WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.000 To the men and women in service all over the world on this Christmas Eve, through the cooperation 00:06.000 --> 00:10.480 of the Associated Services of the Armed Forces, you are about to be entertained by some of 00:10.480 --> 00:13.040 the biggest names in show business. 00:13.040 --> 00:18.880 For the next hour and 30 minutes, this program will present in person such bright stars as 00:18.880 --> 00:28.120 Jimmy Durante, Burt Lowe, Robert Merrill, Marvito Bryan, Edith Piaf, Brian Warren, Edwin, Merida 00:28.120 --> 00:44.120 Paulson, and my name darlings is Tallulah Bankstead. 00:44.120 --> 01:00.280 The National Broadcasting Company presents The Big Show. 01:00.280 --> 01:06.000 The Big Show, 90 minutes with the most scintillating personalities in the entertainment world, 01:06.000 --> 01:10.320 brought to you this Sunday and every Sunday at the same time as the Sunday feature of 01:10.320 --> 01:18.360 NBC's All Star Festival, and here is your hostess, the glamorous, unpredictable Tallulah 01:18.360 --> 01:25.360 Bankhead. 01:25.360 --> 01:41.600 A safe and merry Christmas darlings, to all our armed forces, wherever you may be, and 01:41.600 --> 01:43.160 you here at home. 01:43.160 --> 01:47.520 I hope all your stockings are hung and that you find in them all the things you've wished 01:47.520 --> 01:48.520 for. 01:48.520 --> 01:52.560 I know what I'm going to find in mine, a rawn. 01:52.560 --> 01:57.520 I always do on this show, but when I heard that one of our guests today was to be Marvito 01:57.520 --> 02:03.000 Bryan, I decided to make it my business to see that this child has a Merry Christmas 02:03.000 --> 02:04.000 away from her home. 02:04.000 --> 02:09.000 After all, it's only a few years since I was a child. 02:09.000 --> 02:18.000 And those darling writers, they'll stop at nothing for a Christmas present, and that's 02:18.000 --> 02:20.880 exactly what they're getting. 02:20.880 --> 02:25.840 But to make sure little Marvito has a wonderful Christmas, I invited three of the theater's 02:25.840 --> 02:30.040 greatest clowns, Jimmy Durante, Bert Laugh, and Ed Winn. 02:30.040 --> 02:31.040 Hello. 02:31.040 --> 02:32.040 Hello, Tallulah. 02:32.040 --> 02:42.760 Hello, Ed, Jimmy, Bert, hello, Bert, Ed, Jimmy, hello, Jimmy, Bert, Ed. 02:42.760 --> 02:46.880 Well now that I've given you all equal billing, we can get down to our problem. 02:46.880 --> 02:50.520 We've got to arrange a wonderful Christmas party for this little girl. 02:50.520 --> 02:52.720 Anybody have an idea of what to give her? 02:52.720 --> 02:53.720 I got an idea, Tallulah. 02:53.720 --> 02:54.720 Uh-huh. 02:54.720 --> 02:56.480 Something that's very popular this time of the year. 02:56.480 --> 02:57.480 Oh really, darling? 02:57.480 --> 02:58.480 What is it, Bert? 02:58.480 --> 03:00.120 How about giving her a Christmas present? 03:00.120 --> 03:04.520 Right now, isn't that brilliant? 03:04.520 --> 03:07.600 Came to me in a flash. 03:07.600 --> 03:09.080 Anybody else have any flashes? 03:09.080 --> 03:10.800 How about you, Jimmy? 03:10.800 --> 03:12.360 I know what we could get her. 03:12.360 --> 03:15.920 I once got something nice for Christmas, a bed jacket. 03:15.920 --> 03:16.920 You a bed jacket? 03:16.920 --> 03:18.320 What's the matter with that? 03:18.320 --> 03:20.280 My bed always wears a jacket. 03:20.280 --> 03:21.280 We dress to sleep. 03:21.280 --> 03:26.000 Well, for all the help you are, you could have stood in bed. 03:26.000 --> 03:27.720 Well, how about you, Edwin? 03:27.720 --> 03:30.880 Have you got an idea that's more stable than a bed jacket? 03:30.880 --> 03:34.240 Oh yes, I have a wonderful idea, Tallulah. 03:34.240 --> 03:35.240 How old is this girl? 03:35.240 --> 03:36.240 Margaret O'Brien? 03:36.240 --> 03:40.720 Oh well, she must be about, well, seven years old, I guess. 03:40.720 --> 03:44.920 I've never met the child, you see, but I've seen her on the screen in Journey for Margaret, 03:44.920 --> 03:46.400 Our Vines, Have Tender Grapes. 03:46.400 --> 03:48.400 Well, she's about tenor rate, I'd say. 03:48.400 --> 03:51.400 Oh well, I've got a gigantic idea. 03:51.400 --> 03:53.240 Besides that, it's big. 03:53.240 --> 03:57.480 I tell you something, I'm surprised that Jimmy and Bray didn't think of it. 03:57.480 --> 03:59.480 Why don't we get her a horse? 03:59.480 --> 04:00.480 A horse? 04:00.480 --> 04:01.480 Yes, a horse. 04:01.480 --> 04:03.480 Why are you so surprised? 04:03.480 --> 04:05.120 Let me explain it to you. 04:05.120 --> 04:07.680 You give Margaret a horse. 04:07.680 --> 04:12.440 Margaret takes it home and the landlord tells her she cannot have a horse in the apartment. 04:12.440 --> 04:18.640 This, of course, surprises her because the landlord has no objection to mice. 04:18.640 --> 04:19.640 You see what I mean? 04:19.640 --> 04:22.640 But the landlord is adamant. 04:22.640 --> 04:24.640 James J. Adamant. 04:24.640 --> 04:29.560 Well, anyhow, Margaret and her parents, they move out and they get a house in the country 04:29.560 --> 04:32.640 where the horse has plenty of room to roam. 04:32.640 --> 04:37.360 The house is in Milan, which is 25 miles to roam. 04:37.360 --> 04:43.960 And the little girl has to ride the horse 25 miles to school every day. 04:43.960 --> 04:47.480 And one day the horse runs away and a little boy saves a life. 04:47.480 --> 04:50.920 He is the son of the wealthiest man in town. 04:50.920 --> 04:54.680 His father is a big car manufacturer. 04:54.680 --> 04:57.320 He made his money in the black market, you know. 04:57.320 --> 05:01.880 Some of the jokes later on are even worse than that. 05:01.880 --> 05:06.720 Anyhow, she and the boy grow up to be childhood sweethearts, you know. 05:06.720 --> 05:10.200 And one day the boy brings her a bottle of perfume and proposes to her. 05:10.200 --> 05:14.360 She takes the perfume, but she cleans it down because she is in love with a fellow who runs 05:14.360 --> 05:15.360 a poultry market. 05:15.360 --> 05:18.360 You see, she prefers feathers to tar. 05:18.360 --> 05:19.360 Isn't that awful? 05:19.360 --> 05:28.680 Anyhow, she thinks, you know, that her parents will be tickled with a poultry man, but they 05:28.680 --> 05:29.680 don't like him. 05:29.680 --> 05:30.680 He is taboo, so it's a perfume. 05:30.680 --> 05:38.360 Anyhow, she marries him and in a year he loses all his money and he leaves her. 05:38.360 --> 05:41.080 And all she has left is the bottle of perfume. 05:41.080 --> 05:45.080 Well everybody knows little girls like perfumes, so let's get Margaret a horse. 05:45.080 --> 05:50.080 Well, I ask for a stable idea. 05:50.080 --> 05:54.400 Hey, that's reaching pretty far back for a bottle of perfume. 05:54.400 --> 05:59.400 Yeah, I don't want to offend anybody, but wouldn't it be easier to overlook the horse 05:59.400 --> 06:00.400 and get... 06:00.400 --> 06:02.680 Just by the kid, the perfume? 06:02.680 --> 06:05.080 How can you overlook a horse, Margaret? 06:05.080 --> 06:06.080 Gentlemen, no. 06:06.080 --> 06:09.080 The horse is scratched. 06:09.080 --> 06:10.600 This child is away from home. 06:10.600 --> 06:11.600 It's Christmas Eve. 06:11.600 --> 06:13.600 Now you know how children feel about Christmas. 06:13.600 --> 06:20.320 Surely you men, somewhere in your respective sordid existences, have met some little girl 06:20.320 --> 06:21.960 you made happy at Christmas time. 06:21.960 --> 06:25.400 Well, that's what I want here and I'd appreciate your cooperation. 06:25.400 --> 06:27.400 Now, are there any questions? 06:27.400 --> 06:30.600 I have a sister in St. Louis who has a little girl. 06:30.600 --> 06:32.800 Jimmy darling, that is not the question. 06:32.800 --> 06:33.800 Oh. 06:33.800 --> 06:36.400 Do I have a sister in St. Louis who has a little girl? 06:36.400 --> 06:38.400 That's a question. 06:38.400 --> 06:44.200 Darling, what about your sister's child in St. Louis? 06:44.200 --> 06:49.520 Well, I was going to say my sister always throws a Christmas party for her little girl. 06:49.520 --> 06:50.520 Why don't we do that? 06:50.520 --> 06:54.200 You mean you want us to throw a party for your sister's kid in St. Louis? 06:54.200 --> 06:55.200 No. 06:55.200 --> 06:58.000 I mean, a party for Margaret, and I think it's a very good idea. 06:58.000 --> 07:01.400 Now, the first thing we have to do is to get some refreshments. 07:01.400 --> 07:03.240 What do you get for a child's party? 07:03.240 --> 07:05.960 I've heard of something that children adore. 07:05.960 --> 07:09.800 I think they call it milk. 07:09.800 --> 07:11.600 Okay. 07:11.600 --> 07:13.500 I'm the milkman around here. 07:13.500 --> 07:16.920 From the picture of the same name I just made for universal, now playing in neighborhood 07:16.920 --> 07:18.840 movie houses, smoking in the loges. 07:18.840 --> 07:21.040 So I'll get the milk. 07:21.040 --> 07:24.040 Tell me, chaloo. 07:24.040 --> 07:27.920 How much milk shall I get? 07:27.920 --> 07:28.920 How much milk will you get? 07:28.920 --> 07:30.560 How should I know how much to get? 07:30.560 --> 07:32.920 There's only one child. 07:32.920 --> 07:33.920 Get a fifth. 07:33.920 --> 07:34.920 A fifth? 07:34.920 --> 07:42.360 If I need enough milk, I take four fingers myself. 07:42.360 --> 07:45.120 Well, Bert, what do you think? 07:45.120 --> 07:46.400 How much milk will we need? 07:46.400 --> 07:48.080 Well, personally, I won't take any. 07:48.080 --> 07:49.080 I'm driving. 07:49.080 --> 07:53.000 I don't know much about this kid's stuff. 07:53.000 --> 07:55.200 You see, I didn't have such a happy childhood. 07:55.200 --> 07:59.840 In fact, a very tragic thing happened to me when I was a child. 07:59.840 --> 08:00.840 You lived? 08:00.840 --> 08:03.840 Yeah, how'd you know? 08:03.840 --> 08:07.640 Oh, just a while ago. 08:07.640 --> 08:08.640 What else happened? 08:08.640 --> 08:11.840 Well, at Christmas, I never hung my stockings up. 08:11.840 --> 08:13.400 You see, I only had one pair. 08:13.400 --> 08:17.280 Instead of hanging over the fireplace, they just stood there. 08:17.280 --> 08:20.240 And I never got any toys. 08:20.240 --> 08:22.760 You see, we were very poor. 08:22.760 --> 08:25.080 My mother used to take me window shopping. 08:25.080 --> 08:28.920 I wound up with more windows than any kid in the neighborhood. 08:28.920 --> 08:30.720 Your mother had a budget account, I imagine. 08:30.720 --> 08:33.680 Yeah, she imagined it too. 08:33.680 --> 08:36.520 She'd take anything in any store if she could budget. 08:36.520 --> 08:42.560 We were so poor that it was 15 years after they was married that my father gave my mother 08:42.560 --> 08:43.560 an engagement ring. 08:43.560 --> 08:45.400 Oh, it was beautiful. 08:45.400 --> 08:47.760 A 10-carat diamond ring. 08:47.760 --> 08:49.080 10 carats? 08:49.080 --> 08:52.480 And what a beautiful, sentimental inscription inside the ring. 08:52.480 --> 08:55.560 It said, in case a fire break glass. 08:55.560 --> 09:01.800 My mother thought it was too expensive, and she put it back in the box and took it back 09:01.800 --> 09:05.720 to the store, but they wouldn't take it back because it wasn't in the same condition my 09:05.720 --> 09:07.520 father had bought it. 09:07.520 --> 09:09.440 Your mother had eaten the cracker jacks. 09:09.440 --> 09:10.440 It came. 09:10.440 --> 09:14.120 Yeah, and the way mother always used to pick on me. 09:14.120 --> 09:17.380 She used to say to me, Brecht, why don't you be like Johnny? 09:17.380 --> 09:19.680 She used to say, Brecht, go out and play with Johnny. 09:19.680 --> 09:21.760 I want you to grow up like Johnny. 09:21.760 --> 09:24.080 It was Johnny this, Johnny that. 09:24.080 --> 09:26.280 I stayed in the house all the time. 09:26.280 --> 09:27.280 I got an interior complex. 09:27.280 --> 09:32.840 I used to sit around the house all day and cry. 09:32.840 --> 09:35.040 Oh, I was housebroken. 09:35.040 --> 09:40.080 All I heard was Johnny, Johnny. 09:40.080 --> 09:44.800 Last year when I went back to my hometown, I thought I'd find out what happened to Johnny. 09:44.800 --> 09:46.320 So I asked his mother. 09:46.320 --> 09:50.480 I said, whatever became of Johnny, Mrs. Dillinger? 09:50.480 --> 09:58.000 He probably turned out to be a case of arrested development. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 Yeah, many times. 10:00.000 --> 10:05.000 But if I don't have something ready for Margaret when she gets here, really darling, I won't 10:05.000 --> 10:06.840 have the courage to face her. 10:06.840 --> 10:09.640 Reminds me when I was a cowardly lion and a wizard of Oz. 10:09.640 --> 10:11.460 I sang a song about courage. 10:11.460 --> 10:16.040 It was called, If I Was the King of the Farer, would you like to hear it? 10:16.040 --> 10:17.040 What can I do? 10:17.040 --> 10:18.040 I'm trapped. 10:18.040 --> 10:24.080 Mary Wilson P's the music for Mr. Law, who will recreate his famous cowardly lion from 10:24.080 --> 10:27.080 The Wizard of Oz. 10:27.080 --> 10:40.160 If I was king of the farers, not a queen, not a duke, not a prince, my regal rose of 10:40.160 --> 10:47.920 the farers would be satin and not cotton and not chintz. 10:47.920 --> 10:58.320 I command each thing, be it fish or power, with a woof, woof, and a royal growl. 10:58.320 --> 11:04.480 As I clicked my heel, all the trees would kneel and the mountains bow and the bulls 11:04.480 --> 11:13.200 kowtow and the scoundrels would take away. 11:13.200 --> 11:18.840 If I, if I, were the king. 11:18.840 --> 11:23.840 Your majesty, if you were king, you'd not be afraid of anything. 11:23.840 --> 11:24.840 Not nobody, not know-how. 11:24.840 --> 11:25.840 Not even a rhinoceros? 11:25.840 --> 11:26.840 Imposterous. 11:26.840 --> 11:27.840 Well, how about a hippopotamus? 11:27.840 --> 11:28.840 I'd trash him from top to bottom. 11:28.840 --> 11:29.840 Supposing you met an elephant. 11:29.840 --> 11:30.840 I'd wrap it up in elephant. 11:30.840 --> 11:31.840 What if it were a brontosaurus? 11:31.840 --> 11:33.540 I'd show him a 11:33.540 --> 11:44.160 king of the forest. 11:44.160 --> 11:45.160 How? 11:45.160 --> 11:46.160 How? 11:46.160 --> 11:47.160 Courage. 11:47.160 --> 11:52.160 What makes a king out of a slave? 11:52.160 --> 11:53.160 Courage. 11:53.160 --> 11:57.160 What makes the flag on the mass to wave? 11:57.160 --> 11:58.160 Courage. 11:58.160 --> 12:03.480 What makes the elephant charge his dusk in the misty mist or the dusky dusk? 12:03.480 --> 12:08.560 What makes the muskrat guard his musk? 12:08.560 --> 12:10.560 Courage. 12:10.560 --> 12:13.560 What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? 12:13.560 --> 12:14.880 Courage. 12:14.880 --> 12:17.880 What makes the dorm come up like thunder? 12:17.880 --> 12:19.960 Courage. 12:19.960 --> 12:23.280 What makes the hot and tot so hot? 12:23.280 --> 12:26.960 Who put the ape in a tree pot? 12:26.960 --> 12:29.960 What do they got that I ain't got? 12:29.960 --> 12:30.960 Courage. 12:30.960 --> 12:33.960 What makes the king of the forest? 12:33.960 --> 12:34.960 Courage. 12:34.960 --> 12:58.040 What makes the 12:58.040 --> 13:04.560 Spinoff Fish God? 13:04.560 --> 13:06.500 Courage. 13:06.500 --> 13:10.540 What makes thelate-arm 13:10.540 --> 13:18.600 Bird darling, that was law at his best, but it doesn't help solve our problem about Marget 13:18.600 --> 13:19.760 O'Brien's Christmas party. 13:19.760 --> 13:22.720 Now, it can't be too difficult, lovelies. 13:22.720 --> 13:26.880 It's just that I haven't met any children, socially, that is. 13:26.880 --> 13:29.140 I thought you told me you had a big carriage trade 13:29.140 --> 13:31.140 at your theater, to do? 13:31.140 --> 13:33.080 Yeah, very funny, darling. 13:33.080 --> 13:35.880 But you men should be able to come up with some idea. 13:35.880 --> 13:36.980 Well, among the three of you, 13:36.980 --> 13:41.120 there should be at least 200 years of know-how. 13:41.120 --> 13:44.320 Well, why don't you join us and make a 250? 13:44.320 --> 13:49.500 Oh dear, boy. 13:49.500 --> 13:50.800 Say, I just thought of something. 13:50.800 --> 13:52.360 How about getting her a three? 13:52.360 --> 13:53.660 A three? 13:53.660 --> 13:57.700 Darling, it's Margaret O'Brien, not Tarzan. 13:57.700 --> 14:00.380 I made a Christmas tree with toys hanging on it. 14:00.380 --> 14:01.340 Toys on a tree? 14:01.340 --> 14:03.240 Oh, that's lovely, Addy, Jimmy. 14:03.240 --> 14:04.940 What sort of toy shall we get? 14:04.940 --> 14:06.540 Well, you're a girl. 14:06.540 --> 14:10.580 Oh, thank you, Jimmy, darling. 14:10.580 --> 14:13.280 What would you like to see hanging on your tree? 14:13.280 --> 14:15.120 Jimmy, this is Christmas Eve, 14:15.120 --> 14:22.100 and I will not mention her name on this program. 14:22.100 --> 14:27.640 I mean, I'd like to hang things on the tree that are lit up. 14:27.640 --> 14:30.340 I thought we were having milk. 14:30.340 --> 14:31.740 Now, Jimmy, you know what I mean. 14:31.740 --> 14:34.180 I'm talking about toys, a little child could like, 14:34.180 --> 14:35.980 you know, simple things to play with, 14:35.980 --> 14:38.080 like a ball and jack. 14:38.080 --> 14:41.040 You think this kid balls the jack? 14:41.040 --> 14:43.220 Oh, come on, Jimmy, help me out. 14:43.220 --> 14:45.980 When I was a kid, I had a mechanical mind. 14:45.980 --> 14:48.380 Need a little oil in right now. 14:48.380 --> 14:50.760 My father wanted me to be a mechanical engineer, 14:50.760 --> 14:53.260 so he bought me an erector set, 14:53.260 --> 14:55.420 and I would have been the greatest mechanical engineer 14:55.420 --> 14:57.760 of all time, except for one thing. 14:57.760 --> 14:58.560 What was that? 14:58.560 --> 15:01.860 I couldn't open the box. 15:01.860 --> 15:02.800 Now, wait a minute, Jimmy. 15:02.800 --> 15:05.240 Girls today are athletically inclined. 15:05.240 --> 15:33.160 How about getting her a racket? 15:33.160 --> 15:35.160 Now, you mean ping pong? 15:35.160 --> 15:38.700 My heart was in it. 15:38.700 --> 15:41.600 Oh, courage. 15:41.600 --> 15:43.400 I don't think she's old enough for ping pong. 15:43.400 --> 15:44.900 Well, the kids today ain't satisfied 15:44.900 --> 15:47.540 with the toys the kids used to play with when I was a boy. 15:47.540 --> 15:52.480 Well, darling, there aren't as many Indians around today. 15:52.480 --> 15:55.120 Oh, except that. 15:55.120 --> 15:58.560 With reservations. 15:58.560 --> 16:01.760 The toys they give kids today. 16:01.760 --> 16:04.920 Why, last year I had to give my nephew a chemistry set. 16:04.920 --> 16:08.800 He said he wanted me to be a scientist, 16:08.800 --> 16:11.900 another Prince Albert Einstein. 16:11.900 --> 16:13.700 Would he like the chemistry set, Jimmy? 16:13.700 --> 16:14.400 I don't know. 16:14.400 --> 16:18.700 He moved away, house and all. 16:18.700 --> 16:22.240 Well, a lot of scientists are up in the air these days. 16:22.240 --> 16:26.320 Christmas has become quite a problem, hasn't it, Jimmy? 16:26.320 --> 16:26.940 Not for me. 16:26.940 --> 16:29.980 I think it's a shame Christmas comes but once a year. 16:29.980 --> 16:38.660 Folks, I've got a little wish. 16:38.660 --> 16:40.800 Now, folks, I've got a little wish 16:40.800 --> 16:43.360 if it only could come true. 16:43.360 --> 16:46.860 It's about a holiday that's meant for me and you. 16:46.860 --> 16:51.040 Although it has been coming on the same day each year, 16:51.040 --> 16:55.100 there should be one more day it could appear. 16:55.100 --> 17:03.420 Now, isn't it a shame that Christmas comes but once a year? 17:03.420 --> 17:07.720 Wouldn't it be nice if it came around twice, 17:07.720 --> 17:11.320 spreading joy and good cheer? 17:11.320 --> 17:15.320 Just when everyone forgets good will to men, 17:15.320 --> 17:19.100 that's the time for jingle bells to chime again. 17:19.100 --> 17:25.040 Now, isn't it a shame that Christmas comes but once 17:25.040 --> 17:27.340 a year? 17:27.340 --> 17:31.080 You'll never forget one Christmas Eve when I was a kid. 17:31.080 --> 17:33.480 I hung up my stocking, went to bed, 17:33.480 --> 17:35.780 and when I came down the next morning, 17:35.780 --> 17:38.180 what do you think I found on my stocking? 17:38.180 --> 17:42.020 My father's foot. 17:42.020 --> 17:45.920 Yeah, my father really stuck by me all through childhood. 17:45.920 --> 17:47.760 One time in school, the teacher asked me 17:47.760 --> 17:50.420 who signed the Declaration of Independence. 17:50.420 --> 17:52.120 I said, I didn't. 17:52.120 --> 17:53.600 I said, I didn't know, teacher. 17:53.600 --> 17:54.700 I didn't. 17:54.700 --> 17:57.760 Just for that, she made me bring my father to school. 17:57.760 --> 18:01.840 He walked in and said, teacher, my boy Jimmy is a good boy, 18:01.840 --> 18:03.240 and he's an honest boy. 18:03.240 --> 18:08.540 And if my boy says he didn't do it, he didn't do it. 18:08.540 --> 18:09.340 What a man. 18:09.340 --> 18:12.220 My father went to school more when I went to school 18:12.220 --> 18:15.220 than when he went to school. 18:15.220 --> 18:16.820 But I'll never forget the big turkeys 18:16.820 --> 18:18.780 we used to have for Christmas dinner. 18:18.780 --> 18:20.820 I always got the dark meat. 18:20.820 --> 18:24.520 This year, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas. 18:24.520 --> 18:30.560 Now, isn't it a shame that Christmas comes? 18:30.560 --> 18:37.880 But once a year, wouldn't it be nice if it came around twice, 18:37.880 --> 18:41.040 spreading joy and good cheer? 18:41.040 --> 18:45.220 Now, just when everyone forgets goodwill to men, 18:45.220 --> 18:48.980 that's the time for jingle bells to chime again. 18:48.980 --> 18:53.960 Now, isn't it a shame that Christmas comes? 18:53.960 --> 18:58.900 But once a year, wouldn't it be nice? 18:58.900 --> 19:09.640 Applause 19:09.640 --> 19:13.040 Jimmy darling, you were usual a divine. 19:13.040 --> 19:15.480 Oh, Chalula, I just thought of a wonderful idea 19:15.480 --> 19:16.780 for this little girl Margaret. 19:16.780 --> 19:19.280 We are not buying a horse. 19:19.280 --> 19:21.240 Now, put that in your pipe and smoke it. 19:21.240 --> 19:22.180 Oh, that's ridiculous. 19:22.180 --> 19:25.220 I don't smoke horses. 19:25.220 --> 19:29.420 Smoking horses, I have a smoking jacket somebody gave me. 19:29.420 --> 19:32.700 I've been smoking that for three years. 19:32.700 --> 19:36.560 I'm saving the buttons for last, you know. 19:36.560 --> 19:39.400 But what I started to tell you, Chalula, this is marvelous. 19:39.400 --> 19:41.680 How about inviting Santa Claus to the party 19:41.680 --> 19:42.880 to give her some presents? 19:42.880 --> 19:44.040 Inviting Santa Claus? 19:44.040 --> 19:46.580 Now, really, Ed, darling, you and I are adults. 19:46.580 --> 19:48.140 We don't believe in Santa Claus. 19:48.140 --> 19:49.080 Oh, don't say that. 19:49.080 --> 19:49.820 That's not true. 19:49.820 --> 19:50.860 I believe in him. 19:50.860 --> 19:51.780 And I've got proof. 19:51.780 --> 19:56.520 No, you've got proof there's a real Santa Claus. 19:56.520 --> 19:57.020 There? 19:57.020 --> 20:01.360 You are mature, intelligent, sophisticated man 20:01.360 --> 20:05.960 standing there in your beanie hat with a propeller on top 20:05.960 --> 20:09.060 telling me you have proof there is a Santa Claus. 20:09.060 --> 20:09.560 Proof? 20:09.560 --> 20:11.240 I have even more than proof. 20:11.240 --> 20:14.980 I even think so. 20:14.980 --> 20:17.540 Oh, you think so? 20:17.540 --> 20:18.440 She listens. 20:18.440 --> 20:23.520 Only when I talk. 20:23.520 --> 20:26.020 Oh. 20:26.020 --> 20:29.180 But anyway, tell me about this proof you have as a Santa Claus. 20:29.180 --> 20:29.980 Oh, I have proof. 20:29.980 --> 20:31.420 I'll tell you the whole story. 20:31.420 --> 20:33.420 I was in a show about 20 years ago, you see. 20:33.420 --> 20:35.000 And there was a fellow in the show with me. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.120 And his name was Houdini. 20:37.120 --> 20:38.760 No, no, no, it wasn't. 20:38.760 --> 20:40.840 His name escapes me. 20:40.840 --> 20:43.940 Well, anyway, anyway, he always made it a practice 20:43.940 --> 20:45.340 that no matter where he was. 20:45.340 --> 20:46.980 Now, this is so beautiful. 20:46.980 --> 20:49.280 No matter where the show was on the road, 20:49.280 --> 20:51.820 he would go home on Christmas Eve. 20:51.820 --> 20:54.280 And he would always manage to grab a plane to get home 20:54.280 --> 20:56.920 and dress up like Santa Claus and leave some presents 20:56.920 --> 20:58.020 for his little girl. 20:58.020 --> 21:00.620 Well, of course, he just dressed up like Santa Claus. 21:00.620 --> 21:02.920 Yeah, well, wait, wait, you hear the whole story. 21:02.920 --> 21:05.660 And the day after Christmas, this friend of mine 21:05.660 --> 21:08.360 in the show would always get a letter from his little girl. 21:08.360 --> 21:10.500 And the little girl would say, dear daddy, 21:10.500 --> 21:12.200 Santa Claus came last night. 21:12.200 --> 21:13.500 And I was standing on the stairs. 21:13.500 --> 21:15.700 And he didn't see me, but I saw him. 21:15.700 --> 21:17.480 And he left me a lot of presents. 21:17.480 --> 21:20.340 And then he kissed mama and went away. 21:20.340 --> 21:22.940 Isn't that beautiful? 21:22.940 --> 21:25.520 Doesn't that ring your heart, that story? 21:25.520 --> 21:26.640 Very beautiful. 21:26.640 --> 21:27.980 And it rings my heart. 21:27.980 --> 21:30.260 But what's the point? 21:30.260 --> 21:32.460 Well, the point, well, I'll make it blunt then. 21:32.460 --> 21:35.820 One year, one year, the same company, 21:35.820 --> 21:38.100 we were playing out in Colorado someplace. 21:38.100 --> 21:40.160 And the same man with the company. 21:40.160 --> 21:41.660 And there was a great big blizzard, you know, 21:41.660 --> 21:43.200 and all the planes were grounded. 21:43.200 --> 21:45.840 And the little girl's daddy, the father there, 21:45.840 --> 21:47.440 I call him daddy, I mean daddy, 21:47.440 --> 21:49.840 he couldn't get home for Christmas. 21:49.840 --> 21:52.700 Well, the poor man was heartbroken. 21:52.700 --> 21:55.080 Well, on Christmas day, there was another letter 21:55.080 --> 21:57.420 from the little girl, just like he used to get every year. 21:57.420 --> 21:59.080 And the letter said, dear daddy, 21:59.080 --> 22:02.380 Santa Claus was here last night and left me toys. 22:02.380 --> 22:05.480 And then he gave mama a lot of kisses and went away. 22:05.480 --> 22:07.420 And that's how I came to believe 22:07.420 --> 22:09.820 that there is a real Santa Claus. 22:09.820 --> 22:13.960 Well, there darling, you go on and believe me 22:13.960 --> 22:16.760 exactly what you want, but I still don't know 22:16.760 --> 22:18.940 what to get Margaret for a present. 22:18.940 --> 22:22.040 Well, now let me see, I have a son, Keenan, his name. 22:22.040 --> 22:24.040 His last name is Wynne, Keenan Wynne. 22:24.040 --> 22:25.480 We have the same last name. 22:26.580 --> 22:27.940 That's a coincidence. 22:27.940 --> 22:30.040 Of all the people in the world I picked out to be my son, 22:30.040 --> 22:32.020 I picked one with the same name, Wynne. 22:33.180 --> 22:35.020 Well, anyhow, I've been trying to think 22:35.020 --> 22:36.460 what would Keenan want for Christmas? 22:36.460 --> 22:38.720 And you know what I think he'd want? 22:38.720 --> 22:39.980 Fran Warren. 22:39.980 --> 22:42.260 Fran Warren, well she's right here. 22:42.260 --> 22:43.400 Hello, Salula. 22:43.400 --> 22:44.220 Oh. 22:44.220 --> 22:45.060 Oh. 22:45.060 --> 22:50.740 Hello, Fran, darling. 22:50.740 --> 22:53.000 And you're gonna sing, Look to the Rainbow, aren't you? 22:53.000 --> 22:53.840 That's right. 22:53.840 --> 22:54.680 Go ahead, sweetie. 22:54.680 --> 22:57.680 ["Look to the Rainbow"] 23:01.680 --> 23:06.680 Love, love, look to the rainbow 23:06.680 --> 23:11.680 Follow it over the hill and the stream 23:11.960 --> 23:16.960 Love, love, look to the rainbow 23:17.200 --> 23:22.200 Follow the fellow who follows the dream 23:22.240 --> 23:26.740 On the day I was born 23:26.740 --> 23:31.740 Sadness, father, steady 23:31.740 --> 23:36.740 I've an elegant legacy waiting for you 23:37.420 --> 23:40.420 Tisserae for your lips 23:40.420 --> 23:43.420 A song for your heart 23:43.420 --> 23:48.420 To sing it whenever the world falls apart 23:48.420 --> 23:53.420 Love, love, look to the rainbow 23:53.420 --> 23:57.940 Follow it over the hill and the stream 23:57.940 --> 24:02.940 Love, love, look to the rainbow 24:02.940 --> 24:07.940 Follow the fellow who follows the dream 24:09.940 --> 24:14.940 So I bundled me heart and I roamed the world free 24:19.820 --> 24:24.820 To the east with the lark, to the west with the sea 24:24.820 --> 24:29.820 And I searched all the earth and scanned all the skies 24:31.020 --> 24:36.020 But I found it at last in the old true love's eyes 24:36.020 --> 24:41.020 Love, love, look to the rainbow 24:41.420 --> 24:46.420 Follow it over the hill and the stream 24:46.420 --> 24:51.420 Love, love, look to the rainbow 24:51.420 --> 24:56.420 Follow the fellow who follows the dream 24:56.420 --> 25:01.420 Follow the fellow, follow the fellow 25:01.420 --> 25:24.420 Follow the fellow who follows the dream 25:31.420 --> 25:36.420 Friends, that was a lovely Christmas present. 25:36.420 --> 25:39.420 Look, darling, I want to ask you something. 25:39.420 --> 25:42.420 Is it about Margaret O'Brien's Christmas party? 25:42.420 --> 25:45.420 Well, the child has to have a Christmas celebration of some kind tonight, 25:45.420 --> 25:48.420 and I can't take her where I'm going. 25:48.420 --> 25:50.420 Well, it sounds like you're going to a party. 25:50.420 --> 25:52.420 Why can't you take little Margaret? 25:52.420 --> 25:55.420 Well, because it probably won't be over until 12 o'clock. 25:55.420 --> 25:57.420 That's not so late. 25:57.420 --> 26:00.420 Thursday noon. 26:00.420 --> 26:03.420 That sounds like quite a party. 26:03.420 --> 26:06.420 It always is when I'm there, pet. 26:06.420 --> 26:07.420 Yes, I hear you do. 26:07.420 --> 26:10.420 Well, personally... 26:10.420 --> 26:13.420 Well, personally, I'm just having a little party at home. 26:13.420 --> 26:15.420 We have a very small Christmas tree, 26:15.420 --> 26:19.420 but one thing I know is going to be on it, a new mink coat. 26:19.420 --> 26:21.420 A mink coat, darling? 26:21.420 --> 26:24.420 What kind of a Christmas tree have you got? 26:24.420 --> 26:27.420 Oh, the usual kind, a fir tree. 26:27.420 --> 26:29.420 Oh, I see, Suise. 26:29.420 --> 26:32.420 The first week on this show, and already she's telling jokes. 26:32.420 --> 26:35.420 Has anybody thought of getting Margaret a doll? 26:35.420 --> 26:37.420 A doll, of course. 26:37.420 --> 26:39.420 Now, why didn't I think of that? 26:39.420 --> 26:42.420 Why couldn't any of you three gentlemen have thought of a doll? 26:42.420 --> 26:44.420 I was thinking of a doll. 26:44.420 --> 26:46.420 I'm always thinking of a doll. 26:46.420 --> 26:48.420 La, la. 26:48.420 --> 26:51.420 And while you're getting her a doll, why don't you get her one that talks, 26:51.420 --> 26:54.420 one that says, mama, papa? 26:54.420 --> 26:57.420 And they're even making dolls now that say yes and no. 26:57.420 --> 26:59.420 Dolls that say no, I can get plenty of. 26:59.420 --> 27:03.420 Now, look, let me present the doll to Margaret. 27:03.420 --> 27:07.420 I'll be Sandy Claus's helper with the red nose and the jolly laugh 27:07.420 --> 27:09.420 and the red nose with the red suit, 27:09.420 --> 27:13.420 and I'll come flying over the rooftops, down the chimney, and give it a doll. 27:13.420 --> 27:17.420 Flying over the rooftops. I suppose you'll be using eight reindeer. 27:17.420 --> 27:21.420 No. I can do all my flying on eight old-fashions. 27:21.420 --> 27:25.420 That explains the red nose. 27:25.420 --> 27:28.420 But Santa Claus might not be a bad idea at that. 27:28.420 --> 27:31.420 I suppose Margaret believes there is one, you think, huh? 27:31.420 --> 27:33.420 Doesn't everybody? 27:33.420 --> 27:37.420 Honestly, but you and Ed, acting like a couple of children's Santa Claus is deep. 27:37.420 --> 27:41.420 Tallulah, believe me, there is a Santa Claus. I know. 27:41.420 --> 27:45.420 Because a few years ago, I was playing one of Santa's helpers to a cute little girl. 27:45.420 --> 27:47.420 Oh, she was a sweet little thing. 27:47.420 --> 27:51.420 I walked into the apartment Christmas Eve, all dressed up in my Santa Claus outfit, 27:51.420 --> 27:53.420 and started to give her some presents. 27:53.420 --> 27:55.420 But she wouldn't take them. 27:55.420 --> 27:59.420 She said if I was a real Santa Claus, I'd go up on the roof and come down the chimney. 27:59.420 --> 28:02.420 So I did. But she still didn't believe me. 28:02.420 --> 28:03.420 No faith? 28:03.420 --> 28:05.420 No chimney. 28:05.420 --> 28:07.420 And you still believe in Santa Claus? 28:07.420 --> 28:11.420 I certainly do. Because while I was up on the roof looking for the chimney, 28:11.420 --> 28:14.420 that cute little girl's husband come home. 28:14.420 --> 28:17.420 Now if there had been a chimney for me to come down, 28:17.420 --> 28:19.420 a husband would have knocked my block off. 28:19.420 --> 28:23.420 So don't tell me there ain't no Santa Claus. 28:23.420 --> 28:26.420 Now wait a minute, Burt. Who told you there ain't no Santa Claus? 28:26.420 --> 28:28.420 Tallulah, I've been trying to show her there is one. 28:28.420 --> 28:33.420 I tried to prove it to her too. She doesn't believe that there is a Santa Claus, Jimmy. 28:33.420 --> 28:35.420 Tallulah, you're unbelievable. 28:35.420 --> 28:37.420 I do not care to speak about it. 28:37.420 --> 28:39.420 Now you're unspeakable. 28:39.420 --> 28:42.420 But Jimmy, believe me, the Santa Claus, not you. 28:42.420 --> 28:45.420 Especially me. Look at me. 28:45.420 --> 28:47.420 Tallulah? 28:47.420 --> 28:50.420 Mustard? 28:50.420 --> 28:54.420 Move back about four rows so you can see both sides of his face. 28:54.420 --> 28:57.420 Now let me ask you a hypocritical question. 28:57.420 --> 29:01.420 Am I handsome? Am I young? Have I got curly locks? 29:01.420 --> 29:04.420 Am I well educated? Do my clothes fit? 29:04.420 --> 29:09.420 Well, for me there's only one Santa Claus, NBC. Nicholas B. Claus. 29:09.420 --> 29:18.420 Nicholas, darling, is NBC, the national broadcasting company. 29:18.420 --> 29:34.420 The Big Show 29:34.420 --> 29:42.420 The Big Show. This is the national broadcasting company, Sunday Extravaganza, with the most scintillating personalities in show business. 29:42.420 --> 29:52.420 The Big Show, the Sunday night feature of NBC's All-Star Festival, is brought to you by the makers of Anderson for fast relief from pain of headache, uritis, and neuralgia, 29:52.420 --> 29:59.420 and by RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television. 29:59.420 --> 30:05.420 The big stars in this program are Jimmy Durante, Bert Laar, Robert Merrill, Margaret O'Brien, Edith Piaf, 30:05.420 --> 30:09.420 Fran Warren, Ed Wynn, Meredith Wilson, and his Big Show Orchestra and Chorus. 30:09.420 --> 30:16.420 And every week your hostess, the glamorous, unpredictable, Tallulah Bankhead. 30:16.420 --> 30:32.420 The Big Show 30:32.420 --> 30:40.420 This week, darlings, The Big Show is the Christmas show, broadcast with the cooperation of the Associated Services for the Armed Forces, 30:40.420 --> 30:46.420 and dedicated to all our men and women in service who are far from home on this Christmas Eve. 30:46.420 --> 30:53.420 A great soldier who has spent a lifetime of Christmases away from home in the service of his country, 30:53.420 --> 30:57.420 stands by now for a word of cheer to our men and women throughout the world. 30:57.420 --> 31:04.420 From Camp Breckenridge, Kentucky, General Jonathan M. Wainwright, United States Army. 31:04.420 --> 31:11.420 I'm happy to join with all your folks at home in bringing a Christmas greeting to you, 31:11.420 --> 31:16.420 my comrades of the Armed Forces, wherever you may be. 31:16.420 --> 31:23.420 We have shared the joy of other Christmas days together, and we look forward as a united people 31:23.420 --> 31:29.420 to that time when peace on earth and goodwill to men will again prevail. 31:29.420 --> 31:31.420 May God be with you. 31:31.420 --> 31:42.420 Applause 31:42.420 --> 31:48.420 Yes, darlings, it is with a mixture of pride and humility that we accept the responsibility 31:48.420 --> 31:52.420 of sending to our boys and girls away from their loved ones on Christmas Eve 31:52.420 --> 31:59.420 this Christmas package of entertainment, wrapped with loving care and sealed with a Christmas kiss. 31:59.420 --> 32:05.420 And also, far from home, this Christmas Eve is one of our guest stars, little Margaret O'Brien. 32:05.420 --> 32:10.420 To make her Christmas a merry one, we arrange to have our three comedy stars, 32:10.420 --> 32:15.420 Jimmy Duranty, Burt Lahr, and Ed Wynn, play Santa Claus for her. 32:15.420 --> 32:17.420 Now, do you understand our complex little plot, darlings? 32:17.420 --> 32:24.420 But while they're getting ready, I'm left here at this rather advanced stage in my career, babysitting. 32:24.420 --> 32:31.420 Oh, by the way, darlings, I'm available for the same job to anyone listening, and at the same price I may add. 32:31.420 --> 32:38.420 I only hope this precocious little movie star doesn't turn out to be the obnoxious brat that most of them are. 32:38.420 --> 32:40.420 Good evening, Miss Bankhead. 32:40.420 --> 32:42.420 Ah, Margaret O'Brien. 32:42.420 --> 32:49.420 Applause 32:49.420 --> 32:53.420 Oh, Margaret, look at you. I had an idea you were only seven. 32:53.420 --> 32:57.420 Oh, no, I'm quite old now. I'm thirteen, you know. 32:57.420 --> 33:01.420 Thirteen, oh. 33:01.420 --> 33:03.420 What am I laughing about? 33:03.420 --> 33:07.420 Now, Margaret, I've arranged a wonderful Christmas Eve party for you. 33:07.420 --> 33:13.420 I'm going out later to a party myself, but before that, I want to make sure that you have lots of fun. 33:13.420 --> 33:16.420 Now, what would you like to do until the others get here, huh? 33:16.420 --> 33:20.420 Oh, I'd just like to sit around and be gay and jolly and have some laughs. 33:20.420 --> 33:22.420 Oh, well, good. Do you want me to tell you some funny stories? 33:22.420 --> 33:27.420 Oh, no. Just sing, uh, Give My Regards to Broadway. 33:27.420 --> 33:33.420 Laughter 33:33.420 --> 33:36.420 This child is older than thirteen. 33:36.420 --> 33:38.420 Laughter 33:38.420 --> 33:42.420 Miss Bankhead, you don't seem to understand very much about thirteen-year-old children. 33:42.420 --> 33:45.420 Darling, when I was born, I was thirteen years old. 33:45.420 --> 33:47.420 Laughter 33:47.420 --> 33:50.420 How old are you now, Miss Bankhead? 33:50.420 --> 33:55.420 Well, I, uh, I wonder if this is safe. 33:55.420 --> 33:57.420 How old do you think I am? 33:57.420 --> 33:59.420 Well, uh... 33:59.420 --> 34:02.420 Of course you must laugh at the lighting here, Margaret. 34:02.420 --> 34:03.420 Well, I think... 34:03.420 --> 34:06.420 And I've had a tiring rehearsal all day. 34:06.420 --> 34:07.420 Well, uh... 34:07.420 --> 34:11.420 And I'm still in shock over Happy Chandler being fired. 34:11.420 --> 34:13.420 Laughter 34:13.420 --> 34:14.420 Well... 34:14.420 --> 34:19.420 Well, just don't stand there staring at me with those beautiful big bright eyes and that gorgeous complexion 34:19.420 --> 34:23.420 and that silken hair. Say it. How old do you think I am? 34:23.420 --> 34:26.420 Well, uh, I think you're quite old. 34:26.420 --> 34:28.420 Margaret. 34:28.420 --> 34:31.420 You must be at least twenty-five. 34:31.420 --> 34:34.420 Laughter 34:34.420 --> 34:37.420 Oh, Bankhead, why are you crying? 34:37.420 --> 34:40.420 Oh, nothing, darling. I'm just so happy it's twenty-five. 34:40.420 --> 34:42.420 Laughter 34:42.420 --> 34:45.420 Obviously, child, you know nothing about a woman's age. 34:45.420 --> 34:50.420 Obviously, Miss Bankhead, I wanted to be invited back on this show. 34:50.420 --> 34:52.420 Laughter 34:52.420 --> 34:56.420 I keep running second to this child all the time. 34:56.420 --> 34:59.420 Well, Margaret, I'm exacting my duties babysitter. Come over here, child. 34:59.420 --> 35:01.420 Uh, can you walk by yourself? 35:01.420 --> 35:04.420 Of course. Uh, can you, Miss Bankhead? 35:04.420 --> 35:09.420 Laughter 35:09.420 --> 35:12.420 Oh, isn't she sweet. 35:12.420 --> 35:13.420 Laughter 35:13.420 --> 35:16.420 I don't know how I'll be later tonight after the party. 35:16.420 --> 35:17.420 Laughter 35:17.420 --> 35:19.420 But... 35:19.420 --> 35:20.420 Well, now what? 35:20.420 --> 35:23.420 Oh, oh, maybe I ought to tell a little story, huh? 35:23.420 --> 35:24.420 Would you like to tell me, Margaret? 35:24.420 --> 35:27.420 Of course you would. All little girls like stories. 35:27.420 --> 35:30.420 Now get comfy now. That's it. 35:30.420 --> 35:32.420 Now let me see. Now how do I do this? 35:32.420 --> 35:34.420 Oh, oh, I... 35:34.420 --> 35:37.420 Once upon a time, there were three actresses. 35:37.420 --> 35:39.420 Judith Anderson, 35:39.420 --> 35:40.420 Katherine Hepburn, 35:40.420 --> 35:42.420 and Gertrude Lawrence. 35:42.420 --> 35:45.420 One dark night, they were walking home, 35:45.420 --> 35:48.420 and they cut through a dark alley, 35:48.420 --> 35:50.420 Schubert's Alley. 35:50.420 --> 35:51.420 Laughter 35:51.420 --> 35:53.420 And there they saw a big bad wolf. 35:53.420 --> 35:55.420 He was a producer. 35:55.420 --> 35:56.420 Laughter 35:56.420 --> 35:58.420 And he said, I'm doing a new show. 35:58.420 --> 36:01.420 Which one of you actresses would like to come up 36:01.420 --> 36:03.420 and audition for the leading part? 36:03.420 --> 36:05.420 And Judith Anderson said, 36:05.420 --> 36:07.420 Hey, friend. 36:07.420 --> 36:09.420 And Katherine Hepburn said, 36:09.420 --> 36:12.420 I will rally, I will, I mean rally. 36:12.420 --> 36:13.420 Laughter 36:13.420 --> 36:15.420 And Gertrude Lawrence said, 36:15.420 --> 36:17.420 Hey, jellyfish. 36:17.420 --> 36:21.420 So they all three went up and auditioned. 36:21.420 --> 36:27.420 And after he'd heard them read the part many, many times, 36:27.420 --> 36:29.420 and thought about it for several weeks, 36:29.420 --> 36:32.420 he hired Gertrude Lawrence for the part. 36:32.420 --> 36:34.420 She was his wife. 36:34.420 --> 36:36.420 Laughter 36:36.420 --> 36:41.420 That same day he saw a little girl waiting outside his office, 36:41.420 --> 36:42.420 and he said, 36:42.420 --> 36:47.420 You are just perfect to be Gertrude Lawrence's understudy. 36:47.420 --> 36:49.420 If anything happens to Gertrude Lawrence, 36:49.420 --> 36:51.420 you will play the part. 36:51.420 --> 36:55.420 Well, the little girl was over yours. 36:55.420 --> 36:59.420 And one day, just before the play opened, 36:59.420 --> 37:02.420 a terrible thing happened. 37:02.420 --> 37:06.420 The understudy broke an arm. 37:06.420 --> 37:08.420 It was Gertrude Lawrence's. 37:08.420 --> 37:13.420 Laughter 37:13.420 --> 37:17.420 And the understudy went on and played the part, 37:17.420 --> 37:19.420 and she became a big hit overnight, 37:19.420 --> 37:25.420 and went on from there to become one of the greatest actresses in America. 37:25.420 --> 37:29.420 And do you know who that little girl was, Margaret? 37:29.420 --> 37:30.420 Oh, sure. 37:30.420 --> 37:32.420 Betty Davis. 37:32.420 --> 37:45.420 Laughter 37:45.420 --> 37:49.420 If you suffer from pains of headache, neuritis, or neuralgia, 37:49.420 --> 37:52.420 you should discover what many thousands have known for years, 37:52.420 --> 37:57.420 that Anisyn brings incredibly fast, effective relief. 37:57.420 --> 38:00.420 Anisyn is like a doctor's prescription. 38:00.420 --> 38:02.420 That is, Anisyn contains not just one, 38:02.420 --> 38:06.420 but a combination of medically proven active ingredients 38:06.420 --> 38:09.420 in easy-to-take tablet form. 38:09.420 --> 38:11.420 Probably at some time you have received an envelope 38:11.420 --> 38:14.420 containing Anisyn tablets from your physician or dentist. 38:14.420 --> 38:18.420 Thousands of people have been introduced to Anisyn this way. 38:18.420 --> 38:22.420 Try Anisyn yourself the next time you suffer from the pains of a headache, 38:22.420 --> 38:24.420 neuritis, or neuralgia. 38:24.420 --> 38:27.420 You'll be delighted at how quickly relief can come. 38:27.420 --> 38:31.420 Anisyn is spelled A-M-A-C-I-N. 38:31.420 --> 38:36.420 Your druggist has Anisyn in handy boxes of 12 and 30 tablets, 38:36.420 --> 38:41.420 and economical family-sized bottles of 50 and 100 for your medicine cabinet. 38:41.420 --> 38:44.420 Ask for Anisyn today. 38:44.420 --> 38:51.420 Music 38:51.420 --> 38:54.420 Meredith, you haven't done anything to get this party rolling. 38:54.420 --> 38:57.420 Come here, Meredith. I want you to meet Margaret O'Brien. 38:57.420 --> 38:59.420 This is Meredith Wilson, darling. 38:59.420 --> 39:04.420 Applause 39:04.420 --> 39:06.420 How do you do, Mr. Wilson? 39:06.420 --> 39:08.420 Margaret O'Brien? 39:08.420 --> 39:11.420 Are you the little girl that I used to see in the movies all the time? 39:11.420 --> 39:12.420 That's right. 39:12.420 --> 39:13.420 Incredible. 39:13.420 --> 39:15.420 My, how you have grown up. 39:15.420 --> 39:17.420 It sure makes a person feel old. 39:17.420 --> 39:19.420 Hey, is there an echo in here? 39:19.420 --> 39:22.420 No, Mr. Wilson. I knew you were going to say that. 39:22.420 --> 39:25.420 That's what people keep saying to me all the time. 39:25.420 --> 39:27.420 That's the penalty I have to pay for growing up. 39:27.420 --> 39:30.420 No one can stay the same age all the time. 39:30.420 --> 39:33.420 Can't they now? 39:33.420 --> 39:37.420 Well, Meredith, what kind of entertainment could you give Margaret for this Christmas party? 39:37.420 --> 39:39.420 We're having an honor, you know. 39:39.420 --> 39:43.420 Well, sir, Miss Bankhead, I'll tell you what we used to do back home. 39:43.420 --> 39:48.420 I wanted to say, I'll tell you what we used to do back home in Mason City, Iowa. 39:48.420 --> 39:51.420 No, no, not on Christmas Eve, Meredith. 39:51.420 --> 39:52.420 I'll be glad to. 39:52.420 --> 39:53.420 We used to put on plays. 39:53.420 --> 39:56.420 Oh, I'll never forget that last play I acted in. 39:56.420 --> 39:58.420 Yeah, I have a picture of you acting in a play. 39:58.420 --> 40:02.420 Do you have that picture? I've been looking high and low for years. 40:02.420 --> 40:10.420 Meredith, please, could we for one week dispense with that nostalgic drivel about your adolescence? 40:10.420 --> 40:12.420 But this is very interesting drivel. 40:12.420 --> 40:17.420 You see, this play was about this doctor who was in love with this woman, and she was married. 40:17.420 --> 40:20.420 Her husband got sick, and the doctor had to operate on him. 40:20.420 --> 40:24.420 And the big scene was where the doctor had to make up his mind whether to save the husband 40:24.420 --> 40:31.420 and lose the woman he loves or operate without washing his hands and get the woman he loves. 40:31.420 --> 40:35.420 Now, before he can make up his mind, the butler comes in and says, 40:35.420 --> 40:38.420 Your car is waiting to take you to the hospital. 40:38.420 --> 40:43.420 Boy, I want to tell you, that was really dramatically how he walked off the stage, 40:43.420 --> 40:47.420 through the fireplace. The fireplace? 40:47.420 --> 40:49.420 The door was stuck. 40:49.420 --> 40:51.420 And you walked through the fireplace? 40:51.420 --> 40:57.420 Oh, not me. I was the butler. What a hit I was, dressed in my t-shirt and shorts. 40:57.420 --> 41:00.420 You played a butler dressed in t-shirt and shorts? 41:00.420 --> 41:05.420 Well, it was a combination play and basketball game. I played center. 41:05.420 --> 41:07.420 And now you're playing the center theater. 41:07.420 --> 41:12.420 Meredith, darling, could you possibly play some Christmas music for our little mom? 41:12.420 --> 41:16.420 I'd be glad to. We have a number prepared here called Jing-a-ling. 41:16.420 --> 41:21.420 Okay, Meredith Wilson and his orchestra chorus in the gayest of the new Christmas songs 41:21.420 --> 41:26.420 complete with snowflakes, sleigh bells, and new logs, Jing-a-ling. 41:26.420 --> 41:36.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, what fun to hear the sleigh bells jingle 41:36.420 --> 41:39.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, they set your heart a jingle 41:39.420 --> 41:42.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, I love to hear a lark ring 41:42.420 --> 41:45.420 Ha-ha, ho-ho, flying through the snow 41:45.420 --> 41:48.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, the bells ring like the snowflakes dancing 41:48.420 --> 41:51.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, oh darlin', even fancy 41:51.420 --> 41:54.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, the night is made for sleigh-dol-mancy 41:54.420 --> 41:58.420 Ha-ha, ho-ho, through the snow they go 42:00.420 --> 42:03.420 Through a winter fairyland we go a-diving 42:03.420 --> 42:06.420 In a cotton candy land of cotton-shaw 42:06.420 --> 42:09.420 And the way the sleigh is slipping and is sliding 42:09.420 --> 42:12.420 And the sleigh is sliding even closer in my arms 42:12.420 --> 42:16.420 And you hear the sleigh bells dancing while we're single 42:16.420 --> 42:19.420 As we fly across the snowy mountain dell 42:19.420 --> 42:22.420 And we're happy cause the sleigh bells seem to jingle 42:22.420 --> 42:25.420 In the winter fairyland like wedding bells 42:25.420 --> 42:29.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, what fun to hear the sleigh bells jingle 42:29.420 --> 42:32.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, they set your heart a jingle 42:32.420 --> 42:36.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, I love to hear our life a-mingle 42:36.420 --> 42:39.420 Ha-ha, ho-ho, oh-ho, gliding through the snow 42:39.420 --> 42:42.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, the bells stop the snow-bent-dancing 42:42.420 --> 42:45.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, oh darlin', even fancy 42:45.420 --> 42:48.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, the night is made for sleigh-dol-mancy 42:48.420 --> 43:17.420 From a ho-ho through the snowy gorge 43:17.420 --> 43:23.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Bells stop the snow-bent-dancing 43:17.420 --> 43:26.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, oh, darlin', even fancy 43:26.420 --> 43:29.420 Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, Jing-a-ling, the night is made for sleigh-dol-mancy 43:29.420 --> 43:34.420 Ha-ha, ho-ho, laughing as we go through the winds and snow 43:34.420 --> 43:54.620 Meredith Wilson, every week I am amazed how a man who can make such beautiful music can 43:54.620 --> 43:56.820 tell such odourific stories. 43:56.820 --> 44:00.220 Well, sir, I was thinking the same thing. 44:00.220 --> 44:04.980 How a woman can speak so beautifully and then sing Give My Regards to Broadway. 44:04.980 --> 44:10.020 Ho, ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas everybody. 44:10.020 --> 44:11.020 Merry Christmas. 44:11.020 --> 44:14.020 Oh look, here comes Santa Claus. 44:14.020 --> 44:15.020 Hello Santa Claus. 44:15.020 --> 44:16.020 Hello little girl. 44:16.020 --> 44:17.020 Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas. 44:17.020 --> 44:20.020 Well, what do you know the child believes in one. 44:20.020 --> 44:23.020 Oh, I was hoping you'd come Santa Claus. 44:23.020 --> 44:26.020 Oh, I'm so glad to see you Santa Claus. 44:26.020 --> 44:30.020 Oh, and by the way, how is Mrs. Lark? 44:30.020 --> 44:31.020 Oh, ho, ho, ho, indeed. 44:31.020 --> 44:40.020 I told you you couldn't fool a sophisticated child with that Santa Claus, didn't you? 44:40.020 --> 44:42.020 Oh, I know he's not the real Santa Claus in Spankhead. 44:42.020 --> 44:44.020 He's one of Santa Claus' helpers. 44:44.020 --> 44:46.020 The real Santa Claus will be along later. 44:46.020 --> 44:48.020 No, have it your own way darling. 44:48.020 --> 44:50.020 Bert, this is Margaret O'Brien. 44:50.020 --> 44:51.020 Margaret O'Brien? 44:51.020 --> 44:54.020 Is this the little girl I used to see in the movies? 44:54.020 --> 44:55.020 Incredible. 44:55.020 --> 44:57.020 That's exactly what I said, Bert. 44:57.020 --> 44:58.020 Here we go again. 44:58.020 --> 45:00.020 My, how you have grown up. 45:00.020 --> 45:02.020 Make the present feel old. 45:02.020 --> 45:06.020 All right, we can do very well without that Christmas trio. 45:06.020 --> 45:07.020 Did you bring Margaret a present? 45:07.020 --> 45:09.020 I certainly did. 45:09.020 --> 45:11.020 I brought a Metropolitan Opera star. 45:11.020 --> 45:12.020 Come out here. 45:12.020 --> 45:13.020 Why, Robert Merrow. 45:13.020 --> 45:23.020 Well, Bob, this is a Christmas present. 45:23.020 --> 45:24.020 How are you, Bob, darling? 45:24.020 --> 45:26.020 How are you, Bob? 45:26.020 --> 45:28.020 Bob, I'm speaking to you. 45:28.020 --> 45:29.020 How are you, Bob? 45:29.020 --> 45:30.020 Oh, I'm sorry. 45:30.020 --> 45:34.020 I'm a Christmas present and I can't open my mouth till Christmas. 45:34.020 --> 45:37.020 Oh, you're a present for Margaret. 45:37.020 --> 45:39.020 Oh, yes, I want you to meet Bob. 45:39.020 --> 45:40.020 This is Margaret O'Brien. 45:40.020 --> 45:41.020 How do you do? 45:41.020 --> 45:42.020 Margaret O'Brien? 45:42.020 --> 45:46.020 You're the Margaret O'Brien I saw in the movies, the little girl? 45:46.020 --> 45:50.020 That's right, but I didn't know you were ever a little girl. 45:50.020 --> 45:52.020 No, I mean when you were a little girl. 45:52.020 --> 45:54.020 So you're that little girl. 45:54.020 --> 45:55.020 Incredible. 45:55.020 --> 45:57.020 Well, here it comes. 45:57.020 --> 45:59.020 My, how you are growing up. 45:59.020 --> 46:02.020 Makes a person feel old. 46:02.020 --> 46:06.020 Well, before we get too old, how about singing for Margaret, Bob? 46:06.020 --> 46:07.020 I'd be glad to. 46:07.020 --> 46:11.020 Ladies and gentlemen, Robert Merrow sings one of the great Christmas songs of all time, 46:11.020 --> 46:25.020 Can't Seek the Noels. 46:25.020 --> 46:32.020 O holy night, the stars are brightly shining. 46:32.020 --> 46:42.020 It is the night of the dear Savior's birth. 46:42.020 --> 46:49.020 Long lay the world in sin and error pining, 46:49.020 --> 46:57.020 Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth. 46:57.020 --> 47:04.020 The thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, 47:04.020 --> 47:11.020 For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. 47:11.020 --> 47:31.020 On the eve of Hymn, the angel voices, O night divine, 47:31.020 --> 47:54.020 O night when Christ was born, O night divine, O night divine. 47:54.020 --> 48:11.020 O night divine, O night divine, O holy night. 48:11.020 --> 48:28.020 Fully He taught us to love one another, His law is love and His gospel is peace. 48:28.020 --> 48:43.020 Today shall He break, for the slave is our brother, And in His name more fresh guns shall cease. 48:43.020 --> 48:58.020 Let hymns of joy and grateful chorus praise He, Let all within us praise His holy name. 48:58.020 --> 49:13.020 Christ is born, the world never, never prays for His glory, 49:13.020 --> 49:42.020 Glory evermore proclaims His power and glory evermore proclaims. 49:42.020 --> 50:09.020 Glory forevermore. 50:09.020 --> 50:14.020 RCA Victor has long been pioneering the boundless new world of electronics, 50:14.020 --> 50:18.020 and bearing the fruits of that pioneering into homes across the earth, 50:18.020 --> 50:22.020 through fine radio, recorded music, and television. 50:22.020 --> 50:29.020 It is heartwarming to think of how much these instruments add at all times to the happiness of nations and people, 50:29.020 --> 50:34.020 carrying the message and music of Christmas around the world. 50:34.020 --> 50:42.020 But it is heartlifting to think of how much they still can add to the peace of nations. 50:42.020 --> 50:54.020 On this Christmas Eve night, RCA Victor humbly pledges itself once again to the advancement of radio, recorded music, and television as international mediums. 50:54.020 --> 50:58.020 As science continues its conquest of the physical world, 50:58.020 --> 51:07.020 we shall look across the hemispheres from nation to nation as we are now accustomed to hear by radio. 51:07.020 --> 51:21.020 May this added sense of neighborliness help us better to understand each other. 51:21.020 --> 51:28.020 Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas everybody, and to you too, chaloo. 51:28.020 --> 51:31.020 Well, if it isn't one of Santa Claus' reindeer. 51:31.020 --> 51:36.020 You mean rain, darlin', don't you? I'm one of Santa Claus' helpers. 51:36.020 --> 51:38.020 Oh, you and your Santa Claus. 51:38.020 --> 51:43.020 What's the matter? Why don't you like Santa Claus? 51:43.020 --> 51:47.020 This woman is suffering from claustrophobia. 51:47.020 --> 51:53.020 Jimmy, I want you to meet little Margaret O'Brien. 51:53.020 --> 51:54.020 Hello, Mr. Durante. 51:54.020 --> 51:59.020 Well, Margaret O'Brien. Oh, no, this ain't the Margaret O'Brien I used to see. 51:59.020 --> 52:02.020 The Margaret O'Brien I used to know was a tiny little child. 52:02.020 --> 52:06.020 I can't believe this is the same girl. Incredible. 52:06.020 --> 52:07.020 Shall we go another round? 52:07.020 --> 52:12.020 My, how you have grown up. Makes a person feel old. 52:12.020 --> 52:14.020 Well, Jimmy, how about a Christmas present for Margaret? 52:14.020 --> 52:17.020 I've grown one. Whom did you grow? 52:17.020 --> 52:23.020 Whom? Only that great French chartreuse, the one and only Edith Piaf. 52:23.020 --> 52:25.020 Edith Piaf. 52:25.020 --> 52:32.020 Applause 52:32.020 --> 52:39.020 Edith, darling, this is Divine, having you on our show, one of the greatest singers that France has ever sent us. 52:39.020 --> 52:40.020 Oh, merci. 52:40.020 --> 52:45.020 I would adore having you sing for me right now. 52:45.020 --> 52:48.020 And when you're finished, if you like, I will sing for you. 52:48.020 --> 52:52.020 Oh, have mercy. 52:52.020 --> 52:56.020 Miss Bankhead, I've heard so much about Miss Piaf. May I meet her? 52:56.020 --> 52:59.020 Why, of course, child. Miss Piaf, this is Margaret O'Brien. 52:59.020 --> 53:02.020 Miss Piaf, this is really a pleasure. 53:02.020 --> 53:05.020 This is Margaret O'Brien? Incredible. 53:05.020 --> 53:08.020 No, no, not that again. 53:08.020 --> 53:11.020 One, two, three, go. 53:11.020 --> 53:16.020 My, how you have grown up. Makes a person feel old. 53:16.020 --> 53:20.020 I wonder if that will ever replace Fred Waring. 53:20.020 --> 53:24.020 Edith, darling, would you sing one of my favorite numbers, Autumn Eve? 53:24.020 --> 53:26.020 Oh, I will be glad to. 53:26.020 --> 53:27.020 Merci. 53:27.020 --> 53:52.020 The falling leaves drift by the window 53:52.020 --> 53:59.020 The autumn leaves of red and gold 53:59.020 --> 54:06.020 I see your lips, the summer kisses 54:06.020 --> 54:14.020 The sunburned hands I used to hold 54:14.020 --> 54:22.020 Since you went away, the days go on and soon I'll hear 54:22.020 --> 54:30.020 Old winter call 54:30.020 --> 54:41.020 But I miss you most of all, my darling 54:41.020 --> 54:52.020 Where are our friends, the summer kisses 54:52.020 --> 54:59.020 It's a child who looks like me 54:59.020 --> 55:06.020 You loved me, I loved you 55:06.020 --> 55:13.020 We lived together, the two of us 55:13.020 --> 55:20.020 Me who loved me, me who loved you 55:20.020 --> 55:24.020 But life separates those who love each other 55:24.020 --> 55:34.020 Slowly, without losing sight 55:34.020 --> 55:38.200 Love is passing on the white 55:38.200 --> 55:42.020 On the white 55:42.020 --> 55:52.020 The steps of lovers, of lovers 55:52.020 --> 55:57.020 Since you went away, the days go on 55:57.020 --> 56:09.020 And soon I'll hear, old winter call 56:09.020 --> 56:21.020 But I miss you most of all, my darling 56:21.020 --> 56:45.020 Where are our friends, the summer kisses 56:51.020 --> 57:07.020 Oh, Merry Christmas everybody, and a Merry Christmas to you, Margaret O'Brien. 57:07.020 --> 57:12.020 How about giving me one of Santa Claus' helpers a nice big kiss? 57:12.020 --> 57:17.020 Take your hands off me. 57:17.020 --> 57:21.020 Yes, that's Peter Spiaff. This is Margaret O'Brien. 57:21.020 --> 57:22.020 Hello, Mr. Wynn. 57:22.020 --> 57:25.020 You're Margaret O'Brien? But you're not the Margaret O'Brien. 57:25.020 --> 57:29.020 Ed, we are not going through that bit again. 57:29.020 --> 57:34.020 We know the child has grown up. None of us is getting any younger. We've all grown up. 57:34.020 --> 57:37.020 You've grown up and I've grown up. 57:37.020 --> 57:46.020 My, now you have grown up. Make the person feel my deal. 57:46.020 --> 57:48.020 Margaret, please. 57:48.020 --> 57:51.020 Now, Ed, what present did you bring Margaret? 57:51.020 --> 57:56.020 Oh, the best of all, really, Tallulah. I brought her a wonderful present. It's an opera. 57:56.020 --> 57:57.020 Oh. 57:57.020 --> 57:59.020 What a wonderful story. It's the story about... 57:59.020 --> 58:03.020 Now, just a minute. Now, Ed, before you tell your story, Ed Hurley, he has a story to tell. Ed? 58:03.020 --> 58:07.020 This portion of the big show has been brought to you by the makers of Anison. 58:07.020 --> 58:10.020 For fast relief from pain of headache, urethritis, and neuralgia. 58:10.020 --> 58:13.020 And by RCA Victor, world leader in radio. 58:13.020 --> 58:15.020 First in recorded music, first in television. 58:15.020 --> 58:17.020 Now, Tallulah, would you like to bring your child? 58:17.020 --> 58:22.020 The flitted NBC, the national broadcasting company. 58:22.020 --> 58:34.020 This is the big show. And Tallulah Bankhead is giving a Christmas party for little Margaret O'Brien. 58:34.020 --> 58:37.020 Well, Margaret, my pet, are you having fun at your party, enjoying yourself? 58:37.020 --> 58:43.020 Oh, it's wonderful, Miss Bankhead. I bet there isn't another 14-year-old girl in the world as happy as I am. 58:43.020 --> 58:45.020 14? I thought you said you were 13. 58:45.020 --> 58:50.020 It's such a long show. 58:50.020 --> 58:53.020 Well, Ed, how about that opera? Are you ready to tell the story? 58:53.020 --> 58:56.020 Oh, yes, I'm ready. I'm more than ready. 58:56.020 --> 58:59.020 Have you got anybody to sing the opera so that I can explain the story? 58:59.020 --> 59:04.020 We most certainly have somebody. Robert Merrill will sing it. Won't you, Bob, darling? 59:04.020 --> 59:08.020 Sure. I'll sing Largo Alpha Totem from the Barber of Seville. 59:08.020 --> 59:14.020 Oh, that's a lovely opera. But I'm going to tell the story of Carmen tonight, you know. 59:14.020 --> 59:17.020 I'm sorry, I'm singing Figaro. 59:17.020 --> 59:21.020 Well, I'm sorry you're singing Figaro too. 59:21.020 --> 59:24.020 Because I'm going to explain the opera Carmen. 59:24.020 --> 59:30.020 And if you're going to sing that long haired stuff from the Barber of Seville, it just won't fit, that's all. 59:30.020 --> 59:33.020 I'm an expert on Carmen, you know, an authority. 59:33.020 --> 59:39.020 I know things about Carmen that Carmen herself don't even suspect. 59:39.020 --> 59:43.020 But, Ed, you explained Carmen the last time you were on the show. 59:43.020 --> 59:46.020 Oh, well, that was only the two acts of the opera, Tellola. 59:46.020 --> 59:54.020 But tonight, for the first time in the history of the world, I'm going to tell what happened to Carmen during intermission. 59:54.020 --> 59:58.020 I'm going to sing Figaro. If I don't sing Figaro, I won't do anything. 59:58.020 --> 01:00:01.020 And you want to hear me sing, don't you? 01:00:01.020 --> 01:00:04.020 No, not necessarily. 01:00:04.020 --> 01:00:08.020 I'm singing Figaro and you explain the story of Figaro. 01:00:08.020 --> 01:00:13.020 Oh, all right, all right. Just to stop the argument, I'll explain Figaro. 01:00:13.020 --> 01:00:17.020 But you're going to find out it's going to sound just like Carmen. 01:00:17.020 --> 01:00:29.020 La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. 01:00:29.020 --> 01:00:32.020 Pardon me, pardon me, just a minute. 01:00:32.020 --> 01:00:37.020 You're singing in Italian and they don't know what you're singing about. 01:00:37.020 --> 01:00:39.020 I'll explain the opera up till now. 01:00:39.020 --> 01:00:46.020 As the Caden rises, there is a terrific storm raging off the coast of Australia. 01:00:46.020 --> 01:00:53.020 But that makes no difference to the opera because the opera takes place in Spain. 01:00:53.020 --> 01:00:59.020 Now actually, this version of Carmen, which I am describing, has a title which is all its own. 01:00:59.020 --> 01:01:03.020 The name of it is He Misses White Cooking. 01:01:03.020 --> 01:01:06.020 Every Chance He Got. 01:01:06.020 --> 01:01:08.020 Now I'll explain what he's been singing. 01:01:08.020 --> 01:01:11.020 We first see Carmen seated in her living room. 01:01:11.020 --> 01:01:18.020 She has just come up from the wine cellar of her home where she stumbled over something 65 years old. 01:01:18.020 --> 01:01:21.020 It was her father. 01:01:21.020 --> 01:01:27.020 Now as Carmen is in the sitting room, you can see that she has a figure that is out of this world, you know. 01:01:27.020 --> 01:01:32.020 And if she just put on a gaiter, she could probably get it back in again. 01:01:32.020 --> 01:01:35.020 But as a matter of fact, Carmen has only two teeth. 01:01:35.020 --> 01:01:37.020 This is very interesting. 01:01:37.020 --> 01:01:41.020 Carmen has two teeth, one in her upper jaw and one in her lower jaw. 01:01:41.020 --> 01:01:44.020 And one day the tooth in the upper jaw says to the other tooth, 01:01:44.020 --> 01:01:46.020 let's get together for lunch sometime. 01:01:46.020 --> 01:01:53.020 At this point, Carmen's father rushes in. 01:01:53.020 --> 01:01:55.020 This is an interesting scene. 01:01:55.020 --> 01:01:57.020 He says, Carmen, I am going to get married again. 01:01:57.020 --> 01:01:58.020 I hope you do not mind. 01:01:58.020 --> 01:02:01.020 I'm going to marry a girl 18 years old. 01:02:01.020 --> 01:02:03.020 Carmen says, father, you can't do that. 01:02:03.020 --> 01:02:05.020 You are 65 years of age. 01:02:05.020 --> 01:02:10.020 If you marry a girl 18 years of age, 10 years now, you'll be 75 and she'll be only 28. 01:02:10.020 --> 01:02:11.020 Have you thought of that? 01:02:11.020 --> 01:02:13.020 The old man says, yes, I thought of that. 01:02:13.020 --> 01:02:14.020 But why should that stop me? 01:02:14.020 --> 01:02:21.020 He says, when that time comes, I'll go out and find myself another 18-year-old girl. 01:02:21.020 --> 01:02:23.020 All right, if you'll continue now. 01:02:23.020 --> 01:02:36.020 The opera. 01:02:36.020 --> 01:02:39.020 It's unfortunate that it's always on a high note. 01:02:39.020 --> 01:02:46.020 Anyhow, in the opera, we now find that Don Jose has come to see Carmen. 01:02:46.020 --> 01:02:48.020 Don Jose is a lovely fellow. 01:02:48.020 --> 01:02:52.020 He comes from a fastidious family. 01:02:52.020 --> 01:02:57.020 His father is fast and his mother is hideous. 01:02:57.020 --> 01:03:03.020 Anyhow, Don Jose is wearing a suit out of awning material. 01:03:03.020 --> 01:03:06.020 There is a freeze on goods, you know. 01:03:06.020 --> 01:03:12.020 Now, he has this suit made of awning material, the same material that people use to make awnings with. 01:03:12.020 --> 01:03:13.020 The suit is all right. 01:03:13.020 --> 01:03:18.020 The only trouble is that when the sun goes down, the pants roll up. 01:03:18.020 --> 01:03:20.020 Now, Don Jose sets a comment. 01:03:20.020 --> 01:03:24.020 He says, sweetheart, now that we are engaged to be married, let us see lobe tonight. 01:03:24.020 --> 01:03:28.020 I'll bring a net and you can jump to it from your window. 01:03:28.020 --> 01:03:31.020 And Carmen says, but I live on the 10th floor. 01:03:31.020 --> 01:03:33.020 Suppose I miss the net. 01:03:33.020 --> 01:03:37.020 Don Jose says that in that case, our engagement is off. 01:03:37.020 --> 01:03:42.020 Now, Carmen says, Don Jose, please, you must ask my father for my hand. 01:03:42.020 --> 01:03:45.020 And Don Jose says, well, I did ask him. 01:03:45.020 --> 01:03:46.020 I asked him. 01:03:46.020 --> 01:03:50.020 And when I told him that I wanted to marry you, he asked me if I had enough money to support you. 01:03:50.020 --> 01:03:54.020 And when I said yes, he tried to interest me in another proposition. 01:03:54.020 --> 01:03:57.020 Would you sing that part of the opera, please? 01:03:57.020 --> 01:04:05.020 Oh, que bel viva, que bel piacere, que bel piacere. 01:04:05.020 --> 01:04:06.020 That's enough. 01:04:06.020 --> 01:04:10.020 The audience can't carry all those words, you see. 01:04:10.020 --> 01:04:14.020 Now, this is where the pop thickens, folks. 01:04:14.020 --> 01:04:19.020 It doesn't exactly thicken, it just gets a little lumpy. 01:04:19.020 --> 01:04:20.020 I'll tell you why. 01:04:20.020 --> 01:04:22.020 A new character enters the opera. 01:04:22.020 --> 01:04:24.020 His name is Escamillo. 01:04:24.020 --> 01:04:29.020 And now Escamillo proposes to Carmen and she accepts him. 01:04:29.020 --> 01:04:34.020 She doesn't want to marry the man for his money, but she can't think of any other way to get it, you know. 01:04:34.020 --> 01:04:38.020 And now comes one of the most romantic scenes ever to be witnessed on any stage. 01:04:38.020 --> 01:04:41.020 Escamillo kisses Carmen on her left cheek. 01:04:41.020 --> 01:04:45.020 Then he kisses her on the right cheek, and then he kisses her on the forehead. 01:04:45.020 --> 01:04:50.020 Carmen says, keep scouting around, you're bound to find her. 01:04:50.020 --> 01:04:52.020 Wait a minute, this is some of the horrible. 01:04:52.020 --> 01:04:54.020 And now the scene changes. 01:04:54.020 --> 01:04:59.020 It is Christmas Eve and Carmen cooks Escamillo a takey dinner. 01:04:59.020 --> 01:05:04.020 She says, think of a dear, when Noah was on the ark, there were only two takies in the whole world. 01:05:04.020 --> 01:05:09.020 Escamillo starts eating his takey and he says, I wonder what happened to the other one. 01:05:09.020 --> 01:05:12.020 Then Escamillo asks for some marmalade. 01:05:12.020 --> 01:05:19.020 And when Carmen tells him that they don't have any, Escamillo gets angry and he screams, what kind of a house is this? 01:05:19.020 --> 01:05:48.020 Carmen says, duck out. 01:05:49.020 --> 01:06:19.020 Figaro dear Figaro, Figaro, Figaro, Figaro, Figaro, Figaro, Figaro, Figaro, Figaro 01:06:49.020 --> 01:07:05.580 For the whole city of the city of the city of the sky 01:07:19.660 --> 01:07:23.020 Now you know ladies and gentlemen that was the finale of the opera 01:07:23.020 --> 01:07:28.860 which I would like to explain. At this point in the opera we see Carmen's brother, his name is Ralph 01:07:29.500 --> 01:07:34.700 he is running to the house. Ralph as it happens in the play is really a lion tamer in the sacred 01:07:34.700 --> 01:07:39.820 and every day he puts his head right in the lion's mouth but today just as he was going to put his 01:07:39.820 --> 01:07:47.020 head in the mouth he yawned and the lion looked at him and the lion said just a minute who does 01:07:47.020 --> 01:07:56.620 what to who? I thought that was good. Anyhow, Ralph, Ralph knocks on the door of Carmen's house 01:07:56.620 --> 01:08:03.340 and Carmen yells who is it? He says it's Ralph. She says who? He says Ralph, Ralph, Ralph. 01:08:04.300 --> 01:08:10.860 She says I can't hear a thing there's a dog barking out loud. Then comes the famous wedding scene 01:08:10.860 --> 01:08:16.540 ladies and gentlemen. Here my mood changes this is wonderful. I'd like to explain this. Carmen's 01:08:16.540 --> 01:08:21.420 mother and father are the fates to arrive at the wedding. They are wearing bare skin coats. 01:08:23.180 --> 01:08:26.700 The wife's coat is black bear and the husband's coat is thread bear you see. 01:08:27.500 --> 01:08:32.300 The wedding ceremony starts and the judge says to Escamillo to marry this woman you 01:08:32.300 --> 01:08:37.820 well that'll cost you two dollars. Escamillo looks at Carmen he says to the judge what have 01:08:37.820 --> 01:08:43.180 you got for about three and a half. The judge proceeds with the ceremony and he finally says 01:08:43.180 --> 01:08:48.060 if anyone objects to this marriage let him speak now and before he shells out I object. 01:08:49.900 --> 01:08:56.060 The judge says you shut up you're the groom. He says so Carmen and Escamillo are married and 01:08:56.060 --> 01:09:00.940 they go to the country and Escamillo becomes a gentleman farmer. You can tell he's a gentleman 01:09:00.940 --> 01:09:09.740 farmer because he tips his hat every time he passes a tomato. But anyhow it is a very early 01:09:09.740 --> 01:09:16.620 morning and daylight savings time has come in and he is up so early he starts milking a cow on a 01:09:16.620 --> 01:09:21.580 farm he's a gentleman farmer and it's so early he milks the cow while the cow is still asleep. 01:09:23.020 --> 01:09:27.820 The cow wakes up at the start and looks at the farmer he says thank heaven's issue 01:09:27.820 --> 01:09:40.700 I thought I was being robbed. 01:09:47.580 --> 01:09:52.940 My darling that was a wonderful present now wasn't it Margaret? Oh I enjoyed that immensely 01:09:52.940 --> 01:09:57.980 this whole party fight why it's been just wonderful and I want to thank Santa Claus for having made 01:09:57.980 --> 01:10:04.060 it possible. Oh now darling Margaret you're 13 years old surely you're old enough to give up this 01:10:04.060 --> 01:10:10.940 Santa Claus legend. Oh no Santa Claus isn't a legend he's real. Now look child maybe I'd better 01:10:10.940 --> 01:10:17.260 straighten you out huh? Miss Spankhead maybe I'd better straighten you out. There was once a little 01:10:17.260 --> 01:10:21.580 girl who didn't know whether to believe in Santa Claus or not and she wrote a letter about it to 01:10:21.580 --> 01:10:28.140 the old New York sun the letter said dear editor I'm eight years old some of my little friends say 01:10:28.140 --> 01:10:33.900 there is no Santa Claus. Papa says if you see it in the sun it's so please tell me the truth 01:10:34.540 --> 01:10:40.460 is there a Santa Claus that would sign Virginia O'Hanlon and here is the answer they printed. 01:10:41.980 --> 01:10:49.020 Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus he exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion 01:10:49.020 --> 01:10:56.460 exist and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas 01:10:57.100 --> 01:11:02.460 how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus it would be as dreary as if there 01:11:02.460 --> 01:11:10.220 were no Virginians. There would be no childlike faith and no poetry no romance to make tolerable 01:11:10.220 --> 01:11:18.300 this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight the internal light with which 01:11:18.300 --> 01:11:25.580 childhood builds the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus you might as well not 01:11:25.580 --> 01:11:32.380 believe in fairy. Nobody sees Santa Claus but that's no sign that there is no Santa Claus. 01:11:33.740 --> 01:11:37.980 The most real things in this world are those that neither children nor men can see. 01:11:39.420 --> 01:11:46.540 Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course but that's no proof that they're not there 01:11:46.540 --> 01:11:52.380 nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders that are unseen and unseenable in this world. 01:11:53.420 --> 01:11:58.780 You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside but there's a veil covering 01:11:58.780 --> 01:12:03.340 the unseen world which would knock the strongest man or even the uniting strength of all the 01:12:03.340 --> 01:12:11.900 strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance can push 01:12:11.900 --> 01:12:19.500 aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? 01:12:19.500 --> 01:12:25.020 Ah Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. 01:12:26.220 --> 01:12:34.060 No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now Virginia 01:12:34.060 --> 01:12:42.300 maybe ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. 01:12:55.580 --> 01:13:01.580 Margaret child that was beautiful. How could I possibly have grown so far away from that 01:13:01.580 --> 01:13:07.740 simple wondrous belief that there is a Santa Claus? I thought I was giving you a Christmas you'll 01:13:07.740 --> 01:13:14.220 remember instead you've brought back something I should never have forgotten. All of a sudden I 01:13:14.220 --> 01:13:19.260 remember how we sat around our far side at home and sang the joyous Christmas carols 01:13:19.900 --> 01:13:24.780 so symbolic of this happy happy season. Wouldn't it be wonderful Miss Fankette if we could sing them 01:13:24.780 --> 01:13:31.660 now? Oh I wish we could. And why can't we? My precious child of course there'll be carols. 01:13:31.660 --> 01:13:37.900 We had the singers Fran Warren, Edith Piaf, Robert Merrill, we had Mary Wilson and the orchestra 01:13:37.900 --> 01:13:55.420 and chorus and now we have certainly found the spirit. 01:14:37.900 --> 01:14:51.180 Oh little kind of Berkeley 01:14:51.180 --> 01:14:54.380 how still we see thee lie 01:14:54.380 --> 01:15:10.380 above thy deep and dreamless face. The silent stars go by 01:15:10.380 --> 01:15:16.380 yet in thy dark street shining 01:15:16.380 --> 01:15:30.380 the everlasting light. The hope and fears of all the years 01:15:30.380 --> 01:15:46.380 are made in thee tonight. 01:15:46.380 --> 01:16:10.380 Forever security what we do 01:16:40.380 --> 01:16:47.380 Rejoice, and you'll find the way. 01:16:54.380 --> 01:16:58.380 Yilene, el divine enfant, 01:16:58.380 --> 01:17:03.380 Jouez au bois, réconnez, musette. 01:17:03.380 --> 01:17:07.380 Yilene, el divine enfant, 01:17:07.380 --> 01:17:12.380 Chantons tous son arraignement, 01:17:12.380 --> 01:17:17.380 Depuis plus de quatre mille ans, 01:17:17.380 --> 01:17:21.380 Nous voulons pour mille et pour quatre, 01:17:21.380 --> 01:17:26.380 Depuis plus de quatre mille ans, 01:17:26.380 --> 01:17:31.380 Nous attendions cette recente. 01:17:31.380 --> 01:17:36.380 Yilene, el divine enfant, 01:17:36.380 --> 01:17:46.380 Chantons tous son arraignement. 01:17:57.380 --> 01:18:03.380 God rest ye merry gentlemen, 01:18:03.380 --> 01:18:10.380 Let nothing you dismay, 01:18:10.380 --> 01:18:13.380 Remember Christ our Savior, 01:18:13.380 --> 01:18:19.380 Was born on Christmas Day, 01:18:19.380 --> 01:18:23.380 To save us all from Savings Paul, 01:18:23.380 --> 01:18:28.380 When we were gone astray. 01:18:28.380 --> 01:18:33.380 O tidings of comfort and joy, 01:18:33.380 --> 01:18:36.380 Comfort and joy, 01:18:36.380 --> 01:18:58.380 O tidings of comfort and joy. 01:18:58.380 --> 01:19:03.380 God rest ye merry gentlemen, 01:19:03.380 --> 01:19:07.380 Let nothing you dismay, 01:19:07.380 --> 01:19:10.380 Remember Christ our Savior, 01:19:10.380 --> 01:19:17.380 When we were gone astray. 01:19:17.380 --> 01:19:22.380 No, tu ris et, 01:19:22.380 --> 01:19:27.380 Rejoice, and you'll find the way. 01:19:27.380 --> 01:19:36.380 Venite adoremos, venite adoremos, 01:19:36.380 --> 01:19:54.380 Venite adoremos, domino. 01:19:54.380 --> 01:19:57.380 And now everybody, you here in the theater, 01:19:57.380 --> 01:20:02.380 you at home, and especially you men and women far from home, 01:20:02.380 --> 01:20:04.380 won't you please join us in singing, 01:20:04.380 --> 01:20:07.380 Oh come, all ye faithful. 01:20:07.380 --> 01:20:31.380 Oh come, all ye faithful, Joy, joy, and triumph, O come ye, O come ye to heaven. 01:20:31.380 --> 01:20:43.380 O come, all ye faithful, Joy, joy, and triumph, O come ye to heaven. 01:20:43.380 --> 01:21:02.380 O come ye to heaven. 01:21:02.380 --> 01:21:21.380 O come ye to heaven. 01:21:21.380 --> 01:21:44.380 Oh, Margie darling, I thought it almost over. 01:21:51.380 --> 01:21:56.380 Our friends, dear friends, 01:21:56.380 --> 01:22:00.380 as years go on and heads get gray, 01:22:00.380 --> 01:22:03.380 how fast the guests you go. 01:22:03.380 --> 01:22:08.380 Touch hands, touch hands, with those that stay. 01:22:08.380 --> 01:22:12.380 Strong hands to weak, old hands to young, 01:22:12.380 --> 01:22:15.380 around the Christmas board. 01:22:15.380 --> 01:22:19.380 Touch hands, the first time you touch hands, 01:22:19.380 --> 01:22:24.380 the false forget, the foe forgive, 01:22:24.380 --> 01:22:29.380 for every guest will go and every fire burn low, 01:22:29.380 --> 01:22:32.380 and cabin empty stand. 01:22:32.380 --> 01:22:38.380 Forget, forgive, for who may say that Christmas day 01:22:38.380 --> 01:22:43.380 may ever come to host or guest again. 01:22:43.380 --> 01:23:01.380 Touch hands, touch hands. 01:23:01.380 --> 01:23:04.380 Well, darlings, it has been our Christmas show, 01:23:04.380 --> 01:23:09.380 dedicated to our loved ones and the service of our country all over the world. 01:23:09.380 --> 01:23:13.380 God bless you and God speed your journey home. 01:23:13.380 --> 01:23:15.380 Next Sunday we'll celebrate New Year's Eve. 01:23:15.380 --> 01:23:18.380 When our stars will be Vivian Blaine, Hilda Ferrer, 01:23:18.380 --> 01:23:21.380 Sam Levine, Ken Murray, Margaret O'Brien, 01:23:21.380 --> 01:23:24.380 Gloria Swanson, Fran Warren and others, 01:23:24.380 --> 01:23:28.380 and as usual Mary Wilson and the Big Show officer and chorus. 01:23:28.380 --> 01:23:37.380 And until then, may the good Lord bless and keep you, 01:23:37.380 --> 01:23:41.380 whether near or far away, friends. 01:23:41.380 --> 01:23:51.380 May you find that long way to go today, today. 01:23:51.380 --> 01:24:02.380 May your troubles all be small ones and your fortunes ten times ten. 01:24:02.380 --> 01:24:11.380 Jimmy, may the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet again. 01:24:11.380 --> 01:24:13.380 Meredith. 01:24:13.380 --> 01:24:22.380 May you walk with sunlight shining and a bluebird in every tree. 01:24:22.380 --> 01:24:31.380 Ed, may there be a silver lining back of every cloud you see. 01:24:31.380 --> 01:24:33.380 Margaret. 01:24:33.380 --> 01:24:41.380 May your dreams with sweet tomorrow, never mind what might have been. 01:24:41.380 --> 01:24:43.380 Edith. 01:24:43.380 --> 01:24:52.380 May the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet again. 01:24:52.380 --> 01:24:54.380 Robert. 01:24:54.380 --> 01:25:04.380 May you walk with sunlight shining and a bluebird in every tree. 01:25:04.380 --> 01:25:15.380 May there be a silver lining back of every cloud you see. 01:25:15.380 --> 01:25:28.380 May your dreams with sweet tomorrow, never mind what might have been. 01:25:28.380 --> 01:25:39.380 May the good Lord bless and keep you until we meet again. 01:25:39.380 --> 01:26:02.380 May the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet, till we meet again. 01:26:09.380 --> 01:26:33.380 A safe and a Merry Christmas, darling. 01:26:39.380 --> 01:27:07.380 Listen to The Big Show next Sunday when we will have with us Vivian Blaine, Jose Ferrer, Sam Levine, Ken Murray, Margaret O'Brien, Gloria Swanson, Grant Warren and others, Meredith Wilson and The Big Show Orchestra and Chorus, and of course your hosts, the glamorous, unpredictable, Tallulah Bankhead. 01:27:07.380 --> 01:27:14.380 The various touch hands was written by William Harris Murray and the letter to Virginia was presented by the formation of the New York World Telegram's touch. 01:27:14.380 --> 01:27:35.380 The Big Show is directed and produced by Dee Engelbach and written by Goodman Aisman, George Foster, Mort Green and Frank Wilson. 01:27:35.380 --> 01:27:37.380 That early, he wished you a Merry Christmas.