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Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay · Lux Radio Theatre

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. To the average city dweller,
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: the title Scudahoo Scudahay had an unfamiliar sound when 20th
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: Century Fox released the picture. But film fans soon discovered
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  Speaker 2: its meaning and found unusual drama in this story of
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: a boy and girl and their search.
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  Speaker 1: For the American dream.
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  Speaker 2: Our stars are the same ones you saw on the screen,
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  Speaker 2: June Haver and Lon McAllister, with June in the kind
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  Speaker 2: of romantic role that first brought her to stardom, and
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  Speaker 2: Lon as a boy who fights for what.
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  Speaker 1: He believes is right.
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  Speaker 2: Scudahoo Scudahay is a story of life on a farm,
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  Speaker 2: but these days Americans who live on farms drive the
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  Speaker 2: same cars, see the same pictures, and use Lux Flakes
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  Speaker 2: just like their.
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  Speaker 3: Friends in towns.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, farm housewives long ago discovered
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: the extra economy of Lux Flakes. Here's the curtain now
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: for Scutter Who's Scutter Hay, starring June Haver as Rad
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: and Lon McAllister as Snug.
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: It's a bright spring.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, and at the McGill Farm, one of the neighbors
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: has come to ask a favor.
• 1:28
  Speaker 3: You sure are concentrating on feeding them.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Chickens, Rad.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hi, Snug.
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: I didn't see you.
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to hitch a ride into town. Pa needs
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: a new drag chain. I figured you might be going in.
• 1:37
  Speaker 4: Oh, gee, I'd love to, Snug, but I got chores
• 1:39
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, okay.
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  Speaker 3: In that case, I'll walk then.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, but Ma's going in right away.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: She'll take you.
• 1:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, swell.
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: You don't look very nice to be going into town.
• 1:48
  Speaker 3: Well, I've been helping Pa all morning.
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: Why don't you dress neat like your brother?
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: I told you a hundred times, Stretch ain't no brother
• 1:55
  Speaker 3: of mine.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, stepbrother then. His mom married your pa, didn't she?
• 1:59
  Speaker 4: I always think of Stretch as your brother.
• 2:01
  Speaker 3: You always think of Stretch, period.
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  Speaker 4: Mom's going to buy me a new bathing suit this morning.
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: What color should I get, Snug?
• 2:07
  Speaker 3: I don't care.
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: You don't care? Well, in that case, I think I'll
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: get yellow. Stretch likes me in yellow. Say, you need
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: a haircut.
• 2:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: So what?
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: I love to get you mad snug. You're real cute
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: when you're mad.
• 2:21
  Speaker 3: Now, look, Rat, I didn't come over here.
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: Tell me some other time. Just get up to the
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  Speaker 4: house if you want a ride in the town.
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: Well, good morning, Snug. You want a haircut, eh? Well,
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: sit down.
• 2:33
  Speaker 3: Make it snappy, will you, Frank? I'm in kind of
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  Speaker 3: a hurry.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, sure, sure. How's things out at the farm?
• 2:37
  Speaker 3: Oh, all right, I guess.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. You know, I ain't seen Stretch in quite a spell.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: He ain't sick, is he?
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: No, no such luck.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, now, that ain't a nice way to talk about
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  Speaker 1: your big brother.
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: Now, lay off of me, Frank. He ain't no brother
• 2:50
  Speaker 3: of mine, and he ain't so big no more.
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: You think you could whip him in a fight?
• 2:55
  Speaker 3: Could be. I'd sure like to try.
• 2:57
  Speaker 1: Well here I am. Any time you say. Oh, now, now, now, now.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: Take it easy, Snug. Take it easy. You didn't know
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: that was your big brother under the towel, did you?
• 3:06
  Speaker 3: You sure fell right into it, didn't you, kid, huh?
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: Getting kind of big for your britches, ain't you, Snug?
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: Now you get back in your chair, Stretch. We was
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: just joking.
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe you were, but I'm not.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: Sit still or I'll cut your ears off. I'm in
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: no hurry, Snug. You want to start something, you know
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  Speaker 1: where to find me.
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: You bet I do.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, sirree. Mighty big for his britches. Morning, Stretch. You
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: sleep good, son? Breakfast's ready, Ma. Just you sit right down. Oh, hotcakes, huh?
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: Something wrong, Stretch?
• 3:41
  Speaker 6: These things taste as tough as they look.
• 3:43
  Speaker 7: Wait till Milton Snug go out, and I'll fix you
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  Speaker 7: another batch.
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  Speaker 1: Special.
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  Speaker 3: Morning.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: Well, I said good morning. I heard you. You ain't
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: too big yet, young fella, for me to learn you
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: some manners.
• 3:54
  Speaker 5: You tend to your son, and I'll tend to mine.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: Where is he? Where is Snug? How should I know?
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: Probably going swimming in the creek. Swims too much, if
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: you ask me. Nobody asked you. It ain't your creek. Morning, Pa. Hello, son. Late,
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: ain't you?
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sorry.
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: Morning. Get that dog out of here.
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: I'll leave him be.
• 4:13
  Speaker 1: He won't hurt none. Get that dog out of my house.
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: Your house.
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  Speaker 5: Your house. You leave that dog stay.
• 4:17
  Speaker 1: I said I want the dog out of the house.
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: I say the dog stays, you hear me? Yes, sir.
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: I heard you, Pa. Hey, where are my hotcakes?
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: You're late. This is a farm, not a hotel. Fix
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: the boy his breakfast.
• 4:28
  Speaker 5: Let him fix it himself.
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  Speaker 1: Woman, I'm sick to death of your harping.
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  Speaker 7: I ain't gonna waste no more of my life waiting
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  Speaker 7: on your good-for-nothing son.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, once you're gonna shut up and listen to me.
• 4:36
  Speaker 5: Nine years ago, my Marty died and you was all
• 4:38
  Speaker 5: for joining hands in a home. You and Stretch here
• 4:40
  Speaker 5: along with me and Snug. No sugar-cured hams was ever
• 4:43
  Speaker 5: smoother to the taste until you got me.
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: Hog-tied and married. Nobody held a gun in your ribs.
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  Speaker 5: From that moment to this here, your clammy hammered tongue
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  Speaker 5: ain't ever ceased a-swinging. And ain't so much you're a
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  Speaker 5: woman that keeps me from hauling off on you, it's
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  Speaker 5: the It's a thought of how much you'd like to see.
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  Speaker 8: Me land in jail.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: So, what are you going to do, Mr. Milton Dominey?
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: Do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting out. I'm through with you.
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  Speaker 5: I stuck it out as long as Snug here was
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  Speaker 5: little needed care, even as such care as you gave him.
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  Speaker 5: But that day is gone, and.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with it. I'm going back to sea. You're
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: out of your head. You're afraid. You're stuck here till
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: you die.
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  Speaker 5: I'll show you how stuck I be. I'm walking straight
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  Speaker 5: out that door, and I'm never coming back.
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  Speaker 3: Got a boy, Pa.
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: I done it, Stretch. I done it.
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  Speaker 9: I'll run him out good.
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  Speaker 8: And he's brat along with him.
• 5:34
  Speaker 5: Since you two are my nearest neighbors, I want you
• 5:36
  Speaker 5: to help snugging me. I just made me out of will, see?
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: Your will, huh?
• 5:41
  Speaker 5: You feeling sick, Milt? I'm feeling fine, Ronald McGill. Just
• 5:44
  Speaker 5: happens I got a belly full of that woman.
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  Speaker 1: Now, read it.
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  Speaker 5: Ahem. I hereby leave to my son, Daniel Domini, commonly
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  Speaker 5: known as Snug, everything of which I die possessed. Signed
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  Speaker 5: by Milton Domini, him being present and in the presence
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  Speaker 5: of each other. Sign it here, Aurora. Hey, you too, Tony.
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  Speaker 8: Here.
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  Speaker 5: And you keep this will, Tony. If anything happens, I
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  Speaker 5: want you to see that Snug here gets hidden.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: Sure, Milt, sure.
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: If you're leaving, Pa, then I am too.
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: No. No, I want you to stay here, Snug.
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  Speaker 5: Look after my interests and your own. Will you do
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  Speaker 5: that for me?
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  Speaker 3: If that's what you want.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, son. Here.
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  Speaker 5: Here's $ 20 to cheer you up.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I.
• 6:28
  Speaker 5: I gotta get to the bus station. Wait a while
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  Speaker 5: and I'll drive you in.
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  Speaker 1: It's better I go now. So long, son.
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  Speaker 5: Take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck, Pa.
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  Speaker 5: You'll hear from me.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Your Pa is a fine man, Snug, but stubborn as
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  Speaker 5: a mule.
• 6:42
  Speaker 1: Dubber is a what? You heard me, a mule. What
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: do you know about mules? I aim to learn plenty, see?
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  Speaker 8: Gonna buy me a team, see?
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  Speaker 5: Well, Snug, don't know what your plans are, but that
• 6:53
  Speaker 5: sawtooth woman wears on you. How about working for me?
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  Speaker 5: Eight dollars a week with dinner. Sunday's off and you
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  Speaker 5: sleep to home.
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  Speaker 3: Make it ten dollars and you got yourself a deal.
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  Speaker 1: You're hired.
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  Speaker 5: You can ride to town with me later on. Gonna
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  Speaker 5: pick out them mules. What you know about mules, Roarer McGill,
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  Speaker 5: you can put in my eye. A mule ain't no
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  Speaker 5: ordinary creature.
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  Speaker 1: Why, a mule... You're working for me, Snug. You're staying
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  Speaker 1: with him. Go on with him, son.
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  Speaker 8: But any day it gets so you can't stand his bellowing,
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  Speaker 8: you can come on over with me.
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  Speaker 5: Just you fix that fence of yours, Tony, before I
• 7:23
  Speaker 5: get the law after you. Come on, Snug.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to work.
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  Speaker 5: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 10: Bean! Oh, hello, Pa.
• 7:39
  Speaker 5: Get off that swing and find me my town hat.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Pa.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, Snug.
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  Speaker 1: Hi.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Ma, Rad, where's my coat? Where's my hat and coat?
• 7:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, you always hollering.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, Snug.
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  Speaker 3: Howdy, Miss McGill.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Rad.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what are you doing here so early?
• 7:53
  Speaker 5: I hired him to work for me. I don't want
• 7:54
  Speaker 5: you wasting his time lollygagging, you hear?
• 7:56
  Speaker 7: Me?
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Why, Pa.
• 7:59
  Speaker 4: I throw him back in the crick when I hook
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: him as little as him. Brad, you're terrible.
• 8:03
  Speaker 7: Look, Pop, even his ears get red when he blushes.
• 8:06
  Speaker 5: Why ain't you in school?
• 8:08
  Speaker 7: Oh, Pa, because it ain't time yet.
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: Oh. Oh, wait here, Snug. I'll get the car.
• 8:13
  Speaker 3: Come on, Rad.
• 8:14
  Speaker 7: We'd better get him his hat and coat. Kind of
• 8:17
  Speaker 7: stuck on Rad, ain't you?
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: No, you frosny.
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: I'm not stuck on her, you frosny.
• 8:23
  Speaker 7: You quit calling me that dumb name, you hear?
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: It's your real name, isn't it?
• 8:26
  Speaker 7: Can I help it? Ma took my name out of
• 8:28
  Speaker 7: a book. My name's Bean, and everybody calls me Bean.
• 8:33
  Speaker 7: You quit using that dumb name.
• 8:34
  Speaker 8: You hear?
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: You quit kidding me about Rad, and maybe I will.
• 8:37
  Speaker 7: Well, I still think you're stuck on her.
• 8:40
  Speaker 11: No, come on there, come on.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: So, it's you.
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: Thought you shipped out with your pa.
• 8:51
  Speaker 3: Seems you were mistaken, then.
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: Where you been all day?
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: Well, I ain't been loafing. Where's supper?
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: Damn it, don't work, don't eat.
• 8:59
  Speaker 3: Okay, but don't figure on running me out of here
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: like you did my pa. This is still his place,
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: and I'll be around, so don't get any idea that
• 9:06
  Speaker 3: you own it.
• 9:07
  Speaker 1: Now hear me, you snug. Work this farm or get out.
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: I'm working over to McGill's.
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: Then sleep over to McGill's.
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: I'll sleep here whenever I please or nobody sleeps, and
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: I'll eat here or nobody eats.
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: Hark at him, laying down the law.
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: That's the charge my pa give me, and I'll carry
• 9:21
  Speaker 3: it out until he gets back.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: Talks big, don't he, Ma? Maybe I can do something
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 9:27
  Speaker 3: When I was but 10, Stretch, and you was all
• 9:29
  Speaker 3: of 15, you beat me up so hard I was
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: maimed for a month.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Don't seem to have done you any good, though.
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: Leastways I ain't forgot. Now, where's my supper? Big hurry,
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: ain't ya? I gotta get back and help Mr.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: McGill.
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: They're bringing him his two new mules.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: New mules, huh? Maybe I'll just drop by. Yeah, and
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: have Rad show him off to him.
• 9:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, they're here all right, Snug.
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: Those mules are just about tearing down the barn. Gee,
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: they're sure.
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: Pretty mules, Rad. Maybe your paw ain't handling them right.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: Can't tell who's making the most noise, the mules or him.
• 10:02
  Speaker 3: A fella in town told me they're a mighty fine team.
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: Only they ain't had but one driver.
• 10:07
  Speaker 9: Did he tell that to Pop?
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: Uh-uh, I don't think so.
• 10:09
  Speaker 3: Sounds to me like your Paul Mayer got stuck.
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: Well, if he did, he'll never admit it. Not if
• 10:13
  Speaker 4: it kills him.
• 10:14
  Speaker 5: Stand still, you stubborn critter. I'll bridle you if it's
• 10:17
  Speaker 5: the last thing I do.
• 10:18
  Speaker 7: Pop, don't holler so loud. You're just scaring him.
• 10:21
  Speaker 5: Stand still, you hear me?
• 10:22
  Speaker 7: Can I ride one, Pop?
• 10:24
  Speaker 12: Huh?
• 10:24
  Speaker 10: Can I?
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: You want to get killed?
• 10:26
  Speaker 13: Get down here.
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: Down! Don't show him that bridle, Mr.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: McGill.
• 10:28
  Speaker 3: I think that's what's scaring him. Tony always said that
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: if you.
• 10:30
  Speaker 5: The heck with Tony.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: I'll handle him.
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: That's... Crowder, Rad.
• 10:34
  Speaker 7: That one's named Crowder.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: Crowder?
• 10:36
  Speaker 7: Well, the man who brought him told me that's because
• 10:38
  Speaker 7: sometimes he kind of crowds you if you try to
• 10:41
  Speaker 7: get in his stall.
• 10:42
  Speaker 8: Oh, fine.
• 10:43
  Speaker 7: And that other one, that's Moonbeam. Moonbeam and Crowder.
• 10:46
  Speaker 5: Stop yapping so much.
• 10:48
  Speaker 8: And why ain't you in school?
• 10:49
  Speaker 7: Pop, it's past supper.
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 10:53
  Speaker 5: Get that other mule installed, Snug. I'll get this one
• 10:56
  Speaker 5: in there if I gotta kill him first.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Hey, Rat, I understand you got some new mules.
• 11:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, come on and see them, Stretch. They're sure pretty,
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: but what disposition.
• 11:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, boy, this is better than a circus.
• 11:07
  Speaker 5: Give me that bridle, Snug. I'll teach this mule who
• 11:09
  Speaker 5: owns him.
• 11:09
  Speaker 10: Ha, be careful.
• 11:10
  Speaker 12: Ha!
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: Hey, he's crowding against the stall.
• 11:13
  Speaker 5: Don't stand there. Get me out of here.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: Stretch, we'll do something. Well, all right, I'll try.
• 11:18
  Speaker 8: Hand me that pitchfork.
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: Snug, Snug, you help him.
• 11:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, he's got Stretch and a pitchfork, hasn't he? Oh, Snug, please.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, he don't deserve to be. Oh, all right, right.
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: Try to kill me, will you?
• 11:27
  Speaker 5: Crush me to death, will you?
• 11:28
  Speaker 3: There. Ain't you done enough to him?
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: Now stop it.
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: Now lay off.
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: Pop.
• 11:32
  Speaker 7: Pop, are you all right?
• 11:33
  Speaker 4: The other one's breaking.
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: Down her stall. A couple of frisky mules, you ask me. Frisky, huh?
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: Get me my gun. I'll kill them both. You're crazy. Pop,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: calm down. You're hurt.
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: They're trotting me to death trying to kill me.
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: Now, now, wait a second.
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 11:44
  Speaker 5: There ain't no law against butchering your own stock.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: No, but why shoot them? I'll buy them from you.
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: You'll what?
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, $ 5 a week for.
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: A whole year.
• 11:52
  Speaker 12: $ 5?
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: That's only $ 260. I paid $ 300 for them two mules. Well,
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: I'll give you $ 20 down besides. You'll only be out
• 11:56
  Speaker 1: $ 20 on the whole deal.
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: Sold.
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: $ 5.
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: Each week out of your wages for a whole year.
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: Okay, here. Here's the 20 my pa'll give me.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Anybody got a pencil? Yeah, yeah, sure, Mr. McGill, here.
• 12:10
  Speaker 5: Brad, you write down what I say. I, Daniel Dominey,
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: known as Snug, hereby promises to pay Robert McGill.
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: Known as Roarer.
• 12:18
  Speaker 4: Snug, now be still.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: $ 5 a week out of wages for a year for
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: value received in the shape of two mules.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll sign it.
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Now, that ain't all.
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: If this contract is broke at any time, the mules
• 12:29
  Speaker 5: again become the property of said Robert McGill.
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: Agreed?
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, sure.
• 12:34
  Speaker 5: Now, get them mules out before they wreck what's left
• 12:36
  Speaker 5: of my barn.
• 12:38
  Speaker 7: Out?
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: It's all right, Crowder. Take it easy, fella. Ain't nobody
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: ever gonna scare you or hurt you again.
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: Where do you aim to take them?
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: None of your business.
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: Just you bring them home and you see what happens.
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: My mules are well raised. I wouldn't take them within
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: miles of you or your ma.
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: Just get them out of here tonight.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: Rad, how about a little drive, huh? And, uh, maybe
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: a movie? Oh, thanks, Stretch.
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: I'd love to. Good night, Snug. Have fun with your mules.
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Rad.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: Thanks.
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: But I ain't kidding you, Tony. They're mine. I just
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: bought them off Aurora.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: You bought these mules?
• 13:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, only now I gotta find some place to keep them.
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: Just for tonight, I mean.
• 13:23
  Speaker 8: That's the matter with my barn.
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Tony.
• 13:26
  Speaker 8: You bought them off Aurora, huh? Where'd you use her money?
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: Well, I.
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: Went in hock for my wages.
• 13:33
  Speaker 8: Son, don't never go in hock for nothing.
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: No? No.
• 13:38
  Speaker 8: Except maybe for a team like them. Boy, oh boy,
• 13:42
  Speaker 8: is them used.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: Say, you at yet?
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: Well, no, not exactly.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Well, get them beasts in the.
• 13:49
  Speaker 8: Barn, and I'll fix us up some grub.
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're sure some cook, Tony.
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: Any fool can make a chicken stew.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, what's.
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: That bottle on the shelf? I thought you swore off drinking.
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: Oh, that's just, uh, just cooking bourbon. You mind your riddles.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: You know, back home, she won't even give me a
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: bite of food if I'm two seconds late.
• 14:15
  Speaker 8: The book of Revelations has got words for that woman's son.
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: The abomination of desolation.
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: You said it. My true ma was here.
• 14:24
  Speaker 8: Now, don't start that. You know, you're one of the
• 14:26
  Speaker 8: luckiest boys on the face of the earth. What boy
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: can look at a woman every day of his life
• 14:32
  Speaker 8: and thank heaven she ain't his ma? Not one in
• 14:36
  Speaker 8: a thousand.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Now, about them mules.
• 14:41
  Speaker 8: Must be something wrong with them.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: What's their blemish?
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: Well, you ever hear about a one-driver mule team?
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, I heard of them.
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: Well, does that mean they're dumb or what?
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: Boy, don't ever use that word around a mule. You
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: think mules is dumb?
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: No, I just said.
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: Well, it happens that these counties that brag on a
• 15:03
  Speaker 8: man with as much brains as a mule. But in
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: all my born days, I ain't never met him. Now,
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: what man don't eat hisself sick from time to time?
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: But does a mule ever founder? No, sir. He's got
• 15:17
  Speaker 8: too much sense.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: You ever see a mule over a drink when he's hot?
• 15:23
  Speaker 8: Ain't mules is dumb, it's folks. So dumb they think
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: a horse is intelligent.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: Well, ain't they?
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: What does a horse do when he puts his foot
• 15:31
  Speaker 8: through a barbed wire fence?
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: He saws it off.
• 15:37
  Speaker 11: Yes, sir, he draws back in fright and saws the
• 15:39
  Speaker 11: hoof clean off the joint.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: But not Mr.
• 15:42
  Speaker 8: Mule.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 15:44
  Speaker 11: Mule lifts his foot up and out as dainty as
• 15:47
  Speaker 11: a ballet dancer and goes about his business.
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: Only fools that think horses got brains. A dog's man's
• 15:55
  Speaker 8: best friend. Why, a mule will lay down his life
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: day by day for the right man until he dies.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: You talk like you love mules. Better than dogs, even.
• 16:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, Grant Dogs has got brains and hearing and feeling.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: But you have to feed a dog. But the mule
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: feeds you all his life.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: And I own a team of them.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure. It sure looks like you do. Hello, Snug.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: Want a lick?
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: No.
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: Well, it's good clean ice.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: No, thanks, Bean.
• 16:35
  Speaker 7: Working for Pop sure has made you crabby.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: You said it.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: Kind of hot, ain't it?
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Go away.
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: Oh, gosh, I only asked if it wasn't kind of hot.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Well, it don't get any cooler with you sitting around
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: asking dumb questions.
• 16:50
  Speaker 7: Bet you wished you went swimming today instead of working, huh?
• 16:54
  Speaker 7: That's what Rad was doing.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I ain't interested.
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: I bet Stretch was interested. She snuck off real early
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: this morning, took the skiff and headed downstream. Took her
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: new bathing suit, too.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: Are you sure she went with Stretch?
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: What do you care if you ain't interested? Hey, here
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: she comes, all dressed up, too.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Hi, Snug.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: You through work?
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: You tired?
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Anybody who works all day for your pa better be tired.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Well, don't let him work you so hard, then. Are
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: you doing anything tonight?
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Important business.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, you and those mules.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: That's right. Me and my mules. And in another week
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: or so, those mules will do anything I want them to.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Well, they can't go to the movies and hold hands
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: with you.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Good night, Rad.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Well, I like that. After I practically invaded you.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: I hope Stretch liked the yellow swimming suit.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: How do you know I was with Stretch?
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: Uh-oh.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Bean, now just wait till I.
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: Mom!
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Mom!
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: You're chasing me again!
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Well, there they are, son. Go all finished. Bridles, Tony.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: New bridles. Big ones.
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: Them ain't no common bridles, son. Them's mule bonnets.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Come here. I'll show you.
• 18:11
  Speaker 8: Whoa, whoa now, Moonbeam girl.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Whoa now.
• 18:13
  Speaker 8: Easy.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Easy there, Moonbeam.
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: Easy, girl.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: You just sort of ease it on up.
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: Get it back of their ears without ever touching them.
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Now you see?
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: Christ, Tony. You got her bridled.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: You see them ears, son? Proud. And they stay proud.
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: Women folks wear their pride all over their legs and
• 18:36
  Speaker 8: their eyes and their hair. But a mule's got it
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: all in them upstanding ears.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Tony, do you think I could ever learn to drive them?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Could be.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: I drove many a mule in my day. Ain't done
• 18:50
  Speaker 8: it in years, but you know these knights when I
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: can still smell their sweat.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: And here, way off, that old... Scatter-hoo! Scatter-hey!
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: What's that?
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Well, it means gee and haw to you.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Boy, but you won't find it in any book, nor.
• 19:10
  Speaker 11: In the memory of many living men. But my teens,
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: they'd lean to the ground for me till.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: They'd draw themselves to death. You ain't the only one
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: who's got mule fever.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I still got it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: And let me tell you, sir, a man with a team.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Of mules, well, sir, he's in business.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: And you'll help me, Tony?
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Sure. Sure, I'll help you.
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: You just give me a few days of tinkering with
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: harnesses and such, and I'll.
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: See what I can do.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Tony!
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: Tony, look at him!
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: When did you do that?
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: This?
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: You got him hitched to your wagon.
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: Well, after a week of tinkering, we're ready to try
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: him out.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Now you settle down, boy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 8: How's things going over to McGill's?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, all right, I guess.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Old Roar's still roaring.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And that daughter?
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: That's a sight in the yellow bathing suit if ever
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: I seen one.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Well, what about the mules?
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Well, there they are, son. Go to it.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Me? You think I'm crazy, Tony? You're the one to
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: drive them first.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: They're your mules.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you drove mules before I was born. I'll
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: just stand back here and watch.
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: Just as you say, boy.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Now you watch how I hold the reins. All right,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: let's go there.
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: Get up, Crowder.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Up, Moonbeam.
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: Come on, get.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Come on, Crowder. Come on, Moonbeam. Come on, get to work.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: It ain't no use, Snug. These mules won't budge for me.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: But why?
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: I just don't understand it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe if you get up there, see what you
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: can do.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Me? But if they won't drive for you, Tony, they
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: won't drive for no one. Yeah.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Did you ever think on pride, son? Pride?
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: Pride has broke more men, split up more homes, and
• 21:17
  Speaker 8: caused more murders than any other creature of the mind.
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: And just now, for a second, I wished for a
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: gun so as I could kill them mules, just like
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: Roar would have done.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know as I'd have blamed you, Tony.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: You don't mean that, Snug. I wouldn't want you to.
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: Now, them mules just flat refused to work for me.
• 21:37
  Speaker 11: They ain't never kicked at me nor crowded me. And
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: they sure broke the back of my pride for all
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: I've been telling you how much I know about mules.
• 21:47
  Speaker 8: Looks like I don't know nothing.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe it ain't like that at all, Tony. Maybe
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: them mules just can't be bothered pulling a light wagon. Say,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: you know that fallen log at the top of your pasture? Well,
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: maybe if we put a chain to it and gave
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: them a really heavy load.
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: Maybe so. Well, yeah, mules has got their pride, too.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Let's roast us out a drag chain and find out.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Tony. This log, it's a lot bigger
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: than I remembered.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: Their legs is a whole lot stronger than you think.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Now, come on. Take their range and get them going.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Gosh, Tony, suppose they won't even.
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: Shut up now.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: Don't be putting wrong ideas in their heads.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Mule even knows what you're thinking. Now, go on.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Okay. Well, where do you want your old log dragged?
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: Now, you're talking any place down near the barn.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Okay, here we go. Come on, Moonbeam, Crowder, hop!
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, look at them grab a hoop. That's it, boy,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that's it. They're moving, Tony. They're pulling the log. Come on,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you mules, get going there. Look at them work, Tony,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: look at them.
• 22:52
  Speaker 8: Well, ain't you nothing to say to them?
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: You bet I have. Scud-a-hoo, scud-a-hey!
• 22:58
  Speaker 7: Scud-a-hoo, scud-a-hey!
• 23:09
  Speaker 13: Act II of Scudahoo Scudahay will continue in a moment.
• 23:14
  Speaker 13: Supposedly a business firm hired an ex-army officer sight unseen.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Uh-huh.
• 23:18
  Speaker 13: Would you expect a man?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Oh, probably.
• 23:21
  Speaker 12: If I hadn't seen RKO's clever comedy Bride for Sale.
• 23:25
  Speaker 12: When Claudette Colbert turns up as the former army major,
• 23:28
  Speaker 12: the fun begins.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Is she efficient? Oh, yes, very.
• 23:32
  Speaker 12: But she's also looking for a rich husband. George Brent
• 23:35
  Speaker 12: and Robert Young make it a riotous triangle. with slapstick complications.
• 23:40
  Speaker 13: Claudette has done her share of stunts in pictures.
• 23:42
  Speaker 12: Mm-hmm, but Bride for Sale has one that tops them all.
• 23:45
  Speaker 12: She gets buried under 200 pounds of fish and ice.
• 23:49
  Speaker 13: And loses, for the moment, her reputation as one of
• 23:51
  Speaker 13: America's best-dressed women.
• 23:53
  Speaker 12: Oh, but not for long. Her clothes are really lovely.
• 23:58
  Speaker 12: Even her own lingerie is especially designed and made up
• 24:01
  Speaker 12: in a shade to complement an individual costume. Of course,
• 24:05
  Speaker 12: she insists on luxe flakes care for her lingerie, just
• 24:09
  Speaker 12: as the studio does.
• 24:10
  Speaker 13: That's a tip for every girl who likes pretty undies.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: A good tip.
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: She can have more slips and nighties if she gives
• 24:17
  Speaker 12: them luxe flakes care. Luxe undies stay lovely three times
• 24:22
  Speaker 12: as long. The colors this fall are irresistible, from maple
• 24:27
  Speaker 12: sugar satin to bright red chiffon with black lace. And
• 24:31
  Speaker 12: some of the new nylon nighties come in wonderful high
• 24:33
  Speaker 12: shades like jonquil yellow, hunter green, and royal blue. It
• 24:38
  Speaker 12: doesn't pay to take chances with such lovely colors.
• 24:42
  Speaker 13: Wrong washing can soon fade them or tear precious lace.
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: These tiny diamonds of luck make suds fast, work fast.
• 24:51
  Speaker 12: Yet they keep undies color fresh three times as long.
• 24:56
  Speaker 13: This fine product of Lever Brothers Company gives such an
• 24:59
  Speaker 13: outstanding performance, makers of fine washables from coast to coast
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: recommend it. 33 to 1. Here's our producer, Mr. William Keeley.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Act 2 of Scutter Who Scutter Hey, starring June Haver
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: as Rad and Lon McAllister as Snug.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: ¶ ¶.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: A couple of weeks have gone by, and with Tony
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: as his teacher, Snug Dominey is working small wonders with
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: his team of mules. Now, on a Saturday afternoon, Rad
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: McGill has a visitor.
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: Look who's here, Rad.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Superman. Hmm?
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, hi, Stretch. What are you doing over here?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, just happened to drive by.
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: Well, we're busy sorting eggs.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Beans. There's a dance in town tonight, Rad.
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: Want to go?
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, sorry, but I can't stretch.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: You watch those eggs. They don't grow on trees, you know.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Relax, small fry. Can't go, huh? What's the matter, got
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a date with Snug? Snug?
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: Don't be silly. The minute he's through working here, he's
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: off with.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Those mules of his. I bet he's sorry he ever
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: got stuck with them. Sorry?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: He's driving them.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding? Your pa couldn't even get a bridle
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: on them.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I know, but Snug and Tony's got them, so they'll
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: haul logs and everything.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: What's he gonna do with them? Sell them?
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Of course not. He's gonna work out his year with Pa,
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: like in the contract, and then he's gonna get a
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: job at the logging camp. Make $ 15 a day, he says.
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: $ 15 a day, huh?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Well, uh, I'll be seeing you, Rat.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Now, what'd you.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: Do that for?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Do what?
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Telling him all about Snug's plans. Gosh, Rat, you talk
• 26:47
  Speaker 7: too much.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Who is it? What do you want? It's me, Mr.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: McGill Stretch. What's on your mind? It's, uh, it's business.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe if you come out here on the porch... Well? Now, look,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: take it easy, Roy. You know them mules Snug done
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: you out of? Done me nothing.
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: I'll get my money back, won't I?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Snug knew what he was doing. Them mules will drive. Drive?
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: What can't be bridled can't be drove. You saw it yourself.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: Well, I just now saw them mules are hauling their
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: own weight as easy as kiss my foot.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, sirree. Snug sure stuck you good. You want to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: stick them back or don't you? Go on. I'm going
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to take them mules down to the logging camp. They
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: pay $ 15 a day. That's $ 90 a week. We split it.
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: Them mules ain't mine no more.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You got a contract with Snug, ain't you? Yeah, sure.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Five bucks a week out of his pay.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: But if that contract gets broke, them mules are yours again.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: All you do is fire him.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: How would that help? Snug could easily get another job.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Not if he's in no shape to work. Like that
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: got beat up so badly... Now, I don't want any trouble,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you hear me? Look, won't be no trouble. All you
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: gotta do is fire him. Fire him, huh? That's all, Aurora.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: And leave everything else to me.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Rad?
• 28:09
  Speaker 7: Rad, you still awake?
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: Hmm?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Why aren't you asleep?
• 28:13
  Speaker 7: I can't. I've been thinking about Pa.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Pa?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Pa?
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: Do you suppose he says his prayers every night?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I don't know, honey.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Well, if he don't, he sure ought to. And just
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: in case he don't, I think I'm going to pray
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: for him right now.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: We're going to church tomorrow. Save it for then.
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: Oh, I'll pray tomorrow, too. I think Pa's going to
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: need all I can give him.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Good Sherman, Reverend. Right to the point. Thank you, Mr. McGill.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Good morning, Reverend.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: Good morning, Rad.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Well, how pretty you look.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Why, thank you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And you too, Bean. Were you in Sunday school?
• 29:01
  Speaker 7: Oh, sure. Mom always makes me.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: Well, good for Mom.
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: Well, Rad, if you're looking for Stretch, don't waste your time.
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: He don't never come to church bad as he needs to.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, hush up and wait in the car.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Hey, look.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Look, there he is.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Stretch?
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Where?
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: Not Stretch.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Snug.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: And he's got his mules hitched to wagon.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Hey, Snug.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Snug, wait for us.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Hiya, Bean. Hiya, Rad.
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Want I should drive you home, Rad?
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Oh, that'll be fine. Want to come along, Chess?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Want to ride, Chess?
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: In the mule wagon? Sure.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Come on, Larry.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: We'll all go.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Hey, now, wait a minute. I only asked Rad.
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: Okay, Snug.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: We don't need a special invite.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Snug. Now, just a minute. Rad sits
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: next to me or nobody goes.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, for heaven's sakes, what a fuss to make.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, all right.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Are you happy now?
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: I'd be a lot happier if you hadn't asked the
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: whole town.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: What makes you so mean?
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: He's jealous, that's all.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: You shut up.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: Well, it's true. Hey, these mules sure drive good.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Boy, this is fun. Snug doesn't think so. But maybe
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: he'll think it's fun to go swimming this afternoon.
• 30:09
  Speaker 13: Huh?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, sure, Red.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's all right. How about it, boys? Let's all
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: go swimming this afternoon.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, fine.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: What are you sitting here by yourself for snug go.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: On in the water i've been in the water.
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: And quit staring at rad she's only trying to burn
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: you up anyway i got something to tell you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: We'll skip it hey rad cut it out will you.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: What'd you say, Snug?
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Don't bother us, Snug.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: We're busy. Yeah, beat it. We want to be alone.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: You leave her alone.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Temper, temper.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Nobody's bothering me.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Oh, quit showing off, Rad. I'm not going to stand
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: for that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Is that so? Now, you listen to me, Snug Dominey.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: You may own them mules, but you don't own me.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Rad, please stop.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Take your hands off me.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Hey, the way they fight, you'd think they were married. Hey, hey,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: where you going, Rad? You're only kidding.
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Come on back.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, you're all behaving like a bunch of kids.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, let her go if she wants to.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Come on, Chess. Let's go after her. Okay. Hey, Rad, Rad.
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: Now if you'll listen to me, Snug, I'll tell you
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: something about them mules of yours.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: What about them?
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: Well, yesterday I started to heard my pop making a
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: deal with Stretch. They're planning on getting them mules away
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: from you.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah?
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: How?
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: Well, Stretch is going to beat you up so bad
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: you won't be able to work. Then you'll miss out
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: on the payments. Get it?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: Are you telling me the truth?
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Gosh, I wouldn't lie about something that makes my pop practically.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Almost a crook.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: Does Rad know about this?
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Of course not. Do you think my own sister would
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: be on her way to see Stretch if she did?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: What makes you think she's going to go see Stretch?
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: Because she's been itching to all morning, and you acting
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: so bossy gives her just the chance she's looking for.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, Bean.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: I'd sure like to see the fight. Okay, if I
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: come along.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: You stay right where you are, and keep your mouth shut. Yes, sir,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: I sure fix stretch good, Tony.
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: Oh, still now.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Ouch!
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Is that horse liniment?
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's horse liniment. I ain't never heard no horse complain, neither.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Boy, it's a wonder I didn't kill him. You should
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: have seen him, Tony. Well, there's one eye he won't
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: be using for a long time.
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: And there's an ear you ain't gonna use neither unless
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: you hold still. Yeah. So poor old Stretch finally got
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: what's been coming to him, eh?
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: You know, I've been thinking, Tony. Now Stretch won't ever
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: tell what happened today, and neither will his ma, not
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: in your life. And Rad won't tell either, not after
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: what happened to that pretty boy Data hers.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: Well, so with nobody telling, I can easy get Roar
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: McGill to fire me.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Gee, Tony, you ought to borrow the brain of a mule.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: After he fires me, I take my team over to
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: the logging camp and we go to work full time.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Fifteen bucks a day, partner.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Less five dollars a week to roar.
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Well, sure. But now, first off, we got to... Hey,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: somebody's coming.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It's Rad.
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: Well, you don't want to see her, do you? I'll
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: run her off for you.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: Who do you think you're fooling? Now get out there
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: and talk to her.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I had to come over, Snug. Are you all right?
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I'm fine.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Let me see.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Oh, Snug. Why don't you go look at his face?
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Maybe he'd like you to hold his hand.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: You've got a right to be sore, I suppose.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: And how.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: I hope I never see him again.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Well, it's no skin off my nose if you do
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: or if you don't.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't say that, Snug, please. Unless you really mean it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: Did you mean it when you said you never wanted
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: to see him again?
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: Hope to die if I didn't.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Well, that's better.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, Snug, your poor lip.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, it ain't nothing. It don't hurt.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: You mean if a girl was to try to kiss you,
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: it wouldn't be painful?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Want to try?
• 34:13
  Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Well, I've got to find out sooner or later.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Did it hurt?
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be known by a little peck like that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Try it again.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: Did it hurt that time?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was swell.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: But what is it, Snug? What's Pa so mad about?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Me.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: He just fired me. Listen, you can still hear him roaring.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Fired you? But why?
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Because I left the tractor running, and when he started
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: to ball me out, I told him to go jump
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: in the creek.
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: Snug! Oh, now see what you've done.
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: I've done just what I planned to do, Rat. I
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: wanted him to fire me.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Snug Dominey, if you don't start talking sense.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Look, do you want to be Mrs. Snug Dominey someday? Well, yes, but... Okay, then,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: you just keep quiet.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, now, look, Rohrer, I.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Know I'm sheriff, but I got more important things to do.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: I tell you, it's in the contract. And if the
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: contract's broke, them mules is mine.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, but the contract isn't broken.
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: It's Saturday night, ain't it? And Snugg ain't showed up
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: to pay me my five dollars.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: But you fired him. Snug's working for the Logan Company.
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: Darn right I fired him. Left my tracker running when
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: I called him.
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: I told you Pop called the sheriff. What's happened to Snug?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Where is he?
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: I saw him about an hour ago. He can't find Tony.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Tony?
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Tony picked up their paycheck. But then he disappeared.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Snug can't find him anywhere.
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: Well, he better make it here by midnight, or Pop
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: sure as heck will take back them mules.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: Tony, oh, gosh, what a relief.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Where have you been?
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Tony, you've been drinking.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, don't get mad at me, son.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Wait till you see what I got in this bundle.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: No, never mind about that. I got to get over
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: to McGill's.
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: I don't get like this very often, son.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: I know, Tony, I know.
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, son.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Sure, you just found a bottle of cooking bourbon. Now,
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: come on, let me have $ 5. $ 5? Well, sure, I
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: got to pay Roarer.
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: Oh, well... It's here someplace. I got it someplace. Oh, first,
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: let me show you what I bought. Tassels, Thug, you see?
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: Red tassels for Crowder and Moonby.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: The money, Tony, where is it? You've spent it all.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Spent it? It could be. Yes, sir. Could be. I
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: spent it all.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, Tony, Tony, don't pass out on me. Wake up, Tony.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Listen to me.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: It's too late to try and borrow the money. I
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: gotta have five dollars or I'll lose my mules.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 37:15
  Speaker 8: Rad, this is Chess Hunter.
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Chess.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: I got something to tell you, Rad.
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: It's about Snug.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: What about him? Well, it's just that.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: Well, you know I work for the telegraph company and... And, well,
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: a message just come through.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I ain't supposed to talk.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: About them, but.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: A telegram for Snug?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: For his stepmother.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: They notified her because, well, because she's the widow.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Mildomany. Buried at sea.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, poor Snug.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: So will you tell him, Rad? Snug don't live at
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: home no more.
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: And even if he did, that old woman wouldn't.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Tell him anyhow.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'll tell him, Chaz. Thanks for calling. Rad,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: you threw on that phone?
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, Ma.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: Ma in the kitchen.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: He's here, snug.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Just walked in.
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: And he ain't got the money, Rad. He just told
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: Ma he ain't got the money.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Ma, you've got money in the house. You must have $ 5.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: How could I, Rad? Your Pa'd never forgive me. Oh,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: there must be something we can do.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: Ma, why do you suppose Pa's so mean sometimes?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: He just can't stand being made to look foolish, I suppose.
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: In the Bible, it says when people do bad things,
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: they roast in eternal fire. We'll pop roast, Mom. Willie, huh?
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: But I had the money, more than enough. Only Tony
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: took it and got drunk.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Well, now, that's just too bad. It moves me to tears. Well,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: you heard him, Sheriff.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Now, do I get my mules or don't I?
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Uh, you, uh, gotta face facts, son.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: But I'll give him the money on Monday, and I'll
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: double it then, 10 instead of 5.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Not if you said 50.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: But what good will the mules do you? They won't
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: even drive for you.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: They'll drive or I'll kill them. I'm going to go
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: to Tony's place right now. I'm going to take my mules.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: And you're coming with me, Todd, to see that it's
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: done all nice and legal.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Roar, don't take the mules. Please don't take them.
• 39:09
  Speaker 8: You're talking nice and polite to me now, ain't you?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Give me a hand, will you, Todd? These mules is
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: kind of ornery. I can't... Pa, no.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: I've got the money for you.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Rad.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Five dollars, Pa.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: I'm paying it for snug. Go on, look at it,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: why don't you? It might be counterfeit. I wouldn't want
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: my father cheated out of anything.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Now, Rat, just a minute here.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Before I was old enough to go to church, you
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: and Mom taught me the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not covet,
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: you always taught me. Fine when you was to talk.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: Not a moment since you sold those mules to Snug,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: but what you coveted them and tried to get them back.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: No, Rat, don't let him take them.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: You listen to me, Rat, I ain't gonna stay for no.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: That's right, roar or bluster, you've done it all your life,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: scaring the wits out of Mom and me.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: Well, you don't scare me anymore.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: You can holler till the cows come home, and it
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: still wouldn't make the wrong you done right.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Where'd you get this $ 5?
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: She gave it to me, Mom. She didn't mean to
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: double-cross you.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Honest, she didn't.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: It was just that she knew this was wrong. Oh, Pa,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: how could you?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: How could you? Well, you got your money. Yeah, I
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: got my money. I guess he keeps the mules all right.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: Rad, don't cry, Rad, please.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I've been waiting for you, Aurora. You're out late. Get
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: out of here, Stretch.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: I don't feel like talking. Holy Moses. What happened to
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: your face? I, uh, had a little smash off my car.
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: Looks more like somebody wailed the daylights out of you. Now,
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: what do you want hanging around my place?
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: About them mules.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: I don't want to hear about them mules ever again.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: You forget we got a bargain about them. Well, it's off.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Get me, it's off. You crazy or something? Now, harken you, Stretch.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I want no part of you, and I want no
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: part of Mules. Not Snugs or anybody else. Okay, Rora.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Back out on me if you want to, but I
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: ain't backing out, see? And you better not try to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: cross me up. What are you trying to tell me?
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: If I can't have them Mules, Snug ain't gonna have
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: me either. And you keep your big mouth shut, because
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: if you start talking, I'm liable to talk, too.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Good night, Rora.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: Good night.
• 41:15
  Speaker 13: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
• 41:19
  Speaker 13: Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: KNX Los Angeles.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Before our stars return for act three of Scutter Who
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: Scutter Hey, I'd like to introduce lovely Dorothy Malone, a
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: featured player at 20th Century Fox.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Tell me, Dorothy, what do you do for recreation?
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Oh, watch other people make pictures, Mr.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Keeley.
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: I just couldn't keep away from the set when Daryl
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: Zanuck was filming Pinky.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: A moving human story with a great message. You know,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Jean Crane handles remarkably well the sympathetic role of the beautiful,
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: light-skinned Negro girl.
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: Yes, and did you know they tested 17 top players
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: before they picked William Lundigan to play that young doctor
• 42:13
  Speaker 9: she falls in love with?
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: And Pinky will be remembered, too, for the fine portrait
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: of a cantankerous but warm-hearted Southern aristocrat.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Who but Ethel Barrymore could do justice to that part?
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: Remember those scenes with Jean Crane as Miss Barrymore's nurse?
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: They were shot over and over, and yet, Every morning,
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: Jean's white nylon uniforms looked as fresh and crisp as ever,
• 42:33
  Speaker 9: thanks to Luxe Flakes, Mr.
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: Kennedy.
• 42:35
  Speaker 13: As a matter of fact, Dorothy, nurses in real life
• 42:37
  Speaker 13: use Luxe Flakes for nylon uniforms, too. They can be
• 42:40
  Speaker 13: luxed in a washbowl in a matter of minutes, dry
• 42:43
  Speaker 13: in a few hours, and ready to wear without ironing.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: Jeannie tells me she's really keen about nylon fabrics because
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: they wash so easily. Of course, she uses Luxe Flakes.
• 42:53
  Speaker 13: The tiny diamonds of Luxe really work fast, burst into
• 42:56
  Speaker 13: rich suds that float away every trace of dust and soil.
• 43:01
  Speaker 13: And Lux Flakes are wonderfully kind to colors. There will
• 43:03
  Speaker 13: be more nylon fabrics than ever next spring in lovely,
• 43:07
  Speaker 13: clear colors. It's foolish to risk wrong washing methods. Tests
• 43:11
  Speaker 13: show that Lux Flakes keep colors lovely up to three
• 43:14
  Speaker 13: times as long. Remember, anything safe in water is safe
• 43:19
  Speaker 13: in Lux Flakes. Thank you for coming tonight, Dorothy Malone. Now,
• 43:24
  Speaker 13: our producer, Mr. William Keeley.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: The curtain rises on the third act of Scudahoo, Scudahay,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: starring June Haver as Rad and Lon McAllister as Snug.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: It's a moment or so later.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Rad's father has gone into the house and slowly climbed
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the stairs.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, hi, Pop. Where's your ma?
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: She's asleep, Pop.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: What are you doing there, Bean?
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: I've been getting a drink of water.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Why ain't you in bed?
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: Well, there ain't any water in bed, Pop.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Run along now, Scatter.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: Want to come and tuck me in?
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, all right, I'll tuck you in. Oh, wait a minute.
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: As long as you're up, stand against the wall there.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: Let's see how much you've grown, huh?
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: How much, Pop? Oh, looks like more than an inch.
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: Gee, I'm sure going to town. Pa, you gonna get
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: them mules?
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: Don't you dare even mention that word to me again.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Mules is a plague on this house. Now get to bed.
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: I'm going. Did Rad come home with you?
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: No, Rad's still over to Tony's. She'll be coming along presently.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Well, Pa's dead. Buried at sea.
• 44:53
  Speaker 10: I'm glad it was you who told me about it, Rad.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry, Snag.
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: That's the way he wanted it.
• 44:59
  Speaker 10: I just wish he could have seen my team once
• 45:01
  Speaker 10: before it happened.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: You, uh, you talking to me anymore, Snag?
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: It's okay, Tony. You couldn't help it.
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: Evening, Rad.
• 45:09
  Speaker 10: Hi, Tony. I, uh, I heard what you said about Milt.
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: You want this, Snag.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: It's his will. Yeah.
• 45:17
  Speaker 10: You own more than a team of Mils, man.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: You own the power of the farmland.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: What about stretching his ma?
• 45:24
  Speaker 10: I'll take the wheel over to Judge Weller in the morning.
• 45:26
  Speaker 11: That piece of paper, Snuggie, is just like your pa's
• 45:29
  Speaker 11: first comeback to knock them both out of that farm
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: so that Dominic can live there again in peace.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: Well, it's about time, Tony.
• 45:37
  Speaker 8: You know, that farm makes sort of a nice home
• 45:40
  Speaker 8: for both of you. That is, if that's what you
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: feel about it.
• 45:44
  Speaker 10: Well, it'll take a lot of fixing up first. Well,
• 45:47
  Speaker 10: it's pretty late, Rad. Come on, honey, I'll take you home.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Well, you put Crowder and Moonbeam to bed, son. You
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: still figuring up how much you made?
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as I can tell, Tony, I made 114 bucks
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: this week, and half of it's yours.
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: I don't want no part of it. Might get on
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: another one of them spending sprees.
• 46:12
  Speaker 10: But you gotta have some money.
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: I'm eating regular. It's okay to eat.
• 46:16
  Speaker 10: You ain't got the sense of a mule, but you
• 46:18
  Speaker 10: got the.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: Heart of one.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: You going to Lord McGill tonight?
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: I ain't been washing up for you. Hmm?
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: I figured I'd go into town and see what Judge
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: Willard decided.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: You reckon them news all right been sold?
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 46:31
  Speaker 10: Who'd try and take the news now that we got
• 46:33
  Speaker 10: old war cooled off?
• 46:34
  Speaker 8: I guess you're right. Well, see you later, Snug.
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: Snug, Rad will be down in a minute.
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Miss McGill.
• 46:42
  Speaker 10: Oh, here's the five dollars, old war.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: I could pay him more if he'd let me.
• 46:45
  Speaker 10: I'd sure like to own that team outright.
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: I spoke to him about it again, but he wouldn't listen.
• 46:50
  Speaker 10: He lays awake nights figuring how can we easily score
• 46:52
  Speaker 10: with him.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Not a chance.
• 46:53
  Speaker 10: He'll get over it. Just happens he's still pretty mad.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: He'd be even madder if he knew about Rad and me.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: He'd yell his head off.
• 47:02
  Speaker 10: But I'm glad.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Well, here I am.
• 47:04
  Speaker 10: Gosh, you're surely cute, Rad.
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 47:06
  Speaker 10: Well, are we staying home or are we going out? Well,
• 47:10
  Speaker 10: I think I'd better steer clear of your paw for
• 47:11
  Speaker 10: a little while yet.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful night.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: We could sail a skip up to the falls, maybe.
• 47:16
  Speaker 10: Oh, what are we waiting for?
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: Um, don't worry, Miss McGill.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: I'll have her home early.
• 47:31
  Speaker 10: Hey, I thought you said it was a wonderful night.
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: Well, it was.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: Now it's going to rain and spoil everything.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: I guess you better head home, Snug, before we get drenched.
• 47:39
  Speaker 10: No, we're a lot closer to Tony's. Let's stop out
• 47:40
  Speaker 10: there till it blows over.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Snug, isn't that a boat? Over there for sure?
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: Huh?
• 47:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I wonder... Rad, that's his boat.
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: That boat belongs to Stretch.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: Well, why would he be coming over to see Tony?
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: Tony's not home.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: It's the team, Rad.
• 47:53
  Speaker 10: It's his way of getting back at me.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: The murals.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: Do you mean that Stretch would.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, hurry, Snug, hurry.
• 48:04
  Speaker 10: He's there, all right.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: That's Ruff barking at him.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: Well, then Stretch wouldn't dare break in.
• 48:08
  Speaker 10: But Ruff knows, and he'd let him in, all right.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: What was he screaming? Stay here, Ruff.
• 48:12
  Speaker 10: I'll soon find out.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: Ruff, get out.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Of there, boy.
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: Get out of the way.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Help me. Crowder. Crowder, get back. Back, Crowder.
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: Hey, Stretch, can you move?
• 48:22
  Speaker 10: I don't know.
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: I guess I can.
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: I ought to let you get out of that stall
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: like you got yourself in.
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: Back, Crowder. Back.
• 48:28
  Speaker 10: No, what happened?
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: It's all right, Rad. Come on in.
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: I guess he'll live.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: He just forgot that Crowder.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Don't like strangers.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: But there's wires over there. What are they?
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Stretch can tell you.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: It's a trap, Rod.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: A wire snare.
• 48:42
  Speaker 10: He figured to cripple the mules.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Looks like it didn't quite work out.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: Are you hurt bad, Stretch?
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: I'm all right. Let me get off this place before
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: I shove you back in that stall.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do about this? Plenty.
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: But if you want to stay out of jail, just
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: tell your mother to start packing her things.
• 48:57
  Speaker 10: Hers and yours.
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: Well, there they go, Snug. Stretch and his ma. Ain't
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: likely you'll ever see.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: Them again, either.
• 49:14
  Speaker 10: No, I guess that's that.
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: Well, it seems to me they piled an awful lot.
• 49:18
  Speaker 10: Of stuff in their car. that belongs to you. Let
• 49:20
  Speaker 10: them have it, Sheriff. I told them to take everything
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: that wasn't nailed down. I don't like evictions, as a rule, but.
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: This one done my heart good.
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: I gave them one hour to get across the county line,
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: and believe me, they'll cross it.
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: Hey, Thug, you best let that place air out for
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: a while, then.
• 49:40
  Speaker 10: Take a month to clear the smell of evil out
• 49:42
  Speaker 10: of there.
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: Where are we going now, Snug? Back to Tony's place?
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: Why, sure, Snug.
• 49:46
  Speaker 8: I'll fix us up a regular feast to celebrate.
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: Well, later maybe, Tony.
• 49:49
  Speaker 10: Right now, I think we'd better get over and see
• 49:50
  Speaker 10: Rad's pa. I think it's about time we told him
• 49:52
  Speaker 10: about us.
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: Hmm, he's not going to like it.
• 49:57
  Speaker 8: Get off my land!
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I'll have you jailed for trespass, you hear me? Kind
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: of stuck, aren't you? Stuck what you'll be if you
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: don't get.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: And you, lad, if I catch you keeping company... Well,
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: one problem at a time, Lord.
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: Seems to me you'd have more sense than trying to
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: drive a tractor across a plowed field after such a
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: heavy rain.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Gee, the way you're fixed.
• 50:14
  Speaker 10: Lord, should this ground harden, it'll take dynamite to get
• 50:17
  Speaker 10: you out.
• 50:18
  Speaker 8: And you're going to lose a pile.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: Of money with no tractor. Maybe even half a year's work.
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: Get your neck over here where I can reach it,
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: and I'll show.
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: You who loses what.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: You want me to pull you out?
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: You pull me out.
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: You and what?
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: Me and my mules. We could try, couldn't we, Tony?
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 50:31
  Speaker 8: A tractor would be better in two turns.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: It could be.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: I bet they can do it, Pa.
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: Two mules doing what a 30-horsepower engine can't?
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: You're all crazy.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe so.
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: If you was a grown man and had the guts
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: to make a real bet, I'm the one who'd bet
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: you plenty that.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: It can't be done.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Like what, for instance?
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Snoop, you still owe me for them mules.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: I'll bet if them mules can pull this tractor out of.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: The mud, you don't owe me nothing.
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: No money, no work, and.
• 50:53
  Speaker 12: They're all yours.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: And if they don't pull you out, what then?
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: Then they're mine to do with as I see fit.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Well, go on, Smug. Take him up on it. They
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: can do it.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: Take him up.
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: Well, if I take the bet and win, will you
• 51:05
  Speaker 10: give me your.
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: Lead to marry Rad?
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: What gal would any sense marry the likes of you?
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: I would, Pa.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Well, well. Is it a bet? It's a bet.
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: Okay, I'll unhitch the team.
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: Come on, Rad.
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: You mind if I holler in the few of the
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: neighbors who are there?
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: This should be something worth watching. Worth laughing at, you mean.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, call them in.
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: This way, Chowder.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: Now, that could be him. That's the girl. Whoa, now.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: Hey, hook that chain on the tractor, Tony.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I'll get it, sir. Just get this straight. Out of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the mud. Clear out.
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: Till the tractor can go by itself.
• 51:39
  Speaker 8: In other words, straight.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Ahead to solid ground. Okay, start the tractor, Roy, and
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: then get off. I'll drive it.
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: Well, you'll need my help, won't you?
• 51:46
  Speaker 10: Stand aside and stay put.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, she's started.
• 51:50
  Speaker 8: Give me the reins, Tony.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Better pull fair, Rory.
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: Them folks over there will bear witness to the running
• 51:55
  Speaker 8: you out of church for the rest of your life.
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: You're burning up my gas.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Get going.
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: There, Crowder.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Moonby won't go except you.
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: And if you don't get this packer out, I'm switching
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: back down with you.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Hup now.
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: Hup.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Come on, Moonby.
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: Come on, Crowder.
• 52:09
  Speaker 13: Dig in, Crowder.
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: Dig in, boys.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Look at them pour out. Look at them pour out.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: No!
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: An inch, baby.
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: It's got to move 50 feet.
• 52:21
  Speaker 10: Harder, harder.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Come on, harder now.
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: Harder.
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: Look at them fillies hit the ground.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: It's their music.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, they're pulling it.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: They're pulling the tracks.
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: How do you like that, Bob?
• 52:35
  Speaker 8: Just look at them go.
• 52:36
  Speaker 7: No, wait for me.
• 52:38
  Speaker 10: I'm coming aboard.
• 52:40
  Speaker 13: Holy smokes.
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: Mom, look at them.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Well, Laura....
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: I told you.
• 52:52
  Speaker 8: Not to tell them, you.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Well, heck, they're still.
• 52:59
  Speaker 10: In the family, ain't they? And why aren't you at school? Oh, Tom!
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: Our stars will return for their curtain calls in a moment.
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: If you have trouble, trouble, trouble with washing dishes, change
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: to Lux Flakes. And they will bubble, bubble, bubble your
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: troubles away. These gentle suds are richer. Two dishes quicker.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: Let LUX bubble your troubles away.
• 53:39
  Speaker 13: Yes, these type of lemons of Lux is done in
• 53:43
  Speaker 13: a hurry. Rich suds bubble up fast, last longer. wash
• 53:49
  Speaker 13: more dishes ounce for ounce than any of ten other
• 53:52
  Speaker 13: leading soaps tested.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: They're thrifty.
• 53:54
  Speaker 13: When they rinse away completely, dishes dry sparkling bright without wiping.
• 54:00
  Speaker 13: Gentle Luxe Flake suds are wonderfully kind to hands, too.
• 54:03
  Speaker 13: Leave them soft, smooth, lovely.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Here's Mr.
• 54:07
  Speaker 13: Keeley with our stars.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure to bring back for a curtain
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: call two such charming people as tonight's stars.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: And here they are. June Haver and Lon McAllister.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Mr.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Keeley.
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: It's nice to be here again.
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: And I'd like to thank everyone in the audience for
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: being so wonderful, especially the mules.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: They deserve a curtain call, too.
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: You know, I think they'll settle for a little pay.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: June, since you're a judge in our 15th anniversary Lux
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Girl contest, I know you'll be interested to learn that
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: the votes in the preliminary contest are pouring in pretty fast.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: Is that the contest to pick the most beautiful Lux Girl?
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: Yes, and I'm very thrilled that I was invited to
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: be a judge.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: Pretty big job. There must be a lot of Lux girls.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: We'll soon have help.
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: Mark Stevens, her co-star in the 20th Century Fox picture, Oh,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: You Beautiful Doll, is also a judge.
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: I think you should know that at least one of
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: the judges was asked to get some Lux flakes.
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: We'll save you a stop, Your Honor. You'll find some
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Lux flakes in the wings.
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: What play are you producing, Mr. Keeley?
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: It's David O.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Selznick's dramatic hit, Portrait of Jenny. And starring in it,
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: we'll have Joseph This is the story of a strange romance,
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: of a love that went beyond the world of reality.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: And next Monday night, we'll bring it to you.
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, that sounds wonderful, Mr. Keeley. Good night.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Good night and thank you.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, this is United Nations Day.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: In the past 12 months, the United Nations provided the
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: means for stopping war along one-fourth of the world's population
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: in India, Indonesia, and the Middle East. It's our best
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: hope for peace. So remember this record and give your
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: support to the United Nations. Lever Brothers Company, the makers
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: of Lux Flakes, join me in inviting you to be
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: with us again next Monday evening when the Lux Radio
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Theater presents Joseph Cotton and Anne Baxter in Portrait of Jenny.
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: This is William Keeley saying goodnight to you from Hollywood.
• 56:33
  Speaker 13: Heard in tonight's cast were Ed Begley as McGill, Tim
• 56:37
  Speaker 13: Graham as Tony, Tony Barrett as Stretch, Norma Jean Nilsen
• 56:41
  Speaker 13: as Bean, and Helen Spring, Bill Johnstone, Noreen Gamil, Cy Kendall,
• 56:46
  Speaker 13: Eddie Marr, Charles Wolfe, Clark Gordon, and Howard McNair. Our
• 56:51
  Speaker 13: play was adapted by S.H. Barnett, and our music was
• 56:54
  Speaker 13: directed by Louis Silvers. This is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy,
• 56:58
  Speaker 13: reminding you to join us again next Monday night to
• 57:00
  Speaker 13: hear Portrait of Jenny, starring Joseph Cotton and Ann Baxter. Well, folks,
• 57:15
  Speaker 13: the Lux Radio Theater's 15th anniversary contest for Lux Girls
• 57:19
  Speaker 13: is in full swing. Who's the prettiest Lux Girl born
• 57:22
  Speaker 13: in 1934? See the pictures of your six local candidates
• 57:26
  Speaker 13: and get voting instruction slip at your grocers. Choose your favorite,
• 57:30
  Speaker 13: write her name on a Lux toilet soap wrapper, and
• 57:33
  Speaker 13: send it to this station. Remember, you can vote as
• 57:36
  Speaker 13: often as you wish. Listen for the name of the
• 57:38
  Speaker 13: lucky winner from your area to be announced on the
• 57:40
  Speaker 13: Lux Radio Theater November 21st. Her picture, along with the
• 57:44
  Speaker 13: pictures of the winner in all other local areas, will
• 57:46
  Speaker 13: be sent to Hollywood. Then, June Haver and Mark Stevens,
• 57:50
  Speaker 13: stars of the 20th Century Technicolor production Oh, You Beautiful Doll,
• 57:55
  Speaker 13: will select the national winner. Hurry, vote for your favorite
• 57:59
  Speaker 13: 15-year-old luxe girl today. Be sure to listen next Monday
• 58:07
  Speaker 13: night to the Lux Radio Theater presentation of Portrait of Jenny,
• 58:10
  Speaker 13: starring Joseph Cotton and Ann Baxter.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: Stay tuned for more.