Lux Radio Theatre - Polly Of The Circus

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hollywood, California, Monday, November thirtieth, The Lux Radio Theater presents
Loretta Young in Pally of the Circus with James Gleason
and Gavin Grdon. Lux Presents Hollywood Our starves Loretta Young,

(00:27):
James Gleeson and Gavin Gordon. Our guests Robert Believe it
or not, Ripley and Mabel Stark, only woman tiger trainer
in the world. Our conductor, mister Lewis Silvers. Tonight, the
producer of the Lux Radio Theater, mister Cecil B.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
De Mill, is in New York.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
City, from which point we shall hear shortly here in
the Lux Radio Theater until mister de Mill returns to
Hollywood next week. Is that distinguished gentleman of the screen,
mister Lionel Barrymore so, to the makers of Lux Toilet Soap,
welcome you to another hour in the Lux Radio Theater.

(01:05):
And now a note for mother. When it's a matter
of baby's delicate skin, you have to be sure the
soap you use is really mild, non irritating. You know,
Luck's toilet soap is safe because it's carefully made from
the finest and purest ingredients. Laboratory tests have proved this.
That's why thousands of mothers find it ideal. That's why

(01:26):
we say use Luck's toilet soap or Baby's Bye. We
leave Hollywood now for a moment, switch to New York
and start the show with word from.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Mister Cecil D de Mill.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
This week, my greetings come to you from New York,
ladies and gentlemen. Tonight the many millions in our audience
become many millions and one. As for the first time,
I join the Lux Radio Theater's legion of listeners. Next
Monday night, as usual, I'll be back on our stage
in Hollywood, while I've been spending the last several days

(02:02):
rushing from Dallas to New Orleans to New York previewing
my new picture of the Plainsman to show you and
I are about to hear. Has been prepared by one
who is certainly on speaking terms with our microphone, Lionel Barrama,
to one so familiar and so beloved. The mention of
his name is the most going introduction I could give.

(02:24):
He comes to us now from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen,
mister Lionel Barrama. My thanks, mister de Mill, and good
evening everyone. First of all, I want to clear up

(02:46):
any impression that I am taking mister de Mill's place.
Tonfe that, as you and I both know, is something
no one could do. I am here anyway, highly flattered
and slightly uneasy, hoping to keep things in order until
mister Mill, mister de Mill resumes the rains next week.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I'm very uneasy.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Tonight is the second time Loretta Young plays the part
of Polly. The Polly whose part she played the first
time was her own sister, Polly Young. Loretta was then
thirteen and anxious to resume a career on the screen,
which she'd begun and terminated at the age of four. Well,

(03:30):
one day, when Loretta was alone pondering what she might
do to swell the family income, a director telephoned. He
left a message telling Polly to report at once to.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
The studio, but Polly was out of town. Loretta asked
no question.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
She hurried to the set and said quite truthfully that
she was miss Young. She played the part, won a contract,
and from that day to this her career has been
one of uninterrupted and deserved success. Undoubtedly, that was the
most triumphant sister act on record. In a few moments
Loretta again takes Polly's part none not.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Our Sisters, but that of the Polly of the.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Circus, and Margaret Mayo's not play. James Gleeson, famed.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
As both the writer and motion picture.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Comedian, will be heard as Jim McNally, and Gavin Gordon,
who tonight makes his second appearance on our stage, will.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Take the role of doctor John Douglas.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
And now we raise our curtain as the Lux Radio
Theater presents Loretta Young and Polly of the Circus with
James Gleeson and Gavin Gordon. The Circus has come to town.

(05:01):
It's a small town and a one ring show, but
come one, come all, and see the fun. The evening
performance is in full swing and Polly, Equestrian Extraordinary, is
in the dressing tent waiting.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
For her turn. Just outside, near the performer's.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Entrance to the ring, two of Polly's friends are watching
the shows. They are Jim McNally, the Boss canvas Man,
and Toby, an old clown. Toby's in full costume and makeup,
and his painted grin grows broader as he listens to
the cheers of the crowd.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Listen to him, Jim, listen to him. The sealers gone
big to make that much.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Fuss over a couple of trained seals. On on they do,
and they see Polly right bingo. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I almost wish they wasn't gonna.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Say Polly right bingo tonight? Why don't eat nothing wrong
with Polly? As they oh so hoarse, it's the night
lap Wilder. I don't think he's set the ride, told me.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Why can't you do nothing with him?

Speaker 1 (06:03):
I know, horse doctor. All I know is I get
him a friendly patty in there. But me, arm I
told finally, but she only laugh. She raised them from
a pup, so she thinks he's plice. They could. Maybe
I'd better speak to it. She listened to me. Huh oh, Polly, Holly,
go out here a minute, will you. I'll picture, I'll
tell her she can't do it sea yeah, yeah, yeah.

(06:24):
Jim and I want to speak to you, Polly.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I know you do.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
I know what you're gonna say too, But you can
save your breath.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
A pair of you. Oh that's no way to be talking.
Jim and me is thinking of your own good.

Speaker 5 (06:34):
I know you think it's my own good not to
ride bingo tonight. Well, you're both wrong, And they say
Binger's in a bad mood.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Why don't you take another horse? Just do the routine stuff.
Forget about the hooks.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
The Christomas won't know that differs all.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
They won't won't thing with my picture breast all over town,
not a chance. They take good money to see Polly
go through hoops, and I'm gonna see her.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
I got my reputation to think.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Of going to be a rite bingo tonight. You gotta
promise one thing, No hope, sex hops, sex hopes, you're crazy.
One hoop is plenty poles. One hoop looks hard. Six
hoops look like it's easy.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Six and stop talking about it.

Speaker 6 (07:08):
Why you act like I was a baby or something.
Look at me? How do you like my new dress?

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Uh? It's pretty?

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Shine my stew hear.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
It out of shine? Ten dollars for the sequence alone.
What time is it, Jim?

Speaker 1 (07:20):
They got a couple of minutes before you go on?
Why nothing?

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Hey, it's nice out here. I like this time better
than any we've been in Sam's on the other town.

Speaker 6 (07:29):
It seems nicer though, you know, it smells so good,
like flowers and gardens and things.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
He seems like there's a.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
Garden right close by. Oh oh, who isn't that house?

Speaker 7 (07:41):
Jim?

Speaker 1 (07:41):
What are the big shots? He said?

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Doctor, I'll let the old guy's throwing a pick because
her pitchs are close.

Speaker 6 (07:47):
We're almost in his backyard.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I don't know about him having a fit. But a
couple of old ladies marched over here this afternoon with
a bunch of squarks. What about they don't like your
winning tights in the street parade?

Speaker 4 (07:58):
Well, for Pete's sake, would I wear him?

Speaker 6 (08:00):
So?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
It's made? Gee?

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I better get going. That's the human cannon ball finishing up.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
I'm gonna change your mind.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
Buys, still gonna ride that horse?

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Sure, come on in and watch.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Only one who'll fall?

Speaker 5 (08:22):
All right, all right, it'll make you feel any minute,
wait for me after the act.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Will you copy me.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
We can take a walk when the show.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Moves on tonight.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
We'll pull out right away. Now there's Bingle. Look at him,
wha wha?

Speaker 8 (08:33):
Get him that my cold hold different him?

Speaker 9 (08:36):
Said quick to hold him, get back.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
There, good back, easy with him, Mike, Easy, let me
get you on the horse.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
You can't win them tonight. He'll try your shoe.

Speaker 10 (08:42):
Bring him out, Mike, I'll work this pumy so Polly.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Now, Toby, my mother turn over in her grave. She
thought I was afraid of a horse.

Speaker 6 (08:49):
Here take my key.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Okay, Polly, hey, but be copy with him now, all right,
give me your hands. All right, here we go. You
watched Polly watch it.

Speaker 8 (08:58):
I'll be all right, leady tentlemen.

Speaker 10 (09:04):
The management of the Drink to ninety.

Speaker 11 (09:07):
Churches, Saints Pleasure and introducing the Creator's farm bak rainer
of all time, the Crater Siddlestone in the entertainment fell today,
This Polly, this money with tempting.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
I' difficult.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
The Christian peace never.

Speaker 8 (09:29):
Preformed at any rate without the aid of any mcchenny
go safety debates. But so well from this money we
jump through six hoop where staining erect and affect of
a canopy horse.

Speaker 12 (09:41):
And nty, what's gonna do it anyway?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
I can miss you? Captains.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
Oh you've got to fast too, flash like the harsh
time at horse.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
She's kill cally. Are you all right, darling?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Outside?

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Get a doctor, somebody, get a doctor, quick.

Speaker 9 (10:11):
Course, And I'm pase, reserve your seats.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Let me show me go on? Oh is she duck?

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Won't you be all right.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
I can't tell anything yet.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
She's unconscious.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Are you her father?

Speaker 2 (10:29):
No, sir, but me and Jim we take care of her.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Where are you going to take a director hospital? You
know there's a flu epidemic. They're all filled up over there.
We'll have to take over my house. It's just across
the way. What can you take care of her there?
Won't you be all right? Yes? I think so, at
least until I can find out what the trouble is.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
What's your name?

Speaker 1 (10:47):
Toby's all right to be? Run along and tell my
house keep away coming? He never fixed up a bit? Yes,
all right? Now give me your hand with.

Speaker 10 (10:54):
Her, Go easy, easy, yet it's young.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Sit here for a while, will your mandy?

Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
If she wakes up, let me know right away.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
Oh she goes, stay here or she'll have to for
some time. Probably, I'd better go and speak to those men.
Call me if you need me.

Speaker 6 (11:16):
Yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
Well, doc, what's the woid is?

Speaker 6 (11:20):
She? Is?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
She okay? Doc?

Speaker 1 (11:22):
She will be. She came to for a moment, but
I gave her a shot of more pendies. The pain
there ain't three things serious as well. She has a
nice to cut on her head and her ankle looks
pretty bad. I'm afraid it's broken. How long I take
to patch you up? Can't tell you can't herry a
broken ankle. That takes time, But Doc, we ain't got
any time when moved to another town a couple of minutes,
which she can't be moved now, she'll have to stay
here here. Yes, ordinarily I take her to the hospital,

(11:45):
but I've already explained why I can't do that.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Well, Polly ain't no charity case. We can't pay.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Always take it easy, Tolly. He know mean not dark.
He's just upset. You see you. We don't want to
do the right thing. That's all. Of course you'll you'll
train her ride and want your dark You know she
ain't used to strangers.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'll do everything I can to keep her happy. When
she wakes up and finds out.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
We left her here, she might she might be HOMESTI doc, Hey, look, Doc,
you'll tell her we stayed as long as we could
tell her. We'll send her some money and bark. We'll
keep a job open, sure out a lot.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
There're they good Jim's time.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, you understand, don't you, Doc. We wouldn't be doing
this if there's any other way. But the show's gotta
go on. Of course, I'll plan tell me. Let's keep
going so long, Doc and the Thames.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
It's John. It's John.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
What is it? Mandy coming here?

Speaker 13 (12:41):
Quick?

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Look a little circle scale? Don't mother eyes?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
All right? Get miss Brandy?

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Yeah, I got some right here.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Oh yeah, give it to me.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
Oh, don't miss pinkle, don't miss s here.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Oh drink this? No, come on, come on, things all right?
Now there?

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Who are you?

Speaker 2 (13:05):
My name's Douglas, John Douglas. I'm a brand new friend
of yours.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
Yeah, I feel funny. What is this place anyhow? What
am I doing here? This ain't my tent?

Speaker 2 (13:16):
This is my tent?

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Well?

Speaker 6 (13:17):
What am I doing here?

Speaker 7 (13:18):
You better tell me? No, I won't hush.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Where's Jim and Toby?

Speaker 1 (13:24):
If you'll just be quiet, I'll tell you all about it.
Jim and Toby left a.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Message for you.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
They've gone with a circus.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
God, it's all right now.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
They left you here with me.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
They both want to just stay here until full, until
you feel better.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
What is nothing the matter with me? It's some kind
of a trick, that's what it is. You better let
me out of here, now, you better.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Let me out Molly, won't you let me explain more perfectly?
See if you're perfectly all right what you're talking.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
About, I'm going to get out of here, and I'm
going to get.

Speaker 7 (13:49):
Out of here quick.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
I don't like the one.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Oh my hmm.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Now maybe you listen to reason. You have a fracture
to stragglers.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
What? Oh that's what you say? I know better. I
just hurt my left fin.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
You're what my creeper?

Speaker 6 (14:05):
Creeper you sink?

Speaker 13 (14:06):
Honey?

Speaker 6 (14:07):
What dad on my hind wheel?

Speaker 9 (14:09):
Till?

Speaker 6 (14:09):
Yeah, I got a flag.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
I'm afraid to have you took a bad spill?

Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah? How long am I in for?

Speaker 1 (14:15):
Little Toby and Jim want you to stay here until
you're well again. Oh, it's all arranged.

Speaker 6 (14:19):
You're sure it's all right.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Of course they're going.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
To write you and then just as soon as you're able,
why you can go back to the circus again.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Well that'd be soon, because without me, that show will
be on the bum.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh they'll get along without me.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
Say did you ever see that show? I saw it tonight.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
You practically fell in my lap.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
Well then you'll know I'm the best thing in it.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
But I'm the double forty racket I pick your.

Speaker 2 (14:41):
Pardon, but for I didn't understand what you said just now.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
I said, I'm the double forty racket the works.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh oh yes, of course, the worst.

Speaker 6 (14:51):
Yes, but look at me now.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Or you mustn't worry too much about being here. We'll
do our best until you're quite ready to be the.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Double forty racket all over again.

Speaker 6 (14:59):
Well as you mean, all right, but oh I can't
help feeling terrible. I got a whole show depending on me.
Did you ever have to knock off work?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
You did?

Speaker 13 (15:09):
But did he holler?

Speaker 14 (15:11):
He thought the whole town is gonna die.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
It's cause he is sick.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Manday, I think i'd like some coffee.

Speaker 14 (15:16):
Yeah, so yes, I fixed it right away.

Speaker 6 (15:19):
What did she mean everybody gonna die?

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Well, you see I look after people.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Oh, what's your lying?

Speaker 2 (15:27):
I'm a doctor. Didn't you know that?

Speaker 4 (15:28):
A holly jumping jimminy a doc?

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well, what's wrong with that?

Speaker 10 (15:32):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (15:33):
Nothing, I was just thinking about my elect I fall
off a horse and land in a medicine show.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'm afraid you're talking to me.

Speaker 14 (15:40):
Oh no, not me.

Speaker 6 (15:40):
I'm a great talker. See how long you been shown
in this time? A couple of years A couple of
years that you must be good. What kind of a
steel you got.

Speaker 1 (15:49):
The usual thing, Make the dose as pleasant as possible,
and help people forget that troubles.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
Sound like my business, is it? Yeah? Only of course
we draw a bigger crowd.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
I imagine you do. Patients haven't been exist look flucking
to me up to now, but I'm getting there.

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Well, let me give you a little piece of advice.
No matter how bad the medicine business is, don't go
in for no ride neck.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, I'll try not to.

Speaker 6 (16:09):
But why because if your horse is okay, then the
ground's bad. The ground's okay, then the horse is wrong.
There's always something you can depend on that. Don't ever
go in for nothing that depends on something else.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Thanks, I'll remember that. But right now I think you'd
better try and get some sleep. Why, we've got a
lot to do tomorrow. What well our next ray first,
and then we'll have to set that ankle.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
Oh are you going to do it?

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Why?

Speaker 6 (16:33):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Unless you'd rather have someone else?

Speaker 6 (16:34):
Oh no, No, I just wanted to make sure.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
Joe Billy's order.

Speaker 9 (16:47):
Will you Oh morning, missus strong, good morning.

Speaker 6 (16:51):
I have my order written out, Will you send it right?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Away, please, Yes, ma'am, I'll make it up myself.

Speaker 6 (16:55):
Good morning, ma'am, Good morning out right, Earnie, Yes.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Soon as you heard the news.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, well, if you're talking about the young doctor Douglas,
I certainly have seems.

Speaker 6 (17:06):
To me the hospital is the place for injured folks,
not a bachelor's house.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Well, it's none of my business, but if I was.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
Doctor Douglas, i'd certainly watch my step taking a girl
in from a circus.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
He ought to know better when I.

Speaker 1 (17:18):
See my husband, Can I got a quick shave? Time?

Speaker 7 (17:26):
Board?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Time?

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Want to shave when I haircut? Mister Strong, just to
shave take it close? Feel sure, hey Strong? When I
hear the young ducks opening up a new hospital up
to his house, he's mighty pretty patient too, from what
I understand, I always want to be a doctor. A fool.
You ought to have more sense to do a thing

(17:48):
like that. Hey, you think you lose out on being
president of the hospital board.

Speaker 10 (17:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
He's the man for the job, the only one we have.
I'm going to have a talk with him this afternoon.
Little are sense into him?

Speaker 6 (18:01):
All right?

Speaker 1 (18:01):
Wheel?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh sure, sure, sorry, mister Strong.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Well come here, mister Strong, Coomey eight is the doctor
at home?

Speaker 6 (18:15):
He sure is this way, missus Strong? There go, yeah,
the living room.

Speaker 14 (18:19):
Here with missus Parley, doctor Douglas, mister Strong.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, oh, come in, mister Strong, good afternoon, plad to
see you. This is miss Polly Sanders, mister Strong.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
I'm pleased to meet you.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
We've just finished with the X ray I'm carrying upstairs
and easy stages.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
You're ready to go now, yeah, I think so. Well,
we'll take it nice and slow, Douglas.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
If you've got a moment right right with you?

Speaker 7 (18:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Is everything all right? Yeah, sir, come on, miss Polly,
but John around my shoulder. That's it, Douglas. I'd make
yourself at home. Strong, I'll be down in just a
couple of minutes. Now, wait a minute, where you're going
any parlor with this? I want to tell you that
I'm here at the request of the hospital board. The board, yes,
we don't fear, Doug. Is that you're in a position

(19:01):
to where to what speaking? Frankly, I suggest to send
this young woman back to her people at once. I'll
drive her over to the next town myself. Are you crazy?
She's in new condition to travel where she can't stay here?
What are you talking about? I think you understand why she.

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Means, well, it's not all right. He can't talk like
that about me. I didn't have to be brought here,
did I?

Speaker 6 (19:24):
I didn't even know about it.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
But I'll get out.

Speaker 6 (19:27):
I'll get out right now. I walk.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
I'm hustle strong. I want you to listen to me.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
It's my business to see that sick people are cared for.
The hospital's filled every bed. This happens to be the
only solution. Now do you understand this girl is going
to stay here? I am speaking for your own good Douglas.
You can't expect to do things like this without making enemies.
All right, then I'll make them, But the girl stays.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Come on, Polly, all right.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
J Justin Haman's work continue Talie of the Circus starring
Loretta Young with James Gleason and Gavin Gardon. But now
let's step over to the Universal Studios. It's after six.
The last girl has just been interviewed for a new
part by the casting director, and your secretary answers's impatient
for me? Yes, Hey, what's the big eye there? Sending
that girl in to see me? Have I got time
to waste it.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
Well, I thought, because you did use the ones last year.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
May Yeah, maybe she changed in the year one.

Speaker 9 (20:28):
Look at that girl, Lauder told you she wasn't right.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
This is the movies.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
We have pictures close ups.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Oh well, it wasn't your fault, I guess, but it's
enough to make you chew your nails. A kind of
complexion some girls bring in here in this day and age.
Don't girls know what to do about their skin in
this day and age. Smart girls know what to do
about their skin.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
They use roushen.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Powder, but they're careful to remove them thoroughly, Otherwise pores
become choked, enlarged, tiny blemishes, a dull, lifeless look. Come
cosmetic skin. Use Lucks toilet soap to guard against this danger.
Its rich, active lather sinks deep carries out of your
skin every last bit of dust, dirt, or stale cosmetics.
It protects complexions. When you use Luck toilet soap, you

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know your skin is getting the same care. Nine out
of ten screen stars use.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Use it before you put on fresh make up. Make
it your bedtime beauty care.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
It's the soap all Hollywood uses, the official soap of
the Great Hollywood Studios.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
We hear now from.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Tonight's guest director, mister Lionel Barrymore. We continue with Polly
of the Circus starring Loretta Young with James Gleeson and
Gavin Gordon.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Six weeks have.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Passed since John Douglas befriended Polly, and the Little Circus
Rider is still a member of his household. During that time,
Polly's seen a new world, a world of comfort and ease.
But they've not been happy days for Johnny. As a
result of the town's disapproval.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Is practice is doing angle to almost nothing. We find
him in his office.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
There's a worried look on his face as he talks
over the phone to one of his few remaining patients. Well,
how is she this morning? I see, Well, I'd better
run out and see her, Missusmaller. She's running a temperature again?

Speaker 14 (22:20):
What miss john Oh excuse me?

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Oh, I see that's quite all right. I'm stall goodbye,
Missus Small.

Speaker 14 (22:34):
Is that Missus Small's little girl sick again?

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yes, well you better have some breakfast.

Speaker 6 (22:38):
Thore you go out there.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
I'm not going out there.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Missus Small's called him. Doctor Withers.

Speaker 14 (22:42):
Doctor Withers why he ain't no better? Now?

Speaker 6 (22:47):
What she go call him first?

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Is there an a male mender?

Speaker 14 (22:49):
Yes, I don't run it in here.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
It is doctor Wipers.

Speaker 14 (22:53):
I ain't here to tell us such foolish this. Everybody
call him doctor Withers. Persons think he don't scar of
a whole bunch. And you cures for the beard ricks Well,
I show I ain't ever hear him curing nobody or nothing.

Speaker 1 (23:06):
Mandy, Yes, where's miss Polly?

Speaker 14 (23:09):
She's sitting out there in the garden. What's the matter,
mister John You got bad news.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
In that letter, I'm afraid, so don't bother about the
breakfast for me, Mandy, Yes, sir.

Speaker 13 (23:20):
Yes as you say.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Holly, Oh hello, I thought you were gone. Say, weren't
you supposed to take out the Marshall boys tompsos today?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (23:33):
But they they decided to let him keep him.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Oh Holly, I've got some.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
News for you.

Speaker 6 (23:38):
News. Oh I know. It's about those X rays you
took yesterday, is it? Am?

Speaker 1 (23:44):
I all right? Don't be frightened.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
You took a beautiful picture.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
That ankle is better than ever was.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Yes, it feels sinn, but you don't look very happy
about it. What's the matter? Don't you want to get well?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (23:55):
Sure, I mean, of course I do.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
What's the matter? You look worried?

Speaker 6 (24:00):
Oh it's nothing, I guess, Polly.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Has anybody been talking to you?

Speaker 6 (24:05):
What do you mean, anybody?

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Anybody like old Strong for instance?

Speaker 13 (24:09):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (24:10):
Yes, yes, he was here yesterday.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
Well what did he say? Well he said he supposed
I'd believe now that I was well again. And that's
what I've been thinking about. How soon do you think
I ought to go?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Do you do you want to go? Polly?

Speaker 5 (24:24):
Well, that's what I was thinking about when you came.
I was trying to figure things out. Well, well, I
was using my head the way you taught me to.
And that's such hard work, using your head when all
you ever used.

Speaker 6 (24:37):
The fall is your feet.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well what was the result, Well, mister.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
John, did you ever have to make a decision that
would change your whole life?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Every day? I'm making one right now?

Speaker 1 (24:49):
What go on?

Speaker 6 (24:52):
Well, it's about the circus.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (24:55):
I wish Toby R. Jim would write. It's been so
long since the last letter.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
You know.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
If I could just have a good long talk for Toby,
I'd know what to do. Oh, he's terribly smart. For
a clown.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Do you mean you do whatever Toby advised?

Speaker 6 (25:07):
Yes, I would. If he told me to go back
to the circus this very day, I'd pack up right
now and take the next train.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
Polly, I got a letter just before I it may
help you to decide a letter. Uh huh. It's from
Jim shows over in Brockport.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Oh does he want me to meet them there?

Speaker 1 (25:27):
No, he's coming over here to see you this afternoon.
And there are there are some things in the letter
that I thought you ought to know about before he
gets here. It's about Toby.

Speaker 6 (25:36):
Oh Toby, what's he done?

Speaker 11 (25:39):
Now?

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Don't tell me Barker fired him?

Speaker 1 (25:41):
No, Boddy Toby's dead. No, died last week pneumonia. Jim says,
everything was all right. I had a good doctor and
he wasn't a bit sorry to go, except for the
he just didn't get to see you again.

Speaker 6 (25:57):
Oh, well, I should have been there.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
I should have been there. He was always so good
to me, And then when you need me most, I
let him down. Why didn't they send for me?

Speaker 1 (26:05):
He didn't ask for you because he knew you couldn't
get there in time. And what's more, he didn't really
want you to come.

Speaker 6 (26:10):
Tobby didn't want me. Oh, I don't believe that.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
You don't understand Toby didn't want you to come back. There,
it's all here in Jim's letter. He said he hoped
you'd forget you'd ever known the circus. He said he
wanted you to be a lady.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Toby always said I was a lady.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Well, he meant that he wanted you to do some
other things besides writing. He thought you were fitted for
something better than circus life. Oh, he said, no more parades.
Oh did Toby say that?

Speaker 2 (26:38):
I have a letter here? You can read it later,
but I, uh, I wanted to talk to you about
it first. He's everything. Say, now, will you give up
the circus?

Speaker 6 (26:51):
I think I gave it up long ago.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
I'm glad, are you?

Speaker 10 (26:56):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (26:56):
You don't know what that means to me.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
I couldn't be able to think of going back. Now
that you and poor old Toby both say the same thing.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Oh, I could cry. I feel I mean, I feel fine.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
I'm going to settle you. You're not going back.

Speaker 6 (27:11):
No, but it's going to be kind of hard, isn't it.
You See I have no job or no home.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
Well you have listening. Oh, I shouldn't say that, Yeah,
you should.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
I wanted you do.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
This will always be your home, Poly always.

Speaker 6 (27:26):
If you'll stay, not because of what Toby said, because
you really want me.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
To hear yourself, because I want you to hear myself, Poll, then.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
I'm going to stay just as long as you'll have me.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
I'll keep pass for you. I'll never go.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
As long as I live.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Are you sure, Polly? So sure that you'll tell Jim
about it?

Speaker 6 (27:43):
Shall tell Jim?

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Do you understand, Polly? What has your members said anything
to you about?

Speaker 6 (27:51):
About? What?

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Has has your member asked you to come back? For
his sake?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Will you?

Speaker 7 (27:59):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (28:00):
You mean it?

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Only don't look at me like that. You don't understand.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
Listen.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I don't want you to go away with Jim or
anyone else, not because you're having a.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Job or Jim. Yes, with John.

Speaker 14 (28:13):
The hospital done called up. Miss Strong wants to see
you down there.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Did you say what it was about?

Speaker 6 (28:19):
No?

Speaker 14 (28:19):
So yes, that come on as soon as you can.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
All right, I'll see you later.

Speaker 7 (28:24):
Party all right, Jim, Jim, how are you?

Speaker 6 (28:37):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (28:37):
I've never been so glad to see any one in
my whole.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Life stand up back? He let me have a look
at you there. You know you're different. You are grown up.

Speaker 6 (28:44):
Never mind about me, Jim, I want to hear about Toby.

Speaker 10 (28:49):
Huh yeah, Paul, but not now.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
I only got a few minutes. Where's the doc.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
He's out in the call. He told me you were
shown over in Brockport.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
Yeah. We couldn't get no near to the head time
console or something for we couldn't get appointment.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
Oh, you must be mistaken, Jim. Why nobody do a
thing like that?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Well, like they're just the same. I don't know who
I know.

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Must have been that mister Strong. Whatever he says goes
around here. You know, Jim, I don't think he likes me.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Well, he can't hurt you, Polly, you're true with this place. Listen,
Barker said, I was to tell you this. He's fed
up with all the bum riders. He's got me. Want
your back. You can write your own ticket. Oh, Jim,
I know you'd be bulled though I had it all
figured out. You know, I told you had an idea.
It was short of circus. But I know better. I
know circus blood.

Speaker 6 (29:32):
Jim, I got something to tell you.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
You don't have to tell me nothing. I know. I
told back I'd bring you.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Back on me.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Get your things now, we make the next train. Jim,
Wait a minute, what's smiling?

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Well?

Speaker 1 (29:42):
You want to come back, don't you, Jim?

Speaker 6 (29:45):
Jim, I don't want to hurt you, but I can't come.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
You mean I won't let you.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
I can't do No, No, I don't mean that. I
don't want to, Polly.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
Oh, Jim, I couldn't come back. I just couldn't.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
When I lie in my.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
Room at night and everything so peaceful and still, I
can't help.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
Remembering how it used to be at the circus, the cold,
dark trains and the awful noise in that dirt, and
all the mob in the tent, and the ring with
me going round and a round on bingo and jumping
through hoops, and like got so dizzy I could hardly see.

Speaker 6 (30:15):
I can't go back, Jim. I just couldn't.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Yeah, yeah, I guess I pulled a wrong one.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Polly.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
I didn't know you had come to feel like that.
You're not disappointed in me, no, No, it just seems
funny I.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Would turn out like this. I guess I never figured
on your livingess and not needing me no more.

Speaker 6 (30:34):
Don't talk like that, Jim, everything always turns out all
right in the end.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
And maybe, but when you're saying not coming back, it
it seems like I can't say nothing a how to
me except a lot of long, dusty roads and nobody
on him.

Speaker 6 (30:48):
Oh if I could only make you understand Pally, he's
just struggled. Here there's the doctor's out. Man. He has
an antold But it.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Was you I wanted to see me. Yes, can you
spare me a few minutes?

Speaker 6 (31:02):
Oh, yes, I guess. So this is Jim, one of
my circus friends.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Oh indeed, Oh I I'm very glad to see you,
young man. You've come in a very fortunate time, very fortunate.
The doctor and I had a talk this morning. We
were discussing Miss Polly's future. Oh yeah, yes, I admit
I was quite surprised. He tells me that Miss Polly
refuses to return with you.

Speaker 6 (31:23):
Oh, mister Strong, I just explained to Jim, and he understands.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Well, perhaps he does. But do you if Plolling wants
to stay? Hey, she can. You ain't got nothing to
do with it. Oh, but I have. You see, I
represent a large portion of the townspeople, and they have
certain ideas all right, spill it. I knew I could
talk to you. Frankly, you see, the general opinion here
seems to be that the young lady would be happier

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as she returned to her own environment. We don't think
she realizes how grave the situation is.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
What do you mean, Well, I'll put it to you
in plain words.

Speaker 1 (31:55):
Unless you return to your former work, or at least
leave this town, doctor Douglas will suff No.

Speaker 4 (32:00):
I see you mean it just because you don't like me,
you'll take it out on him.

Speaker 1 (32:03):
I mean that your presence here is detrimental to the
doctor's interests.

Speaker 6 (32:07):
And I haven't done anything, and neither is he.

Speaker 7 (32:10):
How are you do?

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Doing nothing? But he may find it necessary to move
to some other town.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
But you can't do that.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
But he loves his place.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I'm sorry. I thought you'd be glad to know. I
thought you'd be glad to help him.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Well.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
I do want to help him, but I don't understand.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
Does does he know how the people feel? He said?
I was talking to him on in this morning, and
he said he wanted me to stay.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
You put him in a very difficult position. Man can't
ask a woman to lady's house. Nobody has to ask
Polly to leave. She don't have to stand any place
when he's not wanted.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
Wait, does does the doctor know you're telling me this?
Missus Strong? Did he ask you to tell me?

Speaker 1 (32:48):
No, he refused to tell you himself.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
And then if I stay, If you stay, his practice.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
Will fall off to nothing, he lose out on the
hospital appointment.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
It'll be your fault.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
Oh, he he never told me that. Well, well, I
guess I've been pretty dumb if I've known he was
getting in trouble on my account. Well, he won't get
in any more trouble.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Does that mean you'll leave?

Speaker 6 (33:14):
Sure? Leave, couldn't do anything else now, but you you've
got to promise me something. He'd feel kind of bad
if he thought I went on his account. So I
wanted to tell him that I went away because I
I got homesick for the circus, telling him I had
to go because I love the circus. Mon Will you
tell him?

Speaker 1 (33:35):
I'll tell him when you going to.

Speaker 6 (33:37):
Leave tonight I get I'll go ahead and get my
things together.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Well, I'll run along. You're doing a fine thing, miss Polly,
splendid thing. Well, good afternoon, Holly. Yes, Jim, Yeah, you
don't wanna do it, do you?

Speaker 6 (34:00):
It will help him?

Speaker 1 (34:01):
Polly, You and Doc you like him? Yes a lot? Huh, Jim, Yeah,
I kind of such.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Oh, Jim, you go along, will you?

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Sure? Sure? Sure?

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Want me to wait up the station for you.

Speaker 6 (34:17):
I'll see you with the show. I tak it to Brockport,
please Ron seventy five, Polly, Olly, you've come down?

Speaker 2 (34:32):
What are you doing down here?

Speaker 1 (34:33):
Why?

Speaker 6 (34:33):
I well, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
You see, you didn't come home for such a long time.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
I wanted to say goodbye to you.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
But bye? Yeah, Polly, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Why?

Speaker 6 (34:42):
Nothing? Why I'm just acting that for the first time
in weeks. I didn't know what I was talking about before.
But I can't stay here. I'm going back to the show.
But you but I've got to there's something wrong here, No,
there isn't. Jim came today and I this morning.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
Only this morning you said you wanted to stay here.

Speaker 7 (34:58):
You meant it.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
That was before I not him. You see, I didn't know.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
I feltly began talking about the old days and how
Barker been keep my job.

Speaker 4 (35:04):
Open, and you know it, it's sort of got me
so back I go.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
You don't know what you're doing.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
Oh yes I do. I don't think I'm un grateful,
But don't ask me to stay either, Please, I go crazy.
You see, I've had enough.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
I want to get back where I belong.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
You belong with me.

Speaker 6 (35:20):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
Wait, wait, I've got to talk to you.

Speaker 6 (35:23):
No nothing for us to talk about.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Can't you see it?

Speaker 7 (35:26):
It's all over?

Speaker 4 (35:27):
Can't you see how much I want to go. I
want to get back in the ring again. I want
to see the lights and hear the music and the tears.
I don't want to hear the rumble, the wagons and
the cars at night.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
I want to live and die like circus folks live
and die.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
There's nothing else in malice to me.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Nothing. Goodbye John, Polly, Polly, wait on?

Speaker 6 (35:46):
Goodbye?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Or thanks you?

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Gentrification? This is the Columblia what back in system.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
In a few moments, Loretta Young and our old star
cast resume the story.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
Of Polly of the Circus. But right now, I'd like
you to.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
Meet a real Polly of the Circus. Oh, only her
name isn't Polly. It's Mabel, Mabel Stark of the al
g Barn Circus. And Mabel is the only woman in
history to break train and perform with tigers. Mabel isn't
satisfied to get into the ring with just one tiger.
She's got to have sixteen.

Speaker 13 (36:48):
At present, she's.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
Here in California training her saber tooth companions for next season.

Speaker 9 (36:53):
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Mabel Star.

Speaker 3 (37:01):
That's all very nice, mister Barrymore, but I'm warning you
right now, my acts tigers, I'm that radio.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Well, I admit it takes a lot of courage to
face a full grown microphone bare handed. But don't worry
about this.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
One, Mabel. You just hold your ground and browbeat it
like I do all the same.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
I'd soon arrestle at tigers.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Well, Mabel, just what quirk of fortune to turns a
gentle little lady like you into a tiger trainer?

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Were you unlucky in love?

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Go on, mister Darrmore. But a man had something to
do with it. He dared me to get into a
cage with a tiger. So I bought a tiger, and
I've been working with him every since. That's twenty one
years ago.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
And how does one work with a tiger?

Speaker 3 (37:43):
Courage, Cayton is all you need. Tigers are like a
bunch of kids. They like to pick a scrap. Once
in a while, there's done to be an accident.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Well, obviously you've survived all yours.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Tigers have sent me to the hospital sixteen times. One
of those times they put me together like a patchwork,
quipped three hundred and seventy five stitches. Six weeks later
I was back in the ring, resting the same tiger
that must be up.

Speaker 6 (38:12):
Her name was Nellie, Oh the paraphrase the old song.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Nellie was not a lady.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
You can't always blame the tiger. Sometimes they don't feel
very well, and the only way they have got of
letting you know is with their claws. It's a very
effective method, but a little rough on the complexion.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Well, then permit me to recommend lux toilet soap.

Speaker 13 (38:33):
Believe me, I use plenty.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Of lux toilet soap outside of the ring. Inside the
desk skin protection is a light buggy work and a
length of broomstick. Well, mister Bellmore, I guess i'd better
go back and feed my tigers. Maybe one of these
days they'll.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
Be having me for supper.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
They ought to know by now if they'd enjoy you.
They've sampled you often enough.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
Well, if they do.

Speaker 14 (38:57):
I'm hoping for just one thing.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
I hope i'd him the worst case of indigestions a
tiger could ever have.

Speaker 6 (39:03):
Good Night.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
The show goes on Polly of the Circus, starring Loretta
Young with James Gleason and Gavin Gordon. Another month has
gone by and Polly is back with the circus again,
trying her best to forget that she ever knew another

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kind of life. It's early evening, several hours before the
show begins.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Outside the Big tenth Barker, the ring master is talking
to Jim.

Speaker 9 (39:46):
Tell Jim, what's the excuse tonight?

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Get your excuse for what?

Speaker 9 (39:49):
The cook tent was started half an hour late. Besides
show Tenny showed up yet.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Why I'll tell you why your wagons has turned up.
About thirty eight, was carrying a canvas and she broke ut.
Happy a blacksmith's his fort Stalin.

Speaker 9 (40:00):
Nothing's ever your fault.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
Yeah, and I know why.

Speaker 9 (40:02):
Yeah, you ain't a canvas man, You're a nurse girl.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Is that all?

Speaker 9 (40:05):
No, it ain't all.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
There's gotta be a change around here. Why Ever, since
Polly got back, she's been as much used to me
as a sick cat, I'd.

Speaker 9 (40:11):
Rather have a sick cat. I know how to treat them.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Anything else.

Speaker 9 (40:14):
I don't get sore, Jim. It's nothing personal to writing.
I'm beefing about. You've been watching her act, haven't you?

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Every day?

Speaker 9 (40:20):
And you know how rotten it is? And she's too
high and mighty. They're riding the parades, try and act
like a lady.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
She ain't no lady. She's a bareback rider.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
And what are you gonna tell about it?

Speaker 9 (40:27):
I'm gonna call her.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
And call her hard by saind baka.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
You go the boys here, and I take your orders
from you. But if iver I catch you with abusing
poud boys and no boys, I'll catch it clean over
the ten.

Speaker 9 (40:37):
All right, all right, no one's abusing her, But you
tell her what I said. I want a performance, no
matter good performance. She's gotta show me.

Speaker 6 (40:52):
Jim.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Hello, Paul, how you feeling?

Speaker 6 (40:54):
Oh kind of lazy? Do you mind if I stay
out here with you for a while?

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Oh glad to have you on a grass pot? Hey,
try that box?

Speaker 6 (41:03):
Why are you looking at the sky? You don't have
a nice moon tonight?

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Shine moons always got a headache, m M. I thought
you looked a little tired of something.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Oh I'm okay ching you want drinking water short.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Of pop hot? Throw them?

Speaker 6 (41:17):
Thanks to you.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
What's the amount of pile?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Can't you tell me?

Speaker 6 (41:20):
Tell you what?

Speaker 1 (41:21):
What's potting? You can make it help you if you
let me. Why have you been cutting parades? It's because
you feel sick. All you gotta do is tell me.
I can fix it up with barking.

Speaker 6 (41:29):
I'm not sick, and I just don't like parades anymore.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
Well, I used to be crazy about riding with the
streets and waving of the kids.

Speaker 6 (41:35):
Well, I can change your mind if I want to.
Can I always stop asking me so many questions.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
I'll ask as many as I want your landswer them.
I've been keep my mouth shut long enough. I'll come clean.
Pile by your Homesick for put that out of place?

Speaker 6 (41:50):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:50):
What's so you?

Speaker 6 (41:52):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (41:53):
I am, I thought I was it.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
I was a fool.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
I'll let you come back. You don't belong to us anymore.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
Don't say that, Jim. Don't make me feel like I'm
not wanted here too.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
You know a better to say that. What's more, I
don't think there was in the way there either. I've
been thinking things over. It's something funny about this whole business.
You should have gone straight to the dock and had
it out with him.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
I couldn't do that. You heard of, mister Strong said,
and he was right all the time. Those people didn't
like me. I just didn't belong there.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
Jim Parluh, Remember when I asked you that day about
liking the doc? Well still do don't you?

Speaker 6 (42:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Did he did he ever let on it? Did he
cared for you in the same way?

Speaker 6 (42:36):
No? Oh, once I thought maybe that. Well, it's all
over now.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
But no matter what, you was happy just to be
there with him.

Speaker 6 (42:44):
Yes, I was happy just to be there with him.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
Pa.

Speaker 1 (42:49):
You ought to go back. You ought to go back
and have a talking No, never tell Let me write
to him and tell him why you let him.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
If you ever dare maybe there's been some mistake. There
wasn't any mistake. Now, listen, Jim. If you write Jim,
I'll run away. I'll run away and you'll never find me,
and I'll kill myself.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Don't talk like that. I wouldn't do anything you didn't want.
I'd give my life to help you a pile. Only
I don't seem to know.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
How Jim, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
I couldn't do it that to you know, but only
on nights like this. Yeah, I just can't help thinking
about him, you know, wondering where he is and what
he's doing. I wondered, Jim, if if he remembers.

Speaker 14 (43:23):
Me, Mister John, I've been clean out the attic and
I found some things.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yeah, I don't know what to do with and give
them away.

Speaker 1 (43:40):
Man, they don't keep anything. We can't use ourselves.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
No, we can't use these. I don't like to give
them away.

Speaker 14 (43:46):
Ain't nobody yet can wear clothes like this?

Speaker 1 (43:49):
What? Oh that's policycus dress, isn't it. Yeah, Well, wrap
it up and put it back where you found it.
She may send for it someday, Oh she will.

Speaker 14 (44:00):
I'm seeing for nothing from this house.

Speaker 6 (44:02):
What you want me to do with this book?

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Put it in the bookcase?

Speaker 14 (44:05):
It ain't John, it's MS partner's he. She has her
don't book or her little books she read or don't sin.
Every time you tell her don't say something, she read
it down and then she stood it.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah, yeah, give me that.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Don't say, ain't say, isn't don't say learning say teaching me?

Speaker 14 (44:24):
Yes, she was thinking of learning not teaching me.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
See who that is?

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Mendy Yeah, yes, oh what do you mean? Oh come
in mister strong, miss and this strong it's.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
John word Douglas. All right, work as usual, eh, missus.
And I dropped into having a talking bad to see him.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
What's a busy man you are these days?

Speaker 6 (44:45):
Aren't your doctor?

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Sit down on both of you?

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Is this a professional visit?

Speaker 6 (44:50):
Oh no, I never complained.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Oh, we've got some news for you, Douglas. I should
say we have congratulations my boy.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
Well thanks very much, but I I don't know what
you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Actually you don't. Well we've just come from the hospital
board meetings. As you know, I've been putting off the
election for quite some time, and you're interest my boy.

Speaker 6 (45:10):
Now do you know of Tilly Midgen?

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Dugness? You're the new president and there's a tidy little
sum attached to the honor. You've earned it, my boy,
you've earned it. Well, how in the world did that happen?

Speaker 6 (45:21):
I thought this town was off me for life, it's
all it was doing. He made the most beautiful speech
all about that circus girl.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
Oh yes, how did she come into it?

Speaker 6 (45:32):
It wasn't how she came into it, but how she
got out of it. Everybody appreciated the way you sent
her pack them when she didn't have the.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Shame to go herself the way I While missus Strong's
a little confused, I simply told the board that.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
You, missus Strong, will you please repeat what you said?

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Just Douglass, you mustn't take that at it's all missus Strong.

Speaker 6 (45:49):
Well, I don't remember what I said, really, I don't
you said.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I sent up pecking will yes?

Speaker 6 (45:55):
I did?

Speaker 2 (45:56):
What else did your husband say?

Speaker 6 (45:57):
Well, he said, oh I wish.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
You, yes, says I'll tell him myself. You ought to
be thankful if someone like me as he's best interested
at heart. Douglas, I told him that you asked him
to leave when you realize she was interfering with your work.
Of course, you know I did nothing of the kind
Strong you spoke to that Bill. What did you say
to her, Douglas? What did you say to her? You're
just being childish, all right. I'll be easy enough for
me to find out. I can ask Jim. I should

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have had something enough to have done it before. Now
I'll tell you why you didn't, Because she didn't want
to know all that high flute and talk about it
being your duty was just a lot of bunk. You
were glad enough when she went, didn't see you taking
any trains to get her back. You knew you couldn't
have your job and the girl and she and your tool.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
And you did tell her you tourist was hurting me
by staying, well what she was?

Speaker 1 (46:40):
That's no answer. Oh, I've had enough of this.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
Yes, I told her, Look her clothes, her circus, cloak
them down.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Leastake can handle those things, Mandy.

Speaker 13 (46:49):
Doctor Douglas, what are you going to do.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
I'm going to find Polly and big her pardon for
being a fool, and you and your town can.

Speaker 12 (46:54):
Get another doct rhyme through Yes and miss Joe back.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
My gripman did't hurry about it. I'm leaving town right away,
Mitch j One.

Speaker 6 (47:00):
Ain't no trees like the car.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
Oh you're crazy, Douglas. You don't even know where she is.
Jo's I That hasn't been a singulation she left here
that I haven't known where she is. She's over on
Hillsdal according to the root sheet, and that's where I'm going.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
Mister Bucker.

Speaker 9 (47:20):
Well, what's the matter with you now?

Speaker 6 (47:22):
How you want to ask you to let me off tonight?

Speaker 1 (47:24):
What again?

Speaker 9 (47:25):
Listen, I had to talk with Jim yesterday about you, he.

Speaker 12 (47:28):
Said, all I know, but justice once.

Speaker 9 (47:29):
Please just tonight with all them people inside that's paid
their good money to see you next.

Speaker 6 (47:34):
Well, mister Barker, I don't feel as if I could
go on.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
I'm nervous.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
All right, tomorrow I'll give you a great show to mine.

Speaker 9 (47:39):
If you asked me. I don't think you could give
me a great show at any time.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
Buck, You don't mean this. What's the matter with what's
the matter with us?

Speaker 9 (47:47):
Don't you know me?

Speaker 6 (47:49):
Maybe I haven't thought much about it lately.

Speaker 9 (47:51):
I'll say you haven't. You've been good for nothing ever
since you had that's fellow being a fine lady.

Speaker 6 (47:55):
And what good of that?

Speaker 9 (47:55):
Do you nothing?

Speaker 6 (47:57):
First thing?

Speaker 9 (47:57):
You know, you'll be out of black all around. Oh yeah,
you don't think I'm gonna hit my bill with a
dead one.

Speaker 6 (48:02):
Do you Why?

Speaker 4 (48:02):
I'm not a dead one? And you know it why
I'm the best rider since my mother's time.

Speaker 9 (48:06):
Stop talking about your mother?

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Should be ashamed on you, you wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
I can write as good as I ever did.

Speaker 1 (48:10):
Well, you gotta show me.

Speaker 6 (48:11):
I will show you, but not tonight. I'm not tonight.
Please let me off.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
No, well, I tell you I can't ride tonight.

Speaker 6 (48:20):
You've got a right to ask me.

Speaker 4 (48:21):
I feel like some awful was gonna happen. If Toby
was here, he wouldn't make me ride.

Speaker 8 (48:25):
Oh I wish I would dead.

Speaker 9 (48:27):
Oh stop that?

Speaker 14 (48:28):
All right?

Speaker 9 (48:28):
All right, I'll let you off. The crowd's in there,
and I've got the money. But I'm gonna tell you
one thing. You ain't got no right to talk about Toby.
He was a trooper. You ain't and let the other
people do the work, and you got the pay.

Speaker 6 (48:37):
Get out of my way.

Speaker 4 (48:38):
Go on in and tell him I'm coming.

Speaker 7 (48:39):
Go on and announce me.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
I'll show you what I good for.

Speaker 1 (48:42):
I'll show you.

Speaker 8 (48:42):
Keep quiet.

Speaker 9 (48:43):
They think i'd let you go on feeling like that.
I'm no murderer. I'll pull Elsie on your place.

Speaker 1 (48:47):
Oh no, you won't.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
Nobody's going on in my place. My mother be ashamed
of me, would she?

Speaker 6 (48:51):
I know?

Speaker 4 (48:51):
Good to you?

Speaker 6 (48:52):
Am I?

Speaker 4 (48:52):
You or anybody else?

Speaker 6 (48:53):
All right, I'll show you.

Speaker 7 (48:54):
I'll show you it's exactly how good I am. Oh,
they come back, come back?

Speaker 10 (48:56):
Where are you going?

Speaker 7 (48:57):
I'm gonna ride.

Speaker 6 (48:58):
I'm gonna ride like somebody.

Speaker 12 (49:00):
Molly, come back, come back.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
Listen to players right here.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
You stand right in the entrance and you can see everything.
So hy Jim, Hey, Jim, there's a man here asking
for you. Will Jim, what time? What are you doing
around here? I want to see Polly. I've got to
see it. Sorry, dicks against the rules. I'll be laughter
the children nor yours. You don't want to see it.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
I understand it.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
But it's all right now, Jim, I know what happened.
I'll stay here, I'll go get.

Speaker 11 (49:33):
It, says the Management serves the Great United serves Saint
laser An, introducing the Prator sen the writer of all times,
to say and see this first in the entertainment world.

Speaker 9 (49:50):
Today, it's Billy.

Speaker 7 (49:58):
This welly well.

Speaker 8 (49:59):
It takes the younger six hooks. I'm going to the
horse by Parian.

Speaker 1 (50:03):
By Perion. Why she's crazy? What you see?

Speaker 12 (50:05):
Why say she's crazy?

Speaker 1 (50:07):
She ain't supposed to write him? Why he hain't been
praying to do her acts? He can't do the whoops.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
I couldn't get her.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I was too late. She's in a ring already. She's
gonna ride for a various stuff and Jim trench your
stuff of this man says, the horse has been dreamed.
I can't stop it now, I'll come on in quick.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Hey, hops, she don't stand back. No, don't let her
see it.

Speaker 10 (50:31):
She's way way.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Why she wisited that horsey.

Speaker 7 (50:39):
Want and stuff?

Speaker 1 (50:40):
We don't let her do it again.

Speaker 12 (50:41):
It's suicide, fully, fully, why horry she see her quickness?
She's gonna pull crab crab.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Fly? Holy? Are you all right? Holly? Polly? Are you
all right?

Speaker 6 (51:09):
What happened?

Speaker 2 (51:10):
You'll fainted?

Speaker 6 (51:11):
That? So? Rob didn't?

Speaker 1 (51:13):
I sure? Sure you did? Look there is someone here
to see your pile? Oh is it Jim?

Speaker 2 (51:19):
It's John, Polly, John?

Speaker 7 (51:22):
Oh, no, you'll go away, Please.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Not until you're ready to go with me.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
Jim right hair pile.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Jim telling him to go away.

Speaker 7 (51:30):
You know how it is.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
You don't have to go out, Polly. Heaven's fixed up.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Fine, it's okay, Oh.

Speaker 6 (51:38):
Is it John?

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Yeah, it's okay, Puddy.

Speaker 6 (51:43):
You mustn't say things like okay, say all right, it's
all right.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
I've talked to strong and so now I know where
you're lifting. It was all a mistake, Oh, Polly, don't
close your eyes. Look at me now you're listening. Yes,
you and I going away somewhere for a long risk,
and then we're going to settle down in another town.

Speaker 6 (52:09):
And I'll never have to ride anymore.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Never.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
All you'll have to do is to learn how to
be happy again.

Speaker 6 (52:17):
Oh so easy, John, with you to teach me.

Speaker 1 (52:35):
The curtain falls on Polly of the Circus, but tonight's
starr comes out again a little later. Now, a man
who spent the last twenty years searching the far corners
of the earth for.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
The strangest truths under the.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Sun arrives here this afternoon by airplane. What he's been
able to learn about Hollywood in this short time, I
really don't know, but I've asked him here to tell us,
ladies and gentlemen, the world's most famous fact finder, believe
it or not, Robert.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Ripley with anybody, And thank you, mister Barrymore. Well, I'm
glad you agree. I'm barring Moore.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
I wouldn't have been a toll surprise if you proved
I was Mickey Mouse, did you enjoy your trip or monthly?
I broadcast on a landy coast last night, and here
I am on the Pacific coast this afternoon. But if
I wanted to keep him key with Hollywood, I wouldn't
have come by plane at all. I would have come
on horseback. Believe it or not, Hollywood is a one

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horse town. It began with a horse.

Speaker 13 (53:33):
In eighteen seventy, a man named Wilcox bought all the.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Land which is now Hollywood to use as a pasture
for his horses. At that time, the most noted race
horse was named the Hollywood.

Speaker 13 (53:43):
Wilcox admired her so much that he named.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
This pasture where we are now after this horse.

Speaker 13 (53:49):
And, believe it or not, a horse was responsible for
the first motion.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Picture ever made.

Speaker 13 (53:55):
Leland Stanford, then governor, wanted to prove to a friend
that a trotting horse would have all four legs.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Off the ground at the same time.

Speaker 13 (54:03):
They settled the argument by setting up twenty four cameras
and taking twenty four different pictures as a horse raced by,
and then combine them into the first motion picture.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Ever made, and the first regular picture made in California
was filmed by two brothers named Horseley Well.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
The first movie made in Hollywood was a horse opera,
a type of film now known as the Western Well,
that's very interesting. But suppose you get out of the saddle,
mister Ripley, and tell us what you have to say
about soap.

Speaker 6 (54:34):
All right?

Speaker 1 (54:35):
You know one time soap was so expensive in California
that the old forty nine ers found it cheaper to
send their laundry all away.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
To China, even though it took six months to get
a shirt back. Ha ha, I see, and now it
only takes half as long.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Well to get down to a serious note, and I
know I'm supposed to say something about Lux.

Speaker 13 (54:57):
I have a Lux fat that is really a made
If the cakes of Lux toilet soap manufactured in a
single year were put end to end, they would make
a necklace that would frame the whole United States. It
would stretch from the Atlantic along the Canadian border to
the Pacific, then down the coast to the Mexican border,

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then across the continent again to the Atlantic, then up
to the Atlantic to the starting point.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
At the junction of mainland Canada. And that'd be a
huge amount of soap left over. And that's an awful
ot of soap, believe.

Speaker 6 (55:29):
It or that.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Oh, thank you, mister Barrabar, and good night.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Thank you, miss and now Tonight's charming star, Ladies and gentlemen,
Miss Loretta.

Speaker 6 (55:43):
Young, thank you, it's been pleasure. Indeed you've been on
the LUTs radio theater is nice.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
I'm sorry for just one thing, Loretta. I wish our
listeners could all be in here too, so they could
see you.

Speaker 6 (55:58):
As well as hear you.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
But if I'm not getting too personal, just what do
you use to keep a complexion like yours?

Speaker 6 (56:05):
Well, mister barrmoh, that's something I'm going to let you
figure out for yourself.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
It isn't, by any chance, a little three letter word
beginning with L and ending with X and.

Speaker 6 (56:14):
With you in the middle of it. You can take
my word for it.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
I like nothing better than being in the middle of lights.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
But thanks to everyone who helped this make this such
to enjoy believing.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Good night, good night, Miss l Thanks you, Miss Young,
and mister Barabar.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Ladies and gentleman, missus, your.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Announcement Melville Rowick.

Speaker 1 (56:30):
In a moment, we take you back to New York
where Cecil v de mill is waiting to tell us about.

Speaker 2 (56:34):
Next week's program.

Speaker 6 (56:35):
Miss Young appeared through courtesy of twentieth Century Fox Studios.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Mister Barrymore Metro Golden Mayor where he's making Captain's Courageous
with Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartharmil, mister Gleeson, RKO, mister
Ripley through courtesy of the Baker's Broadcast, mister de Mill Paramount,
and mister Silver's twentieth Century Fox where he was in
charge of music for the new film Lloyd's of London.
And now here's mister de Mill speaking to you from
New York, miss young mister Barrymah and to all who

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took part in tonight's broadcast, my sincere compliments. Next week,
ladies and gentlemen, I'll be back in the Lux Radio
Theater when we bring you Robert Montgomery in that bright romance,
the Grand Duchess and the Waiter with Alyssa Landing. I
hope it will be a production up to the standard
set tonight under mister Barramore supervision. And now I turn
you back from New York to mister Barrymore in the

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Lux Radio Theater in Hollywood. Thank you from Hollywood, mister Dimmill.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Lionel Barrymore inviting you in
behalf of our sponsors and makers of Lux toilet Oak
to join me in listening to the Lux Radio Theater

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next Monday Night, when cecilbe de Mill produces The Grand
Duchess and the Waiter darring Robert Montgomery with the list
of landing. My thanks to you all is the Lux
Radio Theater Visual Good Night from Hollywood.

Speaker 7 (57:59):
This is a prodcasting system.