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- 0:00Speaker 1: After a combat mission, Navy flier Lieutenant Daniel Bellamy is
- 0:04Speaker 1: mistakenly reported dead, and a recording of his words is
- 0:08Speaker 1: taken as a love message to Peggy Martin, a co
- 0:11Speaker 1: worker at the Prudential Typewriter Company. When Bellamy unexpectedly returns alive,
- 0:18Speaker 1: he and Peggy must contend with the public attention and
- 0:21Speaker 1: awkward expectations created by the mix up. This is Lux
- 0:26Speaker 1: Radio Theater, and on August twenty seventh, nineteen forty five,
- 0:31Speaker 1: CBS presented Practically Yours Episode four hundred ninety. Claudette Colbert
- 0:37Speaker 1: reprises her film role as Peggy Martin with Ray Milland
- 0:41Speaker 1: as Bellamy in Sanford Barnett's radio adaptation of the nineteen
- 0:46Speaker 1: forty four Paramount picture by Norman Krasna. John Cromwell is
- 0:51Speaker 1: your host as the program begins its twelfth consecutive year.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Here is the original broadcast.
- 1:09Speaker 2: The Lux Radio Theater brings you Pawdette Colbert and Ray
- 1:13Speaker 2: Milan in Practically Yours, Ladies and gentlemen, Your guest producer,
- 1:19Speaker 2: mister John Cromwell.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Our marquee lights ablaze,
- 1:30Speaker 3: our theater crowded Welcome to another night, Opening night at
- 1:34Speaker 3: the Lux Radio Theater, not in the Hollywood alone, but
- 1:38Speaker 3: clear across the continent, in city homes, to lonely country
- 1:42Speaker 3: farm and to our men and women overseas. The curtain
- 1:45Speaker 3: rises on our twelfth season on the air, and tonight
- 1:49Speaker 3: it rises strictly on laughter, upon a rollicking farce with
- 1:53Speaker 3: two of your favorite Hollywood players, Pawdette Colbert in her
- 1:57Speaker 3: original screen role and Milan supported by an all star cast.
- 2:03Speaker 3: They appear in practically yours from paramount Studios who are
- 2:07Speaker 3: currently celebrating a third of the century of public entertainment.
- 2:12Speaker 3: And I know of no more hilarious sample of that
- 2:14Speaker 3: entertainment than tonight's story of a returning heroes who finds
- 2:18Speaker 3: himself caught between a fiancee he hardly knows, a jealously
- 2:22Speaker 3: obnoxious rival, and a dog. Just how important a wire
- 2:27Speaker 3: head terrier can be in human destiny will shortly learned.
- 2:32Speaker 3: In a world still suffering from the shock of war
- 2:34Speaker 3: and faced with difficult problems of recovery. This national theater can,
- 2:39Speaker 3: I believe, do much to cheer our hearts and rest
- 2:42Speaker 3: our minds with laughter, excitement, and suspense that will be
- 2:47Speaker 3: our goal throughout the coming season, with we hope your
- 2:51Speaker 3: earnest criticism and advice for you, as we have often said,
- 2:56Speaker 3: are the real sponsors of this theater. You and lux
- 3:00Speaker 3: Your loyalty has been a challenge to us to present
- 3:02Speaker 3: the best that we can find in stars and plays.
- 3:06Speaker 3: We sincerely trust that your friendship to this theater, like
- 3:09Speaker 3: your preference for a Locke's toilet soap, will be rewarded
- 3:13Speaker 3: by continued satisfaction. Now as tens of minions thrilled at
- 3:18Speaker 3: the theatre's greatest annual opening, are curtainizers on Act one
- 3:22Speaker 3: of Practically Yours, with Claudette Colbert as Peggy and Raymonland
- 3:27Speaker 3: as Lieutenant Bellamy, a modest appropin in midtown, New York City.
- 3:42Speaker 3: In the combination bedroom and living room, two girls talk
- 3:45Speaker 3: quietly on a table our day's newspapers. They're blaring headlines
- 3:51Speaker 3: proclaiming the heroism of a young navy flyer. One of
- 3:55Speaker 3: the girls looks at her watch and then at the radio.
- 3:57Speaker 3: It's almost eight o'clock, know.
- 4:00Speaker 4: Peggy, I bet everybody in the Prudential Typewriter Company is
- 4:04Speaker 4: doing just what we're doing right now, waiting for that
- 4:07Speaker 4: radio program.
- 4:07Speaker 5: The whole country will be listening. But a good it'll
- 4:10Speaker 5: do him?
- 4:11Speaker 6: Now?
- 4:12Speaker 4: Dan Bellamy out there in the middle of the Pacific,
- 4:15Speaker 4: dead blown to pieces.
- 4:17Speaker 5: I think he used to work for this grace right
- 4:19Speaker 5: there and accounts receivable Pagan. Mmmm, Peggy, were you in
- 4:25Speaker 5: love with Dan? It's eight o'clock? You better turn on
- 4:28Speaker 5: the radio.
- 4:29Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 4:31Speaker 5: Were you in love with them? Peggy? How could I
- 4:33Speaker 5: have been in love with him? He hardly even looked
- 4:35Speaker 5: at me.
- 4:36Speaker 7: But you went for him, didn't you?
- 4:38Speaker 5: What girl didn't go for him? Oh? It doesn't seem
- 4:41Speaker 5: right talking about him like this, not now.
- 4:47Speaker 8: Already darn clock of.
- 4:51Speaker 9: Single handed dis intrap with young flyers and a Japanese
- 4:54Speaker 9: carrier at the bottom of the Pacific.
- 4:56Speaker 10: Is that we all know.
- 4:57Speaker 9: But what we didn't know is that't the last words
- 4:59Speaker 9: of a hero or a court for all postery words
- 5:03Speaker 9: that you will hear shortly. To tell you more about this,
- 5:06Speaker 9: here is United States Senator James L.
- 5:08Speaker 11: Cowie What Collie gosh?
- 5:11Speaker 12: Two days ago, Lieutenant Daniel Venames thanks the Japanese carrier
- 5:16Speaker 12: to show by deliberately tiving his plane into the enemy
- 5:19Speaker 12: ship a few seconds before meeting his death. Lieutenant Vellamy
- 5:23Speaker 12: was in radio contact with another Navy plane.
- 5:26Speaker 10: His conversation with his plane was picked up.
- 5:29Speaker 12: And recorded by a Navy monitor.
- 5:31Speaker 10: You will now hear a copy of that recording.
- 5:34Speaker 12: The last words of an American hero, Fellow Americans, will
- 5:39Speaker 12: you join me please?
- 5:40Speaker 13: In riot?
- 5:47Speaker 14: Emmy, Adams, Hemmy, he's talking to that other plane.
- 5:53Speaker 10: He remember you don't have a bomb side.
- 5:56Speaker 15: Just keep certainly, and when you sure you've got those demolitions,
- 6:00Speaker 15: I won't miss you know, I've heard.
- 6:02Speaker 16: Of guys doing something like this, always wondered how they
- 6:05Speaker 16: made up their minds. Nobody wants to go, but what
- 6:08Speaker 16: a chance like this comes along. It's just too big
- 6:10Speaker 16: a barging to pass up. That's why I'm going to do
- 6:12Speaker 16: a dive. Adam, don't be crazy by me. You've never
- 6:14Speaker 16: people to pull out of it. You've got two demolitions,
- 6:17Speaker 16: drop them and get out of it. There's only one
- 6:19Speaker 16: way to get that baby, for sure, Adam. I've kind
- 6:21Speaker 16: of dive. I think I was doing about eight thouand
- 6:23Speaker 16: there's a nice round number. You know what you're doing.
- 6:26Speaker 17: I know I wonder where I'd rather be right now
- 6:29Speaker 17: than here. You laugh at him, so I can't think
- 6:32Speaker 17: of any better place than Prudential time by the company.
- 6:34Speaker 17: Sitting at my own desk and one from the end. Yeah,
- 6:37Speaker 17: I wish I could do that just once more. One
- 6:40Speaker 17: more look at Piggy. I wish I could walk with
- 6:43Speaker 17: it through Central park Who gets the tip of my nose? Well,
- 6:47Speaker 17: this is it? Eight thousand feet? Okay, don't you all
- 6:50Speaker 17: my compliments?
- 6:51Speaker 10: The improp Japan there?
- 6:55Speaker 6: Piggy's sure? Oh Dad, sure?
- 7:19Speaker 5: You don't want a doctor?
- 7:20Speaker 11: Peggy, how do you feel?
- 7:22Speaker 5: I'm perfetly all right? I hadn't failed since I was
- 7:26Speaker 5: a kid. Better lie down here, Grace. Did you hear
- 7:30Speaker 5: what he said? Did you hear what Dan said on
- 7:33Speaker 5: the radio? Peggy? You wanted to look at me once more?
- 7:37Speaker 5: He wanted to walk with me in Central Parking. I
- 7:41Speaker 5: just don't know what to say. I never knew didn't
- 7:44Speaker 5: loved me.
- 7:45Speaker 6: I knew he imagined he loved Peggy.
- 7:48Speaker 8: Mister Meglan's coming to see you.
- 7:50Speaker 5: You remember how we used to go to lunch, but
- 7:53Speaker 5: four or five of us. Sometimes dam would come along.
- 7:57Speaker 5: He'd sit near me sometimes, but he never said it
- 8:00Speaker 5: special that I can remember, Pegy, did you hear what
- 8:07Speaker 5: I said? He's coming here?
- 8:09Speaker 6: Right away.
- 8:10Speaker 4: Mister Meglan, the president of the company, he just telephoned.
- 8:13Speaker 5: He heard it on the radio. That's very nice.
- 8:22Speaker 18: So I just wanted you to know how sorry I am,
- 8:24Speaker 18: miss Peggy, and at the same time, how I share
- 8:28Speaker 18: the tremendous pride you must feel.
- 8:31Speaker 10: Well.
- 8:32Speaker 13: I'll be running along by the way.
- 8:34Speaker 18: There's a big bond drive on the radio tomorrow night,
- 8:37Speaker 18: and they'd like you to say a few words.
- 8:39Speaker 13: And after all, as Dan Bellamie.
- 8:41Speaker 18: Is sweetheart talk on radio, they'll furnish the speech. Of course,
- 8:46Speaker 18: if you'd rather not be.
- 8:47Speaker 5: Glad to do it, if you thought it would do
- 8:49Speaker 5: any good.
- 8:50Speaker 18: Oh, that's very noble of you. Oh, don't think of
- 8:53Speaker 18: coming to work tomorrow.
- 8:54Speaker 5: Mister Megan.
- 8:54Speaker 18: We're so far nonsense. Save your strength for the broadcast.
- 8:59Speaker 18: Oh the news real people also called and after the
- 9:02Speaker 18: broadcast they'd like to get a little something for the newsreels.
- 9:05Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I see no.
- 9:06Speaker 18: No, don't worry. I'll stop by here tomorrow and we'll
- 9:09Speaker 18: work out everything.
- 9:10Speaker 5: I'll do my best, mister Magnan, Thank you.
- 9:23Speaker 6: So.
- 9:23Speaker 5: Fellow women of the radio audience, I say, draw on
- 9:27Speaker 5: the strength that is within you, the moral strength women
- 9:30Speaker 5: have had to develop through the ages. We also serve
- 9:34Speaker 5: who only stand and wait. So wait and pray and
- 9:38Speaker 5: work for No matter how small is your contribution to
- 9:40Speaker 5: the war effort, it's bound to help end this terrible
- 9:42Speaker 5: war sooner, and maybe one woman somewhere will have the
- 9:47Speaker 5: man she loves in her arms again, the man she
- 9:50Speaker 5: otherwise might have lost forever.
- 9:52Speaker 10: Thank you, Thank you, Miss Martin. Ladies and gentlemen, when
- 9:56Speaker 10: you hear such stirring thoughts, it can remind.
- 9:59Speaker 14: You only of one the wall box.
- 10:05Speaker 13: Or you were wonderful, Peggy, wonderful?
- 10:08Speaker 5: Are we going to stay for the rest of the program?
- 10:11Speaker 18: Those news real people, my dear, remember, Oh that's right,
- 10:14Speaker 18: they're in the publicity the office this way.
- 10:20Speaker 13: Right over, Miss Martine. He does face the camera and
- 10:23Speaker 13: start talking.
- 10:24Speaker 10: You can just say the same thing he does now
- 10:25Speaker 10: said on the radio.
- 10:26Speaker 5: Yes, two young women whose men are fighting in the
- 10:30Speaker 5: service of.
- 10:30Speaker 10: Our Not yet, Miss Martin, I'll tell you when to begin.
- 10:34Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry, I thought you meant this, John.
- 10:37Speaker 13: What is it?
- 10:37Speaker 10: Just got a new slash on the teletype of Stellis.
- 10:40Speaker 18: The newsroom told me to tell you right away what
- 10:42Speaker 18: Lieutenant Tellhamy has been found he's alive.
- 10:44Speaker 6: Why, but what do you mean?
- 10:46Speaker 18: Well, it seems that when he hit that JAP carrier
- 10:48Speaker 18: with his bombs, the force of the explosions threw his
- 10:51Speaker 18: plane out of the dive. Anyway, he was picked up
- 10:53Speaker 18: by an Avy patrol. Vote and he's safe, not even
- 10:55Speaker 18: a scratch.
- 10:56Speaker 5: I don't understand. You're not all just saying this for
- 10:59Speaker 5: some reason on account of news.
- 11:01Speaker 10: What else did it say? Want to hold onto your hats.
- 11:03Speaker 13: They're fine. Lieutenant Bellamy back home right now.
- 11:06Speaker 10: He'll be back in.
- 11:06Speaker 13: New York tomorrow.
- 11:09Speaker 5: Tomorrow, Miss gonna face.
- 11:11Speaker 13: Wow, I've got I got a holder. I got it.
- 11:13Speaker 19: And start those cameras, cow go on roll them all boy.
- 11:21Speaker 13: Navy heroes back from Pacific.
- 11:22Speaker 10: Miracle Man Dan Bellamy flying across country identic.
- 11:25Speaker 18: Welcome for Bellamy with Waddy Airport.
- 11:27Speaker 10: Who your fund is? Welcome to returning heroes?
- 11:36Speaker 5: Hello, Hello, I can't hear him, mister meglan who's still
- 11:40Speaker 5: at the airport?
- 11:41Speaker 6: Yes?
- 11:42Speaker 15: Can you hear him cheering?
- 11:43Speaker 5: Because Dan?
- 11:44Speaker 10: How did he know how he's flying?
- 11:46Speaker 15: I called him tony that he might be delayed. Well,
- 11:48Speaker 15: they're delayed. There must be fifty people here.
- 11:51Speaker 10: They won't let him go. Be sure to stand there
- 11:54Speaker 10: with missus Meglan, won't you Oh?
- 11:55Speaker 5: I will, I will.
- 11:56Speaker 20: I'm leaving now, but I've arranged.
- 11:58Speaker 15: Everything with his uncle. Who Dan's uncle, His uncle Ben?
- 12:02Speaker 15: He's uncle gonna clive into the house or will Dan
- 12:05Speaker 15: be surprised.
- 12:06Speaker 10: When he sees you?
- 12:07Speaker 15: So just you sit tight and you have Dan telling
- 12:10Speaker 15: me in your arms in just about thirty minutes good bye?
- 12:13Speaker 5: It no hit in my arms in thirty minutes.
- 12:31Speaker 13: Holy mackerel. Didn't think we'd ever get away once you
- 12:34Speaker 13: warn me Uncle Ben. That's what happens when you're a hero. Son.
- 12:37Speaker 13: That's one word I never want to hear again. Hey,
- 12:40Speaker 13: where are we going? It's sort of a surprise, Dan,
- 12:43Speaker 13: your old boss wants to see you.
- 12:44Speaker 19: Mister Maglin he does well, had swell you're gonna kick
- 12:48Speaker 19: out and seeing the old office again.
- 12:50Speaker 18: Except for here going to mister Maglin's house. I'm dropping
- 12:52Speaker 18: you off there. Oh Dan, weren't you just a little
- 12:56Speaker 18: disappointed that she wasn't at the airport?
- 12:58Speaker 13: Who? Girl? Of course? Girl?
- 13:01Speaker 10: Which girl?
- 13:02Speaker 5: Now?
- 13:02Speaker 18: Son, don't try to fool your uncle Ben, but i'd
- 13:04Speaker 18: better keep you off. She's waiting for you at mister
- 13:07Speaker 18: Megland's house. Who was waiting for me in mister Megland's house,
- 13:10Speaker 18: My Peggy. Of course you're girl Peggy. I haven't any
- 13:14Speaker 18: girl named Peggy, don't think. And I heard you with
- 13:19Speaker 18: my own ears. One more look at Peggy. I wish
- 13:22Speaker 18: I could walk with her through Central Park, and I'd
- 13:24Speaker 18: like to kiss the tip of her nose.
- 13:25Speaker 19: Oh, Aunt, Ben, somebody's made a mistake. I wasn't thinking
- 13:28Speaker 19: about a girl. I was talking about Peggy, Peggy, my dog, Peggy, Peggy, Piggy.
- 13:34Speaker 19: For sure, when I went away, I had to put
- 13:37Speaker 19: Piggy in a kettle. I always wondered what would have
- 13:39Speaker 19: happened to her? Anything happened to me. Believe me, I
- 13:42Speaker 19: spent more than one sleep this night worrying about Piggy.
- 13:45Speaker 19: You did, look, couldn't you go to the kennles now,
- 13:48Speaker 19: I'd sure like to see Piggy.
- 13:50Speaker 18: You better go straight to the Megland. But I'll pick
- 13:52Speaker 18: up the dog and bring her on over.
- 13:53Speaker 10: Would you like that?
- 13:54Speaker 13: Would I? Yeah, I'll give you the address of the kettles.
- 13:56Speaker 13: I've got the cart here somewhere, and you're sure it'll
- 13:59Speaker 13: be all right that girl. I'll explain what happened and
- 14:02Speaker 13: that's all they'll be to it. Well, yes, if you
- 14:04Speaker 13: can handle it, Jeff, carry here, you can handle it.
- 14:07Speaker 13: Come the thing that's pretty funny, or is it?
- 14:18Speaker 5: Welcome?
- 14:18Speaker 13: Welcome home, Come in, son, come writing.
- 14:22Speaker 18: Thanks very much, mister meglan, Lieutenant Bello, me meet to
- 14:25Speaker 18: missus Megland.
- 14:25Speaker 13: How do you do?
- 14:26Speaker 11: My goodness. You're a big boy, aren't you.
- 14:30Speaker 13: This is Commander Harper.
- 14:31Speaker 10: Lieutenant congratulations, Bellamy, Thank you, sir.
- 14:34Speaker 13: You see, Dan, we're not making typewriters anymore, No, sir,
- 14:38Speaker 13: everything is for the war effort. Command of Harper sees
- 14:40Speaker 13: to it that we turn it out fast enough.
- 14:42Speaker 21: You can relax, Lieutenant, your ex boss and I are
- 14:44Speaker 21: very old friends.
- 14:45Speaker 18: And now, Lieutenant, if you'll close your eyes, close my eyes,
- 14:49Speaker 18: that's it.
- 14:50Speaker 13: Come in, Peggy, give yous. Dan's home, my dear.
- 14:56Speaker 11: Oh Dan, huh you may open your eyes now.
- 15:00Speaker 13: Oh?
- 15:00Speaker 18: Thanks, Well, just don't stand there, Peggy. What he wants
- 15:05Speaker 18: is a nice big kiss. Well I wouldn't mind that
- 15:07Speaker 18: at all, but but.
- 15:10Speaker 5: Oh, Dann, I.
- 15:14Speaker 13: Didn't get anything like that at the airport.
- 15:16Speaker 5: Dan. You're well, you won't hurt.
- 15:18Speaker 18: I'm fine, Peggy. Just look at them, Commander. All they
- 15:22Speaker 18: can do is just stare at each other.
- 15:25Speaker 5: So wonderful.
- 15:26Speaker 13: Then that's nice.
- 15:27Speaker 11: Come inside, everybody, we'll have a nice talk before dinner.
- 15:31Speaker 10: Now, then how long as you leave? They said I'd
- 15:33Speaker 10: have two weeks.
- 15:34Speaker 5: Here, two whole weeks. Oh, then that wonderful.
- 15:37Speaker 13: Well son, you're going to live right here at this house.
- 15:39Speaker 13: But mister mag And I hurry. You're a commander command him. Well,
- 15:43Speaker 13: I guess that's an order of Bellamy.
- 15:45Speaker 18: But Peggy me, you're staying here too, and you're not
- 15:48Speaker 18: going back to work until his leave is over.
- 15:50Speaker 5: But we're awfully behind. An account's receivable.
- 15:52Speaker 18: But don't you see what this all means, my dear,
- 15:55Speaker 18: thousands of women who haven't heard from their men folks
- 15:57Speaker 18: for months can now feel hopeful. And if Dan can
- 16:01Speaker 18: come through safely, why anybody can. But look, I think
- 16:04Speaker 18: it's time I said something to.
- 16:06Speaker 13: The Peggy, and I dare say you have one or
- 16:09Speaker 13: two things to tell him?
- 16:10Speaker 5: Hey, Peggy, I just don't know where to begin. I'm
- 16:15Speaker 5: happy I could.
- 16:16Speaker 10: Look, Peggy, could I taught you alone for a minute?
- 16:21Speaker 13: You see?
- 16:21Speaker 18: I beg your pardon, mister Maitland, gentlemen to see Lieutenant
- 16:25Speaker 18: Bellamy his uncle Ben.
- 16:26Speaker 13: Well, have him come in?
- 16:28Speaker 18: Yes, excuse me, folks with one of Dan's old friends.
- 16:33Speaker 13: Don't get him. It's hurt my dog. Oh well, well,
- 16:38Speaker 13: say you are glad to see me? Ask you now?
- 16:41Speaker 10: Give you a little kiss? It said, miss me a little,
- 16:44Speaker 10: didn't you?
- 16:44Speaker 13: Huh?
- 16:45Speaker 18: Well, Dan, I knew you wanted to see Porky, and
- 16:49Speaker 18: I knew Porky wanted to see you, so I brought
- 16:52Speaker 18: Porky down here.
- 16:54Speaker 13: Am I glad to see Porky?
- 16:56Speaker 5: I just love dogs, you little things?
- 16:58Speaker 19: Isn't you Peggy a little excited? I guess hasn't seen
- 17:03Speaker 19: me in quite a while.
- 17:04Speaker 5: How do you think God's for you?
- 17:06Speaker 10: Oh?
- 17:06Speaker 13: Uncle Ben? How about a drink?
- 17:07Speaker 18: Hey, I'd sure like one, but I've got to get
- 17:10Speaker 18: home to Jersey. Well, then, can I drop you off somewhere.
- 17:15Speaker 11: We've appropriated your only appeal for the next two weeks,
- 17:18Speaker 11: Uncle Dan.
- 17:20Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, you better run along, Uncle Ben. I'll get
- 17:22Speaker 19: in touch with you later on. But oh, oh dear,
- 17:26Speaker 19: what about Porky. Porky is going to stay right here
- 17:29Speaker 19: with his master. It's your Parky, you see. Well, Well, goodbye, everybody,
- 17:37Speaker 19: Good luck Dan, Thanks Uncle Ben. You know mother, I
- 17:40Speaker 19: just had an idea. I think Dan and Peggy are
- 17:43Speaker 19: taking a good show tomorrow night.
- 17:44Speaker 5: What did you say, Marvin?
- 17:46Speaker 13: I said Dan and Peggy are taking a good show
- 17:49Speaker 13: tomorrow night.
- 17:50Speaker 11: Peggy, Oh, I think that would be fine.
- 17:52Speaker 13: What show would you like?
- 17:54Speaker 22: Dan?
- 17:54Speaker 11: I'm afraid Dan hasn't had last time to keep up
- 17:56Speaker 11: with the.
- 17:56Speaker 13: Current for Marvin on the ideas. Peggy, Hello, Parky, her
- 18:02Speaker 13: good Doggy? Down down, Parky. That's it?
- 18:05Speaker 5: Well, it's really all up, are Peggy?
- 18:08Speaker 13: Never give a man a right to make decisions?
- 18:10Speaker 10: Oh?
- 18:10Speaker 13: Hello, hello Parky? No no, no, Parky, not on my lap?
- 18:13Speaker 13: Please down, Parky, down.
- 18:16Speaker 10: Down, stop liking, mister Meglin.
- 18:18Speaker 13: Porky, no, no, no, no, Parky, no no, down down.
- 18:24Speaker 13: She's a friendly little thing.
- 18:25Speaker 10: Isn't he?
- 18:26Speaker 13: Lie down, Parky? That's better.
- 18:29Speaker 18: Sorry, mother, We've got to give those children a slap
- 18:33Speaker 18: bang up.
- 18:34Speaker 19: Wedding across swords and everything? What would you think of that, Peggy? Well,
- 18:40Speaker 19: that dog is certainly crazy about you, mister meg.
- 18:44Speaker 13: Yes, isn't he? You know all dogs are just crazy
- 18:47Speaker 13: about me? About that show tomorrow night, why don't we
- 18:51Speaker 13: go to a musical comedy?
- 18:54Speaker 23: But about your wedding now? Two weeks is a very
- 18:56Speaker 23: short time will rain for such a bigger thayer.
- 18:58Speaker 13: Well, you know that's remind me. One day we were
- 19:01Speaker 13: flying back from a mission and we ran out of gas.
- 19:03Speaker 13: The only place that we could doe. Oh, let's see Joey.
- 19:08Speaker 19: I'm stopped about the wedding, and I'll finished the story
- 19:11Speaker 19: at dinner.
- 19:12Speaker 13: And after that I got but A does not as
- 19:13Speaker 13: if I can make him up, if I can think
- 19:16Speaker 13: of him like what about our chappin?
- 19:18Speaker 10: Oh that would be really till.
- 19:30Speaker 5: In the living room, Missus Maglan thought is good.
- 19:33Speaker 23: The rest of us will go off on a terrace.
- 19:34Speaker 23: You can have him all yourself or just one thing, Darling.
- 19:38Speaker 23: I'd like to give you your two so as a
- 19:40Speaker 23: wedding present ess. Now I am sis.
- 19:44Speaker 5: I just don't know how to thank you. I didn't
- 19:48Speaker 5: think it was possible to be this happy, you know.
- 19:51Speaker 5: I think every girl wants to wait for her idea,
- 19:55Speaker 5: but sometimes she gets frightened that she won't find him,
- 19:57Speaker 5: so she marries the first man who comes along, and
- 19:59Speaker 5: try to be contented. And it isn't content be dream
- 20:03Speaker 5: a broad, slow and be And I realized that Dan's
- 20:09Speaker 5: last thought was of me. Right, no girl has ever
- 20:13Speaker 5: been sure that she was loved that much. I'm gonna
- 20:16Speaker 5: be sorry that he loves me. You know, I promised that.
- 20:20Speaker 23: You're such a nice girl, Peggy. Now don't waste another
- 20:23Speaker 23: time I'm talking to me.
- 20:25Speaker 11: You run along.
- 20:33Speaker 19: And I were just running over some old tricks.
- 20:38Speaker 13: Hi, guess we're all alone and.
- 20:40Speaker 5: Huh they wanted us to be Dan, you're worried about
- 20:43Speaker 5: them for me, Please don't worry about it. I really
- 20:47Speaker 5: don't care anything about a big wedding.
- 20:49Speaker 13: Well that's fine.
- 20:50Speaker 5: But you know what I've been doing ever since the
- 20:54Speaker 5: word came about you and what you said just before
- 20:57Speaker 5: you pressed, I've been going over and over what i'd
- 21:01Speaker 5: say to you the first time.
- 21:02Speaker 13: We were alone.
- 21:04Speaker 5: Were really thought of strangers, aren't we?
- 21:06Speaker 13: Yes, yes we are.
- 21:08Speaker 5: I used to sit at my desk and you you, well,
- 21:13Speaker 5: he seemed to be the prince on the white horse
- 21:15Speaker 5: that every woman dreams about.
- 21:16Speaker 13: Really, you should have told me I.
- 21:19Speaker 5: Never had the chance. You always seem so.
- 21:22Speaker 13: Yes, a gentleman on the phone from miss Martin. Oh
- 21:26Speaker 13: thank you, mister Albert Biguil. He says he's accounts receivable.
- 21:31Speaker 5: Oh yes, thank you.
- 21:33Speaker 13: You can take the call in the library.
- 21:34Speaker 5: I'll be right back then, to take your.
- 21:36Speaker 13: Time, give me, give me fine friend you turned out
- 21:42Speaker 13: to me. See, they got cooked up for me a marriage,
- 21:45Speaker 13: it's all, and it's all your fault. Now look at me.
- 21:49Speaker 13: You and I are gonna have a very serious discussion
- 21:51Speaker 13: right now.
- 21:55Speaker 5: You. Hello, mister beguil, Good.
- 21:58Speaker 10: Evening, Miss Martin.
- 21:59Speaker 20: I'm here at the office trying to bring your work
- 22:01Speaker 20: up to date. But I can't find the Johnson account.
- 22:04Speaker 5: Oh well, whenever I've checked an account, mister Miguil, I
- 22:07Speaker 5: always put a paper clip on it. It's my code
- 22:09Speaker 5: paper clip.
- 22:10Speaker 20: But I can't find Johnson in the file anywhere. I've
- 22:13Speaker 20: gone through all the days twice.
- 22:16Speaker 5: The PA for Johnson, No for paper clips. Oh well,
- 22:21Speaker 5: don't you see how simple it is?
- 22:22Speaker 20: Yes, I see, miss Martin. I must congratulate you for
- 22:27Speaker 20: your good fortune.
- 22:28Speaker 5: Well, thank you, mister Miguel.
- 22:30Speaker 20: And I might as well tell you I asked you
- 22:32Speaker 20: out twice and you refuse. I pretended to be casual
- 22:35Speaker 20: about your refusal, but I was much fonder of you
- 22:38Speaker 20: than you realized.
- 22:40Speaker 5: Well, mister Miguil, I had no idea felt that way
- 22:42Speaker 5: about me.
- 22:43Speaker 20: Yes, I selected you as the object of my serious intentions.
- 22:47Speaker 20: While I will not admit the best man won, still
- 22:50Speaker 20: I extend to you my congratulations.
- 22:53Speaker 5: Oh well, thank you very much, thank you. Good night,
- 22:57Speaker 5: mister miguil.
- 22:58Speaker 10: Well, good night.
- 23:03Speaker 13: You gotta find a way out of this.
- 23:04Speaker 10: Piggy.
- 23:05Speaker 13: Understand you don't want to hurt the lady's feelings. We're
- 23:08Speaker 13: not getting married you hear. Yes, your name is not
- 23:12Speaker 13: Piggy anymore, and it isn't Peggy.
- 23:14Speaker 10: That's the lady's name is.
- 23:16Speaker 13: Remember that only be having a woman brought you around
- 23:19Speaker 13: instead of me.
- 23:21Speaker 5: Sorry to have been so long, Dan, Everything all right? Oh, yes,
- 23:26Speaker 5: everything's fine. Do you think Piggy should go for a walk?
- 23:29Speaker 13: Oh no, no, no, she's Uh did you say Piggy?
- 23:34Speaker 5: I just heard the talking to it.
- 23:36Speaker 13: Oh I'm sorry.
- 23:40Speaker 5: Oh it's not your fault. I don't use my head.
- 23:42Speaker 5: I've known it wasn't true. You never gave me any
- 23:44Speaker 5: indication of being in love with me. That was carried away.
- 23:48Speaker 5: I guess what woman wouldn't be when a man was
- 23:52Speaker 5: dying with her name on his lip.
- 23:53Speaker 19: And I wanted to tell you right away, but everybody
- 23:56Speaker 19: was making such a big thing of it.
- 23:58Speaker 5: Last night I spoke on the radio. They called me
- 24:02Speaker 5: your fiance, and I made a news reel. When the
- 24:04Speaker 5: word came in that you were still alive, I fainted.
- 24:09Speaker 5: It's a very comical situation, isn't it.
- 24:11Speaker 13: Yeah, except nobody's laughing.
- 24:14Speaker 5: Those people all over the country went to church and
- 24:17Speaker 5: prayed for us, light of candles for us. Yeah, well
- 24:22Speaker 5: they mustn't find out.
- 24:23Speaker 13: How are you going to stop them by.
- 24:25Speaker 5: Keeping this up for the next two weeks?
- 24:27Speaker 13: Huh?
- 24:28Speaker 5: Until you leave? Look down in six months, no one
- 24:30Speaker 5: will even remember our names.
- 24:32Speaker 13: Well, I sort of had other plans.
- 24:35Speaker 5: Do you want to tell the world that they've been
- 24:36Speaker 5: weeping over us for nothing? But it was all because
- 24:39Speaker 5: my name was mixed up with your dog's name?
- 24:42Speaker 13: No, I guess not.
- 24:44Speaker 5: We could pretend for two weeks, couldn't we?
- 24:47Speaker 13: Sure we could?
- 24:48Speaker 5: Okay, I hain't expected to get married anyway before all
- 24:51Speaker 5: this happened.
- 24:52Speaker 13: Oh and guy on the.
- 24:54Speaker 5: Phone, Oh, oh yes, Yeah, Well.
- 24:58Speaker 13: Well I'll see him first thing in the morning and
- 25:00Speaker 13: explain everything.
- 25:00Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no, don't you give it another song.
- 25:02Speaker 13: Funny must be quite a bit upset about all this.
- 25:05Speaker 13: You better let me see him in squire No, no, please,
- 25:07Speaker 13: But I'd be glad to do it. What's his name again?
- 25:10Speaker 5: You believe me? It's absolutely unnecessary.
- 25:12Speaker 13: Good night, Wait a minute, please, good night.
- 25:25Speaker 3: Curtain falls on Act one of Practically Yours, starring Claudette
- 25:30Speaker 3: Colbert and Ray Milan. We'll take time out for a
- 25:33Speaker 3: brief intermission and a chat with Libby Collins, our Hollywood reporter.
- 25:38Speaker 3: What's new about the stars?
- 25:39Speaker 13: Libby?
- 25:40Speaker 24: Why am mister Cromwell? Betty Hutton's news right now? I
- 25:43Speaker 24: spend a day over at Paramount not long ago watching
- 25:46Speaker 24: her make her latest picture in Sandry Blonde. Quite a day.
- 25:49Speaker 24: It was too well. I got all out of breath
- 25:53Speaker 24: just watching it.
- 25:54Speaker 13: She's a lively girl, all right.
- 25:56Speaker 24: Yes, she passed through seven dance routines, rehearsed four songs,
- 26:00Speaker 24: and sizzle through a love scene with our Tooro DECORDI
- 26:02Speaker 24: books what a Texas Guin and she'llmake.
- 26:05Speaker 13: With Betty's blonde hair and sparkling personality, she's a natural
- 26:08Speaker 13: for the role of the famous nightclub queen that.
- 26:11Speaker 24: She is mister Kennedy. Yet with all her bounce and liveliness,
- 26:14Speaker 24: she's very feminine too. She has lovely, soft, smooth skin
- 26:18Speaker 24: and she believes in taking care of it.
- 26:20Speaker 13: Ah ha Libby, here's where I'm going to ask you
- 26:23Speaker 13: to give our audience Betty Hutton's tip on complexion care.
- 26:27Speaker 24: Ah, you're doing that, mister Kennedy, because you know she's
- 26:30Speaker 24: a lux girl, like nine out of ten other top
- 26:32Speaker 24: Hollywood stars. Well, I can tell you she's very serious
- 26:36Speaker 24: about her Lux soap beauty care. Don't you think the
- 26:39Speaker 24: women in our audience would like to know how Betty Hutton.
- 26:41Speaker 5: Takes her daily active laddifacials?
- 26:43Speaker 13: Go out ahead, Libby.
- 26:44Speaker 5: Well, here's what she says.
- 26:46Speaker 24: I cover my face with Lux Soap's creamy ladder and
- 26:49Speaker 24: work it in thoroughly. Then I rinse with warm water,
- 26:52Speaker 24: splash on cold and pat my face dry with a
- 26:55Speaker 24: soft towel. I find skin becomes lovelier so quickly with
- 26:59Speaker 24: Lucky Soap Care. It's a real beauty soap.
- 27:02Speaker 19: It's true that regular facials with Lux toilet soap really
- 27:06Speaker 19: makes skin lovelier. Recent tests proved it showed that actually
- 27:11Speaker 19: three out of four complexions improved in a short time
- 27:14Speaker 19: with this gentle daily care. Why don't you try it?
- 27:18Speaker 19: You'll like the extra creamy lather, the way it leaves
- 27:21Speaker 19: skin softer, smoother, and when you see those technicolor closeups
- 27:25Speaker 19: of Betty and incendiary blonde.
- 27:27Speaker 22: Remember what she says, lock soap complexion care really works.
- 27:31Speaker 5: It's Hollywood's way to beauty.
- 27:32Speaker 13: Here's our guest producer, mister John Cromwell.
- 27:37Speaker 3: We bring you BacT too of Practically Yours, starring Claudett
- 27:41Speaker 3: Colbert as Peggy and Ray Miland as Lieutenant Bellamy.
- 27:51Speaker 13: It's an hour later.
- 27:52Speaker 3: Peggy Martin has dried some bitter tears and dropped off
- 27:55Speaker 3: to sleep, but in another guest room, Lieutenant Bellamy and
- 27:59Speaker 3: his little dog Piggy are.
- 28:00Speaker 19: Still very much awake. I'll cut it out. Stop kissing
- 28:06Speaker 19: me and get under the covers. See the gem you've
- 28:09Speaker 19: gotten me into. I gotta do something about that. Girl
- 28:12Speaker 19: got a square things with her boyfriend. What name does
- 28:16Speaker 19: the butler say when he filmed George ar No, Albert, Yeah, Albert, Albert.
- 28:22Speaker 19: That's right, that comes perceivable. What was his last name fox?
- 28:27Speaker 19: Albert Fox, Yeah, lion, rabbit, wolf wolf fare It probably
- 28:33Speaker 19: is now nos, something like the kind something kind of
- 28:36Speaker 19: a dog beagle, big girl, Yeah, Albert, big gil that
- 28:39Speaker 19: comes receivable.
- 28:40Speaker 10: That's it.
- 28:41Speaker 19: I've got to get to him first thing in the morning.
- 28:43Speaker 19: Remember that first thing in the morning. This is a surprise.
- 28:55Speaker 19: I told you, Peggy, surprised.
- 28:57Speaker 13: No, hurry up, hurry up.
- 28:58Speaker 5: Where what's the prize?
- 28:59Speaker 13: Why didn't they the library?
- 29:00Speaker 5: I want to finish my breakfast. Besides that for last night.
- 29:03Speaker 5: I'm not especially crazy about your surprise.
- 29:05Speaker 13: Now, just you trust me.
- 29:06Speaker 5: I'm not crazy about trusting you either.
- 29:08Speaker 13: Look, what do you want most in this world?
- 29:10Speaker 5: Go back and finish my coffee.
- 29:12Speaker 13: Waitly, see what I've got in here? See there he is? Oh, no,
- 29:19Speaker 13: what's the matter with you?
- 29:20Speaker 10: It's Albert. Good morning, Peggy. Peggy, say good morning to Albert.
- 29:25Speaker 5: Good morning.
- 29:26Speaker 10: He phoned me, Peggy. He said, to come right down here, Albert.
- 29:30Speaker 13: Last night Peggy told me all about you two, and
- 29:32Speaker 13: I understand I've broken up a beautiful romance.
- 29:34Speaker 10: So I know not at all. Miss Martin and I
- 29:37Speaker 10: are mere friends, not even bosom friends. Now, don't you worry, Albert.
- 29:42Speaker 10: I'm going to fix everything. But you don't understand why.
- 29:44Speaker 10: I've known about you and Miss Martin for some time.
- 29:47Speaker 10: Your relationship, our relationship.
- 29:50Speaker 5: May I say something, please? Please do Then I'd like
- 29:53Speaker 5: to talk to Albert, of course alone. Oh, if you
- 29:57Speaker 5: just step out in the hall, thank you, Albert. Huh, Albert,
- 30:03Speaker 5: you know very well I never mentioned Dan to you,
- 30:06Speaker 5: not once.
- 30:06Speaker 10: Well, I know, but I thought it would be nice
- 30:08Speaker 10: if he thought that you. What's the matter?
- 30:11Speaker 5: Do you recall what you said to me last night
- 30:12Speaker 5: on the phone, But do you still feel the same
- 30:16Speaker 5: way about me?
- 30:17Speaker 10: Well? Yes, but listen, you.
- 30:20Speaker 5: Remember what Dan said that day when his plane was
- 30:22Speaker 5: diving for that Japanese carrier.
- 30:23Speaker 10: He wanted to kiss the end of your nose.
- 30:28Speaker 5: Yes, he said, Piggy, not Peggy. Albert, do you know
- 30:33Speaker 5: who Piggy is? Everybody's got mixed up, and that's how
- 30:42Speaker 5: I've made it. So, that's how everybody got mixed up,
- 30:45Speaker 5: and that's how I've made such a fool of myself.
- 30:47Speaker 5: And now you're the only other person who knows. Mister
- 30:50Speaker 5: and missus Megland think everything's just wonderful.
- 30:52Speaker 10: A dog all the time he met a dog, Albert.
- 30:55Speaker 5: I've just told you, come in, I've told Albert everything.
- 31:00Speaker 13: Well, I'll be out of here in a couple of weeks,
- 31:02Speaker 13: so you have nothing to worry about.
- 31:03Speaker 10: Beagle Bguel too els.
- 31:06Speaker 19: Sorry, I guess it's just that I'm fun of dogs. Well,
- 31:09Speaker 19: the point is we've got to keep this thing strictly
- 31:11Speaker 19: between ourselves. Understand you see how but.
- 31:13Speaker 5: Many as the people are expecting Dan and Me to
- 31:15Speaker 5: be happily in love.
- 31:16Speaker 10: But this seems it seems to be in the nature
- 31:17Speaker 10: of a hoax, a deception exactly. But the morale of
- 31:20Speaker 10: the whole nation is leavelostuff if we all don't do
- 31:23Speaker 10: our part.
- 31:23Speaker 5: That's true.
- 31:25Speaker 19: It's all set for two weeks. Peggy is my girl,
- 31:28Speaker 19: and after that you tour off to the races again.
- 31:31Speaker 5: Be careful, mister Meglin's coming.
- 31:32Speaker 13: Hey, what's going on out here?
- 31:34Speaker 19: No, mister meglan Man present my oldest and dearest friend,
- 31:37Speaker 19: mister Albert Beagle.
- 31:39Speaker 13: I took the liberty of asking him over for a
- 31:40Speaker 13: few minutes.
- 31:41Speaker 10: Oh how do you do, sir? I'm accounts receivable.
- 31:44Speaker 18: Oh uh now, Peggy, this show you're going to? Oh
- 31:48Speaker 18: are you going downtown now, mister Beagle?
- 31:51Speaker 10: Oh yes, sir, Well come on.
- 31:52Speaker 13: Then they want to get rid of us.
- 31:55Speaker 10: They want to walk in the bark.
- 31:57Speaker 11: He wants to kiss around the nose.
- 32:00Speaker 5: I can hardly wait.
- 32:01Speaker 13: A very nice fellow that, Albert.
- 32:03Speaker 5: Do you mind if I finish my breakfast now?
- 32:04Speaker 13: Oh? No, no, not at all.
- 32:06Speaker 19: And then, since everybody's expecting it, we'd better take that.
- 32:09Speaker 13: Walk in the park. Now, wait a minute, what else
- 32:12Speaker 13: we got to do?
- 32:14Speaker 5: Well? I guess if we're going to be seen together
- 32:16Speaker 5: for two weeks, maybe we should find out something about
- 32:18Speaker 5: each other. Sure, but please, no more surprise.
- 32:21Speaker 13: Isn't yes, Sarah, that Albert's all right? Shop is attack?
- 32:33Speaker 6: Yeah?
- 32:33Speaker 5: He may not be good looking, but I think it's
- 32:35Speaker 5: easier to hold on to a man if he isn't
- 32:37Speaker 5: too handsome exactly.
- 32:38Speaker 19: I know if I were a girl, he'd be just
- 32:40Speaker 19: the kind of fellow i'd want to marry.
- 32:42Speaker 13: You are going to marry him?
- 32:44Speaker 5: Well, there's nothing really definite.
- 32:46Speaker 13: Oh, there isn't. Huh. Well, you know it wouldn't be
- 32:49Speaker 13: too bad if people found out about us. Oh, I know,
- 32:52Speaker 13: so I think we ought to leave Albert out of
- 32:54Speaker 13: these days you're going to have it.
- 32:55Speaker 10: It'd be a lot better.
- 32:56Speaker 5: Better for whom? Do you know that the Girls on
- 32:59Speaker 5: the Floor held an election once and guess who won?
- 33:03Speaker 10: Who?
- 33:03Speaker 5: You? They elected you the wolf most likely to succeed?
- 33:07Speaker 13: Oh haha, did huh?
- 33:11Speaker 5: It wasn't even close. The runner up only got three votes.
- 33:13Speaker 13: How many girls on the floor.
- 33:15Speaker 5: One hundred and twenty.
- 33:17Speaker 13: What tree did I miss in one day?
- 33:19Speaker 5: I forget who the other two were.
- 33:21Speaker 13: Oh gosh, I just remembered something. Look, I i've got
- 33:24Speaker 13: a land I ought to go and see.
- 33:26Speaker 19: I used to spend hours down in the South Pacific
- 33:28Speaker 19: thinking of the wonderful sponge cake she makes. Of course,
- 33:31Speaker 19: I wouldn't want to impose my relatives on news.
- 33:34Speaker 23: No.
- 33:34Speaker 5: Look, Dan, this is your leave and you've certainly earned it.
- 33:38Speaker 5: You go right ahead and get some of that wonderful
- 33:40Speaker 5: sponge cake.
- 33:41Speaker 13: Well what are you gonna do later on, say, around
- 33:44Speaker 13: three o'clock.
- 33:45Speaker 5: I'm going to a newsreel theater on fifty seventh Street.
- 33:48Speaker 5: I want to see myself on the screen.
- 33:49Speaker 13: Okay, newsreel theaters, three o'clock. Well, goodbye, good bye, and
- 33:53Speaker 13: don't oh say I maybe a little late. I've got
- 33:56Speaker 13: a couple of ants I want to say.
- 33:57Speaker 5: I'm sure you have. Maybe you'd like to bring them alone?
- 34:01Speaker 5: Good God?
- 34:09Speaker 13: Say we turn to just right. Well, see it's okay,
- 34:13Speaker 13: I'm fine.
- 34:14Speaker 6: Say what happened to you know? You know?
- 34:17Speaker 5: Is it swollen?
- 34:18Speaker 13: Oh?
- 34:19Speaker 5: Then, oh, I can guess your aunt's spongecakes married now
- 34:24Speaker 5: and her husband socked you?
- 34:25Speaker 19: No, husband sucked me and this girl saw me. She
- 34:29Speaker 19: threw her arms round me and started to cry. So
- 34:32Speaker 19: I kissed her naturally because I kissed her. She called
- 34:36Speaker 19: me a beast. She said that was a fine way
- 34:37Speaker 19: to treat you, and she hit me on the noise.
- 34:40Speaker 19: She wears costume jewelry.
- 34:42Speaker 5: Oh what a shame. How do you make up with
- 34:44Speaker 5: your other aunt?
- 34:45Speaker 13: Well, she works at a war planned. I won't be
- 34:47Speaker 13: able to see her at about two o'clock in the morning.
- 34:49Speaker 5: Oh that's rather inconvenient.
- 34:51Speaker 13: Well, I've been in the South Pacific for a year
- 34:52Speaker 13: and a half. Nothing is inconvenient.
- 34:55Speaker 5: I'll tell me about it later. He's got real.
- 35:03Speaker 10: They have less news headlines. Actual scenes of our.
- 35:07Speaker 25: Great hero, Lieutenant Bellamy seeking the Japanese aircraft carrier.
- 35:11Speaker 13: These pictures were made by an.
- 35:12Speaker 25: Able patrol near the spot at the time of Lamy's
- 35:14Speaker 25: amazing accomplishment. Watch this brave, this daring young American send
- 35:21Speaker 25: his plane plummeting towards the enemy ship boy as fast
- 35:25Speaker 25: as the flight of sound, these streets downward, meaning to
- 35:28Speaker 25: sacrifice his young life to destroy that deft carry over
- 35:31Speaker 25: the level.
- 35:33Speaker 19: Alight and here you see the death flow the indomitable
- 35:37Speaker 19: courage of a great hero destroys that giant of the
- 35:39Speaker 19: scene and very.
- 35:43Speaker 10: Lessen you wight to over there.
- 35:45Speaker 3: And here is.
- 35:46Speaker 26: Our hero of sweetheart, crappy Pop, receiving the news that
- 35:49Speaker 26: he is alive.
- 35:50Speaker 5: It's true. Oh no, I don't look like him.
- 35:53Speaker 26: Suddenly she faints, overcome by the news that gave her
- 35:56Speaker 26: back the man she loves. And here here is Lieutenant
- 36:00Speaker 26: Tellamy's arrival in New York City. Look at his face,
- 36:03Speaker 26: Look at those shining eyes, that determined mouth.
- 36:06Speaker 10: That heroic y.
- 36:07Speaker 19: That's stupid expression with the strongest stomach than I have.
- 36:11Speaker 13: Excuse me, Peggy, I gotta leave. Oh no, you ain't
- 36:14Speaker 13: leave now just a second, mister.
- 36:16Speaker 10: You've been making remarks see about a great guy.
- 36:19Speaker 13: I'm sorry. I shut up.
- 36:21Speaker 5: Got a uniform on?
- 36:22Speaker 10: Huh wait till read it.
- 36:23Speaker 13: Look, I'm trying to get out of here.
- 36:25Speaker 10: Ella, Why you time, squire Commando?
- 36:39Speaker 5: How does your nose feel now?
- 36:41Speaker 13: It stopped bleeding? Speak lug if I hadn't been in uniform.
- 36:45Speaker 5: Well we can slow down now. And I think that
- 36:47Speaker 5: man acted very patriotically. The theater was dark. You didn't
- 36:50Speaker 5: know you were Lieutenant Fellamy.
- 36:51Speaker 19: That was me on the screen saying if I want
- 36:53Speaker 19: to give myself the bird, I can.
- 36:54Speaker 5: But you're not you anymore, you Dick Tracy, your Superman,
- 36:58Speaker 5: your Dan Bellevue.
- 36:59Speaker 13: I'm getting I'll pull sick of it.
- 37:03Speaker 5: I should telling me.
- 37:04Speaker 22: Huh, I hate to impose upon you. But oh you
- 37:09Speaker 22: must be miss Marty. Yeah, you don't know me. I'm
- 37:12Speaker 22: Helen Macy. You see, my husband's also a pilot on
- 37:16Speaker 22: an aircraft carrier.
- 37:18Speaker 13: The Lincoln Lincoln.
- 37:20Speaker 5: I just wonder that, but you might know him, George Macy.
- 37:25Speaker 13: Well, I I've met quite a few of the fellows
- 37:27Speaker 13: in the Lincoln.
- 37:28Speaker 6: Yeah, well, Danny, who must do Macie?
- 37:30Speaker 5: You were telling me about you were saying, what a
- 37:33Speaker 5: wonderful flyer he is.
- 37:34Speaker 13: Huh oh, oh yeah, of course, George Macy. Yeah, when
- 37:39Speaker 13: you're saying that, oh he was fine, just fine.
- 37:44Speaker 5: See what else? It doesn't have to be anything important.
- 37:47Speaker 19: Well, he's he's very popular with the other pilot. Yes, indeed,
- 37:51Speaker 19: I remember he was.
- 37:53Speaker 13: He was captain of the squadron volleyball team.
- 37:55Speaker 5: His last letter seem to indicated be coming home soon.
- 37:59Speaker 13: I wouldn't know about that.
- 38:00Speaker 5: Couldn't you find out?
- 38:01Speaker 6: Then?
- 38:01Speaker 5: Oh?
- 38:01Speaker 22: No, no, it can't. Besides, I know George, he's much
- 38:05Speaker 22: rather surprise me.
- 38:06Speaker 13: Well, I hope he.
- 38:07Speaker 19: Comes back soon missus Macy, but don't be too disappointed.
- 38:10Speaker 19: A bit of a while yet, he's done a very
- 38:11Speaker 19: dangerous job.
- 38:12Speaker 13: They all are.
- 38:13Speaker 5: Oh he'll come there. Oh, I know he will. I'm
- 38:16Speaker 5: sure he will.
- 38:18Speaker 22: That's my apartment just across the street. Would you care
- 38:21Speaker 22: to come up just for teap head?
- 38:23Speaker 13: Well, thanks very much, but we'll really have to be going.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Of course.
- 38:27Speaker 22: You've both been very time to give me this much
- 38:30Speaker 22: as your pass time together. Well, goodbye to Tennant your
- 38:34Speaker 22: bus Martin, goodbye.
- 38:38Speaker 5: Why didn't you want to.
- 38:39Speaker 22: Talk to him?
- 38:40Speaker 13: I didn't know they had to make up some day.
- 38:43Speaker 5: You're so good at making up stories. Why didn't you
- 38:44Speaker 5: make up something good instead of telling her about it
- 38:47Speaker 5: being dangerous?
- 38:49Speaker 19: Lincoln was sunk three weeks ago. Most of our friends
- 38:53Speaker 19: were lost. Hell, I know is a good friend with Macy's.
- 38:57Speaker 19: Macy's dead. They'd be announcing it any day now. Oh,
- 39:01Speaker 19: come on, let's get a texting you go back to
- 39:04Speaker 19: the Medlands. You've got a big night ahead of us,
- 39:06Speaker 19: you and I and Albert. I better warn you though,
- 39:10Speaker 19: my tangle is pretty running.
- 39:29Speaker 10: My goodness, this has been quite an evening, hasn't it,
- 39:31Speaker 10: I should say?
- 39:31Speaker 5: So?
- 39:32Speaker 10: Dinner in that very expensive place, the Folly is, and
- 39:35Speaker 10: now our third nightclub?
- 39:36Speaker 13: How about a dance, Peggy?
- 39:38Speaker 10: Would you mind Albert right ahead? I'll just study the
- 39:40Speaker 10: prices on the menu.
- 39:41Speaker 13: Albert, that's my.
- 39:43Speaker 10: Hands you're holding out on the table.
- 39:44Speaker 13: I'm I bage.
- 39:45Speaker 10: You have to let go now, Oh, I beg you're hot.
- 39:48Speaker 13: Thanks.
- 39:49Speaker 19: Oh man, you won't be long. Oh that Albert's a prince,
- 39:57Speaker 19: so wonderful, wonderful flat, yes, except he's bash for so
- 40:02Speaker 19: I've decided I'm going to do something nice for him.
- 40:05Speaker 13: I'm going to get Albert to propose to you.
- 40:07Speaker 5: Would you mind doing something nice for me?
- 40:09Speaker 11: What?
- 40:10Speaker 5: Love back? Your buttons are out a lumpthy.
- 40:12Speaker 13: Okay, but that's the whole idea.
- 40:14Speaker 19: Getting Albert jealous before the Knight's always going to want
- 40:17Speaker 19: to fight me.
- 40:18Speaker 13: Then you've got him.
- 40:19Speaker 5: You're not used to say.
- 40:20Speaker 19: I'm saying, don't interrupt the professor. We are going to
- 40:23Speaker 19: give Albert the needle. Albert is a potential husband. He
- 40:27Speaker 19: needs needing. Hence we must get closer. Oh damn, now
- 40:31Speaker 19: stop stop what stop holding it close? Closely closely, very well,
- 40:36Speaker 19: very well, very well. Then we proceed to the second
- 40:38Speaker 19: part of the lesson, which has to do with a
- 40:39Speaker 19: change of face. Change of pace is the secret of
- 40:43Speaker 19: the true needler. It consists of dancing close I mean
- 40:46Speaker 19: closely when the gentleman doesn't expect it, and unclosely when
- 40:50Speaker 19: a gentleman wants to stay out.
- 40:51Speaker 13: He says yes, you say no, he says no, you
- 40:54Speaker 13: say yes. That's the whole thing in a nuts yell.
- 40:57Speaker 13: But do you think you can remember all that?
- 40:59Speaker 5: I haven't heard a words.
- 41:01Speaker 13: Okay, let's just dance. Huh fine, Hey, aren't you getting
- 41:07Speaker 13: awful clothes? They're trying to pull that stuff on me,
- 41:10Speaker 13: are you?
- 41:11Speaker 5: I'm defensed? Idea? What to tell him?
- 41:20Speaker 13: Well, Albert, here we are again. Peggy doesn't want to dance, said.
- 41:23Speaker 10: Peggy, Yes, ab I've been watching. Has this man been
- 41:26Speaker 10: offensive to you?
- 41:27Speaker 13: Certainly not why Arabert.
- 41:29Speaker 10: I'm not talking to you. If he's been bothering you, Peggy,
- 41:32Speaker 10: I'll crash him within an inch of his life.
- 41:34Speaker 5: I'm sure you what, Albert, but there's no need for that.
- 41:36Speaker 10: Oh. I know all about you, Lieutenant Daniel Bellamy. You
- 41:40Speaker 10: would most likely to succeed Albert.
- 41:43Speaker 13: That election wasn't unanimous. See what I mean, Peggy.
- 41:46Speaker 5: Look, I'd like to go home. I had a wonderful time,
- 41:49Speaker 5: but now I'd like to go home.
- 41:50Speaker 14: Good, good, Let's go home, Joey.
- 42:02Speaker 13: I can't stand here on the doorstep. Won't you come in, Albert?
- 42:05Speaker 13: I'm sure the Meiglands won't mind much.
- 42:07Speaker 10: I prefer to stay out here, Peggy. There's something I
- 42:10Speaker 10: want to discuss with you. Peggy. Will you do me
- 42:13Speaker 10: the honor of becoming my wife?
- 42:15Speaker 13: Are you asking me?
- 42:17Speaker 10: Of course not?
- 42:17Speaker 13: And stop looking at me and look at Peggy Albert.
- 42:20Speaker 5: I don't know what to say. It's also unexpected.
- 42:23Speaker 10: Well, I'm a man who makes quick decisions. That's the
- 42:26Speaker 10: reason I'm assistant manager of account's receivable.
- 42:29Speaker 13: She's just being caught out.
- 42:30Speaker 5: I'm not being caught Well.
- 42:32Speaker 13: Why don't you give hi an ice big kiss and
- 42:33Speaker 13: tell him me to be glad to marry him.
- 42:34Speaker 5: Will you please let me conduct my affairs in my
- 42:36Speaker 5: own way?
- 42:37Speaker 19: Hey, from where I said, you don't like a woman
- 42:39Speaker 19: that doesn't even want to be near dear Albert, does she?
- 42:41Speaker 13: Albert?
- 42:42Speaker 10: Well, in view of what you said, she said, and
- 42:44Speaker 10: in view of what she just said, Albert.
- 42:46Speaker 5: Yes, Albert, I would like very much to kiss you.
- 42:50Speaker 10: Oh there, oh, Peggy, I'm the happiest man in the world.
- 42:58Speaker 10: Good Night, Peggy, a good night's sleep, and I'll I'll
- 43:01Speaker 10: see you tomorrow. So I guess I fill down the steps.
- 43:07Speaker 10: Good night, good night.
- 43:10Speaker 5: Now, if you don't mind getting out the keys, I
- 43:11Speaker 5: think i'd like to go inside.
- 43:15Speaker 13: Well, you saw how simple it was when you followed
- 43:17Speaker 13: my advice.
- 43:18Speaker 5: Thanks, professor.
- 43:19Speaker 13: Look well, frankly, the professor is just a little bit befuddled. Well,
- 43:25Speaker 13: it seemed to me that kiss you gave Albert was
- 43:27Speaker 13: just a little bit overdone.
- 43:28Speaker 6: It was.
- 43:29Speaker 19: Yeah, I just want to be sure that you're still
- 43:33Speaker 19: not getting me mixed up with that prince on the
- 43:35Speaker 19: white Horse.
- 43:35Speaker 5: Oh, there's absolutely no connection, I assure you. Well, it's
- 43:39Speaker 5: almost two o'clock. Class is waiting. Huh, Well your other
- 43:44Speaker 5: student just for a bite of sponge cake. Remember, good night, professor.
- 43:57Speaker 10: We pause now for station identification.
- 43:59Speaker 13: This CBS, they call um the Broadcasting System.
- 44:24Speaker 3: In just a minute, we will bring you the third
- 44:26Speaker 3: act of Practically Yours, starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milan.
- 44:32Speaker 13: As a director.
- 44:33Speaker 3: I am continually asked Where did the new young picture
- 44:36Speaker 3: stars come from? Every studio in Hollywood is anxious to
- 44:39Speaker 3: discover fresh talent. As an example, meet one of Paramount's
- 44:43Speaker 3: new starlet's brown eyed, honey Blonde, Virginia Wells. Tell us, Virginia,
- 44:49Speaker 3: how did you get into the movies?
- 44:51Speaker 7: Mostly luck, mister Cromwell. While I was at high school
- 44:54Speaker 7: in Wisconsin, my sister got married in Los Angeles. Mother
- 44:57Speaker 7: and I came out to the wedding. Naturally, we wanted
- 44:59Speaker 7: to see the sits, and one night we went the
- 45:01Speaker 7: prize fights at the Legion.
- 45:02Speaker 11: Stadium, AH Sports parent Eh, well.
- 45:05Speaker 5: Not exactly.
- 45:06Speaker 7: We heard that all the movie stars went there on
- 45:08Speaker 7: Friday evenings. Coming out of talent, Scott asked me if
- 45:11Speaker 7: i'd come to the studio the next morning for an
- 45:12Speaker 7: interview with a casting director.
- 45:14Speaker 13: I'm pretty excited, weren't you.
- 45:15Speaker 7: We hardly dared believe it, but next day Paramount offered
- 45:18Speaker 7: me a screen test.
- 45:19Speaker 3: And now you're one of their featured players. What pictures
- 45:22Speaker 3: are you making, Virginia?
- 45:23Speaker 7: I recently finished Kiss and Tell On Know Not to Columbia,
- 45:26Speaker 7: and now I'm working in my first for Paramount, to
- 45:28Speaker 7: each his own, starring John London, Olivia de Havlin.
- 45:31Speaker 3: It's very modest of you to call it luck, Virginia,
- 45:34Speaker 3: but we're not quite so modest. I imagine mister Kennedy
- 45:37Speaker 3: here has a different opinion. How about it.
- 45:40Speaker 13: John, Talent and personality had lots to do with it,
- 45:43Speaker 13: of course, But we're pretty proud of the fact that
- 45:45Speaker 13: Virginia Wells is a lux girl. Didn't you find a
- 45:49Speaker 13: lovely lux complexion quite a help in that screen test,
- 45:51Speaker 13: Virginia well You.
- 45:53Speaker 7: Might say so, mister Kennedy. Anyway, I do know that
- 45:55Speaker 7: Lux toiletself helps my complexion to be at best all
- 45:58Speaker 7: the time. I really depend on my daily active lad
- 46:01Speaker 7: of facials. They're so quick and easy and they really work.
- 46:04Speaker 3: Camera close ups will never hold any terrors for you,
- 46:07Speaker 3: Miss Virginia Weld Thank you.
- 46:10Speaker 13: I'm best of.
- 46:10Speaker 3: Luck from all of us.
- 46:11Speaker 7: Thank you, mister Cromwell.
- 46:13Speaker 19: I'm sure millions of women listening will agree that Lux
- 46:16Speaker 19: toilet soap is a complexion care they can depend on.
- 46:19Speaker 19: Out Here in Hollywood, the vote is just about unanimous.
- 46:22Speaker 19: Nine out of ten lovely screen stars use Lux toilet
- 46:26Speaker 19: soap every day because they find the rich, super creamy
- 46:30Speaker 19: leather gives precious complexions, just the gentle protecting care they need.
- 46:35Speaker 19: Why don't you try it? Get some fine white lux
- 46:39Speaker 19: toilet soap, Hollywood's own beauty soap. Tomorrow we return to
- 46:44Speaker 19: mister Cromwell and our Stars, Act.
- 46:47Speaker 3: Three of Practically Yours, starring Claudette Colbert as Peggy and
- 46:51Speaker 3: Raymonand as Lieutenant Bellamy. It's the following morning, Peggy, Commander
- 47:01Speaker 3: Harper and the Neglands are halfway through breakfast, but there's
- 47:04Speaker 3: no sign at all of Lieutenant Bellanan. Nervously, Peggy tries
- 47:08Speaker 3: to lead the conversation away from America's number one here,
- 47:12Speaker 3: but the job is hopeless.
- 47:17Speaker 11: Peggy, dear you doctor Dan's door, didn't.
- 47:19Speaker 5: You No, No, I didn't you see? He said something
- 47:23Speaker 5: about wanting to see us at this morning, very early
- 47:26Speaker 5: this morning.
- 47:26Speaker 21: Well, i'll bet he's fill asleep after that big night out.
- 47:29Speaker 13: Oh, Dan wouldn't want to waste his time sleeping. I'll
- 47:31Speaker 13: go see you.
- 47:32Speaker 5: No, I know, he's probably taking Peggy for a walk. Peggy,
- 47:36Speaker 5: who's Peggy? I mean Porky of course.
- 47:39Speaker 10: Yeah, Porky's out on the terrace.
- 47:41Speaker 18: See, Oh, Peggy, do you know where Dan went after
- 47:44Speaker 18: you two came home? Last night. I'm not sure, but
- 47:48Speaker 18: I I was still awake, murder mystery. I heard him
- 47:51Speaker 18: go out, and when he came back he told me
- 47:53Speaker 18: all about her. He will, you have no idea how
- 47:56Speaker 18: to vote to his to her? Imagine walking his dog
- 47:58Speaker 18: in the park at two or four in the morning.
- 48:00Speaker 6: You mean he just walked the dog, are you sure?
- 48:04Speaker 13: Well, of course I'm sure.
- 48:06Speaker 18: And when they got back we all had a little
- 48:08Speaker 18: nightcaph Parky loves beer.
- 48:11Speaker 5: Oh well, maybe we'd better wake him up after all,
- 48:14Speaker 5: we go up.
- 48:16Speaker 11: Here's some nice hot coffee.
- 48:18Speaker 10: Dan Will.
- 48:20Speaker 11: Now that we're all together, let's talk about the wedding.
- 48:23Speaker 13: Someone you know getting married?
- 48:24Speaker 11: Oh, someone we know is getting married.
- 48:27Speaker 18: Dan, we just better forget about having a big affair.
- 48:30Speaker 18: Time so short, you know, let's have the wedding tomorrow night.
- 48:34Speaker 23: Something wrong, Dan just wanted my future wrong throat. You see, Dan,
- 48:42Speaker 23: my brother is coming down today. He's a Supreme Court judge. Oh,
- 48:45Speaker 23: he loved to marry you. It's going to be a
- 48:47Speaker 23: very busy day.
- 48:48Speaker 5: Tell him about it. Commander.
- 48:50Speaker 10: Well, then it's now nine o'clock.
- 48:52Speaker 21: At eleven o'clock, the Navy would like you two at
- 48:54Speaker 21: the City Hall to sell war bonds.
- 48:56Speaker 13: Well that we don't mind doing it.
- 48:57Speaker 5: I just say not.
- 48:58Speaker 21: At two thirty, the Red Cross want you what armand Lacrosse.
- 49:01Speaker 5: He's that famous photographer.
- 49:02Speaker 21: Then they like you and Peggett it post for a
- 49:05Speaker 21: Red Cross poster.
- 49:06Speaker 10: Okay, sure, sure.
- 49:08Speaker 21: At five o'clock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is launching
- 49:10Speaker 21: of a new ship that WILLIAMS.
- 49:12Speaker 10: Holton.
- 49:12Speaker 21: They're going to broadcast, and we thought it'd be nice
- 49:15Speaker 21: if Peggy swings a bottle of champagne and you'd say
- 49:17Speaker 21: a few words.
- 49:18Speaker 11: Oh you see Robert, that's my brother. He's the judge.
- 49:22Speaker 23: Robert's going to talk the launching too. Then we can
- 49:25Speaker 23: all go to dinner and arrange everything for the wedding tomorrow.
- 49:28Speaker 13: Well it's just fine, missus Megland, except that Peggy doesn't
- 49:31Speaker 13: think we should get married. That is not yet Peggy.
- 49:36Speaker 5: Oh, well, I fear we've got to be practical, you know,
- 49:41Speaker 5: the war and everything. And then there's dance folks in
- 49:45Speaker 5: Iowa and they want us to get married. Oh yes, yes,
- 49:49Speaker 5: And then there's my mother in Boston. She said, well, I.
- 49:51Speaker 13: Can see Peggy's out of it all right. After all,
- 49:54Speaker 13: I'll be going.
- 49:54Speaker 10: Right back to the South Pacific.
- 49:56Speaker 5: So maybe we'd just better keep thinking about it for
- 49:58Speaker 5: a few days.
- 49:59Speaker 11: Oh yeah, will whatever you children wish?
- 50:03Speaker 10: Well, you still help us sellers war bonds though. Oh yeah,
- 50:06Speaker 10: then let's hurry up and get downtown.
- 50:19Speaker 5: Well, commander, how'd we do?
- 50:20Speaker 10: Terrific?
- 50:21Speaker 21: You too, sold over ninety thousand dollars worth of bonds. Well,
- 50:25Speaker 21: here's the restaurant. I'd say you've earned your lunch.
- 50:27Speaker 13: Aren't you reading with us?
- 50:28Speaker 16: Sir?
- 50:29Speaker 10: Can't the skippersent for me? It's about the Lincoln. You
- 50:33Speaker 10: heard about losing your Dan?
- 50:34Speaker 13: Yeah, I was on New Georgia when she went down.
- 50:37Speaker 10: Any friends aboard couple? Sorry?
- 50:39Speaker 21: Dan, Well, they're just releasing the news. It'll be in
- 50:42Speaker 21: the evening papers. Well, i'll see you five o'clock the
- 50:46Speaker 21: navy yard. Goodbye. What's the matter with you?
- 50:52Speaker 5: I'm thinking of her Helen Macy, her husband was on
- 50:56Speaker 5: the Lincoln. Oh oh yeah, Oh, just isn't right for
- 50:59Speaker 5: it at the news like that. Read it in the newspaper.
- 51:02Speaker 13: You won't hear it that way. She's probably had a
- 51:04Speaker 13: telegram by now.
- 51:06Speaker 5: A telegram alone in that apartment.
- 51:09Speaker 19: Yeah, it's tough, or say, I almost forgot. I'm going
- 51:12Speaker 19: to date the miss sponge Cake. You you wouldn't mind
- 51:15Speaker 19: if I beat it, would you?
- 51:17Speaker 5: No lunch?
- 51:17Speaker 13: No, I think I'll just skip it.
- 51:19Speaker 5: Don't forget about the photographer though, two thirty.
- 51:22Speaker 13: I'll be there. Sorry to run out?
- 51:23Speaker 5: Oh sure? Oh hello missus Macy? Do you remember me?
- 51:42Speaker 5: Miss Martin? Just want you to come in. I heard
- 51:46Speaker 5: about the Lincoln. I want to see you, if only
- 51:49Speaker 5: for a moment. A telegram came this morning. Hi, I
- 51:54Speaker 5: just can't believe it. Well, how do you feel better? I? Well,
- 52:01Speaker 5: I'm fine. Thank you. Lieutenant Bellamy said you had a
- 52:03Speaker 5: splitting headache and he wouldn't let you come. Has Dan
- 52:07Speaker 5: been here? He left just a few minutes ago. He
- 52:11Speaker 5: tried so hard not to show his feelings, doesn't he
- 52:14Speaker 5: He's the gentlest person I've ever met. Yeah? Oh, can
- 52:19Speaker 5: I do something? Missus Macie? I so want to help
- 52:22Speaker 5: you if I can. There's nothing anyone can do, and
- 52:27Speaker 5: you're all along. I m I Louis. It's just when
- 52:32Speaker 5: the bell rang, I fun tell.
- 52:36Speaker 13: Forgive me.
- 52:37Speaker 22: Please don't be sorry for me, and don't let this
- 52:40Speaker 22: influence you and Dan. You do love him, don't you.
- 52:44Speaker 5: I love him more than I either thought. I could
- 52:46Speaker 5: love anyone, then marry him right away.
- 52:49Speaker 22: My only regret is that before I was married, there
- 52:53Speaker 22: were two or three weeks when I was trying to
- 52:55Speaker 22: make up my mind.
- 53:01Speaker 5: I think I'd like a cup of tea. You'll have
- 53:04Speaker 5: some with me, petty, thank you.
- 53:06Speaker 8: I'd like to very much, mister Lacrosse. Lieutenant Bellamy is
- 53:19Speaker 8: here in the reception room.
- 53:20Speaker 27: Dan, you've already Miss Martin. We can take the photograph,
- 53:24Speaker 27: send the subject in peace.
- 53:25Speaker 5: Mister Lacrosse. You won't let him suspect anything.
- 53:28Speaker 10: Of course, not all morning.
- 53:30Speaker 27: I say to myself, mister Lacrosse, how should you pose
- 53:33Speaker 27: it to subjects? Can you come in and give me
- 53:36Speaker 27: such a brilliant idea?
- 53:38Speaker 10: Anyways? It keys I should have thought of it myself.
- 53:44Speaker 5: Hello, Hello cus mis sponge cake. When you did the.
- 53:50Speaker 13: What makes you think I didn't?
- 53:52Speaker 5: Nothing?
- 53:53Speaker 10: Please we get down to business.
- 53:55Speaker 27: This photograph will appair any million Red Cross posters. Lieutenant,
- 54:00Speaker 27: such a picture must have an idea behind it, and
- 54:03Speaker 27: I have it a ks huh, you will pause embracing
- 54:08Speaker 27: the young lady.
- 54:09Speaker 13: Well, that sounds very simple. Do you want me with
- 54:12Speaker 13: the cap on not the caf on?
- 54:13Speaker 10: So you think it is so simple lieutenant.
- 54:17Speaker 27: Let me tell you once, I was paid ten thousand
- 54:20Speaker 27: dollars to make raspberries more popular with a picture of
- 54:24Speaker 27: his single raspberry.
- 54:26Speaker 11: It took me one month.
- 54:28Speaker 10: But to what a picture? What raspberry?
- 54:32Speaker 13: Did people buy more raspberries?
- 54:34Speaker 10: How do I know? After Michelangelo finished the system chapel?
- 54:38Speaker 10: Did he hang around counting the attendance?
- 54:41Speaker 13: All right?
- 54:41Speaker 10: Now, all right? Poll poh ah pooh.
- 54:49Speaker 13: It's the matter, lieutenant.
- 54:51Speaker 27: Kissing a beautiful woman is different from sinking a sheep.
- 54:55Speaker 13: Please should be tight again?
- 55:00Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm sorry, Dan, Oh, well you must be out
- 55:03Speaker 5: of practice.
- 55:04Speaker 19: Look I've kissed girls before, never had any complaints.
- 55:07Speaker 5: But that was the matter with you. Why don't you relax?
- 55:09Speaker 13: All right? Tell me what's wrong with this?
- 55:14Speaker 10: Well?
- 55:15Speaker 13: Any better, lieutenant?
- 55:18Speaker 10: Let us think of it this way.
- 55:21Speaker 5: Oh no, oh, please be patient.
- 55:23Speaker 27: Let us think that this is the girl you want her,
- 55:27Speaker 27: you need her.
- 55:28Speaker 10: Do not fight at lieutenant, Hold her tighter.
- 55:31Speaker 5: Geez her.
- 55:33Speaker 13: Okay, that's it, that's it, wonderful, that's enough, lieutenant. Enough, Lieutenant, who.
- 55:44Speaker 10: I exhausted water.
- 55:47Speaker 5: I guess we can go now, Dan.
- 55:51Speaker 13: Wait a minute, maybe need another shot?
- 55:53Speaker 5: I really don't think so.
- 55:54Speaker 13: I think maybe we are to a different angle. You
- 55:56Speaker 13: see something like this.
- 55:58Speaker 5: No, well, oh.
- 56:00Speaker 10: Well, well, I don't mean to interrupt, but.
- 56:04Speaker 5: Albert, how nice to see you.
- 56:05Speaker 10: What do you want? I have something to show you,
- 56:08Speaker 10: though I really shouldn't be here. I should be at
- 56:10Speaker 10: my post of duty and accounts receivable.
- 56:12Speaker 13: Then why aren't you?
- 56:13Speaker 10: Because this is very very important? The surprise, an extra
- 56:16Speaker 10: special surprise for you. How do you know we'd be here?
- 56:20Speaker 5: I phoned him down, I promised him last night I
- 56:22Speaker 5: would hurry please.
- 56:23Speaker 10: I have a taxi outside and the meters ticking coming.
- 56:26Speaker 5: Albert wants to get married right away, as soon as
- 56:28Speaker 5: you leave right away?
- 56:30Speaker 10: But how would that look? I mean for you?
- 56:32Speaker 5: Do you think we should wait?
- 56:33Speaker 10: I certainly I think we should wait.
- 56:35Speaker 13: Now? What's the surprise he's got?
- 56:37Speaker 5: I haven't the slightest idea, honestly, Dane, I'll.
- 56:39Speaker 13: Be better go with him, But I have a feeling
- 56:41Speaker 13: I'm not going to like this at all.
- 56:52Speaker 5: Albert, what are we doing in this apartment house?
- 56:54Speaker 10: Now? Don't be impatient. I promised you both a surprise,
- 56:58Speaker 10: and here it is. See apartment number ten, ten, my
- 57:02Speaker 10: lucky number. I open the door, and what do you see?
- 57:06Speaker 10: I see that This is where somebody lives, exactly the
- 57:10Speaker 10: future residence of mister and missus Albert W. Bguel. How
- 57:13Speaker 10: do you like it, Peggy? It's very loose, completely furnished
- 57:17Speaker 10: in every detail. Picture me in this easy chair. Peggy
- 57:21Speaker 10: is in the kitchen doing the dinner dishes. She's finished
- 57:24Speaker 10: the dishes, brings me my slippers and sits at my feet.
- 57:28Speaker 10: She's reading to me some worthwhile book. Exciting, isn't it?
- 57:33Speaker 10: Do you let your pipe all by yourself? I don't
- 57:36Speaker 10: smoke now here? Here is the kitchen. Perhaps we'll have
- 57:40Speaker 10: breakfast in here, glass of hot water not too hot,
- 57:43Speaker 10: and half a lemon a's digestion. You must get the
- 57:47Speaker 10: hot water habit too, Peggy, pull wet toast and stewed prunes.
- 57:51Speaker 10: I think I owe my pleasant disposition to stewed prunes
- 57:54Speaker 10: as much as anything. Also that deep expression on your face, Albert. Yes,
- 57:58Speaker 10: And now down this little and our room, our own
- 58:04Speaker 10: little room. How do you like it?
- 58:06Speaker 5: Al But? I hope you haven't paid for any of
- 58:08Speaker 5: this yet. I mean, if it had to be sent back,
- 58:10Speaker 5: you wouldn't want to lose anything.
- 58:12Speaker 10: Do you think it's more than we could afford?
- 58:15Speaker 13: Albert? Are you feeling well.
- 58:17Speaker 10: This apartment. The employees had a meeting and voted it
- 58:22Speaker 10: as a present to Lieutenant Bellamy. All finished and the
- 58:25Speaker 10: year's rent paid up.
- 58:26Speaker 19: Well, this will come as a blow to you, Albert.
- 58:28Speaker 19: I can't accept a gift like this, not in uniform,
- 58:31Speaker 19: that's the joke.
- 58:33Speaker 10: So they decided to give the apartment to Peggy, just
- 58:36Speaker 10: to Peggy.
- 58:36Speaker 5: I don't think I'm entitled to it morally.
- 58:38Speaker 10: You're not accepting it morally, just legally. And if Peggy
- 58:42Speaker 10: Martin changes her mind about marrying a certain lieutenant and
- 58:45Speaker 10: marries a certain somebody else, there's nothing they can do
- 58:48Speaker 10: about it. How's that for being practical, Lieutenant. It's a
- 58:51Speaker 10: little too practical. I don't like it. I think I'm
- 58:54Speaker 10: entitled to a little compensation for my part in this masquerade.
- 58:57Speaker 13: Peggy, I've got to get out of here.
- 58:58Speaker 10: I had an idea you'd art running.
- 59:00Speaker 13: Albert look at me, yes, counter ten, that's his lucky number.
- 59:06Speaker 5: But he's unconscious.
- 59:08Speaker 13: Peggy, I know, and I'm licked.
- 59:11Speaker 19: I love you, but I'm not going to be carrying
- 59:13Speaker 19: a torch all over the South Pacific.
- 59:15Speaker 13: It's hard enough. We're going to get married.
- 59:17Speaker 5: Is this a proposal.
- 59:18Speaker 13: Yeah, oh okay.
- 59:21Speaker 5: Will get married right away?
- 59:23Speaker 13: No, no, not right away when the war's over.
- 59:26Speaker 5: When the war's over, but that may be a long time.
- 59:29Speaker 13: Peggy. You've got to be sensible about this thing.
- 59:32Speaker 5: Oh I don't want to be sensible. If I were sensible,
- 59:35Speaker 5: i'd marry him.
- 59:36Speaker 13: Don't be silly. You couldn't marry that totem poor with
- 59:38Speaker 13: that cackle and hot water and lemon juice and oh hello, Albert,
- 59:44Speaker 13: marrying a man with no advices? How do you know
- 59:47Speaker 13: it even gets you good night? I bet he's not
- 59:49Speaker 13: even I bet he's even got something against that. It's
- 59:51Speaker 13: not sanitary or something. Will you marry me when I
- 59:54Speaker 13: get back?
- 59:55Speaker 5: I want to get married now.
- 59:57Speaker 13: Look, Peggy, I love you.
- 1:00:00Speaker 19: I'm not going to have you sitting alone back here
- 1:00:02Speaker 19: like Helen Macy, will your heart in your throat every
- 1:00:04Speaker 19: time the doorbell rings?
- 1:00:06Speaker 5: Oh but you're wrong, Dan, She told me the one
- 1:00:08Speaker 5: thing she regrets is that she last two weeks making
- 1:00:11Speaker 5: up her mind before she married him.
- 1:00:13Speaker 19: I'm asking you to wait like him back yes or no?
- 1:00:17Speaker 5: No?
- 1:00:19Speaker 13: Okay, then goodbye. Where are you're going to launch your battleship?
- 1:00:24Speaker 5: He loves me?
- 1:00:26Speaker 6: He loves me, missus Meglan, missus Meglan.
- 1:00:38Speaker 10: Oh, how do you do?
- 1:00:41Speaker 6: Oh? How do you do?
- 1:00:43Speaker 10: Oh?
- 1:00:43Speaker 5: You must be Judge Simpson, missus Meglan's.
- 1:00:45Speaker 10: Brother, and you must be Miss Martin. Certainly going to
- 1:00:48Speaker 10: be pleasant launching with you, Miss Martin.
- 1:00:51Speaker 5: Isn't it about time we left? The Meglans haven't gone.
- 1:00:54Speaker 10: Oh no, they'll be home any minutes. We can all
- 1:00:57Speaker 10: drive out to the navy yacht together. Well, so you're
- 1:01:01Speaker 10: the young lady who's reluctant to marry the young lieutenant.
- 1:01:03Speaker 5: Oh. Look, I'm getting tired of taking all this blame.
- 1:01:07Speaker 5: I'm not reluctant.
- 1:01:08Speaker 6: He is.
- 1:01:09Speaker 5: He wants to wait until after the war. Right this minute.
- 1:01:12Speaker 5: He's probably out somewhere not getting married.
- 1:01:14Speaker 10: Paul. Well, that seems odd.
- 1:01:16Speaker 5: Oh I'm sorry, I'm not making sense, am I. I'm
- 1:01:20Speaker 5: just so afraid I'm going to lose him, the stubborn idiot.
- 1:01:23Speaker 10: Well, we ought to be able to do something about that.
- 1:01:25Speaker 5: I doubt it. I've tried everything I know.
- 1:01:27Speaker 10: Would you like some assistance, Miss Martin?
- 1:01:30Speaker 5: You mean you know you'll.
- 1:01:31Speaker 10: See, Miss Martin, we'll see. Uh you're sure you love him?
- 1:01:36Speaker 6: Oh?
- 1:01:36Speaker 10: Yes, we'll see. Well Lieutenant Bellamy, you finally decided to
- 1:01:51Speaker 10: show up. Get out of my way out. But mister
- 1:01:54Speaker 10: Magland told me to look for you. Everybody's looking for you.
- 1:01:57Speaker 10: They have some stupid idea. They can't launch the boat
- 1:01:59Speaker 10: without you.
- 1:02:00Speaker 13: Look you found me.
- 1:02:01Speaker 10: Now beat it. Oh, I'm afraid I can't do that.
- 1:02:03Speaker 10: After the ceremonies. I'm escorting my intended home.
- 1:02:06Speaker 13: If you're here after the ceremonies, I'll launch you too.
- 1:02:09Speaker 10: Don't you dare touch me. Besides, we're not speaking.
- 1:02:17Speaker 19: Very little more I can say, ladies and gentlemen, it's
- 1:02:20Speaker 19: a great honor to be present at the launching of
- 1:02:21Speaker 19: this addition to our fleet.
- 1:02:24Speaker 18: May it prove worthy of our Navy's proud tradition. Thank you,
- 1:02:31Speaker 18: Thank you, Lieutenant Bellamy. Miss Peggy Martin is here too,
- 1:02:34Speaker 18: Ladies and gentlemen. In just a moment, she'll christen our
- 1:02:37Speaker 18: nose ship with a traditional bottle of champagne. Right now,
- 1:02:40Speaker 18: A word from the celebrated jurist Judge Robert Simpson.
- 1:02:45Speaker 10: I had a prepared speech for this occasion, folks. I
- 1:02:50Speaker 10: just looked it over, and it's probably the dullest thing
- 1:02:53Speaker 10: you ever listened to. So I tore it up.
- 1:02:57Speaker 28: Instead, I figured you'd all be much more interested in
- 1:02:59Speaker 28: a little backstage gossip concerning Lieutenant Bellamy and Peggy Martin. Well,
- 1:03:05Speaker 28: it seems the lieutenant has been coaxing Miss Martin to
- 1:03:08Speaker 28: marry him, but without success.
- 1:03:10Speaker 13: Hey, now wait a minute, lieutenant, we're on the air. Well,
- 1:03:14Speaker 13: don't tell him.
- 1:03:14Speaker 10: Tell sir, lieutenant, they gave you your chance to talk.
- 1:03:19Speaker 10: Now it's mine. As I was saying, Miss Martin, on
- 1:03:25Speaker 10: the other hand, has insisted upon waiting till the war
- 1:03:28Speaker 10: is over. So let's hear her side of the case.
- 1:03:31Speaker 5: Judge, I've changed my mind, Dan Darling, since you're so
- 1:03:34Speaker 5: determined to get married now, I well, I just heavily
- 1:03:37Speaker 5: off the heart. Refuse me.
- 1:03:39Speaker 10: The lieutenant is too overcome to speak, and I'm not
- 1:03:42Speaker 10: going to give Miss Martin a chance to change her mind.
- 1:03:45Speaker 10: I'll perform the ceremony right here and now at Churchy
- 1:03:48Speaker 10: in ten seconds.
- 1:03:49Speaker 13: The ship sliding down the way.
- 1:03:50Speaker 10: Now wait a minute, I protend this looks like collusion
- 1:03:53Speaker 10: in chicanery. Who is this person? I'll tell you who
- 1:03:55Speaker 10: I am.
- 1:03:55Speaker 13: At high time the public knew that.
- 1:03:57Speaker 10: There goes the ship Christnaert Peggy Christner say here I
- 1:04:01Speaker 10: insist on being hurt.
- 1:04:02Speaker 5: Why christened neither us? S William?
- 1:04:04Speaker 13: Hey you christened hour, but Christmas.
- 1:04:06Speaker 29: Ship for you toine hands, please your honor, I virtu
- 1:04:19Speaker 29: the powers in.
- 1:04:20Speaker 26: The vest.
- 1:04:29Speaker 6: Dance.
- 1:04:30Speaker 5: Uh huh in just two minutes will have been married
- 1:04:33Speaker 5: exactly three hours.
- 1:04:35Speaker 19: Yeah, see, I can't get over it. And those kids
- 1:04:38Speaker 19: in the office giving us this apartment.
- 1:04:40Speaker 6: You like it too, piggy dude.
- 1:04:43Speaker 13: All furnished in everything. Hey, hey, you just dawned on me.
- 1:04:47Speaker 13: If you've got nothing to eat, Look, I just have
- 1:04:49Speaker 13: to turn run down to the delicatest and hey, come.
- 1:04:52Speaker 5: On, No, no, this little pig does not go to market,
- 1:04:55Speaker 5: nor you either.
- 1:04:55Speaker 11: But we can't stop Dan look in the kitchen.
- 1:05:01Speaker 13: Well, what are you know? Sponge came.
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: Back to the footlights for their curtain call. Come Claude,
- 1:05:18Speaker 3: Colbert and Ray milland who made our first night so
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: enjoyable an evening to remember.
- 1:05:23Speaker 5: Thank you, John. It's good to have had a part
- 1:05:25Speaker 5: in opening for another season.
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: And you two were certainly the ones to do it together.
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: You represent twenty six appearances in this theater and we're
- 1:05:34Speaker 3: looking forward to many more. John, how does the season
- 1:05:37Speaker 3: look from this point? Well, we've spent a busy summer
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: lining up plays and stars. I think the effort will
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: be more than justified by what we'll have to offer
- 1:05:44Speaker 3: in the coming weeks.
- 1:05:45Speaker 5: What pitches have you been reviewing for Lux?
- 1:05:47Speaker 3: One that we all enjoyed seeing was Ray's latest picture
- 1:05:50Speaker 3: for Paramount last weekend, and I can honestly say, Ray,
- 1:05:54Speaker 3: I think you'll give the finest performance of your career.
- 1:05:58Speaker 13: Thanks John, thank you.
- 1:05:59Speaker 19: But passing around compliments, be sure and save plenty for
- 1:06:02Speaker 19: Claudette the latest picture, Guest, Why, Well, it's.
- 1:06:05Speaker 3: Easy to find compliments for Claudette and for that lovely complexion.
- 1:06:09Speaker 5: I know what you're getting at, John, and it's true
- 1:06:11Speaker 5: that I've been taking care of my complectionion. I've been
- 1:06:14Speaker 5: faithful to Lux toiletself all the time LUX has been
- 1:06:17Speaker 5: off the air.
- 1:06:19Speaker 13: What are you presenting on this stage next Monday night, John.
- 1:06:21Speaker 3: Well, tonight we've seen the humerous side of what can
- 1:06:23Speaker 3: happen to returning heroes. Next week we present an altogether
- 1:06:27Speaker 3: different version In the picture which I had the privilege
- 1:06:30Speaker 3: of directing for RKO. It's based on what I believe
- 1:06:33Speaker 3: to be one of the greatest love stories to come
- 1:06:35Speaker 3: out of any war. Arthur Pinero's The Enchanted Cottage.
- 1:06:39Speaker 5: It's a splendid play, John. Do you have the original
- 1:06:41Speaker 5: stars from the picture.
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: Yes, we have Robert Young as the returning soldier, crushed
- 1:06:45Speaker 3: for the scars and shock of battle, and Dorothy McGuire
- 1:06:49Speaker 3: as the girl whose sympathy and compassion cloaks them both
- 1:06:53Speaker 3: in the love that overcomes all handicaps.
- 1:06:55Speaker 19: It's not only a great play, John, but with millions
- 1:06:57Speaker 19: of our own men coming back, it's an important in a.
- 1:06:59Speaker 5: Timely we'll be listening John.
- 1:07:01Speaker 3: Good Night, night, good night, and thank you both for
- 1:07:04Speaker 3: giving us such a splendid start on our new season.
- 1:07:13Speaker 3: Our sponsors, the makers of Luck Toilet Soap, join me
- 1:07:17Speaker 3: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday
- 1:07:19Speaker 3: evening on the Lux Radio Theater presents Robert Young and
- 1:07:23Speaker 3: Dorothy McGuire in The Enchanted Cottage. This is John Cromwell
- 1:07:28Speaker 3: saying good night to you from Hollywood.
- 1:07:35Speaker 13: For now.
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: That concludes Lux Radio Theater and practically yours. Follow Lux
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