WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 The Halls of Ivy, starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Coleman. 00:07.000 --> 00:18.000 Good evening, this is Ronald Coleman. 00:18.000 --> 00:19.000 And Vanita Coleman. 00:19.000 --> 00:22.000 Inviting you to join us again on the campus of Ivy College. 00:22.000 --> 00:39.000 And now, the Halls of Ivy. 00:39.000 --> 00:44.000 Welcome again to Ivy, Ivy College that is, in the town of Ivy, USA. 00:44.000 --> 00:47.000 The final weeks of any college semester are crowded ones. 00:47.000 --> 00:52.000 Dr. William Todd Hunter Hall, president of Ivy, has just put in a strenuous day at his office, 00:52.000 --> 00:58.000 and returns home to number one faculty row and his wife, Victoria, with gratitude and relief. 00:58.000 --> 01:03.000 Vicki, Vicki, you home? I hope. 01:03.000 --> 01:06.000 Oh, hello, lamb. You sound tired. 01:06.000 --> 01:11.000 Yes, your tired lamb has returned to the fold, and about ready to. 01:11.000 --> 01:12.000 Ready to what? 01:12.000 --> 01:13.000 The fold. 01:13.000 --> 01:18.000 Well, collapse in your chair, darling, and tell me all about it. 01:18.000 --> 01:22.000 If you don't mind, I'd rather not. That would require a recharging of my mental batteries, 01:22.000 --> 01:25.000 and at the moment I would away with thinking. 01:25.000 --> 01:26.000 Which away? That away? 01:26.000 --> 01:30.000 No, I'll put it this away. 01:30.000 --> 01:34.000 I devoutly hope that we have nothing on the calendar for this evening. 01:34.000 --> 01:38.000 Not a thing. Louise is going out tonight to have a date alone with your wife. 01:38.000 --> 01:43.000 Ah, a date alone with my wife to the exclusion of the rest of the world is a unique and happy event. 01:43.000 --> 01:46.000 And when I think of the schedule for the next two weeks... 01:46.000 --> 01:51.000 Oh, I know, the faculty dinner Friday. On this weekend we have the president's reception. 01:51.000 --> 01:56.000 Oh, yes, a week from tonight. Next Wednesday the Wellmans are coming here for dinner. 01:56.000 --> 01:59.000 Oh, yes. Now, why did I forget that? 01:59.000 --> 02:02.000 Freudian block, perhaps. 02:02.000 --> 02:07.000 I made the date a month ago. The Wellmans are the kind of people you can't invite at the last minute. 02:07.000 --> 02:14.000 They always think the people you really wanted suddenly drop dead, and you only ask them out of desperation. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 Excuse me, Dr. Hall. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 Oh, good evening, Louise. 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 Is it all right now? 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 I wasn't aware that anything was wrong. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.000 If I don't, the prices change. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 Then by all means, do. 02:28.000 --> 02:34.000 Thank you. Thank you. And, Mrs. Hall, I cooked the chicken, but don't touch it. 02:34.000 --> 02:40.000 Well, at today's prices, I'm not surprised it's sensitive. 02:40.000 --> 02:45.000 I just don't know if I'm going to like it anyway since she's changed the color of her hair. 02:45.000 --> 02:47.000 Who, the chicken? 02:47.000 --> 02:51.000 She's almost old enough to be his mother. 02:51.000 --> 02:53.000 Is that all, Dr. Hall? 02:53.000 --> 02:57.000 Oh, yes, I think that takes care of everything. 02:57.000 --> 03:01.000 Oh, just a moment, Louise, before you go. Is the cooked chicken for tomorrow night's dinner? 03:01.000 --> 03:04.000 That's what I said, Mrs. Hall. 03:04.000 --> 03:08.000 But you'll never get me to believe she's doing the singing. 03:08.000 --> 03:10.000 Well, good night. 03:10.000 --> 03:12.000 Good night, Louise. 03:12.000 --> 03:19.000 And, Mrs. Hall, it's in the green one, but don't let it stand too long or it'll fall. 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 That's eggs for you. 03:21.000 --> 03:26.000 Well, that's Louise there for you. How did you do, Toddy? 03:26.000 --> 03:31.000 I thought you dropped more stitches than usual tonight. 03:31.000 --> 03:35.000 All I know is that I'm quite hungry, and the chicken is for tomorrow night. 03:35.000 --> 03:39.000 By tomorrow, I'll have to be fed intravenously. 03:39.000 --> 03:43.000 I'm sure that whatever is about to fall is in my new green casserole. 03:43.000 --> 03:47.000 It's probably one of her superb cheese, cheese-flavored casserole. 03:47.000 --> 03:51.000 Good. But what did she mean about the change in prices? 03:51.000 --> 03:56.000 Well, I expect she was going to the movies. But who is it that's changed the color of her hair? 03:56.000 --> 03:59.000 Oh, her name is Legion. 03:59.000 --> 04:04.000 Thanks to the, thanks to the amazing advances of our technological culture, 04:04.000 --> 04:09.000 my lady can now match her hair to her gloves, her purse, or her mood. 04:09.000 --> 04:14.260 Once found only on an automobile, the convertible top is now in the 04:14.260 --> 04:18.000 matter of cosmetics. 04:18.000 --> 04:23.000 And the permanent, which is so ridiculously temporary, is one of the... 04:23.000 --> 04:26.000 Oh, well, I expect Louise has forgotten her key. I'll get it, darling. 04:26.000 --> 04:29.000 But you go right ahead with your beauty shop lecture. 04:29.000 --> 04:32.000 And by the way, do you think you could fit me in tomorrow afternoon 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 about 4.30 for a shampoo and finger wave? 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 Well, I don't know. Professor Heaslip's coming in for a manicure at two. 04:38.000 --> 04:41.000 I'll have to look at my appointment book. 04:41.000 --> 04:45.000 What, Mr. Merriweather, come in! 04:45.000 --> 04:46.000 Well, thank you, ma'am. 04:46.000 --> 04:47.000 How nice of you to call. 04:47.000 --> 04:52.000 It's nice of you to say nice, ma'am, when we both know that this is an unholy hour for visiting. 04:52.000 --> 04:54.000 Oh, Charles, kind. Glad to see you. 04:54.000 --> 04:59.000 Sit down. You're just in time to hear Richard Hudnut Hall on the subject of modern makeup 04:59.000 --> 05:04.000 or what foundation cream to use when building a foundation for a creamer in. 05:04.000 --> 05:08.000 No, Charles, I shall not subject you to my lecture. 05:08.000 --> 05:14.000 No, Charles, I shall not subject you to my layman's opinions on such an esoteric aspect of American life. 05:14.000 --> 05:19.000 Oh, esoteric, maybe, but don't give your wife any lessons in lily-gilding. 05:19.000 --> 05:22.000 That schoolgirl complexion needs no more schooling. 05:22.000 --> 05:26.000 She has graduated magna cum wolf whistle. 05:26.000 --> 05:32.000 Now, Mr. Merriweather, that's what I call finesse in flattery. 05:32.000 --> 05:36.000 Oh, not flattery, ma'am, just honest gasping admiration. 05:36.000 --> 05:42.000 Now, Charles, you are a gratifying relic left over from the age of gallantry. 05:42.000 --> 05:49.000 Unfortunately, the art of praise has been neglected in this hard-bitten, pungent period of hours 05:49.000 --> 05:56.000 when compliments are reduced to such frightening phrases as slick chick, dreamboat, and hot shot. 05:56.000 --> 06:02.000 You're gone, kid, real gone. 06:02.000 --> 06:06.000 Well, I like to think of myself as a gallant character. 06:06.000 --> 06:13.000 In the secret life of Walter Mitty Merriweather, he sees himself in a scarlet cape and plumed hat on bended knee. 06:13.000 --> 06:17.000 It's an odd place to wear a plumed hat. 06:17.000 --> 06:24.000 Oh, I don't know. There's something so plebeian about a plain kneecap. 06:24.000 --> 06:30.000 Now, now, finish this revolting picture, Charles. I find it quite cloak and sordid. 06:30.000 --> 06:35.000 Yes, proceed, Sir Lancelot, or go on, Gawain. 06:35.000 --> 06:41.000 Don't encourage me, ma'am. I'm just a lock and bar at heart and love laughs at lock and bars of my age. 06:41.000 --> 06:45.000 But there's nothing romantic about my reason for dropping by this evening. 06:45.000 --> 06:48.000 Bill, does the name J.B. Radcliffe mean anything to you? 06:48.000 --> 06:53.000 Radcliffe? Oh, yes, I think Mr. Wellman did mention him. 06:53.000 --> 06:55.000 Well, I'll brief you briefly. 06:55.000 --> 07:02.000 Radcliffe is an Ivy alumnus who has been living for years in comparative obscurity until Clarence suddenly discovered he'd become a millionaire. 07:02.000 --> 07:08.000 Unhappily, Clarence was in my office a week ago when J.B. called to say he'd be going through Ivy tonight. 07:08.000 --> 07:11.000 Naturally, Clarence invited himself along for dinner. 07:11.000 --> 07:15.000 Naturally, Clarence saw the handwriting on the endowment, didn't he? 07:15.000 --> 07:21.000 Yes, ma'am. But Radcliffe is not what you might call a nammard of Wellman. 07:21.000 --> 07:24.000 In fact, he thinks Clarence is a clunk. 07:24.000 --> 07:30.000 I tried to tell him what a fine man he was, how the Wellman ancestors were good Mayflower stock, 07:30.000 --> 07:37.000 how the Wellmans founded a certain city in New England, and Radcliffe said, what's it a marble head? 07:37.000 --> 07:41.000 That will give you an idea. 07:41.000 --> 07:45.000 Well, is there anything I can do to alleviate the situation? 07:45.000 --> 07:51.000 Send Mr. Wellman a telegram saying his soup factory's on fire and the malagatoni got too hot. 07:51.000 --> 07:57.000 Yes, we might send it collect so he'd shoot the messenger boy and get arrested. 07:57.000 --> 08:00.000 We've got to gag Clarence somewhere. 08:00.000 --> 08:03.000 Better just let him run his course and hope for the best. 08:03.000 --> 08:09.000 After all, with a possible million-dollar endowment in sight, he might be quite a graceful dinner companion. 08:09.000 --> 08:14.000 He'll be too graceful. He'll butter Radcliffe like a breakfast bun. 08:14.000 --> 08:18.000 Now, believe me, I can get more folding money out of him with a few friendly insults 08:18.000 --> 08:26.000 than Clarence could extract with flattery, prayer, cajolery, and asking to see snapshots of his grandchildren. 08:26.000 --> 08:29.000 Well, it's my problem, kiddies. Wish me well. 08:29.000 --> 08:34.000 We do, Mr. Merriweather. May the Radcliffe fountain pen run freely tonight. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Yes, and please let us know what success you have. 08:36.000 --> 08:43.000 I shall. And if in a moment of mad sanity I stab Clarence with a lobster fork and they send me up the river, 08:43.000 --> 08:48.000 use your influence with the governor to get me a low number. 08:48.000 --> 08:50.000 Bye now. 08:50.000 --> 08:52.000 Goodbye. 08:57.000 --> 09:00.000 I believe you know how fond I am of Mr. Merriweather, darling, 09:00.000 --> 09:04.000 but I am glad that he, and not us, has Mr. Wilman on his hands for dinner tonight. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 Dinner? Vicki, I'm starved. 09:07.000 --> 09:13.000 Lock the doors, barricade the windows, muzzle the telephone, and let's have at the soufflé. 09:21.000 --> 09:27.000 Wasn't it cozy, Toddy? Just you and me and lighted candles in a sink full of dishes. 09:27.000 --> 09:29.000 Want some more coffee? 09:29.000 --> 09:33.000 No, thank you, darling. I am surfeited, satisfied, replete, and full. 09:33.000 --> 09:37.000 I doubt if I can eat again until sometime late in August. 09:37.000 --> 09:42.000 Well, you go in the other room and curl up with a chest problem, and I'll do the dishes. 09:42.000 --> 09:44.000 We'll do the dishes. 09:44.000 --> 09:49.000 No, no, my goodness. Only a few thousand of them, said she, with a brave little smile. 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 Oh, very well, if you don't mind. 09:51.000 --> 09:54.000 But as you insist, of course. Here, here's an apron for you. 09:54.000 --> 10:01.000 Apron? Well, haven't you something not quite so dretty? These ruffles, after all. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.000 Very becoming to you. 10:03.000 --> 10:05.000 Turn around, I'll tie it up for you. 10:05.000 --> 10:09.000 Thank you, dear. I've met to a certain inability to tie a bow knot. 10:09.000 --> 10:11.000 Oh, no, not visitors. 10:11.000 --> 10:14.000 I'll chase them away. I'll tell them Dr. Hall is not at home. 10:14.000 --> 10:17.000 Yeah, just poke your head out of the door and say, your mother doesn't want any. 10:17.000 --> 10:21.000 Well, with this apron on, they'll think I'm my mother. 10:25.000 --> 10:28.000 Good evening, Dr. Hall. Well, we're here. 10:28.000 --> 10:30.000 Mr. Wellman. 10:30.000 --> 10:31.000 We are not late. 10:31.000 --> 10:32.000 Oh, Mrs. Wellman. 10:32.000 --> 10:35.000 Clarence and I have been looking forward to this evening. 10:35.000 --> 10:37.000 Well, good evening. Come in. 10:37.000 --> 10:38.000 Thank you. 10:38.000 --> 10:43.000 Ah, you see the little woman has put you to work, Dr. Hall. Lending a helping hand in the kitchen? 10:43.000 --> 10:47.000 Oh, no, buddy. I think we have a treat in store for us tonight. 10:47.000 --> 10:52.000 I'll bet, Dr. Hall, that you're preparing the dinner yourself. 10:52.000 --> 10:54.000 Dinner? Well, I... 10:54.000 --> 10:58.000 Yes, indeed. I put a ring around this date on my calendar. 10:58.000 --> 11:00.000 Dinner, June 11th. 11:00.000 --> 11:03.000 There's a little verse at the top of that calendar, too, says, 11:03.000 --> 11:07.000 breaking of engagements is for the socially inept. 11:07.000 --> 11:10.000 An appointment is a promise and a promise must be kept. 11:12.000 --> 11:16.000 I think that's a very... But where's Mrs. Hall? 11:16.000 --> 11:19.000 Why, she's out in the kitchen. 11:19.000 --> 11:22.000 Fixing up some little curlicues and doodads, huh? 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Well, that's for me. 11:24.000 --> 11:27.000 Always eat so many appetizers, never can eat any dinner. 11:27.000 --> 11:30.000 And the roast always has the roast left for Sunday night supper. 11:30.000 --> 11:33.000 Left overwhelming, they call me. 11:33.000 --> 11:37.000 The man who came to dinner couldn't eat any. 11:37.000 --> 11:41.000 Well, perhaps I can help, Mrs. Hall. I'll just trot out to the kitchen. 11:41.000 --> 11:43.000 No, no, no, no, no, no, please, please. 11:43.000 --> 11:47.000 We only put our guests to work when there is something really difficult to do, 11:47.000 --> 11:50.000 like fixing the plumbing or painting the... 11:50.000 --> 11:53.000 No, no, no, no, no, please sit down. 11:53.000 --> 11:57.000 I'll go and see what I can do to save the situ... I mean... 11:57.000 --> 11:59.000 Help me with the... 11:59.000 --> 12:02.000 Well, make yourselves comfortable, won't you? I'll be with you in a moment. 12:02.000 --> 12:04.000 Take your time, man. Take your time. 12:04.000 --> 12:06.000 Got all evening, you know. 12:08.000 --> 12:10.000 Vicki, Vicki! 12:10.000 --> 12:12.000 Did you get rid of whoever it was? 12:12.000 --> 12:15.000 Vicki, it's the Wellmans. They've come for dinner. 12:15.000 --> 12:18.000 But they can't! I mean, it's next week. 12:18.000 --> 12:21.000 And besides, we've had dinner! 12:21.000 --> 12:23.000 We'll have to eat another. 12:23.000 --> 12:25.000 They're all dressed up for the occasion. 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 But, I... What do we have? There's nothing in the... 12:28.000 --> 12:30.000 Oh, yes, there's Louise's chicken. 12:30.000 --> 12:35.000 Well, if you can stall them, maybe I can sneak upstairs and get dressed. 12:35.000 --> 12:38.000 Mr. Wellman obviously confused our invitation for next week 12:38.000 --> 12:41.000 with the Merriweather Radcliffe dinner tonight. 12:41.000 --> 12:44.000 Then we've got to keep in here, if I was going to get that endowment. 12:44.000 --> 12:46.000 Yes, we'd better. 12:46.000 --> 12:49.000 I'm appalled at the prospect of another dinner, 12:49.000 --> 12:54.000 but, as Byron said, all history attests that happiness for man, 12:54.000 --> 13:19.000 the hungry sinner, since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 The Voice of America is bringing you this presentation 13:22.000 --> 13:27.000 of The Halls of Ivy, starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman. 13:27.000 --> 13:31.000 Here today... 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 And now we return to The Halls of Ivy. 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 It's a few moments later, and Dr. and Mrs. Hall are in their kitchen, 13:36.000 --> 13:40.000 feverishly trying to throw a dinner together for their unexpected guests, 13:40.000 --> 13:42.000 Mr. and Mrs. Wellman, who are sitting in the living room. 13:42.000 --> 13:44.000 Bertha Wellman is saying... 13:44.000 --> 13:47.000 It's an old room, but really quite lovely, Bunny. 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 Of course, I could never live with those drapes. 13:50.000 --> 13:51.000 Why not? What's the matter with them? 13:51.000 --> 13:53.000 Oh, they're much too busy. 13:53.000 --> 13:57.000 Busy? Doing what? Just hanging there. 13:57.000 --> 14:00.000 Well, I mean, Bunny, a quieter pattern. 14:00.000 --> 14:02.000 Oh, and I should think she'd have more flowers around. 14:02.000 --> 14:04.000 I've heard so much about her roses. 14:04.000 --> 14:07.000 What's the matter with that clump on the piano? Very pretty. 14:07.000 --> 14:09.000 Yes, for a party. 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 Bunny, what do you suppose has happened to their maid? 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Don't know and don't care much. 14:13.000 --> 14:15.000 Can't understand her anyway. 14:15.000 --> 14:18.000 Always talks like she was skipping rope at the same time. 14:18.000 --> 14:22.000 Relax, Bunny. They probably let her off for the night to make it more intimate. 14:22.000 --> 14:24.000 Paul usually knows what he's doing and... 14:24.000 --> 14:28.000 Hello, Mr. Wellman. Mrs. Wellman, I'm so sorry you had to wait, 14:28.000 --> 14:32.000 but this has been one of those days when everything got mixed up. 14:32.000 --> 14:34.000 Oh, I know just how that is, Mrs. Hall. 14:34.000 --> 14:37.000 And then something unexpected came up for our housekeeper, 14:37.000 --> 14:39.000 so I hope you won't mind having potluck. 14:39.000 --> 14:41.000 Don't be modest, Mrs. Hall. We've been here before. 14:41.000 --> 14:44.000 We know all about what kind of a dinner you serve. 14:44.000 --> 14:45.000 Ah, here we are. 14:45.000 --> 14:49.000 Everything finally seems to be organized in the culinary department. 14:49.000 --> 14:55.000 I have a few hors d'oeuvres here that may help to assuage the pangs of hunger. 14:55.000 --> 14:56.000 Mrs. Wellman? 14:56.000 --> 14:59.000 Thank you. Now, let me see. 14:59.000 --> 15:01.000 What's that intriguing little one there in the middle? 15:01.000 --> 15:03.000 Oh, hors d'oeuvres are like magic tricks. 15:03.000 --> 15:05.000 If you tell how they're done, everybody says, 15:05.000 --> 15:08.000 oh, for heaven's sake, anybody could do that. 15:08.000 --> 15:10.000 I love them and don't care how they're made. 15:10.000 --> 15:14.000 I'd eat the cap off a beer bottle if it had a piece of cheese and a slice of olive on it. 15:14.000 --> 15:17.000 A visual appeal, I suppose. 15:17.000 --> 15:20.000 Now, in my soup advertising, I insist on full color. 15:20.000 --> 15:24.000 How can you sell beautiful tomato soup in black and white ads? 15:24.000 --> 15:27.000 Looks like a bowl of melted golf balls. 15:27.000 --> 15:32.000 You know, I've always wondered why they're called hors d'oeuvres. 15:32.000 --> 15:37.000 Well, it's from the French and means literally outside of the work. 15:37.000 --> 15:42.000 Oh, how interesting. You mean outside of work I hate hors d'oeuvres most? 15:42.000 --> 15:49.000 No, no, Vicky, but the origin of the phrase is not generally known. 15:49.000 --> 15:54.000 It seems there was a pastry cook in the royal kitchens of Louis the Pious. 15:54.000 --> 16:01.000 His name was Gaston Flambeau, and his specialty was serving tremendous pastries, 16:01.000 --> 16:06.000 which when opened revealed beautiful peasant girls with lutes. 16:06.000 --> 16:09.000 Lutes? You mean lieutenants? 16:09.000 --> 16:14.000 No, no, Bunny. A lute was a musical instrument. 16:14.000 --> 16:20.000 How did Gaston go from big pastries to hors d'oeuvres? Did he run out of peasant girls? 16:20.000 --> 16:26.000 No, no, it was all due to the famine of the year 823. 16:26.000 --> 16:35.000 You see, in desperation, the royal kitchens had to satisfy the royal appetite with reduced but tasty novelties. 16:35.000 --> 16:43.000 And Gaston Flambeau was so successful at utilizing leftovers that he was made a duke. 16:43.000 --> 16:50.000 Yes, this of course broke his spirit because his heart was in the kitchen. 16:50.000 --> 17:00.000 He spent his last years hanging about the scullery, muttering hors d'oeuvres, hors d'oeuvres, out of work, out of work. 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 You see, Bertha, what'd I tell you? This man knows everything. 17:03.000 --> 17:06.000 Oh, what a delightful bit of history. 17:06.000 --> 17:11.000 Well, when better history is made, my boy'll make it. 17:11.000 --> 17:13.000 Thank you, my darling. 17:13.000 --> 17:16.000 Why can't you ever remember little facts like that, Bunny? 17:16.000 --> 17:18.000 Bunny? 17:18.000 --> 17:27.000 Well, you know, just a little nickname. We met on Easter. 17:27.000 --> 17:29.000 Charming, charming. 17:29.000 --> 17:34.000 I saw her flying across the churchyard, and I called her Bertie. 17:34.000 --> 17:38.000 Now, Clarence, you know the halls aren't interested in hearing that old story. 17:38.000 --> 17:42.000 Oh, on the contrary, Mrs. Wilman, I'm delighted to hear about such personal history. 17:42.000 --> 17:49.000 Yes, Dr. Hall, I may be a bear as chairman of the Board of Governors, but when the day is done, after office hours... 17:49.000 --> 17:52.000 You're a lamb, Mr. Wilman. 17:52.000 --> 17:56.000 Well, thank you, Mrs. Hall. 17:56.000 --> 18:00.000 Well, you too. Don't know what Dr. Hall would do without you. 18:00.000 --> 18:03.000 Charm, balance, common sense, and taste. 18:03.000 --> 18:07.000 Taste? Oh, well, thank you, Mr. Wilman. That's a perfect cue. Dinner is served. 18:17.000 --> 18:20.000 Will you have another cup of coffee, Mr. Wilman? 18:20.000 --> 18:25.000 No, thank you. Now, where was I? Oh, yes. It was in the spring of 1911 when George Usher... 18:25.000 --> 18:31.000 No, no, Buddy. It was the fall of 1912, and it wasn't George. It was his cousin John. 18:31.000 --> 18:35.000 You see, Dr. Hall, John Usher was an old friend of my family. 18:35.000 --> 18:39.000 You remember the Ushers of North Platte, Nebraska? 18:39.000 --> 18:42.000 Well, no. I don't believe them. 18:42.000 --> 18:47.000 Oh, they were very prominent people. They had the largest sporting goods store in North Platte, 18:47.000 --> 18:50.000 and it was no time at all before Clarence became manager. 18:50.000 --> 18:55.000 Buddy, will you let me tell it, please? You're getting it all backwards. 18:55.000 --> 19:01.000 Dr. Hall, I don't know whether I ever told you before, but I began my career by tying flies. 19:01.000 --> 19:05.000 Flies? What do you tie them to? 19:05.000 --> 19:09.000 The art of tying flies is strictly piscatorial. 19:09.000 --> 19:14.000 But what about the humane society? The idea of tying up little flies? 19:14.000 --> 19:15.000 Oh, my God! 19:15.000 --> 19:20.000 But what about flies, Mrs. Hall? A trough fly makes it even worse. A house fly. 19:20.000 --> 19:25.000 Not mine being tied up in the house, but a trough fly used to the great outdoors. 19:25.000 --> 19:30.000 Mrs. Hall, these were artificial flies. 19:30.000 --> 19:35.000 I don't think their social attitudes are important, Mr. Wilman. 19:35.000 --> 19:38.000 Maybe they just acted artificial. I mean... 19:38.000 --> 19:46.000 I'm sorry, dear. They were imitation flies made of silk and thread, used by fishermen as lures. 19:46.000 --> 19:52.000 Yes, darling. Thank you. And now we're even for Gaston Flambeau. 19:52.000 --> 19:57.000 But now tell us, Mr. Wilman, what happened after your successful career as a tie flyer? 19:57.000 --> 20:00.000 A trough fly tie, my dear. 20:00.000 --> 20:06.000 As a trough flyer? It doesn't sound right, does it? Trough flyer? 20:06.000 --> 20:11.000 No, dear. Let's try forgetting it. 20:11.000 --> 20:15.000 Excuse me. Dr. Hall speaking. 20:15.000 --> 20:16.000 Hello, Bill. Merriweather. 20:16.000 --> 20:18.000 Oh, hello, Mr. Merriweather. 20:18.000 --> 20:19.000 I hope I didn't get you up. 20:19.000 --> 20:23.000 Oh, no. As a matter of fact, we have company. 20:23.000 --> 20:27.000 Oh, well, then I'll make this a short report. Radcliffe is in the bag. 20:27.000 --> 20:31.000 Gave me a whopping big check for IV. Three quarters of a million. 20:31.000 --> 20:33.000 And that ain't coleslaw, brother. 20:33.000 --> 20:36.000 No, it's definitely more nourishing. 20:36.000 --> 20:40.000 By the way, what do you suppose happened to Clarence? He never showed up. 20:40.000 --> 20:44.000 Oh, it's been a delightful evening. 20:44.000 --> 20:46.000 Whose evening? 20:46.000 --> 20:49.000 Yes, the Wilmans were here for dinner, you know. 20:49.000 --> 20:53.000 As a matter of fact, we were just sitting around chatting. 20:53.000 --> 21:02.000 Oh! Oh! Oh, thanks, Bill. I don't know how you did it, but tell me all about your devious tactics tomorrow. 21:02.000 --> 21:06.000 And now I give you back to Clarence and his birdie. Bye. 21:06.000 --> 21:08.000 Bye, child. 21:08.000 --> 21:13.000 Tell me, William, how is Mr. Merriweather feeling now? 21:13.000 --> 21:15.000 Splendid, Victoria. Just splendid. 21:15.000 --> 21:19.000 Oh, has he been sick? That's too bad. He's such a nice man. 21:19.000 --> 21:23.000 Sick? Nonsense. I just saw him this morning. Looked perfectly all right to me. 21:23.000 --> 21:25.000 As a matter of fact, we were supposed to be together. 21:25.000 --> 21:31.000 That is, I distinctly marked the calendar. I put the ring around the rosie. 21:31.000 --> 21:37.000 I mean, the date. I shouldn't be here. This is a trick. 21:37.000 --> 21:41.000 Why, what do you mean, Mr. Wilman? Who would trick you, and for what? 21:41.000 --> 21:43.000 Merriweather had dinner with Radcliffe tonight, didn't he? 21:43.000 --> 21:46.000 Well, yes, Mr. Wilman. He did mention something. 21:46.000 --> 21:51.000 Mention? That's where I was supposed to be, but you made me make a mistake. 21:51.000 --> 21:59.000 That is, you misled. I thought I got my mix. That is, my date. I was sure. What happened? 21:59.000 --> 22:03.000 Well, he had a dinner tonight, Mr. Wilman, remember? 22:03.000 --> 22:09.000 Oh, you mean you weren't expecting us until next Wednesday. Oh, how dreadful of us, Mrs. Hall. 22:09.000 --> 22:10.000 Oh, not at all, Mr. Wilman. 22:10.000 --> 22:12.000 By Burmley, how could you? 22:12.000 --> 22:14.000 Me? What did I do? I support that. 22:14.000 --> 22:22.000 Well, Mr. Wilman, you were so emphatic about the fact that you had ringed this date that we thought perhaps we were the ones who had made the mistake. 22:22.000 --> 22:27.000 Don't you try to crawl out of it now, Dr. Hall. You didn't make any mistake. I did. 22:27.000 --> 22:32.000 All I want to know is why did you let me do it? You knew Merriwether and Radcliffe were expecting me. 22:32.000 --> 22:39.000 You knew I had no business being here. So why didn't you throw me out? Why, Dr. Hall? Why? 22:49.000 --> 22:55.000 You know, I enjoyed myself thoroughly tonight, Toddy, despite all that panic and mix-up. 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 And, incidentally, darling, was the dinner too bad? 22:58.000 --> 23:03.000 Which dinner? The one we ate or the one the Wilmans ate? 23:03.000 --> 23:05.000 Oh, excuse me. 23:05.000 --> 23:06.000 Halleluja. 23:06.000 --> 23:08.000 You too, Stiller. 23:08.000 --> 23:09.000 Did you have a nice evening? 23:09.000 --> 23:14.000 I don't know why I bothered. I couldn't see any difference in her hair at all. 23:14.000 --> 23:16.000 Oh, that's too bad. After all, you're worrying. 23:16.000 --> 23:20.000 It wasn't in technicolor, so how could you tell? 23:20.000 --> 23:25.000 Well, I'm all done in. Good night. 23:25.000 --> 23:26.000 Good night. 23:26.000 --> 23:29.000 Darling, you know, I'm kind of done in myself. 23:29.000 --> 23:37.000 Yes, our nice quiet evening. But it was well spent, Vicki. And may I say that you came through in the crisis magnificently. 23:37.000 --> 23:42.000 Well, you know me. Quick study, and if you haven't got a script, you have to add lib. 23:42.000 --> 23:46.000 Excuse me, Mrs. Hall. What happened to the chicken? 23:46.000 --> 23:52.000 Oh, Louisa, we forgot to tell you. We had it for dinner. But the soufflé, that's gone too. 23:52.000 --> 23:54.000 Well, we had two dinners, Louisa. 23:54.000 --> 23:57.000 Were you that hungry, Dr. Hall? 23:57.000 --> 24:00.000 No, no, but our guests were. 24:00.000 --> 24:05.000 Well, it's not that I mind, but the chicken was for tomorrow night. 24:05.000 --> 24:13.000 Yes, we know. But you may sleep tonight in the happy knowledge that your chicken may be listed with man's other feathered friends of history. 24:13.000 --> 24:14.000 Such as which? 24:14.000 --> 24:25.000 Well, such as the seagulls which saved the Mormon crops in Utah, the ravens which fed Elijah, the geese whose cackling warned an ancient city of an impending invasion. 24:25.000 --> 24:27.000 What about my chicken? 24:27.000 --> 24:32.000 Yes, darling, tie that fly. Connect it historically. 24:32.000 --> 24:46.000 Well, Louisa, having your chicken on hand tonight made it possible for us to feed Mr. and Mrs. Wellman, thus setting Mr. Merriweather free to catch a benevolent goose which laid this college a golden egg. 24:46.000 --> 25:07.000 We'll be seeing the next week at this same time at the Halls of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Cullman. 25:07.000 --> 25:14.000 Louisa is played by Elizabeth Patterson. Mr. Wellman is Herbert Butterfield. Mr. Merriweather is Gail Gordon. And Mrs. Wellman is Sarah Silver. 25:14.000 --> 25:23.000 Tonight's script was written by Barbara Milton Merlin and Don Quinn. Music was composed and conducted by Henry Russell. Ken Carpenter speaking. 25:23.000 --> 25:39.000 Oh, we love the Halls of Ivy that surround us here today. 25:39.000 --> 25:46.000 This production of the Halls of Ivy was broadcast with an actual audience present in the studio. 26:09.000 --> 26:26.000 And shimmer off in twilight like the old Vesperberg. 26:26.000 --> 26:43.000 Applause.