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Speaker 1: February 11th, 1952 brought Lux Radio Theater to its 777th broadcast,
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Speaker 1: Show Boat. Adapted from MGM's 1951 film, the story travels
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Speaker 1: aboard the Mississippi show boat Cotton Blossom where Captain Andy
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Speaker 1: Hawks must find new leading players for his troupe. His
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Speaker 1: daughter Magnolia is paired with riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenel, as
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Speaker 1: Julie Laverne, Joe, and the company carry on with life
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Speaker 1: and theater along the river. Catherine Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel,
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Speaker 1: William Warfield, and Marge and Gower Champion return to the
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Speaker 1: roles they played on film, with J.C. Flippen as Captain Andy...
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Speaker 1: And now, we return to the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Hollywood Radio Theater.
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Speaker 3: We get many enjoyable moments out of the books we read,
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Speaker 3: the sights we see, and above all, the things we hear.
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Speaker 3: The Hollywood Radio Theater hopes to add to your enjoyment
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Speaker 3: by bringing you each week the finest in dramatic and
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Speaker 3: comedy entertainment featuring a stellar cast of movie personalities, many
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Speaker 3: of whom will appear in their original motion picture roles.
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Speaker 2: Now, here is our producer, Mr.
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Speaker 4: William Keely.
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Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 5: Tonight is a very special evening because once again we
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Speaker 5: are pleased to present the screenplay that the American moviegoers
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Speaker 5: have chosen as the most popular picture for the year 1951.
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Speaker 5: Selected in a nationwide poll conducted by Photo Play magazine.
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Speaker 4: It's Show Boat.
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Speaker 5: Based on the Metro-Golden Mare picture. Adapted from the Jerome
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Speaker 5: Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical.
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Speaker 3: Play, Show Boat.
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Speaker 5: From the original novel by Edna Ferber. Our stars, Catherine Grayson, Ava.
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Speaker 3: Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion, William Warfield, and J.C.
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Speaker 2: Flippen.
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Speaker 6: Now, here comes the showboat.
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Speaker 5: Starring Catherine Grayson as Magnolia, Ava Gardner as Julie, Howard
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Speaker 5: Keel as Gaylord Ravenel, Marge Champion as Ellie, Gower Champion
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Speaker 5: as Frank, William Warfield as Joe, and J.C.
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Speaker 2: Flippen as Captain Andy. Thank you.
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Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, it is with exhilarating gratification that once
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Speaker 7: again I bring my theatrical offering to your fair commission.
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Speaker 6: I want you to meet a few of our artists.
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Speaker 8: First off, Miss Ellie Mae Shipley, the toast of.
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Speaker 4: Cairo, Illinois.
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Speaker 9: It's always been my hope to play this wonderful town of, uh, Boonville.
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Speaker 7: Thank you.
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Speaker 3: And here's Mr.
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Speaker 6: Frank Schultz.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 3: Schultz is the villain in our play.
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Speaker 10: Aha.
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Speaker 4: Fine, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Yes, sir. We're just one big happy family, and I'm
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Speaker 3: their father. And Parthy here, she's my missus.
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Speaker 11: Parthy's the mother.
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Speaker 6: Oh, you big bellowing catfish. Now get those handbills started.
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Speaker 3: Now, before I pass out the handbills, I want you
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Speaker 3: to meet the little sweetheart of the South, our songstress.
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Speaker 6: And leading lady, Miss Julie Laverne.
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Speaker 2: Ah, Justin Norris, the lover, folks.
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Speaker 3: And here's her leading man, that celebrated thespian, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Stephen Baker.
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Speaker 3: And they will now give you a sample of their
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Speaker 3: soul-stirring emotion.
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Speaker 12: No, no, Hamilton, I cannot accept you, for I am
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Speaker 12: not worthy of your noble desire.
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Speaker 2: On my mother's name, tell me why.
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Speaker 13: Why?
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Speaker 4: Look into yonder room and view the secret of my downfall.
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Speaker 3: Ah, see the show tonight, folks, and learn her secret.
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Speaker 14: Tempest and Sunshine, a beautiful.
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Speaker 15: Drama of tears and laughter.
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Speaker 3: And as for dancing, here's Frank and Ellie with another sample.
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Speaker 4: Are you in business for your health?
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Speaker 6: Now get these handbills out.
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Speaker 9: Come on, Al.
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Speaker 10: Get them.
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Speaker 3: I started out with the handbills, and then suddenly there
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Speaker 3: was a yell from the crowd.
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Speaker 6: My first mate Pete had come up to Julia and Steve.
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Speaker 3: Before I knew it, Pete and Steve were swinging at
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Speaker 3: each other, and then Pete was lying on the dock. Well,
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Speaker 3: I guess we fooled.
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Speaker 2: You that time.
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Speaker 3: The boys just played another little scene from one of
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Speaker 3: our shows.
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Speaker 12: Get back on the boat, Pete.
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Speaker 3: You too, Steve.
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Speaker 4: I told him it's nothing.
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Speaker 6: Time to stay away from my wife.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Steve, please, please.
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Speaker 8: My wife, huh? Well, Steve's nothing time.
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Speaker 4: I told you to get back aboard.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, sure. Joe.
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Speaker 3: Take care of it.
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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, folks.
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Speaker 3: Just look at him dance. Frank and Ellie Schultz, guide
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Speaker 3: of the Cotton Rocks.
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Speaker 7: Please, Mr.
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Speaker 16: Peake.
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Speaker 3: Please go back on board.
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Speaker 11: Shut up.
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Speaker 8: Where are you going, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Peake? I'm going to find the sheriff. I've got a
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Speaker 2: very interesting matter to discuss with the sheriff. Later that day,
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Speaker 2: we all went into town.
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Speaker 3: And while we were gone, a young man came down
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Speaker 3: to the dock.
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Speaker 7: Take it to the show like that.
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Speaker 8: Possibly. Does this boat go to New Orleans?
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Speaker 2: Yep, we wind up there. I'd like to speak to
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Speaker 2: the owner.
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Speaker 3: Oh, they're all up in town giving the street content.
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Speaker 2: Then who's that on deck?
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Speaker 3: That's Captain Andy's daughter.
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Speaker 2: That's Miss Noly. Talking to herself?
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Speaker 3: Oh, she's play acting, mister. Just like she was in
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Speaker 3: the show.
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Speaker 8: Oh, I see. All right, if I wait. Go right aboard, mister.
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Speaker 3: Captain Andy will be back pretty soon now.
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Speaker 6: Is there no mercy in your evil soul?
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Speaker 12: No kindness in your ugly heart? Oh, sir, I beg
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Speaker 12: you on bended knee, stop giving my little daughter diamonds
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Speaker 12: and go home.
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Speaker 6: To your wife.
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Speaker 3: Bravo, bravo.
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Speaker 2: Your performance is magnificent. Small wonder you're the leading lady.
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Speaker 4: Oh, but I'm not.
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Speaker 10: You're not?
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Speaker 4: I'm not even a member of the company.
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Speaker 6: Well, that is not professionally.
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Speaker 2: But you want to be, don't you?
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Speaker 4: Oh, yes. Well, I mean.
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Speaker 2: Why do you want to be an actress?
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 12: Well, an ordinary person wouldn't understand.
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Speaker 17: No?
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Speaker 2: You want to be an actress because it makes everything
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Speaker 2: come true. Every exciting thing you've ever dreamed about. Even
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Speaker 2: if it's make-believe, isn't that it?
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Speaker 4: Yes, that is it, but how did you know?
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Speaker 18: Well, for instance, right now, you and I could be
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Speaker 18: Romeo and Juliet, or Elizabeth and Essex, or.
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Speaker 4: Or Lady Southwake and Hamilton Barsdale.
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Speaker 10: Who?
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Speaker 4: They're in our play, in Tempest in the Sunshine.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, of course.
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Speaker 4: As a matter of fact, there couldn't be anybody talking
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Speaker 4: like this. We haven't been properly introduced.
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Speaker 2: Well, that makes no difference in make-believe.
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Speaker 4: Well, I suppose that's true.
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Speaker 2: So we could make believe it was just falling in
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Speaker 2: love at first sight.
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Speaker 8: We could make believe that you love me.
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Speaker 15: Love is fine, keep your mind in pretending.
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Speaker 19: Couldn't you?
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Speaker 8: Couldn't I?
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Speaker 2: Couldn't you leave me?
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Speaker 8: In a phantom kiss or to a dream.
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Speaker 7: Might as well make it real I don't know.
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Speaker 10: What to tell.
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Speaker 4: If you want to see my father.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes. I see they're coming back from town. To
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Speaker 2: our next meeting, Noli.
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Speaker 3: My daughter says you want to see me, son.
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Speaker 6: I'll take care of this, Hawks.
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Speaker 2: Allow me, ma'am.
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Speaker 18: Gaylord Ravenel of the Tennessee Ravenels.
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Speaker 8: I understand that you're heading for Newark.
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Speaker 6: And we don't carry passengers.
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Speaker 18: Oh, but I'm an actor. And while I don't have
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Speaker 18: my notices here with me, I.
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Speaker 20: An actor without notices.
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Speaker 6: A gambler ain't be more like it.
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Speaker 4: We're full up, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Ravenel.
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Speaker 4: Sorry.
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Speaker 2: Well, it just doesn't seem to be my day, does it?
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Speaker 2: My thanks just the same.
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Speaker 6: Andy, where's Magnolia?
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Speaker 8: Noly?
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Speaker 2: Oh, in Julie's cabin, I suppose.
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Speaker 6: Well, tell her to help Queenie with the supper.
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Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 21: Noly!
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Speaker 6: Your ma wants you to help Queenie with the supper.
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Speaker 4: In a minute, Papa. Did anything happen in town? I mean,
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Speaker 4: Steve and Pete?
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Speaker 21: No, honey, nothing. We didn't even see Pete.
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Speaker 4: Julie, you love Steve so much, don't you?
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Speaker 21: That rattle-brained mule. Yes, honey, I love him.
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Speaker 4: And golly, how he loves you.
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Speaker 22: Well, now you go ahead and tell me about your
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Speaker 22: handsome stranger. That's what you came in for, isn't it?
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Speaker 4: Julie, he's so different. Oh, River, Dan is a thick
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Speaker 4: as locust, Angel.
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Speaker 19: Oh, I know.
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Speaker 4: I know about men.
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Speaker 23: Oh, yes?
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Speaker 4: But then when he stood there and smiled... Julie, why
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Speaker 4: do you love Steve so much?
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 21: Well, I love him because.
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Speaker 6: Well, I don't.
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Speaker 21: Even know why.
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Speaker 22: He's not a very good actor on stage. Matter of fact,
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Speaker 22: he's not a very good actor off stage.
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Speaker 21: But he's all mine.
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Speaker 10: There.
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Speaker 4: Could you ever think of loving anyone else?
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 4: No, I couldn't.
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Speaker 7: Not ever.
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Speaker 4: Fish gotta swim.
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Speaker 12: Birds gotta fly.
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Speaker 23: I gotta love one man till I die.
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Speaker 13: Can't help loving that man.
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Speaker 7: He's lazy, tell me he's slow. Tell me I'm crazy,
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Speaker 7: maybe I'm wrong. Can't help loving.
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Speaker 21: That man of mine.
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Speaker 10: But when he comes back.
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Speaker 7: That day is.
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Speaker 4: Back.
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Speaker 7: The sun will shine.
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Speaker 4: He can come home.
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Speaker 23: Ain't no home to me.
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Speaker 13: In hell.
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Speaker 21: In that land.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Julie, that's wonderful. I think I could feel that way, too.
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Speaker 21: I'll bet you will, someday.
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Speaker 3: That night, about an hour before showtime, I was selling
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Speaker 3: tickets when Parfait sent Joe after me. I couldn't figure it.
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Speaker 3: Sending for me when I was taking in money?
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Speaker 22: Get in here, Hawks.
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Speaker 6: I could have told you there'd be trouble with Julie.
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Speaker 2: It's Pete, Captain Andy.
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Speaker 4: He just came aboard with the sheriff. Sheriff?
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Speaker 2: I heard him talking about Miss Julie.
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Speaker 6: About her and Mr.
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Speaker 15: Steve.
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Speaker 6: Well, there's Steve now.
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Speaker 2: Come in, will you, Captain? You too, Mrs. Hawks.
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Speaker 3: Hurry, please. Look, would somebody mind telling me.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but there's no time. I want you to
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Speaker 2: witness this.
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Speaker 21: It's all right, Captain Andy.
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Speaker 2: Captain Andy, that's a knife he's got. Steve, it won't
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Speaker 2: hurt much, honey. Just scratch on your hand. He's kissing
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Speaker 2: her hand where he cut it.
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Speaker 11: Right in there, Sheriff.
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Speaker 6: Having a woman.
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Speaker 8: Captain Hawks?
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Speaker 24: Well.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, but I got some unpleasant news for you. It's
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Speaker 3: a criminal offense in this state for a white man
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Speaker 3: to marry a Negro woman. Well, what's that got to do...
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Speaker 3: The name of the white man is Steve Baker. The
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Speaker 3: name of the Negro is Julie Laverne.
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Speaker 21: I'm Julie Laverne.
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Speaker 2: The record says you were born in this county. Your
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Speaker 2: father was white, your mother was black. Is that right?
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Speaker 21: Yes, that's right.
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Speaker 2: You two better get your things.
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Speaker 3: You wouldn't call a man white that's got Negro blood
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Speaker 3: in him, would you? In these parts, Miss D, one
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Speaker 3: drop of black blood makes you black.
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Speaker 2: Well, I've got more than a drop in me. He's lying.
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Speaker 3: Ask Captain Hawks and his wife. They can swear I've
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Speaker 3: got Negro blood in me right this minute. Then how
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Speaker 3: come this first mate here comes and tells me that
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Speaker 3: he's a white man?
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Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. Because he's a no-count river rat.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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Speaker 4: He's been bothering Julie, and she has nothing to.
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Speaker 2: Do with him, and that's why he's... She's telling the truth, Sheriff.
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Speaker 2: As for you, Pete, you're fired.
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Speaker 4: Here and now. Come along, Steve.
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Speaker 21: The show, we've got to get ready.
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Speaker 2: No, no, you don't. Word of this will be all
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Speaker 2: over town in no time.
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Speaker 4: But Julie's our star.
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Speaker 2: If she don't go on, the people.
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Speaker 3: It'll be a lot worse if she and her husband
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Speaker 3: are here when the people find out. Take my advice
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Speaker 3: and get down the river as soon as you can.
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Speaker 2: Come on, darling. We'll pack up and leave.
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Speaker 8: Joe? Yes, sir, Captain?
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Speaker 2: Tell Wendy to fire the boilers. We'll be leaving tonight.
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Speaker 10: Julie.
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Speaker 4: Julie, wait.
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Speaker 6: Your ma wouldn't like this, honey.
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Speaker 22: And besides, there's Steve waiting for me on the dock.
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Speaker 4: Julie, I had to say goodbye.
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Speaker 21: Thanks, honey.
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Speaker 4: Julie, nothing's changed.
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Speaker 21: Nothing. Noli, Noli, always true.
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Speaker 4: You'll write and let me know how things go?
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Speaker 21: I'll never forget my Noli. Now you stay happy, honey.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Julie. Julie. Julie.
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Speaker 7: Miss Julie.
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Speaker 4: Goodbye, Joe.
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Speaker 21: You ride the river, Joe.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Miss Julie, I.
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Speaker 9: Wish as I could.
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Speaker 10: Julie!
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Speaker 15: Come on, honey, we've got to hurry.
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Speaker 21: You keep riding that old river, Joe boy.
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Speaker 8: Keep riding the river, she said.
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Speaker 2: Keep riding this old river.
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Speaker 16: There's an old man called Mississippi That's the old man
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Speaker 16: that I wants to be What does he care if
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Speaker 16: the world's got trouble What does he care if the
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Speaker 16: land ain't free.
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Speaker 8: He must know something, but don't say nothing. He just
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Speaker 8: keeps rolling.
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Speaker 13: He keeps rolling.
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Speaker 8: It's all rolling along. He don't plant taters. He don't
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Speaker 8: plant cotton. And then that plantain is soon forgotten. But oh,
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Speaker 8: It just keeps rolling.
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Speaker 3: Along.
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Speaker 15: You and me, we sweat and strain. Body all aching
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Speaker 15: and wracked with pain.
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Speaker 7: Oh, that's fun.
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Speaker 15: If that fails, you get a little drunk.
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Speaker 11: Angel lands in jail.
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Speaker 8: I get weary and sick of trying. I'm tired of living.
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Speaker 7: I'm tired of living.
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Speaker 24: It's just a drama.
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Speaker 7: In a few moments, we'll return with Act Two of
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Speaker 7: Show Boat.
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Speaker 2: Now our producer, Mr.
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Speaker 8: William Keeley.
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Speaker 21: Act II of Showboat.
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Speaker 5: Winner of Photoplay Magazine's Gold Medal Award. Starring Catherine Grayson
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Speaker 5: as Magnolia... Ava Gardner as Julie, Howard Keel as Gaylord Ravenel,
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Speaker 5: Mods Champion as Ellie, Gower Champion as Frank, William Warfield
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Speaker 5: as Joe, and J.C.
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Speaker 3: Flippen as Captain Andy.
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Speaker 2: By early morning, we were well down the river.
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Speaker 3: But there wasn't a smile to be found anywhere aboard
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Speaker 3: the Clapton Blossom Showboat.
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Speaker 12: So I figured we might just as well talk it
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Speaker 12: over here and.
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Speaker 6: Now at breakfast.
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Speaker 9: We just don't have a show with our leading man
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Speaker 9: and leading lady.
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Speaker 2: What's more.
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Speaker 6: Morning, Posse, dear.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, all.
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Speaker 2: Everybody bright and chipper this morning?
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Speaker 6: Bright and chipper. How are we going to put on
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Speaker 6: a show?
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Speaker 4: Just answer me that.
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Speaker 2: Ah, patience, Pocky, patience. I have a little surprise.
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Speaker 6: For one and all. It seems that.
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Speaker 3: Last night, just before we left Boonville, somebody came aboard
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Speaker 3: this vessel.
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Speaker 6: Folks, meet our new leading man, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Gaylord Ravenel. Ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor.
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Speaker 8: You've met my wife, I believe.
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Speaker 2: A repeated pleasure, Mrs.
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Speaker 3: Hawks.
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Speaker 2: And my daughter, Magnolia.
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Speaker 4: Good morning.
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Speaker 6: So you've solved all our problems, have you? Who are
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Speaker 6: we going to get for a leading lady? Your daughter, madam.
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Speaker 3: Now listen, Parthy, we can't get a leading lady till
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Speaker 3: we get to New Orleans. And think of all the
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Speaker 3: money we'd lose.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Mama, all that cotton crop money.
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Speaker 2: That's a lot to turn down, Mrs.
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Speaker 4: Hawks.
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Speaker 6: Besides, we'd never find anybody prettier than Noli. And what's more,
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Speaker 6: she can sing and act just as grand. Ellie, I
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Speaker 6: thank you and thank the Hushop.
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Speaker 9: I'm dead set against my daughter performing in public.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Mama, please.
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Speaker 6: And Frank and I, well, we'll all help her as
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Speaker 6: much as we can. Oh, come on. All right, all right.
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Speaker 6: But mind your hopes, just till we get to New Orleans.
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Speaker 3: There'll be a rehearsal of Tempest and Sunshine in exactly
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Speaker 3: five minutes. Sorry, Gaylord, Romanoff, and Magnolia Hall.
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Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 3: Right from their first performance, Noly and Ravenel were the
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Speaker 3: hit of our show. But then as the weeks went by,
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Speaker 3: I knew there was something more between them than just
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Speaker 3: play acting. And sooner or later, Parthy was going to
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Speaker 3: find out.
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Speaker 6: Don't lie to me, Magnolia. I saw you with my
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Speaker 6: own eyes making love to him. Kissing him.
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Speaker 23: Oh, my.
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Speaker 4: Mrs.
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Speaker 8: Hawks, please.
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Speaker 2: May I talk to you?
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Speaker 6: You can do just one thing for me. Get yourself ashore. Now. Now,
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Speaker 6: hold on, Parthy.
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Speaker 4: Hold on.
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Speaker 18: Captain, ma'am.
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Speaker 2: I'm asking Noli to be my wife.
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Speaker 4: You?
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Speaker 6: A no-account river gambler? How dare you?
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Speaker 10: Gambler?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm a gambler. But, Captain Andy, you know yourself
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Speaker 2: that Noli is meant for the life and happiness of
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Speaker 2: the world. I love her. And I'm going to see
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Speaker 2: that she gets them.
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Speaker 12: And you, my own daughter, are you proud and happy,
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Speaker 12: looking forward.
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Speaker 6: To a life with such as him?
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Speaker 4: Yes, Mama, I am.
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Speaker 12: Then that's a sight I never want to see again.
22:56
Speaker 6: Oh, Mama.
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Speaker 2: I'll always love you, Noli, no matter what you decide
23:02
Speaker 2: to do.
23:03
Speaker 3: As for you, son, I hope it's not just Saturday
23:07
Speaker 3: night with a cold Monday morning to follow you.
23:14
Speaker 2: Noly, are you still sure? Still sure this.
23:17
Speaker 3: Is what you want?
23:18
Speaker 2: Maybe you are taking a hundred-to-one chance.
23:22
Speaker 4: I want to be your wife more than anything in
23:24
Speaker 4: the world.
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Speaker 2: Mrs. Gaylord Ravenhall.
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Speaker 8: You!
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Speaker 20: Here in my heart, where you'll be all.
23:43
Speaker 7: The day. I will not let you away. I won't
23:51
Speaker 7: stay a day with you. Yeah. Far on the mountainside.
24:13
Speaker 6: You taught me to see.
24:15
Speaker 4: One truth for all the truth Why never again?
25:10
Speaker 3: They got married and they went away. Oh, they're living
25:14
Speaker 3: in Chicago now at the Sherman House Hotel. And everything
25:18
Speaker 3: in the world a girl can want, Ravenel bought for her.
25:22
Speaker 3: But there comes a time in a gambler's life when
25:25
Speaker 3: the cards and the dice and the wheels start turning
25:29
Speaker 3: against it.
25:32
Speaker 2: Dolly, stop looking so serious. Now put those things right
25:35
Speaker 2: back where they belong.
25:36
Speaker 4: But darling, the jewelries were thousands of dollars. You can
25:39
Speaker 4: sell them and then we'll.
25:40
Speaker 18: Stop giving me your diamonds, madam, and go home to
25:43
Speaker 18: your husband's arms.
25:45
Speaker 4: Gay, won't you listen to me? Won't you be sensible
25:48
Speaker 4: for just one.
25:49
Speaker 2: Oh, come here, you. Do you love me?
25:53
Speaker 4: Yes, but I still think.
25:55
Speaker 2: All right, angel, all right, I'll take your pretty. But
25:58
Speaker 2: I'll get another steak and we'll be walking on tall
26:00
Speaker 2: air again. Do you trust me, Noli?
26:03
Speaker 13: Always.
26:05
Speaker 2: Just don't ever stop loving me, huh? If ever I
26:08
Speaker 2: catch you batting your eyes at another.
26:11
Speaker 24: Fella, I'll... I know, darling.
26:12
Speaker 23: I know.
26:12
Speaker 16: I know.
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Speaker 19: That's why I love you.
27:20
Speaker 3: Every week, regular, we'd get a letter from Noli telling
27:23
Speaker 3: us how happy she was and how well Gail was doing.
27:27
Speaker 3: The only thing that changed were the addresses. But there
27:30
Speaker 3: just wasn't any way for us to know that the
27:32
Speaker 3: suite in the Sherman house is now just a couple
27:35
Speaker 3: of rooms in the shabbiest part of town.
27:39
Speaker 2: So, to tell the truth, honey, our stake's just about gone.
27:43
Speaker 2: My luck's sure been running shallow.
27:45
Speaker 4: But there'll be another game tonight, won't there, Gay? There
27:47
Speaker 4: always is.
27:48
Speaker 2: I'll get to them, Noli. I almost hit the bonanza
27:50
Speaker 2: last night. If only that third queen had came through.
27:53
Speaker 4: What does she look like, Gay?
27:55
Speaker 13: Your queen?
27:56
Speaker 2: Oh, Noli, now look. If you think there's anything going
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Speaker 2: on with me and some other woman.
28:04
Speaker 6: I know there's no other woman.
28:05
Speaker 4: No flesh and blood woman. I almost wish there were.
28:08
Speaker 12: I'd know how to fight then. But I can't fight
28:11
Speaker 12: this lady luck of yours. This fancy queen in her
28:14
Speaker 12: green felt dress. She's with me, Gaye. For days and
28:18
Speaker 12: nights now, weeks and months. She's with me and I
28:21
Speaker 12: won't be with anymore.
28:22
Speaker 6: I just won't.
28:23
Speaker 2: Now, honey, look. Look, tomorrow's Christmas. I've still got a
28:26
Speaker 2: little money left. We can go out and.
28:28
Speaker 4: Tomorrow isn't Christmas. No, it isn't. It's just like Papa said.
28:33
Speaker 4: It's going to be Monday. It's all just like Papa said.
28:36
Speaker 2: No, Lee.
28:37
Speaker 4: You love me, don't you? Only not enough, Gay. Not
28:41
Speaker 4: quite enough. That third queen, she's the lucky one.
28:46
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
28:48
Speaker 4: It means that you're a weak man. You're weak, you're weak,
28:52
Speaker 4: you're weak.
28:52
Speaker 18: Noli, I've said enough of this.
28:54
Speaker 4: Take your hands off me. Take your hands off me
28:57
Speaker 4: before I hate you.
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Speaker 18: Well, we'll have to do something about this, won't we?
29:07
Speaker 3: Noli couldn't stay angry at Gay.
29:09
Speaker 2: Nah, not for long.
29:12
Speaker 3: She came back to the rooming house. But as she
29:14
Speaker 3: climbed up the stairs, she heard voices.
29:17
Speaker 2: You sure you haven't any other rooms you can show us?
29:20
Speaker 6: Well, this is all at the moment, Mr. Schultz, but
29:22
Speaker 6: the rent's very reasonable. Oh, Frank, we can afford better
29:25
Speaker 6: than this. Well, if you should change.
29:27
Speaker 17: Oh, Mrs.
29:28
Speaker 6: Ravenhall, I thought that you.
29:29
Speaker 4: Ellie!
29:30
Speaker 10: Oh, no!
29:31
Speaker 7: Just look at her!
29:32
Speaker 2: Well, how are you?
29:33
Speaker 4: Oh, no, me, no! Oh, there are no two people
29:35
Speaker 4: I'd rather see in this whole world. How are you?
29:38
Speaker 3: Well, we left the cotton blouse but I guess your
29:40
Speaker 3: pa wrote you about that.
29:41
Speaker 4: Oh, but that was months ago.
29:42
Speaker 6: We've been doing pretty good, Noly. We're booked into the
29:45
Speaker 6: truck again.
29:46
Speaker 4: Oh, Ellie, how wonderful.
29:47
Speaker 2: We opened New Year's Eve.
29:48
Speaker 6: You see, we just got into town. We were going
29:49
Speaker 6: to drop in on you over at.
29:51
Speaker 4: The Sherman house.
29:52
Speaker 10: You.
29:53
Speaker 2: Living here, Noli?
29:54
Speaker 4: Oh, well, just temporarily.
29:56
Speaker 19: I'll call Gay.
29:57
Speaker 4: Oh, Gay. Gay, darling, get up and see who's here.
30:01
Speaker 6: Well, seeing as you all know each other, I'll drop
30:04
Speaker 6: by later.
30:07
Speaker 4: He's not in the bedroom. He's gone. Ellie, he left
30:14
Speaker 4: a note. Oh, no.
30:17
Speaker 6: What is it, Noli?
30:18
Speaker 9: Noli, let me read it, honey. My darling, by the
30:24
Speaker 9: time you read this, I will be on a train
30:27
Speaker 9: heading west.
30:29
Speaker 4: What you said was true from the beginning.
30:33
Speaker 6: Oh, Frank.
30:35
Speaker 3: Remember our good times and forget all the rest so
30:40
Speaker 3: that at least you will never hate me.
30:43
Speaker 2: Gay.
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Speaker 10: Gay.
30:46
Speaker 6: Oh, Noly, Noly.
30:50
Speaker 4: Merry Christmas to you all.
30:54
Speaker 6: Oh, Gary, Gary.
30:55
Speaker 3: Frank and Ellie had to get over to that cabaret,
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Speaker 3: the Trocadero.
31:03
Speaker 2: They took Noly with them.
31:05
Speaker 3: There was a rehearsal going on, and the management was
31:08
Speaker 3: having a little trouble with one of the singers.
31:11
Speaker 6: Now, look, Julie, I'm trying to put on a show.
31:12
Speaker 5: If you've got a drink, would you mind doing it
31:14
Speaker 5: in your dressing room?
31:14
Speaker 4: Oh, but, Jake, this is a holiday season.
31:17
Speaker 8: It's over for you, Julie.
31:18
Speaker 3: This is work.
31:19
Speaker 6: You promised, remember?
31:19
Speaker 22: Oh, yeah, that's right.
31:22
Speaker 3: That's a good girl.
31:23
Speaker 2: She's starting on a bust again.
31:25
Speaker 5: All these fool one-man girls, their fellas walk out on them,
31:27
Speaker 5: they gotta tear themselves apart until they hit bottom.
31:36
Speaker 10: I used to dream that I would discover The perfect
31:41
Speaker 10: lover someday I knew I'd recognize him If ever he
31:50
Speaker 10: came out my way I always used to fancy then He'd.
32:00
Speaker 23: Be one of the godlike kind of men With a
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Speaker 23: giant brain and a noble head Like the heroes both.
32:16
Speaker 10: In the books I've read.
32:22
Speaker 13: But a love came through Who's not the type at
32:30
Speaker 13: all You'd meet him on the street and never noticed him.
32:38
Speaker 23: His form and face, his manly.
32:44
Speaker 25: Grace is not the kind that you would find in
32:53
Speaker 25: a statue. I, I can't explain.
33:01
Speaker 17: It's surely not his brain that makes me real.
33:12
Speaker 23: I love him because he's, I don't know.
33:24
Speaker 17: Because he's just my dear.
33:36
Speaker 6: Anything else, Simon Legree?
33:38
Speaker 3: Would you try on your costume for the finale?
33:40
Speaker 22: Yes, Master.
33:41
Speaker 2: It's in your dressing room.
33:42
Speaker 6: Yes, Master.
33:43
Speaker 4: Right away, Master.
33:44
Speaker 3: Sorry to bother you, Mr.
33:45
Speaker 4: Green.
33:45
Speaker 3: Well, that song and dance team, Frank and Ellie Schultz,
33:48
Speaker 3: they're waiting in your office. Tell them I'll be right
33:50
Speaker 3: up there.
33:53
Speaker 4: That's right, Mr.
33:54
Speaker 3: Green. Schultz and Schultz.
33:56
Speaker 2: Say, have we got some great new routines for you.
33:58
Speaker 6: And if you have a minute, Mr. Green, we brought
34:00
Speaker 6: someone along with us.
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Speaker 4: Yeah? How do you do?
34:02
Speaker 2: She sings, Mr. Green, just like a nightingale.
34:05
Speaker 3: I already got a singer.
34:06
Speaker 24: Besides, I.
34:08
Speaker 8: Well, go on.
34:09
Speaker 6: Let's hear what you can do.
34:11
Speaker 4: I'll play for you, Noli.
34:12
Speaker 6: Are you ready, honey?
34:13
Speaker 4: Thanks, Sally.
34:17
Speaker 7: Fish got to swim. Fish got to fly. I've got
34:30
Speaker 7: to love.
34:31
Speaker 4: My man till I die.
34:34
Speaker 23: Can't help loving my man long.
34:43
Speaker 3: With that costume, Julie, Jake's gonna be pretty short.
34:45
Speaker 21: Well, who's that singing?
34:47
Speaker 2: Oh, some gal the dance act drags in. Needs a
34:49
Speaker 2: job there, I guess.
34:50
Speaker 4: Needs a job?
34:51
Speaker 6: Why?
34:52
Speaker 3: Schultz was telling me she was married to some two-bit gambler,
34:55
Speaker 3: and he walked off and left her flat.
34:57
Speaker 8: Us boys are all no good, you know that.
34:59
Speaker 2: Shut up.
35:00
Speaker 21: Come on, now. Snap out of.
35:06
Speaker 4: It, will you?
35:07
Speaker 5: Why?
35:07
Speaker 13: Oh, Snowy.
35:09
Speaker 10: Oh, Snowy.
35:17
Speaker 17: Well, how about it, Mr.
35:24
Speaker 7: Green?
35:25
Speaker 4: Not bad.
35:48
Speaker 3: Leave word where we can reach you, honey.
35:49
Speaker 2: Something may turn up later, see?
35:51
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much.
35:52
Speaker 22: I'll be at the.
35:53
Speaker 2: Oh, but these dance routines, suppose we.
35:55
Speaker 6: Hey, boss.
35:55
Speaker 8: Boss, you got a minute?
35:57
Speaker 3: Back in a minute, Chills.
35:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. Now, don't go anywhere. We'll find something for you. Well, Julie,
36:03
Speaker 2: she just walked out.
36:04
Speaker 8: She what?
36:04
Speaker 4: She's gone.
36:05
Speaker 2: Just laughed in my face and quit.
36:06
Speaker 4: Well, what about my opening?
36:08
Speaker 2: She said if you don't hire the little girl who
36:09
Speaker 2: just sang, you're crazy because she's good.
36:11
Speaker 3: Boy, that tramp.
36:12
Speaker 2: I'll go after her.
36:13
Speaker 3: No, let her go.
36:14
Speaker 2: I'm through trying to.
36:16
Speaker 6: Hey, you.
36:17
Speaker 4: Yes, Mr. Green?
36:19
Speaker 3: I've just been thinking it over. Let's hear that number again.
36:22
Speaker 7: We pause now for station identification.
36:45
Speaker 5: The curtain rises on Act Three of Showboat. Winner of
36:49
Speaker 5: Photoplay Magazine's Gold Medal Award, starring Catherine Grayson as Magnolia,
36:54
Speaker 5: Ava Gardner as Julie, Howard Keel as Gaylord Ravenel, Mods
36:58
Speaker 5: Champion as Ellie, Gower Champion as Frank, William Warfield as Joe,
37:02
Speaker 5: and J.C.
37:03
Speaker 3: Flippen as Captain Andy. That New Year's, I made one
37:11
Speaker 3: of the great decisions of my life.
37:13
Speaker 2: I told Parthenia.
37:14
Speaker 3: Whether she liked it or not, I was going to
37:16
Speaker 3: go to Chicago.
37:18
Speaker 2: I was going to see Noly and Gay.
37:19
Speaker 3: And what's more, I was going to the Trocadero and
37:21
Speaker 3: watch Ellie and Frank knock them dead. And that's exactly
37:25
Speaker 3: what I did.
37:27
Speaker 2: Everything all right, sir?
37:28
Speaker 3: More champagne, perhaps?
37:30
Speaker 2: We do it!
37:31
Speaker 6: Thank you, sir.
37:36
Speaker 3: Say, where in the world do these beautiful ladies come from?
37:41
Speaker 3: The chorus, sir. You invited them to sit down.
37:45
Speaker 7: Happy New Year!
37:45
Speaker 6: You were telling us about your daughter, Pop.
37:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.
37:48
Speaker 4: Say, she must have plenty of money to be staying
37:50
Speaker 4: at the Sherman House.
37:51
Speaker 3: Well, as a matter of fact, they got a place
37:54
Speaker 3: of their own now.
37:54
Speaker 17: Really?
37:55
Speaker 10: Yeah.
37:56
Speaker 3: Noly never told me much about it.
37:58
Speaker 8: Figured she'd want.
37:59
Speaker 3: To surprise me. But I'm going to surprise Noly. Because
38:03
Speaker 3: Ellie and Frank, they'll know where she is, see?
38:08
Speaker 8: He knew it!
38:11
Speaker 14: And now the new sensation of the song and dance duo,
38:16
Speaker 14: Choke and Choke!
38:19
Speaker 13: Noly can tell you, that's Ellie and Frank.
38:21
Speaker 2: Oh, way do you catch them.
38:23
Speaker 4: Taught them everything I know myself.
38:24
Speaker 3: Whoop!
38:26
Speaker 11: Me.
38:28
Speaker 20: Life upon the wicked stage ain't ever what the girl poses.
38:33
Speaker 20: Stage door johnnies are enraging over you with gems and roses.
38:39
Speaker 4: When you let a fella hold your hand, which.
38:42
Speaker 26: Means an extra beer or a sandwich.
38:46
Speaker 6: Everybody whispers ain't her life.
38:49
Speaker 20: I'll So you're warned against a runaway ruining your reputation
38:57
Speaker 20: When you've played around the one-night trade around this great
39:01
Speaker 20: big nation Wild.
39:03
Speaker 26: Old men who give you jewels and fables Only live
39:09
Speaker 26: in Esau's stable.
39:11
Speaker 4: A life upon the wicked day, Jane, nothing for a girl. Oh,
39:14
Speaker 4: I've listened to you moan and grieve.
39:16
Speaker 18: You must pardon me if I do not believe you.
39:19
Speaker 5: There is no doubt you're crazy about your awful state.
39:25
Speaker 20: I admit it's fun to smear my face with paint,
39:28
Speaker 20: causing everyone to think I'm what I ain't.
39:33
Speaker 26: And I like to play a Demi-Monday role with soul.
39:40
Speaker 20: Ask the hero does he like the way I lure
39:43
Speaker 20: When I play.
39:44
Speaker 26: A hussy or a paramour But when once the curtain's
39:49
Speaker 26: down My life is pure And how I dread it
39:56
Speaker 26: I've got talent But it ain't been tested.
40:11
Speaker 20: No one's even interested. A life upon the wicked stage
40:18
Speaker 20: ain't nothing for a girl.
40:21
Speaker 24: Excuse me, girls.
40:25
Speaker 3: I gotta go back and say hello to Ellie and Frank.
40:28
Speaker 6: Now, wait right here.
40:29
Speaker 2: Don't nobody go away.
40:32
Speaker 14: And now, ladies and gentlemen, for the unannounced treat of
40:36
Speaker 14: the evening, that sweetheart of the Mississippi, Miss Magnolia Ravenel.
40:42
Speaker 16: Molly.
40:46
Speaker 13: My Molly.
40:48
Speaker 6: The ball is over.
40:55
Speaker 14: It's not much of a dressing room, Papa, but.
40:58
Speaker 7: At least we can sit down.
41:02
Speaker 17: All right.
41:25
Speaker 4: I know they didn't like me.
41:27
Speaker 8: Noly?
41:27
Speaker 2: What about Gay?
41:31
Speaker 21: I told you everything, Papa.
41:32
Speaker 2: He hasn't even written to you?
41:35
Speaker 21: No.
41:37
Speaker 4: Just like he said it. London.
41:40
Speaker 2: Just forget him, Noly, darling. He's a scoundrel and no good.
41:43
Speaker 4: Oh, no, Papa, no. He was only trying to think
41:46
Speaker 4: of me.
41:47
Speaker 3: Well, from now on, you can just be thinking of yourself.
41:50
Speaker 4: No, I can't do that either, Papa. I'm going to
41:54
Speaker 4: have a baby... No, Lee.
41:57
Speaker 2: And you say Gay was thinking of you.
41:59
Speaker 21: Papa, Gay didn't know.
42:01
Speaker 12: You see, well, he was so worried and let down
42:05
Speaker 12: that I was waiting.
42:07
Speaker 4: For things to get better before I told him.
42:10
Speaker 2: Oh, honey.
42:11
Speaker 7: Papa.
42:15
Speaker 6: Papa, I want to come home.
42:18
Speaker 4: If you'll have me.
42:20
Speaker 2: If we'll have you?
42:23
Speaker 8: Oh, no, Lee. Noly.
42:32
Speaker 3: Noly's baby was born late that spring. We named her Kim.
42:37
Speaker 3: Hard to say who spoiled her the most. Noly, or me,
42:41
Speaker 3: or Parthy. The years went by. Two, three, four.
42:50
Speaker 2: And all this.
42:51
Speaker 3: Time, Noli thought Ravenel was still out west. Truth was,
42:55
Speaker 3: he was playing the gambling boats right here on the Mississippi.
42:59
Speaker 3: And one night, Ravenel met a woman.
43:03
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to bother you, miss, but the bartender
43:06
Speaker 2: told me you were the girl who was singing before.
43:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right. I worked the boats, too.
43:10
Speaker 24: Why?
43:11
Speaker 2: Well, that song you sang. Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly.
43:14
Speaker 26: Huh?
43:15
Speaker 2: Someone else used to sing that song. Someone who mattered
43:18
Speaker 2: very much. And I was hoping maybe you'd sing it again.
43:21
Speaker 21: Oh, I don't know.
43:22
Speaker 6: Maybe I will.
43:23
Speaker 17: Later on.
43:24
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks.
43:25
Speaker 4: Hey, you.
43:26
Speaker 6: Barkeep.
43:26
Speaker 21: Yeah, Julie?
43:28
Speaker 6: Hey, who's that fella?
43:29
Speaker 4: Him?
43:30
Speaker 2: Ooh, fair-sized gambler. Travels with his nan then. Name her Ravenel. Ravenel.
43:37
Speaker 21: So that's the no good.
43:41
Speaker 10: Hey, Max.
43:42
Speaker 21: Give me a neat rye.
43:43
Speaker 13: I gotta get my curry chicken.
43:52
Speaker 4: Nice place, Natchez.
43:54
Speaker 6: You getting off there?
43:55
Speaker 10: Oh, hello.
43:55
Speaker 2: Hello, I'm going all the way to New Orleans.
44:00
Speaker 4: Oh, maybe Natchez. Seeing as there's a showboat tied up there.
44:04
Speaker 3: Oh?
44:04
Speaker 6: You know, I used to know a lot of showboat people.
44:08
Speaker 4: One in particular.
44:11
Speaker 21: He was so pretty and slick.
44:13
Speaker 13: So open-hearted, just as sweet.
44:16
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
44:18
Speaker 21: And you know something, mister?
44:20
Speaker 12: Some big, soft-talking card player came along and took her
44:23
Speaker 12: right off the cotton blossom, right off where she belonged.
44:26
Speaker 6: And then left her broken, alone in Chicago when she.
44:28
Speaker 3: Was going to have a baby, when there was nobody
44:29
Speaker 3: around to take care of her.
44:32
Speaker 21: Who are you? Ah, you could find that out easy enough.
44:35
Speaker 6: Julie.
44:36
Speaker 21: Julie Laverne.
44:38
Speaker 3: Julie?
44:38
Speaker 2: So you're... Look, what that you said.
44:43
Speaker 4: You want to see what you left, mister.
44:46
Speaker 13: Here's a newspaper clipping.
44:47
Speaker 6: Pictures, too, see?
44:49
Speaker 4: This week in Natchez. Captain Andy Hawk's daughter and granddaughter.
44:55
Speaker 2: Give me that. Kim. Kim Raven. Julia, I never knew.
45:04
Speaker 2: I never knew.
45:05
Speaker 21: I'll bet you never knew.
45:06
Speaker 2: I take my oath. I never knew.
45:08
Speaker 6: You mean you.
45:12
Speaker 6: Look, I got to go now.
45:13
Speaker 13: I hope I did right.
45:16
Speaker 4: I know there's always two sides to everything. Anyway, mister,
45:20
Speaker 4: if you ever do get to see Noli, not.
45:23
Speaker 21: Get together with her, I mean, but if you ever
45:24
Speaker 21: do get to.
45:25
Speaker 4: Talk to her, don't ever tell her you saw me.
45:29
Speaker 13: I mean, don't ever.
45:31
Speaker 4: Tell her you saw me like this.
45:33
Speaker 2: I won't, Judy.
45:35
Speaker 4: Good luck, mister.
45:36
Speaker 23: All right.
45:40
Speaker 3: The cotton blossom, mister? Why, that's the cotton blossom just alongside.
45:46
Speaker 2: The wharf there. Thank you.
45:49
Speaker 4: Mr. Gay, it's Mr. Gay.
45:51
Speaker 8: Joe.
45:51
Speaker 21: Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 4: Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 2: Look, look, Joe, you haven't seen me, you understand? Yes, sir. Joe,
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Speaker 2: my little girl. Kim, where is she? That's Kim on
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Speaker 2: the dock, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Gay.
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Speaker 2: Over there, playing with her doll. Oh, my God. So
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Speaker 2: you're Kim.
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Speaker 4: Hello, mister. Do I know you?
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Speaker 2: No. No, you don't know me. But could you tell
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Speaker 2: me something? Is your mommy here?
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Speaker 6: Of course.
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Speaker 4: She's on the boat.
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Speaker 2: And your daddy?
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Speaker 4: This is my daddy. This dog. This one's gnarly and
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Speaker 4: this one is gay. Of course he isn't my real daddy.
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Speaker 4: He's far away someplace. So I just play make-believe this
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Speaker 4: is my daddy.
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Speaker 2: Make-believe. Could you make-believe that I was your dad?
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Speaker 4: Do you know how to play make-believe?
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Speaker 2: Oh, sure.
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Speaker 23: All right.
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Speaker 6: You start.
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Speaker 2: Well, let's see. First of all, I'd I'd put you
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Speaker 2: up on my knee like this. And then I'd... I'd
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Speaker 2: put my arms around you. And I'd say... Only make believe.
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Speaker 19: I love you.
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Speaker 8: Darling, look.
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Speaker 3: If your daddy really did come back, could you make
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Speaker 3: believe that he'd never been away?
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Speaker 2: Could you, sweetheart?
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Speaker 4: Of course I could.
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Speaker 10: Kim!
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Speaker 2: Kim, Kim.
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Speaker 4: We have a play next to me, Mommy. Kim, it's
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Speaker 4: time for lunch, dear. Grandma's looking for you. You play
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Speaker 4: the real wonderful, Mommy.
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Speaker 2: Hello, Noli.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Kay.
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Speaker 2: She's, uh, she's lovely, Noli.
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Speaker 17: Yes, yes, she is, isn't she?
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Speaker 2: You, uh, you look fine, too.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: I just happened to see the picture, and I... Well, I.
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Speaker 4: Picture?
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Speaker 2: Well, the one in the newspapers, and I.
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Speaker 2: Oh, no, there's so much that I want to say
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Speaker 2: to you.
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Speaker 4: So much.
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Speaker 10: Oh, Kate.
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Speaker 4: Kate, darling, my darling.
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Speaker 8: Kim.
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Speaker 2: Kim, he's back. Your daddy's back.
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Speaker 3: It's Saturday night again.
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Speaker 2: It's Saturday night forever.
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Speaker 15: You and me, we sweat and strain. Body all aching
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Speaker 15: and wracked with pain. Hope that fortune lifts that veil.
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Speaker 7: You get a little drunk.
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Speaker 11: And you land in jail.
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Speaker 8: I get weary and sick of trying.
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Speaker 6: I'm tired of living.
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Speaker 2: Now, here's Mr.
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Speaker 3: Keeley with our star.
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Speaker 5: And I'd just like to add my thanks for an
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Speaker 5: enchanting evening to Catherine Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge
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Speaker 5: and Gower Champion.
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Speaker 2: William Warfield, and J.C.
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Speaker 3: Flippen.
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Speaker 2: Now, I want you to.
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Speaker 5: Meet the gold medal award winner as producer of Show
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Speaker 5: Boat and first vice president of the Screen Producers Guild, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Arthur Freed.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Bill.
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Speaker 3: And may I introduce the gold medal award winner as
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Speaker 3: director of showboat and president of the Screen Directors Guild,
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Speaker 3: George Sidney.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Arthur Freed. Hello, Bill.
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Speaker 3: We enjoyed the show tremendously and would like to award
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Speaker 3: our congratulations to the cast.
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Speaker 2: They were superb.
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Speaker 5: You know, as I predicted last year, you've gone ahead
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Speaker 5: and developed some brand new stars out at MGM.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Bill, and believe me, it's a real thrill to
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Speaker 3: direct young players like Marge and Gower Champion and Showboat
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Speaker 3: and have them jump to stardom in their very next picture.
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Speaker 2: Everything I have is yours. Say, what is your play
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Speaker 2: for next week?
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Speaker 5: It's one of MGM's outstanding successes of past seasons, Rudyard
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Speaker 5: Kipling's famous story of Kim. And starring in their original
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Speaker 5: roles will be Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell.
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Speaker 3: Well, it was a fine motion picture and should make
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Speaker 3: a great radio show.
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Speaker 2: Good night, Bill.
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Speaker 8: Good night.
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Speaker 5: Good night. And thank you, George Sidney and Arthur Flees
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Speaker 5: and all of tonight's great cast.
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Speaker 3: The Hollywood Radio Theater is produced by Mr.
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Speaker 2: William Keeley.
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Speaker 3: Our orchestra is directed by Rudy Schrager. This is John
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Speaker 3: Milton Kennedy inviting you to join us again next week
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Speaker 3: at this same time for another presentation of the Hollywood
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Speaker 3: Radio Theater.
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Speaker 1: That was Lux Radio Theater's showboat. Good night, and thank
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Speaker 1: you for sharing this broadcast with us.