Allen & Shriner guests (Walter O'Keefe subs; last NBC ep), 8/11/53
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00:00And now here's that genial gentleman from Pasadena, the star of our show, Walter O'Keefe.
00:27Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
00:39This is my eighth week here.
00:42This is my last week here.
00:43This is my swan song.
00:45And you know, the pleasantest thing about it has been the people with whom I've worked.
00:48And among the people with whom I've worked, I like nobody better than the contestants.
00:53And this being my last night, I want to give away as much money as I can.
00:56So, Ken, who have we got to play to for the money?
00:59Walter, I want you to meet our first two contestants to play to for the money.
01:11Miss Bea Gatling, who works in a chemical laboratory, and Mr. Ira Millett, who works
01:16in a circus.
01:17How are you?
01:18Very glad to know you, sir.
01:19And first of all, what is your pleasure on cigarettes?
01:20Now, would you like the king size?
01:22I'll have the king size, yes, sir.
01:24You'll have the king size.
01:25How about you, Mr. Miller?
01:26I'll have the king size, also.
01:27All right.
01:28Now, your name is Miss Bea Gatling.
01:29What do you do, Bea?
01:30I'm a chemist.
01:31You're a chemist?
01:32Yes, sir.
01:33You work in a chemical laboratory?
01:34Sure do.
01:35Who do you work for?
01:36I work for DuPont down in New Jersey.
01:37Down in New Jersey.
01:38What kind of chemicals do you work on?
01:39Nylon or something like that?
01:40No, I work in an explosives plant.
01:41We make dynamite.
01:42Uh-huh.
01:43Dynamite, I'd say, is more of a man's job, isn't it?
01:44Well, there are quite a few men working there, yeah.
01:45Isn't working a man's job a man's job?
01:46It's a man's job.
01:47It's a man's job.
01:48Well, they don't get fresh too often.
01:49No, I was thinking of the dynamite.
01:50But you like your work, Bea, huh?
01:51Like it?
01:52Fine.
01:53People are wonderful, and the pay's good, too.
01:54Well, working with dynamite, it should be easy to get a raise now and then.
01:55How long have you been working over in New Jersey, Bea?
01:56A little more than a year.
01:57A little more than a year.
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02:53Are you getting used to our way of life up north?
02:56Oh, yes, I am now, but I'll be frank with you.
02:59At first, I was a little leery about it,
03:01because everybody at home told me,
03:03oh, you're not going to like it.
03:04People are cold and cruel up there.
03:07Up there, they are cold and cruel?
03:09You mean them there Yankees?
03:11That's what they said.
03:12Well, that's what the Dodgers say about them Yankees,
03:14cold and cruel.
03:16Now, they told you that you wouldn't ever get along
03:18up here, huh?
03:19Oh, I didn't find it true at all.
03:22I wouldn't think you would.
03:23How have you found it here?
03:25Oh, they said,
03:26nobody's going to speak to you on the street,
03:28but I said, uh-uh, it's not that way.
03:30I don't have any trouble speaking to people.
03:32No, I bet you've been spoken to on the street.
03:34Manila, West Latin, everything.
03:37You know, I wanted to ask you one question.
03:39Are you familiar with this new argument
03:40that Dior, the Frenchman, has got
03:42about how long dresses should be?
03:44Have you been reading about that?
03:45I've read a little about it, uh-huh.
03:47I think it's a sort of a promotional plan.
03:49It's just a gag to sell more merchandise, you know?
03:51They get women's dresses like Venetian blinds
03:53going up and down, you know?
03:55No, the, honestly, I swear,
03:57the more changes that women have in their clothes,
04:01the less change Pop has in his pants, you know?
04:04And I say that from the bottom of my wallop.
04:08All right, now let's talk to you,
04:10Mr. Mallette, for a minute.
04:11You say that you work in a circus?
04:14Yes, sir, Walter.
04:15Well, I'm very interested.
04:16What do you do in a circus?
04:17Well, I'm a trapeze performer.
04:19No kidding.
04:20You're a trapeze?
04:21That's right.
04:22Well, I'm delighted to meet you
04:23because I wrote a song called
04:24The Madman and the Flying Trapeze in 1931,
04:26and I never knew it was you.
04:29I'm delighted to know you.
04:30How long have you been with the circus?
04:31Well, 41 years I've been doing this same act.
04:33Well, you look as if it's agreed with you.
04:35Does your wife worry about you in this kind of work?
04:38No, no, Walter,
04:39because we did an act together one time.
04:42You and your wife did an act together?
04:44That's right.
04:45What do you mean?
04:46A he and she trapeze act?
04:48That's right, Walter.
04:49I never heard of such a thing.
04:50Did you ever have any...
04:51I'd like to know this.
04:52Did you ever have any quarrels during working hours?
04:55No.
04:56No, we never quarreled while we were working.
04:58I was just wondering,
04:59if you started for her thing
05:01and she refused to put her hand out,
05:03what would happen?
05:04Well, we'll let her be a little awkward.
05:06How'd you happen to get into the circus business, Ira?
05:09Well, my father was a trapeze performer.
05:12He and my mother was married with the circus.
05:14Right.
05:15And I was my grandmother and grandfather.
05:17Well, let's see if you guys can win some money here.
05:19I think it's high time,
05:20and we'll find out what the professor's got in store for you.
05:22What do you say, professor?
05:24Well, Walter, the, uh...
05:26Shall I explain the game?
05:27It sort of goes like this.
05:28You ask the contestants three questions,
05:30and they give as many answers as they can in 15 seconds.
05:33But watch out for this buzzer.
05:35If they give a wrong answer or answer out of turn
05:37or repeat themselves,
05:39then I buzz.
05:41And they're through for that round.
05:43Now, Walter, here's the first question of the first round,
05:45and it's worth $5.
05:47I suggest we start out with this one.
05:48All right, which one of you two would like to start out?
05:51You start.
05:52All right, $5 for each correct answer.
05:54When the bell sounds,
05:56name as many musical instruments as you can
05:59that are made primarily of metal.
06:01Ready?
06:03Trumpet.
06:04Chimes.
06:05Cornet.
06:06Trombone.
06:07Saxophone.
06:10Alto.
06:12French horn.
06:13Tuba.
06:15Xylophone.
06:18Clarinet.
06:22You had ten correct answers at $5 each,
06:24so in the next round, every correct answer will be worth...
06:27$50!
06:35You got off to a very fast start here, children.
06:37Good luck to you.
06:39There are a number of letters in our alphabet
06:41that are pronounced like complete words.
06:43For instance, the letter I sounds exactly the same as the word I-E-Y-E.
06:48You know?
06:49Now, when the bell sounds,
06:50name as many letters of the alphabet as you can
06:52that sound the same as complete words.
06:55Ready?
06:57C.
06:58Q.
06:59S.
07:00P.
07:01T.
07:02O.
07:08A.
07:12V.
07:15You had eight correct answers at $50 each,
07:17so in the final round, every correct answer will be worth...
07:21$400!
07:29You know, this is the second time in this series
07:31I felt as if I'm on the wrong side of the mic here.
07:34$400 for every correct answer in this last round.
07:37Good luck to you.
07:38When the bell sounds,
07:39name as many of the nations of the world as you can
07:42that are spelled in five or less than five letters.
07:46Ready?
07:53Asia.
07:54Peru.
07:55These have to be nations.
07:57We'll just go on from there.
07:58Not continents.
07:59Not continents, but nations.
08:00We'll go on from there.
08:03Peru.
08:07Chile.
08:14You had two correct answers at $400,
08:16giving you a grand total on our old gold scoreboard of...
08:20$800!
08:27Sorry, y'all.
08:29Now, Ken,
08:32who do we have to play to for the money?
08:34Walter, I want you to meet Miss Janice Botts,
08:36an engaged girl from Lodi, California,
08:38and Mr. Paul James Simpson from Burlington, North Carolina.
08:41Miss Botts, very glad to know you.
08:43Glad to know you, Mr. Simpson.
08:45I'd like to start you off favorably and auspiciously here.
08:47Miss Botts, what's your pleasure in old gold?
08:49King size?
08:50King size.
08:51And how about you, Mr. Simpson?
08:52King size.
08:53King size for you, too.
08:54All right.
08:55Now, first of all, Janice, that's your name, right?
08:57That's right.
08:58Let's talk to you.
08:59You're engaged.
09:00When are you getting married?
09:01December 20th.
09:02December 20th.
09:03Are you practicing up in your cooking?
09:04I already know how to cook.
09:05In fact, my fiancé is gaining between 45 and 50 pounds.
09:0945 and 50 pounds?
09:11Uh-huh.
09:12How much did he weigh when you met him?
09:14165, and he weighs 215 now.
09:18Are you sure?
09:19I'm sure.
09:20I'm sure.
09:21I'm sure.
09:22165, and he weighs 215 now.
09:24Are you sure you're engaged to the same man?
09:27No.
09:28It sounds like some fat fella sneaked in when you weren't looking.
09:31No, he works hard, and he's pretty much all muscle.
09:33212 pounds is a big boy.
09:35Has he got any fat at all?
09:36No.
09:37All muscle?
09:38Uh-huh.
09:39What does he, who does he work for?
09:40American Can Company.
09:41I see.
09:44Well, I guess you need muscle there, all right.
09:46I don't know.
09:47Where are you going to live after you're married, Janice?
09:49Back of an A&P store?
09:51No, we'll probably live in Oakland.
09:53In Oakland, huh?
09:54Until he graduates from college in June.
09:55All right.
09:56Now, Mr. Simpson, let's find out about you.
09:58You're from Burlington, North Carolina, huh?
10:00That is correct.
10:01And are you a native?
10:02I was born there.
10:04Well, that's my answer.
10:07Are you married, Paul?
10:08Yes, sir.
10:09Yes, sir.
10:10I see you snapped to attention there.
10:12Your wife must be listening, huh?
10:14She is.
10:15I say, how long are you married, Paul?
10:1724 years, coming this December.
10:19Well, I can't come in December if you'll make it to February.
10:24Make it in February and I'll probably be there.
10:25Do you have any children?
10:27Five, sir.
10:28Five?
10:29What ages are the five?
10:3115, 17, 19, 21, and 23.
10:3615, 17, 19, 21, and 23.
10:40A child every other year, huh?
10:43You sound like a charter member of the Odd Fellows, boy.
10:46What do you do for a living in Burlington, Paul?
10:48I'm a city mail carrier, sir.
10:50A mailman?
10:51You have a city route or rural?
10:53City route.
10:54Ah, that's pretty tough work.
10:55How do you get around, on a bicycle?
10:57No, sir, I don't sit down.
10:58I walk.
10:59You walk?
11:00You deliver mail on foot?
11:01Ever have any unusual experiences in your line of work?
11:04Not many.
11:05I've been bitten by dogs 15 times.
11:0815 different places, too?
11:10No, the pesky rascals pick out about the same place every time.
11:14No wonder you don't sit down on your job, now.
11:18Do you get much time for yourself, Paul?
11:20I mean, do you have any hobbies that you can indulge?
11:22My hobby is long-distance running.
11:24Long-distance running?
11:25Where do you run?
11:26I ran across the United States twice,
11:28from Los Angeles to New York.
11:32Gee, for a mailman, you had some route there, kid.
11:35I am astounded by that.
11:37Have you got any other activities with your running?
11:39No, sir.
11:41I am astounded by that.
11:42Have you got any other activities with your running?
11:45Only I'm a walker.
11:48You're a walker?
11:49Yes, sir.
11:50Have you ever had any shorter races than across the country?
11:53Yes, I've raced 144 miles once.
11:56Who did you run against?
11:57A horse.
11:58A what?
11:59A horse.
12:00A horse?
12:01Yes, sir.
12:02Who won?
12:03I beat him by 25 miles.
12:0525 miles?
12:06Yes.
12:07He sounds like every horse I ever bet on in my life.
12:11All right, Paul, let's get on with the game here
12:13and provide some money for you.
12:14Professor, what do we have here for them?
12:16Let's start with that.
12:17All right, and may I ask which one of you would like to start?
12:20Here.
12:21All right, he's going to run away with the money here
12:23for $5 each answer.
12:24When the bell sounds,
12:26name as many things as you can that have zippers.
12:29Ready?
12:31Pants.
12:33Painting suits.
12:34Shoes.
12:37Underwear.
12:39Coats.
12:41Pajamas.
12:43Sweaters.
12:49Oh, dear.
12:50You had seven correct answers at $5 each,
12:52so in the next round, every correct answer will be worth $35.
13:02Congratulations, and here is your second question.
13:04$35 for every correct answer.
13:06This question is an alphabet game
13:08on things that grow out of the ground.
13:10When the bell sounds, you, Paul,
13:12name something that grows out of the ground
13:14that begins with the letter A,
13:16and you, Janice, then name something that grows out of the ground
13:18that begins with the letter B,
13:20and so on as far down the alphabet as you can go.
13:22Ready?
13:23Beep.
13:24Beep.
13:25Beep.
13:26Beep.
13:27Beep.
13:28Beep.
13:29Beep.
13:30Beep.
13:31Beep.
13:32Beep.
13:33Beep.
13:34Beep.
13:35Beep.
13:36Beep.
13:37Beep.
13:38Beep.
13:39Beep.
13:40Beep.
13:41Oh, I'm sorry, Paul.
13:43You had no correct answers in the second round,
13:45so in the final round, every correct answer will still be worth $35.
13:51Well, kids, good luck to you on this one.
13:53You certainly need to pick up time here.
13:55Noodle, N-O-O-D-L-E,
13:57is one of many English words that end in the letters D-L-E.
14:01When the bell sounds, name as many words as you can that end in D-L-E.
14:05Ready?
14:06Beep.
14:07Noodle.
14:08Noodle.
14:09Beep.
14:10Beep.
14:11Beep.
14:12Noodle.
14:13Beep.
14:14Noodle.
14:15Now, that's D-L-E. I'm awful sorry.
14:17Dawdle.
14:18Oh, I thought he said dawdle.
14:19He said dawdle, I'm sure.
14:20Double, I...
14:21Double?
14:22I'm very sorry, Paul.
14:23Let's find out what the score is, Kenneth.
14:26You had two correct answers at $35 each,
14:28giving you a grand total on our old gold scoreboard of...
14:33$70.
14:43All right, now, Ken, who do we have next to play two for the money?
14:47Who are the next two contestants?
15:02Walter, I want you to meet Mr. Herb Schreiner from Indiana,
15:05who is in television,
15:07and Mr. Fred Allen, an unemployed gentleman from Boston.
15:10Yeah.
15:13Well, I want to say the quality of the contestants is deteriorating here.
15:18You two look like a couple of extras from Buona, believe me.
15:22Buona devil.
15:23Now, may I ask you this?
15:24First of all, Mr. Schreiner,
15:26you say you're from Indiana.
15:28What is your preference on old gold?
15:29Would you like the king size or the regular?
15:32I think I'll take the long ones there.
15:34Excuse me.
15:35You'll take the long ones here?
15:36Yeah, I'll tell you, winter's coming on here,
15:38and I might need the extra ashes on my driveway.
15:43All right.
15:44Now, Mr. Allen, which size would you like?
15:47The regular size or the king size?
15:49Well, I think I'll take the king size too, Mr. O'Keefe.
15:52I'm nearsighted, you see,
15:53and with the regular cigarette, I'm always lighting my fingers.
15:58There you are.
15:59Thank you very much, sir.
16:01Now, let's find out something about you, gentlemen.
16:03Mr. Schreiner, you say you're from Indiana.
16:05Whereabouts?
16:06Well, the whole thing.
16:09Exactly whereabouts?
16:11Well, it's a small town, Walter.
16:14It's not on the map.
16:16It's not on the map?
16:17No.
16:18It's between two towns that are on the map, though.
16:22I must drop in sometime when I'm passing through.
16:25What do you have there in the town?
16:27Anything exciting, Mr. Schreiner?
16:28Oh, nothing much.
16:30I mean, there's...
16:33Well, there's nothing, I'll tell you the truth.
16:35Well, give us an example of the best nothing you have.
16:38Well, it's just that there's a lot of it,
16:40and we all get in on it.
16:42We have a little statue.
16:44We have a little statue, a very small one.
16:46Really?
16:47It's just a...
16:48Well, we had to get a small one.
16:49We were sort of hard up.
16:50We only got one pigeon.
16:51Oh, well, naturally.
16:52One pigeon.
16:53Imagine.
16:54Let's see.
16:55Maybe I won't drop through on my way.
16:58Now, Mr. Allen, tell us about you.
17:00What is your occupation?
17:02You say you're not working.
17:03I'm unemployed presently,
17:04but I have some prospects, Mr. O'Keefe.
17:07I'm so happy, Mr. Allen.
17:08I'm glad I rejoiced in your happiness, too.
17:11I, uh...
17:14I am, uh...
17:15I am promised employment very soon.
17:18As a matter...
17:19I'm going to have a television show very shortly.
17:21Oh, I'm delighted to hear that.
17:23If these two people are reliable.
17:25You know what I mean?
17:26But, Fred Allen, you're a big star.
17:28I'd like to know, what are you doing as a contestant?
17:30Well, I'm a big contestant, too, Walter.
17:32Right.
17:33Now, I tell you, I'm working for the old gold people,
17:36and they wanted me to learn television from the ground up.
17:39You see, right from the very bottom.
17:41And they started me out picking tobacco out in the fields
17:44for two weeks,
17:46and then they moved me into the factory for a while.
17:49Tsk, tsk.
17:50Uh, yes.
17:51Really, it was, uh...
17:53My progress was phenomenal.
17:55I was in the factory during a rainstorm,
17:57and my function was taking the regular cigarettes
18:00and pulling them out to the king's eyes.
18:02See?
18:04And then they zoomed me up to a contestant tonight, you see.
18:07And next week, I'm starting on this, uh, program,
18:10uh, with my own program,
18:12called Judge for Yourself.
18:14At this time.
18:15Well, Mr. Allen, on behalf of everybody...
18:21We certainly wish you the best of luck.
18:23Now, Herb, what happens to your show, too, for the money?
18:26Well, uh, I just forgot.
18:27Now, I was so excited over Fred's good fortune,
18:29I forgot what's happening to me.
18:31But, uh, I tell you the truth.
18:32We're switching over.
18:33We're switching to another, uh, network.
18:35Another network?
18:36Well, you better write the folks back home, then,
18:38and tell them your new address so they can see you.
18:40Well, it's gonna be bath night, Saturday night.
18:43We'll be on.
18:44Folks can sit right in the tub
18:45and just reach out and turn our set on.
18:47Yeah, we'll be on there.
18:48And, of course, there's no...
18:49There's not much television in my hometown.
18:51They don't get the show.
18:52I just found it out.
18:53I was home, and there's one set there.
18:55Really? Just one set in the whole city?
18:56One set.
18:57It was sort of sad.
18:58An old gentleman bought it from Shisro Buck.
19:00Uh-huh.
19:01It was just a great big...
19:02It was one of them big 30-inch hole
19:04right in the front of it.
19:05It was a big set.
19:06And, uh, he didn't get any program at all.
19:08He just looked at it and finally passed on.
19:10It was sort of sad.
19:12And, uh...
19:13Well, he didn't know, uh...
19:14He didn't know it was sort of sad, actually.
19:16It was, uh...
19:17He was sitting there,
19:18and he didn't know what to do.
19:19And the set was so big,
19:20he just buried him in it.
19:21That's all he could do.
19:23Uh-huh.
19:24Of course, he looked so good looking out of there
19:26that they just left him around about a month.
19:29It was wonderful.
19:30He had picked up two sponsors
19:31before they could stop him.
19:32Oh, yeah.
19:34Well, thanks a lot.
19:36How did they know he wasn't Ed Sullivan in there?
19:40That's how he got the sponsors.
19:41I never thought it was that way.
19:42Oh, I see.
19:43That's right.
19:44Now, gentlemen,
19:45it's time we got to play the game here.
19:46Good.
19:47And, uh, you get $5 for each.
19:49Which one of you wants to lead off?
19:51Well, I'll start first.
19:52I'm older,
19:53and I may not be around as long.
19:56Well, here's your first question,
19:58and I want to have you listen very carefully, gentlemen.
20:00There are many different letters of the alphabet
20:03in alphabet soup.
20:04Uh-huh.
20:05But they're all jumbled up.
20:06Yeah.
20:07Now, for $5 an answer,
20:08I want you to give me as many as you can remember
20:11of the letters of the alphabet.
20:12But here's the catch.
20:14They must be in correct alphabetical order.
20:17Ready?
20:18Can we hear the question?
20:19Do you understand the question?
20:21It sounds loaded to me.
20:24In correct alphabetical order.
20:26Ready?
20:27A...
20:28B...
20:29C...
20:30D...
20:31E...
20:32F...
20:33G...
20:34H...
20:35I...
20:36J...
20:37K...
20:38L...
20:39M...
20:40M...
20:41O...
20:42P...
20:43R...
20:44Q...
20:45R...
20:46S...
20:47T...
20:48U...
20:49V...
20:50W...
20:51X...
20:52Y...
20:53Well, well, well.
20:55You couldn't do the other,
20:57the same question with consomme by any chance.
21:00Let's find out how you did do on that question, gentlemen.
21:04How did they do, Ken?
21:06You have 26 correct answers at $5 each.
21:09So in the next round,
21:10every correct answer will be worth...
21:13$130.
21:15$130.
21:16All right.
21:17All right.
21:18All right.
21:19All right.
21:20Now, that's not bad.
21:22You're off to a pretty fair start.
21:23$130 in answer.
21:24If you do as well in the next round,
21:26every correct answer will be worth $3,380.
21:30Yeah.
21:31And if you do as well as that in the third round,
21:34you'll have a grand total of $87,880.
21:38Oh, now, wait a minute.
21:39Just a minute, Mr. O'Keefe.
21:41I can't take that money, Herb.
21:42It was all right.
21:43Look, when I was out of work,
21:44when I wasn't working,
21:45I could afford to win that kind of money.
21:47But now I'm going to work next week, you see,
21:49and with this $85,000,
21:51this will put me in another bracket.
21:53This can break me, Herb.
21:54I don't think it's good, Fred.
21:55Let's leave the money here and let the sponsor pay.
21:57Oh, no.
21:58That's a great idea.
21:59No, but you can't do that.
22:00You've got to accept the money, gentlemen.
22:02I'm sorry.
22:03♪
22:07Eight cigarettes.
22:09And now here once again is Walter O'Keefe.
22:12♪
22:18You know, ladies and gentlemen,
22:20I have been around television a couple of years,
22:22but this is the first job that I've enjoyed thoroughly,
22:25and I leave it with reluctance and with great good feelings.
22:28As a matter of fact,
22:29two weeks from today with my boy Anthony,
22:31I hope to be on the beach at Waikiki in Honolulu,
22:34which is a good reward for my work here.
22:36And you know, they have a wonderful word out there.
22:38I learned it last year.
22:39It's aloha.
22:40It's one of the strangest words I ever heard
22:42because it means love,
22:44it means greetings,
22:45it means farewell,
22:46it means God bless you,
22:48and I offer that all to you.
22:50Aloha to all of you.
22:52I hope I'll see you soon again.
22:54And Herb, come on out here, lad.
22:56I want to talk to you.
22:57♪
23:04Walter, while I got the chance,
23:06before we say anything else,
23:08I want to thank you for the wonderful job
23:10you did on Two For The Money.
23:11You took such wonderful care of it.
23:13Our clock still works.
23:16The doctor's mustache hasn't lost anything
23:18and everything is secure,
23:20and everywhere I traveled this summer,
23:22folks said Walter O'Keefe is doing a swell job,
23:24and I personally want to thank you for it.
23:26Herb, that's very generous,
23:27and I'm very, very grateful.
23:28Now, I think these guys would like to know
23:31exactly what you're going to do,
23:33so will you tell them,
23:34spell it out one word after another.
23:36We're going to switch over to another network.
23:38The name of which escapes you at the moment.
23:40Well, it don't escape me.
23:41I remember it very good.
23:42It's CBS.
23:44But I tell you why I said that.
23:46That kicked it.
23:47I could have said that we were going to be on
23:49following Jackie Gleason,
23:50but everybody knows what station he's on,
23:53so I might as well be honest, hadn't I?
23:55Yeah.
23:56We're going to be on there next Saturday,
23:58Two For The Money.
23:59We're going to have a lot of fun.
24:01I've been away traveling around the country,
24:03and I guess I've got some new questions
24:05all worked up to ask the folks.
24:07Well, we got some old money left around here.
24:09Did you leave us some money?
24:10We left you quite a bit, yeah.
24:12Well, you know,
24:13the interesting part about this tonight is that
24:15in this switch over,
24:16we don't want people to get confused.
24:18Tonight, or rather this time spot
24:20that you have been holding down here for us so nicely,
24:23Fred Allen has taken over.
24:24And would Fred,
24:25would you come on back and tell the folks yourself
24:27what you're going to do?
24:33Well, I tell you,
24:34we just had a phone call.
24:35Arthur Godfrey's complaining about the word allure.
24:38He claims that he's been using that.
24:41I'm terribly sorry.
24:42And he's also thanking Herb
24:43for mentioning the other network,
24:44because he's familiar with that outfit.
24:47But we're going to be here next week
24:49with Judge For Yourself.
24:50It's a nice show.
24:51I hope it's going to turn out to be well,
24:53to be a good show.
24:54And all I can say to you is judge for yourself.
24:57I'm going to Honolulu, Fred.
24:58Good luck.
25:00Thank you, Herb.
25:01Thank you, Walter.
25:02I'll be here next Tuesday,
25:03so I'll get ready.
25:04I'll clean the place up,
25:05and I'll stay here because I'll be ready.
25:11Due for the money
25:12is a Mark Goodson-Bill Todman production.