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  Speaker 1: Dorothy McGuire returns to the role of Jane Morgan, joined
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  Speaker 1: by Frank Lovejoy as Dr. Bill Wright. On November 16th, 1954,
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  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater brought the 1950 20th Century Fox comedy-drama
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  Speaker 1: Mother Didn't Tell Me to Radio in episode 897. McGuire
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  Speaker 1: had played Jane in the film, adapted from Mary Bard's
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  Speaker 1: book The Doctor Wears Three Faces. Jane, an advertising jingle writer,
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  Speaker 1: meets Bill after days of rain leave her seeking treatment
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  Speaker 1: for a cold. Their swift courtship leads toward marriage and
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  Speaker 1: the adjustments demanded by a doctor's professional life. Producer Irving
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  Speaker 1: Cummings introduces this Armed Forces Radio and Television Service presentation.
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  Speaker 1: And now, the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Hollywood. The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
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  Speaker 2: brings you the Hollywood Radio Theater, starring Dorothy McGuire and
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  Speaker 2: Frank Lovejoy in Mother Didn't Tell Me.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. In tonight's play, Mother
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  Speaker 4: Didn't Tell Me, Our domestic problem concerns a doctor's young
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  Speaker 4: bride who is eager to be a perfect wife, but
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  Speaker 4: is frustrated by her lack of medical knowledge and the
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  Speaker 4: appearance in her husband's office of an attractive feminine associate.
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  Speaker 4: And as our stars of this modern comedy drama from
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  Speaker 4: 20th Century Fox, we have Dorothy McGuire and Frank Lovejoy. Now,
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  Speaker 4: act one of Mother Didn't Tell Me, starring Dorothy McGuire
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  Speaker 4: as Jane and Frank Lovejoy as Bill. If that rainstorm
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  Speaker 4: hadn't drenched the city for five whole days a night,
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  Speaker 4: this story might never have happened. And if Jane Morgan
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  Speaker 4: hadn't stubbornly walked to work day after day through all
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  Speaker 4: that downpour, She might never have found herself in the
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  Speaker 4: reception room of William Wright, M.D.
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  Speaker 5: And your address, Miss Morgan?
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  Speaker 6: 2795 West 9th Street, Apartment 2.
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  Speaker 5: Your telephone?
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  Speaker 6: Fitzroy, 5103. Occupation? I'm with an advertising company.
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  Speaker 3: Oh!
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  Speaker 5: All right, if you'll follow me, Miss Morgan. Sit down here.
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  Speaker 5: The doctor will be with you in just a moment.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. Miss Morgan is waiting, doctor.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be right out as soon as I check the
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  Speaker 3: sex rate.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, doctor.
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  Speaker 7: It's quite a cough, Miss Morgan.
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  Speaker 6: What? What?
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  Speaker 3: That cough, is that why you're here?
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: It started with a cold, but it's been getting worse
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  Speaker 6: all week.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think it might be something serious?
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  Speaker 3: It might, to a bull moose. By the way, how'd
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  Speaker 3: you happen to come to me?
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  Speaker 6: A girlfriend of mine recommended you. Betty Duran?
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  Speaker 3: Betty Duran?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it was two or three years ago.
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  Speaker 6: And I've never had anything wrong until now. I remember
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  Speaker 6: that she said that you were so kind and fatherly.
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  Speaker 5: Now, if you'll take off your coat... You're Dr. Wright?
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh. Remove your coat, please.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: And your blouse.
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  Speaker 5: My blouse? Oh, no, I can't.
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  Speaker 3: You can't.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I couldn't.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, Betty said you were so, but you aren't
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  Speaker 6: at all.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, why are you so young?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Dr. Wright your friend was talking about was
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  Speaker 3: my father. When he died, I took over his practice.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 3: You think you could open your mouth and put out
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  Speaker 3: your tongue?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 5: I'll say ah. Oh.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I said.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: And so boy meets girl, or rather doctor meets inflamed
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  Speaker 4: throat and girl. Well, girl meets two tablespoons of cough
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  Speaker 4: syrup on the hour every hour.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 5: Ah.
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  Speaker 3: Ah.
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  Speaker 4: It's a long, lonely evening for Jane Morgan, that is,
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  Speaker 4: until she curls up with a good book, the telephone directory.
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Wright's residence.
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
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  Speaker 5: William Wright?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Who is this?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, this is Miss Evans of the Daily Mirror.
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  Speaker 5: Is this Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Wright?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this is Mrs. Wright. Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you see, we're conducting a poll among doctors' wives
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  Speaker 6: to see, quote, do.
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  Speaker 5: Doctors make good husbands, unquote. Well, I happen to be
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  Speaker 5: a doctor's widow. And if this is in regard to
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  Speaker 5: my son, his wife can't be quoted because he hasn't anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Quote or unquote.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, he hasn't. Oh, I beg your pardon, and thank
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  Speaker 6: you so much.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 6: Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Wright?
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  Speaker 9: This is he speaking.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, well, this is Jane Morgan, and you asked me
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  Speaker 6: to call you if I felt worse. Could you come
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  Speaker 6: right over, right away? I feel just terrible.
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  Speaker 5: The door's unlocked out there.
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  Speaker 6: It's Morgan.
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  Speaker 5: It's Morgan.
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  Speaker 6: Who?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry, doctor. I was changing.
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  Speaker 3: Haven't you got anything heavier you could wear?
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  Speaker 6: Well, yes, but I like this better.
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  Speaker 3: That's a pneumonia trap.
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  Speaker 5: You mean you don't like it?
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  Speaker 3: Leave it back in the bed.
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  Speaker 5: But, doctor... All right, now. Yes, doctor. Disinfectant at $ 20
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  Speaker 5: an ounce.
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  Speaker 3: Hold out your lips, please.
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  Speaker 5: Well... Oh.
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: You don't feel as if you have a fever. Your
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  Speaker 3: pulse seems all right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you talk as if that's bad.
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  Speaker 3: You told me you were feeling worse.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I... I was. But that was half an hour ago.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry if I disappointed you.
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: How's your cough?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, it's much better. In fact, if you'll let me,
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  Speaker 6: I'll go back to work tomorrow.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that depends.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of work?
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  Speaker 6: Radio promotion. You know, writing stuff for an advertising company.
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  Speaker 5: I see.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I guess you'll be up to that. Meanwhile, you
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  Speaker 3: better get a good night's sleep and give me a
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  Speaker 3: call in a day or so and let me know
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  Speaker 3: how you're doing.
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  Speaker 5: Doctor? Yes? I'd much prefer it if you'd call me.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Good night.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Miss Morgan?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Dinner Thursday?
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  Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, Doctor.
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  Speaker 3: Now, good night.
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  Speaker 10: Good night.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, and I do like those, uh, pajamas. Good night.
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  Speaker 6: I can't imagine where in the world we're eating. I
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  Speaker 6: don't know this district at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I have a confession to make.
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Would you mind if I made one house call before dinner?
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  Speaker 3: It would take over five minutes.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, why not at all? Is this the place? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Only five minutes. Try the radio if you like.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 11: This is it, you cat.
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  Speaker 12: Sixty minutes of solid jive with your old pal, Peter Pepper.
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  Speaker 3: And when I say solid, I mean we've got flatters
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  Speaker 3: so hot the shellac is bubbling.
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  Speaker 5: Well, kids, you've had it, and I hope you liked it.
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  Speaker 12: So plant me now and dig me tomorrow. Same time,
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  Speaker 12: same station.
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  Speaker 6: Five minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Paper, paper, final edition. Paper me? No, thanks, but I
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  Speaker 5: wonder if you'd do me a favor, please.
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  Speaker 12: Like what?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm waiting for a gentleman to come out of
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  Speaker 6: that apartment house over there. He's a doctor and he'll
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  Speaker 6: be carrying a black bag.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so?
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  Speaker 6: Well, if you see him, would you tell him that
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  Speaker 6: I've gone for some cigarettes with a drugstore across the street?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, a guy with a black bag, huh?
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  Speaker 7: Like, uh, maybe the one getting out of that coop
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  Speaker 7: or getting into the coop right now?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, good heavens! Bill!
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  Speaker 9: Bill!
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Wright!
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  Speaker 3: Doctor!
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Doc! Ah, Dr.
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  Speaker 6: Wright, I'll bet. Go on.
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  Speaker 5: Bring as long as you want.
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  Speaker 6: See if I'll let you in.
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  Speaker 5: Jane? Jane?
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  Speaker 6: I thought I locked my front door. Oh, but you didn't.
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  Speaker 3: Jane, I'm sorry I was late.
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  Speaker 5: Late? Is that all you're sorry about?
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  Speaker 6: It's perfectly all right, I suppose, to drive off without me,
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  Speaker 6: letting me chase after your car like a mongrel dog,
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  Speaker 6: barking my head off.
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  Speaker 3: No, I thought you'd gone. I thought you got tired
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  Speaker 3: of waiting and gone home.
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  Speaker 6: And if you thought that, why didn't you come straight here?
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  Speaker 6: That was over two hours ago.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I got an emergency call while I was in
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  Speaker 3: the apartment, and when I came out, I didn't see you.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I just went up the street for some cigarettes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, well, I'm really sorry. You smelled something burning?
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my bacon and eggs.
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  Speaker 6: Now, see what you've done.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I'm sorry again. You got any more eggs?
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  Speaker 6: Yes. And I think I've got some bacon, too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, then leave the rest to me.
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  Speaker 5: Well, don't you think that I ought to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do definitely. You ought to change out of
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  Speaker 3: that bathrobe and take the curlers out of your hair.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 5: We were going to the Oakville?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I had a table all reserved. The only place
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  Speaker 3: in town where a head waiter recognizes me. The only
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  Speaker 3: trouble is he recognizes me as Mr. Drudnick.
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  Speaker 5: Who's Mr. Drudnick? I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Every time he calls me Drudnick, I try to tell
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  Speaker 3: him my correct name. I say, it's right, and he
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  Speaker 3: grins and says, yeah, I never forget a name. That's right, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Drudnick. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Something wrong?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 6: No, I was just wondering where you learned to be
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  Speaker 6: such a good cook.
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  Speaker 3: My mother taught me. She believes every man should be
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  Speaker 3: completely self-sufficient.
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  Speaker 5: Completely?
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  Speaker 6: But she keeps house for you, doesn't she?
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  Speaker 3: How'd you know?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I, uh, just womanly intuition.
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  Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 3: Where are your folks?
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  Speaker 6: They were killed in an accident about five years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Ever since then, you been on your own?
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Lonely, isn't it? Mm-hmm, sometimes.
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  Speaker 5: But not now?
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  Speaker 6: No, not now.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 5: Hello? Yes? Yes, he is.
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  Speaker 6: Bill?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I always have to leave a number where I can
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  Speaker 3: be reached. Dr. Wright speaking. Oh, yes, Mrs. O'Shanky. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you must take my word for it. Mr. O'Shanky isn't dying.
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  Speaker 3: If you'll just give him one or two of those
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  Speaker 3: little brown pills, it.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: O'Shanky.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be there in about ten minutes.
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  Speaker 5: What's wrong with Mr.
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  Speaker 6: O'Shanky?
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  Speaker 5: His wife.
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  Speaker 3: As long as I can remember, that man's been dying
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  Speaker 3: on an average of four nights a week. Let me see.
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  Speaker 3: Do I have an overcoat?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, here it is.
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  Speaker 3: How about tomorrow night?
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 3: And Friday night?
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  Speaker 6: Possibly.
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  Speaker 3: And Saturday night?
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  Speaker 6: If you'll include Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: I remember now. Don't laugh when the head waiter calls
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  Speaker 3: me Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Drudman. I promise.
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  Speaker 6: Why are we stopping?
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  Speaker 3: Just a quick house call.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, you don't. But I'll be back in five minutes.
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  Speaker 5: You're right.
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  Speaker 6: I refuse to spend the best evenings of my life
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  Speaker 6: sitting alone in a car.
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  Speaker 5: Unless... Unless what?
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  Speaker 6: Unless you assure me right here and now that your
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  Speaker 6: intentions are serious.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you mean marriage.
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  Speaker 6: I do.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I was going to ask you tonight anyway.
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  Speaker 9: You were?
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  Speaker 5: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: When I get back, remind me to show you the ring. Bill!
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: Doesn't this at least rate a tear?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sure. Okay, I'll be back in five minutes. Hmm.
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  Speaker 5: Five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are again, cat.
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  Speaker 1: Get your old pal, Peter Pepper, back for another 60
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  Speaker 1: minutes of solid jazz.
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  Speaker 6: It's a darling house, Bill.
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  Speaker 5: It looks just like some place that you've lived.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was really Mother's choice. We bought it after
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  Speaker 3: Dad died.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Bill, would you wait just a moment?
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  Speaker 3: Is something wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I feel like an actress would on an
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  Speaker 6: opening night. I do so want to make a good
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  Speaker 6: impression on your mother.
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  Speaker 3: Billy, there isn't a thing to worry about.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I just wish your mother hadn't gone to all
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  Speaker 6: that trouble of fixing dinner.
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  Speaker 5: Mother?
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  Speaker 3: Mother?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Bill, I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 6: I tried to reach you at the office.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Is something wrong?
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  Speaker 6: And this is Jane, of course. Oh, I'm so glad
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  Speaker 6: to meet you, Mrs. Wright.
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  Speaker 3: Mother, you said you tried to reach me.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. I started to cook dinner, and then one
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  Speaker 5: of those awful headaches started.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't been able to do a thing.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps I can fix it now, if you don't mind
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  Speaker 5: a late dinner. Oh, we wouldn't think of it, Mrs.
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  Speaker 6: Wright.
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  Speaker 5: Why, Bill and I can eat out.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you're going to bed where you belong. I'll go
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  Speaker 3: get your phenobotan.
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  Speaker 5: My dear, I'm going to have to come right to
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  Speaker 5: the point. You're rushing into this marriage too quickly. Mrs. Wright,
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  Speaker 5: you have no idea what it is to be a
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  Speaker 5: doctor's wife. What's so unusual about a doctor? He's a man. Ah,
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  Speaker 5: but of a special breed. And only a woman of
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  Speaker 5: a special breed can make him happy. My dear, I'm
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  Speaker 5: only trying to help you.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'd like to believe that, Mrs. Wright.
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  Speaker 5: But if Bill and I should go ahead... If we marry,
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  Speaker 5: there will be no interference from me.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. By the way, has Bill mentioned Helen?
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  Speaker 5: Helen?
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  Speaker 6: Helen Porter.
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  Speaker 5: I can see that he hasn't. Well, perhaps it's best
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  Speaker 5: that way.
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  Speaker 9: Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Wright, I'm sure that whenever Bill is back.
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  Speaker 3: You take this tablet, and if that doesn't work, you
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  Speaker 3: try another one in an hour, and you'll get into
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  Speaker 3: bed right now. Yes, dear.
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  Speaker 5: You'll be home early, won't you? I doubt it.
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  Speaker 6: Good night, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Wright. Good night. Oh, Jane. Yes? Remember woman to woman?
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  Speaker 5: All right. Woman to woman. Hmm. Secrets already? Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: Secrets already.
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  Speaker 5: Good night, my dear.
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  Speaker 3: Good night, Mother. Jane, what is it?
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  Speaker 5: What is what?
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  Speaker 3: Well, something's come over you. I noticed it the moment
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  Speaker 3: I came back into the room. Is it something Mother said,
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  Speaker 3: some of that woman-to-woman stuff?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Bill, it was.
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, there's only one thing that matters, Bill. One thing
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  Speaker 6: I've just got to know. Do you really love me?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, enough to marry me and to forget and
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  Speaker 6: forsake all others?
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  Speaker 3: That's part of the marriage vow, isn't it, honey? Of
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  Speaker 3: course I'm willing.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, darling.
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  Speaker 6: And as long as I know that.
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  Speaker 10: I can take whatever comes.
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  Speaker 6: Now our producer, Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Cummings.
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  Speaker 4: Act II of Mother Didn't Tell Me, starring Dorothy McGuire
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  Speaker 4: as Jane and Frank Lovejoy as Bill. A few days later,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Jane and Bill became Dr. and Mrs. William Wright. After
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: the ceremony, the wedding party rushed Jane and Bill to
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the depot just in time to push them aboard the
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: train for Detroit.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's right.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: I said Detroit.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Hmm.
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: Hello, Miss Morris.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Away from California and patients for two glorious weeks.
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: Bill, how did you happen to pick Detroit?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, you'll love it, honey.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm sure I will, but.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: How about a kiss?
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Darling, just how was it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: That you happened to pick.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Detroit for our honeymoon?
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Well.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: See, there's going to be a convention there.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Convention?
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a medical convention. See, I thought it wouldn't
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: hurt to have something to do on our honeymoon.
• 20:00
  Speaker 9: That's true.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Are you all mine too?
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: Oh, of course not.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, boy, I'll feel human again when I get off
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: these new shoes. Bill?
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Who is Helen?
• 20:16
  Speaker 6: Helen? Yes, Helen Porter. Hmm.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: My mother told you about her, huh?
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Not really. That's what I want you to do.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Well, there's nothing much to tell. Helen Porter worked in
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: my office to get enough money to complete her medical schooling.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: I promised when she finished her internship I'd take her
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: into my office as my associate.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: Why did you promise that?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, because I like to see her get a
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: good start. And besides, she's a brilliant woman.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: And attractive?
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, so that's it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: If you mean was I ever interested in her, the
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: answer is no.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: And does she know that?
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Oh, darling, what do we care? She isn't even in town.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: She's studying in the East. She won't be back for
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: two whole years. Yes, who is it?
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: The doctor.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, just a second. Dr.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: William Wright?
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: A medical doctor?
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: We had you down on our passenger list, but I
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: wasn't sure. There's a woman up in the next car.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Had some sort of.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: A heart spell. Oh, all right.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: I'll be right with you. Let me get my bag.
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: Bill, surely you aren't the only doctor on the train.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm the handiest. I'll be back as soon as
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I can.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Bill!
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: No more argument, Jane. I want you to come inside
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: with me on this house call.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: But why? The very first hour we get back.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: In town, why must we... Because Mr.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: And Mrs. O'Shanky want to meet you, dear.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: They live here?
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: In this.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: this mansion? Welcome home, children.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: Oh, Mrs.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: Wright. Hi, Mother.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Everything okay? Yes.
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I'm on my way back to the house right now
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: to bring over the rest of your suit. I'll be
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: back in a few minutes.
• 22:05
  Speaker 6: Bill, I.
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: Suppose you step inside and see.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: Now go on, inside.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Bill, you think he don't live here?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: No, no, we do.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: What?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Well, at least for three months. Completely furnished house, free
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: for nothing, thanks to one of my GPs. GPs?
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Otherwise known of the trade as a grateful patient. Hello, Pete.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Good to see you. Darling, you remember Pete Roberts, don't you?
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: Oh, of course.
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: You were in our wedding party.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Obstetrician extraordinaire.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: At your service. At least I hope to be.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, goodness, don't rush it.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: Come on, Bill. Let's build some drinks. Sure. Hi, down there.
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: How about giving me a hand? Hmm?
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: What? I'm Maggie, Pete's wife. Oh.
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: Come on upstairs and tell me how you want your
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: things unpacked.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Right away.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: You look like you just stepped off a merry-go-round going
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: full tilt.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: Oh, I feel it, too. This beautiful house with Bill
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: and all our wonderful friends.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, I've got so much to live up to. Uh-uh,
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: none of that.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, I mean it. I'm going to dedicate my life
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: to Bill and his work.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: His life is medicine, and my life will be medicine. Hmm,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I wish I had a bedroom like this.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: I think you'll find all of your belongings here. Pete
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: and I moved them over from your apartment.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Oh. Hmm. I don't see any of my books. Books? Yes,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: medical books. I bought them as.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Soon as Bill and I got engaged. You read medical books?
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Well, certainly.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: I'm studying so that when Bill comes home in the evening,
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: I'll be able to sit and discuss his work intelligently
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: with him.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: For instance, do you know that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: that peptic ulcer is the sharply demarcated loss of tissue...
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: which begins in the duodema, mucosa, and extends to the submucosa?
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Hmm. Well, what's wrong? Nothing, honey. Nothing that time won't cure.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Mrs.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Todd, this is Jane Wright. Yes.
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: Yes. I'm hoping that you and Dr. Todd can come
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: for cocktails and dinner tomorrow evening.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Mrs.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Hamilton. Then I'll be expecting you and Dr. But Maggie,
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: it's Bill's birthday. He's just got to bring you.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, do you think it's going all right, Maggie?
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Look, honey, just relax.
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Well, I wish all the men wouldn't bunch up together
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: at one end of the room. I feel I'm missing
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: out on things.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: You aren't. They're just talking medicine.
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: Well, then, I guess I can too.
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: Jane, no.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: Come back here. Sure, it was a haptic ulcer.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: There's no two ways about it.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Well, I read a report.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, I read a report by Dodson on an endocarditis case.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, speaking of.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Ulcers, gentlemen, I understand that they result from embolism of
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: the gastric juices of mucosa.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Darling, how's dinner coming along?
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: We'll be ready in ten minutes.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Fine.
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Frank, tell us about that repair of the diaphragm in
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: which there was a penetrating ulcer.
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Well, as I remember it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's a result from the embolism of the gastric mucosa.
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: Child, is there something on your mind? Well, I beg
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: your pardon? Well, why are you.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Quoting a discarded theory from an obviously dated medical book?
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: Take it.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: From what you've.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Memorized, it sounds as if it was printed about 1905.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Oh. Darling, how.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: About getting me a refill right away?
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, yes, yes. Oh, I don't intend to interfere
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: in my son's life. But I can't help but think
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: how different things might have been. Mother? Oh. Why, Jane,
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: was this something? Well, I just wanted to ask if
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: you'd like another cocktail. Oh, thank you.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: I'll answer it, Bill. That's okay, honey.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: I got it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: Hello?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Yes, this is Dr.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Wright.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: Bill, if that's a patient, why don't you.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, I see. Oh, certainly.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: I'll be right over it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: Bill, you can't.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: It's your birthday.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, darling. It's an emergency. Save a piece of
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: cake for me.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Bill!
• 26:41
  Speaker 11: See what I mean, honey?
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Welcome to the royal order of neglected wives. Maggie, you're
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: a doctor's wife. How am I going to put in
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: my time? I'll die of loneliness. What do I do? Well,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: there's one solution that's worked since the beginning of time.
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: Have a baby.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Jane?
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: You awake? Yes.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: I'm terribly sorry, dear. I had to go to the hospital.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: It doesn't matter.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I bet it was a great party.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Until all the men left. The phone kept ringing for one.
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: Doctor after another.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jane, you've been crying?
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: I only tried to talk about medicine so you'd be
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: proud of me. I've read book after book so I
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: could show your friend and your mother that I'm as
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: intelligent and good for you as Helen Porter.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Oh, so that's what that was all about. All right,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: now let's forget Helen Porter. Turn on the light. I
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: want to show you some photographs.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: What kind of photographs?
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Our new house, the one we just bought.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: Bill!
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I got it from another grateful patient. He showed
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: me these snapshots. Said he was putting the house on
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: the market tomorrow, but for me, he'd cut the price
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: way down. So I gave him a check before he
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: could change his mind.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: You mean you haven't even seen the house?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: I didn't have time, darling, but the very first thing tomorrow.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Yes, the very first thing.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: The End.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: This door seems to be stuck.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: You're sure this is the right address?
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: Of course I am. Somehow, the house looked bigger.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: In the photograph.
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: And the paint wasn't peeling. Guess I'll have to force
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: this door. Enter, madame. Where's the furniture?
• 28:52
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I could have sworn the man said it went with
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: the place.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Well, maybe it did, but everything else is certainly real gone.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Hey, the kitchen looks pretty good. See, you've got a
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: nice view of the garden.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: What was that?
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: I think a window shutter fell off. Oh, notice that
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: sink there. That's a nice double one.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: Hmm, I wonder about the water pipes. The pipes of pandemonium.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm pretty handy with tools, honey. I'll get the
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: thing fixed up.
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: And can you build furniture, too?
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Well, not the kind we want. That down payment took
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: almost every cent in the bank.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, not every cent. I've got a little of my
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: savings account, enough to buy a stove and a refrigerator
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: and a bed. What else do we need?
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Nothing. Just each other.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: Jane. Jane.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, hi, Maggie.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: I thought Bill was going to make that flower box
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: for you. What do you do with these Sundays?
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: Just what your husband does, dear. Sorry, honey, the hospital
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: wants me right away.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Oh. Jane, get down off that ladder.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm glad you're home, Bill. I want you to
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: do something. Get off that ladder.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Do you hear? That's no place for a woman who's
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: going to have a baby.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: Bill.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: The test just came through, it's for sure.
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: Bill?
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Bill?
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Darling? The top.
• 30:55
  Speaker 12: Why, why?
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: What's the.
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: I think it's now.
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: Okay, Bill. You can see his apartment.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Thanks, Pete.
• 31:08
  Speaker 9: Darling.
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: Oh, dear.
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: Is everything all right?
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Everything.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: The message seems so confused. One told me it was
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: a boy and the other said it was a girl.
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: Well, they're both right.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: It's twins.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, dear, look.
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: Mary's smiling at me.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's nothing. Tommy laughed right out loud at me.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 31:54
  Speaker 12: Honey, I'm going to be late getting home. You think
• 31:56
  Speaker 12: you could hold up dinner a bit?
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: But, Bill, you know I invited Maggie and Pete for
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: 6 o'clock.
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: Sure, I know, but I have to drive out to
• 32:03
  Speaker 12: the airport.
• 32:04
  Speaker 6: To airport? Why?
• 32:05
  Speaker 12: Here, I'll read you the telegram. Arriving 6.45 p.m., please
• 32:09
  Speaker 12: be at airport to welcome your new associate. Signed, Helen.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Helen Porter?
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: Bill, I do want to go with you.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Oh, but you can't.
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: You have to be there for Maggie and Pete.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: But you pick up Helen and bring her back here
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: to the house.
• 32:23
  Speaker 12: Well, she'll probably be exhausted.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: I want to meet her, Bill, tonight. Hi, Jane.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Surprise, surprise.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, not really, Maggie. I've been expecting you and Pete. Oh,
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Pete's stuck at the hospital, dear. Look what I brought
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: in his place.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Come on in, you gorgeous hunk of muscles.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: Jane Royce meets Bruce Gordon.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Well, hello there. Well, how do you do, Mr. Gordon?
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: Bruce is an old schoolmate of Pete's.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: He just returned from the wilds of.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: Uh, where was it, Bruce?
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Valley.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: The island of Valley in the South Seas.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, how interesting. Well, suppose we go into the living room.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: Bill won't be home for a while, so I'll get
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: the cocktails if you'll excuse me. Mrs.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Wright, wait.
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: Yes, Mr.
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: Gordon?
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: Amazing.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Absolutely amazing.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: What is?
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: The way you walk.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: I haven't seen a woman walk like that since I
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: left ballet.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: You have the same subtle underrelations, the same sinuosity.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: What are you talking about?
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: Mrs.
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: Wright, walk ahead of us, just as.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: You were doing. Oh, please. Oh, this is embarrassing. Oh,
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: do it, do it.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Show us that same animal grace.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: You mean like this? There. That's it. That's it. You see, Maggie? Yeah,
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: but she's never walked like that before. I'll be right
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: back with the cocktails. Make yourselves comfortable. Okay, Jane. Bruce,
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: have you got a match? Of course.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: Maggie, did anyone ever tell you that there's something of
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: the Orient about you? Yes. You're as exotic, as mysterious...
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: as the mysterious East itself.
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: Mr. Gordon, would you mind carrying this tray into the
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: living room?
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: My pleasure.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jane, the efficient housewife. It's incredible.
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: The adjustment of subordinating your exotic personality to your husband's
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: must have been tremendously difficult.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, Jane isn't the only one.
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: I had the same trouble.
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: I'm sure you did, Maggie. And you both were wrong
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: in sublimating yourselves. Such sacrifices aren't appreciated by the average man.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: You must bring your real selves into the open, naked
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: and unashamed.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Oh!
• 35:18
  Speaker 9: There, that's more like it.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, this is fun.
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: And you said you didn't know how to marvel.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm a doctor's wife, remember? And Bill and I
• 35:38
  Speaker 6: almost never get.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: A chance to dance.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: I thought I'd forgotten how.
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: You could never forget it. Your very being is the
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: expression of primitive rhythm.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: Maggie, don't turn off the radio.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: But I didn't.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: I did, Jane.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Oh, Bill. We didn't hear you come in.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was pretty obvious. Helen, I'd like you to meet.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Maggie, how good to see you again. Thank you.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: And you. You must be Jane. Mm-hmm.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: I must be.
• 36:12
  Speaker 8: I do hope we're not interrupting.
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, no, no. Maggie just brought an old friend of
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Pete's to dinner, which is now completely ruined. So Maggie's
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: taking the old friend of Pete's to a drive-in for
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: a hamburger.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Come on, Drew.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, goodbye. Happy to have met all of you.
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry Bill and I were so late.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: I asked him to stop by my hotel.
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: So I could freshen up a bit.
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, I see.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: Cocktail dress and an orchid? Bill is so thoughtful. I
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: hope you're not hungry. Or maybe you like charcoal. Oh,
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: we'll eat out, honey.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I made a reservation for the three of us at
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: the Oak Room.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: Oh, Bill, if you don't mind, I'd like to talk
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: with you.
• 36:51
  Speaker 6: Hmm?
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: Alone, please. Oh, oh.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Uh, if you'll excuse us a moment.
• 36:56
  Speaker 6: Certainly.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, Jane? I'm not going to dinner with you. Oh, darling.
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: I think it's easier if you and Helen are alone
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: when you tell her that you've changed your mind about
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: her coming into your office.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: But I haven't.
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: Oh, Jane, this is ridiculous. Now, listen to me, Bill.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Darling, when you get to know the girl, now, come on,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: let's all have dinner together.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Bill.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Well, if you change your mind, we'll be at the
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: Oak Room.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Bill, please, I want you to tell her.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I may be rather late, so don't wait up for me.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Good night.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Bill!
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: Bill!
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: The Curtain Rises on Act Three of Mother Didn't Tell Me,
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: starring Dorothy McGuire as Jane and Frank Lovejoy as Bill.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: It's three hours later. Jane has gone to bed, but
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: sleep is impossible. And then she hears Bill's car in
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: the driveway, the front door closed. Bill's footsteps on the stairs,
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: and then at the bedroom door.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Hmm?
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Morning.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: Yes. It's five minutes past midnight.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: Well, you've gotten very technical all of a sudden.
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: I suppose Helen had just endless fascinating experiences to tell you.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she told me some things about her internship. We
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: had quite a bit to catch up on.
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: Of course.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Naturally.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, come on now, honey. Let's not keep this up.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: I'm willing to drop it whenever you are. Whenever you're
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: ready to tell me that that designing.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Female is out of your life. Jane, that's not fair.
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: I've met her. I saw how she was acting towards you.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: All Dr.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Helen Porter wants is to get installed in your office
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: and then install herself.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Oh, look now.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: You know I promised Helen a place with me when
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: she went east to study. All these years, she's relied
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: on my words.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: And so have I.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: I happen to be an incurable romantic, married to a
• 39:35
  Speaker 6: man who's married to his work. And now that's to
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: include another woman. She'll tell your work and your thoughts,
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: and she'll be with you from morning until night, and
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: I'll be more neglected than ever.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: Neglected?
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Listen, if you wanted your marriage to be one long honeymoon,
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: why the devil did you marry a doctor? Why didn't
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: you marry some rich idiot who could afford to chase
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: you around the house all day?
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: What?
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: Don't you dare call any man who might marry me
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: an idiot.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Now see what your shouting's done. The twins will be
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: awake all night.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll go heat their formula.
• 40:12
  Speaker 5: Maybe that'll quiet them. Bill?
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: What about Helen? She starts to work in the morning.
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: All right, and so will I.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Hello?
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: Morning, Jane.
• 40:40
  Speaker 12: I just had a terrific idea.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: What is it?
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Hey, Maggie. Oh. Yes.
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: This is the one day of the week I ever made.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Call me back in a couple of hours.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: Bill? Bill.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: What time is it? Ten o'clock.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, he's gone to the office and he didn't even
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: kiss me goodbye.
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: Hmm. I'd better go to work on my man.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: Miss Ransom, has my husband come into the office yet? Why, yes, Mrs. Wright.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: He's in consultation with Dr.
• 41:29
  Speaker 12: Porter right now.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, with Dr.
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: Porter. I imagine she does need some help in getting started. Oh, no,
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: it's wonderful how she's taken hold.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: She's so capable. Yes, I know.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: Would you like to speak to your husband now? No,
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: just tell him that I'm feeling badly. I've just taken
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: my temperature, and it's 103.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, you shouldn't be alone, Mrs.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Rice.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm not.
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: The cleaning woman is downstairs. At least, I hope she
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: came this morning. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm really too weak
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: to talk anymore, Miss Lansome.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Goodbye. Now, let's see. Mm-hmm.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: My new pink negligee.
• 42:15
  Speaker 9: Lipstick.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: Mascara.
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: And plenty of perfume.
• 42:22
  Speaker 11: Uh-oh.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: Back into bed. Well, what seems to be the trouble?
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: You. Bill was very busy. Besides, I thought we should
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: become better acquainted.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: Did Bill send you here? Give me your wrist and
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: stick out your tongue. But I want to... Stick out
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: your tongue.
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: As Bill's new associate, I'm to make the routine house calls.
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: Routine?
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: Your tongue again.
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: Perfectly normal. No fever at all.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: Well, I had one when I called the office. Possibly.
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: Sometimes the fever can be induced temporarily by worry and
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: nervous agitation.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: And what would I have to worry about or be
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: agitated about?
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: I'm sure you can answer that better than I, Mrs.
• 43:24
  Speaker 5: Wright. Perhaps you've been under a strain lately.
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: The house and the children. It might be a good
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: idea if Bill sent you away for a little vacation.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: Yes, wouldn't that be convenient?
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: Dr.
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: Porter, you seem so very talented. Surely you've had offers
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: from other doctors or clinics?
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes. There was a clinic in Chicago.
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: But I prefer it here. There's so much I can do.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: Dr. Porter, I'm sorry I've got other calls to make.
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: But be sure to phone me if your agitation starts
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: up again. Goodbye.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 44:05
  Speaker 12: Well, at least you're awake this time. Jane, I was
• 44:08
  Speaker 12: wondering if we couldn't have lunch downtown today and then.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: I'm afraid I won't have time. I'm leaving Bill. What?
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: I've had all I can take.
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: If Bill wants to bring another woman into his office
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: and shut me out of his life.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Wait a minute, honey. Think it over, please. I know
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: how you feel, and I don't trust Helen either, but
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: you and Bill... I'm sorry, Maggie. I've got to start packing.
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: I'll talk to you in a day or two. Jane.
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: Dr.
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: Wright's office.
• 44:47
  Speaker 6: This is Mrs.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Roberts. Let me speak to Dr. Wright. It's urgent.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Jane?
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: Jane? She's in the kitchen feeding the twins. I came
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: over here as soon as you phoned me, but her
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: mind seems to be made up. But it's ridiculous. It's idiotic. Well,
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: there are bags in the hall and all the baby things.
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: Jane.
• 45:12
  Speaker 5: Mother. Would you phone for a taxi, please?
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jane, what is all this? Just because we had
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: a little argument last night.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: This is not because of an argument. I've had a
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: talk with your friend, Dr. Porter.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: You have?
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: About what? If I tried to repeat the conversation, I
• 45:27
  Speaker 6: wouldn't believe it myself. She's as slippery as an eel.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: But I don't intend to let her take the initiative
• 45:33
  Speaker 6: away from me.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, look, if we'll all just sit down and talk
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: like adults.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: No, no, thank you.
• 45:38
  Speaker 6: The children and I will be completely out of your life. Mother,
• 45:42
  Speaker 6: will you call a taxi? No.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: There isn't going to be any taxi until I know
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: where you're going. You can't take my children and head
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: for nowhere.
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: Your children? You barely know them. Well, you two seem
• 45:51
  Speaker 5: to be getting nowhere. I think I might as well
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: call the cab.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: No, you stay here, Mother.
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: I'll do it. Well, my dear, I'm sorry for you,
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: but I've seen this coming from the day I met you.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: And you've enjoyed waiting for it to happen, haven't you?
• 46:06
  Speaker 12: No.
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: But I couldn't close my eyes to the fact that
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: my son was marrying a romantic fool who'd handicap.
• 46:13
  Speaker 10: Him personally and professionally.
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: Well, then I'm sure you'll be deliriously happy as the
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: mother-in-law of Dr.
• 46:19
  Speaker 6: Helen Porter.
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: Oh, I forgot the twins in the kitchen.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Mother, I've been trying to get Pete Roberts on the phone.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: His line is busy.
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: Would you keep.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Trying it for me?
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: But what about the taxi?
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I want to talk to Pete first. He's got
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: a house down at the beach where Jane and the
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: kids can put up for a couple of months.
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: Mother, come quickly.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Jane, what's wrong?
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Oh, the twins. I left them alone and they've gotten
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: into the ad pay.
• 46:45
  Speaker 9: Oh, look, it's all over their faces.
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: Phil, please tell me what to do.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: Just get a hold of your nurse. Come on, we're
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: taking them.
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: To the hospital.
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: Oh, why doesn't Bill come out and tell us how
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: it's going and what's going on?
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: He will as soon as he can, dear.
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: Mother, you used to be a nurse. If the stomach
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: pump doesn't work, can't they, can they do something else?
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: My dear, Bill and his friends know what to do.
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: And so do we. Just pray a little harder.
• 47:33
  Speaker 6: Mother, you... Yes.
• 47:37
  Speaker 10: Remember, they're my grandchildren, too.
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: They are?
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, they're okay. They're just worn out by what they've
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: been through.
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: Oh, thank heaven. Then we can take them home right now.
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: Home? Yes, after such a fright. It seems to me
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: the poor little things need the peace and security of
• 47:58
  Speaker 5: their own nursery.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Well, that's up to Jane.
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: I suppose if it's just for tonight.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: Whatever you say.
• 48:13
  Speaker 6: Well, all right. But just for tonight. Now, now, Mary.
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: Stay some child in your own crib. Nothing to worry about.
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: Mommy's here and Daddy's here.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: Jane.
• 48:42
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: I've arranged for a house for you and the kids.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Pete Roberts' place at the beach.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: Oh. Thank you.
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: You can move in tomorrow.
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: Fine.
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: I'll have a moving van pick up all that stuff.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: It's too much for a taxi.
• 48:59
  Speaker 6: Yes, I guess it is. Bill.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, Mother? Telephone.
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: All right. Oh, oh, Jane. Speaking of phone calls.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: Helen Porter phoned a few minutes ago.
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 49:13
  Speaker 6: About the twins?
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: No.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: She's leaving to work in a big clinic in Chicago.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Wanted to know if I'd mind.
• 49:21
  Speaker 6: And do you?
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't be silly.
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: Bill, the phone!
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: Okay. Jane, will you please leave the nursery so the
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: children can sleep?
• 49:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, oh, yes, Mother. Did you hear what Bill said?
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: About Helen? Yes. Do you believe him?
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: I do. Why should he suddenly decide to leave town?
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: Because I told her to. You?
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: While we were at the hospital, I phoned Helen. I
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: threatened to tell Bill how she.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: And I had deliberately planned to break up your marriage.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: Then you really were helping her. Yes, I was convinced
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: that Bill would be more successful with Helen, a wife
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: who was in the same profession. But today, when I
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: saw you and Bill were the children, well, I realized
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: I'd overlooked the most important factor in any marriage. Love.
• 50:24
  Speaker 6: Yes. And all of our shouting at each other and
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: all of my jealousy and Bill's anger, they were just
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: different ways of saying to each other, I love you,
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: I love you.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: And I do, you know.
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: Bill.
• 50:40
  Speaker 6: Oh, darling.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, baby. I gotta dash out. That phone call
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: was from Mrs.
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: O'Shanky.
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, dear. You know she always says it's an emergency.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: Well, this time she may be right. She's afraid her
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: husband's getting well.
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: Dear, at least kiss me.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will when I get back. That is, if
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: you wait up for me.
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: I'll be waiting. I'll be waiting for you.
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: Always.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: In a moment, our stars will return. Make a friend
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: and you make an ally. There's a thought for you
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: to keep in mind, as many another American has. After
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: living a life of a moderately successful farmer, Otto Hunderwaddle,
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: with his wife, accepted a job as agricultural advisor to
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: the government of Burma. At first, the Burmese weren't too
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: anxious to work with the Americans, and Otto finally discovered why.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: They considered him and his wife too old for work.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: But the Hunderwattos proved that age had nothing to do
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: with the ability to work. And then the man accepted
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: his help with their drainage and agricultural problems.
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: And Mrs.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Hunderwattos showed the skeptical women how to can food. She
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: was so successful that eventually she and Otto got permission
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: from the Burmese government to build.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: A local cannery.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: But shortly after it was built, however, misfortune struck. Civil
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: war broke out, and the Hunderwattles and their helpers were
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: forced to abandon their homes. By the time they returned,
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: the cannery was a shambles. But they weren't discouraged. While
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Otto remained in Burma to help the villagers rebuild their homes, Mrs.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Hunderwattle returned to the United States to raise money for
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: a new cannery. By the time she returned to Burma,
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: she had secured more than enough money and equipment. When
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: last heard from, she and Otto were still helping the
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: Burmese farmers and working.
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: In the cannery.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: For they learned that by helping others, you help your country. Now,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: here's Mr.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: Cummings with our stars. And here they are, coming forward
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: for a curtain call. Dorothy McGuire and Frank Lovejoy. Well,
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: we can see from tonight's play that it is an
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: advantage for a wife to have a basic understanding of
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: her husband's worth.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Well, then we're certainly in luck, Irving, with both of
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: us married to actresses.
• 53:19
  Speaker 6: I suppose that puts me at a disadvantage again, seeing
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: as I'm married.
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: To a photographer.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, Dorothy. I imagine you're his favorite subject.
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: You're such a busy actress, Dorothy. What do you do
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: with your spare time?
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: Well, I try to find some time to read. Almost
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: every good book is turned into a movie, and I
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: like to read them first.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: Well, I like to see the movie first and then
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: read the book. Better tell us what's for next week, Irving.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: It's one of the 30 greats, Frank. But it also
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: happens to be quite a recent picture. One of 20th
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: Century Fox's great screen successes. And one of the top
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: comedies of all time. It's all about Eve. And we
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: have two brilliant stars for you. Anne Blythe and Ida Lupino.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: I read the book, Irving, and I loved it.
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: Good night. Good night. We had a wonderful time.
• 54:09
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