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Lux Radio Theatre - "What a Woman" (Old Time Radio, 1949) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Literary agent Carol Ainsley has turned the best-selling romance novel
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: The Whirlwind into a film property, and her next assignment
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  Speaker 1: is finding its leading man. From March 14, 1949, this
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  Speaker 1: is Lux Radio Theater, episode 649, What a Woman, adapted
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  Speaker 1: from the 1943 Columbia Pictures film. Rosalind Russell returns to
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  Speaker 1: her screen role as Carol with Robert Cummings as magazine
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  Speaker 1: writer Henry Pepper and Leif Erikson as Professor Michael Cobb.
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  Speaker 1: Carol's search brings the publishing world, a reporter's profile, and
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  Speaker 1: a college professor into the same orbit in a story
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  Speaker 1: set between New York and Buxton College. And now, we
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  Speaker 1: return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux!
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  Speaker 3: Presents Hollywood.
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  Speaker 4: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring
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  Speaker 4: you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Rosalind Russell and Robert
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  Speaker 4: Cummings in What a Woman.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: William Keeley.
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  Speaker 6: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we bring you
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  Speaker 6: a play of love, laughter, and a light heart. Designed
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  Speaker 6: to make you forget the problems of the day and
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  Speaker 6: add to the world all too rare stock of good humor.
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  Speaker 6: It's Columbia Pictures' sparkling comedy, What a Woman. And the title, naturally,
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  Speaker 6: refers to Miss Rosalind Russell, who starred in the film
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  Speaker 6: and repeats her polished performance here tonight. Co-starred with Rosalind
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  Speaker 6: is Robert Cummings, one of our longtime favorites. And it's
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  Speaker 6: quite fitting that Lux Toilet Soap should bring you this play, because,
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  Speaker 6: as most of you know, the big, new, bath-sized Lux
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  Speaker 6: Soap will give almost any woman.
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  Speaker 3: That, uh, well, that what-a-woman look.
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  Speaker 6: And here's the curtain rising for the play, starring Rosalind
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  Speaker 6: Russell as Carol Ainsley and Robert Cummings as Henry Pepper,
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  Speaker 6: with Leif Erikson as Michael. From coast to coast, a
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  Speaker 6: sensational new novel is sweeping America. Its title, The Whirlwind,
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  Speaker 6: stares from every bookshelf. And the name of Anthony Street,
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  Speaker 6: its author, is on every tongue. Right now, in an
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  Speaker 6: office of the Knickerbocker Magazine.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Henry, you can forget the article on Anthony Street.
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  Speaker 3: Forget it? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: Because there is no Anthony Street. It's a pen name.
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  Speaker 7: I just talked to Lindsay, the publisher. The author of
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  Speaker 7: the whirlwind doesn't want himself known.
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  Speaker 3: He writes the best-selling novel in ten years and doesn't
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  Speaker 3: want himself known. What's the matter with him? I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: But the next best thing to Anthony Street is the
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  Speaker 7: person who did more than anyone else to put that
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  Speaker 7: book over.
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  Speaker 3: Carol Ainsley. You mean the agent? She's Anthony Street's agent?
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  Speaker 7: Street hasn't any agent. Carol Ainsley grabbed the first copy
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  Speaker 7: of The Whirlwind, saw it was going to be a bestseller,
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  Speaker 7: hooked up with Lindsay, and did the best promotion job
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  Speaker 7: in the history of the publishing business.
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  Speaker 3: And all for her usual 10%. So what?
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  Speaker 7: I'm... I'm sorry to bore you, Henry, but Carol Ainsley
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  Speaker 7: happens to be phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: And our readers will want to know about her.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they want to know about Anthony Street, I know. Ah,
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  Speaker 3: but they'll settle for Carol Ainsley.
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  Speaker 7: Did you hear what she made David Arthur pay for
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  Speaker 7: the motion picture rights?
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  Speaker 3: $ 400, 000 for one novel.
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  Speaker 7: And right now, Carol Ainslie's in all the papers. This
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  Speaker 7: hunt to find an unknown male to play the whirlwind
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  Speaker 7: in the movies.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, um... I just don't understand you, Henry. Say, isn't
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  Speaker 3: she some relative of Senator Ainslie?
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  Speaker 2: His daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Important background.
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  Speaker 2: Everything.
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  Speaker 3: What more do you want for an article? Me? Nothing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even want to read it.
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  Speaker 7: I'm afraid you will because you're going to write it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, now, just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: We haven't time to wait a minute. Carol Lange is
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  Speaker 7: going to be in our next issue. So grab your
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  Speaker 7: hat and get over to her office.
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  Speaker 3: Are you serious? Get over there! You're serious.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's here, Miss Ainsley, any time you want to begin. Thanks, Timmy. Well,
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  Speaker 2: come on in my office, everybody. I guess you all
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  Speaker 2: know where I've been. Atlanta, Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston.
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  Speaker 3: Carol, you found the whirlwind?
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  Speaker 2: You kidding? My notes read like a coroner's report.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, now, look, everyone. When a certain motion picture
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  Speaker 2: producer named David Arthur bought the screen rights to The Whirlwind,
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  Speaker 2: I made it part of the contract that we'd supply
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  Speaker 2: the man to play the part. Fine. Great. Only now Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Arthur's becoming a little unreasonable. He insists that we deliver him. Well, now,
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  Speaker 2: where do we stand? All right, Pat, you first.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I've got second-degree calluses from sitting on the benches
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  Speaker 8: of a hundred little theaters.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry, Carol, no prospect.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't find anything?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, a beautiful little land, you know, and a hundred-acre farm.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'll buy it and retire from this crazy business.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if we don't find a whirlwind, I'll do the
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  Speaker 2: cooking for you. Well, how did you make our clock?
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  Speaker 3: 400 winners of the Intercollegiate Dramatic Contest. I photographed right profile,
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  Speaker 3: left profile, I.
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  Speaker 5: Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Incredible. What about you, Mel?
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  Speaker 3: Eighteen pounds of report.
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  Speaker 2: Adding up to what?
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  Speaker 5: No whirlwind.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, chums, there's no use kidding ourselves. We're over
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  Speaker 2: a barrel. I can't believe that in all these United
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  Speaker 2: States there isn't a man who can play the whirlwind.
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  Speaker 2: I won't believe it. And what's more, I... I.
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  Speaker 5: I.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Jimmy. Come here a minute, will you?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Miss Ainsley.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, who's that? Uh, there in the corner. With his
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  Speaker 2: hat on. I don't know. I thought he came in
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  Speaker 2: with you. With me? Excuse me. I'll get your phone. Hello? Uh, Mr., uh, uh, you,
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  Speaker 2: with the hat on.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: You're new here, aren't you? Uh, well, yes, as a
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  Speaker 2: matter of fact, I'm... It's Hollywood again, Miss Ainsley. David Arsene. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: what'll I say to him? You were never any good
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  Speaker 2: when you were hurt. Here, talk to him. David, David, David! Oh, darling,
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  Speaker 2: I know, but there isn't anything to worry about. But
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  Speaker 2: what's the good of finding someone early and then having
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  Speaker 2: him grow cold long before the picture starts? Well, I
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  Speaker 2: have two wonderful possibilities. One of them's bound to pan out.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll deliver him when and as I promise. Oh, David,
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  Speaker 2: don't you worry about it. Yes, I'll keep you posted
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  Speaker 2: on everything that happens. Just give my love to Sophie.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, darling. Goodbye. How'd I do? You got us
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  Speaker 2: a reprieve. Well, we can't hold him off forever. It
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  Speaker 2: isn't just the whirlwind. This affects us and with every
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  Speaker 2: one of our clients. Our prestige is at stake. Our entire... Oh, well, well,
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  Speaker 2: you all know that. Now, thanks, everybody. That's all for now. Hey, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you with the hat. Are you bald?
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  Speaker 3: Bald?
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  Speaker 2: Well, hadn't you better be going with the others? And
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  Speaker 2: just what is it you do in this firm?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't work here.
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  Speaker 2: You don't work here?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm a spy. See?
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  Speaker 2: Well, who are you spying on and what for?
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  Speaker 3: On you for the Knickerbocker magazine.
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  Speaker 2: A reporter? And you've been sitting here listening to everything.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very colorful business you run, Miss Ainsley.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. And I suppose you leave.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay by me. Tomorrow's the opening of the trial season.
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  Speaker 3: I hear they're running 9 and 10.
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  Speaker 2: Just a minute. Just a minute, Mr... Pepper.
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  Speaker 3: Henry Pepper.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever take your hat off, Mr. Pepper?
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  Speaker 3: Only in recognition of exceptional achievement, Miss Ainsley.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Well, just what is it you wanted for your magazine?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the boss wants an article on you. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, do sit down a minute. I didn't mean
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  Speaker 2: to be rude. I'll send for my biography from the
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  Speaker 2: publicity department. It covers everything from my childhood.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thanks all the same, Miss Ainsley, but I work
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  Speaker 3: in a kind of a funny way.
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  Speaker 2: So I gather.
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  Speaker 3: I work, well, you might say, from the inside. When
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  Speaker 3: I'm on assignment, my subject and I practically live together.
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  Speaker 2: That's cozy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, I promise you that in time I shall
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  Speaker 3: assume the more amiable characteristics of a faithful Cocker Spaniel.
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  Speaker 3: Trotting at your heels and grateful for an occasional word
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  Speaker 3: and wagging my tail when petted.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's all very interesting, Mr. Pepper, I assure you,
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  Speaker 2: but I happen to be a very busy woman.
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  Speaker 3: And a very smart woman, Miss Ainsley. You can see
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  Speaker 3: the value of an article in Knickerbocker. I figure maybe
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  Speaker 3: 045 installment... Your coffee, Miss Ainsley.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thanks, Timmy. Just set it down. Do I have
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  Speaker 2: your permission to drink this while it's hot?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, go right ahead. I'll catch up with my reading.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: It was a whirlwind by Anthony Street. What's this blurb
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  Speaker 3: on the jacket? Mr. Street is author, soldier, sailor, a
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  Speaker 3: man of the world with a sense of the world
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  Speaker 3: in conflict, a tidal wave of action, six feet four
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  Speaker 3: of magnificent manhood, ex-athlete, ex-footballer, ex- Here, here, let.
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  Speaker 2: Me see that. Hmm. Man of the world with a
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  Speaker 2: sense of the world in conflict. Six feet four. Right
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  Speaker 2: under our noses. Timmy, get me Lindsay.
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  Speaker 3: Lindsay.
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  Speaker 2: Tidal wave of action. Six feet four of magnificent manhood.
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  Speaker 3: You mean to say you've never seen him?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, of course not. Anthony Street's his pen name.
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  Speaker 2: Everything was arranged through his publishers. And you keep that
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  Speaker 2: out of the knickerbocker.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay, Miss Ainsley. Oh, hello, Lindsay. Yes? What's Anthony Street's
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  Speaker 2: real name and address?
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  Speaker 5: But, Carol, I'm on a bone not to reveal.
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  Speaker 2: I don't intend to reveal anything. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: have a little talk with him and see what he
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  Speaker 2: looks like. Who is he? And not too loud. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not alone.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 9: His name is Michael Cobb. He lives in Buxton, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Timmy, get me a train reservation right away for Buxton, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: And now, Mr. Pepper, if you'll excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: Going somewhere?
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  Speaker 2: Out to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Here you are, miss. 251 Bolton Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: But this can't be right. It says faculty house.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. A lot of the professors from Buxton College
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  Speaker 3: live there.
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  Speaker 2: Professor? You mean he's a... Here, thanks. College professor. Oh, brother.
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  Speaker 5: How do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Professor Cobb?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I had a message that you wanted to see me.
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  Speaker 2: You're Michael Cobb?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Carol Ainslie. Could I talk to you for a minute?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I suppose no one could object here in the library.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Cobb. Well, well. The jacket was pleasantly accurate, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 5: Jacket? Miss Ainslie, I confess I have the slightest idea what...
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  Speaker 5: The slightest what?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Street.
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  Speaker 5: Look here. How did you know that?
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  Speaker 2: You are, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: Miss Ainsley, that was a complete secret between me and
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  Speaker 5: my publishers. Now, I demand to know how you... I
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  Speaker 5: won't be shushed. I demand to know.
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  Speaker 2: I sold you a book for motion pictures. Your secret
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely safe with me. I, uh... I, uh.
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  Speaker 5: Why are you staring at me?
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  Speaker 2: Is this college co-educational?
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  Speaker 5: No, it is not.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, too bad.
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  Speaker 5: Please, what do you want to see me about?
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  Speaker 2: I've been commissioned to find a man to play the
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  Speaker 2: part of the whirlwind on the screen.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wish you every success. Good day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've searched everywhere, seen everyone. I thought I'd failed,
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  Speaker 2: but now I know I haven't. Professor, there's only one
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  Speaker 2: man who can possibly do justice to the character of
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  Speaker 2: your wonderful book.
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  Speaker 5: I have complete confidence in you, Miss Ainsley, so you just.
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  Speaker 2: That man is you.
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  Speaker 5: Me? Portray the character of the whirlwind on the screen?
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 5: That's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Please listen to me. This is of the utmost importance.
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  Speaker 2: Important to the millions who've read your book. Important to all.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Ainsley, I wrote that book on an impulse, sort
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  Speaker 5: of a culmination of my boyhood dreams of romance and adventure. Now,
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  Speaker 5: it's entirely without literary merit.
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  Speaker 2: Professor Cobb, regardless of what you think of it, think
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  Speaker 2: of what it means to your readers. Little people, millions
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  Speaker 2: of them, living out their humdrum, sordid lives, to whom
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  Speaker 2: the excitement and romance of this book means escape and happiness.
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  Speaker 2: And do you happen to know how many people are
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  Speaker 2: going to see this book on the screen?
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  Speaker 5: Do I have the faintest idea?
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  Speaker 2: Eighty million.
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  Speaker 5: Eighty million? Oh, nevertheless, Miss Ainslie, it's just.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you can't say that a book like this is unimportant.
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  Speaker 2: And you can't say it's unimportant who portrays the whirlwind
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  Speaker 2: on the screen. The minute I saw you, I knew
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  Speaker 2: you were the right man for.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Ainslie, I am a scholar. My doctor's thesis was
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  Speaker 5: on a certain phase of Elizabethan literature. And I'm prouder
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  Speaker 5: of those three copies than I am of a million whirlwinds. Now,
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  Speaker 5: it's utterly impossible.
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  Speaker 2: You're afraid the college won't approve, huh?
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  Speaker 5: That's only one consideration. Now, it's all out of the question. Goodbye,
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  Speaker 5: Miss Ainslie.
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  Speaker 2: It's a pity.
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  Speaker 5: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: To have found the right man and to have lost him. Goodbye, Professor.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Miss Ainsley.
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  Speaker 2: Pepper, what's the big idea following me here?
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  Speaker 3: There's a train back to New York at 5.30.
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  Speaker 2: Answer my question.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I'd explain. It's part of my job to
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  Speaker 3: follow you. That's how I learn things.
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  Speaker 2: Why don't you try it with your hat off? Now,
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  Speaker 2: you look here, Mr. Pepper. I won't be able to
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  Speaker 2: give you a minute while I'm in Buxton. My business
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  Speaker 2: here is extremely confidential.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I know. You're here to see Anthony Street. Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Street's identity is a secret.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Miss Ainsley, I'm not a cub reporter chasing headlines.
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  Speaker 3: And my assignment is not Anthony Street. It's you. Now,
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  Speaker 3: do we catch the 5.30 for New York?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, but I've just made an appointment to see the
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  Speaker 2: dean of Buxton College at exactly 5.30.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Mr. Pepper.
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  Speaker 2: Bye. I beg your pardon, Dean Schaefer, but Professor Cobb
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  Speaker 2: is here now.
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  Speaker 3: Professor Cobb? What did I want to see him for?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, sir, but wasn't it something to do
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  Speaker 2: with that Miss Ainsley?
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: Who's Miss Ainsley? Oh. Oh, yes, of course.
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  Speaker 8: Miss Gilbert, do you realize what that woman told me?
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  Speaker 8: Hollywood wants you, she said.
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  Speaker 3: Hollywood? Hollywood?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 8: As technical advisor on the filming of one of the
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  Speaker 8: most famous books of our time.
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  Speaker 3: Famous hoax indeed.
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  Speaker 8: Unmitigated trash.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no, Dean Schaefer.
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  Speaker 8: Just because I'm an authority on the American Revolution.
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  Speaker 3: She had the effrontery to.
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  Speaker 2: to.
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  Speaker 8: And that's not all, Miss Gilbert. From what she said,
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  Speaker 8: I have reason to believe the book in question was
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  Speaker 8: written on the campus of Buxton College.
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  Speaker 2: Dean Schaefer? No.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Gilbert, send in Professor Cobb.
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  Speaker 6: Professor?
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  Speaker 3: Professor Cobb.
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  Speaker 5: Have you heard of a book called The Whirlwind? The Whirlwind? Yes,
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  Speaker 5: I believe I have.
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  Speaker 3: Have I read it?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I thumbed through it. A romantic work, sir. Oh,
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  Speaker 5: but very fine for what it is. At least the
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  Speaker 5: public seems to think so.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard that it's unadulterated trash.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I wouldn't say that.
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  Speaker 8: What's more, I have a strong suspicion it was written
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  Speaker 8: by a member of this faculty.
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  Speaker 3: Under the pen name of Anthony Street.
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  Speaker 5: So long as the author's identity is hidden.
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  Speaker 2: Hidden enough.
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  Speaker 8: It's a very real concern to me that a piece
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  Speaker 8: of tripe like the whirlwind should originate in Oxford.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think tripe is exactly a fair word, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Too many people have found this book important.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they have.
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  Speaker 5: Little people, sir, thousands of them, living out their humdrum,
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  Speaker 5: sordid lives, to whom the adventure and excitement of this
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  Speaker 5: book are a relief and a boon. And this same
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  Speaker 5: book will be filmed. Do you know how many people
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: are waiting.
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  Speaker 8: To see it?
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Eighty million. Eighty million little people seeking escape and happiness.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: I thought so.
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: Anthony Street.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: You?
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Anthony Street.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Pepper, what is this second sight that makes you catch
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: the same train to New York I'm taking?
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: No second sight at all. No other train. Let's get aboard.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, Miss Ainsley! Miss Ainsley! Professor Cobb! Miss Ainsley! Miss Ainsley,
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: does your offer still hold?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: How about doing the whirlwind? You've changed your mind.
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: Well, some unexpected circumstances led me to reconsider, and I
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: thought if your offer held, I'd pack my suitcase and.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Never mind your suitcase. Get on the train.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: But my things!
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Pepper will lend you whatever you need, won't you, Mr. Pepper? Oh, me?
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's very kind of you.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, come on. Come on, Pepper. Well, for heaven's sake.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you win.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: What's the matter?
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: Look at Mr. Pepper.
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: I am looking at Mr. Pepper.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: He's got his hat off.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: There's a brief intermission before act two of What a Woman.
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Here's Mr. William Keeley, our producer. Act two of What.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: A Woman, starring Rosalind Russell as Carol Ainsley and Robert
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: Cummings as Henry Pepper. It's rather late at night now,
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: and in New York, the entire Ainsley staff has hastily
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: assembled in Carol's penthouse.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: The chief herself has just walked in the door with
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: a tall.
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Handsome, thoroughly bewildered Professor Collins.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Here we are, everybody. Meet Mr. Anthony Street, the whirlwind.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: How do you do?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I won't keep you long, but we've got to
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: work fast. Four weeks isn't much time, but it's got
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to be enough. I'll make the introductions brief. Oh, Timmy,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: this is Miss Timmons, my secretary, Mr. Street.
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: How do you do?
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Timmy, wire David Arthur in Hollywood right away. Tell him
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: we've definitely found the right man for the whirlwind to
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: be delivered on the agreed date. And now, don't tell
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: him anything else. Oh, Ed, this is Mr. Clark, our photographer.
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: How do you do?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Hey, what a guy.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Ed, we're going to need publicity photos and fast. Now,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: everything concerning Mr. Street is to be handled right here
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: under my personal supervision. Is that clear? Oh, Ruth, this
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: is Miss Fenwick, our instructor in the dramatics. Miss Fenwick, Mr.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Street.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: How do you do? Well, well, Mr. Oh, Ruthie, he's
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: got to learn to read lines right away. I want
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: to make a screen test in ten days. Where's Pat? Oh,
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: there you are. Pat, Pat O'Shea, this is one of
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: our key men, Mr.
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: Street. How do you do?
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: You don't know how glad I am to know you.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Pat, get Tony Williams to measure him for a suit,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: will you? Make it brown, double-breasted, English-straight.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: I would suggest... Where's Richie?
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, Richie!
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, you've got to get him in condition. Two hours
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: a day in that gym.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am. We'll show him, Mr.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Street.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: About all for now. You'd better all go home and
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: get a good night's rest. It may be the last
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: time for some time. And thanks very much for coming.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: On behalf of the entire staff, I bow from the hip.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, Professor, we're underway.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, I... Guess I'd better get along to a hotel.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Hotel? Oh, you're staying here? Here. Well, we've got work
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: to do. It's most important that you stay near me.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, but, well, I mean.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: There's a guest suite for my clients here. I think
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you'll find it both isolated and comfortable. Oh, Minna. Yes,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Miss Ainslie. Are Mr. Street's rooms ready? Oh, yes, Miss.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Miss Ainslie, I had no idea of staying here. Oh,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: look here, this isn't Buxton, you know.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Run along now and don't worry. Better show him the way, Minna.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: Well, well... Good night, Miss Ainsley.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Miss Ainsley? I'm impressed. Deeply impressed.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Pepper, I wondered where you were.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Your staff let me in just now as they were leaving.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I'll have to speak to them about it in the morning.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: How'd you do it, Miss Ainsley? How'd you get the
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: professor out of Buxton?
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm afraid that will have to remain a state secret.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Shall we just put it down to charm?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Charm, huh? The velvet touch. On top and underneath the
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: brass knuckles, of course.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I never show my knuckles. And you'd better run along, too, Mr. Pepper.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: I'll have a tough day ahead. I'm working against a deadline,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so am I. And until you give me 15 minutes,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I can't even start.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: If I do give you 15 minutes, do I stand
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: a reasonable chance of not finding you underfoot every time
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I turn around?
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, a reasonable chance, yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: All right, now. Well, what do you want to know?
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Well, let's start at the beginning. How about your childhood?
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, I had a divine childhood. Perfectly glorious.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Gazan.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Now, see here, Pepper. You asked a question and I
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: answered it. I thought that was the usual way of
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: conducting an interview.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Miss Ainsley, your mother was Cora Ainsley, a great actress,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: wasn't she? And your father is Senator Ainsley?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, I get it, Doctor. Poor little rich girl, left
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: alone day after day in her own private swimming pool. No,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: thank you. I'm not having any.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Okay. What sort of childhood did you have?
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: It was very stimulating, really, having both one's parents so successful.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: All their friends were brilliant, talented. Writers, musicians.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Exactly. You know what I think, Miss Ainsley?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: No, what do you think, Mr. Bones?
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I think that ever since you were a child, you've
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: had to prove something. Carol Ainsley had to be somebody.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: It was expected of her.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Very interesting, Doctor. Why don't you throw on the colored slides?
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: You could have been an actress or you could have
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: taken up painting or writing, but you wanted to be
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: a success in a hurry. So you took other people,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: developed their abilities, sold them high, and made their second-rate
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: talents pass for pure genius.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: That's it exactly. And what's so wrong with that?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Only one thing. That in all your hurry, you overlooked
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: doing a job on yourself. Oh.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I don't exist. Is that it?
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: About 10% of you does.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Given a chance, the other 90% might be, uh, Terrific.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Good night, Miss Avery.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Morning, Pat.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: Morning, Carol.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Well, where are those photographs of Anthony Street?
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: Well, here are the proofs, Carol.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Say, was that guy's mother frightened by a camera?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see what you mean. Oh, well, he just
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: lacks confidence. Try him in a bathing suit, or better yet,
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Hawaiian trunks, and put some palm trees in the background.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: How was he in dramatics, Ruth? You really want the truth? Oh,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: as bad as that, huh? Well, it's only the first day.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: We've got to get the screen test there in ten days.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Couldn't you give us more time, Carol?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, honestly, we need it, Carol.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: We promised David Arthur that we'd have that screen test
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: out to him on the 27th. That means we've got
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: to make it by the 25th, so we'll have a
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: chance to see it first here in the projection room. Oh, incidentally,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: if Mr. Henry Pepper should show his face around here... Yeah? Oh,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: never mind. Just keep him away from Anthony Street.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, hiya, Professor. How's it going? Hello, Mr.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Pepper.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, like that, huh? Well, where is everybody? What's going
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: on there?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's Miss Ainsley's projection room back there.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, they're looking at the screen test, huh?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Screen test. Mr.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Pepper, I am not a film actor.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Does it matter? Here, have some of Miss Ainsley's superior brandy.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Brandy?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I think you'd better. Here.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Thanks. Sounds like they're about finished.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: I hope so. I couldn't stand it. Nobody said a word,
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: but I could tell what they were thinking.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Well, that's awful. Bright and early in the morning. Good night.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Good night. Well, Michael, awful ordeal, wasn't it, seeing yourself
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: on the screen for the first time?
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Ghastly.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. You'll be amazed at the improvement of your
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: next test.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Next test?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Mr. Pepper.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Did I have an appointment with you?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: You told me to come around any evening I was ready.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I told you to telephone first, and I.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Miss Ainsley, as for making another.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Please, Michael, now is not the time.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, I could leave.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: No, no, please stay, Mr.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Pepper.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Miss Ainsley, I am not an actor, and I never
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: can be.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Not an actor, not an actor. What are actors? Simply people.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: And what's acting? Simply being people.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: That sounded all right in Buxton. But after this humiliating experience,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: another screen test is out of the question. If there's
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: a train back to Buxton tonight, I am going to
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: take it.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: You astound me. If it were any man, just an
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: ordinary man, I might understand. But a person with your imagination,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: your intelligence. After all, what would you ask to do?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: To pretend. Simply to pretend.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: Pretend. Pretend to be in love. I've made a complete
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: idiot of myself.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Isn't it so difficult to pretend you're in love? Come here.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: All right. You're standing before the woman you love. You
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: have your arms around her. No, no, no, no. Around her.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: All the way around her.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: There.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Now, what's so difficult about that? You hold her. Oh,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: really hold her. Closer.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Tighter.
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: That's right.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: And your face is close to her. Now, it's like this.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Her face is very close to yours, too. Now, what
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: would your next impulse be?
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, I, uh.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: What is the next thing to pretend? A woman as
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: close as this. Her face as near to you as mine.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You pretend to want.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: To kiss her.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: And you do. Like this. That's all there is to it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Miss Ainsley, I.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: I.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I guess he found it a little too warm in here.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Where do you think he's going?
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: On a beeline back to Buxton.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: What?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't imagine you're in the mood to work. No, no,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I thought I... Well, if you'll excuse me, Miss Ainsley,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I find it a little too cold in here.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: Do you know what time it is, Henry? It's after midnight.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Poor Miss Ainsley. She must be going nuts by now.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: Say, how did you know where to find me?
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Well, when I left her apartment a couple of hours ago,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I figured if I were you, I'd head for the
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: nearest bar. And here you were.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: You know, what I regret most about all this is
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: not what's happened to me, but... Oh, she's worked so hard.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Well, that's her business.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: But she took such a personal interest in such.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: A warm way.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, you felt that, huh?
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, definitely. Very sympathetic.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, drink up, Professor.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: You know, Henry, there's something challenging about failure. When a
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: man has undertaken something right or wrong, there is an
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: urge to see it through.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Say, I'll be right back, Professor. I just remembered
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: I have to make a phone call.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: This is Pepper, Miss Ainsley. Did I wake you up?
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Wake me up? I'm out of my mind. Anthony Street's disappeared,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: so hang up if you don't mind. I've got a
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: dozen people looking for him.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: May I make a prediction?
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not interested in your predictions. And what's more, I
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: wish you'd get off.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Miss Ainsley, 10 to 1, the professor will be back
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: on the job in the morning, bright and early.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: What do you mean? Do you know where he is?
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Now look here, Pepper, if you've done anything.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Just a hunch, Miss Ainsley, just a hunch. Good night.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: Good morning. Good morning. I hope you didn't worry, Miss Ainsley.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Where have you been?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: In a Turkish bath.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You spent the night in a Turkish bath?
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: You certainly did. Nothing like it to clear the head.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, I see everything in a different light this morning.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: It's no sin to fail, Miss Ainsley. But once you've
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: undertaken anything, it is a sin to give up trying.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: It is? Well, let's have another go at it, shall we?
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: My dramatics, I mean. Is Miss Fenwick here?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: No, no, not yet, is there?
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Well, it's just as well. I'll have time for a
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: workout first in the gym. Goodbye, Henry, and thanks a lot.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Swell guy, isn't he?
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Mr. Pepper, I should like a word with you. How
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: were you able to call me up at midnight and
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: predict a thing like this?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, we got to talking, you know.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, and he began to think better of the job, eh?
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he began to think better of you. What? You see,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Miss Ainsley, when a handsome thing like you kisses a
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: man like that, you can't expect not to change the
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: whole course of his life. He doesn't know it, Miss Ainsley,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: but the professor's in love.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Are you crazy?
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: You know something? You play your cards right, and you've
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: not only got a star on your hand, you've got
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: him right in your lap. Carol, Carol, look at the
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: screen test I just saw.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: The boy's terrific.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Didn't I tell you? I simply don't understand. Just ten days, Carol,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: and he's become an actor.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: I wonder what hit him.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, what hit him? Nothing hit him.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: He's intelligent, sensitive. He merely caught on. We'll take the
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: test out to the airport, Pat. By tomorrow night, we'll
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: know what Hollywood thinks of it.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: They're sure to like it, Carol. Then what?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: On Wednesday, we release the publicity. The whole country will
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: hear about him, complete with pictures, everything. And on Thursday,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the whirlwind and I take the train to Hollywood. Sure
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: you want to go? I want to deliver this prize
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: package personally. Oh, now look, Pat. On Wednesday night, I
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: want a reception. 25 or so newspaper and magazine editors.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Have the invitation read simply, uh, to meet Mr. Anthony Street. Mr.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Pepper's on the phone. Oh, tell him to go to...
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: All right, let me have it. Well, how do you do, Mr. Pepper?
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Miss Ainsley, I have the first installment for you to
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: look over.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Couldn't possibly do it today. I'll have to look at
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: it another time.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: You'll read it today, Miss Ainsley, or the first installment
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: goes to press, just as I wrote. it. Is that
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: all right?
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: No, no, it isn't. Oh, all right. Five o'clock here
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: at my apartment. That man's an epidemic.
• 29:48
  Speaker 11: Now, remember, this is just the first installment, Miss Ainsley.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Well, you like it?
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. It's pretty good. Thanks for keeping a civil tongue
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: in your typewriter.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Well, now, shall we go on from there?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Well, we've polished off my childhood. What now, business?
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Mm-mm.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Heart interest.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: What?
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Miss Ainsley, hasn't your life been remarkably free of men?
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Of course not. I've had lots of those, thousands of them.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: But never the one, the right one.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Well, you forced it out of me. There was one.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Only one. Jeffrey. I was about 20, skiing that spring
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: in Austria. He was an English boy there on his
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Easter holiday. It was love at first sight, you know, preordained.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: I sailed home to tell my parents about it. We
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: were going to be married. And then it happened. That summer.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: He didn't live. He... He drowned. So, you see... After that, the.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: Soft music now?
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: What?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: I don't believe a word of it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Why not? That was a very moving story.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was. Almost good enough to pass with the
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: real thing.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're uncomfortably smart and the smuggest man. Oh, last
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: night I didn't sleep laughing about your theories. For instance,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Michael Cobb.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, how is the professor?
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: Perfectly fine, and minding his own business in a highly
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: normal manner. If you'd seen the screen test this afternoon,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you'd realize the job was practically done. And now what
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: have you got to say about that?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I'd say it's about time he began to feel very, uh, grateful.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Grateful? Excuse me, Miss Ames. Oh, yes, Minna. These packages
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: just arrived by special messenger marked, uh, Rush. They're wrapped
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: like gifts. Oh, thank you, Minna.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: What is it, your birthday?
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: No, not my birthday.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Well, what do you know? A basket of food. Candied fruit.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Nobody could be that hungry. What idiot thought that up?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Isn't there a card in it?
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, of course. Well, well, well, well, imagine.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Someone you know, huh?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, naturally.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, this other box over here is obviously candy.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: Card?
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. From a client.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: All four packages from a client?
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah. A quartet. Four of them. They sing, you know, together.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Very talented.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Oh, hello. Hello, Henry.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, hello, Professor.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Michael. Michael, do you mind?
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Pepper and I will be through in five minutes.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, you're angry.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: What, me? Oh, I should say not. On the contrary.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Cross my heart and hope to die.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Then say you're pleased.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: I'm delighted. I'm out of my mind. Now, would you
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: mind waiting in the other.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: There's one more.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: One more what, Professor?
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Gift.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Mike, did you send them?
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, didn't Henry know?
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: No, he didn't know. But he knows now.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: They're really lovely, Michael, but you shouldn't go spending money
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: like this.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: I just got my royalty statement from the publisher, and
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: if I don't start spending some of it, I'll clutter
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: up the bank.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it's a lot of money, you know.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: And, Carol, I've been thinking about you.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: What?
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: You work too hard. No fun, no relaxation.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Why, I never felt better in my life.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: That's what they all say just before they collapse. Now
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: go get dressed.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: What for?
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: What didn't Henry tell you?
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Tell me what?
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: Well, you and I, dinner, then the theater, and after that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: What did Henry have to do with this?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Why, he arranged for the theater tickets, and then.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: And just when did all this take place?
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just this morning, Miss Ainsley, just after Michael went shopping.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: Now, off you go, Carol. We haven't all the time
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: in the world, you know.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: But I can't do this to Mr. Pepper. He has
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: certain material to get from me. He's working against the deadline.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, now, don't mind me. You young folks go right ahead. Oh, no.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Henry.
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Henry.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Say no more, say no more. I'll use your typewriter
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: and we'll have a quiet little chat when you get home. Oh,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: by the way, Mike, how is your singing voice?
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: Singing voice? I don't sing, Henry.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I guess I got you mixed up with a quartet.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Now, what do you mean by that?
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: Ah, home at last. Oh, boy, was that an evening. Wow. Oh, Henry.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Henry.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Henry.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Well, have a good time?
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: Did we have a good time? Tell him, Carol.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: You tell him.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, Henry, the theater was just wonderful. I mean, we
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: really started, didn't we, Carol?
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: That we did. That we did.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, and the nightclubs. Why, I can't even remember all
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: of them. I can't. Oh, now, little Carol's tired. Well, now,
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: that settles it. Little Carol's going right to her beddy
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: for a full eight hours. I'm sorry, Henry, but no
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: more work tonight.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're right, Mike. You two little butterflies are going
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: to fold your little wings and go beddy-bye.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Leave us not be coy.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: All right, my girl. To bed you go.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: But I can't go to bed without my milk. Milk?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: All my life. Would you be a good boy now
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: and go out and get it for me?
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: You bet.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: And warm it.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: Warm it? You bet.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Milk? Warm milk?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: You? I hate it. It gives me cramps.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Say, how do you really feel?
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Like an occupied country. I could kill you.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: You could? I didn't have anything to do with it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, no? Little Twinkle Toes had the time of his life,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: thanks to you.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Well, it was the least that one pal could do
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: for another.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: That's what I wanted to talk to you about, this
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: pals business.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's perfectly harmless. Actually, I'm just an innocent bystander.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Hmm, getting the kick of your life out of the
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: whole thing.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so is he. That's what you really ought to
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: be worrying about, you know.
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: What?
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: When a guy like that gets hit, a guy who's
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: never been in love, oh, it's murder.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Oh? And just what do you suggest?
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Well, I'd call a halt right now if I were
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: you and straighten him out. Of course, it's risky. He
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: might clear out on you.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: He won't clear out. Leave that to me.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Carol!
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: Here you are, your warm milk.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Oh!
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: We pause now for station identification.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: In a few moments, we'll bring you the third act
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: of What a Woman. We return you to William Keeley.
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: The curtain rises on the third act of What a Woman,
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: starring Rosalind Russell as Carol Ainslie and Robert Cummings as
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: Henry Pepper.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Michael Cobb's screen test is.
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: An unqualified success, and the ex-professor from Buxton College, now
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: known as Anthony Street, has been the center of attention
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: tonight at a reception in Carol Ainslie's apartment.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: The party's about to.
• 37:39
  Speaker 6: Break up when Carol greets an unexpected guest, her father.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Darling, what a wonderful surprise. But why aren't you in Washington?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Committee meeting in New York, my dear. Now, what's going
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: on here?
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, just a party for Anthony Street.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Street? So he's why I couldn't find the news in
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: the papers tonight. Well, nice seeing you. So long.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Dad, wait.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Phone me at the St. Regis when things quiet down. Incidentally,
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: Friday's my birthday.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: I know, dear. Tell me, what do you want?
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I want you to come to Washington for a nice,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: calm weekend at home.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, but darling, I'm leaving for Hollywood.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Hollywood?
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: Anthony Street. I've got to see that he gets properly launched.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Well, can't you just crack a bottle over his head?
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Ha, ha, ha. I'm sorry, but this is the most
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: important job I've ever undertaken. Now, when do you go
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: back to Washington?
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Tonight. And if you change your mind... Well, Senator. Senator Ainsley.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: Henry Pepper.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Don't tell me you go to these jaw parties.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you two know each other. Pepper?
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: Why, he wrote a first-rate article about me once. Your
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: daughter's the victim this time, Senator. Oh, really? How long
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: has this been going on?
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Too long.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Days and days, yes. But you collected everything about me
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: in an hour. Well, I changed my methods with the subject. Well, goodbye, Carol.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Phone me at the hotel.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, darling.
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: I will.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: By the way, Mr. Pepper, I don't recall that you
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: were on the list of those invited here tonight.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, I had to come. Your protege sent this note.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Hope you'll come. I've got to talk to you. Well, here,
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: read it.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Got to talk to you. About what?
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Here he comes. I'll ask him.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Henry? Oh, hello. Say, I've got to talk to you, Henry.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: Let's go in here.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Will you excuse us, Carol? Now, just a little second here. Yes,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: excuse us. Oh, great party, Carol. The professor was a sensation.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, and right in the middle of his being a sensation,
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Pepper drags him over. in there.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Seems to me he did the dragging.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Pat, what do you suppose they've got to talk about?
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: Forget it, forget it.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Come on now, say goodbye to the people.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: And the funny thing, Henry... Carol knew all the time
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: how people felt about me, like the people here tonight
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: and millions of others. Oh, I've become important to them,
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: a part of their lives. You know, if it hadn't
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: been for Carol.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: A very perceptive woman. Yes.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: She showed me how to make the most of my life, Henry. So,
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: why shouldn't I?
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if a man has an honest emotion
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: toward a woman, well, why should he conceal it?
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Sheer hypocrisy.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: I'm glad to hear you say that, Henry.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Come, come now, boys. Party's all over.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, you mean they're all gone?
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all gone.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Well, good luck in Hollywood, Mike. If you ever get
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: back to civilization, look me up.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're not leaving, Mr. Pepper? No more questions to ask?
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: No, I'll mail you the last installment. You can wire
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: me any corrections. That is, should you find time.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Why shouldn't I find the time?
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're going to be so busy, Miss Ainsley. There's
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: such a lot on your hands, eh, Professor?
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: You said it, Henry. Mr.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Pepper, won't you stay and have a little farewell drink?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks. I never touch yourself. Well, bye.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Well, Michael, tomorrow you start the big adventure.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: We do, Carol.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: You and I.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, in a way, of course.
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: In all ways. There'd be no adventure if it weren't
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: for you.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, you mustn't underestimate yourself.
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: I'd have gone on walking in my sleep in Buxton.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: You had the vision. Even then, I didn't care about
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: being rich or famous. I was doing it for you.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: I wanted to make you proud.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, I am proud. Proud, fit to burst. And it's
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: really very sweet of you, Michael. But now I've got
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: a little packing to do.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Carol, I'm trying to tell you something.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: And I'm listening. Really, I am. It's just that I
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: have so much to.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Look at me.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: Carol, I want it always to be you and I.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Just you and I.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Michael, you're hurting my shoulder. Let me go.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: I can't. I can never let you go.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Michael, the phone, the phone.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Let Minna get it.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Minna's in bed. I've got to answer it. Hello?
• 41:53
  Speaker 7: Hello, hello, Carol.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, this is Carol. Oh, Father! It's my father.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: No, not Father.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: This is Pat.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Now, look, it's just a question. Not really, Father. Carol,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: this is Pat. P-A-T, Pat.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: What?
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, you want me to come over to the hotel now?
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: Of course, darling, right away.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: I'll go with you, Carol.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no, no. You know, father and daughter
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: are sort of confidential.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: Well, I can wait outside, can't I?
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, he won't hear of it. I might be up
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: the rest of the night. I'll see you in the morning, Michael.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, hello.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Pat. For heaven's sake, Pat, wake up.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: Hmm? Who is it?
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: Cameron. Yeah?
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: Well, this is Father.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Say, what's the matter with you anyway?
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Look, Pat, I'm at the office.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: The office at this hour?
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Something urgent's come up.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: I've got to go to Washington.
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: But you're going to Hollywood tomorrow.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: You're going, Pat.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: You're going to take Michael to Hollywood. I.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I am?
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: There's no alternative. But don't let him know. Tell him
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: I'm joining you in Chicago. Then when you get to Chicago,
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: there'll be a telegram there saying that I'll join you
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: later on the coast.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: Okay, Carol.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: And Pat, get me a plane reservation for Washington. Call
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: me back. I'll be here in the office.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Scared, huh?
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: Pepper!
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: I figured you'd be running for your life tonight, and
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: if you did, this is exactly where you'd run to.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, running for my life? My father
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: wants to see me. It's very important.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Won't he be surprised?
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Now, look, Mr. Pepper, I said goodnight to you once.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: Do we have to go another round?
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Not a hair out of place. After that struggle, I
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: thought I'd find you at least a little breathless and panting.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: So you knew just what was going to happen, huh?
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: I had a rough idea. I got to wondering how
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: you'd react. Well, it seems there's no reaction at all.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Will you please get out of here?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Still so cool, so safe and snug behind that big
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: business desk.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: What did you expect me to do? Stay home and
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: cope with that impassioned St. Bernard? Oh, no, no, you
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: were right.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Don't ever put him straight. Don't tell him that you
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: never actually felt anything in all your life. In fact,
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: you don't even know if you could.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: I feel as much as you do or anyone else.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: It just so happens I don't feel for Michael Cobb.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Just a question of type, hmm? Maybe another man could
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: strike a spark beneath that blank efficiency.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: You can't talk to me that way. Once and for all,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: you can't talk to me that way.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I never will again. This is positively the last interview
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: when I learn the last thing I want to know.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Keep away from me. What do you mean, the last thing?
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I mean the other 90%. Up to now, I've seen
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: only 10% function. But I've looked for something more, and
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: if I could ever find it, I have an idea
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: I might be.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Interesting.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Let me go! This sort of thing can't happen to
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: me twice in the same evening.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: After all, you look like a woman. Your skin glows.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: Your eyes shine. And here's a man very much taken
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: with you, standing very close by. Now, what's your next impulse,
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Miss Anderson? Why, to get in these arms, isn't it?
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Like this? And then what? The next, uh, natural compelling
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: thing is, uh, for kids to.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Hmm. Well, that, uh, that, uh, winds up the biography,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Miss Ainsley. Good night. Hello? Oh, yes, Pat.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: The ticket? Oh, thank you. No, no. I'll be back
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: from Washington on Monday.
• 45:58
  Speaker 10: Right back behind my big fat business desk.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: But the nicest birthday present of all.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: The fact that my daughter's here. Carol, thank you, dear.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: You asked for it, darling. But I thought you were
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: going to Hollywood, Carol, with that whirlwind fellow. Well, as
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I was. But what are my
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: plans compared to Dad's?
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Somehow this worries me.
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: Dinner is served, Senator.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, right on the dot.
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: Well, shall we go in?
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: A telephone call for you, Miss Carol, long distance. She's
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: not here.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: It may be important, dear. You all go right ahead.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I'll only be a minute.
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: But, Carol, Carol, I didn't want to disturb you until
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: I was sure.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: Walk? Tent path. Sure, walk. Mr.
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: Anthony Street has disappeared. The whirlwind blew. Pat!
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: He never even got on the train. He dropped out
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: of sight in the station.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: But how could he? Well, I told him you couldn't.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Make it, see? I went to look after the baggage,
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: and when I got back, he was gone.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: But he can't just disappear. Too many people know what
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: he looks like.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Hello, Carol.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: Michael.
• 47:05
  Speaker 5: Michael. Carol, I had to talk to you. I had
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: to see you.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Pat, Pat, he's here. I'll call you back.
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: He's there in Washington, but he couldn't be.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: He... Michael, how could you do a thing like this?
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Everyone in the country expected you to take the train
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: for Hollywood. You're disappointing millions of people. You're... Are you listening?
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: I haven't seen you since last night.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Is that an answer?
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: What would I be going to Hollywood for without you?
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Well, I said I'd be out there.
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: I can't wait, Carol. I don't want any part of
• 47:31
  Speaker 5: this career unless it includes you.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: Well, that's very sweet of you, but now isn't the
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: time to talk about it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: Why not?
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Because Father's waiting dinner, and the first thing you have
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: to do is to go to California.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: Not without you, Carol.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Michael, you're being positively childish.
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: Worse. I'm walking on eggshells. I'm in love.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: No, but... I'm all wrong for you. Michael, can't you
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: see that? Well, I can't even bake. You should marry
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: a nice, sturdy homebody. A Buxton Buxton. A boxing Buxton.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: A girl from Buxton.
• 48:01
  Speaker 5: Carol, you mean you don't care?
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: Of course. I mean, I'm very fond of you.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, I knew it.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, but Michael, we must lose our heads. I, uh,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: I must have time to think.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: I'll give you until tomorrow noon, then a quick, simple marriage, and...
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: But what was that? Belle, they went off in my head!
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: Some gentlemen, Senator, from the newspapers. They want to see
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: Anthony Streets. Report him. But they assured Mr.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Streets on a train going to Hollywood. But, Senator, we
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: know he did. Somebody recognized him at the station.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Now, listen. You tell those reporters you came down here
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: for a last-minute conference and that you're leaving by plane
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: tomorrow for the coast.
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: With you?
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, anything. It's all right, Dad. Let them in. Mr.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Streets in here, gentlemen. I'll leave you here with Mr. Streets.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Come along, Dad.
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: Well, Mr.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: Street, why the change in plan?
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: Well, it's, uh, it's nothing, really. It's just that Miss
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: Ainsley and.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: I are, uh.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, Mr.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Street?
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: Well, we, uh... Well, I don't think she'd mind if
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: I tell you.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: It's, uh.
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: Confidentially, gentlemen, Miss Ainsley and I are engaged.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: Well, now, the date hasn't been set yet, but I
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: hope in the very near future.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: All right! All right!
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, this is wonderful, Miss Ainsley.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's going to be great in the park. Thank
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: you for dropping by. Well, dinner's waiting now, Michael. You
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: come along and meet Dad's friends.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, Dad.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: We'll have coffee in the living room then. Oh, and
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: bring the cake. You've got to cut it, Dad. It's
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: your birthday.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Well, if you turn off that radio... Stop stalling, Senator.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Blow out the candle to make a wish.
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: It's amazing how wishes come true. Dad.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: What did you say?
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Come on, now. Take a deep breath.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: He's arrived at our musical program to bring you an item.
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: Of social importance from Washington, D.C. Announcement was made tonight
• 50:08
  Speaker 9: at the home of Senator Ainsley of the forthcoming marriage
• 50:11
  Speaker 9: of his daughter Carol to Anthony Street, author of The
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: World Wind and former professor.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: At Buxton University. Did you hear what I heard?
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: Michael, have you heard that... Carl, have you any idea
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: how this happened? And turn off that radio, please.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: Well, darling, I spoke to the press, of course, but
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: in the strictest confidence.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: Strictest confidence?
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: You don't mind, Carol. Mind?
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Why, I... Come on, Carol. When's the wedding? Tomorrow.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow?
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: Right in this house. And don't you worry, Senator. I'll
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: arrange for everything.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Well, good evening, Carol, Senator.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: Pepper, what are you doing here? Me?
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: I'm the best man.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Of course, darling.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: You see, I phoned Henry before I left New York.
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: I told you I'd arrange for everything.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Pepper, I want to talk to you.
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: Me?
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Now, Pepper. Alone. All right, Pepper. Say it. You think
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: I engineered this wedding in cold blood, don't you? That
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: I took the easiest way to get Michael Cobb to Hollywood.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's very touching, this spontaneous romance.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I want you to know I had nothing to
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: do with it. He barged in here, took the bit
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: in his teeth, and cornered a lot of newspaper people.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Even then, I hadn't said yes. I said I'd think
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: about it. Well... I had to say something.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, sure, with a whirlwind hanging in the balance, naturally.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, I know you predicted all this. That makes you
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: very clever. But I won't have you thinking what you do.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Even though I'm aware of your opinion of me.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: I have no opinion. Oh?
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: What does that make me, the perfect vacuum? I should
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: have known better than to try to talk to you.
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Why did you?
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: Because I do care what you think when it comes
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: to something as important as this. And I... I thought
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: perhaps after last night you might try to be understanding
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: and helpful.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: Why, I'd be glad to, Miss Ainsley.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Quit calling me Miss Ainsley.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: You know, I see no problem here. Mike has to
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: go to Hollywood. Too many people expect it. If marriage
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: is the way to get him there, then marriage it
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: ought to be.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: You wait a minute.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: You'll be Mrs. Whirlwind, that is, for as long as
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: it takes to get him settled. And then you'll be
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: off to Reno and back to your job in New
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: York while he stays put and earns you 10%. I see.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: And while I'm waiting for him to get settled.
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, he won't even know the difference. He's never really
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: been in love, you know. He doesn't really know what
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: a 100% woman is like. He won't even... Hey, where
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: are you going? Now, just a minute. Wait, I'm not finished.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Listen, everybody. Listen, I've got an announcement to make. There
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: isn't going to be a wedding. No wedding. Is that clear?
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: I don't want a wedding. Nobody can make me have
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: a wedding. Harold! I'm sorry, Michael, but a woman has
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: to decide these things for herself, and I haven't decided it.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Except it won't be you, Michael. You're the whirlwind. You're
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: a handsome young man. You have talent and a fine profile,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: but it won't be you. If I fail to set
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: you straight because I hated to lose you in the whirlwind,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. You can hate me for it. You can
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: walk all over me. Anything but marry me. That's where a.
• 53:15
  Speaker 5: Woman draws the line.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: And I wish you all the luck in the world
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: no matter what you decide. You can go back to Buxton.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Or you can go to Hollywood. Or you can just
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: plain go!
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: What a woman. May I come in?
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: You usually do.
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: It's all right, Carol. It's going to be all right.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: I can't help it. I haven't bawled in years.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: Carolina, it's awfully tough to smash this whirlwind business.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: I don't care anything about that. But everything else, you
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: standing there, and all those terrible things I said to Michael.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: They had to be said.
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Poor Michael. He'll never be the same.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't you believe it. He'll go back to Buxton
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: a celebrity. And people will come from miles around to
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: sit at the feet of Professor Cobb. He'll grow old
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: and happy doing the job that he was meant to do.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: You think so?
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Of course. Pepper's always right.
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll admit you've called the turns on everything so far.
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: Carol.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Michael.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: Has it ever occurred to you, Carol, that the whirlwind
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: is vitally important to some 80 million people?
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Why, yes.
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: And wouldn't you say that that matters far more than
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: the personal feelings of any one individual? Yes.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Yes, I would.
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: I would, too, Carol. I am not going to let
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: my public down. I'll be leaving for Hollywood tomorrow. Good night, Carol.
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: Good night, Henry.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, back to Buxton. Oh, you certainly missed the boat
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: on that one, Henry.
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: Well, you know whirlwinds, unpredictable.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Pepper, how about a deal? You're talented and intelligent. I
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: think I might be able to do something for you.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: You'd have to sign a contract, however.
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: Ainsley, you know something?
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: I might be interested. On my own terms, of course.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, for instance?
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: For instance, no screen test.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: No? No.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: No option.
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: No 10%.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: What? Strictly 50-50. 50-50? Better make up your mind. It's
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: a long-term contract. And exclusive. Well, take it or leave it. I'll...
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: I'll take it.
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: For comedy in this theater's best tradition, our thanks to
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings.
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: And here they are for Curtain Call.
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: Well, it's grand to be back. And you know, we
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: are lucky to get Bob away from that new house
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: of his.
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: Bob, building a new house is an experience you'll remember
• 56:33
  Speaker 6: all your life.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have news for you it may take all
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: my life.
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: When does your new picture get underway at Columbia Studio, Rosalind?
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: In about two weeks, Bill. And Bob Cummings and I
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: will be together in that, too. Good.
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: And I know your fans will be delighted to hear
• 56:47
  Speaker 6: that you're going to make a comedy.
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: What's it called?
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: My next husband.
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: With a title like that.
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: For one thing for certain, whatever happens, fans will always
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: have an enthusiastic welcome for Rosalind and compliments for that
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: beautiful complexion.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Bill. And I don't have to tell you
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: that I depend on Lux soap for complexion care, and
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: the new bath size is a special favorite of mine. Now,
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: what about next week?
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: Next Monday, we'll have two of our favorite stars in
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: one of the screen's current hits. Our headliners are Jean
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: Tierney and Donna Meachie. You'll hear them in the 20th
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: century Fox success, That Wonderful Urge. And we urge you
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: to listen because it's wonderful.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: Well, Gene Tierney, Don Amici, that's the date, Bill. And
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: it shows why the Lux Radio Theater has just won
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: another of those honors that are always coming your way.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: This time, it's the 1949 Radio Mirror Award.
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: Yes, Bob, each year, Radio Mirror takes a nationwide poll
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: of listeners' preferences, and we're very proud and grateful that,
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: once again, the Lux Radio Theater was voted the favorite
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: dramatic program.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: For the year.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, Bill, and good night.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: Good night, Bill. Good night, and come again, fourth of
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: the year.
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: me in inviting you to be with us.
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: Again next Monday evening when the Lux Radio.
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: Theater presents Gene Tierney and Don Amici in That Wonderful Urge.
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: This is William Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: Heard in tonight's cast was Life Erickson as Michael. Our
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: play was adapted by S.H. Barnett and our music was
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: directed by Louis Silvers. And this is your announcer, John
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: Milton Kennedy, reminding you to join us again next Monday
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: night to hear That Wonderful Urge, starring Gene Tierney and
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: Donna Meachie. Stay tuned for My Friend Irma, which follows
• 58:38
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• 58:55
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• 58:58
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