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Emperor Waltz · Lux Radio Theatre

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I definitely did not promise her the lead in Aida.
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  Speaker 2: Girl, opera house. Now what have you done?
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  Speaker 3: Me?
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  Speaker 2: Your Majesty, I merely.
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  Speaker 4: You'd better be quiet, Father, before you really give yourself away.
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  Speaker 5: I sent for you, Your Honor, to discuss a marriage.
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  Speaker 4: Marriage? But Your Highness.
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  Speaker 1: The Russian duke, sire? The one with all the money?
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: Don't be absurd.
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  Speaker 5: A match, Your Honor, that means a great deal to me.
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  Speaker 5: I've given it infinite thought, my dear. Studied the bloodlines
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  Speaker 5: on both sides. One could not ask for better.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sire. I have raised, Your Honor, to realize
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  Speaker 1: that blood comes first.
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  Speaker 5: What pleases me most is that both lines are prolific.
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  Speaker 3: Pro.
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  Speaker 4: Prolific, your majesty?
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  Speaker 5: I anticipate superb offsprings. Oh, it will warm my old
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  Speaker 5: heart to see the little things crawling about.
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  Speaker 1: Great honor, a great honor.
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  Speaker 2: If there are five, I shall want three. Is that
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  Speaker 2: asking too much?
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  Speaker 4: Your majesty.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, don't quibble.
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  Speaker 1: If it'll give the emperor any.
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  Speaker 2: Happiness to have.
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  Speaker 5: I think the union should be brought about as rapidly
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  Speaker 5: as possible. You see, spry as he is, the bridegroom
• 1:00
  Speaker 5: is rather an elderly gentleman.
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  Speaker 4: How... how old, your majesty?
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  Speaker 2: Twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Twelve.
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  Speaker 1: But what possible difference is it in.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve? On the 7th of September.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I suggest that the nuptials take place in my kennels.
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  Speaker 2: Kennels?
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  Speaker 1: With all that barking going on?
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  Speaker 4: Father, the Emperor is talking about the poodles. His Majesty's dog, Louis,
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  Speaker 4: is asking for the paw of Scheherazade in marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I... Well... Of course. I'm no fool.
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  Speaker 4: Scheherazade, did you hear? You're engaged.
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  Speaker 5: My dog Louie and I will expect you tomorrow at
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  Speaker 5: my hunting lodge in the mountains.
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  Speaker 4: We're most honored, Your Majesty.
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  Speaker 2: Think of it, Your Honor, why we.
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  Speaker 6: Forgive me, Your Majesty, but you must take cover at once, sire,
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  Speaker 6: at once.
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  Speaker 2: Now what's going on?
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  Speaker 6: There's an assassin in the palace. The captain of the
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  Speaker 6: guard says he's got a bomb.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, dear, this constant hiding gets to be such a bore.
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  Speaker 6: Don't be alarmed, Your Majesty. We're closing in on the
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  Speaker 6: villain right now. He's surrounded down there in the courtyard.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, hey, now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, wait. Break it up.
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  Speaker 7: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: Release the fabric here. What are you trying to do?
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  Speaker 3: What's the big idea? How come you guys want to
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  Speaker 3: chase me out of the palace? I got a pass.
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  Speaker 8: See?
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  Speaker 3: Signed here by the Royal Chamberlain.
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  Speaker 9: We've got him, Lieutenant. You can call off the cavalry.
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  Speaker 3: You crazy or something? Now, what'd you do with my box?
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  Speaker 3: And let go of my dog, you dog, you. Never mind, Buttons.
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  Speaker 3: We'll file suit first thing in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Captain.
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  Speaker 3: Captain, we dropped the box in the pond, but it
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  Speaker 3: may still explode. Oh, is this the Emperor's Palace or
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  Speaker 3: a loony bin, or where am I?
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  Speaker 9: This pass. Virgil H.
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  Speaker 3: Smith, eh? Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: It says here you came as a potentate.
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  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 9: Well, are you a potentate?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I may have stretched things a little, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: a shriner, all right. Due's paid up through January.
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  Speaker 9: You're an anarchist, that's what you are.
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  Speaker 3: I am not. I'm a Presbyterian. Another lie.
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  Speaker 9: It says here you're a salesman. Less than wobble-faced.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it possible for a guy to be a Presbyterian
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  Speaker 3: Shriner potentate salesman?
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  Speaker 9: Now you're trying to.
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  Speaker 3: I am also a registered Democrat, a junior member of
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  Speaker 3: the Chamber of Commerce, a sand layup third... Not so
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  Speaker 3: fast now. I've got to talk fast. If I don't,
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  Speaker 3: my sample's going to rust in that fish pond.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 9: Turn where you are.
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  Speaker 3: It's a bomb. I don't know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It's no bomb.
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  Speaker 3: I never saw such a bunch of ignoramuses. What's the
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  Speaker 3: matter with you anyhow? Bomb. Look, I'll get the box
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  Speaker 3: out of the water myself. Will that help you? I'll
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  Speaker 3: even open it myself. Maybe that'll convince him.
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  Speaker 9: Stand back, men. If it goes off, it'll save the
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  Speaker 9: expense of a hanging.
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  Speaker 2: Look, look, he's winding up the box. He's winding it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a little damp, fellas, but it may still
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  Speaker 3: work now. I attach the little horn thusly.
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  Speaker 9: Horn.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, that looks like an eardrum.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't be silly. Okay, Buttons, cock your head now.
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  Speaker 3: Hook in the horn. There you are, fellas. Well, don't
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  Speaker 3: you recognize the trademark?
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  Speaker 10: What?
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  Speaker 3: You don't get it, huh? You're all playing infield around here,
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  Speaker 3: I guess. Well, this box is an invention. It's a
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  Speaker 3: talking machine, a phonograph. A new kind of American thingamabob. Here,
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  Speaker 3: watch this. We have a record. We place it on
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  Speaker 3: the machine. We drop the needle, and we're in business.
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  Speaker 3: Here she goes, boys. Listen now.
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  Speaker 11: Get yourself a phonograph You'll get yourself a girl When
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  Speaker 11: you start a record playing, introduce yourself by saying, let's twirl.
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  Speaker 11: Get yourself a phonograph, how can you ever miss?
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  Speaker 3: Let the needle help you wheedle a kiss.
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  Speaker 11: And when she hears the music, how romantic she'll become.
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  Speaker 11: A serenade that's ready made for an insignificant sum.
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  Speaker 3: Get yourself a phonograph. Just give the crank a whirl.
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  Speaker 11: It's a wonderful invention and attracts so much attention.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, you heard me mention that you'd get
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  Speaker 3: yourself a girl. Well, there you are. Convinced? Doesn't convince you, huh? Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me back in the palace. I'm trying to see
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  Speaker 3: the emperor.
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  Speaker 9: He has enough worries without listening to that. All right, Lieutenant.
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  Speaker 9: Turn the prisoner over to the royal chamber.
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  Speaker 12: All right, Your Majesty, you may come out now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what was it this time?
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  Speaker 12: A false alarm, sire. An American salesman. Don't worry, I'll
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  Speaker 12: dispose of him immediately.
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  Speaker 1: The dogs, Your Majesty. We were making the final arrangement.
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  Speaker 4: Scheherazade and I will leave in the morning, Your Majesty.
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  Speaker 1: I'll escort them myself.
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  Speaker 13: And I may personally guarantee your highness a most glorious living.
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  Speaker 9: I know it.
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  Speaker 3: I know you're the royal chamberlain. You're the boy who
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  Speaker 3: lined up the appointment for me.
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  Speaker 12: I tell you, we have changed our mind.
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  Speaker 1: Now, out the gate.
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  Speaker 3: Now, listen. Listen. Steady, chubby. I came here to put
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  Speaker 3: my talking machine over, and I'm going to. You understand?
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to sell 5,000, 10,000, 20,000. Not in Austria,
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  Speaker 3: I assure you. Oh, what a bunch of dusty old
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: aunties you got around here. Why, you wouldn't have put
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  Speaker 3: in electric lights. Only the emperor did. And you wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have bought an automobile, only the emperor did. Well, he's
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  Speaker 3: going to buy the first talking machine, you see, and
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  Speaker 3: he's going to endorse it. And when he does, you
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  Speaker 3: just watch the sales skyrocket. Ho, ho, ho, up they go.
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  Speaker 1: One more word and you're under arrest.
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  Speaker 3: Viennese charm. Okay, Buttons, it's all right, all right. Tell
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  Speaker 3: you one thing, if you ever see me order Wienerschnitzel again,
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  Speaker 3: you can spit in my eye. Hey, Buttons, here now,
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  Speaker 3: back here. Didn't say we had to run out. Oh, no, no, no.
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 9: What's the matter with you, Blabberboy?
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  Speaker 2: Over there, over there.
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  Speaker 3: That other dog, she belongs to the Countess. Call back
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  Speaker 3: your dog.
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  Speaker 1: Call him back.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, Buttons.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Buttons.
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  Speaker 1: Here, boy.
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  Speaker 9: Come on, boy.
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  Speaker 3: Lay off the rough stuff now.
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  Speaker 9: You hear me?
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  Speaker 3: Here now.
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  Speaker 1: Let her go, you nasty little.
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  Speaker 2: Don't.
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  Speaker 8: Let her go.
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  Speaker 1: I've got it, Father.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, quick.
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  Speaker 4: Get in the coach. Oh, my poor Scheherazade. Did he
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  Speaker 4: frighten you?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, hey.
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  Speaker 9: Come back here. What did you do to my dog?
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  Speaker 3: He's bleeding. Hey, stop. Who do these people think they are?
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  Speaker 6: They are His Excellency Baron General von Stolzenberg Stolzenberg and
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  Speaker 6: his daughter, the Countess.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, where do they live?
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  Speaker 6: In the Stolzenberg Stolzenberg Palace and Stolzenberg Stolzenberg Square, naturally.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot of Stolzenberg, isn't it? Don't tell us
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  Speaker 3: to get out again because we're getting. Come on, Buttons.
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  Speaker 3: Let's have a look at that park.
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  Speaker 2: You rang, sir? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Does a black dog live here?
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  Speaker 9: I beg your pardon?
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  Speaker 3: A French poodle, black, about so big. You tell her
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  Speaker 3: she's got to see a man about a dog.
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  Speaker 4: It's all right, Franz. I'll dispose of him myself.
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  Speaker 2: There they are, Buttons. There they are.
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  Speaker 4: Kindly keep that animal on its leash. Sit down, Scheherazade.
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  Speaker 3: What's the idea of just running off before down there?
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  Speaker 3: You saw what happened. Your dog bit my dog.
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  Speaker 4: Your dog annoyed my dog and take off your hat.
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  Speaker 3: Look at his paw. Gee, it bled for half an
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  Speaker 3: hour all over my rented suit.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let him upset you, darling. What is it you want, money?
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  Speaker 3: I want a saliva test. I want it right now.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what?
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  Speaker 3: Saliva test. Your dog may be mad. That silly-looking beast
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: might have the rabies.
• 8:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, thank you not to use such vile words when you.
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: Talk about her. Well, have you watched her lately for symptoms?
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: Has she been frothing at the mouth as her bark
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  Speaker 3: sounded crucially?
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  Speaker 4: My dear man, my veterinarian goes over Scheherazade twice a
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  Speaker 4: week from snout to tail.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, listen, any mutt can get rabies, you know.
• 8:44
  Speaker 4: And stop referring to her as a mutt. Have you
• 8:47
  Speaker 4: ever heard of bloodlines? Hers goes back to the 18th century.
• 8:52
  Speaker 3: Buttons goes back to as far as they've been having dogs.
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  Speaker 4: Her father belonged to the Tsar of Russia.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you don't say.
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  Speaker 4: Her mother to the Infanta of Spain.
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: Well, Buttons, Ma, belongs to a milkman in Jersey City,
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  Speaker 3: and his father... Oh, well, his father, you got me there.
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  Speaker 4: Furthermore, Scheherazade has just become betrothed to the dog of
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  Speaker 4: his emperor, Franz Joseph. Yeah?
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: Well, Buttons' brother helps a kid named Stinky O'Hara deliver newspapers,
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  Speaker 3: and his sister was making an honest living as a
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: watchdog until she had a little run-in with the Jersey
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  Speaker 3: Central Railroad.
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  Speaker 4: How really fascinating.
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  Speaker 3: If your poodle is so darn classy, how come she
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  Speaker 3: doesn't know better than to go around biting a nice
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  Speaker 3: little dog like Buttons? Gee, all he did was go
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  Speaker 3: up to her and say, how do you do?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, thrusting his ugly, ill-bred little face right into hers.
• 9:35
  Speaker 3: And for that she bit him? Certainly. And she was right?
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: Well, there are such things as class distinction, you know.
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: If the lowbred has the impertinence to come so distastefully close, well,
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  Speaker 4: what can he expect but to be bitten?
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, is that so?
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, let's see.
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: You kissed me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Now go ahead, bite me. Well, what have you got
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: to yap about? I told you what happened. The emperor's
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: up here in the mountains.
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: See, it said so in the newspaper.
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: If we're going to sell him a talking machine... I
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: thought you'd like it up here. All these trees and things.
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: You there!
• 10:19
  Speaker 9: Where are you going?
• 10:20
  Speaker 12: Why?
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: What's the matter? Road closed?
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: It is to you.
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  Speaker 14: These grounds where the emperor goes hunting.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's hunting now, huh?
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  Speaker 7: His majesty hunts only in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: But right here in the woods, huh?
• 10:31
  Speaker 12: He goes down this road and through the gorge.
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  Speaker 3: And no spectators.
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  Speaker 8: And no spectators.
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  Speaker 3: I heard you the first time. Your first time. Hey, Buttons,
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: get a load of that echo. La, la, la. La, la, la.
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  Speaker 9: La, la, la, la, la.
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  Speaker 15: La, la, la, la, la.
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  Speaker 3: Aren't those wonderful acoustics? What do you say, Buttons? Let's
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: hit them with the full treatment, huh? La, la, la, la, la.
• 11:19
  Speaker 3: If you.
• 11:31
  Speaker 11: Feel a song, then let the song begin, and you'll
• 11:37
  Speaker 11: find the friendly mountains joining in.
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: Joining in, joining in, joining in.
• 11:47
  Speaker 11: Loosen up your pipes, and brother you can bet, it's
• 11:52
  Speaker 11: as pretty as a barbershop quartet. Quartet, quartet, quartet, quartet.
• 12:05
  Speaker 11: Say you take the lead, and you think you're all alone.
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  Speaker 11: But you find you've got a tenor bass and baritone.
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  Speaker 15: Tenor bass and baritone.
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  Speaker 4: We're almost there, Scheherazade. Don't be impatient.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: I tell you, Your Honor, the dog's not well. Just
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: feel her nose. She's running a temperature.
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: Don't be hysterical.
• 12:31
  Speaker 9: Hysterical?
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: Don't you realize what this means to me?
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: What if she gets a cold or distemper?
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, heaven forbid.
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, all right.
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: Let's rest for a moment. Stop here, driver.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, just breathe this delicious air, Scheherazade. What's the matter?
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: She's running away. Scheherazade.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: Scheherazade. What's eating you?
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: What's the matter, Buttons?
• 12:57
  Speaker 3: Hey, now, the song ain't that bad. Come back here.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: Here, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Here, Buttons. She's fighting. He's killing her.
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  Speaker 9: Now, Buttons, cut that out.
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  Speaker 3: Cut it out.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: You hear me?
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: Let her alone. Call off your dog. Call him off.
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: What's the matter with you, Buttons?
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: Here, now.
• 13:09
  Speaker 9: He, he, down, down, down there, boy.
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  Speaker 16: Quiet.
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  Speaker 3: This is. Why, first thing you know, you'll... Yoo-hoo.
• 13:19
  Speaker 4: This is outrageous.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: Small world, huh?
• 13:21
  Speaker 4: Are you following me?
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 3: Are you?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why, this is the same objectionable American, isn't it?
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  Speaker 4: I'll take care of him, Father. You take Scheherazade back
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: to the coach.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes. I'll give her some brandy.
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  Speaker 4: As for you, exactly what are you doing here?
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: Well, they don't pay my expenses just to climb mountains
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  Speaker 3: and yodel. I'm here on business. Got to see the emperor.
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: At his majesty's request?
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: Let's not get technical about it.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Then how do you expect to see him?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he's going to see me or hear me or... Rather,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to hear my talking machine.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, really?
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, every day, you know, I find out he
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: goes out coon hunting or something out here, and one
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  Speaker 3: of these fine mornings, I'll hide behind a tree or something,
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  Speaker 3: get my talking machine all set, and suddenly... And then? Well,
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: once he gets a listen, it'll be a sense. He'll say,
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: how come that beautiful doggone band is up here playing
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  Speaker 3: in these little bitty old doggone foothills of mine?
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  Speaker 4: That's what he'll say?
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: I shall pop out from behind my tree, and I'll say, imp,
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  Speaker 3: That's no band. That's a phonograph. Come on over here.
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  Speaker 3: See for yourself. Very clever.
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  Speaker 4: Only it won't work.
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  Speaker 3: Why not?
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  Speaker 4: Because you will not be hiding behind any tree. Because
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: no tradesman can be allowed to presume on the emperor
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: of Austria. And because you're going straight back to the inn,
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: pack your things and leave immediately. You and that miserable
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  Speaker 4: dog of yours.
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  Speaker 3: Who's going to make us?
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: The police.
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  Speaker 3: Like fun they will. I'm an American citizen. He's an
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  Speaker 3: American dog. I got a passport, he's got a dog class.
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  Speaker 4: And if you don't leave voluntarily, I'll see that they
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  Speaker 4: throw you out.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Now, you try anything like that and you're going to
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: get into a peck of trouble. Don't you forget that
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: Teddy Roosevelt still carries a big stick.
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: Who carries what?
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: You start a mad with me, he'll have the Rough
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: Riders over here so fast make your head swim, boy.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: Your Honor, get back here at once. Your hair is
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: on his feet.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: And the Army will be here, too, and the Navy
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: and the Marines, you understand? And don't forget... We're building
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: a little thing called the Panama Canal.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: Just what are you raving about?
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: You'll find out soon enough when we won't let your
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: ships through. Not one of them. You'll have to go
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: all the way down around South America. Or else you'll
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: have to go all the way up north where it's
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: so darn cold that you.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: The first train out of here. You and your apparatus
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: and that dog. Especially that dog.
• 15:27
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: We'll fix you in Washington. What we'll do to your ambassador.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: And we'll boycott your products. The Blue Danube forbidden by
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: Act of Congress. Yeah. Oh, hi, fellas. Oh, shut up
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: with that stuff. In a moment, we'll.
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: Return with Act Two of The Emperor Waltz.
• 15:59
  Speaker 17: Now here's our Hollywood reporter, Libby Collins, with interesting news
• 16:03
  Speaker 17: for movie fans.
• 16:04
  Speaker 18: They'll be glad to know, Mr. Keeley, that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has
• 16:08
  Speaker 18: an important new picture. It's The Red Danube, an exciting
• 16:12
  Speaker 18: story of post-war Vienna, as up-to-date as today's headlines.
• 16:15
  Speaker 17: There's certainly drama in that subject, Libby. You know, Walter
• 16:18
  Speaker 17: Pigeon tells me his role in this picture is one
• 16:20
  Speaker 17: of the most powerful.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: He's ever done.
• 16:22
  Speaker 18: Ethel Barrymore is thrilled with the story, too. and with
• 16:26
  Speaker 18: her part as the mother superior of a convent near Vienna.
• 16:29
  Speaker 17: Yes, only a great actress could play the role with
• 16:32
  Speaker 17: such conviction, which means that Miss Barrymore, well, she's perfectly
• 16:35
  Speaker 17: cast in the part.
• 16:36
  Speaker 18: I love Peter Lawford as the dashing British major. Didn't
• 16:40
  Speaker 18: he get a grand reception when he went to the
• 16:42
  Speaker 18: premiere in San Francisco last week?
• 16:44
  Speaker 17: Yes, and I noticed that Janet Leigh takes another step
• 16:46
  Speaker 17: towards stardom in The Red Danube. You know, she makes
• 16:49
  Speaker 17: a very lovely Russian ballerina.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed.
• 16:52
  Speaker 18: She looks the part with that delicate, almost ethereal beauty
• 16:55
  Speaker 18: she has. Don't you think so, John?
• 16:58
  Speaker 14: She's a charmer, Libby, especially in the close-ups.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: A luxe girl, of course. That's right.
• 17:03
  Speaker 18: Janet Fine's luxe toilet soap gives her skin just the
• 17:07
  Speaker 18: care it needs. And the new bath-size cake makes a
• 17:10
  Speaker 18: special hit with her. It's so luxurious, she says.
• 17:13
  Speaker 14: That big bath-size luxe toilet soap couldn't be finer. Lots
• 17:17
  Speaker 14: of rich, creamy lather. And a perfume screen stars love.
• 17:21
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 17:22
  Speaker 18: It leaves such a delicate, clinging fragrance on the skin.
• 17:25
  Speaker 18: There's something rather special about that Luxo perfume.
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Indeed there is.
• 17:30
  Speaker 14: It's an exclusive blend of many flower fragrances. Rose, Jasmine,
• 17:35
  Speaker 14: Lily of the Valley are just a few.
• 17:37
  Speaker 18: No wonder that new bath-size cake is the choice of
• 17:40
  Speaker 18: nine out of ten screen stars.
• 17:43
  Speaker 14: And women everywhere say it makes their daily beauty bath
• 17:47
  Speaker 14: more refreshing than ever. Have you tried this fine new
• 17:51
  Speaker 14: product of Lever Brothers Company, you'll find the whole family
• 17:55
  Speaker 14: will enjoy the generous bath-size luxe toilet soap.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Now, our producer, Mr.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: William Keeley.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: Act II of.
• 18:03
  Speaker 17: The Emperor Walls, starring Bing Crosby as Virgil Smith and
• 18:07
  Speaker 17: Anne Blythe as the Countess.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: ¶ ¶.
• 18:16
  Speaker 17: Well, our hero, Virgil Smith, is convinced that his sales
• 18:20
  Speaker 17: trip to Austria is a bust. And in the Golden
• 18:23
  Speaker 17: Fiddle Inn, he's packing up to go home. A few
• 18:26
  Speaker 17: miles away in the Emperor's Hunting Lodge, disaster hovers over
• 18:30
  Speaker 17: the royal dog kennels.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Scheherazade, the French poodle, is ailing.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: How is she, Dr.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Schweibach?
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, my poor Scheherazade.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: Physically, there is nothing wrong with a countess, but emotionally, well,
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: this is something else again.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: You think she's upset about her wedding?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: It's very difficult to say.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I have been psychoanalyzing her.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: But she never had a sick day until she had
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: the fight with that other dog.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: Fight? Other dog?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: It's an American dog, a brown and white mongrel.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: His name?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: What was his name?
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Buttons.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Let's test it. Scheherazade, listen.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Buttons.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Absolutely clear now.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: A fear complex.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Very disturbing.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Isn't there a cure?
• 19:16
  Speaker 13: We must bring the two dogs together, Scheherazade and these buttons.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, but I've ordered Buttons' owner to leave Austria.
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: You did what?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: That is bad, Countess.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Very bad.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Oh, maybe it's not too late. He'll be at the inn.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: Don't worry, Scheherazade. I'll do everything I can.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Everything. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right. I'm leaving, I told you.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I'll go on back to the police station. Let me finish....
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Well, well, well.
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Come in, Countess. I thought it was the cops again.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: I'm here to demand your cooperation, Mr.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Smith. Me? Help a Countess?
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: My dog is in a state of complete collapse.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: What am I supposed to do?
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Well, the reason for Scheherazade's breakdown is fear. And the
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: reason for her fear is your dog.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: Now, the veterinary says, well, to put it simply, if
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Scheherazade could realize that Buttons is not a danger, if
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: your dog could be nice to my dog, well.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no. She might toss a flea on him
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: or something.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I assure you, this is a matter of utmost importance.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: It goes far beyond just curing a dog.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: So we're going to do you a favor, and then
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: you're going to kick us out, is that it? No. No.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: No, you can stay as long as you like. I
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: don't care.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, now you're talking sense.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Let me get Scheherazade from the carriage. There's no time
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: to waste. Oh, and see that your dog behaves.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: Hold it, Countess. There's a word missing here.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I beg your pardon?
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: The word is please.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: Please.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Ah, ah, ah, ah. You can do better than that. Please.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Come again. Please. Bring in the mutt.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Just look at them, Mr. Smith, playing like a couple
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: of puppies. It's incredible.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I told you, didn't I? Back in Vienna, the Buttons
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: was a gentleman. Of course, after she hurt his feelings
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: the way she did, you know.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: You don't know how relieved I am. Why, the doctor
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: said Scheherazade might have gone C-R-A-Z-Y.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, not that. Well, let's see what else we can do.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Does Scheherazade like music? Now, there's a piano over there
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: in the corner.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, I think she'd love some music. Oh, nothing too gay, though.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: She mustn't become overstimulated.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, no. Well, let's see. How's this here?
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's fine.
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: Perfect.
• 21:57
  Speaker 11: In dreams I kiss your hand, madame Your dainty fingertips
• 22:08
  Speaker 11: And while in slumberland, madame I'm.
• 22:15
  Speaker 15: Begging for your lips.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I haven't any right, madame To do the things I do.
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: Just when I hold you tight, madame You vanish with
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: the night, madame In dreams I kiss your hand, madame.
• 22:49
  Speaker 15: And I pray my dreams come true.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I think, you know what I was thinking, maybe a
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: little object lesson might help, huh? Object lesson? Well, if
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I were to kiss you like this. Oh. Well, then
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: they might get the idea too, catch on?
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: I see.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Nothing personal, you understand?
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, I understand perfectly. You may kiss me again, Mr.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Smith.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't presume.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: No, no, of course you wouldn't.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, look, look.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: She's kissing Buttons, and now Buttons is kissing her. Oh,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: she's cured, huh?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sure she is. Come, dear, we can go
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: back now.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Say goodbye, Buttons.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: You've been very kind, Mr. Smith.
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: Oh, uh.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Uh, my, uh, talking machine, huh? Any objections?
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no objections.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: You wouldn't happen to know when he's going hunting?
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Tomorrow morning. They've sighted a big stag in the glen.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Well, then, if I hide in the woods tomorrow morning
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: and I bring along the phonograph.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: The chances are he'd hear it. Goodbye, Mr.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Smith.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Well, what's the matter with you?
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: You're telling me, huh?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: There he is, Your Majesty. What a magnificent stag. What antlers.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: All my life I've waited for.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: A stag like that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: Here's your rifle, Your Majesty.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Look at it.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Like a statue mounted on those rocks.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Don't move anyone.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: No, already I can see its head mounted above Your
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Majesty's desk.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: I can't miss. Not at this distance.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: Quiet now. I'll take aim.
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: Oh, no.
• 24:38
  Speaker 14: No.
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: No.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: My stag.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: He's gone.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: Incredible.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Must be a band marching down the highway.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I want my stag. I want my stag.
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: Music here.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Arrest them.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Arrest every man in that band, especially the brass section. Oh,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: what a disappointment. What a tragedy.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: It's inhuman. I can't stand it.
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: I can't stand it. Turn that thing off.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Countess.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, how are you, Countess? Oh, but the emperor's here.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: I saw his hunting party.
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: Hey, now, look out.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Don't fool with that. You're going to scratch my record.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Look out.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Don't.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: You've scared off the emperor's stag. They're combing the woods
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: for you.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, he can knock off a stag any time,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: but an invention like this... Oh, be quiet.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: Did you find that band?
• 25:21
  Speaker 9: Not yet, Countess, but they must be here somewhere. Who
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: is that man?
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: You mean this man?
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: What's he doing here?
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, just a tourist picking wild strawberries.
• 25:32
  Speaker 9: And that contraption he's.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Got, what is it?
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Well, that's what I was just asking about. It's apparently
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: for strawberries.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Huh?
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sure, strawberries. Show me. Well, um, well, you
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: see this horn? You put the strawberries in here, and
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: then you grind them up with this crank, you see?
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: And the jam collects down yonder in the box. Yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: down in the, you get the box down there, you
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: get the jam.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: That round black thing, what does that do?
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, you mean this platter? Well, this is what you
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: serve them on. And the hole in the middle, that's
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: so the juice can run out.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Any questions?
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: It would seem to me that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I don't care what it seems to you. Now go
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: find that van.
• 26:13
  Speaker 9: I beg your pardon, Countess.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Comforts.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, you're a pet, Countess, and thanks.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I'm afraid you'll have to think up another scheme for
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: your talking machine.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I will. I don't know when it's... Say it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: How's Scheherazade?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, gay as a lock. Busy with her wedding plans.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Being trimmed, a new collar, sniffing over her wedding presents.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Buttons and I, we didn't sleep a wink last night.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: Couldn't eat breakfast, either.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, I'm so sorry.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: See, you don't suppose that, uh, you know, whatever Scheherazade
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: had that, uh, could that be contagious, huh?
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, nonsense. Buttons is a sturdy, well-adjusted little dog.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about me. I'm the one. I'm the one
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: who's got the shivers.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Oh, now, really.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: Now, don't laugh. I got them. One of these nights,
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: there'll be a knock on your door, and when you
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: open it, Buttons will be standing there with me in
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: his arms. Just like you were with Scheherazade. And I'll
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: lie there quaking, with my eyes rolled back until just
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: the white is showing. Oh, you'd have to help me then,
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: wouldn't you?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: How?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Well, you'd bend over me and... Well, you remember the
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: cure we found?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Ioana!
• 27:23
  Speaker 15: Ioana, where are you? I.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: I have to go.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Countess, now wait. Wait a minute. Don't go. Don't you
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: feel it, too?
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Feel what, Mr.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Smith?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: That funny stir inside of you. All bubbles and firecrackers
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: and your blood all out of whack. Oh, boy, right
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: now mine's going counterclockwise. How's yours?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Perfectly normal, I assure you. Goodbye, Mr. Smith.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: Countess, hey!
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, well. Fat chance I'd have with a gal like that.
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Say, I wonder if it would work. I throw some
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: strawberries in the horn, I turn the.
• 28:01
  Speaker 19: Holy Toledo, I am nuts, I guess.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Still awake, Scheherazade? Don't you know it's way past midnight?
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: Now you listen to me. He's just an ordinary little
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: dog like a million other little dogs. All right, he
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: has some charm, knows a few tricks. But he's not
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: for you, Scheherazade. He's not your sort. And tomorrow, you
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: and the emperor's poodle will be married. Oh, now stop crying.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: You're not a child, Scheherazade. You're an adult, intelligent woman
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: with a position to maintain. Self-control? Dignity? Is that too
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: much to ask? It's no use, is it, Scheherazade? A
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: fine pair we make.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Scheherazade, where are you going?
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Scheherazade, come back here.
• 29:24
  Speaker 12: Your Royal Chamberlain, sire, I find it my duty to.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
• 29:28
  Speaker 12: Well, it's high time you knew what was going on.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Well, speak up, speak up. What's going on?
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Sire, it is three weeks since the Countess Joanna came
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: here to the mountains with her dog.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: Why do you suppose the Countess is so intent upon
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: remaining there?
• 29:40
  Speaker 16: Here?
• 29:41
  Speaker 12: Why has she not returned to Vienna?
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Perhaps she likes it here.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: She has an excellent reason, Your Highness. There's an American
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: in the village. I've had trouble with him before, Sire.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: Countess Joanna sees this low person every day. He dares
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: to make love to her.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: It's been going on for three weeks. She can't object
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: too strenuously. Perhaps she finds it amusing, which is more
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: than I can say for you. Now stop this absurd
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: gossip and let me alone.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Let's not walk anymore, Virgil. Let's just sit here by
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: the lake. You know something?
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: What?
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: If Scheherazade hadn't run away that night to find Buttons,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be here now.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Poor Buttons. His gallop and married royalty.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: As I shall probably do one of these days.
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: Meanwhile, do you suppose I could trouble you for another kiss,
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: honey countess?
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: No trouble at all. I'll never forget you, Virgil.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, you bet you won't. Because I'm going to be
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: around to remind you.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Impertinent, unpardonable, ridiculous Virgil.
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: You can say your lips are not for me But
• 31:04
  Speaker 11: you can't hide.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: The kiss that's in your eyes.
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: And you can say my arms are Would only leave
• 31:18
  Speaker 10: you cold But wait till they hold you And then
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: look wide Yes, and.
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: You can say tonight We'll come and.
• 31:37
  Speaker 20: Go Without a single moment's worth of silence.
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: But why should I agree When I know what will
• 31:57
  Speaker 10: be It's plain.
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: To me Plain.
• 32:07
  Speaker 19: As the kiss.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: What did you mean, Virgil? You're going to be around?
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: I thought you were going back to America.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I got it all worked out, honey countess. You pack
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: your bags, I pack mine. We get the dogs, we
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: take the first train, the first boat. And then one
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: day your folks are going to get a postcard from Newark,
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: New Jersey, and it'll say, Merry Christmas from Mr. and Mrs.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Virgil Homer Smith.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. Oh, it sounds so wonderful.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Is that great?
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: And so impossible.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Don't you understand, Virgil? There'd be a scandal, and we
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: can't afford a scandal in my family. I have a
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: younger brother in the Imperial Military School. He'd be expelled.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Well, so he'll hustle around. He'll get a job setting
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: up pens in the Imperial bowling alley or something. He'll
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: find something. Don't worry about it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: I have a young sister. She's to be presented at court.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Well, so she'll call in the neighborhood kids. Instead, she'll
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: have herself a big taffy post.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: And then there's my father. Very bankrupt and slightly dishonest.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: If we should affront the emperor.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, the emperor again. Nobody's that important.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: He is, darling.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Well, then why don't I go see him? Tell him
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: how things are with us, that we're wacky about each other.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: He wouldn't listen to me.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Well, you just get me in there now. I'll reason
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: it out with him.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: You don't reason with an emperor, Virgil. You simply listen
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: to what he tells you. And what he has to
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: say is no.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Not me. I don't take no. I'm a salesman. Pretty
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: good salesman, too.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: So I've noticed.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Come on, honey countess, let me see him. What do
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: you say? Come on.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: I'll see what I can do, Virgil. But I'm warning
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: you now, it's no use.
• 33:59
  Speaker 9: In other words, Mr.
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: Smith, you're trying to tell me that you're in love
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: with the Countess von Stolzenberg-Stolzenberg.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Exactly, Your Majesty, and she loves me. Oh, I know
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: it sounds crazy, considering who she is and where I
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: hail from. Way the other side of the tracks, but.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: And in which one of the United States are these
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: tracks located?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: New Jersey. Newark, New Jersey. My mother has a place there.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: An estate?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, it's a house. Well, sort of half a house.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Two-family deal, you know.
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: Dr.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Coleman, the dentist, he lives in the other half. Very
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: nice fellow, Doc. You ought to say, we go bowling
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: every night together, have a barrel of laps.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: And you and Joanna would live with your mother?
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Well, then she wouldn't be alone, you see, when while
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: I'm out on the road.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: On the road?
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: That's right. I'm a traveling salesman. I earn $ 22 a week,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: 4% commission. That's not bad, you know, when you consider
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: what an up-and-coming product I handle. I got it right here,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: just in case, you know, you'd like to.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's it, that mechanical music box with which you've
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: pursued me.
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: Gee, I'm sorry about the stag, Your Highness. You know,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: of course, I'm the one made you lose him. Did
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: you know that?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: No, I probably would have missed him anyway. Very poor shot.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: This talking machine, it's really good.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Good? Why, it's the gosh darnedest, jim-dandiest machine you ever.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Listen, I didn't come here to sell the machine. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: came here to sell myself. So you wouldn't think the
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: Countess was throwing herself away on some hoodlum.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: You know. But you're not a hoodlum, are you?
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: No, no.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: You're a businessman.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, sure.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: And if a good business proposition offered itself, you wouldn't
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: let it slip through your fingers.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, I should hope not, sir.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: It so happens I have one for you. Give up, Joanna,
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: and I'll endorse your talking machine.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Come again?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you heard me.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, now, look. I love Joanna.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: That's what I'm counting on. I've seen these love affairs
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: time and again, Mr.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Smith.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Princes eloping with soubrettes, princesses with head waiters.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Why not, if they love each other?
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: Because it never lasts, never. Few short months, then unhappiness, disaster,
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: even death.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: Why, in my own.
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: What, is it royalty?
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Is it so much better than my sort of people?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I don't say that. No, no.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: What I do say is that I know my class.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: Take Joanna with you, and you destroy her. Do you
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: want to destroy someone you love?
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: No, I don't want to, and I'm not going to.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: I'm going to make her happy.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: One chance in a million. Picture Joanna in this two-family
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: house in your Newark. Oh, she still may love you,
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: but as she dries the dishes, won't she think, Tonight
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: is the gala opening of the opera in Vienna. Last
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: week I should have been at Ascot in the Royal Enclosure.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: I wonder how the season is at Biarritz.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, she won't think that.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Because she has you. Are you enough, Mr. Smith?
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: Twenty-two dollars a week with four percent commission? I too
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: love your honour, and I intend to protect her. Now
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: show me that machine of yours.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Well, how does it work?
• 37:07
  Speaker 11: In dreams I kiss your hand, madame.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Your dainty fingertips.
• 37:22
  Speaker 15: And while in slumberland, madame.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: I'm begging for your lips I haven't any right, madame.
• 37:39
  Speaker 15: To do the things I.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Do Oh, not exactly grand opera, but pleasant in its way.
• 37:46
  Speaker 11: Just when I hold you tight, madame You vanish with.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: The night, madame In dreams I kiss your hand.
• 38:03
  Speaker 15: And I pray my dreams come true.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: That music. What's going on in there, Your Honor?
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know, Father. I don't understand.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: This is fantastic.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: The impudence.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Taking up the Emperor's time.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: Maybe he's playing the talking machine because everything is going
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: so well. Oh, that must be it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: He's doing it just to trick a nice old man
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: into a sentimental mood. It's not fair.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: The Emperor's consented. Oh, I just know he has. Well,
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: what happened, Virgil?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: What is it?
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: What did His Majesty say?
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: Exactly what I wanted him to say, Honey Countess.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, Virgil.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: And I sure want to thank you, both for myself
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: and on behalf of the company.
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's all so wonderful. What company?
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: The phonograph company, my boss's. They better send you a
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: bathtub full of roses, too.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: But.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: but why?
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Well, you helped swing the deal, didn't you? I sold
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: the emperor the phonograph. From now on, it's the same.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: You mean.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: You mean that's all you talked about?
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, come, come now, Countess. What's a salesman after? First, last,
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: all the time.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: A sale.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Of course. And everything that happened between us, all those words,
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: those silly dreams, all part of what you call a sale. campaign. I.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: I had a hunch you'd be a little sore, but
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: you couldn't have taken it seriously. Gee, a countess and
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: a traveling salesman.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: I guess I'm terribly stupid. Well, you're a very good
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: salesman indeed.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: The company thinks so. They send me on all these
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: tough assignments.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: This one wasn't so tough, now, was it?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: No hard feelings, huh?
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: No feelings at all. It's just funny, isn't it?
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: It's not half as funny as the idea of me, me,
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: Virgil Smith, taking a life-size Countess back to Newark. So long, Countess.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Thanks for everything. Thank you. We pause now for station identification.
• 40:22
  Speaker 14: This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: After a brief.
• 40:46
  Speaker 17: Intermission, we'll continue with the third act of the Emperor Walt.
• 40:50
  Speaker 17: It's always a pleasure to see a promising young player
• 40:52
  Speaker 17: get ahead, and we're glad to welcome Randy Stewart of
• 40:55
  Speaker 17: 20th Century Fox. I understand you've been very busy at
• 40:58
  Speaker 17: the studio since your last visit to the Lux Radio Theater, Randy.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, I have, Mr. Cagley, and I love it. You
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: learn something new every day, you know.
• 41:06
  Speaker 21: For instance, I never realized before the drama there is
• 41:09
  Speaker 21: in the trucking business.
• 41:10
  Speaker 17: Obviously, you've been seeing the new Fox picture, Thieves Highway,
• 41:14
  Speaker 17: the story of those long-haul trucks that travel by night.
• 41:17
  Speaker 21: And the danger and adventure they meet en route. With
• 41:20
  Speaker 21: Richard Condie heading the cast, there's plenty of action.
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: Yes, he's a forceful player.
• 41:24
  Speaker 17: And so is the new Italian discovery, Valentino Cortese, who
• 41:27
  Speaker 17: plays his sweetheart. Barbara Lawrence turns in a grand performance, too,
• 41:31
  Speaker 17: in Thieves' Highway. You know, there's a young player with
• 41:33
  Speaker 17: real ability. Very easy on the eyes, too.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: I should say so.
• 41:36
  Speaker 21: And I think Mr. Kennedy will be glad to know
• 41:39
  Speaker 21: that she's an ardent luxe girl. Why, she even took
• 41:42
  Speaker 21: a supply of her favorite beauty soap on location with her.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: That was a smart idea.
• 41:46
  Speaker 14: But then screen stars wouldn't be without Lux Toilet Soap
• 41:49
  Speaker 14: for daily beauty care.
• 41:50
  Speaker 21: And they love the big new bath size cake, Mr.
• 41:52
  Speaker 14: Kennedy.
• 41:53
  Speaker 21: It makes such a refreshing bath. Wonderful for a quick
• 41:56
  Speaker 21: pick-up after a day on the set.
• 41:59
  Speaker 14: Yes, that new bath cake is a winner everywhere. It's
• 42:02
  Speaker 14: generous in size and so convenient to use.
• 42:05
  Speaker 21: And the perfume it leaves on your skin is just
• 42:08
  Speaker 21: what women like. Reminds me of spring flowers.
• 42:11
  Speaker 14: Thanks, Miss Randy Stewart, for coming tonight. And now, here's
• 42:14
  Speaker 14: a hint for canny shoppers. Put the new bath-sized luxe
• 42:18
  Speaker 14: toilet soap on your list tomorrow. The whole family will
• 42:22
  Speaker 14: appreciate it. Here's your producer, Mr.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: Keeley.
• 42:26
  Speaker 17: The curtain rises on the third act of The Emperor Walls,
• 42:28
  Speaker 17: starring Bing Crosby as Virgil Smith and Anne Blythe as
• 42:32
  Speaker 17: the Countess. It's a few months later now, and Virgil
• 42:42
  Speaker 17: Smith's talking machines, endorsed by the Emperor, have taken Vienna
• 42:45
  Speaker 17: by storm.
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: There's a ball in the palace tonight.
• 42:49
  Speaker 17: And an uninvited guest has managed to crash the royal gate.
• 42:53
  Speaker 17: He's found the Countess Johanna and hustled her off to
• 42:55
  Speaker 17: an ante-room.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Let go of my arm.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Countess, count, please.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: Now, you don't think I'd have come here at all,
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: do you, if it wasn't a matter of life and death?
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Whatever your reason, Mr. Smith, I am not interested. I
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: don't think my father is either. And if he should
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: find you.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Look, look, now, after the night, you'll never see me again.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: I promise you. We're ready to go home. Only buttons
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: will never make it. He's sick. He'll never live to
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: see Newark again, unless you help us.
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: No.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: Now let me get back to the bone.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: He's out there in the carriage, poor little fellow, all
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: bundled up. You ought to see him. Just a little
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: rack of bones. Last night he dragged himself out of
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: the hotel. You know where I found him? In front
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: of your house. Looking for Scheherazade.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: I'm extremely sorry.
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: I rang the bell and your servants told me Scheherazade
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: was here at the palace.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: And she can't be disturbed.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: What are you trying to do, Connors? You trying to
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: take it out on him for something I did? Buttons
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: isn't a businessman. He isn't working any angles. All Buttons
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: did was to lose his fool heart, that's all.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: One doesn't die of a lost heart, Mr.
• 43:51
  Speaker 17: Smith.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: Except in those syrupy songs the chambermaids play on your phonograph.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Well, let him see her just once more, huh? Come on.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Just for a minute. Just so the poor little dog
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: can begin to breathe again. I'll go out there and
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: get him.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I'm expected back in the ballroom, Mr. Smith, and that's
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: just where I'm going.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: I forgot the word, maybe, huh?
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: Please. Please.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Your Honor, where have you been?
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: What is it, Father?
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: The Emperor just went to the kennel. Scheherazade's puppies. They'll
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: be born at any moment now. Well, aren't you coming?
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: Yes, Father, of course.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, buttons. Now, how'd you get in here? I thought
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: I told you to wait out there and stay covered up. Oh,
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: you just... You just got to see Scheherazade. Is that it?
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Well....
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy, I never wanted to tell you this, but
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: I guess I'll have to. Seems that she and the
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: emperor's poodle, well, Buttons, she's about to present him with
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: her family. Sorry, fella, but that's the way it is.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Now do you give up?
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: Buttons!
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: Buttons, here.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Here now.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Come back here.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: Here now.
• 44:58
  Speaker 9: Wait a minute.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Buttons!
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: Well, Your Honor, well, any news in there?
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: It will be a little while yet, Your Majesty. If
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: you'll excuse me, I'll stay with Scheherazade.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Of course, my dear, of course.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: What a relief, General, when this is all over.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: Now, what shall I call the puppies?
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Let me see.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: They'll be black, of course. Jet black, like their mother
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: and father. I have a few suggestions, Your Highness. For
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: the firstborn, Othello.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, good, good, good.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: For the second, Café Noir, if he's very small. Demitasse.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, and if it's a female, Sheba. Queen of Sheba,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: you know, she was dark.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Inspired, Your Majesty, simply inspired.
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, if I could only stay here, but I can't
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: after the palace full of guests.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: You will remain, General.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: Let me know the moment the puppies arrive.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, uh-huh. So this is where you are, Buttons, huh? Well,
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: those are the royal kennels, that's right. Scheherazade must be
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: in there, but... Oh, she's a pretty busy lady right now.
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I guess all we can do is just walk the
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: floor out here.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Who is it?
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: Who is that?
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: The Emperor. Why, uh, it's just Buttons and me, Your Highness.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Me.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: Remember Virgil Smith with the music box?
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here? Well, as, uh.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what am I... Well, I came to see Dr. Schweibach.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Buttons here has really got the miseries, and I understand
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: that Dr. Schweibach's got something in there that might do
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: him a world of good.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: He's the best veterinarian in Austria, but you'll have to wait.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: He's very busy right now.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, we'll wait, Your Highness.
• 46:35
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: Easy buttons. Easy boy, now. We'll see her yet. Don't worry.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Just stick with me.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: Well, Cybuck, what is it? Don't just stand there staring
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: at me. The puppies, General. They've arrived? Well, what's wrong?
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Come in this room and look.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: There in the little basket. Well, now, that's more like.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: No.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: No, I refuse to believe my eyes.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Three puppies, brown and white.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Each of them.
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: That blasted black Jezebel.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, stop shouting, Father.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: That dog can't do this to me.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: She seems to have done it anyway. These puppies are
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: the image of buttons.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: The Emperor, this will break his heart.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: It could ruin me. Nevertheless, he must be told at once.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Your Honor, you'll come with me.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: Yes, perhaps I'd better be a good mama, Scheherazade. I'll
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: be back later.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Zweibach, come here.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: I shall tell the Emperor that the puppies were born dead.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Then he won't want to see them.
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: Good, good.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: But what shall I do with them?
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: Father, I'm waiting.
• 47:34
  Speaker 9: I'll be right there.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: You will drown them at once.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: General, I... You heard me. Drown them.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: That's an order.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: Three puppies, you say, General, and all black, eh? Black
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: as coal, I wager. Well, I shall go to them
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: at once. I.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I don't think you should see them.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Great grief has befallen.
• 47:56
  Speaker 13: Us, Your Majesty. Your Honor was too upset to face
• 47:58
  Speaker 13: you with me, sire. The puppies, they were born dead.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Dead? Such an ugly word.
• 48:07
  Speaker 9: How is she, Harrison?
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Quite well. She'll give you puppies yet, Your Highness. Come spring,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: you may count on another litter.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: The question is, can I count on another spring? Now go. Go.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Your Majesty.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Your Majesty. Well, Your Honor, you heard what I told him.
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Do you think it's wise to lie to His Majesty?
• 48:25
  Speaker 13: I thought I handled it very well. Anyway, I didn't lie.
• 48:28
  Speaker 13: The puppies are dead. I ordered Zweibach to drown them.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: You didn't.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: You couldn't have.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Let them live.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Run the risk of him finding out. Now stop acting
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: so tragic and get back to the ballroom.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Hi. Hey, can we come in, Doc? I hope it's
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: not fast visiting.
• 48:53
  Speaker 15: Who are you?
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Get out of here. Oh, yeah.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: Just a minute. You're being a little rude, aren't you?
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: This little gentleman here is a close friend of the family.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: There you are, Buttons. There's your hairs on that. Nobody's
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: allowed in here.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Now get out. What about the pups? Where are.
• 49:07
  Speaker 9: Hey.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Hey, what are you filling that pail for?
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Stay away from there.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Orders have been given. What orders?
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Now give me those pups.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: They're in the basket there, but you can't... Stop!
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: Stop!
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Come back!
• 49:19
  Speaker 8: Thank you.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen, His Majesty, the Emperor, Franz Josef.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Just a second.
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: Just a second, Your Majesty.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute now. Before you tell these people that
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: the dance can go on, I got a little something
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: to tell you.
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: What?
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: I got the puppies, you see? And you're not going
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: to kill them.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Just what are you trying to tell me?
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: They're not pure enough for you. They're not good enough, huh?
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Freaks.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Little brown and white mongrels that you wouldn't have around.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: So what are you going to do? You're going to
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: shake them off that great big noble family tree of
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: yours and let them rot. As if nothing had ever happened.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Exactly what is in that basket, Mr. Sheffield?
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: The Harazad's pups.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: And you know it. General von Stolzenberg.
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: It seemed wiser, Your Majesty. I didn't want to shock you.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Let me see them, Mr. Smith.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: And as my hearing is not impaired, please stop shouting
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: at me. Well, I wanted to get my two cents
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: worth in before you started talking. Last time, like a chump,
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: I kept my mouth shut, and what did you do?
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: You sold me a bill of goods about the wrong
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: side of the tracks and a lot of guff about
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: me not being good enough.
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: Are we discussing the Countess Ioanna or the contents of
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: this basket?
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: Well, it amounts to the same thing, only now I know...
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: With your very kind permission, sir, that you're full of
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: cracked ice. Maybe I was to fall for it and
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: walk out and make a heel out of myself. Virgil.
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: Virgil, will you say that again, please? Slowly and plainly
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: and simply.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: I sure will, honey goddess. But later.
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: Your majesty, please. Was it me that you made him
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: give up?
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: Your honor, we.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: We both agreed that with him you had only one
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: chance in a.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: Million to be happy.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: Does Your Majesty think I am happy? Isn't one chance
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: in a million better than no chance at all?
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear, you're much too pretty for mathematics. Look
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: at those puppies. Look, they're all boys.
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: Sure, boys run in Button's family.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: This tiny one has a bite.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: Like a nutcracker.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, and they're so sweet, Your Majesty. They'll be the strongest,
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: the smartest.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: The funniest little.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and between Buttons and me, we'll bring them up
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: right when we get them back home, too. There's no
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: fooling around with these. Can I have them?
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Indeed, you cannot have them, no.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: Why should you have Buttons and Scheherazade and the puppies?
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: Maybe we could leave one for His Majesty, the one
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: who seems so attached to his finger.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Oh, sure, that sounds like a good deal to me.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm going to do?
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: I'm going to withdraw that remark about the cracked ice.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, but I'm keeping them all nevertheless.
• 51:50
  Speaker 9: Now, leave me alone. Go on, dance, all of you.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Your Majesty, if I may.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: You may not. I'll settle with you later.
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: Virgil, the people, they're all staring at us.
• 52:05
  Speaker 16: Good, good.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: I got something to tell you. You too, honey countess,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: and the people.
• 52:09
  Speaker 11: Love is a dream, yet it's so real. Hard to
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: explain just how you feel. Deep in your heart, joy
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: seems to dwell. Like poet says. perfectly swell.
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: Some say love is loneliness and pain.
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: Some say love is serious and sad.
• 52:40
  Speaker 8: If you ask me and if.
• 52:42
  Speaker 3: I must tell, I'm with a poet that's perfectly swell.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Love is a dream, yet it's so real.
• 52:54
  Speaker 11: Hard to explain just how you feel.
• 52:59
  Speaker 15: Deep in your heart.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: Joy seems to dwell.
• 53:04
  Speaker 11: Like poets say, it's perfectly swell.
• 53:34
  Speaker 17: Your applause calls tonight's stars back to the footlights. Here
• 53:37
  Speaker 17: they are for a curtain call. Bing Crosby and Anne Blythe.
• 53:43
  Speaker 17: You know, you both gave delightful performances.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you very much, Bill. Take a bow, Countess.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, sure, and it's very kind of you, sir, to
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: say such nice things.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: The Countess is an old friend of Barry Fitzgerald's, don't
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: you think?
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Well, sir, now, you know, it's just that I work
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: so long with you and Barry in top of the morning.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: Paramount will adore you for saying that. So you just
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: get to talking that way, eh?
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: Ah, that's right. You might say it's a habit like
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: that wonderful bath-sized Lux soap.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, you can't beat Lux.
• 54:10
  Speaker 7: Oh, you're so right.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: It's a grand soap.
• 54:12
  Speaker 7: Aye, and she's one of our loveliest Lux girls.
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Bill. You know, I've been reading all about
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: the Lux Radio Theater's 15th anniversary in Look magazine. The
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: pictures are very interesting... Especially one taken in 1937 of
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: one of our older singing stars as he appeared here.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Well, Jolson in print again. You can't keep old Jolie down.
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: Bing, this was a picture of you. Very handsome, too.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: Me?
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: And look.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Must have been Al Dexter or somebody. What's the show
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: next week, Ben?
• 54:43
  Speaker 7: It's very timely, Bing. Next week, the World Series begins.
• 54:47
  Speaker 17: And next Monday night, we'll celebrate baseball's big week with
• 54:51
  Speaker 17: a fast-moving baseball comedy. It's the 20th Century Fox picture.
• 54:55
  Speaker 17: It happens every spring. We'll have the original star of
• 54:59
  Speaker 17: the picture.
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: Ray Milland.
• 55:01
  Speaker 17: And with Ray, the lovely Colleen Townsend. a delightful romantic
• 55:05
  Speaker 17: play for the whole family's entertainment next Monday.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll have to scout that lineup for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: So long, Bill. Good night.
• 55:12
  Speaker 17: Good night, and thank you both.
• 55:19
  Speaker 22: Levo Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join
• 55:23
  Speaker 22: me in inviting you to be with us again next
• 55:25
  Speaker 22: Monday evening when the Lux Radio Theater presents Ray Moland
• 55:29
  Speaker 22: and Colleen Townsend.
• 55:31
  Speaker 7: In It Happens Every Spring. This is William Keeley.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 55:43
  Speaker 14: Ann Blythe appeared by arrangement with Samuel Goldwyn, producer of
• 55:46
  Speaker 14: Rosanna McCoy. Our play was adapted by S.H. Barnett and
• 55:49
  Speaker 14: our music was directed by Louis Silvers. This is your announcer,
• 55:52
  Speaker 14: John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to join us again next
• 55:54
  Speaker 14: Monday night to hear It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray
• 55:57
  Speaker 14: Milland and Colleen Townsend. And listen in next Sunday night
• 56:01
  Speaker 14: to hear America's famous comedy team, Amos and Andy, when
• 56:03
  Speaker 14: they return to the air over most of these stations.
• 56:10
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• 56:14
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• 56:51
  Speaker 14: Radio Theater presentation of It Happens Every Spring, starring Ray
• 56:55
  Speaker 14: Moland and Colleen Townsend. Stay tuned for My Friend Irma,
• 56:59
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• 57:04
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  Speaker 8: Come on.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: It's taking so long.
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• 57:36
  Speaker 3: Taking us home the overture to Franz Schubert's Rosamund.
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• 57:55
  Speaker 24: become a bit much.
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  Speaker 24: This could be the start of something better.
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: The car is beautiful.
• 58:21
  Speaker 24: Where did you end up going for it?
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: This exclusive place that Dad has connections with.
• 58:25
  Speaker 24: They have more cars for more dealerships than like anywhere else.
• 58:27
  Speaker 8: You have to put me in touch.
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: What's it called?
• 58:30
  Speaker 24: It's Dune ADL.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Where?
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: Dunediel?
• 58:35
  Speaker 24: There's an accent on the E.
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: Do you mean.
• 58:38
  Speaker 24: Yes, I got it on Dundiel Cars.
• 58:40
  Speaker 16: Lift?
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Please.
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: Are you going past Kimmage? Oh, Kimmage!
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: No.
• 58:45
  Speaker 24: Dundiel Cars. You couldn't possibly go anywhere else.