Speaker 1: Good evening.
Speaker 2: The makers of the New Rinso bring you The Amos
and Andy Show with their guests to night the Metro
Goldwyn Mayer Starr currently appearing in Heavenly Body, Miss Spring Byington.
Speaker 3: Andrew H.
Speaker 4: Brown rarely has anything to look forward to.
Speaker 1: However, this happens.
Speaker 2: To be one of those occasions when he can hardly
wait for the day to arrive. His nephew, Jimmy, a
member of the Armed Forces, is coming to New York
to spend his furlough with his uncle Andy. At the moment,
the proud uncle is in his office reading Jimmy's letter
to Andy.
Speaker 4: Listen to this part of the letter.
Speaker 5: Amos, Yeah, go ahead in he say here, and so
I will a arrive in New York sometime Thanksgiving morning
and will come right to your place.
Speaker 4: I sure we'll be happy to see you. Uncle Andy.
Speaker 5: Give my regards to your friend Amos, your love and
nephew Jimmy.
Speaker 6: Oh that's great, he's coming up to New York for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 4: And yeah, and look here he done sent me his
picture here in his uniform.
Speaker 3: Oh let me see that boy. He's certainly good looking.
Speaker 4: All right, show is everybody say, look exactly like me.
Speaker 6: Tell me this is you gonna give your nephew a
nice Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 5: Well, now that's exactly what I want to talk to
you about. I was pretty proud of that boy, Amos. Oh,
I know you is man, and I look here. You see,
I live in one room and I ain't got no
stove or nothing. I ain't got nowhere of cooking, no
big Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew.
Speaker 5: And I kind of hate to ask you this, but
go ahead. Well, I was wondering. I was wondering if
you would put on the dinner at show place, I'd
buy the turkey and pay for everything. You see, Amos
is just on kind of my nephew.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of proud of him, and I want to
do it right.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, and the show will do it.
Speaker 4: Oh, that show is nice to Amos. I really appreciate that.
And I know Jimmy will too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm gonna write him and tell him that we're
gonna have a big Thanksgiving dinner for him, with turkey
and everything.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking.
Speaker 6: And the Thanksgiving day is a week from yesterday, and
I hear that turkey is pretty scarce.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'll get one all right, amos, don't worry.
Speaker 5: The Kingfish say that he's gonna take me over to
see his butcher.
Speaker 6: I thought the Kingfish and his butcher wasn't speaking to
each other.
Speaker 5: Well, they wasn't, but the Kingfish made up with him
at the beginning of the turkey season.
Speaker 6: Well, now all you gotta do, Andy is to get
the turkey and me and Ruby will take care of
everything else.
Speaker 4: Oh that's great. Put her there, son. Well, hello over there, boys,
how is you?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Hello out that King's peace?
Speaker 3: Be just talking about you?
Speaker 1: Who you was? I don't speaking of the loving Kingfish.
Speaker 3: By the way, did you see the picture of and
his nephew Jimmy?
Speaker 4: Yeah, look here here, just right here. He looked really good,
don't they.
Speaker 5: He's my nephew on my mama on Popa's side.
Speaker 1: A nice picture here. He's a private already.
Speaker 3: Huh uh.
Speaker 6: You know King Fish and his nephew is coming up
here for Thanksgiving days.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I want to get a turkey for him. Kingfish,
I want you to take me over to your butcher
like you said you would.
Speaker 7: Oh, anytime at all, brother, And yeah, I'll go with
you now, Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5: By the way, do you know anything about how to
pick out a good turkey kingfish?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Sure, I dude, brother, And whenever I picked out a
turkey I always.
Speaker 1: Kind of feels around the legs there.
Speaker 4: That's important.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. You take an athlete, now, when he runs and.
Speaker 7: Exercises and all that stuff, he gets hard and tough.
So the idea in picking out a turkey is the
get one that has done led.
Speaker 4: A lazy light.
Speaker 8: Well, kink fish, I got just one turkey leg.
Speaker 7: Yeah, let us take a look at it. Carl is
my friend here, mister Brown. Uh, she got a nephew
coming home from the army on Thanksgiving and he wants
to get a nice tender bird.
Speaker 4: Yeah. How much do that turkey way that you have
got there, mister?
Speaker 8: About fourteen pounds?
Speaker 1: That's it up there on left hook, last.
Speaker 4: One left boy, that looked good.
Speaker 7: All right, put it down here on the counter. Calls
who are examine it? Yeah, sure will yeah yeah, so
uh now let me see here. I want to feel
around his legs here. M Uh, this tech has done
a lot of running.
Speaker 4: Didn't he.
Speaker 8: That's prime turkey, the only one I got left. You're
lucky to get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I'll take it, King Fish.
Speaker 1: Oh, now wait a minute, and to keep your big
mo shut.
Speaker 7: We does a minute, you know, unless rush into the
thing or let me feel the turkey's wings here.
Speaker 1: Done a lot of flying too in the car. Tell
you the true Kingfish, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I just met the bird three days ago. Well, I'm
gonna take it, King flesh.
Speaker 1: And will you please wait a minute.
Speaker 7: I just trying to help you here, trying to turkey
of one the other side with the.
Speaker 1: Car, and I don't like the shape with this turkey's back.
Speaker 4: Look at here, Kingfish. We ain't buying, but it's figuring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but all them things count.
Speaker 8: Excuse me a second, boys, I want to go out
in front and raised on it.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 7: All right, Paul, listen, Kingfish, come on down here, and
it's the wee can talk.
Speaker 1: Guy. I don't want this other butcher down to other
end of hills.
Speaker 4: Well, Kingfish, why can't I buy that turkey?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Look and it do whatever you want to do. It's
your money. I just try to help you.
Speaker 7: I try to give you the benefit of my long
turk experiences.
Speaker 4: It's a good turkey though, ay, yeah.
Speaker 1: It is a good turkey in it, but I like
to check and double check the thing to make sure.
Speaker 5: Well, if we listen, if you think the turkey is
all right, why as we hamming a horn round here?
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 7: And it's just like when a fella is figuring on
marrying some gal.
Speaker 3: She might look nice and pretty and look good in
clothes and.
Speaker 4: All that stuff.
Speaker 7: At the same time, you want to get a look
in a mouse to make sure that you ain't go
running too fifty one.
Speaker 1: Hundred dollars worth of dental work. We just won't make
sure that we getting a good turkey too.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm gonna buy it, Kingfish, Okay, then I don't
think you can go.
Speaker 4: Wrong, say Carl, I'll take that turkey.
Speaker 8: All right, I'll put it on the scale. Hey wait
a minute, Hey, Joe.
Speaker 1: What do you know that turkey is right here?
Speaker 3: I just so did that man going.
Speaker 1: Out the door there?
Speaker 5: Well, Kingfish, what would you charge to stop tepping me?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 8: I'm sorry you boys, mister, chance of that turkey, But
I guess Joe didn't know you was thinking about buying it.
Speaker 7: Come on and we'll go to a good butcher shop.
Speaker 3: Listen, Carl, if this is the way that you want
to treat the old.
Speaker 7: Customer that has paid up to last July.
Speaker 1: It's okay with me.
Speaker 8: Sor right, gentlemen, we haven't had a turkey in here
in ten days.
Speaker 4: We got a mailing list a mile long. No turkeys, huh,
not a chance.
Speaker 9: We don't expect any more turkeys until after the first
of the year.
Speaker 1: Maybe not then.
Speaker 3: Turkeys, Are you kidding? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Henrd just in a turkey for sealed in the whole town.
Speaker 3: Yes, I know.
Speaker 9: Missus Van Porter was saying at breakfast this morning that
the turkey situation is cute.
Speaker 3: But I didn't know it was cute as that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I could have got one, but this part
time genius here the kingfish happy so much.
Speaker 4: I didn't get it.
Speaker 1: The Sittlan the source of that remark.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna dis ignore the whole thing.
Speaker 9: Please, boys, please, let's not have no fights. After all,
we as all civilized jetmans, you know.
Speaker 1: Oh, come in, let them come in.
Speaker 6: Hello, everybody, Hello, liking I thought i'd find you fellas
over here at miss Ander's office.
Speaker 3: A Miss Andy, this letter.
Speaker 6: Come for you over at the lodge hall, and I
thought it might be something reportant.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you lightning. Well it's from Jimmy.
Speaker 1: Oh what do we saying?
Speaker 4: Yes, but he's in it, say.
Speaker 5: Dear uncle ly, I don't have time to write much.
But there is a buddy of mine here at camp
who lives too far away to go home and visit
his folks for Thanksgiving. I took the liberty of asking
him to come up to New York with me and
have Thanksgiving turkey dinner with us. I hope this will
be okay with you, your love a nephew, Jimmy, Well, fellas,
I really got to get a turkey someplace. I ain't
gonna let them too boys down.
Speaker 1: It sounds like the counting on turkey already. Gee En,
I wish I knew how to help you.
Speaker 7: I wonder if there would be anything in getting a
couple of chickens and tell your nephew that the turkeys
is running small this year.
Speaker 5: Well another thing, i'd have to tell them that the
turkey this year tastes like chickens too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess it would, say boys. I just had
a thought here, Oh what was that when Andy?
Speaker 5: I wonder if there's any chance of you getting the
priority on the turkey?
Speaker 4: Uh priory?
Speaker 1: Yes, I know.
Speaker 5: That the Army has done took a lot of turkeys
this year, which is that there should be.
Speaker 3: But it just occurred to.
Speaker 9: Me that as long as you was getting the turkey
for your nephew and his friend who was in the army,
you might be able to get the priority.
Speaker 4: Say, yeah, that's worth trying. Where would I go?
Speaker 9: Well, I know that there's a special priority board downtown
that handles the unusual things like that. I has had
occasion to go there myself for a Miss spring.
Speaker 10: Byington, Come on, Kingfish, we are going down there right now.
Speaker 11: Did you wish to see me?
Speaker 4: Uh? Is you Miss spring Bynson?
Speaker 11: That's right? Can I help you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, telling Miss Byrington the whole story?
Speaker 5: And yeah, I'll shot at the beginning. The reason we
come down to the rational bulge is on count of
my nephew. You see, he's in the army and he's
coming home for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11: Oh isn't that nice. I was just thinking to my
husband this morning.
Speaker 12: I was Harry, he's our nephew was coming home from
Thanksgiving the camp in the Middle West.
Speaker 11: But if he can't be, it can't be.
Speaker 4: That's right now.
Speaker 12: What I want to explain to you on the other hand,
did it. That's my sister's son. He's stationed in Georgia
or lovely boy. He looks a lot like my sister Elaine.
Speaker 7: That's good, all right, go ahead and tell him its
binding what you want to tell her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll begin at the beginning.
Speaker 5: You see, my nephew is in the army and he's
coming home for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 11: Oh really, isn't that nice?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 11: I know how happy you must be. You know I
have a nephew too.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, we know.
Speaker 7: He lives in the Middle West and he can't get
home for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3: Oh you know him.
Speaker 13: Oh, and to start at the beginning again, Well, this
nephew and his buddy is coming home for Thanksgiving, and
I want to give him a big dinner.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and we want you to help us if
you can.
Speaker 11: Why, of course I will.
Speaker 12: Now I suggested the first thing you do is to
get a turkey.
Speaker 4: That's what we want to see you about. You see,
we ain't got no turkey.
Speaker 11: Well, if I were, you on, hurry up and get one.
Tomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I understand they're getting scarce.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we hear the same rumor.
Speaker 5: Yeah, excuse me, miss Brandon. But we can get priorities.
Speaker 4: Here, can't we.
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 11: Yes, indeed, that's what we're here for.
Speaker 4: Well, now we're getting somewhere.
Speaker 12: What kind of a priority was it you wanted tires
or extra gasoline?
Speaker 7: And do you think we are too far from the
beginning to go back there again?
Speaker 4: Well we can try going back there once more.
Speaker 5: You see, my nephew is in the army and tomorrow
is Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 11: Oh really, are you going to have a turkey dinner
for him?
Speaker 1: Not at the rate we're going, Lady.
Speaker 5: H You see, like I said before, that's what we
come in to see you about.
Speaker 4: We can't get one in the whole city of miss Bydon.
Speaker 5: And you see, this dinner is for a couple of soldiers,
and that's why we're trying to get a priority from.
Speaker 4: The government on it.
Speaker 5: You see, we got all the trimmings, but the trouble
is we ain't got nothing to trim.
Speaker 11: A priority on a turkey.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the only chance of getting one. We done
scarred the whole town. And I promise you that I
won't eat none of the turkey myself.
Speaker 4: I might dip my bread and the gravy, but that's all.
Speaker 11: This is the first request we've had like this. I'd
like to help. I'll tell you what I'll do.
Speaker 12: I'll call up regional headquarters and see what they say
about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'd appreciate it if you would.
Speaker 11: You might fill out this application blank in the meantime,
just in case.
Speaker 4: Okay, name, I guess the better for name of Jones'
name and have because that's where.
Speaker 11: That'll be fine reached. The head caught us. Oh, Dorothy,
there's a spring spring. I called you last night. You
went home a little stay out so never and I
went over to that milinary class. I'm making the most
stunning hats.
Speaker 1: You ever saw.
Speaker 11: Oh, you're making me so jealous. I need a hat
so badly for my new code. What kind of you making, Dorothy? Oh,
it's soften idea on my own? It's an off the
face too. Oh that should be gorgeous, especially with your hair. Oh.
Anything else noon? No, except that I'm going over to
Clara Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 12: You're going well, I don't know whether Frank's going to
play golf or not, but I'll be.
Speaker 11: Talking to you before that. Goodbye, good bye. If there's
anything that annoys me, it's some woman calling me when
I'm busy and you're talking about nothing. Now where were we?
Speaker 4: Oh? You call her?
Speaker 11: I called her?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you were going to ask her if there was
some way that we could get a priority on a turkey.
Speaker 11: Well, how do you like that?
Speaker 4: She hung up without telling me he didn't ask her?
I didn't.
Speaker 11: I suppose it's my fault.
Speaker 12: But it's just that that girl talks so incessantly and
rambles on what now?
Speaker 11: Hello, Spring, this is Dorothy again. You didn't tell me
what you call me up?
Speaker 1: Fall?
Speaker 12: Oh, I'm glad you called back, Dorothy, listen, can we
give out a priority order for a turkey?
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: That I know of?
Speaker 11: At least I've never heard of it. Well, if anybody
would know about it, it would be you. I've never
heard of it since I've been here. Well that's all.
Speaker 1: I want to know.
Speaker 11: Thanks, Dorothy.
Speaker 3: Bye.
Speaker 11: I'm awfully sorry, but there just is no such thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well thanks anyway, most Brianden. We show appreciates what
you try to do for us.
Speaker 12: I guess the boys would just have to get along
without gasoline, you know, I mean, without a turkey.
Speaker 3: Goodbye? No luck at the rationing board.
Speaker 5: Huh fella, no amas nothing, And we even went to
six more bushes shops and still couldn't get nothing.
Speaker 1: Yes, Ama, was I gonna tell you.
Speaker 7: I know my way around Harlem here, and I know
all the roofs, But I tell you I just vout
to give up the things.
Speaker 5: Uh say, I was just wondering, is there any place
where we could get a wild turkey?
Speaker 4: Maybe?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: And there ain't.
Speaker 1: No wild turkeys around here?
Speaker 4: What you talking about?
Speaker 1: You know them Pilgrims got all of them?
Speaker 4: They did? Huh sure they did. Well tell me this,
uh ause you know a pilgrim that we could call up?
Speaker 3: Oh and that was years and years ago. And say, oh,
by the way, did you see that letter on your desk?
Dad had come for you?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: No, Hey, look at here, there's another letter from Jimmy.
Oh say, maybe his friend ain't coming. And if Jimmy
comes up here alone, I can take him out to dinner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead and read it dinner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, dear uncle Andy, what do you say in he's
bringing three more fellers?
Speaker 6: And at what time did Jimmy say that him and
his friends forget here?
Speaker 5: Well, he say sometime around noon, So I guess they
won't be here for an hour or maybe a hour
and a half. Yet, is there anything else you need? Ruby,
I'll go down to the store and get it.
Speaker 12: No, Andy, I think we have everything, and I think
it's going to be a pretty nice dinner too.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I bought everything I can think of. I
know you did, Andy, and I'm going to fix everything
just as good.
Speaker 11: As I know how.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, there ain't no question about that. Ruby. I
know that you was a wonderful cook.
Speaker 5: But there ain't nobody that can make Frankfurt take like turkey.
Speaker 3: Oh but I think that the boys will enjoy that dinner.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, wait a minute, that can't be Jimmy, It's
truly it might be for me.
Speaker 11: I get it, amos. Is there a yep? And mister
Brown here? Yes, yes, won't you come in, Andy. They's
a lady to see you. Hello, mister Brown?
Speaker 4: Oh hello there?
Speaker 5: Hello? Uh well, uh so you you was the lady
from the.
Speaker 4: Ration boat, ain't you?
Speaker 11: That's right? And I have a turkey for you.
Speaker 1: Here or a turkey for me.
Speaker 11: Yes, you see.
Speaker 12: We ordered our own turkey about a month ago, and
this morning some friends of ours and gave us a
turkey from their farm.
Speaker 11: And I want you to have it.
Speaker 12: Well, gee, I couldn't, and unfortunately I had this address
you know that you put on.
Speaker 11: The priority blank. Remember well, happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know how to thank you.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't take to think for myself, but on account
of my nephew and the soldier friends coming, it'll show
make it nice for them.
Speaker 4: How much to hold you for it?
Speaker 11: You don't owe me anything. It didn't cost me anything.
I'm not in the turkey business.
Speaker 3: Oh well, this s was nice, lady.
Speaker 11: Yes, it's you. Is wonderful. All go on, Well I've
got it. Run along now and start cooking my own dinner.
Speaker 1: Goodbye again, goodbye.
Speaker 11: She was sweet of that lady.
Speaker 5: Yeah, now I'll really be able to give him a
Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 4: Oh boy am I having?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: That turkey show looks good. Don't even look at that.
Speaker 4: Mmm boy, that turkey show smell good too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, tell me this ruby. When is he gonna take
it out of Dublin?
Speaker 11: Oh, it's got about an hour to go yet. I
hope the boys get here on time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look at it there. He must just look at
that thing that's nothing more. Yeah, look at look at
right there? See how kind of browning up on the
breast there. Look at that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, look at that, this is getting brown.
Speaker 5: Oh, boy, wouldn't that turkey be proud if he could
see himself right now?
Speaker 11: I just got a basted little more here.
Speaker 3: Look at that greevy going over that breast.
Speaker 4: I wonder why they don't make perfume out of that stuff?
You know? Oh, that must be them. Now now, remember dud,
just like we said.
Speaker 3: Okay, come on now, Ruby, come on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And just when I put my hand on the
do now we starts to think you ready.
Speaker 14: Oh, I've got a special delivery letter for mister Brown
for for me. Yeah, sign right there, that's the lodge
hall they fill me over here, Thank you?
Speaker 1: Okay, h m hmm. What's the matter? Andy? You you
look sad? What is it? Andy?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Well I sadly, but I was proud too.
Speaker 3: Uh what do it saying?
Speaker 5: It's from Jimmy will not be able to come to
New York, neither well the other boys.
Speaker 4: We are leaving for a port of embarkation.
Speaker 5: By the time you get this, we will no doubt
be on our way overseas.
Speaker 4: Love Jimmy.
Speaker 1: You can really be proud of that boy.
Speaker 15: Andy, yeah, God bless him. My sure hope he has
a safe trip. How many guests did you invite over
here for the Turkey dinner?
Speaker 4: And seven of them? Who are did you invite? I
don't know their names?
Speaker 5: Just seven boys from the US O.
Speaker 2: Join us again next week at this same time for
the Amos and Andy Show, at which time Amos and
Andy will have as their guest the fine Picture character
actor mister Donald Me. Our program is short waved to
our armed forces overseas, wherever.
Speaker 1: They may be.
Speaker 2: This is Harlow Wilcox speaking for all of us and
thanking the charming MGM star Miss Spring Byington for appearing
with us to night.
Speaker 4: One more thing before we.
Speaker 2: Say good night, a reminder that you ladies personally can
save the lives of many of our fighting men without
budging a step out of your kitchens.
Speaker 4: Just remember, the.
Speaker 2: Waist fats and greases you can save will be made
into ammunition and precious self with drugs. But no matter
how much you save, those waist fats and greases won't
do any one a bit of good until you sell
them to your dealer, So don't let them hang around
the kitchen once you fill the can take it right
to your meat dealer. The need is so urgent that
within three weeks the waist fats and greases you turn
in are at the munition's plant. Put them into any
kind of tin can save those waist fats.
Speaker 3: Thank you, and good night.
Speaker 4: This is the National Broadcasting Company.