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Lux Radio Theatre - Mother Wore Tights · Lux Radio Theatre

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Speaker 1: Hollywood.
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Speaker 2: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you
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Speaker 2: the Lux Radio Theater, starring Betty Grable and Dan Daly
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Speaker 2: in Mother Wore Tights.
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Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley. Greetings from Hollywood,
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Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 4: One of the great comebacks in the history of the
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Speaker 4: theater is taking place today.
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Speaker 3: It's the rebirth of Boatville, which is.
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Speaker 4: Surprising a new generation with all the boisterous good humor
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Speaker 4: and colorful variety.
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Speaker 3: Of the good old days.
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Speaker 4: Tonight, the Lux Radio Theater reflects the trend of the
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Speaker 4: times with the 20th Century Fox hit, Mother Wore Tight.
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Speaker 4: and a team of stars vaudeville might dream about.
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Speaker 3: Betty Grable and Dan Daly.
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Speaker 4: Mother Wartite is the story of a vaudeville family and
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Speaker 4: their backstage life. And naturally, Betty and Dan will sing
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Speaker 4: those great song hits of the picture. You Do and Kokomo,
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Speaker 4: Indiana and many more. Today, as always, a theatrical trooper's
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Speaker 4: home is her trunk. And one of the biggest problems
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Speaker 4: is keeping costumes fresh. That's where Lux Flakes gets into
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Speaker 4: the act, because anyone who travels a lot is thankful
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Speaker 4: for the convenience and efficiency of Lux Flakes. Now, here's
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Speaker 4: the first act of Mother War types, starring Betty Grable
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Speaker 4: as Myrtle and Dan Daly as Frank.
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Speaker 5: M is for the million things she gave me. O
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Speaker 5: means only that she's growing old.
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Speaker 6: There she is, sitting in the rocking chair on the
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Speaker 6: front porch.
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Speaker 3: That sweet, dark, gentle old lady. She's knitting.
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Speaker 6: Knitting another sweater for Father. Seeing her like this, who
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Speaker 6: would ever dream that Mother ever behaved like... Well, like this.
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Speaker 1: Mother wore... Mother.
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Speaker 6: Wore tights when she sang that song on stage.
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Speaker 3: Oh, good heavens, Mother, how could you?
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Speaker 6: And there on the porch is Daddy. The cutest little
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Speaker 6: darling in the world.
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Speaker 7: Chair, his eyeglasses pushed up on.
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Speaker 6: His forehead, and the Sunday funny papers spread over his lap.
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Speaker 3: Dag, the quiet type.
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Speaker 1: I just can't imagine.
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Speaker 6: Him out there on the stage in those baggy pants
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Speaker 6: and a putty nose, and that song he used to sing.
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Speaker 3: At Burlington 30, I rise at 10.30 and stroll along
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Speaker 3: like a dog.
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Speaker 8: I walk down.
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Speaker 3: The street with my clothes on my hand and I
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Speaker 3: walk down a guy in the water.
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Speaker 9: I'm all airs and greats.
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Speaker 3: Without food so long, I forgot where my face is.
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Speaker 9: I'm Burlington.
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Speaker 3: To really understand how Mother happened to wear her tight,
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Speaker 3: let's go back some 40 years to when Mother.
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Speaker 9: Graduated from high school.
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Speaker 3: The next afternoon, she and a couple of friends went downtown.
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Speaker 1: Girls, I don't want to be a telephone operator. I'd
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Speaker 1: rather be dead. Why, Bessie Flemmerhammer. Well, I would.
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Speaker 7: Anyhow, it beats what I'm going to be doing.
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Speaker 1: Standing on my feet all day selling underwear. At least
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Speaker 1: you'll be in college, Myrtle. Business college. You know, we're
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Speaker 1: awfully early for my appointment at the telephone company. Well,
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Speaker 1: let's just window shop. Oh, we could go to a matinee.
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Speaker 1: A show? Well, why not? My cousin Bubba sells tickets
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Speaker 1: at Waller's Opera House, and he said any time I
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Speaker 1: wanted to go, he'd let me in for nothing. Oh,
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Speaker 1: let's bet he left. And these are my girlfriends, Bubba.
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Speaker 1: Myrtle McKinley and Alice Spiegel.
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Speaker 3: How do you do?
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Speaker 1: Well, we thought... That is, you always said if I
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Speaker 1: came over to the opera house, Bubba, you'd let me
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Speaker 1: in free, so I.
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Speaker 3: Well, I never said anything about your whole school, did I?
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Speaker 1: Oh, please, Bubba.
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Speaker 3: Oh, well.
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Speaker 9: But if Mr.
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Speaker 3: Waller ever catches me... If Mr. Waller ever catches you
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Speaker 3: doing what? Oh, no, no, nothing, Mr. Waller. Handing out
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Speaker 3: free tickets, huh? Oh, no, no, Mr.
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Speaker 10: Waller.
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Speaker 4: They just wanted to know if they could get jobs
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Speaker 4: with the show.
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Speaker 3: In the chorus. chorus, huh? Yeah. All right, girls, follow me.
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Speaker 11: We'll talk this over upstairs in my office.
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Speaker 10: Well?
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Speaker 1: Well, we're coming, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Waller.
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Speaker 11: Well, girls, your figures don't look too bad.
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Speaker 3: Let me see your legs. Well, ain't you scared, too?
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Speaker 1: Uh, no, sir. Uh, my legs.
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Speaker 3: Hmm. That's kind of nice.
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Speaker 1: I had the lead in our high school operetta.
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Speaker 7: I'm a dancer.
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Speaker 9: Oh, fine.
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Speaker 3: Your folks know about this?
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Speaker 1: My parents are dead. I live with my grandma.
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Speaker 3: How much do you want a week, sister?
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Speaker 1: Would $ 10 be all right?
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Speaker 3: I was going to offer you $ 15. But just to
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Speaker 3: teach you a lesson, $ 10 it is. Come on.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's how Mother got on the stage.
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Speaker 6: The headliner at Wallace Opera House was a good-looking, brash
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Speaker 6: young fellow named Frank Briggs.
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Speaker 5: Frank was a singing comedian.
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Speaker 12: As a comedian, well, today we'd call Frank's act awfully corny.
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Speaker 12: Those ridiculous costumes he wore and the laughs he'd get
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Speaker 12: by falling in the bass drum or getting hit over
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Speaker 12: the head.
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Speaker 1: But in those days.
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Speaker 13: He really killed the people.
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Speaker 1: He had a pretty good voice, too.
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Speaker 14: You sure sell that you-do number, Frankie.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what's wrong with my Burlington birdie routine?
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Speaker 15: Hey, girls.
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Speaker 3: Girls, any of you, uh, forgive the expression, artistes, want
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Speaker 3: to speak in part in my Paris blackout next week? Oh,
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Speaker 3: we want to speak in part. Yeah, but what I
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Speaker 3: need is a girl who speaks French.
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Speaker 1: French?
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Speaker 7: What is it, a character part?
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Speaker 1: Go away. I can speak a little French, Mr.
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Speaker 16: Burt.
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Speaker 3: You can, huh? Say, you're the new kid, ain't you, sweetheart?
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Speaker 9: All right.
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Speaker 3: Let me hear you read this line.
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Speaker 16: Hey, that's swell.
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Speaker 1: You'll do fine.
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Speaker 3: We'll have a bite to eat after the show, huh?
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Speaker 3: I'll run through the business with you, and we can.
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Speaker 1: The business is right.
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Speaker 3: By the way, what's your name?
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Speaker 1: Myrtle McKinley.
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Speaker 3: Anyone ever tell you you got the prettiest.
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Speaker 9: I.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've heard that approach.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, in your case, sweetheart, I really mean eyes.
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Speaker 9: All right, everybody for your next number.
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Speaker 3: Come on, all of you. See you at the stage entrance, Myrtle,
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Speaker 3: right after the show.
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Speaker 8: So, Mother got her start in Frankfurt's Votervillage.
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Speaker 6: A couple of months later, the company chipped in to
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Speaker 6: give Frank a birthday party.
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Speaker 1: He had rushed out right after.
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Speaker 6: The show, and while they all waited for him to
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Speaker 6: come back, Mother decided to do an imitation of Frank
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Speaker 6: singing Burlington Bertie.
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Speaker 7: All right, now, quiet.
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Speaker 3: Quiet, everybody.
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Speaker 7: Merton's going to hand you a laugh.
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Speaker 3: Here you are, honey. Here's his monocle and cane.
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Speaker 9: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: I'm Burlington Bertie. I ride the 10th Bertie.
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Speaker 13: And hold you alone like a dog. I walk down
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Speaker 13: the strand with.
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Speaker 17: My clubs on my hand, and I walk down again
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Speaker 17: with a mop.
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Speaker 1: I'm all airs and braces, tight jeans and tighters, without
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Speaker 1: boots or low, I forgot where my base is.
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Speaker 17: I'm burnt, burnt, I haven't a shirt, but my people are.
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Speaker 16: Well, you know.
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Speaker 17: Nearly everyone knows me since Smith's Lord Roseway, I'm Burlington
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Speaker 17: Bernie from Bow.
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Speaker 9: Okay, children, let her rip.
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Speaker 6: You can stop this shindig now because Papa's back.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's about time you showed up, Frank, just in
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Speaker 4: case you forgot this party's for you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Oh, boy, did you miss something just now?
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Speaker 3: Myrtle, huh? Kind of stealing my thunder, ain't you, Myrtle? Anyway, folks,
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Speaker 3: today is my birthday. You have all showered me with
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Speaker 3: lavish gifts of your esteem and gratitude, so what can
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Speaker 3: I do but return the compliment? All right, Eddie, bring
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Speaker 3: on the presents. Oh, that's where you've been. Buying presents?
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Speaker 9: Sure, why not?
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Speaker 1: Here you are, Helen.
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Speaker 9: This is for you. And that big box, that's for you, Mrs.
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Speaker 6: Miller.
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Speaker 3: And this is for you, Al.
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Speaker 1: Can you beat it, Myrtle?
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Speaker 6: Can't even let people give him a birthday party without
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Speaker 6: trying to top him.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I think it's sweet. Hey, you're not falling for
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Speaker 1: that big show-off, are you? Of course not. But he
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Speaker 1: is kind of nice. Hey, how about a song?
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Speaker 3: Look, Mertz.
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Speaker 1: I've seen zombies with eyes like Frank's. Look at the
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Speaker 1: way he throws his dough away. You'd think he was
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Speaker 1: a millionaire. Well, he says that's all part of the act.
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Speaker 1: But you've got to put on a front. Look, Mertz.
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Speaker 1: You're just plain dumb if you let yourself go for
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Speaker 1: a whooper.
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Speaker 3: How are you, Sarah Bernhardt? Still tossing that bustle into
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Speaker 3: the fire?
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Speaker 1: I guess it was my own idea.
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Speaker 10: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Well, you were great. When did you pick it up?
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Speaker 1: I've had to watch you for eight weeks, haven't I?
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Speaker 9: Yeah. I've been watching you, too. You know something, Mert?
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Speaker 3: You've got more talent in your little finger than all
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Speaker 3: these crows put together.
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Speaker 1: That's very nice of you.
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Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I've got a funny notion
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Speaker 3: we might do pretty good as a double.
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Speaker 1: A double?
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Speaker 3: Sure. You and me together. You know, a team.
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Speaker 1: You really think I could?
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Speaker 3: We'd knock them cold.
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Speaker 9: Why? Why?
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Speaker 1: I just don't know what to say.
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Speaker 3: Well, then don't say anything. Just keep it under your
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Speaker 3: hat and leave it to me. We'll work something out together, see?
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Speaker 3: Then we'll spring it on the boss.
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Speaker 9: Well, is it a deal? I... It's a deal. Oh, my.
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Speaker 6: In a few weeks, Mother's name was on the posters
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Speaker 6: in the lobby. Frank Burt, assisted by Myrtle McKinley. Oh,
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Speaker 6: of course, you had to look twice to find it.
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Speaker 6: There was another man in their show who was very
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Speaker 6: fond of Mama.
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Speaker 1: Roy Bivens.
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Speaker 6: Roy kept telling her she was crazy to let Frank
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Speaker 6: get away with it.
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Speaker 7: That she really made his act.
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Speaker 1: But that's not so, Roy. Frank's a star and I'm nobody. Besides,
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Speaker 1: it's his act and it was his idea.
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Speaker 3: But you're established now, Myrtle. Here's your chance to go places.
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Speaker 3: And I could help you, Myrtle.
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Speaker 7: But Mother kept shaking her head no.
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Speaker 6: Because as far as she was concerned, she'd already gone places.
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Speaker 1: One night, she and Frank.
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Speaker 6: Went to an Italian restaurant for supper... The bunch from
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Speaker 6: the opera house were used to seeing Frank Burt walk
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Speaker 6: in with a pretty girl, but somehow all this was different.
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Speaker 1: They were wise, even if he wasn't, that Mother had
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Speaker 1: set her heart not on seeing her name in lights,
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Speaker 1: but on seeing just how.
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Speaker 6: Soon she could bring Frank Burt around to popping that
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Speaker 6: all-important question.
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Speaker 3: Oh, good evening, Senor Bird. You sit, please. Please sit down. Yes,
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Speaker 3: will you please get me some... Butter, Senor. No, what
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Speaker 3: I'd like is some.
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Speaker 18: Oh, he's just joking, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Capucci.
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Speaker 1: Spaghetti for two, please.
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Speaker 3: And you all put some of that good old horse
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Speaker 3: meat sauce on the coil.
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Speaker 1: I think, Senor, I think.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Frank, you're crazy.
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Speaker 3: That's what my father says. You know, my father, he
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Speaker 3: is a Dutchman. Oh, does he hate the theater... What
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Speaker 3: kind of a business is this? A dancer, a chigger?
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Speaker 3: And then speaking of jigging, kid, I've been working on
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Speaker 3: a new routine. How about meeting me in the theater
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Speaker 3: in the morning?
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Speaker 1: Frank, I'm not sure I'm going to stay in the show.
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Speaker 1: Roy Bivens is going into a new musical comedy, and
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Speaker 1: he says he can get me a job.
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Speaker 9: Oh, he does, does he?
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Speaker 7: Of course, I don't want to quit.
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Speaker 1: But, well, I mean, just because you gave me my start,
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Speaker 1: there's no reason why you have to stay shackled to me,
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Speaker 1: as though we were shackled together, like people who are shackled.
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Speaker 3: Who said anything about being shackled? Say, you're not falling
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Speaker 3: for what a tenor tells you, are you?
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Speaker 1: I didn't say I was falling for it. I'm just
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Speaker 1: thinking about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, of course, I'd hate to lose you.
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't?
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Speaker 3: Sure. There's no joke breaking in a new partner.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Well, maybe you would make a big name for yourself.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Maybe Roy Bivens is right to rest.
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Speaker 1: Then you think I should go?
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Speaker 3: Well, you gotta think to yourself. But if anything goes wrong,
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Speaker 3: you can always come back.
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Speaker 9: Thanks.
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Speaker 3: There's one thing I want to get clear, though. This
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Speaker 3: business between you and Roy Bivens is all business, isn't it?
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Speaker 9: No monkey business.
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 3: Funny business?
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Speaker 9: Just business business?
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Speaker 1: What's that to you? Oh, nothing.
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Speaker 3: I was just thinking about you.
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Speaker 1: Thinking about me? Why, you never thought of anybody in
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Speaker 1: your life except the great Frank Bird.
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Speaker 3: Now, what makes you say that?
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Speaker 1: What do you care about a partner anyway? Just somebody
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Speaker 1: to dance with. Wasn't really going with Roy, but now
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Speaker 1: I am. I'm sick of being taken for granted. Go on,
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Speaker 1: get yourself a new partner. You can teach her that now, too.
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Speaker 3: What's got into you?
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Speaker 1: Some sense at last, which is more than you'll ever have.
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Speaker 6: Wait a minute.
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Speaker 3: Put down that plate. Wait.
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Speaker 6: So Mother went away with a new show, her own act,
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Speaker 6: singing and dancing. Oh, Frank missed her all right, but
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Speaker 6: he went right on alone doing the same old numbers
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Speaker 6: in the same old way and to the delight of
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Speaker 6: the same old audience.
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Speaker 3: Who makes life necessary for them to do? And who
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Speaker 3: can take my dreams and make my dreams come true? Oh,
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Speaker 3: don't give me trick, this is the one we'll do.
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Speaker 6: Then one night, as Frank finished his act and did
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Speaker 6: a cartwheel into the wings, as always, someone was waiting
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Speaker 6: to see him.
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Speaker 16: Hello, Frank.
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Speaker 9: Myrtle!
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Speaker 3: Myrtle! I thought you were in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 7: What happened?
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Speaker 9: Show pulled up?
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Speaker 1: Oh, the show's doing fine.
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Speaker 3: Your tenant didn't stop breathing down your neck.
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Speaker 9: Did he?
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Speaker 1: Not quite. But he asked me to marry him.
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Speaker 3: Stevens? Asked you to marry him?
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Speaker 1: Well, what's wrong with that? Some people do get married,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 9: Huh?
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Speaker 3: What'd you say?
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Speaker 1: I told him I'd have to think it over.
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Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 9: Frank.
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: You might as well know what really happened. Last week,
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Speaker 1: the producer was watching me rehearse my dance. It had
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Speaker 1: some of your steps in it.
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Speaker 9: It has, huh?
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Speaker 1: In fact, it's practically the same dance, except that I
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Speaker 1: do it alone. The producer didn't like it.
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Speaker 3: Well, come on, come on. Don't be ashamed. I want
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Speaker 3: to know the worst.
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Speaker 1: Well, Roy said, wait till she really does it. Of course,
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Speaker 1: this is just a rehearsal.
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Speaker 9: Is that all?
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Speaker 16: Is that all?
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Speaker 1: Well, I wanted to go right through the floor. I
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Speaker 1: was doing my very best, Frank. I was dancing the
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Speaker 1: way I always did with you. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: was wrong.
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Speaker 9: I do.
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Speaker 3: Look, Mark, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but
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Speaker 3: when you dance with me, well, when we dance together... Yes, Frank?
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Speaker 9: Well, when we.
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Speaker 3: Dance together, it's just different.
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Speaker 1: How different, Frank?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know.
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Speaker 9: But we hit it off.
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Speaker 3: Maybe we ought to stick together. You know, shackle. Married.
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Speaker 8: Frank!
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, if it's an idea, I'll work on it.
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Speaker 9: You'll work on it?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I knew I shouldn't have come back humiliating myself.
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Speaker 3: I'll take it easy. I'll show you.
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Speaker 1: Let me out of here. You'll what?
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Speaker 4: Help!
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Speaker 9: Help!
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Speaker 3: Let go of me! If I don't own you, you're
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Speaker 3: going to behave like this.
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Speaker 4: Help!
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Speaker 3: I never would have proposed to you in the first place.
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Speaker 3: All right, now give me a kiss. All right, I'll
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Speaker 3: take one.
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Speaker 9: Frank Birch, you little.
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Speaker 3: Come on.
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Speaker 2: Frank Birch, you little.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Frank Birch.
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Speaker 16: Oh, my.
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Speaker 19: Our stars will return with Act II of Mother War
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Speaker 19: Types in a moment.
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Speaker 3: What's the big news in Hollywood this week, Libby?
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Speaker 6: Everybody is talking about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's latest, Dory Sherry's distinguished production
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Speaker 6: of Battlegrounds. As a woman, I'd say this is not
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Speaker 6: a war picture, but a peace picture. An unadorned story
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Speaker 6: of a handful of RGIs caught in the Battle of
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Speaker 6: Beth Dornan.
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Speaker 19: At the press preview, we were very much impressed with
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Speaker 19: the picture's sincere and honest approach.
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Speaker 1: Well, the guests at the.
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Speaker 6: New York premiere on Thursday were just as thrilled with it.
17:52
Speaker 6: The stars are unforgettable in their roles. Van Johnson is
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Speaker 6: a likable guy with a weakness for gals and gags,
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Speaker 6: while John Hodiak is a small-town reporter inspired by his
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Speaker 6: own convictions. Ricardo Montalban is a kid from California, lonely
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Speaker 6: and scared. And George Murphy is Pop, waiting the day
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Speaker 6: when he can go home to his youngsters.
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Speaker 19: Many other fine MGM stars, too, help make this a
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Speaker 19: memorable picture. Battleground is a vivid reminder of what our
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Speaker 19: victory cost.
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Speaker 3: And we appreciate more than little things that give.
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Speaker 6: Us so much pleasure in peacetime, like plenty of nylon stockings.
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Speaker 3: And plenty of luxe flakes to take care of them.
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Speaker 6: You know, during the war, women would go from store
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Speaker 6: to store to find a box. They knew that rubbing
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Speaker 6: nylons with cake soap or using strong soaps made runs
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Speaker 6: come sooner. Strain tests proved that. And nylons weren't easy
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Speaker 6: to replace. Luxe flakes made them last twice as long.
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Speaker 3: Even now that nylons are plentiful, they still cost something.
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Speaker 7: That's right.
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Speaker 6: But when you wash them with Luxe flakes, they last
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Speaker 6: so much longer, it's just.
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Speaker 1: Like getting an extra pair of stockings.
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Speaker 3: Every time you buy a And what girl doesn't like
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Speaker 3: a bargain?
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Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, the makers of stockings know
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Speaker 6: that right care is important to their reputation. So it's
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Speaker 6: no wonder that over 90% of them recommend Locke's Flakes.
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Speaker 3: That's right, Libby. Now, here's our producer, Mr.
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Speaker 9: William Keeley.
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Speaker 4: Act Two of Mother Wore Tight, starring Betty Grable as
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Speaker 4: Myrtle and Dan Daly as Frank.
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Speaker 6: So they were married, Mother and Frank Burt. After the honeymoon,
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Speaker 6: they went on the road with their new vaudeville act,
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Speaker 6: Dear Old Two-A-Day. Town after town, month after month, show
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Speaker 6: after show, but always giving the audience.
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Speaker 7: Everything they had.
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Speaker 8: And of course, you know, the town of Cocoa.
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Speaker 10: We're all.
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Speaker 3: Be geographically indefinitely indelibly in in Deanna.
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Speaker 6: The new act was going over so well, Dad says
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Speaker 6: they might even have hit Broadway. If suddenly Mother hadn't
20:12
Speaker 6: announced that she was going home to Grandma because of... Well,
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Speaker 6: I believe the term is an act of God.
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Speaker 9: Marth!
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Speaker 1: Myrtle, you're kidding. Oh, I am, am I? You think
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Speaker 1: this was the first time anybody ever had a baby?
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Speaker 3: Let's quit, Marth. We'll take a long vacation, huh? No
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Speaker 3: kid of mine is going to be born in front
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Speaker 3: of a backdrop.
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Speaker 1: Darling, I'm not going to take just a vacation. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to quit. For good.
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Speaker 9: Why, Myrtle McKinley.
20:37
Speaker 1: I want my baby to have a home and a
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Speaker 1: mother to take care of him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but Mark.
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Speaker 7: You can get a.
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Speaker 1: Dozen partners as good as I am. Look, Frank, it's
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Speaker 1: been wonderful together. But this is even going to be
20:46
Speaker 1: more wonderful. You be the papa. We'll let you work
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Speaker 1: and make the money to send home. Oh, darling, this
20:52
Speaker 1: is what I've wanted all my life and from now on.
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Speaker 1: Please just let me be the mama.
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Speaker 9: Sure, honey. Just so you'll be happy.
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Speaker 8: Gosh.
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Speaker 3: Frank Burt Jr.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Frank Jr. it was to have been, but under
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Speaker 1: the circumstances, Mother thought that.
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Speaker 6: Iris would be a little more appropriate.
21:25
Speaker 1: Three years later, it was going to be Frank Jr.
21:29
Speaker 1: for sure.
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Speaker 6: But again, under the circumstances, Mother thought Miriam would be
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Speaker 6: more suitable. They compromised on calling me Mikey.
21:38
Speaker 1: We lived in Chicago then, Grandma, Mother, Iris, and I.
21:42
Speaker 1: And in between seasons, Dad.
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Speaker 7: One day, I guess I was about four. It's a telegram, Myrtle. Oh,
21:50
Speaker 7: why on earth did he ever invent these things? Scaring
21:53
Speaker 7: a body half out of their wits. Well, open it.
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Speaker 7: Open it.
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Speaker 1: You, Grandma.
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Speaker 7: You open it.
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Speaker 5: Where.
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Speaker 1: Well, heavenly praise, madam.
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Speaker 7: At least the man's not dead.
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Speaker 1: It's from France.
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Speaker 10: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Can't get a woman to replace Dolly. Make me an
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Speaker 7: Albany tomorrow. We'll be at the.
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Speaker 1: But the children, I just can't pack up and leave.
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Speaker 7: The children won't starve. Besides, the idea of a married
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Speaker 7: man traveling all over the country with a woman named Dolly.
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Speaker 1: Grandma, she's just part of his act.
22:20
Speaker 7: And you're his wife. And the wife's place is with
22:22
Speaker 7: her husband.
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Speaker 1: But I've given up this stage, and I haven't sung
22:25
Speaker 1: a note in six years. As for dancing.
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Speaker 7: If your dress is short enough, they'll never worry about
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Speaker 7: your singing and dancing. Now get a move on.
22:43
Speaker 6: Who knows how much I love.
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Speaker 8: You You do.
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Speaker 1: No one means more to me.
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Speaker 13: Than You do.
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Speaker 6: You take December.
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Speaker 13: And smile it into May.
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Speaker 17: Come back again when you're old.
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Speaker 1: Who can take.
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Speaker 18: My dreams and make my dreams come true?
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Speaker 8: Don't leave me together. What if what?
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Speaker 13: What will do?
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Speaker 16: What if?
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Speaker 6: Of course, the inevitable happened. Once Mother was back in
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Speaker 6: the act again, she couldn't quit. It was in her blood. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 6: we were growing up, Iris and I. I remember the
24:37
Speaker 6: December when I was ten years old. Mother and Dad
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Speaker 6: were booked in Boston. This was going to be our
24:42
Speaker 6: very first Christmas apart.
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Speaker 7: Oh, what's wrong with you, my dear? Is it a
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Speaker 7: cold you've got?
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Speaker 1: No, Grandma.
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Speaker 9: I just.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Grandma.
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Speaker 7: There, there now, child.
24:56
Speaker 1: I know, I know.
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Speaker 7: But think of all the fun we'll be having at Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Fun, Grandma? Without Mother and Daddy? Why did they have
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Speaker 1: to take a booking for Christmas week?
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Speaker 7: Why, she asks. Do theaters close on Christmas? Oh, come now, girls.
25:12
Speaker 7: Just remember there's still a Santa Claus.
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus.
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Speaker 7: We'll send him a letter.
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Speaker 6: Who knows what the good man will do when the
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Speaker 6: facts are set before him.
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Speaker 1: Grandma, what do you mean?
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Speaker 7: Oh, never mind what I mean. Boston, is it there?
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Speaker 18: Tell her how you care.
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Speaker 8: Of course it's.
25:35
Speaker 1: From the children, Frank. But the box says do not
25:37
Speaker 1: open until Christmas.
25:38
Speaker 3: Well, it'll be Christmas in an hour. Do you think
25:40
Speaker 3: I'm going to wait?
25:42
Speaker 9: Ah, look, Mark. From Mikey.
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Speaker 3: Merry Christmas to my father. A fine school these kids
25:50
Speaker 3: are going to.
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Speaker 9: M-E-R-Y.
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Speaker 3: Merry Christmas. Hey, look. It's a painting. Just what I needed. Frank.
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Speaker 9: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Listen.
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Speaker 1: To my wonderful mother, there is no other like my mother.
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Speaker 1: Her wine-tinted lips, her raven hair.
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Speaker 10: Hmm?
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Speaker 9: Since when?
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Speaker 1: Her beautiful eyes. How I wish I was there. Oh, Frank.
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Speaker 9: Now, honey, remember what you promised.
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Speaker 1: I'm not crying.
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Speaker 9: Who is it?
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Speaker 8: I'll go, Marcy.
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Speaker 5: Iris!
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Speaker 3: Mikey!
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Speaker 8: Oh, Mother!
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Speaker 19: How did you ever get here?
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Speaker 1: It was all Grandma's idea. She made us write that
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Speaker 1: across what we wanted most. I just can't believe you're here.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Mother.
26:38
Speaker 1: What happened to your clothes? You look like you slept
26:39
Speaker 1: in them. We did. We were afraid to take them off.
26:43
Speaker 1: We were afraid he might not know when we got
26:44
Speaker 1: to Boston. Oh, Mother, your presents. You've opened them before Christmas. Oh,
26:50
Speaker 1: I know, dear, but.
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Speaker 3: Well, we couldn't... Oh, it's all my fault. I said
26:54
Speaker 3: it's Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: Daddy.
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Speaker 3: All the presents for you and Mikey. We sent them
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Speaker 3: to Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Not even a Christmas tree for our children. We don't mind, Mother, honestly. Oh,
27:05
Speaker 1: we want us to be with you. Hey, where are
27:08
Speaker 1: you going? It's almost midnight. Everything will be closed.
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Speaker 9: I'm surprised at you. I'm Santa Claus.
27:14
Speaker 1: I use chimneys.
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Speaker 16: Poor Dad.
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Speaker 6: He looked everywhere, but no presents. But he did come
27:24
Speaker 6: back with a Christmas tree. Yes, I bet we had.
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Speaker 7: The most expensive Christmas tree in Boston.
27:30
Speaker 6: It cost $ 100, $ 50 to the people, and a $ 50 fine.
27:35
Speaker 6: Father had chopped it down on somebody's front lawn. Mother
27:43
Speaker 6: always had one weakness. She could never resist a travel folder.
27:47
Speaker 6: Every summer, she'd decide we needed.
27:48
Speaker 7: A complete change of environment.
27:50
Speaker 6: And one year, she selected the most fashionable, and according
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Speaker 6: to the travel folder, the gayest of all summer resorts,
27:57
Speaker 6: Berkshire Highlands. I remember how excited we were as we
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Speaker 6: walked into the hotel lobby.
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Speaker 7: Daddy doing that cute little jig here.
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Speaker 3: Morning.
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Speaker 9: Good morning. Morning. Good morning, sir. Yes, I'm Frank Byrne.
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Speaker 9: I made reservations before.
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Speaker 3: Count up.
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Speaker 9: You see? One, two, three, four. Oh, yes, Mr. Byrne.
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Speaker 3: Will you shine the register, please?
28:16
Speaker 9: What's the matter? Death in the family?
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Speaker 3: I beg your pardon, sir.
28:22
Speaker 9: When do we view the remains?
28:24
Speaker 3: Don't the guests ever do anything here or say anything?
28:28
Speaker 10: Well, our guests seem to like the lobby, sir. They
28:31
Speaker 10: sit in the rocking chairs and rock. Sometimes they say
28:34
Speaker 10: good morning. Well, now that's right broad-minded of them, isn't it? Boys,
28:39
Speaker 10: show the birds to their rooms, please.
28:41
Speaker 9: Where is it? Deadpan Alley.
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Speaker 1: Now, Frank, these places are always much livelier at night.
28:45
Speaker 1: Come along, children.
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Speaker 3: Here's the elevator, sir.
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Speaker 9: Thank you, son.
28:52
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm terribly sorry. I must have tripped getting out
28:55
Speaker 3: of the elevator. Yeah, well, don't break your neck, kid.
28:57
Speaker 3: You'll never get any laughs in this joint.
28:58
Speaker 8: In a.
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Speaker 1: Sense, Mother was right.
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Speaker 6: It was gayer at night. At night, they turned on
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Speaker 6: the lights.
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Speaker 7: Anyway, we were sitting there in the lobby along with
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Speaker 7: the other guests.
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Speaker 3: Come on, let's go over to the piano. Maybe we
29:23
Speaker 3: can liven this joint up a little.
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Speaker 1: That's a very good idea. Mother, everybody's looking at us.
29:28
Speaker 1: Since when did actors not want to be looked at?
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Speaker 3: You're right, kid, and especially at these prices.
29:32
Speaker 1: How about tra-la-la?
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Speaker 9: Good, hit it, Mark.
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Speaker 16: Tra-la-la-la, what a merry world we live in.
29:44
Speaker 9: So wear a smile, sing a little while it's raining.
29:48
Speaker 1: And through the clouds.
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Speaker 16: Every little star will shine.
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Speaker 8: La, la, la, la, la, what's a little.
29:54
Speaker 9: Bit of trouble?
29:55
Speaker 8: You live and learn.
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Speaker 19: Things are going to turn out fine.
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Speaker 3: Just feel that way, and every little day will feel
30:03
Speaker 3: like spring.
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Speaker 9: If you'll just sing.
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Speaker 3: Tra-la, tra-la-la-la-la. Come on, folks, let's have a little fun.
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Speaker 9: All you have to know is tra-la-la-la-la.
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Speaker 3: Okay, Myrtle, now everybody. Tra-la-la-la-la-la. Sing it out. All of
30:20
Speaker 3: it's yours and mine. Let's hear the men's voices, too.
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Speaker 16: Shut up and sing.
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Speaker 3: A little while it's raining. And through the clouds every
30:29
Speaker 3: little star will shine. Come on, live her up.
30:31
Speaker 19: What's a little.
30:33
Speaker 18: Bit of trouble?
30:35
Speaker 3: You'll live and learn things are going to turn out fine.
30:39
Speaker 9: Just feel that way and every.
30:41
Speaker 3: Little day will seem like spring.
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Speaker 9: If you'll just sing along.
30:47
Speaker 3: You know something, Myrtle? If anyone speaks to me, I'm
30:53
Speaker 3: going to keel over in a dead faint. What's the
30:56
Speaker 3: matter with these people?
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Speaker 16: Come on, Mikey.
31:07
Speaker 1: Let's go down and look at the fish pond. Oh,
31:10
Speaker 1: who cares about goldfish? I'm going to bounce my ball.
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Speaker 9: Uh....
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Speaker 6: Well, no wonder.
31:17
Speaker 1: Look who's there. Oh, as if you don't know.
31:20
Speaker 6: It's that boy who fell out of the elevator.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that is Bob, isn't it? Margie, darling, must you
31:28
Speaker 1: play with that absurd ball all the time? Iris, you
31:32
Speaker 1: deliberately knocked that ball out of my hand. Be quiet. Oh,
31:35
Speaker 1: is this your ball? Oh, thank you. It belongs to
31:38
Speaker 1: my little sister here. Thanks. You see, we have a
31:41
Speaker 1: silly old bet that she can't bounce it a hundred
31:43
Speaker 1: times without missing. Haven't we, darling?
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 1: Now, Mikey dear, you run along and play. You want
31:52
Speaker 1: to know something?
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Speaker 3: Me? Well, sure.
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Speaker 1: Iris loves to bounce it, too. I'm so sorry. You
32:00
Speaker 1: know how children are at that age.
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Speaker 7: You, uh, enjoying it here, Miss, uh.
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Speaker 10: Bert.
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Speaker 13: Iris Bert.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 1: Father and Mother were just remarking what a heavenly spot
32:10
Speaker 1: this is. They even... Miss Bird, what's happened down there?
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Speaker 1: It's Margie. It's my sister. She's hurt herself. Are you
32:25
Speaker 1: sure you're all right, Mikey? How do you feel, darling? Oh,
32:28
Speaker 1: I'm fine now, Mother. What happened?
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Speaker 3: Apparently, you were climbing a tree and you fell right
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Speaker 3: on your head.
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Speaker 1: Did I get a laugh when I fell? You couldn't
32:39
Speaker 1: make this bunch of long hairs laugh if you broke
32:41
Speaker 1: your neck. Frank, I've had all I can stand. Let's
32:43
Speaker 1: start packing.
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Speaker 8: Mother!
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to have our whole vacation ruined by
32:46
Speaker 1: staying here with these stick in the mud. I know
32:49
Speaker 1: why Iris doesn't want to go. Her fella. You wash up, Mikey.
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Speaker 9: What fella?
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Speaker 1: Bob Clarkman, of course. Well, certainly you've noticed her disgusting behavior. Mother,
33:01
Speaker 1: Bob's not at all like the others. Really, he isn't. Well,
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Speaker 1: I'm not staying here to find out. His mother and
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Speaker 1: father are in Europe, and he had to come here
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Speaker 1: with an old tutor and.
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Speaker 9: Come in.
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Speaker 7: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Burns? Come on. Frank Burns, behave yourself.
33:20
Speaker 3: Well, I told you I'd faint if anybody here ever
33:22
Speaker 3: spoke to me.
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Speaker 10: Mr.
33:23
Speaker 9: And Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Schneider and I, well, we just thought we'd inquire how
33:27
Speaker 4: your little girl is. That was quite a fall.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, we were so frightened.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Mikey's fine, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Good, good. Looks like you're leaving, Mrs. Burt.
33:37
Speaker 9: Packing your bag?
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Speaker 1: I'll say we are.
33:39
Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 4: We were in hopes you'd stay and help give this.
33:42
Speaker 3: Place a little life.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, we see you the.
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Speaker 15: Other night in the lobby, the piano and the singing.
33:48
Speaker 4: You see, the folks here, well, we've all been coming
33:51
Speaker 4: here so long and doing nothing. I guess we've just
33:53
Speaker 4: sort of dried up.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Mother, please stay.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Mrs. Burt, we're all dried out. We have such
34:01
Speaker 7: good times together.
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Speaker 1: You help us, huh? Singing, yeah?
34:05
Speaker 7: And dancing?
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Speaker 3: What do you say, Murph? We've played to tougher audiences
34:09
Speaker 3: than this and never walked down on them.
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Speaker 1: Well, kids?
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Speaker 5: Yes?
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Speaker 1: I guess we stay.
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Speaker 19: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
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Speaker 19: Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 4: After a brief intermission, our stars will continue with Act
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Speaker 4: Three of Mother War Tights. Tonight, we welcome diminutive Deborah Padgett,
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Speaker 4: who does her algebra in the morning and plays love
35:07
Speaker 4: scenes in the afternoon.
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Speaker 3: What is your ambition, Deborah?
35:10
Speaker 1: To make a picture in Italy, Mr.
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Speaker 12: Keeley.
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Speaker 1: Ever since I saw the preview of Prince of Foxes,
35:14
Speaker 1: I've envied Wanda Hendricks.
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Speaker 4: Daryl Zanuck has produced a magnificent picture. With authentic 15th
35:20
Speaker 4: century Roman settings, you know, no soundstage could equal.
35:23
Speaker 1: No. And I'm so glad the studio held the story
35:25
Speaker 1: for Tyrone Power. He's so romantic.
35:28
Speaker 4: Yes, Ty wears those Renaissance costumes as if he actually
35:31
Speaker 4: lived in the period. Another fine piece of casting is
35:34
Speaker 4: Orson Welles as the despotic Cesar Borgia.
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Speaker 1: The costumes are fabulous. Wanda almost fainted from their weight.
35:41
Speaker 4: The 20th century fox didn't spare the dollars on Prince
35:43
Speaker 4: of Foxes. You know, many fabrics were especially woven in Italy.
35:47
Speaker 4: And much technical equipment, of course, had to be imported.
35:49
Speaker 1: Wanda did some importing, too. Luxe flakes are still scarce
35:52
Speaker 1: in Europe, so she took her own supply for her
35:54
Speaker 1: personal things. Like so many of the stars, she's.
35:57
Speaker 7: A luxe fan, Mr.
35:57
Speaker 3: Kennedy.
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Speaker 19: Well, that's natural, Deborah, because it's been shown by actual
36:01
Speaker 19: washing tests. that luxe flakes keep slips and nighties, color
36:05
Speaker 19: fresh and new looking, three times as long.
36:07
Speaker 1: Wanda had some beautiful lingerie made for her in Italy
36:10
Speaker 1: and the soft shades that she loved.
36:11
Speaker 19: A lucky thing she had luxe flakes because wrong washing
36:14
Speaker 19: methods fade delicate colors, damage lace. It's foolish to take
36:18
Speaker 19: chances with anything less mild than luxe flakes. These tiny
36:22
Speaker 19: sheer diamonds of luxe burst into suds in a flash,
36:26
Speaker 19: whisk away soil in a jiffy. And luxe flakes are
36:29
Speaker 19: so mild and gentle, colors stay lovely far longer. Makers
36:34
Speaker 19: of fine washables recognize that fact. Recommend this fine product
36:38
Speaker 19: of Lieber Brothers Company, 33 to 1.
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Speaker 3: Thank you for coming tonight, Deborah Padgett. Here's our producer, Mr.
36:45
Speaker 9: William Keeley.
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Speaker 4: The curtain rises on the third act of Mother Wore Tights,
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Speaker 4: starring Betty Gravel as Myrtle and Dan Daly as Frank.
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Speaker 1: We stayed a whole month.
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Speaker 16: At Berkshire Highlands, and with father.
37:05
Speaker 1: And mother taking over, everybody.
37:07
Speaker 6: Had a wonderful time.
37:09
Speaker 1: Mother's faith in her travel folders was triumphantly restored, and
37:12
Speaker 1: even father admitted it was the gayest of all summer resorts.
37:16
Speaker 6: Iris spent most of her time with the rich Clarkman boys.
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Speaker 1: The night before.
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Speaker 5: We left, I overheard mother and father in.
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Speaker 2: The next room.
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Speaker 6: Frank.
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Speaker 9: Oh. Frank, are you still awake, dear?
37:33
Speaker 1: Frank, I've been thinking about Iris, about her future.
37:36
Speaker 9: What future?
37:39
Speaker 1: Oh, about the kind of people she goes with, things
37:41
Speaker 1: like that.
37:44
Speaker 9: What's wrong with the people she's been going with?
37:46
Speaker 1: Oh, nothing except, well, I was wondering if maybe we
37:49
Speaker 1: haven't been a little selfish.
37:51
Speaker 10: Us?
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Speaker 9: Selfish?
37:53
Speaker 1: Making the children lead our kind of life.
37:56
Speaker 3: What do they want now? The trouble with those kids is.
37:59
Speaker 9: They've had too much.
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Speaker 1: Are you trying to say our girls are spoiled?
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Speaker 9: You mean you didn't know?
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Speaker 1: Frank, bird of all the sweet, normal, unspoiled children.
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Speaker 9: Okay, skip it.
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Speaker 1: Now, for one thing, they're schooled.
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Speaker 9: They go to school.
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Speaker 1: I was thinking that maybe a boarding school. And after that, college.
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Speaker 9: That Mikey makes college. I'll eat my sombrero.
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Speaker 1: The stage is all right for us. We love it.
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Speaker 1: But they're entitled to meet nice young girls and boys
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Speaker 1: their own age. We're interested in other things like, well,
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Speaker 1: books and things like that.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll give him a book. Two books, one
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Speaker 3: for each.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Frank, you're just being stubborn. Iris is growing up.
38:41
Speaker 1: She's beginning to think about boys.
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Speaker 3: Are you talking about that wobbly-legged goof that looks like
38:47
Speaker 3: he's going to break into a run every time you
38:48
Speaker 3: look at him?
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Speaker 1: He's not a goof. Bob's a wonderful boy.
38:52
Speaker 3: Well, I'll bet if I said boo to that kid.
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Speaker 1: Don't you dare.
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Speaker 9: Would you mind telling me what we're fighting about?
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Speaker 1: Oh, go to sleep, darling. We'll talk about it when
39:04
Speaker 1: we get home. Okay.
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Speaker 9: Hmm.
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Speaker 4: Hmm.
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Speaker 1: Well, they did talk it over.
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Speaker 6: And as usual, Mother allowed Dad to convince her that she'd.
39:17
Speaker 1: Been right all along.
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Speaker 6: The following September, our hearts and our souls, they enrolled
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Speaker 6: Iris and me in Miss Ridgeway's exclusive boarding school for
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Speaker 6: young ladies.
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Speaker 1: And just remember, darling, we'll be back to visit the
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Speaker 1: first chance we get. You're darn tootin'. Now, don't forget
39:33
Speaker 1: about hanging up your clothes. And be good, girl. We will, Mother.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and bear down on your algebra. After all, look
39:39
Speaker 3: how well I speak it.
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Speaker 1: Goodbye, Daddy.
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Speaker 8: Goodbye, Mommy.
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Speaker 1: Bye, Daddy.
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Speaker 6: When Easter vacation came, Iris and I took the train.
39:58
Speaker 6: I was to join Mother and Father in Pittsburgh, and
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Speaker 6: Iris would come on later. She and some other girls
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Speaker 6: from school and Barb Clarkman and some boys from college
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Speaker 6: were all.
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Speaker 1: Going to Westchester.
40:07
Speaker 6: The Clarkmans were giving a weekend house party, and.
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Speaker 1: Naturally, Barb invited Iris.
40:13
Speaker 6: After a couple of hours on the train, Bob produced
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Speaker 6: a guitar.
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Speaker 3: All right, Iris, you're the singer in our midst. How
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Speaker 3: about a song?
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Speaker 1: Well, how about Swinging Down the Lane? Oh, wonderful.
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Speaker 7: Go ahead, Iris.
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Speaker 1: Everybody hand in hand Swinging down the lane Just about then,
40:36
Speaker 1: a man and woman came to the car. They were
40:39
Speaker 1: theatrical people, all right.
40:41
Speaker 6: And maybe they'd had.
40:42
Speaker 9: A little too much to drink.
40:44
Speaker 6: Anyway, when they heard the sound, they joined right in.
40:51
Speaker 17: When the moon is on the rise, and the arms
40:55
Speaker 17: so blue, what's the point in making lies like.
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Speaker 8: We used to do?
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Speaker 16: When the moon is on the.
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Speaker 17: Way, till we fall in vain, should we swing it
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Speaker 17: down the.
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Speaker 13: Lane with you?
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Speaker 1: You know something, kid? Swinging down the lane happens to
41:17
Speaker 1: be one of our numbers.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, we've been eating off it for two years.
41:21
Speaker 1: Hope my voice didn't blow you. I'm one of those
41:23
Speaker 1: I don't care singers. Oh, who cares about the voice?
41:28
Speaker 3: Don't you believe it, kid? My little hair had one
41:31
Speaker 3: of the sweetest, hard-calling voices in Missouri before I roped
41:34
Speaker 3: her and put shoes on her.
41:37
Speaker 16: Holy cow!
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Speaker 7: Oh, say, kid, you can sing.
41:42
Speaker 1: Oh, I can't, really. The heck you can!
41:45
Speaker 3: Well, kids, we'd love to stay, but we gotta get
41:47
Speaker 3: off the next time.
41:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know how these trains are.
41:50
Speaker 7: They don't stop in these hick towns long enough.
41:52
Speaker 1: To let you get your breath. Especially in these courses. Well,
41:57
Speaker 1: so long, everybody.
41:58
Speaker 15: Yeah, so long, and don't do.
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Speaker 3: Anything we wouldn't do.
42:01
Speaker 16: Oh, it's a party!
42:06
Speaker 3: Boy, where they have.
42:08
Speaker 1: Imagine barging in on us like that. Did you ever
42:10
Speaker 1: hear such a laugh in your life?
42:12
Speaker 6: And that makeup.
42:13
Speaker 7: Why do all actors have to be such show-offs?
42:15
Speaker 6: I don't know, but they all are.
42:27
Speaker 1: I saw the look that came over Iris' face.
42:30
Speaker 6: A look that said not that mother and dad were
42:32
Speaker 6: like that couple, but they were active. And not the
42:35
Speaker 6: kind of people you talked about when you were with.
42:37
Speaker 16: Girls from Miss Ridgeway's school and boys from Harvard.
42:41
Speaker 6: Some months later, Iris and I had an unexpected telegram.
42:44
Speaker 1: Well, go on, Iris. Finish reading it. It says, we've
42:48
Speaker 1: been keeping it a great secret, but now you can know.
42:51
Speaker 1: Dad and I have arranged a booking in the very
42:53
Speaker 1: town where your school is. Mikey, they're going to play here. Oh, boy,
42:57
Speaker 1: that's wonderful. But they can't, Mikey. They mustn't. Iris, you're
43:02
Speaker 1: ashamed for them to come. I'm not. That's not it
43:05
Speaker 1: at all.
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Speaker 9: It's just that.
43:07
Speaker 1: Oh, why do they have to spoil everything? You are ashamed.
43:11
Speaker 1: Ashamed of Mother and Daddy.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Iris.
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Speaker 18: Come in.
43:26
Speaker 9: Mother.
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Speaker 1: Hello, darling. Mother, what are you doing here? Your telegram
43:31
Speaker 1: said next week, I know. But Mikey wired us that
43:34
Speaker 1: you weren't feeling well. Did Daddy come, too?
43:36
Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
43:37
Speaker 1: He'll be in to visit later. It's nothing, Mother. I
43:40
Speaker 1: just don't feel well. Iris, I know what it is.
43:44
Speaker 1: Mikey did this.
43:45
Speaker 3: Mikey told you.
43:46
Speaker 1: Mikey loves you, dear. She only did what she thought best. Oh,
43:49
Speaker 1: I wish I'd never come here. But you've loved it here.
43:52
Speaker 5: I hate it.
43:54
Speaker 1: You think your friends will stop liking you because your
43:56
Speaker 1: mother and father are on the stage? Oh, Mother, it's
43:58
Speaker 1: not that. It's not you and Daddy. We are the
44:01
Speaker 1: sweetest people in the whole world. But people on the
44:04
Speaker 1: stage are not as refined as your friends.
44:07
Speaker 9: Is that it?
44:08
Speaker 1: I wish you could see some of their homes and
44:09
Speaker 1: how their mothers and fathers... Like Bob's mother and father?
44:13
Speaker 1: They're so nice, Mother, and dignified. They want me to
44:16
Speaker 1: visit them again and... Oh, Mother, you don't hate me,
44:19
Speaker 1: do you? Of course not, darling. You know I love
44:23
Speaker 1: you and Daddy. Oh, yes, I know you do. Don't worry, dear.
44:27
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out some way. Now, get dressed. You
44:30
Speaker 1: don't want Daddy to see you looking like a ghost, do.
44:34
Speaker 2: You?
44:34
Speaker 3: Sure, it's all right if we take the kids out
44:35
Speaker 3: for dinner, Miss Ridgway.
44:36
Speaker 9: Of course.
44:37
Speaker 1: I left word for Iris to meet you here in
44:39
Speaker 1: my office.
44:40
Speaker 7: Uh, about this other matter, though.
44:43
Speaker 1: Iris is just mixed up, Miss Ridgway. I'm sure lots
44:45
Speaker 1: of other girls go through a phase like this.
44:47
Speaker 9: I'll say she's mixed up.
44:48
Speaker 1: Frank, please.
44:50
Speaker 15: I'm grateful to you, Mrs. Burt, for telling me all this.
44:53
Speaker 15: I know what it must have meant to you. How
44:55
Speaker 15: simple it would have been for you and your husband
44:56
Speaker 15: just to have canceled your engagement here in town.
44:59
Speaker 1: Then you'll help us?
45:00
Speaker 15: I think we can stretch our rules to cover it.
45:03
Speaker 1: Thank you.
45:03
Speaker 3: Okay, but if you want my advice.
45:05
Speaker 9: Excuse me.
45:06
Speaker 4: Yes?
45:07
Speaker 1: May I come in, Miss Ridgway?
45:09
Speaker 7: Iris, come in.
45:11
Speaker 9: Hello, Daddy. Hello, Iris.
45:13
Speaker 1: You're feeling better now? Yes, I think so.
45:17
Speaker 7: I'm glad to hear that, dear.
45:19
Speaker 15: I know how terribly disappointed you'd be not to be
45:22
Speaker 15: able to go to the theater on Friday to see.
45:24
Speaker 3: Your mother's and father's performance.
45:25
Speaker 1: Isn't it nice of Miss Ridgeway, dear? She's going to
45:28
Speaker 1: let you bring your whole class to see us. Oh, Mother,
45:31
Speaker 1: how could you?
45:33
Speaker 10: Iris!
45:41
Speaker 6: They were all there that Friday.
45:43
Speaker 7: Miss Ridgeway, Iris, and the girls in the class.
45:47
Speaker 1: Mother and Dad did their usual act.
45:49
Speaker 7: No changes.
45:50
Speaker 6: They were Bert and McKinley, and this was it. Father
45:53
Speaker 6: did Burlington Verde and fell in the drum. And Mother
45:56
Speaker 6: did her dance routine. And then they went into their finale.
46:02
Speaker 16: I wish I were back again with.
46:05
Speaker 6: All the sweet, sweet, simple folks like all.
46:08
Speaker 19: My kids in Kokomo, Indiana.
46:12
Speaker 9: Well, if it isn't Papa and I, a mom, you always.
46:15
Speaker 3: Had the cutest grin in Kokomo, Indiana.
46:21
Speaker 16: Just look at Rover Wagner, oh gosh.
46:25
Speaker 3: He remembers me.
46:27
Speaker 8: And get a load of Sister Grace.
47:02
Speaker 3: And of course, you know, the town.
47:05
Speaker 9: Of Kokomo will always.
47:08
Speaker 3: Be geographically, indefinitely, indubitably in Indiana.
47:17
Speaker 8: What do you.
47:26
Speaker 3: Think, Mark?
47:27
Speaker 16: I don't know.
47:27
Speaker 1: The rest of the audience will like it.
47:29
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, come on. Let's take a bow.
47:37
Speaker 16: Grand, Mr.
47:37
Speaker 3: Gray?
47:38
Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
47:40
Speaker 20: You must be very.
47:41
Speaker 7: Proud of them, too, Iris.
47:43
Speaker 16: I am.
47:47
Speaker 6: The whole class thought Mother and Father were just as
47:51
Speaker 6: wonderful as I knew they were.
47:52
Speaker 1: And they told Iris so.
47:54
Speaker 6: But I was never sure of just what Iris' feelings
47:57
Speaker 6: were until June came and Iris was up on the
47:59
Speaker 6: stage along with the other graduates.
48:01
Speaker 7: Bob Clarkman was in the audience.
48:03
Speaker 16: And, of course, Mother and Dad.
48:05
Speaker 1: Bursting with pride when Miss Ridgway.
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Speaker 21: And now, it gives me great pleasure to present the
48:11
Speaker 21: highest honor student in our school of music, Miss Iris Bird.
48:21
Speaker 1: Look at that, Mother. She can applaud so loudly, can't she?
48:24
Speaker 1: I have a feeling we're going to see a lot
48:26
Speaker 1: of that young man from now on.
48:27
Speaker 9: She hasn't played.
48:28
Speaker 3: Anything yet, has she?
48:29
Speaker 7: Doesn't have to be.
48:32
Speaker 21: Ladies and gentlemen, I suppose I really ought to do
48:35
Speaker 21: a song, but with your permission.
48:38
Speaker 1: I'd like to sing a song especially for my mother
48:41
Speaker 1: and father.
48:41
Speaker 9: What?
48:42
Speaker 1: A song they introduced in Fortville many years.
48:49
Speaker 9: Ago. Hey, what's the.
48:51
Speaker 16: Matter with you?
48:52
Speaker 1: I can't help it.
48:53
Speaker 11: I'm so happy.
48:54
Speaker 13: Oh, no.
48:59
Speaker 16: How much I love you You do No one is more.
49:02
Speaker 13: To me Than you do You say And then December
49:18
Speaker 13: comes back again When you're all alone.
49:41
Speaker 16: Ooh, I have a strong.
49:46
Speaker 13: Memory, you do.
49:50
Speaker 8: Ooh, makes life.
49:53
Speaker 13: Worth the time, you do. And make my dreams come true.
50:09
Speaker 13: Don't give me free guesses what will happen.
50:39
Speaker 3: How do you like that, Mert? Another star in the family.
50:43
Speaker 16: And before the.
50:45
Speaker 8: Million things she gave me.
50:51
Speaker 13: And Iris was a singer.
50:52
Speaker 7: She still is.
50:54
Speaker 1: Though, of course, in private life, she's Mrs.
50:56
Speaker 7: Robert Costner.
50:58
Speaker 9: But then I'm sure you suspected.
50:59
Speaker 3: That all along.
51:01
Speaker 6: As for me, well, I didn't take her to stage.
51:04
Speaker 16: I've been too busy at home.
51:06
Speaker 6: That, and taking the children out to see their grandparents
51:09
Speaker 6: every Sunday.
51:10
Speaker 16: They're on the front porch in our house.
51:14
Speaker 9: Mother knitting.
51:15
Speaker 6: Daddy sound asleep with the funny taping in his lap.
51:23
Speaker 16: Frank.
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Speaker 9: Frank.
51:25
Speaker 7: Hmm?
51:28
Speaker 9: Me?
51:28
Speaker 1: Better clean up here.
51:31
Speaker 9: The family will be out soon. Excuse me a moment.
51:38
Speaker 9: Where are my glasses?
51:40
Speaker 16: On your forehead, as usual.
51:41
Speaker 9: Oh, yeah. Hey, where's my pipe? Where you put it.
51:47
Speaker 6: Anything else?
51:49
Speaker 10: Yep.
51:50
Speaker 1: What?
51:51
Speaker 8: A kiss.
51:54
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52:27
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52:29
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