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Lux Radio Theatre - "Blossoms in the Dust" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: A Wisconsin woman's meeting with the outspoken Texan Sam Gladney
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  Speaker 1: changes the course of her life. On February 16, 1942,
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  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater presented episode 339, Blossoms in the Dust,
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  Speaker 1: adapted by George Wells from the 1941 MGM film. Greer
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  Speaker 1: Garson and Walter Pidgeon return as Edna and Sam Gladney,
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  Speaker 1: with Felix Bressart as Dr. Max Bresler. The story follows
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  Speaker 1: Edna's move to Texas, where the circumstances facing children without
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  Speaker 1: families lead her toward a lifelong effort to find them
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  Speaker 1: care and homes. Cecil B. DeMille produced this CBS broadcast
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  Speaker 1: drawn from the life of Edna Gladney and the work
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  Speaker 1: of the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society. And now,
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Let's present Hollywood. The Luxe Radio Theater brings you Greer
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  Speaker 2: Garson and Walter Pidgeon in Blossoms in the Dust with
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  Speaker 2: Felix Bresshart. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Every city and town
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  Speaker 2: in America has its unsung heroes and heroines. Men and
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  Speaker 2: women who have devoted their lives to an ideal. They've
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  Speaker 2: worked without hope of wealth, without thought of glory. Their
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  Speaker 2: only reward, the satisfaction of a job worth doing and
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  Speaker 2: well done. Such a woman is the heroine of Blossoms
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  Speaker 2: in the Dust. Her ideal is a better world for
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  Speaker 2: the homeless children of today and tomorrow. And if you
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  Speaker 2: imagine that finding homes for babies is not a thrilling
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  Speaker 2: subject for a motion picture or radio play, believe me,
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  Speaker 2: you're wrong. Because the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture... stirred the hearts of
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  Speaker 2: audiences all over the country. Both the picture and Greer
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  Speaker 2: Garson's performance in it have been nominated for Academy Awards
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  Speaker 2: this year. And incidentally, the two stars who played Blossoms
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  Speaker 2: in the Dust on the screen, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon,
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  Speaker 2: are currently making another picture together, Mrs. Minifer. So we
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  Speaker 2: borrowed them from the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer soundstages for this drama of
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  Speaker 2: one woman's fight for other women's children. And remember as
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  Speaker 2: you listen that this is the story of a real
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  Speaker 2: woman who is living and working today. The first duty
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  Speaker 2: of any theater is to please its public. And that's
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  Speaker 2: just as true of this national theater that Lux Flakes
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  Speaker 2: has made possible as it was true of the theater
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  Speaker 2: in China 40 centuries ago, the theater in Greece 25
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  Speaker 2: centuries ago, or the theater of Shakespeare a little more
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  Speaker 2: than three centuries ago. As a matter of fact, If
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  Speaker 2: the audience doesn't like the play, the actors are wasting
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  Speaker 2: their time. And this first axiom of the theater applies
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  Speaker 2: to any other business, like making soap flakes, for instance.
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  Speaker 2: If Lux Flakes hadn't stood for quality, you wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: applauded them all these years. Now the first act of
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  Speaker 2: Blossoms in the Dust, starring Greer Garson as Edna and
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  Speaker 2: Walter Pidgeon as Sam, with Felix Bressart as Dr. Breslau.
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  Speaker 2: The Cayley House in Green Bay, Wisconsin, is aglow with
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  Speaker 2: the lights of a hundred lanterns. The year is 1895,
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  Speaker 2: and the occasion is the engagement party of the two
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  Speaker 2: Cayley girls, Edna and Charlotte. There's to be a double
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  Speaker 2: wedding soon, which makes the evening doubly exciting. Upstairs in
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  Speaker 2: their room, amid a clutter of hat boxes, ribbons, and
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  Speaker 2: paper wrappings... The girls are dressing feverishly. Hilda, the maid,
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  Speaker 2: is trying desperately to fix Charlotte's hair.
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  Speaker 3: You'll have to sit still, Miss Charlotte. Yes, Hilda. Edna,
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  Speaker 3: are you ready? I will be. Charlotte, tell me something.
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  Speaker 3: Do I look like a hussy? Edna, what on earth
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  Speaker 3: do you mean? But do I? Do I look like
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  Speaker 3: the sort of girl men insult? Because I've been insulted. Why,
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  Speaker 3: Edna Cayley, when? Well, this afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: I went to the bank to cash a check. And
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  Speaker 4: the cashier, my dear, the cashier of that bank... What
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  Speaker 4: on earth did he do? He.
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  Speaker 3: he... he looked at me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but you can't blame him for a thing like that.
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  Speaker 3: He looked at me and smiled. And then I took
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  Speaker 3: off my gloves and he saw my ring. Damon's ring. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what do you think he had the effrontery to say?
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  Speaker 4: He said, if that's an engagement ring, young lady, you'd
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  Speaker 4: better get rid of it right quick.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: Right quick. Must be a westerner. I was never so
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  Speaker 3: outraged in my life. Well, what on earth did you say?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what possessed me, but I asked him why.
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  Speaker 3: And he said.
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  Speaker 3: What did he say, darling? He said, because you're going
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  Speaker 3: to marry me.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't.
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  Speaker 3: How perfectly thrilling.
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  Speaker 4: Thrilling.
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  Speaker 3: I was absolutely furious. What did you do?
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  Speaker 4: Did you slap him or anything? No, I just picked
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  Speaker 4: up the money and walked straight out of the bank.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm going to tell father. I'm going to see
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  Speaker 4: that that impudent cashier is discharged tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Was he good looking? Oh, wasn't anywhere near as handsome
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  Speaker 3: as Damon. Miss Edna, are you ready for your dress?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Hilda.
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  Speaker 3: Well, stand up then. Here's your new bustle. Ain't it
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  Speaker 3: a daisy? Oh, it's lovely.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're both awfully lucky, Edna. Just think, in
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  Speaker 5: two weeks we'll be married.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs. Damon McPherson and Mrs. Alan Keith.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I can't believe it somehow if it weren't for
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  Speaker 5: my ring. Oh, Edna, I'm so terribly happy and so
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  Speaker 5: terribly grateful.
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  Speaker 2: Grateful?
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  Speaker 3: Why, Charlotte?
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  Speaker 5: For all your darling parents have done for me.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Charlotte, dear, you mustn't.
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  Speaker 5: I was such a baby when I came here to live.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even remember my own mother and father. But
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  Speaker 5: you've let me share yours, and I love you for it.
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  Speaker 3: I always will.
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  Speaker 4: But think how happy you've made us. And we'll never
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  Speaker 4: be separated, really. We'll be brides together, young wives together,
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  Speaker 4: and maybe someday we'll be mothers, too.
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  Speaker 3: Edna! How can you mentioning such a thing? Why not?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know about you, but I'm going to have
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  Speaker 4: five sons and five daughters.
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  Speaker 3: Edna! Listen, the carriage. Oh, it's Damon Allen.
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  Speaker 4: Hurry, darling, hurry.
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  Speaker 3: Hilda, where in heaven's name are the girls? Here's Miss Edna, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Cayley.
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  Speaker 3: Edna. Oh, hello, Mother. Edna, dear, Damon's been frantic. Go
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  Speaker 3: and dance with him. Hurry.
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  Speaker 2: Edna, where have you been all this time?
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Damon.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, darling, you look wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: I feel wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you know something, sweetheart?
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  Speaker 6: I'm the happiest man in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Damon. I hope we'll always be. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: What is it, dear?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing. I.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Damon, be an angel and get me a handkerchief
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  Speaker 8: from Hilda.
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  Speaker 6: Why, of course, darling. Don't go away now.
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  Speaker 2: Edna.
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  Speaker 3: Edna, have you seen Alan? Charlotte, he's here. Well, of
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  Speaker 3: course he is.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I don't mean Alan. I mean that man. The one
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  Speaker 3: who insulted me. Where? That's him over there talking to Father.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give him a piece of my mind. Edna, wait.
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  Speaker 6: You're an honest young man, I'll say that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: Father, may I speak to you?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, dear. Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Gladney, you've already met my daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good evening.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening.
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  Speaker 10: Father, I want to tell you about this young man's
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  Speaker 10: keen attention to business when.
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  Speaker 3: I was at the bank this afternoon.
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  Speaker 11: You can't tell me anything about Sam Gladney, my dear.
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  Speaker 11: The Wisconsin County Bank is backing him in a new
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  Speaker 11: business venture.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for the testimonial, sir.
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  Speaker 11: Miss Cayley, when I cashed you a check this afternoon,
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  Speaker 11: I shortchanged you.
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  Speaker 3: Is that so?
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  Speaker 6: He's come all the way out here to make restitution,
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  Speaker 6: my dear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no bother, sir. No bother at all. Here you are,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Cayley. Ten cents.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. You may keep it as a
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  Speaker 3: tip for your honesty.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, but I'd rather have this done.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm so sorry. You see, it belongs to my fiancée.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, Damon's not around. Go on, dance with Mr. Gladney.
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  Speaker 2: You dance beautifully, Miss Edna.
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  Speaker 3: How would you know, Mr. Gladney?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry. Did I step on your foot?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, just lightly, Mr. Gladney.
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  Speaker 4: And by the way, you didn't shortchange me this afternoon.
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  Speaker 4: I counted the change because I didn't trust you.
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  Speaker 11: You're doggone right, Miss Edna. And I suppose I should
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  Speaker 11: have taken a little more time.
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  Speaker 2: To get acquainted.
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  Speaker 11: But, you see, I'm leaving tomorrow to go back to
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  Speaker 11: Texas in the flower business.
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  Speaker 3: How interesting.
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  Speaker 11: Your father's asked me out here a couple of times
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  Speaker 11: to meet the family. I didn't accept well because I've
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  Speaker 11: been up to my neck in this new flower mill
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  Speaker 11: of mine.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I'd have known that you were here.
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  Speaker 3: Don't tell me that I'd rival the flower business.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you'd have come darn near it.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh. Oh, I'm so sorry, Miss Edna.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the way they dance in Texas?
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  Speaker 2: Shucks, yes.
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  Speaker 11: Why, in Texas we dance to have fun.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you?
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  Speaker 3: I believe I've had enough of dancing.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Miss Edna, you're the boss. But I'm not
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  Speaker 6: quite through talking, though.
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  Speaker 11: I don't think you're the kind of a girl who'd
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  Speaker 11: play a mean trick on any man by marrying him
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  Speaker 11: when you belong by rights to someone else.
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  Speaker 3: You're in stuff.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, wait a minute. When you showed
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  Speaker 2: up at.
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  Speaker 11: My window this afternoon, my mind was miles away from, well,
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  Speaker 11: from girls or anything like them. But when you shoved
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  Speaker 11: that check at me, something fairly shouted in my ear
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  Speaker 11: and said, Sam, that's the future Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Gladney. Didn't you hear it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I didn't like to be fresh, but I had
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  Speaker 6: to act quick. So I'll tell you what I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Going to do.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going back to Texas and fix it all up
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  Speaker 11: for you. Polish off the sun, sweep up the prairies
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  Speaker 11: and spread out the welcome mat along the old Red River.
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  Speaker 11: Then next spring, I'm coming back to fetch you. You
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  Speaker 11: want to know what time my train leaves?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's of no interest to me whatsoever.
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  Speaker 11: It leaves at 10.58 in the morning, and if you'd
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  Speaker 11: like to come down to see me off, I'll be
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  Speaker 11: looking for you.
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  Speaker 9: THE END.
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  Speaker 3: Hurry, Edna, hurry. No, I shouldn't be doing this. I
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be here, Charlotte. Oh, there he is on the
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  Speaker 3: observation car. Wave to him, Edna. No, no, I.
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  Speaker 2: Hello.
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  Speaker 12: Thanks for coming.
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  Speaker 3: Wave, Edna, wave.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Miss Edna.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Write to me. I'll wire you tomorrow. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye. Oh, Edna, it's thrilling. Love at first sight. When
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  Speaker 3: is he coming back? He said... he said in the spring. Oh, Charlotte. Oh, Charlotte,
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  Speaker 3: what am I going to tell Damon? Mother!
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte!
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  Speaker 3: He's here!
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  Speaker 9: Sam's here!
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Gladney, welcome to Green Bay.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Mrs. Cayley?
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  Speaker 8: Charlotte!
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  Speaker 3: It's Sam! He's back! You know I'm a little flustered.
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  Speaker 3: The second time we meet, and I soon have to
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  Speaker 3: call you Sam.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's all right with me, Mother.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Sam.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Charlotte.
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  Speaker 6: I think you rate a kiss, too, for getting Edna
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  Speaker 6: to the station that morning.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I knew it was all up with poor Damon
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  Speaker 5: the moment I saw you.
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  Speaker 3: Poor Damon. He's been happily married for three whole months.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that right, Charlotte?
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  Speaker 5: In the library, going over some mysterious matter with my
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  Speaker 5: future in-laws.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Gladney, what stand do you take on the subject of
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  Speaker 5: double weddings?
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  Speaker 6: Double what?
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  Speaker 3: Charlotte and Edward graduated together. They came out together, and so.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and now they want to be hitched in double tandem, eh?
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  Speaker 2: Well, why not?
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  Speaker 6: Having a fellow victim might buck a man up.
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  Speaker 5: I haven't asked Alan's folks about it yet. I'm going
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  Speaker 5: in and broached the subject now.
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  Speaker 3: Are you afraid?
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  Speaker 2: Who, me?
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  Speaker 3: I'm terrified. You come along with me, dear. I'll stand
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  Speaker 3: by you. Thanks, Mother. There'll be no argument, Charlotte. We'll
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  Speaker 3: just tell them, dear. All right. Here we are.
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  Speaker 2: But, Mother, I don't care. It doesn't mean a thing.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing can come between me and Charlotte, ever.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, that.
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  Speaker 3: That was Alan.
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  Speaker 13: I still say a marriage of this kind is impossible.
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  Speaker 3: Why, it's unthinkable. What are they saying?
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  Speaker 2: Alan! Oh, Charlotte, don't come in, please.
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  Speaker 5: But what is it, Alan?
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  Speaker 3: Father, what is it?
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  Speaker 6: There's something we've got to straighten out, Charlotte. You run
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  Speaker 6: along now.
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  Speaker 3: George, it's about time that child was told a little truth. Oh, Sarah, please.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mother, don't.
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  Speaker 3: What is it, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Keats?
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  Speaker 3: I want to know.
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  Speaker 13: Something has come out that interferes with your plans to
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  Speaker 13: marry my son.
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  Speaker 3: But what is it? I haven't done anything wrong. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it isn't true, Ellen. Whatever they say, it isn't true.
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  Speaker 2: I wish you were right, Charlotte.
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  Speaker 3: But it's come to our knowledge that you are a foundling.
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  Speaker 13: A nameless foundling with an unknown father.
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  Speaker 3: How could you? I.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know that I was nameless, Mrs. Keith. Of
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  Speaker 3: course you didn't. But you knew it, George. You too, Catherine.
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  Speaker 3: And my own son tried to hide it.
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  Speaker 13: Except for the kindness of a woman who keeps the
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  Speaker 13: files in the license bureau.
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  Speaker 3: It might never have come to light.
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  Speaker 6: But whose business is it anyway but mine?
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  Speaker 3: It's everybody's business now. It's common gossip.
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  Speaker 6: He's the only one I'll ever marry, Mother. You can
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  Speaker 6: make up your mind to that.
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  Speaker 2: This doesn't mean a thing, Charlotte. Not a thing. We'll
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  Speaker 2: go away. We'll go someplace where nobody knows us.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, away from his work and his family.
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  Speaker 6: That's why it will wreck his life. No, Mother, stop.
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  Speaker 6: Run along, Charlotte, darling. I have a plan to talk
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  Speaker 6: over with Alan.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and don't worry, dear. We love each other, and
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  Speaker 2: that's all that really matters. Everything's going to be fine.
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  Speaker 3: I think I know now how things are going to be, Alan. I'll...
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  Speaker 3: Be up in my room if you want me. Charlotte? Charlotte,
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  Speaker 3: where are you going?
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  Speaker 2: To my room.
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  Speaker 3: Well, did Mrs. Keats agree, dear? Did we get the
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  Speaker 3: double ready? Charlotte, answer me. Charlotte, what's the matter? Sam,
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  Speaker 3: something's wrong. Did you see her face?
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  Speaker 6: You'd better go speak to her, darling.
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  Speaker 3: Well, she... she wouldn't answer me. Oh, they've said something.
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  Speaker 2: They.
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  Speaker 3: Sam!
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  Speaker 2: Edna, what was that? I don't know. Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cayley!
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Cayley!
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  Speaker 2: Hilda, what's happened?
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  Speaker 3: Miss Charlotte, she's killed herself.
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  Speaker 4: Dear Mother.
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  Speaker 4: After almost three years in Texas, I love it more
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  Speaker 4: than ever. Our new house will be a wonderful place
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  Speaker 4: to bring up a child. Or as Sam says, to
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  Speaker 4: bring up our son. He is very certain it will
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  Speaker 4: be a boy. Down at the mill, they.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me he talks of nothing else.
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  Speaker 7: You can't go on buying wheat forever, Sam. Not all
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  Speaker 7: by yourself. How about amalgamating? Sharing profits as well as losses.
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  Speaker 2: You may be right, Charlie.
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  Speaker 11: But do you see that sign out there over the mill?
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  Speaker 11: Samuel Gladney, owner. Someday that sign will read, Samuel Gladney
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  Speaker 11: and sons. I can't take in partners without consulting him.
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  Speaker 7: That son of yours may turn out to be your daughter.
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  Speaker 2: Impossible.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to interrupt, Mr. Gladney, but your butler says
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  Speaker 3: it's imperative that you go right home.
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  Speaker 2: What for? Mr. Sam, sir. What's the matter, Zeke? Mr. Sam,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to get right home to your wife. But
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  Speaker 2: it isn't time yet. Babies ain't got calendars. Holy smoke.
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  Speaker 2: Have you called the doctor?
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: That's just a trouble, boss. We can't find him.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: You can't what?
• 16:08
  Speaker 11: Dr.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Weston went on a fishing trip and fishers ain't got telephones.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: My sister's got a wonderful doctor, Mr. Gladys.
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: Well, call him up then.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Come on, Zeke.
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: His name is Dr. Breston.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I don't care what his name is. Call him. Sorry, gentlemen.
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: Come on, Zeke. Get on.
• 16:28
  Speaker 11: Edna, can I, uh, can I come in?
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: No, Sam. Yes, of course you can.
• 16:36
  Speaker 11: Listen, are you ready for a visitor, darling? Because if
• 16:42
  Speaker 11: you are, I want to introduce you to my son.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Son? Poor Sam. It's come true, hasn't it?
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: Nurse, now, will you just bring him over here?
• 16:53
  Speaker 11: Be careful now.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Would you like him there beside you, Mrs. Gladney?
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: That's one of the things I disapprove of most. Oh, darling,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: this is Dr. Bresler.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, I know.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: The time is coming when newborn babies will be kept
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: in glass cages.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: Away from their parents.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Nurse, take the baby back to the nursery, please.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, Dr.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Bresler.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Mrs. Gladney. Doctor's orders, you know. Sam, tell me,
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: is he very beautiful?
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Darling, he's just what I ordered. Red hair and all.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Little Sammy.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Yep, our boy. That's enough for now. Outside, Mr.
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: Glenn. All right.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Bye, dear. Come along, please. Dr.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Bressler, she's all right, isn't she?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Your regular physician is here. He'll tell you himself. Well, Sam,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: you've got a fine son. Congratulations. Oh, thanks, Dr. West.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: I've been over the case with Dr. Bressler.
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: Sorry I couldn't get here in time.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, Dr. Bressler, have you explained to Mr.
• 17:54
  Speaker 14: Gladney the findings relative to the pedometry?
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Uh, what's that mean? He's trying to say that motherhood
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: in a case like your wife's is extremely dangerous. Oh,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that. Edna won't be able to have
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: another child, Sam.
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: Thank heaven she's safe. Are you sure she is safe?
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: No, absolutely. Why, Bressler's handled the case as well as
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: I could have done myself.
• 18:17
  Speaker 9: Thanks.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe I ought to start charging as much as you do. Goodbye. Goodbye, Doctor.
• 18:24
  Speaker 11: I hope we have occasion to meet sometime socially.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I'm a busy man, Mr. Gladner. I don't even have
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: time to go fishing.
• 18:32
  Speaker 13: THE END.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Another present for young Sam.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Let me see, Mommy.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: Let me see.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: Now, young fella, you just settle down there a little.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Where's the Merry Christmas present, Mommy?
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: Here it is.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Well, another music box.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: That makes four, doesn't it?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I like this one, Mommy.
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: Mrs.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Gladden.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, Nurse. It's almost three o'clock, Mrs.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Gladden.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, heavens.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Well, Sammy, let's get these toys cleared away, all right?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I want to play.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: Doesn't somebody want to take a nice ride in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: pony cart and get some air?
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: No.
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: Now, look, Sammy, you wouldn't want the doctor to scold
• 19:13
  Speaker 11: Mummy because you missed your airing.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: No. That's the boy. Now, run along with us. We'll
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: take Mr. Teddy Bear with us.
• 19:19
  Speaker 12: And the engine and the soldiers and the Christmas tree.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, Sammy, you come.
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Don't you think it might be too much of a
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: load for the poor little pony?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: No, we can only take one toy, Sammy.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Well, which ones are going to be there, partner?
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: The teddy bear.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: That's loyally for you. The oldest toy of the bunch.
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: Oh, you darling.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Now, goodbye, Sammy. Goodbye, dear. Watch me drive off, Mommy
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: and Daddy. All right, darling. We'll watch from the window.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Hurry up there.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: Goodbye.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Bye.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: Say, looks like a cyclone.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Hit this place.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: I've got to tidy up. You've been pretty extravagant this Christmas. Mr.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Gladney. Why not? Wheat's still going up.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Did it go up as much as that diamond pin
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: you gave me?
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: More. That pin cost a few thousand bushels, and, well,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: I still have a little left.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Not counting what you've got in your pocket.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Ah, don't be silly.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: I don't carry wheat in my pocket anymore.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: What do you want to bet? Just let me see.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Come on. No, no, Edna. Now stop it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: Get out of the way.
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: Get your hand off the coat.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Now hold still there. Now watch this.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: Half a handful of wheat.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll never be civilized, darling. I don't know how
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: you stand me.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, you don't take such an awful lot of standing.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: That's what I was fishing for. Come on, kiss me.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Are you happy, Edna?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Terribly happy. There's one little single thing I'd change. Except
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: to have Charlotte. Well, Charlotte and Sammy would have loved
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: each other. She was so gay and so full of fun.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Gladner!
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Gladner! Why, what's the matter?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Gladner, sir! Zeke, is there anything wrong? Sammy, sir, young Sammy.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Where is he?
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: You stay here, Miss Gladner.
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: Don't go out.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You wait here, darling. Oh, Mrs. Gladner.
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: Zeke, tell me what happened.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: An accident, ma'am.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: The pony cart had done turned over, ma'am.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: But Sammy hurt.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, Mrs.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Gladner. Zeke, do you hear me? He hurt.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: They's bringing him in. They's carrying him in. Oh, no! No!
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: No!
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Sam, let me see him. He hurt badly. Come down here.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Let me see him.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Edna, listen.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Sam, his face. He's so....
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Sammy.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Sammy, it's Mommy. It's Mommy, darling. I'm right here, darling.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Speak to me, Sammy. Edna. Speak to me. Please get
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: the doctor, then, to come at once.
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Edna, it's... It's no use, darling. Don't you... Can't you see, dear?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: No. Oh, how could that be?
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: He was here just a little while ago.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I held him in my arms. I kissed him. My baby.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: My baby. My baby.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: In just a moment, Mr.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: DeMille will bring us Act II of Blossoms in the Dust,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: starring Pierre Garson and Walter Pigeon with Felix Bessart. Morning, noon, night.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: The dishes have to be done.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: My goodness, you don't have to tell me. Just look
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: at my poor hands.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: What's that you're sprinkling into the dishpan?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Why, uh, the soap I always use.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: May I see it? Oh, you know, this is what's
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: making your hands red and rough, not the dishwashing you do. Look,
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: will you make an experiment for me?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Why, if it's really easy.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Take this box of new quick luxe and use it
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: for your dishes every day for a week instead of
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: that harsh soap you've been using. Will you do that?
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I'll be glad to.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Well, that was a week going by. And now here
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: we are again.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Only a week and my hands are better already.
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: I can hardly believe that just changing to luxe flakes
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: for dishes can make such a difference in my hands.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: But it can.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: This has been proved in scores of laboratory tests of
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Lux and five other well-known dishwashing soaps. Tests made under
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: conditions similar to home dishwashing. In these tests, not only
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: did dishpan hands improve in from two to seven days
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: after changing to new quick Lux, but at the end
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: of the test, the hands were once again soft and
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: smooth and lovely without the use of creams or lotions.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Just changing to Lux made the difference. Now... If you
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: have let harsh wash-day soaps in your dishpan redden and
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: roughen your hands, change to Luxe Flakes for your dishes tomorrow.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: See how quickly your hands lose that unattractive dishpan look,
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: and how quickly, thoroughly, and thriftily those speedy flakes do
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: your dishes. One big box of new Quick Luxe does
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: dishes for about 45 meals. Now, Mr. DeMille returns to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the microphone. Act II of Blossoms in the Dust, starring
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Greer Garson as Edna and Walter Pigeon as Sam. with
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Felix Bressart as Dr. Bresler. With the death of her child,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Edna tried valiantly to build a new existence. In desperation,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: she threw herself into the social life of the town,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: and the home that had seemed so empty was filled
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: with the laughter of guests. She's entertaining again this evening.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: But in the library are two guests who have come uninvited. Dr.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Bresler and a little child of three.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Good evening, Dr. Bresler.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Your husband once invited me to come here socially, Mrs. Gladner.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Looks as if I picked out a fairly social evening.
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad to see you, doctor, always. And who
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: is this?
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: She's a pretty little thing, whoever she is. Hello there,
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: little girl.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: He's in transit to the county orphanage. Seeing you're the
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: only folks I know with more beds than you sleep in,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I'd like to leave her here for tonight.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Sam, haven't you and Dr. Bressler chosen rather a bad
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: moment for your conspiracy? I happen to be entertaining Baron Emden.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Perhaps some other time might have been better, Doctor. The
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: child's mother had to be sent to the hospital tonight.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: There's no need to take her to the orphanage. You
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: can board it out until the mother's well.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Sam, give Dr.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Bressler a check.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: The mother can't keep the child. She has to work.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: If I had a child, I'd keep it in spite of.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: In spite of what? Parties, balls, swearies, dressmakers, and all
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: that boop-de-doodle? This child's mother is a mill hand.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Get that child out of here.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Edna. I never thought it would work. Why should she
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: adopt a baby? She's too busy adopting barons.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Come on, child.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Good night, Mrs. Gladman.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: This is criticism, isn't it?
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Criticism?
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Of me, of the way I choose to spend my life.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: You're trying to mend a broken heart, Edna, by hitting
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: it with a hammer.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Do I ever bore you with my broken heart? Or
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: anyone else, do I ever mention it?
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: It might be better, dear, if you did.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 25:54
  Speaker 9: From the time I first realized that we were never
• 25:56
  Speaker 9: to have children, the day hasn't gone by or the night,
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: that I haven't felt humiliated, useless, that deep down inside
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: of me I'm not bitterly frustrated.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: You think I don't know that, Edna?
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Then why do you send another woman's child here to
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: hurt me like this?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: You're hurting yourself, darling. Oh, Sam.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: Oh, Sam.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: That's the girl. You cry away, sweetheart. Just cry all
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: you like.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: I'm no good, Sam.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: Somebody else would be better for you.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: No good at all.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Hey, there, watch yourself.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: You're speaking about the girl I love.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Dear mother, Sam was right, as always. The day nursery
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: is a wonderful idea. We have 19 children now and
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: they're darlings all of them.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I keep them during the day and their mothers keep
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: them at night.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: Sometimes I hate to see evening come.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, good morning, Mrs. Gladney. Good morning, Miss Ross.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Is Mr.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Gladney in his office? Yes, ma'am. Just go right in.
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: I tell you, Sam, you can't do it.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Oh, come in, dear.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Mr.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Jones. Morning.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Sam, I hate to interrupt business, but I've just had
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: such a brilliant idea.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: That so? Sit down, dear.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Sam, you know the vacant lot next to the nursery?
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Well, I just heard that they're willing to sell for
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: a song.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: We could buy it and tear down the fence and
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: enlarge the play yard.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: We're getting awfully crowded, you know.
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: Uh, it's a great idea, honey, but I'm afraid it'll
• 27:38
  Speaker 11: have to wait for a while.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Why, darling? Oh, is something wrong?
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, I've had a little setback.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: What is it, Sam? Tell me.
• 27:46
  Speaker 11: Possibly it's going to be a great new chance. I
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: made a lot of mistakes when I built this mill.
• 27:51
  Speaker 11: Next time I'll do the job right.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Sam, you've lost the mill.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'll build another one.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, sweetheart, why didn't you tell me? You're tired, Sam. Oh, honey,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: you look ill.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: He is ill, Mrs.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Gladney.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: He's insane.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Thinking he can pay off this load of debts he's
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: swamped with. Oh, well, maybe you can get him to
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: go into bankruptcy.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Nobody else can.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: There'll be a.
• 28:16
  Speaker 6: changes, dear. We'll have to sell the house, of course.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: Of course.
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: And I have a chance for a job in.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: The Fort Worth mill. I'll only be the foreman, but well, anyway,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: it's a job.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Sam, will you please sit down and eat your lunch?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Thanks, dear. Wait till I take a look at this wheat.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I cooked the lunch myself. It's chicken pie.
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: Sam, will you please stop staring into that microscope and
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: pay a little attention to me?
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: Darling, this new chaff is giving me exactly the elements
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: I need. They told me this morning they'd take the
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: process on here at the mill if it works out.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Look, I've got the patent paper. The Gladney Wheat Wasted Process.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: See?
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: We may get enough out of this to pay off
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: every debt we left in Sherman.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Sam, have I really a say in this corporation?
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Look at the papers, darling. S. and E. Gladney, proprietor.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Then stop and eat your lunch.
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: All right. As soon as I run over to the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: courthouse with these papers.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Let me.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: I'm a partner.
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: Okay, partner.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Run along. And it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: Was tagged, Sam. Tagged like cattle.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: Uh, Edna, what is all this? Where did you see
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: these children?
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: But I'm telling you, darling, this afternoon when I went
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: to the courthouse for you, I happened to pass by
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: this big room and there were all these orphaned children.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: They had.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: tags on them. Oh, Sam, it was horrible.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Well, what happened?
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Well, there was one there. He was only three months old.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: His name was Tony, and this woman was going to
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: adopt him. And then she changed her mind. You see,
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: they didn't know who the child's father was. But old Sam,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: he's such a sweet little thing, and.
• 29:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, wait a minute. Edna, where is the child now?
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Well, that's what I wanted to tell you. He's upstairs
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: in the bedroom.
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: May I see.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Him, Edna?
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, Sam, I knew you'd understand. And you love the
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: little girl, too.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: What little girl?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Well, you see, there were two of them, and I... Oh,
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: come on upstairs, Sam.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: You mean you've adopted two children?
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: No, not really adopted them. You see, they were both fatherless,
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: and nobody would take them. So the judge let me
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: have them. He's giving me two weeks to find homes
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: for them. And, Sam, I'm going to do it.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you are.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Careful now, dear. They're asleep. Go in, Sam.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: See?
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: He's a little girl. And this is Tony, Sam.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Why, he.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: He's got red hair, hasn't he?
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Isn't he beautiful?
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: Tony. Hello, Tony.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: Don't wake them, darling. I won't.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: Look, he's smiling.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: You're not angry, are you, Sam? You think I did right?
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: But I know you, darling. This is only two. You'll
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: probably wind up with 40.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Just a minute, just a minute. Yes, ma'am? Is this Mrs.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Gladney's establishment? That's what their signs say, Miss Gladney and
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: her establishment.
• 31:29
  Speaker 13: Well, I have an appointment.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on in, please. Miss Gladney, the lady here.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Sit down, please. Cleo, will you look after Billy?
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am. Mrs.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Gladney, my name is Mrs. Marcus Gilbert. Oh, yes, just
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: a moment, please. Cleo, has there been any word from Dr. Bressler? No, ma'am.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: Just that last telegram, Mrs.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Gladney.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Oh, Mrs.
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: Gladney, I have an appointment with you.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, Mrs. Gilworth. You see, we're having a
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: little trouble with Tony here.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: He's been very sick.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Now, what is it about? Mrs.
• 31:55
  Speaker 13: Gladney, my husband and I have decided to give the
• 31:59
  Speaker 13: advantage of.
• 32:00
  Speaker 9: Our home to one of your foundlings.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: Why? How nice.
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: We wouldn't want one that cries. will come down with
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: me tomorrow and help me pick one up.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: Now, remember that we've... Dr.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Bressler! Hello, Edna.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, Max, I thought you'd never get here.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry, I had six maternities to wind up before
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I could leave.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: I know, I know.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: Gladney, if you don't mind.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, excuse me, please, I'll be with you in just
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: a moment.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Where's Tony?
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: In the other room, just a moment.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: What do you think? He's very sick.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, Edna, he is.
• 32:42
  Speaker 11: But I think he'll pull through.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Our chief warrior's permanent paralysis of the right leg. What
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: treatment has he had?
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, all sorts. I've stopped giving him medicines. I massage him.
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: I give him sun.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: That's what he needs, especially massage. There's a new method
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: of massage underwater. But it takes an expert operator.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Couldn't I learn?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Probably.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: He's such a darling. Just look at him. We could
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: only make him well. Well enough to put him to
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: a real home somewhere. Mrs. Gladney, may I speak to you?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Doctor.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: I'm all finished, dear.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, then will you step outside, Mrs.
• 33:17
  Speaker 11: Gilworth? Mrs.
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: Gladney, when I came here, out of the goodness of
• 33:21
  Speaker 13: my heart, I didn't expect to be insulted.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, I am sorry, but Dr. Bressler has come all
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: the way from Sherman. He's a very busy pediatrician.
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: Idiot.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: She means a baby doctor.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, I know.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 33:33
  Speaker 13: Well, I'm adopting a baby. Maybe you'd like to help
• 33:37
  Speaker 13: with your advice, Doctor.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: I'd want to know all about the baby, of course.
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: Its background, parents, and so on.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, indeed. We have to be very careful about
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: the children. And the prospective parents.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Naturally.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: What's that? Now, here's our questionnaire. Would you mind answering
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: a few routine questions? Well... I'll help.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: You, Edna. What's your name, please?
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Gilworth.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Mrs.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Marcus Gilworth.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Husband's occupations.
• 34:04
  Speaker 13: He's a member of the board of supervisors.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Two names of people who will vouch for you.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: I said my husband is a member.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Of the board. Character witness? None.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: But I didn't say that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: How old are you?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Why, I.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Well, how old?
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I'm 35.
• 34:22
  Speaker 13: 40, all right.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: How dare you!
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: You're getting off easy, madam.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I'll take over now, doctor. Let me see. Any TB
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: in the family, Mrs. Gilbert? No. Insanity? Certainly not. Hereditary diseases?
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: That's enough. I'm leaving.
• 34:40
  Speaker 13: But you haven't heard the last of this. The board
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: of supervisors will take up.
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: Your case, Mrs.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Gladney.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Mrs. Gladney, you are aware of the zoning laws in
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: your district?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, I am.
• 34:57
  Speaker 14: Then surely you must know that those laws prohibit the
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: running of an institution such as yours in that district?
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: I told you I'd find another place for the children.
• 35:05
  Speaker 14: Fort Worth has an adequate poor farm and city orphanage, Mrs.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Gladney.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: But don't you see, gentlemen, I'm equipped to get children
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: into homes. Real homes. To interest people in adopting babies
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: who might never have thought of it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: You have a peculiar way of interesting them, madam. Gentlemen,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: my wife went to Mrs. Gladney's place to inquire about
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: adopting a baby and was grossly insulted. My name is Gilworth, Mrs. Gladney.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Your wife was asked to answer a set of routine.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Questions, Mr. Gilworth, for the good of the child she
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: hoped to adopt.
• 35:33
  Speaker 14: This city has had very few complaints, Mrs. Gladney, over
• 35:36
  Speaker 14: our treatment of orphans.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, I wish you'd stop calling them orphans.
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: And what do you call them, Mrs.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Gladney?
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: They're children's. Our children.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Every child born into this world belongs to the whole
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: human race.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: Don't you think that's a few too many for your budget, Mrs.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Gladney? I move we put this to a vote. I
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: second the motion. Those in favor of granting Mrs.
• 35:55
  Speaker 14: Gladney's request to carry on her work signify in the
• 35:58
  Speaker 14: usual manner?
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: Aye.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Those against?
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: No.
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, Mrs.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Gladney.
• 36:03
  Speaker 14: If you're able later to carry on to show adequate
• 36:05
  Speaker 14: funds and a proper building to house the children, we'll
• 36:08
  Speaker 14: be glad to reopen the matter.
• 36:11
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Edna.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: Oh, Max, dear, it's sweet of you to come for me.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: I think you'd better run on home right away, Edna. Home?
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: It's Sam. They brought him home from the office. He's
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: had a bad attack, Edna.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, Max.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Can I go in now, Max?
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Just a moment. I'll see if he's asleep. Wait here. Sam.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: Yes? A nurse spake, Sam.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: How did it come out? Her inquisition?
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, forget about that. You've got to quiet down now.
• 37:01
  Speaker 11: She's got to go on, Max. She'll need her babies
• 37:06
  Speaker 11: now as much as they need her.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: You'll be all right, Sam. After a little rest. Uh-huh.
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: Good old Max. But you see, I know Max. You
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: can't fool me.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not going back to Shaman, Sam. I'm going to
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: stay here and help Edna.
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, Max.
• 37:32
  Speaker 11: You know, when they took her baby, I used to ask,
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: why did God do this to her? I know now.
• 37:43
  Speaker 11: Thousands of other babies... needed their chance to be loved.
• 37:49
  Speaker 11: Maybe you better send her.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: In now, Max.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Come in, Edna.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, Sam.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: Silly thing to do, fold up like this. Edna, go
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: look in my pocket, honey.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, dear.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: Remember when I used to carry wheat? I don't anymore.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: That this paper... Ah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: Look at it, Edna. The company has bought out the
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: Ladney process. You'll soon be in the.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Clear, darling.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: You... You must rest now, my darling.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: Tell me. What do they want you to do about
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: the babies?
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, sweetheart. I'm through with all that now.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, darling.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Don't let them beat you.
• 38:46
  Speaker 11: You're never going to desert Edna.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Never. Shh. Please, dears.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Listen to me, darling.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: You will win.
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: Fight for those kiddies of yours.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Fight for them, Edna. You'll win, Edna. Hold me close, Edna.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Edna.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Sam.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Sam.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Sam.
• 39:10
  Speaker 10: Oh, Sam, don't leave me.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification. This is the Columbia
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Broadcasting System. We'll hear Act Three of Blossoms in the Dust,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon with Felix Pressart, in
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: just a moment. Meantime, Sally tells me that she's been
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: going into reverse this past week.
• 40:01
  Speaker 12: Well, you see, I found I had two or three
• 40:03
  Speaker 12: sweaters that were perfectly good, but just, well, not quite
• 40:07
  Speaker 12: up to date. So I've unraveled them, and I'm going
• 40:09
  Speaker 12: to make some new ones out of that same yarn.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: A neat trick, now that woolens are so precious, Sally.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: You know, if that yarn is still good enough to re-knit,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: I'll make you a little bet about those sweaters. I'll
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: bet you took care of them.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: With new quick luxe, of course, Mr.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Sherlock, really.
• 40:26
  Speaker 12: But I'm surprised at you betting on a sure thing
• 40:28
  Speaker 12: like that.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Why, I'd bet on new quick luxe any day, Sally.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: With luxe, there's no harmful alkali, no cake soap rubbing
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: to map and shrink woolen fibers. So, with gentle luxe care,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: your washable woolen stays soft and unshrunken. Will wear better.
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: And that's important these days. Here's a trick about re-knitting yarn.
• 40:47
  Speaker 12: As you unravel the sweater, wind the wool not into
• 40:50
  Speaker 12: a ball, but around a piece of cardboard so that
• 40:53
  Speaker 12: it makes a kind of stain. Tie it with string
• 40:56
  Speaker 12: at both ends and then slip the cardboard out and
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: lux the wool. The yarn comes out fresh and soft and.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: Easy to work with.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: That's a good tip, Sally.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: Yes, you're thrifty two ways.
• 41:07
  Speaker 12: First, because you've made something smart and new that's cost
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: you only a little time and effort. And second, because
• 41:13
  Speaker 12: with Lux, you keep your pretty sweater lovely at such
• 41:16
  Speaker 12: a tiny cost.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Right. A little Lux goes a long, long way. That
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: generous big box of Lux flakes will do 29 sweaters. Now,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: our producer, Mr. DeMille. The curtain rises on the third
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: act of Blossoms in the Dust. starring Greer Garson and
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Walter Pigeon with Felix Pressart. Three years have passed, and
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Edna Gladney has never stopped fighting for her children. She's
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: won the right to continue her work with the Texas
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Children's Home and Aid Society. Outside in the spacious play yard,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: the children scamper joyfully. But one remains indoors. Little Tony,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Edna's favorite. Tony can't run with his playmates because his
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: leg is supported by a steel brace.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: Tony, dear, you should be outside with the others. Please,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Auntie Edna.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: I want to be with you.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I know, dearest. But there's lots of other little boys
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: and girls Auntie Edna has to arrange things for. And
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: you wouldn't want her to neglect them, would you? Yeah.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, you wouldn't.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Miss Brandy, there's a young lady here to see you. Oh,
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: send her in, dear. Now, tell me. You run out
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: in the sunshine, sweetheart. We'll be together this evening, the
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: whole evening long.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Bye, Auntie Edna.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: Bye, sweetheart.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: But this way, please. Oh, come in. Sit down, won't you?
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: Mrs.
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Gladney, I have some money I haven't any use for.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: I'd like to give it to you for the children.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Will you take it, please? Why, thank you. Oh, this
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: looks like quite a sum. I guess it's around $ 700.
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: Why are you giving me this, my dear? Well, look.
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: I was adopted from an institution myself.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Oh? Where are your adopted parents? This is May, isn't it?
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: That's the season on the Riviera. I suppose my mother'd
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: be there. My father's in New York. I wanted to
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: give you the money because you put children in the
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: sort of homes where they belong. Goodbye, Mrs.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Gradley.
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Just a moment. Can you tell me what's troubling you?
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid I can't, Mrs. Gradley. Have you a child? No.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Are you going to have one?
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: No.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Never.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: There, now, there, now.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: You mustn't cry. Sit down here. Won't you try and
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: tell me about it? Or maybe there's something I could
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: do to help. I... I'm engaged to be married.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: We've made such plans, David and I.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: We were to have a home. A real home. People
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: felt it best to break us up. But there was
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: nothing they could say or do. Until now. Go on.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Go on, dear.
• 43:54
  Speaker 9: I've found out just now that I have no right
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: to a name.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: To any name. I found it in the record of
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: my birth.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: The record I'd have to show when we went for
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: our marriage, Larson.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Would he care? This David of yours? He loves me
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: just as much as I love him.
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: That's why I'm not going to let him go through
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: with it.
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to see him again, Mrs.
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: Gladney.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Not ever. Just a moment, my dear. Cleo, tell Dr.
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: Bressler I want him right away. Will you let me
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: have your purse, please?
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: No.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Let me have what you have in it.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: There isn't anything.
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: Please.
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't look.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Don't. What's in this bottle? It's poison, isn't it?
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Don't admit it, Anna.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Max, throw this... Throw this away, will you?
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: It's a good thing she didn't use it.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: Max, for years I've been haunted by something. Something that
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: once came very close to me. The injustice of branding
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: innocent little nameless children in records where everyone can see.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: On birth certificates. Of branding them all through their lives.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: On marriage licenses, passports, legal papers. It's cruel. It's inhumanly cruel.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: It's got to be stopped.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: But how, Edna?
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: There must be people I can see and speak to
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: and make them understand. Max, I thought that taking little
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: nameless babies, loving.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Them and finding homes for them was all that could
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: be done. But that's not all.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: Every human being that's born into this world deserves the
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: right to make its own good name without bigotry and prejudice.
• 45:35
  Speaker 9: Mrs.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: Gladney.
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Listen, if you're as fine as I think you are,
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: You're not going to cheat the man you love. You're
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: going to marry him right now and fight for his
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: happiness and your own. Here's your money for a trousseau.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Will you take half? You bet I will. We need
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: a dozen new cribs.
• 46:02
  Speaker 15: Gentlemen, you have heard it said that those who transgress
• 46:08
  Speaker 15: must be punished.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Let me just say this.
• 46:12
  Speaker 15: If you don't know what it means to a mother
• 46:14
  Speaker 15: who loves her child.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: To give it up to strangers, knowing that she'll never
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: see it again.
• 46:21
  Speaker 15: Never hold it in her arms, never hear it called
• 46:25
  Speaker 15: her mother, come to my home in Fort Worth sometime
• 46:28
  Speaker 15: and see. I'll show you punishment that will haunt you
• 46:32
  Speaker 15: all the days of your life. People still argue about
• 46:37
  Speaker 15: environment versus heredity, but I have put hundreds of nameless
• 46:42
  Speaker 15: babies into respectable homes, fine homes, and all of them,
• 46:47
  Speaker 15: without one single exception, are growing up to be morally
• 46:51
  Speaker 15: fit and strong.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: I never knew a child to take a wrong.
• 46:55
  Speaker 15: Step that couldn't be traced to the ones that are
• 46:57
  Speaker 15: bringing it up to misunderstanding, lack.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Of honesty, lack of sympathy, lack of heart. Oh, believe me, gentlemen.
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: Life can be made so much more beautiful by sympathy,
• 47:12
  Speaker 10: by love and understanding than it ever can.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Be by intolerance. I've seen hearts broken.
• 47:22
  Speaker 15: I've seen a pure and innocent young life destroyed by
• 47:26
  Speaker 15: this man-made law.
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: For it is man-made.
• 47:31
  Speaker 15: God has placed no dishonor on these innocent and helpless victims.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Why must we, by.
• 47:37
  Speaker 15: Branding these children as nameless, deprive them of their God-given.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Right to live in happiness?
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: You have done a wonderful job, Edna. You should be proud.
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: No, Max. The credit isn't mine. It's hers. It's Charlotte's.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: All right, have it your own way. But it's a
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: law now, and no child in Texas will ever again
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: be branded for life. Well, one ordeal is over. The
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: next is already in waiting.
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: What is it, Max?
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: And, uh, little Tony is almost well now. I think
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: we can remove the brace in a few more days.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, Max.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, I couldn't think of a better Christmas present.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: I know what it means to you. I know also
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: what little Tony means to you personally.
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: What? Oh, what do you mean, Max?
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Edna, there's a man I want you to meet. His
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: name is Eldridge.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: Where is he?
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: In my office.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Come along. Mr.
• 48:45
  Speaker 11: Eldridge, I'm getting strong.
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: I should say you are. Oh, hello, Doctor.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Ah, Mr. Eldridge, this is Mrs. Gladney.
• 48:53
  Speaker 6: How do you do, Mrs.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Gladney?
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: How do you do?
• 48:55
  Speaker 11: Here are seven puppy dogs, Auntie Edna.
• 48:58
  Speaker 13: And he can play football, and he is a real sailboat.
• 49:01
  Speaker 11: You're the reward, and I find we have a lot
• 49:03
  Speaker 11: in common, Mrs.
• 49:04
  Speaker 6: Gladney.
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Have you? Tony, what are you doing down here at
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: this hour?
• 49:07
  Speaker 11: Well, I came down to hang up my stocking.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Well, go on back to your room at once. Yes,
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Auntie Edna.
• 49:13
  Speaker 13: Goodbye, Mr.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Elfie.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Won't you sit down?
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: I suppose Dr.
• 49:19
  Speaker 11: Brest has told you, Mrs. Gladney, that my wife and
• 49:23
  Speaker 11: I recently lost our little boy.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 49:28
  Speaker 11: Later hasn't been well since it happened. There seems to
• 49:32
  Speaker 11: be a question that she may not be well again.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I mean ever, Mrs. Gladney.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: I see.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 49:38
  Speaker 11: This Christmas time is very hard, aren't I? The doctors
• 49:41
  Speaker 11: feel that if they could put another child into her arms,
• 49:45
  Speaker 11: a child that we could keep, it might make all
• 49:47
  Speaker 11: the difference.
• 49:49
  Speaker 6: Dr. Bressler told me about little Tony.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: I can't let you have Tony.
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: It's a question of her reason, Mrs. Gladney, of her life.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: The boy belongs elsewhere. I'll see that the home does
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: the best it can for you, and.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: As soon as possible.
• 50:05
  Speaker 6: Thank you, Mrs. Gladney. I... I'll leave you my address.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Goodbye.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: Goodbye.
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: Goodbye, Dr.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Bressler.
• 50:12
  Speaker 6: A thousand thanks to you, just the same. Goodbye, Mr.
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: Eldridge.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Edna, this isn't the first sacrifice you've ever been asked
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: to make. And it won't be the last. But you
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: must think of the boy now, of Tony.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: If it hadn't been for me, Tony would have died.
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: I gave him his life. He loves me. He belongs
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, Edna. You gave him his life, his body. But
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: he needs more than that now. He needs a home.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: A normal home. He needs a mother that belongs to him.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: And a father, too. This isn't a home, Edna.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: It's an institution. I can leave here, can't I?
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: What? Leave here?
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Why not? Give up the home? Desert?
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: I've devoted years of my life to the home. I
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: found parents for thousands of children. Thousands. I want a
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: child for myself.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: This means dissolution of the home, Edna.
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: I've done enough for the home. Time I started.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: Thinking about Edna Gladney.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: No, that isn't Edna Gladney.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, you don't understand, Max.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: What are your plans?
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: I'm going back to Wisconsin to make a home for
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: my child.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Edna, the day that Sam was taken from us, he
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: said something to me I've never told you. He said
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: he thought God took your baby from you. so that
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: thousands of homeless babies might have their chance to be loved.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: You don't understand.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe Sam was wrong.
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: Tony.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Tony, darling. Wake up. That's the boy. Is it morning,
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Auntie Edna? No, dear. It's still night. We're going away, Tony.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Away?
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: Where, Auntie Edna?
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm not sure, dear.
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: I packed all your things.
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: Listen, there's the doorbell.
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: Who's sitting? I'll go and see.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Get dressed, darling.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: I'll be right back.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Evening, Mrs. Ladney.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, officer? Mrs.
• 52:22
  Speaker 7: Gladney, I got a couple of Christmas presents for you.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: These two kids.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: I'm very sorry, officer. The home is closed. The holidays,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: you know.
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: Well, I'm afraid you got a stretcher point for these two.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's a little girl.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: She looks sick.
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: I think she is.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Why, she's got a fever. She's burning.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Dr.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: Bressler. Bring them in, officer, quickly. Tony, darling.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: Tony.
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: Are you ready?
• 52:49
  Speaker 15: Is it time to go?
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: It's time to go, sweetheart. Get up.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Up, lady.
• 52:54
  Speaker 15: Where are we going, Auntie Edna?
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: Not far.
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: And Auntie Edna's decided that you're such a... such a
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: big boy now that you can go alone.
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, Auntie Edna. Listen, dear, listen. I have a
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: wonderful Christmas surprise for you. You remember the... the nice
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: man who played football? And the seven puppy dogs?
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: And the real sailboat?
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: And he's very sad because he has a lovely wife
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: who wants a little boy very, very badly. And they
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: haven't got one. So they want you to go and
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: stay with them. And you'll be their little boy, darling.
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: Isn't that lovely? They love you always and you'll have
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: a daddy too.
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: Like other little boys. You'll be very happy, darling.
• 53:38
  Speaker 9: But then I can come back.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: To you, can't I?
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: Well, no, I don't think so, darling. You see, I'm
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: just your Auntie Edna. And I'm lots of other children's
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: Auntie Edna, too. This lovely lady will be your.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: your own money. Come in.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Mrs. Gladney?
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: Yes, he's ready now.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: This is my wife, Mrs.
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: Eldridge.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: May I... may I see him now? Tony, dear. This
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: is your new money. Hello, Mommy. And oh, my son.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: And oh, my baby. Will you take him, please? Right now.
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: Come along, Tony.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mrs. Gladden. You'll never know what this means
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: to us. Goodbye. Oh, Tony. Oh, my darling. Don't leave me,
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: Auntie Edna.
• 54:34
  Speaker 9: Go away, Auntie Edna.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: Auntie Edna.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: Auntie Edna.
• 54:38
  Speaker 15: Auntie Edna.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Auntie Edna.
• 54:40
  Speaker 11: So that thousands of other babies might have their chance.
• 54:45
  Speaker 6: To be loved.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Sam. Sam. Max. Max, are you there?
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, Edna.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: If you want me for anything, Max... I'll be here.
• 55:02
  Speaker 7: Always.
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: Always. Mr. DeMille brings our stars back to the microphone
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: in just a moment for their curtain call. Now, here's
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: our fashion reporter, Libby Collins. Well, what's new tonight, Libby? Well, Mr.
• 55:30
  Speaker 9: Ruick, it says here in my fashion notebook, automobile tires, rations.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Well, that's an odd kind of fashion note, Libby.
• 55:37
  Speaker 9: Not so odd when you remember that what it really
• 55:39
  Speaker 9: means is that rubber is precious nowadays. Think of all
• 55:42
  Speaker 9: the things women wear that have rubber or elasticized threads
• 55:45
  Speaker 9: in them. Lots of sweaters and little jackets. mid-sections of dresses,
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: and most important of all, girdles and foundation garments. We're
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: going to have to learn to conserve these things to
• 55:55
  Speaker 9: make them last longer. That means, of course, giving them
• 55:58
  Speaker 9: the right kind of care.
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: And that means, of course, new quick luxe. It's ideal
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: for elastic fibers because it's so gentle, has no harmful
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: alkali to dry them out and make them lose their elasticity.
• 56:10
  Speaker 9: And then with luxe, there isn't any of that cake
• 56:12
  Speaker 9: soap rubbing that's so hard on them either. Be sure
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: to luxe girdles often, not only for daintyness sake, but
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: because they last longer if they're kept fresh and clean,
• 56:21
  Speaker 9: if perspiration is luxed away promptly. With frequent luxing, you'll
• 56:25
  Speaker 9: find that girdles will keep their fit better, stay new-looking longer.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: The luxe way is easy, quick, thrifty, and it's care
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: advised by experts. People who make foundation garments and girdles
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: and smart stores that sell them advise Luxe Flakes. Now,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: here's Mr. DeMille with our stars. To the two stars
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: who brought us Blossoms in the Dust, we toss our
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: finest bouquet for acting. And now, Greer Garson and Walter
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: Pigeon take a curtain call they richly deserve.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Mr.
• 56:57
  Speaker 10: DeMille.
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: It's been a real pleasure to be here in the
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: Lux Radio Theater for the first time.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: And it'll still be fun the tenth time, Greer. I
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: have a thrill for both of you and a telegram
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: just received. It reads, I am honored to have Blossoms
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: in the Dust featured in the Lux Radio Theater, with
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: Miss Garson and Mr. Pigeon in the roles they originated.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Being a constant listener to your program, I appreciate the
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: value of once again presenting the message of this picture
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: to the public. The wire is from Fort Worth, and
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: it's signed by the superintendent of the Texas Children's Home
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: and Aid Society. Her name?
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: Mrs.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Edna Gladney, the living heroine of our play. And we
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: have a right to be proud that she's also a
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: regular member of our audience.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: It was a great privilege to play the part of Mrs.
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: Gladney tonight, Mr.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: DeMille.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: But above all, it was a great challenge because of
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: the kind of woman she is and the kind of
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: work she's doing.
• 57:55
  Speaker 11: And I'm sure everyone in the audience joins all of
• 57:58
  Speaker 11: us in wishing her every success in that work.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: A woman like Mrs.
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: Gladney will never fail, Walter.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: What is your play for next week, Mr. DeMille?
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Next week, we have an appointment with the new Universal
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: Picture Success... Appointment for Love. And our stars will be
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Charles Boyer and Myrna Loy. It's a gay comedy about
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: a playwright who marries a woman doctor. The doctor thinks
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: love is strictly scientific. So the road to romance appears
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: slightly rocky. But I think you'll like the way Myrna
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Loy and Charles Boyer work out the problem next Monday night.
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: That sounds like a full house for the Lux Radio Theater, CB.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Good night. Good night.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 58:40
  Speaker 11: Good night.
• 58:41
  Speaker 13: Good night.
• 58:43
  Speaker 11: We're starting for another play.
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: For you two. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: join me in inviting you to be with us again
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater presents Myrna
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Loy and Charles Boyer in Appointment for Love.
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: This is Cecil B.
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: DeMille saying goodnight.
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: To you from Hollywood.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Except for the roles of Edna and Sam Gladney, and
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: except for the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society, all events, characters,
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: and institutions depicted in this play are fictitious. Any similarity
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: and institutions is purely coincidental. The picture, Blossoms in the Dust,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: was directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Throughout the United States, this
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: week is being observed as Brotherhood Week under the sponsorship
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Its purpose
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: is to increase goodwill and cooperation among Americans of every
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: religion and race. Heard in tonight's play were Bea Benederit
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: as Charlotte, Marga Ann Dayton as Mrs. Cayley, Griff Barnett
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: as Mr. Eldridge, Bobby Larson as Tony, Verna Felton as Mrs. Gilworth,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: Eileen Pringle as Mrs. Keek, Tommy Cook as Sammy, and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: Ann Tobin, Leo Cleary, Buck Woods, Lillian Randolph, Jacqueline DeWitt,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: John Roche, Doris Cederholm, Warren Ash, Jean O'Donnell, Ferdinand Meunier,
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Mary Lou Harrington, and Charles Seal. Tune in next Monday
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: night to hear Charles Boyer and Myrna Loy in Appointment
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: for Love. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers, and
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: your announcer has been Melville Ruick. This is the Columbia
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Broadcasting System.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: Our presentation of Lux Radio Theater's Blossoms in the Dust
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: now comes to a close. Follow Lux Radio Theater for
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