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Jane Withers and Jackie Cooper are starring for us tonight in her first bowl, a picture they made together at Columbia. One that I'm sure will take you back to your own youth for a pleasant reliving of the time when you had or were a first bowl. That's an exciting time for boys and girls and for fathers and mothers. I speak from personal experience. But the young ladies of first bow age in our audience are very important to us. They seem to be our best friends and severest critics. Best friends because no group in our audience is more loyal to Lux Flake and severest critics because they always have pronounced opinions on the way we're running this theater. Sometimes they think we're right, sometimes they don't. And they don't keep us guessing about what they think about our product either. The girls in Maine may like different stars and plays than the girls in Montana. But way down East and way out West, they all agree that Lux Flakes is in their own words simply super. I understand that is the highest award the younger generation gives. Now for a game lively play. Her first bowl starring Jane Withers as Penny and Jackie Cooper as Chuck with Edith Fellows as Millie Lou. The curtain rises on act one. Penny Wood and Chuck Harris are pals. They live next door to each other, attend the same high school and drink the same sodas out of separate stores. Once in a great while Chuck will even carry Penny's books for her. But their fellowship is purely platonic. They are pals. Chuck is building a glider. Not a model glider but a man sized job which he hopes will carry him aloft and which Penny hopes will bring him back safely. As he works over it lovingly, Chuck is all enthusiasm. Penny is frankly skeptical. Look at it Penny look at those lines isn't it gorgeous? I don't know. I guess it's all right. What do you mean it's all right? Well I mean it isn't gorgeous like well like pink satin and poetry and things. Oh it is like a bird is. Yeah if it flies. It'll fly all right. You'll see tomorrow when I take it up. Oh Chuck I wish you wouldn't. You know you don't fly so good. Oh you're swacky. Didn't I get spikeship to fly ten minutes? Yeah two minutes in the air and eight minutes through the chicken house. You might have broken every bone in your body. Oh bones don't break that easy and even if they did they knit right up together again when you're young. You sound just like my dad. Oh but he's right. You know you could have been hurt when that bladder smashed up and besides that one didn't have all these new thingamabob you put on this one. That's why it's smashed. With this new stabilizer I'll have almost as much control as the air currents. Now let's see. All we got to do now is get this waterproof paint on. Why is it got to be waterproof? In case I come down in the lake that's why. Oh Chuck you're not going to try and cross the lake are you? Well sure I am. Now come on help me paint will you? Oh I don't think I'd better. You're going to break your neck and I don't want to feel responsible. No I don't think I'd better. Oh Penny what do you want to be such a wet blanket for? Flying isn't hard. Maybe not. My dad always says the hardest thing about flying is the ground. Oh anyway I don't want to be a flyer. I just want to build planes. I got to Penny. It's like well like you feel about being a great dancer. I don't. Like you said you don't what. I don't want to be a great dancer anymore. I just made up my mind about it last week. I'm going to be a great rider like well like Anna St. Vincent Malay. Well I'm going to build clippers too. You know those great. You know what Chuck I bought a whole box of typewriting paper and I've saved four dollars and a quarter toward a typewriter and then I'm just going to lock myself in my room and write and write and write. Yeah what about? Well I haven't made up my mind just yet. Besides you've got to suffer before you can write. Huh? I said I'll have to suffer. Well gee you can't just square off and suffer. It's got to sort of happen to you. Life does it to you. You know a lady now was talking on the radio the other day and she said that everybody had a book inside of them but you had to suffer to get it out. She must be swaggy. She is not swaggy and then she said you go along doing all sorts of everyday things when all of a sudden you'll find yourself in the midst of a great sorrow. Watch out for that can of paint. She said that's when you're ready to write. That penny the paint. When your world crumbles about your ears and everything you hold dear to you just splashes at your feet. See the paint look out. Now now look what you did a whole can of paint. Oh Chuck I'm sorry. Splashing at your feet you splashed it all right. Oh not Chuck listen. Look look at that mess look at it. Well I said I was sorry didn't I? I'll pay for your old paint. I'll buy it out of my typewriter. Oh it isn't the money it's the principle of the thing you've set me back a whole day. All right so you break your neck a day later what's the difference. Mother please. Why what's the matter dear? Well mother you might knock before you come into my room like that. Knock why dear? Well I might have been writing. Were you dear? Well no but I might have been. Well then it's all right. Here Penny I bought your address for Saturday night. Your last year's went really a disgrace. Saturday night? What goes Saturday night? Mervyn's coming home from college. I thought you might have a little party for him. Mother do I have to call him Uncle Mervyn this year? It sounds awful silly. Oh I don't know dear. Well after all when a girl has an uncle that's only five years older than she is I think she just ought to call him Mervyn. Very well dear and after all mother I'm not a child. Of course not dear. Now slip into your dress. Do you like it? It's nice I guess but I'd much rather have had a typewriter. Well you couldn't come to a party dressed in a typewriter dear. Mother you don't seem to realize that society means nothing to me. Nowadays girls have higher things to think about. And such as what dear? Such as careers. Why don't you think by the time a girl is 15 if she's going to be a great dancer or a great writer she ought to begin dancing or writing don't you think? If you really want to know what I think about a girl 15. Yes. I think she ought to begin to wash her ears. Oh mother you're laughing at me. If I didn't laugh I'd cry darling. About me. Oh I suppose I'm silly but every mother looks forward to a daughter who's pretty and sweet and well I might as well admit it popular with the boys. I wouldn't go across the street for any boy who ever lived. Not even Chuck. Chuck. Well I guess there isn't anything in this whole world that interests me any less than Chuck Harris. Say wait a minute I just thought of something. I'll be there in 10 minutes. Look at you son don't you think you need a clean shirt. Oh this one's okay dad Mrs Wood said all I had to do was put on a tie. Nevertheless you'd better put on a clean shirt. Remember the first rule for a lawyer is to be well groomed. It inspires confidence even if you can't win the case. But I don't want to be a lawyer dad I want to be a mechanical engineer. Now just a moment son. But if I could only go to tech next year. I don't want to hear any more about tech now look dad I guess what I'm going to be is about the most important question we've got to face right now while I was reading an article that said out of every ten thousand college graduates nine thousand chose the wrong profession. Yes and maybe you'll find flying is the wrong profession. How many times do I have to tell you I just want to build planes it's the greatest profession of the future while look at the way they invented trains when you were a boy trains how old do you think I am now change that shirt dad please listen when I think of being a lawyer I just about go swacky my boy you're just hitting one of those phases we all go through I remember when I wanted to go into the movies well maybe you'd have been a lot better actor than you are a lawyer well anyway you'd have had a chance to find out you wouldn't have to keep wondering and going to the movies and looking at yourself in the mirror when you if I'd ever dare talk to my father like when have you ever seen me look in a mirror lots of times that's enough about that and enough about planes you're going to forget all this nonsense Chuck can do what you're told oh gosh dad you drive a full of swag and stop saying swacky okay okay now get into that shirt Mrs Wood will be waiting for us come on hurry it up there'll be five of us for dinner are you sure we have enough Effie yes ma'am got enough for five but I always should tell me when you're going to have guests miss wood yes yes Effie I know I forgot about it hello Millie Lou is Penny home Mrs Wood she's upstairs dear I imagine she'll be right down now let's see Effie Mrs Wood I hear your brother Mervin's coming home from college my mother said so yes dear he'll be here sometime tomorrow oh Kino he's awful good looking who is hello Penny your uncle Mervin oh I think he's just grand now listen Millie Lou are you gonna go goofing around after him again who goops around you goop around you must you're on him like a love sick cat it's pretty revolting Penny what's for dinner mom it's him and stay out of the kitchen now who's going in the kitchen that reminds me can I stay to dinner Mrs Wood mothers in town and I'm all along with cook please can I stay why why of course dear if you'd like to Kino I'll go home and talk cook um Effie I know pink five for dinner it's six maybe you'd better send down for some more ham Effie too late I'll stress evening hello Tom hi there hello Penny hello Myrtle how are you dear hungry I'm so hungry I could bite into anything that didn't bite me first well go easy on the ham dear there are six of us for dinner and Effie is getting mad what right now um Effie seven hi everybody hello Tom hiya Penny how's the girl we weren't expecting you until tomorrow Mervin oh I thought I'd surprise you let me have your coat Mervin oh I'll take it Mrs Wood can I hang your head up too Mervin okay thanks dog go home change my dress it's nice to have you home isn't that revolting is she sick or something where's your luggage Mervin at the gas station around the corner fellow I drove down with stuff to have a tire fixed and I ran over to sort of fix things here fix things yeah I asked him to stay over the weekend you don't mind do you oh well of course not um Effie eight who is he Merv Roger van black van black you mean that killer dealer you've been writing home about I haven't written about him so much oh haven't you he lives in New York and Florida sang the lead in the spring week opera plays the accord I put it on I made the maskers in his freshman year and his father belongs to two different country club that will do penny well I guess I'll run up and watch see you dinner Mervin okay I say I didn't do anything wrong did I I mean inviting Rod of course not I'm glad he's coming you'll be an extra boy for the party who have you invited sis oh just some of the boys you used to know and a few of pennies friends pennies friends do you expect a man like Roger van black to dance with a lot of giggling little girls a man who made the maskers in his freshman year and his father belongs to two different country clubs now listen parents what's the matter with you children children stop calling me children all right now calm down now listen sis listen while Roger's here please try and run the house like a house ought to be run when I visited the van flex they had a couple of maids and a butler and when dinner was served he didn't just yell it's on you better hurry he said dinner is served oh that wasn't that just too dark a that's right that's right be a hoodlum Roger's sister isn't a day older than you but she's always dressed for dinner and she'd take my arm and say I believe you're taking me in Mr. Roberts oh really well I believe you're taking me in Mr. Roberts and don't get so excited I'll run up and fix the guest room for Mr. good gracious I forgot the guest rooms just been painted oh sis Penny you go upstairs and move your things into my room you'll have to let Roger take your oh mother no I've got to have my room to lock myself in to my honor to write you've got to be alone to do anything really big you'll have to put off your writing for a few days or write something not quite so good oh but now I'm on penny hurry up oh mother this is a jib there I've got to hear y'all Raj in here hi to get the doughnut patched Raj as everything's super shall I bring these suitcases in or will your man our man oh oh you mean our man well we'll see you about him after dinner that's nice nice place you have here Merv looks like quite a village okay there were a couple of little numbers down at the gas station weren't bad at all yeah we got some pretty sparky zombies here but will you see my girl Julie Harris yeah how you're doing okay but I could use a little of your technique well who couldn't I'll give you a few pointers I say I'll give you a few pointers someday Merv okay only remember she's my girl oh sis this is Mr. Van Vlek my sister Raj how do you do I'm so glad you could come Roger well I I'd have come a lot sooner if I'd have known Mervin had such a good-looking sister oh thank you Mervin maybe it better bring Roger's grip up there okay I'll be right with you right Roger will you excuse me a minute I sure don't worry about me I see you've got a piano well that's all I need to make myself at home yes please do mother do I have to move out all my phone just so oh hi hello there oh oh I'm sorry I thought mother was in here my name's Roger Van Vlek oh yeah how do you do say say you can't be Miss Penelope would and why not but Mervin said well the old fox he said you're a scrawny little kid only 15 oh he did did he well how do you think I am well it's it's pretty hard to tell a woman's age nowadays 19 20 maybe 21 well you're not so very wrong won't you sit down Mr. Van Vlek thank you very much do you mind if I smoke miss wood oh no no not at all perhaps you'd like one who me oh no that is I mean oh well I've given it up you know you know I felt sure you would say that why well the minute I saw you I I knew you were one of these really feminine women are you kidding oh I mean oh well yes I am oh yes I really am and well you know there's something so uh so masculine about smoking isn't there well I mean a really feminine woman doesn't do it because well because it just isn't feminine yes you're absolutely right miss wood oh but of course not for a man it's entirely different practically all the men I know smoke except Chuck Harris and you know that his father gave him 20 dollars to promise he wouldn't and he spent every cent of it on his glider really is uh is Mr. Harris your fiance my wife oh Chuck goodness no he just lives across the street and beside Chuck is only 16 men are always so much younger than girls don't you think well I mean a girl who's 16 or anyway who's almost 16 he's years older than a man at 16 or don't you think so I certainly do but wait wait don't move what's the matter what is it are you you with the light through your hair beautiful me you want you know you know you want always to wear red it's your color red my color oh red oh my heavens would you please excuse me mr van vlech who is it hi a hag oh it's you well you know I was coming didn't you hey something smells good what's cooking oh Chuck I'd like for you to meet our guest who oh mr van vlech this is Chuck I mean mr Harris who lives across the street and mr Harris this is mr van vlech who's visiting us I mean he's visiting mervin and mr van vlech is visiting here from New York and Florida I'm glad to meet you Harris oh I've just been hearing about your uh your glider from this wood from who from me well he said miss wood oh oh you oh yeah sure you have a cigarette Harris oh no no I remember she says you don't smoke who says miss wood oh miss wood what are you talking so much about me for well naturally one talks about one's friends what else is there for one to talk about hey what did you get to talking that one stuff oh one just talks the way one always does yeah but one never talked like that before what goes oh good good I'll be right up hold everything beautiful I'll just whip up and watch what did you think of him I don't know kind of a dope isn't it what did you say the city acts like a dope why chuck Harris you're speaking that way about about a man who made the maskers in his freshman year and whose father belongs to two different country clubs oh hello mr Harris well Penny I hear you have a visitor oh yes and he's simply wonderful well if you two are pardoning I'll just whip up and watch for dinner to do well what what's got into her oh she's swaggy stop saying that I think we're all here oh no Penny isn't and Millie knew uh thank you Effie oh Millie knew your dusting time oh this is what I forgot I'd asked Shirley and Rob went for to my house for dinner so I had to bring him with me you brought them where are they oh they're just outside I'll go and get them um Effie Effie there'll be two more that makes 10 yes 10 Effie what can I do about it all right but it ain't gonna stretch that fur now where's Penny uh Penny oh Penny I'm right here mother hello everybody why Penny what's she all dressed up for is that a new dress thing why chuck dear you act as if you've never seen me in a party dressed before I don't know last time I was over for dinner you wore your tennis shirt shut up is the is dinner serve mother why yes dear oh splendid mr van black I believe you're taking me in of course this way mr van black I tell you the girl is swaggy mr to mill and our stars Jane withers and jackie cooper will return in just a moment for act two of her first bowl now let's listen in a minute young patty is out to land a job in the big city she's staying with ellen a friend from her hometown oh ellen it's so good to see you I could talk for hours but if I'm going to land that job tomorrow morning I've just got to get some sleep I could do with a little shot I myself come on you get yourself unpacked while I fix the couch for you I didn't bring a thing with me but a toothbrush and a nighty so that won't take long oh say ellen you have got some lux flakes haven't you right on the bathroom shelf there okay I'll just nip in and luxy sunday so they'll be fresh in the morning I'll be through in a second yes it takes only a moment to lux under things every night new quick lux gives you sudden so fast three times as fast in water as cool as your hand as any of 10 other popular soaps by actual test not just twice as fast mind you three times as fast it's so gentle to keep slips and pretty under things fresh and new looking longer that's important nowadays when it costs more to replace your lovely under things but most important of all nightly luxing protects daintiness makes you sure of freshness ellen says under things absorb perspiration you know unless they're lux after every wearing you're apt to offend and the worst part of it is you don't know yourself when you do nobody likes to tell you so the only way to be sure is never never take chances get a thrifty big box of lux flakes from your grocer tomorrow lux under things every night dresses blouses and sweaters often new quick lux comes in the same familiar package costs you no more now mr demille returns to the microphone act two of her first bow starring jane withers as penny and jackie cooper as chuck with edith fellows as millie lou penny wood is falling in love with roger who gives her his attention because she's the only girl in the vicinity or to express it in the language of the younger generation penny is going over joe college who is slinging the woo heavy on account there aren't any cuddle cats now roger seated at the piano is giving out for the song he's just written penny gazes at him starry eyes and when i fall in love my dear the stars may shine above my dear but i won't know a thing my dear cause i'll be looking at that song it stirs my depths you uh you wouldn't kid me would you did you really write it all yourself sure i knock them out fast you're my inspiration cookie oh you know roger you're so so well i mean all the way you look and the way you talk you're not like any of the boys around here well well i guess it's just because i'm a little more of a cosmopolite oh oh i thought you were american yes yes of course but you see you see i've been to europe twice oh oh oh roger please play it again sure you got to do something about penny why what's the matter mervin look at her in there i tell you she's making an exhibition of herself the whole town's laughing oh i guess not the whole town well anyway the whole street she hasn't had that party just off since roger's been here oh for the lover are you in again hello mrs what how are you millie lou is penny here she's in the living room with roger he's certainly giving her a big rush isn't he movies last night and some sodas and some new eat down more older cologne it's a dollar and a half a bottle there sis except an expensive gifts from men at her age i think it's a very good thing for penny to have a little attention it's making her think about her look i'll say she was down the beauty shop before even open this morning she had a hair wash and manicure boy she sure must be in love love love it curdles me i told roger i'd be right with him i'm sure roger can spare you for a minute here hold this yarn dear all right penny i thought i told you not to wear that party dress again it won't be fresh for tomorrow night tomorrow oh the party say you know mother you're absolutely right i ought to have another dress for the party well penny i wasn't all but i ought to mother and all there's a perfectly lovely one down at the bonton penny that awful place it is an awful and old mother that dresses the oomphiest thing you ever saw it's called the glamour girl all red with a gold belt and black velvet poppies and absolutely nothing over the shoulders not even a strap um what holds it up oh well um your figure or something if i were you i wouldn't pin my faith on it mother will you tell me something what dear mother when did you fall in love with father i mean well when did you first know you were falling in love with penny what a question oh it's it's for my writing well i mean well someone's going to be a great writer i think she ought to know all about love don't you yes it might help you you know there must have been a time when you and father weren't in love with each other or you wouldn't have been married would you penny would you mind telling me exactly what you call the way your father and i feel toward each other now oh of course you're very fond of each other and i suppose you've got your memories but you wouldn't call it love would you i mean well you don't shiver down your back every time father comes in the room do you well not every time and you don't just keep waiting for the sound of this voice and keep thinking about the way his hair goes up in front his hair does not go up in front i'll have you know that your father is a very handsome man all right happy coming finish the ball for me will you penny oh mother oh gee hi cookie oh roger hey why did you run out on me am i losing my appeal oh roger i wouldn't have stayed away honestly i wouldn't have only i had to wind this wool for mother well here i'll hold it for you oh that's wonderful not not now you're sure you don't mind and you sure it won't tire you sure i'm sure well all right then hold out your hand i like it like this oh i dropped it i'll pick it up oh no let me i'll do it here i'll just oh gee i'm sorry did i hurt you oh no but your head yeah i sucked you right on the chin didn't i let me see how where's it hurt i hear on my chin here i'll kiss it for you huh oh there they're that better oh yeah what's the matter didn't anyone ever kiss you before well i no no i guess not oh roger roger i think i ought to tell you i've been deceiving you how's that well i'm i'm not 20 the way you thought i'm only 15 oh sure sure i knew all the time and you mean you're not mad at me mad at you stick that chin up oh roger now now what do you think i think that oh roger you know you're a funny kid oh roger it's not gonna be easy what isn't we're about to have trouble with my parents why well they'll say i'm too young and they won't give their consent for years and years give their consent what do we need oh oh oh but i don't care do you look penny i think i don't care about anything oh isn't it priceless why you'll be uncle mervin's nephew and all penny i'd better run along now i promise to play a merv some badminton when will you be back later petty oh listen i uh i want to talk to you about the party tomorrow and roge i'm going to say the first last and supper dance just for you yes that'll be swell but listen we won't say anything to anyone about how about you know what we'll just keep it a secret for a while mr and mrs roger van blak hello check what's wrong with you not a thing why you look dopey here i brought you a nice cream cone oh thanks hmm maybe we'll not strawberry underneath say you aren't going to keep on dressing up like that all the time are you oh but naturally we're a nice people always dress for dinner add the gentleman wear tuxedo pants we're swacky i like to see anybody try and get me into a tux you haven't got one to get into that's why no i could have if i wanted dad offered to let me wear his tomorrow at the party are you going to well if i do or i don't you got the first last and supper dance with me see i'm not going to struggle one of those snooty games i gotta be polite to well now you listen here mr charles noelton here's a gentleman doesn't ask a lady to say the first last and supper dance just so he won't have to be polite you talk like it was some kind of a special treat to have the first lesson supper with you well maybe it's not for you well i guess for some people well anyway i regret to inform you that i'm already engaged for the first last and supper dance well you don't have to make a song out of it when you're gone with with mr roger van black and he'll be wearing tuxedo pants and a white coat he would that wet drip remarks like that just show how little you know about real men of the world mr roger van black is a cosmopolitan a what a cosmopolitan if you weren't ignorant you know that that means going to europe twice why don't you go lock yourself in your room and write and write and write not tonight roger's taking me to the movies huh oh he is huh why chuck you're not jealous i hope jealous of what that much face you ought to hear him over on our porch given out with that phony line your porch what's he doing on your porch my sister just came home from school your sister julie well since one of our head more than one sister hey where you're going uh but over to your house i want to say hello to julie where did you find this person he's a riot now don't you pay any attention to him julie roger always pours the roses on when there's a new girl around well can i help myself if women cry for me well julie doesn't she's mine oh i'm nothing at the start merrard there you see fella i guess you're just cooking with the wrong gas now you listen here right now don't be a goon merrard who's that oh is that you penny yeah welcome home julie thanks oh roger it's almost nine you know it's the second show and kary gratton doll duck tonight and you said oh see that's right that's right thanks for reminding me come on julie when you get tired of kary you can look at me lead on superman oh but roger good night penny little girls should be in bed by nine honey i'll go get my car now you wait a second roger you can't get away with it cut it out will you you asked me to give you a few pointers didn't you but well i've got to study the girl how am i going to give you the dope if i don't see you're in that but make it snappy julie poppers waiting mervin tell me is roger just playing her for you well you heard him didn't you but boy am i going to make sure hey wait for me i've got to understand penny i'm tired i'm in a hurry and my feet hurt now let's save argument by pretending you told me for the tenth time all the different reasons why you've got to have that dress for tonight and for the tenth time i said no oh but mother all that one of the bond town cost is fifteen dollars a measly little fifteen dollars penny i said no oh mother you're perfectly cruel i tell you what to do you give me the fifteen dollars now and then you can take it out of my lunch money all next term fifteen dollars or fifteen cents you can't have that dress now that's the end of it teni but mother oh i've got to hell that fifteen dollars no oh hey penny come out here a minute all right hey penny have i got news yeah listen i just finished a glider it's all set and ready to go and tomorrow morning i'm taking it out and i'm going to fly it clear across the lake yeah i even hired a speedboat to follow me up you know just in case speedboat yeah you know in case i have to make a forced landing or something it's cost of me fifteen dollars but it's worth it don't you think fifteen dollars chuck did you say fifteen dollars yeah why what's the matter oh nothing only uh chuck chuck i've been thinking things over why suppose your new gadgets don't work suppose you get killed oh you gotta take some risk oh but chuck i can't stand worrying about you honestly i couldn't enjoy the party tonight thinking you're gonna do that tomorrow have you gone swacky well no but well if you should crash down and hurt yourself i just couldn't stand it chuck growing up next door it would just about kill me jeez penny i i didn't know you felt like that i i wouldn't want you to worry oh but i would i'd worry like anything now you won't try it will you promise me you won't but i got to you know i got to you mean you'll do it anyway even knowing how i feel i got to but i've got to have about fifteen dollars what oh that is i mean wait a minute i get it all that song and dance you gave me was just so she could borrow my fifteen dollars honestly nothing i wouldn't trust you across the street they're twisting a fellow around he doesn't know where he's at just so to get it his money you you gold digger now it's a matter i'll cut it out will you what are you sniffling about there's no use you're trying to get around me that way i don't care how hard you cry yourself flying oh now stop it please cut it out please call it me a gold digger when i was just worried about how you might break your neck early all right all right all right i guess maybe i was wrong here penny take it take one the money if you need it so bad it's okay with me here oh chuck chuck you're simply wonderful old times truck i'll never forget boy am i a dope chuck where are you yes dad come over here a minute i want to speak to you come and dad what's on your mind chuck what's this i hear about you building a glider huh where did you hear about never mind where i heard somebody saw you're building a glider and had the intelligence to inform me now where is it now dad listen where is it dad please are you going to tell me i can't if you knew where it was you'd break it up or something you can bet your life i would i'll bust it into kindling wood now where is it now look dad i know you've got to mind your father and all that but gee i mean well if shakespeare's father said you've got to stop writing plays or or mr patryevsky's father said i'm going to chop your piano up for kindling wood why we wouldn't have any plays we wouldn't have any music no and if i can find where you've hidden it you're not going to have a glider oh dad oh is it the bonton well this is miss wood mr jones miss wood panty yes listen you know that red dress i was admiring or will you hold it funny please yes i'll be down this afternoon that's right i don't forget goodbye oh hello roger hello kitten oh roger i'm glad you're here i i want to ask you something no well well i'm in sort of a hurry roger haven't you found out enough about julia found out what oh well please don't think well that is i mean i'm sophisticated enough not to be jealous but well being with her last night and all i thought probably you'd have studied her enough so you could give her in that dope you promised him oh sure yes and i hope it'll be about a night because i've got a new dress red yeah well you remember what you said you know about about red being my car oh yes yes sure and then i look kitten i've got to run i'll see you tonight oh but roger hey will you help me with these packages okay dan what's the matter you're sick no i'm not sick will you look terrible oh gee why does everybody say that there's nothing to matter with me nothing at all all right all right take it easy i'm sorry oh dad yes dear can i ask a question sure what is it dad did you fall in love with mother at first sight well no not exactly the first time i saw your mother she had pink spots all over her spots yeah they turned out to be measles well what did you do caught him from her oh now dad this is really important to me when did you first find out that you were in love with mother well that's a rather a difficult question to answer i i know i believe was the day that she slapped me in the face she slapped you in the face well i turned the hose on her brother and it hit her new hat she slapped me i kissed her and well there you are but why should mother slapping you make you kiss her my dear i've been wondering that for 20 years bring in those packages will you fit in a minute she slapped she slapped him and he kissed her i don't get it but maybe it works we pause now for station identification this is the columbia broadcasting system after a brief intermission mr demille will bring us act three of her first bow starring jane withers and jackie cooper now sally has a story for you once upon a time there was a pretty little bride she had a brand new two room apartment and a brand new husband and my did he like to eat why every night when he came home he'd say hi your sugar what's cooking and oh my you should have seen the stack of dishes that little bride had to do every night well it wasn't long before her pretty hands got red and young and hard oh she was so ashamed of them she tried to hide them but of course she couldn't so one day she overheard a very catty remark something about girls who let themselves go after they're married and don't even bother to keep their hands looking nice and how hard it is for a man to get ahead if he has a wife like that yeah well she was in a state she fought and thought and then she had an idea she'd use luxe flakes for her dishes well she knew how gentle new quick luxe was or she always used it for her stockings and undies and things so she stopped putting that harsh old wash day soap in her dish pan and now she does just as many dishes but she whisks cemented those gentle luck studs and they come out sparkling bright and clean in no time and her husband's just as proud as she is of her lovely hands soft and white and smooth as they ever were yes even though you've let your hands get rough and red and ugly from harsh soaps in the dish pan you don't have to let them stay that way change to gentle luxe flakes for your dishes and see how quickly your hands lose that ugly dish pan look gross softer smoother and lovelier again new quick luxe is gentle fast and a little goes so far it's thrifty too now our producer mr. de mill curtain rises on the third act of her first bowl for a 15 year old girl suffering the pangs of love the world is a sad dark place but penny is doing her best to brighten it glad in her new very red dress she gazes at herself in the mirror penny sees a woman tall and dark a woman with gleaming white shoulders and mysterious haunting eyes a woman of the world but pennies mother sees a 15 year old girl in a violent red dress which shows up all her freckles yes mother when did you get that dress why this afternoon chuck loan me the $15 nevermind i don't care but i want you to take it off this minute but mother i can't why haven't anything else to wear you can wear your other one oh not that awful rag why it's got sleeves and it makes me look like a child penny do you hear me take that thing off really and we're sitting out on the porch holding hands oh did you see mother i've got to get down there right away now penny don't get so upset i'm not upset i'm desperate how would you feel if you saw another woman trying to take father away from you penny well i was coming up wait penny oh mother i've got to get down there julie's taking him away from me she couldn't do it if you didn't let her oh yes she could because she's over and she knows how i've got to be a woman of the world too is that your ambition penny i thought you wanted to be a writer well how am i ever gonna be a writer if i don't have anything to write about and how am i ever gonna learn about life if you won't let me live oh but penny you are living every day every hour old that's not living school and tennis and playing with chalk that's just existing living as being in love and feeling and wanting things and fighting for them listen you're my mother and you can make me take this dress off and you can make me put on that child's dress with sleeves but i'm warning you if you do i'll never forgive you never as long as i live no i don't believe you ever would oh mother can't you see i'm not a baby anymore i'm growing up now you're gonna be mean and cruel and make me change my dress oh you're gonna let me go downstairs i'm going to be mean and cruel and let you go down and she's got a red dress chuck and it hasn't even got any shoulder strap are you kidding across my heart look here she comes now hello everybody holy smoke hello jack gee what's the matter what are they laughing at supposed to be penny why didn't you tell us it was a master is what is your mother know you're down here like that oh roger penny come back penny i don't believe it yet why don't you shut up darling there there dear it's not that serious and roger was there and he left too and oh mother i'm gonna like myself in and stay there the party's over you're going to do nothing of the sort you're going to wash your face and put on another dress and go back downstairs but mother i can't oh you didn't hear i did hear them they were very silly and so were you penny a little while ago you talked about learning to be a woman of the world well that's what a woman of the world would do you mean she'd she'd wash your face and put on another dress and hold her head up and sail right back pretend nothing mattered less than they're laughter even with with roger there especially with roger there all right all right i'll do it dad what do you want to go and spoil a party this has nothing to do with the party chuck i just wanted to tell you that i've located your glider and tomorrow morning you and i are going to have a little breaking up party all our own but you can't dad i've worked for months on that glider it's got all my new ideas i'm sorry chuck that's my last word but dad all right to millie lou millie lou hey millie lou what do you want listen come here i gotta leave for a while can you come along and help me i'd ask penny only she's kind of busy what do you want me to do i want you to help me get a glider down to the lake a glider just help me get in the car that's all will you well what are you going to do with the glider at night what do you do with a glider anytime you fly it come on scene roger yeah i've seen him he's sitting out there in the porch with julie oh thanks i i want to talk to him about something oh look here's something i forgot to show you julie it's a pole a pole penny set it to you yes listen oh no don't the pulsing passion in the heart of me sears like a flame at the sound of the eye you made it up yourself oh word of honor waiting to hear this part hello penny oh hello penny we were just talking he was showing me your your poem yes i know all that little piece of trash i wrote my goodness i hope you didn't take it seriously well i just tossed it off for a joke you don't suppose i'd hand my real poetry around to just just anyone do you listen please don't apologize why i've never seen anyone looks so silly in my whole life as you two sitting there thinking that i meant it just like those mittwits inside who thought i meant that dress joke what i was just doing it for a laugh a laugh funny you're a wonderful little actress but well you make me feel very ashamed oh please please go away what's that child talking about millie lou come here what's the matter millie lou what were you saying about a glider i told you he's up in a who is chuck he's like all around the lake he can't get down flying are you sure you sure i'm sure i saw him tom will you call the police station we better get the fire department too we'll need floodlights listen everybody drive your cars down to the lake and turn on your headlight chucks up in a glider calling all cars keep your eye out for a glider flying somewhere over the lake reported once if you cite it it's that dopey harris boy again that is all he's talking mother it's home my fault if chuck had a speedboat out there he'd be all right but but i took that money for the dress and if he drowns i killed him and all because of a silly dress so mother don't cry dear i'm not crying i can't cry isn't that funny mother when roger laughed at me i cried and cried oh i wanted to die but now i can't cry because it hurts so up here in my throat honey dear that other was just oh just play hurts i wanted to suffer but now oh mother if anything happens to chuck i can't bear it i simply can't bear it is there any sign of him yet no they've got boats all over the lake turn those lights on shoot them up this way oh chuck chuck there he is where where is he way down low he's coming over this way quiet quiet everybody please here give me that megaphone hello all right son i'm all right my head stopped hurting your arm chuck is a bad it's just scratch tea he landed in the tree i'd better call the drugstore for some more dad wasn't there any of my glider left i'm afraid not they said it was smashed a bit oh dad i'm sorry if i worried you i didn't mean for you to know until i got down well that's all right chuck i guess it was my fault maybe if you'd been flying in the daytime it wouldn't have happened no you're right i don't know enough about gliders or flying or anything well you can always learn i understand they give a pretty good course at tech tech oh gee dad mr harris you want it on the phone coming probably the news where is it oh chuck chuck you're safe sure i'm safe and what do you think penny i'm gonna go to tech and when i learn what it's all about i'm gonna build another glider and fly it all over the place ain't that dilly chuck harris after going up like that and scaring a girl almost to death you come back you dare come back and talk about what's eating you i just said it was dilly oh you you hey what goes on oh chuck you slapped me in the face i know but oh i didn't mean it oh i don't know what made me do it hey you gone swacky well no but well it was just being so scared and then seeing you standing there laughing and then i well what's the matter chuck why are you looking at me like that all right well gee gee where's penny but you know you're awful pretty oh me yeah i i don't know what it is but i never felt like this before i think i think i'm gonna kiss you oh chuck oh oh gee our stars jane withers and jackie cooper will be back in a moment for their curtain calls there's a phrase that you hear more and more often nowadays living within one's budget well if you should take the old the literal meaning of that phrase you'd find living within your budget a very uncomfortable business because literally it means living inside a little bag or wallet yes that's what the word budget originally meant a small bag or wallet but millions of women have found that they can live within their budgets in today's meaning of the phrase and do it comfortably and easily with the help of lux flicks for instance when they buy a dress they make 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see either jane withers or jackie cooper on hackbay and they're all smiles now for their curtain call oh thank you mr. demille and it was swell being here it sure was and i hope we can keep on your guess list sir you certainly can we need you both to keep us up to the minute on the changes in the english language yes sir and say i noticed that you didn't use many of those new words like swacky and half no no unless 23 skidoo would qualify 23 skidoo what it's wonderful yeah might sweep the country what does it mean sir why it means well 30 or 40 years ago everybody said 23 skidoo it was you know the slang of the moment yes sir but what did you say it meant now wait a minute jane i asked you first about swacky mr. demille yes jackie i'm your pal what's uh what's on the show next week oh thanks for helping me out of that jam pal next week jackie the play is universal's comedy hit hired wife and our stars our william powell and myna loy in the play bill is forced to acquire a wife overnight to save his business so he picks his secretary that's myna she's the lucky girl with a setup like that i'm sure you see the possibilities for entertainment next monday night oh they're two of my favorites mr. demille and i'll certainly be listening in good night good night mr. demille good night good night it's going to seem awfully quiet around here without you two our sponsors the makers of lux flakes join me in inviting you to be with us again next monday night when the lux radio theater presents william powell and myna loy in hired wife mr. sasselby demille saying good night to you from hollywood ladies and gentlemen this is navy day the day on which americans everywhere do honor to the men ships and planes of our first line of defense never before in its history has our navy better deserve the support and confidence of the whole nation and now another important announcement in your own community the annual mobilization for human needs is now in progress we can all help those less fortunate than ourselves by supporting the local community chest drive give all you can jane weathers appeared tonight through the courtesy of 20th century fox studio and will soon be seen in young america jackie cooper appeared through the courtesy of rko studio and will soon be seen in the paramount picture glamour boy the part of pennies mother was played tonight by dwayne thompson who also heard sydney miller as roger child's peck at the Virginia sale is effy void davis as mr. harris beddy jane haney as julie and child seal as chuck's father our music was directed by louis silvers our lux radio theater production of her first bowl has come to you with the good wishes of the makers of new quick lux flakes the tissue thin soap flakes used by smart housewives everywhere and by the great motion picture studios to protect the million dollar wardrobes you see on the screen this is your announcer melville roick bidding you goodnight on behalf of our cast and the lux radio theater this is the columbia broadcasting system