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Lux Radio Theatre - "Roughly Speaking" (Old Time Radio, 1945) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On October 8th, 1945, Lux Radio Theater presented its 496th broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: Roughly Speaking, on CBS. Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson reprised
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  Speaker 1: the roles they played in the Warner Brothers film, Louise
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  Speaker 1: Randall Pearson and Harold C.
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  Speaker 2: Pearson.
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  Speaker 1: Based on Louise Randall Pearson's autobiography, the drama follows Louise
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  Speaker 1: from the early years of the century into the Depression...
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  Speaker 1: after her father's death brings financial hardship and sends her
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  Speaker 1: toward business training. Through two marriages, a growing family, and
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  Speaker 1: changing fortunes, Louise works to hold her household together while
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  Speaker 1: Harold pursues a succession of business ventures. Here is the
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  Speaker 1: original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Rosalind
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  Speaker 2: Russell and Jack Carson in Roughly Speaking. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: your guest producer, Mr. Irving Pitchell. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies
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  Speaker 2: and gentlemen. Tonight's Lux Radio Theater play is, briefly, A
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  Speaker 2: Saga of America. It is the frank, exciting biography of
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  Speaker 2: a real woman who, throughout two marriages and roughly two generations,
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  Speaker 2: experiences the true nature of American freedom, the opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: failure as well as success, the right to live by
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  Speaker 2: individuality and courage. In our cast are two players admirably
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  Speaker 2: fitted for their roles, not only because of their innate talents,
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  Speaker 2: but because they too have experienced the ups and downs
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  Speaker 2: of life. And while they landed very much on top,
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  Speaker 2: their natural sympathy and good humor have made them two
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  Speaker 2: of Hollywood's most popular stars, Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson,
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  Speaker 2: appearing in their original screen roles in Warner Brothers, Roughly Speaking.
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  Speaker 2: In planning for tonight's show, I talked at some length
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  Speaker 2: with Louise Randall Pearson, who wrote the original story of
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  Speaker 2: our play. She's now starting a career as a Warner
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  Speaker 2: Brothers writer, proving, as she says, that life begins at 50.
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  Speaker 2: I asked her, what if she had her life to
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  Speaker 2: do over again? And she assured me only one thing
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  Speaker 2: might make her hesitate. The dishes that she had to
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  Speaker 2: wash day after day, year after year, for a family
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  Speaker 2: of seven. If at the start of her tumultuous career
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  Speaker 2: she had seen all those dishes piled colossally in front
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  Speaker 2: of her, she might have thrown in the sponge. Fortunately, she,
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  Speaker 2: like other smart and thrifty housewives, laid in a supply
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  Speaker 2: of Lux Flakes and went on about each day's dishes singing.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, says the resourceful Louise, Lux Flakes were standard
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  Speaker 2: equipment in the Pearson home in all of its many permutations.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the curtain for tonight's play on the first act
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  Speaker 2: of Roughly Speaking, starring Rosalind Russell as Louise... and Jack
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  Speaker 2: Carson as Harold, with George Neese as Rodney.
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  Speaker 3: It may be.
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  Speaker 2: A little unusual to begin a story with a boy
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  Speaker 2: and a girl singing the Yale Bulldog song, but it's
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  Speaker 2: a good way to introduce a young lady named Louise Ramble,
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  Speaker 2: who on this crisp winter's night in 1911 is taking
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  Speaker 2: a sleigh ride with Mr. Rodney Crane, On a hilltop
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  Speaker 2: overlooking the university, Louise and Rodney continue their baying at
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  Speaker 2: the bright December moon. Bulldog, bulldog, bow, wow, wow, our
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  Speaker 2: team will never fail. When the sons of Eli break
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  Speaker 2: through the line, that is the time we hail.
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  Speaker 4: Bulldog, bulldog, bow, wow, wow, Eli, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, do you think I can make the Yale Glees up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there's no doubt about it. Should we stop for
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  Speaker 2: a while, Louise?
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  Speaker 5: Let's do. Oh, oh, Louise.
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  Speaker 2: How did I ever come by the marvelous good luck
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  Speaker 2: to find you in New Haven?
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  Speaker 5: Because Shelby and company needed a reliable secretary.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, seriously, Louise?
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  Speaker 5: Seriously. Because when my father died, we woke up one
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  Speaker 5: morning and found we didn't have any money. So I
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  Speaker 5: went to work.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I shouldn't have mentioned it.
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  Speaker 5: Nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, look. Here's the Big Dipper.
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  Speaker 5: The Big Dipper. When I was a little girl, my
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  Speaker 5: father used to say if I was good, the Big
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  Speaker 5: Dipper would pour down hot chocolate covered with whipped cream.
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  Speaker 5: I still expected to, even when....
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I kissed you, Louise.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you did.
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  Speaker 2: I want to apologize. I kissed you without your permission.
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  Speaker 5: If that's all that's troubling you.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, I want to take you out of all this.
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  Speaker 5: All this what?
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  Speaker 2: I want to give you a home, a real home,
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  Speaker 2: with me coming home from the bank on the 515.
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  Speaker 2: You bustling around the kitchen.
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  Speaker 5: And if you get home before I do, you bustling
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  Speaker 5: around the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: You get home. From where?
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  Speaker 5: From work, of course. Rodney, do you know they pay
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  Speaker 5: secretaries $ 25 a week in New York?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'd never permit my wife to work.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, funky doodle. Why, with your brains and my get-up-and-get,
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  Speaker 5: we'll make a wonderful team.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to be able to give you things,
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  Speaker 2: a house and a maid. I graduate in June and
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  Speaker 2: the bank's going to start me off at $ 66. 66 a month. Why,
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  Speaker 2: in two years.
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  Speaker 5: In two years you'll be making thousands. You mark my words. Well,
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  Speaker 5: that's why I say if we only wait... Why should
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  Speaker 5: we wait if we love each other? The minute you graduate,
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  Speaker 5: let's whiz right down to the town clerk and be married.
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  Speaker 2: But it just isn't done like that, Louise.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, prunes and prisms.
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  Speaker 2: You do love me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. It's just that I feel so, so.
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 5: Unambitious.
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  Speaker 2: And you will wait for me, won't you, darling?
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  Speaker 5: Only until you get the $ 66. 66. Oh, let's have it perfect.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get a little apartment, all on our own, even
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  Speaker 5: if it's tiny. Just the two of us, against the world.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I won't say obey, and I won't say why,
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  Speaker 5: and I won't.
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  Speaker 2: But, Louise.
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  Speaker 5: But me, no buts. And we're going to file health certificates. Why?
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  Speaker 5: Because I want all my children to be perfect. I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to have nine.
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  Speaker 2: Nine? Oh, now, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Rodney, I feel so darned for you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, in June we were married and we went to
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  Speaker 5: New York. Our little flat had a fine view of
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  Speaker 5: the Third Avenue L, and I loved it the minute
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  Speaker 5: I saw it. It was so bohemian. One night, about
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  Speaker 5: a year later, Rodney was in the front room reading
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  Speaker 5: the evening paper when I.
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  Speaker 5: Special in the paper, Rodney.
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  Speaker 2: Huh? Oh, plenty. Yes, sir, plenty.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know what I did this afternoon?
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  Speaker 2: You're going to put Woodrow Wilson in the White House.
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  Speaker 2: You mark my words. Just listen to this.
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  Speaker 5: I bought a new record for the phonograph.
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  Speaker 2: This is important. Why, if Wilson's elected, our whole nation is... Louise,
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  Speaker 2: do you have to play that record now?
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  Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure you'll like it. I... I hope you will, Rodney.
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  Speaker 2: All right, darling. It's very nice. I wish someone would
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  Speaker 2: tell that Theodore Roosevelt to... Louise! Yes, dear.
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  Speaker 5: That record. Oh, darling, aren't you happy?
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  Speaker 2: Happy?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm the happiest man in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Louise! Here, darling, sit down. How do you feel? Oh,
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  Speaker 2: for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 8: Why didn't you tell me?
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  Speaker 5: In November, Woodrow Wilson was elected president. And in January,
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  Speaker 5: Rodney and I awaited the arrival of the little boy...
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  Speaker 5: who someday also would be president. Except he turned out
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  Speaker 5: to be a girl. One night when Barbara was about
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  Speaker 5: a year old, I thought it would be nice to
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  Speaker 5: have a musical evening. I got out our old record.
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  Speaker 2: No, please.
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  Speaker 5: Uh-huh. And again in 1915. And again in 1960.
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  Speaker 2: Turn it off, Louise.
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  Speaker 4: Turn it off.
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  Speaker 5: Barbara and John. Rodney Jr. and Louise. Mama and Papa.
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  Speaker 5: That was the Crane family when we moved into the
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  Speaker 5: country in 1918. To Riverwood. a wonderful old house overlooking
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  Speaker 5: the Hudson. Here, I said, here is where we will
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  Speaker 5: settle down. In we moved with Mother's old furniture and
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  Speaker 5: Rod's misgivings. Rod, he was sure it would bust the budget.
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  Speaker 5: The morning of our third day, I went upstairs to
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  Speaker 5: get little Louise. She still wasn't out of bed.
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  Speaker 8: Did I get up, Mama? But I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Darling, your brothers and Barbara are outside playing, and just
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  Speaker 5: look at you.
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  Speaker 8: I want to stay in bed and watch the squirrel.
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  Speaker 2: What squirrel, darling?
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  Speaker 8: Right out there on the windowsill.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you wouldn't want to sit in the sun and
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  Speaker 5: help Mother shell peas?
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  Speaker 8: Look, Mommy, there he is, the squirrel.
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  Speaker 2: All right, sweetheart.
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  Speaker 5: I'll bring your breakfast up here. Louise, does anything hurt you, dear?
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  Speaker 8: Just my ankles. My Johnny's ankles hurt.
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  Speaker 5: What did you say, dear?
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  Speaker 8: My ankles. Johnny's ankles hurt and Barbara's wrists and Ronnie's too.
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  Speaker 8: They told me.
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  Speaker 5: Sweetheart, if you got up right now and walked to
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  Speaker 5: the window, I'd give you a nickel.
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  Speaker 8: I tried before, but I can't. My feet hurt me.
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  Speaker 5: Stay here, darling. I'll be back in a few minutes.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to make a phone call.
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  Speaker 2: When did the child first complain, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Graham? This morning, Doctor. But she seemed all right. As
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  Speaker 5: a matter of fact, they all had... things.
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  Speaker 2: Where are the others?
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  Speaker 5: Outside, playing.
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  Speaker 2: You'd better get them in the house.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor, what's wrong with Louise?
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure as yet. Forgive me, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Lewis, but I think you are sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to look at the other children, please.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, of course. Who's the best specialist in New York
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  Speaker 5: on infantile paralysis?
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  Speaker 2: Infant... His name is Dr. Balditch, Mrs. Crane. I think
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  Speaker 2: you can reach him now at Children's Hospital. Well, Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Bowditch?
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  Speaker 2: Where is your husband?
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  Speaker 5: Dr. Lewis sent him to the drugstore.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it can be worse, Mrs. Crane. Much worse. The
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  Speaker 2: youngest had better remain in that room by herself. The others?
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  Speaker 2: It's all right if they're together. The others?
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  Speaker 5: They have it, too?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. We'll need another nurse.
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  Speaker 5: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: There are a few things I can assure you. John
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  Speaker 2: and Barbara and Rodney will get off lightly. Slight redness
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  Speaker 2: of the throat, but no paralysis as yet evident. I'm
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  Speaker 2: starting them on serum. Louise? At present, she has only
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  Speaker 2: the use of her left arm. Prognosis for life? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's fair.
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  Speaker 5: Life? But she doesn't even seem sick.
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  Speaker 2: She's very sick. You can't breathe when paralysis reaches your lungs.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor, may I speak to you, please? Oh, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Is there anything wrong?
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  Speaker 2: Please, Mrs. Kane, what is it, nurse?
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  Speaker 5: If you don't mind, I wish you'd talk out loud.
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  Speaker 2: You'd better stay here, ma'am.
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  Speaker 5: Whispering is so depressing. I don't think you realize how
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  Speaker 5: serious this.
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  Speaker 2: Is, Mrs. Crane.
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  Speaker 5: I don't feel equal to being sad. What did you
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  Speaker 5: call Dr. Bowditch for? He wanted to give the serum.
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  Speaker 5: You must get hold of yourself. Mama!
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  Speaker 6: Mama!
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  Speaker 5: Yes, darling?
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  Speaker 8: I want a cat pistol to scare the world. I
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  Speaker 8: want a cat pistol right off.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, darling? Cat pistol? Your child is very ill, Mrs. Crane.
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  Speaker 5: I won't take the responsibility. You don't have to.
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  Speaker 2: I will. Louise. Louise, what is it? What's going on?
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  Speaker 5: Rodney, would you mind getting the cat pistol? It's in
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  Speaker 5: the Fourth of July. Thing's in the cellar.
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  Speaker 2: What on earth do you want? Louise wants it.
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  Speaker 5: Please, Rodney.
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  Speaker 2: Darling, she's very sick. I don't believe you really understand.
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  Speaker 5: I understand everything. She'll live. She has to live.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, but... I know, I know.
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  Speaker 5: She'll be lame.
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  Speaker 2: Lame? How do you know she'll ever walk again?
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  Speaker 5: Because I'll make her.
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  Speaker 2: Louise, I don't see how you can take it like this.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost heartless. Heartless?
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  Speaker 5: Simply because I refuse to crucify Louise by allowing this
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  Speaker 5: thing to consume the portions of a great sorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how are you going to help it?
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  Speaker 5: By not crying over it, by not sentimentalizing it. For
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  Speaker 5: Alice's will be just a darn nuisance, that's all. For Louise,
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  Speaker 5: I mean. Rodney, she wants the cap pistol.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll get it.
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  Speaker 8: Mama, Mama, you brought it.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sweetheart. Here's your cap pistol.
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  Speaker 8: But the squirrel's gone away. He's gone to bed.
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  Speaker 5: Louise, look, dear. Look out the window.
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  Speaker 8: The squirrel's gone to bed.
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  Speaker 5: But you can see the big dipper.
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  Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: And if you're a good girl, it'll pour down hot
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  Speaker 5: chocolate covered with whipped cream. And there's the great bear
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  Speaker 5: and the dog star. Such a long way off.
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  Speaker 8: I bet if I try hard enough, I can hit them.
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  Speaker 8: Watch me, Mommy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sure you can hit them. I'm sure you can.
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  Speaker 5: Long after midnight, as I lay awake, I could hear
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  Speaker 5: her laughing and shooting.
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  Speaker 9: Shooting, shooting, aiming for the stars.
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  Speaker 5: By summertime, little Louise was playing once again with her
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  Speaker 5: brothers and sister. There was a brace on her leg,
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  Speaker 5: and she used a crutch, but she was alive and well.
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  Speaker 5: The week after we paid the last doctor bill, Rod
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  Speaker 5: came home early one day.
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  Speaker 2: For heaven's sake, Louise, how can you laugh? I said
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  Speaker 2: I lost my job.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, don't ever frighten me like that again. I thought
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  Speaker 5: the world had come to an end or you'd murdered somebody.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it strikes you as funny. It doesn't strike me
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  Speaker 5: as funny. But what do you care you did a
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  Speaker 5: good job? Why not try something different? And why don't
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  Speaker 5: I get that job I'm always talking about? And we
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  Speaker 5: can start all over again.
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  Speaker 2: Great Scott, you'd think a man could get a little
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  Speaker 2: sympathy when he's just lost a swell job he's worked
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  Speaker 2: his heart out over. But no, no, just throw ten
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  Speaker 2: years' banking experience into the ash can and try something else. Darling,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry. All the banks are cutting down. There's a
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  Speaker 2: recession in case you're interested. Ah, you'd been better off
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  Speaker 2: if you'd never met me.
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  Speaker 5: I admit I wanted you to get ahead, but love
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  Speaker 5: has nothing to do with prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: If you really cared, you'd be crying.
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  Speaker 5: I never cry, unless I'm sure I'll be able to stop.
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  Speaker 2: New England. There she stands. There is no substitute for granite.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I believe if I died, you'd regard it
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  Speaker 2: as just another way to develop your character.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, darling, don't say a thing like that. Just because
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  Speaker 5: I'm determined, I can't help that. You remember about Grandfather Randall?
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  Speaker 5: He tried three times before he reached the summit of
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  Speaker 5: Mont Blanc. Finally, when he did, why, he was overtaken
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: on the way down by an avalanche. But by George,
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  Speaker 5: he made it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, I guess I can get another job.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, come on, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go find the kid. Louise, how long have I
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: been out of work?
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  Speaker 5: Five weeks, dear, but I wish you were.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's over, Louise. I start next Monday.
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  Speaker 5: Rodney!
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  Speaker 2: Manhattan Trust. $ 5, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 5: $ 5, 000? Why? Well, we'll be able to afford the country
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  Speaker 5: club and send the children to camp and... What's the matter, darling?
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  Speaker 5: You have the job.
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  Speaker 2: If I hadn't, I couldn't tell you this.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me what? Is it a girl? Is she pretty?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. No. Oh, I don't know. It isn't that.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe it's an infatuation. Maybe it won't last.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, that would be easy.
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  Speaker 5: You want to marry her?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: But I did everything I could.
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  Speaker 2: That's just it. You did everything. A man doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to be done for. He wants to be loved.
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  Speaker 5: But I do love you. You're my life.
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  Speaker 2: Your life? I was just something on a list. Something
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  Speaker 2: that didn't get attended to. Oh, it's all so hopeless.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand you, and you don't understand me. We
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  Speaker 2: never have.
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  Speaker 5: A wonderful adventure. The train going nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Louise, but there hasn't been a day in the.
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  Speaker 5: Last ten years.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 5: Let's not go over everything and cry and scream. Let's
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: not destroy the past. You know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 9: I thought when Johnny goes to Yale and runs the
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  Speaker 9: length of the field for a touchdown... I thought you
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  Speaker 9: and I would be there together.
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  Speaker 5: Johnny will be disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: It's no use, Louise. I'm through. Living with you and
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the kids, well, it's... It's been like living with Carrie
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: Nation in the den of lies. Russ!
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  Speaker 5: Hello there. Well, all present and accounted for. Everything all right? Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 8: Everything is over here.
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  Speaker 5: Now, where are the keys to the car?
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: What are you doing in that building, Mama? It's this
• 17:00
  Speaker 8: courthouse on the building.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: Well, you'll have to know sometime, I suppose. I've been
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: getting a divorce.
• 17:06
  Speaker 8: What's a divorce? Where is it?
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: I want to see it. It's a paper that says
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: your father and I aren't... that he... Well, your father's
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: going to marry another woman. A young woman.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: You can't be married to two ladies. Anyone knows that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Well, he isn't going to be married to me anymore.
• 17:24
  Speaker 8: I think that's mean.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: You mustn't judge people, darling.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: You don't know.
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: Nobody knows.
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: Doesn't he know that when she's 33, that she'll be
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: just as old and holy as you are?
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Turn on that ignition, Johnny. We're getting out of here.
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: Hey, where are we going?
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: I wish I knew, kid.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I wish I knew.
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: I wish I knew.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson will bring you Act Two
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: of Roughly Speaking in a moment. What Hollywood celebrity have
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: you been seeing today, Libby?
• 18:04
  Speaker 10: Why, Milo Anderson, top designer for Warner Brothers, who did
• 18:07
  Speaker 10: the clothes for Rhapsody in Blue. He got so excited
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: about the picture, he designed a special fabric and named
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: it for the Gershwin Rhapsody.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Are there lots of beautiful clothes in the picture?
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: Alexis Smith has some stunning outfits she's supposed to have.
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: Bought in Paris.
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: And Joan Leslie has over 20 costume changes. Although that's
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: not as many as Robert Alder has, who.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Plays the part of George Gershwin.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: How do you account for man's having more? Could it
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: be because the story of Gershwin's life covers two decades?
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Joan doesn't appear until he's a young man. Well, maybe
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: smart women need fewer things because they know how to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: keep them lovely longer with luxe care. It's ever so
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: easy to keep colors fresh-looking with luxe. The studios know that, too.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Sometimes a scene that is supposed to take place in
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: just a few minutes may take days or even weeks
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to shoot. Yet accessories have to stay fresh-looking. So they're
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: just whisked through lukewarm luxe suds. Afterwards, no one can
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: tell the difference, because they stay so new-looking with luxe care.
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: Marlo Anderson does some perfectly breathtaking clothes, and yet ever
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: so many are as wearable as they're wonderful.
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: He's practical.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: There's one very practical rule the wardrobe departments of Hollywood follow.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: With millions of dollars invested in costumes, they do as
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: millions of women in their own homes do. They trust
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: to gentle luck. LuxCare keeps things so lovely and new-looking,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: so much longer, it actually pays in dollars and cents.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: They know that anything safe in water is safe in Lux.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: If your dealer is out of Lux right now, try
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: again soon. More is on the way. Lux is so thrifty,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: it's worth waiting for. Here's our guest producer, Irving Pitchell.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Our curtain rises on the second act of Roughly Speaking,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: starring Rosalind Russell as Louise and Jack Carson as Harold.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: I sometimes wonder how my life would have turned out if,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: a year later, I hadn't gone to the country club.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: It was a masquerade party. During the evening, I saw
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: someone sitting by the swimming pool. He wore evening clothes,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: and all.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Over his high silk hat were lighted candles.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: That's a fascinating costume, Mr.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Pearson. I, uh, I don't know you, do I?
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: No, you were pointed out. Won't they let you in
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: there with those candles?
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I haven't tried. I, uh, I'm a
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Christmas tree. Get it? All lit up? Were you ever
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: in jail? Not yet, but... Well, once when I was
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: in the guardhouse during the war, I read a volume
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: of Tennyson. Hmm?
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: How was it?
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Fine. I shall take some savage woman. She shall rear
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: my dusky race. Oh.
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Is that Tennyson in your pocket?
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: No, no, just the racing form. Now, why should you
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: remind me of Tennyson?
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: Maybe I just remind you of the guardhouse.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Come here. Sit down. Join me in my misery. Oh.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: The masterful type.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, I got everything. Brains, money, personality.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Then just what is your trouble?
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I forgot to grow up. At least that's what my
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: father says.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, the man who owns those big greenhouses near Briarcliff?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. And what's your trouble?
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: Nothing, nothing. Except I wanted to set.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: The world on fire.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: And I never amounted to a rope. Hey, your hat.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Your hat's on fire. You're on fire. Sure?
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: Positive.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Pardon me a second. Hey! Is the fire out?
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: I think so.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Give me a hand.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: I can't pull you out.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Come on, try.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: You see, I can't. Okay, if you can't pull me out,
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I'll have to pull you in.
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: Steve, you're crazy.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Do you know that? We're both crazy. Isn't it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Nice?
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: You may as well sit in here in the kitchen.
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: You can hang those wet clothes by the oven. Tell me, Mr. Pearson,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: do you always keep extra clothes at the country club?
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: You look very striking in my golf knickers. What's in
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: the icebox?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: Bologna.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: You got any bread?
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Next to the stove there. Sometime, do you think I
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: could visit your father's greenhouse?
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't get down that very often.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: I thought you said you were vice president.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I just draw the salary. Got any pickles? No. Ridiculous,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: those pickles.
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: But for two hours, you've been telling me how ambitious
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: you are.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Sure, but ambition's very tricky. You gotta watch it or
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you'll end up with lines in your face and no hair. Sandwich?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Well, I know what I'd do. I'd quit
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: sponging off my father, and I'd build my own greenhouse.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: That's nice dreaming, but where will I get $ 125, 000? I've
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: never saved a dime.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: My father used to say you could do anything if
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: you have brains and tried hard enough. Oh, I forgot
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: the mustache.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Sit down, sit down.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: You're the bossiest man I ever met.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: It's about time somebody took your hand. You're not suggesting
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: by any chance that... You're positively clairvoyant. You're also beautiful.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: While I know you don't believe me, I'm serious.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Don't be ridiculous.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: That's why I feel... Okay, I think I'll be going.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, don't go. I mean, for a minute. It's fun
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: talking with someone... I've been so, uh.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Lonesome?
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I've never talked like this in my life.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: It was about time you did.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I guess it's because I've been sort of cooped up.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Marry me and see the world.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't marry again.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Oh? As bad as that.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: No, no, it wasn't bad at all. It's me. I'm dreadful. Well,
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: I am. I'm ambitious even if I do get lines
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: in my face and no hair. And I do everything
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: for everybody even when they don't want it done.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Not only that, I'm granite.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: You what?
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Granite.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Come here. Hmm? Come here, I'm going to kiss you.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Now, wasn't that pretty silly?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not silly, and I'll take it back.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Two grown-up people laughing like that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead, say it. I will not. Come on,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: come on, say it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: All right, you're not silly.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Now we're getting somewhere. Well, business is picking up, I see. I, uh,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I don't want to seem curious, Louise, but where did
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: you dig up the wildcat?
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Brace yourself. They come with me as standard equipment.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Ready-made family, huh?
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: Well, Mr. Harold Pearson, it's been very nice knowing you.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: Mama, are you going to get him.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: For our father?
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: That kid could make a fortune reading tea leaves.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: You run along up to bed, children. That's it. Now,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: there's nothing to worry about. Good night, now. It's all
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: right with me. Good night. Now, maybe you can see
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: why I'm ambitious.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Well, if you married me, you wouldn't be struggling alone.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I'd be in there swinging with you. Oh, but... You see,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I need somebody to push me. Who could say as
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: you did, quit sponging off your father and get a
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: place of your own.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: I tried once before to make a man into something
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: he didn't want to be.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: But look at the material you've got to work with
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: this time. You don't have to sell me on being
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: president instead of vice president. I'm the kind of guy
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: who likes to start at the top.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Always modest and retired.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Say, listen, it'll be just as many of my friends
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: sorry for me marrying you with those four kids as
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: it'll be yours sorry for you.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: You're sure you don't mind the kids?
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I love them. Part of you.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: And my gray hairs?
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I think they're wonderful. Don't you see? It's a new life.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: You and I together. How can we fail? I will
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: knock this cockeyed world... For a loop!
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: Cockeyed was right. Harold and I were married just as
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: the era of wonderful nonsense swung into high gear. In
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: gold we trusted. Gang way for the millennium. Did Harold
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: want $ 125, 000 for a greenhouse? Okay, just sign on the
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: dotted line. In the year Frankie was born, the greenhouses
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: actually were built. And by December 1928, we paid off
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: all we owed the bank.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: All but a paltry $ 30, 000. Look at them, Louise, darn
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: near as far as your eyes can see. Roses under glass,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: the biggest crop we've ever had and every bud perfect.
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: Every time I look at them, I think they're good.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: They're ours.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Or they will be after we pay off a little
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: matter of $ 30, 000.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: And nothing to start with but a good strong shoe. Ah,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the frenzied finances. Well, don't look at me. The deal
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: was your brainstorm.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, I still don't understand how you ever pulled it off.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Because I was willing to gamble, and I happened to
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: be lucky, that's all. First, let's take Frankie.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, where are the children?
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Can't you hear them? I've just been in town buying
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: a baseball mitts. How about Frankie? I wanted a boy
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: in Preston. Excuse me. Hi, Frankie. Hi, Papa. See what
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I mean? I see what you mean. And don't tell
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: me I'm spoiling our kids. I... Hey... You're crying.
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: No, it's just the sun got in my eyes. Oh, darling,
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: this is just too good to be true.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I see what you mean. How could a big, carefree
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: guy like me load himself down with a wife, five kids,
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: and a flock of debts? Yeah, I must be nuts.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Why did you do it? Why? Oh, I don't know.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Unless it's because I'm reasonably fond of you. What time
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: is it?
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: Ten after eleven. Oh, holy smoke.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Listen, it may not matter to you that your two
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: oldest boys get home from school today, but they're my
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: oldest boys, too, and I'm going to the station to
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: meet them.
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Oh, and if you think just because it's Christmas vacation
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: that I'm not going to put them to work around here,
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: you are loony.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: See, you know what? It might be nice if we
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: had a little party Christmas Eve after we got all
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: the roses shipped off. Just us and the greenhouse men.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Tony and the rest. A little wine and some Christmas
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: carols maybe. I think they'd kind of like that.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's the best Christmas I've ever known. Money for
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: the bank.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and funny leftover. Yeah, let's. Hey, break up that
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: ball game, you kids. We're going to meet the boy.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: Christ is born in Bethlehem, and the herald angels sing.
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: Glory to the newborn king.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, everybody. Now let's see what this wine tastes like.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Here you are, Tony. Thank you, boss.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Dino, one for you. Gus, now don't be bashful.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Come here.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: There you are.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Well, boys, we've been thinking, the missus and I. How
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: about a little more money in your pay envelope? Can
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: you use it? Good, good. Thank you, Johnny.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Well, boys.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Here's to success.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Good luck to all of you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, excuse me.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, quiet, everybody.
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: It's Jake Quindy.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: It's long distance.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Hello. Hello. Merry Christmas, Jake. How's the market?
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Huh?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: What are you talking about? I busted it. Yeah. I
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: see what you mean. There's nothing else you can do. Okay, Jake. Goodbye. Well,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: it was slow, but it lasted.
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: Harold?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: All week long, roses have been pouring in from out west.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: The market's glutted. Then on top of that came our 30,000.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: Jake says we've busted the market.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: Too many roses?
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: That's right. We'll get about 50 cents for the first 5,000,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: a quarter for the next. Jake said about 10,000 will
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: have to be dumped. Boys, I think that maybe we
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: go home.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: Good night, Tony.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Good night, Mrs. And Merry Christmas.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, thank you, thank you. Same to you.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Well, what have you got in your eyes this time?
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: Nothing. I'm just plain bawling.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: From rags to riches in ten easy lessons. Just to
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: fix it, that's all.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: I got you into this mess. You were all right
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: until I got hold of you.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Who's kidding? And now, if I'm not seeing things, the
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Christmas tree is still standing over there and the presents are...
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: still piled up around it. Sure.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: Who says there ain't a Santa Claus?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Well, what are we waiting for? Hey, kids. Come on.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Come on. Let's open up the presents.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: It all went. The greenhouses and our rose-covered future. Four
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: months later, we were in Bridgeport, our hopes pinned to
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: the tail of a new, tangled airplane. Harold had a friend,
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: and the friend had the plane. But he needed $ 1, 000
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: to get it in the air, so we all took jobs,
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: even Johnny and Rodney and Barbara. We got the $ 1, 000.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: We got that plane in the air, and we got
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: the Wall Street backers. A million dollars to start manufacturing.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: We were up in the clouds again, 1,000 revolutions per second.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: If you're interested in having a custom CD produced for
• 30:29
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• 30:37
  Speaker 5: But the year was 1929, and the month was October,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: and destiny had a date with high finance which nobody
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: had told us about.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Wall Street panic. Bottom drops out of stock market. Biggest
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: stock crash in history. Financial disasters threaten the nation. Indians
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: wiped out a stumble first on Wall Street.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: As far as I'm concerned, they can give this country
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: back to the Indians.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: If they're as smart as I think they are, they
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: won't take it. Well, this says all the aspects of
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: an undesirable situation. What, uh... New approach, do you suggest?
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: What's the matter with us, for heaven's sake? We have brains, ambition, background.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: We work like dogs. Maybe Native Americans are extinct and
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: don't know it. Maybe they ought to put us out
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: on a reservation like the bison.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry I dragged you and the kids into this thing.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I was so sure I could make a go of it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: You still love us? The five hostages and the ball
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: and chain?
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: That's why I feel so darned bad.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Isn't there an easier way to make a living than
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: being kicked in the teeth for it? Sometimes I think
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: if Plymouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrims, a lot.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Of trouble would have been saved. Say, how about moving
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: to New York? A place as big as that, I
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: certainly ought to be able to get some kind of
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: a job.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: New vistas, bright horizons, a fresh start. Oh, heck, why not? Hey, kids,
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: how would you like to live in New York? And
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: then came the six black years. Prosperity is just around
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: the corner. Brother, can you spare a dime? Of course
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: there were bright spots. Like when John graduated from Yale
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: and got a scholarship in medicine. When Rodney rode in
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: the freshman race against Harvard. And Barbara married a man
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: as solid and dependable as the rock of Gibraltar. So
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: in 1937, the only members of our little band of
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: wildcats left with us were Louise and Frankie. You're all
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: the one-ass mother. Find anything? Oh, yes.
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: They want a steam fitter and a neat-appearing colored man
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: with a bicycle.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: I can see the trouble with me is I didn't specialize.
• 32:41
  Speaker 12: And they're still advertising for men to sell those vacuum cleaners.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Like Pa's doing. I know that ad by heart. Mr. X,
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: former clergyman, made $ 174. 82 last week. What's that clergyman got
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: that Pa hasn't got? Pa says he's got God on
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: his side. Oh, well, let's sit down. What's for dinner, Ma?
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Get onion sandwich. No matter how thin you slice them,
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: they're still onions.
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: Well, it's a relief after all that split-piece soup we've
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: been having. Mom, do you suppose he'll ever turn on
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: the lights and gas again?
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: All we need is faith, Frankie, and the money to
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: pay the bill.
• 33:15
  Speaker 12: Pop will sell one of those vacuum cleaners soon.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: You just wait and see. Oh, I can't bear the
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: thought of your father lugging that thing miles and miles
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: and people slamming doors in his face. Don't even talk
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: about it.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Knock, knock.
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: Who's there?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Wolf.
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: Wolf who?
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: For heaven's sakes, if I didn't sell a vacuum cleaner. Mr.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: X has nothing on me. Our worm has turned, honey.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, you poor thing. I didn't think you'd sell one
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: of those things in a million years.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, no?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Well, look, my first commission. Now, don't say I'm not
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: a good provider.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: You're wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Well, what are we having for dinner tonight? Now, don't
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: tell me, don't tell me it's right on the tip
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: of my nose. Onion sandwiches. Well, eat them when we eat, family,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: for the last time. You said it.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Wait till you see what I cook for you tomorrow
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: night after I've bought my new double boiler.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: What?
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Boiled onions. There was a lovely little pool room near
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: where we lived, and the next day as I returned
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: home with my double boiler, I happened to glance inside.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: There amid the unfamiliar scene was a very familiar.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Now, don't complain, fellas. Just watch. Watch and you'll see
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: how it's done. Are you ready? Now, here we go. See? Now,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: shall we have another game, or are you broke? No,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I hate you six bucks.
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: I'm through.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Far from me.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: You're too good, Pearson.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, now, boy. Here, I'll give you the rest tomorrow.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: I'm busted. Well, so long, boys. I'm going to have
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a beer. If you feel lonesome, just call me.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Are you the man who wants to sell me a
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: vacuum cleaner?
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Huh? Oh, uh, I expect him any minute. Would, uh,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: would you care for a beer?
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Certainly. I, uh, like your office.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: It'll do for a start.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: These gentlemen? All customers?
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Perspective.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: How's business?
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Picking up. I just chalked up a swell deal in there.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Much of a future in it?
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes. I think I'll knock out the wall there
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: and put in a bigger barn over there. I'll put
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: in a few more booths and when things really get going... Honey,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: I just couldn't sell those darn vacuum cleaners. This was
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: the best thing I knew to do. Go on, ball
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: me out. I don't blame you. Me, the big shot.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: You don't have to sell me the idea of being
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: president instead of vice president. I'm the kind of a
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: guy that likes to start at the top. Well, you
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: just do the best you can, and then when nothing happens, why,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: you just do the best you can. I know. Have
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: you had any sense you're leaving? You know perfectly well
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I haven't got any sense. You're hopeless. Is that bad?
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: No, it isn't bad.
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: This letter, it came to you today when I was leaving.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Harold, could I get drunk on beer?
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Great Caesar's ghost.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: What's the matter? What is it?
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I don't believe it. What is it, silly? Just say
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: I'm not silly.
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: You're not silly.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I'll say I'm not silly. I've got a date with
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: a guy regarding the super-duper job I've been gunning for
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: for weeks. Only superintendent of planning at the New York
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: World's Fair.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: No.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: Then hand over all that money you just won. Come on,
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: come on.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: What's the idea?
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: If you've got to have a job at the World's Fair,
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: you're certainly going to have some decent clothes.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: There's enough here for a shirt, some shoes, a tie...
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: What you really need.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Is a new suit. Yeah, a new suit. Hey, sit tight, baby.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: I'll be back in a few minutes. Hey, Eddie. Sam.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Count me in on the next game. Hey, where's the
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: cue and give me that chalk?
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I'm hot.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Columbia Broadcasting System. Before our stars Rosalind Russell and Jack
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Carson return in Act Three of Roughly Speaking, here's our
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: producer Irving Pitchell to introduce a guest to tonight's performance,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: one of Warner Brothers' bright young actresses, Angela Greene. Blonde,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: she's Irish, and very ambitious. What kind of roles do
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: you want to play, Angela?
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: I'd love to do something really dramatic in the picture,
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: like Joan Crawford in Notre Dame. That's the picture that
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: Jack Coffey, who you'll play tonight, is co-starring along with
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: Zachary Scott. I have a small part in the picture,
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: and I watched Joan every chance I.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Could get so I could learn. It's her first picture
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: in three years because she insisted on waiting for the
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: right story and the right role. And in this, she's
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: more wonderful than ever.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: You've picked an excellent model.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: She always looks so glamorous, too, no matter what she wears.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: And in Mildred Pierce, she wears the most wonderful, wearable
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: clothes you ever saw.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: You sound like something of an authority on clothes yourself.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Well, I used to model for photographs back in New York.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: But wearing lovely clothes in front of a camera wasn't enough.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: I've always wanted to be an actress, a really good one.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Did your modeling experience help you?
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: In acting a little. In being thrifty a lot. When
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: you're a model, you're expected to look beautifully groomed every
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: minute of the day. Lux was a wonderful help in
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: keeping stockings, undies, and blouses new-looking longer, so I could
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: afford dramatic lessons on the side. And in saving my
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: pennies with Lux and studying dramatics in Hollywood, I'll be ready.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: For bigger roles.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure they'll come. Thank you, and good luck, Angela.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Lovely women all over the country depend on Lux for
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: exquisite grooming. It keeps pretty colors and fabrics new-looking longer.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Actual washing tests prove Lux Care keeps undies color-fresh three
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: times as long. slips and nighties washed in strong soaps,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: hot water, and handled roughly, soon looked faded and old.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Yet identical undies, washed the same number of times with Lux,
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: still looked lovely. Lux is thrifty care for all washables.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: We take you back to Irving Pitchell and our stars.
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: We hope you'll be with us after the show, when
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: our two stars come back for their curtain call. Here's
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: Act Three of Roughly Speaking, starring Rosalind Russell as Louise
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: and Jack Carson as Harold.
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: Harold got the job.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: Superintendent of planting at the New York World's Fair. We
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: moved to Long Island, rented a house near the fair
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: and a vacant lot next door. Louise, her crippled foot
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: and all, went into business with me. We parked cars.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Park your car, folks. Always room for one more. Drive
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: right into the particular parking lot for the particular people.
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: People who don't particularly care what happens to their car.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: We dent your fenders, scratch your bumpers, solve your problems.
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Right this way, sir. You know a good thing when
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: you see it. Right this way.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: We'll be back in about two hours.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir. Thirty-five cents, please. And be sure you stop
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: in at the chemistry exhibit. Here are my son Frankie,
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: lecturer on plastics at the age of 17. Never mind that.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Just be sure to turn the motor off. Women parking.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: Hey, Louise, any more room?
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: We're all filled up, Mom.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: Here's one more. We might as well squeeze him in somewhere.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: You got any room?
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: Right in, sir. Plenty of room. Just watch that coupe
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: on the left. That's it. Careful of your fender there.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Very close.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: Two o'clock in the morning is the great racket. That'll
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: be 35 cents, sir.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: Turn right as you go out and follow your nose.
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. Don't forget to look at the flowers.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: My husband planted every one of them. We better put
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: the chain up, Ma. We're sold out. Well, we got
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: them all in, but don't ask me how we're going
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: to get them all out. Oh, look, another one. Hey,
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: we're filled up. No more room.
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: Back up.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: You can't get in.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: We're filled.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Look out or we'll mow you down. Oh, it's John,
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: John and Rodney. Ah, Louise.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Well, what do you know? Look who's here.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, I was never so glad to see anyone in
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: my life.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Oh, I knew you'd make it.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: Well, don't sit there. Come on, get out.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: You got any room to park this Rolls Royce?
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: No fine room for it. We have to put it
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: on the front porch. Oh, let me look at you, John. Uh-uh. No, no,
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: you don't look like a doctor to me.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's because I haven't got my little black bag.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: And Rodney, and you suit and everything. You look pretty spassy.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, you look pretty nice yourself.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: Hey, but what's with this parking racket?
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: I thought you were in the money.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Well, Frankie has his house set on Harvard. I thought
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: we might as well make hay while the sun shines.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Harvard?
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: What's the matter with Yale? Well, now that the boys
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: are here, I might as well tell you, Ma. Guess
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: who's at the house? Barbara.
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: Barbara?
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: When did she get here?
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, we just thought we'd all drop in for dinner.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: But your father's at work, and Frankie... Oh, it's all fixed.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: They'll be here any minute. For heaven's sake. For heaven's sake. Huh?
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: I just remembered. It's my birthday.
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, isn't it wonderful all getting together again?
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Well, now that we've had dinner, leave it to me
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: to remember something I forgot.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: Look. Champagne.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Champagne. Okay. Direct from that fancy French restaurant
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: at the fair. Well, how about your glasses? Well, here's
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: to you-know-who.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, my.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Fearless, intrepid, indestructible, without whose.
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: Say it. Go on, Harold, say it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: No. I've changed my mind. All right, kids, to the queen.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you. Thank you. How about a speech, Molly?
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Come on, Molly. Oh, well, I'm overcome. I've eaten so
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: much and I've laughed so much. For once, I'm speechless.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: This I gotta see. Well, may I put in a
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: few words, please? You will anyway, yes.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: Go right ahead.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Well, when I first met Mrs. Pearson, I suffered from soft,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: smooth hands. But after one application of the toe of
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: her boot to the seat of my pants.
• 42:32
  Speaker 5: Well, you carry on, Frankie. I can't make a speech
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: without champagne.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: It's all right, Harold.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: Give him some. Special occasion.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Well, all right.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's only half a glass, Pa. Well, make half
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: a speech. Seriously, Ma, this is the first champagne I've
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: ever had. Oh, you're kidding. Officially. And I just want
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: to say, Ma, that I think you're swell. And I
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: love you. Oh, Frankie, thank you.
• 42:58
  Speaker 13: That's a nice speech.
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: Thank you. That's a lovely speech. And now the birthday cake.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Here it is, everybody. Oh, God. Oh, it's beautiful.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: And only 50 candles, Louise.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: Let this be a lesson to me.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Well, children, for a woman of 90, your mother is
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: certainly marvelously preserved.
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: Harold.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Come on, can I make a wish?
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not as young as I used to be.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: But here goes.
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: What's the matter?
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: Look. Out the window.
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: Look at what?
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: The fair. Am I crazy, or did the lights go
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: out on the Polish pavilion?
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, the lights did go out. Well, there it goes.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: The world of tomorrow. I always said we should have
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: marched straight into Berlin and hung the Kaiser, but nobody
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: would listen to me. I guess there's only one thing
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: to do now. Get out the old uniform.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid not, Harold. Wars are fought by the young. Johnny.
• 43:54
  Speaker 11: Rodney.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Who knows, Ma? Oh, don't worry, Ma. Nothing's happened yet.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: Every time... Every time I get my ship on an
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: even keel, something goes bang. It was a couple of
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: years in coming, but when it did, the something certainly
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: went bang. And they were both in it, of course,
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: John and Rodney. Just before they left for overseas, we
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: had a few minutes to see them off at the station.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Harold and Frankie and I.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: There he is. Johnny! Hey, Johnny!
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, darling, we've been looking all over for you.
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: Hello, Ma.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: You look very handsome.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's a brass button. Hiya, Captain. Admiral.
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: Oh, can't seem to get this cap right.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, maybe if you tipped a little to the.
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Side, huh?
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Ma, here's Rod. Johnny! Hiya, Skeezix and Rod.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: Mom, Pa and John. Oh, gosh, I was afraid I'd
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: miss you. Let me look at you, darling.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: How are you? Oh, fine, swell.
• 44:58
  Speaker 5: Hey, where's Louise? On the night shift at the plant. And,
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: of course, you know about Barbara and the baby. If
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: I'd only known this in time, I would have made
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: some fudge or knit a sweater or something.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Well, Ron, if they give you any choice, try to
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: get into the tank corps. Like I said in the
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: last war, why walk to Berlin when you can ride?
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: You shoot them, Ron. We'll sink them. Yes, sir. And
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Frankie here with his chemistry, he'll blow them sky high.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: No, no, no.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Frankie's got a lot of work yet to do at Harvard.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: That's me, I guess.
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: I had a million things to say to you. I
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: can't seem to think of any of them. Are you
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: sure you're going to be warm enough, darling?
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, sure. Well, goodbye, soldier. Goodbye, Pop. Don't do anything
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I do. So long.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: Goodbye, darling.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: So long, Rod. Take care of yourself.
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: And you too, skeezy.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Sure, Rod. Sure.
• 45:44
  Speaker 8: And don't worry, all right.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Goodbye. At once? Oh, I guess that means me.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: John, so soon?
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Oh, I stayed over two trains already, dear. They get
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: annoyed if you hold up the fleets.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: Where are you going? Where will he see you?
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: He can't tell you where he's going, honey. He doesn't
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: know himself. Well, give my love to Barb when you
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: see her and Louise. Tell her to keep the stuff coming. Sure, Johnny.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: You bet we will.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: You know, Pa, Rod and I never got around to
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: telling you. I mean, how swell you've been. Like when
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: we smashed up your car and I pretty near got
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: thrown out of school. You never said a word. I
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: guess we were pretty awful. And the way you put
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: up with Mother, too.
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: I like that. Now, see here, young man. Lieutenant Crane,
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: if you please.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: You kids were never much trouble. It was your mother.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: If I hadn't had a will of iron... Well, goodbye,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: all of you. And, Ma, let there be no moaning
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: at the bar. When I put out to sea. Lord Tennyson.
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: Alfred Lord Tennyson.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: That shows you how much Yale has it over Harvard.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Ma. Goodbye, darling.
• 46:43
  Speaker 11: Bye, Pa.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Johnny. Keep an eye on her while we're away.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: And don't let her get any bright ideas for winning
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: this war. I won't.
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: Just you be careful now. And don't take the destroyer
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: in deep water.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: I won't. Goodbye. Goodbye, Frankie. Bye. Bye. Well, I.
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: I'd like to sit down for a minute. Then we
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: can go.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Here's a place, Ma.
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Harold, didn't you think John looked thin? No, no.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: I thought he looked just about right.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: Ma.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I've been waiting to tell you this all day. There's
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: practically nobody left in college, so I'd like you to
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: sign this piece of paper for me.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: Let me see it. Parents, permission to enlist. Now, look here, Frankie.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Wait a second, Louise. After all, we're all entitled to
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: make our own decisions.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: Harold, the boy is too young. How can you.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, what right have we, you and I, to interfere?
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: I filled in some of the things to make it
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: easier for you, Ma.
• 47:33
  Speaker 5: Do I have to sign it now, this minute?
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Might as well sign it now. It won't be any
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: easier later on. You know, Frankie, I tried to get
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: in myself, but they wouldn't have me. Yeah? Yeah. Too old.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: It's tough, Pop. But then things have changed since your war. Listen,
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: young man. How long do you think it took us
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: to get a Vickers gun into action at Vimy Ridge, huh?
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: Here, it's fine. Eleven seconds.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Oh. Gee, thanks, Ma. You know what? I'm going to
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: try for the paratroopers.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Good grief.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry. They wash them out so fast you
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: get to be a lieutenant in no time. Well, I'll
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: see you later. Where are you going?
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: Recruiting office before it closes. I'll see you home.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: Frankie!
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: Frankie!
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I... I guess that's that. Come on, honey. Let's go.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's the matter with me.
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: I was bound by wounds, and here I am.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, you did fine. Don't worry. They're all chips off
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: of the old block. Nothing's ever going to lick them.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: Poverty or sorrow or Germans or Jets.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: I wanted them to have such a wonderful life. And
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: it seems as if that every time.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: You had everything that counts. Suppose they did get it
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: the hard way. I mean, what if they'd had everything
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: handed to them in a silver platter the way you
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: want it? How do you know how they would have
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: turned out? And they had you always as an example
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: in front of them, knocking your head against a stone
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: wall and turning up grinning. They may be down, but
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: they'll never be out.
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: I can't help wishing we'd stayed in one place more
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: than five minutes so they'd have.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Had a home to remember.
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: You know, to think about while they're gone.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Honey, home is where you were. Home is a feeling, Louise,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: not a place.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: Still, they ought to have something solid. Something secure to
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: come back to.
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: I think maybe a farm is the answer. Back to
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: the land. Yeah.
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: Maybe we could get a little place somewhere, you know.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Sort of 50 acres.
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: Develop it gradually?
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: Fifty acres. If you're going to have cattle, you've got
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: to have at least 200 acres. Who said anything about cattle?
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: I was thinking of turkeys. Oh, phooey. On turkeys, now
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: you've got cattle and a flock of sheep.
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: Well, of course, if we had a garden and some chickens,
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: maybe the place could be self-supporting.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Self-supporting? Nothing. I just read the other day about a
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: guy who started out with nothing but all but cattle
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: and sheep, and in no time at all... He ought
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: to should. All right, all right. I know.
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: You were just dreaming.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: I can't shoot you for dreaming. Not in this country,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: at any rate.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: That's right. America's the one place you're free to make
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: a million, lose a million, drunk or sober.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: I thought you were the one who wanted to give
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: it back to the Indians.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, no. Not as long as I still have my
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: strength and my health.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Say, honey, what would you think of our initials for
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: a brand? You know, an H and an L?
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: Harold, you don't brand turkey.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Louise and Harold.
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: Everybody knows that.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: I know. I... Huh? Who's talking about turkeys? With turkeys,
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: you only get one shot, Thanksgiving. Uh-uh.
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: Two Thanksgivings.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: All right, all right. But you eat beef the year round.
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: The place I heard about was over in Pennsylvania. Yeah.
• 50:22
  Speaker 13: Maybe this weekend we could drive out over there.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: Our stars will be back for their curtain calls in
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: just a minute. Now, when it comes to clothes, there's
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: one item the end of the war brings to most
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: women's minds.
• 50:45
  Speaker 11: Nylons.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: That's right, Sally. Nylon stockings are expected to be back
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: in the stores in two months or so.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: I wish it were sooner.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Well, most stores don't want to put nylons on sale
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: until they have enough to go around. A few stores
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: that have sold small quantities recently had to call out
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: the police to keep order.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: But I know one lucky lady who won't have to wait.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: Mrs. V.G.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: Linkey of New York has eight pairs of nylons, and
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: she bought them in August 1941.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: That's over four years ago.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: Yes, but they've had Lux care all that time. And
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: you know how Lux helps stockings wear. Here's what Mrs.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: Linkey says.
• 51:19
  Speaker 11: I still have eight good pairs of nylons that were
• 51:22
  Speaker 11: bought in August 1941. I've just lived in them. In fact,
• 51:26
  Speaker 11: I've worn nothing else. Isn't that a wonderful record? I
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: give a lot of credit to Lux. My nylons are
• 51:33
  Speaker 11: Luxed after every wearing in lukewarm sun. Believe me, when
• 51:37
  Speaker 11: nylons come back.
• 51:38
  Speaker 14: Again, I'll stick to Lux. It certainly helps keep runs away.
• 51:42
  Speaker 14: And scientific strain tests back up Mrs. Linkey's remarkable record.
• 51:47
  Speaker 14: These tests showed stockings washed with Lux lasted twice as long.
• 51:51
  Speaker 14: That was true of nylon, rayon, cotton, and silk. Stockings
• 51:55
  Speaker 14: washed with strong soap or rubbed with a cake of
• 51:57
  Speaker 14: soap soon popped into runs. But the Luxed ones stayed
• 52:01
  Speaker 14: lovely twice as long. For nylons as well as rayons,
• 52:05
  Speaker 14: use Lux flakes.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: Mr. Irving Pitchell returns to the microphones. A curtain call
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: is no new experience for troopers like Rosalind Russell and
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Jack Carson. And here they are, back at the footlights
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: to receive our thanks. You made inspiring parents, both of you.
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Irving. Maybe having children of our own helped.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Your youngster must be growing up now, Rosalind. Have you
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: taught him how to talk?
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: Well, now you'll have to teach him how to keep still.
• 52:29
  Speaker 5: That's right, Jack.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: How are you bringing up children, Jack? Oh, great, great, Irving.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I use psychology.
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: Psychology?
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Yes. If I want them to go to sleep, for instance,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: all I have to do is, well, just... whisper in
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: their ear.
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: That I'd like to see.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: What do you whisper? Go to sleep or I'll land
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: the daylights out of you. I don't believe it. What's
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: your formula, Rosalind?
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: Well, I usually sing my youngster to sleep.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, I do that too. You sing, Jack? Do I sing? Why,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: when I first came out to Hollywood, all the studios
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: were after me to sing. And what happened? They were
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: after me.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: Somehow I can't imagine you singing a lullaby, Jack.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: But I do, Rosalind. I've got a lovely Russian lullaby.
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Russian lullaby? Sure. Rock-a-bye, babeski, in the tree top of it.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: When the bough brayski, the cradle will drop of it.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: Just a minute, Jack. That's plenty. Before our audience drops
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: off to sleep, I want to be sure to tell
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: them what we have for next week.
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, what do you have, Irving?
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: The play that I have a great personal interest in
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: because I directed it for Paramount. It's John Steinbeck's story,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: A Medal for Benny.
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: Oh, that was a great picture, Irving. And I hope
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: you've got the original screencast. They did a wonderful job
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: in the picture.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, we have all three principals. Dorothy L'Amour, Arturo de Córdova,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: and J. Carol Nash. That setup writes a medal for perpetual,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: I think. Good night.
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: Good night. Good night, Irving.
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: Good night. Thanks for a great evening. Our sponsors, the
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: makers of Lux Flakes, joins me in inviting you to
• 53:53
  Speaker 2: be with us again next Monday evening when the Lux
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Radio Theater presents Dorothy L'Amour, Arturo de Córdova... and J.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Carol Nash in A Medal for Benny. This is Irving
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Pitchell saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. Now that victory
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: is won abroad, we have another victory to win at home.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: The transition from wartime economy to a happy peacetime living.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: That's the purpose of the National War Fund. In addition
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: to providing essential services to our men and allies overseas...
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: More than half of every dollar you contribute will be
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: spent in your community to determine the standard of living
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: that surrounds you. In these critical post-war years, the National
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: War Fund is an overall agency designed to keep alive
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: the American way of life. Give generously. Give gratefully to
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: your community war fund. Rosalind Russell will next be seen
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: in the Columbia picture, Some Call It Love. Jack Carson
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: is regularly heard on this network in his own program
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: for Campbell Soup, To most of us, motion pictures are
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: a popular form of entertainment. But to the sick and
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: wounded veterans in our hospitals, they are also medicine, a
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: primary factor in building morale. Thousands of films contributed to
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: the Red Cross by the Hollywood Motion Picture Studios have
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: helped brighten the hours and speed the recovery of convalescent
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: veterans from coast to coast, another way in which a
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: great industry is serving America. This program is broadcast to
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: our men and women overseas through cooperation with the Armed
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Forces Radio Service. Our music is directed by Louis Silvers.
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: This is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: tune in again next Monday night to hear A Medal
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: for Benny with Dorothy L'Amour, Arturo de Córdova, and J.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Carol Nash.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of Lux Radio Theater's Roughly Speaking is complete.
• 55:49
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