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Lux Radio Theatre - "Mrs Miniver" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reprise Kay and Clem Miniver,
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  Speaker 1: the roles they played in MGM's 1942 film. On December 6, 1943,
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  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater presented episode 417, Mrs. Miniver, adapted for
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  Speaker 1: radio by George Wells from Jan Struthers' book and the
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  Speaker 1: MGM film.
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  Speaker 2: In the fictional Thames.
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  Speaker 1: Valley village of Bellum, as World War II begins, the
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  Speaker 1: Minivers and their neighbors try to maintain family and village
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  Speaker 1: life while wartime demands draw closer. Their son Vin returns
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  Speaker 1: from Oxford and meets Carol Belden. With Cecil B. DeMille
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  Speaker 1: as host and Susan Peters and Henry Wilcoxon in the cast,
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  Speaker 1: we now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Greer Garson,
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  Speaker 3: Walter Pidgeon, and Susan Peters in Mrs. Miniver with ends
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  Speaker 3: in Henry Wilcoxon. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B.
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  Speaker 4: DeMille.
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  Speaker 5: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When everyone in Hollywood
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  Speaker 5: agrees on anything, that's news. And you can't get an
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  Speaker 5: argument out of anyone in our town when you say
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  Speaker 5: that Mrs. Miniver was one of the great pictures of
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  Speaker 5: film history. Like a beacon in the night, it brought
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  Speaker 5: guidance and inspiration when we needed it most. And Hollywood
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  Speaker 5: recognizes that service by making Mrs. Miniver the overwhelming choice
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  Speaker 5: for the last Academy Award. Tonight we present it to
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  Speaker 5: the same two stars who gave such magnificent performances in
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  Speaker 5: the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture, Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon. And with
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  Speaker 5: them we have Susan Peters and from the United States
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  Speaker 5: Coast Guard, Ensign Henry Wilcoxon. We all know that Greer
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  Speaker 5: Garson won the Academy Award for her performance as Mrs. Miniver,
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  Speaker 5: but that performance and all the others never seemed like
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  Speaker 5: acting to me. Only fine artists can lift a drama
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  Speaker 5: to so high a plane And very soon we'll have
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  Speaker 5: a chance to see Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon together
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  Speaker 5: again in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's new entry for the Academy Award, Madame Curie.
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  Speaker 5: We borrowed Susan Peters from the same studio where she
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  Speaker 5: just finished Song of Russia. For nine years now, stars
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  Speaker 5: like these have helped to make the Lux Radio Theater
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  Speaker 5: a national theater. And Lux Flakes has made it possible
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  Speaker 5: for us to present them in the big dramatic hits
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  Speaker 5: of Broadway and Hollywood. You don't have to buy anything
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  Speaker 5: to get a seat in this theater because there's no
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  Speaker 5: one collecting tickets in your living room. But the chances
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  Speaker 5: are you'd buy our product anyway once you've tried it.
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  Speaker 5: That's all we ask.
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  Speaker 6: Lux Flakes doesn't need a salesman.
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  Speaker 5: It just needs a few minutes to show what it
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  Speaker 5: can do. So right now, we can raise the curtain
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  Speaker 5: on the first act of Mrs.
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  Speaker 7: Miniver.
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  Speaker 5: Starring Greer Garson in the title role, Walter Pigeon as Clem,
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  Speaker 5: and Susan Peters as Carol, with Ensign Henry Wilcoxon as
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  Speaker 5: the vicar. In the summer of 1939, the walls stood
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  Speaker 5: trembling on the threshold of another war. Guns bristled on
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  Speaker 5: the borders between nations. And in the capitals of the continent...
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  Speaker 5: the mighty armor of conflict paraded in a rumbling show
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  Speaker 5: of power. From Berlin, the hysterical screams of a mad
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  Speaker 5: fanatic set the tone and tempo of the times. In
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  Speaker 5: that summer of 1939, England listened to the distant thunder,
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  Speaker 5: nodded thoughtfully, and went about the simple business of living.
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  Speaker 2: We all knew there was going to be a war,
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  Speaker 2: of course. A dozen times a day we'd tell each
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  Speaker 2: other so. Oh, yes, no doubt of it at all.
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  Speaker 2: Feeling a bit pleased with ourselves that we could face
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  Speaker 2: it so calmly. And yet underneath.
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  Speaker 4: There was just as strong a conviction, half hope and
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  Speaker 4: half fear, that it could never happen.
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  Speaker 2: And so we went our careless way, bringing.
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  Speaker 4: Up our children, tending our gardens, making shopping trips to
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  Speaker 4: the city to buy hats that were much too expensive.
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  Speaker 4: I never should have bought that hat. I knew it
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  Speaker 4: on the train going back to Bellum. The course was
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  Speaker 4: too late then.
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  Speaker 2: I had it with me in a little box. A
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  Speaker 2: ridiculously little box.
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  Speaker 8: Bellum, sir?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: This is for Bellum.
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  Speaker 10: Good evening, Mrs.
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  Speaker 11: Miniver.
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  Speaker 2: My liquor.
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  Speaker 12: How nice.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, me it is.
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  Speaker 12: May I sit here, Mrs.
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  Speaker 4: Miniver?
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 12: Shopping?
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  Speaker 6: Here, let me put those packages on the rack for you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Victor.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Not that little one, please. I might leave it behind,
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  Speaker 2: but it's rather precious.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, I know the feeling.
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  Speaker 2: Do you?
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  Speaker 12: See this package of mine? Guess what it is.
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  Speaker 2: A port?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, worse than that. Cigars.
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  Speaker 13: Well, why not?
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  Speaker 2: My husband does.
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  Speaker 12: Yes, but he can afford it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear, I'm not so sure, Baker.
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  Speaker 14: He has a very extravagant wife.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's quite true. I can't help it. I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: I do like nice things. Things far beyond my means sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, pretty clothes and good schools for children.
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  Speaker 2: And a car and a garden, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 13: Does it give you a lovely guilty feeling?
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  Speaker 2: Lovely.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, sinners, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Miniver.
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  Speaker 12: What will the village say?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I think the village knows you're a very understanding person.
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  Speaker 13: That's why you do so much good.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I hope I do. I hope I can when
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  Speaker 12: they need me.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you think there's trouble coming?
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  Speaker 12: I think.
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  Speaker 9: I think it's here.
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  Speaker 12: Good evening, Lady Belden.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, Vicar.
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  Speaker 13: Good evening.
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  Speaker 6: Good evening.
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  Speaker 13: All shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays.
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  Speaker 15: I've spent the whole afternoon being pushed around by middle-class females,
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  Speaker 15: buying things they can't possibly afford.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dear, that means me.
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  Speaker 13: No, no, much worse.
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  Speaker 2: You're Mrs.
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  Speaker 13: Manoring, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: Miniver.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, yes, yes, of course, the lawyer's wife.
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  Speaker 2: No, my husband's an architect.
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  Speaker 13: Well, I knew he was something of that sort. I
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  Speaker 13: don't know what the country's coming to.
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  Speaker 16: Everyone trying to be better than their betters?
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  Speaker 2: Winked coats and no manners?
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  Speaker 13: No wonder Germany's arming.
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  Speaker 4: Lady Belden talked all the way from London to Belen Station.
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  Speaker 6: Belen.
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  Speaker 4: It always gave me a little thrill of happiness to
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  Speaker 4: come home to Belen.
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  Speaker 2: But no different from a hundred other English villages. But
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  Speaker 2: to me, the air was cleaner and.
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  Speaker 4: The flowers brighter in Belen than anywhere on earth. The
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  Speaker 4: flower beds around the little station were the personal pride
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  Speaker 4: of the station master, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Berlow.
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  Speaker 10: Tickets, please.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, good evening, Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Miniver.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good evening, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Berlow. Good night, Mr.
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  Speaker 17: Berlow.
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  Speaker 12: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I was looking for you on the five o'clock. Are
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  Speaker 6: you too late, ma'am, to spare me a moment? I've
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  Speaker 6: got something to show you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I am, Father. It's something very special.
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  Speaker 16: Why, of course, Mr.
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  Speaker 12: Berlow.
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  Speaker 2: Do show me.
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  Speaker 6: It's in my office. It's still right in, Mrs.
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  Speaker 17: Miniver.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Well, ma'am. There it is. What? And the red?
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  Speaker 2: The rose, ma'am. The rose in the vase there.
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  Speaker 12: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Mr. Bell. You like it, ma'am?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's... I think it's the most beautiful rose
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  Speaker 4: I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 2: I adore red roses.
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  Speaker 6: To said as Cupid danced among the gods, he down
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  Speaker 6: the nectar flung, which on the white rose being shed,
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  Speaker 6: made it forever after red.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wherever did you find that? At a seed catalogue, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty, but it ain't true. What goes to.
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  Speaker 6: Make a rose, ma'am, is breeding and budding and fertiliser.
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  Speaker 6: And that's where you come in, ma'am. I?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I've got to have a name for it.
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  Speaker 6: With your permission, ma'am, I'd like to call it the
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  Speaker 6: Mrs Miniver.
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  Speaker 4: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, if you'll pardon me, ma'am. I watched you go
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  Speaker 6: in and out of town for years now. And you've
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  Speaker 6: always had time to stop and have a word with me.
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  Speaker 6: And I've always waited for you to come home. But
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  Speaker 6: you remind me of the flower.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, it's a lovely.
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  Speaker 2: Compliment, Mr. Ballard.
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  Speaker 18: I'd be very happy indeed to have you name your
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  Speaker 18: rose after me. It was the usual before-dinner time at home.
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  Speaker 4: Judy in the study, practicing her scales. Toby upstairs in
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  Speaker 4: the nursery, giving Napoleon his milk. Napoleon wanted kisses.
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  Speaker 2: When I heard Clem's car drive up, I was in
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  Speaker 2: my room, trying on the new hat. But I decided
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  Speaker 2: not to tell him yet. I'd wait until after dinner.
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  Speaker 2: Clem was always more docile after he'd had his car.
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  Speaker 14: Good evening, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Minivert.
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  Speaker 12: Good evening, Gladys.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 12: Minivert home?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, in the room.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Minivert.
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  Speaker 18: Is that a new car on the drive?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, Gladys, it is. I just bought it today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's a beautiful car, sir.
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  Speaker 12: Gladys, I... Well, don't mention it to Mrs. Minivert just yet,
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  Speaker 12: will you? I'll break it to her myself. Tell her
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  Speaker 12: I mean.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, Daddy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Judy.
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  Speaker 16: You're just as happy you made peace, Daddy.
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  Speaker 12: A little later, dear. I want to see your mother.
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  Speaker 16: Look out, look out, Daddy. Open the door quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Toby.
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  Speaker 12: What's the hurry?
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  Speaker 4: I can't start now, Daddy.
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  Speaker 16: Napoleon wants to go.
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  Speaker 3: Up.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, does he?
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  Speaker 2: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you.
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  Speaker 12: Evening, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I thought I heard the car drive up.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 12: How are you?
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  Speaker 13: Lovely.
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  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 19: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Are you looking at me?
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  Speaker 12: Well, anything wrong with that? No. Did you have a
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  Speaker 12: nice time in town today?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, wonderful. I shopped and shopped. Just little things.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, I had a puncture in the car today.
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  Speaker 2: Did you? Oh, what a shame.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, tires are getting pretty worn on that old bus.
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  Speaker 2: Glenn, do you know what I think?
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  Speaker 12: What?
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  Speaker 2: I think you ought to buy yourself a new tire
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  Speaker 2: one of these days.
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  Speaker 12: A new tire.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 12: It might not be a bad idea, that.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 12: Darling, uh.
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  Speaker 2: You stay there, Napoleon. Come along, Toby. It's almost dinner time.
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  Speaker 12: Everything all right there, Toby?
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  Speaker 16: It's all right now. But he had to. Did you
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  Speaker 16: hear my piece, Daddy?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, Judy, and it was lovely.
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  Speaker 16: Mother, is Brother Jim coming home tomorrow?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he is, Judy.
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  Speaker 16: Well, may I go to the station to meet him?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, darling, if you're good. Now, cook has your
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  Speaker 2: dinner ready, so.
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  Speaker 16: Father, is Vincent a vegetarian?
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  Speaker 2: I doubt it, darling. He'll have some new ideas.
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  Speaker 16: Oh, that was just a phase he was going through.
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  Speaker 16: What's a phase?
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  Speaker 19: Well, it's just a thing people go through.
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  Speaker 16: Do I go through it, Mother?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. You're going through one right now. Am I?
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  Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 16: I'm going through a phase. I'm going through a phase.
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  Speaker 2: Ruby, stop jumping about going to your dinner.
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  Speaker 16: What things will Vin be going through this time, Mother?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure, dear.
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  Speaker 4: But boys at Oxford go through any number of them.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just have to wait and see. Oh.
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  Speaker 13: Coffee, please?
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  Speaker 12: Just another drop. Thank you, dear.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask you, I was thinking... Oh, sorry.
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  Speaker 12: Go ahead, dear.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, it wasn't anything. What were you going to say, dear?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, nothing important.
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 12: about that new tire.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, well, they aren't so frightfully expensive, are they?
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  Speaker 12: No, but you see.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, a new tire shouldn't cost any more than
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  Speaker 4: a new hat, should it?
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  Speaker 17: A hat?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just said hat. I might have said shoes
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  Speaker 2: or trousers or anything. All right. Is there some more coffee, dear?
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  Speaker 12: No, I have some. Thank you, darling. Yes, that old bus,
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  Speaker 12: it's pretty sad. It's been giving a lot of trouble lately.
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  Speaker 12: Has it?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't notice it.
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  Speaker 12: Of course you hadn't.
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  Speaker 3: That's the danger with an old car. You don't notice
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  Speaker 3: anything wrong, and then one day when you're doing about
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  Speaker 3: 70 miles.
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  Speaker 2: An hour, it's just... Not with our car, dear.
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  Speaker 12: And that's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's too slow.
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  Speaker 17: That car is dangerously slow.
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  Speaker 2: Clem, what have you been up to?
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  Speaker 12: Well, come on. Get your coat and hat on. I've
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  Speaker 12: got something to show you.
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  Speaker 2: The hat problem was simplified after that. Just at bedtime,
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  Speaker 2: I took it out of the box and tried it on.
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  Speaker 2: Ken was sitting up in bed talking about the new car.
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  Speaker 3: I'm glad you like the car, dear. I was afraid
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  Speaker 3: you'd think I'd been a bit too extravagant.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, all of us have to be extravagant now and then,
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  Speaker 2: don't we? Of course.
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  Speaker 12: It's fun.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget to turn off the light, dear.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, Prince.
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  Speaker 2: Look.
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  Speaker 12: What on earth have you got on?
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  Speaker 2: A hat, darling.
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  Speaker 12: Do you like it?
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  Speaker 17: New?
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  Speaker 2: I bought it today. Isn't it lovely?
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  Speaker 12: Not bad.
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  Speaker 2: I do think it does something.
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  Speaker 8: For me, don't you?
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  Speaker 12: It makes you look rather ridiculous, I.
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  Speaker 2: Think.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe it's the nightgown. It doesn't quite go with it, huh? Oh, yes, though,
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  Speaker 3: it's really very pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Good.
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  Speaker 13: Then I think it was worth the money.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, much?
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  Speaker 2: Not too much for people with a car like ours.
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  Speaker 12: You're pretty clever, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: I hope you think so, darling.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, sit down here a minute. Let me look at you.
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  Speaker 12: You're really quite a beautiful woman, aren't you?
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  Speaker 2: If you think so, darling.
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  Speaker 12: I think you're even more beautiful than when I married you.
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  Speaker 3: Could that be?
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why not.
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  Speaker 13: I've had no reason to be.
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  Speaker 12: Well, put that silly hat away and get into bed.
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  Speaker 12: Don't stand looking at it all night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Clem, it's been a lovely day all round, hasn't it?
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Clem, I think we're very lucky people.
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  Speaker 12: Because we've got a new car, a new hat?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, much more than that. Because of Vin and Toby
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  Speaker 2: and Judy. And each other.
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  Speaker 12: And that. Good idea.
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  Speaker 2: Good night, Jim. Vin came home the next morning. We
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  Speaker 2: saw him swing down from the carriage, young and lean
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  Speaker 2: and strong.
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  Speaker 4: There was something different about him. The mustache was gone,
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: and he was smoking a pipe.
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  Speaker 2: There he is. There he is. Ben.
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  Speaker 10: Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Ben.
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  Speaker 4: Darling.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Toby.
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  Speaker 12: Hello, Dad. How are you, old boy? Fine to have
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  Speaker 12: you back.
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  Speaker 2: Ben.
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  Speaker 3: Judy, hello.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, heaven's been you grown.
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  Speaker 11: Only about half an inch, Mother.
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  Speaker 12: Say, where's the mustache you used to have, son?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that? Yes, you used to be so proud of it.
• 15:22
  Speaker 17: I don't remember being so very proud.
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, I liked it, too.
• 15:26
  Speaker 20: Oh, I'm sorry, Mother, but... Well, I find it took
• 15:28
  Speaker 20: up too much of my time.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, it did?
• 15:31
  Speaker 17: Yes, keeping it trimmed and all that sort of thing, though. Well,
• 15:34
  Speaker 17: after all, one can't waste too much time over the
• 15:36
  Speaker 17: vanities of life.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I see.
• 15:38
  Speaker 16: Then I'm going to a thing.
• 15:40
  Speaker 10: Toby.
• 15:41
  Speaker 7: Mother said I was.
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: Well, never mind that, dear.
• 15:43
  Speaker 16: But she said I was going to a thing.
• 15:44
  Speaker 12: Well, let's move along, shall we?
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Come on.
• 15:51
  Speaker 15: Here's a more, Dad.
• 15:52
  Speaker 20: If not your doctor, I'd rather change my whole outlook
• 15:55
  Speaker 20: on things.
• 15:55
  Speaker 12: You don't say.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: The tea's getting cold, then. No more, thanks.
• 15:59
  Speaker 17: Yes, I think I've grown a little matured in my
• 16:01
  Speaker 17: conception as to what life's about.
• 16:04
  Speaker 12: Ah.
• 16:04
  Speaker 17: And apart from all that, I think I've developed a
• 16:07
  Speaker 17: social consciousness.
• 16:09
  Speaker 12: What's that, then?
• 16:10
  Speaker 17: Why, it's the recognition of my fellow man.
• 16:13
  Speaker 12: Oh, yes, yes, yes.
• 16:14
  Speaker 17: Where are the free men of today?
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: Look about you.
• 16:17
  Speaker 17: What have we?
• 16:18
  Speaker 21: As pure a feudalistic state as there ever was in
• 16:21
  Speaker 21: the ninth of the 15th century. I tell you, Father,
• 16:24
  Speaker 21: when I think of the class system that exists in
• 16:26
  Speaker 21: this country.
• 16:26
  Speaker 13: Today, I'm... Excuse me, sir.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: What is it, Gladys?
• 16:28
  Speaker 16: It's Miss Carol Belden, Mr.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Yuma. Where's she running, Gladys?
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Carol Belden. I wonder what that means.
• 16:34
  Speaker 21: She's probably brought the latest of the maiden from her
• 16:36
  Speaker 21: illustrious grandmother.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: But I scarcely know Lady Belden.
• 16:39
  Speaker 21: Mother, there you have the perfect example of what I've
• 16:41
  Speaker 21: been saying. Lady Belden is the living proof of the
• 16:44
  Speaker 21: survival of the feudal system today.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: How do you do, Mrs.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Miniver?
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: I'm Carol Belden. Oh, how do you do, Miss Belden?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: This is my husband. How do you do? And my son, Vincent.
• 16:53
  Speaker 12: How do you do?
• 16:54
  Speaker 17: Sit down, Miss Belden.
• 16:55
  Speaker 12: You're just in time for tea.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Thanks so much, but I've just had... Well, sit down anyway.
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: You really must excuse me for invading your house like this. But, well, frankly,
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: I've come to make a request.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Well, please sit down.
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: You see, well, my grandmother doesn't know I've come and.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Well, it's about the rose.
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: The rose?
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, the one Mr. Ballard grew. The Mrs. Minivert? You see,
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I hear he's going.
• 17:19
  Speaker 8: To enter it in the flower show.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: You mean for the Belden Challenge Cup?
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: But I.
• 17:25
  Speaker 13: No one has ever entered it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: No.
• 17:27
  Speaker 8: No one has ever entered a rose in competition with
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: Grandmother before.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: And that's just the point. It's become a.
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: Tradition for her to win the cup. And her roses
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: mean so much to her. I know it seems an
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: awful thing to ask, but.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Well, I thought you might, perhaps as a favor, persuade Mr.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Ballard to withdraw his rose from the competition.
• 17:47
  Speaker 17: You see, it's... Miss Belden, may I ask whether this
• 17:48
  Speaker 17: is an open competition?
• 17:50
  Speaker 13: Well, yes, technically.
• 17:51
  Speaker 17: Technically, yes, but actually, no.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, I suppose that's it, you see.
• 17:55
  Speaker 17: I see only too well, Miss Belden.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Because Mr.
• 17:57
  Speaker 17: Ballard is not of the ruling class. A mere, mere vassal,
• 18:00
  Speaker 17: as it were.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Then please, let Miss Belden explain.
• 18:03
  Speaker 17: Miss Belden doesn't have to explain.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Not to me.
• 18:06
  Speaker 21: These are orders from the manor. Her ladyship must be
• 18:08
  Speaker 21: offered no competition.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Miss Belden, you must excuse my son. He's just down
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: from Oxford.
• 18:12
  Speaker 17: Oh, don't apologize for me, Mother. I mean everything I say.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to hear it. But do you do
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: anything about it? Do?
• 18:20
  Speaker 17: I don't know what you mean.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: You feel something is wrong? What are you doing about it?
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: I've spent most of my holidays these last few years
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: doing settlement work in the slums of London.
• 18:30
  Speaker 12: You wallow in luxury.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I don't wallow.
• 18:32
  Speaker 21: And think a few weeks playing the Lady Bountiful will
• 18:35
  Speaker 21: come then.
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: It's not much, perhaps, but it is the only thing
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: What have you been doing? I... Well, I... Oh, I see.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Just talk.
• 18:47
  Speaker 14: Well, that's all right.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: It's much easier.
• 18:49
  Speaker 17: Listen, I didn't say anything about.
• 18:51
  Speaker 12: Vin, remember, Miss Belden is a guest here. This is
• 18:53
  Speaker 12: no concern of yours.
• 18:55
  Speaker 17: I beg to differ, Father.
• 18:56
  Speaker 21: I'm concerned for a fellow man, for the dignity and
• 18:59
  Speaker 21: the indignity that's heaped upon him.
• 19:02
  Speaker 17: You'll excuse me, I'm sure.
• 19:03
  Speaker 19: Miss Belden.
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: Certainly.
• 19:05
  Speaker 12: Thank you.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Good afternoon. I, uh, I must apologize for Vin.
• 19:09
  Speaker 12: Oh, no, please.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: It's all right. And besides, he... He's rather nice, isn't he? Why?
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: Really, you know, he's perfectly right. I've absolutely not a
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: leg to stand on in this business. Well, it's just
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: that my grandmother's over 80, and she takes such a
• 19:26
  Speaker 8: pride in winning year after year. Oh, but please forget
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: I said anything about it. Anyhow, I am glad we
• 19:33
  Speaker 8: met at last.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: So am I, and I hope we'll see more of
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: each other. I hope so, too.
• 19:37
  Speaker 8: You'll be at the sailing club dance tonight, won't you?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Yes. Of course. Good, I'll see you there, then. Goodbye.
• 19:41
  Speaker 12: Goodbye, Miss Belden.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Goodbye. Leave it, Mrs.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Melrose.
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: Good evening.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: Hiya, Harvey.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: How's the launch?
• 19:52
  Speaker 12: Minerva, running smoothly? I had her up the river yesterday.
• 19:55
  Speaker 12: Seemed her missing a little.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Poor Petro, probably.
• 19:58
  Speaker 12: Nothing up to standard these days.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Well, good evening, Mrs.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Minerva.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Good evening.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: Send us Carol Belden coming over.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Doesn't she look lovely?
• 20:05
  Speaker 12: And the sense of humor, too. I love the way
• 20:08
  Speaker 12: she handled him this afternoon.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 20:10
  Speaker 12: Hello, Miss Belden.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Enjoying it? Oh, yes. It's a wonderful band.
• 20:14
  Speaker 12: How about a cordial?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, Vin's not here.
• 20:20
  Speaker 12: No, he's suffering from an acute case of maturity. He
• 20:23
  Speaker 12: doesn't dance anymore.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Yes, but it'll pass. We give it a week or
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: two at the outside.
• 20:28
  Speaker 8: I wanted to tell him I was sorry about this afternoon.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, I rather think he wanted to say the same
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: thing himself. It's a pity he's not... I beg your pardon.
• 20:35
  Speaker 17: For you, Miss Belden, a note.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: A note? Oh, oh, thank you. Will you excuse me, Mrs.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Minerva?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 20:41
  Speaker 21: Certainly.
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 20:46
  Speaker 14: Will you tell him I'll be right there, please?
• 20:47
  Speaker 10: Yes, I will, miss.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: He could. Well, I... I suppose it is.
• 20:52
  Speaker 12: Do I scent romance?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Well, it is intriguing.
• 20:55
  Speaker 12: Is it that big navy lad from Dartmouth?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: You'd be surprised.
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: Good evening, Miss Falcon.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Good evening, Mr. Miniver.
• 21:12
  Speaker 17: You've got my note?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I'm here, Mr. Minister.
• 21:16
  Speaker 12: Yes, of course.
• 21:17
  Speaker 17: Miss Belden, I don't want you to think I'm going
• 21:18
  Speaker 17: back on anything I said this afternoon.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Well, of course not.
• 21:22
  Speaker 17: But I did express myself a bit emphatically. I hope
• 21:25
  Speaker 17: you'll excuse me.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, there's really nothing to excuse. Everyone's entitled to his
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: mode of expression.
• 21:31
  Speaker 17: Still, I've no right to lose my temper.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, I was pretty snippy myself, wasn't I? And
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: quite in the wrong anyway. I am sorry.
• 21:38
  Speaker 17: It's nice of you to say so.
• 21:39
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I... I suppose I had better be getting back.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I promised that.
• 21:45
  Speaker 17: No, you can't. I.
• 21:47
  Speaker 20: Well, I mean, just for a moment. See, I've got
• 21:49
  Speaker 20: so much I wanted to say to explain about myself.
• 21:53
  Speaker 12: Of course, if you want to dance.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: You don't dance?
• 21:55
  Speaker 19: Oh, yes. Yes, I do.
• 21:56
  Speaker 20: As a matter of fact, I'm considered a pretty good dancer.
• 22:00
  Speaker 17: But I'd rather give that sort of thing up.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 22:03
  Speaker 17: Well, I mean, frankly, is this a time for frivolity?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Well... Is this a time to lose one's sense of humor?
• 22:12
  Speaker 17: No, I suppose not. Please, may I have a dance
• 22:16
  Speaker 17: later on?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd love to.
• 22:19
  Speaker 17: Hey, isn't that Vincent?
• 22:26
  Speaker 12: Dancing with Carol Belden?
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's Vincent. They look quite nice together, don't they?
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: From his expression, I'd say he was having another phase.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: That was our life in the summer of 1939. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: then in early September, it was a Sunday, and we'd
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: all gone to church. I remember how the sponge planted
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: through the window that morning. I remember Toby, wide-eyed, craning
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: his neck.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: About to stare at the choir. I remember sharing a
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: hymn book with Vin, who couldn't keep his mind on
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the singing, or looking across the aisle at Carol Delvin.
• 23:05
  Speaker 18: I remember so many things, little things, peaceful things.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: And then suddenly the singing faltered and stopped, and the
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: vicar stood before us in the pulpit and spoke to
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: us quietly.
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: Will everyone please be seated? It has just been announced
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: over the air by the Prime Minister that our country
• 23:31
  Speaker 9: is at war. In the circumstances, I don't think you'll
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: wish me to continue with this service, as you'll probably
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: most of you have some other duty to perform. I
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: will say simply this, that the prayer for peace still
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: lives in our hearts, coupled now with the prayer for.
• 23:51
  Speaker 12: Our beloved country. We in this village have not failed
• 23:56
  Speaker 12: in the past.
• 23:57
  Speaker 9: Our forefathers for a thousand years have fought for the
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: freedom that we now enjoy and that we must now
• 24:04
  Speaker 9: defend again.
• 24:07
  Speaker 12: With God's help and their example, we cannot and shall
• 24:13
  Speaker 12: not fail. In just a moment, Mr.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: DeMille returns with Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Susan Peters, and
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Ensign Henry Wilcoxon for Act Two of Mrs. Miniver. Sally,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: I wonder if you could guess what article of clothing
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about when I give.
• 24:39
  Speaker 12: You these washing directions.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Soap them and let them soak all night. In the morning,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: wash them through a strong lather of white soap and warm,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: soft water, and then boil them ten minutes in another
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: lather of the same. Then rinse through two cold waters.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: When they are dry, stretch or pin them on the
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: ironing sheet. Smooth them by hard rubbing with a clean
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: piece of flannel. Or you may rub them with a
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: smooth stone.
• 25:02
  Speaker 16: Goodness, I never read any directions like that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 14: Well, it couldn't be anything colored because you must never
• 25:08
  Speaker 14: soak colors.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: And it couldn't be silk because.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Be rayon because you treat that like silk. I give up. That, Sally,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: is how Mr.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Leslie's lady's house book back in 1850 told women to
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: take care of their silk stockings.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Oh, how awful. Times have certainly changed. Now we just
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: flip our stockings through lukewarm luxe suds each night.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: And cut down runs over 50%. Luxe stockings don't go
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: into runs nearly so easily as those rubbed with cake
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: soap or washed with.
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: A strong soap.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: So luxe your stockings every night. And be sure to
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: let rayons dry at least 24 to 48 hours before
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: you wear them.
• 25:48
  Speaker 17: If your dealer is out of Lux Blakes, try again.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: He'll have more soon. We pause now for station identification.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: The Columbia Broadcasting.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: System Act II of Mrs. Miniver, starring Greer Garson as Mrs. Miniver,
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Walter Pidgeon as Clem, and Susan Peters as Carol, with
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: Ensign Henry Wilcoxon as the vicar.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: There was a great deal to be done that first day.
• 26:38
  Speaker 13: Blackout curtains to be hung, a visit.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: From the ARP man, and 101 details of food and
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: clothing and shelter in the event of a raid.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: And through it all, I kept thinking of Vin.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: I knew he'd have to go. I couldn't bring myself
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: to talk of it. And then toward evening, Vin mentioned
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: it himself.
• 26:55
  Speaker 17: You know, I've been thinking it over. It's the RAF
• 26:58
  Speaker 17: for me. The RAF?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Vin?
• 27:04
  Speaker 17: Yes, I've always been keen on flying. Do you mind
• 27:07
  Speaker 17: if I get on with the blackout, sir?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: All right, son.
• 27:10
  Speaker 17: Oh, I thought I'd run up to the Belden place
• 27:12
  Speaker 17: later on.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Two women alone, you know.
• 27:14
  Speaker 17: Might be a good idea to look things over.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think you should, dear.
• 27:18
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Clem, isn't he very young? Even for the Air Force?
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: Yes, he's young.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: That night we went underground for the first time while
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: the planes passed above.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: We had no way of telling whether they were our
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: planes or theirs. Mr. Foley, the village grocer, was the A.R.P.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: man for the district. And during the blackout, he paid
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: us a visit.
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: You've got to be careful, Mrs.
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: Minerva.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: One little crack of light like you were showing might
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: lead the whole German Air Force straight.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: To this house.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, dear. Well, it was lucky it was just you, Mr.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Foley.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, ma'am.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Strictly speaking, you're liable to a fine of 40 shillings, but.
• 28:08
  Speaker 12: As senior warden, I think I can promise you you'll
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: hear no more about it. Oh, that's awfully nice, Foley.
• 28:15
  Speaker 12: You've got a nice place here for storage.
• 28:17
  Speaker 17: You ought to put in some thin food, case of emergency.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I... Sugar, now.
• 28:23
  Speaker 12: Sure to go up. Yeah, I've got some wonderful Demerara, two,
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: three a pound. How much we say?
• 28:29
  Speaker 17: Fifty pounds be enough?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Well, really, I don't think we.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Ah, make it twenty then.
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Do you like Bismarck herrings, Mr.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Miniver?
• 28:37
  Speaker 12: I hate them.
• 28:38
  Speaker 14: Oh.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Kipper snacks?
• 28:41
  Speaker 12: Sardines?
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: If I got some lovely Italian sardines, I'd not be
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: able to get them later.
• 28:46
  Speaker 17: You never know what that Mussolini's going to do.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see.
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: Well, there you are. All clear. They were ours after all.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Come on, Toby. We can go upstairs now.
• 28:58
  Speaker 16: Is the war all over, Mummy?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, darling. This is just the first day.
• 29:10
  Speaker 21: Dear Mother, they are cutting short the course, and Pilot
• 29:13
  Speaker 21: Officer Miniver is happy to tell you he will be.
• 29:15
  Speaker 17: Home soon on leave.
• 29:17
  Speaker 18: A whole week.
• 29:18
  Speaker 17: Think of it. Mother, will you have Carol for dinner
• 29:21
  Speaker 17: the first night?
• 29:23
  Speaker 20: Thank you, darling.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Toby, don't bang your spoon like that, dear. Please.
• 29:33
  Speaker 17: Well, he makes a good-looking pilot, don't you think, Carol?
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Already a pilot.
• 29:38
  Speaker 17: Two months before my regular time. And what a bit
• 29:40
  Speaker 17: of luck being transferred to an airfield so near.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Will you stay at Bellum Field or at home?
• 29:44
  Speaker 17: Oh, Bellum, I'm afraid.
• 29:46
  Speaker 20: But say, a fellow I knew at the last airfield
• 29:48
  Speaker 20: had his people living round about.
• 29:50
  Speaker 17: And whenever he flew over, he used to cut his
• 29:52
  Speaker 17: engine so they'd know who it was.
• 29:53
  Speaker 12: Well, we listen for it, son.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: I listen every day.
• 29:56
  Speaker 18: Will you, Carol?
• 29:57
  Speaker 12: Toby!
• 29:59
  Speaker 16: Mommy.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, Toby?
• 30:00
  Speaker 16: Mommy, has Vin gone to marry Carol?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Toby, just finish your dumpling, darling.
• 30:04
  Speaker 16: Well, I only said has Vin gone to marry Carol.
• 30:08
  Speaker 12: Ah, Toby.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Isn't it nice having Vin at home, Toby, and staying
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: down here for dinner with us?
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 30:14
  Speaker 16: Are you going to marry Carol, Vin?
• 30:16
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 30:17
  Speaker 20: Well, since you bring it up, Toby, I haven't had
• 30:19
  Speaker 20: the nerve to ask her.
• 30:21
  Speaker 11: Why not?
• 30:21
  Speaker 16: You're brave, aren't you?
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Don't be so silly, Toby.
• 30:25
  Speaker 16: Gentlemen don't propose when they're eating.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Why not?
• 30:28
  Speaker 16: Well, it's not romantic.
• 30:29
  Speaker 12: Of course it isn't.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Toby.
• 30:32
  Speaker 11: What?
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Why don't you ask me if I'm going to marry Vin?
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: Are you?
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: If he asks me. He's afraid.
• 30:40
  Speaker 20: Oh, I say, I'm not going to stand for that. Carol,
• 30:44
  Speaker 20: I meant to wait for Judy's romantic moment and all that.
• 30:46
  Speaker 20: But will you marry me, Carol, soon?
• 30:49
  Speaker 12: Oh, ye gods, this is a dauntless proposal. I.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Is it yes, Carol? It's yes, Bill. Oh, Carol. Hooray! Hooray! Oh,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: my dear, I'm so happy. You're both terribly young, but.
• 31:01
  Speaker 12: Fine going, Bim. Fine going.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Thanks, Dad.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Toby, the spoon. Yes, Mr. Miniver.
• 31:06
  Speaker 12: Yes, Gladys, what is it?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: It's the telephone, sir. He says he wants to speak
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: to Pilot Officer Vincent Miniver.
• 31:13
  Speaker 12: Oh, I'll take it in the hall.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Love?
• 31:20
  Speaker 18: Cow?
• 31:21
  Speaker 12: But, well, you never know, do you?
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: You've gone.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: For a long time, Jim. I was worried.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I stopped off at the club on the way back.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: They're talking about a German flyer who came down around
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: here somewhere. We're organizing a search.
• 31:44
  Speaker 12: In the morning.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Clem didn't say when he might be back.
• 31:47
  Speaker 12: No, he could, you know.
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, yes, of course.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Clem?
• 31:53
  Speaker 12: I'll take it.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Hello? Yes?
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: It's him.
• 31:58
  Speaker 14: What?
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: Oh, emergency, I see.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: What is it, Clem? What is it?
• 32:02
  Speaker 12: It's all right, dear.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Is it Ben?
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: No, no, it's only the river patrol. All right, old man.
• 32:07
  Speaker 12: I'll come right over.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: You're not going out on the river tonight.
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: I've got to, darling. They've called every man with a boat,
• 32:12
  Speaker 12: he said.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: But what on earth can they want?
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: I can't imagine. We're all to meet at Ramsgate.
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: Good job, young boaters. Nobby, cut the motor.
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: What on earth?
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Why, there must be close to a thousand boats here, Nobby. Yes, sir.
• 32:42
  Speaker 12: That's a destroyer over there, Mr.
• 32:43
  Speaker 17: Miniver.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Attention.
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: The infantry force is trapped between the enemy and the sea.
• 32:48
  Speaker 17: Their only chance to escape annihilation rests with you.
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: Your destination is, I do get to tell you, that
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: the effort is not without risk.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Sure, guns and enemy aircraft are going to make it
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: hot for you. Any of you who wish to withdraw
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: may do so now.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Very good.
• 33:06
  Speaker 12: You put to see it once. Good luck to you.
• 33:10
  Speaker 10: All right with you, Nobby. My item.
• 33:12
  Speaker 12: Turn him over.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Hello!
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Hello!
• 33:14
  Speaker 12: Hello there!
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: Hello!
• 33:37
  Speaker 12: Good morning, love.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mr.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Barrett.
• 33:40
  Speaker 12: You're up early.
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, I haven't been sleeping very well.
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: None of us have, I imagine.
• 33:46
  Speaker 12: I come down to the river every morning.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Now to catch a fish or two for dinner.
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: Guns.
• 33:52
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: Funny how the sound carries with this east wind.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: Miniver's not back from Dunkirk, I suppose.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: No, he's not back.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: Neither is my son.
• 34:04
  Speaker 18: They've been gone five days now.
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: Well, they'll be back, ma'am.
• 34:08
  Speaker 17: You'll see.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'll be very glad to see.
• 34:11
  Speaker 12: You will.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Them that goes down to the sea in ships and
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: has their business in the great waters, these men see
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: the works of the Lord and his wonders in the
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: great deep. You can't beat the Bible, can you, when
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: it comes to deep feelings?
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: No. No.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: And no one what's thrown that over for a set
• 34:30
  Speaker 6: of gobbles and girdings is going to win this war.
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: That's my comfort zone.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: It's mine too, Mr.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: Barrett.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I turned and started back to the house. I neared
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: the kitchen door.
• 34:45
  Speaker 8: I saw him.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: He was lying half-hidden in the shrubbery, his eyes staring
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: at his mind. I saw the sun glint on the barrel.
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: Of a revolver.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Over make noise, I shoot him.
• 34:58
  Speaker 12: You are alone.
• 35:01
  Speaker 11: My.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: My children are upstairs. And the maid. All asleep.
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: Food.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Drink. Get it for me. Inside.
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 35:10
  Speaker 19: Food.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: Quick.
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: All right.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I'm getting it. But stop pointing that gun at me.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: You're frightening me.
• 35:17
  Speaker 12: Luke.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Hurry.
• 35:19
  Speaker 19: You got meat.
• 35:20
  Speaker 17: Yes, I.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I think so. Hurry. I am hurrying. Here.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: You stand there. I leave you to none.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: To none.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: Please.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Hurry, please. It's urgent.
• 35:48
  Speaker 11: Please?
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: This is Mrs. Miniver. Miniver?
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I've got that German flyer, the one who escaped. In
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the kitchen?
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm all right.
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: I have his gun.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Will you come to the back door? It's the last
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: house on North Lane. He's wounded. Bring a doctor. Thank you. Hurry, please.
• 36:13
  Speaker 17: After a brief intermission, Mr.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: DeMille presents Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Susan.
• 36:17
  Speaker 17: Peters, and Ensign Henry Wilcoxon in Act Three of Mrs.
• 36:20
  Speaker 9: Miniver.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Libby Collins has asked two members of the audience to
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: come up here and answer two timely questions.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: All right, Mrs.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Sutherland.
• 36:27
  Speaker 14: Will you step up to the microphone? And here's your question.
• 36:30
  Speaker 14: Will it take more or less luck to wash several
• 36:33
  Speaker 14: underthings together than it would to wash them separately?
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Less.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Less is right. A thirsty way to make your luck
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: go further these days. Thank you, Mrs.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: Sutherland.
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: And here's a big box of Lux Flakes that will do.
• 36:45
  Speaker 18: Those undies each night for nearly two months.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: Now, Mrs.
• 36:49
  Speaker 14: Max, here's your question. What type of underthings, popular in
• 36:52
  Speaker 14: Grandmother's Day, are back in.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Favor this winter?
• 36:55
  Speaker 14: Can't think of what it could be offhand.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Unless, could it be flannel? Right. Long, red flannel.
• 37:03
  Speaker 14: They started out as ski underthings, but are mighty popular
• 37:06
  Speaker 14: now in homes where heating is a problem. And here's
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: a box of lux plates to keep your nice things
• 37:11
  Speaker 14: new-looking longer.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Materials are so important these days, and skilled workers so
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: needed for war work, that fewer new clothes are being made.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Of course, you'll be able to get what you need,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: but it's more important than ever to take care of
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: what you do have, to make it last longer.
• 37:27
  Speaker 12: Luxing will help you.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Don't waste Lux. Use all you need to get rich suds,
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: but no more than you need. A little Lux goes
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: a long way.
• 37:36
  Speaker 12: Now, our producer, Mr.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: DeMille.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: We'll have a little chat with Mr.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: And Mrs.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Miniver after the play. But now the curtain rises on
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: the third act of Mrs.
• 37:43
  Speaker 9: Miniver.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: Starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and Susan Peters. With Ensign
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: Henry Wilcoxon.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: I knelt on the kitchen floor beside the German flyer,
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: waiting for the police. After a while, he stirred and
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: opened his eyes.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: I saw his hand reach out to me with his gun.
• 38:05
  Speaker 12: Revolver. Where's my revolver?
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I took your gun. I called the police.
• 38:11
  Speaker 16: The police?
• 38:12
  Speaker 12: You called.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: It's much better this way. Really, it is. You're hurt.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: You're sick. You'll be wonderfully looked after in the hospital.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: You'll be safe there. The war won't last forever.
• 38:23
  Speaker 12: No.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: Soon we finish it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: I am finished.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: But others come like me.
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: Thousands. You will see. We will bomb your cities.
• 38:32
  Speaker 17: Like Barcelona, Warsaw, Narvik, Rotterdam.
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: Rotterdam we destroy in two hours.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: And thousands killed. Innocent people.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Not innocent.
• 38:41
  Speaker 12: They were against us.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Women and children. 30,002 hours.
• 38:43
  Speaker 12: And we will do the same thing here. Where is he?
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Where is he? Here, doctor, here.
• 38:49
  Speaker 10: It's his arm, I think.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: Take him to the hospital.
• 38:57
  Speaker 12: All right, young fella. Come on. Lift him up, Joe.
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 39:00
  Speaker 12: Miniver, are you all right?
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you, doctor. I'm fine.
• 39:03
  Speaker 12: Good. And a good job, too.
• 39:05
  Speaker 18: Oh!
• 39:07
  Speaker 10: Oh!
• 39:09
  Speaker 19: Who was that?
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: Who was here, Mommy? No one there. It was just... Just... Hey!
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Okay!
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Daddy's dying! Daddy's dying!
• 39:25
  Speaker 16: It's dead in the runner's house, Judy.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Clem!
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, Clem!
• 39:29
  Speaker 10: Clem.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Clem.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: You awake, dear?
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: Say, did I hear you offer me some breakfast?
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Ten hours ago.
• 39:49
  Speaker 12: Ten hours?
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: But Vin ate it.
• 39:53
  Speaker 18: Vin?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Home?
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Home.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: Both of you.
• 39:57
  Speaker 12: Good. Where is he now?
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: He went up to Belden Hall to break the news
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: of the engagement.
• 40:02
  Speaker 12: Oh, I don't envy him that trip. Serves him right, though,
• 40:05
  Speaker 12: for eating my breakfast. Anything left?
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Gareth is bringing it up.
• 40:09
  Speaker 20: Oh, Glenn.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: I'm so proud of you.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Are you, darling?
• 40:13
  Speaker 12: Well, that's nice.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Come to think of it, I'm a bit proud of myself.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: What you might call a real bit of navigation. Oh,
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: you know, darling, I'm almost sorry for you. Having such
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: a nice, quiet, peaceful time here when things.
• 40:27
  Speaker 12: Are really happening. But that's what men are for, isn't it?
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: To go out and do things while you woman folks
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: look after the house.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, dear.
• 40:35
  Speaker 18: Come in.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Mom, but I just remembered we ain't got
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: any hair.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: What?
• 40:40
  Speaker 16: You gave it all to that German pilot.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, well, never mind, Gladys. We've got some bacon and Mr.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Miniver likes that just as well.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 40:48
  Speaker 12: Uh, Kay, what's all this about a German pilot?
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, nothing, dear, nothing at all.
• 40:54
  Speaker 12: What do you mean, nothing at all?
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: Well, I just had a German pilot in for ham
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: and eggs this morning. That's all. What?
• 41:00
  Speaker 12: Say, what's going on here?
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: Now, Clem, don't get excited. I'm just going to draw
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: your bath.
• 41:04
  Speaker 12: I've had a bath, and I'm not excited.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Do you have a cigarette?
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: No, I don't want a cigarette. Was it the fellow
• 41:08
  Speaker 12: they were looking for? Yes. But what did you do?
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: Didn't he have a gun?
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, he had a gun.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Well, I just took it away from him and called
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: the police.
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: You just took it away. Just like that, huh? And
• 41:23
  Speaker 12: then I suppose you gave him tea.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: No.
• 41:26
  Speaker 16: Milk.
• 41:27
  Speaker 12: Woman, you're driving me crazy.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Come in. What is it, Addison?
• 41:32
  Speaker 16: It's the old lady, Lady Belden.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Lady Belden here? Well, all right. Tell her I'll be
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: down in just a moment.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: Lady Belden? She's probably come to check to the marriage.
• 41:43
  Speaker 13: Oh, dear.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: You know, darling, if I hadn't known that you'd taken
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: that German pilot single-handed, I'd say you were scared.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Would you?
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: Well, I am.
• 42:03
  Speaker 13: I think I should tell you frankly, I hope to
• 42:06
  Speaker 13: persuade Carol to wait.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: You think she may change her mind, Lady Belden?
• 42:09
  Speaker 13: Frankly, yes.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Besides, she's too young. Oh, but isn't that rather a
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Belden tradition, to marry young?
• 42:15
  Speaker 13: I don't know what you mean.
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: My daughter, Judy, she had to write a composition on
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: the Crusades last week, and she brought a book home
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: from the library, oh, quite a small book, called A
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Friend of King Richard the Lionhearted. It was full of
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: stories of the Belden family.
• 42:29
  Speaker 13: Ah, I trust you satisfied yourself that.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: We were worthy of the alliance? Well, there were one
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: or two things that rather surprised me. For instance, did
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: you know that the 12th Lord Belden... Was hanged?
• 42:42
  Speaker 19: He was beheaded.
• 42:43
  Speaker 13: Oh, such things happen in the best families.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: In fact, usually in the best families. As a matter
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: of fact, what interested me most was the extreme use
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: of the Bellden bride.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: This Gilbert de Bellon, who went on the crusade, married
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: an Isabella something or other aged 12.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 43:00
  Speaker 13: Miniver, I did not come here to chatter pedigrees.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: But your point is that they're both too young.
• 43:06
  Speaker 13: I haven't said so, have I?
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: I've said so, haven't I? But Lady Bellden... We're at war.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: And Vins a flyer.
• 43:14
  Speaker 13: How old were you when you married? I?
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: I know you're telling Vins because I looked you up. Well,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: if you looked me up, I suppose you know. I
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: was 16. 16. And did your parents approve? That's beside
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: the point. Oh, forgive me. Is it?
• 43:29
  Speaker 18: You married very young and without your parents' consent.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: And yet when Carol.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: But perhaps you regretted it. I did nothing of the kind.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Well then, why?
• 43:40
  Speaker 13: My marriage only lasted a few weeks. My husband was
• 43:43
  Speaker 13: in the army. He was killed in action.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm so sorry.
• 43:48
  Speaker 13: Forgive me, I didn't know. I never regretted it. Not
• 43:51
  Speaker 13: for one moment. We married because we knew that might happen.
• 43:55
  Speaker 13: But I don't want Carol to suffer as I suffer.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Don't you want them to be happy? Even for a
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: little while?
• 44:01
  Speaker 18: The way you were?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: I was afraid you'd say that.
• 44:04
  Speaker 13: Not that it matters what you say, or what I
• 44:06
  Speaker 13: say either. You know that, don't you?
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: You mean Carol will go her own way?
• 44:10
  Speaker 13: She's my granddaughter.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: Well, then, why?
• 44:13
  Speaker 13: Goodness knows I was beaten before I started.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, you don't mind terribly, do you? He is a
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: nice boy.
• 44:21
  Speaker 13: Yes, I see now where he gets it.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: You're pretty, too.
• 44:26
  Speaker 13: No wonder that wretched ballad named his rose after you.
• 44:29
  Speaker 13: Not that he's got a chance of getting the.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Cup from me.
• 44:32
  Speaker 13: Well, so long as we're going to be relatives, the
• 44:34
  Speaker 13: least you can do is to offer me some tea.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: They were married a few days later. Vin had leave,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: and they went to Scotland for their honeymoon. I was
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: glad they were away those two weeks. We spend most
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: of our time in the shelters.
• 44:57
  Speaker 16: Mommy!
• 44:59
  Speaker 10: Mommy!
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: It's all right, darling.
• 45:00
  Speaker 10: Keep your head up. The lights are out.
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: That'll be nice.
• 45:04
  Speaker 16: Mommy, where's Napoleon? He's gone. No, he hasn't, dear.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: He's just under the cot.
• 45:10
  Speaker 16: He's fine.
• 45:11
  Speaker 17: I'm dead!
• 45:19
  Speaker 12: All right?
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 45:21
  Speaker 16: Mommy.
• 45:23
  Speaker 10: Monsieur.
• 45:26
  Speaker 16: They nearly killed us this time, didn't they?
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: It's all over, darling.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: It's all over now. This is the room we fixed
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: up for you.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: And then.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: It's his old one, of course. It's lovely. We made
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: a few changes.
• 45:48
  Speaker 12: And the Jerry's made a few more.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Must have been dreadful.
• 45:52
  Speaker 12: Oh, not so bad. I'd better go help Vin with
• 45:55
  Speaker 12: the grip, huh?
• 45:56
  Speaker 16: Hurry, dear.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: Carol's coming to the flower show with me. I hope
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: you'll manage all right here.
• 46:01
  Speaker 10: It's a beautiful room.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 46:04
  Speaker 10: And.
• 46:05
  Speaker 18: And thanks for Vin. He is nice.
• 46:08
  Speaker 13: He's nice.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I wonder if you.
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Look at you. And him. Happy?
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: I've had a lifetime of happiness in these last two weeks.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, Carol, dear, it's only the beginning. Okay.
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: I'm not afraid to face the truth.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: No.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: I love him, but... But I know that... Carol. I
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: know that I may lose him. He's young and.
• 46:34
  Speaker 8: And he loves life.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: But he may die. He may be killed.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: Any day, any hour.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: You must have faced that in your mind. Yes, I
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: faced it. Then you know that every moment is precious.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: We mustn't waste time in fear.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: I will be very happy.
• 46:57
  Speaker 8: Every moment that I have him.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Every moment.
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: And if I must lose him, there'll be time enough
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: for tears. There'll be a lifetime for tears.
• 47:19
  Speaker 13: And now, ladies and gentlemen, I come to the final award.
• 47:23
  Speaker 15: The Challenge Cup, given for the best rose grown in
• 47:26
  Speaker 15: the village during the past year.
• 47:28
  Speaker 13: The first prize, the Silver.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Cup, goes to... goes to Mr.
• 47:33
  Speaker 13: James Ballard, our popular station master.
• 47:35
  Speaker 12: Oh!
• 47:37
  Speaker 10: Take cover, everybody!
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 47:40
  Speaker 10: Where are you? Here, Vince. I'm off to the airport.
• 47:46
  Speaker 14: Will you be all right?
• 47:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, of course.
• 47:50
  Speaker 9: I'll go along to the house with your mother.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, darling. Goodbye, Vince.
• 47:55
  Speaker 12: Goodbye.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I wonder if Gadis will have sense enough to take
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: the children into the shelter. Don't worry, Kate.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: Those things, they're going to be fighting right over our heads.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, I want so much to get home.
• 48:19
  Speaker 10: I hate to stop, but it would be better.
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: Hey, hey, look.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Look, that plane, it's on fire.
• 48:25
  Speaker 10: He's going to crash.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: It could be Finn.
• 48:31
  Speaker 10: It could be Finn. Oh, Kate.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, it's not possible. There hasn't been time. No.
• 48:37
  Speaker 10: But how horrible. Don't go.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: A lot of the bullets. I was sure they hit
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: the car. Oh, Carol, the village.
• 48:53
  Speaker 19: Look at this.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, we must get back there. They need help.
• 48:58
  Speaker 10: Carol.
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: Carol.
• 49:00
  Speaker 17: What is it, Carol? I.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: I think I've been hit.
• 49:05
  Speaker 12: Oh, darling, where?
• 49:09
  Speaker 16: I don't know.
• 49:09
  Speaker 10: It's... It doesn't hurt it.
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: I just can't move.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't be frightened. We're going home.
• 49:17
  Speaker 10: I'll get you there. I've got help. Just lie still, dear.
• 49:30
  Speaker 19: Kate.
• 49:31
  Speaker 14: Yes, dear?
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: I've called the ambulance.
• 49:33
  Speaker 13: They're coming as soon as they can.
• 49:35
  Speaker 17: Keep a coat over you, darling.
• 49:37
  Speaker 12: They'll be here any moment now. Kate.
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: You won't tell Vin?
• 49:43
  Speaker 17: Of course not, darling.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: You're going to be all right. I know you are.
• 49:48
  Speaker 12: Don't be frightened, sweetheart.
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: But I am going to be all right.
• 49:54
  Speaker 13: I don't feel any pain.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: What is it? Can I get you something?
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: No.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: No, but don't go away. Stay here. Stay just for
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: a moment. I'm here, darling. Don't leave me alone.
• 50:10
  Speaker 10: Alone.
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: Please.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: Carol.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: Carol.
• 50:14
  Speaker 19: Oh, Carol.
• 50:15
  Speaker 10: Ben is here, Kay.
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: Ben.
• 50:17
  Speaker 10: Oh, Ben, darling. It's all right, Mother.
• 50:42
  Speaker 17: I know.
• 50:42
  Speaker 20: Where is she?
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Then, dear, won't you try and get a little rest?
• 50:49
  Speaker 12: Where is she?
• 50:51
  Speaker 10: In your room. I... I'll go up to her. Oh, Clem.
• 51:01
  Speaker 12: No, dear.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: No.
• 51:04
  Speaker 16: Clem.
• 51:06
  Speaker 11: She.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: She died in my arms.
• 51:10
  Speaker 16: Darling.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Ben's wife.
• 51:15
  Speaker 19: She died in my arms.
• 51:28
  Speaker 8: We went to church the next Sunday. where the sun
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: had planted in the window before. Now it shone full
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: upon us. For one wall of the church had fallen,
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: and the roof was open to the sky.
• 51:43
  Speaker 10: Across the aisle from.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Us was Lady Belden, all alone. And then Joan went
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: over and sat beside her.
• 52:04
  Speaker 9: We in this quiet corner of England have suffered the
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: loss of friends very dear to us.
• 52:11
  Speaker 12: Some close to this church. George West, choir boy. James Ballard,
• 52:17
  Speaker 12: station master and bell ringer.
• 52:19
  Speaker 6: And the proud winner only an hour before his death.
• 52:22
  Speaker 9: At the Belden Cup for his beautiful Miniver Rose.
• 52:26
  Speaker 17: And our hearts go out in sympathy to the.
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: Two families who share the cruel loss of a young girl...
• 52:32
  Speaker 9: Who was married at this altar only two weeks ago.
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: The homes of many of us have been destroyed. And
• 52:39
  Speaker 9: the lives of young and old have been taken.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: And why?
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: Surely you must have asked yourself this question.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: Are these our soldiers?
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: Are these our fighters?
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: Why should they be sacrificed? I shall tell you why.
• 52:57
  Speaker 12: Because this is not only a war of soldiers in uniform.
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: It is a war of the people.
• 53:05
  Speaker 12: Of all the people.
• 53:07
  Speaker 9: And it must be fought not only on the battlefield,
• 53:10
  Speaker 9: but in the cities and in the villages, in the
• 53:13
  Speaker 9: factories and on the farms, in the home and in
• 53:17
  Speaker 9: the heart of every man, woman and child who loves freedom.
• 53:24
  Speaker 12: Well, we have.
• 53:26
  Speaker 9: Buried our dead, but we shall not forget them. Instead,
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: They will inspire us with an unbreakable determination to free
• 53:36
  Speaker 9: ourselves and those who come after us from the tyranny
• 53:40
  Speaker 9: and terror that threatens to strike us down.
• 53:43
  Speaker 12: This is the people's war. It is our war. We
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: are the fighters.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Fight it then. Fight it with all there is in us.
• 53:55
  Speaker 6: And may God defend the right.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: The City Mail brings our stars back to their curtain
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: calls in just a moment.
• 54:43
  Speaker 11: In these war days, there are many new problems, some big,
• 54:47
  Speaker 11: others small, especially for the women who must make homes
• 54:49
  Speaker 11: in all sorts of new places. Let's look in for
• 54:52
  Speaker 11: a moment on a young wife keeping house in a
• 54:54
  Speaker 11: trailer near her husband's army camp.
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: It's after dinner.
• 54:58
  Speaker 17: Here, honey, get away from that sink. I'm going to
• 55:00
  Speaker 17: be the dishwasher in this family.
• 55:01
  Speaker 20: The army won't mind if my hands get red, but I.
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: Don't want you to spoil yours with dishwashing ever.
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, silly.
• 55:08
  Speaker 14: That's what you know about washing dishes. Nowadays, girls use
• 55:11
  Speaker 14: luck so their hands don't get rough and red.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: You just grab that towel.
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: Yes, today's war brides are smart girls. They're meeting new people,
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: going new places all the time, and they're not going
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: to risk ugly dishpan hands.
• 55:23
  Speaker 12: They use gentle.
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: Lux Flakes for dishes because it's so kind to their hands.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Actual tests prove that just changing from strong soaps to
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: Lux does away with red, rough dishpan hands. And this
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: same gentle Lux care is thrifty, too. Lux goes further
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: than the same weight of other well-known dishwashing soaps. Does
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: up to twice as many dishes as these other soaps.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: So get a big box of Lux flakes at your
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: grocer's tomorrow.
• 55:47
  Speaker 12: Use it for dishes. See how long it lasts. How
• 55:50
  Speaker 12: smooth it leaves your hand. Now, here's Mr.
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: DeMille with our start.
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: There'll be no blackout in the theater as long as
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: we have dramas like Mrs.
• 55:58
  Speaker 12: Miniver and stars like Greer.
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Susan Peters, and Henry Wilcoxon to play them.
• 56:05
  Speaker 12: Thank you, C.B.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: It seems very natural coming back to the Lux Radio
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: Theater with Greer.
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: We'll do it again with Madame Curie when it comes out.
• 56:14
  Speaker 5: You didn't have an ounce or two of radium left over,
• 56:17
  Speaker 5: did you, Greer?
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Well, let's see.
• 56:18
  Speaker 8: That'll be worth about $ 700, 000.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: No, we didn't.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: But Greer does have a keepsake in the picture that
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: I think she will always prize.
• 56:27
  Speaker 12: She was presented with a ring.
• 56:29
  Speaker 8: I hope a certain ensign in the United States Navy
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: approved of that.
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it'll be all right, Susan.
• 56:34
  Speaker 13: The ring was given to me not by one, not
• 56:36
  Speaker 13: by two, but by 50 gentlemen.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: In fact, the whole crew of grips, electricians, and propmen
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: have worked on the picture.
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: It's one of the nicest things that ever happened to me.
• 56:44
  Speaker 5: We've been hearing some very nice things about both you
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: and Walter from listeners in the United States and Canada
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: who saw you put glamour in the war bond business.
• 56:54
  Speaker 8: Well, Walter is certainly working overtime as a salesman. He
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: just came back from Seattle where he told the young
• 56:59
  Speaker 8: ladies of that city about the advantages of joining the
• 57:01
  Speaker 8: Coast Guard as spars and what the effect you might expect.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: No trouble selling the spars, but Henry Wilcoxon should be
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: an authority. Why don't you step in here and sign
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: up a few recruits, Ensign?
• 57:14
  Speaker 9: Well, seriously, Walter, everyone should know why we need women
• 57:17
  Speaker 9: in the service by now. Women between the ages of
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: 20 and 36 are welcomed aboard.
• 57:23
  Speaker 12: By the Coast Guard at any time.
• 57:25
  Speaker 9: The nearest Coast Guard recruiting station will give full information
• 57:28
  Speaker 9: on requirements and opportunities, or women may write, the Coast
• 57:32
  Speaker 9: Guard headquarters in Washington. Every spa who joins releases a
• 57:36
  Speaker 9: man for other duties.
• 57:37
  Speaker 5: Now, like all the Coast Guard, I hear you've made
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: a very fine record at Sea, Henry, on the Pacific Patrol,
• 57:43
  Speaker 5: and in certain other places. How about next week? We're
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: going to have a real thrill-off. The Paramount screenplay, Five
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: Graves to Cairo. And our stars will be Franchotone and
• 57:57
  Speaker 5: Anne Baxter. It's a drama of a young British soldier
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: who stumbles into a secret German headquarters, meets a beautiful
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: French girl, and learns the mysterious secret of the five
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: graves from Marshal Rommel himself. So if you're in the
• 58:13
  Speaker 5: mood for romance and suspense next Monday night, We'll have
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: it here. And then some.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: It sounds very exciting, Mr.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: DeMille.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: Good night.
• 58:22
  Speaker 11: Good night.
• 58:23
  Speaker 6: Good night.
• 58:28
  Speaker 10: Good night.
• 58:33
  Speaker 22: Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Flakes, join me in
• 58:35
  Speaker 22: inviting you to be with us again next Monday night
• 58:39
  Speaker 22: when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Rancho Tone and Anne Baxter.
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: In Five Graves to Cairo. This is Cecil B. DeMille
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: saying good night to you from Hollywood.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: A special announcement for radio admirers of Mrs.
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Miniver.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: This famous character is to be heard starting next Friday,
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: December 10th in a series of half-hour programs to be
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: broadcast at 11.30 Eastern Wartime. every Friday thereafter. Make a
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: mental note to follow the further adventures of Mrs. Miniver
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: over this network. Heard in tonight's play were Richard Davis
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: as Ben, Raymond Lawrence as Mr. Ballard, Gloria Gordon as
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: Lady Belden, and Tommy Cook, Mary Lou Harrington, Dwayne Thompson,
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: Alec Harford, Charlie Lund, Dennis Green, Fred McKay, Vernon Steele,
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: and Fred Warlock.
• 59:37
  Speaker 12: Our music was directed by Louis Silvers.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: And this is your announcer, John M. Kennedy.
• 59:42
  Speaker 11: Remind me to tune in again next Monday night to
• 59:45
  Speaker 11: hear Franco Sloan.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: I've been so tired and nervous lately. I wonder if
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: I need vitamins.
• 59:59
  Speaker 7: Well, madam, why take chances? Why not try a vitamin product?
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 7: But first, read the label. Take a minute, see what's
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: in it. VIMS contain all the vitamins recommended by government
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 7: experts in the balanced formula doctors endorse. Three essential minerals also.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 7: Get BIMS at your druggist today. Get that BIMS feeling. Remember,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 7: it's B-I for vitamins, double M-S for minerals.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 12: BIMS.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 7: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: From Lux Radio Theater, that was Mrs.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 12: Miniver.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: First broadcast December 6th, 1943. Follow Lux Radio Theater for
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: more classic broadcasts.