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Babs Has Two Dates

The Life of Riley · September 13, 1947 · 29 min · 4,082 words

The transcript of “Babs Has Two Dates”, an episode of The Life of Riley first broadcast September 13, 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's new, it's amazing, it's Prowl, Procter & Gamble's new radiant cream shampoo in the handy tube. Prowl brings you the life of Riley. Prowl, the shampoo that removes dandruff in as little as three minutes and leaves hair radially clean, radially lovely, Prowl presents the life of Riley with Weijem Vendix as Riley.

Hey Riley is a man who doesn't feel he's doing his duty as a husband and father unless he's worrying about something. This week his wife hasn't given him any cause for alarm. His son Junior has been behaving himself.

So it's daughter Babs has turned to bear the brunt of Riley's fatherly concern. I'm home, Dumplin. Oh hello dear. How is the movie? Oh great. Children of today. Wonderful picture. I love a movie that's really up to the minute.

Oh who is in it? Rudolph Valentino and Pearl White. They were silent stars, but that picture must have been made 30 years ago. Well, it still holds good for today. It shows what happens when kids ain't brought up right.

There's one scene when a boy no older than our junior hits his father on the head with an axe. And then robs him. I want Junior to go see that picture. He'll learn a lot.

Oh, I'd oughta be like it. He only likes Western. He likes western. Yeah, believe me, a picture like that makes a father worry about his kid's future. Well, you don't have to worry about our children.

Eh, that's because I grew up right. Instead of running around the streets all hours at a night like other kids, our junior's in bed. And Bab's is in a room reading a good book. Oh, Bab isn't home.

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