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Speaker 1 (00:13):
The National Broadcasting Company presents transcribed from Hollywood, The Magnificent Montague.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Starring Marty Woolley.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It was not too long ago that Edwin Montague, the
Magnificent Montague of Shakespearean theater fame, would have preferred death
rather than sink artistically into.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The depths of radio or the movies.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today he is involved in both. He is uncle good Heart,
star of an afternoon radio program, and now we find
him in Hollywood, lured here by Empire Pictures to star
in Shakespeare's Immortal Tragedy Macbeth. The Montague's Edwin, his wife
and former leading lady, Lillie Boyeme, and Agnes the Maid
have sub let of small bungalow in Beverly Hills. It
(01:04):
is seven o'clock the morning. Edwin is due at Empire Studios.
Agnes and Lily are up and around waiting for his
majesty to arrive.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
All right for Hollywood, Holly Wood, Agnes, Agnes, where are
you coming?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Honey?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I was just out getting a little tan.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is a life laying out there on the patio.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
That's patio.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
Agnes is in California, wonderful after living our entire lives
in an apartment.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
In New York.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Yeah, oh, the imagine me up at six pint ety in.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
The morning and feeling human.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
This is it, kid is a magnificent monster up yet.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Bs report the studio eight. Agnes, you'd better change.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
You can't serve breakfast in those shorts and bandanna top
a You kidding?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I ain't getting out of these until we had times
square again. Oh beat me, Suns.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
I hated a bar, but you can't walk around the
house that way.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Look, honey, do you get a load of how the
Dames go round out here compared to them?
Speaker 8 (02:10):
This is a ski suit, Agnes. You know how conservative
Edwin is. You can't serve him breakfast in that?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
What's wrong with shooting him a little thrill with his wadies?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I'm right? For holy well, Agnes, you get breakfast ready
and I'll get Edwin up. Or everything would be so
wonderful about Hollywood if only Edwin didn't hate.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It though, that miserable grouch. He wouldn't be happy in
the garden of Eden, he complained because his fig leaf
didn't have a belt in the bag.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
I get his breakfast and I'll wake him up.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Okay, baby, how right for Holly, what hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Edwin Edwin.
Speaker 8 (03:04):
Time to get up and go to the studio.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Edwin?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Uh, where am I Edwin?
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Wake up?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh, Lily, it's you. What a horrible night? Oh a
nightmare I dreamt I was in Haiti.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Now now ed when you're in your own little bungalow
in Hollywood, Hollywood, the dream was true?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Ed.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
When you have to be at the motion picture studio
at seven o'clock o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Now I know how they get away with those moving pictures.
They make them in the middle of the night, so
the authorities can't tell what they're doing.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Oh and when they have to start early, they have
to make tests, makeup story conferences.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh hollo, can a man sink Edwin Montague? In the movies,
it's like asking Professor Einstein to do the Charleston Edwin.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
But it's not just another movie. It's Shakespeare's My Death. Oh,
come on, get dressed, advertise your breakfast ready? Got him up?
Huh well, Egnes, does Edwin look wonderful? New sports shirt?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Good morning, Agnes, good morning thing?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Okay? Oh no, Lily, get her to put something on.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Oh that's your sun shuit. Some stuffe Buster oh, is.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This your way of beating the high price of food
by running around spoiling people's appetite?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Laddia, thank you. Look with that sports shirt and beard,
looks like the stuffing coming out of a love state.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Now, please have peppe. That's the first thing that greets
my eyes in the morning.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
Be a middle aged.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Delinquent running around in polka doc diapers.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Oh no, Edwin out here, show their legs.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And not those legs like waking up in the middle
of an ostrich farm.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Ooh, I hope he gets to be a big movie star.
I want to be there when they bury him in
cement and fan of Grahman's Chinese said, when you'll.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Be late at the studio. Agnes starts serving.
Speaker 10 (05:20):
Okay, oh, this is charming watching her friends back and
forth at that outfit.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's like having breakfast on the wrong way of a
burlesque house.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
And when she just tried to get a tan, that's
why she's got that suntan lotion on, so.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That's what it did. She looks like something that was
left for the cat in the sardine cat.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Ed, will you please relax?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here's your coffee, Ronald, Thank you, heady.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Coffee.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
When something wrong with the coffee, Lily.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We're rich. I think Agnes struck oil in the kitchen. Oh,
now Edward is supposed to.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
Be our maid.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She can't keep house, she can't cook, she can't even
make coffee.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Isn't my sparkling personality?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Enough? Well, Lily, let's try out our barbecue pit. Agnes
is all greased and ready.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
When you'll be late and you have to leave Empire.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Studios, you better come along. I'll never find it, not
since every street looks the same out here, the same
as stucco bungalows, and those trees that all look.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
Like they needed haircuts for those are.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Palm trees, Edwin, that you can walk there, the studio sentence,
come along.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I got lost six times yesterday. No taxis, no elevator.
Yesterday I got a bus to go to the radio
station and spent the afternoon on it, just seeing movie
stars homes, Edwin, It's so simple. Not for me. I
have to remember that they have no subways here.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
I keep walking down into people's basements.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Now hear the instruction from the studio.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Listen and go ahead.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
You go two blocks, you get to Cawenga. That's a boulevard.
Then you go south out of Vista until you reach
last Philis Boulevard. Left on last Phyllis, did you get
the graciosa drive? Then two blocks as.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
You pass Estrada Street, El Centro fagarioa San Benito, Loma
Vista puetto.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Alcohol and we get to eighth Street.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Eighth Street, Yes, but what a quat name for the street.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Now stay on eight you get the Suppulveta Suppulvita, the
San Marino, San Marino to Pico, and there you are, Lilia.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I had these instructions yesterday I couldn't find the place
San Marino, Loma, Vista, Vista Loma, stand up Pica. What
such streets?
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Couldn't you ask a policeman?
Speaker 9 (07:59):
The hell I did? I asked the policeman, but he
couldn't help me. He only spoke English.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Okay, I'm all dressed, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
Where are you going? And why haven't you left months ago?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I'm going to the studio with you.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Oh no, ed when I promised Agnes she could go
with you. She wants to see the stars.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I got my autograph book, my smelling salts. I'm ready
for action, all right, for Howlly, what.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Lily, what are you doing to me? First, you dress
me up with this outfit. Now you've chained Agnes to me.
At least give me an organ to grind so we
could pick up a few pennies, Edwin.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Agnes won't be any trouble.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You heard her, Buster, She says, I'm going, and I'm
going I did.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I assure you.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Once the people at the studio see you.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Lassie is through.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
And when you'll be late, Agnes is going.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All right, put her on the leash.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
You sure you have the directions?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes, I sowed them inside my sport jack hib. If
you never see me again, you will know the state
demanded that I pay the price for hurling Agnes into
the lobrya tar pits.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Hurry up, love a boy to by Edwin by Agnes.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
So long, honey, I'll take good Carroage Junior.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We go south on Cohinger to Lost Phelis, then pass Gas.
Here's a drive out of Vista Vista Lomoo Centro and
figure out is that right, Agnance, Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Edwin and Agnes have been walking for an hour, carefully
following the instructions to the studio They have now passed
the same Nutburger stand for the fourth time.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I told you we should have turned left on Loma.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
We did. We went wrong on Lost Phelis.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You had to chase that wound with your autograph book
for three blocks. I told you she wasn't Bessie Love.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
How about that half hour you wasted with those kids.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
No, Agnes, I couldn't be rude to the little tikes.
They wanted by autographs, so.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
They found out you weren't Gabby Hayes.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
This isn't getting us to the Empire studios. Oh if
that infernal sun would only stop beating down on me.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Oh, and I think of those lucky people back.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
In New York, up to their knees in that wonderful
cool slush.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Ask somebody, Ask.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Somebody, Ask somebody. We've asked every person we've met. They
either have just got into town themselves, or they try
and send you a kip sheet for Santa Anita.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Why don't we.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Struggle back to Lost philis Strings not again.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
If I spend any more time on Lost Peenis, I'll
be eligible.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
To vote there.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Maybe if we keep walking.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Hi, look here comes the cabs.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, Oh, it's no use they never stopped here.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Taxi taxi, taxi.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I told you let me try.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Him.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I stuff where two folks get in Angus before he
changes his.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Mind, he Doesney gets a rock through the windshield.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh goodness, well were of me, folks? Driver? Do you
know where the Empire Motion Picture Company hides its studios? Empire,
Let's say that's in the valley, isn't it. Judging from
the few pictures I've seen of this, I would say, yes,
Death Valley.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Naifanni old say, let's go.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We got instructions.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Part of the instruction. We should rhyme up around Pico
and supple Vida, supovterpost.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Gotta learn those names if you want to get around
out here, Oh French, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Look, I have.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
To get the Empire studio. Well I'll get you there, folks.
You just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
You folks from the East.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, I'm hot in New York.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Well you're in God's country now, I know. I don't
know what all that shouting is about New York. I
was there once, not a bad little place, but nothing
to do at night. Give me a town that has
some action like out here, there's always.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Something to do.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
If the man wants to bowl, he can bowl good.
Not like some towns when the sun goes down there
pulling the sidewalks. Out here, they got bowling alleys that
don't close down until nine.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Or ten at night. God, it's another barbary coaps. You
take me for instance, I'd rather bowl than eat. Even
got my own bull ball.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Well, I hope the two of you will be very happy.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Now, don't get the idea that that's all you can
do out here at night is bowl. No, sir, Reebob,
tell me if you play bingo, No.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
No, I've led a very sheltered life.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Now you talk about excitement.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Who was talking about excitement?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Well, about six years from come April, a prone his
wife rushed into my cab see and he yelled, Santa
Monica Maternity hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Quick.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Never made it halfway there happened baby was born right
in this cab right where you're sitting.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Eight pound boy.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Well, sir.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
A year later to the day, another husband and wife
hailed me.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
See in the woman in hospital.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
He yells, never made it six pound girl right here
in the cab, right where you're sitting.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Good, say you two married. My dear man I'll show
you you have nothing to worry about. Please, I've got
to get to the Empire Studios. Hurry with your see
people from the east every time. Hurry, hurry, hurry, Harry.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
We folks out here take it easy.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
We have a saying haysta banana, Hasta banana. Hate banana
means tomorrow you may die.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
From boredom. Right here in this cab, right where I'm sitting.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
They they would you like to see a few sites. No,
there's only a few blocks out of the way. I'll
show you where I bowl.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No, the temptations, the temptation is almost overpowering.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
But I'm fighting it all but got us to the
Empire Studio.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
We're gonna get there.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We'll get there.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Mona, Lisa and a name you won't he say? You know,
I just thought of it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You don't want to be a smart thing for you
folks to do. Yes, get out of this cat now.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
You want to get out there and see that forest
lawn cemetery.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Hang you, but we'll let you know when we're ready.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
By the beautiful place for you for you, Oh that forest,
lamb them mountains on one side, those flowers and plants,
them marble mussoline gleaming in the sun.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Everything's so nice and painceful. That's living.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
How about it? It's not far out of the way.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Just get us to the studio an hour late already pay.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh that's up as a movie home.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Wow, con that's a bowling alley.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
How about that?
Speaker 9 (16:07):
How about what like to bowl?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
A couple of strings?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Got the ball right?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well? No, but if you'd like to stop and bowl,
why can't we drop you off and drive on?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Boy, own boy, wouldn't I like to stop? The young
lady seems to be interested in seeing some movie stars homes.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Now, Buster Crap has a little place.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Have on line, have a line, you know, sight seeing.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Buses, the movie stars phone. That's where the the real
big money is. I'm saving up for my own bush.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
How interesting? Get us? This is the studio? Okay, okay there.
In a minute, I'll just cut across Ventro over to Alta.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Say what was that studio again?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh no, well there's your studio, Pico and Sapola.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Hey, mister Montague, wake up, we're here, We're here, there's
the studio.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
It must be a mirage.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I'm sure. In a minute, it'll disappear and we'll be
back on Los Phelis.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Well, come on, let's get out of this cab.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I thought i'd hate to do it, like leaving home.
After all, we've been living in it for six hours.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Hi, look walking into the studio. Quite my smelling salt.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
It's my bush?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
He like, all right, driver, how much joil you?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, let's see call it fourteen dollars?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Even fourteen dollars. Well, it would be a lot more.
But I stopped the meter while I was showing you
around for est lawn.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh I was trapped. Here's your money. Let's go. Hey,
what is it? I didn't know who you weren't, so
I just recognized you. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Oh boy, well, I tell my wife.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I've been driving around all.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Day with Gabby. Hey, here was a day well wasted.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
You're not kidding.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Come on, let's go in. Here.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Here's the main door.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Let's go in.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Hey, look there goes the boot.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I met the Bull's the boat.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I've just come back.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Watch up over them.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Why did I bring her?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh? Well, they all.
Speaker 11 (18:37):
Turn out for the good. She might get stepped on.
I'd better go in and get the fuss over with. Yes, sir,
well here I am, and who you?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
How you may tell the big brains of this enterprise
that Edwin Montague has arrived. Just what do you do,
mister Montague? I'm a tap answer. Thank you, My dear
young man, I Edwin Montague to New York yet? And
who was dragged out here by your studio to make
a motion picture of Shakespeare's great play Macbeth. This studio
(19:15):
always going to make Macbeth. Yes, oh dear, he goes
another wage cut. Will you please wait in the waiting room,
mister monticue.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
And here's a magazine to read the latest issue of
Screen Confessions.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thank you, thank you, what.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Luck my copy hadn't arrived this month.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
By the way, by if a warm by the name
of Agnes is scraped off the bottom of an elephant's foot,
put a tag on what's left. I'll pick it up
on the way out, Yes, sir, sitting around while I
will leave forest Lawn compared to this place for us?
Speaker 10 (19:58):
Long was jazzy? I have seen this magazine. This article
looks Addristie. How I've found true happiness in marriage? By
Elizabeth Taylor.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I wonder who she is is not as long as
she's happy. Whose picture is this Mary Wilson, Yeah, it
says recently divorced, Mary Wilson declares, I am now looking
for a man who will love me only for my mind.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
That will be a search.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
What's there? Pardon? Yeah, mister Montague.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
You won't remember me, but when you did Hamlet back
in nineteen thirty five, I was the third assistant stage manager.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
My name is Walter Lott, Oh pleasure list lot. I
never expected to meet anyone who was even minutely exposed
to culture in Hollywood visiting.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Well, no, you see, I'm with this studio.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I'm a director.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Shame on you, Josh, mister Montague.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I'm I'm so sorry to see you like this, like
what well.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
The magnificent monacue of the theater hanging around looking for
extra work, extra word. Oh it's unfair. It's a dirty,
rotten shame. You gave your life to the theater and
now you have to come begging for a day's work.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I assure you, I am doing very well this studio.
Practically Shang hi'd be out here. They're starring me in Macbeth.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Macbeth, this studio, Oh, mister Montague, you must be hungry.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Let me buy you a meal. No, in those thanks,
I had a cheeseburger at Forest Law. I tell you
I'm out here to do Macbeth. Take me to someone
in charge of this asylum. Mister Montague, Are you serious?
I assure you I didn't drag my buddy three thousand
miles as the super Chief flies just for the orange juice.
(22:05):
How are you going to take me to the head
of his studio? Un must I wait for visiting day Macbeth.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Mister Montague, you come with me. I'm taking you right
to b b himself.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
Thank you through this story.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
This way, here's his private office. Let's go in.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Hello, BB, I want you involved.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yes, BB, where's corn Gol He's in New York, New York.
What's he doing in New York?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You sent him out this morning.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
We'll get him back here right away.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
Columbia's cleaning up with Vaughn yesterday. We're starting shooting tomorrow
on a new picture born the day before yesterday.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Okay, BB, what's up?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
BB?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I want you to meet one of the greatest actors.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Of the American theater.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
W you delivered? If you got him here?
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Oh way?
Speaker 12 (22:51):
The Republic Pictures wakes up tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
And finds out we got Gabby hay No, what's with
the Oh No, you'll double what you got at Republic Wall.
Talk to him, b b You see this isn't Gabby Hayes.
This is the greatest actor in the world, the famous
Edwin Montague. You've heard of, the magnificent Montague.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I always thought it was a horse.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
A horse, Hi year man, I have overwhelming desire to
punk to your ear drum and let the air out
of that balloon head, the monocule.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
It's all insufferable, stupid Walter.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I like this boy, I like his spirit.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
By him. Buy me that boy. I must have that boy, BB.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
He's a natural for the comedy bell hop and ladies
Light at the MCA.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
A bell hap I am reaching new height.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
But Bob, Bob, where's corn gole?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Just left New York for Hollywood?
Speaker 12 (23:51):
And catch him in Chicago and send him.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Back to New York to buy that lady's light story.
Tell him we're desperate.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
The sky's the limit up to two hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Check BB, phoebe, mister Montague came here for McBeth.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
We'll pay him double what macbeth is willing to pay him.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I need that boy. I want that boy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But mcfeth is is mister Montague? Show BB, show him
Macbeth like fith at five seed eight? Who love you
to kiss the ground before young mallow comes feet? I
throw all my chield.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well mccoff for all.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
BB.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Where's corn Gold?
Speaker 9 (24:38):
He's on his way back to New York.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
What is he doing chasing dames? I want him on
a lot Tomorrow. We're finally going ahead with way down
in the Ozarks. We found a hard caller.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
So phoebe listened.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Mister Montague came out here to do Macbeth. It's a
play by William sha Sakespeare.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We'll get it for him.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Buy it.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
I like this boy when I like some of anything
they want to think of half you want Macbeth?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Buy it for him? I want my boy to be happy.
Buy it? Where's Congo in Chicago? He's always in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Tell him to get hold of a writer called Bill Shakespeare.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Bring him to Hollywood.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
I'd like to see this Shakespeare in my office tomorrow mornings.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So what uh like the way?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I would uh anything for my boy?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
And you, my boy, you, for heaven's sakes, look Shakespeare
is dead.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Where's Congo?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Just left Chicago?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
What does he always gone against Chicago? Contact him on
the plane, tell him Shakespeare is dead. He can release
it to the newspapers. There's something dignified. The studio regrets
the untimely death of William Shakespeare. You know, getting a
couple of plugs for the picture. Send flowers?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Got it?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
They're tell him to trace down Shakespeare's weir.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
I went buy Macbeth from her and tell him aut
pete sake, just for once, not to go on to
make She just buried her husband.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Check thereny.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
You asked for it, Montague, You got your Macbeth. You're
my boy and for my boy anything, Phoebe listen. Macbeth
is a kind of a play. Yeah, what's it about
King Khan?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Type of thing?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
We got a great monkey on the lot.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Could he ever feel more at home?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Pebe? Macbeth is a called.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Me to explain. Look, BB, what's with this?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
BB?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Just call me B Look b. Macbeth is a classic
about the conducted table. No, this is the story of
an ancient Scotch key.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Hold it, hold it? Hold Is there a dame in it?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yes, lady Macbeth. Oh, there's congo. Who needs congo? This
is my discovery, Discovery.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
What a day for the studio.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
I got the dame for Lady Macbeth's so be sensational.
That's I'll just discover it today. Did you find a
name for our new discovery?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Yes, Bubblesport, bubbles Boton, terrific, bubbles Boughton as Lady Macbeth.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
You don't like the name?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Changes, You're my boy?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Anything for you.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Sending bubbles Boughton. It's the mounting you meet your Lady
Macbeth head.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Mister money, you'll get me out of here. These guys
are not just.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Two know each other, get romance items and all the
column Now wait a minute before the proper authority drops
a net on all of us and carts us away.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Why do you want to do back? Then?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Yeah, baby, we're a tiny little studio. Why Macbeth, I.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Think I'm dumb.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
I just read the announcement of Empire Pictures across the
street is making McBeth for some new star, Raoul Randol.
We'll make it with Montague in two days and beat
him in the punch.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Oh no, I've hit the wrong studio. Don't get out
of here. I guess Wait a minute, boy, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
How did you ever get involved?
Speaker 5 (27:59):
No.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I was halfway up the elephant to get Sabo's autograph
and some guy yelled, buy me that girl and swam down. Alegazam.
I was bubbles Bord and the're twenty five.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Hours a week. If they offered me fifteen, you're.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Gonna check into mPire.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Not today. I don't want to hear another word about
Hollywood stars or pictures as long as I live. Let's
get home. There's a cab, so no cabs here. Get
out of this bus.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Okay, And now, folks, the first movie started Home that
you're going to see on this sight seeing bus.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It's a Homo buster Crown.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
My money he bought the bus. That is an addit trade.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I'm taking you all the forest lawn, the most beautiful cemetery.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Will you talk me, Bubble yes, Raoul I Raally Hoya.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Join us again next Friday at this same time for
another visit with The Magnificent Montague starring Marty Woolley, created
and directed by Nat Hiken and written by Nat Hiken
and Billy Friedberg, and Seymour was Lily Pert.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Kelton was Agnes. Included in tonight's cast.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Were Alan Reed as BB, Peter Leeds as the receptionist,
and Jim Bachus.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
As the cab driver.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
This is Eddie King saying stay tuned for Duffy's Tavern,
which follows. Immediately preceding was transcribed spend a pleasant half
hour at Duffy's Tavern next on NBC
The National Broadcasting Company presents transcribed from Hollywood, The Magnificent Montague.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Starring Marty Woolley.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It was not too long ago that Edwin Montague, the
Magnificent Montague of Shakespearean theater fame, would have preferred death
rather than sink artistically into.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
The depths of radio or the movies.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Today he is involved in both. He is uncle good Heart,
star of an afternoon radio program, and now we find
him in Hollywood, lured here by Empire Pictures to star
in Shakespeare's Immortal Tragedy Macbeth. The Montague's Edwin, his wife
and former leading lady, Lillie Boyeme, and Agnes the Maid
have sub let of small bungalow in Beverly Hills. It
(01:04):
is seven o'clock the morning. Edwin is due at Empire Studios.
Agnes and Lily are up and around waiting for his
majesty to arrive.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
All right for Hollywood, Holly Wood, Agnes, Agnes, where are
you coming?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Honey?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
I was just out getting a little tan.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is a life laying out there on the patio.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
That's patio.
Speaker 7 (01:31):
Agnes is in California, wonderful after living our entire lives
in an apartment.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
In New York.
Speaker 8 (01:37):
Yeah, oh, the imagine me up at six pint ety in.
Speaker 6 (01:41):
The morning and feeling human.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
This is it, kid is a magnificent monster up yet.
Speaker 8 (01:48):
Bs report the studio eight. Agnes, you'd better change.
Speaker 7 (01:51):
You can't serve breakfast in those shorts and bandanna top
a You kidding?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
I ain't getting out of these until we had times
square again. Oh beat me, Suns.
Speaker 8 (02:00):
I hated a bar, but you can't walk around the
house that way.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Look, honey, do you get a load of how the
Dames go round out here compared to them?
Speaker 8 (02:10):
This is a ski suit, Agnes. You know how conservative
Edwin is. You can't serve him breakfast in that?
Speaker 6 (02:20):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
What's wrong with shooting him a little thrill with his wadies?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
I'm right? For holy well, Agnes, you get breakfast ready
and I'll get Edwin up. Or everything would be so
wonderful about Hollywood if only Edwin didn't hate.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
It though, that miserable grouch. He wouldn't be happy in
the garden of Eden, he complained because his fig leaf
didn't have a belt in the bag.
Speaker 8 (02:51):
I get his breakfast and I'll wake him up.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Okay, baby, how right for Holly, what hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Edwin Edwin.
Speaker 8 (03:04):
Time to get up and go to the studio.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Edwin?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Uh, where am I Edwin?
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Wake up?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Oh, Lily, it's you. What a horrible night? Oh a
nightmare I dreamt I was in Haiti.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Now now ed when you're in your own little bungalow
in Hollywood, Hollywood, the dream was true?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Ed.
Speaker 7 (03:35):
When you have to be at the motion picture studio
at seven o'clock o'clock.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Now I know how they get away with those moving pictures.
They make them in the middle of the night, so
the authorities can't tell what they're doing.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Oh and when they have to start early, they have
to make tests, makeup story conferences.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh hollo, can a man sink Edwin Montague? In the movies,
it's like asking Professor Einstein to do the Charleston Edwin.
Speaker 8 (04:04):
But it's not just another movie. It's Shakespeare's My Death. Oh,
come on, get dressed, advertise your breakfast ready? Got him up?
Huh well, Egnes, does Edwin look wonderful? New sports shirt?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Good morning, Agnes, good morning thing?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Okay? Oh no, Lily, get her to put something on.
Speaker 8 (04:26):
Oh that's your sun shuit. Some stuffe Buster oh, is.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
This your way of beating the high price of food
by running around spoiling people's appetite?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Laddia, thank you. Look with that sports shirt and beard,
looks like the stuffing coming out of a love state.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Now, please have peppe. That's the first thing that greets
my eyes in the morning.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
Be a middle aged.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Delinquent running around in polka doc diapers.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
Oh no, Edwin out here, show their legs.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
And not those legs like waking up in the middle
of an ostrich farm.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Ooh, I hope he gets to be a big movie star.
I want to be there when they bury him in
cement and fan of Grahman's Chinese said, when you'll.
Speaker 8 (05:17):
Be late at the studio. Agnes starts serving.
Speaker 10 (05:20):
Okay, oh, this is charming watching her friends back and
forth at that outfit.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
It's like having breakfast on the wrong way of a
burlesque house.
Speaker 8 (05:29):
And when she just tried to get a tan, that's
why she's got that suntan lotion on, so.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That's what it did. She looks like something that was
left for the cat in the sardine cat.
Speaker 8 (05:40):
Ed, will you please relax?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Here's your coffee, Ronald, Thank you, heady.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Coffee.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
When something wrong with the coffee, Lily.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
We're rich. I think Agnes struck oil in the kitchen. Oh,
now Edward is supposed to.
Speaker 9 (06:00):
Be our maid.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
She can't keep house, she can't cook, she can't even
make coffee.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Isn't my sparkling personality?
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Enough? Well, Lily, let's try out our barbecue pit. Agnes
is all greased and ready.
Speaker 8 (06:18):
When you'll be late and you have to leave Empire.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Studios, you better come along. I'll never find it, not
since every street looks the same out here, the same
as stucco bungalows, and those trees that all look.
Speaker 9 (06:29):
Like they needed haircuts for those are.
Speaker 7 (06:32):
Palm trees, Edwin, that you can walk there, the studio sentence,
come along.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I got lost six times yesterday. No taxis, no elevator.
Yesterday I got a bus to go to the radio
station and spent the afternoon on it, just seeing movie
stars homes, Edwin, It's so simple. Not for me. I
have to remember that they have no subways here.
Speaker 9 (06:57):
I keep walking down into people's basements.
Speaker 8 (07:02):
Now hear the instruction from the studio.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Listen and go ahead.
Speaker 8 (07:05):
You go two blocks, you get to Cawenga. That's a boulevard.
Then you go south out of Vista until you reach
last Philis Boulevard. Left on last Phyllis, did you get
the graciosa drive? Then two blocks as.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
You pass Estrada Street, El Centro fagarioa San Benito, Loma
Vista puetto.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Alcohol and we get to eighth Street.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Eighth Street, Yes, but what a quat name for the street.
Speaker 7 (07:43):
Now stay on eight you get the Suppulveta Suppulvita, the
San Marino, San Marino to Pico, and there you are, Lilia.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
I had these instructions yesterday I couldn't find the place
San Marino, Loma, Vista, Vista Loma, stand up Pica. What
such streets?
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Couldn't you ask a policeman?
Speaker 9 (07:59):
The hell I did? I asked the policeman, but he
couldn't help me. He only spoke English.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Okay, I'm all dressed, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 9 (08:10):
Where are you going? And why haven't you left months ago?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I'm going to the studio with you.
Speaker 8 (08:15):
Oh no, ed when I promised Agnes she could go
with you. She wants to see the stars.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
I got my autograph book, my smelling salts. I'm ready
for action, all right, for Howlly, what.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Lily, what are you doing to me? First, you dress
me up with this outfit. Now you've chained Agnes to me.
At least give me an organ to grind so we
could pick up a few pennies, Edwin.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
Agnes won't be any trouble.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You heard her, Buster, She says, I'm going, and I'm
going I did.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I assure you.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Once the people at the studio see you.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Lassie is through.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
And when you'll be late, Agnes is going.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
All right, put her on the leash.
Speaker 9 (08:54):
Let's go.
Speaker 8 (08:55):
You sure you have the directions?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yes, I sowed them inside my sport jack hib. If
you never see me again, you will know the state
demanded that I pay the price for hurling Agnes into
the lobrya tar pits.
Speaker 8 (09:10):
Hurry up, love a boy to by Edwin by Agnes.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
So long, honey, I'll take good Carroage Junior.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We go south on Cohinger to Lost Phelis, then pass Gas.
Here's a drive out of Vista Vista Lomoo Centro and
figure out is that right, Agnance, Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Edwin and Agnes have been walking for an hour, carefully
following the instructions to the studio They have now passed
the same Nutburger stand for the fourth time.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
I told you we should have turned left on Loma.
Speaker 9 (09:52):
We did. We went wrong on Lost Phelis.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
You had to chase that wound with your autograph book
for three blocks. I told you she wasn't Bessie Love.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
How about that half hour you wasted with those kids.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
No, Agnes, I couldn't be rude to the little tikes.
They wanted by autographs, so.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
They found out you weren't Gabby Hayes.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
This isn't getting us to the Empire studios. Oh if
that infernal sun would only stop beating down on me.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
Oh, and I think of those lucky people back.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
In New York, up to their knees in that wonderful
cool slush.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Ask somebody, Ask.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Somebody, Ask somebody. We've asked every person we've met. They
either have just got into town themselves, or they try
and send you a kip sheet for Santa Anita.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Why don't we.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Struggle back to Lost philis Strings not again.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
If I spend any more time on Lost Peenis, I'll
be eligible.
Speaker 9 (10:53):
To vote there.
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Maybe if we keep walking.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Hi, look here comes the cabs.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, Oh, it's no use they never stopped here.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Taxi taxi, taxi.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I told you let me try.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Him.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I stuff where two folks get in Angus before he
changes his.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Mind, he Doesney gets a rock through the windshield.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh goodness, well were of me, folks? Driver? Do you
know where the Empire Motion Picture Company hides its studios? Empire,
Let's say that's in the valley, isn't it. Judging from
the few pictures I've seen of this, I would say, yes,
Death Valley.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Naifanni old say, let's go.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
We got instructions.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Part of the instruction. We should rhyme up around Pico
and supple Vida, supovterpost.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
Gotta learn those names if you want to get around
out here, Oh French, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Look, I have.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
To get the Empire studio. Well I'll get you there, folks.
You just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
You folks from the East.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, I'm hot in New York.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Well you're in God's country now, I know. I don't
know what all that shouting is about New York. I
was there once, not a bad little place, but nothing
to do at night. Give me a town that has
some action like out here, there's always.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Something to do.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
If the man wants to bowl, he can bowl good.
Not like some towns when the sun goes down there
pulling the sidewalks. Out here, they got bowling alleys that
don't close down until nine.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Or ten at night. God, it's another barbary coaps. You
take me for instance, I'd rather bowl than eat. Even
got my own bull ball.
Speaker 9 (13:01):
Well, I hope the two of you will be very happy.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Now, don't get the idea that that's all you can
do out here at night is bowl. No, sir, Reebob,
tell me if you play bingo, No.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
No, I've led a very sheltered life.
Speaker 9 (13:22):
Now you talk about excitement.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Who was talking about excitement?
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Well, about six years from come April, a prone his
wife rushed into my cab see and he yelled, Santa
Monica Maternity hospital.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Quick.
Speaker 6 (13:33):
Never made it halfway there happened baby was born right
in this cab right where you're sitting.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Eight pound boy.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Well, sir.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
A year later to the day, another husband and wife
hailed me.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
See in the woman in hospital.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
He yells, never made it six pound girl right here
in the cab, right where you're sitting.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Good, say you two married. My dear man I'll show
you you have nothing to worry about. Please, I've got
to get to the Empire Studios. Hurry with your see
people from the east every time. Hurry, hurry, hurry, Harry.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
We folks out here take it easy.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
We have a saying haysta banana, Hasta banana. Hate banana
means tomorrow you may die.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
From boredom. Right here in this cab, right where I'm sitting.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
They they would you like to see a few sites. No,
there's only a few blocks out of the way. I'll
show you where I bowl.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No, the temptations, the temptation is almost overpowering.
Speaker 9 (14:55):
But I'm fighting it all but got us to the
Empire Studio.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
We're gonna get there.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
We'll get there.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Mona, Lisa and a name you won't he say? You know,
I just thought of it.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You don't want to be a smart thing for you
folks to do. Yes, get out of this cat now.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
You want to get out there and see that forest
lawn cemetery.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Hang you, but we'll let you know when we're ready.
Speaker 6 (15:28):
By the beautiful place for you for you, Oh that forest,
lamb them mountains on one side, those flowers and plants,
them marble mussoline gleaming in the sun.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Everything's so nice and painceful. That's living.
Speaker 9 (15:47):
How about it? It's not far out of the way.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Just get us to the studio an hour late already pay.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Oh that's up as a movie home.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Wow, con that's a bowling alley.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
How about that?
Speaker 9 (16:07):
How about what like to bowl?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
A couple of strings?
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Got the ball right?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Well? No, but if you'd like to stop and bowl,
why can't we drop you off and drive on?
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Boy, own boy, wouldn't I like to stop? The young
lady seems to be interested in seeing some movie stars homes.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Now, Buster Crap has a little place.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Have on line, have a line, you know, sight seeing.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
Buses, the movie stars phone. That's where the the real
big money is. I'm saving up for my own bush.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
How interesting? Get us? This is the studio? Okay, okay there.
In a minute, I'll just cut across Ventro over to Alta.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Say what was that studio again?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Oh no, well there's your studio, Pico and Sapola.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Hey, mister Montague, wake up, we're here, We're here, there's
the studio.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
It must be a mirage.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I'm sure. In a minute, it'll disappear and we'll be
back on Los Phelis.
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Well, come on, let's get out of this cab.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
I thought i'd hate to do it, like leaving home.
After all, we've been living in it for six hours.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Hi, look walking into the studio. Quite my smelling salt.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
It's my bush?
Speaker 2 (17:42):
He like, all right, driver, how much joil you?
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Well, let's see call it fourteen dollars?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Even fourteen dollars. Well, it would be a lot more.
But I stopped the meter while I was showing you
around for est lawn.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Oh I was trapped. Here's your money. Let's go. Hey,
what is it? I didn't know who you weren't, so
I just recognized you. Are you kidding?
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Oh boy, well, I tell my wife.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
I've been driving around all.
Speaker 9 (18:10):
Day with Gabby. Hey, here was a day well wasted.
Speaker 4 (18:18):
You're not kidding.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
Come on, let's go in. Here.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Here's the main door.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Let's go in.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Hey, look there goes the boot.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
I met the Bull's the boat.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I've just come back.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
Watch up over them.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Why did I bring her?
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh? Well, they all.
Speaker 11 (18:37):
Turn out for the good. She might get stepped on.
I'd better go in and get the fuss over with. Yes, sir,
well here I am, and who you?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
How you may tell the big brains of this enterprise
that Edwin Montague has arrived. Just what do you do,
mister Montague? I'm a tap answer. Thank you, My dear
young man, I Edwin Montague to New York yet? And
who was dragged out here by your studio to make
a motion picture of Shakespeare's great play Macbeth. This studio
(19:15):
always going to make Macbeth. Yes, oh dear, he goes
another wage cut. Will you please wait in the waiting room,
mister monticue.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
And here's a magazine to read the latest issue of
Screen Confessions.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thank you, thank you, what.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
Luck my copy hadn't arrived this month.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
By the way, by if a warm by the name
of Agnes is scraped off the bottom of an elephant's foot,
put a tag on what's left. I'll pick it up
on the way out, Yes, sir, sitting around while I
will leave forest Lawn compared to this place for us?
Speaker 10 (19:58):
Long was jazzy? I have seen this magazine. This article
looks Addristie. How I've found true happiness in marriage? By
Elizabeth Taylor.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I wonder who she is is not as long as
she's happy. Whose picture is this Mary Wilson, Yeah, it
says recently divorced, Mary Wilson declares, I am now looking
for a man who will love me only for my mind.
Speaker 9 (20:34):
That will be a search.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
What's there? Pardon? Yeah, mister Montague.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
You won't remember me, but when you did Hamlet back
in nineteen thirty five, I was the third assistant stage manager.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
My name is Walter Lott, Oh pleasure list lot. I
never expected to meet anyone who was even minutely exposed
to culture in Hollywood visiting.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
Well, no, you see, I'm with this studio.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I'm a director.
Speaker 6 (21:04):
Shame on you, Josh, mister Montague.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
I'm I'm so sorry to see you like this, like
what well.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
The magnificent monacue of the theater hanging around looking for
extra work, extra word. Oh it's unfair. It's a dirty,
rotten shame. You gave your life to the theater and
now you have to come begging for a day's work.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I assure you, I am doing very well this studio.
Practically Shang hi'd be out here. They're starring me in Macbeth.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Macbeth, this studio, Oh, mister Montague, you must be hungry.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Let me buy you a meal. No, in those thanks,
I had a cheeseburger at Forest Law. I tell you
I'm out here to do Macbeth. Take me to someone
in charge of this asylum. Mister Montague, Are you serious?
I assure you I didn't drag my buddy three thousand
miles as the super Chief flies just for the orange juice.
(22:05):
How are you going to take me to the head
of his studio? Un must I wait for visiting day Macbeth.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Mister Montague, you come with me. I'm taking you right
to b b himself.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
Thank you through this story.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
This way, here's his private office. Let's go in.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
Hello, BB, I want you involved.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yes, BB, where's corn Gol He's in New York, New York.
What's he doing in New York?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You sent him out this morning.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
We'll get him back here right away.
Speaker 12 (22:32):
Columbia's cleaning up with Vaughn yesterday. We're starting shooting tomorrow
on a new picture born the day before yesterday.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Okay, BB, what's up?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
BB?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I want you to meet one of the greatest actors.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Of the American theater.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
W you delivered? If you got him here?
Speaker 9 (22:50):
Oh way?
Speaker 12 (22:51):
The Republic Pictures wakes up tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (22:53):
And finds out we got Gabby hay No, what's with
the Oh No, you'll double what you got at Republic Wall.
Talk to him, b b You see this isn't Gabby Hayes.
This is the greatest actor in the world, the famous
Edwin Montague. You've heard of, the magnificent Montague.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
I always thought it was a horse.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
A horse, Hi year man, I have overwhelming desire to
punk to your ear drum and let the air out
of that balloon head, the monocule.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
It's all insufferable, stupid Walter.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I like this boy, I like his spirit.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
By him. Buy me that boy. I must have that boy, BB.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
He's a natural for the comedy bell hop and ladies
Light at the MCA.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
A bell hap I am reaching new height.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
But Bob, Bob, where's corn gole?
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Just left New York for Hollywood?
Speaker 12 (23:51):
And catch him in Chicago and send him.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Back to New York to buy that lady's light story.
Tell him we're desperate.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
The sky's the limit up to two hundred dollars.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
Check BB, phoebe, mister Montague came here for McBeth.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I don't care.
Speaker 6 (24:05):
We'll pay him double what macbeth is willing to pay him.
Speaker 5 (24:09):
I need that boy. I want that boy.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
But mcfeth is is mister Montague? Show BB, show him
Macbeth like fith at five seed eight? Who love you
to kiss the ground before young mallow comes feet? I
throw all my chield.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well mccoff for all.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
BB.
Speaker 5 (24:37):
Where's corn Gold?
Speaker 9 (24:38):
He's on his way back to New York.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
What is he doing chasing dames? I want him on
a lot Tomorrow. We're finally going ahead with way down
in the Ozarks. We found a hard caller.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
So phoebe listened.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Mister Montague came out here to do Macbeth. It's a
play by William sha Sakespeare.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
We'll get it for him.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Buy it.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
I like this boy when I like some of anything
they want to think of half you want Macbeth?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Buy it for him? I want my boy to be happy.
Buy it? Where's Congo in Chicago? He's always in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Tell him to get hold of a writer called Bill Shakespeare.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Bring him to Hollywood.
Speaker 12 (25:19):
I'd like to see this Shakespeare in my office tomorrow mornings.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
So what uh like the way?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
I would uh anything for my boy?
Speaker 6 (25:29):
And you, my boy, you, for heaven's sakes, look Shakespeare
is dead.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Where's Congo?
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Just left Chicago?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
What does he always gone against Chicago? Contact him on
the plane, tell him Shakespeare is dead. He can release
it to the newspapers. There's something dignified. The studio regrets
the untimely death of William Shakespeare. You know, getting a
couple of plugs for the picture. Send flowers?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Got it?
Speaker 6 (25:54):
They're tell him to trace down Shakespeare's weir.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
I went buy Macbeth from her and tell him aut
pete sake, just for once, not to go on to
make She just buried her husband.
Speaker 9 (26:11):
Check thereny.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
You asked for it, Montague, You got your Macbeth. You're
my boy and for my boy anything, Phoebe listen. Macbeth
is a kind of a play. Yeah, what's it about
King Khan?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Type of thing?
Speaker 5 (26:23):
We got a great monkey on the lot.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Could he ever feel more at home?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Pebe? Macbeth is a called.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Me to explain. Look, BB, what's with this?
Speaker 5 (26:34):
BB?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Just call me B Look b. Macbeth is a classic
about the conducted table. No, this is the story of
an ancient Scotch key.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
Hold it, hold it? Hold Is there a dame in it?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yes, lady Macbeth. Oh, there's congo. Who needs congo? This
is my discovery, Discovery.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
What a day for the studio.
Speaker 12 (26:55):
I got the dame for Lady Macbeth's so be sensational.
That's I'll just discover it today. Did you find a
name for our new discovery?
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Yes, Bubblesport, bubbles Boton, terrific, bubbles Boughton as Lady Macbeth.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
You don't like the name?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Changes, You're my boy?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Anything for you.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Sending bubbles Boughton. It's the mounting you meet your Lady
Macbeth head.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Mister money, you'll get me out of here. These guys
are not just.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Two know each other, get romance items and all the
column Now wait a minute before the proper authority drops
a net on all of us and carts us away.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Why do you want to do back? Then?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
Yeah, baby, we're a tiny little studio. Why Macbeth, I.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Think I'm dumb.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
I just read the announcement of Empire Pictures across the
street is making McBeth for some new star, Raoul Randol.
We'll make it with Montague in two days and beat
him in the punch.
Speaker 9 (27:49):
Oh no, I've hit the wrong studio. Don't get out
of here. I guess Wait a minute, boy, I'm with you.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
How did you ever get involved?
Speaker 5 (27:59):
No.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I was halfway up the elephant to get Sabo's autograph
and some guy yelled, buy me that girl and swam down. Alegazam.
I was bubbles Bord and the're twenty five.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Hours a week. If they offered me fifteen, you're.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Gonna check into mPire.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Not today. I don't want to hear another word about
Hollywood stars or pictures as long as I live. Let's
get home. There's a cab, so no cabs here. Get
out of this bus.
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Okay, And now, folks, the first movie started Home that
you're going to see on this sight seeing bus.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It's a Homo buster Crown.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
My money he bought the bus. That is an addit trade.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
I'm taking you all the forest lawn, the most beautiful cemetery.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
In the world.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Will you talk me, Bubble yes, Raoul I Raally Hoya.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Join us again next Friday at this same time for
another visit with The Magnificent Montague starring Marty Woolley, created
and directed by Nat Hiken and written by Nat Hiken
and Billy Friedberg, and Seymour was Lily Pert.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Kelton was Agnes. Included in tonight's cast.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Were Alan Reed as BB, Peter Leeds as the receptionist,
and Jim Bachus.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
As the cab driver.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
This is Eddie King saying stay tuned for Duffy's Tavern,
which follows. Immediately preceding was transcribed spend a pleasant half
hour at Duffy's Tavern next on NBC
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