Lux Radio Theatre - Dulcy

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Speaker 1 (00:24):
The Lux Radio Theater, great dramatic program with the stage
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and Storm Over the Andes.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
The play for this Evening, Dulcie Dulcie.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:48):
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Speaker 1 (01:57):
And here's mister Gerrick to tell you about the play.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
In tonight's play, you will hear Miss.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Jesu Pitts in the part of Dulcinea Smith, a high
spirited but rather giddy, young married woman.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Dulcinea, called Dulcie for short, has.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Always had an overwhelming urge to be of assistance in
the business affairs of her hard working husband, and, with
her usual uncanny neck of doing the wrong thing at
the wrong time, has invited a house full of guests to.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Spend the weekend.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Mister Jean Lockhart will be heard in the role of
Charles Forbes, whom Dulcie has invited with the hope that
he will further her husband's financial interests. The first guest
to arrive as her brother Willie, and as our curtain rises,
we find him alone in the well furnished living room,
idly turning over the pages of the evening newspaper. The
door opens to admit Gordon Smith, Dulcie's husband.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Good leaving Bill. Oh, hello, Gordon in here long? Oh,
but now kind of hart in town.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
So I thought i'd come out early. Of course, glad
you did. I don't suppose doubts his home yet.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
No, but I said she was across the street someplace,
missus Kennedy's.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
I think, Oh, yes, the regular Friday afternoon ladies club.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Gosh, when I'm tired tonight.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Had a hard day at the office as the artificial
jewelry business. If any well, it's looking up a bit, Bill,
anything new on Forbes's merger.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
It's coming along.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I hadn't said.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Anything, Gordon, but I i'd rather felt you were up
against it when I saw you last week.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Thanks, old man, I was a bit. You'll be all
right if this new deal goes through. Yes, I think so.

Speaker 5 (03:33):
I'd to get sixteen and two thirds percent of the
stock of the combine.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Oh you think that's enough? Sixteen and two thirds?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Oh it isn't. But I'm up against it. I've gotta
take what he gives me or have that crowd to fight.
Forbes is a tough customer.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
That's hard. Luck. First, I may be able to do
something with him over the weekend.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
He's coming out here, you know, Yes, so I understand
bringing his wife and daughter too, isn't he?

Speaker 6 (03:56):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
I didn't know you knew them that well?

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, I don't, except Forbes in the business ways. I
wasn't keen for it, but Dulcie thought it'd be nice
to have them. And well, you know how your sister
is about those things. Yeah, what she makes up her
mind to do something, there's no stopping her.

Speaker 7 (04:13):
Oh hello, Willie, Hello, Duncy.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
Gordon, Darling, how are you all right? Dear? Did you
have a hard day at the office?

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well? Not bad?

Speaker 6 (04:24):
Oh my, it's nice and cool in here, isn't it.
I always say, if there's any breeze at all, we
get it in this room. A ring for Henry, will you, Darling?
I wanted to fix these flowers, Yes, dear, all right,
they pretty, Willie, right out of my own guarden.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yes, that's well, sis.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
We're having gifts for the weekend, Willie. It's very important guests,
and I want the place to look just right. Who
do you think is coming? You?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Don't tell me now the Forbes?

Speaker 6 (04:49):
Why, Willie? How did you know?

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (04:51):
Someone must have told you. Yes, Befobes, mister and missus
Thorbes and Angela. My, isn't it strange, Garden that missus
Forbes is only ten years older than her daughter?

Speaker 1 (05:01):
What?

Speaker 6 (05:02):
Yes, of course she's not really Angela's mother, dear, she's
her stepmother, mister Forbes's second wife. You know she's a
nice Willie. And Angela, well, Angela's just a darling.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yes, isn't she a Willie?

Speaker 6 (05:15):
What do you mean you don't know her?

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Of course I do. I've known her for years.

Speaker 6 (05:19):
Well, isn't that funny?

Speaker 2 (05:21):
What's funny about it?

Speaker 6 (05:22):
Does he? Nothing? Except that I never knew he knew her?
That's all?

Speaker 5 (05:26):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (05:26):
Here you are, Henry, did you ring?

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Missus Smith?

Speaker 6 (05:29):
Yes, take those flowers out and cut the stems please,
very good, Maddie. And when you see Madline, tell her
to fix up the little green room for tonight.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yes, mad and box the green room? Who's that for?
Does he?

Speaker 6 (05:40):
You'll see? Dear?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
You mean there's someone else coming?

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Of course, darling? Who Oh, you'll never guess.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I don't even want to try now? Who is it?

Speaker 1 (05:49):
Does he.

Speaker 6 (05:50):
Skyler van Dyke, Skyla van Dyke, one of these Van Dykes,
and he's worth millions.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Skylo van Dyke's coming here.

Speaker 6 (05:56):
Yes, isn't it wonderful? He's a marvelous man and you
ought to hear him play the piano. You never think
he was a Van Dyke. He's so democratic.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Where the devil did you meet him?

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Oh? Several places? And this afternoon he was at missus
Kennedy's and played forest. He had a lot of invitations
and he accepted mine, My dear.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Having this man here with Forbes, now, how do we
know they like each other?

Speaker 6 (06:18):
They will. Mister van Dyke's a businessman too, darling. He
owns all kinds of things, railroads and railroads, I think
some of them are. He'll help entertain mister Forbes with.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Him, But Forbes isn't the kind of man that wants
to be entertained. That's just it, a darling.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
Leave mister Forbes to me. I've got a real surprise
for you, another one, a wonderful one just for you.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
One thing Duncy never learned is the difference between a
surprise and a shock.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
You shut up, Willie, Okay.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
I'm shut I think I'll go upstairs and wash.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Up a little.

Speaker 6 (06:48):
That's right, dear. I want you to look nice for
our guests.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
See you later now, Dulcie, what is this surprise you
have for me? Has there anything to do with Forbes?

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Yes, darling, and it's something that's going to help do
a great deal with mister Forbes. Oh, dear, I must
tell Henry. They'll be two more for dinner.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Two more. Then there's still another one coming besides Vandyke. Yes,
what are you trying to do? Solve the housing problem?

Speaker 6 (07:10):
Just wait, darling, you'll be so excited.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
Vincent is coming Vincent Vincent? Who the devil is Vincent?

Speaker 6 (07:17):
Vincent Leach? You know the big moving picture riders? Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Yes, is he coming here?

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Isn't it wonderful?

Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'm not so sure. Now, why do you want to
mix this man Leach up with four?

Speaker 6 (07:28):
Oh that's a secret, But I don't like secrets.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
This isn't the game.

Speaker 6 (07:32):
I promise you won't tell cross your heart. Yes, yes, well,
van Vinson and Angela like each other?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
You mean Forbes's daughter?

Speaker 7 (07:40):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Isn't it wonderful? So I invited them both here so
they'll have the whole weekend together. You never can tell
what will happen.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
But Dulcie, dear, you don't know Angela so well. And
this man Leech, what do you know about him?

Speaker 6 (07:52):
I know all about him. He's a big scenario rider
and just the man for Angie.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
But why are you so anxious to match this fellow
Leach with Angela? What you care about it?

Speaker 6 (08:00):
Don't you see?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
No?

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Can't you get no?

Speaker 6 (08:03):
Well it's Angie likes mister Leech and marries him. Yes,
and I fix it well too, well, I'm your.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Wife now, Dulcie.

Speaker 6 (08:11):
That will make mister Forbes so grateful. They don't have
to give you more than sixteen and two thirds of
the percentage.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Good Heaven's Dusty.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
I figured it all out myself.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
But not now.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
Wait, Gordon, Darling, don't be upset about it. I know
they ought to marry I just know it. It's a
woman's intuition, just as I knew I ought to marry you, Dear.
It was because I loved you, darling and wanted to
help you.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
And yes, yes you do help me. But you don't understand, dear. Now,
try and see my position.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
All I can see is that mister Forbes is taking
advantage of you, and I'm not gonna let him. That's all.

Speaker 5 (08:45):
But that isn't the point. In the position that I
am in. I have to go ahead with it. I
wouldn't want anything to happen, don't you see, dear. If
I'm not in that major, I lose everything.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Only sixteen and two thirds percent. It's such a funny
number too. I don't see why you couldn't get a
nice even number like twenty five or fifty.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Now, Darcy, you must listen now, now.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
Not another word. Just let's let sleeping dogs lie and
everything is bound to come out all right, it always does.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Excuse me, missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (09:16):
Yes, Henry, mister.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Skyla van Dyke is.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
Yah mack oh show him in Henry, Yes, smtt oh Gordon,
isn't it thrilling? A real Van Dyke in our home?

Speaker 8 (09:27):
Get good even, missus Smith, Good evening.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
I see you found your way all right?

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (09:33):
Yes, I guess you're like me. You've got a bump
of location. This is my husband, mister van Dyke.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Mister Smith, how do you do? I very pleased to
know you, mister van Dyke.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Right, Hi, beg your pardon.

Speaker 6 (09:44):
Well that's all right, come in, Willie. I want you
to meet mister van Dyke, my brother, Willie. Mister vandyk
you do?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
How do you do?

Speaker 6 (09:51):
And mister van Dyke's gonna stay the weekend, aren't you?
Mister van Dyke?

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Thank you? What I I hope I'm not intruding? Why
not at all?

Speaker 6 (09:57):
Intruding? I should say not?

Speaker 2 (10:00):
It's very kind of you? But may I accept with
the proviso? Why?

Speaker 8 (10:03):
Certainly it's very possible it's some business matters.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Will call me back to town now. In that event,
I hope you will pardon me.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
Of course, we all understand business here, don't regarding a
business before a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You're off the good, Willie.

Speaker 6 (10:18):
Would you show mister van Dyke's room. It's the one
next to yours.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
God this way, mister van Dyke, thank you very much.
I shall rejoin your presently, missus.

Speaker 6 (10:25):
Smith dinner at eight twenty Mister van Dye, Well, how
do you like mister van Dyke? Nice, isn't he?

Speaker 2 (10:32):
He's all right? I guess?

Speaker 6 (10:34):
Wait to hear in play the piana A lovely touch
and so soful? Oh mind, oh Henry, what is it? Henry?

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Mister and missus faubes madam and miss Angela Paul.

Speaker 6 (10:46):
Oh good heavens they're here already, and I'm a size
a positive sight. Henry show them in and say, I'll
be down directly, very good man, quick, gardon, we've got
to go upstairs. We look terrible.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Who does I look? All right?

Speaker 8 (10:57):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (10:57):
No, you don't. You haven't even washed your face. You
can't get mister fourth of the dirty face. Come on now,
but don't stop to argue. We'll go through the dining
for the world.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Clear, guys, Darcy, I wish you wouldn't hurry, dear hurry,
Will you come this way?

Speaker 6 (11:11):
See?

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Thank you? Come along in and arm Yes here?

Speaker 7 (11:15):
Oh what a lovely room, isn't it. Angela? Yes, the
whole place is lovely.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
It looks like we came too early. Oh no, sir, missus.
Smith asked me to say, but he'd be down directed
all right, thank you. They're not at all many.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Excuse me, well, a nice reception now, please, Charlie.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
You don't be a bear.

Speaker 9 (11:36):
Father, Try to be pleasant for one pleasant?

Speaker 5 (11:38):
Why should I I didn't want to come here in
the first place. I could have done a business with
Smith in New York.

Speaker 7 (11:43):
I know, Dear, but a nice weekend down here in
the country.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
We can, we can.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
What do I care about a weekend. I'm a business man,
not a playboy, you know. I just fis golf and
tennis and all that sort of fuck.

Speaker 10 (11:52):
Well, I couldn't help it. Charlie, missus Smith was so insistent.
I couldn't refuse her.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
Well, we're here now, father, you might as well make
the best I didn't care too much about telling myself
if you want to.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Know, oh you didn't.

Speaker 7 (12:03):
No, not particularly.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
I'd rather stay the town, yes, where you could see
that that half baked moving picture writer. I suppose. Why Oh,
I know all about it. You've been seeing him almost
every day, and I don't like it. You're here. I
don't like it at all?

Speaker 6 (12:16):
Why not? Father?

Speaker 7 (12:17):
Mister Leitch is a.

Speaker 6 (12:18):
Very nice young man.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Mister Leech is a young fool.

Speaker 6 (12:20):
How can you say that You've never even met it?

Speaker 2 (12:21):
No, but I've heard about him, and that was enough
for me.

Speaker 10 (12:23):
Oh, Charlie, please don't excite yourself. You know it's bad
for you. Don't come over here, and SI don.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, I won't. I'll sit down right here. I don't
like those soft chairs anyway, right, they're bad from my back.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Come in here, mister van Dyke, thank you?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
What what dal?

Speaker 5 (12:38):
Well?

Speaker 3 (12:39):
If it is Angela?

Speaker 6 (12:41):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Angela?

Speaker 6 (12:42):
All right, dear, this is my father still Parker father.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
How do you do, sir? Are you? I like? Mister okay?

Speaker 7 (12:48):
How do you do?

Speaker 2 (12:49):
How do you know? This is mister van Dyke and
missus Bob's an Angela bar?

Speaker 3 (12:52):
How do you do?

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Are you mister Skuyler van Dyke of New York. Yes,
I am well, I'm certainly glad to know you.

Speaker 8 (12:59):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I believe I know something of your interests.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
It's like I just missed meeting you last week at
the International Metals Conference.

Speaker 8 (13:05):
Yes, well, I've heard of you all so, mister Forbes,
and I hope we can have a little chance to
talk down here. I'm very much interested in the artificial
jewelry business, are you well?

Speaker 2 (13:15):
That's fine, they are.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Gordon, Hi, dear, I'm coming.

Speaker 6 (13:19):
Oh missus Pard, I'm so sorry she's kept you waiting.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
It's quite all right.

Speaker 6 (13:23):
And mister forb how are you pretty well?

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Anna?

Speaker 6 (13:26):
Angela? How are you missus Smith?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (13:28):
Gordon introduced everybody?

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Will you? Yes? Of course? All right, Gordon, I've done
it already.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
Oh, how nice of you, Willie Angela, My dear, I'm
such a surprise for you, such a surprise, what missus Smith.
You'll see, dear, you'll see, mister Fork.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
I'm glad you could get on early. I'd like to
talk over something with.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
You there now now, Gordon, no business please, but does no, dear.
This is the time for play, you know, mister Forbes.
The one thing poor Gordon has never learned to do
is a play. He takes everything so seriously. Now what
I like to do is to cut loose once in
a while. Just see you again, don't you, missus Ford?

Speaker 10 (14:02):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (14:02):
Yes, indeed, away from everything.

Speaker 6 (14:04):
Yes, that's the way I feel. And I've got the
most wonderful day planned out for you tomorrow, mister Ford.
You're gonna play and play and play me.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Well, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
But you know that.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
But you play golf, don't you.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Well, I thank you time.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
You'll love our course.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
It's wonderful, yes, but I've been having a great deal
of trouble with my back.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
Really well that's too bad. But you need his exercise.
Now you just lob and play eighteen holes of golf
with mister van Dyke. The first thing in the morning.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
But my dear missus Smith, excuse me, Missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (14:35):
Yes, Henry, yes, Henry's.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
What is it another guest here, madam?

Speaker 6 (14:39):
Oh wait, wait, wait, don't tell us his name? Just
showing in. Henry, very good Max, Angela, Yes, this is
a surprise. I was telling you about Angelo. Oh who
is it? You'll see in a moment, dear, Yes, I see,
thank you? Oh good heaven. How do you do? Ladies

(14:59):
and gentleman, this mister Vincent Lee, the great moving picture writer.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
What welcome?

Speaker 6 (15:04):
Yes, mister Ford, mister Benson.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Lee, Oh do you do? Mister for how do you do?

Speaker 6 (15:10):
And mis do? And mister van Dyke Willie are you do?
And of course Angela, angel why this is a surprise, Yes,
isn't it. I didn't know you were going to.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Be here, neither did I.

Speaker 5 (15:27):
But nothing, Missus Schmith, nothing at all.

Speaker 6 (15:30):
Oh I thought you said something. Oh, mister Leech, I'm
so glad you could come. He's been so busy. Missus
Ford's working on a new picture. Tell us about it,
mister Lee.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, I'm afraid I can't just now. It's a little long.
Perhaps after dinner.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Oh yes, of course, But.

Speaker 5 (15:47):
I may say with all exaggeration that it will probably
be the most magnificent picture of its type ever produced.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Oh how wonderful.

Speaker 11 (15:55):
Yes, even better than the Sacred Love.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
I suppose every one here it's all the sacred love. Well,
then you all know how good that was, and my
next is going to be even better? Need I say more? No? Huh,
I beg your pardon, mister p Oh do see? Don't
you think we might play bridge or something until dinner?

Speaker 6 (16:17):
I'm mean, yes, Gordon, that's a very good idea. Now
let's see you play bridge, don't, mister Ford.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
No, Missus Smith, I do not.

Speaker 6 (16:24):
Oh, yes you do. You're just modest. We'll play out
in the sun port. It's nice and cooler. Oh but
I don't suppose mister Leech and Angela would care to play,
would you?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, if it's all the same to you, Missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (16:36):
I understand. Mister Lee. Why don't you and Angela go
for a little walk? There's such nice thingy around here?
Well I don't all right, shall we? Mister Lee?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Dilighted? My dear come along?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Excuse us? Please?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Everyone, dear?

Speaker 6 (16:53):
Don't they make a nice couple?

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Lovely?

Speaker 5 (16:56):
Now, if you'll excuse me, Missus Smith, I'd like to
go and but my car away.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
Certainly, Forbes, Gordon go and help mister Ford.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Of course, Wait, mister Forbes, I'll show you where to
put it.

Speaker 6 (17:07):
Now, Bill, you can come outside and help me set
up the bridge table.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Okay, Darcy and.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
Mister Van Dyke, will you stay and entertain Missus Forbes
for a moment.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
Certainly it'll be a pleasure.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Thank you. This way, Bill, we're going to play out
in the sun ports, you know.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Right behind you.

Speaker 10 (17:20):
Sis, Well, I suppose I ought to go and change
before dinner.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
No, please don't call missus Forbes. I've I've been wanting
to have a chat with you. I've been hearing all about.

Speaker 12 (17:30):
You this afternoon, all about me, yea from whom I'm
Missus Smith. Oh, so you see, I was prepared to
be interested even before I met you, and now the
disappointment far from it. I find you even more interesting
than I had anticipated.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, thank you. Ah tell me, Missus Forbes, you've been
married just a short time, haven't you?

Speaker 7 (17:48):
Not so short? Four years?

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Why?

Speaker 6 (17:51):
No reason?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
But you look so much younger than your husband, and
he's so very jealous of you.

Speaker 7 (17:56):
Why, mister Van Dyke.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
What makes you think so? Missus Smith told me?

Speaker 6 (18:00):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
In or did I leave the keys to leader? Oh?
I beg your pard?

Speaker 5 (18:05):
Why Charlie, what's the matter nothing, I just can't find
the keys.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
That's all. Oh well, I think I'll go out on
the terrace. So you made him at before m Well
what did that mean?

Speaker 6 (18:16):
What? Charlie?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Isn't it enough to have Angela.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Go prancing off with that brainless, conceited motion picture jackass?

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Then you sitting in here spooning with Van Dyke.

Speaker 7 (18:24):
Why Charlie, how can you say such a thing?

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Good?

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Heavens, didn't I see it's but Charlie, dear, I tell you,
this whole place is driving me crazy. Did you hear
what that woman said? I've got to get up tomorrow
morning and play golf?

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Golf. If there's one thing.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
I hate more than anything else, it's golf, and this
is bridge.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Or moving pictures.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
If I could think of a good excuse, I'd go
back to town tonight, Yes, and take Angela and you
with me.

Speaker 7 (18:45):
But Charlie, you can't do that.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Don't you suppose?

Speaker 5 (18:47):
I see that woman's plans to throw Angela and that
film thing together.

Speaker 7 (18:51):
I tell you he's the most charming man.

Speaker 5 (18:52):
Yes, and I tell you that if it went for
Smith and our business relations, I would go back tonight.

Speaker 11 (18:57):
Oh then for.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Missus Smith, I don't think I care to play bridge tonight.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Now, now, you businessman must have some relaxation. You remind
me so of Gordon, the poor darling. He does nothing
but worse. I don't suppose he's told you, mister forrr's
but he's really got a lot of things on hand.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Huh? Why uh? What do you mean?

Speaker 6 (19:18):
You might just as well know? It isn't only the
pearl business. He has lots of other interests too.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
What fast, it's.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
Really asking too much to make him give up all
these things to come into the jewelry merger.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (19:29):
That is unless it was made worth his file. Of course,
if he only got sixteen two third percent, he couldn't
afford to give up all his time to it. Oh no,
he'd have to look after his other interest too, and
you'd be the loser.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Oh I see.

Speaker 6 (19:44):
No, I just thought i'd tell you. Are you coming,
missus pork?

Speaker 7 (19:47):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (19:47):
Smith, Hurry then, dear, we're gonna start the game.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Mm hm. So that's the way the land lies well, oh,
her is Forbes all alone? Yes, missus Ma, and I'd
like to have a word with you.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
Why, of course, Smith, your wife has just been telling
me something of your other business activities.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Other business activities. Yes, and it came to me as
something of a revelation. But I don't understand. Well, as
you may be aware, my agreement to admit you on.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
A sixteen to two thirds basis was founded on the
expectation that you.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Give all your time to the new enterprise. Yes, of course,
mister Ford, very well. In the circumstances, your business and
your services would hardly be worth that amount to me.
I think we shall have to lower your percentage. But
my dinner, mis Forbe, you don't understand. I think I do.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
And now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go and play bridge.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Oh good heavens, I'm stunk. Dulcie, Darcie, Yes, where are
you here in the living room?

Speaker 7 (20:48):
Oh God, I've got you.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Now wait a minute, Dulci, I.

Speaker 6 (20:51):
Want, but I can't wait, dear, I.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Must tell you, Dulcy, please listen.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Missus Forbes just told me that mister Forbes never plays bridge. Well,
what of it? What of it?

Speaker 7 (21:01):
Why?

Speaker 6 (21:02):
Gordon dear, don't you say he's out there now ready
to play. That means he likes us. He likes us, Gordon,
and everything's gonna be wonderful. I can feel it in
my bones.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
You're listening to the Lux Radio Theaters production of Dulcie,
starring Jesu Pits and featuring Gene Lockhart. Now in the
brief intermission before act two, mister Miller's tired businessman, This
is for you.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Your name, we'll say, is Jones, and your office life
is hectic.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Important meetings the only one way out people to be interviewed,
mister Jones.

Speaker 6 (22:04):
Now, will you wait this?

Speaker 1 (22:05):
That goes on the whole day long. Well, you like
being busy, but when night comes, you're tired. You need
new energy, and I'm going to tell you how to
get it. Drop yourself in a good warm bath, lather
yourself head to foot with Luck's.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Toilet soap and just relax. Man.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Do you feel comfortable. You won't believe how comfortable until
you try it. Luck's toilet soaps lather is active. It
goes down into every pore, freeze skin of dust, dirt,
stale perspirations, makes you feel alive. Skin that's really clean,
feels good. A lux toilet soap bath will prep you
up all right. It's the many, many letters that we

(22:42):
get from men that convince us lucks. Toilet soap is
a soap man like lather. That's the keynote of those letters. Ladder,
that's rich, that's quick, that's thorough. Why don't you try
it tonight? After carefully patching up the damage done by

(23:08):
his well meaning but blundering, Dulcie Gordon was able to
convince mister Forbes that his percentage in the merger should
not be lower. But Dulcie, in her good natured fashion,
is going blindly on with her scheming, totally unaware of
the approaching disaster. It is a few hours after dinner
and she's seated in the living room with missus Forbes,

(23:29):
all aglow with what she believes to be the marvelous
success of her plans.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
Isn't he wonderful?

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Who?

Speaker 7 (23:35):
Missus Smith?

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Vincent Leech? You thought I met mister van Dyke, didn't you?

Speaker 7 (23:40):
I didn't know now.

Speaker 6 (23:41):
Now it doesn't take a brick wall to fall on me.
But seriously, Vince's mad about Angela?

Speaker 7 (23:47):
Do you really think so?

Speaker 6 (23:48):
He hasn't taken his eyes off her since he arrived,
and they've been out in the garden together for hours.
I tell you they're in love, and I wouldn't be
surprised if they became engaged right here in my house.

Speaker 10 (23:58):
But you're sure it's all.

Speaker 7 (23:59):
Right positives, of course I am.

Speaker 6 (24:02):
He's just a man for Angela.

Speaker 7 (24:04):
Oh I hope so, because mister Forbes said this afternoon
that he Oh.

Speaker 6 (24:07):
You don't have to worry about mister Forbes. I think
he's beginning to like Vincent too, you don't you didn't
you see his face so tense and excited while mister
Leach was telling us the story his new picture.

Speaker 7 (24:19):
Yes, my husband did look a little tense.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
Oh wasn't it nice mister Leech telling his story and
mister van Dyke playing the pen at the same time.
It was really thrilling.

Speaker 7 (24:30):
He plays awfully well.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
Yes, when he isn't looking at you, my dear woo.
Mister van Dyke, of course, anybody can see is attracted
to you in a nice, gentlemanly way. I mean, he's
such a gentleman and so wonderfully rich. He was telling
me at dinner about his diamond mines in Africa. Can
you imagine diamond mine?

Speaker 7 (24:49):
He seems to have a huge number of interests.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
Well, the Van Dykes, my dear, you know the Van Dykes,
captains of industry, every one of them. Well, if it
he isn't my two little black sheet? Where of your bed?
All evening we've been walking in the garden. You don't
have to explain to me, Angela, I understand, Oh, Missus Smith.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh, it was beautiful off there? Have you seen the garden, Missus.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
Fabs, No, not yet, mister Lee, Oh.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Then you must have mister Forbes take you off at once.
The moonlight on the roses is a vision of fairyland,
a magical dream out of Arabian nights.

Speaker 7 (25:24):
Well, you make it sound very attractiveness.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
Please, why don't you find father and I can to
take you perhaps our shells? Will you excuse me, Missus Smiths,
of course, my dear, Well, my children, Missus Smith, we've
got to speak to you.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yes, we want you to help us.

Speaker 6 (25:39):
By my DearS, what's wrong, Missus Smith? Vincent denial, fall
in love, in love, in love, oh Angela, Angela and
mister Lee. Oh, if this isn't the most wonderful thing
I've ever heard. It's wonderful. That's all I can say.
I'm so happy I could cry. Good news affects me
that way. Oh, Vincent, I may call you Vincent now

(26:01):
may I?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Of course, mister Smith.

Speaker 6 (26:03):
We're going to need your health, yes, darling, of course. No, No,
it's a secret. And was promised that you won't tell anyone.
I know, I wouldn't tell a soul. Yes, you're going
to Elope alone tonight. Tonight you mean run away and
get married? Yeah? Why, why, that's wonderful, that's just marvel.
Now remember you're not to tell a soul. Oh no,
I wouldn't tell anybody. Well, how soon are you going?

(26:26):
Just as soon as we can, aren't we, Vincent?

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Yes, if we can get away.

Speaker 6 (26:29):
Of course, of course mine. I'm so excited. I don't
know what to do next. Oh dear, I'm just all
of a twitter. Hello, Oh, Willie, Willy, come here. Vincent
and Angela are going to alone?

Speaker 7 (26:41):
Oh oh, missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (26:43):
And you promised you wouldn't tell, oh dear, just pop
before I knew it. But but Willie won't tell anybody.
You won't tell anybody, will you, Willie?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
You're going to a loaf, Angela with mister leash. Yes,
oh no, no, I won't tell a soul.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
There you are, Angela. Thank you Bill.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Where you're going to alope to?

Speaker 10 (27:00):
Well?

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Where were we, Vincent, I hadn't thought about it just yet. Well,
there's lots of place I'll by the marriage license.

Speaker 6 (27:07):
I don't know what enton.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
Oh well, I thought.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
We might find someplace we wanna take your father's car.

Speaker 6 (27:12):
Angelo, Yes, you could have had ours that I broke
with yesterday, Willie. You could help them someway, couldn't you.
You know where to get a license and everything?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Why?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (27:21):
Yeah, See, that's just why I told you.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
I live in Southport.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
I know the barrel clerk. We could go to his
house and get a license.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
Oh that would be lovely.

Speaker 11 (27:29):
Yes, yes, yes, then I could drive you wherever you
want to go and bring the car back.

Speaker 6 (27:34):
You see, everything is working out beautifully. Now I'll tell
you what we'll do. We'll we'll well, what do you suggest, Willy?

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Is everything ready?

Speaker 6 (27:42):
We just have to get our bag. They just have
to get the bags.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
Vincent.

Speaker 6 (27:45):
Now you go out and find missus Forbes and tell her,
and then we'll all meet in the garage. I'll go
up and get Angela's things for her. But wait a minute,
ple Vinson, the least see the more haste or something.
You know.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
All right, I'll see you in the garage and about
three minutes now, don't keep.

Speaker 6 (27:59):
Me waiting away, won't. Well, now that's settled, I'll go
up and get the things. I'll go with you. Oh no,
I'll bring everything out to the garage. If anybody sees me,
they won't suspect.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
You know.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 7 (28:09):
It's just like the.

Speaker 11 (28:10):
Things of all night for the bowl, well already for
the Elopeens.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
Angelus Bell Park. I think I think you're just horrible.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Ah, you don't mean it. I'm really being very good
to you, helping you out this.

Speaker 6 (28:24):
Way, so you don't have to be so happy about
it after all week. So we are all friends.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
But that's why I'm glad. You're glad, aren't you.

Speaker 6 (28:33):
It has nothing to do with it, Yes, of course
I am.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Oh you're just impossible, Angela. You once told me i'd
never change. You were right. I never have changed, especially
about you. Angela.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (28:47):
I don't care whether you have or not. I think
you're positively hopeless.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Oh, good evening, mister Park.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Oh, good evening.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Have you seen my wife?

Speaker 6 (29:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (29:00):
Not recently.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
The butler told me she was looking for me. Oh
I'm sorry. Oh here she is.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
Oh Charley, where have you been?

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I wanted you to go out in the garden with me,
and is that all? Well?

Speaker 2 (29:11):
I don't want it?

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Will you excuse me?

Speaker 6 (29:12):
What you?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I have rather an important engagement? Go ahead, thank you, Charley.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
What's the matter? You look terribly upset about something? Yes,
well I am upset.

Speaker 7 (29:22):
Has anything happened?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
No?

Speaker 5 (29:23):
But if I don't get out of this house, something
will happen. That woman is enough to drive a man crazy.
But Charlie, Charlie, dear me, you don't give it on anyhow.
You just go ahead carrying on with that fellow men die.
But oh I saw the way that woman fixed.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
It up for you and Angela? Where's Angela? I don't know,
Dear out Gallivanty. With that moving picture and income poop,
I suppose more of that woman's work.

Speaker 7 (29:43):
Do you mean mister Leach?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yes, I mean mister Leech. And I want to tell
you something.

Speaker 5 (29:47):
If I find this Leech person actually making love to Angela,
I'm going to raise blazons. I've had nothing but a
series of aggravations and annoyances ever since.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
I came into the house, Eleanor.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
I can truthfully say that in all my fifty three years,
I've never spent an unhappier eason.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Charl I'm not going to spend another. I'm not going
to stay here and play golf and breathe.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
What are you going to do?

Speaker 2 (30:08):
I'm going home, Charlie. I'm going upstairs and pack right now.

Speaker 7 (30:11):
Charlie.

Speaker 6 (30:11):
You can't do that.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Maybe I can't, but I'm going.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
You can stay here with Van Dyke and watch Angela
carrying on with that leeched person.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
But you mark my words.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
If anything comes to this, if Angela and let Whole
are infatuated with each other, if they do anything silly,
I never want to see either you or her again.
Oh here you are, yes, but I won't be for long.
I'm going to my room, Missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
That's right. Get a good night's rest, mister Forbes, so
you'll feel good when we go horseback riding tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Horseback ride horse.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Missus Forbes.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Did you hear the news?

Speaker 7 (30:45):
Did Denton tell you?

Speaker 6 (30:46):
No?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
What news are you talking about?

Speaker 6 (30:47):
That's when an Angela they be won't eloted. Oh, good
heavens they left just a minute ago. Isn't it wonderful?

Speaker 7 (30:54):
No, what, it's terrible.

Speaker 10 (30:57):
Charles will never speak to me again. It's all your
fault that, mister van Dyke and everything. Charles would never
have talked to me the way he did if it
hadn't been for you. He's never talked to me like
that before.

Speaker 6 (31:07):
Fine, Missus Thorden, Dear, you're tired.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
No I'm not.

Speaker 6 (31:10):
I'm just mad, that's all.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
And it's all your course.

Speaker 10 (31:13):
If my husband ever knows that I knew they were
falling in love and didn't stop it, why he'll Oh,
I don't know what he'll do.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
They're there, dear, Why he won't do anything. Oh, he'll
be the first to congratulate him.

Speaker 12 (31:24):
Oh, Misbes and Missus Smith, mister van dy I've been
looking for Oh.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh, I beg your pardon? Am I intruding?

Speaker 6 (31:30):
Oh no, it's quite all right, mister van dy Missus Forbes, well,
she doesn't feel so well. That's all a headache, isn't it, dear?

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Oh, I'm so sorry. Don't see Dulcie.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
Oh yes, Gordon, dear, what is it?

Speaker 2 (31:41):
What in the name of heaven? That's happened.

Speaker 6 (31:43):
Fine, nothing, Gordon, nothing at all?

Speaker 2 (31:45):
Then why did mister Forbes just tell me that he
wasn't sure whether he wanted me in on the murder
or not?

Speaker 6 (31:49):
He said that yes.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
And what's more, he's leaving the house in a few minutes.

Speaker 7 (31:52):
What he can't leave without me?

Speaker 6 (31:54):
Charlie, Charlie, wait for me, wait for ever at all?

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Gordon.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
I can't believe it. The merger can't be off. Why
should it be? I haven't done anything wrong, have I?

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I don't know what you've done, but it looks like
you've ruined me. I've got to try and stop him.

Speaker 9 (32:09):
It needs everything you mean, Oh, dear me, Oh, missus Smith, Oh,
mister van Dyke.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
Isn't it awful? Isn't it terrible?

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Nothing is so terrible that it can't be mended.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
But the merger it may be all off. I don't
know what Gordon will do now.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Just a minute, Missus Smith. As I understand it, it
was a merger which would have taken in about fifty
percent of the jewelry trade.

Speaker 6 (32:30):
Yes, I think so.

Speaker 8 (32:32):
Now mister Forbes is on the verge of leaving your
husband out of the Merger's that's right, Yes, missus Smith,
I like your husband very much.

Speaker 6 (32:39):
Oh do you?

Speaker 8 (32:41):
Would he be willing to get up his own merger,
one bigger than mister.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Forbs ever dreamed of?

Speaker 6 (32:47):
Why?

Speaker 7 (32:48):
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 (32:49):
Why doesn't he beat mister Forbes at his own games? Why?

Speaker 6 (32:53):
I never thought of that. But mister Forbes has all
the money and Gordy hasn't any.

Speaker 8 (32:57):
That's it exactly now. I've always wanted to take a
little flyer in the jewelry business. Suppose I financed mister Smith.
Suppose he and I set out to beat mister Forbes together.
How would that be the the why?

Speaker 6 (33:10):
It would be magnificent, it would be do you really
mean it? I do.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
I'll put up my check the moment your husband says
the word, Oh.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Mister van Dyke, you've made me the happiest woman in
all the world. You'll let me break the news to him,
won't you? I?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Of course, if you wish it, And just think.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
I introduced you to him? Now, what will he think
of me?

Speaker 3 (33:29):
Doesy?

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Did you see mister Forbes?

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Did he come back in here?

Speaker 6 (33:32):
No, Gordon, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Good heaits I can't find him anywhere.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
Wait, Gordon, come back here?

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Does he don't stop me?

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Now, come back here.

Speaker 7 (33:37):
I've got to speak to you.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Does he?

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Quick?

Speaker 6 (33:40):
At Gordon, how would you like to have mister van
Dyke for a pardner, a partner in what god no?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
In business? Mister Smith?

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Huh? Yes, how would you like to go on business
with him and leave mister Forbes out of it? Get
up a bigger merger than mister Forbes ever dreamed of,
because because you'd have all the money you wanted. Mister
van Dyke sens.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
He you you said so?

Speaker 5 (34:02):
Yes, mister Smith, your wife has interested me very much
in this proposition, and I told her that I'm willing
to finance a combination to.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
Beat Forbes in his crowd with you at the head
of it.

Speaker 6 (34:12):
He's just waiting for you to say the word, Darling.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I can't believe it, but it's true. It is there.
Why it's it's too good to be true. I could
be River Forbes and put my business in for what
it's worth. Yes, oh, Gordon, I can really do a
big things exactly, mister Smith.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
You come, don't fly off the handle, handle handle mad him?
You realize what is it? Ah, missus Smith? Yes, my
wife has just informed me that my daughter and that
let leech.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Have a look. What why, Darcy? Is this true?

Speaker 7 (34:50):
Yes, it wasn't my fault, Chob Honestly.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Quiet, missus Smith, this is the last straw.

Speaker 5 (34:56):
I stood pretty great to you, but I will not
same for my daughter marrying a Now.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Wait, mister Foys, I'm sure that's gonna be picked up
in some ways. Yes, of course, Please, I don't care
to discuss it.

Speaker 3 (35:06):
I'm leaving immediately.

Speaker 6 (35:07):
Oh but you can't. Oh I can't know you see
Anne til I'm Vinson. They eloped in your car, they
eloped in my car. Over and now mister there's no
use getting off, and you'll have to say the night.
So we might just be friendly, of.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Course, I'm would you talk the whole thing over in
the morning. Well, there's nothing to talk over it Smith.

Speaker 5 (35:27):
In the circumstances, I don't see how we can possibly
go into business together.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
I don't fight your method. The mergery is all, But
mister Ford, I'm sorry, that's my decision. Good night, mister Smith. Wait,
mister Forest, before you freeze me out, I want to
tell you that mister van Dyke here has agreed to
back me in an independent merger ain't bigger one than yours.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
What yes, mister, for I have but I you see now?
Am I still out? Yes, mister Smith, you are very well.
Then I'm going to line up with Vandyke can fight you.
I fight you to one of US's horse for the wall.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
I'll teach you to take advantage of me, advantage you
took advantage you did.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
If I offered me less than you knew my business.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
I knew I was in the hole. And how you're
going to get just what you designed me wrong. You're
going to get a press rate linking.

Speaker 5 (36:06):
Oh Gordy, all right, make your fighting speeches. But when
you talk about fighting, don't forget that I can fight too.
And before you win, you're going to know that you've
been in a real fight. Remember that, and in a
come on, yes, Charlie are toy?

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Mister Smith allowed me to congratulate you. You told him
what was what straight from the shoulder. Thank you, mister
van Dyke. And I'm sure we'll get a long splendid
of course we will. And now I'll have to say
good night.

Speaker 8 (36:32):
I've had a very hard day at my brokers and
completely exhausted.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Good night, missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (36:37):
Good night and thank you.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
Oh lord, oh Gorden.

Speaker 6 (36:43):
You were wonderful.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
I feel like a new man.

Speaker 6 (36:46):
You see, I was some use after all.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Use.

Speaker 5 (36:49):
You were magnificent, the best of finest little wife in
the world.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
I'm going to be forbes, Dear, I'm going to succeed
and I'll owe it all to you.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
Wasn't it lucky? My fine van dy lucky?

Speaker 2 (37:01):
It was an inspiration and I am a real.

Speaker 6 (37:04):
Helpmate, my darling, my Gordan. Oh excuse me, Missus Smith, Oh, Henry,
you startled me. Oh what is it.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
There's a gentleman here, madam. He wants to see you
right away.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
Well showing in Henry.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Very good, madam. I wonder who that can be.

Speaker 6 (37:20):
Oh just a neighbor, probably, yes, thank you.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Oh, good evening, Missus Smith, good evening.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
I'm sorry to intrude like this, but it's rather important.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
My name is Patterson, Blair, Patterson, Oh, the attorney. Yes.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
I was referred to you by missus Kennedy across the streets. Yes,
she said you had guests. I just wondered if among
them there is a mister Morgan. Morgan, why no, well
is there a mister Ford. No, he's not here either,
mister Vanderbilt.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
Vanderbilt.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
No, well, now, let me ask you.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
Is one of your guests, tall, good looking, plays the piano,
interested in various investments.

Speaker 6 (37:59):
Oh, you means Skyler van Dye.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Skyle of Vandy. Yes, I think I do mean Skyla
van Day. I'm his cousin.

Speaker 5 (38:08):
I've come for him, come for him. Yes, his real
name is Patterson, Horace Patterson. He has an hallucination that
he's a millionaire. Oh, but I assure you he's perfectly harmless.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
What you mean he's crazy, Yes, a little dosey.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
He's crazy.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Skyle Vanke's crazy.

Speaker 6 (38:25):
Then the company that he was, I mean the merger,
the merger that he had the money for. Then the merger.
I mean it won't it can't. Oh, dear me.

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Speaker 2 (39:09):
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Speaker 2 (40:29):
The next act will be presented in just a moment.
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System w ABC.

Speaker 6 (40:45):
We are.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
It is early the next morning and Blair Patterson, the
lawyer who brought the calamitous news of mister Van Dyke's hallucinations,
is in the living room, straightening out his rumpled clothes
after spending the night on the sofa. Down the stairs
comes the happily demented mister Van Dyke, whistling cheerfully.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Hello, Horace.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
What what Blair? What the we are you doing here?
I just dropped in to say hello. You can't fool me.
You've come to make me leave, that's what you've done.
Oh no, that is unless you really want to. It's
very embarrassing, Blair. Well, let us embarrassing for you. What
do you think it is for me? I have a
lot of practice to attend to. I'm getting a little
tired of these excursions. I wish you'd leave me alone.

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At least half a dozen times during the past few
years you've.

Speaker 8 (41:59):
Interrupted me in business negotiations that were exceedingly interesting.

Speaker 5 (42:03):
Have you been up to something here, Horace? Well, yeah,
I've been representing my Van Dyke interest. We had all
sorts of wonderful things planned. Why my share alone would
have been eight and a half million.

Speaker 8 (42:17):
Besides, we were going to play golf and go horseback riding,
and I love horses, horras.

Speaker 5 (42:21):
Now, how many times have I told you that I
represent the Van Dyke interest.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
Well, now you just let me handle it. You come
back to town with me and we'll talk it over.
And I can't leave now. I'm sorry, Horace, but you
know our agreement.

Speaker 5 (42:35):
Unless you do as I say, I'll never go through
with that two hundred million dollar airplane company of ours.

Speaker 8 (42:40):
Oh well, all right then, Blair, good morning. Oh, good morning,
missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (42:45):
How do you feel this morning, mister van Dye very melancholy?

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I'm afraid I must go back to town.

Speaker 6 (42:52):
Oh well, it's too bed still, it's all for the best.
You must have some breakfast.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
First, so oh, thank you. I'll go have it right now. Way,
it's hard to do high finance on an empty stomach.

Speaker 6 (43:03):
You can have breathless, handy mister Patterson.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
He yes, of course.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
I had some soft boiled eggs prepared for him, and
some soft milk pots, all very soft, you know.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
Is that all right?

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Yes? I think that will be very nice, Missus Smith.
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (43:16):
Oh don't mention that, mister Patterson.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Oh hello, Gordon Darling, Hello, good morning, mister Patterson.

Speaker 5 (43:22):
Good morning, mister Smith. Have you seen your cousin, Yes,
and we had quite a talk. Oh, by the way,
you haven't mentioned anything to your guess, have you. I
mean you know, it would be rather.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
Embarrassing if Oh. No, nobody knows the thing so far
as they know he's Skyla van Dyke him.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
Said well, now that's fine, thank you very much. And
now I think i'd better go and keep an eye
on him. You never can tell what big mercury.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Let's have next.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Excuse me, missus Smith. Oh, yes, certainly, DLSTI yes, Dulcie,
I want to speak to you, of course.

Speaker 6 (43:50):
What about Darling?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
What about my dear girl? Do you realize what has happened?

Speaker 6 (43:54):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 12 (43:56):
I think so.

Speaker 6 (43:57):
Oh, Gordy, I didn't mean.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
Now wait, you must listen quietly, dear until I finished. Yes,
the time has come when I must speak frankly. Do
you know what Forbes is going to say to me
when he learns who Van Dyke really is.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
No, he's going to laugh in my face and tell
me that my thankfully and my services are of no
use to it. Mister Forbes thinks he's been made a
fool of, and he's right. The success of my business
depended entirely upon him.

Speaker 6 (44:23):
It was me again, it was me as usual. Oh, dear,
how will it all end?

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Forbes will probably force me out of business, and I
like to start it all over again without, without a scent,
and without me. Oh, Dulcie, I love you, I'll always
love you. But you're like a child. You don't stop
to think.

Speaker 6 (44:44):
I guess. I don't, Gordon, I only think. I think, Darling.
I'll let you go if you want me to. I'm
just all wrong. I'm a false note. I always wondered
how I was able to make a man like you
care for me. It seems so obst serve for a
man like you ever to love a false note?

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Dulcie, You're not a false note. You're a melody, a
whole tune. But oh, I don't know what to do.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
I don't think I can reform.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
No, I suppose not.

Speaker 6 (45:14):
But maybe maybe if I made out a budget of
things not to do, you know, like the one we
had for the household expenses.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Oh, I'm afraid that wouldn't do much good.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
I could make another promise, one that would take in
everything at dearest, If you'll let me, I'll promise that
I'll never interfere with your business affairs again. I'll change completely.
I'll revolutionize myself, Dulcie.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
I don't want you to change. I love you just
as you are. I simply want you to let me
handle my own affairs from my own way. Now, if
you can promise to.

Speaker 6 (45:48):
Do that, Oh, yes, yes, Gardie, I promise, and I'll
keep it.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I will, thank you, dear. I'm sure you will.

Speaker 6 (45:56):
I will. I will, and furthermore, I'll do everything in
my power to repair the damage I've already done. What now,
w yes about mister Forbes. I'll go to him and
tell him how sorry I am and see if there
isn't something.

Speaker 7 (46:09):
I can do.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
Now, does it listen to me?

Speaker 6 (46:11):
Pretty careful, darling? Here he is now? Good morning, Good morning,
mister Forbes. Did you sleep well?

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Sleep well?

Speaker 5 (46:19):
I did not. I am sorry to bother you with
this time, but it's extremely important.

Speaker 2 (46:23):
That I get back to town immediately. Can I get
a car anywhere in this village? I'm afraid you can.
I mean, there are.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
Any cars to be had?

Speaker 2 (46:31):
It's impossible.

Speaker 6 (46:32):
Oh no, it isn't. I can get anyone right away.
I'll go and phone Kelly. Kelly always has a car.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Ready, does he come back here?

Speaker 6 (46:39):
That's all right, darling, I'll do. It's no trouble at all.

Speaker 5 (46:43):
Oh, there there seems to be a difference of opinion
about the car, mister Smith.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Well, yes, well I didn't think of Kelly. I mean,
oh what's the difference? Excuse me, mister Smith. But have
you seen that?

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (46:56):
I'm sorry, I didn't know anyone else?

Speaker 6 (46:58):
Will?

Speaker 1 (46:58):
All right?

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Mister Patterson's mister Forbes, Forbes Patison?

Speaker 3 (47:01):
How do you do? How do you do?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Miss Patterson? But I've heard of you?

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yes, thank you. If you gentlemen will pardon me for
a moment, I want to see my wife. The pleasure
is you were I see you before you go. Well,
mister Patterson, I did you say you were looking for someone?

Speaker 1 (47:16):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Yes, but it's all right.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
It doesn't matter. I didn't know you were a friend
of Smith's. Oh I mean, well that is U came
down this morning, did you? Oh yeah, just got in
beautiful country. Yes, isn't it. The Van Dyke interests seem
to keep you pretty busy, mister Patterson. Oh yes, indeed
they do. Must be something pretty important too for him

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to send for you at this hour.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
Well, just a little matter of business, which he thought advisable.
I see it's it isn't about the artificial jewelry merger,
is it, Well, yes, it might be.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
That's very interesting.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
You know.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
I was concerned in that deal myself up until last night,
but I turned it down. Now, however, when I see.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
That a big financier is really interested, well I I
may reconsider it. Well, no, if you don't mind, I'd
rather not talk about it, Oh, Patterson, Yes, missus Smith.

Speaker 6 (48:15):
Mister van Dyke is looking for you.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Oh, yes, well I'll go. I can find them. Excuse me.

Speaker 6 (48:19):
Oh, mister Forbes, they haven't any more cars at Kelly's.
They said they'd have one later.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Yes, tomorrow perhaps, And.

Speaker 6 (48:26):
Mister Forbes, I'm so sorry about the elopement and everything.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
It's quite all right, missus Smith, quite all right.

Speaker 6 (48:32):
And I'm sorry about the business deal too, But it's
going to come.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Out all right, oh is it?

Speaker 6 (48:37):
Yes? Gordon will go in with you after all, because
mister van Dyke, Well, mister van Dyke just isn't mister
van Dyke, what Wat's that?

Speaker 2 (48:46):
No?

Speaker 6 (48:46):
He has something wrong in his head.

Speaker 8 (48:48):
Huh.

Speaker 6 (48:48):
He only thinks he's a millionaire. Oh, I see, so
everything's all right now is Oh?

Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yes, it's splendid Selsey.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
Oh, come in, Gordon, I guess that it was, mister Forbes.
Everything's fine, don't who want the name of heaven?

Speaker 5 (49:03):
Did you say a great deal? Mister Smith? She told
me about mister Van Dyke.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
What did you?

Speaker 6 (49:08):
Of course there, I told you I'd straighten everything out.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
You certainly have, well, mister Forbes, then the of course
you know that that mister van Dyke. Yes, I know,
but it won't work Smith, It won't work. What's that? Oh,
I'll admit that missus Smith is a clever woman, a
very clever woman. But it won't work. A Van Dyke,
not a Van Dyke.

Speaker 6 (49:29):
But mister Forbes, he really is shut up?

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Does she?

Speaker 5 (49:31):
I might have believed it if I hadn't met Blair
Patterson here, but I happen to know that Patterson represents
the Van Dyke interest, and a man like him doesn't
pop up in a in a place like.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
This to talk to a man with hallucination. But shut up. Yes, there,
I saw through the whole thing at once. Mister Smith.
You began to be sorry. You told me about the
van Dyke merger and you wanted to throw me off
the trailer. Well, you can't do it. I know what's
in the wind. And I'm going to hold you to
our agreement. Agreement yet, well it was a verbal agreement.
But but as a gentleman, you agreed to come in

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for sixteen and two thirty percent, and you've got to
do it. You've got to come in with me. Oh oh, well,
all right, mister Forbes.

Speaker 6 (50:10):
I guess you win there, Gordon, didn't I tell you?
I fixed it for you? Jolly?

Speaker 7 (50:14):
Joy?

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Where are you, Diana? What do you want?

Speaker 7 (50:17):
Oh, tony, Jolly, she's here?

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Who's here?

Speaker 7 (50:20):
Angela? She's come back?

Speaker 2 (50:22):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (50:22):
How nice?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Angela? Well, well I want to speak to her.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Hello, father, come here? Where have you been?

Speaker 6 (50:29):
Oh father? What a question? Angela?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Dear?

Speaker 6 (50:32):
Are you? Are you married?

Speaker 12 (50:34):
Of course I am.

Speaker 6 (50:35):
Oh she's married. She's married. Isn't it wonderful? Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:39):
You you did it? Eh? Where is your husband?

Speaker 5 (50:42):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (50:42):
Angela? Where's your husband?

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Good morning? Everybody?

Speaker 11 (50:44):
Hello?

Speaker 5 (50:45):
Bill?

Speaker 8 (50:45):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (50:46):
No, Willie? So where's Vincent? Where's mister Lee? Angela?

Speaker 3 (50:49):
Tell us I don't know, missus, nith you don't know?

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Well, isn't that fine?

Speaker 6 (50:53):
Oh, willy, for heaven's sake, what's happened to him?

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Well, it's a long story, Dulcy. Look here, young man,
you have to arrange this wedding, can't you. Yes, mister Faud, Well,
don't you know where the groom is? Sure? I'm the groom?

Speaker 7 (51:05):
What willing?

Speaker 1 (51:06):
Willing?

Speaker 6 (51:07):
Say that again?

Speaker 2 (51:08):
Certainly I am the groom.

Speaker 6 (51:13):
Angela's tell us about it.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
It could happen.

Speaker 7 (51:16):
It was the most romantic thing in the world.

Speaker 6 (51:19):
He'll just kidnap me, that's all.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Still, and second, young man, are you a genius? No, sir,
are you a writer of any kind sort of description?

Speaker 3 (51:30):
I should say not.

Speaker 6 (51:31):
He's a broker, mister Ford. Isn't it wonderful? That makes
everything all right, doesn't it?

Speaker 3 (51:36):
Well?

Speaker 6 (51:37):
But about mister Leech, Willie, where is he?

Speaker 3 (51:39):
I don't know.

Speaker 11 (51:40):
We started from here, all right? Last night down the
road a piece I suddenly thought.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
My tail light was out.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
Mister Leach was kind enough to.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
Investigate for me, and uh, well, somehow or other the
car just started off without him.

Speaker 6 (51:52):
You mean that, the.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Young you're all right?

Speaker 6 (51:59):
And don't well he's my brother, mister forrm what would
you expect? And wasn't it wonderful that I happened to
invite him down here for this party.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Oh so, so this is what you were working for
underneath all that leech business. What?

Speaker 6 (52:15):
Well? Yes, and no, I'm afraid you don't understand women
very well, mister Forn huh huh, I guess I do.
But isn't it marvelous? Angela a married woman and Willie
a married man. I could almost cry? But mister Forbes
about the merger? You know, sixteen and two thirty percent
isn't very much for our relation a brother in law?

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Well, I wasn't pretty generous about that deal or very
just either. Smith. What do you say to coming in
with me for twenty percent?

Speaker 6 (52:44):
Twenty?

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Mister all right, all right then if that's not enough,
we'll make it twenty five twenty five?

Speaker 2 (52:49):
Does she'd be quiet? Twenty five satisfies me?

Speaker 7 (52:52):
It doesn't.

Speaker 6 (52:53):
Well if it satisfies you, guard and it satisfies me.
I didn't mean to interfere, dear, and I never will again.
You can rely on me, you know the old saying
A gird child dreads the fire. Well, I've been didn't
I mean burns? And once didn't spice cautious I mean, well,
you get the idea, don't you.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Darling.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
You've just heard the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of Dulcie,
starring Jesu Pitts and featuring Jeene Lockhart in just a moment.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
We want you to meet Ms Pitts.

Speaker 1 (53:58):
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Speaker 6 (54:20):
Oh? Yes, Mother did it to me. She wanted to
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Speaker 2 (54:42):
Why haven't you appeared in more tragic parts?

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Well, I did a tragic role in a picture called Greed,
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And I also want to thank Gene Lockhart and the
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played Gordon Smith, Mary Mason as Angela, James Marr as
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Speaker 2 (57:08):
Until then, this is Douglas Garrick, bidding you all good evening.

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