Lux Radio Theatre - The Virginian

A high-budget anthology series adapting major films and stage plays for radio, often with the original Hollywood stars. It brought cinematic drama into living rooms weekly.

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

Speaker 2 (00:10):
The Nuts Radio Theater.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Presents Gary Cooper in the Virginian with Charles Bickford, Helen
Mack and John Howard presents Hollywood Our stars Gary Cooper,
Charles Bickford, Helen Matt and John Howard.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Our guests Sidney.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Skowski, noted Hollywood columnists, and Richard Kleine, physical trainer of
picture stars. Our producer Cecil v Demil, our conductor Louis Silvers.
We wish you could all be with us tonight in
our theater on Hollywood Boulevard, not only to meet our stars,
but also the many other screen celebrities whom I see
just beyond the footlights, awaiting the curtain of another great show.

(00:56):
But wherever this HOWI finds you a hearty welcome from lux.
This program comes to you with the good wishes of
the makers.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Of Luck's Toilet Soap.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
The salt preferred by nine on ten Hollywood stars and
is yet so inexpensive that every girl can use it
every day.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Our message is to use all the cosmetics.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
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keeps your skin soft smooth.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Always love me.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Our show opens with word from our producer, Ladies and gentlemen,
mister cecil d Demil, Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Here in the hometown of.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Movies, we are so used to stars who gripped their teeth,
clenched their fists, and crashed their way into the limelight.
The man as shy and human as Gary Cooper to
the fleet novelty on a Hollywood soundstage. He's as refreshing
as a breeze off the prairie. Last month, the Hyan
Indians up and lame dear Montana tried to give him
a name.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
They called Gary Kommist.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
He was mighty pleased to become a member of the
tribe until he discovered that his new name means tall,
handsome one. Gary was an unknown actor in Westerns when
he was called in by the Paramount Studios for a
screen test. Entering the room, he faced an office filled
with producers and executives. The long young man from Montana

(02:35):
looked at the expressionless faces, swallowed hard, smiled feebly, and
bolted for the door. But his personality clicked they gave
him an important role in Wings, and Gary's been soaring
steadily upward ever since I welcomed him to Night as
a fine actor, a sincere co worker, a fearless man.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And a close friend.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Charles Bickford is also a most welcome addition to our cast.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Charlie left the.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Stage to work for me in Dynamite, my first talking film,
and has appeared in four of my pictures since, including
The Plainsman. Charlie is no mean antagonist as a villain.
In fact, it took an African land to put him
in the hospital. He will be heard tonight in the
role of Campus. Our leading lady is Helen Mack, who
has been on stage and screen since childhood and is

(03:24):
one of the most unspoiled young actresses in Hollywood. She
is heard as Molly Wood. The role of Steve is
played by John Howard, co star of the film Valiant
is the Word for Carry, and now up with the
curtain as the Lux Radio Theater presents The Virginian written
by Owen Wister, starring Gary Cooper with Charles bickleb Helen Mack,

(03:47):
and John Howard wyoming in the early nineteen hundred, the

(04:10):
dusty little town of Medicine Bowl is humming with activity,
and though it's only ten o'clock in the morning, the
Maverick cathe is killed with a noisy, rowdy gang of
cow hans whooping it up on now one day off.
From the seat comes the tall quass coping young cowboys
known to his friends as in the Virginia, and he

(04:33):
steps up to the bar. He gets a loud locom
from an old cow Steve.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Hey, god dang maje, suit said buzzet or you pass
him by. See nobody else, but well, Steve, you orderly
load down, cousin of a bald beaver? What lays are
you doing here? All out in pleasure ruined the town
about a week ago. Well, I'm sure glad to see you,
see say it must have been four years since we
were riding together. Four years or more.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yes, sir, say, I heard about you being made pullman
over the box x rat.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
It kept me laughing for a week. Yeah. Well what
have you been doing? All the same as usual, working
some and playing some mostly playing. Sure you no good weasel,
You're just the same as always. He's no accounts to
nobody nowhere. I think you're ever going to set it down?
Be Hey, what for hello, Nina? How are you? Hey?

(05:29):
Let me introduce you on old palamide. Oh, hello, morning, ma'am.
He's very handsome. Yeah, just a minute. Sure he's a
real lady killer, Nina. Yee, you better whatched up for
this ombray man. He's a low down double barrel lad.
Don't you believe a word he said? Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, hello?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
What's the argument?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Boys? Alight, Tampa, step right up and going in.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
I don't want it's all about Nina. But whatever it is,
I can settle it far and square. Who my favorite?

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Why don't you in Frampus does blown.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
In to beat your time with his lady? Come on,
you know I buy your drink.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I am with these gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
You mean you were with them? Come on, no, stop,
I want to stay here. Hey, I ain't arking with you, sweetheart.
I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Wait, there ain't no argument, Trampis. We're getting along just fine.
Not that it's any of your business always talking to you.
I'm just telling you.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, Well, when I want to know anything from you,
I'll let you know your long legged son about Wait.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
A minute, if you want to call me that smiles
you getting mighty touchy. Ain't you about something? You better
be leaving trampisy home.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
I'm always I'll turn my hide org in the game
of touch.

Speaker 3 (06:46):
Hey, I wouldn't mix have done with Slampus if I
were you. Tampus and me just don't mix the door.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Hey, where's the Virginian?

Speaker 3 (06:54):
Nobody wants me? He ain't Nebrasky. Yeah, oh.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Oh, hello, bosh, Hey, the way home and special can't
get through to the station on the corn of them cattle.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Blocking the right way. All right, I'll come along. Steve's sure,
I'll help there. Queen him up? Yeah, he had him
this way? Oh in the busty some more. Well, I

(07:29):
guess that fixes it, thanks Steve. Well, look at who's here?
Where That girl over there just got off the train.
I reckon, Hey, these guys are fine looking female. You know,
I'd kind of like to make her acquaintance. I've seen
her first, Steve, Hey, what come out with her? There?
She's backing up like a scared care Hey, look at her.

(07:52):
She's scared of that milk cow down. Hey, man, that
cow won't hurt you. Don wait, Steve, I'll go and
rescue the fair ladies. But for what I move, cow,
don't stop me.

Speaker 4 (08:02):
Now, get away, get away, please, get away.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I said, Oh, get out of here. Get out of here,
you honorary devil. Go on, go on, get out of here.
Well crit has gone, man, I reckon your seats now.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Oh, oh, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
The mighty lucky thing I happened along a wild steer
is an awful honorary critic.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Oh, I did brighton it just for a moment.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
If that stare had seen you face to face, just
like I am doing now, ma'am, he couldn't have been
so bean. Oh, thank you, I reckon. You're the new
waitress at the Lone style hotel.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Oh no, I'm a teacher.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh the new school, ma'am.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
I've come all the way until morrow.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
That sure is fine.

Speaker 4 (08:49):
Well, thank you again for reckon.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Oh that's all right any time at all. What's the matter?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Girl? You see my boxes?

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Boh? See what flyer?

Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, she's a looking cow. I'm hitting a home and
you run away and I can't fight. Who's there? Head?
Bossy here, bossie here.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Girl here, Bobby.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Oh so that's your wild steer, a rooking cow.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Well you see, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Thank you so much, mister cowboy. It was so brave
of you to rescue me from BOSSI look, ma'ama, it
was like this. Don't you think you'd better go and
rescue that little girl. I'm sure she'd be quite impressed,
But if you tried to make a fool of hers,
she'd probably clap yourtle face.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Good morning, Good morning, ma'am. I'm sure sorry it wasn't
a real steer. My little little girl's a daisy. See
where's a big white habit? And I'll bet your life

(09:55):
when I'm in chany boy, who's there the Virginia? That's right,
j I thought I recognized you to doc. I wasn't
sure on your way to that welcoming party they give
him for the new school. Mom, I suppose that's where
I'm heading yet and me too a siege. He's a
mighty pretty girl, yeah, be sure he is. Stage. The
Valley ranchers had another meet in this afternoon about Russealo. Yeah,

(10:19):
the patience is plumb give out. I'll tell you the
country's going to the dogs when it pays a man
better to steal into work. It ain't everybody that's stealing cattle, judge,
some is and it's up to us to find them out.
You know, Judge, I got an idea that ain't going
to be so awful hard once we set our minds
to it. What do you mean you've got any suspicions?
Maybe boo, Well, it's only a suspicion, Judge. Cattle rustling's

(10:42):
a nasty thing to pin on a man, unless you
got poof Tell me who it is. I'll get the proof. No,
I reckon, I'll wait a while. And if I was you, Judge,
I wouldn't say nothing about it to the welcoming party.
Know you're spoiling the school mane Well, I guess to

(11:09):
slowly wash up trampat. Yeah, sure, sounds like a good
time in there. Sure, I thank Steve.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, what I was saying before, you ought to get smart,
Carl punching. Ain't no way for a fellow like you
to make a living.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
I know it's Tampa a cow hands, dumb on a
low coach, steer, freeze all winter and bake all summer,
and for what thirty dollars a month and feet?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Sure, making money's easy if you know how, and if
you're smart. Well, U what's on your mind? Tranpa nothing
I want to talk about. Now, what's when? See me tomorrow?
I think you're the interest. Hello Steve? Oh hello, Well

(11:54):
I thought he was going to wait for me tonight.
Oh you was late in Trampas tangle bye, so I
sort of come along with him. Well, you went very
choosy about your company.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Maybe you'll explain what you mean by that nothing.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Trampis nothing, But maybe I ought to compliment you. Trampus.
You've got so many cabs this year. I reckon it
keeps you World War up branding them.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
You're allowable to talk yourself in a way. Heap of trouble,
my friend?

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Since when was I your friend? Trampas? All right? That
suits me? See you later, seep. Yeah, well Steve, how
articulate around to the dance? Sure? Come on, let's go in. Hey,
there's your new school mom over there. Yeah, there's he

(12:39):
looks mighty prettying over her mom dress. Don't you say,
Steve looks good in an engine square blanket? Well his
old Steve. You're gonna ask her for a day and
I'm going to get it even in them Oh good lit.
Would you care to try a turn a dancer? Huh?

(12:59):
I said, do you care?

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Tell me you're from Virginia, aren't you, Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
That is I was born then.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
I always got at seventies.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
He's a good naming, that's correct, ma'am. Least the way
see they should have well in New England.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Your son, a man, always asked to be introduced to
a lady.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Before he asked, I asked your pardon, ma'am. Will you
excuse me for a minute, Thank you, ma'am. Hey, shorty, yeah,
come here, yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
What do you want?

Speaker 3 (13:28):
You know the news school, ma'am? No, sure, I know it. Well,
I want you to introduce me formal like sure, yeah,
come on over, thanks shorty, Oh miss Wood, Miss Wood,
I'd like to present an old friend of mine tow you.
We called him the Virginia. Very pleased to meet your ma'am.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Oh yeah, you're the jallat young man. Recuse me in
the same town.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
That's tame town.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
It's all right, shorty, I'll for you tomorrow. Huh oh yeah,
yeah yeah?

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Well sor.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well well? Uh would you like to dance, ma'am? Or
should we put down?

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Thank you? I'm a little tired.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
I'd rather talk than dance. Can't talk and dance. The
same time. Anyway? Should we go out? Sign say? Well, wait, ma'am,
nice and quiet out here, yes, isn't it? Yeah? Sure? Uh?
Miss Wood. Uh, there's something i'd like to say to you.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
Do you mind if I say I think srak No, ma'am,
I suppose you you're very proud of yourself for what
you did the other day. Yes, Uh, no, ma'am, Well
you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, ma'am. Right?

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Is that all you can say?

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yes, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Right, no, ma'am, but I don't think you're a bit funny?

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yes, stop it.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
No, that's better. Now we're gonna get along. Fine.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Do you say you had something to say to me?

Speaker 3 (14:56):
Well, I reckon you said it already. I was just
going to apolo. Yeah, I see you are the kind
of acting up like I did about that scount. Oh.
I see. Now that's all over and we've been formally introduced. No,
i'd like very much to go riding with you someday.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Oh, would you?

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yes, ma'am. You ain't afraid of me, are you? Oh?
Why should I do? No reason, Paul, I'm as gentle
as a flower horse, and I'm powerful interested in education.

Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh then I do hope you come to some of
my classes. I have several little boys. Yes, your aide, I.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Sure be prop y only I don't reckon. I could
get away from work to go to school right now.

Speaker 4 (15:33):
Oh, but you could get off to go riding.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yes, ma'am. All right, m thank you, ma'am. I'll be
calling for you up at the schoolhouse. Well, uh, how
do you like the new horse?

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Oh she's marvelous. What's your name? What are you laughing at?

Speaker 1 (16:01):
Well?

Speaker 3 (16:01):
Uh? Her name is Sir Henry, but I call him
Hank for sure.

Speaker 4 (16:06):
Well he's a nice story.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
You want to get off here for a while?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
All right?

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Easy enough? Well, y'all.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Thanks. Oh, it was wonderful to ride out here. I
love it more every day we come.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
I reckon, I do too. Never noticed the country much before,
but coming out this way with you all the time,
I like it. Fine.

Speaker 4 (16:26):
You haven't told me about that book I lent you
last week. Did he finish it?

Speaker 3 (16:31):
That Romeo and Juliet? Yes, ma'am, I finished it.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
Don't tell me you didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
Well, I ain't read any poetry before, but as soon
as I get the hang of it, it'll be as
easy as reading the Patent Medicine catalog.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Didn't you like this story?

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Well, there raise a mighty strange breed of men in
them days. But in some respects this Romeo was a
pretty good ombree.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
Oh indeed, just a pretty good ombre.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yes, And he had his enemies and to kill him
scause he wasn't no coward and cruisy was on the drawer.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Why you approve of killing your enemy?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
No, not no, no, not if there's an honorable way out.
No man, but their enemies with particular ornery, they had
it coming to him.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Wait what else? Why didn't you like about Romeo?

Speaker 3 (17:17):
I didn't like him in that balcony scene.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
The balcony scene. Why that's the most famous scene in
the player.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
Maybe so, but not for me. What's his idea? And
trap's nupping down? A wrote the ladder? Anyhow? Why didn't
he go in through the front door?

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Don't you understand their families were enemies?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
The trape's not a ladder. That's my idea of a
real man.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
Well, what would you do? Go in and kill his father?

Speaker 3 (17:40):
That would be nice. No, I wouldn't have killed him,
but i'd have had a shirt on with a man.
The man and if he was too stubborn to call
off that fool feud, I'd have grabbed juliett, ride off
that balcony and married her.

Speaker 4 (17:51):
That was just what he was planning to do.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, no, but he couldn't stop playing actor on that balcony.
Wasted so much valuable time he got him both killed.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
But would you have done well?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
I ain't no wrong, he all. But if I love
the gallon and one of that, I wouldn't tider away
at the time. I know the ladder making up poetry.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Wait all, what would you do?

Speaker 3 (18:10):
I'll show you.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
I just take her like this, let me do stop
it stop?

Speaker 3 (18:17):
Oh there, that's what I do.

Speaker 4 (18:22):
You're You're just as sure of yourself, is that, aren't you?

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Molly? Don't play actor with me. We don't pool each other.
We ain't on no balcony. Molly, don't you think the
spring is the prettiest time of the year to be married?

Speaker 4 (18:37):
I don't want to be married, Oh Molly, well not
yet anyhow. I've got my school and I'm just getting
started in teaching school.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
That ain't no woman's job in life.

Speaker 4 (18:46):
It's mine. Or I like you and I admire you,
but I'm not sure of myself yet. This country is
so new and strange. I feel like an an alien,
an outsiders or I don't know how to explain it,
but I'll just do. But I'm well different.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Mm, women are funny, Molly, I don't understand him.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
Well, I'm glad you think you don't.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Oh say, sounds like a cast bailing. I better find
out what the couple is.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
I'll go with you.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
No, you better stay here. I'll be right back long on.
Hello Steve. Oh, oh hello, I didn't know you were

(19:42):
coming up this end of the range. Oh, I'm just
kind of drifting around. I just been putting a monogram
in a couple of strays. Yes, so I noticed, Steve.
There's no use talking around things. You've been putting Trampas's
grand on somebody else's cast. Well, what about it? That rustling, Steve?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Ah, what a few calves more or less a man
that's got thousand. I'm sick and I've played in somebody
else's cows around for no more enough to keep you
on smoking the back And don't talk that away, Steve.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
You and I have done a lot of local things together,
but there's some things that ain't only local. They're plumb wrong.
How you take life too seriously? This whole country's taken
things more seriously. I ain't trying to lecture you or
play Sunday School on what's right or wrong. But the
ranches around here a plumb sicker haven, their herds turned out,
and they'll soon.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Be posses out with lopes on their saddle. Well, I'm
trying a nice limber one to make it easy for him.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
If they catch me, you blame hard headed fool. What
are you going to do? Turn me in? Nobody's talking
about that. I reckon. I couldn't be sot you no
matter what you did. But listen, Steve, you and I
have been friends too long to find ourselves lined up
on opposite sides and anything like this, ah shacks. How

(20:59):
do I know what I'm gonna do? This country is
getting too civilized, too solemn. I got a notion.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
I'll be mosey and out to the girl field or someplace.
Don't need you leaving, Steve. You know you can stay
on here as long as you're on.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Just say you don't do nothing crazy, And if I do,
we ain't gonna talk about that, not till the time comes.
Only I'm just hoping the time never does come.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Gary Cooper will be back in just a few moments
to continue the story of the Virginia. But now let's
go to the airport in Burbank. I'll beyond the huge
one a Brother studio, and the five point thirty Plain
takes off from New York and a brow does you girl?

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Let's listen.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Right drive way out in college.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
We'll just spend it off. Try pretty plane?

Speaker 5 (22:01):
Is it important an airmail special delivered to ill buttlet
or anyway?

Speaker 2 (22:07):
I'm be the fund.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
The sea planes are a lot of what people do too.
Look at the crown, but well they're not looking at
the plane. Does Mike nights over there?

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (22:17):
They need to shooting a picture? Yes, isn't that a Southern?

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (22:22):
It is and southern.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
Oh doesn't she look like a million I'm snappy fute.
She's wearing some snappy complexion too. I'm sure I had
one like it.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
M Southern's complexion does look lovely. It will continue to
look soft and smooth and clear because this youthful star
protects it. She knows that enemy to good looks, cosmetic
skin comes when you're careless. Here's what this charming star says,
of course I use cosmetics, but I don't risk unattractive
cosmetic skins. I use luck toilet So because then I

(22:55):
know I'm safe. That's good advice for you. Luck toilet
So flather is active. It removes every trace of dust
and dirt, stale, rouge and powder that might remain to
choke the pores. It's when the pores are choked the
tiny blemishes, a dull, lifeless look. Enlarged pores tell you
you're getting cosmetic skin. Remember put nuts toilets up on

(23:18):
your shopping list. Buy for your complexion the same care.
Nine out of ten screen stars use. Once again, mister
de mill. We continue with The Virginian starring Gary Cooper,
The Childs Bickford as Trampis, Helen Macers Molly Wood, and
John Howard as Steve. Several weeks have passed since the

(23:46):
Virginian warned Steve against rustling cattle, but the warning went unheeden.
We find Steve now with Trampus and two other men
engaged in running a herd. It's late at night and
they've made camp in a rugged right away deep in
the hill country. Trampas squatting beside the fire growths over there.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Victory not so bad?

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Ah, BOYD three had a cattle worth one seventy five apiece.
That isn't hurting for living a steam.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
But I'm still hurting them cows. You've been running them
and running them hard all day long. This ain't no
picnic at all.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
You'll have your picnic steep when we cash in on. Hey, Pedro, Hey,
don't let's stick on the fire. Yeah, wait a minute, trampers,
I'd let that fire be speak enough now. If anyone's
following us, they'll see it. Shore was shooting white painting
of Jim getting scared. Ain't no use asking for trouble.
Let the fire alone. Hey, listen, when I want to fire,
I'm gonna have it. There's anybody following us, there's forty

(24:45):
miles back.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Cool on the heel, Yeah, hunting for cow tracks on
the water high.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Well, I'm going to dangle down the ravine. See how
grease is getting along night hading them critics right back seat?

Speaker 3 (24:55):
All right? What's say? Ain't you never heard cattle before?

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Jim?

Speaker 3 (25:03):
It sounded like there was being disturbed as a calm down, boy,
you're all on it.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Sure everything is all right?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah, maybe, but I'll be glad when we get rid
of them towls.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'll tell you that, what if they do catchers?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
You can only die once. Yeah, what's life anyway?

Speaker 2 (25:17):
A few winters waiting for spring, a few summers wishing
they'd last, and then you're little six by three, six feet.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Under the ground. That's all might as well be hours later.
That ain't the way I feel about it. I ain't
itching to die just yet. Now, come on, let's think
of something cheerful. We sing something to cheer you up.
My boy, Pedro will make it low and swung.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Solid on your gone.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Oh boy, oh my sub boss. Look down there that fire,
it's them. It's the rustlers. Easy. Now the cattle must
be down on that raisine NEBRASKI take three men and
round them up. Sure, shorty, you skid around to the
north and come up on the campfire from there. Take
honey and bowldy with you, but leave your horses here.
Oh ship Corse said, you stick with me. Okay. When

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I whistle, shorty, you and your men close in. Yeah, won't.
They will be surprised down there all right. Now, spread
out everybody and coming easy. If you want to make
sure we get them all on the Fris likes army
armour dog. Oh don Davy had our boy pad? I

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always like that fun.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Have we got a boss?

Speaker 3 (27:07):
All right? Now, stay right where you are, Comrade Thomas.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Why are you calling guys?

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Boys? Thanks for the it was really entertaining. Hello Steve, Hello,
I was afraid i'd find you here. Yeah, I warned you, Steve.
Sure it's all right? Well, where's trampis trampers? Oh? Oh,

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you ain't here.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Me and Paedo and Jim were hunting by ourselves.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
That's tru with five cups over there on the rock.
You must have been been drinking with a cup in
each hand.

Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh here, Hey, we got the cattle all right, but
the willow was a knight hurting him duck.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
We'll get him later. Whatever we do now, boss, I'll say,
strew them up. Wait a minute, you got anything to say, Steve?
I guess not. You're sure that? Yeah? All right, boys,
you know what to do? Sure we do.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Let's have your rope, shorty.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
How there there's a good tree right over there. All No,
I don't want to die. I don't want to die,
but I don't want.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
To shut up. Jim you gotta take the medicine graceful. Well,
come on, boys, I guess we're all set. Ain't you
riding in with this?

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Boss? No, I'm staying here, Shorty. I got I got
things to do and things to think about. I know
how you feel about Steve. I mean he was my friend, Shorty.
I know he's sure wind groom though not a winkle
out again, you never even looked at me, not once.
You never said a word. I reckon you wanted two boss.

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You see when he was getting things ready, Steve Graydon
is gone. He said to give it to you, boss,
to me. Yeah, there's a note that goes with it.
He wrote it while he was waiting, give it to me.
Here it is I I can't see so good. Would
you read it to me, shorty? Sure? It says so long.

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I couldn't have spoken to you without playing the baby Steve, Steve.
We would you be riding now?

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Boss?

Speaker 3 (29:29):
No? No, you go along. I'm heading over to Lost Valley. What.
I got things to do. I got a hunch that
trampas went that way. I'm going after him. If they

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had ready, they startopped telling him I had taken odd
champion of being spotted We gotta got away from here.
I haven't played with him. Steve and Jim. We gotta
get away, crumpless. We don't make it all right. We
gotta watch our step. I'll take it easy. We'll stay
here of God. Then when head south after that umbers
with the mylet trampers. Look down there, how many's coming?

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He blows, Ah, Look, I ain't the Virginia. See the Virginia.
M he said, yeah, and the other rifle here, No,
go by himself there looking for me. Well he's looking

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for the last time you hit him. He's done high.
Come on crazy like.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
And we can start moving now.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Oh hellan the graffite all the Virginia. Well he still
he's unconscious, but the doc says he's out of danger.
Hey did you bring the medicine? Yeah, here it is.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Hey, you know the Virginia ought to be in a hospital,
a school mom's house.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Say't no place for him?

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Man?

Speaker 3 (31:11):
What they fetch him here for? Anyway? Well, they didn't
fetch him. His horse brung him right over there to
that door. His horse funny, ain't it? No, tain't funny?
Say he's been hanging around here so much. The horse
thought it was home.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Shorty, did you bring the medicine?

Speaker 3 (31:29):
I got it right here, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
Oh, thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
No, you want to get some shut eye, ma'am. You
look all war out.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Oh I'm all right. I'm not a bit tired anyway.
There's too much to do.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
You're sure taking good care of him, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
As long as he gets well, that's all that count, Yes, ma'am.
On the brass, li'man to ask you. Have you seen
Steve around?

Speaker 3 (31:48):
See, ma'am Steve? No man, No, ma'am, Well, we ain't
seen Steve lately. You see him? Well, he don't work
for the Box eights no more.

Speaker 4 (31:57):
Oh, I thought it was funny he hadn't come around.
Tell him his gun is here? The Virginia had it with.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Him that night.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Yes, ma'am. I sure will tell him, that is if.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
If I runs across him.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
Thank you. Excuse me?

Speaker 3 (32:09):
Boys say, don't she know Steve? Wish? I meant to
warn you about that. She don't know a thing. Or
it might be better if we didn't say nothing. Yeah, sure,
she ain't used to things like that. Yeah, she knew
Steve pretty well. She'd be pretty upset if she knew
the Virginian had a hand in on it. Well, how's

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the patient today? Oh, having up and around, Judge feeling fine?
Good boy? What's the doc say about you? All fixed?
He says, I can get out now anytime. Only Miss Molly,
she's been taking six good care me. I kind of
hate the leader. I can't say I believe you none.
You know there's been some talk lately down around the
town how we all might be doing little celebrating sometimes

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the screen celebrating what oh wedding you mean me and
miss Molly? How about it? Well? I wouldn't go putting
no bets up if I were you jee or saying
not if I was you you ain't getting married? Oh
I didn't say that, you said don't put up no bets. Sure,
you know it don't look so good for a judge

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to go around gambling. And I'm pretty sure thing I
reckoned it don't sound Oh morning, miss Wood.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
I just get talking about you.

Speaker 4 (33:34):
Well, yeah, just this minute, Judge, Henry, I wonder if
you'd mind leaving let's go.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Well, why no, ma'am, dessert didn't leading not just getting
ready to leave anyhow, Thank you, well, so long, so long, Jed,
see you soon. You're hope so morning, miss Wood. Well, Molly,
why didn't you tell me what's that?

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Why didn't you tell me?

Speaker 2 (34:01):
You knew?

Speaker 4 (34:01):
I'd find out sooner or later?

Speaker 3 (34:04):
I reckon, you're talking about Steve. I am h Well,
I thought you knew, Molly.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
I didn't know, not until this morning. I. Oh, it's horrible, horrible.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
It had to be, Molly.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
You were there.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
Why didn't you stop it?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
You could have stopped it.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
No, you see I was leading the party. You yes,
but Steve was your friend. It didn't make much difference then,
your friend and your murdery murder?

Speaker 4 (34:33):
What else can you call it?

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Molly, don't talk like that. It was hard enough. Don't
make it any worse. Somebody had to do it, and
I was in charge. That's our kind of law.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Cause your kind of law tell you to kill your friends.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
That Any question of friends or enemies is the question
of right or wrong. I did what I thought was right, Molly,
it was right.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Do you think I'll teach my children to believe it?
Do you think I'll help raising your generation to approve
of murder?

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Where you come from, they have policemen and courts and jails.
We ain't got that so when we have to, we
do things our own ways.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
I see it now, It's just life. It destroys every
human feeling, a person's god.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
It destroyed you.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
It's made you cruel and ruthless and cold blooded.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Well, it won't destroy me.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
I won't love it. I'm leading here just as soon
as I can.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Leaving Molly. You don't mean that, I do mean it.
Then you're you're leaving me too.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, I'm leading you too. I'm leaving everything. It's face
and mean and ugly. Now now please get out and
let me alone.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Do we Paris for station identification? This is the Columbia
Broadcasting System. It's the pride of California that.

Speaker 3 (36:16):
It produced his bigger things than any state in the Union.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
Hence, it was with consternation that California learned some thirty
years ago that a baby had been born in Maine,
weighing sixteen and a half pounds. His precocious muscles rivaled
those of the mythical stone crusher, Poor Bunyan. There's a
legend back in Maine that when his mother took the
heavyweight infant for his first ride in a perambulator, the

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baby leaped from the carriage and bowing gracefully, said come
on more, you'll get in and let me push.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
That may be a tall story, but I can.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Vouch for the fact that he was a United States
Marine when only fourteen years old, and three years later
was a strong man in vaudeville Today. California at Last
claims him not only as physical director of Paramount Studios
and a radio physical.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Trainer, but as a singer and.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Little theater actor as well, Ladies and gentlemen. Richard Klein, well,
thank you, mister Danil.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
What would you like me to do? Sing? Act or
give you a workout?

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I've heard you sing, I've seen you act, and I've
thrown myself on your message in the gymnasium.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
Tonight is my turn, all right? I hope I can
take it as well as you.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Tick.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Gary Cooper tells me that you're responsible for that educated
fist he swings in the Prinsman. Garry's really one of
the best boxes in Hollywood, along with George Rafts, a
guy standing, Jack Oakie, and strangely enough, Ida Lupino.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
But I'm proudest of Gerry.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
He's a real example of what regular exercise can do.
Many people still believe that the life of a picture
star is around the parties, anything but around the boxing.
One of the reasons I asked you here to correct
that impression. Well, outside of farmers, none live a more regular,
healthy life than film stars. It's a matter of necessity.
If they didn't, they never be able to stand the strain.

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A well balanced diet, plenty of sleep and the.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Proper exercises are absolutely necessary so they may give their best.
You might be a little more explicit.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Well, their taste in exercise varies. Carol Lombard and Claudette
Colbert prefer tennis carry grant and Randolph Scott who went
for punching the bag being Crosby and incidentally mister de
Mill like the rowing machine. Grady's swought out and Adolph
Monsieur do lots of riding, and Malina Dietrich and May
West keep their famous figures by peddling a stationary bicycle.

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I've been doing my Dandie to get w C.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Fields inside of the gym, but he insists he gets
all the exercise he needs juggling a half dozen grape
fruit every morning. My gymnasium, by the way, is one
of the most historic buildings in Hollywood. It out as
a bond, then in nineteen fourteen as to Demil turn
it into his studio. It was there that he made
the first feature length picture The square Man. Keeping fit

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has become so important in.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Hollywood that in the near future, every new player at
Paramount will undergo a complete physical examination when signed. All
of our executives will also be expected to report regularly.
Take a tip from these famous people, ladies and gentlemen,
and find time to exercise.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
I guarantee you'll be amazed.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
At how much more work you'll be able to accomplish,
how much better you'll feel. Do your exercising where you
can step into his shower immediately after. And if you
want to get the ultimate good from both exercise and shower,
my advice is to use locks toilet soap. I believe
in physical culture of the skin as well as the
rest of the body. It's part of my business to

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know what's death for a healthy skin. Lots never leave
the skin dry as many salts do. It has a
pleasant aroma, and its cleansing qualities are distinctly superior. You
can be pretty certain that when the stars go for
something the way they do for luck, soap it must
be good and thank you mister Daniell, and so good
night's quality. And now back to the Virginians starring Gary

(40:18):
Cooper with Charles Bickford, Helen Mack and John Howard.

Speaker 3 (40:29):
Several days later, in.

Speaker 1 (40:31):
The Corral at the box Bage Ranch, we find the
Virginian saddling his horse. Strolling up to the gate comes
Molly Woods. She stands for a moment watching him, then
speak timidly, good.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Morning, Molly, I mean good morning, ma'am. It will be
a pleasure to have you, ma'am.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
You see I didn't lay Yes, ma'am, I I change
my mind. I'm going to stay.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Are you well?

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Aren't you glad?

Speaker 3 (41:08):
That all depends? You see, folks has to be made
for this country. It's rough and it's wild, and it
takes a strong stomach to stand for some of the
things that go on out here. If you can't stand it,
it's best not to stay at all.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
You think I may weekly, don't you.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
No, ma'am. I just don't think you understand our side
of it.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Perhaps not, but I've decided to try. I've been doing
a lot of thinking since the other day. I've looked
around me at people like Judge Henry and Shorty and
Nebrasky and their wives. People like that kind of all
being wrong.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
They're kind and good.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
This man may are, but they don't ever let themselves
forget the reason they're here. They're building a new country, ma'am.
It's a big job, I know, and that's why I'm staying.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I want to help.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
So we sure needed them, any help at all, and
yours will be like welcome, thank you.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
And now will you? Will you forgive me for what
I said to you?

Speaker 3 (42:05):
Forgive you?

Speaker 4 (42:06):
Well that's easy and well everything be just as it
was between you and me.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
That's up to you. Money I wanted to do, I've
been wanting it to.

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Oh God, hey Joe, Joe, Oh Pampas, ain't seen you
around here for Yeah, I haven't traveling set up around Joe, Hey, crazy,

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come and get it. Hey, Joe Ton's getting name je
with carhad watch up. Hey, it ain't no wedding. The
Virginia is getting his new school Virginia.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
Hi thinks he wouldn't be.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
I heard you saved his life and yeah, I didn't
sem to recollect something about him being shot a while ago.
Engines wasn't Yeah, but they plugged him in the back
yet I say nobody didn't finish him. My goodness, I'm
on greasy drink. Oh boy boy, where's the wedness?

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Molly? Yeah, where's the big events? It ain't gonna be.
Don't tell them all us so you can stop pestering
right now. You a bunch of main g mavericks.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Shave me, Smiley?

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Do you mind if we boy him first?

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Bell? Well? Can I trust you?

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Oh? We'll all be very good. I'm pretty good, not
too good?

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Wait is the honest man not one of them?

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Well, all right, I'll trust all of you.

Speaker 4 (43:40):
You can borrow them, but not for too long.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
One ahead, boys, I'll meet you in a couple of minutes.
Ye see, all with yours lay for you don't mind
me going with them, do you? Honey?

Speaker 1 (43:51):
Well?

Speaker 4 (43:51):
Christ the boys have their rights to you just as
much as I have.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
I won't be long anyhow, We'll have plenty of time alone.
Where we're going, we'll travel west. Do we find just
the place we want to make our home.

Speaker 4 (44:03):
I hope you'll never be guy.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I hope I'll always be able to make you happy
and to keep you happy. That's going to be my
main aim. In life.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
Well, you gotta run along now. The boys are waiting
for you.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
I get asy, boys, I got to get married to man,
set them up, joel, Sure or sure? Hey there's a
friend of yours in town. Yeah, yeah, tell a name
trampas trampas did he mention here with a friend of mine.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
He said, plenty about you.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Ald it up and talk with me. Said he'd drop
in again. Many cases any ers to you? Well it ain't.
I think he's looking for trouble myself. Wouldn't it be
just too bad if he found it? Hey, boss, we'd
take this thing off your hands if you want. He
hasn't shaved you the trouble. Just say the word any
all all of us. No thanks, boys, this is a
matter between us. I'm only hoping he don't drift around.

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But a fella don't get married every day. It's just this.
You've got to think of her. Whilom I thinking out,
step right up and he is boss. I'man in the door.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Well look good, dere go your face. Get the thila chrummy.
Now here's letting mangy foreman hang.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Around easy shortage. It's all right, got about job and
I would gratis thinks to me, I hit of a
fellow around here, got shot in the bag. Well, so
far as I know, the only way that can happen
to our fellas when he's running away. She running away
of me? Handly, will you boss? No, I don't want

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no trouble in the dress.

Speaker 1 (45:42):
I'm sick of this clavering around pleasont Hey you you's
speaking to me, Trampis.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
Yes, you.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
You've been spreading a lot of talk around about my
dealing and cattle. I'm having a showdown with you here
and now, Trampis. I'm trying not to have any trouble with.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
You just now.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, you've been dodging it for five years. You've been
talking plenty of trouble to keep out of my way.
But I got your corral now, and I'm calling your hand.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
All right, what did you get?

Speaker 1 (46:07):
I've got the belief you're a lion, white livered skunk.
This country ain't big enough to hold the tours. I'm
giving you the sun down and get out of town.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
It's too bad you had to say that trumpet.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Get out, get out by sundown or I'll shoot you
on sighte. Come on, greasy, let's get out of here.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Boys, I'd like you to oblige me and this by
not interfering. Sure we understand. So let's less than a
half an hour. Now you're going to tell miss Molly
not to look over if you wouldn't understand about this,
She's she's raised different. Well, we won't say nothing, boss.
I got Steve's gun over the hotel. I reckon that'd
be the one to use. I'll go over now and

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fetch it. Right. Come in? Oh here you are sure? Mary?

Speaker 1 (47:09):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (47:09):
I thinks are terrible waiting for you.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
You heard about trampus being in town.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
Everyone's talking about it. They say you've got to leave
by sundown. I I wanted to run out and find you,
but I didn't. I went quietly in my room.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
I'm sorry. I had to be worried, Molly.

Speaker 4 (47:24):
It doesn't matter. Nothing matters except that you're here. Let's
go quick about it. What should we do now?

Speaker 1 (47:30):
No?

Speaker 3 (47:31):
Nothing? Now. I ain't quite sundown yet, but I know
it's a heat puss for you. I wish you didn't
have to wait alone, but it won't be for long.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
Why what do you mean?

Speaker 3 (47:44):
I did my best. I let him say things to
me no man ever said before. If I hadn't been
thinking hard to you, I reckon that I killed him.
Then I give him a chance to clip, but he's
going too far. It'll have to go on. Now, what
are you I'm not gonna let him shoot.

Speaker 4 (48:01):
Me, but sope, we can't go away. It's not too late.
You can go away and lead him here.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
I've got to stay.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Oh no, there must be something else.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
There must be.

Speaker 4 (48:10):
Well, I think what it means killing in cold blood.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
You don't think I want to do this, or I
try to.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Forgive the other killing those cattle thieves, And I see.
I forced myself to think of it as you did
law and order, But this, this isn't the same. You
don't have to do this.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
If folks came to think me a coward, I couldn't
look them in the eye ever again. Or you either, Oh,
that's just pride. I don't know what you call it,
but it's it's something in the feelings of a man,
deep down inside. Something a man can't go back home.
If anybody happened to say I was a thief, I
couldn't let him go on saying it. It wouldn't matter
what other people's thought, but I'd have to know inside

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of me that I thought enough of my own honesty
to fight for it.

Speaker 4 (48:50):
And it's to be like this always. When will it
ever end?

Speaker 3 (48:53):
They'll always be killing to do until this country in
a meeting place for men like Trampers.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
Can think of that, I'll like together.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
That's what I am thinking of.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Your life has always been your own, but now it isn't.
You've given it to me, don't take it away.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
I can't think of that now.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
If you do this, there'll be no tomorrow for you
and me.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I am sorry, Ma, it's got to be done.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Why no, don't go come back, Please come back. You
can't leave me like this.

Speaker 3 (49:21):
You can't lead me. Hello boy, Hello shorty and at sundown. Yeah,
I've just seen trampers. He's in Joe's place. Yeah, I
guess I'll think a walk.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
Down that way, misten, Boss, stay on the sidewalk. You
don't want to be stepping in one of them mudholes
when you're taking aim.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
I'll do all right. I'll walk with your piece, that is,
if you don't mind, of course not come on. Watch
out for the loose board's boss. This walk is full
of them. I'll watch it yet, all right, it's fine
we're all with your boss. I know it. There he is,
just coming out the door. He sees your boss. Yeah,

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I'll go on from here alone. Shorty. It's you're boss
and lots of luck. Thanks done, Virginia. I know it, Trampess,
I want it. Well, I'm waiting.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
You won't have long, all right?

Speaker 3 (50:32):
You never touched me, Shorty. Home. God, you've got him boss,
he's get her. Nicol mac Hawk. Yeah, I reckon he is.
Let me please, miss Molly, Molly.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
You Oh thank god, it wasn't true.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
O God, it's all right, Molly, no need, it's fine.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Don't ever leave me ever again.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
But what you said before about there not being in
it tomorrow, don't that count?

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Nothing counts except that I'll have you promise me you'll
never leave me.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
Come sure, I promise, But I still don't understand women, Molly.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
We take our leave of the Virginian, but not of
Gary Cooper and Helen Mack, who'll come back to the
microphone a little later. Activities of the motion picture world
draw more newspaperman to Hollywood than national affairs go to Washington.
Outstanding among them is Sidney Skulski, whose column Hollywood appears
daily in the New York News and in many other papers.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Here and abroad.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
Formerly author of the column Tintype in the New York
Sun and Behind the News in the Daily News, it
has also been press agent for such dispensers of beauty
as Sam Harris, Earl Carroll and George White. He would
probably be a f if I said he is the
best like firm reporters. Good as a member of that
resolute minority who believe in hearing to the line of

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news and letting the quips for where they may. Ladies
and gentlemen, Sydney Skultkie, when you call me that, Pardner,
smile well, Hi, or Skulky, I've got myself exactly where
you want me.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
You will never get there, Skultchk.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
I mean I'm as nervous here as I make you.
When I visit your movie set, right.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
You look like one of my pictures for a frightened people,
all a far of them.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
I sound like a straight man. And when a columnist
goes straight, that's something that'll be enough.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Skulk, get on with your Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Watch, pretty suckle. Nobody'd ever think you were talking about lucks.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Can you do better?

Speaker 2 (52:48):
Well, I don't use publicity birds in my column, and
I don't intend to start with this program. But I
can truthfully say I've seen luck soap and homes and
movie stars that I've visited, and I don't believe actresses
keep lucks around for the same reason they keep Emeralds.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
No, you're here, make the worst of it.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Don't worry. I will. Hollywood is a place where Kay
Francis now keeps hardari in shorthand, where Glorias Swanson has
eight photographs in her bedroom of Glorias Wanson. It is
a town where you need an umbrella to walk through
a mist. It is a town where you heard of it.
Leaving the party said to the hostess, I had a lovely.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
Evening, but this wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Where Francis X Bushman, who is once the Clark Gable
and Robert Taylor his day now on the Hamburger, staying
opposite the twentieth century Fox Studio, and is still serving
his public. But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood.
Hollywood is a place where Victor McLaughlin, playing a scene
for his picture The Magnificent Brute, was told to run
up a flight of stairs and then fall when the

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villain fired the first shot from his gun. McLaughlin failed
to do this, and when asked why by the director,
Victor answered, I'm McLaughlin. It takes more than one shot
to get me. It is a town where Simon Simoon
doesn't pull down the shades in her apartment and rents
have gone up in that neighborhood. But don't get me wrong,
I love Hollywood. Hollywood is a place where Douglas Fairbanks

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has his name written on the bands of the thick
guaz he gives you. It's a town where you can
drive into a drive in stand and bring home a
take of ice wrapped in cellophane. Where the first thing
Robert Taylor had to do to be a picture star
with to pluck his eyebrows.

Speaker 1 (54:24):
Where at the preview of the picture Pigskin Prey, they
had a singing showing girls going to Yale.

Speaker 2 (54:30):
But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (54:33):
Hollywood is a place where Ginger Rodgers for a wild evening,
goes bowling with James.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Stewart on Wilshire Boulevard, where John Barrymore gives a great
performance ordering a cup of coffee in the Brown Derby.
It is a town where director van Dyke making the
flick of Eskimo took artificial snows to the Arctic, Where
Gene Holler wears a mink coat and with nothing underneath
it but a pair of silk pajamas. Where Gene Fowler

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now signs has let it Gene Fowler author of Jack
London's White Fang. But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood.
Hollywood is a place where Charlie Chaplin keeps a huge
dictionary in his bathroom, Where Goble and Rex O'Malley doing
a dancing Camille fell to the floor. O'Malley helped Gobble
up and rather embarrass it to Greta, Oh dear, how

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could I have tipped over your tiny little feet. It
is a town where Joseph von Sternberg raised a bed
and when asked why, I answered, I'm tired of looking
at my face and I'm not the only one. But
don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood. Hollywood is a
place where Tara Lombard can be seen reading a story
in a fan magazine title Clark Gables Romantic Flight. It

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is a town where Irving bull In at a party
asked what song the fellow at the piano was playing,
only to be told it was Alexander's Ragtime Band, where Ted.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
Healy aske the stooge Jimmy Brewster, who do you think
will get in Roosevelt or Landon?

Speaker 2 (55:58):
And Brewster answered, what the guy? We got in there now.
But don't get me wrong, I love.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Hollywood and always will as long as he supply such
slug coffee.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Good night, thank you, good night, said.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
We bring back the Virginian, Gary Cooper and the schoolmom
Helen Matt.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
The mill.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
The only thing I next to night was seeing Gary
ride a horse as he does when he really gets out.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
In the open. Were riding something extra special, Helen. Back
home in Montana. We learned to ride the most when
we're kids, and most kids rather are pushing the kitty car.
I guess they cut my first teeth on the battle letter?

Speaker 4 (56:41):
Is that why you pick? Gary's is a part of
wild Bill Hiccock and the.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Planet Mister Mail properly, Helen.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Actually, he's a perfect puppet of Hiccock and looks size
and manner, And there's a similarity between the Virginia and
wild Bill. The Virginian is the ideal American character in romance.
Shot on speech and lie on action and wild Bill
h is the ideal American character. In fact, Pickock was
not a bad man.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
He was a patriot.

Speaker 4 (57:05):
Well then how did he get such a reputation as
a killer.

Speaker 3 (57:08):
Well, he's supposed to have killed between sixty and one
hundred men, not not counting Indian and.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
Nobody counted Indians in those days.

Speaker 4 (57:13):
Oh, they were just used the practice.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Probably. The fact is Piccock killed only in defense of
law and order. And as he said himself back in
the eighteen seventies, there's no Sunday west of Junction City,
no law west of Hayte City, and no God west
of Carson said.

Speaker 1 (57:28):
It was to change all this, to bring respective law
to the west that Ticock devoted his life, finally losing
it when shot by Jack McCaw who killed him for
the strangest reason ever heard, because he admired him so much.
I guess it's because all this is true that I
got such a kick out of making the picture. It
was real, and including the danger and riding between two
horses to escape an Indian ambush. I think you did

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something many stars would have avoided. However, that was in
the script. What wasn't in the script. But you are
stopping the six horses that stampeded across the prairie, running
all over the stage coach and will.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
After all, I had to stop them. The one they
were running away.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
With was me, while you were running away with a picture.
I hope we will soon have another picture for you
to steer when.

Speaker 4 (58:10):
Guys, here's a picture of a broadcast. It's really grand
lost me, Helen, Helen, as far as ankins there, and
I wish this program to go on for another sixty minutes.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Anything after your performance tonight, Helen would be an anti climate.

Speaker 4 (58:22):
Then all I can add is that when it comes
to radio programs and soap Jimmy Lutch, every time they're both.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Tops about the same tickets and include you, Helen.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
Thanks guys, good night everyone, good night, good.

Speaker 3 (58:34):
Hi Helen, good night Planson.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
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Speaker 2 (59:17):
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Speaker 1 (59:21):
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