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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1939-40
Music. — Up full and down under.
Agent. — Well, then things really begin to break for us. Mrs. Roosevelt writes about it in her column “ My Day.”
Eleanor. — It is not often that a creature smaller than one’s little finger can completely captivate the imagination of millions. Yet such is the remarkable truth about the cater¬ pillar named Curley, and only today I was telling the President that it has been many years since the country has become so interested in . . .
Agent. — There’s talk among stamp collectors of issuing a special Curley stamp.
Philatelist. — And, since the Curley stamp would be the only insect subject in existence, its value to philately would naturally assume prodigious proportions, and . . .
Agent. — Scientific societies offer to investigate Curley’s genius. And would you believe that the annual convention of the American Lepidoptological and Entomological Academy even invites Stinky to lecture before it.
Stinky. — ( Echo . . . hesitantly . . . scared . . . obviously no speechmaker ) Er, so I says to my mother, “ Ma, can I have a penny, I want to buy a piece of candy.” So my mother says yes, so she gives me the penny, er, so on my way to the store, I see a caterpillar, uh, crossing the road, er, um, so I stopped to watch it, see ? So then I picked it up, and then I started to . . .
Agent.— And all this time the money keeps coming in. We’re getting along fine, although it costs a lot to keep up my expensive offices and staff of secretaries. But I’m figuring on getting the big dough, the hundred thousand from Disney, and then retiring. Well, to make a long story short, there are a couple of exchanges of telegrams and phone calls, with me holding out for my price, and then one night Disney wires.
Disney. — ( Filter ) Will meet your price of hundred thousand please fly out with Curley next plane.
Agent. — Wow! Am I excited! I rush into the next room, where Stinky and Curley are sleeping.
Sound. — Door.
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