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Guest Margaret O'Brien

Duffy's Tavern · November 24, 1950 · 25 min · 2,686 words

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Duffy Tavern starring Archie Hymn Bell and Gartner. Here we go friends, to Duffy Tavern. With our guest tonight, Margaret O'Brien and starring Archie himself and Gartner. How Duffy Tavern, what do you late me see, Archie?

The man just speaking, Duffy ain't here. Oh, look, Duffy, I guess who's coming down tonight. Margaret O'Brien. What? Look, Duffy, we can't have cheesecake every week. She's cute, you know, and her name is O'Brien.

That's better, huh? Here's Duffy. She's Ireland's answer to Bobby Green. Hi. I should want to buy her a set of blocks. Look, Duffy, this kid already owns a set of blocks. All away from Sunset Boulevard, the Hollywood and Vine.

You know, she's a movie star. The movie star. That's right, the little Margaret O'Brien from the movies and the banks. The stock market. When other kids was learning about the birds and the bees, she was learning about the bulls and the bears.

Well, what brings it down? I'm writing a television program for it. Hello? What a critic. Let's see here. Act one, scene one, prologue. Let me spell prologue. P-R-O-L-O-G-U-E. Oh, thanks. The heroine speech. Darling, do not prologue the agony.

Just hope the kid is able to pronounce long words like that. Now look, this Margaret is just a kid. You know, it's a French, they ate June Philly. We want Stuffy's common to look real nice.

And, Miss Duffy, how long do you think it would take to make the place look respectable? Well, let me say, this is nineteen hundred and fifty. Look, I ain't kidding about this. Wait a minute. Eddie.

You see that bottle up there we got, Mark, champagne? The one we changed from bourbon? No, the other one. The one we changed from gin. The one we change from gin. What do we do with it?

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