38-05-11 Sade Refuses Simple Hawaii Research

Vic, still preparing for the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way's monumental trip to Hawaii, must contend with Sade's insidious knowledge about the islands.

Though she's ignorant about Hawaii and is being bombarded with nonsensical questions from most Thimble Club members at the meetings, she stubbornly refuses to take a trip to the library to read up on the subject.

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Sade is perhaps the weakest in the area of refusing to research; her personal motto seems to be something like, "Knowledge is needless trash and talky-talk". 

Face it, she just doesn't care about facts and therefore, she doesn't care if she's made a fool of, either.  Sure, we know that Sade isn't stupid, but her ignorance and lack of seeking even simple facts would be enough to make most any husband and son agitated and upset.

The Hawaiian trip (which we can assume never did come to fruition) is still years away but this doesn't stop Vic from dreaming about that glorious week.

The title is one I have given the episode purely for identifcation purposes.

[The gist of this episode was revealed in the book, Vic and Sade on the Radio: A Cultural History of Paul Rhymer's Daytime Series]

37-09-02 Lodge Convention Trip Story

STARRING: ART VAN HARVEY, BERNARDINE FLYNN AND BILL IDELSON

On a very warm September day, Sade tells the story of how Mis' Appelrot stole Ruthie's thunder about a proposed lodge trip to Hawaii. 

SEE THE SCRIPT (part 1) (part 2)

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Rush says Rooster Davis read a book where "some French explorer was traveling through the Sahara Desert in the blistering sun and the natives began missing him... and so went looking for him; all they found was a small pool of liquid. They poured him into a bottle and took the bottle to France and gave it a decent burial."

The above story is one I really wish I could hear.  I think it would be a 'Rush classic'.

By the way, you may not realize that there is a very high probability that Mis' Appelrot and Ruthie are in-laws. Although, I'm not 100% sure of this.

Hot day?  All three characters in this episode comment about the heat.  The "Heat Wave of 1937" was apparently pretty bad, although I don't have the data to prove it.  I did find a newsreel about it though:


Bess had written a letter to Sade about a month before this (actually, August 9, 1937) which Vic had put into his suit and had forgotten about. It was found in late 1940.

The letter gives details about the very hot 1937 Summer they were experiencing in Carberry: Bess says "The thermometer has been in the 90's even in the evening" and tells of a neighbor up the street "Going barefooted these terrible, hot days."

Below is a special note from Barbara Schwarz attached to the script obtained from the University of Wisconsin library:
Perhaps at the time she obtained the script these details were deemed correct; however, we now know of at least two other episodes involving Hawaii and the lodge, both from 1938 (38-01-10 Hawaiian Islands Itinerary and 38-05-11 Sade Refuses Simple Hawaii Research).