The Goldbergs on the Radio: Ep. 1531

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The Goldbergs: Episode 1531. Date: August 9, 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: "Tears, tears, idle tears... is a line, Jake would say, from one of the idle lovers of humanity... Jake, you must all know by now, is completely unsympathetic to Molly's experiments in salvation. And Molly is certainly a lover of humanity... though she couldn't be called exactly idle. For Molly knows, through George's confession, that Grace is not her daughter-in-law, but a liar and a cheat, who came with her real husband, George, to swindle the Goldbergs... and yet she is giving Grace a chance to voluntarily confess and turn over a new leaf. The first step Molly took towards the girl's salvation was to put George at the head of a committee on juvenile delinquency and to see that he had charge of all the money collected. When Grace persuaded George to give her the money... Jake and Rosie lost faith in Molly's experiment... but now Molly is convinced that she has been right all along... Listen..."

Announcer close: "Jake kind of pushed Molly off the subject of Grace... but the problem remains what made Grace cry last night when she and Molly talked... is the girl changing... or not?"

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 1531. Date: August 9, 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: "Tears, tears, idle tears... is a line, Jake would say, from one of the idle lovers of humanity... Jake, you must all know by now, is completely unsympathetic to Molly's experiments in salvation. And Molly is certainly a lover of humanity... though she couldn't be called exactly idle. For Molly knows, through George's confession, that Grace is not her daughter-in-law, but a liar and a cheat, who came with her real husband, George, to swindle the Goldbergs... and yet she is giving Grace a chance to voluntarily confess and turn over a new leaf. The first step Molly took towards the girl's salvation was to put George at the head of a committee on juvenile delinquency and to see that he had charge of all the money collected. When Grace persuaded George to give her the money... Jake and Rosie lost faith in Molly's experiment... but now Molly is convinced that she has been right all along... Listen..." Announcer close: "Jake kind of pushed Molly off the subject of Grace... but the problem remains what made Grace cry last night when she and Molly talked... is the girl changing... or not?" 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 Does the new kind of soap for everything in your wash. First, let's drop in on the Doz family. Now, there's Ma setting the table. Uhoh, here comes Uncle does him all excited. Say, just think, ma. I'm going to get all my dinners free at Harry's lunch wagon. Harry's lunch wagon? How come? Well, I discovered Harry and his wife didn't know about does for dishes. So, I told them, just like you say, that this new kind of soap for everything in the wash really has everything for dishes, too. Well, did you explain does make suds that stand up till the last dish is done? Yeah. And it cuts grease like 60. Yet, it's kinder to hand. You bet. I said, "Harry, you can wash stacks of dishes with dust and those suds will still be staining up. You won't have to keep adding soap." Very good. And then I says to Harry's wife, "My dear lady, you won't have to scour the grease off in those pans either, cuz cuts tough grease in less than half a minute." Well, what did she say? Well, she said, "Do sure sounds swell." But how will it treat my hands? You told her Doz is kinder to hand. Sure. I says Do will take good care of your hands. Just ask ma how nice and soft doz leaves her hands. That's right, Uncle. Then Harry says, "Uncleie, to show my gratitude for telling us about Doz for dishes, you can have your dinners free here every night." Now, ain't that wonderful, Mom? Oh, sure is, Uncle. If you prefer Harry's hamburgers to the dinners I fix for you, and free, too. Oh, gosh, I never thought about that. Well, anyway, remember does for dishes. Why? Compared to other leading granulated washday soaps, Doz is the only one to give you all this. Makes suds that stand up till the last dish is done. Cuts grease like 60, yet it's kinder to hands. Better change to does du. It has everything for dishes. And now the Goldbergs. Tears, tears, idle tears is a line Jake would say from one of the idol lovers of humanity. Jake, you must all know by now, is completely unsympathetic to Molly's experiments in salvation. And Molly is certainly a lover of humanity, though she couldn't be called exactly idol. For Molly knows through George's confession that Grace is not her daughter-in-law, but a liar and a cheat who came with her real husband, George, to swindle the Goldbergs. And yet, she's giving Grace a chance to voluntarily confess and turn over a new leaf. The first step Molly took toward the girl's salvation was to put George at the head of a committee on juvenile delinquency and to see that he had charge of all the money collected. When Grace persuaded George to give her the money, Jake and Rosie lost faith in Molly's experiment. But now Molly is convinced that she has been right all along. Listen. A bacon. Awacon each and everyone for breakfast. Oh, you look couch kitty. Look count. If you want flapjacks on the griddle, beautiful and brown and golden. Come everyone and hurry up, please. And under my feet, I'll give you milk in in a minute. You're the first one. You're not the first one by me. My family is the first. You'll be secondar. Jake, darling, hurry. I have things to impart to you, Jake. About nature. Important nature. A mom, what an important nature. Wait for papa Rosley. Please wait for papa. All together, not this way. Single. How about grace? Well, what did she tell you? M. Don't tell me that you confess. Get dressed, Rosie. Please get dressed and you you'll hear everything. Please don't make me nervous because I'm nervous enough. Please. Suffice it to say, I'm happy to hope with hopefulness. Get dressed only. Please. The windows are transparent. Don't stand with a night gunk. Look how you're standing in the window with a night gunk and without feet no slippers available and a kimone if you wouldn't have I would hear good ma am I singing quickly no m sometimes you sometimes yes but ma did grace give you the money am I making flapjacks to throw away or am I making them to eat water which I'll just wash mom I'm going to get all dress yes please darling Billy if you bake a cherry [Music] pie m no shirts with color no shirts with color Molly why not where I I have you all laid out in the bathroom on the chair I should with that color or without a color with I won't without Rosalie. Rosalie, hear me, darling. Hear me well. Take out from my chiffon on the left side on the right hand corner on top of the sports you'll find without colors. What? Without colors? What am I talking about? I don't know. For who? For papa. Without you. Without what? Without colors. You getting it? Rosie is getting it. Jake, darling, can hurry please and come down immediately. Even if you have to slip on something. The flapjacks are beautiful. Now later they wouldn't be. If you Billy Bowsk, if you have my darling Billy, if you make a lovely pie, oh me, sing in the morning, you cry at night, Molly. Yeah. What's the symphony? In what key? What is it? Rosley, come darling. Come and sit. And when seated, Jake, darling, I have to Why do I have to be seated? Can't I hear standing? All right. So, sit. So, sit, darling. Please, Rosley, come. Come sit. Jake, sit. So, I can sit also. So, I'm sitting. No, start to eat and I'll talk by all the preliminaries. By butter, syrup. Start. All right, ma. Please. All is well. Where? Here. With who? Grace. She confessed. Not yet. So what's so well? She cried. For who? Jacob. I'm asking for who? For herself or for you? For herself of Jake, please don't stop. Did she cry because she's sorry for you? And how she bamboozled you? Or did she cry because she couldn't get away with all the money she was collected in the whole position? I'm asking a question and I'm not answering that. I'm asking ma eat where are you going ma I have to turn over was my question so out of order ma shake shake sometimes I feel brotherly leave the room for one single moment I have to have a word with your papa ma don't get dramatic I can't play comedy when my life is a tragedy pastor Phillip Rosalie, exit. May I take my pancakes with me? Take the pancakes, Jake. Yes. Sometimes at moments and this moment is the moment. Yes. That I feel what that you and I I'm listening. Then listen well because what are these buckwheat or just I have something to say Jake and I'm going to say it then do so before I lose myself. Enough is enough. I think so. Can I come in? Come in. I have nothing for you to say. Nothing. When two people have been wed in wedlock for as long years as we have been wed and two children have been the treasure of our wedlock and at long last been the time of our lives should be absolutely as one. I find at long last that we are strangers. Sir, please. If my efforts with humanity are null and void with you, if my desire to eat, I said humanity begins at home. My home I never neglect. But my desire to go beyond the home and the four wall should be a nothing. I'm asking what? Nothing. And while we are on the subject, did it ever occur to you that deep down in my heart I have also a few grievances? Then evaporate and lucidate. Quiet. What has my life been with you? Always reaching out to humanity. What? Yes. But well, has my home been mine? Have I been your first consideration? No. You wasn't? No. Whoever passed your threshold. My threshold? Yes, your threshold. Did I have to sleep in terror last night because you deserted me to sleep with Grace? But only because Do I still have to remain in terror because she has all the money that was collected? Only because because you're experimenting. I'm experimenting. Einstein suddenly of human life. You became. I'm the Einstein. Yeah. The Charles Darwin of the human heart. You became I'm the Charles Darwin. The Lou Pester of human joints. You became. Leave the experimenting to the experiments. Why should I leave? That's the whole trouble in the world. Everybody leaves everything for everybody else. We all have our responsibilities. Your responsibility is to me and your children. When did I neglect that responsibility, Ben? If I see a chance for a human [Music] being, so what should I do? Don't look for chances. Look and you'll find me. I I love you, Vanity. That doesn't mean that I don't love you. I don't want to play second fiddle to humanity or anybody else. I love you first and foremost and I want you to love me. What were you going to tell me? Nothing. Nothing. You're not interested. You're not interested. Well, Jake kind of pushed Molly off the subject of grace, but the problem remains. What made Grace cry last night when she and Molly talked? Is the girl changing or not? You know, a listener writes, "I love Molly Goldberg. She's so willing to help everybody." Yes. You know, my young friend Dicky Do tries to help folks, too. But sometimes his efforts just don't work out. You take yesterday. Dicki said to me, "Mr. Ker, I've written a song for you. Listen. Oh, does does your wash with the greatest of ease. It's a new kind of soap and it's spelled D U Z. How's that? Well, Dicki, but you ought to tell how does everything in the wash. Work shirts, towels to rayon slips. You see, ladies, this new kind of soap is really terrific. Why? Compared to other leading granulated wash day soaps, does gives greater safety to the nice colors you wash. Plus unsurpassed whiteness for towels and real cleaning power for dirty work clothes. Even in the toughest wash, does does everything. And friends, does sends you this wartime reminder. Soap contains vital war materials our country needs. So don't waste soap. Always measure your does carefully into your machine. See to it, every bit of does you use does more. Be sure to listen to the next episode of the Goldbergs written for you by Gertrude Berg. Molly learns that tears can be idle tears as well as what Jake would call tears for humanity. This is Clayton Kia speaking and reminding you to do as the dozens do. Let does the new kind of soap do everything in your wash.


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