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Gee, you've certainly got a lot of night clubs in here in New York, driver.
Look, professor, you don't have to hit them all in one night.
Oh, well I'm not doing this in fun, you know. I don't even like them.
I know, I know. You don't even like night clubs. You're looking for your cousin, Keith. He's in town on a binge and you've got to find him before he gets in trouble.
Okay, professor, try this joint. It's the last one on 52nd Street, but don't take any wooden car as girls.
Oh, hello, Keith.
Oh, Peter.
You don't have to pretend you're glad to see me. Just come on.
Well, Pete, I got...
I got a cab waiting, Keith. You got to get out to this club, back to your hotel and pack.
You're going to be on that train for Old Sharon at eight in the morning.
My dear Professor Morgan, I have sat in this place for four nights.
I've been looking for you for four nights.
And I'll come back for forty more if that'll get it a merit.
Marry you? What are you talking about, Keith?
Something you've never tasted. A little dish of heaven.
Well, she doesn't work here, does she?
Certainly. She's a dancer.
Oh, no, Keith, not a night club dancer.
Something wrong with night club dancers?
Well, he was just...
Oh.
Um, are you one?
She's the one. Peter, Miss Francie Brent.
Francie, Professor Morgan.
Hello.
Hey, what is this? You two just going to stand there?
Francie, dance them around the floor once while I settle the checks.
You do dance, don't you, Professor?
You do dance, Professor.
Oh, thank you.
Uh, couldn't you make it, Peter?
How's Pete?
Oh, wow.
Do you have to dance anymore? For the customers, I mean?
No, I'm through for the evening.
Oh. It's wonderful outside.
Mm-hmm. I saw the moon from my dressing room.
It's a wonderful moon.
Well, I guess I'll have to be getting on home.
Really? Oh, gee.
Look, do you want to take me home or don't you?
Do I? Oh, gosh, I was hoping that...
Only instead of going straight home, how would you like to see New York?
Me see New York?
Pete, with you, I'd love it.
Good. Let's go.
Uh-oh. What about Keith?
Keith? Oh, don't worry about him.
He's seen New York.
And this is the subway, Peter. New York's Nickel Limousine.
For five cents, you get transportation,
a free look at a newspaper,
and during the rush hour, your clothes print.
Listen, sure different from old Sharon, Frankie.
Up there, it's so quiet you can hear the ivy climbing the walls.
What?
I said in old Sharon, it's quiet.
Just the sound of the wind whispering through the trees.
What did you say, Peter?
I said it's quiet in old Sharon.
Oh, I like... I like that.
You don't have anything like these double-decker buses in old Sharon, do you?
Uh-uh. We haven't got sights like this either.
But you know, Frankie, big buildings aren't the most important thing.
Everybody worries about industry,
but very few people realize that our schools are responsible
for the degree of civilization we attain.
Peter, what are you?
I'm a professor at old Sharon University.
Professor of botany.
You mean Keith wasn't kidding, huh? Oh, no.
God. A real professor.
And cute, too.
Well, it's an exciting responsibility, Frankie,
to guide young people through the most important period in their lives,
to keep liberal thought burning like a white flame in a lamp.
You say such lovely things, Peter.
Not like anyone I've ever known before.
Well, it really has been a wonderful night.
But I guess this is goodbye.
Why?
Well, because it's five o'clock in the morning.
Because this is where I live.
Oh. Oh, gee, Frankie, do you have to say goodbye?
Yes, I do. Only, yes.
Well, suppose I say it like this.
Hmm? Oh.
Goodbye, Peter.
Frankie. Frankie, wait a minute.
Uh, Frankie, it's my turn now.
Oh, but, Peter, I swear.
Uh.
Hmm.
Goodbye, Frankie.
What is it, Peter?
Oh, Frankie, we just can't say goodbye.
Well, then what can we say?
Well, how about, uh, hello?
Oh, Peter, hello.
Where did you disappear to, Peter?
I spent the rest of the night searching.
Tom Switch, me looking for you.
Keith, I'm trying to tell you.
Some people would say it's a miracle.
They'd say it only happens once in a lifetime.
What does?
What are you looking around for? This is our train.
But me, I don't think it's particularly miraculous.
I think it's pure chemistry.
Anodes attract cathodes.
Just anodes attracting cathodes.
Oh, Keith, she's the most wonderful girl in the world.
Cathode, what a name for a girl.
That isn't her name, Keith.
Her name is Francie.
Francie, oh, very pretty name.
But that still doesn't explain why you disappeared.
Frankie, that's my girl.
Peter, what have you done with her?
Well, I'm trying to tell you. We got married.
Married? You and Francie?
Peter, how could you? I introduced you to her.
I thought... I thought...
Oh!
Oh, my.
Peter, where's Keith? How did he take it?
Well, there he is. You can see for yourself.
Oh, poor Keith.
But we'll tell him there are plenty of other fish in the sea.
Yeah, only I don't think he's looking for a fish.
Porter, Porter, would you carry the rest of these bags, please?
Oh, yes, and my cousin.
Well, we're almost in, Francie.
There's the university, and there on top of that hill, that's our house.
How did your old man take the news, Peter?
Well...
You wired him, didn't you?
No, I didn't think I'd better, Keith. You know how wires excite him.
Well, don't limit him to wires. He throws a fiddle for almost anything.
Sounds like I walked into something.
Right up to your beautiful hips, lady.
Oh, he's just trying to frighten you, Francie.
I'm not trying to frighten anyone. I just think she ought to be prepared.
You see, Peter's father is Henry VIII of old Sharon.
He cuts the heads off, young bride.
Don't worry, Francie, I'll break it to him gently.
Like you did with me? Oh, boy.
Save me two seats on the 50-yard line.
Oh, look, Peter, maybe you'd better talk to him alone first.
Kind of straighten things out.
I'll go someplace and wait.
You can come with me, Francie. I have a delightful apartment.
Oh, no. No.
Isn't there a hotel in town?
Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea, Francie.
Keith, see that she gets to a hotel with you.
I shouldn't, but I will.
I'll call you, darling, as soon as I've told her.
Well, make it soon, Peter.
There's this old man on the platform.
Oh, I think he's a fine-looking gentleman.
Is that your mother with him, Peter? Uh-huh.
Now I see where you get your dimples.
Who's that girl?
Ah-ha, the $64 question.
She looks just like your father, Peter. Your sister?
Well, no, not exactly.
Now break it to her gently, Professor. Very gently.
Well, you see, Francie, she's, um...
I mean, that's Helen.
She's my, um...my...
Yes?
She...
Well, she's my fiancé.
Oh, Francie, Helen and I were supposed to get married when I got back.
And so ends Act One of The Vacious Ladies, starring Robert Walker.
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Poor Margie.
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He took her out once and has avoided her ever since.
What a letdown for Margie.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
What a letdown for Margie.
Is this some other girl?
No, not another girl.
I think a little breath of trouble ruined Margie's romance.
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Peter was unable to tell his father about his bride the first night and the second night
and the third night because Peter Morgan Sr. was a very difficult man to be told anything on any night.
First, fancy became impatient. Then, annoyed. Then, inspired.
On the fourth morning, a former nightclub dancer enrolled as a botany student
and was officially welcomed to the halls of old Sharon as she walked to her husband's botany class.
And so in studying plants, it's helpful to remember that they're like humans.
Why, they get the blues just as I, or rather just as we do.
For instance, a young flower's heart may be broken just like a boy or a...
Oh, who are you?
I'm your new student, Professor.
Oh, oh, oh!
But, uh, perhaps I'm in the way. They didn't tell me your class was old boys.
Oh, that's all right, Miss, uh, Miss, uh...
Brent. France, say Brent.
Oh, Brent, yes. Well, you're perfectly welcome here, Miss Brent.
The class is open to both sexes.
And you will find, as I was just explaining, that botany is really the romance of life.
Is that so? Then I'll be a very easy student.
Yes, uh, now let's see, uh, where will we put you?
Oh, Professor, first of all, Miss Brent will need some supplies.
I'll be very glad to take her to the store room.
All right, Culpepper.
Oh, no, no, what am I saying?
Culpepper, you take the class.
I'll take Miss Brent.
Woo-hoo!
Oh, Francie, why did you have to come to my class?
It was the only way I could see you, Peter.
I've been an awfully lonesome bride.
Yeah, I know, it's terrible.
But, uh, they've been giving me quite a time.
Your folks? Yeah.
Uh, I've got to get Dad alone some way.
Is that impossible?
Well, practically, you see, he's been getting together with members of the school board ever since I got back.
It's something about an endowment, an addition to the college.
Which, of course, is more important than an addition to the family.
Francie, you go back to the hotel.
I'll pick you up there tonight and take you driving, and I promise they have the whole thing thrashed out.
After all, I'm a grown boy.
You're awfully quiet, Peter.
Was your father terribly angry when you told him?
Francie, I've got to talk to you.
Let's stop here by the next, shall we?
Was I so much of a shock to him?
Oh, no, I wasn't thinking about that.
It's just that, uh, well, tomorrow there's going to be a quiz, and you have to take it.
Oh, Peter.
Yeah, I'm sorry, but I can't make an exception for any students.
However, it won't be unfair for me to go over some of the material with you.
After all, you did enroll late.
Now, these papers cover the question of cleavage in primary plant life.
Darling, when I'm alone with you, I get the same sensation I got when I rode in a roller coaster for the first time.
The plants have a peculiar method of cellular...
sinking or up in the clouds?
Sinking or up in the clouds what?
The roller coaster.
Oh, up in the clouds.
Oh. Well, you know, Francie, this botany is very simple if you don't let the terminology confuse you.
Do you feel that way about me?
What way?
Up in the clouds.
Certainly.
Now, about this, uh, cellular division...
Well, if you feel the same way, why don't you tell me?
We know no reason for it, but suddenly a one-celled plant will begin to show indent...
Oh, Francie, I love you so much.
You know, we are married.
And that reminds me, Peter, did you tell your father?
You didn't, did you?
That's why I have to go to botany class tomorrow.
Oh, Francie, please don't be angry with me.
Come here.
Hey, gang, look, it's Professor Morgan and the new students.
You take the class, so Pepper, I'll take Miss Fred.
Holy Hannah, we got to get out of here, Francie.
Now, either you bring my father out of here or I'm going in.
What's going on out here?
Peter!
What's the matter with you?
I have no necktie on.
Never mind about that.
Now, look here, Dad, that girl, the one you think is Keith, well, she's not.
Why, you interrupted a board meeting to tell me that?
No, much supposed than I did.
I'm your son and you're my father and she is my wife.
Are you mad?
Why, Keith told me she was a nightclub dancer.
Yes, sir, one of the best.
Peter, I won't have you toss your life away.
And if you're serious about this, if you really are married to this girl, you better take steps to rectify the situation.
Otherwise...
Dad, this is something that doesn't need rectifying.
This is something that even you can't change.
No, your mother and I will see about that.
We'll see about that at once.
That's the way it is, Mrs. Morgan, it's...
Well, it just happened.
But I'm glad you came to see me.
So you're the girl Peter took away from Keith.
Well, I'm sorry if I've caused any embarrassment, Mrs. Morgan.
And if this is going to hurt Peter, the University, I mean, perhaps I better...
Oh, the University.
Too much of Peter's life has been wrapped up in the University, just like his father's.
All I want to know is, do you really love my son?
Oh, I do, Mrs. Morgan.
Very much.
Why don't you call me Mother?
Well, Mother, is the girl being sensible?
Very.
Does she realize who she's trying to match with with...
Don't you realize I'm the president of Old Sharing University?
And I suppose that gives you the right to go around breaking in doors and breaking up people's lives.
What? What, Mother, what are you saying?
Mrs. Morgan, you've been very kind, but I think I'd better go back to New York.
Fine. And if you want a check for your railroad fare, I'll be only too glad to give it to you.
And now, Mother, shall we be going?
I am going, but not with you. I'm going with Francie.
I wish you hadn't left on my account, Mother.
Oh, don't get silly. I feel fine about it. I feel so free.
New York can be a lot of fun.
So many gay places.
We can go where we want to.
With no husband to bother us.
No, we don't like men.
No.
No. Mother, you don't really feel good about leaving, do you?
No, Francie, no.
Neither do I.
What are we going to do?
I don't know.
We'll never see them again. Never.
What happened?
Why did we stop?
The train hit an automobile.
Anybody hurt?
No, no, we're quite all right, thank you.
Is compartment B in this car?
Yeah, yeah, down the far end there.
Thank you. Come on, Dad.
Peter, I don't see why you had to place our car across the tracks and have it wrecked.
There must have been a more sane and less expensive method of stopping this train.
Look, Dad, it's a question of what you want most, the university or mother.
Well, I, uh...
Yeah, well, I think you feel about Mother the way I do about Francie.
You want to take her in your arms, don't you?
Only you don't know how because you've practiced too long being president of old Sharon.
What would you suggest, son?
Well, I'd suggest, sir, that you forget everything but what your honeymoon was like.
Well, here we are, Dad, compartment B.
Uh, uh, son, you go in alone.
What?
And tell your mother there's a man waiting for her on the observation platform.
The man who met her there 30 years ago.
Ah, you bet I'll tell her. Good luck, Dad.
Knock, knock, knock, knock.
Here! Peter dear, come in.
Oh, how did you get here?
Never mind that now. Mother, there's someone waiting, honey, for you on the observation platform.
Someone waiting for me?
Oh!
I think you'd better hurry, Mother.
Oh, I will, I will.
Well, Francie?
Well, Peter?
Hello.
Here, where are you going?
Nowhere, just putting this sign on the door.
Sign? What's it say?
It reads, Quiet is requested for the benefit of those who have retired.
Robert Walker, the star of The Vicious Lady, will return in just a moment.
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Thanks, too, to RKO for sending us their Vervacious Lady, a Malone-rooted adaptation.
We certainly enjoyed your performance tonight, Bob.
Well, thank you, Frank. It was my pleasure to appear on Theater of Romance, and I hope I'll be back with you soon.
My thanks to Miss Lurine Tuttle for her swell performance with me.
I'll be listening next week to Ann Baxter and Vincent Price in Angel Street.
And thanks again, and good night.
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