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00:00No, no, no, no, I forbid it, Molly, I absolutely forbid it, you have enough on your head already.
00:07James, I already volunteered.
00:10So you won't volunteer.
00:12David, you're not saying one word.
00:14You're taking your vote, Molly.
00:16David, you know how important the Girl Scouts are.
00:18Their cookies are delicious.
00:20David, you know it's an international institution.
00:24In America alone, I don't know how many million Girl Scouts there are.
00:28So certainly you wouldn't be missed.
00:30Jake, I've said it before and I'll say it again.
00:33If Mrs. Miller wasn't moving away, I wouldn't have even joined.
00:37But if you heard her at the ladies' club, with tears in her eyes, she said,
00:42don't abandon my brownies.
00:45Who will volunteer to be a brownie leader?
00:48So naturally your hand was up first.
00:51Mine wasn't the only hand, but she selected me.
00:54But what are your qualifications to be a troop leader?
00:57You're asking that question?
00:59Love.
01:00The best qualification of all.
01:03You know how children love me and how I love children.
01:06I should only be able to absorb the course.
01:09Why shouldn't you absorb, Molly?
01:11Don't worry.
01:12If Mrs. Miller picks you for the basic training,
01:15then she knows that you're absorbing.
01:18But it's a basic course, darling.
01:20It's basic with rules and regulations.
01:22And you have to be alert at all times.
01:24It's not the United States Army, Molly.
01:26If you make a mistake, they wouldn't throw you in the guardhouse.
01:29I'm not going to stand and discuss backwards and forwards, darling,
01:32because I'm late already.
01:33So just wish me luck, that's all.
01:35Is this training so necessary?
01:36Very necessary because I have to learn child psychology, games, nature law,
01:42and you know how I love nature, darling.
01:44So goodbye.
01:45Goodbye.
01:46And wish me luck.
01:47Goodbye, Debbie.
01:48Goodbye.
01:49If I leave, I'll be home by 10 o'clock.
01:51If not, don't wait up for me.
01:54Hmm?
01:55Molly, a Girl Scout leader.
01:57What can I do with her, David?
01:59What do you do with the leader except follow?
02:05And remember, ladies,
02:07we introduce brownies to the full Girl Scout program gradually.
02:12For instance, studying the stars is a lot of fun.
02:16And the five constellations visible all year round
02:20will provide the first interests a child will develop in astronomy.
02:25Now, can anyone tell me the names of these five constellations?
02:30Mrs. Goldberg.
02:34Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Queen, King, Dragon.
02:39Very good, Mrs. Goldberg.
02:42You're welcome.
02:43I love stars.
02:44I don't know.
02:46Star light, star bright, first star seen tonight.
02:51My favorite poem.
03:04Now notice, ladies, how I lift her head up very gently after having loosened her clothing.
03:09Of course, if a person doesn't gain consciousness within a short period of time,
03:12a doctor should be called.
03:13Thank you very much, Mrs. Goldberg.
03:15You impersonated a fainting lady beautifully.
03:18It was my pleasure, Mrs. Allen.
03:22And if you can impress upon your girls the importance of the brownie promise
03:27and the Girl Scout laws,
03:29we will make wonderful scouts of them
03:31and give them the training and the background necessary to be good citizens.
03:36Yes, Mrs. Goldberg.
03:38Well, I would like to have a little advice.
03:41Do you think that on occasion it would be advisable
03:45to discuss the Girl Scout laws and recite them with the troops?
03:49By all means, Mrs. Goldberg.
03:52Thank you very much.
03:53Because to me, the Girl Scout laws are like a juvenile bill of rights.
03:58Because number one, a Girl Scout's honor is to be trusted.
04:02And number two, Girl Scouts are very loyal.
04:06And number three, a Girl Scout's duty is to be helpful and useful to all.
04:10And number four, a Girl Scout is a friend.
04:35Say, Ma sings that song pretty well.
04:38Why shouldn't she?
04:39She's been singing it for two weeks, day and night, night and day.
04:43Well, you know Mama Sammy, all or nothing.
04:45Ah, too much more of this I can't take.
04:48With all due respect to the Girl Scouts and what they stand for.
04:51But enough is enough.
04:53For two weeks, that's been the only topic of conversation.
04:56Basic training is almost over, Pa.
04:58I'm sure the house will be back to normal soon.
05:01Rosalie?
05:02Yes, Ma?
05:03Is that the way to set a table?
05:05Well, what's wrong with it?
05:08How far should the china and the silverware be from the edge of the table?
05:13Two or three inches, I guess.
05:15Not at all.
05:17One inch.
05:19Girl Scout handbook, page 29.
05:21Page 17.
05:23Kindly reset.
05:29Mama really takes it seriously.
05:31Sammy, you better help me reset the table or we'll never eat tonight.
05:37Jake?
05:39Jake, dear?
05:40I want you to watch me.
05:42Molly, please, not again tonight.
05:44Jake, please, I need to practice and it wouldn't hurt you to learn a little bit of the Morse code.
05:48Let me, Molly.
05:52Not so fast, Molly, dear.
05:54So watch.
05:55So watch.
05:57C-H-O-W.
06:02Ciao.
06:04Very good, David.
06:05Ciao, standing on the table.
06:07And come and get it.
06:09Thank goodness.
06:10Come, David.
06:11Here.
06:17What's the matter, Molly?
06:18You see problems?
06:19No, I'm looking at the heavens, Jake.
06:22For the first time, the sky and the heavens have a meaning for me.
06:25And I have only the Girl Scouts to thank.
06:28Molly, put away the opera glasses.
06:30Come here, Jake, dear.
06:31Come here.
06:32I want you to look at Venus.
06:34If she's the same star you showed me yesterday, then I know her.
06:37She's not a star.
06:38She's a planet.
06:40And there's Jupiter and there's Pluto.
06:44And there's Rosalie and Sammy and David.
06:47And we're all hungry.
06:48Come.
06:49Oh, how I love the firmament.
06:52I've never seen you so enthusiastic about anything before.
06:55Why shouldn't I be, Stanley?
06:56A whole new world is opening up for me.
06:59And I want to know everything that's in that world.
07:01If a child asks me a question, I want to have the answer.
07:05What do you mean?
07:06It's a great responsibility to mold the lives of other people's children.
07:10Molly, please.
07:11You know what we did today, Jake, darling?
07:14We had nature.
07:15We went on a nature walk.
07:17Wait, I have something to show you.
07:20You see something?
07:26What is it?
07:27Poison ivory.
07:28What did you bring it home for?
07:29I have to get acquainted, Jake, darling.
07:32Leave the tree.
07:34Let it be.
07:36Now, Jake, darling, when I take walks in the woods with my little brownies,
07:40I can say, brownies, beware.
07:42Wait.
07:43Wait, I have something else to show you.
07:44I have another specimen.
07:46Just a minute.
07:47I have a beautiful piece of poison ivory.
07:51Put it away, Molly.
07:53Please.
07:54Did anybody at the table ever hear the call of the twilly-bellowed subtucker?
07:58Save the call for after supper, Molly.
08:01Save the call.
08:02Rosalie, darling, be a good brownie and bring in the chopped clover.
08:08Oh, Jake, dear, listen.
08:10After we'll play a game.
08:13I'm not in the mood for games tonight, Molly.
08:16Please, Jake, I need to practice.
08:18Tomorrow I'm taking over my troop.
08:20So let us play the beer brownies and we'll play how green you are.
08:24But we played that game last night.
08:26Jake, please.
08:27That was Hans the Peanut.
08:29This is different.
08:30This is how green you are.
08:32You see, somebody leaves the room and that somebody is it.
08:36Then we have to decide what it should do.
08:39Look, if, for instance, Rosalie is it, then we have to decide what she should do.
08:45If we decide, for instance, that she should take the fruit bowl and put it on the table,
08:50that's what we'll do.
08:51And then when Rosalie comes in, she figures out what we expect her to do.
08:55And the closer she'll get to the fruit bowl,
08:58the louder, the louder we'll say how green you are.
09:06Children, I want you all to be good brownie scouts
09:09and give Mrs. Goldberg a rousing welcome.
09:12She's a wonderful woman and I know you're all going to love her
09:16as much as you did Mrs. Miller.
09:18Why did Mrs. Miller have to leave us?
09:21You see, her husband's work took him to a different city and she had to move away.
09:27Here is your new troop leader.
09:29Come in, Mrs. Goldberg.
09:36Brownies?
09:37Mrs. Goldberg.
09:41And now I must leave you.
09:43Be good brownies.
09:46Well, hello.
09:50Hello.
09:52Well, now my brownie troop, I think it would be very, very nice
09:57if we sang our brownie song with a great big smile.
10:02All together.
10:04I've something in my pocket that belongs across my face.
10:10I keep it very close to me.
10:14In the most convenient place.
10:17So all together.
10:18I'm sure you couldn't get it if you get the long, long time.
10:24So I'll take it out and put it on.
10:28It's a great big brownie smile.
10:32Mrs. Miller sings it different.
10:35Different?
10:37Faster.
10:38Oh, well, the next time I'll sing it fast.
10:42I see that the light and the sunshine is still outdoors.
10:48Would it be nice if we had a little fun and we girls would go on a leaf hunt?
10:53We did it last week.
10:56Oh, did?
10:58Well, then why don't we have a knot contest?
11:04Now watch me very closely.
11:07See?
11:09Now we have a square knot.
11:13That's a granny.
11:16Oh, that's right, it's a granny.
11:20Imagine that.
11:22Well, now we have a square one.
11:25Now who would like to try it?
11:28Who would like to try it?
11:30You?
11:31Would you like to try it?
11:34You?
11:38Well, maybe making knots wasn't such a good idea for a first-person meeting.
11:44Who would like to barn dance and square dance?
11:48No.
11:49No?
11:50No.
11:51Well, then there's something else we can do.
11:56How would it be if we would finger paint?
12:01Huh?
12:04No.
12:07Also no.
12:09Well, uh, would you like to hear a nice, uh, fairy tale?
12:19Like Hansel and Gretel?
12:25Or, um...
12:28Or the Three Bears?
12:38Jake, it was just unbelievable.
12:41Unbelievable when I think, when I think it was the first meeting, Jake,
12:46that we played games and we square danced and we were singing.
12:51They really loved you, huh, Molly?
12:53They loved me, David, darling, I don't know.
12:56The minute I walked in, I don't know how it happened,
12:59I captured their affection and their hearts and their love immediately.
13:03I'm not surprised.
13:05I didn't know it was Mrs. Goldberg this and Mrs. Goldberg that.
13:09Such a warm feeling, David, when you know children love you.
13:14They adored me.
13:19I'll get it.
13:21One minute.
13:23May I see Mrs. Goldberg, please?
13:25Of course, my dear.
13:26One of your little brownies, Molly dear.
13:28Oh, come in, darling.
13:29I'm Susie Trent, Mrs. Goldberg.
13:31Oh, hello, Susie, darling.
13:33My mother made me come over here and apologize to you
13:36for behaving so badly at the meeting.
13:38Oh, but, Susie, you behaved perfectly wonderful.
13:42My mother said I didn't and neither did the other kids.
13:45Mama said we didn't give you a chance.
13:48Oh, but, Susie...
13:49We were awful.
13:51We weren't even courteous, Mrs. Goldberg.
13:53And a brownie is supposed to be courteous.
13:56Well, I said what my mother told me to say.
14:00Bye.
14:01Bye.
14:06Bye.
14:16A shame for television.
14:20I was a failure.
14:22A fabulous failure.
14:24Molly, you're taking it too seriously.
14:27They're practically babies.
14:29They'll learn to love you when they get to know you.
14:31I lost my chance.
14:32Molly dear, now you're behaving like a little brownie yourself.
14:35Look at me.
14:37I'm a motherly type, no?
14:39Molly, be an adult.
14:40If it's going to make you so unhappy, resign.
14:43Resign?
14:44And go down in history as a failure?
14:47No.
14:49No.
14:51There must be a way.
14:54I have the rule, Jake.
14:57And I'll find a way.
15:06When Hansel and Gretel started out to walk, the sun was in the middle of the sky.
15:12And they walked and walked until the night fell.
15:15And then they knew they got lost.
15:18And all the bread that was thrown on the road, the birds ate it.
15:22And they couldn't find it on the road.
15:24Mrs. Goldberg.
15:26Yes, dear?
15:27I don't think anybody else is going to come.
15:30And I know the story of Hansel and Gretel with my heart.
15:33Oh, you do?
15:35Well, it's time for taps anyway, so maybe you're right.
15:43Come.
15:45I'll take you for an ice cream soda, and then I'll take you home.
15:53You like sodas, huh?
15:57Tell me, Susie, how long have you been a brownie?
16:00One year.
16:03See, I'm only a brownie very recently, and I have a lot to learn.
16:08And I want to learn.
16:10I want to learn all I can because I want to make my troop very happy.
16:15So, Susie, you tell me.
16:18You tell me what I should do.
16:21For instance, would they like a nature walk?
16:26We had it.
16:28Arts and crafts?
16:30We had it.
16:32A dramatic show, maybe?
16:35We had it.
16:37Well, what didn't you have?
16:39An overnight hike.
16:42Overnight hike?
16:44Oh, you mean sleeping all night in the woods under the moon and the stars?
16:51Yes.
16:52The girls would love it.
16:54They would?
16:56Oh.
16:58Well, then, Susie, you tell the girls that Mrs. Goldberg said they're going to have an overnight hike.
17:04You promise?
17:06Scouts honor.
17:07Oh, Mrs. Goldberg.
17:11I only hope you know what you're doing, Molly.
17:13What do you know about overnight hikes?
17:15What do you have to know, Jake?
17:17You don't remember when we were in the Catskill Mountains?
17:19I always slept on the screen porch.
17:22A screen porch isn't a pup tent, Ma.
17:24You don't even know how to put one up.
17:26So what, do you have to be a college graduate to know how to put up a puppy tent?
17:30What I don't know I'll learn.
17:32And after all, it's all in the Girl Scout book.
17:35How will you get the puppy tent?
17:37We'll borrow them from the older scouts.
17:39And if we need more, we'll use sleeping bags.
17:42We don't have a sleeping bag.
17:43You don't have a sleeping bag, Molly.
17:45So I'll get it.
17:47I'll take it.
17:48I'll get it.
17:49I got it.
17:53Hello?
17:55This is Mrs. Goldberg speaking.
17:58To whom am I?
18:01Who?
18:03Oh, Mrs. Allen.
18:06How are you?
18:08Well, for a moment your voice is so unknown to me.
18:11Usually my ear is attuned to vocal voices.
18:15How are you?
18:17Mrs. Goldberg, did you tell the girls they could go on an overnight hike?
18:21Yes.
18:22Yes, I did.
18:23Why?
18:24Brownies do not go on overnight hikes.
18:27It's not in the regulations.
18:29Oh.
18:30You mean it's not in the regulations of the books.
18:36But you see, I didn't know it, and I already made a promise to them.
18:44I am sorry, but brownies do not go on overnight hikes.
18:48They have never gone on overnight hikes.
18:52Well, you see, I'm just new in the movement,
18:58and I didn't realize that.
19:00I don't know what to do.
19:02You promised Susie, and Susie has been spreading the word around to all the other girls.
19:06The mothers are terribly upset.
19:08Well, you see, it was only because my very, very disappointing experience with the children,
19:14and I wanted to do something to please them very much,
19:18and I spoke to Susie,
19:21and Susie said what the children wanted was an overnight hike,
19:26and so I said yes.
19:31I don't know what else to say but to say that I'm sorry.
19:36I hope you realize how serious this is.
19:39Now, you've got to think of some excuse to tell the children.
19:42You'd better come in to see me tomorrow afternoon,
19:45and we'll review your responsibilities as a troop leader.
19:48Goodbye.
19:49Goodbye.
19:57What is it?
19:59I'm finished.
20:03Ruined.
20:06Scraped.
20:08What did you do, Molly?
20:10I made a brownie promise, and now I can't keep it.
20:14I was just informed that brownies can't go on overnight hikes.
20:18They're too young.
20:19It's not even in the book.
20:21I'll be drummed out of the organization.
20:23All right, Molly, so you made a little mistake.
20:25When it comes to children, there's no such thing as a little mistake.
20:29Susie already told the other members of the troop,
20:31and don't ask what's going on.
20:33The children are crying to go,
20:35and Mrs. Allen, their mothers, are saying no.
20:37And if you ask me, I can't blame them.
20:40Rosalie, when she was a Girl Scout,
20:42didn't go on an overnight until she was a tender.
20:44And even then, as I recall, you didn't sleep all night.
20:47I have an idea, Molly.
20:49Make the overnight hike during the day.
20:51Why, David, please.
20:53An overnight hike means at nighttime,
20:55under the moon and under the stars.
20:57Take my advice, Molly.
20:59Turn in your uniform and forget the whole business.
21:01Oh, thank you, sir.
21:03Thank you very much for the advice.
21:05Of course.
21:07Of course.
21:08That would be the easy way.
21:10But I made a promise, and a promise has to be kept.
21:13But even if you could keep the promise,
21:15it's a big responsibility.
21:17All those kids sleeping in the woods at night,
21:19with the sounds and the dampness.
21:27What are you thinking, Molly?
21:29I'm thinking.
21:30Molly, you're not big enough
21:32to reorganize the Girl Scout rules.
21:34Say, darling, there are some rules
21:36that are like a rubber band.
21:38It can be stretched.
21:40Molly.
21:42A whole troop is at stake.
21:45Molly.
21:47A mine scout's honor.
21:50My brownies will have an overnight hike.
21:58Then the handsome prince kissed the princess,
22:02and that broke the magic spell of the witch.
22:06And Snow White woke up and kissed her again.
22:11And then they lived happily ever after.
22:15Then they lived happily ever and ever after.
22:27That's our friend the owl.
22:32Listen.
22:34Listen to the crickets chirping.
22:36That's their evening song.
22:42Well, my dear brownies,
22:44can't you see by the light of the moon
22:46that it's time to turn in?
22:48So let us all sing perhaps.
22:56Day is done,
22:59gone the sun.
23:02From the lake,
23:04from the hill,
23:06from the sky,
23:10all is well.
23:13Day dreamers,
23:17dawn is nigh.
23:44All right, my dear brownies.
23:46Now into the pobbled tent
23:48and into your sleepers.
23:50And now good night, my dear darling browns.
23:53Good night, Snow White.
23:55Now find your poppies.
23:57Find your tents, my good children.
24:00Take your things off your icing quickly.
24:03That's the big girl.
24:05Quickly, take everything in
24:07because it may come up a knob,
24:09take everything in
24:11because it may come up a knob,
24:13and blow off a stone.
24:15Dip yourself nicely
24:17like Mrs. Goldberg showed you.
24:19Wonderful.
24:21Wonderful.
24:23Wonderful.
24:25Wonderful.
24:27You're sleeping already, huh?
24:29You're dreaming already,
24:31my wonderful little brown cookies.
24:33Well, mothers,
24:35I see that they're tucked in for the night.
24:37Back to the canast.
24:39Come, ladies.
24:46Good night, Mrs. Goldberg.
24:48Good night, dear.
24:50And sleep well.
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