Mcgee Alice Quotes

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

Gentlemen, a pleasure talking to you. Hope I’ve been of some help. It’s coming upon closing time, and I don’t stay around here one minute more than I need to.” We walked to the van. It was no longer in the shade, and hot enough inside to melt belt buckles. We talked it over and decided that the motel at Robstown had been comfortable enough and only about sixty miles away, so we decided to call it a day, but halfway there we came upon a motel in Alice that looked just about as good, and they had plenty of room, so we took a pair of singles out in the back wing of the place. The shower was a rusty trickle. The window air conditioners made a thumping roaring rattling sound, and the meat across the street was fried, but otherwise it was adequate. Good

True words and logic rarely defeat evil intent.

Comments: Surprisingly Marlin Hurt’s first appearance as a woman speaking in dialect does not get as much of a reaction from the audience as it will in weeks to come. Alice’s weekly rent has apparently increased from $12 in November to $15 in January. Molly delivers one of the most vivid descriptions of boogie woogie: “The kind of piano playing that sounds like rain on the roof with the left hand and somebody playing the flute in the attic with the right hand.

Shirley Mitchell, a capable actress, also proved to be a good audience as her laughter can be heard several times during the patter between Fibber and Molly before Alice makes her appearance.

Molly defines vaudeville as “a form of entertainment where the same people used the same joke for fifteen or twenty years,” then the writers let Alice take a slap at themselves when she replies, “Just like on the radio.

The writers chose a gem of an image reflecting the duration of Alice’s talkathon, that of Wilcox planting a redwood which will get to the sawmill before she relinquishes the phone. In their respectful closing the Jordans extend best wishes to Harry Truman who became president after Roosevelt’s death five days before this broadcast.

In the midst of one of his rants against the utility Fibber mentions his “hard-earned dough,” which anyone familiar with his lack of meaningful employment might correct to “hardly-earned dough.” One source of income is mentioned in this episode: Alice’s weekly rent is $12.