ANNCR:

Night and day, at home or away, always carry Tums, T-U-M-S.

MUSIC:

THEME UP .... FADE UNDER

ANNCR:

Tums, famous quick relief for acid indigestion, presents "A DATE WITH JUDY".

MUSIC:

THEME UP ... FADE FOR:

SOUND:

(PHONE RINGS)

JUDY:

Hello.

MR. S:

(FILTER) Hello - is this Judy Foster?

JUDY:

Yes it is.

MR. S:

Have you got a date tonight?

JUDY:

No, I haven't.

MR. S:

Good. This is Mr. Spevars, your history teacher.

JUDY:

I'd just love a date. I'm not doing a thing.

MR. S:

That's fine - then you can get out your history book and do your home work for a change.

MUSIC:

THEME UP AND FINISH

ANNCR:

That's Judy, folks -- Judy Foster, the cutest date in town. Your DATE WITH her each Tuesday at the same time is arranged by the makers of TUMS, famous quick relief for acid indigestion. Well, we pick up Judy and her twelve-year old brother, Randolph, as they walk down State Street.

RANDOLPH:

Hey, Judy, which way are you going?

JUDY:

I'm turning around this corner.

RANDOLPH:

That's not the way home.

JUDY:

I know. I'm going to the Super Duper Sugar Bowl.

RANDOLPH:

On the day before we get our allowances?

JUDY:

Oh, I'm not going to eat anything.

RANDOLPH:

Then what are we going to the Super Duper Sugar Bowl for?

JUDY:

To get weighed, naturally.

RANDOLPH:

I don't get it.

JUDY:

Randolph, there's the most terrific scale in front of the Sugar Bowl. It's utterly marvelous.

RANDOLPH:

Does it give you a better weight than the other scales in town?

JUDY:

Oh, who cares about weight?

RANDOLPH:

People who get on a scale probably.

JUDY:

Randolph, the important thing about this scale is it tells your fortune. The most marvelous thing happened to Barbara Winsocket yesterday.

RANDOLPH:

What?

JUDY:

She got weighed, and a little card came out that said "Look out. You will meet with an accident." And last night she fell down and broke her leg.

RANDOLPH:

Is that good?

JUDY:

It shows the scale knows what it's talking about, doesn't it? Here it is. Oh, Randolph, would you lend me a penny? I don't want to break a nickle.

RANDOLPH:

Certainly. Here. Be my guest.

JUDY:

Thanks, Randolph. Now! I put the penny in here....

SOUND:

PENNY INSERTED INTO SLOT --- MACHINE WHIRS, THEN STOPS

JUDY:

And a little card comes out here. And here's my fortune.

RANDOLPH:

I'm all aflutter.

JUDY:

(THRILLED) Listen to this! (READING) "You will meet a tall, dark and handsome man who will take you on a boat trip."

RANDOLPH:

Does it say whether you'll get seasick or not?

JUDY:

Isn't this marvelous! A boat trip! (SERIOUSLY) Oh, Randolph, do you think Mother will let me go?

RANDOLPH:

Not unless the tall, dark and handsome man is Father - who isn't very tall.

JUDY:

(WORRIED) Or very dark.

RANDOLPH:

Or very handsome - you know Judy, if this fortune comes true, I'll eat my hat.

JUDY:

You don't have a hat.

RANDOLPH:

I am willing to borrow Uncle Oscar's pith helmet for the occasion.

JUDY:

We1l, this fortune does present certain difficulties -- but I'm sure the scale will work it out somehow. I have every confidence in it.

RANDOLPH:

Don't look now, but isn't that your friend, Lulu Benson, coming toward us?

JUDY:

Yes, and she's with a man. And - oh, Randolph, he's tall and dark, and handsome!

RANDOLPH:

But, he isn't wearing a sailor suit.

JUDY:

(BRIGHTLY) Why, hello, Lulu.

LULU:

(UNENTHUSIASTICALLY) Oh, hello, Judy.

JUDY:

How are you, Lulu? I haven't seen you in utterly ages.

LULU:

(COLDLY) Don't be absurd, Judy. You saw me from nine to three at school today.

JUDY:

(GAILY) Why, so I did. (VERY SWEETLY) Wasn't that very silly of me, Mr... er...er?

LULU:

(RESIGNED) Oh, well - okay! Judy, may I present Mr. Cooper? Eric, this is Judy. Let's go, Eric. We're in a hurry.

JUDY:

(QUICKLY) How do you do, Mr. Cooper.

ERIC:

Hello, Judy. (APOLOGETICALLY) I have to call you "Judy" because that's all I know.

JUDY:

(COQUETTISHLY) Oh, that's perfectly all right, Mr. Cooper.

ERIC:

Well, in that case, Judy, you'll have to call me Eric.

JUDY:

I'll be very glad to...Eric.

LULU:

That's just dandy. Now, let's go, Eric. We have to be over at Oogie Pringle's house by....

JUDY:

(QUICKLY) I'd like you to meet my younger brother, Eric. This is Randolph. Randolph -- Mr. Cooper.

ERIC:

How do you do?

RANDOLPH:

If I let you call me Randolph, can I call you Eric?

JUDY:

(WARNINGLY) Randolph!

LULU:

Well, goodbye. It's been very nice running into you, Judy. Come, Eric.

ERIC:

(FADING) Goodbye, Judy. I'll be seeing you - I hope.

JUDY:

(CALLING) Goodbye, Eric. I hope so too.

RANDOLPH:

Come on, Judy, let's go home. Standing in front of the Sugar Bowl like this is making me hungry.

JUDY:

(DREAMILY) Eric. Eric Cooper. Oh, Randolph, wasn't that scintillating? The way my fortune is working out already? He was tall and he was dark and he was handsome!

RANDOLPH:

With the exception of the short, light and ugly ones, who isn't?

MUSIC:

BRIDGE

SOUND:

DOOR OPENING AND SLAMMING - FOOTSTEPS

JUDY:

(FADING IN) Mother! Oh, mother!

MOTHER:

What's the matter, dear? You're so excited.

JUDY:

It was just too absolutely amazing.

FATHER:

All right, Randolph...you tell us.

RANDOLPH:

(CASUALLY) Judy got weighed.

FATHER:

Is that why she's so excited?

MOTHER:

My word, Judy - how much did you weigh?

JUDY:

Oh, that has nothing to do with this.

FATHER:

You got weighed, and your weight has nothing to do with this?

RANDOLPH:

The important thing is Judy is going on a boat trip with a tall, dark man.

MOTHER:

She's what!

JUDY:

It was my fortune. The scale tells your fortune, and that's what it said - and right afterwards I met a tall, dark man.

RANDOLPH:

About seventeen years old.

FATHER:

Oh, go away, children. I'm in a terrible mood. I have something important on my mind, and I can't concentrate on these inconsequentialities.

JUDY:

Inconsequentialities! Father, do you realize....

FATHER:

I realize I'm going to be rather hard to live with, if the subject of this conversation doesn't improve rapidly. Scales, fortunes, boat trips!

JUDY:

What's the matter with him, Mother?

MOTHER:

Just business.

FATHER:

Don't "just business" me! I'm about to make the most difficult decision in my career, that's all!

RANDOLPH:

Anything I can help you with, Father?

FATHER:

Ho! That's a good one. You help me. I can't even help myself.

MOTHER:

Just what is it, dear? I don't understand it.

FATHER:

I've been trying to explain it to you. If you'd put down that sewing and listen....

MOTHER:

I'm only ripping out a hem, dear.

FATHER:

I don't care what you're ripping. If you want to understand what I'm saying, stop ripping and listen.

MOTHER:

A11 right, dear. What is it?

FATHER:

(PATIENTLY) I have been offered a contract. If I accept it I can make a lot of money.

JUDY:

Well, accept it then. That doesn't sound like a very difficult decision to make.

FATHER:

Judy, if I accept this contract, and can't deliver the goods by a certain date - then I can lose a lot of money.

MOTHER:

Well, then - refuse the contract. Judy's right. It certainly doesn't sound like a difficult decision.

FATHER:

Refuse it! And pass up a chance to make five thousand dollars? Do you think I'm crazy, Dora?

JUDY:

Well, then - accept it. Jeepers, I don't see what's so hard about it.

FATHER:

Accept it, she says! Judy, if I can't deliver - I have to pay a penalty. I can lose my shirt.

MOTHER:

(DREAMILY) Melvin, have you got suspenders on?

FATHER:

(LOSING HIS TEMPER) What have suspenders got to do with this?

MOTHER:

I was just looking at your shirt, dear. The collar is so frayed.

FATHER:

Well, what about it?

MOTHER:

I thought if you didn't have suspenders on, you could slip off your shirt quickly, and I could turn that collar over.

FATHER:

Dora! I'm talking business - and you concern yourself with collars!

RANDOLPH:

Father, is there any chance you wouldn't be able to deliver the goods you're supposed to manufacture?

FATHER:

Is there a chance? For the love of heaven, have you heard there's a war going on? Have you heard about shortages? Do you know metal is hard to get, that manpower is something you don't have very much of these days?

MOTHER:

Well, gracious, dear, if it's going to mean all that trouble, turn the contract down.

FATHER:

But then I lose my chance to make five thousand bucks!

MOTHER:

Well, if you feel that way, dear, by all means accept the contract.

FATHER:

What I like about you, Dora, is that you're so definite about things. Once you make up your mind about something, there's no changing you.

MOTHER:

Thank you, dear. I was trying to help.

FATHER:

A lot of help this family is going to be. I don't know why I ever bothered telling you. I.....

JUDY:

I have the most terrific idea. Father, I know exactly how you can make up your mind.

FATHER:

How?

JUDY:

Get weighed.

FATHER:

Judy, go and do your homework.

JUDY:

I don't have any to do.

FATHER:

Then read a book. Or manicure your nails, or toes. Anyhow, do something.

JUDY:

But Father, you have to make a decision, don't you? And this scale is positively uncanny. Remember what it said and then I met a tall, dark and handsome man. And you know what happened to Barbara Winsocket.

FATHER:

No, I don't. And I don't want to know.

RANDOLPH:

She broke her leg.

JUDY:

It was positively marvelous.

FATHER:

Breaking her leg was positively marvelous?

JUDY:

Of course. The scale told her it was going to happen, and it did.

FATHER:

Judy, how can you believe that nonsense? You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Go upstairs and put your hair up in curlers....

RANDOLPH:

In the middle of the afternoon?

FATHER:

Any time. Just so I can be alone and think.

SOUND:

(PHONE RINGS)

FATHER:

If that phone is for anybody but me, I'm leaving the room.

RANDOLPH:

I'll 1et you know in a second.

SOUND:

(PHONE UP)

RANDOLPH:

Hello.

ERIC:

(FILTER) Hello, may I speak to Miss Judy Foster, please?

RANDOLPH:

You may. (TO JUDY) Judy, it's for you.

FATHER:

I'm leaving the room.

JUDY:

Who is it, Randolph?

RANDOLPH:

You'll be very happy to know - a man.

FATHER:

That's all I need to know. (FADING) Goodbye.

MOTHER:

I'm coming with you, Melvin. (FADING) I want to fix that shirt.

RANDOLPH:

I am highly bored. I'll go over to Curley's house...(FADING) Goodbye, Judy.

JUDY:

Goodbye.

ERIC:

(FILTER) What was that?

JUDY:

Oh, I was just saying goodbye to Randolph. To you I mean hello.

ERIC:

Oh, hello. This is Eric Cooper.

JUDY:

It is?

ERIC:

Judy, what are you doing Saturday?

JUDY:

Not a thing...My evening is perfectly free.

ERIC:

I'd like to give you the evening, but I already have a date. I'm afraid the afternoon is the only tine I can work you in.

JUDY:

Oh, that'll be perfect. My Saturday afternoon happens to be completely free.

ERIC:

Swell. Would you like to go to a movie?

JUDY:

Yes, but - (GULP) Eric, I have the most terrific idea.

ERIC:

What?

JUDY:

Why don't we go for a boat ride?

ERIC:

A boat ride?

JUDY:

Yes. There are some row boats in the park, and.....oh, Eric, wouldn't that be lovely?

ERIC:

(DUBIOUSLY) Well, maybe. Sort of a picnic, huh?

JUDY:

Yes, - a - sort of picnic.

ERIC:

Well, okay. If you bring the sandwiches.

JUDY:

I'd love to. Pick me up at 2 o'clock. Well, so long.

ERIC:

So long.

SOUND:

(PHONE DOWN)

JUDY:

(CALLING) Oh, Mother. Father. Listen.

MOTHER:

(OFF) What is it, Judy?

FATHER:

What happened?

JUDY:

(CALLING) That scale is positively uncanny. I'm going on a boat ride!

MUSIC:

TAGS

(APPLAUSE)

 

(INSERT COMMERCIAL)

 

FIRST COMMERCIAL

ANNOUNCER:

Well, Judy has fixed things so that her fortune is working out just as the scale said it would - and folks - if you want things to work out for you, why butt your head against a stone wall? You simply can't be sweet and sunny, if you've got an acid tummy! So-o-o -- why put up with acid tummy. It's only a hop, skip and a jump to the nearest drugstore. And right out there, on top of the show-case, the answer is beckoning to you -- good, old, friendly Tums for the tummy. At the first warning sting of heartburn or that uncomfortable "I ate--too-much--too-fast" feeling -- just put two pleasant-tasting Tums on your tongue -- same as you would candy mints -- presto! No more acid indigestion. No mixing or stirring -- you don't even need water. Anywhere, any time -- quick relief for a dime. Don't be a sour-grump. Get a roll of Tums this very night. 10 cents at all drugstores -- three roll package for a quarter. But be sure you get Tums for the Tummy -- T U M S. There are many imitations of Tums, but no substitute for them.

MUSIC:

THEME UP - FADE FOR

ANNOUNCER:

And now - back to "A DATE WITH JUDY".

MUSIC:

BRIDGE INTO:

ANNOUNCER:

Well, Judy got weighed on a scale that tells fortunes, and her fortune has come true...with a little help from Judy. She has tried to persuade Father, who has an important business decision to make, to enlist the scale's aid, but so far she hasn't persuaded him. When we pick up the Fosters, Father is still in a stew.

FATHER:

Oh, heavens, what should I do?

MOTHER:

Take the contract, dear.

FATHER:

But if I do, there's always the chance I'd lose a heck of a lot of money.

MOTHER:

Well, then refuse it, dear.

FATHER:

Dora, if you're trying to help me make up my mind, forget it. I'd be better off flipping a coin, or putting some numbers in a hat, or....

JUDY:

If you'd only get on the scale, Father, like I keep telling you.

FATHER:

Judy, if I hear any more about that silly, superstitious, idiotic....

JUDY:

Superstitious? How can you say such things, Father? Why, yesterday Oogie Pringle got weighed and his fortune said "A glamorous woman will be your undoing."

FATHER:

What's so miraculous about that?

JUDY:

Right afterwards his car smashed into a billboard with Hedy LaMarr's picture on it.

FATHER:

Coincidence. Just coincidence.

JUDY:

Well, you can't sluff off what happened to Mrs. Shlutzhammer by calling it coincidence.

FATHER:

Oh, Lord, do I have to listen to that one too? All right - what happened to Mrs. Shlutzhammer?

JUDY:

She got on the scale and a card came out saying "You will soon get rid of a troublesome person," and when she got home - Mr. Shlutzhammer had been reclassified IA.

MOTHER:

(LAUGHING) Well, that scale is pretty smart, isn't it?

FATHER:

Oh, is that so? I suppose you'd like to get rid of me, too.

MOTHER:

Why, Melvin, I never said any such thing.

FATHER:

You implied it!

MOTHER:

Why, Melvin, I did not.

FATHER:

You laughed when Judy said what happened to Mr. Shlutzhammer.

MOTHER:

(DEFENSIVELY) I only laughed because the Draft Board must have made a mistake. Mr. Shlutzhammer is 49 years old. You're so touchy these days. Melvin, I wish you'd make up your mind about that contract and get it over with.

JUDY:

If you'd just give the scale a chance, Father....

FATHER:

Anybody who mentions that scale again is going to get a punch in the nose.

SOUND:

DOOR OPENING AND SLAMMING

RANDOLPH:

(FADING IN) Hi ya, everybody. Guess what happened with the scale?

FATHER:

(GROANS)

JUDY:

What, Randolph?

RANDOLPH:

Well, Curly Whiteman and I were standing in front of the Super Duper Sugar Bowl, wishing we could have a chocolate sundae, but we only had six cents.

MOTHER:

Yes?

RANDOLPH:

So as long as I couldn't afford a sundae and there was the scale---

JUDY:

Yes.

RANDOLPH:

I invested a penny and guess what?

JUDY:

What?

RANDOLPH:

I hit the jackpot!

MOTHER:

You what?

RANDOLPH:

All I did was put in my penny and nineteen cents came out.

FATHER:

What's so remarkable about that? The scale was broken.

RANDOLPH:

Ah, but my fortune!

JUDY:

What did it say?

RANDOLPH:

It said plain as day - Quote - you will come into money! Uncanny.

FATHER:

Uncanny! It's just sheer nonsense, this whole business. Anybody who believed that a piece of machinery had psychic powers is an unmitigated moron! Am I right, Dora?

MOTHER:

Yes, dear.

FATHER:

Dora, where are you going?

MOTHER:

Out for a walk.

FATHER:

For a walk?

MOTHER:

Yes. I was just thinking...I'm getting terribly fat.

MUSIC:

BRIDGE (BLENDS INTO LULLABY)

SOUND:

CLOCK TICKING

MOTHER:

(SLEEPILY) Melvin. What are you doing?

FATHER:

Looking out the window.

MOTHER:

Melvin, it must be four in the morning. Get right back in bed.

FATHER:

Why should I? I can't sleep anyhow.

MOTHER:

Dear, are you still worrying about that contract?

FATHER:

(BELLIGERENTLY) Yes, I am still worrying about that contract.

MOTHER:

Melvin, why don't you see what the scale says about it?

FATHER:

Dora, if I hear any more about that scale....

MOTHER:

But it worked so well for me. A little card came out and said....

FATHER:

I don't care what the little card said! I don't want to hear about it.

MOTHER:

Melvin, what are you doing?

FATHER:

Getting dressed, that's what I'm doing.

MOTHER:

At four A.M.

FATHER:

Yes, at four A.M.

MOTHER:

We1l, where are you going?

FATHER:

Out for a walk, that's where I'm going.

MOTHER:

(AFTER A PAUSE: COYLY) Melvin, are you going to try the scale?

FATHER:

(EXPLODING) Of course, I'm not! What do you think I am - a fool? When a man has an important business decision to make, he makes it rationally. He depends on his brains not on little cards that come out of a scale. (SCORNFULLY) Scale! I wouldn't go within a mile of it!

MUSIC:

BRIDGE

SOUND:

FATHER SHAKES SCALE

FATHER:

(TO HIMSELF) Dawgone it. I've come all this distance and I don't have a penny. (ALOUD) Uh - mister.

MAN:

Yep.

FATHER:

Could you lend me a penny?

MAN:

Oh, broke, are you?

FATHER:

No, I'm not broke. I - just want to borrow a penny, that's all.

MAN:

Aw, that's all right. Here's a dime...buy yourself a cup of coffee.

FATHER:

I don't want a cup of coffee. I just want a penny.

MAN:

You're the cheapest panhandler we ever had in this district.

FATHER:

But I'm not a panhandler. Look...I have got money in my pocket. I have a fifty cent piece. I've got a ten dollar bill. I just want to borrow a penny.

MAN:

What for?

FATHER:

If you must know - I want to get weighed.

MAN:

At five o'clock in the morning?

FATHER:

(HIS PATIENCE RUNNING OUT SLIGHTLY) Yes. I'm eccentric. I always get weighed at five in the morning. I'm superstitious, see?

MAN:

Oh? Well, okay, buddy - here's your penny.

FATHER:

Thanks.

SOUND:

(PENNY INTO SLOT...SCALE WHIZZING)

MAN:

Well, how much do you weigh?

FATHER:

Oh, who cares how much I weigh?

MAN:

You come down here at five in the morning, you borrow a penny to work the scale, and now you don't care how much you weigh?

FATHER:

Of course not. (READING) "He who risks nothing, gets nothing."

MAN:

What was that, buddy?

FATHER:

I said "He who risks nothing, gets nothing." That's what it says on this card. This is great! Well, thanks for the penny, mister. (FADING) So long.

SOUND:

(FOOTSTEPS RECEDING)

MAN:

That guy is crazy!

MUSIC:

TAGS:

(APPLAUSE)

 

MIDDLE COMMERCIAL

ANNOUNCER:

Well, the scale has made quite an impression on Father but think of the impression father has made on the man who loaned him the penny! You know, folks, it takes years to make a friend -- you can make an enemy in twenty seconds -- just by flying off the handle, and blurting a few cutting words that you'd never think of saying if your nerves weren't on edge from acid indigestion. No -- it doesn't pay to be a sour-grump. Acid indigestion from over-eating, over-smoking, late hours, worry or from any one of a dozen causes, has wrecked more homes, ruined more friendships than you can imagine. I'm telling you! And oh, how needless it is. At the first sign of heartburn and over-acid stomach, if you'll just put two little pleasant-tasting Tums on your tongue -- same as you would candy mints -- in no time the storm will have passed and the sun will burst forth -- and all's well with you and the world. Keep your sunny disposition and your friends. Sweeten your stomach, and your home -- with TUMS. Get the great American habit -- night and day, at home or away -- always keep Tums handy, Tums for the tummy - T U M S. 10 cents a roll at all drugstores. Three roll package for a quarter.

MUSIC:

THEME UP -- FADE FOR

ANNOUNCER:

And now - back to "A DATE WIITH JUDY".

MUSIC:

BRIDGE INTO

ANNOUNCER:

Well, father has finally fallen for the scale idea himself. We pick him up as he comes into the dining room for breakfast.

FATHER:

(FADING IN) Well, Dora - it's all settled. I've called Mr. Hendricks, and told him I've signed the contract.

MOTHER:

That's fine, dear.

RANDOLPH:

How did you make up your mind, Father?

FATHER:

Sheer reasoning power, that's all. There's a certain science to these things, Randolph. I figured it all out mathematically, and I came to the conclusion that I can't lose by taking the contract.

JUDY:

Just the same, I wish you'd have consulted the scale.

FATHER:

Scale! Idiotic.

JUDY:

But, Father....remember what happened to Barbara and Mrs. Shlutzhammer, and the boat ride I'm going on and....

FATHER:

Now honey, that fortune telling stuff is all right for women and children - I won't say anything against it...but when it comes to a man and his business problems - only good, solid figuring will solve them.

MOTHER:

(WITH ADMIRATION) Oh, Melvin - sometimes I just admire your mind so much.

FATHER:

(MODESTLY) Oh, anybody can think these things out - if he just concentrates hard enough.

SOUND:

(PHONE RINGS)

MOTHER:

Well, I wonder who that is.

JUDY:

Well, nobody ever phones me so early in the morning, but I'll take it anyhow.

RANDOLPH:

Little martyr.

SOUND:

(PHONE UP)

JUDY:

Hello.

ERIC:

(FILTER) Hello, Judy? This is Eric.

JUDY:

Oh, hello.

ERIC:

Judy, I've got to break the date to go boatriding.

JUDY:

(DISMAYED) You do?

ERIC:

Yeah, Lulu says she has a previous date with me Saturday afternoon. I don't remember it, but she's pretty firm about it. I'm sorry. Call you again some time.

JUDY:

(LET DOWN) Yes...do.

ERIC:

Okay. So long.

JUDY:

(BROKEN-HEARTED) So long.

SOUND:

(PHONE DOWN)

MOTHER:

Who was that, dear?

JUDY:

Eric Cooper.

RANDOLPH:

Oh - the tall, dark man who's going to take you for a boat ride?

JUDY:

Yes. Except he's not going to take me for a boat ride.

FATHER:

(GETTING EXCITED) He's not going to .... Judy, what are you saying?

JUDY:

He has a previous date with Lulu Benson.

FATHER:

Why, the nerve of him! How do you like that! He can't do this to me...I mean to you.

MOTHER:

Why, Melvin, I never saw you get so excited about Judy's dates before.

FATHER:

Well, it's about time somebody got excited about them! Breaking dates on her like that - it's outrageous!

RANDOLPH:

If she can stand it, I should think you could.

FATHER:

Well, I can't. He's not going to get away with this.

MOTHER:

(AMAZED) Why, Melvin. I never saw you take anything so hard.

FATHER:

You expect me to sit here and take it easy - when my own daughter is - stood up?

JUDY:

(BURSTING INTO TEARS) That's true. I am stood up.

MOTHER:

Now, don't you mind, dear. When I was a girl, your father stood me up lots of times.

FATHER:

(FURIOUSLY) I did not! I never stood you up!

MOTHER:

You did, too, dear. That time that attractive looking girl from Minneapolis with the buck teeth was in town...

FATHER:

I did not stand you up. I merely changed our date to another evening.

JUDY:

(WEEPING; FADING) I'm going upstairs and lie down.

SOUND:

(DOOR SLAMMING)

MOTHER:

Now, Melvin....all this yelling....see what you've done to Judy.

FATHER:

Well, she ought to be upset. I'm upset too. Stood up! It's............disgraceful.

MOTHER:

Oh, for heaven's sake. (FADING) I'm going up-stairs and try to calm Judy down.

SOUND:

DOOR OPENING AND CLOSING:

FATHER:

If she were any kind of a wife, she'd stay here and calm me down.

RANDOLPH:

(AFTER A PAUSE: SUSPICIOUSLY) Father, me thinks there is something behind all this that does not meet the eye.

FATHER:

Behind it? What could be behind it? I'm simply furious because a young punk....

RANDOLPH:

Father...This hasn't anything to do with a certain scale in front of the Super Duper Sugar Bowl, has it?

FATHER:

Of course not! Certainly not! Whatever gave you an idea like that?

RANDOLPH:

Nothing. (THEN SLOWLY) Father, what did your fortune say?

FATHER:

"He who risks nothing, gets nothing." (REALIZING HE HAS GIVEN HIMSELF AWAY) Oh! Oh, for the love of heaven.

RANDOLPH:

Oh, that's all right, Father. I kind of fell for that scale thing myself.

FATHER:

Well, it just worked out so well for everybody else, I kind of thought I'd.....

RANDOLPH:

Sure....sure. I know exactly how you felt.

FATHER:

And now that kid breaks his date and upsets my entire confidence in the whole thing.

RANDOLPH:

Yeah, it's too bad.

FATHER:

Randolph, that boy has got to take Judy on a boat ride Saturday afternoon. He's got to. Otherwise I'll never have a peaceful moment the whole time I'm trying to fulfill that contract.

RANDOLPH:

Well - you could kind of - fix it so he has to take Judy out Saturday afternoon.

FATHER:

I could? How?

RANDOLPH:

Well, Eric broke his date with Judy on account of having a previous date with Lulu Benson....

FATHER:

Yes?

RANDOLPH:

Well, what if Lulu Benson had a still previouser date with somebody else and had to break her date with Eric?

FATHER:

Good idea. But - how can we arrange it?

RANDOLPH:

Well, we could get some tall, dark and handsome man to call Lulu.

FATHER:

Yes, but who?

RANDOLPH:

You, Father. You.

MUSIC:

BRIDGE:

FATHER:

Uh - hello. Lulu Benson, please.

LULU:

(FILTER) This is Lulu.

FATHER:

It is? Oh. Well - this is -- uh - this is Melvin - Hockenlocker.

LULU:

Who?

FATHER:

Melvin Hockenlocker. I met you at a party a couple of months ago.

LULU:

You did?

FATHER:

Yes. And I - uh - admired you very much at the time, Miss Benson. Eh - Lulu.

LULU:

You did?

FATHER:

Yes, I...did. I -- uh -- called you to remind you of the date we have this Saturday afternoon.

LULU:

This Saturday afternoon? Why, I don't remember making any dates for....

FATHER:

Oh, of course, you do. We were standing right in the middle of the room. I remember it perfectly. And you said to me, "Why, Melvin, I'd just love having a date with you on May 20, 1944."

LULU:

I did?

FATHER:

Well, of course. I remember it distinctly.

LULU:

Well, I don't, but...

FATHER:

Oh, now - you wouldn't go back on your word, would you?

LULU:

No, but...

FATHER:

Good! Okay, I'll see you Saturday. So long.

SOUND:

PHONE DOWN:

FATHER:

Well, how was I, Randolph?

RANDOLPH:

Stinking. But it'll do, it'll do.

MUSIC:

BRIDGE:

JUDY:

(FADING IN) Father, guess what.

FATHER:

What?

JUDY:

Eric Cooper just phoned me, and he wants to make the date for Saturday again.

FATHER:

Well, that's great! Tickled to hear it!

JUDY:

He said Lulu broke the previous date he had with her.

FATHER:

Fine. Well, I'm going to work. Hope you have a nice time Saturday.

JUDY:

Oh, I'm not going with him Saturday.

FATHER:

You're not....(BIG TAKE) What did you say?

JUDY:

I said I'm not going with him Saturday.

FATHER:

You're not? Why not?

JUDY:

Well, he can't just shove me around like that. Make the date with me, then break it, then try to make it again. I just turned him down flat.

FATHER:

(FURIOUSLY) You turned him down flat! A nice fine upstanding young man like Eric Cooper?

JUDY:

Why, Father...You just said the most terrible things about him a little while ago. You......

FATHER:

Judy, I'm ashamed of you! Call him right back and apologize.

JUDY:

Apologize? Why, I will not. Not after what he did to me. I wouldn't go out with him if he were the last man on earth.

FATHER:

(DESPAIRING) Oh, my.

RANDOLPH:

(FADING IN) Pst. Hey, Father.

FATHER:

What do you want, Randolph?

RANDOLPH:

Hey, Father, you're in trouble!

FATHER:

(SHOUTING) In trouble! Nonsense! I couldn't be in any more trouble than I am now.

RANDOLPH:

Oh, yes you could. Remember when you called up Lulu and asked for a date....

FATHER:

Yes, of course....Why?

RANDOLPH:

Well, mother was listening on the upstairs phone and is she furious.

FATHER:

(GROANING) Oh, for the love of heaven!

MUSIC:

BRIDGE

FATHER:

Oh, Randolph, do you suppose it'll ever stop raining?

RANDOLPH:

Frankly, no.

FATHER:

Things aren't bad enough. Your mother not talking to me, and now it rains for three whole days and my whole factory basement flooded, and---

SOUND:

DOOR OPENING AND SLAMMING

JUDY:

Hello, Father, Randolph.

FATHER:

(GLUMLY) Hello.

JUDY:

Guess what happened to me.

RANDOLPH:

I give up.

JUDY:

Well, the whole downtown is practically flooded, and I was trying to get across the street, only I couldn't....when a tall dark and handsome man came along in a boat.

FATHER:

(SUDDEN INTEREST) A boat!

JUDY:

Yes. And rowed me across the street.

FATHER:

Eureka! It worked! The scale worked, after all.

RANDOLPH:

Yep, it did, didn't it?

FATHER:

Well, I feel like a new man. Everything's fine. Now all I have to worry about is when your mother is going to start talking to me again.

RANDOLPH:

That you will have to figure out scientifically.

FATHER:

I intend to. Randolph - can you lend me a penny?

MUSIC:

BRIDGE

SOUND:

COINS JINGLING

FATHER:

(MUMBLING) One penny. Let's see. Here it is.

SOUND:

PENNY BEING PUT INTO SLOT

FATHER:

I don't know why I'm doing this darn fool thing.

SOUND:

FOOTSTEPS

MOTHER:

(FADING IN) Melvin.

FATHER:

Dora! What are you doing at the Super Duper Sugar Bowl?

MOTHER:

(COLDLY) I'm not talking to you, Melvin. But I'll tell you. I was so upset I went into the Sugar Bowl to get a lemonade to cool off.

FATHER:

Dora, are you upset about that silly Lulu Benson business?

MOTHER:

I don't care to discuss it with you.

FATHER:

Dora, do you honestly believe I'd call up Lulu Benson for a date. That's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard of. A sixteen year old girl. If I were going to call up anybody for a date, I'd call up Greer Garson or somebody.

MOTHER:

Oh, so you've got a crush on Greer Garson.

FATHER:

I never said anything of the sort! I merely said this whole thing is nonsense. Why, that you'd even think I'd call up a girl for a date. A happily married man with two children. Why, if I did ask her for a date, I bet she wouldn't give me one.

MOTHER:

Oh - so you're furious because she refused you?

FATHER:

She didn't refuse me!

MOTHER:

Oh, she accepted?

FATHER:

Dora, this is ridiculous. How can you believe I'd do anything like this - at my age.

MOTHER:

I'm just as old as you are, Melvin Foster. I suppose you think I've........ I've got one foot in the grave.

FATHER:

I never said that, Dora. Dora, this whole thing is....well, I can't believe, as well as you know me, you'd believe such a thing as this.

MOTHER:

I thought it was ridiculous too. But then I...(BREAKING DOWN)....I came down and asked the scale.

FATHER:

You asked the scale?

MOTHER:

(NEARLY SOBBING) Yes...and look what it says....Here's the card. "Don't be too sure of your husband."

FATHER:

Dora! I'm ashamed of you! Taking the word of a silly old scale. It's moronic. It's absolutely childish...and idiotic.

MOTHER:

(THROUGH HER TEARS) Is it? I see you've got a card in your hand too.

FATHER:

A card? Oh yes!

MOTHER:

You must believe in it too.

FATHER:

Nothing of the sort. I simply came down here to get weighed. I haven't even looked at the card. I tell you what. This will prove it. It will show you the whole thing is whacky. I'll read it to you.

MOTHER:

Yes, do...

FATHER:

All right. (READING) "You are in terrible trouble."

MOTHER:

(TRIUMPHANTLY) You see! Don't tell me that scale doesn't know what it's doing.

FATHER:

But, Dora....

MOTHER:

(WITH DIGNITY) I'm going home. (FADING) And remember. I'm still not talking to you.

SOUND:

FOOTSTEPS.

FATHER:

Oh, bugs.

MUSIC:

BRIDGE

RANDOLPH:

Well, father, I fixed you up. I explained the whole thing to Mother.

FATHER:

(RELIEVED) You did.

RANDOLPH:

Yes, I told her just why you called Lulu Benson, that you were just trying to make Judy's fortune work out.....and she forgives you.

FATHER:

She'll talk to me again? How wonderful.

MOTHER:

(FADING IN) Melvin, I'm so sorry I was so silly. I should have realized.

FATHER:

(WITH HEAVENLY SWEETNESS) Oh, Dora.

MOTHER:

Forgive me, dear. I acted terribly. (LAUGHING) The idea of you calling a young girl like Lulu Benson. I should have known better.

FATHER:

(LAUGHING) Yes. Imagine me calling a young girl like Lulu Benson...when I have you. Oh I mean...

MOTHER:

I know what you mean, dear. It's all right. Give me a kiss.

SOUND:

KISSING:

FATHER:

Thanks, dear.

MOTHER:

(FADING) And now I'm going out to the kitchen to make you a nice cup of coffee.

FATHER:

(CALLING AFTER HER) Just what I want.

RANDOLPH:

Father - uh - I was just thinking.

FATHER:

What, Randolph?

RANDOLPH:

Well, do you think it's nice to stand a girl up on a date?

FATHER:

What do you mean?

RANDOLPH:

Well, I bet right this minute Lulu Benson is sitting waiting for you to take her on the date you asked her for.

FATHER:

Do you think so?

RANDOLPH:

Sure. It seems to me the polite thing to do would be to call her up and tell her Melvin Hockenlocker is a fictitious character.

FATHER:

You're absolutely right. Hand me the phone. (HE HUMS)

SOUND:

DIALING:

LULU:

Hello.

FATHER:

Oh, hello, Lulu?

LULU:

Yes, who is this?

FATHER:

This is Melvin - uh - Hockenlocker.

LULU:

Well, where are you?

FATHER:

Lulu, there's something I have to tell you. About our date this afternoon.

MOTHER:

Melvin!

SOUND:

PHONE DROPS ON FLOOR

FATHER:

Dora! When did you come back?

MOTHER:

In time to hear EVERYTHING! (FADING) Oh, Melvin I never want to speak to you again.

SOUND:

FOOTSTEPS:

FATHER:

(WAILING) Dora! Oh now what'll I do?

RANDOLPH:

Well - here's a penny, father.

MUSIC:

TAGS:

(APPLAUSE)

 

ANNCR:

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have had so many requests to repeat "Bobby Socks Blues", the song which Judy sang on this program a few weeks ago, that you will hear it again in a moment. Meanwhile a reminder that acid indigestion is no respecter of place or person. It's likely to hit you in a movie, in a bus, in bed -- at a bridge game, at the office or in church. That's why millions - night and day, at home or away, always carry Tums. In any company you can take Tums unnoticed. At the first sign of heartburn or an upset acid stomach, slip one or two Tums in your mouth as you would candy mints. Nothing to mix or stir. You don't even need water. And remember----Tums act in a different way from most other anti-acids. For Tums are different. They contain no soda or other water-soluble alkalies. Therefore, they do not over-alkalize your stomach and cause an acid rebound.

You'll find Tums your best friend when acid indigestion strikes. At all drugstores---10 cents a roll, three roll package for a quarter. Tums for the tummy - - - T U M S.

ANNCR:

And now, Judy will sing "Bobby Socks Blues"

JUDY:

I've got the Bobby Socks Blues,
I'm just a girl who's got the Bobby Socks Blues.
My pulse is pounding and my heart is wild,
But people tell me, "Why, you're just a child.
You wouldn't have the faintest idea of
The feel of love,
What it's made of."
But can't they see that even at sixteen
The pangs are mean,
The pain is keen,
This love's too much for just a child to bear.
They won't believe me and they couldn't care
When they inform me that I'm just too young,
My song of love has got to stay unsung.
They will not chart.
My painful heart.
They only see my socks and flat-heeled shoes,
And that's the reason I've the Bobby Socks Blues."

MUSIC:

CARRIES IT AWAY:

MUSIC:

THEME UP - FADE FOR:

ANNCR:

"A DATE WITH JUDY" is written by Aleen Leslie and stars Louise Erickson and Dix Davis. The music was composed by Paul Sawtell and conducted by Constantin Bakaleinikoff, through the courtesy of RKO Studios. The program was produced and directed by Helen Mack.

This is Art Baker inviting you to be with us again next Tuesday at the same time to keep your - Date with Judy - and, remember - night and day, at home or away, always carry Tums, T-U-M-S.

(APPLAUSE)

 

MUSIC:

THEME UP TO FINISH

ANNCR:

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