Episode Transcript
Amos, it's Sunday again.
Yes, Sunday is right.
Speaker 2And don't forget the we are doing the radio heav It's Sunday for Rinso.
Speaker 1Yeah, and here comes Ken Copdon now with the biggest news in Rinso's history.
Let's listen to him.
Speaker 3Yes, it's the biggest news ever.
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New nineteen fifty Wrensol has three times the wider washing action of any other soul.
Speaker 3But more about that in a few minutes.
Speaker 4Now, Leber Brother's Company and New nineteen fifty Rensol bring you the Amos and Andy Show.
Yes, Sir Leaver, her Brother's Company, the Makers of Wrenso brings you a full half arm entertainment with Luluvin, Eddie Green, Ernestine Wade, the Jubilera's Jeff Alexander's Orchestra and Chorus, and radio's all time favorites.
Speaker 5Amos and Andy.
Speaker 4It's Sunday morning at the home of George and Sapphire Stevens.
And as we join them now we find the King Fish and his wife in the parlor reading the morning paper.
Speaker 2Oh say, honey, just looking at the head in the theatrical section of the Sunday paper.
Speaker 1Here.
Speaker 2Uh huh, oh, there's a new musical coming over to sit one hundred and twenty fifth Street that.
Speaker 1We ought to see you.
Speaker 6I've seen that ad, George, with all them pictures of the chorus girl, and I notice you've been looking at it for five minutes too.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2What I tell you, though, Honey, they ain't one of these chorus girls that's got your style, your looks at your figure.
Speaker 5There ain't, George.
Speaker 1No, that's why I enjoy looking at him.
Speaker 7George.
Speaker 6After all, when a man gets to be your age, it's time to stop looking at young girl.
Speaker 1Listen, honey, that's just like telling.
Speaker 2An old bird dog not to quiver when he sees quail.
Speaker 1George, look at this.
Speaker 6News at him here?
Times is really getting bad.
It's say here that since the first of the year, over a million men's and joined the ranks of unemploying.
Speaker 2You know, it's beginning to look like the eyes in the field is rapidly becoming overcrowded.
Speaker 3And George, you ought to.
Speaker 6Be ashamed that you ain't got no job.
Speaker 1Why not doing holler at me?
Just because eyes out of work?
Speaker 2I bet you don't find Marlotar's wife screaming and yelling at him.
Speaker 1The horst Dollar is looking around too, George.
Speaker 6Why don't you stop talking nonsense, say George, look here in the paper.
There was a robber in the neighborhood yesterday at Robinson's jewelry store.
A man robbed the place of five thousand dollars in jewels.
Speaker 1Five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6Yes, that happened right in broad daylight at four fifteen yesterday afternoon.
And it say here that they're offering a thousand dollars reward for the identification leading to criminals arrest.
George, what you're looking so funny about?
Speaker 2Had full fifteen in in front of Robinson's jewel store is offering a reward?
Say, honey, I think our ship has just come in with a thousand dollars in the cargo.
Speaker 6Well, now would you know the crew fit don't robbed the jewish store.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, I gonna tell you about it, honey.
Speaker 2You see it exactly full fifteen yesterday, Me and Andy was on the street in front of Robinson's jewelish store.
Well, now Andy had a camera with him and I had done took seven pictures of Andy, and there was one left on the rule.
Speaker 1So Andy said to me, they, Kingfish, there's just one picture left on the roll of film here.
How about me thinking the last one of you?
Speaker 3Will?
Speaker 2Na I ain't very food of neem it myself, but go ahead, tell you what, and I'll get over by the jewlish store winding here and that'll make a good background.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I can get your whole body in there too.
Yeah, all right, I'll get over here.
Okay, yeah, all right, Kingfish hole still here goes hey, mister Watchett, Well you're all right, buddy, don't get excited, King Fish.
That fella come out of the jewelish store there, walk right in front of you, just as I snapped the picture.
Speaker 2Oh me, Andy, you goes to take a picture of me, and he gets one of another fella.
Speaker 1Oh, I tell you.
Speaker 6And you mean to say that Andy's got a picture of the fella that robbed the jeweler store.
Why that could mean a thousand dollars teams.
Speaker 2Yeah, wait a minute, And to put that rule of film in his pocket, and he say he gonna get it developed tomorrow.
If I could think her some way to get that suit off and it and get that film out.
Speaker 1Of his pocket.
I could.
Speaker 2Yeah, I got a call in and get him right over to the lodge.
Speaker 6Hall jard, You ain't thinking of getting that whole reward for yourself issue?
Speaker 1Oh cool's not hunt cools nd.
That would be a dirty, low down trick to keep all of the money.
I gonna do the thing that's fair and square.
Speaker 2Just as soon as I get the thousand dollars, I'll pay end it to thirty five cents he pays for the filmar hand is on his way over to the lodge here.
Now, if this scheme works, I'll get this suit off of him and get the film out of his pocket.
Speaker 1Oh here's big feats flapping down the hall.
Now come in, Rollanda I King's Hire.
Say what is that sign he got outside your office?
There?
Steven's French dry cleaning Company.
Where as you ever learned about that business?
Speaker 3Oh?
Speaker 1Where did I learn?
Speaker 2I studied it at the New York branch of the Great French dry Cleaning School, the Energy and Academy of Paris, France.
Speaker 1Well this is really news, King Vase, You ungraduated as a French dry cleaner.
Speaker 2Huh oh yeah, yeah, we just had our graduation ceremonies yesterday or really a big happy occasion.
The whole graduation class throw their berets in the air.
Speaker 1And then the last thing.
Speaker 2The professor said to the French cleaning and pressing class was those famous words Nest Paul said.
Speaker 1Who played party?
Who sailor gear?
What did that mean?
Speaker 2Never leave a hot iron on the seat of the pan?
Speaker 5Yeah?
Speaker 1Well, one thing I want to know, Kingvish, what is the big advantage it is French cleaning over the other kinds of clean Well, there's speed and it's the fastest dry cleaning in the world.
Speaker 3It is.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, you take that suit you got on there?
Now, how long do it usually take you to get that clean?
Brother in there, I don't know.
I ain't had a suit for four years.
He ain't had a cleaner.
Speaker 7Uh, let me look at Janny.
Speaker 1Yeah, they don't look too messy, do it.
Speaker 2No, that dirt really holds a nice crease there, Betta tell you what?
Speaker 1And there things being slow today?
Course of Sunday.
Speaker 2I'll clean your suit for you for nothing, to show you what great work we.
Speaker 1Do for nothing.
Well, that's okay with me, boy, Now take off your suit.
I'll take your coat here yeah, let me get my pants off here.
I'll slip them off too.
Speaker 2Yeah, I get your pants off.
Hmm, got your long underwear on?
Hunh Yeah, you ain't wearing no socks.
Speaker 1No, I've been kind of reconomizing here lately.
I just get my on to wear extra long and tuck it into my shoes.
The world with them bagging knees.
You got enough play in the legs, all right, say Andy?
And you got on two suits of heavy underwear.
Yeah, well, you say, Kingfish.
They're both a little ragged, so where one's got holes, the other's okay.
So by wearing them I get full covered.
Here's the pants, Kingfish.
Speaker 2Yeah, give me the pants, okay, in and now i'll be back in new time.
You keep your derby on that so you won't catch.
Speaker 1Cool, and don't forget to do a good job on that cleaning.
Oh, don't worry in it.
When I finished with this suit, you really know you've been to the cleaner.
Speaker 2Yeah, well, I'll get on in the back room now and have my assistance go to work on it in the back room.
Oh yeah, that's where I uses the new secret cleaning process.
Speaker 1Oh boy, you gotta hand it to that King finish.
If anything new comes out, he is always their first one.
Speaker 2Well, here you is brother and his who's all done?
Glad to give it back to you?
Holy smoke, you show him us.
They had a couple of fast frenchmen back there.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, look at the suit here.
The spots are still in there.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Well, then there after examining that I.
Speaker 2Didn't dare take out the spots, I found out that they was the only thing that was holding the suit together anyway, and they were you can put on your suit.
Speaker 1Now we got to get out of here anyway.
Yeah, well, I uh wait a minute, wait a minute, much matter.
I had a roll of film in my coat pocket when I walked in here, and it ain't here.
Now where is it?
Uh film?
Uh?
Well, Kingfish, you got a funny look on your face.
You better tell me what happened to that film.
I'm gonna punch you right in the note.
All right, then, wait a minute, I don't get mad.
You've gott man.
Now you've got man.
Speaker 2I took the film.
I didn't want nothing that happened to it.
And I'm looking there.
This film is worth a thousand dollars to us if we takes it right down to the drug store and get it developed right.
Speaker 1Away a thousand dollars, Kyfish, what is this all about?
Now?
Speaker 2Listen, Nanda, we gotta take the film to the drug store right now.
I'll explain everything to you on the way over there.
Speaker 1Okay, let's go.
Speaker 2All right, and that the main thing is to get the role of film developed.
Speaker 1That's the main thing.
Yeah, well, we'll take it to the nearest drugs.
Speaker 2Ste come on now, yeah, no, wait a minutelet's see which way do we want to go?
Yeah, there's one in the next block.
See the sign down there.
Speaker 3Come on.
Speaker 1Yeah, hey, Kyfish, did you see them two gals smiling and giggling as they passed us?
Well, that's always the way there is when Gal sees me, they always kind of smile and giggle.
Speaker 2And one thing we better do before you go any further was that go back and put on your pants.
Speaker 7We're going to take you on a musical than Christ.
Speaker 8And the Kanda's right time band on the counter because they're right on hands.
Speaker 7Come on here, come on here, come on here.
Speaker 1Come on here.
Speaker 7It's the best band in the take.
Speaker 3A play a bugle call I can never heard before so natural wanting to go to war.
Speaker 7That's just the best band.
Speaker 1But oh, come on along line, let me take you by the hand.
Who's the leader of the band?
Speaker 7Funny river play?
Speaker 1Come on a here.
Speaker 5Man.
Speaker 7You hear those trumpets axes?
Speaker 4Morning lord, that's the time to pat your feet and tap your hands.
Speaker 7Do you hear that drummer man knocking out that Dixieland.
Speaker 1Then you don't.
Speaker 7It's Alexander's ragdad.
Speaker 5Come on here, let us do that rhythm of Caxander man.
Speaker 1He's the best man in the land.
Speaker 7And if you want to hear that wire saying, come on here on Alexander rag time.
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Speaker 3Now back to Amos and Andy.
Speaker 2Well, I've been driving y'all all over town, fellas, but don't look like you getting nowhere.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, we appreciate your driving, as Amos, but on comm of this being Sunday, don't look like there's no drug store that we can get the film develop for us before Wednesday.
Yeah.
Speaker 2The thing here is if the police catch the thief before we developed the picture, were gonna lose the one thousand dollars reward.
Speaker 1Yeah, that'd be a tough break, all right, Yeah, kan't fish, And we really gotta act fast too, because I just luk a something else.
What's that ending?
If the thief hears about the reward he labeled the surrender and get the thousand dollars for hisself, Well.
Speaker 2We coming to the large hall now, boy, and I gotta let y'all.
Speaker 1Off course, I gotta get on home.
Speaker 2Rube's mama's coming over to see amos Andra, and I said i'd drive her home.
Speaker 1Oh say, Amos, how is my little god child?
Uh?
Well, amos Ander's fine and there yeah, here we is.
Boy.
Well thanks for ever think Amo?
Yeah, thanks, Amo?
Are you welcome?
Speaker 2Or say, by the way, King Fish your west sci fire was over to.
Speaker 1See how baby, and she thinks the baby reminds her of you.
Well that's wonderful, amos.
Speaker 2How come because all the baby does all day is eat in, sleep, So long, fella.
Speaker 1You know I don't trust that Amos.
He's always getting nasty about something in there.
Yeah.
Hey, look who's coming out of the lodge hall Shorty the barber.
Shorty, you really doll love that.
You really look like a lady killed an angel.
Speaker 10Oh no, I can't fleech the guy who don't play no text me.
Speaker 1They don't even look at me.
Speaker 5And lady cares what you talk you.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, oh now look Shorty, Uh maybe you can help her.
Speaker 2Don't you know any players that we can get a roll of film developed in a hurry.
Speaker 1Not not on Sunday.
But you said, well, say wait, a minute.
Speaker 10A friend of mine's got dog from in the basement of his apartment.
Speaker 1He ain't got to go out of town.
Speaker 10He lets you use it if he knows how to develop kill him yourself.
Speaker 1Yeah, it was, that's great, Shorter.
Speaker 2I used to work as a janitor in a photograph shop and I used to watch him do that stuff.
Speaker 1I could handle the whole thing.
Okay, I'll tell what I'll do.
Speaker 10I'll call up my friend and get the key and you Yeah, you can go right.
Speaker 1Over there, you see.
Yeah, thanks a lot, shorty, Thank you tell you.
Speaker 10Know, fellas, I I had a peculiar access I experienced with a photograph ones myself.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 10I was going with a girl and I found out that she was secretly gone with another flower.
Speaker 1Oh.
I was heartbroken.
Speaker 10I I went to said to my dear friend's Stonewall the lawyer.
Speaker 1For a wave.
Oh you went to Stonewall, Huh.
Yeah.
Speaker 10He he told me that I see what that kind of a girl that be things for me to do with go to forget, forget her her completely?
Speaker 1Yes, come on, give me good advice.
Yeah, but I didn't take his advice though, I wanted to know where who that other fellow was.
Speaker 10I wanted to know who would do a low down tick like that.
Speaker 1Well, what'd you do?
Speaker 10I got a photographer to hide outside the girl's house and snap a picture of my rival as he come out.
Speaker 1Oh that's the stuff, shorty.
Who did it turn out to be?
Speaker 6Oh?
Speaker 10Was a fellow I got to live way over here and I it was a big dog that I used to way back at night.
People, it was a fella that comes to town.
Speaker 1That I that I you.
Speaker 5Stonewall the lawyer?
Speaker 1Well, then the here he is.
This show was a nice dark room showing his friend's letting us shoes.
Yeah, look at all the stuff he got down here.
I got equipment for printing developer.
Look at the bottles and phrase for the acids.
Yeah, we'll close the door, and well, now turn out the light.
Is we got to put out the light to develop the film for certainty.
Speaker 2And everybody knows that light is the enemy of filmism.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, don't remember you learned that in school.
It's the law of eredity.
Speaker 3You remember remember.
Speaker 1How Sir Isaac Fake Newton was under the apple tree.
Speaker 2And the light bulb come down, conquering them on the head and discovered the whole thing there.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, I believe I remember that that happened in the year of fourteen ninety two, didn't.
Yeah that's right, PC.
Yeah you were.
Speaker 2Now before it turns out the light, look around the room here and remember where everything is, so you know what to grab the stuff I need and.
Speaker 1Handed to me.
Yeah, well, I was all said, I don't mess rize where everything is.
Switch off the light.
Boy, this is the darkest dark I ever been in.
I can't see nothing or hold it.
I think there's light leading in here, King Vish, I see the bright spot.
No, no, no, no, no, that's your eyes, my boy.
Uh, you always sees that after you just turn out the light.
It's an optical illusion.
Now let me get the film out here and unroll this roll of film.
Yeah, hey, King Vish, you've got both hands on that film.
Uh certain, then that's funny.
I feel a hand on my wallet.
Is Is that an optical allusion to must be?
And there's only two of us in here?
Yeah, something telling me the light ain't the only endemy.
Speaker 2I gotta watch out, No, Hannah, I got the film rolled up, yeah, and laying down here somewhere so we can't turn on the light now and let the light hit the film, you know.
Speaker 1Yeah, Well what must we do now?
Well?
Speaker 2Now I got the developing tray right in front of me here.
Speaker 1Now the first thing I need is the funnel.
Do you remember where that was in the dark?
You think it funny?
I think, Joel.
Let me see here, feel around us.
I found a fun Oh thanks Annah.
Speaker 2Now I got to have a bottle of developing acid.
Remember where the bottles is up on the show.
Yeah, just a second, I'll feel around here.
I found the bottles.
Speaker 1Let me handle this.
Speaker 2I think I see the astra bottle of developing acid in the.
Speaker 1Sink here when the light was on.
Speaker 7Yeah, let me feel around here.
Speaker 1Or the optical illusion that slapping of my wallet again?
Need to tell me?
I wish that after colusion, Know that I put my wallet in my other pocket.
Besides that, there ain't no money in it.
M L.
I don't think they have the collusion with party no more.
Uh.
Speaker 2But what you're gonna do now?
Well, I don't found a jug ascid here.
Now I'm gonna start pouring it now.
Speaker 1Yeah, go ahead, that's enough, asset hold it?
Why my pocket is full?
Speaker 2Look, Anna, you was messing up to everything.
We ain't getting no place in the dark here.
Uh, let me roll the film up here so we can turn on the light and.
Speaker 1Get out of here.
Speaker 2Yeah, hurry up, cakes man, wait a minute, not okay, And now you can put the light on.
Speaker 1Uh.
And the only thing for us to do is to wait till tomorrow.
Speaker 2Get some photographer to develop the film force as fast as he can.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's the thing to do.
Then way he could turn it over to the police and they can pick the fief up.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 1I wonder where that crook is right now.
Well, wherever he is, I better think he's in the clear, because he ain't got no idea that we got his picture.
Hah hah hah.
Speaker 3Hello, I'll hire your boss.
Gladic calls.
Speaker 1I just got on the grave.
Speaker 8Find that somebody got my picture coming out of the jewelry store yesterday.
Yeah, a guy from the Mystic Nights of the Sea lodge Hall.
Yeah, he gets this.
Boss, tomorrow's gonna turn it over to the cops.
What am I gonna do.
I'm gonna drop up to that lodge hole and get that picture.
And if anybody gets hurt, it won't be me.
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