Lux Radio Theatre - Conversation Piece

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.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hollywood, California, Monday, November sixteenth, The Lux Radio Theater presents
Lily Palms and add Off monshoue in conversation piece with
Marjorie Gateson and George Saunders. NUTS presents Hollywood Our Stars,

(00:27):
Lily Palms, add Off Monshue, Marjorie Gateson and George Saunders,
Our guests, Pig Murray and Cotton Warburton, film editor and
former All American quarterback, Our producer Cecil v Demil, Our
conductor Lois silverts On, behalf of our stars, our guests
and sponsors. Welcome to another hour in the Lux Radio Theater.

(00:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:54):
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Speaker 1 (00:57):
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What is surprising is that a large cake of this
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that every girl can use Hollywood's favorite beauty care every day.
Remember to bias apply tomorrow. Thank you, and now our

(01:20):
producing ladies and gentlemen, with your cessor b De Mill
greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Of all the precepts
in the Bible, I have found none more pleasant to
observe than love thy neighbor. It's not as much to

(01:41):
my credit, however, as it is to theirs, for the
neighbors in my case happen to be those charming people,
Lowly Ponds and mister and.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Missus d Art Monsieux.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Last year I rode across the country on the same
train with Miss Ponds. At that time, her dog was
recovering from an operation. Ordinary dogs get nothing more aristocratic
and please. A prima Donna's dog gets the pendiciples. As
we stopped at each station, the daintiest singer of them
all would favor me with a dazzling smile. The result

(02:11):
was that I lifted.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Her dog on and off the train all the way.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
From New York to Hollywood. Presenting Adolf Monsieux as Duke
Paul is particularly appropriate for when I first met him,
he was known as the Duke because, though he may
have vowed for board and lodging, his first day's pay
from each production went as a down payment on another
suit of clothes. A Monjieux performance today is as brilliant
as a man dieu sport jacket, and that's saying something tonight.

(02:37):
Lady Julia is Marjorie Gitson and Lord Sheer will be enacted.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
By George Thaunders. Miss Ponds is heard.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
As Melanae, a cafe singer and acrobat and now no
coward's conversation piece starring Lily Ponds and Adolf Monjioux. Our

(03:07):
play begins in Paris during the year eighteen hundred and nine.
We're in a small shabby cafe called La Pattis Girondin.
The hour is late, but the cafe is filled with
a drinking, boisterous crowd. We had a tiny window, seeking
relief from the tobacco raid. In the air stands the
perfect gentleman at the time you call conspicuous in that

(03:30):
crowd for his elegant attire and obvious refinement. He has
just been joined by Melanie, exquisitely fresh and untouched.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Melanie too, is quite unlike the others.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Let's hear you have come to Alie. I cannot lea
ventilizing again.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
I am impatient to start our new life. Mademoiselle, do
you have to juggle your wine bowls too?

Speaker 4 (03:51):
No, no matics. Yes, one song, and now we'll be
finished here for.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
The night, finished here for good Melanie, Yes, for you
seem glomy about it?

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Yeah, good tie, I'm in a day, I'm swaft, that
I am dreaming.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
It is really true of this?

Speaker 4 (04:04):
But will I dress wake up?

Speaker 1 (04:06):
Oh, it's quite true. One more turn and you are
done with Cabarets, finished the tricks, wine bows and squalor.
But anyone would be in a daze with all this
smoke in here? Do we know? He's openly?

Speaker 6 (04:16):
Shall we live out together?

Speaker 4 (04:18):
Then we can breathe and see the stars.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Well, let's breathe by all means.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh, bride, it is tonight. You aving a room?

Speaker 6 (04:27):
Well it's a tight squeeze.

Speaker 7 (04:28):
Yes, it's that cozy.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes, come now back to business. You realize that when
you sing your last note tonight, Melanie of the Cabarets
will be no more. Yes, and you will leave here
with me as Melanie Trouble.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
Who has never been in the Cabareine air lives exactly,
who has a sweet, fair haired little girl in an
old gray chateau with the.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Wild garden, Yes, excellent mademoiselle, and whose parents died in
the revolution when she was very young.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
I will remember, monsieur, you will live for the.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Time being with that nice old lady we called upon.

Speaker 8 (04:55):
Keep believe that you.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
Are my baddy, yes, and that I'm the doctor of
your dear old friend the marque to come on.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yes, she suspects nothing.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
I'm so glad. It is very flattering to be taken
for a mark his daughter.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
You must see that you learn to act like one.
You must be very careful of your speech, your manners,
your whole attitude. I will teach you, and I promise
to be as patient as I can.

Speaker 6 (05:15):
I'm sorry to be so much trouble.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
It is a question of business, not trouble. As you
are now. Almost any man would admire you extravagantly, but
no rich man would believe that you were the daughter
of a marquis and marry you. And if no rich
man married you, you could never pay me, your rich commissioner.
Why are you laughing?

Speaker 4 (05:32):
Because you know we are stargazing while you dictate a
new life for us. And aren't you we ago We have.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Never seen each other.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
We are not stargazing. We are talking business.

Speaker 9 (05:42):
Oh now, Vett.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
But still the night is all rue and here I
am a singing acrobat, iron all and penniless, squeezing a
dusty window.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
With you a great deal equally penniless and middle aged.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
Oh no, let me late.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
We're getting on a little bit, so night to me. Okay, maemoiselle,
you are talking nonsense. I'm sorry you are not in
the least sorrow. If you were, your eyes wouldn't shine
like bonfires. Put them out. Yes, that's better, and no
more sentiment, please. Our new life is a sensible business
partnership strictly. Yes, I know that is a great even
a great dupust eat. And the revolutionary has left me

(06:20):
nothing but those two pictures I told you about, which
they somehow overlooked. So you are my only possible business,
I said. You always come back to beasts naturally, Google
live on in Paris, as I say, on the little
life saved, and will be a very frugal. Then, when
we are ready, perhaps something will turn up enough money
to take us to England and a rich and doting
husband for you. I see England is where we will

(06:41):
catch him. Melanie, Melanie, come here.

Speaker 6 (06:43):
I'm sorry, they're calling me.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
I have to squeeze that now and seek.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
All right, your last song, Mademoiselle, I choose it carefully.
A fitting swan song.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
No, not a swansong. It is a promise. Listen to
it please, because it is about someone rather like me,
who promised that she will now betray you and wes.

Speaker 6 (07:04):
Throw your plans, but we will follow a.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Sippy cars no matter what's trying to stay an till
she finds luck.

Speaker 10 (07:20):
Will not.

Speaker 5 (07:51):
Said what double my.

Speaker 8 (08:39):
Lo?

Speaker 5 (08:50):
I see like.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Melanie, Melanie, where are you coming here? I don't know?
It's not.

Speaker 11 (09:27):
Me.

Speaker 7 (09:27):
I'm plans on away and the win is shirking.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Here by the reiling on catch me here? Hold on?
Are you all right?

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Nah?

Speaker 4 (09:36):
I'm miser heab what do you want?

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Look off there? Those lights? Yes? What there are Melanie?
Those lights are England?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Even are you sure?

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Of course?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
It looks like rock?

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Two years we haven't waiting for this moment, and now
we're here.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Who think what it means?

Speaker 1 (09:54):
Melanie? We have enough money left from the few pictures
I sold to keep us going properly for three months,
and you are check changed into a perfect aristocrat.

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Look perfect enough to pull your friends. That woman we
wait here on the board, Lady Julia.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I think she's sispect nonsense. Lady Julia couldn't pussy suspect.
You are an aristocrat and there is England teeming with
rich men.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
It doesn't look it.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
We have only one handicap left. You're English, don't worry.
It is coming, yes, at a snail's pace. Once in England,
you will speak only English. The solicitor who engaged your
little house in Brighton has also engaged a maid for
you who cannot speak one word of French. Her name
is Rose Rose.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
I think she will be a thorn.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Good morning with Yella Duke.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Good morning Rose, you're bright and earliest. I told you
I would be today to go over Mamoselle's bills for
the month.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
I have them all ready for you on Mademoiselle's desk.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Thank you. And how is Monemoiselle's English this morning?

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I don't know, sir, but my French is improving by
leaps and bounds.

Speaker 1 (11:08):
I say, there seems to be a lot of deal
on this butcher's bill.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
I keep telling Mademoiselle that is unreliable.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
It's not it's integrity, I question, but it's cost. What
is this bill here?

Speaker 6 (11:20):
Humbugs?

Speaker 1 (11:20):
Sir?

Speaker 4 (11:21):
They sort of big bull's eyes. Bull's eyes not real ones, sir,
They're sweet candy. You tuck one in your cheek and.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
To keep you going for hours.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
Mademoiselle's very partial to them.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
Good morning, Melanie Mordieu made English, Melanie English.

Speaker 4 (11:40):
Oh I did not know you were here.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Thank you, sir, Melanie. What on earth is that lump
on your cheek?

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Humbug? There are delicious ball? Are you mad again?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
You have been speaking French to Rose and eating too
much veal.

Speaker 12 (11:56):
Please, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Veal is unreliable and expensive. You are reading too many sweets,
and unless you learn English quickly, we shall have to
go away, just as we came, without money, without positions,
without anything.

Speaker 6 (12:08):
Please do not be angry with me this morning.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
It is my birthday again.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
Well I feel like my birthday.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
How can I make you realize that life is serious?
Look at these bills. We've been bright in a month, yes,
and nothing has happened at all? Allah? What will you
have me do?

Speaker 9 (12:24):
I'm no food, arm, no clothes.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Go out into the street and write and say marry me,
marry me to every man I see, or.

Speaker 7 (12:30):
Come to that fascist matter?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
English? Is it? You must listen?

Speaker 4 (12:34):
I will be sensible, even in English. I will try
to be sensible, but you must not ask me to
be serious. This evans you must be again funny.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's because today you feel particularly happy without reason, just
as yesterday you felt miserable without reason. You are a
creature entirely without balance.

Speaker 6 (12:50):
I was an acrobat.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
One kindly remember that you spend your lisping careful childhood
in the walled garden of an old gray chateau feeding swans.
What is this? Never mind? You have never even seen
an acrobat, let alone beIN one. Now then, business, Melanie,
What did lord shere said you last night? Not very much?

Speaker 13 (13:07):
That he was very agent.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
He's coming here this morning his money. I wrote him
a little note from you. I will receive him, and
when I have talked to him for a little he
will propose marriage. When he does, you will accept him.

Speaker 4 (13:18):
When may I love somebody?

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Please?

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Love has nothing to do with our agreement. I see,
what's the matter.

Speaker 12 (13:25):
He doesn't feel like my birthday anymore?

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Please, Melanie, no sentiment?

Speaker 4 (13:29):
And what if I fell in love?

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Fell in love?

Speaker 4 (13:32):
Yes, yes, what if I fell in love?

Speaker 6 (13:33):
But why all this talk of love?

Speaker 1 (13:35):
I tell you it has nothing to do with our agreement.

Speaker 6 (13:37):
But what if I could not help it in spite
of your agreement, then.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
We can have to go away and start all over again. Now,
please stop talking nonsense.

Speaker 6 (13:46):
It is not nonsense.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
You are so sure that everything in life can be arranged,
so like arithmetic.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Why not emotionless? So very untidy? That is how you feel,
exactly very well.

Speaker 4 (13:59):
I will see how young lorch here, But I have
no forget on my promise, spot promised that last night.

Speaker 13 (14:05):
At a cafe to follow my secret heart.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Good morning, mademoiselle, Good morning lotch here. I've just been
having a talk with your guardian. Oh, yes, he said,
I might see you.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
Oh it is very nice there.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
It is nice, very nice, so pretty.

Speaker 11 (14:34):
Everything here in.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
England is so fresh and clean.

Speaker 12 (14:37):
Look out there out of the window, that little boat.

Speaker 6 (14:41):
How do you say, sailboat?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Yes, that's a sailing bird.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
So graceful in the sunshine, like I'm white butterfly.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yes, Nani, I had no idea you had a guardian.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yes, he said that he understands I want.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
To marry you. Did he? Then? I need?

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I didn't know when I spoke to you last night.
I wasn't sure of what I wanted I'm not sure now,
but don't you do you.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
Speak too quickly?

Speaker 4 (15:06):
Please do not speak so quickly.

Speaker 13 (15:09):
Why do you stare at me?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
Who are you really?

Speaker 4 (15:14):
I am Melanie to traumare the daughter of the market
to Traumle. My father was giving the evolution. My mother also,
and my little.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Brother are and you four other brothers and four sisters.

Speaker 1 (15:23):
I know all that.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Your guardian told me.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Oh, a large family.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
You love them? Yes, there are beings and your guardians
you love him?

Speaker 6 (15:32):
Yeah, I see are the father?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Who are you really?

Speaker 11 (15:37):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Grow away?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Who are you?

Speaker 13 (15:39):
I don't know?

Speaker 14 (15:40):
I or please?

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I love you, Melanie. It's true.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
It feels strange as that I weren't quite awake, and
yet at the same time more awake than I've ever
been before. You see, I'm not very old, not very
experienced yet and it's the first time.

Speaker 12 (15:55):
Oh, something's very uneasy.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Why didn't you expect it?

Speaker 13 (15:59):
No?

Speaker 4 (16:00):
Oh, no like this.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
You wanted me to love you, didn't, Joie, both you
and your your guardian.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
No, Rullee, I'm not quite so young as all. That.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Look quite a fool. My eyes are wide open. There's
a lot I don't understand the tricks, some sort of trick.
I feel it for all my instincts, but I don't care.

Speaker 1 (16:14):
I feel more than that.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I feel that's' agetty lovely and very sweet, and that's enough.
Oh please please bring my wife.

Speaker 14 (16:22):
Please me Hi bey golf.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
You don't face your hands, look at me? No, mel Honney,
go away, please please go away. Just a moment is
a contigua with conversation being starring Lilli Pongs and Adroph Marsha.

(16:45):
Now let's pay a visit to a typical Hollywood home.
The family is sitting down to a six o'clock dinner.
But we'll go upstairs and tune in on Anne, the
pretty daughter of the house.

Speaker 6 (16:53):
Here she is she I would get stuck on the
lot is when I have a date.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Now I'm terribly late.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
I'm so tired. I get to go out with Bill when.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
I feel like this.

Speaker 6 (17:02):
The tree cheers. I've got a good idea.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Luckily, Anne knows a secret she learned from movie stars.
And half an hour later, listen to what she says.

Speaker 13 (17:09):
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girl come too.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
I'm ready for a large evening.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Now I'm dancing on air, And what a fragrance at
nice soapears, I feel like a minion, still got to think.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
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its active luther is so thorough that it removes from
your pores, stale perspiration, every trace of dust and dirt.
That's why it keeps neck and back and shoulders soft
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why lovely screen stars like Loretta Young, Carol Lombard, Anita

(17:41):
Louise use it, and why you're sure to like it.
Try this luxurious, inexpensive beauty bath tomorrow, and now, mister
de Mille, we continue with conversation piece starring Lily Ponds
and Adolph Marjou, with Marjorie Gateson and George Thunder's. It's

(18:02):
several days later in the little house in Brighton, Melny
wait eagerly for Paul to pay his daily visit. At
the sound of a footstep, she turns quickly, but it's
only Charles, the servant. Mademoiselle. Yes, Charles, there's a lady
and gentleman to see you, Mademoiselle. Who are they? The
Duke and Duchess of Benadon.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
The Duke and Duchess.

Speaker 11 (18:25):
No cheers parents, Yes, mademoiselle, are there Charles in the
sitting room.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Mademoiselle, thank you.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
I will go and see them. Good afternoon.

Speaker 14 (18:37):
You are Nodemoiselle de troma flee.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
I am the Duchess of Benodin and by husband the Duke.

Speaker 6 (18:43):
Blest you.

Speaker 11 (18:45):
How do you do?

Speaker 6 (18:46):
Please forgive us?

Speaker 14 (18:47):
The calling on you so so unexpected it, but I
believe you ought to prince it with my son, Lord chap.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
The moment, my l don't rush metal if you please?

Speaker 6 (18:58):
Yes, my love, why don't.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
You set down the check?

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Will you?

Speaker 14 (19:02):
As I said before, I believe you are acquainted.

Speaker 13 (19:04):
It is my son you are come to ask a
service meddl.

Speaker 6 (19:10):
We have then, I do not understand the check?

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Are your manner?

Speaker 9 (19:14):
It's so impolite?

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh? My wife is upset, actually upset?

Speaker 13 (19:20):
Right?

Speaker 4 (19:20):
We loave of it?

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Would it our only son? Is that not more?

Speaker 4 (19:24):
You thought that mine?

Speaker 14 (19:26):
You'll spend in worse straton resting times. Mademoiselle, my son
is infatuated with you if he's young, and that the satuation.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Will not love it, must not lave.

Speaker 14 (19:38):
My husband and I are fully prepared to compensate you
in reason to it compensate?

Speaker 9 (19:44):
What is that compensate?

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Mother?

Speaker 4 (19:46):
Money?

Speaker 6 (19:47):
You will pay me money, yes.

Speaker 14 (19:48):
If you will give give us your word that you
will never as see my son again.

Speaker 11 (19:51):
He find of him.

Speaker 6 (19:52):
But then that is beside the point. I think you
will perhaps go now five hundred pounds.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
It is very charming your son, and his eyes are
very clear and blue. I think he will be angry
a thousand pounds.

Speaker 7 (20:05):
I'm tired, madam.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
I cannot send down until you go.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Excuse me.

Speaker 6 (20:09):
If I read my maid, I would rather like.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
To make one thing charge you. Georgianna.

Speaker 14 (20:13):
Well, if my son marries his parents consent, he will
not have a penny, not a penny.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Do you understand that, Georgiana?

Speaker 8 (20:23):
Please?

Speaker 4 (20:24):
Yes, that you can do chit Ali.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Come, Georgiana, come back to My maid will show you out.

Speaker 14 (20:31):
It will not be necessary to.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Speak.

Speaker 7 (20:38):
I'm sharing my legs.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
Will not send my goodness have faith when she went out,
my goodness her.

Speaker 9 (20:44):
Faith all the time, Oh ah, my heart did for her.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Poor.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
I beg pardon, mademoiselle. There's a lady to see you.
What another one? Lady, Julia charteris She says she met
you on the boat coming over. Oh, that one.

Speaker 6 (21:12):
I do not wish to see her.

Speaker 13 (21:13):
Tell her I'm far far away, yes, mademoiselle.

Speaker 6 (21:17):
Oh, please forgive me. But it was so drafting him
the whole.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Oh, yes, that will be all child, Yes, mademoiselle, would
you said done? Thank you?

Speaker 6 (21:27):
I hear that Monsieur de Ricky is not here. Yes,
I know it was you I wished to see.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
I've recently come to Brighton and I've been so wanting
to see you again.

Speaker 6 (21:35):
I'm very happy, madam. I have so much to talk
to you about.

Speaker 11 (21:39):
Your guardian and I spent a great deal about childhood
together in France.

Speaker 6 (21:43):
You that is very nice. It was such a pleasant
surprise to see him again on the boat.

Speaker 11 (21:47):
I thought he was dead.

Speaker 6 (21:49):
No, he's a light.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yes.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
I knew your father many years ago, the marking de Tremon. Yes, Oh,
a most witty and delightful man.

Speaker 9 (21:59):
Yes, it was very nice.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
I don't remember that he had any children.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Oh, yes, to one boy and one girl.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
I was the girl.

Speaker 13 (22:10):
Where do you live when you were a child, A.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
Gray one chateau.

Speaker 6 (22:14):
It's all very distant in my mind. The shutter, the tremble,
no doubt, Yes, there was a small water and swan.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
I spent all my early years listing there.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
Well, you haven't got a list now, No.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
I lost it in the revolution.

Speaker 6 (22:32):
You remember very little about your early life. It is
so far away, so very far away from the truth. Madam, Oh,
my dear child, don't be absurd. The whole story is idiotic.
You've been very badly reversed. Soul should be ashamed of himself.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
I do not understand why you speak more, and I
do not understand why you come here.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
I came to find out what you were like, to
see what sort of play thing PAULA picked out for himself.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Will I think I am not placing?

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Come? Come?

Speaker 6 (22:59):
You can hardly expect me to believe them? How dare
you stick those words to me?

Speaker 11 (23:03):
New necessity?

Speaker 6 (23:04):
If you lose your temple mind?

Speaker 4 (23:06):
How tell you, idiot one? That one?

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Do you hear? Who watching the world for? Julia? I
didn't know you were coming.

Speaker 7 (23:14):
Tell her to go away, that one?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Tell her pause, Melanie, be careful, no enough for being.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Careful enough for these English busy body.

Speaker 11 (23:22):
I congratulate your paul said fine carrot, My dear Julia,
what has happened?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
I have been mis silk insultant.

Speaker 4 (23:28):
Yes, first by the very charming mother of Lord here
and now Maddy's looping camels.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Melanie, Lady Julia is a very old friend, but she.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
Has not a lie to come here and call me
you placing what?

Speaker 13 (23:40):
Yes, you're placing too nice fix.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
I will not stand for your taking that tone.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
If you want me to marry Lorgie, do you very well,
But after you will have no penny, not one, and
I shall be forced to take tricks again. Mil I
need to Turmo in the cavalry. That will be charming
and a lot.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
Of good it will do you.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
This is idiotic, it is, and I will not stand anymore,
not for you, not for the love of Heaven.

Speaker 7 (24:04):
I'm going back to Frun tomorrow if I have swim there.

Speaker 6 (24:11):
It's all very interesting, Paul.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
It was unkind of you to come here and bully
the child.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
I didn't bully. I merely wanted to find out.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Who she was. I see, Well, it's an odd story, Julia,
quite fantastic in fact, May I hear it if you wish. First,
I should like to speak to Melanie for a moment.
Do you mind, not at all.

Speaker 6 (24:26):
I'll be here when you come back.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Thanks. I won't belong Melanie. Melanie, Ye, come here. I
want to speak to you. Yes, Melanie, Why did you
speak like that in front of Lady Julia? I hat
that's quite beside the point. Don't you realize that if
you persist in treating people as you do, that our plans,
the work of two years will be for nothing.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
I say I was going back to fun.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yes, but you don't mean that I do.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Or to let me go. I will never be happy here.

Speaker 9 (24:54):
Let me go and you'll come with me.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I want no, Melanie. My life is here and yours too.
If you would only re realize it.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
You do not care about whether I am happy.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
You can be just as happy here as in France alone.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
But when I'm married, when you have found me a Richmond,
I will be alone here too.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
You will have your husband, How will have his money?
So good compensation?

Speaker 9 (25:13):
Is that how that love means to you?

Speaker 6 (25:16):
Is there nothing else?

Speaker 1 (25:17):
I've told you? Business and sentiment don't mix. Now dry
your eyes, Melanie and try to be cheerful. I'll speak
to you later.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Where are you going?

Speaker 1 (25:26):
I'm going to call a carriage and take it to
your home. I'll have a good deal to explain on
the way, Yes, you go, I'm afraid I must goodbye, Melanie.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Come all I.

Speaker 10 (26:05):
Oh, no body not.

Speaker 11 (26:17):
He on.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Moody.

Speaker 10 (26:28):
Oh he paid.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
You know anything by so sweetly as poss us, such

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a harmer easily the time of.

Speaker 5 (27:28):
Street.

Speaker 10 (27:37):
We got.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
What we.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
We jump in Jump.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
There you have it, Julia, You see, Menani is nothing
to me. She is my plan, my trick to be
played upon the world, my livelihood.

Speaker 6 (29:03):
Paul, have you gone mad?

Speaker 4 (29:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (29:05):
I have many transformed myself from an a feat aristocrat
into an unscrupulous adventurer.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
That sounds faintly theatrical.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
The murder of my wife and child was theatrical enough.
The depths of my whole family on the guillotine were
equally theatrical. My life from then onwards as a fugitive
was an under succession of syrial comic stage effects. I
was a baker's assistant, a lawyer's clerk, a tutor. Two
years ago I found Melanie singing in a cafe. She
seemed to me to be better material than my sibling pupils,

(29:32):
And five months ago I managed to sell two pictures
from the old house. With that money, I brought her
here why she's to make a rich marriage and you
take the commission.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
Yes, well, well, I think it's a good joke in
very bad taste.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Taste is too expense of the social luxury for a
poor man.

Speaker 6 (29:48):
I suppose the poor little thing is in love with you, in.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Love with me? What nonsense. This whole plan has been
understood completely between us from the first as a business arrangement.
How wise will you help me? Well, I'll try. I
knew you would bring it to my house when good evening.

Speaker 6 (30:02):
This evening, it's she'll come.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
I think you might if I asked her to.

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Don't you sit down, Melanie?

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Thank you, Melanie. I have brought you here for a
very good purpose. But first I wish you would apologize
to Lady Julia.

Speaker 6 (30:24):
No, no, it's for me to say. I'm sorry.

Speaker 11 (30:26):
I was over inquisitive and I jumped a conclusion too. Hately, Mademoiselle,
I ask you forgiveness.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
Thank you, Madame.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
I have told Lady Julia everything. She has promised to
help us.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
It's a very interesting.

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Story in Mademoiselle, and I should like to help to
bring it to a happy ending.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
We can talk quite freely in front of Lady Julia, that.

Speaker 13 (30:43):
Is very nice.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
Oh, welcome now to business.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
Be nice?

Speaker 12 (30:45):
Oh yes, in the play, not one of prince.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Partons, Melanie, Lord sheer is our only definite.

Speaker 12 (30:55):
You like you.

Speaker 11 (30:59):
I do see how difficult it must see for one
so young and so charming to banish sentiment.

Speaker 9 (31:03):
And Turli, he asked, and Patti's madame.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
But sentiment is very silly. There is no sentiment in
the rule world really enough to waste the time.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
Propose for all.

Speaker 13 (31:12):
I've spoken that very often. Letters Now then net business, I.

Speaker 6 (31:17):
Am a number with which to begin, a number. Yes,
I meant the progress. First, there is a prince regent.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
But you will not marry me, Melanie.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
Wo'd be shocked.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
All that is true, and we are speaking truth but admirable.

Speaker 6 (31:30):
Then there is not here enough be excellent.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
So if we marry there is not one.

Speaker 7 (31:35):
You are lost.

Speaker 6 (31:36):
Oh, that can soon be remedied. If your social position
is improved.

Speaker 11 (31:39):
You must first of all be presented more or less
informally here as a provision.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
But how who will present it?

Speaker 6 (31:44):
I shall, But before that you must give a little
supper parting. Now I'll arrange it and invite the guests.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
I can never begin to express my gratitude, Julia, No,
not at all.

Speaker 11 (31:52):
Old friends must be kept from starving. Now let me
see Lord Saint Mary's must come, and that you can
Duchess Venadon, Lord Shere, Lady.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
Mass Rock, and of course the Earl and Countess of Harring.
But oh they're very useful, are they rich? Have they foolish?

Speaker 1 (32:06):
Some? Melanie, Meli, you must have cards and good wine.

Speaker 6 (32:09):
I have perhaps some music.

Speaker 11 (32:10):
Mademoiselle might sing a little, she has such a charming voice,
but I should suggest songs more ali to the classics
on the cabaret.

Speaker 4 (32:17):
Have very pretty captures. It is not us be very too, Amadam,
that will intrude my songs with care, and that will
be too careful to leave up to them to cheat
and lie and pretend perfectly. Oh yes, I will be
so very careful, Paul, to follow Madame Suggess.

Speaker 12 (32:37):
And my secret parts.

Speaker 9 (32:41):
You're deepret hard, yes, Madame, no matter what price you pay,
what sounds they said, I follow my secret part.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
We paused for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting
System conversation piece starring Lily Ponds as Melanie and Adolf

(33:32):
Monsieur Duke Paul continued shortly from the lux Radio Theater.
From the nineteen thirty three All American football team was selected.
Practically every sports writer in the country pick Cotton. Cotton Warburton,
the diminutive quarterback of the University of Southern California. Since graduation,
he's been at Metro Golden Mayor Studios, where he's now

(33:53):
a film editor.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I've asked him here tonight to tell us something about editing.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Films and scoring touchdowns. Cotton kickoff, Thank you, mister de Mill. First,
I had better explain what a film editor does. It's
very seldom, ladies and gentlemen, that a picture is filmed
in the same continuity as you see it on the screen.
The middle part may be taken first, the first part

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may go before the camera laughs. All this must be
joined in its proper sequence, and music and sound effects injected.
Cutting is a major problem. In the Good Earth. For example,
two and one half million feet of film were shot,
enough for two hundred pictures. It's our job to cut
the Good Earth to twelve thousand feet. You know, mister
de Mill, I thought I was through with football when
I went in the picture business, but I'm still calling signals.

(34:38):
Take this For example, twenty five d F three eight
seven six two scene two two eight a take three
date ten six.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Let's call a time out, right. You explained that to
the audience we use.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
Singles and referring to a certain piece of film. That
particular number refers to the third version of a scene
from The Good Earth showing Paul Uni eating a bowl
of rice. Those numbers also reveal what sequence the scene is.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
In and on what date it was filmed.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
But unfortunately I can't use the same method to keep
my signal straight as I did in college. How did
you do it that? I had them neatly written down
on my pants? One time the manager sent my regular
pants to the cleaner and I almost lost the next game.
Have you played any football or cotton since you've received
your diploma? No, though I coached a professional team owned
by Victor McLoughlin. But since I married and became a papa,

(35:23):
I get all the exercise I need. Walk on the floor.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Does the baby look like all American materials?

Speaker 1 (35:28):
Not unless football teams are going to include girls. But
she's one hundred percent lux baby, mister Demil, And.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Then at least you have an all American complexion right.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
I don't know how.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
I don't know much about the care or feeding of babies,
but I figured if luck soap is pure and gentle
enough for the stars, it must be about the best
on the market. When the doctor backed me up on that,
I felt pretty proud of myself. If you were picking
the All American team for this season, Cotton, whom would
you select from performances to date? My choice would be
Brans King Minnesota and Kelly Yale for tackles, Widsith Minnesota,

(35:58):
and Frankel Fordham for yards, Pierce fortam and Morel Navy
for Senator Herwig California for half backs, Heap Northwestern, and
you're in Minnesota for quarterbacks Smith of Alabama and for
full back Patrick Pittsburgh. And before I have time to
change my mind, thank you, and so long good night.
We returned to last story conversation piece starring Lily Pond's

(36:20):
and Adolph Mongu with Majorie Gateson and George Saunders. It's
the evening of Melanie's official presentation. In a room fairly
glittering with social celebrities, the young girl appears nervous and excited.
She's been asked to sing that our scene opens, she's
just finishing my five.

Speaker 11 (37:22):
Quite answer, isn't he?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Lady Works?

Speaker 11 (37:24):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Quite, but very disturbing.

Speaker 6 (37:26):
She doesn't seem to fit in, if you know what
I mean.

Speaker 11 (37:29):
Yeah, so background is a bit so well shady, don't
you think, Lady Harrington?

Speaker 4 (37:32):
I wish we could find.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
Out more about her.

Speaker 14 (37:35):
Well, I'm going to ask you can't be too careful
these days about the people you meet. Since Lady Julia
was the one who presented her, perhaps she will give
us a little information.

Speaker 6 (37:49):
Melanie, you're well wonderful. Thank you, Lady Julia.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Come with me now.

Speaker 11 (37:53):
I want you to meet Lady Work and Lady Harrington.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Pretty is no more.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
I have met so many people. If I have all,
can't you? Don't you lease ask me question?

Speaker 11 (38:02):
All of them?

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Ask me question. I'm so tired.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Then if anyone at me I.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
Have the best one, I shall scream. Melanie can troll yourself?

Speaker 13 (38:08):
Chatanne, Melanie, what's the master?

Speaker 4 (38:11):
She can't meet anymore?

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Gees what she must?

Speaker 6 (38:13):
Then you tell her I have other things to do.

Speaker 7 (38:15):
I'm tired, Paul.

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Let me go.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
Let me meet some other time. Sometime we'd happen.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
If you don't go nonsense. Everyone is captivated by you.
You're a success on the surface.

Speaker 4 (38:25):
Yeah, but Ernie, they respect me and they hate me.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
I can't feelish, be quiet, Paul.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
They we have the pleasure of meeting your very charming ward.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
But of course, Lady Harrington and Lady Words my ward,
Melanie de Tramon.

Speaker 6 (38:38):
Sure, so please, my dear, thank you the memo the marquis.
I presume, yes you are my guardian, screams of course.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Of course you're so stupid of me, Paul, not at all.

Speaker 6 (38:49):
You sing usefully, my dear forever did you study?

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Why think?

Speaker 8 (38:54):
And what teacher?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Why? I don't a private teacher, Lady words unknown, but
very efficient to be? Who are poor? May I see you? Certainly?
Excuse me? Please? Of course I'll be back directly.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
Perhaps I have best to go to ice.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Oh no, no, no, please, we have so much to
ask you, mademoiselle.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
Yes, that's the revolution. Yes, I would rather not talk
about it.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
If you don't mind, then.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
We shall talk about something else.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
Please, I would rather not talk about anything, my dear.

Speaker 13 (39:25):
Are you ill?

Speaker 7 (39:26):
I'm very strange.

Speaker 14 (39:28):
Lady Bromley said you were ill just before when she
asked you something about your life.

Speaker 12 (39:34):
What do you mean by that?

Speaker 4 (39:36):
We mean, my dear, that you seem to be particularly
averse to discussing your power.

Speaker 6 (39:41):
Lady Harrington, it's true, yes, it is true.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
All of you have been snooping so had to find
out something about me. You wish to tell all your
friends and that joke, Well, I will explain to you.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
I am the daughter of Amanda Ray in China. He
was my first father. Mais a godfather, was a I
can drags you live me signed. I live in Italy.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
My mother was a slave.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
My brothers and sister were slaves. No, they were little
pigs trying with their big noses to find out things
like you, madam, and you, Oh, I am gettus knights.
I am the daughter of a witch who was burnt
at the stake. Savey tells to your friends, but take
me quickly, because if you don't go away and leave

(40:24):
me alone, I will smash your fences at face and
pull your dead hair on am by the goods.

Speaker 8 (40:29):
Oh, I think we have heard enough.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
I'm only sorry the rest of the company didn't hear it. Also,
you're very will soon enough tell them, tell them all
and then get out all of you get out demails.

Speaker 6 (40:47):
Paul.

Speaker 12 (40:48):
Paul, where are you?

Speaker 1 (40:51):
I am here? Fly quietly, Melanie.

Speaker 12 (40:53):
Oh what happened?

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Paul?

Speaker 1 (40:55):
You're fainted? You'll be all right now?

Speaker 13 (40:57):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Yes, I remember.

Speaker 13 (41:00):
All the people there are.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Gone thanks to you.

Speaker 6 (41:03):
Yes, Oh, Paul.

Speaker 13 (41:05):
I I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Why did you do it? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (41:10):
I asked him to let me go.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
You did it deliberately, didn't you?

Speaker 9 (41:14):
Nor Paul, I.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
Swear you wanted it to happen all along. You wanted it, Yes,
I did. You've ruined everything. I hope you realize that.

Speaker 12 (41:22):
Yes, But but I don't care.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
Let them go, let them leave us.

Speaker 6 (41:27):
I won't want to marry.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
I don't want I can't hit.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
It's you.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
I love Paul.

Speaker 1 (41:33):
What hits you? I love you, Paul. That is why
I have been so n happy, Melanie. This is a farce?
Is it?

Speaker 6 (41:41):
Fast?

Speaker 9 (41:42):
To be loved to me?

Speaker 1 (41:43):
But there can be no love between us. It's not
only a farce, it's madness.

Speaker 6 (41:46):
No, it is only a very simple truth.

Speaker 1 (41:49):
You have broken your word, you have lied, and you
have made me ridiculous, a fool. That is the simple truth.

Speaker 13 (41:55):
Ain't you, in all your clever plans, did you won't.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
Think of me. Never all that was understood between us
from the beginning. You knew everything, and you agreed to everything.

Speaker 6 (42:04):
I could not.

Speaker 13 (42:05):
Answer for my heart, your heart, I love you.

Speaker 6 (42:08):
Do you understand?

Speaker 12 (42:10):
Call me mad, say it is all stupid, romantic? Is
that with quite your conscience?

Speaker 1 (42:15):
My conscience is not troubled.

Speaker 13 (42:16):
That is true.

Speaker 12 (42:17):
And I love you deep in all my life. No
other things have been so deep in me. You were
finished with love when your wife was killed.

Speaker 1 (42:26):
How often you have spoken to me of that, Melanie.
I beg of you.

Speaker 12 (42:30):
And because there was a revolution. You think to scheme
over all life secure. You think to fit everyone to
your plants like a proppets. But life is realful, it
is important, and life is too strong.

Speaker 13 (42:44):
In me to be just a puppet.

Speaker 1 (42:45):
I was a fool to trust you.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
I love you.

Speaker 6 (42:49):
I love you, and you too, deep down in my
heart you love me. Yes, Paul, everything shouted to me.

Speaker 12 (42:58):
You think now, because you stand here so big her
with the door open to go, that.

Speaker 6 (43:02):
You will prove me.

Speaker 13 (43:03):
Wrong, that you are setting in your shells. I know
that too, that you must not go past.

Speaker 12 (43:09):
Please Paul, come back, Paul, come.

Speaker 8 (43:13):
Back, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 15 (43:31):
It is my pleasure to announce to you the return
to the Pitsia adre of Mademoiselle Melanie. Mademoiselle Melanie returns
with her bewitching voice for your delight and her acrobatic
tricks on her illusive wine bears for your amazement. Tonight,
you will first delight you with a little song.

Speaker 8 (43:50):
She will amaze you later.

Speaker 15 (43:51):
I present Mademoiselle Melanie.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
Wo's in, She's ahead and lolly game.

Speaker 10 (44:27):
He didn't excluded any.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Never never, never the loss did any.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Game?

Speaker 5 (46:02):
Blue blot.

Speaker 13 (46:12):
Of blue.

Speaker 1 (46:18):
Time? Oh minody Melanie, Ah, who are you hearing?

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Time?

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Thank god? You're all right to be with you? I came,
that's all.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
We can't talk here completely quick.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Oh Melanie.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
Here, here is a little window in the shadow, this one.

Speaker 12 (47:16):
It will screw less to look out that it will
be less conspicuous.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
All right, How did you know where.

Speaker 10 (47:23):
To find me?

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Loud cheer, I asked, Lady Julian Rose.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
For everything they knew, I had to find you, offended.

Speaker 6 (47:28):
To see that you were all right.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
They told you everything, Yes, between them, I made.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
Them sow you Do you understand now?

Speaker 1 (47:34):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (47:35):
I understand?

Speaker 8 (47:36):
Then?

Speaker 9 (47:37):
Why are you here?

Speaker 1 (47:38):
I love the good I know, but I had to
tell you.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Melanie.

Speaker 6 (47:44):
There is only room then.

Speaker 13 (47:45):
And true love in my heart, my secret heart, I understand.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
I see you.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
The stars are sick to night.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
You're not looking at them.

Speaker 9 (47:55):
I see them in your eyes.

Speaker 13 (47:57):
There are flirted with stars and sony, O, do not.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Be a shame of this year.

Speaker 12 (48:04):
They are finding nearly see I keep them. Oh, thank you,
my dear for being so sweet too.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Melanie, you don't know how long to kiss you.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
I hope I'm not intruding, ah Modu, you have to Yes,
I was worrying about you. This is an unexpected pleasure.
Lords heare and how to do? I see now? There
was no need. But when I went back to your
house and found your gun, you went back the day after.
I did not know, Lord Shehare was with you, and
naturally I felt the responsibility. However, it was plain when

(48:37):
I interrupted you. Just now that you have returned to reasons. Yes,
Lord shere, I congratulate you. O. Yes, it's so pretty
to see you in love. Please keep looking. I have
a brand at the table.

Speaker 2 (48:51):
If you look, physixcuse me, I'll wait.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
There shall we lean out of the window God with pleasure.
It's still Dusty. I see, Yes you are going to
marry Yes, I'm very glad. Yes you're in love? Yes, Paul,
so am I? Yes? What is the matter with you?
Can you say nothing else but yes? Paul?

Speaker 9 (49:08):
There is nothing else to say?

Speaker 1 (49:10):
When are you going to be married very soon? What
about money?

Speaker 6 (49:13):
That will no matter? No matters?

Speaker 1 (49:16):
Have you anything to reproach me with?

Speaker 4 (49:18):
No?

Speaker 1 (49:18):
Well, then there is really nothing else except this one
other thing, Fred and peas, boom bugs, your favorite candies,
Oh Paul.

Speaker 13 (49:28):
Please open then, and other things.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
It's all true, but you said, Melanie, I do love you.
There they're open and if you want a noom bug now, yes, please,
I love you desperately with all my heart. And I
know now that I can never prove.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
You wrong out What is it?

Speaker 10 (49:46):
My math?

Speaker 4 (49:47):
They are not used to acrobatic?

Speaker 1 (49:49):
So Melanie, you are going to marry lord here after all?

Speaker 9 (49:53):
Certainly I'm going to marry you.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
My darling. Melanie.

Speaker 9 (49:59):
Wait, business now, I.

Speaker 12 (50:01):
Must go this moment and I'm easy ken't eeny centric
quick another?

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Never mind? Business can wait? What was that in your song?
No matter what price is paid, what stars may fade above?

Speaker 10 (50:24):
Ah Abo.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
With Willapon singing the lovely melody, I follow my secret heart.
The curtain descends on conversation piece, but we shall hear
further from Miss Ponds and add out Monjeaux.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
A little later.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Before introducing our next guest, we make a statement furnished
by mister Melvin Pervis, our guest on last week's program. Quote.
After stating figures on crime, it was discovered that the
number of murders committed in Memphis in nineteen thirty five
was one hundred and three instead of the figure given.

(51:28):
I desire to express my genuine and sincere regret for
this inadvertence unquote. I joined mister Pervis in offering my
regrets for this mistake. As the ripley of Hollywood, Fag
Murray is an encyclopedia of strange truths concerning your favorite stars.
In returning to our microphone, he bears the distinction of
being the first guest to be called back since the
lux Radio Theater has come to you from Hollywood, proving

(51:50):
that you like to listen to his odd facts as
much as you like to read his cartoons in the
daily paper. Under the caption Sea and Stars. I've asked
him to begin with what he knows about really palms
and Adolph Manjoux, Ladies and gentlemen, mister fake.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Murray, thanks, mister Demill.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Starting from the ground up, Lily Ponds wears the smallest
shoes of any star in Hollywood, size one and a
half B. A village in Maryland has been named after her,
and she originally took up singing as a means of
improving her health. Adolph Marju was a captain in the
United States Army Ambulance Service in Italy during the World War.
Hollywood told him he was through when the talkies came along.

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Saw he made pictures in French, Italian and Spanish, and
was so successful that Hollywood did nip ups trying to
get him back. His parrot, likewise, speaks French, Italian and English.
And now, mister de mill, I understand you have an
item for me concerning the Plainsman. Yes, since I began
making The Plainsman, thirty nine different people have written me,
each claiming to own Lucretia Borgia Buffalo Bill's famous rifle.

Speaker 3 (52:54):
And now, what can you tell us about football and Hollywood?

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Well, Paul Robeson and Jim Thorpe, the Indian were both
all American players. Barton McLain once ran back a kickoff
one hundred and five yards to score a touchdown for Wesleyan.
Johnny macbrown of Alabama caught the fifty eight yard pass
that beat Washington ten years ago in the Rose Bowl.
Geen Raymond blushes when you mentioned football. Once in a
prep school game, Jean ran the length of the field

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for a touchdown, only to discover he had galloped in
the wrong direction. Doloris del Rio should also be mentioned here.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
She's never seen a football game.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
Dolores, who is Gary Cooper's aunt by marriage, doesn't know
what she's missed, just like those girls who may never
have used Luck's toilet soap. I think the strangest fact
I could find in Hollywood would be a movie star
who doesn't use lux soap. And here's another fact. People
may not know that wonderful aroma and Luck soap comes
from thirty four different ingredients gathered from the far corners
of the earth.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
Now suppose I turn you loose with whatever fact you
care to give us.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
Swell in Lloyd's of London, Freddy Beetholomew eats roast beef
that costs one thousand, five hundred and two dollars and ten.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
Cents, and they must have ordered it from a nightclub.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
The meat itself cost only two dollars and ten cents.
The fifteen hundred was the cost of time lost in
getting at roast beef to steam properly for the cameras.
Shirley Temple has a life insurance policy which is void
if she takes up arms in the fence of her
country or meets death by accident while intoxicated. Lionel Stander,
who appeared in twenty eight Broadway Flops in eight years,

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has one green eye and one brown eye. And speaking
of variety, there's a tree on Alista Landy's estate which
bears oranges, lemons, grapefruit and cumquots, all from the same route.
Fred Astair has spent more than two hundred hours dancing
on air. In each dance, he's in the air one
second out of every five. And there's a card on
file in the Hollywood Studio which turned Fred down with
a following notation at the bottom. A stair also dances.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Any more inside.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
Information, just one more fact, and this is strictly from
the inside. Warner Baxter's appendix is on his left side
instead of his right, good night, good night. If the
statement of doctor Samuel Johnson is true, the Frenchman must
always be talking to night stars. But the fell at
home and a play whose title is conversation piece. Miss

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Pons was born in southern France, while mister Mongeu a
native of Pittsburgh. He is the son of the Frenchman.
They now resume the conversation. Mademoiselle pans Monsieur Mongeu, don't
forget that you're part of the French yourself.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Mister demil, Now, but I'm not the bullervard here you are, Monsieur.

Speaker 4 (55:22):
Why don't you folligners chald English?

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Likely?

Speaker 4 (55:24):
I know I've only a lead like sense. I wasn't
always search to find secure of English. It's really hard
to learn so many words. You spell them almost like,
but you pronun them so much different. I won't let
us a poem about it.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
You like to me to recide, we'll be delighted, miss Pons, very.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Well, I reside. He lau gh spells.

Speaker 6 (55:48):
Las, and b o u g h spells vaux.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Surely c a u gh is colt and tug is cout.
This bread is made of sipstins, known as though, what
was this steak? I asked for dinner?

Speaker 6 (56:06):
Turk or talk?

Speaker 4 (56:08):
I still I'm quite an able.

Speaker 9 (56:09):
As I got her from the table to be sure
if I was through.

Speaker 4 (56:14):
Or through or through?

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Beautiful, beautiful. If your dog gets sick again, I suggest you.

Speaker 3 (56:20):
Say, mister mangu, he knows all about dog.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
So I raised them, miss pons, just as a hobby.
Cans and ciliums.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
Where did you learn about green ducks?

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Well, I used to work on a farm, learned quite
a bit about livestock before I get into pictures. Excellent training.
The foreman told me the other day that the cows
have gone so high hat they refuse to be washed
down unless the farmhands use locks toilets.

Speaker 4 (56:41):
So who can't blame them all? Beautiful ladies use leg stock.
But why did you want to be a farmer?

Speaker 1 (56:47):
Well? I wanted some nice, secluded place in the country
with plenty of sunshine and fresh air, where I could
cultivate a mustache and get into pictures. But now, miss Pons,
before the people are sure, Doctor Johnson was right about
the French. Let us say good night, good night one.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
Are you hope you like how you'll play?

Speaker 3 (57:02):
Good night? Members there, good.

Speaker 1 (57:06):
Miss ponds. Mister Marjou are thanks, ladies and gentlemen. This
is your announcer, Melville Ruick. Mister de Mill returned shortly
with news of next week's show. Mister Manjou's next picture
is titled One in a Million. Miss Ponn's appeared to
courtesy of r KO Studios where she just completed that
Girl from Paris. Mister de Mill through courtesy of Paramount
mister Warburton Metro Golden Mayor and mister Lewis Silver's twentieth
Century Fox, where he was in charge of music for

(57:27):
the new picture Lloyd to London and here's mister de Mill.
The story of Louis Pasteur recently provided the screen with
one of the finest and most dramatic films ever made.
Its success, however, was largely due to the magnificent performance
of Paul Muney in the title role. Next week in
the Lux Radio Theater, Paul Muney recreates the character of
the great French chemist and humanitarian. Once again, our sponsors,

(57:53):
the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join me in inviting
you to be with us again next Monday night, when
the Lux Radio Theater presents Paul Muley in the Story
of Louis Pastor, assisted by an all star cast.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
This is Ceca B. Demill saying good night to you
from Hollywood.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.