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Lux Radio Theatre - "The Gay Sisters" (Old Time Radio, 1942) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Fiona Gaylord and her sisters face a fight to hold
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  Speaker 1: on to their family home and inheritance with a disputed
• 0:06
  Speaker 1: will and developer Charles Barkley pressing the conflict. On November 23, 1942,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: CBS brought that story to Lux Radio Theater in episode 371,
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  Speaker 1: The Gay Sisters, adapted from the Warner Brothers film based
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: on Stephen Longstreet's novel. Barbara Stanwyck returns to her screen
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  Speaker 1: role as Fiona Gaylord, with Robert Young co-starring under the
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  Speaker 1: auspices of producer and host Cecil B.
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  Speaker 2: DeMille.
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  Speaker 1: The action moves from the Gaylord household to the courtroom,
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  Speaker 1: where the future of the estate is at issue. And now,
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  Speaker 1: the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 3: Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio and Robert Young in
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  Speaker 3: The Gay Sisters.
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  Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, there's a popular belief that all fame
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  Speaker 4: the same way. Then by being born.
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  Speaker 3: Then by being a writer.
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  Speaker 4: And finally by reaching down to pick up Barbara Stanwyck
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  Speaker 4: was born in Brooklyn. Robert Young in Chicago. But there
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  Speaker 4: the resemblance ends. The truth may be less glamorous, but
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  Speaker 4: it's more logical. Both our stars and their trade the
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  Speaker 4: right way. By serving a hard... In fact, between the
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  Speaker 4: two of them, they have about a hundred pictures to
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  Speaker 4: their credit. Rob Young has just finished Journey for Margaret
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  Speaker 4: at the Metro. And tonight we've picked Barbara Clay. It's
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  Speaker 4: the thrilling... Hey, sisters. You'll hear Barbara as the... Heiress
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  Speaker 4: to a huge fortune and the courage to give up
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  Speaker 4: every cent of it for a principal. And her bitter enemy,
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  Speaker 4: played by Bob Young, knows that secret. And there's one
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  Speaker 4: secret I wish I knew. How to bring back my hair.
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  Speaker 4: In short, by a good many lawyers who were accustomed
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  Speaker 4: to taking me at my word. Veronica Lake was telling
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  Speaker 4: the audience about a man who bought $ 180, 000 worth of
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  Speaker 4: warp and offered a lock of mine to anyone who'd
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  Speaker 4: buy a 10-cent warp stamp. My desk ever since. I
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  Speaker 4: have so few hairs to give for me. I can't
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  Speaker 4: back down as my hair holds out. But from now on,
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  Speaker 4: the deal is off. The quality of my hair leaves
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  Speaker 4: much rather cellular. There's no doubt at all about the
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  Speaker 4: quote always makes good on a... Now for the exciting
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  Speaker 4: drama we promised certain on the first act of The
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  Speaker 4: Gay Sisters, starring Bob and Robert Young as Charles Barclay.
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  Speaker 4: In 1917, when Fiona Gaylord was eight years old, her.
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  Speaker 3: Father went to war.
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  Speaker 4: The night before he left, they sat and spoke together
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  Speaker 4: in the library of the family mansion.
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  Speaker 5: The land is the Gaylord's religion, Fiona. For 150 years,
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  Speaker 5: we have bought land, and we have grown richer and richer.
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  Speaker 5: We have gone to Europe and to Harvard and to
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  Speaker 5: the dogs. But we never sold the land. And now, Fiona,
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  Speaker 5: you're the Gaylord who's going to carry on.
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  Speaker 3: In my place. Always be a Gaylord, Fiona. Never sell
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  Speaker 3: the land.
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  Speaker 4: For 23 years, Fiona Gaylord has remembered those words. For
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  Speaker 4: 23 years, while the Gaylord will was dragged through the courts...
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  Speaker 4: She has watched the once great fortune dwindle to almost nothing.
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  Speaker 4: But she has held fast. Fiona Gaylord has never sold
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  Speaker 4: the land.
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  Speaker 6: Proceed, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Gibbons.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Your Honor, as you know, this is in the
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  Speaker 7: matter of the will of the late Penn Gaylord. I
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  Speaker 7: am the proponent of that will and the attorney for
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  Speaker 7: the Gaylord sisters.
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  Speaker 6: When did Penn Gaylord die?
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  Speaker 7: In 1918, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty-three years ago?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 6: And you're still trying to get the will probated?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 6: Well, just what has happened in all these 23 years?
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  Speaker 7: Well, when Penn Gaylord died, there immediately appeared another will,
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  Speaker 7: which it is claimed was executed in France. There was
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  Speaker 7: naturally a will contest.
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  Speaker 6: Well, was there a great difference between the French will
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  Speaker 6: and the American will?
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  Speaker 7: No, Your Honor, except that under the French will, Penn
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  Speaker 7: Gaylord set aside 10% of his estate as a trust
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  Speaker 7: fund for a certain charity. It's that charity which is
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  Speaker 7: fighting to establish the validity of the French will.
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  Speaker 6: And who represents the charity here?
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  Speaker 9: It is I who represent that worthy institution.
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  Speaker 3: Your Honor.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Wheeler, can you tell me something about this charity, please?
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: It's a settlement house for working boys, the Third Avenue
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  Speaker 2: Neighborhood Club.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. Continue, Mr. Gibbons.
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  Speaker 7: With the estate tied up by this contest, the three
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  Speaker 7: little gaylord orphans didn't have any money. So we had
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  Speaker 7: to make appeals for allowances to enable the orphans to
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  Speaker 7: fight this French will, which we claimed and still claim
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  Speaker 7: is invalid.
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  Speaker 6: And are these the three little orphans?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, Your Honor. Miss Fiona Gaylord, Evelyn Gaylord, now Lady Burton,
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  Speaker 7: and Miss Susanna Gaylord.
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  Speaker 8: Three little kittens who lost their mittens.
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  Speaker 6: You are Fiona Gaylord?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 6: I assume this one is.
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  Speaker 8: Lady Burton, Evelyn Gaylord. I've just returned from England.
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  Speaker 6: And this is Susanna the Young?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: Gibbon, who's been administering the estate all these years?
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Van Rensselaar until his death when I became temporary administrator.
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  Speaker 6: And this case has been in the courts ever since?
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  Speaker 7: It was a very large estate, Your Honor, and there
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  Speaker 7: were a great many suits. You will find the record here.
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  Speaker 7: This matter of the charity is the last of the contest.
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  Speaker 6: Well, since this contest seems to be over 10% of
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  Speaker 6: the estate, didn't it ever occur to anyone that it
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  Speaker 6: might be settled amicably between the heirs and the charity? Oh, certainly,
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  Speaker 6: Your Honor.
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  Speaker 7: As a matter of fact, about four years ago, we
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  Speaker 7: were on the verge of a settlement. when the charity
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  Speaker 7: suddenly broke off negotiations.
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  Speaker 8: No, it wasn't the charity. It was the one man
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  Speaker 8: who wormed himself into the control of the charity, Charles Barkley.
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  Speaker 8: It was he who refused to settle.
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  Speaker 7: Miss Leona, please.
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  Speaker 8: The Gaylord sisters have always been willing to give to
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  Speaker 8: the charity the 10%, and we're willing to do it now.
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  Speaker 8: But that's not what they want. They want to prolong
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  Speaker 8: this litigation indefinitely. And the man who was behind them
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  Speaker 8: is Charles Barkley. If it hadn't been for him, this
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  Speaker 8: case would have been settled years ago.
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  Speaker 7: I must caution you, Miss Fiona. You'll only complicate the case.
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  Speaker 10: Complicated?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, don't make me laugh. It's so complicated now it
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  Speaker 8: looks like a dish of spaghetti.
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  Speaker 6: Just how does Mr. Barclay enter into the litigation?
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  Speaker 8: How do you suppose a charitable organization can afford the
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  Speaker 8: services of an expensive lawyer like Mr. Wheeler? Only because Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Barclay pays the bills. And why does Mr. Barclay pay
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  Speaker 8: the bills? Because Mr. Barclay wants to buy the Gaylord Mansion...
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  Speaker 8: tear it down and erect in its place a hideous
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  Speaker 8: monument to his vanity to be known as Barclay Square.
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  Speaker 8: And why can't Mr. Barclay buy the Gaylord Mansion? Because
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  Speaker 8: it's not part of the estate which is in litigation.
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  Speaker 8: I got it direct from my grandmother. It belongs to me.
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  Speaker 8: And a Gaylord never sells the land.
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  Speaker 7: Your Honor, it embarrasses me that a client of mine
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  Speaker 7: should be guilty of such misconduct.
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  Speaker 8: As for Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Barclay, why shouldn't he interest himself in this charity the
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  Speaker 7: same as he has in so many others?
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Miss Fiona.
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  Speaker 8: Don't wave your hands at me. Your Honor, for over
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  Speaker 8: 20 years, this mess has been going on. We've practically
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  Speaker 8: grown up in court. I knew what a subpoena was
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  Speaker 8: before I could spell cat. The Gay Sisters, they call us.
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  Speaker 8: They've written books about this case and teach it at Harvard.
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  Speaker 8: It's an annual performance. The Gaylord Circus is coming to town.
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  Speaker 8: And who pays for it? We do. We've been living
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  Speaker 8: on our expectations, borrowing on them until the moneylenders pull
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  Speaker 8: down their shades when they see us coming. If we
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  Speaker 8: can find a butcher who doesn't know us, we can
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  Speaker 8: last three months longer. And if the case isn't settled
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  Speaker 8: by then, I'm going to give the estate away to
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  Speaker 8: save my soul and shout hallelujah. Come on, kids, let's
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  Speaker 8: get out of here.
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  Speaker 11: Hallelujah!
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  Speaker 6: Miss Fiona, you can't leave the courtroom like this.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, can't I? Get out of my way.
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  Speaker 5: Fiona!
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  Speaker 8: Come on, Susanna, don't stop. Fiona, there's Charles Barker by
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  Speaker 8: the door.
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  Speaker 7: I said don't stop.
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  Speaker 8: Which one is he? That man over there.
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  Speaker 10: He's coming this way.
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  Speaker 8: Keep going, Evelyn.
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  Speaker 6: Miss Gaylord, may I speak to you, please?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 8: Ring for the elevator, Susanna.
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  Speaker 6: Miss Gaylord, just a moment.
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  Speaker 9: As unpleasant as this is for both of us, I
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  Speaker 9: think you ought to listen to a little common sense.
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  Speaker 8: I hate common sense, Mr. Barclay. It's so common.
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  Speaker 9: You're starting your case all over again with a new judge.
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  Speaker 9: You heard your own attorney say that it may take
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  Speaker 9: years to settle the estate. Now, I want to buy
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  Speaker 9: the Gaylord house.
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  Speaker 8: Over my dead body.
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  Speaker 9: If necessary.
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Barclay, why are you so set on buying our house?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, a whim, Lady Burton.
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  Speaker 9: A whim of iron. You'd better persuade your sister to
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  Speaker 9: make a deal with me. There'll be very little left
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  Speaker 9: for any of you if she keeps on fighting. and
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  Speaker 9: I can afford to keep on fighting indefinitely.
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  Speaker 8: Fiona, why don't you settle? Shut up. Ring for the
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  Speaker 8: elevator again.
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  Speaker 9: You'd better get over your stiff-necked pride, Miss Gaylord. You
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  Speaker 9: ought to remember there's Barclay pride, too.
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  Speaker 8: Where are your grips, Evelyn? Still down at the PR
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  Speaker 8: rush right off the hill.
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  Speaker 9: Miss Gaylord.
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  Speaker 8: Get a cab and pick them up.
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  Speaker 9: In six months, you may have to walk.
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  Speaker 8: I've done that before. Down.
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  Speaker 9: Miss Gaylord.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Mr. Barclay. If Saskia ever answered the door
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  Speaker 8: inside of ten minutes, I think I'd drop dead. Saskia! Oh, Fiona,
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  Speaker 8: the house looks terrible. I thought we had ruins in England,
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  Speaker 8: but they've got nothing on there. Oh, wait till you
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  Speaker 8: see the inside. We've closed off the east wing to
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  Speaker 8: save fuel. Saskia! Oh, for heaven's sake, Saskia, where have
• 9:50
  Speaker 8: you been hiding? I came as soon as I could.
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  Speaker 8: We've been standing out there for ages. Take Miss Evelyn's grip.
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  Speaker 8: I never get any rest in this house, never a second. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: keep quiet. Have there been any calls? A fellow named...
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  Speaker 8: Niles again from Miss Susanna.
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  Speaker 10: Big.
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  Speaker 8: What did he say, Saskia? I don't know.
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  Speaker 12: I couldn't hear good.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 8: What are you doing in here?
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  Speaker 12: I left the.
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  Speaker 10: Ball in here.
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  Speaker 8: Saskia, I thought I told you to keep this child
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  Speaker 8: out in the kitchen with you. I can't help it.
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  Speaker 10: I just want to get my ball.
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  Speaker 8: Well, get it and get out. Go on, scat, scat.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 8: Fiona, you frightened the child.
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  Speaker 3: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 8: He likes it. Who is he, anyhow? Oh, that's Austin. Austin?
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  Speaker 8: Have you been adopting children while I've been gone?
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  Speaker 12: He's no trouble.
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  Speaker 8: Where'd the little nipper come from? Saskia brought him from
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  Speaker 8: the country. He's a relation or something. How old is he, Saskia?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know. Don't be so curious, Evelyn. Saskia, is
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  Speaker 8: tea ready?
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  Speaker 6: No, it isn't.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't have time. I'll give you ten minutes to
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  Speaker 8: bring tea here.
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  Speaker 3: Go on.
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  Speaker 6: You have no heart.
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  Speaker 8: No, I know. Only a stomach. Well, Evelyn, how does
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  Speaker 8: it feel to be back in your old home? Well,
• 10:47
  Speaker 8: at least it smells the same. Like the Gaylord case. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: I don't know how you two have stood it, really.
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  Speaker 8: Believe me, you get used to it. You've got to
• 10:55
  Speaker 8: get used to it. I'm beginning to wonder if they
• 10:57
  Speaker 8: ever settle cases in this country. I'm going to see
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  Speaker 8: our Mr. Gibbon tonight. I'll settle it. What in the
• 11:03
  Speaker 8: name of... Saskia, what's that racket? He's fighting. He's fighting.
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  Speaker 3: Who is?
• 11:08
  Speaker 8: What's the matter? Austin, out in the back. A big
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  Speaker 8: boy is punching him. Why doesn't he punch back? Oh,
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  Speaker 8: you've got to stop it.
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  Speaker 3: That big boy will kill you.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, all right, all right.
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  Speaker 13: Get the tea, will you?
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  Speaker 8: I'll show you. Won't give me the.
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  Speaker 6: Ball, huh?
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  Speaker 14: You let me alone. Let me alone.
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  Speaker 8: I'll show you. Austin.
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  Speaker 6: Austin.
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  Speaker 8: What's the matter with you?
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  Speaker 12: He's punching me.
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  Speaker 8: Why don't you fight back? Punch him in the nose.
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  Speaker 10: I can't reach him.
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  Speaker 2: He's too big.
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  Speaker 8: Then kick him in the shin.
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  Speaker 11: Go on.
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  Speaker 13: Kick him.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 11: There.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 11: Give him another one.
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  Speaker 10: You want another one?
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  Speaker 8: One more. Go on. That's it. Good. All right, now
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  Speaker 8: look up here while I wash off your face.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: Stand still.
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  Speaker 10: When I first saw you, I thought you was coming
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  Speaker 10: to help me.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I did help you. I taught you how to
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  Speaker 8: fight back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: If he ever comes here again, I'll knock his block off.
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  Speaker 8: Here's the bandages. Oh, Austin, let me see. What have
• 12:11
  Speaker 8: they done to you? Now, now, don't cluck over him, Saskia.
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  Speaker 8: Just tend to your cooking.
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  Speaker 6: But he's hurt.
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  Speaker 8: He's bleeding. Oh, I can't leave him alone for one
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  Speaker 8: tiny minute. Oh, you should see the other guy. Austin's
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  Speaker 8: the hero. He is wounded but not slain. He will
• 12:24
  Speaker 8: lay him down and bleed a while, then rise.
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  Speaker 12: And fight again.
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  Speaker 8: How awesome? Yes, ma'am. How do you like living in
• 12:31
  Speaker 8: the city, Austin?
• 12:32
  Speaker 10: Oh, I like the country better.
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  Speaker 8: So did I. It's a tough world. You don't learn
• 12:37
  Speaker 8: to get tough living in the country. The cows look
• 12:39
  Speaker 8: too kind. Walking up Fifth Avenue is like walking through
• 12:42
  Speaker 8: a jungle.
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  Speaker 10: You mean lions and tigers and wolves?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, with clothes on. There you are. You're a new man.
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  Speaker 10: You mean I can go out and fight again?
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  Speaker 8: Well, not right away. I'd take it easy for a while.
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  Speaker 8: What foul concoction are you brewing here, Saskia? Vegetable soup. Well,
• 13:01
  Speaker 8: I never would have guessed it. Well, it has a
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  Speaker 8: special vitamins. Not the way you cook it.
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  Speaker 10: Gee, she's swell, ain't she? I like her.
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  Speaker 8: She's got no heart, only a stomach.
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  Speaker 7: And these papers ought to be signed tonight, Miss Fiona.
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  Speaker 7: and explain them if you wish.
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  Speaker 8: Never mind the papers, Gibbon. If you're in the mood
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  Speaker 8: for explaining things, you might explain what you meant by
• 13:29
  Speaker 8: humiliating me in court today.
• 13:30
  Speaker 7: Now, Miss Fiona, you know as well as I that
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  Speaker 7: a member of the bar must govern his conduct according
• 13:34
  Speaker 7: to the rules, the ethics of his profession.
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  Speaker 8: Rules, ethics, tripe. See here, Gibbon, I don't know what
• 13:39
  Speaker 8: was in that scheming mind of yours when you made
• 13:41
  Speaker 8: that slobbering speech about Charles Barkley, but it wasn't ethics.
• 13:44
  Speaker 7: Well, since you've descended to personalities, no lawyer could sit
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  Speaker 7: silent in court while his client made such an undignified
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  Speaker 7: and violent attack on a man of Charles Barclay's position
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  Speaker 7: and importance.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, so that's it. Well, if you're so enamored of Mr.
• 13:56
  Speaker 8: Barclay's noble motives, go and ask him for a job.
• 13:58
  Speaker 8: We can get along without you.
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  Speaker 7: Why, you just can't change lawyers overnight in a case
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  Speaker 7: like this.
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  Speaker 8: Why can't I?
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  Speaker 3: It isn't done.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's being done right now. I've let you pilfer
• 14:06
  Speaker 8: this estate for years, let you hand in your swindling
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  Speaker 8: demands for fees, but now you've got all you're going
• 14:11
  Speaker 8: to get out of us. Gibbon, you're through. Take your dirty, red,
• 14:13
  Speaker 8: wet face out of here and keep it out. Get out.
• 14:16
  Speaker 8: Very well. Very well. And take your briefcase with you. Fiona,
• 14:23
  Speaker 8: what's happening? Are we being blitzed? No, but Mr. Herschel
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: Gibbon was just blitzed right down the front steps and
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: into the gutter where he belongs.
• 14:29
  Speaker 13: Fiona, what's all the noise?
• 14:30
  Speaker 8: Is everything all right? Oh, yes, everything's fine, Susanna.
• 14:33
  Speaker 6: Hey, it sounds like a man's needed here. Would I
• 14:35
  Speaker 6: be any help to three ladies in trouble?
• 14:37
  Speaker 9: I'm not very strong, of course.
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: Who are you? Fiona, this is Gig Niles. This is
• 14:42
  Speaker 8: my sister, Fiona. Hello. Gig Niles. Aren't you that very
• 14:47
  Speaker 8: bad modern artist who smelled up the place painting a
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: picture of Papa?
• 14:50
  Speaker 9: Right, for the Gaylord Post of the Legion. Anyway, you
• 14:53
  Speaker 9: know what you like.
• 14:54
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 14:55
  Speaker 8: Is he what you like, Susanna?
• 14:57
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: I don't know that I blame her much. I'm the
• 15:01
  Speaker 8: other sister, Mr. Niles.
• 15:02
  Speaker 9: Sure, I know a Gaylord face when I see it.
• 15:05
  Speaker 9: How's England, Lady Burton?
• 15:06
  Speaker 8: Fighting. Evelyn's husband is in it. The RAF.
• 15:08
  Speaker 9: Yes, I've read about him.
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: Fiona, what happened before? I fired Gibbons. You fired him? Oh,
• 15:13
  Speaker 8: we'll have to get another lawyer then. Oh, we'll get on.
• 15:16
  Speaker 8: New York's crawling with lawyers.
• 15:17
  Speaker 12: Let me see. Yeah, Ralph Padlock.
• 15:22
  Speaker 8: He might be just the right man. Why? Years ago,
• 15:24
  Speaker 8: my dog bit him. What's that got to do with it? Well,
• 15:26
  Speaker 8: he knew I was a gay lord and he didn't
• 15:27
  Speaker 8: sue me. I'll call him up. Besides, he's supposed to
• 15:29
  Speaker 8: be a good lawyer. Would a good lawyer have anything
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: to do with this family? So you're an artist, Miss Niles.
• 15:37
  Speaker 8: You don't look like an artist.
• 15:38
  Speaker 9: Oh, you're Lady Burton.
• 15:40
  Speaker 12: Go on.
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: Tell me what I look like.
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: Incendiary bomb with a monocle.
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: Excuse me, Lady Burton. Your sister and I were talking
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: about something before and we didn't settle it.
• 15:48
  Speaker 8: Gig, please.
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: Not now. Susanna, when are you going to marry me?
• 15:51
  Speaker 8: Gig, isn't he informal?
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: What about it, Susanna?
• 15:54
  Speaker 8: Well, there's something I've got to tell you.
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: Oh, don't worry your silly head about your husband.
• 15:58
  Speaker 8: You know? You knew I was married?
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: I've known all the time. I went to school with
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: a skunk.
• 16:03
  Speaker 15: Sayer Allen, how could a live girl like you marry
• 16:07
  Speaker 15: a fruit plate like that?
• 16:09
  Speaker 11: Well, I've tried to get the marriage in, no, but
• 16:12
  Speaker 11: he wants a great deal of money. I can't pay
• 16:14
  Speaker 11: him until the.
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: Estate is settled.
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: Suppose I murder him.
• 16:16
  Speaker 8: Oh, no, Higgs.
• 16:18
  Speaker 11: I wouldn't like the idea of waiting outside prison.
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: And I don't like waiting anyplace. Darling, I love you.
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: You know that.
• 16:24
  Speaker 13: Excuse me.
• 16:25
  Speaker 11: You've forgotten Evelyn.
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: No one forgets Evelyn. Look, Evelyn, what's wrong with me?
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: I offered to take a woman away, give her love, life,
• 16:33
  Speaker 6: and everything a woman's supposed to dream of.
• 16:35
  Speaker 9: And what happens? She says no.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
• 16:38
  Speaker 9: Nobody asked you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 10: You know, I'd quite forgotten how exciting American men can be.
• 16:44
  Speaker 8: Well, girls, at last I have some good news for you.
• 16:46
  Speaker 8: It's about time.
• 16:46
  Speaker 12: What is it?
• 16:47
  Speaker 8: Mr. Padlock's coming right over.
• 16:48
  Speaker 13: Hooray for the Gaylord's Day.
• 16:50
  Speaker 8: You see, I've brought you luck. Did you bring your
• 16:52
  Speaker 8: gas mask, too? Yes. Why? Padlock's going to need it
• 16:55
  Speaker 8: when he opens up our case.
• 17:01
  Speaker 16: I imagine we can get this case out of the
• 17:09
  Speaker 16: courts in, let's say, another year.
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: That means you'll take it, Mr. Pedlock?
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: As a lawyer, I'm very happy to get it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: Oh, thank you.
• 17:16
  Speaker 17: But there's one thing I want to ask you. Why
• 17:19
  Speaker 17: does Charles Barkley hate you so?
• 17:22
  Speaker 11: I've never understood either.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: Why does he, Fiona? I don't see that the reason
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: is important.
• 17:26
  Speaker 17: Well, apparently, he's the monkey wrench in the buzzsaw. You know,
• 17:30
  Speaker 17: it mightn't be a bad idea if we had a
• 17:32
  Speaker 17: conference with Barkley.
• 17:33
  Speaker 8: No, I won't have it. Fiona, you seem to be
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: almost afraid of Charles Barkley.
• 17:37
  Speaker 13: Why?
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Afraid? Afraid of that country, Claude Hopper? Me go to him?
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: If Papa were alive, he'd be coming to our house,
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: to the back door, hat in hand.
• 17:46
  Speaker 17: Well, if you feel that way about Barkley, I'll have
• 17:48
  Speaker 17: to see what I can do with Gilbert Wheeler. Maybe
• 17:51
  Speaker 17: I can enlist his sympathies.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: Who is this Charles Barkley who makes emotions run so high?
• 17:56
  Speaker 17: He's a strange man, stirring big cauldrons and never spilling
• 17:59
  Speaker 17: a drop. He has a brilliant mind, a great organizer.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: Let's forget it, please.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Very well.
• 18:04
  Speaker 17: Oh, by the way, just a word of warning. Don't
• 18:07
  Speaker 17: make Gibbon any more angry than he is already.
• 18:10
  Speaker 12: Yes, I know.
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: He's a bad loser.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: After that, Mr. Barclay, I disassociated myself completely from the
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: Gaylord sisters.
• 18:27
  Speaker 9: Yes, I heard they fired you three weeks ago.
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: Well, that's the story they tell, and I haven't denied it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: Matter of fact, I've leaned over backwards to avoid embarrassing
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: them in any way. I've even waited all this time
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: before coming to you with my proposition.
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: Oh, you have a proposition, Mr.
• 18:44
  Speaker 13: Gibbons.
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: I was attorney for the Gaylord sisters for a good
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: many years. I know a great deal more about the
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: Gaylord sisters than they suspected.
• 18:52
  Speaker 9: I have no doubt.
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: Mr.
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: Barclay, suppose I could give you certain information which would
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: enable you to buy the Gaylord house, tear it down,
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: and complete your Barclay Square project.
• 19:02
  Speaker 9: You have such information, Mr. Gibbon?
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I have.
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: And you wish to sell me that information, Mr.
• 19:06
  Speaker 8: Gibbon?
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: Well, sell isn't exactly the word.
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: Oh, I see. Oh, Mr. Gibbon, before we decide on
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: a word, I'd want to be sure that the information
• 19:14
  Speaker 9: was something I could use, legally or ethically.
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: Mr.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Barclay, what I know concerns a certain person. If that
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: person found out that you discovered this secret and were
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: in a position to publicize it, that person would do
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: anything to prevent such publicity. It isn't a question of
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: what's legal. It's a chance to make her agree to
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: your terms.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: Make her agree?
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: Well, naturally, it's one of the sisters.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: Naturally. But before we discuss it, I'd want to be
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: sure the information is really valuable. But I've just told you.
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: And it can only be valuable if it's something I
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: don't already know.
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: Oh, you couldn't know this, I'm afraid.
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: Why not?
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: Because if you did, you would have used it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: Perhaps. Mr. Gibbon, I assume the information you wish to
• 19:56
  Speaker 9: give me is of a somewhat scandalous nature. If it weren't,
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: it wouldn't be valuable.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: You see, Mr.
• 20:02
  Speaker 13: Barclay.
• 20:03
  Speaker 9: Just a moment. Does this information concern Fiona Gaylord? Yes, yes,
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: it does. Have you come here to tell me that
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: Fiona Gaylord is the mother of a child? How did
• 20:11
  Speaker 9: you know that? Well, I have ways of finding things out, too, Mr.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: Gibbons.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: You mean to say you've had this information and you
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: haven't used it?
• 20:18
  Speaker 18: No.
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: Not yet. So you see, you've come to tell me
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: something I already know. Good day.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Just a minute, Mr.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Barclay.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: After all, you owe me something.
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: Well, if you wish to send me a bill for
• 20:28
  Speaker 9: your time wasted, well.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Now, do you know why I'm here?
• 20:30
  Speaker 9: I thought we went over that pretty thoroughly.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, no, we haven't.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: You know the reason I was chucked off the Gaylord case.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: It was because of the way I sprang to your
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: defense in court.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: Why, surely, Mr. Gibbon, that was your sense of justice speaking.
• 20:42
  Speaker 9: When we do right for right's sake, we should not
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: expect to be rewarded. I don't think there's anything further
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: to discuss, Mr.
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: Gibbon.
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: Now, see here.
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: I'm going to be rather busy for the next hour
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: or two. Good day.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Good day, sir.
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: Hello, Wheeler? This is Barkley. Wheeler, I think we'll have
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: to use some information I've been holding out on you.
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: If we don't, somebody else will, so it doesn't make
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: much difference. about Fiona Gaylord. She has a child. Yes,
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: a boy who lives in the house with her. His
• 21:14
  Speaker 9: name is Austin.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: In just a few moments, Mr.
• 21:32
  Speaker 18: DeMille will present Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young in Act
• 21:36
  Speaker 18: II of The Gay Sisters.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Now, here's Sally.
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: And looking very perky, too. My, those braids are becoming.
• 21:45
  Speaker 13: Thanks, Mr.
• 21:45
  Speaker 8: Kennedy.
• 21:46
  Speaker 13: It's a new way to do my hair. I got
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: the idea from the screen stars. You know, quite a
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: few of them are wearing their hair braided like this.
• 21:54
  Speaker 13: Paulette Goddard looks simply lovely that way. And Merle Oberon
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: fastens her braids with little bow knots.
• 22:00
  Speaker 18: Well, as both those lovely ladies are always the last
• 22:03
  Speaker 18: word in good grooming, Sally.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: I guess braids are really high style.
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
• 22:07
  Speaker 13: And it's such an easy hairdo. Green stars are like
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: other busy women these days. Not much time to spend
• 22:14
  Speaker 13: on beauty. But naturally, they want to keep right on
• 22:17
  Speaker 13: looking lovely.
• 22:19
  Speaker 18: Well, Sally, there's an important reason why Luxe Soap Complexion Care.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Is more popular than ever with Hollywood stars.
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: Of course. Because active lather facials with Luxe Soap are
• 22:31
  Speaker 13: quick and easy.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: And they really work.
• 22:34
  Speaker 18: And that's what every woman has a right to expect
• 22:37
  Speaker 18: of her beauty care nowadays. Sally, won't you describe how
• 22:40
  Speaker 18: simple it is to take a Lux soap facial?
• 22:43
  Speaker 13: Screen stars do this. They pat that creamy, fragrant Lux
• 22:48
  Speaker 13: soap lather lightly in. Then they rinse with warm water
• 22:51
  Speaker 13: and follow with just a dash of cool. They pat
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: to dry with a soft towel. Takes just a few moments.
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: But my, how delightfully smooth your skin feels afterwards.
• 23:02
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• 23:06
  Speaker 18: thoroughly stale cosmetics, every trace of dust and dirt. Gentle
• 23:11
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• 23:15
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• 23:19
  Speaker 13: a real difference an Active Lather facial can make in
• 23:23
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• 23:28
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• 23:30
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• 23:33
  Speaker 18: Yes, you'll understand why 9 out of 10 famous Hollywood
• 23:37
  Speaker 18: stars use Luxe Toilet Soap regularly for their million-dollar complexions.
• 23:43
  Speaker 18: You can't buy a finer soap at any price. And
• 23:46
  Speaker 18: since this exquisite beauty soap costs but a few cents
• 23:49
  Speaker 18: a cake, why you owe it to your own precious
• 23:52
  Speaker 18: complexion to try this gentle, cherishing care. Why not get
• 23:57
  Speaker 18: three cakes of Hollywood beauty soap, Luxe Toilet Soap, tomorrow?
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Now, our producer, Mr. DeMille.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Act Two of The Gay Sisters, starring Barbara Stanwyck as
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Fiona Gaylord and Robert Young as Charles Barkley. Fiona Gaylord
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: is the mother of the boy Austin. For six years,
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: she's kept the secret, confident that a prying world would
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: never know. She's stifled the mother instinct, locked it away
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: in her heart forever. Except for those times when she
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: and the boy are alone.
• 24:41
  Speaker 19: Austin!
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Austin, cut it out.
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: Oh, yes, ma'am.
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: What do you think you're doing? I'm an Indian.
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: I'm chasing a deer.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: Well, how about chasing it outside the library?
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: Yes, ma'am.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: Come here. You smell of peanuts. Uncle Geek took.
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: Me to the zoo. We fed the monkey peanuts. And
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: I saw a giraffe.
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: Saw? Yes, ma'am. Saw.
• 25:04
  Speaker 10: We had popcorn and hot franks and two kinds of
• 25:06
  Speaker 10: ice cream. Uncle Geek felt my muscle. He said it
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: was bigger than an oyster.
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: Oyster? Yes, ma'am.
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: And Evelyn gave me a quarter. But Uncle Gig wouldn't
• 25:15
  Speaker 10: let me spend any.
• 25:17
  Speaker 8: You mean Susanna, don't you?
• 25:18
  Speaker 10: No, I mean Aunt Evelyn, the one who says blimey
• 25:21
  Speaker 10: and calls me nipper.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: When did you start this aunt business?
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: It was Uncle Gig. He said it sounded more friendly,
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: like there was relations or something. Am I a relation,
• 25:32
  Speaker 10: Miss Gaylord?
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: Well, yes, you are.
• 25:36
  Speaker 10: Miss Gaylord, do people read all the books in this room?
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: No, not if they can help it. What do you
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: like to read, funny things?
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: Oh, they ain't. I mean, they're not very good. I
• 25:47
  Speaker 10: used to like them when I was little. Now I
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: like Daniel Boone and Buffalo Bill.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: I remember Buffalo Bill coming to this house, to this
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: very room.
• 25:55
  Speaker 10: You mean you really saw Buffalo Bill?
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: I not only saw him, he kissed me.
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: Buffalo Bill kissing girls.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Well, I was only a little girl.
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: What did he look like? Did he wear a big
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: white hat here in this very room?
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: Yes, he did.
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: Now, did he really have long white hair? Down to here?
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Oh, yeah. Oh, I remember it so well. It was
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: a winter day, and Papa, my father, invited a lot
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: of friends for dinner. I was so excited to be.
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: Allowed to come, I read.
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Hello, Fiona. Oh, hello, Susanna. Austin and I were just
• 26:28
  Speaker 8: tidying up in here. That's enough, Austin.
• 26:31
  Speaker 12: Run along.
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: Aunt Susanna, Uncle Geek got my muscle. He said it
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: was bigger than an oyster. I mean, oyster.
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: Well, you learn by your mistakes. That's more than I
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: can say for your mother.
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: Did you know my mother?
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: Yes, before you were born. Go on, scat, scat. Just
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: a minute. Come in, Mr. Petlock.
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: Sorry, I telephoned you so late, but I had to
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: see you tonight.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: What is it?
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: It's something I want to talk to you about.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: Come into the library.
• 27:10
  Speaker 17: They got me out of bed an hour ago with
• 27:12
  Speaker 17: this letter, telling me something that you, as my client,
• 27:14
  Speaker 17: should have told me first.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: A letter?
• 27:16
  Speaker 17: It's about a child, a boy who's living here with you.
• 27:19
  Speaker 9: Would you like to read it?
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: No.
• 27:23
  Speaker 12: No, I don't have to read it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 17: Miss Gaylord, I'm your attorney, at least for the present.
• 27:27
  Speaker 17: I must have this whole story, truthfully, from start to finish.
• 27:31
  Speaker 12: Not now, not tonight.
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: Can you be at my office the first thing in
• 27:34
  Speaker 9: the morning?
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: Very well. Good night, Miss Gaylord.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: Evelyn, are you asleep?
• 27:44
  Speaker 14: Who's that?
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: Susanna, come in here. Fiona, what kind of an hour
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: is it? Sit down and keep quiet. What is it?
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: You sit down too. Sister has a bedtime story to
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: tell you. Well, it must be important.
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: It is.
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: You may as well know that we're going to have
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: one choice juicy scandal break over our heads. What kind
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: of a scandal? About Austin's mother. Austin's mother? Who is she?
• 28:04
  Speaker 12: I am.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: You? Who's the father? Charles Barkley. Charles Barkley? Oh, no. Oh,
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: I wish you were right. Do you remember when I
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: was 21, I suddenly got my hands on some money?
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: The money that sent you to Europe, Evelyn, and got
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: you married?
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: And the money that gave you your debut, Susanna? Well,
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: our great Aunt Sophronia died and left $ 100, 000 to be
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: given me the day I got married. We were still
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: living like gay lords in those days, and we.
• 28:30
  Speaker 12: Needed that money.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: We had to have it. Oh, remember Cousin Willie, the
• 28:34
  Speaker 8: pimply-faced kid who was always crazy about me?
• 28:36
  Speaker 12: Oh, I do.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Well, I thought I could marry him, give him $ 25, 000
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: of the $ 100, 000, and call it a day. I made
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: old Van Rensselaer advance me that much, and I started
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: for Vermont. Somewhere along the road, they were building a bridge.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: I didn't notice the paving was still wet, and I
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: started to crawl. Suddenly, somebody yelled at me. Hey!
• 28:57
  Speaker 14: Hey, stop!
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: Where do you think you're going?
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: Woodland. Isn't this the way?
• 29:03
  Speaker 9: Not over this bridge.
• 29:04
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: Hey, you idiot.
• 29:06
  Speaker 15: Don't go back over that paving.
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: Oh, not what you've done to my asphalt.
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: You know what's going to hold me up?
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: If I finish in time, I was going to get
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: a bonus.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: I'm so sorry.
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: Really.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: Well, it's all right, I guess.
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: It's a pretty little bridge.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 29:21
  Speaker 12: Are you the foreman of that gang?
• 29:23
  Speaker 9: No, engineer. Oh.
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: Well, if you could take a few minutes off, would
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: you like to show me the road?
• 29:30
  Speaker 9: Well, I guess.
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: Sure.
• 29:35
  Speaker 12: Thank you.
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: You don't know what a help it would be.
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry I yelled at you.
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: That was how I met Mr.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: Barclay. I guess I must have charmed him pretty quickly.
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: He had that spaniel look in his eye, the way
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: Snooki used to look when he saw his dinner.
• 29:53
  Speaker 12: And I got an idea.
• 29:55
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: Why go chasing all the way upstate after Cousin Willie...
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: when I had a much more attractive sap for my
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: purpose closer at hand? I said to myself, he's just
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: a country bumpkin full of romantic ideas. A few days
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: of eucolic lovemaking, a few moonlight nights... and I'll have
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: the ring on one hand.
• 30:11
  Speaker 12: And Aunt Sophronia's money in the other.
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: And so you married him?
• 30:14
  Speaker 12: Well, it wasn't that easy.
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: I found a place to stay nearby.
• 30:19
  Speaker 12: I had to set the stage. I did a good job, too.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: I picked out a nice moonlight night about a week later...
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: It lured him off the porch toward the apple orchard.
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: We walked until I thought he wouldn't have strength enough
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: left to propose. So I picked out the biggest and
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: juiciest apple tree and parked myself under it. I knew
• 30:37
  Speaker 8: the great mother had just the right angle. And he whispered,
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: I'll never forget this.
• 30:44
  Speaker 9: Fiona.
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: Wait till you hear the rest. You got married. How
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: could you do a thing like that?
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: But on the night of the wedding, I had a problem.
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: How to get rid of him. Well, he ran out
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: to the village drugstore. The money out of the suitcase,
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: the ring off only, and why? I was too late.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: Read the note.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: Yes. It's $ 25, 000.
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Thanks.
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: You're going to let me leave you?
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: You said you were going to let me leave you
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: and wash you.
• 31:13
  Speaker 6: I am.
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure yet. I'll have to think about it.
• 31:17
  Speaker 9: I'll let you know.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: Darling's been childless men.
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: What was that for?
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: Grabbed the money, whirled away in a little... I wonder
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: how he found out about it. Well, I don't know. Fiona,
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: what have you done with Austin? Miss Copeland.
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: Our old nurse.
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: She took Austin as soon as he was... He meant nothing.
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: No one else I could trust. He had to come
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: here so that I stumbled. Funny little fright in him.
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: I want to keep him away from me. Maybe I.
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: But I tell you, I'm perfectly willing to accept the
• 31:55
  Speaker 9: boy as my son.
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: Isn't that enough?
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: No, he's not your son.
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: Miss Gaylord.
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: He isn't even my son.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Pedlock, if Miss Fiona Gaylord is still not willing to
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: admit the child is hers, then my client has nothing
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: left to do but go to court.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: You'll have to prove it first, Mr. Wheeler.
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: We will prove it. In court. After a scandal. Just
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: a moment, Wheeler. Miss Gaylor, this is my last appeal
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: to you. From now on, you'll have to be reasonable.
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: If you aren't, it'll mean ruin for you and your sisters.
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: And in the end, I'll get the boy anyway.
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: Are you leaving now?
• 32:24
  Speaker 9: Yes. Goodbye, Pedlock. Goodbye.
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: Sorry.
• 32:27
  Speaker 9: Fiona, don't do anything mad. Please.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: Well, Mr. Pedlock, where did all that get us?
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: I don't know. The one ace they hold is the
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: fact that you were married to Charles Barkley.
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: That doesn't mean he can prove he's Austin's father.
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: He doesn't have to.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: What?
• 32:46
  Speaker 17: The child was born in wedlock, so it's apparent it
• 32:48
  Speaker 17: cannot be questioned. All he needs to prove is that
• 32:51
  Speaker 17: you are the mother.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: And we will prove, Your Honor, that Fiona Gaylord is
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: the mother of the child. We have witnesses who will
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: testify that on February the 24th.
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: I knew she was about to have a child. She
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: had no.
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: I was called in as physician. On February 24th, the
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: child was born, a boy... The mother gave her name.
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: I was the nurse for Dr. Phillips. And the woman
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: we attended in that case was her, over there. Fiona Gaylord.
• 33:37
  Speaker 8: Put that coat on him, Evelyn, and I'll finish packing
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: the grip. Stand still, Austin.
• 33:40
  Speaker 10: Where am I going, Miss Gaylord?
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: You're going away with Aunt Evelyn for a while, up
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: to Uncle Gig's place in the country. Already, Fiona.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: Charles Barkley thinks he's going to march in here with
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: a court order and take this boy away. I'm going
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: to spoil his pleasure. Once you get Austin out to
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: Gig's place, we're safe. I'm glad you thought of it.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: I hope Gig likes children.
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: He likes me. He felt my muscle. He said it
• 34:01
  Speaker 10: was big as an.
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: Yes, I know, Erster.
• 34:03
  Speaker 15: Oyster.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: Now, listen, Austin. You're going to stay inside unless you're
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: with Uncle Gig. And don't tell anyone your name.
• 34:10
  Speaker 10: No, ma'am.
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: You'll have a good time there. Much better than you
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: do here.
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: But I have a good time here.
• 34:18
  Speaker 13: You do?
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: Sure I do. I like it here.
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: Well, that's fine. Fiona, do you suppose that's barking? Saskia,
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: don't answer it. Evelyn, take him out the back way.
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: You can get a taxi at the corner. Hurry. Come on, Austin.
• 34:31
  Speaker 10: Goodbye, Miss Gaylord.
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: Goodbye.
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: Miss Gaylord, Saskia says you haven't got a heart, only
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: a stomach. Is that right?
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: Yes, that's right. Now go on. Scat, scat.
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: Goodbye.
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: Goodbye. Come in, Mr. Padlock.
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: Thank you. I brought Mr. Barkley and Mr. Wheeler with me.
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: Do you mind?
• 34:51
  Speaker 8: Certainly not. Come in, please.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Miss Gaylord.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: I'll.
• 34:53
  Speaker 9: Handle this, Wheeler. We have a little bad news for you,
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: Miss Gaylord.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: Bad news is not exactly a novelty to me. Sit down.
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: I have a court order for my son.
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: I've been expecting that.
• 35:03
  Speaker 9: I've come to take him.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: I've been expecting that, too.
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: And you intend to comply with it?
• 35:08
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: You're going to let me take him?
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: Of course you may take him. If you can find him.
• 35:14
  Speaker 9: Why, where is he?
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: Well, you see, this is a very old house, as
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: you may have noticed. And we're terribly troubled with rats.
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: So there's a man, I believe he's called the Pied
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: Piper of Hamelin. You may have heard of him. And
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: he came here and played a lovely little tune on
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: his pipes. And Austin heard him and followed the Pied
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: Piper right out of the house before I could stop them.
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: You know how little boys are.
• 35:39
  Speaker 13: Oh, I forgot.
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: You haven't any.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: Children, right?
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: I have a son.
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Do you realize that what you're doing constitutes contempt of court,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Miss Gaylord?
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: But I'm doing nothing.
• 35:48
  Speaker 9: Do you know where that child is?
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: No. Not at the moment.
• 35:52
  Speaker 17: Headlock, what are you going to do about this? If
• 35:54
  Speaker 17: I may have a few minutes with my client alone.
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: Are you going to tell us where the boy is?
• 35:57
  Speaker 12: I don't know where he is.
• 35:59
  Speaker 9: All right. I came here prepared to be generous. You've
• 36:02
  Speaker 9: managed to kill that desire along with every other decent
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: impulse I've ever felt for you. Hate is the thing
• 36:07
  Speaker 9: you thrive on. And if that's what you want, that's
• 36:10
  Speaker 9: what you're going to get. Come on, Wheeler. You know
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: where the child is?
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: Of course I do.
• 36:18
  Speaker 17: Miss Gaylord, I've been very patient with you. And I
• 36:21
  Speaker 17: know by now how useless it is to argue with you.
• 36:24
  Speaker 17: So I'm going to be very frank. I won't be
• 36:27
  Speaker 17: a party to a conspiracy. Either you get that child
• 36:30
  Speaker 17: back here by tomorrow or you get yourself another lawyer.
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: Do you mean that?
• 36:33
  Speaker 9: I do. If you can get another lawyer.
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: And if I can't?
• 36:37
  Speaker 9: If you can't, you'll have to fight it through alone.
• 36:40
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: I'll fight it through alone.
• 36:46
  Speaker 19: Get out.
• 36:50
  Speaker 21: We pause now for station identification.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
• 37:32
  Speaker 18: After a brief intermission, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young will
• 37:35
  Speaker 18: bring us Act Three.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Of The Gay Sisters.
• 37:40
  Speaker 18: And now, here's a young bride-to-be with a friend who's
• 37:42
  Speaker 18: dropped in to say.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: Mary, how exciting!
• 37:46
  Speaker 20: Being married at an army camp. Oh, you've been in
• 37:49
  Speaker 20: such a whirl, though. I didn't get a chance to
• 37:52
  Speaker 20: see any of your trousseau things.
• 37:53
  Speaker 14: Oh, goodness, I haven't had time to get very many.
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: They're all in that suitcase there, Betty, if you want
• 37:58
  Speaker 14: to take a peek.
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: Oh, my, but they're lovely. Oh, what stunning lace on
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: these slips. And what really delicious sachet. So delicate. Mmm.
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: It's a familiar perfume. Now, what does it make me
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: think of?
• 38:15
  Speaker 14: Well, look under that top layer of things.
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: Why, six cakes of Luxe toilet soap. Mary, you smart
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: little thing.
• 38:23
  Speaker 14: It's a trick I learned from my college roommate.
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: I always tuck a few cakes of Luxe soap in
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: my suitcase or bureau drawer.
• 38:29
  Speaker 14: It gives a lovely clinging fragrance to your nice silk things.
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: And so practical, too, especially if you're traveling.
• 38:36
  Speaker 20: But then you're always sure to have a supply of
• 38:39
  Speaker 20: your beauty soap on hand.
• 38:41
  Speaker 18: Well, Lux girls are clever as well as lovely. They've
• 38:45
  Speaker 18: found an easy, inexpensive sachet in the delightful fragrance of
• 38:50
  Speaker 18: Lux toilet soap. That Lux soap perfume is delicate and flower-like,
• 38:55
  Speaker 18: the kind fastidious women like to use. Just another reason
• 38:59
  Speaker 18: why this luxurious smooth white soap that nine out of
• 39:02
  Speaker 18: ten screen stars use should be your beauty soap, too.
• 39:07
  Speaker 18: You'll enjoy its creamy, caressing lather, its light, clinging fragrance,
• 39:12
  Speaker 18: and you'll find it costs very little.
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Get three cakes of Lux Toilet Soap tomorrow. Now, Mr.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: DeMille returns to the microphone.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: After the play, we'll bring our stars back to the
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: footlights for some personal questions. But now, here's Act Three
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: of The Gay Sisters. starring Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: It's evening of the same day. In the cheerless drawing
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: room of the Gaylord Mansion... Fiona and Susanna are waiting
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: for Evelyn's return. Fiona's eyes are blazing as she paces
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: the floor angrily.
• 39:58
  Speaker 8: Charles Barclay standing here so smugly with his court order
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: threatening me, telling me what he's going to do. Well,
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: I'll defy him and the courts, blast them all to blazes.
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: The moment Evelyn gets back... She won't be back. What?
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: Evelyn won't be back. Why not? If Gig's there, she won't. Well,
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: what's Gig got to do with it? Oh, Fiona, how
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: could you send Evelyn up there? Give her that chance.
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: How could you feel? I don't know what you're talking about.
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: Don't you know she's mad about Gig? Don't you know
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: she's been trying to take him away from me ever
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: since she came here? Gig and Evelyn? Oh, you're crazy.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: What about Burton? She's never loved her husband. She told
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: me herself. And she's been seeing Gig all the time. Well,
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: of course she's seen him. He comes here to the
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: house and he... Oh, how can a nice, sensible girl
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: like you imagine such idiotic things? If anything like that
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: had been going on, I would have seen it. No,
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: you wouldn't see it, Fiona. You'd never see anything that
• 40:46
  Speaker 8: didn't concern you. Your house, your son, your pride.
• 40:51
  Speaker 11: That's all you can see.
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: It's driven you all your life. Well, it's all right
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: for you to sacrifice your own happiness. But you've sacrificed mine, too.
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: All I know is I love you. And I've lost him. Susanna,
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: come here. Susanna! Hello?
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 41:09
  Speaker 8: Evelyn, where are you? I thought you'd started back long ago.
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: It's what?
• 41:15
  Speaker 13: Training?
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: Well, you're not going to walk back, or are you?
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: You'll be back in the morning? No, I don't see.
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: If Gig had any sense, he'd chase you out of there.
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: And you needn't take that injured tone with me, Evelyn.
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: I want you to come back right now. Do you
• 41:30
  Speaker 8: hear me? Hello?
• 41:31
  Speaker 11: Hello?
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: Hello, operator. I was cut off. I... Miss Fiona. Saskia,
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: what is it? Miss Fiona.
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: Miss Fiona.
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: What's the matter with you?
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: What happened?
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: She's in there.
• 41:38
  Speaker 7: She's on the floor.
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: What are you talking.
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: Miss Susanna.
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: She had a bottle in her hand.
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: This bottle.
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: Let me see that. She's dead. She killed herself. Call
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: a doctor. Call a doctor, quick.
• 41:59
  Speaker 12: Susanna.
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: Are you all right?
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: Open your eyes, dear. And take another swallow of coffee.
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: That's it.
• 42:09
  Speaker 12: What did you try a thing like that for?
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: Oh, Fiona. Yes, I know. Well, you won't have to
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: cry anymore. The Gaylord case is finished. Evelyn and Austin
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: came back last night. They came back? Well, I.
• 42:27
  Speaker 12: I went up and got her.
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: Oh.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Then.
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: You're giving in to Charles Barkley?
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: Oh, Fiona. You're doing this for me? I'm doing it
• 42:42
  Speaker 8: for all of us.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: But, Austin.
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: What about Austin?
• 42:48
  Speaker 12: Everything's going to be all right. For everyone. Go to
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: sleep again, darling.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Go to sleep.
• 42:58
  Speaker 19: Go to sleep.
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: About the custody of the child. Does it meet with
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: your approval, Mr.
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: Buckler?
• 43:13
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 43:14
  Speaker 9: Miss Gaylord?
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: No, this won't do.
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: Won't do?
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: When I agreed to a settlement, I thought, of course,
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: since he's so young, he'd remain with me.
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: I'm entitled to more than that.
• 43:22
  Speaker 8: Just what do you want?
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: Only what the law allows.
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: Equal custody. The boy's time will be divided between us.
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: Six months with you and six months with me.
• 43:29
  Speaker 17: His schoolroom.
• 43:32
  Speaker 12: What about that?
• 43:33
  Speaker 9: We'll arrange that between us.
• 43:35
  Speaker 12: And his vacations. With whom does he spend those?
• 43:38
  Speaker 9: Both of us alternately. Those are small details that can
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: be worked out later.
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: There are no small details in a child's life. Everything's important.
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: There used to be shuttle back and forth between two
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: people who hate each other.
• 43:52
  Speaker 12: Now.
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: Now I went to school.
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: With too many children whose parents were divorced not to
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: know what it did to their lives.
• 44:00
  Speaker 12: I'm not going to cut that child in two.
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: You can't keep him to yourself.
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: No, but you can.
• 44:05
  Speaker 12: I'll give him up to you.
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: Are you sure you know what you're saying?
• 44:09
  Speaker 12: Quite.
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: If that child is going to begin to have parents,
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: let him begin properly. Right now, he doesn't know he
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: has anyone. If he finds he has a father, well,
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: he'll never miss not having a mother.
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: Is that your decision?
• 44:26
  Speaker 12: My only decision. Let's get this over with.
• 44:31
  Speaker 13: Saskia?
• 44:31
  Speaker 11: Yes, ma'am.
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: Send Austin down immediately with his hat and coat.
• 44:37
  Speaker 19: Mr. Seymour?
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: Austin, come here. Austin, this gentleman is Mr. Charles Barkley.
• 44:54
  Speaker 9: How do you do, Austin?
• 44:55
  Speaker 10: How do you do, sir?
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Mr.
• 44:58
  Speaker 12: Barkley is going to take you home with him.
• 45:00
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: Well, Barclay will tell you about everything later. And now, Austin...
• 45:10
  Speaker 12: be a good boy.
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: Yes, ma'am.
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: And.
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: Do as you're told.
• 45:16
  Speaker 17: Yes, ma'am.
• 45:17
  Speaker 10: Miss Gaylord, when am I coming back?
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: Well, it's... not very polite to talk about that when your...
• 45:26
  Speaker 8: visit hasn't even begun, is it?
• 45:30
  Speaker 11: No, ma'am.
• 45:31
  Speaker 8: Goodbye, Austin... Now, wait!
• 45:35
  Speaker 12: Yes, ma'am? I, uh.
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: I just want to fix your collar.
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: There.
• 45:45
  Speaker 12: Run along.
• 45:45
  Speaker 19: Run along.
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: Well, that's the last of the Burgundy. Do you want
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: some champagne, Susanna? I don't know. Oh, stop thinking. This
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: is a much better idea. You know, for 20 years
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: we've been saying, once the estate is settled, we'll all
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: be happy. Well, the estate is settled, so we sit
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: in the wine cellar and drink it up.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Here.
• 46:22
  Speaker 11: Are you happy, Fiona?
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: Oh, deliciously. I shouldn't have asked that.
• 46:26
  Speaker 11: I know what you must be feeling about Austin.
• 46:29
  Speaker 12: You're sweet, Susanna. You're the soft one of the family. Ah,
• 46:35
  Speaker 12: why should I be soft? He's never been part of
• 46:38
  Speaker 12: my life.
• 46:39
  Speaker 8: I hardly even know him, and he hardly knows me.
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: He's much better off where he is than with me.
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: I mean it.
• 46:46
  Speaker 14: No, you don't.
• 46:48
  Speaker 12: I know you.
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: You're so hard and callous and indifferent.
• 46:53
  Speaker 11: But underneath, you're not. You talk of Austin and your
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: wedding as if it didn't matter. And all the time
• 47:00
  Speaker 11: you're eating.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: Your heart out.
• 47:02
  Speaker 12: I have no heart.
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: Fiona, I've just discovered something about you.
• 47:08
  Speaker 8: You and me, we're both alike.
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: I've lost Big Niles, and you've lost Charles Lucky.
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: Lost him?
• 47:16
  Speaker 15: That's right, lost him.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: And don't let me see the tears. Shut up. Oh,
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry. Here, we need another drink.
• 47:27
  Speaker 12: Poor Papa Stella.
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: Nothing left of him.
• 47:31
  Speaker 11: Poor Papa's children. Nothing left to do.
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: Fiona. Yes?
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: Fiona, what is love?
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Love?
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: Love is something you cut out of yourself, or it
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: moves in and cuts you apart. And you walk. Walk? Mm-hmm.
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: That stuff people do on two legs. Oh.
• 47:58
  Speaker 11: I never heard of it.
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: Oh, well, then you stay where you are and I'll
• 48:00
  Speaker 8: get a blanket. It's cold down here. I'll be right
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: back now.
• 48:04
  Speaker 12: Sit tight.
• 48:05
  Speaker 8: Susanna. Who are you? Oh, hello, Gig. Where's Susanna? Where's Susanna?
• 48:13
  Speaker 8: Where's Evelyn?
• 48:14
  Speaker 16: Evelyn's on a plane back to England.
• 48:16
  Speaker 9: I brought her on myself.
• 48:17
  Speaker 13: Good.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Now, where's Susanna? Is she down there?
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: Uh-huh. She wants to know what love is.
• 48:22
  Speaker 13: Thanks.
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: Go on and tell her. Tell her that love is.
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: Gig, where are you? Oh, he's gone. He's gone.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Austin's gone.
• 48:42
  Speaker 12: Austin, you liked it here.
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: You said you did. Feel my muscle, Uncle Gig. It's
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: as big as an ursa. I taught you to fight back.
• 48:57
  Speaker 12: Didn't I, Austin?
• 49:00
  Speaker 8: I will lay me down and bleed a while and
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: rise and fight again.
• 49:05
  Speaker 12: That's the thing to do. Only I.
• 49:12
  Speaker 12: I'm so tired. But I've got no heart. And you
• 49:20
  Speaker 12: can't get tired without a heart.
• 49:24
  Speaker 8: You can't live without a heart.
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: Fiona.
• 49:29
  Speaker 12: Right here in this very house. Lovell O'Bill kissed me.
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: Fiona.
• 49:34
  Speaker 12: Sure he did. Let me take your collar off. Let
• 49:42
  Speaker 12: me touch your cheek.
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: Just once more.
• 49:46
  Speaker 8: Touch your cheek.
• 49:51
  Speaker 9: Fiona, look at me.
• 49:52
  Speaker 12: What?
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: What are you doing here?
• 49:56
  Speaker 9: Well, the door was open.
• 49:57
  Speaker 8: Get out of my house.
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: Oh, no. It's my house now. You're getting out.
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll go in the morning.
• 50:02
  Speaker 9: You're going tonight. Now.
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: Oh, and I suppose you're going to carry me.
• 50:07
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: Oh, let me down.
• 50:10
  Speaker 10: Let me down.
• 50:11
  Speaker 8: Then stop screaming.
• 50:12
  Speaker 9: I'm still your husband. Morning.
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: Where am I? Where did you bring me?
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: This is my place. I've ordered some breakfast for you. Hungry?
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: You, um.
• 50:38
  Speaker 12: What happened last night?
• 50:41
  Speaker 9: Well, I brought you here and stuck you under a
• 50:43
  Speaker 9: nice cold shower. Feel better?
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure.
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: You will.
• 50:49
  Speaker 9: Breakfast will be very special. Baked apples, coffee, nice thin pancakes,
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: and Vermont-based maple syrup. Do you remember Vermont?
• 50:57
  Speaker 12: Yes, vaguely.
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: Apple orchard in Vermont. I remember perfect. What are you
• 51:04
  Speaker 9: thinking about?
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: Twenty-five thousand dollars. Pretty good tip.
• 51:07
  Speaker 9: Pretty good.
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: And you took it.
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: Yes, I married you, didn't I?
• 51:10
  Speaker 8: No, I married you and I paid you for it
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: in money. Hello. I couldn't speak very well.
• 51:14
  Speaker 13: Austin.
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: Hello, Austin.
• 51:15
  Speaker 11: Come on in.
• 51:16
  Speaker 10: Miss Gaylord, what are you doing here?
• 51:19
  Speaker 8: I'm... I'm chasing a deer.
• 51:23
  Speaker 9: I don't think it's very nice to call your mother Miss.
• 51:25
  Speaker 8: My mother?
• 51:26
  Speaker 10: Then we are relations. Oh.
• 51:30
  Speaker 12: Well, I.
• 51:32
  Speaker 10: I was thinking if Buffalo Bill could kiss girls, I
• 51:35
  Speaker 10: could too, huh?
• 51:37
  Speaker 12: Why, that's very handsome of you, Austin.
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: Had your breakfast yet?
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: No, sir.
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: Well, don't you think you better.
• 51:44
  Speaker 17: Have it now?
• 51:44
  Speaker 10: But I don't want it.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Go on, Scott.
• 51:46
  Speaker 12: Scott.
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am.
• 51:50
  Speaker 9: Fiona, I love you.
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: I hate you.
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: Wouldn't have me if I was the last man on earth,
• 51:56
  Speaker 9: would you?
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: No.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 51:58
  Speaker 13: We can go.
• 51:59
  Speaker 9: Somewhere from there. I was afraid you might have become
• 52:02
  Speaker 9: indifferent to me. Fiona, I've loved you since the first
• 52:06
  Speaker 9: moment I set eyes on you. I've never stopped. That's
• 52:11
  Speaker 9: why I took Austin. I thought perhaps where he went,
• 52:15
  Speaker 9: you might follow. Why I should want to mess up
• 52:20
  Speaker 9: my life with a bad-tempered vixen like you, heaven only knows. Oh, Fiona.
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: Why don't you stop fighting me?
• 52:28
  Speaker 8: It's funny. It's very funny.
• 52:32
  Speaker 9: What is, darling?
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: This room, it... It smells just like apple blossoms.
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: Just as long as stars like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: Young are around, we can bring you performances like the
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: Gay Sisters. And they'll turn out just as well.
• 53:02
  Speaker 8: You know, I listen to the Lux Radio Theater every week, C.B.,
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: and I keep waiting for the night when a couple.
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: Of actors will get up here and you'll say.
• 53:10
  Speaker 8: Thanks very much, fellas. It was good. It wasn't much good,
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: but you tried.
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: Embarrassing moment, C.B.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: Well, it can't happen here, Bob. We'd find out before
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: Monday night.
• 53:22
  Speaker 8: I have seen you involved in a very embarrassing moment, though, C.B.
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: Remember that scene in Union Pacific where I was supposed
• 53:28
  Speaker 8: to tip over a big iron stove and I complained
• 53:30
  Speaker 8: that it was too heavy?
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: Well, you just finished telling me a minute before that
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: you played tackle on a football team in Brooklyn at
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: the age of eight, so I figured you were pretty strong.
• 53:40
  Speaker 8: Uh-huh. So I tried and couldn't budge it, and you said,
• 53:43
  Speaker 8: I'll show you how. Then you gave it the old
• 53:46
  Speaker 8: Samson touch.
• 53:47
  Speaker 9: Pushed it right over, huh?
• 53:49
  Speaker 8: Didn't move an inch.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: Well, how could I know it was bolted to the floor?
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: Those things happen to everybody, including you, Bob.
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: Oh, sure. I'll never forget the time my wife's great-aunt
• 54:02
  Speaker 9: came out to visit us. I never met her, and
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: she was a little doubtful about actors in general, so
• 54:07
  Speaker 9: my wife described my so-called good qualities at some length.
• 54:11
  Speaker 9: She just about sold me as an acceptable relative when
• 54:13
  Speaker 9: my five-year-old daughter fixed it up good. She piped up with, uh...
• 54:18
  Speaker 9: I don't know about all those things Mother's telling you,
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: but Daddy sure is cross as a bear when he
• 54:21
  Speaker 9: gets up in the morning. By the way, what was
• 54:25
  Speaker 9: that about you playing on a football team, Barbara?
• 54:28
  Speaker 8: Uh-huh. When I was eight years old, Bob, in Flatbush.
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: You know, where the Brooklyn Dodgers are.
• 54:33
  Speaker 13: Who doesn't?
• 54:34
  Speaker 9: I'll bet you we're the prettiest tackle Brooklyn ever had.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: No doubt of that.
• 54:37
  Speaker 9: You must have a beauty secret, Barbara.
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: If I have any, it's just soap and water, C.B.
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: But the kind of soap is very important.
• 54:45
  Speaker 12: It's got to be luck soap.
• 54:46
  Speaker 8: I've always used it.
• 54:47
  Speaker 12: Oh, by the way, I hope.
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: It's all right to mention that here.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: Well, yes, yes, as long as it's you and as
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: long as it looks so.
• 54:57
  Speaker 9: What play are you producing next week, C.B.
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: A double-barrel hit, Bob, that scored a success first on
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: Broadway and then on the screen. The name of the
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: play is Broadway, and the stars are George Rath, Lloyd Nolan,
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: and Janet Blair. This is a roaring drama of the
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: Great White Way during the 1920s, with all the thrills
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: of the most famous street in the world in one
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: three-act play. And we have two stars from the Universal Picture,
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: George Raft and Janet Blair, plus Lloyd Nolan.
• 55:28
  Speaker 8: Broadway is a real thriller, T.B. I'll be listening. Good night.
• 55:32
  Speaker 9: Good night.
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Good night.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Good night.
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join me
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: in inviting you to be with us again next Monday
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: night when the Lux Radio Theater presents George Rapp, Lloyd Nolan,
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: and Janet Blair in Broadway.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: This is Cecil B.
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood.
• 56:04
  Speaker 18: Barbara Sandwich is now filming The G-String Murders, a Hans
• 56:07
  Speaker 18: Stromberg production. Heard in tonight's play were Bobby Larson as Austin,
• 56:11
  Speaker 18: Lois Collier as Susanna, Dorothy Lovett as Evelyn, Leo Cleary
• 56:15
  Speaker 18: as Gibbon, Fred McKay as Gig, Griff Barnett as Pedlock,
• 56:19
  Speaker 18: and Noreen Gamil, Boyd Davis, Joe Latham, Paul Langdon, Jane Beers,
• 56:24
  Speaker 18: and Joe Pinario. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers.
• 56:27
  Speaker 18: And this is your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you
• 56:29
  Speaker 18: to tune in next Monday night to hear George Raft,
• 56:32
  Speaker 18: Lord Nolan, and Janet Blair in Broadway. Want to feel
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• 56:57
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• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Our Lux Radio Theater presentation of The Gay Sisters has ended.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Good night, and thank you for joining us.