 family theater presents jack bennie and lucille ball mutual network and cooperation with family theater presents jack bennie in the golden touch to introduce the drama your host is lucille ball only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves peace for our families and peace for the world family theater urges you to pray pray together as a family family theater takes great pleasure in presenting the golden touch starring jack bennie as the king how much did you need oh yes i'm sure it can be arranged that was fifty thousand wasn't it oh in five dollar bills now did you want us to mail it or will you send a truck oh no trouble at all we'll expect you at gate three as for mr. jake work but he's in charge of small bills you're welcome bye pardon me miss sorry to keep you waiting and now what can i do for you need some money no no as a matter of fact i don't i hold a handful i really don't need it i have an expense account well then i'm from the united states the daily telegram sent me oh a newspaper that's right now i'd like to see your queen if she's not too busy oh i'm sure it'd be all right she loves to have visited just a moment i'll call her mother there's a young man here to see you he's from the daily telegram and a back in newspaper oh how nice is that the man of a gene it's the first door on your right oh thank you how do you do your highness it's nice of you to see me without an appointment why it's nothing at all wouldn't want to make the press wait i'm afraid i didn't get your name it's uh benson your highness harvey benson where won't you sit down mr. benson now what can we do for the american press you need some money would three or four million tide you over oh no thank you i really came here for a story for our readers for the sunday supplement we've been told something very strange happened in your kingdom not so long ago oh mr. benson i really wouldn't know where to start then let's start right at the beginning well one morning about a month ago we were having our usual breakfast over at the palace in those days we always had corn meal mush for breakfast i'll tell you think i'll have another helping before you bring up the money matthew daddy can't we have oatmeal or bacon and egg some morning just for change it does get a little tired some dear what when we still have how many pounds of corn do we have left matthew 752 your highness when we still have 752 pounds corn cost money imaging can't waste money you know let's hear no more about it they didn't cost you anything day i should be grateful for the far-sightedness of your grandfather saved a lot of money buying in quantity but 15 tons more must your highness no thank you matthew i've had quite enough quite enough well if we're all through with breakfast you may start bringing up the money matthew your highness hadn't i been serving your breakfast for 32 years yes you haven't quite well too i might add and didn't my father before being his father before him your highness that's right then wouldn't you say sir that the men of my family have served the clown well well why yes i'd say so matthew very well sir i quit you quit quit i quit are you enough 1750 a week and it's all tax-free it's not that sir you've been most generous then what is it ma'am it's just this princess imaging i'm not up to it anymore look at me i've carried so much gold i've got muscles like an ox nonsense best thing in the world for you then there's the mush your highness every day the same thing up at six a.m fix the loathom stuff mush three generations was that so terrible we forget your highness that according to the royal decree of 1751 the palace helped has to eat what the king eats an economy measure i not only have to serve the nasty stuff i have to oh your highness i have more mush now well i could make some arrangement by which day after the uh if you'll pardon expression mush i carry in these muscle bound arms 80 million dollars in gold from the sub basement of this room 80 million in gold really dear you do carry this money counting a bit too far i think you're right matthew absolutely right here here now image you'd have a little respect for your poor old father i don't count my money too often i'll not be told how to spend my time by women and kitchen help kitchen help oh this is the unkindest cut of all Matthew this will be my last command to you after that you're fired go get my gold but he quit dear you can't fire him my word is long i don't care whether he quit or not he's fired i'll do it this last time your highness but i warn you no good will come over that gold is going to get you into trouble spending all my salary for rub downs like i'm gonna miss good old Matt i have a feeling you've made a mistake dear nonsense paying him too much anyway good riddance i'd say well if you'll excuse us imagine and i have more important things to do certainly certainly don't give a thought to your father imagine just run along and play oh daddy come daughter i want to talk to you my daughter the time has come to do something about your father do something the gold dear all he ever thinks about is money we'll have to put a stop to it and soon we cannot let the kingdom suffer because of your father's love for gold now i want you to go over to the east side and see a magician named yet suda oh here you'll need some money dear i'll get suda for the best genie he has expenses no object and don't come back without the best genie you can find oh mother it is the only answer i'll be back as soon as i can suda dear for you today hey maybe a little magic lotion for the hands no thank you what would it be then how about some exploding cigars for the old man or if you're throwing a party how about some dribble glasses i was looking for a good genie genie you i look no father only upsuit has got the best collection of genies you ever saw now he is a nice little number but but that's a line well he's inside the lamp comes out when you rub it this is a very potent genie but he might not be the one for you he can be pretty ugly if you rub him the wrong way well what else have you got but you can take your pick the whole church here is devoted to nothing but genie i've got red blue there's a green looks like i'm all out of two tones well uh how about those there where the ones in can oh no you wouldn't want those i'm not sure about them want them at a fire sale besides their vacuum packed makes them too fresh only stock them for tourists but this little item is just what the doctor ordered oh and such a pretty bottle this is what we call the blue bottle three appearance special he'll do anything you want him to do i'll take it let me to wrap it up you want to call him out and have him carry you home oh no i'll just slip it in my pocket do you see a bottle opener oh heavens no you never use a bottle opener on a genie you just tap the lid and say and well you better read the directions when you get home that'll be fine and now that was five gold pieces plus a small deposit on the bottle right here in my pocket well you see it oh my what a pretty bottle yet soon as that it was the blue bottle special ah this will do very nicely what are the directions saying well let's see do not shake before using tap lid gently and say genie out and at attention do the chores which i will mention i have the genie of the bottle and tell me who i have to throw well now that is out i can't think of a thing to say and then tap again some other day so long as i'm on my way oh that was a good one now now genie i want you to listen very carefully to what i have to say oh of course my mistress i'm all ears i've been capped up for 40 years so i hope you'll be forgiving if i take a crack at living imagine aren't there laws about i think so i think so now you'll see here do you know what they do to run away genies no please tell me mistress mine what do they do imposify you're mine now if you do what we want well you just can't tell we may even give you your freedom well that seems to me to be pretty big and i hope that you will excuse the day but how do i know what you say will be so how can you prove that you'll let me go i give you my royal word as queen of the land me too that's enough what's the stuff well i'll outline my plan now the first thing in the morning uh lean down so i could whisper oh my you're a very sweet girl in the gene but your father can read you like a book no now genie i want you oh oh easy as pie he'll just die five minutes past eight counting to do where's matthew he quit yesterday remember oh yes well what about my breakfast yes we have a new servant and here he is where that's nothing but a silly bottle it's a mimicry you'll have your breakfast in just a moment dear genie out and have attention do the chores which i will mention just what have you in mind to see the king is blind and dying that's right genie get the king something to eat us too anything but mush a whole good chicken with 28 legs let the king have some bacon and eggs if your stomach's queasy i could make them over easy easy queasy i'm reaching for them but they're gone best eggs i ever had will you stop laughing must you put everything in rhyme well genie's have since the start of time well cut it out guess i'm my royal nerve besides it upsets my stomach well that's because you ate too fast got to get a lot of money to count a lot of gold we'll make you an old rap scallion isn't it oh it's the money that's done it to him genie money and the love of it i do not love money i just like to have it i want to know how much i have that's all that's why i count it but five times a day after don't have enough to last all day need more gold got to get more gold if our gold oh queen is this the time you spoke up is this the jerk we make a joker stop that rhyming what's going on around here what's he talking about this is as good a time as any genie what's so funny i'll see here stop that laugh oh oh great king if i would have grant you one wish what would it be one wish i don't know why i never thought of it before well what do you want most in all the world what gives you the most pleasure please use more gold then you wish for a lot of gold how much gold all the gold and port no that wouldn't be so very much when you stop to think about it and perhaps that everything you touch would turn to go oh daddy don't take it don't be silly daughter would you be grudger poor old father a chance of a lifetime make it so genie that everything i touch will turn to go it'll be done just as you say i give the wish but you must pay stop that right where where where who where what happened back into the the bottle he was a fake i ought to pass along look at your silver what about my holy smoke it's gold pure gold look at me i'm enchanted did you ever see anything and gold coffee rich before you started i know but now i'm richer a gold bowl full of gold flour i'm a gene i think we'd better go look at the tablecloth pure gold yes we'll have to fold it with a crowbar at last you have a little concern for your poor old father now that he's the richest man in the world you should be rewarded now you've got a gold herit leave me alone i want to go no you don't leave her alone i want you to stay and see your poor old father make history no no leave me alone don't touch me why i have a gene daughter speak to me mother what have i done well last hand i'd say you've turned your daughter in 24 karat gold don't just stand there get some water why what are you going to do polisher do something oh she'll probably be all right in a few weeks a few weeks see here you bring that genie back or i'll you're what now you stay away from me i demand as king that you bring that genie back and straighten out the whole thing right now you demand as king do you well i answer as queen go suck your head hand and let genie it's all his fault except for him shut up the service maybe they can help old kitchen door buddy it's your royal highness someone a garner you high royalness a royal who knows now he knows you're royal how is your royal highness this fine day yes you're royal i hope you're feeling enough to sniff this high oh stop that bowing i'm in trouble real trouble oh what's so bad if we haven't seen you in eight years what are you talking about it was a 12 years the last of wednesday i'm right it's been eight years i'm never wrong about days please no no no not you you're high i mean this dumb bone head bone a head of money a toile of us to mend the kind of a target if you want to stop this bickering it's been 12 years oh i'm sorry your highness i guess i was just a little laugh a little only four years that's all i wanted my first argument at 37 years and it's a kitchen you're royal i gotta shake your head no no don't i just a girl i tried to save him what did you do to tony look at him glistening the sunlight your highness you've turned him into gold turned the gold how's that i said she's got cold one of them viruses everybody what's the matter look at him glistening the sunlight you mean tony the statue yeah gold but why of tony well i think it's kind of nice to give a help a little something after 37 years of service why not like this it looks kind of triumphant tony it's really old walrus was alive do you want to shine for the ice max certainly i'm right here by the x did he got a pencil yeah right here man hey what was that what was why i thought i heard a funny noise kind of like music nonsense most likely a clock charming here you are oh what's this huh now you don't want to give me this oh we had taken you deserve it but the gold pencil just give me the old one back don't keep it it's yours well okay but uh have you got one we're just to know it never you rubber eraser you know anything about magic mr wakeman mac but just call me jake i didn't catch your name either you know lani not exactly i'm the king holy smoke your royal kindness how are you today your royal highness i hope everything can the bowing i'm in trouble you know anything about magic on laws and magician hey what's the trouble here sit down hey what you do to chair what's going on around here that's my trouble jake everything i touch turns to gold holy smoke then the statue of tomy is to me i promise i'll be real careful poor old tomy where's marley under the table you see solid gold holy smoke my daughter too i don't know what i'm going to do jake you've got to help let me call the brother he can fix things up unless it was a genie it was a genie your goose is cooked when did you see him last my wife had him in a little blue bottle uh-oh a blue bottle special that's bad is she coming back i hope so now all we can do is wait you mind if i take some coffee want me to have one step closer and i'll put a nice big through you no disrespect of course just not taking any chances man you're right perfectly right i hope i never see gold again as long as i live why doesn't she come what's keeping it hey you know when me i honestly never know what i mean goes through just wait why i remember what time is it jake let me consult me watch and change it's uh two thirty why i remember once why does this have to happen to me haven't i been a good king jake i tried tell me haven't i been a good king well as a matter of fact mac i mean heinous you haven't and most of the folks in the kingdom are beginning to resent it it seems you're too uh well no you're talking about it now go ahead well it's just that you're go on jake go on well that you're too tight oh that you know what you're doing well if you know the things they said about you when you put in a bid for their marshal playing funds when all their mother countries needed it so bad it sure made everybody mad that was a dirty thing i did wasn't it i'm glad you're finally beginning to see the light money man that's what i was money man what time is it now at two thirty five you'll probably be all right if you ever get out of this mess you'll be given money away i'll start giving it away now now first the first we'll set up a big organization and everybody in it will be well paid right we'll use the whole north way the castle we'll start giving money away to everyone who's this the genie it's my wife expected to see gold for miles around what did you do to port county it was an accident after almost 40 years of service certainly beats giving him a gold watch look and bring the genie and who is this person mother this is my dearest friend jake uh only one who stood by me the only one i just call me jake did you bring the genie i did but i'm not sure the king has had enough oh yes i have i never want to see gold again as long as i live big rolling fountain he's cute thanks jack that's okay pal no don't touch me don't you put your arms see what i mean i just can't take it anymore i'm whipped bring out the genie genie out under the tension do the chores which i will mention the king has had enough no longer wants the cursed stuff i never should have taken a touch of gold i'm sorry i was greedy i think he really is genie you can change him back i'll change him and all that he has changed but remember you promised me my freedom fix everything and i'll not only set you free but i'll see that you get a good job the deal is made the curse will fade not all there is to it mr benson i hope it's enough of a story for you i think it will be your highness yes i think it will be come in come in mr blue mr benson i'd like to present the president of our relief organization gene blue nice to meet you benson how do you do you used to know some burners named benson they get it burners named benson benson burners now head of hopper whips up a new hat she takes a couple of every day ordinary things like a tomato or a green apple mixes it with a bunch of ribbon and lo and behold it suddenly something that would do justice to john frederick's or lily dasha lots of husbands have seen their wives do the same thing and then too you read every now and then how some scientist mixes a concoction of ordinary things a sort of cocktail made of waste products and out of his magic test tube come some application never heard of before jewels out of sawdust perfume out of coal tar medicine out of weeds or mold you never realize the beauty and the value of things until you experiment until you try them that's pretty much the same way about prayer have you noticed lately how in the field of medicine the psychologist and the psychiatrist have been rediscovering the value of prayer but prayer has been there all the time just for everyone's taking it's ironic to think that persons will accept prayer on the basis of an up to the minute medical authority when for as long as they can remember religious authorities have told them the same thing yes prayer is one of the forces of life itself but you've got to use it to get its benefits the jewel of a happy home life the perfume of uplifted hearts medicine for a sick world use prayer for your family life or the family that prays together stays together more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams has brought you jack benny as the star of the golden touch lucille ball was your hostess others in the cast were frank nelson berna felton alan reid alan or oddly barbara eiler ted decorsia howard mcneer and howard culver the script was written by robert huo sullivan with music composed and conducted by harry zimmerman and was directed for family theater by joseph f mansfield this series of family theater broadcasts is made possible by the thousands of you who felt the need for this type of program by the mutual network which is responded to this need and by the hundreds of stars have stayed screen and radio who have so unselfishly given of their time and talent to appear on our family theater stage to them and to you our humble thanks this is tony lofrano expressing the wish of family theater that the blessing of god may be upon you and your home and inviting you to join us next week at the same time when family theater will present walder brennan and batty lin in a star for helen with the honorable frank walker as host join us won't you this program was transcribed earlier from our eastern mutual broadcast released for release to our west coast at this more convenient listening time we invite you to stay tuned now for the latest news on the newspaper of the air which follows immediately this is the mutual don lee broadcasting system