Lux Radio Theatre - The Barker

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hollywood, California, Monday, July twentieth.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Due to studio commitments, Wallace Bury and Stuart Erwin previously
announced for this date will appear in a future program
in viaver Vere and His Great News. Tonight, the Lax
Radio Theater brings you Claudette Colbert and Walter Houston in
the Barker with Norman Foster. The Lux Radio Theater presents

(00:37):
Claudette Colbert and Walter Houston in the Barker with Norman Foster.
NUTS presents Hollywood Tonight. You will hear Claudette Colbert, Walter Houston,
Norman Foster, Cecil b De Mill, King, Vidor Lewis, Silver's,

(01:00):
Emily Barry, and many others, brought to you by the
makers of Lux Flakes, direct from our theater on Hollywood Boulevard.
Our head. I should just report, but once again it's
standing room only and there's a ripple of excitement in
the audience, for the clouds have just spotted such famous
personalities in their midst as Ralph Morgan, Laurine McKinney and
Miss Ruth Waterbury of Fotoplay magazine and two of America's

(01:23):
most famous radio conductors. Pick to Young and Raymond Page
a hearty welcome to you all. This entertainment is an
expression of goodwill by the makers of lux Flakes, those
remarkable fine soap flakes that protect colors fresh and all

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fabrics and keep your washabules new looking so much longer.
No wonder, lux Flakes are used in all the leading
Hollywood studios. And now our producer, a foremost authority on drama.
He has created over sixty great pictures, started more actors,
and developed the more stars than any man in Hollywood,
Ladies and Gentlemen. Mister Cecil B. DeMille readings from Hollywood

(02:14):
Ladies and Gentlemen. Tonight the Luxe Radio Theater is the
scene of a reunion as Claudette, Colbert, Walter Houston, and
Norman Fostor repeat on the air the play that started
them toward Hollywood and world fame. The plays The Barker,
and for ten months they kept Broadway audiences enthralled with
its drama of life under the tattered canvas of a

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tent show. Throughout that time, Claudette played the role of
a snake charmer. And yet when I was directing Claire Partra,
she was terrified that she'd have to touch a real snake.
From the time we started, I'd been secretly thinking of
various ways of getting her to handle the snake, and
she'd been secretly worrying about what I was going to

(02:58):
do about it. As Claudade sat on the glittering golden
throne of the Pharaohs, I walked up to her with
a live California kingsnake almost six feet long, coiled around
my right arm behind my back. In my left hand,
I held a harmless small snake that was to enact
the role of the deadly Egyptian bifer. When Claudade saw

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the big snake around my arm, she shrieked, or mister
de mill, I couldn't touch that snake. I couldn't possibly,
Please don't ask me to. Well, how about this one,
I said, taking a little snake from behind my back. Oh,
that one's you know, that's just a baby. Yes, give
me that, and took it in both hands and we
made the scene. My only contact with miss Colbert's distinguished

(03:42):
CoA star is that he's always escaped me. In every
picture I make. I have a great part for Walter Houston,
but each time he has a great part with some
other director. So I've never been able to catch him
in my net, but at last I have him on
my network. If this for forty fifth Street, Walter Houston's

(04:04):
name and lights would be a beacon over Broadway. Taxis
would crowd the curb. Mounted policemen would be struggling to
disentangle them through a packed lobby. Top hats and ermine
coats would move eagerly to their places. That's the same
sort of excitement in Hollywood. Tonight, as the Lux Radio
Theater presents Walter Houston Cloidack Colbert, the curtain rises on

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our play The Barker. Clauda Colbert plays the role of
lou the snake Charmer. Walter Houston will be heard as
Nifty Miller the Barker, and the part of Chris Nifty's
son is played by Norman Foster. Colonel Gowdy's Big City

(05:10):
show has arrived in town. The Midway is crowded with
pleasure seekers. Many of them stop before the side show
where Nifty the Barker is coaxing away their dimes with
good natured ballet. Hole. Gentle man, you're.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Crusting off beyond by theission. I'm going to ask you
the step in cust a little court, so I can
tell you what we've got to entertain you.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
On the inside. You are now standing in front of the.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Big picture texts of Colonel Gardy's big city shows, the
biggest show for the money that has ever played your
beauty fund in the city. It's a show full of
spicy dancing, a show full of peppy dancing. On the inside,
you'll see Princess Kalima the play That's Sunny Honolulu.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
You do her favorite dance and estade.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Are not pourious throughout the civilized.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
World, and Polk's twenty dancers.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
She makes old men young and young men old. Take
her along.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
She's worth the price of admission. Then you'll be.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Entertained by that royal Hawaiian trio playing and singing hot
melodies from those far off violands in the Pacific. And folks,
if you say, when you come out the late the biggest.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Show you ever saw, your money will.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Be refunded as cheerfully as we take it from how
it is a special advertising prist tonight the admission is
a die ten cents ten tavandala. Already the box office
is open, the performers retire, and the show starts you
hard away.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
It takes you always.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Something you can about for this. Hey, hey, health to
me there.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, I'm glad that's over. Hat M. I throat this
raw as a piece of beef steak.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Nifty, looks like we's gonna get a little doing this
burg Yet we done.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Fifty three plants.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
That's eighteen berries morn last night. Well, that's time we
hit a red one.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Anymore rain.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
The Colonel will have to turn this out that it
is into a boat show. It'll be turned if I
ever seen such a bum break. And the relations have
been trooping. I'm going over at the office wagon to
deposit the money.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Right, hurry back, hat Ok, hey, nifty two minutes.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Sorry, Cary, you can't come out there any one around.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
But what do you want?

Speaker 5 (07:40):
I just want to talk to you.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
Gets lonesome back there in the dressing.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Can I'll put on your best clothes tonight after the
show down here, we're gonna go downtown to a dance.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
All right, Nifty, how much do you love me?

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Wait? Are you going to start that again?

Speaker 7 (07:53):
Well, a girl likes to be told, you know, Nifty,
There ain't nobody in the world for me but you.

Speaker 6 (08:01):
You got me spoiled for any other guy.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Honest.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Now, listen, I told you why I can't marry you
just yet.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
You don't seem to remember that I got a kid
to put thu law. Call it. It's gonna cost plenty
of money. I'm gonna see that kid gets all the
things I miss. He's a wonder too. He's got brains
and living on a farm's made of my husky, little devil.
Say you're not Why you ain't even listening? What's the matter? Carry?

Speaker 5 (08:26):
I get sick always hearing about him.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
There ain't no way to talk. I ain't gonna stay
with this carnival racket always and well when I come
to settle down this time, enough talk about getting married.

Speaker 6 (08:37):
Give me a kiss.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Nifty went out here on the midway.

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Ain't no one around.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
You, little son of a gun. Nifty.

Speaker 8 (08:45):
I don't know what makes me so crazy about you.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Yeah, you're all right, kid, I'll hand it to you
and I beat it. Here comes the colonel curl nifty.
How much have be doing this fine evening?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Fifty three smackers? Even, colonel? Not bad?

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Not bad?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
You beat me up.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Let me show eight dollars and you're just a few
dollars behind the Palace of Illusion. Oh hello, half her
house carrying nifty mind of silk. She and me are
dropping it in the dance to tom Hall.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
After that, right, that's right.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I like to see the troopers mixing up with a
downfall creates. Could feel them you and little taking it in.
Well no, no, no, no no. And I had a
little tief this evening. And for the present, she doesn't
care from a.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
Company said for the way, you too, scat you think
he was married?

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah he Loo, We were just talking about you.

Speaker 9 (09:32):
Yeah, I'll save it on my back turns.

Speaker 10 (09:35):
Then if you tell carry to stop by my room
when she comes down to the hotel, will you I
want to see her.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Lou, won't to reconsider your hastiness and refusing girls.

Speaker 9 (09:42):
Not a chance. And don't you come hiding around me
after what you've done.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Well, fifty, as I always say, gall the light street cars,
you missed one and there'll be another long.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
In a minute.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah, they don't come along like me.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Ooh, you're nothing to stop the traffic.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Fifty.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Think I'll drop it or listen to the music.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
Awhile you know old music hath charms, the tools, the
Tavy's beat.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I'll go at the colonel. Then when you decide to
come off your high horse, prop around to the office.

Speaker 9 (10:10):
Wagon to see you ro get out here, you old piker.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Hey, take it easy, lou, that's the hole I'll dry up.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You gotta feeve Huh?

Speaker 1 (10:19):
How snake tramming Rotten? Tell me that big diamondback rattler
died on you yesterday?

Speaker 9 (10:24):
Sure he started himself to death.

Speaker 10 (10:25):
I told gold if he was gonna have me belly
every five minutes, he couldn't expect to keep his snakes alive.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Hey, will you look what's coming? Huh?

Speaker 4 (10:33):
That kid?

Speaker 10 (10:33):
Look at him, the genuine hacy.

Speaker 9 (10:37):
I bet any of us saw a tench show in
his life.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Hey, can you tell me if mister Chris Miller is
a manager of this show? What are you on him about?

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Well, I'd rather tell it the hem of Mysaw was
saying to you, you would look it.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, wait here, and I'll see what I can do
for him.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Suppose you can keep him entertained while I'm gone, little Yeah.

Speaker 9 (10:54):
I'll try it. Well, dig boy live here in town?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Me? Oh no, I come from near Niles, Michigan.

Speaker 8 (11:02):
Niles.

Speaker 9 (11:03):
Hey, what you're doing some boss in the big city.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'll just sort of looking over.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
The country, have a good look.

Speaker 9 (11:08):
It won't question nothing.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Oh, reckon, you're one of them actresses, ain't you.

Speaker 9 (11:14):
How'd you guess it?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Handsome? Oh? I can tell by the way you're all
painted up? What's the matter?

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Don't you like?

Speaker 11 (11:19):
It?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Sure makes you look awful, fresh and pretty? Boy?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
You work fast?

Speaker 4 (11:25):
What's your name?

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Chris Miller says my dad?

Speaker 9 (11:28):
What what you don't mean? Nifty Millers? You're old man?

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah? What's so funny about that?

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Well?

Speaker 9 (11:35):
I would have ever thought nifty had a kid as.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Big as you.

Speaker 5 (11:38):
Why you been keeping yourself?

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I've been going to school, but I come.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
To see if paul on let me travel with your show.

Speaker 10 (11:45):
Welcome to our city, boy, wait to carry here's about
you being here?

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Hush Karen, she's the.

Speaker 10 (11:52):
Hula hula answers, Yeah, Princess Kaleima, friend.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Of your daddy's.

Speaker 9 (11:56):
Oh, very special friends.

Speaker 10 (11:58):
You might say, you're hey nifty all home week like
I was here.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Well, i'll be I love pa.

Speaker 10 (12:07):
Why didn't you tell us you were the proud father nifty?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Gay?

Speaker 9 (12:10):
Come look at two.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
You gotta watch him close on beat it, Lou Okay,
re a light a tread, so you're a nifty I'm
halfpial pleased to meet you. Half go inside and don't
say nothing to the colonel. Don't say nothing about the boys.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
See, your daddy talks like he's ashamed of you, but
he ain't. You just started hear him blowing you up
to the skies around here, go on, go on.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Sure, sure, Wow, Pa, Well what did you do? Went
off Fromela and your grandpa? Well, they knew I was
leaving schools let out for the summer. Oh, Paul, I
got so restless on the farm. Yeah, and you thought
you'd come to me. Eh, Well you're my dad, ain't
you See?

Speaker 1 (12:50):
I thought you'd kind of be glad to see me,
for you you kept right and your wish to your
good seeing.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, I am glad to see you, Chris, But well
I didn't expect. Well, I'll come and see your next winter,
same as it did last year. Well that's almighty long
time to wait, seems to me. You know, since Mom died,
you're the only close bloodkin had gotten.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Well way out of Storry to get acquainted.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Well, you should have growed up since the last thing.
Let's see, you're you're nineteen now and she's going on twenty.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Big from age at that.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Well, if don't hardly see the fuss, Oh, Paul, I
want to do the things you do, travel around and all.
And I started hoping you'd see you're way clear to
take me and I listen, now you get that out
of your head right now. What do you suppose I've
been spending money to keep you in school for end
up by messing around with carnivals.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
No, Surrey, we're going to a mount to something. You're
going to a mount to something, Chris, You've got to
if you listen, you ain't forgetting you're going to be
a lawyer, are you?

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Well, No, I'm going to be a lawyer.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Only don't you think I got to know something about life? Listen,
you can learn all you need to know about life
out of school books. What do you suppose i'd be
if i'd mind.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
The old gentleman and got be an education, I'd probably be.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
A bank president or a lawyer myself. I tell you, Chriss,
I've wrote ten letters many a time. A guy in
this day and age without the proper school and ain't
got a chinaman's tense education will get your money and
a good name and swell friends to palleam. I ain't
had none of them because I was pigheaded. Well, but
now I know what I'm talking about. Oh, I only
want to travel with you while it's vacation.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
I'll come back to school in the wall.

Speaker 6 (14:23):
I'll be a lawyer like you want me to.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
You won't be sorry, honest, you won't.

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, I'll tell you what, Chris, if the colonel says
you will, I'll wait a matter matter way to I finish.
I'll take you on.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
If you don't behaviors, haven't mind me, and it'll be
shipped back to the farm right off.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
Jeeve, Hey, what's my job going to be?

Speaker 2 (14:41):
I lend think you're told I learned fast.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
You'll see, and there's lots of things you ain't going
to learn.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
If I can help it.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
You catch a.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Number, carry come here. What do you want? Chris has
turned up? Chris, Yeah, you know the kid.

Speaker 8 (14:58):
It's is your kid, That's what I said.

Speaker 6 (15:02):
What's he doing around here?

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Well, this is a vacation. He is gonna stay with
the outfit of the summer. Let's come over here and
shake hands with.

Speaker 7 (15:09):
Kerry raised to make it well, I can't say the
same for you.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
I love here, carry you too. Gotta be good friends,
do you hear me? I said good friends?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
And that goes. Come on, Carrie's sweeping up.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
You look like it's swallowed a pint of vinegar.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
What's it all about, nifty?

Speaker 7 (15:30):
The last ten days you've been treating me like I
was a dirt under your feet.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
Well, I've been pretty busy.

Speaker 7 (15:35):
Carrie, I'll say you have, and fat Kitty, you're joined
the outfit. I ain't hardly had a minute alone with you.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
What's the matter with you?

Speaker 7 (15:42):
Nipty?

Speaker 2 (15:43):
You never used to act like this. Listen, carry I've
been thinking things over and I decided the only thing
to do is to well, they lay our cards on
the table. Now it's coming down to this.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
We're through through.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Understand this ain't something that I'm doing on the spur
of the moment. But there's other things I've got to consider,
and well I gotta think of Chris.

Speaker 6 (16:04):
Chris, can you make me sick?

Speaker 7 (16:07):
All of a sudden you start squawking because you think
I ain't good enough to associate with him. But I'll
show you you can't throw me off like an old shoe.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I'll show you.

Speaker 8 (16:16):
Oh what was I doing to ever fall in love
with you?

Speaker 4 (16:19):
You ain't gonna hearten your body and carry.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
I don't like this any better than you, dude, but
it had to come sooner or later. And well now
it's over night. Well I guess there's nothing more to say.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Get out of here and let me alone.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
I'm sorry, Kay, Yeah?

Speaker 4 (16:38):
Could he?

Speaker 9 (16:42):
What's the matter here?

Speaker 7 (16:44):
Carry?

Speaker 11 (16:45):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:45):
Carry?

Speaker 9 (16:46):
What's come over you? Is it something nifty dumb?

Speaker 5 (16:50):
He quit me?

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Lou? He quit me?

Speaker 9 (16:53):
Boy, it's a dirty bumbier.

Speaker 10 (16:55):
Oh, I'll pull yourself together, Honey, that ran a guy
living worth crying over.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
There's only one thing for me to do, Lou, that's
quit the show. I can't stand having all the gang laughing.

Speaker 6 (17:09):
At me behind my back.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
No, who's gonna laugh at No?

Speaker 5 (17:12):
I can hear him.

Speaker 8 (17:14):
Nifty's give carried the air since his kids come on
the show. She don't know enough to clear out.

Speaker 9 (17:19):
Want you feel that way? Instead of giving up, to
do something to turn the laugh on this?

Speaker 7 (17:23):
See, the only way I could get back at him
would be doing something to that kid.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
He is.

Speaker 7 (17:29):
Anything happened to that young puff face, He'd get a
taste out of his own medicine to make him see
how it feels when you lose someone you love.

Speaker 9 (17:39):
You might let lease, that's a kid. I can make
him forget his nippy hole, Lou, Lou.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Would you do that?

Speaker 6 (17:46):
Would you?

Speaker 7 (17:47):
Who was help me get the kid away from Nifty?

Speaker 4 (17:51):
Hey?

Speaker 11 (17:52):
I was on the kid and I know.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
But you can do it?

Speaker 7 (17:55):
Make him fall for you. See he's green as a grass,
but he'd never be able to pass up.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
A good look like you.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
Themis and yours would draw ducks.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Off a pond.

Speaker 4 (18:04):
Say, I'll tell you what'll do, Lou.

Speaker 7 (18:06):
If you'll get this kid to fall in love with you,
hook line and sinker, I'll make you a present of
one hundred bucks cash. Oh you're kidding, I'll show you
if I'm kiddens. I'll give you a twenty five right
now and the rest later.

Speaker 9 (18:20):
Oh, how would I ever get him alone?

Speaker 6 (18:23):
Nifty watches them.

Speaker 9 (18:24):
Like a hall clicks that end.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
But well, what do you say, loud?

Speaker 5 (18:28):
A little business deal just between hersel and carry.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
It's him? Oh gosh, do you think he heard it?

Speaker 9 (18:34):
Would if he's sending outside.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
The ten couldn't help this, Harry? Can I come in
a minute?

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Oh wait a minute, well, Lou.

Speaker 7 (18:44):
All right, I'll dude, here's the twenty five.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
All right, Chris, I.

Speaker 5 (18:49):
Guess you can come in now.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Oh hallo, I kind of thought I heard talking in here.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
Yeah, good, I'm Chris.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
You know Lou, don't you?

Speaker 11 (18:58):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (18:59):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (18:59):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (19:00):
We ain't ever talked much. Who since the first night
I joined that carnival.

Speaker 9 (19:03):
Who it's your own fault where you keep yourself all
the time.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, when I'm not working around the show, I'm usually
somewherees with Paul.

Speaker 9 (19:11):
I guess you ain't got the time for girls, have you?

Speaker 4 (19:14):
Oh, they don't have much time for me.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Hey, A good looking young fellow like you could make
ANYNY girl fall in love your water.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
I Lou here was telling me only today how she'd
like to get better acquainted.

Speaker 5 (19:26):
Yes, me, I think she's kind of gone.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
On you carry you?

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Uh uh oh suits me.

Speaker 5 (19:33):
Now, you two kids will have to excuse me.

Speaker 7 (19:36):
I gotta go over the office wagon to see the
colonel about something.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Anyhow to's a company.

Speaker 9 (19:41):
And freeze a crowd.

Speaker 5 (19:43):
I can see that, all right. I guess you won't
miss me, So.

Speaker 11 (19:48):
Come on.

Speaker 9 (19:51):
Come on over here in set, Chris. Oh come on, now,
come on, take the load off your feet.

Speaker 4 (19:57):
Oh all right, thanks?

Speaker 9 (20:00):
Away over there here by me?

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Oh like like this?

Speaker 3 (20:06):
Yeah, that's better.

Speaker 10 (20:08):
Had you and Nifty had your pictures tipped this afternoon,
you're gonna get me.

Speaker 9 (20:11):
Mone when they finished if you like.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
Oh, I don't look fun to be much good though?

Speaker 9 (20:15):
Now how could they help being good?

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Sure?

Speaker 9 (20:18):
I bet you take a swell picture, nice features like yours.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Oh, I don't know how is your post?

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well?

Speaker 2 (20:24):
We were standing up, Poiety's arms started around my shoulder
light something like this, Oh shut.

Speaker 9 (20:30):
Oh are you moving away?

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Oh I ain't.

Speaker 9 (20:34):
Don't you like me to put my arm around you?

Speaker 8 (20:37):
Well?

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Sure, yeah, sure I do.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
You know you're an awful nice kids.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
They're kind of nice yourself, you think so you.

Speaker 9 (20:48):
Think you could get there really liking me?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I don't see why not?

Speaker 1 (20:53):
So how are you?

Speaker 9 (20:54):
I'm keeping things to yourself?

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Well?

Speaker 9 (20:57):
I mean you don't go telling Nifty everything that goes on,
do you?

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Of course not?

Speaker 9 (21:03):
Would you run and tell him if I was?

Speaker 8 (21:07):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (21:07):
How do you think I am?

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I bet you must have had a lot of sweetheart
for you as home.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Chris Well, I never had much use for a country girls.
They don't know anything, didn't.

Speaker 9 (21:22):
You have a didn't you have a special word you'd
take out buggy riding sometimes?

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Whoa? I'm sure I thought so?

Speaker 9 (21:29):
And did you used to kiss and hugg it? Tell
me how you used to kiss me? Or come on,
come on, now you can shut your.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Eyes and pretend I'm her?

Speaker 3 (21:41):
What's that?

Speaker 4 (21:43):
Wouldn't you like to kiss me?

Speaker 11 (21:44):
Well?

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Sure, but but you're scared?

Speaker 9 (21:48):
All right, kid, all right, I'll kiss you.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Oh no, listen to kid.

Speaker 9 (22:00):
You and me, we've got to get together more.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Huh yeah, well, seri's me.

Speaker 9 (22:05):
Will you meet you somewhere tonight?

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Sure? Share well hereous, you're awful see.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
The second act of the Barker. We'll following just a
mumments tonight. We take you inside a Hollywood movie studio.
The lights are on and they're all set to shoot
a scene.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Listen, here's the director.

Speaker 12 (22:34):
All right, let's get going. Let's get going. Time's money.
Where's that extra that's gonna climb on the chair when
the mouse wants.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Across the floor?

Speaker 4 (22:41):
Me, I am okay.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
Now here's what you do with sister. It's a mouse.
See you don't like mice.

Speaker 12 (22:47):
You hate him, So you take a flying leap and
run on the chair.

Speaker 1 (22:50):
See okay, here I go.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
No cut cut, Oh dear, I'm.

Speaker 12 (22:55):
Sorry, Holy smoke, can't you girls get up on a
chair without getting a running and stocking?

Speaker 4 (23:00):
Oh get time.

Speaker 12 (23:00):
We'll try somebody else. We are on the turn to
fell along, wasting time, will you?

Speaker 8 (23:04):
Oh gosh, that's two runs in three days, and that
night when the extra got home so.

Speaker 7 (23:09):
He wouldn't let me do the scene just because of
that old run.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Gush.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
I'm just sick. What Peggy, it's your own fault.

Speaker 9 (23:15):
I tell you. When you rub your stockings with cake
soap the way you do, use your head and try
Luck's flakes. You know they're mild and with Lucks there's
no rubbing necessary.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Smart girls everywhere know that Luck's flakes cut down on
stocking runs because they save the elasticity that allows the
silk threads to stretch and then spring back again without
breaking cake soap. Rubbing and soap with harmful alkali weaken elasticity.
Stockings tend to pop into runs under strain to night,
protect your stockings against tomorrow's runs. Use lucks. We continue

(23:52):
with the second act of The Barker, starring Claudette Colbert's
low and Walter Houston as Nifty. The week has passed
since Lou agreed to carry his scheme. It's late in
the morning and outside the tent show Nifty has been
waiting for Chris to come to work. At last, the

(24:13):
boy turns the corner of the tent opposite the side
show and hurries across the midway. Why, boh, sorry, I'm late.
I guess I must have went back to sleep.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
And I suppose you know you're holding this up. I
told you I wanted them Jack Spider.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Went plenty of time.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I thought we'd wait a lot cooled.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
Listen when I give an order, I ain't talking just
to hear myself talk. As soon as you get that
in your head, the better.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
I'm sorry, boy, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Know it was that important.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Now, Chris, it ain't my idea to be nagging at you,
but I ain't satisfied with the way you've been acting lately,
and I might as well tell you if you want
to stay around here, you got to brace up and
take more and just on what's going on. Well, follow's
got to have his sleep, and if you go to
bed nights, you wouldn't be so doroggy morning. Where'd you
go to the last three or four nights after we
shut down here.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Oh, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Who were your last night?

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Well, no, worse in particulars. Took a walk.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Took a walk, and it must have been a long one.
Well this is a nice night by yourself.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Sure, why not? Where'd you go after your walk? Well?

Speaker 4 (25:13):
I stopped that Town of lunch car and had a
bowl with chilling.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Hey, what, she's a nosy Now listen, Chris, I don't
mean to be nosy.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Don't get me wrong. I mean I think I got
a right to keep track of you a little. You see, kid,
I've made a good many mistakes in my life that
I had any two products.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, I figured it wouldn't be right to let you
go and not put you Why.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Yeah, I think you are too. That's why I'm camping
on you. You and me hit it off pretty good,
and there's no reason that after you get to be
a lawyer, we can't settle down somewhere together. I ain't
gonna spend the rest of my days on allows econnival.
I got plans for us, Chris.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
It'll be a long time before I get through all
them college.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
I know it seems long now, but you'll see how
quick the time passes. Just think how nice it'll be
to have an office of your own and people coming
in to see you to get him out of trouble,
and more dough than you'll know what to do. Woa,
come on, Chris, let's prepare. What do you say?

Speaker 4 (26:10):
I didn't know the every staff that's the boy.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Now get after them jacks. When you get finished, you
don't need to go down to the creek and have
a swim. Then you have all right.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
But uh, I'll see how I fail?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Okay, how much on your mind? Considerable?

Speaker 1 (26:36):
Considerable and going on pleasant character? Will you know what
that young sport of yours has been up to, sir Chris?
He how's the infiduenial audacity to be carrying on a
love affair with Lou White under our very new loot?
Why there ain't a word of truth in it? Oh,
my friend, in spite of your vigilance, the lad has
fallen in love.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
I'm with Lou of all people? Why it couldn't be tossing?
Are you with your son every minute? For instance? Were
you with him last night? Well he took the wall.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
I'll tell you where he was last night he was
keeping her a rendezvous with the little slake charmer.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Let's where how do you know? Last night net.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Brodie shat of the lady in question, saw Chris meet her,
and they walked off together with their arms around each other.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Well, what do you think I gotta do? Colonel? Do
they have but one thing to do?

Speaker 1 (27:30):
We must put an end to such plagrant disregard of
the conventions. I expect you to give your son a
severe reprimand, and I shall dismiss Flue from my employer
at one that's letting her off too easy.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Shall to be horse whipped. We'll like it. Houler around,
make a tape at all, now, nifty, We can't blame it.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
All on lu Boys will be boys.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
You and I know the lure of the petticoat. Now
I can see what's changed Christmas past week, and little
simp he tries.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Slipping something over on me?

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Will he?

Speaker 1 (28:00):
And I've got a good noise to ship right back
to the farm, lou where'd.

Speaker 3 (28:11):
He come from?

Speaker 9 (28:11):
I was waiting outside the tent with Carrie. I thought
you'd never be in here alone.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
I'd know you was there.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
There'd been no hole in me come here, gee, louis
a long time since we've been together. Well, it was
only last night, foolish, it seems like a year.

Speaker 9 (28:26):
When you meet me again, to the night the same place,
do you bets?

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Paul give me fits for being out so late last night?

Speaker 4 (28:31):
By stalled him. I said I was taking a walk.

Speaker 9 (28:34):
He didn't swallow that.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Sure, he's got no reason to doubt me. No one
seen us together except Carrie.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh, Lou.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
I hated the way we got to hide around behind
folks backs.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
Why you'd think we were cruks or something.

Speaker 9 (28:47):
Oh no, you know what Nifty do if he knew, He's.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Got no clean to be like that, It's not fair.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'd like to tell him and everyone else how crazy
in love with you I am. I'm so happy when
I think about you.

Speaker 4 (28:59):
It's about all I can do to keep it to myself.

Speaker 9 (29:01):
I know, I know just the way I feel.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
We'll have to tell him, Lou, we can't go on
like this any longer. And if PA don't see it
our way, we'll clear out, go away by ourselves. I
even been asking about trains. There's one out at four o'clock. Lou,
You you love me, don't you?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Well, don't you lou Oh.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
You know what I do?

Speaker 4 (29:22):
Then, I don't care about anything else.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
You're wonderful. You're the only one in the world.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
I give a hang up?

Speaker 3 (29:29):
Lo w what what's she crying?

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Look?

Speaker 6 (29:34):
Hey, what's going on here?

Speaker 5 (29:36):
Looks like the big scene from Camille.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
I don't know, Carrie, let's start crying all of a sudden.

Speaker 7 (29:41):
Man, you too, better break that cleanse. Somebody's liable to
walk in any minute.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
What's the matter, It's nothing.

Speaker 7 (29:47):
I'll get him right, Chris, Go get our bottle of pop.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
You ask me, she's crazy, but he love?

Speaker 9 (29:52):
Don't want nothing?

Speaker 5 (29:53):
Sure she does. Go on, Chris, get her a cold bottle.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
I I won't pay a minut.

Speaker 5 (29:59):
Now, what's all the s shooting for?

Speaker 9 (30:02):
I've been making a fool out of myself that story.
You don't need to tell me that, Carrie, Chris, Chris
is in.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Love with me?

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Didn't I tell you?

Speaker 8 (30:13):
It work?

Speaker 5 (30:14):
Whenever I want any more vamping done.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
You get the job.

Speaker 9 (30:17):
I'll cut that out.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Well, what's the matter?

Speaker 5 (30:20):
What's come over you?

Speaker 9 (30:21):
Nothing except that I'm crazy about him too. He's got
me going around like a top day.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
You know what you're saying.

Speaker 9 (30:31):
All I know is I couldn't go on living without him.

Speaker 5 (30:33):
You mean you'd marry marry him?

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Carry?

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Look?

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Why why it's a rain, a wedding rain.

Speaker 9 (30:44):
Well, Chris wouldn't take no for an answer. I tried
to put him off for that. I ain't got a
mind of my own where the kid's concerned. I'm so
hipped on him.

Speaker 12 (30:53):
Carry.

Speaker 10 (30:54):
If he tell me to jump in front of an
express train, I'd go do it.

Speaker 9 (30:57):
Honest, I didn't think there was a guy living.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Get me this way?

Speaker 9 (31:01):
Can you imagine me a missus?

Speaker 11 (31:04):
Oh? I swear Carry.

Speaker 9 (31:06):
When that tape was talking, I thought.

Speaker 10 (31:07):
It was a brief and after all I said to you, Well,
for the first time since I can remember, I'm happy.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Really happy.

Speaker 9 (31:14):
I feel like laughing and crying all at once. Chris
is the same way too, which.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Is like a couple of kids.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
Man, you've got an awful wall of coming when you
wake up.

Speaker 7 (31:26):
All I can say you better make yourself hard to
find if nifty shows up here.

Speaker 9 (31:30):
As long as I got Chris, I ain't scared of
him or anyone else.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
Man, I'll wash my hands of you.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Don't forget that we What.

Speaker 9 (31:37):
Are you crabbing about?

Speaker 5 (31:40):
So you ought to be glad to get Chris out
of your.

Speaker 9 (31:42):
Way, don't it we're thinking of leaving the show.

Speaker 4 (31:45):
Yeah, where do you think of going?

Speaker 9 (31:47):
I'd like to price your cargo. I know it's there
and you.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Can starve and shy as well as anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
I folks, don't worry. Carry, we'll make out.

Speaker 9 (31:55):
I can do cabaret working. Chris ain't afraid of soiling
his hands.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Who what's the matter? Blue Honey?

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Were in for us? We just met half dark Rice
was down around the courthouse this morning.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
He got wind about us being married. He planned it
all over the line.

Speaker 9 (32:08):
Oh nifty, but does nifty knows.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
He's looking for us.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Halfs trying to hit him away from here till he
calms down. Now we've gotta go carry. Will you help us?

Speaker 5 (32:17):
Or what can I do?

Speaker 3 (32:18):
We's got to have money to get away.

Speaker 9 (32:19):
We ain't got a red cent to our names.

Speaker 6 (32:21):
When you got married?

Speaker 4 (32:22):
Did you charge it?

Speaker 9 (32:24):
Chris had a ten spot, but that went for the
ring and the.

Speaker 5 (32:27):
Justice of the pea.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
Oh yeah, what carries?

Speaker 9 (32:32):
What about the money you owed me? He only paid
me twenty five Remember you promised me one hundred bucks.

Speaker 5 (32:38):
I ain't just sure I owe you anything at all.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
Seems to me you've got your reward when you've.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Got Chris here, what are you talking about?

Speaker 10 (32:47):
You told me right in this tense, you give me
the other seventy five after I got christophall for me.

Speaker 9 (32:51):
Now you know you did.

Speaker 7 (32:52):
So you got any idea of what you're saying?

Speaker 9 (32:54):
Oh, you needn't worry.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Chris knows all about it.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
He knows.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
I don't believe it, I asked him.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
Sure, Kerry, I heard the whole story.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Well, I've never heard the beef.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
I've seen too many marriages go on the rocks through lies.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Chris knows the worst about me.

Speaker 9 (33:10):
Now it's up to me to show him.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
I've got a good side too.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
And you think I'm gonna get you, you're gonna get
seventy five out of me after.

Speaker 9 (33:17):
Blabbing your mouth like that?

Speaker 5 (33:19):
Are you trying to well?

Speaker 7 (33:20):
If you remember right, I said I'd pay you if
you kept your mouth shut.

Speaker 5 (33:23):
I'm not paying any squealer.

Speaker 9 (33:25):
Oh so that's your game? Huh, crawl fishing?

Speaker 4 (33:28):
Well?

Speaker 9 (33:29):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
You're dirty?

Speaker 2 (33:30):
Well, so you'll come across with that money or I'll
make you wish your head.

Speaker 5 (33:33):
What do you think you can do do. I'll show you.

Speaker 9 (33:36):
I'll tell Nifty that's what I'll do.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
Don't make me laugh that you'll be lucky if you
don't bring your neck Ooh you so.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
I'm a squealer, am I? Well wait till I get through.

Speaker 10 (33:47):
What do you think Nip you'll do to you when
he hears how you plan to get Christ away from him?

Speaker 4 (33:50):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (33:51):
Just you wait?

Speaker 2 (33:52):
Rick? What is it that Nippy's coming down to the midway.
He's looking highlaw for you. I can't head him off
no longer.

Speaker 5 (33:59):
Well, if Nifty's on the lot, I guess I'll move along.
This ain't my funeral.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Go to it, kids, see your later.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Maybe happy happy?

Speaker 9 (34:10):
You think he's liable to come back here?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Sure he is?

Speaker 9 (34:13):
Oh well, listen, Chris, you'll beat it. Quick pack your
suit takes, and then come back here for me. See,
I'll take care.

Speaker 10 (34:18):
Of the money for I get away somewhere to be
here with you when he comes you.

Speaker 9 (34:21):
No, I can handle him.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
I have a friend. I gotta be here.

Speaker 10 (34:23):
Little Listen, Chris, he's your father, but I know I'm
better than you do. Now hurry up and don't dog
you're Will you please think out the back way?

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Well all right, now, don't worry.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Everything's gonna be all right.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
I'll help you right.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, Hey, Lou, is.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
It really true? Are you really married? Sure?

Speaker 5 (34:40):
We are one?

Speaker 9 (34:42):
No, doesn't happen.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
You've got to help me.

Speaker 9 (34:45):
I waffle up against this. How much money you got
on you?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
How much you need?

Speaker 9 (34:50):
All you gott and maybe more?

Speaker 2 (34:53):
How twenty bucks do you?

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Is that all you got?

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Well?

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Well here' ten?

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Oh you're a right man.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
You'll never know how much we need this.

Speaker 9 (35:06):
I wouldn't have had to borrow it if someone hadn't
welsh on me.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Don't you go seeing nothing nifty about me giving it
to you?

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Say?

Speaker 9 (35:11):
Am I a fool?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Oh? Hello, Nifty? Beat it half. I want to speak
to Lou.

Speaker 4 (35:18):
Yes, I was just leaving well, Nifty.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
It's all I can do to keep the shove my
fist right down your throat. Oh listen, Nifty, come down
to earth and talk stands?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Will you?

Speaker 9 (35:30):
You might as well look things square in the face.
Now understand.

Speaker 10 (35:33):
I don't expect to kiss from you for what I've done.
But also I ain't going to stand for no strong
arm stuff. I married Chris because I love him and
he loves me. Yeah, and we're hooked up as tight
as as tight as if we had a strip copet,
whether it's.

Speaker 9 (35:47):
A sixth story church.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
Now you can threaten, swear to your lungs, give up,
but you can't change that.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Well, you know how I felt about Chris, What store
I put by him, what plans I had for him?
Or it's saved up to get him edgic cable? What
did you care? You come along?

Speaker 1 (36:00):
I'm flirting a few days, I reckon for life, and
me along with him wreck him.

Speaker 9 (36:04):
I don't know about that.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
After a while with you, I wouldn't give a thin
dime for him.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
He's just a kid. He don't know how to look
out for himself.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
Then what'd you even come on the show for?

Speaker 10 (36:14):
I kindival ain't just exactly.

Speaker 9 (36:15):
My idea of a kindergarten. If you'd care about him,
you'd have kept him on the phone. Yeah, it's your fault.
He's not in a way with me.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Own away.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Where do you think you're gone way?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
In particular?

Speaker 2 (36:25):
So we don't stay here, Chris, don't go.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
How will you stop him?

Speaker 9 (36:29):
You can't lock him up in the closet like he
was a two year old.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Oh no, don't, don't take Chris away from me? Don't
you see it ruin him? He ain't just an ordinary
carnival bomb. He's got a future, and with the right education,
he can be a big lawyer.

Speaker 10 (36:45):
I heard him say he didn't think he wanted to
be a lawyer, even if he went to all them colleges.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
You can't just make anyone into a lawyer.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Ain't had enough experience to know what he wants.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
But I know I can make him amount to something.
What do you what do you take to give him up? Oh?

Speaker 9 (37:08):
I thought it was about time for you to pull
that one.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
You're always broke. I'll give you enough to put you
on easy steet. You can find tenty of other guys
to marry you.

Speaker 9 (37:15):
If he didn't not tend you before.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
You're loving him is all the more reason for letting
them go.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
You're taking him away, can't come to no good.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Why it won't be but a short time. You're tired
of him and throw them over someone else?

Speaker 10 (37:24):
Then well he be No, you're all wrong if he
I've been around wrong enough to appreciate the real thing
when I find it.

Speaker 9 (37:31):
Chris and me are gonna make.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
A go ken. You hain'te your kind. He's only a
green country kid. I don't know what it's all about.
And when he wakes up, he'll never forgive you for
tacking him, and the.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
Marrying years I didn't tack him.

Speaker 10 (37:41):
Well, if you think I'm taking your boy away in
your false pretenses, I'll give you a chance to talk
to him by yourself.

Speaker 9 (37:49):
He's the level of his own free will you you
see if you can make him change his mind?

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Rasy enough, he's up to the room packing up, leave
us alone?

Speaker 9 (38:00):
Sure, now you'd afraid here?

Speaker 11 (38:03):
He is?

Speaker 8 (38:03):
Now?

Speaker 1 (38:04):
All right?

Speaker 9 (38:05):
Go ahead, run me down to him and see.

Speaker 12 (38:07):
What good it does you.

Speaker 9 (38:09):
Well loo oh yeah, Daddy don't seem to fancy me
as his daughter in law.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Us.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I want to talk to you. Well, you know what
you're saying.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Sure, I'll be outside, honey when you want.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Me where you're going?

Speaker 9 (38:23):
I told him i'd step out while he has his say.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
He can say it in front of you.

Speaker 9 (38:27):
It seems you'd rather not.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
I expect he's afraid.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
Of hurting my feelings. Will you stay here or I
won't either?

Speaker 3 (38:36):
What is it, pap?

Speaker 2 (38:38):
But what you gotta say to it? Nothing? Nothing at all?

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Gone?

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Go away with her.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Don't never let me see you again.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
She's got you, she can keep you. You ain't worth
the saving.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
Well that's the way you feel about it.

Speaker 9 (39:01):
Go outside, honey, I'll be out in a minute.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
All right, now, goodbye for.

Speaker 6 (39:09):
All right, yesty.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
And here's something you don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
Carrie got me to do it, Carrie.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yeah, Carrie, I wouldn't have squealed on her if she hadn't.

Speaker 9 (39:19):
Well, she hired me to vamp him to get back
at you for ditching her.

Speaker 10 (39:24):
Yeah, as far as Chris is concerned, don't think he's
going to be a bum like you.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I'll do more for him than you ever did.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
That's all I gotta say.

Speaker 4 (39:39):
Carry carry yet, happy, all right?

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Come in here?

Speaker 6 (39:50):
What do you want, nicky?

Speaker 1 (39:52):
There's one question I want you to answer, And if
you lie to me, as God is my witness, I'll
kill you.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
Did you get that little devil to take him away
from me?

Speaker 6 (40:01):
You wouldn't take her work hard?

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Would you?

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Did you answer me?

Speaker 8 (40:04):
No?

Speaker 4 (40:05):
You're lying and you know you care. Dear, you're chalking.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
You don't like her?

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Do you hang it on a part of that? You'll
double's cost me with you. You'll never do it again. Yah,
I like you get try to kill me, he cried,
Come on carry, you're all right, give me your hand

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with her, Colonel, take it over the office wagon. I'll
be down in a minute. Come on carry.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
He tried to kill me. One will have carry. I'll
take care of nifty. You're a fine one.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
I must say.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Oh, you don't know what she's done. You don't know
anything about it.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
No matter what she's done, You've got no right to
do a thing like this. You ought to be ashamed
of yourself. Well I'm not.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
I wish i'd kill him.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Oh that kind of talk won't go down the good.
You don't want to carry here? Why didn't you come
to me and say so, we'll get rid of it.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
I don't care what you do with her.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
Now I'm leaving, Colonel. You know you don't mean that Nifty.
I'll showing you whether I'm mean it or not. This
is my notice, Fifty.

Speaker 6 (41:16):
I need you.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Haven't I always played square with you?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Hh?

Speaker 2 (41:20):
Yes, you've used me well enough. But I'm going just
the same.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
What do you do where you go? What difference does
it make where I go? All I know is I'm
too forever with Tupan. It took Chris from me and
said him to hell.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
That's what you loves. She kindom has done for me
because or station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting system.

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We shall continue shortly with the Lux Radio Theater production
of The Barker starring Claudette Colbert and Walter Houston. That
have been no new script girls in Hollywood for about
twelve years. That will give you an idea of how
difficult the job is, because a job easier to learn
would have had thousands of recruits in that time. The

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best known script girl in Hollywood is, oddly enough, my own.
On the set, I call her Amelia, but I'm obliged
to be formal tonight and present her as miss Emily Barrett.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
As a matter of fact, Peebe.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
The way you usually address me on the lot.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
Is hey you.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
That's when everything's all right. I'm not good at remembering names.
You're not good at remembering small details either.

Speaker 6 (43:07):
No director is.

Speaker 8 (43:08):
That's why there are script girls in Hollywood?

Speaker 9 (43:10):
Why working for you?

Speaker 5 (43:11):
A strip girl even has to be an explorer.

Speaker 8 (43:13):
When we were making Four Frightened People in Hawaii with
tonight's star Claudette Colbert I was sent by plane to
an isolated mountain to.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
Pick Afioppi leaves for her costume.

Speaker 8 (43:23):
It took me five days, and when I finally reached
the nearest village, my beautiful white linen costume looked like
ten minutes past midnight, just black. I followed the Lynn,
but no stores, no laundry, threw myself in the mercies
of a little Japanese housemaid and went to sleep exhausted.
When I awoke, there were my clothes and brass spotlessess.
When I got on the plane, I asked her how

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she'd ever managed to get them so clean. She couldn't
speak English, but she led me to a washtub and
pointed to a box of lux Flakes. Now, I know
we use lux Flakes at Paramount, but imagine seeing that
familiar package at the foot of a mountain in Hawaii.
That housemaid deserved a reward. Send it to her from Honolulu,
a whole carton of Lux flike.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
Because I remember it, your stay in the Hawaiian Islands
was more pleasant than your stay on Blackwell's Island. Even
lux Flakes couldn't help you soft, Sofia way out of
there that time.

Speaker 8 (44:14):
Mister Demill needed data on women's prisons, so he sent
me to a much more exclusive island than Hawaii, Blackwell's Island.

Speaker 5 (44:20):
New York's Prison in the East River.

Speaker 8 (44:22):
Mister de Mill had me jailed as a shoplifter, and
no one knew my real identity. I spent five weeks
in a seal until he remembered where I was and
bailed me out.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Ps I got the material to Emily in my next
picture of the Plainsman Gene Arthur as Calamity Jane is
captured by Indians. Now, Emily, I wonder how it feels
to be Scouts.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
That's one thing I'm not going to find out for you.

Speaker 6 (44:46):
I've just had a new permanent good.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Night see.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Goodbye, jail Bear. We come to the last act of
the Baker. We've got that Colbert as lou and Water
Houston as nifty two weeks have passed. It's the stormy
night and the far away rumble of thunders in harmony

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with Nifty's sullen state of mind. He's determined to leave
the carnival. This is his last night with the show,
and we find him sitting on the cot in his
tent smoking a cigarette while hap perches on the trunk
opposite him. Well, and after you sure.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Picked one piece of a knight to get out of
the show business raining cats and dogs?

Speaker 2 (45:36):
What time you reach home in the morning.

Speaker 1 (45:37):
We only get to South Bend at fourne lay over
at six.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
I'll be home at the farm in time rill to
get my breakfast, and believe me, it'll be breakfast on
a greasy cook or sinkers in mud, I swear.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
And if I don't know what this year out it's.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Going to be like without you, I'm getting too old
to be working with guys ain't used to. Don't doc'll
get out of the ropes intimes?

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
I don't know what the colonel's I had.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Is letting him take.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
Over the show doc Rice, he couldn't belly on a
peanut stand. And that new dance tree's got Cleo ain't
worth a cuss I have to carry, see nifty, you're
going away without saying goodbye to carry?

Speaker 2 (46:18):
Are you sure you're shooting square? To go off like
this without a word. All I want her to do
is to keep out of my way.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Whatever she's done, right or wrong, was because she loved you.
Wasn't in her mind to drive the kid away said,
don't you think I can't see through all this gab carries.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
I should beg for her.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Carry. Don't have to get nobody to talk for her.
The only thing, Nifty. If she comes to say goodbye,
don't be hard, No.

Speaker 1 (46:42):
Treat her decent. Tell her you forgive her. Whether you
do or not, it won't hurt you, and we'll save
her many a heartache.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Dry up. Don't make me chicking hard with all this
Sunday school talk. They can't ruin my life and expect
the kiss for it. He's getting just what's coming to her.

Speaker 4 (46:57):
Nifty, Yes, she in.

Speaker 7 (47:00):
I know that was how you felt, but I had
to come all the thame.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Oh so you heard what I said? Eh, well all
the better.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Well what do you want?

Speaker 4 (47:09):
I wanna talk to you.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
You've got nothing to say. You listen to her, and
if you're to help me out.

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Wow, I'm going now. I I wanna hear you can
get some sense in your heads and part friends. If
there's a sharp life and a rotten.

Speaker 2 (47:23):
One, we don't know.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Once ahead, we'll have to take care of yourself.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Now, I don't want you got to say to me.

Speaker 7 (47:34):
Understand, First of all, I ain't here with any idea
getting you to make it up with me.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
There's just something I wanted to explain, and.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
Now I'm here, I.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Don't know how to go about it.

Speaker 4 (47:46):
Hardly oughta written you a letter.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Again, I wouldn't have read it.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
I didn't think you would.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
That's why I come.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Nifty.

Speaker 7 (47:58):
I got a bottle of Carboy acid from the drug
store today, a bottle that's gonna be empty this time tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
What are you trying to do? So was scary into me.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
I ain't grandstanding.

Speaker 7 (48:09):
I'm telling you what I'm gonna do, so you'll well,
so you'll see I ain't such a bad sport at that.
I can see how much I harmed you, but sick
and lout on Chris. And when I heard you was
leaving the outfit through what I'd done, I made up
my mind. I wasn't gonna have you believe I was
getting off Scott free.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Oh huh, you're drinking poison, gonna bring Chris back or help?

Speaker 7 (48:32):
They're crazy, I may be, but I see things pretty clear.
For a crazy persons, it ain't.

Speaker 5 (48:39):
As if I was somebody who had something to live for.

Speaker 7 (48:43):
I'm a nobody, tired out and broke. I'd like to
think you could forgive me nifty, but that ain't gonna
change my mind none. You see, I ain't doing this
so much for you, is for myself. The others will
thank God done it because you left, David. I don't

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care what they think if you understand that that ain't
the real reason.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Hey, nifty nippy, what do you think? It's stopped raining
and it's clearing off.

Speaker 4 (49:12):
It's stop raining, do you hear?

Speaker 1 (49:14):
And there's the prettiest moon coming up you've ever seen,
big as a wash tall.

Speaker 2 (49:17):
That's too light. It won't doing a good up a
dusk turn clear.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
Colonel's out, the band boys out the valley, the whole
midwale be humming with people in an hour. You see,
if it ain't s ain't going to be such a
bad break for your last night at.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
That Oh, nifty, listen, there.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Goes the old hobby horses. Listen, se nifty and you
know opening up, you got your speed ready down and
look like a forget your shit.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
I'll go out along and light up the stringers on
the front. Nick there and get the Hawaiians And then
why are you ready to take them? What top bullyings
off the platforms and ticket box.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Okay, carry what you're doing over here? Listen, Doc, you
got all you can do.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
Turn of your own business, all right, go on, get
out and sure Wait a minute, doctor, what's evening to carry?

Speaker 7 (50:01):
Well, if I'm going to open up tonight, I gotta
be getting back to the doll rag.

Speaker 5 (50:06):
I'll take him back so long, nifty, I want to
shake hands.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I guess we can do without that.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
All right, carry carry?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Come here? How would you like to go on? And
I place the new dancer?

Speaker 6 (50:26):
Go on tonight?

Speaker 2 (50:27):
You heard me do your dance for the last time, nifty.
I was just an idea of mine. Well what do
you say? Well, I got to work at the doll
all right, I can take that up with the colonel.

Speaker 4 (50:36):
Well you think I got time to get read?

Speaker 1 (50:38):
You don't stand there all night talking about it. N me.
They're starting to come in out a lot anytime we
started the valley. All right, Doc, get out there and
get them all you got leave it.

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Tell me everything's ready and efty. Well wait, we'll have
to wait for a minute.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
Wait, gentlemen, on carry who you heard me carry?

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Carry?

Speaker 1 (50:54):
You think I've gone crazy?

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Don't do well, I tonight I'm going to be with
the Hicks and want to do your stuff, so you
better all give me a good show. One's top the
belly who and remember I'll be watching you.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
God daughter talk about the ladies, saying.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Gentlemen, you are now standing.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
In front of the big feature attrition up the midway,
the biggest showing.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
For your money that is ever played your town.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
It's a show fall I'm spicy dancing, a show fall off,
peppy dancing. Look and with your kind intelligence, allow me
to introduce the honist first in pradosing Princess Kalema, the
pride of Sonny Honah Well, I say, I said, for

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she's the pride of Sonny Honolula, and believe me, she's good.
She can dance along with the best of him.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
He's dying on the speak the fee.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
And we have the Hawaiian Tree, a bunch of boys
that a Quasia Antsia with their haunting melodies. If she
don't fly them, then you don't know what's good music.
While stop and walk away on him, nifty get up
there and show him how to do it. Looking for
Philly Sunday and his taper nackles.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
My men, don't fight.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Higgins fifty fifty okay, okay, all right, I'll hand it out.
Just a minute testament, folks, don't go away. Don't go
away there, Amiel Trooper, just a minute testamentute. Our sixty said,
you ain't seen nothing yet. Now don't the way there.
She is Princess Kaleima, the pride of Sunny Honolulu. And
when she dances, folks, he makes old man pu away
their canes and pipples lose that crutch.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
She shakes a mean baila bel papa.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Now don't this excuse me when I refer to the
young lady's dance.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Because this show is cleaned, moral, up.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
To day, educational and instructive, and there's a special advertising
price tonight, just to.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Prove to you that might value of this performance.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
I'm not going to charge the customary price of twenty
five cents, but a dime ten cents.

Speaker 2 (53:17):
It takes you all the way through. It's certainly you.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Care aborting this foot, So step right up ally. The
performers guitar and the show stops fi away. Take a
snift you my congratulations, my congratulations.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
You've certainly shaved the day. You can go it, Colonel
sous I get the hang of it a little, Doc,
and let me get onto it. Just ain't got the neck.

Speaker 1 (53:45):
You ain't got a selling personality. When you're ballet, you've
gotta tell the world. I'm afraid lifts right, Doc, that's.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
What I call a rod.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
Nifty, you were superb, superb. If you'll reconsider you're going away,
I'll make your pardner. I'll give you a quarterly direst
in this outfit. Well, I don't want to see the
show going the wrong Gord. I'll go over to the
office ragmon and make all the concright now.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
I not hurry about that. I gotta think it over.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Well, I'll just have one made out in case fifty
you're too old a dog to learn new tricks.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
I'll be waiting for nifty. I'll carry What do you want?

Speaker 5 (54:22):
I was just wondering, since you're going to stay on
and all.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Who says I'm gonna stay on?

Speaker 7 (54:26):
Well, if you do stay on, I was wondering if
you couldn't see your weight clear to letting me come.

Speaker 5 (54:32):
Back on the job.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Now.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
You don't want much, do you?

Speaker 1 (54:34):
The first thing I know you'll be wanting to well,
we can finish out the night.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
But I ain't making no promises. Oh boy, And I'll
tell you people one thing. If I do, stay on here,
there's going to be more work done around here. You're
all so lazy, ain't worth a charter backer. Get inside
the carry and do your stuff well as you hear
what I said. I'm the boss of this outfit. Go on,
get in there.

Speaker 8 (54:56):
Oh nifty them the first kind word you said to
me in a month.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Half.

Speaker 4 (55:08):
Now, listen to this.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
What is it? It's a card from Chris and lou
It came this morning. What do they say?

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Well, Loui has got a job hooking it in the
nightclub and Chris is working in an office.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Yeah yeah, and hat.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
It's a law office.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Pray has ended Walter Houstoner's crew barking, but he'll be
back to talk with us in a moment. And we'll
also hear from flood At Colbert, whose reputation as a
charmer isn't limited to snakes alone, for his distinguished direction
of motion pictures. The Gentleman we shall hear next, has
received a collection of award but Girdlier, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium,

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nations East and West have contributed to it. One of
the first winners of the Motion Picture Academy Award for Direction,
he is the first to be honored for the League
of Nations for his work in motion pictures. His spectacular
production The Big Parade is one of the outstanding pictures
of all times. A Texan by birth, his current picture
is The Texas Ranger. Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister King Vidar.

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Even in that little Texas town, I had a hunch
I could make motion pictures. I made one there before
I ever saw the inside of a studio. I sold
it too, and I thought I'd better come to Hollywood
before I tackled another one. I landed here in a
broken down car and twenty cents in my pocket. Perhaps
you remember that TV. Yes, you were not only a

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Texas lynghorn. He were somewhat of a greenhorn.

Speaker 11 (56:53):
Maybe I was, But I remember you accepted the first
suggestion I ever made to you. We were looking at
a picture you had just finished, called by Change your wife.
I saw how you could improve a scene with a
close up, and I told you what I thought. Everybody
looked at me as though I had spoken out loud
in a cathedral. But you said, that's a fine idea

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and you put.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
It in the picture. I never feared of a that't
a good idea when.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
It's of it, and may even by a greenhorn. And
I never overlook an opportunity. The trouble is people don't
always know when an opportunity comes along. One time I
was looking for the ideal American youth to feature in
a picture called The Crowd.

Speaker 11 (57:32):
I tried to find the right actor for weeks, and
on one day I saw a fellow go by on
a street car. I chased it, jumped on board and
looked for him. But while I was getting on at
the rear, he'd gotten off at the front. I left
the car and roam the streets trying to catch sight
of him, but he had disappeared completely. That young man
will never know how close he came to a career

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in the movies.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
And the marrow of that is, if you want to
get into the movies, always ride an extra block on
the street car. The fact is that a lot of
people don't want a career in pictures, as you'll find
out when you start working with those Indians and the plainsmen.
When we were out in the desert shooting a battle,
scene for the Texas Rangers. An Indian boy who would
work for about three weeks finally came up to me

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and said, when can I go home? Mister Bedo, what's
the matter, son? Aren't we treating you right?

Speaker 11 (58:22):
I asked, heyah, he said, but I'm getting awfully tired
of playing Indians. It's been a pleasure to appear in
your Lux Radio Theater CD. There's no other medium that
brings Hollywood in the stage to every home in America
in such distinctive fashion.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Good Night, good Night came last week. I engaged a
little unknown girl for a major role in the picture
I'm starting tomorrow for the present. I name is a secret.
She's never appeared before the camera, so the first time
I talked to her, arrange to have us see every
Claude at Colbert picture made in the last three years

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and study them for technique. I could give this little
girl no better advice, and I can pay Claudette no
higher compliment. Miss Corbett.

Speaker 9 (59:17):
Thank you so much, mister Tom.

Speaker 10 (59:20):
I think you're doing a marvelous thing by bringing back
these grand plays so that everybody who may not have
seen them on the stage can enjoy them over the
Lux Radio theater. I can't tell you how thrilled I
was to play the Barker again.

Speaker 9 (59:31):
Thank you, good night.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
Claudet.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Walter. There's an old popular song called where did you
get that hat? And I'd like to know why you've
been wearing yours all through tonight's performance. Well, i'll tell
you CB. That hat goes back to nineteen twenty seven
when we tried out the Barker in Atlantic City. After
the performance, a reader Barker came backstage to see me.
He was the owner of a mid joint, or in
polite language, a plays for palms read. He liked everything,

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he said. He liked everything I did on the stage,
except my hat and my acting. He bounded to teach
me how to bark, so I palle around with him
and learned the tricks of the plade. After a few days,
he told me I was a fool to keep on acting,
and offered me his hat and a job of the carnival.
It took the head. Maybe you missed your big chance.

Speaker 4 (01:00:20):
By this time you might have owned a little mit.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Joint of your own. See me, we can't all be successes,
But I take off my hat to your choice of
plays mister Silver's music and the general excellence of the
of the Lux Radio Theater. Tell me, Walter, do you
wear that hat in Dodgeworth Dodsworth? Well, no, sam Dodgeworth
was hardly the type, but I am going to wear
it in the first actor. Fellow, thank you, good night,

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goodbye fack. Mis Colver, whose next picture is made of Salem,
appeared through courtesy of Paramount Studios, as did mister Demill
and mister Bedo. Mister Houston now engaged in filming Dodgeworth.
If youre not did out of studio through courtesy of
mister Samuel, will go Miss Barry Paramount and mister Lewis
Silver's twentieth century Fox now mister de Mill. Next week,

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the Lux Radio Theater presents Joan Crawford and Francho Tone
in Chain. Miss Crawford will play the same role she
played on the screen, promising us one of the distinctive
hits of the year. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes,
join me in inviting you to be with us next

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Monday night, when the Lux Radio Theater presents Joan Crawford
and Francho Tone in Chain. Missus Cecil b de Mill
saying good night to you from Hollywood. This is the

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Columbia Broadcasting System.