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The Life of Riley · October 22, 1944 · 28 min · 4,127 words
The transcript of “Boss's Son-In-Law”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast October 22, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Life of Riley plays The Life of Riley free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Here he is, folks. You laughed when he played the Marine in the movie Wake Island. And now you're laughing at him in his newest picture, a broad with two yanks. He's Hollywood's magnificent mug. Who's a mug?
Well, when I was only six, the teacher said I had the brain of a ten-year-old child. And I still got it. The American Meat Institute presents William Vendig's In the Life of Riley. The Meat People of America, providing a great food for a great nation.
Did you know that if all the meat animals handled by America's meat-tacking plants in 1944 were loaded into freight cars, they would fill a train more than 18,000 miles long, long enough to reach from New York to Tokyo and back again?
That's a lot of meat, and a lot of good eating for our fighting forces and you, America. And now, on behalf of all those engaged in supplying meat to the nation, the American Meat Institute presents the life of Riley!
Of course Chester A. Riley is only one of the thousands of war workers employed by the Stevenson aircraft plant, but ever since he straightened out the boss's son Roswell by a long overdue spanking, Riley has enjoyed a unique place in the boss's esteem.
At the moment Riley is entering the reception room of the boss's office. Oh, hello Mr. Riley. Did you want to see Mr. Stevenson? Oh yeah, the boys are my shift to complaining about a loose nut on a ventilator fan.
Make so much noise you can hardly hear yourself riveting. Well, he's just talking to his wife on the phone, but I guess you can go in. Oh, well, for what I hear about his wife, he might be glad to be interrupted.
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