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A LAUGH SCOOP STARRING
BABY SNOOKS
BABY SNOOKS is every exasperating, lovable infant you've ever known, rolled into one.
In your own home, she'd certainly drive you nuts. But on an M-G-M sound stage in Hollywood, converted once a week into an NBC studio, she's supreme — -the petted darling, the comedy highlight, of the Thursday-night Good News of 1939!
She's her mother's favorite, too. Fannie Brice, who created her, has two flesh-and-blood children of her own, much better behaved than Snooks ever thought of being, but — well, there's just something about Snooks that gets you.
And of all Snooks' escapades, Fannie has four favorites, which we're bringing you now, in a special Readio-Broadcast, with the permission of Fannie, Writer Phil Rapp, (who spends his time thinking up new and more fiendish ways for Snooks to torture her father), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Maxwell HoUSe.
Just imagine that it's Thursday evening — the Good News show is well on its way . . . Meredith Willson's orchestra has just finished a rousing number . . . Frank Morgan is prowling about in the wings thinking up a new whopper . . . and here come Baby Snooks, her father (that long-suffering man), and her mother — ready to re-enact her four funniest adventures!
Snooks has returned from a visit to her Uncle Louie in New York, and her father is visibly upset by a letter he has received from his brother.
Father: Mother — come here!
A special Readio-broadcast with radio's beloved brat, whose pranks rock a nation
Mother: Yes, dear.
Father: Did you read this letter from Uncle Louie?
Mother: Yes, I did. Now please—
Father: That child is impossible! I'm not going to be lenient with her any longer.
Mother: Don't lose your temper. You must remember she's only a baby.
Father: Baby? Why the things she did to poor Louie — it's incredible! The day before she left he says she set fire to the living-room curtains! And she swore to me that she'd been a good girl!
Mother: Now, listen, dear. Maybe if you try to be more patient with her she'll admit all those things and see how wrong she is.
Father: Well, all right. I'll try a different kind of psychology.
Mother: That's fine. And remember — if you feel your temper slipping just try the good old-fashioned method of counting up to ten.
Father: Okay — okay.
Mother: I'll send Snooks in.
Father: (To himself) One, two, three, four, five, six — set fire to the curtains — hmmmmm.
Snooks: Hello, daddy.
Father: Oh, hello, Snooks. (Continued on page 55)
Opposite page: Baby Snooks can roller-skate as long as that wall's there. Insert: Daddy (Hanley Stafford) is terribly upset, as usual.
Two of Baby Snooks' co-stars on Good News of 1 939: Left, master of ceremonies Robert Young, and right, that tallstory-teller, Frank Morgan.
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