Personal Papers
Scope and Content
The series includes a small number of photographs of Brice and typed manuscript pages for what may represent Brice's autobiography.
Some of the photographs appear to be from the motion picture Be Yourself.
box 32, folder 6
Chapter XII - George Cukor (possible book pages)
General note
I Believe in Talking One Language Good.
box 32, folder 7
Chapter XIV - Fanny (possible book pages)
General note
I Went After Something I Didn't Want, and Got it.
box 32, folder 8
Chapter XV - Billy Rose (possible book pages)
General note
She Was Thunder in The Mountains.
box 32, folder 9
Chapter XVI - Mr. Brice (possible book pages)
General note
You Know, Fanny's Husband
box 32, folder 10
Chapter XVII - Phil Rapp
General note
She Had Raw Guts.
box 32, folder 11
Personal note to Brice and annual dinner of the White House Correspondents ephemera (Brice appearance)
box 33
Fanny Brice photographs
General note
Some photographs appear to be from the motion picture Be Yourself.
Radio Projects
Scope and Content
Radio projects include script material representing Brice's radio career playing the character of Baby Snooks on the radio
programs
Maxwell House presents good news (1938, 1939, and 1940),
Maxwell House coffee time,
Maxwell House iced coffee time,
Post Toasties time, and
Toasties time.
box 1, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE PRESENT MGM'S GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script material
11/4/1937
General note
No Baby Snooks spot.
box 1, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938
11/11/1937
General note
No Baby Snooks spot.
box 1, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 third revised script
11/25/1937
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Mummy are going to see theater of Hamlet. Daddy tells Snooks the story before he leaves.
box 1, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 third revised script
12/2/1937
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy go to the theater to see a picture - her first one.
box 1, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 second revised script
12/9/1937
General note
Synopsis: Snooks in Daddy's library playing with matches and studying for exams from daddy's books that have nothing to do
with what she is studying.
box 1, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 second revised script
12/16/1937
General note
Synopsis: Snooks has to write a composition about what she did all day - but she shows Daddy a blank page because she didn't
do anything so she could be good. Daddy helps her write a composition.
box 1, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
12/23/1937
General note
Synopsis: Snooks buys a Christmas hat. She wants one with a blue bow.
box 1, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
12/30/1937
General note
Synopsis: Snooks locked her friends in a trunk and another friend swallowed the key. Daddy tells her the story of Daniel in
the lion's den.
box 1, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
1/6/1938
General note
Synopsis: (Repeat Story) Snooks at the dentist.
box 1, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
1/13/1938
General note
Synopsis: (Repeat Story) Snooks and Daddy on a boat and Daddy gets seasick and tells her the story of Jonah and the whale.
box 1, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 third revised
1/20/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks pack to go to Florida. Daddy gives Snooks the boat tickets to put in a safe place - but she puts
them in the trunk which goes on ahead of them.
box 1, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
1/27/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is angry with Snooks because she has made a mess of the house. Snooks blames the chaos on a snake, an eagle,
and a lion.
box 1, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
2/3/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Mummy are going out to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but Snooks makes Daddy tell her the story before
she goes to bed.
box 1, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
2/10/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's boss is coming for dinner and Snooks is supposed to be going to bed. The boss calls and Snooks tells him
all terrible things so he says he is not coming.
box 1, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
2/17/1938
General note
Synopsis: Snooks learns how to tell time.
box 1, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
2/24/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy trying to leave to play bridge - Snooks has him teach her about cards.
box 1, folder 17
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 final revised
3/3/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has a headache and Snooks wants to learn about planets and stars instead of going to bed.
box 1, folder 18
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
3/10/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is trying to do his income tax and Snooks wants the amount he is allowed to deduct for her. He explains taxes.
box 2, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
3/17/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to buy her some new shoes. But she only wants roller-skates and that's not what he's buying.
He pays for the shoes that Snooks likes, but when they leave the store, she says they are her old shoes.
box 2, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
3/24/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy practices for a banquet speech. He asks Snooks to go get his pants - but she'd rather watch him practice and
ask questions. Snooks didn't take Daddy's pants to the tailor, she traded them at the store that sells jelly apples.
box 2, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
3/31/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the circus. She won't say that she is 6 years old, so Daddy has to pay an extra fifty cents.
They look at the animals. She gets a balloon and peanuts. The balloon pops and the monkey that looks like Uncle Louie takes
her peanuts.
box 2, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
4/7/1938
General note
Synopsis: Snooks visiting Uncle Louie. She doesn't want to eat her oatmeal breakfast, she wants lollipops instead.
box 2, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
4/14/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy tries to get the truth from Snooks about all the damages she did while visiting Uncle Louie.
box 2, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
4/21/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has a rash, which the doctor says will go away if he stays calm. He tries to dictate work into a dictaphone
but Snooks bothers him until his rash goes from looking like strawberries to looking like tomatoes.
box 2, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
4/28/1938
General note
Additional story featuring Fanny Brice and Max Baer.
General note
Synopsis: Mummy tells Daddy to take a picture of Snooks to enter in the Most Beautiful Child Contest, and win 500 dollars.
Snooks doesn't want to cooperate and Daddy finally gives up when he sits in her piece of strawberry shortcake.
box 2, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
5/5/1938
General note
Synopsis: At a restaurant in a train station, going to visit Grandma, Snooks and Daddy eat lunch very quickly. Snooks wants
Daddy's beer instead of milk. And Daddy teaches Snooks about vitamins. Snooks gets hiccups and Daddy ends up with them too.
box 2, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 script
5/12/1938
General note
Synopsis: Snooks' room is invaded by Daddy because his room has just been painted. Snooks won't let him sleep. He tells her
the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. She pretends there is a burglar and scares Daddy.
box 2, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
5/19/1938
General note
Synopsis: For a vacation, Daddy and Snooks go to the seashore. Daddy wanted to go to the mountains, but Mommy's vote won.
Snooks thinks the moose head looks like Uncle Louie. And she breaks the Wedgewood china.
box 2, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
5/26/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy was trying to go out to a fight at Madison Square Garden, but Snooks kept stopping him. He gives her a major
spanking then leaves. She cancels his ticket.
box 2, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
6/2/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy gives Snooks an intelligence test. Snooks does terribly. Then Daddy wants her to recite the alphabet and she
gets that wrong too.
box 2, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
6/9/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks in the doctor's office. Snooks breaks the 5,000 dollar X-ray machine.
box 2, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
6/16/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has a hangover from last night's smoker. Snooks bothers him until he reminds her that Father's Day is coming
up. She breaks open her piggy bank and decides to buy a new watch for Daddy since she broke his while attempting to open the
bank.
box 2, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 revised script
6/23/1938
General note
Synopsis: (Repeat Story) Daddy comes home and has to make dinner for Snooks because Mommy is out. He makes her some oatmeal
but she ate all his dinner so she doesn't want it.
box 2, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1938 script
6/30/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks on a boat. Daddy tells Snooks not to think about the boat's motion. Snooks loves it but Daddy gets
seasick. Daddy tells Snooks a story so she will stop shaking the boat. It's the story of Jonah and the whale.
box 3, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
9/1/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy comes in at 3 AM and Snooks is wide awake. He is catching a cold and doesn't want Mummy to wake up from her
sleep. He tells Snooks that the thunder she hears (he's soaking wet from the rain) happens when she fibs. Mummy ends up waking
up and Snooks blows Daddy's cover.
box 3, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
9/8/1938
General note
Additional story with Snooks singing original song to Daddy.
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is furious because he knows Snooks used her movie ticket money on candy. She won't tell the truth and Daddy
tells her the story of Marie Antoinette, which she would have seen at the movies.
box 3, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
9/15/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy listens to a radio show about relaxing, which he needs desperately. But Snooks jumps from the closet to surprise
him because the teacher sent her home early. Snooks has also used Daddy's stamp collection and Mommy's love-letter collection
to play postman. She gets spanked.
box 3, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
9/22/1938
General note
With script material for Fanny Brice backstage in dressing room.
General note
Synopsis: Daddy comes home and Snooks has been cleaning the house, but she made a mess. Aunt Sophie had a baby and Daddy tried
to leave to go to the down to the hospital.
box 3, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
9/29/1938
General note
Synopsis: (Repeat Story) Daddy is painting down in the cellar and Snooks interferes and ruins his painting.
box 3, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
10/6/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has insomnia and the doctor has given him medicine and told him to eat a light meal. It's 1:00 am and Snooks
comes down to see Daddy in the kitchen. Daddy gets sleepy and falls asleep on the couch, until Snooks wakes him up to take
his sleeping pill.
box 3, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
10/13/1938
General note
Synopsis: Snooks hasn't been to school and a truant officer talked to Daddy and Mummy earlier. Daddy tries to get the truth
from Snooks.
box 3, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
10/20/1938
General note
With script material for If Women Went On Hunting Trips Like Men Do.
General note
Synopsis: (Repeat story) Snooks gets a 25lb. chocolate bunny. Then they go to the museum. This time to look at ceiling paintings,
learn about evolution, see a centaur, a painting called Utopia, etc. Greek Mythology. (Slightly different from above) Snooks
gets an Easter candy egg; Snooks and Daddy compare statues to the burlesque show, the thinker, the Egyptian Room, Leda and
the Swan, the Whistler, Corot.
box 3, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
10/27/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is dressing to go to a wedding. He and Snooks talk about getting married. Then Daddy finds his fine suit has
been ruined, Snooks was making a Halloween costume. She gets spanked.
box 3, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
11/3/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy wakes up Snook because she is snoring. He tells her the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Snooks admits to
having broken a flower vase.
box 3, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
11/10/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is trying to finish packing so he can go to his Alma Matter football game. Snooks is bothering him so Daddy
gives her a dollar to shut up. Mummy takes back the money because Snooks has been bad all day.
box 3, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
11/17/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's boss comes over for dinner. Snooks is not supposed to interfere, but she does. (repeat story)
box 3, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
11/24/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks for a ride in a new car. They look at all the high- tech equipment. When it starts to fall apart,
Daddy drives fast to bring it back. A cop stops them. Daddy tells Snooks to act sick - he is trying to get her to a hospital.
The cop gives Daddy a ticket, but Snooks steals the ticket book.
box 3, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
12/1/1938
General note
Synopsis: Snooks works on homework while Daddy is trying to get sales reports totaled. He does a math problem.
box 4, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
12/8/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy practices for a lodge play of Romeo and Juliet. Snooks watches him and thinks his costume is funny. Daddy
tells her the story of Romeo and Juliet. In the end, when Snooks doesn't ask another question of him, Daddy faints.
box 4, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
12/15/1938
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is sick after a banquet and Snooks complains that there's a big light (the moon) on outside her window. Daddy
teaches her about the stars and planets. Snooks starts telling Daddy the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, but he keeps saying
lines like Snooks does during stories. Finally Snooks gets sore at him and goes off the bed. Daddy got even.
box 4, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
12/22/1938
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy are at the department store to visit Santa Claus. Snooks wants a live pony. Daddy tells her to
ask for a dollhouse - that's what he got her. Snooks pulls off Santa's beard because she thinks he's going to spank her. Daddy
and Snooks talk to a paper boy. Snooks gives him money. In the second part, Snooks recites The Owl and the Pussycat.
box 4, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
12/29/1938
General note
Synopsis: Snooks interrupts Daddy's rest. She wants to know the meaning of the word darn because Santa came into her room
and she heard him say, Darn that bedpost! Daddy gives her 10 cents not to use that word. Snooks learns about New Year's resolutions
and the calendar. She helps Daddy remember the poem 30 Days Hath November.
box 4, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
1/5/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks joins Daddy for his early morning exercises. She learns the benefits and a little about muscles. But Snooks
gets into trouble when the rubber muscle developer slaps Daddy in the face and develops a new muscle in his eye.
box 4, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
1/12/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks brings home a goldfish she caught in the pond. She puts it in a glass of water and wants to know what fish
eat. Snooks learns this - and how they breathe - from Daddy. Then they read from an animal picture book and Snooks gets silly.
She starts mocking Daddy's lines until she repeats, Snooks is a dope!
box 4, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
1/19/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy sleeps in the nursery with Snooks because Mummy sent him out of the room. Snooks wakes and wants the dog in
the room too - but she can't because it's unhealthy. Daddy tells her the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Snooks is still
not tired and agrees to let Daddy sleep in the kennel.
box 4, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
1/26/1939
General note
Synopsis: Mummy decides Snooks is not fit to watch the baby while Mummy goes to the store. Mummy takes the baby and leaves
Snooks at home to wash off the rouge she spotted all over her face. Daddy comes home and thinks Snooks has the measles. He
calls the doctor and keeps taking medicine in an attempt to get Snooks to take it too. Snooks kisses Daddy and transfers some
rouge to his face. He becomes ill and promises never to spank Snooks again if he survives. Mummy comes home and the measles
are revealed as rouge.
box 4, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
2/2/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy are in the park because Mummy and Daddy fought. Daddy is in a bad mood, but agrees to play with
Snooks on the grass though there are signs against it. A cop gives them a ticket. Snooks plays in the dirt while Daddy reads.
Snooks finds a horseshoe. Daddy throws it over his shoulder for good luck but it breaks the window of police headquarters.
The cop gives him a second chance - so Snooks throws it again and again breaks a window. Both get taken away by the cop and
Snooks gets spanked.
box 4, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
2/9/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has his hands full this weekend. Snooks gets home from school - her report card shows three Ds and an F. Daddy
plans to give Snooks a spanking, but he must attend to the baby who is sick. Snooks makes up a story about feeding a tadpole
to the baby after she helped him drink some ink. They have a discussion about not telling fibs. A process server comes to
serve Daddy. Snooks, as told, says Daddy is out of town - but blows the cover. Daddy wants to spank her for the episode, but
knows it's the wrong reason to spank - until Snooks sings, Daddy can't spank me! and she gets it.
box 4, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
2/16/1939
General note
Synopsis: At a train station, waiting to leave for the World's Fair, Snooks watches an engineer grease a milk train - she
thinks he's milking it. It's 2:00am and Snooks acts tired. Getting onto the sleeping car, Snooks doesn't want to sleep alone
in the upper, so she wakes up a man on the train (she calls him Dick Wittingham) and her father tells her a story until she
gets a spanking.
box 4, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
2/23/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks check into a hotel room the night before going to the World's Fair. The clerk likes Snooks even
though she misbehaves. In their room, Snooks makes noise and wakes a man next door. It is Dick Wittingham (from previous story).
Snooks won't fall asleep even when she is told a story, so she gets spanked.
box 4, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
3/2/1939
General note
Synopsis: On a ferry boat ride to the World's Fair, a joke is played on the words, The gull is sitting on a buoy. Daddy tells
Snooks it is a bell buoy. She responds, Like at the hotel? etc. Snooks plays with her bean shooter and hits a man - Dick Wittingham
again. Play on explanation of boat's crows nest. Daddy does a magic trick, making Snooks hat disappear (says he threw it in
the ocean) then reappear. Snooks does the same trick, throwing the hat in the water, and wants Daddy to make it reappear.
Then Snooks pushes Dick Wittingham into the water to make him disappear. Dick decides to swim ashore. Snooks get a spanking.
box 4, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
3/9/1939
General note
Synopsis: At tax time, Daddy is trying to add up the numbers but Snooks keeps interrupting with questions. Then she learns
there is a $400 deduction for her and she wants that money. Explanation of why people pay taxes and how the government uses
the money. Daddy explains where the tax money on a pair of underwear he sold at the store is used.
box 5, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
3/16/1939
General note
Synopsis: At the World's Fair, Snooks and Daddy see Treasure Island, Long John Silver, the blind beggar, the snake show (python
at thirty feet - I don't see his feet, Daddy ), the Statue of Pacifica (every tooth in her mouth is a foot - She's got feet
in her mouth? ), the nude ranch, swans at swim in the Lake of All Nations (plumage of down - Is his pants down too? ). They
look at Australian kangaroos and Snooks compares one to her aunt who lives in Australia.
box 5, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
3/23/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Mummy are leaving for the opera. Snooks wants to hear all about it. Daddy is dressed dapper - in tails
- but Snooks puts his top hat and patent shoes in the bathtub. To teach her not to do that, Daddy gives Snooks her coat and
tells her to say, Get thee behind me, Satan! She goes into the tub with it anyway, claiming that she was pushed.
box 5, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
3/30/1939
General note
Synopsis: It is springtime, and wanting some peace, Daddy is planting in the garden. But Snooks interrupts from playing house
with friends because she's the baby and hasn't been born yet. Snooks plants a seed for herself and a worm appears.
box 5, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
4/6/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has hired a tutor for Snooks. First Daddy gives Snooks some coaching on how to act toward the tutor - a silly
spelling lesson. The tutor arrives and immediately Snooks proves she's lacking manners and is spoiled. The tutor spanks her
and Snooks' crying brings in Daddy who dismisses the tutor for hitting his daughter. Daddy decides to laugh off Snooks' antics
from now on. But Snooks admits she left a mouse in his bed - she gets a spanking.
box 5, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
4/13/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks comes home from school and Daddy gets a fantastic story from her about why she played hooky and what she
did with the qua rter he gave her.
box 5, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
4/20/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks gets a toy stove (that really works!) at the toy store. But she really wanted a drum. At home, Snooks wants
to cook ice cream but Daddy convinces her to cook fishcakes. Snooks wants to use the goldfish. Instead Snooks takes another
fish from the fridge and washes it. They discuss spaghetti and Italians, and almost burn the fish. Daddy says it tastes terrible
- that's because Snooks washed it with soap.
box 5, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
4/27/1939
General note
No main radio script available, only separate Snooks spot script.
General note
Synopsis: Returning home late at night, Daddy finds he has lost the door key. First he is at the neighbor's door by mistake,
then tries to break into their window. A police man thinks Daddy and Snooks are burglars and Snooks won't tell the truth.
Finally, at his own house, Daddy break the glass to get in and Snooks tells him that the key is under the doormat.
box 5, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
5/4/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks does not want to go to sleep, so Daddy explains insurance to her. He reads the bills until finally she will
accept going to sleep. When she's sleepy, Daddy uses reverse psychology on her - and she behaves. Sings Three Little Fishes.
box 5, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
5/11/1939
General note
Synopsis: It is nighttime and Snooks wants ice cream, a rabbit, to know what insurance is, a story, and to see if a burglar
is in the house - all while Daddy wants to sleep so he can pass the insurance test tomorrow.
box 5, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
5/18/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy wakes early to play golf with his boss. Snooks wants him to read the funnies. Snooks can't memorize bathing
suit order for Mummy. Daddy can't find golf clubs - Snooks has traded them for a pile of funny papers. In the second segment,
Daddy's boss didn't wait and Daddy had to rent equipment. Daddy's game is bad.
box 5, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
5/25/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's boss is in the hospital. Snooks goes with Daddy to visit him - but she ate the fruit that was Daddy's gift.
Daddy helps Snooks learn what to say to the boss, but everything ends up backward during the ensuing conversation. A Who's
On First? routine develops.
box 5, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
6/1/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's going fishing. Snooks asks questions before he leaves.
box 5, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script material
6/8/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy are at the beach. Daddy tells the story of Robinson Crusoe and other stuff.
box 5, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
6/15/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks wants to go to a baseball game with Daddy. She is getting ready for bed but gets bitten by a turtle she got
at a party - she wanted to sleep with it. They talk about a client who Daddy is going to the game with, and about where milk
comes from. In the second part, Snooks goes to the baseball game and spoils the sale to the client, while at the same time
learning about baseball.
box 6, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 revised script
6/22/1939
General note
Synopsis: The new baby arrives. Snooks comes home after having run away. Daddy is on the telephone with the police. Snooks
keeps asking questions instead of going upstairs to bed.
box 6, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
6/29/1939
General note
Synopsis: One week after the new baby arrives, Snooks is jealous. She and Daddy talk about what babies are like. Daddy is
going to a private screening at Metro of The Wizard Of Oz. He tries to tell Snooks the story but she wants to go with him
instead. Finally he decides she can go.
box 6, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE three script versions
9/7/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is in trouble. Mummy made a list of everything bad she did that day. Snooks tries to defend herself to Daddy.
Then Snooks goes to the dentist's office with a toothache. The dentist pulls a tooth, but the one that had hurt fell out last
night.
box 6, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 three versions
9/14/1939
General note
With script material for Fanny Brice as nurse in mad scientist spot.
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is giving baby a bath. She forgot the powder at the store.
box 6, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
9/21/1939
General note
Synopsis: At night, Snooks can't sleep. She takes a shower but combing her hair causes sparks. Snooks asks nicely for rain
and it starts raining. Song - Wonderful Wizard Of Oz.
box 6, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
9/28/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is busy getting ready to pick up his boss at the airport. Snooks doesn't want to watch the baby. In a short
segment with the announcer, Snooks wants to sing a song.
box 6, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
10/5/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks are at the Los Angeles County Fair. They hit a car in the parking lot, and Daddy tries to get Snooks
in for free. Snooks has 40 cents that Daddy makes her share with him. They go to the races but Snooks has swallowed the winning
ticket.
box 6, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
10/12/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is going to a costume ball at the lodge, but Snooks wakes up and makes him late. Daddy tells her the story
of Christopher Columbus.
box 6, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
10/19/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy thinks Snooks is doing poorly at school because she needs glasses. They visit the eye doctor.
box 7, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
10/26/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks play with the baby until Daddy makes her do her homework - a composition on any subject. Daddy keeps correcting
her ideas. He takes Snooks to her first movie.
box 7, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
11/2/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is using astrology books to help pick horses for tomorrow's race. Snooks walks in and Daddy teaches her about
astrology. Then he tries to hypnotize Snooks to get her to sleep.
box 7, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
11/9/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy tries to explain cancelled checks and bills and banking to Snooks. Then they talk about Thanksgiving.
box 7, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 second revised script
11/16/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks wait at a train station for Daddy's uncle to arrive. Snooks is told to behave because Daddy wants
to be remembered in the uncle's will. All goes well until Snooks makes some remark and uncle goes back to Chicago.
box 7, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 second revised script
11/30/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is getting his blood pressure taken by a doctor so he can get an insurance policy. Snooks drives up his blood
pressure. After spanking her, Daddy suggests that the doctor take the level again.
box 7, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
12/14/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to a psychologist to see if she stole his silver lighter. When the doctor determines she did
not, Snooks produces the lighter and gives it to Daddy.
box 7, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
12/21/1939
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is in trouble for opening Christmas presents.
box 7, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
12/28/1939
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks on a hunting trip for quail. They catch a skunk.
box 7, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
1/4/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy listens to short-wave radio and hears a crook in his neighborhood. Snooks comes in asking questions. She keeps
saying, Stick `em up, to the point that when Snooks has gone to bed and the real crook says this to Daddy, he thinks it is
Snooks.
box 7, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
1/11/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is sick in bed. He has his male secretary come over to take dictation. Snooks keeps interrupting.
box 7, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
1/18/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy makes water from hydrogen and oxygen in his lab. Then he shows Snooks how to make steam without water. Daddy
talks about Newton and about the man who split the atom. Finally, Daddy blows up something in the lab.
box 7, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
1/25/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks was good for a whole week and Daddy promised to buy her a pony. They walk around the stables and look at
horses and colts, see a blacksmith shoeing. Snooks finally tries riding a pony and decides she doesn't want one. She doesn't
want to be good for an entire year.
box 7, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
2/1/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is going through the family tree to see if he's related to Lockstep Higgins who just died and left money in
his will. Snooks learns about Daddy's side of the family and eventually finds a photo from old Lockstep. Daddy calls the lawyer,
only to find the man was broke and crazy. Snooks wants to know if that runs in the family, too.
box 8, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
2/8/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has created a robot that is suppose to pour coffee from a pot into a cup and say some things about Maxwell
House Coffee. Snooks is very curious - but when he tries to make it work it falls apart. Good to the last drop Snooks comments.
box 8, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
2/15/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is trying to balance his books for tax time and Snooks makes it more complicated. Together, they try to do
Snook's geography homework.
box 8, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
2/29/1940
General note
With a contest for listeners to suggest situations Snooks could do.
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has to take Snooks home early from a wedding because she had too much punch. She learns all about weddings
and putting cake under her pillow as she gets ready for bed.
box 8, folder 4
GOOD NEWS OF 1940
3/7/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks reads in the paper about a woman with amnesia. She fakes a case of it, until Daddy tracks her down with a
doctor at the police station. The doctor believes Snooks has amnesia - but Daddy proves she's only faking.
box 8, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
3/14/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks pestered Daddy enough to make him take her with him on a plane to Washington. (Very out of date scene on
a sleeper plane with upper and lower berths).
box 8, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
3/28/1940
General note
Synopsis: Robespierre gets his first tooth. Snooks learns about losing teeth and putting it under a pillow to change it into
a dime.
box 8, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
4/4/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has a $12 long distant phone bill to Uncle Louie in NY. It turns out Snooks made an April Fools Day joke on
Louie - Daddy loves it!
box 8, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
4/11/1940
General note
With segment about child psychology.
General note
Synopsis: To the theater to see The Bluebird , a Shirley Temple film, Snooks disturbs the man behind her. She gets spanked
and they leave.
box 8, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
4/18/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's new hobby is magic. Before he goes off to do a show, Snooks convinces him to show her some tricks - including
locking him in a box which he has a lot of trouble getting out of. Snooks has thrown away the key - like one of Daddy's earlier
tricks.
box 8, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
4/25/1940
General note
Synopsis: Upon driving home from Grandma's Daddy stops at a motel to sleep. Robespierre keeps crying and Snooks wakes the
neighbors. It's house.
box 8, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
5/2/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks are at the hospital to visit uncle (like when Daddy and Snooks visited Boss in hospital).
box 8, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
5/9/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks got sent home early from staying with a friend for the weekend. She totally destroyed the furniture. Snooks
tells Daddy that camels escaped from the circus and ran through the living room. He doesn't believe her, but it turns out
to be the truth.
box 8, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
5/16/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy writes radio scripts to make Jack Benny funnier. He tries them out on Snooks.
box 8, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
5/23/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks wakes Robespierre so Daddy has to take him into the restaurant. Flat tire - go into restaurant to meet with
Daddy's Boss. Snooks misbehaves so terribly that Daddy has to leave and spanks her.
box 8, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
5/30/1940
General note
Snooks segment listed in contents, not included with script.
box 8, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
6/6/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has built a short wave radio - they think he picks up Japan but it's a grocery store in Glendale. He picks
up the police and hears what's going on around town. Snooks breaks it.
box 8, folder 17
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
6/13/1940
General note
Synopsis: To the Barber for Robespierre's first haircut. Snooks makes the Barber cut a man's face while shaving him. Snooks
get hold of the shears and cuts off all of the baby's hair.
box 8, folder 18
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
6/20/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks in court for an auto accident. Snooks doesn't tell the truth and a fight erupts. The judge makes
both parties pay.
box 8, folder 19
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
6/27/1940
General note
Synopsis: At Doctor's office to have tonsils removed - same as 07/04/40.
box 8, folder 20
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
7/4/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks to Doctor to have her tonsils removed. She's scared and doesn't want to be operated on. The doctor lets everyone
sniff the anesthetic and everyone but Snooks falls asleep.
box 8, folder 21
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
7/11/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy wanted to go camping for vacation but Mommy made him take Snooks and Robespierre to the beach. Lots of trouble
- including popping balloons from the balloonman. Some vacation.
box 8, folder 22
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 revised script material
7/18/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go to the library - but Snooks can't keep quiet. She disturbs too many people. Puts a book in her
pants so when Daddy spanks her, it doesn't hurt.
box 8, folder 23
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
7/25/1940
General note
Synopsis: It's vacation time and Daddy has bought tickets for a passenger boat to go to Honolulu. But after picking up the
tickets and looking at the room on board, Daddy asks Snooks for the tickets she's been holding. She hid them in a cupboard
that is really the porthole.
box 8, folder 24
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/21/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the pet store to get an Easter bunny but she pulls feathers from an expensive cockatoo and
ends up with no rabbit!
box 9, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/5/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks fabricates a magazine sales pitch to win a bicycle but really the whole thing doesn't exist and Snooks has
to return all the stolen money.
box 9, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/12/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's buying a new car if he can get $100 trade-in on the old one. While Daddy is checking on Robespierre, Snooks
tells the car salesman that someone from the car factory wants to pay $2000 for the car to put in the showroom. The salesman
gives Daddy $300 plus the new car. Then the truth is revealed later.
box 9, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/19/1940
General note
Synopsis: School started and Snooks tells Powell stories. She takes off and Daddy arrives with a truant officer. She's been
skipping school. They find her and she tells stories which Daddy gets to the bottom of. The truant officer steps in to punish
her until his assistant shows up saying a mistake has been made - Snooks has a perfect attendance record!
box 9, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/26/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is sick in bed and sent Snooks with $1 to get medicine. She got ice cream instead - went to the studio and
feels ill. Daddy calls the studio and learns about the ice cream. Snooks wants to help the male nurse and the doctor. Snooks
is told to leave her father alone but she still acts the same way until Daddy gets back at her.
box 9, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/3/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has to take Snooks home early from a friend's wedding because Snooks drank too much wine in a punch. But Daddy
is locked out of the house - they end up at the neighbor's door first. Snooks gets him to promise ice cream so she won't ring
the bell. Prying open a window a cop stops him and takes him to jail where Powell bails him out and Snooks says Daddy's version
of the story is true.
box 9, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/10/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has tickets to a football game tonight but Snooks took them and gave them to Powell. Daddy eventually got
them back. Only two tickets and Daddy's taking a buyer but Snooks convinces him to let her go, too. Buyer bought an extra
ticket since Daddy was late so they all get in. Snooks learns about football and ruins the sale for Daddy.
box 9, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/17/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks got Powell to give her $.05 but he had to give her a $5 bill and get change. She ran off and when Daddy arrives
he and Powell are worried. Daddy is working in clay making statures lately. He goes home to find Snooks has wrapped Robespierre
in clay. Snooks doesn't know why else Daddy's mad at her but she says the canary's been missing since she dusted it with the
vacuum cleaner. Snooks' fib about the $4.95 is too far-fetched. The bakery calls to say Snooks left the change on the counter
after buying a $.05 cream puff.
box 9, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/24/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy decides to quit work and open his own business. At the bank Snooks asks all kinds of questions. She wants
a gun so she can hold up the bank and when a guard comes over she takes his gun but gives it back. Daddy is flustered - all
he wanted was to get a loan. Snooks opens a savings account. Bank President allows Snooks as Daddy's collateral. Snooks and
Daddy think she's going to be locked in the vault for 60 days. But the President was just making a joke of it to see Daddy's
good faith. Daddy gets the loan!
box 9, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/31/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks has to borrow Mr. Powell's dress suit because Daddy is going to a banquet but Snooks wore his as a Halloween
costume (cut the sleeves). Daddy comes into the studio and the truth comes out. Daddy goes home and finds that Snooks has
been playing with Robespierre. Daddy finds Dick Powell's suit hanging in her closet. He finds his suit and Snooks gives a
story about it. She wants to be spanked!
box 9, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/7/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks tells Powell that the cards she has were marked by Daddy and he uses them to win money but it turns out that
they're Daddy's cards for magic tricks only. Then Daddy tells Powell the story of his trying to buy a piece of land to build
on but Snooks was there (Flashback). He tries to explain the hardship of life on a farm when he was young. Snooks plays and
comes back with her dress smeared with oil. So Daddy thinks there's oil on the land and pays the full asking price. Then Snooks
finally gets to tell him the oil was from under their car!
box 9, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/14/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks ate too much and everyone at the studio is looking for Daddy. Then Daddy arrives and Snooks has gone home.
They think it's the measles. Daddy ends up taking medicine to convince Snooks to take it. The ambulance arrives and Snooks
locks herself in the bathroom because she doesn't want to go away with them. Doctor determines that she has poison ivy!
box 9, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/21/1940
General note
Synopsis: (NOT BROADCAST)Snooks wants more turkey instead of going to bed. Daddy tells her about burning the candle at both
ends. She and Daddy break a wishbone and she wins. She wants cranberry sauce. They talk about the Pilgrims and national holidays.
(BROADCAST)Jack Benny meets Snooks and Daddy. Benny treats Snooks like she is a brat.
box 9, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/28/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks took the turkey from the shop that was being raffled off for Thanksgiving. She creates a tall tale when Daddy
questions her on it. When they finally get to the facts Daddy opens the closet door but finds 2 turkeys (one is a baby one).
Snooks had carried along the egg that it laid earlier in the day (when she was at the shop).
box 9, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/5/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's had an accident and Snooks creates a whole fib about it. But Mr. Powell calls Daddy to find out. Daddy walks
into the studio and tells the story of him with Snooks in his chemistry lab. He made a glass of water from oxygen and hydrogen
and made steam without water. Then when he's showing Snooks safe firecrackers, he blows out a tooth, etc.
box 9, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/12/1940
General note
Synopsis: Gone to Uncle Camembert's house in the mountains - willed to Daddy. At train station Snooks asks if the engineer
is milking the milk train. Once thet get to the town, they get a ride from a horse and wagon to the house. Driver says the
house has ghosts. House is spooky. No electricity. Their candles go out and Daddy has no more matches. Daddy tells Snooks
the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Snooks goes to sleep; Daddy stays awake, scared.
box 9, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/19/1940
General note
Synopsis: Snooks in trouble because she was caught by Mommy opening all the Christmas presents early. Daddy tries to reason
with her and teach her the importance of patience. He learns about what Mommy and Uncle Louie got him for Christmas. Daddy
tells Snooks the story of a poor boy and Christmas ice skates - he fell through thin ice and died. Snooks wants ice skates
instead of the electric stove as a gift from Santa anyway.
box 9, folder 17
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/26/1940
General note
Synopsis: Daddy, Snooks, and Robespierre are in the store exchanging Christmas presents. Only Daddy was going to run in but
Snooks didn't want to stay in the car with the baby. Problems start to the point where Daddy drops and breaks the packages
(goldfish bowl breaks but Snooks says the fish is okay - Daddy says it will die without water, so Snooks tells the baby to
spit on it). They salvage whatever posssible and trade it for a hat (full of food) for Snooks.
box 10, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/9/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy calls the East Coast from a phone in the drugstore and teaches about time zone across the country. Upon leaving
the drugstore Snooks convinces Daddy to buy her a piece of candy - a 25 pound chocolate bunny!! They go into the museum and
look at sculptures - Snooks wants to know why they don't have on clothes and if it's like when Daddy went to the Burlesque
show. Daddy finally gets empathy from Snooks towards one of the art works but her concern is irrational and funny!
box 10, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/16/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has sent Snooks out for stamp hinges for his stamp collection. Because of her delay, he calls the store and
discovers Snooks sold some stamps and took the money to the ice cream shop. Daddy tries to get the truth from Snooks but she
keeps adding to her tale. She ends up getting spanked.
box 10, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/23/1941
General note
Synopsis: A tire blows out on Daddy's car - both Snooks and Robespierre are with him. While he tries to repair it, the other
blows out. And it starts raining. He rides on the rims to a service station. But the front axel is also bent. They end up
sleeping in the station owner's barn - with fights for the blanket and Snooks' imagination that there's a chicken in the bed
- coming true when it lays an egg. Owner says the other tires blew, too.
box 10, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/30/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has to get to court for jury duty but Snooks wants to hear all about it. She has hid his pants and tie for
ransom. The explanation of jurors, foremen, subpoenas, manslaughter, insanity, briefs, and hearings gets all mixed up in the
explanation by double entendres.
box 10, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/6/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the Botanical Gardens for school composition research (Repeated story).
box 10, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/13/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy tries to do his income taxes.
box 10, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/20/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks are on board a boat. Daddy tries to put Snooks to bed so he can play cards with the other men.
box 10, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/27/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go to the horse races and Snooks ends up swallowing the winning ticket.
box 10, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/6/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy tries to get out of the house to do his magic act. Snooks ends up seeing his act at home. (Repeated story)
box 10, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/13/1941
General note
With 3 page-script revisions for Morgan/Mere/Conte spot.
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to a psychologist to see if she stole his watch (Repeated story).
box 10, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/20/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks and Robespierre to a photographer.
box 10, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME second revised script
3/27/1941
box 10, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/3/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the zoo for research for one of her school compositions.
box 11, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/10/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks trout fishing.
box 11, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/17/1941
box 11, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/24/1941
General note
Synopsis: Aunt Sophie had a baby! Daddy shows Snooks how to make dinner.
box 11, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/8/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the horse riding academy and Daddy finally admits he's never ridden - Snooks said she heard
the horse has never been ridden either.
box 11, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/15/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy, Snooks, and Robespierre at the beach.
box 11, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/22/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has insomnia and at doctor's orders he goes to the kitchen for a light snack where he meets Snooks.
box 11, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/29/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go to an auction.
box 11, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/5/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy does his morning excercises.
box 11, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/12/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's in his lab making an x-ray machine. Snooks gets him to use it on her.
box 11, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/19/1941
General note
Synopsis: Father's Day and Daddy sent Snooks to store with $2 to buy cards for poker tonight and an extra $1 for Father's
Day. Snooks doesn't bring cards and Daddy tries to get to the bottom of it. Snooks used all the money to buy things for a
Father's Day party.
box 11, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/26/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is painting on easels in the basement and Snooks interrupts.
box 11, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
7/3/1941
General note
Synopsis: Catching a night flight - same as other scripts.
box 11, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/4/1941
General note
Synopsis: Baby Snooks has run away.
box 11, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/11/1941
General note
Synopsis: Snooks still missing.
box 11, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/18/1941
box 11, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/25/1941
box 11, folder 17
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/2/1941
General note
Synopsis: Snooks walks in while Daddy is out looking for her. She starts telling the whole story but falls aleep.
box 11, folder 18
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/9/1941
General note
Synopsis: After coming home from running away, Snooks goes to a new school escorted by Daddy. Daddy tells the principal some
insider information about Snooks and the principal will not accept her.
box 12, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/16/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the beauty parlor for a hair wave. He is embarrassed.
box 12, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/23/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks duck hunting.
box 12, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/30/1941
General note
Synopsis: Halloween. Daddy doesn't want Snooks getting into any trouble so he takes her out and gets them into more trouble
than she could have had alone.
box 12, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/6/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the post office to invest in defense stamps.
box 12, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/13/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go grocery shopping.
box 12, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/20/1942
General note
Synopsis: The annual Thanksgiving script.
box 12, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/27/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is going to a smoker and covers by saying he's going to the opera. Snooks keeps asking questions and wants
to hear the opera story of William Tell. Daddy needs his tickets - Snooks tore them up. What does Daddy need smoker tickets
for if he's going to the opera?
box 12, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/4/1941
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the store to see Santa but before they go in, they can't agree on what she should ask for.
Daddy tries to teach Snooks that it is better to give than to receive.
box 12, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/5/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy made Snooks do grammar homework and she finished and is trying to sneak out for her date with Red. Daddy stops
her and looks at her terrible homework and talks to her about how horrible Red is. They make a bet and Daddy thought he won
because he doesn't have a butterfly on his back but Snooks won because she bet Red she could get Daddy to take off his shirt.
box 12, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/12/1942
box 12, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/19/1942
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Red cut off all of Robespierre's hair. Then they played with mommy's rouge. Daddy comes home and finds
Snooks in bed and thinks she has the measles. Then he finds Red under her bed with the same spots. He finds the baby asleep
in the bathtub and realizes the spots are makeup. They get spanked.
box 12, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/26/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is taking a first aid class and exam and Snooks asks him questions. Daddy ends up strapping her into bed demonstrating
bandages.
box 12, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/2/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy needs to get Snooks to bed so he can go to the tailor to be fitted for his Easter suit. He finally promises
Snooks a rabbit if she will be good.
box 12, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/9/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's birthday - Snooks and Red ruin a cake by baking it with candles on. They coated Robespierre with syrup and
Red broke Daddy's electric razor. They get a spanking!
box 12, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/16/1942
General note
Synopsis: Snooks goes to the store to buy liniment for Daddy's hurt back and she comes back with ice cream and finally admits
she bought sodas with the extra money. Daddy is furious. She mixes up some other recipe for his back. She puts it on and directs
the sun lamp on his back; it turns into a cake.
box 12, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/23/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy got a raise and was going to keep it secret so he could buy a fishing rod but the secret is out around the
house - so says Snooks. She wants Daddy to get the rod so she thinks up ideas to raise money. Eventually she admits that she
made up the story about Mommy and Robespierre knowing about the raise.
box 13, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/30/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is going to put Snooks on a game show because she's smart and he wants to win money for a fishing rod. Then
Snooks pulls out her report card - all zeroes. He asks her some quiz-type questions anyway and then she asks him one.
box 13, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/7/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's all set to go fishing with a new unbreakable fishing rod. Snooks, playing iwht Red, breaks the rod in seven
pieces. Red puts it together with gum while Snooks delays Daddy. When he sees everything is fine, he invites them fishing
and checks the baby who has been tied up by Snooks and Red. Daddy spanks them with the rod and thinks he broke the rod himself.
box 13, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/14/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy drives Snooks home from a wedding she got sick from. A tire blows out and they sleep in the car (same story
is repeated many times in other scripts).
box 13, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/28/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy gives Snooks a psychiatry test from a book and makes the test seem crazy.
box 13, folder 5
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
6/4/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Mommy's tenth anniversary and everyone is over for a dinner party but Daddy goes upstairs to put Snooks
to bed and they talk about being married and how he met and married Mommy.
box 13, folder 6
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
6/11/1942
General note
Synopsis: The twins have arrived home and Snooks gets to meet them.
box 13, folder 7
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
6/18/1942
General note
Synopsis: Bathing the twin babies. Snooks was supposed to buy powder at the store but forgot. She came home with her fried
Red and made a deal to trade the baby boy for 10 kittens.
box 13, folder 8
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
6/25/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go to the Botanical Garden to research Snook's school paper.
box 13, folder 9
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
7/2/1942
box 13, folder 10
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
7/9/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy sets up camp in the backyard to get Snooks prepared for summer camp. He really gets her to use her imagination.
box 13, folder 11
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
7/16/1942
General note
Synopsis: Snooks leaving for camp. Daddy finds she packed pre-written postcards asking for money.
box 13, folder 12
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
7/30/1942
box 13, folder 13
POST TOASTIES TIME revised script material
8/6/1942
box 13, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/8/1942
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is going to launch a battleship. She gets an ice cream cone before and puts it in her pocket instead of getting
rid of it. She spoils the picture in her pocket.
box 13, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/15/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy converts the furnace from oil to coal to help the war effort. Daddy explains the process to Snooks. He discovers
it's a gas furnace when he accidentally blows it up.
box 13, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/22/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's boss is coming over for a game of pinochle and Daddy wants to ask for a raise. snooks plans trouble. She
tells the boss the cards are marked.
box 13, folder 17
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/29/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks into his office to apologize to the boss. She told him daddy marked the poker cards and called
him a tightwad. Snooks makes even more trouble and doesn't get an opportunity to apologize.
box 14, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME script material
11/5/1942
General note
Synopsis: Halloween and the kids aren't allowed out on the streets because of the war. Daddy tries to put Snooks to bed. She
ends up going out and Daddy gets them in trouble (Repeat story).
box 14, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/12/1942
General note
Synopsis: Snooks was kept after school and Daddy didn't know where she was. She tells him the story of bringing Red into class
even though he has the mumps and Snooks just became a member of the Junior Red Cross. Snooks sent the love letters from Daddy
to Mommy to 50 soldiers!
box 14, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME script material
11/19/1942
General note
Synopsis: Snooks in hospital to have tonsils out. She is scared and Daddy promises her a rabbit. The doctor takes the tonsils
and upon waking, Snooks says it's a tough way to get a rabbit.
box 14, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/26/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy tries to put Snooks to bed after Thanksgiving (Repeat story).
box 14, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/3/1942
box 14, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/10/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks duck hunting (Repeat story).
box 14, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/17/1942
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is in a school Christmas play. At home, before the play, Snooks tells Daddy the parts she plays. Daddy doesn't
like the parts the school has given her to play!
box 14, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/31/1942
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks on vacation in Yosemite. Snooks sees her first snow and goes skiing.
box 14, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/14/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy gets call from teacher regarding Snooks' bad behavior. She took a good conduct medal from another student.
Snooks tries to cover it up. Daddy threatens to send her to jail but spanks her instead; she has a book in her pants.
box 14, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/21/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is eating her dinner of oatmeal, egg and toast that Daddy cooked (badly). He's going to eat a steak because
going to the bloodbank next morning. They fight over the steak.
box 14, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/28/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go to the Griffith Park Observatory to research Snooks' composition on the stars. It was supposed
to be about movie stars!
box 14, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/4/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks writes a letter to a soldier and Daddy gets involved. There's a discussion of V-Mail.
box 14, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/11/1943
General note
Synopsis: Mommy left housework for Snooks to do and Snooks got all mixed up and ruined everything.
box 14, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/18/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has invented imitation leather in his lab. Now he can use ration coupons for other things besides shoes. He
destroys Snooks' pair of shoes.
box 14, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/25/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is ill and sends Snooks on an errand to get the book at the ration board. Snooks accused Daddy of having more
food in the cellar than he stated on the application.
box 15, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/4/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the beauty parlor (Repeat story).
box 15, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/11/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks cook an inexpensive meal to help the war effort. An uncle is coming to dinner. Snooks ruins the
sit-down dinner.
box 15, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/18/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the library to get a book she needs for school.
box 15, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/25/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is in pain from bowling and Snooks brings home ice cream instead of medicine (Repeat story).
box 15, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/1/1943
General note
Synopsis: April Fools Day and everyone plays tricks on Daddy. Snooks found a wallet with $100 bill in it and Daddy won't believe
it until he sees it is! They take it to the movies and it's counterfeit. They get in trouble and learn that honesty is the
best policy.
box 15, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/8/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy brings Snooks into his study to discuss the economy of the household.
box 15, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/15/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks has a sore throat and Morgan treats her against Daddy's better judgment.
box 15, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/22/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy inherits a house from his uncle and he and Snooks go look at it (Repeat story).
box 15, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/29/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks has been very good thinking she's going to the movie theater for a film but she's going to a Bond rally to
help the government raise money. Daddy ends up, against his wishes, bidding highest for a ride in the war jeep.
box 15, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/6/1943
box 15, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/13/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy comes home early to get some extra sleep because he's taken a second job at night to help the war effort.
But Snooks spoils it . Snooks starts trying to keep everything quiet until a water main breaks and floods.
box 15, folder 12
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/20/1943
box 16, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/27/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is in the lab trying to solve way to retrieve fats and oils to help the government campaign.
box 16, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/3/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to ride a horse before she goes off to camp (Repeat story).
box 16, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/10/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks to Frank Morgan's farm for the U.S. Crop Corps. Snooks sent the wrong telegram and Morgan isn't
there to meet them. They try to kill a chicken to eat but can't do it.
box 16, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/17/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks at Frank Morgan's ranch. They kill a chicken but have trouble eating it.
box 16, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/2/1943
General note
Synopsis: Just having returned from staying at Uncle Louie's for 3 weeks, Snooks and Daddy come home to a dusty house and
need to change the sheets.
box 16, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/9/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy needs Snooks to go to bed so he can go out and sell war bonds.
box 16, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material for Snooks telling sitter Daddy is dead; sitter sees him and faints.
9/16/1943
General note
Synopsis: It's the first day of school and Snooks doesn't want to go. She makes all kinds of excuses and then realizes that
Daddy isn't going to work - he has a cold and wants to play golf. When Snooks won't go to school unless he goes to work, they
dress and go downstairs together. But Daddy slips in his spiked golf shoes and Snooks can't help him or she'll be late for
school.
box 16, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/23/1943
General note
Synopsis: Mommy just started working at night and Daddy hires a babysitter. Before she arrives, Snooks wakes and plays with
her squirt gun with Daddy. Daddy doesn't want Snooks awake when the sitter arrives. she arrives and Daddy is playing wolf
and hunter with Snooks. The gun is real and goes off. The sitter leaves.
box 16, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/30/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is going to look at a house closer to Mommy's work place. But Snooks is in the car. He tells her to tell the
landlord that she's not his child. It's the wrong house and Daddy has to explain to the owner and police. The owner of the
house turns out to be their present landlord and didn't know about the children!
box 16, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/7/1943
General note
Dinah Shore Show plug.
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is preparing for a seance and tries to call the spirit of Snooks' kitty. When Snooks tries to turn on the
light, she hits the radio switch instead and they think there is a spirit in the room (Repeat story).
box 17, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/14/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go to an interview at a private school. Snooks gets too confused with an intelligence test and
Daddy becomes exasperated.
box 17, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/21/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks has tied up the neighbor's son with the radio aerial wire. Daddy comes home to listen to the fights but the
radio doesn't work correctly without the wire. The neighbor calls and tells him what Snooks has done. Snooks tries to explain
that the son bit her first. But Daddy wants her to apologize and get the wire back until the son bites Daddy on each leg.
box 17, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/28/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks helps with the government paper drive. Daddy lets her start in the attic but he has to rescue her from the
trunk of love letters. While he's in the attic, everything Snooks wants to contribute to the drive is of sentimental value
to Daddy. He's going back downstairs because he's expecting a call from his boss. The ladder falls and they're both stuck.
He sends Snooks down the laundry chute but the cellar door is locked! The phone rings but they are both trapped.
box 17, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/4/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to court as a key witness. His neighbor is suing for the loss of his two teeth when Daddy punched
him (Repeat story).
box 17, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/11/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy in the garden. There's a gopher which Snooks finds and doesn't want Daddy to kill. Neighbor Mudge keeps putting
in his opinion. Daddy gives the gopher a chance while trying to hit it with a rock while it runs. Daddy breaks Mudge's window
instead and the two men get into a window breaking fight which brings the police and Daddy goes to jail.
box 17, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/18/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks scratches Daddy's back and then is afraid to go to bed. Daddy takes her to bed. They hear something downstairs
and Daddy sends Snooks down to stop her fear. There is a burglar. He's being followed and is hiding. Daddy doesn't believe
her story until a cop comes by.
box 18, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/25/1943
General note
Synopsis: After Thanksgiving, Daddy tells Snooks she'll turn ito a turkey if she eats anymore. Daddy falls asleep and dreams
Snooks is a turkey and Daddy is a turkey, too. Other show members are other animals. They have to run so they won't be used
for turkey dinner.
box 18, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/2/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is reading dime novels and Daddy doesn't like it. She can't sleep because the icebox motor makes too much
noise. They realize that the light in the ice box might not turn off when they close the door. So Daddy makes Snooks get inside
to test it.
box 18, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/9/1943
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy are in a fancy restaurant waiting for Mommy. They are in the wrong restaurant and it's too expensive.
While Daddy calls to find Mommy, Snooks tells the waiter that she likes the food he is talking about so the waiter brings
the food.
box 18, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/16/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Mommy are going out fancy. Snooks is assigned to wait for Daddy's shirt to arrive. A door-to-door salesman
comes around and Snooks buys everything including the shirt off his back. She gets spanked.
box 18, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/23/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy decides to teach Snooks a lesson of thrift by chopping down their own Christmas tree instead of buying one.
Daddy teaches her all the tree type names. He teaches her about John Audubon, too. They find a bear cub and themother who
only wants her baby back and is otherwise harmless. Daddy learves his axe in the woods and decides to buy a tree in town.
box 18, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/30/1943
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has the flu so Frank Morgan gets to take Snooks to the zoo for a school composition (repeated story of when
Daddy took Snooks to the zoo).
box 19, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/6/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy made a New Year's resolution to not lose his temper and Snooks comes into his office to bother him (similar
to story when Daddy was interviewed as Father of the Community).
box 19, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/13/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy thinks he can hang wallpaper and Snooks will help. She lets Robespierre fall off the ladder and land in the
chandelier, gets paste and wallpaper on her face. The wallpaper shows the evolution of man. Daddy breaks his glasses, gets
glue in his eyes when he falls from the ladder into the bucket. They've wallpapered the door. While looking for it they find
a picture hanging behind the paper and break a covered window.
box 19, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/20/1944
General note
Synopsis: Snooks' school play. She's supposed to be a witch who says Abracadabra. But Daddy has made the costume out of newspapers
and thinks she's supposed to be an angel. She gets out on stage after Daddy has thoroughly confused her with the show must
go on information. She forgets her line.
box 19, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/27/1944
General note
Synopsis: A talent agent saw Snooks in her school play. She forgot her line and he thought she was terrific. In the car, Daddy
coaches her. At the screen test, the man thinks Snooks is very funny and asks her to recite something. She sings instead.
box 19, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/3/1944
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy go to a war bond rally at a theater where they auction off a jeep (Repeat story).
box 19, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/10/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy makes Snooks help carry luggage to the train station to save a dollar. They are leaving for Snooks' screen
test in Hollywood. At the train station, daddy expected the press and a big send off. He wrote a speech and took out a classified
ad in the paper. But the train is already moving when he sees a marching band with a banner (for someone else) and Snooks
pulls him by his shirt onto the train and throws his shirt. Snooks bothers an old man in the coach car and then disturbs people
trying to sleep in the berths. Daddy tries to play a game where after he says the last word, she needs to be silent but she
doesn't play correctly.
box 19, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/17/1944
General note
Synopsis: In Hollywood, Daddy gets a hotel room for Snooks and himself. He keeps Snooks hidden so he doesn't have to pay the
double rate. When the manager comes to the room to greet him, Snooks hides under the bed but keeps talking. Daddy pretends
to be a ventriloquist until Snooks shows herself.
box 19, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/24/1944
General note
Synopsis: Snooks' screen testing in California. Daddy tries to get her to remember her line after 250 takes. The director
tries to take Snooks' contro but gets madder and madder. Finally he gives up. Snooks and Daddy leave for another studio and
Snooks gets the line correct.
box 19, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME revised script material
8/25/1944
box 20, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME revised script material
8/29/1944
box 20, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
8/31/1944
box 20, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/7/1944
box 20, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/14/1944
box 20, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
9/21/1944
box 20, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME script material
9/28/1944
box 20, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/5/1944
General note
Drawing on back of last page.
box 20, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/12/1944
box 20, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/19/1944
box 21, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
10/26/1944
box 21, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/2/1944
box 21, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/9/1944
box 21, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/16/1944
box 21, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/23/1944
box 21, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
11/30/1944
box 21, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/7/1944
box 21, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/14/1944
box 21, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
12/21/1944
box 22, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/4/1945
box 22, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/11/1945
box 22, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/18/1945
box 22, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
1/25/1945
box 22, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/1/1945
box 22, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/8/1945
box 22, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/15/1945
box 22, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
2/22/1945
General note
Sheet music of Please Don't Say 'No'.
box 23, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/1/1945
box 23, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/8/1945
box 23, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/15/1945
box 23, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/22/1945
box 23, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/29/1945
box 23, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/5/1945
box 23, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME second revised script
4/19/1945
box 23, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME script material
4/26/1945
box 23, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/3/1945
box 23, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME script material
5/10/1945
box 24, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/17/1945
box 24, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/24/1945
box 24, folder 3
Cass Daley audition
5/25/1945
box 24, folder 4
Cass Daley audition
5/25/1945
box 24, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/31/1945
box 24, folder 6
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
9/11/1944
box 24, folder 7
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
9/17/1944
box 24, folder 8
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
9/24/1944
box 24, folder 9
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
10/1/1944
box 25, folder 1
TOASTIES TIME script material
10/8/1944
box 25, folder 2
TOASTIES TIME script material
10/15/1944
box 25, folder 3
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
10/22/1944
box 25, folder 4
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
10/29/1944
box 25, folder 5
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
11/5/1944
box 25, folder 6
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
11/12/1944
box 25, folder 7
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
11/19/1944
box 25, folder 8
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
11/26/1944
box 25, folder 9
TOASTIES TIME script material
12/3/1944
box 25, folder 10
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
12/10/1944
box 25, folder 11
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
12/17/1944
box 26, folder 1
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
12/24/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy's Christmas party. He has invited all the right people - his boss, the mayor, etc. But Snooks has invited
all their local friends. Only the boss and the local friends show up and Daddy has a happy Christmas party.
box 26, folder 2
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
12/31/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has been named model father of Sycamore Terrace from the Sycamore citizens committee. He won't let Snooks
do anything to bother him. (2nd segment) Daddy is interviewed by local newspapers reporters and Snooks causes trouble. daddy
tries not to get angry but finally does.
box 26, folder 3
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
1/7/1945
General note
Synopsis: Daddy has two tickets for the opera. He is taking Snooks. Snooks tries to have Alexander return Daddy's top hat
but he used it on a snowman. daddy overheard the conversation and talks to Snooks about honesty. So she tells him that she
and Robespierre made spitballs from the opera tickets. She gets spanked! (2nd segment) Daddy bought new tickets - way up high
in the balconies. The audience doesn't like the noise/conversation from Snooks and Daddy.
box 26, folder 4
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
1/14/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy go sledding down a hill and crash into trees and snow. (2nd segment) Daddy is sick. Mommy took
all the medications to Aunt Sophie. Snooks keeps saying Gesundheit to anything that sounds like the sound of a sneeze. There's
a dripping shower faucet which Daddy tries to fix but he just gets all wet and sicker.
box 26, folder 5
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
1/21/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks played hooky from school and said she was sick. daddy takes her to a special doctor and they play poor to
keep the charge as low as possible. Alexander Bumstead can't even get Snooks to come out and play. At the doctor's office,
Daddy's boss thinks he recognizes them but they pretend they don't speak English. Dagwood calls Daddy and says Snooks was
only playing hooky. The doctor charges $25 and tells him that Snooks needs her tonsils removed.
box 26, folder 6
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
1/28/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy are at home getting ready to take Snooks to the hospital to have her tonsils removed. She is nervous!
At the hospital Snooks takes medicine and Alexander Bumstead brings her roses from HER backyard, a kiss, and promises to wait
in the waiting room. They wheel Snooks to be operated on and she dreams about her inflamed tonsils.
box 26, folder 7
TOASTIES TIME script material
2/4/1945
General note
Synopsis: Frank Morgan babysits Snooks and the babies while Daddy makes a good impression on Aunt Penelope so he will remain
in her will. (2nd segment) It seems Aunt Penelope is Morgan's aunt. She thinks he's a happily married family man. Daddy plays
the butler but Snooks ruins it for everyone.
box 26, folder 8
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
2/11/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is in a fight with a new boy on the way home from school. She comes home and tells Daddy how the boy's father
callled Daddy names. Daddy invites Mr. Frobish over to fight thinking he is only a small man but Snooks was talking small
about the new kid - his father is BIG! They are supposed to pick up Mummy. She keeps calling but they can't go pick her up
yet because of the fight. Snooks tells Frobish that Daddy isn't home but he's hiding in the closet and Snooks tells. A big
fight erupts. Snooks tells Mummy the entire fight over the phone and then gets spanked by Daddy.
box 26, folder 9
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
2/18/1945
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes all his and Mummy's money out of the bank and puts it in escrow. (2nd segment) Daddy gets lost looking
for the house and asks a man for directions - it's the haunted house near the cemetery. They go inside. There are all sorts
of problems with it. A buyer comes by and takes it off Daddy's hands for the same amount he paid. Then Daddy learns the railroad
is planning to build right through it and it could have been a better investment.
box 27, folder 1
TOASTIES TIME script material
2/25/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks comes home from school early with two tickets to the carnival. Daddy decides to play hooky with her but when
he calls his boss, he sends his wife over right away to look at Snooks. Snooks makes up a story and when Mrs. Weemish leaves,
so do Daddy and Snooks. (2nd segment) At the carnival Snooks leaves Daddy at a game and wanders on her own. Daddy has spent
$40 and still hasn't won an earring to match the first. He finally asks if he can buy one. He does - for $0.35!! Daddy goes
to look for Snooks and she has been paid $0.10 to perform in the freak show as Madame Demi-Tasse.
box 27, folder 2
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
3/4/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is writing letters to a soldier and Daddy finds out that they have a chain of love letters going between
them. Snooks learned her parts from a magazine. (2nd segment) Daddy sets up a friend's son to call and play the soldier and
set up a date in town with Snooks. She and Daddy go to meet him and Daddy teaches Snooks a lesson.
box 27, folder 3
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
3/11/1945
General note
Synopsis: Preparing for a surprise birthday party for Alexander Bumstead. The first set of guests arrive. (2nd Segment) Snooks
put goldfish in the punch to keep it well-stirred. The Bumsteads arrive in the dark house (so it's a surprise) and say horrible
things about the Higgins' family. Afterwards, they said they were just joking. Alexander and Snooks go out on the porch and
talk about growing older.
box 27, folder 4
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
3/18/1945
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is painting/drawing some pictures for art class. Snooks doesn't see it as he does. Later she will sit for
his art class. (2nd segment) A great artist, who loves to paint children, has honored the class but he can't get Snooks to
sit and behave for him. He gets annoyed. Daddy decides to give up art and start playing saxaphone again.
box 27, folder 5
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
3/25/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy are on their way to catch a train. There's not enough room in the suitcase yet Snooks packed a
blown-up balloon, a tube of toothpaste in a shoe - without the tube! At Union Station, the suitcase opens and Snooks is told
to put everything back in. She includes a woman's dog on it's leash. Daddy says they will take out the dog once they're on
the train. The woman is horrified! On the train, Snooks gives up her berth to a man in uniform! (Very funny script).
box 27, folder 6
TOASTIES TIME script material
4/1/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy visit NYC. She likes the toughness of it and beats up two tough boys who won't play with her. (2nd
segment) Daddy and Snooks are in a drugstore buying Snooks some candy and she gets an $8 Easter Rabbit. Then they go to the
Museum of Art and look at statues, talk about man's ancestry, paintings, the Egyptian room. (A repeat script for the 2nd segment).
box 27, folder 7
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
4/8/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks has joined Sycamore Terrace Girl Indians and Daddy is not supposed to spank her. Snooks built a fire to send
smoke signals in the house, blazed a trail with paint in the house and put a hatchet in the dining room table. Daddy takes
Snooks to the head squaw to complain. The others are starting a hike and Daddy is upset that the hikers are going to take
the left road instead of the right road. So Daddy takes Snooks on his own. Eventually, the Girl Indians find Daddy and Snooks
on the 7th green of the Sycamore Terrace Golf Club.
box 27, folder 8
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
4/22/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Alexander Bumstead are going to a dance escorted by Daddy. The dance is at the home of a high society
town member's whose son is in dance class with Snooks and Alexander. At the home, all the children have gone to the ballet
already. Daddy convinces the lady of the house to give them a tour of the mansion. Daddy wants to meet the grandfather because
of his successes. So he sends Snooks into grandfather's study. Snooks interrupts the man and Daddy goes in when he thinks
it's appropriate and spanks Snooks upon leaving the house.
box 27, folder 9
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
4/29/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks takes a message about Daddy's poker game location being changed. Snooks can't remember whose house it has
been changed to but finally, together, they remember. Daddy sneaks home at 5am but wakes Snooks because he forgot his keys.
He tries to keep Snooks quiet but she says mommy's alarm clock is set for 5am anyway.
box 27, folder 10
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
5/6/1945
General note
Synopsis: Snooks is home from school early with a letter form the teacher. Daddy breaks his glasses so as Snooks tells all
the terrible things she did, he keeps missing her while he tries to swat her. Snooks keeps a safe distance as she takes him
to the eye doctor. They both have eye exams but Snooks is so misbehaved, she gets spanked.
box 28, folder 1
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
5/13/1945
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the Bijou for a matinee. But only Snooks can see from Daddy's shoulders at the far back. They
seat themselves before the quiz king goes through the audience asking questions. Daddy and Snooks keep moving around the theater
so they will be asked questions many times. Snooks gets wrong answers and wins candy. Daddy gets his answer wrong but Snooks
knew the correct answer.
box 28, folder 2
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
5/20/1945
General note
Includes Fanny Brice promo spot for Vox Pop Show.
General note
Synopsis: Daddy thinks he's invented a gasoline pill but it's much stronger than that! He blows apart a neighbor's car. The
neighbor sues Daddy and we find him going to court. Snooks serves as Daddy's witness and doesn't get it all straight. Daddy
is fined. He also gets contempt for spanking Snooks in court.
box 28, folder 3
TOASTIES TIME script material
5/27/1945
General note
Synopsis: Daddy types up a radio show he wrote to promote selling war bonds. Snooks retyped some pages after spilling ink
and it turns out to be silly. But Snooks still reads the plea to help with the 7th war loan.
box 28, folder 4
TOASTIES TIME script material
6/3/1945
General note
Synopsis: Daddy and Snooks go to gymnasium to look at a fighter who Daddy would like to invest in. While Daddy is shadow boxing
for Snooks he punches out the fighter. Daddy either has to fight tonight or pay the money they would have won. Daddy ends
up fighting although he tries to sneak out twice before the fight but Snooks blows his cover. He fights and ends up in the
hospital.
box 28, folder 5
TOASTIES TIME revised script material
6/10/1945
General note
Synopsis: At the beach with everyone from Sycamore Terrace. Daddy convinces Snooks to go into the water and she looses her
bathing suit. A baby contest for children 2 years and under is going on. Daddy decides to enter Snooks anyway.
box 28, folder 6
Script material
10/8/1944
box 28, folder 7
Snooks' promotional and election spots
10/18/1944
General note
Restricted for Army Use only.
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to a Saturday matinee which she has seen twice already.
box 28, folder 8
Snooks' promotional and election spots
12/25/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy tells Snooks the story of Pinocchio.
box 28, folder 9
Snooks' promotional and election spots
box 28, folder 10
Snooks' promotional and election spots
box 28, folder 11
Snooks' promotional and election spots
box 28, folder 12
Snooks' promotional and election spots
box 28, folder 13
Snooks' promotional and election spots
box 28, folder 14
Snooks' promotional and election spots
box 28, folder 15
Snooks' promotional and election spots
box 28, folder 16
Listing of Snooks story synopses for Maxwell House
12/4/1944
box 29, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/2/1944
General note
Synopsis: Snookks and Daddy hitch a ride back home from California but get left stranded in the desert.
box 29, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/9/1944
General note
Synopsis: Hitchhiking through the desert, Snooks and Daddy finally get a man to stop his car but the man ties up and gags
Daddy and then leaves.
box 29, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/16/1944
General note
Synopsis: After the car lets out Snooks and Daddy in Nevada, they visit Snook's uncle Bushrod who tells her the tale of little
pigs; then throws Snooks and Daddy out of his house.
box 29, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/23/1944
General note
Synopsis: Staying at a motel near the Grand Canyon, Daddy goes prospecting with a divining rod and tells Snooks about river
erosion.
box 29, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
3/30/1944
General note
Synopsis: Still crossing the country trying to get home, Snooks and Daddy watch a rodeo where Daddy tries to get $50 by convincing
Snooks to ride the lead horse in a parade.
box 29, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/6/1944
box 29, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME script material
4/13/1944
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy return home, but Mummy is not there and they think she has left forever until she telephones.
box 29, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/20/1944
General note
Synopsis: Snooks listens to Daddy practicing a speech. Snooks asks for help with her mathematics, then swallows some marbles.
box 29, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
4/27/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy wants to fire Matilda the Maid but instead teaches Snooks some school lessons. In the end, Snooks fires Matilda.
box 29, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/4/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy is practicing neuro-psychiatry to control his temper and nerves. Snooks tricks him into telling the story
of Jack and the Beanstalk. Then Daddy hits her.
box 30, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/11/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy wants to pull out Snooks' loose tooth. Snooks claims she married one Red Williams. Red ends up pulling out
Daddy's tooth.
box 30, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME script material
5/12/1944
box 30, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/18/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy tries to teach Snooks how to play the piano and then he gets stuck inside when Snooks smashes the piano top
on Daddy's head. Snooks learns very little.
box 30, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
5/25/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks fishing. Snooks becomes upset when Daddy baits and drowns a worm. Daddy says they will give the
worm a Viking funeral.
box 30, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/1/1944
General note
Includes Invasion Day Allocation.
General note
Synopsis: Snooks sleeps in Daddy's room. Daddy gets no sleep, and a drunk man ends up in his bed.
box 30, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/8/1944
General note
Synopsis: Daddy takes Snooks to the rodeo. Daddy tries to get $50 by convincing Snooks to ride the lead horse in a parade.
Instead, Daddy rides and gets thrown. (Repeat of March 30, 1944 episode).
box 30, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/15/1944
General note
Synopsis: Snooks and Daddy take a bus ride. Snooks makes Daddy look bad in front of a man Daddy was trying to impress.
box 30, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME revised script material
6/16/1944
box 30, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME script material
6/23/1944
box 31, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME script material
6/30/1944
box 31, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
10/6/1938
box 31, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
3/30/1939
box 31, folder 2
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME script material
7/7/1944
box 31, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE PRESENTS GOOD NEWS OF 1939 script
5/25/1939
box 31, folder 3
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME script material
7/14/1944
box 31, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME script material
7/21/1944
box 31, folder 4
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
11/2/1939
box 31, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME revised script material
7/28/1944
box 31, folder 5
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
1/11/1940
box 31, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
1/18/1940
box 31, folder 6
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME script material
8/4/1944
box 31, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME revised script material
8/11/1944
box 31, folder 7
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
1/25/1940
box 31, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE ICED COFFEE TIME revised script material
8/18/1944
box 31, folder 8
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
2/1/1940
box 31, folder 9
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
2/15/1940
box 31, folder 10
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
2/22/1940
box 31, folder 11
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
2/29/1940
box 31, folder 12
GOOD NEWS OF 1940
3/7/1940
box 31, folder 13
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
3/14/1940
box 31, folder 14
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
3/28/1940
box 31, folder 15
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
4/4/1940
box 31, folder 16
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
4/18/1940
box 31, folder 17
GOOD NEWS OF 1940
4/25/1940
box 31, folder 18
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
5/16/1940
box 31, folder 19
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
5/23/1940
box 31, folder 20
MAXWELL HOUSE GOOD NEWS OF 1940 script material
5/30/1940
box 32, folder 1
MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE TIME script material
5/14/1942
box 32, folder 2
GOOD NEWS OF 1940
General note
Spots for future programs, ca. 1940.
box 32, folder 3
Snooks Transcription Script
2/19/1940
box 32, folder 4
Good News - Crossley Ratings
General note
1937 Nov-1939 June
box 32, folder 5
Casts of Good News Programs, 1937-1939
box 34, box 35, box 36, box RETURN 1, box 37, box 38, box 39
Accession LSC-1991-001 backlog material LSC-1991-001
Physical Description: 159 Audiovisual Carriers(140 records, 12 open reel audiotapes, 6 film reels, 1 audiocassette)
