cookie bumpstead. I mean Norma G. Nielsen. Norma G that was really swell and I'm sure our kid audiences happy that you came over here this morning. Well I gotta go home now and help my daddy make a sandwich. Well here's a little something to put between the bread. What is it? Well for Dagwood it's just a mouthful. It's a 20 pound Wilson ham. Bring out the ham. There it is. Oh gee thanks Mr. Costello. But before I go I'd like to say something serious. I'm glad to do my part in helping both you and Mr. Abbott in the wonderful work you are doing for the kids all over America. The Lou Costello Junior Youth Foundation is the kind of thing there should be more of. Goodbye kids. I'll be seeing you on the Blondie Show. And now for our quiz game. Bubble or nothing. We have eight kids on the stage chosen from the studio audience. They're all chewing bubblegum. The kid who blows the bubble the biggest bubble in 10 seconds gets a special prize. Every kid who blows a bubble gets to be a contestant. Those who don't blow bubbles get nothing. So let's go with bubble or nothing. Well the contestants are chewing their bubblegum. Now on the count of three the gong ring and they will start blowing. Are you ready kids? One two three. Now come on. Where are the bubbles? Come on. Alright to the two winners and the two girls. The boy and the girl who blew the biggest bubbles. Here you are honey. First there's a little girl over here. I want you know you blew the biggest bubble for the girl. So we're going to give you you know what you went honey? You won a beautiful wall aquarium with real live tropical fish from the photo aquarium company in Inglewood, California. Now all you do is put it up on a wall and it lights up honey. That's for you. Take it away for the boy. So let's see the boy's over here. Now you also blew the biggest bubble for the boys. You win this swell table model radio from the Burbank appliance company in Burbank, California. That's for you. Take it home and put it by your bank. And now here's contestant number one in the bubble or nothing contest. Little girl what is your name? Genie Allison. Genie how old are you? Uh six ninety seven. Genie. Well you just aged another year and where are you from Genie? Where are you from? Good old California. Good old California. Is there any substance you'd like to talk about at all? Anything at all? No. Nothing at all? What about animal noises? There's a good sound. All right how about animal noises? Let's talk about animal noises. Incidence. What kind of animal goes moon? Now don't be a coward. Cow. Cow right. You get a prize honey. Right over to Mr. Abbott. We get the prize here. And a sweet girl deserves a sweet prize. So we're giving you a whole year supply of Peter Paul's Walnetto's and you get one month supply now and every month for a whole year you'll receive another carton of Peter Paul's Walnetto's and that's not all. Kids this little girl is going to give every kid in the audience a package of Walnetto's after the program. The little boy's name is Lloyd because it's right on him. Lloyd how old are you? Eight. Eight years old. Where are you from Lloyd? Los Angeles, California. Good glad to see you. Now listen Lloyd is there any particular anything at all you'd like to talk about? Anything you're pretty smart at? Yes arithmetic. You're smarter than arithmetic? All right if Abbott had one apple and I took it away from him how many would he have? Nothing. That's right you win. You win Lloyd right over to your right there. Wow look at this. Look what you've got. Three swelled believe the kid embroidered western shirts and two pair of Billy the Kid western pants. Pick them up. All right and here's contestant number three over here sweetheart. What is your name? Camry Larson. Good where are you from? Mr. South Dakota. From South Dakota. Well that's wonderful. We're glad to have you in this lovely climate of California right now sweetie. Now what would you like to talk about honey Kay? Anything at all? What would you like to talk about? Could you tell me anything about movies? You want to talk about movie pictures? What's the last picture you saw? Did you ever see Abbott and Costello in the motion picture? You never did. Well say you'd better start. How old did you say you were Kay? How old did you say you were? How old are you honey? Five years old. Five years old. You're from South Dakota? She should know about horses. All right where's North Dakota? Is that near South Dakota? Is that near South Dakota Kay? Well don't shake your head honey just say yes or no. Yes? Thank you. You're welcome. Let me dress up for here's a beautiful genuine firm up and tam set for I.J. Fox the world's largest furriest. What's your name sonny? Freddie. Where are you from Freddie? Chicago. Chicago Illinois. Freddie I'm going to ask you one question. Who's buried in Grant's tomb? No? No help from the audience. Who's buried in Grant's tomb? Grant. Grant. That's right. You get six prizes in one. Two pairs of spree tug longies, two pairs of spree tug, spree tug Judd Purs and two pair of boxer shorts. How do you like that? There they are. Take them away with you. Here's our next contestant over here. I know your name is Jill. Sweetheart how old are you? Six and a half. Six and a half. Good. Now where are you from Jill? New York. New York City. Good. That's fun. You know it's very, very cold in New York right now Jill. Now Jill would you like to talk about fairy tales? Yeah. All right. One day a little red riding hood went for a walk in the woods. Who is she going to see? Her grandmother. Right. Now when she got to her grandmother's house who did she see? The wolf. Right. You win. Mr. Rabbit. Jill Mr. Rabbit's going to give you a very lovely prize but I got something here for you. Have you got your mother with you today? Yeah. You really have? Yeah. Well listen if your mother's really here here's a present for her. I want you to give her six gorgeous pairs of Canon 51 gauge nylon stockings made by the makers of the famous Canon towels and sheets. That's a present from you to your mom. Now Mr. Rabbit has a present for you over on your right. Over here Mr. Rabbit's present. Beautiful quilted house coat from Eastern Columbia Broadway at 90. And you also win this famous Hollywood star stamp album autographed by Lou and myself personally and a set of movie star stamps to start your collection and each kid in the audience gets a set of movie star stamps. How's that? You like it honey? Okay son you're the next contestant. Now how old are you? Six and a half. Six and a half too. What's your name? John Kenwood. John where are you from? Where are you from John? Los Angeles? Right up John. Don't be afraid. Where? Chicago? Where? Was you know where you're from? Detroit. Oh Detroit. Well that's good. Now uh would you like to talk about rivers? What state was named after the Ohio River? Ohio. Cleveland. Not Cleveland. No not Cleveland. What state was named after the Ohio River? Ohio. Ohio. Ohio. Ohio is right. Wait a second. You win this pedigreed ideal cocker spaniel puppy. Where is it? And to feed it we will send you a six month supply of Wilson's ideal dog food and seven course meal ideal for your dog. How do you like it? What's your name dear? June Scarborough. June Scarborough. June where you from? Jacksonville Florida. Would you like to talk about earth predict? Okay. All right if I had 10 bananas and eight seven and threw the peelings on a sidewalk how many people would slip on the banana peels? That's slower. All right if I had 10 bananas and eight seven of them and threw the peelings on a sidewalk how many people would slip on the banana peels? Seven. The answer is five. Is that right? I think you're right. Go ahead. I'm going to give you a deal. You're right. Seven is right. You also get a whole year supply of delicious Peter Paul's Walnetto's. Boy you're going to be popular now. That's all for you honey. A whole year supply. Wilton Clark. Wilton Clark. Where you from Wilton? East Los Angeles. East Los Angeles. Good. We're going to talk about birds now I've been getting them for years but we're going to talk about them which is the biggest a robin a sparrow, a crow or a hummingbird. You don't have to crow about it I. Crow, you're a right. You're a right. You're a right. You're a right. You're a right. You get a swell Lake Placid ski suit with a flat wool zipper jacket and warm wool trousers made by Sandist. Present the Lucas Doll Jr. Youth Foundation Award. The award this week goes to eight-year-old William Robinson Jr., of of Cranston, Rhode Island. And folks, the Foundation received more mail on this boy than any other winner of the award to date. Over 300 letters and newspaper clippings were sent in calling our attention to William Robinson, Jr. Well, Lou, I think that should be proof enough that the kid is entitled to the award. I saw his picture in one of the newspapers sent in. They seem such a little guy to have done anything big. Johnny, them little guys are sometimes a lot bigger than they look from the outside. And that's the kind of a guy William Robinson is. Kids, he's just eight years old, motherless, and lives along with his dad in Cranston, Rhode Island. And well, Lou, you tell the kid the story about it. Well, kids, I guess you all read in the papers about the big snowstorms back in the east. Well, on December 26, the day after Christmas, Rhode Island was in the grip of a terrific snowstorm. Out in Cranston, Rhode Island, the drifts were five and six feet deep. On the morning of this big storm, in a little house on the edge of the town, a man was suffering from a severe heart attack. William, William, William, time is worse than ever. I'll run for the doctor, Dad. I'll get him here right away. I'll put on my clothes and be back with the doctor. No, no, you can't go out the house. The snow is too deep. Little boy like you couldn't possibly get to town. But, Dad. I'll be all right. You stay here. Dad, I'm going for the doctor. I'll make it. Now it's nearly a mile to town, William. You can't get through. Don't try it, William. You're too little. I got to go, Dad. You need a doctor. I'll make it. William, William, come back. You can't get through that snow. William. Wow! Did he get through, Mr. Castello? Did he make it? Johnny, the little William Robinson battled those snow drifts for three quarters of a mile. He made the edge of the town. The doctor's house was nearly a mile further on. William was exhausted. He was covered with snow from head to foot. He dragged himself to the nearest house. Robinson, what are you doing out in a day like this? Look at you. You're soaked to the skin. I'll tell your father about this. Mr. William, my dad. My dad's got a bad heart attack. Please. Please call the doctor. Holy mackerel. The kid fainted. Ma, quick. Phone the doctor and tell him to get out to Robinson's place right away. And then come here and help me get this kid straight and out, even a bad way. Or they ought to have a phone in that house living way out there. Gee, Mr. Castello, I bet that kid got sick all right. I get the sniffles just from getting my feet wet. Yes, Johnny. William was laid up for a long time, recovering from that hike through snow drifts. But he got the doctor there in time to save his dad's life. Yes, Lou. And his kids like William Robinson. And there's millions of them in this country that make me proud that we started this kid's show. It's a real thrill to be able to bring these boys and girls to the attention of the whole country. That goes for me too, bud. And now, Johnny, what have you got to say about it? Well, Mr. Castello, there's no doubt about it. William is sure a winner. What do you kids think? Well, that does it, Johnny. Our jury is convinced. Go ahead and make the award. William Robinson, Jr. goes this week's Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation Award. And here are your prizes. First, a beautiful grown wristwatch. This is a solid gold, 17-jewel grown and graved from Bud and Lou. And a gold, every sharp pen and pencil set. And a Packard Bell three-way portable radio made by the makers of the famous Packard Bell Phone Accord. And a bicycle that will make you the head man on your block. It's a Schwinde Luxe-built bicycle, the world's finest. And here for you are foot balls, basketball, soft balls, and tennis balls made by the Pennsylvania Rubber Company, makers of the world's finest boarding equipment. And to you, William Robinson, Jr. goes to the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation Gold Trophy for Good Citizenship. This is a beautiful engraved gold trophy made by the Dodging Corporation, largest manufacturer of trophies in the world. Hello, how about William's dad? William, we've got a gift for you to give to that dad that you love so much. It's a beautiful grown precision wristwatch engraved from you to your dad. And we hope he gets well real quick. Quick to Boyer Girl for a civic good deed. You, the listeners, will nominate this Boyer Girl of the week. Anyone can write a letter nominating a Boyer Girl, just write to Abbott and Costello, Hollywood, California. Simply tell the story of an outstanding good deed or actor heroism by a Boyer Girl 16 years of age or younger. All letters become the property of the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation. They will be judged by its board of directors and the judges' decisions will be final. The award will be made each Saturday morning on the Abbott and Costello Kids Show. Be sure to listen. The winner may be your kid or the kid next door. Well, boys and girls, that's all for today. And kids, be sure and listen in next Saturday when we have two guests, really two guest stars, that great cowboy star, Tim Holt, and his dad, Jack Holt. Well, so long, kids. Till next Saturday. You can nominate a winner by writing a letter to Abbott and Costello, Hollywood, California. And don't miss the regular Abbott and Costello show on Wednesday night. William Robinson, Jr. is father and Mr. Kirby, or portrayed by Henry Blair and Brian Ethel.