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Have a nice time shopping with Mama and Ethel. You are such a good boy.

Now we're going to get our coat off and we're going to have a big dinner. And

you can sit here and play while Mama changes her clothes.

Will you be a good boy?

There you are. Tanny, right up there.

That's a fella.

Tanny, right up there. We take the coat off. You're such a good boy. You tired,

baby? Little baby tired.

Tanny up. Tanny up, Ricky.

There we go.

Let go.

That's it.

Now you play, play. There you go, honey. I'll be right back.

Give me mine.

Oh, wasn't it a wonderful break? We went by Hanson's during their selling out

sale. Uh -huh. I wonder why she's given up that dress shop. Oh, I don't know,

but I'm glad she is.

Oh, did you ever see such a bargain? Never.

And Ricky thinks I don't know how to save money. Why, I saved $10 on this

alone. I saved $7 on mine.

That's $17 we saved today.

What'll we spend it on? This.

How about buying a hat? Oh, wonderful. They actually won't cost us a cent. Gee,

won't our husbands be proud of us? Yeah.

Let's wear these dresses tonight and show them, huh? Oh, no. I won't get to

mine for a couple of months yet.

What do you mean you won't get to wear yours for a couple of months yet? I have

a system. You know how mad Ricky gets at me when I buy a new dress. Yeah? Well,

I just hang this away in the closet for a couple of months.

And then I take it out and wear it, and Ricky says, is that a new dress? And I

say, no, it's been hanging in the closet for months.

Oh, you're the sneaky one. Yeah.

See you later. Bye -bye, dear. Bye.

Yes, sir, and do you know how many steps he took yesterday?

Six? No.

Seven? No, two.

Oh, really?

Honestly, I got so excited that I called Ricky down to the club, didn't I, dear?

Huh? What's the matter with you?

Nothing. There is, too. Ever since you came home, you've been sitting there in

Cuban funk.

All I'm sorry is this crazy business that I'm in that's getting me down.

There's no sense to show business.

He gets like this every once in a while. What's the matter, dear? Did you have a

tough day? Every day is a tough day. Everybody wants more money. Everybody

better billing. You have to put up with all these crazy temperamental people.

If there's one thing that I can't stand, it's...

people yelling and screaming all the time.

Why do they have to yell and scream?

Why can't they do business in a normal, sensible manner like I do?

Well, I don't know, dear. Perhaps it's because they're not calm and even

-tempered like you are.

Yeah.

Well, the whole thing is not worth it. I mean, it's not worth it. When you're

through, you got nothing.

Nothing. You got nothing going for you. What have I got going for me? Nothing. I

got nothing going for me. Oh.

have to, Ricky. You're a big, important star. Sure.

Certainly.

Well, I mean, show business is not like any other business. You know, in another

business, if you get sick, let's say, maybe you own a store.

People working for you. It takes care of itself.

You don't have to worry. You get sick, you stay home. You enjoy being sick.

You're the smart one, Fred.

Fred!

Well, that's true.

Now all you got to do is just sit back and watch the money rolling.

All right, so it's not a million dollars.

But you got security.

That's what I ought to do.

I ought to get myself a little business.

That's a wonderful idea, Ricky.

Hey, we got a couple of bucks saved up. Maybe we could go in partners with them.

I don't know.

I do.

Hanson's Dress Shop.

Yes, it's for sale. You know that little store in the middle of the next block?

It's a gold mine right here in our own neighborhood. Now, wait a minute, Lucy.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. But, Ricky, a dress shop is just a thing for

Look, I already own a dress shop.

What do you mean you already own a dress shop?

Have you looked in your closet lately?

Oh, now, don't be smart. I don't have a lot of clothes.

All right.

I do have a lot of clothes, but where did I buy them all? From Hanson's. Me,

too. In fact, I bought a dress there just this morning. So did lots of

Well, did you buy another dress? Yes, at Hanson's. That's where I bought all my

dresses ever since we've been married. All three of them.

That's all?

Now, wait a minute, wait a minute. Let's not get off the subject. The point is

that that dress shop would be a good investment for us.

Look, that might be fine and all of that. The dress shop might be great.

but it's out of the question. Fred and I don't know anything about running a

dress shop. You don't have to run it, Ethel, and I will.

Yes.

You and Ethel? Yeah.

Oh, no.

Well, I don't see what's so funny.

Women have good business brains, too.

I saved $7 on that dress I bought this morning, and I saved $10.

What did you say?

Just keep on laughing at us.

Let's run a business.

Huh?

Oh, honestly, Ethel, doesn't it make you sick that those husbands of ours can't

see an opportunity like this? I don't even want to think about it. Honest as

goodness. Such a darling shop.

Mrs. Ricardo and Mrs. Mertz, how are you? Fine. Ricky said I had to bring

dress back.

Well, that's all right.

Well, I think it was on sale and everything. Want to follow up your

Oh, not at all, Mrs. Ricardo.

You see, I never charge up my sales to you until at least a week after.

Oh, that's nice. We're sure going to miss you when you sell this store.

Yeah, we wanted to buy it ourselves.

and have no business sense.

No, you know I'd like to buy it anyway, just to prove that they don't know what

they're talking about.

You know, that would be wonderful.

And it would practically pay for itself in no time.

Oh, no, no, it's out of the question. It's too much money. You're probably

asking thousands of dollars for it. Now, you'd be surprised how cheap it is. I

have a tremendous stock and a long lease, and all I'm asking is $3 ,000.

You'll excuse me just a moment.

Oh, Ethel, I can't stand it. We can't let this opportunity go by.

Do you have an idea?

Yes. How much money have you got?

You always get that same idea.

Never mind. How much have you got? It doesn't matter. $3 ,000 is out of the

question for us. Now, listen, that's just her asking price.

I'll bet I could get her down to $1 ,500.

I'll bet you couldn't. I'll bet I could. Bet. Now, where were we?

I was telling you the price, wasn't I? Well, frankly, Mrs. Hanson, $3 ,000,

that's just too much money.

Now, I'm sure that was just your asking price. You'd go a little lower, wouldn't

you? I'm sorry.

Just a little bit lower?

No.

Not a penny?

No.

What's so funny?

I was going to offer you $1 ,500.

I'll take it.

I just want to have, please, some custom, Hanson. Good afternoon.

This is that marvelous shop I was telling you about, Grace. Just wait till

see the goodies.

Oh, I can hardly wait.

Oh, Mrs. Hanson, I'll take that divine striped dress you put away for me

yesterday. Fine.

Just imagine, Grace, 100 % pure wool for only $39 .50.

And look at this cute little sweater.

How much is it?

$49 .50.

I'll take it. How much is this sweater?

$20. I'll take these two.

I'll take two myself.

Fine. May I try the dress on?

Why, of course. Right this way. Come on, Grace.

Ethel, do you realize she just took in $200?

I know.

Listen, we've just got to get this place. This is a gold mine.

Oh, but we don't even have the down payment.

Now, look, Mrs. Hanson just made $200 in five minutes.

That's $2 ,400 an hour.

Doors open eight hours a day.

Do you realize we'll be making $19 ,000 a day?

Wow. Mrs. Hanson.

Mrs. Hanson, we'll take the store.

Oh.

All right.

If only I had time to hold out for a fair price.

Fair? But I cannot stay here.

Mother needs me.

and that $1 ,500 will just about pay for her operation.

Oh, well, Mrs. Hanson, we don't want to take advantage of you.

Oh, let's make it $1 ,750.

Oh, bless you.

The difference in the money will just about pay...

Let's make it $2 ,000.

Let's make it $22 .50. Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

Now, you mustn't think any more about money.

I'll get the house rebuilt somehow.

The house?

It's a shamble since the fire.

Oh, dear. Well, look, I can't have this hanging on my conscience.

Now, look, Mrs. Hanson, you thought $3 ,000 was a fair price, and that's what

we'll pay you. We'll get it back in no time at all.

Oh, you're the dearest, sweetest girls in all the world, and how do you want to

handle the down payment?

Uh, well, uh, what did you have in mind?

Money.

I've heard that 10 % is usual.

10%. 10%, 3, 10%.

That's $300.

Would you take a check that's post -dated a couple of days?

Well, I don't know. Well, you see, I have to transfer some of my assets in my

other accounts.

Well, I guess that would be all right. Good. I'll bring you a check this

afternoon. Partner?

They've gone.

All set?

All set. You were just fine. And you can each have a scarf for helping me out.

Oh, thanks. Oh, hi.

I'm sorry I'm late. I had to wait for Ricky to leave before I could take the

baby down to Mrs. Trumbull.

How many sales did you make?

None.

Make $200 every five minutes.

Sometimes it'll be more, sometimes it'll be less.

Wait till the rush starts, then we'll make it up.

Yeah, well, I guess you're right.

Hey, you know, we ought to call all our friends and tell them that we bought

this place.

Yeah. Say, we're not going to keep on calling it Hanson's, are we?

Oh, no, I guess not. What do you want to call it? Oh, you think of a name.

Doesn't make any difference to me.

Well, it doesn't matter to me either.

Well, then I think it ought to be a combination of both our names, like...

Well, that doesn't sound very good.

Why not?

Well, it just doesn't have an easy flow, a nice, pleasing sound.

Well, what would you suggest?

Well, something that rolls right off your tongue, like Lucy F.

Lucy F?

Well, that goes right off your tongue all right. You could keep it on your

tongue if you tried.

Well, maybe we shouldn't try to be too cute.

Just use both our names and that's all.

Okay. Well, it's settled then.

Lucy and Ethel's dress shop.

Lucy and Ethel's dress shop?

Yeah.

Well, I think there ought to be a slight change.

What kind of a change?

Well, like Ethel and Lucy's dress shop.

Why would you make a change like that?

Well, just because I think Ethel and Lucy's dress shop sounds better to the

Not to my ear, it doesn't.

This is a pretty pickle. We've been open two whole days and haven't seen a

customer. We've made five sales.

Yes, to each other.

And I think we should have investigated our credit before we opened those charge

accounts.

Hey, there's Ricky and Fran. Look. Where? Oh!

go home with us? No, got to do a little more shopping. All right, I'll see you

later. Okay. Bye, honey. You know, I don't understand it. How can a guy be

on his back three times and still get up and win?

Maybe he had a sore back.

Forgot to tell us.

What time is it, anyway?

It's three o 'clock.

Here comes somebody. Pretend you're a customer.

Now, this is a lovely dress.

Oh, that's just darling. Does it come in any other colors? Well, I... Oh, never

mind that, though. It's Mrs. Hanson. Hello, Mrs. Hanson.

Mrs. Ricardo, your check bounced.

My check bounced?

Like a rubber ball.

Well, I'll call that bank and give them a piece of my mind. I've already called

them. Oh, you have?

Look, Mrs.

Hanson, now you know who my husband is. Now, there's no question about that

check being good.

Then you won't mind if I call and ask him?

No, go right ahead.

Oh, but you won't be able to use our phone.

It's out of order, isn't it, Ethel?

What are you going to do?

Get my coat and purse.

Hi,

dear. What kept you so long? Well, I got here as soon as I could.

Well, what do you want?

Well, hang up and I'll tell you. Okay, goodbye.

Might as well come on home. What do you want, honey?

Well,

I was worrying about little Ricky. How is he?

He's fine.

He's been fine all day.

Are you sure?

I think I hear him crying.

I don't hear anything.

Oh, you better go see, dear.

All right, I'll go see.

Hello, Ricardo's residence.

This is the maid speaking.

Mr. Ricardo, yes, he's here, but he doesn't speak any English.

You don't speak Spanish, do you?

Oh, you do.

Oh, well, just a moment.

He's fine, honey. He wasn't crying.

The phone for me?

Uh, yeah.

Yeah, it's one of my girlfriends, and she's trying to help her daughter with

some Spanish for school, and she thought maybe you could help her out.

Sure. What does she want to know how to say?

Uh, the check is good.

The check is good?

It's a funny thing for a kid to know how to say.

Well, it's probably one of those sentences that they have to write out.

know, like, do you have an umbrella?

Do you have a match?

The check is good.

You know, like that.

The check is good.

El cheque está bueno.

Thank you. That's all you wanted to know, wasn't it? Thank you, goodbye.

Está bueno, cheque. No, no, no, no. El cheque, el cheque. Está bueno. ¡Ya está!

on us. You know, about her grandmother that there's been a terrible accident.

Only this time we won't just talk about the grandmother.

What do you mean?

You just stall him off. I'll be back as soon as I can.

This shop is closed. Oh, yeah?

This shop is closed.

Closed? There's a note on the door here. What does it say?

It says, Lucy, I've gone to Mr.

Boyer's bank with him to close the deal. Oh, for heaven's sake. What's the

matter with her?

and help me get this off.

Oh, all right.

Now, where have you been?

Lucy, you've got to come down to the bank and sign the paper. I'm not going

anyplace until I find out what this is all about.

You kick me and then I'll kick you.

What are you talking about? What's the matter?

Well, you know that dress shop that you wanted us to buy?

Yeah. Somebody just bought it in the deal.

How did you know about it? Right here in the papers.

In the papers? Really?

Yeah. You know, it seems that they wanted to be the skyscraper in that

And the only thing that was holding the deal up was the lease on that shop.

So a fellow by the name of Boyer bought it and sold it to the construction

company for $50 ,000.

The part of Mrs. Hanson was played by Mabel Page.

The two women shoppers were Kay Wiley and Barbara Pepper.

And the policeman was Emery Parnell.

I Love Lucy is a Desilu production.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will be back next week at this same time.

This is the CBS Television Network.