Lux Radio Theatre - Mother Wore Tights
Lux Radio Theatre - Mother Wore Tights
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Speaker 1: Hollywoods Leaver Brothers, Somebody, the makers of luck Plates bring
you the Luck Radio Theater starring Betty Gabel and Dan
Day in Mother Wartime, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Your producer, mister William.
Speaker 3: Keeling bringing from Hollywood Ladies and Gentlemen. One of the
great comebacks in the history of the theater is taking
place today.
Speaker 4: It's the reef birth of boat Bills, which.
Speaker 3: Is surprising a new generation with all the boisterous, good
humor and colorful variety of the good old days. Tonight
the lux Radio Theater reflects the trend of the times
with the twentieth century Fox hit motherwa Tight and a
team of stars boad Will might dream about Betty Grabel
and Dan Daily. Mother war Tights is the story of
a Baudville family and their backstage life, and naturally Betty
and Dan will sing those great song hits of the
Pictures You Do and Cocomo Indiana and many more. Today,
as always, a theatrical troopers home is her trunk, and
one of the biggest problems is keeping costumes fresh. That's
where LUs flakes get into the act, because anyone who
travels a lot is thankful for the convenience and efficiency
of lux flakes. Here's the first act of Motherwar Tights,
starring Betty Grabel as Myrtle and Dan Daily as Fine.
Speaker 2: Is more than millium.
Speaker 5: All means only that she mother.
Speaker 6: There he is fling the rocking chair on the front porch,
that sweet.
Speaker 4: Gitting another sweater for father, sitting here like this. Whould
ever dream that mother ever behaved like?
Speaker 7: Well, like this, mother wore.
Speaker 6: Mother wore tights when she sang that song on stage,
Oh good, Heaven's mother, how could you? And there on
the forest is there the cutest little darling.
Speaker 8: In the world.
Speaker 6: I speak in his chair, ride Hans up on his card,
and the Sunday Funny paper spread over his lamps, dagg
the quiet tight. I just can't imagine him out there
on the stage and those baggy pants and a putty
nose and that song who used to sing?
Speaker 7: I am burning to the bersy. I rise up till
thirty and still do.
Speaker 9: A lot like dog.
Speaker 2: I walked down.
Speaker 7: The street and with my gloves on my hand, and
I walked around.
Speaker 2: The guy in the little hall.
Speaker 5: I'm all else and easy.
Speaker 2: Paper without food, so long I could go around the thing.
He says, I.
Speaker 10: But I have a shot from my people.
Speaker 2: All little off you knows.
Speaker 10: I'm turning to the bad.
Speaker 9: From down.
Speaker 6: To really understand how mother happened to we head tight.
Let's go back some forty years to when mother Greg awaited.
Speaker 4: From high school.
Speaker 6: The next afternoon, she and a couple of friends went
down town.
Speaker 4: But girls, I don't want to be a telephone operator.
Speaker 6: I'd rather be dead white besty swammer hammer.
Speaker 4: Well I would.
Speaker 6: Anyhow, it beats what I'm going to be doing standing
on my feet all day shilling underwear.
Speaker 11: At least you'll be in college business college.
Speaker 9: You know we're actually early for my.
Speaker 11: Appointment at the telephone company.
Speaker 6: Well, let's just window shop. We could go to a matinee.
I sure, well why not.
Speaker 12: My cousin Baba falls ticket to Waller's opera house, and
he said, anytime I wanted to go, he.
Speaker 4: Bet me into nothing.
Speaker 9: Who lets.
Speaker 12: And these are my girlfriends, Baba, Mite McKinley and Alice beiego.
Well we thought that is you always said if I
came over the opera house, Bubba, you bet.
Speaker 4: Me in.
Speaker 9: Your whole school, did I? Oh? Please? Baba? Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, but if mister Waller ever catches Waller, ever catches
you doing?
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, no, not nothing, mister Waller handing out free
ticke gets down. Oh no no, mister Waller.
Speaker 5: He just wanted to know if if you could get jobs.
Speaker 9: With the show.
Speaker 5: In the chorus, carush, yeah, all right, girls, follow me.
Speaker 7: I'll talk this over upstairs in my office.
Speaker 11: Well, well we're coming, mister Waller.
Speaker 7: Well girls, your fingers don't look too bad. Damn, let
me see your legs.
Speaker 5: Well, ain't you scared too, No, sir, uh my legs mmm.
Speaker 7: Kind of nice.
Speaker 11: I had to leave in our high school, operetta.
Speaker 4: I'm a dancer.
Speaker 2: Oh fine, your folks know about this.
Speaker 9: My parents are dead.
Speaker 4: I lived with my grandma.
Speaker 7: How much do you want a weak sisten?
Speaker 9: Would ten dollars? Be?
Speaker 2: All right, that's going.
Speaker 3: To offer you fifty now, but just to teach you
less than ten bucks of is come on?
Speaker 11: Oh my, well, that's how mother got on the stage.
Speaker 6: The headliner at Waller's Off from Out was a good looking.
Speaker 4: Brass young fellow named Sank By.
Speaker 2: Somebody they comedian.
Speaker 9: Well, the goredy.
Speaker 4: We call Frank act off a corny.
Speaker 9: Those ridiculous parts on.
Speaker 6: The walls and the last we get by falling in
the bass drama getting hit over the heads.
Speaker 4: But in those days he really killed the people.
Speaker 11: They had a pretty good.
Speaker 4: Voice to.
Speaker 9: Yourself.
Speaker 10: Let you do number Frankie.
Speaker 7: What's wrong with my blie routine? Hey?
Speaker 2: Girls, girl, any of you forgive.
Speaker 7: The expression off?
Speaker 9: Teasts?
Speaker 7: Want to speaking part in.
Speaker 10: My Paris blackout next week?
Speaker 7: Yeah? Well what I need is a girl who speaks French?
Speaker 12: Friend?
Speaker 9: What is it the character plot?
Speaker 6: Go?
Speaker 11: I can take a little Franks to break?
Speaker 7: You can, huh say you're the new ken at sweetheart?
All right, let me hear you read this line?
Speaker 11: Will you you pay your large hoot? All got song?
Speaker 5: Hey, that's swell. You'll do fine. We'll have a fight
eat after the show.
Speaker 2: Huh. I'll run through the business with you.
Speaker 7: We can. Business is right by the way.
Speaker 9: What's your name, Lionel McKinley.
Speaker 7: Anyone ever tells you you got the prettiest Hi?
Speaker 9: Yeah, we've read that.
Speaker 7: Well in your case, sweetheart, I really mean eyes. Come on,
here's the stage that right after the show.
Speaker 6: So mother got her start in Frankfurt.
Speaker 9: A couple of months.
Speaker 6: Later, the company tipped in to get Blank a birthday party.
He had rushed out right after the show, and while
they all waited for him to come back, mother decided
to do an imitation of Frank singing Burlington version.
Speaker 5: All right, not quiet, quiet everybody, But it was gonna
hand you laugh. Hey, honey, here is Monica and Kate.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 9: I'm Burnington Birday.
Speaker 13: I want.
Speaker 14: I walked down the stain my mom going like him,
walk down again.
Speaker 15: I pacers without food for more.
Speaker 6: I forgot, well, I have a shirt for my people are.
Speaker 16: Nearly everybody like them.
Speaker 10: Jesus, okay, I got stop this now Popper's back.
Speaker 5: Well, is about time you showed up, just in case
you forgot these parties for you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, boy, did you miss something just now?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 5: Kind of stealing my son Anthim and the way, folks,
today is my birthday. You have all showered me with
lavish gifts of your esteem and gratitude.
Speaker 7: So what can I do but return the compliments?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 7: And he brings on the present. Oh that's where you've
been buying present? Why not?
Speaker 10: See Helen?
Speaker 7: This is for you?
Speaker 10: And I think box that's for you, missus Miller and you.
Speaker 7: Out and you beat it.
Speaker 6: Metal can't even let people give him a birthday party
without trying to talple.
Speaker 11: Oh, I think it's sweet.
Speaker 13: Hey, you're not falling so that.
Speaker 4: Big show off?
Speaker 5: Are you?
Speaker 9: Of course not?
Speaker 11: But he is kind of nice.
Speaker 10: How about the.
Speaker 6: Murder?
Speaker 4: Why the way he throws his goe away? I think
he was a millionaire when he said.
Speaker 11: That's all part of the neuse got you put on
the front.
Speaker 9: You're just playing duma.
Speaker 10: Let you how are you?
Speaker 7: Sarah?
Speaker 5: Far my bustle under the fighter rolland a fighting for.
Speaker 2: You over there if you're curious.
Speaker 11: Never what I said?
Speaker 7: Some little red flannel? Sweet hot? You got to show
your telephant for the winner?
Speaker 11: You sure?
Speaker 5: I'm mad? Who told you to do Burlington Verdie? That's
my number?
Speaker 4: I guess it was my own idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they weren't great, when'd you.
Speaker 7: Pick it up?
Speaker 11: I've had to watch you for eight weeks, haven't I?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been watching you too. You know something, You
got more talent and your little finger than all these
crows put together.
Speaker 11: That's very nice.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I.
Speaker 7: Got a funny notion we might do pretty good as
a double.
Speaker 9: A double.
Speaker 2: Sure you're met together?
Speaker 7: You know a team?
Speaker 4: You really think I could wait and.
Speaker 5: Knock them calls. I just don't know what, and don't
say anything. Just keep it on your hat and leave
it to me. We'll work something out to give me
see and we'll spring it on the horse.
Speaker 2: Well is it a dealer?
Speaker 6: In a few weeks, Mother's name was on the posters
in the lobby Frank Bert, assisted by Myrta McKinley. Of
course she had to look twice to find it. There
was another man in their show who was very fond
of Mama Roy Divans. Roy kept telling her she was
crazy to let Frank get away with it, that she
really made his acts.
Speaker 11: But that's not so Roy, Fank's.
Speaker 6: A star and I'm nobody. Besides, it's his act and
it was his idea.
Speaker 2: But you're established now, Myrtle.
Speaker 5: Here's your chance to go places, and I could help
you Murton.
Speaker 6: But Mother kept shaking her head no, because as far
as she was concerned, she'd already gone places. One night,
she and Frank went to an Italian restaurant for supper.
The bunch from the Opera House were used to seeing
frank Bert walk in with a pretty girl.
Speaker 4: But somehow all this was different.
Speaker 6: They were wise even if he wasn't that mother had
set her heart not.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing her name in lights, but I'm.
Speaker 6: Seeing just how soon she could bring Frank Bert around
to popping that all important question.
Speaker 7: How good evening, senor? You sh please please to shit down?
Speaker 5: Yeah we do, plea, let's get what I want to know?
Speaker 7: What I like?
Speaker 9: I got choking spaghetti for too, please, and you all.
Speaker 7: Put some of that good old hoss meat salt on
a coil.
Speaker 11: I think you are righty Oh, Frank, you're crazy.
Speaker 7: That's what my father says. You know my father. He
is a Dutchman.
Speaker 2: Oh does he hate the theater?
Speaker 5: What kind of a business is this then? And I'm
speaking a chicken kid. I've been working on a new routine.
How about meeting me in the theater in the morning.
Speaker 6: Frank, I'm not sure I'm going to stay in the show.
Roy Vivens is going into a new musical comedy, and
he says he can get me a job.
Speaker 2: Oh he does, doesn't of course.
Speaker 9: I don't want to quit.
Speaker 6: But well, I mean, just because you gave me my start,
there's no reason why you have to stay shackle to me,
as though we were shackled together like people who are shackled.
Speaker 5: Who said anything about being so yeah, I'm falling for
what a tenner tells you.
Speaker 11: I I didn't say I was falling for it.
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, of course i'd hate to lose you.
Speaker 2: You sure it's no joke breaking in a new partner.
Speaker 5: Oh well maybe you would make a big name for you.
So yeah, maybe Roy Bivens's right to rest. Then you
think I should go, Well, you got to think to yourself.
But if anything goes wrong, you're gonna always come back.
Speaker 9: Thanks.
Speaker 5: There's one thing I want to get clear though. This
business between you and Roy Bivens is all business, isn't it?
Speaker 2: No monkey business, no.
Speaker 5: Funny business, business business.
Speaker 13: What's that to you? Thinking about me?
Speaker 6: Why you never thought of anybody in your life except
the Great Franksborough?
Speaker 7: What makes you say that?
Speaker 6: What do you care about a partner anyway? Just somebody
to dance with what I'm really going with?
Speaker 9: Roy?
Speaker 11: But but now I am, I'm think.
Speaker 6: Of being taken for granted. Go on, get yourself a
new partner.
Speaker 11: You can teach her that.
Speaker 6: Lob got into you subsessive list, which is more than
you're right.
Speaker 7: Way of it.
Speaker 10: Put out a right.
Speaker 6: So mother went away with the new show her O
X singing, And then oh Frank mister all right, but
he went right on alone, doing the same old numbers
in the same.
Speaker 4: Old way, and to the delight of the same alreadience.
Speaker 5: I don't get to take my dreams and make my
damn't get me, and.
Speaker 2: I will do.
Speaker 5: Then.
Speaker 6: One night, as Frank finished his act and did a
cartwheel into the wings as always, someone was waiting to
see him.
Speaker 5: Hello, model, I thought you were in Los Angeles?
Speaker 9: What happened?
Speaker 7: Show pulled up?
Speaker 11: All the show's doing fine?
Speaker 7: Your tenant didn't stop raiding.
Speaker 2: Down your neck?
Speaker 7: Did he?
Speaker 6: Not?
Speaker 9: Quice? But he asked me to marry him?
Speaker 7: Sevens asked you to marry him?
Speaker 11: Well, what's wrong with that? Some people do get married,
you know?
Speaker 2: Eh, huh?
Speaker 7: What'd you say?
Speaker 9: I told him I'd have to think it over.
Speaker 5: Rank.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you might as well know what really happened last week?
Speaker 11: The producer was watching me rehearse my dance. It had
some of your steps in us.
Speaker 2: It has huh.
Speaker 6: In fact, it's practically the same dance, except that I
do it alone.
Speaker 9: The producer didn't like it.
Speaker 2: Well, come on, come on, don't be ashamed.
Speaker 6: I want to know the worst, Well, Roy said, wait,
do she really does it?
Speaker 11: Of course this is ester we hear?
Speaker 17: Is that all?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 6: I wanted to go right through the floor. I was
doing my very best, Frank. I was dancing the way
I always did with you.
Speaker 11: I don't know what was wrong.
Speaker 2: I do look right. I don't want to hurt your feelings.
Speaker 5: But one but when you dance with me, well, when
we dance together, yes, Fank, Well, when we danced together,
it's just different?
Speaker 4: How different?
Speaker 13: Frank?
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 7: But we hit it off.
Speaker 5: Maybe we ought to stick together, you know, shackle Mary Fang.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's an idea.
Speaker 7: I'll work on it, you'll work on it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well I knew I shouldn't have come back, you know.
Speaker 4: An you let me out.
Speaker 5: Here, You're going to behad Like I never want to
propose you in the first place. I'll give me a kiss,
all right, I'll take one.
Speaker 9: Life.
Speaker 5: Our stars will return with that too. Of mother war
types in a moment. What's the big news in Hollywood?
Speaker 2: This weekly?
Speaker 6: Everybody is talking about Metro Golden Mayor's latest day SHARE's
distinguished production of Battlegrounds.
Speaker 9: As a woman I'd say this.
Speaker 6: Is not a war picture, but a peace picture, an
unadawned story of a handful of rgis caught in the
battle of Best Dawn.
Speaker 5: At the press preview, we were very much impressed with
the picture's sincere and honest approach.
Speaker 6: Well, I guess it's the New York from there on Thursday,
we're just as thrilled with it.
Speaker 4: The stars are unforgettable in their roles.
Speaker 6: Van Johnson is a likable guy with a weakness for
gals and gags, while John.
Speaker 4: Hodiac is a small town reporter.
Speaker 6: Inspired by his own convictions. But Catamin Talburn is a
kid from California, lonely and scared, and George Murphy is
popped waiting the day when he can go home to
his youngsters.
Speaker 5: Many other fine MGM stars too, help make this a
memorable picture. Battleground is a vivid reminder of what our victory.
Speaker 6: Costs, and we appreciate more than little things that give
us so much pleasure in peace time, like plenty of
nylons talking.
Speaker 2: And plenty of lux flakes to take care of them.
Speaker 6: You know, during the war, women would go from store
to store to find a box. They knew that Rubbing
nylons with cake soap or using strong soaps made runs
come sooner. Strain tests proved that, and nylons weren't easy
to replace. Lux flakes made them last twice as long.
Speaker 5: Even now that nylons are plentiful, they still cost something
that's right.
Speaker 6: But when you wash them with lux blakes they last
so much longer. It's just like getting an extra pair
of stocks every time you buy a pair.
Speaker 7: And what girl doesn't like a bargain.
Speaker 6: As a matter of fact, the makers of stockings know
that right care is important to their education, so it's
no wonder that over ninety percent of them recommend locks flakes.
Speaker 5: That's right, Libby. Now here's our producer. Mister William Keeley.
Speaker 3: Packed two of motherwa type, starring Betty Grable as Myrtle
and Dan Day as Frank.
Speaker 4: So they were married Mother and Frank Burt. After the honeymoon,
they went on the hoard with their new Bodbill act.
Here all to a day, down after town.
Speaker 6: Month after months, show after show, but always giving the
audience everything they had.
Speaker 5: You always be last, Sa.
Speaker 7: Siana.
Speaker 6: The new act was going over so well that says
they might even have hit Broadway if suddenly Mother hadn't
announced that she was going home to Grandma because of well,
I believe the term is an act of God.
Speaker 11: I am am. I you think this was the first
time anybody ever had a baby.
Speaker 5: Let's quit work.
Speaker 7: We'll take a long vacation.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 7: Oh, kid of mine is going to be born in.
Speaker 4: Front of a backdrop, Darling.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to take just a vacation. I'm going
to quit for good.
Speaker 2: Why, Kenley, I want my.
Speaker 6: Baby to have a home and a mother to take
care of him. But Mark, you can get a dozen
partners as good as I am. Look, Frank, it's been
wonderful together, but this is even going to be more wonderful.
Speaker 4: You'd be the papa. We'll let you work and make
the money to send home.
Speaker 6: Oh, Darling, this is what I've wanted all my life,
and from now on, please just let me be the mama.
Speaker 5: Sure, honey, just so you'll be happy. Gosh, Frank, Yes,
Frank Junior.
Speaker 11: It was to have been, but under the circumstances, Mother thought.
Speaker 4: That Iris would be a little more appropriate. Three years later,
it was going to be Frank Junior.
Speaker 6: For sure, But again under the circumstances. Mother thought Miriam
would be more suitable.
Speaker 4: They compromised. I'm calling me Mikey.
Speaker 6: We lived in Chicago, then Grandma, Mother, Iras and I
and in between seasons.
Speaker 4: Then one day I guess I was about four.
Speaker 7: He's a TELEGRAMMARCHI who will fire the city?
Speaker 4: Ever invented these things?
Speaker 9: Scaring a body half out?
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 9: Open you, Grandma, you've openess? Will Heaven be placement? At
least the man's not dead.
Speaker 11: It's from fun.
Speaker 18: Yes, can't get a woman to replace Dolly. Make me
an Albany tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Will be, But the children. I just can't pack up
and leave. The children won't starve.
Speaker 18: Besides the idea of a married man traveling all over
the country with a woman.
Speaker 9: Named Dory, Grandma, she's just part of me dad, and
you're his wife and the white places of her husband.
Speaker 11: But I've given up this stage, and I haven't sung
a note in six years.
Speaker 18: As for Dancy, if you're dressy, sharp enough, they'll never
worry about your singing and dancing.
Speaker 10: Now get a move on.
Speaker 4: Who knows how much I love you?
Speaker 13: No, March, you take December.
Speaker 14: My into men.
Speaker 16: And then comes back again when you're show contake my
come true.
Speaker 9: Will.
Speaker 6: Of course, the inevitable happened once Mother was back in
the act again.
Speaker 4: She couldn't quit. It was in her blood.
Speaker 6: Meanwhile, we were growing up Paris and I I remember
the December when I was ten years old, Mother and
dad were book in Boston.
Speaker 4: This was going to be our very first Christmas apart what's.
Speaker 7: Wrong with your nighty dear?
Speaker 9: Is it a cold?
Speaker 4: You've got no Grandma?
Speaker 11: I just no grandma?
Speaker 4: There they're child I know, I know, to think of all.
Speaker 9: The fun going to be having it Christmas.
Speaker 11: Fun Grandmar without mother and daddy.
Speaker 9: Oh why did they have to take a booking for
Christmas week? Why? She asks? Lucy ags clothes on Christmas?
Speaker 4: I'll come now, girl.
Speaker 18: Just remember there's slicenttla s because we just send him
a lesson. Who knows what the good man will do
when the factor sets before him?
Speaker 9: Godmar, what do you mean?
Speaker 4: Never mind what I mean?
Speaker 10: Boston?
Speaker 7: Is it there?
Speaker 11: How was it when the children frank?
Speaker 9: But the boxes do not open until Christmas?
Speaker 7: Oh that'll be Christmas in an hour? Do you think
I'm going to wait?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: Blood mark from Mikey, Merry Christmas? To my father, A
fine school. These kids are going to r y merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: R look gets up hating just what I needed.
Speaker 6: Frank, Yeah, to my wonderful mother.
Speaker 11: There is no other like my mother.
Speaker 6: The wine till it lit, the raven hair, when her
beautiful eyes, How I wished to be there.
Speaker 7: Oh, pray, honey.
Speaker 2: Remember what's your promise?
Speaker 11: I'm not crying.
Speaker 9: Who is it?
Speaker 6: Mikey idea?
Speaker 11: She made a fas, but we want more.
Speaker 4: I just can't believe you're heir other.
Speaker 9: What happened to your closure?
Speaker 15: Looks like you're slepting them.
Speaker 9: We did.
Speaker 11: We were fad to get them off. We were fading, Mike.
Speaker 15: I know when he got to Boston.
Speaker 9: Oh, mother, your presence? You've opened them before Christmas?
Speaker 4: Oh I know, dear, but we couldn't.
Speaker 5: It was all mine, faulm I said it. Oh no,
didn't all a presence but you and Mike. We send
them a Chicago.
Speaker 11: Not even a Christmas tree for our children.
Speaker 9: We don't mind, mother on All we want is to
be with you. Say where are you going?
Speaker 11: It's almost midnight, everything will be closed.
Speaker 7: I'm surprised at you. I'm sad A clause Are you
a chimney.
Speaker 16: Poor dad.
Speaker 4: She looked everywhere, but no price.
Speaker 9: But he did come back with a Christmas tree.
Speaker 4: I bet we had the most expensive Christmas tree in Boston.
Speaker 11: It cost one hundred dollars, fifty dollars to.
Speaker 6: The people, and a fifty dollars time father had chopped
it down on somebody's front lawn. Mother always had one
week she could never resist travel folder.
Speaker 4: Every summer.
Speaker 6: She decided we needed a complete change of environments, and
one year she selected the most fashionable and, according to
the travel Folder, the gayest of all summer resorts, Brickshire Highlands.
Speaker 4: I remember how excited we were as walked into the
hotel lobby. Dad, you doing that cute little jig here?
Speaker 7: And good morning sir. I'm Frank Burn.
Speaker 2: I made reservation for four co eight two. Oh yes,
mister Burt. Will you shine the register please? What's the matter?
Death and the family?
Speaker 7: I beg your pardon, sir?
Speaker 2: When do we view the remain.
Speaker 7: Don't the guests ever do anything here or say anything.
Speaker 2: With Our guests seem to like the lobby, sir.
Speaker 3: They sit in the rocking chairs and rocks sometimes they
say good morning.
Speaker 5: Well now that's right, Broad minders up, boys, show the
birds to their rooms, please, word.
Speaker 6: Said pan ally, Now, Frank, these places are always much
livelier at night.
Speaker 9: Come on, children, here's.
Speaker 4: The elevator, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Son.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm terribly sorry.
Speaker 7: I must have tripp getting out of the elevator. Yeah, well,
don't break the neck, kid, you'll never get any laughs.
Speaker 2: Let's join It.
Speaker 4: Was this, mother was right, it was there at night.
Speaker 6: At night they turned on the lights. Anyway, we were
sitting there at the lobby along with the other here.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's go over to the piano. Maybe we
can live on this.
Speaker 7: Join up a little.
Speaker 4: That's a very good idea.
Speaker 9: Mother.
Speaker 6: Maybe he's looking at the way that does not want
to be looked at.
Speaker 2: You, right, kidding, especially at these prices. Good Mike, Well, we.
Speaker 7: Were wild thing, a little wild raining through the.
Speaker 14: Turn out mine.
Speaker 2: You gotta see it.
Speaker 7: That way, and every little day we'll see light.
Speaker 2: Spring if you that thing.
Speaker 10: Try try a come on, folks, let's have a little fun.
Speaker 7: Oh you have to know it's try la la la la. Okay, Michael, Now.
Speaker 13: Let's sing it out.
Speaker 16: All of it, jos in mind.
Speaker 5: Let's hear the men's voices to sing a little line
of raining.
Speaker 17: Man through the clowns and my little stars change.
Speaker 7: My mind, live her up, a little bit of trouble
your liver line.
Speaker 2: Thing gonna turn out mine.
Speaker 7: You just feel that way, And every little day we'll.
Speaker 9: Sing n.
Speaker 2: If you love jacking m you know something mortal?
Speaker 7: If anyone speaks to me, I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Kill over in a dead saint. What's the matter with
these people?
Speaker 9: Go on, lkey, let's go down and look at a
fish pond.
Speaker 6: All who cares about goldfish?
Speaker 11: I'm going to bounce my ball.
Speaker 4: Well, no, wonder, look who's there?
Speaker 9: Who?
Speaker 4: If you don't know, it's that boy who fell out
of the elevator.
Speaker 6: Oh that is Bob, isn't it? Monkey Darling? Lets you
play without a third ball all the time? Iris, He
deliberately knocked that ball out of my hand.
Speaker 9: He quiet, Oh is this your ball?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 9: Thank you? If belongs to.
Speaker 6: My little sister here, thanks Kissy. We have a silly
old bet that she can't dump it one hundred times
without Nippy. Haven't we died? No?
Speaker 11: Now, Mikey, dear, you run along and playing. You want
to know something me?
Speaker 12: Sure, Irick have to dounce it too.
Speaker 11: I'm so sorry, you know how children are at that age.
Speaker 9: You enjoying it here, miss er os Bird?
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, father and mother were just remarking. What a
heavenly spot for even the bird.
Speaker 4: What's happened down there?
Speaker 6: It's Marty, it was sister she fell.
Speaker 9: Are you sure you're all right?
Speaker 4: Mikey?
Speaker 11: How do you feel, darling?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 11: I'm fine now?
Speaker 15: Mother?
Speaker 6: What happened?
Speaker 7: Apparently you were climbing a tree and you fell fout
in your head.
Speaker 12: Did I get a laugh where I fell?
Speaker 6: You couldn't make this bunch of long hairs laugh if
you broke your neck.
Speaker 4: I think I've had all I can stand.
Speaker 9: Let's start packing.
Speaker 6: Mother, I'm not going to have our whole vacation room
by staying here with these stick in the MUDs.
Speaker 4: I know my iris doesn't want to go here.
Speaker 11: Flash, you wash up?
Speaker 9: Mikey.
Speaker 7: What fella, Bob clarkman?
Speaker 11: Of course, Well certainly you've noticed your discuss behavior.
Speaker 15: Mother, Bob not all.
Speaker 9: Like the others really here.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not staying here to find out his mother
and father in Europe and he had to come here
with an old children.
Speaker 9: Mister bird, behave yourself.
Speaker 5: I thought you had faint if anybody hear of us
talk from me, mister missus.
Speaker 3: Schneider and I, Well, we just thought we'd inquire how
your little girl is.
Speaker 2: That was quite a fun.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, he was so frightened. Oh, Mikey's fine, Thank
you good.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 7: Looks like you're leaving, Missus.
Speaker 5: Burt packing your bag.
Speaker 4: I'll say we are.
Speaker 7: Oh.
Speaker 3: We were in hopes she'd stay and help give this
place a little life.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Do you see you the other night in the lobby,
the piano in the scene.
Speaker 7: You see the folks here.
Speaker 5: Well, we've all been coming here so long and doing nothing.
Speaker 7: I guess we've just sort of dried up.
Speaker 6: Oh, mother, please stay your missus Beltfille all dried out.
Speaker 9: We have such food times together.
Speaker 7: You help with her singing, your dancing or what are
you saying? Mart?
Speaker 5: We've played the tougher audiences in this and never walked
down on them.
Speaker 9: Wellcas year, I guess we stay.
Speaker 5: We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 3: After a brief internasion, our stars will continue with Act
three of Motherwaar Types.
Speaker 9: Tonight, we welcomed the.
Speaker 3: Minutives Deborah Patrit, who does her algebra in the morning
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Here's our producer, mister William Keighley.
Speaker 3: The curtain rises on the third act of Motherwall Type,
starving Buddy Grayville as Myrtle and Dan Daily as Frank.
Speaker 6: We've stayed a home.
Speaker 4: Month at Berkshire Highlands and the father and mother taking over.
Everybody had a wonderful time.
Speaker 9: Mother's faith and her travel.
Speaker 6: Folders was triumphantly restored, and even father admitted it was
the gayest of all summery joy.
Speaker 4: Iris spent most of her time with the rich Clarks
and boy. The night before we left, I overheard mother
and father in the.
Speaker 15: Next room, Frank, Frank, you're still awake here.
Speaker 7: You Jean.
Speaker 6: I've been thinking about Irish, about her future, all about
the kind of people she goes with, things like that.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with the people she's depending only?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 6: Nothing, except while I was wondering if maybe we haven't
been a little selfish, us selfie making the children lead
our kind of life.
Speaker 7: What are they wif now that trouble of those kids
is they've had too much?
Speaker 11: Are you trying to say our girls are spoiled?
Speaker 6: I mean you didn't know, Frank, Bird of all is sweet,
normal unspoiled children.
Speaker 4: Now, for one thing, there's school.
Speaker 7: They go to school.
Speaker 11: I was thinking that maybe a boarding school and after
that college.
Speaker 7: That Mikey makes college. I'll eat my son Burrow.
Speaker 6: The stage is all right for us, we love it.
But they're entitled to meet nice young girls and boys
their own age who are interested in other things like well,
books and things like that.
Speaker 7: All right, we'll give them a book, two books, one
for each.
Speaker 4: Oh, Frank, you're just being stubborn.
Speaker 9: Aris is growing up.
Speaker 4: She's beginning to think about boys.
Speaker 5: Are you talking about that wobbly lake group that looks
like he's going to break into a run every time
you look at him.
Speaker 11: He's not a goop.
Speaker 9: Bob's a wonderful boy.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll bet if I said bull to thatn't you dare?
Speaker 2: Would you mind telling me what we're fighting the US?
Speaker 4: I'll go to sleep, darling. We'll talk about it when
we get home.
Speaker 19: Oh well, they did talk it a little, and as usual,
Mother allowed Dad to convince her that she'd been right
all along.
Speaker 4: The following September, our March and.
Speaker 6: Our folk, they enrolled Iris and me in Miss Ridgeway's
exclusive boarding school for young ladies.
Speaker 11: I just remember, Darling, we'll be back to visit the
first chance we get.
Speaker 6: You're done too, Yeah, don't forget about hanging up your
clothes and be good girls?
Speaker 9: Who we will?
Speaker 5: Mother ageah, bear down on your algebrath after all, Look
how well I speak it?
Speaker 15: Come bye, Mommy, Bye Daddy.
Speaker 4: When Easter vacation came, Iris and I took the train.
Speaker 6: I was to join mother and father in Pittsburgh, and
Irish would come on later. She and some other girls
from school and Bob Clarkman and some boys from college.
Speaker 4: We're all going to Westchester.
Speaker 6: The Clarkmans were giving a weekend house party, and naturally
Bob's invited Irish. After a couple of hours on the train,
Bob produced a guitar.
Speaker 9: All right, Irish, you're a singer and arms.
Speaker 10: How about a song?
Speaker 4: How about singing down the lane?
Speaker 2: Oh wonderful?
Speaker 6: Go ahead, Iris, everybody, and then and swinging down the lane?
Speaker 4: Just about then a man and woman came to the car.
Speaker 6: Stay with theatrical people, all of us and maybe.
Speaker 4: They've had a little too much anyway, when they heard.
Speaker 9: The scene, they.
Speaker 14: Joined night fuck where I'm all?
Speaker 9: Where the bone.
Speaker 4: Coming on?
Speaker 9: Like? When away?
Speaker 14: Send me sing it down?
Speaker 9: All uh? You know some kids shuldn't down the lane?
Happens to be one of our number.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we've been eating off it for two years.
Speaker 11: My voice didn't throw you by one of those I
don't care singers?
Speaker 6: Oh who cares off the boy?
Speaker 10: Do you believe the kids?
Speaker 5: My little hare had one of the sweetest pod calling
voices in Missouri before a rooker and put shoes on.
Speaker 11: Oh say, kid, you can't play what I can't really
help you can't.
Speaker 5: Well, kids, we.
Speaker 10: Love to stay, but we gotta get off the next stile.
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know how these trains are.
Speaker 4: They don't stop in these hick tongues.
Speaker 9: Love nothing. Let's get your breath.
Speaker 11: That's when the part, well, everybody there, so I don't do.
Speaker 2: Boy, that's where they have.
Speaker 9: Imagine barging it on off like that.
Speaker 11: Did you ever hear such a laugh in your life?
Speaker 9: Enough make up? What all actors have to be such
show off? I don't know, but they all.
Speaker 20: I saw the look that came over our estee, a
look that said not that mother and dad were like
that couple, but they were active and not the kind
of people you talked about when you were with girls
from Miss Ridgeway School and boys from.
Speaker 4: Harvard t Months later, Iris and I had an unexpected telegram,
well the one I finished reading it.
Speaker 9: It says we've been keeping it a great secret, but
now you can know.
Speaker 11: Dad and I have arranged a booking in the very.
Speaker 9: Town where your school is.
Speaker 15: Markey.
Speaker 11: They're going to play here.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, that's wonderful.
Speaker 9: Well, if they can't, Mikey.
Speaker 11: They mustn't, Irish.
Speaker 9: You're ashamed for.
Speaker 15: Them to come.
Speaker 11: I'm not that's not it at all. It's just a
why do they have.
Speaker 9: To spoil everything?
Speaker 11: You are ashamed?
Speaker 15: Ashamed of mother and daddy. Oh, Irish, come in, mother,
Hello John, Mother?
Speaker 9: What are you doing here? Your telegram said next week?
Speaker 6: I know, but Mikey wires that you aren't feeling well.
Speaker 9: Did Daddy come too? He'll be in the visit later.
Speaker 11: It's nothing, mother, I just don't feel well, Irish.
Speaker 9: I know what it is. Mikey did do Mikey.
Speaker 11: Told Mikey loves you, dear, She only did what she
thought there.
Speaker 9: Oh, I wish I'd never come here, but you've.
Speaker 16: Loved it here.
Speaker 9: I hate it.
Speaker 11: You think your friends will stop liking you because your
mother and father are on the stage. It's not that
it's not you and daddy, but you're the sweetest people
in the whole world.
Speaker 9: But people on the stage are not as refined as
your friends. Is that?
Speaker 11: I wish you could see some of their homes and
how their.
Speaker 6: Mothers and fathers, like Bob's mother and father.
Speaker 11: They're so nice, mother and dignified. They want me to
visit the mc cannon. Oh, mother, you don't hate me,
do you?
Speaker 9: Of course not, Darling? You know I love you and Daddy. Yes,
I know you do.
Speaker 11: Don't worry, dear, We'll figure it out some way.
Speaker 9: Not get dressed.
Speaker 4: You don't want Daddy to see you.
Speaker 9: Looking like a grocer.
Speaker 7: You're as all right if.
Speaker 2: We take the kids up for Thenms Ridgeway.
Speaker 6: Of course, I left her drivers to meet you here
at my office about this other matter though, Iris is
just mixed up in this ridgeway.
Speaker 11: I'm sure lots of other girls go through a phase
like this.
Speaker 2: I'll say she's mixed up.
Speaker 11: Thank please, I'm grateful to you, missus bag for telling
me all this.
Speaker 4: I know what it must have meant to you, how
simple it would have been for you and your husband,
just to it's canceled.
Speaker 9: Your engagement here in time, then you'll help us.
Speaker 4: I think we can stretch our rules to cover it.
Speaker 9: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Okay, but if you want my advice, excuse me?
Speaker 9: Yes, may I come in this ridgeway?
Speaker 4: Iris?
Speaker 9: Come in?
Speaker 6: Hello, Daddy, Hello, Iris, you're feeling better now?
Speaker 15: Yes, I think so.
Speaker 9: I'm glad to hear that, Dear.
Speaker 6: I know how terribly disappointed you'd be not to be
able to go to the theater on Friday to see.
Speaker 9: Your mother's and father's performance.
Speaker 6: Isn't it nice in this Ridgeway Dear, She's going to
let you bring your whole class to seal.
Speaker 4: Oh mother, how could you? Iris?
Speaker 6: Oh? They were all there that Friday, missus Ridgways, Iris
and the girls in the class.
Speaker 11: Mother and dad did their.
Speaker 6: Usual act, no changes. They were Britain McKinley, and this
was it. Father did Burlington Verde and fell in the drum,
and mother did her dad since and then they wouldn't
you get to marry?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 11: I went back against all the sleep and silos like
all my kids in.
Speaker 7: My am Mom you will always had the cuss grim
in Camo in Nana.
Speaker 13: Rover Way and.
Speaker 4: He remembers me.
Speaker 7: And get a load of sim grade.
Speaker 21: You can't see the back before the Johnnel thing.
Speaker 7: How would you like to go and see that old
wabash before you used to know? In Talco in Leena?
Speaker 9: Wouldn't you justice soon go up.
Speaker 14: Your moons?
Speaker 7: For many reasons that I've mentioned here before, and.
Speaker 5: Yellow Wello always be podrastically indefinitely in.
Speaker 7: How do you think Mark?
Speaker 4: I don't know that the rest of the audience people lot, Yeah,
we'll come on.
Speaker 2: Let's take about.
Speaker 11: Cyp.
Speaker 13: Yes, you must be very profane.
Speaker 6: I am the whole class thought Mother and father were
just as the wonderful as I know they were, and
they told Aristol.
Speaker 4: But I was never sure of just what Irish feelings
were until jam came.
Speaker 9: When Irish was up on the.
Speaker 4: Stage along with the other graduates. Bob Kleikman was in
the audience, and of course Mother and Dad bursting with pride.
Speaker 21: When missus ridgway and know it gives me great pleasures
present the highest honor pudent.
Speaker 13: In large of music.
Speaker 1: Miss ils first.
Speaker 6: Look at time. Mother look now said, I have a
feeling of going to see a lot of that young
man from now on.
Speaker 17: You lady, you get me.
Speaker 21: I suppose I really ought to you song that you
often listen.
Speaker 11: I'd like to say a song secon to my mother
and sat a.
Speaker 6: Long day, introduced they years ago.
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Speaker 6: I have but that love it.
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Speaker 14: Like neud make lie and made mine.
Speaker 9: Yes, I did like that.
Speaker 5: Mark another star in the family and far on Megan.
Speaker 4: And I Mother. He's still in no, of course in
private life he misses moder cotton. And I'm sure you
just say of that all along.
Speaker 6: Well, I didn't take the cage. I've been to busney
at home that and taking the children out to see
their grandparents.
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Speaker 6: Mother, nippy Daddy found asking is a funny taking in
his locks?
Speaker 4: Thanks? Hmm h better clean enough there the family will
be out.
Speaker 2: Wherever? Uh oh, where my wife on your forehead?
Speaker 9: As usual?
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Speaker 7: Here, mister Keeley, with our stars.
Speaker 3: They are no longer the Myrtles and Frank of motherwall Tight,
but the Betty Gravel and Dan Day that America loves,
and here they are for a curtain call. I know
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Speaker 7: That's right.
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