Jack Benny – Four Girls in White. ep331, 390409

Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone and Don Wilson posing for a photo in 1938.

The sensation of the Easter Parade, Jack Benny, enters to joke about style, fashion, and Carmichael his Polar bear. The flashy fashions of Rochester and Phil are mentioned, and the latest antics of film stardom that’s going to Phil’s head. Mary makes a stylish entrance, and talks about a cute date she had. Phil exercises his vocabulary as he hams it up over his movie presence. Don breaks up an argument with a pitch for the sponsor. Phil plays, Hold Tight.

As the play is announced, Kenny Baker shows up to tell about his Easter egg hunt. Spoofing the Hollywood hit film of the same name, the cast present, Four Girls in White. Right after Mary’s cute date phones, Wendle Kendall. Kenny sings, I’m Building a Sailboat of Dreams.

From the description, the guys are quite a sight in drag as they don’t have the feminine adornments on in the right places. The nurses, Philus Harris, and Peaches Baker are grilled on simple medical maladies. Jabs at Fred Allen, and a pitch for the sponsor interrupt the first aid jokes. In the operating room, Schlepperman goes under with gas. The simple tonsillectomy could have an affect on Schlepperman’s dialect.