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Audio resolution is a little low, with record player hum, and bleed through from other tracks, but good.
Billy Mills opens with, You.
On this lovely Spring day, the McGee’s greet passing friends, as Fibber shows off his new bargain. As they walk, an auction outside the wallpaper store catches Molly’s attention. Boomer acts as auctioneer to present the items for sale, milking bids from the unwilling Fibber. . Stuck with unwanted wallpaper, and a bill for the whopping sum of $36, Fibber grumbles as he carries his goods home. Teeny crosses his path to tell about being out of school. What vacation plans might she have?
Back home, the Old Timer pops in to tell it the way he hear’d it on bad jokes, and wallpaper. Fibber puts himself into action to do his own paper hanging. A phone call to Mirt the phone operator reveals her brother got pinched for robbing a train. Harlowe is back to soft sell the sponsor, spinning the topic at hand into the pitch.
Fibber insists on doing his own disastrous work to Molly’s dismay. Hanging precariously from the chandelier, Willian William, also known as Double Billed McGee boasts on his daredevil feats from his old vaudeville days. The Kingsmen sing, Say It .
Visitors keep coming, and Abigail Uppington gets in her wallpapering jokes. What kind of paper is her house done in, or does she even have any? She seems to have been another of Boomer’s auction victims. Gildersleeve stops in to help his pal, though he thinks he’s a hard man. The papering job continues, and the paste flies. How in the world will Fibber get out of this mess? Only in a way that could happen in radio.
Note: Crosstalk bleeds into the audio. This often happens when the recording from elsewhere on the tape is picked up where it has been looped around the reel. The magnetic storage of one part of the tape affects the other , especially when it has been stored that way for a long time. Also tapes stored too close to each other might imprint their magnetic signal on another.
