
Lux Radio Theatre - I Remember Mama
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Uncle Chris
Hey everybody.
Narrator / Mama
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Narrator / Mama
Aunt Jenny says I packed rather breath from a sleeping child.
Uncle Chris
Aunt Jenny talks too much.
Narrator / Mama
Papa, please we get you the account book now. And the money.
Uncle Chris
I'm ready, Mama.
Narrator / Mama
It sure looks like a lot of money when they pay you in silver dollars. It's not a lot, not the way Papa works.
Uncle Chris
First for the landlord, Mama.
Narrator / Mama
Therefore the landlord.
Uncle Chris
For the landlord.
Narrator / Mama
Next for the grocer.
Uncle Chris
For the grocer. For the grocer. Money for shoes this week, Mama gathering sho be half sold or Catherine's shoes.
Narrator / Mama
Teacher says I need a new notebook, Mama. Yeah.
Uncle Chris
How much?
Narrator / Mama
It will be a dime for the notebook. Then here you don't lose it, Christine. I'll keep it in my handkerchief, Mama. Yeah, you, you, you watch out now when you blow your nose.
Uncle Chris
It's all Mama.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah, yeah. It's all for this week. It's good we do not have to go to the bank.
Uncle Chris
It's good.
Narrator / Mama
We did not live entirely by ourselves in our to help with expenses, Mama took in a border. His name was Mr. Hyde. He was an Englishman and actor. Mr. Hyde never paid his rent but he spoke so beautifully and his manners were so elegant. Once a week after supper dishes he would join the family around the kitchen table and read aloud to us from one of his books. Here nils from two cities. Children. Tonight Mr. Hyde says he finishes the story. Maybe such a beautiful story, but sad. I like sad stories.
Uncle Chris
If we are all ready, Mrs. Henson.
Narrator / Mama
Y Mr. We all ready.
Uncle Chris
Thank you. In the black prison of the concierge, the doomed of the day awaited their fate. They were in number as the weeks of the year. 52 were to roll that afternoon on the life tide of the city to the boundless everlasting.
Narrator / Mama
It was Almost midnight when Mr. Hyde came to the end. But none of us had noticed the
Uncle Chris
it is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known. The end. Yeah, yeah, it's a good story.
Narrator / Mama
The more stories Mr. Hart read to us, the more I Realized the one thing I wanted in all the world was to become a writer. I did write a story once about un but our teacher said it wasn't nice to write like that about a member of one's family. Once it writes a year, Uncle Prince, with his great loud voice and his silk black mustache would roar down to his ranch and descend upon us in his automobile. Martha Shannon.
Uncle Chris
Hey, nobody home. I said there's nobody home. What is? You do not hear me calling? I do not call loud enough.
Narrator / Mama
Christina hiding behind the house.
Uncle Chris
Christina.
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris?
Uncle Chris
Which? Yes, yes. You do not hear me? Yes, I do not call loud enough. Katrina, Nance is a game. Yeah. Come here. Come, all of you.
Narrator / Mama
We're glad to see you, Uncle Chris. Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Well, then why you do not come? He's never found him.
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Now, let me see. 2 inches. 2 inches you grow in 6 months.
Narrator / Mama
Is good.
Uncle Chris
Christina, show me your teeth.
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
You brush him good. Yes. All right. I go into house. Kathleen. A very little one. Dagmar. She still tries to hide from me.
Narrator / Mama
She's sick, Uncle Chris. Sick? It hits her ear. She has an earache. Mama sent for the doctor.
Uncle Chris
Good doctor. What do you say?
Narrator / Mama
He's in the house now. He's looking at Dagmar's ear right now. Marta, where's doctor?
Uncle Chris
Where's Dunma?
Narrator / Mama
Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
How is this little one?
Narrator / Mama
It's not good, Uncle Chris. Catherine, Christine, I want you should both stay in the house.
Uncle Chris
Well, what does that say?
Narrator / Mama
Is good, doctor. He's coming now, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
We must get her to a hospital. With what, Mrs. Hanson? What is Mr. Child operation?
Narrator / Mama
I'm afraid so. Yes, doctor. We go.
Uncle Chris
Well, what is with the child? It's a master. Oh, well, then you offer it.
Narrator / Mama
I believe that's what I said. He means Dr. Janssen. I have this money, doctor. It's enough. If there isn't. We can go to the bank. We have a bank account.
Uncle Chris
Listen, if there is need of money, I pay.
Narrator / Mama
Don't worry.
Uncle Chris
We'll take Dagmar to the clinic. Good, good. I have patients there already.
Narrator / Mama
My nephew, Arnie, partner, secret boy in hospital.
Uncle Chris
He operated this morning on his knee. Should have been done long ago. Well, if you have Dagmar at the
Narrator / Mama
clinic in an hour's time.
Uncle Chris
She will be at the clinic in 10 minutes time. I have automobiles. I can hardly make arrangements in 10 minutes. But then I make arrangements. I know Doctors, Uncle Chris.
Narrator / Mama
Dr. Jansen arranged. He's good, doctor. Thank you, madam.
Uncle Chris
And don't worry, I'll do the operation myself. I watch. You will do no such thing, sir. Always I watch operation. I'm head of family this morning with my nephew.
Narrator / Mama
I allow no one to attend my operation.
Uncle Chris
But I so bad I go see Dagmar. Marta.
Narrator / Mama
Uncle Chris. No, wait. It's kind to you, but no. You frighten her.
Uncle Chris
I frighten her?
Narrator / Mama
Yeah, Uncle Chris, you frighten everyone. I such a nice man. I frighten everyone. Everyone but me. Even any secret trainer. They are frightened of you. And women and the children too. So you drive to the hospital in your automobile. But you do not frighten Dagmar. Nils. Come, come. Get dark.
Uncle Chris
Mars cadre. Chrissy.
Narrator / Mama
Yes, I'm Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
It's true I frighten you. Tell truth. You're frightened of me?
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Oh, no.
Narrator / Mama
And you Katrina a little, Uncle Chris. Well, come on.
Uncle Chris
I mean, Uncle Chris. My daugh. Where I frighten you?
Narrator / Mama
Bad.
Uncle Chris
Very bad. Yance. Yes, I like to frighten them. Yeah. Does that make you laugh, huh? You do not like them, huh? Now come.
Narrator / Mama
Tell me not. Not very much, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
And which do you not like the most?
Narrator / Mama
I think I like her at Jenny the least. She's so bossy. I can't stand that Sigrid. Always whining and complaining.
Uncle Chris
Riding any party too. Too.
Narrator / Mama
I must talk to you. Now? Right away. It's secret. You kidnapped my boy. To the hospital. You took my little heart to the hospital.
Uncle Chris
Yeah. My. Wait till you go marketing. Then I take many of you to hospital.
Narrator / Mama
You may get better with our preparations and the extent.
Uncle Chris
DMA must go to the hospital too. So go home. You are clapping up the house.
Narrator / Mama
D Mark Hospital. He's sending all the children to the hospital. Martha. There is Martha. I must warn her. Mama knows. Aunt Jenny, Dagmar's awful sad. This is some more of his doings.
Uncle Chris
Ziggory, you're a whining old fool. You get out of here, Dave.
Narrator / Mama
Here you are, Sigri.
Uncle Chris
And you, Yanny. You're a boss, you old fool. And you get out if you do.
Narrator / Mama
We're ready, Uncle Chris. I've got Dagmar.
Uncle Chris
You got that good news?
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Well, then go take her out to automobile.
Narrator / Mama
Hold that. That man. That awful man. Martin. Did he tell you what he did to my poor Ernest? Hospital Operate. Yes, Egre. I know this is how you must feel, but excuse me. No, we are taking Darma to hospital too. You come with us in the automobile. Egre and I will go to hospital in streetcar. Catherine, you and Christine be good children till Mama comes home. Yes, Mama, I come. There is milk in the cooler, Catherine. And fruit and cookies for your lunch. I go now.
Uncle Chris
No, you can't go.
Narrator / Mama
Not with that man. What? In his automobile? Why not? Didn't you see? She is in automobile too. That woman from his ranch. She even brings her when he comes to visit family. Yeah, his housekeeper. In front of the children, even he brings her. So it will kill me to sit an automobile with her. I have seen her. She looks nice woman. Yeah. I come back, girls. I come back soon. I can. What did you find out, Uncle Chris? Dagmar.
Uncle Chris
How is she? I find out nothing. Nurses, doctors. Well, wait. They tell me. Wait here in lobby.
Narrator / Mama
And Mama?
Uncle Chris
Well, Mama can wait upstairs. Head of the family wait in the lobby. But I. Don't worry, Neilus. Dagmar will be all right. Just like Arnet.
Narrator / Mama
You have seen him. They let you see Arnett.
Uncle Chris
I see Arne. Operation big success. Like I say.
Narrator / Mama
Oh, my boy. My Arne. They won't let me see him.
Uncle Chris
See, Kate, you don't understand English. No visitors for 24 hours.
Narrator / Mama
But you have seen him.
Uncle Chris
I'm no visitor. I'm exceptional.
Narrator / Mama
I will see doctor.
Uncle Chris
I've seen doctor. I told him. You're not good for honey.
Narrator / Mama
Not good for my own son? No, not good at all.
Uncle Chris
You cry over him.
Narrator / Mama
Please, Mr. Halverson.
Uncle Chris
Yes, yes, yes. Well, a doctor. A doctor needs me.
Narrator / Mama
No, he does not need you. And this is a hospital, so please stop shouting.
Uncle Chris
A hospital. Hospital. Hospital. Hospital. Oh, Martha. Marta, you have news?
Narrator / Mama
Not yet. I. I wait here for Dr. Johnson. Then Mrs. Johnson had her gallbladder taken out. She was six hours on the operating daily. I do not want to hear about Mrs. Bin.
Uncle Chris
Marta. I go out for a while. I stop by house. Yeah, Chief. Kids are all right.
Narrator / Mama
Thanks, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Come back later.
Narrator / Mama
Maybe Sigri and I go next door and have some coffee. Yeah. Yanley, you have money? Yeah, I have the letter. Good. Then I treat you. Mama, can I do anything?
Uncle Chris
Is there something?
Narrator / Mama
Just this great thing. Poor little Dagma.
Uncle Chris
Shiver so, Mrs. Hanson.
Narrator / Mama
Doctor.
Uncle Chris
Well, Dagmar's fine, Mrs. Hansen. She came so beautifully.
Narrator / Mama
Oh, thank you, Doctor. I go to her now.
Uncle Chris
No, no, I'm afraid you can't. But you'll see her tomorrow.
Narrator / Mama
Tomorrow? Oh, but I promise her, doctor, he will be frightened if I do not keep my promise.
Uncle Chris
For the first 24 hours, clinic patients are not permitted to have visitors. The ward must be kept very quiet.
Narrator / Mama
But I would not make a sign.
Uncle Chris
I'm sorry, Mrs. Hansen.
Narrator / Mama
Tomorrow it's too long. To wait tomorrow. I promise her. What can I tell Papa tonight? Mama, is that you? Is everything all right, Mama? The eye's all right. You ever eaten? Yes, Mama. I wish you wouldn't worry like this. What's the matter, Mama? I'm a D. Martin. She's not Mama donor. Dagmar's fine. It's two hours till Papa comes home. Two hours? Now. They wouldn't let mama see Dagmar. She's worried. Coming home in the streetcar. She kept talking to me in Norwegian. What are we going to do? Well, you don't have to make everything so dramatic. Can't you see that Mama's heart is breaking? People, cards don't actually break.
Uncle Chris
Shh.
Narrator / Mama
They do too. Only in books. Mama, what's the bucket for? You're going to scrub now. Scrub? Yeah. I scrubbed the floor.
Uncle Chris
But.
Narrator / Mama
You scrubbed the floor yesterday. I scrub it again. But Mama, comes a time when you've got to get down on your knees. Now do you believe me? Mama? I wish you wouldn't do this. You must be tired. Come the time when you've got to get down on your. Mama. What is it? Mama? Can you look still? I used think of something. I go back to hospital now, Mama. No, no. You come with me, Catherine. I think of something. Yes. Mama had thought of something. That afternoon she'd seen a woman scrubbing the hospital. Fl if she could get to the broom target and the bucket and scrubbing brush was still there, maybe she'd find a way of keeping her promise to Dagmar after all.
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Narrator / Mama
Meanwhile, at the hospital, Uncle Chris is back at the bedside. And my cousin R. Uncle Chris. Oh, it hurts, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Maybe you feel better if I think of you one, huh? Listen, honey, good song. And a thousand Swedes went through the weeds to the Battle of Carpah. 10,000 Swedes went through the weeds chasing Wonderhegan. Good song, Arnie, huh? Yeah.
Narrator / Mama
Oh, Chris, does it have to hurt like this?
Uncle Chris
It's very bad honor. Don't you know any swear words? What swear words?
Narrator / Mama
No, Uncle Chris, not real ones.
Uncle Chris
Well, then I teach you two fine ones. Good Norwegian swear words. When pain comes, you say, don't hit me. It has plenty on it. I know. I have pain too. I swear all the time.
Narrator / Mama
I beg your pardon.
Uncle Chris
Ness what you want?
Narrator / Mama
I have to change the bed linen and I carried.
Uncle Chris
What you said change bed linen and you hear some more. Don't yeet just like that. But only if it's paying very bad.
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Would you like a thing some more?
Narrator / Mama
I don't mind, but maybe something a little quieter. What are you doing?
Uncle Chris
Drink whiskey. You want some?
Narrator / Mama
You terrible man. Swear words and whiskey. I have a good line to call the head nurse.
Uncle Chris
Yeah, you call her. Maybe she like me.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah, good,
Uncle Chris
huh?
Narrator / Mama
He's good, uncle chris. He's good.
Uncle Chris
Now you try sleep, arnie. Huh? Sleep.
Narrator / Mama
The lobby was empty when Mama and I reached the hospital. Only a nurse at the admitting desk. She was busy writing and Mama slipped past her. Before she even looked up, I saw Mama disappear down the corridor. Who? Who? Me? You. Please, miss, no whistling in the hospital. Yes, ma'.
Uncle Chris
Am.
Narrator / Mama
Just a minute. Wasn't someone with you just now? Where'd she go? I don't know. We were just happened to walk in together. I think maybe she works here. She was just. Good evening. Good evening. It's all right. I scrub floors now. Oh, you must be the new scrub lady. Floors need cleaning. They certainly do. Go right ahead. Start wherever you want. Oh, thank you. It was many weeks before Mama ever spoke of how she found Dagmar that night. How she scrubbed floors till she discovered the right wood and scrubbed again till she saw the lights dim and the nurse leaves. Dharma is Mama. Dharma. Mama. Where were you? Mama, you promised me. Yeah, yeah, I know I promised. Sweetheart, if you come. I couldn't sleep. No fever. It's good. But you sleep now, Darma. Here I drink you tea. Your darling dolly. Yeah, she goes to sleep with you. Sleep is so good, so good. Anymore. Such little children. How wonderful it was when Mama brought Dagmar home from the hospital. And Dagmar was able to walk up the porch steps all by herself. But a minor tragedy was hanging over the household. As soon as Dagmar opened the door, she went searching for Uncle Elizabeth.
Uncle Chris
Elizabeth?
Narrator / Mama
Her cat. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. Here, kitty, kitty. The cat, Betty.
Uncle Chris
See near.
Narrator / Mama
Find a cat for Dogma. Gosh, Mama, we. We just did find him. Yeah.
Uncle Chris
This time Uncle Elizabeth fights with Bulldog. Mama.
Narrator / Mama
Oh, no.
Uncle Chris
Yeah, his last fight, I think. Oh, no.
Narrator / Mama
Elizabeth. Uncle Elizabeth. Ma, look what happened to him. Well, I think maybe he's just kind of sick, Dogma. Sick? He looks awful. Dma, Sweetheart, would it not be better for poor Uncle Elizabeth to go quietly to sleep and he never wake up again?
Uncle Chris
I think he will die anyway.
Narrator / Mama
Mama can make him well. Mama can do everything. Please make him well, Mama. Please. See. Let us see how he gets through tonight. Where's Nil? I want him.
Uncle Chris
I said Mr. Docstall. Martyr. I get something for Uncle Elizabeth. Chloroform, maybe.
Narrator / Mama
Chloroform.
Uncle Chris
It's best thing to do. Martyr.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah, but such a. A sad homecoming for Dogma. Mama. Mama, You're Christine. We just saw Mr. Hyde on the street. We need suitcases, Mama. Suitcases. Mr. Hyde, he gave me this envelope. Mama, it's for you. Lars is check. Check to Mrs. Lar Hansen. $130. All of his back rent.
Uncle Chris
Let me see.
Narrator / Mama
Oh, he is wonderful. Now we pay Dr. Everything. And you can buy your new Coke. Your warm Coke. Yeah. Oh, but there will be no more reading. He said we could have his books, Mama. All of them. His books for us. I've got it, Papa. A little bottle.
Uncle Chris
Needles. Not so loud.
Narrator / Mama
And I saw Aunt Jenny, Mama. She's coming up the hill as fast as she can so she comes last. The chloroform. You know how?
Uncle Chris
Me? No. I thought that you just.
Narrator / Mama
Don't stand there, Catherine. Here. Here. You and Christine take down her tray. Now go. Go. And don't spill it.
Uncle Chris
I'm about the chloroform. If you hold the cat, maybe I
Narrator / Mama
Me hold a cat? You hold a cat? No, nobody holds the cat. I think if. If we get a big sponge and cover him over with a blanket. Martha. He paid you his rent, Mr. Hyde? Yenne? Yeah, sure. He pay rent. How? How did he pay his rent? A check. You run up the hill just to ask me this, Yenny? Sure. A check. Yeah, I thought so. He was at Mr. Krueger's today having his lunch. And when he Left, he asked Mr. Cooper to cash a check for $50. I'm so so so. Your fine. Mr. Hyde is a crook.
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Narrator / Mama
No good. Not even a bank account at the bank. You. You mean this check is no good too?
Uncle Chris
No good at all.
Narrator / Mama
I bet he owed you plenty, Martha. I said I bet he owed you plenty. Mr. Hyde owed us nothing. I tear up the check, see Nothing. He pay with far, far better things than money. I bet it must have been a hundred dollars more even. Sienna, maybe you don't have things to do. I have. And what do you have to do that's so important? I have to chloroform a cat. Chloroform. See? Smear. Martha. Not in my face, Martha. The next morning, even before breakfast, poor little Dagmar was downstairs looking for her cat, Elizabeth. How is he, Mama? How's Elizabeth? Downstairs so early? Is Uncle Elizabeth all better? Madma, there is something I must tell you, sweetheart. I want to see Uncle Elizabeth. Dagmar. Oh, good morning, my darling Elizabeth. Are you still asleep? Sleepy.
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Okay.
Narrator / Mama
Lars, do something.
Uncle Chris
Tell her what, Martha.
Narrator / Mama
Hey, what a funny snare. Just like it was in the hospital. Dmr. Put the cap down. Put him, Papa. His tail hanging down from the blanket. His tail? It's moving.
Uncle Chris
Dagmar. Let me. Let me see that cat.
Narrator / Mama
What's the matter, Mama? He's switching his tail just like he always does. Give him to me, Uncle Elizabeth. It speak to me, Lar. Lar is a miracle. I knew you'd make him well, Mama. Dogma, I didn't me, papa and I pattern your nails. Look What Mama did?
Uncle Chris
I'm thinking, Mother, you didn't give that cat enough chloroform. You just give him a good night's sleep.
Narrator / Mama
But, Lars, we must tell her. Is not good to let her grow up believing I can fix everything.
Uncle Chris
Maybe. Maybe best thing in the world for her to believe. Yeah, man. I know exactly how she feels.
Narrator / Mama
Now I realize that the weeks and months went by too fast while we were growing up and learning. Remember my graduation? The most important night of my life. Not only did I have a lead in our graduation play, but Mama and Papa gave me the present I'd set my heart on. Have to go to that old strike in here. Pop could only come and see me grad. You don't care about anything. Only your new dresser set. Well, I was right, wasn't I? I knew you'd devil mom into getting you that dresser set. I didn't devil her. I just showed it to her. And Mr. Schiller's window. Yes, and made her go and sell her silver brooch. Her very own mother gave her her most prized possession. What? She sold her brooch so she'd have enough money to buy the dresser set? How else could she buy it? You know Papa's been out of work. But what do you care? You got your dream. I don't believe it. I don't Mama about selling. Well, you better believe it. I promise not to tell, but I don't care. I'm going home. I'm going back home, Anna. But you haven't got time to go home, Catherine.
Uncle Chris
Yeah. Catherine is true. Mama gave Mr. Schiller her brooch and he give her dressers that.
Narrator / Mama
But. But she couldn't.
Uncle Chris
She.
Narrator / Mama
She shouldn't. I never meant.
Uncle Chris
You wanted your present. And Mama wanted you happiness even more than she wanted her brooch.
Narrator / Mama
But she loved it so. It was all she had of grandmother.
Uncle Chris
Catherine, you have your play to actor. You'll be late now.
Narrator / Mama
I don't want to act in the play now. But you must.
Uncle Chris
A whole audience waiting for you.
Narrator / Mama
I don't care.
Uncle Chris
You must care. Look, tonight you are not Catherine any longer. Tonight you are an actress. And an actress must act whatever she is feeling. So you stop your crying, Catherine, and act in play.
Narrator / Mama
All right, Papa. I'll go.
Uncle Chris
Mama. Well. Harper's graduation.
Narrator / Mama
Where are the children? Kristen is putting Dharma to bed.
Uncle Chris
Nielsen.
Narrator / Mama
Catherine. Come home later, they say.
Uncle Chris
Sit down. I have coffee already.
Narrator / Mama
Lars, I'm worried about Catherine. She was not good in the play tonight. Was not like Catherine.
Uncle Chris
Madame, after you leave, Catherine found out about your Brooch.
Narrator / Mama
My brooch. But how? Who told her? I did, Mama. Christine. Why? Why did you tell her? Because I hated the way she was acting about that old dresser set. So snug. It's no excuse. You make her unhappy. You make her not good in the play. Well, she made you unhappy getting up your brooch for herself. It's not for you to judge. I choose to give my brooch.
Uncle Chris
Christine is the stubborn one. Hey, Mama, we're home.
Narrator / Mama
What happened at your meeting, Papa?
Uncle Chris
They go back to work tomorrow morning.
Narrator / Mama
Gee, that's fine, isn't it, Mama? Yeah, it's good. Catherine, here's your brooch. Mama. I'm sorry I was so bad in the play. Here.
Uncle Chris
We.
Narrator / Mama
We went to Mr. Schiller's house. He didn't want to give the brooch back. But Catherine begged and begged. And the dresser said she give that back. Yes, it was awful hard for her to do, Mama.
Uncle Chris
Nils is the kind one.
Narrator / Mama
Katrin. Katrin, come in here. Here. Yes, Mama. The brooch. Here. You put this on, Catherine. No, it's. It's yours. Is your graduation present. I put it on for you. There. Oh, where I always. I'll keep it forever. Christine should not have told you. I'm glad she did.
Uncle Chris
Now I am glad too. Catherine Ray. Here also for you.
Narrator / Mama
For me? Coffee?
Uncle Chris
Yeah. Catherine?
Narrator / Mama
Yeah. No, wait, wait. The milk pitcher. Lots of milk glass for me.
Uncle Chris
For our grown up daughter.
Narrator / Mama
I can't drink it. I can't. I can't.
Uncle Chris
Catherine is the dramatic one.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah.
Uncle Chris
It's too bad. Her first cup of coffee and she doesn't drink it.
Narrator / Mama
You drink it last. We do not want to waste it.
Uncle Chris
And you, Mar. You are the practical one.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah, practical. I think. I think maybe the children turn out all right. Yeah. She's good. On the train. And my cousin. When we reached the ranch, the woman who kept his house was out on the porch waiting for us. I could hear Uncle Chris cringer as she let us into the house.
Uncle Chris
Yes, he is the whiskey. Yes. He's not left in the pocket. Oh, Martha, I'm glad you've come. You give me drink, Uncle Chris.
Narrator / Mama
That will not help you now.
Uncle Chris
Whiskey old now. Especially Uncle Chris. I don't think you realize it that I'm dying, eh? Why else do I think you come here? Get out. Get out. I don't want you here.
Narrator / Mama
Very well, Secret trainer. Come. We'll wait on the porch.
Uncle Chris
If he wants us. That is where I want you. On the porch. Oh, wait. There is Arne.
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Come here, Arne. How's your knee?
Narrator / Mama
It's train. Uncle Chris. Chris.
Uncle Chris
Don't add anymore, honey.
Narrator / Mama
No, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
You don't say D anymore.
Narrator / Mama
No, sir, not anymore.
Uncle Chris
Honey is no little SM word. Means in Norwegian. Stupid old goat.
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Uncle Chris
Honey, you walk good. Let me see. Walk around the room like this.
Narrator / Mama
Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Fast. Fast. Yeah, it's good.
Narrator / Mama
Oh, Uncle Chris. Anna has always been so fond of you.
Uncle Chris
I tell you all to get out now. Except Martha. Martha and Katrina. She and I have secrets. You remember Katrina?
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Martha, give me bottle there on table.
Narrator / Mama
No, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Will we get out? Waste what is left in bottle? Who will bring it when I'm dead? Come give it to me. All right.
Narrator / Mama
One drink.
Uncle Chris
Give me. Give me. Martha.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah.
Uncle Chris
You sell this ranch, give money to Yesi.
Narrator / Mama
Yesi.
Uncle Chris
Yesi Brown, my housekeeper. No. Why? Why do I call it that to you? She's my wife. For many years my wife. Only I do not tell you. As sisters, I play fine joke on that.
Narrator / Mama
Your Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Where is yes scene I get her, Uncle Chris. Yeah, I like you both be here. Kathleen, you talk to me. Mama, write me. You drink coffee now?
Narrator / Mama
Yes, Uncle Chris. Good.
Uncle Chris
You're not frightened of me now?
Narrator / Mama
No, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
So you will be right, huh? One day maybe you write story from Uncle Chris. If you remember.
Narrator / Mama
I'll remember. Yes, you, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Ah, I think best. Catrina, go now. Farewell, Katrina.
Narrator / Mama
Goodbye, Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
You say Norwegian like I do.
Narrator / Mama
Father. Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
Yesi, this is my niece, Martha. Martha, this is Yesi, my wife, who has given me much happiness.
Narrator / Mama
I'm Very glad to meet you. I am too, Martha.
Uncle Chris
And now you give me one more drink.
Narrator / Mama
You have drink with me.
Uncle Chris
Both of you. That may be finished apart.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah, sure. Uncle Chris.
Uncle Chris
No, no.
Narrator / Mama
No water yet.
Uncle Chris
No last drink. Always without water. Norwegian presence. True.
Narrator / Mama
True.
Uncle Chris
Give, Martha Glaciers.
Narrator / Mama
Thank you, Jessie. Here he is gone.
Uncle Chris
Marta
Narrator / Mama
Marvel. Uncle Keith. Here she comes. Here comes Marta. I was just telling Trina and Sigri. All this expensive fuss. Waiting for a wicked old man to die of the DTs. No more waiting, Jenny. Uncle Chris is gone.
Uncle Chris
Did he.
Narrator / Mama
Did he say anything about the will? There is no will. Then that means. Well, since we are his nearest errand. There is no money either, Jenny. How do you know? He told me. Sigli. And yes. He gave me this little book. It's the account of how he spent his money.
Uncle Chris
Here's from a saloon.
Narrator / Mama
No, Yenny. No. I read it to you. You know how Uncle Chris was lame. How he walked always with limp. But his one thought lame people. I read you the last page. Joseph Spinelli, four year old tubercular left leg. $337.18. Walked now. Esther Jensen, nine year club foot. $217.50. Box now. Arna Solve lion, nine years fractured kneecap. $442.16. Yeah. It does not tell in the book the end about Arna. I like to write walks now. Yeah. Arna maybe even run.
Uncle Chris
Yeah.
Narrator / Mama
So it's finished.
Uncle Chris
Was good.
Narrator / Mama
Yeah, was good. You may go in and see him now if you want. Oh, yes. See, Maybe you all never meet uncle Chris wife, Mrs. Halverson, my sisters. Yeah, it's true. It's true. Oh, how do you do? Yesi I am Jenny. I go in and wash the dishes. How's that? Thank you. Jessie, you like to come to San Francisco for a little? I'd like to have you. We got plenty room. Thank you, Martha. Maybe I will. Katrin, Kathryn, you come in and see him. See him? You mean. I like you see him, Catherine. He looks happy. I like you to know what death looks like. Then you're not frightened. Or it ever will. Will you come with me? Yeah, sure I come. Uncle Chris, like everyone else, had assumed I would be a writer. Three years later it was also assumed I would go to college. But then I realized how pointless it would be. But why not? Why not college? Because the only reason for my going was to be a writer. Well, I'm not going to be one. I see. One of your stories comes back again. The tense rejection. It's the best story I've ever Written. Oh, Papa, you'll talk some sense to her, please?
Uncle Chris
Catherine has sense, Mama. By the way, Catherine, I used to read article in newspaper. Here. It says. It says, woman writer tells key to literary success. See? Good picture too.
Narrator / Mama
What woman writer?
Uncle Chris
Oh, very fat lady. Florence Dana Morgan. Did you ever hear of her?
Narrator / Mama
Yes, of course. Everyone has. She's terribly successful. Here, Catherine, you'll read it. Florence Dana Moorhead, celebrated novelist. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Interview today on a suite at the Fairmont Hotel. Pronounced sincerity the essential quality for success as a writer. A lot of help, that is. But maybe if you send your story to this lady, she could tell you what's wrong with him. Oh, Mama, don't be silly. You seem to think that writing is like. Well, like cooking or something. All you need is a recipe. You have to have the gift for it. What else does she say?
Uncle Chris
Apart from literature? Mrs. Morin, life is gas.
Narrator / Mama
Gas, gastronomy, gastronomy, the star.
Uncle Chris
I. I think it is to do with eating, Mama.
Narrator / Mama
Oh. Oh, Lars. I go downtown for a little while. I get material for new dress for Dartmoor maybe, and.
Uncle Chris
And maybe stop by the Fairmont Hotel, maybe.
Narrator / Mama
The Fairmont Hotel? You must you tell me by what street is Fairmont Hotel? But, my dear woman, I've just told you, I never read unpublished stories. So far as your daughter has been talking to you for 12 minutes, Ms. Mohay. No, I'm sorry. And I wish the newspaper had never printed. The paper said you like to collect recipes for eating. Well, yes. Yes, I do. Well, I, too, am interested in gastronomy. I'm good cook. Oh, I have special recipe for chatbola my mother gives me. She was best cook I ever knew. Never have I told this recipe to anyone. But if you let me talk to you, I tell it to you. Your daughter, she wants to write, you say? Yeah, I bring her story here, Ms. Mohead. I bring 12 up. Well, if you could read, maybe your swan to know if someone is good cook, you do not need to eat whole dinner. Yeah, you're very persuasive. Now, how about the short bowler? Well, when you make the meatballs, you drop them in boiling stock, not water. Oh, that is one of the secrets. Aha. And the cream sauce is another secret. It's half sour cream added at the last. That sounds marvelous. Look, why don't you come up to my room? Perhaps you'd write the recipe out for me. Well, maybe we make bargain, Ms. Moorhead. While I write the recipe, you'll read Catherine's story. You win, my girl.
Uncle Chris
Come On.
Narrator / Mama
You did what, Mama? You. You brought her my story. Florence Dana Moorehead. Yeah. She five of them. Catherine. I was two hours with her. We have glass of sherry. We have two glass of sherry. Mama, what did she say about them? She say they are not good. Well, I know that. I know that you. But she say more. Will you listen, Captain? She say you right now only because of what you have read in other books. She say you must write about things you know. Oh, and then you have written story that is real and true. You send it to someone whose name she give me. It's her agent. Here. I write it down. No, no. It's recipe for goulash. As her grandmother naked. Now, here, his name and address. But, Mama, I haven't been anywhere or seen anything. Then you could write about San Francisco, maybe. Or even better, about Papa. Papa? Papa is fine now. This wonderful man. Yes, I know. Well, I go fix supper. Catram, I like. You should write about Papa. Not a checkered check before you throw. Kristen, look. Oh, no. $500. Catherine, what will you do with so much money? I don't know. I'll buy mama a warm coat. I know that coats don't cost $500. I know. We'll put the rest in the bank. Will you, Mama? Put it in the bank tomorrow. Mama, what is it? I do not know how. Well, Mama, you just give it to the man like you always do.
Uncle Chris
Martha, I think you better tell them.
Narrator / Mama
Tell us what, Christine? Catherine, it's no bank account. Never in my life have I been inside a bank. But you always told me. You always said. Yeah, I know. But I tell lies. Why, Mama? Why did you pretend? It's not good for little ones to be afraid to not feel secure. But now with $500, I think I can tell Mama. Christine, you find Nielsen Dartmouth and tell him to come here. And Catherine, you go get your story. Now. Now. Almost. Here, you read it all. Sit down and listen. Katherine reads it to us now. What is it called? The story? It's called Mama and the Hospital. It's called who.
Uncle Chris
You were right about Mama.
Narrator / Mama
But yes. Good, good. It just didn't work. But I tell you, I tried. Papa. Ready?
Uncle Chris
You're ready.
Narrator / Mama
For as long as I could remember, the house on Alarm Street Hill had been home. Papa and Mama were both born in Norway. But they came to San Francisco because Mama's sisters were here. All of us were born here. My brother Nero. My sister Christine. And a littlest sister, Dagmar. It's true. All born in this house. When I look back 1910 seems like only yesterday. I remember Mr. Hyde, the porter, and Mama's sisters and my Uncle Chris. But first and foremost, I remember Mama. I remember how every Saturday night Mama would call the family together. She'd sit down at the kitchen table and count out the money that Papa had brought home. For the landlord, Mama would say. For the grocer at last, Papa would ask. It's old. And Mama would look up then and smile. Is good, she'd murmur. We do not have to go to the bank.
Uncle Chris
I am sure we'll always remember. I remember Mama and the three stars who made this evening such a success. Here they are. Irene Dunn, Barbara Bel Geddes and Oscar Homoka. Irene, after that wonderful performance, I'll probably always think of you as as much.
Narrator / Mama
It's good to be back, Bill.
Uncle Chris
And I hear there'll be another proof of your versatility next Saturday.
Narrator / Mama
What's happening Saturday, Irene? I'm joining the circus.
Uncle Chris
You don't think pictures are here to stay?
Narrator / Mama
It's just for one day, Oscar. When the big circus comes to town this year, the first performance is for the benefit of St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. And a lot of Hollywood people will take part.
Uncle Chris
I'll be there with a bottle of pop in one hand and a bag of peanuts in the other. What do you do, Irene? Ride a horse bareback. Standing up?
Narrator / Mama
Oh, well, not exactly, Bill. It's eight horses. You ride eight horses? No, no, I didn't mean. I ride in a carriage and they pull it.
Uncle Chris
Oscar, I hope you're traveling by something faster than horse and carriage when you go back to New York. Oh, yes, Bill. I'm traveling back this week beside rehearsal soon for the new Kaufman and Ferber play. Bravo.
Narrator / Mama
What's your next play in the lux Radio Theatre, Mr. Keeley?
Uncle Chris
A new picture from Universal International Studios. Barbara. A current hit all over the country. It's one of the freshest and most original comedies we've had in a long while. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid and the Stars are straight from the picture cast. They're William Powell and Irene Hervey. You can see the possibilities when Bill tries to explain to his wife that he's somewhat involved with a mermaid.
Narrator / Mama
It sounds like a wonderful part for Bill Powell. Good night. Good night.
Uncle Chris
Good night.
Narrator / Mama
And come back soon.
Uncle Chris
Beaver Brothers Company, the maker of the Lux Lake. Join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater presents William Powell and irene Hervey in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid. This is William Keeley saying good night to you. From Hollywood, Barbara Belgattis will soon be seen co starring with James Mason in the Enterprise picture Caught. Third in our cast tonight were Hope Landon as Jenny, Edith Evanson as Secret, and Bill Johnstone as Papa. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. And this is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding him to join us again next Monday night to hear Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid starring William Powell and Irene Herman. Of me.
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Podcast: Harold's Old Time Radio
Episode: Lux Radio Theatre - I Remember Mama
Date: July 12, 2026
This episode of Harold’s Old Time Radio features a dramatized adaptation of “I Remember Mama” as presented on the Lux Radio Theatre. Set in early 20th-century San Francisco, the story follows the Norwegian-American Hanson family, centering around the steadfast and loving “Mama.” Through familial hardships, small triumphs, and sacrifices, the Hanson family navigates the challenges of immigrant life, guided by Mama’s wisdom, strength, and deep love for her children. The episode explores themes of family resilience, self-sacrifice, and the simple yet profound events that unite a family.
The episode maintains a warm, nostalgic, and affectionate tone—full of family banter, gentle humor, and touching sincerity. Dialogue is colored by the Norwegian-immigrant accent and family idioms, evoking authenticity and heart. The story flows between moments of practical struggle and pure tenderness, with Mama’s voice at the center as a model of strength, humility, and maternal love.
This episode of “Lux Radio Theatre – I Remember Mama” is a classic slice of Golden Age radio. Through memorable characters and universal themes, it evokes a bygone era of close-knit family, everyday courage, and the subtle but enduring magic of a mother’s love. Perfect for anyone seeking heartfelt, timeless storytelling.