Radio scene for Annie

Bert Healy: Thank you, Annie. Thannnk you, Annie! On America's favorite radio program, the Oxydent's Hour of Smiles, starring your old softy, Bert Healy.

(applause sign)

Annie: Thank you, Bert Healy. (at a signal from Healy, Grace takes Annie back to her seat)

Bert Healy: But, still, remember folks...

Wacky: Smile, darn ya, smile.

(Sound-Effects Man crates the sound of a door opening and closing and then of feet walking across the studio)

Jackie: Say, who's that who just walked into our WEAF Studio?

Johnson: Why it's none other than that wealthy industrialist and wall street tycoon, Oliver Warbucks.

(Applause sign)

Bert Healy: Good Evening, Oliver Warbucks, it's nice of you to drop by.

Warbucks: Good evening, Bert Healy. It's nice to be here.

Bert Healy: Oliver Warbucks, I understand that you have something to tell the folks at home about wonder little Annie here.

Warbucks: Yes, Annie is an eleven year old foundling who was left by her parents on the steps of New York's Municipal Orphanage on the night of December 31, 1922.

Bert Healy: And aren't you now conducting a coast to coast nation wide search for Annie's parents?

Warbucks: Yes, Bert Healy, I am now conducting a coast to coast nationwide search for Annie's parents.

Furthermore, I'm offering a certified check for fifty thousand dollars to any persons who can prove that they are Annie's parents.

Annie: Wow! Golly gee!

Bert Healy: Fifty Thousand Dollars? Wow, Oliver Warbucks!

Wacky: Oh, boy-oh, boy-oh boy, fifty thousand smackers!

McCracken: Shh, quiet, Wacky, this is no joke.

Wacky: I know, Mc Cracken. Everything you say is no joke.

Bert Healy: So, Annie's parents, if you're listenin; in, write to Oliver Warbucks care of this station, WEAF, New York, or directly to him at.....

Warbucks: At my home, Bert Healy. 987 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York.

Bert Healy: That's 987 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. Thank you, Oliver Warbucks.

(the sound effects man hands Warbucks a page of script and indicates that Warbucks should read it.

All Focus on Warbucks)

Warbucks: Thank you, Bert Healy. And I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the makers of all new Oxydent toothpaste, with miracle K-64 to fight bad breath, for letting me appear here this evening. Good night, Bert Healy....Wait a minute did I just do a commercial??? (hurry him back to seat)

Bert Healy: Good night, Oliver Warbucks.

(Applause Sign)

So, Annie's parents, if you're listenin' in, there's fifty thousand dollars and a wonderful daughter waiting for you.

Jackie: So get in touch right away, ya hear?

Bert Healy: Well, I see by the old clock on the wall that another of our Thursday night get together has gone by faster than you can say Oxydent.

Boylan Sister:

O-X-Y-D-E-N-T!

Bert Healy: The toothpaste of the stars. To make your teeth Hollywood bright. So, for all of the Hour of Smiles Family---

(Everyone says own name)

Ronnie

Bonnie

Connie

Bert Healy: the Lovely Boylan Sisters.

Fred McCracken

Wacky

Jackie

Johnson: And Jimmy Johnson, Radio's only masked announcer.

Bert Healy: This is Bert Healy Saying.... Hey, Hobo Man.....

(After song)

Bert Healy: Yes, this is your old softie, Mrs. Healy's boy Bert, saying until next week, same time, same station, bon soir, buenas noches guten nacht and gosh I almost forgot good night.

(Applause sign)