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Lux Radio Theatre - "A Man's Castle" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young reprise their screen roles as
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Speaker 1: Bill and Trina in this luxe radio theater presentation adapted
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Speaker 1: from Columbia Pictures' 1933 motion picture. Broadcast on CBS on
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Speaker 1: March 27th, 1939, A Man's Castle, episode 212, takes listeners
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Speaker 1: to Depression-era New York, where a penniless drifter meets a
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Speaker 1: hungry young woman in Central Park and brings her to
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Speaker 1: a riverside shantytown on the Hudson. Their unexpected companionship begins
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Speaker 1: to challenge Bill's fierce independence, as both seek dignity, security,
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Speaker 1: and the meaning of home amid hard times.
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Speaker 2: Cecil B.
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Speaker 1: DeMille is producer and host, with Arthur Hole returning as Bragg.
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Speaker 1: Martha Wentworth, Perry Ivins, and Margaret Brayton are heard in
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Speaker 1: supporting roles.
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Speaker 2: Father Edward J.
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Speaker 1: Flanagan, founder of Boys Town, appears as the special guest.
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Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 3: From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Spencer Tracy
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Speaker 3: and Loretta Young in A Man's Castle.
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Speaker 4: Lux presents Hollywood. A Man's Castle, a drama of two
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Speaker 4: people who have nothing but themselves, yet find love and
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Speaker 4: beauty and hope in a world that's all but passed
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Speaker 4: them by. Starred, as they were in the original cast,
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Speaker 4: are Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young with Arthur Ho. Tonight's
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Speaker 4: special guest is Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder and director
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Speaker 4: of the home made world famous by Spencer Tracy's recent picture,
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Speaker 4: Boys Town.
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Speaker 2: Louis Silvers conducts our music.
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Speaker 4: If you were a screen star with a million-dollar complexion,
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Speaker 4: what soap would you use? As fine as money you
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Speaker 4: could buy, of course. So we think it's a pretty
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Speaker 4: wonderful compliment to Luxe Toilet Soap that nine out of
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Speaker 4: ten famous screen stars use it. Lux Toilet Soap has
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Speaker 2: It's when pores are choked in this.
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Speaker 4: Way that unattractive cosmetic skin develops with its dullness, tiny blemishes,
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Speaker 4: and enlarged pores. Use cosmetics all you like, but be
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Speaker 4: sure to use Lux Toilet Soap regularly. Before you renew makeup,
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Speaker 4: always before you go to bed at night. You'll find
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Speaker 4: And now, the producer of the Lux Radio Theater. Ladies
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Speaker 4: and gentlemen, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Cecil B. DeMille.
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Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Before they were big
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Speaker 4: enough to see over a windowsill, both Spencer Tracy and
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Speaker 4: Loretta Young were established actors. Loretta made her first movie
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Speaker 4: at the age of four, and Spencer Tracy, overlooking his
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Speaker 4: two Academy Awards, still contends that his best performances were
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Speaker 4: delivered as a boy when he gave remarkably successful impressions
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Speaker 4: of getting out of.
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Speaker 2: Bed for school.
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Speaker 4: He'd respond to his mother's call with a great clatter
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Speaker 4: and dropping of shoes on the floor, then promptly bounce
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Speaker 4: back to bed. Spence hails from Milwaukee. where he had
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Speaker 4: three special friends. One was called Mousy, another was Ratty,
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Speaker 4: and the third was, and still is, Pat O'Brien. Years later,
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Speaker 4: he and Pat shared a boarding house room in New
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Speaker 4: York where Spence learned dramatics and how to live on
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Speaker 4: pretzels and rice. His previous education had been acquired during
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Speaker 4: enlistments in Rippon College and the United States Navy. First
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Speaker 4: to employ him on Broadway was the Theater Guild. They
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Speaker 4: decided he was worth $ 15 a week to act in R.U.R.
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Speaker 2: He played a robot.
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Speaker 4: Spence today has millions of fans, but none is more
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Speaker 4: enthusiastic about him than he is about his favorite actors,
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Speaker 4: George M. Cohen and the late Will Rogers. He lives
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Speaker 4: in San Fernando Valley and has a tremendous liking for boats, horses,
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Speaker 4: and black tea. His farm is also the address of
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Speaker 4: his two sharpest critics, his young son and daughter, who
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Speaker 4: admit he's all right in pictures, but much prefer Johnny
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Speaker 4: Weissmuller as Tarzan.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 4: Tracy, who appears through courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is temporarily on
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Speaker 4: the 20th Century Fox lot, making Stanley and Livingston. At
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Speaker 4: the same studio, Loretta Young just completed the story of
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Speaker 4: Alexander Graham Bell, another fine performance, we're told, by the
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Speaker 4: girl who reached the heights of stardom through the unbeatable
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Speaker 4: combination of natural talent and hard work. Loretta's the most
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Speaker 4: famous of Hollywood's own four daughters. for the screen also
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Speaker 4: claims her three delightful sisters, Sally Blaine, Polly Ann, and
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Speaker 4: Georgiana Young, with a personality as enchanting as her beauty.
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Speaker 4: Miss Young, as well as Mr. Tracy, starred on the
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Speaker 4: screen in A Man's Castle, and both are here resuming
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Speaker 4: their celebrated roles, Loretta as Trina and Spencer as Bill.
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Speaker 4: Also from the film comes Arthur Hole, playing Bragg. Now
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Speaker 4: it's time for the play. The Lux Radio Theater presents
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Speaker 4: Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young in A Man's Castle. It's
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Speaker 4: a midsummer evening in New York. On a bench in
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Speaker 4: Central Park sits a young man, a sartorial sensation in
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Speaker 4: evening clothes, complete with tails, Inverness cape, opera hat, and cane.
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Speaker 4: With grand nonchalance, this modern beau brummel is feeding the
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Speaker 4: pigeons from a bag of popcorn which he holds in
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Speaker 4: his lap. He flicks an occasional glance at the other
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Speaker 4: end of the bench toward the girl who sits there,
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Speaker 4: shabbily dressed but defiantly neat. The girl is acting very strangely.
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Speaker 4: As she watches the pigeons eating, there is a desperate,
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Speaker 4: almost hysterical look in her eyes. The man in evening
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Speaker 4: clothes studies her for a moment and then speaks quietly.
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Speaker 2: What's the matter? Come on, spill it.
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Speaker 5: I've been watching you ever since you sat down here.
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Speaker 5: You look like you were rehearsing something.
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Speaker 2: What is it?
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Speaker 6: Please. Please, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: Come back here. What's the rush?
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Speaker 6: Let me go or I'll... You'll what? I'll get down
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Speaker 6: on my hands and knees with some of that popcorn.
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Speaker 2: Hey, what is this?
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Speaker 5: I thought I knew all the panhandling routines. Or are
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Speaker 5: you the little girl reporter working on a sob story?
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Speaker 6: Oh, please.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Are you really hungry?
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Speaker 6: I ain't eating in two days.
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Speaker 2: Two days.
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Speaker 7: Why not?
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Speaker 6: I haven't any money.
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Speaker 2: Neither have the pigeons, but they eat. And regular.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it must be great to be a pigeon. There's
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Speaker 8: always somebody throwing you crumbs.
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Speaker 2: If you had the brains of a pigeon, you wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be hungry. Come on, let's eat.
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Speaker 8: Eat?
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Speaker 6: Do you mean it?
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Speaker 2: I said it, didn't I?
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Speaker 9: Come on.
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Speaker 6: But, uh, where are you taking me?
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Speaker 2: Well, uh, Ritz Roof is open.
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Speaker 6: The Ritz Roof?
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Speaker 10: Ritz Roof.
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Speaker 6: Well, I didn't ask for anything like that. I can't
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Speaker 6: go in there in these clothes anyway.
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Speaker 2: Oh, shut up. Clothes got nothing to do with eating.
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Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 7: Want anything else?
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, thanks. This is plenty.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: For a pint size like you, you certainly can put
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Speaker 2: it away. You're hungry, all right.
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Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, but if you think I fell for that line
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Speaker 5: of hooey, you're crazy. Nobody ever has to starve in
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Speaker 5: a town like this.
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Speaker 3: Why not?
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Speaker 2: Because you don't. There's food all over the joint.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but you got to get near it to eat it.
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Speaker 6: Will you have a lot of work for a whole year?
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Speaker 2: I've been out of work all my life. The unemployment
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Speaker 2: problem never bothered me any.
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Speaker 6: It's all right for you. You're rich. You wear your
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Speaker 6: tails and your top hat and you eat steaks a
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Speaker 6: foot thick. A foot thick. You've got what it takes.
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Speaker 2: Sure, I got what it takes, all right.
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Speaker 7: Hey, waiter.
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir? Call the manager. Anything wrong, sir? No, no,
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Speaker 2: everything's swell. I just want to see him a minute.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: You know, you should never order skipped meals.
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Speaker 6: Oh, that was the best food ever I ate. I
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Speaker 6: feel better now.
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Speaker 2: You look better, Jim.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: If you filled out a little, you'd get by in
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Speaker 2: a crowd at that.
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Speaker 6: Well, you can't help the way you're made.
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Speaker 2: Why can't you? Good evening, sir.
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Speaker 6: Hello.
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Speaker 2: You're the manager? Yes, sir.
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Speaker 9: Did you want to see me?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sit down. Why, yes, sir. Well, sir?
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Speaker 5: You know, mister, there's supposed to be 12 million people
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Speaker 5: in this country without work.
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Speaker 2: Did you know that? Oh, yes.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and a lot of them are starving, so they
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Speaker 5: tell me. Now, you take this young lady, for instance.
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Speaker 5: Up to an hour ago, she hadn't eaten for two days,
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Speaker 5: so I brought her in here and fixed her up.
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Speaker 5: She feels well now. Says it's the best food she
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Speaker 5: ever ate.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad to hear that. Thank you. The only
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Speaker 2: trouble is she ain't got a cent, and neither have I.
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 2: What's that? Yeah, yeah. So the feed's on you, brother. Now,
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Speaker 2: look here.
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Speaker 5: Now, you know, there's a lot of ways of handling
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Speaker 5: a case like this. You could call a cop and
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Speaker 5: have the pair of us thrown in the can.
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Speaker 2: Now, just a minute.
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Speaker 5: And we'd be sent to the island where we'd be
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Speaker 5: fed by the state for 30 days at least.
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Speaker 2: The more bums the state has to feed, the more
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Speaker 2: taxes you people have to pay. Is this your idea
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Speaker 2: of a joint? Now, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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Speaker 2: This is one of the joints that throws out enough
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Speaker 2: leftover grub in.
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Speaker 5: A week to feed a thousand people. So you can
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Speaker 5: afford one on the house once in a while.
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Speaker 6: Now, look here.
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Speaker 2: Am I right or wrong?
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Speaker 5: Now, I'll tell you what I'll do with you. I'll
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Speaker 5: put it up to your own customers here. I'll ask
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Speaker 5: them whether it's right for you to let somebody die
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Speaker 5: of hunger right outside your own dump.
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Speaker 2: If they say I'm wrong, I'll admit it.
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Speaker 7: But look, you... Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 2: No, no, shut up. Go on, go on.
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Speaker 7: Get out of here. Get out.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay. The case is dismissed. Come on there, uh, Hoosits.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing like a good walk after dinner.
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Speaker 6: You shouldn't have done that. We might have been arrested.
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Speaker 2: Don't be a dope.
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Speaker 3: Where do you live?
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Speaker 2: I might as well take you home.
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Speaker 6: That'd be all right if I had a home.
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Speaker 2: What's the matter with you? Haven't you got anything?
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Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 2: What do you figure on spending the night?
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Have you got a grip?
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Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 5: Well, get one somewhere, then go to a hotel and register.
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Speaker 5: Stay there till they hand you a bill and then
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Speaker 5: tell them you're broke.
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Speaker 6: And then what happens?
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Speaker 2: Then they throw you out and you go to another hotel.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I couldn't do that.
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Speaker 7: Why not?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'd be afraid. Do you live in hotels that way?
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Speaker 2: No, no, I got no use for hotels.
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Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 6: What do you do for a living?
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Speaker 12: I live.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, but I mean, you must do something
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Speaker 6: with those clothes.
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Speaker 9: Oh, them? Uh-huh.
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Speaker 2: Here. Look at the front of my shirt. What do
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Speaker 2: you see?
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Speaker 6: Why, the front of your shirt.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Now watch.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 2: Now what do you see?
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Speaker 6: It lights up. Your old chest lights up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, sure. You see what it says? I can't
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Speaker 2: you read either.
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Speaker 8: Cavalier Barbershop, 16 chairs. Say, you're an advertiser.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, sure.
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Speaker 2: Two bucks a night for this. All you got to
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Speaker 2: do is walk up and down, flash the light on
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Speaker 2: and off.
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Speaker 8: Is this your regular job?
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Speaker 5: No, no, I don't believe in regular jobs. I'm only
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Speaker 5: doing this for a friend of mine. I sub for
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Speaker 5: him on his night off.
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Speaker 7: Oh.
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Speaker 2: I suppose I'll have to get a place to sleep tonight.
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Speaker 2: What's your name?
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Speaker 6: Trina.
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Speaker 9: Trina?
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Speaker 6: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 2: I knew a cat once called Trina.
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Speaker 6: What's yours?
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Speaker 9: Bill.
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Speaker 6: Bill.
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Speaker 7: Oh, that's nice. Oh.
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Speaker 2: Well, here we are. Who's it? The river on one side,
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Speaker 2: the railroad tracks on the other.
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Speaker 6: Is this where you live?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Bagville on the Hudson. Built right smack on the city dump.
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Speaker 2: How do you like it?
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Speaker 6: Oh, it's swell. Gee, I've been in the city a
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Speaker 6: whole year and never even knew there was such a place.
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Speaker 5: That's one of the best things about it, the privacy.
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Speaker 5: It's the only way to live. No rent, no taxes,
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Speaker 5: running water, a whole river of it. The whole dump
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Speaker 5: is lousy with southern exposure.
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Speaker 2: That's what I like best, them train whistles. To remind
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Speaker 2: you of other places. You hear them all night. Don't
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Speaker 2: you love the sound of it?
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Speaker 6: It's scary, kind of.
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Speaker 3: Nah.
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Speaker 2: Gangway, get out of my way. Here I come, that's
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Speaker 2: what it says. Come on.
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Speaker 6: Which one of these shacks do you live in?
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 5: Mostly I sleep in the open. When it rains, I
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Speaker 5: take my choice. They're all my pals here, and I
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Speaker 5: can muck with any one of them.
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Speaker 6: Oh, they must be swell people.
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Speaker 2: The best. It's funny, when people got nothing, they act
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Speaker 2: like human beings. We get along fine here. It's like
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Speaker 2: one big happy family. Get away from me, I tell you.
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Speaker 2: Don't bother me, or I'll smack you in the teeth.
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Speaker 6: What's that?
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Speaker 2: That's a guy named Bragg. He don't get along so
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Speaker 2: well with his girlfriend. Now, go on.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, you don't. This ain't right where you are.
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Speaker 2: Did you hear what I said? Let go of our brains.
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Speaker 6: You can't two-time me.
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Speaker 7: I'll kill you first.
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Speaker 6: Bragg.
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Speaker 1: Bragg.
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Speaker 2: What do you want? Why don't you let Flossie alone?
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Speaker 2: Why don't you mind your own business?
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Speaker 13: Let her alone or.
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Speaker 2: I'll come over there and help her clean up the
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Speaker 2: place with you. Ah, shut up. What? Nothing. That's better.
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Speaker 5: I was going to ask Flossie to put you up
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Speaker 5: for the night, but maybe that's not so hot.
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Speaker 6: Well, I could sleep in the open, I guess.
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Speaker 2: No, that takes training. I got it.
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Speaker 9: Bear left.
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Speaker 2: Here we are.
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Speaker 11: Seeing him over two, he went up into the mountains
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Speaker 11: and decided.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Ira. What's the good word?
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Speaker 11: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
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Speaker 11: kingdom of heaven.
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Speaker 9: That's the good word.
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Speaker 5: That looks like that Gideon Bible I swiped out of a.
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Speaker 2: Hotel last week.
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Speaker 11: Oh, Bibles can't be stolen. The good word is free.
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Speaker 11: I only wish I could get you to read it, William.
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Speaker 9: I did.
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Speaker 2: I skimmed through it one night. There's some very good
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Speaker 2: reading in it. There's one place especially, the Songs of Solomon.
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Speaker 2: It's great stuff. Hoosits, meet Ira. Ira here used to
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Speaker 2: be a minister, but now he's a night watchman.
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Speaker 9: Oh, not used to, Bill. I am a minister. If
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Speaker 9: I choose to live down here, I have a reason. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, this is Hoosits.
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Speaker 9: How do you do?
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Speaker 6: Nicely, thank you.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, nicely.
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Speaker 2: Only she ain't got a place to sleep.
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Speaker 5: I thought maybe after you checked out, she could camp.
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Speaker 2: Here for the night.
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Speaker 9: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: When do you go to work?
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Speaker 9: 11.30.
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Speaker 2: Okay, she'll check in about 12.
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Speaker 6: Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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Speaker 9: Nuts. Come on.
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Speaker 6: Where are we going now?
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Speaker 2: What do you care? You want to see where I sleep?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, where?
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Speaker 2: You see that barge over there? Right over there?
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Speaker 8: Uh-huh.
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Speaker 2: The reason I like to sleep on that barge is
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Speaker 2: because there's no roof on it.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 6: Gee, it must be wonderful with the water rocking you.
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Speaker 6: Like a cradle, sort of, huh? Look at them ships
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Speaker 6: out there with those sails. They look so kind of
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Speaker 6: peaceful and contented like that.
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Speaker 5: They've been laying there for years, rotting away with barnacles.
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Speaker 5: That's what you get when you're anchored.
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Speaker 6: Well, still and all, it's restful.
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Speaker 2: Restful, yeah. So is the graveyard.
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Speaker 7: Bill.
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Speaker 10: What?
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Speaker 6: You're a funny guy.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Why?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know. What do you do when you're
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Speaker 6: not walking around with your chest lit up?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I do a lot of things.
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Speaker 5: Or maybe nothing at all. Sometimes I walk the stilts.
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Speaker 6: Stilts?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, up on Broadway.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I know what you mean. Way up in the
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Speaker 6: air on those long wooden legs. With a sign on
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Speaker 6: your back.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 6: Is it fun?
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't do it if it wasn't. I like being
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Speaker 2: up there looking over the heads of the crowds. Hey,
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Speaker 2: you're a pretty nosy name, ain't you?
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Speaker 6: I don't mean to be.
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Speaker 2: Forget it.
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Speaker 6: Bill. Bill, I want to thank you. You've been swell
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Speaker 6: to me.
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Speaker 5: I got your free feed, if that's what you mean.
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Speaker 5: I guess you need somebody to look after you.
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Speaker 7: Maybe.
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Speaker 6: And, well, maybe you need somebody to look after you, too, Bill.
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Speaker 2: Me?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I don't mean like that, but... Well, who cooks
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Speaker 8: for you and cleans your shirts and things like that?
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Speaker 7: Nobody.
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Speaker 2: I do it myself.
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Speaker 6: But wouldn't it be better if you had somebody?
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Speaker 2: Now, listen, Hoses, don't be getting any funny ideas.
16:07
Speaker 6: Oh, I'm not.
16:08
Speaker 2: I don't like to be tied down, see? I live
16:12
Speaker 2: alone because that's the way I like to live. I
16:14
Speaker 2: sleep in the open because that's how I like to sleep.
16:16
Speaker 2: And I say what I want and I do what
16:18
Speaker 2: I want, and that's the way I'm going to do
16:19
Speaker 2: things always, see?
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Speaker 6: Oh, but I wouldn't tie you down, Bill. How could I?
16:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. How could you? I'm like the wind, and
16:27
Speaker 2: you can't grab air, can you? Or can you?
16:34
Speaker 12: And through our Lord, who liveth and reigneth within, and
16:41
Speaker 12: the Holy Spirit ever one God, world without end.
16:45
Speaker 9: Amen.
16:46
Speaker 11: Those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.
16:50
Speaker 11: Of course, this isn't a church. But I am a minister,
16:54
Speaker 11: and the words are the same. In the eyes of God,
16:56
Speaker 11: you're now man and wife.
16:59
Speaker 6: Man and wife. Bill, did you hear?
17:02
Speaker 7: Yeah, I heard.
17:05
Speaker 6: Those whom God hath joined.
17:07
Speaker 2: Handcuffed, you mean.
17:08
Speaker 6: Oh, Bill, you said you wanted to.
17:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I got weak. But I told you what
17:13
Speaker 2: it means, right next to nothing.
17:15
Speaker 6: I know, Bill, it's just the idea. I know.
17:29
Speaker 1: Oh, Trina.
17:29
Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Flossie. Where'd you get all that energy from?
17:33
Speaker 6: Every time I see you, you're working. Oh, I was
17:35
Speaker 6: out of work for a whole year. Making up for
17:37
Speaker 6: lost time, I guess. This kind of work's not real work.
17:39
Speaker 6: It's fun. You're the only woman I ever knew who
17:42
Speaker 6: had seven wash days a week. Well, Bill's particular, he is.
17:45
Speaker 6: Anything that goes next to his skin's got to be clean.
17:48
Speaker 6: You know, Flossie, I guess he's the cleanest man in
17:50
Speaker 6: the whole world. One of these days, maybe Bill will
17:53
Speaker 6: buy me a washing machine. That ain't so important just yet.
17:57
Speaker 6: The main thing, Flossie, is a stove. Bill's going to
17:59
Speaker 6: get me a real stove. For a joint like this?
18:01
Speaker 10: Huh?
18:02
Speaker 6: What's the matter with the one you got? Oh, I
18:04
Speaker 6: can only make stew on it. I could cook Bill
18:06
Speaker 6: some wonderful things if I had a real stove.
18:09
Speaker 8: And he's going to get me one, too, as soon
18:10
Speaker 8: as he gets the money.
18:11
Speaker 6: You ever heard of a bindle stiff getting money? What's
18:14
Speaker 6: a bindle stiff? A hobo. Can't stay put. Except maybe
18:17
Speaker 6: in jail.
18:20
Speaker 2: I'm certain.
18:22
Speaker 6: Uh, Bill can make all the money he wants if
18:23
Speaker 6: he wants to. He's got personality, Bill has. He's different.
18:27
Speaker 6: If he was different, would he keep you here in
18:28
Speaker 6: a dump like this? Well, what's the matter with you, Flossie?
18:30
Speaker 6: How can you say a thing like this? This ain't
18:33
Speaker 6: a dump. Not to me, it ain't. It's sort of a... Oh,
18:37
Speaker 6: I can't find the word for it.
18:38
Speaker 8: You know them things they got in the middle of
18:39
Speaker 8: the streets where people can stand till the traffic's safe?
18:41
Speaker 6: Uh, what do you call them? Safety zones? Safety zones.
18:45
Speaker 7: That's it.
18:47
Speaker 6: That's how I feel about this place. Like a sort
18:50
Speaker 6: of a clearing in the forest. Quiet and safe and peaceful.
18:55
Speaker 6: That's the only thing I don't like. Them train whistles.
19:02
Speaker 6: I guess I know why you don't like them. Getting scared,
19:05
Speaker 6: ain't you? Always wondering if that man of yours will
19:08
Speaker 6: be on one of them trains someday.
19:10
Speaker 7: No.
19:12
Speaker 10: Uh-uh.
19:13
Speaker 6: Bill's good to me. He gives me everything I want. Yeah,
19:16
Speaker 6: except maybe a stove. There, you see, Bill? Look at
19:31
Speaker 6: that one over there in the back of the window.
19:33
Speaker 6: Queen of the kitchen. Stove to be proud of.
19:36
Speaker 2: Come on, get out of here. I ain't no window shopper.
19:38
Speaker 6: Oh, it's beautiful, ain't it? And cheap, too. Only $ 5.
19:40
Speaker 7: Huh?
19:41
Speaker 8: Well, that is $ 5 down and only $ 2 a month
19:44
Speaker 8: for only 12 months and no interest.
19:45
Speaker 10: Yeah.
19:46
Speaker 5: No interest is right as far as I'm concerned. I
19:48
Speaker 5: don't go for anything on any installment plan.
19:51
Speaker 6: And only a year that stove would be out.
19:53
Speaker 2: A year? You think I'm going to hang around this
19:55
Speaker 2: town a year?
19:55
Speaker 6: It's such a beautiful all-around kind of a stove.
19:58
Speaker 2: Forget it.
19:59
Speaker 7: Go on home.
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Speaker 6: Ain't you coming too?
20:01
Speaker 2: Not yet. What's for supper tonight?
20:04
Speaker 6: Stew.
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Speaker 9: Stew.
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Speaker 7: Go on home.
20:08
Speaker 14: Bill.
20:10
Speaker 6: Bill, come down close to me. I want to whisper something.
20:12
Speaker 9: What?
20:15
Speaker 6: Just that. Goodbye, Bill.
20:19
Speaker 2: Kissing me in the street. I ain't that cute. Queen
20:24
Speaker 2: of the kitchen. Five dollars down. Queen of the.
20:29
Speaker 2: Hey, Bragg. Bragg.
20:31
Speaker 7: Hello, Bill. Hello.
20:33
Speaker 2: What's doing? Nothing. I've been looking for you. How about
20:35
Speaker 2: that two bucks show me?
20:36
Speaker 14: What are you hounding me for? I've been working my
20:38
Speaker 14: hand off trying to get dough to pay you off. Why,
20:41
Speaker 14: I'm working right now.
20:42
Speaker 2: You don't look it. What kind of work? Serving a summons.
20:44
Speaker 14: You get two bucks to throw, but this one's so
20:46
Speaker 14: tough there's a bonus goes with it.
20:48
Speaker 2: Ten bucks for this one. Well, why don't you serve
20:50
Speaker 2: it and get the money?
20:51
Speaker 14: Why don't I? What are you supposed to have been
20:53
Speaker 14: trying to do for three days? It's for a dame
20:56
Speaker 14: and a show. You can't get to her.
20:57
Speaker 2: What do you mean you can't get to her? She's
20:59
Speaker 2: got a bodyguard.
21:00
Speaker 14: I'm the third guy that's tried this week.
21:03
Speaker 5: Hmm, ten bucks, huh? Hey, suppose I serve you summons
21:08
Speaker 5: for you. I could use five bucks.
21:09
Speaker 2: Will you split? I'm telling you, you can't do it.
21:11
Speaker 2: She's got a bunch of gorillas with her day and night.
21:13
Speaker 5: Will you split? Sure, but you can't get to her.
21:16
Speaker 5: I'll take care of that. I got a touch of
21:19
Speaker 5: gorilla in me myself.
21:20
Speaker 13: Is that you, Bill?
21:30
Speaker 2: Who else would it be?
21:32
Speaker 6: I'm just fixing dinner. It'll be ready in a minute,
21:34
Speaker 6: I think.
21:35
Speaker 9: Yeah.
21:36
Speaker 2: What's this book?
21:37
Speaker 6: That? Oh, that's the Bible. Ira gave it to me.
21:43
Speaker 6: He wants me to read it.
21:45
Speaker 9: Yeah.
21:45
Speaker 2: There's one thing in here you don't want to miss.
21:49
Speaker 6: Gee, I wish I had some kind of a stove, Bill.
21:51
Speaker 2: Listen. The song of songs which is Solomon's. Get this.
21:56
Speaker 2: Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels.
21:59
Speaker 6: It's hard to cook with this kind of a fire.
22:01
Speaker 2: Behold, thou art fair, my love. Thy lips are like
22:04
Speaker 2: a thread of scarlet.
22:06
Speaker 6: You can't get an even heat.
22:07
Speaker 2: Thy neck is a tower of ivory. How fair and
22:11
Speaker 2: how pleasant thou art, O love. Thy neck is a
22:15
Speaker 2: tower of ivory. You know, you're a heck of a
22:19
Speaker 2: looking woman for a guy like me.
22:21
Speaker 11: Yeah.
22:22
Speaker 6: I don't know if there's going to be a very
22:23
Speaker 6: good stew.
22:24
Speaker 2: Look at you. Skinny, no hips.
22:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, I bet I put those potatoes in too soon.
22:27
Speaker 2: A man like me ought to have a woman who's
22:28
Speaker 2: a woman. You're just bones.
22:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's just what I did. I put those potatoes
22:31
Speaker 6: in too soon.
22:32
Speaker 2: That's all you are, bones. Do you know that?
22:34
Speaker 6: Well, I'm young, kind of.
22:36
Speaker 2: That don't make no difference.
22:37
Speaker 6: Maybe it does. Maybe I'll sort of fill out after, huh?
22:40
Speaker 2: No, you'll never look like a woman. You ain't got
22:42
Speaker 2: it in you to ever look like a woman.
22:43
Speaker 6: What difference does it make as long.
22:45
Speaker 2: As you're good to me?
22:45
Speaker 5: I ain't good to you. Don't get that idea in
22:47
Speaker 5: your head. That's the way to spoil them, being good
22:49
Speaker 5: to them. You got to step around if you're going
22:51
Speaker 5: to be with me or get your teeth knocked out.
22:53
Speaker 2: I think I ought to knock them out anyway. Come here.
22:57
Speaker 6: Bill, what's the matter? What's happened to your face? You're
23:00
Speaker 6: all cut.
23:00
Speaker 2: Never mind my face. Here.
23:04
Speaker 9: Look at this.
23:05
Speaker 6: What is it?
23:07
Speaker 2: It's a receipt. That's what it is. Five good hard-earned
23:10
Speaker 2: bucks for the queen of the kitchen.
23:13
Speaker 6: Bill, you bought the stove. My stove.
23:18
Speaker 7: Shut up.
23:19
Speaker 2: You got your stove.
23:20
Speaker 7: I feel like.
23:21
Speaker 2: I ought to.
23:21
Speaker 6: What, Bill?
23:23
Speaker 9: Come here.
23:26
Speaker 2: Little old hussets.
23:31
Speaker 6: Oh, Bill. That's the first time you've ever kissed me
23:35
Speaker 6: like that. Bill, I love you. I love you so much.
23:42
Speaker 2: Cut it out now. You women get some phony ideas,
23:46
Speaker 2: all right. Come on, now, get to work. And if
23:49
Speaker 2: that stew's burnt, I'll pour it down your back.
24:06
Speaker 4: Down comes the curtain on the first act of A
24:09
Speaker 4: Man's Castle... souring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young. In a
24:13
Speaker 4: few minutes, they will return for the second act of
24:15
Speaker 4: the play. Now, during our short intermission.
24:22
Speaker 2: Say, Bill, who's the girl in blue? Where? Well, by George,
24:26
Speaker 2: I didn't know she was here. Excuse me, old man.
24:28
Speaker 6: Well, of all.
24:29
Speaker 2: Say, Ned, who's that girl Bill's running after? Is he
24:31
Speaker 2: the one in blue?
24:32
Speaker 9: There.
24:34
Speaker 2: Oh, sure I see.
24:34
Speaker 9: Who wouldn't?
24:35
Speaker 2: The one in blue. Best looking girl in the room.
24:37
Speaker 4: You want to meet her? You bet I want to
24:39
Speaker 4: meet her. Come on, let's get going. Who's the girl
24:43
Speaker 4: in blue? Well, whoever she is, she's popular. The kind
24:46
Speaker 4: of girl men want to meet. She's the kind of
24:49
Speaker 4: girl who's making the most of her looks. You can
24:51
Speaker 4: be sure she hasn't let unattractive cosmetic skin develop, the
24:55
Speaker 4: little blemishes and enlarged pores that grow from chipped pores.
24:59
Speaker 4: Popular girls everywhere use Luxe Toilet Soap to be sure
25:02
Speaker 4: of thorough cleansing. The active lather of this gentle white
25:06
Speaker 4: soap carries away from the pores every trace of stale cosmetics, dust,
25:10
Speaker 4: and dirt. It's foolish to run risks when it's so
25:14
Speaker 4: easy to give your skin this care the screen stars use.
25:17
Speaker 4: Nine out of ten of them use Luxe Toilet Soap.
25:20
Speaker 4: It's the care your skin needs.
25:22
Speaker 2: So be wise. Use it regularly.
25:26
Speaker 4: Before you renew makeup, always before you go to bed.
25:30
Speaker 4: Nine out of ten screen stars use Luxe Toilet Soap.
25:35
Speaker 9: Mr. DeMille.
25:36
Speaker 4: We continue with A Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and
25:39
Speaker 4: Loretta Young. A warm September.
25:46
Speaker 2: Afternoon a few weeks later.
25:48
Speaker 4: In the busy Times Square district, the passersby gaze upward
25:52
Speaker 4: at a strange sight. A giant 15 feet tall who
25:55
Speaker 4: strolls calmly above them. His long wooden legs swinging easily.
26:00
Speaker 4: His trouser cuffs flapping in the breeze. Bill on stilts
26:04
Speaker 4: chooses his steps carefully.
26:06
Speaker 2: Away from the.
26:06
Speaker 4: Admiring crowd, they take him down a side street to
26:09
Speaker 4: a row of tenements. There he pauses, and leaning on
26:13
Speaker 4: the windowsill of a room on the second floor, calls loudly.
26:17
Speaker 10: Hey, Mug.
26:20
Speaker 2: Mug, where are you?
26:22
Speaker 7: Hello, Stiltz.
26:23
Speaker 10: Gee.
26:24
Speaker 7: How are you, kid?
26:25
Speaker 2: How's the bum leg?
26:27
Speaker 6: Oh, it's all right.
26:29
Speaker 8: I can get around a little.
26:31
Speaker 2: Gee, Stiltz, I thought you died or something.
26:34
Speaker 6: Where you been?
26:35
Speaker 2: Where are the Yanks playing this week?
26:37
Speaker 6: Chicago.
26:38
Speaker 9: All right.
26:38
Speaker 2: You wanted Lou Gehrig to autograph a baseball for you,
26:40
Speaker 2: didn't you?
26:41
Speaker 6: Yeah.
26:42
Speaker 2: Well, I had to put it up to him, didn't I?
26:44
Speaker 10: Did he?
26:45
Speaker 6: Did he?
26:46
Speaker 2: He sure did. Look, here's the ball. To my pal Joey,
26:51
Speaker 2: signed Lou Gehrig.
26:52
Speaker 6: Gee, Stiltz.
26:54
Speaker 10: Gee.
26:55
Speaker 2: I had to go all the way to Chicago to
26:56
Speaker 2: see Lou.
26:57
Speaker 1: Gee, Stiltz.
26:59
Speaker 9: Thanks.
27:00
Speaker 6: Did you hop a freight?
27:01
Speaker 2: Rode the rods all the way. Yeah, I ain't got
27:03
Speaker 2: the cinders out of my hair yet.
27:05
Speaker 9: Thanks.
27:06
Speaker 6: And Lou Gehrig wrote this himself?
27:07
Speaker 2: In person.
27:09
Speaker 7: Is that Stiltz, Joey?
27:11
Speaker 6: Look, Ma.
27:12
Speaker 3: Look.
27:12
Speaker 2: The baseball Stiltz promised me.
27:14
Speaker 6: With Lou Gehrig's autograph. He signed it himself. Stiltz went
27:19
Speaker 6: all the way to Chicago to get it.
27:20
Speaker 2: I gotta show the kids.
27:23
Speaker 10: Hello, Stiltz.
27:24
Speaker 2: Hiya.
27:26
Speaker 6: We missed you.
27:27
Speaker 10: Have you really been west?
27:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, west of 8th Avenue. That was just a stall
27:31
Speaker 2: for the kids.
27:32
Speaker 10: What about the ball and the signature?
27:34
Speaker 5: Ah, that's forgery. I wrote it myself, but he won't
27:36
Speaker 5: know the difference, so it's okay. Hey, look, I'm glad
27:39
Speaker 5: you're home.
27:40
Speaker 2: I wanted to see you.
27:41
Speaker 8: Here.
27:42
Speaker 2: Here's a few bucks.
27:44
Speaker 8: Stiltz, how can I go on taking money from you
27:47
Speaker 8: when I don't even know who you are?
27:49
Speaker 2: What difference does it make? I got no use for money.
27:51
Speaker 2: You need it. Just in case of supply and demand.
27:54
Speaker 2: Why won't you tell me your name? I never asked
27:56
Speaker 2: you yours, did I? No. I got no use for names.
27:59
Speaker 2: But I want to know.
28:01
Speaker 10: So I can thank you.
28:02
Speaker 7: Cut it.
28:02
Speaker 5: Now, if you pull any of that, I'll stay away
28:03
Speaker 5: from here. As a matter of fact, I'm going to
28:04
Speaker 5: stay away a while anyway.
28:06
Speaker 2: I begin to feel like a native around here. I'm
28:08
Speaker 2: blowing town.
28:09
Speaker 10: For good?
28:10
Speaker 2: Good or bad.
28:11
Speaker 7: I don't know.
28:11
Speaker 2: Who knows?
28:12
Speaker 10: Where are you going?
28:13
Speaker 2: That depends on which freight I hop.
28:16
Speaker 6: You don't like me to thank you, but I.
28:17
Speaker 9: Ah, forget it.
28:18
Speaker 5: Only get this. I've been slipping your chicken feet. But
28:20
Speaker 5: I might get hot in a crap game one of
28:21
Speaker 5: these days and clean up. And when I do, I'll
28:23
Speaker 5: send you a heavy chunk of dough.
28:24
Speaker 2: Some fine morning. And you pack up and get out
28:26
Speaker 2: of here. Take that kid to the country.
28:29
Speaker 5: Maybe he can't hop freights, but anyway, you can see
28:30
Speaker 5: him go by, and that's better than nothing, isn't it?
28:33
Speaker 2: Well, so long. So long, Stiltz.
28:37
Speaker 10: God bless you.
28:49
Speaker 6: Come in.
28:53
Speaker 2: Hiya, Trina.
28:54
Speaker 6: Oh, hello.
28:56
Speaker 14: Where's Bill?
28:57
Speaker 6: Out somewhere.
28:58
Speaker 9: Where?
28:58
Speaker 2: I don't know.
29:00
Speaker 14: What? If I had a wife like you in my shack,
29:02
Speaker 14: I'd be home all the time. The trouble with Billy,
29:05
Speaker 14: he don't appreciate you. That's some man you got yourself, kid.
29:08
Speaker 6: He suits me.
29:09
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you suit him.
29:11
Speaker 14: You wouldn't think so from the way he's always playing
29:12
Speaker 14: you down, crabbing about how.
29:14
Speaker 2: Skinny you are.
29:14
Speaker 6: Well, I am skinny.
29:15
Speaker 10: No, you're not.
29:16
Speaker 2: Slim, but not skinny.
29:18
Speaker 14: I know what I'm talking about.
29:20
Speaker 10: Yeah? Sure.
29:22
Speaker 2: You're a good-looking kid. I've been watching you for a
29:24
Speaker 2: long time, ever since you come here.
29:26
Speaker 6: Well, you better not let Bill hear you say that.
29:28
Speaker 6: He's got a temper, Bill has.
29:30
Speaker 8: He's liable to break you in half, right smack in half.
29:32
Speaker 9: Oh, no, he wouldn't.
29:34
Speaker 2: Bill's too busy.
29:37
Speaker 6: Busy with what?
29:38
Speaker 2: All I know is there's a blonde in a shop.
29:40
Speaker 14: On Broadway that's been on his trail lately.
29:42
Speaker 6: A blonde in a show?
29:44
Speaker 14: Yeah, he made a kill in that time he served
29:46
Speaker 14: a summons on that dame. He beat up two of
29:48
Speaker 14: her gorillas and she kind of took a fancy to him.
29:51
Speaker 14: Some dames are like that. I guess he goes for her, too.
29:55
Speaker 6: How do you know?
29:56
Speaker 2: Because he told me.
29:59
Speaker 6: You're a liar. Bill's no cheat. If he wanted anybody else,
30:02
Speaker 6: he'd tell me first.
30:03
Speaker 2: Well, if he ever does, you'll know where I'm at.
30:06
Speaker 6: You?
30:07
Speaker 8: I'd never even known Bill, and you were the last
30:09
Speaker 8: person in the world you couldn't get near me.
30:11
Speaker 6: So how do you like that?
30:12
Speaker 2: Swell.
30:13
Speaker 14: Gives me something to work for. Different men work different ways. Me,
30:18
Speaker 14: I got one principle. Take your time. You're worth it, Trina.
30:23
Speaker 14: You're swell.
30:24
Speaker 6: Get out of here. Brag and stay out.
30:26
Speaker 2: Sure. There's no hurry. No hurry at all. Well, maybe
30:45
Speaker 2: we ought to get down to facts. What's the party for,
30:47
Speaker 2: Miss LaRue?
30:47
Speaker 6: To get acquainted.
30:49
Speaker 8: You showed up those two little Fauntleroys that were supposed
30:51
Speaker 8: to keep process servers away from me.
30:53
Speaker 6: I gave them the air.
30:55
Speaker 2: I'm, uh.
30:57
Speaker 6: I'm in the market for a new bodyguard.
30:59
Speaker 2: You don't need no bodyguard. You look like you can
31:00
Speaker 2: take care of yourself, all right?
31:02
Speaker 6: I always have.
31:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I gotta beat it.
31:06
Speaker 1: What for?
31:06
Speaker 6: Stick around. I need a couple of laughs. Anyway, it's raining.
31:10
Speaker 6: There's no matinee today. And you don't have to be
31:15
Speaker 6: afraid of me.
31:15
Speaker 7: Me?
31:16
Speaker 2: I ain't afraid of nobody.
31:18
Speaker 6: That's the brave little boy. Listen. I figure maybe I'm
31:23
Speaker 6: not going to be around when that suit against me
31:24
Speaker 6: comes up. I got a chance to go to London.
31:27
Speaker 2: London? You might as well stay home.
31:31
Speaker 9: Italy.
31:31
Speaker 2: That's the place.
31:33
Speaker 6: Ever been to Italy? No, have you?
31:34
Speaker 2: No, but I'm going someday. There's a place, Italy. All
31:39
Speaker 2: they ever do over there is ride around on boats
31:41
Speaker 2: and play the guitars.
31:43
Speaker 5: I met a little Italian girl once.
31:46
Speaker 2: Oh, well.
31:47
Speaker 6: I suppose you know all about women.
31:49
Speaker 2: I know one thing about them, all of them.
31:51
Speaker 6: What?
31:51
Speaker 2: They're all female.
31:52
Speaker 6: Is that a compliment or a pan?
31:54
Speaker 2: It's a fact.
31:55
Speaker 6: Well, don't go. Say, how long does it take you
31:58
Speaker 6: to get acquainted?
31:58
Speaker 9: Me?
31:59
Speaker 2: I'm easy to meet and hard to forget.
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Speaker 6: What?
32:04
Speaker 2: What's the joke?
32:04
Speaker 6: Nothing.
32:06
Speaker 11: You're all right.
32:07
Speaker 6: I like you better all the time. You grow on me.
32:11
Speaker 11: Yeah?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Sit down. You know, maybe you're right about not going
32:18
Speaker 6: to London. Maybe Italy would be better. What are you
32:22
Speaker 6: laughing at?
32:23
Speaker 5: You women get some phony ideas, all right. Some very
32:26
Speaker 5: phony ideas.
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Speaker 15: Hi, Ira.
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Speaker 7: Hi, Ira.
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Speaker 9: Evening, William.
32:43
Speaker 2: What's going on down at the dock? There's a crowd
32:45
Speaker 2: down there.
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Speaker 11: Oh, nothing very important. Bragg's making a speech to some
32:49
Speaker 11: of the tenants.
32:50
Speaker 2: Beefing again, huh? Why should certain guys have all the
32:53
Speaker 2: money there is? Well, I got a beef for him, too.
32:55
Speaker 9: Why?
32:56
Speaker 2: They're on the inside, that's all. They tell you to
32:59
Speaker 2: go out and get a job. What job? There ain't
33:02
Speaker 2: no such animal. Look at me. I'm skilled labor, one
33:05
Speaker 2: of the best toy packers in the business. What's a
33:08
Speaker 2: toy packer? Shipping, Bill. Packing toys to ship. I'm one
33:12
Speaker 2: of the best men in the business. Used to work
33:14
Speaker 2: for Stark.
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Speaker 9: And Lee where Ira works.
33:16
Speaker 2: They let me out without any notice, not a day.
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Speaker 2: For getting drunk?
33:19
Speaker 6: Me?
33:20
Speaker 14: Say, I never got drunk on the job in my life.
33:23
Speaker 14: They claimed some stuff was missing. Just the same old
33:26
Speaker 14: alibi to let me out and save a couple of
33:28
Speaker 14: dollars' expenses.
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Speaker 2: Listen, Bragg, we know you. If they let you out,
33:31
Speaker 2: it was your own fault. All right, don't believe me.
33:34
Speaker 2: Walk out on me. You'll see someday. Well, looks like
33:38
Speaker 2: you've lost your audience, Bragg. You should never steal around
33:40
Speaker 2: supper time. That's it.
33:42
Speaker 14: If they had brains instead of stomachs, they wouldn't be
33:44
Speaker 14: what they are. I'm sick of them. I'm going to
33:46
Speaker 14: blow this dump soon as I get some dough.
33:48
Speaker 2: That'll be never. Is that so? Listen... That toy factory
33:51
Speaker 2: I was talking about, they fired me, didn't they? They
33:53
Speaker 2: owe me something and I'm going to collect.
33:56
Speaker 9: Get this, Bill.
33:57
Speaker 2: They got an old tin can they call a safe.
33:59
Speaker 14: Every Friday they get 10 grand for the payroll and
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Speaker 14: it stays in the safe till Saturday noon. It'd be
34:04
Speaker 14: a pushover, Bill, if you went in with me.
34:06
Speaker 2: Five grand apiece, Bill. What do you say?
34:09
Speaker 5: In the first place, what do I want with five grand?
34:11
Speaker 5: Number two, if I needed the money, I'd go out
34:13
Speaker 5: and make it. Number three, Trina tells me you've been
34:16
Speaker 5: hanging around this shack while I'm away and she.
34:18
Speaker 2: Don't like it.
34:18
Speaker 5: I told her I'd speak to you about it. There's
34:20
Speaker 5: only one language you can understand, Bragg, and this is it.
34:25
Speaker 2: Good night, Bragg.
34:40
Speaker 6: What's the matter, Bill? It's only nine o'clock.
34:43
Speaker 2: Did I ask you?
34:44
Speaker 8: No.
34:45
Speaker 2: Well, shut up. I'll let you have a couple in
34:47
Speaker 2: the ribs.
34:48
Speaker 6: Bill, stop it.
34:50
Speaker 2: Did I hurt you?
34:52
Speaker 10: No.
34:52
Speaker 6: Not when you don't mean it.
34:54
Speaker 2: Suppose I slugged your heart.
34:55
Speaker 6: No, you wouldn't.
34:56
Speaker 2: Don't be so sure.
34:59
Speaker 10: Bill.
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Speaker 9: What?
35:02
Speaker 6: Do you like being with me?
35:03
Speaker 2: I ain't so nuts about it. You're pretty skinny.
35:05
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you're not tired of me yet, are you?
35:07
Speaker 2: I don't know.
35:09
Speaker 7: Maybe. Hey, listen.
35:12
Speaker 2: What's the idea of keeping that skylight closed? When I
35:15
Speaker 2: rented this dump, I put that in special. What do
35:17
Speaker 2: you keep it shut for?
35:17
Speaker 6: Well, I thought maybe it might rain or something.
35:19
Speaker 2: Suppose it does. Rain's good for you. It makes you grow.
35:21
Speaker 7: There.
35:25
Speaker 2: That's the way to live. You can breathe now.
35:31
Speaker 6: Bill. Bill, why do you always keep looking up at
35:35
Speaker 6: the sky, fool?
35:37
Speaker 5: Because when you're dead, you get a hunk of earth.
35:39
Speaker 5: When you're alive, you want to hold on to your
35:40
Speaker 5: hunk of blue. That's all I got in the world.
35:43
Speaker 5: That's all anybody's got.
35:44
Speaker 2: A hunk of blue.
35:47
Speaker 8: Bill, I've been thinking. There couldn't be a heaven much
35:51
Speaker 8: better than this, could there? I mean, when it's quiet
35:54
Speaker 8: all around and we're close, like now.
35:58
Speaker 2: You know, I never noticed a kid, but your eyes
36:00
Speaker 2: are sky color, sort of. You've got a hunk of
36:04
Speaker 2: blue at each glimpse. Yeah, but that don't stop me
36:08
Speaker 2: from cloutin' you on the chin any minute.
36:10
Speaker 4: Come here.
36:14
Speaker 9: You're all right.
36:15
Speaker 2: You're a swell kid. I like you plenty.
36:16
Speaker 10: Do you, Bill?
36:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, but don't get figurin' on that too much. Because
36:21
Speaker 2: how much I like a woman ain't nothin' to bet
36:22
Speaker 2: money on. Don't let yourself get in too.
36:24
Speaker 9: Deep, see?
36:25
Speaker 6: Bill, you mean that you're... No, no, not yet.
36:29
Speaker 8: Oh.
36:30
Speaker 2: But I'm apt to hand it to you any day, yeah.
36:32
Speaker 2: Who can tell?
36:34
Speaker 5: Suppose I wake up some morning with a taste in
36:36
Speaker 5: my mouth like wet hen feathers. I'm just as apt
36:38
Speaker 5: to take a stroll for myself as not.
36:39
Speaker 6: But maybe that won't be right away. I mean, not tomorrow.
36:43
Speaker 6: Quite so soon, huh?
36:44
Speaker 2: No, you can't tell. Nobody never knows how a guy's
36:47
Speaker 2: apt to feel some morning.
36:49
Speaker 10: Bill, listen.
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Speaker 6: You like babies, don't you?
36:54
Speaker 2: What's the difference if I like them or not?
36:55
Speaker 6: Well, it makes a difference, a big difference, if you didn't.
36:58
Speaker 10: Why?
36:59
Speaker 6: Because you're going to have one.
37:01
Speaker 9: What?
37:01
Speaker 8: Oh, I've known her for a long time, several months. I...
37:04
Speaker 8: I thought I'd be afraid to tell you. But now
37:07
Speaker 8: I ain't afraid of nothing. Oh, don't say anything, Bill. Please,
37:09
Speaker 8: not till I finish. I want you to know something.
37:13
Speaker 8: It's your baby and it's mine, but you've got nothing
37:16
Speaker 8: to worry about. I didn't mean to tell you at all, but... Oh,
37:20
Speaker 8: it's just too grand and wonderful to keep to myself.
37:23
Speaker 8: You can't understand that, Bill.
37:25
Speaker 6: You're a man.
37:27
Speaker 8: You needn't look at me like that, darling. I ain't
37:29
Speaker 8: afraid of you. I've changed a lot. Only a little
37:33
Speaker 8: while ago I was all alone. Then you came along
37:36
Speaker 8: and there was the two of us. And pretty soon
37:39
Speaker 8: there's going to be three of us. You can never
37:42
Speaker 8: leave me now, Bill.
37:43
Speaker 7: Never.
37:44
Speaker 6: Never. Even if you go away, I've got you now.
37:47
Speaker 6: No matter where you go or what you do, I've
37:49
Speaker 6: got you, Bill. I've got you.
37:56
Speaker 11: Wait a minute.
37:58
Speaker 7: Yes, Bill?
37:59
Speaker 2: Is this on the level?
38:01
Speaker 6: Yes, Bill.
38:02
Speaker 2: Let me out of here.
38:05
Speaker 6: Are you leaving me, Bill?
38:07
Speaker 2: What if I was? You'd have no kick.
38:09
Speaker 6: No, Bill. I.
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Speaker 8: I just suppose I'd be lonely again like I was
38:14
Speaker 8: before I met you. But it wouldn't be the same
38:17
Speaker 8: exactly because... I got something to look forward to now.
38:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say you have.
38:23
Speaker 6: I'll never be lonely when my son comes.
38:24
Speaker 2: How do you know it'll be a son?
38:25
Speaker 6: I prayed for a son.
38:26
Speaker 2: I thought you didn't believe in that sort of stuff.
38:27
Speaker 6: Well, sure I do.
38:28
Speaker 2: Well, you told me you didn't.
38:30
Speaker 10: I lied.
38:30
Speaker 6: Oh. I didn't want you to get sore at me.
38:34
Speaker 6: But I guess you're angry now, aren't you?
38:36
Speaker 2: Why should I be? It's your funeral.
38:37
Speaker 6: Sure, sure. It's my funeral. I'm going to stand on
38:41
Speaker 6: my own feet now.
38:43
Speaker 8: I'm going to bring my son into the world and
38:44
Speaker 8: I'm going to take care of him and love him always.
38:47
Speaker 2: And as far as I'm concerned... Oh, you.
38:49
Speaker 6: Too, Bill.
38:49
Speaker 10: Always.
38:51
Speaker 6: That goes without saying. You're a free man, Bill. As
38:56
Speaker 6: free as a bird. Remember that.
38:58
Speaker 9: I will. Bragg.
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Speaker 2: Bragg, come on out.
39:08
Speaker 9: Open up.
39:10
Speaker 2: What do you want from me? I want to scram
39:12
Speaker 2: out of here right away tonight. Only it so happens
39:14
Speaker 2: I can't go unless I leave some money behind. Enough
39:16
Speaker 2: to take care of somebody. A couple of people for
39:18
Speaker 2: a long time. I gotta have plenty of money, see?
39:20
Speaker 2: I haven't got a dime, Bill. Not a dime. No,
39:22
Speaker 2: but you know where to get it. Oh, you mean
39:24
Speaker 2: the toy factory?
39:25
Speaker 8: Yeah. Come on.
39:26
Speaker 2: Spill it. It's a cinch, Bill. A cinch. How about Ira?
39:28
Speaker 2: He's the watchman down there. Ira, that's the easiest part
39:31
Speaker 2: of it. All the guy does down there is snooze.
39:33
Speaker 2: We could walk away with the building and he wouldn't
39:35
Speaker 2: know it. All we need is a couple of drills
39:37
Speaker 2: and some gunpowder and boom. Yeah? What's the best time?
39:39
Speaker 2: About one in the morning. All right.
39:41
Speaker 5: I got something to attend to first down around Broadway,
39:43
Speaker 5: and I'll meet you. Half past 12 at 39th and 8th.
39:46
Speaker 2: I'll meet you, Bill. I'll have all the stuff ready.
39:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll be on time. And keep your mouth shut.
39:59
Speaker 4: We pause for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
40:26
Speaker 4: Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young have just concluded the second
40:29
Speaker 4: act of A Man's Castle with Arthur Hole. They'll be
40:32
Speaker 4: heard in Act Three after our short intermission. Now, just
40:35
Speaker 4: before Mr. DeMille brings on our special guest, a word
40:38
Speaker 4: to all our women listeners. Lovely women everywhere use luxe
40:42
Speaker 4: toilet soap because they know beautiful skin makes any woman charming.
40:47
Speaker 4: You want to keep your complexion lovely to look at
40:49
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Speaker 4: little blemishes, and large pores. So many women actually spoil
40:58
Speaker 4: their looks because they carelessly let the pores become choked
41:01
Speaker 4: with dust, dirt, and stale cosmetics. Use cosmetics all you like,
41:07
Speaker 4: but use Luxe Toilet Soap regularly, as nine out of
41:10
Speaker 4: ten screen stars do. It has active lather that removes
41:13
Speaker 4: stale rouge and powder thoroughly. That's why Luxe Toilet Soap
41:18
Speaker 4: really works. Your host, Mr.
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Speaker 7: DeMille.
41:22
Speaker 4: And now, during our intermission, before we go on with
41:25
Speaker 4: Act Three of A Man's Castle, we bring you the
41:27
Speaker 4: distinguished guest of the evening. In our play, Bill, Bragg, Trina,
41:32
Speaker 4: and the others are people at loose ends, irresponsible people
41:36
Speaker 4: to whom the world has denied a fair chance. Our guest,
41:40
Speaker 4: on the other hand, is a man who gives a
41:41
Speaker 4: fair chance to boys who otherwise wouldn't have it, gives
41:45
Speaker 4: them the most important things in life, food, shelter, and ideals.
41:51
Speaker 2: Once again, we.
41:52
Speaker 4: Extend our stage far eastward and bring you the guide
41:56
Speaker 4: and founder of Omaha's famous Boys Town, Father Edward J.
42:00
Speaker 2: Flanagan. Thank you, Mr.
42:02
Speaker 9: DeMille.
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Speaker 3: I agree with you that the people in your play
42:05
Speaker 3: have hardly had a fair chance. Still, I don't believe
42:07
Speaker 3: that Bill, so perfectly portrayed by my friend Spencer Tracy,
42:11
Speaker 3: would ever have been so tempted if he had been
42:13
Speaker 3: given the right start. As you know, I've always maintained
42:16
Speaker 3: that there is no such thing as a bad boy.
42:18
Speaker 9: A boy may be.
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Speaker 2: Misunderstood, neglected, or misguided, but not really bad.
42:23
Speaker 3: To prove this, our records show that not one of
42:25
Speaker 3: the hundreds of boys who have been citizens of Boys
42:28
Speaker 3: Town during the last 20 years has become criminally involved
42:31
Speaker 3: since he.
42:32
Speaker 9: Left our community.
42:33
Speaker 3: We believe that a boy, if properly guided during the
42:36
Speaker 3: early years of his life, if given responsibility, self-confidence, and
42:39
Speaker 3: a sense of what's right and wrong, will not find
42:42
Speaker 3: it difficult to cast aside temptation and become a good,
42:45
Speaker 3: honest citizen. As training for just this, our boys govern
42:48
Speaker 3: themselves as much as possible, electing their own mayor who
42:51
Speaker 3: governs them with a committee of six. These serve also
42:54
Speaker 3: as a court of justice, and lawbreakers are hailed before it.
42:57
Speaker 3: The worst punishment meted out is to have the culprit
42:59
Speaker 3: stand with his back to the screen during the Saturday
43:01
Speaker 3: night movies. I have tried to persuade the boys that
43:04
Speaker 3: this is too severe, but they voted to keep the
43:06
Speaker 3: rules as it stands. Our resident citizens now number over
43:10
Speaker 3: 200 boys of every race, creed, and color. The only
43:14
Speaker 3: two qualifications for citizenship in Boys Town are that a
43:17
Speaker 3: boy be homeless and that there's room for him. No
43:20
Speaker 3: boy ever leaves Boys Town except to better himself. Our
43:23
Speaker 3: spirit extends far beyond our grounds, and there's scarcely a
43:25
Speaker 3: city in the United States that I visit, but someone
43:28
Speaker 3: comes up, says.
43:29
Speaker 2: Hello, do you remember me?
43:30
Speaker 9: I'm Johnny Jones from Boys Town.
43:32
Speaker 3: Our boys are given an education to fit them to
43:34
Speaker 3: meet life, and they make good. It's a deep satisfaction
43:36
Speaker 3: to me to receive letters.
43:37
Speaker 9: From young men who have not forgotten this.
43:39
Speaker 3: Young men writing on the stationery of well-established firms, like
43:42
Speaker 3: the lawyer who worked his way through a state university
43:45
Speaker 3: and is now the youngest practicing lawyer in his state.
43:48
Speaker 2: It proves to me, as nothing.
43:49
Speaker 3: Else ever has, that there's something more thrilling than boy
43:52
Speaker 3: meets girl.
43:53
Speaker 2: It's boy finds himself.
43:55
Speaker 3: If you're interested in these success stories, as I am,
43:58
Speaker 3: you may be glad to know that I'll soon have
44:00
Speaker 3: a radio program based on Boys Town histories, and I
44:03
Speaker 3: hope you'll.
44:03
Speaker 9: Let me know if they interest you.
44:06
Speaker 2: I'm sure many of you saw the MGM picture.
44:08
Speaker 3: Called Boys Town with tonight's star, Spencer Tracy, playing the
44:11
Speaker 3: part of Father Flanagan. It's a humbling experience to see
44:14
Speaker 3: yourself played by someone else. No one was more delighted
44:17
Speaker 3: than I when Spencer won the Academy Award for being me.
44:20
Speaker 3: I still lie awake nights wishing I were really as
44:22
Speaker 3: fine as he made me. And in case you don't
44:24
Speaker 3: know it, when Spencer received that little statue, he didn't
44:27
Speaker 3: take it home and put it proudly on the mantelpiece.
44:29
Speaker 3: He wrapped it all up securely, addressed it to Father
44:31
Speaker 3: Flanagan at Boys Town, Nebraska, and took it to the
44:33
Speaker 3: post office. If I'd won the award myself, I couldn't
44:35
Speaker 3: be more proud.
44:36
Speaker 2: To look at it daily as I do.
44:38
Speaker 3: The boys are pleased as punch, and the little figure
44:40
Speaker 3: is a member in good standing at Boys Town.
44:42
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr.
44:43
Speaker 3: DeMille, for the privilege of being a guest on the
44:44
Speaker 3: Lux Radio Theater. If I may, I'll tell you a secret.
44:46
Speaker 3: We listen to your program at Boys Town. I'll bet
44:48
Speaker 3: right now that the boys are hoping with me that
44:50
Speaker 3: Bill will be the right guy before the end.
44:53
Speaker 2: That's it.
44:53
Speaker 4: You've earned a nation's gratitude, Father Flanagan, for remembering boys
44:57
Speaker 4: whom the world forgot. In Hollywood again, we resume A
45:01
Speaker 4: Man's Castle, starring Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young. It's a
45:13
Speaker 4: few hours before the robbery planned by Bill and Bragg.
45:18
Speaker 4: Over on Broadway, the last act of a musical comedy
45:21
Speaker 4: is drawing to a close. Bill waits in the wing.
45:26
Speaker 4: At the finish of her number, Taylor Rule runs from.
45:29
Speaker 2: The stage into Bill's arms.
45:39
Speaker 1: Hard to forget.
45:39
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta see you a minute.
45:41
Speaker 6: Come on over here.
45:41
Speaker 8: You look worried hard to forget, but you shouldn't.
45:45
Speaker 6: We're closing the show next week. It looks like that
45:47
Speaker 6: trip to Italy is in the bag. How does that sound?
45:49
Speaker 2: Great, but I can't go.
45:51
Speaker 6: Can't go? Are you kidding?
45:52
Speaker 2: I told you my trademark, didn't I? Subject to change
45:55
Speaker 2: without notice.
45:55
Speaker 8: I know, but I've arranged everything.
45:57
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but I can't go.
45:59
Speaker 6: What's happened?
46:00
Speaker 2: I let myself in for something on the installment plan.
46:03
Speaker 6: What is it?
46:03
Speaker 2: I'm in a jam.
46:05
Speaker 6: Oh, I guess I know what it is. It's a girl.
46:08
Speaker 2: You're a fortune teller.
46:09
Speaker 6: It is, isn't it?
46:10
Speaker 2: Search me. I won't know myself for a while.
46:13
Speaker 10: Oh.
46:14
Speaker 6: Oh, I see.
46:14
Speaker 2: And I won't be around then to find out.
46:16
Speaker 6: Listen, don't be a sap. If you're taking it on
46:18
Speaker 6: the run, you might as well run to Italy.
46:20
Speaker 9: No.
46:20
Speaker 2: No, it's different now. I don't know why, but it is.
46:24
Speaker 2: So long, Faye. Good luck.
46:27
Speaker 6: Easy to meet. Hard to forget.
46:44
Speaker 2: What did I tell you, Bill? I can open this
46:46
Speaker 2: safe with a nail file. You ain't got it open yet. Shh,
46:48
Speaker 2: not so loud. Hey, hey, look at this. What are
46:52
Speaker 2: you doing there? Look at this gadget here. What is it?
46:55
Speaker 2: Ain't that a hard one? Why don't I wind it
46:58
Speaker 2: up and see what it does? Say, what are we
47:02
Speaker 2: here for? To kick in this safe or play with toys?
47:04
Speaker 2: Come on. Just a second. I want to see how
47:06
Speaker 2: it works. Cut that out. Give me that. Keep your
47:11
Speaker 2: hands off. What's the matter with you? You want to
47:14
Speaker 2: wake up the old geezer?
47:15
Speaker 5: If this wakes him up, what's going to happen when
47:17
Speaker 5: you blow that safe?
47:18
Speaker 2: I still think you ought to go back and tap
47:20
Speaker 2: him on the head like I told you. I'd feel
47:22
Speaker 2: a lot better if he was gagged and tied up. Nah,
47:25
Speaker 2: Ira wouldn't hurt a fly. Well, just the same, you
47:27
Speaker 2: go over and open that window there. What for? We're
47:30
Speaker 2: up three stories. There's a fire escape? Sure is a
47:36
Speaker 2: swell night out. Look, you can see the old river
47:39
Speaker 2: from here. And the camp, too.
47:42
Speaker 5: The moon sure looks slick on that water. Yeah, I
47:45
Speaker 5: think when I blow out of here, I'll hit the
47:47
Speaker 5: waves instead of the tides.
47:48
Speaker 2: Maybe on a freighter.
47:50
Speaker 5: Did you ever go downtown and get the smell of
47:52
Speaker 5: them ships that come in from China and them places?
47:57
Speaker 2: I wonder what Hoositz is doing. I'm going to take
48:00
Speaker 2: this toy home to her. She can give it to
48:01
Speaker 2: the kid. Will you can that and lend me a hand?
48:04
Speaker 2: We're going to get out of here. Bill, listen, will you?
48:07
Speaker 2: Shut up. What's the matter with you? You know, I
48:09
Speaker 2: don't like this job. What? I don't like it.
48:12
Speaker 7: Are you nuts?
48:13
Speaker 9: Maybe.
48:13
Speaker 2: But I got a funny idea.
48:15
Speaker 5: I always got along before without pulling this kind of
48:17
Speaker 5: a stunt.
48:17
Speaker 2: I got along swell. I don't want to change my luck.
48:19
Speaker 2: You mean you were walking out? Yeah, I'll see you around. Oh, no,
48:22
Speaker 2: you don't. Get back here. You ain't gonna try to
48:24
Speaker 2: stop me, are you?
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Speaker 11: No, but.
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Speaker 2: Then shut up. If I feel like... Bill, listen. There's
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Speaker 2: someone outside. It's Ira. Get out of the window.
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Speaker 7: Who's there?
48:33
Speaker 2: Get out, quick.
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Speaker 13: Then I'll shoot.
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Speaker 9: Don't move. Do you hear? Sure.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Ira.
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Speaker 9: Bill.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bill.
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Speaker 5: Hey, for a guy that reads Bibles, you shoot pretty straight,
48:51
Speaker 5: don't you? Son of a gun, you might have killed me.
48:54
Speaker 11: Served you right if I did. Somebody ought to teach
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Speaker 11: you a lesson. Young squirt like you going around robbing places.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a low-down thing to do with that, ain't it?
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Speaker 5: But if you had that money as bad as I do,
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Speaker 5: you wouldn't be so particular.
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Speaker 9: Who was that man with you? The one that got away?
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Speaker 7: Him?
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Speaker 2: I don't remember the name. I never met the guy
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Speaker 2: before tonight.
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Speaker 9: I see. All right, Bill.
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Speaker 5: What's the matter, Pop? What are you looking so sour about?
49:22
Speaker 5: Are you disappointed in me?
49:24
Speaker 9: I'm not thinking of you. I'm thinking of your wife.
49:29
Speaker 7: My what?
49:30
Speaker 9: Your wife, Trina. Who trusted herself into your hands. Who
49:34
Speaker 9: looks up to you.
49:36
Speaker 2: My wife.
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Speaker 9: Hmm.
49:39
Speaker 2: I never thought of Trina as a wife. She just... Well,
49:43
Speaker 2: she's just Trina. What's that?
49:46
Speaker 11: Somebody set off the burglar alarm. There'll be cops all
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Speaker 11: over the place in a few minutes.
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Speaker 2: Well, what's he standing there for? Go on, beat it. Hurry,
49:54
Speaker 2: before they get here.
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Speaker 1: Go on.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Ira, thanks.
49:58
Speaker 13: Did you call me, Frank?
50:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, come in quick. It's about that guy of yours.
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Speaker 7: Bill?
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Speaker 6: What?
50:12
Speaker 2: He got nabbed robbing the safe at the toy factory.
50:15
Speaker 2: They caught him with the goods.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no, you're joking, Bragg. Bill wouldn't do a thing
50:19
Speaker 6: like that. Bill ain't a thief.
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Speaker 14: That's just it, stepping out of his class. That's why
50:23
Speaker 14: he got caught. And he was shot, too, trying to
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Speaker 14: get away.
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Speaker 9: Shot?
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, honey.
50:29
Speaker 14: Don't get upset. He may go up the river for
50:31
Speaker 14: a spell, but I'm still around. I'll always be around, baby,
50:34
Speaker 14: to take care of you.
50:35
Speaker 6: Let me out of here.
50:36
Speaker 2: There's no hurry.
50:38
Speaker 9: I'll be here.
50:39
Speaker 2: Only with Bill in the jug, you're gonna need a
50:41
Speaker 2: man around. Come on, kid.
50:43
Speaker 14: You might as well shake yourself out of it. Mooning
50:46
Speaker 14: around won't get you no place. He's gone, ain't he?
50:49
Speaker 14: I tell you, he's gone.
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Speaker 6: You're a liar, Bragg.
50:52
Speaker 2: He ain't gone.
50:53
Speaker 15: Flossie.
50:54
Speaker 6: Bill just got home. I saw him go into the
50:55
Speaker 6: shack a minute ago.
50:56
Speaker 8: Bill....
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Speaker 5: It was mighty decent of you, Bragg, to offer to
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Speaker 5: take care of Trina.
51:01
Speaker 6: I didn't know you had it in you.
51:03
Speaker 2: Look, Flossie, nobody asked you to butt in.
51:05
Speaker 6: I'm getting sick of your two-timing, Bragg. Very sick.
51:09
Speaker 2: Ah, shut up. Go on, beat it.
51:10
Speaker 8: Stand still, Bill.
51:14
Speaker 6: Let me fix it. Here, hand me that bandage.
51:17
Speaker 5: It's all right, I'm telling you. Disgrace me. Plot a
51:20
Speaker 5: little meat off.
51:22
Speaker 2: What's eating you? You think it was you got drilled
51:24
Speaker 2: instead of me.
51:25
Speaker 6: Oh, I wished it was me. Bill, why did you
51:27
Speaker 6: do it?
51:28
Speaker 7: Why?
51:29
Speaker 2: I couldn't check out leaving you high and dry, could I?
51:31
Speaker 2: That dough would have taken care of you fine, but
51:35
Speaker 2: I flopped.
51:35
Speaker 6: Well, I'm glad you did. I wouldn't have taken that
51:38
Speaker 6: money anyway. I'd have given it back.
51:39
Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you suppose you'd have got along? It
51:41
Speaker 5: takes money to have a kid, don't it?
51:43
Speaker 7: Honestly.
51:45
Speaker 8: For a strong, husky man, you're awful afraid of a
51:47
Speaker 8: little thing that ain't even born yet. My goodness, if
51:50
Speaker 8: I'd known it was going to scare you that much,
51:52
Speaker 8: I never would have told you. Gosh, Bill, I'd have
51:55
Speaker 8: just gone away myself, but... I didn't know you were
51:59
Speaker 8: such a coward, darling.
52:00
Speaker 2: Coward?
52:01
Speaker 7: Sure.
52:03
Speaker 8: Afraid of a baby. Why, it's the most natural thing
52:07
Speaker 8: in the world, you big fool. They're born all the time,
52:09
Speaker 8: and if they happen to be men kids, they just
52:12
Speaker 8: never grow up. They just keep reaching for the clouds
52:15
Speaker 8: all the time and listening to train whistles.
52:18
Speaker 6: Oh, Bill, you're such a silly. Robbing is safe to
52:20
Speaker 6: get money when you always said you never had no
52:22
Speaker 6: use for money.
52:22
Speaker 2: It wasn't for me.
52:23
Speaker 6: For me, I know. But I don't need it. I
52:26
Speaker 6: don't need anything, not even you, Bill. It ain't as
52:29
Speaker 6: if you ever said you loved me. You never did.
52:33
Speaker 8: And I don't blame you. Don't you suppose I know
52:36
Speaker 8: I'm just a stick in the mud of a barnacle?
52:37
Speaker 6: That's what I am. I've held you back and messed
52:40
Speaker 6: up your plans, but I didn't mean to. Honestly, I didn't.
52:45
Speaker 8: You can go, sweetheart, and stay as long as you like.
52:48
Speaker 8: Maybe someday you'll come back. Oh, not for good, I
52:51
Speaker 8: don't mean. Just for a visit, sort of. You might
52:54
Speaker 8: get lonesome and curious and want to know what your
52:57
Speaker 8: son looks like, maybe. Gosh, Bill, even birds can't fly
53:02
Speaker 8: all the time. They get tired and want to come
53:05
Speaker 8: home sometimes. They got nests, ain't they?
53:09
Speaker 7: Trina.
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Speaker 10: Oh, Bill, please.
53:11
Speaker 6: I want you to feel right. I want you to
53:14
Speaker 6: be happy. I'll do anything, Bill, if you'll be happy.
53:17
Speaker 6: I'll give up anything, but please, Bill, be happy.
53:19
Speaker 7: Bill. Bill. Yeah, what?
53:21
Speaker 6: You better get out of here now. Cops are on
53:23
Speaker 6: their way.
53:24
Speaker 2: How do you know?
53:25
Speaker 6: I got inside information from a stool pigeon pal of mine.
53:27
Speaker 6: Your freight train's waiting.
53:28
Speaker 2: You better hop aboard. No, I'm sticking around.
53:30
Speaker 6: Take my word for it.
53:31
Speaker 2: If you hang around here, you're.
53:32
Speaker 6: Due for the stir. And I don't mean a weekend.
53:34
Speaker 6: The quicker you scram, the better.
53:35
Speaker 2: No, I ain't going to leave Hoosits.
53:37
Speaker 6: Well, you dumb sap. Want to take her with you?
53:39
Speaker 6: Did you ever think of that?
53:42
Speaker 7: No.
53:44
Speaker 2: What about it, kid? You want to come?
53:46
Speaker 6: Wherever you go.
53:47
Speaker 2: You know what it means.
53:48
Speaker 6: Wherever you go, Bill.
53:50
Speaker 2: All right, get your things. What are you thinking of?
54:08
Speaker 6: Oh, I'll certainly miss it. It was such a beautiful stove.
54:15
Speaker 2: Ah, you can always get another one on the installment plan.
54:17
Speaker 2: A better one, too.
54:19
Speaker 6: But it'll never really be ours unless we stick in
54:21
Speaker 6: one place long enough to pay for it. And you
54:24
Speaker 6: don't want that. You want to be free, Bill.
54:29
Speaker 7: Yeah.
54:31
Speaker 2: You know, I've been thinking a lot about that freedom business.
54:34
Speaker 2: I believe in it. It's good stuff.
54:37
Speaker 5: But, well, maybe it ain't always a question to keep
54:40
Speaker 5: it on the move. There's another kind of freedom, too.
54:44
Speaker 5: Up here in your head and here in your chest
54:46
Speaker 5: is where your heart is.
54:48
Speaker 14: Bill.
54:50
Speaker 5: And right now I got a very funny feeling, Trina.
54:54
Speaker 5: You know, even birds have got a homing instinct. And
54:57
Speaker 5: I got a feeling we're going home.
55:00
Speaker 6: Home? Where is that, Bill?
55:03
Speaker 7: I don't know.
55:05
Speaker 2: Somewhere.
55:06
Speaker 5: Someplace that suits us. We've got to find it soon, too.
55:12
Speaker 5: You know, a freight car had no place to bring
55:14
Speaker 5: up a kid.
55:16
Speaker 6: Oh, Bill.
55:16
Speaker 8: Oh.
55:18
Speaker 2: Little Hoosets.
55:20
Speaker 4: Funny little Hoosets. Leaving Bill and Trina on a train
55:46
Speaker 4: headed home, we sidetracked Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young for
55:49
Speaker 4: a few moments.
55:53
Speaker 8: And before I say anything else, I want to congratulate
55:55
Speaker 8: Spence on his magnificent achievement.
55:57
Speaker 4: Yes, the way he wins Academy Awards, he could be
55:59
Speaker 4: prosecuted for maintaining a monopoly.
56:02
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, I know, but I was referring to something else.
56:05
Speaker 8: You know, Spence has conquered what to him are still
56:08
Speaker 8: greater heights. After five long years of terrific plugging, success
56:12
Speaker 8: at last is in sight. Time and time again, he's
56:14
Speaker 8: been right on the verge, and he never could do it.
56:17
Speaker 8: But now, finally... Hey, hey.
56:19
Speaker 7: Hey, hey.
56:20
Speaker 2: Take it easy. Maybe some member of the EGBTS is
56:22
Speaker 2: listening in. The what? What's that?
56:25
Speaker 5: That is a very powerful organization, CB, which has dogged
56:28
Speaker 5: me for five years. EGBTS is the Everybody Goes But
56:33
Speaker 5: Tracy Society. In brief, since 1934, I've been saying that
56:37
Speaker 5: next month I'm going to Europe for a vacation.
56:39
Speaker 2: But at last, it looks as if I'm really going.
56:41
Speaker 2: In April, I'll be on my way for London and Paris.
56:44
Speaker 6: April isn't here yet, Spence. You've made plans before, you know.
56:47
Speaker 4: You wouldn't want to be April Fool. After all, the
56:49
Speaker 4: best laid plans of mice and leading men.
56:52
Speaker 2: If you're trying to discourage me, you might as well
56:53
Speaker 2: give up.
56:54
Speaker 5: I'm going in spite of the fact that few things
56:56
Speaker 5: ever come up to long-planned expectations.
56:59
Speaker 2: Of course, there are exceptions, like being on this program.
57:01
Speaker 8: And the product that it stands for.
57:03
Speaker 6: Excuse me, Ben, I didn't mean.
57:04
Speaker 8: To interrupt you.
57:05
Speaker 2: Go right ahead, Loretta. He's used to waiting.
57:08
Speaker 8: Well, I was simply going to say that in all
57:09
Speaker 8: the years I've been using Lux soap, I've always found
57:11
Speaker 8: it delightful to use. And much more important is its
57:14
Speaker 8: wonderful help in keeping my complexion.
57:16
Speaker 6: Smooth and lovely.
57:17
Speaker 8: So, naturally, I never overlook a chance to put in
57:19
Speaker 8: a good word. Such a good friend. But getting back
57:22
Speaker 8: to your philosophy.
57:23
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no.
57:24
Speaker 2: Let's talk about you now.
57:25
Speaker 5: And your third telephone pick, Alexander Graham Bell.
57:29
Speaker 2: I hear it rings their... What shall I say?
57:31
Speaker 6: Oh, never mind.
57:32
Speaker 8: I follow you, and I'll know better when I get
57:34
Speaker 8: back from the preview tomorrow night in San Francisco Fair.
57:37
Speaker 8: But where did you get the idea that I had
57:39
Speaker 8: done two other telephone pictures?
57:42
Speaker 5: Well, I was thinking your private number and the call
57:44
Speaker 5: of the wild.
57:44
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, or fortunately, I didn't see either one of them.
57:47
Speaker 2: Take it.
57:48
Speaker 7: And, Mr.
57:48
Speaker 6: Tracy, let's just make believe that I've hung up on you, huh?
57:51
Speaker 6: Many thanks, Mr.
57:52
Speaker 7: Miller.
57:52
Speaker 6: Goodbye.
57:55
Speaker 4: You've turned everybody's home tonight into a man's castle.
58:01
Speaker 2: Mr.
58:02
Speaker 4: DeMille has an important announcement for you about next Monday
58:04
Speaker 4: night's stars and play.
58:06
Speaker 2: You'll hear it in just a moment.
58:08
Speaker 4: Featured in tonight's play were Martha Wentworth as Flossie, Perry
58:11
Speaker 4: Ivins as Ira, Margaret Brayton as Faye LaRue, Paul Hilton
58:15
Speaker 4: as a small boy, Frank Nelson, and Lou Merrill as
58:19
Speaker 4: manager of restaurant, and Sybil Harris as a mother. A
58:22
Speaker 4: Man's Castle was adapted from the motion picture of the
58:25
Speaker 4: same name produced by Columbia Pictures Corporations. Spencer Tracy's next
58:30
Speaker 4: MGM film is Northwest Passage. Louis Silvers appeared through courtesy
58:34
Speaker 4: of 20th Century Fox Studio, where he's in charge of
58:37
Speaker 4: music for the story of Alexander Graham Bell. Be sure
58:41
Speaker 4: to listen to the new Lux Daytime radio program, The
58:45
Speaker 4: Life and Love of Dr. Susan, the story of a
58:47
Speaker 4: courageous woman in search of her destiny. You can hear
58:50
Speaker 4: it over most of these stations in the United States
58:53
Speaker 4: every afternoon, Monday through Friday, at 2.15 Eastern Time, 1.15
58:59
Speaker 4: Central Time, 3.15 Mountain Time, and 2.15 Pacific Time. This
59:05
Speaker 4: new daytime program, The Life and Love of Dr. Susan,
59:08
Speaker 4: comes to you in addition. to the Lux Radio Theater.
59:12
Speaker 2: Mr. DeMille.
59:14
Speaker 4: California and Alaska had their furious, fabulous gold rushes, and
59:19
Speaker 4: no less fantastic was the wild scramble for silver in Colorado.
59:23
Speaker 4: Out of this mad race for riches, a strange man emerged.
59:27
Speaker 4: Around his life, our play next Monday night is woven.
59:30
Speaker 4: His rise to power, his dreams, and around the two
59:34
Speaker 4: women whose devotion to him was his last and greatest possession.
59:38
Speaker 4: Arousing on the screen, our play is called Silver Dollar
59:43
Speaker 4: and brings back an old friend to our stage, that
59:45
Speaker 4: splendid star, Edward Arnold. He'll appear in the company of
59:49
Speaker 4: two widely requested favorites. Number one, and from the original cast,
59:56
Speaker 4: number two. Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Toilet Soap,
1:00:07
Speaker 4: join me in inviting you to be with us again
1:00:09
Speaker 4: next Monday night when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Edward
1:00:13
Speaker 4: Arnold and number one in Silver Dollar with number two.
1:00:21
Speaker 2: This is Cecil B.
1:00:22
Speaker 4: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. Your announcer has
1:00:28
Speaker 4: been Melville Ruick. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 1: We conclude with Lux Radio Theater's A Man's Castle from
1:00:38
Speaker 1: March 27th, 1939. Follow Lux Radio Theater for more classic broadcasts.