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Speaker 1: A financial crisis in New York brings socialite Fanny Trellis
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Speaker 1: to an unexpected marriage with stockbroker Job Skeffington. From Lux
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Speaker 1: Radio Theater, this is Mr. Skeffington, broadcast on CBS October 1st, 1945,
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Speaker 1: episode 495. Bette Davis returns to the role of Fanny
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Speaker 1: Trellis Skeffington from the 1944 Warner Brothers film, joined by
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Speaker 1: Paul Henreid as Job Skeffington. Adapted from the film and
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth von Arnim's novel, the story follows their lives through
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Speaker 1: changing years in New York society. And now, our story begins.
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Speaker 2: The Lux Radio Theater brings you Betty Davis and Paul
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Speaker 2: Henry in Mrs.
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Speaker 3: Kessington.
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Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. William Keeley.
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Speaker 5: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Some years ago, I
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Speaker 5: went to a graduation play at a dramatic school in
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Speaker 5: New York City. The leading lady was a small but
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Speaker 5: able miss named Betty Davis. A few days later, when
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Speaker 5: we were casting for a new play... I suggested that
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Speaker 5: Miss Davis be given what proved to be her first
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Speaker 5: professional reading. The rest is history, for little Betty has
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Speaker 5: since become the first lady of the film. One of
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Speaker 5: her more recent successes is tonight's play, Warner Brothers' moving
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Speaker 5: and distinguished drama, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Skeppington.
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Speaker 5: And co-starred in the title role tonight is Paul Henry,
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Speaker 5: who has contributed so many star interpretations to the screens.
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Speaker 5: The action of our play occurs between two world wars,
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Speaker 5: a period during which women, like the lovely Mrs. Kevington,
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Speaker 5: discovered new freedom and leisure, largely through the medium of
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Speaker 5: labor-saving methods and conveniences. One of the conveniences that rose
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Speaker 5: to popularity throughout these years was Lux Flakes, and that
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Speaker 5: popularity has steadily increased and spread to almost every country
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Speaker 5: of the globe. In Paris, where I was a few
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Speaker 5: months ago, a package of Lux Flakes was almost literally
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Speaker 5: worth its weight in gold, proving that daintiness and grooming
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Speaker 5: are a prime concern of women everywhere, and that, I feel,
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Speaker 5: is as it should be. Now, on to our play,
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Speaker 5: as the curtain rises on Act I of Mr. Skeppington,
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Speaker 5: starring Betty Davis as Fanny and Paul Henry as Skeppington.
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Speaker 5: with Marjorie Reardon as their daughter and Joseph Kearns as George.
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Speaker 4: I called this afternoon on my cousin, Mrs. Job Skeffington.
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Speaker 4: It was late when I left, almost dark. In the
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Speaker 4: little park across from the house, I saw him.
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Speaker 6: I don't know how I came to recognize Job, so
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Speaker 6: broken he was and shabby. His hands rested on his cane.
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Speaker 6: He stared through the quiet dust like a man in
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Speaker 6: a dream.
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Speaker 3: Who? Who is it? Job.
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Speaker 4: Job, it's I, George Trevis and his cousin.
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Speaker 3: George. What have you said, Job?
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Speaker 4: When did you get back in New York? I?
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Speaker 3: Yesterday. I escaped, George.
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Speaker 4: At the age of 62, I escaped from a Nazi
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Speaker 4: prison camp.
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Speaker 3: Joe!
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Speaker 6: But we didn't know what had happened. Are you going
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Speaker 6: to see Fanny? Come on, I just left her. No,
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Speaker 6: I had not planned to see her.
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Speaker 3: The house?
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Speaker 6: It's still there. Oh, just as it's always been, Joe.
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Speaker 6: Nothing's changed. Fanny's well?
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes. Yes, she's well. And my little girl? Little Fanny.
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Speaker 4: She's fine, Joe. What a pity. She left New York
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Speaker 4: this noon.
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Speaker 3: Gone?
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Speaker 4: On her way to Seattle to be married.
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Speaker 3: Married?
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Speaker 4: A fine boy. Oh, they're very much involved.
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Speaker 3: Married?
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Speaker 4: Job.
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Speaker 3: Job, come.
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Speaker 4: We'll see Fanny. No.
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Speaker 3: Later, perhaps. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: Well, then come home with me. There's so much to
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Speaker 4: talk about.
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Speaker 3: You said nothing has changed. No, I'd just like to
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Speaker 3: sit here alone. Why?
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Speaker 4: Yes, of course, Job. Please, say nothing to.
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Speaker 3: Sammy about me. Not... not yet. If you wish, Joe.
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Speaker 3: Good night.
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Speaker 6: I went directly home, and all night long I sat
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Speaker 6: here unable to get the picture of Job Skeffington out
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Speaker 6: of my mind.
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Speaker 4: Seems incredible that nearly 25 years.
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Speaker 6: Have passed since Job first met Fanny. Oh, how well
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Speaker 6: I remember that night.
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Speaker 7: Who is it?
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Speaker 6: Edward?
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Speaker 8: Don't you dare come in my room.
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Speaker 4: Since when am I Edward?
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Speaker 7: Then who is it?
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Speaker 4: George.
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Speaker 8: Which George?
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Speaker 4: How many Georges are there in your life?
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Speaker 8: Oh, three of them. Cousins are. George.
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Speaker 5: Fanny.
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Speaker 8: Oh, what a wonderful surprise.
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Speaker 4: Well, don't I get a kiss?
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Speaker 8: There. Hmm.
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Speaker 4: Let me see. Yes, even after two years, you look
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Speaker 4: rather nice.
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Speaker 8: Rather nice? That's all you ever say?
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but I just can't think of you as beautiful,
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Speaker 4: even if you are. Oh, hello, Mamby. Mr.
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Speaker 8: George, how do you do?
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Speaker 4: Tell me, I saw four strange faces downstairs. Who are they, excuses?
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Speaker 8: An entirely new bat.
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Speaker 9: She still has every man in New York at her.
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Speaker 8: Feet, Mr. George.
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Speaker 4: And you're going out with the bat?
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Speaker 3: Out?
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Speaker 8: Oh, no, it's a dinner party, and you may stay.
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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you, Cousin.
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Speaker 3: Well, I thought I heard that voice.
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Speaker 8: Crippy!
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Speaker 4: Well, well, welcome back.
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Speaker 3: How have you been?
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Speaker 4: Why, fine, how have you been?
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Speaker 3: Couldn't be better.
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Speaker 8: Don't fall down in the faint, Georgie, but my brother
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Speaker 8: has a job. He's working.
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Speaker 6: No, I'm a customer's man. Gethington and Company. Gethington and Company?
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Speaker 6: The Jewish firm?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: You like working for him? He's all right.
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Speaker 6: Well, he must pay awfully well. Here you are giving
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Speaker 6: dinner parties, and I thought you were practically broke.
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Speaker 3: Well, the fact is, George, I made a little killing.
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Speaker 8: And I thought if I gave a dinner party, it
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Speaker 8: might further arouse his killer instinct.
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Speaker 3: George, you don't have to worry about us anymore.
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Speaker 4: I hope it's all true.
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Speaker 3: Why do you say that?
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Speaker 4: Because you still don't look anyone straight in the eye, Trippie.
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Speaker 3: Still picking on me, Georgie.
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Speaker 8: Now, now, Trippie, darling. You run along and finish dressing.
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Speaker 8: You know you're always late. What is it, sir?
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Speaker 3: I'm very sorry, miss. A gentleman should see Mr. Trellis.
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Speaker 3: Or Mr. Skeffington.
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Speaker 4: Skeffington?
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Speaker 8: You didn't invite him to dinner.
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Speaker 3: I most certainly did not. Tell him I'll see him
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Speaker 3: in the morning. Yes, sir. And miss, your guests are
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Speaker 3: beginning to arrive.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 3: So, mister. Ask Mr.
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Speaker 4: Skeffington to wait.
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think it would be a nice gesture if
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Speaker 6: you saw your employer. You'll get more work out of
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Speaker 6: him in the long run.
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Speaker 3: He's got no right barging in here.
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Speaker 8: Darling, obviously he didn't come for a free dinner. It
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Speaker 8: must be something important.
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Speaker 3: Well, get rid of him.
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Speaker 8: I won't see him.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 3: Well, what do we tell him about Trippie?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I'll think of some liar other. Trippie keeps me
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Speaker 8: in practice. Let's get it over with, Georgie.
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Speaker 7: And please, don't look so worried.
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Speaker 8: I'm so sorry about Trippie, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Skeppington.
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Speaker 8: Unfortunately, he's in bed with a severe cold.
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Speaker 3: A headache.
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Speaker 4: Both.
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Speaker 8: Well, it's quite possible the cold brought on the headache.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he'll be at his desk in the morning, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Skeppington.
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Speaker 4: I hardly think so. Your cousin is no longer in
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Speaker 4: my employ.
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Speaker 8: No longer? But if he's no longer in your employ,
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Speaker 8: why hasn't he told me?
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Speaker 4: Well, a man with a cold is seldom very communicative. Well,
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Speaker 4: if you'll excuse me. There's nothing you care to discuss
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Speaker 4: with us? Well, since your cousin avoided me tonight, as
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Speaker 4: undoubtedly he will again in the morning, perhaps I'd better.
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Speaker 3: It's a rather delicate matter, Miss Trellis.
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Speaker 8: I'm staying right here, Mr. Skeffington.
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Speaker 4: I'm on my way to see the district attorney.
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Speaker 8: I don't think I'm going to be able to take
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Speaker 8: this standing up. Maybe we'd all better sit down.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 8: Has Trippie done something awful?
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Speaker 4: Your brother has good many qualities, Miss Trellis.
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Speaker 8: Which is going to be worse than I thought.
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Speaker 4: As a bond salesman, he made a brilliant start. His
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Speaker 4: orders piled up until we discovered that these people he's
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Speaker 4: been selling stock to don't even exist. You see, he
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Speaker 4: threw in enough constellations to make the whole thing seem
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Speaker 4: quite authentic.
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Speaker 3: And then, well, there were.
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Speaker 6: Here and there, there were some legitimate sales.
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Speaker 4: But you had to look for them.
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Speaker 8: It wasn't very clever of him, was it?
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Speaker 4: He has a definite talent for picking odd names and addresses.
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Speaker 4: but it's hardly worth $ 20, 000 we've paid him in commission.
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Speaker 4: He's stolen $ 20, 000? Yes, I'm afraid so.
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Speaker 8: Does Trippie know you know?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 4: You should have gone to the district attorney long ago. Well,
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Speaker 4: I was quite touched to discover he lost most of
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Speaker 4: the money at the racetrack.
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Speaker 3: That touched you?
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Speaker 6: Yes, considering they were my horses he bet on, and
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Speaker 6: I'd give him the tips.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Trippie.
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Speaker 7: Trippie, no, no.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Straddick. Fortunately, it won't be any
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Speaker 4: hardship for you to return the money.
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Speaker 7: No hardship.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 6: Scattington, you may as well know that Miss Trellis and
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Speaker 6: her brother are stone broke.
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Speaker 3: I don't understand.
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Speaker 4: The Trellis world was a legion.
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Speaker 8: Well, now it's a myth. It's been a myth for
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Speaker 8: some time.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 8: Skeppington, Trippie could get another job and pay you back
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Speaker 8: a little each week. You couldn't write him a reference,
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Speaker 8: could you?
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Speaker 4: Well, I could, but my heart wouldn't be in it.
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Speaker 8: Well, all we can do then is to throw ourselves
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Speaker 8: on your mercy.
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Speaker 4: Miss Trellis, it's not my money. It's the corporation's.
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Speaker 8: But the horses were yours and not the corporation's, weren't they?
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Speaker 3: Yes, that's true.
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Speaker 4: But I'm not quite sure of the logic.
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Speaker 6: If you could just give us a little time, maybe
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Speaker 6: there's something I could salvage.
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Speaker 3: Well, perhaps I can let it ride for a little while. Mr.
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Speaker 8: Skeppington, how can I thank you? How can I.
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Speaker 3: Please, please.
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Speaker 4: I'm keeping you from your guests.
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Speaker 8: Won't you stay for dinner? After all, in a way,
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Speaker 8: you're the host. It's your money.
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Speaker 4: I'm dining with the district attorney. Just a social call.
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Speaker 4: Good night, Miss Trelitz.
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Speaker 8: Good night, Mr. Skeffington.
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Speaker 3: Mr.
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Speaker 4: Trelitz, good night. I'd like to ring Trippie's neck.
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Speaker 8: There's nothing to worry about, George.
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 8: No. There'll be three dozen roses in the morning. Three
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Speaker 8: dozen roses? From Mr. Skeffington.
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Speaker 9: Oh, good morning, Miss.
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Speaker 8: Good morning, Mandy. Just look, Miss.
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Speaker 9: All these flowers.
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Speaker 8: What a beautiful basket. Oh, Mandy, which ones are for Mr.
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Speaker 4: Skeffington?
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Speaker 9: No flowers came for Mr.
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Speaker 8: Skeffington, Miss.
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Speaker 9: These are Mr.
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Speaker 8: Thatcher's and Mr. Condley's. Were there any calls, Mandy? I mean,
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Speaker 8: other than Mr. Thatcher's and Mr. Condley's? The Reverend Dr.
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Speaker 4: Parker.
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Speaker 8: He wanted to know if you sold the bazaar tickets. No,
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Speaker 8: not a one. You're sure there were no other calls?
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Speaker 3: No, Miss.
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Speaker 8: Mandy, would you mind looking up the address of Skip? No. No,
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Speaker 8: never mind. Mamby, I'm going downtown. If my brother or
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Speaker 8: cousin should ask, I've gone shopping.
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Speaker 4: Miss Trellis, I... Well, please come in. I had no
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Speaker 4: idea you'd be calling. I.
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Speaker 8: I knew you were busy, Mr. Skeffinger. I didn't mind
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Speaker 8: waiting and... Oh, I do want you to know I'm
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Speaker 8: not here to talk about trippy.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 4: It's a painful subject.
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Speaker 3: Cigar? Ha, ha, ha. Oh, I'm terribly sorry. It's automatic.
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Speaker 4: All my visitors are men.
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Speaker 7: I see.
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Speaker 8: Mr. Skeffington, I came to ask if you'd buy some
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Speaker 8: tickets for the bazaar. It's for the children's hospital or
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Speaker 8: the home for the aged. I don't quite remember which. Anyway,
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Speaker 8: it's printed on the ticket. They're $ 25 apiece.
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Speaker 6: Well, well, they're both very worthy causes. I'll take a dozen.
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Speaker 8: Oh, no, two is quite enough. You don't get a
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Speaker 8: thing for your money. Or are you used to that?
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Speaker 4: Excuse me. Hello?
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Speaker 3: Yes. Yes. What is it now?
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Speaker 4: All right. Buy 10,000 at 23 and a half. I'm sorry. Mr.
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Speaker 8: Skeffington, please forgive me for being so curious, but it
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Speaker 8: sounds very important. 10,000 what?
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Speaker 4: 10,000 shares of steel.
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Speaker 8: Oh, at 23 and a half dollars a share?
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Speaker 3: Why, yes.
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Speaker 8: Well, if you're that casual about money, I'll let you
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Speaker 8: buy the dozen tickets after all. You know, Mr. Skeffington,
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Speaker 8: I've never once seen the stock exchange.
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Speaker 4: I'd be glad to show you around sometime.
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Speaker 8: Well, that's very nice of you, but isn't it a
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Speaker 8: little vague?
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Speaker 4: Can you make it right now?
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Speaker 8: Well, I have a luncheon engagement with Janie Clarkson, but
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Speaker 8: we don't like each other very much, so she probably
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Speaker 8: won't be there either.
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Speaker 4: Well, in that case, will you have lunch with me?
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Speaker 8: Oh, I'd be delighted. Then could I see the stock
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Speaker 8: exchange afterwards?
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Speaker 3: If you'd like.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Shall we go then to the... Have you seen the ticker? No, why?
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Speaker 4: Germany just declared war on Washington. Oh, excuse me, Mr. Elliott.
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Speaker 4: Get all our branch offices on the phone. Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: Keep a wire open to Washington. Hello, Casey? Keep me
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Speaker 4: posted on wheat.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I know.
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Speaker 4: No, sell.
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Speaker 3: Sell all of your own. What about Chicago? What about Chicago?
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Speaker 4: There's Casey. Somebody get hold of Casey.
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Speaker 8: Mr. Skeffington, I've changed my mind. I'm having lunch with
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Speaker 8: Jamie Clarkson after all.
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Speaker 3: Watson wants an immediate answer.
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Speaker 4: Well, they won't get it.
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Speaker 3: It's ready.
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Speaker 4: Ready to go.
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Speaker 7: It's ready.
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Speaker 6: Fanny's retreat from Skeffington's office was one of her very
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Speaker 6: rare defeats. And it took the outbreak of the First
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Speaker 6: World War to do it. But two days later, a
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Speaker 6: strange thing happened. Paul Vanier, the famous painter, called. He
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Speaker 6: said he had a commission to paint Fanny's.
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Speaker 4: Portrait if she'd agree.
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Speaker 3: She refused to.
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Speaker 4: Divulge his patron's name. Fanny thought it quite a lot.
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Speaker 6: Weeks later, when the portrait was completed, we went to
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Speaker 6: Vanier's studio to.
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Speaker 4: Look at it.
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Speaker 8: You know what happened yesterday, Georgie? Jim Connolly offered Mr.
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Speaker 8: Vanier double his fee for the portrait.
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Speaker 3: That is quite true, Mr. Trellis.
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Speaker 4: Why didn't you accept? Because my client is paying four
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Speaker 4: times as much. See, extra money is to keep me quiet. Fanny,
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Speaker 4: I simply don't understand.
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Speaker 6: It's not like you to have to spend all these
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Speaker 6: tiresome hours sitting for a portrait you won't own for
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Speaker 6: a man you don't even know.
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Speaker 8: I think it's very romantic.
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Speaker 3: Romantic?
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Speaker 6: What if we walk into a saloon someday and see
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Speaker 6: you hanging over a bar?
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Speaker 8: Georgie, I doubt very much if I'll ever get that drunk. Anyway,
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Speaker 8: whoever ordered the portrait is sending $ 1, 000 to my favorite charity. Georgie,
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Speaker 8: would it be charity if we used that money for tripping?
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Speaker 6: $ 1, 000.
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Speaker 4: Won't help Fanny. So we may as well be honest. Uh,
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Speaker 4: by the way, you've heard nothing from Sheffington?
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Speaker 8: Not a word.
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Speaker 3: Hmm.
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Speaker 4: Well, I must say he's been very decent. Sooner or later, though,
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Speaker 4: we'll have to face him.
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Speaker 8: Well, Mr. Vanier, what happens to the portrait now?
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Speaker 5: The transfer men are waiting with the truck.
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Speaker 3: It'll be delivered.
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Speaker 4: Oh, it will.
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Speaker 8: Well, um, well, I think I'll be running along, Georgie.
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Speaker 8: I have a date with Jamie Clarkson.
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Speaker 3: You do?
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Speaker 8: Didn't I tell you? Thank you very much, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Vanier.
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Speaker 8: You may tell your client I hope he's pleased.
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Speaker 6: On the street, I saw Fanny getting into a taxi cab.
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Speaker 6: A taxi cab parked directly behind a transfer truck.
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Speaker 4: I should have known from the start.
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Speaker 6: She'd find out who commissioned that portrait if it took
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Speaker 6: her the rest of her life.
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Speaker 4: Actually, it took about 30 minutes.
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Speaker 6: The painting was delivered to the home of Job Skeffington.
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Speaker 6: Two days later, Fanny and Job Skeffington went off to
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Speaker 6: New Jersey.
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Speaker 4: and were married.
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Speaker 2: Coming back to New York, they took the ferry boat
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Speaker 2: across the North River.
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Speaker 8: Joe?
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Speaker 4: Yes, Fanny?
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Speaker 8: Where were you born?
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Speaker 3: Right there, in New York, Cherry Street.
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Speaker 8: Cherry Street? Where's that?
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Speaker 3: In the slums.
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Speaker 8: Skeffington. That's a strange name for the slums.
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Speaker 4: It's not my real name, you know. The immigration official
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Speaker 4: wasn't a good speller. Skeffington was the closest he could
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Speaker 4: get to Skevinskazaya.
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Speaker 8: So, you realize I know next to nothing about you.
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Speaker 8: Were you poor?
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Speaker 3: You have no idea how poor.
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Speaker 8: Well, then, how did you become so successful?
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Speaker 4: It's routine. Rags to riches. Of course, I sold newspapers.
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Speaker 4: Of course, there was a messenger on Wall Street and
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Speaker 4: went to school at night. Well, you can fill in
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Speaker 4: the rest.
17:14
Speaker 8: There's one difference. You didn't marry the boss's daughter. No.
17:19
Speaker 4: But I married the woman everybody else wanted. That makes
17:22
Speaker 4: up for it.
17:24
Speaker 8: Joe, what's going on over there, the music and all
17:26
Speaker 8: those people? Find out.
17:28
Speaker 3: Attendant. Yes, sir.
17:31
Speaker 2: What's going on over there? Oh, that's Philippe and Gus.
17:33
Speaker 2: They're playing for those kids.
17:35
Speaker 4: See?
17:35
Speaker 2: Those kids just got married. Sometimes they find somebody that
17:38
Speaker 2: just got married.
17:39
Speaker 3: That's what they look for.
17:40
Speaker 2: Good tip.
17:41
Speaker 4: But how can they tell?
17:42
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what they do. They ain't messed
17:45
Speaker 2: up on newlyweds for ten years. Can you beat that?
17:48
Speaker 8: Joe, could you tell they were just married?
17:51
Speaker 4: I think I could. The way that girl's looking at
17:54
Speaker 4: that fellow, you couldn't miss.
17:56
Speaker 8: I see what you mean. The way I'm looking at you.
17:59
Speaker 3: No.
18:01
Speaker 6: You look as cordial, but not connubial. I've married you, Fanny,
18:06
Speaker 6: but I haven't won you.
18:08
Speaker 4: So? So far, I've merely taken you away from all
18:11
Speaker 4: the others. Do you think that night when I broke
18:15
Speaker 4: into your dinner party was the first time I'd seen you?
18:18
Speaker 3: No.
18:20
Speaker 4: I'd seen you many times.
18:22
Speaker 6: Dining at Sherry's, dancing at the Waldorf. And so many
18:26
Speaker 6: young men. But you were never more beautiful than at night.
18:30
Speaker 4: I came to see about tripping.
18:32
Speaker 6: Never so unattainable. That's why I commissioned Vanny to paint
18:36
Speaker 6: your portrait. At least I'd have that.
18:39
Speaker 8: Well, now you have both, a portrait and me.
18:43
Speaker 6: I own both. It isn't quite the same thing.
18:47
Speaker 8: Joe, look, the musicians are coming this way. Joe! Oh,
18:58
Speaker 8: they went right on past us.
19:00
Speaker 6: You see, that's the point I was trying to make before. Fanny,
19:08
Speaker 6: why did you marry me?
19:10
Speaker 8: Because you're good and kind, and your eyes are special
19:14
Speaker 8: in a St. Bernard sort of way. And although I've
19:18
Speaker 8: never seen you really smile, I always have the feeling
19:21
Speaker 8: you're laughing at me. And I find that very attractive. Besides,
19:25
Speaker 8: you're very rich. Joe, would you like to kiss me?
19:46
Speaker 2: Our stars, Betty Davis and Paul Henry, will return for...
19:49
Speaker 2: act two of Mr. Skeppington in a moment. Contrary to
19:54
Speaker 2: what most people think, everyone in Hollywood isn't a movie
19:57
Speaker 2: star or extra. Hundreds of girls work in the studios
20:01
Speaker 2: as secretaries, typists, telephone operators, and live just like girls
20:05
Speaker 2: anywhere else in the country. Take Alice Deed, who typed
20:09
Speaker 2: the script for Warner Brothers' new production Mildred Pierce, starring
20:13
Speaker 2: Joan Crawford. Alice is just coming home from work.
20:18
Speaker 7: Sue, where are you?
20:19
Speaker 10: In the kitchen.
20:20
Speaker 8: What's up? Sue, it's wonderful.
20:22
Speaker 10: Bill's ship just came in.
20:24
Speaker 7: Oh, Alice!
20:25
Speaker 10: We're going to dinner at the Brown Derby and then
20:27
Speaker 10: to a preview of Mildred Pierce. That's Joan Crawford's new one.
20:30
Speaker 8: Oh, it's her first picture in almost three years, isn't it?
20:33
Speaker 10: Jack Carson and Zachary Scott are in it with her.
20:35
Speaker 8: And imagine, I'll see it with Bill.
20:38
Speaker 10: It just opened in New York, and the critics raved
20:40
Speaker 10: about it. I understand it's considered an excellent candidate for
20:43
Speaker 10: an Academy Award. Yes, a date like that calls for
20:45
Speaker 10: wearing something special. I thought I'd wear my new suit
20:49
Speaker 10: and that sweet blouse I got for my birthday. Of course,
20:52
Speaker 10: I'll have to have a super slip because it's so sheer.
20:55
Speaker 7: Oh, Sue, now what?
20:57
Speaker 8: I haven't any. I meant to buy a new slip today.
21:00
Speaker 8: What about the one you bought a couple of months
21:02
Speaker 8: ago with the lace on the bottom? You know I
21:04
Speaker 8: bought one just like it. Oh, you should see it.
21:06
Speaker 10: It's faded and the lace is torn and straps are frayed.
21:10
Speaker 10: I don't know what Sarah does to them. Well, Sarah
21:12
Speaker 10: puts everything in the same wash.
21:14
Speaker 4: See?
21:15
Speaker 8: Towels along with your undies.
21:16
Speaker 10: I've seen her.
21:18
Speaker 8: They can't take that hot water and strong soap and
21:20
Speaker 8: rough treatment. You mean your slip is still good?
21:23
Speaker 4: Of course.
21:24
Speaker 8: I always lux mine. Look, I'll show you. Why, Sue,
21:27
Speaker 8: it looks as nice as new.
21:29
Speaker 3: Oh, Sue.
21:30
Speaker 4: I know.
21:31
Speaker 8: I let myself in for it. You want to borrow it.
21:34
Speaker 10: Sue, will you lend it to me this once?
21:36
Speaker 3: Yes.
21:37
Speaker 2: Lux slips do stay lovely longer. In fact, three times
21:40
Speaker 2: as long. Actual washing tests show. Strong soap, too hot water,
21:45
Speaker 2: and rough treatment soon fade colors, make slips and nighties
21:49
Speaker 2: look old and drab. Start tonight using Thrifty Luxe Care
21:53
Speaker 2: for undies. Here's William Keeley with our stars.
21:58
Speaker 5: Our curtain rises on the second act of tonight's play,
22:02
Speaker 5: starring Betty Davis as Fanny and Paul Henry as Mr.
22:06
Speaker 3: Skeppington.
22:15
Speaker 6: Yes, that was a long time ago, their marriage. 1914.
22:21
Speaker 6: And I wonder when I saw him a few hours ago,
22:24
Speaker 6: alone in the empty park, I wonder if Joe, too,
22:28
Speaker 6: was thinking of what I'm thinking now. Of how, after
22:32
Speaker 6: his marriage to Fanny, he had taken her across that
22:34
Speaker 6: park to her home.
22:36
Speaker 4: She wanted to see Prippy, her brother.
22:38
Speaker 3: Said she saw me.
22:42
Speaker 4: Georgie, dear.
22:42
Speaker 6: Congratulations, Fanny and Joe. Well, congratulations. Thank you, George. I,
22:48
Speaker 6: for one, am delighted. Why do you say, I, for one?
22:52
Speaker 6: Because all your bows are here. Thatcher, Morrison, Condley, even
22:55
Speaker 6: that idiot Chester. They're quite crushed. They're in the kitchen
22:59
Speaker 6: eating turkey sandwiches.
23:00
Speaker 8: And Trippie?
23:01
Speaker 6: Oh, Trippie's out. Fanny, I don't mind feeding your suitors,
23:04
Speaker 6: but you're going to have to console.
23:06
Speaker 8: Well, Joe, should we get it over with?
23:08
Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if I'm quite up to it.
23:10
Speaker 4: They are full of turkey, and I am not. But
23:12
Speaker 4: come on, I'm game.
23:17
Speaker 8: Well, gentlemen, good evening. I rather expected you'd all be
23:21
Speaker 8: here to welcome me. I don't believe you've ever met Mrs. Skeffington,
23:25
Speaker 8: have you?
23:26
Speaker 4: Joe, Mr.
23:26
Speaker 8: Condley, Mr. Pastor, Mr.
23:28
Speaker 3: Morrison, and Mr.
23:29
Speaker 7: Hedges.
23:29
Speaker 4: You didn't get married.
23:31
Speaker 8: Chester, darling, there's cranberry on your chin. Could I get
23:35
Speaker 8: you all some dessert? I'm afraid the best I can
23:37
Speaker 8: offer is canned peaches. Georgie, would you bring.
23:39
Speaker 4: Well, Mr.
23:40
Speaker 3: And Mrs. Jaffer.
23:42
Speaker 8: 50, darling. Then you've heard.
23:44
Speaker 4: Everybody's heard.
23:46
Speaker 3: From the papers.
23:47
Speaker 8: We're on the front page?
23:48
Speaker 4: Not quite.
23:50
Speaker 3: You're listed under business transactions.
23:51
Speaker 8: 50. Chippy, you'd better go upstairs.
23:55
Speaker 3: Shame on you, boys, letting yourselves be out there.
23:58
Speaker 4: That's about enough, Trippie. Fanny, would you mind going inside?
24:00
Speaker 3: Oh, so I'm going to be challenged. He's going to
24:03
Speaker 3: heave his checkbook in my face.
24:04
Speaker 8: Chippy, you don't know what you're saying.
24:05
Speaker 10: You're drunk.
24:06
Speaker 3: I'm the one who swindled you, Steffington. Why did you
24:08
Speaker 3: have to put her in jail? Why, you little swine.
24:11
Speaker 3: Get out of here.
24:11
Speaker 4: Yes, I'll get out.
24:12
Speaker 3: You make me sick to my stomach, all of you.
24:15
Speaker 8: Would you?
24:16
Speaker 7: Would you, Chippy? No, Jeff.
24:20
Speaker 8: No. How could you? How could you?
24:28
Speaker 3: How could you? I didn't even know you were seeing him.
24:30
Speaker 8: But you're so wrong. Joe has character and he's very nice.
24:33
Speaker 3: Oh, don't try to tell me you're in love with him.
24:35
Speaker 6: I'm not drunk enough to bear that.
24:38
Speaker 8: I'll tell you this much. You're safe now. You don't
24:42
Speaker 8: have to worry about anything anymore.
24:44
Speaker 4: That's why you married him.
24:46
Speaker 3: Because I owed him $ 20, 000.
24:47
Speaker 4: Trippie, I'm very fond of Joe.
24:52
Speaker 8: But I love you. Now, Trippie, darling, go downstairs and apologize.
24:56
Speaker 3: Apologize?
24:57
Speaker 4: I'll spit in his eyes.
24:58
Speaker 8: Trippie, when you get to know Joe better.
25:00
Speaker 4: I'm taking very good care that I don't get to
25:02
Speaker 4: know him better. I'm going to Europe.
25:05
Speaker 3: Europe?
25:06
Speaker 8: Well, isn't there a war on there?
25:07
Speaker 4: That's just where I'm going. I don't know who's going
25:10
Speaker 4: to get me.
25:10
Speaker 3: The French, the British.
25:12
Speaker 4: I'll toss a coin.
25:13
Speaker 8: Oh, Trippie, you're out of your mind.
25:14
Speaker 4: Yes, and humiliated and sick.
25:17
Speaker 3: I hate him. I hate myself.
25:19
Speaker 8: Trippie, if you love me at all, you won't leave.
25:22
Speaker 4: I love you very much.
25:25
Speaker 3: But I despise Mrs.
25:27
Speaker 4: Getty.
25:29
Speaker 3: Despise her. Trippie!
25:31
Speaker 7: Trippie!
25:38
Speaker 6: That was the last we saw of Trippie. I was
25:41
Speaker 6: with Job and Fanny on their first wedding anniversary... Before dinner,
25:45
Speaker 6: Job and I were alone.
25:47
Speaker 4: In the study. Well, just we three for dinner, Job?
25:51
Speaker 3: No, Ed Morrison, probably.
25:54
Speaker 4: Morrison? He barged in. He's upstairs with her now. Well,
25:58
Speaker 4: doesn't he know it's your anniversary?
26:00
Speaker 6: He said he chose this night especially to ask her
26:03
Speaker 6: for my wife's hand in marriage.
26:06
Speaker 4: Your marrying Fanny hasn't discouraged any of them, has it?
26:09
Speaker 3: On the contrary.
26:10
Speaker 4: They seem to feel they have to rescue her. The
26:13
Speaker 4: trouble with Fanny is he's too kind to her. So
26:16
Speaker 4: gentle and considerate. How has she been with you, Joe? Kind, gentle,
26:22
Speaker 4: and considerate. I'm a very patient man, Joe. All right, Fanny.
26:27
Speaker 3: I'll leave. But remember, I haven't given up yet.
26:30
Speaker 4: Well, apparently Morrison is not staying.
26:34
Speaker 6: He'll be back again in about two weeks.
26:36
Speaker 8: Hello, George.
26:37
Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Fanny.
26:38
Speaker 8: Good evening, Joe, dear. George, your flowers are beautiful.
26:41
Speaker 3: Thanks.
26:42
Speaker 8: You like my gown, Job.
26:44
Speaker 4: You look beautiful, Fanny.
26:46
Speaker 3: Beautiful. Fanny, I thought you might like this. It's a well.
26:52
Speaker 4: Here, you open it.
26:56
Speaker 8: A diamond bracelet. Job Skeffington.
26:59
Speaker 7: Oh, it's lovely.
27:02
Speaker 8: You know, George, I keep forgetting that Job can afford
27:04
Speaker 8: to give me things like this. How very sweet of you, Job.
27:07
Speaker 8: You know, I'm simply famished. Is dinner ready?
27:10
Speaker 3: All ready. One thing about these proposals from Fanny's suitors, George.
27:15
Speaker 2: Yes?
27:15
Speaker 3: They certainly give her a whale of an appetite.
27:23
Speaker 4: We went to the theater after dinner.
27:25
Speaker 6: Fanny was her usual sparkling self until we returned.
27:29
Speaker 4: Then suddenly she was ill. Before we knew it, she'd
27:32
Speaker 4: fallen to the floor.
27:34
Speaker 3: Don't worry, Mr. Skeffington. She's perfectly all right.
27:38
Speaker 6: Then why did she faint, Doctor? I usually make a
27:41
Speaker 6: ceremony out of these things, but, well, you're going to
27:44
Speaker 6: be a father.
27:45
Speaker 3: Why, why, thank you. That's perfectly all right. May I, uh,
27:54
Speaker 3: may I go in and see her?
27:55
Speaker 6: I've given her a sedative, but you'll have about five
27:58
Speaker 6: minutes for the usual nonsense.
28:00
Speaker 3: Good night.
28:01
Speaker 4: Good night, Doctor.
28:02
Speaker 8: Danny, is.
28:07
Speaker 4: There anything I can do?
28:09
Speaker 3: No. Would you like to be alone?
28:12
Speaker 8: No.
28:15
Speaker 4: Well, I think any child of ours has a far
28:18
Speaker 4: chance of being stupid.
28:22
Speaker 8: You're laughing at me again, Joe. Oh, I suppose I'm
28:25
Speaker 8: just as fond of children as anybody else is. Well,
28:29
Speaker 8: it's just that babies grow up and everybody expects you
28:33
Speaker 8: to grow up with them.
28:35
Speaker 3: You're not afraid of growing old, are you, Fanny?
28:38
Speaker 8: Yes, I am. Do I look puffy yet?
28:42
Speaker 4: Oh.
28:44
Speaker 3: No, you look beautiful.
28:45
Speaker 8: I don't know why. My face is all tear-stained. I
28:49
Speaker 8: wanted to keep on crying, but I didn't have the strength.
28:53
Speaker 8: Soon I'll be all puffy and ugly. I don't want
28:56
Speaker 8: anybody to see me like that. I couldn't bear it.
28:59
Speaker 3: Fanny.
29:00
Speaker 8: Joe. George is going to California soon. I want to
29:04
Speaker 8: go with him and have my baby there.
29:06
Speaker 4: But I thought you loved this house.
29:07
Speaker 8: Oh, of course I do, but it's too close to
29:10
Speaker 8: all my friends. I won't have them see me ugly.
29:13
Speaker 4: You'll never be ugly, Fanny. A woman is beautiful when
29:17
Speaker 4: she's loved, and only then.
29:19
Speaker 8: Nonsense. A woman is beautiful if she has eight hours
29:23
Speaker 8: sleep and goes to the beauty parlor every day. And
29:27
Speaker 8: bone structure has a lot to do with it, too.
29:30
Speaker 6: Fanny, aren't you really happy about having a baby?
29:35
Speaker 8: So I just can't seem to keep my eyes open anymore.
29:41
Speaker 3: Yes, dear. I'll... I'll go now.
29:50
Speaker 4: Fanny's baby was born in California. A month later, she
29:54
Speaker 4: was back in New York.
29:55
Speaker 6: A devoted gentleman flocking about her as fervently as ever.
29:59
Speaker 6: But Job was too enchanted with his little daughter to
30:02
Speaker 6: bother about them. A week before the child's second birthday,
30:07
Speaker 6: word came that Trippie had been killed in action. Fanny
30:11
Speaker 6: went completely to pieces in a frightening burst of hysteria.
30:16
Speaker 8: Oh, no, no, it can't be, not Trippie. Oh, my
30:19
Speaker 8: poor darling Trippie, and I loved him so.
30:21
Speaker 6: Fanny, Fanny, please, get hold of yourself.
30:24
Speaker 8: I told him not to go to war. I told him,
30:27
Speaker 8: I told him, I told him.
30:28
Speaker 3: Fanny, Fanny, let me say something, please.
30:30
Speaker 8: Leave me alone. Trippie's dead, Trippie's dead.
30:33
Speaker 4: George, see what you can do. I'll get some brandy.
30:35
Speaker 8: Fanny, Fanny, darling, now you must. George, George, if it
30:40
Speaker 8: hadn't been for Joe, Trippie would never have.
30:42
Speaker 7: Gone to war at all.
30:43
Speaker 3: Fanny.
30:44
Speaker 7: He killed Trippie. He killed my brother.
30:47
Speaker 4: Fanny, you know that isn't true.
30:48
Speaker 3: Yes, he did.
30:50
Speaker 11: And I'll go on living with him for the rest
30:52
Speaker 11: of my life.
30:52
Speaker 3: Fanny, please.
30:53
Speaker 8: For the rest of my life, he'll keep on looking
30:55
Speaker 8: at me with those puppy dog eyes of his. So
30:58
Speaker 8: good and so kind and so sickening.
31:02
Speaker 4: Job loves you very much.
31:03
Speaker 3: You know that.
31:04
Speaker 8: It's really funny. I married Job so I could take
31:08
Speaker 8: care of Trippie. And now Trippie's dead. And all I've
31:12
Speaker 8: got is Job. All I've got is... I.
31:20
Speaker 6: I've brought you some brandy. Drink it down if you can.
31:25
Speaker 6: It will do you good.
31:26
Speaker 3: Oh.
31:33
Speaker 6: I suppose whatever Fanny did from then on, she could
31:36
Speaker 6: justify because Trippie was dead. Very little changed over the years,
31:42
Speaker 6: least of all Fanny's youth and radiance. She simply refused
31:45
Speaker 6: to grow any older. During the speakeasy era, she became
31:49
Speaker 6: fashionably involved with a rum runner.
31:52
Speaker 4: And Job, quite openly, started to be seen with girls
31:55
Speaker 4: from his office. Just what was in his mind, I'll
31:57
Speaker 4: never know. Only one thing is certain.
32:00
Speaker 6: If he was trying to give Fanny grounds for divorce.
32:02
Speaker 3: He was highly successful.
32:05
Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Georgie. All by yourself? Uh-huh.
32:09
Speaker 3: Job's in the garden.
32:10
Speaker 8: With Fanny?
32:11
Speaker 3: Yes. How was it in court?
32:13
Speaker 8: Darla's dishwater.
32:15
Speaker 4: Fanny, tell me. Does she know about the divorce, young Fanny?
32:19
Speaker 8: It's quite impossible to keep anything from her.
32:21
Speaker 4: She's 11 years old now.
32:23
Speaker 8: You don't have to remind me.
32:24
Speaker 3: Oh, Fanny. Fanny.
32:27
Speaker 4: Can't you find it possible to forgive Job?
32:30
Speaker 8: Five secretaries in a row. I'm not that forgiving.
32:34
Speaker 4: Well, the second secretary must have forgiven him for the first.
32:38
Speaker 4: All the way down the line.
32:40
Speaker 6: Can't you be as forgiving as a secretary?
32:42
Speaker 8: Well, as a matter of fact, Georgie, I'm very grateful
32:45
Speaker 8: to Job. I must admit I was quite angry at first.
32:48
Speaker 8: Then suddenly I realized it's five secretaries for five gates
32:52
Speaker 8: to freedom.
32:54
Speaker 4: Now you can live with your conscience.
32:56
Speaker 8: Yes.
32:57
Speaker 4: I hope the two of you are very happy.
33:00
Speaker 8: George, is custody of the child always given to the mother?
33:05
Speaker 4: Why, don't you want her?
33:06
Speaker 8: Of course, of course, it's just that, well, poor little thing,
33:09
Speaker 8: I can't help but feel she'd so much rather be
33:11
Speaker 8: with Joe.
33:12
Speaker 4: Oh, hello, Fanny.
33:14
Speaker 3: Well, how did you go?
33:16
Speaker 8: Very tiresome, Joe, by naps now and then, so did
33:18
Speaker 8: the judge. Georgie, why don't you run out in the
33:21
Speaker 8: garden and amuse Fanny?
33:22
Speaker 3: Of course, I'm in a.
33:24
Speaker 4: Highly amusing mood.
33:26
Speaker 8: Well, Job, are you comfortable at the club?
33:28
Speaker 4: I have a choice view of 47th Street.
33:31
Speaker 8: Oh, I do want to thank you for your very
33:33
Speaker 8: generous service.
33:34
Speaker 4: Well, 12 years with the wrong husband should be rewarded.
33:37
Speaker 8: Well, of course it was ridiculous of you to settle
33:39
Speaker 8: a fortune on me, but then it would have been
33:42
Speaker 8: ridiculous for me to refuse.
33:44
Speaker 4: I'm glad you're going to be so reasonable about it.
33:48
Speaker 8: Still laughing at me without moving a muscle.
33:51
Speaker 4: I assure you, Fanny. It's no laughing matter.
33:54
Speaker 8: I can't bear to look at you, Job. Your eyes
33:56
Speaker 8: are such a hurt expression.
33:58
Speaker 3: And I repudiate my eyes. I have no right to
34:00
Speaker 3: feel hurt.
34:01
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Job. I'm really sorry. I can't love you.
34:04
Speaker 4: You can't really love anyone.
34:06
Speaker 8: Well.
34:07
Speaker 4: Let's not mend this reproach. It's just one of the
34:10
Speaker 4: facts of your life.
34:11
Speaker 8: You know, Job, I'm very fond of you. And I
34:13
Speaker 8: might never have taken this step at all if I
34:15
Speaker 8: hadn't discovered... Well, after all, Job, five of them.
34:21
Speaker 4: Oh, you mustn't think so harshly of myself. They were
34:24
Speaker 4: very nice and understanding when I came home to the...
34:27
Speaker 4: when I came to the office after a hard day
34:29
Speaker 4: at home.
34:30
Speaker 8: Joe Brim. Fanny, I don't... Joe, please don't beg.
34:36
Speaker 3: Beg you, Fanny?
34:38
Speaker 4: I never begged you in my life.
34:39
Speaker 8: Oh, I have a dreadful headache. This isn't what I
34:41
Speaker 8: wanted to discuss with you at all.
34:43
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but I have a headache too. And I
34:45
Speaker 4: think mine precedes yours by quite.
34:47
Speaker 3: A few years.
34:47
Speaker 8: I find this all very distasteful.
34:49
Speaker 3: All right.
34:50
Speaker 4: What is it you want to discuss?
34:53
Speaker 3: Our daughter.
34:54
Speaker 8: She's not going to be very happy staying with me.
34:57
Speaker 8: She loves you so much more.
34:58
Speaker 4: I'm no hypocrite. I'm glad she does.
35:00
Speaker 8: Yes, but you see, the court says a child should
35:03
Speaker 8: stay with its mother.
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Speaker 4: Never mind what the court says. What do you say?
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Speaker 8: Well, I think that a child's sure, but it's just
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Speaker 8: that I.
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Speaker 6: Are you sure that she won't be a hindrance to you?
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Speaker 6: After all, you're young and beautiful.
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Speaker 8: Don't be insulting. It isn't fair, Job. You know perfectly
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Speaker 8: well that if Fanny is miserable, I should be miserable too.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 4: What do you want.
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Speaker 3: Me to do?
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Speaker 8: Well, if you could talk to her, Job, and see
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Speaker 8: how she feels about it.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 4: I'll be glad to.
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Speaker 8: Oh, thank you, Job. That's very sweet of you.
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Speaker 4: May I take her out to dinner?
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Speaker 8: That would be lovely.
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Speaker 3: Maybe she could wear her blue organ. She reminds me
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Speaker 3: of you. Darling... You haven't eaten hardly anything.
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Speaker 7: I'm not very hungry. You haven't eaten either, Daddy.
35:58
Speaker 3: Oh, I had a big lunch.
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Speaker 7: It's a very nice orchestra, isn't it? Very nice.
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Speaker 4: Yes, darling, it is.
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Speaker 7: Daddy, aren't you coming home to live anymore?
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Speaker 3: I'm afraid not, Fanny. Besides, I'm... I'm going to Europe
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Speaker 3: in a few weeks, and... I'll be gone a long time.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Daddy.
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Speaker 3: The wait is coming.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy.
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Speaker 4: Everything all right, sir?
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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you. But, well, we are not hungry.
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Speaker 4: Would the young lady have some dessert?
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Speaker 7: No, thank you.
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Speaker 4: Oh, we have some very delicious creme glacé.
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Speaker 7: That means ice cream, Daddy.
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Speaker 4: Vanilla, peppermint, strawberry?
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Speaker 7: No, thank you.
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Speaker 4: You can bring the young lady a tall glass of milk.
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Speaker 8: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: Fanny dear, you'll see. You'll be very happy with your mother.
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Speaker 4: Your mother loves you.
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Speaker 8: Yes, Daddy, but.
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Speaker 7: You love me too, don't you?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Why wouldn't I be happy with you too?
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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if I can explain this to you, Fanny.
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Speaker 4: You see, your mother and I are of different faiths.
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Speaker 7: You believe in God, don't you?
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Speaker 3: Certainly I do.
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Speaker 8: Well, so does Mommy.
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Speaker 7: She told me so.
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Speaker 4: Well, Fanny, it's... You see, I'm Jewish.
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Speaker 3: Your mother isn't.
37:22
Speaker 4: Now, if you stay with her, you will never know
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Speaker 4: what it is to be a... Well, I mean, if
37:29
Speaker 4: you come to Europe with me, it's different there, and
37:31
Speaker 4: people may look upon you as.
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Speaker 3: It's very difficult to explain to a child.
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Speaker 7: If you don't want me, Daddy, I suppose I can
37:41
Speaker 7: always live by myself.
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Speaker 3: Fanny.
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Speaker 7: Oh, Daddy, Daddy, please take me with you, even to Europe.
37:48
Speaker 7: I won't be any trouble, I promise.
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Speaker 3: You do? Will you? Well, well, let me see.
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Speaker 6: You know, darling, there are wonderful schools in Switzerland.
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Speaker 7: And you'll speak to Mother?
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Speaker 8: Oh, maybe she'll say yes.
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Speaker 4: Oh, she will, darling, she will.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Daddy.
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Speaker 4: Hush now, hush.
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Speaker 3: Here comes your milk.
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Speaker 7: I think I'll have some ice cream after all.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and, uh, waiter, you can bring me a play, too.
38:28
Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
38:32
Speaker 2: Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 8: Who wants to.
38:37
Speaker 9: Know why Alexis Smith always wears.
38:40
Speaker 3: A gold anklet. Because her ankles are so slim?
38:42
Speaker 8: Well, they are, but the reason is much more sentimental.
38:46
Speaker 9: The anklet's engraved with the date she and her husband met,
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Speaker 9: and she hasn't had it off since they were married.
38:52
Speaker 9: Alexis' legs are lovely, but you can judge for yourself
38:56
Speaker 9: when you see her in Rhapsody in Blue, the big
38:58
Speaker 9: new musical based on the life of George Gershwin.
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Speaker 2: Girls off the screen as well as on the screen
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Speaker 2: flakes for stockings save their elasticity. They can give as
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Speaker 2: you move, but spring back into shape, always keeping.
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Speaker 3: Their flattering fit.
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Speaker 6: Of course, Luxe stockings last longer, too. In strain tests,
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Speaker 6: Luxe stockings lasted twice as long as those washed with
39:23
Speaker 6: strong soap.
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Speaker 4: Or rubbed with cake soap.
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Speaker 2: Luxe is worth waiting for. Back to William Keeley and
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Speaker 2: our stars.
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Speaker 5: After the final curtain, we hope you'll join us for
39:46
Speaker 5: a brief chat with tonight's stars. And now, here's Act
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Speaker 5: Three of Mr. Skeffington, with Betty Davis as Fanny and
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Speaker 5: Paul Henry as Job. So Job Skeffington went to Europe,
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Speaker 5: to Germany, and his daughter went with him.
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Speaker 4: And there Job stayed.
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Speaker 6: About as little Fanny grew up, she'd come to New
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Speaker 6: York every summer.
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Speaker 4: Too bad she picked that time of year. Her mother
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Speaker 4: never seemed to.
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Speaker 8: Be in town. My darling daughter, where does time go?
40:28
Speaker 8: I thought surely I could see you this summer. I
40:30
Speaker 8: planned to be in New York in August. But that
40:33
Speaker 8: dreadful yacht at the Barnby broke down off the bank.
40:41
Speaker 8: Dearest Fanny... To think so many years have passed and
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Speaker 8: we still haven't seen each other. But mother misses you very,
40:49
Speaker 8: very much. I am glad you liked your birthday gift.
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Speaker 6: I don't remember when.
40:57
Speaker 4: And so it went for ten years. But this year,
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Speaker 4: young Fanny failed to arrive in the summer.
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Speaker 6: She came instead on an embarrassing October afternoon. Her mother
41:07
Speaker 6: was home having a cocktail with a young man. The
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Speaker 6: older Fanny grew, the younger it seemed were her admirers. Fanny,
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Speaker 6: remember that day at the country club when I introduced myself?
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Speaker 8: Yes, Johnny.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm finally going to say what I wanted to
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Speaker 3: say to you then. I'm in love with you, Fanny.
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Speaker 8: You're really very sweet, Johnny.
41:26
Speaker 3: Oh, that tolerant tone.
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Speaker 8: Johnny, if we're going sailing, we'd better get started.
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Speaker 3: Do we have to go sailing?
41:32
Speaker 8: Oh, but I love sailing. And what is it, Susan?
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Speaker 3: Excuse me, madam. A young lady to see you.
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Speaker 8: A young lady?
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Speaker 3: She says she's your... Hello, Mother.
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Speaker 8: Good Stephanie. Stephanie. Fanny's darling. My darling, this is such
41:49
Speaker 8: a surprise. Yes, I suppose it is, Mother. You know,
41:53
Speaker 8: you're the last person I expected to see. Is your
41:58
Speaker 8: father with you? Oh, no, he's still in Berlin. He
42:02
Speaker 8: says the Nazis don't frighten him, but he thought I'd
42:05
Speaker 8: better come back here to you.
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Speaker 6: And?
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Speaker 8: Here you are. Here I am.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Johnny.
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Speaker 8: Oh, forgive me. Fanny, this is Johnny Mitchell. Johnny, this
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Speaker 8: is my baby, Fanny.
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Speaker 3: How do you do?
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Speaker 8: Hello. Fanny and I haven't seen each other for years,
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Speaker 8: have we, darling? You know, you're very tall for your age.
42:24
Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 8: Oh, but mother, I'm nearly... She's going to be a
42:28
Speaker 8: stunning woman, don't you think, darling?
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes. Yes, she's going to be.
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Speaker 8: Darling, Johnny and I are going to go sailing. When
42:36
Speaker 8: I get back, we can talk for days and days.
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Speaker 3: Fanny, do you think we ought to? It gets pretty chilly.
42:41
Speaker 8: Chilly? You talk as if you were 40, 50 years
42:44
Speaker 8: old or something. Certainly we're going sailing. Well, I'll see
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Speaker 8: you later then.
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Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 3: Hey, wait. I can't call you both, Fanny. I'll tell
42:53
Speaker 3: you what I'll do. I'll call you young Fanny and you.
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Speaker 11: Well, I'll think of something.
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Speaker 8: Hello?
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Speaker 3: Benny?
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Speaker 4: Yes?
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Speaker 7: This is Johnny Mitchell.
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 2: Look, I don't want to alarm you, but... Well, your mother...
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Speaker 2: We were coming in when she.
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Speaker 3: Well, she just collapsed.
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Speaker 2: She got pretty wet sailing.
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Speaker 3: She must have gotten a chill or something.
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Speaker 8: Where is she now?
43:29
Speaker 2: I'm bringing her right home.
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Speaker 4: You'd better call a doctor.
43:33
Speaker 3: Is your mother's maid around?
43:34
Speaker 8: Mandy, yes.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Mandy will know who to call.
43:37
Speaker 2: I'll have her home in half an hour.
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Speaker 6: That night, Fanny was in the hospital with a raging fever.
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Speaker 3: Just serious.
43:50
Speaker 4: Doctors warned her she might not live. At her age,
43:53
Speaker 4: they said. At her age.
43:56
Speaker 6: Who'd ever thought of Fanny as old? The beautiful, dazzling Mrs.
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Speaker 3: Kessington.
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Speaker 4: Well, Fanny didn't die.
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Speaker 6: And in ten days after she'd passed the crisis.
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Speaker 7: Yes, Mrs.
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Speaker 3: Kessington?
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Speaker 8: No. Did Dr. Nelson say when I may have visited? Yes,
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Speaker 8: Thursday morning, but only one or two, please. Ask him
44:19
Speaker 8: to please telephone my home. Under no circumstances do I
44:25
Speaker 8: want anything to happen. No one must see me. No one. Oh, hello,
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Speaker 8: Cousin George.
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Speaker 3: Hello, dear. Well, did your mother get home?
44:41
Speaker 8: Ten minutes ago. We were just having some tea.
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Speaker 6: I would have to be out of town when all
44:45
Speaker 6: this happened. Well, did you two finally get acquainted?
44:48
Speaker 8: I'm afraid we've hardly had the chance. The doctor wouldn't
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Speaker 8: allow any visitors at the hospital, and when she went
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Speaker 8: to the rest home, she told me not to come.
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Speaker 6: Darling, you don't know your mother very well. She wouldn't
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Speaker 6: want anyone to see her unless she was looking her
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Speaker 6: absolute best. And they tell me this theory is no beauty.
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Speaker 9: You have company already, Mother.
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Speaker 8: Georgie, what an unexpected pleasure.
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Speaker 3: How are you, Fanny?
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Speaker 8: Very well, thank you, even if I do look so dreadful.
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Speaker 4: You could never look anything but adorable.
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Speaker 8: You're lying, Georgie. I know perfectly well how I look.
45:25
Speaker 8: Have some tea, George. Wasn't it just like me to
45:28
Speaker 8: contract a child to be... But it's the most dreadful nuisance.
45:33
Speaker 8: Handfuls of my hair came out. Henri simply saved my life.
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Speaker 4: Who's Henri?
45:37
Speaker 8: My hairdresser, of course. I don't know what I would
45:40
Speaker 8: have done without him. But here I am, chattering on
45:43
Speaker 8: about myself. Annie, what have you been doing? Oh, nothing
45:47
Speaker 8: very much, Mother. Have you seen Johnny Mitchell?
45:51
Speaker 4: Yes, I've seen him.
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Speaker 8: He's fine. Georgie, do you know who I've been seeing?
45:56
Speaker 3: Who? Joe.
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Speaker 8: Joe?
45:58
Speaker 3: Joe?
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Speaker 8: Yes, he just sits around all day staring at me
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Speaker 8: with those soulful eyes of his.
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Speaker 4: Oh, you mean you've been having hallucinations?
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Speaker 8: Is that what it is? One day in the hospital
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Speaker 8: I shut my eyes and he suddenly appeared. Now I
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Speaker 8: don't even have to shut my eyes. He appears just
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Speaker 8: the same. Fanny, I do wish you'd write your father
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Speaker 8: and ask him to stop it. Have you heard from
46:22
Speaker 8: him lately? No, not for weeks and weeks, and I'm
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Speaker 8: terribly worried. Well, he hasn't had time to write. He's
46:27
Speaker 8: been too busy staring at me. I detest women who
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Speaker 8: go to psychoanalysts, Georgie, but what else am I to do?
46:36
Speaker 8: I'm seeing one next week, Dr. Tyler.
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Speaker 4: Wonderful.
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Speaker 8: Well, now I think I'll go to my room and rest. Georgie,
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Speaker 8: would you help a decrepit old lady up the stairs?
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Speaker 4: Oh, Fanny, what nonsense.
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Speaker 3: Keep talking, Mrs. Skeffington.
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Speaker 8: I told you about the hallucinations, Dr. Tyler. What else
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Speaker 8: is there to talk about?
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Speaker 3: How old are you?
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Speaker 8: Forty-five.
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Speaker 3: Sixty.
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Speaker 8: Well, I didn't sleep very well last night.
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Speaker 11: Sleep is most important to a woman of your age,
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Speaker 11: if you don't want to be an eyesore.
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Speaker 8: Eyesore? Are you suggesting I am an eyesore?
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Speaker 3: No, nor are you a Lillian Russell.
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Speaker 4: Dr.
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Speaker 6: Tyler!
47:21
Speaker 3: Sit down.
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Speaker 11: My dear lady, your seeing your husband comes out of.
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Speaker 4: A subconscious desire to see him, a need for him.
47:28
Speaker 8: That's ridiculous.
47:29
Speaker 11: Nevertheless, that's where your husband comes in when your romantic
47:31
Speaker 11: days are over.
47:33
Speaker 8: My romantic days are over?
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Speaker 3: Oh, my poor woman.
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Speaker 8: Oh, my poor doctor.
47:38
Speaker 3: Listen to me.
47:39
Speaker 11: The only person who will stick to such a woman
47:42
Speaker 11: as you is your husband. Admirers, sweethearts, whatever you choose
47:45
Speaker 11: to call them, never mean what they say and always
47:48
Speaker 11: end up by turning sour on the stomach.
47:50
Speaker 7: You're responsible.
47:51
Speaker 11: But my advice is sound. If you don't believe me,
47:54
Speaker 11: find out for yourself. See them, these gentlemen of your past.
47:59
Speaker 11: Ask the whole lot of them in for dinner. You
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Speaker 11: can size them up and they can size you up.
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Speaker 8: Shall I make you a waiter? If I wanted to,
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Speaker 8: not that I do, but if I wanted to, all
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Speaker 8: I would have to do is smile.
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Speaker 4: At one of them.
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Speaker 3: All right, why don't you try it?
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Speaker 8: Oh, you want me to prove it to you?
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Speaker 11: No, to yourself. I'm sorry to have to be so blunt, Mrs. Skeffington,
48:19
Speaker 11: but you're one of the vast army of silly women.
48:22
Speaker 11: Capital S, capital W. You're overdressed, overmade up, and you're
48:26
Speaker 11: most certainly overperfumed.
48:27
Speaker 8: You are the rudest man I ever met.
48:29
Speaker 11: Did you come here to consult a gentleman or a doctor?
48:31
Speaker 8: I strongly suspect you are neither, and I'm not at
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Speaker 8: all impressed with your manner.
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Speaker 11: You will be when you get my bill. Go back
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Speaker 11: to your husband.
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Speaker 8: And you know where you can go.
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Speaker 6: Fanny must have known what the party would be like,
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Speaker 6: but along with her false hair, she wore a false gaiety.
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Speaker 4: Just as difficult to detect.
48:56
Speaker 6: They trooped in the stout-hearted gentlemen of her past, who
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Speaker 6: now were merely stout. They brought their wives along, and
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Speaker 6: it was all very dismal and somewhat heartbreaking. Fortunately, they
49:08
Speaker 6: left early, all but Edward Morrison. He took Fanny out
49:12
Speaker 6: on the terrace.
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Speaker 3: Fanny. Oh, my darling.
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Speaker 8: The same Edward, romantic as ever. And just look at her.
49:21
Speaker 8: You're bald and I'm dilapidated.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's ridiculous. We're both in the prime of life.
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Speaker 6: I still want to marry you, Fanny.
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Speaker 8: Edward, you can't be serious.
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Speaker 3: Fanny, I love you. I love you, Fanny.
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Speaker 8: Edward, please.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Fanny, we'll have a glorious life together, will we? Yes, Edward. I...
49:41
Speaker 3: I'm afraid I've disturbed your hair, dear. These, uh... These curls.
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Speaker 8: What's the mystery? They're always falling off.
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Speaker 3: Uh, they're, uh, very pretty. May I pin them on
49:56
Speaker 3: for you?
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Speaker 7: No, it would.
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Speaker 8: Thank you. I think I'd better do it myself. They're
50:01
Speaker 8: very expensive, you know.
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Speaker 3: Oh. Well, thank heaven you don't have to worry about
50:06
Speaker 3: things like that.
50:07
Speaker 8: Oh, but I do. Only it keeps me practically broke.
50:10
Speaker 4: Broke?
50:11
Speaker 8: Well, practically.
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Speaker 3: You can't mean that, Fanny.
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Speaker 8: If only I'd had a man to advise me. You
50:19
Speaker 8: should have returned a few years earlier, Edward.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I should have.
50:25
Speaker 8: It's getting late.
50:26
Speaker 3: Yes, don't bother seeing me to the door, Fanny.
50:30
Speaker 8: I'll think over your proposal.
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Speaker 6: Oh, well, don't be too hasty. Marriage is a very
50:37
Speaker 6: serious step.
50:38
Speaker 8: Yes, it is, Edward. I'm so glad to have seen you.
50:42
Speaker 3: Goodbye, Fanny.
50:44
Speaker 6: Oh, uh, you don't happen to know of anyone interested
50:47
Speaker 6: in buying a coffee plantation, do you?
50:51
Speaker 8: No, but if I hear of anyone, I shall be
50:53
Speaker 8: very happy to let you know.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Fanny. It's no good, but it's all I've
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Speaker 3: got left.
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Speaker 8: Mother. Mother, may I speak to you? Of course, Fanny. Mother,
51:14
Speaker 8: I just left John. John Emerson? Yes. We're going to
51:19
Speaker 8: be married. But I had no idea, Fanny. You haven't
51:24
Speaker 8: known him for very long. I've known him for several months.
51:28
Speaker 8: As long as I've known you. Don't you think you
51:30
Speaker 8: should have talked it over with your mother? Have I
51:34
Speaker 8: a mother? That's not very kind, Fanny. I've always loved
51:39
Speaker 8: you very much. Sort of a long-distance love. I never
51:45
Speaker 8: wanted you to leave me. It was just that you
51:48
Speaker 8: loved your father so much more. Oh, I know you
51:51
Speaker 8: had a difficult choice to make. You couldn't be both
51:54
Speaker 8: a beauty.
51:55
Speaker 4: And a mother.
51:57
Speaker 8: Oh, Mother, I used to worry about my looks, too,
52:00
Speaker 8: when I was 13 and all arms and legs. But
52:03
Speaker 8: Father would always comfort me. A woman is beautiful only
52:08
Speaker 8: when she's loved, he'd say.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
52:12
Speaker 8: He said that to me once, too. Fanny, do you
52:16
Speaker 8: suppose it's too late for me to be a mother
52:20
Speaker 8: to now? I'd like to try. Oh, it wouldn't work out, Mother.
52:26
Speaker 3: I see.
52:27
Speaker 8: We're leaving for Seattle tonight. Johnny's opening a branch off
52:31
Speaker 8: the stairs. Well, I suppose you wish me luck. Of course, Penny.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 8: Goodbye, Mother. Goodbye, darling.
52:44
Speaker 7: Mandy.
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Speaker 4: Mandy. Mandy. Mandy.
52:56
Speaker 7: Mandy, don't leave me.
52:59
Speaker 8: Why, of course I won't. You're the only one I
53:03
Speaker 8: have left. I'll never leave you, never. Mandy, I'm alone.
53:11
Speaker 7: I'm all alone.
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Speaker 6: A few moments ago, Mandy telephoned me. She wanted to
53:23
Speaker 6: know if I'd come over and see Fanny tomorrow. She
53:25
Speaker 6: thought I might cheer her up.
53:27
Speaker 4: And just now the phone rang again. It was Job Skeffington.
53:32
Speaker 4: He said he wanted to say goodbye. He was going
53:33
Speaker 4: to leave New York.
53:35
Speaker 3: But I made him promise to see me first.
53:37
Speaker 4: In the morning.
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Speaker 8: So, dear, what are you doing here at 10 o'clock
53:43
Speaker 8: in the morning?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I thought I'd just drop by and see how
53:46
Speaker 3: you were. Well, it was, uh.
53:49
Speaker 4: Nice seeing all your old friends at the party the
53:51
Speaker 4: other night, wasn't it?
53:52
Speaker 8: It was pure vanity, George. What makes you so nervous?
53:57
Speaker 3: Fanny.
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Speaker 4: Fanny, I'm worried. I've just seen Job.
54:01
Speaker 8: Job? But you couldn't have. Job is in Germany.
54:03
Speaker 4: No, no, he's right here in New York.
54:05
Speaker 8: If he's here, why didn't he let his own daughter know?
54:08
Speaker 6: When you see him, you'll understand. He's been in a
54:10
Speaker 6: concentration camp. You'll hardly recognize him. They took everything he had, Fanny.
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Speaker 6: Job hasn't got a cent.
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Speaker 8: Job, poor. What do you think I ought to do?
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Speaker 6: It's a question of what you ought to do. Of course,
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Speaker 6: you have no obligation. I think you should remember that
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Speaker 6: this house, everything in it, every stitch you own is.
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Speaker 4: Yours because of his generosity.
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Speaker 8: And it's unfair that I'm so well off and he's
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Speaker 8: so poor.
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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 8: Very well. I'll send for the lawyers and see what
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Speaker 8: we can do for him.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, Fanny.
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Speaker 4: No lawyers.
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Speaker 8: You mean I must see Job myself?
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Speaker 3: Yes. He's downstairs.
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Speaker 8: Downstairs? In this house now.
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Speaker 3: Go down and see him, Fanny. Never.
54:53
Speaker 8: Look at me, Georgie. Just look at what's left of me.
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Speaker 4: But you always seem the same to Job. He still
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Speaker 4: loves you.
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Speaker 8: No, Georgie. He loved only what I looked like.
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Speaker 3: That isn't true, and you know it.
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Speaker 8: Georgie, do you think I am mentally deficient? I've seen
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Speaker 8: the others. They all love me, too. At the party
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Speaker 8: the other night, one looked at me, and they all recoiled.
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Speaker 8: And I'm not going to add joke to the list.
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Speaker 8: Despise me, Paul. You didn't know what a really vain
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Speaker 8: creature you'd been fond of all these years.
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Speaker 6: You've never loved anyone but yourself, have you, Fanny? Spent
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Speaker 6: your life in front of a mirror, completely unaware of the.
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Speaker 3: People around you.
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Speaker 6: Now look, here's a chance for you to do something
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Speaker 6: for someone else. A lot worse things in this world
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Speaker 6: than losing one's beauty.
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Speaker 4: Oh, go down. Fanny, you won't regret it. Go down
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Speaker 4: and face him.
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Speaker 8: Very well. I'll... I'll go down. Joe.
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Speaker 4: This is Fanny.
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Speaker 8: You don't know me, do you, Joe?
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Speaker 3: Oh, yes. Yes, I do.
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Speaker 4: You're as beautiful as ever.
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Speaker 8: Still laughing at me, Joe.
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Speaker 3: Oh, no, Tammy, no. You see... Ah, yes!
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Speaker 8: Joe! Joe! Joe, are you hurt?
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Speaker 3: I thought I remembered where... Oh, Joe.
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Speaker 8: Oh, no, Jobe, my darling, you can't be. They didn't
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Speaker 8: the Nazis. Oh, my poor darling. My poor dear Jobe.
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Speaker 8: And all the time I've been thinking only of myself. Jobe. Jobe,
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Speaker 8: you're safe now. You're home with me. You're safe now. Come, Jobe.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 8: Here's my arm. Here's your pain, Joe.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Fanny.
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Speaker 8: Come along. Mandy.
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Speaker 7: Mandy, Mr.
57:17
Speaker 8: Steffington has come home.
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Speaker 7: Oh, welcome home, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Steffington.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Mandy.
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Speaker 8: Joe, here's George.
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Speaker 4: Fanny, I've never seen you look more beautiful.
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Speaker 8: A woman is beautiful only when she is loved. Isn't
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Speaker 8: that right, Joe? Nandy, would you call Janie Clarkson? Tell
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Speaker 8: her I can't possibly see her for lunch today.
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Speaker 2: Before we bring our stars back to a certain fall,
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Speaker 2: we would like to make this important announcement. Starting today,
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Speaker 2: your meat feeder will give you not two, but four
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Speaker 2: points and four cents for every pound of used fats
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Speaker 2: you turn in. Fats and oils in most meats, except low-grade,
58:19
Speaker 2: continue to be rationed. Used fats are urgently needed to
58:22
Speaker 2: speed up reconversion to peacetime goods.
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Speaker 8: I didn't know used fats were needed now that the
58:27
Speaker 8: shooting's over.
58:27
Speaker 3: But they are more than ever.
58:29
Speaker 2: It takes grease and oil to help manufacture that new
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Speaker 2: refrigerator you want, or a car, or a sewing machine,
58:34
Speaker 2: or a washer, or any of thousands of products you've
58:37
Speaker 2: been waiting for. And if there aren't enough fats and
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Speaker 2: oils and greases to go around, some industry has to
58:42
Speaker 2: do with less.
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Speaker 4: Soap, for instance.
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Speaker 8: But soap doesn't use heavy greases like industry does it?
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Speaker 2: No, but industry gets first claims so it can put
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Speaker 2: men back to work. The more used fats you turn in,
58:54
Speaker 2: the more of the finer oils needed for soap making
58:56
Speaker 2: can be released.
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Speaker 8: Well, if the government thinks it's important enough to give
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Speaker 8: me double the points for saving fat, I guess I'll
59:03
Speaker 8: start another can tonight with the drippings from the frying pan.
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Speaker 2: And save used fat from every meal. Roaster and broiler drippings.
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Speaker 5: I can assure you it's been a real pleasure to
59:28
Speaker 5: work with two such stars as Betty Davis and Paul Henry.
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Speaker 5: And the result has been a play we'll long remember.
59:34
Speaker 8: It's good to be back on locks and back with
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Speaker 8: you again, Bill.
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Speaker 3: Again?
59:38
Speaker 4: Have you two worked together before?
59:39
Speaker 3: Oh, yes, Paul.
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Speaker 5: I was dialogue director on the first picture in which
59:44
Speaker 5: Betty changed from innocent ingenue roles to, uh... Go ahead
59:47
Speaker 5: and say it. Well, Betty, you know you have brought
59:50
Speaker 5: more misery to humanity than any other star in Hollywood.
59:55
Speaker 5: But only on the screen.
59:57
Speaker 4: Thank you.
59:58
Speaker 5: You know, Betty, when I was in Paris a few
59:59
Speaker 5: months ago, I stopped at the Paris canteen. They were
1:00:02
Speaker 5: hoping for a visit from you.
1:00:04
Speaker 8: I had planned to go over, Bill, but the last
1:00:06
Speaker 8: minute couldn't and was very disappointed.
1:00:08
Speaker 4: They couldn't spare Betty from the Hollywood canteen.
1:00:10
Speaker 5: Well, Betty, you and your associates have done a really
1:00:13
Speaker 5: magnificent job at the canteen.
1:00:15
Speaker 8: Well, my associates and I thank you, Bill. Matter of fact,
1:00:18
Speaker 8: after the canteen closes on Thanksgiving Day, I'll have to
1:00:20
Speaker 8: find something.
1:00:21
Speaker 4: Else to do.
1:00:22
Speaker 5: Yes, and I hope that something else will include another
1:00:25
Speaker 5: picture for Warners. As fine as your latest one, The
1:00:28
Speaker 5: Corn is Green.
1:00:29
Speaker 8: Well, as long as we're patting people on the back, Bill,
1:00:31
Speaker 8: save a pat for Paul.
1:00:33
Speaker 5: Well, I was just coming to that. I was lucky
1:00:36
Speaker 5: enough to see a preview of Paul's next picture.
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Speaker 1: We close with Lux Radio Theater's Mr.
1:00:44
Speaker 4: Skeffington.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us for this broadcast from October 1st, 1945.