Speaker 1: At you to sit back, relax and enjoy the story.
Speaker 1: I'll aimos Fremanda. Well, mister and missus George Stevens are
Speaker 1: finally crashed into the upper trust of society. Today they
Speaker 1: received an invitation to a formal party. The Kingfish is
Speaker 1: able to squeeze into his old full dress suit, but
Speaker 1: Samphire is now in the act of demanding a new
Speaker 1: formal dress from her husband.
Speaker 2: But George men is different. They just wear the same
Speaker 2: full dress suit. But a woman's gotta have a new
Speaker 2: dress nowadays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you gotta evening dress. You ain't gotta have
Speaker 1: a new dress every time you turn around. Wait the
Speaker 1: one I got? I don't dam How about that dress
Speaker 1: that you had once the white one went?
Speaker 3: The long friends Shamus had dress on the Parogroste's on
Speaker 3: it that I wed.
Speaker 1: Oh well, maybe we better forget about this formal affairs.
Speaker 2: But I don't get out of this house much and
Speaker 2: I wants to go. Now what are I gonna do
Speaker 2: by the formal dress? I'd like to get a tapa,
Speaker 2: so I'm Russell's when.
Speaker 1: I walk here. Well, if Rustling has already worn about, well,
Speaker 1: when your old dresses and tire some paper bags.
Speaker 2: And I had one dress that out and go everywhere,
Speaker 2: but everybody I know hasn't seen it.
Speaker 3: Whis one of d my form of dress with a
Speaker 3: low cut back that I bought.
Speaker 1: Dress with a little cut back. Why don't you just
Speaker 1: turn it around and are you.
Speaker 2: Rist and Joyce. I've been keeping sixty dollars in your
Speaker 2: money that you was to use the something on your
Speaker 2: fishing hit. Now I'm gonna take that sixty dollars and
Speaker 2: buy me.
Speaker 1: We tells a minute, Jore, wait till the a minute, Huney,
Speaker 1: don't spend that fifty dollars of mine. Leave it to me, honey,
Speaker 1: I'll do something about getting you a dressed well, kings Fish,
Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that you and your wife is
Speaker 1: invited to this social puncture. Oh yeah, Henry, we'll be
Speaker 1: there all right. You know it's being killed for mister
Speaker 1: Alfred Barrington, the social life for just a rite from California. Yes,
Speaker 1: I hear. They got in town to the where is
Speaker 1: the window Friday to give the port where it seems
Speaker 1: that mister Darrington came through on it has to throw
Speaker 1: him out come by afraid hundred birdserver. Yes, that's right,
Speaker 1: our troop of this went down to the yacht to
Speaker 1: get count of the yachts for this big social event.
Speaker 1: Yees so well, ting fish, they hold well, ting fish,
Speaker 1: they hold. I gotta get top buy a new formal drive.
Speaker 1: I gotta get there by a new formal drive. I
Speaker 1: gotta get sup. Oh, yes, you want to put a
Speaker 1: friend hurst strap receivement. Gown has a few spots on her,
Speaker 1: but mind you these pots in champagne and key. Oh yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I'll see that scrap of seth on your way for
Speaker 1: Tell me this. How does that thing stay up on
Speaker 1: her with those straps over shoulder holding the door well
Speaker 1: around the top of the dress. On the inside there's
Speaker 1: a strip of adhesy safre and circles her entire body.
Speaker 1: D he's a safer. Yes. When we return home in
Speaker 1: the evening, I always have to unhook the dress and
Speaker 1: give her a gasoline rub down. The surf say that
Speaker 1: you gotta have a new form of dress, and I
Speaker 1: ain't got no money to buy one. Well, very confidential, kingfish.
Speaker 1: You what my wife Clara does sometime or what is that?
Speaker 1: She buys a dress on the charge account, wears it
Speaker 1: that night and takes it back the next day. Didn't
Speaker 1: know you could do that. Oh, yeah, yes, indeed, some
Speaker 1: dresses are in the water so many parties that the
Speaker 1: price tag is even a little prey. You don't tell me,
Speaker 1: you know what the price tag is put on with
Speaker 1: them A little lead washes so you can't get them off,
Speaker 1: you know. And when the dress is wore, the tag
Speaker 1: must be covered with something. Well, how in the world
Speaker 1: can a woman hide the tag? Well, Kingfish, whenever you
Speaker 1: see a woman at the party wearing a corse IgE
Speaker 1: under her arm, the dress goes back. Henry, this is
Speaker 1: a good idea. You don't gimme. One of my good friend,
Speaker 1: Andy Brown has got a charge account that doesn't work
Speaker 1: in conditions working conditions. Come in, Kingfish, come in. Well,
Speaker 1: hello brother, And he's been talking to the credit manager
Speaker 1: the Globe Department store about you. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I'm a sent. Yeah, well, the credit man's book. Very
Speaker 1: hard of you, say, they Missie over there, He wonders,
Speaker 1: why you don't take advantage of his credit system in
Speaker 1: this country? What do you mean what creditism? Them charge
Speaker 1: account's gonna give a man nothing but trouble. Well, now
Speaker 1: don't say that they their charge accounts is the important thing.
Speaker 1: They're established. Credit. Credit is the whole basis of economics. Economics,
Speaker 1: what is them? I was surprised to see how ignorant
Speaker 1: you is. Then ain't you ever hear of the economics?
Speaker 1: I don't hear of them, but I never seed one.
Speaker 1: What is it economics? My praid is the science and
Speaker 1: why everybody is vote. Oh they got a bureau down
Speaker 1: and watching the health people on that stub. It's called
Speaker 1: the Bureau of Supplying the man. Well how do the
Speaker 1: Bureau ofs applying the man's work? Well, these highest paid
Speaker 1: politicians down there, you see their page, so that when
Speaker 1: somebody builds up a supply they can take out some
Speaker 1: way the government can demand it that. Well, what has
Speaker 1: that got to do with?
Speaker 3: Meet?
Speaker 1: Charging stuff at the Globe department store? World trade and
Speaker 1: it keeps everybody is going all over the world. The
Speaker 1: different countries are trading on credit. Oh yeah, the United
Speaker 1: States does it? Trans does it? Russia? Tasmania or Mania,
Speaker 1: room Mania, all the Menias do they do? Huh oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and the Slavias too, check over and you go there
Speaker 1: do it? Then all trades on credits? Well, that ain't
Speaker 1: got nothing to me. I don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: And when I love the man, even in a little
Speaker 1: country like Bulgaria uses credit. And you don't mean to
Speaker 1: sit there and tell me that you any better than Bulgaria.
Speaker 1: But how can these big countries deal on credit? Lend LEAs?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah I heard about that? What is this? Len leads? Well,
Speaker 1: Len leaders, when some country wants us to lend them
Speaker 1: something and the least we can do and let them
Speaker 1: have it? Yeah, yeah, I say what you mean, col
Speaker 1: len leaves work both. We made a deal with Sweden,
Speaker 1: you know Sweden. What did we get from them? Well,
Speaker 1: they'll send us a lot of smogas boards, another kind
Speaker 1: of lumber over here. Well tell me this kingfish. When
Speaker 1: countries are dealing with others, how come they chargers everything
Speaker 1: instead of fan can Well the economic world credit len
Speaker 1: leaves that the credit structure will for the pieces if
Speaker 1: crediting you. And that's why you are to go over
Speaker 1: to the gold department store and charge of them. Yeah
Speaker 1: you're right. You know, I wonder what I could charge
Speaker 1: over there. Well, now let us think, uh shop fire
Speaker 1: could use a new evening gown. I could charge it
Speaker 1: to your account. Now there's a lucky break for you
Speaker 1: right there. You see, yeah, yeah, that's right. We could Hey,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, I'd have to pay for that. No, no,
Speaker 1: tell you how would work it though, see you just
Speaker 1: to We'll go over there, get the desk, charge it
Speaker 1: to you, shield wear it Friday night. We'll take it
Speaker 1: back to the store on Saturday. And that way more
Speaker 1: cost than nothing. We can keep the world credits going
Speaker 1: all the time. Is well. If Bulgaric can do it,
Speaker 1: I can do it. It's a deal. Oh that's just
Speaker 1: the now. Everything one's moothing a feel a lot better.
Speaker 1: I ain't worried no more. Wait a minute, tell me
Speaker 1: that king fish. Why is you always in such a jam?
Speaker 1: One week you got to get yourself a place to live.
Speaker 1: Next week you're in trouble with the grocery man, the butcher.
Speaker 1: Next time you got to get a dressed. Why is
Speaker 1: you always in a jam? Well, one word will fling
Speaker 1: the whole thing to the end, and that word is
Speaker 1: more than necessary thing my fee. You want to dance
Speaker 1: on the saul my head, not to rest in the day.
Speaker 1: The loss said, drop and have fun. But the landlord
Speaker 1: said you explain to see love the old world is
Speaker 1: really your wealthyed a man. It's all in a count
Speaker 1: of mesity, a count of necessity, a count on necessity.
Speaker 1: The jail would never be except for talk too. Send that. Well,
Speaker 1: how did I get in there? Necessity? Well, brother, and
Speaker 1: I want to thank you for looking at charge. Just
Speaker 1: your address to your accountant. Yeah, well, don't forget now
Speaker 1: that that's going back of the store for credit on
Speaker 1: Saturday morning. And be careful and tell your wife not
Speaker 1: this bill nothing on there because that's pink and it's
Speaker 1: gonna show spot. Yeah. Well, i'll see the chief nothing
Speaker 1: but salmon and drinks nothing but pink lemonade. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: in case she dribbles, it will match. You. See, Well,
Speaker 1: if anything happens with that dress, you is gonna play
Speaker 1: thirty nine dollars and fifty cents. Way, wait a minute, anda,
Speaker 1: that give me an idea. Thirty nine fifty If you
Speaker 1: watch here, take the dress out the box here and
Speaker 1: change the price tag a little bit too, I won't
Speaker 1: think it's too cheap. Yeah, that might be a good idea.
Speaker 1: What you're gonna change the thirty nine and fifty two, Well,
Speaker 1: i'll make a eight out of that tree. That'll make
Speaker 1: it eighty nine fifty. Yeah, that's the stuff. The more
Speaker 1: woman figures a dress, cause the more thrills you get
Speaker 1: out of them. Oh yeah, that's right, bro. Then I
Speaker 1: don't know it sounds filler, but that's their female tyrology.
Speaker 1: Eighty nine fifty thrill is more than a thirty nine
Speaker 1: fifty thrill. There's a difference there, fifty trills you see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead, change that price, give me a fountain fandana.
Speaker 1: Hey this is a cheap man. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the thing will work. Yeah, well here I go. Now
Speaker 1: I'll make a ead out of that tree. Uh. Hey, man,
Speaker 1: ain't no inking the thing is? Well, they must be
Speaker 1: inking there, I guess fill us this morning row at
Speaker 1: the bank while the policeman wasn't looking, and you sure
Speaker 1: you got inking?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 1: It's cut the bottle dry and started a girdling for more.
Speaker 1: Maybe the ink is jammed up there. Well i'll shake
Speaker 1: the things. See be there, Oh king fish, look what
Speaker 1: you're gun done? You got ink all over the bottom
Speaker 1: of that dress. Oh why didn't you tell me this
Speaker 1: was a bad pin. The bottom of that dress is ruined.
Speaker 1: That story. Don't take this dress back. You're gonna pay
Speaker 1: for it. Bull Gary or noteball garret. You wear a
Speaker 1: minute chair. This was your pin and the inkbos on
Speaker 1: that dress is all your fall Oh my path. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you agree with with me. Do I got you?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, chair, Wait a minute. Jew is the
Speaker 1: one that got the ink on that dress? Yeah, but
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the law, I inc ad dress.
Speaker 1: But it was your pin and that automatic make you
Speaker 1: the inky? That's what it is. High is the inky? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was the inker. Since you owned the fountain pin,
Speaker 1: you done the damn it. You was guilty under the
Speaker 1: fountain pin law. What I paying the law you handed
Speaker 1: depend to me. You committed the capillary act to cause
Speaker 1: the horse name. You handed me the lethal instantly. Look yeah,
Speaker 1: I still got your fingerprints on it. I would have
Speaker 1: had on bluff. You know that the hord you'll fall too.
Speaker 1: I took it for granted that this was a perfectly
Speaker 1: he'll legit them with pomptin pence. I as sorry as
Speaker 1: buck ever started this thing. What is I gonna do
Speaker 1: about it? You were a responsible for the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Now listen here, can't fashod On took off for you.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk. They don't you get tough with me. You.
Speaker 1: I got a good noise to pop you writing a note?
Speaker 1: You hit me and you're gonna take a cup time
Speaker 1: I jumped on you. You good for nothing bum. You're
Speaker 1: getting me in trouble. Don't you call me no bunk?
Speaker 1: You big twmph. That's so I'll take off your coat.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's take off our coat and put it
Speaker 1: off your all right, let's go to it. Got your image,
Speaker 1: you're just the time to see a good fight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: glad you come in in times that Well. I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna stop it, but I think you both ought to
Speaker 1: be ashamed of yourself. A couple of gold men, can
Speaker 1: you hand them by yourself? You don't need me, all right, amos.
Speaker 1: If that's the way you feel about it, let's start something.
Speaker 1: Smack me in the face once, Just smack me in
Speaker 1: the face. Just what caring? I said? Once? Uh uh?
Speaker 1: And look here, you're gonna let him us get away
Speaker 1: with that hitting back. Oh now, listen, many, I don't
Speaker 1: want to start no fight with you. Well, come to
Speaker 1: think about it, I don't want to fight with Julie,
Speaker 1: am Well, okay, then any less, settle this thing some
Speaker 1: other way. Well, I'm getting out of here and letting
Speaker 1: you two cowards alone. So long fell all right, Jody, Well,
Speaker 1: I was down gone, I'm I didn't that took I didn't.
Speaker 1: I was hi Andy. Hey, listen, I'm supposed to make
Speaker 1: the King fish here at your barber shop. We almost
Speaker 1: had a fight, but we've done made up now. The
Speaker 1: King's been phoned me and said he was coming over
Speaker 1: to see me down handy. Yeah, you know what. You
Speaker 1: sure got a lot of hair laying around on the
Speaker 1: floor here in the barber shop. I can't find a
Speaker 1: giant hit to clean up the blue come but that
Speaker 1: has been there for long. It's turning grave. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: from the look to that floor there, you have been
Speaker 1: pretty busy. Yeah. He has tective from the boarding Hills
Speaker 1: coming this morning. And then looked the blaze over. He said,
Speaker 1: you have got any rug on the floor, you better
Speaker 1: sweep with her. Well, me and the King fires in
Speaker 1: a little couple. The King show that dress to short shorty.
Speaker 1: Take a look at this dress. Tell me that I
Speaker 1: say you know anything about taking spots out of the
Speaker 1: dusk now, I mean, hand me the dress. I got
Speaker 1: some sunny move with stuff right here. I want to
Speaker 1: test it to see if the ink is permanent, then
Speaker 1: lay it down on the table. Yeah, I think it's permanent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fellow don't give me room with the breg Now
Speaker 1: I see some of the stuff out of the bottom
Speaker 1: on this right here, and then I love it again
Speaker 1: right here? And what do you think is the ink permanent?
Speaker 1: I don't know what the material? Chordy? And look what
Speaker 1: you've done done to the dress that you don't put
Speaker 1: a hole in the that's not the Look what it
Speaker 1: does to my table now he is in the oh
Speaker 1: and look here I got eyes. Yeah, an'mber one thing
Speaker 1: to do. Let me pay a sizzing short and me
Speaker 1: and a you'll go in the back room here and
Speaker 1: cut off the bottom of the dress in front where
Speaker 1: the damage is done. Give me the dress there you
Speaker 1: will have good luck. Come on, king, say lay it
Speaker 1: down right there. Now we'll cut off the bottom of
Speaker 1: the dress right here in front. Yeah. Uh now, now
Speaker 1: how is that ending? Well? Now the dress is too
Speaker 1: long in back. You better cut off some of the
Speaker 1: back too. Uh how is it now? Now the back
Speaker 1: is too short, You better go back to the front,
Speaker 1: cut a little more off, eating that up. Uh. As
Speaker 1: we sniffed past the ink stins in the hole. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you passed that two snips ago. But the back is
Speaker 1: too long now, yeah, I leave in the back up
Speaker 1: a little bit. I turned around here. Oh this scisz
Speaker 1: and slipped then, and don't cut a V in the thing.
Speaker 1: Look at that. We're telling them it's the new style,
Speaker 1: the only dress they have a think with a V
Speaker 1: neck in the bottom. We're jeffinit to cut spit across
Speaker 1: and take that video. Ja, Yeah this is this is
Speaker 1: still a good evening dress. The only thing is they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to wear it in the afternoon. That's the
Speaker 1: only difference. Though. You think that the store is gonna
Speaker 1: take this back? Now, pick up the pieces and let's
Speaker 1: take the dress over to our lawyer stone Wall, the Guardia.
Speaker 1: Maybe he can help us out of this. Man. Well,
Speaker 1: come on and let's go in here and see our lawyer,
Speaker 1: the Guardia stone War. Hello there, look Guardia, Hey, you
Speaker 1: look kind of tired. Stone Wall exhausted. It's more not
Speaker 1: Chase ambling already?
Speaker 2: Was there disappartant?
Speaker 1: Uh didn't you catch dambal in? Oh yeah, yeah, when
Speaker 1: I got inside it was full of lawyer. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: that mercer made it kind of crowded for the patient. No, no,
Speaker 1: he was up punk with the drive. Listen, look, warder,
Speaker 1: were is in a jam? That was I don't life
Speaker 1: about being alone? Everybody comes in there's in trouble. H Well,
Speaker 1: this is the little kind of trouble. Look, warrior, this
Speaker 1: is about a skirt. And listen to them skirts calls nine. No, no,
Speaker 1: the warter. Not that kind of skirt. This is a dress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta find somebody to know something about ink Spot.
Speaker 1: Now I'm your man.
Speaker 2: I just bought four of their records.
Speaker 1: Listen, look, Waria, let me tell you what's wrong? Is
Speaker 1: you listening? I'm bother. You don't look like you're listening.
Speaker 1: Your eyes are closed.
Speaker 2: And most of the time I listened with my els.
Speaker 1: Well look here, look, Wardia. You see we bought a
Speaker 1: dress of the store, and now we got to take
Speaker 1: it back because it's got incon Why did you buy
Speaker 1: a dress with an inc on it? No? Look heah,
Speaker 1: we got the econ the dail there. We got it home.
Speaker 1: Then we tried to get the egof by cutting the
Speaker 1: thing with scissors. Yeah, well we slipped the whole bottom
Speaker 1: off the thing. You know, it's a good thing you
Speaker 1: buy to see me because there's something you shouldn't know.
Speaker 1: What's that you will damage that dress? Well, we already
Speaker 1: know that it was accidental. Here's a dress. See where
Speaker 1: we tried to snip off the each bus beside to sniff,
Speaker 1: but you snuff past the place where you should have
Speaker 1: stop snapping. But boy, look, yeah, we gotta do something
Speaker 1: about returning this dress. And it's a it's gonna cost
Speaker 1: a thirty nine dollars tiercent there or what is the
Speaker 1: legal angle on there? Well, just walk up to the
Speaker 1: department store and try to hide them into taking a sack. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what if that don't work, then you have to
Speaker 1: take all the pizzas, wrap them up, then send attack.
Speaker 1: But they wrapping it's very important. There's only one thing
Speaker 1: to wrap it in. Uh what's that fifty nine? Well? Miss,
Speaker 1: you can see that dress, damn is that's why we
Speaker 1: brung it back here to the complaint the part Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the gustomer was always right. Did us come in it?
Speaker 1: When I don't give us no argument? Mother, you either
Speaker 1: got to take the dress back or I won't buy
Speaker 1: the more stuff here and charge mister Brown's account. This
Speaker 1: press was in perfect condition when you bought it. Somebody
Speaker 1: has cut several inches off the bottom of the scarp. Well,
Speaker 1: we ain't got to fight this idea. Who's done it? Well,
Speaker 1: whoever did it did a very bad job. It isn't
Speaker 1: even cut straight. Could we help it if the scissors
Speaker 1: was doll just what I thought. I'm not taking the
Speaker 1: dress back. And that's final, well, half final, maybe a final,
Speaker 1: a final final, it's final final. There's the door, it's
Speaker 1: the god Stevens. Come on in and let's get out
Speaker 1: of here before I lose my temper. Come on, we
Speaker 1: is in a myth on the charge account thing. I
Speaker 1: wonder what the Bulgaria does in the myth right there? Well,
Speaker 1: let's lay the box Dan, you're on the table and
Speaker 1: put the dust back in it. There. Hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we left our hats in that man Dolver. Wonder if
Speaker 1: he's too mad to give him to us. Well, let's
Speaker 1: fold the gusts up here and put it in here.
Speaker 1: That's a floor walker, but out. Oh I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I thought you was a floor walker and I was admiring.
Speaker 1: That this you just sold in ouro. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I used the head floor walker. Yeah yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: you were telling mister Brown.
Speaker 3: Here, Now that's a dollar dress.
Speaker 1: It's a soul Well you see lady me and here,
Speaker 1: well you were very fortunate, madam. The dressing stood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just come in and you can see the box,
Speaker 1: right Jess.
Speaker 3: Oh it's a common dress, but it seems the little show.
Speaker 1: Now that's the little star leaving miss Brown. Here. Here
Speaker 1: is our French designer in fashion him telling, oh really,
Speaker 1: I sure is we we? Kevin?
Speaker 3: Mister Brown, what is your frank opinion?
Speaker 1: Well, frankly, my frank opinion is that I like to
Speaker 1: see you buy that dress.
Speaker 3: It's a peculiar gown. The top part of it gives
Speaker 3: them present of an evening dress, and the lake stuff
Speaker 3: it looks like an afternoon great.
Speaker 1: Well we designed this pressure that weed. That's what we
Speaker 1: call early late model. That's what early late model. Half fascinating.
Speaker 1: I love the shade.
Speaker 3: It is really salmon pink business.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I had competed it right off of salmon
Speaker 1: Brown tell you to too, madam. Yeah, that's right. Too
Speaker 1: bad I didn't save the can to prove it to you.
Speaker 2: How much is it?
Speaker 1: Thirty nine?
Speaker 3: All right, I'll take it, I'll set and I hope
Speaker 3: my husband likes it, I'll pay him care.
Speaker 1: Oh that's why I'm brown. You take the late as
Speaker 1: money if you don't care, while I get the hats
Speaker 1: and coach out the hours, they'll go to night. We wait, right.
Speaker 3: Your sales girl out there refuses to give him my
Speaker 3: money back on that salmon pink dress out return, Yes.
Speaker 1: And rightly so. I've been out there and looked at
Speaker 1: that dress and it's damaged, it's been cut to pieces.
Speaker 3: But I bought it here yesterday from your floor walking
Speaker 3: and your designer.
Speaker 1: We have no four walker or designer on this floor
Speaker 1: and we will not take the dress back. I'll ask
Speaker 1: you to please leave my office very well. Good day.
Speaker 3: Never had a stole the creeping like this before. Say this,
Speaker 3: where's that pink test that I brought back a minute ago?
Speaker 1: I got some good news for you. I just sold
Speaker 1: it to a customer here. Oh you did? Who brought him?
Speaker 2: I did, missus Joey see