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Speaker 1: The House of Squibb, manufacturing chemists to the medical profession
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Speaker 1: since 1858, brings you Academy Awards. The pictures, the players,
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Speaker 1: the techniques and skills which have won or been nominated for,
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Speaker 1: the coveted awards granted each year by the Academy of
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Speaker 1: Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to each in his field
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Speaker 1: for outstanding achievement.
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Speaker 1: The House of Squibb, makers of the great family of
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Speaker 1: Squibb medicinal products, today brings you two distinguished stars, Pat
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Speaker 1: O'Brien and Adolph Mongeau, in the famous story of newspaper life,
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Speaker 1: Front Page, which was nominated as Best Production of the
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Speaker 1: Year for the 1931 Academy Award. Mr. O'Brien and Mr.
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Speaker 1: Mongeau will play the same roles they created for the screen,
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Speaker 1: and in which Mr. Mongeau was also nominated as Best
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Speaker 1: Actor of the Year for the 1931 Academy Award. Come on,
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Speaker 1: come on. This is a story of the fourth estate,
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Speaker 1: which will prove that man didn't know when he was
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Speaker 1: well off and only had three estates. This is the
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Speaker 1: story of a good newspaper man who wanted to get
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Speaker 1: married and go to New York. Of his tyrannical and
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Speaker 1: resourceful managing editor who wanted him to stay being a
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Speaker 1: newspaper man. And of other assorted matters pertaining to the case,
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Speaker 1: including a guy who was to get hanged in the morning. Duffy. Yeah, boss?
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Speaker 1: Did you find Johnson? No, Mr. Burns, not yet. We've
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Speaker 1: tried all the saloons and other places that you and Mr.
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Speaker 1: Johnson usually go to, but... The word is not go to.
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Speaker 1: It is frequent. We frequent places. Frequently. But I... Get
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Speaker 1: Hildy Johnson or else get your laundry out of your
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Speaker 1: desk and get out of the city room. I'll put
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Speaker 1: another man on. In your hat, Duffy. I'm after that
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Speaker 1: bunch of lily-livered, pox-marked peanut politicians... who think they're running
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Speaker 1: this town, and Hildy Johnson's the only man on the
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Speaker 1: staff that I can trust tonight. We've got to have
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Speaker 1: somebody at the hanging end of it. We've got to
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Speaker 1: have Johnson.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 1: Duffy. What? What do you mean he's getting married? Who's
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Speaker 1: getting married? Johnson. He can't do that to me. Where
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Speaker 1: is he? Okay. Where is he? In some church? No,
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Speaker 1: at the loon.
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Speaker 4: Good, good.
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Speaker 1: He's getting up his courage. He's still got a chance.
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Speaker 1: I'll get over there right away. Okay, boss. Well, Hildy,
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Speaker 1: so you're leaving me for marriage. Why? None of your business.
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Speaker 1: How did it happen, Hildy? Tell Papa Burns. There was
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Speaker 1: a moon. Oh, I guess that lets me out. I'll
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Speaker 1: give you a farewell party. Thanks, Walter. But it hurts, Hildy.
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Speaker 1: You're not telling a fellow after all I've done for you.
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Speaker 1: You mean after all you've done to me. Oh, you know, Waller,
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Speaker 1: guys got to settle down sometime, get a home, wife.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Hildy. I was never big enough to let
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Speaker 1: a nice girl reform me so I could stay in
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Speaker 1: a two-room love nest at nights and walk the floor
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Speaker 1: with a crying kid when the fellas were out having
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Marriage does make a respectable citizen
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Speaker 1: out of a man. It must be Graham. You never
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Speaker 1: have to worry about a place to go. You always
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Speaker 1: know you're going home. None of this jumping around at
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Speaker 1: all hours, having to be on the inside of all
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Speaker 1: the crazy excitement in this town. The 5.15 out to
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Speaker 1: some suburb. A home-cooked dinner at exactly 7.30 every night
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Speaker 1: and in bed by 10. Unless after the tapioca your
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Speaker 1: friends drop in for a neighborly chat. I don't blame you, Hildy.
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Speaker 1: It sounds great. Yeah. Excuse me, Waller, I... I just
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Speaker 1: thought of something.
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Speaker 3: Two more, Mr. Burns?
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Speaker 1: Yes, Mike, fill them up. Well, that fixer's Hildy Johnson's
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Speaker 1: wagon all right. No woman's gonna steal the best man
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Speaker 1: I've got.
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Speaker 3: Uh, Mr.
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Speaker 1: Burns. Yes, Mike? Mr.
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Speaker 3: Johnson said to tell you you should put that line
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Speaker 3: on a Vic Troller record and play it for some
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Speaker 3: country boy.
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Speaker 1: He's getting married. Why, that dirty double-crossing rat! Give me
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Speaker 1: my hat! Press room, criminal courts building. No, no, Mabel
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Speaker 1: isn't here. Endicott speaking. Oh, hello, Mr. Burns. Why, no, no,
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Speaker 1: we haven't seen him. Hiya, slaves! Hiya, big shot. Just
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Speaker 1: a minute, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Burns.
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Speaker 1: Somebody just came in. Hildy. Hey, Hildy Johnson.
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: Listen, Hildy, will you do me a personal favor and
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Speaker 1: talk to Waller? He's called up about nine million times.
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Speaker 1: What's the matter, Hildy? You scared of him? I'll talk
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Speaker 1: to that maniac with pleasure. Hello, Mr. Burns. Why, your
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Speaker 1: language is shocking, Mr. Burns. Listen, you crazy baboon. Get
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Speaker 1: a pencil and paper and take this down. Get it
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Speaker 1: straight because it's important. It's the Hildy Johnson curse. The
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Speaker 1: next time I see you, no matter where I am
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Speaker 1: or what I'm doing, I'm going to walk right up
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Speaker 1: to you and hammer on that monkey skull of yours
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Speaker 1: till it rings like a Chinese gong. Oh, boy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's telling him.
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Speaker 3: Listen, Newell. Listen, Waller.
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Speaker 1: No, I ain't going to cover the hanging. I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: cover Washington crossing the Delaware if he did it all
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Speaker 1: over again. Never mind the hair oil. It won't do
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Speaker 1: any good this time because I'm going to New York. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I didn't tell you that, did I? And if you
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Speaker 1: know what's good for you, you'll stay west of Gary, Indiana.
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Speaker 1: Because a Johnson never forgets. And that voice is known
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Speaker 1: as what is telling off the managing editor. Hey, why'd
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Speaker 1: you quit, Hildy? I'm getting married. See these railroad tickets
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Speaker 1: to New York tonight. Tonight? What do you mean, three?
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Speaker 1: Me and my girl and her darling Ma. Ha! He's
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Speaker 1: in love. Tootsie-wootsie. Does Burns know you're getting married? Does
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Speaker 1: he know? He shook hands like a pal, offered to
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Speaker 1: throw me a farewell dinner. Oh, that's his favorite joke,
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Speaker 1: farewell dinner. Sure, he poisons people at him. Oh, hello, honey. Uh,
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Speaker 1: get me Tucker 2164, will you? Yeah, he got me
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Speaker 1: into Polish mics, filled me full of rotgut trying to
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Speaker 1: bust up my marriage. Oh, hello, Peg. Uh, I know,
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Speaker 1: but I, uh... Oh, you bet I resigned. Yep. On
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Speaker 1: the 1118 tonight.
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Speaker 3: Huh?
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Speaker 1: Oh, the press room. I just dropped in to say goodbye,
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Speaker 1: and I'll be... No, not a chance, honey. Got a
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Speaker 1: taxi waiting. Ten minutes. All right. See you guys in
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Speaker 1: a few minutes. I gotta make the rounds and say
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Speaker 1: my farewells. Well, there goes a good guy straight to... Anyway,
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Speaker 1: I hear he's got a contract with an advertising agency.
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Speaker 1: What doing? Writing poems about ladies' girdles? Who dumped this
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Speaker 1: out of the window on me just now? We promise
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Speaker 1: not to tell. Sure, if it's only a spittoon. It
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Speaker 1: was Hildy Johnson, wasn't it? All right, I got a
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Speaker 1: good notion to take this press room away from you.
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Speaker 1: That would be a break. Place is so full of
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Speaker 1: cockroaches now, you can't walk. Personally, I don't give a hoot.
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Speaker 1: But how does it look when there's somebody in the
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Speaker 1: death house? How do you suppose he feels listening to
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Speaker 1: all this revelry? Watch your cash, Sheriff, how he feels.
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Speaker 1: We're doing everything we can to... To get your whole
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Speaker 1: ticket re-elected next week. When Earl Williams drops through that
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Speaker 1: trap tomorrow, it's a million votes. Can we help it
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Speaker 1: if the people rise to support this administration's stand against corruption?
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Speaker 1: Personified by Mr. Earl Williams? A guy who loses a
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Speaker 1: job he's held for 14 years, joins a parade of
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Speaker 1: the unemployed... And because he's goofy, from lack of food,
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Speaker 1: waves a red undershirt. Williams is a dangerous radical. And
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Speaker 1: he killed a policeman. Now, wait a minute.
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Speaker 5: Once and for all, Sheriff, will you hang this guy
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Speaker 5: at 5 a.m. instead of 7? It won't hurt you,
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Speaker 5: and we can make a city edition.
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Speaker 1: Oh, now, Roy, you can't hang a fellow in his
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Speaker 1: sleep just to please the newspaper. Oh, no, no, but
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Speaker 1: you can keep postponing a hanging so it'll come just
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Speaker 1: before the election.
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Speaker 5: With this new alien that's coming in, how do we
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Speaker 5: know there'll be a hanging?
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Speaker 1: Yeah. What if the professor finds he's insane or something?
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Speaker 1: He won't find he's insane because he ain't. He's as
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Speaker 1: sane as I am. Saner. Now, here's a resume of
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Speaker 1: the situation. The newspapers have got to put their shoulders
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Speaker 1: to the wheel. Impress on the radicals that a death
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Speaker 1: warrant for Earl Williams is a death warrant for every
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Speaker 1: bomb-throwing foreigner in this town. Hello, give me the desk. Hey,
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Speaker 1: get this. The sheriff just put 200 more relatives on
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Speaker 1: the payroll to protect the city against the redcoats. Raise
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Speaker 1: my bet at the end. Okay, baby, give me the desk. Hello.
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Speaker 1: The sheriff just received four more letters threatening his life,
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Speaker 1: which he is going to answer by a series of raids.
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Speaker 1: And to prove it's on the square, he's going to
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Speaker 1: write himself four more letters threatening his life. Yeah, I
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Speaker 1: know he wrote them on account of the misspelling. Desk, please.
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Speaker 1: This is McHugh, Joe. More on the Williams hanging. You ready?
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Speaker 5: The condemned man ate a hearty dinner. Mock turtle soup,
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Speaker 5: chicken pot pie, hash brown potatoes, combination salad, and pie
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Speaker 5: a la mode.
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Speaker 1: Mode. Yeah, baby, you better get the rest of this.
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Speaker 1: The condemned man ate a hearty dinner as follows. Noodle soup,
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Speaker 1: roast beef, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, big hunk of pastrami. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and make mine the same.
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Speaker 2: The condemned man ate a hearty dinner.
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Speaker 1: Come on, come on. Who opened it? I did. Shut
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Speaker 1: up and give out the cards. How many? Five. Well,
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Speaker 1: all set to go, boys. Except to say goodbye to
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Speaker 1: you bums. I got a dumb brother who went into
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Speaker 1: the advertising business, Hildy. He's got seven kids, belongs to
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Speaker 1: a country club. He gets worse every year. Just a fathead. Yeah? Listen,
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Speaker 1: if you want to know something, you'll all end up
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Speaker 1: in the copy desk, gray-headed, humpbacked slobs, dodging guarantees when
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Speaker 1: you're 90. Yeah, and you'll be out in the street
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Speaker 1: the minute your contract's up. Not me. My girl's uncle
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Speaker 1: owns the business. Has he got a lot of jack?
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Speaker 1: It's choking him. Look, he gave us 500 in cash
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Speaker 1: for a wedding present. There it is. Less than what
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Speaker 1: it costs to get the tickets to New York. I
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Speaker 1: still say you'll rot in that overstuffed palace of blurbs
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Speaker 1: that you're going to. Why, I... Here, what goes on?
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Speaker 1: Williams broke out of the death house. Here, let me
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Speaker 1: get that phone. Hurry up, sister. This is important. Hello,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollins. Come on, give me the desk. Oh, I
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Speaker 1: might have known buying them tickets was bad luck. Hello. Hello,
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Speaker 1: Morning Post. Give me Walter Burns. Burns as in S-T-I-N-K. Waller,
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Speaker 1: Billy Johnson, Earl Williams just slammed out of the death
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Speaker 1: house at the county jail. Yeah, yeah, don't worry, Waller.
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Speaker 1: I'm on the job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Call you back.
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Speaker 1: Give me Waller Burns. Waller, listen. I got the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Got it from Jacoby. Sure, it's exclusive. It's a pep. Well,
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Speaker 1: to get this, it cost me 260 bucks to bribe
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Speaker 1: the guy. The dough my girl gave me to get
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Speaker 1: us to New York. Okay, all right, all right. But
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Speaker 1: don't forget to send that dough. Look, this is the
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Speaker 1: jailbreak of your dreams. This profound thinker, the alien that
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Speaker 1: stayed hard to examine Williams. Yeah, yeah, the one from Vienna. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: he decided to make Williams reenact the crime. Shut up
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Speaker 1: and listen. He had to have a gun to reenact
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Speaker 1: it with. And who do you suppose supplied the gun?
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Speaker 1: The sheriff. The sheriff. The sheriff gave his gun to
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Speaker 1: the professor. The professor gave it to Earl, and Earl
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Speaker 1: shot the professor right in the stomach. The professor's in
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Speaker 1: the hospital. Williams is evaporated, and the sheriff's gone nuts.
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Speaker 1: Ain't it perfect? Hold the phone, Walter. I'm not finished yet.
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Speaker 1: Send that over right now. I just did this as
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Speaker 1: a personal favor. I'm leaving town. No, don't. I don't
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Speaker 1: get married. Tell the guy to hurry with it. I'll
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Speaker 1: wait here. Oh, hello, Peggy.
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Speaker 4: And what was that?
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Speaker 1: Nothing. I was just telling Burns I was through, that's all. Hello, darling.
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Speaker 4: Now, Hildy, you haven't done something foolish with our money.
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Speaker 1: No, no.
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Speaker 4: Then I think I'd better take care of it.
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Speaker 1: From now on. Now, sweetheart, it's going to be perfectly
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Speaker 1: all right. Then you haven't got it. No, not this minute,
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Speaker 1: but he's sending it right over. Walter, I mean. He'll
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Speaker 1: be here any minute. Walter? Oh, Hildy, that man makes
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Speaker 1: you do everything he wants.
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Speaker 4: You're just a string around his finger.
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Speaker 1: Oh, baby, listen. I was just here by accident. Something happened.
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Speaker 1: I had to use some of our money to get information.
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Speaker 1: I'll get it back.
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Speaker 4: Look, Hildy, Mother's downstairs in a taxi cab. I'm just
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Speaker 4: ashamed to face her. If she knew about that money, well,
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Speaker 4: it's all we've got in the world, Hildy. We haven't
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Speaker 4: even got a place to sleep except the train.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. You and Mother go to the
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Speaker 1: station and get the baggage checked. Here's the tickets.
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Speaker 4: You mean you're not coming?
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Speaker 1: Oh, of course I'm coming. I'll meet you both at
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Speaker 1: the information booth. Oh, it's all that Walter Burns.
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Speaker 4: You simply can't resist him.
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Speaker 1: Come on, Hildy, tip on William's hideout. We go with
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Speaker 1: the riot squad. Okay, wait, wait. You're not going with them. Peggy,
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Speaker 1: wait for me at the information desk.
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Speaker 4: We'll watch downstairs first.
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Speaker 1: You see, you don't go anywhere with the riot squad. Okay, baby.
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Speaker 1: I'll just finish up here for a few minutes and
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Speaker 1: meet you under the clock. All right, Hildy.
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Speaker 4: But if you don't come, I'll never trust you again.
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Speaker 4: So there.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I have to get married on a day like this.
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Speaker 1: Is this the press room? I'm looking for the sheriff.
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Speaker 1: I'm the sheriff. He's certainly a hard fellow to find. Well,
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Speaker 1: what do you want? I'm the mayor.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm Pincus, a messenger from the state house.
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Speaker 1: This is from the governor. What's from the governor? The
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Speaker 1: reprieve for Earl Williams.
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Speaker 3: For who?
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Speaker 1: Wait a minute! Who else knows about this? They were
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Speaker 1: all standing around when he wrote it. It was after
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Speaker 1: they got back from fishing. Get the governor on the phone!
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Speaker 1: They ain't got a phone. They're duck shooting now. Oh,
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Speaker 1: a lot of blasted nimrods. Pure politics. We gotta think
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Speaker 1: fast before those lying reporters get hold of this. What'll
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Speaker 1: we tell them? Tell them the party is through and
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Speaker 1: they're staying on account of you. Here, you. What's your name? Pincus.
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Speaker 1: You'll never arrive with this, whatever it is. Get that? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I did. How much do you make a week? Forty dollars.
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Speaker 1: How would you like a job for $ 350 a month? Me?
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Speaker 1: All you have to do is to lay low and
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Speaker 1: keep your mouth shut. Here, go to this address. It's
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Speaker 1: a nice, homey little place. Tell her... Tell her Fred
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Speaker 1: sent you. The End Listen, Burns. I'm waiting here. Where's
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Speaker 1: the guy with my dough? If you try to double-cross me, I'll... I'll...
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Speaker 1: Holy mackerel, I'm seeing ghosts. Earl Williams just crawled through
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Speaker 1: the window. Hang up. Hang up. I'll call you right back. Williams.
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Speaker 1: I saw you when that searchlight went past the window.
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Speaker 1: Drop that gun.
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Speaker 3: It ain't loaded. I fired all the bullets already. I surrender.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't hang onto that roof any longer. You know,
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Speaker 3: I'm not afraid to die. I was telling the fellow
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Speaker 3: that when he handed me the gun.
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Speaker 1: Shut up a second or I'll lock that door.
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Speaker 3: Waking me up in the middle of the night. Talking
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Speaker 3: to me about things they don't understand. Calling me a radical.
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Speaker 3: I'm an anarchist. It's got nothing to do with bombs...
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Speaker 3: It's the philosophy that guarantees every man freedom.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: All those poor people being crushed by the system. All
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Speaker 3: those boys that was killed in the war and those
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Speaker 3: slaves to a crust of bread. I can hear them crying.
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Speaker 1: Shut up, will you? Go on. Take me back. Hang me. I.
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Speaker 1: Done my best.
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Speaker 2: Hildy!
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Speaker 1: Hildy! I know you're in there.
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Speaker 4: Mama says she's.
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Speaker 1: Tired of waiting. Oh, shut up! No, not you, Peggy.
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Speaker 1: Get me the managing editor. Get me Walter Burns, but quick. Hildy,
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Speaker 1: Mama wants you to come right down this minute. Oh, Peggy, for... Oh, Walter,
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Speaker 1: something big has happened. I captured her and William's in
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Speaker 1: the press room. Get over here right away!
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Speaker 4: Oh!
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Speaker 1: Before we bring you part two of Front Page, we
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Speaker 1: want to thank the writers of this picture, Ben Hecht
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Speaker 1: and Charles MacArthur, for making the story available. And now,
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Speaker 1: the House of Squibb presents part two of Academy Awards,
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Speaker 1: starring Pat O'Brien and Adolphe Mongeau in front page.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: All right, Hildy. Where's Earl Williams? Did you bring my money?
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Speaker 1: You'll get your money. Where is he? In that desk.
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Speaker 1: Let me out. I can't stand it. Shut up. You're
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Speaker 1: sitting pretty. For the love of Mike. Mother! What's the
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Speaker 1: matter here? It's my girl's mother. What are you doing?
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Speaker 1: Shut up! I won't shut up. You're doing something wrong.
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Speaker 1: What's in there? Oh, Louie. Louie, come in here. Yeah, boss.
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Speaker 1: Take this lady over to Black Mike's and lock her up.
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Speaker 1: See that she doesn't talk to anyone on the way.
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Speaker 1: What's that? Oh, Waller, you can't do that. Tell him
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Speaker 1: it's a case of delirium treatment. Listen, Waller, this will
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Speaker 1: get me in a terrific jam. Don't worry, Mother, this
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Speaker 1: is only temporary. Hey, where do you think you're going?
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Speaker 1: Let go of me. I got to get my girl.
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Speaker 1: Your girl? Why, in time of war, you could be
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Speaker 1: shot for what you're trying to do. Go nuts! There's
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Speaker 1: your story at that desk. Story? We got the city
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Speaker 1: hall where we want them. We're going to crucify those jerks.
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Speaker 1: We'll keep Williams undercover until morning, so the morning post
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Speaker 1: can break the story exclusively. Then we'll let the governor
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Speaker 1: in on the capture. He can share the glory. Why,
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Speaker 1: you sap. They'll be naming streets after you over this. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but we can't leave Williams here. No, we'll get the
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Speaker 1: boys to move him in that desk over to our office.
20:41
Speaker 1: Get that typewriter. Huh? Start pounding out a lead. Come on.
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Speaker 1: Snap into it. How much do you want on it, Waller? Hello.
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Speaker 1: This is Burns. Put Duffy on. Snap into it. What? What? Hildy,
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Speaker 1: give me all the words you got. Hello, Duffy. I
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Speaker 1: want ten huskies over here at the press room right away.
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Speaker 1: Now listen, Duffy. I want you to tear out the
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Speaker 1: whole front page. That's what I said. The whole front
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Speaker 1: page out. Hildy Johnson's writing the lead. Hildy. What the
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Speaker 1: devil do you want? Hildy. What? You can't come in here, miss.
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Speaker 1: Get out. Listen, darling. Where's mother? I don't care if
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Speaker 1: there's a million dead, Dovey. Make room for this story. Peggy,
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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you to do something. A big favor.
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Speaker 1: You're not coming. Take all those Miss America pictures off
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Speaker 1: page six. Hold it, Dovey. You're doing this to him.
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Speaker 1: He was going and you stopped him. Get out of here. Peggy,
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Speaker 1: I can explain. You'll keep your mouth shut. Hello, Duffy. What?
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Speaker 1: I don't care. Junk to Louis Kahn controversy. Spike it. Peggy,
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Speaker 1: you're buying a newspaper man, not a junk-headed fancy boy.
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Speaker 4: Oh, you never did love me, or you couldn't talk
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Speaker 4: to me that way.
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Speaker 1: I can't stand it in here. I'm smothering to death.
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Speaker 1: Get back in there, you mock turtle. Not you, Duffy.
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Speaker 1: Put Butch on. Oh, this is the end. I don't
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Speaker 1: give a... Don't leave me, Peggy. Keep it coming, Hildy boy.
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Speaker 1: Get the story out. Hello, Butch. Never mind the addition
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Speaker 1: for the mail train... Hold it up. Stop the presses. Listen,
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Speaker 1: you're not working for the advertising department. Keep on this wire. Boss, boss,
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Speaker 1: we hit a patrol wagon. It was on the wrong
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Speaker 1: side of the street. Where's Mother? I should know. She
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Speaker 1: beat it someplace, I guess, or they took her to
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Speaker 1: the morgue. You moron. Didn't you even lock her up someplace?
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Speaker 1: I couldn't, boss. I told you we hit a patsy wagon,
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Speaker 1: and I'm that way with the cops just now. Oh,
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Speaker 1: she's dead, dead. That finishes me. I killed her. I'll
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Speaker 1: let you send her away. Now, how can I face Peggy?
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Speaker 1: If it was my own mother, I'd carry on for
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Speaker 1: the paper. You've got to get me out of this desk.
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Speaker 3: I'm choking.
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Speaker 1: Shut up, you. It's better than hanging. Here they are, Sheriff.
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Speaker 1: All right, all right. Wise guys. Thought you were going
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Speaker 1: to get away with something, didn't you? We know you
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Speaker 1: got Williams.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, where are you hiding him, you double-crossing heel?
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Speaker 1: Let go of me. My mother is dead. Who do
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Speaker 1: you think you are, busting in here like this? You
22:59
Speaker 1: can't bluff me, Burns. I don't care who you are
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Speaker 1: or what paper you're editor of. Let go of me, Sheriff, or...
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Speaker 1: Let me go! Let go of me, you punks! Hey,
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Speaker 1: he's got a gun. Give me that. I got a
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Speaker 1: right to carry a gun if I wanted. Now, this gun,
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Speaker 1: this happens to be the gun that Earl Williams shot
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Speaker 1: his way out with. You're under arrest, Johnson, you two Burns.
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Speaker 1: Who's under arrest, you pinhead? You realize what you're doing? Yep.
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Speaker 1: Send for the mayor, boys. I won't make up with him, mother.
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Speaker 1: Who did it, madam? That man there, officer. Mother, are
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Speaker 1: you all right, mother? What's the idea? What are you
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Speaker 1: cops doing in here? This dame says she was kidnapped.
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Speaker 1: That man was in charge of everything. He told them
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Speaker 1: to kidnap me. Are you referring to me, madam? Ah, kidnapping, eh?
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you something more. I'll tell you why
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Speaker 1: they did it.
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Speaker 4: Please, mother.
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Speaker 1: Come on, Hildy, we got to get Bale. I was
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Speaker 1: in here, and they had some kind of a murderer.
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Speaker 1: They were hiding him. They were what? Mother, shut up! Madam,
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Speaker 1: you're a cock-eyed liar. Don't shoot.
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Speaker 3: I'm smothered.
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Speaker 1: I give up. Let me out. Uh-huh. Harboring a fugitive
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Speaker 1: from justice.
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Speaker 4: That's him.
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Speaker 1: That's the one they were hiding. Oh, you gray-haired old Judas. Ah,
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Speaker 1: so you got them, eh, Sheriff? Good work. Good work. Yep, Mayor,
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Speaker 1: there they are. Look kind of natural, don't they, with
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Speaker 1: those handcuffs on? Sheriff, you're going to wish you'd never
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Speaker 1: been born. Ha, ha, ha. A sight for sore eyes. Well,
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Speaker 1: it looks like you boys bit off more than you
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Speaker 1: can chew. Yep, looks like about ten years apiece for them. Now,
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Speaker 1: go suck your fat head. These guys are going to
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Speaker 1: be in office about two days more than we're pulling
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Speaker 1: their noses out of the feed bag. I sent for
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Speaker 1: the district attorney... You know what you smart boys will
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Speaker 1: be doing, making brooms at the state pen? I want
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Speaker 1: a lawyer. I got a right to have a lawyer. Hildy,
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Speaker 1: call my lawyer. No lawyers are going to be able
24:57
Speaker 1: to help you, Burns. This is the morning post you're
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Speaker 1: talking to. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, the power of the press.
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Speaker 1: Sheriff in here? Yeah, the ugly one. That's your man.
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Speaker 1: Here's your reprieve, Sheriff. Get out of here! You can't
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Speaker 1: bribe me. What's this? Get out of here, you! I won't.
25:17
Speaker 1: Here's your reprieve. What? I won't take their graft or
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Speaker 1: their bribes. I'm a family man. Who was bribing you?
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Speaker 1: They were. They wouldn't take the governor's reprieve for Williams.
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Speaker 1: This is a frame-up. Oh, murder, huh? You were going
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Speaker 1: to murder Williams. Oh, Mr. Pincus, you are a stirring character.
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Speaker 1: A really great man. Now, just step right over to
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Speaker 1: this phone and dictate your true story of how the
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Speaker 1: mayor and the sheriff defied an order of the governor
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Speaker 1: of this state... and were going to go ahead and
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Speaker 1: hang a man that had been reprieved... just so they
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Speaker 1: could make a little character before the election. Step right
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Speaker 1: over here, Mr. Pincus. Now, wait. Wait a minute, boys.
25:55
Speaker 1: Wait a minute. Maybe we've been too hasty. Let's talk
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Speaker 1: this thing over. Take their handcuffs off, you blundering idiot. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 1: Right over this way, Mr. Pincus. If you're going to
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Speaker 1: print my story in the paper... Maybe you'd like this
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Speaker 1: picture of my wife. Why, Mr. Pincus. How thoughtful of you.
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Speaker 1: A very, very handsome woman.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Hildy, get on that phone. Hello, Duffy. Listen. Tear out
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Speaker 1: that old front page. Yeah, tear it out again. Oh, Hildy,
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Speaker 1: are we really.
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Speaker 4: Going to New York this time?
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Speaker 1: You know we are, darling. Why, I wouldn't let him stay.
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Speaker 1: Go on, Hildy, before I make you city editor. Hurry up, Peggy.
26:51
Speaker 1: Better get that train. He means it. Any objections to
26:54
Speaker 1: my kissing the bride? No. Go ahead, kiss the guy, Mrs. Johnson.
27:00
Speaker 1: I wish there was time to get you a little
27:02
Speaker 1: wedding present, but wait a minute. This watch of mine. Oh, no, Walter.
27:07
Speaker 1: You make me feel like the bride. Ah, shut up.
27:11
Speaker 1: It was a present from the big boss himself. If
27:15
Speaker 1: you look inside, you'll find a little inscription. To the
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Speaker 1: best newspaper man I know. When you get to New York, Hildy,
27:24
Speaker 1: you can scratch out my name and put yours in
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Speaker 1: its place. If you want to. Oh, you know I
27:29
Speaker 1: wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 4: Oh, go on, Hildy.
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Speaker 3: If Mr.
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Speaker 1: Burns wants you to, you don't want to hurt his feelings. Well,
27:36
Speaker 1: this is the first and last thing I ever got
27:38
Speaker 1: from a newspaper. Well, goodbye, Mr. Burns. You know, I
27:43
Speaker 1: always had a queer opinion of you, Mr. Burns. I
27:46
Speaker 1: still think you're a little peculiar, and so does Mother.
27:49
Speaker 4: But you're all right.
27:51
Speaker 1: Underneath, I mean. I think you're a peach. So are you.
27:55
Speaker 1: You look just like a little flower. Goodbye, you big baboon. Goodbye.
28:03
Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Duffy.
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Speaker 1: What's the first stop of the 1240 to New York?
28:28
Speaker 1: That's right. I want you to send a wire to
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Speaker 1: the chief of police. Tell him to meet that train
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Speaker 1: and arrest Hildy Johnson and bring him back here. Wire
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Speaker 1: him a full description. The dirty bum stole my watch.
28:41
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Speaker 1: Martin in A Star is Born. Today's performance of Front
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Speaker 1: Page was written for radio by Frank Wilson. with an
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Speaker 1: original musical score composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Our
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Speaker 1: producer-director is Dee Engelbach. Pat O'Brien, whose performance you enjoyed
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Speaker 1: today as Hildy Johnson, is soon to be seen in
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Speaker 1: RKO's production, Crackup. Adolph Mongeau, who played the part of
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Speaker 1: Walter Burns, may currently be seen in Sam Wood's RKO production, Heartbeat.
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