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Bud is upset when Lou arrives to work late for the opening show of the season. Lou’s excuse for missing the afternoons rehearsal is due to a family outing where his uncle drank DDT. Lou tells about his vacation back East, and the generous people there. He then tells about his new girlfriend in the military. Lou describes his new girlfriend, Lena Ghensta.
Bud jus wants to know if she is pert, chic, or svelte? Of course Lu gets mixed up over what he means, and the word plays explode.
Will Osbourne plays, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe.
Lou keeps telling about his girlfriend back in New York, when the doorbell rings and Mel Blanc is a drunken delivery boy with a telegram. Bud shares the news that Lena has been discharged from the military, and now she’s on the way to Hollywood to take Lou up on his offer of a job in the movies. Can Bud get his friend out of trouble?
Professor Mellonhead is on hand, and he offers help, despite the mistreatment and insults that Lou hurls his way.
Connie Haines sings, I’ll Buy That Dream.
After a commercial, the show continues. A loud mouthed woman arrives claiming to be Lou’s girlfriend, Lena Ghensta, but Lou is trapped, and is caught in is lies about owning the NBC studio, and his ability to get her in pictures.
The gang transitions to the movie studio. Can Lou get Lena to give up on her dream of becoming a movie star? She seems to have a lot to hang over his head. The director doesn’t seem to be too thrilled with the idea of letting celebrities bring their friends to him for jobs. In Lena’s case, it appears to work. Will the lady’s man of a director steal away Lou’s girlfriend?
