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Speaker 1: On the eve of Tracy Lord's second wedding, her former
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Speaker 1: husband arrives at the family home with a magazine reporter
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Speaker 1: and photographer seeking entry to the society event. On June 14th, 1943,
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Speaker 1: CBS presented Lux Radio Theater's 400th broadcast, The Philadelphia Story.
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Speaker 1: Loretta Young stars as Tracy, with Robert Taylor as C.K.
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Speaker 1: Dexter Haven, and Robert Young as reporter Mike Connor in
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Speaker 1: George Wells' radio adaptation of Philip Barry's play. The play
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Speaker 1: had also reached the screen through MGM in 1940. Produced
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Speaker 1: by Cecil B. DeMille and directed by Sanford Barnett, the
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Speaker 1: broadcast follows old relationships, family pressures, and press attention as
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Speaker 1: the wedding plans unfold. And now, the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Robert Taylor,
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Speaker 2: Loretta Young, and Robert Young in The Philadelphia Story. Ladies
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Speaker 2: and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Cecil B.
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Speaker 2: DeMille.
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Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Names make news, and
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Speaker 4: these names made news in Hollywood this week. Loretta Young,
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Speaker 4: Robert Taylor, and Robert Young. Bob Taylor made news in
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Speaker 4: several hundred theaters with a nice piece of acting in
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Speaker 4: the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer epic of American heroism, The Town. Loretta Young
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Speaker 4: came back to town after a tour of army camps
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Speaker 4: in the Middle West and caught the public fancy all
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Speaker 4: over the country in the paramount film, China. And Bob
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Speaker 4: Young was doing the same thing in MGM's Slightly Dangerous.
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Speaker 4: Those are the names that spell out the headline on
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Speaker 4: our marquee. But that isn't the whole story. There's a
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Speaker 4: lot more. and it's called The Philadelphia Story. Philip Barry
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Speaker 4: wrote the play, Broadway audiences cheered it, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer followed
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Speaker 4: with the motion picture success. The night I saw the
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Speaker 4: play on Broadway, it was pretty obvious somebody was going
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Speaker 4: to make a hit picture out of it, so I
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Speaker 4: went backstage and tried to buy it.
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Speaker 5: I was, alas, too late.
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Speaker 4: But it's as fine a play for radio as it
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Speaker 4: was for the stage or screen, so I'm getting a
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Speaker 4: great deal of satisfaction out of putting on this production tonight.
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Speaker 4: At a rough guess, I'd say about five or six
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Speaker 4: hundred thousand people were able to see the Philadelphia story
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Speaker 4: on Broadway. Perhaps another two hundred thousand saw it on
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Speaker 4: the road. But tonight, Lux Toilet Soap makes it possible
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Speaker 4: for many millions to hear it, and all.
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Speaker 5: At the same time.
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Speaker 4: That's because this theater works a little differently from the
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Speaker 4: ordinary playhouse.
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Speaker 6: Instead of having a man in a stiff shirt.
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Speaker 2: To guard the door and collect your.
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Speaker 4: Tickets, we throw the door wide open. To come in,
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Speaker 4: you don't have to stir from the comfort of your
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Speaker 4: living room. And the only ticket that's ever used is
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Speaker 4: the support you give our products. I think you give
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Speaker 4: that anyway because Lux Toilet Soap knows how to make
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Speaker 4: friends and how to keep them. Now here's the curtain
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Speaker 4: for the first act of the Philadelphia story, starring Robert
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Speaker 4: Taylor as C.K. Dexter Haven, Loretta Young as Tracy Lord,
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Speaker 4: and Robert Young as Mike Connors. Ladies and gentlemen, you've
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Speaker 4: just been listening to the end of An Ideal Marriage.
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Speaker 4: That was Mr.
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Speaker 2: C.K.
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Speaker 4: Dexter Haven being invited out of his happy home with Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Tracy Lord Haven issuing the invitation. But all that was
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Speaker 4: two years ago. Right now, Philadelphia Society is seething with
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Speaker 4: interest over the forthcoming second marriage of Tracy Lord. And
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Speaker 4: the editor of the national magazine Spy is determined to
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Speaker 4: spread it over six photographic pages of his scandal sheet.
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Speaker 4: On the way to the editor's office are Spy's major
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Speaker 4: writer and Spy's foremost photographer.
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Speaker 6: I'm not going to do it, Liz. I'm going to
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Speaker 6: tell Sidney Kidd very plainly and simply I'm a writer
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Speaker 6: and not a society snooper.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to tell him just that.
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Speaker 7: Just that.
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Speaker 6: Let Kidd fire me. I'll start writing short stories again.
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Speaker 6: That's what I should be doing anyway.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to tell him just that.
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Speaker 7: Just that.
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Speaker 3: That ain't it.
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Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Connor.
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Speaker 2: Morning, Miss Embry.
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Speaker 7: Mr.
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Speaker 3: Kidd, I don't think you're being fair to me.
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Speaker 5: No? No, you're treating me like you treat all your
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Speaker 5: other writers.
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Speaker 2: You really hate me.
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Speaker 7: Don't you, Connor?
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Speaker 5: No, I don't like you very much, though.
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Speaker 6: You hate me, I trust, Miss Embry?
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Speaker 8: No, I can't afford to hate anybody. I'm only a photographer.
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Speaker 9: Your assignment will be Spy's most sensational achievement. Tracy Samantha Lord.
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Speaker 9: Big game hunting in Africa, fox hunting in Pennsylvania, married
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Speaker 9: on impulse and divorced in a rage.
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Speaker 2: And always unapproachable.
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Speaker 5: By the press.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I can see the layout now.
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Speaker 5: The Philadelphia story.
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Speaker 2: Closed were the portals of snobbish fox hunting.
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Speaker 3: Ah, let's see.
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Speaker 9: No hunter of foxes is spy magazine. Anyway, presented for
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Speaker 9: the first time, quote, a wedding day inside mainline society.
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Speaker 5: Or what the kitchen maid saw through the keyhole, unquote.
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Speaker 5: Go ahead, Connor.
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Speaker 6: Writing's your job. I'm only the publisher.
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Speaker 3: All right, publisher, take this.
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Speaker 6: Quote, no hunter of buckshot in the rear is cagey,
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Speaker 6: crafty Connor, unquote.
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Speaker 3: Close paragraph.
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Speaker 8: Close job, close bank account. But look, Mr. Kidd, how
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Speaker 8: can we possibly get inside the Lord of State, let
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Speaker 8: alone the house?
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Speaker 7: Hey, just a moment.
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Speaker 5: Miss Pauline?
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir?
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Speaker 3: Ask the gentleman to come in.
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Speaker 2: You'll find, Miss Embry, I haven't overlooked anything.
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Speaker 6: Come in, please, mister.
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Speaker 2: Come in, come in.
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Speaker 9: I understand we understand each other.
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Speaker 2: Yes, quite.
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Speaker 9: Connor, this gentleman has been employed in our Buenos Aires office.
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Speaker 6: I believe he can help us with our problem.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, how? Tell him, please.
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Speaker 2: Tracy Lord's brother, Junius, is in the American embassy down there.
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Speaker 2: He's an old friend of mine. I'll introduce you to
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Speaker 2: the Lord as intimate friends of Junius. Dear old Junius.
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Speaker 6: Now, this Tracy Samantha Lord, does she know you?
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Speaker 2: You might say Miss Lord and I grew up together.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 8: You might also say you were her first husband, Mr.
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Speaker 7: C.K. Dexter Hinton.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you might.
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Speaker 3: Holy mackerel.
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Speaker 5: What goes on here?
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Speaker 8: I remember your honeymoon very well. You and she on
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Speaker 8: a little sailboat.
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Speaker 7: The true love, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: That's right. How did you know?
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Speaker 8: I was the only photographer whose camera you didn't smash. Oh,
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Speaker 8: you were terribly nice about it.
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Speaker 7: You threw it in the ocean.
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Speaker 2: Well, I had the strange idea our honeymoon was our
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Speaker 2: own business.
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Speaker 6: Now, what are the plans, Haven? The wedding's Saturday.
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Speaker 3: Today's Thursday.
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Speaker 6: They should spend tomorrow night as guests of the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Now, wait a minute.
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Speaker 5: There's something screwy here.
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Speaker 2: Listen, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Haven, why are you doing all this unless you... Oh,
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Speaker 6: you want to get even with your ex-bride, huh?
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Speaker 2: I don't think there's anything further to discuss, Mr. Kidd.
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Speaker 2: I'll have a car pick them up at noon tomorrow
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Speaker 2: in North Philadelphia.
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Speaker 5: Why, the.
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Speaker 8: Here, Mike, take my handkerchief. There's a little spit in
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Speaker 8: your eye.
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Speaker 7: It shows.
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Speaker 10: Tracy! Tracy! Tracy!
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Speaker 5: Miss Dinah.
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Speaker 11: Edward, have you seen my sister?
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Speaker 3: Yes, Miss Dinah.
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Speaker 5: She's in the sitting room, making a list of the
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Speaker 5: wedding gifts.
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Speaker 7: Tracy! Mother, how do you spell omelet?
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Speaker 10: Oh, you?
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Speaker 11: Why didn't you answer me?
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Speaker 7: Omelet, mother.
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Speaker 8: Omelet?
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Speaker 7: O-M-E-L-E-T. Oh, I thought there was another L.
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Speaker 11: That's a funny wedding present for an omelet. It was
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Speaker 11: a dish, dear, a silver dish.
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Speaker 7: Diana, bring some of that junk off the table.
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Speaker 8: Is this a present?
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Speaker 6: It stinks.
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Speaker 7: Don't say stinks, darling. If absolutely necessary, smells. But only
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Speaker 7: if absolutely necessary. Mother, the cards on the gifts have
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Speaker 7: been changed again.
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Speaker 12: There must be a ghost loose in the house.
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Speaker 11: Maybe the ghost of bridegroom number one.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Johnny, don't talk about Dexter as though he were dead.
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Speaker 11: He might just as well be for all crazy cares.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 7: If I never see Mr. C.K. Dexter again, I'll... Mother,
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Speaker 7: look at that lamp. Isn't that awful?
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Speaker 2: Yes, isn't it?
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Speaker 7: They're friends of your father's. Now, wouldn't you know it?
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Speaker 7: What are they, tap dancers or just musical comedy producers?
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Speaker 8: That's hardly fair to your father's interest in art, Tracy.
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Speaker 7: Ah, it's my eyes.
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Speaker 13: The art of putting up $ 100, 000 to display the shapely
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Speaker 13: legs of Lena Moray?
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Speaker 7: That will do, Tracy. Oh, Mother, I give up. If
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Speaker 7: you just face the fact squarely as I do.
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Speaker 11: We both might face the fact that neither of us
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Speaker 11: has proved to be a very.
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Speaker 7: Great success as a wife. We just picked the wrong
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Speaker 7: first husband. Well, don't let Pa argue about it.
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Speaker 11: You wanted me to take a stand, and I've taken it.
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Speaker 7: It's the only stand a woman can take and keep herself.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Tracy, I know.
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Speaker 8: Now I have my self-respect. And no husband.
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Speaker 7: Hey, it's better this way, really. You'll see. Let's forget
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Speaker 7: about the past. We both deserve some happiness now. Especially you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, darling.
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Speaker 7: Isn't George an angel? George is an angel. Is he
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Speaker 7: handsome or is he not? George is handsome.
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Speaker 11: I like Dexter better.
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Speaker 7: Really? Well, why don't you postpone the wedding? Postpone it? How?
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Speaker 7: Get small parts. Don't put the idea in her head.
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Speaker 7: What time is it? George isn't usually late.
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Speaker 11: Oh, he's waiting for us at the table.
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Speaker 7: Waiting for... Mother, if I don't choke her before Saturday.
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Speaker 11: It'd have caused trouble in the wedding, wouldn't it?
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Speaker 7: It would not. And you'd be in the car when
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Speaker 7: I got down, Dinah.
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Speaker 11: She's so mean about Dexter.
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Speaker 7: He was rather mean to her, my dear.
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Speaker 11: Did he really stalk her?
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Speaker 2: Please, Dinah.
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Speaker 11: Well, the papers were full of a nun dough.
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Speaker 7: Of what?
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Speaker 11: Of a nun dough. This is cruelty and drunkenness, it says. Mother,
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Speaker 11: why won't Tracy ask her own father to the wedding?
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Speaker 11: Your sister has very definite opinions about sexy things. But
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Speaker 11: don't you think it's stinking not to want father.
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Speaker 8: Yes, darling, between ourselves, I think it's good and stinking.
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Speaker 12: When you see your fiancé, he's all shiny.
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Speaker 7: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 11: Brand new writing, did you see?
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Speaker 3: Hello there.
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Speaker 13: Wow.
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Speaker 7: Who is that terribly attractive man?
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Speaker 2: Hello, darling.
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Speaker 7: Hello, George.
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Speaker 2: Well, how do you like me?
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Speaker 7: I adore you. But you look awful.
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Speaker 2: Awful?
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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 8: You look like something right out of a shop window.
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Speaker 5: Tracy, I just.
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Speaker 11: Come on, help me dine in, will you?
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Speaker 7: We'll rub a little dirt on these breeches.
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Speaker 5: Hey, listen.
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Speaker 7: Hold still. No, no, stop it.
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Speaker 2: These are new pants.
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Speaker 7: That's just it. They're new, but they're not going to be. Now,
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Speaker 7: you hold still. There.
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Speaker 2: There.
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Speaker 7: Is that better?
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Speaker 2: Well, I don't get it. When I was a coal miner,
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Speaker 2: the idea was to get enough money to buy clean clothes.
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Speaker 2: And now that I'm general manager.
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Speaker 3: George, what is that thing you're reading?
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Speaker 5: Oh, this?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm just glancing through it as a copy of Spy.
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Speaker 3: Spy?
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Speaker 7: Did you buy it or did you find it in
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Speaker 7: a trash pile?
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Speaker 11: I love it. It's got pictures of everything.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it certainly has.
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Speaker 2: I just want to see if there's anything in here
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Speaker 2: about the wedding.
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Speaker 7: What do you mean?
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Speaker 2: Well, I thought maybe you being one of the oldest
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Speaker 2: families in Philadelphia and me being fairly important myself. Well,
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Speaker 2: a lot of your thoughts, but I.
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Speaker 7: Let me have that thing.
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Speaker 2: Oh, what's the matter?
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Speaker 10: Just look at this stuff.
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Speaker 7: An average day in the life of a congressman. The
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Speaker 7: congressman's wife, the kitchen where he's prepared one banana, slice,
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Speaker 7: two fried eggs. Filthy ideas. Coming into a private house
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Speaker 7: with a cane.
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Speaker 2: Uh, Tracy, what would happen if I took it into
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Speaker 2: my head someday to go into politics?
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Speaker 7: Why, you'd be elected president.
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Speaker 3: No, I mean about publicity.
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Speaker 7: Well, not in my home.
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Speaker 2: You mean our home, don't you?
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Speaker 7: Die, darling. Our home, of course. Very much our home.
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Speaker 2: Hey, where is everybody?
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Speaker 11: Dexter!
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Speaker 2: Hello, Dinah! Dexter, you've come Dinah, my dream girl.
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Speaker 11: Tracy, Dexter's here.
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Speaker 2: Dexter.
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Speaker 7: What in the name of all.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Tracy.
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Speaker 14: Dexter.
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Speaker 2: How are you, Mother Lord?
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Speaker 7: But, Dexter, don't you know that tomorrow's the wedding?
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Speaker 2: That's right, so it is.
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Speaker 7: You can go right back where you came from, Dexter Haven.
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Speaker 2: Now, Red, look, you don't think I'd miss your wedding,
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Speaker 2: do you?
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Speaker 8: Oh, Dexter, now you wouldn't.
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Speaker 7: I'm not so sure he wouldn't.
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Speaker 2: No, Mother Lord, I wouldn't. I assure you I wouldn't.
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Speaker 7: When did you arrive?
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Speaker 8: Oh, tell us all about Junius.
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Speaker 2: Well, Junius is fine.
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Speaker 8: He should be here.
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Speaker 2: Well, he's heartbroken. I suggested representing him as best man.
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Speaker 7: I'm afraid that George might prefer to have his best
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Speaker 7: man sober.
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Speaker 13: Oh.
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Speaker 11: I wish you'd represent Joy.
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Speaker 2: That's my loyal little girl. Oh, but you'll like the
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Speaker 2: people Junius did send, I'm sure.
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Speaker 7: You haven't switched from liquor to dope by any chance,
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Speaker 7: have you, Dexter? The people Junius did send? Yes.
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Speaker 2: You don't happen to know a Macaulay Conner or Elizabeth Embry,
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Speaker 2: do you?
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Speaker 7: No, I don't.
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Speaker 2: Well, at least better come along and be introduced. You see,
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Speaker 2: they're great friends of Junius.
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Speaker 7: Do they expect to stay here over the wedding?
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Speaker 2: I think that's very queer indeed.
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Speaker 7: I think it's queer as in that. I think it's paranoid.
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Speaker 7: You're lying, Dexter. I can always tell.
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Speaker 2: And you read?
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Speaker 7: You went to work after the divorce, didn't you?
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Speaker 2: Well, yes, except for a brief interlude and a couple
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Speaker 2: of alcoholic sanitariums.
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Speaker 7: But you took a job in South America.
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Speaker 2: Who for? Magazine.
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Speaker 7: It wasn't by any chance by magazine.
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Speaker 2: You're a mass of intuition.
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Speaker 7: And I don't suppose that Junius is friends of a
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Speaker 7: photographer by any chance. Oh, I knew that you were low,
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Speaker 7: but I never thought you'd think so low. What are
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Speaker 7: you going to do?
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Speaker 11: After I've telephoned Junius, I'm going to do plenty.
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Speaker 2: No, no, wait a minute, Red. Wait a minute. I
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Speaker 2: confess you don't have to telephone Junius.
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Speaker 7: Oh, you confess.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you're slipping, Red. I used to be afraid of
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Speaker 2: that look, the withering glance of the goddess.
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Speaker 7: I didn't think that alcohol would.
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Speaker 2: Now, look, Red, about this man Connor and.
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Speaker 7: I'll take care of them. Who do they think they are,
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Speaker 7: barging in here on peaceful people?
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Speaker 2: They'll think you don't want them.
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Speaker 7: I want them out. And you too.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Your Majesty. But first, could I interest you in
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Speaker 2: some small blackmail? No, you could not.
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Speaker 7: What do you mean, blackmail?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's an article complete with snapshots, details, and insinuations.
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Speaker 2: And it's ready for publication in five days. It's about
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Speaker 2: your father and that dancer in New York, see?
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Speaker 7: About father and Lena Moray?
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Speaker 2: Quiet, quiet. Dinah may be listening.
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Speaker 7: Oh, but they can't, even if it's true. Where did
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Speaker 7: you get this stuff?
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Speaker 2: From Sidney Kidd, the editor and publisher.
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Speaker 7: Well, he's got to be stopped.
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Speaker 2: Well, he is, temporarily. That is, if you'll allow these
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Speaker 2: two to turn in a story on your wedding, and
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Speaker 2: when Kidd says a story, he means a story.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I'm going to be sick.
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Speaker 2: Yes, dear, an intimate day with a society bride. I
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Speaker 2: am sick. That's tough, but that's the way it seems
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Speaker 2: to be.
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Speaker 7: So, uh, I'm to be examined and dragged through the
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Speaker 7: streets and generally humiliated at 15 cents a copy. You. Why,
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Speaker 7: you're loving it.
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Speaker 2: Am I, Red?
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Speaker 7: All right, all right. I'll give them an interview. I'll
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Speaker 7: give them a picture of Tracy Lord that'll stand their
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Speaker 7: hair on end.
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Speaker 3: Then look at this joint, will you?
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Speaker 7: What is this room? I forgot my compass.
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Speaker 3: Well, this would be the south-southwest parlor by living room. Say,
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Speaker 3: what's this guy Haven up to?
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Speaker 8: C.K. Dexter Haven?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, what kind of a name is that, anyway?
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Speaker 8: Macaulay Conner is no homespun tag, my pet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you must try calling me Macaulay.
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Speaker 8: You know, Macaulay, I knew a friend, Joe Smith, once.
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Speaker 8: He was only a clerk in a hardware store... But
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Speaker 8: he was an absolute rat. Oh, Mike, take your feet
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Speaker 8: off the table.
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Speaker 3: Well, tell four footmen to call me for lunch, will you?
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Speaker 7: Oh, how do you do?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 7: Don't bother to get up. I'm Tracy Lord.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my name is.
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Speaker 7: It's so nice having you here. How did you leave Junior?
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Speaker 3: Oh, we left Junior fine.
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Speaker 7: Junior's such a.
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Speaker 8: Lamb, isn't he?
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Speaker 7: Yes, isn't he? It's a pity that none of the
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Speaker 7: male members of the family will be here to welcome you.
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Speaker 2: No?
15:08
Speaker 3: Well, where's your father?
15:08
Speaker 7: Oh, darling, Papa. I do hope you'll save my wedding.
15:13
Speaker 8: We'd like to.
15:13
Speaker 7: Very much so. Glad that it's occurred to you.
15:15
Speaker 3: Is your father sick?
15:17
Speaker 7: Oh, what a cunning little camera. Yes. I'm afraid I'm
15:20
Speaker 7: an awful mutant. Oh, but you couldn't be. I just
15:23
Speaker 7: hope you'll take loads of pictures. You're kind of a
15:25
Speaker 7: writer now, aren't you, Mr. Connors?
15:28
Speaker 2: Sort of.
15:29
Speaker 7: A book, huh?
15:30
Speaker 3: Well, a book of short stories.
15:32
Speaker 7: Under what name do you publish?
15:34
Speaker 3: My own, Macaulay Connors.
15:36
Speaker 7: What's Macaulay for?
15:38
Speaker 3: Well, my father taught English history.
15:40
Speaker 5: I liked him, my friend.
15:41
Speaker 7: Of whom you have many, I'm sure. English history, you know,
15:44
Speaker 7: always fascinates me. Cromwell, Robin Hood, Jack the Ripper. Where
15:48
Speaker 7: did he teach? I mean, your father.
15:49
Speaker 5: Oh, in a little high school in South Bend, Indiana.
15:52
Speaker 2: South Bend?
15:53
Speaker 7: You know, that sounds like dancing, doesn't it?
15:55
Speaker 11: You must have had a most happy childhood there.
15:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was terrific.
15:58
Speaker 7: I'm so glad.
15:59
Speaker 5: No, I didn't mean it that way.
15:59
Speaker 7: I'm so sorry. Why?
16:01
Speaker 3: Well....
16:03
Speaker 2: Lack of wherewithal, I guess.
16:04
Speaker 7: Oh, but that doesn't always cause unhappiness, does it? Are
16:06
Speaker 7: either of you married?
16:07
Speaker 5: No, no.
16:09
Speaker 13: Oh, no.
16:09
Speaker 7: Oh, you mean you were, but now you're divorced. Well,
16:11
Speaker 7: the fact is, when I come now, surely you're not
16:13
Speaker 7: ashamed of it.
16:13
Speaker 8: Of course I'm not ashamed of it.
16:15
Speaker 2: What?
16:16
Speaker 7: Well, it was years ago. I was only a kid
16:18
Speaker 7: in Duluth.
16:20
Speaker 5: Well, good heavens, Liz, you never told me anything.
16:22
Speaker 7: You never asked me.
16:23
Speaker 5: Well, I know, but I.
16:24
Speaker 7: Joe Smith, hardware.
16:26
Speaker 5: Well, you're the darndest girl, Liz.
16:28
Speaker 8: I think I'm sweet.
16:29
Speaker 7: Duluth. That must be a lovely spot. It's a lengthiest
16:33
Speaker 7: west of here, isn't it? Sort of.
16:35
Speaker 8: But occasionally we get the breezes.
16:36
Speaker 7: This is your first visit to Philadelphia. It's a quaint
16:38
Speaker 7: old place, don't you think? It's filled with relics. Tell
16:40
Speaker 7: me something. Are you two going together?
16:43
Speaker 5: I beg your pardon?
16:44
Speaker 8: Well, that is an odd question.
16:45
Speaker 7: Well, I don't see why. I think it's very interesting. Now,
16:47
Speaker 7: don't you agree that if a man says he loves
16:49
Speaker 7: a girl, he ought to marry her?
16:51
Speaker 5: Can she be human?
16:52
Speaker 7: Now, please, Mr.
16:53
Speaker 2: Connor.
16:54
Speaker 7: I asked this young lady a question.
16:55
Speaker 4: Oh, well.
16:56
Speaker 7: Well, that depends. I haven't really thought into it. I'll
16:58
Speaker 7: see what's keeping the lie.
16:58
Speaker 11: You'll excuse me now, won't you?
17:01
Speaker 5: Look, who's doing the interviewing around here?
17:05
Speaker 8: You don't suppose she caught on somehow?
17:07
Speaker 5: No, no, she was born that way.
17:09
Speaker 6: But I've still got to get an interview.
17:10
Speaker 7: Try the town library.
17:12
Speaker 8: You can probably dig up enough stuff to hang the
17:13
Speaker 8: whole family.
17:21
Speaker 5: Book return, Miss Fulk.
17:23
Speaker 7: Just leave it, please.
17:24
Speaker 6: Uh, excuse me, please.
17:25
Speaker 2: Are you the librarian?
17:27
Speaker 13: Yes.
17:28
Speaker 2: What is the wish?
17:29
Speaker 5: Well, I'm looking for some local bu.
17:33
Speaker 5: What did you say?
17:34
Speaker 7: What does he wish?
17:37
Speaker 5: Uh, local biography or a history.
17:40
Speaker 7: If he will consult with my colleague over there.
17:43
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
17:45
Speaker 5: Uh, does thou have a washroom?
17:50
Speaker 2: To the left.
17:51
Speaker 5: Thank thee.
17:58
Speaker 11: Oh, really?
17:59
Speaker 7: Now, look, I know this is a public library.
18:02
Speaker 5: Oh.
18:03
Speaker 2: Hello. My book, huh?
18:04
Speaker 5: Couldn't you afford to buy a copy?
18:07
Speaker 7: The bookstore didn't have one.
18:09
Speaker 6: Well, are you sure you're doing the right thing? You
18:11
Speaker 6: know what happens to girls like you when they read
18:13
Speaker 6: books like mine. They begin to think.
18:14
Speaker 5: That's bad.
18:16
Speaker 7: These stories are beautiful. Why, Connor, they're almost poetry.
18:21
Speaker 5: Well, don't kid yourself.
18:22
Speaker 2: They are.
18:22
Speaker 7: I can't make you out at all now.
18:25
Speaker 11: Really?
18:26
Speaker 2: I thought I was easy.
18:27
Speaker 7: Yeah, so did I, but you're not. You talk so
18:28
Speaker 7: big and tough, and then... Well, and then you write
18:31
Speaker 7: like this. Which is which?
18:34
Speaker 5: Both, I guess.
18:35
Speaker 10: No.
18:36
Speaker 7: No, I believe that you put the toughness on to, well,
18:39
Speaker 7: to save your skin.
18:40
Speaker 5: You think so?
18:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know a little about that.
18:42
Speaker 2: Do you?
18:42
Speaker 7: Quite a lot.
18:44
Speaker 15: Please.
18:45
Speaker 7: Look, let's get out of here. You want to swim?
18:47
Speaker 2: All right.
18:48
Speaker 7: Come on. Towel, Thomas?
18:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks.
18:56
Speaker 5: You know, you've really got something here.
18:58
Speaker 2: Where?
18:59
Speaker 10: Here.
19:00
Speaker 2: Oh, this? Garden?
19:00
Speaker 5: Swimming pool? You could sail a small yacht in here.
19:03
Speaker 2: Oh.
19:04
Speaker 7: Uh, Connor, about your book.
19:05
Speaker 2: My book?
19:06
Speaker 7: Yeah. Tell me something, will you? When you can do
19:09
Speaker 7: things like this book, how can you possibly do anything else?
19:12
Speaker 6: Well, you may not believe this, but there are people
19:14
Speaker 6: in this world that must earn their living.
19:16
Speaker 7: Of course, but... Oh, heck. That's Dexter. Look, stand by me,
19:21
Speaker 7: will you? I don't want to be alone with him.
19:23
Speaker 2: Certainly, if you like.
19:24
Speaker 7: Thanks.
19:25
Speaker 2: Oh, hello there, Red.
19:26
Speaker 7: Well, fancy seeing you here.
19:28
Speaker 2: What's this you've been drinking?
19:29
Speaker 5: Orange juice?
19:30
Speaker 2: Uh-huh. Thanks, I'd love some.
19:31
Speaker 7: Don't tell me you've forsaken your beloved whiskey and whiskey.
19:34
Speaker 2: Oh, no, no, no. I've just changed the color, that's all.
19:36
Speaker 2: I go in for the pale pastel shade now. How
19:40
Speaker 2: about you, Mr. Carney? You drink, don't you?
19:41
Speaker 5: A little.
19:43
Speaker 2: Little? And you're a writer? I thought all writers drank
19:46
Speaker 2: to excess and beat their wives. Dexter, Hmm?
19:49
Speaker 7: Would you mind doing something for me?
19:50
Speaker 2: Why, anything. What?
19:51
Speaker 7: Get the heck out of here.
19:53
Speaker 2: Oh, my dear Red, I couldn't do that. You need
19:54
Speaker 2: me too much.
19:55
Speaker 7: Now, would you mind telling me just what it is
19:57
Speaker 7: you're hanging around for?
19:58
Speaker 5: Look, I'd better... No, no, no, no, no.
20:00
Speaker 7: Don't you go, Mr. Connery.
20:01
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no. Please don't go, Mr. Connery.
20:03
Speaker 2: As a writer, this ought to be right up your street.
20:05
Speaker 7: Don't you miss a word.
20:07
Speaker 2: I never saw you looking better, Red. You're getting that fine,
20:10
Speaker 2: tawny look.
20:11
Speaker 7: Oh, we're going to talk about me, are we? Goody.
20:14
Speaker 2: It's astonishing what money can do for people, Mr. Connor.
20:17
Speaker 2: Not too much, you know, just more than enough. Now,
20:20
Speaker 2: take Tracy here, for example. She even changed her shape.
20:24
Speaker 2: She was a dumpy little thing at one time.
20:26
Speaker 7: Only as it happens, I'm not interested in myself for
20:28
Speaker 7: the moment.
20:28
Speaker 2: Not interested in yourself?
20:29
Speaker 10: No.
20:30
Speaker 2: You're fascinated, Red. You're far and away your favorite person
20:33
Speaker 2: in the world. Of course, Mr. Connor, she's a girl
20:36
Speaker 2: who's generous to a fault, except to other people's faults.
20:41
Speaker 2: For instance, she never had any understanding at all of
20:42
Speaker 2: my deep and gorgeous thirst.
20:44
Speaker 7: It was disgusting. It made you unattractive.
20:47
Speaker 2: A weakness, sure. And strength is her religion, Mr. Connor.
20:51
Speaker 2: She finds human imperfection unforgivable. And when I gradually discovered
20:55
Speaker 2: that my relationship to her was supposed to be not
20:58
Speaker 2: that of a loving husband and a good companion, but
21:01
Speaker 2: that of a kind of high priest to a goddess...
21:04
Speaker 2: and my drinks grew deeper and more frequent.
21:06
Speaker 7: I never considered you as that, nor myself.
21:08
Speaker 2: You did without knowing it. That night you got drunk
21:12
Speaker 2: on champagne and climbed out on the roof and stood
21:14
Speaker 2: there in your nightshirt with your arms out to the
21:17
Speaker 2: moon wailing like a banshee.
21:21
Speaker 13: Dexter, I have told you, I never had the slightest
21:22
Speaker 13: recollection of doing any such thing.
21:24
Speaker 2: Oh, I know. You drew a blank. You wanted to.
21:26
Speaker 7: Mr.
21:27
Speaker 2: Connor, what would you say? Where'd he go?
21:30
Speaker 7: He's gone. I hope he heard what you said. It
21:32
Speaker 7: would make a wonderful story for spies.
21:35
Speaker 2: Too bad we can't supply photographs of you on the roof.
21:38
Speaker 7: Dexter, what are you trying to make me out as?
21:40
Speaker 2: Tracy, what do you fancy yourself as? When I read
21:44
Speaker 2: you were going to marry Kittredge, I couldn't believe it.
21:45
Speaker 2: That's why I'm here. How in the world can you
21:47
Speaker 2: even think of it?
21:48
Speaker 13: Because he's everything that you're not. He's been poor and
21:52
Speaker 13: he's had to work and he's had to fight for everything.
21:54
Speaker 13: I love him as I never even began to love you.
21:56
Speaker 2: Maybe so, but I doubt it. I think it's just
21:59
Speaker 2: a swing from me. But Kittredge is no great tower
22:02
Speaker 2: of strength, Tracy. He's just a tower.
22:04
Speaker 7: You hardly know him.
22:05
Speaker 2: Well, to hardly know him is to know him well.
22:07
Speaker 2: Kittredge is not for you, Red.
22:08
Speaker 13: You bet he's for me. He's a great man and
22:11
Speaker 13: a good man. Already he's of national importance.
22:14
Speaker 2: Oh, you sound like spy magazine talking.
22:17
Speaker 13: You know, you seem quite contemptuous of me all of
22:19
Speaker 13: a sudden.
22:19
Speaker 2: No, Red, not of you. I'm contemptuous of something inside
22:22
Speaker 2: of you, your so-called strength, your prejudice against weakness, your
22:26
Speaker 2: blank intolerance.
22:27
Speaker 7: Is that all?
22:28
Speaker 2: That's the gist of it. Because you'll never be a
22:30
Speaker 2: first-class human being or a first-class woman until you've learned
22:33
Speaker 2: to have some regard for human frailty. It's a pity
22:37
Speaker 2: your own foot can't slip a little sometime, but your
22:40
Speaker 2: sense of divinity wouldn't allow that. You're a special class
22:43
Speaker 2: of American female, the married maidens. Dexter!
22:47
Speaker 7: So help me, if you say another word, I'll... Oh,
22:48
Speaker 7: I'm all through, Red.
22:49
Speaker 2: For the moment, I've had my say.
22:50
Speaker 10: Tracy!
22:52
Speaker 2: Oh, the tower of strength. I suppose I should object
22:56
Speaker 2: to this, Tootham. Well, that would be most objectionable. Well,
23:00
Speaker 2: any time either of you want my advice.
23:02
Speaker 4: We'll give you a ring, Haven.
23:03
Speaker 2: Yes, thanks. Do that, will you? So long, Red. Oh, oh,
23:06
Speaker 2: by the way, here's a little wedding present. Sorry I
23:10
Speaker 2: hadn't any ribbon to tie it up with. So long, Kittredge.
23:12
Speaker 2: So long. Well, uh, should we open this, Tracy?
23:16
Speaker 10: Yes, go ahead.
23:17
Speaker 7: I must remember to send a note to him along
23:19
Speaker 7: with the others.
23:20
Speaker 5: Well, for the love of.
23:21
Speaker 2: What is it? Look what your friend considers a wedding present.
23:25
Speaker 7: Why, it's a model of a true love.
23:27
Speaker 2: The what?
23:28
Speaker 7: The true love.
23:28
Speaker 13: It's a boat that he designed and built, practically. Sailed
23:32
Speaker 13: her down the coast of Maine and back the summer
23:34
Speaker 13: we were married. Oh, my, but she was yaw.
23:38
Speaker 2: Yaw? What's that mean?
23:40
Speaker 7: Yaw? Why, what does it mean?
23:42
Speaker 13: It means that she's easy to handle and quick to
23:46
Speaker 13: the helm, fast and bright.
23:47
Speaker 7: Everything a boat should be. Until she develops dry rot.
23:51
Speaker 10: The End.
24:04
Speaker 2: In a few moments, Mr. DeMille presents Robert Taylor, Loretta Young,
24:07
Speaker 2: and Robert Young in Act II of The Philadelphia Story.
24:11
Speaker 2: But now, here's some music that'll have special meaning for
24:13
Speaker 2: lots of young people this summer.
24:16
Speaker 16: ¶ ¶.
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Speaker 17: Well, that ought to put us in the right mood, Jane.
24:27
Speaker 7: Yes. A week from today, I'll be an expert at
24:30
Speaker 7: the rake and the hoe.
24:31
Speaker 17: It'll be hard.
24:32
Speaker 7: But fun. We'll be real farmhands.
24:35
Speaker 11: Only, Ann.
24:36
Speaker 10: Yes, Jane?
24:36
Speaker 17: Hope we don't get all grimy and weather-beaten looking.
24:39
Speaker 7: Well, don't you worry, sweetie pie.
24:41
Speaker 17: I got us a couple of big straw hats to
24:43
Speaker 17: keep the sun off. And the most important thing of all,
24:46
Speaker 17: I have a supply of Luxe toilet soap. No glare
24:49
Speaker 17: on our tender little faces in the daytime, and plenty
24:52
Speaker 17: of creamy Luxe soap lather every night to get out
24:55
Speaker 17: all the dirt and grime and help our skin stay
24:57
Speaker 17: soft and smooth. And don't forget a Luxe soap beauty
25:00
Speaker 17: bath is going to feel mighty good to our weary.
25:02
Speaker 1: Limbs, too.
25:04
Speaker 2: Now there's a pair of young war workers just bound
25:06
Speaker 2: to be successful. They know what a grand beauty aid
25:09
Speaker 2: gentle Luxe toilet soap will be to them all summer long.
25:12
Speaker 2: A refreshing, fragrant beauty bath that will leave skin really sweet.
25:17
Speaker 2: A gentle, thorough facial care that will help to keep
25:19
Speaker 2: complexions soft and smooth and lovely. For busy women everywhere,
25:24
Speaker 2: here's a tip straight from Hollywood. Use the Screen Stars
25:27
Speaker 2: Beauty Soap. Luxe toilet soap. A finer soap can't be bought.
25:31
Speaker 2: It's pure and very mild. Gentle as a caress on
25:35
Speaker 2: the skin. We pause now for station identification. This is
25:40
Speaker 2: the Columbia Broadcasting System.
25:48
Speaker 16: Act II of The Philadelphia Story, starring Loretta Young as
25:52
Speaker 16: Tracy Lord, Robert Taylor as C.K. Dexter Haven, and Robert
25:57
Speaker 16: Young as Mike Conner.
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Speaker 4: Act II of The Philadelphia Story, starring Loretta Young as
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Speaker 4: Tracy Lord, Robert Taylor as C.K. Dexter Haven, and Robert
26:10
Speaker 4: Young as Mike Conner. On the eve of Tracy Lord's wedding,
26:19
Speaker 4: her ex-husband's presence is no comfort. No comfort either is Dinah,
26:24
Speaker 4: who rushes in with news of a new complication.
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Speaker 16: Tracy!
26:28
Speaker 9: Tracy!
26:28
Speaker 11: He came anyway!
26:29
Speaker 7: He's right here now! Who's here?
26:31
Speaker 2: Father!
26:37
Speaker 4: On the terrace, Tracy Lord faces her father and mother.
26:40
Speaker 4: In her eyes, there's nothing but scorn.
26:44
Speaker 7: Now, remember, Tracy, your Uncle Willie's guest of honor tonight.
26:47
Speaker 7: You mustn't be late.
26:48
Speaker 5: I just saw that fiancé of yours, Tracy. He roared
26:50
Speaker 5: out of here on two wheels. Does he by any
26:52
Speaker 5: chance ever walk anywhere?
26:53
Speaker 7: When he likes, I expect.
26:55
Speaker 5: I have a feeling he'll take the ring tomorrow and
26:56
Speaker 5: go right through center with it.
26:58
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you, idiot. Very amusing, I'm sure. Almost as
27:01
Speaker 7: amusing as the sight of you with your arm around Mother.
27:04
Speaker 5: I find very unamusing the stupid, undignified spectacle we're making
27:07
Speaker 5: of ourselves for the benefit of those two newspaper people.
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Speaker 7: Of course. Inasmuch as you let us in for it
27:12
Speaker 7: in the first place.
27:13
Speaker 5: Oh, do keep that note out of your voice, Tracy.
27:15
Speaker 5: It's very unattractive. Oh?
27:16
Speaker 7: How does your dancer friend talk? Or does she purr? Tracy,
27:20
Speaker 7: sweet and low, I suppose. Dusted and very ladylike.
27:23
Speaker 13: You've got a heck of a nerve to come back
27:25
Speaker 13: here in your best head of the family matter and
27:27
Speaker 13: strike attitudes and criticize my.
27:29
Speaker 7: Fiancé and give orders and mess things up generally. Stop it,
27:31
Speaker 7: isn't it? I can't help it. It's sickening. As if
27:34
Speaker 7: he'd done nothing at all.
27:35
Speaker 8: Anyway, it's not your affair, Tracy.
27:37
Speaker 7: If it concerns anyone.
27:38
Speaker 8: Well, actually, I don't know whom it concerns except your father.
27:41
Speaker 5: That's very wise of you, Margaret. What most wives fail
27:43
Speaker 5: to realize is that their husband's philandering has nothing whatever
27:46
Speaker 5: to do with him.
27:47
Speaker 2: Oh?
27:48
Speaker 7: Then who has it to do with?
27:50
Speaker 5: A reluctance to grow old, I think. I suppose the
27:52
Speaker 5: best mainstay a man can have as he gets along
27:54
Speaker 5: in years is a daughter. The right kind of daughter.
27:56
Speaker 7: How sweet.
27:57
Speaker 5: Full of warmth for him. Full of foolish, unquestioning, uncritical affection.
28:00
Speaker 7: None of which I've got.
28:01
Speaker 4: None.
28:02
Speaker 5: You have a good mind, a pretty face. You have
28:04
Speaker 5: everything it takes to make a lovely woman. Except the
28:07
Speaker 5: one essential. An understanding heart. Tracy, you're not even human.
28:10
Speaker 5: You're made of bronze.
28:12
Speaker 7: That's an awful thing to say to anyone.
28:14
Speaker 5: Yes, it is indeed.
28:16
Speaker 7: So I'm to blame for Lena Murray, am I?
28:18
Speaker 5: To a certain extent, I expect you are.
28:20
Speaker 7: Why, you coward!
28:21
Speaker 5: No, but better that than a prig or a perennial spinster,
28:24
Speaker 5: however many marriages... Oh, Sam, that's too much.
28:28
Speaker 7: What did you say I was?
28:29
Speaker 5: Do you want me to repeat it?
28:30
Speaker 2: No, no.
28:31
Speaker 7: A prig and... You mean that you think I think
28:36
Speaker 7: I'm some kind of a goddess or something?
28:38
Speaker 5: If your ego wants it that way, yes. Come along, Margaret.
28:41
Speaker 16: Come along, Margaret.
28:49
Speaker 2: Tracy, haven't you danced enough?
28:51
Speaker 7: Danced enough?
28:52
Speaker 2: Do you know what time it is? It's after four.
28:54
Speaker 7: In China, it's later than that. In China, we'd be
28:56
Speaker 7: married by now, although perhaps it's only yesterday in China.
28:59
Speaker 2: Tracy, I don't understand you tonight. What's the matter?
29:01
Speaker 7: What's the matter with everybody?
29:02
Speaker 2: You never drink, Tracy.
29:03
Speaker 7: Oh, you've got that wrong. Prigs don't drink.
29:06
Speaker 2: What?
29:07
Speaker 7: Nor spinsters.
29:08
Speaker 2: Tracy.
29:08
Speaker 7: Nor goddesses of any birth.
29:10
Speaker 2: Oh, Tracy, that's enough.
29:11
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
29:13
Speaker 5: Macaulay Connors, South Bend reporting for June.
29:16
Speaker 2: Oh.
29:16
Speaker 10: May I cut in?
29:18
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Connor. We're going home after this dance.
29:20
Speaker 5: Oh, now, you can't do that to me, not an
29:21
Speaker 5: old friend of old Junior's.
29:23
Speaker 7: Oh, I wish old Junior's were here.
29:25
Speaker 2: Tracy, I'll get you wrapped. I'll be right back.
29:27
Speaker 7: He'll wrap me up.
29:29
Speaker 2: Hello, you.
29:30
Speaker 5: Hello. Hey, you look fine.
29:32
Speaker 7: I feel fine.
29:34
Speaker 5: Good, good. Now, what was I saying?
29:36
Speaker 10: Hmm?
29:37
Speaker 5: Oh, let's have another drink. Or would Kittredge Spank?
29:40
Speaker 7: That's not what you were saying.
29:42
Speaker 2: It isn't?
29:42
Speaker 7: No.
29:43
Speaker 2: All right.
29:43
Speaker 5: Now, what was I saying? Oh, I know. Why do
29:46
Speaker 5: you wish your brother was here? Does he like Kittredge?
29:49
Speaker 7: Everybody likes Kittredge.
29:51
Speaker 5: Everybody likes Kittredge. Everybody except C.K. Dexter Haven, huh?
29:56
Speaker 7: C.K. Dexter Haven?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Where?
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Speaker 13: Where is he?
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Speaker 7: He didn't come. He's home.
30:01
Speaker 18: Home?
30:02
Speaker 5: Well, I think I'll go have a little.
30:03
Speaker 2: Talk with him.
30:03
Speaker 13: Come on, Connor.
30:04
Speaker 7: Let's have some wine.
30:05
Speaker 18: All right.
30:05
Speaker 5: Let's have some wine.
30:06
Speaker 3: Here, dear.
30:07
Speaker 2: Here's your wrap.
30:08
Speaker 7: We're going to have just one more little drink before.
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Speaker 2: Not you, I'm afraid, dear.
30:12
Speaker 7: Well, why should you be afraid, George? You know wine
30:14
Speaker 7: never affects me. Not in a slice.
30:28
Speaker 3: C.K.
30:29
Speaker 5: Dexter Haven.
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Speaker 7: Oh, C.K.
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Speaker 5: Dexter Haven. Where are you?
30:36
Speaker 2: Come out. Come out.
30:37
Speaker 5: Come out.
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Speaker 16: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Hello there. What's up?
30:41
Speaker 11: You are.
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Speaker 2: I only hope it's worth it. Come on in.
30:44
Speaker 6: I bring you greetings and a bottle of champagne.
30:48
Speaker 5: Champagne is a great leveler.
30:51
Speaker 2: Leveler.
30:53
Speaker 3: Makes you my equal.
30:54
Speaker 2: Oh, I wouldn't say that.
30:56
Speaker 3: Well, almost my equal.
30:58
Speaker 11: C.K.
30:58
Speaker 3: Dexter Haven, I would like to talk to you.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's go in the talking room. Don't tell me
31:03
Speaker 2: the party's over so soon.
31:04
Speaker 5: No, no, no.
31:05
Speaker 3: I just felt like talking to you.
31:07
Speaker 2: Oh, that's nice.
31:08
Speaker 3: Oh, I, uh, wonder if I might borrow it from you.
31:12
Speaker 2: Why, certainly. Old's the new castle. Here, sit down.
31:15
Speaker 5: Thank you.
31:16
Speaker 2: Excuse me.
31:18
Speaker 7: Hmm?
31:19
Speaker 2: Nothing.
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Speaker 11: Listen.
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Speaker 5: Are you still in love with Tracy Lord?
31:22
Speaker 7: What?
31:24
Speaker 6: Or perhaps you consider that a very personal question.
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Speaker 2: No, no, not at all.
31:28
Speaker 6: Liz thinks you are. But of course women like to romanticize. Romanticize,
31:34
Speaker 6: I think.
31:35
Speaker 2: Yes, they do, don't they?
31:36
Speaker 3: Yes, they do, don't they? I don't know.
31:39
Speaker 6: I can't understand how you could have been married to
31:41
Speaker 6: her and still know so little about her.
31:44
Speaker 2: Can't you?
31:44
Speaker 3: No, I can't. You know, I have the hiccups.
31:53
Speaker 5: I wonder if I might have another drink.
31:55
Speaker 2: Why, certainly.
31:55
Speaker 5: Thank you.
31:56
Speaker 3: You know, Tracy's no ordinary woman. You said some things
32:00
Speaker 3: to her this afternoon that I resented.
32:02
Speaker 2: Well, I apologize, Mr. Conner.
32:04
Speaker 5: That's quite all right, quite all right.
32:06
Speaker 3: But when a girl is like Tracy, she's one in
32:07
Speaker 3: a million. She's sort of like a... She's sort of
32:11
Speaker 3: like a.
32:12
Speaker 2: A goddess?
32:13
Speaker 7: No, no, no, no.
32:14
Speaker 2: Sort of like a queen.
32:16
Speaker 5: A radiant, glorious queen.
32:18
Speaker 3: You can't treat her like other women.
32:19
Speaker 2: No, I suppose not. But then I imagine Kittredge appreciates
32:23
Speaker 2: all that.
32:24
Speaker 5: Kittredge.
32:24
Speaker 3: Kittredge appreciates Kittredge.
32:26
Speaker 6: That fake man of the people, a five-cent edition of
32:29
Speaker 6: Sidney Kidd.
32:31
Speaker 2: I always thought Kidd himself was a five-cent Kidd.
32:34
Speaker 3: You know, Kidd's just using you like he uses everybody else.
32:37
Speaker 3: The guy's colossal.
32:39
Speaker 2: Terrific.
32:39
Speaker 3: He's got everybody fooled.
32:40
Speaker 2: Yeah. No mean Machiavelli is smiling, cynical Sidney Kidd. Whirls
32:45
Speaker 2: his oyster with an R in every month.
32:48
Speaker 3: Hey, that's not bad. When did I say that?
32:50
Speaker 2: You didn't. I did. Sorry.
32:53
Speaker 5: I suppose you never heard about.
32:54
Speaker 3: Kid's little arrangement in Kansas City.
32:57
Speaker 18: No.
32:57
Speaker 3: In San Francisco. And let me tell you about.
32:59
Speaker 6: The time he went to Boston. The true story on
33:02
Speaker 6: that little jaunt would ruin it.
33:05
Speaker 2: Yeah? Say, look, Connor.
33:06
Speaker 1: Hmm?
33:07
Speaker 2: What would happen to you if I used that stuff? Why?
33:10
Speaker 2: I might want to, very much. See, Kid's holding an
33:14
Speaker 2: article on Tracy's father... It might stop him. Oh.
33:17
Speaker 5: Blackmail, huh?
33:18
Speaker 2: Well, look. You use it.
33:20
Speaker 5: Use it with my blessing.
33:22
Speaker 3: I'm through anyway.
33:23
Speaker 2: All right, come on. Sit down there.
33:24
Speaker 5: I gotta get back to Tracy.
33:25
Speaker 2: Not yet, not yet. You dictate and I'll write. Now, shoot. Uh, Boston. Huh? Boston.
33:32
Speaker 5: Oh, oh, the time? May 1938.
33:33
Speaker 3: The place? Boston in a hotel.
33:36
Speaker 5: The kid is just arrived.
33:37
Speaker 7: Oh.
33:45
Speaker 5: You know, Tracy, champagne's funny stuff.
33:49
Speaker 2: I'm used to whiskey.
33:50
Speaker 6: Whiskey's a slap on the back. Champagne's a heavy mist
33:54
Speaker 6: before my eyes.
33:56
Speaker 7: It was nice of you to bring me home. You know,
33:59
Speaker 7: I do have a little mist.
34:02
Speaker 3: What's that?
34:02
Speaker 16: Music.
34:04
Speaker 2: Dance?
34:05
Speaker 7: Uh-uh. I'll tell you what.
34:08
Speaker 11: Let's have a quick swim to brighten us up.
34:11
Speaker 7: Justin, I always swim after party.
34:13
Speaker 3: Now, let's dip into some champagne instead, huh?
34:16
Speaker 7: Hello, you.
34:19
Speaker 2: Hello. You look fine.
34:21
Speaker 3: I feel fine.
34:23
Speaker 7: Did you enjoy the party?
34:24
Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
34:26
Speaker 6: The prettiest sight in this fine, pretty world is the
34:28
Speaker 6: privileged class enjoying its privilege.
34:31
Speaker 7: You're a snob, Connor.
34:33
Speaker 3: No doubt, no doubt. A wash with champagne was Will Q.
34:36
Speaker 5: Tracy's pleasure dome... On the.
34:38
Speaker 6: Nuptial eve of Tracy Samantha.
34:41
Speaker 5: Now, listen.
34:42
Speaker 7: Hmm?
34:42
Speaker 3: You can't marry that guy.
34:44
Speaker 6: George, well, I'm going to.
34:46
Speaker 7: Why not?
34:46
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know.
34:47
Speaker 5: I thought I'd be for it at first, but you
34:49
Speaker 5: just don't seem to match up.
34:51
Speaker 7: Then the fault's with me.
34:52
Speaker 3: Well, maybe so. But all the same, you're quite a girl, Tracy, Lord.
34:56
Speaker 7: You think?
34:57
Speaker 2: I know.
34:58
Speaker 7: Thank you, Professor, but I don't think I'm exceptional.
35:01
Speaker 3: Oh, you are.
35:01
Speaker 7: Now, I know any number like me. You ought to
35:03
Speaker 7: get around more.
35:04
Speaker 3: In the upper class?
35:05
Speaker 2: No, thank you.
35:06
Speaker 7: Oh, what does class have to do with it?
35:08
Speaker 13: What do they matter except the people in them?
35:10
Speaker 7: Now, George comes from the so-called lower class. Dexter, from
35:12
Speaker 7: the upper class, I'll take the lower class. Thank you.
35:15
Speaker 5: She can't get a drawing room.
35:16
Speaker 7: Now, what do you mean by that?
35:17
Speaker 5: My mistake.
35:18
Speaker 7: Decidedly earned.
35:20
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
35:20
Speaker 7: Don't apologize.
35:21
Speaker 2: Who's apologizing?
35:22
Speaker 7: I never knew such a man. Tracy. As you want.
35:27
Speaker 5: You're wonderful.
35:28
Speaker 3: There's a magnificence in you, Tracy.
35:31
Speaker 2: Why?
35:31
Speaker 7: Gee, my gosh. You're embarrassing me.
35:35
Speaker 2: Mike, let's... Let's what?
35:37
Speaker 18: Oh, I don't know.
35:38
Speaker 13: Let's go up.
35:38
Speaker 7: I guess it's kind of late.
35:40
Speaker 14: There's a magnificence that comes out of your eyes, in
35:43
Speaker 14: your voice, the way you stand there, the way you walk.
35:48
Speaker 14: You're lit from within, Tracy. You've got fires banked down
35:51
Speaker 14: on you, heart fires and holocausts.
35:54
Speaker 13: I don't think even you to be made of bronze.
35:56
Speaker 6: No, you're made out of flesh and blood. That's the blank,
35:59
Speaker 6: unholy surprise of it.
36:00
Speaker 2: Oh.
36:01
Speaker 6: Oh, you're the golden girl, Tracy. Full of life and
36:04
Speaker 6: warmth and delight.
36:07
Speaker 7: Say, what's going on?
36:07
Speaker 2: You've got tears in your eyes.
36:09
Speaker 7: Oh, shut up.
36:10
Speaker 13: Shut up.
36:11
Speaker 12: Go on, Mike.
36:11
Speaker 13: Keep talking.
36:12
Speaker 7: Keep talking, will you?
36:13
Speaker 2: No. I.
36:15
Speaker 3: I've stopped.
36:17
Speaker 8: Why?
36:18
Speaker 7: Has your mind suddenly taken hold, Professor?
36:20
Speaker 3: All right, now lay off that Professor stuff, you hear me?
36:22
Speaker 7: Yes, Professor.
36:24
Speaker 3: It's really all I am to you.
36:25
Speaker 13: Is it?
36:25
Speaker 7: Of course, Professor.
36:26
Speaker 5: Come here.
36:27
Speaker 7: Are you sure?
36:27
Speaker 5: Are you sure?
36:28
Speaker 7: Yes, of course I'm sure. I.
36:35
Speaker 5: Oh, Tracy.
36:37
Speaker 7: Golly, golly, Moses.
36:38
Speaker 2: Tracy.
36:38
Speaker 7: Mr.
36:38
Speaker 4: Conner, Mr.
36:39
Speaker 16: Conner.
36:39
Speaker 2: Let me tell you something, Tracy.
36:40
Speaker 13: No, don't, don't.
36:41
Speaker 7: All of a sudden, I got the shape.
36:42
Speaker 3: Can't be anything like love.
36:43
Speaker 7: Can it? No, no, it mustn't be a kid.
36:44
Speaker 5: Would it be inconvenient?
36:45
Speaker 7: Oh, terribly. And anyway, I know it isn't.
36:47
Speaker 8: Oh, Mike, we're out of our minds.
36:49
Speaker 3: Right into our hearts.
36:50
Speaker 7: That ought to be music, Mike.
36:52
Speaker 3: It does, doesn't it? Oh, Tracy, you're so lovely.
36:54
Speaker 11: Oh, isn't it?
36:55
Speaker 7: My insects are melting away. What is it, Mike? I
36:57
Speaker 7: seem to have feet of clay or something.
36:59
Speaker 16: Tracy.
36:59
Speaker 7: It's not far to the pool. It's just over the
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Speaker 7: lawn in the bridge grove. It would be lovely there now.
37:03
Speaker 2: Tracy, you're tremendous.
37:05
Speaker 7: Oh, put me in your pocket, Mike.
37:06
Speaker 10: Who's that out there?
37:20
Speaker 2: Hello, Mike.
37:21
Speaker 10: Poor fellow.
37:22
Speaker 3: Poor fellow as you, Mr. Dexter.
37:23
Speaker 2: Yeah. Any prowlers around?
37:25
Speaker 5: No, no prowlers, sir.
37:27
Speaker 2: Can I get in this way? If you can't, you
37:29
Speaker 2: can always go in the front, sir.
37:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.
37:31
Speaker 2: Well, thanks, Mike. Good night. Good night, sir. Hey!
37:36
Speaker 3: Is that you, Haven?
37:40
Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Kittredge. What are you doing here? Oh, well,
37:43
Speaker 2: I'm a friend of the family. Just dropped in for
37:45
Speaker 2: a chat. Now, don't try to be funny.
37:46
Speaker 3: I asked you a question. Well, I could ask.
37:48
Speaker 2: You the same question. Well, I telephoned Tracy, and her
37:51
Speaker 2: phone didn't answer. I was worried, so I walked over
37:53
Speaker 2: from the gatehouse. Yeah, I was worried, too. About what? Well,
37:58
Speaker 2: what do you think of this fellow, Connor, do you? Listen,
38:00
Speaker 2: if you're trying to insinuate... Oh, watch it, Jeff. I
38:02
Speaker 2: wouldn't insinuate anything. Listen, who's that? Oh, that's... Come on,
38:11
Speaker 2: I'll walk you around the house and tell you all
38:12
Speaker 2: about it. Listen, something's going on here, and I'm staying,
38:14
Speaker 2: and so are you.
38:18
Speaker 11: What?
38:18
Speaker 2: That is Connor.
38:19
Speaker 5: What's he doing with Tracy?
38:20
Speaker 2: He's carrying Tracy in her arms. He's carrying Tracy.
38:24
Speaker 11: Don't stop, Martin.
38:28
Speaker 7: Keep cruising.
38:29
Speaker 5: Somewhere over the rainbow.
38:34
Speaker 2: What is this, Connor?
38:36
Speaker 1: Now, now, easy.
38:36
Speaker 2: She's not hurting, she's not hurting.
38:38
Speaker 1: No, no, no.
38:39
Speaker 7: Not wounded, Connor. But dead.
38:43
Speaker 5: Seems the minute she hit the water, the wine hit first.
38:46
Speaker 3: Oh, now, look here.
38:47
Speaker 2: A likely story, Connor.
38:49
Speaker 3: What did you say?
38:49
Speaker 2: I said a likely story. Take her into the house. Now, listen,
38:53
Speaker 2: if you think... You'll be down directly? Yes, if you want.
38:55
Speaker 2: I want.
38:56
Speaker 7: Hello, Dexter.
38:58
Speaker 2: Hello, George.
39:00
Speaker 10: Hello, Mike.
39:02
Speaker 2: Second door to the right, Connor. And mind you, don't
39:04
Speaker 2: wake Dinah.
39:05
Speaker 3: I'll be right back, directly.
39:06
Speaker 11: You know, something might be mighty to make.
39:09
Speaker 2: Now, this is horrible. How are the mighty fallen? But
39:13
Speaker 2: if I know Tracy, she'll remember a little of this.
39:15
Speaker 2: For the second time in her life, she'll draw quite
39:16
Speaker 2: a tidy blank. Oh. Well, you don't believe it, do you?
39:20
Speaker 2: Believe what? Well, the implications of what you saw, let
39:23
Speaker 2: us say. Well, what else am I to believe? It's
39:26
Speaker 2: entirely up to you. Well, I've got eyes. I've got imagination,
39:28
Speaker 2: haven't I? I don't know, have you? Oh, so you
39:31
Speaker 2: pretend not to believe it. Yes, I pretend not to.
39:34
Speaker 2: Then you don't know women. That's possible. Then you're a fool. Well,
39:36
Speaker 2: that's quite possible. Now, look, you won't be too hard
39:39
Speaker 2: on her, will you? I'll make up my own mind
39:41
Speaker 2: what I'll do. all lonely human, you know. All of you,
39:44
Speaker 2: all of.
39:44
Speaker 3: You with your sophisticated ideas. Yeah, ain't it awful?
39:47
Speaker 5: Well, I'm back. What do you want to do about it?
39:49
Speaker 2: Why, you low-speaking... I'll take care of this. Kittredge! Hey, listen, Haven,
39:52
Speaker 2: this is my affair. What right have you... Our husbands.
39:55
Speaker 2: Till tomorrow. You can go now, Kittredge. I'll handle the
39:57
Speaker 2: rest of it. I'll speak to you tomorrow, Haven. Yeah, sure, sure. Hey, Connor,
40:02
Speaker 2: come on, wake up, will you? Oh, how do you feel?
40:07
Speaker 3: Now, look, if you think I did.
40:08
Speaker 2: I know, I know. I'm sorry, but I thought I'd
40:10
Speaker 2: better hit you before he did. He's in better shape
40:12
Speaker 2: than I am. Well, you'll do.
40:16
Speaker 18: Mr.
40:16
Speaker 7: Dexter? Mr.
40:17
Speaker 3: Dexter, is there anything wrong, sir?
40:19
Speaker 2: No. No, not a thing, Mac. Just as quiet as
40:21
Speaker 2: a church. Who?
40:22
Speaker 5: Who's that man there?
40:23
Speaker 2: It's Mr. Conner, Mac. Doggone.
40:25
Speaker 5: I thought it might have been Mr. Kittredge.
40:27
Speaker 2: Well, we can't have everything, Mac. Good night. Good night, sir.
40:31
Speaker 16: Good night.
40:46
Speaker 2: After a brief intermission, Mr. DeMille and our stars Loretta Young,
40:50
Speaker 2: Robert Taylor, and Robert Young will bring us Act Three
40:53
Speaker 2: of The Philadelphia Story. And now, a young lady and
40:57
Speaker 2: a sound that means she's busy.
41:03
Speaker 15: I'm glad it's quitting time.
41:05
Speaker 7: Me for the bus and home.
41:06
Speaker 2: Yes, she's a war plant worker who's put in an
41:09
Speaker 2: intensive day at the machine. And the trip home's not
41:12
Speaker 2: exactly restful either.
41:13
Speaker 5: Step up, please. Step up.
41:15
Speaker 2: That's all.
41:15
Speaker 5: Next bus.
41:16
Speaker 17: Well, let's just hope I can get on the next bus, brother.
41:19
Speaker 2: But at last she's home, and being a wise young woman,
41:23
Speaker 2: it isn't long before.
41:24
Speaker 15: Oh, thank goodness for lots of hot water and a
41:28
Speaker 15: nice new cake of Lux toilet soap.
41:31
Speaker 2: Yes, her Lux soap beauty bath will make her feel
41:34
Speaker 2: like a different girl in no time. Ready to step
41:36
Speaker 2: out for an evening's entertainment and celebration with her soldier beau,
41:39
Speaker 2: who's home on leave.
41:47
Speaker 5: Gosh, Mary, you look fresh as a daisy. Music's swell,
41:51
Speaker 5: isn't it?
41:52
Speaker 3: Maybe it's because I'm dancing with you, I think so.
41:54
Speaker 2: You're so sweet. Well, ask any girl if she doesn't
41:58
Speaker 2: like to hear a man say things like that. No
42:01
Speaker 2: wonder Mary is glad she learned a Hollywood beauty secret.
42:04
Speaker 15: I wouldn't dream of going out without my Luxo bath.
42:07
Speaker 15: A nice soothing bath with that fragrant, creamy lather makes
42:10
Speaker 15: me feel like new in no time. And say, screen
42:13
Speaker 15: stars are right when they tell you a luxe beauty
42:15
Speaker 15: bath makes you really.
42:17
Speaker 7: Sure of dating.
42:18
Speaker 2: Screen stars discovered that their complexion soap, luxe toilet soap,
42:22
Speaker 2: makes the perfect bath soap, too. Active lather whisks away
42:26
Speaker 2: dirt and grime in a twinkling, leaves skin fresh and sweet.
42:30
Speaker 2: You'll find the rich lather makes your skin feel smooth
42:33
Speaker 2: and soft, too. Perfumes it with a delicate fragrance. This
42:37
Speaker 2: gentle white soap is very inexpensive, and it's hard milled.
42:41
Speaker 2: The last and last. Why not try a luxe toilet
42:44
Speaker 2: soap beauty bath tomorrow? Now, Mr. DeMille returns to the microphone.
42:50
Speaker 4: A personal talk with our stars is in the cards
42:52
Speaker 4: following the play. And here's the third act of the
42:55
Speaker 4: Philadelphia story. Starring Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, and Robert Young.
43:06
Speaker 4: The wedding day has dawned bright and fair. And the
43:09
Speaker 4: events of the wedding eve are a thing of the past,
43:13
Speaker 4: particularly for Tracy. She cannot remember anything. She cannot think
43:17
Speaker 4: of anything. Without stopping her eyes open with her fingers,
43:20
Speaker 4: she can't even see anything. To comfort her in this
43:24
Speaker 4: predicament comes the little old comforter, Dinah.
43:29
Speaker 11: How do you feel, Tracy?
43:30
Speaker 2: Oh, fine.
43:31
Speaker 7: You look horrible.
43:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
43:34
Speaker 11: Tracy, I hate you to get married and go away.
43:36
Speaker 7: Well, I'll miss you, darling. I'll miss all of you.
43:39
Speaker 11: You know, I had the funniest dream about you last night.
43:42
Speaker 7: Did you?
43:43
Speaker 11: I dreamed I got up and went over to the window.
43:45
Speaker 11: And guess what I dreamed I saw coming out of
43:47
Speaker 11: the woods?
43:48
Speaker 7: I haven't the faintest idea. It's something.
43:51
Speaker 11: Well, sort of.
43:52
Speaker 7: It was Mr.
43:52
Speaker 11: Conner.
43:55
Speaker 2: Mr.
43:55
Speaker 7: Conner?
43:56
Speaker 11: Yes, with both his arms full of something. And guess
43:59
Speaker 11: what it turned out to be?
44:00
Speaker 13: What?
44:01
Speaker 7: You.
44:02
Speaker 6: Really?
44:04
Speaker 10: Me?
44:04
Speaker 2: Mr.
44:05
Speaker 7: Conner was.
44:05
Speaker 6: Telling you.
44:06
Speaker 11: Wasn't it funny? Looks sort of like you were coming
44:08
Speaker 11: from the pool.
44:09
Speaker 7: The pool? Oh, I'm going crazy. I'm standing here solidly
44:16
Speaker 7: on my own two hands and going crazy. Then what?
44:19
Speaker 11: Then after a while, I opened my door, and there
44:22
Speaker 11: he was in the hall, still coming along with you,
44:24
Speaker 11: talking like a steam engine. His wimp can't be very good.
44:27
Speaker 18: Then what?
44:28
Speaker 7: And you were sort of crooning. Crooning? Yes.
44:33
Speaker 11: Well, let me.
44:35
Speaker 7: Yes. Oh, I couldn't possibly.
44:37
Speaker 11: Then he just sailed right into your room with you,
44:39
Speaker 11: and that scared me so. I got up and went
44:41
Speaker 11: to your door and peeked in to make sure you.
44:42
Speaker 2: Were all right.
44:43
Speaker 11: And guess what?
44:45
Speaker 5: What?
44:45
Speaker 7: You were.
44:46
Speaker 13: Oh.
44:48
Speaker 11: He was gone by then.
44:49
Speaker 7: Gone? Of course he was gone. He was never there.
44:52
Speaker 7: I know, Tracy. Well, I should certainly hope he did.
44:56
Speaker 11: He's just a dream, I guess. Dexter says so, too.
44:59
Speaker 7: Dexter. Darn, Lord, you little fiend. If you told him.
45:03
Speaker 11: Good morning.
45:04
Speaker 2: Oh... Hello.
45:06
Speaker 3: I'm, uh, I'm testing the air.
45:09
Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 2: I like it, but it doesn't like me.
45:13
Speaker 3: Well, hello, Dinah.
45:14
Speaker 11: How do you do, Mr.
45:15
Speaker 7: Conner? Uh, did you have a good fleece?
45:18
Speaker 3: Wonderful, wonderful.
45:19
Speaker 2: You? Oh, marvelous.
45:21
Speaker 7: Have you ever seen a handsome again?
45:22
Speaker 2: Never, never.
45:24
Speaker 3: What did it set you back?
45:25
Speaker 7: Oh, I got it for nothing for being a good girl.
45:27
Speaker 2: Good, good.
45:29
Speaker 3: Oh, Dinah, how are you?
45:31
Speaker 12: Don't worry, I'm going.
45:33
Speaker 7: Why, why shut your eyes.
45:35
Speaker 11: Well, I guess you must have things you wish to discuss. Oh, remember,
45:38
Speaker 11: it's getting late.
45:39
Speaker 7: Oh, she's always trying to make situations.
45:42
Speaker 2: Well?
45:43
Speaker 7: Well? What's the matter with your chin?
45:47
Speaker 2: Chin?
45:47
Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
45:49
Speaker 11: Oh.
45:49
Speaker 5: Does it show very much?
45:50
Speaker 2: A little.
45:52
Speaker 7: What happened?
45:53
Speaker 3: Well, I guess I stuck it.
45:54
Speaker 5: Out too far.
45:55
Speaker 7: Into a door in the dark?
45:57
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, that's it.
45:59
Speaker 7: Oh.
45:59
Speaker 5: Well, Tracy, what about you?
46:03
Speaker 2: You all right?
46:03
Speaker 10: Me?
46:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yes, of course. Why shouldn't I be? I had
46:06
Speaker 7: a simply wonderful evening. I hope you enjoyed it, too.
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed the last part of it. Oh, really?
46:13
Speaker 7: Well, why especially the last part?
46:16
Speaker 5: Why, Tracy, are you asking me?
46:17
Speaker 7: Oh, you mean the swim?
46:19
Speaker 5: Yeah.
46:19
Speaker 7: Oh, we did swim and so forth, didn't we?
46:23
Speaker 2: Of course we.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Tracy, darling.
46:26
Speaker 2: Mike.
46:26
Speaker 5: What can I say to you? Tell me, darling.
46:28
Speaker 7: Oh, not anything. Don't say anything, and especially not darling.
46:32
Speaker 5: Then you're going through with it, huh?
46:34
Speaker 7: Through with what?
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Speaker 2: The wedding.
46:37
Speaker 7: Well, why shouldn't I?
46:39
Speaker 5: Well, you said last night.
46:41
Speaker 7: Oh, I said a lot of things last night, it seems.
46:44
Speaker 5: Okay, no dice. Also, no regrets about last night, huh?
46:49
Speaker 7: Well, why should I?
46:50
Speaker 6: Oh, Tracy, you're wonderful.
46:51
Speaker 7: No, no, you don't know what I mean. I'm asking you.
46:54
Speaker 7: Tell me straight out. Tell me the reason why I
46:55
Speaker 7: should have.
46:56
Speaker 2: Well.
46:57
Speaker 7: No, no, don't. No, don't tell me anything.
47:02
Speaker 10: Come on, Red.
47:10
Speaker 2: Drink this down. Doctor's orders.
47:12
Speaker 7: What is it?
47:13
Speaker 2: Just the juice of a few flowers. It's a type
47:15
Speaker 2: of stinger. Removes the sting.
47:17
Speaker 7: Oh, Dexter, don't say that.
47:19
Speaker 2: Well, why not, Red?
47:21
Speaker 7: Because nothing will. Nothing ever can. Dexter, I've done the
47:24
Speaker 7: most terrible thing to you.
47:26
Speaker 2: To me?
47:26
Speaker 7: Uh-huh.
47:27
Speaker 2: Oh, I doubt that. I doubt it very much, dear.
47:29
Speaker 7: What am I going to do?
47:30
Speaker 2: Why ask me, darling? Where do I come into it anymore?
47:32
Speaker 2: Aren't you confusing me with someone else? A fellow named
47:35
Speaker 2: Kittredge or something?
47:37
Speaker 7: George. I've got to tell George.
47:39
Speaker 2: Tell him what, darling?
47:40
Speaker 7: I've just got to tell him.
47:41
Speaker 2: Well, you've got to tell him. You've got to tell him,
47:42
Speaker 2: I suppose. But if he's got any brains at all,
47:45
Speaker 2: he'll have realized by now what a fool he made
47:47
Speaker 2: of himself.
47:47
Speaker 5: When? Last night.
47:50
Speaker 7: Was he here, too?
47:51
Speaker 2: Sure.
47:51
Speaker 7: Well, good golly, why didn't you sell tickets? Oh, oh,
47:56
Speaker 7: say something, Dexter. Say anything.
47:58
Speaker 2: No, you do.
48:00
Speaker 13: Oh, I'm such an unholy mess.
48:04
Speaker 11: Of a girl.
48:06
Speaker 2: That's no good. That's not even conversation.
48:07
Speaker 13: But never in my life, not if I live to
48:09
Speaker 13: be a hundred, will I ever forget how you tried
48:11
Speaker 13: to stand me on my feet again today.
48:13
Speaker 2: Oh, you're in great shape. Uh, tell me, what did
48:16
Speaker 2: you think of my wedding present? I like my presents
48:18
Speaker 2: at least acknowledged, you know.
48:21
Speaker 7: It was beautiful.
48:22
Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
48:23
Speaker 7: And sweet, Dex.
48:24
Speaker 5: Yeah.
48:26
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was quite a boat, the true love. My,
48:28
Speaker 2: she was yar.
48:30
Speaker 7: She was yar. I wasn't, was I?
48:34
Speaker 2: Not very. Oh, but you were good at the bright work, though.
48:37
Speaker 7: I made her shine.
48:38
Speaker 13: Mm-hmm.
48:39
Speaker 2: I'm designing another one now, along more practical lines.
48:41
Speaker 7: Well, what'll you call her?
48:43
Speaker 2: I thought the true love the second.
48:44
Speaker 13: Dexter, if you call any boat that, I promise you
48:47
Speaker 13: I'll blow you and it right.
48:48
Speaker 7: Out of the water. Well, I'll tell you what you
48:52
Speaker 7: can call her if you like.
48:53
Speaker 2: What?
48:54
Speaker 13: In fond remembrance of me, the easy virtue.
48:57
Speaker 2: Oh, now, shut up, Fred. I can't have you thinking
48:59
Speaker 2: things like that about yourself.
49:00
Speaker 7: What am I supposed to think when I.
49:02
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't know.
49:03
Speaker 16: I don't know anything anymore.
49:05
Speaker 2: Well, that sounds very hopeful, Red. That sounds just fine.
49:08
Speaker 7: Really?
49:08
Speaker 11: We're almost ready.
49:09
Speaker 7: Stand up, dear. Let me see your dress. Mother.
49:12
Speaker 10: Yes, dear.
49:12
Speaker 7: It's lovely. George will be right over.
49:15
Speaker 2: Oh, here.
49:16
Speaker 7: I forgot.
49:16
Speaker 11: Here's a note he sent you this morning.
49:17
Speaker 2: A note?
49:18
Speaker 7: Oh, good morning, Mr.
49:19
Speaker 3: Connor, and hello.
49:20
Speaker 7: Miss Henry. Good morning. Oh, by the way, Dexter, a Mrs.
49:23
Speaker 7: Sidney Kidd telephoned. I was to tell you that you'll win.
49:26
Speaker 7: Whatever on earth does that mean?
49:28
Speaker 5: Oh, fine. Well, I have a feeling it won't be
49:30
Speaker 5: so hard for me to resign now.
49:32
Speaker 7: And belts will be worn tighter this winter.
49:34
Speaker 2: Well, Red, I'm afraid this is the deadline.
49:36
Speaker 7: Yes, so is this. Listen, everybody. It's from George.
49:39
Speaker 5: George.
49:40
Speaker 13: My dear Tracy, I want you to know that you
49:43
Speaker 13: will always be my friend, but your conduct last night
49:46
Speaker 13: was so shocking to my ideals of womanhood that my
49:49
Speaker 13: attitude toward you and the prospect of a happy married
49:52
Speaker 13: life together has changed materially.
49:54
Speaker 5: Tracy!
49:56
Speaker 7: Oh, hello, George. Come and listen.
49:59
Speaker 2: Tracy, in front of all these people.
50:01
Speaker 13: Well, it's only a letter from a friend, and these
50:02
Speaker 13: are my friends, too.
50:04
Speaker 7: Here, everybody, here's the last of it.
50:06
Speaker 13: Your breach of common decency certainly entitles me to a
50:09
Speaker 13: full explanation before going.
50:11
Speaker 7: Through with our proposed marriage. In the light of day,
50:14
Speaker 7: I am sure that you will agree with me. Well, yes, George.
50:19
Speaker 7: I do agree with you.
50:21
Speaker 2: That's all you have to say?
50:22
Speaker 7: What else?
50:23
Speaker 2: On the very eve of your wedding, an affair with
50:25
Speaker 2: another man.
50:25
Speaker 5: Now, wait a minute.
50:27
Speaker 6: Kittredge, it may interest you to know that this so-called
50:29
Speaker 6: affair consisted of exactly two kisses and a rather late swim.
50:32
Speaker 7: Oh, thanks, Mike, but there's no need to defend me.
50:34
Speaker 6: After which, I deposited Tracy in her room and promptly
50:37
Speaker 6: returned down here to you two, which doubtless you'll remember.
50:39
Speaker 2: Doubtless? Without a doubt. You mean to say that was
50:42
Speaker 2: all there was to it?
50:43
Speaker 7: I do.
50:44
Speaker 8: Why, Mike?
50:46
Speaker 13: Was I so unattractive, so distant, so forbidding, or something
50:49
Speaker 13: that you.
50:50
Speaker 5: Well, this is fine talk, too.
50:51
Speaker 7: Now, just a minute. I'm asking a question.
50:52
Speaker 5: You were extremely attractive, but you were also a little
50:56
Speaker 5: the worse.
50:57
Speaker 2: Or better, for wine.
50:59
Speaker 5: And there are rules about that.
51:01
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you, Mike. I think men are wonderful. The
51:06
Speaker 7: little dears.
51:08
Speaker 2: Then if it hadn't been for the drink last night,
51:10
Speaker 2: all of this might not have happened.
51:11
Speaker 7: Well, apparently nothing did happen. Oh, what made you think
51:14
Speaker 7: it had?
51:14
Speaker 2: No, I'm not going to quibble, Tracy. Let bygones be bygones.
51:17
Speaker 2: What do you say? Yes.
51:20
Speaker 7: And goodbye, George.
51:22
Speaker 2: I don't understand.
51:22
Speaker 7: Well, you're too good for me, George. You're a hundred
51:24
Speaker 7: times too good.
51:25
Speaker 2: Oh, but I never said that.
51:26
Speaker 7: I'd make you the most unhappy that... Well, that is,
51:28
Speaker 7: I do my best to.
51:30
Speaker 2: All right. Possibly it's just as well. Yes, I thought
51:34
Speaker 2: you'd finally come to that conclusion. I have a feeling
51:36
Speaker 2: you had more to do with this than anyone. Possibly,
51:38
Speaker 2: but you were a great help. You and your rotten class. Class,
51:41
Speaker 2: my eye. You're on the way out, the lot of you.
51:43
Speaker 5: And good riddance. Well, there goes George.
51:50
Speaker 11: Hey, come on.
51:52
Speaker 7: They're waiting for you.
51:55
Speaker 16: Oh, my saint of hands.
52:02
Speaker 7: Shut the door. Shut the door. Dexter, did you see
52:05
Speaker 7: them out there? That welter of faces.
52:07
Speaker 2: Why, they look solemn.
52:09
Speaker 7: What in the name of all this holy am I
52:10
Speaker 7: going to do?
52:11
Speaker 5: Tracy.
52:11
Speaker 7: Yes, my dear?
52:12
Speaker 5: Now, look, I got you into this thing and I'll
52:13
Speaker 5: get you out of it. Will you marry me, Tracy?
52:16
Speaker 7: Oh, thanks, Mike. Thanks, but no.
52:21
Speaker 5: Well, why not?
52:23
Speaker 7: Well, because... Because I don't think Liz would like it.
52:27
Speaker 7: And I'm not so sure you would. And I'm even
52:30
Speaker 7: a little doubtful about myself. But I'm beholden to you, Mike.
52:35
Speaker 7: I'm most beholden.
52:37
Speaker 5: But they're in there.
52:37
Speaker 2: They're waiting.
52:38
Speaker 8: Now, Mike, don't get too conventional all at once, will you?
52:41
Speaker 7: There'll be a reaction.
52:41
Speaker 2: Cheer up, Red. It'll be all right. You've been got
52:43
Speaker 2: out of jams before. Tracy. Mother.
52:45
Speaker 8: It's all right, dear.
52:46
Speaker 7: Your father will make a very simple announcement.
52:48
Speaker 5: Is there anything special you want me to say, Tracy?
52:50
Speaker 7: No. No, I'll say it. Whatever it is, I'll say it.
52:54
Speaker 7: I won't be got out of anything anymore, thanks. Tell
52:57
Speaker 7: them to stop the music.
52:58
Speaker 2: Tracy, listen.
52:58
Speaker 7: Dexter, what can I say?
53:00
Speaker 2: Just open that door and, uh, well, go ahead. I'll
53:02
Speaker 2: prompt you.
53:02
Speaker 7: Yes. Ladies and gentlemen....
53:10
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, two years ago, I did you out
53:13
Speaker 2: of a wedding in this house by eloping to Maryland.
53:15
Speaker 13: Two years ago, when you were invited to a wedding
53:18
Speaker 13: in this house, and then I did you out of
53:20
Speaker 13: it by eloping to Maryland.
53:22
Speaker 2: Which was very bad manners.
53:24
Speaker 7: Which was very bad manners.
53:25
Speaker 2: But I hope to make it up to you by
53:27
Speaker 2: going through with it now as originally planned.
53:29
Speaker 7: But I hope to make it up to you by.
53:32
Speaker 13: by going beautifully through with it now as originally and
53:35
Speaker 13: most beautifully planned.
53:36
Speaker 2: So if you'll just keep your seats for a minute.
53:38
Speaker 7: So if you'll just keep your seats for a minute.
53:41
Speaker 10: That's all.
53:42
Speaker 7: Dexter, are you sure?
53:43
Speaker 2: Not in the least, but I'll risk it, will you?
53:45
Speaker 7: Oh, you bet. You didn't do it just to soften
53:46
Speaker 7: the blow, did you?
53:47
Speaker 2: Oh, Tracy.
53:48
Speaker 7: No, to save my.
53:48
Speaker 2: No, it's a nice little face.
53:50
Speaker 13: Oh, Dexter, I'll be yar now.
53:52
Speaker 7: I promise you I'll be yar.
53:53
Speaker 2: Be whatever you like. You're my redhead. Are you all set?
53:56
Speaker 2: All set. You'll be the best man, Mike.
53:57
Speaker 5: Honored, C.K.
53:58
Speaker 7: Maid of honor, Liz.
53:59
Speaker 8: Matron of honor.
54:00
Speaker 7: Remember Joe Smith? How did this ever happen?
54:02
Speaker 2: Come on. Let's get in there. See you soon, Red.
54:04
Speaker 7: See you soon, Dexter.
54:05
Speaker 3: Tracy, darling, may I kiss you?
54:07
Speaker 7: Oh, Father. Father, you're not losing a daughter. You're gaining one.
54:11
Speaker 5: Don't you think I know that?
54:12
Speaker 7: I love you, Father.
54:13
Speaker 5: I love you, too, Tracy.
54:15
Speaker 7: Never in my whole life have I been so full
54:17
Speaker 7: of love before.
54:18
Speaker 5: Come along. Come along.
54:19
Speaker 7: Oh, wait a minute. How do I look?
54:21
Speaker 5: Like a queen. Like a goddess.
54:23
Speaker 7: And do you know how I feel?
54:24
Speaker 5: How?
54:26
Speaker 7: Like a human. Like a human being.
54:52
Speaker 4: For sheer entertainment, I think we're going to have trouble
54:55
Speaker 4: finding plays and stars that top tonight's performance. And here's
55:00
Speaker 4: the trio responsible. Loretta Young, Robert Taylor, and Robert Young.
55:04
Speaker 7: Oh, thank you, Mr. DeMille. You know, you've completed the
55:07
Speaker 7: circle tonight.
55:08
Speaker 5: No, I've gone around in circles before, Loretta.
55:11
Speaker 13: No, no, I mean that Bob Taylor and Bob Young
55:14
Speaker 13: have made a picture together. And I've made a picture
55:16
Speaker 13: with each of them. And here we are, all together
55:19
Speaker 13: in one play.
55:20
Speaker 5: Cozy, isn't it?
55:24
Speaker 2: Why didn't you tip me off, Bob?
55:26
Speaker 5: Well, uh.
55:27
Speaker 7: We're hearing double tonight, Mr.
55:28
Speaker 5: DeMille.
55:29
Speaker 4: Well, our cast is a little on the young side, too.
55:35
Speaker 4: Loretta Young.
55:38
Speaker 5: Loretta Young and Bob Young.
55:41
Speaker 2: Don't you get it?
55:42
Speaker 5: We don't want it.
55:44
Speaker 2: You put a couple of puns like that in the
55:46
Speaker 2: story of Dr. Wazzles, A.B., and Gary Kruple tosses a
55:49
Speaker 2: six-shooter at you.
55:51
Speaker 5: He does that very well, Bob.
55:52
Speaker 2: Yes. But in Dr.
55:53
Speaker 4: Wastel, he plays a simple country doctor who shows the
55:57
Speaker 4: world the heroism of mercy.
55:59
Speaker 2: And when do you start shooting, C.B.? In about three weeks, Bob.
56:02
Speaker 7: Well, good luck with the picture, and don't work too hard, Mr. DeMille.
56:06
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56:26
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Speaker 4: Monday night will be Ronald Coleman with Edna Best. This
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Speaker 4: play takes a single ship and follows her and her
56:45
Speaker 4: crew from the day of her proud launching to the
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Speaker 2: Well, I, for one, will be listening to that play, C.B.
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Speaker 6: Now, Bob, I know that I speak for the entire
56:56
Speaker 6: audience in wishing you every good fortune until you come
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Speaker 6: back here again.
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Speaker 4: Very soon, ladies and gentlemen, Robert Taylor enters the service
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Speaker 7: Happy landing, Bob.
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58:24
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58:39
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