Old Time radio

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Dr. Sixgun: "The Belle and the Baby" 09/16/1954

A couple drops off a baby into someone's wagon. Fortunately, the "doc" has some pamphlets two give to two parentless people (Belle, who runs the gambling house; and her man Sam, which is going to lose her money).

Good thing that there are cows you can buy after midnight.

Oh! The parents dropped off their baby because they're starving artists. They sure do love her.

Great Gildersleeve: "Summer Theater" 06/14/1942

Gildy is pissed that the local acting troop met without him. Oh, good: there are lots of actorly gay people. And Gildy just said he was a director (of course he wasn't).

Oh, goodness: Gildy just imitated a "Southern Mammie" (one of the characters is African American). It's hard to not be grossed out.

WWII gives us Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, you know. And they tell us how to serve Mac & Cheese with meat: put into a round mould, put into a plate, and put hamburger on the inside of the circle.

And, oh (more) goodness: Gildy's performing one part in blackface.

Oh: and the gun that Gildy thought had blanks actually had bullets. Fortunately, he didn't kill another person in the play. But they still took the guy to the hospital & Gildy has to play another character.

So, after all of this, they started the same play over again. It was exhausting to listen to.

Crime Classics "Death of a Baltimore Birdie": 06/16/1954

"Crime classics" usually tells the story of a very old crime (19th Century, 18th Century), but this is only a crime that went to trial the year before.

These two guys (one is a prize fighter) are going around stealing from people & knocking them out. And they found a liquor store.

There are two deaths (an old maid who's 45, and her border who's a scammer who wants to marry one of the two guys), then luckily the cop comes because the next door later called them to come (the two guys are the two women were having too much fun laughing). It's always nice when a real life story has one of those ironic, "no crime goes unpunished" things.