the Illinois Commercial men's
association presents that well-known
Chicago columnist who knows everything
and everybody what's happening and
what's going to happen here he is in
person Nate gross good evening friends
this is Nate gross we're proud to have
with us tonight one of the truly great
comedians of our time oh Nate please a
star of stage radio and Screen who needs
no introduction to Chago I do too a man
who has made millions of people laugh
all over the world and who needs no
introduction you said that
once and has brought sunshine and
happiness into your homes every Sunday
night and on week nights when I'm a
guest a man who needs known no what mind
your own business and here he is thank
heaven Jack fenny
hoay the
audience thank
you hello again this is Jack Benny
talking and meate all I appreciate your
introduction I want to tell you I heard
your show last week when Phil Harris was
your guest yeah Phil's a great great guy
well he might be a great guy but he's
got a lot of nerve being on your program
without my permission and I heard what
he said too so Jack Benny needs a rest
this summer but Philly Harris is going
to stay on the air did you pay him for
that name I certainly did that's funny I
didn't get my
commission commission Jack do you take
commission for members of your cast well
it's not exactly a commission mate it's
something I put away for the Health and
Welfare fund yeah Your Health and
Welfare Nate who is this guy that's ever
Clark our announcer oh yes I heard him
last week too the kid with the Peter
Lorry complex who's whose house are you
going to haunt this week yeah I Hur you
the week before last with uh Fred Allen
oh thank you no don't thank me I always
listen to Fred Allen he's funny I hope
you notice I hope you notice who got the
big laugh that night yes one will get a
laugh by dropping one's
trousers I didn't drop them I was dants
yeah but who else would think of having
lsmft sold in the back of his
shorts I didn't have them so on I bought
them that way lsmft long shorts made for
traveling anyway ever I wasn't talking
to you well I'm talking to you well talk
to the people in our radio audience
first Wise Guy must be the commercial
I'll
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WBBM and now here's your genial reporter
Nate gross with news about people you
know best Marge reitlinger wife of the
Harald American city editor Harold Harry
reitlinger is at Grant hospital where
she was operated on and retired police
Sergeant Mike Mullen underwent an
operation at Mercy Hospital M was a
policeman for 40 years beginning at the
time of the first Chicago Worlds Fair
until just a few years ago H Blakeley
the advertising manager was presented
with the silver award by the treasury
Department for his work in the various
war bond sales among those who escaped
from the burning Lal Hotel were Senator
Lucas's Law Associates Charles Thomas of
Rockford and Don Donald sandburn of
Springfield they stood out in one of the
many balconies of the hotel until they
could return to their rooms and make
their way to a fire escape and while
we're talking about the disaster that
brought sadness to our city let us pay
tribute to the Chicago Police Department
which did a great job that night
I refer specifically to commissioner
Prendergast who was there himself Chief
Ray crane of the uniform police Deputy
Chief of detectives John waren Captain
Jerry Looney and Police Inspector Ed Dy
who was the first on the scene because
of their being on the job there was an
absence of confusion that follows in the
wake of such disasters these men as well
as fire commissioner Corgan should be
commended by mayor Kelly for the
important roles they played that
terrible
night Senator Rand leonatti of Chicago's
West Side seems to have the inside track
to be majority leader of the state
senate attorney Irish Schultz and his
wife expect an August baby Dr August
Oscar Lang the Polish Ambassador and
delegate to the United Nations security
Council May resign uh to uh reapply for
his American citizenship and go back to
his teaching job at the University of
Chicago four of the singing girls in the
musical up in Central Park are expectant
mothers their husbands are insisting if
they quit the show Herman Weinberger the
Manhattan pickle company and Louise
Goldman of Chestnut Street will be
married next January father Marty dhy
whose many brothers are representa as
reporters on each of Chicago's
newspapers and who himself was a
newspaper man until he quit to become a
priest is home to celebrate his 20th uh
anniversary in the clergy and his
mother's birthday which was today his
own parish is an Oregon our friend the
Reverend Frederick Manion again is ill
at Mercy hospital but I talked to him on
the phone a few minutes ago and he said
he'd be well enough to leave for Boston
where uh he uh was born on next
Wednesday a Rosy Lou former local
newspaper man was promoted to lieutenant
colonel in Newark where he is stationed
with the Air Force Sam McKelly the
automobile dealer will rebuild the Red
Lion in near Elgen on Route 25 it burned
down last week Denny of Don the beach
comr who's otherwise known as Samuel
puit Denning celebrated his fifth
wedding anniversary today Carl bran the
famous musical comedy and movie star
expects his daughter-in-law rosin
Russell also a movie actress to visit
with him here while he is starring in
the Mayfair room uh veran will Be Our
Guest next Sunday night so be sure to
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to work thank you Everett now back to
our guest Jack Benny it's about time
well Jack now that you're here I'd like
to ask you a few questions you don't
mind being interviewed do you no no not
at all you know you were our guest on
this program about a year and a half ago
remember yes I do Nate and this is sort
of a return engagement fortunately I've
had other work in
between know with me it's either feast
or famine I could have played my violin
at three weddings
tonight say that reminds me Jack I meant
to ask you to bring your violin and
forgot all about it you what did you say
Nate I said I meant to ask you to bring
your violin and forgot all about it Nate
you really mean you wanted me to play a
violin solo on this program Jack I've
been listening to your program for years
I've heard people panning you and
kidding about you and your violin but
I've heard you playing well I think
you're one of the greatest violin
virtuosos in America today oh Nate
you're kidding I certainly
am now look Nate I'm on my vacation if
you're going to start getting laughs you
know brother look Nate I'm on my
vacation I didn't come up here on your
program to be in solid after all you
asked me to be your guest I did not you
asked
me when Monday Tuesday Wednesday
Thursday and Friday I didn't ask you on
Thursday I was in walk Keegan don't be
so smart anyway Nate I only stayed over
here to be with you tonight after all
I'm driving back home tomorrow morning
no kidding Jack are you going to drive
all the way to the coast yes sir I got
my Maxwell all fixed up and raring to go
you're Maxwell huh yep you know I gave
it to the scrap driver four years ago
and they returned it last
week well how long do you think it'll
take you to make the trip am I Maxwell
now let's see well I'll leave the
Ambassador east hotel about 8:00
tomorrow morning and if the wind is in
the right
direction I ought to get to the
Blackstone by tomorrow
night course I'll stay there overnight
leave early Tuesday morning and with
everything going along all right I ought
to get to a Aurora by Thursday or
Friday oh well then if you plant it
carefully Jack you ought to be back home
in time for your opening broadcast in
October yes and if not I can always
start my season a week or so
later well tell me Jack is your maxal in
good condition uh pretty good mate you
see I have three good tires and one soft
Rim you see and around around this one
Rim I have tennis shoes so the car runs
along pretty smoothly although uh when
when I'm driving along late at night I
get an eerie feeling that someone is
following
me Well Jack if it's going to take you
all summer to get back home when are you
going to make your new picture I've been
reading about Oh you mean the life of
Jack Benny yes well we're going to start
that about the 1st of November and it's
a wonderful idea Nate you see it's a
story of my life of course and it starts
out from the time I was born in W Keagan
up to my present age of 37 see now this
will wait a minute Jack wait a minute
now wait a minute please I'm 39 years
old and I used to see your act at the
State Lake Theater when I was a little
boy Nate you might have been Young when
you went to see me at the State Lake
Theater but you have never been
little I found out that your mother had
to Jack you up to put diapers on
you so don't give me that anyway you're
right Nate I've only been kidding about
my age always I mean I wish I was 37 oh
well I can
wait
so Jack getting back to this picture of
yours uh you haven't made any in a long
time have you no I haven't a not since
the scene I did in Fred Allen's picture
Fred Allen's picture wasn't that called
in the bag yes and they should have kept
it there you know I didn't get paid for
that picture Nate they talked me into
about into it by telling me that it
would it'd be made in Technicolor and
then when they started to shoot it they
found out they couldn't make it in
Technicolor they had to make it in black
and white why what happened well due to
a peculiar pigment in Fred Allen's skin
he photographs
plaid so there I was stuck with say Jack
I saw that picture and I thought you
were great in it you made all look like
an amateur you really think so no but
I've got to come in with the line once
in a while to keep the program
alive say Nate this guy's your announcer
isn't he yes I'll tell him the war is
over and announcers are coming back in
droves besid Don Wilson isn't doing
anything this summer and you can have
them cheap not as cheap as I get ever it
why what are you paying
uh come here I don't want to embarrass
him I'll whisper it to
you you do on a local
program why Don Wilson only
gets and he does my laundry on
Wednesday you two guys are the cheapest
bums that I've ever met in my life oh
yeah well you're just lucky we are bums
or you'd have the biggest Lial suit on
your hand you ever had in your life
isn't that right Nate you said it yeah
well Nate I got to run along now it's a
great pleasure being here had a good
audience so one of the reasons I always
like to broadcast with you is I don't
know whether you know this or not I'm an
old newspaper man myself yeah I didn't
know that Jack oh yes you see before I
was a concert violinist I was a dramatic
critic of the Walk Keagan news son but
of course we had no shows in walk Keagan
those days so I was practically what
ever called me a bum yes so when they
made me so then they made me the night
editor of the same paper I was night
editor for 3 years before I found out I
was the night
Watchman well I got to run along now so
long Jack thanks for coming over you're
welcome oh by the way Nate I got a
wonderful gag before I leave now listen
we got to do this I'll say to you what's
the difference between Walter winshill
and Nate gross and then you say to me I
don't know what is the difference
between Walter Winchell and Nate gross
ah all right jack what is the difference
between Walter Winchell and Nate gross
Winchell is all Flash and gross is All
[Laughter]
Flesh oh Benny how can you go on a
vacation when they need you so badly you
know I had lived that gag ad lived you
did that same joke in this program a
year and a half ago I did yeah well my
writers will certainly hear for me so
long
Nate thank you Jack Petty when nicer
guys are born they'll use you for a
pattern you know Everett I just can't
wait to see the Warner Brothers picture
the life of Jack Benny I can shame on
you Everett good night folks just a
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