A Date With Judy 41-07-08 (003) Mother Runs Away

Summary

Podcast Summary: "A Date With Judy 41-07-08 (003) Mother Runs Away"

Overview

In this engaging episode of Harold's Old Time Radio, titled "A Date With Judy 41-07-08 (003) Mother Runs Away", listeners are transported back to the Golden Age of Radio. The story revolves around the Foster family—Judy Foster, her 10-year-old brother Randolph, their father Melvin, and their mother Dora. The episode masterfully blends humor, family dynamics, and misunderstandings, all set against the backdrop of post-war American suburbia.

Characters

• Judy Foster: The spirited daughter who takes on the responsibility of maintaining her family's composure.
• Randolph Foster (Curly/Stinky): Judy's playful and resourceful younger brother, serving as the society editor for the family's mock newspaper.
• Melvin Foster: The hardworking father, caught off guard by his family's upheaval.
• Dora Foster: The seemingly elusive mother whose actions spark the central conflict.
• Sydney Holland: The man believed to have eloped with Dora.

Plot Summary

Judy's Date and Mother's Sudden Disappearance

The episode opens with Judy Foster lamenting her unsuccessful date, hoping her charm will win her affection. As Judy interacts with her mother, Dora, she expresses disappointment over her date boy's lack of follow-up:

Judy Foster [05:29]: "Mother, have there any phone calls for me this morning?"

Dora dismisses Judy's concerns, hinting at her own preoccupations:

Dora Foster [05:36]: "Oh, look at that. I don't know where that man gets so many holes in his underwear."

Family Confrontation

Later, Judy and Randolph encounter their father, Melvin, attempting to discuss serious family news. Judy tries to broach the subject delicately:

Judy Foster [11:14]: "Father. Father, there's something we've got to tell you."

Melvin remains skeptical, dismissing their concerns as baseless:

Melvin Foster [12:29]: "Judy, you've spared me long enough. I haven't got a few hours to be spared. I've got a sales meeting in a little while, so stop sparing me any longer and tell me quick."

Misunderstanding and Accusations

Under mounting pressure, Randolph abruptly accuses their mother of eloping with Sydney Holland:

Randolph Foster [12:54]: "Mother eloped with another man."

Melvin vehemently denies the allegation, leading to a heated exchange filled with familial tension and humor:

Melvin Foster [13:08]: "Sam Hill, are you prattling about? Did you come down here to tell me a fish story like this? Your mother would no sooner elope with another man than I would."

Judy reinforces the accusation by revealing a farewell note believed to be from Dora:

Judy Foster [18:15]: "She didn't need to be that formal."

Resolution and Mother's Return

As the family's distress peaks, Dora returns unexpectedly. The misunderstanding is clarified when she reveals that her supposed elopement was actually a business trip related to establishing a salmon canning factory with Sydney Holland:

Dora Foster [26:57]: "Sidney Holland and his father have brought out a salmon canning factory and they're going to need thousands of cans every month. I went down and had lunch with them both."

The family's relief is palpable as they realize the gravity of their mistake. Melvin expresses his disbelief, while Judy and Randolph apologize for jumping to conclusions:

Melvin Foster [26:13]: "What? Let me see. For the love of heaven, how could."

Judy Foster [27:30]: "Well, I was only doing my best, trying to take your place in the home and make things comfortable for Father."

Notable Quotes

• Randolph Foster [12:54]: "Mother eloped with another man."
• Melvin Foster [13:08]: "Your mother would no sooner elope with another man than I would."
• Dora Foster [26:57]: "Sidney Holland and his father have brought out a salmon canning factory..."
• Judy Foster [27:30]: "I was only doing my best, trying to take your place in the home and make things comfortable for Father."

Conclusion

"A Date With Judy 41-07-08 (003) Mother Runs Away" skillfully weaves a tale of misunderstanding, familial duty, and eventual reconciliation. The episode highlights the importance of communication and trust within a family, all delivered with the charming wit characteristic of Old Time Radio. Listeners are left amused and heartened by the Foster family's journey from confusion to clarity, underscoring timeless themes of love and understanding.

Transcript

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[Announcer]

Presenting a date with Judy.

[Judy Foster]

Hello Judy. Why hello Judy.

[Announcer]

I'd like to ask you for a date tonight. Of course I don't have a big car like Ozzie Prindle and I know I'm not as good looking as Ozzie Prindle and I don't have as much money as Ozzie Prindle, but could I have a date anyhow?

[Judy Foster]

Why certainly. But can I ask you one question?

[Announcer]

Sure Judy.

[Judy Foster]

How can I get in touch with Ozzie Br.

[Announcer]

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[Randolph Foster]

Sure, why not? Come on, Randolph.

[Announcer]

May I have your name?

[Randolph Foster]

Tell him your name, Stinky. My name's Sylvester Weichman. Everybody calls me Curly, though, except me. I call him Stinky.

[Announcer]

And what is your name, my little man?

[Randolph Foster]

Randolph Foster. What's yours, my little man?

[Announcer]

Well, that's sort of reversing the procedure a little. I'm smiling. Yes, smiling.

[Judy Foster]

Run.

[Announcer]

Niles, the sidewalk interviewer. And I'd like to ask you a few questions. Do you gentlemen go to school in the summertime?

[Randolph Foster]

Don't be a trip. We're newspapermen.

[Announcer]

Really? What newspaper?

[Randolph Foster]

It's the Tri Monthly. Tri Boy Tribune. I'm editor in chief. That's only because his father owns the mimeograph machine.

[Announcer]

And what's your official position?

[Randolph Foster]

Me? I'm sports editor and society editor. Do I have to get that society stuff? You sure do, but I don't want to. I'm the sports editor type. You either get the society news or you're fired, Randolph.

[Announcer]

Oh, thank you very much.

[Judy Foster]

Hello.

[Announcer]

This is Smiling Wendells, ladies and gentlemen. Your old sidewalk interviewer.

[Judy Foster]

Now run along. Boycott.

[Randolph Foster]

There isn't any justice. Muse covers the he man versus Superman baseball game. Me, the sports Editor Deluxe. Who's editor in chief of this outfit.

[Announcer]

Now, Randolph Stinky, please.

[Melvin Foster]

We're on the air.

[Randolph Foster]

Who wants to be a society editor?

[Announcer]

Just a minute, boys. Just a minute.

[Randolph Foster]

The table was tastefully decorated in green and pews.

[Announcer]

Oh, please, please.

[Randolph Foster]

This student of stinkweed made the nuptial bower a veritable garden boy.

[Judy Foster]

Mother, have there any phone calls for me this morning?

[Dora Foster]

This morning? Judy, do you mean to tell me you know anyone who gets up before noon during summer vacation?

[Judy Foster]

I mean, this date I had last night. He said he wouldn't sleep all night.

[Dora Foster]

He promised, Judy.

[Judy Foster]

Oh, he's utterly feverish about me. He said my eyelashes were luscious. He just said everything. Oh, he poured on the roses.

[Dora Foster]

And now just like any old lug, he sleeps all night through and doesn't call you in the morning.

[Judy Foster]

Man.

[Dora Foster]

Man.

[Judy Foster]

He said he was going to rush me every moment of the day and night. Mother, will you please stop sorting the dirty wash while I'm confiding in you? And here it is half past eleven. Don't you think he's an ick for not having phone?

[Dora Foster]

He's a villain.

[Judy Foster]

Mother, I wish you wouldn't tear up Father Shorts in a dish rags while I'm talking to you.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, look at that. I don't know where that man gets so many holes in his underwear.

[Randolph Foster]

Not from doing the Rumba. Oh, this is Smiling Randolph Foster, your old society editor. Why, Randall, have you been to any shindigs lately?

[Dora Foster]

Shindigs, Randolph? What sort of shindigs?

[Randolph Foster]

Oh, society stuff. Weddings, teas, receptions, hen parties. Anything you've got.

[Judy Foster]

Randolph. I was talking to Mother.

[Randolph Foster]

Well, you don't have a monopoly, Mother. How about it? Haven't you been anyplace lately?

[Dora Foster]

Well, one night last week your father and I went bowling and one night we went to a weenie roast.

[Randolph Foster]

Socially, Mother, you're a total loss. If you hear of any social items, let me know.

[Dora Foster]

I will, dear. Why don't you ask Mrs. Slutz Hammer next door if she has any items? She always knows everything that goes on in this neighborhood.

[Randolph Foster]

Okay, but if you happen to be presented at court or anything before my deadline, let me in on it.

[Announcer]

Ho, ho, ho.

[Randolph Foster]

Mrs. Schlutzheimer, this is Smiling Randolph Foster.

[Judy Foster]

Your whole society editor. He's a dreadful drain on my vitality.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, is he? I personally am very fond of him.

[Judy Foster]

Oh, that's it. I'll answer it. Mother. It's my last night's date. I knew he wouldn't be able to sleep. Hello? Oh, hello. Yes. Yes, she is. Mother, it's for you.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, for me? Is it a girl or a man, or am I quoting you, dear?

[Judy Foster]

It's a man.

[Dora Foster]

Well, I hope it's a sugar puss and not the garage mechanic telling me we need a new battery. Hello?

[Judy Foster]

Who?

[Dora Foster]

Sydney? Not Sydney Holland? Whatever are you doing in town after all these years? Why, Sydney. Oh, this is a surprise, hearing your voice again. But do you know, I recognized it almost immediately. No, really, I did. Why, how could I forget you? Your image is engraved indelibly upon my heart. Tell me what you're doing here.

[Judy Foster]

Do you hear a clicking sound on the wire? Mother? It usually clicks when somebody's trying to get us.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, how exciting. Of course I'm interested, Sydney. How could I help it be? I'll tell you what, Sydney. I won't say a word to my husband. The hotel today? Oh, Sydney, I'd adore it, but I've so many things to do. Well, all right, I'll just drop everything. I'll meet you there at 1:00. Goodbye.

[Judy Foster]

Who was that?

[Dora Foster]

An old beau of mine. Turned out to be a sugar puss after all. Well, I've got to hurry and get these things together and go.

[Judy Foster]

Where are you going?

[Dora Foster]

I have a rendezvous. Your old mother has a rendezvous? Judy. Isn't that luscious?

[Judy Foster]

Did you know him before you knew Father?

[Dora Foster]

I did. He Was utterly feverish about me. He didn't sleep all night for nights and nights.

[Judy Foster]

Mother, you.

[Dora Foster]

You sound shocked, dear.

[Judy Foster]

Well, I should think you'd have some loyalty for Father.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, I do, of course. But I always say sugar puss is a sugar puss.

[Judy Foster]

Is he handsome, Sydney?

[Dora Foster]

Oh, there's glamour written all over his sugar puss. I have a picture of him I might show you sometime. In a football uniform. Very collegiate, as the quaint old phrase went in my day.

[Judy Foster]

You haven't kept a picture of him all these eons?

[Dora Foster]

Oh, yes, all these eons, dear. Why don't you scram in a quiet way? I'm terribly busy.

[Judy Foster]

I see. Well, I wouldn't dream of being in your way. Perhaps you'd like me to get out of the house completely.

[Dora Foster]

Of course not, dear. I just.

[Judy Foster]

I'll go over to Gloria's. She doesn't mind having me around.

[Dora Foster]

My, how sensitive we are today. Let me see. Eight sheets, 12 pillowcases, 17 bath towels. Oh, none of us keeping that laundress. Four wash rags, six napkins, 11 face towers. Hello? Oh, hello, Woody. Has Petunia left yet? Just left, Abel. I'm afraid I can't wait for her. I guess you'll know what to do about stretching the curtains. I'll leave a note. Thank you, Woody. Where was I? Now the dish toes it in the food. Never get away. Hello? Oh, hello, Mrs. Cambridge. Oh, those old clothes for the club rummage sale. I have them already. But I have an appointment. At your house? Yes, I could drop them off there. I'll just stick them in a suitcase and leave them with you. That'll be fine. Oh, I'm an ick to have forgotten.

[Announcer]

Ick.

[Dora Foster]

Mrs. Cambridge. I c. K.

[Judy Foster]

Mother? Mother?

[Dora Foster]

Anyone home?

[Randolph Foster]

Isn't anybody home?

[Dora Foster]

Ho, ho, ho.

[Randolph Foster]

Smiling. Randolph Foster's home, if you consider that anybody there are. Sometimes I think you don't.

[Judy Foster]

Where's Mother?

[Randolph Foster]

I don't know.

[Judy Foster]

Oh, I remember. She had a date at a hotel with a glamorous man.

[Randolph Foster]

Mother did? At a hotel?

[Judy Foster]

Yes.

[Randolph Foster]

How long is she gonna stay?

[Judy Foster]

Well, how should I know?

[Randolph Foster]

She had a pretty big suitcase with her.

[Judy Foster]

A suitcase? Randolph. Oh, Randolph, she's alone.

[Randolph Foster]

Oh, Mother. You mean with a man?

[Judy Foster]

Oh, Randolph, how are we gonna break the news to Father?

[Melvin Foster]

Well, imagine seeing you two here at my factory. Not only my son, but my daughter. This is indeed a surprise. Wait here in my office. Just a minute, you two. I have to go tell my stenographer something. Be right back.

[Judy Foster]

Let me do the talking, Randolph.

[Randolph Foster]

I'm more tactful I think this is a bunch of bunk. Judy, I've always trusted Mother.

[Judy Foster]

You wouldn't talk that way if you'd heard her raving about this man this morning. Why, from the moment she heard his voice, she was a dead pigeon. He lured her right over the telephone.

[Randolph Foster]

I bet all he lured her into was buying a vacuum cleaner.

[Judy Foster]

Poor Father. He'll be utterly stricken. Oh, here he comes. Brace yourself, Randolph.

[Randolph Foster]

I'm braced.

[Melvin Foster]

All right, kids, I'm free. Now, tell me what's on your minds and how much it's going to cost me.

[Judy Foster]

Father. Father, there's something we've got to tell you. But before we say anything, there's something you have to promise us.

[Melvin Foster]

All right, I'm in a good humor.

[Judy Foster]

I want you to promise you won't shoot anybody. Shoot anybody with a gun? At first it'll be difficult, but later on, when you become rational, you'll. You'll thank me for making you refrain from taking another's life.

[Melvin Foster]

Say, what is this?

[Judy Foster]

Father, prepare yourself for a terrific shock. I wish I could spare you, if only for a few more hours of happiness.

[Melvin Foster]

Judy, you've spared me long enough. I haven't got a few hours to be spared. I've got a sales meeting in a little while, so stop sparing me any longer and tell me quick.

[Judy Foster]

It's about. Well, it's about somebody very near and dear to you.

[Melvin Foster]

For the love of heaven, I don't want to play guessing games. Who's sick? Come on, let me have it.

[Judy Foster]

Well, nobody's sick at all, Father. It isn't a question of illness. It's something else entirely.

[Melvin Foster]

Judy, if you don't.

[Randolph Foster]

Mother eloped with another man.

[Melvin Foster]

What?

[Judy Foster]

Oh, Randolph, how could you say such a thing before I prepared Father properly. Oh, Father, I feel dreadful. I meant to break it to you gradually. I wanted.

[Melvin Foster]

Sam Hill, are you prattling about? Did you come down here to tell me a fish story like this? Your mother would no sooner elope with another man than I would.

[Randolph Foster]

And I couldn't see you eloping with another man. I've been telling Judy that.

[Judy Foster]

It's true, Father. I heard her personally on the telephone saying she'd meet him at a hotel and then she went off with a suitcase.

[Melvin Foster]

Well, he's probably a wholesale furry, and she's meeting him there to.

[Judy Foster]

Why?

[Melvin Foster]

She was saying the other day she wished she could get a fur wholesale.

[Judy Foster]

The suitcase, Father.

[Melvin Foster]

Well, she's probably carrying a knitting in it. Lord only knows what women are likely to carry their knitting in these days.

[Judy Foster]

I'm sorry, Father, but I personally heard her say he was glamorous. Can you stand this, darling? I heard her say she never could forget him. And that his image was engraved indelibly upon her heart.

[Melvin Foster]

Indelibly upon her. Your mother doesn't talk that way.

[Judy Foster]

Not to you, Father. But she did to Sydney Sidney.

[Melvin Foster]

Sydney who?

[Judy Foster]

I can't remember his last name. I think it began with an H. Sydney Harlan? Yes, Father. He's the man. So you knew about it all these eons.

[Melvin Foster]

Knew what?

[Judy Foster]

That she cared.

[Melvin Foster]

Cared, my eye. That fat fool from Ashtabula, Ohio. He's got ears.

[Judy Foster]

Ears that stick out like Mother thinks he's handsome.

[Melvin Foster]

Handsome Sydney Holland. Flat feet, couldn't even get in the army in 1918.

[Judy Foster]

Mother has a picture of him in a football uniform.

[Announcer]

Football?

[Melvin Foster]

That's a good one. I'd like to see Sydney play football.

[Randolph Foster]

Up until now, I too thought Mother had gone to see a wholesale furrier. Carrying her knitting in a suitcase. But in view of your remarks about Mr. Holland, Father. Ugly doubts are beginning to rear their fat heads. With ears that stick out like this.

[Judy Foster]

Be quiet, Randolph. Father, I suggest you come home now and try to get some rest. I'll do the driving. Randolph and I will help you out to the car.

[Melvin Foster]

I'll do no such thing. I'm staying right here. The whole thing's perfectly ridiculous. I don't believe a word of it. Your mother would no more look at Sydney Holland than Ms. Hankel. I'm going home for the day. Break my appointment. Come on, children, we'll go home. I don't know why I'm doing this. Your mother's probably there baking a cake or something.

[Judy Foster]

Just lean on Randolph and knee as you walk, Father.

[Announcer]

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[Melvin Foster]

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[Melvin Foster]

I'll show you. She's home right now. Dora. Dora.

[Judy Foster]

It's hopeless, Father. The sooner you reconcile yourself to the fact.

[Melvin Foster]

Dora. Dora. That's funny. Maybe she's in the kitchen. Dora. Not here.

[Randolph Foster]

There's a note here on the kitchen table.

[Judy Foster]

A note? It must be Mother's farewell note.

[Melvin Foster]

Let me see it. Had to leave. Get on as well as you can without me. Signed, Mrs. Forster.

[Randolph Foster]

She didn't need to be that formal.

[Judy Foster]

Well, she could hardly sign at Mother any longer. If she's no longer a mother to us now, could she sign at your loving wife if she's no longer. Oh, excuse. Excuse me, Father.

[Randolph Foster]

Maybe we ought to check if it's in her handwriting. I could put it under my microscope and check it with another specimen of her hand.

[Melvin Foster]

Sydney Holland. He can't even swim. He took your mother on a picnic once and the canoe tipped over. He blubbered in the water like an oversized whale.

[Judy Foster]

Father, you won't forget your promise, will you? About not tracking him down and shooting him. I mean, Sydney Holland.

[Melvin Foster]

When he was 23, his hair started falling out.

[Judy Foster]

They probably wouldn't give you the electric chair. But there will be a long jail term and additional disgrace and what do you mean, additional? I mean everybody talking. When I think of what Mrs. Schlutzhammer up next door alone will say when the news of mother's elopement comes out.

[Randolph Foster]

Excuse me a minute, please. I have to go in the other room to make an important telephone call.

[Judy Foster]

Poor Father.

[Randolph Foster]

Hello, Curly.

[Dora Foster]

Hahaha.

[Randolph Foster]

This is smiling Randolph Foster. Have I got some hot news for the society page. Take this down, curly. Mr. Melvin Foster of Elm street announces the elopement of his wife dora to our Mr. Sydney Holland of Ashtabula, Ohio. That is all.

[Judy Foster]

Gee, Gloria, I'm glad you dropped in. You're just in time to help me cook supper. What are you cooking supper for? Where's your mother? Oh, the most terrible thing has happened, Gloria. Now, this is absolutely confidential, so I want you to promise you won't say a thing about it until everybody else is talking about it anyhow, so it won't matter. I promise. Okey dokey. Well, Mother has run off with another man. With another?

[Randolph Foster]

Honestly.

[Judy Foster]

Yes, it's dreadful. I'm too positively worried about Father. He's utterly stricken. Jeepers. Jeepers, that's grand. I know. So you see what a responsibility I have. It's up to me to try to take Mother's place. I'm going to keep house for Father and cook his meals and make him as comfortable as I can and comfort him. And I'm just going to do everything to bring a little comfort into his pocket. Poor, broken. Alive. Jeepers. So that's why I'm cooking dinner. Look, Gloria, this fish was in the icebox. What'll I do with it? Gee, it's so raw. I know. Doesn't it look awful?

[Dora Foster]

Is it dead?

[Judy Foster]

Well, I. I think it's dead. It hasn't moved for five minutes. That's good, because I wouldn't like to.

[Randolph Foster]

Have to kill it.

[Judy Foster]

I wouldn't either, but I think we can go on the assumption it's dead. But then what do we do? I don't know. I think it has to be cooked. When we have fish for supper at home, it comes on the table, all cooked, with a slice of lemon in its mouth. A slice of lemon? That's a good tip, Gloria. That's just what I'll do. I'll put a slice of lemon in its mouth. I'd cook it too, if I were you. I'm all right. Gee, it certainly is going to be hard to take Mother's place now that she's run off with Another man. Don't ever let anybody tell you it's easy for a girl whose mother has eloped. Aren't you going to have anything else for supper but fish? Well, I was going to make spaghetti, but it's all long and stiff and it won't fit into the pan. Maybe you need a longer pan. Well, there aren't any longer pan except the dish pan.

[Randolph Foster]

Oh, it'd fit in that.

[Judy Foster]

Well, then use the dish pan. I think you have to put water in it, too. Well, hot or cold water, I don't know. Well, let's not take any chances. Let's make it half hot water and half cold water. Sort of mix them up a little bit. Well, thank everything. We'll have a good supper tonight. What a comfort that'll be to Father.

[Melvin Foster]

I can't eat a bite of this. What'd you do to this fish, cook it in soap suds?

[Judy Foster]

Really, Father, I was only trying to.

[Randolph Foster]

Spaghetti is very interesting, too. If I shut my eyes and I never take the chance, I couldn't tell it from angle worms. All it needs is big blue eyes.

[Judy Foster]

Randall.

[Randolph Foster]

Well, it tastes like angle worms.

[Judy Foster]

Did you ever taste an angle worm?

[Randolph Foster]

I don't have to now. I've tasted the spaghetti.

[Melvin Foster]

For the love of heaven, what are these supposed to be? Shoe buttons.

[Judy Foster]

They're peas, Father. I tried so hard. I worked my finger to the bone trying to make a good dinner for.

[Dora Foster]

You, and all you do is talk.

[Judy Foster]

About angle worms and shoe buttons.

[Randolph Foster]

What I like is the expression on the fish's face sort of dejected.

[Melvin Foster]

You'd be dejected, too, if you went through what that fish has just gone through.

[Judy Foster]

A lot of appreciation I get for.

[Dora Foster]

Trying to make a home for you and keep the family together. And housekeeping.

[Melvin Foster]

Oh, I wish I knew where your mother was.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, thanks ever so much, Mrs. Gray. It's so late. My family will think I've run off or something. Glad to do it, Mrs. Foster.

[Judy Foster]

Goodbye. Goodbye, Mrs. Fudge. Oh, and Mrs.

[Randolph Foster]

Doctor.

[Judy Foster]

Oh, yes.

[Dora Foster]

Mrs. Mutt's hammer. Is that you? I can hardly see you over there in the window.

[Judy Foster]

Well, I saw you coming along the street and I thought I'd say hello. So you've decided to come back, have you?

[Dora Foster]

What do you mean?

[Judy Foster]

Giving him up? Having to. Well, believe me, Mrs. Foster, you've done the wise thing.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, Mrs. Slutsamer, I really don't understand what you're.

[Judy Foster]

Oh, and I'm glad you decided to come back so soon. When I saw this item in the Tri. Monthly Triboid Tribune, I said to Mr. Saltheimer, I can't believe a woman like your for so what?

[Dora Foster]

What item do you mean?

[Judy Foster]

Oh, you probably haven't seen it. Well, it was just delivered on this street just a few minutes ago. I have it right here. I'll read it to you. Mr. Melvin Foster of Elm street announces the elopement of his wife Dora to Mr. Sydney Hollow. It's dessert, that's what it is. I don't know what's so mysterious about it. I got it right out of the cookbook. It's called Floating Island.

[Randolph Foster]

It floats all right.

[Melvin Foster]

Somebody just came in. Dora.

[Judy Foster]

Mother. It's Mother.

[Melvin Foster]

Well, so you decided to leave Mr. Holland and return to your unglamorous old husband, huh?

[Judy Foster]

You too, Melvin?

[Dora Foster]

Well, I never heard of anything like this in all my life. I just can't believe. Randolph, I have here a copy of the Tri Monthly. Tri boy Tribune.

[Randolph Foster]

Yeah.

[Dora Foster]

Mrs. Slutshammer gave it to me. Mrs. Slutshammer? Of all people, the biggest gossip in town. Look at this. Mr. Melvin Foster of Elm street announces the elopement of his wife.

[Melvin Foster]

What? Let me see. For the love of heaven, how could.

[Dora Foster]

You do a thing like this to your father and me, Randolph?

[Randolph Foster]

I guess I'm a newspaper man first and a family man second.

[Dora Foster]

And you, Melvin Foster. Why, when I came in, you acted as though. As though you thought I had a loaf.

[Melvin Foster]

Well, either the note and everything.

[Dora Foster]

The note?

[Judy Foster]

What note? It was on the kitchen table.

[Dora Foster]

I left that note for Petunia about stretching the curtains.

[Melvin Foster]

Oh, was it for Petunia?

[Judy Foster]

Well, how about the suitcase?

[Dora Foster]

The suitcase? I was just taking some old clothes to Mrs. Cambridge's for the rummage sale.

[Randolph Foster]

What's come over this family?

[Dora Foster]

I never. Melvin, if you really want to know what I was doing all this time. I was getting an order for your factory.

[Melvin Foster]

What?

[Dora Foster]

Sidney Holland and his father have brought out a salmon canning factory and they're going to need thousands of cans every month. I went down and had lunch with them both. Both? I wanted to surprise you on what happens. I come up the street and I'm told I've eloped with the. What's this on the table? Is this my fish?

[Randolph Foster]

We had a hard time recognizing it, too.

[Judy Foster]

Well, I was only doing my best, trying to take your place in the home and make things comfortable for Father.

[Dora Foster]

Oh, you poor, dear, noble child. And you, all of you. You thought I'd run off with Sydney Holland?

[Melvin Foster]

With Sydney Holland? That fat fool. I never believed it for a moment.

[Judy Foster]

Neither did Judy.

[Randolph Foster]

Tri Monthly. Tri Boy Tribune Editor in chief. Speaking oh, hello, Randolph. What happened? It wasn't. Oh, yeah. I guess we can sort of print a retroaction. I know what we'll do. We'll put out an extra. Here's what we'll say. The Tri Monthly Tri Boy Tribune, which is to announce that Mrs. Melvin Foster, wife of Melvin Foster of Elm street, did not elope with her old boyfriend, Sydney Holland of Ashtabula, Ohio.

[Announcer]

Well, that unravels another set of complications in Judy's life. As to what happens next in her exciting young life, well, your guess is as good as mine. Oh, yes, come in. Mr. Goodwin, just the man I've been looking for. I have here in my suitcase some beautiful train mottos for your wall. Ah, now here's the dandy. It says, ho, ho, ho. You can win success and win it by a mile if you always stretch your face and smile, smile, smile. Beautiful, isn't it? Want one? Now wait a minute. That's my department. Listen to this. My high pressure motto. Merchant. One way to success is, as you say, to smile at people. But that's not going to do you any good unless your smile is attractive. And that means you've got to have better than just a halfway tooth powder that only cleans teeth. It means instead that you should choose one that not only cleans teeth, but one which actually makes teeth brighter than any other powder can. And that one is Pepsodent tooth powder. For independent laboratory tests prove beyond doubt that pepsodent tooth powder has the power to give teeth a luster twice as bright as the average of all other brands, thanks to pepsodent's exclusive patented ingredient composite metaphosphate, which pepsodent alone contains. So if you're interested in success via the smile route, don't go just halfway. Go twice as far with pepsid and tooth powder, which does twice as much.

[Judy Foster]

There.

[Announcer]

Mamato Merchant. What do you think of that? What was that?

[Melvin Foster]

Them brother, was my motto.

[Announcer]

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