You are about to be entertained by some of the biggest names in show business.
For the next hour and 30 minutes this program will present in person such
bright stars as Milton Berle, Rosemary Clooney, Jimmy Larrani, Frank Lovejoy,
Gordon MacRae, Ethel Merman, Meredith Wilson, and my name darlings is Tallulah
Bankett. The National Broadcasting Company presents The Big Show. The Big Show, 90
minutes with the most scintillating personalities in the entertainment world.
Brought to you this Sunday and every Sunday at the same time as the Sunday
feature of NBC's All-Star Festival. And here is your hostess, the glamorous,
unpredictable Tallulah Bankett.
Well darlings, yesterday the producer of this show told me that I had been
mistreating our guest stars, that I was insulting, belligerent, rough and tough.
Well I've come to the conclusion that he's right and I'm gonna tell him so
when he gets out of the hospital. From now on I know what I'll do. Every time I
find myself losing my temper I'll remember this little motto, one two think
it through, three four don't get sore, five six never mix, seven eight
hesitate, nine ten friends again. Isn't that sweet? I found it on the back of a
box of the largest oatmeal flakes I've ever eaten. But you just noticed how it
works as I introduce our first box of oats. I mean our first guest Ethel Merman.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with the greatest of pleasure that I now present
that lovely, charming, gracious first lady of musical comedy herself. Well
Ethel get it over here. Who me? I said Ethel Merman.
Was that you saying all those nice things about me? That's right darling.
Well cut it out. Well because then I'll have to say nice things about you and
I'm not that good an actress. One two think it through, three four don't get sore.
Why I can't hear you, what's the matter with you? Oh Ethel I'm fine, I'm all sweetness
and light. Now let's not start in a quarrel shall we darling? Can't we just
chat without bickering about who's a better actress or who's older than who?
That's okay with me. I don't like to bring up the age question. Good. How are
you doing in your wonderful musical comedy? Call me grandmother. I mean call
me madam. Celula you're starting. I'm sorry darling I didn't mean that. Please
forgive me. Okay and just to show you there's no hard feelings I want to tell
you how much I admire that gown you're wearing. Where'd you get it? This? Oh Ethel
it's just an old sack. I think it's very attractive. Oh well that's sweet darling but it's just an old sack.
All right where'd you get that old sack? One two think it through. This old sack as you call it
cost me $750. Well potatoes are rather high aren't they? Three four don't get sore.
I see they left some of the potatoes in the sack. Those are not potatoes.
One two kick her with your shoe. Three four throw her on the floor. Now look here Ethel
can't we be civil to each other? Must we have a war? Here comes that civil war bit
again. Five six hit her with bricks. Civil war indeed Ethel I am spying between
clenched teeth. Excuse me I should have said the war between the plates. Seven
eight mention her weight. Nine ten a big fat hen. Okay that does it. Step aside
buster. I tried heaven knows I tried didn't I try darling? Didn't I try? Thank
you darlings and now my pet I'm really gonna let you have it. Now you listen to
me Ethel if you think you're going to well anytime you think that I what were
we arguing about darling? I don't know the minute I walked out here you started
calling me names. Lovely charming gracious. Is that a way to introduce me?
Nobody have accused me of being lovely charming and gracious. What do you think
you're introducing Mary Martin? This is Ethel Merman. All right darling drag it back to
your chair and we'll start all over again. Ladies and gentlemen I would like
to introduce you this time the first lady of our sitter Miss Ethel Barrymore.
But since Miss Barrymore wouldn't work for that kind of money here's Miss Ethel
Merman. How's that Ethel? 10-11 go to heaven. What's your song baby? It's a song
Irving Berlin wrote and which he says was inspired by your last show on
Broadway. Oh really what's the song? There's No Business. 1819. What's that?
Nothing 1819 that's the year you introduced There's No Business like Show
Business. Sing it don't you darling? There's no business like show business
like no business I know. Everything about it is appealing. Everything that traffic
will allow. Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra
bow. There's no people like show people. They smile when they are low. Yesterday
they told you you would not go far. That night you opened and there you are. Next day on your dressing room they punged a star. Let's go on with the show.
The costumes, the scenery, the makeup, the props, the audience that lifts you when you're down. The headaches, the heartaches, the backaches, the flops, the sheriff who will scotch you out of town. The opening when your heart beats like a drum. The closing when the customers don't come.
There's no business like show business like no business I know. You get word before the show has started that your favorite uncle died and gone. And top of that your grandma has hearted. You're broken hearted but you go on.
There's no people like show people. They smile when they are low. Even with a turkey that you know will fold. You may be stranded out in the cold. Still you wouldn't change it for a sack of gold. Let's go on with the show.
Let's go on with the show.
Applause
Thank you Annie, get your gun. And if anybody else wants to take a shot, what are you waiting for?
Just a minute, Toulouse. Is that a nice thing to say?
Now you stay out of this Jimmy Durante.
Applause
Toulouse, I'm ashamed of you. This is a great singer this little mermaid. Now tell her you're sorry.
Alright Jimmy, I'm sorry. She's a great singer.
Wait a minute, something was lost in the translation.
Jimmy, it's sweet of you to try to patch this up but I know what's eating her. She's jealous and I want you to go over there and tell her I said so. Go on and tell her. Go on.
Way over there? Yes, go over and tell her I said she's jealous.
Okay, I go.
That's what it says to tell you you're jealous. Jealous, ha! Go over and ask her jealous of what?
Okay.
She says jealous, ha! Jealous of what?
Jealous of my singing, that's what. And you can tell her I bought her records and I could never listen to a full record. It's a waste of shellac. Tell her that.
Okay.
I should have got paid on this show by the mile.
Toulouse, she said she heard you sing and you're full of shellac.
Well, you can tell her on my behalf that I find her outburst of temperament a nauseating, revolting display of public exhibitionism.
Okay, this one may take a little longer but I'll keep you in touch.
I should have worn my track shoes.
Toulouse says to tell her...
Toulouse says to tell on her behalf that she finds her outburst of temperament a revolting nauseating, disgusting.
She didn't say disgusting, I just threw that one in.
It's something I picked up on the travels back and forth.
Well, you can tell her for me, oh yeah.
Just oh yeah? You're allowed ten words for the same money.
I'll tell her myself, oh yeah.
That certainly is a clever retort. Oh yeah, I went out with high button shoes.
Well, you ought to know.
Just a minute, just a minute. What are you trying to do, eliminate the middle man?
Come on, girls, how about making up and being friends?
Jimmy, darling, Ethel and I are friends.
Sure, Toulouse is one of my best friends.
That's friends? Then how about making up and being enemies?
You know, of course, Ethel, I was just joking about your being jealous.
Oh, sure, and I was just joking about your being jealous.
And I was only joking about your temperament.
And I was only joking about yours.
And naturally, I was only joking about your voice.
Well, I think I'll go sit down.
Well, I tried. Every week it's a battle. Meredith, how's that per music queue?
Meredith Wilson, the Big Show Orchestra and Chorus, and Joshua, fix the Battle of Jericho.
If you can.
The walls come coming down.
You may talk about the King of Giants.
Yeah.
You may talk about the Man of Salt.
Yeah.
There's none like good old Joshua at the Battle of Jericho.
Up up to the walls of Jericho he march with a spear in hand.
So blow them ram horns, Joshua cries, cause the battle ended in my hand.
Then the land ram sheep horn begin to blow, the trumpet begins to sound.
The last hook of manners until the shout, and the walls tum tum tum tum.
That morning Joshua hit the Battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho.
Joshua hit the Battle of Jericho.
The walls come a-tangling, the walls come a-tangling, The walls come a-tangling, The walls come a-tangling now.
Joshua hit the Battle of Jericho.
That was Divine Meredith.
Tonight on the big show, we are privileged to hear a portion of a truly great new Warner
Brothers picture starring Frank Lovejoy.
Here for the first time on the screen is an exciting expose of the subversive plotting
and conspiracy by the Communist Party to destroy a great American city, Pittsburgh, USA.
The title of this hard-hitting picture is, I Was a Communist for the FBI, the story of
Matt Sivetic, a steelworker of Pittsburgh, whose nine bitter years as an undercover agent
for his country was told in the Saturday Evening Post.
We are proud to present in the role of Matt Sivetic, Frank Lovejoy in I Was a Communist
for the FBI.
A short time before the Communist leaders went on trial in New York before Judge Medina,
the Pittsburgh officers of the Federal Bureau of Investigation were advised that Gerhard
Eisler, Communist big shot of the United States, had arrived in Pittsburgh on an important mission.
Almost immediately too, 38-year-old Matt Sivetic is alerted by his commie boss in Pittsburgh.
Sivetic, I've been called to a meeting at Gerhard Eisler's hotel.
I'll call you later if I have a chance.
I don't know how much more of this a man can take.
My brothers won't speak to me.
My own son looks at me as if I was something that lived under a rock.
And my mother, God help her, thinks I'm a traitor too.
How would you like to leave your own mother's birthday party and go out on a mission like
this?
I'll get it.
Well, Matt, come right in.
Hiya, Blanton.
Hiya, gentlemen.
Wow, this is some layout.
Look at that table.
Champagne, huh?
Caviar, roast turkeys, the works.
You better get used to it, Matt.
This is the way we'll all live when we take over the country.
The workers too?
The workers will still be the workers.
Trouble with you, Matt, you're too much of a fanatic.
Who is a fanatic?
Sivetic, Mr. Eisler, Matt Sivetic.
It's good to meet a fanatic now and then, but at the same time, we must be realistic.
Here, try this champagne, Matt.
It's nice stuff.
To come at Stalin.
I've heard some good things about you, Mr. Sivetic.
Your parents are Slovenian, I believe.
Yes, sir.
According to reports, you've brought hundreds of your Pittsburgh nationals into the party.
Now, Matt works in the personnel department in North American Steel.
He does a lot of the hiring and firing.
Hiring of party members and firing of nonmembers.
I understand.
That's excellent.
Try some of this caviar, Sivetic.
Russian caviar.
The national committee has decided to reward you, Sivetic.
Peters has been transferred, and you will take his place as chief party organizer for
the district of Pittsburgh.
Thank you, Mr. Eisler.
I feel it's a great honor.
But that means you must work harder than ever.
This section produces more steel than all the rest of the country put together.
Move Pittsburgh an inch, and we can move this country a mile.
But Pittsburgh is too quiet, too peaceful.
To bring about the victory of communism in America, we must incite discontent, riots,
and open warfare among the people.
That's the purpose of tonight's special meeting, was Blandon's idea.
A lovely thought.
To the Soviet Union.
That's the way you do it, it's very simple, and a lovely thought.
Arrange wildcat strikes, bring in murderous goons to break heads and spill blood, incite
riots, set race against race, creed against creed, destroy a great city.
That's the way you do it.
We fought back from inside, but it's not easy.
You stay in the dark, a lonely hunted thing, knowing no friend, no companionship, no ties
of home, no moments of peace and contentment with those you love.
No, a rat lives with nothing but fear and watchfulness and the smell of death always
near.
No, it's not easy, not when your own folks are involved.
Now when you're called in by the principal of the school your kid attends and told that
there's something wrong with him, and he's trying to lick every other kid in the place.
Who was the girl who brought us into this room, son?
Miss Merrick, my teacher.
Oh, Miss Merrick, she seemed nice.
Yeah, she's wonderful.
Regular.
She seemed to know you.
Really?
Look, Dick, what's eating you?
Why have you been trying to lick every kid around here?
You know why.
Because they say you're a lousy red.
And I hit them.
Look, son, dad, I haven't seen much of you since I went to live at Granny's house.
When I ask her about you, tears come into her eyes.
She starts talking about something else.
I'm no dope, but I know what people say.
Still, I wouldn't believe it.
Look, dad, it's time you and I had a showdown.
I want to hear it from you.
What are you going to do, Dick?
Tell me how to think you're a little young for that.
I'm close to draft age.
Guys as young as I am will have to go out and fight this thing they say you're mixed up...
Now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
If you think I'm going to let you criticize my political beliefs...
Dad, don't give me that line.
Tell me the truth.
Are you red or not?
All right, I'll tell you the truth.
I'm a member of the Communist Party, and I have been for nine years.
When I was a kid, about nine or ten, I used to tell myself I wanted to grow up to be like
my dad.
Before I do that, now I drop dead.
Now, wait a minute, son.
Keep your hands off me.
Don't ever come near me again.
No wonder Eve Merrick seemed to know me.
She was a card-carrying party member and a teacher in a Pittsburgh school.
She was more than that.
She was important to me as a person.
When my own son turned against me, I felt I'd had enough.
I wanted to get out.
I decided to go to the FBI and resign.
Hello, Matt.
Look, sir, I've about had it.
I've had nine lousy years of it.
You know, when the day is over, you guys have a home to go to and people who are happy to
see you.
I've got nothing and I've got nobody.
I don't think I can take any more.
I know.
You've done a great job for your country, Matt.
Maybe you won't have to wait much longer.
But if you do leave, we'll do everything we can for you, of course.
But you know, when a red plant goes sour, we have to deny you.
Otherwise, we'd endanger all the others who are working as you're working inside the Communist
Party.
Yeah.
Now, let's have the details on the Eve Merrick business last night.
You had my report.
You know, she was a card-carrying commie working as a schoolteacher that she got sweet on you.
Ah, yes.
She moved right into my heart.
She was ordered to do that so she could watch me as a spy for the party.
But she didn't turn you in.
No, and she could have.
She found out about me.
She decided to work with me instead of against me.
What about that business last night?
The commies got suspicious of her, tried to liquidate her.
He gave himself away.
I got her out and I killed the two comrades they sent after her, but she's safe now.
I thought you were going to give her protection last night.
I tried, Matt.
Our man was found murdered this morning in her room.
Oh.
Ah, look.
I want to go on living in a place where you can holler out loud and print if you want to,
and where the secret police won't be knocking on your door at 4 a.m.
That sounds corny.
Not to me.
All right, you forget what I said about it before.
Now, there's a big party meeting at the Lake Hotel.
I'll get a microphone planted there.
You better get stuff to record.
Good boy.
We'll keep an eye on you two.
Lock.
Thank you.
I didn't know it then, but that meeting was the last I was ever to attend as a communist
for the FBI.
The comrades were in fine voice, and thanks to the microphone on the wall, the FBI next
door were in fine ear.
Comrades, I don't think I need to tell you that the Un-American Activities Committee
is becoming a danger to us.
The hearings that it's conducting in Washington are bad counter-propaganda.
Moscow has ordered a nationwide campaign, and you division leaders of the Pittsburgh
branch are to pass this on to your members.
All communists are to spread the word that the Un-American Activities Committee is a
group of fat-headed politicians whose only aim is to crash the headlines.
We want them laughed at, ridiculed.
If we start the ball rolling, there are plenty of big mouth suckers in this country who'll
do the rest.
Svedik, we want to see you in here.
Yeah, sure, really.
Now, what's on your mind?
Two of our comrades were killed last night while acting under my orders.
Also, Svedik, why was there an FBI man planted in Eve's place?
Find anything on him to prove he was FBI?
No, but what else could he be?
Listen, if you knew that Merrick Dame had a chance to save her skin and you let her
get away with it, you're a traitor.
You know what happens to traitors?
Trotsky thought he was safe, but they got him.
Jan Masaryk was dropped out of a window in Prague, and they called it suicide.
General Kravitzky was found dead in a Washington hotel.
They call that suicide too.
These are comrades who made one slip and paid for it with their lives.
I slipped up once, but I can't take a chance with you.
Come on, talk.
You're crazy, Blanton.
Work come over, boys.
You've got goons off me.
Okay, boys, beat it out of them.
What's the matter, comrades?
Don't you commies get along together?
Who are you?
Lieutenant Cahill Homicide.
Which one of you is Matt Svedik?
I am.
You're under arrest for suspicion of murder.
Well, who did I kill?
James Broderick, an agent of the FBI.
His fingerprints are all over the place.
Come on, Svedik.
And that is a dramatic foretaste of what is in store for you when you go to see Warner
Brothers' great picture, I was a communist for the FBI.
I'd love joy and company, our thanks and congratulations.
Thank you very much, Tallulah.
I deem it an honor to play the role of Matt Svedik.
Certainly brought home to me the patriotic devotion and the sheer guts that Matt needed
to take that nine-year beating.
There was a job to be done.
Someone had to do it, Frank.
This is Matt Svedik.
I think you do a great job in the picture, Frank.
Well, you're the guy who did the great job, Matt, believe me.
Well, Frank, maybe you'd better wait until the job is done before we start taking vows.
The job is far from finished.
We're just beginning to fight back against a deadly, ruthless, highly organized Soviet-controlled
conspiracy.
So, if we've got a lot of fighting yet to do before we can rid ourselves of this greatest
threat to the world of free men, we've got to fight, all of us, all the time.
Amen to that, Matt Svedik.
Good fighter, good American.
You have been listening to Meredith Wilson and his big show, Officer.
And now, darlings, it's about time for me to ring my chimes before we continue with the
show.
Just a minute, I ring the chimes around here.
Who are you?
Milton Berle.
Well, Uncle Milton.
Well, Aunt Jemima.
Aunt Jemima?
Excuse me, the pancake maker fooled me.
I expect there's fix-up actors.
What is this bit, Toulou, about you ringing the chimes?
Don't you know I just signed a 30-year contract around here, and this is now known as the
National Berle Casting Company.
And Berle rings the chimes.
It is broadcasting, and I ring the chimes.
Okay, broad, ring the chimes.
We'll be back in just a moment.
This is NBC, the national broad casting company.
The big show.
This is the national broadcasting company, Sunday Extravaganza, with the most scintillating
personalities in show business.
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The big stars in this program are Milton Berle, Rosemary Clooney, Jimmy Durante, Frank Lovejoy,
Gordon MacRae, Ethel Merman, Meredith Wilson, and the big show orchestra and chorus.
And every week, your hostess, the glamorous, unpredictable, Tallulah Bankhead.
Well darlings, this has been a most hectic week.
Look at the size of this audience.
Quiet.
As I was saying, this has been a most hectic week.
If you think this is a big audience, you should see my mother's living room on Tuesday nights.
A few weeks ago, somebody gave me a little puppy and I've had the most hectic time with
her.
Radio.
I haven't been on radio since hectic was her pup.
She's the cutest little dog, but I've had the most terrible time breaking her in.
What a house.
And she's the friskest little thing.
All these people still listening to radio, what a spot for a television salesman.
I've never saw such beautiful brown eyes and the most cunning ears and the most adorable
mouth.
Oh, you finally noticed me.
And the longest tail.
I thought I had that tucked in.
Oh, what's the use of continuing with this?
Ladies and gentlemen, here he is, one of our greatest comedians, Mr. Television himself,
Bob Hope.
Well, boy, you sound like Etsy O'Pinsey.
What's with this Hope routine?
The name is Burrow.
Well, you get all your stuff from Hope.
I thought I'd go right to the source.
I suppose you don't use any Hope's jokes on this program?
Absolutely not.
You won't find a Hope joke on this show.
That's what I hear.
There's no hope for the show.
And I've heard that joke before.
You heard it before anybody.
Milton, you have to take everybody's jokes.
Haven't you heard Shakespeare's wonderful line?
He who steals my purse steals trash.
Well, it's your show, you ought to know.
But I can quote a little Shakespeare myself
to lull about the jokes that you steal.
Ah, isn't he sweet?
Sweet, files 364, sweet.
Romeo and Juliet, act two, scene one.
That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.
Romeo and Juliet, act two.
Parting is such sweet sorrow
that I shall say good night till tomorrow.
Till it be morrow.
Do you want to hear more?
I would rather die.
Die, file 396.
Julia Caesar, act two.
Cowards die many times before their deaths.
The valiant never taste of death at once.
The tempest, act one.
That'll be enough of that, Mr. Burle.
Base, King Henry VI, act five.
Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
Milton, you really surprised me.
You are.
I didn't know you were such a student of Shakespeare.
Are you kidding, Tilo?
I can quote every line of every play
Shakespeare wrote.
If you say I steal jokes from Bob Hope,
I can show you where you steal jokes from Bob Shakespeare.
Bob Shakespeare?
What radio show is he on?
Caesar and Imogene Coca.
King Henry the Aldrich.
And he doesn't work on this program,
The Taming of the Big Shrew.
You say nothing of your program, Comedy of Arrows.
Well, that's a very good joke.
That's funny, but I already used it.
When?
Next Tuesday night.
Milton Burle, that stealing comedian.
That says Sterling.
Will you read that right?
Don't start ad libbing, Tilo,
because I'm one of the best ad lib comedies in the business.
Don't go away.
Really, I am.
Let's face it, I am the best ad lib comedian in the business.
Don't you mean ad libs?
Ad libs.
Nothing.
Wait a minute, that lady in the orchestra,
will you please come back and take it, you coward?
Don't walk out now, please.
What are you leaving for?
Take you an hour to get out of here.
Sit down and leave at the end of the show when everybody's asleep.
Now, where were we?
What was I stealing?
I mean, what was I saying?
I don't know, darling.
We were talking, but you weren't saying anything.
And besides, Milton, on the big show,
we try to keep to what is considered good stage department.
We don't suddenly start conversations with the audience.
We don't have to.
We feel there is already between the performer and the audience
a certain rapport.
Rapport?
Is he in the audience?
I knew him when his name was Rapport.
He used to own the Polly C branch in the Bronx.
I remember that.
He used to sell Indian nights on Interven...
Milton.
Where is that man?
Milton, darling, I don't know whether...
It's good we're laughing at them.
Go ahead.
I don't know whether it's your influence or not,
or whether it's just or coincidental.
Yeah.
But there seems to be a lady in the fourth row flicking a chicken.
Isn't that awful?
Mother, will you please stop, please?
I keep telling you, Tallulah, but she won't say,
Mother, stop, but you know I don't like you to do that.
Besides, I like duck.
Now you know that.
Now please.
I seem to get the impression that I've been all through this before.
Something I saw in a bad dream.
By the way, Tallulah, did you ever watch my television show?
That was the bad dream.
Oh, it's going to be like that, huh?
Okay, if that's the way you want it, fasten your safety belt.
I heard you talking with Merman, but this is different.
Tallulah, you're looking pretty good.
You take your ugly pill this morning?
All right, let's start.
You wear that dress.
Don't care what anybody says.
Glad you're wearing your hair that way.
In fact, I'm glad you're wearing your hair.
What's that, a snood?
From the back, you look like you're traveling for a mackerel.
From the front, you look like you caught one.
Had enough?
Didn't I see your face on a bottle of iodine?
Let's go over to the house some night.
We'll open a gas jet.
You look like five miles of bad road.
You look like a professional blind date.
Yeah.
I look like Maxi Rosenblum's uncle.
Have you had enough?
Yes, I've had enough.
I've had enough.
I recognize a dozen comedians in those two jokes.
How can you remember all those?
Well, Tallulah, I have a photographic memory.
My mind is like a lens that opens and shuts.
What a practical use for a hole in the head.
It's very funny.
Very funny.
One more appearance on this show, and I have a whole new act.
I must give you credit for one thing.
What's that?
You certainly wangled a wonderful contract out of NBC.
A 30-year contract.
Well, that means you can retire when you're about 70.
That's right, Tallulah.
How about you, Tallulah?
If you sign a contract like that, you could retire when you're...
Watch it, Buster.
How old...
Pardon me, not old.
How young are you now, Tallulah?
31.
31. Well, the way you're figuring it, you can retire when you're one year old.
I swear I'll kill him.
I swear I'll kill you a million times.
I swear I'll kill you.
Oh, I feel so jazzed.
Now, wait a minute, Tallulah. Wait a minute.
Tallulah, stop it.
Please.
Now, who's stealing from who?
Now you know how it feels.
All right.
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Well, we seem to have a new sponsor with us this week.
If this doesn't get me a raise, I'm ready to throw in the towel.
Cannon, of course.
And girls, they are just lovely to answer the phone in.
Everybody in the candy store compliments me.
I wish I'd have said it and I will.
Tallulah, I don't like to point out anything like that,
but you notice that I'm on the show one week and you have another sponsor.
Bang! Cannon.
What a sponsor, towels.
You know, I had an uncle who was a traveling salesman,
lived to be 85 and when he died, he left in the state of 900 towels.
They were all personally monogrammed.
Good old Uncle Sherry.
Uncle Sherry?
Yeah, Uncle Sherry Netherlands.
Lovely.
Of course, that was his name in New York.
When he went to Miami Beach, he gave himself a new title, Lord Tolton.
Now, Milton, Milton, let me get on with the rest of the show.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to meet our next guest,
a bright new singing star, lovely Miss Rosemary Clooney.
Thank you, Tallulah.
Milton, this is Rosemary Clooney.
How do you...
Tell me, Rose.
Oh, my...
Rosemary, you don't mind me if I call you Rosemary, do you?
Well, I don't think I know you well enough for that.
Well, all right. Tell me, Miss Clooney.
Circle 51099.
Just a minute, Milton.
Please, I don't know you well enough for that.
All right, just a minute, Miss Burl.
Yes, sir.
Now, look here. I didn't bring you on this show to date up our guests.
I take care of all the dating around here myself.
Now, what's your phone number? I may call you next week.
Circle 51099.
Circle...
By that's Rosemary's number.
Where do you think I'm going to be?
Rosemary, would you mind singing your song, darling? What's it going to be?
Taking a Chance on Love.
That's the story of Burl's life. Sing it, sweet.
Marry me, please.
They're dealing you a new high today
Oh
Here I go again
I hear those trumpets blow again
All aglow again
Taking a chance on love
Love here I slide again
About to take that ride again
Starry-eyed again
Taking a chance on love
I thought the cards were a frame up
I never would try
But now I'm taking the game up
And the ace of heights is high
Things are mending now
I see a rainbow blending now
We'll have our happy ending now
Taking a chance on love
I thought the cards were a frame up
I never would try
But now I'm taking the game up
And the ace of hearts is high
Things are mending now
I see a rainbow blending now
We'll have our happy ending now
Taking a chance on love
Thank you.
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Yes, Chesterfield's are milder, milder, plus no aftertaste
So ho, open the pack and give them a sniff
Then you'll smoke them
And now, darlings, we want to thank Warner Brothers, producers of Captain Horatia Hornblower
who have sent us one of their handsome stars, a fine singer and accomplished actor
the star of his own radio show, The Railroad Hour
and if you'll give me a moment, I'll think of his name
Gordon MacRae, darling
Oh, yes
Well, Gordon, I haven't seen you since you were on our show in Hollywood
Welcome back to New York
Well, thank you, Tallulah. You know, New York is really home to me
Oh?
I got started right here in New York
As a matter of fact, I was a pageboy right here at NBC
You were a pageboy?
No, no, no, Tallulah, I was a pageboy
Oh, excuse me, darling. Were you really a pageboy?
I certainly was. As a matter of fact, we had quite a group of pageboys when I was here, Tallulah
Dave Garroway was a pageboy during that time
That was ten years ago, you know
Let's see, there was Garroway, Dick Hames, Paul Rittenhouse, Gregory Peck
Really?
Mm-hmm
Well, what do you know? Whatever happened to those fellows?
I don't know, Tallulah. I lost track of most of them, but one of them, Paul Rittenhouse, is doing very well
He's a floorwalker and an A.M.P.
As a matter of fact, Tallulah, Dee Engelbach, your producer and director of this show, was a page when I was on the staff here
And when I get through with him, darling, he will be again
Well, now how about you, Gordon, who went a long way starting as a pageboy?
I certainly did. I became chief guide of the tours
You know, Tallulah, I used to take people through NBC and those tours they have, and well, I'd give them a little spiel
Oh, really? Well, what sort of a spiel?
Well, let's see, it was ten years ago and it went something like this
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm about to take you on a tour with the broadcasting studios and other points of interest in Radio City
I must ask you all to stay in one little group and follow me
Uh, little boy, you'd better hold on to your mother's hand
I want to hold on to my mommy's hand
Why not?
Because she's married, that's why
Madam, is this your little boy?
Yeah, what about it?
Please hold his hand, he might get lost
Are you kidding? That's why I brought him here
I want to see Uncle Milky. Where's Uncle Milky?
Daddy, I want to see Uncle Milky
If you don't stop saying them dirty words, I'll wash your mouth with Texaco
Mmm, good, mmm, good. That's what Texaco gas is. Mmm, good
All right now, all right people, follow me into the studio
We're on our way to see some of the sites
Now, there's a site if I ever saw one
Madam, I beg your pardon, that's Tallulah Bankhead
Who's he?
No, no sir, that's Miss Tallulah Bankhead
And she's rehearsing a new show that she's starting
I want to see, I want to see Uncle Milky
Junior, will you shut up?
Where's Uncle Milky, mommy?
Jimmy, he's your son, make him shut up
I told you to stop talking like that, now I'm going to let you have it
Not in the nose, Jimmy, look what happened to you
Look what he said to me, mommy, now I'm going to need a nose job
Quiet, what's going on there? Can't you see that I'm in the middle of a rehearsal?
I'm sorry Miss Bankhead, I'm just showing this group through the studios
They wanted to see what you were doing
Well, I'm just starting in radio, it's a new show called The Little Show
Five minutes for some of the biggest names in show business
Only five minutes Miss Bankhead, how can you present the biggest names in show business in five minutes?
Well, so far I only present our names
Someday I hope to have a program, who knows, maybe in ten years this may wake up to an hour and a half
Is that Uncle Milky, mommy? Shut up!
That is, that's Uncle Milky
Hello Uncle Milky
Get your sweaty paws off me
Uncle Milky
Don't you talk to my kid like that
If this was my child, madam
And don't call me madam
One and two, think it through
Okay folks, let's get on with the tour
No, no, I want to stay here with Uncle Milky
I like Uncle Milky, you like me, Uncle Milky?
I love you, and I am not your Uncle Milky
Yes you are Uncle Milky, you're just wearing that funny dress to fool me
You always wear those funny dresses, if you take off that costume you'll look just like Uncle Milky
Wanna bet?
Can I please have your autograph Uncle Milky, can I have your autograph please?
Can I Uncle Milky?
How would you like a shot in the head?
That's clever, how would you like a shot in the head?
I must remember that for when I grow up later, but I might forget it
Wanna bet?
Why don't you give the kid your autograph?
How would he like it, in blood?
Yes, preferably yours
Alright, alright, I'll give everybody an autograph, my secretary will do it, now come here Eve
Yes Miss Bankhead, what's all this about?
Eve, and she doesn't know what it's all about?
Three four, don't get sore
Eve, is that young man coming yet? You know, the one who's gonna sing on the program?
Oh no, he called up and said he had a bad cold
What, and we go on the air in five minutes? Whatever will we do?
I sing Miss Bankhead, please give me this chance to make good, let me sing in his place
Alright boy, this is your chance, you can sing
Oh mommy, what a corny plot
Shut up
I told you we shouldn't have brought him here, next thing you know he'll be wanting to go to the
I wanna go to the
You see, what did I tell you?
Hey boy, where is the
I don't know where it is on this floor sir
It's straight down the hall into the right
What do you know, this is Uncle Miltry
Come on son, I'll get you a drink of water
Thank you daddy, thank you
Alright boy, this is your chance, sing Begin the Begin
When they begin the begin
It brings back the sound of music so tender
It brings back a night of tropical splendor
It brings back a memory evergreen
I'm with you once more under the stars
Down by the shore an orchestra's playing
And even the palms seem to be swaying
When they begin the begin
To live it again is past all and never
Except when that tune clutches my heart
And there we are, swearing to love forever
And promising never, never to part
What moments divine, what raptures dream
The clouds came along to disperse the joys we had tasted
Now when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted
I know but too well what they mean
So don't let them begin the begin
Let the love that was once a fiery maiden emerge
Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember
When they begin the begin
Oh yes, let them begin the begin, make them play
Till the stars that were there before return above you
Till you whisper to me once more, darling I love you
And we suddenly know what heaven we're in
When they begin the begin
We have a lot more show for you in just a moment
But first let me take a second or two to ring my chimes
This, darlings, is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
This is the big show, and here is Tallulah Baghead.
Well, darlings, we continue with the, um...
Just a minute, Tullulah, I've got a complaint.
What's the trouble, Jimmy?
I'll tell you what's the trouble.
You've got me playing Milton Boyle's father.
He's preprosperous, incongruous, and abdominal.
Abdominal? You mean abominable.
Abdominal, I can't stomach it.
Well, what would you rather play, darling, Milton Boyle's mother?
I can't play her, I can't flick a chicken.
Yes, Jimmy, I guess you are better just playing your own darling self.
Where's the future in that?
There's so many other people who can imitate Durrani better than I can.
Then what do you want to do, Jimmy, play something suave?
Then why not?
I'm one of the biggest suaves in the business.
Everybody does imitations.
I can do some imitations myself.
Listen to me do Ronald Coleman.
It is a far, far better thing that I do than I did if I did it.
Which I don't.
Then I would if I could if I were king, but I can't.
Because the queen won't let me.
How is that, Tullulah?
That sounds like Jimmy Durrani.
How do you like that?
Now Ronald Coleman's doing Durrani.
But Jimmy, why do you want to do something different?
We love you, you are sweet, simple, untutored.
Untutored?
I could get pretty sore if I knew what that meant.
You got me all wrong, Tullulah.
I got culture, I got class, I got a library card.
And besides, I'm a patron of the arts.
That's a cue.
Now, seeking my favorite diversion last night, a night at the opera,
I steps into my plush-up Walton Hanson.
With my two footmen commanding the poop deck,
and my Arabian skeets going in a gentle trot,
we approaches the Metropolitan Opera House.
And what happens?
The red carpet is rolled out.
My two footmen descend from the poop deck.
They open the door and I steps out.
Looking up from the gutter I set, who told you to remove the running board?
Picking myself up and ignoring the stairs of the Hoyt Balloon.
I mix my entrance galloply into the diamond horseshoe,
removing my top hat, my nylon gloves, my skunk muffler,
and my pat-leather goulashes with the neon button.
I look around, Mrs. Vance Caller is whispering to Mrs. Murray Hill.
Mrs. Murray Hill is whispering to Mrs. Susquehanna, and what are they saying?
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
Is it Superman? No, they shouted it's a bum.
You see, a vicious moon has been circulating just because I work in a saloon.
They say I'm not fit to mingle in any other circle.
That's ridiculous. Night clubs are just a Mr. Hyde part of me.
You have yet to meet the Dr. J.
Dr. Ranney, the patron of the arts, an opera critic, and a man of parts.
By last week I went to the opera. I loved it.
All but one scene.
That's where the 350-pound soprano sings to the baritone.
She sings, take me in your arms and hold me close.
Where to hold a close-dub bum would have to be curved like a banana.
Those opera lovers all rave at Handel's Lago.
Why, I've heard better music written by Umbriago.
Now, what I say may sound absurd, but believe me, it's true.
I've seen every opera, and I'll name them for you.
Tales of the Vienna Rolls, Madam Buttermilk, and a sextet from Leachie Nuts.
I hope to praners and tenors in their parts, cause I'm Dr. Ranney, the patron of the arts.
Now, just the other day, they held a meeting at the Metropolitan in the cellar.
They said, Jimmy, we're in a hole, you gotta help us out.
Stepping up on a soapbox, left over from La Boheme.
I said, gentlemen, let's analyze this.
Now, take Romeo and Juliet. Romeo wants to kiss Juliet.
But does he say, slip me a smack, sister?
No. He says, I will give you a kiss, my love.
A burning kiss upon the lips. A burning kiss, a burning kiss.
A kiss, a kiss, a kiss, a kiss, a kiss, a kiss, a kiss, a kiss.
A burning kiss upon the lips.
By the time the guy's ready to kiss her, the fire is out.
That guy's making a federal case out of us.
Facing a committee, I said there's only one way to save the opera.
Now, get yourself new lyrics, that are clever and new.
Like bibbity-bobbity, bibbity-bobbity, bibbity-bobbity boo.
They all gave thanks from the bottom of their hearts.
To Durante, the patron of the arts.
Yes, sir, Durante, the patron of the arts.
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Now, here is a man who has a 30-year contract with NBC,
and he's got 30-year-old jokes to match, Milton Berle.
Thank you. Thank you.
Please, not too much applause. This is an old building.
Isn't that Tallulah wonderful? Isn't she really wonderful?
She's got a great sense of humor.
Isn't that Tallulah wonderful? Isn't she really wonderful? Tell her to it.
Isn't she? Isn't she?
Is that a woman? Is that a woman?
That's what I've been asking myself all evening. Is that a woman?
I like the way she speaks. You know, the way she talks in that little ridge is a darling.
She sounds like the voice of Firestone with a blowout.
Believe me, I love it. She's the kind of a girl I like to take home to my mother.
With her, I can trust my old man. You know?
I love you. I really do. Tallulah, if I've said anything to offend you, I've succeeded.
Gee, what a guy. How about the talent on the show tonight?
Look what you're getting. Jimmy Durante, Gordon Mac Cray, Rosemary Clooney, Frank Lovejoy, Texaco Merman.
Texaco Merman. I'm not allowed to say Ethel.
And, uh, oh, that's a gasser.
Wonderful Milton. It should have been twins.
It was. My mother threw away the wrong one. You know, I don't know.
My mother, these are the jokes. Let's face it now.
Laugh at them now. Figure them out later.
I have to do this for a living, you know. I got a new racket.
I smuggle baseball players into the polar grounds.
How about that baseball? How about that team?
I heard that DeRosha is going to sell the team. Really. I just read an ad in the paper.
It says Macy's are going to have a Giants sale.
And today those Giants lost 11 in a row.
I'd like to lose 11 in that row. They're not laughing.
Now get with it, please.
I'm not replaced for 30 years. You can be replaced in 30 seconds.
I like that deal I made with NBC. I've got another 30 years to go on television.
I'm so happy about it. I feel like Errol Flynn on a raft with Phil Spatowning's orchestra.
I thought I lost you. I gained on you again.
My whole family is very happy about the deal. Even my brother Frank.
Now you take my brother Frank. I wish you would.
Ever since he was old enough to work, he hasn't.
My mother used to say to him, Frank, learn some kind of business so at least we'll know what kind of work you're out of.
I don't want to say it.
One, two, three. This is for free.
I don't want to say that my brother Frank is lazy, but when he heard that Judy Holliday won the Academy Award, it made him so happy.
He loves her name. It has a holiday in it. I'm only kidding.
I'm only kidding. Clever stuff. Funny material.
So how come I'm back on radio again?
I love radio. I used to be in radio myself until I got wise.
And what a program I used to have.
In fact, when they took the last rating of my radio show, they found out that 50% of the people in the studio weren't listening.
I had a wonderful program. I was on for seriour time. I was on from 9.30 till 9.
I am on.
Audiences. Audiences. I am on.
Which joke are you working on?
I had audiences every week.
Laugh? I thought they'd never start.
But I miss radio. I really do. I used to love to listen to old radio.
I mean, this is the new type, sparkling dialogue radio.
I like those old commentators. They're so exciting.
Like H.B. Caldiborn. You say, good evening. This is H.B. Cobold.
This is Elias de Villeneuve.
Sounds like he backed into a hot radiator.
I really miss those old things on the radio.
And then there was Gabriel Heater. He's around. He says, ah, there's good news tonight.
And Walter Winchell. He says, good evening, Mr. and Mrs. North American. All ships at sea.
This is Mr. Winchell's bad boy, Walter, broadcasting to you from the Waldorf in Rita Hayworth's suite.
Flesh. A flash. Flash.
Now those are the things I miss and those beautiful, sincere radio commercials.
Do you have those dull, logy feelings?
Do you feel like you missed three hours sleep?
Do you? Do you?
Why don't you go back to bed?
Have you seen Dr. Clyde's new prismatic glasses?
If you have, send them back. You can't see a darn thing without them.
Have you tried Feigenbaum's sunshine-irradiated vitamin D Mickey Fins?
Try a vitamin Mickey Fin before you leave the house. You'll go out smiling.
Feigenbaum, spell backwards. It's easier than spelling it frontwards.
Of course, I miss those singing commercial jingles.
Murray's nasal drops in the bottle. Try one, folks, and then you see what'll happen when you use Murray's bottle with the syringe on top.
Do you taunt in your sleep?
If you do, eat one of Murphy's meatballs.
No more tossing, no more insomnia. You're just laid at death.
I miss those things, especially those daytime radio serials.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we have decided that this would be a good week to salute a great musician, composer, conductor,
and the kindest, dearest man who has contributed so much to the Big Show, our very own Meredith Wilson.
We offer now a medley of Meredith Wilson's hits, and here are Gordon MacRae, Milton Berle, Rosemary Clooney,
Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman, the Big Show Orchestra and Chorus, and darlings, guess who?
Meredith, we stand ready to salute you, if you please, sir,
starting with the springtime song you wrote for our April 1st show.
["Holy High Noody"]
Here comes the springtime and there goes my heart,
Holy, holy, hey, hey,
All my resistance is falling apart,
Holy, holy, hey, hey,
Sweet evening breeze go away from peace,
Lilacs and Smilacs on hand me,
Fresh morning dew you are stroking me through,
With feelings that don't understand me,
After the robins the crickets will start,
Holy, holy, hey, hey,
Here comes the springtime and there goes my heart,
Holy, holy, holy, holy,
Holy, holy, hey, hey,
For our Easter show, Meredith wrote this lovely song.
It's Easter time, the bells on the hill are ringing,
Ringing once again,
There's a smile on the face of this weary world that seems to say, Amen.
It's Easter time, the bonnets are greatly nodding, nodding to and fro,
And the folks walk to church as they did so long ago,
And there's a basket on the dining room table with fancy Easter eggs for all,
And there's a lily in all its glory standing in the hall,
It's Easter time, the dawn of the year shining in the hearts of men,
With the joys and the hopes that have risen once again,
It's Easter time, time of the year.
This next song was presented on the very first big show way back in November.
Every rose, every tree, and every bird and bee seemed to rate a rondeley or two,
So a slight poetic push for my favorite bush would seem to be long overdue,
T'was the peony bush there in my garden that made you turn around to smile at me,
Not zanies or cardenas with their fragrant perfume,
Forget me not sin fancy pots or orchids in you,
T'was the peony bush there in my garden that did the trick as quick as one, two, three,
Now you will decorate my garden gate forever and never, and never will it be any bush,
But the peony bush for me. I love that song.
For our Valentine's Day broadcast, we presented Melodica's beautiful Two in Love.
Two in love can face the world together,
Bluebirds sing in everything they do,
The world may rock and rumble, Crowds may groan and grumble,
Roses may even tumble too, Darling,
Two in love can face the stormy weather,
Laugh aloud at every cloud above,
And so we'll show them all what love can do,
For you and I are Two in Love.
It was only four weeks ago that Melodica wrote this song for our beloved Jimmy Durante.
Don't put bananas on bananas, Do not kill the lily I am flaw,
Don't take Coronas to Havana, Take no oysters stewed at Baltimore,
Now don't put bananas on bananas, Paint no dimples on Melina's knees,
Girls, must you figure that a figure's better bigger? Don't put bananas if you leave.
Another of your favorite songs presented on this season's big show was Melodica's You and I.
Darling, you and I know the reason why A summer sky is blue,
And we know why Birth in the trees Sing melodies true,
And our love will grow From the first hello Until the last goodbye,
So to sweet romance There is just one answer,
You and I.
This inspiring American anthem was composed by Meredith as a part of our Abraham Lincoln tribute.
Here on the shores, Glad to freedom are born, O Lord, make us worthy of this land,
Thou hast chosen to bless.
Firmly with faith in the right Here will we stand, God our only confessor,
Here on the shores, Glad to freedom are born, America, America, America, America,
Here on the shores.
Well, that was a real treat, Meredith, and we all enjoyed doing your lovely songs.
We sure did, Tallulah. I like the way everybody sang. I can use that kind of singing on my television show.
Well, I've never been on television, darling, but of course I can.
So how about you coming on my television show Tuesday, huh?
Oh, no, no. The last time I was on your show, you promised me a lifetime supply of Texaco.
Well, you got it, didn't you? Yeah, but for my cigarette lighter?
Milton, I have a cigarette lighter. Gordy, Gordy McCrae, how about you on the show, huh?
You want me to be on your television show? Yeah. How about money? Oh, I won't charge much.
I'm afraid not, Milton. But if you insist, Milton, I might consider... Rosemary, Rosemary Clooney,
would you come over here? How about you? You want to be on my television show?
I have a feeling you'll be wonderful. I have a feeling you and I together will be great.
I have a feeling we'll kill him. No, thanks, Milton. I know you and I'm not interested in your feeling.
Yo, Milton, if you, darling... Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy Durante, you're just the one for my show, huh?
I might as well have stayed home and counted my money. Jimmy, what about you?
If you come on my television show, I'll come on yours. One, two, think it through.
Well, I'll tell you what I'll do with you, Milton. I'll make an even trade with you.
You appear on my television show. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'll watch yours.
No, I don't think so. Well, I love Mona. We're only here, Mona.
I'm overlooking a great performer. Well, I was wondering how long you'd be.
Frank Lovejoy. Well, one nice thing. We only have to put up with him for 30 years.
Frank, Frank Lovejoy. How about it? You want to be on my television show, huh?
Well, I don't know, Milton. I've never done anything on television. Oh, Frank, you'll be wonderful.
Three, four, don't get sore. Look, Frank, this is a great opportunity for you.
I can't promise you too much money since you're a beginner. You've got to start low.
Well, I guess starting on your show is about as low as you can get.
Put the word right out of my mouth, darling. Oh, talulah, talulah. Yes, Milton, yes.
Good night. That always happens to me. Well, maybe I'll have better luck next week.
Our closing show for the season, when our guests will be Fred Allen, Lucien Boyer,
Portland Hoffer, Groucho Marx, Jenji Rogers, Margaret Truman, Paul Wenzel and others,
and of course, our very own Meredith Wilson and the Big Show Orchestra and Chorus.
And now, still another Meredith Wilson composition, the beautiful hymn he wrote especially
as our good night to you each Sunday.
May the good Lord bless and keep you, for the near are far away. Rosemary?
May you find that long-awaited golden day today.
Milton? May your troubles all be small ones, and your fortune ten times ten.
Frank? May the good Lord bless and keep you, till we meet again. Ethel?
May you walk with sunlight shining, and a bluebird in every tree.
May there be a silver lining, back out every cloud you see. Merritt?
Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrows, never mind what might have been.
Jimmy? May the good Lord bless and keep you, till we meet again. Gordon?
May you long recall each rainbow, then you'll soon forget the rain.
May the warm and tender memories, be the ones that will remain.
Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrows, never mind what might have been.
May the good Lord bless and keep you, until we meet again.
May the good Lord bless and keep you, till we meet, till we meet again.
Good night, darlings, and Godspeed to our armed forces all over the world who hear these broadcasts each week.
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