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Missus orson Welles. Tonight we broadcasta Fulick Prize play by a great American
dramatist. Simple enough story, morepoint than plot, more truth than glamour.
Tonight, Dear Leonor, we won'ttry to take you out of yourself,
but if we can, we'll takeyou back back to nineteen ten.
Remember if you were our hero's ageat the time, maybe you won't want
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to When Richard Miller is a protagonisttonight, I guess the easiest way to
take him is to try to pretendhe isn't us, dredging brightly down into
the carefully forgotten depths of his awkwardness, your obedience and will tonight attempt to
perform Richard Miller. The lifelike coloringas far as possible will be maintained,
but our wilderness is best remembered foranother character to play Richard's father. The
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only actor I could think of whocould follow George M Cohen, Will Rogers
and Lionel Barrymore is Ray Collin justsaid it here? Okay, Now look
out for the fuse, keep itstraight, the match a minute. I
like this. Put the can ontop of it here, so quick,
run run, Yeah, Well,for joy, the claiming every moment you
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gotta how do you doing what you'redoing? Hey? Look out you can
you want to blow your nose?Comn went out of the park and do
it? Oh yeah, my okay? Hey hey' forcomber? Hello, well,
hog on this glorious pause? Hey, where's your girl? You kick's
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been looking for all over? Yes, so he won't he won't have Well,
I've come you here, Dave.I've seen you at a picnic for
years, and you won't see meat this along. I'm here to talk
to Matt. Well, go ahead, I'll come to the point at once
or something disagreeable, disgraceful will benear of the truth. And I concern
your son rich All come now,Dave. I'm sure Richard had done anything,
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and I'm positive he has. Ibrought the proof with me. I've
got a lot more than home.These are good samples of the rest.
See my wife discovered them in oneof your euro drawers, hidden under the
underwear. They're all in hand,right, cat, and I uh huh,
I'll go on reade them all nightagainst my heart. I felt your
warm heart beat night long within minearms in love and sleep. You lay
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well well my breath will ship betwixtthe kisses and the wine. Well,
if a little good poetrait anyway,what do you want me to do?
Do what it's your playing duty todo as a citizen, to protect other
people's children. Take and give hima hiding, he remembered the riby's life.
You don't want to do it forhis sake, if you have sense,
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unless you want him to end upin jail. If I've all I
can stand from you, you getalong, Get along quick. You don't
want to kick in the rear.Help me now you need to lay hands
on me, that miller. I'mgoing out, But there's one thing more.
Here's a letter promurial dear son.I hope he he's what's inside for
his own good and yours, becauseif I ever came hanging around my place
again, I'll have him around.You will. I will? And don't
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think I'm not going to make youregret the insult you beat on me.
I'm taking the advertisement for my storeout of your newspaper, all right on,
take it out. You may bethe biggest advertiser in town, but
you can get out and go tothe devil. Do you mean yes?
I will that's all. You wouldn'tDan, Yes, I would. You
wouldn't I would to well? Goodday, Richard. Yes that's the way
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you credit stay baseball? Okay,the queen? Yes, you want me?
Par thought i'd made that plane.Oh I'm sorry, Pa, I
didn't hear you. I was offin another world. Listen, Son,
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I'm gonna ask you a question.I want an honest answer. I warned
you beforehand. If the answer isyes, I'm gonna punish you and punish
your hard because you will have donesomething no boy of my awt to do
never lied to me before I know, and I believe, even to save
yourself punishment, you'd love me,now, would you? I won't lie?
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Father? Is everything between you andMuriel anything you shouldn't? You know
what I mean? You think Iam what father? I love Muriel.
I'm gonna marry her after I getout of college. She said she would.
We're engay. That's all I wantedto know. We won't talk about
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it anymore. Oh, here's aletter from her. He said, he
give you her father, You betterbe prepared for a bit of a blushun
never mind, there's lots of otherfish in to see here. Yeah,
here's her letter. Thanks Pam.Say what's happened to your mom aunt?
Lily? I don busy keeping aneye on the CID today. The pair
of them. I think I'll godown the beach aways to see if they're
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there and maybe say hello, comethe folk. If you show up,
tell him on the right best,Yes, Pa, Dear Richin, please
don't try and aswer this. It'sno use after what you've done. I
never want to see you again.Never. If that's all you think me,
goodbye forever, Muriel. It's alittle coward. I hate her.
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She can't treat me like that.I'll shore, I'll shore rest. What
is this? Here's when bucking forLee? Win? Here? Yet you
owe me a nickel? I Itold him you'd be here? Hello Win?
Oh, Hello Dick? Hey,Tommy, skid up? I wanna
talk to Dick? What me afterI told you where he was? And
come all the way over out ofthe water. Shot you go on,
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Tommy, here's a dime, Nowget up. There's a good kid.
Okay. I don't wanna listen anywaythe water stay Richard. I'm in troun.
What does it win? Can Ihelp? Can you keep your face
shut. I can't well, I'lltell you what it is. I ran
into a couple of swift days fromNew Haven this noon. I did them
up for the night, you know, for you know now, I can't
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find anyone to go with me,so I'll have to pass it up.
I'm broke. I can't afford toblow them both to drink. I gotta
live them dollar saved up I couldloan, so say a good sport on
nixt kid, I don't wanna buymoney? Say have you got anything on
for to night? No wanna comealong with me? You mean I'm trying
to lead you astray. Understand youdon't have to do anything, not even
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take lass of beer unless you wantto. What do you think I am
a roob? You mean you're greenfor anything that's doing? Sure i am.
I'll ever drink anything besides sodas.Sure, lots of times beer and
slow gin fizz and Manhattan. Sayyou know more than I thought, and
you fix it so your folks won'tget wise. Ought to be easy on
the fourth, Sure, don't worryabout that, okay, And you beat
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a pleasant beach hotel at nine o'clock. Sure in the back room, that's
easy, watch your step kid,so long, so long? Oh?
Sure, I'm sorry for it,That's all I could say. Oh hello,
Richard, what a little man moncomer? Wand so I'm way down the
beach talking to your pa. Nothingfoolish, I'll bet the old blue load.
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I see. Well, Richard,on do you wan ask pay?
Whatever's the matter with you? Richard, Lily, don't use foh moving around
that way? And on the fourthof July too, Hold on fourth of
July anyway. I wish we stillbelong to ainger, Richard, Richard,
you come back here, Richard.No, he's a queer boy. Sometimes
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I can't make her tail of him. Hey, sid, where do you
think you're going? I wondered wherethat was. I thought I could down
the beach. It wasn't look forit. Are you sure that's all you're
looking for? Said? Why?Yes? Are you buying a chance?
In sing? You know what Imean? Now? You see how it
is, Lily when my own sisterthinks the worst. I'm not thinking a
thing. I'm just remembering what happenedlast year as the picnic last year?
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Why what happened last year? Whathappened again? Is since you've been on
the paper and Waterbury. That's whathe swore to me last night, didn't
you did, pure as the drivensnow? That's me you did your caution.
We'll go on down the beach,and when you find that you bring
him back here. Do you hearme? Don't you too start talking around
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with everybody's getting late, will haveto be starting home. Somebody got to
get supper ready. Yes, andmaybe your promise. I swear to you,
Lily that if any man offers mea drink, I'll kill him,
that is, if he changes hismind. And you tell that. If
you aren't back in teen minutes,we're starting home. Yere Italian, Richard.
We're taking the car. You stillcome on many lay days? Your
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hid? Then they're coming coming.I'll heard him. Wait on all right
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here, all right, and you'llsit right down to supper. Tommy,
you go wash your hand. DidI'm angry? You always are? I
love lobster mark. Supper ready,Richard, You've got to book away and
come right in and down you toLily. We'll get them right in here
and get some food in them.They'll be all right. Said sounds like
Uncle sid soust again. Tell meyou be quiet, you're getting too smart.
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You get right down and the wordout of everybody. Keep quiet,
quiet, here we are ready.Here, we are you cried in here
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now don't stop to wash up oranything. He was on the table.
All right, Lily, you startpassing the soup. See here, we
are right here, we are.So I see you're here. And if
I didn't, you've told me fourtimes already. Oh, don't be critical,
don't be carpingly critical. Good newscan stand repeat, can't it?
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Of course it can? Norah bringthat snup here this minute? Yeah,
well well, well, well,well, well it's good to be home
again. Now start eating everybody agood DAGs? Where sid? Uh?
I see? I think Sid sortof embarrassed about coming in down on the
beach there. He got such alot of friends and well, you know,
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for the julyes like Christmas comes withonce a year. If don't pretend
to notice, and don't you kissyou here? And don't you lily?
What not? Sit she rushing carden? What anything? Beauty? Beautiful?
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Even I never remember seeing a morebeautiful sunset? Well you say, Lily,
well shut horrid, my friends,I give you to soup. The
Stafford life, the old man's comfort, the young man's joy, the maiden.
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Shut up for a minute and eatyour soup. Everybody else has fished
past me, your sup placed.Everybody will be here, all nice,
her ma. After this, there'slobster, and that's all. Tommy,
you passed the loster. Start withyour fine did I love lobster, lobster
pot, Thanks, have a goodtime the beach, Timmy, all fine,
pas, Thanks, the water waswonderful and warm. Swim fire,
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yes for me, but that isn'tso awful far, lobster lily, you
know, speaking of swimming, Inever go down to that beach with what
it caused the mind of the day. Eye and Red Sisk went swimming there,
and I saved his life, RedSish, I thought we'd have him
have what oh nothing? You yougo on with his swimming? Now,
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don't you mind me? Uncle saidlobster. Oh you can sing red fish,
yes, sir. We kids callhim red because he has the derned
this red crop of hair. Dearold gilg, why the curious imagination of
little children did eat your lobster andshut up her? Go on there well?
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As I was saying, Red andI went swimming that day. Let
me. See, Red was fourteen. I was only twelve. Forty one
years ago. There was a steakout where the whistling boy is now about
mile loud, Oh, stage,one more sound out of you, young
man. You leave the table yourlobster at all. Well, else I'm
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going to be interrupted every second anyway, how's mother's relatism, Tommy, bet
or Ma, she was waiting today. She says aalt water is the only
thing that really helps her. Bunyon, Tommy, where are your man?
Is the table no place? Well, as I was saying, there was
iron Red, and he dared meto raise him out to the steak and
back. Well, I didn't hadanyone dare me those days. A spunky
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kid I was, so I said, all right, we started out.
All of a sudden I heard asort of a gasp from behind me like
this. I turned. I turnedand there was Red, his face all
pinched and white, and he saidweakly, helper, I got a cramp
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in my leg. Well, Idon't mind telling you. I got mighty
scared. I didn't know what todo. Then suddenly I thought of it
ache, and that steak was well, I calculated it must have been two
hundred feet away two hundred and fifty, two hundred and fifty. I've taken
down the distance every time you savedred his life for years, and the
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mean aver resistance to that steak istwo hundred and fifty feet. I get
it, said, Sorry, folks, I guess I've told that one too
many times and bored everyone one.Getting older, I guess mother getting to
repeat me, No such thing.You're as young as you have a word.
Did you eat your lobster? Maybekeep your shot? Oh? Sure,
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sure, I eat my labs.Eh, ladies and gentlemen, I
give you lobster lobster the staff mercysakes, can't you shut up? Ma?
Looking? Uncle said beating that classshelves and all? See, do
you want to kill yourself? Takeit away from him? Well, I
prefer the shows, all fenced lobsterlovers prefer the show. He'd better go
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right up to Becker. Well that'swhat he better do, right, Yeah,
maybe you're immediately, not sooner?Oh but waiting, ladies and gentlemen.
There is no one duty I mustbe fo no days. Completely up,
lily, answer once and for all? Will you marry me? No?
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No right, scraps all for thebest right right, good night,
and that will make fify. Whatis it a leaver that's in his downfall?
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Everyone always laughing, Everyone all wassaying, what a card he is?
What a cake? What a cut? When he's gone on, we're
all responsible making it easy for him, and all we do is left.
Now, Lily, you mustn't takeon. So isn't as serious as all
that? Maybe it just to me? Well once, Oh, I'm sorry
in that. I'm sorry, Isee I didn't mean to. I'm not
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feeling munset tonight. If you willexcuse me, I think I'll deserve the
maroon for well, of course,I suppose she's right. Never knew Lily
to come out with things that waybefore anything special happened. Is nothing I
know. I thought she'd got completelyover foolishness about said long ago. Oh
she never will she better. He'sfired out of that New Waterbury job.
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He is telling me it's the picnic, Oh dear, isn't he the food?
I knew something was wrong when hecame home. Well, I'll find
a place for him on my again. Do you know what I think?
I think it's Aunt Lily's fault.Uncle says, going to ruin it's all
because he loves her and she keepshim dangling after an eggs him on and
ruins his life like all women loveto ruin men's lives. I don't blame
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him for drinking himself to death.What he care if he dies after the
way she treated him. I'll dothe same thing myself, and I would
fire his boots. Should you stopthat time? Drink for you know not
whence you came? Nor why drinkfor you know not why you go nor
where? Drink of you? That'swhat all? Come on that. Let's
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go into the parland and give norhands to clear away? Really way that
boy? Talk? Now on,Richard, you keep that dum food talk
yourself. You're gonna regret it,hear me, yes, father, and
about all I can stand at yournonsense for one day. Oh what do
I care? I'm sure a littlecoward. I'll show them all. Boy.
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Haven't you ever been to a playlike this before? Oh? Sure,
I have lots of times. Whydo you think I ain't anyway?
I don't know, kid, Honless, you got me getting what did you
say? Your name was? Richard? Well, drink your beer, Richard?
Come on, it's getting flat.Oh, I let it get that
way on purpose. I like itbetter when it's flat. So honestly,
kid, did your mother know you'reout? I'll cut it down. Why
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don't you try to kid me?All right? I didn't mean to dearie.
Please don't get sore at me.Not sore. You see it's this
way with meme chin. I thinkyou're one of the sweetest kids I've ever
met. I could like you alot if you'd give me half a chance
instead of and so cold and indifferent. I'm not cold and and different.
It's only that I I I gota weight on my mind. Here's
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your drink it? Oh, this'llwall of up forty cents with a scar.
Uh, here's a dollar keep thechange. Oh thanks, h don't
mention it. Hey, anybody here? How about of those diffits I'm climing?
Bottoms are now? Uh? Alright, bottomb's up? Ah? Whoa,
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that's something like it? Feel better? You bet you'll still feel better
in a minute, and then maybeyou won't be so distant none friendly?
Huh? Oh I'm not? Oh, yes you are. I think you
just do like me? Why Ido? True? Aren't you how much
A lot? Yes? A lot? Show me how much UH want me
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to come sit on your life?Yes? Well, now you're talking y
swell? Why don't you put yourown around me? Oh? No,
not that dead way? Mm homitight. You needn't be afraid of hurting
me. I like to be healthy, don't you sure? I do?
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And then watch you kiss me?All right? You call that kidding?
Here? What's another? Honey boy? Haven't you ever been kissed before?
Sure? Lots of times? Andwhy'd you jump as if? I bitch
you? Gee? I'm getting crazyabout you? Come on kiss me again?
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I can't. I just remembered Isworn off, sworn off kissing.
What do you mean you've sworn off? I took an oath I'd be faithful,
So that's to us? Put who'sthe girl? Never mind? I'm
not good enough to talk about it. I suppose I didn't mean that.
You're all right? I don't meanyou wanted to do this kind of thing,
and right for a nice girl?I trouble sister. Yeah, I'm
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hopeful here getting a knoll. Maybeyou'd like a change of atmosphere. No,
he's all right, I guess alittle south. Mind if I joined
your party or with me, Igot no party on, So I forgot
much cinera gone with the wind.Plong roses roses rightly with a throng.
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Yay, hungry for the lips ofmy desire. Hey, what's it talking
about? Let's have another drink.You've had enough? What is it?
A child poet or a child?Don't get well? So say if you
could check that cradle robbing acnbea youand I could have a little fun bad.
I just pulled my fright. Uhlisten, kid, Uh, here's
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an old friend of mine, misterSmith and new headn just come in.
Uh. I'm gonna go over andsit at his tape for a while.
See, and uh, you bettergo on home. I'm never going home.
I'll sure each man kills the thinghe loves by each Let this be
hurt. Hey, this is rich. That's swell, dope, young fellow,
give it something more. Some doit with a bitter look, some
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with a flaring word. The cowarddoes it with a kiss, the brave
man with a sword. I didit with a kiss on the cord.
That's the old stuff, kid,all right, all right, give us
another right over the old pan.That's ten o'clock. I alert Loveburg will
come with vine leaves in his hairand bats in his belfy. If he's
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you, I don't mind her,kid, she's just ignorant. Come on,
now, come on kid, Lettenyou ho me. I don't believe
you ever knew her in New Haven? Don't you just picked her up?
Now? See you leave her alone? You hear you won't do anything for
her, not while I'm around toprotect her. Wait, curse you,
Jack Dalton. If I vote onhandawhat's that? I'll give you a caution
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the note. That's why you cutout the noise. What's in my hair?
My business? Brother? But inyou're a boothed This young Si at
the gate. He's under age.He told me was over eighteen. I
guess you'll come on anyway. You'llnot no trouble feet it now? I
will not feet it. Oh,won't go. I'm quiet, hit a
very joy. Let me go.Let me call Fran exactly well you and
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now i'll you are listening to theCampbell Playoffs presentation of Our Wilderness starn Arson
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Wells. This is the Columbia BroadcastingSystem. Now we resume our Campbell Playoffs
presentation of a Wilderness starring Arson wells, Hey, what was that? It's
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Tommy? Can I come in?Oh? Are you allowed up? Of
course I'm allowed to. How didPop punish? Ye didn't he went back
to the office without seeing me?She after last night? I thought here
that you'd died. Oh, forgetit. Can't you go trying to get
out of here? I'm sick ifI get out of here. Can't give
you something I've got for Oh,don't try to kid me. You haven't
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got anything too. What wouldn't youlike to know? I'll give you three
guesses. Oh, don't bother me, Tommy, I don't know mood to
play riddles with kids. What isit? Well? What would you like
best in the world? I don'tknow what. It's from your heel?
You mean sh yeah? Just now? When I went by, I started
waving from their parlor window, andso I went up, and she'd give
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this note to Dick. So soI took here it is now, ain't
you glad? I came? Oh? Thanks Tommy? Thanks? She do
you know what? She says?She loves me and only me always will
and she's gonna try and sneak outand meet me tonight. You can't do
that, Chad. I though youwait and see if I can go right
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to window. I'll see you tonight. If it's the last thing I ever
do, I care what they doto me after that. I don't care
if they kill me. Your God, if the trouble with most folks is
they don't understand what love me.Oh, hello, Muriel, is it
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not already? Gosh? Time passesin here thinking I thought you'd be waiting
right here at the end of thepast. I'll bet you'd forgotten I was
even camera. No, I hadn'tforgotten, Meriel. Honestly, I just
thinking about life. You might thinkof me for a change I I've done
to see Oh, gosha, prettytonight, Muriel. Seems ages since we've
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been together, you knew what I'vesuffered too. Gosh, Muriel, Oh
gosh it you're as wonderful to bewith you again. I'm glad it makes
you happy to I'm happy too,Muriel. Can't I won't you let me
kiss you? No? Please?No, you mustn't. Don't. Oh
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why can't I Because I'm afraid that'swhat you will always say. You're always
so afraid. Aren't you ever gonnalet me? I will sometime what soon,
maybe tonight. What I'll see youpromise I press maybe? Alright,
remember you promised, don't let's standhere, Come on, we can sit
on the bench in the moonlight.Oh no, don't see you know it's
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no running around the parket night.I know there isn't That's why I thought
it would be the best place.But there might be some claritiness. So
what's the use of a moon ifyou can't see it? It's only a
new moon. That's not much tolook at. But I wanna see you.
I can't hear in the shadow.I I wanna drink in all your
beauty that I look at sight,don't I do? Not? You look
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wonderful, Muriel. You don't realizewhat I've been through. What tad letter
of yours made me do? Whatdid my letter make you do? Oh
it's too long a story. That'sthe dead past area. It's dead.
No tell me, Dick, Iwant to know. Begin at the beginning.
In two well after year old iffather your father gave me a letter,
Muriel, I figured your love forme was dead. Nice that you
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never loved me. You don't evenbeen cruelly mocking me, torture me,
I'd never you know, I wantedto die, and I sat and brooded
about death, and finally I madeup my mind. I killed myself.
Dick, you did, I didtoo. When I'm dead, she'll be
sorry. She ruined my life.Oh have you ever had out of too?
Honest? But suicide is the actof a coward, and that's what
stopped me. And anyway, Ithought to myself, she isn't worth it.
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That's a nice thing to say.If you meant what was in that
letter, you wouldn't have been worthit, would you? But you?
So, I said to myself.I threw with women. They're all alike,
and I thought, what difference doesit make what I do? And
I might as well forget her anddrown all my sorrows and lead the pace
that kills. So after it wasdark, I sneaked out and went to
a little dot. I know aboutTick Miller. I don't believe you in
you work him down to the PleasantBeach House. If I didn't, they
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won't forget me and her. Youwent there, Oh that's a terrible place,
because says it ought to be closedby the police. I said it
was a die, didn't I?And they let me into a secret room
behind the bar room. Wasn't anyonethere but a Princeton senior. No,
and uh he had two chorus girlsfrom New York with them, and they
were all drinking champagne. Dick Miller, I hope you didn't. Oh you
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would have known. Paul made mewrite that old lady one I was called
Bell, yellow hair. Bell hada kind of burns and stings, you
know, I'll bet it was.And then what happened, Oh, we
just kept drinking champagne, all ofus, and uh, she said she'd
fall in love with me at first, and you know, came and sat
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on my lap kissed me, ohso in fun. And then we just
kept on drinking champagne. And uhand no I didn't. You did too.
You're lying and you know it.Oh I hate you. I wish
you did. I'm going on thisminute. I never want to lay out
on you again in this wait Listen, Uriel, If you don't bite your
hair, I won't let you.You've got to let me explain. I
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got you did bite me. Wellgo if you want. If I am
the decency to let me explain,I I hate you too. I'll go
and see Bell I'll go and seeher if that's a good girl. You're
like, what do I kiss?You can't explain? What can you explain?
You kids? I did not saidshe kissed me. I suppose you
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just sat and let yourself tell thatto the marine. All right. If
you're going to call me a liar, every word I said, I only
meant it. It sounds fishy,you know it does. I don't know
anything. I only know I wishI was dead. You've got to say
that it's with you. I supposeyou'll tell me you didn't fall in love
with her. I should say,not fall in love with that kind of
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a girl. What do you takeme for? How do you know what
you did? If distracted so much? Champagne, I kept my head.
I'm not a sucker and a matterof watch things. Then then you don't
love her. I hate her.I she wasn't even pretty n anyway,
How could I love her? Ilove you? Huh? Well, then
I still love you? Then comeback here. Why don't you it's getting
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late. It's not how I passedyou. All right? Well now I'll
have to go soon. Gosha,I'm sorry I hurt your hand. Well
that was nothing. It felt wonderfuleven to your bite there, Oh kiss
it. That don't cure it.You shouldn't waste that on my hand.
You and you said you'd let me. I said, man, you're real.
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You know I wanted so will itwash off and make you forget your
her a way? I should sayso. I never remember anything, but
I never want anything, but itever again? That alright? M the
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moon is beautiful, isn't it notas beautiful you? Nothing is wanna be
wonderful when we're married, Yes,but it's so long? Do we m?
Perhaps I didn't even go to Congress. Probably give me a job.
Then we be making enough, y'all. You'd better do what your pap thinks.
That and I'd like you to beat Yale. I'll poor you.
Do you think YOU'LLI your off?I don't know. I don't care either,
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but I love you. Oh gosh, I love you, darling.
I love you too, sweet heart. Where don't we going ony moon?
Dick tonight? Before I got dumbpearl with silly fool gone? I should
say not? Oh no, We'llgo some far off wonderful place somewhere somewhere
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out on the long trail. Thetrail that is always new on the road
to Mandalay My. But I'm gladTommy told us where Richard went off to
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tonight. I'd have worried my heartif he hadn't. But now it's just
alright, alright, is it?It's for his being in luck Muriel?
I I don't see. But whatit might work out real well, what
you could do worse? I thoughtyou had no use for Muriel, thought
she was stupid. Well so Idid. But if she's good for Richard
and he wants her, I usedto say, you weren't over bride.
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Well I've been hush up. Where'dyou say? Sid and Lilly had gone
off to to the beach, listenedto the ban Oh, I'm glad.
What's that? What did you hearsomething? Yes? I did. That's
Richard now coming around the house.Nobody else had come that way. I've
got in the porch and meet him. You better leave him and me alone
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for a while. I see,Well, all right, I'll be in
here. Call me if you wantme. But you will remember all I
said, won't you? Sure?Hello? Richard? Hello? Pa?
Uh, sit down, rich andyep, no, right here next to
me. That's better. Well,how the vine leaves in your hair this
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evening? I I don't know,Pa, m turned out to be poor
and ivory, didn't they? Huh, you needn't look so alarmed. I'm
not going to read you any Terencelecture that had bore me more than it
would you still giving your credit forhaving brains. So I'm pretty sure anything
I can say to you you've alreadysaid to yourself. Oh I know I
went to down fool. You surewere not only a fool, but a
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downright stupid disgusting I know, pa, alright, then I said a little
now. Uh. One more thing, this girl at the Pleasant Beach House.
Oh, Pa, if they've toldyou about it down there, they
must attention. There wasn't anything youknow, honest, Pather, wasn't I
wouldn't do a thing that to murthe only matter how bad I thought she
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treated me? How did you happento meet this lady? Anyway? I
can't tell that part. I haveto snitch on something. You wouldn't want
me to do that, No,I suppose I wouldn't. Well, I
believe you, and I guess thatsettles there. There's nothing more to say.
We'll forget it. How are yougonna punish me? Part? Oh?
I was sort of forgetting that,it wasn't I Well, i'd thought
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of telling you you couldn't go tocollege. Don't I have to go?
Honest? See that's great, Murithought you'd want me to. I was
telling you I'd rather you give mea job on the paper because she get
married soon. See if I pickeda lemon, that isn't any punishment.
You have something to start, andyou'll go to college and stay there and
you graduate. That's the answer tothat. You know he's got good sense.
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You haven't. Now we're finished,we'll call your ma. Yes,
see here she come, Hello Ma, Hello, Richard, night, a
beautiful night. Moon's way down low, almost setting. Yes, I don't
believe I've hardly ever seen such abeautiful night, such a wonderful moon,
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have you, richid Oh, itwas wonderful down the beach. In order
to remember a few nights that wereas beautiful as this, they were long
ago, when your mother and Iwere young and planning to get married.
Yeah, I uh, I betthose must have been wonderful nights too.
Sorry to forget the moon was thesame way back then, and everything you're
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all right, Richard, you're agood boy. Richard better get to bed
every night, Son and Jim we'llsleep. Sleep. I couldn't sleep.
Can't I stay out here on thefortune sit for a while till the moon
sets? Please? Alright, andyou'd better say good night now. I
don't know about mother, but I'mgoing to bed right away. I'm dead
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tired. Wow am I night?Ma? Good night, dear, good
night Pa, good night. Thefirst time he's done that in years.
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I don't believe kissing between fathers andsons after a certain age seems mushy and
silly, but that meant something.I don't think we'll ever have to worry
about his being safe from himself again. I guess no matter what Lie will
do to him, he can takecare of it. Now. Hm,
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My darn feet are giving me fittingpH Do you bother on lacing your shoes
now? It goes when we're goingright up to bed. H. I
guess you're right in mind. IfI don't say my prayers night essay,
I'm certainly Heaven knows I'm too darntired. I don't talk that way.
It's real sinful. Oh that isn'tyou all over? All always looking for
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an excuse, Oh worse than tummy. Well, all right, I suppose
you needn't. We've had a hardday, gonna turn out the lights and
already yep, let her go,Gallagher. Look at Richard out there in
that corner, like a statue oflove's young dreams. Mm. What's it
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that Rubiate says? Yet? Ah, that springs vanished with the rose,
that youth, sweet scented manuscript shouldclose? Well? Spring? Isn't everything,
is it, Essie? There's alot to be said for autumn that's
got beauty too, and winter appearto get her. It's not. Now,
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Speaking as reducer, the worst Ican say for our guest to night
is he doesn't always approve of myreductions. Speaking as a citizen with the
vote, the least I can sayfor George gen Nathan is that I always
approve of what he writes. Ididn't say agree, mind you, Heaven
and the entire personnel of act hisequity forbid that I should recite for your
catalog of mister Nathan's unmentionably numerous virtues. I needn't remind you of the magazine
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which he founded, The strang Olmenkinnemazine from which my theater took its name
in both which would be nameless,nor of the list of his books,
which don't need what I'd like tosay about them. It's not for me
to celebrate celebrated Nathan pros that blendrichness and a stringency against whose infinite variety,
time and customs seem to be gettingnowhere. But let me say this
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much. Eugene O'Neill's dedication on thefirst page of Our Wilderness reads as follows,
to George gen Nathan, who alsoonce upon a time wore peg top
trousers, and when the pace thatkills along the road to ruin to night
ladies and gentlemen the Campbell Playhouse.He dedicates Our Wilderness to George G.
Nathan, And we have our owngood reasons. They are, among other
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things, his love of theater,as much as the gift and intelligence with
which he served it. Mister NathanO'Neill affectionately dedicated our Wilderness to me,
and it's only in the present traditionto close friendship that I should now return
the compliment by saying unclementary things abouthim. I've known the scoverle intimately for
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more than twenty years, and Ishould like take advantage of this occasion to
tell you confidentially that the popular ideaof himself which he has so cleverly built
up through his plays, books whichhe has had written about him, and
the expensive photographs of himself which hehas sped around the world is a fopping
fraud. What picture of you gotO'Neill? He, as you believe,
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fellows persistently gloomy and morbid. Thatif a funeral passes his house, his
wife joyfully mistakes it for a Martigras Connell. But if O'Neil is gloomy
and morbid, all I can sayis that someone has got the Scandinavian weather
report mixed up with the dictionary.He is so gloomy and morbid. In
point of fact, Once, whileI was staying with him on Sea Island,
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I had a brime with one ofmy best blue hors and Kurdish nectares
to quit singing Rosy you are mypoesy at top of his lungs after midnight
so I'd get a little decent sleep. He roars with delight over Damon Runyon's
stories of mugs who go round shakinghands with pieces of Limburger cheese concealed in
the palms. He thinks Jack Bennyis a scream and worth all the Ibsen
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actedest side of Stockholm. He wrote, don't forget this our wilderness, which
is not only approximately as gloomy andmorbid as Charley's at or the beer barrel
Polker, but which I met.You had to have twenty one consecutive minutes
of howling low Cuvey cut out ofthe dinner table scenes, so following sentimental
scenes might stat chants of getting overO'Neill. You're further believe given to a
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large, steady and copious indignation.In other words, the combination of in
Growing toenail Boil and second act ofthe Volkira. Well, as I say,
I've been pretty close to the fellowfor almost a quarter of a century,
and the one and only time I'veever seen him indignant about anything,
it was three years ago, waswhen I argued with him that he was
a jackass in not believing Joe lewisa top not fighter. Prize fighting incidentalie
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is more than almost anything else exceptfor sauerkraut. He loves sauerkraut. I've
seen him down six big dishes ofit in half an hour. You've rest
being a painfully slow and laborious worker. You've heard that it takes him two
years even to get to the profoundpoint of putting down the line Act one,
the curtain rises, it's truely laboriousworker. But so far as the
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painfully glow Seff goes, it's oftena lot of buncom thiss our wellness.
For example, he wrote in exactlytwenty six days. So you also think
that only El, from what you'veheard, must be a quick tempered and
nasty rooster. In his feelings withthe stage director as he played I'll give
you an illustration out of many.During the rehearsals to did Our Wilderness,
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Philip Muller, the director, camedown to the footlights and suggested to O'Neill,
sitting huddled in the therroau yet hethought it would be grand idea for
Neil permitted him to order one linein the serious scene. Than being tried
why O'Neill wanted to know it wouldanswer mully telling how he changed the line
be a beautiful, relieving laugh.Well, quietly mumbled O'Neill, it's funny
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all right. In fact, it'spretty darned funny. In fact, it's
fine. But and here our friendgently squinted at Mullery, it would be
a whole heap funnier if you yourselfplayed the role facing the audience, and
then, very very slowly, whilespeaking the line, turned around and showed
him a large crumore of William JenningsBryan fastened to the seat of your pants.
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Muller had no more to say.The scene proceeded as O'Neill had written
it, and that the scene,and that's the play that you have heard
tonight. The make of Campbell's Soupsjoin Arson Wells, inviting you to be
with us at the Campbell Playhouse againnext Sunday evening. Meanwhile, if you
have enjoyed to nuts Campbell play Housepresentation, won't you tell your grocer old
tomorrow when you order Campbell's Chick Soup. This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you
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and good night, my spasses.The makers of Campbell Soups, and all
of us on this program remain asalways obediently
Missus orson Welles. Tonight we broadcasta Fulick Prize play by a great American
dramatist. Simple enough story, morepoint than plot, more truth than glamour.
Tonight, Dear Leonor, we won'ttry to take you out of yourself,
but if we can, we'll takeyou back back to nineteen ten.
Remember if you were our hero's ageat the time, maybe you won't want
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to When Richard Miller is a protagonisttonight, I guess the easiest way to
take him is to try to pretendhe isn't us, dredging brightly down into
the carefully forgotten depths of his awkwardness, your obedience and will tonight attempt to
perform Richard Miller. The lifelike coloringas far as possible will be maintained,
but our wilderness is best remembered foranother character to play Richard's father. The
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only actor I could think of whocould follow George M Cohen, Will Rogers
and Lionel Barrymore is Ray Collin justsaid it here? Okay, Now look
out for the fuse, keep itstraight, the match a minute. I
like this. Put the can ontop of it here, so quick,
run run, Yeah, Well,for joy, the claiming every moment you
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gotta how do you doing what you'redoing? Hey? Look out you can
you want to blow your nose?Comn went out of the park and do
it? Oh yeah, my okay? Hey hey' forcomber? Hello, well,
hog on this glorious pause? Hey, where's your girl? You kick's
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been looking for all over? Yes, so he won't he won't have Well,
I've come you here, Dave.I've seen you at a picnic for
years, and you won't see meat this along. I'm here to talk
to Matt. Well, go ahead, I'll come to the point at once
or something disagreeable, disgraceful will benear of the truth. And I concern
your son rich All come now,Dave. I'm sure Richard had done anything,
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and I'm positive he has. Ibrought the proof with me. I've
got a lot more than home.These are good samples of the rest.
See my wife discovered them in oneof your euro drawers, hidden under the
underwear. They're all in hand,right, cat, and I uh huh,
I'll go on reade them all nightagainst my heart. I felt your
warm heart beat night long within minearms in love and sleep. You lay
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well well my breath will ship betwixtthe kisses and the wine. Well,
if a little good poetrait anyway,what do you want me to do?
Do what it's your playing duty todo as a citizen, to protect other
people's children. Take and give hima hiding, he remembered the riby's life.
You don't want to do it forhis sake, if you have sense,
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unless you want him to end upin jail. If I've all I
can stand from you, you getalong, Get along quick. You don't
want to kick in the rear.Help me now you need to lay hands
on me, that miller. I'mgoing out, But there's one thing more.
Here's a letter promurial dear son.I hope he he's what's inside for
his own good and yours, becauseif I ever came hanging around my place
again, I'll have him around.You will. I will? And don't
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think I'm not going to make youregret the insult you beat on me.
I'm taking the advertisement for my storeout of your newspaper, all right on,
take it out. You may bethe biggest advertiser in town, but
you can get out and go tothe devil. Do you mean yes?
I will that's all. You wouldn'tDan, Yes, I would. You
wouldn't I would to well? Goodday, Richard. Yes that's the way
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you credit stay baseball? Okay,the queen? Yes, you want me?
Par thought i'd made that plane.Oh I'm sorry, Pa, I
didn't hear you. I was offin another world. Listen, Son,
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I'm gonna ask you a question.I want an honest answer. I warned
you beforehand. If the answer isyes, I'm gonna punish you and punish
your hard because you will have donesomething no boy of my awt to do
never lied to me before I know, and I believe, even to save
yourself punishment, you'd love me,now, would you? I won't lie?
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Father? Is everything between you andMuriel anything you shouldn't? You know
what I mean? You think Iam what father? I love Muriel.
I'm gonna marry her after I getout of college. She said she would.
We're engay. That's all I wantedto know. We won't talk about
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it anymore. Oh, here's aletter from her. He said, he
give you her father, You betterbe prepared for a bit of a blushun
never mind, there's lots of otherfish in to see here. Yeah,
here's her letter. Thanks Pam.Say what's happened to your mom aunt?
Lily? I don busy keeping aneye on the CID today. The pair
of them. I think I'll godown the beach aways to see if they're
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there and maybe say hello, comethe folk. If you show up,
tell him on the right best,Yes, Pa, Dear Richin, please
don't try and aswer this. It'sno use after what you've done. I
never want to see you again.Never. If that's all you think me,
goodbye forever, Muriel. It's alittle coward. I hate her.
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She can't treat me like that.I'll shore, I'll shore rest. What
is this? Here's when bucking forLee? Win? Here? Yet you
owe me a nickel? I Itold him you'd be here? Hello Win?
Oh, Hello Dick? Hey,Tommy, skid up? I wanna
talk to Dick? What me afterI told you where he was? And
come all the way over out ofthe water. Shot you go on,
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Tommy, here's a dime, Nowget up. There's a good kid.
Okay. I don't wanna listen anywaythe water stay Richard. I'm in troun.
What does it win? Can Ihelp? Can you keep your face
shut. I can't well, I'lltell you what it is. I ran
into a couple of swift days fromNew Haven this noon. I did them
up for the night, you know, for you know now, I can't
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find anyone to go with me,so I'll have to pass it up.
I'm broke. I can't afford toblow them both to drink. I gotta
live them dollar saved up I couldloan, so say a good sport on
nixt kid, I don't wanna buymoney? Say have you got anything on
for to night? No wanna comealong with me? You mean I'm trying
to lead you astray. Understand youdon't have to do anything, not even
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take lass of beer unless you wantto. What do you think I am
a roob? You mean you're greenfor anything that's doing? Sure i am.
I'll ever drink anything besides sodas.Sure, lots of times beer and
slow gin fizz and Manhattan. Sayyou know more than I thought, and
you fix it so your folks won'tget wise. Ought to be easy on
the fourth, Sure, don't worryabout that, okay, And you beat
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a pleasant beach hotel at nine o'clock. Sure in the back room, that's
easy, watch your step kid,so long, so long? Oh?
Sure, I'm sorry for it,That's all I could say. Oh hello,
Richard, what a little man moncomer? Wand so I'm way down the
beach talking to your pa. Nothingfoolish, I'll bet the old blue load.
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I see. Well, Richard,on do you wan ask pay?
Whatever's the matter with you? Richard, Lily, don't use foh moving around
that way? And on the fourthof July too, Hold on fourth of
July anyway. I wish we stillbelong to ainger, Richard, Richard,
you come back here, Richard.No, he's a queer boy. Sometimes
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I can't make her tail of him. Hey, sid, where do you
think you're going? I wondered wherethat was. I thought I could down
the beach. It wasn't look forit. Are you sure that's all you're
looking for? Said? Why?Yes? Are you buying a chance?
In sing? You know what Imean? Now? You see how it
is, Lily when my own sisterthinks the worst. I'm not thinking a
thing. I'm just remembering what happenedlast year as the picnic last year?
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Why what happened last year? Whathappened again? Is since you've been on
the paper and Waterbury. That's whathe swore to me last night, didn't
you did, pure as the drivensnow? That's me you did your caution.
We'll go on down the beach,and when you find that you bring
him back here. Do you hearme? Don't you too start talking around
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with everybody's getting late, will haveto be starting home. Somebody got to
get supper ready. Yes, andmaybe your promise. I swear to you,
Lily that if any man offers mea drink, I'll kill him,
that is, if he changes hismind. And you tell that. If
you aren't back in teen minutes,we're starting home. Yere Italian, Richard.
We're taking the car. You stillcome on many lay days? Your
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hid? Then they're coming coming.I'll heard him. Wait on all right
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here, all right, and you'llsit right down to supper. Tommy,
you go wash your hand. DidI'm angry? You always are? I
love lobster mark. Supper ready,Richard, You've got to book away and
come right in and down you toLily. We'll get them right in here
and get some food in them.They'll be all right. Said sounds like
Uncle sid soust again. Tell meyou be quiet, you're getting too smart.
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You get right down and the wordout of everybody. Keep quiet,
quiet, here we are ready.Here, we are you cried in here
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now don't stop to wash up oranything. He was on the table.
All right, Lily, you startpassing the soup. See here, we
are right here, we are.So I see you're here. And if
I didn't, you've told me fourtimes already. Oh, don't be critical,
don't be carpingly critical. Good newscan stand repeat, can't it?
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Of course it can? Norah bringthat snup here this minute? Yeah,
well well, well, well,well, well it's good to be home
again. Now start eating everybody agood DAGs? Where sid? Uh?
I see? I think Sid sortof embarrassed about coming in down on the
beach there. He got such alot of friends and well, you know,
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for the julyes like Christmas comes withonce a year. If don't pretend
to notice, and don't you kissyou here? And don't you lily?
What not? Sit she rushing carden? What anything? Beauty? Beautiful?
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Even I never remember seeing a morebeautiful sunset? Well you say, Lily,
well shut horrid, my friends,I give you to soup. The
Stafford life, the old man's comfort, the young man's joy, the maiden.
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Shut up for a minute and eatyour soup. Everybody else has fished
past me, your sup placed.Everybody will be here, all nice,
her ma. After this, there'slobster, and that's all. Tommy,
you passed the loster. Start withyour fine did I love lobster, lobster
pot, Thanks, have a goodtime the beach, Timmy, all fine,
pas, Thanks, the water waswonderful and warm. Swim fire,
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yes for me, but that isn'tso awful far, lobster lily, you
know, speaking of swimming, Inever go down to that beach with what
it caused the mind of the day. Eye and Red Sisk went swimming there,
and I saved his life, RedSish, I thought we'd have him
have what oh nothing? You yougo on with his swimming? Now,
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don't you mind me? Uncle saidlobster. Oh you can sing red fish,
yes, sir. We kids callhim red because he has the derned
this red crop of hair. Dearold gilg, why the curious imagination of
little children did eat your lobster andshut up her? Go on there well?
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As I was saying, Red andI went swimming that day. Let
me. See, Red was fourteen. I was only twelve. Forty one
years ago. There was a steakout where the whistling boy is now about
mile loud, Oh, stage,one more sound out of you, young
man. You leave the table yourlobster at all. Well, else I'm
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going to be interrupted every second anyway, how's mother's relatism, Tommy, bet
or Ma, she was waiting today. She says aalt water is the only
thing that really helps her. Bunyon, Tommy, where are your man?
Is the table no place? Well, as I was saying, there was
iron Red, and he dared meto raise him out to the steak and
back. Well, I didn't hadanyone dare me those days. A spunky
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kid I was, so I said, all right, we started out.
All of a sudden I heard asort of a gasp from behind me like
this. I turned. I turnedand there was Red, his face all
pinched and white, and he saidweakly, helper, I got a cramp
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in my leg. Well, Idon't mind telling you. I got mighty
scared. I didn't know what todo. Then suddenly I thought of it
ache, and that steak was well, I calculated it must have been two
hundred feet away two hundred and fifty, two hundred and fifty. I've taken
down the distance every time you savedred his life for years, and the
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mean aver resistance to that steak istwo hundred and fifty feet. I get
it, said, Sorry, folks, I guess I've told that one too
many times and bored everyone one.Getting older, I guess mother getting to
repeat me, No such thing.You're as young as you have a word.
Did you eat your lobster? Maybekeep your shot? Oh? Sure,
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sure, I eat my labs.Eh, ladies and gentlemen, I
give you lobster lobster the staff mercysakes, can't you shut up? Ma?
Looking? Uncle said beating that classshelves and all? See, do
you want to kill yourself? Takeit away from him? Well, I
prefer the shows, all fenced lobsterlovers prefer the show. He'd better go
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right up to Becker. Well that'swhat he better do, right, Yeah,
maybe you're immediately, not sooner?Oh but waiting, ladies and gentlemen.
There is no one duty I mustbe fo no days. Completely up,
lily, answer once and for all? Will you marry me? No?
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No right, scraps all for thebest right right, good night,
and that will make fify. Whatis it a leaver that's in his downfall?
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Everyone always laughing, Everyone all wassaying, what a card he is?
What a cake? What a cut? When he's gone on, we're
all responsible making it easy for him, and all we do is left.
Now, Lily, you mustn't takeon. So isn't as serious as all
that? Maybe it just to me? Well once, Oh, I'm sorry
in that. I'm sorry, Isee I didn't mean to. I'm not
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feeling munset tonight. If you willexcuse me, I think I'll deserve the
maroon for well, of course,I suppose she's right. Never knew Lily
to come out with things that waybefore anything special happened. Is nothing I
know. I thought she'd got completelyover foolishness about said long ago. Oh
she never will she better. He'sfired out of that New Waterbury job.
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He is telling me it's the picnic, Oh dear, isn't he the food?
I knew something was wrong when hecame home. Well, I'll find
a place for him on my again. Do you know what I think?
I think it's Aunt Lily's fault.Uncle says, going to ruin it's all
because he loves her and she keepshim dangling after an eggs him on and
ruins his life like all women loveto ruin men's lives. I don't blame
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him for drinking himself to death.What he care if he dies after the
way she treated him. I'll dothe same thing myself, and I would
fire his boots. Should you stopthat time? Drink for you know not
whence you came? Nor why drinkfor you know not why you go nor
where? Drink of you? That'swhat all? Come on that. Let's
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go into the parland and give norhands to clear away? Really way that
boy? Talk? Now on,Richard, you keep that dum food talk
yourself. You're gonna regret it,hear me, yes, father, and
about all I can stand at yournonsense for one day. Oh what do
I care? I'm sure a littlecoward. I'll show them all. Boy.
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Haven't you ever been to a playlike this before? Oh? Sure,
I have lots of times. Whydo you think I ain't anyway?
I don't know, kid, Honless, you got me getting what did you
say? Your name was? Richard? Well, drink your beer, Richard?
Come on, it's getting flat.Oh, I let it get that
way on purpose. I like itbetter when it's flat. So honestly,
kid, did your mother know you'reout? I'll cut it down. Why
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don't you try to kid me?All right? I didn't mean to dearie.
Please don't get sore at me.Not sore. You see it's this
way with meme chin. I thinkyou're one of the sweetest kids I've ever
met. I could like you alot if you'd give me half a chance
instead of and so cold and indifferent. I'm not cold and and different.
It's only that I I I gota weight on my mind. Here's
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your drink it? Oh, this'llwall of up forty cents with a scar.
Uh, here's a dollar keep thechange. Oh thanks, h don't
mention it. Hey, anybody here? How about of those diffits I'm climing?
Bottoms are now? Uh? Alright, bottomb's up? Ah? Whoa,
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that's something like it? Feel better? You bet you'll still feel better
in a minute, and then maybeyou won't be so distant none friendly?
Huh? Oh I'm not? Oh, yes you are. I think you
just do like me? Why Ido? True? Aren't you how much
A lot? Yes? A lot? Show me how much UH want me
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to come sit on your life?Yes? Well, now you're talking y
swell? Why don't you put yourown around me? Oh? No,
not that dead way? Mm homitight. You needn't be afraid of hurting
me. I like to be healthy, don't you sure? I do?
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And then watch you kiss me?All right? You call that kidding?
Here? What's another? Honey boy? Haven't you ever been kissed before?
Sure? Lots of times? Andwhy'd you jump as if? I bitch
you? Gee? I'm getting crazyabout you? Come on kiss me again?
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I can't. I just remembered Isworn off, sworn off kissing.
What do you mean you've sworn off? I took an oath I'd be faithful,
So that's to us? Put who'sthe girl? Never mind? I'm
not good enough to talk about it. I suppose I didn't mean that.
You're all right? I don't meanyou wanted to do this kind of thing,
and right for a nice girl?I trouble sister. Yeah, I'm
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hopeful here getting a knoll. Maybeyou'd like a change of atmosphere. No,
he's all right, I guess alittle south. Mind if I joined
your party or with me, Igot no party on, So I forgot
much cinera gone with the wind.Plong roses roses rightly with a throng.
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Yay, hungry for the lips ofmy desire. Hey, what's it talking
about? Let's have another drink.You've had enough? What is it?
A child poet or a child?Don't get well? So say if you
could check that cradle robbing acnbea youand I could have a little fun bad.
I just pulled my fright. Uhlisten, kid, Uh, here's
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an old friend of mine, misterSmith and new headn just come in.
Uh. I'm gonna go over andsit at his tape for a while.
See, and uh, you bettergo on home. I'm never going home.
I'll sure each man kills the thinghe loves by each Let this be
hurt. Hey, this is rich. That's swell, dope, young fellow,
give it something more. Some doit with a bitter look, some
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with a flaring word. The cowarddoes it with a kiss, the brave
man with a sword. I didit with a kiss on the cord.
That's the old stuff, kid,all right, all right, give us
another right over the old pan.That's ten o'clock. I alert Loveburg will
come with vine leaves in his hairand bats in his belfy. If he's
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you, I don't mind her,kid, she's just ignorant. Come on,
now, come on kid, Lettenyou ho me. I don't believe
you ever knew her in New Haven? Don't you just picked her up?
Now? See you leave her alone? You hear you won't do anything for
her, not while I'm around toprotect her. Wait, curse you,
Jack Dalton. If I vote onhandawhat's that? I'll give you a caution
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the note. That's why you cutout the noise. What's in my hair?
My business? Brother? But inyou're a boothed This young Si at
the gate. He's under age.He told me was over eighteen. I
guess you'll come on anyway. You'llnot no trouble feet it now? I
will not feet it. Oh,won't go. I'm quiet, hit a
very joy. Let me go.Let me call Fran exactly well you and
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now i'll you are listening to theCampbell Playoffs presentation of Our Wilderness starn Arson
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Wells. This is the Columbia BroadcastingSystem. Now we resume our Campbell Playoffs
presentation of a Wilderness starring Arson wells, Hey, what was that? It's
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Tommy? Can I come in?Oh? Are you allowed up? Of
course I'm allowed to. How didPop punish? Ye didn't he went back
to the office without seeing me?She after last night? I thought here
that you'd died. Oh, forgetit. Can't you go trying to get
out of here? I'm sick ifI get out of here. Can't give
you something I've got for Oh,don't try to kid me. You haven't
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got anything too. What wouldn't youlike to know? I'll give you three
guesses. Oh, don't bother me, Tommy, I don't know mood to
play riddles with kids. What isit? Well? What would you like
best in the world? I don'tknow what. It's from your heel?
You mean sh yeah? Just now? When I went by, I started
waving from their parlor window, andso I went up, and she'd give
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this note to Dick. So soI took here it is now, ain't
you glad? I came? Oh? Thanks Tommy? Thanks? She do
you know what? She says?She loves me and only me always will
and she's gonna try and sneak outand meet me tonight. You can't do
that, Chad. I though youwait and see if I can go right
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to window. I'll see you tonight. If it's the last thing I ever
do, I care what they doto me after that. I don't care
if they kill me. Your God, if the trouble with most folks is
they don't understand what love me.Oh, hello, Muriel, is it
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not already? Gosh? Time passesin here thinking I thought you'd be waiting
right here at the end of thepast. I'll bet you'd forgotten I was
even camera. No, I hadn'tforgotten, Meriel. Honestly, I just
thinking about life. You might thinkof me for a change I I've done
to see Oh, gosha, prettytonight, Muriel. Seems ages since we've
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been together, you knew what I'vesuffered too. Gosh, Muriel, Oh
gosh it you're as wonderful to bewith you again. I'm glad it makes
you happy to I'm happy too,Muriel. Can't I won't you let me
kiss you? No? Please?No, you mustn't. Don't. Oh
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why can't I Because I'm afraid that'swhat you will always say. You're always
so afraid. Aren't you ever gonnalet me? I will sometime what soon,
maybe tonight. What I'll see youpromise I press maybe? Alright,
remember you promised, don't let's standhere, Come on, we can sit
on the bench in the moonlight.Oh no, don't see you know it's
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no running around the parket night.I know there isn't That's why I thought
it would be the best place.But there might be some claritiness. So
what's the use of a moon ifyou can't see it? It's only a
new moon. That's not much tolook at. But I wanna see you.
I can't hear in the shadow.I I wanna drink in all your
beauty that I look at sight,don't I do? Not? You look
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wonderful, Muriel. You don't realizewhat I've been through. What tad letter
of yours made me do? Whatdid my letter make you do? Oh
it's too long a story. That'sthe dead past area. It's dead.
No tell me, Dick, Iwant to know. Begin at the beginning.
In two well after year old iffather your father gave me a letter,
Muriel, I figured your love forme was dead. Nice that you
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never loved me. You don't evenbeen cruelly mocking me, torture me,
I'd never you know, I wantedto die, and I sat and brooded
about death, and finally I madeup my mind. I killed myself.
Dick, you did, I didtoo. When I'm dead, she'll be
sorry. She ruined my life.Oh have you ever had out of too?
Honest? But suicide is the actof a coward, and that's what
stopped me. And anyway, Ithought to myself, she isn't worth it.
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That's a nice thing to say.If you meant what was in that
letter, you wouldn't have been worthit, would you? But you?
So, I said to myself.I threw with women. They're all alike,
and I thought, what difference doesit make what I do? And
I might as well forget her anddrown all my sorrows and lead the pace
that kills. So after it wasdark, I sneaked out and went to
a little dot. I know aboutTick Miller. I don't believe you in
you work him down to the PleasantBeach House. If I didn't, they
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won't forget me and her. Youwent there, Oh that's a terrible place,
because says it ought to be closedby the police. I said it
was a die, didn't I?And they let me into a secret room
behind the bar room. Wasn't anyonethere but a Princeton senior. No,
and uh he had two chorus girlsfrom New York with them, and they
were all drinking champagne. Dick Miller, I hope you didn't. Oh you
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would have known. Paul made mewrite that old lady one I was called
Bell, yellow hair. Bell hada kind of burns and stings, you
know, I'll bet it was.And then what happened, Oh, we
just kept drinking champagne, all ofus, and uh, she said she'd
fall in love with me at first, and you know, came and sat
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on my lap kissed me, ohso in fun. And then we just
kept on drinking champagne. And uhand no I didn't. You did too.
You're lying and you know it.Oh I hate you. I wish
you did. I'm going on thisminute. I never want to lay out
on you again in this wait Listen, Uriel, If you don't bite your
hair, I won't let you.You've got to let me explain. I
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got you did bite me. Wellgo if you want. If I am
the decency to let me explain,I I hate you too. I'll go
and see Bell I'll go and seeher if that's a good girl. You're
like, what do I kiss?You can't explain? What can you explain?
You kids? I did not saidshe kissed me. I suppose you
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just sat and let yourself tell thatto the marine. All right. If
you're going to call me a liar, every word I said, I only
meant it. It sounds fishy,you know it does. I don't know
anything. I only know I wishI was dead. You've got to say
that it's with you. I supposeyou'll tell me you didn't fall in love
with her. I should say,not fall in love with that kind of
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a girl. What do you takeme for? How do you know what
you did? If distracted so much? Champagne, I kept my head.
I'm not a sucker and a matterof watch things. Then then you don't
love her. I hate her.I she wasn't even pretty n anyway,
How could I love her? Ilove you? Huh? Well, then
I still love you? Then comeback here. Why don't you it's getting
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late. It's not how I passedyou. All right? Well now I'll
have to go soon. Gosha,I'm sorry I hurt your hand. Well
that was nothing. It felt wonderfuleven to your bite there, Oh kiss
it. That don't cure it.You shouldn't waste that on my hand.
You and you said you'd let me. I said, man, you're real.
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You know I wanted so will itwash off and make you forget your
her a way? I should sayso. I never remember anything, but
I never want anything, but itever again? That alright? M the
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moon is beautiful, isn't it notas beautiful you? Nothing is wanna be
wonderful when we're married, Yes,but it's so long? Do we m?
Perhaps I didn't even go to Congress. Probably give me a job.
Then we be making enough, y'all. You'd better do what your pap thinks.
That and I'd like you to beat Yale. I'll poor you.
Do you think YOU'LLI your off?I don't know. I don't care either,
(31:30):
but I love you. Oh gosh, I love you, darling.
I love you too, sweet heart. Where don't we going ony moon?
Dick tonight? Before I got dumbpearl with silly fool gone? I should
say not? Oh no, We'llgo some far off wonderful place somewhere somewhere
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out on the long trail. Thetrail that is always new on the road
to Mandalay My. But I'm gladTommy told us where Richard went off to
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tonight. I'd have worried my heartif he hadn't. But now it's just
alright, alright, is it?It's for his being in luck Muriel?
I I don't see. But whatit might work out real well, what
you could do worse? I thoughtyou had no use for Muriel, thought
she was stupid. Well so Idid. But if she's good for Richard
and he wants her, I usedto say, you weren't over bride.
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Well I've been hush up. Where'dyou say? Sid and Lilly had gone
off to to the beach, listenedto the ban Oh, I'm glad.
What's that? What did you hearsomething? Yes? I did. That's
Richard now coming around the house.Nobody else had come that way. I've
got in the porch and meet him. You better leave him and me alone
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for a while. I see,Well, all right, I'll be in
here. Call me if you wantme. But you will remember all I
said, won't you? Sure?Hello? Richard? Hello? Pa?
Uh, sit down, rich andyep, no, right here next to
me. That's better. Well,how the vine leaves in your hair this
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evening? I I don't know,Pa, m turned out to be poor
and ivory, didn't they? Huh, you needn't look so alarmed. I'm
not going to read you any Terencelecture that had bore me more than it
would you still giving your credit forhaving brains. So I'm pretty sure anything
I can say to you you've alreadysaid to yourself. Oh I know I
went to down fool. You surewere not only a fool, but a
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downright stupid disgusting I know, pa, alright, then I said a little
now. Uh. One more thing, this girl at the Pleasant Beach House.
Oh, Pa, if they've toldyou about it down there, they
must attention. There wasn't anything youknow, honest, Pather, wasn't I
wouldn't do a thing that to murthe only matter how bad I thought she
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treated me? How did you happento meet this lady? Anyway? I
can't tell that part. I haveto snitch on something. You wouldn't want
me to do that, No,I suppose I wouldn't. Well, I
believe you, and I guess thatsettles there. There's nothing more to say.
We'll forget it. How are yougonna punish me? Part? Oh?
I was sort of forgetting that,it wasn't I Well, i'd thought
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of telling you you couldn't go tocollege. Don't I have to go?
Honest? See that's great, Murithought you'd want me to. I was
telling you I'd rather you give mea job on the paper because she get
married soon. See if I pickeda lemon, that isn't any punishment.
You have something to start, andyou'll go to college and stay there and
you graduate. That's the answer tothat. You know he's got good sense.
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You haven't. Now we're finished,we'll call your ma. Yes,
see here she come, Hello Ma, Hello, Richard, night, a
beautiful night. Moon's way down low, almost setting. Yes, I don't
believe I've hardly ever seen such abeautiful night, such a wonderful moon,
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have you, richid Oh, itwas wonderful down the beach. In order
to remember a few nights that wereas beautiful as this, they were long
ago, when your mother and Iwere young and planning to get married.
Yeah, I uh, I betthose must have been wonderful nights too.
Sorry to forget the moon was thesame way back then, and everything you're
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all right, Richard, you're agood boy. Richard better get to bed
every night, Son and Jim we'llsleep. Sleep. I couldn't sleep.
Can't I stay out here on thefortune sit for a while till the moon
sets? Please? Alright, andyou'd better say good night now. I
don't know about mother, but I'mgoing to bed right away. I'm dead
(35:58):
tired. Wow am I night?Ma? Good night, dear, good
night Pa, good night. Thefirst time he's done that in years.
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I don't believe kissing between fathers andsons after a certain age seems mushy and
silly, but that meant something.I don't think we'll ever have to worry
about his being safe from himself again. I guess no matter what Lie will
do to him, he can takecare of it. Now. Hm,
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My darn feet are giving me fittingpH Do you bother on lacing your shoes
now? It goes when we're goingright up to bed. H. I
guess you're right in mind. IfI don't say my prayers night essay,
I'm certainly Heaven knows I'm too darntired. I don't talk that way.
It's real sinful. Oh that isn'tyou all over? All always looking for
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an excuse, Oh worse than tummy. Well, all right, I suppose
you needn't. We've had a hardday, gonna turn out the lights and
already yep, let her go,Gallagher. Look at Richard out there in
that corner, like a statue oflove's young dreams. Mm. What's it
(37:22):
that Rubiate says? Yet? Ah, that springs vanished with the rose,
that youth, sweet scented manuscript shouldclose? Well? Spring? Isn't everything,
is it, Essie? There's alot to be said for autumn that's
got beauty too, and winter appearto get her. It's not. Now,
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Speaking as reducer, the worst Ican say for our guest to night
is he doesn't always approve of myreductions. Speaking as a citizen with the
vote, the least I can sayfor George gen Nathan is that I always
approve of what he writes. Ididn't say agree, mind you, Heaven
and the entire personnel of act hisequity forbid that I should recite for your
catalog of mister Nathan's unmentionably numerous virtues. I needn't remind you of the magazine
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which he founded, The strang Olmenkinnemazine from which my theater took its name
in both which would be nameless,nor of the list of his books,
which don't need what I'd like tosay about them. It's not for me
to celebrate celebrated Nathan pros that blendrichness and a stringency against whose infinite variety,
time and customs seem to be gettingnowhere. But let me say this
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much. Eugene O'Neill's dedication on thefirst page of Our Wilderness reads as follows,
to George gen Nathan, who alsoonce upon a time wore peg top
trousers, and when the pace thatkills along the road to ruin to night
ladies and gentlemen the Campbell Playhouse.He dedicates Our Wilderness to George G.
Nathan, And we have our owngood reasons. They are, among other
(39:05):
things, his love of theater,as much as the gift and intelligence with
which he served it. Mister NathanO'Neill affectionately dedicated our Wilderness to me,
and it's only in the present traditionto close friendship that I should now return
the compliment by saying unclementary things abouthim. I've known the scoverle intimately for
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more than twenty years, and Ishould like take advantage of this occasion to
tell you confidentially that the popular ideaof himself which he has so cleverly built
up through his plays, books whichhe has had written about him, and
the expensive photographs of himself which hehas sped around the world is a fopping
fraud. What picture of you gotO'Neill? He, as you believe,
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fellows persistently gloomy and morbid. Thatif a funeral passes his house, his
wife joyfully mistakes it for a Martigras Connell. But if O'Neil is gloomy
and morbid, all I can sayis that someone has got the Scandinavian weather
report mixed up with the dictionary.He is so gloomy and morbid. In
point of fact, Once, whileI was staying with him on Sea Island,
(40:10):
I had a brime with one ofmy best blue hors and Kurdish nectares
to quit singing Rosy you are mypoesy at top of his lungs after midnight
so I'd get a little decent sleep. He roars with delight over Damon Runyon's
stories of mugs who go round shakinghands with pieces of Limburger cheese concealed in
the palms. He thinks Jack Bennyis a scream and worth all the Ibsen
(40:32):
actedest side of Stockholm. He wrote, don't forget this our wilderness, which
is not only approximately as gloomy andmorbid as Charley's at or the beer barrel
Polker, but which I met.You had to have twenty one consecutive minutes
of howling low Cuvey cut out ofthe dinner table scenes, so following sentimental
scenes might stat chants of getting overO'Neill. You're further believe given to a
(40:57):
large, steady and copious indignation.In other words, the combination of in
Growing toenail Boil and second act ofthe Volkira. Well, as I say,
I've been pretty close to the fellowfor almost a quarter of a century,
and the one and only time I'veever seen him indignant about anything,
it was three years ago, waswhen I argued with him that he was
a jackass in not believing Joe lewisa top not fighter. Prize fighting incidentalie
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is more than almost anything else exceptfor sauerkraut. He loves sauerkraut. I've
seen him down six big dishes ofit in half an hour. You've rest
being a painfully slow and laborious worker. You've heard that it takes him two
years even to get to the profoundpoint of putting down the line Act one,
the curtain rises, it's truely laboriousworker. But so far as the
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painfully glow Seff goes, it's oftena lot of buncom thiss our wellness.
For example, he wrote in exactlytwenty six days. So you also think
that only El, from what you'veheard, must be a quick tempered and
nasty rooster. In his feelings withthe stage director as he played I'll give
you an illustration out of many.During the rehearsals to did Our Wilderness,
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Philip Muller, the director, camedown to the footlights and suggested to O'Neill,
sitting huddled in the therroau yet hethought it would be grand idea for
Neil permitted him to order one linein the serious scene. Than being tried
why O'Neill wanted to know it wouldanswer mully telling how he changed the line
be a beautiful, relieving laugh.Well, quietly mumbled O'Neill, it's funny
(42:27):
all right. In fact, it'spretty darned funny. In fact, it's
fine. But and here our friendgently squinted at Mullery, it would be
a whole heap funnier if you yourselfplayed the role facing the audience, and
then, very very slowly, whilespeaking the line, turned around and showed
him a large crumore of William JenningsBryan fastened to the seat of your pants.
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Muller had no more to say.The scene proceeded as O'Neill had written
it, and that the scene,and that's the play that you have heard
tonight. The make of Campbell's Soupsjoin Arson Wells, inviting you to be
with us at the Campbell Playhouse againnext Sunday evening. Meanwhile, if you
have enjoyed to nuts Campbell play Housepresentation, won't you tell your grocer old
tomorrow when you order Campbell's Chick Soup. This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you
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and good night, my spasses.The makers of Campbell Soups, and all
of us on this program remain asalways obediently
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