Amos 'n' Andy - Prentiss Clothing Company

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1:01Next, wash day, remember. Rinse-O White? Rinse-O White? Rinse-O White? So, for a wash that's Rinse-O White, Rinse-O White. And now our stars, they with an Andy. Today, Andrew H. Brown received a letter from a reputable Chicago clothing concern, offering him a position as their representative at $75 per week, plus commissions. Yes, it was a surprise to us too, but the old boy has it. And right now he's in his office, joyously telling the news to Amos. Amos, I know I was going to hit the jackpot someday. Now there's a letter right there. I really going to have money to live on. Yeah, well I sure happen for you son, but don't go as thin as this money now as fast as you make it. Well, I know this much. I have time to live in the way I is. And I'm going to start living like a man that's got success ought to live.

2:01I'm going to eat in the best restaurants. Oh, one of the expensive ones, huh? Oh yeah, I class. Where the people don't blow on their soup. The waiter's do's it for you. And I'm going to rent me a big house and have servants and everything. Yeah, well, glad to hear that. I suppose you're going to have a valet to weed on your hand and foot. Yeah, and even maybe another one to wait on the rest of me. Oh yeah, I'm going to hire a gardener to take care of the big grounds. I'm going to have a round my house. Or you're going to have a lot of grounds too. I suppose you're going to have a swimming pool too. Oh, I'm going to have free swimming pools. Hot cold and luke. You know, Anne, you were starting to spend your money even before you go to work. Yeah, but the job is in the bag son. Here, read this letter to me. I know this is by heart, but I love to hear it. Yeah, oh, from the Prennest Clothing Company, huh? Oh, I was here to them. That's a high class concern. Certainly, it's high class. You can see for yourself the only red on one side of the paper.

3:02Hey, here, Mr. Brown, you have been suggested as the logical salesman to represent our firm in Harlem. Yeah, jump down to the salary part. Oh, yeah, if a disposition guarantee is that in addition to commission, you will receive a salary of $75 per week. Hmm, $75 per week. Sure, a high bracket. Oh, man, I can feel Morgan Paul's hand in my pocket right now. Dennis, here, naturally, we require a letter of recommendation from some citizen of good local standing. Yours very true to the Prennest Clothing Company, Chicago. Hey, but you as a local citizen and good standing. How about you writing a letter? Well, all right, all right, one, Anne. Let me see what I'll say. Well, just tell them that I was the steady type, I ain't fighting or nothing, and anything I start, so I stick stuff. Tell them I've been doing the same thing now that I was doing five years ago. Hey, but you haven't been working for the last five years.

4:03Well, I stuck to it, dinner. All right, I'll go home and write the letter. I'll walk along with you there. Now that I've all set for the job with the Prennest Clothing Company, I'm going over to the lodge and sell everybody I see as through the clothes. Oh, look! How, Miss Anne did it. King Fins will be back in just a little while. Lightning, what is the matter with you? Uh, what did you say? Don't never walk up to me looking shabby like you look now. It's a disgrace to be seat talking to you the way you was dressed. Uh, what do you mean, Miss Anne? Oh, that is the baggyest looking suit. I never see nothing like that. As well as the booze. Is the booze that look like that? It's a sack suit. Well, they look like a sack, all right? Turan, let me see if you've got Pillsbury printed on your back there. As well. Where'd you get that suit at?

5:04I bought it at a second hand store down the street. I followed our soul at the Miss Anne was the genuine Harris Tweed. A Harris Tweed? Yeah, I was a fellow by the name of a Harris Ward for six years. But I guess the suit is getting all the sin. I say it's getting thin. In another couple of months you're going to have to wear a slip onto that thing. Lightning, I have selling men's suits. Yeah, there will all buy a suit from Miss Anne. All right, I'll take your measurements. Oh, Lightning, get on out of here. I'll take care of that later, Lightning. Oh, okay, Miss Anne. You get out too, Anna. Well, wait a minute. I can move to talk to you, King Fee. And I'm going to leave my cause on the table. I've been thinking the reason I never gets nowhere. And it's because I was been tied up with a bum like you. And from now on, me and you was enemies. You hear that? That's what it is, enemies. That suits me because I got a job paying me $75 a week. And the listed on it to piece table.

6:06You really got a $75 a week job, huh? Yeah, yeah. Read the letter I got. Brennan's told them something. I don't know. I don't know. I'm a mission. You're right. Give me a water. And our crease about you. Pardon me. Pardon me, dear. Our boat is $75 a week job. And now, that's a lot of money for one man to handle. You need to manage it. Oh, I think you was leading up to something like that. Nothing doing, King Fee. Well, now wait a minute, Anna. You need me to be your manager. King Fee, I want to ask you a question. Anna, you need a manager. I want to ask you a question. I tell you you need a manager. King Fee, where you let me ask one question. Oh, King, where you at? Why does I need a manager? Well, now that you asked a question and that's over, let's get doing with the thing here now. As you manage it. Listen, King Fee, I found this job myself. It was offered to me and I'm keeping it for myself, and I don't need no partner or no manager. Yeah, but Andy, we has always been partners all the way. We have always been in business together. Work together, fail together. Think of the beautiful bankrupt as we have had together.

7:08King Fee, you ain't cutting it on this thing, it's mine. Anna, my boy, you are tired. You don't know what you were saying. You've got to rest and don't let yourself. Now, you sit down here and stop worrying. Just leave your mind blank and I'll be back in three hours with a contract all in your favor. Oh, I want King Fee. Come on in, Glancy. I sure want to see. Tell me why I was here. You were the lawyer and I need some advice and I need it fair. When you come to Wright Man, you show come to Wright Man. Because I work fancy in the legal profession, I as loan as a dynamo, electrical dynamo. By the way, is you guys in the money to pay for this advice? No. I just blew a fuse. Well, now look at your gap, but the advice that the loans don't amount to much and won't take no time. So, I have to visit the work for class, don't play out much too busy. Why I just finished the big case today? You do. I'll show a deal. I was accused of stealing the credit oranges. Oh, credit oranges. I plead his innocence. I plead his innocence because I knew he didn't do it.

8:09Well, did he pay you? Show me, pay me. Show me, pay me. In fact, here have glass orange juice. No, thanks. Gabby, but tell me, is you got to have money before you give me any advice? That's right, King Fee. You got to have two dollars cash, two dollars cash. Okay. Won't you take my check? Sure. If you're happy to cash up in it. Gabby, will you settle for half a book cash? Okay, Fee. You got yourself an attorney. I'm going to tell you. Okay, okay, Gabby. Now, here's what I want to know. I suppose you know the man that was going to get a nice job paying him $75 a week. I figured how to get that money away from the man. I should get away from him. I should get away from him. I don't know what drove you. You took the high road to the low road, but you showed up to Scott in the form and there. Look, Gabby, if this man is making $75 a week according to the law, is there any reason why I can't get him to sign a contract selling me 50% interest in his salary? Oh, that's legal, all right. Yes, indeed, that's legal. But you've got to be careful that you don't run up against the pure food and drug act. The pure food and drug act. The pure food and drug act.

9:09How you fit that in there? Well, you as guilty of pure chiseling and because you was taken to food out of his mouth, the first act of the police will have you drug in the court. That's the pure food and drug act if I have your head. No, no, no. Now let's hear the mystic knights of the C-Quartet sing the Knight Train to Memphis. Take that knight train to Memphis, take the knight train to Memphis, and when you arrive at the station, oh, I'll be right there to meet you. I'll be right there to greet you. So don't turn down my invitation. Oh, take that knight train to Memphis, take the knight train to Memphis. You know how I'm longing to see you. Oh, take the three fifty seven and arrive at eleven.

10:14And I'll be showin' you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. I'll be showin' hallelujah all the day. How you will have a jubilee down in Memphis, Tennessee, and we'll show up, hallelujah all the day. Now when the train comes along, when the day comes along, I'll meet you at the station when the train comes along. Well, watchin' the trains comin'. Do do do do do. Watchin' the trains go out. Do do do do do. What do I do when the train comes in? When the watch all the trains go out. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I'll be showin' hallelujah all the day. Oh, you will have a jubilee down in Memphis, Tennessee, and we'll show up, hallelujah all the day.

11:17Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Can you say you told Annie to meet us here at the large hall, did you? Oh, yeah, Henry, he oughta be here in a minute. And I want you to know that I let you know in a nice thing. I just couldn't raise $25 by myself. Yes, well, here's my $12.50. Who wouldn't there's mind that gives us $25 to buy half into his name and salary. Wait a minute, I hear somebody comin' out. Come in, brother, and a come in. Shyamotha, see you, Andy? Yeah, Shyamotha, see you. Oh, sit down, brother, and a there's a soft seat right there. And before I forget it, Andy, me and my wife would like to have you come over to our hospital supper tonight. Only yesterday, Mrs. Van Porter would say, we ain't had Andy brown up to our place for supper for a long time. I never been up to your place for supper. Is it been that long?

12:19Yeah, well, we can get to the social stuff a little later, boys, but now let's sit down here and talk. Henry, if you don't think of what we was discussing before, or maybe me and Henry can be your managers. Yeah, I think about it, and I still don't see why I need no managers. Tell us y'all are just wasting your time. Now, you knew, Andy, if you keep up this attitude, well, we love to refuse to be your managers. How would you like that? I'd like it. I know what you'd see our way. Now, let me read you the contract, I got you. Now, this is the most important thing I got you. This is what everything and right until the angle have no mistake voting up. Yeah, Santa, this is all in your favor, Andy, because you is the helpless type, and you need some shrewd managers. Yeah, that's right. And then, now, let me read the contract here. Say here, Andrew H. Brown, here we have to refer to in this document as helpless Brown. Agreed to a point as his joint business managers, Henry Van Porter, here we have the node as shrewd Henry. And George King's three Stevens, here we have the node as even shrewd Steven.

13:22Now, how do the contracts sound so far, helpless? Just keep breathing. Yes, go on. How does sound to you, shrewd? Oh, it sounds just fine. Even shrewd, huh? Say here, there are certain managers agreed to pay the said Andrew H. Brown $25 in cash. And on top of that, said managers agree to break their backs, managing, helping, advising, talking to, and talking with Andrew Brown in return for which he agrees to pay them 50% of his salary as long as he got a job for them. Hey, wait. Something done with his past meet-up. I am. I don't even know what you're talking about. Now, I didn't know there's nothing to listen by. Let me finish reading the contract. For the move, Brown gets the lion share of the weekly check of $75. And all that the managers get is a measly $37.50.

14:23Further more hold it, hold it. Something else done with this by me again. I never see the contract win the high gear like this one do. Well, Handa, I think that gives you an idea what a fair contract is. Now, me and Henry is going into the other room and copying on the tape right away so we can all sign the thing. Yes, see you in a minute, Andy. We'll be right back. Them two is always trying to pull a fast one on me. I think there's chisel on them on me. Well, how was your day, Andy? Come in, Amy. Yeah, I didn't say it was not the King's Fish and Henry running down the hall there a second ago. Yeah, I guess it was all right. At the end, I was just over to your office and this telegram was there for you. I thought I'd bring it over here. Telegram, let me see you, Amy. Yeah, must be seven important. Yeah, it is. Yeah, what do you say, Rita? From the Prattis Cloak and Company as your cargo, listen to this. We sent you an offer of a position by mistake. Due to an error, we wrote to you instead of Andrew B Brown.

15:27Oh. Please disregard our letter. Hope this hasn't inconvenienced you. Prattis Cloak and Company. Well, Amy. Oh, G. Annerd, that's you has bad news, Amy. Yeah. You know, even if they did make a mistake, they could have given me a chance at the job. This way I'd be in fire before I was even higher. Yeah, they could have given you a chance, all right? Oh, yeah. On every other job I done had before they fired me for being no good, they at least give me a week to prove it. Well, it's just one of them things, ain't it? Yeah, that's a bad break, all right. Yeah, sure, going to be a surprise to King's Fish and Henry. You know, they want to be my managers and take a person of my salary. Oh, and say you're pulling that stuff again. Don't they ever stop trying to chisel? Well, I don't look that way. Somebody oughta teach them a lesson. Yeah, you're right. Somebody oughta say, wait a minute. Yes, sir, you've got an idea there, Amy. Teach them a lesson. That's this stuff. And you know something?

16:27What's that? I is going to be the teacher. Well, Andy, I don't know what you're going to do, but I'll show you all for it. Well, hello, Amish. Hello. Well, how's your name? Hi, fellas. Well, here's the contract, Saul. Pack down. Yeah, well, we all set the clues to deal here. Now, how about it, Ender? Well, tell your boys, I haven't figured over. That wasn't stuff in the contract there. That didn't mount them much, did it? Oh, no, no. Didn't mount them nothing. You ain't hear nothing. Will's there, Ender. Yeah, and you guys wouldn't take revenge, Amy, would you? Oh, absolutely not, brother, Ender. And no, no way, your friends, everything is in your favor. And you need a couple of managers, bad too. Yeah, I guess you're right, Kingfish. Well, give me the money outside the contract. Oh, great. Put it there, Ender, shake hands. Great. Now, here's the 25, I'll just un-cake. Yeah. Well, look at that green stuff there. Then I'll just start it right there, Ender. Right there, where the dotted line is. I'll put your name right on. Okay, okay.

17:27Wonderful. Look at that. Ender, congratulations. This is the smartest thing you has ever done. Kingfish, you ain't kidding. Are in so white, Wars? With ease. Are in so bright, Wars? With safety. Is it any wonder that women here, there, everywhere, are singing? For a wash that's white as it can be. Rinse so white, be R-I-G-A-C. Yes, rinse so keep your colors tight. It's a little harder for a wash so white. It's credit-by, you can't go wrong. Rinse so white. Rinse so white, having a little wash then saw. What do you have reason to be happy on Wash Day with Rinse-O's soapy Ritz suds on the job? No hard scrubbing or boiling. Just a short soaking with Rinse-O, a few quick finger rubs on extra soiled places, and clothes are ready to rinse.

18:27And I don't sneeze my head off either since I changed to Rinse-O. Right, ma'am. Rinse-O's anti-sneez. It's made by an exclusive anti-sneez process, and is 98% free of sneezey soap dust. No other granulated soap can make this claim. So next Wash Day, remember, are in so white, Wars? With ease. Are in so bright, Wars? With safety. Well, come on, Henry, let's drop into Andy's office here. Well, it doesn't look like he's in. Yeah, well, we wait for him, maybe he's trying to sell some suits to down. By the way, King Fist, just what is we supposed to do as anti-sneez managers? Oh, nothing. Just collect 30% of his salary, that's all. Oh, we've got a sucker here, Henry. Yeah, I wonder if our friend Andy has took any orders yet. Well, that I don't know, well, wait a minute, let me peek in his desk door here.

19:27That's where we keep him. Yes, take a good look in there. Oh, wait a minute, what is this? Henry, what is it, King Fist? Listen to this, it's a telegram to end it. Say here, we sent you an offer of a position by mistake. Due to an error, we wrote you instead of Andrew B Brown. Please disregard our letter. Hope this hasn't inconvenienced you, signed, and the printer is closed and cut. Henry, Andy ain't got no job at all. Good. Gracious, our money. The $25 we has been slumped. Okay, wait a minute, Henry, look here, I just saw it or something. He must open a lot of Andy's mail when he ain't here. Maybe Andy and C just telegram. Maybe he must put it in the drawer. Yes, yes, that's the possibility, all right there. What must we do? Well, now look here, before we tackles Andy, I think we ought to try to sell our interest and Andy to somebody so we can get our $25 back. Yes, sir. But who? Well, we have got to search for somebody that's a sucker, some guy that ain't very wild. We have got to search for...

20:27Hi, fellow. The search is over. So, say, short, I glad you're dropping in now. Tell me there's a, how would you like to manage Andrew Brown and get a person of his salary? Now, that's the best way in the world of getting yourself a lot of money for doing nothing. Oh, no, that ain't no good, Kingfinger. I, I, I, when nobody's breaking their backs for me. Yeah, I can see that you don't know nothing about economics. Who don't know nothing about economics? What, what, what, what you said? Who don't? But the, the, the, the, when you, when you get a man working for it, he, he starts fluctuating with the social security. Yeah, well, what social security guys do with it? Well, what, what you got to do with my social security? Well, well, what, what, what does it got to do with it? Well, if a man went for it and he, he, he, being in some money, you, you start, you start getting social and, and as soon as you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you get some money, you, you, you get it, it's coming, stay with you. And they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they got some, a, a security that, you get a, that, that, that, social security, that's what it is. That's what it is. That's what it is. And that's short. Oh, no, I know, but if we, if we do what you say, how are you going to handle this, apply on the man?

21:28And you know what that does, don't you? Yeah, what do we do? Well, you get a, that in a fair question. That's what it is. Well, well, the answer, it, go on, go on, answer. We're not according to the figures, we leave by the federal construction committee, which is the subcommittee of, of the federal Deulhamt, the federal commission and, and, and, and, and, and the subcommittee, I think we were, which, I, I, that answered your question right there, you see? Well, there it is. What a goal it's got to do with the economic. What's about to do with it? I just told you, the, the, the thing is, what I mean, you see, what, you know, look, you're the, and the world. And you get half of this, all right? All right, that is economic. Now, even the government down and watching us back of it. Oh, don't kill me about watching. You know, I know the government. I know the man that runs the government. You take that fellow and the cabinet right down there. What's his name? The man with the white hair? The man with the white hair, the magnaut? Oh, I wouldn't say that about him. Oh, my God. Well, Shordy, who are you talking about? Well, I'm talking about the man. The head of the state.

22:29He just is not a Mr. Shell. I mean, Mr. Shell. Mr. Shell. Oh, hold. Mr. Hold. Yeah, well, him too, now. Now, you know, that man. That man that took his place with the grey hair, and Mr. Stustic, and he's just a... You can sense it. Well, what about what does he do? Well, he didn't do that at all. He didn't. Oh. Can't get away with it. That's why. Now, just a minute, boys, it seems to me that we are just getting off the track here just a little bit. Now, now, look, Shordy, take mine, boy. If you want to make some big money and let Anne to go to work for you, got it? No, no. I've been on it. I just couldn't do that. I couldn't have a man working for it. It's against my principle. I just wouldn't feel like I'd feel so guilty. Well, I'd never want to... When can he start? I look at that, Mr. Stustic, Shordy. Anne, the balance can start earning money for you as soon as you pay the $25. $25? It's a wonderful proposition, Shordy. You never regret it. Just give us the $25, and we'll consider the deal close. Oh, sure.

23:30I can give you the cash right now. I got my checkbook right. I think there's enough money in the cash register. If he can go to the back, I ain't going to die. Yeah. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. King Fish, I think it's hopeless. After we done with Shordy, I tried selling our contracts to a couple of other people, but with no success. Well, we got to get our money back, because that was my way of spending. I got to get it. Yes, I thought we had the best deal of our lives, and it turned out to be a mess. How could Anne be such a chiseler? Yeah. Here comes Anne, of course, a sweet now. Look here, I'm going to show you how I'm going to handle the thing. It can't miss. Nobody ain't ever putting up no war on me yet, you know. Yes. Well, do your very best, King Fish. Wait a minute. How you doing? Well, Lou, fell in there. Hi, fellas. Hi. Hello, Anne. Yeah, it got some bad news for you, Anne. Yes, what's that? Yeah, here too, it's right here. I'll read it to you.

24:30Oh, Lord, Anne, it had just passed the new law. And it just happens to apply to the deal that me and Henry is in with you at the moment. Yes, read it to him, King Fish. Well, let me read you this law. Oh, Lord, number 1796. Say here, this law applies to all citizens of the United States of America. This law has been passed and approved by the Army, the Navy, the President, the Senate, and good housekeepers. Then I guess that takes into account everybody. Yeah, well, what's it say? Well, no, that's what it goes with. I just keep you here, Lou, listen here. Now, here's the most important part of the whole law. Yeah, really, there we go. Say here, any man who sells poor interest in here salary to anybody is liable to a $5,000, $5,000, 10 years in prison or both, or most likely more. You see, a very rigid law. Yeah, well, no, I understand. I think that gives you the whole picture. Yeah, I got the picture good. You, too, chisels, has been sticking your nose in my drawer

25:31and you found out about that telegram. You has been chiseling all your life. And I took your $25 because I wanted to show you that two can work at the same game. That, but brother Anderson. Yes, Sandy, why is it me? Well, we only wanted to help you. Oh, why don't you stop crawling? By trying to chisel me, it doesn't chisel yourself. You see there? Can't you take your lesson like a man? Well, now, brother Anderson, wait a minute. Will you please, Anderson? Now, look, Anderson, as you all peled the kingfish, don't forget now, we used to brothers in that great fraternity to the most at night to the sea for years, Anderson. I didn't mean it. And honors are, didn't it? And I've got to have that money back. It belonged to my dear sweet, gentle wife. And if I don't get it back, you'll murder, man. All right, all right, try, baby. Get up, get up. Here's your $25 back. And you can tear up the contract. Oh, that's it, Anderson. But just don't ever forget about this in case you ever get any more ideas to pull a fast one. All right, and I'll tear up the contract right now. Here tears. Brother Anderson, I can't thank you enough.

26:33Yeah, I'm believe, man. Just don't really learn real lesson. I really deserve. I'll never try to chisel nobody again. Me neither, Andy. And the never again, whenever I try to cut in on anything I use as long as I live. Well, come here, Amos, come here. Hi, fellas. And here's another telegram that can't for you. It's your office. And when you wasn't here, I've been out looking for you. Oh, thank you, Amos. What is it, you know? Well, read it, read it out. Yeah, well, it's dressed to me, all right. From the Prince Cloak and come there. It's a, we informed you by telegram that our letter, Offer New Position, was a mistake. We have since received such a strong letter of recommendation from Amos Jones that we have decided to give you the job as our honor representative. Well, the end, I just have to have another contract. Get away from me. Oh, that's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it. That's it.

27:34That's it. That's it. Amos and Annie will be back in just a moment. For an easier wash day, get Rinse-O. Rinse-O's, Sophe-Ritz-Suds, get out, stubborn, dirt fast. Get white clothes. Rinse-O white. Washable colors. Rinse-O bright. And ladies, a rinse-O white, rinse-O bright washes something to be proud of. You'll find Rinse-O a big help with the dish washing too, and with all the soap and water jobs around the house. And now, here are Amos and Annie. Well, and I don't understand it. You got that job with the Prince Cloak and Company on Tuesday and here it is Friday, and it's all over already. Well, you know, Amos, like I say before, every job I has had they give me at least a week to prove that I'm no good. Yeah. This time I all done myself. Only took me three days. I'm a disaster.

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