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week jack benny visited the ronald colman's and he persuaded ronnie to lend him his academy award oscar as jack left the colman house the following incident happened she was awfully nice and ronnie to let me take his oscar home so i could show it to rochester true as dark tonight no moon oh well he had a d dot on the d dot on dot on d dot on d dot on hey bud bud huh you got a match yeah yes i have one right here don't make a move this is a stick up mister put down that gun shut up i said this is a stick up now come on your money or your life look bud i said your money or your life i'm thinking it over now look mister come on give me a wallet i'll let you have it all right mister don't you don't you here's my wallet good and i'll take that package you're carrying too this this packet but it isn't mine belongs to ronnie colman he wanted to hide down and give it to me or i'll drill you all right all right don't drill me here it is i'll lay down on the sidewalk and count to 100 yes yes one two three four five six yes ladies and gentlemen that's what happens sunday night as we look in on jack now it's the following morning mary i thought of a million different things i don't know what to do oh jack stop pacing the floor and sit down you're making a nervous wreck of yourself he was like that all night miss lives in never slept away what am i going to do how can i ever explain this to ronnie jack you've got to control yourself you'll have a breakdown now why don't you have some breakfast no ma'am i couldn't eat a thing i don't care if i never eat again he hasn't been this upset since tita baron got married i'm at my wit's end i can't tell ronnie as oscar was stolen never speak to me again i can't tell the police about the holdup because then it'll get in the papers i don't know what in the world can i do why don't you care yourself say that's not an oh stop i'm not in the mood for jokes there must be some way i can get that oscar back well why don't you put an ad on the beaverley health paper and offer a reward no mario reward would just be a waste of time who'd return it for what i'd offer mr billy if it'll get you out of this mess why don't you make the reward substantial give a thousand dollars well we're back for killing yourself yeah there must be some other way out it seems impossible that i should be held up right in front of my own house you know you still haven't told me what happened i don't know any of the details yet you you don't well mary this is exactly what happened as i was leaving ronnie's house he loaned me his oscar so i could show it to rochester i was walking home carrying the oscar under my arm when a sinister looking man steps out of my head hey bud bud huh you got a match yes i have one right here don't make a move this is a stick up a stick up put down that gun or i'll press you to within an inch of your life no no no not just a second mister don't you come any closer they think you scare me with a gun where i'll break your arm look mister i didn't want to do this but i had to i had to get money for my wife but children well you didn't have to pull a gun on me if you wanted money all you had to do was ask i'm going to take that gun away from you and you'll see look i'm one of you don't you come any closer all right you ask for it take that oh yeah well you take that and that uh jack what were you doing to the crook one you said take that man he was handling this wallet in the oscar i was not mary while i was beating him up i dropped the oscar he picked it up and ran off down the street honestly i was never so no who could not be i don't want to see anyone oh calm down jack i'll go to the door gee i feel so sorry for poor jack he's trying so hard to be brave but i know he's been crying mascare is running i'm hoping get out of this mess oh hello don hello mary where's jack i've got something very important to tell him well don this isn't a good time to talk to him he's very upset suppose you tell me what it is well it's about the quartet they won't be able to appear on the program sunday why not well now very you may not believe this but all the members of the quartet became fathers this morning don you mean that each one of the four singers had a baby all except the baritone he had twin no yes but waiter they had five of the cutest babies you ever saw and mary you'll never guess what they've named them what ls mf and barbara barbara it was a girl well that's logical look down i'll go in and tell jack all about it okay mary thanks a lot goodbye bye imagine all the singers in the quartet having babies the same day that's what you call close harmony oh brother bagged my eyes and called me fred alan what took you so long mary who was it oh it was dawn he said the quartet won't be on the broadcast sunday oh fine everything happens to me well they couldn't help it jack their wives all had babies the same day and you'll never guess what the baritone's wife had unless it's an Oscar i'm not interested she had twins but jack what he's going to do about a quartet for the broadcast i don't know the fine time for them to have children why couldn't they have transcribed them for release at a more convenient time anyway i got enough to worry about without the quartet say boss i've got a great idea what some friends of mine are making a personal appearance here in town and maybe they'd come over and help you out who are they rochester the ink spots the ink spots oh they would be wonderful do you think they do it rochester sure i'll call them have them here in a few minutes but good use the phone in the hall well yes sir i better call them right away so that you'd better answer the door first hello chester is the master of the metropolis at home yeah come on in mr has you'll find him in the library but he's feeling mighty low well that's a good thing i came over i'll cheer him up i'll go in there throw some of that hair as sunshine on him and bring back the bloom to those withered old cheeks oh hiya liby you dreamed out hello how are you jackson hello hello hey jackson did you hear the one about the two sparrows who were arguing on the pump and one of them kept flying off the handle looks like the smog is moving in on that hair as sunshine look bill i'm in no mood for jokes well that's right bill the jack's feeling pretty bad on the way home last night he was held up well that's not to be ashamed of i've been held up many times on my way home bill i was robbed now why don't you come over here for yeah look jackson i'm figuring on buying a small ranch and i got most of the dough but i need a little more to swing the deal and i was kind of wondered if you'd lend me uh ten thousand dollars mary tell him i'm not at home oh wait a minute jackson i don't like asking you but i went to the bank and they turned me down now if you turn me down too well well i'll well i'll just have to go to alice well phil i i'd like to help you wait a minute jackson i ain't asking you to give me nothing we'll make it a regular business deal like when you loan me money before i'll sign papers for the loan pay your interest and everything well are you are you willing to put up security yeah but not like last time we missed the kids right phil i'll have my business manager draw up the paper excuse me free erupting boys but mr ronald colman called oh no oh yes he said he's having guests for them wants you to return his oscar immediately phil you better go get the money from alice now ronnie wants his oscar back this is the last straw mary you know what i'm gonna do well not now jack a gun is so noisy and i've got a splitting headache i don't mean that i'm going to check a list of all the people who ever won oscars and maybe borrow one of them so i can give it to ronnie till i get his back hey that sounds like a pretty good idea let's see now last year the officers won by fedric march and livy to havin well that won't help pretties out of town and olivia hasn't talked to me since i put too much starch in her doilies who else is there well ray malan won an oscar ah what a picture yeah and so did john crawford and loretta young and bing crossby and uh hey that's it mary he's the one bing crossby i did him a big favor i was on a show a couple of weeks ago and it isn't easy to be on his show the needle scratches go over to see bing right away and ask him to lend me his oscar okay jack i'll drive you there i have my car right outside good good now who can that be i'll give it boys well hello gentlemen come right in hey boys boys yeah it's the end spots the end fellas hello mr benny i'm glad to meet you you thank you now gentlemen as i told you over the phone mr benny's quartet campy on the program next week and he'd like to have you do a number for him on sunday's show we get very happy to yes very happy good good well fellas i was just leaving so could i hear the number right now do you happen to know if i didn't care do you know loving blue oh oh i see what you mean well go ahead boys uh let's have it if i didn't care the same would my end can end in with just your name come back would all this speed if i didn't care if i didn't care what i smoke baby smoke any kind of a cigarette but i do care honey child that's why i smoke lucky strikes i smoke lucky strikes cause according to that crosslet pole their first choice baby you want to know something else on your child they're so proud so proud so full of that so free and easy on the draw unless they haven't been what they see are fine beyond the company this must be true you do it on the show thank you mr benny yes thanks very much roger sir come here a minute yes uh how uh how much are they going to charge me to be on my show well boys they send us a favor to me they're going to show up with nothing for nothing well i wouldn't think of it that's ridiculous go in the kitchen and fix them some sandwiches not you boys when it comes to guest stars brand is no object come on mary drive me over to crossbees there's been crossbees house over there on the left just pull into the driveway here i can't jack there's a sign it says keep driveway clear trucks loading must be sending his money to the bank well toot the horn we'll see if he's home well there's being in the upstairs window honking in seashore this is a pleasant surprise come up to the front door i'll let you in come on jack now remember you just can't come right out and ask him to lend you his Oscar be a little subtle about it i know i know watch these steps right hello barry come right in it oh jack's with me all the way what come in come on come on in hope you folks will forgive the way i'm dressed i wasn't expecting anybody right it's sort of dressed up and shirt you've got on looks like finnian's rainbow especially with that part on the end of it well well well it's rumored you're pretty funny on the air too we'll not discuss one's alleged talent in the entrance hall first time you've been to this house isn't it you have any trouble finding it no no no i just followed my nose hope tried that once wound up on mouth wilson to shoot him down well well it's rumored you're pretty funny on the air too yeah you're pretty fast to the old ad lib there kid all you have to do is hear it once isn't it yes yeah you know being we were just driving by and thought we'd drop in for a social visit jack get to the point but be subtle leave it to me a big how about showing us the house you know take us into the den or do you keep your asker in another room ask oh i got that in the trophy room oh good no if you insist on seeing the den i'd love to show it to you no no no we've been right through this door she what a beautiful den well we've been here long enough now let's go into the um let's go to the trophy room oh jack look at that picture on the man of peace bing are those your children yeah those are the four boys the two in the end are twins twins well that's a good incident you know this morning my baritone's wife had an asker jack i mean it must be wonderful having four children by the way where's dixie oh she had to go to the hospital to visit her cousin bing are you sure it isn't the store positive i got him in my trophy room well let's go see him you know i've never seen a stuffed asker i mean store okay just follow me here oh excuse me a minute well hello hello fancy here from you sure i want you on my show i've been expecting you for a long time how long will take you to get here two days well good i'll meet you at the train bye so who is that rudolf schmohappa i'm gonna take him a couple days to get here no where does he live the do what did he or people come from there i mean now bing how about going to the trophy room oh yes the trophy room right down this hall here mary i'll lift you over no i'll just walk around him find place for a horse to sleep i can't understand why bing i was stepping over him and he got up and he can't stand up low yeah i guess you're right for old thing yeah the veterinarian said he was gonna die yesterday but none of my horses finish on time kids here's the trophy room jack look at all the heads mounted on the wall gosh bing you sure must have done a lot of hunting yeah what's that big head over there yours you're looking in the mirror the one with the brown eyes that big head over there that's our moose oh what's a small one a mouse has sir shot the mouse in Wyoming and caught the moose under the icebox you ought to try hunting jackson you ought to try it especially the big game bing the only big game that jacks interested in it's a buffalo and it has to be on a nickel mary he traps him with one finger in a telephone slot well it ain't easy sister well bing this is really a beautiful room i never saw some wait a minute say bing why have you got that picture frank's a knock around the wall kids throw darts at it chicken pox there now bing let's see the trophies when there they are right over there in the cabinet oh boy look at all those cups what'd you get them for bing well i grabbed this cup here for winning a golf tournament at lakeside i got this one for winning the saturday i need a handicapped saturday the handicapped one horse no horse ran myself paid six pennies just got up the last jump oh that little tiny cup on the end that's not a cup as a thimble the four kids got to do a lot of sewing yeah you see this one here jack i got this one i got married when you got married yeah it's a dixie cup why do i take jokes from phil harris and brother well look bing the trophy that i'm most interested in isn't the oscar you won for going my way yes we'd love to see that one bing oh the oscar why didn't you say so i'll get it for you then eight you in there yeah pop what do you want you'd have to give me my oscar i can't know i'm taking a bath oh for heaven's sake why don't you use something else for a stopper you let your son use the oscar for a stopper in the bathtub yeah it's on his web too when i want to crack nuts with it it's murder well i'm really anxious see the oscar bing but we can wait till your boy gets through with his bag he'd be two in a minute say bing while we're waiting how about singing a song for us oh mary bing doesn't want to sing i do too any well i'll try out a new tune on your called haunted heart clever number i hope you like it let me be my song was beautiful thanks mary it's pretty good for a chorus denise day gets a chorus and a half i get a quarter i'll sing a couple of more you up to that right say bing look your son brought out the oscar put it on the table yeah gee doesn't that oscar look wonderful now bing i might as well get right to the point i'm in an awful spot i've just got to borrow your oscar for a little while well look bub if you need an oscar instead of going around trying to borrow one go make a picture win one hey i never thought of that but bing it's too late for that i need it now you can't make a picture in one day they took longer on the horn blows at midnight sing a couple of days it took almost a week to make but bing look i just wanted for a few days i'll give it right back to you what's the deal jack why do you need an oscar all of a sudden well jack why don't you tell him the truth tell him what happened all right i will you see bing i was over ronald colman's house and he let me borrow his oscar to take to my house to show rochester i was walking home carrying the oscar when suddenly a sinister looking man stepped out of the head hey bud bud huh you got a match yeah i got one right here i'll make a move this is a stick up what you heard him this is a stick up oh two of you huh do you think you're scaring me with those guns i'll make you eat them and spit out the bullets hey paint this guy's pretty tough we better call the rest of that gang yeah all right then come on we need help now look mr we don't want no trouble with you we've got guns and hand grenades so watch it can't scare me i'll take on 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