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Lux Radio Theatre - "My Gal Sal Afrs" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: An ambitious young Indiana performer joins a traveling medicine show
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Speaker 1: determined to make his place in the theater. On January 18th, 1943,
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Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater presented My Gal Sal, episode 379, adapted
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Speaker 1: from the 1942 20th Century Fox musical film. Dick Powell
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Speaker 1: plays songwriter Paul Dresser with Mary Martin as singer Sally
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Speaker 1: Elliott in a fictionalized account of Dresser's path from Indiana
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Speaker 1: to New York's theatrical world of the 1890s. Cecil B.
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Speaker 1: DeMille is your host for this CBS broadcast as Paul's
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Speaker 1: talent and pride bring him into conflict and partnership with Sally.
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Speaker 1: Now back to the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: From Hollywood... your radio theater. From Hollywood, California, for all
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Speaker 2: of you men and women in the armed forces of
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Speaker 2: the United Nations, special service presents your radio theater. And
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Speaker 2: here is the director, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Cecil D.
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Speaker 2: DeMille.
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Speaker 4: We raise the curtain for drama, song, and gaiety on
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Speaker 4: the first act of My Gal Sal, starring Mary Martin
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Speaker 4: as Sally and Dick Powell as Paul. In the gay 90s,
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Speaker 4: all America, from Florida girl to barkeep, was singing and
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Speaker 4: dancing to the catchy.
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Speaker 2: Melodies of a small-town boy from Indiana. His name was
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Speaker 2: Paul Dresser, and his career was.
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Speaker 4: As gay and extravagant as the period he set to music. Well,
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Speaker 4: perhaps not always gay. But there was a time, for example,
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Speaker 4: when he was picked up on the road just outside.
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Speaker 2: Of Jonesville, Illinois... Picked up unconscious, wearing a suit of
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Speaker 2: tar and feathers.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 6: Come on, Sonny. Put your arm up here. Now, let's
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Speaker 6: see if we can get the rest of that tar off.
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Speaker 2: Well, who, uh, what is.
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Speaker 6: This may sing a little, Sonny. Are you awake?
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'm awake, all right. Say, how did I
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Speaker 2: get here? What town is this?
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Speaker 7: No town.
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Speaker 6: We're five miles from Jonesville. Seems you were run out
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Speaker 6: on a rail or something.
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Speaker 2: Remember? Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: We found you in a ditch. At first, we thought
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Speaker 6: you were a turkey.
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Speaker 2: Did you find me?
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Speaker 6: No, it was one of the Indians.
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Speaker 2: Indians? In Illinois?
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 6: His name is McGuire.
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Speaker 2: An Indian name of... I guess I'm not awake yet.
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Speaker 2: Sure you are.
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Speaker 6: We're Colonel Truckee's Kickapoo Indian Extravaganza.
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Speaker 2: Oh, a medicine show. Uh-huh.
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Speaker 6: Kickapoo Indian Remedies. guaranteed to cure practically anything.
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Speaker 9: May, how is he coming along?
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Speaker 7: He'll be all right, Colonel.
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Speaker 2: Well, well, let's see what emerged from under that tar. Welcome,
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Speaker 2: my boy. I'm Colonel Truckee. Well, you're looking much improved.
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Speaker 2: What do you use to take the tar off, May?
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Speaker 6: Your cough medicine.
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Speaker 2: You don't say.
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Speaker 10: Perhaps we'd better sell it as a spot remover. Young man,
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Speaker 10: what occasioned this tiff between.
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Speaker 2: You and the population of Yonder Jonesville? Well, I was
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Speaker 2: working for a man who was selling gold jewelry. I
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Speaker 2: played the banjo to attract crowds. Well, you obviously attracted them,
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Speaker 2: but your music must have been quite horrible. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: my music. The gold jewelry turned out to be brass. Brass, eh?
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Speaker 2: Sounds like you were working for Corbin. I was.
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Speaker 10: Well, any town that Corbin's worked is a desert for
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Speaker 10: three months afterwards. I think we'll root our little extravaganza
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Speaker 10: around Jonesville.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for the tip, young man. By the way, I
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Speaker 2: presume you're now footloose and fancy free, eh? What?
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Speaker 6: He means do you want a job?
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Speaker 2: Oh, sure. Provided, of course, that you can play better
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Speaker 2: than I think you can. You play the piano, too?
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Speaker 2: Just you wait till you hear me, that's all. Ah, good.
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Speaker 10: Well, spend a few days getting on your feet and
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Speaker 10: we'll talk about it. May, give him a pint or two.
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Speaker 4: Of truckie elixir.
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Speaker 2: Guaranteed to bring the flush of health to cheeks pale
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Speaker 2: and guan.
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Speaker 6: I think some hot soup would be better.
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Speaker 2: Miss Collins, are you inferring to a stranger that our
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Speaker 2: products have a peer?
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Speaker 6: All I'm saying is he's got to be stronger before
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Speaker 6: he drinks any of your time.
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Speaker 2: Miss Collins, if nature had not endowed you so lushly
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Speaker 2: with charms pleasing to male spectators, I would discharge you
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Speaker 2: on the spot. Hey, Colonel, do you want to taste
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Speaker 2: this medicine now? We just made up a whole batch. Oh,
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Speaker 2: let me see, McGuire. Joe says it's our best gift.
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Speaker 4: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 7: Who?
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Speaker 2: Who concocted this vile concoction? I did. You've deviated from
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Speaker 2: the prescription, McGuire.
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Speaker 10: Put in 20 pounds more sugar and perhaps a gallon
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Speaker 10: or two of peppermint.
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Speaker 2: I'll fix it.
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Speaker 6: That's as mature as the Colonel's making now.
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Speaker 4: For rheumatism, we leave.
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Speaker 2: Out the sugar.
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Speaker 9: That's enough of the kickapoo Indian war dance. Now just
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Speaker 9: sit down over there and count your scalp. Ladies and
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Speaker 9: gentlemen of Lindbergh, here you have nature's own remedy of
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Speaker 9: herbs and roots with which the American Indian has always cured.
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Speaker 3: The ills of his loved ones.
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Speaker 6: Oh, the colonel's up to the kickapoo remedy.
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Speaker 4: You'd better get out there.
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Speaker 2: I'm ready. Well, May, how do I look?
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Speaker 6: Another new suit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you like it? Not bad, huh?
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Speaker 6: But you bought three new suits last month.
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Speaker 2: Oh, but those others were just things to wear. This
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Speaker 2: came from Chicago. I always wanted a tech suit.
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Speaker 6: Hey, it's got a big city cut, all right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just sent my measurements in the morning and
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Speaker 2: it came back like this. From now on, those dents
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Speaker 2: are my tailors.
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm, I like the vest, too.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Say, uh, you don't think it's too loud, do you?
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Speaker 11: Green and red?
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, it's fine.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'd rather like it myself. Say, did you catch
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Speaker 2: my act last night?
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Speaker 6: I watch you every night.
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Speaker 2: Well, don't miss me tonight. I'm going to try out
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Speaker 2: a new specialty.
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Speaker 6: You'll be great. I'm glad you came with us, Paul.
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Speaker 6: Awfully glad.
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Speaker 2: Well, thanks. You've been swell to me, May.
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Speaker 6: I'll bet you know why, too, don't you?
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Speaker 2: Sure. You like my act. Hey, Bursley, you're almost on.
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Speaker 2: Ready and waiting, McGuire. Ready and waiting. Say, May. May,
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Speaker 2: we got the carry straight tonight. Did you get a
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Speaker 2: line or no two in the buggy?
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 6: Who are they?
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Some girl and a fella. She's a looker,
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Speaker 2: all right. I bet she don't come from around these parts.
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Speaker 7: Go on, Paul, quick.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Say, if this stunt goes over, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: hit the Colonel for a raise. You've got a fat
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Speaker 2: chance of getting it. Go on. Well, if I don't,
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Speaker 2: I'll start my own show. All you need is an
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Speaker 2: Indian and a couple of recipes.
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Speaker 4: That's especially nice.
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Speaker 6: In true Indian fashion, Chief Pahoni Papa, thank you for
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Speaker 6: your kindness and attention.
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Speaker 7: And now.
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Speaker 9: And now, while Keith Bahani Papa and his brothers pass
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Speaker 9: among you with a supply of this original Kickapoo Indian remedy,
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Speaker 9: you will be entertained by Mr. Paul Dresser, who has
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Speaker 9: just closed a season of brilliant piano recitals in the
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Speaker 9: great city of Chicago.
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Speaker 2: Mr. Dresser, good evening, folks. Good evening. Good evening to
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Speaker 2: you one and all. And now, folks, rather than anything heavy,
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Speaker 2: I thought I'd play something in a lighter vein. Tonight...
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Speaker 2: A little composition of my own is yet untitled.
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Speaker 3: With your kind attention.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Sally, we'd better drive on.
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Speaker 8: Oh, not yet.
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Speaker 6: I want to listen a minute, Fred.
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Speaker 2: To Mr. Paul Dresser, the brilliant pianist from Chicago?
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Speaker 6: I don't seem to remember Mr. Dresser built in Chicago
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Speaker 6: when we were there.
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Speaker 11: Do you?
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Speaker 2: Well, we never played the stockyard.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Fred, that's not funny.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Sally. You've got an early rehearsal tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Just a minute. You know, that's a catchy tune, Fred.
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Speaker 6: Maybe we did miss him in Chicago.
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Speaker 2: Not if he wore that shoe.
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Speaker 6: Just the same. We could use a tune like that
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Speaker 6: in the show.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. And now, ladies and gentlemen, as
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Speaker 2: an encore, I will present a startling piano novelty. Ladies
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Speaker 2: and gentlemen, before your very eyes, you are going to
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Speaker 2: see a feat which has never before been performed by
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Speaker 2: a musician. At one and the same time, I'm going
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Speaker 2: to play the same tune as a duet on two pianos.
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Speaker 2: With your kind attention... You were right, Sally. I'm glad
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Speaker 2: we stayed. I wouldn't have missed this for anything.
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Speaker 6: It's awful to laugh at him, Fred.
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Speaker 2: How can you help it?
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Speaker 6: They ought to move their children out of the first row.
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Speaker 7: He's going to fly off of them soon.
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Speaker 2: What's so funny back there?
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Speaker 6: Oh, Fred, I shouldn't have done that.
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Speaker 2: Let me through. Get out of the way, please.
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Speaker 6: Fred, he's coming back.
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Speaker 8: You'd better drive on.
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Speaker 2: Don't be silly. started this laughing? Was it you?
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Speaker 6: Yes, it was. I'm sorry. Really, I didn't mean to.
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Speaker 2: If you don't like my act, how about getting out
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Speaker 2: of here? Now, just a minute. Who do you think
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Speaker 2: you are? Go on, get out of here.
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Speaker 6: I told you I was sorry. I apologize.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't fix anything.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm afraid there's nothing more I can do.
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Speaker 2: I told you what you could do. Get out of here.
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Speaker 2: Now listen, you. Let him alone, sir.
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Speaker 6: I offered my apology, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Dresser.
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Speaker 6: You haven't managed enough to accept it, and I'm sorry
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Speaker 6: for you.
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Speaker 2: Listen, you're the one who's in the wrong, not me.
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Speaker 2: I was up there.
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Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, I liked your act.
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Speaker 6: It was the funniest act I ever saw.
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Speaker 2: Funny? You think it was supposed to be?
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Speaker 7: Well, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: Well, nobody else thought so. Nobody laughed when you started it.
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Speaker 6: But there were two pianos in that suit. What could
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Speaker 6: you expect?
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Speaker 2: Well, what's wrong with the suits?
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Speaker 6: Well, I suppose it's all right if you can stand
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Speaker 6: the noise.
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Speaker 2: Here, here, this is the sort of thing I don't permit, Dresser.
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Speaker 2: Get back on the stage where you belong. Now, listen,
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Speaker 2: these people... Never mind, get back on the stage.
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Speaker 7: Paul, come on, please.
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Speaker 2: Now, if you folks will just move along, we'll get
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Speaker 2: on with our show.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I guess I lost my temper, too. Will
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Speaker 6: you do me a favor? Will you give Mr. Dresser
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Speaker 6: something for me? Fred, let me have two tickets for
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Speaker 6: tomorrow night. I'd like him to be our guest.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you folks in the profession, too? We're trying out
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Speaker 2: Miss Elliott's new show at the Buffalo. Here you are.
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Speaker 6: See that he gets the tickets, will you?
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Speaker 2: Certainly.
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Speaker 4: And here.
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Speaker 2: Here's one of our posters. You might put it up
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Speaker 2: in some likely spot. Good night. Night, folks.
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Speaker 8: Good night.
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Speaker 2: Hmm. Buffalo Theater. Sally Elliott in Bells of Broadway.
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Speaker 3: Good night.
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Speaker 2: If you're after love and laughter while you're young and free,
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Speaker 2: come along with me.
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Speaker 4: Come along and see.
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Speaker 6: Two pairs on the gay white way.
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Speaker 13: A bunch of girlies in the gay white way.
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Speaker 5: It's always early for the lights are glowing.
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Speaker 9: Why, it's glowing.
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Speaker 14: They do.
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Speaker 15: And that's the Romeo-ing on the gay white way.
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Speaker 13: It's so exciting that the night turns to day.
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Speaker 16: And every little miss likes a little miss upon the day.
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Speaker 17: Gay white.
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Speaker 6: I thought we went down there to break up the rack.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. I know.
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Speaker 6: All you did during the whole show was sit and stare.
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Speaker 6: Anybody would think you'd never been in.
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Speaker 7: A theater before.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's right, May. That was my first time.
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Speaker 18: Huh?
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Speaker 2: May, I've got to get out of here.
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Speaker 7: What for?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I can't spend my whole life in a medicine show.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was great stuff until tonight. Sitting up
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Speaker 2: there on that red wagon playing a piano. It was wonderful.
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Speaker 2: And then tonight we saw a real show.
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Speaker 18: Oh.
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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, it hit me how cheap it is.
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Speaker 2: It's like the suit I'm wearing. Yesterday, I thought that
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Speaker 2: was wonderful, too.
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Speaker 6: But it is wonderful.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, it isn't. It's a Hicks suit. It's loud
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Speaker 2: and cheap, just like this show. I've got a lot
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Speaker 2: to learn, May. And I'll never learn it in these
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Speaker 2: tank towns. I'm going to New York.
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Speaker 6: I'll go with you, Paul.
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Speaker 2: No, I'd better go by myself.
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Speaker 6: Paul, you can't just walk out on me.
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Speaker 2: You've been awfully good to me, May. You got me
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Speaker 2: a job when I needed it. You helped me grow up.
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Speaker 2: But I... I gotta go on alone now.
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Speaker 6: I know what it is. It's that girl.
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Speaker 2: No, it isn't. But nobody's going to laugh at me.
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Speaker 2: Not her or anybody. Someday I'll write a song and
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Speaker 2: she'll come begging to sing it. Then I'll do all
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Speaker 2: the laughing myself.
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Speaker 19: Excuse me.
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Speaker 2: Can you tell me where Broadway is? Broadway and what,
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Speaker 2: my sister?
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Speaker 11: Oh, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I'm a stranger in New York. Did you have to
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Speaker 2: tell me?
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Speaker 6: It's over that way.
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Speaker 2: Thanks. Hey, wait. What's that tune you're whistling? What's it
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Speaker 2: to you? Go on, whistle it again. Look, I sell newspapers.
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Speaker 2: I'm a businessman. I ain't got time to entertain farmers.
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Speaker 2: Go on, whistle now. Here. Here, I'll give you a dime.
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Speaker 2: All right. So now I'm a professional. Go on, whistle it.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's it. That's my song. Where did you hear it?
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Speaker 2: How should I know? That's the Geyser whistle of it. Well,
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Speaker 2: how can they? I wrote it. It's mine. Hooray. Why
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Speaker 2: don't you go down to Tin Pan Alley and get paid?
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Speaker 2: Where is Tin Pan Alley? 28th Street. Tell them I
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Speaker 2: sent you. My name's Beethoven. I tell you, it's my song.
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Speaker 2: I wrote it. Look, I didn't publish the song. I
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Speaker 2: only wish I did. I don't own the rights. I've
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Speaker 2: got the rights. I wrote it. Somebody stole it from me.
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Speaker 2: I know. Every time there's a hit tune, 50 guys
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Speaker 2: claim they wrote it. This song was written by Sally Elliott.
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Speaker 2: It's the best tune in a news show. Sally Elliott? Well,
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Speaker 2: that proves it. She heard me play it. Well, you
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Speaker 2: get out of here or what I call a cop.
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Speaker 2: Sally Elliott doesn't go around stealing songs. She's the biggest
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Speaker 2: star for that. Oh, she is, is she? Well, here,
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Speaker 2: take a look at this. Can you read music? Can
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Speaker 2: I read music? Well, can you? No! Well, get somebody
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Speaker 2: who can. This is the song the way I wrote it,
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Speaker 2: the same as they're doing it now. Sally Elliot heard
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Speaker 2: me play it when she was in Buffalo with a show.
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Speaker 2: Not to think about it, that tune wasn't in the
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Speaker 2: original score. They added it when they brought the show
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Speaker 2: into New York. Say, maybe you got something. Hey, Harry,
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Speaker 2: come in here, Harry. Yeah, what? Harry, what would you
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Speaker 2: say if I said to you that Sally Elliot didn't
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Speaker 2: write Come Tell Me and that this guy did? I'd
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Speaker 2: say we'd all better go out and get drunk. After
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Speaker 2: we sign him up. Come on, hurry up. Wait a minute, Mr. Howley. Hey,
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Speaker 2: where's Miss Elliott's dressing room? Third door.
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Speaker 4: Thanks.
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Speaker 2: Now, just a minute. I want to make one thing clear.
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Speaker 2: The music is mine, but I didn't write those words
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Speaker 2: they're using. Now, look, don't start to weaken. You're going
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Speaker 2: to tell her it's yours, just like you said. Sure
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Speaker 2: I am. That's the boy.
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Speaker 7: Come in.
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Speaker 2: Good evening, Miss Elliott. My name's Howley. Howley and Collins
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Speaker 2: Music Pub.
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Speaker 6: How do you do?
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Speaker 2: This is Paul.
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Speaker 8: Of course. This is Mr.
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Speaker 2: Dresser, isn't it? Yes, Mr. Dresser.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm certainly glad to see you.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'll bet you are. People are usually glad to
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Speaker 2: see the people they steal songs from. No, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 6: I didn't steal your song, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Dresser.
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Speaker 2: Well, I didn't give it to you, did I? Now,
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Speaker 2: let me handle this. The whole thing will be worked out.
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Speaker 6: I doubt that very much.
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Speaker 2: Get out, please. No, no.
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Speaker 6: This is my dressing room.
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Speaker 2: Get out. Keep calm, Miss Elliott.
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Speaker 6: You expect me to be calm when he walks in
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Speaker 6: here and calls me a thief?
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Speaker 2: I did not call you a thief. But you are.
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Speaker 4: Get out.
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Speaker 8: Get out.
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Speaker 2: Now, wait, wait. Let's all talk this thing over like cattle.
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Speaker 6: I've had all of this, gentlemen, that I can say.
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Speaker 2: What's the matter in here?
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Speaker 6: Fred, will you tell this carnival tout that I didn't
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Speaker 6: steal his saw?
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Speaker 2: Now, look here, Haviland. If he's going to take that attitude,
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Speaker 2: we'll sue him. I don't think that'll be necessary.
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Speaker 20: Mr.
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Speaker 2: Dresser, you and Miss Elliott have a great talent for
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Speaker 2: irritating each other. Suppose you approach her now without breathing fire.
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Speaker 2: If she'll just quit stealing my songs, I won't approach
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Speaker 2: her at all. That's where you're wrong. The song isn't stolen.
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Speaker 2: We admit it's yours. You admit it's mine?
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Speaker 8: Yes, we admit.
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Speaker 6: She's never published a song. We've been looking all over
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Speaker 6: for you. Trying to get your permission. Right now, we
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Speaker 6: don't want it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, we do, dear. Well, you'd have to talk
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Speaker 2: to me about that, Haviland. I have exclusive rights to Mr.
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Speaker 2: Dash's works. But not to Miss Elliot's. She wrote the words.
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Speaker 2: You can have her words back. I'm going to write
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Speaker 2: my own words. Oh, you are.
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Speaker 18: Ha.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean, ha?
18:14
Speaker 18: Ha.
18:15
Speaker 2: We're on in two minutes, Miss Elliot.
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Speaker 6: Fred, the song is out of the show. As of tonight.
18:20
Speaker 8: No, Sally.
18:21
Speaker 2: It's out. Wait, wait. The song is a good song.
18:23
Speaker 2: It's a hit. It's going over because of the music. Well,
18:27
Speaker 2: it is. Sure, the music is great. But you're unknown,
18:31
Speaker 2: and it means a lot to an unknown to have
18:32
Speaker 2: a big star like Sally Elliot introduce a song. Later on,
18:35
Speaker 2: you can do things the way you want, right? Well,
18:38
Speaker 2: I guess so, yeah. Once I get started, I won't
18:40
Speaker 2: need her or anybody.
18:41
Speaker 8: Fred, listen.
18:42
Speaker 2: It's all settled, Sally. You own the words, Dresser owns
18:45
Speaker 2: the music. Is that the idea, Mr. Howley? It's a deal. Good. Sally,
18:48
Speaker 2: meet your new partner, Paul Dresser. Mr. Dresser, you're on.
18:52
Speaker 2: You're on, Mr.
18:52
Speaker 4: Dresser.
18:53
Speaker 6: My partner. All right. Tell him to go back home, Fred.
18:58
Speaker 20: We'll send his royalties to the Kickapoo Indian Show.
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Speaker 16: Do not think it's just a vital fantasy.
19:13
Speaker 11: For all the world, a lot of love.
19:15
Speaker 2: You know.
19:17
Speaker 12: If true mankind is sickle, will I love you?
19:22
Speaker 6: Come tell me what's your answer.
19:25
Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 11: Or no.
19:30
Speaker 6: By the stars that brightly shine tonight, love, I swear
19:36
Speaker 6: that I love you.
19:39
Speaker 20: By yonder moon that sheds its never-white.
19:42
Speaker 14: Glow, I promise I'll be true.
19:48
Speaker 13: By the memory of a place we've lost, love In sunshine,
19:53
Speaker 13: rain or winter's icy blast.
19:56
Speaker 6: Love Unending my devotion to the.
19:59
Speaker 17: Last love What more can I say to you?
20:08
Speaker 11: When I face my arms above this sweet heart.
20:12
Speaker 13: When I tell to you my tale of love, of
20:17
Speaker 13: the future with no life before us, far brighter than
20:22
Speaker 13: the skies above.
20:28
Speaker 6: Do nothing to justify the fantasy.
20:30
Speaker 11: Of all the world of love that you know.
20:36
Speaker 5: If true mankind is sickle, will I love you?
20:42
Speaker 6: Come tell me what your answer is.
20:45
Speaker 17: Yes or no?
20:48
Speaker 21: Tell me.
20:50
Speaker 11: Tell me what your answer is.
21:09
Speaker 2: The curtain falls on Act I of tonight's radio theater.
21:13
Speaker 2: It's intermission time now, and before we hear Act II,
21:17
Speaker 2: let's listen to the sensational trumpet of Harry James. The
21:20
Speaker 2: curtain falls on Act I of tonight's radio theater. Thank you.
23:59
Speaker 4: Of My Gal's Bell, starring Mary Martin as Sally and
24:02
Speaker 4: Dick Powell as Paul.
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Speaker 7: Dresser.
24:18
Speaker 4: Paul Dresser is a success, and the success of Paul...
24:22
Speaker 4: means a dashing young man in flashy clothes who sleeps
24:26
Speaker 4: late and drinks early and is never on time for appointments.
24:30
Speaker 4: He's late for an appointment now at a surprise party
24:33
Speaker 4: that Fred is giving for Sally Elliot.
24:35
Speaker 6: Surprise!
24:37
Speaker 11: Surprise! Surprise!
24:41
Speaker 6: Thank you. I.
24:44
Speaker 7: Fred, what is this?
24:46
Speaker 6: It isn't my birthday, is it? Oh, I hope not.
24:49
Speaker 2: You may not know it, Sally, but this is a
24:51
Speaker 2: great occasion. You see that cake? One candle in it. Well,
24:55
Speaker 2: one year ago tonight, I became your producer. Also your
24:58
Speaker 2: devoted slave.
24:59
Speaker 6: Oh, Fred, you're a darling. Everyone's a darling.
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Speaker 12: Shall I cut the cake?
25:05
Speaker 2: Well, wait if you can. We're not all here yet.
25:08
Speaker 6: Who else is coming?
25:09
Speaker 2: Sally, hold on to your temper. I invited Paul Dresser.
25:14
Speaker 11: Oh.
25:16
Speaker 8: How nice.
25:17
Speaker 2: Now, after all, the two of you wrote the biggest
25:19
Speaker 2: hit in New York. No reason why you should go
25:21
Speaker 2: around glaring at each other.
25:22
Speaker 6: Oh, I have no objection. It's just that I despise him.
25:26
Speaker 2: Sally, we need good music, and he can write it.
25:29
Speaker 6: Of course, he may not have time to drop in
25:31
Speaker 6: on us. I hear he's personally closing every bar and
25:35
Speaker 6: cabaret in New York.
25:37
Speaker 2: Yes, the heat of the limelight has made him a
25:39
Speaker 2: little thirsty. But he's young and still growing. Yes.
25:43
Speaker 6: His head, especially.
25:45
Speaker 2: Sally, the way I feel tonight, I can forgive anybody anything.
25:49
Speaker 8: Oh, Fred.
25:50
Speaker 2: By the way, that candle isn't just to celebrate our
25:53
Speaker 2: first year together. It's a sort of a pale imitation
25:57
Speaker 2: of the bonfire in my heart.
25:59
Speaker 6: Now, that's the second pretty speech from you in one minute.
26:01
Speaker 2: Wait till you hear the third. If you give the
26:03
Speaker 2: right answer, it'll call for a much bigger cake. Well.
26:07
Speaker 6: You know how much I like taste.
26:09
Speaker 2: Hello, everybody.
26:13
Speaker 6: Oh, Mr. Dresser has arrived. I suppose we can begin now.
26:17
Speaker 2: How are you, Fred? Sorry to be late. I was
26:19
Speaker 2: playing the piano with Tony Pastas. They wouldn't let me
26:22
Speaker 2: break away. That's all right. Hello, Miss Elliott. Say, I'd
26:25
Speaker 2: like you folks to meet a good friend of mine.
26:27
Speaker 2: Miss Elliott, this is Mr. Sullivan. John L. Sullivan.
26:30
Speaker 5: Hello, John.
26:31
Speaker 2: Hello, Sally Miller. Oh, you know each other?
26:35
Speaker 6: Very well.
26:36
Speaker 2: The only time I was ever knocked out of my
26:38
Speaker 2: life was the first time I heard Sally sing. Well,
26:41
Speaker 2: follow me, Buckle. Let's sit down and get to drinking. Sure, John, sure. Fred,
26:46
Speaker 2: it was nice of you to ask me here tonight. Say,
26:49
Speaker 2: what's the cake for? Somebody's birthday? Oh, I guess not,
26:52
Speaker 2: with only one candle. Oh, I get it. Say, this
26:56
Speaker 2: is nice.
26:58
Speaker 8: What is nice?
26:59
Speaker 2: Hey, John L., look at that cake. That's celebrating my
27:02
Speaker 2: first song yet. Hmm, come tell me. That's a great song.
27:07
Speaker 2: World's champion songwriter, this boy. World's champion. Oh, he's a
27:11
Speaker 2: great booster of mine, old John L. He thinks I'm
27:13
Speaker 2: pretty good.
27:14
Speaker 6: Well, so do you, don't you?
27:16
Speaker 18: What?
27:17
Speaker 6: After all, you're a big success, aren't you? Why, you've
27:20
Speaker 6: taken New York by storm.
27:22
Speaker 2: Oh, New York isn't so difficult for a fellow who
27:24
Speaker 2: can play the piano and doesn't mind buying a few drinks.
27:27
Speaker 6: And just think, you've done it all on one song.
27:31
Speaker 6: No telling where you'll go if you ever write another song.
27:34
Speaker 2: The story's written. I wrote it the other night in
27:36
Speaker 2: the bar down on the front seat. I'll play it
27:38
Speaker 2: for you. Where are you going, Bucko? I'm going to
27:40
Speaker 2: play him a new song.
27:41
Speaker 8: You are?
27:42
Speaker 2: Quiet, everybody. No talking. Dresser's written another hit. He's going
27:45
Speaker 2: to play it for us. Quiet there.
27:48
Speaker 8: Quiet.
27:53
Speaker 2: Oh, Miss Elliot, I, uh... I wrote the words to
27:56
Speaker 2: this one myself. Get a copy here. Look him over
28:00
Speaker 2: and sing along with me, will you?
28:02
Speaker 8: Thank you.
28:03
Speaker 2: Not at all.
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Speaker 22: Here you are As I dreamed that you would be
28:13
Speaker 22: How near you are Just a kiss away from me.
28:21
Speaker 2: Of the I feel with somewhere on a star That's great.
28:37
Speaker 2: You like it?
28:39
Speaker 4: Here you are And I love you much too.
28:44
Speaker 2: Well Oh, here you are Dearer far than I can
28:53
Speaker 2: tell Tonight I know it must be you or no one.
29:05
Speaker 2: For if you want my heart.
29:10
Speaker 4: Here you are.
29:11
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
29:17
Speaker 8: And sing.
29:18
Speaker 17: Here you are.
29:21
Speaker 18: As I dreamed that.
29:23
Speaker 14: You would be.
29:26
Speaker 19: Here you are.
29:30
Speaker 7: Just a step away from me.
29:34
Speaker 11: Oh, well, I know that we're on earth. below I
29:43
Speaker 11: see you come there on.
29:46
Speaker 5: A star Oh, that's.
29:49
Speaker 2: Lovely Here you are.
29:55
Speaker 18: And I love you not to die.
30:00
Speaker 6: Oh, dear, you are.
30:03
Speaker 11: You're a star that I can tell.
30:07
Speaker 14: Tonight I know it must be you. Oh, no one.
30:17
Speaker 2: Oh, if you want my heart. Here you are. Fine song, Bucko, fine.
30:37
Speaker 2: All right, folks, you can talk now. Well, Miss Elliot?
30:45
Speaker 6: It's a very lovely song.
30:48
Speaker 2: I do like it. You know something? When I hear
30:51
Speaker 2: you sing, I can't remember I was ever mad at you.
30:55
Speaker 6: I feel a little bit that way about you when
30:57
Speaker 6: I hear your music.
30:59
Speaker 2: In that case, I suggest we be friends from now on.
31:01
Speaker 2: All right.
31:02
Speaker 8: A truth.
31:03
Speaker 2: Well, that isn't what I meant, but we can talk
31:05
Speaker 2: it over on the way home.
31:05
Speaker 6: No, I came here with Fred. I'll be going home
31:08
Speaker 6: with him, too.
31:09
Speaker 2: You're going home with me?
31:10
Speaker 6: I don't think so.
31:12
Speaker 2: When you're ready, just let me know.
31:22
Speaker 6: Well, thanks for bringing me home, Mr.
31:24
Speaker 2: Dresser. That's all right.
31:26
Speaker 6: Too bad Fred was called away from the party. He
31:29
Speaker 6: might have saved you the trouble.
31:31
Speaker 2: No trouble. Anyway, that message he got was a fake.
31:34
Speaker 2: I sent it.
31:35
Speaker 18: Oh.
31:37
Speaker 2: Good night. I'll see you in.
31:38
Speaker 6: Oh, that won't be necessary.
31:40
Speaker 2: Oh, this is a nice hotel. I like to see
31:41
Speaker 2: the inside.
31:43
Speaker 6: If you're referring to the inside of my suite, I'll
31:46
Speaker 6: give a party sometime and.
31:47
Speaker 11: Have you over.
31:48
Speaker 2: Oh, don't go all that far. I can see it now.
31:51
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. Good night.
31:52
Speaker 2: Not yet. Driver. Through the park. Yes, sir.
32:00
Speaker 6: You take a lot of liberties, Mr.
32:02
Speaker 2: Dresser. I know it. I'm going to take one now.
32:05
Speaker 4: Oh, no.
32:05
Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
32:06
Speaker 6: It'll be one too many, I warn you.
32:08
Speaker 2: We'll cancel all the others. This is the only important one. Sally.
32:13
Speaker 7: No, listen.
32:13
Speaker 2: Stop.
32:14
Speaker 14: Do you.
32:17
Speaker 7: Hmm.
32:19
Speaker 2: Hmm. Well, do I get slapped? I, uh, I haven't decided.
32:30
Speaker 2: You haven't the strength. You know, Sally, they tell me
32:36
Speaker 2: that a lot of people start out hating each other
32:39
Speaker 2: and end up this way.
32:40
Speaker 21: Do they, Paul?
32:42
Speaker 11: No.
32:59
Speaker 6: This one's for Come Tell Me. This is for Liza James.
33:02
Speaker 4: This is for.
33:03
Speaker 2: Here You Are. And your guest of honor still isn't here.
33:07
Speaker 6: Oh, he'll be along. Pat, did you send someone to Paul?
33:10
Speaker 2: He wasn't there.
33:11
Speaker 6: Well, I guess he was held up someplace.
33:15
Speaker 2: I know where he is. So do both of you.
33:17
Speaker 2: Why do we fool ourselves? Since society took him up,
33:21
Speaker 2: he ain't got any time for common play like us.
33:23
Speaker 6: Oh, anyone as successful as Paul is bound to be lionized.
33:27
Speaker 6: And Paul likes fun.
33:28
Speaker 2: What about you, Sally? Don't you like fun? You know,
33:32
Speaker 2: it's a queer thing about geniuses. You always hear of
33:35
Speaker 2: them burning their genius away in an attic. But you
33:38
Speaker 2: see them burning in the brightest places in town.
33:40
Speaker 6: Paul's been working very hard. Why, he has a wonderful
33:44
Speaker 6: new melody, and he's writing the words. It's an idea
33:47
Speaker 6: about his home on the banks of the war bag.
33:50
Speaker 2: A farm song. Who cares about farms? Who ever heard
33:53
Speaker 2: of the war bag? Hey, hey, if the tune's any good,
33:57
Speaker 2: we could change.
33:57
Speaker 8: It to the Hudson song.
34:00
Speaker 2: Well, the guest of honor is here, and I think
34:03
Speaker 2: we're going to need some more chairs. Sorry to be late, Sal. Oh, Mariana,
34:07
Speaker 2: I'd like you to know Miss Elliot. Sally, this is
34:09
Speaker 2: the Countess Rossini.
34:11
Speaker 17: Oh, how do you do, Miss Elliot?
34:13
Speaker 6: I've enjoyed your performances so very much.
34:16
Speaker 2: Yes.
34:17
Speaker 6: I've heard a great deal about you as well, Kathy.
34:21
Speaker 6: I'm not quite sure what you mean.
34:22
Speaker 7: I am multi-professional.
34:25
Speaker 6: Oh, are you?
34:28
Speaker 2: Well, uh, Now, look, suppose we just get a couple
34:31
Speaker 2: of chairs here. We'll move the cake to a bigger table.
34:33
Speaker 6: Oh, don't bother.
34:34
Speaker 2: I was just leaving. Now, Sally, don't. I know you've
34:37
Speaker 2: been waiting, and I'm sorry.
34:37
Speaker 8: You've had your last cake for me.
34:39
Speaker 6: The next one you'll get in the face.
34:40
Speaker 2: Now, Sally.
34:41
Speaker 6: And for the candles, you can burn them at your wake.
34:44
Speaker 8: Good night.
34:57
Speaker 2: Very striking.
34:58
Speaker 4: It's a pleasure to make clothes for someone with a
35:01
Speaker 4: figure like yours, Mr.
35:02
Speaker 2: Dresser. Looks rather good, I think. Come in. Hello. Well, Sally,
35:09
Speaker 2: this is a surprise.
35:11
Speaker 6: Are you busy?
35:12
Speaker 2: No, no, just trying on a few new suits. I
35:15
Speaker 2: threw away everything I had and turned Jansen here loose.
35:18
Speaker 6: Are those the new ones over there?
35:20
Speaker 2: That's right.
35:21
Speaker 6: Well, I suppose you do get a better price when
35:24
Speaker 6: you order them by the dozen.
35:26
Speaker 2: I believe that takes care of everything, Mr. Dresser. I'll
35:29
Speaker 2: take the other one to the shop and get it
35:31
Speaker 2: back here in plenty of time for you to pack. Thanks, Johnson.
35:35
Speaker 4: I hope you have a very pleasant voyage, Mr.
35:37
Speaker 2: Dresser. Goodbye, madame.
35:42
Speaker 6: I didn't know you were going away.
35:44
Speaker 2: Well, uh, well, I'd have told you if we'd been speaking.
35:48
Speaker 6: How long will you be gone?
35:50
Speaker 2: Oh, just a little while. I thought I'd run down
35:52
Speaker 2: to Cuba.
35:53
Speaker 6: That would be nice. What about the song, Paul, the
35:56
Speaker 6: war bass song? We were going to put it in
35:59
Speaker 6: the show, remember?
36:00
Speaker 2: Oh, Sally, I can't work around here anymore. I need
36:02
Speaker 2: a change. On the boat, there won't be anything to do,
36:05
Speaker 2: and we'll all have plenty of time just to work. Oh, look, Sal,
36:08
Speaker 2: will you excuse me while I jump in the tub?
36:10
Speaker 6: Well, I think I'd better run along.
36:11
Speaker 2: Now, don't go. I won't be but a minute. See
36:14
Speaker 2: who that is, will you, Sal?
36:16
Speaker 8: Who is it? Well, Mr. Dressel.
36:21
Speaker 6: May I see him, please? He's busy right now. Oh,
36:24
Speaker 6: but I have a message for him from the Comtesse Rossini.
36:28
Speaker 13: Oh.
36:29
Speaker 6: I'll give it to him.
36:31
Speaker 2: Oh, no, I regret. It is confidential.
36:34
Speaker 8: Well, I'm his confidential secretary.
36:36
Speaker 6: He keeps nothing from me.
36:39
Speaker 7: Well, the message is this.
36:42
Speaker 2: The Comtesse will meet Monsieur Dresser on the boat, not
36:47
Speaker 2: at home. Oh, she will, will she?
36:49
Speaker 13: Yes.
36:50
Speaker 3: You will be sure you will not forget.
36:53
Speaker 6: Never. Not if I live to be 90.
36:57
Speaker 8: Go to Cuba, will you?
36:59
Speaker 2: Go to Cuba with the Countess in 12 suits.
37:02
Speaker 6: Wear the scissors. I'll fix his 12 new suits.
37:07
Speaker 8: I'll fix them for him.
37:08
Speaker 6: If he wears these pants on the boat, they'll arrest him.
37:11
Speaker 6: 11 new suits.
37:14
Speaker 24: 10 new suits.
37:15
Speaker 14: I'll show him.
37:24
Speaker 2: Where is Miss Elliot? Where is she?
37:25
Speaker 4: Why, Mr.
37:25
Speaker 8: Dresser, she done gone out.
37:27
Speaker 2: Good. Where does she keep her clothes?
37:28
Speaker 8: Why, Mr.
37:29
Speaker 2: Dresser. In here, huh?
37:31
Speaker 8: Good.
37:31
Speaker 2: I'll show her.
37:32
Speaker 8: Mr.
37:32
Speaker 6: Dresser, what you doing?
37:33
Speaker 2: I'll show her. She can't cut my pants off at
37:36
Speaker 2: the knees. Why, Mr.
37:38
Speaker 14: Dresser.
37:46
Speaker 2: I tell you, you have no right to hold me.
37:49
Speaker 19: Violet!
37:49
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't do any more to her than she.
37:51
Speaker 8: Did to me.
37:52
Speaker 11: Did you hear me?
37:55
Speaker 2: What about this, Miss Elliot?
37:57
Speaker 18: Your Honor, do you think I'd go into a man's apartment.
38:01
Speaker 16: And cut his clothes to pieces?
38:03
Speaker 2: Why, of course I don't, Miss Elliot. Oh, my. Let's
38:06
Speaker 2: have it quiet! Miss Elliot, I'm going to find him
38:11
Speaker 2: guilty of willful destruction of property. What do you think
38:14
Speaker 2: the sentence ought to be?
38:16
Speaker 6: Well, I don't think he should be hanged.
38:21
Speaker 2: I'll hang him if you say the word, Miss Elliot.
38:24
Speaker 7: Yes.
38:25
Speaker 2: Well?
38:27
Speaker 6: I just can't think of anything now. Should I let
38:30
Speaker 6: you know later?
38:31
Speaker 2: Of course. Of course. I'll hold him till you make
38:34
Speaker 2: up your mind. I suppose it's useless to remind you
38:37
Speaker 2: that I have certain rights. Young man, that attitude will
38:39
Speaker 2: get you nowhere. First thing you ought to do is apologize.
38:43
Speaker 2: All right. I will. Miss Edgar. Dear Miss Edgar. My
38:49
Speaker 2: boat is almost ready to sail. Will it do any
38:53
Speaker 2: good to say that I hate myself? Yes.
38:56
Speaker 6: Just so that I'll knock one day off of your seven.
38:59
Speaker 2: No.
39:01
Speaker 6: Give him six weeks, Jackie.
39:07
Speaker 2: Oh. And that was the act two curtain of your
39:15
Speaker 2: radio theater. We'll get on with the third act in
39:18
Speaker 2: just a moment. Right now, Harry James and his music
39:22
Speaker 2: makers take over, and with lovely Helen Forrest vocalizing, they're
39:26
Speaker 2: all set to go. Here they are.
39:28
Speaker 19: Here they are. think of me whenever you're.
39:42
Speaker 17: Lonely whenever you're.
39:45
Speaker 7: Lonely please think of me and I'll wait.
40:04
Speaker 14: Me.
40:06
Speaker 19: Please think of me while I'm away.
40:14
Speaker 24: I dream of you I'll.
40:17
Speaker 19: Dream of you only while I'm away. No other world.
40:32
Speaker 17: Can make me happy, can make me.
40:38
Speaker 7: Happy as you, my love.
40:48
Speaker 5: For someone to love you For someone to love you
40:54
Speaker 5: Please think.
40:55
Speaker 15: Of me.
41:31
Speaker 4: Now here's the curtain going up on the third act
41:33
Speaker 4: of My Gal Sal, starring Mary Martin and Dick Powell.
41:37
Speaker 4: The post Paul Dresser had planned to take to Cuba
41:52
Speaker 4: is on the high seas, while Paul languishes at.
41:55
Speaker 2: The city jail.
41:57
Speaker 4: But a pardon is now on its way in the
41:59
Speaker 4: person of a surly police officer.
42:06
Speaker 2: All right, Mr. Dresser. You're out. You mean I can go? Yep.
42:10
Speaker 2: Miss Hedgett fixed it with a judge this morning. Huh.
42:13
Speaker 2: That's nice of her. After the boat sailed, huh? You
42:16
Speaker 2: didn't see anything up on a boat. Oh, never mind. Thanks, officer.
42:19
Speaker 2: Just a minute, Mr. Dresser. We're going along with you. Where?
42:23
Speaker 2: Your hotel. The judge gave me orders to keep you
42:26
Speaker 2: locked up in your room. What? Why?
42:29
Speaker 4: You get food and drinks, but the judge says you
42:32
Speaker 4: don't come out till you write something called, uh, uh,
42:36
Speaker 4: the Banks of the Wabash.
42:38
Speaker 2: Oh, well, all right. You win. So does she.
43:02
Speaker 5: From my Indiana home, third wave, the cornfield.
43:07
Speaker 15: In the distant blue, the golden clear and cool.
43:14
Speaker 16: Oftentimes my thoughts revert to see the child's world. Where
43:19
Speaker 16: I first received my lesson, native school. But one thing.
43:26
Speaker 15: There is missing in the picture. Without her face it
43:32
Speaker 15: seems so incomplete. I long to see my mother in
43:40
Speaker 15: the doorway.
43:42
Speaker 14: As she stood there years ago, her girl to greet. Oh,
43:52
Speaker 14: the moonlight shines tonight around the hallway.
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Speaker 7: From the fields there comes the breath of new-born day.
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Speaker 7: Through the silk of old, the cataract of the evening.
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Speaker 7: On the land of the woman.
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Speaker 19: Come in.
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Speaker 7: Hello. Oh, hello, darling.
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Speaker 2: You were wonderful, Sally.
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Speaker 7: Was I? Yes.
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Speaker 2: Here, I brought you something.
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Speaker 6: What is it? Oh, Paul, a necklace. Paul, are these diamonds?
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Speaker 2: Well, if they aren't, I'm out ten dollars.
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Speaker 6: Oh, darling, they're beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's thanks for keeping me from going to Cuba.
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Speaker 6: You don't need to thank me. I did that in self-defense. But, Paul,
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Speaker 6: this is the sort of thing men give women when
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Speaker 6: they have a guilty conscience. What have you been up
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Speaker 6: to now?
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Speaker 8: Nothing.
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 6: I saw the Countess out front tonight.
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Speaker 2: So did I. As a matter of fact, she asked
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Speaker 2: me to go to a party tonight. Well? Well, I'm here.
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Speaker 6: It's all over with the Countess, then?
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Speaker 8: Certainly.
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Speaker 6: What are you trying for?
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Speaker 4: A Duchess?
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Speaker 2: Oh, there won't be any more Countesses or Duchesses or
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Speaker 2: even Queens. Just you, Sally.
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Speaker 6: I'd like to believe that. I wish I could.
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Speaker 2: You can. I want you to marry me, Sally.
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Speaker 12: Marry you?
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Speaker 2: Well... When, Paul?
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Speaker 6: When the show closes?
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Speaker 2: No. Saturday night. Then... Then we'll have all day Sunday
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Speaker 2: for a honeymoon.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 19: A whole day.
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Speaker 2: Oh, what more could a girl ask? What are you
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Speaker 2: doing in my apartment?
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Speaker 4: I am Monsieur de Rochemont, and this is Monsieur Garnier.
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Speaker 4: We represent Count Rossini.
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Speaker 2: Count Rossini? I didn't know there was a count.
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Speaker 4: There is usually a count where there is a countess.
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Speaker 2: Well, what do you do, lawyers?
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Speaker 4: No, we are second. Second?
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Speaker 2: You mean like.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, no, you couldn't mean that. Count Rossini demands satisfaction.
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Speaker 2: I guess you do mean that. Now, listen, if the
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Speaker 2: Count's worried about the Countess, you can tell him to
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Speaker 2: quit worrying. My friendship with her is a thing of
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Speaker 2: the past. The Count intends to make certain of it.
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Speaker 2: I trust these weapons will meet with your satisfaction. But
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Speaker 2: those are... They're pistols. Now, listen, I don't know anything
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Speaker 2: about this.
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Speaker 4: Then perhaps you would prefer rapier?
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Speaker 2: Oh, no. There's nothing to fight about. The Count thinks otherwise.
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Speaker 4: He is waiting for you now. Will you come with us,
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Speaker 4: or shall I inform the Count That he has challenged
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Speaker 4: the count.
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Speaker 2: Now, listen. You're not going to inform the count anything.
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Speaker 2: I'll inform him myself. Come on. This way, monsieur. Just
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Speaker 2: get this through your head. If there's going to be
47:51
Speaker 2: any fighting, it'll be with fists. And after I knock
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Speaker 2: the count's block off, I'll take you on. In here, monsieur. Well, say,
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Speaker 2: what is all this?
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Speaker 6: Good evening, Paul.
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Speaker 2: Well, Mariana, what's going on?
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Speaker 6: Before you are killed, Thierry, we are going to fill
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Speaker 6: you with champagne.
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Speaker 2: Champagne?
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Speaker 6: You must know by now that no one can turn
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Speaker 6: down an invitation of mine.
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Speaker 2: But the count, your husband.
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Speaker 6: Oh, he is a sorry tolder.
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Speaker 2: Trying to cure his gout. Oh.
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Speaker 4: You will forgive my deception, monsieur.
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Speaker 2: Very funny. Very funny. Next corner, driver.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: You are not still angry with me, Paul?
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Speaker 2: Of course not. But I won't be accepting any more invitations. Sorry.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that can mean only one thing.
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Speaker 2: That's right. I'm getting married Saturday to Sally Elliott.
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Speaker 6: Well, what is the tragic about that?
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Speaker 7: Are you going to stop believing?
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Speaker 2: I think everybody.
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Speaker 6: Should be married. I am.
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Speaker 2: My marriage is going to be a little different. It's
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Speaker 2: going to be complete. Permanent.
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Speaker 7: Permanent?
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Speaker 6: That's a long time.
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Speaker 2: I hope so.
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Speaker 6: My condolences, darling.
49:19
Speaker 2: Thanks. Good night, Rayanna. That was the nicest duel I
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Speaker 2: ever fought.
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Speaker 7: I will challenge you again sometime.
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Speaker 2: Well, I hope.
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Speaker 7: Good evening, Paul.
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Speaker 6: Or is it morning?
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Speaker 4: Sally.
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Speaker 6: I've been waiting for you. So I could give that
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Speaker 6: to you next.
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Speaker 2: Sally, wait a minute.
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Speaker 6: It won't take that long. I can tell you what
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Speaker 6: I think of you in ten seconds.
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Speaker 11: You're a cheap, blind, scheming, contemptible full-flusher.
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Speaker 14: And I hate you.
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Speaker 2: Sally, Sally, this isn't what it looks like at all.
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Speaker 6: Sally! Uh, what was it you said you were doing Saturday?
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Speaker 2: Funny, I... I can't seem to remember. Sally Elliott goes
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Speaker 2: on tour. Sally Elliott breaks record in Chicago. A new
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Speaker 2: record was set by Sally Elliott last week in San Francisco.
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Speaker 2: Dear Sally, I've written at least ten letters, torn them up.
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Speaker 2: I want to tell you... Oh, what should you do?
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Speaker 2: You might as well know the truth, Paul. What's wrong?
50:32
Speaker 2: Isn't the song selling? Your last four songs haven't sold
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Speaker 2: enough to pay the printing bill. Well, it's a good song.
50:37
Speaker 2: What's the matter with the people?
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Speaker 4: Nothing.
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Speaker 2: They just know a bad tune when they hear it. Oh,
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Speaker 2: I don't see what you're crying about. What if I
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Speaker 2: don't turn out a hit tune every time? Get wise
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Speaker 2: to yourself, Paul. You need Sally Evers whether you know
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Speaker 2: it or not. You've needed her from the time you
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Speaker 2: wrote your first song. Suppose you leave my personal life
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Speaker 2: to me. I would if it wasn't interfering with my business.
50:58
Speaker 2: You were a valuable property once, but you haven't been
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Speaker 2: worth a hoot since she left. No, listen, it's just
51:03
Speaker 2: a temporary slump, that's all. I've been working, Pat. I've
51:06
Speaker 2: been working hard. Look, you see this stuff? I've got
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Speaker 2: ten songs here. I'll have it up for a whole show.
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Speaker 2: You mean a show with ten flops in it? What's
51:15
Speaker 2: this one over here? No, not that one. That's one I...
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Speaker 2: What is it? Oh, forget that one. Wait a minute.
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Speaker 4: I sort of like this title, Paul. My Gal Sal.
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Speaker 2: I said to forget that one. It's no good. I
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Speaker 2: came all the way out here just to see you, Sally.
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Speaker 2: I've got some pretty good numbers. A fellow by the
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Speaker 2: name of Hastings wrote them. Now, look.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Pat, I don't feel like hearing songs tonight.
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Speaker 2: And neither do I. It's strictly business. Here, look them over. Pat,
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Speaker 2: Sally isn't interested right now. My Gal Sal. How's that
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Speaker 2: for a title? Pretty good, huh?
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Speaker 6: My Gal Sal.
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Speaker 2: That's great for you, Sally. The words fit you like
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Speaker 2: a glove. You've just got to hear this one.
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Speaker 6: You're pretty anxious.
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Speaker 8: You must have written it yourself.
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Speaker 2: Me? I hate music.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 2: But I got it hot from the composer's quill.
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Speaker 6: Who did write it?
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Speaker 2: Oh, a southern composer. From the south. A fellow named Fletcher.
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Speaker 2: I thought you said Hastings. Yeah, sure. Fletcher Hastings, or
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Speaker 2: Hastings Fletcher. Something like that. He's a friend of Harris.
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Speaker 6: Fred, listen. They call her Frivolous Sal, the curious sort
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Speaker 6: of a gal. With a heart that was mellow and
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Speaker 6: all-round good fellow. It was my gal, Sal.
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Speaker 2: You see?
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Speaker 6: You see what I mean? Fred, this might be something
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Speaker 6: for the show at that.
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Speaker 2: Sure, sure. It's great, Sal. Think of it. My Gal Sal,
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Speaker 2: sung by Sally Elliott.
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Speaker 24: Everything is over And I'm still in time I lost
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Speaker 24: the best house That I ever had.
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Speaker 5: Is that a fortnight When she was here Seems like
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Speaker 5: she's gone though her dreams Oh, how I miss her,
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Speaker 5: my old pal Oh, how I miss her.
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Speaker 17: My gal pal.
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Speaker 5: He's not the handsome.
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Speaker 18: But I don't know. It's shown just as bright as
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Speaker 18: they did long ago.
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Speaker 17: They called her River of Sorrow. A foolish thought of
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Speaker 17: a girl With a heart that goes never.
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Speaker 7: And all that.
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Speaker 21: Was ever was mine Oh, oh Your troubles, sorrows, and pain.
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Speaker 14: He was always coming to serve.
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Speaker 17: For a while he saw the dead, the dead only
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Speaker 17: looking over him.
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Speaker 2: Wonderful, darling.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, Freddie. And, Pop, thanks for getting the number for me.
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Speaker 2: Say, that reminds me. The author's in town.
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Speaker 4: That means he's in your dressing room.
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Speaker 17: Yes.
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Speaker 2: We're too nervous to come out.
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Speaker 13: I'll go in and see him.
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Speaker 5: His name is, uh, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Hastings, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: No, no, I had it all wrong. It's Fitz. Uh,
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Speaker 2: what is it, my son? I wanted to speak to him.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 7: Hello, are you.
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Speaker 8: Hello, Farrell.
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Speaker 6: What does this mean? What are you doing in San Francisco?
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Speaker 2: Pat told me you were going to sing my number.
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Speaker 6: Your number?
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Speaker 2: I couldn't stay away. You did it beautifully, Sally.
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Speaker 6: So you wrote it. If I'd known that, I wouldn't
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Speaker 6: have sent a note of it. It would have stuck
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Speaker 6: in my console.
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 2: Why did you beg for the number if you didn't
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Speaker 2: want it?
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Speaker 7: Beg for it?
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Speaker 6: They told me some long story about somebody writing it
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Speaker 6: in the middle of a cotton field.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that was Pat playing Cupid.
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Speaker 7: You get out of here.
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Speaker 6: And take that cake with you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, the cake. Oh, that's for you. I brought it
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Speaker 2: all the way to New York. It's a little stale,
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Speaker 2: but the sentiment's still fresh. So are you.
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Speaker 8: Get out.
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, no.
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Speaker 6: Get out or I'll break this cake right over your head.
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Speaker 2: You just try it. Hey!
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Speaker 8: Hey!
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Speaker 17: I warned you.
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Speaker 4: Come here.
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Speaker 6: Let me go.
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Speaker 2: I didn't come 3,000 miles just to get cake in
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Speaker 2: my face. There's only one language you understand, and I
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Speaker 2: speak it. If you kiss me, I'll... No, no, you won't.
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Speaker 2: You won't have the strength.
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Speaker 7: There.
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Speaker 20: See?
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 18: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Sally, frivolous Sal.
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Speaker 24: A very peculiar sort of gal.
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Speaker 2: With a heart that was mellow.
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Speaker 6: And all around good fellow?
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Speaker 2: Was my gal, Sal. Your troubles, sorrow, and care.
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Speaker 14: He was always willing to share.
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Speaker 2: A wild sword of devil.
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Speaker 14: The head of the devil.
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Speaker 4: DeMille saying good night to you from Mali.
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Speaker 1: The curtain falls on Lux Radio Theater's My Gal Sal.
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