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Jack Benny Visits Ivy

The Halls of Ivy · 1950 · 23 min · 3,459 words

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Jack Fenny is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman on the Hall of the Ivy. Welcome again to Ivy. Ivy College that is in the town of Ivy USA. For the last few days, Dr. William Todd Hunter Hall, President of Ivy College, has been almost completely unaware of the under-covered campus activities of his wife Victoria, former star of the English stage.

In fact, he betrays his unawareness by asking at the breakfast table. Vicki, my darling, I've been so busy lately, I've hardly seen you. What have you been doing? That's interesting. Oh, the usual things, sorry. I chairmen the book Club Monday.

Mm-hm. The next of the faculty women wedding this gave the two who mothers grew the short lecture on diapartocolding on Thursday. Met with the... Excuse me, but where did you learn diapartocolding? You must be a thrown England.

Really? Of course I know naturally that no cost in dramatics is complete without the eternal triangle, but, uh, my, uh, my mental picture of that geometric figure seems to be badly painted. To me, you're always the glamorous beauty, weighted on hands and foot by a dooring lackeys, champagne and elbow and rubbing violin behind the potted farts.

Well, I've seen my share of potted lackeys in my day. This is before I rated a star on my dressing room door, when I was the Cromwell kid, the one with the rather good legs in the second row.

What else have you been doing? Well, for one thing, I've signed Jack Benny for the annual charity benefit show. Oh, that's nice. What else? Well, you mean what else? Would you suggest you get what I just said?

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