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Mister Blandings Builds His Dream House · Lux Radio Theatre

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  Speaker 1: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 2: No two stars have given so many performances that honestly
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  Speaker 2: rate the word classic as Irene Dunn and Cary Grant.
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  Speaker 2: And tonight, we've reunited this famous team in a comedy
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  Speaker 2: as timely as today's headlines. It's the RKO picture, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Blanding's Builds His Dream House. You know, almost everyone has
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  Speaker 2: had a housing problem at some time or other, and
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  Speaker 2: the Blandings had their troubles, even as you and I.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, they had so much trouble, their story became
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  Speaker 2: a hit motion picture. You know, you have your idea
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  Speaker 2: of a dream house, and your neighbor has another.
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  Speaker 1: But one thing is certain.
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  Speaker 2: Any well-run dream house will include a supply of the
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  Speaker 2: new bath-size luxe toilet soap. Whatever the arguments about architecture,
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  Speaker 2: most people agree Lux soap is perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the curtain for Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Blanding's Builds His Dream House, starring Cary Grant in his
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  Speaker 2: original screen role as Jim and Irene Dunn as Muriel.
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  Speaker 1: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 2: Like millions of other New Yorkers, Jim and Muriel Blandings
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  Speaker 2: and their two young daughters are cliff dwellers. Home to
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  Speaker 2: them is an apartment. Oh, adequate, but somewhat crowded. Not
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  Speaker 2: that Jim isn't doing well. He's a college graduate, makes $ 15, 000
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  Speaker 2: a year in the advertising business. Anyway, on this crisp
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  Speaker 2: September morning, Jim Blandings has just staggered out of bed
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  Speaker 2: and commenced a typical 7 o'clock ritual.
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  Speaker 3: You're looking for something, dear?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're awake. I'm looking for my socks.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you look in your sock drawer?
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  Speaker 1: That's where I found my underwear.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you try your underwear drawer?
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  Speaker 1: I am in my underwear drawer now. Oddly enough, it's
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  Speaker 1: full of underwear. All yours.
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  Speaker 4: Well, socks just don't get up and walk away by themselves, dear.
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  Speaker 1: Muriel, now look.
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  Speaker 5: I thought we had it clearly understood that the four
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  Speaker 5: bottom drawers were yours and these two top drawers were mine.
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  Speaker 3: The closet.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
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  Speaker 3: That's where they are. We put them in the closet.
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  Speaker 1: Put what in the closet?
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  Speaker 3: Your socks.
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  Speaker 4: Gussie and I decided that from now on we'll keep
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  Speaker 4: them in a basket on the shelf.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, for heaven's sake. Basket. Basket in the closet. Well,
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  Speaker 1: where is the basket?
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  Speaker 3: Right there on the shelf, dear. Under my hat boxes
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  Speaker 3: in the overnight bag.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Jim, dear, I do wish you'd try to make a
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  Speaker 3: little more effort.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll try, dear. Now, look at that.
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  Speaker 5: Muriel, Muriel, maybe if you put the basket on top
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  Speaker 5: of the hat boxes instead of underneath.
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  Speaker 1: The hat boxes.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Jim, Jim, just go out and tell Gussie to
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  Speaker 3: give you a nice cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 4: I'll try and get the girls out of the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, Muriel. I'm sorry. I'll feel better after
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  Speaker 1: a cup of coffee.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, Jim. My face cream. It's in the medicine cabinet.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be through shaving in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: It's all right. I can reach it. Did you cut yourself?
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  Speaker 1: I cut myself every morning. I kind of look forward
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  Speaker 1: to it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see now. There's Betsy's vitamins.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, take your time, dear. I can spare the blood.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you get an electric razor?
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  Speaker 1: You can't get used to them.
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  Speaker 3: That's silly. Bill Cole's been using an electric razor for years.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't got my beard.
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  Speaker 3: Bill's beard is just as coarse and tough.
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  Speaker 5: I am not interested in discussing the grain and texture
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  Speaker 5: of Bill Cole's hair follicles before I've had my orange juice.
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  Speaker 3: All I said was, why don't you use an electric razor?
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  Speaker 5: Because I prefer the clean sweep of the tempered steel
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  Speaker 5: as it glides smoothly over my.
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  Speaker 3: No advertising. Please, please, just hurry, dear. You'll be late
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  Speaker 3: for breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: All right, girls. Who did it? Who tore a piece
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  Speaker 1: out of my morning newspaper? Well?
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Father.
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  Speaker 3: It's part of my research for school.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I see.
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  Speaker 5: Another of Miss Stellwagen's so-called progressive projects.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Jim, Jim, there just isn't any point in sending
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  Speaker 4: your children to an expensive school if you're going to
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  Speaker 4: undermine the teacher's authority in.
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  Speaker 3: Your own dining room.
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  Speaker 1: I am not undermining anything. I'm in the advertising business,
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  Speaker 1: and keeping her best of the times is important to me.
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  Speaker 3: Bicker, bicker, bicker.
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  Speaker 1: You drink your milk.
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  Speaker 4: Every time your father and I have a lively discussion, dearie,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily mean we're bickering.
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  Speaker 7: Miss Stellwagen says that advertising is crass commercialism in its
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  Speaker 7: lowest form.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, she does, does she? Perhaps your Miss Stellwagen is right.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps I should quit this crass commercialism, which at this
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  Speaker 5: very moment is paying for your fancy tuition. Those extra
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  Speaker 5: French lessons. That progressive summer camp. To say nothing of
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  Speaker 5: the very braces on your back teeth.
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  Speaker 3: Jim, I wish you wouldn't discuss money in front of
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  Speaker 3: the children. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: They spend enough of it.
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  Speaker 3: Bigger, bigger, bigger. All right, girls, get your things now
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  Speaker 3: and run along.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go, Betsy.
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  Speaker 3: Goodbye, Daddy.
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  Speaker 1: Give my regards to Miss Spellwagon.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, you're still the nicest father I've ever had.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get it, Gussie. Hiya, kids.
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  Speaker 3: Bill, we haven't seen you in ages. Sorry, Billy, we
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  Speaker 3: gotta run. Well, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, just thought I'd stop by and return these sketches, Muriel.
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  Speaker 1: Coffee? Yeah, thanks. Now, personally, I think Funkhauser's $ 2, 000 or $ 3, 000
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  Speaker 1: out of line.
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  Speaker 5: Of course, you could save that amount by not tearing
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  Speaker 5: out the living room wall.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm? What wall? What are you talking about? Who's Funkhauser?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Bunny Funkhauser, dear.
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  Speaker 4: Who? Well, you know, that clever young interior decorator we
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  Speaker 4: met at the Collins cocktail party.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, you mean that young man with the open-toed sandals?
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  Speaker 4: Ha!
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  Speaker 1: What about him? What about him?
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  Speaker 4: You know how long we've always said we must do
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  Speaker 4: something about fixing up this apartment.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Bunny has some simply darling ideas.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. And what kind of ideas?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't want to bother you until I knew
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  Speaker 4: whether we could afford it or not, so I.
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  Speaker 1: How much?
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  Speaker 4: What's the point in asking how much, dear, until you
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  Speaker 4: know what you're.
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  Speaker 3: Going to get?
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  Speaker 5: I've seen Bunny Funkhauser. I know what I'm going to get. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I think he's got some fairly interesting sketches here.
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  Speaker 3: Just look at this drawing, Jim. Here's how Bunny sees
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  Speaker 3: our living room. Isn't that charming?
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  Speaker 1: What's that thing there? A shoeshine stand?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's a cobbler's bench, dear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: You see, the whole room's colonial.
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  Speaker 4: Break front, hook rug, student's lamp, pie cooler, and over here,
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  Speaker 4: a Martha Washington desk.
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  Speaker 6: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: And where do I keep my powdered wig?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it's perfect. It's us.
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  Speaker 4: Bunny says we're very American, very grassroots, very blueberry pie.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, don't look at me, Jim. Bunny said it.
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  Speaker 1: How much is all this going to cost?
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  Speaker 3: Well, $ 7, 000. $ 7, 000?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that includes.
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  Speaker 3: Tearing off the wall, but I quite agree with Bill. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: you do?
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  Speaker 1: Well, you're some lawyer, Bill.
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  Speaker 5: A defenseless woman without the slightest conception of the value
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  Speaker 5: of a dollar asks for advice, and the next minute
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  Speaker 5: you've got her tearing our walls.
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  Speaker 1: $ 7, 000.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't put seven cents into this broken-down rat trap.
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  Speaker 3: How can you talk that way, Jim?
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  Speaker 4: This is our home. Why, Joan was practically born in
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  Speaker 4: this apartment.
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  Speaker 1: That does not make it a national shrine. Oh, now,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. I thought I was doing you a favor.
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  Speaker 3: And you were, Bill.
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  Speaker 4: He was just showing you how you could save $ 3, 000
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  Speaker 4: by simply not tearing out the wall.
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  Speaker 1: I could save $ 7, 000 by not doing anything at all. Well, then,
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  Speaker 1: that's that, isn't it? $ 7, 000. Blueberry pie. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: my hat, Muriel?
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  Speaker 3: It's in the hall closet, dear, where it always is.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get it for you. Oh, good morning, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Blanding.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hello, Mary. Well, I guess the boss would want
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  Speaker 1: to see the layouts on wham ham.
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  Speaker 3: They're here on your desk, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Blanding.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. Let's see. When you've got the whim,
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  Speaker 1: say wham. Oh, my. For a grand slam in ham,
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  Speaker 1: try wham. Oh, Mary, I didn't really write that, did I?
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  Speaker 3: A man's got to make a living, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Blanding. Well, maybe Miss Stellwagen's right. Hmm? Oh, nothing. It's
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  Speaker 1: just a private joke between me and whoever's going to
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  Speaker 1: be my analyst.
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  Speaker 5: Mary, tell me, would you spend $ 7, 000.
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  Speaker 1: To tear out somebody else's walls?
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  Speaker 6: What I want?
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  Speaker 5: Well, especially when for a few thousand more you could
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  Speaker 5: fix up a nice old place someplace.
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  Speaker 1: You know, somewhere like Connecticut, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Well, frankly, I never had.
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  Speaker 1: Mary, get me the phone numbers of a few of
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  Speaker 1: those suburban real estate men. Oh, and call Mrs. Blandings.
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  Speaker 5: Tell her to keep this weekend open for a nice
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  Speaker 5: drive out to the Connecticut countryside.
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  Speaker 1: They just drove up, Pop. That couple from New York, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: And Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Blandings.
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  Speaker 3: Good, good.
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  Speaker 1: What place is he going to show them, Pop? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: three or four, son.
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  Speaker 3: And then I'll show them the Hackett place.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no. Not the old Hackett place. The old, old
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  Speaker 1: Hackett place. Son, you ain't been learning much about the
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  Speaker 1: real estate business. But, Pop, the Hackett place, it's falling apart.
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  Speaker 1: It leans. Mighty quaint old place, son. Just the thing
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  Speaker 1: for the blandies. And we bought it, Bill. It's ours. Well,
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: some steel, huh? Steel is an understatement. Swindle might be
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  Speaker 1: a little more appropriate, huh? You've been taken to the cleaners,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, and you don't even know your pants are off.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, darling, I told you. I said we ought to
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  Speaker 3: consult Bill before we buy it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what's so wrong with this deal? $ 10, 000 for 50
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  Speaker 1: acres and only $ 1, 500 for the house.
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  Speaker 5: That's $ 200 an acre. $ 100 an acre is standard top
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  Speaker 5: gouge price to city slickers. When the natives sell it
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  Speaker 5: to each other, it's around 40 or less.
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  Speaker 3: 40? Jim!
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  Speaker 1: The man's entitled to a fair profit. Not 284%.
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  Speaker 5: Now, we're going to write this fellow Hackett and tell
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  Speaker 5: him he can.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do no such thing. You just don't understand business.
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  Speaker 1: You mean extortion.
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  Speaker 3: Jim, dear, now, maybe Bill's right. I.
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  Speaker 5: Now, just a minute. Let me explain something to both
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  Speaker 5: of you. For 15 years, I've been cooped up in
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  Speaker 5: this four-room cracker box. Just getting shaved here entitles a
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  Speaker 5: man to the Purple Heart....
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  Speaker 1: Well, that still doesn't make this hack a place of goodbye. Now, look, Bill.
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  Speaker 5: Muriel and I have found what I'm not ashamed to
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  Speaker 5: call our dream house. Why, it's like a fine painting.
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  Speaker 5: You buy it with your heart, not with your head.
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  Speaker 5: You don't ask how much was the paint, how much
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  Speaker 5: was the canvas.
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  Speaker 1: You look at it, and you say, Ah, it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: I want it.
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  Speaker 5: And if it costs a few more pennies, you pay
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  Speaker 5: it in gladly, because you love it. And you don't
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  Speaker 5: measure the things you love in dollars and cents. Well, anyway,
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  Speaker 5: that's the way I feel about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's your money, I suppose.
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  Speaker 5: And when I sign those papers on Saturday, I can
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  Speaker 5: look the world in the face and say it's mine.
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  Speaker 1: My house. My home. My acres.
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  Speaker 3: Our house, darling. Our home. Our acres.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: My, it's a windy day, isn't it? Well, this is it, Bill.
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  Speaker 1: The dream house on Nightmare Alley. And no remarks. The
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  Speaker 1: house just needs someone to love it, that's all. It's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing that our two of you are one
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  Speaker 1: to love the house.
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  Speaker 3: And one to hold it up.
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  Speaker 4: Jim.
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  Speaker 3: Jim, look. There's something blowing off the roof.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm? Oh, yeah. Oh, it looks like shingles. What did
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  Speaker 1: your engineer say when he checked that roof?
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  Speaker 3: Our engineer?
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  Speaker 1: Who needs engineers? This isn't a train, you know. See,
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  Speaker 1: that house is moving. I just saw it move. This
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  Speaker 1: house has been standing since the second year of the
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  Speaker 1: Continental Congress. You take one look at it and shingles
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  Speaker 1: start to drop.
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  Speaker 5: Now, look, do me one favor, will you? I've got
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  Speaker 5: a client. He's a crackerjack structural engineer, Joe Apollonio.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I'll be right back, Muriel. Just want to
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  Speaker 1: measure that fireplace again. Now, not that it's any of
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  Speaker 1: my business, Muriel, but how are you and Jim paying
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  Speaker 1: for this place?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're cashing in our government bonds, and Mr. Hackett's
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  Speaker 4: taking a $ 6, 000 mortgage.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it could be worse. And as long as you
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  Speaker 1: and Jim love it so much... Muriel! Help!
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  Speaker 4: Jim!
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  Speaker 6: Muriel!
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  Speaker 3: What's the matter? Where are you?
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  Speaker 1: I fell to the floor!
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  Speaker 3: Bill, I think you'd better get in touch with Mr. Apollonio.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why we've come to you, Mr. Sims. After Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Apollonio saw the house, we got our own expert, Mr. Murphy,
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  Speaker 3: and then Mr. Gillis, but they all said the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tear it down. Well, as an architect, I'm inclined
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  Speaker 1: to agree with them.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, you can remodel, but for what it would
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  Speaker 8: cost you, why, you can have.
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  Speaker 1: A fine new house. Hmm. A new house, huh? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: something like this, for instance. Now, in this sketch here... No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we're at all ready to commit ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: But if we were to consider building, I can tell
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  Speaker 5: you there's one thing we'd have to have, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Sims. Plenty of closets. Well, if I might make a suggestion...
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  Speaker 1: And bathrooms.
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  Speaker 3: Each bedroom must have at least one bathroom. You see, Mr. Sims,
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  Speaker 3: our problem is.
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  Speaker 1: I made a drawing of exactly what I mean, Mr. Sims.
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  Speaker 1: A little playroom for the basement, you see. Nothing tremendous,
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  Speaker 1: just a little something.
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  Speaker 4: And I've always wanted a sewing room, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Sims.
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  Speaker 4: A little utility room upstairs where I could be alone
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  Speaker 4: and sew or sulk on a rainy afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but I think I'd better point out.
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  Speaker 3: And here off the kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: A little flower sink with a stone floor and shelves
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  Speaker 4: for vases and gardening things, and maybe a little closet.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, sure. Why not? Now, over here... My dear Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Blandings, now, in the first place, you've got the upstairs
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  Speaker 8: about three times as big as the downstairs.
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  Speaker 1: There, you see, Muriel? It's all those bathrooms.
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  Speaker 4: Nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: It's all those closets.
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  Speaker 8: And by extending the breakfast room, you've eliminated the possibility
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  Speaker 8: of any stairs going.
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  Speaker 1: Up to the second floor. No stairs?
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Now, now, is it absolutely necessary for each of your
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  Speaker 8: daughters to have her own room with two closets and
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  Speaker 8: a private bathroom?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes.
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  Speaker 3: You see, our daughters are approaching womanhood.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't realize they were approaching it quite so fast. Now,
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  Speaker 5: what about that silly flower sink and that sewing room?
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  Speaker 1: That could go.
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  Speaker 3: I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 8: What we need is a major savings. Now, a simple bathroom, Mrs. Blandings,
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  Speaker 8: costs about $ 1, 300. Now, if you could do with just
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  Speaker 8: one less.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: I refuse to endanger the health of my children in
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: a house with less than four bathrooms.
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  Speaker 5: For $ 1, 300, they can live in a house with only
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  Speaker 5: three bathrooms and rough it.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Look, suppose I.
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  Speaker 8: Go ahead with some preliminary plans, and then we can
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  Speaker 8: get together in about.
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  Speaker 1: A week's time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you do that, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Sims. But just don't forget, we've got to hold it
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  Speaker 4: down under $ 10, 000.
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  Speaker 1: That, I can tell you right now, is impossible.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, well, I guess we're not going to quibble about
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: a few pennies one way or another.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, Mr.
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: Blandings, have you anything in mind as to how you'd
• 16:12
  Speaker 8: like the old place taken down?
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Then why don't we just go out there and blow
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: on it? Come on in, Bill. Just in time. Muriel
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: and I are going over the plans.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: In here, Bill, in the dining room.
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: Aye. Well, so you have torn down the old house, huh?
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: The most practical thing we ever did.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh. How much did that cost? Well, $ 1, 400.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: Now, never mind, Bill. I bet we've got the nicest
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: vacant lot in the state of Connecticut.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Well, Muriel, he's done it again. Who's done... Well, what's
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: eating you? What did I do?
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: Now, once, just once, why don't you come to me
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: and find out if it's all right, if it's legal,
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: before you run yourself smack into another jam?
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jim, what's happened? What's Bill talking about?
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. He won't tell me.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: All you did was tear down a house in which
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: another man happens to own a mortgage without first getting
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: his written permission.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Well, what's that got to do... No. Yeah.
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: And in such cases, the mortgagee can demand full payment
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: of said mortgage.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jim.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: And Mr. Hackett so demands. Six thousand clams.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Oh, my. Six thousand dollars. Well, I guess I can
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: turn in my insurance policy.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, Jim. No, you can't do that.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Well, if anything should happen, the children would be left unprotected.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: I'm not dead yet.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Of course you're not.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: I'll see the boys at the bank. You can put
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: up your insurance as collateral. If necessary, I'll sign a
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: personal note.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Bill.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I've got to run along. Good night, Mariel.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: Good night, Bill.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: I'll let you know what the bank says, Squire.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: What a wonderful friend. Hmm.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: What's with all this kissing all of a sudden? He
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: comes in, you kiss him. He goes out, you kiss him.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Well, what's wrong with that?
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: Well, just because a man is helpful in a business
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: way doesn't give him extracurricular privileges with my wife.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: That's a fine thing to say about a friend of
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: 15 years.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Well, if he were 15, I wouldn't mind.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: He's 41.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Every time he shakes my hand, he kisses you.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: Would you prefer it the other way around?
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: Uh-uh.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Why is he always hanging around? Why doesn't he go
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: out and get married or something?
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Because he can't find another girl as pretty and sweet
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: and wholesome as I am.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, darling, let's not be silly about this. It isn't
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Bill that's upsetting you. It's the house.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I suppose so. Now, Muriel, do you think it's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: worth all this?
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Of course it is. It isn't a house we're building, Jim.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: It's a home for ourselves and our children and maybe
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: our children's children.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, each with two closets and a private bath.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: In a moment, we'll bring you Act Two of Mr.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Blanding's Bill's Dream House. Here's our Hollywood reporter, Libby Collins. Libby,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: I see Daryl F. Zanuck has made another outstanding picture
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: for 20th Century Fox.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: You mean Pinky, of course, Mr. Keeley.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: I don't know when I've seen anything that touched me
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: so deeply.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: It's an honest portrayal of an American problem.
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: The story of a light-skinned Negro girl who gives up
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: personal happiness in order to aid.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Her own people.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Certainly a compelling drama.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Jean Crane, as Pinky, has a difficult assignment, and she
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: handles it with great skill.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: You know, the whole cast seems so exactly right. Ethel
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Barrymore is superb as... the southern lady of the manor.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: And William Lundigan plays the northern doctor with the authority
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: the part demands.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see Jean Crane step into a really
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: mature role and do it proud.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: A remarkable young star, isn't she? And what fresh, delicate
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: beauty she has.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: You might call her the Luxe Lovely type, lady.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, not John.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: But you're right, because Jean is certainly devoted to her
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Luxo Beauty Care. And my, she's pleased with that big
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: new bath cake. It's so luxurious, she says. That's just
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: the word for it, Libby.
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: A generous satin smooth cake with a flower-like fragrance. No
• 20:25
  Speaker 9: wonder screen stars tell us that now their Luxo Beauty
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: Bath is more delightful than ever.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: That big, longer-lasting bath cake makes a fine item to
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: put on a family shopping list. And you can be
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: sure the man of the house will like it, too.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I just know he will.
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: Men go for a bath soap they don't have to
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: coax into a lather. Even in hard water, you get
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: lots of rich, creamy lather with Luxe Toilet Soap.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: It's perfect for shower or tub.
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: So, why not let the whole family enjoy this luxury
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: bath cake? The new bath-size Luxe Toilet Soap. Now, our producer, Mr.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: William Keeley. Act Two of Mr.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Blanding's Builds His Dream House, starring Irene Dunn as Muriel
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and Cary Grant as Jim. Well, it's a few days later,
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: and in the office of Mr. Sims, the architect, Jim
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and Muriel Blanding's hear the latest report on their dream house.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: To wit, an estimate. $ 18, 000? That's ridiculous, Mr.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Sims.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Well, frankly, with all those extras you've insisted on.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: But we've only asked for the barest necessities.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Never mind, dear. It no longer matters. Now, if you'll
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: just send us a bill for your services... But, Mr. Blandings, now,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in the first place... Well, in the first place, I'm
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: going out to have my head examined. And then I'm
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: going to find the owner of.
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: Our apartment house and sign a 20-year lease.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Goodbye.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Well, if you feel that strongly about it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: I'm afraid we do, Mr. Sims. I'm sorry if we've... Jim.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Jim, look.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Hmm?
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, there.
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: Yes, I took the liberty of making a sort of
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: a finished sketch of the house in watercolor.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: It even has our name on it. Residence of Mr.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: And Mrs.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: James Blandings. Shrunk Mills, Connecticut.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Ah, it's beautiful. Mm-hmm. Residents of Mr. and Mrs. James. Mr. Sims,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: do you really think you could keep it to 18,000? Well, now, well, well, well, well.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Let's pull up some chairs, shall we?
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: THE END.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Well, how's it look, Bill? That's some excavation, huh?
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, what's going on over there?
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's Mr. Tisander. He's digging our well. Been here
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: since Monday at $ 4. 50 a foot.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'd better have a little talk with Mr. Tisander.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: How's it coming? Oh, it's coming.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: How far down are you?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, about 150 feet. Well, isn't that pretty deep?
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Well, haven't you hit anything at all yet? Hit some
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: limestone yesterday. That's good? That's bad. Oh. And right now,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: looks like we're coming in some shale. That's bad? That's good.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Of course, it might turn out to be sandstone. That's bad?
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: Can't tell.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Might be good. Might be bad. Oh, I see. Thank you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Just for the record, Mr. Tisander, what's happened to the water?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's there, all right. Just got to be patient.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: And the art department promises the layout's no later than Monday, Mr.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Blanding. Okay, Mary, please type up that copy.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bill, but I've got to work once in
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: a while, you know. Yeah, well, oddly enough, that's why
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm here.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: You see, I happen to be closeted with your boss
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: about a little legal work, and he just happened to
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: mention that you haven't come up with one good slogan
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: for Wham Ham.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: What's he worrying about? The deadline's months away. Besides, you don't... Hello?
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, put her on. Muriel, Bill. She's up in Connecticut. Yes, Muriel? What?
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: What?
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Tisander struck water. Say, that's wonderful, dear. Hey, Bill, we
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: got our well. Congratulations. What's that, Muriel? What do you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: mean we got two wells? Oh. Oh. Well, I'll be
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: right out. Say, how could we have two wells? I
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: can't wait to find out. Let's go. And so it
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: all happened when Mr. Zuko was excavating, huh?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: That's what Mr. Wretch says.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: That's right, folks. Why, Zuko almost drowned. So we've hit
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a spring. A spring of clear, cold, bubbling mountain water
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: right here in our cellar. And I can't pour a
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: bag of cement until the water's diverted. Hmm. Well, hello, Mr. Tisander. Oh, howdy.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: You see, Mr. Tisander, water.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: At six feet.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: And just over there, you had to go down 227
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: feet to hit the same water.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Yep. Now, how do you account for that, Mr. Tisander? Well,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the way it appears to me, Mr.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: Blanding, over here, the water's down only six feet.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: But over there, it's down around 227 feet. Yep.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: You got nothing to worry about, Mr. Blanding.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Once we get the pumps here, your house will go
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: up in no time.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Hey, what's happened to that steam shovel? Huh? Oh, well,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is something wrong, Mr.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Zucker?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, no.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: I just broke my bucket.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: That's all. Oh, you hit a boulder, huh? It's not
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: a boulder, it's a ledge.
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: You know something, Mother?
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: I'll never forget this moment.
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: My family about to cross the threshold of our first
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: real home.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I'm sure glad we got kicked out of that apartment. Hey,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: I don't hear any work, Mother.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: It's Saturday afternoon. Only the painters are working.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Well, aren't we going in?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Don't be in such a hurry. You know, dear, Betsy's right.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: It is a big moment. And I'm going to carry
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: you across the threshold.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jim, how sweet. Watch that sacroiliac, Pop.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: It's been 15 years since you've tried anything like that.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's all you know about it. No, no, no,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: not in here.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Jim, you better put me down.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Can't you read us something? The sign says wet paint.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I haven't. touched anything.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Your feet are touching something, ain't they?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: The floor. I just got through varnishing the floor. Well,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: put some planks down or something.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: How do you expect us to live here if you don't... Okay, Mac.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Okay. Take it easy. The Republicans ain't in yet, you know.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Wait till I see Sims about this.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Hey, Daddy. Come and see what we just found.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: The windows.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: We don't have any windows.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see Sims about that, too. What time did
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: he say he'd be here, ma'am?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I think maybe he's here now, darling. He and Mr. Wretch,
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I think they're out in the back.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Just the man I want to see, Mr.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Blanding.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: He's got a few bills here I'd like... What about
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: our windows, Mr. Wretch? Well, I think I can answer that, Mr. Blanding.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: There's been a little slip-up. Oh, the windows were delivered,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: Only they weren't the right windows. Those windows belong to
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: a Mr. Landings in Fishkill. I just phoned him.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: You mean he's got our windows?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Well, no, Mrs. Blandings. It seems Mr. Landings has some
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: windows that belong to a Mr. Blandsworth in Peekskill.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: But where are our windows?
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: Well, as near as we can find out, they've either
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: been sent to a Mr. Banning in Stamford or to
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: a Mr. Ginsberg in Waterbury. Well, how did Ginsberg get
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: into this?
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Well, what are we supposed to do, gentlemen?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Spend the rest of our lives in a house without windows?
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Just a matter of a few days, Mrs.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: Blandings.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Now, about that rub-dub water-soft N.R.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: The what?
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Rub-dub water-soft N.R., Well, now.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: How would I know about that?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, because you've got one, Mrs. Blandings. Furnished and installed
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: for $ 285. Well, I didn't order it. I'm afraid I did, Mrs. Blandings,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: you see, to save your water pipes.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: The plumber assured me that the water in your well
• 28:22
  Speaker 8: is the most corrosive in his entire experience.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: In the trade. Another first. Well, send me the bill.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: You've got it. I left it on the kitchen sink. Well,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: all right, then.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, uh.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: Pedelford's coming this afternoon. Who authorized a Pedelford? Now, first
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I get a rub-dub, and now a Pedelford.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: He's the painting contractor.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Pedelford. I wanted to see him.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Oh. Oh.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, okay. Well, just get him over here. A Pedelford.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Now, first of all, the living room here. I want
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: it to be a soft green, Mr. Bedelford.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Uh-huh.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Not a blue green like a robin's egg.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: No.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: And yet not as yellow as daffodil buds.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Now, the only sample I could get is a little
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: too yellow. But don't let whoever does it go to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: the other extreme and get it too blue.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: No.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: It should be just a sort of a grayish yellow green.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh. Now, the dining room, I'd like yellow. Not just yellow,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: but very gay yellow.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Something bright and sunshiny.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you what to do, Mr. Padelfa.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: You just ask that man who's varnishing the floors in there.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: to go down to the grocer and get a pound
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: of their very best butter.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: And you just mash that butter exactly and you can't
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: go wrong. Now here, here's the.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Wallpaper we're going to use in the hall.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: It's flowered. But I don't want the ceiling to match
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: any of the colors of the flower.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: No. No.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: There's some little dots in the background.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: See?
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Now, it's those little dots I want you to match. Now,
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: I don't want those greenish dots.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: Near the hollyhock leaves.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: No.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: No, I want those little bluish dots there between the
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: rosebud and.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: The delphidium blossom.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: Clear?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Now, the kitchen, the kitchen's to be white. But not
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: a cold antiseptic. Hospital white, you know.
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: No.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I want something, something warmer, Mr. Bedelford. But still not
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: to suggest any.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Other color but white. Now, for the powder room, I
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: brought you a piece of thread. And I want you
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: to match it exactly.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And don't lose it.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I had an awful time finding it. Now, as you see,
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: the color of the thread is like an apple red.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: It's somewhere between a healthy wine sap and an unripened Jonathan.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Dear, dear. You'll have to excuse me now. I've got
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: to meet a friend of ours at the station.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Hey, Charlie. It's okay, boss. I've been listening. Did you
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: get everything? Sure. Red, green, blue, yellow, and white. Checked.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: Where's Mother, Daddy?
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: I can't find her.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, she drove Bill Cole down to the station. She'll
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: be back soon.
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Well, go unpack another barrel. Help Gussie or something.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: I just finished a barrel.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: And look what I found, Daddy.
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: Uncle Bill's fraternity pin and Mother's diary while she was
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: in college.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: It's slightly torn.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, now that's none of your business. Now just put
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that diary down and unpack something else.
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: I'd say Mother and Uncle Bill were somewhat of an item.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: People do not read other people's diaries. It's not a
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: very nice thing to do.
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Dear Diary. Tonight, Bill and I drove out to Stover's Point.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: As we sat there in the moonlight, he started... Holy smoke!
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: Well, the girls are asleep, Jim.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: There's no need to be so irritable, dear.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes a man just doesn't feel like talking.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, something wrong with the office?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: No.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: Got the new slogan for Wham?
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: It's not due yet.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Well, you're certainly upset about something.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Well, it's just that I don't happen to approve of
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: falsehood and deception.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, nothing.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: But I distinctly remember you telling me that you returned
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Bill Cole's fraternity pin 15 years ago.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: That I.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Well, did you or didn't you?
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Did I or didn't I what?
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Give it back to him.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Well, of course I did. If I said I did,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: I did.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Ah, well, then perhaps you'll have the goodness to explain
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: how this happened to fall out of your jewel box.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: It was fraternity bills.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: What's so funny?
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: You.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: You're jealous.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: If you were so crazy about the guy, why didn't
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: you marry him?
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Because I wasn't in love with him.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Well, that's not what you said in your diary.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: My what?
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: It just happened to fall open, and I happened to
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: look at it. It just happened.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just bet.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Well, it's all over the book. You were in love
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: with Bill Cole.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't be absurd. Of course I was in love
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: with Bill. In those days, I was in love with
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: a new man every week.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Then why did you marry me?
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: I'm beginning to wonder. It is those big cow eyes
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: of yours.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: That ridiculous hole in your chin. Maybe I knew you
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: were going to bring me out to this.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: $ 38, 000 icebox with no windows. Or maybe I just happened
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: to fall in love with you, but for heaven's sake,
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: don't ask me why.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Muriel.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: What is it?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: What are you doing down there on the floor?
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Trying to sleep. The moving men forgot our bed.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: What time is it?
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Half past twelve.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I guess I fell asleep downstairs. Muriel, would it do
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: any good to say I'm sorry?
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I am. I behave like a schoolboy, and I'm sorry.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: Jim....
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, Jim, if you hadn't kissed me tonight, I guess
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: I just would have died.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Why do I love you so much?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Darling, it's awfully late. Maybe you ought to go downstairs
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: and lock the doors.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: What for? The windows are all open anyway.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Got to get up at five o'clock, you know.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Five o'clock? But why?
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: I forgot to tell you, dear. The railroad just put
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: in a new schedule.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Well, that means I'll be at the office before eight.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Yes, but if you get there earlier, maybe you can
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: leave earlier.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: To get home earlier, to go to bed earlier, to
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: get up earlier.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Jim.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, dear?
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: Good night, dear. Uh....
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Good night.
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
• 35:53
  Speaker 9: Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: In a few moments, we'll return with a third act
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: of Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream House. We always like
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to tell a success story, and tonight's heroine is Miss
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Marilyn Mercer, formerly a messenger girl at RKO, and now
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: a full-fledged starlet at the same studio.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: How did it all happen, Marilyn?
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: Well, I was answering telephones in the commissary when my
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: big chance came for a screen test, Mr.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Keeley. And that was just the beginning.
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: Whenever I watch a picture being filmed, I realize how
• 36:46
  Speaker 7: much I have to learn.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: You had a chance to see some fine acting in
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: RKO's new production, I Married a Communist.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Yes, indeed. There's a tense drama for you.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: Particularly Robert Ryan in the role of a former communist
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: who discovers that he can't escape from the party. He
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: makes you feel the terror of their relentless pursuit as
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: only a fine actor can.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, and Lorraine Day brings warmth and understanding to the
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: part of the bewildered wife in I Married a Communist,
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: a most appealing actress.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Isn't she, though? She's a favorite with everyone and so
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: lovely to look at. As you might expect, Mr. Kennedy,
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: she's a luxe girl and a very enthusiastic one.
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: Another famous star who finds that luxe soap care.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Really works, eh?
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: Well, now that Luxe toilet soap comes in the convenient
• 37:32
  Speaker 7: bath size, she thinks it's more wonderful than ever.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: And so do I, Mr.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Kennedy.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: The lather's so rich and creamy, and I love the
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: nice perfume it.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: Leaves on my skin.
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: That Luxe soap perfume is an exclusive blend of many
• 37:46
  Speaker 9: costly ingredients. It's like a bouquet of flowers, you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 9: a light, delicate fragrance that appeals to fastidious women.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: For a quick beauty pickup, I count on my Lux
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: soap bath. It's so refreshing.
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: Thank you, Miss Marilyn Mercer. And now, a suggestion for
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: our listeners everywhere. Try this fine new product of Lever
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: Brothers Company. The new bath-size Lux toilet soap. Remember, it's
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: the fragrant white cake nine out of ten screen stars
• 38:15
  Speaker 9: recommend for top-to-toe loveliness.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Here's our producer, Mr. Keeling.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: The curtain rises on the third act of Mr. Blanding's
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Builds His Dream House, starring Cary Grant as Jim and
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Irene Dunn as Muriel.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Well, Mr. Blanding's has built his dream house.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: And as the bills and the extras stare him in
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: the face, so does the deadline for a new slogan
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: for Wham!
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Ham!
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: It's now nine o'clock on a very wet night. Jim's
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: at the office, up to his elbows, in slogans.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Is there anything I can type up for you, Mr.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Blanding? I can't think of a thing, Mary, except probably
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: my resignation. Well, it sure is raining, isn't it?
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: That's funny, Mary, how you look forward to little things. Rain,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: for instance. For a month now, I've been looking forward
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: to the first rainy night in my new house. Big
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: blazing fire. Muriel pouring coffee. Me in my new smoking
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: jacket with my pipe and slippers reading a good book. Ah, well.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Poor Mrs.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Blandings.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Must get pretty lonesome out there. At night, I mean.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: And a rainstorm.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: She's probably worried to death about me. Oh, well. Give
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: me some more paper, Mary. Wham!
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Wham!
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: And then out you went and bobbed your hair. Let's
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: see now. That must have been about a month before
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: you married him. And was Jim mad?
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Oh, he wants more coffee, Bill.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, thanks. Well, I picked a fine night to come calling,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: didn't I? Rainstorm, Jim in New York.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, he's probably worried to death about me.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: I wonder if my coat's dry by now. I'd look
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: a little silly going back in Jim's new smoking jacket.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: No, I think you look very cute. Oh, thank heavens.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Must be the children.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, sit still. I'll get it. Coming, coming. Well, it's
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: about time you... Oh, you're not the kids. Yeah, I'm
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Harry Selby from down the road. Boy, what a storm.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Just come by to tell you that the kids are safe, Mr.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Blandings.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not Mr. Blandings.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: I'm Mrs. Blandings, Mr. Selby.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, how do you do?
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: Mrs.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Williams just called my wife to say your telephone's out
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: of order.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: And they just roped off the bridge at Shrunk Mills.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: But my children.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't you worry about them, Mrs. Blandings. They're spending
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the night with the Williams.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, well, that's a relief. I just began to get
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: quite worried about him.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd better get back before I have to swim
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: for a while.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Good night, Mrs. Blandings. Oh, thank you, Mr.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Selby. Oh, not at all. Good night, Mr. Blandings. Cole,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Bill Cole, friend of the family, just came in out
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: of the rain.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, good night. No bridge. How do I get
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: back to civilization?
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: Well, you'll just have to stay here until it stops
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: raining or they fix the bridge or something.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, I guess I'll have to. Well, get out
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: the cards, Muriel. We can always play gin. Well, how
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: about this one, Mary?
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: Compare the price, compare the slice, take our advice by wham.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, now, really, Mr.
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: Blanding?
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know. It's no good. All right. Now,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: here's another one. If you'd buy better ham, you'd better
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: buy wham.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Well, it's just like boil petroleum.
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: If you'd buy better oil, you'd better buy boil.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Well, it's no use. I can't think anymore. All I've
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: got on my mind is a house with.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: An $ 18, 000 mortgage and bills and extras and antiques and.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. I just don't know.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: You going somewhere?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm going home. I'm going home to get some sleep.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: But the slogan, you haven't even got.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Well, suppose I haven't. This isn't the only job in town.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Well, what will you tell Mr.
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: Dascombe?
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll tell Mr. Dascombe to... Well, I don't know.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I'll just tell him.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: Mr.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Sims. Well, good morning. Come in.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I know it's a little early to be calling, Mrs. Blandings.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I just thought I might catch her husband before he
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: left for the office.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry, but Jim isn't here. But come on
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: in anyway. We're going to have breakfast in a little while.
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: Oh, I've already had my... Oh, well, there's Mr. Blandings
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: now getting out of that taxi.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, he must be exhausted. He worked all night in
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: the office.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: You don't say. Jim. Good morning, Jim.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: How'd it go, darling?
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, fine, fine, fine. Oh, hello, Sims. Mr. Blandings.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: Everything all right?
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, everything's fine. Well, Sims, what are you doing out
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: here with a morning dew?
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: Well, some extra bills have come in from Wretch, and
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: I don't quite understand them.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: What are they? Oh, a few of the things are
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: all right, I guess. Now, here's an item. Mortising five
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: butts at $ 1. 98. Oh, well, let's not quibble about it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: A man's entitled to mortise a few butts now and then,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I think. Oh, and this one here, extra hardware, $ 9. 18.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Petty last name, but let him get away with it. Now,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: here's one that, frankly, I don't understand at all. Changes
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: in the closet, $ 1, 247. Well, we probably talked... $ 1, 200 and what? $ 47. Oh,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: that's the end. What closet? What changes?
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: Well, that's just it. It isn't a closet at all.
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: It's Mrs. Blanding's little flower sink. You didn't authorize any changes,
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: did you, Mrs.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Blanding?
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Well, there certainly weren't changes.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Muriel... What have you done?
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: I haven't done anything. All I did was, oh my goodness,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: nothing at all.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: What have you done?
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: Well, all I did was, one day I saw four
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: pieces of flagstone left over from the porch that were
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: just going to be thrown away.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Nobody wanted them. And I asked Mr.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Retch if he wouldn't just put them down on the
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: floor of the flower room and poke a little cement
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: in between the cracks and give me a nice stone
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: floor where it might get wet from flowers and things.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: And That's absolutely all I did.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: That's all you did?
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Just four little pieces of flagstone.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Did you by any chance authorize a drain?
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: Of course I didn't.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: All I said was I wanted a nice, dry stone floor,
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: and Mr. Wretch was just as nice as he could be.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: What did Mr. Wretch say?
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Well, all he said was, Well, you're the doctor, Mrs. Blandings.
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: And that was all anybody said to anybody about anything.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Oh. Well. I think I can tell you just about
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: what happened.
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: You see, those planks run under the entire width of
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: the pantry so that Wretch had to knock out the
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: bottom of the pantry wall to get at them.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: Then he had to chop off the top of the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: joists under the flower sink to make room for the cradle.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: But all I said was.
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: And then with the added load on the weakened joists,
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: I'll bet he had to put a lally column down
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: there for support.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll bet.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: But it was just four little pieces of flagstone, and
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: I only asked him... Quiet.
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: Now, the soil pipe runs under there on wall brackets
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: so that Retch had to get the plumber back.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, good morning, Mr.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: Cole.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Good morning. Good morning, Muriel, dear. Morning, Jim. Hello, Bill.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: When did you get here? Well, as a matter of fact,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: last night I stayed over. Oh, you stayed over. He
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: stayed over.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: The bridge was roped off. He had to stay.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I slept like a rock, too. Now, just a minute here. Just... Morning, everybody.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Wow, what a night. I've never seen so much rain
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: in all my natural life.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: You mean you weren't here last night, Gussie?
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: No, dear, Gussie spent the night in Lansdale.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: I passed the girls over by the Williams house, Miss Bland,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: and they ought to be home any minute now.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Gussie. Now, you better start breakfast. Yes, ma'am,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: right away. All right, now, where were we?
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Why, with the electrician ripping out 60 feet of armored cable. Right, Mr. Sims?
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: What?
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, yes. Muriel, you mean the children weren't here
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: last night either?
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: They be, dear. The bridge was closed.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I just came across it.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: It was closed last night.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: It's open now. Well, if you'll all excuse me, I
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: think I'll glance through the morning paper. Well, I guess
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: that's about the size of it, Mr.
• 46:06
  Speaker 8: Blandings, except that Wretch also had to repair the pantry wall,
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: and he couldn't possibly have broken through the wall without.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: All right, Sims, all right. We'll take care of it.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: I'll admit it's a little steep. I'll try to get
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: Wretch to knock.
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: Off $ 100.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: If I can't get that, I'll get $ 75. Well, $ 50 maybe. Anyway,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I'm almost sure we can get 25. Well, good day.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Good day.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Darling, you're upset. You've got a lot of things on
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: your mind.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Muriel, there's only one thing I've got on my mind.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: This house, and how soon we can get rid of it.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: No, that's not what you're thinking.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe not.
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: Maybe I was thinking I was once a happy man.
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: I didn't have a closet. I didn't even have three bathrooms.
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: But I did have my sanity, a few thousand dollars
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: in the bank, two children who loved me, and a wife.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I could trust.
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's a fine thing to say.
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: I also had a job at the Daskam Advertising Agency,
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: something I don't happen to have at the moment.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Jim!
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: That's right. I'm going to resign. We're starting all over again.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: From scratch. And without this house.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: You love this house.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I hate this house. From its mortised butts to its
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: rubbed up water softener.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: You know you don't mean that.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Every word of it. Anybody who builds a house today
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: is crazy. The minute you start, they put you on
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: the list. The all-American sucker list. You start out to
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: build a home and you wind up the poorhouse. And
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: if it can happen to me, what about.
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: The fellas who aren't making $ 15, 000 a year?
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: What about the kids who just got married and want...
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Now somebody's.
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: Looking in the window.
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  Speaker 3: It's Mr. Tisander.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: All right, Mr. Tisander, what do you want?
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Well, at least we can open the door. Hello, Mr. Tisander.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Morning. Well, Mr. Blandings, there's a matter of $ 12. 36.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: $ 12. 36. Yep. Well, why be a piker, Mr. DeSander? Here,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: take everything I've got. I'll empty my pockets for you.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Take it all. Spread it out amongst your pals. Maybe
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Wretch would like a little something. Maybe Zooka could use
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: my new smoking jacket. It's open house, Mr. DeSander. Help yourself. Now, now, Mr. Blandings,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: hold on.
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  Speaker 3: It's $ 12. 36.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: You don't owe me. I owe you.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: What?
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: What was that? Yep. Seems that I overcharged you almost
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: three feet. Here it is, Miss Blandings.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: I think it's all there. Thank you very much, Mr. Tisander.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess I'd best be going. My, my, you
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: sure got a pretty place here. Take good care of it. Oh,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell Mr. Zucker about that smoking jacket.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Darling, what did you mean? We really going to have
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: to sell the house?
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know, Muriel. I just don't know anything anymore.
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: In case anyone's interested, I'm leaving for town. Oh, Jim,
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: if you want to count for silverware, I'll wait. Be
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: patient with me, Bill. Maybe one of these days I'll
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: grow up.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's happened to him?
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: Twelve dollars and thirty-six cents.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: Now, do you mind if I say something?
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: You know, ever since this thing started, I've been firmly
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: convinced that you were getting fleeced, bilked, rooked, flim-flammed.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: And generally taken to the cleaners. I know, I know.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe it has cost you a lot more than you
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: thought it would. But when I look around at what
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: you two have got here, well, I don't know. Maybe
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: there are some things you should buy with your heart
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: and not with your head. Maybe, maybe those are the
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: things that really count. Well, see you around. Bye, dear.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: Bye, Bill. Hi, Uncle Bill. You should have seen the
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: flood last night. The bridge was roped off, Uncle Bill.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: We had to stay with the neighbors.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard all about it. I'll bet you had
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: a wonderful time.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Well, good morning, children.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Daddy.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: Why aren't you at the office?
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm on kind of a vacation, Joan.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: You mean you got fired?
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Well, not exactly.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: Come on, we'll discuss this later. Right now we're going
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: to have breakfast. Am I starving? What are we having, Gussie?
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Orange juice, scrambled eggs, and you know what?
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: Ham, Gussie?
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Not ham, wham. If you ain't eating wham, you ain't
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: eating ham. Now you kids go and wash your hands. Muriel,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: did you hear what she said?
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: Gussie.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: If you ain't eating ram, you ain't eating ham. My slogan.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: I've got my slogan.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Jim, where are you going?
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: I'm going to telephone Dascom and tell Gussie she just
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: got a $ 10 raise.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: And so Jim Blanding's got his slogan, and he kept
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: his job, and he kept his dream house. If this
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: story has a moral, I'm afraid it's escaped me. Unless
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: it's to always be sure to hire a maid like Gussie.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, there's much more of a moral than that, Bill.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, Mrs.
• 50:53
  Speaker 4: Blanding?
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: I think it's to own your own home, no matter what. Oh,
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: and ladies, you'll find a flower sink very handy. Now,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: all you have to do is.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: Muriel. Yes, dear? Don't you dare....
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: The curtain has fallen, but our stars are coming back,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: and here they are. Irene Dunn and Cary Grant.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Bill. It's nice to be here.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: And, of course, we're delighted to have a famous team
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: like Cary Grant and Irene Dunn reunited.
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: Irene, he means we're like corned beef and cabbage. Or
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: ham and eggs.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: No, I think it's more like Laurel and Hardy.
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: In that case, one of us will have to put
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: on some more weight. You two played Mr. and Mrs.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: Blandings with such conviction that I suspect you've had a
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: similar experience.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Am I right, Irene?
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: Well, we did put in a new movie projector at
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: my house and had to knock out a wall, but
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: it was worth all the trouble.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Well, how's that?
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: Well, now my daughter's convinced I'm important in pictures.
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: I'm the only one who can run the projector.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: I'm sure you do it just as beautifully as you
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: run your home, Irene.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: Well, of course, to run a home properly, you've got
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: to have the new bath-sized Lux soap on hand, and
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: I always have that.
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: Say, Bill, what's that big contest I've been hearing about,
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: something about 15-year-old lux girls?
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: It's a contest to pick the most beautiful lux girl
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: born in 1934, Carrie, the year the Lux Radio Theater
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: was born.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: And next Monday, October 17th, the 15th anniversary of the
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Lux Radio Theater, the papers will have full details.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: That's when the six winners.
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: From each of the 163 local contests will be announced.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: With pictures, I hope.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, papers all over the country will carry the photographs
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: of the six lucky girls in their CBS station area.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Well, who picks the prettiest, Dr. Girl?
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Everybody will have a chance to vote for their favorite
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: among the six local winners. Then the girl getting the
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: most votes represents her station in the big national contest.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: I'd like to vote, Bill, so I'll watch the papers
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: next Monday.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: You know, there's only one rule to remember. Send in
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: your vote on a luxe toilet soap wrapper.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: Well, I just might possibly be able to find one.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, not just one, Irene. Vote as many times
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: as you like. What will you have for the big
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: anniversary show next Monday, Bill?
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: A romantic hit direct from the current screen. The 20th
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Century Fox picture, Mother is a Freshman. And we'll have
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: the original stars of the film here to celebrate our anniversary.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: They're Loretta Young and Van Johnson. This is delightful entertainment
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: for the whole family. The kind of play you've liked
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: so much during the 15 years of the Lux Radio Theater.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: So I know everyone will want to join our audience
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: next Monday night.
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: It's a grand picture, Bill, and Loretta is the loveliest
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: freshman I ever saw.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: me in inviting you to be with us again next
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: Monday evening when the Lux Radio Theater presents Loretta Young
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: and Van Johnson in Mother is a Freshman. This is
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: William Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.