WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.020 You're about to be entertained by some of the biggest names in show business for the next hour and 30 minutes this program will present 00:06.020 --> 00:09.500 in person such bright stars as Fred Allen 00:10.020 --> 00:11.160 five-brook 00:11.160 --> 00:19.340 Portland Hoffa Frankie Lane Ethel Merman Margaret Phillips Hugh Riley Herb Shriner Margaret Truman Meredith Wilson 00:19.340 --> 00:34.340 And my name darlings, it's Lula Bankett 00:34.340 --> 00:49.340 The National Broadcasting Company presents The Big Show 00:49.340 --> 00:54.340 The Big Show, 90 minutes with the most scintillating personalities in the entertainment world 00:54.340 --> 01:01.340 brought to you this Sunday and every Sunday at the same time as the Sunday feature of NBC's All Star Festival 01:01.340 --> 01:08.340 and here is your hostess, the glamorous, unpredictable, the Lula Bankett 01:08.340 --> 01:24.340 The National Broadcasting Company presents The Big Show 01:24.340 --> 01:29.340 Well darlings, this week one of our guests is a very unusual young lady 01:29.340 --> 01:33.340 She was on The Big Show once before and I was quite nervous about it 01:33.340 --> 01:36.340 but now that I know her I am completely calm 01:36.340 --> 01:39.340 I am determined to take this whole thing in my stride 01:39.340 --> 01:43.340 My name is not Lula Bankett 01:43.340 --> 01:47.340 or whatever my name is, it escapes me for the moment 01:47.340 --> 01:54.340 After all I think of our guest as a fine singer, a charming personality and a gracious young lady 01:54.340 --> 01:57.340 Say, you don't have to put the dog on for me, Salou 01:57.340 --> 01:59.340 Oh not you Ethel Merman, darling 01:59.340 --> 02:06.340 Applause 02:06.340 --> 02:11.340 Ethel my sweet, I wasn't talking about you, I was referring to another singer on this program, Margaret Truman 02:11.340 --> 02:15.340 Well, leave us not forget that I too am a singer 02:15.340 --> 02:20.340 Ethel, I am not forgetting, it just so happens that Margaret is a personable young woman 02:20.340 --> 02:22.340 Yes, I vote for that 02:22.340 --> 02:24.340 A very warm and regular girl 02:24.340 --> 02:25.340 I vote for that too 02:25.340 --> 02:28.340 And her father is President of the United States 02:28.340 --> 02:31.340 Leave us not forget that I too am a singer 02:31.340 --> 02:34.340 Laughter 02:34.340 --> 02:37.340 Well darling, you just keep on reminding us will you 02:37.340 --> 02:39.340 Besides, we sing different kinds of songs 02:39.340 --> 02:42.340 Margaret sings classical stuff and I sing popular 02:42.340 --> 02:47.340 She's famous for long hair music and I'm famous for pop 02:47.340 --> 02:51.340 Laughter 02:51.340 --> 02:54.340 Well I won't even answer that one 02:54.340 --> 02:57.340 I'm surprised at you Salou for being this nervous 02:57.340 --> 03:00.340 Haven't you ever met the daughter of a President before? 03:00.340 --> 03:01.340 Yes, I did meet one 03:01.340 --> 03:04.340 Well I hope you weren't this nervous with Miss McKinley 03:04.340 --> 03:08.340 Laughter 03:08.340 --> 03:14.340 Ethel, that's the way you talked to me a few months ago on your first appearance on this show 03:14.340 --> 03:20.340 I was hoping you'd be a little more pleasant on this, your second and last appearance 03:20.340 --> 03:23.340 Alright Salou, no more knocking 03:23.340 --> 03:24.340 Very well, no more knocking 03:24.340 --> 03:27.340 And I'll start off by saying I like your dress very much 03:27.340 --> 03:29.340 Now what do you mean by that crack? 03:29.340 --> 03:30.340 Laughter 03:30.340 --> 03:32.340 Nothing, I just said I like your dress 03:32.340 --> 03:38.340 Ethel, my pet, I've known you long enough to know that when you say you like my dress you're hiding something 03:38.340 --> 03:40.340 That's more than your dress does 03:40.340 --> 03:42.340 Laughter 03:42.340 --> 03:45.340 Now just a minute, now just a minute and no not Ethel 03:45.340 --> 03:48.340 In the first place I have nothing to hide 03:48.340 --> 03:49.340 You said it, I didn't 03:49.340 --> 03:54.340 Laughter 03:54.340 --> 03:56.340 Ethel darling, this is really getting embarrassing 03:56.340 --> 04:01.340 I mean Miss Margaret Truman on the program and you and I acting like this, what does she think? 04:01.340 --> 04:05.340 Now let's be friendly, how's your play doing? 04:05.340 --> 04:07.340 Annie gets your gun 04:07.340 --> 04:08.340 Laughter 04:08.340 --> 04:10.340 Salou, that was a couple of years ago 04:10.340 --> 04:12.340 Oh I'm so sorry darling 04:12.340 --> 04:14.340 Laughter 04:14.340 --> 04:15.340 But you'll find something 04:15.340 --> 04:16.340 Laughter 04:16.340 --> 04:19.340 I did find something, call me madam 04:19.340 --> 04:26.340 Oh of course, how stupid of me, I was thinking of Annie gets your gun because I just saw the movie they made out of it you know 04:26.340 --> 04:31.340 And darling you won't believe it but I sat all through the picture and you're not in it 04:31.340 --> 04:32.340 Laughter 04:32.340 --> 04:33.340 No kidding 04:33.340 --> 04:41.340 No really, for a while I thought I saw you in it but then when the credits came on at the end of the picture it wasn't you at all 04:41.340 --> 04:42.340 It was Louis Calhurn 04:42.340 --> 04:44.340 Laughter 04:44.340 --> 04:46.340 Well tell me darling, how's your call me madam doing? 04:46.340 --> 04:49.340 Oh selling out every performance, even standing rooms 04:49.340 --> 04:54.340 Oh I'm so happy for you dear, you know I haven't seen the play yet, is there any chance of 04:54.340 --> 05:00.340 Well there are no seats to be had at all Saloula but I can speak to our company manager and he can stand you in the back of the theater 05:00.340 --> 05:01.340 Laughter 05:01.340 --> 05:04.340 Darling nobody can stand Saloula Bankhead 05:04.340 --> 05:07.340 Laughter 05:07.340 --> 05:08.340 You said it, I didn't 05:08.340 --> 05:11.340 Laughter 05:11.340 --> 05:18.340 What I mean is that surely you can find a pair of seats for me somewhere, but I mean I got you a pair of tickets for this show tonight 05:18.340 --> 05:23.340 And we fill 3500 seats in the theater every Sunday, so how many does yours sit at home? 05:23.340 --> 05:25.340 Oh we hold only about 1700 05:25.340 --> 05:31.340 1700, why darling, I fill twice as many seats as you do 05:31.340 --> 05:32.340 You said it, I said 05:32.340 --> 05:35.340 Laughter 05:35.340 --> 05:42.340 Well you must remember Saloula, I fill the theater six times a week and two matinees, people come from all over to hear me sing 05:42.340 --> 05:48.340 Well people come to hear me sing two festivals, since you were lost on this program I've been singing quite a bit 05:48.340 --> 05:51.340 Well maybe, but I have a larger repertoire than you have 05:51.340 --> 05:53.340 You said it, I didn't 05:53.340 --> 05:55.340 Laughter 05:55.340 --> 05:56.340 Oh I mean songs 05:56.340 --> 05:57.340 Oh I don't know 05:57.340 --> 05:59.340 No, okay, well we'll see about that 05:59.340 --> 06:06.340 Blow, Gabriel, blow, come on and blow, Gabriel, blow 06:06.340 --> 06:12.340 Give my regards to Broadway, remember me to Harold Square 06:12.340 --> 06:18.340 I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man who could ask for anything more 06:18.340 --> 06:24.340 I'll be singing all the old familiar things 06:24.340 --> 06:29.340 Folks are dumb where I come from, they ain't had any learning 06:29.340 --> 06:34.340 Still they're happy as can be, you know it comes naturally 06:34.340 --> 06:38.340 Give my regards to Broadway 06:38.340 --> 06:42.340 In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking 06:42.340 --> 06:47.340 Now heaven knows, anything goes 06:47.340 --> 06:51.340 Give my regards to Broadway 06:51.340 --> 07:04.340 Applause 07:04.340 --> 07:05.340 Good evening, Sir Lula 07:05.340 --> 07:06.340 Oh, Fred Allen 07:06.340 --> 07:12.340 Applause 07:12.340 --> 07:14.340 Fred, I'm awfully glad you dropped in on the show tonight 07:14.340 --> 07:16.340 You know Margaret Truman is with us again 07:16.340 --> 07:19.340 Yes, I know, Sir Lula, she's on the show for the second time 07:19.340 --> 07:20.340 Uh huh 07:20.340 --> 07:23.340 This will give me a chance to say goodbye to her 07:23.340 --> 07:25.340 Goodbye, why darling? 07:25.340 --> 07:28.340 You expect to have her on as often as you'd like to come 07:28.340 --> 07:31.340 Well that's, I'm afraid that's not going to be possible to Lula 07:31.340 --> 07:34.340 You know now that they have ratified the 22nd Amendment 07:34.340 --> 07:38.340 Margaret can only come back, can't come back more than twice 07:38.340 --> 07:42.340 I almost fixed it so she didn't come back at all 07:42.340 --> 07:49.340 What's new darling in, with your career? 07:49.340 --> 07:51.340 You are using the word loosely 07:51.340 --> 07:54.340 Well, since it has become apparent about my career 07:54.340 --> 07:59.340 Since it has become apparent that I know nothing about radio or television 07:59.340 --> 08:03.340 I have had several offers to become a critic 08:03.340 --> 08:07.340 Oh Fred, I hope you'll give our show a good notice 08:07.340 --> 08:09.340 Oh, I'm going to do better than that, Salou 08:09.340 --> 08:12.340 As it is the custom now among the critics 08:12.340 --> 08:15.340 I am going to present this show with an award 08:15.340 --> 08:19.340 Now all of the shows in radio or television are getting awards 08:19.340 --> 08:22.340 Most of them for courage 08:22.340 --> 08:24.340 But we haven't gotten anything on this show 08:24.340 --> 08:27.340 Well I am here to remedy that omission 08:27.340 --> 08:31.340 I have brought along a small framed citation 08:31.340 --> 08:34.340 And before presenting it to you, I should like to read the inscription 08:34.340 --> 08:36.340 Ah, please do darling 08:36.340 --> 08:39.340 To the A&P Gypsies 08:39.340 --> 08:41.340 Oh wait a minute, wait a minute 08:41.340 --> 08:43.340 That, that should be crossed out here 08:43.340 --> 08:46.340 And the name of your show written in 08:46.340 --> 08:48.340 Well I can do that Fred 08:48.340 --> 08:49.340 Good 08:49.340 --> 08:53.340 To the big show for the best hour and a half program on radio 08:53.340 --> 08:56.340 But darling, we're the only hour and a half program on radio 08:56.340 --> 08:57.340 Well that's the idea 08:57.340 --> 09:02.340 That's why you are getting this citation for endurance 09:02.340 --> 09:03.340 Shall I continue? 09:03.340 --> 09:05.340 Yes, read on 09:05.340 --> 09:09.340 This citation is awarded to Miss Kalula Brockman-Bankhead 09:09.340 --> 09:11.340 Who has become the most 09:11.340 --> 09:13.340 Oh well 09:13.340 --> 09:15.340 The most what? 09:15.340 --> 09:17.340 Well that's all the room we had Kalula 09:17.340 --> 09:21.340 We couldn't, we couldn't get any more lines on the citation 09:21.340 --> 09:22.340 It's very small in the framing 09:22.340 --> 09:25.340 Well darling, isn't there room on the back of it for a few lines? 09:25.340 --> 09:28.340 Oh well, no you wouldn't want any lines on the back of it 09:28.340 --> 09:30.340 I would so 09:30.340 --> 09:32.340 Let me see that citation 09:32.340 --> 09:35.340 Why Fred, the back of it is just a mirror 09:35.340 --> 09:36.340 That's right, a mirror 09:36.340 --> 09:40.340 I told you you wouldn't want any lines there, would you Kalula? 09:40.340 --> 09:43.340 No darling, that's very sweet of you 09:43.340 --> 09:46.340 That's the nicest thing anybody said to me on this program 09:46.340 --> 09:48.340 I think I'm going to cry 09:48.340 --> 09:50.340 Oh don't cry Miss Bankhead 09:50.340 --> 09:52.340 Meredith Wilson 09:57.340 --> 10:00.340 Meredith darling, I'm so touched by this tribute Fred Allen just paid me 10:00.340 --> 10:04.340 And you could help a lot with one of your fine bouncy tunes right now 10:04.340 --> 10:05.340 I'd be glad to 10:05.340 --> 10:06.340 What will you play? 10:06.340 --> 10:12.340 Well sir, Miss Bankhead, as long as Fred has given you a citation 10:12.340 --> 10:16.340 The Big Show Orchestra and Chorus would like to dedicate this next number to you 10:16.340 --> 10:20.340 Oh well, this must be my day, thank you darling 10:20.340 --> 10:24.340 We want to dedicate it to you because it's a 40 year old number and it's being revised 10:27.340 --> 10:30.340 Well thanks, I think 10:31.340 --> 10:33.340 Play it Buster 10:33.340 --> 10:37.340 Okay, it's called Abba Dabba Honeymoon 11:33.340 --> 11:36.340 And the big chandelier one night or two 11:36.340 --> 11:38.340 He married them and married soon 11:38.340 --> 11:42.340 They ran upon their Abba Dabba Honeymoon 11:44.340 --> 11:47.340 Dear jungle friends, we're gathered here 11:47.340 --> 11:48.340 Abba Dabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Dabby 11:48.340 --> 11:51.340 To unite you friends we all hold dear 11:51.340 --> 11:53.340 Abba Dabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Dabby 11:53.340 --> 11:55.340 Do you miss him? Thanks Mr. Munch 11:55.340 --> 11:57.340 Please share your bread, share your fun 11:57.340 --> 12:00.340 And never go to pieces son 12:00.340 --> 12:04.380 Dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba I do, I do, I do. 12:04.380 --> 12:10.180 Mr. Monk, you take mad jim and promise to keep her in right script even when she's like a blimp. 12:10.180 --> 12:12.900 I do, I do, I do. 12:12.900 --> 12:19.180 You can now grow now to monk and wife and when you both are happy life and wedding-married 12:19.180 --> 12:22.440 quantity, hanging from your family too. 12:22.440 --> 12:26.280 Dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba Dance with the jimsy to the monk. 12:26.280 --> 12:29.900 Dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-dabba Dance with the monkey to the jim. 12:29.900 --> 12:31.560 All night long they調 away. 12:31.560 --> 12:33.440 All day long, every day. 12:33.440 --> 12:36.580 Sweaming and beaming in a hockey wavy way. 12:36.720 --> 12:32.260 Tapit-t contacted Mundt he taking the 13:02.260 --> 13:11.720 Ladies and gentlemen, we are happy to welcome to the big show three distinguished players 13:11.720 --> 13:16.660 currently starred in the late Philip Barrett's play at the Morosco Theatre, Mr. Clive Brooke, 13:16.660 --> 13:28.300 Ms. Margaret Phillips, and Mr. Hugh Riley. 13:28.300 --> 13:57.860 We hear a scene from Philip Barrett's Second Threshold as revised by Robert E. Sherwood. 13:57.860 --> 14:00.860 Mr. Barrett's Second Threshold is the story of a man, Sir. 14:00.860 --> 14:06.500 Bolson, who has carved himself a distinguished career in law and in service to his country. 14:06.500 --> 14:12.060 He has arrived at the point where he has accomplished most of what he set out to do, but now he 14:12.060 --> 14:16.100 finds these achievements meaning his ambitions futile. 14:16.100 --> 14:22.660 He wonders, well, here I am, but where am I? 14:22.660 --> 14:25.020 Where do I go from here? 14:25.020 --> 14:30.220 This feeling has become so strong that he has lost all interest in living itself. 14:30.220 --> 14:32.540 Even contemplates taking his own life. 14:32.540 --> 14:36.780 The fact that his daughter, Miranda, is about to sail for England to contract a loveless 14:36.780 --> 14:41.180 marriage with a man twice her age adds to the desire to spare. 14:41.180 --> 14:47.540 It is in this state of mind that Miranda finds him on the eve of her departure. 14:47.540 --> 14:50.340 You remember that night in Washington, Father, when you wrote out your resignation to the 14:50.340 --> 14:51.340 President? 14:51.340 --> 14:52.340 I remember it well. 14:52.340 --> 14:54.900 Quite an eloquent document, if I may say so. 14:54.900 --> 15:00.100 I stormed and railed at you for being a quitter, but I certainly didn't know how completely 15:00.100 --> 15:01.460 you had quit. 15:01.460 --> 15:04.860 I didn't know that you were resigning from the obligation to live. 15:04.860 --> 15:12.300 Maybe it's a little like, oh, I don't know, casting off from all you've had and taking 15:12.300 --> 15:17.340 your bearings from new stars you can cast this in. 15:17.340 --> 15:20.660 Does that sound too romantic? 15:20.660 --> 15:22.660 It sounds lonely. 15:22.660 --> 15:23.660 Lonely. 15:23.660 --> 15:26.100 No, I don't know. 15:26.100 --> 15:29.300 I expect there are compensations. 15:29.300 --> 15:35.460 Whistle in the dark enough and sometime you may hear an answering one. 15:35.460 --> 15:40.500 Pleasant weather down there. 15:40.500 --> 15:41.500 Good. 15:41.500 --> 15:42.500 Who's that? 15:42.500 --> 15:43.500 I didn't hear him. 15:43.500 --> 15:44.500 A vision. 15:44.500 --> 15:45.500 An apparition. 15:45.500 --> 15:46.500 Quite an eloquent document. 15:46.500 --> 15:47.500 I don't know. 15:47.500 --> 15:48.500 I don't know. 15:48.500 --> 15:49.500 I don't know. 15:49.500 --> 15:50.500 I don't know. 15:50.500 --> 15:51.500 I don't know. 15:51.500 --> 15:52.500 I don't know. 15:52.500 --> 15:53.500 I don't know. 15:53.500 --> 15:54.500 Quite an intelligent one. 15:54.500 --> 15:55.500 It's usually around here somewhere. 15:55.500 --> 15:56.500 I talked to it often. 15:56.500 --> 15:57.500 Father. 15:57.500 --> 15:58.500 Yes, daughter. 15:58.500 --> 15:59.500 Father, I can't have been the same again. 15:59.500 --> 16:00.500 The same as what? 16:00.500 --> 16:01.500 As when we worked together, when we were close to each other. 16:01.500 --> 16:02.500 Miranda, I would remind you of a passage in the Bible. 16:02.500 --> 16:03.500 It's one of the most beautiful and also one of the bitterest. 16:03.500 --> 16:04.500 I never heard you quote a passage from the Bible in all my life. 16:04.500 --> 16:05.500 If the salt has lost its flavor, then it is the salt of the world. 16:05.500 --> 16:06.500 I don't know. 16:06.500 --> 16:07.500 I don't know. 16:07.500 --> 16:08.500 I don't know. 16:08.500 --> 16:09.500 I don't know. 16:09.500 --> 16:10.500 I don't know. 16:10.500 --> 16:11.500 I don't know. 16:11.500 --> 16:12.500 I don't know. 16:12.500 --> 16:13.500 I don't know. 16:13.500 --> 16:14.500 I don't know. 16:14.500 --> 16:15.500 I don't know. 16:15.500 --> 16:22.500 I don't know. 16:22.500 --> 16:27.500 I don't know. 16:27.500 --> 16:34.500 I don't know. 16:34.500 --> 16:41.500 I don't know. 16:41.500 --> 16:48.500 I don't know. 16:48.500 --> 16:59.500 And I don't know. 16:59.500 --> 17:04.500 And I don't know. 17:04.500 --> 17:10.500 And I don't know. 17:10.500 --> 17:16.060 a young doctor and lifelong friend of the Bolton who was in love with Miranda and who 17:16.060 --> 17:20.140 was also seeking on his own initiative to bring matters to a head. 17:20.140 --> 17:29.820 The sour Bolton is forced by realization of his life's utility into bitter self-revelation. 17:29.820 --> 17:32.980 Have a look at me, ladies and gentlemen. 17:32.980 --> 17:41.540 A man who from his youth was bitten and consumed by the desire to get on. 17:41.540 --> 17:43.900 Once he left, he never went back. 17:43.900 --> 17:49.900 The town he was born in, the schools he attended, the college that graduated him, desperately 17:49.900 --> 17:56.100 afraid of all human relationships, of his own and others' emotions, he finally scarred 17:56.100 --> 17:57.100 them all. 17:57.100 --> 18:03.860 Fearful, of course, that they might take from him something of himself. 18:03.860 --> 18:06.860 Vanity, vanity, that's the preacher. 18:06.860 --> 18:08.860 It's not true, you're the merchant. 18:08.860 --> 18:12.500 If you please, madam, no heckling in the court. 18:12.500 --> 18:18.500 No one was allowed any part of this individual but what he chose to give them, never more 18:18.500 --> 18:21.260 than his thoughts and words. 18:21.260 --> 18:29.660 Tangy and pungent at times, perhaps, but still dried-herring, he thought and eventually established 18:29.660 --> 18:33.500 complete residence in the realms of the mind. 18:33.500 --> 18:43.100 His only exchange with others, rigidly intellectual, except perhaps in the case of his daughter. 18:43.100 --> 18:46.340 But that only when she was quite young. 18:46.340 --> 18:54.980 Later, he deliberately allowed her to identify herself with him, fostered this relationship, 18:54.980 --> 18:57.700 until they became almost as one. 18:57.700 --> 18:59.180 So they stopped it all. 18:59.180 --> 19:04.580 Then, when the cruel, inevitable necessity came to break the bond, he stupidly wondered 19:04.580 --> 19:10.060 at the fact that from the vacuum in which he left her, she went on to another, perhaps 19:10.060 --> 19:16.300 less benevolent, desperate, and quite a swar of ruthless and cynical as he. 19:16.300 --> 19:18.020 And two years older. 19:18.020 --> 19:20.020 It's not so, it's not that great at all. 19:20.020 --> 19:23.820 And then, happily it is, if Josiah Bolton had not been in the life where he was, there 19:23.820 --> 19:26.740 would have been no Matthew Aswad or anything like him now. 19:26.740 --> 19:27.740 No, no. 19:27.740 --> 19:29.460 But there it was. 19:29.460 --> 19:37.500 So when he finally cut off everyone around him and at last stood alone, as he thought 19:37.500 --> 19:48.420 he'd always wished to, he imagined what, he found himself lonely with the bleak, cold, 19:48.420 --> 19:53.980 crushing loneliness of the truly prideful one. 19:53.980 --> 19:58.500 The simple capacity for friendship gone. 19:58.500 --> 20:09.660 The human capacity for affection, and finally even the grim capacity for self satisfaction. 20:09.660 --> 20:11.900 And serve him right. 20:11.900 --> 20:13.380 I tell you I won't have it then. 20:13.380 --> 20:14.380 Why not? 20:14.380 --> 20:17.180 Not the world or his time's a blame for it, mind you. 20:17.180 --> 20:24.340 Himself and himself only arrived at last, himself destroyed and his daughter set by him firmly 20:24.340 --> 20:26.580 on the path to the same end. 20:26.580 --> 20:30.300 A fine crowning achievement to a life long struggle. 20:30.300 --> 20:32.180 What do you say? 20:32.180 --> 20:35.180 I say let him rot! 20:35.180 --> 20:37.860 Go on, clear out now both of you. 20:37.860 --> 20:38.860 Leave me alone. 20:38.860 --> 20:39.860 No we'll not, we'll never. 20:39.860 --> 20:41.580 Don't be fearful any more, daughter. 20:41.580 --> 20:43.580 Something else goes in the process. 20:43.580 --> 20:44.580 Courage. 20:44.580 --> 20:46.620 I'm likely to hang on for years. 20:46.620 --> 20:50.580 So while we're facing it squarely at last, let's agree that we are a mistake, ma'am, 20:50.580 --> 20:52.860 shall we, and the accident's purely accidental. 20:52.860 --> 20:53.860 What do you say? 20:53.860 --> 20:54.860 All willing? 20:54.860 --> 20:55.860 No, no. 20:55.860 --> 20:59.860 You're handing me some dirty old world to pull over my own eyes so that I'll stop seeing 20:59.860 --> 21:03.380 what's plain as day and I'll tell you, go on father dear. 21:03.380 --> 21:06.780 Go on out to Arizona and have another try. 21:06.780 --> 21:07.780 Try? 21:07.780 --> 21:12.380 Answer me this, father, for the love of God. 21:12.380 --> 21:15.420 Who is it but yourself that you want to hurt? 21:15.420 --> 21:16.420 Nobody. 21:16.420 --> 21:17.420 You can believe that. 21:17.420 --> 21:21.900 Then on whose doorstep do you plan to leave the body? 21:21.900 --> 21:22.900 That question's irrelevant. 21:22.900 --> 21:23.900 Inadvisible. 21:23.900 --> 21:24.900 It's imaginary. 21:24.900 --> 21:25.900 It's a button, that's where it is. 21:25.900 --> 21:30.420 Maybe you thought you were kidding when you talked about a second threshold. 21:30.420 --> 21:34.180 Maybe there is one, leading into life, not death. 21:34.180 --> 21:36.020 Maybe you haven't the guts to step across. 21:36.020 --> 21:39.020 How dare you talk to my father that way. 21:39.020 --> 21:42.020 He isn't afraid of innocence. 21:42.020 --> 21:49.460 Everyone close to him has let him down and then life's piled up on him to a point where 21:49.460 --> 21:50.460 it's insupportable. 21:50.460 --> 21:54.700 Father, you can do what you like with your life if all yours. 21:54.700 --> 22:01.580 But I'm telling you now, you do that with it and I do the same with mine and straight 22:01.580 --> 22:02.580 off and that's a promise. 22:02.580 --> 22:03.580 That's not what I'm saying. 22:03.580 --> 22:04.580 Believe me, it's a promise. 22:04.580 --> 22:05.580 Manny, let's hear no more of that. 22:05.580 --> 22:13.300 I wouldn't want to at all because of all the awful things about and all the scrapes I get 22:13.300 --> 22:14.300 into. 22:14.300 --> 22:16.300 I love living, I love it. 22:16.300 --> 22:22.260 You know, father, father, only you would again because I love you too. 22:22.260 --> 22:27.980 And I'm so crazy about Toby that I don't know where I'm at. 22:27.980 --> 22:30.620 What did I say? 22:30.620 --> 22:32.260 All the same I do it. 22:32.260 --> 22:35.700 I would, I would, I promise, promise, promise you'll meet. 22:35.700 --> 22:36.700 I hear you. 22:36.700 --> 22:39.300 Then what do you have to say? 22:39.300 --> 22:42.300 What do you want me to do? 22:42.300 --> 22:45.300 What was I asking you? 22:45.300 --> 22:46.300 Begging you. 22:46.300 --> 22:47.300 Get yourself well. 22:47.300 --> 22:48.300 I'll do anything. 22:48.300 --> 22:53.300 Anything you wish. 22:53.300 --> 22:56.180 What do you mean, lady, is that the truth? 22:56.180 --> 23:01.860 For as far as I can see, I mean it. 23:01.860 --> 23:07.540 And what you said about Toby, do you mean that too? 23:07.540 --> 23:12.060 Yes, yes, I guess so. 23:12.060 --> 23:16.340 I guess I'm not responsible for my emotions these days. 23:16.340 --> 23:19.580 Then what are you going to do about it? 23:19.580 --> 23:21.580 I don't know. 23:21.580 --> 23:25.620 Yes, yes I do. 23:25.620 --> 23:27.420 I'm going to sail for England tonight. 23:27.420 --> 23:31.700 Toby, you realize you must bet that I have to go over and explain it myself to Matthew. 23:31.700 --> 23:35.860 There's no telegram, letters, telephones, you do realize. 23:35.860 --> 23:39.460 Being you, yes, but I'd like to see you off. 23:39.460 --> 23:40.460 I'll get a taxi. 23:40.460 --> 23:43.460 Oh, may I come back later, sir? 23:43.460 --> 23:44.460 Yes, of course, I'll be on. 23:44.460 --> 23:51.460 No sentiment between us. 23:51.460 --> 23:54.460 Never was any. 23:54.460 --> 23:57.460 So I can say something, can't I? 23:57.460 --> 23:59.660 If you want to. 23:59.660 --> 24:01.660 I'm sad about what's happened today. 24:01.660 --> 24:05.060 Because you discovered I'm not such a brain after all. 24:05.060 --> 24:07.260 I'm just plain dumb. 24:07.260 --> 24:08.740 No. 24:08.740 --> 24:17.300 I discovered that my daughter doesn't want her father to die. 24:17.300 --> 24:19.980 Now get the devil out of here. 24:19.980 --> 24:22.020 Go on. 24:22.020 --> 24:26.220 Don't keep the cunard line waiting. 24:26.220 --> 24:33.940 Well, they've gone. 24:33.940 --> 24:41.540 Yes, I hear you, old friend. 24:41.540 --> 24:45.700 But I have to tell you that I am not interested. 24:45.700 --> 24:47.540 So go away. 24:47.540 --> 24:50.540 I don't want to around here. 24:50.540 --> 24:53.540 Go away. 24:53.540 --> 24:56.620 Beat it. 24:56.620 --> 25:00.340 Get out. 25:00.340 --> 25:09.140 I'm being harassed. 25:09.140 --> 25:22.260 You should be done Clive Brooke, Margaret Phillips and you, Raleigh. 25:22.260 --> 25:24.700 Margaret Phillips, I want to chat with you first. 25:24.700 --> 25:30.420 Darling, you are one of the best of all us young actresses around today. 25:30.420 --> 25:32.460 Now let me see you insult me after that. 25:32.460 --> 25:35.860 Why, Saloon, I wouldn't dream of insulting you. 25:35.860 --> 25:37.180 Ah, you're sweet. 25:37.180 --> 25:40.220 I think you're just right for that part you play in Second Threshold. 25:40.220 --> 25:44.940 Of course, if I'd played the part, I would have given it more depth and understanding, 25:44.940 --> 25:45.940 you'll be. 25:45.940 --> 25:48.860 Can't you just seem in that part, my dear? 25:48.860 --> 25:49.860 Oh, yes. 25:49.860 --> 25:52.460 The Looner Bankhead in Second Childhood. 25:52.460 --> 25:57.540 Why, does everybody on this program think they have to? 25:57.540 --> 25:58.540 Oh, well. 25:58.540 --> 25:59.540 You, you, Raleigh, come here, darling. 25:59.540 --> 26:00.540 Now don't you start anything. 26:00.540 --> 26:01.540 This is a bad day. 26:01.540 --> 26:02.540 Everybody wants to make trouble for me. 26:02.540 --> 26:03.540 Well, it looks like the cards are just... 26:03.540 --> 26:10.540 May I return the compliment and say that you are too? 26:10.540 --> 26:13.540 Well, thank you, darling. 26:13.540 --> 26:16.540 What are you doing after shows? 26:16.540 --> 26:19.540 What do you have in mind, Tallulah? 26:19.540 --> 26:22.540 Oh, I thought we were playing cards. 26:22.540 --> 26:24.540 We'll talk about it later. 26:24.540 --> 26:25.540 Clive Brooks. 26:25.540 --> 26:28.540 Oh, it's been such a very long time since you've been in our country. 26:28.540 --> 26:30.540 Yes, I made a picture with you, Tallulah. 26:30.540 --> 26:33.540 You remember Tarnished Lady, that was 15 years ago. 26:33.540 --> 26:36.540 I went back to England right after that. 26:36.540 --> 26:37.540 Coward. 26:37.540 --> 26:42.540 Now you're back starring on Broadway. 26:42.540 --> 26:44.540 The play is highly exciting. 26:44.540 --> 26:47.540 That scene you gave us in, from the end of the play. 26:47.540 --> 26:48.540 Now, how did the play begin? 26:48.540 --> 26:53.540 Well, as the curtain rises, Margaret Phillips, who plays my daughter, is talking to the young 26:53.540 --> 26:56.540 doctor, and she tells him she's going to England to get married. 26:56.540 --> 27:00.540 And then Ethel Merman sings, You're Not Sick, You're in Love. 27:00.540 --> 27:03.540 And after that, I make my entrance. 27:03.540 --> 27:04.540 And now, just a moment, Clive. 27:04.540 --> 27:06.540 You say in your play, Ethel Merman sings. 27:06.540 --> 27:08.540 Well, it's not exactly in our play, you see. 27:08.540 --> 27:19.540 We're at the Marasca Theatre, and Miss Merman's at the Imperial Block away, and you know Ethel's voice. 27:19.540 --> 27:20.540 Yes, I do indeed. 27:20.540 --> 27:22.540 Well, I'm glad somebody knows my voice. 27:22.540 --> 27:25.540 When do I get to sing my song on this program? 27:25.540 --> 27:30.540 Ethel, darling, I've explained to you that Margaret Truman is on our program, and she is also a singer. 27:30.540 --> 27:32.540 Now, we must wait till we all meet her. 27:32.540 --> 27:35.540 Well, let's meet her. 27:35.540 --> 27:37.540 You'll all meet in a few moments. 27:37.540 --> 27:38.540 Oh, and Fred, how about you? 27:38.540 --> 27:40.540 Don't you want to see Margaret Truman again? 27:40.540 --> 27:41.540 I certainly do. 27:41.540 --> 27:43.540 I have this envelope here I want to give her. 27:43.540 --> 27:44.540 Oh, really? What's in it? 27:44.540 --> 27:48.540 My taxes. 27:48.540 --> 27:55.540 Maybe, maybe I can save her a little by cutting out the middle man. 27:55.540 --> 27:58.540 The Bells of the Hill are Ringing 28:16.540 --> 28:23.540 This Easter time, the bells of the hill are ringing, ringing once again. 28:23.540 --> 28:31.540 There's a smile on the face of this angel's world that meets this day again. 28:31.540 --> 28:39.540 This Easter time, the fires are very naughty, naughty to a throw. 28:39.540 --> 28:47.540 Why, the folks, what we've been dancing in so long ago. 28:47.540 --> 28:55.540 And there's a basket on the dining room table with bended leaves, each dragged along. 28:55.540 --> 29:04.540 And there's a lily in all its glory, and in the heart. 29:08.540 --> 29:12.540 You've been listening to It's Easter Time, played by Meredith Wilson. 29:12.540 --> 29:14.540 In a moment we will meet Miss Truman. 29:14.540 --> 29:21.540 But first I want to ring my time. 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This is the national broadcasting company, Sunday Extravaganza, 29:46.540 --> 29:49.540 with the most scintillating personalities in show business. 29:49.540 --> 29:54.540 The Big Show, the Sunday night feature of NBC's All-Star Festival, 29:54.540 --> 29:56.540 is brought to you by the makers of Aniston, 29:56.540 --> 30:00.540 for fast relief from the pain of headache, urethra, and uralgia. 30:00.540 --> 30:06.540 By RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television. 30:06.540 --> 30:12.540 And by Chess Review, the cigarette that has for you what every smoker wants, 30:12.540 --> 30:15.540 mildness with no unpleasant aftertaste. 30:15.540 --> 30:18.540 The cigarettes that bring you Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. 30:18.540 --> 30:21.540 The big stars in this program are Fred Allen, Clive Brooks, 30:21.540 --> 30:25.540 Gortman Hopper, Frankie Lane, Edsel Merman, Herb Schreiner, 30:25.540 --> 30:29.540 Margaret Truman, Meredith Wilson, and the Big Show Orchestra in Corinth. 30:29.540 --> 30:52.540 And every week, your hostess, the glamorous, unpredictable, the Lula Bankhead. 30:52.540 --> 30:57.540 Well, darlings, we are about to present a young lady from Independence, Missouri, 30:57.540 --> 31:02.540 Washington, D.C., and the cover of last week's Time Magazine. 31:02.540 --> 31:05.540 Now, Margaret Truman is a bright, talented, lovely girl, 31:05.540 --> 31:09.540 and I didn't begrudge her being on the cover of Time. 31:09.540 --> 31:12.540 Well, I enjoyed reading the articles about her, 31:12.540 --> 31:19.540 but the first they made about her having just become 27 years old. 31:19.540 --> 31:26.540 Well, nobody paid that much attention to me, and I was 27 for years. 31:26.540 --> 31:31.540 Well, in any case, ladies and gentlemen, may I present Miss Margaret Truman. 31:31.540 --> 31:40.540 Hello to Lula. 31:40.540 --> 31:45.540 Well, Margaret, darling, I presented you as simply and unpretentiously as you asked me to. 31:45.540 --> 31:47.540 But I still think you're wrong, you know. 31:47.540 --> 31:49.540 This is such a large theater. 31:49.540 --> 31:53.540 You could have had such an impressive entrance with the big orchestral fanfare 31:53.540 --> 31:57.540 and you riding on top of an elephant. 31:57.540 --> 32:00.540 Are you kidding, Lula? Me on an elephant? 32:00.540 --> 32:08.540 Oh, I'm so sorry. I wasn't thinking. 32:08.540 --> 32:14.540 I would make a mistake like that. I feel like a jackass. 32:14.540 --> 32:17.540 That's more like it. 32:17.540 --> 32:20.540 Margaret, I was just talking about that story in Time Magazine. 32:20.540 --> 32:23.540 It had a lot of warm personal touches that I loved. 32:23.540 --> 32:26.540 For instance, that one episode in your life when you were at school 32:26.540 --> 32:29.540 and you had picked up the habit of calling everybody dearie. 32:29.540 --> 32:32.540 That was a true story, but I was finally cured of the habit. 32:32.540 --> 32:37.540 Yes, the story said your father fined you 10 cents every time you used the word dearie. 32:37.540 --> 32:42.540 Yes, and I was completely cured when it cost me 40 cents in one evening at the dinner table. 32:42.540 --> 32:48.540 That 10-cent fine really works. You should try it, darling. 32:48.540 --> 32:49.540 Try what, darling? 32:49.540 --> 32:51.540 Try breaking yourself of the habit. 32:51.540 --> 32:54.540 Of what habit, darling? 32:54.540 --> 32:55.540 Don't you know? 32:55.540 --> 32:58.540 I don't know what you're talking about, darling. 32:58.540 --> 33:01.540 You used three of them in a row. That would cost you 30 cents. 33:01.540 --> 33:03.540 30 cents for what, darling? 33:03.540 --> 33:04.540 That's 40 cents. 33:04.540 --> 33:07.540 40 cents, darling. I'm talking about you, darling. 33:07.540 --> 33:12.540 The time you were fined 40 cents for saying dearie, darling. 33:12.540 --> 33:17.540 They began introducing you cactus with you rather early, didn't they, darling? 33:17.540 --> 33:23.540 If they'd started with you, darling, we'd have a national surplus today, darling. 33:23.540 --> 33:26.540 Isn't she sweet? 33:26.540 --> 33:34.540 As senior making money, Margaret, the article in Times said you're cleaning up with concerts, radio, and television appearances, RCA records. 33:34.540 --> 33:39.540 By Margaret, you'll be making more money than a President of the United States. 33:39.540 --> 33:47.540 Well, a vocalist always makes more money than the accompanist. 33:47.540 --> 33:51.540 Well, darling, Margaret, what's new in the romance department? 33:51.540 --> 33:54.540 Oh, I haven't time for that now, Tallulah. My career takes up all my time. 33:54.540 --> 33:58.540 I know, but you should have a number of men to choose from. 33:58.540 --> 34:06.540 Because after all, darling, you're charming, festival, attractive, and besides, Margaret, who wouldn't want to marry you? 34:06.540 --> 34:13.540 After all, you are working. 34:13.540 --> 34:17.540 So how come you're still single? 34:17.540 --> 34:20.540 Now look here, Judy Holliday. 34:20.540 --> 34:24.540 Well, after all, Tallulah, let's face it. Why aren't you thinking of marriage? 34:24.540 --> 34:32.540 You're personable, attractive, charming, but after all, you're not getting any richer. 34:32.540 --> 34:35.540 Well, this month is March the 15th, isn't it, darling? 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Aniston is sold to you on this guarantee. 35:15.540 --> 35:24.540 If the first two tablets do not give you all the relief you want as fast as you want it, you may return the unused portion and your money will be refunded. 35:24.540 --> 35:27.540 You can get Aniston tablets at any drug counter. 35:27.540 --> 35:34.540 Aniston comes in handy boxes of 12 and 30 tablets and economical family-sized bottles of 50 and 100. 35:34.540 --> 35:44.540 Well, Margie, what were we saying? 35:44.540 --> 35:49.540 I don't remember, but I would like to say that I'm glad you invited me to be on your show this week. 35:49.540 --> 35:51.540 Ah, Margie, you are sweet. 35:51.540 --> 35:57.540 I can't tell you what a thrill it is to be on a program with a star of such great magnitude. 35:57.540 --> 35:59.540 Ah, Margie, you're sweet. 35:59.540 --> 36:04.540 You know I've always admired Ethel Merman. 36:04.540 --> 36:08.540 Oh, you like Ethel Merman. 36:08.540 --> 36:09.540 Of course, don't you? 36:09.540 --> 36:12.540 Oh, yes, especially, she's simply superb. 36:12.540 --> 36:14.540 Well, aren't you friendly with her? 36:14.540 --> 36:20.540 Well, yes, I thought you could call her friend in a manner of not speaking. 36:20.540 --> 36:22.540 I thought you and Ethel were very close. 36:22.540 --> 36:26.540 She's one of your friends who always says the nicest things about you. 36:26.540 --> 36:29.540 Yes, those are the worst kind, darling. 36:29.540 --> 36:30.540 Well, I like her very much. 36:30.540 --> 36:32.540 You do, huh? 36:32.540 --> 36:34.540 Well, it's all right with me, Margie, don't they? 36:34.540 --> 36:35.540 Only what? 36:35.540 --> 36:44.540 Well, you see, she's a painter and you're a painter, and Ethel told me before the show that she feels it's more important to sing later in the show, and she prefers you to sing first. 36:44.540 --> 36:46.540 Oh, is that all? 36:46.540 --> 36:52.540 Well, Tallulah, it doesn't matter to me who sings first, just so it's Ethel. 36:52.540 --> 36:54.540 Well, you see, that's the problem I'm having this week. 36:54.540 --> 36:57.540 Well, say, Tallulah, perhaps I can help solve your problem. 36:57.540 --> 36:58.540 Oh, very good, darling. 36:58.540 --> 37:00.540 Come here, Margaret, you remember Fred Allen. 37:00.540 --> 37:01.540 Of course, hello, Fred. 37:01.540 --> 37:03.540 Well, how do you do, Margaret? 37:03.540 --> 37:05.540 It's so nice to see you again. 37:05.540 --> 37:09.540 How is everybody at home? 37:09.540 --> 37:11.540 Oh, they're away on a short vacation down in Key West. 37:11.540 --> 37:12.540 Oh, that's nice. 37:12.540 --> 37:14.540 And how is the good old Veep? 37:14.540 --> 37:15.540 I think he's away, too. 37:15.540 --> 37:19.540 Really? And you're spending most of your time here in New York? 37:19.540 --> 37:20.540 That's right, Fred. 37:20.540 --> 37:30.540 Well, who's minding the store? 37:30.540 --> 37:34.540 Fred, wasn't that something you wanted to ask Margaret to do for you? That envelope you wanted to have? 37:34.540 --> 37:42.540 Oh, yes, the envelope. Here it is. Margaret, would you get back home to Washington? I wonder if you'd mind dropping this off at the Bureau of Internal Revenue? 37:42.540 --> 37:44.540 What is it? Is it your income tax? 37:44.540 --> 37:51.540 No, it's my income. I can't afford the tax. 37:51.540 --> 37:59.540 And by the way, I'd appreciate it if you'd explain to the man there about a little item they may question here on my tax. 37:59.540 --> 38:08.540 I've listed $42,552.20 under entertainment. That's when I was doing my television show. 38:08.540 --> 38:10.540 Well, was it really entertainment? 38:10.540 --> 38:14.540 Well, Margaret, that's another question. 38:14.540 --> 38:17.540 Well, television is still in its infancy, isn't it, Fred? 38:17.540 --> 38:27.540 No, it was in its infancy about two years ago. But it's grown up now and has reached the walking stage. More people are getting up and walking away from it. 38:27.540 --> 38:35.540 Fred, can we get back to our original subject, darling? You said something about solving my problem. Now, having to sing it like Ethel Merman and Margaret Truman on the show. 38:35.540 --> 38:50.540 Oh, yes. Well, from what I heard, neither Ethel nor Margaret wants to sing first. Well, I have a young lady here who will sing first. She's waiting off stage here now. And with a little persuasion, I can keep her off stage. 38:50.540 --> 38:52.540 Mr. Allen. 38:52.540 --> 38:53.540 Too late. 38:53.540 --> 38:59.540 Portland, how about it? 38:59.540 --> 39:02.540 Portland, have you met Margaret? 39:02.540 --> 39:06.540 Portland, this is the Margaret, the daughter of, you know who. 39:06.540 --> 39:13.540 Oh, I'm pleased to meet you, Your Highness. And how is your sister? 39:13.540 --> 39:19.540 Hello, Portland. In the first place, don't call me Your Highness. In the second place, I have no sister. 39:19.540 --> 39:31.540 Well, doesn't Princess Margaret have a sister named Elizabeth? And she has a son named Charles. Aren't you Charlie's aunt? 39:31.540 --> 39:36.540 Darling, you're thinking of Ray Bolger. 39:36.540 --> 39:40.540 Ray Bolger is her sister? 39:40.540 --> 39:43.540 Portland, this is Margaret Truman. 39:43.540 --> 39:46.540 Oh, Margaret Truman, the singer. 39:46.540 --> 39:48.540 That's right, Portland. 39:48.540 --> 40:09.540 Oh, I've enjoyed your singing many times, and I've always wanted to meet you. Mama said if I ever met you, to find out all about you. Where you come from, who your folks are, how you got started, and if anybody in your family was ever in show business. 40:09.540 --> 40:11.540 No, I'm the only one in show business. 40:11.540 --> 40:18.540 Really? How does it feel to be the first one in your family to become famous? 40:18.540 --> 40:23.540 Fred, can't you do something about this? What about this song you said you were going to sing? 40:23.540 --> 40:28.540 Well, I guess the only way to keep Portland quiet is to let her sing. Portland, are you ready to sing? 40:28.540 --> 40:29.540 Now? 40:29.540 --> 40:33.540 Yes, portrait, now. We want somebody to sing and break the ice. 40:33.540 --> 40:52.540 Well, this will break something. You better take off your glasses, Tallulah, and put them away. Hide them someplace. Portland, okay, Portland, you see, I have my banjo on my knee. It plays underwater. I have a small pontoon on it underneath. Shall we try it? 40:52.540 --> 40:53.540 What are you going to play, Fred? 40:53.540 --> 41:11.540 Well, I am going to play by a request, really a request. The party since died, but in his will. I am going to play an old song, Sweet Marie, on my banjo. And Portland will sing a reasonable facsimile of it. 41:11.540 --> 41:28.540 Now, this may be a momentous evening. This may be the end of radio and the end of all music as we know it today. 41:28.540 --> 41:42.540 I've a secret in my heart, Sweet Marie. It's a tale I would in part love to be. 41:42.540 --> 41:59.540 Every day the imbecile knows my secret, knows it well. Still I do not dare to tell, Sweet Marie. 41:59.540 --> 42:15.540 Come to me, Sweet Marie, Sweet Marie, come to me. Not before your face is fair, love, you see. 42:15.540 --> 42:33.540 But your soul so pure and sweet, makes my happiness complete. Makes me fall her at your feet, Sweet Marie. 42:45.540 --> 43:04.540 Here's a word from RCA Victor. Inch for inch, your best buy in television is RCA Victor 19-inch. Yes, a great many families have taken this advice to heart and bought the thrilling RCA Victor 19-inch. 43:04.540 --> 43:16.540 Truly the most exciting buy in television. When you buy television, remember that the set you choose will be the very hub of your home for years to come. So select the screen size you really want most. 43:16.540 --> 43:29.540 The bigger and better RCA Victor 19-inch pictures are the just right size for family viewing. 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Canola that was Call Me Mister. 44:36.540 --> 44:50.540 Oh yes. Ethel, I've enjoyed you in many of the plays you've done. I saw you in Antigua at your concert several times. That's been four years didn't it? No Margaret, two years. Oh, only half a term. 44:50.540 --> 45:02.540 But even so, singing as exuberantly as you do every night for two years. I wish I had your lungs. Don't mention that back in Washington. They've taken everything else I've got. 45:02.540 --> 45:14.540 Special exhale tax note up. By the way Margaret, I was in Washington a few weeks ago and I tried calling you at the White House but there was no answer. Oh you should have tried the Blair House. They would have called me to the phone. 45:14.540 --> 45:27.540 The Blair House? What's that darling, a candy store? How's everybody back home Margaret? They're fine thank you. How's your family? How are your two children, that cute little girl and that bright little boy? Oh Ethel and Bobby are wonderful. 45:27.540 --> 45:41.540 And Margaret, I trust you won't think I'm being the typical doting American mother when I tell you that I hope someday my son will grow up to be President of United States Seals. 45:41.540 --> 45:53.540 Now look darling, it's all very well to have you two girls standing here blabbering but I think it's time for a song. Oh good, go ahead Ethel, sing something. Oh no you sing Margaret, my song can wait. Oh but I'm sure everyone's waiting to hear you sing. 45:53.540 --> 46:00.540 It's very kind of you to say that but I know they're anxious to hear you sing. Oh no, they want to hear you. Oh I'm sure they want to hear you. 46:00.540 --> 46:22.540 Margaret, I'll sing. Oh no, they can't hear you. Don't bother Ethel, I'll sing. I'm already darling. I don't care who sings as long as it's one of us. Listen to the mockingbird. Listen to the mockingbird. Oh no, no Ethel. Everybody let's have a little quiet here. If it's going to be like that, I'm calling on Frankie Lane. 46:30.540 --> 46:37.540 And the song that Frankie is going to sing is the sixth record made out of flunkers. 47:00.540 --> 47:03.540 Oh 47:07.540 --> 47:10.540 That's where I swan 47:14.540 --> 47:17.540 Where the sunlight 47:18.540 --> 47:20.540 Never wanders 47:22.540 --> 47:25.540 And the moonlight 47:25.540 --> 47:29.540 Never falls 47:30.540 --> 47:33.540 Where the waters black 47:34.540 --> 47:37.540 With the devil's track 47:38.540 --> 47:43.540 That's where my swan girl calls 47:44.540 --> 47:47.540 What did she do with the girl with the golden hair 47:47.540 --> 47:50.540 To make the following day down her bed 47:50.540 --> 47:55.540 How did she look when she quickly by the hand 47:56.540 --> 47:59.540 Tonight her hair will float in the water 47:59.540 --> 48:02.540 And the gold will no longer shine 48:02.540 --> 48:05.540 It will spread like a fan in the water 48:05.540 --> 48:08.540 While she makes a mysterious sign 48:08.540 --> 48:13.540 I have seen that sign before 48:15.540 --> 48:19.540 Her eyes on light 48:19.540 --> 48:22.540 Wibble with 48:23.540 --> 48:29.540 And her eyes are like the fall 48:30.540 --> 48:35.540 Her eyes are just like 48:35.540 --> 48:38.540 The diamond back 48:39.540 --> 48:43.540 Stretching in the dawn 48:43.540 --> 48:46.540 I have seen her face in the water 48:46.540 --> 48:49.540 And the killing look in her eyes 48:49.540 --> 48:52.540 And if you see her then you must leave her 48:52.540 --> 48:55.540 Never follow the losing light 48:55.540 --> 48:58.540 Oh will you go to the girl with the golden hair 48:58.540 --> 49:01.540 Down there where her work is done 49:01.540 --> 49:06.540 Will you embrace the night and turn your back on the sun 49:07.540 --> 49:10.540 You'll say it's better there in the water 49:10.540 --> 49:13.540 Where the cool and calm and serene 49:13.540 --> 49:16.540 She will call you to come to the water 49:16.540 --> 49:19.540 To a world made of emerald green 49:19.540 --> 49:24.540 I have heard that call before 49:26.540 --> 49:32.540 I can hear it when I'm in 49:33.540 --> 49:39.540 I can hear it when I'm in 49:39.540 --> 49:44.540 I can hear it when 49:45.540 --> 49:48.540 The joy of living 49:48.540 --> 49:54.540 Seems to have lost its thrill 49:54.540 --> 50:01.540 For my daughter lives inside of me 50:01.540 --> 50:09.540 And she leaves me fell in love 50:09.540 --> 50:12.540 She dares me 50:12.540 --> 50:17.540 She tears me 50:17.540 --> 50:22.540 Like a paper doll's dark soul 50:23.540 --> 50:25.540 Calling come to the deep 50:25.540 --> 50:29.540 Where your sleep is without 50:29.540 --> 50:32.540 A dream 50:34.540 --> 50:37.540 Calling 50:37.540 --> 50:43.540 Calling 50:43.540 --> 51:03.540 For me 51:06.540 --> 51:10.540 Judith B. Donne-Tanking, I don't go away darling, I want to meet Margaret. 51:10.540 --> 51:14.540 But first let's meet and greet Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. 51:14.540 --> 51:17.540 Now here's Chesterfield's answer to Cyrano de Bergerac, Bob Hope. 51:17.540 --> 51:20.540 I'd top easy dad, but we only have a minute here to sell Chesterfield. 51:20.540 --> 51:21.540 Okay, well let's get to it. 51:21.540 --> 51:27.540 Better tasting Chesterfield is the only cigarette that combines for you mildness with no unpleasant aftertaste. 51:27.540 --> 51:31.540 The mildness is cinched to prove. 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Reasons go together like this. 51:47.540 --> 51:51.540 Chesterfield, Chesterfield always takes first place. 51:51.540 --> 51:54.540 That's milder than mine, so that's gonna never leave an aftertaste. 51:54.540 --> 51:57.540 Bob Hope, open the pack and give them a smell. 51:57.540 --> 51:59.540 Then you'll smoke them. 52:05.540 --> 52:07.540 Hey Frankie, come here, will you please darling? 52:07.540 --> 52:08.540 Hi, it's the Lula. 52:08.540 --> 52:10.540 I'm gonna have you meet Martha Coomer in a minute. 52:10.540 --> 52:14.540 You might be able to help her, you know. She's making records for R.J. Victor. 52:14.540 --> 52:17.540 You've been pretty successful with your records, haven't you Frankie? 52:17.540 --> 52:20.540 Well, let's just say that we've been pretty lucky. 52:20.540 --> 52:23.540 We've made some records though that have sold over a million copies. 52:23.540 --> 52:28.540 Yes, I know. You make those long selling records. 52:28.540 --> 52:33.540 But what I come to the stand is where you find the time to make all those millions of records. 52:33.540 --> 52:35.540 Each one must take at least three minutes. 52:35.540 --> 52:38.540 No, darling, you don't understand. 52:38.540 --> 52:43.540 We only make the actual record once and then they make presses from the master record. 52:43.540 --> 52:46.540 Oh, then your records are just copies. 52:46.540 --> 52:47.540 Yeah, naturally. 52:47.540 --> 52:54.540 Oh, well, I've made records you know, but I wouldn't make copies. 52:54.540 --> 52:56.540 Each one is an original. 52:56.540 --> 52:58.540 Now just what do you mean? 52:58.540 --> 53:06.540 Well, whenever they get an order for a record, they call me up and I come down and make one. 53:06.540 --> 53:09.540 Well, I had an order for one about six weeks ago. 53:09.540 --> 53:10.540 You did? 53:10.540 --> 53:15.540 I forgot now which one it was though. It was either I'll be seeing you or you go to my head. 53:15.540 --> 53:20.540 Well, it doesn't matter because fortunately they're both the same melody. 53:20.540 --> 53:22.540 Mr. Lula, I'd like to meet Frankie Lay. 53:22.540 --> 53:26.540 Well, of course, Margaret. Come here. Miss Coomer, may I present Mr. Lay? 53:26.540 --> 53:27.540 How do you do? 53:27.540 --> 53:29.540 Gee, Miss Truman, this is an honor. 53:29.540 --> 53:32.540 Margaret, I thought Frankie could tell you something about making records. 53:32.540 --> 53:33.540 Oh, I wish he would. 53:33.540 --> 53:40.540 Well, Miss Truman, I've always found that the best way to make successful records is to make only hits. 53:40.540 --> 53:42.540 That'd be help. 53:42.540 --> 53:46.540 Frankie, why don't you tell her about the actual way to record? 53:46.540 --> 53:51.540 All right. Tell me, are you going to record at 45 or 78, Miss Truman? 53:51.540 --> 53:54.540 Well, you've got me stumped already. 53:54.540 --> 53:59.540 Then that makes it even. I stumped for you in 1948. 53:59.540 --> 54:04.540 Frankie, what do you mean 45 or 78? 54:04.540 --> 54:08.540 Well, you know, revolutions per minute. 45 revolutions per minute or 78 revolutions. 54:08.540 --> 54:13.540 To Lula, you've made some records. Which are you, 45 or 78? 54:13.540 --> 54:18.540 Oh, I'm 45. 54:18.540 --> 54:21.540 You said it to the wagon. 54:21.540 --> 54:27.540 Ethel, we are not... we're talking about records. Something you know nothing about. 54:27.540 --> 54:31.540 Oh, I know nothing about records. You mean you haven't heard any of my records? 54:31.540 --> 54:37.540 I didn't know you had to record. I thought people just opened their windows. 54:37.540 --> 54:43.540 One song of yours I just love, Ethel. This one you did in a picture. Alexander's Ragtime Band. Would you do it for me? 54:43.540 --> 54:46.540 I'd be glad to. Ladies and gentlemen, I will now sing... 54:46.540 --> 54:52.540 One moment, Buster. A bankhead is still the speaker of this house. 54:52.540 --> 55:01.540 I will introduce you. Ladies and gentlemen, the exciting voice of Miss Ethel Merman in Alexander's Ragtime Band. 55:01.540 --> 55:16.540 Come on and hear, come on and hear, Alexander's Ragtime Band. 55:16.540 --> 55:21.540 Come on and hear, come on and hear, it's the best band in the land. 55:21.540 --> 55:27.540 They can play a bucacore like you never heard before. So natural that you want to go to war. 55:27.540 --> 55:34.540 That's just the bestest band what I am. Oh, what I am. Come on along, come on along. 55:34.540 --> 55:42.540 Let me take you by the hand. Up to the man, up to the man, who's the leader of the band. 55:42.540 --> 55:53.540 And if you can't hear the Swanee River, ladies, ragtime. Come on and hear, come on and hear, Alexander's Ragtime Band. 55:53.540 --> 56:10.540 Oh, my honey, oh, my honey, better hurry and let me enter. Ain't you going, ain't you going, to the leader man, rag and meter man. 56:10.540 --> 56:18.540 Oh, my honey, oh, my honey, let me take you to Alexander's Ragtime Band. 56:18.540 --> 56:25.540 Ain't you coming along, come on along, come on and hear, it's the best band in the land. 56:25.540 --> 56:31.540 Come on and hear, come on and hear, Alexander's Ragtime Band. 56:31.540 --> 56:42.540 Come on and hear, come on and hear, it's the best band in the land. They can play a bucacore like you never heard before. 56:42.540 --> 56:52.540 That's just the bestest band, what am I? Come on along, come on along. Let me take you by the hand. 56:52.540 --> 57:02.540 Up to the man, up to the man, who's the leader of the band. And if you can't hear the Swanee River, ladies, ragtime. 57:02.540 --> 57:13.540 Come on and hear, come on and hear, Alexander's Ragtime Band. 57:33.540 --> 57:38.540 Well, thank you at the moment and better luck next time. 57:38.540 --> 57:44.540 That's what it says here. But I want to say that you were as usual superb. 57:44.540 --> 57:49.540 And we want to hear some more singing from you later on. We also are going to hear Margaret Truman's songs. 57:49.540 --> 57:56.540 And we have a very funny fellow in Herb Shiner coming up and a beautiful medley, all in just a moment after Ed's telling he says, 57:56.540 --> 58:03.540 This portion of the program has been brought to you by the makers of Anison for fast relief from the pain of headache, neuritis and neuralgia. 58:03.540 --> 58:08.540 And by RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television. 58:08.540 --> 58:16.540 And by Chesterfield, the cigarette that has for you what every smoker wants, mildness with no unpleasant aftertaste. 58:16.540 --> 58:21.540 The best cigarette for you to smoke. Now, Tallulah, if you'll bring your chimes. 58:21.540 --> 58:26.540 Of course. This, darlings, is NBC, the national broadcasting company. 58:31.540 --> 58:36.540 And Tallulah Bankhead is about to introduce Miss Margaret Truman's song. 58:36.540 --> 58:40.540 Yes, darlings, this is the moment you've all been waiting for, I'm sure. We're about to hear... 58:40.540 --> 58:41.540 Oh, Miss Bankhead. 58:41.540 --> 58:54.540 Oh, yes, Herb. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, this is that fellow from Indiana, the very clever Herb Shiner. 58:54.540 --> 58:58.540 I'll be getting you in just a moment, Herb, and Miss Truman's going to sing now. 58:58.540 --> 59:01.540 That's all right with me. I hope she sings something classical. 59:01.540 --> 59:03.540 Have you got any classical music back home? 59:03.540 --> 59:05.540 No, we don't get any of that. 59:05.540 --> 59:06.540 How about opera? 59:06.540 --> 59:11.540 No, we don't get any opera. We get quite a bit of snow, though. 59:11.540 --> 59:16.540 Well, I'm sure that must be fun, dear. But what I'm talking about are the finer things, 59:16.540 --> 59:20.540 like the legitimate theater, the drama, the amorphous works of the great playwright. 59:20.540 --> 59:22.540 Have you ever get any Shakespeare in your hometown? 59:22.540 --> 59:26.540 Well, I'll tell you, Miss Bankhead, we had one Shakespeare company come there one time, 59:26.540 --> 59:32.540 and they put on this here Romeo and Juliet, but nobody went. 59:32.540 --> 59:37.540 You see, the Boy Scouts had put on the very same show once, and what's used to go, 59:37.540 --> 59:41.540 we all knew how the story come out. 59:41.540 --> 59:45.540 But I'd like to apologize for the way I'm dressed here, by the way. 59:45.540 --> 59:49.540 If I'd known I was going to meet Miss Truman, I'd have sent home a good suit. 59:49.540 --> 59:52.540 Oh, what's wrong with the suit you're having on? 59:52.540 --> 59:55.540 Oh, it's all right. A fellow made it for me back home. 59:55.540 --> 01:00:01.540 The fellow's very handy with the needle back there. He's a sailmaker. 01:00:01.540 --> 01:00:04.540 He makes a pretty good suit. The only trouble is if you get caught in the high wind, 01:00:04.540 --> 01:00:07.540 you don't know what time you're going to get home. 01:00:07.540 --> 01:00:09.540 So we'll discuss that a little later, Herb. 01:00:09.540 --> 01:00:16.540 Okay. I'll just go over here and step there and think. Maybe I'll just step. I already thought so. 01:00:16.540 --> 01:00:24.540 Well, you decide which end to use. 01:00:24.540 --> 01:00:29.540 Enjoy yourself, darling. Meanwhile, here she is, ladies and gentlemen, Margaret Truman singing 01:00:29.540 --> 01:00:31.540 Love is Where You Find It. 01:00:31.540 --> 01:00:33.540 Mary is in phase, darling. 01:00:33.540 --> 01:01:01.540 Music 01:01:01.540 --> 01:01:08.540 Spring love comes upon you, and it's gone, you feel it there. 01:01:08.540 --> 01:01:15.540 Soon, though, in the moon, though, you'll find that a new love is free. 01:01:15.540 --> 01:01:24.540 Love is where you find it. This is our need. We'll be waiting everywhere. 01:01:24.540 --> 01:01:38.540 It may hide from you for a while. It may come tonight in a storm. 01:01:38.540 --> 01:02:01.540 Soon, though, in the moon, though, you'll find that a new love is free. 01:02:01.540 --> 01:02:18.540 Spring love comes upon you, and it's gone, you feel it there. 01:02:18.540 --> 01:02:25.540 Soon, though, in the moon, though, you'll find that a new love is free. 01:02:25.540 --> 01:02:46.540 Love is where you find it. Don't be blind. It's all around you everywhere. 01:02:46.540 --> 01:02:58.540 It may hide from you for a while. 01:02:58.540 --> 01:03:18.540 Applause 01:03:18.540 --> 01:03:22.540 Brother Margaret Truman Brummer, darling, you have a wonderful voice tonight. 01:03:22.540 --> 01:03:23.540 Thank you, Tallulah. 01:03:23.540 --> 01:03:25.540 Oh, Margaret, I'd like you to meet Herb Shriner. 01:03:25.540 --> 01:03:28.540 Oh, how do you do, Mr. Shriner? I understand you're from Indiana. 01:03:28.540 --> 01:03:35.540 That's right, Indiana. Thirteen electoral votes. 01:03:35.540 --> 01:03:39.540 I sure enjoyed the song, Miss Truman. That's the name, ain't it? 01:03:39.540 --> 01:03:42.540 Just wanted to be sure. You've got some swell voice on you. 01:03:42.540 --> 01:03:44.540 Oh, you like classical music? 01:03:44.540 --> 01:03:51.540 Oh, I love it. I'm kind of musical myself, you know. I used to play the harmonica and the note and everything, you know. 01:03:51.540 --> 01:03:58.540 And I was always interested in the classical stuff myself. I mean, if a number wasn't classical, I wouldn't mess with it. 01:03:58.540 --> 01:04:02.540 In fact, one of my best tunes I used to play was something like the one you just sang. 01:04:02.540 --> 01:04:12.540 It was one, of course, that came from way back in the days there with King Louis the XIII. 01:04:12.540 --> 01:04:18.540 It was actually very classical, this number. I'll tell you the truth. Harmonica playing is a funny thing. 01:04:18.540 --> 01:04:26.540 I was always kind of crazy about show business anyways. And around home there, the harmonica kind of kept me going. 01:04:26.540 --> 01:04:30.540 I was always kind of anxious to get into some kind of a show. I was in a small show there once. 01:04:30.540 --> 01:04:37.540 We had a me and another fellow got into this. We worked in a drugstore window with our show. 01:04:37.540 --> 01:04:44.540 And he was very good. He was dressed up like a doctor. And I was the other fellow. I was barefooted. 01:04:44.540 --> 01:04:51.540 And we were going along pretty good. And then my corn healed up and I had to quit. 01:04:51.540 --> 01:04:57.540 It was kind of a crimpiness. But it's very hard to get started in the show business in a small town. 01:04:57.540 --> 01:05:03.540 Mr. Mankat, I was just thinking, you know, we only had actually one fellow that ever got on the stage from around home there. 01:05:03.540 --> 01:05:10.540 He was actually cut out for it. He was a very, kind of a nice wit on him. 01:05:10.540 --> 01:05:17.540 And actually he was a genius and he was very smart too. He was one of these fellows. 01:05:17.540 --> 01:05:23.540 Kind of a smart genius. The only one I ever run across. And he was no dummy either, I'll tell you that. 01:05:23.540 --> 01:05:30.540 Some of the stuff, some of the stuff that fellow had come out with, I remember one particular night, 01:05:30.540 --> 01:05:35.540 a bunch of us, we was down in front of the feed store and we weren't doing nothing. 01:05:35.540 --> 01:05:41.540 And we'd been at it for about a week. We were trying to get it finished, you know. 01:05:41.540 --> 01:05:48.540 And he pulled a good one on us. He walks up and he says, long time no see. 01:05:48.540 --> 01:06:01.540 Well, we laughed quite a while over that. I don't know where he'd get them. He had a lot of those things. 01:06:01.540 --> 01:06:05.540 Oh, what a sense of humor he had. I'll tell you, I don't know. Of course, he had traveled. 01:06:05.540 --> 01:06:13.540 He was one of these fellows. He'd been everywhere. He'd been up to Michigan there once and got back all right, you know. 01:06:13.540 --> 01:06:19.540 And he knew his way around and he used to read. He read all the time. He was a regular bookworm. 01:06:19.540 --> 01:06:25.540 He got the proper mechanic every month. Anything new come out, he'd get it too. 01:06:25.540 --> 01:06:31.540 Just as quick as a trigger. He had this, well, you take when the hot foot come out. 01:06:31.540 --> 01:06:35.540 He was the first one in town to send away for the directions. 01:06:35.540 --> 01:06:39.540 He's just as quick. And I tell you, he had, I believe without exaggerating the spank, 01:06:39.540 --> 01:06:44.540 he had one of the best personalities that I've ever run across. He got it from drinking too. 01:06:44.540 --> 01:06:49.540 It was the darnest thing I've ever seen. 01:06:49.540 --> 01:06:55.540 He did. He was drunk in a skunk quite a bit and it just seemed to, it kind of set him off. 01:06:55.540 --> 01:07:06.540 And in fact, it put him over. I'll tell you what he did. He got into this big club from the east here, this alcoholic unanimous. 01:07:06.540 --> 01:07:11.540 Well, he was way up in that. I don't know how far up there he was. 01:07:11.540 --> 01:07:21.540 In fact, I tell you, he was a mail order member. He didn't even go to the meetings he used to drink and send in the empty bottles. 01:07:21.540 --> 01:07:24.540 They'd give him credit. 01:07:24.540 --> 01:07:29.540 But he was a very nice fellow and you'd never look, when you first take a look at that fellow, 01:07:29.540 --> 01:07:35.540 you wouldn't think that he had the whiff on him that he had. When he first come to town, he'd just been kind of a stranger there. 01:07:35.540 --> 01:07:41.540 He'd been a traveling fellow selling lightning rods. He was going along swell. 01:07:41.540 --> 01:07:48.540 Then one night he got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples. I don't know. 01:07:48.540 --> 01:07:53.540 He just kind of lost interest in it. 01:07:53.540 --> 01:07:59.540 He wanted to stay there in town. He couldn't get started. He didn't know what exactly to do. 01:07:59.540 --> 01:08:05.540 He just tried everything. He was selling busted cookies there for a while, you know. 01:08:05.540 --> 01:08:10.540 He was weeding onions and delivering sheep dip, anything he could to get going. 01:08:10.540 --> 01:08:15.540 Finally, he got a little bit better known and people got to kind of liking him. 01:08:15.540 --> 01:08:24.540 He was doing odd jobs, just getting known, people letting him do little jobs like if they had a cat up a tree. 01:08:24.540 --> 01:08:29.540 He climbed up there and get the cat and they'd usually give him something for it, of course. 01:08:29.540 --> 01:08:35.540 And they'd usually give him the cat anyway. 01:08:35.540 --> 01:08:40.540 Well, just when he was getting kind of discouraged, he wasn't going to make any anything or get any wheres. 01:08:40.540 --> 01:08:47.540 Overnight, he'd become a huge success in one afternoon. It was a very odd thing. 01:08:47.540 --> 01:08:56.540 He found a nickel in a potato. That put him over. It was in a regular live potato, a living potato. 01:08:56.540 --> 01:09:01.540 Right in there, he had it cut open so he could see the nickel. And that thing put him over. 01:09:01.540 --> 01:09:09.540 Well, his name was in the paper every day for a week. The paper only come out once a week, but he is in there. 01:09:09.540 --> 01:09:17.540 And on the strength of that, he started acting very important. He had some cards printed. 01:09:17.540 --> 01:09:25.540 Sunday afternoon, people would come around the front of the house, you know, and drive up there and sell balloons and everything. 01:09:25.540 --> 01:09:35.540 They'd stand around out there in front and they'd say, there he is. And he was, too. 01:09:35.540 --> 01:09:41.540 He was very slick. And he seen he had a good thing there. And the very day that he really got going, 01:09:41.540 --> 01:09:50.540 they sent some fellows out from New York, a couple of radio fellows. They was going to, I think there was some, we the people people, I believe it was. 01:09:50.540 --> 01:09:59.540 They come out, they was going to put him on the radio. At the time, we didn't have no television. We were still trying to get something good on the radio. 01:09:59.540 --> 01:10:06.540 These two fellows were going to put him on. And the very day he was getting interviewed, his potato disappeared. 01:10:06.540 --> 01:10:11.540 And the nickel in there and everything, he was just wiped out. It was just, uh, 01:10:11.540 --> 01:10:15.540 clean him out. He went down to nothing overnight and it just broke his heart. 01:10:15.540 --> 01:10:21.540 And, uh, I don't know, a bunch of us friends of his tried to help him make a comeback. We did what we could there. 01:10:21.540 --> 01:10:27.540 We looked through potatoes. I don't know, I guess I looked through about two bushels of potatoes myself. 01:10:27.540 --> 01:10:37.540 But we never found another potato with a nickel in it. It was just luck or something. We, uh, we found one with three cents in it. I remember that. 01:10:37.540 --> 01:10:43.540 And one of the other boys found a potato with a landing button in there, but it just never hit it again. 01:10:43.540 --> 01:10:49.540 It was a terrible shame. And that's the thing about show business. I was trying to say, Miss Bankett, is it's a very peculiar thing. 01:10:49.540 --> 01:10:57.540 In fact, there was a great philosopher who once said something about it. I can't think of the philosopher's name right off hand. 01:10:57.540 --> 01:11:01.540 I can't think what he said, neither now. But I tell you, it hit the nail on the head. 01:11:01.540 --> 01:11:07.540 But I can't, uh, I can't talk too much more about show business, but I think I'm going to simmer down now. I'm going to go back and sit. 01:11:07.540 --> 01:11:27.540 Okay? 01:11:27.540 --> 01:11:33.540 Herb Sarner, that was like a breath of fresh Indiana air. You must come again very soon. 01:11:33.540 --> 01:11:39.540 And now we offer a salute to one of the greatest songwriters America has ever known. 01:11:39.540 --> 01:11:43.540 That naturally would be the beloved Irving Berlin. 01:11:43.540 --> 01:11:56.540 So Melody Wilson, the big show choralist and orchestra, joins Ethel Merman, Margaret Truman, Frankie Lane, Fred Allen, and myself in a medley of the songs America Sings and Loves. 01:11:56.540 --> 01:12:21.540 There's no business like show business, like no business I know. 01:12:21.540 --> 01:12:29.540 Everything about it is appealing, everything that's graphic will allow. 01:12:29.540 --> 01:12:36.540 Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that extra bow. 01:12:36.540 --> 01:12:44.540 There's no people like show people, they smile when they are low. 01:12:44.540 --> 01:12:52.540 Yesterday they told you you would not go far. That night you opened and there you are. 01:12:52.540 --> 01:13:15.540 Next day on your dressing room, play under star, let's go on with the show. 01:13:15.540 --> 01:13:31.540 In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you'll be the grandest play in the Easter parade. 01:13:31.540 --> 01:13:55.540 Oh, I can ride a bonnet, or bow to your Easter bonnet, and love the girl that's waiting through the Easter parade. 01:13:55.540 --> 01:14:08.540 He's a devil, he's a devil, he's a devil in his own own crown. On the level, on the level, he's as funny as a clown. 01:14:08.540 --> 01:14:16.540 Down at the fair, with all the other hackers he'll receive first prize for playing characters that he cheated. 01:14:16.540 --> 01:14:26.540 Can you beat it? He's a devil in his own own crown. 01:14:26.540 --> 01:14:38.540 Blue sky, smiling at me. Nothing but blue sky, what do I see? 01:14:38.540 --> 01:14:51.540 Bluebirds in a song, nothing but bluebirds all day long. 01:14:51.540 --> 01:14:57.540 I never saw the sun shining so bright, I never saw things going so right. 01:14:57.540 --> 01:15:02.800 No, the 01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:16.540 blue days are gone, nothing but blue skies from now on. 01:15:16.540 --> 01:15:43.540 Remember the night, the night you said I love you. 01:15:43.540 --> 01:15:57.540 Remember, remember you vied by all the stars above you. 01:15:57.540 --> 01:16:17.540 Remember, remember I saw the one with stars, and after I'd lived to see her alive. 01:16:17.540 --> 01:16:40.540 You promised that you'd forget me not, but you forgot to remember. 01:16:40.540 --> 01:17:00.540 My dream of a white Christmas, with every Christmas card I write. 01:17:00.540 --> 01:17:26.540 May your day be merry and bright, and may all your Christmas bells ring. 01:17:26.540 --> 01:17:40.540 You don't need analyzing, it is not so surprising that you feel very strange at night. 01:17:40.540 --> 01:17:52.540 Your heart goes in a manner, I know just what's the matter, because I've been there once or twice. 01:17:52.540 --> 01:18:03.540 Put your head on my shoulder, and you'll see someone who's older, and I'll love you more than ever. 01:18:03.540 --> 01:18:31.540 There is nothing you can't do to relieve that pleasant ache, you're gonna take your chance in love. 01:18:33.540 --> 01:18:55.540 Played with music, beautiful music, somehow they'd rather be kissed through the strings of so many. 01:18:55.540 --> 01:19:16.540 A melody, melody, played on a cello, helps me stop you playing along, so say it with a beautiful song. 01:19:25.540 --> 01:19:53.540 A melody, melody, played on a cello, helps me stop you playing along, so say it with a beautiful song. 01:19:53.540 --> 01:20:20.540 A melody, melody, played on a cello, helps me stop you playing along, so say it with a beautiful song. 01:20:20.540 --> 01:20:47.540 A melody, melody, played on a cello, helps me stop you playing along, so say it with a beautiful song. 01:20:47.540 --> 01:21:04.540 A melody, melody, played on a cello, helps me stop you playing along, so say it with a beautiful song. 01:21:04.540 --> 01:21:31.540 A melody, melody, played on a cello. 01:21:31.540 --> 01:21:34.540 Well, what a genius that man Irving was. 01:21:34.540 --> 01:21:38.540 I'll say amen to that, Tallulah, and look, if you don't need me anymore, do you mind if I leave now? 01:21:38.540 --> 01:21:42.540 Oh, go right ahead, Ethel. Oh, by the way, say hello to Russell Knight for me, will you, Frutie? 01:21:42.540 --> 01:21:43.540 Okay, good night. 01:21:43.540 --> 01:21:44.540 And remember me to Paul Lucas, too. 01:21:44.540 --> 01:21:45.540 Okay, good night. 01:21:45.540 --> 01:21:46.540 And you see Ray Middleton, say hello to me, too. 01:21:46.540 --> 01:21:47.540 Okay, good night. 01:21:47.540 --> 01:21:48.540 And always remember me to Robert Alder. 01:21:48.540 --> 01:21:49.540 Okay, Tallulah. 01:21:49.540 --> 01:21:50.540 And say hello to me to Hilda Theroux. 01:21:50.540 --> 01:21:51.540 Yes, I will. 01:21:51.540 --> 01:21:53.540 And always John Gilbert and Dennis King and just- 01:21:53.540 --> 01:21:56.540 Look, Tallulah, why don't I just say, give your ringers a ride? 01:21:56.540 --> 01:22:02.540 Goodbye. 01:22:02.540 --> 01:22:06.540 Isn't she dull. 01:22:06.540 --> 01:22:09.540 Tallulah, I'd like to run now, too, if you don't mind. 01:22:09.540 --> 01:22:11.540 Oh, Margaret, why don't you wait and we'll have dinner together. 01:22:11.540 --> 01:22:13.540 Oh, thanks, Tallulah, but I really must run. 01:22:13.540 --> 01:22:15.540 But Margaret, I thought we might have a little chat. 01:22:15.540 --> 01:22:18.540 Some other time, Ploomis. Good night. I really must run. 01:22:18.540 --> 01:22:24.540 All right, if you must. Good night, darling. Those Ploomis are always running. 01:22:24.540 --> 01:22:25.540 Oh, Fred, are you leaving? 01:22:25.540 --> 01:22:27.540 I want to talk to you. Have you got a minute? 01:22:27.540 --> 01:22:32.540 Oh, yes, Tallulah. It may surprise you to know that my great-great grandfather was a minute man. 01:22:32.540 --> 01:22:36.540 Ever since then, in our family, we have always had a minute. 01:22:36.540 --> 01:22:41.540 And accumulating all of those minutes, I have arrived at the time when I have the entire evening. 01:22:41.540 --> 01:22:44.540 I know when I'm supposed to come in, Fred. Oh, sorry. 01:22:44.540 --> 01:22:48.540 Well, thanks, Evan, for one man whose time is his own. 01:22:48.540 --> 01:22:49.540 Gulliver and I. 01:22:49.540 --> 01:22:54.540 Fred, I want to ask you advice on how to deal with these guests I have on the show. 01:22:54.540 --> 01:22:57.540 Sometimes they do get out of hand, like Evan Berman, for instance. 01:22:57.540 --> 01:23:00.540 Well, Tallulah, I am so glad that you asked me. 01:23:00.540 --> 01:23:04.540 Now, I noticed, I've noticed on several occasions that you have trouble. 01:23:04.540 --> 01:23:09.540 Now, what you really need, if you really will take my advice, what you need is to learn to be firm. 01:23:09.540 --> 01:23:10.540 Yes, darling. 01:23:10.540 --> 01:23:11.540 You need an iron hand. 01:23:11.540 --> 01:23:12.540 Uh-huh. 01:23:12.540 --> 01:23:13.540 The male's fist. 01:23:13.540 --> 01:23:14.540 Yes. 01:23:14.540 --> 01:23:18.540 You know the rock of Gibraltar. Now, that's how I handle people. 01:23:18.540 --> 01:23:20.540 Just show them that you are the boss. 01:23:20.540 --> 01:23:22.540 Fred, are you coming? 01:23:22.540 --> 01:23:25.540 Oh, yes, coming, coming. Right away, boy. 01:23:25.540 --> 01:23:28.540 Well, I'm sorry, Tallulah, I have to run now, too. 01:23:28.540 --> 01:23:31.540 The rock of Gibraltar, huh? 01:23:31.540 --> 01:23:34.540 What happened to your male fist, the iron hand? 01:23:34.540 --> 01:23:41.540 Well, I forgot to tell you, everything I have is in my wife's name. 01:23:41.540 --> 01:23:44.540 Good night, Fred. 01:23:44.540 --> 01:23:47.540 Well, Tallulah, I think I'll be leaving now, too, if you don't mind. 01:23:47.540 --> 01:23:52.540 Good night, Frankie, darling, and I'll be sure to button up your overcoat and watch that beautiful voice of yours. 01:23:52.540 --> 01:23:56.540 Okay, and you watch your voice, too, huh? I'll be seeing you. 01:23:56.540 --> 01:24:00.540 What can happen to my voice? It hasn't already happened. 01:24:00.540 --> 01:24:03.540 Oh, Herb, you leaving, too? Did you enjoy being on the big show? 01:24:03.540 --> 01:24:06.540 Yeah, I wish I'd known you had a show like this sooner. 01:24:06.540 --> 01:24:10.540 You never heard the show before. Surely you read about it in your newspaper. 01:24:10.540 --> 01:24:15.540 Well, you see, back home, our paper only comes out once a week, and hardly anybody ever buys it. 01:24:15.540 --> 01:24:18.540 But we know what everybody's doing. 01:24:18.540 --> 01:24:23.540 It's just once in a while you might buy it to see if they get caught at it. 01:24:23.540 --> 01:24:26.540 Good night, everybody. 01:24:26.540 --> 01:24:31.540 And come back again, Clive Brooks. How about you? Did you enjoy the show, don't you? 01:24:31.540 --> 01:24:35.540 This has been quite an experience, Vita Lula. You do this every week. 01:24:35.540 --> 01:24:37.540 Indeed we do. 01:24:37.540 --> 01:24:45.540 For instance, next week we have Bob Burns, Jimmy Durante, Billy Eckstein, Tell Us Home every night, 01:24:45.540 --> 01:24:49.540 and of course our very own Meridith Wilson and the Big Show auction court and others. 01:24:49.540 --> 01:24:51.540 Try to listen, don't you? 01:24:51.540 --> 01:24:54.540 May the good Lord bless and keep you. 01:24:54.540 --> 01:24:58.540 Whether near or far away. 01:24:58.540 --> 01:24:59.540 Ethel? 01:24:59.540 --> 01:25:08.540 May you find that long-awaited golden day today, Herb. 01:25:08.540 --> 01:25:12.540 May your troubles all be small ones. 01:25:12.540 --> 01:25:16.540 And your fortune ten times ten. 01:25:16.540 --> 01:25:17.540 Fred? 01:25:17.540 --> 01:25:21.540 May the good Lord bless and keep you. 01:25:21.540 --> 01:25:25.540 Till we meet again. 01:25:25.540 --> 01:25:26.540 Orphan. 01:25:26.540 --> 01:25:34.540 May you walk with sunlight shining, And a bluebird in every tree. 01:25:34.540 --> 01:25:35.540 Margaret? 01:25:35.540 --> 01:25:43.540 May there be a silver lining, Back of every cloud you see. 01:25:43.540 --> 01:25:45.540 Meridith? 01:25:45.540 --> 01:25:54.540 Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrow, Never mind what might have been. 01:25:54.540 --> 01:25:55.540 Clive? 01:25:55.540 --> 01:25:59.540 May the good Lord bless and keep you. 01:25:59.540 --> 01:26:04.540 Till we meet again. 01:26:04.540 --> 01:26:05.540 Frankie? 01:26:05.540 --> 01:26:16.540 May you long recall each rainbow, Then you'll soon forget the rain. 01:26:16.540 --> 01:26:23.540 May the warm and tender memories be the ones, 01:26:23.540 --> 01:26:26.540 That will remain. 01:26:26.540 --> 01:26:37.540 Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrow, Never mind what might have been. 01:26:37.540 --> 01:26:41.540 May the good Lord bless and keep you. 01:26:41.540 --> 01:26:47.540 Until we meet again. 01:26:47.540 --> 01:26:54.540 May the good Lord bless and keep you. 01:26:54.540 --> 01:27:09.540 Till we meet, till we meet again. 01:27:09.540 --> 01:27:27.540 Good night, darlings, and God speed to our armed forces who hear these broadcasts each week all over the world. 01:27:27.540 --> 01:27:35.540 The Big Show is produced and directed by D. Engelbach and written by Goodman Ace, Selma Diamond, George Foster, Mort Green, and Frank Wilson. 01:27:35.540 --> 01:27:45.540 Keep tuned to NBC for in just one hour, Theatre Guild on the Air presents a great production, Shakespeare's Hamlet starring John Gilgud with Dorothy McGuire and Pamela Brown. 01:27:45.540 --> 01:28:09.540 This is Ed Hurley, East Station. Stay tuned for Phil Harris, Dallas Bay, next, a motion at NBC Station.