Audition

Ladies and gentlemen, from time to time, radio programs of vastly individual and divergent types are presented to advertising agencies, sponsors and the broadcasting networks, each of them striving to achieve a definite and conclusive effect.

There is, for example, the mystery show. Programs of this sort are presented for thrill, suspense in dream. Then there's the comedy show. Hey Louie, here's one that'll kill you. Why did the chicken cross the aisle? You give up?

Because it was a cross-style chicken. Ha ha ha ha! Programs of this sort. I presented four laps for rib tickling mirth, for genial good fellowship. The program you're about to hear, Father Knows Best, starring the eminent actor Mr. Robert Young, is presented for the next 30 minutes.

minutes. In an average town, Springfield, on an average street, Maple, lives an average American family, the Henderson. The husband, Jim, is very much in love with his wife, Margaret, and they're both quite fond of their three children, Betty, Bud, and Kathleen, which I should say is an average way for parents to feel. On this particular morning, which is

an average sort of day, the Henderson's are ready for an average sort of meal breakfast. Well, they're supposed to be ready, but you know how it is. The average mother calls... Jim, your breakfast is on the table!

And the average answer is... Mummy! Lean, come in and start your breakfast! Oh, breakfast! Don't you understand, mother? This is a qu- Eat your breakfast, dear, and we'll look for the skates later. Oh, but I have looked for them! I'd look just average- Vanished, Kathy.

Did you look in the hall under the telephone table? Mother, that's practically the first place I looked. Well, how about the service port? They aren't there, they aren't anywhere. Oh, what a- You're going to eat your breakfast.