The Goldbergs on the Radio: Ep. 1549

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The Goldbergs: Episode 1549. Date: September 2, 1943. 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, the Goldberg's secret is out... and the whole town knows about Grace and George... and how Molly, in trying to give these two artful dodgers a chance to reform, hid the truth from her neighbors. Everybody knows now that Grace wasn't Molly's daughter-in-law... everybody knows that Grace left town with the money collected by the Committee for Juvenile Delinquency and that George is with her. The committee is waiting to see Molly... and Molly is sitting surrounded by her family... wondering what the neighbors will say... Let's listen..."

Announcer close: "As Molly listens to her best friend in Lastenbury, to the strongest and most understanding man in town, Molly begins to doubt herself and she and the rest of the Goldbergs can just about imagine what the other neighbors will say..."

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 1549. Date: September 2, 1943. 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, the Goldberg's secret is out... and the whole town knows about Grace and George... and how Molly, in trying to give these two artful dodgers a chance to reform, hid the truth from her neighbors. Everybody knows now that Grace wasn't Molly's daughter-in-law... everybody knows that Grace left town with the money collected by the Committee for Juvenile Delinquency and that George is with her. The committee is waiting to see Molly... and Molly is sitting surrounded by her family... wondering what the neighbors will say... Let's listen..." Announcer close: "As Molly listens to her best friend in Lastenbury, to the strongest and most understanding man in town, Molly begins to doubt herself and she and the rest of the Goldbergs can just about imagine what the other neighbors will say..." 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.

Transcription

you is anybody there's Molly folks that means your friends The Goldbergs are here brought to you by doz the new kind of soap for everything in your wash first let's drop in on the doam family well there's that flutter head cousin doam she just sent a present to her boyfriend at Camp listen she's telling Daisy doesn't I send my picture and a box of do and he put them up together beside his bed now look cousin do is a swell kind of soap and it does everything in our wash from work shirts and towels to my rayon undies but why should your boyfriend put do alongside your picture well you see Daisy does brought us together oh it was so romantic I was hanging out M was one day when he came along delivering milk and he said oh nice clean workshirt you got there and I said sure Dad did them no soap gets clothes clean easier and there's no hard scrubbing oh it was trilling what a way to talk to your dream man I suppose you told him you didn't need a bar soap anymore cuz does gets dirt out all by itself well sure Daisy and he said he bet every lady on his milk Rod would be jealous of me in those snowy white towels I was hanging up and I told him does it get anybody's house there in white i' never seen white a washes I said oh he was so interesting Dred my he must be romantic oh oh he is you know he asked if that pink flower dress I was wearing was new it looked so pretty and bright I said oh no no I dozed it lots of times I told him does it safer for the pretty colors I was and yet it can't be beat for the tough job and that's when he popped the question you mean he proposed well not exactly he asked if I do his wash with doz well cousin do I hope you said yes you know ladies compared to other leading granulated wash day soaps doz gives longer life to Colors plus unsurpassed whiteness and real cleaning power for tough dirt does duu does everything and now the Goldbergs well the Goldberg secret is out and the whole town knows about Grace and George and how Molly in trying to give these two Artful Dodgers a chance to reform hid the truth from her neighbors yes everybody knows now that Grace wasn't Molly's daughter-in-law everybody knows that Grace left town with the money collected by the committee on juvenile delinquency and that George is with her the committee is waiting to see Molly Molly is sitting surrounded by her family wondering what the neighbors will say let's listen man what are you sitting like that so you go to me David what I say mom is upset so so what am I say so you go to the meeting and the money that was collected for The Reluctant children delinquent such what was I say Uncle David please all right so so you'll go and you'll explain M you better get dressed I'm dressed if you ready Molly let's go this time let me sit a little let us sit a little don't be nervous ma Papa got the money you you have the money and you're going to return it to everybody ma ma I know if you want to stay M I'll go I'll just say you was IND disposed and whatever they want to say to you at the meeting uh they'll say to me no I have broader shoulders no I'll go I I can go with Jake M we was all accompli of the fact no David I'll go I'll go and I'll go with my head high because whatever I did wasn't wrong it wasn't right I'll repeat it wasn't right is not a time for long right now is the time if I'm going to a meeting and I have to face all and everybody that is condemning me I couldn't go if I didn't feel that I was right all right so you wasn't right she was wrong not right and if if she David please but what did I say but you shouldn't say it's passed it's over but a mistake was made to try to help a being is is is beings and beings oliv was only turning the other cheek but she got slept on both cheeks already so isn't there time to stop already all right so if it's wrong to try to take two people and straighten them out but they were too crooked for you or anybody to try to straighten out ma George was so crooked why did you come to me and tell me everything and confess Ma you better get ready and go they'll they'll think that you're not coming no I must clear up my mind before I go and if you big clear M if you take my advice you'll go into the meeting and apologize and you'll hand over the money and say that if I apologize I wouldn't mean why shouldn't you mean it I still say what I wanted to do was right even if it turned out wrong because my intentions was right and if my intentions was right Grace and George were only Crooks but MERS and they killed somebody then would you still be right yes and if they killed somebody then you how can anything good be bad that's what I'm asking Jake is only trying to tell you what you were trying to do was bad not good all right David M M I I'm older a little bit listen wait for me I yes huh listen first no one for two people to think up an idea like that and come to a strange house and make believe that David even that was I'm I'm going to from the beginning Jake please go to come into a household and say she's a daughter-in-law because she knows the the boy is a soldier you think this is the first the first one she did it was the old Badger game all right so you found out there was fakers and when I wanted to have them arrested why did you interfere because please what's the use of going all over that it's passed I wanted to convince your mother she was I wasn't wrong David control me I wasn't wrong j when George confessed that me there was some good left in him and that little good wasn't to be wasted if he was so good where is he even though with Grace no he was weak to be weak is worse than to be bad do you help a blind person across the street then you should also help a weak person across the temptation but you expose him to more Temptation not less to save her so you ruined him too telephone telephone R take it [Music] hello yes who yes who H all right I I will thank you what R they're waiting for you at the meeting ma all right so I'm going so I'm going my neighbors have friends they'll understand me you'll see J I'm Molly Molly who's that somebody coming up The Path I can't see Rosie look who's coming up to pet Noel who no it's Bruce H Bruce hand a that's a friend that's a friend open Ros you better get your hat mom yeah David gets my pocket book they in the fruit bowl hello Mr hello Bruce come in Bruce hello Bruce hi I came to fetch you Mrs Goldberg thank you bruan I'm glad you understand I guess I do understand in a way in a way I don't understand a way I figure I can't ever understand Mrs Goldberg how you could treat your neighbors that way but Bruce the the money I had money is only part of it money is always only part of it maybe the money meant a lot to those two cheap Crooks but it didn't mean that to us we gave the money to help those children all right the money merely meant that we wanted to help it meant we were feeling we should help it was something we had a feeling neighbors sitting around together speaking from their hearts and feeling to help and we gave our money and that cheap crook got up in front of us at George and grace too and they made pretty speeches how we should help and they put it over on us and all the while well Mrs Goldberg this is a part I don't get you knew what these people were you knew they came here to fool you and you let them put it over on your neighbors well she wanted to help so she picked between them two cheap Crooks and her neighbors who trusted her why didn't she fool them two Crooks instead and then let us know why did she make fools out of us and how feel I guess you were thinking a little too hard about saving a couple of trees Mrs Goldberg while the whole Forest burned down but Bruce you know I I don't like to be preaching you know how much confidence I have in you Mrs Goldberg but it seems to me it's it's a pretty common disease in the world people wanting to do something maybe something they figure is good so they go out and start doing it and never ask what their neighbors think even though the neighbors are going to be the ones affected it's private action when it should be public I get to figure sometimes that this war is being fought by the people who believe in doing things with and through their neighbors in a democratic way against those people who want to put things over on the people around them I'm I'm not saying you did as much wrong as that I know you tried to do right but but look what happened happened you acted on your own and now you were wrong you have to share the blame with no one only yourself and we feel wronged and hurt I don't think you were so wise not at all but Bruce oh don't matter anymore but won't be the same I guess when a person loses Faith with his neighbors well guess we ought to be going now well I'll wait out in the car for you until you're ready Mrs Goldberg you that's what I wanted to say only I didn't had the voice as she listens to her best friend in lenbury to the strongest and most understanding man in town Molly begins to doubt herself she and the rest of the Goldbergs can just about imagine what the other neighbors will say you know trying to be helpful can lead to trouble then again things just sort of seem to work out okay for instance take young Dicky doam yesterday he rushed out of the house with a box of dck and he said I got to get this doz over to Billy oh why we're playing hide and seek Billy hides in the cin and gets his slacks all black then he hides in his Mar's Clothes Closet that gets cold dust all over her pretty house dresses uhoh but I said does it fix dresses slacks and O does does everything that's right this new kind of soap does everything in the wash it's the only leading granulated wash day soap that gives longer life to the pretty colors you wash plus unsurpassed whiteness for towels and real cleaning power for grimy work clothes even in the toughest wash does does everything and when you does your wash remember all soaps contain vital War materials so make your do go further wash several loads of clothes in the same doz Suds see to it every bit of doz you use does more be sure to listen to the next episode of The Goldbergs Molly meets her neighbors but they don't meet her halfway this is Clayton ker speaking speaking for Proctor and Gamble and saying do as the doam do let doz the new kind of soap do everything in your wash


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