Lux Radio Theatre - The Vagabond King

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hollywood, California, Monday, August seventeenth, The Lex Radio Theater presents
John Bowles in The Vagabond Kings with Evelyn Venables.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Luck Presents Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Our stars, John Bowles and Evelyn Venable, our producer Cecil B. Demills,
our guests Robert Riskin and Geneva Sawyers, and our director
of Music, Lois Silver.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Welcome also to the distinguished.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Personalities in our audience, Craig Reynolds, Adrey Names, Missus, John Bowles,
and Helen mcpadden of the McFadden Publications.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
To our listeners, scene and unseen. Greetings from Luck.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It is fitting that this program should come to you
from this city of stars, because nowhere in the world
are lux flakes better known or more extensively used than
in the leading motion picture studios here in Hollywood, for
washing woolens, prints, silk, in.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Fact, for all fabrics that are washable.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
The studios know how newness is prolonged, how colors are
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lux flakes, the flakes that have made cake soap.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Rubbing a thing of the past.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
And now may I again present his op producer, the
man who has given us dozens of our best known
performers and sixty two of our great motion pictures. He
comes direct to the Lux Radio Theater from one of
the big stages in Paramount, where he is now filming
the Plainsmen, Ladies and Gentlemen. Mister Ceco b Jamil readings

(02:01):
from Hollywood Ladies and Gentlemen. Tonight's play had its beginning
more than a hundred years before Shakespeare was born. In
those days, a tragic harlequin roamed the streets of Paris,
drinking in its cellars and sleeping in its garret. He
had the conscience of a pickpocket and the soul of
a poet. His name was Fransfois Villon. Almost five centuries later,

(02:25):
Justin Huntley McCarthy wrote Vion's story in a play called
If I Were King. E. H. Southern starred in it,
and in that first company I had the honor to
be one of Francfois Villon's vagabonds, the worst cutthroat in
the play Colan de Caiur. It was excellent training for
my later career. My actress Tomay with us in the

(02:46):
cast were two lovely ladies, Constant Adams and Margaret Dillington. Yesterday,
Miss Adams and I celebrated our thirty fourth wedding anniversary,
and Margaret Dillington, then the wife of Annuel Frohman, later
married Major Bows.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
A few years ago, the play.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Reappeared on Broadway with Rudolph Primmel's music and a new title,
The Vagabond King. And starring in it tonight is John Bowles.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Who starred in the first production of the Lux Radio
Theatre almost two years ago.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
Fate tried to keep John off the stage at the
University of Texas.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
He was a star pitcher, not a pitcher star.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
He once struck out twenty six batters and a doubleheader,
which brought him three offers from the major leagues. He
preferred to study medicine, but when the war broke out,
John enlisted. He spent twenty two months overseas and was
wounded twice. Returning to the United States, he taught French
in Glens Falls, New York, but the next season found

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him on the New York stage as the star of
The Vagabond King. He is the only player who has
starred in the Lux Radio Theatre four times.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Featured with him his.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Laughing eyes, so called by the Iroquois tribe that adopted her,
but better known as ever In Venable. Miss Venable won
a place in Walter Hampton's Repertoire Company, where the performance
of Juliet The balcony for that performance was the hailoft
in the Barn at Walter Hampton's Connecticut farm. Her audience

(04:21):
was mister Hampton and her father. After several seasons with
the Hampton Players, she was signed by Paramount and has
been on the screen ever since. In tonight's play, she
appears as a lady in the court of King Louis
the eleventh, and now the Luxe Radio Theater presents The

(04:45):
Vagabond King, starring John Bowles as Francoisvillan and Everlyn Venable
as Lady Catherine.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Paris Is.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
In the fifteenth century, Louis the Eleventh sits on the throne,
but his violent subjects plat and grumble. In the fur
Cone Tavern Haunt of Thieves and Murderers Tonight, a fire
is burning on the massive heart and stretched before it
on the floor his front for a beyond. Played by
John Bowles, He's an unkempt youth with vivid eyes, dark

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hair and a tangled beards. Besides the answered Huguett, a slim,
dark haired beauty who prods him in the ribs with
her foot as she demands an answer to her question.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
Personly, Anthony Francois.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Stop kicking me? Would you who? I want to look
at your face?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
I had never seen it up by town before it Anthony,
your swas.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
You've been out of jails two days, and this is
the first I say of you.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Two old day pent in roaming the streets of Paris.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Hary, you spent him in scribbling verses to a lady.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
That's great.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
The pace of the king Tabary is a loose mouth.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Mongl a short note for your sense, how lady you
are common seat and a sandy over a lady seen
Louise court law.

Speaker 7 (06:11):
But that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Ah now just a moment, you're in the frenzy. Ha ha,
I'm laughing.

Speaker 8 (06:17):
Don't you care a fig about me?

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Or a lot of figs, my pretty one?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
As I've handed you counpless times, but not enough for friends.
Now come, what's the news? Since I went to jail?

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Why wish you rotted there?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
Go away?

Speaker 7 (06:30):
Be a clown who the whole cart for all our
chair or shoot?

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Get why can't we chat comfortably?

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Tell me my wine?

Speaker 8 (06:38):
Your mugs empty?

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Again? That's the last drop.

Speaker 7 (06:40):
You're getting this tavern without money?

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Oh well, there are other taverns and carry Oh come on,
I have no fear, pretty one.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm not leaving.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
Then why do you open the door?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Oh there's magic in the air. Can I see it?

Speaker 4 (06:56):
No?

Speaker 8 (06:57):
I see the chill.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Ah, here's real.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Imagine what two muffled figures at the head of the street.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
They're coming this way to customers.

Speaker 7 (07:05):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Perhaps come along, you guess we'll go tell the mistress
of the tavern.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
The prospect of new business may call the old elephant.
And I suppose you tell her that you's often here?
Why not you get? Why not? Look here? The door
is open? Really get don't get at the stand? What
do want to lose? The fucking and come in? And
you're looking please a sort of cellar? What he does

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think a bird's nest? I had no illusions, your magistration, your.

Speaker 6 (07:35):
Magicy here, fool Jane? Doing you go shouting that I'm
the King France? What's the good of my being snacked
under this itchy cloak? You're well disguised, sir, hmmm, so
this is interesting place. The fur comb cabin ah an
unsavory spot. The bright men look at my flight, the

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Duke of Burgundy with a full armed forces, just without
the periskee.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
My thro weighed like a rocking chair. But do I
pull of sad face? Worse?

Speaker 6 (08:06):
You run snipping about caverns after the skirts of a
winch wind hardly described my kinswoman, the lady Captain Divisil,
and she's coming here to night, or so her. As
for knitting about taverns, you forget that. I dreamed a
dream last night, dreams.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
And stars and women while parish goes to the dogs.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
I dreamed that I was a swine rooting in the
streaks of bet But I found a pearl of great
price in the gutter.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
I took it and said it in my ground. But
it sung so bright it filled all parish with its light.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
Then a great star fell from heaven.

Speaker 2 (08:50):
And who are those creatures in the other room? The
worst cats and rats in all parish?

Speaker 6 (08:55):
Bullies, wantons, thieves, murder, and dad company for a king.
Look look over there, that young bearded fellow standing near
the doorway with the tavern mistress.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Or the fellow with the cocky air.

Speaker 6 (09:06):
Yes, he's Francois Billon, the leader Wow, theon, poet, pickpocket,
drinker and scholar. In their thieves language, they call him
King of the vagabond.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Come please, missus, Savanah, one more mug of wine. Please,
you've had all you get, you say a patent, sir?

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Will you honor knees, honor you, sir by drinking at
my expense? And miss a bottle of your finest brine?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Yes, Christ, don't give me a gold coin? A gold
coin here?

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Everybody, come here, everybody, monsieur.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
We'll all honor you, monsieur.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
And if we ever meet in a dark alley, remind
me of this and I'll let you go. Come on
of you we drink to the down Paul of the
pretious Dukempergany, who, monsieur, you are a PEEPI say, rather
a poet tom with berger good rhyming is excellence.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
What is your balance?

Speaker 3 (10:05):
And the pine and danger? Will you serve a stranger?
Fun fall down to vagontin un the shame and sorrow?
Will you cheer tomorrow? Far found of magty on what
on part against the ally found a four and the

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funds around the brink a change that found as fun.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
To help with magandy and the fine danger. Will you
serve a stranger run all down the vagone and the time,
will you cheer the model? All the fund of wagons

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against the wall, all all and.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
He's a city person day, don't get your right?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Ah, he may if we ever get a real turn, warn.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
You being too much for your your staff. Well what
cannons thieves do but drink with a blood Thursday enemy
at her door and a hopeless non compooed upon the throne.
They compline, none compoo and dog transision.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
You could do better than the king.

Speaker 6 (11:40):
If you were in his place.

Speaker 4 (11:42):
Was made a rhyme about that too, So maybe.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Not getting well? If you'll buy another drink, sire did
he will begin. The figure on this.

Speaker 3 (11:53):
Throne, you see, is nothing but a puppet plan to
wear the royal bravery of circain coat and jullet war.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
Not so we frenchmen understand.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
We bait the damn the Bricundian down, and such a
one would take command if the all were the King
of France. Friends, I've been waiting for you. This snibbling
tappen other time.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
The king's archers.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Are on the corner, I, honess, believe all of you
in there. Stranger's hurry to let me go?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Do it? Your tooth purple?

Speaker 3 (12:26):
And you go hoppy in Tabary, Close the door, Tabaret.
Are you sure it's the King's archers? Are you just
being playful?

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I'm sure all right.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
But what's more, Francois is an answerty of pretty verses?

Speaker 2 (12:43):
What geasy the lady of the court, the lady? Will
you come inside? Your gracious reverence? Is a man? I
seek here there by the fire. Excuse me your grace's bread?
Why are you he?

Speaker 4 (13:00):
They call cross wave?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
I Your room is so dark.

Speaker 7 (13:05):
I can't see my way.

Speaker 2 (13:06):
To your hand? Oh? Thank you? Is this be dreaming? God?
Never let me wake again?

Speaker 4 (13:14):
You wrote me this verse. If I were king, I love.
If I were king, what tributary natures?

Speaker 7 (13:21):
Nations would I bring.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
You neil before your step and to swear allegiance to
your lips, your eyes, your hair beneath your feet?

Speaker 2 (13:28):
What treasures would I flame? If I were king?

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Why did you send me this bird?

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Because you're all my dreams of loveness? Because I love you,
Lady Catherine, I love you, Yes, I I is.

Speaker 3 (13:44):
Your heart always so jumpy, Why what are you staring at?
What a frantic rose tossing on your breast?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
May I have it?

Speaker 4 (13:51):
What sort of man are you?

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Briefly one who steals without shame, sticks a dagger in
his enemy, and sleeps with an easy conscion?

Speaker 2 (13:59):
There you have virtuous, my lady, whom my advice it
ha had best to mean a postle.

Speaker 7 (14:04):
You risk such things for yourself? What would you do
for my asking?

Speaker 2 (14:10):
What can I do for such as you?

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Something dearer to me than life itself?

Speaker 2 (14:15):
What could be dearer? Has done your life?

Speaker 4 (14:18):
France, my friend, your France, who listened from Foibio, I've
learned that our grand Marshal Tibo docin Ye would sell
our front to the Duke of Burgundy and plot to
open the gates of Paris to his army.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
What can I do?

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Tibo is coming here any moment to meet one.

Speaker 7 (14:33):
Of your men who is in the pay of Burgundy.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
You declare you love me with all the meaning love
can have.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Not to kill Peebo doc Ye kill?

Speaker 7 (14:43):
You spoke of daggers. But perhaps you didn't expect to
be taken at your words?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
What Hi, how I didn't hope to be you'll stay
and point him out. Where can I wait? Up those
stairs on that gallery You can reach the street from there.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
Someone at the door.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
Your hand quick to the bout them. You're safe here.
There's Marco going to open the door. Who is that
opening those that people's voice, what's wrong? Yeah, you're kilting
and raises that it's quiet at this hour. The door
was un Then why not show a life oilings?

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Wa, you have their price?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
Uh, there's a man here by the name of uh Renee.
Who there he is? Then him to me at one? Yeah,
he'll talk. Who is here? Oh Lyle? And he is
in the burgundale?

Speaker 8 (15:36):
M you'll kill these people?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
You have my word? That's running you ask for me?
I did tell me? How is your garden? For them?
The grapes? All right, it's your people.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
This note would carried to me by have a gun
to you know, short over the walls at noon?

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Give it to me. Hm. The Duke of Burgundy agrees
that gives me a duke? Doesn't the maid? A friend
of us say that you thirty thousand King Louis has
denied me the maid? Are they well as your customers? Crowned?

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Let me read further? Go now, Lady Catherine, leave people
to me.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
You will not fail.

Speaker 3 (16:20):
I'll play the drunken knave, engage him in a fight,
and then my sword shall do the rest.

Speaker 8 (16:24):
For the glorious trance you ask me for this road,
I give it to you now, my lady, Heaven give
you seek farewell.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
What's that someone on that belt in it? Hello? Hello? Well, wait,
my friend, I'm coming down. Who is this drunken fool? Aye?

Speaker 3 (16:47):
Aye, franz wi billon? Yes, Frans fa vir goody thing, monsieur?

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Will you crack a bottle with me?

Speaker 9 (16:54):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Out of my way? Guzzler?

Speaker 3 (16:56):
Not so far, Gossler.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Did you say apologize?

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Call your dunk and dunk horse so you would strike me?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Huh? You will strike Frank for veo?

Speaker 5 (17:07):
What haven here?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Come back? Frans?

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Why this rogue isn't thought of me? Draw your third
rob God and kill you to your client, your leg.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
You running through in the King's name, Captain Rod, that's
devil the transwabon. Take him out and hang it. Stand
back out for a moment. Get it. That young gentleman

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is Nasair who there's delay? The King's justice.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
I am the King's justice.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
I am the King. Your majesty was in part the
King you France for.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
Captain case his name in your wait, wait it's veal
with the King of Plans. It was a just good
rhyming man.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Your prison cells. Don't frighten me.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
If I'm not a better man than Lewis, do nothing
Lewis dare nothing. May I never drink wine again? Is
there one heart in all France that you hold even
as I hold my rabble in this tavern? Is there
one enemy of France that you can down? As I
just down that bouncing trater with his long sword. Take
me to your dungeon prisons, hide me away from all

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the world, and still I'll say, un pull it with
a banner's hand.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
If be all with a king bran.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Our play The Vagabond King, starring John Bowles and Evelyn
Venables will be resumed shortly. But now we're at the
Union Air Terminal at Burbank, just a few miles from Hollywood,
and we're right up where in just.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
A minute we should see the big silver grain New.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
York Transport take off. A baggage struck is just pulled
up to this giant plane and bags in two cases
are being stowed away In the luggage compartments, two women
are standing against the passengers gates to the field, watching
their bags being put aboard.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeesh, it's thrilling. This is my first trick.

Speaker 7 (19:12):
I've lost tons of mine, but I still get excited.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
You must know all the rope.

Speaker 7 (19:17):
Oh, yes, you just asked me anything, but for one thing.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
What about baggage.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
I nearly died trying to keep.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
Mine down the thirty five pounds.

Speaker 10 (19:24):
Oh that's the sins with my siste.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Tell me about it.

Speaker 10 (19:27):
Oh that's easy, darling. Never more than two of a kind,
and everything luxible.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes, a wardrobe of luxibles solves the limited wardrobe problem.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
For the smart crowd that travels by air.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Justice it does for the girl who has only a
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colors and fabrics keep their lovely, brand new look for ages.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
These tissues thin flakes have no harmful alkali. They do
not save things.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
And with luck, there's no rubbing you can trust to
safe gentle lucks, silt, chiffons, woolens, Rayon's, and asidates. Anything
that's safe in water alone is safe in luck. We

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continue with the vagabond King, starring John Bold as Francoisvillan
and Evelyn Bennable as Lady Catherine's. It is late the
same night Francfoisvian rages in a prison cell where the
king's gods have thrown him for his rashness. But the
king is still uncertain and uneasy. With his aide Tristan,

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he has come to the court astrologer for a reading.
And now they stand in a tower, scanning the starlit
sky with anxious eyes.

Speaker 6 (20:46):
Will Astrologia fet the stars divulged about my dream?

Speaker 2 (20:51):
The position of.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
The moon in Jupiter is speak your Majesty's dream as
one of the immediate moment.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
You're part of.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Great price that you Prondon. The gutter indicates that there
is a person in the depths who, if he be
exalted to the height, may serve and save your kingdom.
And did the maid of orlean m mayhap what means
the star that fell through heaven?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
There the reading is confused. It may mean that the
same creature from the depths, if he be exalted to
the height.

Speaker 10 (21:31):
Will at the end of four and twenty hours, fall
of his own weight, exhausted from the depths. You say,
for four and twenty hours, and full of his own way.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
And that's the real we are great. One thing more, what.

Speaker 6 (21:53):
Message is there for me in the heavens concerning my
sutre for the fair lady Katharine?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
We are made just day, I h I will be as.
There are some things, your majesty, that even the stars
cannot fathom. Mm. Good night, astrologer. You're mad, uh, sister,
sire you sad.

Speaker 6 (22:16):
The astrologer I exalted from the depths, may yet safe
runs pil some I have this hour.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Appointed a new grand battle of Fra.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Oh, thank you, thank you, sir.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
No, no, no, not you Franceois beon, oh w beyond.

Speaker 6 (22:34):
Stop there beeping now tonight you seek it that a
flagon of rugg wine is placed in the prison straw.
Let him await tomorrow morning in the palace, washed, bearded,
sumptuously addressed, So geez, his bidding mother would.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Not know him.

Speaker 6 (22:51):
You and I alone will know it. Don't nobody shan't
save my sire thrown may not beyond mine.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Then you are going to spare his life, Francoisvillon will
do for four and twenty hours. Then he look here,
your majesty, I.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Know it sounds crazy, and you hate to keep telling me.
But but for the last time, who am I now?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Last night I was Francois Villon, and this morning you.

Speaker 6 (23:26):
Are the Count of Montcorbier and your Grand Marshal of frank.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Grand Marshal France. I can't make out whether I'm drunk
mad dreaming. Was it a dream that you could be
a better king than I? No, sire, that was true enough. Well,
how would you like to be king? That's parted. We're

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both drunk enough to that.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
King, Say for a four and twenty hours until this.

Speaker 6 (23:58):
Time tomorrow, and after well and after by then you'll
be yourself again, the self, same feet and cut throat.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Hm.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
You should build me a great gallows, and your last actors,
king will be to.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hang front the vere comes.

Speaker 2 (24:17):
You don't actually mean are used too keen to live?
I never knew I was until yesterday.

Speaker 6 (24:25):
You'd rather crawl back to your gutta lives out your
petty story life than die.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
To fulfill your dream.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Living is sweet habits, sir, whether it be in a
palace or the gutter. And who knows what tomorrow holds,
but death is it's for final. Let me go, Let
me free, free to ran howling with your tail between
your legs.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
How what is it?

Speaker 6 (24:44):
There's a page, Your majesty, come from Lady Catherine the bussels.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Lady begs audience for the new grand Marshals.

Speaker 6 (24:50):
The new grand Marshals no more, take the whimpering thing
that boast to go, con him to the silk and
quip him back.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
To his killer. Wait, Lady Catherine begged the audience of me,
of a man not a care who dared call himself
a king.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Well, no, wait, wait, please listen to me. I uh,
may I still choose for the last time? You said
that I might rule for a day if actor and
doctor hang, is that right precisely on your word of honor?

Speaker 10 (25:19):
Sire?

Speaker 3 (25:20):
My bird is my honor very well, so be it
king for a day and afterwards the gallows.

Speaker 4 (25:36):
I was told I might have audience of the new
Grand Marshal. I am he, I am Catherine de voussell.
I know as Grand Marshal, monsieur, you hold the lives
of prisoners in your hands.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
I have come to beg a favor of you.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Yes, you hold in prison now a certain Francois Billon.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
Oh yes I do, I asked if this man's life be.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Spared, what is his crime?

Speaker 4 (25:59):
He risked his life to kill a traitor who deserve
to die?

Speaker 9 (26:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Is this the also hired by patriotism? Why?

Speaker 4 (26:06):
No, he did this because a woman asked it.

Speaker 7 (26:10):
He thought he loved her.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
He uh, you say, he wrote her verses, Oh a
rabbit poet, I see? But uh, why do you plead
for his life?

Speaker 4 (26:22):
Because I am that woman?

Speaker 2 (26:25):
You risk this grace and great punishment telling me this.

Speaker 8 (26:27):
He risked his life.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
You don't buy some strange chance to think that you
love him, do you? I?

Speaker 4 (26:34):
He's of the street, Oh, a common thief and nobody
I've blundered.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
Still, he does not deserve to die.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Does any one? Your wish is granted? The all is free? Free? Well,
it's free, uh as I am.

Speaker 7 (26:50):
I am deeply grateful for your summers.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Oh wait, please don't go at once. I s I
too would ask a favor, and not as a bargain.
But if you choose to grant it free as a gift, yes,
I quite realized why this fellow risked his life for you.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
How from his kennel he looked up at you and thrilled,
even as a muddy pool might thrill at the moon
in the cavern.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Who's here? You've startled?

Speaker 4 (27:14):
I seem to remember you, remember, Yes.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
I seemed to have known you always, Really, sir, I
think your poeter what is his name, frant for Villon
must have.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Felt as I do.

Speaker 9 (27:27):
Now.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
How do you know that? How do I know? How
do I know? I live?

Speaker 3 (27:34):
I'm somewhat of a poet too, Lady Catherine, and I
love a lady as Villon thinks he loves you.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
I saw her first, on away to Mark. She saw
me no more than the couplestone she stepped on. She
seemed to be listening to words. Her heart was speaking, O, you.

Speaker 11 (27:57):
Will see me on the floor, find me fall property
a charity.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Little commander, It mine.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Off a dream that is.

Speaker 7 (28:26):
All you and for me.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
When the wind for it all on day in the
floor of my be can it.

Speaker 12 (29:00):
More?

Speaker 2 (29:04):
All robb.

Speaker 12 (29:18):
Wocky?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I should pass from me. All the world went with her.
But I have found her again in you.

Speaker 8 (29:36):
I care little to be flattered and less to be wound.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
What can I do to win you?

Speaker 7 (29:40):
There is no time to talk of love. I had
a hope that a man had come to course, a
man who will rid.

Speaker 4 (29:47):
France of Burgundy. A treacherous enemy is at our gates,
and no one has dared to strike.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
And if that man has come.

Speaker 4 (29:54):
My love is all for France and to the man
who saves her.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
With you close by me, what miracles might I not achieve,
Lady Catherine, Lady Catherine, your.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Magicy I agree with chattering distance, tender interval. It is
not I who intrude that business of state.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
What business fire at the Herald of Bergundy has come
from Aunt under the flag of truth. He waits our
pleasure in the palace tree Son see Lady Catherine to
be in her chamber.

Speaker 7 (30:24):
I know the way myself, Your majesty.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
M well, wait, a power tastes sweet, does it not?
You meet the lady now, I'm an equal footinge.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
I thank your majesty.

Speaker 6 (30:36):
I feet at myself, and since for if the Count
de Moncurbier should win the heart of the Lady Catherine,
theon shall escape the gallows.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
And the captain marry his lady. You mean not fire
on your word of honor. My word is my honor.
She is Lady Catherine. If she offers me her love,
I may go free. That it's the bargain I'll go
now to the chamber at once, Sir, our magestry, this
is madnessful, your talentry stime.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
You offer him his life only if he should win
the Lady Catherine.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
But why are your magistrates, why do you make this
mad bargain?

Speaker 6 (31:13):
I make her of revenge. Misters Catherine has turned me
too long. Hm, it'll be support when the lady sign
he has the stained my love. The smile upon a beggar.
I overheard their meeting system. She spared him on the
great deeds against bergun Day.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
He will fight for hers. He would never come the
herald of waitress in the palace. I am anxious to
hear the asker, the.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Herald of Burgundy.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Labell tooke a burgun Day pretty the lawyer from breaking semibrief?

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Will it be be a war?

Speaker 6 (31:58):
The Lord blen Marshall answer that I your maginy, you
Grand Marsell well.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Is it piece of our term?

Speaker 3 (32:05):
One moment please, just one moment please, And Lord Tristan,
the court is dull and one's excitement.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
You are good at planning. Faith. We give a ball tonight,
a masquerade.

Speaker 7 (32:15):
At a time like this, a masquerade, King Joy, what is.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
This flet he is king for today he speaks of family.
Thank you your majesty. Now, then, Herald, the Duke of
Burgundy summons you to surrender. If you refuse, it means disaster.
Are you disaster?

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Disaster spilling up blood, manifold death, and go to pay
great words, Herald of Burgundy, in God's name and the king.
Go back to your master and say, we are well paid,
we are well armed. We lie snug and warm behind
our Paris walls. We laugh at your traitorous master.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
This is our answer. This and a drawn sword.

Speaker 13 (32:58):
God, and take Danny put a king upon lord, saying,
because forcation identification, this is the Columbia Broadcasting system.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
You are invited to attend.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
The Ball in the Palace, which the Luxe Radio Theater
will present shortly as the third episode of The Vagabond King,
starring John Bold with Evelyn Venable. But before starting out
for this brilliant court function, let's take a dancing lesson
on the stage of our theater tonight. Is Geneva Sawyer,
a dance director at twentieth Century Fox. A few months ago,
Miss Sawyer was only a member of the chorus, but

(34:05):
opportunity tapped at her door opportunity in this case was
Bill Robinson, the great Negro tap dancer, who chose her
for his assistant in teaching new steps to his most
famous pupil, Shirley Temple, Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Geneva Sawyer.

Speaker 9 (34:26):
A dance director's hardest job is not teaching new steps,
but discovering them. And I think we've succeeded in discovering
an entirely new dance for the big new musical show
at twentieth Century Fox, take Skin Parade.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
We've named it the.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Balboa and Balboa discovered a new ocean. I suppose you've
discovered a new motion.

Speaker 7 (34:45):
That describes it.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
And I believe you'll see a dance everywhere this fall.

Speaker 7 (34:50):
It will be performed for the first time in the picture,
and by foot stars as Jack.

Speaker 9 (34:53):
Haley, Betty Grable, Patsy Kelly, Dixie Dunbar, and that great
singing Fortete the Yacht Club.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
The Yacht Club Boys say they must have found their
high sea legs.

Speaker 9 (35:06):
Their dancing is still subject to darb, Mister de mil
They may be called the Yacht club Boys, but their
feet are more like tugboats. But in a couple of weeks,
they'll bowboll with the best of them. When dancing is
regarded as a pleasure in relaxation, it's really very easy
to master.

Speaker 7 (35:23):
The only part of our dancing that's hard work is
caring for the costumes.

Speaker 9 (35:27):
We often change costumes five or six times a day,
yet they must always be fresh and new looking for
the camera.

Speaker 7 (35:34):
This means constant freshening.

Speaker 9 (35:36):
But at twentieth century Fox, we've learned to depend entirely
on lux Blakes for everything. Washable luck not only protects
the colors, it prolongs newness and.

Speaker 7 (35:45):
Makes our costumes look lovelier.

Speaker 9 (35:47):
To those young men and women who hope to get
dancing jobs and movies, my advice is first to get
as good an education as you can. Secondly, don't let
any physical impediment keep you from dancing. Just remember that
the man who established ballet dancing, Sebastian Simoli.

Speaker 7 (36:05):
Lost both seed as a boy.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
Jack Donahue, a former riveter, broke both kneecaps but became
dance director at Park and Bobby Aren't, one of the
cleverest dancers on the stage today, learned to dance after
an attack of infantile paralysis.

Speaker 7 (36:19):
If you want to dance, you will.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
Good night, Good night, Tapa. And now we continue with
The Vagabond King, starring John Bowles as Francoisvillan and Evelyn
Bennable as Lady Catherine.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Lanceeoisville's one day.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
Of glory has come to an end. Night has fallen,
The ball is in progress, and the palace and surrounding
gardens upright with festivities.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
In a dark corner of the.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Garden, Vrs standing half hidden, when out of the shadows Tabarey,
his friend from.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
The fir Corn tavern, suddenly appears. Francois taburry, what news?
Or are men ready for the attack on BURGUNDI the
archers in the army, And we know.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Not those mercenaries, I mean our man, our people, Tabaret,
who strike at Burgundy with hatred of craters in their hearts,
with love of Paris in their soul.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Every puzzle swarms at ten to night. They'll wait their orders.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
And the new Grand Marshal, who lifted the tacks of
their wine, opened the prison doors and gave them food.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Oh tell new Paris.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
Francois alive, fighting Paris, and all for how little, not
one twentieth part of what is theirs by right.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
You're doing well, Tabarey, go keep amongst them every minute
till we ride at tent.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
If we meet again, well met, friend, Tabau. If not,
who hold we've had our day, Grandma? Why you leave
the bavey, lady Catherine, to see what great.

Speaker 4 (38:03):
New wonders you have worked in the hour you've been gone?

Speaker 2 (38:06):
For you truly believe I've worked? Wondered I do you've made.

Speaker 4 (38:09):
The king popular, the parasons loyally.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
Army, faithful? And I think no, I've guessed the reason
for this.

Speaker 3 (38:15):
Face, that Burgerdy might seek me a guinea fool, the
King's court an orgy, and tonight's the hour to catch
us unprepared.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
But our swords are tempered in the wine. At ten
we strike.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Why would I were a man that I might go
with you?

Speaker 2 (38:28):
You would go with me? Why do you sing?

Speaker 4 (38:32):
I'll tell you tomorrow. Tonight you ask a maiden to
be too unmaidenish?

Speaker 3 (38:37):
But this night is all we have, Oh Catherine, I
love you dearly, out landishly, with a love so hopeless that.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Is done for me. Or I can find no reason
why you should love me?

Speaker 4 (38:48):
Do you hear not one word?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
True?

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Loving is without rhyme or reason?

Speaker 7 (38:57):
Now, then would you sing?

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Would I sing?

Speaker 4 (39:00):
When we met this morning? You sank it was oddly.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Staring Paris, lust for blood. I'd die of love and
you'd have me sing well, But it so happened. But
last night, as I tossed the fund and straw.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
I thought of a ruse I once begged of a lady,
and I made a song about it.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
But I'm not sing at all unless you come closer,
oh so much closer, only.

Speaker 11 (39:34):
Only dying, only am to even Emily.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
On until with me on, Holy roll.

Speaker 12 (40:02):
Lost, I bring along a mine upong f.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
You are a poet?

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yes? Yes? What is it? A message? My lord? I'm
one of the guests. Yes, the siguus an offense the
garden at once at once, very unfortunate. Did he get
his name? No? Tell him to wait. I'll be there, Catherine,
until later. You'll stay here.

Speaker 8 (40:54):
I promise not to move.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
I cannot belong well, monsieur, not to dear Francoise, who cares?
What are you doing here?

Speaker 7 (41:12):
That's why I had to come, indeed, discard the only
way I could get in.

Speaker 2 (41:16):
How did you know that?

Speaker 8 (41:16):
I when we were reacted, your new grand Marshall.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Oh, taper again he talks to her.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
That's why you must leave.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
Her at once? People?

Speaker 4 (41:24):
Does me this one to you?

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (41:27):
When you almost said to Hades last night here and
there here was enough man over power your God.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
They're in the sky tee board dossing me. This time
I'll have to finish him, for you won't even know him.
But I can't leave now.

Speaker 4 (41:38):
Your life is in danger.

Speaker 2 (41:39):
I can't leave now.

Speaker 7 (41:42):
Oh, there's something holding you here.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
I see you. You found your lady? Yes?

Speaker 7 (41:51):
And does she love you? Francois?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
I love her? You love her?

Speaker 7 (41:56):
I once told you which you never really.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
Cared for me, did you don I'm sorry you get no,
don't be sorry, be happy.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
I want you to be. I think of you often,
and I'll think of you.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
I'll remember how day we work together and the times
we had.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
What so you say you? What's that?

Speaker 6 (42:22):
Gabe?

Speaker 2 (42:22):
There's someone hiding in the shutters table your life stand
where you are, monsieur t bo I bid you welcome?
Did your soul God's speed? When I plunge this dagger
in your throat? Have you reckoned on the King's art?
Is good? T ball. They're just outside the walls cry off,
but wance and you done to me?

Speaker 11 (42:40):
I to.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
Your throat. You can't come back. You've seen.

Speaker 3 (42:48):
This is your last time for me and the girl.
This time made you and he drew a good deer
on the ground.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Kill No, he he's a bright m a lord to
the hum. Yeah, oh you guess why did you do it?

(43:17):
Why did you rush between us? Cousin?

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Know how his fun's truck.

Speaker 7 (43:22):
My life is. That's a little thing.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Oh a going No, no.

Speaker 7 (43:32):
Oh the close fun buck?

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Are you so afraid?

Speaker 8 (43:37):
How do you fee him?

Speaker 2 (43:42):
God forgive me? He knows his children. He was always couple. Kid.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
Please you gurt, you girt, oh that you should die
for me as sure?

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Do or not?

Speaker 6 (44:05):
She has and the hour attracts.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
It's tense the hour for her. For a moment, I
may she be taken with all gentleness to the house
at Fancy to a Tristan.

Speaker 6 (44:16):
Yes, sire, and you, sir, your deeds against the traitor
tee though ask.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
Us any great, sire.

Speaker 6 (44:21):
Except your life that depends upon your lady.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
Well before I tell you, sire, order Tristan to erect
a gallows tree facing your church on the plaster grave
less tire appear to both for your gallows tree, Yet
you hope to win. Mope dies hard, sire. But Lady
Catherine is royally proud. She may not relish the deception.
Pardon the teat is lie. You mean to tell her everything?

Speaker 2 (44:47):
She shall know me before she makes her toy. If
she refuses the assured, you'll swing and gladly for what
is life? If it be a lie?

Speaker 7 (44:55):
Gentlemen, my dear lady gathered Whatever keeps you here this long?

Speaker 6 (44:59):
Oh, trickling methods of the light and death?

Speaker 7 (45:03):
It's struck ten year, excellency, I know.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
Kind, thanks, and I now must take my leave, Lady Catherine.
But first I have to tell you, I too have
this to say to you.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
Sir, outrage decorum, though it may wear this token with
my prayer, my lady, and.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
With it I give you my hand.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Oh wait, and my family child, say no more until
you know me. No you look at me, look closely?

Speaker 2 (45:31):
Do you see nothing to remind you?

Speaker 4 (45:33):
Yes, of honor, of manhood, of shining hours among bright roses,
no north last night, A gloomy taverner of a thief
who wrote you along and love song?

Speaker 2 (45:43):
What of him? Simply this? I am that se you,
I am transferred to you. Oh it's not true.

Speaker 7 (45:53):
It can't be true, sire, right.

Speaker 6 (45:54):
True, my royal friend, you are be true to a
jail bird, a full fledge scatting down.

Speaker 7 (46:00):
I see.

Speaker 4 (46:03):
You beaked a royal revenge upon me, sire, and you, sir, why.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Did you do this?

Speaker 4 (46:10):
I love you, love you shame the word to you love,
but a cunning trick of boath to mock me with
Well I know you. Now go back to your dregs,
your filthy tavern, and both you may well bloat, Sir.

Speaker 8 (46:26):
I'm mad beyond forget.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Lady Catherine and He's song misin you'll hang Mastervillon as
a thief. She first met me her son as a thief.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
I go to fight for her tonight, Tire. The archers
will defend the lor gates, the lower gates. That who
fights at the cross roads, aye, I and the beggars
of the swamp, the thieves of the prison, we fight
the crosswalls.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Do you hear that? Pong, Tire, my pong? This song?
You hof Burgundy, my dear.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
Perish arm with exious nies conquer the poice of parents
is not conspired?

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Who are hire? They fill the gardens.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Well, Sgamon, you have not failed me, nor Montaltier, but
print for being on each might to foil you.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
The women that love you return and renew you. Howard,
then p the king.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
The govern is baking and too cheerfully, or magazine you'll
say the news of the battle, Cristophe none, Sire, Where
did they come from?

Speaker 12 (47:56):
You?

Speaker 2 (47:57):
The shire?

Speaker 6 (47:57):
They are building a tibbet to hang francoisbe w when
and if he returns, Your majesty, Ah fir, gatherin you
arrive earlier.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
I've been to Mars to ease your heart.

Speaker 7 (48:10):
My heart is on the battlefield, Sire, with dry yet
I know, and bless you for it.

Speaker 6 (48:16):
But France is a broad target for a little hour.
It's time you narrow it down, to say a Frenchman.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
I have have you know, just the first night, I've
realized so many things since then, Sire, so much happened
so quickly last night, the unreasoning pride confused the truth.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
The truth.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
I fear it will startle you. And that's pointless now
because I doubt I shall ever.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
See him again.

Speaker 6 (48:43):
Oh beion, No, No, probably you won't, and that would
be kinder to all concerned than to see him dangling
on the gallows.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
That gallow is for france of Yon if he.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Survives to night, Sire, do you say this to torture me?

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Does he talk to you? This?

Speaker 6 (49:02):
The reward for bravery, the courage, the reward he gambled
for your hand in marriage or the gallows my hand
in marriage?

Speaker 7 (49:14):
That could never have been my rank forbid?

Speaker 6 (49:18):
I count it on that me, lady mad we'll get it.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
Hire your grandmother returns in triumph, your answers and his
fighting rabble of.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
He heals dictory coming the queen and all the cops.
A madman has saved my throne as the maid of
all the aunt saved it for my.

Speaker 13 (49:35):
Because I'll see holocrn a swell ldream.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
It's got a wild it's t that's far Beyon.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
You can return what bound for your popet an hour
afore the fund of Gundian hernet.

Speaker 13 (50:06):
In the King's name of ball and Pine to every
man and woman of part.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
And whell wine to every man, woman.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
And child who wishes to drink the King's hell? Is
that guinerous deal for the empire? Nay ey ag as
you wish sired.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Hear you all my last duty.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Tarme among you know me at Carton mort Carbier, Thomas
Francois Villon. I've fought and lost to heaven, and it
is now my task, as your Grand Marshal, to declare
the life of Francois.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Be your post. Are pant upon him this.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Sentence, there'll be straightway.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Hanged on yonder Ji. It's violent, ju justice.

Speaker 4 (50:55):
Listen to your kids. He lent France to victory your France.

Speaker 8 (51:00):
Will you let him die?

Speaker 6 (51:01):
I said, my good people, you've heard master of your
and the lady here.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
If there be one among.

Speaker 6 (51:09):
You ready to take this hero's face on yonder gallows,
let him speak and come forward, what.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
New one? No man shall die for me. We're wasting time.
Take me to the girls, Sire. I claim your commis
you choose to die in this man's face?

Speaker 7 (51:29):
I offer the hand that stares his knife.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
Madness. No, I loved you my last night. You loathed him.

Speaker 7 (51:36):
I was blinded.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
You mean it?

Speaker 8 (51:38):
I do frus.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
Swabio your rank formid you.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
I renounce my rank.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Before you all.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
I'm Catherine de Boselles, Grand Seneschal of Gasconye in my
domain I hold the power of life and death, which.

Speaker 7 (51:53):
I now renounce with all my ranks.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
But I may claim to marry.

Speaker 6 (51:58):
The s.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
A miracle must far have fallen to me out of
Captain's pass Asta my dreams. My dreams has sam the
stars have focused. Keep your lands entitled, Captain, and God
seed you with it.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Freak to a priest higher. Do you love me? France?
With all my being?

Speaker 4 (52:27):
I wish you I prayed for a man with the
soul of a king.

Speaker 7 (52:34):
My prayers have been answered.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Louiser Franz. We ask your blessing.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
You have it, But no more playing king for you,
little man, never sire.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Twould be a great nuisance then with a star to cherish.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
Plays like journeys end in lovers meetings, But John Bowles
and Evelyn Venable return in a moment. The Man you
will hear Next is one of the most successful scenario
writers in Hollywood, winner of the Motion Picture Academy Award
for that classic of the bus lines It Happened One Night.
His many hits include The Whole Town's Talking Broadway Bill
and the current box office windfall, Mister Deeds.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Goes to Town.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
A former playwright and producer, he has written every picture
directed by Frank Capra during the last five years, and
in a few weeks you'll see his adaptation of James
Hilton's best selling novel Lost Horizon, starring Ronald Coleman. Ladies
and gentlemen, Mister Robert Riskin, thank you. I'm a little nervous.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
What do I do now?

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Just talk into that microphone. It won't talk back at
me with us. No, No, that's the beauty of microphones.
You can whisper in it the air or bark your
head off. It holds its tongue. Haven't you ever spoken
on a radio before? Yes, just once, about ten years ago.
I spoke in the interest of.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
A play of mind. Nobody ever came to see it
after that. If a luck sails fall off next week.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
You'll know the reason why luck sales never fall off.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
I'll have you know. Yes, I know. It's the finest
product in the market. What do I say now? Talk
about yourself? Why that's the reason you're here. I thought
I was selling lunch. Here you are.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
But you've been a very successful writer in Hollywood, and
we'd like to know the secret.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Say look, I know a good knock.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Knock, Oh, come not, you knock knock all right, who's there?
Demil Tamil?

Speaker 9 (54:43):
Who?

Speaker 2 (54:44):
The mills of the gods grind slow, but they do
grind exceeding small. I know another one. Never mind, never mind.
We're trying to find out.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
The secret of your success. I saw mister Deed's go
to Town, goes to Town. It's a grand picture. How
did you ever think of the the word pixelated? I
thought of the people who pay my salary every week.
Knock knock, who's there? I see you're catching the spirit
of the thing, and I'm very quick, Well, who's there?

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Lucks? Lucks? Who looks like this interviewer? To come to
in there? Don't you think? Not until you answer the.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Question, what's the formula for success in Hollywood for a writer?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Oh? That's a pinch. Now you're going to be serious, ntcha?

Speaker 9 (55:22):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Yes, all right? How can I write?

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Succeed by finding himself a magnificent director like Frank keeper
in a grade or one like you. Thanks for including me,
I no idiots, indeed you're not. You've worked with Frank
Capra a long time.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
You need five years any.

Speaker 3 (55:37):
Trouble, trouble at the longest vacation I ever had in
my life with pay I'll venture to say working on
the Lost Horizon was no vacation.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
I'm sorry you mentioned that. You're forcing me to be
serious the one job I'm really excited about. Did you
read the James Hilton book?

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Yes, Cuticle, wasn't it truly great? Did you write this
story for Grace Moore's next picture? You can ask more
questions and you give so little inframe.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
Did you write it or didn't you? Yes? I did.
I think the audience would be interested.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
In hearing what technique you follow and writing a picture
Knock Knock?

Speaker 2 (56:07):
What is your method of approach? Would you rather adapt
the story of writing the Ridge Knock? All right? Who's there?
Yvonne Avon? Who Yvonne? To go home? Good night? Good night?

(56:28):
And now Evelyn Vennible and John Bowles.

Speaker 4 (56:39):
It seems odd not to be at home tonight listening
to the Lux Radio Theater by in our house. John
mister Demill has forty eight regular fans.

Speaker 2 (56:47):
Really, that's more than I had when I played baseball
at school.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
Yes, there's myself and my husband now baby.

Speaker 7 (56:54):
Then there's Tessy the English.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
Bull Terrier, Jim the Turtle, three Tomcats and forty golds in.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
The animals came in two by two, The Elephant and
the Kangaroo. What are you waiting for, Evelyn?

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Another flood not lent.

Speaker 7 (57:07):
What I'm waiting for.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Is to learn how John likes to be likes to
be directed by a woman. His next picture, Craig's Flight,
is being filmed by the only woman.

Speaker 7 (57:16):
Director in Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
Yes, Dorothy Osna, very good director. Too well, big for yourself,
John Well, I have been bossed by women all my life.
But seriously, it's really.

Speaker 3 (57:28):
A pleasure working with Massasna h Ross and Russell, though
plays a part of my wife, and Russell has to
boss me, nag me and Noel almost to death. Sometimes
I wish I'd been a ballplayer, after all, I think
you've done better in pictures. I saw you play last
summer when the Leading Men played the Comedians. John pitched
for the Leading Men. After the game, the Comedians voted

(57:49):
him their most valuable player. Well, you say, mister de Mill,
I was just a little off born that day. Why
I might have even been a member of the Cleveland Indians.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
Today I've beaten you there, John, As mister de Mill said,
I'm already a member of the Indian.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
The Aroquois, and he said, your name in English is
loughing Eyes. What is it an Indian?

Speaker 4 (58:09):
Oh that's something I don't know, John laughing Eyes. Both
probably a great deal like Minnie Haha. No, mister de Mill,
my thanks to you for so many delightful Monday nights,
both past and future.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
HM.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
Good night everyone, and by the way, seeb uh, when
you're picking actors for your picture, the plainsman, don't take
any wooden end in.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Good night.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
Good night's teta. Thanks you, mister Bowles and miss Niver.

(58:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your announcer, melvill Uk. Supporting
our our stars tonight were Walter Kingswood, Wyndham Standing, Brett Morrison,
lou Merrill, Cecil Elliott, Margaret Mackay, Ross Forrester, Russ Dudley
and Frank Nelson. Mister Bowles and mister Riskin appeared through
courtesy of Columbia Studios.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Mister de Mill Paramount and Miss Vennable.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Miss Sawyer and mister Silver's twentieth Century Fox. Mister Silvers
prepared the musical score for their new hit Sing Baby Sing,
and Miss Sawyer is a featured dancer in this picture,
which stars Alice Bay and Adolf Manjau. Miss Venable will
be seen shortly in Star for a Night. Mister de
Mill tells us now of next week's program.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Next Monday night, we all have an appointment with a dentist.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
But it's one dental appointment we can look forward to
with pleasure, because in this case the gentleman with the
drill will be Jack Oakie, per farming for us in
the Lux Radio theat as the small town toothache expert
in the stage and screen picture success One Sunday Afternoon.
Co starring with Jack will be Miss Helen twelve Trees.

(01:00:20):
Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Blake, join me in
inviting you to be our guest next Monday night, when
the Lux Radio Theater presents One Sunday Afternoon starring Jack
Oakie and Helen twelve Trees. This is set for b
the Mill saying good night to you from Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
It is the Columbia Broadcasting System.