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Lux Radio Theatre - "The Old Maid" (Old Time Radio, 1939) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: In New York in 1833, Delia Ralston prepares for her
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  Speaker 1: wedding when her cousin, Charlotte Lovell, brings word of Clem Spender,
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  Speaker 1: Delia's former suitor. Lux Radio Theater presented this adaptation of
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  Speaker 1: The Old Maid on October 30th, 1939 as episode 235,
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  Speaker 1: Loretta Young stars as Charlotte with Miriam Hopkins as Delia
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  Speaker 1: in Zoe Atkins' radio adaptation of her play, drawn from
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  Speaker 1: Edith Wharton's 1924 novella.
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  Speaker 2: Cecil B.
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  Speaker 1: DeMille is the producer, and Atkins appears as the evening's
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  Speaker 1: special guest. The drama follows the cousins across the years
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  Speaker 1: as Charlotte's devotion to a young girl places new strain
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  Speaker 1: on love, duty, and social respectability. And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 3: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Loretta
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  Speaker 3: Young and Miriam Hopkins in The Old Maid. And as
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  Speaker 3: our special guest, Miss Zoe Akins, author of The Old Maid.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Cecil B.
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  Speaker 5: DeMille.
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  Speaker 6: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we bring you
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  Speaker 6: the drama of a strange masquerade. The story of a
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  Speaker 6: woman who remade herself for the eyes of the world.
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  Speaker 6: Who suppressed forever the yearnings of a great heart and
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  Speaker 6: lived a magnificent life. Charlotte Lovell was called an old maid.
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  Speaker 6: but tonight we reveal her romantic secret. We go back
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  Speaker 6: to the days when she was young and beautiful and
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  Speaker 6: discover the reason for the deliberate sacrifice that her life became.
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  Speaker 6: The Old Maid is an intimate play, so intimate that
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  Speaker 6: it could never have been written by a man. It
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  Speaker 6: reveals too great a knowledge of the feminine mind and heart.
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  Speaker 6: And to this knowledge, Miss Zoe Akins, who adapted the
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  Speaker 6: play from a story by Edith Wharton, brought a deep
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  Speaker 6: human sympathy, which gave her characters a universal appeal on
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  Speaker 6: both stage and screen. The Old Maid was a Pulitzer
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  Speaker 6: Prize drama on Broadway and recently became a memorable Warner
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  Speaker 6: Brothers picture. In studying the script for the first time,
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  Speaker 6: it occurred to me that the term Old Maid is
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  Speaker 6: gradually passing from use. Today we have bachelor girls and
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  Speaker 6: single women, but few Old Maids. Perhaps that's because the
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  Speaker 6: words denote a rather drab appearance. And nowadays a dull
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  Speaker 6: drab appearance is old-fashioned when a help like Lux Toilet
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  Speaker 6: Soap is available. In tonight's play, the roles of Charlotte
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  Speaker 6: Lovell and her cousin Delia are of equal prominence, which
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  Speaker 6: presented an unusual casting problem. We needed two actresses who
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  Speaker 6: could be convincing both as girls of 20 and women
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  Speaker 6: of middle age. And we needed stars who were willing
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  Speaker 6: to appear unsympathetic at times for the sake of the play.
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  Speaker 6: And we found them in Loretta Young and Miriam Hopkins.
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  Speaker 6: And now we begin a story as old as the
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  Speaker 6: human race and as new as the sacrifice some mother
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  Speaker 6: must have made today. The old maid starring Loretta Young
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  Speaker 6: as Charlotte and Miriam Hopkins as Delia. The curtain rises
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  Speaker 6: on Act One. In the past hundred years, the tempo
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  Speaker 6: of life has quickened and the ideas of a century
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  Speaker 6: past have been laid aside with the quaint dress and
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  Speaker 6: customs of their day. But one great ritual has remained
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  Speaker 6: almost constant, the weddings. Then, as now, there was the
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  Speaker 6: same hurried attention to last-minute details. Then, as now, the
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  Speaker 6: bride waited in her room, waited for the knock on
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  Speaker 6: the door which would summon her to her bridesmaids and
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  Speaker 6: the groom. The year is 1833. Our bride, in a
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  Speaker 6: lovely old-fashioned wedding gown, turns this way and that in
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  Speaker 6: front of her mirror, while her maid smooths out the
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  Speaker 6: lacy folds of the long white veil.
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  Speaker 7: You don't seem a bit nervous, Miss Delia.
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  Speaker 8: Nervous?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, I don't think I am.
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  Speaker 9: I wish I wasn't. I wouldn't be so clumsy. Land,
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  Speaker 9: you'd think it was me getting married. Me, me hands
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  Speaker 9: shake so.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, take your time, Nora.
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  Speaker 9: We've still a few moments. You was always one to
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  Speaker 9: take things calm. You're not superstitious either, are you, Miss Delia?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, not very.
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  Speaker 9: All the same, you ought to have something borrowed and
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  Speaker 9: something blue.
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  Speaker 11: I know, something old and something new. Well, my lace
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  Speaker 11: is old and everything else is new. But I've nothing
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  Speaker 11: borrowed and I've nothing blue. I'd feel easier in my
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  Speaker 11: mind if you had.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Nora, then you'll have to lend me something.
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  Speaker 11: But what if I got missed that you'd wear?
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  Speaker 10: Now, let me see.
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  Speaker 7: A garter.
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  Speaker 10: Lend me a garter.
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  Speaker 7: Gracious.
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  Speaker 10: Do you mean it, Miss Delia? Yes, of course. Why not?
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  Speaker 7: Well, please to look the other way, then.
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  Speaker 10: Go ahead. I don't see you, Nora.
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  Speaker 11: Delia, may I come in?
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  Speaker 7: It's your cousin, Miss.
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  Speaker 8: Charlotte.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, of course, Charlotte. I have something for you, Delia. Oh,
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  Speaker 10: how pretty you look. I never saw you look so well,
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  Speaker 10: did you, Nora? No, Miss.
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  Speaker 7: I could hardly believe me eyes. It must be the dress.
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  Speaker 12: Why, of course it's the dress, Nora. I don't often
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  Speaker 12: have a dress that's been made especially for me.
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  Speaker 7: Here's the garter, Miss Delia.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
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  Speaker 11: This is something borrowed, Charlotte. You haven't anything blue I
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  Speaker 11: could carry, have you?
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  Speaker 10: It's odd you should ask me that, Delia. Here.
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  Speaker 8: Here.
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  Speaker 10: This is blue. What is it? A cameo. It's a
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  Speaker 10: present for you, dear. A present? From whom? From Clem Spender.
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  Speaker 10: Clem Spender? Here we go, Nora.
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  Speaker 13: Yes, miss.
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  Speaker 10: Charlotte, tell me.
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  Speaker 12: He asked me to give it to you. But I
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  Speaker 12: thought Clem was in Italy. He came home today just
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  Speaker 12: in time for your wedding. He hadn't heard you were
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  Speaker 12: going to marry someone.
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  Speaker 10: Else, did you? He thought you must be ill because
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  Speaker 10: you stopped writing. Oh, Charlotte, I'm afraid. Of what? Of Clem.
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  Speaker 11: Of what he might say or do. Oh, you know Clem.
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  Speaker 11: There'll be champagne, and if he should take a glass
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  Speaker 11: too much, watch him, Charlotte, will you? And be kind
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  Speaker 11: to him.
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  Speaker 12: I don't see how anyone could ever be unkind to Clem.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, don't. Please don't. Why, I didn't know you cared
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  Speaker 10: that much, dear. You knew I loved him. I knew
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  Speaker 10: you told him so. Why, I must cry.
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  Speaker 13: No, no, you won't cry.
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  Speaker 10: You won't cry if you keep saying to yourself over
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  Speaker 10: and over... I'm marrying a Ralston. I am marrying Jim Ralston. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 10: I'm marrying a Ralston, and I'm glad.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 12: You know, Delia, when Clem went to Italy to study painting,
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  Speaker 12: you promised to wait for him.
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  Speaker 10: I did wait. I waited almost two years.
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  Speaker 11: If Clem wanted a wife, he should have stayed here
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  Speaker 11: and made something of himself.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, Delia, why didn't you have the kindness at least
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  Speaker 12: to write to Clem that you were going to marry
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  Speaker 12: someone else?
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  Speaker 10: I intended to. I.
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  Speaker 10: I tried to. But you were ashamed.
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 10: No, I wasn't ashamed. I.
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  Speaker 11: Oh, I'm fond of Jim, and it seems so hopeless
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  Speaker 11: to wait for Clem. I couldn't bear to be an
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  Speaker 11: old maid, Charlotte.
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  Speaker 12: I shall be an old maid, because the man I
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  Speaker 12: love doesn't love me, and not for any other reason.
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  Speaker 8: Charlotte.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 11: I didn't know there was anyone.
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  Speaker 10: No one has ever known. But I would have waited
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  Speaker 10: for him all my life.
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  Speaker 11: You think so, but life doesn't stop. Oh, a woman
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  Speaker 11: gets lonely. She wants children and a home of her own.
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  Speaker 10: I could have waited.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, there's the wedding watch, Delia.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 10: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 10: Remember, watch Clem. Oh, I'll not forget. Here's your present.
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  Speaker 10: Something blue.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Charlotte.
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  Speaker 11: A trembling soul.
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  Speaker 4: God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. I
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  Speaker 4: now pronounce you man and wife.
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  Speaker 5: Nora!
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  Speaker 8: Nora!
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  Speaker 7: Wasn't she beautiful, Miss Shah?
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  Speaker 10: Nora, where is Mr. Spender? Where did he go?
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  Speaker 7: Right through the hall, Miss. Toward the balcony.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, thank you, Nora.
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  Speaker 8: Clem!
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Clem.
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  Speaker 2: She seemed very happy, didn't she? Yes. Well, why not?
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  Speaker 2: She's married to a fine person and rich. We mustn't
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  Speaker 2: forget that, must we? The Ralston millions. How important they
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  Speaker 2: must be to her.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Clem, please don't.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't pity me, Charlotte. I don't want pity.
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  Speaker 10: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 12: Because you don't need pity, Clem. If Daly wanted the
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  Speaker 12: things that, well, Jim Ralston could give her... If she
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  Speaker 12: wanted them more than she wanted you, you could never
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  Speaker 12: have been happy.
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  Speaker 10: Could you?
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  Speaker 2: I might have been. I might have made her happy, too.
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  Speaker 2: Why didn't she give me the chance?
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  Speaker 16: Oh, Clem.
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  Speaker 10: What will you do now?
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  Speaker 15: Do?
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  Speaker 2: Go back to Italy, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: There's a packet sailing next week.
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  Speaker 12: Oh, is that wise? I mean, to go off alone?
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  Speaker 12: You shouldn't be alone now, Clem. You should have friends
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  Speaker 12: around you now. Someone who could Well, help you forget, perhaps.
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I could try, Clem, if you'd let me. What? Oh,
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  Speaker 10: I'd like to try.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Charlotte, you... Oh, please.
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  Speaker 10: Please don't look at me like that. Don't make me
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  Speaker 10: feel ashamed of myself, Clem.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Charlotte, forgive me. You're so very sweet. And you
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  Speaker 2: could help. I'm sure you could.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Clem....
• 10:01
  Speaker 6: Excuse me, please.
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  Speaker 10: Excuse me, let me through, please.
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  Speaker 2: Just a moment, lady.
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  Speaker 4: All visitors are ashore.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I know.
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  Speaker 4: We're sailing in ten minutes.
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  Speaker 7: I know.
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  Speaker 10: I'm a passenger.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, good evening.
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  Speaker 2: Go right aboard.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Mind that hoist.
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  Speaker 13: We're loading in a bit of a hurry, ma'am, and
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  Speaker 13: it's dark.
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  Speaker 8: I'll be careful.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, the deck's there.
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  Speaker 4: Do you want someone hurt? Move along now, mate.
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  Speaker 7: The tide's with us.
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  Speaker 10: Show up in the hour.
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  Speaker 14: Clem.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Charlotte. I was afraid you weren't going to make it.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I had to wait till they were all asleep.
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte.
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  Speaker 8: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Are you quite sure you're not sorry?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, no, my darling. I'll never be sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll let you unpack your things. I'll be out
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  Speaker 2: on deck.
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  Speaker 10: Clem. Yes? Clem, I must write a note to Aunt Carrie.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. I'll have a boy come to pick it up.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye for a while, darling.
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  Speaker 7: Clem.
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  Speaker 14: Hmm?
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  Speaker 10: Kiss me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Charlotte.
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  Speaker 10: Goodbye, sweetheart.
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  Speaker 16: My dear Aunt Carrie, perhaps someday I may be forgiven for.
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  Speaker 10: What I am doing.
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  Speaker 16: I love Clem Spender. I have always loved him. And
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  Speaker 16: I must try to make up for the hurt he
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  Speaker 16: has suffered.
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  Speaker 10: I believe I can.
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  Speaker 16: By the time you receive this, We shall be far
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  Speaker 16: at sea.
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  Speaker 10: Please tell Delia. Explain to her that... Oh, yes? Who
• 12:11
  Speaker 10: is it?
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  Speaker 4: First mate, ma'am.
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  Speaker 7: Well, come in, please.
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  Speaker 10: Sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Are you Mrs. Spender?
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  Speaker 10: Why, I... Is anything the matter?
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  Speaker 4: Quiet, ma'am. Quiet.
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  Speaker 10: Well, what is it, please? Mrs.
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  Speaker 13: Spender, there's been an accident.
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  Speaker 4: It was unavoidable, ma'am.
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  Speaker 13: The boom swung fast.
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  Speaker 2: It was dark as.
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  Speaker 13: Pitch up there, and, well, I guess he didn't see it.
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  Speaker 10: Clem, where is he? Is he hurt badly?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, please, ma'am.
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  Speaker 10: Well, tell me, please.
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  Speaker 2: Ma'am, your husband's dead.
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  Speaker 7: Dead?
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, ma'am.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 4: No!
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  Speaker 8: Clem!
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  Speaker 7: Delia, Miss Delia. Yes, Nora? Dr. Lanskill is here, Miss Delia. Dr.
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  Speaker 10: Lanskill. How are you, Doctor?
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, my dear, and many happy returns.
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  Speaker 2: Of the day.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you, Doctor.
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  Speaker 7: And many happy returns from me, too, Miss Delia.
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  Speaker 11: And thank you, Nora. Miss Delia, Miss Delia. I've been
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  Speaker 11: married exactly six years, and Nora still can't get used
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  Speaker 11: to it.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps because you're still as lovely as a bride, Miss Delia.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Doctor. Sit down. I'm so glad you've come.
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  Speaker 4: You seem to be looking quite well.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, it wasn't for me. I wanted to speak to
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  Speaker 10: you about Charlotte.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: What's the matter with Charlotte?
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  Speaker 10: Well, I don't know.
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  Speaker 11: Perhaps nothing, but... Doctor, you know she's going to marry
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  Speaker 11: Jim's brother next month.
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  Speaker 10: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 11: Well, I've been Jim Ralston's wife for six years. When
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  Speaker 11: Charlotte becomes a Ralston, she'll learn they're very exacting about
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  Speaker 11: some things.
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  Speaker 4: Go on.
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  Speaker 11: Doctor, is there any reason why Charlotte shouldn't marry Joseph Ralston?
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  Speaker 4: None whatever, so far as I know.
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  Speaker 11: I'm talking about her health. You remember about five years ago,
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  Speaker 11: she took a trip south. She was gone almost a year.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, a lung fever.
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  Speaker 16: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, but you may take my word, Delia, there's no
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  Speaker 4: danger of a recurrence. Charlotte is perfectly well.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, thank you, Doctor. I am relieved.
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  Speaker 11: But I thought she was looking badly lately, and I
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  Speaker 11: was afraid. Well, I imagine it was just overwork. I
• 14:35
  Speaker 11: don't see why she does it, really.
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  Speaker 4: You mean the nursery?
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  Speaker 11: Yes, taking a lot of strange children for charity's sake.
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  Speaker 11: Seems to me they'd be better off at their homes.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps, but she's doing a fine work, Delia, and she
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  Speaker 4: likes children.
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  Speaker 10: You go there often, don't you?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm going today, as a matter of fact. Charlotte
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  Speaker 4: asked me if I'd drop by and look at one
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  Speaker 4: of her little girls.
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  Speaker 11: Doctor, do you suppose she'll miss it after she's married?
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  Speaker 4: Miss the nursery?
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  Speaker 10: Because she'll have to give it up, of course. Joseph
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  Speaker 10: will insist.
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  Speaker 2: Will he?
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  Speaker 4: If I know Charlotte, my dear, she may do a
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  Speaker 4: little insisting herself.
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  Speaker 10: Good night, children. And remember, be early tomorrow. Good night, dear.
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  Speaker 10: Good night. Good night.
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  Speaker 11: Good night.
• 15:28
  Speaker 7: Bridget.
• 15:29
  Speaker 10: Bridget, where are you?
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: Come in, Miss Noble.
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: Tina, supper's on the table now. Oh, thank you, Bridget. Tina, dear,
• 15:35
  Speaker 10: your supper's ready.
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  Speaker 11: I want to play.
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  Speaker 10: I know you do, darling, but aren't you hungry? No, ma'am. Well,
• 15:42
  Speaker 10: just the same. You must eat. Now run along into
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  Speaker 10: the kitchen.
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  Speaker 12: All right.
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  Speaker 10: That's a good girl. Bridget, did you give Tina her
• 15:49
  Speaker 10: milk today? Oh, yes, ma'am. Thank you. I'm afraid Tina
• 15:53
  Speaker 10: needs more attention than the others. Yes, I noticed she
• 15:55
  Speaker 10: was a little pay kid.
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  Speaker 12: Well, it's not only that. She's had a cold, of course, but... Well,
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  Speaker 12: the chief difficulty is that she's very shy and... The
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  Speaker 12: other children like to tease her because... Well, because she's
• 16:06
  Speaker 12: a foundling.
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  Speaker 4: May I come in?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Dr.
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  Speaker 10: Lanskill, of course.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: I've brought some very distinguished guests to see you.
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  Speaker 10: Well, here, let me light the illuminating gas in the passage.
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  Speaker 11: Too late, Charlotte.
• 16:17
  Speaker 10: Delia. Well, how nice of you to come... And Joseph.
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  Speaker 2: Good evening, darling.
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  Speaker 13: I told Delia I was stopping by to see you
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  Speaker 13: and she wanted to come.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, not of her own free will. She's never been
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  Speaker 10: here before, you know. But that doesn't mean I haven't
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  Speaker 10: been interested, Charlotte. Of course not. Where are all the children?
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  Speaker 13: Oh, they must have gone by this time, haven't they, Charlotte?
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  Speaker 10: Well, all but one. She lives here with Bridget. She
• 16:39
  Speaker 10: lives here?
• 16:40
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 16:40
  Speaker 10: Oh, may we see her? Well, I... Oh, yes, of course. Bridget,
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: will you bring Tina in, please?
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: How is her cold, Charlotte?
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: Well, I thought you might look at her, Doctor. Oh,
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: come in, dear. This is Tina. Good evening, Tina. Don't
• 16:56
  Speaker 10: be shy, darling. This is Mrs. Ralston, Tina. Now, what
• 16:59
  Speaker 10: do you do? Creepy. That's right. Tina. Tina what?
• 17:04
  Speaker 11: What's your other name, child?
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: Clementina.
• 17:06
  Speaker 11: No, your other name.
• 17:08
  Speaker 10: She doesn't understand, dear.
• 17:09
  Speaker 11: How old are you, Clementina?
• 17:11
  Speaker 10: You're five, dear.
• 17:12
  Speaker 11: Five? And don't you know your parents' name, Clementina?
• 17:15
  Speaker 10: No, she doesn't.
• 17:17
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 17:20
  Speaker 10: Bridget, Bridget, you'd better take Tina now.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: Oh, no, let her stay a moment. Do you want
• 17:24
  Speaker 10: to stay, Tina?
• 17:25
  Speaker 11: Yes, ma'am, I'd like to stay.
• 17:26
  Speaker 10: If you do. Well, how affectionate.
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
• 17:30
  Speaker 10: I never saw you take to anybody like that before.
• 17:33
  Speaker 10: She's very sweet, isn't she? Tina, Bridget is waiting there.
• 17:36
  Speaker 10: Good night.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Good night.
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: Good night, Tina. Oh, she's a lovely child.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't worry about her cold, Charlotte. She looks much
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: better today. Delia, I'm afraid I've got to run. Can
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I drop you.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: At the house?
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: Oh, so soon? Well, if I must. Goodbye, Charlotte, dear. Goodbye, Delia,
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: and thank you for coming.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Good night, Charlotte.
• 17:55
  Speaker 10: Good night, Doctor. Are you coming, Joseph?
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: I'll see you later.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: All right.
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: Good night.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Well, are you ready, Charlotte?
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: To go? Oh, no, I have some things to do yet, Joseph.
• 18:04
  Speaker 13: Can't they wait, dear?
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: I'm afraid not.
• 18:06
  Speaker 13: Charlotte, do these children need all of your time?
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: Why, no, not all.
• 18:10
  Speaker 8: Why?
• 18:11
  Speaker 13: Well, I should think you could spare some for me.
• 18:13
  Speaker 13: I'm very jealous, Charlotte.
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: Jealous of my waifs? Oh, darling, you needn't be.
• 18:19
  Speaker 12: Why, you can give me what I want most for them.
• 18:21
  Speaker 13: What is that?
• 18:22
  Speaker 10: Your interest, your advice, your presence.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: My presence? Where?
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: Here, Joe, with me.
• 18:28
  Speaker 13: Charlotte, you're not really counting on still coming here every day.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: After we're married?
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: Why, certainly. It never occurred to me that I wouldn't.
• 18:36
  Speaker 13: It never occurred to me that you would.
• 18:37
  Speaker 10: Well, why shouldn't I?
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Why should you?
• 18:40
  Speaker 12: Well, you know, because of all these unfortunate children mean
• 18:44
  Speaker 12: to me, and all I mean to them, because it's
• 18:47
  Speaker 12: my duty.
• 18:47
  Speaker 8: Duty?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Duty.
• 18:48
  Speaker 13: A married woman's first duty is to her husband, her home.
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: Joseph, you mean... Because I'm making a good marriage, I.
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: I'm supposed to get rid of these poor darlings as
• 18:58
  Speaker 12: if they were dolls I'd finish playing with?
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: Oh, no, I can't. I won't.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: You refuse.
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: Well, they need me, Joseph.
• 19:03
  Speaker 13: And I need you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: Oh, but... It's not the same. I'd be giving them
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: only a little part of each day. Why can't I
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: do that?
• 19:11
  Speaker 13: Because people might think it odd. Oh, people... That.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: Shows you're a Ralston, Joe. Afraid of everything that everybody
• 19:17
  Speaker 10: else doesn't do.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Charlotte.
• 19:19
  Speaker 10: It's not fair of you to ask me to give
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: up these children.
• 19:21
  Speaker 13: Very well, it's not fair, but I ask it all
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: the same.
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: Joseph. Let's not talk anymore. Not now. Goodbye, Joseph.
• 19:31
  Speaker 13: Don't say that. After all, what I'm asking isn't much.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: You.
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: you'll see that. I'll be waiting for you to send
• 19:38
  Speaker 13: for me when you do see.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Tina. Tina.
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: Tina! Did you call, ma'am?
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Why, I.
• 19:49
  Speaker 12: Oh, no, I just wanted to see Tina to, uh...
• 19:54
  Speaker 12: to kiss her goodnight.
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: Here she is, ma'am.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: All ready for bed.
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: Goodnight, Tina.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: Goodnight.
• 20:02
  Speaker 10: Oh, my darling. My sweet little angel.
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: Who is it? Why, Charlotte, what are you doing here
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: at this hour?
• 20:22
  Speaker 10: May I speak to you, Delia? Well, certainly, darling.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: What's the matter?
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: Delia, I want you to help me.
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: Help you?
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: With Joe.
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: Delia, he wants me to give up my children. Oh, well,
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: of course he does. Not any man would.
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: But I can't.
• 20:35
  Speaker 11: I've told him I can't. Well, now, you must try
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: to be sensible, Charlotte. Whether you agree with Joe or not,
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: you must realize you'll never have another chance like this.
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: After all, one's own babies have the first claim.
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: That's just it. How can I give up my own baby? Yours.
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: Which of the poor waifs do you call your baby?
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: I call my baby my own baby, Delia. Your own? Yes,
• 20:59
  Speaker 10: my little girl, Tina.
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: No.
• 21:02
  Speaker 10: Yes, she's mine. She's mine, Delia. Oh, my poor darling. Oh, Charlotte.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: Tell me everything. What do you want me to tell you?
• 21:13
  Speaker 10: That's all you need to know.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: You.
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: You love someone. Oh, my poor Charlotte. I can't give
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: up my own baby, can I?
• 21:22
  Speaker 14: No.
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: I can't, Delia.
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: No, no, of course not.
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: We must think of some way.
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: Hold it.
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: Delia, if you could talk to Joseph. Persuade him to
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: know how I'm going to cover my going off at
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: my nursery.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Oh, please, dear.
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: Oh, don't cry like that. I'll do my best to
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: help you. Oh, dear, if only you can. If you
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: could just tell Joe. No, I couldn't. He'd never forgive
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: me for that. No, you're right.
• 21:42
  Speaker 11: You couldn't tell him, of course. Charlotte, when was it?
• 21:47
  Speaker 11: When you went south that time?
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: Yes, dear.
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: Then Dr. Lanskill knew, didn't he?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Yes, he was very kind to me. But he can't
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: help me now. You're the only one I can turn to, dear.
• 21:58
  Speaker 11: Oh, if I only knew what to do. If there
• 22:01
  Speaker 11: was only something I... Well, Charlotte, we're talking as if...
• 22:06
  Speaker 11: as if there weren't someone else to consider. Tina's father.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: Does he know?
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: No.
• 22:13
  Speaker 10: You never told him. Well, I couldn't. Why? Why, darling, you...
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: Because he's dead.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Dead?
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: Yes. Charlotte, don't you want to tell me who it was? Oh,
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: what does it matter, Delia? You wouldn't understand. But how
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: can I help you if you don't trust me? But
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: haven't I told you all you need to know? How
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: did he die? Was it six years ago? He was killed.
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: An accident. Delia. Clem. Clem Spender. Yes.
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: You and Clem Spender.
• 22:45
  Speaker 10: Oh, Charlotte, how could you?
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: When he didn't even pretend to love you.
• 22:49
  Speaker 10: Oh, I knew you wouldn't understand. I shouldn't have told you, Delia. No,
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: I don't understand.
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: Hadn't you any pride at all?
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: Well, you needn't be so contentious. I've never been sorry.
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: Not really sorry, Delia.
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: Now you've come to me. Well, what do you expect
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: me to do?
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: Oh, have you forgotten so soon that you were going
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: to help me? Well, what can I do?
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: Do you think you can marry Joe with a thing
• 23:11
  Speaker 11: like that on your conscience?
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: But what he doesn't know, what nobody knows can't hurt him, Delia.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: And I'll make up for it in other ways. Oh,
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: he won't be sorry he married me.
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: But you don't love him as much as you love
• 23:20
  Speaker 11: Clem Spender.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: Well, I.
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: I love him differently, perhaps. As you love Jim. Oh, differently.
• 23:28
  Speaker 10: And I need Joe's love.
• 23:30
  Speaker 11: Well, I don't know what to say.
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: I can't think.
• 23:34
  Speaker 11: You must give me time.
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: No, there is no time, Delia. I must decide now, tonight,
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: and I can't think either. Oh, please, Delia, do something.
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: Whatever you do, you can't make things worse.
• 23:44
  Speaker 11: Whatever happens, you'll have to trust me. Leave it entirely
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: in my hands to do as I think best.
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: Yes. Yes, I trust you, Delia.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: That was the first act of The Old Maid. Act
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: two sets the course that determines the rest of Charlotte's life.
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: But during this intermission, Mr. Ruick has a short presentation
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: for you.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Before our stars Loretta Young and Miriam Hopkins return in
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: act two of The Old Maid... Let's hear what our
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: trio have on their minds this evening.
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: Hello, Mr.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Ruick.
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: What's on your mind?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Hello, girls.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I've been wanting to ask you
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: what it was you were humming just before the show tonight.
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: Oh, everyone's humming it, Mr.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Ruick.
• 24:40
  Speaker 10: It's called In an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Room.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes.
• 24:43
  Speaker 17: It's a very romantic song about two old-fashioned lovers, the
• 24:47
  Speaker 17: man in silk and lace and the girl.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, the girl.
• 24:50
  Speaker 13: What was she like?
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Is one thing that we know.
• 24:59
  Speaker 18: This lovely girl of long ago must have had a
• 25:06
  Speaker 18: smooth complexion. It is natural to assume For she was
• 25:11
  Speaker 18: enchanting in that 18th century drawing room.
• 25:16
  Speaker 19: He was in love with her And it's the same
• 25:20
  Speaker 19: today Gentlemen still prefer Beautiful skin, they say Nothing else
• 25:28
  Speaker 19: can compare No other charm can win And you'll have
• 25:34
  Speaker 19: charm to spare If you have lovely.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Skin Why, girls, you've turned the description of a beautiful
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: girl in an 18th century drawing room right into a
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: message to girls in 20th century living rooms.
• 25:48
  Speaker 17: Well, we want to remind them how lucky they are
• 25:51
  Speaker 17: to have swift, easy complexion care.
• 25:53
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• 25:56
  Speaker 13: Most women do, because Luxe Toilet Soap is real beauty soap.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: It makes your skin feel so much softer and smoother.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: That's because Luxe Toilet Soap Active Lather removes every bit
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: of dust and dirt that might otherwise remain to choke
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: your pores. Active lather gives you the protection of perfect cleansing.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: And every woman knows how important that is to complexion beauty.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: Don't take any chances on losing your complexion appeal. Use
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the soap that nine out of ten famous Hollywood stars
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: use every day.
• 26:26
  Speaker 17: And never forget that three-minute luxe toilet soap complexion care
• 26:29
  Speaker 17: at bedtime. Smooth, soft skin is so important to your appearance,
• 26:34
  Speaker 17: your charm.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Why don't you decide now to get three cakes of gentle, white,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: luxe toilet soap tomorrow?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Our producer, Mr. DeMille.
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: Act II of The Old Maid, starring Miriam Hopkins as
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: Delia and Loretta Young as Charlotte, with Helen Wood as Tina.
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: Only a few minutes have passed. Shocked and jealous at
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: the news that Tina is the child of Charlotte and
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Clem Spender, Delia is determined to break up the marriage.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: downstairs in the dim candlelight of the drawing room, she
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: faces Joseph Ralston, but cannot bring herself to tell him
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: the truth.
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: Perhaps in her place, Joseph, I'd feel exactly as she does.
• 27:24
  Speaker 11: And since it seems to be a matter of deciding
• 27:26
  Speaker 11: between you and the children, well, I don't see what
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: you can do if she chooses them.
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: If she chooses them, it's because she thinks she's doing
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: what is right. In that case, I must be the
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: one to give in.
• 27:36
  Speaker 10: Joseph.
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: You mean you've decided that Charlotte's to do exactly as
• 27:40
  Speaker 11: she likes in this matter?
• 27:41
  Speaker 13: Exactly as she likes, so long as she doesn't overtax
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: her strength. And I'm going to tell her so at once.
• 27:45
  Speaker 11: No.
• 27:46
  Speaker 10: It's no use.
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: What?
• 27:49
  Speaker 11: It's no use. You were talking just now about her health.
• 27:54
  Speaker 11: I tell you, Charlotte can't marry you. She can't marry anyone.
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: I don't understand you.
• 27:59
  Speaker 11: Charlotte's ill. She's coughing again. You know what that means.
• 28:02
  Speaker 11: She can't marry anyone, I tell you.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Ill?
• 28:04
  Speaker 8: Ill.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: But why.
• 28:06
  Speaker 13: why wasn't I told at once?
• 28:07
  Speaker 10: Well, because... because....
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: Well, such things aren't easy to tell.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Charlotte Ill.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Good evening. Fine concert tonight, Delia. You should have been there.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: Is something wrong?
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: Dr.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Lanskill.
• 28:24
  Speaker 15: Yes?
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: When Charlotte went south five years ago... It was for
• 28:27
  Speaker 13: lung fever, wasn't it? I thought everyone knew that, Joe.
• 28:30
  Speaker 13: That disease is in her family, isn't it? Everyone knows that, too.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Why do you ask?
• 28:35
  Speaker 13: Suppose she began coughing again.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Has she coughed?
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: What would it mean? It would be a very bad sign,
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: of course.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: That's all. Good night. What did he mean, Delia?
• 28:49
  Speaker 11: He's not going to marry her.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: But I.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: I don't understand this.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: Dr.
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: Lanscale, Charlotte didn't go south because of her health. I
• 28:56
  Speaker 11: know why she went. That's why she mustn't marry Joe.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Who decided that?
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: I did.
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: With or without her consent?
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: Without.
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: Without.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: You've taken a great deal on yourself, Delia.
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: You think I've done wrong?
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: I think it's a sacrilegious thing to lay so much
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: as a finger on another person's destiny.
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: But she came to.
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: Me herself to beg me to help her so she
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: wouldn't have to give up her child. This was the
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: only way. And I can make it up to her.
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: I'll take the baby into my own home.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Delia.
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: And Charlotte, too.
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: We'll have a proper home here. Clem Spender's child must
• 29:29
  Speaker 11: have every advantage.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Clem Spender's child. I think I understand.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: Dr.
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: Lanscombe.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: You're right.
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: I've done a sacrilegious thing.
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: Deliberately.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: The wisest of us make mistakes, my dear. Sometimes we
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: never learn whether or not they were mistakes. I hope
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: yours wasn't.
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: Delia. Delia, did you speak to Joseph?
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: Charlotte, you can't marry Joe, can you? And keep little Tina.
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: Well, not keep her with me, no, but... Oh, Delia.
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: You're trying to tell me I must give her up.
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: I promised to help you, didn't I? But I didn't
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: promise that you should marry Joe, too. Well, I've done
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: the best I could. You and little Tina shall be
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: together always.
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: But Joe, you didn't... You didn't tell him, Delia. I
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: couldn't bear that. What did you tell him?
• 30:38
  Speaker 11: That you were coughing again.
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: Oh, Delia.
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: Well, I had to tell him something. If you were
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: to keep the child, the engagement had to be broken.
• 30:47
  Speaker 10: So you frightened him away. I see.
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: He's dreadfully unhappy, but he accepts your decision.
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: My decision? Well, mine then.
• 30:56
  Speaker 11: And if I don't accept your decision, what if I
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: tell him the truth? What if he should say he'd
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: forgive me? If there'd been any hope of that, would
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: you have come to me? Oh, give up these foolish thoughts, Charlotte,
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: and try to realize what it's going to mean to
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: be with your child always.
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: That's what you wanted most, isn't it? Well, yes, but.
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: Well, I've done what I could. I've spoken to Jim
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: about it. You're to come here.
• 31:16
  Speaker 10: You and Tina.
• 31:18
  Speaker 16: Here?
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: In this house?
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: Yes. Oh.
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: But not as her mother.
• 31:25
  Speaker 11: Well, that would be impossible. She must never know. You
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: realize that, don't you?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 31:32
  Speaker 10: Yes, I do. Don't, Charlotte. Don't. Everything will be all right.
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: Oh, I promise you. Don't.
• 31:48
  Speaker 20: You understand me.
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: Tina must have the best of schooling. The very best.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Certainly, Mrs.
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: Rawson. She must be treated as my own daughter. Of course.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: That's London and Rome. I think that's sufficient for Miss
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: Tina's first trip abroad.
• 32:03
  Speaker 10: It will do nicely, Mr. Harvey. Thank you. Oh, Nora, you've.
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: Forgotten one of the candles on Miss Tina's birthday cake.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Why, she'd never forgive.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Me, Mom.
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: Eighteen, of course.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Ah, Tina plays beautifully, doesn't she? Charlotte, did you hear me?
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: Yes, Doctor.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I was saying, Tina plays very well.
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: Yes, she does. But you'll be late for the ball
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: unless you start soon.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: You know, when you consider how pleasant life is in
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: this house, you must feel a deep satisfaction in having
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: managed to give Tina such a home.
• 32:50
  Speaker 12: If Tina's life has been pleasant in this house, it's
• 32:52
  Speaker 12: Delia who's made it so, not I.
• 32:55
  Speaker 10: She calls Delia mother.
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: We won't talk of your own sacrifices for the child, Charlotte.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: But Delia's done her best, too.
• 33:02
  Speaker 12: Her best to spoil her from the day Jim died
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: 12 years ago. There's nothing now, nothing at all that
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: Tina doesn't have or can't have... I asked him for it.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, I must be going.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Doctor, are you leaving?
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Yes, Delia, I have a patient to see on my
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: way home.
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: Good night, Doctor.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, Tina, let me see you. You're very beautiful tonight.
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: We're going to a ball.
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: Dr.
• 33:26
  Speaker 10: Lanskill, you know Lanning.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course. How do you do, sir? May I
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: help you with your coat?
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Well, good night, all.
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: Good night, Doctor.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: Tina?
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: Yes, Aunt Charlotte.
• 33:38
  Speaker 12: Tina, the carriage has been waiting for 20 minutes and
• 33:40
  Speaker 12: horses don't like standing on a cold night like this.
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: They're going now, Charlotte. Yes, we're just going.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if we're late at a ball.
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: It's not unbecoming to anyone to make a habit of
• 33:48
  Speaker 10: being on time.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 33:50
  Speaker 14: The early bird catches the worm. Take care of the
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: Tina, I see nothing to laugh at. People who have
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: no regard for punctuality usually have no regard for other things.
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: Aunt Charlotte, please. Must you always find fault with me?
• 34:06
  Speaker 10: You're not perfection, my child. I know I'm not perfect. Tina, dear,
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: you'd better go.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: I'll wait outside, Tina.
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: Very well. Oh, Mother, I wish you were coming, too.
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: But this is a young people's ball, darling. You're young, Mother,
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: and Aunt Charlotte doesn't mind being alone. Tina, please. Mother,
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: do you like my hair like this? Lanning said it's lovely.
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: I hope everyone likes it. Tina, why must you always
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: think that people are interested in you? Why shouldn't I?
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: Aren't they?
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: My dear, what will people think of you if you
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: talk like that?
• 34:33
  Speaker 10: Just what she deserves, probably. Mother, tell Aunt Charlotte to
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: stop finding fault in me.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: Tina! Tina!
• 34:38
  Speaker 10: Someone must find fault sometimes. You think Mother spoils me,
• 34:41
  Speaker 10: but she doesn't.
• 34:42
  Speaker 11: It's just that she understands me while you don't.
• 34:44
  Speaker 10: Tina, don't speak to Aunt.
• 34:45
  Speaker 11: Mother knows what it is to be young and have
• 34:47
  Speaker 11: everyone fond of her while you.
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: Tina, now go. Good night, Mother. Good night. And don't
• 34:53
  Speaker 10: be too late.
• 34:58
  Speaker 12: I suppose you felt you had to scold Hina because
• 35:00
  Speaker 12: of the way she spoke to me.
• 35:02
  Speaker 10: I wanted to realize what it is to be respectful.
• 35:06
  Speaker 10: She thinks I can't understand her because she considers me
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: an old maid. Shut up.
• 35:09
  Speaker 12: Yes, a ridiculous, narrow-minded old maid. What else can she
• 35:13
  Speaker 12: ever think of me?
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: Oh, my dear. Oh, you needn't pity me. She's really mine.
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: I do scold her. But I don't want to be
• 35:22
  Speaker 10: hard on her.
• 35:24
  Speaker 12: As it is, I always practice what I'm going to
• 35:25
  Speaker 12: say to her if it's anything important. so I'll sound
• 35:28
  Speaker 12: like an old maid aunt talking.
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: And not a mother. I know, Charlotte.
• 35:32
  Speaker 16: I know.
• 35:35
  Speaker 10: Delia, have you noticed that Tina has changed? Changed? Since when?
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: How?
• 35:41
  Speaker 10: Since Lanning Halsey has been coming here so often.
• 35:44
  Speaker 11: It's very natural for him to come often. He's very
• 35:46
  Speaker 11: much in love with her.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:48
  Speaker 11: But do you dislike him? I mean, as a husband
• 35:50
  Speaker 11: for Tina.
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: Tina cannot afford to pick and choose.
• 35:53
  Speaker 11: But there's nothing against Lanning, is there? Except that he
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: seems uncertain as to his choice of a profession. Uncertainty
• 36:00
  Speaker 11: about a profession may cause uncertainty about other things, too.
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: I don't understand you, Charlotte. He hasn't asked Tina to
• 36:06
  Speaker 10: marry him. How could he?
• 36:08
  Speaker 12: He earns nothing, and his allowance will be stopped if
• 36:10
  Speaker 12: he marries against his parents' wishes.
• 36:11
  Speaker 10: Oh, but Charlotte, you.
• 36:12
  Speaker 12: Unfortunately, Delia, my girl has no fortune and no name.
• 36:16
  Speaker 12: And every careful mother we know has warned her son
• 36:18
  Speaker 12: against becoming interested. But after all, Tina's happy with us.
• 36:21
  Speaker 12: She doesn't need to marry anyone.
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: Tina, an old maid?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Never.
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: My child shall have her life.
• 36:28
  Speaker 11: Oh, Charlotte, why do you twist my words? I mean
• 36:30
  Speaker 11: that Tina's young. She isn't 20 yet.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: She can wait.
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: No. We've waited long enough. What are you thinking of, Charlotte?
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: What are you going to do?
• 36:42
  Speaker 10: I don't know. You'd better go to bed, Delia. There's
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: no need in both of us waiting up for her,
• 36:47
  Speaker 10: and it's my duty, not yours. Very well. Good night, Charlotte.
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: Good night. She'll come home late. Probably walk through the snow.
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: What, Tina?
• 37:10
  Speaker 12: You walked home with Lennon? Why, you imprudent child in
• 37:13
  Speaker 12: this wet snow. You shouldn't do these things, Tina. You
• 37:20
  Speaker 12: were always a delicate child. Do you know how late
• 37:23
  Speaker 12: it is?
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: Tina.
• 37:23
  Speaker 20: Shh.
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: You must go, Lanny.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Not yet.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: No one's about.
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: This is very wicked of us.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: I don't know. Oh, Lenny, I loved it. The snow
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: and the moonlight and icy trees in the square. And
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: being with you at last all alone. What are you doing?
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: I'm taking off your wet slippers. I loved it, too.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: But I should have taken better care of you just
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: the same.
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: Oh, silly.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: Now for the other foot.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Both little feet have to be warm or little Tina
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: may be ill.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, Tina.
• 38:09
  Speaker 10: What if you should die?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: You won't, will you?
• 38:13
  Speaker 13: Promise not to.
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: Oh, Lenny, you silly.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Tina.
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: Oh, darling. Tina.
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: That's the first time. And I shall never kiss anyone
• 38:25
  Speaker 10: but you.
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: Ever.
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: Tina. And surely... Do you know what time it is?
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Loveline.
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: I was speaking to Tina. Aunt Charlotte, stop. Tina.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: Oh, Mother.
• 38:35
  Speaker 11: I've not been able to sleep.
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: I heard you come in. It's late. I know. I'm sorry.
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: You'd better go now, Vanny.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, Mrs.
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: Rolston.
• 38:41
  Speaker 10: Don't scold him.
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: This is Tina's fault, not his. Any boy would have
• 38:45
  Speaker 12: done the same if she'd permitted it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: No, no.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: It's not her fault.
• 38:47
  Speaker 10: Delia.
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: Tell him not to come here again. It's your house
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: or I'd tell him myself. And surely take that back. Mother,
• 38:53
  Speaker 11: tell Lanning he's to come when he wants to.
• 38:55
  Speaker 10: Tell him, Mother. It is your house, not hers.
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Don't bother, Mrs.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Ralston.
• 38:59
  Speaker 14: I'm going away soon in a week, probably. So it
• 39:01
  Speaker 14: doesn't matter very much whether I'm forbidden this door or not.
• 39:03
  Speaker 14: I'd only have come again to say goodbye in any case.
• 39:06
  Speaker 10: Goodbye?
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Tina.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: Lanning!
• 39:12
  Speaker 10: You see? You see what she's done, Mother? She's driven
• 39:15
  Speaker 10: Lanning away. Oh, no, my child. I've not driven him away.
• 39:18
  Speaker 12: If he's not coming here again, it's because he finds
• 39:20
  Speaker 12: it awkward when he has no intention of marrying a
• 39:22
  Speaker 12: girl who is so.
• 39:23
  Speaker 10: Free with her kisses. That's not true.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: That's not true.
• 39:28
  Speaker 10: You know it's true. Your aunt's right, Tina.
• 39:30
  Speaker 11: If Lanny goes, it's because he doesn't care as much for.
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: You as you think.
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: But he would have cared if she'd not driven him away.
• 39:36
  Speaker 10: I'd have made him care.
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: And now I can't.
• 39:42
  Speaker 10: Now he's gone.
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: And I'll never forgive her.
• 39:45
  Speaker 17: Never.
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: I won't.
• 39:47
  Speaker 10: You've no business to meddle, Aunt Charlotte.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Go to your room, Tina.
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: I'm going.
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: But before I do, she's.
• 39:51
  Speaker 11: Got to know that I'm sick of her fault-finding and
• 39:53
  Speaker 11: her spying and her meddling.
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: You can say what you please to me, Mother, because
• 39:57
  Speaker 10: you understand me and I love you, but.
• 40:00
  Speaker 11: She's only a sour old maid who hates me because
• 40:03
  Speaker 11: I'm young and attractive and alive while she's old and
• 40:07
  Speaker 11: hideous and dried up.
• 40:09
  Speaker 10: And has never known anything about love. I won't have
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: her interfering with my life, I tell you.
• 40:13
  Speaker 17: I won't have it!
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: Oh, shut up.
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: I'm so terribly sorry. This has gone on long enough.
• 40:27
  Speaker 10: I see my mistake now and I mean to remedy it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 10: Your mistake? You've been good to us, Delia. But I
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: understand my duty now. If I am to save my child,
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: I must take her away. Charlotte, what are you saying?
• 40:39
  Speaker 12: I must take Tina away from here. We must go
• 40:41
  Speaker 12: somewhere where we're not known. Where we shall live among
• 40:43
  Speaker 12: plain people leading plain lives. Where she can find herself
• 40:46
  Speaker 12: a husband and make herself a home.
• 40:48
  Speaker 10: You take Tina away from me now. I'm not ungrateful, Delia.
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: Oh, don't speak of gratitude. What does it matter whether
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: you're grateful or not?
• 40:54
  Speaker 10: It's Tina I'm thinking of. Of course it's Tina you're
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: thinking of. Tina and Clem Spender.
• 41:00
  Speaker 11: You're insane, Charlotte. I've not thought of Clem Spender for years. Oh,
• 41:04
  Speaker 11: but you have.
• 41:05
  Speaker 10: You have, Delia. You've thought of him and thinking of Tina.
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: A woman never stops thinking of the man she loves.
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: You can't forgive me because Clem Spender didn't quite break
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: his heart over you.
• 41:15
  Speaker 11: That's why you like keeping me at your mercy and
• 41:17
  Speaker 11: taking his child from me. And suppose that's true. She's
• 41:20
  Speaker 11: your child, too. And to take her away now from
• 41:22
  Speaker 11: the life you've made such a sacrifice to give her,
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: that would be too cruel. Even more cruel to her
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: than to me.
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: What's ahead for her here, Delia?
• 41:30
  Speaker 12: For a girl without a name or a penny among
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: cautious people like the Hawleys and their kind?
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: You've done all you could for her. But you see
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: what's come of it so far. Now I.
• 41:37
  Speaker 11: No, I've not done all I could. But I'm going
• 41:40
  Speaker 11: to if you'll let me. I'll adopt Tina legally.
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: Adopt her? How could that help? I'll give her my name,
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: the Ralston name, and my money. No, I refuse. How
• 41:51
  Speaker 10: can you refuse?
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: How can you sacrifice Tina's happiness to your pride?
• 41:54
  Speaker 10: My pride? Why, what pride have I accepted my child?
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: Then you are going to sacrifice her when she might
• 41:59
  Speaker 11: have everything she wants, even landing Halsey for her husband.
• 42:02
  Speaker 11: It's just as she said. He will love her if
• 42:04
  Speaker 11: she wants him to. And if she has money of
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: her own in my name, why, the Halses wouldn't dare
• 42:08
  Speaker 11: find her a bad match for their son. Charlotte, give
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: her this chance. What mother wouldn't? If Lanning takes her
• 42:15
  Speaker 11: away from us both, well, it won't be like.
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: Really giving her up.
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: Couldn't we just go on loving her together?
• 42:23
  Speaker 10: Oh, couldn't we, Charlotte?
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: Mother, are you coming up?
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: I've been waiting for you.
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: Charlotte.
• 42:33
  Speaker 13: Go up to her.
• 42:36
  Speaker 10: You're her mother now.
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: The curtain falls on the second act of The Old Maid.
• 42:55
  Speaker 6: But the love Charlotte feels for her child cannot be
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: denied so easily, as we see in a moment when
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: our stars return for Act Three. Right now, here's a
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: gentleman with a brief and pointed message.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Miriam Hopkins, Loretta Young, and Helen Wood will be back
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: in a moment for the third act of The Old Maid.
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: But before they do, I'd like to tell you about
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: some conversational bridge that I overheard the other day.
• 43:17
  Speaker 10: Conversational bridge? Why, what's that, Mr.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Rui?
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Well, my wife was having a bridge party, but the
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: ladies didn't seem.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: To be playing cards.
• 43:25
  Speaker 10: Of course, I'm crazy about Irene Dunn. Did you see
• 43:28
  Speaker 10: her in When Tomorrow Comes? She always looks so pretty. Um,
• 43:32
  Speaker 10: I'll bid her heart.
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: I'll pass.
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: She is lovely, but my favorite is Madeline Carroll. Wait
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: till you see her in Honeymoon in Bali.
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: What beautiful hair and skin, even in the close-ups.
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: Sure bid, dear.
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: But did Jane bid hearts or clubs?
• 43:44
  Speaker 12: Say, for sheer gorgeousness, you want to see Joan Bennett
• 43:46
  Speaker 12: in The Man in the Iron Mask.
• 43:48
  Speaker 10: Can that girl wear stunning costumes? Well, anyone as good-looking
• 43:51
  Speaker 10: as she is can wear a bungalow apron and look
• 43:53
  Speaker 10: like a million. See here, girls, can't we just review
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: the bidding a minute?
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: You see, no matter where you are, you'll hear women
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: discussing the screen stars. They admire them, often follow their
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: lead in the kind of clothes they wear or the
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: beauty care they use. The makers of Lux Toilet Soap
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: take real pride in the fact that nine out of
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: ten screen stars use Lux Toilet Soap. And they're just
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: as proud of the fact that thousands of charming women
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: all over the country agree with the stars that fine
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: white Luxe toilet soap is the right soap for their complexions.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Now here's the reason Luxe toilet soap gives your skin
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: such gentle, beautiful care. It has active lather that removes
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: dust and dirt, every trace of stale cosmetics. Active lather
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: gives your skin the protection of thorough, perfect cleansing. It
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: isn't only screen stars who must pass close-up tests. Every
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: woman knows that the eyes of her friends, the eyes
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: of those who love her, notice how she looks. They
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: notice whether her skin is smooth and clear or dull
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: and unattractive. Use cosmetics all you wish, but don't take
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: chances with improper, careless cleansing. Use Luxe toilet soap regularly,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: every day. Make it your bedtime beauty care. You want
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: your skin to stay smooth and lovely because it's nice
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: to hear people say how attractive she is. Start your
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: luxe toilet soap care tomorrow, won't you? We pause now
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. We
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: continue with Act Three of The Old Maid.
• 45:52
  Speaker 6: Months have gone by, and Delia's plans for Tina have
• 45:55
  Speaker 6: borne fruit. It's June now, the evening before Tina's marriage
• 45:59
  Speaker 6: to Lanning. In the drawing room, the last preparations for
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: the wedding are being made.
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: Everything's done that can be done tonight. I've been to
• 46:07
  Speaker 10: the kitchen. I've told Melissa Grimes she'd better count on, oh,
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: 200 plates of ice cream. I can't think of anything else.
• 46:13
  Speaker 10: Neither can I. Aunt Charlotte, you've been wonderful. Hasn't she, Dr. Lanscoe?
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: Very.
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: And personally, I think the only thing left is to
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: go to bed. You must be tired, Charlotte.
• 46:23
  Speaker 10: The bride's the one who should be sent to bed.
• 46:26
  Speaker 10: Say goodnight, Tina. Yes, Tina. You should go to bed now.
• 46:29
  Speaker 10: But I'm not sleepy, Mother. You can rest, whether you
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: sleep or not. Yes, you should go up now, Tina.
• 46:33
  Speaker 10: All right, but will you come up and say goodnight to.
• 46:35
  Speaker 17: Me, Mother?
• 46:36
  Speaker 10: Of course. Because tonight... Oh, Mother, I'm so happy. Too happy.
• 46:42
  Speaker 10: Too happy, dear. You know, Dr.
• 46:43
  Speaker 12: Lanskill-Lanning says we've all been straws whirling around on a
• 46:47
  Speaker 12: sunlit torrent ever since Mother adopted me and his parents
• 46:50
  Speaker 12: said he might get married. They've been sweet to me,
• 46:53
  Speaker 12: but His mother hadn't cared enough for me to give
• 46:56
  Speaker 12: me her name and the money.
• 46:58
  Speaker 10: They'd have not wanted him to care either. Oh, nonsense. Oh,
• 47:00
  Speaker 10: I know, Mother. I know what I owe you. I
• 47:02
  Speaker 10: owe you everything. You know, I used to wonder who
• 47:06
  Speaker 10: I really was, but I don't care now. I'd rather
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: have you for my mother than anyone in the world. Oh, Tina, dear,
• 47:11
  Speaker 10: stop chattering. I must see about the doilies. Excuse me, Doctor.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 47:16
  Speaker 11: Tina, you mustn't run on so before your Aunt Charlotte.
• 47:19
  Speaker 11: She's done just as much for you as anyone.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think, Dr.
• 47:24
  Speaker 10: Lanscoe?
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  Speaker 14: Aunt Charlotte gave me all her grandmother's jewels.
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're a lucky girl. I've seen them.
• 47:29
  Speaker 10: I know I am. And my wedding veil. She wanted
• 47:32
  Speaker 10: me to wear the wedding dress that she was going
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: to wear once, too, and didn't. It seems odd to
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: think that anyone ever wanted to marry Aunt Charlotte. Tina,
• 47:41
  Speaker 10: you must go off to bed. Now hurry, dear. All
• 47:43
  Speaker 10: the same, I won't go to sleep until you've come
• 47:45
  Speaker 10: in and said good night. I told you I'd come.
• 47:46
  Speaker 10: Now run along. Good night, Dr. Lanscoe.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: Good night. I must go, too.
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  Speaker 8: Good night.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: You know, I think poor Charlotte is happy at last.
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: I hope so.
• 47:57
  Speaker 11: Doctor, I know you thought I took too much on
• 47:59
  Speaker 11: myself when I kept Charlotte from marrying Jules that time.
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: I've not forgotten what you said about meddling with another
• 48:05
  Speaker 11: person's destiny.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: But I know that you've paid for your mistake, if
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: it was a mistake. Good night, my dear.
• 48:13
  Speaker 10: Thank you. Good night, Dr. Lanscott.
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: Delia?
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: Yes, Charlotte?
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: You're going up now to speak to Tina?
• 48:25
  Speaker 14: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: Unless there's something you want to talk to me about first,
• 48:28
  Speaker 11: I told her I'd go up to her.
• 48:30
  Speaker 10: I understand. But please understand me, too, if I ask
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: you not to.
• 48:34
  Speaker 11: No, I don't understand you, Charlotte. Surely you realize on
• 48:37
  Speaker 11: the night before her wedding, a girl ought to have
• 48:39
  Speaker 11: a mother's counsel.
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: Naturally. That's why I must be the one to talk
• 48:43
  Speaker 10: to Tina tonight. Just tonight, I am her mother.
• 48:46
  Speaker 11: Charlotte, you're not going to tell her that.
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: Not now. You hate me so much for it is
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: all that. Hate you? Oh, what a word to use
• 48:55
  Speaker 10: between us.
• 48:56
  Speaker 12: It's a word that's been between us since the beginning, Delia.
• 48:59
  Speaker 12: You hated me from the moment you knew that I
• 49:01
  Speaker 12: was the mother of Clem Spender's child.
• 49:03
  Speaker 10: And there's been hate between us ever since.
• 49:05
  Speaker 12: Because his child is mine instead of yours.
• 49:08
  Speaker 11: I realize now that you believe I've hated you because
• 49:10
  Speaker 11: you've hated me. Hated me in spite of everything I've.
• 49:13
  Speaker 10: Tried to do. Nothing was for me, Delia. It was
• 49:16
  Speaker 10: all for Clem Spender and his child. Charlotte, I.
• 49:20
  Speaker 11: lives are over and so is Clem Spender's but Tina's
• 49:23
  Speaker 11: is ahead of her and if you love her as
• 49:25
  Speaker 11: I love her you couldn't stand there and talk of
• 49:27
  Speaker 11: hatred not hear of where the very air is filled
• 49:30
  Speaker 11: with her happiness tonight oh it's wicked of you Charlotte
• 49:33
  Speaker 11: it's wicked I'm not wicked I wouldn't have done to
• 49:35
  Speaker 11: you what you've done to me From the beginning, you've
• 49:38
  Speaker 11: deliberately divided me from my daughter.
• 49:40
  Speaker 10: Do you suppose it's been easy all these years to
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: hear her call you mother? You perpetually came between us.
• 49:45
  Speaker 10: If you hadn't, she'd had no one else to turn
• 49:48
  Speaker 10: to but me. She'd have had to love me. And
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: that's why I can talk of hatred.
• 49:53
  Speaker 12: That's why tonight, just tonight, she belongs to me.
• 49:56
  Speaker 10: And that's why I won't let her call anyone else
• 49:59
  Speaker 10: mother tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Very well.
• 50:03
  Speaker 10: I won't go up to her. And if you want
• 50:05
  Speaker 10: her to know the truth about her birth... It's your
• 50:08
  Speaker 10: right to tell her that, too. I suppose you imagine
• 50:11
  Speaker 10: it'll be a tragedy for Tina to learn that she's
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: my daughter. Well, we shall see.
• 50:16
  Speaker 8: Oh, Charlotte.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: Who is it?
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: Who is it?
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: Is that you, Mother?
• 50:43
  Speaker 10: Charlotte, did you tell her? Did you?
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: No.
• 50:49
  Speaker 10: She's waiting for you. Charlotte.
• 50:53
  Speaker 15: I couldn't, after all. I stood outside her door. I
• 50:58
  Speaker 15: tried to think of something to say to her without
• 51:01
  Speaker 15: her guessing. There's nothing I can say. You're the mother
• 51:07
  Speaker 15: she wants. Go up to her, Delia.
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: It's not your fault.
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, mine. Oh, Charlotte.
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: After all, she was mine when she was little. Good night, Lina.
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, Charlotte. Tina.
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: Come in, Mother. I've been waiting for you. Tina.
• 51:37
  Speaker 11: Do you want to do something that will make me
• 51:39
  Speaker 11: very happy?
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: Anything, darling.
• 51:41
  Speaker 11: Then find your Aunt Charlotte. She's just gone to her room.
• 51:45
  Speaker 11: And when you found her, remember this. She didn't marry
• 51:49
  Speaker 11: a man who loved her very much and who would
• 51:51
  Speaker 11: have given her everything she wanted because she wouldn't give
• 51:54
  Speaker 11: you up.
• 51:56
  Speaker 10: That's why she's no maid.
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 52:00
  Speaker 10: Why didn't anyone ever tell me that before?
• 52:02
  Speaker 11: Well, sometimes... Sometimes people don't think. Sometimes they're selfish.
• 52:10
  Speaker 10: But you remember.
• 52:12
  Speaker 11: You try to make her glad of the choice she
• 52:14
  Speaker 11: made without letting her know I asked you to.
• 52:17
  Speaker 10: I've always been so horrid. And there's one thing more. Yes?
• 52:23
  Speaker 11: When you go away tomorrow, at the very last moment,
• 52:26
  Speaker 11: you understand, after you've said goodbye to me and to
• 52:28
  Speaker 11: everyone else, just as Lanning helps you into the carriage.
• 52:32
  Speaker 10: Yes?
• 52:33
  Speaker 11: Lean down and give your last kiss to Aunt Charlotte.
• 52:39
  Speaker 10: Don't forget it. The very last.
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: I won't forget.
• 52:44
  Speaker 10: And I'll go to her now.
• 52:47
  Speaker 20: Aunt Charlotte?
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 52:52
  Speaker 10: Aunt Charlotte? You didn't come to say goodnight to me. No, Tina,
• 52:56
  Speaker 10: I didn't. I thought... So I've come to you. Goodnight. And, oh,
• 53:01
  Speaker 10: Aunt Charlotte, I'm so grateful for everything. And I love
• 53:07
  Speaker 10: you so very, very much. Thank you.
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: Tina. Oh, Tina. Tina.
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: The curtain falls on the third act of The Old Maid.
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: In a moment, our stars, Loretta Young and Miriam Hopkins,
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: are returning for a curtain call. First, however, I'd like
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: you to meet the author of tonight's play. There are
• 53:51
  Speaker 6: two groups of playwrights who've contributed to the vitality of
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: the American theater. The first group is made up of
• 53:56
  Speaker 6: those who write one successful play and are never heard
• 53:58
  Speaker 6: from again. In the other category are those who've written
• 54:02
  Speaker 6: not one, but many hits. Writers like Zoe Akins, author
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: of The Old Maid, and our special guest tonight. At
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: the last count, she had seen 22 of her plays produced.
• 54:12
  Speaker 6: And there's a brand new one called Starvation on Red River,
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: soon due on Broadway.
• 54:17
  Speaker 10: Mr.
• 54:17
  Speaker 6: Higgins, you should be used to taking curtain calls by now.
• 54:22
  Speaker 10: Unfortunately, there are not always curtain calls, Mr. DeMille.
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: Sometimes one looks round for the closest exit and runs
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: instead of walks.
• 54:31
  Speaker 20: Hmm.
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: But I do remember one night, the first time I
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: heard an audience shout author and found myself somehow out
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: on a stage. I don't know exactly what I said now,
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: but it must have been something intensely original, like a
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: thank you, not being exactly a silver-tongued orator. And I
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: do remember also the little speech the producer made afterwards
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: in the wings. This is wonderful, he said, if that
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: audience is.
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: On the level.
• 55:02
  Speaker 6: You say you're not a silver-tongued orator, Miss Akins. And
• 55:05
  Speaker 6: I've noticed as far as politics and economics are concerned,
• 55:08
  Speaker 6: you keep your characters off the.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: Stump, too.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: Yes, I've never gone in for propaganda in my plays.
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: That's a rare virtue, when so many dramatists are going
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: in for propaganda instead of plays.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: You regard the theater solely as a place for entertainment, then?
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: Oh, not at all.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: I think good entertainment is a very rare and beneficial thing.
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: But I think the theater, to be important... must be
• 55:32
  Speaker 5: more than merely enjoyable. A play is only important when
• 55:36
  Speaker 5: it widens the horizon of the mind by enriching it
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: with emotional experiences other than its own, and so gives
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: light as well as pleasure.
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: Make them laugh, make them cry, and make them remember.
• 55:49
  Speaker 5: Yes, make them remember if you can. What is easily
• 55:53
  Speaker 5: forgotten doesn't count.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: The emphasis you place on human values in plays has
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: made you something of an authority on feminine psychology, whether
• 56:01
  Speaker 6: you welcome the distinction or not.
• 56:03
  Speaker 10: I decline it with thanks.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: After all, a psychologist is only a person who can
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: guess what others feel and think. And I like to
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: think my guess is as good about a man as.
• 56:16
  Speaker 7: About a woman.
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: Wasn't the old maid criticized as too sentimental? That is,
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: before the audience flocked to the box office.
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: Yes, it was.
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: And I don't know why, unless it's because the ladies
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: wore hoop skits instead of slacks. There isn't a sentimental
• 56:33
  Speaker 5: line in the play, to my way of thinking. You
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: know the Oxford Dictionary defines sentimental as being prone to
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: shallow emotions. And after all, jealousy and love and hate
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: are the strongest stuff of life. And when I first
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: read Edith Wharton's story, I thought it was intensely modern
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: in the way it dealt with these forces. The critic
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: of the English Manchester Guardian said, this might well be
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: called the story of a crime, being the story of
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: the murder of one woman's happiness by another. And that
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: hardly seems a sentimental tale to me. But I think
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: I've said enough. And I know we all want to
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: congratulate Miss Young and Miss Hopkins.
• 57:17
  Speaker 10: Of course.
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: Your play, Miss Akins, speaks a universal language. Here are
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: Loretta Young and Miriam Hopkins, no longer in the period
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: of candlelight and carriages.
• 57:31
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Mr. DeMille.
• 57:33
  Speaker 12: It's been a real adventure being here tonight. But before
• 57:36
  Speaker 12: I go, I want to say something about the product
• 57:37
  Speaker 12: behind this program. Candlelight and carriages may be outmoded, but
• 57:42
  Speaker 12: there's one American fashion that will never change, and that's
• 57:45
  Speaker 12: the fashion of having clear, smooth complexion. And part of
• 57:49
  Speaker 12: it is the regular use of Lux soap. I've been
• 57:52
  Speaker 12: a Lux soap booster for a very long time now.
• 57:54
  Speaker 12: I agree with Loretta. Lux soap is a definite help
• 57:57
  Speaker 12: to a good complexion.
• 57:58
  Speaker 11: Now, won't you tell us what the Lux Radio Theater
• 58:01
  Speaker 11: play is going to be next week, Mr.
• 58:02
  Speaker 15: DeMille?
• 58:03
  Speaker 6: Next Monday night, we're going to present Only Yesterday. And
• 58:07
  Speaker 6: our stars will be Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent. Only
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: Yesterday is a love story of unusual tenderness. The drama
• 58:15
  Speaker 6: of a woman's love, which endured through every hardship that
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: time and circumstance created. Everyone who likes a real love
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: story will thoroughly enjoy Only Yesterday.
• 58:25
  Speaker 10: Oh, that's a beautiful play and a fine cast, Mr. DeMille.
• 58:28
  Speaker 10: Good night, and thank you again.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: Good night, Loretta.
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: And it's also been a great pleasure to have you
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: with us, Miriam.
• 58:33
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Mr. DeMille. I've enjoyed it, too. Good night.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 58:36
  Speaker 10: That was fine acting we had tonight.
• 58:47
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• 58:50
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• 58:52
  Speaker 6: night when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Barbara Stanwyck and
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: George Brent.
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: In Only Yesterday.
• 58:58
  Speaker 13: This is Cecil B.
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: This is Melville Wood, inviting you to enjoy the increasingly
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: popular Lux Daytime program, The Life and Love of Dr.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: Susan.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: In today's episode, Dr. Susan helped perform a delicate operation
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: on her own son. Tomorrow, she will learn the startling result.
• 59:24
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• 59:27
  Speaker 3: The life and love of Dr. Susan comes to you
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: in addition to the Lux Radio Theater. Heard in tonight's
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: play were Juanita Quigley as Tina as a child, Doris
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: Lloyd as Nora, Jack Lewis as Dr. Lanskell, Fred Shields
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: as Clem Spender, Fred McKay as Joseph Ralston, Harold Daniels
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: as Lanning Halsey, John Fee as Clergyman, Lou Merrill as Mate,
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: and Howard McNair as Seaman. Loretta Young's current picture is
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: Walter Wanger's Eternally Yours. Miriam Hopkins appears through the courtesy
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: of Warner Brothers Pictures, and is now appearing in their
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: production of The Old Maid. Louis Silvers is from 20th
• 1:00:02
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