 I've just been a change in the honest Harold household Harold's cousin Raymond who's been occupying the back bedroom for the last few months has just left to take a job in the neighboring town of Charlieville. Right now we find Harold and his mother talking it over at luncheon. It doesn't seem kind of funny not having cousin Raymond around the house and I'm going to miss hearing him play saxophone. Well yes sounds like he has a wonderful job playing in the orchestra at Charlieville Ritz Carton and they all wear tuxedos. Yeah comes in handy when they wait on tables. Yeah only kidding mother. Well I guess we can settle back to normal again now just the two of us. We can sit in the power at night play part cheesy or maybe we can have a little musical. You know Harold you haven't sung for me in a long time I haven't mother I'll fix that right now I'll bet you forgot my favorite sugar cookie I have. Listen. One bright and guiding line. That taught me wrong. My mother's. Mother you're fogging up your blood. Wonder who that is excuse me mother. Howdy Harold. How's the town Marshal this morning. Got a telegram for you boy. Well I was in the telegraph office wanted to come in this morning at nine a.m. I told him I'd rush it right out to nine a.m. Well I was on the way here to deliver it when I run into McGurl L.W. Zygon. See you later. You didn't give me the telegram. Yeah thank you very much. Oh hey just a minute I wrote my shopping list on the back of your envelope. Yeah would you mind reading it off to me. Oh for heaven's sake all right. One pound of tomatoes one pound of tomatoes. Let me write that down. One large cornflaster one large cornflaster. Let me write that down. One Sapolio that's what you are. That's what I am. Let me write that down. That's and give my regards to Eloise. I'll do that. Well this telegram is from. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. This is relative day mother this telegram some cousin Natalie in Chicago. She says arriving Melrose Springs for overnight visit. Oh she must be on another buying trip for the department store. That's not all she says mother and bringing Marvin with me. Who's Marvin. He's a little boy a distant relative of ours. Oh cousin Natalie's been taking care of him ever since his mother died. Oh I see. This says she's driving and they'll be here around two o'clock this afternoon. Oh mine it's after one. I hope I can get the house straightened out before they get here. Oh and I promise Gloria O day I'd shorten her party dress and I'll have to make some hot chocolate. I'll take it easy mother. Oh Harold we're out of cookies. Will you run out and get a dozen macaroons. Sure mother and while I'm out of my pick up a little toy for Marvin. That'll be nice and oh Harold please don't eat too many macaroons on the way home. Why mother. Well maybe I better get two dozen. I think Gloria in her party got the macaroons mother and I only ate Wow is that you Gloria. Doesn't she look lovely. Well sort of grown up. That dress looks like it was designed with an ulterior motive. Oh Harold. Quit giggling or it'll fall off Gloria. Would you like that. I'm going to Raymond's opening at the Charlie Bill Ritz Carlton now that he has a steady job we're sort of planning on getting engaged. But don't you two rush into marriage. Oh do you believe in long engagements. You bet a longer man is engaged the less time he has to be married. I'm just joking Gloria. That's what you think. Did you get a little toy for Marvin. Oh yeah oh yeah look at this you see this little box all painted in circus colors. Now watch girls while I turn this crank. Now watch. You see that mother clown pops right out of the box. Well isn't that clever. Yeah that little Marvin will be crazy. Oh my goodness there they are. You let them in. All right stick around. I'll eat by the kitchen door. I want to run home and show mother my dress. Okay see you later. But it's right in my dress. My tie. Brush the macaroon crumbs off my best. There. Well cousin Natalie. Hello Harold it's nice to see you again. It's nice to see you. And this is Marvin. Well hello Marvin. How do you do sir. Say that's a spiffy little soldier suit you're wearing. Marvin has been going to military academy. Oh I thought you were a little young for the draft. Come in. Thank you. Hello Natalie. Hello Aunt Emily. It's wonderful to see you. And this is little Marvin mother. Oh hello Marvin. Good afternoon miss. Marvin's wearing that uniform because he goes to a military school. It's an academy sir. Oh yes that's right. Well little soldier I suppose you're on your vacation now. At the academy we call it leaves sir. So you're not a W.O.L. Well Natalie why don't you come into my room and take off your coat and then we'll have some hot cocoa. All right. And we'll let Marvin and Harold get acquainted. Yeah yeah thanks. And he's Marvin. Thank you sir. Certainly sit up straight. Oh watch a little present Marvin but I didn't realize you were quite so grown up. I'm tense sir. Oh well you like it. Yes indeed. Here it is. What is that sir. Well it's a sort of a jack in the box. Here listen to this. You see the little clown jump up. Pretty clever isn't it. Did you like to have it. You seem to enjoy it sir. Why don't you keep. What did you say. My but you're a juvenile sir. Now look here. You seem to be having a wonderful time. Oh yes Natalie Marvin's a fine little fellow. Well look at the cute little jack in the box. Is there a child in the house. There sure is. Well we'll come along Marvin. Are you going to. Smart Alec I hope he burns his tongue. Marvin's really hard to take. Certainly had his nerve after dinner saying it was my time to do KP. Thank goodness Natalie put him to bed before she and mother went visiting. Well I don't hear him in there maybe sleep. Sleep tight general. He got Marvin brought a bugle with him. You call me sir young man is it necessary to blow that bugle you should be asleep. I'm not very sleepy sir. Well don't all you little soldiers go to sleep early at the academy. Yes sir I was always tired before after drilling and marching all day. I see. Maybe if you and I did a little military drill. Why. Well I just thought it might make me sleepy and then I'd go right to bed right to bed. Well all right Marvin just for a few minutes though till you get sleepy. How do we go about this military drill. Well I'm the sergeant and you're the prime. It's a better humor. Yes sir. You're a fine looking soldier. Well thank you. Look at your posture. Where is it. Yes sir. Yes sir. Pull in your stomach. Pull it in some more. Now I'm hanging out back. Two three four. I'm doing fine. Oh darn that wall. My mistake. You're getting sleepy Marvin. No talking in the right. Oh my goodness why couldn't you've gone to art school. Thank goodness. This would make up his mind. Forward. Guess you're getting pretty sleepy now huh. No I'm wide awake. Zoink. You've just begun to march soldier. You're in the army now. Wonder where I go to enlist in the Navy. Mother morning. Coffee quick. My you look sleepy this morning. Oh I am mother I took a 10 mile hike in the living room last night. Oh yeah and this morning Marvin woke me up at six o'clock blowing that bugle. Oh yes I heard it. Mother mother mother please please. What time is cousin Natalie driving back right away son I better fix you some eggs. Thank you mother. At least I'll be able to get some sleep tonight. One more day of sergeant Marvin and I'd look like Frank Sinatra on kinescope. Good morning Natalie. I wonder if I could talk to you for a moment. Oh yes of course. Well you know my store is sending me to Paris on a buying trip. Oh yeah. Well and as you know Marvin's been going to a military academy in Chicago. Oh yes. Close you can't wait to get back put on his patees and polish his military brushes. Well I intend to be gone for three months and I'd rather not leave him at the academy alone. So I was wondering well could Marvin stay here with you. Are you all right here oh yes. More coffee the wrong way. Wait a minute you want Marvin to stay here three months yes your mother said she'd be happy to have him if it was all right with you. Well I'm sure Natalie is all right with another I guess it's all right with me but thank you Harold but I'll finish packing now but. Yeah I should have turned her down. Wonder how it's going to be having Marvin around here for three months. Well there's my answer. The return for the second act of our story on this tarot in just a moment on CBS tonight Judy Garland will again visit the Bing Crosby show and the CBS Wednesday night fight program the Chuck Hunter Jimmy Bowe Middleweight Scrap in New York will be coming your way over most of these same CBS stations and be sure to listen for an important guest at the end of our show. And now back to Harold Perry as honest Harold the homemaker. Harold has a new problem on his hands little 10 year old Marvin who is fresh for military academy. He's fresh all right. He's agreed to take care of Marvin for three months and he isn't very happy over the prospect. Right now we find our unwilling bachelor father on his way home from the radio station. Guess I better go home to lunch. See what Marvin is up to now. I know one thing that little gentleman and I are going to have a talk. He's going to listen to me or I'll I'll well I'll bend his bugle. Hello. Congratulations Harold. I understand you've just become a father. I bet you're thrilled having this little boy around the house. Blessings on the little man barefoot boy with cheeks of time. This boy isn't barefoot he wears army shoes. I'd like to tan his. Well I suppose he'll be going to school here. What's his grade sergeant. Oh oh great. I think it's awful nice of you. Harold taking this little boy. Well you sweet old kind old loveable old. That little boy all by yourself no woman to help you. Well as mother. Yes but she's got her own work to do. I mean someone who'd be there when you need them. Someone who could wash the little fellow socks and handkerchiefs and t-shirts. Oh I get it. You mean the laundromat. I mean someone who would be by your side for better or for worse forever and ever. What's that behind you Flora Bell. See you later Flora Bell. Oh yeah. I'm still fast on my feet must have been that drilling Flora Bell is a wonderful girl but I've got enough. To find thing you're doing Harold taking in that little boy. Yeah well I think he's taking me in. Back I'm going home now and have a little talk with that cadet right now. He wants to get along with me he's going to have to change his ways. Harold you don't know very much about children. What. Well a boy that age needs a lot of understanding. Yeah instead of trying to change him right away why don't you show him you're interested in the things he likes. Listen I'm too old for basic training. Well now Harold there must be something you and little Marvin could do together. He sounds like an outdoor boy. Well don't you take him out in the woods some afternoon. You mean and losing. Have a little picnic picnic well I don't know if you could go out by Bear Lake and roast greeners and just have a wonderful time. Well might not be a bad idea Doc. Sure I bet you get to be real pals pals huh certainly worth a try. Yes you might have something there. Thanks a lot Doc. Not at all. I'll take Marvin out this afternoon. I'll shop for the food right now. Get some hot dogs mustard marshmallows pickles and soda pop. Let's see if I've forgotten anything. Yes by carbonated soda. Yeah. Let me write that down. See you later Doc. Oh Marvin your mother's gone downtown. Oh yeah Marvin and how would you like to go on a camping trip just the two of us. Want to take me on a camping trip. Sure I love the outdoor life I'm an old woodsman you know they used to call me Woody him. That's all yeah the swell spot right near Bear Lake real wild out there three miles to the closest billboard. It sounds wonderful. He called me. This is the way to handle boys. Yes sir we really rough at Marvin we'll drive all the way out there right now sit on pillows and toast some marshmallows. Stay an hour or two get home before dark of course. What's the matter Marvin. It's not exactly the way we did it at the Academy. Oh well this is your party Marvin we'll do it anyway you want to. Any way I want to. All right instead of driving out we'll hike up hike out. Seven miles. That's not very far to carry a up a hub up a hub tent. We'll stay all night. With Marvin might be a little chilly out there by the lake. Oh won't bother you Woody. All right we'll go. I walked at least a hundred on an empty stomach to what makes this darn knapsack so heavy. Just be that jar of jumbo pickles. Just a minute. Don't you think we ought to stop and rest a little while have a snack little fella like you must be tired. I'm not tired you better keep going we want to get there before night for hope we get there before I fall. This is a lot of fun isn't it yeah. I'll be up a little Marvin if it kills me and I think it's going to. I'm so hungry I can look at that billboard when in Charlieville eat at Charlie's famous but big juicy state. Of brown biscuits. There's a fork in the road for if there was a piece of steak on it. And a dark here in the woods though isn't it Marvin I don't know there's plenty of life in the North Star North. Must be sitting closer to it than I am. I'm kind of cold sitting here on the ground to too bad we couldn't have had a fire. Yeah she that sure was funny when you dropped all our matches in the coffee pot. Yeah. Those hot dogs tasted pretty good cold. Oh excuse me Marvin shouldn't have eaten all those jumbo pickles I guess. Marvin yes yes you're getting pretty sleepy aren't you you think we ought to call into our little pot that now okay if you want to well I just thought Marvin. What was that that's just an hour. Oh yeah you're some woodsman would he have something he just wants more. Oh go open a drugstore. Let's turn in. Okay you want to call in the tent first. Well all right. Puck tent isn't very big. Must have been made for a small pup. I'm coming in Harold move over. If I move over I'll be outside the tent. Pretty cozy in here isn't it. Oh yeah very cozy. Well good night Harold. Good night Marvin. The ground was so hard. I think I'll pull this blanket up. Oop now my feet are sticking out. Oh brother what a night this is going to be. I'm in the sleep already. I'll be laughing at me in his dreams. You'll find pal I turned out to be did everything wrong. A little trip like this would bring us closer together. Well I tried. What's that. Sounds like a wild animal out there. Coming closer. Sounds awfully big. Bear Lake say it could be a bear. Used to be a lot of bears out here 30 years ago. Maybe this one's been hibernating since then. Could have been a heavy sleeper. He's right outside the tent. What's the matter. There's a bear outside Marvin. Don't you worry. I'll protect you my boy. I'm going to hurt you. Get away from here you bear. Get away now. Kind of silly of me wasn't it. I guess I've done a lot of silly things today Marvin. What would you think I'm kind of a clown huh like that toy I bought for you. Harold. Yes. You didn't really want to come on this camping trip did you. What. You just did it for me. Well I just thought we might have a good time together. No I had a lot of fun at military academy but it's well to have a real home and somebody like you for a pal. A pal. Yeah I didn't know how much I missed having a father. Well it's swell having a boy like you too Marvin. We just have a lot of wonderful times together won't we. Sure will. Well good night Harold. Good night Marvin. Oh good night bossy. Stick around bossy we'll need some milk in the morning. Congratulations Woody congratulations and what for as if I didn't know well seriously Harold I understand this is a very special occasion tonight you've just completed your ten thousandth radio broadcast and I'd like to offer you sincere congratulations from the Columbia Broadcasting System and all of us working with you. Well thank you Don and here's a special message from an old friend of yours a very important person in your home state Harold. This is Governor Warren speaking. It is a distinct pleasure to be among those congratulating Harold Perry on the occasion of his ten thousandth radio broadcast. This is an outstanding accomplishment in an industry as young as radio. Mr. Perry has accomplished it because he has been able to win a lasting place for himself in the hearts of the listening public. I hope that we may continue to be entertained by him for many years to come. Well thank you Governor Warren. And here's a telegram that just came in from Dr. Frank Stanton president of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Oh he says dear Hal congratulations on reaching the ten thousandth mark. I wish all your broadcasts had been on CVS but we hope to have all the rest with all good wishes Frank Stanton. Thanks Frank I'll take that in advance. And I want to thank all you listeners who have made it such a pleasure for me to entertain you. Good night. Thank you very much. You've just heard the Harold Perry show Honest Harold the supporting player tonight included Jane Morgan Polly Bear Shirley Mitchell Lynn Allen with the bell and featured Gloria Holiday as Gloria and Joseph Curran's old doc Jack Jack Norman MacDonald directed and the music was composed and conducted by Jack Meakin Honest Harold created by Harold Perry was written by Jean Stone and Jack Robinson. Good show fellas. This week is guest week on CVS. Joan Crawford will make one of her rare radio appearances tomorrow night when she comes to CVS to star on Suspense later Van Johnson will be James Hilton's guest and I'll stay tuned for Judy Garland as Bing Crosby's guest Judy Garland they follow immediately on most of these same stations Don Baker speaking good night Don tonight. This is CVS where you're thrilled to present on Thursday night the Columbia broadcasting system