 The Jack Benny program Lucky strike means fine tobacco so round so firm so fully packed so free and easy on the draw Mft LS Mft LS Mft sure thing you said it. Yes, sir lucky strike means fine tobacco so round so firm Fully packed so free and easy on the draw it takes fine tobacco to make a fine cigarette Lucky strike means fine tobacco. Yes first last and always Lucky strike means fine tobacco at markets now open in the south Independent tobacco experts present at the auction can see the makers of lucky strike consistently select and buy The finer the lighter the naturally milder lucky strike tobacco So smoke that smoke of fine tobacco lucky strike Take you to Jack Benny's home in Beverly Hills very busy addressing Christmas car. Let's see Mr.. And Mrs.. Being Crosby and family Mr.. And Mrs.. Eddie man. He's sure killed a bunch of birds with those two students And he sure knows how to economize on them Just look at that Christmas greetings 1944 to 1950 Rochester, I don't think that's a good man. I'll never forget Christmas day down on Central Avenue Everyone was showing off their new wristwatches and gold cigarette cases Asking what his boss gave him for Christmas and he had to pull out those three little Man be that cheap And the spirit of Christmas the important thing is the fact that you'll remember the gift itself is nothing I know that's the kind of propaganda. I'm proud of get my shopping done. I've got to pick up miss Livingston first Rochester while I'm dressing turn on the radio. Will you okay boy? With frits from two or three pounds of bacon And then place in oven While this is roasting you can make a tasty frosting for your cake by mixing one quart of sweet whipping cream With a lot ladies and gentlemen you have just listened to another weekly broadcast of memories of yesteryear Wipe off my chin and get another station From paddle-tailed gray whose feet around your eyes have fallen arches Do you have you comb your hair? Do your shoulders remind you of a white Christmas? Don't you try a bottle of sim but they soon I remember folks sympathy spelled backwards is your taffy miss T a p.m. Why yet That's pretty good stuff. Did you ever use any of that sin that these soothing syrup? Now ladies and gentlemen the sympathy soothing syrup quartet will sing dance with the dolly a accompanied by Snoochie gets and the sweetest music this side of the La Brea Tarpets orchestra See I'll just have time to listen to this and I'm going to walk over to Mary's house Down the street down the street. I met somebody who was mighty sweet mighty fair to see I asked her would you like to have a talk have a talk and on the wall Mission they were me oh, mama mama put the cat out tonight now We were the hole in the stocking while her knees Dolly hole in the stockings on the dance I'm sweet. You're your bro. Oh Hello, Don. Oh, Jack. I just coming over to your house. You were yeah I got that Christmas present you ordered for your sponsor. Oh the ash tray. Good. Good. You have it Did you have it in grave like I told you to your jacket is on the side see oh, yeah to my sponsor mr. Hill, I hope that's a stray you will fill and when you do just think of me and good old LF That stands for lucky strike and MFT means fine tobacco so season's greetings and the life to you and yours from little jack Isn't that cute down? Yes. And by the way, Jack I hope you don't mind if it cost more than you expected I had a little music box installed in a music box. Yes. I'll sponsor love it An ash tray with a music box as a swell idea. Let me hear it on. Okay. Where do I wind it up? Okay? Here's the drugstore thing. I'll go and try some of that sympathy soothing Seems to be good for everything and that's just what I've got Anyway, I've got a few minutes before I have to call for Mary what I do for you, sir I like to buy a bottle of that sympathy soothing I Sympathy spelled backwards is your tap on me. I know yet yet your tap on me is yet yet your tap on this yet yet your tap on this Well, you know, this is rather an old-fashioned drug. So old-fashioned. Yes. I wouldn't want this to get around But we still have some products in here, but a spelled frontward Yes frontward spelled backwards is strong I don't Thank you, would you mind give me a glass? I like to try some of it right now. All right I'll fix the correct dose for you. I just pour one tablespoon of this soothing syrup into this glass of water Now listen to it Remind just get me a towel now wrap up my bottle. Okay Hello, Jack. Oh, hello Frankie. How are you? How's Mrs. Sinatra? Fine. Say Jack Don't forget you're gonna be on my program tomorrow night. Oh sure I won't forget. See you tomorrow. Okay. So long. Oh by the way, Jack Do you know what I found out? What? That Sinatra spelled backwards is our tennis Frankie. Sorry Jack. Why did I have to ask him to come on my Jokes will probably louse up my singing. What'd you say Frankie? Oh, I'm not Sinatra, Jack. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye Program singing will louse up my jokes Oh gee look how late it is. I better go over and pick up Mary Oh Yes, what is it honey? Oh, well all the girls in my class in high school are collecting a lot of grass Well, how do you like that? I only spoke to Frankie and I got some of it on me Miss Livingston, expect me Pauline. Oh, yes. Come right in Mr. Benny. Is Miss Livingston ready yet? No, Mr. Benny I was just helping her squeeze into it. She'll be putting on her dress next Say why are women always late? Oh, hello Jack. Oh, there you are Mary How come you're never on time when we have an appointment? What are you talking about exactly? Three o'clock now. Look I mean late. Pick me up ten minutes ago, so you're the one that's late Well, I would have been here sooner, but first I gave a girl an autograph and when I got to the corner here I gave an autograph to a little boy. Oh for heaven's sake Jack. Why did you stop chasing him? I didn't chase him, they asked me In fact a little boy said that he'd be very happy if he could have the autograph of an actor as famous as I Naturally, I couldn't refuse such a request. Well, natch But Mary But Mary when I signed my name the boy said oh, pardon me, sir. I mistook you for someone else another actor. Yeah Mary Who is vitamin flint hard? Hard it's the same to snowflake as you are to me Well, thank you. I think Anyway, come on Mary. We won't get any shopping done. All right. I've got my car parked in the driveway Oh, say Jack Larry Stevens was here a few minutes ago looking for you. He wanted you to hear a new song He was gonna do on the program. Oh get in the car Mary. What was the name of Larry's song? It's called a play ride in July and it's from a new picture Bella the Yukon Oh darn. I wish I'd have heard it's a good number for our show. Oh, it's beautiful Larry sang it for me. It goes like this You're turning this corner to a woman driver woman driver That's all you men always say woman driver this and woman driver that Mary We women can drive as well as you men any day and lots of my girlfriends are better drivers and their husband Mary And I read in a magazine. We're scientists have proved that women are better drivers than men Mary Because they're less nervous broken your grill and busted your headlights. Don't watch month will give me more money for it now Anyway, there's a store across the street. We can leave the car here But Jack we can't leave the car here. We'll get a ticket a ticket. Where would he tie it? Separate you you've got my Christmas list I got to buy something for Fred Allen and the quiz kid, you know, they lived at my house Mary What have I got marked down for Rochester? Rochester? Yes, three little handkerchief Make that an even four I wonder where the perfume counter is I want to get a present for my sister Florence Well, why don't you ask the floor walker? Yeah, I beg your pardon. Are you the floor walker? Yes, and stop breathing on my carnation. It's not as rugged as I They're hard to get you know, I've kept this one for three years for three years How comes it looks so fresh because it's growing out of my chest Anything else you want to know nosy Yes, I'm looking for the perfume counter. Where is it? It's straight down this aisle on the left. There it is, Mary Let's go over and see I beg your pardon, mister. No me. Yes, sir What do you think I ought to buy my wife for Christmas? Well, I don't know besides that's a personal thing between you and your wife You ought to figure that out yourself figured out myself He says I've been rackin my brains and rackin my brains and knock my head against the wall and do I know it by my wife No, well, I'm sorry, mister. That's all right. I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out You ask a guy a simple question. What does he tell you figured out yourself figured out yourself? That's fine Christmas spirit But you never get waited on the girl. It's so busy. Well, I'll just reach over the counter and see what they have Oh, no, you don't What I saw you trying to steal some perfume. I wasn't stealing it I just wanted to see if it was a luring at your age. What difference does it make? Trying to steal this perfume. I was only breathing on my carnage You're just mad because my eyes are bluer than yours just this suit. I'm wearing and Furthermore, what can I do for you, sir? I like to get some perfume. What would you recommend? Well, we have a very popular brand called friendship 68 cents a gallon The age sense a gallon. What do you think Mary the same as you the price is right? I Didn't mean that I was thinking about my sister and walkie and I wonder if you'd like this bottle of perfume Well, pull out the car. She can smell it from here Say miss haven't you got something else, what's in that bottle over there? That's the new friends perfume That just came in it's called la nuit toujours très jolie ici maintenant That sounds nice. What does that mean in English? Condensation of steam that's been forced to a motorman club Ridiculous, come on there. Let's go to another counter. Oh, I beg your pardon, mister What do you think I ought to buy my wife for Christmas? Look, I can't tell you what to buy your wife You'll have to figure it out yourself. Okay. Okay. I'll figure it out myself Nobody wants to help me find Christmas spirit. You think it was my fault that I'm married People in the store and I'm the one he had a pick on there Jack I want to buy something for my mother ask the floor walker where the ladies department is I'm not going to ask that guy anything. Jack will never find it in this crowd. You better ask him. Oh, all right Oh, mr. Floor Walker. Yes, my little bifocal Yoko Please tell me where the ladies department is. It's right down at the end of it. Oh the department Over to your left. Thank you. Come on, Mary. Let's get away from this guy. Hey Jackson You come over here. I can't I'm looking for the ladies department. You're wasting your time Jackson They're all out of you like a pair of glasses. You're making a spectacle of yourself Harry come on. Let's get away from here. So we'll we'll wind up in a routine. I beg your pardon, mister What do you think I ought to buy my wife? I don't know for heaven's sake stop following me I don't care what you buy your wife for Christmas. Oh, you don't care, huh? Suppose I buy her something she doesn't like then she'll get mad at me then don't buy her anything Don't buy her anything. We've been married for 12 years. What are you trying to do break us up? I don't know what you're picking on me for. I've never seen your wife. What's going on? Why what's your one? I didn't send her one What's going on here? What's going on? Oh, it's you you little goofy with the droopy-toopy This because it isn't my fault this man came over to stop breathing on my car Need to wonder why your wife for Christmas my guy isn't you blame me why it's not my fault I'm not the type that would start trouble. I'm a peaceful home lover Jack will be back in just a minute but first here are my good friends effy boon and kenneth delmar Everybody fires sold american if you could be present that the tobacco auctions now open down south You could see the makers of lucky strike consistently select and buy The finer the lighter the naturally milder lucky strike tobacco This fine lucky strike tobacco means real deep down smoking enjoyment for you So smoke that smoke a fine tobacco lucky strike so round so firm so fully packed So free and easy on the draw the famous tobacco auctioneers heard on tonight's program Mr. Effie boon of lexington, Kentucky And mr. l a speed rigs of gold for a north carolina Rising deal speaking for lucky strike Make no mistake it'll cigarette. It's the tobacco that counts So smoke that smoke of fine tobacco. Lucky strike. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure all of us have run across men in uniform who are trying to get home for Christmas, but can't because buses and trains are so crowded. We know how important it is that men on furlough get to be with their loved ones at this time especially. Every time a civilian crowds into a train or a bus or a trip that's not absolutely necessary, you can bet ten to one he's preventing a service man from being home for Christmas. That service man may have spent long months overseas. Mothers and wives have every right to ask, won't you give my boy a chance to get home? We should answer I certainly will. I promise you I will not travel unless my trip helps win this war. And another important thing folks, don't forget to buy Christmas heels. Thank you very, very much. Thank you very, very much.