Cutting The Bands Wages

Hollywood, the Phil Harris Alice Fay show. Your enjoyment here is the Phil Harris Alice Fay show, written by Ray Singer and Dick Chevrolet, with Elliot Lewis, Walter Tettley, Robert North, Janine Ruse and Whitfield, Walter Sharpen is music, yours truly Bill Foreman, and starring Alice Fay and Phil Harris.

Alice's brother William has just figured up Phil's total income tax for the year 1950. He's shown the figures to Phil, and Phil's reaction is that of any good loyal American citizen. I ain't gonna pay it!

I don't understand it. I keep the band working all the time. They won't even give me a quarter deduction for uniforms, the blazers on youth in the bank. Now, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, don't get yourself all excited.

You have to pay your tax. Oh, honey, I know. But gee whiz, after working hard all year, I haven't gotten nothing left. Willie, are you sure that you figured my tax right? Did you deduct all of my dependents?

Yes, I copied the list you gave me. It included Alice, myself, baby Alice, little Phyllis, your mother, father, Aunt Matilda, and Lord Calvert. Lord Calvert! My English uncle. I send you my hapaneer too to keep the old land, Sestry, La State. The Hop Gardens and such, you know. I can't understand the way

It's your own fault, Philip. You're too extravagant in your business dealing. You pay your employees much too much. They're worth every penny I pay them. That's why I have the best band in the country.

This is the best. You said it. Them guys have talent. They can play even when they're blind, folded. They're very capable musicians. musicians. Another thing, why do you have 60 men in your orchestra? Only 30 of them play instruments. What did the other 30 do? They sit behind the guys with the instruments and tap them on the shoulders when it's turned to join in or