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Lux Radio Theatre - "Cheaper by the Dozen" (Old Time Radio, 1951) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: At the Gilbreth family home, efficiency expert Frank Bunker Gilbreth
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: and his wife, Lillian, bring organized, time-saving methods to the
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: daily business of raising 12 children. On May 7th, 1951,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater brought the family's story to CBS in
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  Speaker 1: episode 745, Cheaper by the Dozen, adapted from the 1950
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: 20th Century Fox film and drawn from the book by
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  Speaker 1: Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, the broadcast
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: star's Clifton Webb, who also headed.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: The film cast, with Rhoda Williams.
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  Speaker 1: The book was written by two of the real Gilbreth children,
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you
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  Speaker 3: the Lux Radio Theater. Starring Clifton Webb in Cheaper by
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  Speaker 3: the Dozen. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: William Keelan.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. A few moments ago,
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  Speaker 4: I finished my day's work out at Warner Brothers Studio,
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  Speaker 4: where I'm making a picture involving three babies, aged one month,
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  Speaker 4: three months, and six months. All of which I mention
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  Speaker 4: because I now have a slight idea of what the
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  Speaker 4: husband and wife in tonight's play must have thought when
• 1:40
  Speaker 4: they decided to have twelve children. I imagine almost anyone
• 1:44
  Speaker 4: who grew up in a family of 12 children would
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  Speaker 4: have enough material to write a book. And that's just
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  Speaker 4: what Frank Gilbert, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbert Carey did, producing
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  Speaker 4: a best-selling novel and our play for tonight, Cheaper by
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  Speaker 4: the Dozen. Of course, it takes quite a talented actor
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  Speaker 4: to play the role of father to 12 children, so
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  Speaker 4: naturally 20th Century Fox cast Clifton Webb in the part.
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  Speaker 4: And we, too, are delighted to star the very sophisticated Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Webb in this charming family story tonight. As you will
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  Speaker 4: discover in our play, it takes efficiency and careful management
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  Speaker 4: to rear a dozen children. And, of course, we recommend
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  Speaker 4: Lux Flakes. And now you'll discover Lux Flakes are even
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  Speaker 4: more wonderful when you try the new Lux with color freshener.
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  Speaker 4: Now the curtain rises on Cheaper by the Dozen, starring
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  Speaker 4: Clifton Webb as Frank Gilbert.
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  Speaker 5: This is the story of my family. But first and foremost,
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  Speaker 5: the story of my father and my mother. Dad, Frank
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  Speaker 5: Bunker Gilbert, was an industrial engineer, an efficiency expert, a
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  Speaker 5: man who showed industry how to save time. In Dad's mind, efficiency,
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  Speaker 5: like charity, began at home. For example, when he'd come
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  Speaker 5: home at night, as often as not, he'd announce himself
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  Speaker 5: by the blast of a whistle which he carried in
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  Speaker 5: his pocket, ringing us on the gallop from all corners
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  Speaker 5: of the house and neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, live bait! All right, all right, places. Come on, places.
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  Speaker 2: Get in line.
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  Speaker 5: Get in line.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Eighteen seconds for the stopwatch. Not bad, not bad,
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  Speaker 2: but I still say we should make it in less.
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  Speaker 2: All right, fall out, fall out. You'll find some chocolate
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  Speaker 2: bars there in my briefcase.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, boy! I might mention that there were eleven of
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  Speaker 5: us then. Eleven children. That was the summer that we
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  Speaker 5: moved from Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey. We made
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  Speaker 5: the trip by automobile, a tremendous touring car known to
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  Speaker 5: all of us as Foolish Carrot.
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  Speaker 2: Fred, Martha, hurry up there. Come on, come on, climb aboard.
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  Speaker 2: foolish carriage is getting restless. Hey, listen, are all those
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  Speaker 2: kids yours, or is that a picnic? They're all mine,
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  Speaker 2: and believe me, it's no picnic. Who's holding us up?
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  Speaker 2: Come on there, Bill, make a snapper.
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  Speaker 5: Mercy, Ma.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry, Lily. Scared you, didn't you, son? I'll bet
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  Speaker 2: you jumped six and nine-tenths inches.
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  Speaker 5: Gee, Dad.
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  Speaker 6: It's all right, dear. I was scared, too.
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  Speaker 2: Teach you to keep your eyes open, young man. Well,
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  Speaker 2: everybody in? Ann, Ernestine, Martha, Mary, Frank?
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  Speaker 5: All present and accounted for, Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Very well. If you're all reasonably sanitary, let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye, Rhode Island, New Jersey. Here we come. we were
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  Speaker 5: all quite accustomed to being an object of considerable curiosity
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  Speaker 5: to strangers. But Dad always had an answer for those
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  Speaker 5: bold enough to assail his dignity.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Noah!
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing with that ark? Collecting animals like
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  Speaker 2: the good Lord told me, brother. All I need now
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  Speaker 2: is a jackass. Hop in. All right, come on, kids.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have a song. I'll start it. When you wore
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  Speaker 2: a tulip, a big yellow tulip, and.
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  Speaker 7: I wore a big red robe.
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  Speaker 5: No automobile, not even foolish carriage, could be expected to
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  Speaker 5: bear the demands we placed upon it without complaint. We
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  Speaker 5: were well out in the country when the radiator started
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  Speaker 5: steaming like a volcano.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's that fan bell again. Excuse me, Lily. I'll
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  Speaker 2: have to get out. Frank, it's not going to blow
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  Speaker 2: up again, is it? No, no, of course not. It
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  Speaker 2: won't take a minute to fix it. Now, incidentally, now
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  Speaker 2: is a good time if any of you kids want
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  Speaker 2: to go see Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how about it? All right, all right. But remember,
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  Speaker 2: this is your last chance. I can't understand why a
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  Speaker 2: good car like this should keep acting up. Not one thing,
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  Speaker 2: it's another. Last week it was a carburetor. The week
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  Speaker 2: before that it was a fuel... Who did that? Who
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  Speaker 2: blew that horn?
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  Speaker 5: That was a good joke on you, Dad.
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  Speaker 2: Young man, there's a time and place for jokes and
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  Speaker 2: a time and place for spankings.
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  Speaker 6: Mercy, Maude Frank, I'll bet you jumped six and nine-tenths inches. Hmm?
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  Speaker 2: Oh. You're right, son. That was a good joke on me.
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  Speaker 2: By jingo, I'll bet I did jump six and nine-tenths inches.
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  Speaker 2: Would have done better than that if I hadn't hit
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  Speaker 2: my head in the hood. Oh, these kids, Lily, these kids.
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  Speaker 5: At long last, our faithful, foolish carriage entered the town
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  Speaker 5: of Montclair. It was a wonderful new house, and from
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  Speaker 5: the very first moment, we loved living in it. But
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  Speaker 5: we soon found out that while it was often too
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  Speaker 5: small for 11 children, it was more often too large
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  Speaker 5: for two servants. Mother and Dad met the problem in
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  Speaker 5: the typical Gilbreth manner.
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  Speaker 8: The family.
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  Speaker 2: Council will please come to order. Thank you. Now, it's
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  Speaker 2: obvious that this house is too big for Mrs. Monaghan
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Bracken to take care of without help. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: your mother and I have called this meeting to discuss
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  Speaker 2: house and yard work. Assignments will be made on the
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  Speaker 2: basis of personal choice and aptitude. Now, does the chair
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  Speaker 2: hear any suggestions? Come on, come on. This is a democracy,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Everybody has an equal voice.
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  Speaker 6: You children are certainly very quiet all.
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  Speaker 2: Of a sudden. In a democracy, everybody speaks. So by jingo,
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  Speaker 2: start speaking. Bill, I recognize you.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to be recognized. Besides, I think Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Monaghan and Jim Bracken ought to do the work. They
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  Speaker 5: get paid for it.
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  Speaker 2: Sit down. You're no longer recognized.
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  Speaker 5: But in a democracy.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Chairman.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Frank? Speak up, son.
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  Speaker 6: I think you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Jim and Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Monaghan have too much work to do.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: I move we hire more people to work for us.
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  Speaker 5: Second the motion.
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  Speaker 2: We're all out of order. Sit down, sit down, and
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  Speaker 2: be quiet. I, uh, the, uh, the chair recognizes the
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  Speaker 2: assistant chair.
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  Speaker 6: Well, of course we could hire additional help.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, if we did away with all desserts and weekly allowances,
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  Speaker 9: we might be able to afford a maid. And if
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  Speaker 9: we cut out movies, ice cream, and new clothes, we
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  Speaker 9: might be able to afford a helper.
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  Speaker 6: For Jim, too.
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  Speaker 2: Do I hear a motion to that effect? Well, Bill, Frank, Ann?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, I move we allot the work.
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  Speaker 2: Splendid. Do I hear a second? Second.
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  Speaker 6: Second the motion.
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  Speaker 2: All those in favor signify by... Motion carried. Now, that
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  Speaker 2: brings up a little matter of specific assignments. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: the back fence is badly in need of whitewashing. Now,
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  Speaker 2: do I hear any bids? Well, speak up if you
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  Speaker 2: want to earn a little extra spending money. Yes, Bill?
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  Speaker 5: I'll bid ten dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You must think this is a government project. Do I
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  Speaker 2: hear any reasonable bids?
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  Speaker 1: Uh-uh.
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  Speaker 5: I bid forty-seven cents.
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  Speaker 2: 47 cents.
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  Speaker 5: Please let me do it, Daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, Lillian, how did you happen to hit upon
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  Speaker 2: 47 cents?
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  Speaker 5: I've been saving for a new pair of roller skates,
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  Speaker 5: and that's how much more I need.
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  Speaker 2: But you're going to get skates for your birthday. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Lily. I wasn't supposed to let that out
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  Speaker 2: of the bag.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Daddy, that's wonderful. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, besides, that's too big a job for a little
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  Speaker 2: girl like you. Frank, here's your chance. What do you bid?
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  Speaker 2: Within reason.
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  Speaker 7: Well, $ 250, I guess.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 2: You got yourself a contract. Now, is there any more business?
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  Speaker 5: Yes. I think this family ought to buy a dog.
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  Speaker 2: Out of order, out of order. Meeting adjourned.
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  Speaker 5: But, gee, all I said was.
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  Speaker 2: Dog. And in a democracy... Sorry, motion shelved to the
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  Speaker 2: next meeting.
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  Speaker 5: Before we knew it, the new school term began. Early
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  Speaker 5: that Monday morning, Dad blew his whistle and piled the
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  Speaker 5: older seven of us into foolish carriages. Ten minutes later,
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  Speaker 5: we stood outside the school building.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here we are, children. Come on now. I know
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  Speaker 2: you're very eager to get registered, so in you go.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, quickly now. Hurry up. Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: But, Dad, not all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Certainly all of you. You want us to make an impression,
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  Speaker 2: don't you?
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  Speaker 5: But this isn't our school. Ernestine and I are going
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  Speaker 5: to high school.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take care of that later. I want to show
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  Speaker 2: these people first what a real family looks like.
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  Speaker 5: But, Daddy, it's so embarrassing.
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  Speaker 2: A person with inner dignity is never embarrassed. Besides, visits
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  Speaker 2: like this get results. I only wish you had time
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  Speaker 2: to go home for your mother and the babies. I will, too,
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  Speaker 2: unless you get a move on.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, Dad, you have more gall.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody in this family has to show a little spunk.
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  Speaker 2: Now hold your heads up and look alive. No dying
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  Speaker 2: cow looks. Come on, open the door, boys, and take
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  Speaker 2: your hats off. Come in, won't you?
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  Speaker 8: I'm the school principal.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, madam. Just a Gilbert invasion, or perhaps I
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: should say a partial invasion, since I left most of
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  Speaker 2: them at home with their mother. I hope we're not intruding.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, not at all. I'm delighted to see you, Mr. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 8: We've heard so much about you and Mrs. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 6: I understand you have.
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  Speaker 2: Eleven children, madam.
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  Speaker 6: Eleven children?
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  Speaker 8: Goodness, how do you feed them all?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they come cheaper by the dozen, you know. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: only five will be under your excellent supervision. Mary, Martha, Lily,
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  Speaker 2: and Bill, and Frank, Jr. How do you do, children?
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  Speaker 2: I just brought along my older girls, Ann and Ernestine,
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  Speaker 2: so you would get a better idea of the crop
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  Speaker 2: we're raising.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's been so nice of you to drop by, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Gilbert. Oh, I'm not just dropping by. No, no, I
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  Speaker 2: want to meet their teachers.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm afraid all our teachers are busy at the moment.
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  Speaker 8: Opening day.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm in no hurry, no hurry at all. I've
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  Speaker 2: arranged my schedule so as to give you my entire morning.
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  Speaker 2: You have? Yeah. Meanwhile, as to their grades... I see
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  Speaker 2: no reason why my children should be held back by
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  Speaker 2: a school system geared to those of simply normal mentality.
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  Speaker 8: Well, no, of course not. But so much depends upon
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  Speaker 8: their ages and their.
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  Speaker 2: You mean mental ages, of course. Bill, how old are you, son?
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  Speaker 8: Eight.
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  Speaker 2: What grade does an eight-year-old usually belong in?
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  Speaker 8: The third grade.
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  Speaker 2: Then I think you'd better find room for Bill in
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  Speaker 2: the fifth.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, that's impossible, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Gilpin.
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  Speaker 8: Perhaps later on, if he takes tests.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I hope they'll all take a lot of tests.
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  Speaker 2: It's good for them. Meanwhile, to illustrate my point, Frank,
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  Speaker 2: what's 46 times 83?
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  Speaker 5: 3,818.
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  Speaker 2: Lillian, 19 times 91? 1,729. Phil, 52 times 52?
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  Speaker 3: 2,704.
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  Speaker 6: Good gracious.
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  Speaker 5: Now, would you care to suggest.
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  Speaker 2: Any large numbers, madam? I'll take your word for it, Mr. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 5: I'll see what I can do. As usual, Dad won
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  Speaker 5: his point, and opening day or not, the principal sent
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  Speaker 5: for the teachers. While we were waiting, Dad lost no
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  Speaker 5: opportunity to impress.
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  Speaker 8: Her with our brilliance.
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  Speaker 2: And now you may be interested to hear something of
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  Speaker 2: the home training program their mother and I have worked
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  Speaker 2: out for the children.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yes, indeed. I understand Mrs. Gilbert is quite a
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  Speaker 8: celebrated psychologist and consultant herself.
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  Speaker 2: She is indeed, madam, to say nothing of her obvious
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  Speaker 2: prowess as a wife and mother. Now then, our home
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  Speaker 2: study program includes spelling games, geography quizzes, and languages.
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  Speaker 5: We're learning French and German from the phonograph. And Dad's
• 14:10
  Speaker 5: even taught us how to take a scientific bath in
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: the time it takes to play just one record.
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  Speaker 2: Really? A simple matter of coordination, madam, like any other
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  Speaker 2: physical effort.
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  Speaker 8: But how do you do it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, this seems hardly the time and place to.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, this sounds perfectly fascinating.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, go on, Dad, sure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's really very simple, madam. Now, if I may
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  Speaker 2: be seated on the floor by way of illustration. Oh, yes.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Well, first you take the soap in your
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  Speaker 2: right hand, thusly, and apply it to the left shoulder,
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  Speaker 2: running it down the top of the left arm, up
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  Speaker 2: the inside of the left arm, to the armpit. Then
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  Speaker 2: both ears like this, both of them, madam, not forgetting
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  Speaker 2: the back of the neck, then down the outside of
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: the left leg, back up the inside of the left leg,
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: then down the right leg and up. You will now
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  Speaker 2: observe that having reached my hip without lost motion, I
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  Speaker 2: quickly transfer the soap to the left hand, repeating the
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: process on the right arm and right shoulder. This is
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: followed by a couple of circular motions in the midsection
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  Speaker 2: and the back with some special attention to the feet.
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  Speaker 2: Then you slide under for a rinse and rise from
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  Speaker 2: the bathtub bathed.
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  Speaker 8: Why, that's wonderful.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, isn't it? But you appear to have callers, madam.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: Oh, come in, ladies. Our teachers, Mr. Gilbert.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Gilbert was just showing me how to take a bath.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Good morning, ladies. Good morning. Come on in. The water's fine.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: In our family, sickness was taboo. Dr. Burton's car in
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: front of our house could mean only one thing.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Dad, where is it? Where's the baby? In a room
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: taking a nap, of course.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Latest model, Daddy. Is it a boy or a girl?
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: What are we gonna name this one, Daddy?
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: Lily, what's got into these children?
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  Speaker 6: I can't imagine, dear.
• 15:59
  Speaker 9: Now, whatever gave you the idea there was a new baby?
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: Burton's car's out front. And you were sick last night,
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  Speaker 5: weren't you?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I had a slight headache, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And every time you're sick, there's always a baby, isn't there?
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  Speaker 2: Mercy, Maude.
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  Speaker 6: Babies don't come just because you're sick.
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  Speaker 5: They've always come before when you were sick. Dr.
• 16:21
  Speaker 9: Burton's upstairs because he's afraid Jackie and Mary have the
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: whooping cough.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Is that all?
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  Speaker 9: Which means you children will have to stay away from them.
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: As for babies, I think it's about time.
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: We had a little.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Bill, no.
• 16:34
  Speaker 6: Don't tell me you're getting it, too.
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  Speaker 2: Stop that at once, William. I'm not going to have
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: an epidemic in this house. We haven't time for any
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: such nonsense. You children have been given good health, and
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: by Jingo, it's your job to keep it.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 6: I think I'll get him up to the doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Come along, dear Phil.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: Come along.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Lillian, we'll show them there's at least two in
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: the house who won't get the whooping cough, won't we?
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  Speaker 5: You bet, Daddy. You and me, huh?
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, no. Oh, these kids. These kids.
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: We all caught it, of course. And the upstairs took
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: on the antiseptic aspects of a hospital ward, with Mother
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: fluttering from bed to bed, full of love and reassurance.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: And remember to keep covered, Martha.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: And put this jacket around your shoulders, dear.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Mother.
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: I'll go downstairs now and get your desserts. Then I'll
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: read to you, if you like.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: May I come in? Oh, of course, dear. I won't
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: disturb anything.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: It's all right.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: The children have missed you so.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll be all right, Lily. I'll be all right, Lily.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: In heaven's name, what is it now?
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: He's coughing too, Mr. Gilbert.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, me.
• 17:57
  Speaker 11: How did I ever get mixed up with this family?
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: All right, let me hear you cough. Oh, there's nothing
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: the matter with me. I was only joking.
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: You were what?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Well, it just wasn't any fun downstairs by myself, Lily.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: I wanted to be up here with the rest of
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: the family. Very, very amusing.
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, I give up.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Lily, but all that quiet down there makes
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: me nervous. Really? Tell me, Doc, how are my Mongolians
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: coming along? Well, they're... In spite of you, you old veterinarian... Gilbert,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: I'll say one thing for you.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: Your children don't get sick very often, but when they do,
• 18:34
  Speaker 11: they certainly mess up the public health statistics of the state.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Of New Jersey. How's that, Mr.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Bone?
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: Ordinarily, I have a couple of cases of whooping cough
• 18:44
  Speaker 11: or measles a week. When I have to report 11
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: cases in a single day, they're liable to quarantine the
• 18:49
  Speaker 11: whole town of Montclair and close every school in Essex County.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Well, at least these are only light cases. Pioneer stuff,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: you know. Is that so? By the way... Those kids
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: have tonsils, really ugly ones.
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: As soon as they're over this cough, they ought to
• 19:03
  Speaker 11: come out.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Nonsense. I've never had mine out. Well, maybe you should have.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Let's have a look at you. No, you don't. No,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: you don't. My tonsils are sound as a dollar. Sit
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: down and open that mouth. What's the point of all
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: of this? If you've got to talk, say ah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Ah.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I might have known. You're crazy. I've never been sick
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: a day in my life.
• 19:23
  Speaker 11: Well, then keep them if you want to. But the
• 19:24
  Speaker 11: children's tonsils have got to come out.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: All but one.
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: Martha's.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Hmm. What does that mean? Well, I'm thinking about their tonsils.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: Could we do it here in the house? What's wrong
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: with the hospital? Nothing, nothing, but if we could rig
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: up an operating room, I could take motion pictures and
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: study what you doctors are doing wrong. Now, just a minute.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Then I'd be able to show how you could eliminate
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: a lot of waste motion and... speed things up. Your
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: methods may work out fine in factories, Gilbert, but as
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: far as a hospital... Lily! We're going to have the
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: children's tonsils out. I've made up my mind.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Frank, do we have to?
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: That's what this fellow here says. It's all right, Lily.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going to take movies.
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: Of the operations?
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Certainly. No telling how many lives this sort of story
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: will help save.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Besides, if it makes you feel any better, I'll let
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: this old butcher yank mine out, too. Well, now we're
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: getting somewhere.
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, Frank, don't you think we ought to.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't stop him. Let him go ahead and cut
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: his own throat. That's one part of the festivities I
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: might even enjoy. Will you stop drooling? By jingle, this
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: may make you famous, you old quack. In just a moment,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: we'll return with Act Two of Cheaper by the Dozen.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Here's Mr. Keeley, our producer.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Act Two of Cheaper by the Dozen, starring Clifton Webb
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: as Frank Gilbert.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: For weeks afterward, Father's favorite topic was the impending series
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: of tonsillectomies and the great gift he was about to
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: make to medical science by means of the motion pictures.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: But as much as we loved movies, this was one
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: epic we'd have been delighted to pass up. There wasn't
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: a chance. All too soon, the memorable morning arrived.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Dr.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: Burton had settled on the dining room for the scene
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: of the operation. And there, Dad installed his motion picture equipment,
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: including a cameraman named Mr. Higgins. Mr. Higgins, however, failed
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: dismally to share Dad's enthusiasm for the proceedings.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know, Mr.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: Gilbert. I haven't figured on all this here ether.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: It's my stomach. I don't feel so good. Higgins, I'm
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: not interested in your internal organs. Just get that camera ready. Oh, yes, sir.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: My brother Bill was the first to go. The rest
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: of us waited in the living room in a quiet huddle.
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: Only one of us, Martha, would be spared. Of all
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: the Gilbreth tonsils, hers alone would remain undisturbed. Gee, I
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: heard you poor kids couldn't have any.
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: Breakfast this morning. How sad. How very sad.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Oh, cut it out, will you, Martha?
• 22:20
  Speaker 12: Everybody knows you can't eat before you get operated on.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: I had donuts for breakfast.
• 22:25
  Speaker 8: Mmm, delicious.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, and a big piece of apple pie left over
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: from last night. Oh, you beast, get out of here. Mother,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: make Martha stop gloating about her breakfast.
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: Not another word about food, Martha, do you understand?
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Mother. I won't even mention donuts and apple
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: pie again.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Well, Lily, number one's finished. We just brought Bill upstairs.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Oh, that poor boy. I'd better go right up to him.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Slept through it just like a baby. I can't wait
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: to see those movies. Come on, Ernestine girl. You're next.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Don't be afraid, dear. It'll all be over in just
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: a few minutes. Oh, I'm not afraid.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Much. Gilbert's afraid? Don't be ridiculous. Just remember I'll be
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: right there with you, dear. Well.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Goodbye, all.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: All right, girlie. Let's hop right up here on the table.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: Is it going to hurt me, Dr.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Burton? At your age? Why, you won't even feel it.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: My exact words, doctor. All right, nurse. Better help her there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: Hey, Mr.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Gilbert.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Higgins, how about changing the lens for this one? I
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: want to see exactly how his caddy hands him his knives.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Ain't it kind of hot in here, Mr.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Gilbert?
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And maybe if we open the window... You want my
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: child to get pneumonia? Yes, but this ether... Never mind
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: the ether. Just take care of that camera. Now then, nurse,
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: you'll just... Good heavens. What is it? What have you
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: done now? What have I done? I told you I
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: didn't want Martha. You haven't got Martha. That's Ernestine.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: You sure?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Of course I'm sure, you jackass. Now, look carefully. Don't
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: you suppose I know my own children? I tell you,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: that's Ernestine. Well, if she isn't Martha, we've made a
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: horrible mistake. We? What do you mean, we? What kind
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: of a mistake? Well, all I know them by is
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: their throats.
• 24:06
  Speaker 11: I thought these tonsils were Martha's.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: They're the only ones that didn't have.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: To come out.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You knocked my little girl unconscious for no reason at all? Well,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: what do we do now? Oh, take them out anyhow.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: They'll have to come out eventually. Now go in there
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and get Martha ready. But she's been eating all morning.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: But never mind. I'm not going through another day like this.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Start grinding, Mr.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: Higgins.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: At least we'll salvage something. Poor Martha.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: It was a blow, but in she went. Full of pie, donuts,
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: and indignation.
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: I don't care if it is Dr.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Burton's fault. Now, Lily, Lily.
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: Letting her eat that huge breakfast only to be snatched
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: up like that and butchered.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Lily, I told you, it's no worse than a mosquito bite. Higgins,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: keep grinding in there.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: Mosquito bite, indeed.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Very well. Just to prove it to you, I'll go next.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: I thought you wanted to supervise your movie.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, I intend to. I shall take only a local anesthetic.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: That way I won't miss a trick. And Dr.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: Burton's agreed?
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a lot of nonsense about my physical condition.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: Burton.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I'll be in the amen corner when they're laying him away. Besides,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I want to get this over with before lunch. I'm starved.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: All right, Gilbert. Who's next? I am. Okay, then make
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: it snappy. A man can just stand so much.
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: Well, I hope you're not making a mistake, dear.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: All right, sharpen up your tools there, Mr. Tallbones. Here
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I come.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, indeed. To Dad, a tonsillectomy was nothing. And he
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: didn't miss a trick. Ten minutes later, he staggered out
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: of the dining room, one hand groping before him, the
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: other at his throat.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, Louie. Louie.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Where are you?
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, my soul, my soul, this is awful. Yes, dear,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I know. But that's the only thing. I can't talk,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: I can't talk. All right, old pioneer. You just had
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: to have it the hard way, didn't you?
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I'm dying, I'm dying.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Now, sit down, sit down, old-timer. I'll give you something
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: to make you sleep. How am I going to sleep
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: when my throat's cussed? Mr.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Gilbert! Mr.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Gilbert! Go away, Higgins, go away.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, I hate to tell you this, but it looks
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: like none of the picture will be any good.
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: No good?
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: I forgot to put the film.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: In the camera.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: You what?
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: Now, Frank.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Frank, don't get excited.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: Let me out.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Let me out. It's too much for me.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Let me out.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Let me out. Oh, my. From that day on, tonsils
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: was a subject we just didn't.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: Talk about in front of Father. One afternoon, he came
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: home early.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: We children were in the.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Living room, undergoing our weekly music lesson. That poor music teacher.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: What fortitude.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Well, dear? I had a letter today, Lily, from Dr.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: Blenheim.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: You remember him? Czechoslovakia?
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: Think they want you to come?
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Well, it's not definite, but Blenheim thinks they'll ask me
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: to speak at the International Management Conference in Prague. I
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: knew they would.
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: I knew they would.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: The best scientific minds in the world, Lily.
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: Oh, and what an opportunity, darling, to have your methods
• 27:24
  Speaker 9: recognized universally.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's what I've always hoped for.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: But if it hadn't been for you, Lily, your help...
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Will you tell.
• 27:32
  Speaker 6: The children tonight?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: You can tell them if you want to.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: I won't be here, dear.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Won't be here?
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Have you forgotten? I have a date at the hospital.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: So soon?
• 27:42
  Speaker 9: I'm afraid so.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Well, I thought you were only joking about going to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the hospital. After all, you never went to one before
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: just to have a baby.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe I never thought about it before.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's going to be awfully lonely around here without you, Lily.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: By the way, do you mind what it is?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I thought we'd already agreed it would be a boy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: After all, we have six girls. Of course, anything you
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: decide will be all right with me, Lily. Thank you, dear.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lily.
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: That night, our baby brother was born. And for the
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: twelfth time, Dad's verdict was exactly the same. Yay!
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Well, Lily, I'll say this much for him. He's every
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: inch of Gilbreth.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I'm glad you approved.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, I expect we'd better keep him, too. Look at you. What?
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: You were the one who was so afraid he'd be
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: the last of the Gilbreths.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Well, I admit you had me worried there for a while, Lily.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Four girls in a row. That can be pretty nerve-wracking.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Of course, you know I.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Did it deliberately. Twelve children, Lily. And even dozens. hardly
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: an idiot in the bunch.
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: You set the actual target, dear. Six boys and six girls.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: I believe you even made a memorandum of him.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Hmm, sounds kind of silly now, doesn't it? Not half
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: as silly as it did then.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Honestly, dear, did you really think we'd be able to
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: go through with him?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Why, certainly. I always knew that anything you and I
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: teamed up on would be a success. Seems kind of funny,
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: won't it?
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: For the first time in 17 years, we'll be able
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: to go to bed without setting the alarm clock for
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: a two o'clock feeding.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's certainly going to be a luxury, isn't it?
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: A wonderful luxury, but I'll hate it. Now give me
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: my baby.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I have just one thing to say to you, young man.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: She's a pretty wonderful woman. Anyway, that's one man's opinion.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: Mother and our baby brother Robert came home, and it
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: was home once again. There was no further news about
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: Dad's trip to Czechoslovakia, so that summer, as usual, we
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: went to the beach at Nantucket. Dad had certain fixed
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: ideas about the ocean, mainly that it was intended for bathing,
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: regardless of the temperature.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Come on, slowpokes, hurry up. Last one in is Kaiser Bill.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mother, must we go in? It's freezing.
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: You should know by now, Ernestine, how your father feels
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: about the primitive life.
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, then, let's.
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: Go in and get it over with.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: You'd think Dad invented this ocean. You'd think he... Ernestine, look.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: That's Tom. Tom Black from high school. Look, he's a lifeguard.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: But what's he doing here at Nantucket?
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: Well, he has to keep him conditioned for swimming somewhere,
• 30:51
  Speaker 10: doesn't he? Oh, but why did he have to pick
• 30:53
  Speaker 10: this place? Ann, he's playing a ukulele.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: And look at all those girls around him. Come on,
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: let's stroll by and see what happens. I should say not. Well,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: we know him, don't we?
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: We see him at school, don't we?
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, we see him, but he doesn't even know I...
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: We exist. Besides, here comes Dan.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Hurry up, girls. Good dip in the ocean, never hurt anybody.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: You better rest for a while, Frank. You know what Dr.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: Burton said.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: That quack? My heart's as good as his any day. Better.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: In we go, young ladies. Come on now. None of
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: this nonsense about....
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Dad, what is it?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Just look at them. Those girls with that ukulele player.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Daddy, you're staring.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: A fine spectacle. Bobbed hair, rolled stockings, and painted knees.
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: But, Dad, that's the way everybody dresses at the beach.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Everybody but Ernestine and me. We're just freaks.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Freaks or not, you're not going down around here bare-knees
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: for all the boys to ogle. Not while I'm alive.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Well, boys don't ogle when everybody dresses that way.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Don't tell me what boys ogle. I was young once myself.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Honestly, Dad, how do you ever expect us to be popular?
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Popular, popular. That's all I hear. That's the magic word,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: isn't it? That's what's the matter with this generation. Nobody
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: thinks about being smart or clever. No, sir. They just
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: want to be popular.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: But, Dad, if you'd only be reasonable.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: For the last time, no. You may not roll your
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: stockings on the beach. If other girls want to go
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: to the level, that's their business. But you're not going
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: with them. Is that clear?
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: It ought to be. We've heard it often enough.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Now, look here. You want to get married someday, don't you? Well,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: nice girls don't marry... Men and nice men don't marry
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: girls who make themselves cheap. You may run around with
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: them before they're married, but... Well? When they settle down,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: they want someone they can respect.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Well, they certainly respect me. I'm the most respectable girl
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: I know. Well, they respect me so much they don't
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: even look at me. Me either.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Well, that's too bad, isn't it? Now, come along and
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: get some of that good salt water.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: That afternoon, I made up my mind to revolt. I'd
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: start from the top down. I took a pair of
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: scissors and... and bobbed my head. Ann, your hair! Oh,
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: what have you done? Oh, Ernestine, believe me. I didn't
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: do it just for myself. I cut off my hair
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: for you and Martha and Mary and Lillian and Jane.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Because I know you'll never be emancipated until I pave
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: the way.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, Ann.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Otherwise, we'll all go to our graves old maids. Still
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: wearing cootie garages over our ears. And long drawers. But
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: that'll murder you. When are you going to show him?
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: I'll be downstairs at dinner time. Now hand me that
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: comb and help me trim the ends. Oh, your hair, Ann.
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: Your beautiful hair. I had picked the worst possible moment
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: for my revolt. Of course, I didn't know.
• 34:02
  Speaker 6: It at the time.
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: But Dad had already received one blow, one that really hurt.
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: When I went down for dinner, he and Mother were alone.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: On the porch.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Dr.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Benheim, it seems the management conference program is filled without me.
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, Frank, really?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, Benheim still says he's still working on it, but
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: not to count that. I gather there's a general lack
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: of interest. Well, there'll be other conferences.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Frank, don't be too disappointed.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Yes, I guess I was counting on it too much, Lillie. Well,
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: let's go in and have dinner. There's only one thing
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: I can count on. You and the children. The sweetest,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the most obedient children, whoever... Frank.
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: Frank, what is it, dear?
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Who is that? Who is that creature in there? Anne.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: Anne, you're here.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Anne Gilbert, take off that ridiculous wig.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: It's not a wig. I... I've cut my hair.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: You what?
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: You may kill me if you want to, but I've
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: done it. I think it looks kind of snaky, Dad.
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: Besides, it's ever so much more efficient. I'll bet she
• 35:07
  Speaker 10: can fix her hair now in 15 seconds.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Fix what hair? She hasn't any hair left to fix.
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, and how could you do this to yourself?
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: To herself? How could she do it to an Airedale? Well,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I won't have it. I want it grown back, young lady,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: and I want it grown back fast.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to grow it back. I don't care
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: what anybody says. I'm sick of being afraid. Anne.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Anne, come back here.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: Let her go, dear. After all, it isn't such a tragedy.
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: All the girls her age are bobbing your hair now.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: But I distinctly told her, Lily.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: She's growing up, Frank.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: She's no longer a child.
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: Now, come and have dinner.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: But we started letting the children do as they please
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: around here.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: Please, dear, for my sake.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Well, all right, Lily. Fifteen seconds, hmm? I wonder if
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Ernestine knows what she's talking about.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: By the time vacation was over, Dad was reconciled. My
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: bobbed hair had been a bitter pill for him to swallow,
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: but like all fathers from the beginning of time, he
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: gulped and swallowed it. Then one evening, in my bedroom.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: What was it, Ann? That package from the department store.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: Come on in, Daddy. You may as well know the worst.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: They're teddies, see?
• 36:19
  Speaker 12: Laced teddies.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Their what?
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: I bought them with my own money, and I'm going
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: to wear them.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, you're not. You're going to send them right back.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: It embarrasses me even to look at them.
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: Oh, but, Dad.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: You mean to tell me this is all the underwear
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: women put on nowadays?
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, please be sensible, Daddy. And you don't really mean
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: I have to send them back. Not really, do you?
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Well, but no silk stockings and high-heeled shoes. I'm not
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: going to have a lot of doctor's bills because of
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: foot trouble.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, Daddy. And while we're both in the mood,
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: you may as well know it's a little late for
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: that now. See?
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: High heels?
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: I've been wearing them ever since we came home from Nantucket.
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: Hey, Ann, show a fault.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: It's for you, Ann.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: It's a boy.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: A boy? Oh, excuse me, Dad. Better hurry up before
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: it gets away.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Come back here. I'm not saying you can wear those things.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: I own flesh and blood in high heels.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: Well, dear, who was it?
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: Who telephoned?
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mother, I told you. I told you if I
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: started dressing like other girls, everything would be all right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: But who was it, dear?
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Joe.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Joe Scales. He's asked me to go to the senior
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: prom on Friday night. The prom, Mother!
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: Who is Joe Scales? Is he nice?
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, he comes from an awfully nice family, and he's...
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: he's cheerleader. He's got his own car, too.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Two mighty fine recommendations. What about a raccoon coat?
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, well, he'll probably get that next year when he
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: goes to college.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Gee.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: Come on, Ernestine. I've got to decide on what I'm
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: going to wear.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: It's formal.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: Just a minute, young lady. Friday night, you say?
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Let me see. Friday night, yes. Yes, that's all right.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I can make it.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: You can make what?
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: The dance, of course.
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: Dad, you don't mean.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: You didn't think I was going to let you go
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: out for yourself with a cheerleader, did you?
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, Daddy, you wouldn't spoil everything by doing a thing
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: like that, would you? What'll he think of me?
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: That you're a sensible, well-brought-up child with sensible parents.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, honestly, Dad, don't you even trust your own daughter?
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: I trust all my daughters. That cheerleader I don't trust.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Now make up your mind. Either I go or you don't.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Yes, Father.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Oh!
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: The curtain rises on Act Three of Cheaper by the Dozen, starring...
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Clifton Webb as Frank Gilbert, with Rhoda Williams as Anne,
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: and Betty Lou Gerson as Mother.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: Friday night arrived, and so did Joe Scale. Now, Joe
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: was no Rudolph Valentino, but he was a boy, and
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: he was taking me, us, to the senior prom. Joe
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: made quite an impression on my brothers and sisters. Hey,
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: not bad, not bad at all.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Hey, you kids ever see a William Tell tie?
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: Okay, now watch.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: You pull the bow and it hits the apple.
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: Get it?
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: It hits the apple, the Adam's apple.
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: Great Caesar's ghost, Lily.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Joe College in the flesh. Oh, not so loud, dear.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: I think he's kind of cute.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: Cute? He looks like what might happen if a pygmy
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: married a bob-tailed penguin. Where's Ann?
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: She just went up to get her wrap. Now, look, dear,
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: why don't you just stay home and have a nice quiet.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Stay home? I said I was going and I am.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: I know it's not your fault, Lily, but things would
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: have been a lot easier if you'd taken my advice
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: and had all both. I'm sorry, dear.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: I'll try to be more careful with the next dozen.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: Daddy, where are you? We're ready.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Coming, daughter, coming. All set, Pop?
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: Okay, baby, let's shake that thing. So long, gang.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's shake that thing.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: So long, gang.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Hiya, Joe.
• 41:15
  Speaker 11: Hiya, Ann.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, hello, Henry.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Come on, Joe.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: The tickets, the tickets.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, oh, here. What held you up so long?
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Kind of early to start necking.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: Ain't it?
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Ixnay, Ixnay.
• 41:26
  Speaker 11: Huh?
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, excuse me, sir. Hmm. Well, what happened to the cheerleader?
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: He, he's checking our wraps.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: Well, shall we sit down?
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, don't you see, Dad? Everybody's talking. I can't even
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: go to a dance alone. I don't know why boys
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: even bother about me.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I know if you don't. And that's exactly why
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I'm here. I haven't seen such ogling since we left Nantucket.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: All set, baby? Oh, yes, Joe. Well, then, come on.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: Let's give it the old hips.
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: So long, Pop.
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: Don't do anything I wouldn't do. A little later on,
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: when the orchestra was taking a rest, I ran into
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Debbie Lancaster. Debbie was a senior. She used lipstick and
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: had plans of going on the stage. You know something, honey?
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: I just gotta meet your daddy. I think he's the
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: cutest man I ever saw. But he's kind of old-fashioned, Debbie.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: Then I'll just adore him, because I'm awfully old-fashioned myself.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's because I was born in Mississippi. You just
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: gotta be old-fashioned to be born in Mississippi. Well, come on, then.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: But be careful, won't you, Debbie? I mean about your
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: perfume and lipstick and everything. Now, don't worry, honey. My
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: daddy's the same way. Always carrying on about me. But
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: I notice he don't carry on when it's someone else's job.
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: And I got you.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: To meet Deborah Lancaster, Daddy. She's from Mississippi.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: How do you do?
• 43:07
  Speaker 12: Oh, Mr.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: Gilbreath, I've just been hoping and hoping to meet you
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: ever since you started visiting our school.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Is that so? Well, well, well, I'm delighted, delighted. So
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: you're from Mississippi, are you?
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Just a little old fugitive from a plantation.
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: What?
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Hello, Debbie.
• 43:28
  Speaker 10: Hello, honey.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, Ann, darling, you know Tom Black, of course.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Well, we ought to know each other by now.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: Yes, of course. Dad, this is Tom Black.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: How do you do?
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Evening, Mr.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Gilbert. Well, how about a dance, Ann? Me?
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: Do you mind, Dad?
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Not at all, not at all, no. I'm sure this
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: young lady and I will have a very pleasant time.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: I guess Joe won't like this, Ann, but I've been
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: waiting for this chance ever since you got here. Say,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: what have you done to yourself?
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Nothing.
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: You sure didn't look like this last summer at Nantucket.
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: How would you know what I looked like? You never
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: even noticed me.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm noticing you now, baby. And I mean it.
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: And then you tell.
• 44:19
  Speaker 5: Me you've just been revolutionizing industry, honey. Oh, I mean, Mr.
• 44:24
  Speaker 8: Gilbreth.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Just saving millions of dollars in time and things. Oh, well, I, uh.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: I jingle that perfume smells good.
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: Like it?
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: Little old boy at Yale sent it to me. But
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: I mean, what does anybody want to save all that
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: time for, Mr.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: Gilbreth? Well, maybe for one thing... So as to be
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: able to sit here and talk to a pretty little
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: lady like you.
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: Why, I declare. And you're so good looking, too.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say that.
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: Those girls are just going to hate me if they
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: don't get to meet you. Do you mind? Mind?
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Me mind? Why, no, not at all. Bring them over,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: many as you like.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Bring them on.
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, sugar. I mean, oh, excuse me, Mr.
• 45:15
  Speaker 6: Gilbert.
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: Now, don't you go away.
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: Hear me?
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: I'll be right back. Well, well, well. Say, your old
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: man sure is swell, Ann. Believe me, if I ever
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: have a daughter, I'm sure going to watch her, too.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: You.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: You are?
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: They're not going to catch me letting her run around
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: by herself.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: But I mean... Oh, yes.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: A fellow likes to run around a little, sure. But
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: when it comes to settling down, believe me, I want
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: a girl I can respect.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Well, that's funny. That's just what my father said.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: It sure makes you stop and think, all right. An
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: important man like Mr. Gilbert, sitting there all by himself,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: not even dancing, just watching, watching.
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: Tom, Tom, look.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Hmm?
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: My father over there, all alone, not even dancing. Holy cow,
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: look at.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Him, Charleston.
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: Excuse me, Doc.
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: May I cut in, please?
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, certainly, Anne.
• 46:14
  Speaker 6: I just love.
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: Dancing with you, Mr.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Gilbert. Thank you, young lady.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: Well, I hope you haven't been too lonely, Dad. No, no.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I've managed.
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: I didn't know you could dance.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: There's lots of things you don't know, young lady.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Maybe you ought to congratulate me.
• 46:30
  Speaker 11: What for?
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: Well, after all, it isn't every girl in Montclair High
• 46:33
  Speaker 5: whose father can be Belle of the Ball.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: Now, let's be honest. They're not really bad kids, are they?
• 46:39
  Speaker 11: Well.
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: And you're not really going to tag along with me
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: every time I go out, are you?
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll decide that when I get back. After all,
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: I won't be able to tag along when I'm in Europe.
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: Europe?
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: But I thought you weren't going.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, yes, I am. I'm going to speak in
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: London as well as in Prague.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: But when did all this happen?
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: The invitation just came. A cable. Your mother sent Frank
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: over with it not five minutes ago.
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, Daddy, that's wonderful.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: Now, now, let's not get emotional. If you're going to
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: toddle with me, young lady, by jingo, let's toddle.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: A few days later, we were all in the living
• 47:19
  Speaker 5: room saying goodbye. Dad insisting on going to the station
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: by himself. Yes, Mom. Why can't we go to the
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: station with Daddy? Yeah, I want to see the train.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: When I get back, I'll show you lots of trains.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: I don't intend to start off for Europe wringing wet
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: with tears. You'd better hurry, dear. You don't have too
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: much time.
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: Boys, take your suitcases. Oh, sure, Mom.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, your pills.
• 47:40
  Speaker 6: What about your pills, Frank?
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, Burton gave me enough to last a lifetime.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: This is for you, Dad. But don't open it up
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: till you get on the boat.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: More socks?
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: Well, who taught me how to knit in the first place?
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, I plead guilty. Thank you, dear. Well, kids, let's
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: get this over with.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Goodbye, Daddy.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Frank. Take good care of yourself. Don't worry about me.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: If anything comes up, you know where to cable me.
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll take care of the work here.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: You just forget it.
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: Enjoy yourself.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: I will. Well, kids, one more kiss, huh?
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: Okay, Daddy.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Bye. Now, you behave yourselves. Do what your mother tells you.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: I'll be back in a couple of months.
• 48:19
  Speaker 5: I'm going to miss you so much.
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: A little more attention to the books, young lady, and
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: a little less to that swimming champion, and you'll stand
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: a better chance of getting into college. Understand?
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: I'll work on it, Dad.
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: That's my girl. Well, goodbye, Lily.
• 48:36
  Speaker 12: Goodbye, dearest.
• 48:37
  Speaker 6: Have a good time.
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: Bye, Daddy. Bye.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: And so he left us. The telephone rang about 20
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: minutes later. It was Dad. He was at the station.
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: He started to talk to Mother, and then... and then
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: that was all. What happened is like a dream now,
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: an evil dream. Mother rushing from the house, the neighbors
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: finding my younger brothers and sisters and sending them home.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: Something had happened.
• 49:17
  Speaker 12: He was dead.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Our father was.
• 49:19
  Speaker 12: dead.
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: Sit down children please please sit down.
• 49:32
  Speaker 9: I've called you all the children together because i think
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: you ought to know the situation there isn't going to
• 49:38
  Speaker 9: be a great deal of money Most of it had
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: to go back into Father's business.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: Anyway, I.
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: I just telephoned Grandmother in California. She wants us to
• 49:48
  Speaker 9: move out there and live with her.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: If it's a matter of money, Mother, I plan not
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: to go to college anyway. I'll get a job. I
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: don't want to go to college either.
• 49:57
  Speaker 6: Please, wait until I've finished.
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: There is an alternative, but it hinges on your being
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: able to take care of yourselves. I can go on
• 50:06
  Speaker 9: with Father's work, keep the office open... That would mean
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: we could stay here if we lived very simply.
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, you could do that.
• 50:14
  Speaker 6: And if things should work out, then, Anne, you can
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: go to college later on. Father wanted all of you
• 50:19
  Speaker 6: to go to college.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, don't worry about that, Mother.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: Do you want to try? Can you run the house
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: and look after things until I come back?
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: Come back from where, Mother?
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: I'm going to Europe.
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: I'm going to give those speeches for Father. We all
• 50:34
  Speaker 9: know how much they meant to him. I'm sure that's
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: the way he'd want it.
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: But as I say, the final decision is up to you.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mother, you don't have to ask us. You know
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: we'll do anything as long as we can stay together.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Thank you, dear.
• 50:47
  Speaker 9: I knew that's the way you'd feel about it.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: Well, since I'm going to be planning the meals from
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: now on, I guess I'd better get started. And I'll
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: see that the house is kept nicely, Mother. Just the
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: way you like it. And I'll help her. We all will.
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: We'll do the errands, won't we, Frank? And keep the
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: yard clean and.
• 51:04
  Speaker 12: You bet we will.
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: You've got a bigger job than that, Frank.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mother.
• 51:08
  Speaker 9: From now on, you'll have to be the man of
• 51:11
  Speaker 9: the family.
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: We'll handle things, Mother. And we'll do a good job, too.
• 51:16
  Speaker 12: You just wait and see. Yes, son, I know you will. Well, anyway,
• 51:21
  Speaker 12: that's one man's... Yes, Dad.
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: Your birth and company will go on. Mother and your
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: even dozen will see to that. Mother will go to Europe,
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: and you'll be proud of the way she delivers those
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: speeches for you. And she'll go right on, following in
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: your footsteps, to become the foremost woman industrial engineer in
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: the world, and by 1948, America's Woman of the Year.
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: But wherever you are, Dad, somehow I'm sure you know
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: that and never doubted it for one moment.
• 52:16
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