Clarence

From Hollywood, California, the makers of old gold cigarettes present the Comedy Theater, the only radio program that brings you every week the greatest stars in the greatest comedies. Tonight's play, Booth, Tarkington's Clarence, starring Joseph Cotton, and here is the director of the old gold comedy theater, Mr. Harold Lloyd.

A good evening, ladies and gentlemen. But may I begin with this paraphrase. Some families are born wacky, some achieve wackiness, and others have wackiness thrust upon them. The Wheeler family comes under all three headies, because there's Mr. Wheeler.

I have ten million dollars and I'm not happy. I have a beautiful wife, my second, and I'm not happy. I have a son and a daughter by the first wife in there. Well, I'm just not happy.

And there's Mrs. Wheeler. I have a wonderful husband and everything that money can buy. I suppose I should be happy, My stepdaughter has a very beautiful governess, Violet Penny. She lives with us and the children confide in her.

So does my husband. How can I be happy? And there's the daughter, Cora Wheeler. When you're 16, you're right for love. You're ready for the arms of Hubert Stem. But just the car these agrads would or were no one understands this.

Not even Violet Penny. Only a man of the world like Hubert can harness the raging torrents of my love. But they blind fools will not hear this. Happiness thought will never be mine. And there's the son, Bobby Wheeler.

Look, just because a chap does a little crapshooting, should his prep school kick him out three times. Listen, if a young buck comes home and finds a good looking parlour made, he kisses her, doesn't he?