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Oscar Levant - Information Please

Jack Benny · 1942 · 29 min · 3,570 words

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The Grape Nuts Plakes Program coming to you from New York City, where we're playing to an audience of men on leave from the armed services, and starring Jack Benny, with Mary Livingston, Dennis A. Rochester, you're truly Don Wilson, and our guest conductor, Abe Lyman.

Friends, I am at a woman today who has three sons on three different workships. Boy, does that big 12-ounce package of delicious toasty brown grape nuts flakes get a work out at her house with breakfast time rolling around three times a day.

Yes, these days breakfast may come at odd hours, but whenever it comes time for breakfast, it means time for crisp toasty grape nuts flakes. A breakfast of moldy rich quail tasting all around nourishment because grape nuts flakes are a whole grain cereal.

Now, whole grain cereals are not only health builders, then they're whole grain because they bring you the important food essentials, vital food factors you need, including iron and two of the health building B vitamins, niacin and B1.

So get set for the breakfast ship with delicious, nourishing, great nuts flakes. And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the most fantastic introduction of the year. fantastic I bring you a famous concert violinist who is making his debut this

evening at Carnegie Hall Jack Benny thank you thank you thank you hello again this is Jack Yasha Benny talking and folks I'm as nervous as a pizzicato and down that's the truth I am playing my violin at Carnegie Hall tonight but Jack it's so fantastic will you stop saying that this is a benefit for the infant

for Alice's Fund and I'm appearing as a soloist on the same program with Gladys Swarthout, Isaac Stern, Marjorie Laurel, John Charles and Thomas and John Charles Thomas it's one man it is because I said all three of them Christmas cards anyway there there's going to be a lot more prominent artists there including

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