Blondie in the Dough (1947)
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00:00:00That's what my Blondie is.
00:00:24Lovable feet, both flat.
00:00:26That's what my Dagwood is.
00:00:28Blondie's not always right.
00:00:30I let her think she is.
00:00:33All of my thoughts are bright.
00:00:35Long as he thinks they're his.
00:00:37Life of us is fun and crazy.
00:00:39Baby duffling.
00:00:40Us and Daisy.
00:00:41What a family.
00:00:43Incredible.
00:00:44Bumsteadable.
00:00:45Hurry, you'll miss your butt.
00:00:48Watch out, you'll burn your stew.
00:00:50Nothing's too much for us.
00:00:52As long as with me there's you.
00:00:54Dagwood and Blondie.
00:00:56Blondie and Dagwood.
00:00:57Always with me there's you.
00:01:27La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
00:01:31Now, children, don't go to lunch.
00:01:33You have plenty of time before you do that in school.
00:01:36Gee, Mommy, you sure have been happy lately.
00:01:39Oh, I have every reason to be.
00:01:41Starting this week, Daddy's boss, Mr. Radcliffe, has promised him a $15 raise.
00:01:45I wonder why.
00:01:48Because he deserves it, that's why.
00:01:50Daddy hasn't been late to the office in weeks.
00:01:54Poor dear.
00:01:55He's been constantly keeping his nose to the grindstone.
00:02:19What?
00:02:23Oh.
00:02:44Take it easy, Mac.
00:02:45That's the third bottle you've broken this morning.
00:02:49When will the cookies be done, Mommy?
00:02:51Well, I'd say.
00:02:52Blondie!
00:02:54Hi, everybody.
00:02:55Hi, Daisy.
00:02:56Dagwood.
00:02:59What are you doing home this time of day?
00:03:01Well.
00:03:02What happened to the grindstone, Pop?
00:03:04Huh?
00:03:05The one you keep your nose on.
00:03:07Does Mr. Radcliffe know you've come home?
00:03:09He sent me home.
00:03:11Oh, Dagwood, you haven't been fired.
00:03:13Oh, no, Blondie.
00:03:14I'm going to play golf this afternoon.
00:03:16Golf?
00:03:17Uh-huh.
00:03:18You see, Mr. Radcliffe and I are teeing off with a very important client.
00:03:21And he wants me along to kind of help cinch the deal.
00:03:24Oh.
00:03:26Excuse me, dear.
00:03:30Hello?
00:03:31Oh, yes, Mr. Radcliffe.
00:03:32He's right here.
00:03:33Just a minute.
00:03:34Yes.
00:03:35Mr. Radcliffe.
00:03:36Hello.
00:03:37Dagwood, our date with Mr. Thorpe has been changed.
00:03:39We're going to meet him at 1 o'clock instead of 2.
00:03:41Oh, and be sure and bring those pants with you.
00:03:43You can rely on me, Mr. Radcliffe.
00:03:45I won't forget them.
00:03:46Goodbye.
00:03:48Now I've got to hurry and get dressed because our appointment with Mr. Thorpe has been pushed up an hour.
00:03:52But who's this Mr. Thorpe?
00:03:53Oh, he's the important client we're playing golf with this afternoon.
00:03:56He's going to build a new radio station and we are going to try to get the contracts.
00:04:01Oh.
00:04:05Where did you get these?
00:04:06I bought them.
00:04:08And what's in all those packages?
00:04:10Well, a man in my position has to dress the part.
00:04:13But where did you get the money to buy all these things?
00:04:15Oh, I didn't spend any money, Blondie.
00:04:17I charged them.
00:04:20Dagwood, don't you think you're being a little extravagant?
00:04:23Oh, no, Blondie.
00:04:24I got a $15 raise starting this week.
00:04:26And if I cinch the deal this afternoon, I'll probably get a nice bonus.
00:04:30I know, dear, but...
00:04:32Mom, something's burning!
00:04:34Oh, dear.
00:04:38Oh, my cookies!
00:04:42Oh, dear, dear.
00:04:44Oh, look at them.
00:04:46Maybe you left them in too long.
00:04:48Oh.
00:04:49Well, I only put them in a few minutes ago.
00:04:51You just can't trust this old stove.
00:04:54One day it takes hours to bake something.
00:04:56And the next day it burns everything to a crisp, including me, in just a few minutes.
00:05:00Well, I'm sorry, children, but there won't be any cookies for after school.
00:05:04Oh, yes, there will.
00:05:05I'm going to call Archer's right now and get that stove you've been admiring.
00:05:10But, Dagwood, that stove costs over $300.
00:05:14Ouch!
00:05:15Well, we can afford it.
00:05:18With my raise and the bonus I hope to get, we can afford it.
00:05:23Oh, hello, Archers?
00:05:26Archers, this is Dagwood Bromstead of Shady Lane Avenue.
00:05:30Well, Mr. Archer, you know that stove that you have in your window?
00:05:34Well, I'd like to have you install that in my kitchen this afternoon.
00:05:38You can?
00:05:39Oh, you can.
00:05:40Well, that's fine.
00:05:41Okay, goodbye.
00:05:43Honey, you shouldn't have done that.
00:05:45No, nothing's too good for the wife of Dagwood Bromstead.
00:05:49Now, dear, while I change clothes, would you mind fixing me a little bite, a little snack?
00:05:53Of course I will.
00:05:57Do you really think we can afford that stove?
00:06:00Blondie, I always believe in looking ahead, never behind.
00:06:04Oh!
00:06:05What happened?
00:06:08Ah!
00:06:11Dagwood, lunch is ready. You'd better hurry.
00:06:14All right, Blondie.
00:06:39Well, how do I look?
00:06:41I like you better in men's clothes.
00:06:44Huh?
00:06:45Cookie.
00:06:46Well, dear, if that's what they wear when they play golf, I think you look very nice.
00:06:52Well, Mr. Elfman said it was the latest thing.
00:06:56Did he say latest or loudest?
00:06:59Hey, hey, hey.
00:07:00Alexander, your father will probably be the best dressed man on the diamond.
00:07:04No, not diamond, Blondie.
00:07:06I know, not diamond, Blondie. Links.
00:07:08Oh, links.
00:07:09Yeah.
00:07:10Well, wherever it is you play that silly game.
00:07:12Silly or not, Blondie, there are more big deals put over on a golf course than there are in a conference room.
00:07:18Now, for instance, this Mr. Thorpe.
00:07:20Say, isn't there a Mr. Thorpe in this town who already owns a radio station?
00:07:24It's the same one, but he's going to build a bigger one.
00:07:26It's going to be one of the biggest in the country, big enough to broadcast coast to coast.
00:07:31And they're going to get some more kilowatts or cycles or something from the government.
00:07:35I see.
00:07:36Yeah.
00:07:38Good morning, Elfman.
00:07:39What do you mean morning? It's afternoon.
00:07:41How come you're so late delivering the mail today?
00:07:43I finally got smart, Elfman.
00:07:45Yeah?
00:07:46Yeah.
00:07:47I always deliver the mail on this street at a quarter of nine every morning, right?
00:07:50Right.
00:07:51And every morning, Bumstead charged out of the house on his way to the office and knocked me down, right?
00:07:56Right.
00:07:57Well, I finally got permission to make this the last street that I deliver on.
00:08:01And I...
00:08:02I know that Bumstead is not going to knock me down at 1230 in the afternoon, right?
00:08:07Right.
00:08:08You know, Blondie, I have a feeling I'm going to play a terrific game today.
00:08:12I'll probably make a hole in one.
00:08:14Dagwood, I don't think it would be very nice if you beat Mr. Radcliffe and Mr. Thorpe too badly.
00:08:19Oh, I'll let them win a couple of holes.
00:08:22In fact, I'm... I'm getting...
00:08:24I'm late! I'm late!
00:08:25I'm late!
00:08:26I'm late!
00:08:27Come on, hurry up!
00:08:30I'll open the door!
00:08:31I'll get the door!
00:08:32Come on, Jim! Hurry, hurry, hurry!
00:08:42No!
00:08:59No!
00:09:19Look, Radcliffe, I have an appointment later this afternoon with one of my biggest clients, the Premier Biscuit Company.
00:09:24If that man of yours doesn't show up pretty soon, we'll only be able to play nine holes.
00:09:28I'm sorry, Mr. Thorpe.
00:09:29Say, look, perhaps while we're waiting we could discuss the building of your new radio station.
00:09:33I told you we'd discuss that after the game.
00:09:35When I play golf, I concentrate on golf.
00:09:38And when I do business, I'm all business.
00:09:41Is that clear?
00:09:42Yes, Mr. Thorpe.
00:09:44If he doesn't show up pretty soon, I'll be too old to play.
00:09:49Woo-hoo! Mr. Radcliffe!
00:09:52Here he comes!
00:09:58Oh, my!
00:10:01Well, I'm sorry I'm late, Mr. Radcliffe.
00:10:03Yes, Dagwood, meet Mr. Thorpe. Mr. Thorpe, this is Dagwood Bumstead.
00:10:06Oh, I'm very glad to...
00:10:10Well, bang one out, Mr. Thorpe.
00:10:16You go next and I'll go last.
00:10:17You're not playing, Dagwood.
00:10:19Huh?
00:10:20You're so late, all the caddies are out. You're caddying Thorpe.
00:10:23Caddy?
00:10:24But, but, but, but, but...
00:10:27Thorpe!
00:10:29And stop that hissing, too.
00:10:38You didn't keep your head down.
00:10:40We won't count that one, Mr. Thorpe. That was just a practice shot.
00:10:45Caddy, tee up my ball.
00:10:47Well...
00:10:57Here.
00:11:07Here, hold it.
00:11:26Here.
00:11:32Caddy, take out that pin.
00:11:35Well?
00:11:36Oh, yes, sir.
00:11:47For heaven's sake, stop walking around, or else take off those musical shoes.
00:11:52Yes, sir.
00:11:56Take that shadow out of there. Get off of the green.
00:12:26Caddy, come here and help me find my ball.
00:12:57Oh, Mr. Thorpe, here it is, right there.
00:13:02Give me my niblet.
00:13:03Here.
00:13:08That's not my club.
00:13:09Haven't you got the right clubs in the right bags by now?
00:13:13I'm sorry.
00:13:18Oh, just a minute.
00:13:24There.
00:13:27There.
00:13:34Nice shot, Mr. Thorpe.
00:13:52Oh, I found it, Mr. Thorpe.
00:13:54Well, it's about time.
00:13:55It's right here under the water.
00:13:57I know it's under the water. Fish it out.
00:13:59Oh, yes.
00:14:09I got it.
00:14:11Here it is.
00:14:25You got me stymied.
00:14:26We're not playing for money. Is it all right if I remove your ball until I put out?
00:14:30Oh, certainly, Mr. Thorpe.
00:14:31Well, Caddy, pick up that ball.
00:14:33Oh, yes, sir.
00:14:39That does it.
00:14:45Oh, wait, Mr. Thorpe. Let's finish the last nine without the caddy.
00:14:48Nothing doing. In the first place, I have an appointment with the Premier Biscuit Company.
00:14:52In the second place, I wouldn't play another hole with you and that moron in the first place.
00:15:00Is he mad about something?
00:15:02Dagwood.
00:15:04You know that raise I promised you this evening?
00:15:07Oh, yes.
00:15:10Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:15:14Yes.
00:15:20So it is agreed, gentlemen, that the Premier Biscuit Company, for the time being, will continue with the same radio program.
00:15:25Absolutely, Mr. Dixon.
00:15:27I think we're all in accord with that, Bob.
00:15:29Of course, when Thorpe has his station enlarged and we go on a coast-to-coast hookup, we'll have to spend more money on our show.
00:15:35Well, that's several months off, Bob. We can take that up at a later meeting.
00:15:39Yes?
00:15:42Send him right in.
00:15:45I'm sorry I'm late, gentlemen.
00:15:47Sit right there, Thorpe.
00:15:52Gentlemen, I'm afraid I have some bad news for you.
00:15:55Bad news?
00:15:57There'll probably be a slight delay in the building of my radio station.
00:16:01Why?
00:16:03Well, I hate to admit this, but it appears that I have wasted four weeks with the Radcliffe Construction Company.
00:16:09I always thought they were a reputable firm.
00:16:11Radcliffe may be all right.
00:16:13But he hires nitwits to work for him.
00:16:15Mr. Thorpe, we're not interested in what firm builds your station.
00:16:19All we know is we have a contract to go on a coast-to-coast hookup through your station beginning October 15th.
00:16:24If your station isn't ready by that time, we'll have to give our account to someone else.
00:16:28Am I right, gentlemen?
00:16:32I'll get busy immediately with another contract.
00:16:35That's entirely up to you, Mr. Thorpe.
00:16:39Good day, gentlemen.
00:16:44Now, if there's nothing else to be taken up at this time, I propose that the meeting be adjourned.
00:16:48Well, Bob, don't you think we should tell Llewellyn about our decision regarding the radio show?
00:16:52After all, he is the president.
00:16:54We could tell him any time.
00:16:56Oh, well.
00:16:57Well, I heard there was a meeting going on or something like that.
00:17:00Now, what's cooking? What's cooking?
00:17:01It's nothing important, Llewellyn.
00:17:02Nothing important? Important or not?
00:17:03I remember I'm the president here. I'm the president.
00:17:05Let me see.
00:17:06Let me see.
00:17:07Let me see.
00:17:08I'm the president.
00:17:09I want to know all about it.
00:17:10What's cooking? What's cooking?
00:17:11I want to know all about it.
00:17:12What's cooking? What's cooking? What's going on?
00:17:13It's nothing, Llewellyn.
00:17:14We were just discussing our radio program.
00:17:16Oh, the new program?
00:17:17Oh, good.
00:17:18I hope you have a lot of comedians and laughs like the one I heard last night.
00:17:22Very funny. Very funny.
00:17:24Maybe we'll take your suggestion for the new one, but that isn't until fall, and there's plenty of time for that.
00:17:28Until the fall?
00:17:31Llewellyn?
00:17:32Yes?
00:17:34You're breaking your promise, Llewellyn?
00:17:35I am?
00:17:36You gave us your word you'd stay out of the kitchen for a whole year.
00:17:39Oh, well, I just can't, Tubman.
00:17:41I'm never happy unless I'm mixing up a batter or mixing up some dough or something like that.
00:17:46A promise is a promise, Llewellyn, isn't it, gentlemen?
00:17:48Certainly is.
00:17:49But I'm on the verge of discovering a new cookie.
00:17:51Remember, gentlemen, it was my recipe that gave birth to the first cookie.
00:17:55We all realize and appreciate that, Llewellyn, but the head baker will quit if you don't stay out of the kitchen.
00:18:00He says you disrupt the whole staff.
00:18:02So will you please stay out of the kitchen?
00:18:05So, you have another recipe, eh, Llewellyn?
00:18:07Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:18:08But I'm having more trouble with this recipe than I've ever had before in my life.
00:18:11It seems the more butter I put in my batter, it doesn't get any better.
00:18:13If I don't put any butter in, the batter gets bitter.
00:18:15If the batter gets bitter, it's no better than the batter with the butter in it.
00:18:17The batter with the butter in it is better, but the batter without the butter is better than the batter with the...
00:18:21All those in favor say aye.
00:18:22Aye.
00:18:23Aye.
00:18:24Nothing helps, not even my new invention.
00:18:25New invention?
00:18:26Yeah, a rubber spoon.
00:18:27It doesn't even bruise the batter.
00:18:28Why?
00:18:29Because it's flexible, see?
00:18:30It goes...
00:18:33Oh, I beg your pardon.
00:18:35Sorry.
00:18:36I'm sorry, but it won't burn your eye because I haven't put any vanilla in the batter yet.
00:18:51Oh, dear.
00:18:56Hi, Mom.
00:18:57Hi, Mommy.
00:18:58Oh, hello, darlings.
00:18:59How was school this afternoon?
00:19:00Oh, fine.
00:19:01Gee, what a swell-looking stove.
00:19:06Oh, boy.
00:19:07Cookies.
00:19:08Can I have one?
00:19:10Not now, darling.
00:19:11It'll spoil your dinner.
00:19:12What time are we going to have dinner?
00:19:13Oh, as soon as your father comes home.
00:19:15Gee, I hope he gets here soon.
00:19:17I'm starved.
00:19:18Well, I don't mind what time he comes home.
00:19:20This is the first afternoon your father's had off for months.
00:19:23Oh, the fresh air will do him a world of good.
00:19:25It'll make a new man of him.
00:19:28Your daddy will probably be famished after his nice day on the golf dive, honey.
00:19:32Thanks, Mommy.
00:19:33Hm?
00:19:34Oh, you're right, dear.
00:19:35Thanks.
00:19:38Is that you, Dagwood?
00:19:40Yes, Blondie.
00:19:50Blondie!
00:19:51Blondie!
00:19:52Blondie!
00:19:53Blondie!
00:19:54Blondie!
00:19:55Blondie!
00:19:56Blondie!
00:20:01Daisy, it's only Daddy.
00:20:05It sure made a new man out of him.
00:20:09Dagwood, what on earth's happened?
00:20:13I stepped on a piece of paper, Blondie, and it stuck right in my foot.
00:20:16Oh, poor darling.
00:20:18Did it go right through your shoes?
00:20:19No, I didn't wear any shoes, Blondie.
00:20:22Why not?
00:20:23Were they too tight?
00:20:24No, too squeaky.
00:20:25Mr. Thorpe couldn't concentrate on his game.
00:20:27Oh, it annoyed him.
00:20:29A little, but it wasn't till after I hit him on the head with a tree that...
00:20:33A tree?
00:20:34Oh, just a branch.
00:20:36Dagwood, that's terrible.
00:20:38Well, that wasn't the worst of it.
00:20:39The worst of it was when I drenched it with water.
00:20:42Water?
00:20:43Yeah, I fell in the lake.
00:20:45Lake?
00:20:46Yeah.
00:20:47You see, I was fishing.
00:20:49Fishing?
00:20:50I thought you went to play golf.
00:20:51Yeah, I did, Blondie, but I was fishing for Mr. Thorpe's ball.
00:20:55Well, why didn't you let him do his own fishing?
00:20:57Blondie, that's my job.
00:20:58I was caddying.
00:20:59Caddying?
00:21:00I thought you were golfing.
00:21:01I was golfing, Blondie, but I was caddying.
00:21:04When you're caddying, you're not golfing.
00:21:06Dagwood, you have me all confused.
00:21:09Now, dear, start over again from the beginning.
00:21:11All right, all right.
00:21:12You see, I went out to the golf course...
00:21:16Dagwood, you didn't eat a bite of your dinner.
00:21:18Oh, Blondie, I couldn't eat anything.
00:21:20I'm too upset.
00:21:25What are you holding back, Dagwood?
00:21:27Well, I...
00:21:32I'm waiting, dear.
00:21:37Blondie, I don't know how to tell you,
00:21:39especially after buying you the new stove.
00:21:44What's the new stove got to do with it?
00:21:48Well, Blondie, I'm not going to get the raise,
00:21:50so I guess we'll just have to send the stove back.
00:21:52We can't send the stove back.
00:21:54Now that we've used it...
00:21:55Yeah, yeah, but how are we going to pay for it?
00:21:58Well...
00:22:02Maybe I can get a job, a part-time job doing something.
00:22:05Oh, doing what?
00:22:07Well, I don't know.
00:22:13Dagwood, remember when Mr. Camel came here for dinner
00:22:16and ate up all my cookies?
00:22:17Huh?
00:22:18Well, maybe he was just joking,
00:22:20but he told me I could go to work for him
00:22:22in his pastry shop anytime I wanted.
00:22:24Oh, who'd do the housework?
00:22:26Who'd take care of the children?
00:22:28Well, with this new stove,
00:22:29maybe I could do the baking here.
00:22:31Huh?
00:22:32And if I...
00:22:33If I could do the baking here...
00:22:36Why do I have to bake for Mr. Camel?
00:22:38Why can't I bake for myself?
00:22:39Make cookies and sell them, old Dagwood.
00:22:41You know all my friends and neighbors would buy them.
00:22:43Blondie, I'm not going to have you work yourself to death
00:22:45just to pay for the mistakes I've made.
00:22:47Do you need money?
00:22:49You know very well we need money, Blondie.
00:22:51We need lots...
00:22:52Oh, oh, yeah.
00:22:54Then learn to be a radio engineer in your spare time
00:22:56by taking a short correspondence course
00:22:58from the Talbot School of Radio Engineering.
00:23:00Jerry Thorndyke of Scranton, Pennsylvania,
00:23:02after only four weeks of study under our method,
00:23:04earned in one year $750 repairing radios in his spare time.
00:23:09If Mr. Thorndyke can do it, why can't you?
00:23:11Be independent. Be your own boss.
00:23:13To obtain this marvelous course,
00:23:15send a penny postal card
00:23:16to the Talbot Correspondence School of Radio Engineering,
00:23:19Box 5200, Chicago, Illinois.
00:23:22No.
00:23:23Dagwood, maybe you should take that course.
00:23:25Oh, Blondie, I'm not mechanically inclined.
00:23:28Well, didn't you fix the vacuum cleaner?
00:23:30Oh, I just put a blowout patch on the bag.
00:23:32And didn't you fix the radio?
00:23:34Yeah, I just put a new tube in it, that's all.
00:23:36But you made it work.
00:23:37Dad, there are hundreds of radios
00:23:38in this neighborhood alone that need repairing.
00:23:40Oh, but, but, but...
00:23:41Oh, Dagwood, you can do anything if you'll only try.
00:23:44Yeah, but...
00:23:45Now just think of it.
00:23:46In four weeks' time,
00:23:47you'll be making more money
00:23:49than Mr. Radcliffe pays you at the office.
00:23:51I will?
00:23:52Didn't the man on the radio just say so?
00:23:55Yeah.
00:23:56Dagwood Bumstead, radio engineer.
00:24:00Your own boss at last.
00:24:02Yeah, my own boss.
00:24:03It's a good idea.
00:24:04I'll send a penny postcard right away.
00:24:07After I fix myself a sandwich.
00:24:18If you have carefully followed
00:24:19the simple instructions in lesson three,
00:24:21your easy-to-build crystal set
00:24:23is now complete and in working order.
00:24:25Hello, Marconi.
00:24:26How are you doing?
00:24:27Yeah, hello, Alvin.
00:24:28Hello.
00:24:29I understand you're doing some research
00:24:31in the field of electronics and radio technology.
00:24:34Oh, I am?
00:24:35Yes, I am.
00:24:36I'm, uh...
00:24:37I'm learning how to be a radio engineer.
00:24:39Going to be my own boss.
00:24:41Tell me, Mr. Bumstead.
00:24:42Uh-huh?
00:24:43The three-tube receiver
00:24:44modified for use with the two-volt tubes,
00:24:46how do you prevent battery discharge
00:24:48through the voltage dividers
00:24:49when the receiver is not in use?
00:24:52Oh, uh...
00:24:53Well, it's...
00:24:55Where does that say that?
00:24:57It doesn't.
00:24:58I asked it.
00:24:59Oh, yes.
00:25:00Well...
00:25:01To tell you the truth, Alvin,
00:25:04I'm not exactly familiar with that type of set.
00:25:07That must be in lesson five.
00:25:09Now, this is lesson four,
00:25:10and it says you are now qualified for better things.
00:25:15Start unpacking the shortwave parts.
00:25:18There.
00:25:19Shortwave parts.
00:25:21There you are.
00:25:23There's the receiver.
00:25:24That's the transmitter.
00:25:25Yeah, I know, I know.
00:25:26Thank you very much.
00:25:27Uh, this is the trans...
00:25:29No, no, yeah, this is the receiver, yeah.
00:25:32When a man is going to be a radio engineer,
00:25:35he has to learn how to fix all kinds of radios,
00:25:37even shortwave.
00:25:39What shortwave, Daddy?
00:25:41Well, uh...
00:25:42Oh, uh...
00:25:44Well, a shortwave is just like longwave,
00:25:47only it's shorter.
00:25:49Understand?
00:25:51Yes, I don't understand.
00:25:55Yeah.
00:25:58Uh, let's see.
00:26:00Hey, where's the book?
00:26:01Where's the book, huh?
00:26:03Hey, thanks, Alvin.
00:26:06Let's see the instruction.
00:26:08Oh, instruction for assembling six-tube regenerative SS receiver
00:26:13and 100-watt radio telephone transmitter
00:26:16will be found on diagram A.
00:26:19Yeah, let's see.
00:26:22Oh, there's nothing to worry about now, Alvin.
00:26:25With this diagram, I'll have this radio set together...
00:26:30I'll have this radio set together in no time.
00:26:34No time?
00:26:35I think I'll be going now, Mr. Bumstead.
00:26:38Yes, well, I mean, goodbye, Alvin.
00:26:41I'll see you when?
00:26:42When?
00:26:43When your high-frequency oscillations start backfiring.
00:26:49Oh, yeah.
00:26:52Well, let's see.
00:26:54Well, I guess the first thing to do now is to set up the aerial.
00:26:59Let's see.
00:27:00Oh, the aerial.
00:27:01Here we are.
00:27:03Lum-bum-bum.
00:27:04Lum-bum-bum.
00:27:06Lum-bum-bum-bum.
00:27:07Dee-dee-dee-dee-dum-bum.
00:27:09Dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:27:11Dee-dee-dee-dee-dum-bum.
00:27:14Can I help, Pop?
00:27:16Oh, boy, you sure can.
00:27:18Dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:27:20Yeah, that's it.
00:27:21That's it.
00:27:22Dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:27:24What are you doing, Pop?
00:27:25Oh, you'll find out.
00:27:27Better to be safe than sorry.
00:27:29Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:27:31Here, now.
00:27:32Come here, Alexander.
00:27:33Now, look.
00:27:34Now, you just hang on to that end of the rope.
00:27:36Okay, Pop.
00:27:37And whatever you do, don't let go of your end.
00:27:39Okay.
00:27:40Of the rope.
00:27:41Now, here we go.
00:27:42Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:27:44And don't forget, Alexander.
00:27:46Do exactly what I tell you to do now.
00:27:49Because I don't want to have any arguments when I'm out there on that roof.
00:27:53Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:27:56Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:27:59Now, let's see.
00:28:00Try it now.
00:28:01Hang on now.
00:28:02Oh, boy, that's it.
00:28:03Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:05Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:07Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:10Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:12Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:14Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:16Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:18Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:20Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:22Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:24Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:26Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:28Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:30Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:32Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:34Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:28:36Dee-dee-dee-dee-dee.
00:29:07Now, now, don't let it out, Alexander.
00:29:10I won't.
00:29:24Oh, my.
00:29:28I made it, ha.
00:29:36Ha.
00:29:45Don't let go, Alexander.
00:29:47Okay, Pop.
00:29:53Hi, there.
00:29:54Oh, hello, Alvin.
00:29:55Gee, you sure look sharp today.
00:29:57Gee, how do you like it? A brand new outfit.
00:29:59Just got it yesterday, huh?
00:30:00You can at least take the price tag off.
00:30:02Huh? Oh.
00:30:04What are you doing out this way today?
00:30:06Well, in the first place, it's Sunday,
00:30:08and I know that Bumpstead isn't going to the office, right?
00:30:10Right.
00:30:11And I don't get knocked down, right?
00:30:13Right.
00:30:14And secondly, I'm going to have it out with that Bumpstead once and for all.
00:30:17We've got to get together on the time that he leaves for the office,
00:30:19whether it's 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, or whatever it is.
00:30:23I'll adjust my time to fit his.
00:30:25Good idea?
00:30:26Right.
00:30:27Right.
00:30:29Ow!
00:30:32Don't let go, Alexander, no!
00:30:34Alexander!
00:30:36Yes, Mom?
00:30:37Alexander, I want you to run an errand for me.
00:30:40I can't come right now, Mom.
00:30:42Alexander, I said I have an errand for you to do.
00:30:45But if I come now, something might happen.
00:30:48Something will happen if you don't come down here immediately.
00:30:51Well?
00:30:52Alexander, are you coming?
00:30:54Alexander!
00:30:56Okay, if you say so.
00:31:11What on earth was that?
00:31:13I have a faint idea.
00:31:27Hey!
00:31:28Hey!
00:31:29Oh, my.
00:31:38Good morning, KCKR.
00:31:40Ah, good morning, KCKR.
00:31:44Ah, good morning, KCKR.
00:31:49Good morning, KCKR.
00:31:52Mr. Thorpe can't be disturbed right now. He's in conference.
00:32:00Yes?
00:32:01Mr. Green just called Mr. Thorpe. He said he won't be able to play golf after all.
00:32:04All right, Miss Marsh.
00:32:23Yes, Mr. Thorpe?
00:32:24Get me the Rat-Trip Construction Company right away.
00:32:28Why, in a few weeks I'll probably be making more money on the side than I make here.
00:32:32As soon as I finish assembling my 6-2 regenerative SS receiver...
00:32:37...and my 100-watt radio telephone transmitter.
00:32:40I'll be able to play golf.
00:32:42I'll be able to play golf.
00:32:44I'll be able to play golf.
00:32:46I'll be able to play golf.
00:32:48I'll be able to play golf.
00:32:50I'll have a 100-watt radio telephone transmitter.
00:32:53I'll get my diploma, and with this set, I'll be able to...
00:32:56Well, I'll be able to get any place.
00:32:58India, Siam, China.
00:33:00What good will it do? You won't understand them.
00:33:03Why, in time I'll be able to quit here and be my own boss.
00:33:06No more of this.
00:33:07I will give you a raise. I won't give you a raise.
00:33:10Bumstick!
00:33:13Dangler, that was a great move on your part.
00:33:15That was a master stroke of strategy.
00:33:17What was?
00:33:18The plans in that golf bag.
00:33:19The plans in the golf bag?
00:33:20Yes, putting those plans in Thorpe's golf bag.
00:33:22Dag, that was a great idea.
00:33:24Oh, yes, yes.
00:33:25Oh, yes.
00:33:26I thought that would work.
00:33:27Work?
00:33:28I'll say it did.
00:33:29Thorpe just phoned.
00:33:30He's delighted with the plans and wants you immediately to come over to his office.
00:33:31Right away.
00:33:32Now, you get your hat and let's get going.
00:33:37Ten pounds of sugar.
00:33:39Five pounds of flour.
00:33:41Four pounds of butter.
00:33:42Oh, yes, and a bottle of vanilla.
00:33:44Yeah.
00:33:45Looks like you're going to have a party.
00:33:46No, I'm going into the cookie business.
00:33:48Oh, indeed.
00:33:49Mm-hmm.
00:33:50Uh, Mr. Taylor, would you be interested in taking some of my cookies to sell?
00:33:55Well, to tell you the truth, we've got a tie-up with the Premier Biscuit Company.
00:33:59Oh.
00:34:00Of course, if you care to bring some of your cookies in, I'll be glad to display them.
00:34:03As strange as it may seem, we have very few customers for cookies.
00:34:07In fact, the best customer we have is that gentleman standing over there.
00:34:17Once a week, just like clockwork,
00:34:19he comes in and buys one package of every type of cookie we have on the shelves.
00:34:23Oh.
00:34:24He must be crazy about cookies.
00:34:27Why don't you approach him about your cookies?
00:34:30The next time you come in, put some on the counter,
00:34:32and undoubtedly you'll buy some of those, too.
00:34:47You like cookies, don't you?
00:34:49Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:34:51I'm going into the cookie business.
00:34:53Oh, it's a good business to go into.
00:34:54Well, it's a fortune in cookies.
00:34:55That's if they're good cookies.
00:34:57Well, my friends all tell me that my cookies are the best they've ever tasted.
00:35:00Really? I'd like to taste one sometime.
00:35:02Uh, pardon me, but why do you just eat one out of each package?
00:35:06Well, I don't know.
00:35:07I don't like cookies.
00:35:08I don't like cookies.
00:35:09I don't like cookies.
00:35:10I don't like cookies.
00:35:11I don't like cookies.
00:35:12I don't like cookies.
00:35:13I don't like cookies.
00:35:14I don't like cookies.
00:35:15Well, you have to eat one out of each package.
00:35:16Well, if I take one and that's good in the package,
00:35:18well, the rest of the package must be good, too.
00:35:20That's right.
00:35:22But why do you...
00:35:23Oh, Mrs. Bromstad, I won't be able to deliver your order till late this afternoon.
00:35:27Oh, dear.
00:35:30I wanted to have them delivered right away.
00:35:32I intended to start baking this morning.
00:35:35Oh, are you going to make the cookies right away?
00:35:37Oh, well, my car's outside.
00:35:38I'd be very happy to deliver you or whatever packages have to your home.
00:35:41Oh, that's awfully nice of you.
00:35:42Oh, think nothing of it.
00:35:43We'll take it right away.
00:35:44Oh! Here, can I help you?
00:35:47You'll find him at Studio A.
00:35:49Mr. Radcliffe to see Mr. Thorpe, please.
00:35:51Go right in, Mr. Radcliffe. Mr. Thorpe is expecting you.
00:35:57Now that we're in good again, for heaven's sake, don't do anything to gum things up.
00:36:01Okay.
00:36:04Good morning, Radcliffe.
00:36:06Good morning, Mr. Thorpe.
00:36:09Well, good morning, Mr. Thorpe.
00:36:11Oh, hello.
00:36:13Radcliffe, I gotta hand it to you.
00:36:16Sneaking those plans in my golf bag was a pretty wise move.
00:36:20Well, I have to admit, that wasn't my idea, Mr. Thorpe, it was Mr. Bumstead's.
00:36:24And I think these plans are perfect.
00:36:27Well, I'm glad to hear that.
00:36:29With the exception of one small change.
00:36:33Well, uh, what change did you have in mind?
00:36:35I'd like to have a shower installed in my private office.
00:36:43Oh, that's no problem, Mr. Thorpe.
00:36:45We can convert one of these large closets into a shower.
00:36:47Closet?
00:36:49That's an excellent idea.
00:36:51Oh, yes, that's an excellent idea.
00:36:54How long will it take you to indicate that change on these plans?
00:36:57Oh, very few minutes. Have you got a ruler?
00:36:59Right here.
00:37:02While your young man is making this change,
00:37:04I want to show you why our control room has to be enlarged for our remote pickups.
00:37:09Say, I'd like to see that. What kind of amplifier is it?
00:37:12No, you stay here and make the changes on those plans.
00:37:15Oh, yeah.
00:37:16Okay, gentlemen. By the time you get back, I'll have it all done.
00:37:42♪
00:38:12Pardon me, miss. May I borrow your nail file?
00:38:38Sure.
00:38:39Oh, thanks.
00:38:42Oh, I'm just going to tighten a little screw on Mr. Thorpe's radio.
00:38:45Oh, you'd better not touch that radio.
00:38:47Mr. Thorpe only bought it yesterday.
00:38:48Oh, yeah, but it's got a lot of static in it, and I can fix it in a jiffy.
00:38:52Oh, now, really, you'd be sad...
00:38:53Oh, now, don't worry about it. I'm a radio engineer.
00:39:00I can see now why you need more space.
00:39:02Especially when my station joins the coast-to-coast network.
00:39:06Incidentally, the Premier Biscuit Company goes on the air tomorrow night.
00:39:09Not with their big show, but the same as they had last year.
00:39:12And I'm giving a little party in my office.
00:39:14Would you like to join us?
00:39:15I'd be delighted.
00:39:16All their executives will be there, and seeing that you're going to build my station, I think you should meet them.
00:39:22And besides, it'll give you a better perspective listening to it over my radio than watching the broadcast.
00:39:27Uh-huh.
00:39:37My radio.
00:39:40Huh?
00:39:41Oh, hello.
00:39:45Hey, there was a little loose screw.
00:39:47The only loose screw around here is you.
00:39:50Egbert, how could you do such a stupid thing?
00:39:53Well, if you...
00:39:54You are in the way of an income.
00:39:56Now, wait a minute, mister.
00:39:57You idiot!
00:39:58Now, wait a minute.
00:39:59You nitwit!
00:40:00Now, wait a minute.
00:40:01You blockhead!
00:40:02Now, let's get going, huh?
00:40:03I paid $1,500 for this radio, my biggest client coming tomorrow night.
00:40:08What am I going to do?
00:40:09Now, wait a minute.
00:40:10What do I...
00:40:11Radcliffe, if you want the contract to build my radio station, fire this idiot!
00:40:16Oh, no.
00:40:17Yes!
00:40:18No.
00:40:19Yes.
00:40:20No.
00:40:21Yes.
00:40:22No.
00:40:23Yes.
00:40:24No.
00:40:26It's awfully nice of you to help me, Mr. Simmons.
00:40:29Oh, it's awfully nice of you to let me come.
00:40:31How come you know so much about pastries?
00:40:33Oh, I was practically born in a flour bin.
00:40:36My father was a baker.
00:40:37My mother was a baker.
00:40:38My grandfather...
00:40:39They were all bakers.
00:40:40Sort of a hobby with me.
00:40:41Oh, that accounts for it.
00:40:42Baking was bread in you.
00:40:43Yeah, baking was...
00:40:44That's very funny.
00:40:46You made a joke.
00:40:47Baking was bread.
00:40:48Bread, baking, baking, bread.
00:40:49Well, I assure you, I didn't mean it as a joke.
00:40:52Oh, Mr. Simmons.
00:40:54You must be a great help to your wife.
00:40:56Yeah, a big help to my wife.
00:40:57My wife?
00:40:58I'm not married.
00:40:59No.
00:41:00The nearest time I ever came to getting married occurred when I baked a wedding cake for a
00:41:03friend of mine.
00:41:04Oh.
00:41:05Yeah.
00:41:06But you're married, aren't you?
00:41:07I have two lovely children.
00:41:08Oh.
00:41:09Oh, yes, yes.
00:41:10All right.
00:41:11Has your husband any culinary leanings at all?
00:41:13Well, he does make a delicious sandwich.
00:41:16Sandwich?
00:41:17Oh, I love sandwiches, especially with bread.
00:41:21What does your husband do for a living?
00:41:23Oh, he has a very responsible position with a big construction company.
00:41:26Oh.
00:41:27And just lately, he's taken up radio engineering on the side.
00:41:29Radio?
00:41:30Oh, I love radio.
00:41:31I love radio, especially the funny part where the comedians make the laughs go...
00:41:36I like that part.
00:41:39Blondie.
00:41:43Oh, will you excuse me, Mr. Simmons?
00:41:45Oh, yeah.
00:41:46You go ahead.
00:41:47I'll take care of everything.
00:41:48All right.
00:41:49Fine.
00:41:50I'll fix everything, of course.
00:41:51Dagwood.
00:41:52You're home this time of day.
00:41:53Now, don't tell me you're going to play golf again.
00:41:55You got into enough trouble last time.
00:41:57No, Blondie.
00:41:58I'm not going to play golf.
00:42:00Then why are you home?
00:42:01Mr. Radcliffe sent me home, for good.
00:42:06Huh?
00:42:07What?
00:42:09What do you mean, for good?
00:42:11I'm fired.
00:42:12You're fired?
00:42:15You're fired?
00:42:16Yes.
00:42:17But what are we whispering for?
00:42:19There's a man out in the kitchen.
00:42:20A man?
00:42:21Shh.
00:42:22A man.
00:42:23Who is he?
00:42:24I don't know.
00:42:25He just picked me up in the grocery store.
00:42:27Huh?
00:42:28Well, I'll be leaving, Mrs. Bumstead.
00:42:30Oh, this is your husband, I presume.
00:42:31How do you do?
00:42:32Yes, but who...
00:42:33You don't mind if I come back again tomorrow, do you?
00:42:35Oh, no, Mr. Simmons.
00:42:36I'd love to have you.
00:42:38I'll bring my rubber spoon so I won't bruise the batter.
00:42:40I think we ought to put more butter in the batter.
00:42:42It makes it much better.
00:42:43Uh-huh.
00:42:44The more butter it is, the better the batter is.
00:42:45If the batter gets any worse, it'll be better.
00:42:46The better the batter is, the better.
00:42:49Well, who is he?
00:42:50What does he do?
00:42:51Oh, he's just some nice old gentleman.
00:42:53He helped me home with my packages.
00:42:55And Dagwood, he gave me some very good suggestions
00:42:57on how to improve my cookies.
00:42:59Blondie, I won't stand for having a man visiting you while I work.
00:43:04Or while I'm fired, either.
00:43:05Why were you fired, Dagwood?
00:43:07Well, I started to tighten a little screw on Mr. Thorpe's radio and...
00:43:10Oh, Dagwood!
00:43:12Yes, but Mr. Thorpe is so impatient.
00:43:15If he would have just waited a few minutes,
00:43:16I would have had the radio all put back together again.
00:43:19But no, he had to insist that Mr. Radcliffe fire me.
00:43:22And he did.
00:43:24Well, Dagwood, there's no sense crying over spilled milk.
00:43:27We'll both just have to pitch in,
00:43:29you with your radio repairing and me with my cookies.
00:43:31Oh, no, Blondie.
00:43:32I'm not ready yet to repair radios.
00:43:34And if just your friends and neighbors buy cookies,
00:43:37why, that wouldn't bring in enough money to...
00:43:39I'm not going to sell my cookies just to my friends and neighbors.
00:43:43Mr. Simmons says I should advertise and I'm going to.
00:43:46Oh, no, Blondie.
00:43:47Advertising costs an awful lot of money.
00:43:50Oh, not the way I'm going to advertise.
00:43:52I'm going to have circulars printed and I'm going to mail them all out.
00:43:55To whom?
00:43:56To everybody in the phone book.
00:43:58What are you going to say on the circular, huh?
00:44:08In bold type it's going to read,
00:44:10Blondie's cookies hit the spot.
00:44:23Blondie's cookies may be obtained at 4227 Shady Lane Avenue.
00:44:40Shady Lane Avenue
00:45:11Shady Lane Avenue
00:45:18I said it was a swell dinner. I sure was hungry.
00:45:21Well, no wonder you've been in the kitchen baking all day.
00:45:24You didn't even stop for lunch.
00:45:26You certainly baked a lot of cookies.
00:45:28Oh, you think I baked a lot today?
00:45:29Wait till tomorrow, wait till tomorrow, huh, Blondie, huh?
00:45:32Well, I'm afraid that we're going to have to get some more butter and eggs and...
00:45:35Oh, don't worry about that.
00:45:36We'll get more tomorrow, more tomorrow, don't worry.
00:45:38But you don't understand. You see, Mr. Simmons...
00:45:41Oh, Llewellyn, Llewellyn, Llewellyn.
00:45:43Well, you see, Llewellyn, we have to sell the ones we've already made
00:45:47to get money to buy the ingredients to make more.
00:45:50Don't worry about that. Everything will take care of itself.
00:45:52Everything will come out all right. Don't worry.
00:45:54You have a cigar? Have a cigar?
00:45:57Oh, thanks.
00:45:58Well, children, you better go upstairs and get ready for bed.
00:46:00Good night, Mom.
00:46:01Good night, Mommy. Good night, Teddy.
00:46:02Good night, kids.
00:46:04Good night, Uncle Llewellyn.
00:46:09Good night, lovely children, and well behaved, well behaved.
00:46:13Well, if you'll pardon me, I have a little more work to do on my radio.
00:46:16Oh, Blondie tells me you're a wonderful radio engineer.
00:46:19Well, I wouldn't say an expert,
00:46:21but I just built one of the most powerful sets in the country.
00:46:24I think.
00:46:25I'd like to see it sometime.
00:46:27You would?
00:46:28Well, come on ahead, Llewellyn.
00:46:34Here.
00:46:35Now don't be surprised at what you hear.
00:46:37They said it's so powerful that we might get India, China, or Timbuktu.
00:46:43Good evening, Mrs. Taylor.
00:46:44Good evening.
00:46:45How are you?
00:46:46Good evening, Mrs. Dixon.
00:46:48How are you?
00:46:49No, thank you. Later.
00:46:50That's it, yeah.
00:46:51No, thank you.
00:46:54Radcliffe.
00:46:56Glad to see you.
00:46:57Oh, I hope I'm not late.
00:46:58We have several minutes before the program starts.
00:47:00Head rooms?
00:47:01Thank you. Not now. After the broadcast.
00:47:08Hello again.
00:47:09Do you know Mr. Barnum, Mr. Radcliffe?
00:47:11No, you?
00:47:14There it is.
00:47:16All finished.
00:47:17But I can't understand having these parts left over.
00:47:20Maybe they're spare parts.
00:47:25Well, shall we warm it up?
00:47:27Yeah, warm it up.
00:47:28Get some funny comedians.
00:47:29Get some big laughs and things like that.
00:47:31Turn it off.
00:47:38Oh, dear.
00:47:39Those are not comedians.
00:47:41It's almost time for the program, folks.
00:47:45Quiet, everybody. This is it.
00:47:49The Overland Broadcasting Company is proud to present the first in a series of 30-minute broadcasts
00:47:54sponsored by the Premier Biscuit Company.
00:47:56The Premier Biscuit Company, makers of the world's finest cakes and cookies,
00:48:01presents their string ensemble,
00:48:03whose smooth, dreamy music is in keeping with Premier's smooth, creamy cookies.
00:48:08I would like to say a few more words about Premier Cookies
00:48:11before we hear from the string ensemble.
00:48:14Another commercial?
00:48:15The cookies like Mother used to make.
00:48:17Only better. Cookies with a personality all their own.
00:48:21Drop in at your neighborhood grocer and ask for Premier Cookies.
00:48:25There are 18 different varieties to choose from.
00:48:28And now, our string ensemble will play The Ringing in the Sheaves.
00:48:42Isn't it beautiful?
00:48:47Mrs. Dixon likes this type of music.
00:48:50Oh.
00:48:55If it works, Dagwood, you'll graduate next week and get your diploma, too.
00:49:00With you selling cookies and him fixing radios, your troubles will soon be over.
00:49:04Did you get that circular made up, as I told you?
00:49:06Oh, yes, I did, Llewellyn. And last night we nailed hundreds of them out.
00:49:09Wait, I'll show you one.
00:49:10Oh, well, there's only one thing when you're starting off with a new product to advertise it.
00:49:13You've got to start off modestly with little pamphlets or little circulars or something like that.
00:49:18And then as business increases, you advertise the newspapers and finally the radio.
00:49:22Here you are, Llewellyn.
00:49:24Oh, I can't read it without my glasses. You read it.
00:49:26Oh, come to think of it, I don't even use glasses. But you read it anyway. You read it.
00:49:31We shall now hear what a housewife thinks of Premier Cookies.
00:49:34Try Blondie's Butternut Cookies. They're delicious. They melt in your mouth.
00:49:39What is this, dear?
00:49:41Blondie's Cookies do not stay on your grocer's shelf for days.
00:49:44They come direct from the oven to you.
00:49:47No other cookie can make that statement.
00:49:49Blondie's Cookies may be obtained at 4227 Shady Lane Avenue.
00:49:54Oh, thank you, dear.
00:49:56And that's what I like about Premier Cookies.
00:50:00I spend thousands of dollars putting Premier Cookies on the air.
00:50:03And what happens?
00:50:04You let some cheap huckster horn in on my radio time with some blasted Blondie cookie commercial.
00:50:10I can't understand it, Mr. Dixon.
00:50:12Well, understand this.
00:50:13If you let a thing like this happen on a small broadcast, what's liable to happen when I go on coast to coast?
00:50:18The deal is off.
00:50:19When this contract expires, I'm going to give my account to some other network.
00:50:23Don't go, Mr. Dixon. I'll check with the control room and see what happens.
00:50:26It already happened.
00:50:28Come, dear.
00:50:30I'm sorry.
00:50:32I've never seen anything like that in my life.
00:50:38If I could get my hands on whoever cut in on that show, I'd...
00:50:42I'd...
00:50:43What was the address she said those cookies could be obtained at?
00:50:46Why, it's...
00:50:47Oh, I forget.
00:50:48Now that I've lost my best account, you can forget about enlarging my radio station.
00:50:52The deal is off.
00:50:53Come on, dear.
00:50:54Calm yourself, dear.
00:50:55I never thought Blondie would do a thing like this to me.
00:50:58What did you say?
00:50:59I said...
00:51:01Nothing.
00:51:02Otter.
00:51:03Now!
00:51:06Otter.
00:51:14Did these air thieves pirate a pickle show?
00:51:17No.
00:51:18Did they steal from some soap show?
00:51:20No.
00:51:21They deliberately cut in on a show where they knew they'd do the most good for themselves.
00:51:25A cookie show.
00:51:26Advertising the same sort of product as we are.
00:51:29And, gentlemen, I insist that Mr. Thorpe prosecutes this woman and whoever else is connected with her to the fullest extent of the law.
00:51:36I second that.
00:51:37You're absolutely right.
00:51:38You can rely on me, gentlemen, to go the limit.
00:51:41Have your secretary call my office for me.
00:51:44Miss Barton, call Mr. Thorpe's office.
00:51:46Your account means everything to me, and I won't leave a stone unturned.
00:51:52Hello, Miss Marsh.
00:51:53Connect me with Fuller.
00:51:55Fuller, about that incident last night.
00:51:57Get hold of the Mutual Detective Agency.
00:51:59Have them put two of their best men on the case right away.
00:52:04Don't worry, gentlemen.
00:52:05We'll have these people picked up in no time.
00:52:10Bob, don't you think on a matter as important as this, Llewellyn should be here?
00:52:13Oh, what does Llewellyn know about these things?
00:52:15Llewellyn, Llewellyn.
00:52:16I heard my name.
00:52:17Hey, what's going on here?
00:52:18Over there, over there.
00:52:20Now, what's cooking?
00:52:21What's cooking?
00:52:22What's cooking?
00:52:23Didn't you listen to our radio program last night?
00:52:25No, no.
00:52:26Who wants to hear those long-haired musicians play?
00:52:28No, no.
00:52:29I'm waiting for our new show with the comedians and the laughs.
00:52:31What am I waiting for?
00:52:32Look, some other company cut in on our program last night.
00:52:35So what?
00:52:36So what?
00:52:37It was another cookie company.
00:52:38I don't care.
00:52:39Another cookie company?
00:52:40Well, what are we waiting for?
00:52:41Oh, what are we waiting for?
00:52:43Arrest them.
00:52:44Put them all in jail.
00:52:45Listen, I'm president and principal stockholder of this company,
00:52:47and I demand them all be put in jail and the keys thrown away.
00:52:49Every one of them.
00:52:50I've got to leave now.
00:52:51I've got to leave now.
00:52:52I've got to go away.
00:52:53Remember what I said?
00:52:54Get them all.
00:52:55Put them all in jail.
00:52:56Each and every one of them in jail.
00:52:58And business is slack, and we needed that contract for that radio station.
00:53:02We certainly did.
00:53:03I fired Bumster, didn't I?
00:53:05You certainly did.
00:53:06He's no longer connected with this firm, is he?
00:53:08He certainly isn't.
00:53:09And still that Bumster jinx hovers over me, doesn't it?
00:53:12And still that Bumster jinx hovers over me, doesn't it?
00:53:15It certainly does.
00:53:16When I bought this firm from Mr. Dithers, he warned me about Bumster, didn't he?
00:53:19He certainly did.
00:53:20But I, being soft-hearted, paid no attention to him, did I?
00:53:23You certainly didn't.
00:53:24You call Bumster and tell him I want to see him in my office immediately.
00:53:27I certainly will.
00:53:28What a sap.
00:53:29What a fool I've been.
00:53:31You certainly have.
00:53:36I'll take two of these.
00:53:37Oh, all righty.
00:53:39Now, here we are.
00:53:41I'll take two of those.
00:53:42Oh, yes.
00:53:43Oh, I hope you can change the $10 bill.
00:53:45Oh, yes, of course I can.
00:53:46My goodness, business has been so wonderful this morning.
00:53:52Listen.
00:53:53Don't you fellas tell Dixon I swiped all this butter from the Premier Biscuit Company
00:53:56and I'll give you all a nice little cookie.
00:53:58What am I talking about?
00:53:59They don't even know Dixon.
00:54:01I'll give a cookie anyway.
00:54:03Good old dog.
00:54:04Here.
00:54:06Here.
00:54:11Now I can pay for all that butter you bought.
00:54:13Oh, forget it, forget it, forget it, forget it.
00:54:14Oh, no, Llewellyn, I won't forget it.
00:54:16I'm not going to allow you to help me bake these cookies and spend your money too.
00:54:20What do you mean spend my money?
00:54:21Some of my best friends are cows.
00:54:24Oh, Llewellyn, those circulars were a great idea for us.
00:54:27Just think of all the business we've done this morning.
00:54:29Look, over $30.
00:54:31I told you it pays to advertise.
00:54:32Now, if we could only get a spot on the radio.
00:54:34Oh, it'll be some time before we can afford that.
00:54:37Speaking of radio, by the way, is your husband working upstairs?
00:54:40Uh-uh. His ex-boss telephoned him to come down to the office.
00:54:43Maybe he wants to give him his job back.
00:54:45Well, if he does, Dagwood won't take it.
00:54:47He won't take it.
00:54:48Especially after he saw that long line of customers outside.
00:54:53This is it.
00:54:56Did you get a load of that antenna on the roof?
00:54:58Yep.
00:55:00Ah, more customers, more customers.
00:55:03Right away.
00:55:06Well, gentlemen, how many do you want? How many do you want?
00:55:08How many are there?
00:55:09Oh, there's just a few now, but you come back later, there'll be a lot more.
00:55:12Later, there'll be a lot more? How many?
00:55:14Oh, dozens and dozens, dozens.
00:55:16Oh, look, mister, we're only interested in your radio.
00:55:18The radio. Oh, in that case, I'll have to call Blondie.
00:55:20Excuse me.
00:55:22Blondie.
00:55:25Oh, Blondie.
00:55:26There's two gentlemen outside who want to see you about having some radio work done or something.
00:55:29I don't know what it is.
00:55:30Radio work?
00:55:31Radio?
00:55:32Here.
00:55:33Oh, thank you.
00:55:38Good morning, gentlemen.
00:55:39We'd like to see your radio.
00:55:41Oh, well, I didn't think anyone knew my husband was a radio engineer.
00:55:45Oh, things get around.
00:55:46Oh, I'll show it to you. It's right upstairs.
00:56:02Hey, you guys see my rubber spoon? No?
00:56:08Well, how do you like it?
00:56:10Okay, Harry.
00:56:13Oh, oh, you can't do that.
00:56:15Oh, yes, we can, lady.
00:56:18Well, what's this all about?
00:56:19You'll find out.
00:56:21But my husband just built this.
00:56:23Yeah, yeah, we know, we know.
00:56:24But...
00:56:25Your name's Blondie, isn't it?
00:56:26Yes.
00:56:27Oh, come on, lady, you're going with us.
00:56:28Why?
00:56:29You'll find out when you get there.
00:56:30Well...
00:56:31Where's my rubber spoon?
00:56:33I don't want to bruise the better.
00:56:35Rubber spoon, here spoon.
00:56:41How long will I be gone to wherever it is I'm going for whatever I'm going for?
00:56:45Well, that all depends.
00:56:47Well, do you mind if I get my hat and coat?
00:56:49Okay.
00:56:53Now, let's grab the guy.
00:57:00Oh, that's cold.
00:57:17Where's that fellow that answered the door?
00:57:19Oh, he doesn't live here.
00:57:20He's just a visitor, and I...
00:57:22Well, I...
00:57:23I can...
00:57:24If you'll just...
00:57:25If you'll just...
00:57:28Where's that spoon? Where's that spoon?
00:57:34Maybe he sneaked upstairs.
00:57:35Oh, I'm sure he doesn't have anything to do with whatever we've done.
00:57:38Oh, sure.
00:57:39Well...
00:57:46Oh, I've been up there.
00:57:55Well, he's got to be around here somewhere.
00:58:10He must have gone out the back door.
00:58:12Well, with that face, he won't be hard to pick up.
00:58:14Let's get the stuff, Harry, and get out of here.
00:58:18Where did it go?
00:58:19I don't know. What would I do about it?
00:58:21Hmm, let's see.
00:58:23I was a rubber spoon, and I was lost.
00:58:25Where would I go? Where would I go?
00:58:26That's it. Where would I go?
00:58:27Of course, I'd go where other spoons go.
00:58:30That's right, where other spoons go.
00:58:36I know I'd find you. I know I'd find...
00:58:42Where are you going, Mom?
00:58:44I can't leave my children home alone.
00:58:46May I take them along?
00:58:48All right.
00:58:53I want you to give me a breakdown on this millwork in here.
00:58:56Good morning, boys.
00:58:57Hi, Doug.
00:58:58Have you graduated from your radio engineering school yet?
00:59:01Oh, not yet, but I finished my set, and I expect to graduate any minute.
00:59:05Be sure to have your cap and gown on when the mailman hands you that diploma.
00:59:10Well, never mind the sarcasm.
00:59:11Is your boss in?
00:59:13Yeah, genius, and he's waiting for you.
00:59:16Oh, well, Mary, don't bother announcing me.
00:59:19I'm expected.
00:59:23You want to see me, GM?
00:59:24Dagwood, I want to ask you just one question, and all you have to answer is yes or no.
00:59:28The answer is no.
00:59:30Mr. Radcliffe, I'm never coming back here to work anymore.
00:59:33I'm my own boss now.
00:59:34You fired me, and I'm going to stay fired.
00:59:36Now, listen, Dagwood.
00:59:37This is my day, and you listen to me.
00:59:40Ever since I can remember, you've been firing me, hiring me, raising me, docking me,
00:59:44bonusing me, and unbonusing me, and I won't stand for it any longer.
00:59:47Now, just a minute, Dagwood.
00:59:48Barty's been making money.
00:59:49And if the business continues to improve, it'll give me great pleasure to give myself a raise.
00:59:54Listen, you lunkhead.
00:59:55All I wanted to ask you was just one thing.
00:59:59Yes?
01:00:00Oh.
01:00:01Oh, hello, Blondie.
01:00:03What's that?
01:00:05Two men came to your house and did what?
01:00:08They arrested you?
01:00:10Yes, Blondie, he's here.
01:00:12All right, we'll be right down.
01:00:14What happened?
01:00:15Just exactly what I thought would happen.
01:00:17That's why I got you down here.
01:00:18You and that radio engineering had Blondie in plenty of trouble.
01:00:21Oh, no, no, no.
01:00:23Now, you're just trying to frighten me.
01:00:25Blondie's home because I just left her there.
01:00:27Blondie has been arrested, and they're hauling her down to the radio station.
01:00:30Hello, hello, Blondie.
01:00:33Oh, Lou Ellen?
01:00:35Oh, well, let me talk to Blondie, please.
01:00:37Hello, Lou Ellen.
01:00:39Hello, Lou Ellen.
01:00:41Lou Ellen?
01:00:42Oh, well, let me talk to Blondie, please.
01:00:44Blondie's not here, Dagwood.
01:00:46She went away somewhere with a couple of gentlemen.
01:00:48I don't know where she went.
01:00:50Well, they arrested Blondie, and they're hauling her down at the radio station.
01:00:53Yeah.
01:00:55What'd they arrest her for?
01:00:58If it wasn't for Blondie and the kids, I'd let you take your own medicine.
01:01:02What have I done?
01:01:03Well, if I can penetrate that skull of yours, I'll try to explain it to you.
01:01:08I tell you, gentlemen, I had no idea I was broadcasting.
01:01:12All you had to do was to flip this key down, and you're on the air.
01:01:15But I was nowhere near that key.
01:01:17And if anyone did flip it down, it was an accident.
01:01:19Accident?
01:01:20Why, just as our announcer said,
01:01:22we will now hear what a housewife has to say about premier cookies,
01:01:25you came right in on cue and said,
01:01:28try Blondie's cookies.
01:01:30Don't tell me that was an accident.
01:01:32It was too perfectly timed.
01:01:34Well, as soon as my husband comes,
01:01:36I'm able to explain everything because he's almost a radio engineer.
01:01:39Was that your husband who ducked out the back door?
01:01:41Oh, no.
01:01:42No, that was just some nice old gentleman who was helping me with my cookies.
01:01:45Oh, nice old gentleman.
01:01:47I've been known to blow up bridges, wreck trains.
01:01:49Who was this nice old gentleman?
01:01:51Well, I can assure you that he had nothing at all to do with the radio.
01:01:55We'll have him picked up inside of a couple of hours, Mr. Dixon.
01:01:57Good.
01:01:58Now, now, gentlemen, let's not jump at conclusions.
01:02:01Maybe this was an accident.
01:02:03Oh, no, it's all very clear to me.
01:02:05Her husband built the radio.
01:02:06She did the broadcasting.
01:02:08And this kindly old gentleman is evidently the brains of the outfit.
01:02:11And I'm going to see that they're prosecuted to the fullest extent.
01:02:14And if you want to keep my account, you'll cooperate in this matter.
01:02:17And another thing, if that husband of yours is innocent,
01:02:20why doesn't he get here?
01:02:28Mrs. Bumstead, telephone me from here.
01:02:30Oh, well, she's in with Mr. Thorpe, but you can't...
01:02:32Oh, thank you.
01:02:33You can't go in there.
01:02:34Yeah, but, Blondie, I mean my wife's in there.
01:02:36She's married to you?
01:02:37Yeah, but she had nothing to do with the radio. I built it.
01:02:40Well, you can't go in until they get through grilling her.
01:02:43Grilling?
01:02:44I mean, they're only asking her a few questions.
01:02:48And do you realize that you're liable to a $10,000 fine and two years in jail?
01:02:53Oh, dear.
01:02:54You've been lying to me long enough.
01:02:56Take that.
01:02:57Ow!
01:02:58And that.
01:02:59Ow!
01:03:00And that.
01:03:01Ow!
01:03:02And that.
01:03:03And that.
01:03:04If they're not questioning her, they're torturing her.
01:03:08Blondie!
01:03:11Blondie.
01:03:12Ow!
01:03:13Who slapped you?
01:03:14Yeah, just point him out and I'll tear him limb from limb.
01:03:16Dagwood, nobody slapped me.
01:03:19No.
01:03:21You.
01:03:22It can't be.
01:03:25Are you married to that?
01:03:28I certainly am.
01:03:30I can't believe it.
01:03:31I felt sorry for this little lady.
01:03:33Now I feel doubly sorry that she's married to this, this nemesis.
01:03:38Now listen, I never nemesis in anything in my life.
01:03:41What did you say the penalty was?
01:03:43$10,000 fine and two years in jail.
01:03:46If they'd give him his two years and her two years, making four all together, I'd give $10,000 out of my own pocket.
01:03:52I'm glad to see you're in favor of prosecuting these two.
01:03:55Not her, him.
01:03:56Call the chief of police, call somebody.
01:03:58But put him away where he can't do any more damage.
01:04:01I tell you, if Dagwood did anything wrong, he did it unconsciously.
01:04:05He's always unconscious.
01:04:07Get on the phone, Dixon.
01:04:08You bet I will.
01:04:10Wait till we get hold of that kindly old gentleman.
01:04:13We'll throw the book at him.
01:04:18Yes?
01:04:20So, you decided to give yourself up.
01:04:27I got him, I got him.
01:04:32Hello, Alan.
01:04:33Oh, you should have stayed at home.
01:04:35Who's this?
01:04:36He's the guy who gave us the slip.
01:04:38He's the, the kindly old gentleman?
01:04:40That's him.
01:04:41Well, now that we got all three of them, get on that phone, call the police.
01:04:44Oh, gentlemen, let's not jump at conclusions.
01:04:46Maybe it all was an accident.
01:04:48What do you mean, accident?
01:04:49It's all clear to me.
01:04:50She did the broadcasting, he built the set, and that old coot is the brains of the outfit.
01:04:55Coot, who?
01:04:56Who's a coot?
01:04:57What are my friends doing here?
01:04:58We're going to prosecute them for cutting in on our radio show last night.
01:05:01What do you mean?
01:05:02When the show went on the air last night, I was with Dagwood up in his room.
01:05:04He was fooling around with the radio.
01:05:05You were there when she went on the air and said,
01:05:08try Blondie's butternut cookies, they're delicious?
01:05:10She didn't go on the air.
01:05:11She went from a circle advertising her cookies, didn't you, Blondie?
01:05:14Oh, yes.
01:05:15I was standing right back there.
01:05:17Yes, and I was trying to get something on the radio.
01:05:19And I was sitting here, just like this.
01:05:21Now, that's the whole thing.
01:05:22That's it.
01:05:23That's what?
01:05:24That's what set it out over the air.
01:05:26Did you do that last night?
01:05:28Yes, I did.
01:05:29Well, what are we waiting for?
01:05:31They've all admitted their guilt.
01:05:32Miss Marsh, get me...
01:05:34What's the idea?
01:05:35This happens to be Llewellyn Simmons,
01:05:38the president of the Premier Biscuit Company.
01:05:42I don't care who...
01:05:47It seems to me, gentlemen,
01:05:49that if you're going to prosecute Dagwood and Blondie,
01:05:51you'll have to do the same to Mr. Simmons.
01:05:53Who is this? Who is this?
01:05:54He's Munster's ex-boss.
01:05:57You got lots of air on you.
01:05:59Who are you? Who are you?
01:06:00I'm Thorpe, the owner of this radio station.
01:06:03Llewellyn, answer me one thing.
01:06:06How long have you known these people?
01:06:08Oh, Llewellyn's been helping me to bake my cookies.
01:06:10You mean he's been making cookies for you?
01:06:13Yes, and very good cookies they are, too.
01:06:15Here, you never saw such a cookie in your life.
01:06:17Well, thank you.
01:06:18It's very good cookies.
01:06:19Have a cookie. Here, have one of those.
01:06:21That's beautiful.
01:06:22Don't you realize you're in competition with yourself?
01:06:24Yeah, but you would let me in my own kitchen.
01:06:26I like to bake. I like to bake sometimes.
01:06:30These are good.
01:06:31Sure.
01:06:32But what's been added to give them this superb flavor?
01:06:35Oh, we're not telling anybody that.
01:06:36That's Blondie's secret.
01:06:38Mrs. Bumstead, the Premier Biscuit Company
01:06:40will be glad to pay you well for this recipe.
01:06:42Gentlemen, that recipe is not for sale.
01:06:45Go ahead and sell it, Blondie.
01:06:46Then we can pay for this stove.
01:06:48These are mighty good.
01:06:50Mrs. Bumstead, name your price.
01:06:52No, I will not sell the recipe.
01:06:54Attagirl, attagirl.
01:06:56Mr. Dixon, your cookie program is going on
01:06:58a coast-to-coast network in a few weeks, isn't it?
01:07:01Yes.
01:07:02And you, Mr. Thorpe, were going to build
01:07:04a bigger radio station to handle Mr. Dixon's account,
01:07:06weren't you?
01:07:08And you, Mr. Radcliffe, were going to build
01:07:10that station for Mr. Thorpe?
01:07:12Well, it looked that way.
01:07:13You liked the Radcliffe plans, didn't you?
01:07:16I thought they were very good.
01:07:19Who drew up those plans, Mr. Radcliffe?
01:07:21Well, Dagwood.
01:07:23Thank you. Dagwood.
01:07:25Well, if you'll agree that Mr. Thorpe continues
01:07:27with your account, and you, Mr. Thorpe,
01:07:29have the Radcliffe Construction Company
01:07:30build your new radio station,
01:07:32then, Mr. Radcliffe, I will allow Dagwood
01:07:34to go back to work for you, on my terms.
01:07:37On your terms?
01:07:38Oh, yes.
01:07:39Dagwood gets the raise first.
01:07:41Second, he gets a big bonus.
01:07:43And no maybe.
01:07:44Is that clear, Mr. Radcliffe?
01:07:46Oh, no, no, no.
01:07:48Yes, yes, yes.
01:07:53Well, now it's all settled.
01:07:56Oh, except one more thing.
01:07:59Llewellyn must be allowed to do whatever he wants
01:08:01in his own kitchen.
01:08:03Well, oh, yes.
01:08:06Of course, of course.
01:08:11In that case, Mr. Dixon,
01:08:13Senior Biscuit Company can have my recipe.
01:08:16For nothing.
01:08:17Oh, thank you, Mrs. Bumstead.
01:08:23Excuse me.
01:08:29Thanks, Miss Marshall.
01:08:31Folks, excuse me for a moment.
01:08:33I have to listen to a new announcer.
01:08:35Oh, may we listen, too?
01:08:39Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
01:08:41The following broadcast is the first of a series
01:08:43sponsored by the O.
01:08:45Goodness.
01:08:46I can't understand it.
01:08:47Something's wrong.
01:08:48Oh, it's only a little loose screw somewhere.
01:08:51Has anybody got a nail file?
01:08:53Goodbye.
01:08:54Dagwood, I'll see you at 9 o'clock in the morning.
01:08:56Come on.
01:08:57Come on.
01:08:58Goodbye, everybody.
01:08:59I'll get some butter.
01:09:00What matters.
01:09:01Goodbye.