Our Miss Brooks - "A Suit for Charity" (Old Time Radio, 1950)

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[upbeat music] It's time once again for another comedy episode of Our Miss Brooks under the direction of Al Lewis.

Well, in the years Our Miss Brooks has been teaching English at Madison High School, her principal, Osgood Conklin, has made his own appraisal of her worth.

Now, whenever a position of responsibility is open at Madison, Miss Brooks is the first name that pops into Mr. Conklin's mind.

That's so he can pop it right out again.

[laughs]

Oddly enough, though, he did put me in charge of Madison's Christmas drive for secondhand clothing.

I discussed my new duties with my landlady over breakfast last Friday.

But Connie, Christmas is only 10 days off.

Why did Mr. Conklin wait until now to start his clothing drive?

I guess he couldn't make up his mind about one important item, Mrs. Davis.

What's that?

Whether he should organize the teachers to get clothes for the needy or organize the needy to get clothes for the teachers.

[laughs]

But it is a good cause.

What are you donating, Connie?

I'm giving an old dress of mine, Mrs. Davis.

But you're the head of the drive.

Is one dress enough?

I was going to give two, Mrs. Davis, but I remembered a Board of Education rule that says a teacher can't appear in public in a slip.

[laughs]

Well, I'm going to help out too, Connie.

I've got my donation right on this chair.

Oh, that's very nice of you, Mrs. Davis.

I couldn't decide whether to give my old bathrobe or my old overcoat to the drive, but I finally made up my mind.