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Now please don't get the wrong impression because I love Irma, but there are times when Well, for instance the other night I came home and found Irma in the middle of the floor with her head on the bathroom scale So I said for goodness sakes honey, what are you doing and Irma said I'm just trying to find out if I have a balanced mind Now when she says those things I no longer pull my hair you see I've come to know Irma a little better and Beneath it all she's a sweet honest kid who is determined to make something of herself Otherwise now why would she be at the piano as she is? Practicing lesson number two which our dear friend and neighbor professor Kropotkin has given her See Pretty good, honey. Yes, but what about it? Is it your hardware you pronounce to death gap? That's not a word. They're just notes now. Come on back to your practicing room. All right Ray what are you doing supposed to be far? I know, but I always like Al next to me Just grand don't you want not my fault professor Kropotkin was supposed to give me my third lesson a week ago And I haven't seen him so you know come to think of it I haven't seen him either Yeah, I hope he's not sick. He ain't my playing isn't that bad. Oh, I didn't mean it that way honey Come in. Hello girls. Oh, it's you Mrs. O'Reilly girls. I'm worried sick The professor's been in his room all week, and he won't even answer the door. Oh my goodness What do you think it could mean? Oh, I don't know. I'm afraid the poor old man might be very sick And then again the deadbeat may have skipped without paying the rent Oh Maybe he killed himself. Oh Irma, please. Well, it could happen a lot of people kill themselves And you don't hear from them for weeks. Oh Irma his socks are hanging down there on the line. So what you know what they say you can't take it with you Well, I don't know what it's all about But whatever it is Mrs. O'Reilly you have yourself to blame for it the way you've kept nagging that sweet old man for the rent I nag him. Well, that's ridiculous. I remember Christmas Eve. We were singing silent night I didn't mention it once during the entire song I'm surprised that you say such a thing Janey. Oh, I didn't mean hurt your feelings Mrs. O'Reilly Well, if you want to know I'm the one who's been hurt the way he goes around telling everyone I'm an old bat-faced cow Why don't you sue him? He says he can prove it Listen a minute everybody I think I hear a violin playing. Well, I'll open the window Jane. Yeah, it is a violin. It's coming from the professor's room Oh, it's beautiful. I think I'll accompany him on the piano. No, you won't just just sit quiet and listen Well, he stopped. Oh, thank goodness the professor's okay. Well, how do you know? Well, honey when a person is dying you never hear them playing such beautiful music Oh, that's not true. And my grandfather died. He fell against the Victrolin star the most wonderful concert you ever heard It's only me professor Cropatke Hello professor girls girls girls. What is it professor girls? I just tell me mrs. O'Reilly since when were you a girl? Oh now professor, please we've been so worried about you. Why have you been keeping yourself? Oh girls today's the happiest day of my life today. I have finished my great masterpiece my beautiful concert So that's what kept you locked up in your room sure to write great music a man must suffer And nowhere in the world can a man suffer like in that room of mine Professor that's wonderful. I'm positively thrilled. It's really too exciting for words. Oh professor I don't mean to be stupid, but what's a concerto? Erma my little page in a concerto is a piece of a man's life set to music The agony of his soul the torment of his youth the anguish of his struggles and the torture of his misery Can you dance to it? Well hardly Erma mrs. O'Reilly isn't it just wonderful. Oh, I can't catch my breath Professor you don't know how proud I'll be to be able to say folks. This is the bed in which professor Kropotkin slept That's a lie. The only night I slept in that bed was when the ceiling fell on my head No now listen stop the bickering both of you professor come on play your concerto Oh no Janet darling not now. I'm rushing down to the publishers now I want them to hear it all my dreams are wrapped up in the success of this concerto wish me luck From the bottom of my heart professor, and I wish you luck too. Oh by the way until I hear from you Shall I keep on playing the piano the way I have been only if you want to get arrested? Well goodbye girls and keep your fingers crossed come on Kropotkin you mad genius you She's here what's delayed you oh You had two teeth Paul Why are you so upset? Only one of them was bad Well, I don't understand oh They pulled the one with the gold to pay for the other one. Oh Yeah, I see yeah, all right Yeah, well, I'll tell her me you'll be right over Al. Bye Well girls, I think I'll go up to the professor's room and give it that feminine touch Who knows now that he's coming into the money. He might be looking around for a girl to share it with Oh Sweetie, I hope the professor sells his concerto. You know, he's so nice and so honest and he's worked so hard Which is more than I can say for a certain party. We both know yeah And I don't know who you're referring to but that's no way to talk about my Al Well, I wasn't talking about Al. I wouldn't think of comparing the two men After all the professor has created something that may live forever What's Al created a long stick with a piece of chewing gum in the end for fishing nickels out of gratings That must be the fisherman right now come in Hello, Jane. Hi chicken Hello Al, honey. Guess what the professor wrote a concerto and he just went out to see a publisher. That's nice What do you mean? That's nice now There's a man who's going to get up in the world. So what Jane lots of people get up in the world Some do it by writing songs some discover oil somewhere elevator shoes But me got my own way got my deals. Oh Heaven forbid another of your frauds. Oh, this one is very humanitarian It's a ticket tape made out of rope. So when the stock market drops you can hang yourself Very timely these days Don't patent it until you try it Oh Don't mind her. I'll come over here by the piano. I'll play my second lesson for you. Okay chicken. I still got an overcane in me Say Jane while I'm a place would you care to dance? No, thanks. Yeah, he don't mind all sit this one out Back to think I'll sit it out at the beauty parlor. What's the matter Jane? Don't you like the way I dance? Oh, it's kind of hard for me to tell Al. I'm always so busy dodging your feet. I See you later, kid. Oh Hi a professor. What are you so dejected about? Al I'm a tired old man I went to every publisher in New York and they wouldn't even see me because I haven't got a name Oh, that's so you've got a name. Why don't you show me your driver's license? Don't be miserable professor. How can I be happy? No musician will ever play my concerto. I'll play it That's what I said. No musician will ever play Oh I'm so heartbroken all those nights and days wasted. Oh We're sorry professor. Honest we are. I know you are Anna darling here. You can have my concerto Come on Crabot kid. You all failure you Poor guy, you know chicken sometimes these geniuses don't know how to handle themselves Got an idea. Can you play the professor's concerto chicken? Well, I'll try Al Something wrong with this piano Al no matter what I play it sounds the same I'll forget a chicken hand me that music a wheel is beginning to turn in my mind Yeah, I love it when you and I are together. Then I know one of our heads is always working Say lady when you go out do you sometimes wish you could be slipping on a soft fabulously expensive mink coat? Well, if you would like a glamorous fur coat then listen closely You have a chance to win one in the exciting lever $100,000 fur contest here are the prizes given away each week for five weeks One three thousand dollar mink coat three one thousand dollar fur coats Five smart fur jackets worth five hundred dollars as well as three hundred twenty other prizes of valuable furs and cash Hello, oh, yes madam. 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So don't wait a minute start writing tonight This contest is limited to the continental United States Hawaii and Alaska and say here's a hint sincerity counts Right in your own words Be sure to print your name and address and the name and address of your lever products dealer Mail your entry to lever fur contest box one New York eight New York that address again is lever fur contest box one New York eight New York Enter every week I've heard the news about Professor Kropotkin's failure, and I'm just heart-sick. I don't know where he is I can't locate Alan Irma But I've decided to do something about it myself You see Richard has a friend a music publisher named Jed leads and we're in mr. Leeds office right now And he's trying to get rid of a fellow who claims that he writes original songs And nothing could be cleaner than to see my darlinina in the morning Nothing could be better than to see you're in a sweater in the morning Hold it. Hold it. Please. Not what you're looking for. Ha get this one brand new Carry me back to all of Miami Back to the land of palm trees and Coco Coco nuts get it get it now wait a minute son Haha, I know I know you want something pep here. Get this just stashed it off this morning Over here over here What a year over here over here for the boys are shaken The market's breaking. We'll soon be back the nickel beer Boy Run along will you why I'm busy these people are waiting to talk to me. Okay. Okay, but you'll be sorry I'm going over to Whitmark and selling my masterpiece. Mammie's little baby loves shortening pump a nickel Goodbye mr. Vienna Is that his name Vienna yes, he calls himself Irving Vienna that's as close as he could get to Berlin Now Richard, I'm sorry to delay you like this. What can I do for you? Well, a Jane has a friend who's written a concerto and well, we thought you might listen to it I'd be glad to do you have it with you No, I haven't but if you could arrange to see professor Karpatt, can I be ever so grateful? I'm sure he has ability. Well, I'll be free this afternoon for a couple of hours. Can you locate him? I'll make it my business too. He works at the gypsy tea room and I'll find him if I have to look under every tea leaf All the better chicken got a lot of work to do. What do you mean now? Chicken, just figure out why this concerto with a professor is no good. Why it'll never sell Why because it ain't got no words. It's got to have lyrics Oh, but Al, do you think it's right for us to mess with a professor's concerto? Chicken, he's got to have help if we don't mess with it. Who will I guess you're right Al But where will we get the words right out of our heads? Oh, I guess that's a good place as any we're sure to Now now the first thing we got to remember is that songs like movement pictures go in cycles They all copy each other see now first since this week gets Ingrid Bergman in arch of triumph Next week it'll probably be Betty Davis in Ditch of Despair Now what's the number one song today? Um golden earrings got our title silver bracelets Expensive yeah, hand me the concerto chicken here play these first few notes Yeah, all right forget it. I know the rhythm now. Let's see Silver bracelets oh silver bracelets in the moonlight make me once again a youth for I see the moon above you a sparkling down upon your tooth No chicken spoils the beauty of the scene and let me try again want to get something southern Uh mint tulips no got it silver bracelets in the moonlight where the mississippi flows For I see the moon above you Uh sparkling down upon your nose No no chicken forget about where it's sparkling now We got to finish this song in a hurry got to get to a publisher and save the day for the professor All right, Al. We'll take a different approach. Let's see now Silver bracelets beneath the sky Bring me back a lullaby Banjo's are strumming people are humming Sippin tea with lemon Oh chicken need need a good rhyme. Let's see strumming humming Only one man who can help us who else who else but hello joe Al got a problem. I'm writing a song want something to rhyme with banjo's are strumming people are humming Huh? She's at the cops are coming No, no joe. I'll get something. Hey joe. By the way, do you know a good publisher? Uh-huh, uh-huh uh-huh mm Duplicate dan the forger is a music publisher now Okay, joe. We'll see Duplicate Danny. Thanks Well chicken got the publisher only a few more words Now, let me see a rhyme for a humming Our life was rugged. We had no plumbin No, no chicken. I'll get something. Let me see humming strumming strumming Professor mr. Leeds will see us in a minute now. Don't be nervous nervous. Who's nervous? I'm perfectly calm Who's doing all that typing that's your teeth chattering Come on. I'll put yourself together professor. Here comes mr. Leeds Oh, I see you found him as stacey nice knowing you professor. You have your music with you No, sir. I came right from work. The music is with two friends al and urma peterson, but I'm sure it's perfectly safe Well, how can you play it? Do you know it by heart? Oh, yes If I can get my heart down out of my throat so I can get my violin under my chin Let me hear it. All right My concerta My life's work Well, mr. Leeds It's beautiful. You're a great composer crap at them Do you realize what you're saying mr. Leeds? Do you realize that you're saying I'll be a man again? I'll be able to hold my head up Look my landlady in the eye and move out of a room that even the mice have boycott Oh, no, no, don't break down professor. We're all just as happy as you are Of course, I can't commit myself until mr. Eccles my associate Here's the recording we made while you were playing you made a wreck Mr. Leeds, I hope you'll let the professor know just as soon as possible Well, if Eccles likes it as much as I do we'll publish it I'll drop by your place mrs. Stacey with the contract and our usual advance of $1,000 $1,000 Quick, I can't catch my breath here. Here's a glass of water. How dare you you give water to a multi-millionaire tonight the champagne will blow Well, Danny now that you've heard silver bracelets, what do you say now? Let me see lyrics by al with an assist by Irma Peterson music by professor kripak Well, al we generally don't buy from new writers But since you're a friend of jose will make an exception. I'll give you a hundred dollars for all right, you know buy it outright Boy a hundred dollars. Oh gee jane'll never forget for what we've done for the professor Just sign that paper while I look the lyrics over again Silver bracelets on a ballerina in the east of parade deep in the heart of texas Boy hits in one song we got a click somewhere. Yeah, well, well you can use just what you want Here's the contract all side daddy. Okay, and here's your check Oh, if you want to hear the number listen in tonight at seven. We'll have it introduced by six missus in a hit Well, daddy Come on chicken. Let's go home and reap the rich rewards of the joy. We have brought Sitting here excitedly waiting for jet leads richard myself. Mrs. O'Reilly and the professor. Oh the professor's beaming confidently Mrs. O'Reilly's dressed up like a christmas tree. He's flirting with him Now she's fluttering her eyelashes at him Oh She's She's so embarrassed. They fell off I guess she's not used to wearing them Now the professor's smiling happily. He's probably thinking of the thousand dollars Now he's frowning probably thinking of the income tax Now he's humming the concerto Me Oh, mr. Leeds, how did mr. Eccles like it went out of his mind about it Here's your contract professor, and I have to check right here for you Oh, hello jane. Irma. You're just in time. We have the most wonderful news for you and al Well, we got wonderful news too. Oh, no, well, well, well you hear ours Mr. Leeds here. He's a publisher and he's just bought the professor's concerto with an advance of a thousand dollars Now what's your good news Irma Al why are the two of you looking at each other like that? Uh We've missed each other Why do you keep staring at each other? We want to make sure we haven't changed What's the difference? I'm the happiest man alive. Let there be rejoicing laughter music turn on the radio Not now. It's seven o'clock and you wouldn't want to listen to six misses and a hit Six misses and a hit hold her chick. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What's going on here? Irma Peterson, what have you and al been up to? Irma, oh, you might as well tell them now Here professor, here's the check. We sold your concerto for a hundred dollars well Irma darling, I know you got the vacuum in your head, but why use it to clean me out Oh We're sorry professor We just wanted to help. Well, I guess there's nothing more for me to say Goodbye Hello Oh, just just a minute mr. Lee just a minute, please. It's for you. Oh, thank you Yes, oh eckles What what? You don't say well, we found out just in time What is it your friend kropotkin is a plagiarist Our chief arranger says if this concerto was stolen from an old hungarian air note for note stolen How can you say this by that theme? That's mine. That's all mine. I'm very sorry, but our man never makes a mistake. Good day Here's the hundred dollar check professor a check How can you talk of money when my artistic integrity has been questioned? Life means nothing to me now. Goodbye Oh irma. I'm worried. He may do something desperate. Come on. Let's go up to his room. Yes, let's hurry Professor Please go away girl. My heart is broken. I'm lying down. No, we're coming in Oh, don't cry professor But they they called me a plagiarist a thief Well, don't let it get the best of you Al doesn't But I know it's original. Oh sure it is professor, but these things happen honest Do you have a hundred dollars and you'll feel better after you have a good night's sleep? Oh, can I sleep jamie? They called me a plagiarist. Well, maybe I can sing you a lullaby Oh, would you ever know? Yes, dude. Do you have any special favorite one? Yes, sir One my mother used to sing to me in the old country. Well, how did it go? Say ladies you'll really like swan soap for dishes because swan's exclusive supercream blend means faster suds in the dish pan Suds that rinse away so completely your dishes never need drying and supercream blend means hand protection too Your hands come out of the dish pan smooth and lovely as ever Yes, swan soap is the perfect dishwashing soap. 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