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Lux Radio Theatre - "Brief Moment" (Old Time Radio, 1938) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: On February fourteenth, nineteen thirty eight, Lux Radio Theater presented
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Speaker 1: its one hundred sixty three episode Brief Moment. Ginger Rogers
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Speaker 1: and Douglas Fairbanks Junior star as New York nightclub singer
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Speaker 1: Abbi Fane and wealthy heir Roderick Dean, whose sudden romance
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Speaker 1: joins the nightclub world with inherited privilege. Nigel Bruce, Louis Calhern,
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Speaker 1: Paul Harvey, and Grace Kern are also heard in this
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Speaker 1: adaptation of s. N. Berman's nineteen thirty one Broadway play.
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Speaker 2: Cecil B.
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Speaker 1: De Mill was the program's host, with Frank Woodruff directing
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Speaker 1: for CBS and Lux Soap. We now take you back
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Speaker 1: to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 3: From Hollywood, California. The Lux Radio Theater presents Ginger Rogers
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Speaker 3: and Douglas Fairbanks Junior in brief Moment.
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Speaker 4: Lux presents Hollywood. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen for your
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Speaker 4: loyalty to Lux Flakes and Lux Toilets.
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Speaker 5: Over a loyalty which makes it possible for our sponsors.
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Speaker 6: To bring you the Lux Radio Theaters.
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Speaker 4: Our program tonight features Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Junior
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Speaker 4: in brief Moments with Nigel Bruce, Louis.
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Speaker 6: Calhoern, and Paul Harvey.
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Speaker 4: We're also host to Jimmy Starr, noted Hollywood columnists, Lois
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Speaker 4: Silver's directs Our Music and Now. Our program opens with
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Speaker 4: word from our producer that's celebrated personality. Ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 4: mister cecil b demil.
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Speaker 5: I don't understand you.
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Speaker 6: Thank you.
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Speaker 7: I suppose you realize that this girl has fallen in.
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Speaker 6: Love with you?
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Speaker 5: Who said so?
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Speaker 7: Your mother told me she's quite worried about it. Ridiculous perhaps,
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Speaker 7: but I'm not interested in that. What I want to
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Speaker 7: know is are you in love with her?
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Speaker 2: Angela?
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Speaker 5: Are you?
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Speaker 7: Mac?
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Speaker 5: Of course not, whatever put such a nonsense into your head.
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Speaker 8: The only reason I'm interested in this girl is that
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Speaker 8: she can supply me with material for my marvel.
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Speaker 7: Well, I just wanted to make sure, Mac, because well,
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Speaker 7: people are beginning to talk.
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Speaker 5: Don't see why?
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Speaker 7: No, you think this creature of yours is an innocent
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Speaker 7: young lamb. Don't you a tender flower blooming in the slums? Well,
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Speaker 7: she isn't. What she isn't I've taken the trouble to
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Speaker 7: find out. Do you suppose that the night you found
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Speaker 7: her in the court was the first time she'd been arrested.
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Speaker 5: You mean she's been arrested before.
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Speaker 6: That, of course, on what job suppose we call it?
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Speaker 9: Here was out.
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Speaker 4: But to make it more sure, she adds, I boiled
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Speaker 4: an egg hard and took out the yolk and filled
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Speaker 4: it with salt, and when I went to bed, I
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Speaker 4: ate it, shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it.
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Speaker 9: I certainly hope that got the boy she.
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Speaker 4: Earned him, and I trust our observance of Saint Valentine's
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Speaker 4: Day will prove more enjoyable. The presentation of Ginger Rogers
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Speaker 4: and Douglas Fairbanks Junior in the romantic play Brief Moment
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Speaker 4: down the street from our theaters the r KAO Studio
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Speaker 4: which claims the services of both miss Rodgers and mister Fairbanks,
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Speaker 4: whom you will soon see together and the picture having
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Speaker 4: wonderful time. Ginger at the moment is making vivacious Lady,
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Speaker 4: and after that starts dancing with Fred Astare in a
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Speaker 4: new musical. Doug has just finished co starring with Irene
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Speaker 4: Dunn in Joy of Living, and shortly he and carry
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Speaker 4: Grant begin Gungadin tonight. He's Roderick Dean and miss Rodgers
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Speaker 4: is Abbey in s N Berman's notable success of stage
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Speaker 4: and screen. Brief Moment also brings us Louis Calhoern as
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Speaker 4: Castsworthing and Paul Harvey as Manny Walsh, both from the
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Speaker 4: original New York cast, while Nigel Bruce, long familiar as
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Speaker 4: a figure on the stage and screen in This Country
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Speaker 4: and England is heard a secret. The footlights fash on,
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Speaker 4: Louis Silver's baton has raised as the curtain rises, and
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Speaker 4: the Lux Radio Theater presentation of Ginger Rogers and Douglas
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Speaker 4: Fairbanks Junior. In Brief Moment, It's a grim called winter morning.
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Speaker 4: The street windows of the Apex Lunchroom in Pittsburgh at
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Speaker 4: white with frost in the tiled interior. At the overheated restaurant,
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Speaker 4: a waitress stands at the cashier's desk, balancing a tray
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Speaker 4: on one hand as she leans across the counter.
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Speaker 7: Anything yet enabels the telegram comes from. Say what is this?
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Speaker 5: You are specting good news or something?
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Speaker 7: I'm expecting something.
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Speaker 3: Hey, sister, what about those eggs over?
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Speaker 5: Reason? All right?
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Speaker 7: All right, give me a chance, Well snap it up.
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Speaker 7: Let me know if something comes, will you, Mabel?
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Speaker 10: Okay?
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Speaker 5: I'll let you know.
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Speaker 7: Check it up, chef, or be on number three. Hey, Gerdy,
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Speaker 7: what Abby, there's a guy in there who wants two
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Speaker 7: eggs over easy. If you can deliver, you might get
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Speaker 7: that nickel tip. I'll deliver yourself. I got my own troubles.
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Speaker 7: So what's the matter with you? Annie? You've been muking
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Speaker 7: around here all week with a face a mile long.
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Speaker 7: I'm fed up with this place. I'm fed up with
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Speaker 7: a grease, and I'm fed up with the people who
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Speaker 7: eat it. I've got a cold in my head and
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Speaker 7: I feel rotten, and I'm gonna get out of here
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Speaker 7: before I brain somebody with a platter two eggs over
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Speaker 7: easy eggs? You mean you're gonna quit, Abby? I hope so?
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Speaker 7: Oh you're crazy where you're going? I'm going to New York.
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Speaker 7: I'm waiting for a while now for Manny Walsh. Manny
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Speaker 7: walh the guy I used to drive a hack around here.
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Speaker 7: He don't drive a hack anymore. He's a big shot there.
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Speaker 7: He owns a nightclub. Huh, I suppose that makes you
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Speaker 7: a chorus girl in the poor show. And what's so
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Speaker 7: funny about this?
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 7: You mean it? Sure rot him a week ago. He's
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Speaker 7: a friend of my puffs. Don't do something for me?
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Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, jigged so crazy like that flatter it's hot. Okay. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 7: I'm still hustling bee.
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Speaker 5: Hey y habby. Plus, I was just coming in ask
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Speaker 5: you couthing? Did come?
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Speaker 7: Gee?
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Speaker 5: Open it quick?
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Speaker 7: I got my hands for all right. You know I
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Speaker 7: thought you was kid? What rick?
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Speaker 2: What about those hes?
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Speaker 7: Here? It is holding job open, anxious to see you. Man.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I knew it.
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Speaker 7: I knew he'd comes three the start.
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Speaker 5: I can't wait all day.
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Speaker 7: You can as far as I'm concerned. I'm on my.
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Speaker 5: Pinus. That door over there you can go right and
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Speaker 5: is expecting you.
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Speaker 8: Hello Manny Abby Gee, Abby, It's swell to see you
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Speaker 8: come in. I've been waiting for you. Let me look
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Speaker 8: at you say you look all right?
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Speaker 5: Sit down? Uh just get in.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I just came over from the station.
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Speaker 5: Won't think of any more of your time.
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Speaker 8: Many Oh yeah, Abby, this is cass Worthing. This is
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Speaker 8: Abby fan cast, daughter of an old friend of mine.
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Speaker 5: How do you do? How are you your first visit
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Speaker 5: to New York?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I hear. When I was a kid. I
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Speaker 7: don't remember much about it.
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Speaker 5: Though, well, anything I can do for you. Thanks, goodbye,
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Speaker 5: Miss Daden.
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Speaker 8: It's so long many Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Who is he?
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Speaker 5: Society guy?
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Speaker 8: Polo player mostly, but he thinks he's pretty hot at
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Speaker 8: stud poker too.
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Speaker 5: He was just in paying off.
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Speaker 7: Oh gee, it's a nice place you got here.
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Speaker 8: Manny, nothing to what I'm going to have. I'm going
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Speaker 8: up and up abby all the way. So you want
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Speaker 8: a job?
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 7: Yeah. I can sing a little and I can dance.
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Speaker 7: I'm best at singing. I guess sure.
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Speaker 8: I'll get one of the kids in the line, the teacher,
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Speaker 8: the routines and all. If you make out, okay, we'll
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Speaker 8: move you up.
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Speaker 7: Oh gee, I don't know how to thank you many
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Speaker 7: what for giving me a break without even knowing what
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Speaker 7: I can do.
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Speaker 8: I don't have to know it. You're a sweet kid.
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Speaker 8: That's what counts in this racket. And as long as
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Speaker 8: you stay a sweet kid, you'll be okay.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I get it.
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Speaker 4: Oh boss, Yeah, that guy Whiting had some flowers sent
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Speaker 4: up there for the lady me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, what.
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Speaker 7: See.
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Speaker 5: I was kind of nice to him, wasn't Yeah it
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Speaker 5: was okay. Listen to listen the scandal column.
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Speaker 8: What new chorus girl at the Hotsi Totsi has caught
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Speaker 8: the eye of what socialite polo players.
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Speaker 6: I bet it's cats again.
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Speaker 5: I'll bet you're right.
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Speaker 7: Have your scene list, Abby Fain has been moved out
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Speaker 7: of the chorus line up a Hotsy Totsy, the great
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Speaker 7: gold Man at the poor table is all smile.
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Speaker 2: The way you away, you're.
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Speaker 7: The way you sip your.
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Speaker 2: Re memory.
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Speaker 5: Well as she is, rod Did I break out of turn? Oh?
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Speaker 6: Decidedly? Not pure understatement of anything.
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Speaker 5: She's beautiful.
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Speaker 6: What do you think of a sake?
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Speaker 11: Say?
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Speaker 6: Wake him up with your cats?
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Speaker 5: Say sick.
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Speaker 2: But I didn't think of her at the moment. I
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Speaker 2: was not to give her toll. I hope you don't man.
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Speaker 5: Oh, go back to sleep.
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Speaker 4: Thank your own SIG's an intellectual cas a fat, lazy intellectual, not.
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Speaker 2: A fat Please stop.
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Speaker 12: She's coming over. Hello, care, Hello, Abby, sit down? Oh,
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Speaker 12: this is Rodrick Dean Abby.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Hello, how do you do?
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Speaker 5: And Harold's secret?
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Speaker 2: Good evening?
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Speaker 6: How are you not a toll?
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Speaker 7: Well?
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Speaker 2: Thank you?
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Speaker 6: I better apologize for singing advance, miss pain.
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Speaker 2: He's very rude. Just ignore me.
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Speaker 6: We heard your number and I enjoyed it very much.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, mister.
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Speaker 4: I have to thank Kaz for bringing us. I'm sorry
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Speaker 4: I didn't know about it sooner.
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Speaker 12: Watch out for this fellow, Abby. Don't believe a word
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Speaker 12: he says. He's no good, too much money. No ambition
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Speaker 12: is ambition one of your virtues?
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Speaker 2: Can well?
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Speaker 12: At least I play follow Rod doesn't even do that,
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Speaker 12: a perfectly useless character.
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Speaker 5: I'm warning you, Abby.
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Speaker 7: I don't believe you.
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Speaker 4: I'm afraid he's right. Well, we'd better get a long sick.
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Speaker 4: We've got a lot of places to cover tonight.
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Speaker 6: No no, no, no, no, come on, good night is Pain,
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Speaker 6: good night nightcast good night Now.
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Speaker 2: I listen right.
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Speaker 3: If you think I'm going trips, you're going from one
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Speaker 3: nightclub to another.
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Speaker 9: Your quiet figures.
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Speaker 12: Early crazy guy. Oh, I guess he's all right. I
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Speaker 12: only brought him here to show you off to him.
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Speaker 4: A certain well known poeist is still holding hands with
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Speaker 4: a certain charts singer.
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Speaker 5: His friends are very much surprised.
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Speaker 4: Her little be wedding bells over at the HATSI tatzi
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Speaker 4: Abby Pain is choosing her true soul, but he chooses
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Speaker 4: not to talk.
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Speaker 5: M We're still watching.
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Speaker 7: Man. He listened to this. That socialite is now in
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Speaker 7: root for Europe and that torch singer is really singing blue.
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Speaker 8: I ought to go over there and find that guy.
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Speaker 8: I ought to punch him right in the snow.
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Speaker 7: Stop it, Manny, it's all over.
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Speaker 5: Forget it, will you, Abby.
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Speaker 7: I'll get over it and get over anything in time.
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Speaker 5: You were pretty dappy about that bird, weren't you. I
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Speaker 5: guess so, Abby. I wish I could do something.
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Speaker 7: Oh, you've done everything, Manny. I'd still be swinging beans
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Speaker 7: back in Pittsburgh if it weren't for you.
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Speaker 5: I wasn't thinking about that.
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Speaker 8: What I meant was, well, when you take a rap
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Speaker 8: like this, it helps sometimes if you.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 8: Oh, I know, I ain't much of a bargain, but
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Speaker 8: I Abby, Abby.
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Speaker 7: What what many? Oh? I'm sorry?
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Speaker 13: What was you said?
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Speaker 5: Nothing? Try and snap out of it.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I'll be all right. I'll pull out of it,
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Speaker 7: and you'll never know the difference.
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Speaker 5: Sure you'll be okay. Nice night. He got a table left? Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Oh see Abby in a dressing room, I guess.
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Speaker 7: Oh, oh, hello, Manny, Hello, what's on your mind?
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Speaker 5: Nothing much?
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Speaker 11: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I see that guy's here again? Whoa you? What's his name?
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Speaker 5: Roderck Dean?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 8: Rod?
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Speaker 7: I thought, Oh, yes, Rod, said he was coming tonight.
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Speaker 5: Got a friend with him. Fat guy.
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Speaker 7: That's sick.
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Speaker 8: I guess Matt Dean guy has been showing up pretty
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Speaker 8: regular the last.
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Speaker 5: Couple of months.
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Speaker 7: It makes him one of your best.
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Speaker 5: Customers, not if he's like his pallide.
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Speaker 8: Don't I don't want to see you get burned again, Abby, Oh.
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Speaker 7: Don't worry. Rod's all right?
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Speaker 8: Uh huh, well he looks okay.
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Speaker 3: Of course, it's none of my business, Rod, But just
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Speaker 3: why do you want to marry her?
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Speaker 6: Very simple? I adora.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to marry her to adore.
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Speaker 4: I think adoration alone would bore Edie. I couldn't hold
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Speaker 4: her with it, and I've got to hold her. It's
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Speaker 4: important for me.
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Speaker 3: It's important a blues singer and a nightclub.
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Speaker 6: You're a snob, that's all.
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Speaker 4: The girl's magnificent, Her vitality is magnificent. After all, who
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Speaker 4: my millionaires?
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Speaker 6: Son? Well? What of it? The town's rotten with them.
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Speaker 4: I've been a failure at everything, a complete washout.
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Speaker 6: And don't think I don't know it.
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Speaker 3: Will the Prima donnar of the Hot Sy TOTSI Club
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Speaker 3: change all that?
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Speaker 4: I don't say she will. All I say is it's
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Speaker 4: no concession for me to marry her. She may turn
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Speaker 4: me down flat.
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Speaker 2: If she turns you down, Rod, then I'm skippy.
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Speaker 5: Oh hello, I'm Manny Wall.
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Speaker 6: Yes, we met before.
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Speaker 5: I think that's right.
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Speaker 6: This is Harold Cigarette.
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Speaker 2: How do you do?
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Speaker 5: How are you?
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Speaker 8: Mister Dean? I'd like to speak to you a minute.
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Speaker 8: We can go in my office if you want.
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Speaker 6: No, we can stay here. Say didn't you say you
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Speaker 6: had a call to make?
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Speaker 2: No, not that I remember.
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Speaker 6: Go on to say, be pleasant?
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Speaker 3: Do I have to move searley? Mister Walsh, you've been
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Speaker 3: talking front the baby.
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Speaker 2: You can spill out the big words.
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Speaker 5: Sorry, it's personal.
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Speaker 2: Very well? Why was I doomed to live in so Gideon?
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Speaker 2: A sit down at the Wolves?
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Speaker 8: Thanks? I wanted to speak to you about Abby. Yes,
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Speaker 8: she means a lot to me, mister Dean.
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Speaker 6: Says sympathy. We shad cigarette.
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Speaker 5: Thanks.
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Speaker 8: She'll probably give me blazes if she finds out I
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Speaker 8: talk to you.
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Speaker 5: Better not tell her.
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Speaker 6: Are you afraid of her?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 8: Not exactly afraid except Abby's the first dame that ever
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Speaker 8: got the best of me. Huh, that's it. I don't
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Speaker 8: know nothing she does, only I feel she knows everything.
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Speaker 8: I'm thinking, but that I don't know everything she's thinking.
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Speaker 6: Is that bey mysterious? I never got that impression.
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Speaker 8: Maybe not, but she buffaloes me. Funny too, because we've
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Speaker 8: been pretty good friends. I mean, well, I've always tried
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Speaker 8: to sort of look after you know.
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Speaker 6: Yes, that's what you're doing now, aren't you.
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Speaker 2: Huh?
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Speaker 4: You don't know me very well. We've only met once
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Speaker 4: or twice. You're here to give me the once over.
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Speaker 4: That's it, isn't it.
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Speaker 5: Well, if you want to put it that way, yes.
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Speaker 6: Of course, very decent of it.
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Speaker 5: It's just that I wanted to feel sure that she
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Speaker 5: ain't making a mistake.
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Speaker 6: Well do I pass?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: I guess so, thanks. I mean, well, you look all right. Anyhow,
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Speaker 8: since she's.
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Speaker 5: Coming out for her number, I better beat it. Will
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Speaker 5: you be seeing her later?
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Speaker 6: I imagine? So she was coming up to my place.
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Speaker 5: Well, don't say anything about me speaking to me.
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Speaker 2: I want.
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Speaker 7: All right?
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Speaker 5: He is?
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Speaker 7: It seems kind of funny to go up in an
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Speaker 7: elevator thirty flights and then climb two more.
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Speaker 4: It's the curse of living in the penthouse. Here we are,
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Speaker 4: go ahead, lights on your left. Well, what do you
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Speaker 4: think of the place?
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Speaker 7: Gee, it's so high my ears hurt.
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Speaker 9: You like it?
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Speaker 6: Well, it's empty most of the time. Cigarettes on the table.
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Speaker 7: Thanks?
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Speaker 6: Well, sweetheart, what's the answer? Do what you know?
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Speaker 7: To what?
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Speaker 4: When I asked you to marry me the other night
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Speaker 4: you said you wanted a day to think it over.
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Speaker 7: That's right.
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Speaker 6: I did have your thought. No what another day?
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Speaker 7: No? I was stringing you what I knew all the time.
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Speaker 7: I'd say, yes, really.
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Speaker 5: You mean it Abby?
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Speaker 6: Come here. Oh, I can't tell you what it was
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Speaker 6: like waiting.
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Speaker 7: The delay was just technique. By the way, what did
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Speaker 7: Manny want?
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 7: Well, I saw him speaking to you at the club.
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Speaker 6: Oh, well, he just dropped in for a chat.
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Speaker 7: Now, man he's no chatter. What did he have to say?
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Speaker 4: Well, his mission was very generous. Really, he wanted to
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Speaker 4: give me the once over.
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Speaker 7: Really do you think you got by?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 4: I think I passed. But I have a feeling you
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Speaker 4: want to speak to me again. In fact, I'm practically certain,
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Speaker 4: almost as certain as the feeling I have about you.
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Speaker 7: You know, sometimes I feel you're kidding the way you talk,
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Speaker 7: or not to me alone.
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Speaker 4: But in general that's a defense. I have to kid
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Speaker 4: about things. Why because I'm not sure of them or
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Speaker 4: of myself.
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Speaker 7: I don't get you, Rod. You're young, you're rich, you're attractive,
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Speaker 7: You've got everything in the world.
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Speaker 2: Yet what.
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Speaker 6: I'm afraid if I said it will sound ridiculus?
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Speaker 7: What if it does? Go on? Say it?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm very introspective.
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Speaker 7: I suppose what does that mean? I think about myself,
18:09
Speaker 7: so do I all the time? I love it.
18:11
Speaker 6: Well, that's different.
18:11
Speaker 4: I think of myself in relation to the outside world,
18:15
Speaker 4: to life, and I seem to myself to be so
18:18
Speaker 4: highly unnecessary. I'm surrounded by successful people, all of the
18:22
Speaker 4: much more talented than I am.
18:24
Speaker 6: I've tried art, I've tried writing songs.
18:27
Speaker 7: Whatever, Tin Pan Alley, if you knew the mugs I
18:29
Speaker 7: know who are hits in Tin Panel.
18:31
Speaker 4: Oh, that's not the point. The point is that Tin
18:33
Speaker 4: Pan Alley does express them. I'm unemployed spiritually, I'm well,
18:39
Speaker 4: I'm simply trying to convey to you that you're marrying
18:42
Speaker 4: a failure.
18:43
Speaker 7: Don't say that, Rob, You'll hear success with me.
18:46
Speaker 4: I think so too. But you've got to help me.
18:50
Speaker 4: I've gone from one thing to another. I can't find bass.
18:53
Speaker 6: You've got to help me. Of course, I will you're
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Speaker 6: everything I'm not ab it. I love you for it.
19:00
Speaker 6: Same here, look at me. You're beautiful man, beautiful Rod?
19:07
Speaker 6: What Donnie?
19:08
Speaker 7: I can't do it. I can't go through with it, Rod.
19:11
Speaker 7: I thought I could, But it's no use. What do
19:14
Speaker 7: you mean I can't marry you?
19:15
Speaker 6: Why not?
19:16
Speaker 7: Because I've I've got nothing to offer you, not a thing.
19:20
Speaker 6: Must let me be the judge of that.
19:22
Speaker 7: Well, you see, I I'm not in love with you, Rod.
19:28
Speaker 6: I see. Well, you're fond of me, aren't you.
19:31
Speaker 7: Yes, you're too good to be true.
19:34
Speaker 6: I'll take that for a start.
19:36
Speaker 7: No, no, no, it's more than that. It's that I well,
19:39
Speaker 7: I don't want to fall in love again. As far
19:42
Speaker 7: as that sort of thing is concerned, I'm I'm willing
19:45
Speaker 7: to call it a day.
19:47
Speaker 6: Is it castworthy?
19:49
Speaker 7: Yes? Well I got over it all right, and it
19:51
Speaker 7: killed me. But I finally did. I thought when I
19:55
Speaker 7: when you started to call me, well, it seems so nice,
19:58
Speaker 7: and I didn't know there were men like you. I
20:01
Speaker 7: guess I thought this was a way out for me. Security, independence,
20:07
Speaker 7: That's what I thought. That's a low down, Rod. But
20:10
Speaker 7: you're too nice for that. You can do better than that.
20:14
Speaker 7: I'd advise you to pass it up, Rod.
20:16
Speaker 6: Do you yes?
20:17
Speaker 4: Right?
20:18
Speaker 6: But worthings? Is it over?
20:21
Speaker 7: Yes?
20:22
Speaker 6: Really over? Are you sure?
20:24
Speaker 2: Well?
20:24
Speaker 7: You get to a point where you don't feel.
20:26
Speaker 4: Anything anymore, and I hope you'll never mention it again.
20:30
Speaker 4: I don't see how I could expect you to organize
20:32
Speaker 4: your past as a kind of prelude to my appearance,
20:35
Speaker 4: kind of prolonged entrance music. If we can organize the future,
20:39
Speaker 4: we'll be doing pretty well.
20:42
Speaker 7: You mean, after what I just said. Oh Rod, I'm
20:47
Speaker 7: a failure too. In a way we can comfort each
20:52
Speaker 7: other or draw strength from each other.
20:54
Speaker 4: The things I can give you don't really count, but
20:57
Speaker 4: you'll have all my love Abby, I hope that I'll
21:00
Speaker 4: have yours.
21:02
Speaker 6: Well. Is it a deal?
21:05
Speaker 7: Yes, it's a deal.
21:20
Speaker 9: Show Im Back.
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Speaker 4: One three months starring Ginger Rody and Douglas Fairbanks Junior.
21:25
Speaker 4: During the short intermission, with the assistance of two ladies
21:28
Speaker 4: from audience here in the Lux Radio Theater, We're going
21:30
Speaker 4: to play a game. It's fun for everybody, so we
21:33
Speaker 4: invite our radio wadience to join us. I'm going to
21:35
Speaker 4: mention two words, each of which has more than one meaning.
21:39
Speaker 4: How many meanings can you think of? For each of
21:41
Speaker 4: these words, We'll start with a young lady in the
21:43
Speaker 4: blue dress. Your name, please, Helen Murphy. Occupation stenographer, address.
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Speaker 10: Four twelve North camer El Street, Hollywood.
21:51
Speaker 6: Can you give us three meanings for the word fresh?
21:54
Speaker 10: Well fresh? Let's see, fruit is fresh when it isn't
21:59
Speaker 10: can and fresh can mean smart, alogy like a boy
22:03
Speaker 10: gets fresh is paid.
22:05
Speaker 6: Yes, I guess they do.
22:05
Speaker 10: Sometimes a third meaning, Let's see, fresh can mean sweet
22:10
Speaker 10: and dainty, like like.
22:11
Speaker 6: Silk things after their lucks. Perfect example. Now for our
22:15
Speaker 6: second contestant, name, occupation in.
22:18
Speaker 13: The dress, Missus Anderson, I'm a housewife and I live
22:21
Speaker 13: in Laurel Canyon in Hollywood.
22:23
Speaker 6: The word is fade fade. Can you give us three
22:27
Speaker 6: meanings for the word fade fade?
22:30
Speaker 13: Let's see we all sound and fade away, and fade
22:36
Speaker 13: is a term you're use in football, like fade back
22:39
Speaker 13: for a past.
22:39
Speaker 6: Did you say your occupation was housewife? Or can you
22:42
Speaker 6: give us a third meaning for fade?
22:44
Speaker 10: Right?
22:45
Speaker 7: Why?
22:46
Speaker 13: Yes, colors may fade too, but I find that if
22:49
Speaker 13: they're safe in water, they're safe in lux.
22:51
Speaker 4: You're a housewife, all right, and a clever one. One
22:54
Speaker 4: of the many reasons so many women stick to lux
22:56
Speaker 4: flakes is that they don't fade colors. This is actually
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Speaker 4: important in the case of underthings, because, of course destidious
23:03
Speaker 4: women wash these after each wearing lux not only freshens them,
23:07
Speaker 4: leaves them absolutely dainty, but also leaves the color in
23:10
Speaker 4: the fabric new looking. So always wash under things with
23:14
Speaker 4: lux flakes. And now back to mister Demill. Brief moment
23:18
Speaker 4: starring Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Junior but Nigel Bruce,
23:22
Speaker 4: Lewis Calhoun and Paul Harvey. Six months have gone by
23:33
Speaker 4: and Abby is married to Roderick Dean. There's little left
23:37
Speaker 4: of the night club singer in her place as a
23:39
Speaker 4: woman refined and culture, at least to the casual observer.
23:44
Speaker 4: In a fashionable shop on Fifth Avenue, she sits at
23:46
Speaker 4: a long counter and placing an order for gloves.
23:51
Speaker 7: I'll take these two pairs please, Yes, Madam and the
23:54
Speaker 7: great you know where to send them?
23:55
Speaker 5: Yes, missus roderg Deane, isn't it who cares?
23:58
Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 7: Yes? How are you cared?
24:01
Speaker 5: How are you much better?
24:03
Speaker 7: Thing?
24:03
Speaker 5: Why? I was right about the name.
24:05
Speaker 7: Oh yes, I've been married for about six months.
24:07
Speaker 5: Yes, I heard about it. I just got back yesterday.
24:09
Speaker 5: You're looking well appy, Thank you? Well, funny my running
24:13
Speaker 5: into you. I was going to give you a ring tonight.
24:15
Speaker 7: Are you well? You saved yourself a nickel?
24:18
Speaker 5: Could we have some tea?
24:19
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm afraid not, kass, dinner? Perhaps, No, it's impossible.
24:22
Speaker 7: We're having friends, Oh your aunt. Well, I've got to.
24:27
Speaker 5: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. But when am I
24:29
Speaker 5: going to see you?
24:30
Speaker 7: We're having a party a week and thursday or not before?
24:33
Speaker 5: Then, of course, give me a ring, Cass, all right,
24:36
Speaker 5: all right, I.
24:36
Speaker 7: Will missus Dean, Yes, Louis, mister Worthing is here? Oh
24:49
Speaker 7: oh well ask him the community, Cass. Hello, kiss. You
24:55
Speaker 7: know you weren't do here tonight.
24:56
Speaker 5: You know I always making a point to be early.
24:58
Speaker 7: Well, sit down, it's nice to see thank you.
25:01
Speaker 5: Then who was that heavily bit of gen I passed
25:03
Speaker 5: on the way in?
25:04
Speaker 7: Oh, I guess you mean he's a moving picture director Hollywood, Yes,
25:09
Speaker 7: and points west. He's he's Russian.
25:11
Speaker 5: I gathered that. What was he doing tempting you with offers?
25:14
Speaker 7: Hardly? I met him at a party a few weeks ago.
25:17
Speaker 7: He's very interesting. I asked him to drop up, fatig.
25:20
Speaker 5: This is like a relay race. Lucky for you you're married
25:23
Speaker 5: to enough like Roderck Dean.
25:25
Speaker 7: I beg your pardon, Russian.
25:27
Speaker 5: Movie directors, No sane man would stand for it.
25:30
Speaker 7: Anything else, kess.
25:31
Speaker 5: Yes, why didn't you show up yesterday?
25:34
Speaker 7: I told you I couldn't.
25:35
Speaker 5: You didn't say?
25:36
Speaker 7: Why have you forgotten? The name is Dean? Now, mister wiving,
25:40
Speaker 7: I think.
25:40
Speaker 5: I know what's the matter with you.
25:41
Speaker 9: Abby.
25:42
Speaker 5: You've gone lady on me. You were much more amusing
25:45
Speaker 5: in the old days.
25:46
Speaker 7: I don't believe that. In the old days, as you
25:49
Speaker 7: so fondly call them, you took me very casually. Now
25:52
Speaker 7: I must say you're a little more attentive. Contradictory, isn't it, Abby?
25:56
Speaker 5: You're bitter.
25:57
Speaker 7: I don't think I am.
25:58
Speaker 5: You can't forgive me, but I'll make you, and when
26:01
Speaker 5: you have, you forget that you ever resented me.
26:03
Speaker 7: Now you're getting complicated. That's not your style.
26:06
Speaker 5: Abby. You know I mean more to you than anybody really. Husband,
26:09
Speaker 5: don't know, husband, why? Because you know what we were
26:13
Speaker 5: to each other?
26:13
Speaker 7: I hardly remember.
26:15
Speaker 5: I don't believe you. It's another life, cass dear, it's
26:18
Speaker 5: the same life. Abby. You're my kind, You're more like
26:21
Speaker 5: me than anybody.
26:22
Speaker 7: No, Cass, I used to think I was like you.
26:25
Speaker 7: I used to try to be like you. I'm changed now.
26:28
Speaker 5: What changed you? You?
26:30
Speaker 7: Partly Roderic Dean mostly you see, I'm trying to be
26:34
Speaker 7: like him now, and you've forgotten me completely.
26:37
Speaker 5: You're a liar, mister Worthy, I know, and you know.
26:40
Speaker 5: It's just the same as it always was.
26:42
Speaker 7: No, Caress, believe me it is.
26:43
Speaker 5: No, it isn't they Well, I'll show you behave Sabby.
26:48
Speaker 7: Let me go, let me guess what you please?
26:50
Speaker 2: Hell taking resting lessons?
26:54
Speaker 7: Hello, sick? Come in?
26:56
Speaker 2: Oh thanks?
26:57
Speaker 7: Do you see, Cass, how absurd it is to try
26:58
Speaker 7: to make love to be here? Completely impractical?
27:01
Speaker 2: Hello? Okay?
27:01
Speaker 5: Hello?
27:03
Speaker 7: Oh? Did Rod come with you?
27:04
Speaker 2: Yes?
27:05
Speaker 7: Hello, hello Darling, come here. We have a visitor.
27:08
Speaker 5: Oh, Cass, So how are you excuse me? Will you?
27:13
Speaker 6: What's the matter with him?
27:15
Speaker 7: Is this what is known as a situation?
27:18
Speaker 6: Sig?
27:18
Speaker 2: Well, it was in pre war days.
27:21
Speaker 4: He looked a bit upset in me too bad cast
27:24
Speaker 4: worthings one fell I always ended for his self sufficiency.
27:26
Speaker 2: Occasionally he requires cooperation.
27:29
Speaker 5: Does he?
27:30
Speaker 7: I'd better explain the meaning of that innuendo. Rod. You
27:33
Speaker 7: see when Sick came in the room. He saw Worthy
27:35
Speaker 7: kissing me, but he did it without encouragement. It was
27:38
Speaker 7: not cooperative.
27:39
Speaker 3: It's always better to hear these things from your wife
27:41
Speaker 3: and from your best friends.
27:43
Speaker 4: I started to say, I end the Worthy, and I
27:45
Speaker 4: envied him, even without knowing that Abby kissed him.
27:48
Speaker 2: So he kissed seven.
27:49
Speaker 7: Thank you, sick?
27:50
Speaker 2: Well, well, what come? Chris Tarder's the great world? Oh?
27:53
Speaker 4: Stop chattering signal? I envy him because he doesn't worry
27:57
Speaker 4: about anything. He isn't troubled by anything, never thinks about
28:00
Speaker 4: anything but his own pleasure.
28:02
Speaker 6: I wish I were more like it.
28:03
Speaker 7: I'm glad you're not. Oh what time is it?
28:06
Speaker 4: Oh?
28:06
Speaker 7: My goodness, I've got to be thinking about getting dressed.
28:08
Speaker 2: Yes, I have to What time do we die?
28:10
Speaker 7: Eight o'clock?
28:11
Speaker 2: Howl? Likely? You appeared? Well?
28:14
Speaker 6: Goodbye and till that so long?
28:16
Speaker 7: Sick, Give me a rod? Is there anything wrong?
28:20
Speaker 6: Not a thing?
28:21
Speaker 7: Why don't tell Abbie you haven't even kissed me yet?
28:25
Speaker 5: Sorry?
28:26
Speaker 7: All right, much better?
28:28
Speaker 6: How about you completely cured?
28:31
Speaker 7: Not completely? I'm afraid have I lost my magic? I
28:35
Speaker 7: adore you really, and I adore you too, darling.
28:40
Speaker 6: That's so anything else?
28:42
Speaker 7: Yes, I adore life. I think I adore sitting here
28:46
Speaker 7: with you so close to me, waiting to dress for dinner.
28:49
Speaker 7: And you know, Rod, I think of all the people
28:51
Speaker 7: doing the same thing, famous people too dressing to come
28:54
Speaker 7: here to dine in my house with me.
28:57
Speaker 6: I cannot missus newly rich.
29:01
Speaker 7: Of course, there's nothing in the world so delicious as
29:03
Speaker 7: being a newly.
29:03
Speaker 6: Rich that has its drawbacks.
29:06
Speaker 4: All these famous people of yours who come here to die,
29:08
Speaker 4: they're not really famous, you know, except among themselves. If
29:11
Speaker 4: you really want to know the truth that a lot
29:12
Speaker 4: of chattering mediocrities celebrated mister vollish.
29:16
Speaker 5: In, for instance.
29:16
Speaker 7: Volish And is your friend, he's an acquaintance. Well, but
29:19
Speaker 7: you invited him to hear before.
29:20
Speaker 4: I didn't expect him to become a habit, Rod, what's
29:22
Speaker 4: the matter with you know, doctor vic the big specialist
29:24
Speaker 4: from Vienna, Nor missus Lampson, the exponent of the new poetry,
29:27
Speaker 4: nor how.
29:27
Speaker 7: To stop it? If I've invited these people here's because
29:30
Speaker 7: I thought it was the thing to do, because I
29:32
Speaker 7: thought you liked well, I don't. Well, I'm sorry, but
29:35
Speaker 7: you could tell me about it without giving me a
29:36
Speaker 7: lecture on it.
29:37
Speaker 6: I didn't mean it like that. Oh that's not quarrel, Abby,
29:40
Speaker 6: you know, you know it's like a war.
29:42
Speaker 4: I couldn't survive victory.
29:44
Speaker 7: Could I. I don't know what's the matter with Mebby.
29:49
Speaker 7: The one thing in the world I really want is
29:51
Speaker 7: to make you happy. I guess I'm even a failure
29:54
Speaker 7: at that. No, you're not. I am happy, Rod, Believe me,
29:58
Speaker 7: I'm happier than I've ever been in my life. Oh, Darling,
30:03
Speaker 7: I love you.
30:05
Speaker 6: I love you, Addie.
30:06
Speaker 7: And is it all right now?
30:08
Speaker 6: Really? Positively?
30:10
Speaker 7: And you won't be jealous anymore?
30:11
Speaker 6: Jealous?
30:12
Speaker 7: Well, that's what this is all about. Oh, I know,
30:16
Speaker 7: but what I told you is true worth and kissed me.
30:20
Speaker 7: Do you believe that? Rob?
30:23
Speaker 6: I told you, Abbey, I love you.
30:36
Speaker 7: Why did you shut the door? Care?
30:38
Speaker 5: Because I want to talk to you.
30:39
Speaker 7: You shouldn't have come here tonight.
30:41
Speaker 5: Everybody else in town did.
30:42
Speaker 7: And you shouldn't be drinking.
30:43
Speaker 5: What should I be doing?
30:45
Speaker 7: You never were a very successful drinker. Liquor brings you out, unfortunately.
30:48
Speaker 12: Well, I have no idea of coming here at all
30:50
Speaker 12: this afternoon. When I left you, I said to myself,
30:52
Speaker 12: that's that I called it quits.
30:54
Speaker 5: I could have killed you?
30:55
Speaker 7: And what made you forgive me?
30:57
Speaker 11: Oh?
30:57
Speaker 5: I didn't what happened? I went around to the club
30:59
Speaker 5: and I had a fast workout in the shower. I
31:01
Speaker 5: thought that it fixed me up? Who?
31:02
Speaker 7: Cast? Do you mean to tell me that I survived
31:04
Speaker 7: a fast workout?
31:05
Speaker 5: You did?
31:06
Speaker 7: I'm flattered?
31:07
Speaker 5: Go on? Oh, Abby, why don't you chuck this? Poson?
31:09
Speaker 5: Be yourself? I'm mad about you, havy crazy madaw? Can't
31:12
Speaker 5: you see that.
31:13
Speaker 7: That has a familiar ring?
31:14
Speaker 5: Cast? You don't believe me?
31:16
Speaker 7: Are you surprised at that? And if I did believe you,
31:18
Speaker 7: it wouldn't make any difference. You're a little late cast.
31:21
Speaker 5: Oh I'm not listening, Abby. I was a fool before,
31:24
Speaker 5: But Abby, listen, give me another chance. I'll make it
31:27
Speaker 5: up to you.
31:27
Speaker 7: But I don't want you to make it up to me.
31:29
Speaker 7: Can't you understand that? Cast? Now, come on, let's go
31:31
Speaker 7: down and.
31:31
Speaker 5: Day will will you can't turn me down like this?
31:33
Speaker 7: I'm sorry?
31:34
Speaker 5: When when will I see you?
31:35
Speaker 7: I don't know?
31:36
Speaker 5: Will you have lunch with me tomorrow?
31:37
Speaker 7: Well? Call me?
31:38
Speaker 5: What about late tonight? It's very difficult, but you can
31:41
Speaker 5: do it if you want to. Well, what's the harm
31:44
Speaker 5: in am I taking you up for a little rival
31:46
Speaker 5: of park.
31:46
Speaker 6: All right perhaps no, no, no, no, no.
31:47
Speaker 5: No promise all right, well it is the date.
31:51
Speaker 7: Yes, not for pity's sake. Let's go down there.
31:55
Speaker 5: Hello, oh hello, man, hi, man, excuse me? Will him?
32:01
Speaker 7: You're having a good time?
32:02
Speaker 8: Many, Okay, it's crowded like the hot Si TATSI on
32:06
Speaker 8: Saturday night.
32:07
Speaker 7: Say you look solemn? What's it all about?
32:10
Speaker 8: Oh, it's about that sore head who just went out.
32:14
Speaker 8: Now listen, you can't kid me. What's he doing here?
32:17
Speaker 7: Well it's a big party. I can't keep him from
32:19
Speaker 7: coming to a big party.
32:20
Speaker 5: Well, I don't like it. It's bad business.
32:22
Speaker 7: Abby, No, Many, it isn't ask me.
32:27
Speaker 5: This Rod is a sweet guy.
32:30
Speaker 7: No one knows it as well as I do.
32:34
Speaker 5: Then what are you doing messing around with? Worry? And
32:36
Speaker 5: you know what a run around he gave you in
32:37
Speaker 5: the old days.
32:39
Speaker 7: I seem to remember something of the sort.
32:41
Speaker 5: He's one baby you can't fool with. You know that,
32:44
Speaker 5: don't you?
32:45
Speaker 7: Yes, but I'm better equipped than I used to be.
32:47
Speaker 7: That's why I'm telling you not to worry, because I'm
32:51
Speaker 7: not worried. Many, I'm the stun you're.
33:04
Speaker 9: Enjoying.
33:04
Speaker 2: Our little party sing hard. I don't believe you are.
33:07
Speaker 2: I'm not. I noticed it.
33:09
Speaker 3: You spend most of your time downstairs glaring in the
33:12
Speaker 3: general direction of the handsome polar players at that notice
33:15
Speaker 3: upon it to me you're jealous, Ancha.
33:18
Speaker 2: I can't say that. I blame you.
33:19
Speaker 4: It's strange as though I have flares of raged, flares
33:23
Speaker 4: of indignation, but they don't last.
33:25
Speaker 6: I can't keep it up. Isn't it awful?
33:28
Speaker 2: Which would you like to assassinate Worthing?
33:31
Speaker 6: Only momentarily? How does one sustain a hate?
33:35
Speaker 4: I have moments of it when I when I lose
33:37
Speaker 4: sight of the triviality of this little intrigue, the brief
33:40
Speaker 4: moment of petulance against the whole background of life, and
33:44
Speaker 4: my indignation vanishes, my hate simmers down.
33:47
Speaker 6: That's abnormal, isn't it? I feel like that? What's the
33:51
Speaker 6: matter with me? What can I do?
33:52
Speaker 2: You can't do anything?
33:54
Speaker 3: You ever got too much sense to be annoyed?
33:56
Speaker 2: Or or too little?
33:58
Speaker 5: Come on worthy? What for you will see? Will you, gentlemen,
34:02
Speaker 5: excuse us? Certainly?
34:04
Speaker 2: I won't get up friend about it.
34:05
Speaker 8: I want to talk to Worthing. That's why I got
34:07
Speaker 8: him up here. What do you want to talk to
34:09
Speaker 8: me about?
34:09
Speaker 5: You will find out. Come on sake, gentlemen, you wait
34:11
Speaker 5: a minute now, you don't know. You don't have to go.
34:13
Speaker 5: Whatever Many has got to say to me, he can
34:15
Speaker 5: say to me here if you weren't so drunk. What
34:17
Speaker 5: if I am drunk?
34:17
Speaker 6: Man?
34:18
Speaker 8: Come on now, he's been saying some foolish things downstairs,
34:21
Speaker 8: saying them out loud.
34:22
Speaker 6: Why shouldn't they say foolish things out loud if he wants?
34:24
Speaker 5: Oh, don't be so polite, Dean. You know what it's
34:26
Speaker 5: all about.
34:27
Speaker 6: I'm afraid I don't.
34:28
Speaker 5: Well, then I'll tell you. Keep your mouth shut.
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Speaker 2: Worthy, whoa?
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Speaker 7: What is this a convention?
34:32
Speaker 5: Abby? Pabby? Come here? I want to tell him. I
34:35
Speaker 5: want him to know care. For Heaven's sake, you don't understand.
34:38
Speaker 5: I don't want to be under cover about this. I
34:40
Speaker 5: want him to know your face.
34:41
Speaker 7: Now, Many, don't go defending my honor.
34:43
Speaker 5: You might as well know, Dean, Abby and I were
34:45
Speaker 5: pretty good friends once, I'm warning you Worthy. As a matter
34:47
Speaker 5: of fact, we were a little more than good friends.
34:48
Speaker 8: We were Many don't Oh he asked for it, He
34:54
Speaker 8: was just aching for it?
34:56
Speaker 2: Is he dead?
34:57
Speaker 8: Many no such luck, But that kisser of his won't
35:01
Speaker 8: be so handsome in the morning.
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Speaker 5: Get up worthy, you.
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Speaker 6: Know, Manny, I don't think you should have done that.
35:06
Speaker 5: Or shut up.
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Speaker 8: If you had any backbone, you'd have done it yourself,
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Speaker 8: would I.
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Speaker 7: Are you all right?
35:11
Speaker 5: Yes? Yes, I'm all right.
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Speaker 7: Well then will you tell Rod what you just now
35:14
Speaker 7: said is a lie?
35:15
Speaker 5: Well? What's the difference. We've got a date tonight, haven't
35:18
Speaker 5: we a date?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
35:20
Speaker 5: Ca said? It meets me. You promise I'll be waiting
35:23
Speaker 5: for you.
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Speaker 4: I think you'd better leave cas Well, I'll be waiting
35:26
Speaker 4: at my place.
35:27
Speaker 5: You can call me there.
35:30
Speaker 8: And still the party goes on. I guess i'll go
35:33
Speaker 8: down and see he gets out?
35:35
Speaker 5: All right?
35:37
Speaker 6: All right?
35:38
Speaker 7: Good nine. Well, except for a few mins and mishaps,
35:43
Speaker 7: it's a very successful party, isn't it too successful?
35:47
Speaker 2: Swarn me out?
35:48
Speaker 7: Oh, don't go yet, sick, come on, let's check.
35:51
Speaker 2: Thanks, my David. I'm getting a bit sleeping.
35:54
Speaker 7: Well, then i'll go downstairs with you. Sick. It's all over,
36:09
Speaker 7: Thank heaven. I've just feeded the last guest. Tired, let's
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Speaker 7: get some sleep, shall we.
36:17
Speaker 4: What about your engagement? Engagement with cast worthing? Oh, he
36:23
Speaker 4: said you'd promise, Well I did. It was the only
36:25
Speaker 4: way I knew how to get rid of him. You know,
36:27
Speaker 4: Cass is a little difficult at times.
36:29
Speaker 6: Why don't you keep your engagement?
36:31
Speaker 7: Well, I told you I never meant to. This is
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Speaker 7: nothing then, but in exercise and diplomacy, that's all.
36:37
Speaker 6: You don't suspect any other motive.
36:39
Speaker 7: What do you mean?
36:40
Speaker 6: I mean, you're still in love with him?
36:42
Speaker 7: I'm not.
36:43
Speaker 6: You are you weren't? You wouldn't bother trying to let
36:45
Speaker 6: me down? Easy?
36:46
Speaker 7: What are you trying to do? You're making something out
36:49
Speaker 7: of nothing. I treated the whole thing as a joke
36:51
Speaker 7: because the only way I knew I could show him
36:53
Speaker 7: how little it meant to me.
36:54
Speaker 4: I appreciate your trying to spare my feelings. Well you needn't.
36:59
Speaker 4: Perhaps I'm less sense than you think, Rod.
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Speaker 7: Why do you torture yourself?
37:02
Speaker 6: I don't see it as self torture at the moment.
37:05
Speaker 9: It's a rather.
37:05
Speaker 4: Righteous indignation, righteous in spite of your please of innocence.
37:08
Speaker 6: The facts seem to disprove you.
37:10
Speaker 4: You're in love with him once and he threw you down.
37:13
Speaker 4: Your kindly treatment this time seems a bit unwinded. Perhaps
37:16
Speaker 4: I should disregard what I see, Perhaps I should pass.
37:19
Speaker 6: It off as meaningless, trivial. Well, I can't do it.
37:23
Speaker 7: You can't do it. You can't do it because you
37:25
Speaker 7: can't see anything except from your own limited viewpoint.
37:28
Speaker 6: I told you I was a failure a long time ago.
37:30
Speaker 7: And I told you about Castworthy, and.
37:32
Speaker 6: You admit you're still in love with him.
37:33
Speaker 7: I admit nothing. Now, why do you twist my words?
37:36
Speaker 7: Am I on trial?
37:37
Speaker 4: Our marriage is untrial. Everything we were to be to
37:40
Speaker 4: each other's untrial. I remember hoping that you'd give me
37:43
Speaker 4: your love.
37:44
Speaker 7: You mean I haven't.
37:45
Speaker 6: I mean you haven't.
37:47
Speaker 7: Do you you believe there? Do you really believe there?
37:51
Speaker 6: I do?
37:53
Speaker 7: All?
37:53
Speaker 5: Right?
37:54
Speaker 7: Then what have you done to deserve it?
37:56
Speaker 6: Just?
37:56
Speaker 7: What have you done to deserve it? It takes faith
37:59
Speaker 7: to to earn love, and you've no more faith than
38:02
Speaker 7: me than you have in yourself. You take everything out
38:05
Speaker 7: in talk you had any backbone, and cats said, what
38:08
Speaker 7: he did? You laid him out yourself.
38:09
Speaker 4: Well, you see, I'm cold, I'm heartless. I'm not the
38:12
Speaker 4: emotional type like Manny or yourself. I don't lay people out.
38:16
Speaker 4: I don't think it solves any problem.
38:18
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sick and tired of hearing about your problems.
38:20
Speaker 7: What are you anyway? What do you stand for? It's
38:24
Speaker 7: like living with a hypochondriac telling you about his ailments
38:26
Speaker 7: all the time. The truth is you're ineffectual, and you
38:29
Speaker 7: take it out on me because I'm not.
38:31
Speaker 4: Of course I'm ineffectual. I'm lacking in all the combative instincts.
38:34
Speaker 4: I told you that from the first cast's worthing meets
38:37
Speaker 4: your requirements, doesn't he Why didn't you go to him?
38:40
Speaker 7: Rodd? If you say that again, I will go on,
38:43
Speaker 7: why don't you he's waiting? Do you mean na?
38:46
Speaker 6: I never meant anything so much in my life?
38:47
Speaker 7: You will, You'll let me go?
38:49
Speaker 6: I urd you.
38:52
Speaker 7: Very well. I will, and that will be that.
39:09
Speaker 6: We pause for station identification.
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Speaker 11: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
39:38
Speaker 4: Pausing between the scenes of brief moment. Our trip to
39:41
Speaker 4: backstage Hollywood finds us face to face with Jimmy Starr,
39:44
Speaker 4: the Hollywood columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Express and
39:47
Speaker 4: other papers. Last fall, Jimmy introduced the novelty of telling
39:51
Speaker 4: film news on this program by means of sound effects,
39:54
Speaker 4: and tonight he has some really unique data on Hollywood.
39:57
Speaker 4: In one fell snoop, He's uncovered the ex centricities of
40:01
Speaker 4: the stars as revealed at the motor Registration Bureau where
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Speaker 4: all Hollywood went to secure at automobile license plates for
40:07
Speaker 4: nineteen thirty eight.
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Speaker 9: That's right, mister Demil.
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Speaker 4: Now about these findings, Jimmy, I presume you consulted mister R. C. Brewer,
40:13
Speaker 4: manager of the Hollywood officer of the Department of Motor Vehicles,
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Speaker 4: whose collection of signatures on registration cards is the.
40:19
Speaker 9: Envy of every autograph hunter.
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Speaker 14: I did, and it is after looking at the card
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Speaker 14: signed by Joan Crawford, I learned she wanted to have
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Speaker 14: the letter C on her license plates surrounded by sevens.
40:30
Speaker 14: Jack Okie wants number fifty four because fifty four is
40:33
Speaker 14: the number of films in which he's appeared. Carry Grant
40:36
Speaker 14: wants his street address on his license plate so that
40:39
Speaker 14: it reads backwards or from left to right, possibly so.
40:41
Speaker 9: He can send the car home by itself.
40:45
Speaker 14: Car owners frequently returned plates for exchange if they find
40:48
Speaker 14: the numbers add up to thirteen. On the other hand,
40:51
Speaker 14: there's Lily Pond's who really wants thirteen, and George Burns
40:55
Speaker 14: wanted a number under three for Gracie Allen.
40:57
Speaker 4: So she wouldn't strain on memory. Tell me, have you
41:02
Speaker 4: any new sound effects for us?
41:05
Speaker 15: Yes?
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Speaker 2: I have.
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Speaker 14: See if you can figure this one out, I give up.
41:19
Speaker 14: Well that's been Crosby's new baby getting his first crooning lesson.
41:25
Speaker 5: Now this.
41:28
Speaker 4: Sounds like a limb breaking from a tree. You're getting hot.
41:32
Speaker 4: It's really Charlie McCarthy taking a wrastling lesson. See if
41:37
Speaker 4: you can interpret this one. That's your version of an
41:54
Speaker 4: exciting newsreel condensed into five seconds.
41:56
Speaker 14: Oh no, that's just a certain wardrobe director in town
41:59
Speaker 14: sending forth this troop of eron boys.
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Speaker 4: But why all the confusion, you'll give people the wrong idea. Well,
42:04
Speaker 4: that wardbrobe director is in a spot. He really has
42:07
Speaker 4: two hundred costumes to freshen up for the next day shooting,
42:10
Speaker 4: and god, go on, go on, and he's all out
42:13
Speaker 4: of lux flakes.
42:14
Speaker 9: Oh oh that's different.
42:17
Speaker 14: And so I lux flakes different, mister demil. If the
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Speaker 14: opinions of the leading studios in Hollywood mean anything, and
42:23
Speaker 14: believe me, they do, lux is tops all over town.
42:26
Speaker 4: Proceed, mister Starr anymore. Yes, here's another that's a strange
42:33
Speaker 4: sound for California. But I've got it a radiator letting
42:36
Speaker 4: off steam.
42:36
Speaker 14: Another zero. That's Ben Bernie saying hello to Walter Winchell.
42:42
Speaker 4: Well, from now you'd better tell your news in English,
42:45
Speaker 4: if you have any left.
42:47
Speaker 14: Of course, here are four snappy snoops. Thumbdam flash Number
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Speaker 14: one d W. Griffith, who has announced plans of remaking
42:54
Speaker 14: his greatest thumb The Birth of a Nation.
42:56
Speaker 9: But there's a big hitch in the idea.
42:58
Speaker 14: No one can find an original script of the Opus,
43:00
Speaker 14: and that's causing a long delay.
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Speaker 9: Number two.
43:04
Speaker 14: A new all time record for climbing walls took place
43:06
Speaker 14: at the Warner brother Studio when a bull became infuriated
43:09
Speaker 14: on the Cowboy from Brooklyn Set, broke loose and proceeded
43:13
Speaker 14: to scatter stars and crew in all directions Dick Powell,
43:16
Speaker 14: Padd O'Brien, Dick Varan broke all speed records. It is
43:19
Speaker 14: claim director Lloyd Bacon's flaming shirt was the cause of
43:23
Speaker 14: the bull's sudden outburst.
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Speaker 9: Item number three.
43:26
Speaker 14: For several weeks, Betty Davis has been awaiting some of
43:29
Speaker 14: California's unusual weather. In fact, Betty wanted a heavy downpour
43:33
Speaker 14: of rain. The small cloudburst arrived last Friday. Betty called
43:38
Speaker 14: the moving vans moved into her new home at the
43:40
Speaker 14: Heights of the rainstorm. Sounds a bit peculiar, but Betty
43:44
Speaker 14: believes that the rain brings her luck. She got her
43:46
Speaker 14: first stage engagement, her first break at Universal, and met
43:50
Speaker 14: her husband, Harmon O. Neelson, each during a rainstorm. News
43:55
Speaker 14: note number four, Shirley Temple's new musical, Little Miss Broadway,
43:59
Speaker 14: was delay this morning while a tiny star, with tears
44:03
Speaker 14: streaming down her cheeks, conducted a burial service over six
44:06
Speaker 14: of her pet bunny rabbits dround in a rainstorm last night.
44:11
Speaker 6: But true to the tradition of the theater, the show
44:14
Speaker 6: must go on.
44:14
Speaker 14: Shirley dried her tears and with a heavy heart, returned
44:17
Speaker 14: to work this afternoon. As a climax, I'd like to
44:22
Speaker 14: tell one last item about the auto licenses. A certain
44:25
Speaker 14: star I'd rather not mention his name, returned his plates,
44:29
Speaker 14: stating that he couldn't use him on his car.
44:31
Speaker 9: One question.
44:32
Speaker 14: He stated that he believed in astrology and that the
44:34
Speaker 14: numbers on these plates didn't vibrate properly. He was asked
44:37
Speaker 14: what kind of a car he drove and replied that
44:40
Speaker 14: it was a nineteen twenty nine model of a popular
44:42
Speaker 14: make that ought to vibrate enough for You'll, reply the attendant,
44:47
Speaker 14: and I think I vibrated enough myself.
44:50
Speaker 9: So long, mister demel.
44:53
Speaker 4: Starlight sad like we let us stars to hear Tonight
44:56
Speaker 4: Star thanks you Jo to our play brief moment, but
45:01
Speaker 4: Ginger Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. And our All Star casts.
45:12
Speaker 4: It's the following day. In a hotel dining room, Abby
45:15
Speaker 4: is having lunch with many Wash, telling him of a
45:18
Speaker 4: quarrel with Rod. She pauses for a moment, biting her leven.
45:24
Speaker 5: Well gone.
45:26
Speaker 7: So I left him, Manny, I had to after that
45:28
Speaker 7: for my own self respect. I had to. And then
45:31
Speaker 7: I called you.
45:33
Speaker 8: You shouldn't have done it, Abby, You shouldn't have walked
45:36
Speaker 8: out on.
45:36
Speaker 6: Him, but he told me to.
45:38
Speaker 5: Surely did because he couldn't see straight. He was too sore.
45:42
Speaker 7: I don't believe that. Why didn't he get sore when
45:45
Speaker 7: Cass said what he did?
45:46
Speaker 5: I don't know. Maybe he was.
45:49
Speaker 8: You can't tell, Abby. Some guys are just well, they're
45:53
Speaker 8: built that boy.
45:54
Speaker 7: No, No, he just doesn't care. Many I don't seem
45:58
Speaker 7: to have much luck to I'm practically left at the
46:02
Speaker 7: church by someone I think I love and the man
46:06
Speaker 7: I know I love.
46:07
Speaker 5: Well, you ought to call him?
46:11
Speaker 7: Oh I can't, Manny, I can't. He's got to call me.
46:14
Speaker 6: And if he don't, I don't know, Manny, I don't know.
46:29
Speaker 2: Would you mind telling me?
46:30
Speaker 15: Why?
46:31
Speaker 6: Why?
46:31
Speaker 11: What?
46:31
Speaker 2: Why?
46:32
Speaker 3: All the plans for departure from the looks of the
46:34
Speaker 3: place I came in, I should say that you were
46:35
Speaker 3: leaving you short day.
46:36
Speaker 6: I am practically all packed where you're going. You're up?
46:40
Speaker 2: That's nice, very broadening. They tell me? Why would you like?
46:43
Speaker 6: Three guesses?
46:44
Speaker 3: Sig couldn't have anything to do with Abby Astha.
46:49
Speaker 2: I hear that she's going to marry cass Worthy.
46:52
Speaker 3: You know all the gossip, don't I read the columns
46:55
Speaker 3: they've been caring for the last three weeks. I still
46:58
Speaker 3: don't see how you're going to asolves anything.
47:01
Speaker 6: If I told you why, you'd probably think I was crazy.
47:04
Speaker 2: How do you know? I don't think so anywhere.
47:06
Speaker 4: Sick I'm going to make an experiment not again, yes again,
47:10
Speaker 4: Well I figured it all out the last two weeks.
47:13
Speaker 4: I'm sick of life, hardly sick of it because It
47:17
Speaker 4: isn't my life at all. It's a carbon copy of
47:19
Speaker 4: hundreds of other parasitic lives around me.
47:22
Speaker 6: I want to discover my place in the world.
47:23
Speaker 2: How are you going to do it?
47:24
Speaker 4: Well, there's a necessary first step, stimulus of future endeavor.
47:28
Speaker 6: I've I've given up all my money.
47:31
Speaker 2: You've done what.
47:32
Speaker 6: I've left myself barely enough to live on, not too
47:34
Speaker 6: comfortable at that.
47:35
Speaker 2: Who did you give them money to?
47:38
Speaker 6: Well? That was amusing.
47:39
Speaker 4: Having decided to give away this considerable fortune, I found
47:42
Speaker 4: that I wasn't equipped even to be generous. I finally
47:45
Speaker 4: had to give it to a group of specialists who'll decide.
47:47
Speaker 6: What to do with it.
47:49
Speaker 4: It was my first contact with a contemporary world.
47:51
Speaker 5: The group of specialists.
47:54
Speaker 4: Well, well, I expect people will say I'm eccentric, put
47:57
Speaker 4: it mildly, yares And now what now I'm Maybe I've
48:01
Speaker 4: been wrong sick. Maybe you've got to fight for things
48:04
Speaker 4: in order to appreciate them. Well, now I can. Maybe
48:08
Speaker 4: the joy isn't in having at all. Maybe it's just
48:11
Speaker 4: in the fighting. I'm going to find out.
48:14
Speaker 3: I assume that you've chosen the starting point.
48:17
Speaker 6: Yes, I have.
48:27
Speaker 3: Just a minute, Hello, worthing?
48:31
Speaker 5: Well, Dean, what do you want here?
48:33
Speaker 9: Worthing?
48:33
Speaker 4: A few weeks ago you said something I didn't like.
48:36
Speaker 4: I want you to tell me now.
48:37
Speaker 6: It was a lie?
48:37
Speaker 5: Do you well?
48:38
Speaker 6: I'm afraid I can't and I'm sorry for you.
48:40
Speaker 15: Oh hello, Hello?
48:54
Speaker 7: Have you seen the paper? Sick? Did he really do it?
48:57
Speaker 7: Did Pop really do it? Oh?
48:59
Speaker 3: Yes, I can hardly believe it.
49:00
Speaker 7: It doesn't sound like.
49:01
Speaker 3: Him at all.
49:02
Speaker 2: Oh, he's changed. You would know him.
49:05
Speaker 6: Who is it? Who is it?
49:06
Speaker 5: Reporter?
49:07
Speaker 9: Hello?
49:08
Speaker 3: I was sick?
49:09
Speaker 5: Sick? I want to see you what for?
49:11
Speaker 7: I don't know. I just don't. Just want to talk
49:13
Speaker 7: to you when anytime? Maybe tonight at dinner at seven?
49:20
Speaker 2: Goodbye?
49:21
Speaker 11: Bye?
49:23
Speaker 6: Who is that?
49:24
Speaker 2: I told you?
49:24
Speaker 3: Reporters they've been trying to get you at your place,
49:26
Speaker 3: so no answer, so they called here.
49:28
Speaker 2: They wanted your picture.
49:29
Speaker 6: You should have given it to them.
49:32
Speaker 3: Do you mean to tell me that you're proud of
49:33
Speaker 3: your Ruffian tactics?
49:35
Speaker 6: Yes?
49:36
Speaker 4: I am a little If any bird ever deserved that,
49:38
Speaker 4: he was in a rod?
49:39
Speaker 2: What you have become a muscleman? You ought to have
49:43
Speaker 2: someone to look after you.
49:44
Speaker 3: No thanks, no telling what but a little success in
49:47
Speaker 3: that line can do to a person.
49:49
Speaker 4: I look after myself for a while. When are you
49:52
Speaker 4: sailing nine o'clock? You're absolutely said on it? Yes, what
49:56
Speaker 4: about dinner tonight? Is sort of the farewell party, just
50:00
Speaker 4: you and I? If you want, should we say the
50:03
Speaker 4: plaza circle it?
50:05
Speaker 6: That's some more.
50:15
Speaker 5: This way, monsieur, a table for three?
50:17
Speaker 2: You said, that's right, Pierre three sick?
50:20
Speaker 6: What's the idea here?
50:21
Speaker 2: We all are here?
50:22
Speaker 5: Have you?
50:23
Speaker 7: Oh sick? Why did you do it?
50:24
Speaker 3: If you'll excuse him, my children, I've got a very
50:26
Speaker 3: important telephone.
50:27
Speaker 2: Good? Can I leave you alone?
50:34
Speaker 4: I I suppose you'll know this.
50:38
Speaker 6: This isn't my idea.
50:40
Speaker 7: I hope you don't think it was mine.
50:42
Speaker 6: I'm glad in a way.
50:43
Speaker 4: I probably would have called you this evening. Really, I
50:48
Speaker 4: just wanted to thank you.
50:51
Speaker 6: You've changed me happy.
50:52
Speaker 7: Yes, I read something about it in the papers.
50:54
Speaker 4: It's deeper than that. I'm a new man, maybe, free
50:56
Speaker 4: of the past, free for the future. I've given up
50:59
Speaker 4: all my money. I suppose you've heard that.
51:01
Speaker 7: No, I hadn't. Does it matter?
51:02
Speaker 6: Well, it does to me.
51:03
Speaker 4: I have a new outlook kind of thing, a brand
51:05
Speaker 4: new perspective. I'm not even sorry that things turned out
51:08
Speaker 4: as they did. We've never been happy together, not really,
51:12
Speaker 4: because I was trying to draw strength from you, Abby,
51:15
Speaker 4: and you can't do that. It's it's got to come
51:17
Speaker 4: from inside. Well, I think I have that strength. Now,
51:23
Speaker 4: I think I can be happy and I'm I'm so
51:26
Speaker 4: grateful to you, Abby. I hope that you'll be happy too.
51:31
Speaker 4: Is it funny?
51:33
Speaker 2: Yes?
51:33
Speaker 7: Very. When I first heard of your going to Cass's place,
51:36
Speaker 7: I thought there was a reason behind it. I thought
51:39
Speaker 7: maybe you wanted to prove to me that you did
51:41
Speaker 7: think enough of me to defend my name. Now I
51:45
Speaker 7: find out did it all for your own amusement, to
51:48
Speaker 7: prove to yourself that you were really a man?
51:51
Speaker 4: I had to The night we parted, you said things
51:53
Speaker 4: to me. You said, weakling, hypochondriac, and effectual. Those things
51:58
Speaker 4: rang in my ears. I'll I'll never forget what you
52:01
Speaker 4: said to me that night.
52:02
Speaker 7: And I'll never forget what you said to me that night.
52:05
Speaker 7: You weren't interested. You sent me the cast and you.
52:08
Speaker 6: Went, didn't you?
52:10
Speaker 7: You went, No, I didn't. You told me to go,
52:14
Speaker 7: but I didn't. No, not the cast. I went to
52:19
Speaker 7: a hotel many knew where. I told him not to
52:22
Speaker 7: tell you until you ask for me, and I waited
52:26
Speaker 7: for you to call a week, two weeks, three weeks
52:29
Speaker 7: you didn't call. I said, this isn't control, this is
52:33
Speaker 7: an ama Ah right, don't you see I can't spend.
52:37
Speaker 2: All, Abbey?
52:39
Speaker 6: Oh what a fool I was? What a fool I am?
52:44
Speaker 6: What a jealous, overbearing fool? Forgive me? Abby?
52:51
Speaker 7: You say you've changed all? Right? Then? Do you have
52:55
Speaker 7: faith in me? Now? Do you believe me when I
52:58
Speaker 7: tell you that that you all he's had in my love,
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Speaker 7: that you've had it ever since we were married, that
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Speaker 7: I never did love Castworthy? I haven't even thought of him.
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Speaker 7: Have you that faith?
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Speaker 6: Yes?
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Speaker 5: Abby?
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Speaker 7: I do believe you, And deep down I suppose I
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Speaker 7: always have believed you.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry and I love you, Abby. I love you.
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Speaker 7: Oh Rod, Hello, I'm not I was sick. Do you
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Speaker 7: know what's just happened?
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Speaker 3: I think I can guess you better hire Rod. The
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Speaker 3: boat sounds about ten minutes. The Rod's going to best
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Speaker 3: thing in the world for him. I try to talk
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Speaker 3: him out of it, but I can see that he's right.
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Speaker 6: I saw it.
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Speaker 4: There's a chance to fight alone, Abby, away from everything
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Speaker 4: and everybody.
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Speaker 2: Not everybody. I am going with it. What.
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Speaker 3: I just want to take it. Come along, come along,
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Speaker 3: and we'll be late.
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Speaker 7: Wait Abby, Abby, if only you, no, no, you, you'd
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Speaker 7: better go rod. Maybe it is the best thing, if
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Speaker 7: it's going to be good for you. I I want
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Speaker 7: you to take it goodbye.
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Speaker 3: Of course it's the best way. I'one's gonna take care
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Speaker 3: of him.
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Speaker 6: But you please shut up right stop trying to order
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Speaker 6: my life for me. I know what I'm doing.
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Speaker 2: You know you mean I'm not going to Europe.
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Speaker 6: I am going to Europe. Abby is going with me?
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Speaker 4: Oh right, I love give me that ticket you bought here,
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Speaker 4: look here, come on, give it to me.
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Speaker 3: I was looking forward to this script and I get
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Speaker 3: away from it.
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Speaker 6: Well right, I've got a Abby.
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Speaker 3: Come on, you can't do.
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Speaker 5: This to me.
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Speaker 3: That's my ticket, it's my nay good bite, it's robbery.
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Speaker 5: You you can't do this to me, to me, you're
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Speaker 5: very best friend.
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Speaker 2: You ought to be ashamed.
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Speaker 5: Pierre dinner for three cents?
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Speaker 2: No, just one? Oh Pierre.
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Speaker 3: Eh you know I thought, just now for a moment
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Speaker 3: that I was stuck with a ticket for Europe.
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Speaker 2: Bruf armand is gone.
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Speaker 4: Melville Roy something to say on behalf of our sponsors,
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Speaker 4: and then Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Junior will take
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Speaker 4: a cuttin car, mister Hick Here.
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Speaker 9: It is a.
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Speaker 4: Fact that may amaze even those who are experts on
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Speaker 4: the subject, the housewives of our audience. It is estimated
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Speaker 4: that the average woman who keeps house for her family
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Speaker 4: spends five hundred and forty six hours a year washing dishes.
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Speaker 4: That's nearly twenty three entire days of twenty four hours each,
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Speaker 4: or more than three solid weeks without a second off duty.
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Speaker 4: Imagine what all those hours can do to your hands
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Speaker 4: if you slip into the mistake of doing dishes with
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Speaker 4: ordinary harsh soaps. You wouldn't wash your hands with the
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Speaker 4: laundry soap, yet that takes but a minute, while your
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Speaker 4: now the pair who made a very happy hour of
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Speaker 4: a brief moment, Miss Rogers and mister Fairbanks. It's the
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Speaker 4: customary thing when the play is over to retire to
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Speaker 4: some inviting rendezvous for a cup of tea and a
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Speaker 4: dance or two. I suppose Miss Rogers, we put down
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Speaker 4: our tea and kicked the big apple around.
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Speaker 7: It's splendid, but I couldn't think of making mister Fairbanks
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Speaker 7: a wallflower.
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Speaker 4: Oh miss Rogers, let me assure you that the sight
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Speaker 4: of mister de Mill doing the big apple will be well.
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Speaker 14: Worth the price of solitude.
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Speaker 9: Words, mister Fairbanks, fighting words.
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Speaker 7: I'll have you know that, ladies, gentlemen, for the last
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Speaker 7: time you were here, Doug, I heard mister Demill say
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Speaker 7: that he's known you and watched you ever since you
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Speaker 7: were a little blossoming sprig on the Fairbanks family trade.
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Speaker 7: I'll have no part in anything that might shatter such
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Speaker 7: a long friendship.
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Speaker 5: What do we do?
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Speaker 9: Sit down?
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Speaker 2: Hold hand.
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Speaker 6: This, Rogers? May I have this chrance?
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Speaker 7: Keep that up, mister f and we will be calling
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Speaker 7: for spirits of ammonia.
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Speaker 9: I'll be calling for my car.
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Speaker 2: Where are you going?
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Speaker 6: Mister Dell. Paradise, Hey, what goes on here?
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Speaker 7: And you both are talking like a couple of fugitives
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Speaker 7: from a heavenly choir.
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Speaker 4: Paradise is the name of mister Demill's ranch. If you
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Speaker 4: keep quiet, he's liable to invite us there.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I didn't know. Well, well, it sounds like the
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Speaker 7: chorus from the Last Round up to me.
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Speaker 6: You won't be lonesome up there, will you, mister de Mill.
57:35
Speaker 4: No, No, I have the peacocks in the deer well.
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Speaker 6: I I played the piano at bit.
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Speaker 4: I know a few stories, and I'm a pretty good listener.
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Speaker 9: Peacocks are very nice.
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Speaker 7: Wait a minute, I'll invite you both to my house instead.
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Speaker 7: Douglas and I will have tea and for you, mister
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Speaker 7: de Mill, well, for you, we'll have a nice bowl
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Speaker 9: Don't forget the cream ging they're really delicious.
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Speaker 4: And every time you open your mouth to speak, they
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Speaker 4: won't be with they'll just be bubbled.
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Speaker 7: Like dope and snow white.
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Speaker 6: And he's doing all right for himself too.
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Speaker 7: You know, gentlemen, we certainly can talk without saying anything.
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Speaker 2: Ain't it the true?
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Speaker 4: If there's something really important down your mind jin you
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Speaker 4: just just speak right up, say it.
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Speaker 7: Well, here it is. I want you to know, mister
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Speaker 7: de Mill, that I've had a grand time here tonight,
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Speaker 7: and I hope we'll all meet again soon in front
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Speaker 7: of this very same microphone.
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Speaker 6: Good night, goodnight CD and mind j P's and Susie Hughes.
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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, Miss Rogers and mister Fairbacks.
58:41
Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 4: This is your announcer, Melvill rut before mister Demill tells
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Speaker 4: you what next week's gala program, may I say? Our
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Speaker 4: stars tonight were assisted by Grace Kerrn Is Gerty in
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Speaker 4: the See Berry is Mabel, David Kerman is Frank Mary
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Speaker 4: Smith as a saleslady, James Eagles as chef, Lou Merrill
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Speaker 4: as I rate customer, and Frank Nelson. This Gossip columnist
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Speaker 4: Lewis Silvers appeared to courtesy of twentieth Century Fox Studios,
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Speaker 4: where he directed music for the new film In All
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Speaker 4: Chicago for the same studio, Nigel Bruce has recently made
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Speaker 4: the picture The Baroness and the Butler and now Mister Demil.
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Speaker 4: Those who enjoy a simple, yet finely woven drama of
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Speaker 4: anna sentiment will welcome the Lux Radio Theater adaptation Next
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Speaker 4: Monday Night of one of the most touching love stories
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Speaker 4: ever told, Romance by Edward Sheldon. Thousands of people crowded
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Speaker 4: the theater week after week to see it as a
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Speaker 4: play with Darius Keene and William Courtney. It played over
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Speaker 4: a thousand performances in London and no less brilliant was
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Speaker 4: its record on the screen. We celebrate its presentation on
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Speaker 4: the radio by bringing you two of your favorite performers,
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Speaker 4: two of Hollywood's most famous stars, Miss Madeline Carol and
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Speaker 4: mister Herbert Marshall.
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Speaker 9: Our sponsors, the makers of Lux.
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Speaker 4: Fakes, join me in inviting you to be with us
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Speaker 4: again next Monday Night, and the Lux This Radio Theater
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Speaker 4: presents Herbert Marshall.
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Speaker 6: And Madeleine Carroll in Romance.
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Speaker 9: This is Cecil B. De Mill saying good night to.
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Speaker 4: You from Hollywood. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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