Reveille with Beverly (1943)

Ann Miller: Beverly Ross

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• Beverly Ross : It was my husband who made me realize that wash day hands were threatening our marriage.

  Mrs. Beverly Ross : [listening to the commercial on the radio]  That's Beverly now!

  Beverly Ross : But I patted my husband's cheek and said, "Darling, you need a shave." Fancy my embarrassment when he replied, "Sweetheart, I just did shave. It's the palm of your hand that has the whiskers." Right then I got the idea that I needed an exotic hand lotion. Some notion - and some lotion.

• Beverly Ross : I'm really very happy at KFEL.

  Mr. Smith : Oh, still trying to get on the air, eh?

  Beverly Ross : Oh, yes, sir. I'm going to have my own program. A hot one with plenty of jive!

• Beverly Ross : I bought this volume to make for the one I broke.

  [gives Mr. Lewis a record] 

  Vernon Lewis : Oh, so you're the one who finished my Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony".

  Beverly Ross : Yes, but, I got a better one. Freddie Slack at his boogie best!

  Vernon Lewis : I beg your pardon?

  Beverly Ross : "The Cow Cow Boogie". Freddie never grooved one that was better.

  Vernon Lewis : Will you take this ghastly thing away.

  Beverly Ross : You don't like Freddie Slack?

  Vernon Lewis : I don't like him. I don't dislike him. I don't know him. My program is 'Symphony at Dawn". Dew is on the grass. Woodwinds. The white swans stretching their lazy wings. There's going to be no boogie woogie to contaminate it with a lot of cow cow stuff - and certainly not in slacks.

• Beverly Ross : I think the station plays too many classical records.

  Mr. Smith : Well, some people like the classics.

  Beverly Ross : Some people like spinach.

• Beverly Ross : Oh, Mr. Lewis, you've got to go away. Go to the mountains or go fishing or something.

  Vernon Lewis : No, no, no, no. It can't be done. Some fool once said, "The show must go on."

  Beverly Ross : Oh, but, can't you find a substitute?

  Vernon Lewis : You find one and I'll be up to my knees in creek water before you can say: Tchaikovsky.

  Beverly Ross : All right, Tchaikovsky! You're looking at your substitute right now.

• Barry Lang : This is quite a Victory Garden you got here.

  Beverly Ross : It's Mom's. She knows how to raise things.

  Barry Lang : I'll say she does.

• Beverly Ross : I hope all of you boys have enjoyed my jam session.

• Beverly Ross : And that's a sample of the kind of reveille you'll get with Beverly. Plenty of the ol' barrelhouse to get you rolling in the morning.

• Mr. Kennedy : I've decided to give you your job back.

  Beverly Ross : Well, thanks Mr. Kennedy, but I'm not cut out to be a switchboard operator.

  Mr. Kennedy : Oh, no, no, no. I mean on the air with your own program, Reveille with Beverly - at a substantial raise, of course.

  Beverly Ross : Oh, but, you said you didn't like swing?

  Mr. Kennedy : I said that? Now, you know the majority of our listeners prefer Freddie Slack to Beethoven and Bob Crosby to Mendelssohn.

  Beverly Ross : Oh, but, what about Vernon Lewis?

  Mr. Kennedy : Vernon Lewis? By the time he gets back, we'll have television. And who could stand looking at that face?

• Beverly Ross : I've been asked to settle bets, send photos, how much I weigh, if I had a sweetheart of my own, and there are so many requests for numbers that I couldn't possible play them all. However, digging in partially into my mailbag, I've come up with a request from sailor Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones. He wants to give him a Duke Ellington classic. Well, sailor, that's easy. I have one here with some fancy licks. It's the Duke's recording of "Take the 'A' Train".

  Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones : [listening from on board a ship]  Hot dog!

  Member, Duke Ellington's Orchestra : [singing]  Hurry, hurry, hurry, Take the "A" train, To get to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem...

• Beverly Ross : Are you sure?

  Eddie Ross : Hmm?

  Beverly Ross : Are you sure?

  Eddie Ross : Why, sure I'm sure!

• Beverly Ross : I can't tell you how much I miss you boys at camp. That I'm selfish enough to hope that you might be missing me. Here's a record that I'd be playing for you if I was still greeting you at reveille. He's one of my favorite singers, Frank Sinatra, singing one of my favorite songs, "Night and Day".

  Frank Sinatra : [singing]  Night and day, you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun, Whether near to me, or far, It's no matter darling where you are, I think of you, Day and night, Night and day...

• Beverly Ross : You used to prefer the Classics?

  Mr. Kennedy : Oh, no, no. I want something that will put you in the groove, rather solid, through the gate. Classics are off the cob, in shallow water. They're icky. Icky?

  Beverly Ross : Yes, icky.

• Beverly Ross : We'll open our program with a number that stopped Ferdinand the Bull from smelling flowers and sent him truckin' on down to the bull ring. In fact, the entire country is kowtowing to Freddie Slack and his 'Cow Cow Boogie'. The vocal is by Ella Mae Morse.

  Ella Mae Morse : [singing]  Out on the plains down near Santa Fe, I met a cowboy ridin' the range one day, And as he jogged along I heard him singing, A most peculiar cowboy song, It was a ditty, he learned in the city, Comma ti yi yi yeah, Comma ti yippity yi yeah, Get along, get hip little doggies, Get along, better be on your way, Get along, get hip little doggies, And he trucked them on down the old fairway, Singin' his cow cow boogie in the strangest way, Comma ti yi yi yeah, Comma ti yippity yi yeah...

• Vernon Lewis : You were just pinch hitting for me.

  Beverly Ross : I might have been pinch hitting; but, I got to first base!

• Mr. Kennedy : I'd like some records.

  Beverly Ross : Oh, perhaps a concerto?

  Mr. Kennedy : Oh, no, no. I want something hot. One that - will give you the hives.

  Beverly Ross : You mean jive.

  Mr. Kennedy : Jive, yes, jive.

• Beverly Ross : The studio door was locked and there was Mr. Lewis inside sticking his *tongue* out at me. I wish you'd tell him where he gets off.

  Vernon Lewis : I wish you'd tell her where she gets off.

• Beverly Ross : I love you both. And you both have a raincheck on love.

• Beverly Ross : [singing and tapping]  Thumbs Up and V for Victory, On land or sea for Victory, Ten million Yanks...