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Mother Was a Freshman · Lux Radio Theatre

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  Speaker 1: Bring you the Luxe Radio Theater, starring Loretta Young and
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  Speaker 1: Van Johnson in Mother is a Freshman. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: William Keeley. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 3: Fifteen years ago this week, a day when radio entertainment
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  Speaker 3: was begun.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Luxe Radio Theater.
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  Speaker 3: Its purpose was to bring into American homes the finest
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  Speaker 3: in drama played by the most important stars. Since that day,
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  Speaker 3: a new generation has grown up and the Lux Radio
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  Speaker 3: Theater with it. Now it's a part of the American scene,
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  Speaker 3: an institution in millions of American homes. To celebrate this
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  Speaker 3: 15th anniversary, we've selected a gay romantic comedy that brings
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  Speaker 3: together two of this theater's top favorites, those very bright stars,
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  Speaker 3: Loretta Young and Van Johnson. The play is Mother is
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  Speaker 3: a Freshman, a 20th century.
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  Speaker 2: Fox success you've requested so often.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if Mother were to go back to college today,
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  Speaker 3: she'd find it quite different than it was 15 years ago.
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  Speaker 3: But some things would make her feel right at home.
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  Speaker 3: For one, that familiar cake of Lux Toilet Soap.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, even when Mother was a freshman, Lux Soap was
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  Speaker 2: a favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Complexion care of the loveliest girls on the campus. And
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  Speaker 3: again tonight, as it has for 15 years, Lux makes
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  Speaker 3: it possible for you to hear another hit play. As
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  Speaker 3: the curtain rises on Mother is a Freshman, starring Loretta
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  Speaker 3: Young as Abigail and Van Johnson as Richard.
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  Speaker 2: It happens sometimes to the best of us. A terse
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  Speaker 2: memorandum from.
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  Speaker 3: The bank informing us that our balance is not sufficient
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  Speaker 3: to cover our checks. It's happened this time to a
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  Speaker 3: young and beautiful widow residing on Park Avenue in New York.
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  Speaker 4: I'm back, Mom.
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  Speaker 5: Know where I've been? I've been shopping.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Susan, not all those packages. Oh, darling, I told
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  Speaker 4: you not to spend any more money, remember?
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  Speaker 5: Didn't spend a shekel, Mom. Charged everything.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 5: Here, this is for you.
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  Speaker 4: A book. Oh, that's very thoughtful of you, dear.
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  Speaker 5: It's the new one by John St. John.
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  Speaker 4: The Grave Digger and the Chambermaid. Oh, Susie, really?
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  Speaker 5: Guaranteed to turn your hair gray.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's just what I need. Honestly, dear, how you
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  Speaker 4: can waste good money on such trash like that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, that's okay, Mom.
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  Speaker 4: You're welcome.
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  Speaker 5: Mom, look at this dress. Isn't it a dream?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, dear, it's beautiful. But I'm sorry, it'll have to
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  Speaker 4: go back.
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  Speaker 3: Mom!
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  Speaker 4: I just heard from the bank and we're overdrawn.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then why don't you call John Heaslip? Just tell
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  Speaker 5: him to put some more money in our account.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you know how upset he gets whenever I'm over.
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  Speaker 5: Personally, I think John likes our economic crisis. Gives him
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  Speaker 5: a chance to wave that torch he's been carrying.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, don't be silly, dear. Now, about this dress.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I just have to have it, Mom, for the
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  Speaker 5: sophomore cotillion. Richard will love it.
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  Speaker 4: Richard. Oh, yes, yes. He's the president of the student body,
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  Speaker 4: isn't he?
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  Speaker 5: Mom, no. That's Beaumont Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, yes.
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  Speaker 5: He's a schmo.
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  Speaker 4: A what? What's that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you know, a dope, a drip. A drip?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that reminds me, I must call John.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, dear, who is Richard?
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  Speaker 5: Mother, don't you ever listen to me. Richard Michaels, professor
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  Speaker 5: of English Lit.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's nice, dear, a professor. A professor? Uh-huh. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: but Susie... Is he one of your bows?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mom, you're so old-fashioned. Those berries have broken down.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, have they?
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  Speaker 6: Well, of course.
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  Speaker 5: Pointer is a modern college.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I see. Well, uh, how old is this Professor Michaels?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he's sort of, well, ageless. Maybe around 35.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my dear, I'm around 35.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but it's different with you, Mom. Your life's over.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, is it?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but he hasn't even begun to live.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. Oh, Susie, I don't like it. I don't like
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  Speaker 4: it a bit. It just isn't... Excuse me a minute. Hello? Oh, hello, John.
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  Speaker 4: I was just going to call you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, yes, I know, but when you're trying to outfit
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  Speaker 7: a girl for college and redecorate an apartment, will it.
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  Speaker 4: What? Why, John, I couldn't be. But that's impossible. I'll
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  Speaker 4: be right down.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what it.
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  Speaker 4: It must be a mistake.
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  Speaker 6: Well, what is it?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he said you weren't going back to college.
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  Speaker 5: Mother, that's impossible.
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  Speaker 4: Now, don't worry, dear. I'll see to this right now. John,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think you understand.
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  Speaker 6: I understand that your expenditures have been simply disgraceful.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you've already said that. Now, as for Susan, how
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  Speaker 4: can you expect her to go back to Pointer College without.
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  Speaker 6: I don't expect Susan to go back to Pointer at all.
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  Speaker 4: Now, John, you're just trying to scare me again, aren't you?
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  Speaker 6: No, Abby, I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: You're broke. Dead broke.
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  Speaker 4: But the trust fund that Henry left for me, I
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  Speaker 4: couldn't have spent all that.
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  Speaker 6: But the trust fund is payable only every three years.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Your next payment isn't available until February.
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  Speaker 4: But that's five months. Oh, John, Susan must go back
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  Speaker 4: to Pointer. And where am I going to get the
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  Speaker 4: money to pay for her tuition?
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 6: There's one way, my dear.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, thank you. Let's not go into that again.
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  Speaker 6: Abby, please. Why, we're perfectly mated. Anyone can see that.
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  Speaker 6: And moreover.
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  Speaker 4: No, there must be another way. Uh, John, is my
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  Speaker 4: maiden name legal?
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  Speaker 6: Well, yes, if you care to use it.
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: And what makes you ask that?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, nothing, nothing at all. And thank you, John. Thank
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  Speaker 4: you for everything.
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  Speaker 6: But, Abby, what's your hurry? Abby!
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  Speaker 8: You don't.
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  Speaker 5: Have to spare me, Mom. I know it isn't your fault.
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  Speaker 5: No money, huh?
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  Speaker 4: Paupers. Till next February.
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  Speaker 5: Well, couldn't you borrow the money from John? He's so
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  Speaker 5: crazy about you.
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  Speaker 4: Susie, I better explain something to you. John Heaslip has
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  Speaker 4: an obsession against lending or borrowing money.
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  Speaker 7: And though he may be crazy about me, he is
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  Speaker 7: crazier about his obsession.
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  Speaker 4: See?
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we'll just have to go to work, then. I'll
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  Speaker 5: get a job on campus, and you can get a
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  Speaker 5: job here. Department store, maybe, or some sweatshop, or.
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  Speaker 4: Mom, you're not listening.
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  Speaker 5: What's that you're reading?
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  Speaker 4: This booklet. It's all about the endowments to Poynter College. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: here it is. It's right here.
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  Speaker 2: Huh?
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  Speaker 4: The Abigail Fortitude Scholarship. For any female of good character
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  Speaker 4: and refinement with the name of Abigail Fortitude, the sum
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  Speaker 4: of $ 3, 000 per annum shall be made available. So what? Well, $ 3, 000
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  Speaker 4: is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, but don't you see the catch? You've got to
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  Speaker 5: have a name like Abigail Fortitude.
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  Speaker 4: Well, my maiden name happens to be that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I know, Mom, but you're the last. And I'll
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  Speaker 5: never stop thanking you for finding a different name for me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, dear, I've been thinking.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, sure.
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  Speaker 5: Great-grandma Abigail gave money to Poynter. Then she fixed it
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  Speaker 5: so only her own family could use it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, then why don't we use it?
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  Speaker 5: Because my name isn't Abigail Fo... You?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 10: Golly, gee.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 6: It wouldn't work.
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  Speaker 4: Now, why not?
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  Speaker 5: Well, what about college entrance exams? You've never passed them.
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  Speaker 4: Well, now, Susie, it's up to you to see that
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  Speaker 4: I do pass them. Look here, dear, you don't seem
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  Speaker 4: to understand. If I don't go to Poynter, you're not
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  Speaker 4: going back either.
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  Speaker 7: Now, this $ 3, 000 endowment will see us both through to February,
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  Speaker 7: at which time we collect on our trust fund.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, if we could only do it.
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  Speaker 4: Of course we can. I'll use my maiden name, and
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  Speaker 4: nobody need know that I'm your mother. And now, about
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  Speaker 4: those entrance exams.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, they're murder.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, come now, dear, they couldn't be that difficult.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 5: Prove the two triangles are congruent if the hypotenuse and
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  Speaker 5: side of one are equal to ditto. I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 4: Ha!
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  Speaker 5: Give a concise statement of Dalton's atomic theory. Describe the
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  Speaker 5: structure of a typical dichotoledonous stem.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Susie, that doesn't even sound like English. See what
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  Speaker 4: I mean? Oh, well. Well, in that case, I guess
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  Speaker 4: we'd better get to work right away. Susie, drag out
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  Speaker 4: those textbooks of yours and start educating me.
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  Speaker 5: Gotta hand it to you, Mom. That's the old Abigail
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  Speaker 5: Fortitude Fortitude. Wonderful, Mom.
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  Speaker 4: Aren't you thrilled? This is it.
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  Speaker 5: You're on the campus.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know, dear. And there's the dean's office.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you. Now get in there.
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  Speaker 4: All right, but where will you be?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I just may stop by and say hello to
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  Speaker 5: Professor Michaels.
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  Speaker 4: Professor Michaels?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he probably won't be in. Classes don't start till tomorrow,
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  Speaker 5: you know. Well, I'll see you at the freshman door, Mom.
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  Speaker 8: Happy landing.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, dear, and thank you again.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, come in.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, Professor Michaels.
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  Speaker 2: Susan Abbott. Well, for heaven's sake. It's good to see you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's wonderful to see you, too.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: Did you have a good summer?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, sensational. Only I couldn't wait to get back. I
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  Speaker 5: thought September would never come.
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: I know just how you feel.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to let me help you again, aren't you?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, correcting papers and stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you bet I am. But this year you've got
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  Speaker 2: to give the boys a break, too.
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  Speaker 4: Boys?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, a girl gets so bored, Professor Michaels... But working
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  Speaker 5: with you is an intellectual experience.
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  Speaker 2: Now, don't tell me you'd rather have an intellectual experience
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  Speaker 2: and be the belle of the ball at the sophomore cotillion.
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  Speaker 5: If I were dancing with you, I'd have both.
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  Speaker 8: Me?
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be found dead at a student dance.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I've got to run, Professor. See you in class tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Nice of you to drop in, Susan.
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  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: And good night.
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  Speaker 2: Good night.
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  Speaker 5: Parting is such sweet sorrow. That I shall say goodnight
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  Speaker 5: till it be morrow.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's very good, Susan. Very good. Hello? Hello?
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  Speaker 4: Is Western Union. We have a telegram for Professor Richard Michaels.
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  Speaker 2: This is Professor Michaels.
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  Speaker 10: It's from New York City.
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  Speaker 4: Happy to inform you your book, Grave Digger and the Chambermaid,
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  Speaker 4: has just jumped on bestseller list.
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  Speaker 9: It's signed, Williams and Sons Publishers.
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  Speaker 2: Bestseller list, huh? Well, what do you know? Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks very much.
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  Speaker 4: Tell you, Dean Gillingham, that new book you wanted. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I finally got it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, The Gravedigger and the Chambermaid?
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  Speaker 4: You ought to be ashamed of yourself.
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  Speaker 11: I have a very good reason for being interested in
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  Speaker 11: that book.
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  Speaker 4: I may blackmail you someday, reading stuff like that. Well,
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: ready for the next patient? A freshman named Abigail Fortitude.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Send her in, Miss Harper.
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  Speaker 4: This way, Miss Fortitude. Oh, thank you, thank you. Dean Gillingham.
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  Speaker 11: Sit down, Miss Fortitude.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Not nervous, are you?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, a little.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but why?
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  Speaker 11: Your entrance examinations are not exemplary, at least all in order.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm happy to welcome you to Poynter. Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 11: You realize, of course, that your matriculation is most unusual.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I was afraid that... Well, a woman of my
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  Speaker 4: age coming to college.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, what a silly thought.
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  Speaker 11: What I meant by unusual is the fact that you're
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  Speaker 11: the first girl in 55 years to use the Abigail
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  Speaker 11: Fortitude Scholarship.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, you see, she was my grandmother.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 11: Well, it's very good to see you here.
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  Speaker 6: What's the use of educating the children, I always say,
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  Speaker 6: if we don't educate the parents, too?
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  Speaker 4: You mean.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, have no fears.
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  Speaker 6: I'll keep your horrid secret, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Abbott.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Then you do know.
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  Speaker 11: After all, you and Susan share the same home address
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  Speaker 11: on your registration card.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness. We never thought of that. You see,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't want anyone to find out.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I assure you the fact will never fall from
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  Speaker 6: my lips.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 11: Good luck, Miss Fortitude. And remember where I am if
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  Speaker 11: you want me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, that's very nice of you. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Dean. Goodbye, my dear. And let me see, where
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  Speaker 6: is that?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, the grave digger in the chamber made by John St.
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  Speaker 4: John.
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  Speaker 6: John St. John, indeed.
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  Speaker 4: Susie? Hi, Mom.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, not Mom.
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  Speaker 6: Abby.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, golly, I forgot.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 12:31
  Speaker 5: How'd you make out with Dean Gillingham?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I think he's the nicest man I ever met.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he's a charmer, all right. Richard Michael says he's
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  Speaker 5: one of the greatest educators in the country.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I can believe that. He made me feel
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  Speaker 4: just a little like a cheat.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, he was so pleased that I'd come to Poynter
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  Speaker 7: to finish my education.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I wouldn't let it bother me.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it does bother me, since I'm only here to
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  Speaker 4: put my hands on some money.
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: I've got news for you.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 5: If you plan to stay here, you're going to get
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  Speaker 5: an education, whether you want one or not. Otherwise, you
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: go right out on your ear.
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, now, Susie, I told you time and time again
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: not to talk that way.
• 13:03
  Speaker 9: Abby!
• 13:05
  Speaker 5: Yes? I'll have to caution you not to correct people
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  Speaker 5: as if you were their mother.
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Other people might catch on, see?
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Oh, yes.
• 13:13
  Speaker 5: I've been fixing up your room.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, dear, you did a good job. Thank you. That's wonderful.
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: Look out the window. Huh?
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  Speaker 2: See?
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  Speaker 5: There's my sorority house on the other side of the green.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. Well, at least we're close by. Well, what
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  Speaker 4: do I do now?
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: Register for classes. All right. Only you're not going to
• 13:28
  Speaker 5: Doremus Hall looking like that.
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: Well, why? What's the matter with me?
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: Your clothes. Look, this is college, not Fifth Avenue.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, dear, this is the most conservative thing I own.
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  Speaker 5: At home, maybe, but not here.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, your hair.
• 13:41
  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 5: Take out those bobby pins and let it down.
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: Let it down?
• 13:44
  Speaker 5: And ditch the hat.
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, you don't like it?
• 13:46
  Speaker 5: Abby, freshmen don't wear hats. Not even at Doremus Hall.
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  Speaker 5: Now step on it. Start fixing your hair.
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  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon. I'm supposed to register here, but
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  Speaker 4: I don't have.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hi, Angel Eyes. Just see the student advisor.
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  Speaker 4: Yow! What is it? Is something wrong?
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  Speaker 9: Wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Woo-woo!
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  Speaker 4: Young man, if you don't want to tell me where I.
• 14:15
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'll tell you anything you want to know, baby.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Where's your card?
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  Speaker 10: Here.
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  Speaker 2: Table G, dream puss.
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: Over there.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
• 14:27
  Speaker 9: Pardon me, lady. This is Pointer College. The store club
• 14:29
  Speaker 9: is south of here.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: I'm a student here. Here's my card.
• 14:34
  Speaker 9: Abigail Fortitude.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: You? That's right.
• 14:39
  Speaker 9: Oh, don't get sore, honey. The name just doesn't go
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: with the scenery. Freshman, huh?
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: Yes. My, my.
• 14:47
  Speaker 9: You just out of the army or something?
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 14:51
  Speaker 9: You married?
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: No.
• 14:54
  Speaker 9: Well, Abigail, what's your major going to be? Major?
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: What's a major?
• 15:00
  Speaker 9: Well, you see, in college, you've got to major in
• 15:02
  Speaker 9: one subject which indicates the type of career you have
• 15:05
  Speaker 9: cut out for yourself.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: Well, what does Richard Michaels teach?
• 15:11
  Speaker 9: Richard Michaels?
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Aye.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: What does he teach?
• 15:13
  Speaker 9: Iniquity.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: What?
• 15:15
  Speaker 9: Thinly disguised with Shakespearean sonnets and officially labeled English literature.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: Well, I'd better major in that.
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: Abigail Fortitude, you too?
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: Hey, what's your hurry? Wait a minute. Well, me?
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: We freshmen have to stick together.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: My name's Rhoda Adams.
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: Well, hello, Rhoda. I'm Abigail Fortitude.
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: You going English lit?
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes. Good, so am I. I, uh, I wish
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: I weren't so nervous.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: I'm scared spitless.
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: You're what?
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: I'm scared spitless.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, my dear, don't say things like that. Oh, Nat,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: you're scared spitless, so am I.
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: It's that Richard Michaels. They say he's a heavenly hunk
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: of professor.
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, I didn't mean I was nervous about that. Well,
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: it's just that this is my first class, and everything
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: is so new and strange, and it has nothing to
• 16:13
  Speaker 7: do with Richard Michaels.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I keep telling myself.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: Well, there he is.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: You said it. Come on, let's find a place to sit.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir?
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: What's your name?
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: Abigail Fortitude.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Fortitude. Well, Miss Fortitude, I am not myopic, and I
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: have an uncanny sense of intuition when one of my
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: students is unprepared. I can spot him in the last
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: row just as readily as the first. So why don't
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: you take that seat there next to Miss Sharp?
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, certainly.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: Hello, Miss Sharp.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Professor Michaels.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Back for another try, eh? Don't you think you're in
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: a rut?
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'll pass this time, Professor Michaels, if I can
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: keep my mind on my work.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right. All right, let's come to order. This
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: first session is going to be very short, so you
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: needn't brace yourselves. In studying the text of Shakespeare, as
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: we intend to do, we repeatedly find the theme of
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: love used over and over again. And yet, in all
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: the works... So starting tomorrow, I'll attempt to expose your
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: minds to Shakespeare. If some of you choose to sleep,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: that is your problem. If some of you choose to
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: listen and learn, that is my problem. Meantime, the class
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: is dismissed. Miss Fortitude?
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: In my office, please.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, Professor, but I have another class.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I have just dismissed this one 40 minutes early. This way,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Miss Fortitude.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Uh, yes, Professor.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Have a seat, Miss Fortitude.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: That's rather an odd name.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Isn't it? It's the family name.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Any relation to old Abigail Fortitude, that great pinch-penny philanthropist
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: or pointer?
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: My grandmother.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I'm using her scholarship here.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't exactly mean that she wasn't a great philanthropist.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: No, no, I didn't think you did, Professor.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Miss Fortitude, would you answer a simple question?
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: Why, yes, if I can.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: What the devil are you doing here? Why are you
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: majoring in my course?
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: That's two questions, Professor, and the answer is the same
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: for both, to get an education.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Are you trying to tell me there's anything left for
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: you to.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: What do you mean by that remark?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't mean what you thought I meant. It's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: just that you are a mature woman and apparently very sophisticated.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: You never saw me before, and suddenly you seem to
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: know all about me.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, now, wait a second. It's just that I'm used
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to kids, and, well, you're sort of in my league.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think I'm that matured, Professor.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Don't misunderstand me. It's just that it's a little unusual for... Well,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: isn't it a little late for you to be getting
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: an education?
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think so.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: But if you doubt that one's available for me in
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: your class, I'll be happy to have myself transferred.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Professor Michaels, I am not one bit interested in how
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: you came to teach at Poynter. And I don't see
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: why you should be interested in why I came to
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: be taught at Poynter.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, now you're angry. Please, I was curious, that's all.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Well, curiosity killed the cat.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Miss Ford.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Good morning, Professor Michaels.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: In a few moments, we'll continue with the second act
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: of Mother.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Is a Freshman.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Now, Mr. William Keeley, our producer.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Act two of Mother is a Freshman, starring Loretta Young
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: as Abigail and Van Johnson as Richard.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: THE END.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Financed by a $ 3, 000 scholarship, Abigail Fortitude is now the
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: oldest and prettiest freshman ever to enter Poynter College, where
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: her daughter Susan.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Is a sophomore.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Right now, Abigail's in class, and Professor Richard Michaels is
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: discovering how interesting his work.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Can be, And out on the campus, Susan and an
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: old boyfriend... Okay.
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: Susie, now, what about the sophomore cotillion?
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Well, it's still a month off, Bo. I'll let you know, huh?
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: Somebody else asked you?
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Well, not exactly.
• 20:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I know who... Susie, what's got into you?
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Bo. You're one of the nicest boys I know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: and I always want to be friends with you.
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: Friends? You hate me, don't you?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Oh, now, really?
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, well, even if Professor Michaels did go to the
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: sophomore cotillion, it wouldn't be with you.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: It wouldn't?
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: Uh-uh, not with that Abigail Fortitude around. Or haven't you heard?
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: Abigail Fortitude? Now, you're just being silly. An older woman
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: like that going to college, well, naturally she's conspicuous, but.
• 20:55
  Speaker 9: I'll say she is.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: She deserves a little more attention.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Okay, Susie, you win.
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: Just let me know about the cotillion.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Mother... Mother and Richard Michaels.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: But that's absurd.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I'm coming to class tomorrow morning prepared to discuss King Lear.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: That's all. Class dismissed. Miss Fortitude.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: May I see you, please?
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, Professor Michaels.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Close the door, Fortitude.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Surely.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Have a seat.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Did you get my theme, Professor?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Not quite.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: Well, I handed it in.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Yes, I know. I read it. But I didn't get it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: That's why I wanted to see you. Oh. Your ideas
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: are excellent fortitude.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: But your rhetoric, well, it leaves a lot to be desired.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, dear.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: No, no. Don't be discouraged. You just need help on
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: your academic approach.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: And you're going to help me?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, indeed.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, I see.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: And not only that, but I'm going to have to
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: turn the heat on.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: The heat?
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Yes. You're too self-conscious, Fortitude.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: You're nervous. I get the feeling that you resent me.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: But that, of course, is only a sublimation of your
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: fear of failure.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: It is?
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: You know, English literature can be fun. And I'm going
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: to show you just how much fun. You must learn
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: to relax.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Well, thanks just the same, Professor. But I think I'll manage.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: You don't want to flunk, do you?
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, no. No, I can't flunk.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Well, then you'd better let me work with you. Oh.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Well, all right, if you say so.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: And I think we'll work nights.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Nights?
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Here? Oh, no. We may as well be comfortable. Suppose
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: you have dinner with me at my house, say, around
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: 7 o'clock.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: No, I'm sorry, Professor, but I can't do that.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid you'd better.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I live on Faculty Row number 17, right across from
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the circle.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Professor, I don't think I ought to take up your
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: time like that. I think after all... What?
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: What did you... That's just what I'm here for.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Yes, Professor.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Here she comes, Beulah. Look out the window. Did you
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: see her? Mm-mm.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: What a freshman.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, I admire her greatly, Beulah. She's determined to get
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: an education.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: She's coming to the right place to get it. Excuse me, Professor.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I'd better get them land shops and all.
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: Well.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Am I late?
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: No, Fortitude. Come in, come in.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: You look absolutely beautiful.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Professor.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, let's skip that Professor stuff. Call me Richard.
• 23:34
  Speaker 9: Oh, Richard.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Come in to me.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Make yourself comfortable. I'll fix a drink. How do you
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: like my lair?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Well, it smells good.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's the incense. You have to burn it to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: get the traditions out of the woodwork. Incense, yes. I
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: hope you like martinis.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, thank you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I mix them very dry.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, thank you.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You don't like martinis?
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm a student here.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: But you're over 21, aren't you?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: Just.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Well, they're good for you. Make you relax. Lose your inhibitions.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, you know, sometimes I think inhibitions are very good
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: for people, Professor. I think that.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know what I mean.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do know what you mean.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Well, let's sit down and be comfortable, shall we? Now,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: the springs are coming out of that chair.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Let's just share the sofa, shall we?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Well, yes, thank you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: You don't mind, do you?
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: No, not if you like.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Well, here's to you, Abby, and to a wonderful evening.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I can't tell you how much I look forward to this.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Oh, really?
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Something wrong with your cocktail?
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, it's fine.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Then drink it, drink it, so I can freshen up. Oh, surely. Yes, Abby,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I've got to confess, I'm glad you're weak. In English,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: that is. It gives me a chance not only to
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: help you, but to know you well.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Well, that's very kind of you, Professor.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I want to know you very well.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: Oh, dear. Oh, dear.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: I just remembered. I'm awfully sorry, but I just remembered.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Remember? Where are you going?
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's very thoughtless of me, but I just remembered.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: I have another date, and I can't break it.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: But, Abby, for heaven's sake, you just can't just walk out.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Oh, I said I was sorry.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: But what about your coaching?
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, some other time, perhaps.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Can't you break your other date?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, that would be rude.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Rude? Yes. What about me? What about my plans for tonight?
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I've arranged everything.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I know. Then you needn't bother coming to the door
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: with me.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Good night, Professor.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: Good night.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: Miss Fortitude, well, how nice to see you.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Why, uh, Dean Gillingham.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: And this is my wife, Miss Fortitude.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Margaret, here's the young lady I was telling you about,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Abigail Fortitude.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, how do you do, my dear? Oh, how do
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: you do, Mrs. Gillingham? Well, Richard, I see we all
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: arrived at the same time.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: No, Miss Fortitude is just leaving. She has another date. Oh. Abigail,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: but you're spoiling our evening.
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: You don't think we enjoy dining with this dull young man.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Do you? Well, as a matter of fact... Well, it was.
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: Only on his promise that you'd be here that we
• 25:57
  Speaker 11: agreed to come.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Well, my headache is a little better.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Headache? I thought you said... Would you like a martini, Mrs.
• 26:09
  Speaker 11: Gillingham?
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Why, yes, I would. So would I.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Well, allow me.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Richard. Yes, thank you, Richard. You know, Miss Fortitude,
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: you're really more than my husband described you. And he
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: was simply outrageous.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: And how's college life agreeing with.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: You, Abigail?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I must be up. Never been happier.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: I'm sitting over here, Abigail.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. Yes, she knows it, dear.
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: Well, I really wasn't worried about you becoming acclimated, Mrs.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Abbott. Oh, no?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: And what do you think of your fellow students?
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think they're wonderful.
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: But I'm simply amazed how they can study some serious
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: subject and at the same time read things like the
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: comic strips.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, Gilly would rather miss a train than Lil Abner.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, not really, Margaret.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: Well, I just don't understand how anyone can study a
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: complex subject like chemistry, for instance, or political economy, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: then sit right down to a blood-curdling murder mystery. You know,
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: as I left tonight, the girl across the hall was
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: reading an awfully lowered thing.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Let me see.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: I think it was called The Grave Digger in the Chamber.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: What's the matter with you, Richard?
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I'll be sorry. This martini. I must have swallowed the olive. Oh,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: too bad.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: And now, about that book.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Beulah. Nice timing. Wonderful evening, Richard. Very edifying.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: Good night.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Next week at our house.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: We'll let you know, Abigail.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Good night, my dear.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Good night. Now, if I may have my coat.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Abigail, you're not leaving, too.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Well, I have to be back at the freshman dorm
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: before 12, you know.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I know. You know, usually the Gilliams don't stay past
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: 9 o'clock.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Oh? I'm glad they do. My books?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Right here. Come on, I'll walk you over.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I didn't know you were married, Abby.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: I'm not.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Before dinner, I distinctly heard Dean Gillingham calling you Mrs.
• 28:20
  Speaker 7: Abbott.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: He did? Yes.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so sorry. He was supposed to keep that
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: a secret.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, then you are married.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: No. No, I'm a widow. Eight years now.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's wonderful. Oh, I don't mean about you being
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a widow. I mean if I'm not married.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: No, no, I know what you mean.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Abbott. Abbott? Yes.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Like in Susan?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Mrs. Abbott?
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Hmm?
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: You? Her mother?
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Impossible. Oh, no, no, I can't believe it. You're practically
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: as young as she is.
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, hardly. And anyway, she'll grow younger as she
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: grows older.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: What's the idea? I've noticed.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Well, it's a rather long story, Richard, and it is
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: a secret. We don't want anyone to know. We have
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: our reasons.
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: She's a pretty wonderful kid, Abby. You ought to be
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: proud of her.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I am. Well, there's the dorm.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Hmm?
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: Come here.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: You know, if I... I'll get into trouble if I
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: don't get in in time.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: They'd only duck you from going to the sophomore cotillion. Oh?
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Which mustn't happen, incidentally, because you're going with me. Am I? Listen, Abby.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I'm washing it because that Mrs. Abbott thing scared the
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: daylights out of me. I like you. You know what
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I mean? I really like you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: I like you, too.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Then you will come to the dance with me?
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Well, is it customary? I mean, student and faculty, isn't
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: it a little.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Those barriers no longer exist.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: They don't?
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: No. Well, how nice. I had to do that. I
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: had to kiss you. It's tradition. This tree we're under,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: it's the kissing oak.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, I see.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: It's true. Any girl who doesn't kiss her beau goodnight
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: under this oak winds up an old maid.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Well, that could hardly be applied to me now, could it?
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Uh, hardly. Goodnight, Richard. Goodnight, Abigail.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, uh, by the way, Richard.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: They teach us in Botany that your kissing oak is
• 30:31
  Speaker 7: a willow.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: Oh, gosh, Mom, do you realize this is the first
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: time I've seen you alone in simply days?
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, Susie, I've missed you so. What have you been
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: doing with yourself, anyway?
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, nothing much. I just didn't want to get in
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: your hair.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, honey, don't be silly.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, with Richard coaching you, I didn't want
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: to make you self-conscious. In the first place, you needed
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: lots of coaching.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, that I did.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: And in the second place, I wanted you to get
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: to know him without me around.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: But why, dear?
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, come on, Mom. You haven't fooled me a bit.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Don't you see? I wanted you to find out by
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: yourself how wonderful he is and thoughtful and sweet. Well,
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: that's just what happened.
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Susie, I don't understand.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Of course you do. You know now why I feel
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: the way I do. It's just the way I wanted
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: it to happen. Now you know why I'm in love
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: with him.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: In love with him?
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, and wait till you really get to know him.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, but Susie, he's not in love with you.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: Well, he's very fond of me. It's just that he's
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: shy and conservative.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, honey. Honey, are you sure? I mean, sometimes girls
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: imagine things, you know.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: I was never sure of anything in my life. letting
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: me help him correct papers, picking me to work with
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: him shoulder to shoulder, just like the curies.
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Susie, has he said any of these things to you?
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Or are you just dreaming it all because you want
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: it to come true?
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: Well, he hasn't exactly said them, Mom, but he's changed
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: my whole outlook on life. Honestly, not some silly schoolgirl swoon. Oh, Susie.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Susie, I don't know what to say.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: I'll say it. Thanks, Mom. Thanks for liking him.
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: Oh, Mom.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: I hate to.
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: Mention this, but... Well, you know how gossip spreads around
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: the campus.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Gossip?
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Well, naturally, you've had to be with Richard a lot
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: since he's been coaching you, but... I'd be sort of
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: careful about seeing him. They'll be saying that you have
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: a crush on him next.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: You understand? Yes, dear, I understand.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: After all, you're only here temporarily. It isn't really your
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: life like it is mine.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Susie. Susie, I want to tell you something. I want
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: to explain something to you.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: You don't have to explain a thing to me, Mom.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: Not a thing.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: You're swell.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: Oh, I've got to dash.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: See you later, darling. Oh, Susie.
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: It's all.
• 33:02
  Speaker 9: Right, Beulah.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I'll get it. Hello, darling.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, darling. Darling, we've got to be awfully careful.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: You mean I shouldn't kiss you like this? Abby, you're shivering.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's from the cold. Come on inside.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Richard, everything has gone wrong.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Now, that is a ridiculously broad statement. Now, what do
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: you mean by everything? Us. So something is wrong with us? Yes. Now,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: if you'll just spill the beans about the way I snore,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: I'll fire her.
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: Don't joke, please.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: Besides, I'm very kind to animals.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Please don't joke, Richard.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Sorry, Abby.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: What is it? It's Susan.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Something happened to her? Yes.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Something incurable, I'm afraid. It seems that everybody at Poynter
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: knows about it except you. She's in love with you.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, Abby. For a minute I thought it was something
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: really serious. You know, I had a puppy once, and
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: these kids remind me very much of him. Maybe that's
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: why they call it puppy love.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: No. No, I don't think so, Richard. I did think
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: at first when she first hooked me.
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: No, I don't.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Oh, Abby, all these sprouts get crushes. It's like the measles.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: They get over it. It doesn't mean anything. She's only 17.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, darling, I was married when I was 16.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: But it's not the same, Abby. You're a big girl now,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: and I'm a big boy. We belong together, don't we?
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I want to marry you. You can't expect me to
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: take Susan's artist seriously. Abby, I love you.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: I love you, too, darling.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: I want you to be happy. I want to be happy.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Well, we've got a right to be happy together, haven't we?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Then don't fight it. Let yourself go. Go along with it.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: It's so simple. Now you give up this freshman.
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Nonsense, huh?
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: No, I can't. Not yet. Not until February.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Abby, marriage makes me the breadwinner, remember? Yes. Now I'll
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: see that Susan stays in college. Then we tell her
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: and get married, huh?
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: We tell her. Yes. Tell her what, Richard? That her
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: mother's a rival, that you prefer me to her, and
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: anyway she's just a silly schoolgirl? I don't know.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Maybe I'm just being maternal, but I think that's pretty
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: hard to take. Oh, Richard, it isn't as simple as that.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: That's not going to solve her problem. You see, to
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: her it isn't a crush.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: It's real.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: And being real is the most important thing in her life.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, Abby, that's right. But you're the most important thing
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: in my life. We've got to give Susan a chance
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: to grow up. You can't treat her like a swaddling child.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: You know, when she was a little girl, she got
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: a crush on her father, right?
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, that's right, she did. But then all little girls
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: do that. That doesn't mean anything.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And sooner or later, it became a dead issue.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Susan matured. Now she picks on a prophet college because
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: he's the closest thing to her first love. And finally,
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: when that becomes a dead issue, she falls in love
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: with some muscle-bound Lothario, thinks he's creamy-dreamy, marries him and
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: starts raising little girls, who in turn will get a
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: crush on him. It's a pattern of life, Abby, and
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: you cannot protect Susan from it.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't suppose I can, Richard, but I... I've
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: just got to try.
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: You've already tried. Now give me a kiss and let's
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: forget all this nuts.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you. Oh, what a dress. For the Sartmore Cotillion, huh?
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Well, naturally. Well? Well, what?
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Well, who's taking you?
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, no. Not Professor Michaels.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Don't be childish.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Richard wouldn't be found dead at a student dance. I'm
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: going with Bo Jackson.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: You know something? I'll bet if Dickie did go, he'd
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: take Abigail Fortitude. Abby?
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: She wouldn't go to the dance either. It'd just be
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: kid stuff to her.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Besides, she hasn't got anyone to take her.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know about that.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, you mean she is going? Well, who with?
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Well, how do I know? Excuse me, Louise. I just
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: remembered I have a very important phone call to make.
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, this is John Heaslip. Who'd you say this is?
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Susan.
• 36:57
  Speaker 10: Susan Abbott.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Well, for goodness sake, Susan, how are you?
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: How's your mother?
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, fine.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Just fine.
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: Well, isn't that just fine? I've got some very good
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: news for her.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Very good.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: In fact, I was about to run up there and
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: see her about it.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, Mr.
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: Heaslip, could you? That's why I'm calling. You see, we're
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: having a big dance up here, and Mother, well, she's
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: all alone, and she misses you so much.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: She does? Well, isn't that fine?
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: I miss her, too.
• 37:24
  Speaker 10: We were thinking maybe you could take her to the
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: dance like you were her dreamboat. Her escort, I mean.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: Why, I'd be delighted, Susan. When is it?
• 37:33
  Speaker 10: Tomorrow night.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: I'll wire Abigail immediately.
• 37:35
  Speaker 9: Oh, no, no.
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: Let's keep it a surprise. You see, nobody knows about us, Mr.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Heathlip.
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: About Abby and me, that is.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Well, thank heavens we'll be done with all that nonsense
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: when I get there. I'll see you tomorrow night, Susan.
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: Goodbye.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: Well, aren't you coming, Abby? Professor Michaels just dismissed us.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Or didn't you notice?
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: Well, there's something I have to ask him. Excuse me, Louise.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: It's getting to be a habit, isn't it?
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Richard?
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I just want to tell you I can't go to
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: the dance with you tonight.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: What do you mean you can't? What are you, a
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: woman or a mouse? Oh, I'm a mother.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: And I just can't hurt Susan, darling. I just can't.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Well, what do you want me to do? Marry her
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: for Pete's sake?
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, of course not. But you don't understand.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: She's got a date, hasn't she?
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, I told you, but.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Now, I'm telling you, you'll be ready by 8 o'clock
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: or so. Help me, Hannah. There'll be a scandal in
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: that dorm when I come up after you. And what
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: do you want? Oh, me?
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: Well, I just wanted.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Excuse me, please.
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: Hey, she sure left in a hurry, Professor.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: One wisecrack out of you, Buster, and there'll be a
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: permanent vacancy at left tackle all season. Uh, uh, yes, yes, sir.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Good evening. May I help you?
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: I'm John Heaslip. This is the Freshman Dormitory.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: For women?
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: Naturally.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: I'm calling for Mrs.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: uh, for Miss Abigail Fortitude.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: I'll tell her you're here.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Abigail, Mrs. Gray in the lobby. Your date is here.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Yes, I'll tell him. Have a chair, Mr.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Hyslop. She'll be right down.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Professor.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Mrs. Gray. Would you tell Miss Fortitude I'm here, please?
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: Oh, well, yes.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Yes, have a seat, Professor. Mrs. Gray. again. I think
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: you'd better come right down, Abby. It's getting a little crowded.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: In a moment, we'll bring you Act Three of Mother
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: is a Freshman.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: Here's your producer, Mr.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: William Keeley.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: The curtain rises on the third act of Mother is
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: a Freshman, starring Loretta Young as Abigail and Van Johnson
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: as Richard. Well, it's a moment later, and in the
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: lobby of the Freshman Women's Dormitory, two gentlemen, both waiting
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: for Abigail's fortitude, happen to look at each other.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Visiting your daughter, sir?
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Not exactly. I'm here to... Johnny.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Johnny Heasley.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Richard Michaels.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Well, how do you like that? I don't think I've
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: seen you since we left Yale. Twelve years ago.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: Did you carry out your threat to become a professor?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. I'm teaching right here at Poynter.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: No.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: What about you? Law?
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, definitely, yes.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: You know, for a while there, it looked like you
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: were going to be a crooner instead of a lawyer.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Me?
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: A crooner? Well, you remember the night you climbed up
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: in the bandstand and sang Bula Bula through a megaphone?
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: They, uh, they did seem to like it, didn't they?
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Boy, were you lousy.
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: Why, uh, why, why, John?
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Abby.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Richard. But, but, John, for heaven's sake, what
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: were you.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Abby, you look beautiful.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, thank you, Richard. John, what are you doing here?
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: Well, didn't Susan tell you?
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: No.
• 41:38
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's right, I forgot.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Surprise.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: For me?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I'm so sorry. I had no idea that you.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Excuse me, but do you two know each other?
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Obviously. Yes.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: Do you two know each other?
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, we were classmates at Yale.
• 41:56
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Well, it's been nice seeing you, John. If you're going
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: to stay in town, be sure to drop in and
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: see me.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Richard. Good night.
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: Good night.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Shall we go, Abby?
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Well, I.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: I beg your pardon.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Well, this is my date, Johnny.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: He always was a joker.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Oh? No, Richard.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: Abigail is my date.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding?
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: No.
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: Are you?
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Tell him, Abby. Tell him.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: Well, I.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, come on.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Both of you. All right, though.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Now, what's the idea?
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: I've got to talk to you, Susie.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: Well, you can talk to me on the dance floor,
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: can't you? If you think I can stand out here
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: all night.
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: Now, look, Sue. Gee, I'm in love with you. Every
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: time I think of losing you, my heart gets like
• 42:43
  Speaker 9: a hamburger.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, you. Can't you be a man?
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: A man? Oh, you want a man, huh? Okay, baby,
• 42:53
  Speaker 9: you got one.
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, hi, Bo.
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and I'll kiss you again, understand? Anytime I want to.
• 42:59
  Speaker 9: And as for Professor Michaels, I.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: Susie, where are you?
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: She's right where she belongs with me.
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, hi, Bo.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: Susie, I thought you said Professor Michaels wouldn't be found
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: dead at a student dance.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: Well, come in and take a look. He looks mighty
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: spry for a corpse. Do you.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Believe this is our dance, Abby?
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, Richard.
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: Pardon me, Richard, but it happens to be my dance.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I beg your pardon, gentlemen. As a matter of fact,
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: it's my dance.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, Dean Gillihan. Thank you very much.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: Professor Michaels.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Hello, Susan.
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: Hello, Mr.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Heaslip.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Good evening, Susan.
• 43:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so glad you came.
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: There are others who do not share your enthusiasm.
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, what do you mean?
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: I mean your mother already had a date with this gentleman.
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, she couldn't have.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, excuse me. But don't worry, John. I'll be back. Well, Abby, confusing,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: isn't it?
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, yes, a little.
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: Like dog patch on Sadie Hawkins' day.
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: Indeed. Oh, it's you. Thank you, my dear.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: You're welcome.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: All right, darling. Now, just what has Johnny Heaslip got
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: to do with you?
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, he's the family lawyer. Old faithful.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Is that why you tried to break our date?
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: Why, Richard, I didn't even know he was coming.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Is he in love with you?
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Yes, madly. Why, are you jealous?
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: You bet I am. And if that guy tries anything romantic... Sorry, Michaels,
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I'm cutting in. Okay, okay. You don't have to hold
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: us so close, do you?
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: Really, Abby, you ought to be ashamed.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: Leading the poor fellow on. He's ruining for you right
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: here in public.
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Do you think so, John?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: It's absurd.
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: You can't put aside your life like this and pretend
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: to be a college girl. Anyway, the farce is over.
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: I have some money for you.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, now, John, I told you before that I.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm not lending you money.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: You sold some stock. You have $ 5, 000 to your credit.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: But I... Cut. Oh, hello, Bo.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: See you later, John.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: Abby, no, wait.
• 44:52
  Speaker 9: Well, Fortitude, I only cut in because I want to
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: warn you.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: What about, though?
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: Well, it's about Susan Abbott. Gee, she's been blowing her
• 44:58
  Speaker 9: top ever since you and.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: The professor arrived. She's pretty sore at you. Oh.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Bo. Come on, we'd better find her. Susan. Susan, dear,
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: I want to speak to you.
• 45:12
  Speaker 10: Mother.
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, how quick.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: How quick. Mother? Is she nuts? Did you hear what
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: she called you? Her mother. Yes, Bo, that's right. You?
• 45:22
  Speaker 9: Holy smoke. Pardon me.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Her mother. Well, what gay little piece of news did Mr.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Heaslip have to tell you this time?
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Well, he said there's no need for my staying at
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Poynter any longer, that I have money now. He wants
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: me to go home, Richard. Home? Yes.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Home to what? Home to him? He's crazy. Listen, Abby,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: you're going to be a professor's wife. This is your
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: life now. It becomes yours. Oh, Richard.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: I really have a headache this time. Do you mind
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: if we leave, Richard?
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Yes. Going somewhere?
• 45:53
  Speaker 6: Good, I'll come along.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Be sure to let us know when I drop you off,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: old man.
• 46:03
  Speaker 6: And you can come with me right to the station, Abby.
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: There's a train at 12.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Heaslip, your train's way off the track. Abby is not
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: leaving here.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, no?
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: No, we're going to be married. And if I hear
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: any more talk about leaving in trains, a block is
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: going to be knocked off.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: You don't say?
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: May I remind you, Michaels, that during our undergraduate days,
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: I was intercollegiate middleweight champion.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, stop it. Both of you.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: You heard her, Heaslip. Here's the dormitory, darling. Abby?
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: I shall be waiting at the inn. Phone me when
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: you're ready.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Good night, John. You'll wait a long time, Heaslip. Good night, Abby.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I'll see you in class tomorrow.
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: Good night, Richard.
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: Good night, sir.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you hadn't been middleweight boxing champion, I'd
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: knock your block off.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Susan?
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Is that you?
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: Professor Michaels?
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: That's the kissing oak, Susan. That's no place for tears.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Why aren't you in there dancing?
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: I just went in to see Mother.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: She's all right, isn't she?
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: She's leaving.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Leaving? Well, then we've got to stop her.
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: No.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Susan, please help me. You love her, don't you? Well,
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I love her even more. Don't you realize what she's
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: meant to my life? I'd have wound up a broken-down bachelor.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: But Abby's changed all that. She's given me a chance
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: to live, and it's got to be. For her sake, too.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: No, that's not so.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: For years now, you've been her life. But you're grown
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: up now, Susan. Now, help me, won't you?
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Why should I? I am all grown up, and I'm
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: in love with you. Don't you see that?
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: I don't think you even know the meaning of the word.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: I do love you. Why should I give you up?
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: Your mother loves me, too, and she's giving me up.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: You see, Susan, that's the difference between a woman and
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: a child.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, leave me alone. Please, leave me alone.
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: Oh!
• 47:55
  Speaker 6: Your taxi cab's here, Abigail.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Mrs. Gray. I certainly don't understand your leaving
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: us like this. Oh, well, don't be alarmed. I'll phone
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: Dean Gillingham tomorrow and explain everything.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: Abby, you can't go. You mustn't.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: Please, please, Richard, it's no use. Really, it isn't.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Abby, listen. Remember Mr. Shakespeare. Oh, don't. Remember that sonnet
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: we worked on. Presume not on thy heart when mine
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: is slain. Thou gavest me thine not to give back again.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't. Please don't, Richard.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: It's all so... Mother, I was wrong. Don't leave us.
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: Don't go away.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, Susie. Susie, do you mean that?
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: Well, if I can't have him, at least let's keep
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: him in the family.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, Susie.
• 48:39
  Speaker 5: And don't worry about me, Mother.
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: I'm all right.
• 48:41
  Speaker 6: I'm fine.
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: Darling, wait a minute.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Let her go, Abby. That's the way she wants it.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, I guess so.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Well, Abby, she grew up tonight. Yes.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: Hey, lady, you'd better hurry if you want to catch
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: that train.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: Train? Oh, my goodness, John Heaslip.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: At the station?
• 48:57
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Come on, we'll wave goodbye to him.
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: Hey, for Pete's sake, Susie, where you been?
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: Hello, Bo.
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: I've been going screwy trying to find you. Gee, you
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: look beautiful, Susie.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Bo.
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: Where have you been? The last dance is just starting.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: Then I guess we'd better dance it.
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: Gosh, Susie.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: But aren't you overlooking something?
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: Huh?
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: We're standing under the kissing oak.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: Susie? Holy smoke, what's happened tonight?
• 49:36
  Speaker 6: Very well, Abby, but I still insist you're making the
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: mistake of your life.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, really, John?
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Think.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Think before you take this step, which you will regret
• 49:43
  Speaker 6: as long as you live.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Well, I try.
• 49:44
  Speaker 6: I furthermore.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: Sender a letter. He's let your train of starting. Yes,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: but Abby. Think, Abby.
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: Think.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: Goodbye, John.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Abby, dear. Yes, darling. I'm not going to tell you...
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you the deep, dark chapters
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: in my life, but there's one thing about me I'm
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: afraid you really should know about.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: What?
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: You remember that book, The Gravedigger and the Chambermaid? Yes. Well,
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: who wrote it?
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: Uh, John St. John, wasn't it?
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Abby, I am John St.
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: John.
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: No!
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, I wrote it.
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, Richard!
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I have a confession to make to you, too.
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: What?
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: I read it.
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: Oh, no!
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: Twice!
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: No!
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Tonight's stars made this anniversary a joyous occasion, and here
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: they are again, Loretta Young and Van Johnson. Congratulations to
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: you both on a wonderful performance.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Bill.
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: And we'd like to wish you many happy returns on
• 50:51
  Speaker 7: the 15th birthday of the Lux Radio Theater.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: The same for me, Bill. You've made a splendid record. Well, thanks.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: And speaking of records, Loretta holds one that we're very
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: proud of.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: I'll bet she's the loveliest freshman ever to appear in
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: the Lux Radio Theater. You're right, Van. But I had
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: another record in mind.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: This is Loretta's 22nd appearance here.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: And every one a hit.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, Bill. And after.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Bill.
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: After 22 appearances here, I can still say the thing
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: about Lux soap that I said at my first appearance.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: It's my favorite complexion care.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Loretta.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: Then we've heard some wonderful reports about your new Metro-Golden-Mare picture, Battleground,
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: the story of the Battle of the Bulge.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: It was the most interesting part I've had in a
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: long time, Bill.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: And it's rather fitting that it should have its premiere
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: in the National Capitol on Armistice Day.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Yes, I hope to be there. Bill, I was very
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: much interested in what John Kennedy said a few minutes
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: ago about your contest to pick the most beautiful luxe girl.
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: You mean the most beautiful 15-year-old luxe girl van in
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: honor of this 15th anniversary?
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: I saw the local winners in the paper today.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: That's right, Loretta.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Six girls born in 1934 have been selected in each
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: of the 163 local contests. Papers all over the country
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: today carried photographs of the six lucky girls.
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: In their CBS station area. So everybody can pick the
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: girl they want.
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: To vote for.
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: And the voting starts today, Bill?
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I want to remind everybody to remember just
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: one simple rule. Send in your votes on Lux Toilet
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: Soap wrappers. Then the girl getting the most votes will
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: represent her station in the big national contest.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: Well, you see, it's easy to vote then. You want
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: me to give you a luxe soap wrapper?
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: Certainly not. I've got plenty of them at my house.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: What's the show next week, Bill?
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: It's a romantic drama with a most intriguing title, Van.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: The 20th century Fox film.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: Scudahoo, Scudahay.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: And we'll have the original stars of the picture, June
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: Haver and Lon McAllister. Scudahoo Scudahay is a wholesome story
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: for the entire family, and you're all invited to join
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: us next Monday.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Well, we'll all be listening to you start your 16th year, Bill.
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Good night. Good night, and thank you.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Luck Toilet Soap, join
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: me in inviting you to be with us again next
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Monday evening. when the Lux Radio Theater presents June Haver
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: and Lon McAllister in.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Scudahoon, Scudahay.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: This is William Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: Loretta Young is currently starring in the 20th Century Fox picture,
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: Come to the Stage.