The Goldbergs on the Radio: Ep. 1337

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The Goldbergs: Episode 1337. Date: November 10, 1942. Cast: Gertrude Berg (Molly Goldberg); James R. Waters (Jake Goldberg); Roslyn Silber (Rosalie Goldberg); Alfred Ryder (Sammy Goldberg); Menasha Skulnik (Uncle David).

Announcer introduction: "Well Molly is getting organized in her new effort to win the war... It started with Molly offering to take care of a neighbor's children while the mother went to work... but yesterday Molly had a house full of children... and this morning she is going to have a house full again. It's for the duration and Molly is getting help from Homer Collins, a man with a horse and wagon who wants to contribute not money... he doesn't have any... not his fortunes... he doesn't have any... he wants to give Homer Collins... the biggest contribution of all... and so Molly is all set... or so she thinks... Listen..."

Announcer close: "The wagon load of children go slowly to Molly's house, the children singing and Homer leading them all... It's a wonderful beginning for a wonderful idea... but there are people in this world who don't see things like the Mollys and Homers and the parents of all these children... and one of them comes around."

A hallmark of the golden age of radio, The Goldbergs (1929-1946) was one of the earliest entertainment programs to authentically explore Jewish life in America. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.

Complete Record: The Goldbergs: Episode 1337. Date: November 10, 1942. Cast: Gertrude Berg (Molly Goldberg); James R. Waters (Jake Goldberg); Roslyn Silber (Rosalie Goldberg); Alfred Ryder (Sammy Goldberg); Menasha Skulnik (Uncle David). Announcer introduction: "Well Molly is getting organized in her new effort to win the war... It started with Molly offering to take care of a neighbor's children while the mother went to work... but yesterday Molly had a house full of children... and this morning she is going to have a house full again. It's for the duration and Molly is getting help from Homer Collins, a man with a horse and wagon who wants to contribute not money... he doesn't have any... not his fortunes... he doesn't have any... he wants to give Homer Collins... the biggest contribution of all... and so Molly is all set... or so she thinks... Listen..." Announcer close: "The wagon load of children go slowly to Molly's house, the children singing and Homer leading them all... It's a wonderful beginning for a wonderful idea... but there are people in this world who don't see things like the Mollys and Homers and the parents of all these children... and one of them comes around." A hallmark of the golden age of radio, The Goldbergs (1929-1946) was one of the earliest entertainment programs to authentically explore Jewish life in America. Learn more at cinema.ucla.edu.

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You is anybody? There she is. That's Molly Goldberg, folks. A woman with a place in every heart and a finger in every pie. And now the makers of New Does that new kind of soap for everything right down your wash line. Bring you another visit with those good folks, the Goldbergs. [Music] Miss Powell, I is mad. Why, Mandy? You know that young upstart Label is doing the wash for the Anderson's next door. What's wrong with that? I'm mad cuz her washes look so clean tonight. What? Yeah, you see Label uses does. What's does? It's a new kind of granulated soap that Proctor and Gamble's making. Well, this does does everything in the wash. Work shirts, towels, rayons, everything. What? One soap doing all three kinds of wash. Well, that's ridiculous. Well, does does it? Well, take them workshirts of Mr. Anderson's. He gets some powerful greases. Yes, I know. He works at that war plant now. Yes, but with Does they ain't no hard scrubbing at all. I declare I ain't never seen no soap get clothes clean easier than does. Well, that's fine. But what about her white pieces? I hate to say it, ma'am, but I ain't never see a whiter wash than this does does. Why the towels is just sparkling. Even the ones Mr. Anderson wipe his greasy hands on. Well, seems to me our towels get plenty dirty, too. Yes, man. That's why we needs does too. I declare I can't stand Lula Bell being so uply about the white washes she gets with does. But Mandy, did you say she uses this same does for rayon slips and the nice colored things she washes? You know those colors need extra care in wartime so they'll last longer. I knows that. But Lulael say the stoman done told her that does is extra safe for them nice colors. Safer than any other fake selling granulated soaps. I tell you ma'am this Label in her does is ruining my reputation. Don't worry Mandy. If does all that we'll use it for our wash too. Yes. Millions of women are changing to new does. Duz. It's the new soap discovery. Try it today. Even in the toughest wartime wash, does does everything. And now the Goldbergs. Well, Molly is getting organized in her new effort to win the war. It started with Molly offering to take care of a neighbor's children while the mother went to work. But yesterday, Molly had a house full of children. And this morning, she's going to have a house full again. It's for the duration. And Molly is getting help from Homer Collins, a man with a horse and wagon who wants to contribute. Not money. He doesn't have any. Not his fortunes. He doesn't have any. He wants to give Homer Collins the biggest contribution of all. And so Molly is all set. Or so she thinks. Listen. Come on here. Chick chick. Come on chick. Come on. Come get it. Come get it. I have no time this morning. The little dattle. Come on. Chick chick. J J. So so early. You're up and out. Doors. Darling. You can be up early. Up and out. So can I. Thank you, darling. Thank you. Cuz you want to help me. I know. In in in one second. I'll fix your breakfast. Dear. I fixed breakfast. You fixed your breakfast? What's the matter? Oh, nothing, darling. Thank you, dear. In one minute, I'll go and give you your breakfast. I took breakfast. Oh, Jake, darling, yourself. You took. What is there to to? Oh, thank you, darling. What's Rosalie doing? She's swallowing a cup. She's up also so early. She's going with you to pick up the children. No, if she wishes. If she wishes, only it's a big rush before she has to go to school. It's all right. Oh, Rosley, dear. Rosley, darling, you're ready, dear darling. Yes, mama. Darling, thank you, dear. You put the dishes in the sink. Papa washed his own dishes. O, papa wash. O, papa. O, thank you, darling. You wash. I know. Thank you, darling. Everybody wants to help. Everybody wants to help. Thank you, darling. Well, I'll be toddling along. All right, darling. Toddle. Totally do. Totally do, darling. Totally do. And thank you very much. Stay here, Scotty. Come. Stay here, Scotty. Come on. Come on. Come. Stay here. Go away from the chicks. Go. Oh, darling. I'm I'm all right to go this way in the sweater. I hope you'll be warm enough. I'll be plenty warm. It's a heavy sweater. 100%. I guess sir. Very heavy. Darling, did you left a note for David where we are? He knows more. Well, anyway, he should know that we're going to gather all the children together. Oh, here's Mr. Couns. Morning. Good morning. Morning. Come here. Come. Oh, you're you're here bright and early, huh, Mr. C? Oh, that's all right. Don't bother to get off the wagon. Oh, it's all right. I think you better get in this way, Mo. There's a step right there. Step on the wheel. Step on the wheel. M. Thank you. All right, mine. Wait, wait, wait. I got to step on the wheel. Wait a minute. Wait, but wait. I'll put the other foot. Wait, wait. I think the other foot is better. Wait. All right. Are you all right? All right, darling. Just take my hand. You got it? Yes, ma. All right, darling. For me to get on the wagon. Thank you very much, Mr. Colin. There. There's a blanket. I'll sit in the front. Yes, you sit in the front. I'll sit back. That's all right. Keep the blanket for the children. All right, we can start. I'm all right. Get up. Get up. Let's go. Get up. It's a beautiful brisk morning, Mr. Collins. Come on, Jonah. Get up. Come on. Job. Job and drone. That's the names of your horses. Yeah. Now, you see, I give my horses those names for a good reason, Mrs. Goldberg. Yeah. For what? Well, when you're riding along and loan on the road, you get to thinking about yourself. And I figure a man has to have the patience of Job to get on in the world when he has the bad luck of Jonah. Bad luck of Jonah. You had bad luck, Mr. Collins. Not me, Mr. I I'm just thinking for men in general. Men have bad luck and they blame it on other people. But I figure it's smarter to blame it on the horse. You know the Bible, Mrs. Goldberg where say when a man is fool enough to blame somebody else for his bad luck, he whipped his goat and sent him into the wilderness. He whipped the goat. Sure. That's what they say. That's what they saying about the scapegoat. They whipped him and sent him in the wilderness. We have to stop here for a moment as a child. I'm ready. You ready, darling? Come on. Come on, darling. Then come. Bye, mommy. Goodbye. Bye. Don't worry about it, child. Come back here. Go sit with Rosalie and take a blanket and blanket yourself up. All right, darling. All right, dear. Are we ready? Be ready. All right. Get up. Get up, y'all. Yes. Come on, Jonah. You all right, dear? You all right? Get up. Beautiful morning. We were stopping by the mill next. Yeah, that that that that's the trial bridge house. That's right. That's the Trout Bridge house. You know everybody here, huh, Mr. Collins? I worked on the Wheelock Estate 25 years when putting everybody in this hamlet worked for him. You don't say. Now, I know the story of nearly everybody laid out in that graveyard. I knew most of the dead when there was live ones once. Oh, we have to stop. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on. Come on, darling. [Music] This is fun. Sit over there, Matthew. Rolly. Rolly, listen. Put on the blanket on the child and sit careful. Be careful. Get up now. All right, let's go. Get up now. Get along now. Get along. Don't mind. I said it's fun. Well, where's the next stop? Uh, the next stop, Rosalie. The next stop we have to stop lemon house with the brown shutters. I remember that house when it was white with green shutters. Is that so? Yes, ma'am. And then I remember when it was weatherbeating with the paint offer and it was empty for a long long time and the children call it the haunted house and threw stones at it until there wasn't a window left. They threw stones. You know, you give a place a bad name and then it gets bad because people make it that way. That's right. It's like that with people, too. And time went on and everybody thought there was something really wrong with the house. It was supposed to be bad because people don't think about how they got their thoughts. They just have them. But a Polish farmer came around and he didn't have no ideas about the house. He bought it, painting it yellow, and it's been yellow ever since. I know. Yeah. His daughter, that's where we're stopping now. She married the baker's son, and there was quite a rumus about it. That was a story. We have to stop here. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Get in. Get in, sweetheart. You all right, darling? Sit here. Sit here by me, dear. Sit here by me. You all right, too? Don't worry about the baby. Don't worry about the baby. All right, dear. Everybody ready? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Mr. C, wait. Children, wait. There's a little girl in the road. What is she standing? She's crying. Crying. Why you crying? Don't cry. Let me get up for a minute. Crying. Look, excuse me a little bit. I want to get up. Why you crying? Oh, you poor little thing. Stop crying. Stop crying. Don't cry. Her mother won't let her go because she doesn't work. Stop crying. Oh, she'll stop crying. Honey, I hope they can come. Oh, I think now wait. She going to get under now. All right. Now she go. All right. All right. All right. Let's go. Get up now. Come on now. Get up. Get up. Come on, Jonah. Jonah. Yeah. Come on, Job. How many of you children heard of Job? Hallelujah. And Jonah, lived in a whale. They lived in a well. That's right. There was a man named Jonah. And he lived in a well. Oh, he was a mighty well. A mighty well. There was a man named Jonah. [Music] Well, it's a wonderful beginning for a wonderful idea. But there are people in this world who just don't see things like the Mollies and the Homers and the parents of all these children. And one of them comes around Well, here's a lady who writes that she's tired of washing dishes with halfway soaps. Yes, she's tired of bar soaps because they don't have real speed and those tough granulated soaps because they're short on gentleness for her hands. Well, now if you're tired of halfway soaps, too. Then here's good news. Yes, new Does is here. That brand new kind of granulated soap. You know, Doz does everything in your wash. And it has everything for dishes, too. From whirlwind speed to greater kindness to your hands. Just notice how wonderfully soft and smooth your hands feel after doing dishes with Does. Actually, not one of the four other leading granulated soaps can give your hands this extra gentle care. Yet does can't be beat by any soap for speedy dishwashing. It cuts even tough grease without hard scouring. Why you can tell by the suds how really different does is. Just try does today. It has everything for dishes. Be sure to listen to the next episode of the Goldbergs. This is Clayton Collier wishing you good day for Proctor and Gamble, makers of Does the new kind of granulated soap for all three kinds of wash.


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