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Gracie Has Romantic Notions

Burns and Allen · November 20, 1947 · 22 min · 3,069 words

The transcript of “Gracie Has Romantic Notions”, an episode of Burns and Allen first broadcast November 20, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Burns and Allen Show plays Burns and Allen free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Another couple of Maxwell House Coffee George. Sure. Pour me a cup, Gracy. You know Maxwell House is always good to the last... ...and that drops good too. Yes, it's Maxwell House Coffee Time, starring George Burns and Gracie Allen.

Yours truly Toby Reed, Bernafelten, Gail Gordon, Hans Comrade, Meredith Wilson, the Maxwell House Orchestra, and Bill Goodwin. For America's Thursday night comedy enjoyment, it's George and Gracie. for America's every day coffee drinking enjoyment it's Maxwell House always good to the last drop well the subject of discussion and millions of homes today was the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Montbatten and in

the Burns home Gracie was saying to George George don't you wish we had been in England for Elizabeth and Philip's wedding yeah that must have been quite a Oh, I was just meeting here in the paper about their wedding cake. It weighs 500 pounds.

500 pounds? Mm-hmm. It's almost as heavy as the first biscuits you made. You were pretty sentimental about my biscuits at the time, George. You even kept one and added bronze like a baby shoe. I didn't have it, bronze. That's the way you baked it.

Well, let's get that. I'm using it for a door stop. Oh, well. Sentiment, you know. Yes. Well, Jog, let's get back to Princess Elizabeth's wedding. There's one thing I don't understand. If she becomes Queen someday, will Philip be the King?

No. He'll be the Consort, like Queen Victoria had. Queen Victoria? Yeah. She's the one who was so crazy about Prince Albert. about Prince Albert. Oh, smoked a pipe, huh? Only at the Opera. Prince Albert was her console. Her console. What's that? Well, a console just stays in the background and lets his life do most of the work.

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