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Jumbo Fire Chief Show 35-11-19 (04) The Circus Is to Be Sold
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Jumbo Fire Chief Show 35-11-19 (04) The Circus Is to Be Sold
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Nicole Byer
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The men who serve you Texaco Fire Chief Gasoline the Jumbo Fire Chief series is based on a spectacular theatrical production, Jumbo, which opened at the New York Hippodrome last Saturday and scored a sensational success. The Jumbo Fire Chief Pro Podcast podcast directs the sort of string before an actual audience of 4,500 people. The Jumbo Fire Chief program stars Jimmy Durante with Donald Novis, Gloria grassman, Arthur Sinclair, APK W.J. mcCarthy, George Watts and others. Because of Franey Bowers boasting to an income tax collector, the United States government is still threatening to auction off the Considine Wonder Show. Thus far, every effort to save the circus has failed, and the time when John A. Considine will lose his prize elephant Jumbo draws nearer and nearer. To make matters worse, the wounded circus have packed their belongings and are quitting. Oh, there ain't no job in Omaha but that don't bother me if there ain't no job Omaha There's a job in Kankakee Are we going? Yes, we going who Promised land of peace where do you find it Never knowing where we going? Oh, we know where we're going but we're on our way if there ain't no taking buffalo A man ain't out of luck There ain't no taking buffalo there's plenty of luck Going we're going Going to the promised land of three square meals A Where we going? Where we going? Oh, we don't know where we're going Along Buzz, we're on we're on our way all the girls are green and Aberdeen drinking in the pain but in Water Town they all come down to meet you as a train Wanting water down they all Come down to meet you as a train Going, calling Marshall. You see the position I'm in. My men have quit me, and Ms. Turkis is going. I can't bear the thought that Matt Mulligan, me black as foe, he's just waiting for this auction to snatch me prize elephant jumbo from me. Mr. Considine, I understand how you feel about Mr. Mulligan, but we can't help that. After all, he is a circus man. And it's not easy to find somebody who'll buy a load of lines and T. Marsh. Marshall, before you sell me out to Mulligan, at least wait till me press agent, Brainy Bowers, comes back. He said he may raise some money. I'll go out and see if I can find him. Marshall. What is it, o' Hara? We just got word there's a nut loose in the state of Sodom. We got orders to be on the lookout for him. Why? Is he violent? Why, he's harmless. But he's got an obsession that he's a nobleman. He calls himself Lord Barnum. Lord Barnum? Yeah. He thinks he's from the English branch of the Barnum family and goes around passing phony checks. How we spot this goofy lord? He wears white spats, yellow gloves, a malacca cane and a very large monocle. Whenever he gets excited, he toots a horn and hollers. It's election day. Come on, come on. We'll notify all the boys and keep an eye out for them. Okay. Right this way. Lord Barnum, it's good of you to be interested in my proposition to buy the circus. I can see you're a man of intellect. Oh, tut, tut. It ain't every day that the like to meet and consort with an old uncle. It's like a high hat. Rub an elbow is one chance. It's all right, Mr. Bowers. I'm so thrilled to be here. Who's that? It's election day. Prefers for Disraeli. I hope he gets elected. What is this really running for? No, no, no, no, no. Blowing this horn is a little whim of mine. You see, this bugle makes me stand out from the crowd. I understand. My bugle does the same for me. Now, Mr. Bowers, how much would it cost me to buy this circus? Do you think $5 million will be enough? $5 million? Say, are you connected with the New Deal? No. Who would I? Who would I? I have millions and all I want to do is to spend, spend, spend. Are you lucky you met me. From now on, Lord Barnum, I'm taking charge of you. I'll see that nobody gets near you, not even a germ. I like you, Mr. Bowers. And I'll give you my checkbook. Every check. It's signed. All you is to do is just fill in the amount. Lord Barnum, from now on, we're inseparable. With my brains and your money, I'll build the biggest circus on earth. Instead of one sideshow, I'll have seven sideshows. Instead of one fat lady, I'll have seven fat ladies. And they'll do a dance. The dance of the seven whales. A brilliant idea. You're the first to fix my idea. I've got a better one. We'll retire Jumbo on a farm and raise elephants. We'll raise a thousand elephants a month. How can you raise a thousand elephants a month? It's a cinch. We buy the eggs and Jumbo hatches them. I got bigger ideas, but it all depends on how much money I can draw. Why, till you run out of checks, you can shoot me out of a cannon. This is the voice of a new and greater countryline wonder show. It shows you you must never despair. You must never forget the password. Chin up, old beep and stand ag. Be a pangliatian laugh. Ha ha ho ho. Be a patriotian Laugh. Mickey. Mickey, are you alone? I am but, Matt. I'd rather dad didn't see you in a mulligan in our tent today. Mickey, I've come to help you. We don't need any help from a mulligan. Listen, Mickey, I spoke to my dad. I want to bring him here before the auction. I want him and your father to patch up their quarrel and be friends again. It's no use, Matt. Your father's done so much to hurt us that dad will never speak to him again. Oh, Mickey, forget that silly pride. Don't you understand? Once those two stubborn men come to terms, I can get everybody's consent to marry you. Except mine. What's that? Aw, come on, my little pookie. Take that ice pack off your heart. Remember, I've loved you since the night you were born. I'll never forget they brought the news to me during the chariot race. I was only two years old, but I swooned with joy. Gosh, I've known you a long time. We used to bend the swing together before be learning to walk. We used to laugh and sing together before we learned how to talk with the reason for the season bring what end as is good now the season has a reason and let I'm in my heart the most beautiful girl in the world Takes my ties out, Eats my candy, drinks my brandy the most beautiful girl in the world the most beautiful star in the world Isn't garble oh indeed trick but the sweet trick who can make me believe It's a beautiful world Go. Should not have been natural Kind of wish she shine anywhere and she has got platinum hair the most beautiful house in the world Has a mortgage what do I care? It's goodbye care when my slippers are next to the ones that belong to the one and only Beautiful girl in the world. Helio Hip lip. Are you there? Anybody? Here I am with a high hat, bats and a cane and a molecule in my eye and nobody to receive me. Me who belongs to the 400, the 500, 600, 700. Why I could go up into the thousand. Really, boss. Where'd you get those clothes? You look like a clown that's out of a job. Get out of me sight. Here I come. A pocket bulging with gold. And I'm as welcome as the supreme Court in the White House. Chief, we struck Earl. What are you talking about? I made a financial contact with Lord Barnum. The incomic wizard. The monetary genius. The financial mediocrity. And who is this Lord Barnum? A fool like yourself. He, his father bought the original jumbo. He's so rich that the interest on his money amounts to more than the principal. Like he's got four servants just to take care of his type. Yeah, a likely story he told to me himself. One servant holds the pipe, the second puts in the tobacco, the third lights the match. And what does the fourth servant do? He smokes the pipe. Lord Barnum hates pipes. And did he give you one of his cast off suits? No, he gave me a checkbook full of signed checks. And I've been buying up the town. I just bought off the searches. The chorus of a musical show. Stranded here De la viva la prittie Anne. And I brought all the girls with me. Come on in, girls. Saints reserved. What are you going to do with them? What do you mean? I mean what are they good for? They're women. Poultitude. That's just what the circus needs. Women. But we've got women the wrong time. With muscles. Acrobat. Horse. Verb. No. Femininity. This is a galaxy handshake. From the rose garden to Broadway. Diaries which flows from Paris. That's what the public's hungry for. Diaries. Now listen to me, chief. When you go to a search, what do you see? A hippopotamus. And who wants to see a hippopotamus? Only another hippopotamus. Why? I've studied the situation and I've got an inspiration. Men. Men like to see women. And I'm the first one who ever thought of it. I'm open for congratulations. I'm not talking from hearsay or hunter. Believe me, Mr. Conscadine, this is bigger than Einstein. Let me prove my argument. Put 12 acrobats up there hanging by that to fill the ring with elephants, lions, tigers, kangaroos. I'll even let you throw in a penguin. And have a beautiful voluptuous woman walk down the center of the rain just as I illustrate her. Who will they look at? Why? A joke? Need an answer? Do what I tell you that you'll have the greatest sure to side of oblivion. The lights in the arena are very low. You see nothing. Only the lights come up gradually. Still you see nothing. Then suddenly you hear trumpets in the distance. That's not a trumpet. That's not a trumpet. That's a trumpet. Get out of a clear sky, A chocolate colored sky. You see women. There, there, there. And over there. Like being unimpressed. It's going in one eye and out the other. Okay, I'll give you a demonstration. Not with lions. Not with tigers. No, not with women. Women. Women. Send your Arabs back to Arabs. Send your Douglas to Japan. Throw out your rings. Put in a swimming pool. Don't fill it with water, fill it with toy fuel. Not Merry Garden, not Christmas night, but titular femme number three. Route your elephant. I notice that saying going around. An elephant never forgets. But what does he got to remember? We interrupt this program to bring you an important Wayfarer message. Wayfair's got style tips for every home. This is Nicole Byer helping you make those rooms. Flyer today's style tip when it comes to making a statement. Treat bold patterns like neutrals go wild like an untamed animal. Print area rug under a rustic farmhouse table. From wayfair.com oh, beers. This has been your Wayfarer style tip to keep those interiors superior. Wayfair Every style every home packages by expedia you were made to be rechargeable. We were made to package flights, hotels and hammocks for less Expedia made to travel every girl of T and every mount A red red throat Dan coy amorous and whisker on with the D. S.A. lord Barnum, it's a pleasure to see you again. You've done so much for me. I'd like to do something for you. I've got a 5% Texaco filling station in Albuquerque you need. Say no more. I'll buy you the other 95% right now. No, that isn't what I want. I want you to use technical fire chief. It's the finest stuff in the world. Really? How much is it? A bottle. A bottle? You misconstrue me. It's gasoline for your car. Gasoline? Oh, yes. We English motorists say petrol. Yeah, well, American motorists say fire chief. That's why having a 5% interest in a technical filling station is as good as being an English lord. Oh, I don't know. How about this auction today? It takes a lord to buy jumbo. That's right. But anyone can buy Technical Fire Chief and drive like a lord at Jumbo of Gasoline. Well, I'm glad you told me that. I have to drive out of town in a hurry. Wait a minute. Aren't you staying for the auction? The marshal may not accept your check unless you're here to back it up. If he refuses my check, there'll be international complications. I'll have King George over here on the next boat. Saved by the British police. In fact, when I get back, you and I will go down to the boat to meet the king. Well, now I have to run. I have an appointment to buy South America. You're gonna buy South America? What a hunch. And by the way, if you're in any trouble while I'm gone, blow this horn like this and I'll come here immediately. But suppose you're too far ahead of me. In that case, simply shout. Who's out? It's election day. Three cheers for Oliver Cromwell and you'll be surrounded with people anxious to take care of you. What a subtle signal. The people around me may think I'm nutty, but we understand each other. Why, of course we do. Toodaloo. Meet you in Noah's ark. Pip. Noah's Ark. Pip. Pip. I get it. Another password. Make way, everybody. The auction will be held right here. Bring out the cages with the animals and let the auctioneer start. Hear ye. In the name of the government of the United States, I hereby open this auction. The usual rules will apply. Only bony fidey bitch will be accepted. Just a minute. I'll cut the whole procedure short. I'll buy. The Considine won the show with a single bid. Here's a check for a million dollars. Let me see that check. What's his signature? Lord Barnum. Where did you get this check? I can't tell You. It's continental. I see. Have you got any more checks like these? A whole bookful. And I can make them out for any amount. So you're the guy who's going around posing as Lord Barnum. Ever since I came to this circus, I thought you were nuts. The feeling is mutual. Say, o' Hara. What is it, morsel? Here's your man. Brainy Bowers, alias Lord Barnum. Psychopathic ward for him. And just in time, too. The town is flooded with bum checks. Come on, you. Take your hands off me. A nobleman gave me those checks. Is that so? Where is he now? He went to buy South America. He did, did he now? Come along quietly. Wait a minute. You can't do this to me. I'll call for help. Huzzah. It's election day. Three cheers for Oliver Cromwell. Come along, before we put a jacket on you. You can't detain me now. I gotta get down to the booth. What for? To meet King John. That settles it. Marshall, give me a hand. He's getting violent. Let me go. This is an outrage. It's duty on the bounty. Randy Bauer. What's going on here? Where are those men taking you? To the photographers. I've been interviewed for the papers. Come on. Our revolt, Chief. A revo don't mean goodbye. Goodbye don't mean a revo. A revolt. Goodbye. Goodbye. Aravo. Aravo don't mean goodbye. Matt Mulligan. Hello, Mickey. What are you doing in this tent with your father? We are here on an errand of mercy. I'm willing to take your father back into partnership on certain conditions. Well, you'd better speak to my father. Well, here he comes now. Mickey, what's the meaning of this sorting with the enemy? Please, Mr. Considine, listen to what Pop has to say. He's come here to put an end to your quarrel. Oh, he has, has he? Yes, John. I've been talking with Matt, and for his sake and Mickey's, I've decided to forget our quarrel. We've been through too much together, John, to let a foolish fight end a great friendship. I'm willing to shake hands if you are. Well, it's the last thing I ever thought I'd do, but for the sake of the children, I would. Ah, find, John, this is the beginning of a new and greater combined. Considine and Mulligan Wonder Show. Yes, we'll play every town in the country and put on the greatest show ever seen. Your worries are over, John. And so are the worries of those poor old timers who have stayed by Me side through the stick and the tinnitus. The old timers, I'll never consider keeping them with the show. I'll never let those old farmers down. They'll stay with me till there's no more circus. You can never make any money carrying a bunch of has beens on your books. Now, I pushed you out of me circus once before for that kind of talk. Yes, you did. You sat, John. And I hate to think it a sleepless night you've spent for regretting it before I let you hurt these loyal creatures I'll see at the bottom of the deepest bog in Galway. Think twice before you say more. You have the heart of a money lender and the situation of a fling. And show business will be better off when you're back on a bookkeeper's school where you belong. Very well, John Considine. I'll bring you to your knees and I'll not stop now until you're crushed utterly. Come on, Matthew. Just a minute, dad. Mickey, Go ahead. Go with your father. You brought him here to humiliate us. But this last dirty trick is your doom. Cuz we're going after you father and son. From now on. We're never going to let up until you're both down on your knees crying for mercy. Oh, Mickey. Get out. Crawl out. I'll clear out. And don't expect me to come crawling around you, coddling your delusions ever again as long as I live. Come on, Pop. Nicky, me daughter. I love you. Never fear. We've got a tent over our heads and that's all we need. All right, Daddy, just. Just leave me alone now, please. All right, Mickey. Sit there and calm. Your finger. What? O girl, you're through, it's fair and call your little finger unlock me little girl, it red and cold rainbow falling on you. It's time you knew. All you can call on is the raindrop that fall on little girl Blue though you little girl, you may as well surrender, your hope is getting slender. Why won't somebody and love and a blue boy to cheer a little girl. When I was very young, the world was younger than I as merry as a carousel the circus tent was drawn with every star in the sky above the ring I long for. Well now the old world has grown old. Gone are the tinto and gold on the little garden falling on you. It's my that fall on little girl too. Now you go, girl, you may as well surrender, your hope is getting slender. Why won't somebody send more? And as Brainy talked with Lord Barnum about his fire interest in that textile filling station in Albuquerque. He was most enthusiastic. There are several excellent reasons why, and one of the most important is when the United States government wanted to be sure of faster starts and extra power for its own fire engines, ambulances and other emergency vehicles, it asked for a special type of motor fuel. Federal chemists drew up specifications that were more exacting and more rigid than those for ordinary use. Texaco Fire Chief gasoline fully meets these government emergency specifications. That's why there's such a surprising difference in fire chief's action where it takes hold and delivers its extra power faster. Fill up with Fire chief at any Texaco pump. Remember, it's available everywhere at no extra price. Drive with Texaco and save poor, well meaning brainy Blundered again. Mickey is brokenhearted. And what about Jumbo? Will that grand old showman, John A. Considine lose Jumbo to Mulligan Senior? Listen in next Tuesday. This is Louis A. Whitten speaking for the Texas Company. The Jumbo Fire Chief program is based on the play Jumbo now at the New York Hippodrome. It is written by Ben hecht and Charles MacArthur, with original music by Richard Rogers and Lawrence Hart, with Charles Henderson singing Razorbacks and Adolf Deutsch, musical director under the supervision of Billy Rose. And before saying good night, remember, whenever you hear the siren and bell, think of Texaco. This is the National Broadcasting Company weaf. As usual, summer's flying by and will be gone before you know it. And so will your chance to enroll in fall classes at Heritage University. Classes begin August 25, which is closer than you think, unless you think it's right around the corner. Then you'd be spot on. 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