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Lux Radio Theatre - "Lillian Russell" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Helen Leonard leaves Clinton, Iowa for New York, where study
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Speaker 1: with Leopold Damrosch and an opportunity from Tony Pastor set
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Speaker 1: her on the road to the stage. On October 21st, 1940,
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Speaker 1: CBS brought that musical biographical story to Lux Radio Theater
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Speaker 1: in episode 278, Lillian Russell, adapted from the 20th century
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Speaker 1: Fox film and hosted by Cecil B.
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Speaker 2: DeMille.
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Speaker 1: Alice Fay reprises her screen role as Lillian Russell. Edward
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Speaker 1: Arnold returns as Diamond Jim Brady, while Victor Mature plays
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Speaker 1: newspaperman Alexander Moore. In late 19th century New York and London,
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Speaker 1: Lillian's career unfolds amid the competing attentions of Brady and
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Speaker 1: the people closest to her. Now, back to the golden
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Speaker 1: age of radio.
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Speaker 3: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Alice Faye,
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Speaker 3: Edward Arnold, and Victor Mature in Lillian Russell. Ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 3: your producer, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Cecil B.
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Speaker 2: DeMille.
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Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we turn back
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Speaker 3: from the nervous world of the 1940s to those gay
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Speaker 3: and glamorous years at the end of the last century,
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Speaker 3: back to those years when a certain very beautiful woman
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Speaker 3: was the toast of America. Her name was Lillian Russell,
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Speaker 3: and that name is the title of tonight's play. We
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Speaker 3: present Lillian Russell not as a shadowy legend, but as
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Speaker 3: a woman who lived and loved and had the world
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Speaker 3: at her feet. She comes to life again in the
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Speaker 3: person of Miss Alice Fay, who has a considerable portion
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Speaker 3: of the world at her feet right now. You'll hear
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Speaker 3: her singing the same song hits that Lillian Russell made famous,
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Speaker 3: songs that carry me back to the gay 90s, for
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Speaker 3: I knew Lillian and Dam and Jim Brady both, and
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Speaker 3: that makes the characters of this play very real to me.
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Speaker 3: Lillian Russell was one of Alice Fay's biggest hits at
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Speaker 3: 20th Century Fox, And those who saw it on the
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Speaker 3: screen will also remember Edward Arnold's great performance as Diamond
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Speaker 3: Jim Brady. He's here tonight to repeat the same part
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Speaker 3: in our production. And Victor Mature plays Alexander Moore. This
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Speaker 3: I'll see many of you in person, because tonight I'm
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Speaker 3: leaving for the Chicago premiere of my new picture, Northwest
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Speaker 3: Mounted Police. And I'll have several stars with me, stars
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Speaker 3: you've heard on the Lux Radio Theater. But now we
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Speaker 3: meet a star of another day. We raise the curtain
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Speaker 3: on the first act of Lillian Russell, starring Alice Fay
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Speaker 3: as Lillian Russell, Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady, and
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Speaker 3: Victor Mature as Alexander Moore.
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Speaker 3: In 1861, a baby girl was born to a Mr.
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Speaker 6: And Mrs.
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Speaker 3: Leonard of Clinton, Iowa. This squirming little red-faced bundle was
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Speaker 3: Helen Leonard, later to become world famous as the beautiful
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Speaker 3: Lillian Russell. Throughout her first night in this world, young
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Speaker 3: Helen screamed lustily. The fond father, gazing into the tiny face,
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Speaker 3: shook his head in wonderment.
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Speaker 4: Well, young lady, I'll say one thing for you.
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Speaker 3: You've got a good voice. Eighteen years later, in New
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Speaker 3: York City, a man named Leopold Damrosch used almost the
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Speaker 3: same words, this time after listening to Helen sing.
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Speaker 7: Yet all the lads, they smile on me when coming
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Speaker 7: through the rye.
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Speaker 8: Well, young lady, you have a good voice, a very
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Speaker 8: good voice, but not for grand opera.
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Speaker 9: Oh, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Damrosch, please.
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Speaker 8: No, no, no, I'm sorry to say it, my dear,
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Speaker 8: but you cannot sing opera.
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Speaker 7: Grandma, did you hear?
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Speaker 10: Now, now, don't let it upset you, Helen.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Grandma.
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Speaker 8: Stop it, stop it at once. What is the matter?
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Speaker 10: Grand opera was our ambition, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Damrosch.
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Speaker 10: We moved all the way from Clinton, Iowa to New
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Speaker 10: York just so.
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Speaker 8: What do you mean, we? Are you a singer, too?
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Speaker 10: I can remember having rather a nice voice when I
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Speaker 10: was young.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 8: Of course, everybody remembers having a good voice when they
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Speaker 8: were young.
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Speaker 9: Well, it was good. Oh, please, Grandma. She's just excited, Mr.
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Speaker 11: Dameron.
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Speaker 8: No, I know she's like all grandmamas. Your mama's dead,
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Speaker 8: young lady?
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Speaker 7: Oh, no, Mr. Dameron.
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Speaker 8: Why, is she not with you?
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Speaker 7: Well, she happens to be very busy right now.
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Speaker 9: You see, Mother's in politics.
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Speaker 2: Oh, suffragette.
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Speaker 10: She's just been nominated to run for mayor of New
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Speaker 10: York City.
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Speaker 8: Mayor of New York? A woman? I suppose you taught
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Speaker 8: her such nonsense, huh?
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Speaker 10: On the contrary, Mr. Damrush. I believe a woman's place
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Speaker 10: is in the home.
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Speaker 8: You're right.
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Speaker 10: And I'm right about Helen, too. She has great talent, Mr. Damrush,
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Speaker 10: whether you think so or not.
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Speaker 8: Ladies, the interview has ended. Good afternoon, please.
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Speaker 7: Very well.
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Speaker 8: Come, Helen.
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Speaker 10: There are many teachers in the world.
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Speaker 8: And too many grandmothers. Young lady, you will come back
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Speaker 8: tomorrow at three, please.
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Speaker 6: At three?
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Speaker 8: For your first lesson.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Damros, are you really going to teach me?
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Speaker 8: I am. I like you very much, and I am
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Speaker 8: sorry for you.
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Speaker 7: Sorry for me?
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Speaker 9: Why do you say that?
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Speaker 12: Because you are beautiful, and even though you might have
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Speaker 12: great success, you will most likely be very unhappy.
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Speaker 8: Beautiful women generally are.
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Speaker 9: But why, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Damros?
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Speaker 2: Why? Hmm.
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Speaker 12: Because so many men will fall in love with your beauty,
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Speaker 12: you may never know which one really loves you.
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Speaker 8: Three o'clock tomorrow, yes?
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Speaker 9: Three, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Danvers.
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Speaker 10: Go right across 14th Street, Coachman.
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Speaker 13: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 10: Oh, Helen, isn't it wonderful? A pupil of the great
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Speaker 10: Leopold Damrush. And he is great, my dear.
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Speaker 14: Why, he was famous in Europe long before he came
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Speaker 14: to America, the old buzzard.
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Speaker 15: Oh, Ginger.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Teddy.
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Speaker 10: Coachman, what's the matter?
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Speaker 8: That bad music. The horses don't like it.
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Speaker 10: Well, turn off the street.
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Speaker 9: Oh, look, Grandma.
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Speaker 7: It's a supper temporary. Oh, Ginger.
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Speaker 10: Equal rights for women. Votes for women. They ought to
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Speaker 10: be home taking care of their kids.
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Speaker 2: Easy, boy, easy. Oh, who there?
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Speaker 10: Helen, they're running away.
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Speaker 16: Oh, thank heaven.
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Speaker 10: Let me out of here.
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Speaker 2: Easy now, easy.
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Speaker 9: Grandma, did you see? That young man stopped us.
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Speaker 7: He ran right.
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Speaker 9: Into the street in front of the coach.
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Speaker 10: Young man, come here, please.
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Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 15: Is there anyone hurt?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 7: No, we just wanted to say thank you. I saw
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Speaker 7: what you did running in front of the horses that way.
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Speaker 15: Oh, that's all right. I'm glad you weren't hurt.
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Speaker 6: Hurt?
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Speaker 10: Young man, if it weren't for you, we'd have been killed.
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Speaker 15: Oh, I just happened to be in the way, that's all.
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Speaker 7: You're very brave.
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Speaker 15: And if you don't mind my saying it, you're very beautiful.
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Speaker 10: Thank you again, young man.
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Speaker 9: Come along, Helen.
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Speaker 11: Bye.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye. You're a very brave fellow.
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Speaker 17: Hmm?
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Speaker 15: Oh, thank you.
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Speaker 2: A young lady. She's very lovely.
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Speaker 8: What's her name?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: You saved her life and.
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Speaker 2: Don't know her name?
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Speaker 6: You're also a very stupid fellow.
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Speaker 2: What's your name?
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Speaker 3: Moore.
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Speaker 15: Alexander Moore.
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Speaker 18: I should hate to save such a beautiful creature and
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Speaker 18: never know who she was.
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Speaker 15: Well, I'll find out someday, perhaps.
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Speaker 2: Bravo.
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Speaker 8: When you do, tell me, please.
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Speaker 6: So I can invite you both to my theater. Tony
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Speaker 6: Pastor's Theater.
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Speaker 15: Well, sure.
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Speaker 19: Thank you.
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Speaker 20: Receiving only 84 votes.
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Speaker 9: Oh, that's horrible, Mother. You've been terribly hurt, haven't you?
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Speaker 7: Not really hurt, dear.
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Speaker 9: Humiliated a little. But you were crying.
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Speaker 21: I've often cried, but I was never caught at it before.
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Speaker 21: And I don't want you to tattle either.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I won't.
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Speaker 9: I won't if you promise me you won't cry anymore.
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Speaker 7: Very well.
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Speaker 21: If you promise me, you'll forget all the stage talk
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Speaker 21: I've been hearing lately. But, Mother, I talked to Leopold
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Speaker 21: Damrosch about you yesterday.
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Speaker 9: What did he say?
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Speaker 7: Well, he feels you have a great career. He thinks
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Speaker 7: you're beautiful. Yes. Yes, he told me that, too. Did
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Speaker 7: he tell you to be afraid of it?
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 7: But I'm not. I'm not because I don't think I'm beautiful.
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Speaker 7: You're going to find yourself very attracted to men, Helen. Oh,
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Speaker 7: I won't mind that, Mother. I don't dislike men. Anyway,
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Speaker 7: I've never seen anyone I thought I could love except...
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Speaker 7: Except whom? Oh, I don't even know his name, and
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Speaker 7: I'll probably never see him again. So you see, Mother,
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Speaker 7: you don't have to worry about me.
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Speaker 10: What was that?
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Speaker 9: Someone threw a stone at the window.
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Speaker 7: Father, Father, what's the matter?
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Speaker 4: Cynthia, Cynthia, there's a crowd outside the house.
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Speaker 7: What do they want?
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Speaker 22: Hey, where's the lady mayor?
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Speaker 5: Bring out the.
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Speaker 16: 84 vote mayor.
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Speaker 7: I'll go down and speak to them. Mother, I wouldn't
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Speaker 7: if I were you.
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Speaker 4: You can't go out there, Cynthia. They're drunk. I'll send
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Speaker 4: them away.
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Speaker 9: No, Father, please, please let me go.
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Speaker 16: Helen, Helen, come back.
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Speaker 23: Let her.
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Speaker 5: Stop her. Where is she?
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Speaker 8: Bring her out.
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Speaker 22: Hey, who's that?
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Speaker 9: Gentlemen, gentlemen. My mother's very tired. Do you all mind
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Speaker 9: going home, please?
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Speaker 8: Why don't you run for something?
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Speaker 19: Lady?
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Speaker 3: I'd vote ten times for you.
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Speaker 15: Well, I guess you did it all right. They're leaving.
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Speaker 7: Oh, hello.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember me?
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Speaker 7: Well, I should, don't you think? What are you doing here?
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Speaker 15: Oh, I just happened along with the crowd. I tried
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Speaker 15: to stop them, but it wasn't much use.
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Speaker 7: This is the second time you haven't along when I
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Speaker 7: was in trouble. What's your name?
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Speaker 15: Alexander Moore.
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Speaker 7: I'm glad to know you, Mr.
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Speaker 17: Moore.
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Speaker 2: Thanks.
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Speaker 15: You were sort of brave facing that crowd all alone.
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Speaker 7: I knew they were only celebrating. But it won't do
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Speaker 7: them a bit of good. The women will win someday.
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Speaker 7: Do you believe in equal rights for women, Mr.
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Speaker 24: Moore?
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Speaker 15: Well, yes, I guess I do, sort of.
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Speaker 9: What do you mean, sort of?
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Speaker 15: Well, I think a woman has the right to everything
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Speaker 15: a man can give her.
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Speaker 9: Don't you think she's also entitled to her own success?
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Speaker 15: Well, that all depends on what she calls success. What's
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Speaker 15: your ambition?
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Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I want everybody to love me.
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Speaker 7: And yet, I want to love one person so madly
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Speaker 7: that nobody else matters.
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Speaker 15: That's selfishness, isn't it?
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Speaker 7: No, you don't understand. I want everybody to love my work.
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Speaker 7: On the stage, I mean.
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Speaker 15: Oh, are you an actress?
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Speaker 9: I hope to be someday. What's your ambition?
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Speaker 2: A job.
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Speaker 7: What kind of a job?
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Speaker 15: Well, any kind right now. I'm trying to get on
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Speaker 15: a New York paper.
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Speaker 9: Maybe my father could help you. He used to own
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Speaker 9: a newspaper in Clinton, Iowa.
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Speaker 15: I hope to own one myself someday.
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Speaker 9: I bet you will, too.
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Speaker 2: Thanks.
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Speaker 15: But if I don't, I won't mind. Just so long
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Speaker 15: as I don't get hurt too much trying. And that's
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Speaker 15: what I'm hoping for you, too.
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Speaker 7: Well, let's make a pact. If you get on a
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Speaker 7: newspaper before I get on the stage, you take me
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Speaker 7: out and we'll celebrate.
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Speaker 15: And if you get on the stage before I get
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Speaker 15: on the paper?
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Speaker 9: I'll take you out. Isn't that fair?
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Speaker 15: Well, not exactly. I'll have to do my best to
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Speaker 15: beat you to a job.
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Speaker 7: I hope you do.
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Speaker 9: But if you don't, I'll expect you to keep our
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Speaker 9: pact just the same.
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Speaker 7: Good night, Mr.
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Speaker 17: Moore.
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Speaker 2: Good night.
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Speaker 25: For many a heart is aching If you could read
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Speaker 25: them all Many the hope that has vanished After the.
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Speaker 4: Ball That was fine, Helen. Bravo, bravo.
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Speaker 7: Who's that?
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Speaker 15: Sounds like someone in the yard.
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Speaker 7: Let's go see.
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Speaker 6: Bravo!
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Speaker 9: Well, there he is, that man coming through the gate.
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Speaker 6: Good evening.
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Speaker 18: Pardon the intrusion, please, but I was dining at the
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Speaker 18: cafe next door and I couldn't resist the sound of
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Speaker 18: your voice.
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Speaker 6: I'm Tony Pastor.
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Speaker 2: Pastor?
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Speaker 4: You're not Tony Pastor's theater.
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Speaker 18: No, I'm not the theater. The theater belongs to me.
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Speaker 18: Young lady, I should like to see you at noon tomorrow.
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Speaker 18: That is, if you're interested in going on the stage.
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Speaker 7: Yes, I.
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Speaker 4: Interested?
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Speaker 15: Well, we've been playing theater for years.
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Speaker 6: Tomorrow at noon, then?
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Speaker 7: I'll be there, Mr. Pastor.
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Speaker 6: Good. I'd like to hear you sing once in the theater.
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Speaker 6: And then, uh, then maybe we can talk of business.
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Speaker 2: Good night.
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Speaker 7: Good night.
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Speaker 6: Good night, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Pastor.
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Speaker 9: Father, I'm going to sing for him. I'm going to
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Speaker 9: sing for Tony Pastor.
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Speaker 11: My evening star I wonder who you are Set up
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Speaker 11: so high.
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Speaker 22: Like a diamond in.
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Speaker 11: The sky No matter what I do.
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Speaker 7: I can't go up to you So come down from
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Speaker 7: the my evening star.
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Speaker 5: Come down, come down.
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Speaker 11: Come down from the my.
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Speaker 5: Evening star.
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Speaker 2: Good, very good.
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Speaker 6: Come here, please. Sit down, please.
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Speaker 7: Thank you. Did you like it, Mr.
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Speaker 17: Pastor?
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Speaker 6: I liked it very much, miss.
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Speaker 9: Helen Leonard.
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Speaker 15: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 6: I don't like your name. Let's see. What shall we
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Speaker 6: call you? What's your favorite flower?
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Speaker 7: The rose.
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Speaker 2: Rose?
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Speaker 6: No, no, I don't care for that either. Rose, gardenia, pansy, camellia, lily, lily.
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Speaker 2: Lillian.
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Speaker 8: Yes, I like that.
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Speaker 6: Lillian what? Lillian... I have it.
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Speaker 15: I can see it as plainly as if a hand
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Speaker 15: were writing it for me.
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Speaker 6: Tony Pastor presents the great English ballad singer Lillian Russell.
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Speaker 6: From now on, that's your name. And something tells me
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Speaker 6: it'll be a very important name.
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Speaker 7: Will it?
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Speaker 6: Don't you like Lillian Russell, my dear?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Yes, of course I do, Mr. Pastor.
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Speaker 9: But somehow I already feel lonesome for Helen Lennon.
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Speaker 7: LILLIAN RUSSELL.
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Speaker 4: Lillian Russell, the English songbird, appearing this week. Who's Lillian Russell?
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Speaker 8: There's her picture on that poster.
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Speaker 4: They say you can't buy a seat at pastors.
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Speaker 7: She's lovely, isn't she?
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Speaker 4: No seats available, sir.
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Speaker 15: Standing room only. This is all right. Oh, good evening, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Pastor.
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Speaker 15: Can't you get a seat either?
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Speaker 6: I always watch the show from here, mister. Mr. Moore,
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Speaker 6: wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 15: She's wonderful, isn't she?
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Speaker 2: Wonderful? She's the greatest success I've ever had.
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Speaker 6: A star in a little more than three weeks. Would
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Speaker 6: you like to come and meet her after the show?
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, thanks.
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Speaker 15: But I imagine she's pretty busy these days. I'd rather
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Speaker 15: not bother her.
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Speaker 5: Come down, come down, my hero.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Grandma, weren't they wonderful?
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Speaker 10: And weren't you wonderful?
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Speaker 6: Oh, look.
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Speaker 9: Even more flowers than last night.
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Speaker 10: And the same basket of roses again.
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Speaker 9: Oh, I hope there's a card with them this time.
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Speaker 9: I'd like to know who sends them.
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Speaker 10: I don't see any card. Just a package.
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Speaker 16: A package?
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Speaker 9: Let me see.
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Speaker 16: Just a minute.
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Speaker 10: Don't get so excited.
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Speaker 9: Here we are.
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Speaker 7: Well, look at that.
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Speaker 4: It's a necklace.
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Speaker 7: Diamonds.
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Speaker 9: Diamonds and rubies. Oh, Grandma, isn't it beautiful?
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Speaker 7: Oh, no, I hope you don't find a card, because
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Speaker 7: if you do, I'll have to send it back, won't I?
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Speaker 7: Try it on.
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Speaker 10: Whoever sent that must be a millionaire.
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Speaker 6: I come in.
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Speaker 7: Oh, it's Mr. Pastor.
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Speaker 10: Yes, come in, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Pastor.
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Speaker 6: My dear, you are wonderful again tonight. How does it
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Speaker 6: feel to be a success? Are you still afraid of it?
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Speaker 7: No, I was never afraid of it, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Pastor.
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Speaker 7: My mother was.
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Speaker 6: And how does she feel about it now?
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Speaker 7: She doesn't know.
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Speaker 6: But it's almost a month. Doesn't she suspect?
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Speaker 7: No. She thinks I take my lesson every night... Oh,
17:34
Speaker 7: but I'll never give it up now, Mr.
17:35
Speaker 6: Pastor. You can't, my dear. You can't give it up.
17:38
Speaker 6: Even when you grow tired, you'll still go on. Lillian, you,
17:43
Speaker 6: remember the young man who stopped your horses almost in
17:45
Speaker 6: front of my theater?
17:46
Speaker 10: Remember him? She's been expecting him ever since her first
17:49
Speaker 10: day here.
17:50
Speaker 6: He was here tonight.
17:51
Speaker 9: Tonight? Well, didn't he ask to see me?
17:54
Speaker 22: No.
17:54
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, he left before the show
17:55
Speaker 6: was over. Oh. Good night, my dear.
17:58
Speaker 7: Good night, Mr.
17:59
Speaker 6: Pastor.
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Speaker 2: Good night, Grandma.
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Speaker 10: Good night.
18:02
Speaker 7: You see, Grandma, he does know I'm on the stage
18:04
Speaker 7: and he's forgotten our pact. Very well, I'll forget him.
18:07
Speaker 10: That may be easier said than done, Helen. I think
18:11
Speaker 10: you fell in love with that young man.
18:13
Speaker 7: Oh, don't be stupid, Grandma. I scarcely know him. Why
18:15
Speaker 7: should I love him? Just because he stopped our horses,
18:18
Speaker 7: any gentleman would have done the same. Besides, maybe he'll
18:23
Speaker 7: come back again tomorrow night. Helen, come in, Mother. I
18:38
Speaker 7: was just hoping you were awake, dear. I wanted to
18:40
Speaker 7: say good night. Well, you weren't home when I came in, Mother.
18:43
Speaker 7: I know.
18:43
Speaker 21: Your father told me you asked for me. Did you
18:45
Speaker 21: take your lesson tonight?
18:47
Speaker 7: Yes. Yes, I did, Mother.
18:49
Speaker 2: Good.
18:49
Speaker 7: Has Mr. Damrosch said anything about your voice lately? Well,
18:53
Speaker 7: he thinks I'm improving, I think. Helen, look at me.
18:57
Speaker 7: Now smile. Yes, it's true. You do look like Lillian Russell. Mother.
19:03
Speaker 9: Have you seen her?
19:03
Speaker 21: Almost every night for the past three weeks from the
19:05
Speaker 21: same little seat in the gallery.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Mother.
19:08
Speaker 9: And I'm so proud of you, dear.
19:11
Speaker 7: Mother, you're a wonder. Gosh, dear. Helen, who gave you this?
19:16
Speaker 6: What?
19:17
Speaker 9: This necklace.
19:19
Speaker 7: I don't know, Mother. I got it tonight in a
19:21
Speaker 7: basket of flowers. There wasn't a note or card or anything.
19:24
Speaker 7: I see. Good night, darling.
19:27
Speaker 9: Mother, aren't you going to kiss me? You're not angry
19:31
Speaker 9: because I've gone on the stage.
19:32
Speaker 4: No, dear.
19:33
Speaker 7: We're going to miss you, though. But, Mother, I'm not
19:36
Speaker 7: leaving you.
19:36
Speaker 21: You've already left yourself, dear. You're Lillian Russell now. Someday
19:40
Speaker 21: you'll forget you ever knew Helen Leonard.
19:43
Speaker 7: I'd rather forget Lillian Russell first.
19:44
Speaker 21: You can't forget her now. Her name is in lights,
19:47
Speaker 21: in the newspapers, and on thousands of lips. Millions of
19:50
Speaker 21: new faces will take the place of the old ones.
19:53
Speaker 21: Men will offer fortunes just to stand in the shadow
19:56
Speaker 21: of her glamorous career. Women will envy but copy her,
19:59
Speaker 21: and even kings may applaud her.
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Speaker 7: Father, do you really think I'll be that successful?
20:06
Speaker 9: I'm afraid you will, dear. Good night, my darling.
20:09
Speaker 7: Good night, Mother. Millions of new faces. Men will offer fortunes.
20:18
Speaker 7: And women will copy her. Oh, I hope I like you,
20:23
Speaker 7: Lillian Russell.
20:45
Speaker 15: In just a moment, Mr.
20:46
Speaker 3: DeMille and our stars Alice Faye, Edward Arnold, and Victor
20:49
Speaker 3: Mature will bring you Act Two of Lillian Russell. Oh, Sally,
20:54
Speaker 3: did you say you had something to tell the ladies
20:56
Speaker 3: in our audience?
20:56
Speaker 7: Yes, Mr.
20:57
Speaker 4: Ruick.
20:58
Speaker 7: I've got a healthy that I think is a dandy.
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Speaker 15: A healthy?
21:01
Speaker 4: What's that?
21:02
Speaker 7: Well, you just listen.
21:03
Speaker 23: Now, every housekeeper knows that it spoils the appearance of
21:06
Speaker 23: a bathroom if when you run a hot bath, you
21:08
Speaker 23: get the room all steamed up. Well, the mirrors get
21:11
Speaker 23: clouded and the guest towels get limp. Well, I have
21:14
Speaker 23: discovered a way to avoid all that.
21:17
Speaker 4: Well, tell us about it.
21:18
Speaker 7: Well, here's what you do.
21:19
Speaker 23: Now, first, before you run any hot water at all,
21:22
Speaker 23: you run the cold water for a while. Then you
21:24
Speaker 23: add as much hot water as you like.
21:26
Speaker 3: And the bathroom doesn't get all steamed up? Well, that's
21:28
Speaker 3: a very good household hint. And now I see what
21:31
Speaker 3: you mean by helpy. It's a hint that helps, isn't it?
21:34
Speaker 7: Yes, Mr.
21:35
Speaker 23: Ruick. And this particular hint is especially good when you're
21:38
Speaker 23: expecting company. So the bath you take just before the
21:41
Speaker 23: guests come doesn't spoil the spick and span look of
21:43
Speaker 23: the bathroom.
21:44
Speaker 4: Oh, I see.
21:45
Speaker 3: Your Luxe Soap Beauty Bath that makes you feel fresh
21:48
Speaker 3: as a daisy in spite of the fact that you've
21:50
Speaker 3: been busy all day sprucing up the house and getting
21:53
Speaker 3: dinner ready.
21:53
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
21:54
Speaker 23: That Luxe Soap Beauty Bath that thousands of women take
21:57
Speaker 23: every day. Not only because it peps them up, but
22:00
Speaker 23: because it makes them sure about daintiness. Sure of skin
22:04
Speaker 23: that's really fresh and sweet. That's where Lux Soap's active
22:07
Speaker 23: lather comes in. And it's nice, delicate perfume.
22:11
Speaker 3: Yes, Sally, it's costly perfume. But Lux Toilet Soap sells
22:15
Speaker 3: for only a trifle. Because so many millions of people
22:18
Speaker 3: buy it and use it every day. Volume production brings
22:21
Speaker 3: the price down, you know. And of course, the screen
22:25
Speaker 3: stars out here and women everywhere find that Lux Toilet
22:29
Speaker 3: Soap is a wonderful aid to complexion beauty. Actually, nine
22:33
Speaker 3: out of ten screen stars, lovely women everywhere, use gentle, white,
22:38
Speaker 3: luxe toilet soap.
22:41
Speaker 15: Now, our producer, Mr.
22:42
Speaker 6: DeMille.
22:43
Speaker 3: Act Two of Lillian Russell. Starring Alice Faye as Lillian Russell,
22:46
Speaker 3: Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady, and Victor Mature as
22:50
Speaker 3: Alexander Moore.
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Speaker 15: In the few years that.
23:00
Speaker 3: Followed, the marquee lights of New York told the story
23:03
Speaker 3: of a girl's rise to glory. Lillian Russell in Pinafore,
23:06
Speaker 3: Lillian Russell in Olivet, the Pirates of Penzance, the Grand Duchess.
23:10
Speaker 3: Show after show, hit after hit, until her name shone
23:14
Speaker 3: like a brilliant star over the world of the theater.
23:18
Speaker 3: Through all this time, mysterious gifts of flowers and diamonds
23:22
Speaker 3: continued to arrive at her dressing room door. And now
23:25
Speaker 3: in the fashionable jewelry shop, another gift is chosen by
23:29
Speaker 3: her anonymous admirer, Diamond Jim Brady.
23:34
Speaker 4: Look at this pendant, Jim. The center stone is 12 carats.
23:38
Speaker 26: Mm-hmm.
23:38
Speaker 2: That's all right.
23:39
Speaker 27: It was part of the Chadwick collection, originally set in
23:42
Speaker 27: the crown of Louis XVI of France.
23:44
Speaker 2: And I suppose he lost it when he lost his head, huh?
23:47
Speaker 2: How much? Well, I... And remember, this is Jim Brady
23:50
Speaker 2: talking and not Louis XVI.
23:51
Speaker 24: To you, $ 15, 000.
23:55
Speaker 2: Sold.
23:56
Speaker 27: Jim, you certainly are a gallant. It's been a long
23:59
Speaker 27: time now since we sent the first jewelry to Lillian
24:01
Speaker 27: Russell for you.
24:03
Speaker 4: And still you say you don't know her.
24:05
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't, but I will one of these days.
24:07
Speaker 2: And it's worth looking forward to.
24:09
Speaker 27: I don't like to discourage you, Jim, but I hear
24:11
Speaker 27: she's going to be married soon.
24:14
Speaker 6: Who to?
24:15
Speaker 27: Well, she's been seen a lot lately with Jesse Lewison.
24:19
Speaker 24: Well, she couldn't find a nicer fellow. You know, Jesse
24:21
Speaker 24: is a great friend of mine. By the way, send
24:24
Speaker 24: that pendant to the casino theater. She's opening there tonight.
24:27
Speaker 15: Without a card, as usual?
24:28
Speaker 2: Without a card, but in the usual basket of roses.
24:45
Speaker 7: She's more beautiful than ever.
24:47
Speaker 15: The second acts as good as the first. This is
24:48
Speaker 15: Lillian's greatest triumph.
24:49
Speaker 2: Well, she's done it again. That girl is marvelous.
24:53
Speaker 7: You like her, don't you, Jim?
24:54
Speaker 2: Well, don't you, Edna?
24:55
Speaker 7: Yes, but I'm a little jealous of the way you
24:57
Speaker 7: look at her.
24:58
Speaker 2: Oh, don't be silly. I don't even know her.
25:02
Speaker 16: You will.
25:03
Speaker 15: Hello, Jim. I was just looking for you.
25:05
Speaker 2: Hello, Jesse.
25:05
Speaker 15: I beg your pardon.
25:07
Speaker 2: That's all right. Dear, this is the famous Jesse Lewison. Jesse,
25:11
Speaker 2: meet Miss Edna McCauley.
25:12
Speaker 15: How do you do?
25:13
Speaker 7: How do you do?
25:14
Speaker 4: Famous for what, Jim?
25:14
Speaker 2: Well, for being a great friend of Lillian Russell, for
25:17
Speaker 2: one thing.
25:18
Speaker 4: Well, that reminds me. Would you like to see something
25:20
Speaker 4: very interesting?
25:21
Speaker 15: He would, if it's Lillian Russell.
25:23
Speaker 2: Well, it is.
25:24
Speaker 13: She's going to sing over the long-distance telephone for President
25:27
Speaker 13: Cleveland during the intermission.
25:28
Speaker 2: You mean she's going to sing here and the president
25:30
Speaker 2: is going to listen in Washington?
25:31
Speaker 4: Exactly. After the show, we're all going to Rector's. We'll
25:34
Speaker 4: expect you both.
25:35
Speaker 2: Rector's? I'll be there.
25:37
Speaker 15: Oh, by the way, Edward Solomon's coming along.
25:40
Speaker 2: Solomon?
25:41
Speaker 13: Yes, the young fellow who writes his songs. He's rather
25:44
Speaker 13: jealous of Lillian and inclined to be a little hot-headed.
25:47
Speaker 13: Don't pay too much attention.
25:55
Speaker 2: Small lobster, Mr.
25:56
Speaker 8: Brady.
25:57
Speaker 2: Put it down, put it down.
25:59
Speaker 7: What's so funny, Mr.
26:00
Speaker 2: Brady?
26:02
Speaker 24: I was just thinking of President Cleveland at the other
26:05
Speaker 24: end of the telephone wire. Listening to Lillian Russell when
26:08
Speaker 24: all the time you were really singing to me.
26:10
Speaker 7: Well, I was very nervous and you were very encouraging.
26:13
Speaker 8: Yes, I don't think you could have done it without him, Lillian.
26:16
Speaker 7: Teddy.
26:16
Speaker 2: Oh, now, Mr. Solomon, I didn't say that, by the way.
26:20
Speaker 2: You were very good tonight, Mr. Solomon. You played the
26:22
Speaker 2: piano beautifully.
26:23
Speaker 8: You flatter me, Mr.
26:24
Speaker 2: Brady. Oh, no, no, not at all.
26:27
Speaker 24: I've been an admirer of yours for some time. I
26:30
Speaker 24: know a lot of your compositions.
26:31
Speaker 4: Well.
26:32
Speaker 2: Thank you. You know, you should write all of Miss
26:35
Speaker 2: Russell's songs.
26:36
Speaker 17: Someday I hope to write at least one that's worthy
26:38
Speaker 17: of her.
26:39
Speaker 7: Oh, that's sweet of you, Teddy.
26:40
Speaker 2: Say, look, Mr.
26:41
Speaker 24: Solomon, would you do something for me? Have the orchestra
26:44
Speaker 24: play one of your songs and.
26:45
Speaker 2: You play it with them, huh? You know our weakness, Mr. Brady.
26:48
Speaker 17: Musician can't resist the opportunity of showing off.
26:51
Speaker 2: Excuse me, little man.
26:52
Speaker 15: Thanks.
26:54
Speaker 7: Well, we seem to be alone, don't we? Oh, aren't
26:58
Speaker 7: you surprised, Mr. Brady?
26:59
Speaker 2: No, not very much.
27:01
Speaker 9: I rather enjoyed watching you work it out.
27:04
Speaker 7: Is that how you planned your steel railroad cars and
27:06
Speaker 7: all that sort of thing?
27:07
Speaker 2: What do you know about steel railroad cars?
27:09
Speaker 4: Nothing.
27:10
Speaker 7: But I know all about Diamond Jim Brady. Do you
27:13
Speaker 7: really eat as much as people say you do?
27:14
Speaker 2: Well, how much do they say?
27:16
Speaker 7: Well, I heard someone say that he had seen you
27:18
Speaker 7: eat six dozen oysters on the half shell, three turens
27:20
Speaker 7: of mock turtle soup, five.
27:22
Speaker 2: Well, wait a minute.
27:23
Speaker 11: It's a lie.
27:24
Speaker 2: It's a libel.
27:25
Speaker 24: I never ate over three dozen oysters and four steaks
27:29
Speaker 24: at one time in my life.
27:31
Speaker 22: Oh.
27:31
Speaker 2: Well, do you enjoy eating?
27:34
Speaker 7: Well, I like good food.
27:36
Speaker 2: Well, so do I. Tell me, what's your favorite of
27:39
Speaker 2: all food?
27:40
Speaker 7: Corn on the cob? No.
27:42
Speaker 2: Well, that's mine, too. How many years can you eat?
27:46
Speaker 7: Oh, when I've been really very hungry, I've eaten two
27:49
Speaker 7: or three, maybe.
27:50
Speaker 12: Oh.
27:52
Speaker 24: I'll bet you I can spot you three and beat
27:54
Speaker 24: you by ten.
27:55
Speaker 7: Well, we'll try it sometime. Listen, Teddy's playing his piece
28:00
Speaker 7: for you.
28:01
Speaker 2: Will you sing it for me, Miss Russell?
28:03
Speaker 7: Oh, I couldn't hear.
28:04
Speaker 2: Oh, please, just quietly, just for me.
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Speaker 20: Adored one My wonderful adored one.
28:18
Speaker 22: So lovely.
28:20
Speaker 7: So charming and divine.
28:25
Speaker 20: Just like a melody You seem to haunt me To
28:32
Speaker 20: haunt me Don't let me.
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Speaker 5: Free Adored one You smile and you.
28:44
Speaker 11: Enchant me Please grant me the right to call you mine.
28:53
Speaker 20: My heart will sing again, my darling.
28:58
Speaker 5: When you do.
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Speaker 20: Adored one, I'm so in love with you.
29:15
Speaker 24: That's the most beautiful thing I ever heard in all
29:17
Speaker 24: my life.
29:18
Speaker 7: Thank you.
29:20
Speaker 2: Well, what.
29:22
Speaker 7: Are you laughing at now?
29:24
Speaker 2: Oh, at myself.
29:26
Speaker 24: You know, I've been waiting years for the night just
29:28
Speaker 24: to be alone with you. And all I could talk
29:31
Speaker 24: about was corn on the cob.
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Speaker 16: The End.
29:51
Speaker 10: Keep the doorway clear, please.
29:53
Speaker 4: No waiting at the stage door.
29:55
Speaker 2: Thank you.
29:56
Speaker 4: Hello, Jim.
29:57
Speaker 2: Hello, Jesse.
29:58
Speaker 4: What are you doing out here in this storm?
30:00
Speaker 2: Oh, I like storms.
30:01
Speaker 24: You know, ever since I was a kid, I loved
30:03
Speaker 24: to walk in the rain.
30:05
Speaker 2: I've had some of my best ideas walking in the rain.
30:07
Speaker 15: Did you have a good one tonight?
30:09
Speaker 2: Well, yes, Jesse, I did. That's why I'm waiting for Lillian.
30:12
Speaker 2: Do you mind?
30:13
Speaker 4: Well, I haven't exactly the right to mind yet. But
30:16
Speaker 4: I'm going to be honest with you.
30:18
Speaker 15: I love Lillian, Jim.
30:21
Speaker 2: I'm glad you told me, Jesse. And I'm going to
30:23
Speaker 2: be just as honest with you... I love her, too.
30:26
Speaker 4: All right, Jim. Let the best man win.
30:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll let the loser be the best man
30:30
Speaker 2: at the wedding, eh?
30:31
Speaker 4: Stand back, please. Harry, pull up that carriage.
30:34
Speaker 7: Quick.
30:35
Speaker 2: What's the excitement, Joe?
30:37
Speaker 15: The company just found out about the folks getting married today.
30:40
Speaker 2: Somebody in the show getting married?
30:41
Speaker 22: Who?
30:42
Speaker 4: Didn't you know, sir?
30:44
Speaker 2: Mr.
30:44
Speaker 4: Solomon and Miss Russell. They got married this morning.
30:47
Speaker 8: Here they come.
30:47
Speaker 2: Good luck, Miss Russell.
30:52
Speaker 4: Good luck, Mr.
30:53
Speaker 17: Solomon.
31:00
Speaker 2: I never figured on him.
31:02
Speaker 4: Well, Jim, it's still raining.
31:04
Speaker 2: Got another idea? No. I guess that was my last one.
31:18
Speaker 26: Miss Lillian Russell sailed today for England to appear in
31:22
Speaker 26: an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. Sailing with her was
31:26
Speaker 26: her husband, the composer, Edward Solomon.
31:34
Speaker 5: Will you have.
31:37
Speaker 28: Your dinner now, Miss Russell?
31:38
Speaker 7: No, thank you, Marie.
31:40
Speaker 9: I'm not hungry.
31:41
Speaker 28: Aren't you feeling well, Mum?
31:43
Speaker 7: I'm tired, that's all.
31:44
Speaker 28: I thought perhaps London didn't agree with you, Mum.
31:47
Speaker 7: Oh, no, Marie. I love London.
31:49
Speaker 28: I'm glad you stayed away from rehearsal today, Mum. You
31:52
Speaker 28: were in the theater all day yesterday. I don't blame Mr.
31:55
Speaker 28: Solomon for wanting you to rest.
31:57
Speaker 7: I never get tired of the theater, Marie.
31:59
Speaker 22: Oh, I'll go.
32:00
Speaker 9: It's probably Teddy.
32:04
Speaker 7: Hello, darling. How did everything go?
32:08
Speaker 6: Oh, fine.
32:09
Speaker 17: I was completely successful. Not only did I get you
32:12
Speaker 17: out of the rehearsal, I got you out of the show.
32:14
Speaker 7: Stop joking, Teddy. What happened?
32:16
Speaker 2: I told you you're fired.
32:18
Speaker 9: Simply because I missed rehearsal.
32:19
Speaker 17: That started the argument.
32:21
Speaker 7: Oh, now you didn't lose your temper again, did you?
32:23
Speaker 17: Very well, crawl to your London tramp if you want to.
32:26
Speaker 17: Get on your knees to Mr. Gilbert and apologize.
32:27
Speaker 2: I don't care.
32:28
Speaker 17: I can even tell you exactly what he'll say. My
32:30
Speaker 17: dear Miss Russell, of course I want you back, but
32:32
Speaker 17: I don't like your meddlesome husband. He's selfish and stupid,
32:35
Speaker 17: and he doesn't want anybody to do anything for you
32:37
Speaker 17: but himself.
32:37
Speaker 8: That's what he'll say to you.
32:40
Speaker 17: Unfortunately, it's the truth, every word of it. I can't
32:43
Speaker 17: help myself, Lillian. That's how I feel about you. I
32:46
Speaker 17: want to write you the greatest operetta of your career.
32:48
Speaker 17: And I can do it if you'll have faith in me.
32:53
Speaker 17: I'll start tonight.
32:54
Speaker 6: This very minute.
32:56
Speaker 7: Teddy, darling. Sit down beside me. I know what you
33:01
Speaker 7: want to do for me. And I love you for it.
33:04
Speaker 7: And someday you will do it.
33:06
Speaker 17: You have faith in me?
33:08
Speaker 2: You have?
33:09
Speaker 8: Yes, Teddy.
33:10
Speaker 7: And if I'm out of this show, I don't care.
33:13
Speaker 7: Because I know how good yours will be.
33:15
Speaker 17: Oh, Lillian, I'm a very selfish person. I'm willing to
33:18
Speaker 17: risk your career as if it belonged to me.
33:21
Speaker 6: And it doesn't.
33:23
Speaker 7: I belong to you, Teddy.
33:24
Speaker 17: It may mean months and months. I'd be working, nothing
33:28
Speaker 17: coming in. We couldn't live like this, darling.
33:31
Speaker 7: Then we'll move to a less expensive place. And we'll
33:34
Speaker 7: be just as happy as we are now.
33:36
Speaker 2: Lillian.
33:37
Speaker 15: Now.
33:37
Speaker 7: Take me in your arms. Hold me tight. And never
33:42
Speaker 7: let me go, darling.
33:44
Speaker 6: The End.
33:59
Speaker 9: Marie, did you give Mr. Solomon his eggnog?
34:01
Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am. Did he drink it?
34:03
Speaker 4: No, ma'am.
34:03
Speaker 28: He doesn't look well, Miss Russell.
34:05
Speaker 7: Oh, he's tired, Marie. He's overworking himself.
34:08
Speaker 28: He says it's going to be the greatest role of
34:10
Speaker 28: your career, ma'am.
34:12
Speaker 7: I hope so, for his sake. Good night. Good night, ma'am. Oh, Marie,
34:17
Speaker 7: what about our visitor? Isn't he coming tonight?
34:20
Speaker 28: Visitor, ma'am?
34:21
Speaker 7: Yes, the American newspaper man. Oh, dear.
34:23
Speaker 28: The one who wanted to do the story of your life.
34:26
Speaker 28: I completely forgot, ma'am.
34:27
Speaker 7: Oh, Marie, how could you possibly forget when you know
34:30
Speaker 7: he's bringing us money? Oh, I'm sorry, ma'am.
34:32
Speaker 28: I'll show him in as soon as he comes.
34:34
Speaker 6: Wait.
34:35
Speaker 7: What did you say his name was?
34:37
Speaker 28: I have it right here, ma'am. Alexander Moore.
34:40
Speaker 7: Alexander Moore. Isn't it strange? I seem to remember that
34:45
Speaker 7: name so well. Alexander Moore.
34:56
Speaker 15: And now this is the agreement, Miss Russell. It gives
34:59
Speaker 15: our paper the exclusive right to publish your story. You'll
35:02
Speaker 15: have to sign where it says, accept it, and this.
35:05
Speaker 6: Is your check.
35:07
Speaker 7: Tell me, why did you break our pact, Mr.
35:10
Speaker 6: Moore?
35:11
Speaker 2: Our pact?
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Speaker 23: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 15: I didn't think you even remembered me, Miss Russell.
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Speaker 9: Oh, that doesn't answer my question, Mr.
35:18
Speaker 7: Moore.
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Speaker 15: Well, I don't think I can answer it without quibbling
35:21
Speaker 15: a little. You see, I made my pact with a
35:23
Speaker 15: girl named Helen Leonard. When I found out she was
35:26
Speaker 15: Lillian Russell, well, I got scared, I guess. It seems
35:30
Speaker 15: a long time ago, doesn't it?
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I can see it all as if it were yesterday.
35:35
Speaker 7: We had just left Professor Damos' house, and all at
35:37
Speaker 7: once it happened. You seemed to leap from nowhere, and
35:40
Speaker 7: I thought you were going to be killed.
35:42
Speaker 15: Oh, I was afraid you were.
35:44
Speaker 7: And here we are, years later, signing a contract for
35:47
Speaker 7: my life story. Would have been a very short one
35:50
Speaker 7: if you hadn't have been so brave.
35:52
Speaker 15: Maybe it wasn't bravery. Maybe it was just a newspaper
35:55
Speaker 15: man saving a good story. You see, my paper sort
35:59
Speaker 15: of considers you one of the finest women that ever lived.
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Speaker 15: Not only because of your success, but on account of
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Speaker 15: the way you carried it. Guess maybe you didn't realize it,
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Speaker 15: but everybody in America loves you.
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Speaker 7: Everybody.
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Speaker 15: Well, they just can't help themselves, I guess. You've got
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Speaker 15: a way of making people love you. I mean, well,
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Speaker 15: that's how my paper feels about you, Miss Russell.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's very sweet of you to tell me, Mr. Moore.
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Speaker 15: That's beautiful music.
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Speaker 7: Isn't it lovely?
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Speaker 4: Mr.
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Speaker 7: Solomon is writing it for me.
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Speaker 15: You're very happy, aren't you?
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Speaker 7: Oh, yes, very. We haven't had such an easy time
36:37
Speaker 7: of it lately. This check is more than welcome, but
36:41
Speaker 7: we have been very happy.
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Speaker 15: What was that?
36:45
Speaker 7: Oh, that's what you call artistic temperament. Whenever Teddy becomes
36:48
Speaker 7: dissatisfied or annoyed with his work, he slaps the poor
36:51
Speaker 7: piano as if it were all its fault. Now, tell
36:55
Speaker 7: me something about yourself. When are you going to own
36:58
Speaker 7: a newspaper?
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Speaker 15: Well, I don't know yet. I didn't get on very
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Speaker 15: well in New York, so I went back home to Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 15: I've been there ever since.
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Speaker 7: Married?
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 7: No girls?
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 15: Well, yes, there is a girl I sort of grew
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Speaker 15: up with.
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Speaker 7: What's her name?
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Speaker 6: Lucille.
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Speaker 7: Lucille. Oh, I like that name. Why don't you marry her?
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Speaker 15: Well, I just never thought of it, I guess. Maybe
37:22
Speaker 15: she wouldn't have me if I did. Well, I'll have
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Speaker 15: to leave. I'd like to begin our work tomorrow if
37:27
Speaker 15: we can, Miss Russell.
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Speaker 7: Tomorrow, then. And you will keep our pack this time,
37:31
Speaker 7: won't you?
37:32
Speaker 15: You can depend on it.
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Speaker 6: Good night.
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Speaker 9: Good night, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Moore.
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Speaker 28: Will there be anything else, ma'am?
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Speaker 4: No, Marie.
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Speaker 7: But you might see if there's anything Mr. Solomon wants. Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 6: Mr.
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Speaker 10: Solomon?
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Speaker 15: Mr.
37:48
Speaker 10: Solomon, sir?
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Speaker 7: He seems very quiet, Miss Russell.
37:51
Speaker 9: Perhaps he's asleep.
37:52
Speaker 7: Open the door. Yes, ma'am.
37:55
Speaker 28: He's still at the piano, ma'am.
37:57
Speaker 7: Tiptoe in and see if he's asleep. Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 16: Marie, Marie, what is it?
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Speaker 7: Oh, Miss Russell.
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Speaker 9: Miss Russell, come quickly.
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Speaker 28: Come quickly.
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Speaker 7: What is it? Is there anything wrong?
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Speaker 29: Oh, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Solomon, there's something the matter.
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Speaker 11: He's... Oh, Miss Russell.
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Speaker 7: Miss Russell.
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Speaker 15: Lillian Russell's husband dies in London. The composer Edward Solomon
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Speaker 15: was stricken with a heart attack last night. while working
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Speaker 15: on an operetta for his wife.
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Speaker 5: Here are.
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Speaker 7: Some more flowers, Miss Russell. Aren't they beautiful?
38:45
Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Lovely.
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Speaker 7: There's a card with them, ma'am. Read it for me, Marie.
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Speaker 28: Dear Miss Russell, I'm so sorry. Alexander Moore.
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Speaker 7: Mr.
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Speaker 28: Moore phoned to say goodbye, ma'am. He's leaving for Paris today.
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Speaker 28: But he said if you wanted to reach him before
39:02
Speaker 28: he sailed for America.
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Speaker 6: America.
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Speaker 7: Oh, it seems so long since I've seen America. Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 28: Oh, and that producer gentleman also called early this morning.
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Speaker 9: He hadn't heard about Mr. Solomon? He wanted to speak to.
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Speaker 28: You about a new play.
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Speaker 7: A new play? Yes, ma'am.
39:21
Speaker 28: I told him you might call him next week.
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Speaker 7: I won't be here next week. I'm going back to America.
39:27
Speaker 7: To America?
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Speaker 28: Without a London success?
39:30
Speaker 2: Mum?
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Speaker 4: Oh, you can't.
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Speaker 7: What do you mean, Marie? Mr. Solomon, Mum. He wanted
39:36
Speaker 7: it so much.
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Speaker 28: I heard him say it time and time again. We'll
39:40
Speaker 28: bring London to your feet, he'd say. That's why he
39:43
Speaker 28: worked so hard, Mum, writing his music for you.
39:48
Speaker 6: His music? Yes.
39:51
Speaker 7: I owe it to him. At least I can give
39:54
Speaker 7: him that.
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Speaker 9: We'll stay in London, Marie. We'll do that show.
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Speaker 5: For him. Blue lover Your song's a tender thing.
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Speaker 2: That wasn't meant to sing.
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Speaker 5: Alone. True lover, still singing for your mate, but.
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Speaker 7: It's your fate to wait alone.
40:39
Speaker 19: Once there were two of you.
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Speaker 29: Singing lovebird do when his love has.
40:56
Speaker 22: Gone blue lovebird your song becomes a sigh.
41:11
Speaker 29: It seems that lovebirds die alone.
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Speaker 7: They liked it, Teddy.
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Speaker 19: They liked your music.
41:48
Speaker 15: In just a moment, Mr.
41:49
Speaker 3: DeMille and our stars Alice Faye, Edward Arnold, and Victor
41:52
Speaker 3: Mature will bring you Act Three of Lillian Russell. And now,
41:57
Speaker 3: here's Libby Collins, our Hollywood news reporter. She went over
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Speaker 3: to 20th Century Fox a while ago to see what
42:02
Speaker 3: was going on over there. And if I know Libby,
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Speaker 3: that gleam in her eye means she came back with
42:07
Speaker 3: a real story.
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Speaker 9: Well, Mr.
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Speaker 14: Ewing, I know that when it comes to stories, you're
42:12
Speaker 14: from Missouri. But this story is true, and it's about
42:15
Speaker 14: a young lady who really is from Missouri, Brenda Joyce.
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Speaker 4: Brenda Joyce?
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Speaker 3: Why, she's one of the most promising young starlets over
42:22
Speaker 3: at 20th Century Fox. I'll never forget the way she
42:24
Speaker 3: played the part of Fern Simon in the Reigns game.
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Speaker 14: Wait until you see her in her new picture, Public
42:29
Speaker 14: Deb No. 1. I watched her working in a few
42:32
Speaker 14: scenes over at the studio.
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Speaker 10: She's terrific.
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Speaker 15: And did you notice her lovely complexion, Libby?
42:37
Speaker 7: I certainly did, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Ruick.
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Speaker 14: Brenda follows the lead of nine out of ten famous stars.
42:43
Speaker 14: She uses Luxe Toilet Soap, too.
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Speaker 4: Smart girl, Brenda. But tell us, Libby, what's she like?
42:48
Speaker 4: How'd she get in pictures?
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Speaker 7: Well.
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Speaker 14: Brenda's blonde, 5 feet 4 inches tall, and weighs 112 pounds.
42:55
Speaker 10: And she's every bit sheer glamour.
42:57
Speaker 14: She's been living right here in Hollywood since she was
42:59
Speaker 14: 5 years old, you know. Eventually, she went to work
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Speaker 14: as a photographer's model. And all the local photographers called
43:05
Speaker 14: Brenda when they wanted a typical American girl type.
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Speaker 15: And then one day, the usual talent scout noticed her?
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 28: But the rest of the story is unusual.
43:14
Speaker 14: Her screen test was so extraordinarily successful that she was
43:17
Speaker 14: assigned that first part of hers, Fern in the Rain's Cane.
43:21
Speaker 14: And guess what she says about Luxe Toilet Soap, Mr.
43:23
Speaker 7: Rueck?
43:23
Speaker 2: Go ahead, Libby.
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Speaker 4: Let's hear it.
43:25
Speaker 10: Brenda says she.
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Speaker 28: Uses Luxe Toilet Soap every day.
43:28
Speaker 14: She never neglects her daily active lather facials because they
43:32
Speaker 14: really work.
43:33
Speaker 28: She says they're the right care for her skin.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Libby. And say thank you to Brenda
43:37
Speaker 3: Joyce for me next time you see her. And now,
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Speaker 3: for those of you who haven't already tried it, here's
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Speaker 3: can do for you. We pause now for station identification.
44:21
Speaker 3: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. The curtain rises on
44:45
Speaker 3: the third act of Lillian Russell. With the applause of
44:58
Speaker 3: London still ringing in her ears, the homesick Lillian Russell
45:02
Speaker 3: returned at last to America, to Broadway and her old friends.
45:07
Speaker 3: On a Sunday afternoon, the strollers in Central Park were
45:10
Speaker 3: treated to a rare sight. A bicycle built for three.
45:14
Speaker 3: Speeding along, peddled gaily by a trio of celebrities. Jessie
45:18
Speaker 3: Lewis and Lillian Russell in her famous white cycling dress.
45:21
Speaker 3: And Diamond Jim Brady in peaked cap and knickers.
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Speaker 4: Stop it, stop it.
45:28
Speaker 2: I've had enough. Stop it. I couldn't pedal another foot.
45:31
Speaker 9: Pull up, Jesse.
45:32
Speaker 4: I think Tim's tired.
45:34
Speaker 6: We've exhausted him.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I couldn't pedal this thing another ten feet. Let
45:38
Speaker 2: me sit down.
45:39
Speaker 15: Too many lobsters.
45:41
Speaker 7: I'm calling on the cops.
45:41
Speaker 2: See, that reminds me. Didn't you promise we'd stop off
45:44
Speaker 2: for something to eat? That's what's the matter with me.
45:47
Speaker 2: I'm weak.
45:47
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry, Jim, but I've got to get back.
45:50
Speaker 7: There's my carriage waiting.
45:51
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't have to leave us now, do you, Lillian?
45:53
Speaker 7: No, I'm due at rehearsal. Carriage?
45:55
Speaker 2: Well, when will we see you again?
45:56
Speaker 7: Not until after the show opens, Jim. I'm going to
45:58
Speaker 7: be very busy, children.
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Speaker 2: All right, but I'll be there for the opening.
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Speaker 10: Bye, Jim.
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Speaker 22: Bye, Jesse.
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Speaker 6: Bye.
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Speaker 4: What are you laughing at?
46:08
Speaker 2: Oh, you and me. Every time I start out with Lillian,
46:10
Speaker 2: I end up with you.
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Speaker 15: I don't think it's so funny.
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Speaker 2: You don't either. I know you, Jim.
46:18
Speaker 4: You laugh when you're hurt.
46:20
Speaker 15: You still love Lillian, don't you?
46:21
Speaker 2: Don't you?
46:22
Speaker 7: No.
46:23
Speaker 4: I'm being honest with you again, Jim.
46:26
Speaker 15: I'm in love with Edna.
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Speaker 6: Edna?
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Speaker 2: My Edna?
46:29
Speaker 4: No, my Edna. We're going to be married. Do you mind?
46:33
Speaker 2: Mind?
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Speaker 15: I think.
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it's great.
46:37
Speaker 4: I'm sorry in one way.
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Speaker 22: Why?
46:40
Speaker 13: Because I know how lonely you're going to be without Edna.
46:42
Speaker 12: Yeah.
46:42
Speaker 4: When you lose Lillian again.
46:43
Speaker 2: You wouldn't want to bet a lot of money against
46:45
Speaker 2: my chances, would you?
46:46
Speaker 4: No, but you can't buy her, Jim. I tried that.
46:49
Speaker 24: Yes, but you never offered to lay everything you had
46:52
Speaker 24: in the whole world to defeat, did you?
46:53
Speaker 4: No, not exactly.
46:55
Speaker 2: Well, I will. And it's millions, Jesse. Millions.
46:57
Speaker 11: Millions.
47:06
Speaker 3: And a minute's the curtain time.
47:09
Speaker 15: Curtain time, ten minutes.
47:10
Speaker 7: Marie, we'll have to fix this dress again, I'm afraid.
47:13
Speaker 28: I'll put a stitch in it, Mom, in the dressing room.
47:15
Speaker 28: It won't take a minute.
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Speaker 7: Marie, who wrote that on my mirror?
47:21
Speaker 9: Wait a moment.
47:22
Speaker 7: Lillian, I love you. Who did that?
47:25
Speaker 2: I did, Lillian.
47:27
Speaker 7: Jim Brady.
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Speaker 9: What are you doing back here? Marie, we'll let the
47:31
Speaker 9: dress wait.
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Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am. Why aren't you out front?
47:34
Speaker 24: Oh, I just couldn't wait, Lillian. I got an idea,
47:36
Speaker 24: and the minute I got it, I just had to
47:38
Speaker 24: do it.
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Speaker 7: You mean this on the mirror?
47:41
Speaker 2: Yes, I've been trying to say it for a long time.
47:44
Speaker 7: Ah, Jim, you're sweet. But I'm going to scold you.
47:47
Speaker 2: What, again?
47:48
Speaker 24: Mm-hmm.
47:48
Speaker 7: And seriously. I want you to look at all the
47:51
Speaker 7: things you sent me tonight.
47:52
Speaker 2: Well, but I've seen them, Lillian.
47:54
Speaker 7: Well, look at them again and try to repent your extravagance.
47:57
Speaker 7: a basket of orchids with diamond necklace and bracelet, American
48:01
Speaker 7: beauty roses with rubies, gardenias with emeralds, violets with pearls,
48:07
Speaker 7: and a bicycle of golden sapphires. Jim, have you lost
48:11
Speaker 7: your mind?
48:12
Speaker 2: No, my dear, just my heart.
48:14
Speaker 6: What?
48:15
Speaker 24: Lillian, Edna and Jesse are out front watching the show.
48:18
Speaker 2: They're married. You were fond of Jesse, weren't you?
48:22
Speaker 7: Yes, I'll miss him, Jim. He was a grand friend.
48:25
Speaker 7: But you'll miss Edna, too, won't you?
48:27
Speaker 24: I won't miss anything or anybody in the whole world
48:29
Speaker 24: if I can have you. And I'll give you everything
48:32
Speaker 24: I've got in the world if you'll just say yes, Lillian.
48:35
Speaker 24: And if at the end of a year you tire
48:36
Speaker 24: of me, I'll walk out of your life and leave
48:38
Speaker 24: you everything I've spent my life for.
48:41
Speaker 2: I love you, Lillian.
48:44
Speaker 6: Lillian, what's the matter?
48:46
Speaker 15: Why are you crying?
48:48
Speaker 7: Because I don't love you, Jim. And I wish I did.
48:55
Speaker 2: Oh, Lillian, come on now.
48:56
Speaker 24: Stop that. Can't you see I was just joking? The
49:01
Speaker 24: only reason I said that was.
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Speaker 2: Because you were scolding me about my gifts, and I
49:05
Speaker 2: wanted you to believe I was serious. That's all it was.
49:09
Speaker 2: Can you imagine me being married?
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Speaker 24: Why, I'd make the worst husband in the whole world,
49:15
Speaker 24: because the minute you were mine, I'd begin to lose
49:18
Speaker 24: interest in you, just as I have with a else
49:20
Speaker 24: I've gotten out of life, except perhaps corn on the cob.
49:23
Speaker 2: I would, really.
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Speaker 22: No.
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Speaker 7: You're not telling the truth. I've hurt you deeply, and
49:32
Speaker 7: I'm sorry. But if I married you, I'd hurt you
49:36
Speaker 7: even more, because it's... It would be gratitude, Jim, not love.
49:41
Speaker 7: You wouldn't want that.
49:42
Speaker 6: Would you?
49:42
Speaker 2: And what if I should say yes?
49:45
Speaker 7: Then I'd marry you, Jim.
49:46
Speaker 2: Do you really mean that?
49:48
Speaker 6: Yes, I do.
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Speaker 24: Well, Jim, I'll bet this is the shortest honeymoon two
49:54
Speaker 24: people ever spent together. It's all over, and what's more,
49:57
Speaker 24: Miss Russell seems very, very happy about it.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 7: No, I'm not happy, Jim. Neither are you. We're pretty
50:06
Speaker 7: much alike, aren't we? I mean, we've each had everything
50:10
Speaker 7: life could give us except what we really want. And
50:13
Speaker 7: I've looked for it so hard. When I was a
50:16
Speaker 7: girl and I first went to work for Tony Pastor,
50:19
Speaker 7: my mother said that every success has its penalty. That
50:22
Speaker 7: somehow life has a strange way of making you pay
50:24
Speaker 7: for the things it gives you. Now I know what
50:28
Speaker 7: she means.
50:29
Speaker 15: Lillian, I wish I could give you the happiness you're
50:30
Speaker 15: looking for.
50:32
Speaker 7: And I wish I could do the same for you, Jim.
50:35
Speaker 2: Don't you worry about me.
50:36
Speaker 24: All I'm thinking of right now is what we're going
50:39
Speaker 24: to eat after the show. We have a supper date,
50:41
Speaker 24: you know.
50:42
Speaker 9: Yes, I'll be waiting for you, Jim.
50:44
Speaker 22: Good.
50:44
Speaker 2: We'll see you then.
50:50
Speaker 28: Miss Russell, there are more flowers, ma'am, and a message.
50:53
Speaker 9: Read it to me, Marie.
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Speaker 28: Dear Miss Russell, I'm in the theater enjoying your show,
50:58
Speaker 28: but I'm leaving for Pittsburgh immediately after. Would love to
51:01
Speaker 28: say hello to you before I go. Alexander Moore.
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Speaker 7: Alexander Moore. You remember him, Marie?
51:07
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, indeed, ma'am.
51:09
Speaker 7: Oh, I'd like to see him. Send a message back, Marie.
51:12
Speaker 7: Tell him to come during intermission.
51:14
Speaker 11: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 7: Marie, isn't it strange? I so often think of Alexander
51:19
Speaker 7: Moore and so seldom see him.
51:31
Speaker 2: 15-minute intermission.
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Speaker 27: Don't forget, now on stage, five minutes before curtain.
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Speaker 7: Good evening, Mr.
51:40
Speaker 21: Moore.
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Speaker 6: Good evening.
51:41
Speaker 15: It was nice of you to see me.
51:43
Speaker 7: It's been a long time, Mr. Moore, and you've missed
51:46
Speaker 7: so many chapters of my story.
51:47
Speaker 15: Oh, I've been reading them, Miss Russell. Your success has
51:50
Speaker 15: been glorious.
51:51
Speaker 7: Thank you. Tell me, what have you been doing?
51:54
Speaker 9: Still a newspaper man?
51:56
Speaker 15: Newspaper work is seldom just a job. It's a lifetime.
51:59
Speaker 15: I have my own paper now.
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Speaker 7: I said you would, didn't I? The telegraph?
52:04
Speaker 2: The leader.
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Speaker 15: I'll have a review of your show on it tomorrow.
52:07
Speaker 7: A good one?
52:08
Speaker 15: I'll send you a copy of it, so you can
52:10
Speaker 15: finally read an article about yourself in my paper.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I'll enjoy that. And now, how about yourself? Oh,
52:17
Speaker 7: you know who I mean. You told me all about
52:19
Speaker 7: her in London.
52:21
Speaker 6: Lucille?
52:22
Speaker 9: Yes, Lucille.
52:23
Speaker 7: How is she?
52:24
Speaker 15: I haven't seen her in quite some time now.
52:28
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry. Love can be so elusive, can't it?
52:32
Speaker 15: Yes, it seems that way.
52:34
Speaker 10: Miss Russell, you'll have to change soon.
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Speaker 7: Very well, Marie. Get my things ready.
52:37
Speaker 15: I'll be running along.
52:39
Speaker 7: Will I see you later?
52:40
Speaker 15: No, I'm leaving now, getting the first train I can.
52:43
Speaker 15: But I'll be coming to New York again sometime.
52:47
Speaker 9: Soon?
52:48
Speaker 2: Maybe.
52:49
Speaker 7: Well, why don't you wire me before you come and
52:51
Speaker 7: we'll arrange to have dinner together?
52:53
Speaker 2: We will?
52:54
Speaker 7: Well, don't you want to?
52:55
Speaker 15: Oh, yeah, sure I do. As a matter of fact...
52:58
Speaker 15: I've had dinner with you lots of times.
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Speaker 9: You have?
53:02
Speaker 22: When?
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Speaker 15: You wouldn't remember. You weren't there. Good night, Miss Russell.
53:08
Speaker 7: I'm glad you came back.
53:09
Speaker 15: So am I.
53:10
Speaker 7: Isn't it a strange coincidence, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Moore?
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Speaker 24: What?
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Speaker 7: Well, ever since I first came to New York, you
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Speaker 7: seem to have punctuated my life. And every time something
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Speaker 7: important or serious has ever happened to me, you've come along.
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Speaker 15: Perhaps it hasn't been exactly a coincidence, Miss Russell.
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Speaker 6: Good night.
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Speaker 7: Good night.
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Speaker 9: We'd better hurry, Mom.
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Speaker 7: Marie, did you hear what he said?
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Speaker 9: He said it wasn't a coincidence. Do you realize what
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Speaker 9: that means?
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Speaker 28: Not exactly, Mom.
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Speaker 7: It means he's been thinking of me all these years.
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Speaker 7: He's been in love with me, Marie, almost all my life.
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Speaker 7: And I think I loved him the very first time
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Speaker 7: I saw him. Grandma told me I did, and she
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Speaker 7: was right. Marie, Marie, find him for me, will you?
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Speaker 7: He's leaving for Pittsburgh tonight, and I don't want him
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Speaker 7: to go away, because if he does, it'll probably be
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Speaker 7: years before we see him again. Please, Marie, never mind
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Speaker 7: my dress. I'll get into it somehow.
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Speaker 9: Tell him I don't want him to go. Tell him anything, Marie,
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Speaker 9: but find him for me.
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Speaker 29: Your song's a tender thing that wasn't meant.
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Speaker 7: To sing alone.
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Speaker 19: Ooh, lovebird, your song becomes a sigh.
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Speaker 7: It seems that lovebirds die. I found him, Miss Russell.
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Speaker 28: He's in your dressing room.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, Mary.
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Speaker 24: Mr.
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Speaker 6: Moore.
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Speaker 15: Hello. Your maid said that you... Well, anyway, I came
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Speaker 15: back and I saw something written on your mirror and
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Speaker 15: I thought I'd add to it.
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Speaker 7: Lillian, I love you. Alex Moore. Alex, I'm so glad
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Speaker 7: you came back. I want to make another pact with you.
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Speaker 7: That's if you promise to keep it, Alex.
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Speaker 15: I've never really broken this, Helen.
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Speaker 8: The other way, please. No standing in the stage door.
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Speaker 21: There she is.
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Speaker 16: There's Lillian Russell.
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Speaker 4: Good night, Miss Russell. Good night, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Moore.
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Speaker 15: Well, Jim, there they go.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a wonderful person, Jesse. We may have greater stars, yes,
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Speaker 2: and someday even a more beautiful one.
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Speaker 24: But they'll never be able to write the history of
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Speaker 24: the American theater without Lillian Russell.
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Speaker 4: Will you join us for supper at Rector's, Jim?
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Speaker 2: That's nice of you, Jesse. But for the first time.
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Speaker 15: In my life, I'm not hungry.
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Speaker 3: Lillian Russell, Dam and Jim, and Alexander Moore fade into
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Speaker 3: the glamorous past. But Alice Faye, Edward Arnold, and Victor
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Speaker 3: Mature are right here at this microphone, and we congratulate
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Speaker 3: them all.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, Mr. DeMille. I hope we did bring all
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Speaker 7: those people to life for a few moments.
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Speaker 15: As far as I'm concerned, Lillian Russell was right here
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Speaker 15: on the stage tonight.
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Speaker 2: You're right, Victor.
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Speaker 3: As I remember, Lillian and Dam and Jim, you were
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Speaker 3: both pretty nearly perfect in the parts.
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Speaker 7: I think Eddie's getting that Diamond Jim look again.
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Speaker 4: What's that?
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Speaker 24: Oh, that fellow Brady talks so much about eating that
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Speaker 24: I have to rush home to dinner every time I
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Speaker 24: play the part.
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Speaker 2: How's the food in the picture you're making, Alice?
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Speaker 7: Well, it's pretty scarce. I'm working on Tin Pan Alley
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Speaker 7: at 20th Century Fox. It's a story about songwriters.
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Speaker 3: Well, as long as you sing the songs, Alice, Tin
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Speaker 3: Pan Alley is right down my alley.
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Speaker 7: Well, if I knew how to curtsy Mr. DeMille, I'd
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Speaker 7: do it. Now, before we go, I'd like to add
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Speaker 7: my little word or two to the sincere tributes that
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Speaker 7: so many others have made to Luxe Soap. I think
57:33
Speaker 7: it's a wonderful complexion care, and naturally, I use it
57:36
Speaker 7: all the time. The very first time I tried Luxe Soap,
57:39
Speaker 7: I knew it was the right care for my skin,
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Speaker 7: and I've been a Luxe fan ever since.
57:43
Speaker 3: Like one of your songs, Alice, your opinion of Luxe
57:45
Speaker 3: Soap is music to our ears.
57:47
Speaker 24: Well, what about this trip of yours to Chicago, C.B.,
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Speaker 24: for the opening of Northwest Mounted Police?
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Speaker 3: Well, Eddie, I'm leaving right now, right after the program.
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Speaker 3: Chicago is planning a three-day celebration, ending with the premiere
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Speaker 3: on Thursday. And with me in Chicago, I'll have six
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Speaker 3: stars of the picture. Gary Cooper, Madeline Carroll, Paulette Goddard,
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Speaker 3: Preston Foster, Robert Preston, and Lynn Overman. And the Canadian
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Speaker 3: premiere of Northwest Mounted Police is being held in every
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Speaker 3: theater in Regina tonight.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's fine. And what's the Lux Radio Theater going
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Speaker 2: to do without you next week?
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Speaker 3: I'll be on the program, Eddie, from New York.
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Speaker 4: My brother, William C.
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Speaker 3: DeMille, is taking over here.
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Speaker 15: With two DeMilles working on the show next week, the
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Speaker 15: sky is the limit.
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Speaker 3: Next week, the sky is the limit. Because we're going
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Speaker 3: to have Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. And the play
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Speaker 3: is their latest MGM screen hit, Strike Up the Band.
58:37
Speaker 3: It's the first appearance at our microphone of these two
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Speaker 3: youngsters who have taken the country by storm, and the
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Speaker 3: play is made to order for their cheerful enthusiasm. So
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Speaker 3: next Monday night is certainly a night to strike up
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Speaker 3: the band with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland.
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Speaker 7: Oh, that's a wonderful cast, Mr. DeMille. I'll be listening.
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Speaker 7: Good night and a pleasant trip.
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Speaker 2: Good night, CB, and lots of fun. Good night.
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Speaker 3: I'll send you greetings from Chicago.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 16: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: An important announcement. This is community chess time.
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Speaker 3: When you are asked to help fight disease, neglect, disaster,
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Speaker 3: and suffering among your own townspeople. America's strength today is
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Speaker 3: the strength of her people. Her social agencies stand guard
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Speaker 3: over the health and welfare of the weakest among us.
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Speaker 3: Help to keep America and Americans strong. Give generously to
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Speaker 3: your community chess. Heard in tonight's play were Stuart Buchanan
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Speaker 3: as Jesse Lewison, Noreen Gamil as Marie, Beatrice Maud as Cynthia, J.
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Speaker 3: Michael as Tony Pastor, Frederick Mackay as Teddy Solomon, Verna
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Speaker 3: Felton as Lillian's grandmother, Earl Ross as Leonard, Lou Merrill
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Speaker 3: as Damrush, Dorothy Farrar as Edna McCauley, and Bob Burleson,
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Speaker 3: John Berry, Norman Ainsley, and James Eagles. Edward Arnold will
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Speaker 3: soon be seen on the screen in the Frank Capra production,
1:00:12
Speaker 3: The Life of John Doe, to be released by Warner Brothers.
1:00:15
Speaker 3: Victor Mature appears through courtesy of Halroth Studios and will
1:00:19
Speaker 3: soon be seen in Topper Returns with Roland Young and
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Speaker 3: Billy Burke. Our music is directed by Louis Silvers, and
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Speaker 3: your announcer has been Melville Roik. This is the Columbia
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Speaker 3: Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater's Lillian Russell now concludes, this is Victor Sterling.
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