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Yes light up a lucky and enjoy a milder smoother smoke with never a rough puff. You'll agree in all the world there's no finer cigarette than lucky strike. So round so firm so fully packed so free and easy on the draw the lucky strike program starring Jack Benny with Barry Livingston Phil Harris Rochester Dennis Day and yours truly Don Wilson. Ladies and gentlemen if you go out to Beverly Hills and look in the windows of Jack Benny's house you will see a very pretty Christmas tree a picture of peace and serenity but if you could have been there yesterday. Well we're almost through trimming the tree Mary. She was nice you to come over and help me. Well if I didn't you never get it done. Say Jack shall I put the snow around the bottom now. Not yet. I want to see if the lights are working. I'll hold up the bulbs when I say ready you plug it in. OK. Ready. Ready. Pull it out. My goodness. Jack why'd you make me shot it off. Those lights were so pretty especially those two blue ones that kept flashing on and off. Those were my eyes. Must have been holding on to a bear wire. Well it's your own fault. Every time you fool around with electricity something goes wrong. It does not. I know plenty about electricity. Oh sure. Remember what happened yesterday when you fixed your doorbell. What happened. I pushed the button roasted a pig in Encino. Don't stop exaggerating. And we have me that roll of tape. I'll fix this bear wire right now. Here you are. Now let's see. When some of them insulate a bear wire and just tape it up like hmm like this. There. That ought to be enough tape. All right Mary plug it in. OK. Pull it out. Pull it out. Pull it out. I tape my finger to the wire. That's what happened. Oh gee. And that time was even prettier than before. What do you mean. Your nose lit up too. It did not. What are you laughing at. Benny the red nose reindeer. All right. All right. Now let's get this tree finished before the gang gets here. But Jack what about the light. We'll have to let that go until later. Now hand me one of those candy canes so I. Oh Mr. Benny. What is it Rochester. I think that cake like you told me to. Good. Good. You have enough whipped cream to spell out Mary Christmas. Yeah. Say boss. How many hours in Mary. Two. Oh you better add one. Add one. I better close one out. I got three. Well leave it. It's better than ruining the cake. OK. Oh Rochester will you please take these Christmas tree lights and fix them fix them. Yes. I'm fooling around with electricity. What are you afraid of. I don't want to get hit by nothing. I can't get back. Oh Rochester imagine being afraid of electricity. Suppose Robert Fulton was afraid. He never would have invented the electric light would he. You're thinking of Thomas Edison Edison. Well then what did Robert Fulton do. He wrote Mule Train. Oh yes. Now Rochester please fix these lights. OK OK. Now let me see in electricity there's electrons and the electrodes and then there's the positive and the negative but I am positive which one is negative. Then there's the atoms. Now the atoms are supposed to go from the positive to the negative or maybe they go from the electrons to the electrodes. Then again maybe they go from Amos to Andy. Rochester. Now as long as these atoms keep passing each other everything is all right but when they meet halfway and start fighting they're going to turn on anybody who tries to butt in. Rochester I'm not interested in the scientific details I just want you to fix those lights and I promise you while you're holding the wires no one in this room will turn on the switch. No boss while I'm holding the wire you ain't going to turn on the switch. And Miss Livingston ain't going to turn on the switch. Of course not. But where if that boulder down there's a little man sitting in a room with thousands of wires all around him. So what. How do I know he ain't going to do something just to break the monotony. Oh all right I'll fix it myself. Come on Mary help me finish the tree. OK Jack tell me that candy cane will you. Yeah yeah. I'll put the cane right next to the drum Santa Claus is coming to town. Let's see where's that star. Needle needle. I'll put the star on top of the tree. Santa Claus is coming to town. That looks swell. He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're away. He knows when you've been better good so be good for goodness sake. So you better watch out you better not cry. Mary you're cute and so am I. Well Mary we got all the packages under the tree. It looks nice doesn't it. Yeah but you better pick those lights up off the floor before somebody steps on them. Oh yes now where can I put them. I'll put them here on this chair. Now Mary some of the gifts I had sent direct from the store but there's Phil Harris is present. Put it under the tree. Boy will he be surprised. But Jack Holly be surprised you've got toilet water written all over the box. Well you've got to do that with Phil. When he opens a package and finds a bottle he never stops to read the label. Last year I gave him a miniature ship and a bottle and the mass stuck out of his mouth for three days. Every time I asked him something he had to answer me through the crow's nest. Believe me I know what I'm doing. Well I guess that does it. The tree's all finished. Yeah kid looks well. I'm kind of tired. I think I'll sit down for a minute and smoke a little lucky. Mary have you got a match. No. Oh say boss. What is it Rochester. Are your socks dry yet. I think so. Well people will be here soon you better take them off the tree. You take them off with your Rochester I'm tired I want to sit here a while. Yes sir. This tree looks awful nice but it's kind of dark. Oh no wonder the lights aren't plugged in. I'll fix that. Pull it out. Pull it out. Pull it out. For heaven's sake. Oh what happened this time. I'm sitting on a wire. As long as you're here Rochester give me a match. You don't need it now your cigarette is lit. Oh yes thanks Rochester. Don't thank me thank that little man of it bold again. Never mind don't plug that in anymore. I've had enough trouble with it. Come in. Oh hello Phil. Hi you Jackson very Christmas everybody. Merry Christmas. Yeah well deck the halls with turn up greens if that ain't a lovely Christmas tree. Yes sir. Hey Jackson you want to see the one I've got it's all decorated with a lot of ornaments and I got pencil on it and everything and then right up on the top I got a picture of Alice. Alice then you're supposed to have a picture of Santa Claus. She's Santa Claus to me dad. I know I know. Hey but no kidding Jackson. I think we got the prettiest tree in Encino. By the way Phil what are you having for Christmas dinner. A roast pig. What. I don't know how it happened but when I went out to feed it this morning it was cooked standing up. You see Jack I told you. I thought you were kidding. So die. Isn't that strange. What are you two mumbling about. Nothing nothing. Hey Phil what do you got in that package. I almost forgot Jackson it's a present for you for me. Yeah me and the boys the band all chipped in and got it for you. Well thanks Phil I put it under the tree. No no no you don't go ahead open it up now. Okay. It's certainly nice of you and the boys. Oh Phil thanks. He a beautiful turtle neck sweater. Oh gee look inside of it Jackson inside. What is it Jack a turtle. Fine present to give me. I'll fix him. Come here Phil Phil sit down on this chair and relax. Go ahead Phil sit down. Thanks Jackson. Are you comfortable. Sure. Good good. Mary push in the. You wouldn't dare have me the plug I'll give it to myself. Hey Jackson what about my present. Yes it where you are you'll get it. You'll get it. At the surprise. Mary watch it. One two three Phil Phil don't you feel anything. No why. Hmm. What about the surprise what's the matter. We're having a little trouble a bolder dam. I can't understand what went wrong. Phil stand up a minute. Okay. Let's see. Must be something wrong with this. A fine thing to do on a guy on Christmas Eve. Well it's your own fault for trying to play a trick on Phil. Oh so that's it a Jackson trying to give me a high hot foot. Oh Phil I was just trying to pull it out. The doorbell. Come in. Oh hello Don. Merry Christmas everybody. Come on in fellas. Oh you brought the sportsman with you. Merry Christmas boys. Yeah I'm sure glad you dropped in. Say Don you got many nice presents this year. I sure did Mary and it couldn't wait I've opened them already. You have what you get Don. Well I got some gold cuff links a moving picture camera television set golf ball and a diamond wristwatch. Well thanks for the golf ball Jack. You do play golf don't you know. Well you really ought to take it up Don it's great exercise for a fella like you. There's some beautiful courses around here. That's fine you give a guy one golf ball right away you want him to join a country club. Well why don't you give him a flea and tell him to go out and buy a dog. My dog buy a dog. Now look now Jack the boys and I have to be running along. Well Don can't you stay a little longer. We'd like to Jack but the sportsman have to rush over to the ambassador hotel you know they're appearing at the coconut grove. Oh yes. Jack why don't we go over there one night this week. Oh we will Mary we will. Jack you should have been there last night the boys did a novelty number for the holiday season that was really wonderful they called it you'll train. You mean you'll train. No no no Jack you will train. Oh you'll train. Say that's clever. How does it go Don. Well come on boys let's have it. Santa's reindeer never stops. Clippity clop clippity clop clippity clippity clippity clippity clippity clippity clop in a long. What a busy busy day you'll have that jolly old Chris Kringle. We hope that every one of you will hear his sleigh bells jingle and underneath your tree finds some L.S.M.F.P. We mean lucky. Lucky. Lucky's cry. Everybody wants a carton full of lucky strike because they're rounded firm and fully packed by good old Santa Claus. You're happy when you bump on a lucky sure enough. Get along. You'll train. Get along. Don that was wonderful. We'll be over at the grove the first chance we get won't we Mary. We sure will. Well that's well so long now kids. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas Don. Well Mary you're going to stay and have dinner with me aren't you. Yes you invited me. Good. Then after dinner we'll open all the presents. Never mind Rochester I'll get it. It's right here. Hello. Now look Joe I haven't got much time so listen to me. I'm phoning to warn you that my husband's wise to us and he's on his way over to your house with a gun. So get out of town Joe get out quick. Remember what happened to Charlie. I don't know somebody keeps getting my number by mistake. The second time it happened first it was Charlie now she thinks I'm Joe Joe who I don't know we'll probably read it in the paper tomorrow. Rochester how soon will dinner be ready in about 10 minutes boss. Oh good. Jack it's a little chilly in here don't you think so yeah maybe I ought to put another log on the fire. Yeah this log is heavy all right. Never mind thanks Mary. Now let's sit down and wait until all right you can stop showing off. Sit down. You know Mary sitting here in front of the fireplace you look like the prettiest girl in the whole world. I were a painter I take the reflection of the fires dancing in your hair and paint the loveliest there's somebody at the door. Well answer grandma Moses you can paint my hair later. Yeah coming coming. Yes good evening sir I'm selling Christmas cookies to raise funds for the Girl Scouts. Christmas cookies well you see I you're a Jack Benny aren't you. Yeah well it would be silly of you to buy any you bake them for us. That's right how did you know I bake those cookies. All the gingerbread men have blue eyes. Well I'll buy some anyway I'll take a dozen how much are they. 25 cents. You mean you only make a penny profit. A penny on 12 cookies. If we break any we're dead. Well just be careful by the way what's your name young lady Joan that's a nice name. Well Merry Christmas Merry Christmas. Mary I just bought some cookies I'll put them under on the tree here. A girl who came to the door her name is Joan cute too. You think her father would dress her a little better. You have a cookie Mary. No it'll spoil my dinner. Oh that reminds me as long as I'm staying here I better call my maid and tell her I won't be home. OK. Hello Pauline this is Ms. Livingston. Well I won't be home for dinner so I thought you'd like to know you could have Pauline are you still crying Pauline you got to get a grip on yourself you've been carrying on like this all week. Now look he's married on his way to Honolulu and there's nothing you could do about it. Goodbye. What's wrong Mary. Oh that made a mind just because Clark Gable got married she's been crying for five days. Five days. That's ridiculous. Certainly I got over it in two. Everybody makes such a fuss about Gable. Mary let me ask you something. What's Clark Gable got that right. No. No I'd be a fool to throw you a lead like that. You sure would. Hello Mary hello Mr. Benny Merry Christmas. Oh Dennis I didn't see you when'd you get here. I came in with Phil with Phil I was quite a while ago where have you been. Well I sneaked upstairs and put your Christmas present under your pillow. Oh what took you so long I fell asleep. Say Mr. Benny I'd like to thank you for the present you sent me but I'm all confused. Confused why. All the packages got mixed up and the tags fell off and I don't know who sent me what. All the cards fell off. Yeah. Well look kid did you did you get a wrist watch. Oh a beautiful one solid gold. Well take my card and put it on that. Now let's wait a minute. Dennis I'll tell you what Jack gave you. What else did you get. A portable radio a cigarette lighter a candid camera a silk bathrobe a golf ball bingo. Dennis Jack gave you that golf ball. Oh I thought it was kind of funny about Mr. Benny giving me the wristwatch. Why. On the back is engraved to Dennis for mother and dad. Look Dennis on Christmas it isn't what you get that counts. It's the spirit in which it was given. Every year he says the same thing. Certainly I say it because it's true. More people felt that way. Where are you. Oh come on we'll go to dinner. Dennis do you want to have dinner with us. Oh yeah that'd be swell and after dinner we can all sit around the fire. Dennis Dennis come here a minute. Yes sir. Over here. Now look kid. There's an old saying. Two is company and three is a crowd. You know what I mean. Yeah but how can we get rid of Mary. You nearly lost that one. Well all right Rochester there'll be the three of us for dinner. Come on kids. Yeah I'm hungry. Oh it's all mine. I hope Rochester has those big raw carrots. I love them. I like the small carrot. I like the big one. We always argue about that every time. Now Mary you sit here. And Dennis you sit over there. There we are. Now Rochester you can get Dennis what happened. I rolled off the chair I had the golf ball in my back pocket. Rochester we're waiting. Rochester's been a very nice Christmas Eve. The gang dropped in we had a quiet dinner and now they've gone home. Believe me I'm ready for bed. Yes sir. Wait a minute boss I'll fluff up your pillow for you. What's the matter Rochester. There's a package under here. Oh yes it's from Dennis. It's my Christmas present. Well open it open it. OK. Oh well this is lovely. A beautiful electric alarm clock and instead of numbers around the face it has 12 letters that spell out Jackson Benny. Sure is nice. Well I might as well start using it right now. Rochester you set it to the right time and I'll plug it in. OK. It's 11 30 now so I'll set it to. Oh I'm sorry Rochester I didn't mean Rochester Rochester. Oh my goodness Rochester speak to me. What are you laughing at. The lights lit up on a Christmas tree. Oh good good. Merry Christmas Rochester. And now ladies and gentlemen Dennis Day will sing Schubert's Ava Maria CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System.