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Lux Radio Theatre - "Swing High Swing Low" (Old Time Radio, 1940) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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Speaker 1: At the Panama Canal, former Army private and small-time singer
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Speaker 1: Skid Johnson meets traveler Maggie King as her ship makes
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Speaker 1: its passage. On February 26, 1940, Lux Radio Theater brought
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Speaker 1: its 250-second broadcast to CBS, Paramount's Swing High, Swing Low,
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Speaker 1: adapted from the screen version of Burlesque. Rudy Vallee makes
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Speaker 1: his Lux dramatic debut as Skid, opposite Virginia Bruce as Maggie,
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Speaker 1: with Roscoe Carnes as Harry and Una Merkel as Ella.
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Speaker 1: Cecil B. DeMille produces and Sanford Barnett directs. From Panama,
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Speaker 1: the story moves into nightclubs and show business, as Skid's
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Speaker 1: musical ambitions begin to affect his relationship with Maggie. We
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Speaker 1: now take you back to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Rudy Vallee,
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Speaker 2: Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel, and Roscoe Carnes in Swing High,
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Speaker 2: Swing Low. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B.
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Speaker 3: DeMille.
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Speaker 2: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. This evening, to borrow
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Speaker 2: the tactics of a toastmaster... we introduce a man who
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Speaker 2: needs no introduction. Rudy Vallee. Staked out one of the
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Speaker 2: first claims to radio popularity... and continues to be worth
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Speaker 2: his weight in gold at the box office. The first
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Speaker 2: time I went on the air, it was Rudy who
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Speaker 2: introduced me. Tonight I give fair exchange by introducing him
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Speaker 2: in a new identity. Dropping his triple character of orchestra leader...
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Speaker 2: singer and master of ceremonies, Rudy steps into the single
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Speaker 2: personality of Skid Johnson, the singer in our play Swing High,
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Speaker 2: Swing Low. And starring with him, much to our delight
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Speaker 2: and his, we have the lovely Virginia Bruce, an inspiration
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Speaker 2: to any singer. Swing High, Swing Low, adapted from the
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Speaker 2: Paramount screen success, is the story of a small-time entertainer
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Speaker 2: who makes good on the big time and of the
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Speaker 2: woman who loves him before he swings high and after
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Speaker 2: he swings low again. Although you will hear Rudy Vallee
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Speaker 2: playing and singing... only one role in this production... I'll
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Speaker 2: have to confess that he played a second important part backstage.
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Speaker 2: He was our technical advisor, our expert on the background.
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Speaker 3: Of the story.
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Speaker 2: And playing an all-important part, offstage of course... is the
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Speaker 2: real producer of these plays, Lux Toilet Soap. For besides
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Speaker 2: making hits possible on our stage... Lux Toilet Soap makes
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Speaker 2: a hit offstage, too, with the ladies... and delivers a
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Speaker 2: star performance of its own. During a drama in which
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Speaker 2: one of the leading characters is a nightclub singer... you'd
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Speaker 2: naturally expect to hear some songs. Well, we haven't failed you.
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Speaker 2: In fact, that's one of the important reasons we selected
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Speaker 2: Rudy Vallee for the part. Our curtain swings high now
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Speaker 2: for the first act of Swing High, Swing Low... starring
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Speaker 2: Rudy Vallee as Skid Johnson... Virginia Bruce as Maggie King,
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Speaker 2: Roscoe Carnes as Harry, and Una Merkel as Ella.
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Speaker 4: The Panama Canal Zone.
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Speaker 2: In the great waterway which links the eastern and the
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Speaker 2: western seas, a passenger boat is waiting to be lowered
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Speaker 2: through the locks, on our way to California. Along the
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Speaker 2: shore of the canal, a United States Army private walks
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Speaker 2: sentry duty. Back and forth he paces in the red
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Speaker 2: glow of the tropic sunset. Suddenly, his eye is attracted
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Speaker 2: toward the book, and his steps grow shorter until he's
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Speaker 2: practically marking time. For just above his head, framed in
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Speaker 2: an open porthole, is the face of a girl, a
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Speaker 2: very pretty girl. The soldier drops his gun from his shoulder.
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Speaker 5: and stares at her delightedly.
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Speaker 2: Hey.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 1: You.
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Speaker 3: Up there in the porthole. I said hello.
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Speaker 6: You weren't speaking to me by any chance.
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Speaker 3: Uh-uh. On purpose.
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Speaker 6: Soldiers aren't supposed to talk while they're on sentry duty.
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Speaker 3: What can they do to me? They can fire me.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 3: I've already quit. I'm all washed up with the Army.
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Speaker 3: This is my last day. Say, there's an idea.
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Speaker 7: We ought to celebrate.
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Speaker 6: The Army will probably do the celebrating.
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Speaker 3: Hey, is the rest of you as beautiful as your face? No.
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Speaker 6: I weigh 200 and I don't wear shoes.
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Speaker 3: Fine. What do we do tonight? How about meeting in
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Speaker 3: the dock under the moon?
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Speaker 6: What if there isn't any moon?
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Speaker 3: I'll meet you under the dock. No kidding. How about
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Speaker 3: you and me go in places when your boat gets
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Speaker 3: in tonight?
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Speaker 2: Okay?
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Speaker 6: No kidding. How about you scramming so I can see
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Speaker 6: some of the scenery down here?
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Speaker 3: I'm the scenery down here. I'm Skid Johnson, the one-man army.
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Speaker 3: Ask anybody.
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Speaker 6: It's been delightful, Mr. Johnson. Now go away. You bother me.
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Speaker 3: Good. I didn't think you'd admit it. Meet you in
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Speaker 3: the dock of Balboa tonight.
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Speaker 6: So long, Private. Nice to have met you.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I'll be wearing my civvies and I'll have a
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Speaker 3: carnation in my buttonhole so you'll know me.
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't know you if you wore a rose behind
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Speaker 6: your ear.
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Speaker 3: Okay, that's an idea.
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Speaker 7: For God's sakes, Maggie, my Peter.
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Speaker 6: What do you want to go sightseeing for anyway?
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Speaker 8: See the sights, Ella.
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Speaker 6: I've got one night in Panama and I'm going to
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Speaker 6: see everything there is to be seen. Come on. I
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Speaker 6: don't see that soldier you told me about. Well, if
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Speaker 6: you're looking for him, you can stop right now. Say,
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Speaker 6: a date's a date, what I always say. What about
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Speaker 6: grabbing a cab, Ella? Well, it's easier on the feet,
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Speaker 6: but you've got to bargain with these guys. I'll be
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Speaker 6: right back, Maggie.
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Speaker 3: Three dollars an hour, taxi cab, right here. One dollar,
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Speaker 3: taxi cab, one dollar.
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Speaker 6: Hey, you, what did you say?
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Speaker 3: Hey, you take my car, one dollar, round trip, Panama City.
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Speaker 6: Okay, one dollar. Wait here, I'll get my friend.
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Speaker 3: Sure, sure, lady. There, you see, senoritas? Situated on the
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Speaker 3: plaza of the cathedral is all these temples in Spanish America...
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Speaker 3: And as best we stood effects of time's corrosing hand.
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Speaker 3: The cathedral built 1675 and he's been prolonged greater part
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Speaker 3: of century. Pretty good, eh?
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Speaker 6: Yeah. The only trouble is this isn't a cathedral. The
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Speaker 6: sign over the gate said Palace of the President.
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Speaker 3: Oh, must be a wrong street.
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Speaker 6: All right, soldier. You can come out from behind that
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Speaker 6: mustache now.
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Speaker 3: Hello. You're an awful liar, aren't you? You do wear
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Speaker 3: shoes and you've got the prettiest.
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Speaker 6: Say, Maggie, do you know this guy? And you can
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Speaker 6: stop the car, Mr.
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Speaker 9: Johnson.
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Speaker 6: We're tired playing.
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Speaker 3: Oh, come on.
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Speaker 5: Be a sport.
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Speaker 3: I told you I was mustered out of the army today.
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Speaker 3: I thought it'd be fun for the four of us
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Speaker 3: to go out and celebrate.
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Speaker 6: Who's the fourth?
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Speaker 3: Harry, the hottest piano player in Panama.
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Speaker 6: We're not interested. Hey, speak for yourself, Maggie.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what you've got to be sore about.
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Speaker 3: When you hired this car, you thought you had a
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Speaker 3: native guide. So it turns out that you've got a fine,
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Speaker 3: upstanding American lad and his friends. He lives here, Harry,
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Speaker 3: I mean.
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Speaker 6: Now, just a minute, I.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you'll like him. And instead of showing you a
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Speaker 3: lot of buildings and statues, we'll show you the real town. Look,
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Speaker 3: you're getting two guys without pay and you're kicking. Oh,
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Speaker 3: come on. We drive around, I'll make my usual cracks.
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Speaker 3: If you laugh, I'll think I'm good. If you don't,
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Speaker 3: I'll think you're dumb. What can we waste? Two hours?
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Speaker 3: What's two hours?
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Speaker 5: Look at those stars.
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Speaker 3: They've been up there millions of years, and you're worried
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Speaker 3: about what you're going to do with the next two hours.
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Speaker 6: I never heard anyone talk so much in my life.
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Speaker 6: Did you ever try to sell anything?
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Speaker 3: Sure, right now.
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Speaker 2: Me.
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Speaker 6: You know, if you had something good to say, you
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Speaker 6: could really be marvelous. I didn't know there were so
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Speaker 6: many words in the English language.
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Speaker 3: Say, I haven't started. Harry, Harry, come on out here.
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Speaker 3: You're about to meet Harry Rankin, the hottest piano player
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Speaker 3: in Panama.
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Speaker 2: Is that you, skid?
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Speaker 6: Say, no wonder he's with that overcoat on.
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Speaker 7: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Excuse me. I'm just recovering from an attack to chills
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Speaker 2: and fever. Will you have a quinine tablet? This is
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Speaker 2: a tropic, you know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know it. Do you know it?
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Speaker 2: Really, you better have one.
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Speaker 6: Well, if you're for me, I've already got my pill.
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Speaker 3: Harry, this is.
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Speaker 6: My name's Ella.
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Speaker 3: This is.
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Speaker 6: Marguerite King.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, this is Maggie King.
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Speaker 6: I said Marguerite.
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Speaker 5: How do you do?
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Speaker 2: I'm very glad to know both of you.
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Speaker 6: You should be glad to know anybody.
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Speaker 3: Come on, Harry, pile in. We're going to show them
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Speaker 3: the town, the cathedrals, bonitas, the boulevards.
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Speaker 7: The cafes. Ah, see, the cafes, plenty.
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Speaker 3: And these... A hoarder's known as Morgan's Ruins. Don't ask
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Speaker 3: me why, but it's quiet anyway. Nice moon, too, huh?
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Speaker 6: Yes, beautiful moon.
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Speaker 5: Having a good time?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so far.
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Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Wonder where the other two mugs are. That Ella's a
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Speaker 3: nice kid.
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Speaker 5: What does she do?
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Speaker 6: She's a hairdresser on the Southern Queen.
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Speaker 5: Oh, you two?
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Speaker 6: Well, not exactly. We're just friends. I was going to
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Speaker 6: the coast, and she worked me in as an assistant.
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Speaker 3: Then you're not coming back this way, huh?
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Speaker 6: I doubt it. Oh, do you feel different down here?
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Speaker 6: I feel different. I feel all... Well, it's just like
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Speaker 6: a warm breeze is blowing on you all the time.
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Speaker 5: There is?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but I don't mean that. I mean inside I
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Speaker 6: feel like that. Kind of sleepy. Like in front of
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Speaker 6: a fireplace, you know?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know. Trouble is, the longer you stay here,
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Speaker 3: the oftener you get that fireplace feeling.
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Speaker 6: Oh, of course, that's bad. You could never amount to
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Speaker 6: anything hanging around fireplaces, could you? That's pretty, isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 3: I won't be hearing that kind of music after tonight.
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Speaker 6: You leaving Panama?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, going to New York.
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Speaker 6: Well, I hope you have... better luck there than I had.
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Speaker 3: What happened to you?
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Speaker 6: Nothing. And when nothing happens to a dancer, that's news.
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Speaker 6: Bad news.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you dance, huh? You married? No.
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Speaker 6: Do I look like the marrying kind?
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Well, I am.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not, so don't get any ideas.
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Speaker 6: You're modest, aren't you?
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Speaker 3: What are you going to the coast for?
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Speaker 5: Got a job?
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 3: Pleasure trip?
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 3: You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.
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Speaker 6: I know it. It's a man.
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Speaker 3: Oh, I get it.
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Speaker 6: I'll bet you don't. I've known him for years. Whenever
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Speaker 6: I had a job and he was in New York,
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Speaker 6: he'd come and sit through the show, five a day,
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Speaker 6: once he asked me to go back with him and
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Speaker 6: marry him.
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Speaker 3: Rich guy?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I think he's what they call a cattle king.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know the type.
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Speaker 6: You know everything, don't you?
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Speaker 3: Going to marry him?
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Speaker 6: I don't know. He always said I could come out
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Speaker 6: and see if I'd like it out there.
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Speaker 3: Sort of making up your mind, huh?
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Speaker 6: I guess so.
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Speaker 3: Well, as long as you haven't decided yet, it'd be
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Speaker 3: pretty silly if I didn't kiss you, wouldn't it?
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Speaker 6: It'd be pretty silly if you did, wouldn't it?
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Speaker 3: We'd never going to see each other again. Wouldn't make
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Speaker 3: much difference one way or the other.
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Speaker 6: Okay. Makes no difference at all.
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Speaker 8: There.
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Speaker 3: Thanks. That was just lovely.
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Speaker 6: Feel better now?
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Speaker 3: Sure, sure. Come on. Let's get back to town.
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Speaker 6: Well, boy, I'm glad that's over.
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Speaker 3: What's the matter? Don't you like singers?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I love singers. I can't stand crooners.
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Speaker 5: Uh-uh, I see.
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Speaker 6: Oh, maybe somebody might like crooners. If somebody had been
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Speaker 6: dropped on their heads when they were babies, but you
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Speaker 6: couldn't be very bright and like crooners, could you?
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Speaker 3: Well, now, maybe you're right.
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Speaker 5: Maybe so.
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Speaker 6: Hey, Skid, there.
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Speaker 7: Buenas noches.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Miguel. How's the band doing? Ah, fine, fine. Hey, Skid, there.
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Speaker 6: How about a number, huh?
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Speaker 3: Just one.
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Speaker 2: Quiet, quiet.
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Speaker 7: Oh, but Skid, my friend.
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Speaker 3: Go away, Miguel. Go on.
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Speaker 6: Say, what is this?
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Speaker 7: What is this, senorita?
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Speaker 3: What is he, my friend, Skid?
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Speaker 7: The greatest, absolutely the most magnificent crooner singer in all Panama.
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Speaker 5: Will you shut up?
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Speaker 6: Well, well, a crooner.
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Speaker 3: So what? Eyes dropped on my head. So what?
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Speaker 7: Skid, please.
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Speaker 12: Just one.
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Speaker 6: Sure, go ahead.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 6: But just one.
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Speaker 3: Don't go away now.
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Speaker 6: I'll try not to. Come on, Skid.
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Speaker 7: What will it be, huh?
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Speaker 5: Good evening, senorita.
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Speaker 6: Who are you?
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Speaker 5: May I sit down, no?
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Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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Speaker 10: Go away.
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Speaker 6: I've got enough trouble.
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Speaker 7: Oh, thank you. Adios.
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Speaker 3: In leaving you it.
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Speaker 13: Grieves me to say adios.
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Speaker 3: I'll be so lonely for you only I sigh and
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Speaker 3: cry my adios adios to you. And in this heart
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Speaker 3: is memory of what used to be dear for you
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Speaker 3: and me set apart.
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Speaker 14: Moon watching and waiting above.
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Speaker 13: Soon He's very good, no?
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Speaker 6: Things he really said. All the things I said to him.
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Speaker 3: The music is lovely, but you are not.
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Speaker 5: Here still, senorita.
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Speaker 6: Wonderful. He's really marvellous.
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Speaker 3: I long to hold you in my arms, senorita.
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Speaker 7: We will dance till dawn and you shall.
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Speaker 6: Hey, what are you talking about? Get away from me.
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Speaker 3: Senorita.
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Speaker 6: Go on, get away.
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Speaker 3: Get away?
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Speaker 6: But why? Did you hear what I said?
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Speaker 3: What's the trouble, Maggie?
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm not sure, but I think this guy's being fresh.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah?
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Speaker 5: The senor will please keep his distance.
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Speaker 7: I saw the lady first.
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Speaker 3: He is very fresh.
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Speaker 6: Well, why don't you sock him?
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Speaker 3: No, I can't. You took your hat off.
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Speaker 6: What's that got to do with it?
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Speaker 3: It's an old South American custom. It means you'll dance
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Speaker 3: with anybody in the place.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 6: And she will dance with me.
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Speaker 5: Put your hat on, quick.
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Speaker 3: Now, listen, guy, you got this girl all wrong.
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Speaker 7: Beat it. You will please keep out of this.
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Speaker 3: Now, listen, I said get scrammed. She's got her hat on. Yes?
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Speaker 6: Then I take it off.
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Speaker 3: Get away.
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Speaker 5: No!
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Speaker 3: And this court finds you both guilty.
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Speaker 7: Of disturbing the peace.
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Speaker 2: Two days in jail and $ 150 fine.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 6: But I can't go to jail. My boat sails tonight.
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Speaker 1: Take them away.
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Speaker 6: No, listen, listen, Judge, please. Well, you certainly fixed it, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Skid Johnson. See Panama, see the sights. See the inside
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Speaker 6: of a jail for two days.
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Speaker 3: What are you blaming me for?
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Speaker 6: Well, if Harry hadn't come through with a balance of
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Speaker 6: the fine, we'd be in there yet. My boat's gone,
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Speaker 6: my clothes are gone, everything's gone. I'm stranded, do you
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Speaker 6: know that, without even enough money to get me in
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Speaker 6: a hotel.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Maggie, honest.
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Speaker 6: Oh, forget it.
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Speaker 3: I can't. What are you going to do?
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Speaker 12: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: If I might make a suggestion, you're perfectly welcome to
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Speaker 2: live with us.
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Speaker 6: Us?
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Speaker 2: You're skidding me. Skid just moved in.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, but I.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure you're going to find it very comfortable, Miss King.
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Speaker 2: Skid and I can sleep in the parlor and you
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Speaker 2: can have the bedroom, huh?
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Speaker 6: Thanks, Harry. It's very sweet of you. But I don't
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Speaker 6: think I could stand being so close to Mr. Johnson.
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Speaker 6: He gets me.
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Speaker 3: I'd like to get you out of this gym. If
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Speaker 3: you want, Harry and I can move out of the
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Speaker 3: place and you can have it. Huh, Harry?
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Speaker 6: Huh?
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Speaker 5: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sorry, Skid. I didn't mean to be nasty.
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Speaker 6: I'll come up to the place darn glad to get it. 83, 84, 85, 86,
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Speaker 6: 87 cents.
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Speaker 14: That's the bankroll, folks.
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Speaker 5: 87 cents.
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Speaker 14: Did you get that, Harry? It's not very much, is it? No, it.
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Speaker 6: Isn't. That little Fraker certainly put you behind the eight ball, Mr. Johnson.
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Speaker 6: With me, it's only temporary, just till the boat comes
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Speaker 6: through again. But with you.
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Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry about me. I can always go back
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Speaker 3: in the army.
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Speaker 6: The army.
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Speaker 3: What do you want me to do, go native?
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Speaker 6: Always talking about the army. No ambition at all. Why
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Speaker 6: don't you get a job?
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Speaker 3: A job?
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 3: Doing what?
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Speaker 6: Anything. You can sing, can't you?
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Speaker 2: He certainly can. I hate to bring this up, but
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Speaker 2: Skid could go to work any time he wants at Murphy's.
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Speaker 7: Murphy's?
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Speaker 3: Now, wait a minute.
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Speaker 6: Who's Murphy?
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Speaker 2: It's a girl. Everybody calls her Murphy because that's what
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Speaker 2: she likes everybody to call her. She runs a cafe
16:53
Speaker 2: down the street.
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Speaker 6: And she's offered Skid a job?
16:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Why don't you take it, Skid?
16:57
Speaker 5: Sure, sure.
16:57
Speaker 3: But here's something Harry doesn't know. The last time I
16:59
Speaker 3: was down at Murphy's, she threw me out.
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Somebody started a fight or something.
17:03
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder who. Well, just the same, you go
17:06
Speaker 6: down and see her.
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Speaker 3: Maggie, listen, you don't know Murphy.
17:08
Speaker 6: Go down and ask her. Go on.
17:10
Speaker 3: Maggie, I'm too young to die.
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Speaker 6: All right, you wait here. I'll get the job for you.
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Speaker 3: Hey, no girl runs interference for me. I'll do it.
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Speaker 6: Listen, Skid, sometimes it's easier to tell somebody else than
17:19
Speaker 6: it is yourself, isn't it? For instance, it would be
17:21
Speaker 6: easier for you to tell someone I was good than
17:23
Speaker 6: to tell them that you're good, wouldn't it? Oh, would it? Anyway,
17:26
Speaker 6: you wait here. I'll be right back.
17:28
Speaker 5: I'll say you will.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'll walk down and pick you up as you
17:30
Speaker 3: come out.
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Speaker 6: So long, soldier. And that's the way it is, Murphy.
17:43
Speaker 6: Skid's a new man, honest. I made him promise that
17:45
Speaker 6: he'd behave, and he's really out to make something of himself.
17:48
Speaker 6: And he needs the job. He needs it bad. Besides that,
17:51
Speaker 6: he's good. You know that. Oh, please give him the chance,
17:54
Speaker 6: will you?
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Speaker 12: Since when does Skid Johnson need somebody to blow the
17:57
Speaker 12: horn for him?
17:57
Speaker 11: What?
17:58
Speaker 12: Last I saw of him, he was a pretty quick
17:59
Speaker 12: guy with the words.
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Speaker 6: Why didn't he come.
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Speaker 12: Down and ask for the job?
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Speaker 6: Well, that was my idea. Yeah?
18:05
Speaker 12: What do you do?
18:05
Speaker 11: Me?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm a dancer, but I don't... Where'd you dance?
18:09
Speaker 6: New York last.
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Speaker 12: You're good looking, too.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, but I.
18:12
Speaker 12: I'll give you 30 bucks a week on your meals.
18:14
Speaker 12: What do you say?
18:15
Speaker 11: Huh?
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Speaker 12: Well, it's a job, ain't it? And you look as
18:18
Speaker 12: though you could stand one.
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Speaker 6: Oh, but I didn't ask for a job for myself.
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Speaker 3: I only.
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Speaker 6: Let it go, then.
18:23
Speaker 12: But you couldn't work in a better place. And you're
18:25
Speaker 12: the type I like around here. You wouldn't have to
18:27
Speaker 12: do much. Dance a little. Talk to the customers. I
18:31
Speaker 12: think you're making a mistake. Well, let it go. I
18:34
Speaker 12: ain't begging you.
18:35
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't mean to be ungrateful, but it's Skid
18:37
Speaker 6: who has the talent.
18:38
Speaker 12: Skid's got a talent for making more trouble than any
18:40
Speaker 12: ten guys in Panama.
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Speaker 6: I know, but he means well.
18:42
Speaker 10: Yeah.
18:43
Speaker 6: And he really needs a job. A young fellow just
18:45
Speaker 6: out of the army with responsibilities and everything.
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Speaker 12: Skid Johnson never had a responsibility in his life.
18:51
Speaker 6: He's got me.
18:53
Speaker 12: Well, you can't be such a serious problem.
18:56
Speaker 5: Say.
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Speaker 12: You're kind of new in Skid's life, ain't you?
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Speaker 7: New?
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Speaker 6: Well, I should say not. Skid and I have known
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Speaker 6: each other since childhood. He sent for me to come
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Speaker 6: down as soon as he got out of the army.
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't marry him as long as he was in
19:08
Speaker 6: the army, would you? So you can see how a
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Speaker 6: man would feel on his very honeymoon with his wife
19:13
Speaker 6: working and him broken without a job. Don't you see, Murphy?
19:17
Speaker 6: That's why I can't take the job unless you take Skid, too. Besides,
19:21
Speaker 6: we do a swell number together, Skid and I. I
19:24
Speaker 6: can't do it without Skid, and Skid can't do it
19:25
Speaker 6: without me. Skid and I have always worked together. Well,
19:29
Speaker 6: not in the army, of course, but don't you see?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I can see one thing. Skid's got more sense
19:34
Speaker 12: than I ever give him credit for.
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Speaker 6: Oh, thanks. Thanks, Murphy. Well, we're here, aren't we?
19:42
Speaker 3: I still don't see how you did it. It doesn't
19:44
Speaker 3: sound like Murphy.
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Speaker 6: Oh, what's the difference? We got the job, haven't we? Now, look.
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Speaker 11: Skid.
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Speaker 3: No, you look.
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Speaker 5: How'd you do it?
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Speaker 6: Skid, they're waiting for you.
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Speaker 5: How'd you do it?
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Speaker 3: Come on.
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Speaker 6: Well, she's really a wonderful woman, Skid.
19:54
Speaker 5: She's what?
19:55
Speaker 6: She is really. Underneath all that bluster, she's a woman.
19:59
Speaker 6: And all women are romantic.
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Speaker 3: Murphy, romantic?
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Speaker 6: Uh-huh. The minute she found out we'd just been married,
20:04
Speaker 6: she went positively dewy on you.
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Speaker 3: The minute she found out what?
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Speaker 6: Oh, Skid, listen. Don't be mad. I told her we
20:09
Speaker 6: were married.
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Speaker 3: You what?
20:10
Speaker 6: You care very much. It's actually the job. Oh, don't
20:13
Speaker 6: get sore, Skid.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sore, Maggie. I'm not sore at all. You
20:19
Speaker 3: know what? Well, I'll be darned. I kind of like it. Oh, Skid.
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Speaker 6: Go on, darling. There's your song.
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Speaker 3: Once I was young, yesterday perhaps Lost all my girls
20:33
Speaker 3: to some other chaps Once I was young but never
20:37
Speaker 3: was naive I thought I had a trick or two
20:40
Speaker 3: up my imaginary sleeve But now I know I was
20:47
Speaker 3: naive I didn't know what time it was Then I
20:56
Speaker 3: met you Oh, what a lovely time it was How
21:03
Speaker 3: sublime it was, too I didn't know what day it
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Speaker 3: was You held my hand Warm as the month of
21:16
Speaker 3: May it was And I'll say it was grand, grand
21:22
Speaker 3: To be alive, to be young, to be mad, to
21:25
Speaker 3: be yours alone When to see your face, feel your touch,
21:32
Speaker 3: hear your voice Say I'm all yours I didn't know
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Speaker 3: what year it was Life was no prize I wanted
21:49
Speaker 3: love and there it was Shining out of your eyes
21:54
Speaker 3: I'm wise For I know what time it is Now.
22:21
Speaker 2: In just a minute, Rudy Valley, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel,
22:24
Speaker 2: and Roscoe Carnes will return in Act II of Swing High,
22:28
Speaker 2: Swing Low. Now, while we're waiting, I'm not going in
22:32
Speaker 2: for horticulture, but I want to ask Sally here what
22:35
Speaker 2: she'd do if I sent her some flowers.
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Speaker 6: Why, Mr. Ruick, how sweet of you. Oh, now, wait
22:40
Speaker 6: a minute.
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Speaker 5: Wait a minute. I mean, what would you do about
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Speaker 5: the flowers, Sally?
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Speaker 11: Oh, just an academic question.
22:47
Speaker 6: Well, I'd put the flowers in water.
22:50
Speaker 5: Yes, and then.
22:52
Speaker 11: Well, I'd try to keep them in a cool place
22:53
Speaker 11: at night. I'd see they always had plenty of fresh water.
22:57
Speaker 11: And later, I'd clip their stems.
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Speaker 2: In other words, you'd take the best care of them,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't you? And why would you do that, Sally?
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Speaker 6: Well, flowers are so pretty. And it's nice to have
23:07
Speaker 6: them around. You like to keep them.
23:09
Speaker 2: Most women would agree with everything you've said about flowers, Sally.
23:12
Speaker 2: But you know, it's a funny thing. Some women don't
23:15
Speaker 2: seem to apply the same kind of thinking to their complexions.
23:18
Speaker 2: And yet there isn't anything lovelier, anything more important to
23:22
Speaker 2: keep than a soft, smooth skin. I wonder whether the
23:26
Speaker 2: women who are listening tonight have ever thought that their happiness,
23:29
Speaker 2: or perhaps the success they've worked for, might be jeopardized
23:33
Speaker 2: if their skin should become.
23:35
Speaker 3: Unattractive, unpleasant.
23:36
Speaker 8: Oh, that really would be dreadful, Mr.
23:38
Speaker 2: Ruick. But many women do run the risk of losing
23:40
Speaker 2: their nice complexions. Without realizing it, they leave traces of
23:44
Speaker 2: dust and dirt, stale cosmetics, to choke their pores. They
23:49
Speaker 2: fail to do a thorough job of cleansing. And that's
23:52
Speaker 2: how cosmetic skin develops. Those horrid little blemishes and coarsened
23:56
Speaker 2: pores that women hate. Yes, Sally, neglect often causes cosmetic skin.
24:02
Speaker 2: And it's mighty foolish for any woman to run that risk.
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Speaker 6: Goodness, yes. And it's not a bit necessary.
24:06
Speaker 2: That's the point I was going to make. You can
24:09
Speaker 2: use cosmetics all you like, but use Luxe toilet soap regularly.
24:14
Speaker 2: Its active lather helps protect the skins. Does a job
24:17
Speaker 2: you can depend on. And does it so gently, too.
24:21
Speaker 2: You'll really enjoy using Lux Toilet Soap. Now our producer, Mr. DeMille.
24:27
Speaker 2: Act Two of Swing High, Swing Low. Starring Rudy Vallee
24:31
Speaker 2: as Skid Johnson, Virginia Bruce as Maggie King, Roscoe Carnes
24:34
Speaker 2: as Harry, and Una Merkel as Ella. Supposedly married to
24:48
Speaker 2: the gay but irresponsible Skid, Maggie has gone on dancing
24:52
Speaker 2: at Murphy's Cabaret in Panama. The boat which was to
24:55
Speaker 2: pick her up on its return has passed through twice.
24:58
Speaker 2: But Maggie hasn't been thinking of leaving. She's been thinking
25:01
Speaker 2: of Skid and how she might make something of him.
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Speaker 2: One night as they leave the dance floor after their number,
25:08
Speaker 2: a girl is waiting at the door of Skid's dressing room.
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Speaker 8: Skid!
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Speaker 3: Skid, darlings!
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Speaker 5: Oh, hello.
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Speaker 6: Well, aren't you going to kiss me?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I was so excited when Murphy told me you
25:18
Speaker 8: were working here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, Maggie, Cynthia, this is Miss King. Cynthia used
25:23
Speaker 3: to work here. She's a singer.
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Speaker 6: How do you do?
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Speaker 8: Oh, Miss King.
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Speaker 6: I thought you were the new Mrs.
25:29
Speaker 8: Johnson I've been hearing about. I am.
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Speaker 2: Really?
25:32
Speaker 8: I thought I knew you awfully well, Skid. I didn't
25:35
Speaker 8: think you were the Marian kind.
25:36
Speaker 6: I still don't.
25:39
Speaker 8: Well, I've got a party waiting for me outside.
25:42
Speaker 6: Goodbye, Skid.
25:43
Speaker 8: Don't be such a stranger.
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Speaker 3: She's a girl I used to know.
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Speaker 6: Used to know?
25:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, used to know.
25:51
Speaker 6: She didn't have much trouble reminding you who she was,
25:52
Speaker 6: did she? And another thing, if you don't want us
25:54
Speaker 6: to lose our job, don't introduce me as Miss King.
25:57
Speaker 6: You know we're supposed to be man and wife.
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Speaker 12: Come on, you're supposed to be working, you know.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm supposed to be a lot of things.
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Speaker 12: Nice going on that last number, Maggie.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, Murphy. Who was that girl who was here just now?
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Speaker 12: Cynthia Vale.
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Speaker 6: Why? Cute kid.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, cute like a rattlesnake's fangs.
26:23
Speaker 6: All I got to.
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Speaker 9: Say is I think the heat must have got you.
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Speaker 6: Ella, will you listen to me?
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Speaker 9: I don't have to. When I left here a couple
26:28
Speaker 9: of weeks ago, you were as sane as they make them. Well, granted,
26:31
Speaker 9: you were in jail, but you weren't balmy.
26:34
Speaker 6: Now I come back, and what do I find? You're
26:35
Speaker 6: all tied up in knots over a singing soldier. He's
26:38
Speaker 6: not a soldier anymore. He's just a singer. He's just
26:40
Speaker 6: a nut as far as I'm concerned. Oh, but, Ella,
26:43
Speaker 6: I tell you he's changed. He's not what you think
26:45
Speaker 6: he is when you first meet him, and he's doing
26:47
Speaker 6: swell in that job, honest. Ella, I don't see what
26:50
Speaker 6: you've got against Skid. You don't even know him. You've
26:53
Speaker 6: never met anyone like him, now have you? Yeah, once.
26:56
Speaker 6: I was in an earthquake once, too. Meaning what? Meaning
26:59
Speaker 6: you're leading with your chin if you go falling for
27:01
Speaker 6: a guy like Skid. Why? What's the matter with him?
27:03
Speaker 6: Everything is the matter with him.
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Speaker 10: But, Ella.
27:06
Speaker 6: Oh, I know, I know.
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Speaker 9: He's sweet and he's a lot of fun and he
27:09
Speaker 9: makes you think of that little boy you always wanted, but, oh,
27:12
Speaker 9: he's shaky.
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Speaker 6: See, Maggie? He wouldn't stand up in an emergency. How
27:16
Speaker 6: do you know? Did you ever see him have an emergency?
27:18
Speaker 6: I don't have to. Those guys all run true to form. Oh,
27:21
Speaker 6: he's not any good for you, kid. You'd end up
27:24
Speaker 6: behind the eight ball, sure. Well, I'd have a lot
27:26
Speaker 6: of swell company.
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Speaker 9: I should have known better than to try to talk
27:30
Speaker 9: sense to anybody in love. They quit thinking for some reason.
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Speaker 12: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Look, Ella, I'm not kidding myself. This kid's perfect. I
27:37
Speaker 6: know he isn't. He's just a human guy who likes
27:40
Speaker 6: a lot of fun and has it. But that kid,
27:44
Speaker 6: isn't that good enough for me? Yeah. I, uh, I
27:49
Speaker 6: saw Harvey up in Los Angeles. Harvey?
27:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
27:53
Speaker 6: He's still waiting for you to come up there and
27:55
Speaker 6: marry him. Oh, but I wrote him. I told him.
27:57
Speaker 6: I guess you didn't tell him enough. He sends his love. Thanks, Ella.
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Speaker 6: I'll write him again. Hello, Murphy. Hello.
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Speaker 12: What are you doing back here at this hour?
28:28
Speaker 6: Oh, I went home and I couldn't sleep. And then
28:32
Speaker 6: Skid didn't come home yet. Have you seen him?
28:35
Speaker 12: Oh, he hung around for a while, then he left.
28:37
Speaker 12: Kind of late.
28:38
Speaker 6: Was anybody with him? Usual bunch of back-slappers. And Cynthia.
28:44
Speaker 3: Cynthia?
28:45
Speaker 6: Again? Now listen, kid.
28:48
Speaker 12: Cynthia's like malaria. Once she gets in a guy's system,
28:51
Speaker 12: she's hard to get out.
28:53
Speaker 6: Murphy, I think I ought to tell you. Skid has
28:56
Speaker 6: a right to do as he pleases. We're not married.
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Speaker 6: We just told you that.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I kind of guessed it. And you're in love
29:04
Speaker 12: with him.
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Speaker 6: I guessed that, too. Yeah. I'm in love with him. Murphy,
29:10
Speaker 6: what is it with Skid? Every once in a while,
29:12
Speaker 6: I get the crazy idea he's in love with me.
29:15
Speaker 6: And every time that happens, he acts like he's sore
29:17
Speaker 6: about it. I can't figure it.
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Speaker 12: You're good for him, see? And that's tough on a man.
29:22
Speaker 12: You'll take my advice. You'll clear out. Way out. Well,
29:27
Speaker 12: good night, kids.
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Speaker 6: Good night.
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Speaker 5: Hello, Maggie. You still up?
29:42
Speaker 6: Oh, I've been asleep. Just restless.
29:46
Speaker 7: Oh.
29:47
Speaker 3: Kind of late, isn't it?
29:49
Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Skid.
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Speaker 11: What?
29:53
Speaker 6: Ella told me about a swell job in New York.
29:56
Speaker 6: I'm thinking of taking it.
29:57
Speaker 3: Now you're showing some sense. You should have done that
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Speaker 3: weeks ago.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. I should have. Well, good night.
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Speaker 3: Maggie.
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Speaker 6: What?
30:07
Speaker 3: Aren't you going to ride me about not coming home?
30:11
Speaker 12: Why should I?
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Speaker 6: I don't blame you. You're entitled to do as you want.
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Speaker 15: Good night, Skip.
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Speaker 3: No, wait, look. Before you leave, I want to tell
30:20
Speaker 3: you something. You see, I've been thinking. Maggie, you're the
30:24
Speaker 3: grandest girl I've ever known. You've everything I've ever wanted.
30:28
Speaker 3: You're not afraid. You've got good sense. And you're not
30:32
Speaker 3: bad looking and.
30:34
Speaker 6: I think I'm good-looking.
30:36
Speaker 3: I think you're perfect.
30:38
Speaker 6: Oh, it's a fine time to tell me.
30:40
Speaker 3: You're the kind of a girl who knows just what
30:42
Speaker 3: she wants, and I'm... I'm a guy who knows next
30:46
Speaker 3: to nothing. But if you'd like to take a chance,
30:50
Speaker 3: I'll try, Maggie, awfully hard. Would you marry me, Maggie?
30:54
Speaker 6: Skid.
30:54
Speaker 3: Tonight, right after our turn, we could skip out and
30:56
Speaker 3: nobody would even know we've been gone.
30:58
Speaker 8: Okay?
30:58
Speaker 6: Skid, don't say that if you don't mean it. Please.
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Speaker 3: Gee, Maggie, I do mean it.
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Speaker 5: I do, honey, honestly. Give, baby, give.
31:11
Speaker 3: The last time is Maggie King. Give.
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Speaker 6: Give.
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Speaker 3: You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the
31:33
Speaker 3: lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening.
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Speaker 3: And someday, I'll know that moment divine. When all the
32:21
Speaker 3: things you are are mine. Go on, honey, get your coat.
32:37
Speaker 3: I'll be with you in three minutes.
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Speaker 8: Hello, Miss King. I, uh, came to say goodbye.
32:49
Speaker 6: I'm, uh, leaving. Oh, are you?
32:51
Speaker 8: I've got a job in New York. The El Greco Club.
32:55
Speaker 6: You know the El Greco. Sure, I know the El Greco.
32:57
Speaker 6: Does the El Greco know you?
32:59
Speaker 8: By reputation.
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Speaker 6: Who doesn't?
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Speaker 8: If you are scared, ever come up to New York,
33:03
Speaker 8: look me up, won't you?
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Speaker 9: No.
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Speaker 8: Are you speaking for yourself or Skid?
33:07
Speaker 6: I'm speaking for both of us.
33:09
Speaker 8: Pretty sure of yourself, aren't you?
33:11
Speaker 6: Did it ever occur to you why they call him Skid?
33:13
Speaker 8: He's a quick change artist, that's why. Now you see him,
33:15
Speaker 8: now you don't. That's why you don't bother.
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Speaker 12: Me in the least.
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Speaker 8: With Skid, all you have to do is wait your turn.
33:22
Speaker 6: You're wonderful, Miss Bale. Really wonderful. Yesterday I would have
33:27
Speaker 6: worried about you. But tonight... Goodbye, Miss Bale.
33:34
Speaker 7: Well, hello.
33:35
Speaker 6: Harvey. Oh, Harvey, what.
33:38
Speaker 5: How are you, Marguerite?
33:39
Speaker 6: Gosh, it's good to see you, Harvey. How did you
33:42
Speaker 6: know I was here?
33:43
Speaker 5: A girl told me.
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Speaker 7: Ella?
33:45
Speaker 3: Yes, she... she said you were stranded here on your
33:49
Speaker 3: way to come to me.
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Speaker 6: She had no right to tell you that. Harvey, listen.
33:53
Speaker 3: No, you listen. I'm not kidding myself. I know you're
33:58
Speaker 3: not in love with me or you're... You've married me
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Speaker 3: a long time ago, but I.
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Speaker 6: Harvey, don't... You don't understand.
34:04
Speaker 5: Sure I do. I always have.
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Speaker 3: But I... I'm so in love with you that just
34:10
Speaker 3: having you around... Well... That's enough for me, Marjorie. Ready, Maggie?
34:16
Speaker 8: Oh, skid.
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Speaker 6: This is Harvey Howell. Harvey's a very good friend of mine.
34:19
Speaker 5: Glad to know you.
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Speaker 3: Come on, Maggie. We haven't got much time. We're on
34:22
Speaker 3: our way to get married, Mr.
34:23
Speaker 11: Howell.
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Speaker 3: Married? Yeah, tonight. Maggie isn't taking any chance waiting till tomorrow. Say,
34:29
Speaker 3: why don't you come along? We need two witnesses. Harry's gone,
34:32
Speaker 3: and if you'll come too, well, Maggie knows you, and
34:34
Speaker 3: I think it'll be kind of nice.
34:35
Speaker 6: Skid, don't. Harvey.
34:36
Speaker 5: It's all right. I'd like to.
34:38
Speaker 8: Did you hear the minister, Skid?
34:45
Speaker 6: Do you remember what he said?
34:47
Speaker 5: For better or for worse.
34:50
Speaker 6: Till death do us part. Do you, Skid?
34:55
Speaker 5: I do, Maggie. I do. Maggie.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Murphy?
35:06
Speaker 6: There's a fellow here who wants to meet you. This
35:08
Speaker 6: is Mrs.
35:08
Speaker 8: Johnson, Georgie.
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Speaker 12: Georgie Wall from New York.
35:11
Speaker 10: Hi, Mrs.
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Speaker 7: Johnson.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 7: Mind if I sit down?
35:13
Speaker 6: Of course not.
35:14
Speaker 12: Thanks.
35:15
Speaker 7: Oh, thanks, Murphy.
35:16
Speaker 12: Okay with me.
35:18
Speaker 2: Well, Mrs.
35:19
Speaker 3: Johnson.
35:20
Speaker 5: Quite a voice.
35:21
Speaker 3: Your husband's got there.
35:22
Speaker 6: I think so.
35:23
Speaker 7: Kind of a shame to be wasting it in a
35:25
Speaker 7: joint like this.
35:26
Speaker 6: Don't let Murphy hear that.
35:28
Speaker 7: Don't you worry. She's rooting for him, too. She was
35:31
Speaker 7: the one who told me to drop in and listen
35:32
Speaker 7: to him.
35:33
Speaker 2: Yeah?
35:34
Speaker 3: Why? Well, look.
35:36
Speaker 7: Murphy didn't tell you, but I'm an agent. And being
35:38
Speaker 7: an agent, I can spot talent.
35:40
Speaker 3: Mrs.
35:40
Speaker 7: Johnson, your husband belongs in the big time. He belongs
35:43
Speaker 7: on Broadway, and I want to put him there. But
35:46
Speaker 7: will he listen to me?
35:47
Speaker 5: No.
35:47
Speaker 6: Wait a minute. You mean you offered Skid a job
35:49
Speaker 6: in New York and he turned you down?
35:51
Speaker 7: That's right. And I know a spot he can step
35:53
Speaker 7: right into.
35:54
Speaker 10: Uh, honey.
35:55
Speaker 6: Oh, don't you worry. He'll take it. When would you
35:57
Speaker 6: want us to come?
35:57
Speaker 7: Huh? Oh, uh, now look, honey. Dames, they're a drug
36:01
Speaker 7: on the market. Proud boys overrun with them, see?
36:04
Speaker 6: Oh, sure.
36:05
Speaker 7: Now, uh, I'd take Skid up on a boat with
36:07
Speaker 7: me tonight. I ain't no little shot. I'm the biggest
36:10
Speaker 7: 10% on the racket. If you let him go on
36:12
Speaker 7: ahead and kind of get the feel of things, why,
36:14
Speaker 7: then he can send for you. That makes sense, don't it?
36:17
Speaker 6: Sure. Sure, that makes sense. Too good to turn down.
36:22
Speaker 6: I've got to talk to him. Be right back. Gid,
36:29
Speaker 6: come outside, darling.
36:30
Speaker 3: Fine, let's have a drink. No, no, no.
36:32
Speaker 6: Drinks for you tonight, Mr. Johnson. Not in your condition.
36:34
Speaker 3: What's the matter with my condition?
36:36
Speaker 6: Darling, you're about to become a star. I just fixed it. Now,
36:40
Speaker 6: you're coming over and tell that man that you thank
36:42
Speaker 6: him very much and that you'll be proud and happy
36:44
Speaker 6: to go to New York with him.
36:45
Speaker 5: New York?
36:45
Speaker 3: Oh, no.
36:46
Speaker 6: Oh, but, Skid, you can send for me in no
36:48
Speaker 6: time at all. Skid, this is your chance. You've got
36:51
Speaker 6: to take it.
36:51
Speaker 3: Look, Maggie, I've told him. I told him already.
36:53
Speaker 6: And I told him, too. You're going, Skid.
36:55
Speaker 7: You won't regret it, boy.
36:56
Speaker 3: Now, listen, Georgie.
36:57
Speaker 7: And have I got the spot for you. The El Greco.
37:00
Speaker 7: How's that?
37:00
Speaker 6: El Greco?
37:01
Speaker 7: Yep, that's it. You've probably heard of it, huh?
37:05
Speaker 6: Yes, I've heard of the El Greco.
37:11
Speaker 3: Gee, Maggie, I'll certainly have to laugh on you if
37:20
Speaker 3: I turn out to be a flop.
37:21
Speaker 6: You can't be, Skid.
37:23
Speaker 2: Maybe.
37:24
Speaker 3: But if I am.
37:25
Speaker 6: I know. You can always go back in the army.
37:28
Speaker 3: Right. Maggie, I don't know how to say goodbye, Maggie.
37:33
Speaker 3: I've never said goodbye to you.
37:35
Speaker 6: We'll never say it, soldier.
37:37
Speaker 3: Gee, I wish I didn't feel as though we were
37:39
Speaker 3: making a terrible mistake.
37:40
Speaker 6: Oh, enough. Here's the bankroll, Skid.
37:43
Speaker 3: I can't take that, then. We've saved it together. It's
37:45
Speaker 3: yours as much as mine.
37:46
Speaker 6: But I don't need it. And I don't want you
37:48
Speaker 6: to be short when you get there. And if they
37:50
Speaker 6: don't treat you right, you can walk out. Goodbye, Skid.
37:54
Speaker 6: I love you so much.
37:56
Speaker 5: Goodbye, Maggie. I'm lost already without you.
37:59
Speaker 6: Goodbye.
38:00
Speaker 3: So long, honey. I'll write.
38:03
Speaker 6: So long. So long, kid. So long, darling.
38:14
Speaker 10: Skid Johnson skips to town, hits high C at box office.
38:17
Speaker 7: The swellest boy ever.
38:18
Speaker 5: Skid Johnson?
38:19
Speaker 6: Gee, he's keen. We must welcome him.
38:20
Speaker 10: Skid Johnson and his magic voice have taken the big
38:22
Speaker 10: town by storm. They've named a sandwich after him at Mindy's,
38:25
Speaker 10: which is the last word in success. One of his
38:27
Speaker 10: numbers he now shares with a blue-eyed beauty named Cynthia Vale.
38:30
Speaker 10: We may be wrong, but the twosome looks like a
38:32
Speaker 10: big success in more ways than one.
38:44
Speaker 3: Now that you've got me loving you You're careless, careless
38:53
Speaker 3: in everything you do You break appointments and think you
39:00
Speaker 3: are smart If you're not careful, you'll break my heart. Careless,
39:07
Speaker 3: now that my bridges.
39:14
Speaker 6: All are burned.
39:15
Speaker 3: You're careless, careless in things where I'm concerned. Are you
39:23
Speaker 3: just careless as you seem to?
39:26
Speaker 6: Be?
39:27
Speaker 3: Or do you just care less for me? Come on, Skid.
39:46
Speaker 6: We're through for the night. We're going out on a party.
39:48
Speaker 3: You better go ahead. I've got to send a wire
39:49
Speaker 3: to Maggie.
39:49
Speaker 7: Oh, come on.
39:50
Speaker 6: They're waiting.
39:50
Speaker 14: You're a great guy, Skid. Come on, Skid, old boy.
39:58
Speaker 14: You're a great guy.
40:07
Speaker 6: Well, hi, Skid.
40:09
Speaker 3: Welcome, Miss Cynthia. Any time at all.
40:12
Speaker 6: Going up?
40:13
Speaker 3: Upper right, nine.
40:14
Speaker 6: Eight, please.
40:16
Speaker 8: How much did you win at the table tonight?
40:17
Speaker 3: Oh, plenty. I'm going to charter the Queen Mary and
40:20
Speaker 3: send for Maggie.
40:21
Speaker 8: You're not over that yet, are you?
40:22
Speaker 3: Oh, what, what?
40:23
Speaker 5: Skip it.
40:26
Speaker 6: Eighth floor.
40:27
Speaker 3: Is this my floor or your floor?
40:29
Speaker 6: It's mine.
40:30
Speaker 3: I'd better walk up.
40:31
Speaker 8: How about coming in and having a nightcap?
40:34
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think I'd better... Oh, come on.
40:35
Speaker 6: It'll do you good.
40:36
Speaker 7: Oh, Mr. Johnson, I almost forgot.
40:38
Speaker 6: I got a special delivery letter for you.
40:40
Speaker 5: Thanks. Special? See that?
40:44
Speaker 3: Maggie. I'd know her writing anyway.
40:46
Speaker 6: Would you?
40:47
Speaker 8: Got a New York postmark. Funny if it is your wife.
40:50
Speaker 8: Maybe she.
40:52
Speaker 6: Well, what is it?
40:54
Speaker 5: She says... Here, read it, will you?
40:57
Speaker 3: I don't... She must be kidding.
41:00
Speaker 15: Dear Skid, I'm leaving for Paris to get a divorce.
41:05
Speaker 15: I guess that's all right with you. I hear you're
41:08
Speaker 15: doing swell. I guess you know how I feel about that.
41:12
Speaker 15: Funny how things work out, isn't it?
41:14
Speaker 6: Maggie.
41:16
Speaker 5: It says that?
41:17
Speaker 6: Yes.
41:18
Speaker 8: Well, skid darling, I guess you'll have to get over
41:21
Speaker 8: it now.
41:35
Speaker 6: Just a minute.
41:38
Speaker 3: Hello, Maggie.
41:39
Speaker 6: Elma.
41:39
Speaker 3: Hiya, Maggie.
41:40
Speaker 6: Harry, oh, this is marvelous. Come on in. I came
41:43
Speaker 6: over as soon as I got your call.
41:44
Speaker 9: When did you get to New York?
41:45
Speaker 6: A couple of days ago. I came up on the
41:47
Speaker 6: boat with Harvey. I would have called you sooner, only
41:49
Speaker 6: you know how it is. Sure.
41:51
Speaker 2: Well, it looks like old times, huh?
41:52
Speaker 6: I didn't expect to see you, Harry. What are you
41:54
Speaker 6: doing up here?
41:55
Speaker 2: Oh, just kicking around, one thing and another.
41:57
Speaker 5: Yeah.
41:58
Speaker 2: You know.
42:00
Speaker 6: Well, what's the matter? Are you ashamed of it? Go on,
42:03
Speaker 6: tell her. Tell me what?
42:05
Speaker 12: Well, me and Ella.
42:08
Speaker 6: I mean, Ella and me. You tell her, Ella. Wait
42:13
Speaker 6: a minute. You're not married or anything. Uh-huh.
42:16
Speaker 3: Oh, Ella.
42:17
Speaker 6: Don't ask me why. Oh, Ella, I'm so glad. Congratulations. Congratulations, Harry.
42:23
Speaker 2: Thanks. We kind of thought maybe you might come along
42:26
Speaker 2: with us and do a little celebrating, huh?
42:27
Speaker 6: Oh, thanks, but I can't. I'm sailing tomorrow early.
42:31
Speaker 2: What for?
42:32
Speaker 6: For the boys. Didn't Ella tell you?
42:34
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, that's right.
42:35
Speaker 9: I told him twice, but I guess it didn't take. Look, Maggie,
42:38
Speaker 9: why do you have to go to France for the divorce?
42:41
Speaker 9: Ain't our divorces good enough for you?
42:42
Speaker 6: Well, Harvey's lawyers arranged it that way, and anyway, I
42:45
Speaker 6: think the trip will do me good. Have you told Skid?
42:48
Speaker 6: I wrote him as soon as I got to New York.
42:51
Speaker 6: How's he taking it? I don't know.
42:52
Speaker 2: Well, Skid never was much for writing letters.
42:55
Speaker 6: No, but he called me. He ought to be here
42:58
Speaker 6: pretty soon. Here? What for? Well, there's no sense in
43:00
Speaker 6: being unfriendly, is there? He sounded... He said he had
43:04
Speaker 6: to see me. After all, Skid always did come to
43:06
Speaker 6: me if he needed any help or anything, and... And
43:08
Speaker 6: you just.
43:09
Speaker 9: Keep on wiping his nose, picking him up when he
43:11
Speaker 9: falls down, and the first thing you know, you'll get
43:12
Speaker 9: Harvey sore.
43:13
Speaker 6: Gee, if I had a swell guy like Harvey, I'd
43:15
Speaker 6: do all my worrying about him. A woman ought to
43:18
Speaker 6: concentrate on one man. Doesn't mean I'm worrying about Skid
43:21
Speaker 6: just because I said he could come up for a moment,
43:23
Speaker 6: does it? I.
43:24
Speaker 3: Right this way, boy, in here. Yes, sir.
43:25
Speaker 11: Skid!
43:26
Speaker 7: Hiya, Maggie!
43:28
Speaker 8: Don't slice it down, boy.
43:29
Speaker 3: Put him down. How's that for an entrance, huh?
43:32
Speaker 6: Well.
43:33
Speaker 3: Well, looks like old home week in Panama. Hello, Harry.
43:37
Speaker 3: Little Ella Sunshine herself. By the way, Maggie, I got
43:40
Speaker 3: you a valentine. Want a laugh? I opened it figuring
43:43
Speaker 3: there's another gal wanting my picture.
43:45
Speaker 5: She said that was your letter.
43:47
Speaker 6: Who is that a laugh?
43:48
Speaker 3: Hi, Harry.
43:49
Speaker 2: Gee, I'm glad to see you, Skid.
43:50
Speaker 3: Hi, Ella.
43:51
Speaker 6: How are you?
43:52
Speaker 2: Say, Skid, Ella and I are married.
43:55
Speaker 5: Married?
43:56
Speaker 3: Well, can you beat that? Say, it's good I ordered
43:58
Speaker 3: some drinks on my way up. We'll make it a
44:00
Speaker 3: double celebration. You two getting married and Maggie and me
44:03
Speaker 3: splitting up.
44:04
Speaker 5: Shall I serve these drinks, sir?
44:05
Speaker 3: What? Me, the best bartender in town? Here, take this buck.
44:08
Speaker 3: There you are, sir. Now, don't work too hard. Maybe
44:10
Speaker 3: someday you'll be in the dough like me.
44:12
Speaker 8: Thanks, sir.
44:13
Speaker 3: I just came from a radio audit. Say, swell joints
44:17
Speaker 3: you got here, Maggie. Looks like we're both going to
44:19
Speaker 3: end up all right. You're going to Paris, getting a
44:21
Speaker 3: new husband. Everybody's happy. Here you are, Gordon.
44:24
Speaker 6: Thanks, but I'm not having anything.
44:26
Speaker 3: Oh, come on. We've got to celebrate. This is Skid's
44:29
Speaker 3: going away party for Maggie.
44:30
Speaker 2: Hey, what about me?
44:32
Speaker 7: Oh, you've got to play for your professor.
44:33
Speaker 3: Come on, get busy.
44:34
Speaker 6: Play some.
44:34
Speaker 3: Play some fashion party. Come on.
44:36
Speaker 6: Okay, it won't be the first time.
44:41
Speaker 3: Well, what's the matter, Maggie?
44:43
Speaker 6: Nothing.
44:44
Speaker 3: You're stepping off pretty soon, huh?
44:47
Speaker 6: I have to get my final papers first, don't I?
44:49
Speaker 5: That's right.
44:50
Speaker 3: Well, there's certainly been a lot of trouble here, haven't there? Well,
44:53
Speaker 3: little Skid's going to have to struggle long without Maggie now.
44:56
Speaker 6: At the rate you're going, you won't have to struggle long.
44:58
Speaker 6: Your two weeks' notice is printed on every gotch in town.
45:00
Speaker 3: Hey, sounds like old times. Maggie's riding me again. Don't
45:04
Speaker 3: worry about me, Maggie. You've got a new guy to
45:06
Speaker 3: worry about. I'm doing all right.
45:08
Speaker 6: You certainly are.
45:10
Speaker 7: Come on in. It's free.
45:12
Speaker 3: Harvey.
45:13
Speaker 7: Oh, having a party, Maggie?
45:15
Speaker 11: No.
45:17
Speaker 6: Come in, Harvey.
45:17
Speaker 7: Well, well, hello, Howell. Harry, meet Mr.
45:19
Speaker 10: Howell.
45:20
Speaker 6: Mr.
45:20
Speaker 3: Howell, the old cowboy from way out west. You met Mr.
45:23
Speaker 2: Howell, Harry?
45:24
Speaker 7: Oh, certainly.
45:25
Speaker 2: We were witnesses at Skid's wedding.
45:27
Speaker 3: Ouch.
45:27
Speaker 6: Shut up.
45:28
Speaker 3: That's right.
45:29
Speaker 6: Oh, see.
45:30
Speaker 3: That was some wedding. Fast, but not permanent. Well, here's
45:34
Speaker 3: to the bride and groom. What's the matter? No takers?
45:38
Speaker 3: The party's getting down. Sounded very gay in here when
45:41
Speaker 3: I came in.
45:41
Speaker 5: Won't you go on with the music? Sure, sure.
45:43
Speaker 3: Play, Harry. How about you, beautiful? Know any new numbers?
45:47
Speaker 2: No.
45:48
Speaker 3: Go into your act, baby. Let them see what we
45:50
Speaker 3: thought was hot stuff down in Panama. I like the
45:53
Speaker 3: way Marguerite dances. See? He likes the way you dance.
45:56
Speaker 6: Go on, dance.
45:57
Speaker 3: What's the matter? Getting coy on us? Want a big coke?
46:01
Speaker 6: Kid, stop it. Say, what is this?
46:02
Speaker 3: We're celebrating a wedding or a funeral.
46:04
Speaker 7: Everything's swell.
46:05
Speaker 6: Everybody's happy.
46:06
Speaker 7: Why can't we be gay about it?
46:07
Speaker 6: This is a party.
46:08
Speaker 3: This is a wedding party for Maggie. Why can't we
46:10
Speaker 3: have the Wedding March Fashion Party? Why can't I give
46:12
Speaker 3: the bride away? Stop it, kid, please. Why, what's the
46:15
Speaker 3: better right to be giving the bride away?
46:16
Speaker 7: Shows there's no hard feelings.
46:18
Speaker 3: Why do people get sore and crab when they lose
46:21
Speaker 3: out in marriage? Why don't they join in the festivities?
46:23
Speaker 3: Come on, Harry, play the wedding march fast and funny.
46:25
Speaker 14: It's a hot wedding!
46:29
Speaker 3: That's the stuff. Now you're going, now you're going. Do
46:33
Speaker 3: you take this man? Do you take this man?
46:36
Speaker 6: I do, I do, I do.
46:37
Speaker 7: Do you take this gal?
46:39
Speaker 6: Do you take this gal?
46:40
Speaker 3: I do, I do, I do. I now pronounce you
46:42
Speaker 3: man and wife.
46:43
Speaker 7: Wife, man and wife. Come on, sing, everybody.
46:45
Speaker 6: Here comes the bride.
46:46
Speaker 3: Here comes the bride. Stop him.
46:48
Speaker 6: Stop him. Here comes the bride. Stop him.
46:51
Speaker 3: Get all right.
46:51
Speaker 7: I'm going to howl.
46:52
Speaker 6: I'm going.
46:53
Speaker 7: Goodbye, Maggie.
46:54
Speaker 11: In.
46:55
Speaker 7: Goodbye. Here comes the bride.
46:57
Speaker 6: Here comes the bride.
47:20
Speaker 2: In just a moment, Mr. DeMille and our stars Rudy Vallee,
47:23
Speaker 2: Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel, and Roscoe Carnes will return in
47:27
Speaker 2: Act Three of Swing High, Swing Low. The other night,
47:31
Speaker 2: I was at a country club dance, one of those
47:33
Speaker 2: informal weekly affairs where you see the older people dancing
47:36
Speaker 2: alongside their sons and daughters. Well, a young college girl
47:40
Speaker 2: and her partner were sitting one out. I overheard her
47:43
Speaker 2: say to them.
47:45
Speaker 6: Well, when I get to be middle-aged, I hope I
47:47
Speaker 6: have the oomph that Mrs. Draper has.
47:49
Speaker 8: I guess every man here's asked her to dance. And
47:51
Speaker 8: that nice husband of hers is so devoted.
47:54
Speaker 1: Who?
47:54
Speaker 6: Mrs. Draper?
47:56
Speaker 7: Yeah.
47:57
Speaker 3: Look at the crowd around her. She's not exactly Helen
47:59
Speaker 3: of Troy, either. But she sure has got appeal.
48:03
Speaker 6: What a swell complexion. Almost as pretty as yours, Betty. Oh, Bill.
48:09
Speaker 5: It's true.
48:10
Speaker 2: Smooth, fresh-looking skin always has appeal. I know for sure
48:14
Speaker 2: that that's something a man always notices about a woman.
48:17
Speaker 2: And it's my guess that charming Mrs. Draper is as
48:19
Speaker 2: wise as she is pretty. I'll bet that lovely complexion
48:22
Speaker 2: of hers gets thorough, regular care. You know, you'd be
48:26
Speaker 2: surprised at the number of older women who are smart
48:28
Speaker 2: enough not to neglect their looks. Smart enough to adopt
48:31
Speaker 2: the same simple beauty routine that so many famous screen
48:35
Speaker 2: stars are using.
48:35
Speaker 11: You mean the Hollywood active lather facials, Mr.
48:37
Speaker 6: Ruick.
48:38
Speaker 2: I certainly do, Sally. These facials with luxe toilet soap
48:42
Speaker 2: take just a few moments. And stars like Claudette Colbert
48:45
Speaker 2: and Barbara Stanwyck and Loretta Young use them regularly every day.
48:50
Speaker 2: In fact, actually nine out of ten screen stars use
48:53
Speaker 2: Luxe Toilet Soap.
48:53
Speaker 11: Well, that's because they know Luxe Toilet Soap's active lather
48:56
Speaker 11: removes dust and dirt and stale cosmetics thoroughly. It helps
49:00
Speaker 11: to keep your skin smooth and soft the way you
49:03
Speaker 11: want it to be. Now I'll tell you how Hollywood
49:05
Speaker 11: stars take a Luxe Soap facial. First, you work up
49:09
Speaker 11: a good, rich Luxe Toilet Soap lather with your hands.
49:12
Speaker 11: and pat it into your skin very lightly. Then rinse
49:15
Speaker 11: with warm water, then a dash of cold.
49:18
Speaker 6: Use a very soft towel. and pat your face dry.
49:22
Speaker 11: Then when you touch your skin with your fingertips, see
49:24
Speaker 11: if it doesn't feel smooth and soft and velvety.
49:28
Speaker 6: Now, Mr.
49:28
Speaker 11: Ruick, I wouldn't think of going to bed, no matter
49:30
Speaker 11: how late it is, without taking my active lather facial.
49:34
Speaker 8: It's such a swell beauty care.
49:35
Speaker 5: You're right, Sally.
49:37
Speaker 2: And I hope the women who listened in tonight will
49:39
Speaker 2: make this simple test. Buy three cakes and try these
49:43
Speaker 2: Lux soap facials for 30 days. You know, many women,
49:46
Speaker 2: young and not so young, have told me that they
49:49
Speaker 2: wouldn't think of missing out on the wonderful protection Lux
49:52
Speaker 2: toilet soap gives their skin. The protection of its active
49:55
Speaker 2: lather care. It's so thorough cleansing. And you know, skin
49:59
Speaker 2: needs that kind of care regularly, every day, to stay
50:02
Speaker 2: soft and smooth and lovely. So let Lux Toilet Soap
50:07
Speaker 2: help you have the kind of skin that's attractive, nice
50:10
Speaker 2: to look at. We pause now for station identification. This
50:15
Speaker 2: is the Columbia Broadcasting System. The curtain rises on act
50:39
Speaker 2: three of Swing High, Swing Low. Several months have passed,
50:58
Speaker 2: and Skid is on the long downward path to oblivion.
51:01
Speaker 2: His job came to an end, his friends faded away,
51:04
Speaker 2: and he found that it was even too late to
51:07
Speaker 2: go back in the army. On a cold winter night,
51:11
Speaker 2: he walks slowly down Broadway, his threadbare coat buttoned against
51:15
Speaker 2: the biting wind, his hat pulled down over his face.
51:19
Speaker 2: Suddenly his name is called, and a figure blocks his way.
51:22
Speaker 5: Skid.
51:24
Speaker 2: Hey, Skid.
51:26
Speaker 5: Oh, hello, Harry.
51:27
Speaker 2: Gee, I've been looking all over town for you. How
51:30
Speaker 2: are you, Skid?
51:31
Speaker 3: I'm okay. Yeah?
51:33
Speaker 5: Well, how you doing?
51:34
Speaker 3: I'm doing okay. Yeah?
51:37
Speaker 5: Well, you don't look it, Skid.
51:39
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just temporary. I'll be back up there again,
51:42
Speaker 3: wait and see. I got a great job coming up now,
51:44
Speaker 3: any day. Sure, I know, I know.
51:46
Speaker 2: Say, look, Skid, I'm just going home for dinner with Ella.
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Speaker 2: What do you say?
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Speaker 3: Well, thanks, but I just had my dinner already, and I.
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Speaker 2: Oh, come on, anyway. I want to talk to you, Skid.
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Speaker 7: Come on.
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Speaker 9: Another cup of coffee, Skid?
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Speaker 3: Thanks, Ella.
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Speaker 2: Say, you act like it tastes good.
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Speaker 6: It is good.
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Speaker 2: You know, you can't beat this Western beef.
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Speaker 7: Same goes for fruit.
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Speaker 2: California, that's the place. Now, careful, darling. You might have
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Speaker 2: scalded me.
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Speaker 6: That'll come later.
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Speaker 9: Look, Skid, what's the sense in refusing us? Like we
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Speaker 9: told you, Harry's put together a sweet little band. George
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Speaker 9: is willing to handle us, and we can audition for
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Speaker 9: a swell radio spot anytime we want. Only he says
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Speaker 9: we need a name.
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Speaker 3: I'm no name anymore.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's what Georgie said, but I.
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Speaker 6: Shut up. He said you could build up all over again, Skid.
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Speaker 3: Thanks, but I... I've got a lot of offers coming
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Speaker 3: up and.
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Speaker 11: Well, I.
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Speaker 6: I got a letter from Maggie.
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Speaker 8: This morning, Skid.
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Maggie, huh? Yeah.
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Speaker 5: She's, uh... She's all right?
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Speaker 6: She's okay. The divorce is through.
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Speaker 9: She'll be back here soon.
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Speaker 6: She used to be pretty proud of you, Skid.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, she.
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Speaker 3: She always thought I was pretty good, didn't she? That
53:04
Speaker 3: proves she was a smart girl.
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Speaker 6: That's right. I'd hate to see you let her down.
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Speaker 6: What do you say, Skid?
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Speaker 3: When's the audition?
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Speaker 2: That's the old fight.
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Speaker 7: Okay, fellas, now watch that stunt. Okay, okay, fellas.
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Speaker 2: Everybody back in the studio at 8 o'clock. It's a
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Speaker 2: live audition with an audience and all, so wear your tux.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 10: Harry.
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Speaker 2: Ella.
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Speaker 6: Gee, where you been?
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Speaker 3: Did you find Skid?
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Speaker 9: No, they're singing Here Comes the Bride in every bar
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Speaker 9: room in town.
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Speaker 8: He's hit them all.
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Speaker 2: That fixes it. He's been doing that little stunt ever
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Speaker 2: since we took him on. George, he's having a fit.
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Speaker 14: Maggie.
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Speaker 12: Well, for Pete's sake.
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Speaker 6: How are you, Harry? What brought you here? It's all right.
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Speaker 6: I know all about it. George told me. Where's Skid, Ella?
53:59
Speaker 6: That's what I'd like to know.
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Speaker 9: Remember what I told you about emergencies?
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Speaker 6: Well, he's having one now.
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Speaker 2: He's skipped out on us, Maggie. We've got an audition
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Speaker 2: here at 10 o'clock. It's his one chance to come back,
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Speaker 2: and he's chucking it away.
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Speaker 6: If I.
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Speaker 3: Here comes the bride.
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Speaker 7: Here comes the bride.
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Speaker 14: Hi, Harry.
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Speaker 7: Hi, Ella.
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Speaker 11: Skid.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Skid. Is that... Is that Maggie?
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Speaker 5: Do you see her, Ella?
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Speaker 6: Sure, I see her.
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Speaker 5: Don't kid me.
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Speaker 3: Don't kid me. I've been seeing things lately.
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Speaker 6: I wouldn't kid you. Hello, Skid.
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Speaker 3: How are you, Maggie? Let me have a good look
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Speaker 3: at you. Say, you're looking great.
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Speaker 6: I'm glad to see you, Skid.
54:38
Speaker 3: Come on, let's all have a drink.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's all you need, a drink.
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Speaker 6: Ella, Ella, will you?
54:42
Speaker 3: Sure, sure.
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Speaker 6: Come on, Harry, outside.
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Speaker 3: Are you ashamed of me, Maggie?
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Speaker 6: No, Skid.
54:50
Speaker 3: I've been an awful sap. Don't ride me, will you, Maggie?
54:53
Speaker 3: Don't ride me.
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Speaker 6: I won't ride you, Skip.
54:55
Speaker 3: You know something? You can't go back in the army.
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Speaker 5: I tried.
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Speaker 3: They won't have me.
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Speaker 6: You don't have to. You're going to be a big
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Speaker 6: hit tonight. Only you've got to pull yourself together.
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Speaker 3: Gee, Maggie, I don't think I can make it.
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Speaker 6: Sure you can make it. You've got to, Skid. Without you,
55:13
Speaker 6: Harry and Ella will be sunk. They've been good friends
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Speaker 6: of ours. You can't let them down.
55:18
Speaker 3: I'm all shot.
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Speaker 6: But you can come out of it.
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Speaker 3: No, I can't.
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Speaker 6: I know you can.
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Speaker 5: You always thought I was pretty good, didn't you?
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Speaker 8: Oh, you are, Skid.
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Speaker 3: You are.
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Speaker 5: Oh, gee, Maggie.
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Speaker 3: Oh, gee, Maggie. Skid.
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Speaker 6: Skid, look at me.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my darling.
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Speaker 6: Oh, my darling. We're not going to be licked, are we, kid?
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Speaker 6: You'll be all right, soldier. Nothing can stop you. You'll
55:42
Speaker 6: be all right.
55:43
Speaker 8: You knocked them dead.
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Speaker 6: You haven't even started yet. You'll be all right. You'll
55:48
Speaker 6: be all right, soldier. You've got to be all right.
55:50
Speaker 6: You've got to.
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Speaker 14: You've got to. 30 seconds, stand by.
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Speaker 3: Maggie, I can't do it.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, you can. You can, honey. Harry.
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
56:14
Speaker 6: Change the first number. All the things you are.
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Speaker 7: Okay.
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Speaker 2: All the things you are, fellas. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 10: The Federal Broadcasting Company presents Harry Bogan and his orchestra
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Speaker 10: featuring the voice of Skid Johnson.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. It's no use.
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Speaker 5: Steady, Skid.
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Speaker 6: Skid, listen. This is our number. Yeah. We're going to
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Speaker 6: do it. You and I, together. Do you hear?
56:42
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Or you can make it, Skid.
56:45
Speaker 3: I can if you stick. I'm sticking.
56:47
Speaker 5: For good.
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Speaker 6: For good. It's just like the fellow said that married us.
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Speaker 6: For better or worse.
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Speaker 3: Better for me.
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Speaker 5: Worse for you.
56:56
Speaker 6: Oh, it's all right with me, darling. Put your arms
56:59
Speaker 6: around me like you used to. Lean on me, darling.
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Speaker 6: Lean on me. And when you hit the last part,
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Speaker 6: come in strong, just like you used to, darling.
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Speaker 3: And someday I'll know that moment divine when all the
57:19
Speaker 3: things you are are gone.
57:52
Speaker 2: Swing high, swing low, having swung along its way, we
57:55
Speaker 2: meet Rudy Vallee and Virginia Bruce at our microphone again.
57:58
Speaker 6: This is the microphone here, Rudy.
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Speaker 5: Oh, thanks, Virginia.
58:02
Speaker 3: Looks familiar. It seems to me I've seen one somewhere before.
58:06
Speaker 2: The microphone you started with must be a museum piece
58:08
Speaker 2: by now.
58:09
Speaker 3: It did look more like a sardine can with trimmings
58:12
Speaker 3: of chicken wire.
58:13
Speaker 6: Tell us about the good old days of radio, Grandpa. Well, Virginia,
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Speaker 6: I'll tell you.
58:18
Speaker 3: I don't regret the good old days at all.
58:22
Speaker 6: They were old, but not so good.
58:25
Speaker 3: One night we did a broadcast from an amusement park
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Speaker 3: and our studio was right under the roller coaster. The
58:30
Speaker 3: roller coaster went by, and off in the distance, a
58:33
Speaker 3: train whistled, just as I went into the closing bars
58:35
Speaker 3: of I'm Just a Vagabond Lover.
58:38
Speaker 6: Must have been a very odd effect, Rudy. Now, before Mr.
58:41
Speaker 6: DeMille tells us about next week's play, I'd like to
58:44
Speaker 6: say just a word about something that's important to women
58:46
Speaker 6: every week. I mean complexion care. The answer, as far
58:50
Speaker 6: as I'm concerned, is luck soap. I've used it for
58:53
Speaker 6: years myself because it's so gentle and so sure. Lux
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Speaker 6: soap is a real help in keeping your complexion soft
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Speaker 6: and smooth. Now, Mr. DeMille, what about next week?
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Speaker 2: Next Monday night, Virginia. We're going to have four stars
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Speaker 2: at this microphone.
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Speaker 3: Errol Flynn.
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Speaker 2: Joan Bennett, Claire Trevor, and Ralph Bellamy. Our play is
59:15
Speaker 2: the Walter Wanger picture, Tradewinds. It's an exciting drama of
59:27
Speaker 2: romance and adventure around the world with a thrill in
59:30
Speaker 2: every port. And Errol Flynn, as a detective, has the
59:34
Speaker 2: very desirable assignment of tracking down Joan Bennett. Our weather
59:39
Speaker 2: prophecy for next Monday night is all-star entertainment in the
59:42
Speaker 2: Lux Radio Theater with trade winds coming in this direction
59:45
Speaker 2: and bringing Errol Flynn, Joan Bennett, Claire Trevor, and Ralph Bellamy.
59:50
Speaker 3: I'll be sure to make an appointment with my loudspeaker
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Speaker 3: for next Monday as soon as I arrive home tonight.
59:54
Speaker 3: Good night.
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Speaker 6: Good night. Good night.
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Speaker 2: Our stage door is always.
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Speaker 14: Open for you two.
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Speaker 2: Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe Toilet Soap, join me
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Speaker 2: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday
1:00:14
Speaker 2: night when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Errol Flynn, Joan Bennett,
1:00:18
Speaker 2: Claire Trevor, and Ralph Bellamy in Tradewinds.
1:00:23
Speaker 5: Mr.
1:00:23
Speaker 2: Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood.
1:00:39
Speaker 2: Heard in tonight's play were Martha Wentworth as Murphy, Corinne
1:00:42
Speaker 2: Miller as Cynthia, Bill Wright as Harvey, Harold Daniels as Miguel,
1:00:47
Speaker 2: Lou Merrill as Georgie, Walter White as Judge, Tristram Coffin
1:00:51
Speaker 2: as Don... Ted Bliss as guide, Frank Coghlan Jr. as
1:00:54
Speaker 2: elevator boy, Edward Marr as commentator, Jordy McLean as a girl,
1:00:59
Speaker 2: and Frank Martin as waiter. Rudy Valli will star in
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Speaker 2: a new weekly radio series to begin on Thursday.
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Speaker 3: March 7th.
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Speaker 2: Virginia Hughes is now making the Warner Brothers picture, Flight 8.
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Speaker 2: Our music was directed by Louis Silvers, and your announcer
1:01:16
Speaker 2: has been Melville Ruick. heard on this program were all
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Speaker 2: the things you are from Very Warm for Me. And
1:01:30
Speaker 2: I didn't know what time it was from Too Many Gals.
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Speaker 2: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater's Swing High, Swing Low now takes its
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Speaker 1: place among the evening's broadcasts.
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Speaker 3: Good night, and thank you for listening.