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Speaker 1: Aboard a hospital ship bound home from Australia, a group
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Speaker 1: of U.S. Army nurses looks back on service in the
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Speaker 1: Philippines during the Bataan and Corregidor campaign. On November 1st, 1943,
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Speaker 1: CBS brought listeners Lux Radio Theater, episode 412, with its
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Speaker 1: adaptation of Paramount's 1943 drama, So Proudly We Hail. Claudette Colbert,
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Speaker 1: Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, and Sonny Tufts returned to the
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Speaker 1: roles they played on screen as the nurses' memories traced
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Speaker 1: their entry into the Army Nurse Corps, wartime hospital work,
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Speaker 1: and personal ties formed under mounting military pressure. Cecil B.
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Speaker 1: DeMille is your host with Lux Toilet Soap. We now
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Speaker 1: take you back to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater brings you Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard,
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Speaker 3: and Veronica Lake in So Proudly We Hail, introducing Sonny
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Speaker 3: Tufts with Lest Remain. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Cecil B.
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Speaker 2: DeMille.
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Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When the guns are
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Speaker 4: silent and American boys come home again from all over
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Speaker 4: the world, Many of our sons will owe their lives
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Speaker 4: to the courage and skill of women who were there
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Speaker 4: when the battle was on. Each branch of the service
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Speaker 4: has its own nurses, and tonight's play is dedicated to
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Speaker 4: all of them, the inspiring drama so proudly we hail.
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Speaker 4: Paramount made the picture, and tonight we present the same
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Speaker 4: three stars you applauded on the screen, Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard,
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Speaker 4: and Veronica Lake. And with this lovely and talented trio,
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Speaker 4: we have Paramount's new discovery, Sunny Tufts, who became an
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Speaker 4: overnight sensation in this picture. Among all the stories of
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Speaker 4: human heroism, none will be remembered longer than the saga
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Speaker 4: of Bataan and Corregidor. The heroes of that time were
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Speaker 4: called expendable, women as well as men. And so proudly
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Speaker 4: we hail as the drama of those women, the army nurses.
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Speaker 4: I don't remember any production in the history of the
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Speaker 4: Lux Radio Theater... that boasted three feminine stars of the
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Speaker 4: magnitude we have tonight. And certainly there's no theater anywhere
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Speaker 4: in the world that could hold the audience these three
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Speaker 4: will draw. But Lux Toilet Soap has built a house
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Speaker 4: as big as the nation itself, so that you may
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Speaker 4: enjoy the finest in drama every Monday evening. You aren't
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Speaker 4: actually present backstage while rehearsals are going on, but you
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Speaker 4: do have a hand in everything that happens here. You
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Speaker 4: select the plays and the players. And your purchase of
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Speaker 4: our product is the power that keeps these footlights burning.
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Speaker 4: I'm sure you'll buy Lux Toilet Soap anyway. But plays
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Speaker 4: like So Proudly We Hail give you a double hit.
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Speaker 4: And here's the first act. Starring Claudette Colbert as Davy,
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Speaker 4: Paulette Goddard as Joan, and Veronica Lake as Olivia. With
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Speaker 4: Sonny Tufts as Kansas, and Les Tremaine as John.
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Speaker 2: May the 7th, 1942.
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Speaker 5: Last night at 11 p.m., after a week of unceasing attack,
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Speaker 5: the island fortress of Corregidor was surrendered to the Japanese.
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Speaker 4: Out of the black sorrow and tragedy of defeat, there
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Speaker 4: came a light, the light of a miracle. This is
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Speaker 4: the story of that miracle, of eight American girls, army nurses,
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Speaker 4: who were delivered from the flames of Bataan. from the
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Speaker 4: roaring hell that was Corregidor. They arrived one morning at Melbourne.
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Speaker 4: Out of the sky they came. Eight American girls, hungry, tired, dirty,
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Speaker 4: still dressed in their blood-stained uniforms.
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Melbourne. I bring you General MacArthur's compliments.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 2: I am Colonel Mason.
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Speaker 6: How do you do?
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Speaker 7: I'm Lieutenant O'Doul. This is Lieutenant Armstrong, Leonard, Schwartz, Bocelli,
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Speaker 7: and Emerson.
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Speaker 2: I'm happy to know you all, and thank God you're here. Colonel.
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Speaker 6: Did any of the other girls get off Corregidor?
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Speaker 8: We were told there were ten more coming by submarine,
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Speaker 8: but we haven't heard from them since they left.
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Speaker 6: But aren't there any more? They said that everyone was
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Speaker 6: to be ordered off.
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Speaker 8: Everyone was ordered off, but we could only get about
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Speaker 8: twenty before it was too late.
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Speaker 6: Oh, then the rest of the girls are in the
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Speaker 6: hands of those filthy... We should have stayed.
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Speaker 2: You were carrying out your orders. Well, come along now.
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Speaker 2: The Red Cross has warm baths and clean clothes for you.
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Speaker 6: Colonel, do you happen to know when we're supposed to
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Speaker 6: go home?
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Speaker 2: On the very next transport.
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Speaker 5: Wait, I thought there were supposed to be eight of you.
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Speaker 6: That's right, sir. You see, David.
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Speaker 7: I mean, Lieutenant Davidson. She's just being brought off the plane.
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Speaker 5: Oh, a stretcher case.
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Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 2: Watch it, Joe.
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Speaker 5: I got it. What's the matter with her?
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Speaker 7: Well, we don't know exactly. She's been conscious all the way,
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Speaker 7: but she won't speak. She just lies there staring.
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Speaker 2: Watch it, please. Hold that stretcher a minute. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 8: Lieutenant Davidson, I'm Colonel Mason. You'll be all right now, Lieutenant.
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Speaker 8: You're out of it now. Lieutenant, do you hear me?
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Speaker 6: It's no use, sir.
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Speaker 2: Take her to the hospital. Watch it, please. We'll keep
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Speaker 2: her out here on the deck for a while, nurse.
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Speaker 2: The fresh air might help.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Major.
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Speaker 5: Lieutenant Davidson, is there anything you want? You're on your
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Speaker 5: way home now, Lieutenant. Doesn't that mean anything to you?
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Speaker 5: I'll see her again this afternoon.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Major. Major, is Davy any better?
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Speaker 2: Oh, good morning.
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Speaker 6: How is she, Major?
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Speaker 2: Frankly, very bad.
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Speaker 5: The closer we get to home, the worse she seems
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Speaker 5: to be.
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Speaker 6: What do you think's wrong?
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Speaker 2: It's simple. When people don't want to live, they die.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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Speaker 7: I knew we did the wrong thing. She didn't want
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Speaker 7: to leave Corregidor, and when we got her on the plane,
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Speaker 7: she just collapsed.
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Speaker 2: If it were a mere physical collapse, I'd know what
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Speaker 2: to do. Frankly, I'm desperate.
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Speaker 6: I wonder.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if perhaps you can help me.
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Speaker 6: We'll do anything, Doctor.
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Speaker 5: It's not going to be easy. I know how much
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Speaker 5: you all want to forget what you've been through. But
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Speaker 5: I only have one hope left. This letter is addressed
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Speaker 5: to her. It came from Mindanao.
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Speaker 6: Who's the letter from, Major?
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Speaker 2: It's signed by somebody called John. John? Why, that's the boy.
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Speaker 5: Just a moment, please. I want you to tell me
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Speaker 5: everything you can remember. Things that might not even concern her.
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Speaker 5: You never know. It might have its place in the pattern.
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Speaker 6: Well, John knew her best. Lieutenant O'Doul, I mean.
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Speaker 5: Well, Lieutenant?
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Speaker 7: Well, I guess I did know her best. As a
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Speaker 7: matter of fact, we joined up together. That was almost
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Speaker 7: a year ago. She was the best nurse I'd ever
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Speaker 7: worked with. She was so good-natured, always patient and understanding, even.
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Speaker 6: About little things.
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Speaker 7: Like the time we were ordered to embark for Honolulu.
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Speaker 7: Davy was the first one at the dock and the
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Speaker 7: last to finish up. Everybody else was running around saying goodbye,
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Speaker 7: everybody except Davy. She was standing in the rain, seeing
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Speaker 7: that things got done. Hey, Odoo! Come on, you'd better
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Speaker 7: get aboard. Davy, you've got to help me. I'm in
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Speaker 7: a terrible jam.
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Speaker 6: What's the matter? Well, two of my fiancés came down
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Speaker 6: to the dock.
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Speaker 2: Two?
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Speaker 7: Well, you know how hard it is for me to
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Speaker 7: say no. I mean, when somebody asks me to marry him...
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Speaker 7: I thought it would be easy for you to say
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Speaker 7: no by now. Oh, well, golly, it's all in fun.
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Speaker 6: But if these two Irishmen ever meet up with each other... Davy,
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Speaker 6: can you stall one of them for a minute for me? Hey,
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Speaker 6: what's up? Well, there you are, darling.
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Speaker 2: I've been looking all over for you, Joan.
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Speaker 6: Well, I've been looking all over for you, too, dear. Now,
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Speaker 6: you stay here and I'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: Hey, wait.
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Speaker 6: Don't forget to write, dear.
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Speaker 2: What does she mean, don't forget to write?
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Speaker 8: Hey, hey, hey, Joan.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, Captain.
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Speaker 9: Captain, will you hold these papers for me just for
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Speaker 9: a second?
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm in sort of a hurry.
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Speaker 6: No, and this here. Thank you.
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Speaker 2: We haven't had a chance to say goodbye yet.
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Speaker 6: Oh, there's lots of time to say goodbye. Say, who
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Speaker 6: wrote that?
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Speaker 2: Who wrote what?
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Speaker 6: Whenever a snowflake.
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Speaker 9: Leaves the sky, it turns and.
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Speaker 6: Turns to say goodbye.
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Speaker 2: I haven't the faintest idea. Where'd she go?
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Speaker 6: Do you know the rest of it?
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Speaker 5: The rest of what?
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Speaker 6: The poem.
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Speaker 5: Oh, no, I never did.
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Speaker 2: Oh, look, I.
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Speaker 6: Well, it goes... Let me see.
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Speaker 9: Whenever a snowflake leaves the sky, it turns and turns
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Speaker 9: to say goodbye.
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Speaker 2: That's fine. Goodbye.
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Speaker 6: No, no, no, Captain. Don't go. I remember the rest. Goodbye,
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Speaker 6: dear cloud, so cool and gray. Yes, and then it
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Speaker 6: goes something and something on its way.
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Speaker 2: Look, do you mind if I get on my way?
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Speaker 2: There we go.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye, Captain.
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Speaker 2: Now you see what you did? Now I've missed.
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Speaker 5: Her.
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Speaker 6: You see what I mean? Little things.
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Speaker 7: Well, we sailed out of San Francisco in a downpour
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Speaker 7: of rain. I remember seeing a Marine on deck walking
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Speaker 7: around without his raincoat.
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Speaker 6: I figured it was our job to keep the men healthy.
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Speaker 2: Hey, you.
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Speaker 6: You're going to catch cold, Leatherneck.
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Speaker 2: Who, me?
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Speaker 8: Never had a cold in my life.
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Speaker 7: I found out later his name was Kansas. At least
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Speaker 7: that's what they used to call him. He played football
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Speaker 7: back there.
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Speaker 6: Made the All-Americans. One day he came out on the
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Speaker 6: upper deck to get some sun.
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Speaker 2: Aye, Lieutenant. Let's cook it.
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Speaker 6: Oh, hello, Leatherneck. How's your cold?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's not a cold. It's just a little runny dose. Oh.
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Speaker 7: Well, you'd better not take too much of this tropical sun.
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Speaker 7: You'll get burned.
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Speaker 2: Who, me? I'd have a bird. Best dad you ever seen.
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Speaker 2: What you doing?
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Speaker 6: I'm writing a letter to a friend.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Irma, what's the date?
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Speaker 10: It's Sunday.
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Speaker 6: We had chapel. Sunday the what? Sunday the 7th.
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Speaker 10: Sunday the 7th.
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Speaker 7: December, Pearl Harbor. Most of us didn't even know what
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Speaker 7: it was, let alone where it was.
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Speaker 6: So instead of.
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Speaker 7: Landing at Hawaii, we were ordered to join a convoy
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Speaker 7: somewhere in the Pacific. None of us realized what the
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Speaker 7: whole thing meant. All we knew was that we stuck
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Speaker 7: to that convoy and at night we ran without lights.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Lieutenant.
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Speaker 6: Hi.
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Speaker 2: Hey, wait a minute, will you?
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Speaker 6: Well, what do you want?
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Speaker 2: Uh, look... What's the matter with me? Have I got
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Speaker 2: dandruff or something?
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Speaker 6: Well, I really can't tell out here in the dark.
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Speaker 2: That's not what I mean.
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Speaker 6: I know what you mean.
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Speaker 2: Look, why don't you ever let me see you?
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Speaker 7: Officers are not supposed to fraternize with enlisted men.
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Speaker 2: But I don't want to fraternize. I just want to
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Speaker 2: see you.
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Speaker 6: And past the time of day?
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Speaker 2: Well, it'd be better than nothing.
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Speaker 6: Take your arm away. What's the matter?
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Speaker 2: Something.
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Speaker 7: Well, just stop your maneuvers before you make contact with
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Speaker 7: the main body.
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Speaker 6: Hmm.
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Speaker 2: Look, don't you like me?
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Speaker 6: Mm-hmm, I like you.
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Speaker 2: It's just sort of so what, huh?
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Okay, won't bother you anymore.
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Speaker 6: Oh, well, don't go.
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Speaker 7: I'm just being childish. Sure would like to meet one guy, though,
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Speaker 7: that doesn't make a pass.
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Speaker 2: Well, when you do, you better begin to worry.
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Speaker 6: You're not so dumb.
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Speaker 2: I just talk dumb.
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Speaker 6: Well, all right, then. Come on and get it over with.
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Speaker 6: Put your arm around me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, fine.
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Speaker 7: Incidentally, I'm warning you, Kansas, I melt at a very
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Speaker 7: low temperature.
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Speaker 2: Well, then I'll try to be, pals.
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Speaker 7: Okay, and when you can't stand it any longer, from
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Speaker 7: time to time, I'll let you kiss me.
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Speaker 2: Is this one of those times? No. Okay, let me know.
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Speaker 6: Hey, golly, what's that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, submarine, I guess. It was a sub.
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Speaker 11: All right.
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Speaker 7: They got two of the boats in our convoy. We
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Speaker 7: picked up about a hundred survivors. One of them was
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Speaker 7: a nurse from another ship, a girl named Olivia. She
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Speaker 7: was a strange kind of girl. Her hands had been burned,
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Speaker 7: and we tried to be friendly, but she wouldn't have
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Speaker 7: any part of us, so we wouldn't have any part
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Speaker 7: of her. One morning, Davy was in charge of the sickbay.
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Speaker 7: It was Olivia's first day of duty.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Olivia. Say, Olivia, it's good to see you. How
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Speaker 6: are your hands? They're fine. You know, you're a very
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Speaker 6: lucky girl. Lucky? Well, yes.
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Speaker 9: We didn't get many survivors. That's one way of looking
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Speaker 9: at it. Tell me, why did your boat leave after
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Speaker 9: Pearl Harbor? I realize we need supplies in the Philippines,
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Speaker 9: but it.
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Speaker 6: Doesn't... I don't know, and I don't ask a lot
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Speaker 6: of questions.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I see.
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Speaker 9: Incidentally, your orders came through. You're to join our unit.
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Speaker 9: You'll bunk in with Miss Bocelli. She's already mentioned it
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Speaker 9: to me. She doesn't want me to.
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Speaker 2: Oh. All right.
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Speaker 6: I'll find someone else. Doesn't matter to me.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Joan.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Daisy?
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Speaker 6: Joan, come here.
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Speaker 7: Do you mind Olivia bunking in with you? Now, what
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Speaker 7: did I do to get punished? Honestly, I'd do it myself.
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Speaker 7: Only Rosemary's still a little homesick and frightened.
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Speaker 6: That Olivia.
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Speaker 7: I'd like to give her an injection and leave the
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Speaker 7: needle in.
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Speaker 6: But okay if I'm the victim.
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Speaker 2: Thanks.
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Speaker 7: I don't know why I'm so nice. Oh, Davy, there's
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Speaker 7: a patient down there supposed to have a bath and
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Speaker 7: he won't let me give it to him.
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Speaker 6: You want me to take over? Oh, I wish you would.
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Speaker 6: It's the third bed from the door.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 6: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: Oh, don't be so cheerful. I know what you're here
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Speaker 5: for and I still say no female's going to bathe me.
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 6: Well, let's see your chart. Lieutenant John Summers.
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 6: With the medical unit. Mm-hmm. Oh, fine. A doctor and
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Speaker 6: you won't let a nurse wash you.
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Speaker 5: I'm not a doctor. I'm a technician. I was associate
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Speaker 5: professor of chemistry at Hawaii.
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Speaker 6: Oh, a professor. Well, that explains it. Give me your arm, please.
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Speaker 5: What are you doing?
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Speaker 6: You're going to have a bath, and don't be coy.
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Speaker 2: Now, go away.
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Speaker 5: I told you, no female's going to give me a bath.
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Speaker 6: Your mother did.
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Speaker 12: Let go.
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Speaker 6: Now, look. Do you give me your arm, or do
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Speaker 6: I take away the whole blanket?
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Speaker 2: Angels of mercy, huh? You're a bunch of wrestlers.
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Speaker 7: Here.
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Speaker 6: There, that's better.
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Speaker 2: Oh, wait, wait.
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Speaker 6: What's the matter?
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Speaker 2: My head, I.
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Speaker 6: You feel dizzy?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
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Speaker 6: No feeling in your hands and feet?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know what it is, don't you?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 6: You need a bath.
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Speaker 2: Oh, now, look.
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Speaker 6: And stop faking.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay.
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Speaker 5: Say, tell me, when people get to know you awfully well,
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Speaker 5: what do they call you?
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Speaker 6: Lieutenant. Oh.
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Speaker 7: That was John Summers. I'll tell you more about him later. Well,
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Speaker 7: on Christmas Eve, we all decided to dress up a
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Speaker 7: little and have a party. We'd been at sea for
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Speaker 7: almost a month, and we needed some relaxation. I wanted
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Speaker 7: to make an impression on Kansas, but the only snaky
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Speaker 7: thing I had was a black nightgown, which, with a few.
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Speaker 6: Trimmings, did for me. Rosemary Larson was in my room
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Speaker 6: while I was getting dressed. Here, John, why don't you
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Speaker 6: wear this locket? Oh, but that isn't mine. It must
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Speaker 6: be Olivia's. Oh, I don't think she's mine. Here, put
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Speaker 6: it on.
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Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Olivia.
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Speaker 6: Take that locket off. I only want to wear it tonight.
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Speaker 11: I said take it off. What do you mean snooping
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Speaker 11: around in my things?
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Speaker 6: Say, who do you think you are? Oh, you want
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Speaker 6: to play rough, huh?
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 6: Davy!
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Speaker 2: Davy!
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Speaker 7: What is it?
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Speaker 6: Stop it! Stop it! Well, she started it and I
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Speaker 6: don't get slugged by anybody. Stop it, do you hear me? Now,
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Speaker 6: what are you, a couple of children? What is this? Sorry, Davy.
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Speaker 6: It was my fault, Davy. By mistake, I opened Olivia's
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Speaker 6: musette bag. She had no right to take my locket.
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Speaker 6: She said it was a mistake. Now, I don't care
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Speaker 6: whose fault it was. You were both wrong. You realize that,
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Speaker 6: don't you?
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Speaker 9: I don't want to have to take any official action. Look, girls,
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Speaker 9: I know we're all nervous and jittery on a boat
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Speaker 9: going nowhere, getting nowhere, but we've just got to hang
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Speaker 9: on a little longer, that's all. I don't want this
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Speaker 9: to go outside the cabin. Come on, forget it and
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Speaker 9: shake hands.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Sorry, Olivia. I'd like to be left alone.
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Speaker 2: All right, Joan. Go ahead.
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Speaker 9: Olivia, Joan's just impulsive. She really didn't mean any harm.
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Speaker 6: Come on, do you hear? They're starting the party. Why
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Speaker 6: don't you come up with me? It may be our
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Speaker 6: last party in a long time. Leave me alone, can't you?
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Speaker 6: Leave me alone!
16:18
Speaker 2: All right, Olivia.
16:24
Speaker 7: John Summers was up and around now. He and Davy
16:26
Speaker 7: danced every dance that night.
16:28
Speaker 5: You having fun?
16:30
Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
16:31
Speaker 5: Say, did you get my present?
16:32
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, thank you.
16:34
Speaker 5: Well, what's mine in return?
16:36
Speaker 6: My thanks.
16:37
Speaker 5: Oh, I suppose I'll have to be satisfied with just that.
16:40
Speaker 5: You realize this is the first time you've been in
16:42
Speaker 5: my arms?
16:43
Speaker 6: Oh, I've been in lots of arms.
16:44
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, but these are mine. I want you to
16:46
Speaker 5: get used to them.
16:55
Speaker 6: Nothing? Why? You seem to be smiling all over tonight.
16:58
Speaker 2: Oh, go away.
16:59
Speaker 6: Merry Christmas! Good heavens, aren't you in bed yet?
17:03
Speaker 7: Believe it or not, I was on the top deck
17:05
Speaker 7: with Kansas singing Christmas carols. Can I bunk in here, Davy? Oh,
17:09
Speaker 7: did you have another row with Olivia? No, but she's scary.
17:12
Speaker 7: She just lies there and stares and never goes to sleep.
17:15
Speaker 7: It's like sleeping in a graveyard. Okay, you take my bed.
17:18
Speaker 7: I'll try it for tonight anyway.
17:19
Speaker 6: Thanks, pal. Tell me, has she ever opened up? Ever
17:23
Speaker 6: given you a hint of what's wrong?
17:24
Speaker 7: There's nothing wrong. She's just naturally a frozen-faced ghoul.
17:28
Speaker 2: Oh.
17:29
Speaker 6: Well, good night, kids. Night, Davy. Are you asleep, Olivia?
17:39
Speaker 2: No.
17:41
Speaker 6: Mind if I turn on the light?
17:43
Speaker 12: No.
17:44
Speaker 6: Is it all right if I bunk in here?
17:46
Speaker 13: Yes.
17:47
Speaker 9: Oh, what's the matter, Olivia? Something's hurt you. Why don't
17:51
Speaker 9: you talk about it? Come on, get it off your chest.
17:55
Speaker 9: You can forget I'm your superior officer.
17:57
Speaker 6: It's none of your business, so don't forget you are
17:59
Speaker 6: my superior officer. Well, maybe if I knew what was
18:02
Speaker 6: eating you, I could help.
18:03
Speaker 9: Nobody can. I don't want anybody to try. I can
18:07
Speaker 9: do it myself. Oh, this is the locket, isn't it? Now,
18:11
Speaker 9: why did you lose your temper when Joan... Put that down!
18:14
Speaker 9: Do I go through your things? Oh, I don't think
18:16
Speaker 9: we'd better talk anymore. I'm beginning to get pretty sore.
18:19
Speaker 9: All right, so you're beginning to get sore. Enjoy it,
18:23
Speaker 9: but stop prying into things that don't concern you. Maybe
18:26
Speaker 9: it does concern me. It concerns me that the morale
18:28
Speaker 9: of this group remains high, and until.
18:30
Speaker 6: You joined up, it was. You're just a troublemaker.
18:35
Speaker 9: I don't really care what's bothering you at all.
18:38
Speaker 6: I don't like you any more than the rest of.
18:39
Speaker 2: The girls do.
18:40
Speaker 9: I'm supposed to be a nurse, and that's all. Oh, no,
18:42
Speaker 9: there's much more than that now that we're at war.
18:45
Speaker 9: Maybe you don't know what's up. Maybe you don't know
18:47
Speaker 9: what we're doing here.
18:49
Speaker 6: You think I don't know? All right, I'll tell you.
18:53
Speaker 6: I know what I'm doing. I know why I'm here.
18:56
Speaker 6: I know what I'm going to do.
18:58
Speaker 11: I'm going to kill Japs, every blood-stained one I can
19:01
Speaker 11: get my hands on. Olivia, that doesn't sound nice coming
19:05
Speaker 11: from a nurse, does it? We're supposed to be angels
19:08
Speaker 11: of mercy. We're supposed to tend to the wounded and
19:10
Speaker 11: take care of the sick. We're supposed to be kind
19:13
Speaker 11: and tender and serve humanity in.
19:14
Speaker 6: The name of humanity. What humanity? Jap humanity? Olivia, be quiet.
19:20
Speaker 11: No, you asked me. You wanted to know. You pried
19:22
Speaker 11: into things that didn't concern you. You wanted to know
19:25
Speaker 11: what this locket is.
19:27
Speaker 6: Well, look. It's a picture. It's a picture of a boy.
19:31
Speaker 11: Today is Christmas, isn't it? The time for cheer and
19:36
Speaker 11: good fellowship and for peace. Well, today's my wedding day.
19:39
Speaker 11: He and I were to be married today in St.
19:42
Speaker 2: Louis.
19:43
Speaker 6: And why weren't we? Because he's dead.
19:46
Speaker 10: He died that first morning.
19:48
Speaker 6: They killed him.
19:50
Speaker 2: I saw him.
19:51
Speaker 6: He was running across the field. It was plain, and
19:53
Speaker 6: they killed him. Sixty bullets, and by the time I
19:57
Speaker 6: got to him, he was dead. His face was gone.
20:00
Speaker 6: I couldn't see him anymore. Just blood.
20:03
Speaker 2: Blood all over.
20:04
Speaker 6: Olivia, don't, dear.
20:06
Speaker 2: Don't. Let me go.
20:07
Speaker 11: They must be punished and I'm going to punish them.
20:11
Speaker 2: Yes, dear.
20:12
Speaker 6: He was dead. It was ended for him.
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Speaker 9: Olivia, darling.
20:16
Speaker 2: I wanted him.
20:18
Speaker 6: He was all I had.
20:19
Speaker 10: Yes, dear, I knew.
20:21
Speaker 6: I loved him so much.
20:23
Speaker 7: We were pretty anxious to get off that boat. But
20:31
Speaker 7: we still didn't know where we were going. One night
20:34
Speaker 7: up on deck, Davy met John Summers. It was a
20:36
Speaker 7: quiet night, and all over the boat you could feel
20:38
Speaker 7: the throbbing of the engines.
20:42
Speaker 5: Hello.
20:43
Speaker 6: Oh, hello.
20:44
Speaker 5: Have you been trying to avoid me?
20:46
Speaker 6: Frankly, I have. Why?
20:47
Speaker 2: Oh, because.
20:49
Speaker 6: Because I've been trying to avoid you.
20:52
Speaker 5: Oh. Well, now, look, I don't want to seem impetuous.
20:55
Speaker 2: You don't?
20:55
Speaker 5: All right, I do want to seem impetuous, then. But
20:58
Speaker 5: the point is, anything can happen.
21:00
Speaker 6: Such as?
21:00
Speaker 5: Well, the boat might sink.
21:02
Speaker 6: Oh, it might.
21:03
Speaker 5: And if it does, we might never see each other again.
21:05
Speaker 6: That's possible.
21:06
Speaker 5: Unless it's someplace in the hereafter.
21:09
Speaker 6: Well, I'll see you there sometime. Good night.
21:11
Speaker 5: No, no, wait a minute. I haven't made my point yet.
21:14
Speaker 5: After all, I'm not such a bad guy. I'm supposed
21:16
Speaker 5: to be very intelligent, in fact. I work hard. I
21:19
Speaker 5: make $ 5, 000 a year. No, no, you make $ 166 a
21:20
Speaker 5: month now.
21:20
Speaker 6: Please, I mean this. I'm in love with you, Lieutenant. Lieutenant?
21:29
Speaker 5: If only we'd met somewhere else before, you'd have had
21:31
Speaker 5: a wonderful time as I wooed you.
21:32
Speaker 2: You think so?
21:33
Speaker 5: I'm positive. I'd have been really foolish. I would have
21:36
Speaker 5: spent sleepless nights and bought flowers to lay at your feet.
21:39
Speaker 5: I'd have been very careful with you in taxi cabs, knowing,
21:42
Speaker 5: of course, that you're not that kind of a girl.
21:43
Speaker 5: But first, I think my dog-like devotion would have made
21:47
Speaker 5: you pity me a little. And then my fatal charm
21:49
Speaker 5: would have snuck up on you, and before you knew it,
21:51
Speaker 5: you'd be mine. In some dingy little French restaurant where
21:54
Speaker 5: the wine wasn't too bad. But with all that's happening...
21:58
Speaker 5: I don't have to be ridiculous for you to love me.
22:00
Speaker 5: There's no time. Out there, this second, a torpedo might
22:03
Speaker 5: be spinning toward us. And you've no time either. We
22:06
Speaker 5: haven't got a second to waste.
22:07
Speaker 6: You're right. There's no time. No time for anything personal.
22:13
Speaker 6: But thanks for everything you said.
22:15
Speaker 5: Janet.
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Speaker 9: No, no, please, John, don't make it difficult. I've been
22:19
Speaker 9: trying to avoid you. That ought to tell you something.
22:22
Speaker 6: I can't love you. I won't permit myself to.
22:24
Speaker 2: Well, why not?
22:25
Speaker 6: Because I've got a job to do.
22:26
Speaker 2: Well, what's that got to do with it? We've all
22:27
Speaker 2: got jobs to do.
22:28
Speaker 9: I know, but our responsibilities are greater now. Nothing can
22:31
Speaker 9: stand in the way. I wish we had met somewhere
22:35
Speaker 9: in a dingy little French restaurant.
22:38
Speaker 6: But maybe we will.
22:39
Speaker 2: Later.
22:41
Speaker 7: Good night.
22:41
Speaker 5: Let me kiss you goodbye, then.
22:43
Speaker 2: No. Just once.
22:45
Speaker 6: All right.
22:48
Speaker 5: Oh, Janet.
22:49
Speaker 2: Janet.
22:51
Speaker 6: John, listen.
22:52
Speaker 5: What's the matter?
22:53
Speaker 6: The engines have stopped.
22:54
Speaker 2: Your life preserver. Where's your life preserver?
22:55
Speaker 6: I left it down in the cabin.
22:56
Speaker 5: Here, take mine.
22:57
Speaker 2: No, I won't. Take it.
22:58
Speaker 5: Darling, before anything happens, do you love me?
23:00
Speaker 6: No.
23:00
Speaker 5: You're lying. You do love me.
23:02
Speaker 2: Yes. Well, say it then.
23:04
Speaker 6: I love you.
23:04
Speaker 2: Better get down to your station, Summers.
23:06
Speaker 5: What do the engines stop for, sir?
23:07
Speaker 2: Run up to the captain. I'm sure he'll be delighted
23:09
Speaker 2: to tell you over a Scotch and soda.
23:11
Speaker 6: There's a plane up there. I can hear it.
23:13
Speaker 5: Is it one of ours, I wonder?
23:14
Speaker 2: Sounds like it.
23:15
Speaker 9: Listen.
23:16
Speaker 2: Yes, it is one of ours. It's a PBY. Then
23:18
Speaker 2: we can't be far away from land.
23:20
Speaker 12: Land.
23:22
Speaker 5: That'll be a relief. I wonder where we'll make port.
23:25
Speaker 6: I heard this afternoon. Oh, I don't know what the
23:27
Speaker 6: name of the place is exactly, but I heard the name.
23:30
Speaker 2: Any port in a storm, where is it?
23:31
Speaker 6: It was a place called... Oh, what was it?
23:34
Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Batan. In a few moments, Mr.
23:48
Speaker 3: DeMille and our stars Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake,
23:52
Speaker 3: Sonny Tufts, and Lest Remain will return in So Proudly
23:56
Speaker 3: We Hail. These are days when thousands of American women
24:00
Speaker 3: serving on the home front are cheerfully working harder and
24:03
Speaker 3: longer than they ever thought they could.
24:05
Speaker 2: Many as factory workers.
24:07
Speaker 10: Sorry, Mary, I just can't make it Sunday. We're working
24:09
Speaker 10: all day, a rush shipment to get out.
24:11
Speaker 2: Many housewives devoting their evenings.
24:13
Speaker 6: Phew, I'm tired.
24:15
Speaker 9: But I promised I'd be at the home nursing course tonight,
24:18
Speaker 9: and I wouldn't renege for anything.
24:20
Speaker 3: Not much time in their crowded days for elaborate beauty care.
24:23
Speaker 3: But busy as they are, these women consider it mighty
24:26
Speaker 3: important to keep on looking their prettiest.
24:28
Speaker 2: One reason being... Oh, goodness.
24:31
Speaker 10: I wouldn't dream of neglecting my looks just because Bill's away.
24:34
Speaker 6: He wouldn't like that.
24:35
Speaker 3: So these women with little time to spare are more
24:38
Speaker 3: than ever glad of Luxe Toilet Soap, the gentle complexion
24:41
Speaker 3: soap that makes their daily beauty care so easy and
24:44
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24:48
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24:52
Speaker 3: and dirt. Their daily active lather facials is the same
24:55
Speaker 3: that famous screen stars take, like this.
24:58
Speaker 10: Smooth the creamy luck soap lather well in. Lots and
25:02
Speaker 10: lots of it. You can just feel your skin taking
25:05
Speaker 10: on new freshness. Then rinse with warm water, splash with cold,
25:10
Speaker 10: and pat dry with a towel. Use this care every
25:13
Speaker 10: day and see if it doesn't make your complexion lovelier.
25:17
Speaker 3: Yes, pretty women all over the country say that daily
25:19
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25:24
Speaker 3: this care can help skin to be softer and smoother.
25:27
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25:34
Speaker 3: ask for it again next time you shop. Remember, Lux
25:37
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25:41
Speaker 3: station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
26:05
Speaker 4: Act II of So Proudly We Hail, starring Claudette Colbert
26:08
Speaker 4: as Davy, Paulette Goddard as Joan, and Veronica Lake as Olivia,
26:12
Speaker 4: with Sonny Tufts as Kansas, and Les Tremaine as John.
26:20
Speaker 7: We landed the next day at Mariveles on Bataan Peninsula,
26:24
Speaker 7: about 40 miles from the front line.
26:26
Speaker 6: That's where Kansas was heading for when I met him
26:28
Speaker 6: out on the road.
26:30
Speaker 7: Hiya.
26:31
Speaker 6: Hello, Kansas.
26:32
Speaker 2: Gosh, I've been looking all over for you. Just wanted
26:34
Speaker 2: to say so long.
26:36
Speaker 6: Oh, well, I'll be seeing you. Kansas, are you scared too?
26:40
Speaker 2: You mean you feel as if you suddenly lost your belly?
26:44
Speaker 6: Yeah.
26:45
Speaker 2: Well, me too, but I guess we'll get over it.
26:47
Speaker 6: I hope so. Well, so long, Kansas, and don't get lost.
26:52
Speaker 2: Who, me? I never get lost.
26:54
Speaker 12: So long.
26:55
Speaker 7: Hey, wait.
26:57
Speaker 2: Huh?
26:57
Speaker 6: Your gang went in the other direction.
26:59
Speaker 2: Oh. Thanks.
27:01
Speaker 6: Don't let anything happen to you, Kansas.
27:03
Speaker 2: Who, me? Nothing ever happens to me.
27:05
Speaker 6: Hey.
27:11
Speaker 2: Fell over my duffel bag.
27:12
Speaker 6: Yes, you did. Goodbye, Kansas.
27:14
Speaker 2: So long.
27:22
Speaker 7: We arrived at Lamar that night. It was a dusty
27:25
Speaker 7: little village just behind the front lines. We were hoping
27:27
Speaker 7: to get a couple of hours' sleep, but Ma McGregor
27:30
Speaker 7: fixed that.
27:30
Speaker 6: She was our commanding officer.
27:32
Speaker 14: So, you finally got here. Well, my name is McGregor,
27:35
Speaker 14: and my bite is worse than my bark. Now, you
27:37
Speaker 14: better all dive into your whites, and I'll get you
27:39
Speaker 14: some GI tomorrow. You can't wear whites here.
27:42
Speaker 2: The nearest laundry's in Manila.
27:44
Speaker 6: We need you right away. Some of our girls have
27:46
Speaker 6: forgotten what the word sleep means. Gee, show them to
27:49
Speaker 6: nurse's quarters. Now, get a move on. I'm glad you're here.
27:53
Speaker 7: Thank you.
27:54
Speaker 2: Thank you.
27:56
Speaker 6: Captain McGregor?
27:57
Speaker 2: Yes?
27:57
Speaker 11: I'm Olivia Darcy. Do you have any Japanese wounded here?
28:01
Speaker 2: A few. Why?
28:03
Speaker 6: I'd like to handle them. Oh, do you know the language? No,
28:06
Speaker 6: but I'm anxious to learn. Well, I guess you can
28:08
Speaker 6: be accommodated.
28:09
Speaker 2: I'll put you down for Ward 11.
28:11
Speaker 6: Thank you, Captain. Here's your list, Lieutenant Davidson. You've been
28:18
Speaker 6: assigned to surgery.
28:19
Speaker 2: Thanks.
28:20
Speaker 15: O'Doulton, the children's ward, and Emerson's in surgery with you.
28:23
Speaker 15: Darcy's in with the Japanese wounded and... Darcy with the
28:25
Speaker 15: Japanese wounded?
28:26
Speaker 2: Oh, no!
28:27
Speaker 6: Well, she requested it. Oh, but you mustn't. We've got
28:29
Speaker 6: to get her out.
28:35
Speaker 2: Olivia!
28:35
Speaker 6: Olivia, where are you? Olivia, look at me. It's all right.
28:40
Speaker 11: I couldn't do it. I didn't have the guts, I suppose.
28:44
Speaker 11: I couldn't kill even a wounded rat.
28:46
Speaker 9: Will somebody tell me what this is all about? Oh,
28:49
Speaker 9: there's no reason to worry, Captain McGregor. I was just
28:52
Speaker 9: a little silly. Well, don't you think it'd be better
28:53
Speaker 9: if I took over here?
28:54
Speaker 6: No, not at all. There's nothing wrong here. Is there, Olivia?
28:59
Speaker 2: No.
29:00
Speaker 6: You see, Captain, she'll be all right.
29:02
Speaker 7: I know she will. Day after day, the wounded kept
29:13
Speaker 7: pouring in. After a while, there weren't any beds. There
29:16
Speaker 7: was no morphine, and still they kept coming. John Summers
29:20
Speaker 7: had been up in the front line, and then one
29:22
Speaker 7: evening he drove in with a truckload of wounded. When
29:24
Speaker 7: Davy went off duty for an hour, she met him down.
29:26
Speaker 2: By the river.
29:31
Speaker 6: This is the place.
29:32
Speaker 9: The Bataan River. Every time I get off, I come
29:36
Speaker 9: here and pretend that.
29:37
Speaker 2: You're with me.
29:38
Speaker 5: You wouldn't even know there's a war going on.
29:39
Speaker 2: Here.
29:40
Speaker 6: That was the idea. Darling, was it terrible up there?
29:44
Speaker 5: Well, it wasn't pretty. We're outnumbered. Sometimes the Jap losses
29:49
Speaker 5: are 300 to 1 and still they keep coming. Those
29:51
Speaker 5: Filipino scouts and our poor guys sleeping on their rifles
29:54
Speaker 5: and machine guns. They're the bravest men I've ever even
29:57
Speaker 5: heard of.
29:58
Speaker 6: They must be.
29:59
Speaker 5: They don't give quarter and they don't ask for any.
30:02
Speaker 5: I can't figure it out, Jenny.
30:03
Speaker 6: Figure what?
30:04
Speaker 5: Why they do it. There's something other than just fighting
30:07
Speaker 5: against the Japs. These fellows aren't a bit afraid to die.
30:10
Speaker 6: That's our air raid signal. Come on. There's a trench
30:14
Speaker 6: over there.
30:14
Speaker 5: You know, this is the only nice thing the Japs
30:21
Speaker 5: have done so far in this war.
30:22
Speaker 6: What?
30:23
Speaker 5: Giving us a place to hide out. An air raid,
30:25
Speaker 5: a foxhole, and you.
30:26
Speaker 6: Oh, it sounds like a song. Look at that sign.
30:29
Speaker 2: This foxhole approved by good housekeeping.
30:32
Speaker 6: You see, we have nothing but the best.
30:34
Speaker 5: You know, sometimes I thought you might forget me.
30:38
Speaker 6: I tried to.
30:39
Speaker 2: You did?
30:40
Speaker 5: What for?
30:41
Speaker 6: Because you troubled me so much.
30:43
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
30:44
Speaker 6: Everything that happens, everything I do, you're part of. I
30:48
Speaker 6: can't get you out of my mind.
30:49
Speaker 2: Don't try.
30:50
Speaker 6: No, I'm not going to anymore.
30:54
Speaker 5: What are you looking at me like that for?
30:56
Speaker 9: I want to remember exactly how you look. You know,
30:59
Speaker 9: sometimes I couldn't even remember the color of your eyes.
31:03
Speaker 9: Your whole face was hazy.
31:05
Speaker 5: That's when I look my best. I'm glad I had
31:08
Speaker 5: you to think about up there.
31:10
Speaker 6: John, I hate to think of you going back.
31:12
Speaker 5: Well, then don't.
31:12
Speaker 6: I have a feeling that if you do go back,
31:14
Speaker 6: I'll never.
31:14
Speaker 2: See you again. Now, don't worry.
31:16
Speaker 5: I'll take care of myself. Promise you won't worry. I promise.
31:20
Speaker 5: But I'll worry.
31:20
Speaker 6: Oh, there goes the all-clear. Well, I guess the honeymoon's over.
31:26
Speaker 5: Goodbye, darling.
31:28
Speaker 2: Goodbye, John.
31:36
Speaker 7: The pressure on the front line was too strong, and
31:38
Speaker 7: we finally got orders to evacuate. All over the town,
31:42
Speaker 7: the demolition squad was blowing up buildings. We were the
31:46
Speaker 7: last to get out. At least we thought we were
31:48
Speaker 7: getting out. But when we started to pile into the car.
31:53
Speaker 9: Get down!
31:55
Speaker 6: Get out of the car, everybody! Get back in the surgery!
31:57
Speaker 2: Hurry!
31:58
Speaker 7: It was a Jap patrol that had infiltrated through. We
32:02
Speaker 7: had two machine gunners with us, but they were both killed.
32:05
Speaker 6: We were alone in the village. Six girls.
32:08
Speaker 2: What are we going to do?
32:10
Speaker 6: Get down on the floor. Close that door and put
32:11
Speaker 6: the light out. Now quiet, do you hear?
32:15
Speaker 12: Davey.
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Speaker 4: We're alone.
32:17
Speaker 6: There's no one left here but us. We'll get out somehow.
32:20
Speaker 6: Do you think they'll miss us? Do you think they'll
32:22
Speaker 6: send someone back for us?
32:23
Speaker 2: Of course they will.
32:24
Speaker 6: What are we going to do? I know what I'm
32:25
Speaker 6: going to do. If somebody doesn't come, we'd better all
32:28
Speaker 6: kill ourselves. But why? Somebody's coming. Davy said somebody's coming.
32:32
Speaker 6: I was in Nanking. I saw what happened to the
32:34
Speaker 6: women there. When the Red Cross protested, the Japanese called
32:37
Speaker 6: it the privilege of serving His Imperial Majesty's troops.
32:41
Speaker 7: It's an honor.
32:42
Speaker 6: An honor you die for. Stop that nonsense. Do you
32:44
Speaker 6: hear me?
32:44
Speaker 2: Look. Look, here's a grenade.
32:46
Speaker 6: Maybe we can get them if we... Here, give me that.
32:48
Speaker 11: If we threw a grenade and missed it, it would
32:50
Speaker 11: mean sure death for all of us. We might kill one...
32:53
Speaker 11: Stop talking about killing. Now listen to me. I want
32:57
Speaker 11: you all to stay here. I'm going out and start
33:00
Speaker 11: that truck. As soon as you hear the motor running,
33:02
Speaker 11: make a dash for it. It's our only chance.
33:04
Speaker 6: Don't go, Davy. Don't go. Shh, be quiet. Davy, wait.
33:09
Speaker 6: Come here a minute. What is it, Libby? Listen, if
33:13
Speaker 6: one of us went... I mean, if one of us
33:17
Speaker 6: gave herself up... Don't be crazy.
33:20
Speaker 11: Listen, I've got a grenade. If I walk toward them
33:24
Speaker 11: with my hands up, It's only a patrol. I could
33:26
Speaker 11: wipe them out.
33:27
Speaker 6: Give me that grenade.
33:29
Speaker 2: Goodbye, Davy.
33:30
Speaker 6: Give it to me, Libby. It's one or all of us.
33:33
Speaker 6: Thanks for everything, Davy. Libby, come back. Davy, where's she going?
33:38
Speaker 6: What's she going to do? Get away from the window.
33:42
Speaker 6: She's walking up the road. She's got her hands up.
33:47
Speaker 6: There's the chat patrol. They're coming toward her. I'll help
33:50
Speaker 6: them up. I can't see it. They've surrounded it. Oh, Libby!
33:53
Speaker 2: Libby! When we reached Olivia, she was dead. But so
33:58
Speaker 2: were the Japs.
34:09
Speaker 7: Our new base was right in the middle of the jungle.
34:12
Speaker 7: We had more than wounded now. The men were coming
34:14
Speaker 7: down with malaria and dysentery. Some of us got malaria, too.
34:19
Speaker 6: Fevers of 104.
34:19
Speaker 7: There wasn't any coddling. The soldiers were the patients.
34:24
Speaker 2: Hi, Lieutenant.
34:30
Speaker 6: Kansas, why, you big tramp.
34:33
Speaker 2: You always say what I expect.
34:34
Speaker 6: Well, isn't that nice? Say, what are you doing here, anyway?
34:38
Speaker 2: I got some letters for you.
34:39
Speaker 6: Oh, thanks, pal. Hey, they're open.
34:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I guess them censors must have run out
34:45
Speaker 2: of glue.
34:46
Speaker 6: Kansas, have you been reading my mail?
34:49
Speaker 2: Well, I had to read myself to sleep, didn't I?
34:52
Speaker 2: You don't want to deprive him of sleep, do you? Anyway,
34:55
Speaker 2: I didn't read all of them Very dull, most of them,
34:58
Speaker 2: very dull Oh.
34:59
Speaker 6: Well, I'm terribly sorry Except this Dr.
35:04
Speaker 2: O'Leary He's rather a cute guy, ain't he?
35:06
Speaker 6: Is he?
35:07
Speaker 2: He writes with that real literary style What's he to you?
35:11
Speaker 7: Well, since you read them, dear, you ought to know Yeah,
35:15
Speaker 7: and I don't like them Oh, well, that's too bad Hey.
35:17
Speaker 2: I got some news. There's a big convoy on the way. What? Yeah,
35:20
Speaker 2: supplies and reinforcements. Ought to be here tomorrow.
35:22
Speaker 6: Hey, kids! There's a convoy coming!
35:28
Speaker 2: A convoy!
35:33
Speaker 6: Yes, Colonel White?
35:35
Speaker 2: Oh, come in, Davidson.
35:37
Speaker 12: We're sending McGregor to Corregidor. So I want you and
35:40
Speaker 12: your staff to report to Baggio in the morning and
35:43
Speaker 12: take over in her place.
35:44
Speaker 6: Yes, sir. Do you know if there are any nurses
35:46
Speaker 6: coming on the convoy?
35:47
Speaker 2: What convoy?
35:49
Speaker 6: What convoy? The one we've been celebrating all day.
35:53
Speaker 2: There isn't any convoy. It's been sunk.
35:56
Speaker 11: Oh, no.
35:57
Speaker 12: They're trying to get others through to us, but only
35:59
Speaker 12: a few small vessels have succeeded. Not enough to mean much.
36:04
Speaker 6: Is it as bad as all that?
36:06
Speaker 2: Yes. General MacArthur left tonight.
36:09
Speaker 6: Left Batten?
36:10
Speaker 2: He was ordered off. He's gone to Australia.
36:13
Speaker 6: But why?
36:14
Speaker 2: Because he's needed more there than he is here, I guess.
36:18
Speaker 2: He didn't want to go.
36:20
Speaker 6: Well, I'd better tell the others.
36:22
Speaker 12: No, don't do anything about it. Good evening of relaxation
36:26
Speaker 12: might help. What they don't know won't hurt them.
36:29
Speaker 6: No, I suppose not.
36:30
Speaker 2: Good night, Janet.
36:32
Speaker 6: Good night, sir.
36:39
Speaker 7: In a week or so, we got the worst of
36:40
Speaker 7: the news. The whole front line had collapsed. We were
36:46
Speaker 7: under fire for days. Rosemary Larson. Rosemary was killed when
36:51
Speaker 7: they bombed the hospital. Davy's hands were burned down to
36:53
Speaker 7: the bone trying to get her out.
36:55
Speaker 6: And still the wounded came. And this time, one of
36:58
Speaker 6: them was John Summers.
37:02
Speaker 2: See?
37:03
Speaker 6: Baby John Summers just came in. He's been wounded. What
37:05
Speaker 6: is it? It's a leg wound. They're taking him to
37:06
Speaker 6: surgery now to remove the fragment. There isn't time. We've
37:09
Speaker 6: been ordered off. We're going to Corregidor. When? Right now.
37:12
Speaker 6: Get him into a truck. I have to report to
37:13
Speaker 6: the colonel, but I'll be right back. I've got everyone, sir.
37:22
Speaker 6: We're ready to leave.
37:23
Speaker 2: Good. Goodbye, Janet.
37:24
Speaker 6: Aren't you coming? No, I'm not. Oh, but your orders.
37:27
Speaker 2: New orders have just come through.
37:29
Speaker 6: Have we surrendered?
37:30
Speaker 2: We'll surrender at nine in the morning. Oh, no, no.
37:32
Speaker 2: Go on now, quick. Yes, sir. Janet, wait. You've got
37:35
Speaker 2: to do one thing for me. See to it that
37:37
Speaker 2: the girls get through to the rock.
37:39
Speaker 6: Yes, sir. We'll get through.
37:40
Speaker 2: So long. Good luck, sir.
37:49
Speaker 6: We made Mariveles that night.
37:51
Speaker 7: All we had were a lot of small boats to
37:53
Speaker 7: take us over to Corregidor, but Davy wouldn't come yet.
37:56
Speaker 6: The doctor was going to operate on John. She found
37:58
Speaker 6: him in a tunnel near the dock. Doctor! Doctor, is
38:05
Speaker 6: John Summers here?
38:06
Speaker 12: Yes.
38:07
Speaker 5: Can you assist me, nurse?
38:08
Speaker 6: No, my hands. They've been burned.
38:11
Speaker 2: Oh. Oh, all right.
38:12
Speaker 5: I think I can do it alone.
38:14
Speaker 2: Come over here. Janet. Oh, John.
38:16
Speaker 5: Darling. Hey, where are the others... You better go with us.
38:20
Speaker 6: No, no, there's plenty of time.
38:22
Speaker 2: All right, I'm ready. We'll have to go in for
38:24
Speaker 2: that bomb fragment somewhere, sir. It may become infected.
38:27
Speaker 5: That's not likely. It's probably a piece of good American steel.
38:31
Speaker 2: Here we go. Sorry, we have no anesthetic.
38:33
Speaker 5: Oh, that's okay. Give me your hand, Janet.
38:37
Speaker 2: Is it out of order if we hold hands, doctor? Well,
38:40
Speaker 2: her hands are.
38:41
Speaker 6: No, no, it's all right, doctor.
38:42
Speaker 2: Huh? Oh, very well.
38:44
Speaker 5: Well, let's get it over.
38:45
Speaker 6: Now. It's all right, darling. Hold my hand. Now hold tight. Tighter.
38:51
Speaker 2: I think I've located it. I'll have another try now.
38:54
Speaker 2: This may hurt even more.
38:56
Speaker 5: Sounds like a dentist.
38:58
Speaker 2: Janet.
38:58
Speaker 6: Hold tighter, darling. Tighter.
39:01
Speaker 2: Hang on, Lieutenant. Try to think of something else. Here
39:03
Speaker 2: I am. Ham and eggs. Hotcakes. White bread. Coffee. Here
39:08
Speaker 2: it comes now. Hold on.
39:12
Speaker 6: John. It's all right, doctor. You can go right ahead now.
39:18
Speaker 6: He's fainted.
39:32
Speaker 2: And in just a few moments, Mr.
39:34
Speaker 3: DeMille presents Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts,
39:38
Speaker 3: and Lest Remain in the third act of So Proudly
39:41
Speaker 3: We Hail.
39:43
Speaker 2: Evening, Mr.
39:43
Speaker 6: Kennedy. Who do you think I just met?
39:45
Speaker 2: A lovely screen star, I guess, Libby.
39:47
Speaker 6: And you'd be right. It was Mrs. Thomas Wallace.
39:50
Speaker 2: Mrs. Wallace?
39:51
Speaker 6: Carol Landis to you, Mr. Kennedy.
39:53
Speaker 2: Oh.
39:53
Speaker 13: Remember, she was married recently in London to an American
39:56
Speaker 13: Army pilot. I talked to her at 20th Century Fox
39:58
Speaker 13: Studio where she's making four jills and a jeep.
40:00
Speaker 2: Oh, of course.
40:02
Speaker 3: Say, Libby, wasn't Carol the girl who got right up
40:03
Speaker 3: close to the sound of guns when she was making
40:05
Speaker 3: that tour of army camps in North Africa?
40:08
Speaker 6: Uncomfortably close, Mr. Kennedy.
40:10
Speaker 13: She actually had to crawl into a foxhole for shelter
40:12
Speaker 13: one night during a bombing raid. And do you know
40:15
Speaker 13: what she told me her first thought was when the
40:17
Speaker 13: bombs began to fall?
40:18
Speaker 2: Tell us, Libby.
40:19
Speaker 6: Well, only a woman would have thought of it, Mr. Kennedy.
40:22
Speaker 13: There goes my last pair of nylons, she said to herself.
40:26
Speaker 13: But seriously, Carol said she was impressed over and over
40:29
Speaker 13: again with the importance of looking lovely on that tour
40:31
Speaker 13: of the camps. It meant so much to the boys
40:34
Speaker 13: to see a pretty, well-groomed woman. She's come back convinced
40:37
Speaker 13: that no girl should think of letting down on beauty
40:39
Speaker 13: care these days.
40:40
Speaker 3: Well, Libby, certainly Carol's complexion care is a quick, easy
40:43
Speaker 3: one that works.
40:45
Speaker 2: Carol's a luxe girl, you know.
40:46
Speaker 6: She certainly is, Mr. Kennedy.
40:48
Speaker 13: She says a woman is foolish not to give her
40:50
Speaker 13: skin gentle, protecting care. I always use luxe toilet soap.
40:54
Speaker 13: It's a real beauty soap. Carol depends on her daily
40:58
Speaker 13: act of lather facials.
40:59
Speaker 3: As many other busy and famous stars do, Libby. There's
41:02
Speaker 3: something about the creamy lather of luxe toilet soap that
41:05
Speaker 3: makes it the choice of lovely women everywhere. And here's
41:09
Speaker 3: a thrift tip about Hollywood's beauty soap. Luxe toilet soap
41:12
Speaker 3: is hard-milled. You can use each satin smooth cake down
41:16
Speaker 3: to the thinnest sliver. That means a lot right now
41:19
Speaker 3: when it's patriotic not to waste soap. Moisten that last
41:22
Speaker 3: little sliver and press it against a new cake. And remember,
41:26
Speaker 3: Luxe toilet soap will last even longer if you always
41:29
Speaker 3: put it in a soap dish that's dry. Why not
41:32
Speaker 3: get some of the fine white soap nine out of
41:34
Speaker 3: ten screen stars use tomorrow?
41:37
Speaker 2: Now, Mr. DeMille returns to the microphone.
41:40
Speaker 4: Our stars had quite a hectic experience at Paramount while working,
41:43
Speaker 4: and so proudly we hail. We'll ask them to tell
41:46
Speaker 4: you about it after the play. Now here's the third act.
41:49
Speaker 4: Starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, and Veronica Lake, with Sonny
41:53
Speaker 4: Tufts and Les Tremaine. On the deck of a hospital ship,
42:05
Speaker 4: homeward bound from Australia... Nurse Joan O'Doul continues the story
42:10
Speaker 4: of the escape to Corregidor.
42:13
Speaker 2: The ship's doctor listens attentively.
42:15
Speaker 4: Joan has paused for a moment, remembering the horror of Bataan.
42:20
Speaker 5: Well, did Lieutenant Davidson get John Summers off Bataan?
42:23
Speaker 6: Oh, yes, she did, Major. We rode across the darkness
42:27
Speaker 6: to Corregidor. Corregidor spelled safety for us.
42:30
Speaker 7: They called it the Gibraltar of the Pacific, and we
42:33
Speaker 7: lived most of the time deep in the tunnels under
42:35
Speaker 7: the rock. But the Japs plastered us day and night.
42:39
Speaker 7: The noise almost split our eardrums. Once in a while,
42:43
Speaker 7: we got out of the tunnel for a breath of air.
42:47
Speaker 6: What, no dive bonus today? Oh, well, it's not time.
42:50
Speaker 6: They're still out to lunch. There's no quinine left. No quinine?
42:55
Speaker 6: What are we going to do? Nurse, what do you
42:57
Speaker 6: think we're going to do? Well, they can't take us off.
42:59
Speaker 6: Why are we here anyway?
43:01
Speaker 2: Oh, why? Why?
43:03
Speaker 6: Why isn't there any quinine? Why isn't there any food?
43:05
Speaker 6: Why aren't there any supplies?
43:07
Speaker 9: Why are we here like rats in a cage waiting
43:09
Speaker 9: for the man to come and pour scalding water over us?
43:12
Speaker 6: Why was nothing done? Why? Oh, take it easy, Davy.
43:15
Speaker 6: I'll tell you why. It's our own fault.
43:17
Speaker 2: Our fault?
43:18
Speaker 6: What did we do? Because we believed we were the world.
43:21
Speaker 9: That the United States of America was the whole world.
43:25
Speaker 9: Those outlandish places. Bataan, Corregidor, Mindanao. Those aren't American names.
43:31
Speaker 2: No.
43:32
Speaker 6: They're just American graveyards. Well, why don't they get us off?
43:35
Speaker 9: They can't get us off. We've become what they call
43:38
Speaker 9: a delaying action. That's what those 50,000 men on Bataan were.
43:42
Speaker 9: They were merely saving time.
43:45
Speaker 6: I only hope to God the people back home aren't
43:47
Speaker 6: losing it for us. Well, here they come again.
43:50
Speaker 2: Henry, take shelter.
43:51
Speaker 6: Yes, they're always on time anyway.
43:54
Speaker 9: Come on, in the tunnel, kid.
44:04
Speaker 6: Do the best you can, Davy.
44:05
Speaker 14: Quinine or no quinine, we've got to keep their feeders down.
44:08
Speaker 6: We're doing everything we know, Mom. I'm sure you are. John,
44:13
Speaker 6: what do you want? We discharged you a week ago.
44:15
Speaker 5: Well, I thought you knew I was your permanent patient.
44:18
Speaker 2: What is it, darling?
44:19
Speaker 5: I just wanted to say goodbye for a few days.
44:21
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
44:22
Speaker 5: Well, we sort of made up a little party and
44:24
Speaker 5: we're going down around Mindanao to see if we can
44:26
Speaker 5: find some quinine.
44:27
Speaker 6: You can't go.
44:28
Speaker 2: Why not?
44:29
Speaker 6: Your leg, you're still too weak.
44:31
Speaker 5: I'm no weaker than the rest.
44:32
Speaker 6: John, you're not well yet.
44:34
Speaker 5: We'll all be a lot worse if we don't get
44:35
Speaker 5: some supplies.
44:37
Speaker 6: When do you have to go?
44:39
Speaker 5: We leave at five in the morning. That's nine long
44:41
Speaker 5: hours from now.
44:43
Speaker 6: Nine hours.
44:45
Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
44:46
Speaker 6: Oh, Ma?
44:48
Speaker 11: Yes?
44:49
Speaker 9: Ma, I want you to know I'm going to break
44:51
Speaker 9: a regulation. Oh, is that something new with you? No,
44:55
Speaker 9: but I'm really going to smash one this time. I'm
44:58
Speaker 9: going to get married.
45:03
Speaker 7: The chaplain married them an hour later. Mama Gregor gave
45:06
Speaker 7: them a bottle of wine for a wedding present and
45:08
Speaker 7: some bread and peanut butter. After the ceremony, they climbed
45:12
Speaker 7: up to a gun emplacement overlooking the bay.
45:14
Speaker 6: I'm not going to eat any more of this. I'm
45:18
Speaker 6: going to save some.
45:19
Speaker 2: Oh, not me.
45:20
Speaker 5: This isn't the kind of wedding cake you put under
45:22
Speaker 5: your pillow and sleep on.
45:23
Speaker 6: John, look up there. The stars look like streetlights, don't they?
45:27
Speaker 5: Sure. Haven't you ever been to the Rainbow Room before?
45:30
Speaker 5: That's the street below us.
45:31
Speaker 6: Oh, I see. I guess marrying you has changed my
45:34
Speaker 6: perspective completely.
45:36
Speaker 5: Oh, it's probably the wine.
45:38
Speaker 6: I thought you were going to take me to a
45:39
Speaker 6: dingy little French restaurant. This is pretty classy.
45:42
Speaker 5: Holy cats, you remember everything I say.
45:46
Speaker 6: I take you very seriously.
45:48
Speaker 5: Hey, did I ever tell you about my place in
45:50
Speaker 5: the country?
45:51
Speaker 9: No, I don't know anything about you, really. I don't
45:54
Speaker 9: even know if you have a middle name.
45:57
Speaker 2: I have. It's Mattathias.
46:00
Speaker 6: Oh, why?
46:01
Speaker 2: An uncle.
46:03
Speaker 5: He left me this little farm I was telling you about.
46:05
Speaker 5: It's quite worth it.
46:06
Speaker 7: Is it?
46:06
Speaker 2: Yes.
46:07
Speaker 5: You'd love it. A time will come when you and
46:10
Speaker 5: I will go out on a summer evening... when the
46:12
Speaker 5: grass is fresh and the clouds white... as if they'd
46:15
Speaker 5: just been washed. The earth's warm and still... and time
46:20
Speaker 5: passes quietly. Everything's simple. Just you and me and the kids.
46:27
Speaker 6: Sons?
46:27
Speaker 5: Daughters. They're more decorative. Let's get out of here and
46:31
Speaker 5: go home.
46:33
Speaker 6: Home.
46:35
Speaker 9: I remember a poet somewhere... He said home is the
46:39
Speaker 9: place where when you have to go there, they have
46:43
Speaker 9: to take you in.
46:44
Speaker 6: Darling, do you want to know something?
46:47
Speaker 5: What?
46:48
Speaker 6: I'm not afraid anymore.
46:55
Speaker 5: Darling.
46:56
Speaker 6: Darling, it's time to get up.
46:58
Speaker 5: It's time to get.
47:00
Speaker 6: Up and go to work. You've only got five minutes.
47:02
Speaker 5: Oh, it's a fine time to go to sleep on
47:04
Speaker 5: our honeymoon.
47:05
Speaker 6: It was a wonderful honeymoon. Here, finish up that wine.
47:09
Speaker 2: No, no, you.
47:09
Speaker 6: No, go ahead. As my grandmother used to say, it'll
47:11
Speaker 6: warm your stomach up.
47:12
Speaker 5: All right. To you, honey. So long, darling.
47:20
Speaker 6: So long, John.
47:21
Speaker 5: And wait for me.
47:22
Speaker 2: I'll be back.
47:23
Speaker 6: I know. I'll be right here.
47:33
Speaker 7: Kansas was on Corregidor, too. He came into the hospital
47:36
Speaker 7: one morning while I was trying to fix a radio.
47:39
Speaker 2: Ah, what you doing?
47:41
Speaker 6: Oh, this radio's on the blink again.
47:43
Speaker 4: Say, what would you like better than anything else in
47:46
Speaker 4: the world?
47:46
Speaker 6: A tomato. A nice, round, red, juicy tomato.
47:50
Speaker 2: Oh.
47:51
Speaker 7: A tomato and some flying fortresses. Oh, wouldn't that make
47:54
Speaker 7: a lovely salad?
47:55
Speaker 2: Yeah.
47:56
Speaker 6: Why'd you ask me, Kansas?
47:58
Speaker 2: Well, I got something for you. See? Chocolate.
48:01
Speaker 6: Oh, gee, Kansas. That's well of you. Where'd you get it?
48:06
Speaker 2: Well, a raiding party of Japs tried to land last night,
48:09
Speaker 2: and I got me a couple of them, and on
48:11
Speaker 2: one of them I found this chocolate.
48:13
Speaker 6: Kansas, how could you do a thing like that to me?
48:18
Speaker 2: I can't figure you dames out. Chocolate is chocolate.
48:21
Speaker 6: You're positively disgusting. And don't fiddle with that radio. You'll
48:24
Speaker 6: get a shock.
48:25
Speaker 2: Who, me? I never get shocked. Look, don't ever say
48:32
Speaker 2: don't to me again.
48:41
Speaker 6: Right after that, our final orders came through. Colonel Clark
48:43
Speaker 6: gave them to us early one evening.
48:45
Speaker 2: At ease, girls.
48:46
Speaker 5: It's a very serious occasion.
48:50
Speaker 2: It's not known how much longer Corregidor can hold out.
48:52
Speaker 2: I have here orders from headquarters.
48:56
Speaker 4: Two nurses will meet in front of the main hospital
48:58
Speaker 4: tunnel at 9 o'clock tonight.
49:00
Speaker 5: Be evacuated to Australia.
49:06
Speaker 7: There were about 20 of us ordered off. The rest
49:09
Speaker 7: of us to follow as soon as possible. Davey was
49:12
Speaker 7: one of the first 20, and so was I. When
49:14
Speaker 7: I packed my things, I went looking for Kansas.
49:19
Speaker 12: Hey.
49:20
Speaker 2: Over here.
49:21
Speaker 6: Kansas. We've been ordered off.
49:23
Speaker 2: I know. It's all over the rock already.
49:25
Speaker 6: Well, I came to say goodbye.
49:28
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you did. Look, if you don't wait
49:32
Speaker 2: for me back there, I'll break your neck.
49:33
Speaker 7: Oh, be sure you don't break yours, Kansas.
49:36
Speaker 2: Don't worry. Stop that sniffling. Here, give me your handkerchief. Here. Hey,
49:44
Speaker 2: look at the size of that. When you get back,
49:47
Speaker 2: you might get some real ones. I used to get
49:49
Speaker 2: mine at the Five and Dime. Big red ones, remember? Mm-hmm. Bandanas.
49:55
Speaker 2: Cheap as what a place those Five and Dimes are.
49:59
Speaker 2: Everything in them, huh?
50:00
Speaker 6: Yeah.
50:02
Speaker 2: You might send me a dozen of them when you
50:04
Speaker 2: get back.
50:05
Speaker 6: Where, Kansas?
50:06
Speaker 2: Here. What do you think? I'll be here till Tokyo
50:10
Speaker 2: freezes over.
50:11
Speaker 6: I suppose if we were to surrender that you'd be
50:12
Speaker 6: dumb enough not to.
50:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be dumb that way.
50:16
Speaker 5: Oh, Kansas.
50:18
Speaker 6: Kiss me goodbye, you big lug.
50:19
Speaker 2: Now you're talking. Hey, we should have been doing more
50:25
Speaker 2: of this in the campaign. You and your wanting to
50:27
Speaker 2: be pals.
50:28
Speaker 6: Well, I thought you were just another guy on the make.
50:32
Speaker 2: I was.
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Speaker 6: Gee, I'm glad I met up with you, Kansas.
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Speaker 2: Pleasure's been all mine. You big blimp. Well, so long, kid.
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Speaker 2: I'll be seeing you.
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Speaker 6: Goodbye, Kansas, and be careful. Don't get killed.
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Speaker 2: Who, me? I'll never get killed.
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Speaker 4: Kansas.
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Speaker 6: There was a boat waiting for us at the dock
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Speaker 6: at midnight. Gregor lined us up. She wasn't leaving with us,
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Speaker 6: but she wanted to say goodbye. Well, I guess that's everybody.
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Speaker 6: Good luck to your children, all of you. Goodbye, Davy.
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Speaker 6: I'm not going.
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Speaker 15: You're not what?
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Speaker 6: I'm not going. I never intended to. You heard the orders. Now,
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Speaker 6: I don't want any funny business. You get on that boat.
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Speaker 16: No.
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Speaker 15: Do you realize that every moment of stalling here means
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Speaker 15: that those planes in the harbor are in danger? That's
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Speaker 15: not our artillery.
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Speaker 6: I can't go. I promised I'd be here when he
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Speaker 6: got back. He asked me to. Oh, now, please, Ma.
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Speaker 2: I order you to go.
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Speaker 6: I won't take orders. I'm not in the army anymore.
51:35
Speaker 6: When I married, I broke regulations. It meant I was out.
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Speaker 6: You can't make me go. Stop talking like an hysterical schoolgirl.
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Speaker 6: I'm going to be right here when he gets back.
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Speaker 6: He won't be back.
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Speaker 2: How do you know?
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Speaker 6: Tell me, how do you know? There's been no word
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Speaker 6: at all. They've considered them officially lost for a week.
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Speaker 2: Oh, you're lying.
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Speaker 6: You know you're lying. You're just saying that. Would I
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Speaker 6: lie about that, Davy? Now, would I? No, of course
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Speaker 6: you wouldn't, but I know he's still alive. He's out
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Speaker 6: there somewhere, and I can't go. I can't. Janet, if
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Speaker 6: he's alive, he'll find me.
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Speaker 2: Let me go. I'm not going.
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Speaker 6: Down, everybody.
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Speaker 9: Down.
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Speaker 2: Davy. Davy. Mama, she's here.
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Speaker 6: No, she just stopped.
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Speaker 2: Get her in that boat. Hurry. Hurry.
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Speaker 6: Well, I guess that's all, Major. Davy wasn't like the
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Speaker 6: rest of us.
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Speaker 7: She never gave way, but now everything snapped at once.
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Speaker 6: When we got her on board the plane, she never
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Speaker 6: spoke again. Maybe we should have left her on Gregador.
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Speaker 5: What's happened would have happened some way or another. Thank you, Lieutenant.
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Speaker 5: Now I think maybe I can try to make her speak,
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Speaker 5: to hear at least. Come over this way. Miss Davidson,
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Speaker 5: we're almost home.
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Speaker 2: Do you hear me?
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Speaker 5: I have a letter for you, Miss Davidson. It says,
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Speaker 5: my darling, I'm writing this for Mindanao. We leave in
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Speaker 5: the morning for an unknown destination. I write with no
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Speaker 5: so-called premonitions. As a matter of fact, I'm writing this
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Speaker 5: in a pleasant little bar on the outskirts. I've ordered
53:16
Speaker 5: two daiquiris.
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Speaker 2: One for you and one for me.
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Speaker 5: I miss you, darling. I think about you all the time.
53:24
Speaker 5: I wish things were different. Things will be different. I
53:29
Speaker 5: know that now because there is good in this war,
53:32
Speaker 5: much as I hate it. This is not just a
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Speaker 5: war of soldiers. You weren't soldiers in the strict sense.
53:40
Speaker 5: You were just kids from all walks of life, all
53:43
Speaker 5: kinds of people. There's something new in this war, something good.
53:49
Speaker 5: You could see it, this new thing, even in their tired,
53:52
Speaker 5: hungry phases as they took courage one from another. This
53:56
Speaker 5: is now a people's war because civilians also get killed.
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Speaker 5: It's the people's war because they've taken it over now
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Speaker 5: and are going to win it and end it with
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Speaker 5: a purpose, to live like men with dignity, in freedom.
54:10
Speaker 5: This is our war now and this time it will
54:12
Speaker 5: be our peace. I'm proud, proud to have known you, darling.
54:19
Speaker 5: Proud to have received your love. Already I have had
54:22
Speaker 5: a complete, rich life in three short months.
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Speaker 2: John. Do you hear, Miss Davidson?
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Speaker 6: She's opening her eyes.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Davy, Davy.
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Speaker 6: The letter.
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Speaker 10: Give me my letter, please.
54:37
Speaker 7: My darling.
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Speaker 16: I'm enclosing a deed to that little farm I told
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Speaker 16: you about.
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Speaker 6: It's now in your name.
54:52
Speaker 16: I'll wait for you there. Or if you're there first,
54:56
Speaker 16: wait for me. Thank you, my darling, for my life.
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Speaker 16: Thank you for everything. You're devoted. And this is the
55:08
Speaker 16: first time I've ever written it. You're devoted husband.
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Speaker 2: John.
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Speaker 6: Yes, darling.
55:21
Speaker 7: I'll wait.
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Speaker 2: I'll wait.
55:39
Speaker 4: Handsome is as handsome does. And we've had some handsome
55:42
Speaker 4: acting tonight. from Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard, Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts,
55:47
Speaker 4: and Les Tremaine.
55:48
Speaker 6: Thank you, C.B.
55:50
Speaker 9: The real tribute to the nurses of the United States
55:53
Speaker 9: Army will be found in the hearts of the American
55:55
Speaker 9: fighting men.
55:57
Speaker 6: It was a privilege for me to play the part
55:58
Speaker 6: of one of those women.
56:00
Speaker 4: I know that while the picture was in production, three
56:02
Speaker 4: of the most beautiful women in Hollywood caused quite a
56:04
Speaker 4: stir in the Paramount, Loz.
56:05
Speaker 6: You mean overalls and dirty faces and steel.
56:08
Speaker 10: Hats, Sonny?
56:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in one case, no peekaboo bang.
56:11
Speaker 16: Ha!
56:12
Speaker 4: At long last, the world has seen Veronica Lake's other eye.
56:18
Speaker 2: How do you like it, Veronica?
56:20
Speaker 6: Well, I do see better.
56:24
Speaker 4: After shooting a picture where your makeup consists mostly of mud,
56:27
Speaker 4: you must have spent quite a bit of time each
56:29
Speaker 4: day getting the mud off. In fact, I don't see
56:32
Speaker 4: how you all came out of it looking so lovely.
56:34
Speaker 6: Are you kidding?
56:35
Speaker 2: No, of course not.
56:37
Speaker 9: Do we have to tell you about soap? Now, don't
56:40
Speaker 9: torture him. C.B., there's a very fine soap called Luxe.
56:44
Speaker 2: We use it. Well, what do you know?
56:49
Speaker 6: In fact, it was unanimous, Mr.
56:51
Speaker 2: DeMille.
56:51
Speaker 7: You know, he may not have heard that Lux soap
56:53
Speaker 7: is an excellent complexion care.
56:55
Speaker 4: I have triple proof of the prowess of Lux soap
56:58
Speaker 4: right in front of me. By the way, Paulette, I
57:00
Speaker 4: hear you've turned into a farmer.
57:02
Speaker 6: Oh, 70 acres worth, Mr.
57:03
Speaker 7: DeMille.
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Speaker 6: It's in New York State. What do you grow, Paulette? Chickens.
57:06
Speaker 6: It works out very well.
57:08
Speaker 7: Last spring, I traded some eggs for seed corn, and
57:10
Speaker 7: now I'm using the corn to feed the chickens and
57:12
Speaker 7: trading the eggs for the farm allotment of gasoline.
57:15
Speaker 4: Not the same eggs, I hope. I'll never make a
57:18
Speaker 4: horse trade with you. How about trading us a little
57:21
Speaker 4: news on next week's show?
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Speaker 2: That's good news, Sonny.
57:24
Speaker 4: Because our play is the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer screen hit, Salute to
57:28
Speaker 4: the Marines. And our stars are the same ones you
57:31
Speaker 4: saw in the picture, Wallace Beery and Faye Bainter. Salute
57:36
Speaker 4: to the Marines is the story of an old-time Sergeant
57:38
Speaker 4: Major who retired just before the war and settled down
57:42
Speaker 4: in peace and quiet with his family.
57:44
Speaker 2: Right on the battlefront.
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Speaker 4: A real thriller with plenty of comedy and two real troopers,
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Speaker 4: Wallace Beery and Faye Bainter.
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Speaker 6: I know your audience will love it, C.B. Good night.
57:54
Speaker 6: Good night.
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Speaker 2: Good night.
57:56
Speaker 4: This was certainly a four-star evening. Our sponsors, the makers
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Speaker 4: of Lux Toilet Soap, join me in inviting you to
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Speaker 4: be with us again next Monday night when the Lux
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Speaker 4: Radio Theater presents... Wallace Beery and Faye Bainter in Salute
58:16
Speaker 4: to the Marines with Noah Beery. This is Cecil B.
58:19
Speaker 4: DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood.
58:26
Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, American war production is being slowed down
58:30
Speaker 3: by labor turnover, workers leaving their jobs for a variety
58:33
Speaker 3: of causes. Many of these causes, such as bad housing
58:36
Speaker 3: conditions and inadequate transportation, are being eliminated by cooperative action. Meanwhile,
58:42
Speaker 3: every worker in a war job has a personal responsibility
58:45
Speaker 3: to stick on the job. Men on the fighting fronts
58:48
Speaker 3: are making great sacrifices. Men and women on the production
58:51
Speaker 3: front owe it to our heroes to stay on their
58:53
Speaker 3: war jobs. Claudette Colbert will soon be seen in the
58:57
Speaker 3: Paramount picture, No Time for Love. Paulette Goddard's next Paramount
59:01
Speaker 3: picture is Standing Room Only. And Veronica Lake will next
59:05
Speaker 3: be seen on the screen in the Paramount production, The
59:07
Speaker 3: Hour Before Dawn. The picture, so prestigious, we hail, was
59:11
Speaker 3: produced and directed by Mark Sandridge. Heard in tonight's play
59:15
Speaker 3: were Regina Wallace, Catherine Craig, Trudy Marson, Dorothy Scott, Marjorie Davies,
59:21
Speaker 3: Leo Cleary, Boyd Davis, Charles Seal, Fred McKay, Norman Field,
59:26
Speaker 3: Howard McNair, and Ed Emerson.
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Speaker 2: Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. And this is
59:32
Speaker 2: your announcer, John N.
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Speaker 3: Kennedy, reminding you to tune in again next Monday night
59:36
Speaker 3: to hear Wallace Beery and Faye Bainter in Salute to
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Speaker 3: the Marines with Noah Beery.
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59:48
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59:56
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