Guest Charles Laughton ( #48)

A special rebroadcast for the American Armed Forces and their allies. You're invited to drop in where the elite meet to eat. Duffy's Tavern. Good second, y'all. Hello? Duffy's Tavern, where the elite meet to eat, aren't you?

Don't you speak, Duffy ain't here. Hello, Duffy. Tonight the Charles Wharton the English Sophie Tucker What a toughie yeah LA FFT ON Yeah, what that's how the English spell it Yeah, you know like the London Times is pronounced at Thames yeah Charles Wharton well, he's been in mutiny on a bounty to punch pack of Notre Dame

The name, uh, Ruggles the Red Cap? Yeah. You know the guy, Duffy, he's the one when your wife says she can't stand the side of you, you take her to see him. The crowd here?

Well, uh, the usual bunch of crumbs. Yeah, well look, I got an idea on how to improve the place if you listen. Well, you know who the biggest benders are, don't you? Actors. Well, it's obvious why actors never got no dough.

They don't want nobody to know it, so they spend it like mad. Yeah. Well, my idea is to turn his joints into an exclusive private club where only actors can be members. Yeah, like the lambs club.

Hmm. We'll call it the hams club. I'll talk to Lotte about it when he gets here. OK, I'll throw you back, Duffy, so long. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Duffy's Tavern. Come in and meet Finnegan, Eddie the waiter, Miss Duffy, Joe Benute and his orchestra, our special guest tonight, Mr. Charles Lopman, and Archie

himself, Ed Gardner. That's a close of club right off. Now let's see, the first thing is we do is we drill one of them pick holes in the door. What does a hole in the wall need a hole in the door?