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Lux Radio Theatre - "So Big" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: March 13th, 1939 brought Lux Radio Theater to its 210
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  Speaker 1: broadcast on CBS. This evening's presentation, So Big, brings Barbara
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  Speaker 1: Stanwyck back to the role of Selina Peake from the
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  Speaker 1: 1932 Warner Brothers film adapted from Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize
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  Speaker 1: winning novel. The story moves between Chicago and farm country
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  Speaker 1: from the late 19th century into the early 20th. Sudden
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  Speaker 1: Hardship sends Selina to teach in a rural Dutch truck
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  Speaker 1: farming community near the city, where farm life, marriage, and
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  Speaker 1: motherhood place new demands before her. Preston Foster, Fay Ray,
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  Speaker 1: and Otto Kruger are also featured in this Lux production, directed.
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  Speaker 2: By Frank Woodruff.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Barbara Stanwyck
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  Speaker 3: in So Big with Preston Foster, Fay Wray, and Otto Kruger.
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  Speaker 3: Lux presents Hollywood. Tonight, we journey through a lifetime, the
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  Speaker 3: life of a brave and simple woman. Her loves, her struggles,
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  Speaker 3: her ultimate victory, told under the title, So Big. You'll
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  Speaker 3: hear Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Fay Wray, and Otto Kruger.
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  Speaker 4: Our special guest is Mrs.
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  Speaker 3: Sarah Delano Roosevelt, the mother of our president. The music
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  Speaker 3: of the Lux Radio Theater is conducted by Louis Silvers.
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  Speaker 4: But first, just a word about the.
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  Speaker 3: Splendid product behind this theater. Our lovely screen stars have
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  Speaker 3: found that their complexion soap, Luxe Toilet Soap, makes a
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  Speaker 3: wonderful beauty bath, too. Just a few minutes in a
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  Speaker 3: warm tub in a generous lathering with Luxe Toilet Soap
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  Speaker 3: leaves you refreshed and sure of daintiness. Fragrant white Luxe
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  Speaker 3: Toilet Soap has active lather, you know, that removes thoroughly
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  Speaker 3: every trace of dust, dirt, and perspiration. Try it for
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  Speaker 3: your daily beauty bath. You'll love the delicate clinging fragrance
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  Speaker 3: it leaves on the skin. And now, the producer of
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  Speaker 3: the Lux Radio Theater. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cecil B.
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  Speaker 4: DeMille.
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  Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. One of the exciting
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  Speaker 3: things about writing is that writers never know how the
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  Speaker 3: public's going to receive their work. For example, Edna Ferber
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  Speaker 3: thought so little of her first novel, Dawn O'Hara, that
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  Speaker 3: she threw it away. It was published only after her
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  Speaker 3: mother dug it out of a wastebasket. Of so big,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Ferber said, I thought I'd written a complete non-seller.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think anyone would ever read it.
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  Speaker 5: She was wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Hundreds of thousands were fascinated by the book, and tonight
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  Speaker 3: millions more will meet her characters as Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster,
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  Speaker 3: Fay Wray, and Otto Kruger bring So Big to the air.
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  Speaker 3: Barbara Stanwyck was about to play a small part in
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  Speaker 3: one of Willard Mack's productions. when he decided that he
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  Speaker 3: didn't like her real name, Ruby Stevens. So he and
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  Speaker 3: David Belasco created a new one, taking it from old
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  Speaker 3: theater programs pasted on the green room wall at the
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  Speaker 3: Belasco Theater. On these programs were the names Barbara Freitchie
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  Speaker 3: and Jane Stanwyck. They served to change more than Ruby
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  Speaker 3: Stevens' name. They changed her luck. Barbara's, whose home was
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  Speaker 3: once an orphan asylum, and who at 13 was wrapping
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  Speaker 3: bundles in a Brooklyn department store... was on the high
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  Speaker 3: road to brilliant success. For the past several months, she's
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  Speaker 3: been working with me in Union Pacific, in which she
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  Speaker 3: plays the role of a little Irish postmistress and proves
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  Speaker 3: again that she's one of the really great women of
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  Speaker 3: the screen. Barbara starred in the picture so big and
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  Speaker 3: plays the part of Selina again tonight. And we're happy
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  Speaker 3: to welcome Preston Foster, a newcomer to our microphone. Preston's
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  Speaker 3: boyhood ambition was to become six feet tall and sing
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  Speaker 3: in opera. He achieved both. He's six feet two and
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  Speaker 3: sang for a time with the La Scala Opera Company
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  Speaker 3: in Philadelphia. Preston's new paramount picture is Geronimo, and tonight
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  Speaker 3: we hear him in the role of Dirk de Jong.
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  Speaker 3: Faye Ray, one of the loveliest of the screen's lovely ladies,
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  Speaker 3: is no stranger to our stage. The last time she
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  Speaker 3: was here, we almost prevailed upon her to recite some
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  Speaker 3: of her own poetry. Perhaps we'll have better luck tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Faye is heard as Dallas O'Mara. Otto Kruger, one of
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  Speaker 3: Hollywood's famous importations from Broadway, plays Purvis de Jong. And
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  Speaker 3: now for the play. The Lux Radio Theater presents Barbara
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  Speaker 3: Stanwyck in So Big with Preston Foster, Fay Wray, and
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  Speaker 3: Otto Kruger. It is Chicago, 1908. Here in the sprawling,
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  Speaker 3: rapidly growing city, Simeon Peake has brought up his motherless daughter, Selina.
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  Speaker 3: But Simeon has been shot in a gambling house brawl.
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  Speaker 3: Alone in the world, Selina occupies a dreary room in
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  Speaker 3: a cheap boarding house, bravely trying to face the blank future,
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  Speaker 3: when a schoolgirl friend, Julie Hempel, her only friend, comes
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  Speaker 3: at last to see her.
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  Speaker 6: Selina, I'm so terribly sorry about your father. I came
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  Speaker 6: as soon as I could. I know, Julie. And I
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  Speaker 6: think it's horrible what the newspapers are saying. Horrible. No, Julie,
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  Speaker 6: it's only the truth. My father was shot and killed
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  Speaker 6: in a gambling house. But, Selena... I never knew he
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  Speaker 6: was a gambler, Julie. When he sent me to school
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  Speaker 6: and gave me so much, he always told me he
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  Speaker 6: was in the market. And he was good to me.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care what he was, he was good to me. But, Selena,
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  Speaker 6: what are you going to do? Did he, uh... Did
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  Speaker 6: he leave you anything? Seventy dollars and a ring. Well,
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  Speaker 6: it's not a very big diamond, but I'll never part
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  Speaker 6: with it because it was his. But, Selina, you've got
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  Speaker 6: to live. I can work. Oh, you can't. What kind
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  Speaker 6: of work could you do? I can teach.
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  Speaker 7: I've already got a position.
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  Speaker 5: Where?
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  Speaker 6: In High Prairie. I'm to live with a farmer and
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  Speaker 6: his wife.
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  Speaker 5: A farmer?
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  Speaker 6: Class pool, his name is. And, well, I think it
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  Speaker 6: should be fun teaching in a country school. Oh, Selina,
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  Speaker 6: I think you're being very brave. I'm trying to remember
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  Speaker 6: what my father said. That life is just one big
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  Speaker 6: show and the trick is to act in and look
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  Speaker 6: on at the same time. And no matter what happens
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  Speaker 6: to you, good or bad, it's all velvet. I hope
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  Speaker 6: it will be for you, Selina. Thank you, Julie. I
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  Speaker 6: hope so, too.
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  Speaker 5: Moore's there now.
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  Speaker 8: You can see the house up ahead there.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Poole, how beautiful it is here.
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  Speaker 8: Beautiful? What is beautiful?
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  Speaker 6: This, the fields, the cabbages.
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  Speaker 8: Cabbages is beautiful? Cabbages?
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  Speaker 5: Cabbage?
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  Speaker 7: But they are.
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  Speaker 6: They are beautiful. They're like jade and burgundy.
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  Speaker 8: Cabbages.
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  Speaker 5: Cabbages.
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  Speaker 6: I believe you said you had three children, Mr. Poole.
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  Speaker 6: Will they all be my pupils?
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  Speaker 9: No, no, not all, teacher.
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  Speaker 6: Why not? Which ones won't?
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  Speaker 9: Gertie goes to school.
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  Speaker 8: Josina goes to school. Rolf works by the farm.
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  Speaker 6: How old is Rolf?
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  Speaker 8: Rolf is 12.
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  Speaker 6: Only 12? And no longer in school?
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  Speaker 9: Rolf, he works by the farm.
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  Speaker 6: Doesn't he like school?
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  Speaker 8: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: Well, then why doesn't he go, for pity's sake?
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  Speaker 9: Rolf, he works by the farm.
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  Speaker 8: Well, this is my house.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's a very comfortable looking house.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, it's not very fine.
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  Speaker 8: Farmers is poor.
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  Speaker 9: Marty, here is teacher.
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  Speaker 8: You go in. Supper's ready soon. Cabbage is beautiful.
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  Speaker 5: Cabbage.
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  Speaker 6: You think you like it here with us, teacher?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Mrs. Poole. Sure. Gertie and Eusina, they make
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  Speaker 6: good pupils for you. More to eat, class?
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  Speaker 9: No, too tired.
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  Speaker 8: The Westfield tomorrow. Well, time to bed down the horses.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, teacher, you still think cabbages is beautiful? Cabbages, that's good.
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  Speaker 8: He told me what you said.
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  Speaker 6: Ralph, Ralph, stop the reading and go do the chores.
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  Speaker 6: They're needing wood.
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  Speaker 11: All right.
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  Speaker 6: All the time he is reading like anything.
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  Speaker 9: Harry, Ralph, you here?
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  Speaker 6: And bring in the water. Getting late? What are you reading, Ralph?
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  Speaker 4: A book.
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  Speaker 6: The last teacher gave it to me. May I see it? Why,
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  Speaker 6: it's a dictionary. You're reading a dictionary.
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  Speaker 12: It's got more than 100,000 words.
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  Speaker 7: All different.
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  Speaker 6: Ralph, your father tells me you're not coming to school.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Pa needs me by the field.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I suppose so, but it's too bad. Are you
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  Speaker 6: going to be a farmer, too, Ralph?
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  Speaker 12: Well, Pa wants me to be, but I don't like farms.
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  Speaker 6: What do you like to do?
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  Speaker 12: I like to make pictures.
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  Speaker 5: Pictures?
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  Speaker 12: Yes, draw things.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, how nice. Could I see one of your pictures sometime, Ralph? I, uh,
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  Speaker 6: I don't show them to anybody, because they might laugh.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: I love pictures. Someday you might be a great artist, Ralph.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, but farm work takes all the time. I don't
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  Speaker 12: get much chance.
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  Speaker 6: Ralph, I have a book called Ivanhoe. Would you like
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  Speaker 6: to read it?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I don't get much time.
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you work all the time, don't you have
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  Speaker 6: any fun at all?
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 12: I'm going to the church so next Wednesday night.
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  Speaker 7: Are you going?
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  Speaker 6: I haven't heard about it yet.
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  Speaker 12: Well, the women bring the supper in baskets, and Adam
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  Speaker 12: Holmes raffles them off, and you eat with whoever buys
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  Speaker 12: your box.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, oh, that sounds like fun.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I, uh, I guess I'd better get the chores done.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Ralph.
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  Speaker 2: Teacher.
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  Speaker 10: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: Cabbages.
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  Speaker 6: Fields of cabbages. What you said.
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  Speaker 13: They are beautiful.
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  Speaker 14: What might be, what might be, remember the lucky gent
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  Speaker 14: gets the fair owner of this basket as his supper partner.
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  Speaker 6: Goodness, I had no idea there'd be so many people, Ralph.
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  Speaker 15: Better give your supper box to Adam Holmes. All the
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  Speaker 15: others are up there on his table.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and look at the size of them. Baskets full.
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  Speaker 6: And mine's just a shoe box.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Ralph.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, don't you care? It looks pretty the way you
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  Speaker 12: fixed it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, excuse me, please.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 9: That's all right.
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  Speaker 6: Ralph, who was that?
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  Speaker 12: Well, his name is Purvis DeYoung.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I saw him in church the other day. Is
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  Speaker 6: he a farmer, too?
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  Speaker 15: Well, everybody's farmer's here. I guess he'll buy the widow
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  Speaker 15: Parlenberg's lunch basket. She makes eyes at him all the time.
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  Speaker 15: She's stuck on him.
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  Speaker 6: What about Purvis DeYoung? Is he stuck on her, too? Well,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 15: But all the girls make eyes at him because they
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  Speaker 15: say he's good-lookin'. I bet you make eyes at him, too.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Ralph, don't be silly. Well, I'd better take my
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  Speaker 6: lunchbox up if I can ever get through this crowd.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, please. Couldn't I get through? Oh, would you
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  Speaker 6: please let me through?
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  Speaker 8: Here, what the.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, but I want to get my lunchbox
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  Speaker 6: up there.
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  Speaker 2: That?
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  Speaker 9: Is that a lunchbox?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, for the raffle. I'm the schoolteacher, Selina Peake.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I saw you in church Sunday. I'm Peppers the Young.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, did you see me? I didn't think you.
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  Speaker 8: Wait here.
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  Speaker 9: I'll take your lunchbox up.
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  Speaker 14: Look, look what we have here, folks. The Vito Palin
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  Speaker 14: folks' basket. Well, what am I bid? What am I bid?
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  Speaker 14: Speak up, young man of High Prairie. What am I bid?
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  Speaker 8: Seventy-five cents.
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  Speaker 5: I put your box on the table.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Did I hear you bid, Jet?
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  Speaker 9: No, and he ain't going to.
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  Speaker 6: You're not going to bid? Why, I thought you.
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  Speaker 8: Eighty cents! Did I hear you say a dollar per, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Young?
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  Speaker 14: Don't miss a chance like this. Are you going to
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  Speaker 14: let roast duck go for a mere 80 cents?
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  Speaker 8: Going, going, sold. Glory of our corn for 80 cents.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you've lost it, Mr. DeYoung.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: Well, how goes it, school teaching?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it goes pretty well for the first few days.
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  Speaker 9: You're little to be a schoolteacher anyway, ain't you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I didn't know teachers were judged by their size.
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  Speaker 8: Now, here's a dainty little tidbit, folks.
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  Speaker 14: If the pitot's basket was too much for you, maybe
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  Speaker 14: this box will do.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, dear, it's mine.
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  Speaker 14: If you like little ribbons and you ain't even specially hungry,
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  Speaker 14: it may be all right. But the lady herself goes
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  Speaker 14: with it, gents. Miss Selina Peake, that's who. Miss Selina Peake. Well,
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  Speaker 14: what am I bid with this lovely little tootful, James?
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  Speaker 8: Five cents.
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  Speaker 9: One dollar.
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  Speaker 8: Purpose, the young bitch, one dollar. Purpose seems to be
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  Speaker 8: waking up. Dollar and a half.
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  Speaker 7: Why, that's rough.
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  Speaker 5: One sixty.
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  Speaker 16: Three dollars.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no, Ralph shouldn't do that. He's only got four dollars,
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  Speaker 6: and he's been saving it for a set of paints.
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  Speaker 8: Five dollars.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, please.
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  Speaker 8: Purvis DeYoung bid five dollars.
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  Speaker 5: And ten cents. Six.
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  Speaker 8: Six fifty.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, let him have it, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: DeYoung.
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  Speaker 6: The cupcakes fell a little.
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  Speaker 7: Ten dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Ten dollars, gents.
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  Speaker 8: Ten once, ten twice. Go on to Purvis DeYoung.
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  Speaker 6: Come on, teacher.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get out of here.
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  Speaker 6: What made you do it? All that money when you
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  Speaker 6: might have been eating roast duck.
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  Speaker 17: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: You look so little. They were making fun of you.
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  Speaker 6: That's a very foolish reason for throwing away ten dollars.
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  Speaker 9: So, you're a schoolteacher, huh?
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  Speaker 6: I thought we went all over there.
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  Speaker 9: I can't hardly write at all. Only to sign my
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  Speaker 9: name and like that.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, can you read?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, only to spell out words. I don't get time
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  Speaker 9: for reading. But figuring, I wish I knew. Rhythmic, I
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  Speaker 9: can figure some, but... Oh, those fellas in the market,
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  Speaker 9: they're too sharp for me. They do numbers in their
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  Speaker 9: head like that, so quick.
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  Speaker 6: Would you like me to teach you?
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  Speaker 10: Eh?
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  Speaker 9: How do you mean, teach me?
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  Speaker 6: Evening.
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  Speaker 9: Well, what would you take for pay?
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  Speaker 6: Pay? I don't want any pay. Oh.
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  Speaker 8: I tell you what.
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  Speaker 9: My farm is near the school. I could start for
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  Speaker 9: you to fire mornings this winter... and thaw the pump,
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  Speaker 9: and bring in water, and I could come maybe three
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  Speaker 9: times a week evenings to pool's place.
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  Speaker 6: Three evenings a week? Well, I'd love to do it.
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  Speaker 6: I'd love to.
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  Speaker 8: All right, teacher.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 18: That was fine, Travis.
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  Speaker 6: You did all those examples without one mistake.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: It's easy when you know it once.
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  Speaker 6: Your English is getting better, too. But you shouldn't say,
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  Speaker 6: know it once.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Once, know it.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's you, Ralph. Aren't you going to study with
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  Speaker 6: us tonight, Ralph? I've got things to do.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Purvis, we'll go on now. Now, let's see.
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  Speaker 6: The square root of 576. The remainder must contain twice
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  Speaker 6: the product of the tens by the unit. Oh, Ralph, please.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what's the matter with Ross. It seems
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  Speaker 6: that every time we're having a lesson, he.
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  Speaker 8: I know.
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  Speaker 9: I think maybe he doesn't like it that I come.
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  Speaker 8: Here to study.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, that's silly. Why shouldn't he like it?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know. Maybe, you know, he won't be mad
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  Speaker 9: much longer. Two more weeks is the last lesson.
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  Speaker 6: Two weeks? Oh, let's get on, shall we?
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  Speaker 4: I'll be sorry. Will you be?
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  Speaker 10: Well.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I suppose so.
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  Speaker 9: I've liked the lessons here. In my house, always it's
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  Speaker 9: so quiet.
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  Speaker 4: Too quiet. Selina.
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  Speaker 6: Well, now let's see. Twice the tens, time the units.
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  Speaker 6: Add four units to the forty and multiply the result
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: by four.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: Selina.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: Selina... I don't know how to tell you.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, don't look so frightened, Purvis. What is it? I.
• 17:15
  Speaker 9: I want you to marry me, Selina.
• 17:17
  Speaker 18: Perfect.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: Do you think I'd make a good farmer's wife?
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: A good one for me. I.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: I.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: Don't know very much about farms. I've always lived in
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: the city.
• 17:31
  Speaker 9: You will learn, little Lena. I will be teacher this time.
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: You will keep the house for me while I work
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: the land. Oh, my house, it's sort of run down,
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: but I would fix it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: Oh, we could paint it white, Purvis, with green shutters.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: And I'd put pretty curtains at the windows and plant
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: hollyhocks all around it.
• 17:49
  Speaker 9: Selina, you mean you will marry me?
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: Oh, I want to, Purvis, very much.
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: Oh, little Lina, little Lina. There's not a farmer in
• 18:06
  Speaker 11: High Prairie... will have such a pretty wife.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Fay Wray, and Otto Kruger have
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: completed the first act of So Big. They will continue
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: with Act Two shortly. But first, in this brief intermission...
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: We would like you to meet Betty Gray, a young
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: lady who is going to have a starring role in
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: a June wedding. Right now, Betty is talking to her
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: future sister-in-law, Marion.
• 18:45
  Speaker 19: Honestly, Marion, I'm so happy I could burst and so
• 18:49
  Speaker 19: much in love with Tom.
• 18:50
  Speaker 13: Tom says the same thing about you every five minutes.
• 18:54
  Speaker 13: I ought to be used to it. It's been going
• 18:55
  Speaker 13: on ever since he and you ate your ice cream
• 18:57
  Speaker 13: together at the sixth grade party.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, isn't it wonderful?
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Wait, I'll get my diary. I'll give you a real summary.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Look, this is 11 years ago.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: September 18th, 1928.
• 19:08
  Speaker 19: I bet the sixth grade is hard, but I don't care.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Tom said he'd help me with my arithmetic. He teases me,
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: but I like him.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: You had one setback, Betty, in high school.
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: Remember Nancy Allen? Ooh, do I? She's writing this diary. Here, listen.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: May 15th, 1935.
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: I hate Tom.
• 19:29
  Speaker 19: He hangs around that Nancy Allen all the time. I
• 19:31
  Speaker 19: wish I had curly hair like hers. Oh, and Marion,
• 19:35
  Speaker 19: the next day I wrote, I feel better today because
• 19:38
  Speaker 19: I talked to Tom's lovely big sister, Marion.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: Why, you little flatterer.
• 19:42
  Speaker 19: And she says, with your nice complexion, you don't have
• 19:45
  Speaker 19: to worry about not having curly hair.
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: Oh, dear diary, I certainly hope so.
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: I certainly was right. You had beautiful skin then, and
• 19:53
  Speaker 13: you still have it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Congratulations, Betty, on your engagement and June wedding. And congratulations
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: on your lovely complexion. A really beautiful complexion is a
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: priceless possession that every girl should cherish. Luxe toilet soap,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: the soap nine out of ten screen stars use, helps
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: you keep the priceless loveliness of your complexion, the loveliness
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: that means romance.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: And remember this.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: It's foolish to rob yourself of complexion beauty by allowing
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: your pores to become choked with dust, dirt, and stale cosmetics.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: That's when cosmetic skin develops, with its dullness and large
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: pores and little blemishes. Use rusion powder all you like,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: but be sure to remove them thoroughly with Luxe Toilet
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Soap's Active Lather. Use this fine, gentle care... before you
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: put on fresh makeup during the day, always before you
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: go to bed at night.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Our producer, Mr.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: DeMille.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: We continue with the second act of So Big, starring
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Barbara Stanwyck with Preston Foster, Fay Wray, and Otto Kruger.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Three years have passed since Selina married Purvester Young. For her,
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: each day of those three years has begun in the
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: darkness before dawn and plodded relentlessly through broiling suns and
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: icy blasts with life, love, everything subservient to the cruel,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: unending demands of the farm. Selina's dreams of beautifying the
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: place have been forgotten under the crushing burden of daily living.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: When she can, she helps Purvis in the fields, her
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: young son Dirk playing at her side.
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: Look, darling, look how big our carrots are and how
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: golden Aren't they pretty? Pretty.
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Pretty.
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: There we are. A nice fat one. Oh, how big
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: is my baby. How big is my man. Oh, stretch
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: your arms wide. As wide as you can. Now how
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: big are you?
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: So big.
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, what a big little man. Give him a hug. Yes, Purvis?
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: Dina, I've told you I don't like you should work
• 22:05
  Speaker 9: in the fields.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, but Purvis, why not? You and one hired man
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: can't do it all.
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: The women of our family never worked in the fields,
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: not even in Holland.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: But the vegetables will rot in the ground.
• 22:14
  Speaker 9: Let them rot.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: Oh, can't things ever change, Purvis?
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: Look, look, he pulled a radish all by himself. Already
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: he's a farmer.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: What?
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: Nothing.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Nothing.
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: Well, tomorrow we must start pulling the beets.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: They are ready.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: You look so tired, Purvis. Why don't you rest? You
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: haven't stopped a minute since four this morning.
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: Vegetables must be picked when they are ready.
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: I suppose so. Purvis, I've been thinking about that West
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: 16 section. Can't we drain it and plant there?
• 22:48
  Speaker 9: Oh, that's clay land. Drain and you have yet got clay.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: I know, I know.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: You.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: You've got to use tile drainage and humus. Then with
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: potash and phosphoric acid.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Well, well, well.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: The school teacher is a farmer now, eh? Tell me,
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: little Linda, from where did you learn all about this
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: drug farming?
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: Out of a book I sent to Chicago for it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: A book? A book?
• 23:16
  Speaker 9: A truck farmer out of a book?
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: The man who wrote it knows all the new ways
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: to farm. Oh, you're running the farm just the way
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: your father ran it.
• 23:25
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: What was good enough for my father is good enough
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: for me.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: It isn't.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: It isn't.
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: We're not getting anywhere, Purvis. And Dirk is growing up.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: He's going to need things. He'll be going to school. Oh,
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: there'll be so much.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: Oh, fine talk. A farmer must take what God sends, Lena.
• 23:42
  Speaker 9: And all your books can't change that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: All right, all right.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: If you won't listen, you won't. Who is it? Oh, Ralph.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: Come in, Ralph. How are you?
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, all right.
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: Why, you have your best suit on. What is it?
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: I'm going away.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Away? Why?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: I'm going away. There's nothing for me to stay for here.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Everything I do, they say it's dumb.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: They laugh.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: I know. Where are you going?
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Chicago, maybe.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I brought you this picture you always liked. The one
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I made at the hay market.
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, Ralph. I'll always keep it. Oh, but Ralph,
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: you'll need some money. I have a little saved. Let
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: me get it for you. You must write to me, Ralph,
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: and let me know how you're doing. You know, I
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: want to hear. Oh, and you must work so hard
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: at your drawings. You have a great talent. Here, Ralph,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: it isn't very.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Much, but....
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: Ralph, where are you?
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: Ralph!
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: Oh, he's gone. He's free.
• 25:04
  Speaker 18: THE END.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Mom? Hey, Mom?
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Yes, so big.
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: Isn't it time Pop was home from market, Mom?
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's way past time, and it's such a bad night.
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: I do hope he didn't sleep out in the wagon
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: last night. I told him not to.
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: There's a light, Mom, in the barn.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Is that you, Purvis?
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: It's me.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Purvis, dear, you're so late. What happened?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: I had to go. My new Harlem.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: The bridge was washed out already.
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Gee, is it that bad, Pop? Oh, you're soaked. Get
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: your wet things off. You're shivering. Dirk, put more wood
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: in the stove. Did you manage to sell.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: Out, Purvis?
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: Oh, less than half the load.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: So sick I am of this crazy... Oh, I know.
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: Now you wrap up in that blanket and sit here
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: by the fire while I get you some dinner.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know if I can eat.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, but you must. It will do you good. What
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: was the matter at the market?
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: When I have carrots, everybody by the market has them.
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: When I have radishes, they have them too. They rot
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: in the wagons. You remember once you say, farm work
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: is grand.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: It isn't, but I think it could be.
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: Farm work is slave work. Our last night we load
• 26:29
  Speaker 10: the wagon with carrots. From four this morning I drive.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: I don't make enough. I should buy tomato plants for summer.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, Purvis.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: Why won't you put in asparagus?
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, asparagus. And wait three years for a crop?
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Planting is good for ten years once it's started. I've
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: been reading up on it.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Reading up, reading up. Schoolbook farming, that's no good.
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: It is, Purvis, if you'd only give it a chance.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I've tried and tried to show you some new ways.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: I don't want new ways. The old ways is the best.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: How can you say that?
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: They are. The old ways is the best.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: Purvis, you're sick.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: I feel badly now.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: You did sleep in the wagon last night in all
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: the rain.
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: I wanted to save the money.
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: I begged you not to. Dirk, run and get the doctor.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: Now go to bed, Purvis.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Come.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: I'll help you. Lean on my arm, darling. Lean on me.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Try to get some rest, Mrs. DeYoung.
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: I'm all right, Doctor.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: Really, I am.
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: It's been hard on you.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: I still can't believe it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Pneumonia comes fast, and it needs a strong heart.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: And he was so tired. He worked so hard. Oh,
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: sometimes I hate the earth. It takes and takes until
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: you have no more strength to give. What do you
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: get for it? What does.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: Mom?
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Dirk, come here.
• 28:14
  Speaker 12: What is it, Mom?
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: What's the matter? I.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: I just want you by me. We're alone so big.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: You're the only man I have now. Get up, Hans.
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: Get up, Maude. Are we going to market, Mother?
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: Just you and me?
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: Well, I can't let my little man go alone. Soon
• 28:44
  Speaker 6: I'll be big enough. Oh, perhaps we'll see.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, look, Mom.
• 28:47
  Speaker 12: It's the Reverend Decker.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: He's waving at us. Whoa. Good afternoon, Reverend Decker.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: What's this I hear, Mrs.
• 28:54
  Speaker 19: DeYoung?
• 28:54
  Speaker 17: That you are going to Haymarket with the garden stuff?
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: A woman alone?
• 28:59
  Speaker 6: No. Dirk is going with me.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Mrs.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: DeYoung.
• 29:03
  Speaker 17: The hay market is no place for a decent woman.
• 29:06
  Speaker 17: There is card playing, drinking, all sorts of wickedness.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: But what can I do? Dirk and I must live.
• 29:12
  Speaker 17: Better to stay home.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Let the men folks go.
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: But Reverend Decker, my men folks are going. Get up, Maude.
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: Get up.
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: Get up.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: Dirk, Dirk, wake up. This is Haymarket. Look at all
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: the people. Oh, I don't want to see the people.
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: Oh, wake up, darling.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: Wake up. Oh, it's like an army, isn't it? An
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: unarmed army bringing food to feed the great city. Oh, now,
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: if we can only find a place on the curb
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: for the wagon. There's a good place, Mom. Right ahead. Oh,
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: if I can just beat that other wagon to it.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Get out.
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: We're going to get there first.
• 29:59
  Speaker 18: Hey, you can't go in there.
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: That's my place.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: Say, you can't go in there, miss.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I can.
• 30:07
  Speaker 12: Yes, we can.
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: Where's your man?
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Here, right beside me. Well, I'll be.
• 30:12
  Speaker 14: Women ain't got no business here in Haymarket anyway. Better
• 30:15
  Speaker 14: you stay at home in your kitchen where you belong.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Don't you talk to me like that, you great stupid.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: What good does it do to stay in my kitchen
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: if I'm going to starve there and the boy with me?
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: I'm here to sell vegetables I helped raise and I'm
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: going to sell them. Now get out of my way
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: or I'll report you to the policemen over there.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: No!
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: All right. What a woman.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: What a woman.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: He was mad, wasn't he, Mom? Well, I have as
• 30:36
  Speaker 6: much right to this spot as he has. Oh, now, Dirk,
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: we're going to sell. Mom, why don't they buy you vegetables?
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: I don't know, darling. They just stare at me and
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: go on.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: You're making out, Mrs.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: DeYoung?
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: Oh, not very good.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Well, no place for a woman here.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Morning.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, they won't buy. Everything will wilt. Come on, Dirk.
• 31:04
  Speaker 12: Where are we going, Mom?
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: We'll go to Prairie Avenue, where the rich people live.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: Do you remember those big stone houses we saw driving in? Well,
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: maybe somebody there will buy from us. Mom, I'm awful tired.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: This is the last house so big, the very last one.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: After this, we'll go home. Hand me my basket, darling.
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: Now then, where's your license?
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: License?
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: You heard me. Where's your peddler's license?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: You got one?
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Why, no.
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: Well, where do you think you are, peddling without a license?
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: You know, I've got a good mind to run you in.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: Now, go on. Get out of here.
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: What's the trouble, Uncle? Huh?
• 31:45
  Speaker 8: Oh, a woman peddling without a license, Mrs.
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: Arnold.
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: You know, you've got to watch them like a hawk.
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: Get along with you now.
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: Take your hands off me. How dare you touch me?
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: How dare you? You take your hands... Wait.
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: Selina.
• 31:57
  Speaker 19: Selina.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: Selina.
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: Why, Julie. Oh, Julie Hampton.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, Selina.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: Oh, my dear. Oh, there, there. It's all right, Julie.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: It's all right. Oh, don't cry. What is there to
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: cry for?
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: Oh, Selina.
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: It's all right. Oh, Julie, it's good of you to
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: take so much interest. Nonsense, Selina. Father always has good ideas.
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: He might have one for you.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: You want to sell this farm, Selina?
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: No, Mr.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: Hempel.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: A few years from now, this land will be worth money. Well,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: what do you want to do?
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: I want to stay here and make my farm pay.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: By next spring, my asparagus is going to bring in money.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: And I want Dirk to have things. I never want
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: my son to go to Haymarket.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Never.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: Yes, but what about you, Selina?
• 32:59
  Speaker 10: Me?
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: My life doesn't count except as something for Dirk to use.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: I want him to have all the worthwhile things in
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: life all mixed up. Rooms and candlelight, leisure, travel, books, music, people.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Work that he loves. Work that's worthwhile. That's what I
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: want for Dirk. And the farm can give it to us.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: Well, how much money do you need to start the improvements?
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, Mr.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Hempel, I didn't mean... Don't be silly, Selina. Father can
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: well afford it.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Well, I.
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: I do need it. But I'm borrowing the money, not
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: taking it. I want to give you an IOU, Mr. Hempel.
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: A promise to pay you back. That's business, isn't it?
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Sure, that's business.
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: Well, that's the only way I'll take it. I hope
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: you won't have to hold it very long, Mr. Hempel.
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: You just forget about it, Selina. You deserve a few
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: things for yourself. I'm doing it for Dirk. Only for Dirk.
• 34:01
  Speaker 6: So he can go to good school. So he can
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: do big things in the world. That's what matters. Giving
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: something that will live after you. Building something. Creating. Oh,
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: I want his life to be rich and full. And
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: I'll work. I'll do anything. So I can give him
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: all these things myself. And I want to do it
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: all myself.
• 34:28
  Speaker 18: For him.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: We pause for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 34:43
  Speaker 18: Thank you.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: This is the Lux Radio Theater presentation of So Big,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: starring Barbara Stanwyck with Preston Foster, Fay Wray, and Otto Kruger.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: In a few moments, the curtain rises on Act Three.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Now it's intermission time. Time to hear from the evening
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: special guest. But just a brief word first about the
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: product bringing you this program. Nine out of ten screen
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  Speaker 3: stars use luxe toilet soap. Such popular stars as Joan Blondell,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Madeline Carroll, Claudette Colbert, Irene Dunn, almost every lovely star
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: you can think of uses this gentle, mild white soap
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: to help protect the priceless beauty of her complexion. Screen
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: stars win the hearts of millions. You want to win
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: to hold the heart of one. The same gentle care
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  Speaker 3: that screen stars use for their million-dollar complexions will help
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: you keep this smooth, lovely skin that wins romance and
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: holds it.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Now, Mr. DeMille.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: The story of So Big is one of mother love.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: A mother love so deep and true that no obstacle
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: is too great to overcome in the struggle for her
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: child's existence. There are mothers everywhere, like the Selina of
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: our play. Mothers who, by their silent courage and patient understanding...
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: make life worth living for their sons and daughters. As
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: a tribute to mothers everywhere, and deeply conscious of the
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: honor which is ours, we bring you our guest of
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: the evening, the first mother of our land, whose son
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: achieved the goal of millions of American boys, and is
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: now in the White House. Speaking to you from New
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: York City, Mrs. Sarah Delano Rosefelt.
• 36:47
  Speaker 16: Thank you, Mr. DeMille, very much indeed. It's a pleasure
• 36:50
  Speaker 16: to be here and a privilege for all of us
• 36:53
  Speaker 16: to hear Miss Barbara Sandwick's lovely portrayal of a fine
• 36:56
  Speaker 16: woman in American literature.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: As Mr.
• 36:59
  Speaker 16: DeMille has so truly said, Miss Edna Ferber's story is
• 37:04
  Speaker 16: a tribute to the mothers who make life richer and
• 37:07
  Speaker 16: nobler for their sons and daughters by their courage and
• 37:11
  Speaker 16: patient understanding. It is also a tribute to the mothers
• 37:15
  Speaker 16: who make great sacrifices, sacrifices that no mother ever regrets,
• 37:20
  Speaker 16: without losing their own identities, without giving up their own
• 37:24
  Speaker 16: interests in life and living. Selina in this evening's play is,
• 37:29
  Speaker 16: I think, a type of mother, a mother who, if
• 37:32
  Speaker 16: I may use the expression, grows up with her children.
• 37:37
  Speaker 16: Many mothers have given all for their children and in
• 37:39
  Speaker 16: giving it sometimes sacrifice the very thing that is indeed
• 37:42
  Speaker 16: the most to their families. In all lands, in all times,
• 37:47
  Speaker 16: mothers have lived for their children. Our American mothers have
• 37:50
  Speaker 16: been able to go beyond this ideal and They do
• 37:53
  Speaker 16: not stop living, in the full sense of that word,
• 37:56
  Speaker 16: when their children enter into life as independent individuals, for
• 38:00
  Speaker 16: from their children they derive inspiration to make their own
• 38:04
  Speaker 16: lives more beautiful and more interesting. Selina gave to her
• 38:09
  Speaker 16: son the ideal of beauty. As many another mother has
• 38:12
  Speaker 16: passed on to her children, that which she herself most
• 38:15
  Speaker 16: cherished But Selina also lived up to that ideal in
• 38:19
  Speaker 16: her own life, so remaining young and vibrant and alive
• 38:23
  Speaker 16: through the years and the tribulations of the years, she
• 38:26
  Speaker 16: taught him to find happiness in the place where happiness
• 38:29
  Speaker 16: must first be sought.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: In the home.
• 38:34
  Speaker 16: In a world troubled by conflicting theories of life, when
• 38:38
  Speaker 16: sometimes we wonder what course civilization will take, it is
• 38:41
  Speaker 16: good to encounter the common sense and humanity of a
• 38:45
  Speaker 16: woman like Selina. And I like to think that she
• 38:48
  Speaker 16: is a prototype of many mothers, a wise and tolerant guide,
• 38:53
  Speaker 16: one who makes the world better not only by influencing
• 38:56
  Speaker 16: the lives of her children, but also by living her
• 38:59
  Speaker 16: own life fully and joyously. All of us may take
• 39:04
  Speaker 16: new heart and courage from Selina. She is not only
• 39:08
  Speaker 16: the symbol of American mothers, but a wonderful example of
• 39:13
  Speaker 16: mothers in this day and generation.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mrs.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Roosevelt.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Well, we have mothers like you that hope for the world.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Back now in Hollywood, Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Fay Wray,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: and Otto Kruger bring us Act Three of So Big.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: More years have passed, and Selina's son, Dirk, is now
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: a man. Selina has made good her promise to Mr.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: Hempel to pay back the money he gave her. and
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: with her farm running profitably, has been able to give
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Dirk a college education and many of the fine things
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: of life she always wanted him to have. Now he
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: seems well on his way to a career as an architect.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: It's late afternoon, and Selina is working in her room
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: when Dirk arrives at the farm.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: At it again, are you? Going through that old chest?
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: What a sentimental generation yours must have been, Mother.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: So it was. Your father gave me the Sarbutus.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Pressed flowers. They went out with a tandem bicycle, didn't they?
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: I suppose they did. And here's a picture Ralph Poole
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: did when he was a boy of the Haymarket. And
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: now he's one of the most famous sculptors in Europe. Oh,
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: and here's your college diploma.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Slave and sweat four years for that. And go into
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: an architect's office at 35 a week.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Architecture is the most thrilling thing in the world, Dirk.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Is it? I've spent the past week drawing washrooms for
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: a glue factory.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: Oh, but ten years from now, who knows?
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: Ten years. I don't want to wait that long for success.
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: What do you mean by success, Dirk?
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: To be rich. Make a lot of money while I'm
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: young enough to enjoy it.
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, Dirk, that's not success. Rolf, the thing Rolf does,
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: that's success.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Well, if you have money enough, you can buy the
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: things he makes and have them. That's almost as good.
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Isn't it?
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dirk, you don't understand, do you?
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Listen, Mother, I've got to do things my own way,
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: and I'm giving up architecture.
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: Derek.
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: Paula Storm says that.
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: Is that the young woman you've been seeing so much of?
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Well, I've seen her off and on. Anyway, her husband
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: is in the bond business, and I'm going in with him.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Bonds.
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, Derek, there's no fun in that.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Well, it's good enough for me. Five years in the
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: bond business with the right connections, and I'll clean up.
• 41:40
  Speaker 10: Mm-hmm.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: You're sure that's what you want, Dirk?
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, Mother. Look, I'm sorry I can't have dinner with
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: you tonight, but I've got an important appointment in town.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: I understand, dear. Run along.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Goodbye, Mother.
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: Goodbye.
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: Goodbye, so big. Selena, I'm so glad you came to
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: see me. I got tired of the farm, and when
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: I feel that way, I come to Chicago and just
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: browse around. You look wonderful. I don't know how you
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: do it. Your eyes are as bright as a baby.
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: It's from seeing so many things, Julie. You know, you've
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: got to have a vulgar curiosity about people and things to...
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: to get the full flavor of life. That's the trouble
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: with Dirk. He keeps revolving in the same circle of
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: friends over and over and over. He's doing very well,
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: I hear. He's making money. And very popular. Invited everywhere.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: I suppose so. Don't be unhappy about him, Selina. If
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: that's what he wants... Oh, but it isn't good enough
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: for him, Julie. Yesterday, that society editor in the Tribune
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: called him a... A playboy. That isn't what I work
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: in the sun and cold for, pulling vegetables, planting. Oh,
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: I'm not reproaching him. I didn't mind the work, but
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: I don't want my son to be known as a playboy.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: Not my son. He ought to be a little more careful.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: He's seeing too much of Paula Storm. Poor Storm. People
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: are talking. Oh, that's the woman who got him to
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: give up architecture. I asked her the other day if
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: she was going to divorce Storm and marry Dirk. She
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: said no, she hadn't enough money of her own, and
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: Dirk wasn't making enough. Dirk's salary is thousands, but she's
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: used to millions. Oh, Julie, he's on the wrong road
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: all the way, isn't he? A dead-end street. I can't
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: stop him. He won't listen. I can't do anything. All
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: these years, I've always found a way, and now I...
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: I can't do anything.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: Well, the deal's as good as closed, Dirk.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: I played golf with Jackson yesterday and sold him solid.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: Good work.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: A whole hundred thousand?
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: All of it.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: My hat's off.
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: Miss O'Mara's here, Mr.
• 44:28
  Speaker 10: DeYoung.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, send her in. Well, I'll run along. You
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: don't have to. Just an artist to do an advertising
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: picture for me. Probably some crazy female of 40 with
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: a bundle of drawings under her arm. And I know
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I'm going. I'll see you at the club. I'll be
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: around Saturday. Going to try polo.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: Good boy.
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: DeYoung, Miss O'Mara.
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: You're Miss O... Well, please sit down.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: Thanks.
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: Now, Miss O'Mara, this drawing we want is for a
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: national advertising campaign to get women more interested in bonds,
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: appealing directly to them.
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: I see.
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Now, my idea was something like this.
• 44:59
  Speaker 5: Well, aren't you.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: Hiring me to get an idea for the drawing and
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: to draw it? Now, suppose I think about it for
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: a day or two and work one out. I think
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: you'll like mine better.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, I see. How much do you... How much would
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: you expect to get for a drawing?
• 45:14
  Speaker 7: Fifteen hundred dollars.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: Well, that's ridiculous.
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but that happens to be my price. Anyway,
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: it's been nice meeting you, Mr.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Dior.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: Now, wait a minute.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Of course, if that's your regular price, I suppose we
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: could pay it.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: Could you?
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: Still, $ 1, 500 is a lot of money.
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: I think so, too. I remember when I used to
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: get 25 cents for sketching hats.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: And now you've arrived. You're a successful... Arrived?
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: Heavens, no.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: I've just started.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Who gets more money for a drawing than you do?
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: Nobody.
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: I suppose.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Well, then.
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: Well, then, in another minute, I'll be telling you the
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: story of my life. Goodbye, Mr. Dion.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: When you get something definite worked out, may I see it?
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: Drop around to my studio in about a week.
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: I'll be there. Thank you. Mother, sit down. Well, this
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: is an honor. At last you visit my office.
• 46:08
  Speaker 6: I hadn't seen you for so long. I thought I'd
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: see where you work.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: Well, how do you like it?
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: Boy, it's very fine, isn't it? How are you, Dirk?
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: A bit all in at the moment. The boys at
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: the university club are trying to make a polo player
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: out of me.
• 46:22
  Speaker 6: I know. You ache all over. A nice kind of ache.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: I used to feel like that when I'd worked in
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: the fields all day.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, Mother.
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, you didn't like my saying that. I'm sorry. I
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: didn't say it to annoy you, dear.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: I know you didn't.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dirk, I saw in the paper that Ralph Poole
• 46:45
  Speaker 6: is in America. He's coming to Chicago.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, Paula, Mrs. Storm's giving a big reception for him.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: He's doing all right, I guess.
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: Yes, he is. Dirk, just what is it you sell
• 46:59
  Speaker 6: behind this big mahogany desk of yours?
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Barnes, Mother, you know that perfectly well.
• 47:04
  Speaker 15: Hmm.
• 47:06
  Speaker 6: Dirk de Jongs. Bond salesman.
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: The way you say it, it sounds like some low
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: criminal pursuit. I make more in a month than I
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: made in a year as an architect.
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: And what are you going to do with all this money, Dirk?
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: Why don't you marry?
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: Well, there's no one I want to marry.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: No one who's free, you mean?
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: I mean no one.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: I see. Well, I must go, dear. Goodbye, so big.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: You haven't called me that in ages.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: Oh, Dirk.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: Are you ever going back to architecture, to your profession?
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: No, Mother.
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: Then I'm a failure.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's nonsense, Mother. I'm happy, and after all, it's
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: my life.
• 47:49
  Speaker 6: I know, I know. But, Dirk, you can't desert her
• 47:53
  Speaker 6: like that.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: Desert whom?
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: Beauty, self-expression, whatever you want to call it. You wait,
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: she'll turn on you someday. Someday you'll want her, and
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: she won't be there.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: You wait, too, Mother. Someday your wayward son will be
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: a real success. Wait till the millions roll in, then
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: we'll see. Yes, Dirk.
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: We'll see.
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: Like it?
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's grand, Alice. Well, now that the picture's finished,
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: I won't have any excuse for hanging around your studio.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: But maybe you'll still have dinner with me. Go places.
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: Of course, Dirk. Why not?
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Dallas. You know I'm in love with you. I could
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: give you a lot of things you haven't got.
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: Sorry, Dirk, but you'll have to send them by express.
• 48:42
  Speaker 7: I'm going back to Paris in a few weeks.
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: Paris?
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: What for?
• 48:45
  Speaker 7: To study. I want to do portraits. In oils.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Dallas, is it because I'm a successful businessman that you
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: don't like me?
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: But I do like you.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean. Must a man be an
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: artist to interest you?
• 48:56
  Speaker 7: Oh, good heavens, no. No, someday I'll probably marry a
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: horny-handed son of toil. And if I do, it'll be
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: the horny hands that'll win me. I like them with
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: scars on them. You know, there's something about a man who.
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: Has fought for it.
• 49:13
  Speaker 7: A look in his eye, the feel of his hand.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: And I haven't got that.
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: There isn't a mark on you, Dirk.
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: You're a man.
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: Quit being an architect because it was an uphill, disheartening
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: job at the time. Oh, I'm not criticizing, but... But
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: if you'd loved it enough to struggle, to fight for it, why,
• 49:30
  Speaker 7: that fight would show in your face. But you're all smooth.
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: I like them bumpy. Now, that sounds funny.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, never mind. I know what you mean.
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: Oh, that must be Rolf.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Rolf Poole? But he's supposed to be at Paula Storm's
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: reception this afternoon right now. I am myself. But I'd
• 49:47
  Speaker 4: much rather see you.
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: Well, so would Rolf.
• 49:50
  Speaker 8: Hello.
• 49:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, Rolf, it's so good to see you again.
• 49:54
  Speaker 4: Same, Dallas.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: You haven't changed a bit, even to the smudge on
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: your face.
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: Well, I've been working. Rolf, this is Dirk de Jong.
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: Mr. Poole, Dirk.
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: How do you do, sir?
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Dirk de Jong.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Why, say, don't you know me? I'm Ralph Poole.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: I've heard a great deal about you.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Oh, but I mean I'm... I knew you when you
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: were just a kid. You're Selina's Dirk, aren't you? My Selina.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: That's right. Where did you and Dallas get to know
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: each other?
• 50:19
  Speaker 7: In Paris. Ralph and I took the town apart and
• 50:22
  Speaker 7: put it together again.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: We certainly did. Do you remember the time we crowed
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: the sun up under the octagon?
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: What idiots we were. What grand idiots.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: I thought you were to be at Paula Stone's reception
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: this afternoon, Ralph.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: I couldn't go in. Hate that sort of thing. I'm
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: taking Dallas out to meet your mother.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: Ralph told me all about her in Paris. She must
• 50:42
  Speaker 7: be wonderful. I've asked you to let me meet her,
• 50:45
  Speaker 7: but you never did.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, I meant to, but I just never seem to
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: get around to it.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: Come with us, Dirk, will you?
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: Sure I won't be intruding?
• 50:51
  Speaker 6: Nonsense.
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: It'd be grand.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Come on. The White House with Green Shutters. That was
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: always Selina's dream.
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: It smells clean and earthy. Somehow it makes me feel
• 51:11
  Speaker 7: as if I were in a church.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Look, here she comes. Just as I've imagined she'd be.
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  Speaker 2: Still slim and straight. Plodding across the field in that
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: old grey sweater and that battered felt hat.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't she magnificent? Mother, I've brought company.
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  Speaker 6: Dirk, I'm so glad you came.
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  Speaker 2: She recognizes me. Only she can't quite believe it.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Selina. It's really me.
• 51:39
  Speaker 12: Ralph Poole?
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  Speaker 16: Oh, Ralph.
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  Speaker 6: You did come to see me.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: I came to America mostly to see you, Selina. And
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: why wouldn't I? Everything I know about beauty, you taught me.
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  Speaker 6: I only helped you find it. But, oh, I'm so
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  Speaker 6: proud of you, Ralph.
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  Speaker 5: Selina.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: This is an old friend of mine, Dallas Amara.
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  Speaker 7: I've been waiting a long time to meet you, Mrs.
• 52:08
  Speaker 6: De Jong. I'm so glad you came. Dirk has told
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: me so much about you. Rolf, let me look at you.
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  Speaker 6: The little boy I used to know. A famous sculptor. Oh,
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: you've done all the big men in Europe, haven't you?
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: Well, there are a few left.
• 52:30
  Speaker 6: To think of it. You've seen the world and you've
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: got it in your hand. Little Ralph Poole. And you
• 52:41
  Speaker 6: did it alone, in spite of everything. What are you
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: smiling at?
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: I just remembered.
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  Speaker 4: Cabbages are beautiful.
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  Speaker 6: I still think so. Oh, Ralph, I must show you something.
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: Your picture of Haymarket.
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  Speaker 8: Do you still have it?
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  Speaker 4: Do you want to go too, Dallas? No.
• 53:04
  Speaker 7: Let her have Raw.
• 53:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dirk.
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  Speaker 7: She's what I mean when I say I want to
• 53:10
  Speaker 7: do portraits. Character portraits of great people. Like your mother.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: Like mother?
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Her fine, splendid face all lit up with the light
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: that comes from inside. The jawline, like that of the
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: women who came over in the Mayflower or... or crossed
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: the continent in a covered wagon.
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: Her eyes.
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  Speaker 7: And that battered, gorgeous old hat she wears. And her hands.
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: She's beautiful.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: Yes. She really is, isn't she? And I see what
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: you mean about me.
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: Do you, Dirk?
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: I suddenly feel very empty.
• 53:50
  Speaker 7: It's not too late.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: Tell us.
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: Shall we go inside now? I want to say goodbye.
• 53:57
  Speaker 7: Very blessed.
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: I knew somehow that you would reach the high places.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: What a fine life you've had, too, Selina. A full life,
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: and a rich one. And successful. I?
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: Why, Ralph, I've been here all these years, just where
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: you left me when you were a boy. I.
• 54:22
  Speaker 6: Well, I think the very dress I'm wearing might be
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: the same I wore then. I've been nothing. Done nothing.
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: seen nothing. When I think of all the places I
• 54:37
  Speaker 6: was going to see and all the things I was
• 54:41
  Speaker 6: going to do.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: You've been everywhere in the world. You've seen all the
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: places of great beauty and light. You remember you told
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: me your father had once said when you were a
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: little girl that there were only two kinds of people
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: who really mattered in the world. One kind was wheat
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: and the other kind was emerald Your wheat, Selina.
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: And your emeralds.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Selina.
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Ralph.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: I'll see you soon again.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: Mother?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Dirk?
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: Mother, I've made a decision. And I want you to know,
• 55:35
  Speaker 4: I'm going back to architecture.
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: Oh, Dirk.
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: There's something you have, Mother, and Ralph, and Dallas, too.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: I never realized till this afternoon just how much I'm missing.
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: Oh, so big. I'm so glad.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: But I need your help, Mother. It's going to be
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: a long, long road.
• 56:00
  Speaker 6: But a good one, Dirk. full of beauty and living.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: And in the end, you'll find that you possess all things.
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: For you will have carried them with you all the way.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: After hearing Edna Ferber's story and the performances of our
• 56:35
  Speaker 3: cast tonight, I think another appropriate title for the play
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: might be so great. My compliments, Mr. Foster, Miss Ray,
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: and Mr.
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: Kruger.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: And I can pay you no greater tribute, Barbara, than
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: to say that you reached and held our hearts as
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: surely and so big as, well, as you do in
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: Union Pacific. And having pulled the pin on our play,
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: shall we hit the stovepipe?
• 56:57
  Speaker 10: What?
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: What is this all about?
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: Oh, you'll have to humor Mr. DeMille, Preston. We've been
• 57:02
  Speaker 6: so immersed in that picture of his Union Pacific that
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: he can't help giving up now and then in railroad lingo.
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: Hmm, you recognize it, but can you translate it, Barbara?
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: Certainly. It simply means that the play is over, but
• 57:13
  Speaker 6: let's go ahead without stopping.
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: Now I suppose I owe you another nickel.
• 57:16
  Speaker 7: Well, now it's my turn to ask questions. What's going on?
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: Well, let Mr.
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: DeMille explain.
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: You see, Fay, since Barbara's been working for me in
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: Union Pacific... I've spoiled her by giving her one of
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: the new Jefferson nickels every time she plays a scene flawlessly.
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: And it's cost me a fortune.
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: And I'm destined to be my downfall. I'm applying all
• 57:34
  Speaker 6: your beautiful nickels, Mr. DeMille, to the purchase of a
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: pair of skis.
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: Skis?
• 57:38
  Speaker 4: Well, I know you ride a horse, Barbara, and since
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: Union Pacific, you obviously can ride a railroad horse.
• 57:43
  Speaker 9: Yes, I've heard that you once rode an elephant for Ziegfeld,
• 57:45
  Speaker 9: but how good are you on the mahogany runners?
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: Well, Otto, I'll let you know after I get back
• 57:50
  Speaker 6: from a trip to Sun Valley. Skiing will be practically
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: tobogganing for me.
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: What are you planning next, Faye? An epic poem?
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: Who?
• 57:58
  Speaker 7: Me?
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Well, you are a poet, aren't you?
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, let's hear some.
• 58:02
  Speaker 7: Don't let them gang up on you, Faye.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: Just a line or two.
• 58:05
  Speaker 7: All right, here it goes. Of the sea, of the soul,
• 58:09
  Speaker 7: of the stars I love to sing. But I've got
• 58:11
  Speaker 7: no poem for you tonight, which is probably a mighty
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: good thing by Fay Wray.
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: You're an ornamental literature, Fay.
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: But Fay would be ornamental if she never wrote a line.
• 58:20
  Speaker 7: Oh, now, thank you, Preston. And I want to thank you, Mr. DeMille,
• 58:23
  Speaker 7: for asking me back to the Luxe Radio Theater again.
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: This theater has become more than a radio program, Mr.
• 58:29
  Speaker 16: DeMille.
• 58:30
  Speaker 7: It's become a definite part of Hollywood.
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: And so has the product that's responsible for our being
• 58:34
  Speaker 6: here tonight, Luxe Soap. About every actress I know uses it, Mr. DeMille,
• 58:39
  Speaker 6: and that speaks volumes in praise of it. Screen stars
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: just have to keep their skin smooth, and I'm very
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: grateful to Lux Soap, Mr. DeMille, to its makers, and
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: to you. Good night.
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: As we say on the railroad, people on the line.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Louis Silvers appeared through courtesy of 20th Century Fox Studios.
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: He directed music for their new film, The Little Princess.
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Be sure to listen to the new Lux daytime radio program,
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: The Life and Love of Dr. Susan, the story of
• 59:06
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• 59:08
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• 59:10
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• 59:15
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• 59:20
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• 59:22
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• 59:25
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: DeMille.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: In the screen's entire history, only a handful of pictures
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: can match the tremendous popularity of our play for next
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: Monday night. That great romantic comedy, It Happened One Night.
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: It won more Academy Awards than any film before or
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: since for production, direction, and for the performances of both
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: its leading lady and its leading man. And these two
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: superb stars will repeat their classic roles for us a
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: week from tonight. Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert. And with them,
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: Walter Connolly and Roscoe Carnes. Our sponsors, the makers of
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• 1:00:06
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• 1:00:09
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  Speaker 9: This is Cecil B.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. This is the
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