Speaker 1: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, presenting America's favorite young couple,
Hozzy Nelson Man Harriet Hillier. And now let's see what's
going on in the Nelson family.
Speaker 2: Harriet was not home, Pops.
Speaker 3: You went downtown shopping.
Speaker 2: Yes, you and Ricky taking care of the house.
Speaker 4: Yet Ricky for around stuff.
Speaker 5: That's fine, he's getting to be big. Boys, what are
you doing just sitting here in the house.
Speaker 4: We're looking at a magazine?
Speaker 2: Is a neat one? Boy? That's a swell pictures in it? Oh,
that's good. Did you get a new comic book?
Speaker 3: No, it's not magazines right here, Harper is bizarre.
Speaker 5: Boys, this isn't the kind of a magazine that we'll
certainly there's something else in the house.
Speaker 2: You can look at.
Speaker 5: Mama's looking at it this morning.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, I know, but mostly pictures.
Speaker 4: See m hm, he's getting lift pop.
Speaker 5: No, no, Ricky isaja glancing through you see this magazine
is not intended for men.
Speaker 2: It's for girls.
Speaker 4: Why are you looking at it?
Speaker 5: Well, I'm not exactly looking at it, David, I'm just glancing.
Speaker 4: How long is a glance?
Speaker 2: She got some funny looking dresses in there. I'm glad
Mom doesn't have to wear them. That's right, David.
Speaker 5: Fortunately, Mother's taste run more of the conservative. Her clothes
are always neat and attractive, and she always looks very smart.
Speaker 4: Mom is smart, boy, she's smart wearing a whole too,
isn't she pop?
Speaker 2: Well, yes, I guess you could say that.
Speaker 1: Well, you can see how Ozzy and the boys feel.
Speaker 6: Mother will never be lured into any of these superstyles.
Speaker 2: Oh but wait a minute, Harry, it's.
Speaker 6: Gone into that downtown den of fashion, the Lopreezyan dress shop.
Speaker 3: When she's you can put on one of the dresses.
Speaker 6: Oh, relaxed, folks, it does a nice conservative tailored dress.
Speaker 5: Oh that's very smart. You wear that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Well, oh, thank you, it's a very nice dress.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, honey, Can I buy half of your mirror
for a second?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, sitting to go ahead.
Speaker 2: Wow, there's some dress you's got on there.
Speaker 4: Oh, isn't it simply sensational? Honey?
Speaker 7: I'm telling you, I took one look at it and
slipped it. I just couldn't wait to try it on.
Speaker 4: About how's it.
Speaker 7: Fit in the back?
Speaker 2: Well, it's this.
Speaker 4: I like him to sit like that? Real snuggy. Are
you gonna buy that dress?
Speaker 7: You're happy?
Speaker 5: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 7: I've used up my shopping porter for today. I sort
of like it, though, Oh no, that's not for you.
Speaker 4: You could walk down the street and that and you
wouldn't get a whistle. Oh if there's no flies to it,
you want to dress? It hits the man right high. Well,
my husband's are fine, though. I know they all say that,
but don't you believe it?
Speaker 7: What a man wants to a glimer plenty of style?
Why the wife would looks like Lana Turner, that's the
Aubrey Smith.
Speaker 4: Well, I know, but my husband seems to prefer the
more conservative dress. Don't you believe it? The Burless Show
is filled with men whose wives dress conservatives. If you
want to hold a man, give him glimmers when he fie,
I dressed my husband.
Speaker 7: And I keep him dizzy. Oh that's what he likes,
don't kid you stop?
Speaker 4: Honeys?
Speaker 2: What all men like? Just like this dress?
Speaker 4: The old vazzle dazzle.
Speaker 5: Somehow, I don't think I'm quite the type.
Speaker 2: Good luck of the dress row? Good bye, honey? Have
you decided to take that dress?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: You look absolutely sensational at Oh oh, yes, yes, but
I can't take it with me.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: You see, I have a system with my husband. I
never buy anything.
Speaker 7: I let him surprise you.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 7: Now I'll go home and I'll think just a little bit.
I saw the most terrific dress on the third floor
of the La Parcy.
Speaker 4: And Dress Shop, but I just couldn't think of buying. Oh,
then you'll come in tomorrow afternoon.
Speaker 2: It up.
Speaker 7: I surprised me with it. Well, that sounds like quite
a system.
Speaker 3: I'll set the dress aside.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Oh say, I hope I recognize your husband when he
comes in for it.
Speaker 4: What does he look like if he looks just like
Gregory's pet, Oh, yes, only with big, broad shoulders and
black waved hair started like carry Gren. You cad missed him.
He's tall, broad and massive. He has eyes that sends
electric shocks all through you.
Speaker 7: His voice makes your heart time like a hammer, and
when he smiles, you just know you'll recognize him.
Speaker 4: Because I'm sure I'll recognize him.
Speaker 7: All I'm worried about is surviving.
Speaker 2: Bye, mom, David.
Speaker 7: What's his by?
Speaker 2: Nothing much?
Speaker 3: Ricky pop home. He's in on the couch and.
Speaker 5: Didn't he's taking him there?
Speaker 7: Oh jealous, sleep, don't say little peaceful daddy and tex
A man and his dog?
Speaker 2: Who's the read Harper's Bizarre? I don't think it was
Nick soft. Every kidden there lighter than any.
Speaker 5: Oh, dear, I.
Speaker 2: Just close my eyes. I'm here to say.
Speaker 5: How did this magazine get on my check? I guess
Nick must have brought it in. Nick, you're a bad dog.
Speaker 4: Oh, golly, am I tired?
Speaker 8: How come is it tired? Mom?
Speaker 5: I've been shopping all morning?
Speaker 4: Really, Mom, I have been in a few minutes, Ricky, Ooh.
Speaker 2: Feels good. Get these shoes off. You're all tired out?
Just shopping, just shopping.
Speaker 7: Why isn't a man can't understand what a job it
is to shop? I wish you had to go downtown
shopping just one day.
Speaker 4: You see what it's like to tramp.
Speaker 2: All over the story? Would you buy them all three
wash claws?
Speaker 3: Shopping?
Speaker 2: Oh, I'll explain it to you, Ricky. Suppose you need washclock?
He goes in there store, ask the three wash flaws,
pay for them, and go home. Oh, I should say.
Not shopping is when you get dressed.
Speaker 5: Leave some food in the refrigerator for your family's lunch.
Leave the key next door so the plumber can get
in to fix the sink. Put a note on the
door telling the laundrymen the bundler is on the back porch.
And then you get on a crowded bus and go downtown.
Then you go to three stores pricing wash claws. Then
you find it the most reasonably priced. Don't go with
your towels, So you go to three more stores pricing towels.
And on the way you check on the prices of
the drapes you bought last month to be sure they
didn't go down any.
Speaker 2: And you see a hat.
Speaker 5: You don't need it, you don't want it, you can't
afford it, so you go in and.
Speaker 2: Try it on. It's five o'clock. So you get on
a crowded bus and go home, not shopping. What about
the wash cloths, all the wash flaws. The next day
you send your husband to the nearest store to buy
three wash.
Speaker 7: That's very funny there, but you happen to be wrong.
It's time because I got the wash claws. Yeah, and
they happened to match just perfectly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Would you like to see him?
Speaker 7: Yeah, not a specially, I got him practically unwrapped now,
so you'll see him whether you want it or not.
I had to go to three stores before I found
the blue wash closet match out.
Speaker 4: Oh, for goodness sakes, he wrapped up the pink one.
Speaker 2: Oh there's a woman for you. Yes, sir, there's a
woman for you. Where's the woman for me? No, I
guess you're right there.
Speaker 4: I happened to see a dress I didn't need and
couldn't afford, so.
Speaker 5: I just had to go in and try it on.
Oh it was a beautiful dress.
Speaker 3: Kid.
Speaker 5: What I'd like to know is how you happened to
get into a dress shop when you were looking for
wash claws. Oh, it was just my luck.
Speaker 7: The Loparizian dress shop is right next to door to
the five and ten.
Speaker 2: I gotta get started on dinner.
Speaker 4: With all the complaints I've been getting today, I may
lose my job.
Speaker 7: What job?
Speaker 2: This job? Do you love? The fake? He's gonna lose it?
Speaker 3: Oh, Ricky, don't be a dope.
Speaker 4: He a little favorite.
Speaker 5: Were you writing pop Lave Theresian Session? I guess I
can find it in the phone book.
Speaker 2: What's that for? Pop? So?
Speaker 5: I just thought it might be fun if I went
down and bought that session. Mother like, don't say no,
because I want a surprise.
Speaker 2: Third four out please.
Speaker 4: Third four afternoon dresses, Lady.
Speaker 2: Gone, very courses, help on my wife. I'm buying a
sort of pardon me, keep moving please, rather embarrassing up.
Speaker 5: I wonder what these dummies are made of. I suppose
it's some sort of claster. Yes, it sounds like flaster,
but it feels more like.
Speaker 3: Can I help you?
Speaker 2: Or do you want to be alone? Oh? I wanted
to buy something.
Speaker 5: I was just wondering what these dummies are made of.
Speaker 2: Most men do.
Speaker 3: What were you looking for?
Speaker 2: Well, this is a little hard to explain.
Speaker 5: My wife was in here yesterday afternoon looking at a dress,
and she mentioned she liked it very much, and I'd
kind of like to buy it for as a surprise.
Speaker 7: Oh well, I really Oh wait a minute. Was he
in here around four o'clock yesterday?
Speaker 2: Yes, it must have been just about four.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 2: I remember her very well.
Speaker 4: In fact, I got the dress, put it fish, you
put it aside.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she said she kind of thought you might come
in for it. In fact, she told me quite a
bit about you.
Speaker 2: Oh she didn't really.
Speaker 3: Well, she went on and on.
Speaker 4: About her big handsome husband with his magnificence.
Speaker 2: Please, and is there insist you are the husband? Well, yes,
I would you like to see the dress?
Speaker 4: I can get it for you in just a minute.
Speaker 2: No, no, that's okay. You're sure my wife liked it.
Speaker 5: Oh, she just loved it it. It only take me
a minute.
Speaker 2: If you'd like to see it, No, that's really not necessary.
If she likes that's good enough for me.
Speaker 5: Just haven't put it in a box, will you with
a nice big bow on it?
Speaker 2: And I'll take it home. I thank you, sir.
Speaker 5: It'll be ready in a jiffy.
Speaker 2: What a surprise this was gonna be. No. I had
a couple of things to do downtown, nothing important.
Speaker 7: But he got there, that big beautiful box of the
red bow on it.
Speaker 1: Oh all this.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you've ever noticed, but right next
to the five and ten there's a very cute dress shop.
Speaker 2: I believe they call it the La plisi Enne. Oh
the dregs.
Speaker 5: Well, I just happened to.
Speaker 2: Be paying, and you pick it off me.
Speaker 4: I'll by yourself.
Speaker 2: Let me see to hurry. You might not even like it.
Speaker 5: I don't know, it said down the shop it's the
very latest style, pretty glamorous, they said, haven't you seen it?
Speaker 2: Well, let's put it this way.
Speaker 5: I happen to know that when you open up that
box and see the dress, you're gonna let out a
stream of delightful surprise.
Speaker 4: You shouldn't have done it, submit some old sam.
Speaker 5: I know it's kind.
Speaker 2: Oh i've I mean, you shouldn't have do it.
Speaker 5: I bet you didn't think I'd pick out a dress
like that.
Speaker 2: I did, didn't there? I did you have to pick
out a dress like that?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 2: Well, I think it.
Speaker 5: There's a dress that will definitely do something for I
knew you'd be pleased with it.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's tremendous and you like it. Oh, the important
thing is that you like it.
Speaker 5: Oh well, I don't like it.
Speaker 2: You like it? Oh? Well, I like it.
Speaker 5: If you like it, you're the one who has to
wear it, that's true.
Speaker 2: But you're the one who has to look at it. Yeah. Well,
long as you're sure you like it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure I did it.
Speaker 2: You're sure you like it? Oh? Uh, let's take it
out of the box, shall we.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: It's the very latest time. I understand. Oh oh, yes,
it's a very unusual color. Lovely material too.
Speaker 7: Yes, it does the Oh pardon me, well, that's all right,
it's only paddy.
Speaker 2: Oh I thought there was somebody still in it.
Speaker 5: Hold it on a minute.
Speaker 2: I I want to see how it looks.
Speaker 4: Hold it against the shoulders.
Speaker 7: Got there?
Speaker 2: Oh? If this is your mother's dress.
Speaker 4: Ricky, your father just bought it for me.
Speaker 5: You like it?
Speaker 2: Boy? Oh?
Speaker 4: But it looks sell on, Mom, I ain't done it.
Chure has some fancy colors.
Speaker 1: Take someone around here, Ricky.
Speaker 3: Look at these big pots.
Speaker 2: Those it pad's David.
Speaker 4: Geesus like a footfalls.
Speaker 7: You don't fall down any time you want to.
Speaker 2: Why don't you put it on? Mom? Yea, yeah, that's
an idea. Why don't you put it on? It might
not look so I mean, why don't you put it on?
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 7: Okay, if you want me to you ain't right there, Fellas,
isn't that kind of a funny looking dress?
Speaker 5: Read me, son, you're no more confused than I am,
And get over it.
Speaker 2: Mother things to like it.
Speaker 5: So let's try to cooperate. After all, styles change. We
may be a little old fashioned. What I mean is
that we're accustomed to sing. Mother and certain types of
conservative quothes. I guess we'll just have to get used
to this new stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes, what's the matter?
Speaker 3: Can't you get it on? Yeah?
Speaker 6: In case you were planning on stop again at eighteen
forty seven Rogers Road this afternoon. Well I have wait
a while.
Speaker 2: Things are a little.
Speaker 6: Upset at the Nelsons. You see Ozzie bought a dress
for Harriet. And oh, wait a minute, here comes Ozzie
up the street. Now, oh, poor guy, he's worried walking along.
Speaker 2: Head down now he turns in it.
Speaker 3: Hey, Ozzie, you live next door.
Speaker 2: That's the wrong house.
Speaker 3: That's the Thornberry's. Well, hello, hello dear.
Speaker 2: This is no Thorny. I didn't know you were over here.
Speaker 3: Will you expect me to be? We live here, you know?
Speaker 2: Hey wait this is your house? Sure? Oh I'm sorry
walking right in like that. It is a silly thing
to do.
Speaker 3: Oh it's all right, eh.
Speaker 2: Of course our houses do look quite a bit alike.
Speaker 3: Sure, just a very slight difference. Yours is white and
ozz is brown.
Speaker 5: You must have something on your mind us, something bothering.
I guess I was thinking about something else. Come on
out on the porch, story, what do I want to
talk what seems to be bothering you on You know, Thorny,
You meet a girl, you think you know it, get
married to her for eleven years, and then you suddenly
find out she's an entirely different woman.
Speaker 3: Sounds exciting.
Speaker 2: Take Harriet.
Speaker 5: Yesterday she went down and picked out a new dress,
and Thorny, you ought to see it.
Speaker 3: I did see it, you did a little while ago.
Speaker 8: I was in the shower when Catherine saw Harriet coming
up the street. She made me grab a tall and
drip clear of the living room to see.
Speaker 5: I don't know what came over Harriet picking out a
thing like that, A mother with two fine sons, trying
to look like something out.
Speaker 2: Of a technical of production, and doing it too.
Speaker 5: Wait a minute, Thorny, I thought, ches hit this. If
somebody outside the family were to tell her the dress
looks awful, she'd probably change her mind.
Speaker 3: It's possible.
Speaker 5: You see what I mean, Thorny. It's a serious thing.
A dress like that could warp the entire structure.
Speaker 2: Of our home.
Speaker 3: Well, as you know, I'll do anything to help anything.
Speaker 2: Well, then listen, why don't you do this?
Speaker 5: About five minutes from now, come over our house when
you see the dress. Really yeah, yeah, really, let yourself
go say the most awful things you can think of,
make up anything.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a little out of my line, but I'll
do my bed.
Speaker 2: Oh I sure would appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And somebody may be listening. Oh yeah, pretend we're talking
about something else.
Speaker 2: Nice day today, is it? Certainly is? And you're making
about the five.
Speaker 3: Minutes five minutes on the notes, Well, just knock on
the front door. Don't you worry about a thing.
Speaker 2: Oh you're you're a good neighbor.
Speaker 3: Forget it. I hear the Dodgers one yesterday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wonder whatever happened to those flying discs?
Speaker 3: You're sure this is okay? Now it seems like kind
of a dirty trick.
Speaker 5: Just think of our home, Thorny, think of David and
little Ricky, think of me.
Speaker 2: I'll just think of David. Hey, mom, what day is
the lady at the door? She wants to see it.
I'll be right there.
Speaker 7: Hell well, missus Nelson and THEMB and me we were
looking at dresses together at the La parracy and oh,
you've got the dress on.
Speaker 4: It looks as this it well, that's what my husband seems.
Speaker 3: To say please come in.
Speaker 4: What a time I had signing you.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I went home and told my husband about that dress,
and he went right down to the store to buy
it for me. And it was gone already, I thought first,
and they promised they'd save it to me.
Speaker 2: Oh well, then by all means you should have it.
Speaker 4: Well, but I don't want to take it away from you, honey.
Speaker 2: Believe me, you'd be doing me a favor.
Speaker 4: You sure you don't want?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Absolutely. The only reason I kept it was sort I
wouldn't hurt my husband's feelings. Okay, hen and I pay.
Speaker 2: Oh, excuse me, I said, this is my husband, Ozzie,
this is Missus.
Speaker 4: Mckeithy, this is Claq McKeith Oh, how do you do?
Speaker 2: I'm very happy. I mean, listen, there's been a terrible mistake.
Speaker 4: It seems there was a mix up down at the
store and this dresses and promised to missus.
Speaker 5: Mcithtch, Well give it to her. I mean, if it
really belongs to her, we really.
Speaker 2: You want to take it right with you?
Speaker 5: It's very nice of you to take it this way there.
Speaker 2: I know how much you like the dress.
Speaker 7: Oh well, what's right is Right'll take it with you.
Speaker 5: Why insist, missus mc keeche, I know it's a great
disappointment to my.
Speaker 2: Well, you better run upstairs and change the.
Speaker 5: Dress, Harriet, wasn't it somebody at the door.
Speaker 2: One must be the wind in the trees it No, no,
we don't need anything. Hurry up their gar Thorney. Oh
well it's much cooler outside.
Speaker 4: But already, man, Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Harriet,
I'll get it.
Speaker 3: Come on in, Thorny.
Speaker 2: I'm busy, Thorny. I'm sorry, so I'll see you again.
Oh boy, god bye. Come again.
Speaker 4: When you can stay longer, I'll be you're pushing him.
Speaker 5: I have to eat, Harry, and.
Speaker 2: I think that that dress is.
Speaker 4: Look where you're speaking, missus mckeist.
Speaker 5: Mister turned.
Speaker 8: Change Harry, and I know the terrible thing to say,
but you are the fourth woman I have seen today
in a dress like that.
Speaker 4: It's a great kid at the stir with an explosive mass.
Speaker 2: Yeah. He was awfully nice of you to drop over.
He stopping any time.
Speaker 3: Oh Harriet, whoever sold you this thing really saw you'd come.
Speaker 2: It's the very cheapest thought of material.
Speaker 3: I have a hunting shirt made of the same stuff.
Speaker 2: That's and how it shrinks. I got out in the rain,
almost choked me a dead. Go cut that out, O
you kick me.
Speaker 4: Right in there, m keys if you cut, If you'll
come upstairs.
Speaker 5: Missus the Kischer, I'll give you a dress and.
Speaker 2: You can take it right home.
Speaker 4: Well, if they're dresses like it all over town, it's
gonna shrink me.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't buy my wife address that's hanging in every
two bit.
Speaker 5: Honey, Thorney, this is not Harriet's dress.
Speaker 2: It belongs to missus McKeith. That she's gonna take it
home with her.
Speaker 4: Oh really, no, no, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7: I changed my mind. I don't think i'll take it
after the Oh wait, please, it's way that's anyway.
Speaker 5: This suppose it was something I said, Thorney, why do
you do those things? We were getting a long fine
until you came in.
Speaker 2: But I'm just gonna take the dress. And you spoiled it.
Speaker 7: Okay, you mean you wanted to get rid of the
dress too.
Speaker 2: It's well to be perfectly frank with you, Harriet.
Speaker 5: Two, Harriet, you were trying to get rid of it yourself. Well,
I thought you were the one who liked the dress.
You bought it isn't it the one you picked out
of the store.
Speaker 4: Oh no, dear, this is the one Missus mckithon likes.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a nice dress, but it's not your type, Harriet.
That's that's glamour stuff.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, Thorney, how would you like it if I
came into your house and told you your wife wasn't glamorous?
Speaker 2: I didn't say that on.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't think it's exactly a glamour dress, would.
Speaker 5: You say, dear?
Speaker 2: Well? No, but well what's wrong with a little glamour?
Since when is it a crime for a woman to
wear fashionable clothes? Well?
Speaker 3: I know, but it's it's such a horrible color. Oh,
I don't think so, Thorny say, I have a brilliant idea.
If you don't like the dress, and you don't like
the dress, why don't you send it back to the
store and forget the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's an idea.
Speaker 5: It's not that it is a nice dress, but it's
so extreme, unusual, exotic.
Speaker 2: Maybe the store won't take it back.
Speaker 7: I know, dear, but I'm sure you wouldn't want me
to wear a dress that's so unusual and outstanding and glamorous.
Speaker 2: You know, I I don't think it'd be fair to
send it back since I'd worn it once.
Speaker 3: Listen, if you folks want to get rid of the dress,
I think I know somebody.
Speaker 4: Hello, Oh, yes, Catherine, right.
Speaker 2: Here for you, Tony your wife?
Speaker 3: Well, hello, well I tried Cat. Yeah, I'll find out.
Speaker 2: Harriet. Are you going to keep the dress? Yes? I
guess I'm suck with it. Might as well make the
best of it.
Speaker 8: Sorry, Catherine, I did my best, but Harriet's going to
keep the dress. Well, don't worry, dear, Maybe you'll find
another one just as nice.
Speaker 5: You mean Catherine wanted to dress too. No wonder you
couldn't understand my subtle hints like getting pushed out and
kicked in the shins.
Speaker 3: Sorry, oshold Man, I had orders from higher up.
Speaker 5: Say wait a minute, Corney, hur'st the woman at the store,
then Harriet, and then your wife. Do you realize what's happening,
not only to us, but to millions of people. We
are being caught in a whirlpool of changing fashions.
Speaker 2: Before you know it, women all.
Speaker 5: Over the country will be wearing these monstrous new dresses.
Think of all the lovely girls who'll be hidden under
pads patch pockets bustles, and yards and yards of materials.
Speaker 2: What do you say to that corney?
Speaker 8: Just this, as my good friend Riley would say, what
are a vaulting development business?
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This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the
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