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Speaker 1: In Washington, D.C., wealthy socialite Stella Hadley tries to preserve
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Speaker 1: her comfortable pre-war life as America enters World War II.
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Speaker 1: On December 7, 1942, the first anniversary of Pearl Harbor,
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Speaker 1: CBS presented Lux Radio Theater's 373 broadcast, War Against Mrs. Hadley,
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Speaker 1: for listeners across the country. Adapted from the 1942 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film,
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Speaker 1: it reunites Faye Bainter as Stella with Edward Arnold, Gene
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Speaker 1: Rogers as Pat Hadley, and Van Johnson as Michael Fitzpatrick.
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Speaker 1: As wartime demands reach the Hadley household, Stella's son Ted,
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Speaker 1: her daughter Pat, and those close to the family face
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Speaker 1: plans and commitments altered by the home front. Now, back
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Speaker 1: to the golden age of radio.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater brings you Edward Arnold and Faye
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Speaker 3: Bainter in The War Against Mrs. Hadley with Gene Rogers
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Speaker 3: and Van Johnson. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B.
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Speaker 2: DeMille.
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Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. History begins at home.
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Speaker 4: It begins in the homes of Kansas and the Great
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Speaker 4: Western Plain, in the homes of Pittsburgh and the Valley
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Speaker 4: of Steel, in the homes of San Francisco and a
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Speaker 4: dozen other cities that turn out the men who build
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Speaker 4: the ships. And it begins in a home in Washington, called.
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Speaker 5: The White House.
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Speaker 4: The sum of all these homes is America, and over
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Speaker 4: every one of them is the shadow of great events
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Speaker 4: in this year gone by. We do not celebrate this day,
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Speaker 4: which marks the first anniversary of our active entrance into
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Speaker 4: the war. We merely note its passing and turn to
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Speaker 4: the challenge of the future. Tonight we tell you of
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Speaker 4: the way one American home has met this challenge. In
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Speaker 4: the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama, The War Against Mrs. Hadley, and you'll
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Speaker 4: hear four of the players who were in the picture,
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Speaker 4: Edward Arnold and Faye Bader, beloved for many fine performances here,
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Speaker 4: and two promising newcomers to the stage, Gene Rogers and
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Speaker 4: Van Johnson. All American homes have faced problems brought on
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Speaker 4: by the war. This is what happened in the home
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Speaker 4: of Stella Hadley, and behind the dramatic story of this
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Speaker 4: one home is inspiration for every home. We're all working
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Speaker 4: hard these days, doing what we can to help, and
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Speaker 4: it's important that none of that effort be wasted. Waste
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Speaker 4: is an enemy that must be fought on every front,
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Speaker 4: but especially on the home front. And a strong ally
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Speaker 4: in that fight is Lux Flakes. In Hollywood, for instance,
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Speaker 4: our product saves motion picture studios thousands of dollars a
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Speaker 4: year in various kinds of wardrobe care. That's a very
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Speaker 4: interesting amount of money to the studio treasury. And what's
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Speaker 4: true in Hollywood is true in your own home, too.
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Speaker 4: You may not be making motion pictures, but like us,
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Speaker 4: you have a budget to meet. In these times, you
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Speaker 4: need to make clothes last longer. And your friend in
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Speaker 4: that need is a friend indeed. In two well-known words,
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Speaker 4: Lux Flakes.
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Speaker 6: Now.
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Speaker 4: The Signal for the Curtain and the First Act of
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Speaker 4: the War Against Mrs. Hadley, starring Edward Arnold as Elliot Fulton,
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Speaker 4: Faye Bainter as Stella Hadley, with Gene Rogers as Patricia,
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Speaker 4: and Van Johnson as Michael.
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Speaker 7: In November 1941, Mrs.
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Speaker 8: Stella Hadley of Washington, D.C., wrote a letter to an
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Speaker 8: old friend.
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Speaker 4: While a worried world outside her window strove desperately to
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Speaker 4: prepare against the mass murderers of Europe, Mrs. Hadley sat
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Speaker 4: in the rich security of her drawing room, blind and
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Speaker 4: deaf to everything except her own personal comfort.
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Speaker 8: Washington, my dear, is a complete madhouse. The way people
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Speaker 8: are rushing about and getting in each other's way. You'd
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Speaker 8: think it was November 1917 instead of 1941. All very silly,
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Speaker 8: of course. I suppose you know my son Ted is
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Speaker 8: in the war department with Elliot Fulton, and Patricia has
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Speaker 8: been pestering me with some vague idea she has of
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Speaker 8: entertaining draftees at a canteen. I don't know what's getting
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Speaker 8: into people, really. All this talk of war and defense
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Speaker 8: and lend-lease is beginning to bore me. In spite of
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Speaker 8: the warmongers here, I have it on excellent authority that
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Speaker 8: the chances of peace were never better. Goodbye for the present, dear,
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Speaker 8: and if you're in Washington next month, Please come to
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Speaker 8: my birthday luncheon. Remember the date. Sunday, December the 7th.
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Speaker 9: Oh, good morning, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Fulton. Good morning, Bennett. Am I the first? Yes, sir. Mrs.
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Speaker 10: Hadley hasn't come down yet, but you'll find Miss Patricia
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Speaker 10: in the drawing room, sir.
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Speaker 6: Is that you, Elliot? Come in here.
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Speaker 2: Ah, good morning, Padman. How's your mother?
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Speaker 6: Full of birthday cheer. You look tired, darling.
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Speaker 2: Well, I am a little, but don't tell your mother.
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Speaker 2: She'll scold me for working nights.
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Speaker 6: What's new in the War Department? How are the peace
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Speaker 6: negotiations coming along with Japan?
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Speaker 2: Ah, ah, Pat, you know my rule. No sharp talk here.
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Speaker 2: This is the only house in Washington I can forget
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Speaker 2: all that.
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Speaker 6: Mrs. Hadley's ivory tower. Elliot, will Mother ever ruffle up
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Speaker 6: her tail feathers and pull that pretty head of hers
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Speaker 6: out of the ground?
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Speaker 2: Oh, maybe she's lucky. She's missing a lot of unpleasant
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Speaker 2: happenings above the ground.
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Speaker 6: But other people have to face them. Why shouldn't she?
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Speaker 6: Just because we live like kings and.
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Speaker 2: Oh, now, don't be intolerant, Pat. It's just that she's
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Speaker 2: living in the past, that's all. I can't say I
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Speaker 2: blame her much. You know, she was the most popular
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Speaker 2: girl in Washington until your father came along, and then
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Speaker 2: she was the happiest wife.
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Speaker 6: Elliot, were you in love with her then?
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Speaker 2: Yes, but I made one fatal mistake. I introduced her
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Speaker 2: to your father.
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Speaker 6: You know, you and Mother are my two favorite people.
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Speaker 6: Why don't you get married? I've always wanted to be
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Speaker 6: a flower girl.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm afraid you're out of luck. Why? Nosey little baggage,
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Speaker 2: aren't you? All right, if you really want to know,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you. I proposed to Stella on her last birthday.
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Speaker 6: What did she say?
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Speaker 2: She said I was the best friend your father ever had,
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Speaker 2: the best friend she ever had, the best executor the
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Speaker 2: estate ever had. And being a staunch Republican, I had
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Speaker 2: no right to associate myself with those new dealers.
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Speaker 6: Hardly a direct answer.
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Speaker 2: Hardly, but terribly final. Hello, Elliot. You're early, aren't you? Oh, hello, Ted.
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Speaker 5: Oh, my head's killing me.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, brother dear.
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Speaker 5: Oh, do you have to be so loud about it?
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Speaker 2: I need a drink.
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Speaker 5: Have one with me, Elliot?
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Speaker 2: No, thanks.
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Speaker 6: Big night, brother?
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Speaker 11: Well, not big enough to deserve this head. Oh, Elliot,
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Speaker 11: I'm sorry I had to leave the department so early yesterday. I...
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Speaker 11: I had to go to the dentist.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the fourth time this month, Ted.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I know, but.
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Speaker 6: Ted, have you seen Mother yet?
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Speaker 11: Well, only one out of one eye. She came into
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Speaker 11: my room at the crack of dawn to see if
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Speaker 11: I was resting peacefully. Won't one of you please tell
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Speaker 11: her I'm old enough to be weaned?
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Speaker 6: Keep pulling on that bottle and she'll find out soon enough.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 12: Hello, Doctor.
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Speaker 2: How I meet you.
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Speaker 9: Splendid, thank you.
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Speaker 5: Hiya, Doctor.
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Speaker 2: Ted, let me see you. You look bilious, Ted.
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Speaker 11: Don't try to drum up any trade with me.
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Speaker 2: Stick to Mother. Have a drink, Doctor.
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Speaker 5: I don't drink in the morning. How's your mother feeling, Patricia?
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Speaker 6: She's thriving.
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Speaker 5: Frankly, I've been a bit worried about her lately.
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Speaker 13: She's not really been strong since your poor father passed away.
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Speaker 2: Oh, nonsense. She's as strong as an arch.
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Speaker 4: My dear Fulton, I think I'm a better judge of
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Speaker 4: Stella's condition than you are.
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Speaker 8: Am I late? Oh, hello, good guy.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Cecilia.
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 12: Good morning.
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Speaker 14: Hello, Ellen.
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Speaker 8: How are you, Dr.
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Speaker 4: Meacham?
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Speaker 5: Quite well, Miss Talbot. Thank you.
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Speaker 14: Oh, what a time I had getting here. Where's Stella?
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Speaker 12: Oh.
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Speaker 14: Hasn't she come down yet?
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Speaker 2: Now, Cecilia, you know well enough that Stella always waits
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Speaker 2: for the last guest before she makes her grand entrance. What?
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Speaker 15: Oh, well, I hope I haven't kept her waiting.
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Speaker 16: Ted!
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Speaker 8: Ted, darling, you look peaked.
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Speaker 5: Well, that makes her practically unanimous.
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Speaker 2: What? Oh.
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Speaker 16: Oh, Elliot, is it true what they're saying about these
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Speaker 16: little Japanese ambassadors of peace?
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Speaker 2: Well, not knowing what they're saying, I can't tell you.
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Speaker 15: Oh, no, of course not.
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Speaker 14: But my elevator boy overheard someone tell someone else that they.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, everyone.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Stella.
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Speaker 8: Thank you. Thank you, all of you. Oh, what lovely flowers.
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Speaker 8: It's like spring.
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Speaker 5: Happy birthday, Mother.
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Speaker 8: Teddy, darling, my pin is beautiful. You and Pat had
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Speaker 8: no right to spend so much money.
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Speaker 2: Don't give it a.
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Speaker 5: Second thought, Princess.
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Speaker 2: We charged it to you.
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Speaker 8: I wish you had. Teddy, you look pale. Leonard, I do.
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Speaker 8: We should have a look at him later on.
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Speaker 2: Certainly. Oh, I'm all right, Mother.
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Speaker 8: Won't do any harm for Leonard to have a look. Patricia, dear,
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Speaker 8: put some powder on your nose. It's all shiny. How
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Speaker 8: can I ever thank you all for my lovely gifts? Elliot,
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Speaker 8: these earrings you sent me.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you like them, Stella.
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Speaker 8: I love them. And Leonard, your fitted bag is just
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Speaker 8: what I've always needed.
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Speaker 5: I'm so glad.
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Speaker 17: Did you like my gloves?
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Speaker 8: Of course I did, Cecilia, dear. I helped you pick
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Speaker 8: them out. It always amazes me that anyone remembers my birthday.
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Speaker 2: Munchen is served, Mrs. Hadley.
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Speaker 8: Thank you, Bennett.
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Speaker 9: And may I take this opportunity of wishing you happiness, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Hadley?
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Speaker 8: Bennett, how nice of you to remember. Come along, everyone.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. That was a mighty fine lunch, Stella.
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Speaker 9: I always say you set the best table in Washington.
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Speaker 8: Thank you, Leonard. Oh, Stella, dear.
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Speaker 15: Boston Symphony.
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Speaker 8: What, Cecilia? It's time for the Boston Symphony.
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Speaker 15: They're playing Beethoven's, uh, uh, Fifth.
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Speaker 8: Very well, Patricia, dear. Turn on the radio, please.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Mother.
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Speaker 2: Well, Stella, I'll have to be running along.
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Speaker 8: Now, Elliot, sit down. You're not going to do any
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Speaker 8: more work this afternoon. Oh, what a perfect day. All
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Speaker 8: my loved ones here to help me celebrate. Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Hadley.
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Speaker 8: Yes, Millie. Serve the coffee in here, please.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Mrs.
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Speaker 8: Hadley. And be careful of those cups, Millie. They were
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Speaker 8: a gift from President Coolidge.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Mrs.
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Speaker 8: Hadley.
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Speaker 4: The guy was alive with planes spitting death and destruction
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Speaker 4: on the harbor which lay below.
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Speaker 8: Patricia, turn off that dreadful gibberish. We want to hear
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Speaker 8: the symphony. I'm trying to find it, Mother. I don't
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Speaker 8: know why they permit such programs on the Sabbath.
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Speaker 5: At 1.05 p.m.
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Speaker 1: Eastern Standard Time, the first planes appeared over the horizon,
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Speaker 1: winging their way across the.
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Speaker 8: Let Ted find it.
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Speaker 2: Pat. Wait a minute, something's happened.
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Speaker 8: Really, please, not on my birthday.
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Speaker 2: Quiet.
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Speaker 10: And so war has come to our country with the
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Speaker 10: Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Speaker 2: Pearl Harbor? They've attacked Pearl Harbor?
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Speaker 6: Really, we can't be prudent.
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Speaker 8: Why, it's impossible.
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Speaker 6: So it's come.
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Speaker 8: How could they do such a thing?
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Speaker 6: Pearl Harbor.
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Speaker 13: Oh, no.
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Speaker 8: Lily, I told you to be careful of those cups.
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Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 8: Hadley, my best service. Lily, you're impossible.
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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Mrs.
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Speaker 5: Hadley.
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Speaker 8: I couldn't help it.
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Speaker 9: My brother's at Pearl Harbor.
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Speaker 6: My brother.
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Speaker 7: Oh, poor child.
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Speaker 8: Go after her, Bennett. Tell her that I said she
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Speaker 8: should go home and spend the night with her mother.
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Speaker 3: Yes, madam.
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Speaker 8: I'll never be able to replace this cup.
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Speaker 2: This is the most outrageous breach of human decency ever perpetrated.
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Speaker 2: Right in the middle of peace negotiations.
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Speaker 8: Oh, my head is splitting. If you'll just turn it
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Speaker 8: off for a moment.
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Speaker 2: Turn it off, Ted.
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Speaker 5: Madam, I must tell her you really mustn't excite yourself.
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Speaker 8: It's horrible. I can't believe it.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Ted. We'd better get down to the department. Right.
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Speaker 2: I'll get a cab.
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Speaker 8: Ted, you're not going to leave me, not on my birthday.
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Speaker 11: In case you haven't heard, Mother, we've just gotten into
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Speaker 11: a war.
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Speaker 8: Yes, I know, dear. It's dreadful. That poor girl's brother.
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Speaker 6: Maybe there's some more news.
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Speaker 8: Don't turn that thing on again, please.
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Speaker 6: All right, Mother, but I've got to know what's happening.
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Speaker 8: Where are you going?
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Speaker 6: Upstairs to listen to my radio.
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Speaker 5: I've got to go, too, Mother.
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Speaker 8: Well, if you must, you must, but... Do be careful, dear.
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Speaker 5: Don't worry. The Japs haven't gotten here yet.
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Speaker 8: Teddy, you mustn't say such silly things, even in jest.
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Speaker 2: Come along, Ted. Goodbye, Stella. I'll phone you later.
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Speaker 8: Yes, do. I hope everything will be all right.
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Speaker 2: Come on, Ted.
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Speaker 9: Goodbye, Mother.
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Speaker 8: Goodbye, darling.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 8: Oh, dear, dear.
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Speaker 5: Stella, I think you ought to lie down for a while.
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Speaker 17: Yes, Stella, you really should.
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Speaker 8: Perhaps you're right. Birthdays are such a strain on one's nerves,
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Speaker 8: the excitement and everything. Goodbye, my dears. And thank you
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Speaker 8: for coming to my party.
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Speaker 2: Would you read back the last sentence I dictated?
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 15: The bombing of Pearl Harbor has shown us the path
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Speaker 15: we must follow.
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Speaker 2: We must wipe out completely for the duration of the
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Speaker 2: war the idea of business as usual. Mr.
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Speaker 8: Fulton's office.
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Speaker 15: One moment, please.
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Speaker 8: It's Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Hadley. I'll take it. Hello, Stella.
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Speaker 12: Elliot, did you get my message?
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Speaker 2: What message was that, Stella?
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Speaker 8: Elliot, you know how hard Teddy's been working. You aren't
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Speaker 8: really going to keep him at the department again tonight,
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Speaker 8: are you?
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Speaker 2: Why? Did he tell you I was?
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Speaker 12: Why, of course he did.
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Speaker 8: And war or no war, I think you should let
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Speaker 8: him spend Christmas Eve with his mother. You may come too, Elliot.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Stella, but I'm afraid I can't make it.
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Speaker 2: I'll see what I can do about Ted.
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Speaker 12: Send him as soon as you can.
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Speaker 2: Yes, very well.
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Speaker 8: Goodbye, Elliot.
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Speaker 2: Bye, Stella.
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Speaker 9: Here's the latest communique, Mr.
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Speaker 12: Fulton.
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Speaker 2: Thank you. That'll be all for now, Miss Hart. Yes, sir. Oh, Bob,
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Speaker 2: would you ask Ted Hadley to come here a minute?
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Speaker 5: Why, he's gone, sir.
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Speaker 2: He's what?
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Speaker 9: He's already left.
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Speaker 5: Some of his friends called to take him out to
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Speaker 5: the country for dinner.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I see. Well, in about 10 or 15 minutes,
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Speaker 2: call Mrs. Hadley and tell her I'm awfully sorry. But
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Speaker 2: it's absolutely essential that Ted work tonight.
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Speaker 5: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Look, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Fulton, Ted's a friend of mine, and I don't want
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Speaker 5: to seem a heel, but.
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Speaker 2: Something ought to be done. Something is going to be done.
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Speaker 2: I'm having him transferred. Transferred? Yes, into active service. I
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Speaker 2: can't keep him around here anymore, even for his mother's sake.
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Speaker 2: It's not fair to the department.
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Speaker 5: I wish I could be transferred to active service, sir.
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Speaker 2: I know how you feel, Bob, but I can't spare you.
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Speaker 2: Ted needs it much more than you do. This may
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Speaker 2: be his one chance of making something of himself.
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Speaker 8: What is it, Peters? Why aren't you down at the
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Speaker 8: department to pick up Mr.
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Speaker 6: Theodore?
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Speaker 18: Well, I'm going right away, Mrs. Hadley, but could I
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Speaker 18: speak to you first, ma'am?
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Speaker 8: Yes, of course, Peters.
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Speaker 18: I had word from my draft board today. They've reclassified
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Speaker 18: me in 1A. I have to report for service next week.
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Speaker 8: Oh, that means you'll be leaving me.
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Speaker 18: I'm afraid so, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Hadley.
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Speaker 8: It won't be necessary. I'll speak to Mr. Fulton about it.
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Speaker 18: Oh, I'd sooner you wouldn't do that, ma'am. If they
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Speaker 18: need me, I feel I ought to go.
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Speaker 8: I'm sure that's very patriotic of you, Peters, but it
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Speaker 8: isn't as if you aren't doing something. Why, you drive Mr.
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Speaker 8: Theodore to the department every morning.
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Speaker 18: Well, I know, ma'am, but it isn't quite the same thing.
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Speaker 8: Well, of course, if you want to leave, if you
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Speaker 8: think you'll be happier elsewhere, I certainly won't stand in
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Speaker 8: your way. But I do think you could have given
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Speaker 8: me a little more notice.
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Speaker 18: But I only got my notice today.
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Speaker 8: We won't discuss it, Peters. You may tell Bennett to
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Speaker 8: give you two weeks' salary when you leave.
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Speaker 18: Well, thank you, Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Hadley. I'm sorry. Hello?
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Speaker 8: Yes, this is Mrs. Hadley. Oh, but that's impossible.
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Speaker 12: Mr.
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Speaker 8: Fulton promised me faithfully he'd send Ted home. Well, I
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Speaker 8: never heard of anything like that in my life. Keeping
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Speaker 8: my own son away from me.
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Speaker 8: For me, even if the government hasn't.
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Speaker 6: All right, do it. I'm sorry I can't be here
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Speaker 6: to help with the Christmas presents, but I've got to
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Speaker 6: get an extra girl for canteen duty tonight.
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Speaker 8: Patricia, is that the canteen that Laura Winters is running?
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Speaker 6: Oh, Mother, she's just helping out.
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Speaker 8: I shouldn't think you'd want to associate with the wife
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Speaker 8: of the man who contaminated your father's newspaper.
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Speaker 6: Contaminated? Oh, Mother, just because Father was a Republican and Mr.
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Speaker 6: Winters is a Democrat... They turned.
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Speaker 8: The Chronicle into a Democratic scandal sheet. I should think
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Speaker 8: you'd have more respect for your father's memory.
16:09
Speaker 6: Well, Laura Winters only comes down once in a while anyway.
16:12
Speaker 6: I hardly even know what she looks like.
16:14
Speaker 18: Good night, Mother.
16:14
Speaker 6: I've got to run.
16:15
Speaker 8: Can't you even be with us on Christmas Eve?
16:18
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. I wish I could, Mother, but it's Christmas
16:20
Speaker 6: Eve for the soldiers, too. Good night, dear.
16:22
Speaker 8: Good night.
16:30
Speaker 2: Refill on the coffee, please.
16:32
Speaker 5: Got any more coffee, Miss?
16:33
Speaker 6: Now, listen, soldier, how many cups does that make for you?
16:36
Speaker 5: Oh, just five. Or is it six?
16:38
Speaker 2: Ha!
16:39
Speaker 6: How did you swallow that last one so fast?
16:41
Speaker 5: Well, confidentially, before the army got me, I used to
16:43
Speaker 5: be a fire eater. What's your name, lady?
16:46
Speaker 6: My name is Pat. Pat?
16:48
Speaker 5: Mine's Mike. We ought to get together. Say, couldn't you
16:52
Speaker 5: come over on my side of the counter for a while?
16:54
Speaker 6: Not while the rush is on.
16:55
Speaker 5: It doesn't seem right having a counter between us.
16:57
Speaker 6: Well, why don't you come over on my side?
17:00
Speaker 5: Do you mean it?
17:00
Speaker 6: Sure.
17:01
Speaker 2: Gangway.
17:02
Speaker 6: Gangway, get back here where you belong.
17:04
Speaker 9: Come on.
17:05
Speaker 5: Nice little place you've got back here.
17:08
Speaker 6: I'm glad you like it. Now you can put this
17:14
Speaker 6: apron on.
17:14
Speaker 5: Apron?
17:15
Speaker 2: What for?
17:15
Speaker 6: So you won't saw your uniform.
17:17
Speaker 2: I don't get it.
17:18
Speaker 6: Once you cross the counter, you're a worker. You're going
17:20
Speaker 6: to help me wash the dishes.
17:22
Speaker 8: Oh, no.
17:24
Speaker 6: You can always go back.
17:25
Speaker 5: You're a hard woman, Pat. Give me the apron.
17:28
Speaker 6: Right back here in the kitchen, soldier.
17:30
Speaker 9: Hey, Mike's on K3 again. Oh, boy, look at him.
17:34
Speaker 5: Look at him wash the dishes.
17:45
Speaker 6: Do you realize if you'd taken me home before the
17:47
Speaker 6: other girls, you could have saved yourself a lot of driving?
17:50
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know Washington very well.
17:52
Speaker 6: Then why did they pick you to drive us?
17:54
Speaker 5: The luck of the Irish and a dollar bill.
17:57
Speaker 6: That's bribery, soldier.
17:58
Speaker 5: Now, you don't think I was going to let you
18:00
Speaker 5: out of my sight, do you? Not after that mountain
18:02
Speaker 5: of dishes I washed for you.
18:04
Speaker 6: The next house on the right, please.
18:06
Speaker 5: The next house? What for?
18:07
Speaker 6: That's where I live.
18:09
Speaker 2: In there?
18:09
Speaker 3: Yes.
18:11
Speaker 6: What's the matter?
18:12
Speaker 5: It's awfully big.
18:13
Speaker 18: Oh, it isn't really.
18:15
Speaker 5: Looks awfully big to me. Well, I guess you must
18:18
Speaker 5: be kind of tired.
18:19
Speaker 6: Not especially.
18:20
Speaker 5: It's been swell knowing you. I suppose I'll be seeing
18:23
Speaker 5: you at the canteen sometime.
18:25
Speaker 6: Stop acting that way. All right, so I live in
18:27
Speaker 6: a big house.
18:28
Speaker 5: I live in a small house.
18:29
Speaker 6: So you live in a small house and I live
18:30
Speaker 6: in a big house. Is that any reason to treat
18:32
Speaker 6: me as though I suddenly have a measles? What difference
18:34
Speaker 6: does it make?
18:35
Speaker 5: Oh, I'm sorry. It wouldn't make any difference, not with
18:38
Speaker 5: someone like you. Am I forgiven?
18:40
Speaker 6: If you promise never to let it happen again.
18:42
Speaker 5: It's a promise, and to seal it, I... I'll take
18:45
Speaker 5: you to see my house.
18:46
Speaker 6: Where do you live?
18:47
Speaker 5: Clary Street. At least Mother lives there. That's where I
18:49
Speaker 5: was born.
18:50
Speaker 6: I thought you said you didn't know Washington.
18:53
Speaker 5: I never really did. Until now.
18:56
Speaker 2: Pat.
18:57
Speaker 6: Yes?
18:58
Speaker 12: Pat, I.
18:59
Speaker 5: I never met a girl like you. I mean.
19:04
Speaker 5: Well, for the love of... Did you see that? Right
19:06
Speaker 5: up behind us. I'll murder that guy.
19:08
Speaker 15: I asked you to look where you're going.
19:10
Speaker 2: Why, you.
19:11
Speaker 5: I'll kill him, so help me. Get out of that car, mister.
19:13
Speaker 2: Get out.
19:14
Speaker 5: Take your hands off. Come on, come on. Get out,
19:17
Speaker 5: you drunk.
19:17
Speaker 6: Mike, Mike, don't, please. Let him alone.
19:19
Speaker 2: Well, hello, Pat. Hiya, sweetie.
19:22
Speaker 5: What did you call her?
19:23
Speaker 6: Mike, don't. He's my brother.
19:24
Speaker 5: Oh, glad to know you.
19:28
Speaker 2: Patricia, who is this mother? Look here, you.
19:30
Speaker 5: If you weren't her brother, I'd not.
19:31
Speaker 2: Well, let's pretend I'm not.
19:32
Speaker 6: Shut up, Ted. I'm sorry, Mike. I'll call the camp
19:36
Speaker 6: in the morning and tell them what happened to the car.
19:38
Speaker 5: Oh, don't worry about that. You want me to help
19:40
Speaker 5: you get him inside? I don't need any help.
19:43
Speaker 2: Go on, soldier.
19:44
Speaker 5: Back to the war.
19:45
Speaker 6: Good night, Mike. I'm sorry it had to end like this.
19:48
Speaker 12: What do you mean, end?
19:49
Speaker 5: It's only just beginning. Merry Christmas, Pat.
19:53
Speaker 6: Merry Christmas, Mike.
19:59
Speaker 9: But it's impossible.
20:00
Speaker 8: They can't put you in the army, Ted. You're in
20:03
Speaker 8: the war department.
20:04
Speaker 2: No more. I'm not.
20:04
Speaker 8: Sit down, darling. You mustn't upset yourself. I'll phone Elliot
20:07
Speaker 8: right away. All he has to do is to tell
20:09
Speaker 8: the draft board that you're essential to him.
20:11
Speaker 5: But don't you understand, Mother?
20:13
Speaker 6: I'm not.
20:14
Speaker 8: Don't be so modest, darling. Of course you are.
20:17
Speaker 11: Any office boy, even a backward one, could do what
20:20
Speaker 11: I'm doing.
20:20
Speaker 8: Well, then Elliot will have to give you more responsibility.
20:23
Speaker 15: Hello?
20:24
Speaker 8: This is Mrs. Hadley. I'd like to speak to Mr. Fulton.
20:28
Speaker 2: Oh.
20:29
Speaker 8: Well, would you ask him to be good enough to
20:32
Speaker 8: call me when the conference is over? Thank you. I
20:36
Speaker 8: don't know how they accomplish anything in that department. They're
20:38
Speaker 8: always in conferences. Sit down, darling. Everything's going to be
20:42
Speaker 8: all right.
20:42
Speaker 5: I'm just going to get a drink, Mother.
20:44
Speaker 8: Darling, you know what alcohol does to your nervous system.
20:46
Speaker 5: I have a vague notion.
20:48
Speaker 8: Don't worry, please. Even if we didn't have Elliot, I
20:51
Speaker 8: could always get a certificate or something from Dr. Meacham
20:54
Speaker 8: saying that you weren't physically up to it.
20:56
Speaker 5: The Army doctors decide that.
20:57
Speaker 8: I'm sure they're not nearly as thorough as Leonard.
21:00
Speaker 2: Oh, Mrs. Hadley. Yes, Bennett.
21:02
Speaker 9: I'm sorry to disturb you, Mrs. Hadley, but word has
21:04
Speaker 9: just come over the radio... There's to be a practice
21:06
Speaker 9: blackout tonight.
21:08
Speaker 8: Whatever in the world for? Oh, well, there's nothing we
21:12
Speaker 8: can do about it, thank you, Bennet.
21:13
Speaker 10: Madam, would it inconvenience you very much if I went
21:18
Speaker 10: out for a little while this evening?
21:20
Speaker 8: No, I suppose not. But isn't it rather an odd
21:24
Speaker 8: time to go out during a blackout?
21:27
Speaker 10: In a way, madam, yes, but it's most important I... Well,
21:32
Speaker 10: I'm an air raid warden, madam.
21:35
Speaker 6: Bennet.
21:37
Speaker 8: I don't remember giving any permission for that.
21:39
Speaker 9: No, madam, but I thought seeing that everyone... That will do, Bennet.
21:42
Speaker 8: I'll speak to you later.
21:43
Speaker 2: Thank you, madam.
21:45
Speaker 8: An air raid, warden. Of all the ridiculous ideas. I
21:50
Speaker 8: don't know what's come over everyone. People acting so strangely.
21:53
Speaker 13: Good evening, Bennet.
21:53
Speaker 2: Good evening, sir.
21:54
Speaker 8: That must be Leonard now.
21:55
Speaker 2: What's he want?
21:56
Speaker 8: He's giving me vitamin shots. In these times, it's so
21:59
Speaker 8: important to keep up one's energy. One never knows when
22:02
Speaker 8: it may be taxed. Come in, Bennet.
22:12
Speaker 2: Mrs.
22:13
Speaker 6: Hadley is here, sir.
22:14
Speaker 2: Send her in, please.
22:15
Speaker 12: Yes, sir.
22:16
Speaker 2: Mrs. Hadley? Well, well, this is a pleasant surprise, Stella.
22:21
Speaker 8: Mohammed wouldn't come to the mountain, so the mountain came
22:24
Speaker 8: to him. I've been trying to reach you since last night.
22:26
Speaker 2: I'm awfully sorry, Stella, but I've really been swamped. Won't
22:30
Speaker 2: you sit down?
22:31
Speaker 8: Elliot, I want to speak to you about Teddy.
22:32
Speaker 2: Yes?
22:33
Speaker 5: Excuse me, sir.
22:34
Speaker 2: These communicators just came in. Oh, yes, let me see them. Oh, my,
22:39
Speaker 2: they're bombing Manila for the second time. And after we
22:41
Speaker 2: declared it an open city.
22:42
Speaker 8: If you remember, I told you six months ago not
22:44
Speaker 8: to trust those Japanese. Now, about Teddy.
22:48
Speaker 2: Bob, tell Miss Hart to call everyone for a conference
22:50
Speaker 2: in about ten minutes. Yes, sir. Now, what were you saying, Stella?
22:53
Speaker 8: I haven't said anything yet. Elliot, I want you to
22:57
Speaker 8: have a talk with Teddy.
22:58
Speaker 2: I did have a talk with him last night. He
23:00
Speaker 2: came over very late.
23:01
Speaker 9: Really?
23:02
Speaker 8: Strange he didn't mention it to me. Then you know
23:04
Speaker 8: all about this ridiculous notion of his.
23:06
Speaker 2: Well, I don't think there's anything ridiculous about a man
23:09
Speaker 2: wanting to serve his country.
23:10
Speaker 8: Oh, but it's different with Teddy. He's already working for
23:13
Speaker 8: his country. Much too hard, if you ask me.
23:15
Speaker 2: It's a pretty tough job, winning a war.
23:18
Speaker 8: All the more reason for not moving people from one
23:20
Speaker 8: thing to another. I'm sure even this administration wouldn't approve
23:24
Speaker 8: of that.
23:24
Speaker 2: Well, if Ted feels that he wants to join up, I.
23:26
Speaker 8: Ted is just a child. He doesn't know what he wants.
23:29
Speaker 8: He's just being headstrong and irrational.
23:31
Speaker 2: Did you tell him that?
23:32
Speaker 8: I refused to discuss it with him. After all, you
23:34
Speaker 8: and I are a lot older and more capable of
23:36
Speaker 8: deciding what's best for him.
23:38
Speaker 2: I think Ted has decided that for himself.
23:41
Speaker 8: Elliot, you act as if you were pleased at the
23:44
Speaker 8: prospect of his being sent to the Far East. Or
23:48
Speaker 8: one of those dreadful places.
23:49
Speaker 2: I'm pleased to know that he has the character and
23:51
Speaker 2: the courage to want to go. I wasn't quite sure
23:54
Speaker 2: how he would feel.
23:56
Speaker 8: You mean you knew about this?
23:58
Speaker 2: Yes, I did.
23:59
Speaker 8: But if you knew, why didn't you stop it? Elliot,
24:03
Speaker 8: you've got to stop it.
24:04
Speaker 2: There's nothing I can do, Stella.
24:05
Speaker 8: Well, you can keep him here with you. I know
24:07
Speaker 8: you can. You've always said you'd do anything for me.
24:10
Speaker 2: I only wish I could.
24:11
Speaker 8: If you care for me at all, if you care
24:12
Speaker 8: for Ted.
24:13
Speaker 2: If Ted were my own son, I'd do exactly as
24:14
Speaker 2: I've done. But he's not your son.
24:15
Speaker 8: He's my son. You had him drafted. Not satisfied with that?
24:19
Speaker 8: You talked him into wanting to.
24:21
Speaker 6: Go, to leave me.
24:21
Speaker 2: That isn't true, Stella. Whatever you may think of me,
24:25
Speaker 2: at least give Ted credit for making the decision himself.
24:28
Speaker 8: If anything should happen to him, it wouldn't matter to you.
24:31
Speaker 2: Stella, wait.
24:32
Speaker 8: I never want to see you again.
24:49
Speaker 5: Act two of The War Against Mrs.
24:51
Speaker 3: Hadley, starring Edward Arnold and Faye Bainter, with Gene Rogers
24:55
Speaker 3: and Van Johnson, will follow in just a moment. Now,
24:59
Speaker 3: between the acts, we've a letter from overseas to read you.
25:03
Speaker 3: And we'd like to thank Mrs. Betty Comande of Yonkers,
25:06
Speaker 3: New York, for sharing it with us. It's from an
25:09
Speaker 3: American lieutenant somewhere in England. Here's what he says.
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Speaker 13: I received the following packages in the last two days.
25:16
Speaker 13: Soluble coffee.
25:17
Speaker 2: Thanks, Dad. Buttons for my uniform. Thanks, Dad.
25:21
Speaker 13: Shoebox containing what an assortment. Lux, candy, gum, raisins, and
25:26
Speaker 13: so forth.
25:27
Speaker 2: Many thanks, Mom.
25:28
Speaker 18: And many, many thanks.
25:29
Speaker 2: For the Lux.
25:30
Speaker 13: Now I can wash my wool scarf. I wouldn't trust
25:33
Speaker 13: that scarf to the laundry. To be awakened out of
25:35
Speaker 13: a sound sleep and told you're a first lieutenant and
25:38
Speaker 13: to receive a box of Lux all on the same
25:40
Speaker 13: day is something to write home about.
25:42
Speaker 2: Then Mrs.
25:43
Speaker 3: Comande adds, I wonder how many mothers think of enclosing
25:47
Speaker 3: Lux in that wonder box. It is a thoughtful thing
25:51
Speaker 3: to do, for Lux takes just as good care of
25:54
Speaker 3: wool scarves and socks as it does of your precious
25:57
Speaker 3: sweaters and other washable woolens. You know how soft and
26:00
Speaker 3: attractive your sweaters stay when you Lux them. And you
26:04
Speaker 3: probably know how harsh and scratchy and shrunken woolens can
26:07
Speaker 3: get if they're not washed right, if they're rubbed with
26:11
Speaker 3: cake soap or washed with strong alkaline soap and too
26:15
Speaker 3: hot water. They're not very comfortable to wear when that happens,
26:19
Speaker 3: and they're actually not as warm to wear either. But
26:23
Speaker 3: with gentle luxe care, you can avoid shrinking and matting.
26:27
Speaker 3: There's no harmful alkali in luxe flakes. and there's no
26:31
Speaker 3: danger of that cake soap rubbing that's so apt to
26:34
Speaker 3: make wool shrink. So guard your precious woolens the gentle
26:39
Speaker 3: Lux way, and you'll get many thanks from your man
26:42
Speaker 3: in uniform if you enclose a box of Lux flakes
26:45
Speaker 3: in the next package you send off to him. We
26:48
Speaker 3: pause now for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
27:17
Speaker 4: Act II of The War Against Mrs. Hadley, starring Edward
27:20
Speaker 4: Arnold as Elliot Fulton, Faye Bainter as Stella Hadley, with
27:24
Speaker 4: Gene Rogers as Patricia, and Van Johnson as Michael. Ted
27:39
Speaker 4: Hadley is in the Army. Now more than ever, Mrs.
27:43
Speaker 4: Hadley is bitterly resentful of a war which has been
27:46
Speaker 4: thrust upon her, indignant at the changes it has made
27:50
Speaker 4: in her life. With Pat and Cecilia, she's driving down
27:54
Speaker 4: to visit her son at a camp near Washington.
28:00
Speaker 8: Are we almost there?
28:01
Speaker 6: It's just a little way, Mother.
28:02
Speaker 8: I don't see why they don't ever let Teddy come home.
28:05
Speaker 8: They're always keeping him in that camp. I'm not surprised.
28:08
Speaker 14: He's such a lovely boy.
28:10
Speaker 6: They do the same to all the boys. And they
28:12
Speaker 6: are letting him have dinner out with us.
28:14
Speaker 8: Who's the man he's bringing with him?
28:15
Speaker 6: Sergeant Fitzpatrick.
28:17
Speaker 8: Fitzpatrick. Oh, isn't he the young man you brought home
28:20
Speaker 8: one night?
28:20
Speaker 6: Yes, Mother.
28:21
Speaker 3: That!
28:22
Speaker 8: So that's why you're all dressed up. Oh, don't talk nonsense, Cecilia.
28:26
Speaker 8: I didn't know he was a friend of Teddy's.
28:28
Speaker 6: I asked Mike to look Ted up at camp. They've
28:30
Speaker 6: become friends.
28:31
Speaker 8: I see.
28:32
Speaker 14: Oh, Stella, I meant to tell you. Tony Winters is
28:34
Speaker 14: at the same camp.
28:36
Speaker 15: Laura Winters' son.
28:38
Speaker 12: Did you know?
28:39
Speaker 8: No, I didn't.
28:40
Speaker 14: Oh, yes, they're taking all the boys. Why, my elevator
28:44
Speaker 14: boy says the same.
28:44
Speaker 8: Cecilia, I do wish you'd stop quoting that elevator boy.
28:48
Speaker 15: Well, he does run into a lot of important people.
28:50
Speaker 13: Oh.
29:01
Speaker 8: Teddy, dear, have you everything you need at camp? Isn't
29:04
Speaker 8: there something I can send you?
29:05
Speaker 2: Not a thing, mother.
29:06
Speaker 8: Sure you have enough blankets at night?
29:08
Speaker 5: Absolutely certain.
29:09
Speaker 8: Why don't you let me give you the big comforter
29:11
Speaker 8: from the spare room?
29:13
Speaker 5: The pink one?
29:15
Speaker 8: Yes, dear.
29:16
Speaker 11: Well, I don't think it would fit in with the
29:18
Speaker 11: general color scheme of the barracks.
29:19
Speaker 14: Oh, I always think that pink goes with any color.
29:23
Speaker 5: They managed to keep us pretty warm down here, Mrs.
29:25
Speaker 2: Hadley.
29:25
Speaker 8: Really, Sergeant? Well, perhaps you know best, Ted. But you
29:29
Speaker 8: look tired, dear. I hope you're not trying to do
29:32
Speaker 8: too much.
29:33
Speaker 5: Not a bit more than is asked of me, Mother.
29:35
Speaker 6: Mother, don't baby him. I think he looks fine.
29:37
Speaker 5: Thanks, Pat.
29:38
Speaker 12: Hiya, Ted.
29:39
Speaker 19: Hiya, son.
29:40
Speaker 12: How you doing?
29:41
Speaker 10: Hiya, Louie.
29:42
Speaker 5: How's it with you, Strangler?
29:43
Speaker 2: Strictly done nuts.
29:44
Speaker 9: Be seeing you.
29:45
Speaker 5: Be seeing you, Strangler.
29:46
Speaker 10: So long, Louie.
29:47
Speaker 8: Who was that? A friend of yours, Ted?
29:49
Speaker 2: That was Louie.
29:51
Speaker 5: We call him the Strangler. He used to be a
29:52
Speaker 5: wrestling champion in Brooklyn.
29:54
Speaker 6: Indeed.
29:55
Speaker 8: And what did you do before the war, Sergeant?
29:58
Speaker 5: Oh, I was in the advertising department of the Washington Chronicle.
30:01
Speaker 8: The Chronicle, really?
30:02
Speaker 14: Oh, dear, just when everything was so peaceful.
30:05
Speaker 5: Why, what's the matter? Have I said something wrong, Mrs.
30:08
Speaker 2: Hadley?
30:08
Speaker 6: Mike, come on, Mike, let's dance, shall we?
30:11
Speaker 5: Sure, I'd like to.
30:11
Speaker 6: Well, come on, then.
30:12
Speaker 5: Excuse me.
30:13
Speaker 2: Mother, look.
30:15
Speaker 6: Yes, kid?
30:16
Speaker 11: Don't get Mike wrong just because he's worked for the Chronicle.
30:18
Speaker 11: He's a real gent.
30:20
Speaker 8: Gentlemen, darling, you mustn't let the army vulgarize you. Good night, Pat.
30:36
Speaker 8: I'm going straight to bed.
30:37
Speaker 6: Mother, I'd like to talk to you.
30:38
Speaker 8: In the morning, darling. I'm completely worn out.
30:41
Speaker 6: Please. It's important. Sit down, Mother.
30:43
Speaker 8: Pat, I do hope you're not going to tell me
30:46
Speaker 8: anything unpleasant.
30:48
Speaker 6: I'm not. Mother, I... Well.
30:53
Speaker 8: What is it, dear?
30:54
Speaker 6: Mother, do you remember the first time you met Father?
30:57
Speaker 8: Strange you should ask me that. I was recalling it
31:01
Speaker 8: tonight when I saw Teddy. He grows more like his
31:04
Speaker 8: father every day.
31:05
Speaker 6: Did you fall in love with Father right away?
31:07
Speaker 8: I suppose I must have. He was so handsome and dashing,
31:11
Speaker 8: I really couldn't help myself. You see, at the time,
31:14
Speaker 8: I was half engaged to Elliot and.
31:18
Speaker 8: What is it you wanted to tell me, dear?
31:20
Speaker 6: I'm in love too, Mother.
31:23
Speaker 8: With this soldier?
31:24
Speaker 6: Yes.
31:26
Speaker 8: You mustn't romanticize things, Patricia, dear. In times like these,
31:30
Speaker 8: one is apt to be carried away with the glamour
31:31
Speaker 8: of the uniform.
31:32
Speaker 6: Oh, I'd marry Mike if he were dressed in an
31:34
Speaker 6: old gunny sack.
31:35
Speaker 8: Has he asked you to marry him?
31:36
Speaker 6: I asked him. He's got his transfer to the Air
31:39
Speaker 6: Corps and he's being sent out west. I couldn't let
31:41
Speaker 6: him go without letting him know how I felt.
31:43
Speaker 8: That was very forward and indiscreet of you, Patricia. I'm
31:46
Speaker 8: glad the young man is leaving. It'll give you time
31:49
Speaker 8: to think things over.
31:50
Speaker 6: I'm going with him. I'll be married first, of course.
31:54
Speaker 1: Married?
31:55
Speaker 6: Oh, Mother, you'll love him when you know him. Really,
31:57
Speaker 6: you will.
31:58
Speaker 8: I'm not thinking of myself. I'm thinking of you. I
32:02
Speaker 8: have no intention of entrusting your happiness to a man
32:04
Speaker 8: whom none of us knows.
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Speaker 6: I know him. Ted knows him. Elliot knows him.
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Speaker 8: Elliot knows him?
32:09
Speaker 6: Yes. I introduced them.
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Speaker 8: You've been seeing Elliot Fulton after what he did to me.
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Speaker 6: Mother, what Elliot did was the best possible thing that
32:17
Speaker 6: could have happened. Why, Ted's a new man.
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Speaker 8: You've been carrying on with this young man behind my back.
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Speaker 8: aided and abated by the man who sent your own
32:24
Speaker 8: brother to what may be his death.
32:26
Speaker 6: You're being hysterical and unfair.
32:27
Speaker 8: I suppose you think what Elliot did was fair.
32:29
Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
32:30
Speaker 8: You've always sided with him, always. You care more for
32:34
Speaker 8: him than you do for me.
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Speaker 6: That's not true.
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Speaker 8: If he means so much to you, why don't you
32:38
Speaker 8: go to him? He won't stand in the way of
32:40
Speaker 8: your marrying this nobody. But as your mother, I forbid it.
32:44
Speaker 15: All right, mother.
32:46
Speaker 6: Good night.
32:46
Speaker 8: Patricia, come back here this instant.
32:48
Speaker 6: Where are you going? To Elliot.
32:50
Speaker 14: Patricia!
33:01
Speaker 2: Yes?
33:02
Speaker 15: I want to see Mrs.
33:03
Speaker 6: Hadley, please.
33:03
Speaker 9: May I have your card, madam?
33:05
Speaker 6: Card?
33:06
Speaker 15: I didn't think you needed one to get in.
33:08
Speaker 9: Who shall I say is calling, please?
33:10
Speaker 8: Just say Mrs.
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Speaker 16: Michael Fitzpatrick, Mike's mother.
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Speaker 9: I'll see if she's home.
33:20
Speaker 13: Yes, Bennet?
33:21
Speaker 2: There's a Mrs.
33:21
Speaker 9: Michael Fitzpatrick to see you, madam.
33:23
Speaker 2: Mrs.
33:24
Speaker 6: Fitzpatrick?
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Speaker 12: Show her in.
33:26
Speaker 2: Yes, madam. Mrs.
33:28
Speaker 9: Hadley will see you.
33:30
Speaker 15: I could have told you she would.
33:32
Speaker 6: Well, how do you do?
33:35
Speaker 2: Mrs.
33:35
Speaker 8: Fitzpatrick?
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Speaker 15: That's it.
33:38
Speaker 16: No need to ask who you are. You're the mother
33:40
Speaker 16: of your daughter and there's no denying it.
33:43
Speaker 8: Won't you sit down?
33:44
Speaker 16: Well, that chair's a bit thin for the size of me.
33:48
Speaker 16: If you don't mind, I'll sit over here on the sofa.
33:51
Speaker 8: What is it you want, please?
33:53
Speaker 6: Mrs.
33:53
Speaker 15: Hadley, I'd not beat about the bush.
33:56
Speaker 16: I've come as a dove of peace. Although you'd hardly
34:00
Speaker 16: think I was a dove to look at me.
34:03
Speaker 8: If there's any peace to be made, I should think
34:05
Speaker 8: my daughter would call on me.
34:07
Speaker 15: She tried to call on you, but you turned her away.
34:09
Speaker 8: I sent word that I'd see her when she decided
34:11
Speaker 8: to move back home. and give up the idea of
34:14
Speaker 8: this marriage.
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Speaker 16: And what have you against her marrying my Michael?
34:17
Speaker 8: I have nothing against your son. In fact, I hardly
34:21
Speaker 8: know him.
34:21
Speaker 15: Ah, that's easily cured.
34:23
Speaker 8: On the other hand, I see no reason why they
34:25
Speaker 8: shouldn't wait, at least until he's out of the army.
34:28
Speaker 15: Young people aren't much at waiting, Mrs.
34:30
Speaker 8: Hadley. Then it's up to us as older people to
34:33
Speaker 8: stop it. I did my best, but Patricia obviously decided
34:38
Speaker 8: to go elsewhere for her guidance and her love.
34:41
Speaker 16: She'll search high and low, But you'll not find the
34:44
Speaker 16: kind of love you can give her.
34:47
Speaker 17: Oh, come now, Mrs.
34:48
Speaker 10: Hadley.
34:48
Speaker 16: There's enough fighting going on in the world without a
34:51
Speaker 16: mother and a daughter having a.
34:52
Speaker 8: Go at it.
34:53
Speaker 15: Say you'll come to the wedding.
34:56
Speaker 8: The wedding?
34:57
Speaker 16: On Wednesday at high noon in the Church of the
35:00
Speaker 16: Immaculate Heart.
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Speaker 15: And it won't be complete without you.
35:04
Speaker 8: Since I wasn't consulted about the wedding, I see no
35:08
Speaker 8: purpose in my being there.
35:09
Speaker 15: And why should you be consulted when you were all
35:11
Speaker 15: against it?
35:12
Speaker 8: And I see no purpose in continuing this discussion. Good afternoon, Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
35:19
Speaker 15: You're a proud woman, Mrs.
35:20
Speaker 8: Hadley.
35:22
Speaker 16: But I think you'll find that pride's not very good
35:25
Speaker 16: company when you're lonely.
35:29
Speaker 15: Good afternoon.
35:30
Speaker 13: Good afternoon.
35:44
Speaker 2: And now, now I'd like to propose a toast to
35:47
Speaker 2: the bride and groom.
35:48
Speaker 15: Oh, yes, yes, Mr. Fulton, a toast.
35:51
Speaker 2: Well, here's to a happy life in Phoenix and a
35:54
Speaker 2: speedy return to those who love you.
35:56
Speaker 5: And how about a toast to the mother of the groom?
35:57
Speaker 16: If you don't stop drinking toast, you'll all be sodden.
36:00
Speaker 5: To you, mother.
36:01
Speaker 2: Darling. Well, I'm afraid I've got to get back to
36:05
Speaker 2: the department.
36:05
Speaker 5: That sounds familiar, Elliot.
36:07
Speaker 6: I'll go with you to the door.
36:08
Speaker 5: Not a step further. Remember, you're my wife.
36:10
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think she's apt to forget that, Mike.
36:12
Speaker 5: Goodbye, sir, and thanks for everything.
36:14
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Mike, and lots of good luck. And take good
36:16
Speaker 2: care of her. It was a beautiful wedding, Mrs. Fitzpatrick.
36:19
Speaker 6: Goodbye.
36:19
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Ted. Goodbye, Mr. Fulton.
36:21
Speaker 6: Goodbye, sir.
36:21
Speaker 2: Goodbye, sir. Well, Pat, are you happy?
36:29
Speaker 6: Terribly. Except for Mother.
36:31
Speaker 2: Yes, I know. You know, all during the ceremony, I
36:35
Speaker 2: was looking toward the door, hoping.
36:38
Speaker 6: Elliot, have I been selfish? Have I done everything I could?
36:41
Speaker 2: Well, everything short of wrecking your life and Mike's.
36:44
Speaker 6: I tried to phone her from the church. Bennett said
36:47
Speaker 6: she was out. Will you try to see her?
36:50
Speaker 2: I'm afraid she'll be out to meet, too. Don't worry, Pat.
36:53
Speaker 2: She's a lot stronger than we suspect.
36:55
Speaker 6: Goodbye, Elliot.
36:56
Speaker 2: Goodbye, my dear.
36:57
Speaker 6: I'll miss you.
36:59
Speaker 2: I'll try to believe that. And lots of good luck
37:02
Speaker 2: to both of you.
37:03
Speaker 6: Thanks.
37:06
Speaker 12: Hiya.
37:06
Speaker 6: Here I am, Mike.
37:07
Speaker 5: You've been gone for ages, do you know that? Don't ever,
37:11
Speaker 5: ever leave me again, do you hear? I was half
37:13
Speaker 5: crazy with loneliness.
37:14
Speaker 6: Oh, Mike, darling.
37:15
Speaker 5: Come on, let's get out of here.
37:17
Speaker 6: All right. I'll run up and get my grips.
37:18
Speaker 2: Come on.
37:19
Speaker 9: Hey, they're going to run out on us, folks.
37:20
Speaker 6: Can't do that. Pat, come back.
37:23
Speaker 5: Well, I guess that's that.
37:25
Speaker 6: Hey, Pat, aren't you ever going to throw that bridal bouquet?
37:28
Speaker 15: I need a husband, too.
37:29
Speaker 6: All right. Now get back, everybody.
37:32
Speaker 8: Get back.
37:35
Speaker 6: No.
37:35
Speaker 20: No.
37:36
Speaker 6: Wait a minute.
37:37
Speaker 2: What's the matter, Pat?
37:39
Speaker 6: Look, I... If you don't mind, I won't throw the bouquet.
37:44
Speaker 6: I'm going to send it to someone. Ted, come here.
37:49
Speaker 5: Yes, Pat.
37:50
Speaker 6: Ted, give this to Mother from me.
38:05
Speaker 5: And then she gave me the flowers. They were for you,
38:09
Speaker 5: she said.
38:11
Speaker 2: Here, Mother.
38:14
Speaker 8: Her flowers? Her wedding flower.
38:18
Speaker 2: Oh, Mother, don't.
38:23
Speaker 9: Mr. Ted, the telephone for you, sir.
38:27
Speaker 2: Thanks, Bennett. Hello? Yes? This is Hadley speaking, sir. Yes, sir.
38:37
Speaker 2: I understand, sir. Right away.
38:40
Speaker 5: I've got to go, Mother.
38:42
Speaker 8: But I thought they gave you permission to spend the night.
38:44
Speaker 2: All leaves have been cancelled.
38:45
Speaker 5: It looks as if As if we're being moved out.
38:48
Speaker 6: Teddy!
38:48
Speaker 5: Now, don't worry, Mother.
38:50
Speaker 11: They may only be sending me to a camp in
38:52
Speaker 11: another part of the country.
38:53
Speaker 6: No, no, I know what it is.
38:55
Speaker 8: First it was Pat, and now it's you.
38:59
Speaker 6: Teddy, my baby.
39:02
Speaker 8: They're taking you away from me.
39:04
Speaker 6: Teddy!
39:15
Speaker 3: After a brief intermission, we'll hear Act Three of The
39:18
Speaker 3: War Against Mrs. Hadley, starring Edward Arnold and Faye Bainter,
39:22
Speaker 3: with Gene Rogers and Van Johnson. Now, here's our fashion scout,
39:27
Speaker 3: Libby Collins, with some news about figure problems.
39:30
Speaker 18: For the women in our audience. Sounds a bit mathematical, Libby.
39:34
Speaker 17: Well, not exactly, Mr.
39:35
Speaker 15: Kennedy.
39:36
Speaker 7: Not the kind I'm thinking about. Though often when a
39:39
Speaker 7: woman subtracts from her figure, she adds to her poise
39:42
Speaker 7: and appearance. I want to pass along the good news
39:45
Speaker 7: that even with elastic fabrics rationed, we women are going
39:49
Speaker 7: to be able to solve our figure problems with girdles
39:51
Speaker 7: and foundations that fit well.
39:54
Speaker 17: New types of fabrics.
39:55
Speaker 7: And ingenious new ways of cutting them have been worked out,
39:59
Speaker 7: so the new things can do a fine figure-slimming job
40:02
Speaker 7: with little or no elastic in them. Now, of course,
40:05
Speaker 7: that doesn't mean we're going to toss out the precious
40:07
Speaker 7: two-way stretch girdles and foundations we bought last year.
40:10
Speaker 6: Far from it.
40:12
Speaker 15: We want to make them last.
40:13
Speaker 7: Just as long as we can. And one of the
40:15
Speaker 7: best ways to do that is to lux them often
40:19
Speaker 7: so they never get really soiled and so perspiration doesn't
40:22
Speaker 7: harm the fibers.
40:23
Speaker 3: Yes, lux flakes take away soil and perspiration quickly and thoroughly.
40:29
Speaker 3: And with lux, there's no harmful alkali, no cake soap
40:33
Speaker 3: rubbing to weaken elasticity. Girdles keep their fit better, last
40:38
Speaker 3: longer with gentle lux care.
40:41
Speaker 7: And that point about fit is especially true of the
40:44
Speaker 7: new things. With less elastic in them, it's more important
40:48
Speaker 7: than ever to protect fit with Lux.
40:51
Speaker 2: Yes, Libby, that's care experts advise.
40:55
Speaker 3: Makers of foundations and leading stores where they're sold advise
40:59
Speaker 3: Lux Flakes.
41:02
Speaker 2: Now, Mr.
41:02
Speaker 5: DeMille returns to the microphone.
41:05
Speaker 4: One of our stars has a birthday today. We'll tell
41:09
Speaker 4: you about it when we bring them back after the play.
41:11
Speaker 4: Now the curtain rises on the third act of The
41:13
Speaker 4: War Against Mrs. Hadley, starring Edward Arnold and Faye Bainter
41:17
Speaker 4: with Gene Rogers and Van Johnson.
41:25
Speaker 12: You're a proud woman, Mrs. Hadley, but I think you'll
41:28
Speaker 12: find that pride's not very good company when you're lonely.
41:34
Speaker 4: Those were Mrs. Fitzpatrick's words, words of prophecy.
41:39
Speaker 12: Mrs.
41:39
Speaker 4: Hadley, alone in a busy world at war, tries vainly
41:44
Speaker 4: to keep alive a peaceful era which is gone. She
41:47
Speaker 4: has no friends now, except the faithful Cecilia, and those
41:52
Speaker 4: friends of another day to whom she occasionally writes.
41:57
Speaker 8: Pat is married and in Phoenix, and Ted is heaven
42:01
Speaker 8: knows where. The house is still and quiet without them.
42:07
Speaker 12: You'll find pride's not very good company.
42:11
Speaker 8: I had a letter from Ted last week.
42:13
Speaker 2: Dear mother.
42:14
Speaker 8: I've read it over 20 times. I still can't realize
42:17
Speaker 8: he's gone away from me.
42:19
Speaker 19: Our ship reaches its destination shortly, and maybe now we'll
42:21
Speaker 19: be seeing some action. Tony Winters is in our company.
42:25
Speaker 12: Laura Winters' son, Stella.
42:27
Speaker 19: I know how you feel about his mother, but Tony's
42:29
Speaker 19: a real gent. Beg pardon, gentlemen. And we've become great friends.
42:36
Speaker 19: In fact, knowing him has been the swellest thing that's happened.
42:38
Speaker 2: To me in the army.
42:39
Speaker 19: Don't worry about me.
42:40
Speaker 2: I'm in the pink.
42:42
Speaker 19: The only thing that's bothering me is the thought that
42:44
Speaker 19: you may be lonely.
42:46
Speaker 12: Pride's not very good company when you're lonely.
42:49
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Mother.
42:51
Speaker 12: Daddy. Daddy.
42:53
Speaker 8: Daddy.
42:55
Speaker 6: Mrs.
42:56
Speaker 2: Hadley? Mrs. Hadley?
42:58
Speaker 6: Bennett, what is it? It's Mr.
42:59
Speaker 2: Theodore.
42:59
Speaker 8: What's happened to him?
43:00
Speaker 4: Nothing.
43:00
Speaker 9: I mean everything. He's a hero. It says so in
43:03
Speaker 9: the paper. Look, look, Mrs.
43:04
Speaker 2: Hadley.
43:05
Speaker 8: Oh, I'm so nervous. Read it for me, Bennett.
43:07
Speaker 2: Yes, madam.
43:08
Speaker 10: Theodore Hadley, Washington youth, wins DSC for heroism. That's the
43:13
Speaker 10: Distinguished Service Cross, Mrs.
43:15
Speaker 8: Hadley. Yes, I know, but is he all right?
43:17
Speaker 10: Corporal Theodore Hadley was cited for conspicuous bravery under fire
43:22
Speaker 10: in an official communique just received. Hadley, according to the dispatch,
43:26
Speaker 10: had been instructed to seek out the location of an
43:29
Speaker 10: enemy machine gun emplacement. After the other four men in
43:33
Speaker 10: his unit had been shot down by Jap snipers, Corporal
43:37
Speaker 10: Hadley continued on alone, locating the machine gun nest and
43:41
Speaker 10: wiping it out with hand grenades, killing 15 Jap soldiers.
43:46
Speaker 10: He returned unharmed to his company. Corporal Hadley is the
43:51
Speaker 10: son of the late Nathaniel Hadley, once owner of the
43:54
Speaker 10: Washington Chronicle, and of Mrs.
43:57
Speaker 2: Hadley.
43:57
Speaker 8: Bennett, I want you to get me all the papers
43:59
Speaker 8: right away.
43:59
Speaker 6: Yes, madam.
44:00
Speaker 9: Even the Washington Chronicle?
44:01
Speaker 8: I want every one of them.
44:02
Speaker 2: Hurry.
44:03
Speaker 8: Yes, madam.
44:12
Speaker 2: Is Mrs.
44:13
Speaker 8: Hadley in?
44:14
Speaker 15: I want to see her, please.
44:15
Speaker 8: Who shall I say is calling?
44:16
Speaker 12: It's Mrs.
44:17
Speaker 15: Fitzpatrick, girl. Now hurry up.
44:19
Speaker 8: Millie, has Bennett returned?
44:21
Speaker 2: Oh.
44:21
Speaker 15: How are you, Mrs.
44:22
Speaker 2: Hadley?
44:23
Speaker 6: How do you do?
44:24
Speaker 15: You'll excuse me for puffing. I'm all out of breath.
44:27
Speaker 8: Won't you come in?
44:28
Speaker 15: Thank you kindly. Well, I suppose you've heard.
44:32
Speaker 8: The good news. Yes, I just saw it in the paper.
44:35
Speaker 15: The paper, is it? Is nothing sacred from those gossip mongers?
44:38
Speaker 8: I'm afraid I don't understand. I was speaking of my.
44:42
Speaker 15: Son, young Ted. Why, what's happened to him?
44:45
Speaker 8: He's just been awarded the DSC. That's the Distinguished Service Cross.
44:49
Speaker 15: The Saints preserve us. Who'd have thought it?
44:51
Speaker 8: Teddy's always been courageous, even as a child. Of course
44:54
Speaker 8: he has.
44:55
Speaker 16: And it's proud you should be to have a hero
44:57
Speaker 16: for a son. Think of all the stories we'll be
45:00
Speaker 16: able to tell our grandchild about his uncle.
45:03
Speaker 6: Grandchild?
45:07
Speaker 8: Is Patricia having a baby?
45:09
Speaker 15: Heaven help us. I thought you knew by now.
45:11
Speaker 2: No.
45:14
Speaker 8: Not a word. That's not like that.
45:17
Speaker 16: Whatever may have happened between you, it's still your grandchild
45:21
Speaker 16: she's bearing.
45:23
Speaker 8: When did you hear?
45:25
Speaker 15: Just a short while back.
45:26
Speaker 16: And I dropped everything to run over and compare notes
45:29
Speaker 16: with you on how it felt to be a grandmother.
45:32
Speaker 8: I'm afraid I can't say. not having been informed officially.
45:36
Speaker 2: Mrs.
45:37
Speaker 10: Hadley, I hope you'll excuse me, but in the excitement
45:39
Speaker 10: over Mr. Theodore, I forgot this telegram, madam.
45:41
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, then.
45:42
Speaker 2: Sorry, madam.
45:43
Speaker 15: There, there, you see, I knew it. I knew it
45:46
Speaker 15: wasn't like them. What does it say?
45:49
Speaker 8: You are going to be a grandmother in October. We
45:53
Speaker 8: love you and miss you very much. Pat and Mike.
45:58
Speaker 15: Not a word did they say in my telegram about
46:00
Speaker 15: missing me.
46:01
Speaker 8: I do hope Patricia takes proper care of herself.
46:04
Speaker 15: Oh, Michael will see to that. If he doesn't, I'll
46:07
Speaker 15: beat the daylights out of him.
46:11
Speaker 4: Mrs.
46:11
Speaker 2: Hadley. Yes? It's the reporters, madam.
46:14
Speaker 8: Reporters?
46:14
Speaker 9: Yes, madam, five of them. They insist upon seeing you
46:17
Speaker 9: about Mr.
46:17
Speaker 2: Theodore.
46:18
Speaker 8: I have nothing to say to them.
46:19
Speaker 12: What?
46:20
Speaker 15: Why, of course you have.
46:21
Speaker 8: I beg your pardon?
46:22
Speaker 15: You forget you're the mother of a hero.
46:24
Speaker 8: I don't see why my private life is any concern
46:26
Speaker 8: of the press.
46:27
Speaker 15: There's a war going on, Mrs.
46:28
Speaker 16: Hadley, and there's hundreds of thousands of wives and mothers
46:32
Speaker 16: needing all the courage they can get. Their men can't
46:36
Speaker 16: all win the DSC, but they're fighting just the same.
46:40
Speaker 16: And it's up to you to give their womenfolk a
46:42
Speaker 16: message of.
46:42
Speaker 15: Hope and faith. You've got no private life anymore. You
46:47
Speaker 15: belong to those wives and mothers. So you'll see them, Mrs. Hadley,
46:51
Speaker 15: and right now. Come in, boys.
46:54
Speaker 13: Mrs.
46:55
Speaker 5: Hadley, I'm Stevens of the Chronicle.
46:56
Speaker 6: The Chronicle?
46:57
Speaker 5: The name of Hadley means a lot to us. We'd
46:58
Speaker 5: like to play it up in a big way.
46:59
Speaker 8: I'm afraid I have nothing to say.
47:01
Speaker 6: We just want to ask you a few questions, Mrs.
47:03
Speaker 4: Hadley.
47:03
Speaker 8: But I told you.
47:04
Speaker 2: Have you heard from your son lately?
47:05
Speaker 8: I had a letter the other day.
47:06
Speaker 2: Where was it from?
47:07
Speaker 9: What did he say?
47:07
Speaker 8: The letter was personal. I see no object in going
47:10
Speaker 8: on with this. You already know the facts.
47:12
Speaker 2: But we'd like your angle, Mrs. Hadley.
47:13
Speaker 6: If Mrs. Winters is willing to give us an interview,
47:15
Speaker 6: you certainly ought to.
47:16
Speaker 12: Mrs.
47:17
Speaker 6: Winters? Yes, we've just come from there.
47:19
Speaker 8: Some people like publicity.
47:21
Speaker 5: I wouldn't call losing a son good publicity.
47:23
Speaker 2: What?
47:24
Speaker 5: Guess we'd better call it a day.
47:25
Speaker 2: Come on.
47:26
Speaker 12: No.
47:27
Speaker 8: No, no, wait, please.
47:29
Speaker 6: I didn't know. Well, it was in the paper.
47:31
Speaker 8: I didn't read it. Please believe me.
47:33
Speaker 15: Of course she didn't. Haven't you got two eyes among
47:36
Speaker 15: the lot of you?
47:37
Speaker 2: I'm very sorry, Mrs. Hadley.
47:39
Speaker 5: Tony Winters was with your son, looking for the same
47:42
Speaker 5: machine gun nest.
47:43
Speaker 2: He was shot by a sniper. Oh, how dreadful.
47:48
Speaker 8: Why, only the other day Teddy wrote about him. They
47:51
Speaker 8: were great friends.
47:52
Speaker 2: Yes, so Mrs.
47:53
Speaker 9: Winters told us.
47:55
Speaker 8: She saw you at a time like this?
47:58
Speaker 5: Yes, she did.
48:00
Speaker 8: Bennett, you'll find a letter from Mr. Theodore on my
48:03
Speaker 8: night table. I want you to bring it here.
48:06
Speaker 2: Yes, madam.
48:07
Speaker 8: I'd like to read you parts of Especially the part
48:12
Speaker 8: about Tony Winters. Mrs.
48:21
Speaker 6: Winters.
48:22
Speaker 2: Mrs.
48:22
Speaker 8: Winters, ma'am.
48:23
Speaker 13: Oh, uh.
48:24
Speaker 17: Yes, Anna?
48:25
Speaker 8: Mrs.
48:25
Speaker 6: Hadley is here, ma'am.
48:27
Speaker 8: Mrs. Hadley? I... I hope I'm not intruding.
48:34
Speaker 17: Please come in, Mrs.
48:35
Speaker 12: Hadley.
48:37
Speaker 8: Thank you.
48:39
Speaker 17: I'm so glad you came. Won't you sit down?
48:43
Speaker 8: I have a letter from my son. I brought it along.
48:49
Speaker 8: I thought you might like to hear what Ted said
48:51
Speaker 8: about Tony.
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Speaker 12: Yes.
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Speaker 17: Yes, I should.
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Speaker 5: Very much.
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Speaker 8: He says, Tony Winters is in our company. I know
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Speaker 8: how you feel about his mother, but Tony is a
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Speaker 8: real gent. beg pardon gentlemen that's just a little joke
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Speaker 8: we have and we've become great friends in fact, knowing
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Speaker 8: him has been the swellest thing that's happened to me
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Speaker 8: in the army.
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Speaker 21: I can't tell you how much that means to me.
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Speaker 8: I just wanted you to know how Ted felt about him.
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Speaker 21: Tony felt the same way about him.
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Speaker 17: I'm glad they were together when.
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Speaker 8: It could so easily have been my boy.
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Speaker 6: Instead of yours.
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Speaker 17: We should both be very proud of our sons. Please
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Speaker 17: don't cry.
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Speaker 21: I've just heard today they're giving Tony the Distinguished Service Cross, too.
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Speaker 6: I'm glad.
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Speaker 8: And I'm so sorry for.
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Speaker 6: So many things.
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Speaker 17: None of that matters now. fights, political differences, anything.
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Speaker 21: All that matters is that you and I, all of
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Speaker 21: us work together to make what Tony died for something
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Speaker 21: fine and lasting.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Stella. I've been waiting for you.
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Speaker 8: How are you?
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Speaker 2: All right. You're looking very well, Stella.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Stella, I'm here on official business. The president sent me.
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Speaker 8: The president?
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Speaker 2: Yes, he asked me to deliver this letter to you personally.
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Speaker 8: Elliot, will you read it to me?
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Speaker 2: Yes, of course. My dear Mrs. Hadley, I want to
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Speaker 2: offer my congratulations on the valor shown by your sons.
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Speaker 2: and on the award of the Distinguished Service Cross, which
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Speaker 2: he so heroically earned. I had the pleasure of knowing
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Speaker 2: your husband, and though he opposed many of my policies,
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Speaker 2: I always found him a fair opponent and a fearless fighter.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad he has handed down this heritage to his son.
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Speaker 2: I know that every American must share with you in
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Speaker 2: your justifiable pride. Yours sincerely, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Elliot, to think of his finding time to write
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Speaker 8: to me when he has so many things to do.
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Speaker 8: He must be a very remarkable man. May I have
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Speaker 8: your attention, please? I just wanted to tell you there'll
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Speaker 8: be a new shipment of wool in tomorrow and more
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Speaker 8: material for bandages. Now, while I'm gone, Laura Winters will
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Speaker 8: be in charge. And I'm sure you'll all work just
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Speaker 8: as hard as if I were here. Are there any questions? Oh, Stella. Yes, Cecilia.
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Speaker 14: Stella, do I have to take the first aid course
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Speaker 14: all over again?
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Speaker 8: We all have to take it until we pass our examination.
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Speaker 14: Oh, I'm tired of being bandaged.
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Speaker 15: How long will you be in Phoenix, Stella?
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Speaker 8: Probably not more than a week. I'll be right back
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Speaker 8: after the baby's born.
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Speaker 15: It'll be born before we get there if you don't hurry.
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Speaker 8: It's all right, Maggie, don't worry. I never missed a
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Speaker 8: train in my life.
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Speaker 16: There's always a first time for everything. Where is that
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Speaker 16: husband of yours?
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Speaker 15: Is he going to take us to the station?
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Speaker 8: He's probably held up in a conference with the department.
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Speaker 8: You know how important these conferences are. Well, where's your car?
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Speaker 8: Elliot and I decided to put it up for the duration.
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Speaker 2: Stella!
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Speaker 15: Hello, darling!
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Speaker 2: Hello, dear. Here, I brought you some flowers.
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Speaker 8: Elliot, I thought you said we were going to economize.
53:10
Speaker 2: Well, let's start tomorrow. I hope you know how much
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Speaker 2: I'm going to miss you while you're away.
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Speaker 8: That's what you get for marrying a grandmother.
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Speaker 15: Come on, come on. This is no time for spooning.
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Speaker 6: All right, all right, Maggie.
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Speaker 9: Come on, will you?
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Speaker 2: Come on.
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Speaker 15: Goodbye, Stella.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye. Goodbye.
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Speaker 15: I do hope the baby.
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Speaker 14: Waits until you get there.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye, Stella.
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Speaker 15: I hope it's a boy.
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Speaker 8: Thank you. Goodbye, everybody. Goodbye.
53:35
Speaker 14: Well, those Japs and Nazis better look out now that
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Speaker 14: Stella's in the war.
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Speaker 12: Where's Stella?
53:43
Speaker 15: Did you forget something?
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Speaker 6: Where is it?
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Speaker 12: Here.
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Speaker 14: Here it is.
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Speaker 8: What is it? I almost forgot my letter from the president. Goodbye.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye.
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Speaker 7: Goodbye.
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Speaker 4: You have heard the story of Stella Hadley, of her
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Speaker 4: doubts and her decision. May we all profit by her
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Speaker 4: example and realize as she did the moral and military
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Speaker 4: necessity of sacrifice to speed the day of victory.
54:23
Speaker 3: Now, before our stars return to a curtain call, here's
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Speaker 3: something that sounds like a contradiction, but it's true. Part
54:30
Speaker 3: of the hard wear your stockings get comes when you're
54:34
Speaker 3: not wearing them. For example, if you let your stockings
54:37
Speaker 3: lie around without being luxed after you've worn them, The
54:41
Speaker 3: perspiration left in the fabric can weaken the threads so
54:44
Speaker 3: the stockings wear out too quickly. Yes, it's important for
54:49
Speaker 3: good wear to wash stockings promptly after every wearing. And
54:54
Speaker 3: it's important to do it the gentle luxe flakes way.
54:58
Speaker 3: For if you wash stockings the wrong way, if you
55:01
Speaker 3: rub them with cake soap or use strong soap, you're
55:04
Speaker 3: actually adding to the wear and tear. Those things weaken
55:09
Speaker 3: the elastic qualities of your stockings. Then the tiny threads
55:13
Speaker 3: break easily into runs. But gentle luxe flakes take away
55:18
Speaker 3: soil and perspiration quickly and very gently, without weakening elasticity.
55:24
Speaker 3: You cut down runs, your stockings will look better, last longer,
55:29
Speaker 3: when you luxe them after every wearing. Get the thrifty
55:32
Speaker 3: big box of Lux Flakes first thing tomorrow. It will
55:36
Speaker 3: do stockings every night for months.
55:40
Speaker 2: Now, here's Mr. DeMille with our stars.
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Speaker 4: It isn't news when Faye Bainter and Edward Arnold give
55:47
Speaker 4: fine performances because we expect it of them, and we're
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Speaker 4: never disappointed. But I did discover some news about Faye
55:54
Speaker 4: Bainter today. This is her birthday.
55:57
Speaker 2: Well, many happy returns, Faye.
55:59
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 10: You certainly picked an exciting day.
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Speaker 8: I had nothing to do with it, Eddie. Aren't you
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Speaker 8: going to ask me how.
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Speaker 12: Old I am?
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Speaker 2: No, not me. My mama done told me. She said
56:16
Speaker 2: never escalate his age.
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Speaker 4: Eddie, I think it would be all right to ask
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Speaker 4: Faye how old she was when she played her first part.
56:23
Speaker 8: Four, Mr. DeMille. Then I retired until I was 14.
56:28
Speaker 4: And it's obvious your comeback was successful, Faye. When did
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Speaker 4: your career get.
56:33
Speaker 5: Underway, Eddie?
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Speaker 2: Oh, I was about 14 years old, too.
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Speaker 8: A mere beardless boy.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, not exactly. I played character parts and wore
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Speaker 2: a beard most of the time.
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Speaker 4: Well, this audience knows two good troopers when we find them.
56:47
Speaker 4: I was thinking tonight that there's something in that word
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Speaker 4: trooper that fits 130 million Americans now. We're better neighbors
56:57
Speaker 4: because we've made sacrifices together. The missing faces around the
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Speaker 4: family dinner table draw us all closer. Eddie Arnold, for instance,
57:07
Speaker 4: has sent a son to the Army.
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Speaker 2: And you have a boy in the same service, E.B.? Fay.
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Speaker 4: Bainter's husband, a fine naval officer in the last war,
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Speaker 4: directs civilian defense in the city.
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Speaker 5: Of Santa Monica.
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Speaker 4: And we stand side by side with millions of other
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Speaker 4: mothers and fathers doing what we can.
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Speaker 8: And trying to be good troopers about it. What play
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Speaker 8: have you planned for next week, Mr.
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Speaker 12: DeMille?
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Speaker 4: A famous screenplay that's very timely at the moment, Faye.
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Speaker 4: It's called Algiers, and our stars will be Charles Boyer
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Speaker 4: and Loretta Young. Algiers is a city that's made for drama,
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Speaker 4: and it's certainly lived up to its reputation in the
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Speaker 4: past few weeks. Next Monday night, we'll bring you a
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Speaker 4: thrilling love story of this fascinating town. with Charles Boyer
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Speaker 4: in his great role of Pepe Lamoco, and Loretta Young
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Speaker 4: as his leading lady.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's a great idea right now, CB. My congratulations,
58:10
Speaker 2: and good night.
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Speaker 8: Good night.
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Speaker 4: Good night.
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Speaker 8: Good night.
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Speaker 4: There's no rationing on talent like yours. Our sponsors, the
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Speaker 4: makers of Lux Flakes, join me in inviting you to
58:26
Speaker 4: be with us again next Monday night. when the Lux
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Speaker 4: Radio Theater presents Loretta Young and Charles Boyer in Algiers
58:35
Speaker 4: with J. Carol Nash and Gene Lockhart. This is Cecil B.
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Speaker 4: DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood.
58:49
Speaker 2: Attention, housewives.
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Speaker 3: Is your kitchen part of American war production?
58:55
Speaker 2: Are you helping to make munitions? Do you save waste
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Speaker 2: kitchen fats? If you don't, start tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Put all leftover fats in a clean, wide-top can and
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Speaker 3: take them to your meat dealer regularly. He'll pay you
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Speaker 3: for them. and they'll be used to make glycerin. Glycerin
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Speaker 3: makes explosives. So send your waste fats to war. Out
59:17
Speaker 3: of the frying pan, into the firing line. During the
59:26
Speaker 3: holiday season, the volume of mail increases approximately 200%. The
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Speaker 3: public should not delay any longer to mail Christmas gifts, greetings,
59:34
Speaker 3: and letters if they wish to make certain that they
59:37
Speaker 3: are received before December 24th. Heard in tonight's play were
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Speaker 3: Fred McKay as Theodore, Verna Felton as Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Anne
59:46
Speaker 3: O'Neill as Cecilia. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers.
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Speaker 3: And this is your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you
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Speaker 3: to tune in next Monday night to hear Charles Boyer
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Speaker 3: and Loretta Young with J. Carol Nash and Gene Lockhart
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Speaker 3: in Algiers.
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Speaker 1: We close with Lux Radio Theater's War Against Mrs.
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Speaker 2: Hadley.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for this evening's broadcast.