Jack's Violin Is Stolen
Jack Benny · 1936 · 29 min · 3,291 words
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Janky Health Health! Ooooooooh! The Jello program starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston and Phil Harris and his orchestra. The orchestra opens the program with Boo Hoo! Chopping Movies Bridge Many women are likely to spend their afternoons these days in one of those three ways.
But shopping movies or bridge sometimes means that you get home a little late and have to hurry with dinner. But never mind that, even if you have less time than usual. You can always serve a dessert you'll be proud of.
Jell-O. Jell-O takes so little time to prepare, and it tastes downright delicious. Your whole family will enjoy Jell-O's true fruit flavor. Flavor that comes from fresh ripe fruit. Try strawberry, raspberry cherry, orange, lemon or lime, but be sure you get the real thing.
Be sure you get genuine Jell-O, except no substitutes, because only genuine Jell-O has that extra rich fresh fruit flavor. Remember to look for the big red letters on the box. They spell Jell-O. Now, ladies and gentlemen, after a week in the desert, we bring you that sun-baked comedian with the warmed-over jokes,
Jack Benny. That's good. Thank you. Hello again. This is Jack Benny, that little ray of sunshine, just back from a week at Palm Springs and feeling twice as healthy as ever before. And anything but anemic.
Well, that's fine, Jack. That's fine. Did you get on there to get rid of your cold? Yes, Don, my cold and Fred Allen. The cold doesn't bother me anymore. Well, tell me, Jack, have you had any more dreams about Allen since last Sunday?
Yes, I have, and it certainly makes a lie out of that old saying that you meet a better class of people in your dreams. Anyway, tonight I'm going to put that town hall ghost in his place once and for all.
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