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Yes, sir I woke the children up to they'll be right down. So if you'll just hurry breakfast along a little yes I'd have had it ready now if you just let me know you can have breakfast anytime you want it all You got to let me know Yeah Well, this is a great idea getting an early start like this. I'll really make up for lost time Good morning children Why do we have to have breakfast at this unearthly hour now Mars? We it's only half an hour earlier than usual. Yeah, I need my sleep on come just a growing boy. Yes, indeed Leroy Won't hurt you children to get up early once in a while. It's good for you Oh sure Breakfast isn't even ready yet. It will be in a minute. Come on now. Let's sit down at the table. Okay Uncle Mort, what's gotten into you all of a sudden what nothing my dear? It's just that I realize I've been neglecting my duties as water commissioner these past few weeks Well, that's all over but now on I'm going to devote my full time to the water department I'm going to be a water commissioner this summer field can be proud of All right, thank you. It's Leroy watch it young man I'm serious about this I'm even going to work before I get to the office on my way down there. I'm going to collect a water bill You are yeah, it's three months overdue some singing teacher a madam bertha kimmel Probably very bohemian can't be bothered with water bills Well, I'll show her she'll either pay this bill or she'll have to dig a well in the backyard That's great, uncle. When do we eat eat? Oh, yes. What what birdie's doing out there birdie Yes, sir, mr. Gill please birdie. We're waiting for breakfast Yes, isn't it ready yet? No, sir. It ain't ready But it would have been if you told me beforehand all you got to do is let me know Yeah, as well I ain't got nowhere and on when you want breakfast unless you tell me all you got to do is let me know Okay, birdie. I ain't no mind reader. I know that I ain't no gypsy fortune teller Birdie. I ain't got no crystal ball. I understand all you got to do is let me know You can have breakfast anytime you want it. Thank you, birdie. If you want it I can get it ready in the middle of the night. All you got to do is let me know Yes, I should have let her know Place looks pretty run down Singing teacher, huh? Goodness listen to her Sounds like the moon whistle down at the sawmill I'm gonna answer the door. What is it, please? Oh, uh, Mrs. Kimmel. I mean Madam Kimmel. Yeah, I'm Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve. What a funny name Yes, well, I wanted to talk to you about the water water Thank you. I don't need any. I have plenty No, no, I want to talk to you about your water bill. You owe us some money. Oh, I owe you money In fact, I've got your bill right here. You owe us come in come in I do not understand these things. You can explain it. No, I can explain it. Yes You see, Madam Kimmel you owe for three months that comes to sit down Mr. Gildersleeve make yourself comfortable Here I take the bird cage off to share. Oh, yeah, I can't sit on the bird cage Madam, I'm a very busy man and I'm in a hurry to get to my office unless you want us to Well, if you want the service, I must ask you to pay this bill in full Nine dollars and fifty cents. Mr. Gildersleeve, I'll tell you a little secret. What's that? I do not have any money You don't have any money Oh, but do not worry. I have plenty soon Then I get my call from the metropolitan opera company opera company. Yeah I'm a singing teacher only temporarily. I am really a star of the opera. You are But yeah, I sing them all in my day the cigarette girl in carbon. Yeah Madam Kimmel oh me me in la bohème About this water bill and then I sang brunhilde in zinc frayda They heard to me they heard to me all over europe. I'll bet they did I got the contract Then with the money, I pay your water bill like nothing. Okay. No, it isn't okay And that is if you can't pay your water bill will simply have to disconnect your service It's a rule of the department. Oh, well, I'm sorry madam kimmel, but business is business. Oh, mr. Gilda sleeve You american men all you talk is business business. Well, and you have the face of an artist too I knew a tenor in napal's who looks just like you a very handsome man really For the cost and you don't sing well, I sing a little Indian love call things like that You do. Oh, I might have known it to mr. Gilda sleeve sing for madame kimmel Come on. There's no just one chorus When I'm calling you Answer to Mr. Gilda sleeve. Yeah, why you have a wonderful voice why you could sing opera me Of course why you even have a stomach like an opera singer Well, I could never really sing opera not now, but if you work and study I have an idea. I could give you singing lessons. What I make you another caruso. Well, thank you But I don't see I can see you now at the metro palatine You are the toreador in carmen in the red cape. You sing You are a sensation when you finish the audience applause Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to take just a few lessons if market Truman can do it I can Now why don't we start right now? Well, I ought to get down to the water department. But what the heck? Oh, right to be commenced Oh, I almost forgot I shot $10 a lesson in advance $10. Yeah for an opera lesson. That is nothing Yeah, nothing. Oh, yeah. Well, in that case Here you are. Thank you Now I give it back to you. What for the water bill 9 50. Was it not? Yes, but there you are you may keep the change Now he commenced the lesson. Sing out to me, please from the diaphragm Oh, yes, my legato. Oh, I told me this morning. I should practice for an hour after dinner But I get right on it. I'm going to be an opera star someday Boy, I feel fine. You got indigestion. Mr. Kills leave. I'll get the bacon soda for heaven's sake. There's nothing wrong with me I'm just practicing my singing lesson. Huh singing lesson. Yes, it's just possible that I may go in the grand opera opera Uncle more are you kidding? No, I'm not someday. You'll all be shouting. Bravo. Gillis leave Mr. Gillis leave. What can I do for you? You guys? Yeah, no, thank you, baby. I've given up cigars No, economizing again. No, it isn't that I just don't want to take any chances of spoiling my legato How's that? Yeah Skip it, baby. Want you to listen to this? All right, sounds like the scale. Yep I know it's the scale, but doesn't it sound different? No, it sounds like the same old scale to me I'm not talking about that. Didn't you notice something different about my voice? P.V. I'm singing from the diaphragm now Oh Well, every man do his own choice, I think Yes, but I'm taking singing lessons. Well, that's a good idea. I've noticed you've been sounding a little flat lately Is that so? Well, for your information Richard Q.P.V. one of these days. I may be singing in grand opera opera What are you going to sing the trolley song from kermin? Oh You get it trolley song from kermin. Yeah That was a little witticism trolley kerm. I know p.v. I thought it was rather you Oh Well, well, good morning. Good morning jack. Hello hooker gilday. Well, if it isn't our esteemed water commissioner Well, I'm glad I found you two jolly boys together. I have some wonderful news Our quartet has been asked to sing at a big social affair at the moose hall next friday night Wow, you ought to be a big hit there gilday. You look like a moose Very funny, they've asked me to take charge. So I'm calling a rehearsal at our clubhouse tonight We'll go over some of our quartet numbers. So I'll see you both there at eight o'clock sharp I'm afraid you won't see me there, Horace What? Yeah, let's as though the jolly boys quartet will have to struggle along without me from now on Yeah, what are you talking about? Well, that kind of singing is all right for you fellas But I've got to save my voice for finer things. What mr. Gildersleeve is studying for an operatic career Opera? That's the silliest idea I've ever heard. Oh, I don't know. Some people think I sound just like Caruso Caruso? Yes, you're looking at a future star of grand opera You sing grand opera? Why, you can't even remember the words of my gal sal I'll look here you old goat Just because I won't sing in your small-time quartet. Mr. Gildersleeve, that's an insult to the jolly boys Yes, you fellas are just jealous. You'll be sorry someday when I leave summerfield and go to new york You'll miss me. No, no, no, I wouldn't say that Goodbye Bertie, you keep talking about testing parquet margarine. Uh-huh. Well, you eat parquet all the time anyway What's the reason for testing it? Well, I guess I just like to like when I test it out on them sweet potatoes before I serve them I sure do enjoy that test Same way when I tried parquet out on hot waffles. That's a wonderful test I'm telling you you mean you enjoy testing parquet's taste Yes, I keep on testing parquet cause that margarine tastes so good Tastes like it should cost twice as much. No doubt about it, Bertie. Parquet has a wonderfully light delicate flavor A luxury flavor and friends. 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Oh my goodness The judge is off key again They do need me. All right Well, it's too bad. I've got to save my voice for my career I just have to understand How are you chief? Well, how's the big opera star tonight? Well Oh Pb aren't you gonna say anything to me? Aren't you in the wrong place gildy this isn't the metropolis not the house No, we're just a small-time quartet. Now fellas, you've got to let me explain I'm still a jolly boy just because I can't sing with you Oh, we couldn't expect you to sing with us. You got to save your voice for that high class stuff like the quartet from rigor mortis Fellas you've got to understand. Well, if you will excuse us gildy. We're rehearsing our program for Friday night All right. I'll just hang around and when you get through fellas, maybe we can have a little card game. Huh? What do you say? Wow Oh, no commission. What? Gildy, I'm afraid I have a painful duty to perform Since you seem to feel that you are too good to sing in our jolly boys quartet Perhaps you're too good to associate with our humble members But judge, I don't feel that way. Well, we do so on behalf of the jolly boys. I accept your resignation Resignation but judge your choice gildy. You've chosen fame instead of friendship So there's nothing more to say except goodbye judge fellas. Goodbye, mr. Gildersley Come on commission and best wishes from peeve's pharmacy So you just go your way gildy and we'll go ours. Well, okay, if that's the way you feel It's all right with me. I don't care. I got a lot of other friends. I don't have to be a jolly boy I'll join the moose I guess I'll Marjorie your old uncle is no longer a jolly boy What they don't want to have anything to do with me Just because I can't sing in the quartet anymore Can't sing in the quartet. Why not? Well, I have to save my voice refiner things. Oh, unki. You're not taking this opera thing seriously There's nothing funny about it marjorie. Madam kimmel thinks my voice has a lot of promise Someday I might sing at the metro ballad. Oh, sure Uncle mort why don't you forget all about this opera business and make up with the jolly boys? You know you want to well if they want to be like that. It's all right with me They'll be sorry someday You poor darling. Good night uncle mort. Good night my dear Nobody understands Well, I guess we great artists have to go through these things I wonder if nelson-edi had this my struggle I'll let everybody laugh at me now I'll show them If I work hard study Someday I will be singing at the metropolitan Betcha I can just see it It's opening night I'm making my debut Capacity crowd is here tonight to hear the debut of the sensational new american baritone with france rockport and p gildersley Among the special guests here tonight are the jolly boys from summer field Darn it just when I was taking my sixth curtain call Wonder who this is Good evening, mr. Gildersley. Uh, madam kimmel come in. Thank you. I just sang at the metropolitan In italyan too Nothing Sit down. Thank you This certainly is a pleasant surprise. You're coming to see me. Mr. Gildersley. I've come to say goodbye. Goodbye. Yeah I just received the buyer. I got my job in new york. Well, that's very nice But what about my singing lessons? You were going to make me an opera star. Mr. Gildersley Madam kimmel must tell you the truth for one million years you could study and still you couldn't sing opera. What? But you said my voice had promise. I know Madam kimmel is a naughty girl So mr. Gildersley it was either tell you that or you turn off my water Your voice isn't dead It's good enough for singing in what you call barbershop quartets But for the opera no I'm sorry mr. Gildersley, but don't feel bad for 20 years. I've worked to be an opera star I never made it but madam kimmel you said you sang an opera all over europe I did but only in the chorus in the back row Now i'm too fat even for the chorus So i'm taking this job as a cook in a little restaurant in new york And a cook yeah, I cook wonderful european style I work a while in new york, and I send you back your ten dollars And I hope you forgive madam kimmel for telling you a little fib Oh That's all right You are a nice man Anyway, mr. Gildersley, maybe we are happier this way me a cook you a water commissioner Goodbye my friend. Yeah, goodbye Goodbye I wonder if the jolly boys will take me back Any other chance I was all wrong fellas. Madam kimmel told me I couldn't be an opera singer in a million years. I could have told you that Yeah, you were right. This is where I belong fellas in the jolly boys quartet. Please take me back What do you think gentlemen? Well, I guess the commission has learned his lesson sure Welcome back commissioners. Gee. Thanks jolly boys. 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What's that onk? Well, it's just a way of reminding us that all americans Young and old must join in the fight against religious and racial prejudice You can do your part at school leroy by judging your classmates as individuals Not by their religion or nationality Remember it has taken many different kinds of people leroy to make america great Brotherhood is more than just a word. It means all of us working together in the american tradition of tolerance Freedom and understanding That's all remember that folks. Good night The great gilded slave played by harold perry The show was written by gene skull and jack robinson with music by jack mecan Included in the cast a walter tately mary lee rob lillian randolph url ross richard the grand hope emerson ken christy and arthur q bryan This is john wall saying good night for the craft foods company makers of the famous line of craft quality food products And be sure to listen in next wednesday and every wednesday for the further adventures of the great gilder sleigh Here's a real bargain an all aluminum silent butler A dollar and a half retail value and it's yours for only 50 cents and a fab step label This silent butler is handsome enough for a gift And it's big has a deep generous size bowl a long handle a hinged top that opens at your touch It's just the thing for collecting cigarette ashes or crumbing your table Now today just get either regular fab step or the new fab step two pound economy low Your dealer will give you full details about getting this beautiful aluminum silent butler valued at one dollar and a half For only 50 cents