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 in person such bright stars as...
Bob Burns
Jimmy Duranty
Billy Eckstein
Celeste Holm
Evelyn Knight
Shep Bird
Cliff Hall
Smith Ann
Dale
Meredith Wilson
And my name, darlings, is Luther Bankhead.
The National Broadcasting Company presents...
The Big Show!
90 minutes with the most intimidating personalities in the entertainment world.
Brought to you this Sunday and every Sunday at the same time as the Sunday feature of
NBC's All-Star Festival.
And here is your hostess, the glamorous, unpredictable, Tallulah Bankhead.
Well darlings, putting together this week's Big Show has been the most ghastly experience.
It all started when I very helpfully suggested that they were engaging too many singers for
our program.
NBC could save a lot of money, especially since they have me on the show to sing.
But it seems when it comes to choosing the talent on this show, I have no voice.
I didn't mean that to sound exactly like that.
Now what I mean is, after all, I was on another show this past week as a singer and I was
good too.
I got 639 telephone votes.
I ran second only to one very talented young man who played Home Sweet Home on his head
with a mallet.
But that doesn't mean a thing to NBC.
They go out and howl this Billy Eckstein.
I can sing better than she can.
I don't care who she is.
You can, Tallulah?
Oh, are you Billy Eckstein?
I don't know what makes you think I'm taking away your singing job.
After all, I'm a baritone.
Well, darling.
You see, you're a bass.
Well, Billy, I really didn't have you in mind when I was talking about the singers they
have for this show.
I was thinking more about the girl singers, like this Doris Day they come up with.
It's not Doris Day.
It's Evelyn Knight.
Well, day or night, you're the one, Evelyn.
And not only do they howl you and Billy Eckstein, but they give me another singer, Jimmy Durante.
How do you like that note, Tallulah?
A note like that will get you nothing, Jimmy.
With that note, I can get $250,000 from the RFC.
And a mink coat.
Naturally, I'll return the mink coat, it takes me long enough to shave as it is.
Well, Jimmy, darling, I'm not worried about your singing on this program because your
singing is mostly comedy.
Now, I would sing love songs.
I can sing love songs too.
Oh, you can?
I never heard you.
Oh, sure.
Get a load of this.
You don't need penicillum.
You don't need aurumicium.
You just need self-familiar night.
You're not in love, you're just sick.
Why, Jimmy, that's wonderful.
I never heard you sing so beautifully.
Next week, Toulou, at the St. Patrick's Day parade, I'm going to sing.
Touloulaloo, Touloula, Touloulaloo, Touloula, Touloula, Touloula, Touloula, Touloula, Touloula,
Touloula, Touloula, Touloula, you're an Irish alabar.
You see what I mean, though, Jimmy, darling, everybody who comes on this program is allowed
to sing.
But when I want to sing, you should hear the inhuman cry that goes up.
Before you sing?
Yes, they don't even give me a chance.
Well, don't you have a sponsor on this program?
Why don't you go to your sponsor and complain?
Oh, we have three sponsors we have.
Now, let me see.
We have RCA Victor.
No, I don't think your singing would help their business.
Well, and we have Chesterfield Cigarettes.
No, your voice wouldn't help their business either.
And we have Anderson Headache Tablets.
That's the one to go to.
Oh, Jimmy, Jimmy, I'm disappointed in you.
I thought you'd help me out in this little problem I'm having here.
After all, Jimmy, I don't sing as bad as all that.
There are many facets to my voice.
Speaking of facets, have you ever practiced singing in the bathtub?
Do you?
Every time I take a breath, I practice my singing.
I'm coming to something tough.
Every time I take a bath, I practice my singing.
Eight jinks, the frume and cleanser.
I told you you should have played it, Meredith.
Well, I got over it.
That takes the ring out of the bathtub and puts it in my voice.
Now, Jimmy, no plugs.
How can I take a bath without a plug?
Well, I have a confession to make, Jimmy.
I always practice singing when I'm in the tub.
Well, only this afternoon, while I was taking a bath, I was singing,
I'll be singing.
In the bathtub?
Please.
Now I know what's wrong with your voice.
You should spray it with Rins-O.
You've got a fish pan throat.
Well, it looks like everybody's at my throat.
I know there can't be that much difference between my singing and everybody else's.
Oh, Jimmy, I'm going to let one of our guests sing now.
She's one of our very best singers.
I want you to listen to her and see if you can tell why everybody would rather hear her
than me.
It's every night singing her great recording, I Remember the Cornfields.
I remember the cornfields.
And the wind softly sighs.
And the swing beneath the chestnut tree.
I remember my school friends.
Happy days swiftly flying.
And my room still waiting for you.
The old harvest moon rising over the city.
And discovers me there and regards me with pity.
While there the heart I long.
I remember my first love.
And the last time he kissed me.
By the golden cornfields of home.
The old harvest moon rising over the city.
And discovers me there and regards me with pity.
While there the heart.
I remember my first love.
And the last time he kissed me.
By the golden cornfields of home.
The old harvest moon rising over the city.
And the golden cornfields of home.
The old harvest moon rising over the city.
I remember my first love.
And the last time he kissed me.
By the golden cornfields of home.
The old harvest moon rising over the city.
And he saw me first.
And he kissed me.
By the golden cornfields of home.
Thank you Evelyn darling, you were simply fair.
Simply fair?
You don't like that Evelyn? Would you prefer me to say you were fairly simple?
I know what's bothering you Tallulah, you're just jealous of my singing.
I'm jealous of your singing. Really my dear girl.
Oh I suppose there is an audience that likes good singing, but there must be an audience for me too.
I was just talking to Jimmy Durandy about a moment ago. Jimmy where are you?
Right here Tallulah, I've been listening to Evelyn sing like you told me and I've come to a ghastly conclusion.
Tallulah, you should have your tonsils out.
But I've already had my tonsils out.
Then put them back in. At least one.
Tallulah, I don't know why you keep worrying about singing. After all you're a dramatic actress. You know the old saying, shoemaker stick to your last.
You mean I should stick to acting?
Either that or learn to make shoes.
I know where I'd like to put my first shoe.
Tallulah, there's no use getting angry about it. If you want to sing you've got to work at it.
I love to sing. I take care of my voice. I never go to bed later than nine o'clock.
Practice scales all day. Before going to bed I drink warm milk. Never have dates more than twice a month.
And I'm always home before nine o'clock. And that's how I keep in condition so I can sing.
Yeah? What have you got to sing about?
Well if you want to sing Tallulah you've got to stick to a schedule like that.
Warm milk every night? I would rather die.
Well, it's either you or your audience.
Now just a minute. This isn't fair. You two picking on Tallulah.
Oh thank you Billy Eckstein. You've heard me sing haven't you?
Well, no I haven't really. Would you care to run over one of your songs for me?
Oh I'd be glad to Billy.
Give my regards to Broadway. Remember me to Harrow Square.
Tallulah, I said run over it not trample it to death.
Oh I see. You've joined the opposition too.
Oh no, I want to help you. Now let me show you how to sing that. Listen to this.
....
Oh that's very pretty Billy. What's the name of that song?
Let's give my regards to Broadway.
Really? Well what do you know? Two different songs with the same title.
Well sing something else for us. Will you Billy?
Okay, I'll sing if.
Go right ahead, Billy.
I hope he knows the words to this.
Better than he knows, give my regards to Broadway.
Ah, ah, ah.
If they made me a king, I'd be but a slave to you.
If I had everything, I'd still be a slave to you.
If I ruled the night, stars and moons so bright,
still I'd turn for life to you.
If the world to me bowed, in ugly I'd plead to you.
If my friends were a crowd, I'd turn in my knee to you.
If I ruled the earth, what would life be worth,
if I hadn't the right to you?
If I ruled the night, stars and moons so bright,
still I'd turn for life to you.
If the world to me bowed, in ugly I'd plead to you.
If my friends were a crowd, I'd turn in my knee to you.
If I ruled the earth, what would life be worth,
if I hadn't the right to you?
If I hadn't the right to you?
Well, Billy, you certainly knew the words to that one, and you sang it divinely.
Well, I'm glad we finished with the singing department on this program.
But wait a minute, Tallulah. You've got Celeste Holm on the show. She's a singer.
Oh, no. I took care of that. Celeste is an actress.
She won an Academy Award in Motion Pictures.
She's in a play without music now on Broadway, Affairs of State.
Yes, but she became a star in Oklahoma. She sang in that one.
Well, I've already fixed it so she won't sing on this program.
When I found out that she was going to be on the show, last Monday it was, I telephoned her.
Well, I certainly straightened her out about what she was going to do on the show,
and I made sure she was not going to sing.
Hello. Hello. Is this the residence of Celeste Holm?
Yes, sir.
Oh, is that you, Celeste? Who is this?
Oh, this is Tallulah. Oh, one moment, s'il vous plaît. I will see if madame is here.
Thank you, Rochester.
Oh, good heavens. What is she calling me about now?
She's already called me about what to wear on the show, and I promised I'd try not to look young.
What can she want now?
Hello. This is Miss Holm's secretary. May I help you?
Well, I want to speak with Miss Holm personally, if I could, please.
Well, I'm so sorry, but there are no passes for her play on Broadway.
Oh, no, no, no. It's not about that, really. It's about the big show on Sunday.
Oh, well, she can get you plenty of tickets for that. Who is this, please?
Look, miss, this is Tallulah Bankhead.
Who?
Tallulah Bankhead.
What's so funny about that?
Nothing. It sounds as if you're saying Tallulah Bankhead.
I am saying Tallulah Bankhead.
Oh, I beg your pardon. How do you spell that?
Well, I'm not very good at spelling, but let me see now. So I...
Well, now, let's see. T-A-L...
What's that first letter?
T. T as in taboo.
As in what?
Taboo. Lunghead.
Oh, Taboola Lunghead.
My dear girl, I am going to inform Miss Holm that you are without doubt the most inefficient, incompetent secretary anybody ever had.
And if Miss Holm doesn't fire you the minute I tell her...
Oh, please, please, please don't. Please don't tell her. I try to do my best. It's just that she treats me so badly.
She overworks me from morning to night, washing and ironing.
Washing and ironing?
Washing and ironing her hair.
Oh, you mean that beautiful head of hair is not really...
Oh, no, please, please don't say I told you. I don't want to lose my job. I'm so...
Oh, no, of course I won't. Thank you, my darling. I won't say a word.
Oh, so the hair is not really hers.
Well, of course, I suspect it all the time.
Oh, it is hers. I paid for it.
That's another thing. She makes me do all her shopping, and she keeps me busy on the phone from morning to night, calling up an escort service for men to take her out.
Calling an escort service?
The one on Madison Avenue all day long.
The one on Madison? Oh, no, darling, that's not the good one, darling. The one on...
Well, I mean, well, my dear, you really... you shouldn't talk this way about me, so after all, she is your employer.
What about her figure, my dear? She has a perfect figure. You can't say anything about her figure. How can you?
Oh, well, it is a perfect figure. I hand it to her every morning.
No. Oh, my dear, I must have lucky you some evening. I want to meet some of my friends.
Walter Wenshell, Earl Wilson, and at last, I simply can't understand why you stay on with this home, and she treats you so shabbily.
Well, please don't tell her, but you see, I want to be an actress, and I took this job so I can stay close to Miss Holman, learn how to be the great actress she is,
and you know she is getting on in years, and I'm just waiting for my chance to take her place in the theatre.
That plot sounds familiar to me.
But it would make a good picture, all about Celeste.
Oh, you won't tell her, I've told you, will you? She'd whip me.
Whip you? Oh, yes, she's a regular Simon degree. Oh, Miss Holm just came in. I'll put her on.
Hello, Tallulah. Hello, Simon, darling. What? I mean Eve. I mean Celeste.
Darling, I told you about the big show. Now, it won't be necessary for you to sing on it. We have plenty of singers, including myself.
Oh, but Tallulah, I have a wonderful new number to sing. That's where I've been. I've been rehearsing it all afternoon with an orchestra, and I just want you to hear it.
It's a song called The Happy Ending from a 20th Century Fox Picture on the Riviera,
and my friend Sylvia Fine wrote it, and she told me I should be sure to sing it on your show, so listen to it, Tallulah.
Okay, fellas, you can play it now. Your orchestra came home with you.
They escorted me home. I have a wonderful escort service. I'll give you the number if you want it. I know the number, 802.
Stay where you are, listen to me, before you make your mind up what the wind up ought to be.
Though it used to be she for the end to be bleak, the fad to be sad has been had.
Oh, do you like your drama? Oh, so stark that when the lights go on, where are you?
Still in the dark misery may be some people's cup of tea.
But, brother, not me. It makes me feel so good when I see a happy ending.
Give me a happy ending every time. It makes me feel so bad when the curtain is descending and lovers aren't blending.
That's a crime. Don't want the hero to be the one who done it.
Don't want my heroin left all alone to gun it. If that is corny, don't ever let them stop corn.
I want to relax and eat my popcorn. So make me feel real good when I see that final fade out.
I want that mortgage paid out every dime.
Want to yip it, want to yuck it, leave my hanky in my pocket and see a happy ending every time.
In a western heat of time, I really love it. It's when the doctor yells hot water and plenty of it.
When the villain's bullet rips the hero's hat away. Look out! They went that way.
So bring the girls on stage. Let them take that final entrance and make that final entrance look sublime.
Let them smile or sing a ditty or just stand there and look pretty.
Let them really reek with glamour as we wind up this hit drummer.
While we dance it, while we shout it, while we leave no doubt or thought it, we like a happy ending every time.
Yip it, yuck it, leave my hanky in my pocket and see a happy ending every time.
Hello, Tallulah, you still there?
Well, Celeste, I see you have an escort service for applause too.
Well, didn't you like the song, Tallulah?
Darling, it's not a question of how much I like it. It's a question of how much I hate it.
You mean you won't let me sing it on your show?
Now, let's put it bluntly, darling. If you sing the song on the show, you'll be a big hit. So you're not going to sing it.
Well, I've got news for you, Tallulah. My contract reads that I can sing on your program if I want to and I want to.
Well, I've got news for you, honey. I just had a most informative chat with your combination secretary maid and figure hander.
Tallulah, are you threatening me?
If the figure fits, darling, wear it.
Tallulah?
Yes?
I telephoned you last Sunday evening about six o'clock and you weren't home.
Well, of course not, darling. I'm on this show at six o'clock.
Yes, I know. I had an hour and a half chat with your combination maid, masseuse and girdle stretcher.
Oh, Celesta, darling, why don't you sing your first song in the first half hour?
And then, of course, if you want to sing several other songs, you can sing whenever you feel like it. I...
Well, I wouldn't do more for Catherine Hepburn.
Oh, and speaking of Catherine Hepburn, I was talking to her maid the other day.
Yes, and what did she say?
Well, darling, you wouldn't believe it, but she told me.
If you feel like singing, sing, trill on your cares away.
There's something about giving up when the song makes you belong, helps you find the peace of mind for days.
If you feel like humming hum, hear the dee dee da dee dum.
Supposing you do re be slightly off key, everyone can't hear me.
Tell your friends to go place to place, start making place if you feel like singing, sing.
You have been listening to Meredith Wilson and his orchestra.
And now I'd like to take just a moment before we continue to say that this is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
The Big Show. This is the national broadcasting company Sunday Extravaganza with the most scintillating personalities in show business.
The Big Show, the Sunday night feature of NBC's All-Star Festival, is brought to you by RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television.
By Chesterfield, the cigarette that has for you what every smoker wants, mildness with no unpleasant aftertaste.
The cigarette that brings you Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
And by the makers of Anisyn for fast relief from the pain of headache, neuritis, and neuralgia.
The big stars in this program are Bob Burns, Jimmy Durante, Billy Eckstein, Cliff Hall, Celeste Holm, Evelyn Knight, Jack Pearl, Smith and Dale,
Meredith Wilson and his Big Show Orchestra and Chorus.
And every week, your hostess, the glamorous, unpredictable, Tallulah Bankhead.
Well, darling, we think we have a treat for you on the Big Show this week.
In the world of entertainment, there are certain classics which are ageless.
Now stop snickering, I'm not talking about myself.
We have collected this week several classic comedy performers who have contributed priceless gems of entertainment,
which will long be remembered in our business.
Those of you who have heard these artists will laugh again.
But it will be a new and refreshing experience for the younger generation, of which I happen to be a member.
Hello, little girl.
Well, the first of these is the Arkansas traveler himself, Bob Burns.
Bob, I can't tell you how delighted and surprised and gratified I was to hear you were coming back to radio to be on our show,
especially after they explained to me who you were.
Now, how did you happen to decide to come here, darling?
Well, I'll tell you, Miss Bankhead.
May I withdraw the question?
No, no, I want to tell you because I got a proposition for you.
You do?
Yeah, you see, I thought about opening a nightclub here and taking you in as a partner.
Now, I understand you got a lot of money and you got a big name to draw the people in,
and I was thinking about cutting you in as a partner 50-50.
I put up the money and the name. What are you putting up?
Well, after we get the people in, somebody's got to entertain them.
Why can't I entertain?
Well, to tell you the truth, I believe you could.
I've been listening to all this talk about you not being able to sing,
and you know, I don't believe your singing's ever had the proper musical background.
You know, I believe my bazooka is the only instrument in the world that will blend with your voice.
You mean you're going to let me sing while you play? Oh, Bob, you're very kind.
I don't think so, and I'll tell you why. You know, Miss Bankhead, you kind of remind me of my Aunt Boo.
I'd like to tell you, you better sit down over there now. This may take some time.
You know, one of the reasons why I was so anxious to get on this show here
is because I wanted to see if I'd feel the same way when Miss Bankhead called me darling
as one of my uncles did years ago down in Van Buren.
One of them city girls come to Van Buren and she said darling to everybody, didn't think anything about it.
She called my uncle darling, and he took it to heart. He got to thinking about it. He liked it.
And he fell in love with her. And it got so bad, he finally went up to her and told her if she didn't marry him, he'd die.
Of course, she didn't think anything of it. She turned him down, and sure enough, 65 years later, he died.
Now, you know, my grandpa Stassi just swears that Miss Bankhead and my Aunt Boo are kin
because they not only both come from Alabama, but, well, my Aunt Boo's first name is Tallulah.
Of course, I always called her Aunt Boo by her nickname. I never called her Aunt Tallulah
because I understood if you used the word Tallulah, you'll likely get sued.
So I want you people, now if you will, I want you to follow me through this thing.
I want to describe Aunt Boo and see if you can't see the similarity in them two women.
Now, first, Aunt Boo is kind of the dominating type.
I remember the morning I was at her house when she took the skillet test.
Now, the boys down home won't marry a girl unless they can stand that skillet test.
A girl has to throw a skillet up the chimney and run out the yard and catch it in her apron before it hits the ground.
Well, when Aunt Boo threw this skillet up the chimney, she threw it way up in the air, and there was a high wind blowing that day.
And it carried this skillet quite a ways, and Aunt Boo had to jump four barbed wire fences, but she got it.
I remember when Papa saw her catch it, he nudged Uncle Yuni, he said,
Yuni, I think you got something there.
And he did, too.
Do you know at the wedding when Uncle Yuni said, I do, that's the last decision the man ever made?
You know, I don't want you to think now that they didn't get along because they did.
Because when they was first married, Aunt Boo made a rule that if one of them started an argument, the other one would walk out of the house.
They've not only had 40 years of happy married life, but today Uncle Yuni is the healthiest man you ever saw.
He's been spending so much of his life outdoors.
Are you beginning to get the similarity there between the two women?
It's beginning to show up.
I remember when I was a little boy, Aunt Boo was in the kitchen by herself and the window was open.
Uncle Yuni was plowing out in the field, and I saw a great big huge wild cat jump through the window right in this room where Aunt Boo was.
Well, I was scared to death.
I went out and told Uncle Yuni about it, and he just kept on plowing.
I says, Uncle Yuni, aren't you going back there?
He says, Listen, Robin, that wild cat got in there of his own accord. Let him get out the best way.
Do you know one time, I'll never forget if I live a thousand years, the years the crows got so bad,
they were just eating up Uncle Yuni's corn, and Uncle Yuni put out a scarecrow in the middle of the corn field,
but them crows were so brazen they just didn't pay any attention to the scarecrow.
They went right on eating it.
And Aunt Boo went out there and stood in the corn field herself.
Do you know them crows got so scared they brought back corn they stole four years ago?
There's another similarity there between the two women.
Aunt Boo was a society woman. She was an entertainer.
She liked nothing better than having a big crowd of people around her.
But if there's anything in the world mortified her, it was to have something go wrong at the table where she was serving.
I'll never forget this day we had the family reunion, and oh, we were all there.
And Aunt Boo, of course, she didn't sit down. She stood up so that anything go wrong.
And we were halfway through the meal when she suddenly remembered she forgot to put on the buttermilk.
But she went down to the spring house where she keeps the buttermilk in a big jar, and she's got a cloth over the top.
Happened to be a little hole in the cloth that day, and a little green frog fell in the buttermilk.
Aunt Boo didn't see it, and she rushed up to the house, and in such a hurry she poured the buttermilk out,
and Grandpa Snazzy got the glass of buttermilk with a little frog in it.
Well, Aunt Boo was watching them, and everybody else had drank their buttermilk, but Grandpa Snazzy.
He just sat there staring in this glass of buttermilk. Didn't touch it.
Aunt Boo says, What's the matter, Grandpa? You see something in your buttermilk?
Grandpa says, Yes, and he sees me, too.
Now, Miss Bankhead, long about here is where I plan for you to sing with me, if you're ready.
Oh, thank you, Bob, darling. That's very sweet of you.
How come you do me like you do, do, do?
Well, you never top that.
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Well, darlings, I don't know what all of you were doing back in the year 1910, those of you who were here at all, I mean.
Personally, back in 1910, my parents had not yet met each other.
Well, they didn't meet till about five years after that, and then they didn't get married till about two years after that.
And then there was my sister who was born six years before I was.
And now if you have any fingers left, darlings, you can figure out what I know you've been trying to figure.
Confused, darlings? Well, you know.
What I started to say was that back in 1910, there were a couple of wonderful comedians doing one of the great classics of show business.
They had become partners in 1898, and they've been partners ever since.
Fifty-three years as a team in the theatre.
Ladies and gentlemen, Smith and Dale.
We hear the never-to-be-forgotten Dr. Cronkite sketch.
The scene of Dr.'s office, the patient Joe Smith has just entered the office of Dr. Cronkite, Charlie Dale.
Mr. Smith is greeted by the nurse, Miss Jean Courtney.
How do you do, sir?
Is this the office of Dr. Cronkite?
Yes, I'm his nurse.
His nurse? Is the doctor sick too?
No, no, I'm a trained nurse.
Oh, you do tricks.
What's the doctor's office hours?
His hours are from 12 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 9, 9 to 12, and 12 to 3.
Well, he gets good odds. He must be a horse doctor.
No, those are his hours.
Is that AM or FM?
That's TV.
TV? Oh, Tuesday or Wednesday.
Is the doctor in now?
Yes, but he's very busy.
All right, I'll wait.
Will you have a chair?
Thank you. I'll take it on my way out.
How much does the doctor charge for a visit?
Oh, he charges $5 for the first visit, $3 for the second, and one for the third.
$1 for the third visit.
Yes.
Thank you.
Oh, here comes the doctor now.
This must be Hobby Lobby.
Well, doctor, here I am again.
You are? I never saw you before in my life.
I'm here for the fifth time.
If I come here once more, you'll owe me eight cents.
Yes, sir.
So you're a doctor.
I'm a doctor.
I'm dubious.
Nice to meet you, Mr. Dubious. I'm also glad to know you.
I'm still dubious.
Are you married, Mr. Dubious?
Yes or no.
What do you mean, yes or no?
I am, but I wish I wasn't.
Oh, okay.
Have you got any children?
I've got three, a boy and a girl.
Three, a boy and a girl? What's the other one?
So young, who can tell?
Do you carry any insurance?
I've got one nickel insurance, Doc.
Oh, you should die. What would your wife bury you with?
With pleasure.
Yeah, I have.
What seems to be your complaint?
I don't know. Before I saw you, I saw another doctor.
Uh-huh.
He said I had snu in my blood.
What did they tell you?
They told me I had snu in my blood.
Snu? What snu?
Nothing. What snu with you?
Yeah.
With pleasure.
Yeah, uh-huh.
So what seems to be your complaint?
I don't know. Before I saw you, I saw another doctor.
Uh-huh.
He said I had snu in my blood.
What did they tell you?
They told me I had snu in my blood.
Snu? What snu?
Nothing. What snu with you?
Yeah.
What's the trouble here? What's the...
I don't know. I'm as sick as a dog.
Don't worry. You came to the right place. I'm also a veterinarian.
What's the matter?
I don't know. Every time I eat a heavy meal, I don't feel so hungry.
That's my problem, Doc.
Oh, well, maybe. Maybe you don't eat the right kind of dishes.
What?
The white communities, you don't eat that right. What kind of dishes do you eat?
I should eat dishes.
What kind of dishes?
What am I, a crocodile?
Yeah. What kind of... What is your favorite dish?
Aluminum.
Aluminum? Yeah, no, no.
I like aluminum with semis in it.
No, no, no. You don't seem to grips me while I speak with you.
I don't grips you.
Yes?
If I don't grips you, don't grips me.
No, no, you don't understand.
Guys, you've been eating radishes.
Yeah, radishes. What's the matter? Don't you like radishes?
I love radishes, but not when you eat it.
Yeah, yeah, Mr. P.
I'm a single.
Mr. P, it's my time as a tournament player.
No, I don't love it either.
Yeah, I don't love you. I would like to know what kind of meats you eat.
Will I eat?
What?
Will I eat?
I don't ask you, will you? I said, what kind of meats you eat?
What did I tell you?
You asked me, will you? I don't want to know.
I said, will you? I said, will I?
Oh, for pity's sake, don't make me a card.
I don't know if that's Dr. Jekyll or Oscar Wilde.
I ask you, I ask you, how do you eat a wheel?
Wheel, wheel, wee hee hey hell wheel.
Yeah, that's it.
What do you think, I eat wagon wheel?
I don't know.
I eat wheel from a cutlet.
You should say with a V and not with a woo.
You eat wheel or woo?
I don't know. Now, when you eat, how do you like a wheel, medium?
No, I like my wheel well-to-do.
One side, the other side optional.
No, I would like to know when you drink drinks,
what kind of drinking drinks do you drink?
Have you drink sometimes liquor?
Wait a minute, Dr., don't talk.
When you talk, you sing April Shower.
No, I can't.
You mean like coffee or milk or chocolate?
That's right.
I drink tea.
What do you drink? Sea lion tea?
No, orange piquenise.
How much tea do you drink a day?
About 12 glasses full.
Salad of tea.
I drink salad of tea too.
You drink tea with lemon?
I can't go lemon.
Oh, you're allergic.
Allergic?
You're allergic.
I don't know how I'm going to vote next year.
Yeah, why don't you vote next year?
What's the matter?
I got a crick on my neck.
What do you mean a crick?
Doctor, I got rheumatism on the back of my neck.
It's the back place I have rheumatism on the back of my neck.
No, wherever you want a better place than on the back of your neck.
On the back of your neck.
Yeah, oh.
You go to Mount Clemens for your rheumatism.
Mount Clemens is a good place for rheumatism.
Certainly, that's where I got mine.
That's all.
Oh, you could go to Switzerland.
Now what can I do in Switzerland?
You can sit there and switch.
My chest hurts.
I got biceiditis, everything.
I don't know what's the matter.
Don't worry.
I will examination you with the stethoscope.
Thank you.
Don't worry about that.
Take all decode.
Take all decode to my boy.
Take all, take all decode.
Decode is all.
Why are you blowing on the stethoscope?
I'm blowing, I'm sterilizing the stethoscope.
Everybody get your keys now.
Yes, sir.
I'm going to breathe.
I got to breathe, doctor.
I can't help it.
Now I would like to see you inhale.
Inhale, I would like to see you.
Inhale, you would like to see me.
Inhale, I would like to see you.
Now keep your mouth wide open and say fish.
Haring.
Now stick out the tongue.
Yeah.
Way out more.
I can't, it's tight on the back here.
Okay.
Now I'm going to go back to the hymn.
Please, I got no patience.
You got no patience.
Yeah.
I shouldn't have been here either.
Yeah.
Stick out the tongue.
Yeah.
I've seen better tongues hang in a butcher shop.
I've seen better doctors practicing with all the diploma.
All right.
Put on the coat.
Put on the coat, my boy.
Thank you for the concert, doctor.
Yeah.
You understand the whole case?
Yeah, the whole table of the shoes, you need eyeglasses.
I suppose if I had a headache, I would need an umbrella.
No, no, you're right.
Now, now you, now-
Well, what do I owe you?
Ah, you owe me $10 for you.
For what?
That's for my fee.
$10 for your fee?
$10 for my advice.
Your advice?
That's right.
Well, doctor, here's $2.
Take it.
Why, you cheapskate, you come in here, you cock-a-mini, and waste me a half an hour of
my time.
One more word from you, you'll only get a dollar.
Why?
That's the word.
Here's a dollar.
And now here is another real old team, my darlings, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope.
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Well, I'm having a wonderful time listening to these great acts of an earlier day in show
business.
Pardon me, Toulouse?
Yes, Jimmy, darling.
Aren't you getting a kick out of these show business classics?
I'm pretty classic myself.
Of course, you may think I'm too young compared to these old timers, but I remember there
used to be an actor on Broadway called Clayton Jackson and some other fellow.
Durante.
Anyway, they used to do a song, them three fellows, Clayton Jackson and that other fellow.
A Durante, darling.
Who can pronounce them foreign names?
And I would like to do a song they used to do with the help of this young fellow here
with me.
His name is Eddie Jackson.
How do you do, Mr. Jackson?
Howdy.
Always glad to give a young team a helping hand.
Mr. Durante and Mr. Jackson, the stage is yours.
Hello.
Who is this?
Isabelle?
I'm a young lady.
My name is Isabelle Jackson.
I'm a young man.
My name is Isabelle Jackson.
I'm a young man.
My name is Isabelle Jackson.
I'm a young man.
My name is Isabelle Jackson.
I'm a young lady.
Won't you come home, Bill Bailey? Won't you come home?
Sing it!
Hurry up, all the whole day long!
Bailey!
I'm gonna do that cooking, darling, pay all that rent.
Baby, I know I've done you wrong.
Bailey, get back home!
Oh, remember that old rainy evening, honey, you drove me out.
Shame on you!
With nothing but a pine to comb, you drove me out.
Well, I'm gonna find the blame, baby.
Ain't it a shame, Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?
Let me hear that band!
It's just like we played on the regular.
Now remember that rainy evening, you drove me out.
With nothing but a pine to comb.
Yeah, baby, I'm the one to blame.
Honey, ain't it a shame?
Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?
Now, Bill Bailey, where you hiding? Where you been?
Yeah, you've been away a long time, brother. That's a sin.
Now, if someone only knew just where you could be found.
We'd all go out and find you, make you come around.
Won't you come home, Bill Bailey?
Won't you come home?
Brother, I'm old and wholly lost.
Do the cooking, darling.
I'll pay the rent, sir.
Yes, and I know I've done you wrong.
Eddie, if Bailey ain't on his way home by now, it's not our fault.
Why, he might be home already.
I hope so. Isabelle wants to apologize.
She says, I'm to blame. Darling, ain't it a shame?
Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?
We'll see you later. Bill Bailey, won't you please come home?
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Well, darlings, there's more to come.
Not only another great classic comedian, Mr. Jack Pearl,
but also coming back are Evelyn Knight, Billy Eckstein, Jimmy Durante, Celeste Holm, Meryl Wilson and everybody else.
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Of course, Ed. This, darlings, is NBC, the national broadcasting company.
This is the big show, and Tallulah is about to introduce another great classic act of the theater.
Some years ago, everybody walked around saying,
Vosha dare, Charlie? A catchphrase made famous by the great Baron Munchausen.
In other words, Jack Pearl.
Mr. Pearl with his famous sidekick, Charlie, Mr. Cliff Hall.
Well, Baron, I'm delighted to see you.
Well, Charlie, of all the people in the whole world.
I haven't seen you in a long time. Where have you been?
I just come back from Dordesign.
Oh, you did, eh?
Yeah, I just come back.
How did you get over here?
I came over on a ship.
You came on a what?
I came over on a ship.
No, no, no. You mean a ship, a boat, a vessel.
One is enough, you know. I just come over.
Was it a fast ship?
Oh, very fast.
How fast was it?
Oh, we was making over 60 miles an hour.
No, no, no, no.
The ship was...
You mean you were making 60 knots an hour?
No, no. We was making 60 miles an hour.
No, no, Baron. Nautically speaking, it's knots.
Now, I was on the boat. I tell you, miles.
All right, Baron. Miles to you.
All right. Not still. All right.
I don't want to have no argument with you.
How was the food aboard the ship, Baron?
The food was just so-so.
Oh, just so-so.
You know something, Charlie?
With every meal I had to eat soup.
With every meal you had to eat soup?
I had to eat soup.
Was it compulsory?
You see, I was... Hello?
I say, was it compulsory?
No. Tomato soup.
Oh, tomato.
Tomato.
We didn't have compulsory.
Oh, say, by the way, Baron, just a moment.
Did you know that Jimmy Durante has been looking all over this theater for you with a gun?
What do you mean? He's looking for me with a revolver?
With a what?
I say he's looking for me with a revolver.
With a revolver, yes.
Why? Why he's looking for me? Why?
Well, he said that you called him a dirty name.
I called him a dirty name?
He said that you swore at him.
Oh, what a liar!
Now, wait. Now, wait.
Listen, he has the beer.
Now, wait. Now, don't get excited. You'll get high blood pressure.
No, not me. I'm anemic. No.
Oh, too bad.
Now, listen, Charlie, I give you my solemn word.
I never called him a dirty name, and I never swore at him.
Well, then how did it happen?
Here's how that comes out, just like it was.
All right.
What day is today?
Today?
Yeah.
Day is Sunday.
Sunday. That was four days back.
That was Wednesdays.
You see, I'm going out with my...
Wait a minute. What day did you say?
Wednesdays.
No.
I was going...
You mean Wednesday.
Yeah, in the center of the week, like...
Wednesday, Wednesday, named after the god Woden.
No.
Wednesdays is named after Tuesday.
Oh, sure.
Listen, Charlie, you see, Wednesdays, I was going in the contrary with my car.
I see.
Well, as I'm driving...
Wait a minute. Tell me, what time of the day was this?
Oh, this was maybe nine o'clock.
Nine o'clock?
Nine o'clock.
Nine o'clock a.m. or p.m.?
So I'm going...
What was that?
What?
I said, was it nine o'clock a.m. or p.m.?
So I'm going out with my car.
As I'm going...
Why don't you answer my question?
Was it nine o'clock a.m. or p.m.?
No, no, no.
That's not nice.
What's not nice?
I don't like that.
Now, you hear that?
Now, don't say...
What are you talking about?
I know what that is.
Now, don't say that.
Oh, you do?
I'm going out with my car.
All right, all right.
Wait a minute.
I don't like...
You know what it is?
Yeah.
Well, what is it?
About the farmer's daughter.
I don't like...
Just a minute.
Now, when you calm yourself, look.
Yeah.
I'll make this a little more clear to you.
Yeah?
Was it nine o'clock before noon or afternoon?
Yeah.
That's good.
I'm actually going to...
Look, will you please tell me the time of the day you were driving in the country?
Nine o'clock.
Nine o'clock AM or PM?
No, AZ, that was.
AZ?
AZ.
What do you mean, AZ?
After supper.
What?
Nine o'clock.
Nine o'clock after supper.
Yeah.
We was going in the country.
We?
We was.
Who's we?
My sweetheart and myself.
What?
You keeping company with a girl?
What do you think?
Me the horse?
Me the cat.
The girl, huh?
Oh, she's some cat.
Nice girl.
I'm crazy over that one.
So she...
Don't be mad.
Is your girl blonde, brunette or T-shirt?
Yeah.
So we going...
Is she what?
I say, is your girl blonde, brunette or T-shirt?
No, go ahead.
She's a Polak.
You don't know who she is.
You don't know.
You mean, you mean she...
You mean she's a Polak.
She's a Polak.
So she...
Is she...
You don't know who she is.
She's a Polish extraction.
No, no, Polish peepers.
Well, that's the same.
Her modern father is Polish...
Well yeah, is she Czech or Yugoslav?
So we going for...
I beg your stop.
Excuse me.
I say is she Czechoslav or Yugoslav.
Good natured Slav.
I don't know her.
Are you telling me?
He don't know.
So listen.
So we got...
So Pretty One New littered in dressed up in...
So the crazy lady...
So we're all Charlie. I want to ask you one thing right ahead. Did you ever was in love? Oh, I've been in love
Yeah, you know
You know how love is this? Yes, of course we
We was going in the woods. Oh, you see you were you went in the woods to cogitate. Yeah, so when we
I went for what what I mean? I say you went in the woods to cogitate
Welcome to that later
You're home
So we going to listen
Oh, now wait a minute. Look, that is the dumbest thing I think I've ever heard you say in my life
Now why you say that I'm dumb? Well, because I think you're dumb. Now I'm just so smart as you now what you think of that?
There's no time to argue. Please. You know, I was never in school so long
I live or you were never in school
You know that when you know then when I was seven years old
I was working supporting my mother on my father when you were seven years old you were where were you working?
I mean the old country you were working in the old country. Yeah, I was the board of my mother
And my father whereabouts in the old country were you working at seven in Holland where I was born. All right
What father why whereabouts in Holland we were what sort of work we do and I was working on a farm
You're working on it was 70 years old. What sort of work were you doing on the farm?
What you called it here in America? I was a pilot when I was seven
I was a what pilot you were a pilot on a farm. Yeah, when I was what are the duties of a pilot on a farm?
My boss used to say pilot
All right, I
Tell you what I do with you what I bet you five dollars
Oh, you see so smart you are so do my m I could answer my question where you could not answer yours
Now, wait a minute. Let me understand you want to bet me five dollars
You can answer your question where I can't answer. Yeah, I bet you five dollars. All right, the bet is on all right
Have you got five dollars with you? Yes, I think so if you win trust me
Did you ever watch in the woods I say did you ever watch in the woods did I ever watch in the way?
Yeah, your grammar is bad. Yeah, she's an old lady
In the woods, did you ever see holly's
Did I ever see what I?
Fledger is never see holly. What are you talking? Oh holly? How you see it? Oh, oh, oh
What kind of robot?
What guy?
Robert Robert hurts rabbit. Oh, yeah. Yes. I've seen rabbit. I do wait. Do you know understand?
Yes, do you know how the rabbit makes that hole without leaving any dirt around?
Do I know how the rabbit makes the hole without leaving any dirt around? Yeah, do you know that well now?
That's a very difficult question and I must admit I can't answer it. Can you could I yeah?
That is my question on the most entrance right they start from the bottom and they dig up and I never was
I have you now. How does the rabbit get to the bottom in order to dig to the top?
That's your question you answer it.
The presence of such show business immortals as our guest tonight on the big show and the fact that this month marks the 13th anniversary
of his passing
Reminds us that there is another great name that deserves to take his place in that company the Boswell of the 30s
the affectionate and understanding historian of our turbulent youth the late old McIntyre I
Feel that a close friend is better qualified than an ardent admirer to pay tribute to odd McIntyre and so darlings
I'd like to call upon Meredith Wilson
Yes, Tallulah I was a friend of odds and an admirer of his tool
But people like me can be counted in the millions across this country
Because every reader of McIntyre's was both a friend and an admirer and I'll bet if we listen real close
We can hear the rustle of those aging clippings still kept on a shelf
Still read of an evening at home. Yes, Meredith odds was a quiet
Small voice of the hometown boy lost in the wonders of the big city and our best tribute to odd McIntyre
Would be to let that voice speak again in words in music
The music is from Meredith Wilson symphonic composition the OO McIntyre suite
written before odds death
Meredith and his officer who played the movement called
Thoughts while strolling and I will read the words from one of odds most famous columns still read and cherished over all America
first the music thoughts while strolling
Ah
We hear now the words of odd McIntyre as he spoke to us
Gave us his thoughts while strolling from one of his most famous columns
Fifth Avenue
Street of dreams and enchanted
Street of tragedy
personal tragedy
But here is where I lost my dearest friend
my dog
Brothers and sisters. I bid you beware of giving your hearts to a dog to tear
Age of the happiest years of my life was spent in the almost constant companionship of a devoted dog
When he was taken from me, I grieved and consoled me
For weeks, I walked the streets at night
Trying to get hold of myself
My dog's name is Junior. He was a Boston Bulldog weighing 24 pounds
He was full of joyous life and never outgrew his prankishness
I picked him up in the Fifth Avenue dog shop in much the same manner that one buys a trinket
I thought he was cute
He was four weeks old and he trotted sideways with mock seriousness. I took him home in my overcoat pocket
From that day on for eight years. He played a big part in my life
He came to understand me better than most of my human associates
He knew his time for play and my time for work. He did not trespass
For six years, he never valid five minutes
But the stroke of five o'clock in the evening and coming to me with his rubber ball in his mouth
That was his hour for romp. He demanded his hour
One of my great faults has always been a lack of punctuality
But I was always on the dot to keep the romping appointment with you
One day I got to thinking about this and the results was that I became more careful
Surely I should show humans as much consideration as I showed my dog
For several years Junior and his mistress and I used to walk around the gravel path of a Central Park reservoir
In New York at dusk after his romp
At such times I would admit him to frolic and
the grass unleashed from the lid was ancient digital
Yet he was a modern kid
He lived the life he unfortunately transferred his family and his worldlykt
While he was living in the city of MDC
Surely the
And the result was that I became more careful.
Slowly, I should show humans as much consideration as I showed my dog.
For several years, Junior and his mistress and I
used to walk around the gravel path of a Central Park reservoir
in New York at dusk after his romp.
At such times, I would admit him to frolic and roll
in the grass unleashed and unmuzzled.
One evening, however, he disappeared in a clump of bushes
and refused to come out of my call and whistled.
I followed him and found him squatting beside a stray dog
that had been injured by a passing automobile.
We called the bider we home and the hurt creature was taken to it and cured.
This incident gave me some serious moments of introspection.
How often, I asked myself, had I stopped along the roadside
to comfort the stricken and forlorn.
We did not continue the walk home just then.
Instead, we left Millionaire's Row,
wandered over to the squalid section of New York's east side,
and mounted the rickety stairs of a crowded tenement.
There we sat at the bedside of an old copter who had lived in our neighborhood
who had been stricken with the fatal illness.
We paid a small rent, had some food sent to him,
and were occasional visitors until the end.
I do not do so much of this sort of thing as I should,
but the credit for what little I have done is due to Junior.
Here is one incident which I hesitate to tell.
More than likely it is the Mirris coincidence,
but it is set down here just as it happened.
Junior accompanied me one summer to my little hometown in Missouri
and together we went one afternoon to the cemetery to visit the grave of my mother.
It had been a number of years since I had been there,
and the place had become so strange to me that I wanted around for half an hour
in an effort to find the grave.
Finally, I gave it up as hopeless.
Looking around for Junior, I saw him lying down about 100 yards away.
He didn't seem inclined to come to me, so I went to him,
and I found that he was resting at the side of my mother's grave.
I come to the final chapter of Junior's life with tears that are shed unashamed.
Junior, like all good dogs, was faithful to the end.
He died obeying my command, which made his loss all the more tragic to me.
It was late at night, little traffic on Fifth Avenue.
I took off his leash.
He had been trained to wait at the curb until he received the command,
Go, then he would race across like a flash.
I stepped to the curb and looked for traffic.
There seemed to be none.
I shouted, Go.
Junior was offered a bound.
At that instant, a party of reckless joy riders swung madly around the corner,
and Junior was hit.
He staggered to his feet, and as I lifted him in my arms,
he looked up with his soft, pleading eyes, begging for the help I could not give.
Handing a taxi cab, I hurried to my hotel a few blocks away,
but before I'd reached there, he died without even a whimper of pain.
He lies buried today in the picturesque dog cemetery on the sloping hills near New York.
Yes, it's true what Kippling wrote.
Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware of giving your hearts to a dog to tear.
I bid you beware of giving your hearts to a dog to tear.
Continuing with the great classics of show business, popular music too has survived the
march of years. We have picked a medley of songs which were great in their time and which
today are enjoying huge success as revivals. Melodyth Wilson, his big show orchestra and
chorus assisted by Evelyn Knight, Billy Eckstein and Celeste Holm will present that medley.
Melodyth darling, if you please.
If I told a lie, if I made you cry, when I said goodbye, I'm sorry.
When I said goodbye, I'm sorry. From the bottom of my heart, dear, I apologize.
If I caused you pain, I know I am to blame. Must have been insane, believe me.
From the bottom of my heart, dear, I apologize. I realize I've been unfair to you.
Please let me make amends. Don't say that you forgot the love we knew.
After all, we were more than friends.
Give me back your glass. Give me back romance. Give me one more chance.
Forgive me. From the bottom of my heart, dear, I apologize.
Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway.
The hip hooray, the ballyhoo, that's the lullaby of Broadway.
The rumble of the subway train, the rattle of the taxi.
The daffy deals to entertain at Angelo's and Maxi's.
When a Broadway baby says goodnight, it's early in the morning.
Manhattan babies don't sleep tight until the dawn, the dawn, the dawn, the dawn, the dawn.
So good night, baby. It's five a.m. We'll soon be born.
It's six a.m. The day is born. Milkman's on his way.
It's time to go and join the show. You'd better go, baby.
Sleep tight, nighty-night. Let's go to bed.
We've been up to Harlem, down to the village. We've covered all the night spots and towns.
We've been to all the bistros, crawled in every pub. Tonight we've really gotten around.
We've been to Sardis, Armando's, to Versailles in the start.
To Cunningham, to Copa, the air's in 21. To Morocco, to Angel, to Plaza, to Rue Van Brut.
The Asher and the Walden. We've really had fun. Now let's go home.
Good night, baby. Good night. Milkman's on his way.
Sleep tight, baby. Sleep tight.
Let's call it a day. Listen to the love of life. A bold, bold game from hand.
Well, now you see, darlings, that's what I mean. Everybody sings on our show but me.
Especially after that wonderful article in this month's radio and television mirror that says I'm a great singer.
I wrote it myself. Doing a medley of Broadway's hits and they leave out the biggest one of all.
The song I do so well. Give my regards to Broadway. It's a conspiracy.
You're right, Toulouse. It's like Abercrombie without fish shampoo. It's like Montgomery without cliff.
Jimmy, darling, I'm so glad you feel that way. And so just for you, I'm going to sing. Give my regards to Broadway.
Okay, Toulouse, I'll give you regards. So long. Remember me to Herald Square.
Leave it to Evelyn. I'll remember you to the Herald and all the squares. Good night.
Tell all the boys on 42nd Street that I will soon be there.
I just happened to be going over towards 42nd Street to Lula. I'll tell him. Good night.
Tell them that I'm yearning.
Say, tell me, Baron, did you ever hear singing like that? Charlie, for the first time in my life, the Baron cannot tell a lie.
I never heard anything like it.
Good night, Lou. Good night.
The minger with the old-time thong.
Well, I guess I better be going, Miss Bankhead. That sounds like hog-feeding time to me.
Give my regards to old Broadway.
Well, who should know better how old Broadway is? Good night.
And say that I'll be there very long.
Put on the coat, my boy.
And let's go. Come on.
Our coats are on.
Applause.
Cowards.
Well, darlings, that's our show for this week.
Next Sunday, we have another cast of the big names of show business.
Fred Allen, Phil Baker, Eddie Cantor, Eddie Fisher, Ella Fitzgerald, Portland Hoffer, Jan Pierce, and others.
And of course, our very own Meredith Wilson and the Big Show Orchardton Chorus.
And until then, may the good Lord bless and keep you, whether near or far away, heavenly.
May you find that long-awaited golden day today.
Jack?
May your troubles all be small ones and your fortune ten times ten.
Smith and Dale. May the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet again.
Bob?
May we walk with sunlight shining and a bluebird in every tree.
Celeste?
May there be a silver lining back of every cloud you see.
Meredith?
Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrow, never mind what might have been.
Jimmy?
May the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet again. Billy?
May you long recall each rainbow, then you'll soon forget the rain.
May the warm and tender memories be the ones that will remain.
Fill your dreams with sweet tomorrow, never mind what might have been.
May the good Lord bless and keep you until we meet again.
May the good Lord bless and keep you till we meet, till we meet again.
Good night, darlings, and Godspeed to our armed forces all over the world who hear these broadcasts each week.
The Big Show is produced and directed by D. Engelbach and written by Goodman Ace, Selma Diamond, George Foster, Mort Green, and Frank Wilson.
This is Ed Hurley, he's speaking.
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