Avalon Time - April Fool's Day

Summary

Podcast Summary: Avalon Time – April Fool’s Day

Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Host: Harold's Old Time Radio (Del King is primary announcer)
Episode Date: March 17, 2026
Original Air Date: April 1, 1939 (classic radio rebroadcast)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Avalon Time is a delightful slice of golden-age radio comedy featuring Red Skelton, Edna Stillwell, Jeanette, Red Foley, the Avalon Chorus, and Bob Strong and his orchestra. The show, sponsored by Avalon Cigarettes, weaves together musical numbers, lively banter, and skits built around April Fool’s Day, public events, and Skelton’s misadventures—culminating in Red entertaining at the Policeman’s Ball.

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Key Discussion Points and Segments

1. Opening and Sponsor Message (00:35–03:17)

• Host Intro & Cast: Del King warmly welcomes listeners, listing the evening's talent.
• Sponsor Pitch: Extended humor and rhymes selling Avalon Cigarettes—a classic golden-age radio motif.
• Quote:
  • “You’d never guess, but Avalons cost you less.” (Del King, 00:44)
• Smooth transition to a running comedic introduction for Red Skelton:
  • “The only man in radio who hangs around the navy pier so he can get jokes.” (Del King, 02:56)

2. Red Skelton’s Opening Monologue: Nautical Nonsense (03:17–07:44)

• Skelton recounts an absurd cruise on the “SS Panhandler,” delivers puns and slapstick about seasickness, eccentric captains, and crowded lifeboats.
• Memorable moment:
  • “Captain wanted me to eat at his table, but I refused. Why should I pay for a first class ticket and then eat with the help?” (Red Skelton, 03:49)
• Punchy closing to the bit as he hands over to the orchestra for “Begin the Beguine.”

3. Bandstand Banter & Suit Jokes (07:44–10:01)

• Light verbal sparring among Red, Del King, and Edna Stillwell about Red’s new suit.
• Interstitial jokes about shrinking suits and a fake police call where Skelton is invited to the Policeman’s Ball after a comedic misunderstanding.
• Quote:
  • “Can you send a couple of squad cars over to pick us up?... The chief might send the paddy wagon.” (08:26)
  • “Red Skelton riding a wagon they haul criminals around in.” (08:49)

4. Backstage Skits: Western Film, Boxing Tickets, and Oratory (10:01–15:52)

• Film Spoof: Red Foley rehearses lines for a western, delivering haphazard dialogue.
• Boxing Gag: Edna tricks Red with supposed prize fight tickets—turns out the seats are on a city bus.
  • “These seats are in the fourth row of a Fifth Avenue bus.” (Edna Stillwell, 11:40)
• Public Speaking Lesson: Skelton’s “lesson” with Professor Tommy Mack (Stillwell in another comic turn), descending into wordplay and tongue-twisters.
  • “Do you always talk that way?” “No, only when I speak.” (Red Skelton & Edna Stillwell, 12:45)
  • Hilarious confusion over pronunciation (“teeth,” “denunciation,” “pant”) and a botched recitation of “The Cat and the Fiddle.”

5. Musical Highlight: “I Never Knew Heaven Could Be” (15:52–17:40)

• Jeanette delivers a gentle, romantic number, reinforcing the variety-show nature of the program.
• Memorable lyric:
  • “I never knew heaven could be but now I do—I learned it through a conversation with you.” (Jeanette, 15:52)

6. Policeman’s Ball Sketch – Dancing & Police Parodies (19:58–24:18)

• At the Policeman's Ball, Red and Edna Stillwell banter while dancing, joke about jitterbugging and “heavy trucking” (getting caught by a cop).
• Quote:
  • “Can’t you see that sign there? No heavy trucking on the outer driveway.” (Red Skelton, 20:31)
• Edna as “rookie cop Herky,” proudly showing off handcuffs with rhinestones, lamenting her assignments.
• Red laments performing for police who don’t seem to like him, sets up April Fool’s punchline:
  • “You know how mad bulls get when they see red.” (Red Skelton, 24:04)

7. Musical Interlude: “Roll Along, Prairie Moon” (24:18–26:35)

• Red Foley and the Avalon Chorus perform a wistful, western-flavored song.
• The interlude provides a gentle musical break before the show’s closing minutes.

8. Finale & Closing Banter (28:30–29:58)

• Red, Del, and Edna wrap up with the signature tongue-in-cheek themes about Avalon Cigarettes.
• Joke Exchange: Red imagines himself as the “cultivated” comic public speaker of the future. Del retorts:
  • “Then you can give us cultivated corn.” (Del King, 29:23)
• Preview for next week’s show: special guest, “The Old Old Timer.”

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Notable Quotes & Moments (w/ Timestamps)

• “But Avalons cost you less.” – Del King (00:44)
• “Captain looked at me and he says, my good man, you have a weak stomach.” – Red Skelton (03:40)
• “No heavy trucking on the outer driveway.” – Red Skelton as a cop (20:31)
• “Why not always travel on with Avalon?” – Red Skelton (00:45)
• “You know how mad bulls get when they see red.” – Red Skelton (24:04)
• “Do you always talk that way?” “No, only when I speak.” – Red & Edna (12:45)
• “That was Roger, the fiddle player in the band.” – Del King (08:01)

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Tone & Style

The episode bursts with vaudevillian spirit: fast gags, groaner punchlines, light-hearted songs, and gentle lampooning of public services and radio conventions. The warm camaraderie among the cast, Red Skelton’s physical humor, and Edna Stillwell’s quick wit anchor the show in the family-friendly, anything-goes tradition of late-1930s radio entertainment.

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Timeline of Key Segments

| Time | Segment | |-----------|-------------------------------------------------------| | 00:35 | Show and sponsor introduction | | 03:17 | Red Skelton’s cruise monologue | | 07:44 | Suit jokes and police call gag | | 10:01 | Foley’s western, boxing gag, and “public speaking” | | 15:52 | Jeanette sings “I Never Knew Heaven Could Be” | | 19:58 | At the Policeman’s Ball: dance & police parodies | | 24:18 | “Roll Along, Prairie Moon” performance | | 28:30 | Closing Avalon Cigarettes pitch & sign-off |

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Summary

This episode of Avalon Time delivers quintessential 1930s comedic radio entertainment. With Red Skelton at the helm, it fuses musical numbers, joke-riddled sketches, character parodies, and sly sponsor pitches. The highlight is Red’s bumbling journey to (and performance at) the Policeman’s Ball, peppered with slapstick, puns, and tongue-in-cheek social commentary.

For listeners craving nostalgia, clever repartee, and the charm of early American radio, this outing is a textbook example—an hour of gentle fun and melody, expertly woven by some of the era’s golden voices.

Transcript

[Del King]

A pack of Avalon cigarettes, please.

[Edna Stillwell]

Yes, sir. Oh, just a moment, sir. Don't forget your change. You'd never guess but Avalon's cost you less.

[Red Skelton]

So why not always travel on with Avalon?

[Del King]

Good evening, friends. Good evening. This is King saying welcome to Avalon time with Red Foley, Jeanette, Edna Stillwell, the Avalon chorus, Bob Strong and his orchestra and Red Skeldon. The orchestra opens the program with Don't Look Now. Ladies and gentlemen, Avalons are the newest and most important recent development in cigarette history. They're quality cigarettes that sell for less. 3 to 5 cents less than other popular price brands and 3 to 5 cents saved on every pack of cigarettes you smoke really mean something. Take it from me, it means many, many extra dollars in your pocket every year. But without knowing it, you'd never guess that Avalon's cost you less. The quality of the Turkish and domestic tobaccos blended in union made Avalons cannot be surpassed by any other cigarette, regardless of price, regardless of brand, for cigarette value never known before. Triavalon, why not make it tonight? And now we bring you the only man in radio who hangs around the Navy pier so he can get joked by the gods. Red Skelton.

[Red Skelton]

Thank you and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Say, Dell, speaking of sailors, I took my first cruise last week on the SS Panhandler. Just a tramp steamer, but. But the boat was nice, though. It was very particular who rode on it. In fact, it was so particular they wouldn't take anything but registered cattle. But it's really a nice boat. Everything aboard was shipshape. In fact, the girls aboard were shipshaped. My uncle. What happened? My uncle used to be a well known sea captain. In fact, even the finance company calls him the old Skipper. You know, it's the first time I ever rode on a boat. But it was like being on a train. I rode the rail all the. The captain, the captain looked at me and he says, my good man, you have a weak stomach at a time like that. He wanted distance. Boy, what a captain took it. The captain wanted me to eat at his table, but I refused. Why should I pay for a first class ticket and then eat with a health. Oh, what a screwy captain though. He yelled, all hands on deck. I put my hands on deck and everybody stepped on them. Our first stop was a little island where a lot of native boys were diving in the water for pennies. Of course, I didn't get much out of that, maybe 5 or 6 cents. But you meet a lot of strange people aboard. There was one lady, a fat lady with A homebody built like a house. She spent the whole night walking around the deck trying to reduce. Well, I guess you read someplace about those hits that pass in the night. But you know, I'm really lucky to be here. There was a terrible storm blew up the third, and everybody thought the boat was going to sink. And the captain start yelling, save the women and children first. Well, you know, it was disgusting the way some of the men try to get in those lifeboats. No kidding. One guy nearly tore my dress off of me. Well, I think I've been out here sailing around long enough so I'll pull into shore and see. I even read the blotches on the paper. That's marvelous. I'll let the speedboat strong take over with begin. The begin. Hit it. Say, sailor. But salty. That was Bob Strong and the orchestra playing Begin the Beguine. And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, Bob Strong is the only conductor that doesn't lead the band with a baton.

[Edna Stillwell]

He just waves his hair.

[Del King]

Oh, say, Skelton, I noticed you have on a new suit tonight.

[Red Skelton]

Yeah, I was down in the dumps today, and I always buy a new suit when I sit down in the dumps. I was wondering why you bought your suit, Skelton. What did you say there?

[Del King]

That was Roger. Fiddle player in the band.

[Red Skelton]

Oh, little Flur Echo, eh? Why, that guy's not even a fiddle player. I'll bet I'm more at home with a violin than he is. Not on the radio, Skepton. On the radio, you'd be more at home with BO Okay, Major. You better not get caught in the rain with that suit. Look, I ain't worried about the rain. This is a good suit. Maybe you think so, but confidentially, it shrinks. What's that? Ooh, is that the telephone bell? It ain't Jimmy Fiddler. I'll take that. Hello, Avalon. Cigarette program Red Skelton's thinking. Can't even say my own name. Hello, Skelton. Exercise and branding are over at police headquarters. We've been hearing a lot about you, Skeleton. Well, you can't prove anything. Now, look, I won't talk until I get a mouthful a mouthpiece. But we want to get you far as the policeman. I didn't take the policeman's ball. Honest I didn't. There's the wisecraft. We want you to come over and entertain at the policeman's annual ball. Oh, the ball. Oh, the policeman's ball. Oh, sure. Listen, I'll bring the whole gang over. Can you send a couple of squad cars over to pick us up? No, but I think the chief might send over the paddy wagon. The paddy wagon? You want me to come over and entertain at the policeman's ball? He's going to send a patrol wagon for me to ride in. Red Skelton riding a wagon that they haul criminals around in? Tell him. Okay. Tell him to send wagon number two. The springs are better. That I will. That I will. It's very Skeleton. You know where Fred Allen lives? Why, yes, I know where Fred Allen lives.

[Jeanette]

Why?

[Red Skelton]

Well, if you can get him, you don't have to bother coming over. Oh, I'll be there. Don't worry. Hey, gang, come on. Hey, Bob Strong, get the boys together. We're going over the policeman's bowl. Okay. Skelton, what music shall I take? Rhapsody in Blue Coat? No, and don't take Flat Foot floogy either.

[Edna Stillwell]

Hello, Mrs. Skelton.

[Red Skelton]

Hello, Edna. Say, boy, me going to a policeman vault. You know, I'm getting to be a big shot.

[Edna Stillwell]

How would you like to be as important as I am?

[Red Skelton]

Why are you important, Edna?

[Edna Stillwell]

I'll say. You know, next week, the president and his wife are going to visit the San Francisco World Fair.

[Red Skelton]

Well, how does that make you important, Edna?

[Edna Stillwell]

Why, Mrs. Roosevelt's gonna write and tell me all about it.

[Red Skelton]

My word.

[Edna Stillwell]

No, my day.

[Red Skelton]

Some connection. Say, where's Red Foley?

[Edna Stillwell]

He's over there rehearsing his lines for that western picture he's gonna make.

[Red Skelton]

Yes, yes, let's sneak over and listen to what he's saying. Why kill him, too? Good for you. Pies and Pete. Why, you and Mc Ritter have a good. Hey, Polly. Quiet, tenderfooter. I'll really like it was an oil well. You wouldn't dare. Hey, listen, Tender. Oh, I said that. I forgot myself, that one. Hey, what do you want? Well, look, we're going over the Policeman's Ball. Now, you're not such a bad hombre that you're afraid of the cops, are you? Aw, don't worry about me, Skelton. Nobody's been able to pin anything on me since I was a baby. You're not bad, Jackson. Come in, Mr. Benny. Benny? No, I'm Red Skelton. Say, how many miles is it to Waukegan? Oh, there's a guy that's really been knocking around the country. I hope he don't get into the Yankee Stadium and start rapping on Joe Llewellet.

[Edna Stillwell]

By the way, Red, I got your tickets for the Lewis Galento fight.

[Red Skelton]

Oh, are they good?

[Edna Stillwell]

Yeah. The best I could do, though. Two seats in the fourth row.

[Red Skelton]

Well, that's. Well, two seats in the fourth row at the Yankee Stadium.

[Edna Stillwell]

These seats are in the fourth row of a Fifth Avenue bus.

[Red Skelton]

This Avenue bus. I can't see the Lewis and Galanto fighting there.

[Edna Stillwell]

Well, it'll be the same thing. They're gonna drive up in front of the Yankee Stadium, ring a bell and knock over a beer barrel.

[Red Skelton]

Hey, you know, if I happen to think I'm going to the fight, I better cancel my lesson in public speaking today.

[Edna Stillwell]

Are you taking lessons in public speaking?

[Red Skelton]

Yeah, I've been muffing too many words lately, so I'm taking a course in public speaking. And you know, when I get finished, you know what I'll be Sure. Public loudmouth number one. Now, listen, wise guy. I'll be a great orator. Say, you don't even know what an orator is.

[Red Foley]

Skeptical.

[Red Skelton]

I do too. An orator is a guy who's willing to lay down your life for somebody else's country. Say, come on, let's all of us get going over the policeman's vault. What are you going to sing, Jeanette?

[Edna Stillwell]

Just a minute. Just a minute.

[Red Skelton]

Say, who are you?

[Edna Stillwell]

I'm Professor Tommy Mack, your voice instructor.

[Red Skelton]

My voice instructor? Do you always talk that way?

[Edna Stillwell]

No, only when I speak. Are you ready for your lesson?

[Red Skelton]

Yeah. I need somebody to teach me how to read a script.

[Edna Stillwell]

I'll tell you do. Last week it was positive to something.

[Red Skelton]

The way you tripped over your twist. Yeah, All I need is a few more months and I'll be in the fur business.

[Edna Stillwell]

Now, the first thing you must concentrate on is enunciation, pronunciation and fiction.

[Red Skelton]

Boy, what that guy. What that guy couldn't do with any penny fishes.

[Edna Stillwell]

Our white guy, huh?

[Red Skelton]

Don't pay any attention to him. That's Roger the fiddle player.

[Edna Stillwell]

Now, I just want to see how

[Red Skelton]

you control your breath.

[Edna Stillwell]

Now, let's see your pant.

[Red Skelton]

Like this. Okay. How's that?

[Edna Stillwell]

No good. Your pants are too short.

[Red Skelton]

Look, most of my trouble comes from not knowing where to place my tongue.

[Edna Stillwell]

Well, the tongue can be framed but should be played between two pickets of bread. Oh, you mean the tongue in your mouth. If I be aunt.

[Red Skelton]

So so.

[Edna Stillwell]

Now open up your mouth, please. Well, the teeth are okay.

[Red Skelton]

The teeth? What are teeth?

[Edna Stillwell]

Teeth destroyed for tooth. Many tooth make teeth. Teeth is not the tooth. Without teeth, you can't eat. Any goat knows what teeth is.

[Red Skelton]

You ought to know, Professor.

[Edna Stillwell]

What's the matter with that guy? He stood at something he's spending up frontage on my.

[Red Skelton]

Don't pay no attention to it. Listen, professor, you better hurry and give him my first lesson. I've got to get over the policeman's ball. Okay.

[Edna Stillwell]

Now, the first thing you do is you strengthen the muscles of his balls by pinning on the bar.

[Red Skelton]

Will the bartender object?

[Edna Stillwell]

Why, you're stupid too, huh? Well, I think we better learn how to recite.

[Red Skelton]

Recite?

[Jeanette]

Yes.

[Edna Stillwell]

Don't follow me. I didn't to want the cat and the fiddle. Let's try this thing once again. Five diddle, kiddos. The cat and the fiddle and the cow and jumped out. I'm all mixed up myself. Five kiddos did an attack in the fiddle and the cow Jumped over the moon.

[Red Skelton]

Little dog, lad. Little dog. Glasses.

[Edna Stillwell]

He's got fun.

[Red Skelton]

Say, where did you get that goon?

[Jeanette]

Wait a minute.

[Red Skelton]

Now, don't get excited, Professor. Hey, wait a minute, Professor. You better come back and finish my list. Say, he's got a heavenly voice, hasn't he? That's the first time I ever knew though that heaven could speak Sing it, Jeanette. We gotta go to the ball.

[Jeanette]

I never knew heaven could see but now I do I learned it through a conversation with you I never knew heaven could dance but now I do with every step a nice little dream come true I always thought heaven was somewhere Way up high in the sky up above I never thought heaven was someone like you for me to love I never knew heaven could hold such tender char I never knew Heaven Heaven could be here in my eyes

[Red Skelton]

I

[Jeanette]

always thought heaven was somewhere Way up high in the sky up above I never thought heaven was someone like you for me to love I never If a new heaven could hold such tender talk I never knew heaven could be here in my eyes.

[Del King]

Friends, wherever you go, you'll find tobacco dealers selling more and more Avalon cigarettes. And you want to know the reason? Well, I'll tell you. Because Avalons have that national appeal of highest quality plus real money saving economy. 2 All important points of superiority that smart buyers immediately recognize and take advantage of. Avalons are positively second to none in quality. They're union made from the very finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos. And still they cost 3 to 5 cents less per pack than other popular priced brands. Now imagine 3 to 5 cents less for cigarettes that can't be topped. Ladies and gentlemen, cash in on this, the biggest cigarette money saving opportunity of the day. So the next time, ask for Avalon. You'd never guess they cost you that. We now take you to the Policeman's Ball where we find Red Skelton dancing with Edna Stillwell on the crowded Dance floor.

[Jeanette]

Oh.

[Red Skelton]

Oh, I'm sorry, Edmund.

[Edna Stillwell]

Oh, that's all right. You know, Red, I dreamt I was dancing with you last night.

[Jeanette]

You did? Yeah.

[Edna Stillwell]

When I woke up, my little brother was pounding my feet with a flat iron.

[Red Skelton]

Say, let's try some of that jitterbug stuff. Come on, let's jive, baby. Let's get on the old boo boo.

[Edna Stillwell]

Hot dog at the top.

[Red Skelton]

Uh oh, there's a cop. Don't give you a right name. Come on, pull over. Pull over at the curb there. You. What's the matter, officer? Can't you see that sign there? No heavy trucking on the outer driveway. No heavy trucking on the outside driveway. That's what is known as corn off of the cops. Well, okay, officer, we won't let it happen again. Look at the policeman. Isn't it most cops I've seen since the last nursemaid picnic? Say, look at the dirty look those bulls were giving me. Don't you guys look at somebody else.

[Jeanette]

Fred. Shane.

[Red Skelton]

Well, look who's here. Are you a policeman?

[Edna Stillwell]

Well, I hate French too. On the mountain.

[Red Skelton]

Thank you, Lisa, please.

[Edna Stillwell]

Yes, Mr. Skelton. I'm just dying to get my hooks on some crooks. Why, I've got a gun and handcuffs. Why, just take a look at these snarky looking bracelets.

[Red Skelton]

Say, there's some bracelets all right. Don't you think they look more business like though, if they didn't have those rhinestones in them?

[Edna Stillwell]

What kind of a policeman are you, Herky? Why you see us like this? Ms. Dillwell, when I first joined the force, I went to the mounted police headquarters and said, give me a man a horse, he can ride. Yeah, I wasn't the man.

[Red Skelton]

So they made me a patrol.

[Edna Stillwell]

Then I complained about patrolling the streets because it made my feet spread. Now I sit in a radio car all day and I'm telling you.

[Red Skelton]

Have you done any dancing yet, herky?

[Edna Stillwell]

Oh, shuck, Mr. Skelton, I can't dance.

[Jeanette]

You can't?

[Edna Stillwell]

Because when I dance I exert myself. And when I exert myself, I glow.

[Red Skelton]

Well, when you gotta glow, you gotta glow. You know, you can always get out of your wet clothes into a dry martini.

[Edna Stillwell]

Oh, Mr. Skelton, my goodness, I hope you don't ever use anything like that on your program.

[Red Skelton]

I wouldn't dare.

[Edna Stillwell]

Well, I gotta go now. You see, I'm just a rookie and tonight they're making me scrub the jail floors. Yeah, so I gotta go and wash out a few same things. I'll see you later.

[Red Skelton]

Good old Herky. Say, it's about time for the show to start, Edna. Maybe I better get up on the stage and start throwing those bulls a little corn. Hey, Red. Red, you're on. Yeah, look, tell them give me a fanfare bell. See, I hate to go on. I'm telling you, the same thing happened. Happened last year. I'm in the vegetable business again.

[Edna Stillwell]

Well, don't forget, this is another year.

[Red Skelton]

Yeah, but don't forget these are the same Jones. Well, there's the trumpet of doom. Well, here goes nothing.

[Del King]

Say, Edner, what's Red so nervous about?

[Edna Stillwell]

Oh, he thinks the cops don't like him.

[Del King]

No, they really love him.

[Edna Stillwell]

Well, no vegetables yet.

[Red Skelton]

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

[Edna Stillwell]

Hey, Red. Red, try that purifier joke about the cops.

[Red Skelton]

Oh, okay, I'll give him. Say, fellas, did you ever hear the one about the policeman who raided the nudist colony? And the big headlines in the paper the following day read, bulls raid Bears. Ah, get somebody else in it saying, you fuck a loud mouse out there. No use, Edna. Those cops will never like me. Say, you know what? I just happen to think of something I've been entertaining here at the Policeman's Ball for the past three years. And every time the same thing has happened. And I just now realize why they'll never like Red Skelton.

[Edna Stillwell]

Why not?

[Red Skelton]

Why not? You know how mad bulls get when they see red.

[Del King]

A new, distinctive interpretation of a familiar favorite. Red Foley and the Avalon chorus. Sing Roll along, Prairie moon.

[Red Foley]

Roll along, Prairie moon Roll along while I croo Shine above lamp of love Prairie moon Or shine on Prairie moon Way up there in the blue maybe you lonely too. Swinging by in the sky Prairie moon, Prairie moon I need your tender light to make things right. You know I'm so alone tonight.

[Red Skelton]

Oh,

[Red Foley]

shed your be on the girl of my dreams. Tell her to wise him through. Prairie moon There's a wonderful light in the sky tonight.

[Red Skelton]

With silver the hills are praise.

[Red Foley]

And the moon seems so near that I know it will hear Every word of my love serenade. Pour away Shed your be on the girl of my dream. Tell her too, I've been through. Prairie moon oh, keep a shining high

[Red Skelton]

Prairie moon

[Jeanette]

Prairie mo ram.

[Del King]

Well, thanks a lot, Bob Strong, for letting us in on those famous three little words. And what I have to say are just a few words that mean money in your pocket. Friends, when you can get supreme quality and Avalon's for less, why pay more? So the next time, ask for Avalon.

[Edna Stillwell]

And don't forget your chains.

[Red Skelton]

Yes, Avalon cigarettes. Your friends go servicious and others you2 can save the difference. Like all of the Babylon brothers these practice rats and fellow play these practices union aid. No wonder folks from coast to coast they have along sing to parade. So why not always travel on with Avalon?

[Del King]

Yes, you'd never guess but Avalon's cost only $0.10 plus City or state tax.

[Red Skelton]

Well, I guess that's about takes care of everything for the night, eh, Del?

[Del King]

Yes, Red, that polishes it off.

[Red Skelton]

Hey, Dell, when I get through with my course in public speaking, maybe I can tell my jokes. They're cultivated voice, huh? Sure, Skelton. Then you can give us cultivated corn.

[Jeanette]

Yeah.

[Red Skelton]

Oh, you're cave wind. Good night, ladies and gentlemen. See you next week.

[Del King]

Be with us next Saturday evening at the same time when the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation will again present Avalon Time as our special guest star, a character you all know and love, the old timer. Featured artist on F. McEAN Molly's program.

[Red Skelton]

Del King speaking. Good night. A selection I Never Knew Heaven Could

[Del King]

Speak performed on this program is from

[Red Skelton]

Rose of Washington Square. This is the National Broadcasting Company.