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Gracie Plays Sadie Thompson

Burns and Allen · January 15, 1936 · 30 min · 3,369 words

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The difference. Campbell's tomato juice present. George Burns with Gracie Alice. And Ted using and Milton Watson. With Jacksonard and his famous orchestra. He's amazing. George Burns and Gracie Alice. Thank you, thank you.

Oh, George, isn't it wonderful to be back in New York again? I'm so thrilled that I can hardly speak about it. Gracie, we've only been away two weeks. Well, I know it, but it's a say more New York.

Yes. You know, I said to myself this morning as I was riding uptown on the M, I said to myself... You were riding uptown on the M? Well, I see M much better than Subway, so I said to myself...

Great thing, it's not the M, it's the L. Well, I know, but I don't like to say L on the radio. Well, it's kind of nice to be back in New York again. Oh, yes. I've never had such a welcome home in my life.

I was certainly thrilled when I heard those ripples blowing. blowing. They blew whistles for us. Well sure about what I can understand is we got into 10 and they didn't blow the whistles in five o'clock. Gracie those were lunch whistles. Oh, that'll be a silly worry, you have a herd of eating whistles for us.

The delicious with ketchup. No, please. Can't stop me tonight. No, and my brother, you know, he got so excited that he flew a a streetcar, right through a place like that window. Your brother picked up a streetcar and threw it through a place, glass window.

Yes. Crazy. Do you know how much a streetcar weighs? It's very busy, son. Three, a three-ton. Yeah, up-ton and down-ton. Up-ton and down-ton? Yeah. But where's the other-ton? I'm leading the band. Leading the band.

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