Speaker 1: Second spot.
Speaker 2: The Johnson Wax Program with Fever McGhee and Molly. The
makers of Johnson's Wax for Homeland Industry present Fever McGee
and Molly, written by Don Quinn and Phil Leslie, with
music by The King's Men and Billy Mills Orchestra. The
holiday season is a time when you want your home
as bright and cheerful as you can make it. It's
a time that proves as much as any other the
value of protective wax housekeeping. If your floors, furniture and
woodwork have been waxed regularly with Johnson's Wax, then it's
a very easy matter to put on the finishing touches
and have that richly polished kind of home that everyone admires.
There are many accessories from one end of the house
to the other that you can protect and beautify with
Johnson's wax, either paste, liquid or cream your window hills,
for example, picture frames, ornaments, lampshades, Venetian blinds, refrigerator well,
many of you know the list as well as I.
When you wax all these surfaces, you protect them because
the wax itself takes the wear and the surface underneath
is safe. When you go over your house tomorrow try
out several of these extra uses for Johnson's wax. Three
of the most curious things in the world are the gyroscope,
the pyramids, and the Squire seventy nine wistful vista. And
if you don't think he's curious, get a load of him.
Sneaking a peek into the hall closet as we join
Fibber McGhee and Bally.
Speaker 1: Loyal boil boy, o boy. Look at all these Christmas
presents from Molly to Fiber with love to Fiber, from
Molly with best wishes to the best husband the woman
ever had. I wonder who that's for. I thought I
was the only husband here ever. Oh well, Oh, an envelope,
do not open before Christmas. Mm looks like it might
be a war bond. Mm.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 1: Flap isn't sealed. Very tired either. If somebody's thumb ever,
get never got caught in there and flip open my eyes.
Oh my goodness, it did it? Maybe she didn't even
mean to seal it. And if I ain't see it,
I suppose it's okay to read it. My dear husband,
Get out of this hall closet and stop snooping. I
like that to think she'd think that I'd think of
stooping to snoop?
Speaker 3: Didn't you know the gee?
Speaker 1: Where are you caught me?
Speaker 4: Act?
Speaker 1: I better put this stuff back in her past? This
must be the new belt I've been hunting. I've been
hitting about it. I hope this is a fountain ben.
If this isn't a sweater off?
Speaker 3: Where are you?
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the door close on the hall closet. Molly,
it's so full of stuff it's sprung open. Ah ha,
I got it. That was quick thinking, Migie, old man.
If she ever caught you doing that stuff, r I've
read it. I gotta straighten out that closet right after Christmas?
Speaker 4: What goes on here? I told you to stay away
from that hall closet. You're much too snoopy.
Speaker 1: Why Molly do you mean to stand there in one
of the best looking house dresses I ever saw and
accuse your own husband by marriage of snoopy?
Speaker 4: Ah, deary, you can pump up more phony indignation than
Donald does. Now, get all that stuff put back in
the closet. No, you better let me do it.
Speaker 1: Something in there you don't want me to see baby.
Speaker 4: Well, if there was and I didn't, then you already had.
What's the difference.
Speaker 1: I didn't unwrap a thing, I never even shook anything.
Only thing that even aroused my curiosity is that big
white package with the blue ribbon on it.
Speaker 4: I don't remember any big white package with any blue.
McGee stopped peering over my show. Go read the paper. Okay, Oh,
hello Anna missus McGhee.
Speaker 5: Hi am mister McGee.
Speaker 1: Hi Alice, Hey, what'd you do to your hair?
Speaker 4: Well, she's just wearing it differently. McGee himself here's getting
very observant with Christmas coming on, Alice. Ordinarily you could
wear your scalful of neon lights and he's never noticed.
Speaker 5: You like my hair with the buns over the ears,
mister McGhee, Yes.
Speaker 1: I do, kid. I like the buns over the ears
much better than that old sweet roll on top or
that apple strudle you used to have falling down in back.
Speaker 5: My hairdresser says, they're wearing it this way in Paris.
Speaker 4: Now it's a nice hair do, Alice. What do they
call us.
Speaker 5: Hair hitler because it's more trouble than it's worth.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so too, you got your Christmas creepers.
Speaker 5: I thought I had, mister McGee, but now I'm as
confused as a kangaroo with a pickpocket's convention.
Speaker 4: Why dear well, I had a.
Speaker 5: Terrific billfold for Harold, but I had to change the
tag to Ronnie because I'm giving Ronnie's toufflings to Rick
to take the place of rick cigarette lighter, because I
quick had to give the lighter to Jimmy when he
showed up here last night with a simply super pair
of earrings for me.
Speaker 1: That is a little complicated, isn't it.
Speaker 4: That's like the year when McGee gave me nothing but
napkins and handkerchiefs, pillow cases and tablecloths for Christmas. He
took the laundry list down Thomas though the shopping loot. Well, Gee, Alice,
we're not doing very much for Christmas this year. The
Treasury Department had beat Santa Claus down the chimney.
Speaker 5: Well. I told all the boys not to spend their
money foolishly on things for me this year. I told
them all to take whatever money they intended to spend
on me and put it in war bonds.
Speaker 1: Good for you, Ellis use the boy's dough to back
up the dough boys.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I just assumed they gave me war bonds as
anything else. Well, I've got to get back to the
post self. Let's goodbye.
Speaker 1: There's a girl who has her heart in the right
place on her sleeves. I don't know.
Speaker 4: She's a lot like I was when I was a girl, McGhee,
except that she has twenty boyfriends and I just had you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that wasn't because you were unpopular, Snookie. That
was because there was an ugly rumor around Peoria that
McGee had put a bear trap in Molly Driscoll's port swim.
Speaker 4: That was more than a rumors.
Speaker 1: Sweethearts.
Speaker 4: For fifteen years after that, my father never sat down
without first slapping the chair with his cane. Now, listen,
go away while I get this stuff back in the closet.
Speaker 1: How about that white package, just the blue ribbon movement.
Speaker 4: McGhee, I swear I know absolutely nothing about that.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't kid me, would you?
Speaker 4: After all?
Speaker 1: When mysterious packages are hid away in the closet happen
the days? What was that my belt? It busted? Remember
how I've been telling you my belt was on its flash.
Speaker 4: Well it's a funny place to wear a belt. I
do remember your mentioning it several times.
Speaker 1: Looked awful too, supposed to have been genuine calf. But
I'll bet a cookie it's mother was a paper mill.
Speaker 6: Dog.
Speaker 1: Gone up my last belt too. Oh well, I can
wear a neck tire on my waist so I can
get down town by a new one.
Speaker 4: All right, dearie, all right, you win here? Open this package?
Speaker 1: Why this is a Christmas package? See, I shouldn't open
this till Christmas?
Speaker 4: Open it?
Speaker 1: Well? Okay, well forty and no a new belt. Well,
I'll be a monkey's uncle. If this isn't a coincidence,
remember me to your nephew, and with my initials on
the buckle. Oh this is a beauty molly.
Speaker 4: Thanks ever, someone don't mention it, and merry Christmas. First installment.
Speaker 1: My gosh, this is really unexpected.
Speaker 4: Well it shouldn't be the way you've been talking about
a new belt the last few weeks. You should have
taken out a hinting license.
Speaker 1: Here, throw this old one away with all right, I'll
put it in.
Speaker 4: Why this is strange?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 4: Looks like it had been cut halfway through Oh, well,
I've had a very sharp appetite lately in my way,
So come in. Hello Molly, Hello Gary, Hello doctor Gamble.
Speaker 1: Hi you big front man for the Stork Club. Why
call me Gary? You finally agree with me that I
look like Cooper? Oh that's just my abbreviation for garylous.
Speaker 4: Why doctor McGhee is not garrlets, I should say not.
Speaker 1: I haven't been out with a girl since I married Molly. Yes, yes,
I know.
Speaker 7: You two are the living exhibit a for the scientific
theory of the attraction of opposites.
Speaker 1: Molly is so good looking and sweet and quiet, and
I'm yes, indeed in spades. Say what's all this Christmas
stuff around here? Even unwrapping a present? McGee?
Speaker 4: Well, he just broke his belt, doctor, and as long
as I was giving him one for Christmas, I thought
he might as well have it down.
Speaker 7: Beauty in it, Doc, real pigskin. I shall not descend
to any of the obvious retorts. My boy, it is
a very handsome hunk of haberdash y. But aren't you
a little ashamed of accepting you gifts?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: According to my calendar, it's several days until Christmas.
Speaker 4: I was just trying to keep up his spirits and
his pants for the next week.
Speaker 1: Don't what do you use for a calendar, doc? Cut
a notch in a patient for each day of the week. No, no,
I just glanced in the mirror.
Speaker 7: If I seem to have aged ten years, I know
another day is crept by.
Speaker 4: You know you want to go away for a good
long rest, doctor, someplace where you can't get near a telephone,
like any drugstore.
Speaker 7: Don't think I wouldn't love it, my dear, But I've
got to stick around for the Christmas rush.
Speaker 1: What Christmas rush? You're running a black market in pink pills. No, no,
but us cowtown pastors expect certain seasonal phenomena about this
time of year, like kids swallowing.
Speaker 7: Christmas free ornaments, selfish little animals that they are an
ornament so hard to get.
Speaker 1: And then two. Digital callosity is almost an annual epidemic.
Speaker 4: Heavenly ds, what on earth is digital calosity?
Speaker 7: Callous is on the fingers from people rubbing them over
greeting cards to see if they're really engraved.
Speaker 4: Well, it's nice. Have you dropped in, doctor, particularly without
Megee's starting an argument VideA, No, just a darn minute.
Speaker 1: Boom starts all the arguing with whom Doc always starts them,
not me.
Speaker 7: Oh now, don't give us that little, sir decibel. You're
as bad tempered as a dime store jack knife, and
you know it.
Speaker 1: I don't know any such a dirty thing because you
always start snarling at me with your big fat teeth.
Don't mean I got a bad temper? Why you peripatetic,
little biological aberration.
Speaker 4: You have the.
Speaker 7: Neurological reactions of a schizophrenic proclodyte.
Speaker 1: Kings X.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, kings X?
Speaker 1: Doc don't play fair. I don't know what he's talking about.
It Well, i'll call it offull. I look up some
one syllable words McGee. Any Way, I gotta get back
to my office. It's probably full of expecting father.
Speaker 7: Yes, they expect me to tell them beforehand whether to
have the nursery decorated in pink or blue.
Speaker 1: What do you tell him, Doc? I give him an
evasive answer. I tell him to go fry a pig,
merry Christmas Poe.
Speaker 4: Thank you, doctor, saying to you, isn't he your sweeth
old character? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Great guy. It was a great loss to medicine when
he started studying it.
Speaker 4: What a patient he'd have been, say, I wonder if
it was he who send us the big white package
with the blue ribbon on it?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding? You don't have to play coil with me, tootsy.
I wasn't born yesterday.
Speaker 4: Well you might as well have been. You're so changeable. McGee.
You'll go away someplace while I straighten up this clock
over the.
Speaker 1: Crane's dug store. I gotta buy a new fountain pin.
Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, me, Gee, don't do that.
Speaker 3: Huh why not?
Speaker 4: Well? I I was, well, why do you need a
new fountain pin just this minute? Can't you use your
old one?
Speaker 8: My old one?
Speaker 1: I only got one?
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, well, what's the matter with it?
Speaker 1: Well, the point is pigeon toed writes two lines instead
of one. But maybe when I registered with it at
a hotel last summer, the clerk looks at my signature
and says, you, gentlemen want twin beds. You go ahead
and fix the closet. Kid, I'll run over to Cramer's.
Speaker 4: Oh dear, you win again. Gee, here open this package?
Speaker 1: What do you mean go?
Speaker 4: I had to open it?
Speaker 1: Well, okay, well, I'll be a new fountain pan Gee,
thanks kid, Oh this is wonderful.
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas. Second installment.
Speaker 1: Boy, this is a wonderful pen, just the kind I
wanted to and just when I needed it. Why you
could knock me over with a feather, Molly, I never
dreamed of.
Speaker 3: Hey, what are you looking for?
Speaker 1: A fan r I know, wangled ab.
Speaker 4: Don't bother me. Mcgaine. I've almost got his flat trackened
up again.
Speaker 1: That big white package with the blue ribbon on it.
Does it gurgle for a rattle or squeek or anything?
Speaker 4: Well, I haven't touched it. Somebody around here has got
to keep his curiosity under control. And as long as
there's only two of us, it looks like I'm elected.
Speaker 1: Hey, this is a wonderful pen you gave me, Momy
you like it? It's marbles. Only one thing wrong with
it that I can see, My goodness, what's that? I
just worked a crossword puzzle with it and it don't
spell very good that that? Oh wow, I'm really quite
grundled with it.
Speaker 4: You mean disgruntled.
Speaker 1: No, I'm very happy. It's the finest pen.
Speaker 4: I Hello, hello there, mister WILCOI alright, waxy old man.
Speaker 1: How do you like the new belt Molly give me
for Christmas?
Speaker 2: Hey, it's beautiful. But our two folks a little previous
with your Christmas presents.
Speaker 4: Well, he was getting so snoopy, mister Wilcox. I just
had to give him a belt one way or another,
so it's easy way.
Speaker 1: Look, she give me a bottain pen too. Ain't that
a darb writes ten thousand words without feelings? I don't
know how many? Right when I fill it?
Speaker 9: Won't you get it?
Speaker 1: Kids? I says it?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: Funny?
Speaker 1: I thought I had a kind of a funny change.
You like the pen, Junior.
Speaker 2: It's very handsome, pal, but better get your name Engrave.
Donnough's be ashamed to lose an ice pen like that.
Speaker 4: Well, I couldn't get it in Grave till after Christmas,
mister Wilcox. I took it to seven different jewelers too.
Speaker 1: Gee, did you really, mom?
Speaker 4: Yes, and I got quite an inferiority complex, leaning over
eighty thousand dollars worth of diamond necklaces trying to get
a three dollars job of engraving done.
Speaker 2: Well, Gee, you should have taken it to my cousin,
Big Bill Wilcox on Oak Street, Molly, one of the
finest engravers in the country.
Speaker 1: I thought all the really grat engravers were working for
the government. Waxee.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: He used to in Washington, no Leavenworth. That's why they
call him Big Bill. He got caught making twenties out
of sevens.
Speaker 1: They put him to work making little ones out of
big ones. For making big ones out of little ones.
Speaker 2: Eh, he's a terrific engraver, though he's a well here,
wait a minute, here, take a look at this common,
ordinary little pen.
Speaker 1: What about it?
Speaker 2: Well, look at the head of it.
Speaker 1: I just scratched up. There's junr ha ha.
Speaker 2: Look at it through this magnifying glass, which I just
happened to have with me.
Speaker 4: Oh well, heavenly days, isn't it marvelus?
Speaker 1: Let me look at it. Well, I'm the son of
a gun. What's to say, Junior? Can't quite read it?
A lot in glasses.
Speaker 2: It says, you don't have to be sharp as a
pin to know that Johnson's self polishing glow coat is
the finest beauty fire and protect your linoleum.
Speaker 4: Imagine writing all that on the head of a pin.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's more than that. It says, if you're stuck
with faded warlanoleum. Bring it back to life and duty
with Johnson's glow coat to polish the chimes as it dries.
Speaker 1: My gosh, he is quite an engraver, isn't he waxy?
Speaker 3: Well? You know.
Speaker 2: The funny part of it is it only took him
twenty minutes or less to do it.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's too much.
Speaker 2: Same length of time it takes or glos were glow
coats to dry to a mirror light finish on your linoleum. Now,
wasn't that a coincidence?
Speaker 4: Amazing? Dere Let me put the pin back in your lapel,
mister Wilcox. I'm afraid it might get lost.
Speaker 1: Wouch. Oh, I'm sorry. It's your story, Junior, and you
got stuck with.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me thank you about pettantole.
Speaker 2: I'll have big bill and grave it for you.
Speaker 4: Thank you, mister Willcox.
Speaker 1: Thanks, Junior, I'll mention it.
Speaker 2: I'll have it back Friday.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I isn't he a sweethel? Oh no, that's doctor Gamble.
Speaker 1: Look, Molly, no kidding. That big white package with a
blue ribbon on it is that for me?
Speaker 4: I don't know a thing about it. McGee crush your
heart crossed my heart?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, somebody must have. Hey, maybe Bulah put
it there?
Speaker 4: Oh, Beulah, Hey, Beulah, you call me miss McGee?
Speaker 1: Why should I? You never call me Beulah?
Speaker 4: Mister McGee wanted to know about this big white package
with a blue ribbon on a bula.
Speaker 1: Did you put it in the closset here, Beulah?
Speaker 9: No, so that package is a complete stranger than me.
Speaker 4: Well that's strange. Oh well, we'll find out when we
open it at Christmas time. Have you got on your
shopping Doneulah?
Speaker 9: Yes, ma'am predicaler, Oh my god, less to get stuff on?
Speaker 4: It's Papa Iras iras, who's Irah?
Speaker 6: Here's no one and on this s.
Speaker 4: At least at least he's one of the feume far between.
Speaker 1: Ivan.
Speaker 4: He's a fd I man, Oh, heavenly days, Federal Bureau
of Investigation. No man, friendly but ignorant.
Speaker 1: What does he do, Beulah?
Speaker 9: His insures, ma'am so y'all he specialized in lice insurance
with double indignity.
Speaker 4: Indemnity.
Speaker 1: Yes, only he may have to give it up on
a kound of a greeting card he got this morning
on account of a greeting card.
Speaker 4: Yes, he says from the President of the United States
greeting What did President's status Viula five nine and a.
Speaker 9: Half in his soft man?
Speaker 1: How did he classify?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 4: I classify him as ready and willims.
Speaker 9: So he's suffered with flat feet and the stigmatists.
Speaker 4: Kiddom, Oh, yes, tis ma'am.
Speaker 9: He's so short sighted he don't know his best friend
to cross the taffy pool.
Speaker 1: Well, they don't pull taffy in the army anyway, Beulah,
He'll be okay if you can see well enough to
pull a sergeant's leg.
Speaker 9: That's what I.
Speaker 4: Love that.
Speaker 9: Man.
Speaker 1: Hey, Molly, I think we all open up that package.
I think it must have been delivered by mistake.
Speaker 4: Thee there's no tag on it or anything.
Speaker 1: You think, Well, I don't. Yes, I think we are
one side. Baby. I'll soon saw this miss well.
Speaker 4: Heavenly days. It's a beautiful neglige.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, what's oi was?
Speaker 4: Oh my?
Speaker 1: That was my present for you, baby. I bought it
a month ago and forgot all about it. If I
ain't the dumbest.
Speaker 4: Autonomic gee, I think it's lovely and just what I wanted.
Is promote. Oh now, come in high mister well already,
who's all ready for what?
Speaker 10: Kenny and Johnny and Buddy and ready and me, we're
all ready to sing.
Speaker 8: Come on in here, folks.
Speaker 1: Three years ago Ken Darby of Our King's Men wrote
for our Christmas Show an original musical setting for the poem.
It was the night before Christmas. Everyone seemed to like
it so well that we've been asked to do it
ever Christmas since, and we're glad to do it again tonight.
Speaker 10: Okay, mister McGee, go on, sit down now, you and
miss McGee sit in a circle. You shit at the
pan of Kenny. Ready, everybody go on.
Speaker 4: Anna two and a three.
Speaker 10: Was the nine before Christmas, and all.
Speaker 2: Through the.
Speaker 10: Nacreach was showing that even.
Speaker 4: Why did jim me with.
Speaker 10: You group that sting with.
Speaker 6: The child and weren't messled all snug in their weed and.
Speaker 1: Wild?
Speaker 6: They just some sugar long stands him there we mama
is her curl and die and like that.
Speaker 1: Just settled.
Speaker 3: Sorrow at sets the matter all way to the window
look like a storm the shutters over the time. What
to my wondering I should have here? About a minute?
Speaker 8: You say, and the tiny ray there, whether they are
long guy or.
Speaker 3: So lively infective. I knew right away that it must
be saying nigh one loading perform his head too. His
foot bull sandle was covered. But that's just said supple.
I drew in my head and was turning around. But
down the chimney he came with a ball.
Speaker 10: His eyes have a trinkle, his dimble sound merry.
Speaker 11: His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry.
He's young little mom was down up like a boat.
The beard on his chin wednesdays like as that's down.
Speaker 8: The stun bothering long pipe he held tied in his
seat and spoke why around and around and around his
head like a reason. He was humming at fus all right,
johny Johnny old help.
Speaker 3: Sada la handle lat padlaft where song inspired myself? He
had a rock face and can around telling.
Speaker 8: That shout why land.
Speaker 12: Mam all mona kelly what he gave me awake of
his eyes and the face of his hand.
Speaker 3: A chuckle la smiling knew all while had not childress.
Speaker 9: He smoked all over, but went straight to his work
and fill all spoy fine with a jerk o.
Speaker 12: Laking a the angle, a.
Speaker 8: Side of his morse, and giving a lot of the
chimney ell.
Speaker 12: He spent the same.
Speaker 3: Miste game as holl and a made helpf.
Speaker 12: I'm worn, exclaim any God, the Christmas cow, and as
the night.
Speaker 1: After Christmas, and all through the hose, not the creature, mister.
Speaker 9: Not even the mo.
Speaker 3: The presents are shattered and walking. I see, and Saint
Nicholas won't come again.
Speaker 8: For let you all mim, every little Boga.
Speaker 4: Monstans and the.
Speaker 8: Little mom, I her coach, and I in my cap.
Speaker 4: I settled at last for a long.
Speaker 1: Wais, ladies and gentlemen. Two thousand years ago a star
shone over Bethlehem to light the way to peace and
goodwill on earth. Tonight that star is reflected in the
windows of millions of your homes.
Speaker 4: So our Christmas wish to all of you is that
the men and women who have gone out to fulfill
the promise of that symbol may soon return mission accomplished.
Speaker 1: Night, Good night, all.
Speaker 3: Exclaim all.
Speaker 8: Christmas.
Speaker 1: This is the National Broadcasting Company
Speaker 4: B