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Lux Radio Theatre - "The Constant Nymph" (Old Time Radio, 1944) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: A gifted composer finds his life newly entwined with the
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Speaker 1: unconventional Sanger family and with Tessa Sanger's unspoken devotion to
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Speaker 1: his music. On January 10th, 1944, Lux Radio Theater presented
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Speaker 1: episode 422, The Constant Nymph, adapted from the Warner Brothers
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Speaker 1: motion picture based on Margaret Kennedy's novel and play. Charles
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Speaker 1: Boyer stars as composer Louis Dodd, with Maureen O'Sullivan as
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Speaker 1: Tessa and Alexis Smith as Florence Creighton. From the Austrian
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Speaker 1: Tyrol to London, family ties and a growing romantic triangle
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Speaker 1: bring these three lives into close contact. Now, back to
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Speaker 1: the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: Hollywood.
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Speaker 4: The Lux Radio Theater brings you Charles Boyer, Marino Sullivan,
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Speaker 4: and Alexis Smith in The Constant Nymph. Ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 4: your producer, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Cecil B.
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Speaker 4: DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Emotion is the
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Speaker 4: dynamo that makes life go on. Transferred to the footlight,
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Speaker 4: it's the soul of good theater. And good theater does
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Speaker 4: not depend upon war or peace. It has a timeless
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Speaker 4: quality that lives beyond the moment. A quality that I
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Speaker 4: believe you'll find tonight in The Constant Nymph. This moving
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Speaker 4: love story was first a fine novel by Margaret Kennedy.
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Speaker 4: Then the play captivated Broadway audiences in the roaring 20s.
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Speaker 4: And now, in a world at war, the hit motion
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Speaker 4: picture production from Warner Brothers Studio has proved that good
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Speaker 4: drama is always up to date. In casting tonight's play,
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Speaker 4: we naturally followed the lead of the picture and went
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Speaker 4: hunting for Charles Boyer, who gave one of his best
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Speaker 4: performances in the concert nymph. We also have the promising
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Speaker 4: new Warner star, Miss Alexis Smith, from the picture cast.
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Speaker 4: And rounding out a trio of stars, we've given one
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Speaker 4: of the theater's prize roles to Maureen O'Sullivan. You know,
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Speaker 4: there's more to our casting problem than the stars. We
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Speaker 4: always fill even the smallest part with the best player
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Speaker 4: we can find. because with Lux Toilet Soap behind the production,
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Speaker 4: the best is none too good.
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Speaker 2: In the theater, it's teamwork that counts.
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Speaker 4: And I believe that's true of every successful venture, whether
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Speaker 4: it's putting on a play for an audience of 30
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Speaker 4: million or making a.
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Speaker 2: Soap for all those people. And Lux Toilet Soap did.
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Speaker 4: Not happen by accident. A small army of scientists burned
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Speaker 4: the midnight oil until they found some of.
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Speaker 5: The mysterious secrets of beauty.
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Speaker 2: And there's always an air of mystery at curtain time.
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Speaker 4: Now the first act of The Constant Nymph, starring Charles
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Speaker 4: Boyer as Louis Dodd, Moreno Sullivan as Tessa, and Alexis
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Speaker 4: Smith as Florence. The natural wonders of the Alp Mountains
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Speaker 4: in Switzerland are world-renowned. Less famous, but certainly no less wondrous,
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Speaker 4: is the Sanger family. whose sprawling old chalet rests among
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Speaker 4: the towering meadows high above the city of Zurich. Albert
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Speaker 4: Sanger was a great composer before he started to dilute
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Speaker 4: genius and brandy. And like his music are his four daughters, beautiful, simple, unrestrained,
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Speaker 4: and at times a little hard to understand. The Sanger
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Speaker 4: girls are often wildly excited, but this time the cause
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Speaker 4: is obvious. Roberto, the handyman, had just come back from town...
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Speaker 4: with a telegram.
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Speaker 6: He's coming.
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Speaker 3: He's coming.
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Speaker 7: Lewis is coming.
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Speaker 8: Hey, there's a telegram from Lewis.
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Speaker 9: Who's coming?
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Speaker 8: Lewis Dodd. Lewis is coming.
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Speaker 4: When? Wednesday.
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Speaker 8: It says Wednesday.
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Speaker 7: But Wednesday's today, silly. He's coming today. Of course, today.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Tessa, your hair's all wet.
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Speaker 7: I know.
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Speaker 8: I've been in swimming.
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Speaker 10: Oh, dear.
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Speaker 8: Well, get it even.
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Speaker 7: I can't.
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Speaker 10: I've lost mine.
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Speaker 8: Tony, give me yours.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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Speaker 8: Betty gave this to me. It's very expensive.
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Speaker 2: Tony.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no.
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Speaker 4: Don't you dare.
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Speaker 11: Oh, you.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Kate, you'll make her give it back.
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Speaker 7: Hush, let her have it.
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Speaker 8: Fritzie gave you dozens. Oh, Fritzie's very rich. Young's ten
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Speaker 8: pairs now. Tony, you're going to marry Fritzie? Maybe I will, and.
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Speaker 10: Maybe I won't.
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Speaker 7: Oh, silly geese, all of you.
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Speaker 8: Hurry now. I'll get flowers. Rebecca, Rebecca, where's my.
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Speaker 2: Lewis's room.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Kate, where's the broom? What if he comes before
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Speaker 7: I'm through? No brooms for you, young lady. Just look
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Speaker 7: at you. Lie down and rest. It's nothing, Kate. You're
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Speaker 7: white as snow. Does it hurt you much, darling? It
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Speaker 7: does my heart, does it? funny things.
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Speaker 10: Oh, every time there's a little excitement.
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Speaker 2: But it never hurts. Really, it doesn't.
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Speaker 7: It just seems to jump around and makes me breathe
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Speaker 7: a little faster.
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Speaker 12: See?
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Speaker 7: It's all gone already. The first time we go to
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Speaker 7: the village, we're seeing a doctor. No.
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Speaker 10: I'll tell Lewis.
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Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no, don't.
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Speaker 10: I'll go.
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Speaker 7: Honestly, I will. And Roberta will fix the room for Lewis,
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Speaker 7: not you.
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Speaker 4: You're awful.
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Speaker 7: I know. Now get in the house and see if
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Speaker 7: Father's awake. Tell him we're coming.
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Speaker 8: He can have a little brandy.
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Speaker 7: But mind you, with water.
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Speaker 1: Father?
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Speaker 7: Father? Father, are you awake?
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Speaker 2: Come in. Come in.
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Speaker 7: It's only Tessa, Father.
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Speaker 2: Roberto brought back the brandy.
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Speaker 7: Yes, but I'm afraid you'll.
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Speaker 2: Have to have a little water in it.
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Speaker 7: Anyway, Lewis is coming.
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Speaker 10: He's coming today. He sent us a telegram.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Lewis. I want to see Lewis.
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Speaker 7: Father, would you tell me something?
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 7: Is Lewis a really fine composer?
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Speaker 12: He has good technique, but he's like the weather. Today
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Speaker 12: it thunders, tomorrow it is sunny. There's no blood in
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Speaker 12: his music.
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Speaker 2: No heart.
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Speaker 12: If he could only cry, he should fall in love.
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Speaker 12: If some woman could disturb him, why.
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Speaker 7: I'm sure he's never loved a woman.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean as if he could. Well, suffer.
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Speaker 4: What would make him suffer?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
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Speaker 12: There's something that happens to all of us.
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Speaker 7: Father, I love Lewis. He's mine.
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Speaker 2: That's nice.
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Speaker 7: He is.
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Speaker 10: He really is.
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Speaker 2: Tell me, does Lewis know about this?
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 7: But one day he will, and then he'll look at
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Speaker 7: me and he'll say, darling, darling, Tessa, and then everything.
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Speaker 4: Will be all right.
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Speaker 2: And you will probably faint.
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Speaker 7: Into his arms. And he'll be very glad when he knows,
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Speaker 7: because he needs someone like me.
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Speaker 2: Someone he needs. Tessa!
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Speaker 13: Tessa!
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Speaker 2: Tessa!
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Speaker 8: Tessa, he's here!
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Speaker 9: Lewis is here!
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Speaker 6: I'm coming!
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Speaker 3: I'm coming! Lewis!
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Speaker 13: Lewis!
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Speaker 2: There's no blood in this music. No heart. Quiet, quiet, monkeys, monkeys,
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Speaker 2: all of you. Quiet, I'm very tired. I've traveled all
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Speaker 2: day and I've eaten too much. Now, one at a time.
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Speaker 13: You know, earlier tonight I said you were all going
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Speaker 13: up like stinkweeds.
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Speaker 2: Well, I was wrong. You haven't gone up at all.
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Speaker 2: And since you are still children, please. Now, one at
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Speaker 2: a time. Kate, the eldest.
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Speaker 7: Well, you ask where Father's wife is.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes. What has happened to Madame Sanger?
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Speaker 7: And I was about to tell you that she departed
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Speaker 7: last week with a ballet teacher.
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Speaker 8: Who plays the ballet from one of father's operas. Father's
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Speaker 8: very happy she's gone. So are we.
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Speaker 4: Good.
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Speaker 2: Miss Toni?
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Speaker 7: Miss Toni's been in Zurich a whole week. Meeting all
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Speaker 7: the birth of his.
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Speaker 2: Oh, of Fritz's family?
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Speaker 8: Maybe she'll marry Fritz. Maybe not. Oh, he's so rich
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Speaker 8: and nice.
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Speaker 7: If only he were not such a little man.
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Speaker 2: Well, better, though, than being very big and only a
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Speaker 2: little rich. Eh, sir?
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Speaker 7: You're tired, Lewis. Maybe you want to go to bed.
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Speaker 2: Ah, this has a thoughtful one.
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Speaker 4: Maybe I do. Yes.
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Speaker 2: Oh, but first, what about Sanger? How has he been?
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Speaker 7: Last week, he said he was going to die soon.
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Speaker 7: Maybe that's why he wanted you to come.
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Speaker 2: Oh, nonsense. What has he written lately?
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Speaker 7: Only the letter that brought you here.
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Speaker 11: He's sick, Lewis.
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Speaker 2: Really.
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Speaker 8: And what have you written lately?
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Speaker 12: I'd surprise you.
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Speaker 11: This.
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Speaker 2: A little song.
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Speaker 11: Oh, Lewis, you've been working.
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Speaker 13: Oh, for the Sangers only. When I write for others,
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Speaker 13: the critics cut me into little pieces.
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Speaker 7: A song. Oh, let me see it.
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Speaker 2: It's very simple, so you'll have no difficulty playing it. Hmm.
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Speaker 2: The words.
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Speaker 7: Oh, they're so sad. So unlike you.
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Speaker 13: No comments.
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Speaker 2: Learn it.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Lewis, I almost forgot. Father said he would see
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Speaker 7: you after dinner.
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Speaker 2: And you wait until now to tell me. Well, practice
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Speaker 2: the music now while I see your father. And the concert.
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Speaker 2: No concerts in London. Well, as the English say, it flopped.
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Speaker 2: It made them uncomfortable. And what are you doing now? Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Like me.
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Speaker 12: I'm finished, Lewis. Oh, please, would you close the shutter?
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Speaker 12: If that mountain out there could only be moved. Night
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Speaker 12: it breathes ice on you. Day the sun blinds you.
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Speaker 2: Why would you like it moved?
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Speaker 12: Over my grave. I'd like a mountain for a monument.
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Speaker 12: What would you print for an epitaph? Let's just say...
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Speaker 12: Albert Sanger, a useless old man.
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Speaker 2: No, no. Rather, Albert Sanger, musician and genius.
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Speaker 13: And then, if you like, I could add he was
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Speaker 13: also a useless old man.
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Speaker 2: Lewis, it's coming soon. What's going to happen then to
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Speaker 2: the girls? Why, I'm helpless. I haven't got 20 pounds.
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Speaker 2: Didn't Polar's and Tissa's mother have people in England?
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Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 12: Their mother was my second wife. When we ran off,
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Speaker 12: her family disowned her. There was a time when her
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Speaker 12: brother Charles hunted us all over Europe.
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Speaker 2: His idea was to shoot me on sight.
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Speaker 12: After the children came, he seemed to give up the
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Speaker 12: hunt and simply forgot us. And his brother, is he
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Speaker 12: still alive?
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Speaker 2: He's the sort that would be. But when it happens
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Speaker 2: to me, Lewis, you might look him up. Charles Brighton.
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Speaker 2: Very wealthy.
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Speaker 12: Get him to do something for the girls.
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Speaker 2: He should go to school or somewhere. I know, I know. Wait.
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Speaker 2: What is that music?
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Speaker 12: Mine, I'm afraid.
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Speaker 2: Something I bought for the girls. Nothing at all. Sugar candy.
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Speaker 2: You're ashamed of Melody, aren't you? No, no. I simply
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Speaker 2: have no gift for it. If you'd done that in London,
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Speaker 2: you wouldn't have failed. Oh, if I could only make
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Speaker 2: you understand. What would I make of such a theme?
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Speaker 2: A love scene in an opera, a symphonic poem, anything. Oh,
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Speaker 2: go away, Lewis. Go away.
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Speaker 12: Tell the bachelor to bring me some brandy and let
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Speaker 12: me alone.
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Speaker 2: All right. Good night, singer.
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Speaker 5: Hey, hey, your playing is terrible.
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Speaker 2: Sanger said it was a very nice little piece. Roberto. Si, signore.
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Speaker 2: Brandy for the master. Si, signore. Sanger also said it
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Speaker 2: would make a symphonic poem.
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Speaker 7: Father's instincts are usually right.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's try it again, shall we? You can get this.
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Speaker 14: All right.
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Speaker 15: Where are you?
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Speaker 16: The birds will sing, fly no longer near thee, but fly.
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Speaker 15: In my arms, in my.
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Speaker 16: Arms, in my arms, the flower's body shall make thee
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Speaker 16: garland twenty times as Beauty will live Though I must
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Speaker 16: sleep On my way Beneath thy feet Beneath.
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Speaker 2: Well, very pretty, darling. Tissa.
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Speaker 9: Tissa, wait. Hey, come back.
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Speaker 10: Tissa.
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Speaker 12: Why did you run away like that?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's quiet here, isn't it? Yes.
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Speaker 3: Do you hear things in this kind of silence?
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Speaker 2: What do you hear?
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 7: This is where I think up my words.
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Speaker 1: Oh, poison?
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Speaker 7: No. Just thoughts. Oh, I can't explain.
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Speaker 2: Well, just tell me what, Lois.
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Speaker 7: You'd laugh.
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Speaker 2: No, I wouldn't laugh.
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Speaker 7: Well, there are so many things.
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Speaker 2: Sad things.
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Speaker 7: Like your song.
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Speaker 13: Oh, I'll not allow a single sadness to enter that
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Speaker 13: head of yours. When I see dark things and sad things,
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Speaker 13: I run.
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Speaker 2: Away from them.
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Speaker 7: Then you'd better run away from me.
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Speaker 2: I could never run away from you. Really, Lois? You're
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Speaker 2: such a strange little baggage. Strangely innocent. I've got to
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Speaker 2: talk to you. If you were mine, I would put
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Speaker 2: you in a school. I'm thinking for your good.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I'm much too old. And besides, you don't shut
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Speaker 7: people up in schools for their good. Supposing I wanted
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Speaker 7: to gaze up at the moon one night and find
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Speaker 7: myself shut up in a dormitory full of pudding faces.
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Speaker 2: Well, you shouldn't go moon-gazing.
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Speaker 7: Oh, well, I may go to school. I'm beginning to
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Speaker 7: see points in it. But I shall always be thinking
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Speaker 7: of you.
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Speaker 2: No, no, you must learn very quickly to disapprove of me.
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Speaker 2: It's a very grave mistake to be fond of anyone.
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Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 2: Oh, before you know it, you become unselfish. Self-sacrificing? All
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Speaker 2: those tiresome things?
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Speaker 7: Well, you remember that.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah? Well.
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Speaker 7: Don't you go getting fond of any unnecessary people. Or
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Speaker 7: you can be as fond of us as you like.
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Speaker 2: But, oh, please, don't. Don't what?
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Speaker 7: Oh, don't go getting married or in jail or die
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Speaker 7: or anything.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'll try not to, my pretty one.
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Speaker 7: Dear Lord.
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Speaker 2: Heather!
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Speaker 3: Heather!
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Speaker 7: What is it? What is it, Kate?
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Speaker 2: Come quickly, it's father!
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Speaker 9: Father!
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Speaker 17: Oh, Signore Fritzi.
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Speaker 5: Roberto, so the master's gone.
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Speaker 2: How terrible. Oh, he said he would die and he did.
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Speaker 2: He's gone and Miss Kate is gone also.
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Speaker 7: What?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she has left already for.
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Speaker 5: Milano to study the boy.
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Speaker 3: Oh.
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Speaker 2: There are only the three girls left. Chris. Yes, I
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Speaker 2: read about it in the papers. My heart is broken
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Speaker 2: for you.
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Speaker 7: Oh, thank you very much, Chris. But Father made us
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Speaker 7: promise never to think of him in tears.
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Speaker 4: And so we don't.
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Speaker 7: And now we can offer you port wine, Napoleon brandy,
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Speaker 7: steak and kidney pie.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know what you mean.
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Speaker 10: We have company.
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Speaker 7: It's our mother's brother from England and his daughter, our cousin.
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Speaker 11: Mr.
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Speaker 7: Charles Crichton and Miss Florence Crichton. Lewis sent them a telegram.
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Speaker 7: He said we were penniless and destined to.
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Speaker 10: Go to the dog.
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Speaker 7: They came a week ago. Dog?
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Speaker 2: Is he still here?
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Speaker 7: Out swimming in the lake right now. With cousin Florence.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 5: She's musical, too.
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 7: She's very beautiful.
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Speaker 2: And Tony. Where's my Tony?
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Speaker 7: Tony says she won't go to England or to school.
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Speaker 7: She says she will get a job in a cabaret
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Speaker 7: and listen to all the latest music.
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Speaker 2: Well, then I tell you she will not.
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Speaker 7: I'm going to marry her. Oh, that'll be lovely, Fritz.
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Speaker 8: Fritz, don't forget the flowers.
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Speaker 3: Fritzie, Paula.
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Speaker 8: Here's the Fritz.
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Speaker 3: Paula's here.
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Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Fritzie. Tony's around somewhere.
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Speaker 10: Just yell.
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Speaker 7: You hunt for her and Paula and I'll hunt for flowers.
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Speaker 2: And where will you hunt for flowers?
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Speaker 7: Down by the lake. And if you bump into Uncle Charles,
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Speaker 7: don't let him frighten you. She's very big and very ugly.
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Speaker 10: She's also very nice.
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Speaker 9: There they are, Tess, and look.
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Speaker 3: Oh, she's beautiful.
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Speaker 2: She is beautiful.
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Speaker 7: But she's so sure about it, isn't she? Do you
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Speaker 7: think she's sure of you? I wouldn't be surprised if
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Speaker 7: she bewitched him.
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Speaker 10: Poor Tess.
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Speaker 2: She's beautiful.
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Speaker 8: Hey, now, what are you two talking about so terribly
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Speaker 8: clearly at this?
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Speaker 10: Oh, hello, Florence. Did you find any primula?
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Speaker 7: Well, no, but after breakfast, I'm sure.
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Speaker 11: I can't wait to take your children back to England
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Speaker 11: to buy you some decent clothes.
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Speaker 7: Well, I'm afraid, Florence, we don't know yet whether we're
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Speaker 7: sure we want to go to England.
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Speaker 10: And I'm not so sure that you aren't too young
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Speaker 10: to know what's good for you. Well, you see, Florence.
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Speaker 7: We're too young for some things and we're too old
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Speaker 7: for others. It just happens that we're in between, you know?
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 10: I've been through that stage.
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Speaker 11: Hi.
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Speaker 8: Have you been behaving, girls?
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Speaker 7: Really, Louis, sometimes you can be very pompous.
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Speaker 10: I hope that's put you in your place, Louis.
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Speaker 8: I think we should go and get the flowers.
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Speaker 10: Get plenty of flowers and put them in the moth
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Speaker 10: in the middle of the tree.
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Speaker 7: Yes, we know.
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Speaker 1: Come on.
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Speaker 10: What's the matter, Louis? You have a funny look on
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Speaker 10: your face.
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Speaker 2: Funny? You're a fool. The fool is wondering.
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Speaker 10: From what I've heard of musicians, you're all the same.
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Speaker 10: Just a little off the earth.
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Speaker 2: I've come to the earth suddenly.
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Speaker 10: Do you like it?
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Speaker 2: Do I like you?
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Speaker 10: I don't mean that. I meant being on the earth
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Speaker 10: out of your clouds.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I do. I do like it very much, but
17:15
Speaker 2: I would like to take you back to my clouds
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Speaker 2: with me.
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Speaker 10: When do you leave, sir?
17:19
Speaker 2: At your words.
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Speaker 10: This is becoming very pristine, very gallant.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean it very much.
17:23
Speaker 10: You must have had a great success with this approach.
17:25
Speaker 2: No, I've had no success whatever. Poor Louis.
17:28
Speaker 10: I'm not going to attempt to believe you, but what
17:31
Speaker 10: woman could resist a.
17:32
Speaker 7: Trip to the clouds with someone else?
17:35
Speaker 2: Hmm?
17:36
Speaker 10: I'm stumped.
17:37
Speaker 13: Oh, you mean that someone wanted to kiss you the
17:39
Speaker 13: minute you got off that train?
17:41
Speaker 2: To kiss? A beautiful woman's off the.
17:43
Speaker 13: Train to rescue some little girls, and a poor musician
17:46
Speaker 13: wants to take her into his arms.
17:48
Speaker 2: And kiss her.
17:49
Speaker 10: And they lived happily ever after.
17:51
Speaker 2: You know they could. I swear they could.
17:53
Speaker 7: They will, I think.
17:54
Speaker 2: What?
17:55
Speaker 10: Live happily.
17:55
Speaker 2: France!
17:56
Speaker 10: Why do you think I stayed up here this whole week?
17:58
Speaker 4: I don't know.
17:59
Speaker 7: Why?
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Speaker 2: Tell me. I want to see it.
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Speaker 10: I wanted to find my way up to you in
18:02
Speaker 10: your cloud. I feel I'm not exactly the cloudy type.
18:07
Speaker 10: I didn't know my way until you told me.
18:10
Speaker 2: You're so real, so definite.
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Speaker 10: Is that the type?
18:13
Speaker 2: That's what I love.
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Speaker 13: Lewis!
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Speaker 2: Oh, Tessa, darling.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Mr.
18:16
Speaker 7: Levy, and Uncle Charles is screaming for you.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Lewis. Come here.
18:22
Speaker 13: Let Uncle Charles scream a minute longer. Tessa, you shall
18:24
Speaker 13: be the first to hear the news. Florence and I
18:28
Speaker 13: are going to get married.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Well, is that all you have to say? Just yes, Louis?
18:38
Speaker 7: Yes, but I don't know what to say.
18:41
Speaker 10: Come now, such a sad little thing. Louis, we had
18:45
Speaker 10: better get to the house. And on the way, I'm
18:47
Speaker 10: sure Tess will think of something very nice and very
18:49
Speaker 10: proper to.
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Speaker 8: Say to us.
18:50
Speaker 2: Yes, like, well, like I hope you two will be
18:53
Speaker 2: very happy.
18:54
Speaker 10: And we shall, Louis.
18:55
Speaker 4: Yes.
18:57
Speaker 10: I hope you two will be very happy.
18:59
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, sir.
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Speaker 8: Please go.
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Speaker 2: I'll be back later.
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Speaker 9: Later.
19:13
Speaker 4: And now, in the few moments before Mr. DeMille and
19:16
Speaker 4: our stars Charles Boyer, Alexis Smith, and Marino Sullivan return
19:20
Speaker 4: in Act II of The Constant Nymph, let's hear what
19:23
Speaker 4: happens in Nancy.
19:27
Speaker 7: Say, is that.
19:28
Speaker 10: Nancy over there? No, it can't be.
19:31
Speaker 8: You mean that girl in blue dancing in the corner?
19:33
Speaker 10: Why, yes, that's Nancy.
19:34
Speaker 8: Don't you recognize her?
19:36
Speaker 10: Recognize her?
19:36
Speaker 7: I should say not.
19:38
Speaker 8: She looks stunning.
19:39
Speaker 10: And that chap with her.
19:40
Speaker 7: Isn't that? Why, sure it is.
19:42
Speaker 10: The Navy lad she was so crazy about. Well, he's
19:45
Speaker 10: sunk now, that's certain.
19:46
Speaker 8: Well, it's Nancy, all right.
19:48
Speaker 10: Haven't you heard? What happened? I just don't want to go,
19:54
Speaker 10: that's all.
19:55
Speaker 8: What do you know?
19:56
Speaker 10: Gee, Nancy, I know how you feel. When the fellow
19:59
Speaker 10: you go for just doesn't go for you, it hurts.
20:01
Speaker 10: But there's hope, Nancy. Honest, there is. Now that you
20:04
Speaker 10: really want to be pretty, you can be.
20:06
Speaker 8: You just wait and see.
20:11
Speaker 7: That a girl, Nancy.
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Speaker 18: Your hair looks so much better all fluffed out like that.
20:18
Speaker 8: That blue dress is perfect with your eyes.
20:20
Speaker 9: There.
20:24
Speaker 7: Didn't I tell you?
20:25
Speaker 18: Those Lux soap facials are doing the trick. Your complexion's
20:28
Speaker 18: improved already. It's softer and smoother. You look loads prettier.
20:40
Speaker 4: Nancy is only one of many girls who have found
20:42
Speaker 4: it pays to give skin the right care. The kind
20:45
Speaker 4: of care that famous screen stars give their million-dollar complexion.
20:49
Speaker 4: Regular active lather facials with Luxe Soap.
20:52
Speaker 2: We'll let Nancy tell you about it.
20:54
Speaker 18: It's really fun to take Luxe Soap facials, cover your
20:57
Speaker 18: face generously with a rich lather, and then.
20:59
Speaker 10: Work it in gently but thoroughly.
21:01
Speaker 7: Then rinse with warm water, a splash of cold, and
21:04
Speaker 7: pat dry with a soft towel.
21:05
Speaker 10: Simple, isn't it? But let me tell you, it works.
21:08
Speaker 2: Yes, Active Ladder does a thorough job.
21:10
Speaker 4: Recent tests show three out of four complexions improved with
21:14
Speaker 4: this daily care. Famous screen stars use Luxe Toilet Soap.
21:18
Speaker 4: It's mild and pure, as fine a soap as money
21:21
Speaker 4: can buy. It belongs on your shopping list for tomorrow.
21:25
Speaker 4: And if your dealer is out of stock, he's sure
21:27
Speaker 4: to have more soon. Remember, Luxe Toilet Soap is worth
21:31
Speaker 4: waiting for.
21:33
Speaker 2: And now, Mr. DeMille returns to the microphone. Act Two
21:37
Speaker 2: of The Constant Nymph.
21:38
Speaker 4: Starring Charles Boyer as Louis Dodd, Maureen O'Sullivan as Tessa,
21:42
Speaker 4: and Alexis Smith as Florence. Charles Crichton and his handsome
21:57
Speaker 4: daughter did not return to England alone. With them came
22:00
Speaker 4: Louis Dodd, now Florence's husband, and Roberto, the servant, and Tessa,
22:05
Speaker 4: and Paula Thanger. The descent from the mountains of Switzerland
22:09
Speaker 4: into English society has been painful to them all.
22:12
Speaker 2: For six months, the girls have done.
22:14
Speaker 4: Their best to resist manners and an education in a
22:18
Speaker 4: fashionable school. While in the magnificent Crichton home in London,
22:22
Speaker 4: Florence bravely tries to understand the stranger she has married.
22:28
Speaker 2: Florence, I would like to know how you got it
22:30
Speaker 2: into your head that I am a pianist.
22:31
Speaker 10: Now, darling, of course you're a pianist. I've heard you
22:33
Speaker 10: play your.
22:34
Speaker 11: Composition with Caroli, so I have Caroli coming tonight to
22:36
Speaker 11: play the piece with you.
22:37
Speaker 2: Let him play alone. Why stick me out there on exhibition?
22:40
Speaker 10: I've promised my friends that you play.
22:42
Speaker 2: I will not be told what I must or must
22:43
Speaker 2: not do. I'm not a child.
22:44
Speaker 10: Aren't you behaving like one?
22:45
Speaker 2: If there is one thing in the world I hate,
22:47
Speaker 2: it is your class of upper class. Hard-headed, domineering.
22:50
Speaker 10: Now becoming rude. If you hated my class, then why
22:53
Speaker 10: did you.
22:53
Speaker 2: I know, I know. Why did I marry you?
22:55
Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 13: You've said that before, and each time you ask, I
22:58
Speaker 13: find it more difficult to answer.
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Speaker 10: Darling, you'll not dare say such a thing to me.
23:02
Speaker 11: I do dare.
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Speaker 2: I have dared, and it is the blunt truth.
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Speaker 10: Whatever you feel, it's most fool of you to say
23:05
Speaker 10: such a thing to my face. I love you, Louis.
23:08
Speaker 2: But you dislike the truth.
23:09
Speaker 13: I'm sorry I haven't got the gift for that mental
23:11
Speaker 13: sleight of hand you people call manners.
23:13
Speaker 10: I'll not allow you to say such things to me.
23:15
Speaker 2: Come on, then, stop me or leave me alone.
23:16
Speaker 10: May I come in?
23:17
Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Father.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, my dear.
23:21
Speaker 18: Louis, uh.
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Speaker 2: Roberto.
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Speaker 10: Roberto's quite busy, dear, helping with the piano.
23:27
Speaker 2: Yes, I noticed. Two pianos.
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Speaker 5: Roberto.
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Speaker 2: Si, signore. Um, good morning. Good morning.
23:35
Speaker 7: Really, father, I.
23:36
Speaker 2: Roberto, you don't look happy. Signore, please.
23:38
Speaker 12: I'm Italian. Roberto, signore.
23:41
Speaker 5: Roberto.
23:44
Speaker 2: Roberto. Si, signore. Breakfast, oh.
23:48
Speaker 10: If you both excuse me, I'll see how they're doing
23:50
Speaker 10: with the decorations.
23:52
Speaker 2: God bless. I'm very angry.
23:55
Speaker 1: Where ever did you learn to behave like this? This
23:57
Speaker 1: constant brawling with Florence?
23:59
Speaker 2: Where did she learn to believe that she was some
24:01
Speaker 2: superior being? Florence has no such illusion.
24:03
Speaker 1: Oh, I realize you're a different sort of chap. You
24:06
Speaker 1: have your own ideas about things, and we have ours, and.
24:09
Speaker 12: There you are.
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Speaker 1: I don't particularly care for you, Dodd, but Florence, well, naturally,
24:14
Speaker 1: she's a great.
24:14
Speaker 2: Concern to me. Naturally. And let me tell you, I
24:17
Speaker 2: think that, well.
24:18
Speaker 1: You seem to take a certain satisfaction in upsetting her.
24:21
Speaker 2: No, no.
24:22
Speaker 4: Now, now, look.
24:22
Speaker 1: Those people we had to lunch last Thursday. You lunched
24:25
Speaker 1: in the park on a sandwich. Told her you'd rather
24:28
Speaker 1: eat with the birds. Well, now, after all, that is.
24:32
Speaker 2: Well, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 13: My dear Charles, I will not be run by Florence
24:36
Speaker 13: or anyone else. This time she wants me to become
24:39
Speaker 13: a concert pianist overnight and perform at her party.
24:41
Speaker 1: Oh, I dislike this piano business intensely myself. But, well,
24:46
Speaker 1: she's devoted to you, my boy.
24:48
Speaker 2: I know that. You're the first and only one, and
24:51
Speaker 2: she's a woman.
24:52
Speaker 13: And a very charming one. Well, it easily might be
24:54
Speaker 13: that I'm the one that's wrong. We must do something
24:57
Speaker 13: about it either way.
24:58
Speaker 2: Good boy. Now, don't lean over the other way too
25:01
Speaker 2: much either, or she'll take the bit in her teeth.
25:03
Speaker 5: I see.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much, Charles. No, not at all,
25:06
Speaker 2: my boy. Not at all.
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Speaker 15: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Hello.
25:18
Speaker 10: Well, here's your piano. I hope it's in tune.
25:21
Speaker 2: Oh, it's very nice. You're nice.
25:24
Speaker 10: Do I always seem to get my own way?
25:26
Speaker 2: Well, I see no reason why you shouldn't.
25:28
Speaker 10: Oh, I want them all to know you. Like you.
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Speaker 10: I'm very proud of you, Louis. You can't blame me,
25:33
Speaker 10: can you?
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Speaker 2: Well, in that case, I shall play from the heart.
25:37
Speaker 10: Strange man.
25:38
Speaker 2: Who is that letter from?
25:39
Speaker 4: Paula.
25:40
Speaker 2: Oh, Paula, the girls. Let me see it.
25:42
Speaker 10: Louis, I'm losing patience with them.
25:44
Speaker 4: Why?
25:44
Speaker 10: Oh, they're thoroughly spoiled, both of them.
25:46
Speaker 2: Oh, yes. When Florence wrote that we must stay.
25:50
Speaker 13: Here, our hearts were broken. It is probable that we
25:54
Speaker 13: shall hang ourselves. Because of Peter's heart, she does not
26:00
Speaker 13: have to play hockey.
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Speaker 2: I do. While she goes off and thinks of so
26:05
Speaker 2: many things.
26:06
Speaker 13: One thing I know, she wonders, is whether you are
26:10
Speaker 13: having a nice time and like being married.
26:13
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like a hard school.
26:15
Speaker 10: Darling, how can you say that hard school?
26:16
Speaker 2: I was there myself. Well, the girls say it, both
26:18
Speaker 2: of them. They're not liars. Darling, what are we going
26:21
Speaker 2: to do with now?
26:22
Speaker 10: Let them stay where they are.
26:23
Speaker 2: Well, there is Dessa with a bad heart.
26:26
Speaker 10: I'm assured it's not serious, Louis.
26:28
Speaker 11: It's called a valvular lesion.
26:29
Speaker 10: I went into the matter thoroughly.
26:30
Speaker 2: What? Valvular what? Sounds ugly. I don't like it. Well,
26:34
Speaker 2: we must get Dessa away.
26:35
Speaker 10: And send her where?
26:36
Speaker 2: Well, wherever she can stay, just as she is.
26:40
Speaker 10: Darling, we have the party tonight, and tomorrow we'll both
26:43
Speaker 10: drive up to the school.
26:44
Speaker 17: Telegram, signore.
26:46
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
26:46
Speaker 10: You should bring this on a tray, Roberto.
26:49
Speaker 2: Si, signora. Sanger's sister disappeared this morning. Are they with you?
26:55
Speaker 2: Will not inform police until I hear from you. There,
26:58
Speaker 2: you see?
26:58
Speaker 10: I do see. I'm just going to wash my hands
27:00
Speaker 10: of them, that's all.
27:01
Speaker 2: Well, all right. While you're washing your hands, I'm going
27:02
Speaker 2: to find them.
27:03
Speaker 10: Where?
27:04
Speaker 2: I'll go to the school. Darling, will it be enough
27:05
Speaker 2: to phone them there and tell them to advise the police?
27:08
Speaker 10: Lewis, I'm almost afraid to remind you that we have
27:10
Speaker 10: guests coming tonight.
27:11
Speaker 2: Oh, all right. I'll try to be here, but I'm
27:13
Speaker 2: certainly going to find those children.
27:25
Speaker 1: Now, take that look off your face, Florence. It's an
27:28
Speaker 1: excellent party, in spite of that dreadful woman in there,
27:31
Speaker 1: gurgling her head off.
27:32
Speaker 10: Lewis has been gone for hours, Father. And it would
27:34
Speaker 10: be just like him to follow those wretched children back
27:36
Speaker 10: to Switzerland, if that's where they've gone.
27:38
Speaker 2: Good heavens.
27:39
Speaker 6: What?
27:40
Speaker 2: Look, there's one of the sisters in that pretty chair.
27:42
Speaker 2: It's Tony.
27:43
Speaker 10: Lewis wanted them here, but I think they've come all
27:45
Speaker 10: the way from Paris. Oh, hello there. I didn't see
27:48
Speaker 10: you come in.
27:49
Speaker 2: Well, you seem very preoccupied, madame, at the door.
27:51
Speaker 10: Oh, I'm so glad you're here.
27:52
Speaker 7: Oh, I love parties, and Fitzy loves moving in society,
27:55
Speaker 7: and so we came.
27:55
Speaker 2: We're in a panic. Glad to see you. Your sisters
27:58
Speaker 2: have run away from school or something.
28:00
Speaker 10: And Louis is out searching for them.
28:01
Speaker 8: Fitzy and I thought they would from their letters.
28:03
Speaker 11: I'm going to have a baby.
28:04
Speaker 2: How nice.
28:06
Speaker 12: Oh, Florence.
28:07
Speaker 2: The panic's over. There's your Lewis.
28:09
Speaker 13: Lewis.
28:09
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, darling. Did you hear anything since I telephoned?
28:11
Speaker 10: Not a word.
28:12
Speaker 5: Hello, Lewis.
28:13
Speaker 10: Oh, Fritz.
28:13
Speaker 4: Oh, Lewis, darling.
28:14
Speaker 2: Hello, Tony. I'm worried to death.
28:16
Speaker 10: What were you able to do?
28:17
Speaker 2: Nothing. I've got Scotland Yard after them now.
28:19
Speaker 10: Darling, will you hurry and change, please?
28:21
Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
28:22
Speaker 2: Fritzie, Tony, I'll be down in a minute.
28:24
Speaker 5: We can talk.
28:36
Speaker 7: Lewis.
28:36
Speaker 10: Lewis, darling, please hurry. We're all just waiting and waiting
28:39
Speaker 10: for you.
28:40
Speaker 2: Come in. We have company. They're back, darling. They're here.
28:44
Speaker 2: Tessa and Paula.
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Speaker 16: Here.
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Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Florence. We do hope we're not in the way.
28:48
Speaker 10: Of course not. Hello, Tessa.
28:50
Speaker 7: Good evening, Florence. I've come to lay my bones among you.
28:52
Speaker 8: Yes, we have it all planned.
28:54
Speaker 19: Tony's written me she's going to have a baby, so
28:56
Speaker 19: I'll go back... With her to Paris, and Tessa will
28:58
Speaker 19: stay with you. Won't someone tell me where you girls
29:00
Speaker 19: have been? Right in this room for two hours. The
29:03
Speaker 19: bed is in the back door.
29:04
Speaker 10: Anyone would think I was an old ogre. Now, Louis,
29:07
Speaker 10: you must come along.
29:08
Speaker 2: We've been off our heads all day, haven't we, Florence?
29:10
Speaker 2: I imagine you dead under trains, hanging from trees. I
29:14
Speaker 2: could not bear it.
29:15
Speaker 10: We'll go down now. I'll send you up something to eat.
29:17
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, Simon. We're down.
29:19
Speaker 2: And I shall play for you, sweet Florence, as I've
29:21
Speaker 2: never played before.
29:23
Speaker 7: What are you going to play?
29:24
Speaker 2: It's called Tomorrow, a symphonic poem. It was a song, remember?
29:27
Speaker 2: Even you will like it. And pretty soon, a concert
29:30
Speaker 2: in Regent's Hall.
29:31
Speaker 7: Shall we listen now?
29:32
Speaker 2: You shall be most hurt if you don't.
29:34
Speaker 10: From up here, though.
29:35
Speaker 8: And please don't be angry.
29:36
Speaker 6: We just couldn't stand up till another moment.
29:40
Speaker 3: Another moment.
29:41
Speaker 17: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
29:44
Speaker 2: Lewis Dunn. A performance of an original composition assisted by Mr.
29:48
Speaker 2: Enrico Carolli.
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Speaker 13: Charles, who are those two mysterious little spiders sitting on
30:04
Speaker 13: your stairs?
30:05
Speaker 4: Hmm?
30:06
Speaker 2: Oh, my niece is from Switzerland. Hardly spiders, though. Butterflies. Good, dear. Much.
30:14
Speaker 2: Robert O. Shh. Si, signore. Get me a drink. Si, signore.
30:20
Speaker 1: No wonder to me that the piano stands up under
30:22
Speaker 1: that pounding.
30:23
Speaker 17: Perhaps, signore, that is why they have two pianos.
30:32
Speaker 7: That's not what he said he'd play.
30:33
Speaker 8: There's no melody.
30:34
Speaker 1: No feeling.
30:35
Speaker 8: It's just rhythm.
30:37
Speaker 10: And a long way from tears.
30:38
Speaker 9: Tears?
30:39
Speaker 10: Father said Lewis would be great.
30:40
Speaker 7: Only if he could cry or suffer.
30:43
Speaker 8: I suppose this is a form of suffering.
30:45
Speaker 10: Don't joke.
30:46
Speaker 7: He's forgotten his heart again. He did remember it once.
30:50
Speaker 8: And then Florence came along and he lost it again.
30:52
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no.
30:53
Speaker 10: That's not what I mean.
30:53
Speaker 8: It's his music. What can you do about it? Stop it.
30:58
Speaker 10: Lewis is really gone, Father.
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Speaker 2: Lewis is gone.
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Speaker 8: Do you mind if I come in?
31:13
Speaker 7: I won't bother you for long. Florence said you were working,
31:15
Speaker 7: and I'm so glad.
31:16
Speaker 13: Now, now, Tessa, if you have a bad heart, why
31:18
Speaker 13: do you insist upon always dashing.
31:20
Speaker 2: Upstairs like this?
31:21
Speaker 7: I just saw Paul off at the station with Tony.
31:23
Speaker 8: Christy's going to stay.
31:24
Speaker 7: Till after your conference.
31:26
Speaker 10: Lewis, is it really on the 28th?
31:27
Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
31:27
Speaker 7: Are you excited?
31:29
Speaker 2: Not a bit. I don't blame you.
31:31
Speaker 3: What?
31:32
Speaker 7: It's only my opinion.
31:33
Speaker 2: Your opinion of what?
31:34
Speaker 10: You know what I mean.
31:36
Speaker 1: Oh.
31:37
Speaker 2: You mean this station?
31:44
Speaker 8: Don't stop, Lewis.
31:45
Speaker 10: Oh, you really took them by storm last night.
31:47
Speaker 2: Ah, they were amateurs. Ask Bessie here what she thinks
31:51
Speaker 2: of it. She's a musician.
31:52
Speaker 14: Oh?
31:53
Speaker 10: And what is your opinion, Tessa?
31:54
Speaker 7: Well, it was very loud and very defiant. I suppose
31:57
Speaker 7: some people would pretend to like it, even if they
31:59
Speaker 7: didn't understand.
32:00
Speaker 10: You didn't understand it, Tessa?
32:02
Speaker 7: I don't think Lewis did either. Once it was very beautiful, Florence.
32:05
Speaker 7: And then he must have become ashamed of it and
32:07
Speaker 7: hid it under a loud noise.
32:09
Speaker 2: Bankity, bankity, bank.
32:11
Speaker 7: He's in such deathly terrible sentiment.
32:13
Speaker 2: But the melody is here.
32:15
Speaker 5: Oboes, listen.
32:19
Speaker 10: You measly bard. Really, Lewis, I wonder you have the patience. Oh,
32:23
Speaker 10: let's change the subject. Tessa, I've decided upon a new
32:27
Speaker 10: school for you.
32:28
Speaker 2: No, school for Tessa is out of the question.
32:30
Speaker 10: What are we going to do with them, Lewis?
32:31
Speaker 2: Well, find out what their instinct is about this music
32:33
Speaker 2: of mine.
32:34
Speaker 10: Lewis, you wouldn't think of changing.
32:35
Speaker 2: If it's wrong, certainly.
32:37
Speaker 10: But your concert's in two weeks.
32:38
Speaker 2: But, Florence, you don't think I would have it performed
32:40
Speaker 2: knowing it wasn't right.
32:41
Speaker 11: But it is right.
32:42
Speaker 10: You work so steadily and so seriously.
32:44
Speaker 7: Perhaps too steadily and too seriously.
32:46
Speaker 2: That may be right.
32:46
Speaker 1: Why, of course not.
32:47
Speaker 10: Heather, will you speak when you're spoken to?
32:48
Speaker 2: Then will you please not lose your temper?
32:50
Speaker 8: Oh, I started it.
32:51
Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
32:52
Speaker 12: All right, all right.
32:54
Speaker 2: Florence, if you don't mind, I'd like to think a little.
32:57
Speaker 2: Of course, darling.
32:59
Speaker 10: And we'll go for a walk, Heather, and talk about
33:01
Speaker 10: you and what we shall do.
33:02
Speaker 2: No, no. As a matter of fact, I'd like Tessa
33:04
Speaker 2: to stay here. I want to talk to her about
33:06
Speaker 2: the music.
33:07
Speaker 7: Will that be all right, Florence?
33:09
Speaker 10: Certainly.
33:19
Speaker 2: I think this gardenia would be very appropriate, ma'am.
33:21
Speaker 14: It's for Mr.
33:21
Speaker 7: Dodd, the composer, you know. His concert is tonight at
33:24
Speaker 7: Regent's Hall.
33:24
Speaker 2: May I wrap it for you?
33:25
Speaker 11: Please.
33:26
Speaker 10: Pritchie, what are you sending?
33:27
Speaker 4: Roses.
33:28
Speaker 2: Four dozen roses for Florence.
33:29
Speaker 11: Oh, Pritchie, you're sweet.
33:30
Speaker 7: Look, wouldn't it be fun if you sent the flowers
33:32
Speaker 7: to Florence from Lewiston? She'd be so pleased.
33:34
Speaker 2: Oh, fine. I'll send orchids from Tonya. Oh, no, no, no, no.
33:36
Speaker 10: That would take all the glass off the gingerbread.
33:38
Speaker 7: Let's just send these, Fritzie, from Lewis.
33:40
Speaker 2: All right. What shall I write on the card?
33:42
Speaker 7: Write it in kind of untidy handwriting like his. To dear,
33:45
Speaker 7: kind Florence. No, no, to dear, dear, patient Florence. With
33:49
Speaker 7: all my love, Lewis.
33:50
Speaker 2: To dear, dear, patient.
33:51
Speaker 7: No, just say love. Dear, dear, patient Florence.
33:54
Speaker 2: Love, Lewis. Another card.
33:55
Speaker 7: No, no, he wouldn't say that. Just say, dear, patient Florence.
33:58
Speaker 13: Lewis.
33:59
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you, Frit. And Frit, be sure to tell
34:01
Speaker 7: Lewis so he knows.
34:02
Speaker 2: What a family I've married into. You sang.
34:05
Speaker 9: Yes, sir?
34:17
Speaker 7: Is that you?
34:20
Speaker 11: Come in here.
34:20
Speaker 1: Five o'clock and this place is like the Sahara.
34:24
Speaker 2: Here, now, you come and pour me a cup of tea.
34:26
Speaker 7: I'd love to.
34:27
Speaker 13: What?
34:28
Speaker 2: Oh, what's the matter?
34:29
Speaker 7: It's this.
34:30
Speaker 2: No.
34:32
Speaker 13: It's all right.
34:33
Speaker 4: Nothing.
34:35
Speaker 10: It's tonight.
34:36
Speaker 7: Our Louis's name. Advertised on all the sandwich boards.
34:41
Speaker 5: All over town.
34:41
Speaker 2: Oh, well. Now, what's that? My dress.
34:45
Speaker 7: Fritzie bought it from Tony. I won't look such a
34:47
Speaker 7: child in this.
34:47
Speaker 10: Will I?
34:48
Speaker 2: Don't you call yourself a child, young woman.
34:50
Speaker 7: Oh, my darling uncle.
34:52
Speaker 3: Can't I marry you?
34:54
Speaker 1: You'd have me whacking away that silly piano all day,
34:57
Speaker 1: just as you do that extraordinary son-in-law of mine.
34:59
Speaker 7: He is extraordinary and very, very tired.
35:03
Speaker 3: Oh, hello, Florence.
35:04
Speaker 7: Who's tired?
35:04
Speaker 1: Lewis.
35:05
Speaker 7: He was working until two this morning, then rehearsed again
35:07
Speaker 7: at eleven.
35:08
Speaker 10: Oh, you have your tea, Father.
35:09
Speaker 13: Yes, yes.
35:10
Speaker 2: All arranged for tonight?
35:11
Speaker 10: Yes, we're going to the Savoy.
35:13
Speaker 7: And, Florence, speaking of the Savoy, I was wondering how
35:15
Speaker 7: you like this dress? It's carried us all the way
35:18
Speaker 7: from Paris.
35:19
Speaker 10: Oh, I thought I heard his voice in the studio. Well,
35:22
Speaker 10: if they want their tea, they'd better come now. It's
35:24
Speaker 10: getting late. I've sent for Lewis twice.
35:26
Speaker 7: I'll get him. Do it, please.
35:28
Speaker 10: She'll get him. If she hasn't already.
35:31
Speaker 1: Florence, let me tell you. If you care anything about
35:34
Speaker 1: this husband of yours, you'd better stop mooning about like
35:36
Speaker 1: a woman in a novel. You have little Tessa on
35:38
Speaker 1: the defensive for him. I heard it just now.
35:41
Speaker 10: I dislike her intensely.
35:42
Speaker 2: Yes, and you make that quite obvious to all and sundry.
35:45
Speaker 11: There's some sort of strange language between them that only
35:47
Speaker 11: they themselves can understand. I feel like a stranger in
35:51
Speaker 11: my own house.
35:52
Speaker 7: He said quite casually to me today that he might
35:54
Speaker 7: go off away.
35:55
Speaker 10: Alone after the concert.
35:57
Speaker 11: What?
35:57
Speaker 13: Go away.
35:58
Speaker 10: I hardly see him anymore.
36:02
Speaker 7: Lewis is the only man I ever truly.
36:04
Speaker 1: Cared for or ever will care for.
36:07
Speaker 11: It's some sort of a strange, slow process of defeat.
36:11
Speaker 10: She's either very innocent or very clever.
36:13
Speaker 1: If you don't stop hammering away at it, you'll force
36:16
Speaker 1: Lewis to make a vote for it.
36:17
Speaker 12: You'll see.
36:18
Speaker 2: Now, you don't want him to vote, do you?
36:20
Speaker 9: That's my nightmare.
36:21
Speaker 7: I'm so afraid of that.
36:24
Speaker 11: I couldn't stand it.
36:25
Speaker 2: Poor Florence. You've always had your own way. Won everything
36:28
Speaker 2: you wanted all along the line. Now you have to
36:31
Speaker 2: be a loser.
36:32
Speaker 10: Don't worry, Father. I won't lose.
36:36
Speaker 16: I won't lose.
36:42
Speaker 4: We'll pause now for station identification. This is the Columbia
36:52
Speaker 4: Broadcasting System.
36:53
Speaker 15: The Columbia Broadcasting.
37:03
Speaker 5: System In just a few moments, Mr.
37:15
Speaker 4: DeMille and our stars Charles Boyer, Alexis Smith, and Marino
37:18
Speaker 4: Sullivan will return in Act Three of The Constant Nymph.
37:22
Speaker 4: And now for a moment, let's look in at a
37:24
Speaker 4: famous Hollywood studio. There's a rehearsal going on, a big
37:27
Speaker 4: dance ensemble.
37:29
Speaker 2: All right, girls, no mistakes. Now keep it lively and
37:31
Speaker 2: look happy.
37:32
Speaker 5: One, two, three, four.
37:34
Speaker 2: Head right, head left. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four.
37:41
Speaker 10: One, two, three, four.
37:43
Speaker 4: Oh, my.
37:44
Speaker 8: So this is Hollywood. I'm dead. I ache in every muscle.
37:48
Speaker 11: You poor kid.
37:49
Speaker 10: It is tough at first.
37:51
Speaker 11: Tell you what.
37:51
Speaker 10: Let's go over to my place.
37:52
Speaker 2: It's right near.
37:53
Speaker 10: I'll fix up a bike.
37:57
Speaker 7: For you. Here we are.
38:01
Speaker 11: Now, I'll start the food going. But first, I'll let
38:04
Speaker 11: you in on a Hollywood beauty secret. There's plenty of
38:06
Speaker 11: warm water, and here's a fresh cake of Lux soap.
38:09
Speaker 10: Take yourself a.
38:10
Speaker 11: Nice, relaxing beauty bath, and by the time supper's ready,
38:13
Speaker 11: you'll feel like a brand new girl.
38:15
Speaker 2: Well, Sue found her hostess knew what she was talking about.
38:18
Speaker 10: Say, I feel simply swell now.
38:21
Speaker 8: You're right.
38:22
Speaker 7: There's something so refreshing about that Lux soap lather.
38:25
Speaker 11: It leaves nice, delicate fragrance on your skin, too.
38:27
Speaker 4: Now, there's a tip for women everywhere. You'll find that
38:30
Speaker 4: Hollywood's complexion soap, Lux toilet soap, makes a delightful bath soap, too.
38:35
Speaker 4: The active lather is wonderfully rich and creamy. It carries
38:39
Speaker 4: away dust and dirt, leaves skin feeling soft, velvety smooth.
38:44
Speaker 4: And most important of all, lovely screen stars say Luxe
38:47
Speaker 4: Toilet Soap protects daintiness, makes you sure of skin that's
38:51
Speaker 4: fresh and sweet. Try Luxe Toilet Soap tomorrow. It's hard-milled
38:56
Speaker 4: to last. That's important these days when it's patriotic not.
38:59
Speaker 2: To waste soap.
39:01
Speaker 4: Luxe Toilet Soap lasts even longer, too, if you'll always put.
39:04
Speaker 2: It in a soap dish that's dry.
39:06
Speaker 7: Now.
39:07
Speaker 5: our producer, Mr.
39:08
Speaker 2: DeMille.
39:09
Speaker 4: We'll take you behind the scenes with our stars after
39:12
Speaker 4: the play. But now here's the curtain for the third
39:14
Speaker 4: act of The Constant Nymph, starring Charles Boyer, Alexis Smith,
39:17
Speaker 4: and Maureen O'Sullivan. It's two hours before the concert, and
39:28
Speaker 4: the florist.
39:29
Speaker 5: Has just delivered.
39:30
Speaker 4: four dozen roses addressed to Mrs. Lewis Dodd. Florence is
39:34
Speaker 4: genuinely moved. So is Fritz Berkele, but in nothing the
39:39
Speaker 4: same way.
39:41
Speaker 5: Tessa, Tessa, I forgot. I forgot to tell him.
39:44
Speaker 2: Oh, Fritz.
39:45
Speaker 10: Oh, how beautiful.
39:46
Speaker 2: Oh, you know I'm very jealous, darling. Who's been sending
39:49
Speaker 2: you flowers?
39:49
Speaker 8: You.
39:50
Speaker 2: Come, come. No secrets. Louis, I forgot. Madame, I have
39:52
Speaker 2: to explain.
39:53
Speaker 7: Oh, it was really my fault. You see, Florence, Fritz,
39:55
Speaker 7: he brought some flowers for Louis to give to you.
39:58
Speaker 7: And then he forgot to tell Louis.
39:59
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, of course. Of course, I did ask Fritz
40:02
Speaker 2: if he would be kind enough to. Oh, darling. You're
40:06
Speaker 2: not coarse, are you?
40:07
Speaker 10: Of course not. Although I don't think it's important enough
40:09
Speaker 10: to lie about it.
40:10
Speaker 13: I'm so thoughtless and so sorry.
40:12
Speaker 10: Well, you have Tessa to think for you.
40:14
Speaker 11: Oh, Florence, truthfully, it was only an idea and it
40:17
Speaker 11: went wrong. Did Fritz think up the word patient, Florence?
40:21
Speaker 13: Oh, darling, you are patient. And you are altogether too
40:24
Speaker 13: nice to be upset. Tonight of all nights.
40:26
Speaker 7: You won't recognize the music tonight, Fritz.
40:28
Speaker 2: Has it been changed? Well, it's a little quieter, perhaps,
40:32
Speaker 2: and I have developed the melody. Oh, Tessa was really
40:34
Speaker 2: quite a help.
40:35
Speaker 7: No, but it does have more heart in it now.
40:37
Speaker 11: And are you all familiar with Lewis's heart?
40:39
Speaker 2: Oh, Florence, please.
40:40
Speaker 7: I appreciate it, if that's what you mean. But I
40:42
Speaker 7: suppose I always have.
40:43
Speaker 10: You have to excuse me.
40:45
Speaker 2: It's time we.
40:46
Speaker 8: All got dressed, isn't it?
40:47
Speaker 2: Goodbye. I'll see you all at the concert. I am
40:50
Speaker 2: a fool. Such a fool. Oh, these constant irritations.
40:57
Speaker 13: Little things suddenly assuming such importance until I find myself
41:01
Speaker 13: becoming little too.
41:02
Speaker 2: And I'm ashamed.
41:04
Speaker 9: Don't say that.
41:05
Speaker 6: I don't want to hear it.
41:06
Speaker 2: Then you know what I mean.
41:07
Speaker 7: No, I don't. I won't know.
41:10
Speaker 10: I don't want to know.
41:11
Speaker 2: Tessa, are you crying? Look at me, Tessa.
41:14
Speaker 7: I cry when I think of you and of poor Florence.
41:18
Speaker 11: And because we're talking now, things that we shouldn't talk about.
41:20
Speaker 2: I feel so guilty. Of what?
41:24
Speaker 13: Because you are sweet and unspoiled and you love the two?
41:27
Speaker 2: No, don't turn away.
41:28
Speaker 12: Look at me.
41:29
Speaker 7: Oh, Louis.
41:31
Speaker 2: Is it me? Are you disturbed about me?
41:34
Speaker 11: Of course, of course I am.
41:38
Speaker 10: Little Tessa.
41:40
Speaker 7: Such a little Tessa. Such an insignificant mutant little Tessa.
41:44
Speaker 2: I think I've known it always. And yet, why didn't
41:48
Speaker 2: I know it?
41:49
Speaker 7: Whatever you think you know, you must forget. You must
41:53
Speaker 7: forget it now.
41:54
Speaker 2: I love you, Tessa. I know I always have.
41:57
Speaker 7: Once long ago, I said something to Father. I said...
42:01
Speaker 7: One day, Lewis will look at me, and then everything
42:03
Speaker 7: will be all right.
42:04
Speaker 2: And I didn't look.
42:05
Speaker 7: There were other things to see.
42:06
Speaker 2: That was all.
42:08
Speaker 9: Please don't talk about it.
42:10
Speaker 11: It's too late now.
42:11
Speaker 2: No. No, it isn't.
42:13
Speaker 10: Why did you marry Florence?
42:14
Speaker 2: I don't know now.
42:16
Speaker 7: We were so married together that you forgot all about me.
42:20
Speaker 7: You'd only waited a little while.
42:22
Speaker 2: No, it was something I didn't realize. Can you understand that?
42:26
Speaker 7: How can I not understand you? You've been in my
42:28
Speaker 7: mind all the time. You've never really been away from me.
42:32
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
42:33
Speaker 7: I promised myself to you such a long time ago.
42:36
Speaker 2: My darling. Oh, no, no.
42:39
Speaker 7: Florence is my cousin, and I've been living in her home.
42:42
Speaker 7: She's been kind, and you belong to her.
42:45
Speaker 8: But if it weren't for that, I'd... Oh, no, I can't.
42:48
Speaker 4: I won't.
42:50
Speaker 11: I'd be a traitor.
42:51
Speaker 4: I can't, Lucy.
42:52
Speaker 7: I can't.
42:53
Speaker 9: I can't.
43:03
Speaker 7: Louis? Oh, come in, dear.
43:05
Speaker 2: Florence, I want to talk with you.
43:08
Speaker 10: I'm very sorry about the roses, Louis, but I thought you'd.
43:11
Speaker 2: Sent me some flowers. Oh, darling, I know so well
43:13
Speaker 2: how you must have felt.
43:14
Speaker 11: And do you know how I feel now that you're
43:16
Speaker 11: going away? Louis, I'll go anywhere, be anything, do anything
43:19
Speaker 11: in the world you ask me.
43:20
Speaker 2: Oh, Florence, I can't let you say things like this.
43:23
Speaker 11: I mean it.
43:23
Speaker 10: I'm honest and I love you.
43:25
Speaker 11: The fact that I haven't completely.
43:27
Speaker 10: Understood you hasn't been all my fault because I've tried.
43:31
Speaker 11: And all the time I've had the.
43:32
Speaker 10: Feeling that I was succeeding bit by bit.
43:33
Speaker 2: But you're attractive. You're young. You deserve so much more
43:37
Speaker 2: than I can ever be to you.
43:39
Speaker 10: You're giving me up.
43:40
Speaker 11: Please.
43:42
Speaker 2: You can't put it that way.
43:43
Speaker 11: All right. But you don't want me anymore.
43:47
Speaker 10: Give me another chance. I'm begging you.
43:49
Speaker 8: Look at me.
43:51
Speaker 7: No.
43:52
Speaker 10: Don't tell me what's in your mind just now.
43:55
Speaker 11: I don't think I could stand it.
43:58
Speaker 8: You're going away for a while.
44:00
Speaker 11: You might miss me.
44:02
Speaker 10: I'll wait for you.
44:03
Speaker 2: Will you do me a favor while I'm gone? Anything?
44:06
Speaker 2: It's about Tessa.
44:07
Speaker 13: If I can only be sure that, well, that you
44:10
Speaker 13: two are good friends, that you understand her.
44:12
Speaker 4: Yes?
44:14
Speaker 2: Don't look like that.
44:15
Speaker 10: Since when have you loved her so deeply?
44:19
Speaker 2: Always, I think.
44:20
Speaker 1: Have you told her?
44:21
Speaker 10: Does she know?
44:23
Speaker 2: Yes, and she will have none of me. She spoke
44:25
Speaker 2: of you immediately. That's why I'm asking you to try
44:27
Speaker 2: and understand what she's really like.
44:29
Speaker 10: Don't ask me to try and understand.
44:31
Speaker 7: I do.
44:31
Speaker 2: Won't you dare suggest? I do dare. I tell you
44:33
Speaker 2: she will have nothing to do with me ever because
44:35
Speaker 2: of you.
44:35
Speaker 10: I don't believe it.
44:36
Speaker 2: I don't even think such a thing about a child.
44:38
Speaker 8: Don't call her a child.
44:39
Speaker 10: It makes it even more confusing.
44:41
Speaker 7: I put the thought away.
44:42
Speaker 8: Again and again because I felt that no matter what
44:44
Speaker 8: she was... You, you at least were decent.
44:47
Speaker 5: Signora, signora.
44:48
Speaker 2: I told you to.
44:48
Speaker 10: Go to the concert.
44:49
Speaker 7: Si, si, I know, I know.
44:50
Speaker 2: She's sick, but I found her on the stairs, signora.
44:54
Speaker 5: She fainted, I think.
44:55
Speaker 2: I'll go to her, Florence. Will you call the doctor, please?
44:57
Speaker 10: No, I'll go.
44:58
Speaker 3: Please go.
44:59
Speaker 10: If it's anything, I'll call.
45:03
Speaker 11: You.
45:04
Speaker 3: Hello, Florence.
45:06
Speaker 2: I thought you were ill.
45:09
Speaker 10: Did you get dizzy, sir?
45:10
Speaker 7: Excited at night?
45:12
Speaker 13: Yes.
45:13
Speaker 10: The excitement of so many things. Lie down quietly, and
45:17
Speaker 10: I'll have Dr.
45:17
Speaker 2: Tomlin come in and see you.
45:19
Speaker 3: What's the matter, Flora?
45:21
Speaker 7: You know, I should never have come here, really. Don't
45:24
Speaker 7: you think if I went away and got some sort
45:26
Speaker 7: of a job in Paris?
45:28
Speaker 10: Don't you think that would be better? Did you know
45:30
Speaker 10: that Lewis was leaving too?
45:31
Speaker 7: Yes, but not for Paris.
45:33
Speaker 10: And you promptly got sick.
45:35
Speaker 7: Corrie!
45:35
Speaker 10: Such a fragile little girl. So innocent.
45:39
Speaker 11: I'm talking to you now as one woman to another.
45:41
Speaker 10: I'm accusing you directly. You flung yourself at my husband
45:44
Speaker 10: in this house and you succeeded.
45:45
Speaker 7: I can't help it if I love you. I did
45:47
Speaker 7: long before you came to Switzerland. But I've come to
45:51
Speaker 7: understand that he's your husband. And I'm not going to
45:54
Speaker 7: see him anymore. That's the reason I.
45:56
Speaker 10: Want to go away. You talk of love as if
45:57
Speaker 10: you know what it means.
45:58
Speaker 7: Oh, yes, I do. I know all about it.
46:01
Speaker 10: What do you mean by that?
46:01
Speaker 16: Do you mean.
46:02
Speaker 7: Florence, please.
46:04
Speaker 9: Tessa.
46:05
Speaker 2: Tessa, Tessa.
46:07
Speaker 10: Tessa, are you all right?
46:07
Speaker 1: Tessa.
46:11
Speaker 2: Shouldn't you be going now?
46:13
Speaker 11: Isn't he?
46:14
Speaker 10: Please lie down.
46:15
Speaker 2: Yes, I will. Oh, don't be late for the concert.
46:19
Speaker 10: I'm just tired. I have some selling to do. I'll
46:23
Speaker 10: bring them in here in case you.
46:25
Speaker 9: Thank you, darling.
46:34
Speaker 2: Florence asked me to bring this in. What's the matter, darling?
46:37
Speaker 2: What happened?
46:38
Speaker 10: Just a few flutterings inside. Nothing to worry about.
46:42
Speaker 7: I know all about my valvular nepotism.
46:45
Speaker 2: You're sure you're all right?
46:47
Speaker 7: I will be, if you'll only go.
46:49
Speaker 2: You're not coming?
46:50
Speaker 7: The spells of my.
46:51
Speaker 3: Behavior must embarrass me in ways I'm not.
46:53
Speaker 7: I could so easily have one in the middle of
46:54
Speaker 7: a performance. Anyway, Roberto and I can listen.
46:57
Speaker 4: To it on the radio.
46:58
Speaker 2: Well, then give me a moment. Our music is last
47:01
Speaker 2: on the program.
47:01
Speaker 3: Our music.
47:03
Speaker 8: Oh, sweet, generous Lord.
47:05
Speaker 7: There's no one like you in.
47:07
Speaker 11: All the world.
47:09
Speaker 7: I'll miss you so.
47:10
Speaker 2: Why will you miss me?
47:11
Speaker 13: Because I.
47:13
Speaker 7: I may possibly be going.
47:14
Speaker 4: Away, too.
47:15
Speaker 1: Where?
47:15
Speaker 7: Anywhere. Away from my situation. An impossible situation.
47:20
Speaker 13: I wonder if you know how many things have made
47:23
Speaker 13: it impossible. It isn't just that I am married to Florence.
47:26
Speaker 13: It isn't that you are so young.
47:28
Speaker 2: And I'm not. No, it is something that has been with.
47:31
Speaker 13: Me ever since I was a little boy, hearing strange
47:35
Speaker 13: music and almost anything, you know.
47:37
Speaker 4: Yes.
47:38
Speaker 1: Everything, anything that came into my mind was never quite
47:41
Speaker 1: of this earth until, until tonight. Yes, downstairs when I
47:47
Speaker 1: looked at you, everything that I ever longed for seemed
47:51
Speaker 1: to be there for me.
47:52
Speaker 7: You must go now. I'll be thinking of you. Please go, Lloyd.
47:59
Speaker 2: Please.
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Speaker 10: I want you to.
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Speaker 2: I'll come straight back.
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Speaker 7: Aren't you going away? You said you were.
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Speaker 2: I'm coming back.
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Speaker 3: All right. Bless you, beloved.
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Speaker 2: Bless you.
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Speaker 7: Lewis!
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Speaker 2: Darling, I'm always late and always sorry. Well, you haven't
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Speaker 2: missed very much, my boy. Something very noisy by a German.
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Speaker 2: It's given me a slight head.
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Speaker 10: It's next, Lewis. Your music.
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 10: Where were you, darling?
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Speaker 4: Oh, I walked here.
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Speaker 2: Well, my boy, horses are leaving the paddock. The sands
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Speaker 2: are packed.
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Speaker 10: Your hands are like ours. I don't wonder. Even I'm nervous.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 9: THE END.
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Speaker 15: That's it.
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Speaker 10: Our song.
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Speaker 17: I see. But you have missed so much of it.
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Speaker 17: Sit down here by the radio. Tessa, where are you
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Speaker 17: going with your bags packed and your coat on?
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Speaker 4: To Paris.
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Speaker 7: Paris.
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Speaker 4: Paris.
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Speaker 17: I better pick you something to eat. This is a
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Speaker 17: bad house.
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Speaker 2: A bad house.
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Speaker 1: Hey, son.
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Speaker 2: I've been calling you.
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Speaker 9: Yes, you have. You wanted me to call you.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 7: I've waited so long.
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Speaker 3: You'll never hear me. Never.
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Speaker 2: Never.
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Speaker 10: You belong to me.
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Speaker 8: You always have.
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Speaker 7: Even before I was born.
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Speaker 11: Louis.
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Speaker 3: My son.
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Speaker 2: It frightens me. You must never be afraid. You must
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Speaker 2: be protected. Always.
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Speaker 3: Protected?
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Speaker 7: My heart is such a simple heart. Isn't that some protection?
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 2: You have such a wisdom about things.
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Speaker 3: Have I?
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Speaker 11: Poor, poor Lewis.
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Speaker 10: You've never really been happy.
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Speaker 7: Have you?
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Speaker 2: I've tried. I've known no way to find it. Will
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Speaker 2: you show me, Tessa? If there is a way, you
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Speaker 2: will know it.
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Speaker 7: Father said if Lewis could ever suffer or cry.
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Speaker 2: Lewis!
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Speaker 7: Lewis!
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Speaker 16: If I see you, I'll take you there. I'll take
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Speaker 16: you there.
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Speaker 9: I'll take you there.
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Speaker 2: I wish you hadn't come home with me. What about
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Speaker 2: your father, your friends? They can wait for you. Dessa? Dessa? Quiet.
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Speaker 10: She's probably with them.
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Speaker 2: But where is everyone? The servants? Roberto!
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Speaker 10: Louis, look at me, please. Darling, I can't go on
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Speaker 10: another moment with your hate.
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Speaker 2: Of course. How can I possibly hate you?
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Speaker 10: Because I said unkind things.
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Speaker 8: Wicked things.
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Speaker 10: I couldn't help it. Can you understand?
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Speaker 2: Of course I can understand.
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Speaker 10: I'm not going to stand in your way another moment.
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Speaker 10: And I want to take care of myself.
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Speaker 2: May I? Why this sudden change?
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Speaker 10: Because I love you. And I want you to be happy.
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Speaker 2: This is all my fault, Laura. I'm the guilty one.
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Speaker 10: How can you possibly be guilty? People don't arrange these things.
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Speaker 10: Something else does. I realize it's nice watching you in the.
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Speaker 18: Box, hearing it in the music.
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Speaker 10: I just happen to exist outside your inner world. Then
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Speaker 10: tell me.
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Speaker 11: I understand it very clearly.
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Speaker 10: And you must never be sorry for me. We're friends.
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Speaker 7: All of us are.
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Speaker 11: Always.
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Speaker 2: Always, darling.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Well, darling. I'll run along. Mr.
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Speaker 7: Boy.
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Speaker 6: Join us if you can.
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Speaker 2: Oh, there you are. I heard you call before, Signore.
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Speaker 2: I did not come. Whose bags are those? They're Tessa's.
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Speaker 6: Her?
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Speaker 2: Yes. Where is she? Here. She's going away? She has
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Speaker 2: gone away, Signore.
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Speaker 5: She.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Berta. Where?
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Speaker 14: Where?
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Speaker 12: She's lying there.
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Speaker 4: Berta!
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Speaker 2: Berta!
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Speaker 3: Little Tessa.
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Speaker 4: This was another evening of fine performances in the Lux
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Speaker 4: Radio Theater, given by Charles Boyer, Alexis Smith, and Maureen O'Sullivan.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, C.B., and it's always a pleasure
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Speaker 2: to work with you.
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Speaker 10: Now that flesh and fantasy has reached the screen, you're
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Speaker 10: a producer yourself, Charles.
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Speaker 7: Does it make you nervous to have a producer as
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Speaker 7: a star, Mr.
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Speaker 2: DeMille? Not nearly so nervous as Charles would be if.
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Speaker 4: I were acting for him.
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Speaker 2: Well, but that's an idea, C.B.
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Speaker 13: Just what would your price be as an actor?
54:26
Speaker 2: Well, I'd say about... No, that's too much. You have
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Speaker 2: a great future as a producer, Charles.
54:33
Speaker 10: You can't blame a man for trying to get a bargain.
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Speaker 7: It's rather like a woman when she sees some luck soap.
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Speaker 2: She can't resist it.
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Speaker 11: Naturally, not after she's tried it once. I've used luck
54:42
Speaker 11: soap for a long time myself. I couldn't get along
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Speaker 11: without it.
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Speaker 4: Two such lovely customers can't be wrong. And we know
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Speaker 4: luck soap isn't. Alexis, I've been wondering how you came
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Speaker 4: to have such an unusual name.
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Speaker 2: Like Smith? No, like Alexis.
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Speaker 11: My father's name is Alexander, and that didn't seem quite
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Speaker 11: right for a girl, so we got.
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Speaker 10: As close to it as possible.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I thought it might be Russian. No.
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Speaker 11: One of my grandfathers was a gold miner in South Africa,
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Speaker 11: and the other was a gold miner in Alaska.
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Speaker 4: I rather think you've made a bigger strike in Hollywood
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Speaker 4: than either of them. And we've made one for next week.
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Speaker 7: What is your play going to be, Mr.
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Speaker 2: DeMille?
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Speaker 4: A thrilling drama with a thrilling cast, Maureen. It's the
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Speaker 4: Warner Brothers hit, Casablanca. And our stars will be Hedy Lamarr,
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Speaker 4: Alan Ladd, and John Lerner. We'll go behind the scenes
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Speaker 4: in the city that became famous overnight. A city of
55:41
Speaker 4: intrigue and mystery and sudden death. Next Monday night, you'll
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Speaker 4: hear Hedy Lamarr in the role of a beautiful refugee...
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Speaker 4: And Alan Ladd and John Loda as the two men
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Speaker 4: in love with us.
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't see how you can miss with that one, CB.
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Speaker 2: Good night.
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Speaker 7: Good night.
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Speaker 10: Good night.
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Speaker 2: Good night.
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Speaker 14: We'll have to see more of you three.
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Speaker 4: Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Toilet Soap, join me
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Speaker 4: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday
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Speaker 4: night when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Alan Ladd, Hedy Lamarr,
56:19
Speaker 4: and John Loder in Casablanca with Edgar Barrier.
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Speaker 2: This is Cecil B.
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Speaker 4: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. And now a
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Speaker 4: message from our government to every housewife. There is an
56:38
Speaker 4: urgent need for more glycerin, a vital ingredient of the
56:41
Speaker 4: sulfur drugs and of many other medicines now used in.
56:43
Speaker 2: Our fighting front.
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Speaker 4: Glycerin can only be made from fat, Save every single
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Speaker 4: drop of waste fat from your kitchen.
56:50
Speaker 2: Think of it.
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Speaker 4: One tablespoonful of used fat will supply the glycerin necessary
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Speaker 4: for 73 smallpox inoculations. So urgent is the need for
56:58
Speaker 4: this life-saving ingredient that two ration points, the kind that
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Speaker 4: buy meat, shortening, butter, and cheese, will be given you
57:03
Speaker 4: for every single pound of fat turned in. In addition,
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Speaker 4: your butcher will pay you four cents a pound for it.
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Speaker 4: Here's what you do.
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Speaker 2: Pour all used fat into a clean tin can. Don't
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Speaker 2: use glass or paper containers.
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Speaker 4: Just as soon as the container is full, rush it
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Speaker 4: to your butcher and receive your ration points and payment
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Speaker 4: at the rate of four.
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Speaker 2: Cents a pound.
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Speaker 4: Here's something very real, very necessary, absolutely vital you can do.
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Speaker 4: Don't fail our fighting men. Start saving those used fats tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: Alexis Smith is co-starring in the forthcoming Warner Brothers hit,
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Speaker 4: The Adventures of Mark Twain. Charles Boyer is currently seen
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Speaker 4: in Universal's all-star picture, Flesh and Fantasy, of which Mr.
57:42
Speaker 2: Boyer was co-producer with Julian DeVivier.
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Speaker 4: Heard in tonight's play were Walter Kingsford as Charles, Pedro
57:48
Speaker 4: de Cordoba as Sanger, Louis Alberni as Roberto, Dwayne Thompson
57:52
Speaker 4: as Kate, Joan Loring as Paula, Trudy Marson as Tony,
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Speaker 4: Hans Conrad as Fritz, and Norman.
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Speaker 2: Field, Gloria Gordon, and Charles Seal.
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Speaker 4: This program is broadcast to our fighting forces overseas by
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Speaker 4: International Shortwave Radio through cooperation with the Armed Forces Radio Service.
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Speaker 4: Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. And this is
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Speaker 4: your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you to tune in
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Speaker 4: again next Monday night to hear Hedy Lamarr, Alan Ladd,
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Speaker 4: and John Loder in Casablanca with Edgar Barrier.
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Speaker 2: Know what they're all saying?
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Speaker 10: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 8: Spry is the shortening by.
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Speaker 2: For fried food. Mmm. Cake.
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Speaker 4: Mmm.
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Speaker 3: And pie.
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Speaker 4: Mmm-hmm.
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Speaker 8: It's gotta be spry.
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Speaker 11: Mmm-hmm.
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Speaker 10: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater's The Constant Nymph has reached its final curtain.
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Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for joining us.