The Baby Snooks Show was an American radio program starring comedian and Ziegfeld Follies alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress who played her when she first went on the air.
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00:00Well, come along, Snooks.
00:03We'll try to make ourselves presentable for the great Charles Harding Blair.
00:08While you're at it, you might glance through those books on the table.
00:11Books?
00:12Yes, Mr. Blair's books. He wrote them.
00:14The very least you can do is glance through them so you'll have some basis for dinner table conversation.
00:19Oh, Vera, this is going too far.
00:21It is not.
00:22Read me about China.
00:24Very well. I'll just read something at random.
00:27All right.
00:27Traveling in our little skiff down the Yangtze River, we suddenly came upon a large building.
00:33The reader will never guess what it was.
00:35Maybe it was the Yangtze Stadium.
00:40Very funny.
00:41Yeah, I'm funny.
00:44Do you mind if I continue reading?
00:47Please do.
00:48Very well.
00:50The reader will never guess what it was.
00:52Although Oolong, my number one boy, made a feeble pun about the building saying it might be the...
00:57Yangtze Stadium.
01:03Very funny. Read me some more.
01:07All right.
01:08Africa the Mysterious.
01:09Chapter three.
01:10Yes.
01:11Although it was pitch dark out, I suddenly called a halt as I instinctively realized we had reached the banks of the Niazza River.
01:19We struck camp early the following day and made our way down the Niazza to Nghaghi in the Ftata region.
01:27What's the matter, Daddy?
01:29Nothing. That's what it says here.
01:31Oh.
01:32I thought your teeth were slipping.
01:34Now, listen.
01:39The third day out, Grep's, my number one boy, sighted the Nghaghi escarpment.
01:47That must be him.
01:49Huh?
01:49Lancelot, look. It's Mr. Blair.
01:51Straight up this room. Hurry.
01:52Here's a comb, Lancelot. Comb your hair.
01:54What hair?
01:55Oh, dear. I'm so excited. I don't even know my own name.
01:59Well, it's not Richard. Open the door.
02:03Oh, yes. Be still, my heart.
02:06Mr. Blair, I take it. So nice to see you. Come in, won't you?
02:10You are Mrs. Higgins?
02:12Yes.
02:14And who, pray, is this?
02:16This is my daughter.
02:18My advice to you, madam, is not to take her to Africa in the open season.
02:25I've hunted things that look better than that.
02:30Well, I know she's not pretty, but she's very bright.
02:33And well-mannered.
02:34And this?
02:35My husband, Mr. Higgins.
02:38Nature, Mrs. Higgins, has indeed been unkind to you.
02:42Well, I like that.
02:43Come in.
02:56Hi, Mr. Blair. I brought you up some lunch.
02:59Thanks.
03:00It's good, because I take it and I'm on the way up.
03:03Just set it on the table and leave.
03:06What's this thing over here?
03:08That is a beehive.
03:09A real one?
03:10No, it's a model I use in my lecture.
03:13Almost impossible to tell it from the real thing, isn't it?
03:16Yeah.
03:17I can almost feel those little bees in there that are stinging me.
03:23Even those little bees in there that are stinging you are perfect little models.
03:27Yeah.
03:27Now, careful that glass.
03:28You'll break it.
03:29No, I won't.
03:30Don't touch it.
03:31Mrs. Higgins.
03:31Mrs. Higgins.
03:32Yes, I'm not here, Mr. Blair.
03:34Get this human barnacle of yours away from me.
03:37Oh, I'm sorry.
03:38Leave Mr. Blair alone, Mr. Smith.
03:40And what were you doing, prowling around outside my door?
03:43I just came up to tell you you're wanted on the telephone.
03:46Oh.
03:46Well, it certainly took you long enough.
03:48I came as fast as I could.
03:51Gee, this is a pretty old make-believe bee house.
03:56Those little bees are so cute.
03:58I wonder if we'd make it if I just took one.
04:03I'll take this one.
04:06Oh, I broke it.
04:08What'll I do?
04:10Oh, I know.
04:12There's another beehive out in the apple tree.
04:15I'll get it to him and he won't know it.
04:19But this way...
04:20Let me illustrate, ladies, by making reference to this model beehive here.
04:37Looks almost real, doesn't it?
04:39It has a hymn somewhere along here.
04:44Where is that thing?
04:46Careful, Mr. Blair.
04:46There's a bee crawling on your head.
04:48Now, now, now.
04:49Let's not let our imaginations run away with it.
04:52These are just imitation bees.
04:53They...
04:54Ah!
04:54Ah!
04:54Ah!
04:54What the...
04:55Oh!
04:56Oh, there it goes!
04:57It's other...
04:57Oh!
04:57Oh!
04:58Oh, there it is!
04:58Oh, my God!
05:00Oh!
05:16Oh!
05:17Oh!
05:17Oh!
05:18Oh!
05:18Oh!
05:18Oh!
05:18Oh!
05:18Oh!
05:18it's safe to go in now. I don't see any cars. The women must have gone home. My, Vera.
05:28Why are you crying? What's the matter, Mommy? Don't you. What's the matter, Mommy? Me,
05:33you, you. Darling, what is it? What's happened? Laszlo Higgins, I protected that child many
05:38times when you wanted to give her respect. But now I want you to give her the licking
05:42of her life. Will somebody please tell me what happened? My whole party ruined because
05:47that child broke Mr. Blair's bottle of beehive and substituted a real one. It was awful.
05:51There were bees all over the place. Well, where's Blair? He left in a rage. He's not staying
05:57with us anymore. He's going to Mrs. Jackson. Well, Laszlo, don't stand there. Do something.
06:03Snooks. Bye, Daddy. Come here. Leave the room, Vera. This is not going to be pretty. Not
06:12too hard, Laszlo. Just teach her a good lesson. I'll take care of it. Outside,
06:17Vera, this is man's word. Call me when it's over. I'll be in the next room.
06:24I didn't mean it. It fell down. Quiet, quiet. Here's half a dollar.
06:33A half dollar? Yeah. Now start bawling.
06:36But you didn't hit me yet. I'm not going to. But I want your mother to think I am. Now go
06:42ahead. Yell loud as though I'm hitting you. Take this. And this. And this. I love you,
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