I'm all makers of bottom or turkey shabby present the magic bow.
Hello everybody.
Now I tell you, I want all of you boys and girls here this morning to join in singing
the new bottom most song with me very loud.
You boys and girls out there, watch your television screen for the new words and you sing along
with us.
All right orchestra, strike up the band.
We love the magic clown, as well as you would tell.
The tricks are fun for everyone, we love the magic clown.
They're crafty too you know, he's smarter than any of us.
And as you heard the magic word, hooray, it's bottom most.
You know I heard all of you boys and girls out there singing this morning, every last
one of you, and you learned that very very well.
But now let's do a trick.
Oh let's see, I'd like to have, how about this young lady, will you come out and help
me do a trick?
And this young man over here, will you come over?
What's your name sonny?
Come on up.
Arthur, and what is your name?
Joanna.
Joanna and Arthur.
Now Joanna, I want you to stand right here, and Arthur, you stand right over here on this
side, and I'm going to tell you a little story about a friend of mine.
Stand right back this way a little bit Arthur.
A friend of mine named Dumpy, and Dumpy was a dwarf, and he was the smallest dwarf in
the whole whole world.
And he lived in a great big empty castle.
You know it was empty, there was no furniture in it because Dumpy was so small he couldn't
climb up on the chairs or lay in beds or anything like that, so he slept right on the floor.
And Dumpy was a very funny dwarf, he liked to collect birds eggs.
But he never saw a bird's egg because he was so small that he couldn't see a bird's egg
way up in the tree.
One day he went walking in the forest and he met a very famous magician, and a very
handsome magician.
And Dumpy said, Mr. Magician, will you teach me to grow big?
Well I forget the magician's name, but anyway when Dumpy said, will you teach me to grow
big, I said, why certainly I will Dumpy.
That's what I told him.
And I gave him a little piece of paper that said, if you want to grow, you must blow.
And he went home to his castle, and when he got on the castle he said, well I'll go up
on the roof as I do every day, and I'll study exactly what the magician told me to do, and
then maybe I'll grow to get to be a big boy.
But just as he was sitting up there trying to learn how to grow, he heard a terrible
big thumping noise, and through the woods came a terrible old giant named Biffle.
And Biffle just loved little dwarfs.
He loved to eat them.
Isn't that a terrible thing for a giant to do?
And when Dumpy saw Biffle he was frightened, and Biffle said, oh that's my meal for today.
I'm going into the castle.
So he tried to get through the door, but the door was so small he couldn't get in.
So he decided to dig down underneath.
But just then Dumpy remembered the little piece of paper I'd given him that said, if
you want to grow, you must blow.
So you, each of you, help me to make Dumpy grow big, will you?
One, two, three, let's blow.
Blow more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more.
And wouldn't you believe it?
Dumpy grew very, very big.
My goodness, all the time the giant was digging, and he came up into the castle from underneath.
When he got in there he said, I'll go up on the roof and eat Dumpy.
But when he got up there, do you know, he saw Dumpy, and he was frightened stiff because
Dumpy was bigger than he was.
So he quick went down into the castle, and you know when he got down in he found that
same piece of paper that I had written out for Dumpy.
And that piece of paper said, if you want to grow, you must blow, but the poor old giant
was so scared out that all he could do was blow in his breath like this.
He couldn't blow at all.
And do you know, as he blew in his breath, he got smaller and smaller and smaller and
smaller until finally he was the smallest giant in the whole forest, and Dumpy was the
biggest dwarf in the whole forest, and still lived in the house without any furniture because
he was too big to grow.
I'll crawl up on it and climb up on it.
Thank you all very, very much for helping me.
What are you doing down there?
I'm treasure hunting.
Treasure hunting?
What treasure?
What treasure?
Yes.
Tell them, kids.
I forgot that.
Oh, that is so good.
I want some.
I want some.
You want some?
Yes, I want some.
Listen, you old magic clown, you're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You're greedy.
You've already got some.
You know, I can't say that I blame him an awful lot because most everybody I know wants
more Bonnemousse turkeys taffy.
It's so delicious.
You know, you can eat it right from the whole bar, or if you want, here's something else
you can do with it.
Now, you just watch how this works.
Wham!
Like that.
Down on the table, and you've broken it into small little pieces that you can share well
with your friends or with your folks.
Ah, man, that's real good.
And I want to tell you something, that no matter how you take Bonnemousse turkeys taffy,
it just lasts and lasts and lasts.
Why it's so good, it just melts in your mouth.
So you be sure and look for this, the red, white, and blue Never Stick wrapper at your
favorite candy counter.
If you don't see it, you just say, I want my Bonnemousse turkeys taffy.
Oh, that Jack Gregner, he has the best ideas all the time.
But boys and girls, I want to tell you a little story that happened to me several years ago
when I was with a great big circus.
One day we had a terrible thing happen.
The trunks that were supposed to come along with us never arrived in the city.
We were going to do our big show in, and the wardrobe mistress had a terrible problem because
she had no belts to go around some of the people in the circus.
So she called in me, the magic clown, and she said, what am I going to do to make some belts?
And I said, well, you have a piece of cloth there.
You should be able to make enough belts for the people in the circus.
And the poor wardrobe mistress said, but I haven't because they are very special people.
Well, I said, all right, let's take a piece of the cloth and just tear it into two, about
like this.
But that won't do any good at all.
I told you they were very special people.
Two of them are the Siamese twins.
So I said, well, that's easy.
And I took one of the pieces of cloth and I tore it just like I'm doing now.
And would you believe it?
I made a belt loop right inside of another one so that would fit on the Siamese twins
perfectly.
But we had trouble.
It seems there were three Siamese twins.
So I had to do the trick all over again.
And when I did the trick all over again, we had three loops, loop one inside of another
just like that.
And the Siamese twins were taken care of.
You may have that, Miss Indigo down here.
Oh, yes.
Then she said, but how am I ever going to make a belt for the fat lady?
Well, I said, just take the piece of cloth you have there and tear it like I'm doing
right now.
And I think you'll have a belt that will go around the fat lady.
Oh, she said, yes, but our fat lady is twice as big as that.
The belt will never go around her.
So I said, that's easy.
And I proceeded to tear the cloth again, just like I'm doing now.
And do you know, I made a belt that was not only big enough to go around the fat lady,
but big enough to go around the biggest elephant in the animal kingdom.
And now, let's visit the beautiful home of the world's smallest magician built just like
the famous Turkish taffy kettle.
We see a huge puff of magic smoke, and here's the one and only Laffey.
Well, hello, Laffey.
Have you a trick for us this morning?
Oh, you want me to give a very special message?
Oh, Laffey wants to send his greetings to the New England Society of Magicians meeting
up there in New Haven.
Is that right?
Well, very, very good, Laffey.
That's wonderful.
And what kind of a trick have you for us this morning?
A trick with some coins and some glasses.
Well, oh, I see.
You want me to hold this little vase down here and you're going to...
That's very good.
You put a little glass down on it like that, and over it, you want to put another glass
like that.
And what am I supposed to do?
Oh, I'm supposed to hold that, am I?
Well, all right, Laffey, I'll hold it.
Hold it in my hand.
Will that be all right if I hold it right there?
What are you going to do?
Oh, you're going to take a coin up from here, come way over here and throw it at...
Oh, for goodness sakes, Laffey.
It went right into the glass.
Well, Laffey, that was a very good trick.
Let's pick up another coin, Laffey.
Come over here, and you're going to throw it...
Laffey, it jumped right into the glass.
I'm amazed.
This is really wonderful magic, Laffey.
Where did you learn this trick?
Oh, you're going to take another one.
Oh, for goodness sakes, Laffey, you did that very, very well.
Now we take another one, and way up here...
Oh, Laffey, Laffey, what happened to this one?
Oh, it must have traveled right up through the air.
Now let's see if they really are in there.
And would you believe it?
There they are.
You know, I'll bet that's a trick that Jack Gregson would like, Laffey.
Oh, you want to talk to Jack Gregson?
Well, I'll bet Jack Gregson wants to talk to you, too.
Let's see if he does.
You think so?
Very good, Magic Land.
And I'll say, just say Corday, for Corday makes many, many delicious hard candies.
First, there's the candy cuts right over here.
These are the baby cuts.
And then there's the peanut butter peanuts.
And then the assorted butter cups.
And there are many, many other hard candy treats in store for you.
For instance, here are the black walnut chips.
Oh, crisp, sweet candy on the outside, luscious black shredded coconut on the inside.
Double taste enjoyment.
How would you like to be able to just pop one of these in your mouth, huh?
Oh, let me tell you.
You just savor the flavor.
Oh, and then you bite deep into that tasty center.
Ah, that tastes good.
So you just say Corday, for right now you can buy Corday hard candies many different
places.
Here's all you have to do.
You just look for the Corday display.
Look for it, and you'll see it wherever good candy is sold.
Yes, indeed.
You can buy them.
They're tempting, and their mouth's watery.
Corday's hard candies.
You can get them individually, you see, or mixed by the pound.
So buy a Corday at these following stores.
W.T.
Grant, F.W.
Woolworth, J.J.
Newberry, S.H.
Kress, the green stores, all the green stores, the McCrory stores, the McClellan stores,
G.C.
Murphy, Nisner Brothers, N.H.
Landau, M.H.
Lanston, and the Fisher Beer stores, and of course, at your favorite candy counter, too.
So just say Corday, for Corday is perfection in confection.
And now the magic clown, the housewife's friend, is going to show you how to do your laundry
in rapid time.
You see, I have here some very, very badly soiled silk handkerchiefs.
Jack Gregson must have gotten hold of these before the show, because I was supposed to
do a trick with them, and he got ink all of them.
But you know it's very, very simple to correct that.
All you have to do is get a box of soap flakes, and as long as you get soft soap, it doesn't
make any difference what kind you buy.
And what you do is, when you get the soap flakes, you throw the flakes out.
You don't use the flakes.
You just throw the flakes out of the box.
And once they've been thrown out, you use the box.
And down into it, you tuck the silk handkerchiefs that have been soiled, or anything else you
may have that's been soiled.
Now there's number one, and here's number two, going right down into the box.
Now, that's very easy so far, and there's been no trickery.
But up to here, watch.
Here's where the trickery begins.
We tuck number three down into the box.
And now, as I say, no fun up to here, no trickery, lots of fun.
But now that they're in there, watch.
Here's where the trickery begins, because I close the box all up just like this, then
I shake it in this hand, and shake it in this hand, and shake it in this hand, and shake
it in this hand, and wave my hand, and say the magic words.
Can you say it now?
Magic words!
And when I say the magic word, I open up the box, and would you believe it, they come out
just as clean and white as candy.
There's number one, and there's number two, and there's number three.
They came out just as clean and white as candy.
And I'll bet you don't know how that trick is done, do you?
Turn the box around.
Turn the box around, truly.
No, it's going down.
Oh, like this?
Oh, that's the time I fooled you.
Watch.
I'm going to show you exactly what is in the box.
You see, if you open it up, you'll see there is absolutely nothing in it.
That's wonderful magic, Clown Magee.
I'm sorry.
Oh, boy, that will give me all the pep and energy of a happy little rabbit.
Oh, you bet your life.
You know, boys and girls, don't you dare miss Bonnemose Turkey Staffy, because I'm here
to tell you that it's just the most taste-tempting treat that you could possibly imagine.
Why, just let its luscious goodness melt in your mouth, and man, oh, man, oh, man, you're
going to discover the dandiest, candiest flavor ever.
And, of course, you're going to get hours upon hours of good, wholesome enjoyment, too,
from your bar of Bonnemose Turkey Staffy, because it lasts so long.
Now, let me show you.
You don't have to eat your bar of Bonnemose Turkey Staffy from the whole bar, if you don't
want to.
You can just slam it down like that, and then just tear off this new Never-Stick wrapper,
and oh, looky there, will you?
Just lots of scrumptious pieces of Turkey Staffy, and just wham, bam, lot of fun, too.
And then, I'm telling you, that is real good.
So you just go to your candy counter, will you?
And when the candy counter man says, what do you want?
It's as if he didn't know.
You just say, I want my bar of Bonnemose Turkey Staffy, because it tastes so good.
Get yours as soon as you can, will you?
And now, here's the magic clown.
Do sort of a silly trick, too, a little Chinese trick.
You know, once upon a time, there was an old Chinese magician, and he had two magic wands
like this, and through them there was a hole, and a string ran through them, and there was
a tassel on each end of the string, and when he pulled on one tassel, the other one went up.
When I pull on this tassel, you see, the other one goes up, just like that.
It's a very remarkable trick, but one day, somebody said, oh, I know how that's done.
He said, there's a string between the two.
I said, oh, no, there isn't.
As a matter of fact, if you think there is, I'll cut it just like that, and that's what I did,
and then I held them apart like that, and would you believe it, when I pulled on one tassel,
the other one went up and touched the stick.
When I pulled on the other one, this one went up and touched the stick.
A most remarkable trick.
Whenever you pulled on the little one, well, you see, this is a long cord that just goes
through here, do you see that?
And this is a little tiny short cord that goes through here, and were I to pull on the
short cord, the other one would go up and touch the stick, do you see what I'm...
Oh, the young man means there's one right down here at the end.
Oh, you're wrong.
There's nothing there at all.
I can put it right here, and you see, nothing there at all.
I'll tell you what, I'll put this one under my arm like this.
You can see there's nothing there now.
When I pull on this one, you see, the other one goes up and touches the stick.
It has to, because whenever you pull on the short one, the other one always gets short,
and the short one gets long.
Or if I pull on this short one, the other...
It always happens.
Whenever you pull on one, the other...
Oh, wait a minute, something's gone wrong.
Oh, I remember, I forgot to say the magic word.
Do you know the magic word?
Bonomo!
No, sit right down here.
Just move forward a little bit.
Now that you say the magic word, I'll pull on the taff of your Bonomo hat like this one.
Bonomo!
And as I pull on that, they both get short, and all I have to do is say Bonomo, pull on
this one, and they're just as good as they were when we first started.
Bonomo!
And now, let's visit with us world's smallest magician, the greatest prestidigitator and
master of legend or mane.
We see a huge pot of magic smoke, and here's the one and only Laffey.
Good morning, Laffey.
Did you hear what that Jack Brakeman said about you?
He certainly says the greatest things.
I tell you what, sometimes even you and I don't know what he's talking about, do we?
No.
Oh, you're going to do a special trick this morning?
You're going to hypnotize my hand?
Now, Laffey, what do you mean you're going to hypnotize my hand?
Oh, you'll show us.
You're going to wave your hand?
Oh, I see.
You have a pack of cards, and you're going to use those to help us.
Is that right, Laffey?
That's right.
All right, Laffey, you take the cards out.
What are you going to do now?
You're going to hypnotize my hand?
What's that?
You're going to place cards down on my hand?
Well, now, Laffey, I don't know whether you can hypnotize my hand or not.
Do you think you really can?
All right.
Laffey, let's try it out.
Let's see if we can really get my hand hypnotized here.
Do you think you can do it?
I don't think you can, Laffey, because you're having too much trouble already.
Oh, oh, that's all.
Now it's hypnotized?
Laffey, I don't know whether...
You're going to prove it?
All right, what are you going to do now?
Put a card on...
Well, that's all right, but I don't see any particular trick to that.
And another one on here.
And another one way out here.
Well, for goodness sakes, Laffey, we seem to be having all sorts of trouble.
Laffey, you're not getting anywhere at all with this trick.
And they tell me, Laffey, that you usually do it very, very well.
Let's try it again.
Let's put a whole lot of cards on here like this.
Yes, oh, my goodness, Laffey, what's happening here?
Here we go.
Oh, for goodness sakes, Laffey, don't drop so many of them.
You're having real serious trouble here.
That's right.
That's it.
Oh, Laffey, Laffey, Laffey.
Some more.
We'll be here on this...
Laffey, how am I going to hold on to them if you put any more there?
Goodness sakes alive.
Well, well, well, well.
I have to turn my hand or they'll all drop, Laffey.
Oh, you'll help me.
Well, Laffey, they did stay right there.
Oh.
Oh, say, that was great, Magic Tom.
And say, here's something else that's great.
It's Bonomo's Butter Rich Peanut Brittle.
Yes, sir, Bonomo's Peanut Brittle is butter rich.
Let me tell you about it.
You see, Mother, it's made with country fresh table butter.
And just like good, wholesome butter, it melts in your mouth.
Oh, and those crisp, crunchy peanuts, oh, man, they're hand-picked, they are.
You bet your life.
They're hand-picked.
They're the pick of the crop.
Mm-hmm.
I want to tell you that Bonomo's Butter Rich Crunchy Thin Peanut Brittle is always fresh
because this new heavy foil wrapper.
You see, that's the one that does the trick.
You bet your life.
It hermetically seals in the flavor, and it keeps it fresh as only a foil wrapping can.
So don't you forget, now, buy Bonomo's Butter Rich Peanut Brittle in the new heavy foil wrap package
at supermarkets, candy counters, and everywhere that good candy is sold.
Now, inside of the package, you will find some wonderfully new and exciting recipes
for such things as peanut brittle layer cakes and drop cookies, too.
So remember, buy Bonomo's Peanut Brittle.
It's the better brittle.
It's the butter brittle.
Well, boys and girls, that's a great idea, but you know, I had the most wonderful Christmas gift given to me.
It was an old-fashioned pirate's chest.
It looked something like this box that I have right here.
But, you know, I couldn't figure out why anyone would give me an old chest like this without a thing in it.
And you can see, there's absolutely nothing in it.
It's just empty.
And then I got a very, very good idea.
I said to myself, maybe this is a real magic chest, and maybe I have to say some magic words or something,
like, uh, hocus pocus, or abracadabra, or the real magic word, Bonomo.
So that's exactly what I did.
I took the chest, and I said the real magic word, Bonomo, and then I opened it up.
When I looked in it, why, there was an electric light bulb to let me see.
Well, and then I found in it another thing, a pretty silk handkerchief with a rabbit on it, a magician's rabbit just like that.
And then I looked in again, and I found a funny old snake charmer that looked about like that.
Well, I thought that was a pretty good idea, so I reached in again, and I found a picture of a dragon, a mean old dragon.
And for goodness sakes, I reached in again, and do you know what I found this time?
I found a picture of a duck in a boat like that.
And I said to myself, you know, that's really a pretty good magic chest.
But the funny part of it is that whenever I turn it around and open it up, it's empty.
There's nothing in it, just absolutely empty.
And so, again, once I found that it was empty, I turned it around, said the magic word,
and the magic word would be Bonomo.
And again, I'd open it up like this, and would you believe it, I'd find something else.
For example, I found a picture of an old friend of mine, another funny-looking clown.
And, oh, yes, I found all sorts of things, butterflies, there's a great big butterfly, and all sorts of, oh, I even found something to drink right down in there,
something that everybody likes to have to drink.
And, oh, then I found some great big long silkies like this, some silk scarves that would do for a real big giant.
And another silk scarf that would do for another giant.
And then I looked way inside it, and do you know what I found?
I found some playing cards that I could do a trick with.
And then I found, thinking they weren't large enough, I reached inside, I found a great big playing card like that.
And then I said to myself, that's not large enough, so I reached inside, and I found a great big one that's even bigger than the box itself.
And then I came to the most important part of all.
I reached right down in there, and I found the thing that every boy and girl wants whenever they can get it,
and that is a whole lot of Barnimo's Turkey's Taffy.
What a magic clown.
That was really a swell Christmas, wasn't it?
But that's just about all the time we have for today, Magic Clown.
Well, you know, I'm sorry about that, but boys and girls, go to your favorite candy counter and buy a bar of Barnimo's Turkey's Taffy.
Boys and girls, Barnimo has a special 1952 candy treat coming out very soon, so you watch for it.
The Magic Clown is presented each week at this same time by Barnimo, famous for quality candy for over 50 years.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
Buy now and buy Barnimo's Peanut Brittle, the Better Butter Brittle, and Barnimo's Turkey's Taffy.
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