The Goldbergs on the Radio: Ep. 1552

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The Goldbergs: Episode 1552. Date: September 7, 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: "Molly Goldberg hasn't had an easy time of it... To begin with, she went out on the limb to help two petty thieves who had come to Lastenbury to pick up what they could... But Molly's method of reforming people is often extreme, and what happened was that Molly worked Grace and George into positions of confidence, hoping that trust would alter their characters... Grace and George took the funds and left... and now Molly has been facing the aroused townspeople who are furious and hurt because Molly let two petty crooks fool everybody... Molly admits her fault... but... suddenly... a long distance call from George... so the operator said... George Stevens... aroused all Molly's hopes again... that her faith in human change ability for the better was not wasted... Well listen..."

Announcer close: "If we could see into a heart, we would see Molly's fill with hope that her faith is justified... for Grace is calling, George is calling, and the future is just blank for them."

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 1552. Date: September 7, 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: "Molly Goldberg hasn't had an easy time of it... To begin with, she went out on the limb to help two petty thieves who had come to Lastenbury to pick up what they could... But Molly's method of reforming people is often extreme, and what happened was that Molly worked Grace and George into positions of confidence, hoping that trust would alter their characters... Grace and George took the funds and left... and now Molly has been facing the aroused townspeople who are furious and hurt because Molly let two petty crooks fool everybody... Molly admits her fault... but... suddenly... a long distance call from George... so the operator said... George Stevens... aroused all Molly's hopes again... that her faith in human change ability for the better was not wasted... Well listen..." Announcer close: "If we could see into a heart, we would see Molly's fill with hope that her faith is justified... for Grace is calling, George is calling, and the future is just blank for them." 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

Yoo 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 what do you know Dicky doam is a reporter for the summer edition of his school paper the Lincoln bugle right now Dicky's trying to get some news for his woman's page from ma do but Ma I got to have hot news everybody in town reads the bugle I know Dicky and that's why you should interview me about duh lots of folks here ought to know about this new kind of soap a who ever heard of a reporter writing about any soap not just any soap Dicky does it's new does everything in the wash work shirts bath mats towels rayon undies everything great GLE SM Dicky does them reporting on rayon unies don't you know any real dirt yes your Paw's work shirts he certainly gets them dirty but you print how easy does doesn't every woman will want to read that no soap made gets wartime clothes clean easier than does and you can quote me as saying you don't even need a bar soap anymore cuz does licks tough dirt all by itself oh heck I can't throw up a page about work shirts well dear tell how does does towels and linens why I've never seen whiter washes than doz turns out huh and that's good news any day but a reporter wants something colossal for instance did does ever save anybody's life well I don't know about that but does certainly saves the pretty col a wash it's wonderful how Daisy's nice rayon slip stay bright longer with does yet you can't beat it for getting out tough dirt just put that in the bugle gee willin M that's no scoop everybody knows does does everything well it's big news for wash day Dicky compared to other leading granulated wash day soaps does give longer life to Colors plus unsurpassed whiteness and real cleaning power for the toughest dirt so ladies change to does Duz It does everything in your watch and now the Goldbergs well Molly Goldberg isn't having an easy time of it Molly's desire to have other people make something of their lives often involves her in serious consequences when Molly worked Grace and George into positions of confidence and responsibility hoping to complete their Reformation they betrayed her trust and absconded with a juvenile delinquency fund leaving mol to face the aroused towns people the contributors to the fund have called a meeting and Molly has admitted her fault to them and then suddenly Molly's hopes were aroused again A longdistance call came from George maybe her faith in humanity was not wasted after all the meeting is in session Molly has the floor listen M I'm here where are you I'm here I'm here I'm here what are you doing in here M waiting for you in the meeting inside I'm here getting some water ma what is it who is on the phone Ros Rosie abide with me one moment come here quickly quickly and silently let me tell you what is it my why is it she and Rosalie not one syllable what tell me m Rosalie look at me darling rly George Stevens called long distance George what did he want I don't know but why don't you tell everybody m not yet not yet the time hasn't come to tell everybody why not M first I didn't spoke to him person to person personally yet the operator is trying to get him he was dislocated someplace and secondly I have to know why George is calling M Rosy rosley now now we have to see Rosie maybe I wasn't so negative what do you mean negative what if I mean negative negative what is negative Ros what is mar de I thought you came out here for water I'm I'm I'm getting it J darling I'm getting it rosaly yes M you holding up the meeting darling yes I'm I'm coming sweetheart I'm coming I'm just a little overcome why who called you Robert aren't you aren't you feeling well well I'm I'm I'm feeling better now then I felt in a very long spell Bruce here's the waterm oh thank you excuse me I'll I'll just swallow this glass of course that's a f m Mrs Goldberg now if you're not feeling well we'll just close the meeting and send everybody home no Bruce no on on the contrary I feel I feel well very well and and if I may I want to say a few more words to my friends I don't want their friendship to be null and void because Bruce you know friends are not made overnight and they shouldn't be lost without reason who called you m who called you later take the glass oh what everybody's coming in here what's going on well oh well if you're not feeling well Mrs Goldberg of course we can postpone this meeting you do look awful pale Mrs goldber no I'm I'm feeling very well I'm feeling very well we can wait if you want to we can wait just a little longer well Mrs Goldberg feels she should say something more before you all decide what to do we told her how we felt about what happened and we spoke out no fancy or polite words well you now listen please Mrs Decker Mrs Goldberg feels you all had the right to criticize her for her actions but not her feelings that's evidently my telephone if I may please excuse me Mrs vilia Mrs deer hello Mrs Goldberg please uh present speaking please I have George Stevens for you oh well um well tell the party to call lenbury 98 in about in about uh 1 hour please my home 98 98 yes please thank you thank you all right all right now every Mrs Goldberg you're ready to hear what you have to say called much are you all right Mrs Goldberg I'm fine here you are Mr Goldberg you don't have to stand up feel bed on mine feet please everybody quiet please Mrs Decker please Floyd Floyd find yourself a seat and sit down well friends neighbors and contemporaries somebody a long time ago said lend me your ears I'm asking not for your ears I'm asking you to listen to me with your heart you treated us as if we didn't have any please well for that Mrs Decker I have already been punished you miss DEA said I couldn't use your frozen food Locker you Mr Reynolds asked me to take mine cows out of your pasture and I was also asked to move because Mr BL wants my house so you see for what I did I was punished and rightly not wrongly and if I'm standing here now trying to speak to you it not to try to show you how is D but only to get back your respect and your friendship if I can well Goldberg go on Mrs Goldberg please go ahead friends I think I understand you and I only want you to understand me so so that we can be as we were some of you I I I I've known already for for years and I came from New York and even my best friend Bruce H condemned me but for one reason for one reason only not just because I tried to help two people and they went all with the money the money was not important you said it Mrs DEA Mrs vilia said it everybody said it wasn't important because money money can be found when you want to find it if you have the will and if you need it I was condemned not because I tried to help Grace and George Stevens but because I I took it on myself to help these people without taking my friends and my neighbors into my en conf that's just it that's right you know better than we are Mrs Goldberg I admit I was wrong Mrs Decker and I don't think I'm better or and I also don't think that I'm worse than my neighbors I should have taken you all into my confidence and asked you all to decide what should be done I didn't however evidently I didn't that's where I was wrong but but forget me for one minute forget me and think only of of the true people that I try to help Grace and George and and let me ask you only one question and then the meeting can be closed and you can do with or what with me what you will and where you will let me ask only one question let me ask you dear friends and neighbors what would you do now if say for instance I'm just saying for instance George came back what would you do with him would you help him I'd put him where he deserves to be he had his chance and he ran away and if he asked me I'd had put him away long before he had a chance to run if he had any sense he won't come back or he'll get coming to a minute Mrs Decker neighbors please please now I I've been sitting here and listening now I've got something to say I want to apologize to Mrs Goldberg apologize to Mrs Goldberg I supposed to be apologized deer I was the first to go to Mrs Goldberg and say that it was UN neighborly to help those two people without consulting the rest of us when we involved too but now I see what Mrs Goldberg feared I see it right here when she asked what we do if SA George came back I begin to see something it's getting clear to me now you take a couple of people who are suspicious and weak characters let's say bad characters and you want to help them all right you you have to decide what to do and it's a complicated not not a simple thing to do you know it's a right thing to do you know you could get every decent person in lenbury to agree to help but it might take time to convince everybody and someone want one single person might not be convinced well if Mrs Goldberg had gone around and asked all of us what Mrs Decker might have said no how do you know what I Mrs Decker and then those two people wouldn't have had their chance just the way she won't give George a chance now he had his Chance some men need more than one oh more than Mr Decker have we been harsh with Mrs Goldberg because we looked at what happened after it happened not before it did I see we were wrong and she was right and I think that three of us here ought to be right ashamed and ought to make up for it how about that Frozen locker and the pasture and the house I still say we can't spend our whole lives giving chances to see should interfere with those who want to spend their lives that way I'm standing on the telephone if I may yes of course Mr Goldberg go right here Mrs please hello Mrs Goldberg yes there's another longdistance call for you do you want me to tell them to call you back at 98 yeah yes who who's calling please well just a minute yes who is it I don't know I I don't know hello yes who's calling Grace Steven huh who Grace Steven oh spell it please S no no no no the first name g yes R thank you a thank you C thank you e oh thank you if we could see into a heart we would see Molly's fill with hope that her faith is Justified for Grace is calling George is calling even though the future is just blank for them you know sometimes we borrow a lot of trouble by worrying about things that won't ever happen take young Daisy does them already worrying about her future why the other day Daisy asked me Clayton do you think I'm too young to get married well Daisy I says so but gee I'm 14 and I know all about keeping house and washing things you just use does for everything well Daisy does is mighty important in married life this new kind of soap does everything in the wash work shirts towels to nice rayon slips while ladies compared to other leading granulated wash day soaps does gives longer life for the pretty colors you wash plus unsurpassed White for towels and real cleaning power for the grimiest work clothes sure even in the toughest wash does does everything and Friends remember this is wartime don't waste does all soaps contain vitally needed War materials so save up your dirty clothes and wash several loads in the same doz Suds see to it every bit of Doh you use does more be sure to listen to the next episode of The Goldbergs Molly finds a way to guarantee half her experiment in human life this is Clayton Cara speaking and reminding you to do as the Dooms do let doz the new kind of soap do everything in your wash


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