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The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy Traces Genealogy

The Great Gildersleeve · March 24, 1946 · 29 min · 4,033 words

What happens

Gildersleeve receives an invitation to a Yesteryear Ball and decides to research his ancestors at the public library. Leroy and Marjorie, who have also been asking about their family, ask Aunt Matilda for help. Meanwhile, Leila is pressing Gildersleeve to take her to the ball, and he reads through old family records, drifting into vivid daydreams of his forebears as a South Sea trader, a financier and a pirate. The Great Gildersleeve, starring Harold Peary, was first broadcast on NBC on March 24, 1946.

Characters: Gildersleeve, Leroy, Marjorie, Bertie, Leila Ransom, Aunt Matilda, Judge Hooker

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The craft food company presents the great Gilder's sleeve. You're right. It's the great Gilder's sleeve, starring Harold Perry. Brought to you by the craft food company, makers of a complete line of famous quality food products.

Now let's see what Gilder's sleeve has on his mind. Arriving home rather late from the office, he finds dinner just about this. Oh, that's a good evening, my dear. Hello, I'm just... All right, mate, here, while I...

Let's do it in a need. Well, okay, what is it? Yeah, I wanted it, huh? Invitation is some full ball. Oh, you don't tear it up, what is it? Throw it in the waste paper, Bantu, and get through it.

I want things near around here for James. The Summer Field Historical Society invites you to attend a yesteryear ball. Saturday, the New March 30th, and the Grand Ballroom of the Summer Field Hotel. Come rest is one of your ancestors.

Oh, Aki, what's wrong? Yes. Admission $5 per couple. Oh. Proceed to provide fun for renovation of the old App-Tet mansion. Aki, aren't you going? I should say not. Why? Make a monkey of myself in some clown suit? No, thank you.

But you're not supposed to wear a clown suit. You're supposed to go as an ancestor. You're a monkey suit. Yeah. Our ancestors were not monkeys, they were I. Not recently. Who are they anyway? Who were who? Our ancestors. Our ancestors?

Well, they were people. Good, worthy people, I dare say. Some of them quite distinguished no doubt. No matter fact, I don't know a great deal about them. Brantie's always boasting about her ancestors. She claims they were all rich.

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Marjorie and Bertie are played by Walter Tetley, Louise Erickson and Lillian Randall. Shirley Mitchell plays Leila Ransom, Judge Hooker is Earl Ross, and Richard Legrand plays Mr. Peepee. This is John Lang speaking for the Craft Foods Company and inviting you to listen in again next week for the further adventures of the great Gilder Sleece.

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