Jack Benny · 1942 · 29 min · 3,367 words
The transcript of “DC Housing Shortage - Mc Farland Twins”, an episode of Jack Benny from 1942. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Jack Benny Program plays Jack Benny free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The fortunate flakes program coming to you from Fort Meade, Maryland and starring Jack Benny with Mary Livingston, Dennis Day Rochester, yours truly, Don Wilson, and one of the country's newest dance bands, the McFarlane Twins and the Orchestra.
And now that famed playwright, your old friend Don Shakespeare Wilson, presents a serial serial in three acts. Each act will star America's beloved serial treat, sweet as an uncriped nut, flakes. The serial folks fall in love with at the very first fight.
Back one, the scene is breakfast. Mom, Pop, little Willie are seated at the breakfast table. And notice please, in the spotlight, a big 12-ounce economy-sized package of delicious, small, de-rich, grape nuts flakes. Act two, the next day in its lunch time.
Pop's just come home from the war plant, and moms just come home from Red Cross. But Willie beats them both home, and his teacher told him that whole-grain cereals make a swell lunchin' dish nowadays, And here he comes, bearing those grand tasting nourishing grape nut flakes.
Act three, one more day, supper time for our dear little Willie. And moms there with those crisp, tempting, toasty brown grape nut flakes. They're just as delicious, they're just as nutritious at breakfast, at lunch, or at supper.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, from the state of Maryland, home of thoroughbred racehorses we bring you that old gray mare Jack Benny thank you thank you thank you hello again this is Jack Benny winning and John speaking
of horses I wouldn't be surprised of all track records were broken this year racehorses will run faster than ever before how do you know they've got to it's either that or the meat market imagine imagine losing two dollars on a nag and a week later paying twenty four cents a pound for him.
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