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The Life of Riley · June 7, 1947 · 29 min · 4,214 words
The transcript of “Riley Courts Peg at Summer Camp”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast June 7, 1947. 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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It starts with D and ends with C. That's Dressed. Procter & Gamble's Sudzing Miracle, 2000 years newer than soap. Dressed brings you the life of Riley. D-R-E-F-C. Dressed, America's largest selling brand for washing soaks, mylons, woolens, dishes, presents the life of Riley with William Bendix as Riley.
It takes very little to make Chester A. Riley happy. Right now, for instance, there's a blissful look on Riley's face, as he collars with a few scraps of paper, screen paper, and Abraham Lincoln's picture is printed on each one.
Thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, and one more is forty. Yes, so, Junior, there's forty dollars here. Here is a lot of money, isn't it, Pop? Ah, not so much for a man like me to have, but seeing that you're a doe, it's a bundle.
Junior, how do you buy one of me five dollars? Well, dear, I'd like to pop a... Well, honest, I need every sentence, you see. Junior, I'm hurt. I never thought you'd turn out to be an ungrate.
When you ask me for money, don't I always give it to you? No. No, how can you say that? Did you ever ask me for dough and go away empty-handed? Well, not exactly. I've got a drawer full of your IOUs.
Well, that's better than money. Suppose the U.S. Treasury goes bankrupt. What good is your money? For those IOUs, remember I'm behind them. Now if you lend me $5 in US money, I'll give you a $50 IOU.
What I need this money from my vacation. $40 for a vacation? Where you going around the world? I'm going to Pine Tree Lodge and Lake Arrowhead for two weeks. About $40? You should save that money so you'll have it when some emergency comes up in your life.
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