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Lux Radio Theatre - "Pride of the Yankees" (Old Time Radio, 1943) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Lou Gehrig's rise from early athletic promise to dependable first
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: baseman for the New York Yankees frames a story that
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: also follows his courtship of Eleanor Twitchell. On October 4th, 1943,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: CBS brought Lux Radio Theater's 408-episode Pride of the Yankees
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: to the microphone, adapted from the 1942 Samuel Goldwyn film.
• 0:26
  Speaker 1: Gary Cooper reprises his screen role as Gehrig, with Virginia
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  Speaker 1: Bruce as Eleanor. George Wells prepared the radio adaptation, and
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  Speaker 1: Cecil B. DeMille is your host. Now, back to the
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Gary
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  Speaker 2: Cooper in The Pride of the Yankees with Virginia Bruce
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  Speaker 2: and Edgar Buchanan. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B.
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  Speaker 3: DeMille.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tomorrow afternoon in New
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  Speaker 4: York's Yankee Stadium, the exciting cry of play ball will
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  Speaker 4: begin another World Series. In the clubhouse under the grandstand,
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  Speaker 4: as game time comes near, the players will be pulling
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  Speaker 4: their uniforms out of the lockers and there'll be jokes
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  Speaker 4: and horseplay because ballplayers are like that. But one of
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  Speaker 4: those lockers will not be open tomorrow. That locker has
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  Speaker 4: never been used by anyone since the day in June
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  Speaker 4: 1939 when Lou Gehrig hung up his glove for the
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  Speaker 4: last time. Lou Gehrig is one of baseball's immortals. His
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  Speaker 4: records are on the books.
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  Speaker 3: For all to read.
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  Speaker 4: But Gary Cooper is here on this stage not to
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  Speaker 4: bring us a baseball story, but a drama of human courage.
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  Speaker 4: The story of a man who knew his destiny and
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  Speaker 4: faced it without flinching. That story is the one told
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  Speaker 4: in Samuel Goldwyn's fine motion picture, The Pride of the Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: And starring with Gary tonight, we present Virginia Bruce.
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  Speaker 3: And Edgar Buchanan.
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  Speaker 4: Lou Gehrig is in the great American tradition, and there
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  Speaker 4: certainly is no better choice than Gary Cooper to play
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  Speaker 4: the part. I've called on Gary twice in pictures to
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  Speaker 4: play heroes from that same tradition, and he's busy with
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  Speaker 4: a third one for me now in the story of Dr. Wassil.
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  Speaker 4: You know, this evening is a real occasion on this stage,
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  Speaker 4: for it was just nine years ago that Lux Toilet
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  Speaker 4: Soap presented the first play in the Lux Radio Theater.
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: And do you remember what was happening then? The Italians
• 2:54
  Speaker 4: were marching into Ethiopia, and Mussolini's army was considered one
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  Speaker 4: of the strongest in the world. The first thin man
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  Speaker 4: picture came out that year, and skirts, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 4: were being worn just above the ankle. Nine years ago,
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  Speaker 4: millions of you were already using our product. Since then,
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  Speaker 4: scientists have made Lux toilet soap even better, and millions
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  Speaker 4: more have joined our family circle. Now here's the anniversary
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  Speaker 4: curtain going up on the first act of The Pride
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  Speaker 4: of the Yankees, starring Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig, with
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  Speaker 4: Virginia Bruce as Ellie, Edgar Buchanan as Sam Blake, and
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  Speaker 4: Elsa Janssen as Mom.
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  Speaker 5: To my own son, I will say to your face,
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  Speaker 5: you are good for nothing, Lou Gehrig.
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  Speaker 6: All baseball players are good for nothing.
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  Speaker 7: Loafers in short pants.
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  Speaker 8: That was what Lou Gehrig's mother told him the day
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  Speaker 8: she found out he was a ball player. She was
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  Speaker 8: all against it at first, but she came around later.
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  Speaker 8: By the way, my name's Sam Blake, and I'm a
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  Speaker 8: sports writer. I was kind of a special friend of Lou's,
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  Speaker 8: so I know a lot about him.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm here for now.
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  Speaker 8: I want you to know him, too, the way I did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 8: Lou's mother had great plans for him. Even when he
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  Speaker 8: was just a kid, she had plans. Like the afternoon
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  Speaker 8: he came home after a game of sandlot baseball and
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  Speaker 8: told his mother he'd like to quit school.
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  Speaker 7: How can you say that?
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  Speaker 6: Look at your papa. Look at me.
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  Speaker 7: We didn't go to school. And what are we? A janitor.
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  Speaker 9: A cook.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to be somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Mom. Sure.
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  Speaker 6: Like your Uncle Otto, Louie.
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  Speaker 7: Don't you see, Louie?
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  Speaker 6: That's why I'm cooking up at Columbia College.
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  Speaker 5: So you can go there someday and be an engineer
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  Speaker 5: like your Uncle Otto.
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  Speaker 9: But, Mom, maybe I ain't cut out to be an engineer.
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  Speaker 7: What do you want to know?
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  Speaker 9: I want to be a... Gee, I don't know, Mom.
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  Speaker 7: An engineer, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: Lou went to school. He even went to Columbia. Worked
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  Speaker 8: his way through waiting on tables in a fraternity house.
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  Speaker 8: He'd been playing ball all the time, made the varsity.
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  Speaker 8: Then one evening he showed up at home for dinner
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  Speaker 8: wearing a pledge pin.
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  Speaker 3: Hiya, Mom.
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  Speaker 9: What?
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  Speaker 3: I just said hi.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Notice anything, Mom?
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  Speaker 7: I noticed Papa is late and the soup's getting cold.
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  Speaker 7: Sit down, Louie.
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  Speaker 3: Mom, look. I'm wearing a pin. Sigma Alpha Psi. Oh, Lou.
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  Speaker 7: They took you in?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this afternoon.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Lou, everything's going so fine now.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is just a pledge pin. I get the
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  Speaker 3: real pin before long, and when I get it, I'm
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  Speaker 3: supposed to give it to my best girl. You still
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  Speaker 3: my best girl, Mom?
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  Speaker 7: Always.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it'll mean you'll have to go steady with me.
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  Speaker 3: You can't even look at anybody else.
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  Speaker 7: Not even Papa?
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  Speaker 3: All right. Papa.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't know Lou then, but I heard all about
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  Speaker 8: those days from his mother. First time I ever ran
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  Speaker 8: across him was up at Southfield. I was sitting in
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  Speaker 8: an office one spring afternoon talking to the Columbia football coach.
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  Speaker 8: Over on South Field, they were practicing baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Sam, I'm going to build my football team around
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  Speaker 3: a new man next fall. A great halfback. That so? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: One of the most promising kids I've ever... What the.
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  Speaker 8: Well, you can send for a man to fix that window.
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  Speaker 8: Somebody gunning for you, Jim?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there it is. A baseball. Baseball? Yeah. Come over
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  Speaker 3: here to the window. See that fellow trotting around the bases?
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  Speaker 3: That's the halfback I was telling you about.
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  Speaker 2: Lou Gehrig, a line-plunging fool.
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  Speaker 3: Football? For a kid that can hit a baseball this far? Well, Sam,
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  Speaker 3: there's a pretty stiff wind blowing in this direction. Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Well, that wind could blow him right into the major leagues.
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  Speaker 8: I got hold of Lou one afternoon a.
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  Speaker 3: Few days later.
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  Speaker 8: I told him Miller Huggins of the Yankees would like
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  Speaker 8: to give him a chance to play ball.
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  Speaker 3: He looked at me like he was going to faint. Yankees?
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  Speaker 3: You mean... You mean the New York Yankees? I don't
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  Speaker 3: mean the Chillicothe Yankees. Oh, thanks, gee. Gee, that's wonderful,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm going to be an engineer.
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  Speaker 8: Engineer. That's what he told me. And I guess he
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  Speaker 8: would have been an engineer. Except something happened. Getting philosophical.
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  Speaker 8: It was one of those corners you turn in life.
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  Speaker 8: Just a little twist in the road.
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  Speaker 3: Hiya, Pop. Dinner ready yet?
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  Speaker 6: Shh.
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  Speaker 10: Lou, listen.
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  Speaker 3: Mama is sick. What do you mean, sick? Mama? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: She never said anything, but now she's sick. Well, get
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  Speaker 3: a doctor. I'll go right away.
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  Speaker 9: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: He's here. He's in there with her now. She didn't
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  Speaker 3: want him because it would cost $ 2. Well, what's wrong?
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  Speaker 3: What did he say? Here he is. Well, Doctor, is
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  Speaker 3: it serious, Doctor? Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 11: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to get your wife to the hospital immediately.
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  Speaker 4: The general hospital is rather crowded just now, but I'll
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  Speaker 4: see if I can make arrangements.
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  Speaker 3: There must be room in one of the wards. Wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute. Mom's not going to a ward. She's going
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  Speaker 3: to have the best of everything. A good room in
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  Speaker 3: a private hospital. Lou, beggars can be choosers. A private
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  Speaker 3: hospital costs money, and where are we going to get it? Well,
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  Speaker 3: I know where I can get it. I'll get an
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  Speaker 3: advance on my salary. On what? My salary. I've got
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  Speaker 3: a chance to join the Yankees. Oh, nurse.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Nurse, can we see Mrs. Garrick now?
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  Speaker 9: I think so.
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  Speaker 12: We're going to take her downstairs for another treatment.
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  Speaker 9: But you can only stay a moment.
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  Speaker 3: That's all right. I've got to catch a train and.
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  Speaker 9: I see.
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  Speaker 6: We'll bring her right out. Wait here.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Well, Pop, did you read that contract? It's wonderful, Louie. Wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: So now you're a real baseballer, huh? Sure. But signed
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  Speaker 3: by Miller Huggins. He's the Yankees' manager.
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  Speaker 8: Really?
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  Speaker 3: There's one thing I don't understand. If you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be with the Yankees, why are they sending you from
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  Speaker 3: New York to Hartford to bring you back to New York? Well,
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  Speaker 3: they're sending me to play with the Hartford team for
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  Speaker 3: a while to give me the experience I need. That's
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  Speaker 3: the way they work it.
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  Speaker 9: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: How are you going to work it? Work what? Mama.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to tell her? Well, sure, sure. She'll understand.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'll go for a walk. Oh, you stay here, Pop.
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  Speaker 6: Louie!
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  Speaker 3: There she is. Hello, Mom.
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  Speaker 7: Look, I'm like a baby in a carriage, Louis.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you let them wheel you around here till you're
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  Speaker 3: all well again, hear? How's my best girl, Mom?
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  Speaker 9: Fine, fine.
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  Speaker 3: Well, how are they treating you?
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  Speaker 7: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: I can't get over how much they give you here
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  Speaker 5: for nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's great, Mom. Now, look, I want to tell
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  Speaker 3: you something. Excuse me a minute. I'm going for a smoke.
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  Speaker 3: Come here, Pop.
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  Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's nothing, Mom. Really, I... Well, I'm going away,
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  Speaker 3: that's all. I'm going to Hartford. Harvard.
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  Speaker 9: Harvard College.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, that's wonderful. You are going to be a great engineer.
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  Speaker 5: And Harvard Engineering.
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  Speaker 7: School is good, huh?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you see, I.
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  Speaker 13: I'm afraid we'll have to take her now.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I'll tell you about it later, Mom. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 14: Leaving on track five.
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  Speaker 3: Bridgeport.
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  Speaker 10: New Haven.
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  Speaker 15: Oxford.
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  Speaker 3: But look.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Louie.
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  Speaker 3: Suppose Mama finds out. What about me? Well, protect yourself
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  Speaker 3: in the clenches, Pop. So long. Wait. What about mail?
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: Suppose Mama writes you. Well, uh... Well, she'll write the letters,
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: but you'll mail them, see? But what about the money
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  Speaker 3: you'll be sending me? How will I explain that? Well,
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: tell her you got a job. A job?
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 3: Me?
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  Speaker 9: You.
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  Speaker 3: You. Goodbye, Pop. Louie, wait. What kind of a job? Well,
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: that's up to you. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 7: What?
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  Speaker 3: I got a job. But what? Ha. I know.
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  Speaker 16: Politics.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Mrs. Gehrig.
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  Speaker 9: Good morning, Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Roberts.
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  Speaker 7: Come on in.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Gehrig.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you saw the papers this morning.
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: Papers.
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  Speaker 6: The one says white, the other black.
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  Speaker 7: I never read them.
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  Speaker 6: But you must be very proud of your son.
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  Speaker 9: My Lou, of course.
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  Speaker 5: But I just can't get over how wonderful everything is
• 11:48
  Speaker 5: with my husband, Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Gehrig, you know.
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  Speaker 6: You want to know when he leaves for work? When
• 11:53
  Speaker 6: he feels like it? Political at $ 25 a week.
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  Speaker 9: Wow. What is it, Papa?
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  Speaker 6: Wow what?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing. Just wow.
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  Speaker 14: Oh.
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  Speaker 9: Now, now.
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  Speaker 7: Who's that?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mrs. Fabini.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I couldn't wait for you to come to the door.
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  Speaker 12: Isn't it exciting?
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  Speaker 9: It's in the paper all about Lou.
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  Speaker 6: Gee, isn't it great?
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  Speaker 3: Shut up.
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  Speaker 15: Wait.
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  Speaker 7: Shut up.
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  Speaker 3: Wait.
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  Speaker 6: What is it all about?
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  Speaker 9: Did you read in the paper about Lou?
• 12:21
  Speaker 7: Paper? Lou?
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  Speaker 6: Here it is. Read it.
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  Speaker 7: Here it is.
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  Speaker 6: Recalled from Hartford by Yankee?
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  Speaker 3: Mama, we'll talk about it later.
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  Speaker 7: We'll talk about it now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Mom. Hello, Mom.
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  Speaker 12: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks. Hey, look, if you don't mind, I think
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  Speaker 3: there are a few things I ought to talk over
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  Speaker 3: with the folks. Well, how's my best girl, Mom? What's
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: the matter, Mom? Well, I'd better go, too.
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  Speaker 7: Where? To work?
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  Speaker 3: I'll be right back, Louie. Mom. Mom, about Hartford. I
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: didn't go there just because I wanted to play baseball.
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  Speaker 3: I went because we needed the money. You were sick
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  Speaker 3: and the doctor said you might die.
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  Speaker 7: I wish I had died rather than see you give
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  Speaker 7: up everything we planned.
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  Speaker 6: For what?
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  Speaker 7: To play ball. Oh, a disgrace like that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's not such a disgrace to play with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 5: That's what we came to America for? So that you
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  Speaker 5: would play baseball? After all my plans for you to
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: follow after your Uncle Otto.
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  Speaker 3: Mom, people have got to live their own lives. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: can live it for you. Well, nobody could have made
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  Speaker 3: a ball player out of Uncle Otto. And nobody can
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: make anything but a ball player out of me.
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  Speaker 7: To my own son, I'll say it to your face.
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  Speaker 7: You are good for nothing, Lou Gehrig. All baseballers are
• 13:44
  Speaker 7: good for nothing. Loafers in short pants.
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  Speaker 3: Mom, you've never been to a ball game. Maybe there's
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: something to it. Say, why don't you come out some
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  Speaker 3: afternoon and watch? Never, never.
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  Speaker 6: I don't see Lou.
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  Speaker 12: Where's Lou?
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  Speaker 17: He's not out on the field yet, Mama.
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  Speaker 3: The game hasn't started.
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  Speaker 6: You sure we came to the right baseball park?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Mama.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and those men down there, they are not the players?
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  Speaker 3: No, Mama. They are getting the field ready, Mama. Oh.
• 14:22
  Speaker 5: What do they do with the pillows?
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  Speaker 3: They are not pillows. They are bases.
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  Speaker 17: You slide into them, Mama.
• 14:28
  Speaker 6: I slide into them?
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: Just watch, Mama. Huh? Just watch? Get your scorecard. Get
• 14:34
  Speaker 3: your scorecard. You can't tell the players without a scorecard, lady.
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  Speaker 7: My own son I can tell. The others are none
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: of my business.
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  Speaker 3: Your son playing?
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  Speaker 9: Sure.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Lou Gehrig. Gehrig? Never heard of him. Substitute?
• 14:47
  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 18: Yankee.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Mom didn't get a chance to see Lou that afternoon.
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  Speaker 8: Not in action, anyway. It was a long time and
• 15:01
  Speaker 8: a lot of baseball games later before he came up
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  Speaker 8: to bat. It happened at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Gehrig, get up there. Who, me? Yes, you. You're batting
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: for Wally Pipp. Now get a hold of one, kid. Oh, sure. Sure, Mr. Huggins.
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  Speaker 8: Lou started off the bench like a blue streak. Here
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  Speaker 8: was his chance. So what did he do? He goes
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  Speaker 8: right up to.
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  Speaker 3: The pile of bats. flips on him and falls flat
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  Speaker 3: on his back.
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  Speaker 8: There was a girl at the game that day in
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  Speaker 8: the field box just back of first base.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Tanglefoot!
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Tanglefoot!
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  Speaker 8: It was Eleanor Twitchell started that. Tanglefoot, she said, and
• 15:41
  Speaker 8: the crowd took it up like a battle cry.
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  Speaker 3: Yoo-hoo!
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  Speaker 9: Tanglefoot!
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  Speaker 3: Well, Eleanor, you really started something. Didn't I?
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  Speaker 9: Dreadful, isn't it, Dad?
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  Speaker 3: Tango foot!
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  Speaker 12: Whoa!
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  Speaker 9: I seen her tie the label on that rookie.
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  Speaker 3: What's his name?
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  Speaker 7: Gehrig.
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  Speaker 3: He looks like a hitter, though, from where I sit.
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  Speaker 8: In Chicago, the Yankees used to have dinner in the
• 16:26
  Speaker 8: same restaurant every night. After Lou's first game, I was
• 16:30
  Speaker 8: there eating with him when Eleanor Twitchell and her father
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  Speaker 8: came in.
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  Speaker 6: Hiya, Yankees.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: Enjoying your stay in Chicago?
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Hello there. Hello there, losers. Hello, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Toto.
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  Speaker 8: Tell your boys to bring their horseshoes with them when
• 16:43
  Speaker 8: they come to New York next trip.
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: Oh, you can't win without a boss. Oh, hello, Mr. Blake.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Hello, Miss Mitchell.
• 16:49
  Speaker 9: Say, how's the rookie, Eddie?
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: Look out.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Hey, come on, pick her up.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Pick her up. She tripped over the chair. Hey, ha-ha,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: tangled foot. Come on, pick her up. You okay, Miss Twitchell?
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: Sure, I'm okay.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Boy, what a brody. Well, that's all right, Miss Twitchell.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: A thing like that can happen to anybody. Miss Twitchell,
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: this is Mr.
• 17:12
  Speaker 8: Gary.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad to see you, Miss Twitchell.
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: What's so funny? All right, we're even.
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: Well, if we're even, maybe you'll sit down with me.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: Sure.
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: Well, Mr. Gehrig, I hear this is your first game today.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: My first appearance, and am I glad to get out
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: of the lumber printers. Oh, but you wouldn't know what
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: that means. That means.
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: I know what it means.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Well, what does it mean?
• 17:34
  Speaker 9: Picking splinters off of your pants from sitting on the
• 17:36
  Speaker 9: bench so long.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Gee, you do know, don't you?
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: How long do you expect to stay off the bench, Mr.
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Gehrig?
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you. I got a hunch I'm going
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: to play for a long while. Uh-oh.
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: Wally Pitt must be awfully sick.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Say, what are you doing with this Yankee? Hello, Sam. Hello, Mr. Twinkle.
• 17:53
  Speaker 9: This is my father, Mr.
• 17:54
  Speaker 13: Gehrig.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Well, hello, mister. How do you do? Oh, you're the
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Yankees' first baseman, eh? Yes, sir, at last. Well, I
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: like the way you stand up to the ball, Gary.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: A lot of power there. Well, there, Miss Twitchell, your
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: father knows a ball player when he sees one. Yes,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: he stands up to the plate fine.
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: Yes, he does. And he falls down on the bat
• 18:15
  Speaker 9: pretty good, too, Dad. Tangle for it.
• 18:28
  Speaker 8: Nice playing in those last two games, Lou. If Pip
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: is sick long enough, you'll have a good chance to
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: show what you can do.
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: Huh?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Say, Blake. What? Blake, you know a lot
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: about women. Me? Oh, certainly. Well, uh... Well, what does
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: it mean when a girl says you remind her of
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: a Newfoundland puppy? Oh, uh.
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: Well, if it was an air deal, that'd be bad.
• 18:52
  Speaker 8: For a police dog, that'd be fatal. But a Newfoundland puppy...
• 18:57
  Speaker 8: I'd see her again if I was you. Well, she
• 19:02
  Speaker 8: didn't say Airedale.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Blake. I'll take your advice.
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: The Pride of the Yankees. And now.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: A young man and a girl who's made a hit.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Gee, Mary, what a break to meet a girl like you. Look,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I'm on a date tomorrow. I've only got a few
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: days leaving. I sure want to see you some more. Yes,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Mary's made a hit. And she gives the credit to
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: her smart new dress.
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: Of course. I know that shade of blue is just
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: right for me. And the hat helped, too.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: But if you asked Bill what Mary wore that evening,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: he'd tell you, oh, I don't know, something keen, all right.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: The hat.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: It seems to me it was little. All I remember
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: is how pretty she looked. Boy, what a complexion. Which
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: proves again that a new dress is all very fine.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: But it's lovely skin that really does the trick. Yes,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: a soft, smooth complexion is the charm that wins. And
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: clever girls know a quick, easy care that protects this charm.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Helps skin to be fresher, more appealing. They depend on
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the daily beauty facials nine out of ten screen stars use.
• 20:17
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• 20:21
  Speaker 12: Just smooth the creamy lather well in, lots and lots
• 20:25
  Speaker 12: of it.
• 20:25
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• 20:29
  Speaker 9: dry with a soft towel. Simple, but it works.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Now, why don't you try Hollywood's beauty facials every single day?
• 20:37
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• 20:41
  Speaker 2: thorough care. Really brings it new loveliness. Active lather whisks
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: away stale cosmetics. Every trace of dust and dirt leaves
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: skin feeling satin smooth. Why not ask your dealer for
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: Luxe Toilet Soap tomorrow? And if he's temporarily out of
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: stock due to wartime conditions, he'll have more soon. Remember,
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Hollywood's beauty soap is worth waiting for. Now, our producer, Mr.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: DeMille.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Act Two of The Pride of the Yankees, starring Gary
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Cooper as Lou Gehrig, with Virginia Bruce as Ellie, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Edgar Buchanan as Sam Blake.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Lou took my advice all right. Every time the
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: team got back to Chicago, he went scooting out to
• 21:28
  Speaker 8: see if he could find Eleanor Twitchell. He found her, too.
• 21:32
  Speaker 8: They got along fine. Yes, sir, especially the time Lou
• 21:35
  Speaker 8: took her dancing out to a nightclub. That night was
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: another turning point in Lou's life.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Well, Mr.
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: Gehrig, to your first World Series.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't say that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: Not yet.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: We've got six more cities waiting for us, and anything
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: can happen. Say, do you realize this is my last
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: night in Chicago this season, and this is goodbye? Why, well, a.
• 22:02
  Speaker 9: Lot of them. Six more to go. Six more goodbyes.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Six more of what?
• 22:07
  Speaker 18: Well, you play in seven cities. When you're on the road,
• 22:09
  Speaker 18: you must have a girl in every city. The ball
• 22:11
  Speaker 18: player's like a sailor, isn't he? A girl in every port. Um,
• 22:15
  Speaker 18: what's Miss Boston's name?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I never had a girl in Boston.
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: Haven't you?
• 22:19
  Speaker 11: No.
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: What about Philadelphia?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: No. St.
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: Louis?
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: No.
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: Cleveland?
• 22:24
  Speaker 9: Washington? New York?
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Hey, you forgot Chicago.
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: Chicago?
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: Who?
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Well, aren't you my girl?
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: Why, Lou, I don't know what you mean by your girl.
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: Your best girl? Is that what you mean?
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I've seen you four days in a row and
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: you're out with me here tonight. Isn't that what best
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: girls do?
• 22:40
  Speaker 15: Is it?
• 22:43
  Speaker 18: I wonder if I'm going to miss you.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: Can't you find out before I go?
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: No, isn't that too bad? Why is it always like that?
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
• 22:51
  Speaker 18: Seems silly, doesn't it? I like that tune, don't you?
• 22:55
  Speaker 18: Will you dance with me?
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: Lou.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: What?
• 23:04
  Speaker 9: Lou, if I do miss you, I wish I knew
• 23:06
  Speaker 9: how much I was going to.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I wish you knew before I left.
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: Shall I try?
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: How? Well, shall I?
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: Lou, where do you go from here?
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: Detroit. All right.
• 23:18
  Speaker 9: You see, I close my eyes and make believe it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 9: tomorrow night and that I'm dancing with someone else.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I get the idea.
• 23:23
  Speaker 9: All right, you ready? I suppose. Are you in Detroit?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Yep, I'm sitting in the lobby of the Statler Hotel.
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: Now, who am I dancing with? Let me see. Who
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: do I know? Harold Chandler. Oh, Bill Talbot. Jim Johnson.
• 23:39
  Speaker 9: Jack Austin. Bill Church.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Hey, hey. What? I'm tired of this game. I don't
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: like it. I'm back in Chicago.
• 23:47
  Speaker 9: And I'm laughing again.
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: The Yankees won the pennant that year, played against the
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: Cardinals in the World Series.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: One morning in St.
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: Louis, just before the game, the boys went over to
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: a hospital for crippled kids. The rest of the team left.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: Lou was sitting talking to a little boy, a little
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: fellow who couldn't walk.
• 24:10
  Speaker 12: But Gary, you ought to get my ball, too.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Sure, let's see it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 12: There's Babe Ruth's name there. He promised to get a
• 24:16
  Speaker 12: home run for me today.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Well, what do you know? You're quite a fan, aren't you?
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: I like baseball. I used to play a lot.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: And you'll play again, Billy. You know, there isn't anything
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: you can't do if you try hard enough.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: You think so?
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: Would you knock a home run for me this afternoon?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Well, you've already been promised one by Babe Ruth.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Could you?
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a pretty tall order.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 24:41
  Speaker 12: Could you knock two homers?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Two homers? In a World Series?
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: Well, Mr. Gary, you said that you could do anything
• 24:47
  Speaker 12: if you tried hard enough. That's what you said.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, okay. Well, I'll hit two homers for you
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: if you'll hit one for me.
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: Me?
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: How?
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: You've got to promise me that one of these days
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: you're going to get up out of this bed and
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: go home on your own power.
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: But how can I?
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: If you want to do something hard enough, you can
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: do it. We can both do it, can't we?
• 25:10
  Speaker 12: Sure we can.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Well, that's the idea. Well, so long, Billy.
• 25:14
  Speaker 12: So long, Mr.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Garrick.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Just make it Lou.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: Oh, so long, Lou.
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: Read all about it.
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: Paper, yank me, charge.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Ruth, it's over. Ruth, it's over.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Garrick, it's done.
• 25:28
  Speaker 12: Pepper.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Ruth, it's won.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: Garrick, it's done. Pepper.
• 25:31
  Speaker 16: Pepper.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Thanks. Wait till we get him in New York. Where's Gary? Hey, Lou. Hello, Sam.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Conductor's got a telegram for you, Lou. Here you are, Mr.
• 25:45
  Speaker 16: Garrick.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you. That was a great thing this afternoon, Mr.
• 25:48
  Speaker 16: Garrick.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Two home runs in the World Series. What? Love, it says.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: Love?
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Who says? Hey, conductor, get me to Chicago.
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: Wait a minute.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Tonight. Say, how can I do it? Stop that train.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Let me off. Well, you can change trains at Fenway.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I'll change. Lou, listen. Who says love? Who? Who? Look,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: I'm the one who's asking.
• 26:05
  Speaker 16: Who?
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: Who?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: You know, Sam, you're a fine fellow. I like you. Goodbye, Sam.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: He's nutty enough to be on the Dodgers.
• 26:23
  Speaker 10: Hey, hey, hey.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: What's the idea? Oh, hello, officer. What are you doing
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: around here? You don't live in this house? No. Well,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: what are you doing here, then? Well, I was calling
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: on the young lady.
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: At four o'clock in the morning.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: What for? Well, if you must know, I was... I'm
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: calling on the young lady to ask her to marry me.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: I see. And who are you? My name's Lou Gehrig.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Lou who? Gehrig. Gehrig? Hey, let me see you. Yeah.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: I didn't recognize you in the dark. My name is O'Doul. Oh,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: I'm glad to know you, Gehrig.
• 26:57
  Speaker 9: What is it?
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Is Miss Twitchell home? Yeah, we want to see Miss Twitchell.
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: A policeman.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: What's she done?
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: Nothing yet.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Wake her up and tell her Lou Gehrig wants us here,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: will you?
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Will you come in and wait in the parlor?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Yes. Go on in, Lou. Go ahead.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: I'll call her.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: Miss Twitchell?
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: Sit down, Lou.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Sit down. Don't be so prejudiced. Thanks, officer.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Miss Twitchell?
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: What is it?
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: A policeman wants to see you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 18: A policeman?
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: And a fellow named Lou Gehrig.
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: Lou? Where is he?
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Lou?
• 27:30
  Speaker 9: Lou?
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, Lou. I got your wire. I came right away.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm so glad.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: Look, it said love.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: Yes, love. Oh, lots of love.
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: Eleanor.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Oh, Lou.
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: I've missed you so.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Well, I guess you don't need me anymore.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, what a night it is, Mrs.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Gary.
• 27:57
  Speaker 9: You must be proud.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Louis should be home any minute now.
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: I don't know what's keeping him.
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: I love a surprise party.
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: Look, it's Roy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: Papa, stop watching with the food.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: I give you the instructions. You said you would tell Apple.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: You got it wrong.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: You have ruined everything. I couldn't help it, Mr.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Gehrig.
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: I just delivered the cake, that's all.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: What happened?
• 28:15
  Speaker 17: Look, the baseball player on top of the cake, he
• 28:18
  Speaker 17: made Louie a right-handed batter.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know what it was.
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: Mr.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: Apple just told me to deliver it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 17: Only one in America that don't know that Louie's a
• 28:25
  Speaker 17: southpaw and he has to.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Be our bait.
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: Maybe nobody will notice it, Papa.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: A right-handed batter.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Here he comes.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: Quiet, everybody.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Quiet, quiet.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Hide, everybody, hide.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Mom.
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: Oh, Mom.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: Louie, welcome home.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 28:45
  Speaker 15: Hey, what is all this?
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Hello, everybody.
• 28:49
  Speaker 16: Hello.
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: Lou.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Hello, Mom. How's my best girl?
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: Oh, wonderful.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: Now, wait. I've got a surprise for you, too. Mom,
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: this is Ellie.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Eleanor Twitchell.
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: Hello, Mrs.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Gehrig. And this is my pup. How are you? Mom, pup,
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: there's something I got to tell you. I, uh, well,
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I guess there's only one way to do this thing, Mom. Mrs.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Gehrig meets Mrs. Gehrig. What? I mean, as soon as
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: we get married. Congratulations, Lou!
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: You are going to get married.
• 29:21
  Speaker 9: Lou's done nothing but talk about you, Mrs. Gehrig. I'm
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: so happy. I.
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: I got some refreshments in the other room.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Come on, everybody. By the end of next season, you
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: can finish up and... then come back here and get
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: a little house and fix it up. And then we'll
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: get married. Oh!
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: I'm sorry, miss, but I'm trying to clean up this lobby.
• 29:49
  Speaker 12: That's my job.
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry. Oh, Lou, I think we're getting a gentle
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: hint that it's late. I'd better go up to my room.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Okay. Good night, Eleanor.
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: Good night. Oh, Lou, do you think your mother likes me?
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Like you? Well, how could she help liking you?
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: I'm just wondering. I guess I was wrong.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: What about?
• 30:10
  Speaker 9: Oh, nothing. Good night.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Good night. I must say, miss, you have picked out
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: the most beautiful number in the store.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: Yes, it's lovely.
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: Ellie, if you are looking for a chiffon robe.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Oh, I found it, Mom.
• 30:26
  Speaker 9: Look, just what I want. Isn't it beautiful?
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: It don't look very practical. And it looks second-hand, too.
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: It's an antique.
• 30:33
  Speaker 9: Antique.
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: Louis can afford to buy new stuff. I'll show you, Ellie.
• 30:38
  Speaker 7: Look at this one over here. Strong and practical. It
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: lasts a lifetime.
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: But, Mom, I worked out sort of a scheme.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: It was only a suggestion.
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: You see the rug in the bedroom?
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: Oh, the rug.
• 30:48
  Speaker 9: That reminds me.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: Look at this pattern, Ellie.
• 30:51
  Speaker 9: You see?
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: And the rug is exactly the right size for your
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: living room.
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: That's the pattern.
• 30:57
  Speaker 6: Look at the flowers and the birds. It will go
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: with any kind of drapes because it's got so many colors.
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: Well, I was planning on it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: It's almost an exact duplicate of the first rock.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: We had in our house, only more so. That's why
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: I bought it for you. It's your wedding present, Ellie.
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: Oh, thank you, Mom.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: The house is really getting to look like something, Ellie.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Where do you want this chipper robe, lady?
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: Oh, but that's not the right chipper robe.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: I asked them to bring it up, Ellie, to see.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: How it would look.
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: Put it down over there.
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: But, Mom.
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: You can live with it for a.
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: While, and then if you don't like it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: I can send it back.
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: I promise you won't send it back.
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: Not with a scarf on it.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: You can stay in this room, Max.
• 31:50
  Speaker 9: Oh, what's that?
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: The bedroom paper, miss.
• 31:52
  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm sorry. You've made a mistake. It's the wrong pattern.
• 31:55
  Speaker 9: This is the one I selected.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, it was changed this morning.
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: Who changed it?
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: I did. Isn't this one beautiful?
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: Oh, but, ma'am, that's the wrong pattern I picked out.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: I guarantee you wouldn't like it if you saw it
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: on the wall, and neither would Louie.
• 32:08
  Speaker 9: Oh, but Lou was with me when I picked it out.
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: He liked it.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: Oh, men like anything. Where's Lou?
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: He's upstairs.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, just wait until he sees this paper.
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: Like he had when he.
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: Was a little boy.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Give me that screwdriver, will you, Pop? Louie, listen a minute. What, Pop?
• 32:24
  Speaker 17: Louie, I never gave you much advice. First, you wouldn't
• 32:28
  Speaker 17: take it. Second, I've been married 35.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Years, Louie. And I've learned one thing. Well?
• 32:35
  Speaker 17: Can't you read between the lines, Louie? It's not anything
• 32:38
  Speaker 17: I can say in so many words. And yet, it's
• 32:41
  Speaker 17: something that if you don't handle it right... Don't say
• 32:45
  Speaker 17: anything about.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: This to Mama, huh? About what? What I told you.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: What does it tell me? Well, can I be plainer?
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: But you like this pattern, Ellie.
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: I know. It's all right, Mom. It doesn't make that
• 32:58
  Speaker 9: much difference.
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: And if you don't like the chiffon.
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: I'll probably get used to it.
• 33:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, you are very sweet, Ellie, to admit you are wrong. Ellie.
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, Louis, look.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: The same wallpaper you had when you were a little boy.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Ellie, what's the matter? Nothing.
• 33:16
  Speaker 9: I just... Excuse me a minute.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Oh. What's wrong with Ellie?
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: Ellie? Nothing.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: What happened? Was it about this?
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: The chiffon robe?
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Yes. That's not the one she ordered. She wanted.
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: It wasn't practical.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Not even mahogany. The drawers were too small.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: But she liked it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: She liked the other wallpaper, too, at first. But I
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: convinced her. Oh, she's very sensible, Louie.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: You are lucky to get a girl like her.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: That's right. Sit down, will you, Mom?
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: What?
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Sit down, Mom, please. Oh, yes, Lou. Ellie, I just
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: had a nice talk with your future mother-in-law.
• 34:06
  Speaker 9: What about?
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Oh, lots of things, mostly about interior decorating. You know
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: that wallpaper she picked out?
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: Yes, it's very nice.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Well, I saw it, and it's terrible, and so is
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: that chipper robe.
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: You mean the one that just came in?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I mean the one that just went out. I told
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: them to take it back. I'd have nightmares looking at
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: that thing.
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: Oh, Lou Gehrig, I think I could learn to like you.
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: But I hope you didn't hurt Mom's feelings.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I probably did, but she'll get over it. You can't
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: run a baseball team with two captains or a household
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: with two bosses. There's going to be only one boss
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: of this house, so you'd better get that apron off
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: and get your nose powdered.
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: I just telephoned Sam Blake to get the mayor of
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: New Rochelle over here right away.
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: What for?
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Why, I thought you wanted to get married.
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: You mean now?
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: This morning?
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And for the honeymoon, do you know where I'll
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: take you? Where? The ball game.
• 34:54
  Speaker 11: Oh, darling, I love ball games.
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: They went to the Yankee Stadium right after the ceremony.
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: A great day in the life of Lou Gehrig. But
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: there was another turn in the road that was coming.
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: Only we didn't know it then. Lou and Eleanor were
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: all smiled when the photographer snapped their pictures on the field.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: We'll get a great play on these pictures. Taking the
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: day Lou won all three American League championships.
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: Batting average, home run. You got it wrong, fella. This
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: is the day I got married.
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Lou was all smiled. That turn in the road
• 35:46
  Speaker 8: was just ahead. A tough turn to take, and he
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: was traveling toward it fast.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: We pause now for.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: Inspection identification. In just a few moments, Mr.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: DeMille presents Gary Cooper with Virginia Bruce and Edgar Buchanan
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: in Act Three of The Pride of the Yankees.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: And now, let's listen to two very pleased young men. Hey, Joe,
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: pinch me, will you?
• 36:38
  Speaker 16: Rita Hayworth just lighted a cigarette for me.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Think you're somebody, huh? Well, look me over, pal. Who
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: do you think I just had coffee with? Betty Grable.
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: That was no imaginary scene, Mr.
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: Kennedy. It happened at the Hollywood canteen.
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: And every night, the servicemen who drop in are welcomed
• 36:54
  Speaker 13: by famous stars like Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, Libby, screen stars give unselfishly of time and effort.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: to make that canteen a grand success. Lots of them
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: put in an evening there, even when they've been working
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: hard on a picture all day.
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: And look fresh as daisies, too, Mr. Kennedy.
• 37:09
  Speaker 13: Though usually they don't have as much time to rest
• 37:12
  Speaker 13: as the average busy person. But here's something they depend
• 37:15
  Speaker 13: on to give them a real beauty pickup.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Something to do with luxe toilet soap, maybe, Libby?
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: But definitely, Mr. Kennedy.
• 37:21
  Speaker 13: It's a luxe soap beauty bath, and it's a screen
• 37:24
  Speaker 13: star's formula for quick refreshment after a long day. Rita
• 37:27
  Speaker 13: Hayworth says she loves the creamy luxe soap lather. The
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: way it leaves skin fresh and sweet. Betty Grable says
• 37:34
  Speaker 13: her Lux soap bath is so refreshing. She's keen about
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: the nice perfume it leaves on the skin, too.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Well, Libby, that's a real Hollywood beauty tip.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: It's true that the lovely stars who use Lux toilet
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: soap regularly for their million-dollar complexions find it makes a
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: delightful bath soap, too.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Try it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: You'll agree with the stars who say the creamy, active
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: lather leaves skin exquisitely fresh and smooth. Makes daintiness sure.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Luxe toilet soap is hard-milled, so each fragrant white cake
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: lasts a long time. These days, when it's patriotic to
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: save soap, that's important. And Luxe soap will last even
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: longer if you're careful to put it in a soap
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: dish that's dry. So treat yourself to the real luxury
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: of a daily Luxe soap bath. You'll find it very
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: inexpensive because Hollywood's beauty soap costs but a few cents
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: a cake.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: And now, Mr. DeMille returns to the microphone.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: It's a long time since Gary Cooper has been in
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: the Lux Radio Theater. And you'll meet him in person
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: after the play. Now the curtain rises on the third
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: act of The Pride of the Yankees. Starring Gary Cooper
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: with Virginia Bruce and Edgar Buchanan.
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: I guess there never were two happier people in the
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: world than Lou and Ellie Gehrig.
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: No, sir. He was the proudest wife I ever saw.
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: She used to stand in front of the cabinet that
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: held all Lou's trophies, just looking.
• 39:06
  Speaker 9: The most valuable player in the American League. Dad was right,
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: wasn't he? He knew a ball player when he saw one.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: Hey!
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: What's the matter, Lou?
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: It's funny. When you said that, that Chicago restaurant jumped
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: right up in my lap. But that wasn't yesterday, was it?
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Tangled foot? No.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: No.
• 39:27
  Speaker 9: But I certainly didn't know what I was walking into
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: that night. Mr. Gehrig, meet Miss Twitchell. And I left
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: my little world behind me.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Your world? What do you mean?
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: Oh, darling, baseball, life's so different.
• 39:38
  Speaker 18: Sort of a little world all by itself. You play
• 39:41
  Speaker 18: it in the spring and the summer and the fall
• 39:42
  Speaker 18: and you talk about it in the winter.
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: You really eat, drink, and sleep it.
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes, you have had a dish of it. Look, say,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: how's this, Ellie? Those spring training trips must be pretty
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: dull for a girl. How about you passing up Florida
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: this spring? You know, take a little vacation for yourself.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: Oh, all right, Lou.
• 40:05
  Speaker 18: Has been a long time since you've palled around with
• 40:07
  Speaker 18: the team. Give you a little vacation, too. We have
• 40:10
  Speaker 18: seen a lot of each other.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's an idea.
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: Yes, it is.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Well, let's settle.
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, Lou, you don't want me to win. Ellie, you
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: don't want to stay here, do you? I didn't mean that.
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: Neither did I.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Well, then what'd you say it for?
• 40:26
  Speaker 6: You said it. Oh, Lou, that tickles.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: Hey, you're going to leave me, huh? Lou! Hey, get this,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: my hammerlock.
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: Oh, darling, the table.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Hey, uncle, I got your shoulders down. I got you.
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: All right, I give up.
• 40:37
  Speaker 13: Hey.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Hiya, folks. Hey, what goes on? Just a little wrestling match, Sam.
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: Oh, Sam.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: Hey, you just handed me my next story on a
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: silver platter. How I beat my wife by Lou Gehrig.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Next. We'll kill him, look. You lay off our private life, Sam.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: And what'll I write about? Oh, about a half a column. Fine, fine.
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: If I were in the middle of the Sahara Desert,
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: dying of thirst, you'd bring me vinegar.
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: Want some more, Lou?
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they're great. These are the kind of flapjacks
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Mom used to make.
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: Mom's recipes, if you didn't know it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Anybody home?
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: In here.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: Mom and Pop, they said they'd be over this morning.
• 41:23
  Speaker 16: Hello. Hello, Pop.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Hello, Ellie.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: Hello, Ellie.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Hello, Mom.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Hello, Louie. Hello, Pop. Hello, Lou. Hello, Mom. Sit down, Pop.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Sit down, Pop, and have some breakfast. Eating breakfast?
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: Yes, Lou's been raving about your flapjack recipe, Mom.
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: Don't let him eat too many, Ellie. He'll get fat.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: What if I do? Then I can quit baseball.
• 41:41
  Speaker 18: What?
• 41:41
  Speaker 11: Louie.
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: Are you crazy?
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I've always had a hankering to go in for engineering.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: You know that, Mom. Engineering.
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: The best ball player in the world wastes his time
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: like that.
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: Well, Lou always told me that his Uncle Otto... Uncle Otto.
• 41:56
  Speaker 15: Schmotto.
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: Digging stitches.
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: That's all he ever did. The world's full of Ottos.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: But how many Lou Gehrigs are there?
• 42:05
  Speaker 17: Look at him, Mama, eating flapjacks on the most important
• 42:08
  Speaker 17: day of his life.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: Important?
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: Lou, don't tell me you have forgotten what day this is.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Ellie?
• 42:14
  Speaker 9: Not your birthday, is it?
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: I'm surprised at you, Ellie.
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: Today's the day Lou Gehrig is playing his 2,000th consecutive
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: baseball game.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: So what? So what?
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Look at him, pretending he don't care.
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: Come on, get a wiggle on you. The ballpark will
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: be crowded and the fence will give you an automobile.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: An automobile? Maybe they'll give him a yacht. Sure, I'd
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: better go, huh?
• 42:39
  Speaker 18: Well, all right, if that's the way you feel about it.
• 42:41
  Speaker 18: But I warn you, all you'll get is a horseshoe
• 42:44
  Speaker 18: of roses. Don't be a cynic, Annie. A horseshoe of
• 42:46
  Speaker 18: roses with good luck Lou.
• 42:48
  Speaker 9: Gehrig on a rhythm.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: They'll give him an automobile at least.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I say a yacht. Sure, at least. All right, all right.
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: But you'll come home with a horseshoe of roses.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Ellie. Ellie. Are you home?
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: Evening, Mr. Garrick. Oh, what's that thing?
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: Well, this is a horseshoe of roses. The fans gave
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: it to me.
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: Well, what do you know? Set it down. Lovely, isn't it?
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: Good luck, little Garrick. No automobile, Mr.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: Garrick?
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: Uh-uh.
• 43:26
  Speaker 9: No yacht?
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: Uh-uh. No, I was lucky to get away with my life.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I struck out three times. The last time in the
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: ninth with the bases full.
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: Oh, darling.
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: Darling, I'd give you the Yankee Stadium.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Well, I wanted to knock a home run for you today, but...
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Maybe I tried too hard.
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: Good luck, Lou Gehrig.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Good luck.
• 43:48
  Speaker 9: If they only knew what I know.
• 43:49
  Speaker 18: If they only realized what lies back of those 2,000
• 43:52
  Speaker 18: games you've played.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Here, darling.
• 43:55
  Speaker 9: Here's a rosebud for you from me.
• 43:57
  Speaker 18: This is for the time you had a 103 fever
• 43:59
  Speaker 18: and played a doubleheader.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Well, this is one for you for having brown eyes.
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: And here's one for you when you played 12 innings
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: in St. Louis with a broken toe.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: And here's one for being the greatest fan a man
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: ever had.
• 44:08
  Speaker 18: And here's for the time in Chicago you got beamed
• 44:10
  Speaker 18: and went on planes.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Hey, take it easy. Cut it out. Hey, look out.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: You're tickling. No fair.
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: Hey.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 44:17
  Speaker 9: This is for not bringing home a yacht.
• 44:18
  Speaker 18: No, stop.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: You want to wrestle, huh?
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: Hey.
• 44:22
  Speaker 18: Ellie.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Ellie, wait.
• 44:23
  Speaker 18: What's the matter?
• 44:24
  Speaker 9: Come on, now, don't pretend. I won fair and square.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, wait a second.
• 44:28
  Speaker 10: No, what is it?
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: It's... It's my shoulder.
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: What's the matter with it?
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It feels... It feels funny. I must
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: have sprained it or something. Felt kind of stiff at
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: the game, too. Maybe... Hey, maybe that's why I struck out.
• 44:44
  Speaker 9: Come on, darling.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: I'll get the liniment.
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: It was more than a sprain. A sprain would work
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: out in a week or so. This thing went on.
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: It wasn't only the shoulder, either. Lou began to slow down.
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: Couldn't seem to run out a sure hit. Fielding went haywire.
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: He finished out the season, though, and he started with
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: the team again the following year. He was getting worse
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: all the time. Then came the afternoon when he used
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: to be taken out.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Of the game. Your attention, please.
• 45:24
  Speaker 15: Gallagher now playing.
• 45:26
  Speaker 19: First base for New York.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Replacing Garrett. 2,130 games. 14 years.
• 45:33
  Speaker 9: It's just routine, Lou.
• 45:48
  Speaker 8: When a place like this, they give you x-rays, the cardiograph,
• 45:51
  Speaker 8: the metabolism, the fluoroscope, the works. Then they're liable to
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: tell you you got dandruff. It's happened time and again.
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: I had a friend of mine came here once. Got
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: any chewing gum, Sam?
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, here.
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: I had a talk with the doc the other day, Lou.
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: He said he never ran up against a better physical specimen.
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: Stronger than Oxy said you were. I talked it over
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: with the x-ray guy, too. Boy, what a send-off he
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: gave you. Heart okay, lungs okay, everything okay. Lou, I'll
• 46:16
  Speaker 8: bet you tend to one.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Here's the doc. Hiya, doc. Well, uh, how did I do, doctor? Mr. Gehrig,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid you'll have to give up baseball for a while.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, doc. I'm a man who likes to know
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: his batting average. I've only made a superficial examination of
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: the tests. We'll need some new x-rays. Give it to
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: me straight. Am I through with baseball? I'm afraid so.
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: Any worse than that? You heard what the doc said, Lou.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: He's got to go over the tests again.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, wait a minute. Is it three strikes, Doc? You
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: want it straight? Sure I do. Straight. It's three strikes.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: I see. Doc, I've learned one thing. All the arguing
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: in the world can't change the decision of the umpire.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: How much time have I got? Well, pardon me. Yes? Oh,
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: have Mrs. Gehrig come in, please.
• 47:19
  Speaker 10: Look, Doc, I don't want Mrs.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Gehrig to know, ever. I understand. But the newspapers? Oh,
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: Sam here can take care of that, can't you, Sam? Well, sure,
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: sure I will. Here, leave it to me. I'll cook
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: up something. Hello. Hi, Ellie. Well, darling, the verdict's in.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not such a bad ball player. I've really got something,
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: haven't I, Doc?
• 47:43
  Speaker 9: What is it?
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 47:45
  Speaker 10: Well, I'd be cured of it by the time I
• 47:47
  Speaker 10: learned how to pronounce it.
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: Can you pronounce it, Doctor?
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Well, we really haven't concluded all our tests. Come along, Mr.
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: Gettig.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: They're waiting in the x-ray room. Just one more for
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: the record, huh? Sure. Right back, Ellie.
• 48:02
  Speaker 9: Sam, what did the doctor tell Lou?
• 48:05
  Speaker 10: Say, Ellie, you never get all the pictures they've taken
• 48:08
  Speaker 10: of him into that scrapbook of yours.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: You'd think he was a glamour boy.
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: What did the doctor tell him, Sam?
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Nothing.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Nothing at all, Lee.
• 48:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, some little thing with a long name with some
• 48:18
  Speaker 10: kind of itis.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know. He'll have to lay off for a while.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: So what? He'll be back next season for the season after.
• 48:26
  Speaker 9: Tell me the truth.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I am telling the truth, Ellie, honest. I swear it.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I swear on a stack of Bibles. You heard what
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: the doctor said.
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: When is Lou going to die?
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: Ellie, who told you?
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: Nobody had to tell me. I could read it in
• 48:42
  Speaker 9: your eyes, all of you. Oh, it's all right, Sam.
• 48:46
  Speaker 9: He'll never find out that I know him. Only he's
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: so young yet.
• 48:52
  Speaker 13: So strong.
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: Oh, Sam.
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: That was a sad thing to watch. Lou and Ellie
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: hiding from each other, the thing they both knew. What
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: everyone in America knew.
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: But it was never mentioned.
• 49:15
  Speaker 10: Even when it got so bad that Lou couldn't lift
• 49:18
  Speaker 10: his arms to fix his tie.
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: Ellie had to do it for him.
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: There you are. You look beautiful.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Ellie.
• 49:25
  Speaker 10: I never could tie a bow tie.
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: You know what?
• 49:28
  Speaker 18: This Lou Gehrig day affair, personally, I think it's a
• 49:30
  Speaker 18: come on. A ballyhoo to get more money out of
• 49:32
  Speaker 18: the Yankees next season.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: Hey.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: Hey, we're going to knock them dead when we come back, huh?
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Did you think we can get 50,000 out of those
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: tight wads?
• 49:42
  Speaker 18: Not a cent under 100,000. Why, it stands to reason, Lou,
• 49:45
  Speaker 18: you'll be twice as good after you've had a rest.
• 49:48
  Speaker 18: But you know, we've never had a honeymoon. Why shouldn't
• 49:52
  Speaker 18: we have one now?
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: Sure, better late than never. Hey, what about Niagara Falls, huh?
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: Sure, and then we can go up to northern Canada
• 50:00
  Speaker 9: and go fishing.
• 50:01
  Speaker 10: You know what I've been thinking? Maybe we could take
• 50:04
  Speaker 10: a trip around the world.
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: Yes, all the things we've never had time for. We've
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: all the time in the world now, haven't we?
• 50:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we have all the time in the world now. Oh, here,
• 50:16
  Speaker 10: I've got something for you.
• 50:18
  Speaker 9: What?
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Open it up and see. It's a bracelet. I had
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: it made up from some of the hardware I've collected.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Like it, Ellie?
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: Oh, Lou, I adore it.
• 50:30
  Speaker 9: Darling, I remember when you got every one of these medals.
• 50:33
  Speaker 10: That's the one I get the most kick out of.
• 50:34
  Speaker 10: The batting championship I won the year we were married.
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: Here, Ellie. Are you crying?
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: I've got to write and cry a little. It's so beautiful.
• 50:46
  Speaker 10: I wanted you to have it, Ellie, because... Because you've
• 50:51
  Speaker 10: given me so much.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: You've been so... You've been.
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: Darling, are you making love to me?
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: You bet I am.
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: Lou Gehrig Day, they called it. And 60,000 people jammed
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: the Yankee Stadium to pay him tribute. On the way
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: to the field, Ellie walked alongside Lou. She had to
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: stay close to him now, holding his arm, trying not
• 51:22
  Speaker 8: to let him know that she was helping him to walk.
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: Then a kid came up to Lou, a young fellow
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: about 18.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Oh, Mr. Gehrig. Oh, yeah. Mr.
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: Gary, don't you remember me?
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: You knocked out two home runs for me one afternoon.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Oh, sure, sure. I remember you. How are you, son?
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Just great.
• 51:40
  Speaker 19: I've been waiting here all afternoon because I had to
• 51:43
  Speaker 19: tell you something. I just got in town today and
• 51:45
  Speaker 19: I had to tell you. I did what you said.
• 51:48
  Speaker 19: I tried hard and I made it. Look, I can walk.
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: Well, gee, that's great work, kid. That's wonderful. Hey, uh... Uh,
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: have you got a ticket for the game? Yes, sir,
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: you bet. Well, well, so long. So long, Mr.
• 52:05
  Speaker 9: Gehrig.
• 52:14
  Speaker 10: 60,000 people come there to show Rue Gehrig what they felt.
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: In their hearts.
• 52:19
  Speaker 10: To say farewell to the pride of the Yankees.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: Mary LaGuardia was there. Babe Ruth.
• 52:27
  Speaker 10: Postmaster General Jim Farley.
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: There were speeches about Lou... and Ellie was.
• 52:34
  Speaker 8: listening away off there in the shadow of the player's entrance...
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: where she could cry without anyone seeing her. She was
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: waiting there to take him home.
• 52:44
  Speaker 10: sit with him... help him around that... turn in the
• 52:48
  Speaker 10: road that was coming to Sue... so soon.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: Then... Lou came up to the microphone... He was all
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: choked up.
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: The crowd rose to its feet and they told him
• 53:02
  Speaker 8: they loved him.
• 53:13
  Speaker 20: I've been walking on ball fields for 16 years and
• 53:21
  Speaker 20: I've never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: I've had the.
• 53:30
  Speaker 20: Great honor to have played with these great veteran ballplayers
• 53:34
  Speaker 20: on my left, Murders Row, our championship team of 1927.
• 53:44
  Speaker 20: I've had the further honor of living with and playing
• 53:48
  Speaker 20: with these men on my.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: Right, the Bronx Bombers, the Yankees of today. I... have
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: been given fame.
• 53:59
  Speaker 20: And undeserved praise by the boys up there behind the
• 54:03
  Speaker 20: wire in the press box, my friends.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: The sports writers.
• 54:08
  Speaker 20: I've worked under the two greatest managers of all time,
• 54:13
  Speaker 20: Miller Huggins and Joe McCarthy. I have a mother.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: And father who fought.
• 54:22
  Speaker 20: To give me health and a solid.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: Background in my youth.
• 54:28
  Speaker 14: I have a wife, a companion for life, who has
• 54:35
  Speaker 14: shown me more courage than I ever knew.
• 54:42
  Speaker 20: People all say that I've had.
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: A bad break, but today....
• 54:49
  Speaker 20: Today, I consider myself the luckiest man.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: On the face of the earth.
• 55:23
  Speaker 15: Those who sat up behind home plates and over back.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Of first base and out on the beaches.
• 55:30
  Speaker 15: Won't forget the day Lou Gehrig said goodbye. And here
• 55:34
  Speaker 15: in the Lux Radio Theater, we'll always remember the sincerity
• 55:37
  Speaker 15: of Gary Cooper, Virginia Bruce, and Edgar Buchanan.
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Thank you, C.B. Glad to be back here.
• 55:44
  Speaker 18: You know, it's a funny thing about Americans. You can
• 55:46
  Speaker 18: take a boy and put him in a jungle on
• 55:48
  Speaker 18: New Guinea or somewhere. He'll still want to know how
• 55:50
  Speaker 18: the ball game came on.
• 55:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah, and if the fellow's from Brooklyn and he's carrying
• 55:54
  Speaker 10: a gun, you better tell him quick.
• 55:55
  Speaker 15: How are you and Mr.
• 55:58
  Speaker 10: DeMille getting along.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: With the story of Dr. Wasso, Gary? Okay.
• 56:02
  Speaker 15: I think everything must be going well, Edgar. They tell
• 56:05
  Speaker 15: me Gary turned up at the Paramount Portrait Photographers the
• 56:09
  Speaker 15: other day to have his picture taken. And there's probably
• 56:11
  Speaker 15: not a man in the United States who hates to
• 56:14
  Speaker 15: have his picture taken.
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: As much as Gary. Well, it must have been pretty important.
• 56:19
  Speaker 15: Well, after the photographer was revived from the shock and
• 56:22
  Speaker 15: discovered how important it was.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: He went to work.
• 56:24
  Speaker 15: Set up a lot of lights, found the right camera angle,
• 56:26
  Speaker 15: and made a really artistic portrait.
• 56:29
  Speaker 9: What did you want it for, Gary?
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: Fishing license.
• 56:34
  Speaker 8: I guess you and CB must have a pretty exciting
• 56:36
  Speaker 8: picture coming up.
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: Same old DeMille. How's that? Big bathtub scene. Beautiful girls? No, me.
• 56:46
  Speaker 9: Gary Cooper and a DeMille bathtub scene.
• 56:48
  Speaker 7: Isn't it?
• 56:49
  Speaker 9: Just one thing I want to know. What kind of
• 56:51
  Speaker 9: soap did you use?
• 56:53
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• 56:54
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• 56:57
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• 56:59
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• 57:02
  Speaker 15: Now, if you give credit to Lux, Virginia, there's no
• 57:04
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• 57:06
  Speaker 10: Well, what are you figuring on for next week, C.B.?
• 57:09
  Speaker 10: A screenplay that's a hit all over the country right now, Gary.
• 57:12
  Speaker 15: It's the 20th century Fox picture, Heaven Can Wait. And
• 57:17
  Speaker 15: our stars will be Donna Michie and Maureen O'Hara. This
• 57:22
  Speaker 15: is a delightfully original story of a man who all
• 57:26
  Speaker 15: his life had a certain amount of trouble with women.
• 57:31
  Speaker 15: Heaven can wait as drama and as comedy, the kind
• 57:33
  Speaker 15: you expect from an Ernst Lubitsch picture. And that means
• 57:37
  Speaker 15: you will have good entertainment next Monday night.
• 57:39
  Speaker 9: I know your audience will like that, Mr.
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: DeMille.
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: Good night.
• 57:41
  Speaker 16: Good night.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Good night. Good night.
• 57:43
  Speaker 9: See you on the set, Donna.
• 57:50
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• 57:54
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• 58:04
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• 58:09
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• 58:13
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• 58:16
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• 58:20
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• 58:22
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• 58:31
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• 58:34
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• 58:36
  Speaker 15: Luxe Radio Theater presents Don Amici and Maureen O'Hara in
• 58:42
  Speaker 15: Heaven Can Wait. This is Cecil B. DeMille saying good
• 58:46
  Speaker 15: night to you from Hollywood.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: If you haven't heard George Burns and Gracie Allen this year,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: you've been missing great entertainment and some of the season's
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: biggest laughs. They're on the Columbia Network every Tuesday evening
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: with a great cast, Jimmy Cash, Felix.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Mills, and his orchestra.
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: So hear George Burns and Gracie Allen tomorrow night at
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: this same hour over your Columbia station. Gary Cooper is
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: now appearing.
• 59:16
  Speaker 10: In the Paramount picture for Whom the Bell Tolls.
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: Virginia Bruce is.
• 59:20
  Speaker 15: Currently making the RKO picture, International Zone.
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: Edgar Buchanan is working in the 20th Century Fox production,
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: Buffalo Bill. Heard in tonight's play were Elsa Jansen as Mom,
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Griff Barnett as Pop, and Hugh Bleese, Ken Christie, Robert Harris,
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: Bobby Larson, Joe Panario, Eugene Forsythe, Stanley Farrar, and Boyd Davis,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Norman Field, Eddie Marr, Leo Cleary, and Charles Seal. Our
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: music was directed by Louis Silvers, and this is.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Your announcer, John M.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: Kennedy, reminding you to tune in next Monday night to
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: hear Donna Michi and Marina O'Hara in Heaven Can Wait. Mothers,
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• 1:00:06
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