
Continental Celebrity Club 1946.xx.xx Guest Jackie Kelk
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The Continental Celebrity Club. The Continental Can Company presents the Continental Celebrity Club with our own young comedy star, Jackie Kelp. The songs of Margaret Whiting. The music of Ray Block's orchestra, and as our special guest this week, the glamorous Hollywood star, Ms. Carol Lambert. And here is your host, John Daly.
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Thank you and good evening, everyone. Carol Landis and Jackie Kel will be on hand in a few minutes. But first, lovely Margaret. Whing starts our evening with what may well be some symptic St. Blany in brumba rhythm. I get a kick out of you.
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I get no kick from champagne Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all so tell me why should it be true that I get a kick out of you? Some like that perfume from Spain.
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I'm.
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Sure that if I took even one sniff it would boil me terrifically too Till I get a kick out of room I get a kick every time I see you standing there before me I get a kick though it plays to me you obviously don't adore me I get no stick in a plane flying too high with some guy in the sky My idea, nothing to do till I get a chance.
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Customers are always right at the Continental Celebrity Club. In addition to songs, drama and music, they want ran well, we aim to please. So having heard from Margaret Whiting with her voice at one in a million, now let's listen to our young comedy star with a voice. That was one in a raffle. Here he is, Jackie Kelp.
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Hello. I'm the talk of my neighborhood. Mister, the other night I won $50 in a set of encyclopedias from Information.
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Please, you stump the expert, huh?
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I sent them a picture of me and they couldn't guess what it was. Oh, you know, I like quiz shows. There's one of my Aunt Mabel says it's her favorite. She once trailed her husband downtown and she saw and meet a blonde. Now my aunt gets $20 a week alimony.
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What's her favorite program?
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She touch and collect.
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Oh, Jackie, how about the rest of your family, I hope that they make a habit of listening to you on this show.
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Oh, sure. The first time I was on, my father sat there with his ear glued to the radio. By the time the program was over, he was furious.
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Why?
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The glue dried and he couldn't straighten up. A couple of months ago, my father asked my Uncle Herman if he ever listened to the show, and he said no. They had a big fight about it, but they don't fight anymore.
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They buried the hatchet?
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No, they buried Uncle Herman. Oh, but the whole thing. Listening tonight? Cause I guess it's Carol Landis. You know, they think I'll be nervous when I meet her.
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And you're not nervous?
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I should say not. You know, most fellows wouldn't know how to talk to a girl like her. But I'll get the conversation on a subject. Every woman likes clothes.
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Oh, that's a good idea. I happen to know that Ms. Landis gowns come from Hattie Carnegie, size 12.
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You don't say.
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Where are your clothes from?
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Sears Roebuck, page 69.
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Jacket.
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I'll give you another tip. I've heard that Ms. Landis likes men from the South. You might pretend that you're a Southerner.
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Oh, no. I tried that once with a girl who came from Alabama. I said to her, hello, honey child. Shut my mouth.
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Well, she did.
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What I really want to talk to Ms. Lannis about is a play I wrote. Boy, I hope I can get her to star in my play. It's in 12 acts, 47 scenes, and it has a cast of 90 characters.
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And what's it about?
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About 400 pages.
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No, no, no, no, Jackie.
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I mean, what's the plot?
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Hard to understand.
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Now wait a second. You wrote a play, huh? Well, what's the idea?
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Had nothing else to do.
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No, no, Jackie, please give me an.
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Idea of the subject of the play.
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Oh, you mean what's the play about?
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Yes.
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Well, most of the characters are people.
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But after it, what?
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What do the people do?
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I don't know.
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You don't know? You wrote the play, didn't you?
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Uh huh.
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Then how is it you don't know the story?
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Well, while I was typing it, I kept my eyes closed. I wanted it to be a surprise. Do you think Ms. Landis will act in my play?
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Don't ask me, Jackie. Why don't you ask her over to your house tomorrow and read it to her?
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That's a swell idea. And boy, where'll she see my indoor garden.
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You have a garden in the house?
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Uh huh. I Covered one corner of our living room with soil and I planted seeds and I watered it every day. I was amazed at the results.
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What came up?
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The landlord. Oh, boy. There'll be some excitement when Ms. Landis shows up. Every one of my relatives will be there to see her. Except Aunt Sophie and Uncle George.
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Why won't they be there?
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Well, they were married last year and any minute now Aunt Sophie's expecting. Maybe Uncle George is calling to tell me the good news. Hello? Yes, Uncle George. Really?
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When?
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Half an hour ago. What? Three? Oh, boy, you must be very happy. Congratulations, Jackie.
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Did I hear you say that?
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Yes, Mr. Daly. Half an hour ago my Aunt Sophie found a three room apartment.
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Spring is here and its effect is not lost on Ray Block, the orchestra and raised special arrangement of Irving Berlin's Blue Sky.
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And now, our guest for this evening, Ms. Carol Lander.
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Hello, everybody. Well, thank you very much for your invitation to the Continental Celebrity Club. It's really wonderful to see so many of my old friends out front. And also up here on the stage tonight, with the help of Scott Copsworth, I'd like to do an original radio sketch called I remember you.
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A subway train has just pulled out of an almost deserted station. The roar fades away into the silence of the tunnel. A man walks slowly up the platform. Behind him is a girl who walks faster and faster after him until.
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Excuse me. Oh, I. I wanted to apologize to you.
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To me?
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What for?
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For staring at you on the train. You must have noticed.
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Well, I. I did.
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But don't I know you from somewhere? Your face is so familiar.
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Funny, I was sitting on the train trying to figure out where I'd seen you before.
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Well, then I am right. I do know you.
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Where's from, I wonder.
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I wish I knew why? Because you're someone out of the past. And until I saw you, I Had no past.
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Look, I. I don't know what's the matter, but can I do anything to help?
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If you could tell me where we've met before. You see, I. I can't remember anything.
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Oh, Sounds like amnesia. Now, that used to happen to a lot of guys overseas. They come out of battle not knowing who they were.
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What happened to them?
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All of a sudden, one day, something familiar would hit them. A sound, a taste or a name. And it would start them thinking.
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The way thing you made me begin to think. Oh, that's all. That's where it stopped.
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And that's where we start.
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You mean you're. You're going to help me?
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If you'll let me. If there's anything in this city that'll make you remember, we're going to find.
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I like it here. Even if it doesn't bring back anything.
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Oh, well, don't get discouraged.
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This is just our first try.
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That's a pretty song they're playing.
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You heard it before?
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No. No, I don't think so.
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Well, do you remember any song?
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Yes, there is one. Keeps running through my mind. I. I think it was called.
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Now, waiter.
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Yes, sir? Would you ask the piano player to play Dream? Yes, sir. Funny you should think of that. It's one of my favorite songs.
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Well, could we have heard it at the same place?
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I don't think so. I heard it in a little cafe in Paris where I spent most of my furloughs.
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Remember that funny little orchestra on the cafe? I think it was the only American song they knew.
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Wait a minute. How did you know about that?
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But I don't know. Do you remember ever seeing me there?
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No.
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But I was there.
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I know I was there.
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Now we're getting someplace. But what were you doing in Paris? Doesn't this remind you of Paris? The carriage and the park?
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Yeah. Here's a guide.
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You still can't remember what you were doing in Paris, huh?
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No.
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Hey, that's an air raid.
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Listen.
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Oh, no, that's a fire engine.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Just those sirens. Every time I hear those sirens, I'm back in that hospital in France.
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I got so. I almost didn't hear them. There was so much work to be done. And every time they went off, all the patients had to be moved to storm. I don't know what I was going to say.
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You were going to say all the patients had to be moved to the air raid shelter. Now, I think I can tell you.
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Where we met before.
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I was one of those patients, and you were my Nurse, look. Getting light now. I've kept you up all night.
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Oh, well, it was worth it. You've made me remember so many things.
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Look, let's sit down here, huh? Just watch the boats in the river.
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All right. Peaceful, isn't it?
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It's hard for me to think of a river as peaceful.
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Why?
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Because I always think of rivers the way I saw them in Germany. Something we had to cross or keep the Germans from crossing. There was one river. Yes, that one was our worst of all.
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Why?
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We were on one side of the river and the Germans were trying to cross.
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There was a bridge there.
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Yeah, bridge. And my group had to blow up. I was more scared then than I've ever been in my life.
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Why? Why were you scared?
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I was afraid I was going to be killed. For the first time, I knew how much I wanted to live.
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What do you mean, for the first time?
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Wait.
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Wait a minute.
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I just come back from Paris. You see, I've been married in Paris to a nurse I'd met in a hospital when I'd been wounded before. That's why I wanted to live.
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Then you remember all that?
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Yes, I remember everything.
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Oh, that's what I was hoping would happen. That's why I pretended I'd lost my memory to help you find you.
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And I have found mine.
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But do you remember her? The girl you married?
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Yes. That girl I married in past was. You died.
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Our Celebrity Club audience says, well done, Ms. Landis. And if you'd like to add to your fame by doing a play on Broadway, I suggest that you come back in a few minutes to discuss the matter with a newly discovered author and impresario, Jackie Kelt.
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All right, I'll do that, Mr. Daly.
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Fine. And now it's Margaret Whiting on stage once again. And what have you got in store for us this time, Margaret?
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One of my favorite new songs, John.
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Day by day.
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Day by day I am falling more in love with you and day by day My love must keep to grow There is many end to my devotion it's deeper, dear, by far Than any ocean I find that day by day you're making all my dreams come true so come what may I want you to know I'm your God and I'm in love to stay as we go to the day by day Day by day you're making all my dreams come true so come what may I want you to know.
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And.
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I'm in love to stay as we go through the years dav.
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Yes. Everybody had a lovely evening at the Bryan's house last night. And it's just what Mrs. Dalton is telling her hostess on the phone right now.
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I'm so glad you and Jim enjoyed yourselves. Agnes, Ruth, your dinner was simply out of this world.
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I saved.
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Before I forget it, you promised to.
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Give me a recipe for that delicious.
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Cream sauce you served over the egg. Oh, that's easy, my dear. I follow the regular recipe for cream sauce, except for one thing. I just add a little under diluted evaporated milk. That gives the sauce an extra richness.
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And now, Ms. Landis, to introduce you to that young man who wants to meet you so badly. But I think I ought to warn you that he's going to ask you to dinner at his house tomorrow. But now here he is.
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Hello, Ms. Landis. I'm Jackie Kelp.
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Oh, fine. This is Saturday, isn't it?
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Uh huh.
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And you want me to spend tomorrow with you too.
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That's right.
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Ray Milan thinks he had a lost weekend. But it's really nice meeting you, Jackie. I've heard you on the radio.
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Oh, well, I'm not very popular yet. But there's always hope.
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That's right. And if Hope looked like you, he wouldn't be popular either.
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Ms. Lynn is helping you say things like that. Why, the first time I saw you on the screen, you inspired me to write a poem.
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A poem?
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Uh huh. It goes, my heart beats fast, I cannot breathe. I ask myself this question. Has this girl made me fall in love or have I got indigestion? Jacket? Yes.
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You now have two friends. Would you like to try for none? Now, aside from the poem, I understand you've always also written a play.
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Uhuh. Here it is, Ms. Landis. And I'd like you to act it out with me tonight. It's something like that picture Spellbound, only better.
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And the title?
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He owned an ammon tree and he owned a pecan tree. So they went nuts together.
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Well, this will popularize the old fashioned earache. I'm sure, but. Okay, let's go. Turkey music.
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Hello.
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Dr.
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Kelp? Speaking. What's that? You have a delusion. You have four legs. Well, in your case, that's nothing to worry about.
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Who was that doctor?
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A whore. How are my patients today, Nurse Whiting?
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Well, Ray Block was in. He said all last night he dreamed he was eating shredded wheat.
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Well, what about it?
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When he got up this morning, his mattress was gone.
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Well, let me look at his case history. Born in Turkey, lived in Albuquerque. His mind is murky and he's acting jerky. He's almost as bad as that other patient of mine, John Daly. This afternoon, Daly told me he was playing ping pong with his wife. But what song was that? He said every time he hit her over the net, he broke his paddle. Oh, maybe this is a new patient. Come in.
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Dr. Kelt, my name is Carol Anders. I've come to see you about a friend of mine.
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Oh? What's your trouble?
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Well, she's unhappy because she has no pearls. I think it's a shame that she has no pearls.
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Who is this friend of yours?
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A little oyster.
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Nice whiting. This girl is baddie. Got a straight jacket handy?
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Yes, Doctor.
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Okay, slip it on me and I'll go to work. Now, first, Ms. Landis, I.
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Doctor.
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Doctor, it's me, Ray Block. You've done wonders for me. I don't suffer from insanity anymore.
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You don't?
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No.
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Now I enjoy every minute of it.
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That's a very sad case, Ms. Landis. You know, that reminds me of a case that appeared at the London clinic some years ago. This patient used to crow like a rooster and go around biting doorknobs.
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What happened to him?
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I got better. Now, to begin your treatment, I'll give you the word association test. When I say a word, you answer with the first word that comes into your mind. You ready? Life.
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Start 10. Delicious.
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Hamburger, mustard, chili sauce.
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No, thanks.
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There you are. Program.
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Program. Can't tell the doctor from the screwballs without a program.
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Quiet, Nurse Whitey. We've got a patient on our hands. Have a chair, Ms. Landis.
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No, thanks. Just had one.
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Have another. Take it home for the children. Now, tell me just what's bothering you.
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Well, Doctor, my husband is getting out of jail tomorrow and I'm going crazy because, you see, it was all my fault that he was ever arrested.
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What did he do?
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Who?
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Your husband.
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What husband?
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You're not married.
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Of course not.
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Then who's in jail?
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Well, who do you think? Who My husband, Nurse Whiting.
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Got a sedative handy?
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Yes, doctor.
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Here's my arm. Shoot it into me. Oh, go ahead, Ms. Lander.
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Well, as I said, he was arrested because of me. We had a suitable argument over dinner. He struck me and I called the police.
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Oh, well, your problem is very simple. When he gets out, just ask him to forgive and forget.
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Oh, you're so clever, Doctor. I know. I'll say to him, jim, these years you've spent in prison, I've cried my eyes out. I love you, Jim. And from now on we'll be happy together, won't we? Sit down, Jim. I prepared a nice home cooked meal for you. What's that? You don't care for macaroni? That's what you said the last time.
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You're starting it again. You're gonna eat macaroni or I'll shove.
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It down your throat.
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Now don't raise your hand to me. Let go of me. I'll call the police and you'll go back to jail because that's just where you belong, you ugly. Good. Up these pranks.
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Well, Nurse Whiting, there goes another patient. Cured, happy and smiling.
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Yes, doctors, and that's why we always.
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Schizophrenia, hypsis, box dwell, neurosis. That's a lie. It's your backside. You're wacky too. Dr. Kelch is the man for you.
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Well, that's my plan, Ms. Landis. What do you think of it?
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Frankly, Jackie, I think. Oh, I'll take that. Hello? Oh, hello, Jackie. It's your guest on the show next week, Vanita Granville. Oh, tell me, Benita, did you hear Jackie say tonight? Oh, well, what did you think of it? You're right, Bonita, it certainly did. Good night, folks.
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Good night, Ms. Lander.
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The continental Celebrity Club is produced and directed by Mark Loeb. Next week we'll have in addition to Jackie Shelf, Margaret Whiting, Ray Block and John Daly, the glamorous Hollywood star, Bonita Granville. Ms. Carol Landis appeared through the courtesy of 20th Century Fox and is now appearing in the motion picture It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog. Be sure to join us next week. The Continental Celebrity Club is brought to you by the 25,000 men and women of the Continental Kansas family producing for the health, welfare and happiness of the nation for the biggest show in town. Be sure to listen Saturday night to CBS beginning with the Helen Hay show at 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Episode: Continental Celebrity Club 1946.xx.xx Guest Jackie Kelk
Host: John Daly (with Harold’s Old Time Radio presenting)
Original Airdate (Golden Age): 1946
Release Date: September 24, 2025
Theme: A nostalgic variety program from radio’s golden age, featuring comedy, music, celebrity guests, and sketches from the Continental Celebrity Club, with young comic Jackie Kelk and Hollywood star Carol Landis.
This episode of the Continental Celebrity Club recreates the charm and variety of mid-1940s radio entertainment. It blends musical performances, comedic monologues, and a dramatic radio sketch, capturing the delight of families gathering around the radio before the era of television. The episode spotlights Jackie Kelk's youthful humor and welcomes the glamorous Carol Landis as a guest. Musical performances are provided by Margaret Whiting with Ray Block’s orchestra.
“Mere alcohol doesn’t thrill me at all, so tell me, why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?” – Margaret Whiting (02:00)
“I sent them a picture of me and they couldn’t guess what it was.” (03:53)
“The first time I was on, my father sat there with his ear glued to the radio. By the time the program was over, he was furious.”
“The glue dried and he couldn’t straighten up.” (04:16–04:23)
“It’s in 12 acts, 47 scenes, and it has a cast of 90 characters.”
“What’s it about?”
“About 400 pages.” (05:33–05:35)
“Half an hour ago my Aunt Sophie found a three-room apartment.” (07:02)
(A classic misdirect, as listeners expected a birth announcement.)
“You see, I… I can’t remember anything.” – Carol Landis (12:07)
“Every time I hear those sirens, I’m back in that hospital in France.” (14:13)
“The girl I married in Paris was… you died.” – Male character (15:59)
“Day by day, I am falling more in love with you, and day by day, my love must keep to grow…” (16:52)
“My heart beats fast, I cannot breathe. I ask myself this question: Has this girl made me fall in love, or have I got indigestion?” (21:59)
“He owned an almond tree and he owned a pecan tree. So they went nuts together.” (22:29)
“Born in Turkey, lived in Albuquerque. His mind is murky and he’s acting jerky.” – Jackie as Dr. Kelp (23:21)
“I got better.” – Dr. Kelp, after discussing a bizarre patient (24:43)
“When I say a word, you answer with the first word that comes into your mind. You ready? Life.”
“Starch, ten. Delicious.” (24:54)
“While I was typing it, I kept my eyes closed. I wanted it to be a surprise.” (06:01)
“If Hope looked like you, he wouldn’t be popular either.” (21:47)
“Program. Can’t tell the doctor from the screwballs without a program.” (25:01)
“Shoot it into me.” – Dr. Kelp, requesting a sedative for himself (25:36)
This episode is a loving time capsule from radio’s golden years. It’s a delightful blend of comedy, music, and drama—showcasing the variety format that defined the era. With tongue-in-cheek humor, sentimental songs, and gentle satire, the Continental Celebrity Club delivers old-fashioned entertainment with endearing personality.
Notable Segments
For full golden-age radio immersion, listen from [00:02–27:38] for music, comedy, and classic 1940s star power, avoiding ad content and product spots as desired.