WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 6.30 p.m. BULLABY WATCH TIME 00:04.000 --> 00:08.000 From the stage of the world famous Palladium Theatre, 00:08.000 --> 00:11.000 just off Oxford Circus in the heart of London, England, 00:11.000 --> 00:14.000 you are about to be entertained by some of the biggest names in show business. 00:14.000 --> 00:18.000 By the next hour and thirty minutes you will hear such bright stars as 00:18.000 --> 00:27.000 Fred Allen, Jack Buchanan, Portland Harper, Michael Howard, Vivienne Lee, Beatrice Lilly, Vera Lin, Lawrence Olivier, 00:27.000 --> 00:34.000 George Sanders, Rob Wilton, Meredith Wilson, and my name, darlings, is to the bankhead. 00:34.000 --> 00:47.000 MUSIC 00:47.000 --> 00:51.000 The National Broadcasting Company presents The Big Show. 00:51.000 --> 01:01.000 MUSIC 01:01.000 --> 01:08.000 Tonight, the National Broadcasting Company is happy to present the first Big Show program of the 1951-52 season. 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 Just twenty-five years ago, the National Broadcasting Company of America was formed. 01:13.000 --> 01:18.000 As part of its silver anniversary celebration and its long association with the BBC, 01:18.000 --> 01:24.000 the National Broadcasting Company has brought The Big Show across the seas as an expression of the unity that exists 01:24.000 --> 01:31.000 not only between the BBC and NBC, but the friendship that exists between the people of both nations. 01:31.000 --> 01:40.000 MUSIC 01:40.000 --> 01:45.000 But now, ladies and gentlemen, paying a return visit to London after much too long an absence, 01:45.000 --> 01:51.000 the star of The Big Show, the glamorous, unpredictable Tallulah Bankhead. 01:51.000 --> 02:20.000 MUSIC 02:20.000 --> 02:23.000 Bless you, darlings. 02:23.000 --> 02:29.000 Now let me see. What was I saying when I left London sixteen years ago? 02:29.000 --> 02:33.000 Oh, of course, I remember, make man a double. 02:33.000 --> 02:38.000 Oh, how divine to be in London again after all these years. 02:38.000 --> 02:42.000 How exciting to return to the scene of my former triumphs. 02:42.000 --> 02:45.000 Of course, they're all married now. 02:45.000 --> 02:48.000 If they wanted to get married, why didn't they ask me? 02:48.000 --> 02:51.000 Why did they have to go to strangers? 02:51.000 --> 02:58.000 I still have many old friends here. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.000 They've driven me all over Britain. 03:00.000 --> 03:05.000 There's Straton on Avon, where Shakespeare is buried, Weston to Abbey, where the famous poets are buried. 03:05.000 --> 03:10.000 And here I am this evening at the Palladium, where the American entertainers are buried. 03:10.000 --> 03:15.000 Oh, darlings, I'm too young to die. 03:15.000 --> 03:19.000 It's too soon for me to go. 03:19.000 --> 03:22.000 We'll wait. 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 Ah, isn't he sweet. 03:25.000 --> 03:35.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. George Sanders. 03:35.000 --> 03:39.000 George, darling, I can't begin to tell you how thrilled and pleased I was to hear 03:39.000 --> 03:43.000 you had accepted our invitation to appear on The Big Show from London. 03:43.000 --> 03:44.000 Indeed. 03:44.000 --> 03:48.000 Oh, yes, I've been wanting to talk to you for some time, George, about a play I'd like to do here in London. 03:48.000 --> 03:50.000 You and I, you know. 03:50.000 --> 03:52.000 Oh, now I know what you're thinking, George. 03:52.000 --> 03:55.000 You've been hearing that horrible gossip about me and my temperament. 03:55.000 --> 04:03.000 And don't think I don't know who's been spreading it out there in Hollywood. 04:03.000 --> 04:13.000 Where that film was made all about me. 04:13.000 --> 04:21.000 And of all the nice things I've said about that hag, 04:21.000 --> 04:31.000 well, when I get hold of her, I'll tear out every hair of her moustache. 04:31.000 --> 04:34.000 And she was, my very dearest friend. 04:34.000 --> 04:35.000 It's always your friend. 04:35.000 --> 04:37.000 They're the worst of the lot, George. 04:37.000 --> 04:41.000 Who was it who said, uh, defend me from my friends. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 I can take care of my enemies myself. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 Who was it who said that? 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Not I. 04:47.000 --> 04:55.000 So far I've only said indeed. 04:55.000 --> 04:59.000 Well, darling, I want you to consider seriously doing a play with me. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 We could be a tremendous hit here together. 05:01.000 --> 05:05.000 I will show you, you know, from 1923 to 1933. 05:05.000 --> 05:09.000 Five of the most glorious years of my life. 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 Oh, George, I'm certain you and I could go on for years to play in London, you and I. 05:13.000 --> 05:14.000 Bankhead and Sanders. 05:14.000 --> 05:20.000 Or if you insist, we'll be billed alphabetically. 05:20.000 --> 05:23.000 Have you ever appeared in a play here in London, George? 05:23.000 --> 05:24.000 Yes. 05:24.000 --> 05:27.000 Oh, of course, darling, I remember, and you were a big success here. 05:27.000 --> 05:28.000 Yes. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 And then you went to Hollywood to make pictures. 05:30.000 --> 05:32.000 Yes. 05:32.000 --> 05:36.000 Well, why are you telling me all this? 05:36.000 --> 05:41.000 I'm sorry, I do ramble on, don't I? 05:41.000 --> 05:44.000 George, you're wasting your time in pictures. 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 The theater is a true art. 05:46.000 --> 05:49.000 How can you compare Broadway or Piccadilly to Hollywood? 05:49.000 --> 05:57.000 Why, whenever I'm in Hollywood, I turn down a dozen propositions. 05:57.000 --> 06:02.000 Any of her pictures? 06:02.000 --> 06:03.000 Pictures, indeed. 06:03.000 --> 06:06.000 Ah, you belong to the theater, George. 06:06.000 --> 06:10.000 Think of the tradition of the London theater and those great British actors. 06:10.000 --> 06:15.000 David Garrick, Henry Irving, Danny Kaye. 06:15.000 --> 06:19.000 You know, as a matter of fact, Hulure, I've been offered a part in a musical comedy on Broadway. 06:19.000 --> 06:22.000 A musical? 06:22.000 --> 06:24.000 George, you're a musical. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 Frightening, isn't it? 06:26.000 --> 06:31.000 Well, I mean, after all, George, aren't you a little too, well, how shall I say it? 06:31.000 --> 06:36.000 Aren't you getting on in, well, that is, well, aren't you a little too, 06:36.000 --> 06:38.000 what is the word I'm thinking of? 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 Obe. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Yes, that's right. 06:41.000 --> 06:43.000 After all, there comes a time when a person's life, 06:43.000 --> 06:46.000 and he must bow to the inevitable and accept it gracefully. 06:46.000 --> 06:50.000 I've seen too many of my dearest friends who are simply just grating themselves 06:50.000 --> 06:52.000 by refusing to face the facts. 06:52.000 --> 06:57.000 As for myself, I have always prayed and hoped that I should be brave enough to go, 06:57.000 --> 07:02.000 and brave enough to go, oh, gracefully and accept it graciously. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 And did you? 07:04.000 --> 07:09.000 Laughter. 07:09.000 --> 07:13.000 And by the way, Hulure, there's a part in this musical that might interest you. 07:13.000 --> 07:15.000 If you care, I might arrange an audition. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 Audition, indeed. Nobody auditions Hulure. 07:18.000 --> 07:22.000 Well, they would want to hear you read, and they can tell you how they want it. 07:22.000 --> 07:25.000 Oh, then nobody tells Hulure. 07:25.000 --> 07:28.000 But it's the only way they can tell if you have the feel for the part. 07:28.000 --> 07:30.000 Darling, nobody feels... 07:30.000 --> 07:35.000 Laughter. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 ...less interested in this audition than I. 07:38.000 --> 07:42.000 I only auditioned once in my career, and it was a dark slip of the tongue. 07:42.000 --> 07:43.000 What did you do? 07:43.000 --> 07:45.000 I broke off my engagement. 07:45.000 --> 07:46.000 Laughter. 07:46.000 --> 07:49.000 My dear woman. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 My dear woman, and I use the word in a broad sense. 07:53.000 --> 07:57.000 Laughter. 07:57.000 --> 08:01.000 We've been standing here for some minutes now having a delightful monologue, haven't you? 08:01.000 --> 08:03.000 Laughter. 08:03.000 --> 08:07.000 And I can't tell you how enchanting it's been appearing on this show with you. 08:07.000 --> 08:10.000 I say this without reservation. 08:10.000 --> 08:13.000 If I could have got a reservation back to the States, I wouldn't be standing here. 08:13.000 --> 08:15.000 Laughter. 08:15.000 --> 08:20.000 I was booked for the show once before, but I was taken critically ill, unfortunately. 08:20.000 --> 08:26.000 And while standing here listening to you carry on, I experienced a fond hope that I would die. 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Laughter. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 What makes you think you haven't, darling? 08:30.000 --> 08:34.000 Laughter. 08:34.000 --> 08:36.000 Because this obviously is not heaven. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 Laughter. 08:39.000 --> 08:44.000 Applause. 08:44.000 --> 08:47.000 And you're going to prove it, aren't you, Joy? 08:47.000 --> 08:50.000 Because I see they have you down here for a song. 08:50.000 --> 08:55.000 Ladies and gentlemen, a hidden talent of our distinguished guest, Mr. George Sanders, 08:55.000 --> 08:58.000 singing, Someday My Heart Will Awake, 08:58.000 --> 09:03.000 composed by Britain's revered and deeply loved, Ivan Novello. 09:03.000 --> 09:28.000 Someday my heart will awake 09:28.000 --> 09:40.000 Someday the morning will break 09:40.000 --> 09:44.000 You will speak with open my eyes 09:44.000 --> 09:46.000 Showing the skies 09:46.000 --> 09:53.000 Hold and leave from now 09:53.000 --> 09:59.000 Hold and maybe this candle will rain 09:59.000 --> 10:05.000 Someday will echo again 10:05.000 --> 10:28.000 Bringing my lovers to rest Making my heart cry 10:28.000 --> 10:39.000 The leaves of summer fall and die I feel your grace along the stream 10:39.000 --> 10:46.000 Not even trouble by a dream 10:46.000 --> 10:59.000 Oh, that's amazing But while you're waiting I'm still proud 10:59.000 --> 11:09.000 Someday my heart will awake Someday the morning will break 11:09.000 --> 11:15.000 Music will open my eyes Showing the skies 11:15.000 --> 11:22.000 Hold and leave from now 11:22.000 --> 11:31.000 Maybe this gentle refrain Someday will echo again 11:31.000 --> 11:56.000 Bringing my lovers to rest Making my heart cry 12:01.000 --> 12:20.000 Music will open my eyes 12:20.000 --> 12:25.000 Coming soon to brighten up the theatre on Broadway are two of England's most distinguished actors, 12:25.000 --> 12:33.000 Sir Lawrence Olivier and his lady Vivian Leigh. Appearing at London's Historics and James Theatre in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, 12:33.000 --> 12:38.000 they have graciously accepted our invitation to give America a preview of their London success. 12:38.000 --> 13:01.000 Here then are Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Leigh on the big show in the scene from Shaw's sparkling satire Caesar and Cleopatra. 13:01.000 --> 13:10.000 Julius Caesar has come to conquer Egypt. He stands in the desert before the inscrutable Sphinx. Unknown to him, the girl Cleopatra, 13:10.000 --> 13:15.000 seeking her white cat, has also come and lies cradled between the paws of the monument. 13:15.000 --> 13:30.000 Thinking himself quite alone, Caesar in a mood speaks to the Sphinx. 13:30.000 --> 13:37.000 Hail, Sphinx! Salutation from Julius Caesar! 13:37.000 --> 13:44.000 I have wandered in many lands seeking the lost regions from which my birth into this world exiled me, 13:44.000 --> 13:49.000 and the company of creatures such as I myself. 13:49.000 --> 13:57.000 I have found flocks and pastures, men and cities, but no other Caesar. 13:57.000 --> 14:10.000 No heir native to me, no man kindred to me, none who could do my day's deed and think my night's thought. 14:10.000 --> 14:17.000 In the little world yonder, Sphinx, my place is as high as yours in this great desert. 14:17.000 --> 14:23.000 Only I wander and you sit still. I conquer and you endure. 14:23.000 --> 14:29.000 I work and wonder, you watch and wait. 14:29.000 --> 14:36.000 I look up and am dazzled, look down and am darkened, look round and am puzzled, 14:36.000 --> 14:48.000 whilst your eyes never turn from looking out, out of the world to the lost region, the home from which we have strayed. 14:48.000 --> 14:54.000 Sphinx, you and I, strangers to the race of men, are no strangers to one another. 14:54.000 --> 14:59.000 Have I not been conscious of you and of this place since I was born? 14:59.000 --> 15:06.000 Rome is a madman's dream. This is my reality. 15:06.000 --> 15:15.000 These starry lamps of yours I have seen from afar in Gaul, in Britain, in Spain, in Thessaly, 15:15.000 --> 15:22.000 signalling great secrets to some eternal sentinel below whose post I never could find. 15:22.000 --> 15:31.000 And here at last is their sentinel, an image of the constant and immortal part of my life, 15:31.000 --> 15:39.000 silent, full of thoughts, alone in the silver desert. 15:39.000 --> 15:51.000 Sphinx, Sphinx, I have climbed mountains at night to hear in the distance the stoutest winds that chase your sands in play. 15:51.000 --> 15:57.000 Our invisible children know Sphinx, laughing and whispering. 15:57.000 --> 16:04.000 My way hither was the way of destiny, for I am he of whose genius you are the symbol, 16:04.000 --> 16:10.000 part brute, part woman, and part god. 16:10.000 --> 16:16.000 Nothing of man in me at all. Have I read your riddle, Sphinx? 16:16.000 --> 16:17.000 Old gentleman! 16:17.000 --> 16:18.000 Ah, immortal parts! 16:18.000 --> 16:20.000 Old gentleman, don't run away! 16:20.000 --> 16:24.000 Old gentleman, don't run away. This to Julius Caesar. 16:24.000 --> 16:25.000 Old gentleman! 16:25.000 --> 16:31.000 Sphinx, you presume on your centuries. I am younger than you, though your voice is but a girl's voice as yet. 16:31.000 --> 16:34.000 Climb up here quickly, or the Romans will come and eat you. 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 A child at its breast, a divine child. 16:38.000 --> 16:41.000 Come up quickly. You must get up at its side and creep round. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Who are you? 16:42.000 --> 16:44.000 Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. 16:44.000 --> 16:45.000 Queen of the gypsies, you mean. 16:45.000 --> 16:49.000 You must not be disrespectful to me, or the Sphinx will let the Romans eat you. 16:49.000 --> 16:52.000 Come up. It's quite cozy here. 16:52.000 --> 16:55.000 What a dream, what a magnificent dream. 16:55.000 --> 17:00.000 Only let me not wake and I will conquer ten continents to pay for dreaming it out to the end. 17:00.000 --> 17:03.000 Take care. 17:03.000 --> 17:05.000 That's right. 17:05.000 --> 17:08.000 Now, sit down. You may have the other paw. 17:08.000 --> 17:11.000 It is very powerful and will protect us. 17:11.000 --> 17:14.000 But it wouldn't take any notice of me or keep me company. 17:14.000 --> 17:17.000 I'm glad you have come. I was very lonely. 17:17.000 --> 17:19.000 Did you happen to see a white cat anywhere? 17:19.000 --> 17:20.000 Have you lost one? 17:20.000 --> 17:22.000 The sacred white cat, is it not dreadful? 17:22.000 --> 17:25.000 I brought him here to sacrifice him to the Sphinx. 17:25.000 --> 17:30.000 But when we got a little way from the city, a black cat called him and he jumped out of my arms and ran away to it. 17:30.000 --> 17:34.000 Do you think the black cat can have been my great-great-great-grandmother? 17:34.000 --> 17:39.000 Your great-great-great-well, why not? Nothing would surprise me on this night of nights. 17:39.000 --> 17:40.000 I think it must have been. 17:40.000 --> 17:45.000 My great-grandmother's great-grandmother was a black kitten of the sacred white cat. 17:45.000 --> 17:47.000 And the River Nile made her his seventh wife. 17:47.000 --> 17:49.000 That is why my hair is so wavy. 17:49.000 --> 17:53.000 And I always want to be let to as I like, no matter whether it is the will of the gods or not. 17:53.000 --> 17:56.000 That is because my blood is made with Nile water. 17:56.000 --> 17:59.000 What are you doing here at this time of night? Do you live here? 17:59.000 --> 18:02.000 Of course not. I am the Queen. 18:02.000 --> 18:06.000 And I shall live in the palace of Alexandria when I have killed my brother who drove me out of it. 18:06.000 --> 18:08.000 When I'm old enough, I shall do just what I like. 18:08.000 --> 18:11.000 I shall be able to poison the slaves and see them wriggle. 18:11.000 --> 18:15.000 And pretend to Fatata Tita that she's going to be put into the fiery furnace. 18:16.000 --> 18:18.000 Meanwhile, why are you not at home and in bed? 18:18.000 --> 18:21.000 Because the Romans are coming to eat us all. 18:21.000 --> 18:23.000 You are not at home in bed either? 18:23.000 --> 18:27.000 Yes, I am. I live in a tent and I'm now in that tent, fast asleep and dreaming. 18:27.000 --> 18:30.000 You are a funny old gentleman. I like you. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 That spoils the dream. 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 Why don't you dream that I am young? 18:34.000 --> 18:38.000 I wish you were. Only I think I should be more afraid of you. 18:38.000 --> 18:44.000 I like men, especially young men with strong round arms. 18:44.000 --> 18:46.000 But I am afraid of them. 18:46.000 --> 18:49.000 You are old and rather thin and stringy. 18:49.000 --> 18:53.000 But you have a nice voice and I like to have someone to talk to. 18:53.000 --> 18:55.000 Though I think you are a little mad. 18:55.000 --> 18:58.000 It is the moon that makes you talk to yourself in that silly way. 18:58.000 --> 19:00.000 What? You heard that, did you? 19:00.000 --> 19:02.000 I was saying my prayers to the great sphinx. 19:02.000 --> 19:04.000 But this isn't the great sphinx. 19:04.000 --> 19:06.000 This is only a dear little kitten of the sphinx. 19:06.000 --> 19:10.000 Why the great sphinx is so big it has a temple between its paws. 19:10.000 --> 19:12.000 This is my pet sphinx. 19:12.000 --> 19:17.000 Tell me, do you think the Romans have any sorcerers who could take us away from the sphinx by magic? 19:17.000 --> 19:19.000 Why, are you afraid of the Romans? 19:19.000 --> 19:21.000 They would eat us if they caught us. 19:21.000 --> 19:23.000 They are barbarians. 19:23.000 --> 19:25.000 Their chief is called Julius Caesar. 19:25.000 --> 19:28.000 His father was a tiger and his mother a burning mountain. 19:28.000 --> 19:30.000 And his nose is like an elephant's trunk. 19:30.000 --> 19:36.000 They all have long noses and ivory tusks and little tails and seven arms with a hundred arrows in each. 19:36.000 --> 19:39.000 And they live on human flesh. 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Would you like me to show you a real Roman? 19:41.000 --> 19:43.000 No, you are frightening me. 19:43.000 --> 19:45.000 No matter, this is only a dream. 19:45.000 --> 19:47.000 It is not a dream. See, see. 19:47.000 --> 19:49.000 Stop, how dare you. 19:49.000 --> 19:51.000 You said you were dreaming. I only wanted to show you. 19:51.000 --> 19:54.000 Don't cry. The queen mustn't cry. 19:54.000 --> 19:56.000 Am I awake? 19:56.000 --> 19:58.000 Yes. 19:58.000 --> 20:01.000 No, impossible. Madness, madness. Back to camp, to camp. 20:01.000 --> 20:03.000 No, you shan't leave me. No, no, no, don't go. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 I'm afraid, afraid of the Romans. 20:05.000 --> 20:08.000 Appatra, can you see my face well? 20:08.000 --> 20:12.000 Yes. It is so white in the moonlight. 20:12.000 --> 20:16.000 Are you sure that it is the moonlight that makes me look whiter than an Egyptian? 20:16.000 --> 20:21.000 You notice I have a rather long nose. 20:21.000 --> 20:24.000 It is a Roman nose, Cleopatra. 20:24.000 --> 20:27.000 Bite him in two, Sings, bite him in two. 20:27.000 --> 20:29.000 I meant to sacrifice the white cat. I did indeed. 20:29.000 --> 20:31.000 Bite him in two, Sings, bite him in two. 20:31.000 --> 20:35.000 Cleopatra, shall I teach you a way to prevent Caesar from eating you? 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 Oh, do, do, do. 20:37.000 --> 20:39.000 I will steal Patatiditas' jewels and give them to you. 20:39.000 --> 20:42.000 I will make the River Nile water your land twice a year. 20:42.000 --> 20:44.000 Peace, peace, my child. Your gods are afraid of the Romans. 20:44.000 --> 20:48.000 See, your sphinx dare not bite me, nor prevent me carrying you off to Julius Caesar. 20:48.000 --> 20:50.000 You won't, you won't. You said you wouldn't. 20:50.000 --> 20:51.000 Caesar never eats women. 20:51.000 --> 20:52.000 What? 20:52.000 --> 20:53.000 But he eats girls and cats. 20:53.000 --> 20:56.000 Now, you're a silly little girl, and you're descended from the black kitten. 20:56.000 --> 20:57.000 You're both a girl and a cat. 20:57.000 --> 20:59.000 Will he eat me? 20:59.000 --> 21:02.000 Yes. Unless you make him believe that you are a woman. 21:02.000 --> 21:05.000 Then you must get a sorcerer to make a woman of me. 21:05.000 --> 21:07.000 Are you a sorcerer? 21:07.000 --> 21:10.000 Perhaps, but it will take a long time. 21:10.000 --> 21:14.000 And this very night you must stand face to face with Caesar in the palace of your father. 21:14.000 --> 21:15.000 No, no, I dare not. 21:15.000 --> 21:19.000 Whatever dread may be in your soul, however terrible Caesar may be to you, 21:19.000 --> 21:22.000 you must confront him as a brave woman and a great queen. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 And you must feel no fear. 21:24.000 --> 21:30.000 If your hand shakes, if your voice quivers, then night and death. 21:30.000 --> 21:33.000 But if he thinks you worthy to rule, he will set you on the throne by his side 21:33.000 --> 21:35.000 and make you the real ruler of Egypt. 21:35.000 --> 21:39.000 No, he will find me out, he will find me out. 21:39.000 --> 21:41.000 He is easily deceived by women. 21:41.000 --> 21:44.000 Their eyes dazzle him that he sees them not as they are, 21:44.000 --> 21:46.000 but as he wishes them to appear to him. 21:46.000 --> 21:47.000 Then we will cheat him. 21:47.000 --> 21:50.000 I will put on Fatal's headdress and he will think me quite an old woman. 21:50.000 --> 21:52.000 If you do that, he will eat you at one mouthful. 21:52.000 --> 21:56.000 But I will give him a cake with my magic opal and seven hairs of the white cat bacon. 21:56.000 --> 21:58.000 Ah, you're a little fool. He will eat your cake and you too. 21:58.000 --> 22:00.000 Oh, please, please, I will do whatever you tell me. 22:00.000 --> 22:03.000 I will be good. I will be your slave. 22:03.000 --> 22:05.000 Hark! 22:05.000 --> 22:06.000 What was that? 22:06.000 --> 22:07.000 Caesar's voice. 22:07.000 --> 22:10.000 Ah, let us run away. Come, oh come. 22:10.000 --> 22:13.000 You are safe with me until you stand on your throne to receive Caesar. 22:13.000 --> 22:14.000 Now lead me there. 22:14.000 --> 22:17.000 I will, I will. Come, come, come. 22:17.000 --> 22:20.000 The gods are angry. Do you feel the earth shaking? 22:20.000 --> 22:22.000 It is the tread of Caesar's legion. 22:22.000 --> 22:26.000 This way, quickly. And let us look for the white cat as we go. 22:26.000 --> 22:28.000 It is he that has turned you into a Roman. 22:28.000 --> 22:33.000 Oh, incorrigible. Oh, incorrigible. 22:33.000 --> 22:35.000 Away. 22:35.000 --> 22:52.000 Music 22:52.000 --> 22:55.000 Our thanks to the aunt Livia and the lovely lady Livia Lee 22:55.000 --> 22:58.000 for the memorable and most distinguished contribution to the big show. 22:58.000 --> 22:59.000 Miss Banker. 22:59.000 --> 23:01.000 Oh, yes, Meredith, what is it? 23:01.000 --> 23:02.000 Come over here, pet. 23:02.000 --> 23:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I think it's time you met our maestro, Mr. Meredith Wilson. 23:07.000 --> 23:11.000 Applause 23:11.000 --> 23:16.000 I should tell our British audience that Meredith is not only a brilliant musician 23:16.000 --> 23:19.000 and has written some of our most vying songs, 23:19.000 --> 23:24.000 but he is also one of the most devastatingly dull conversationists I've ever met. 23:24.000 --> 23:27.000 I can say this to his face because Meredith is an American 23:27.000 --> 23:30.000 and doesn't understand a word of English. 23:30.000 --> 23:33.000 Well, Meredith, I hope you've been enjoying your stay in London, 23:33.000 --> 23:36.000 and don't make me sorry I asked you. 23:36.000 --> 23:42.000 Well, sir, Miss Bankhead. 23:42.000 --> 23:44.000 I knew I'd be sorry. 23:44.000 --> 23:47.000 Well, what have you been doing since you got here, Meredith? 23:47.000 --> 23:49.000 Oh, I've been doing a lot of shopping. 23:49.000 --> 23:51.000 I've been buying stuff you can't get in America. 23:51.000 --> 23:52.000 Oh, such as? 23:52.000 --> 23:55.000 English money. 23:55.000 --> 23:59.000 But I did go into a hat shop to buy a hat, and this clerk started to talk to me. 23:59.000 --> 24:03.000 Darling, darling, darling, it's not clerk, it's Clark. 24:03.000 --> 24:04.000 Oh, Clark. 24:04.000 --> 24:08.000 Well, sir, I couldn't understand a word that Clark said. 24:08.000 --> 24:12.000 I just stood there like a jerk. 24:12.000 --> 24:18.000 Thank you. 24:18.000 --> 24:20.000 My sweet, you're not a jerk, you're a jerk. 24:20.000 --> 24:24.000 I mean, well, get on with your revocing little stories. 24:24.000 --> 24:25.000 Yes. 24:25.000 --> 24:30.000 Well, I got so confused in there that I walked down the street and stopped into the bar. 24:30.000 --> 24:31.000 No, no, no, no, no, darling. 24:31.000 --> 24:33.000 Over here, Meredith, the bar is a pub. 24:33.000 --> 24:34.000 A pub? 24:34.000 --> 24:35.000 Yes, Meredith. 24:35.000 --> 24:38.000 Now, I'd love to stand here and listen to the rest of this nauseating story, 24:38.000 --> 24:41.000 but if I do, we won't have time to hear any of your music. 24:41.000 --> 24:46.000 Have you something there you could play for us, something short, about 32 bars? 24:46.000 --> 24:50.000 Hold on, Miss Bankett, you can't get me on that one. 24:50.000 --> 24:52.000 It's not bars in Britain. 24:52.000 --> 24:54.000 I have a song I'd like to play. 24:54.000 --> 25:01.000 It's just 32 pubs long. 25:01.000 --> 25:03.000 Very well, stagger on. 25:03.000 --> 25:07.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Meredith Wilson with the BBC Variety Concert Orchestra 25:07.000 --> 25:11.000 and George Mitchell Glee Club in one of Meredith's typically exciting arrangements 25:11.000 --> 25:16.000 in the still of the night. 25:41.000 --> 25:47.000 As I gaze from my window 25:47.000 --> 25:51.000 As the moon in its light 25:51.000 --> 26:00.000 I thought of favoring you 26:00.000 --> 26:07.000 In the still of the night 26:07.000 --> 26:14.000 While the world is in the mood 26:14.000 --> 26:19.000 For the times without number, darling 26:19.000 --> 26:25.000 When I say to you 26:25.000 --> 26:33.000 You, you love me 26:33.000 --> 26:39.000 And I am you 26:39.000 --> 26:47.000 And I will my life to live 26:47.000 --> 26:53.000 My dreams come true 26:53.000 --> 26:59.000 Oh, will this dream of mine 26:59.000 --> 27:05.000 Be a part of time 27:05.000 --> 27:12.000 Like the moon, oh indeed 27:12.000 --> 27:18.000 On the rim of a hill 27:18.000 --> 27:23.000 In the still 27:23.000 --> 27:30.000 Of a home 27:30.000 --> 27:38.000 In the still 27:38.000 --> 27:52.000 Like the moon, oh indeed 27:52.000 --> 28:02.000 On the rim of a hill 28:02.000 --> 28:08.000 In the still 28:08.000 --> 28:18.000 Of a home 28:18.000 --> 28:24.000 In the still 28:24.000 --> 28:28.000 Still of the night 28:28.000 --> 28:41.000 Applause 28:41.000 --> 28:45.000 We'll be back in a moment, darling, just as soon as I ring my chimes. 28:45.000 --> 28:49.000 This is NBC, the national broadcasting company. 28:49.000 --> 29:01.000 The Crusade for Freedom is the American people's challenge to communism, 29:01.000 --> 29:05.000 offering to each of us the opportunity to strike a blow for freedom 29:05.000 --> 29:08.000 and to make a personal contribution toward our common goal, 29:08.000 --> 29:11.000 the freedom of the world from communist oppression. 29:11.000 --> 29:18.000 Join the Crusade for Freedom and help truth fight communism. 29:18.000 --> 29:21.000 This is the Big Show, transcribed from London. 29:21.000 --> 29:24.000 And here again is Tallulah Bankhead. 29:24.000 --> 29:29.000 I've been meaning to tell you about a most charming experience I had the day I arrived at the London airport. 29:29.000 --> 29:34.000 I had just landed and my plane was about to land behind me. 29:34.000 --> 29:38.000 Nine days away I've been here before. 29:38.000 --> 29:43.000 Anyway, a tall, handsome, distinguished looking gentleman approached and said to me, 29:43.000 --> 29:46.000 I bet you never thought I'd be here waiting for you, Tallulah. 29:46.000 --> 29:49.000 Oh darling, how wonderful to see you, how sweet you'll come. 29:49.000 --> 29:55.000 If I'd had my choice of one man in all the world to meet me here, it would have been you. 29:55.000 --> 29:59.000 I never expected to see you, dear, dear, Welford. 29:59.000 --> 30:04.000 Applause 30:04.000 --> 30:08.000 Tallulah, I am not Welford. The name is Jack Buchanan. 30:08.000 --> 30:17.000 Applause 30:17.000 --> 30:23.000 Oh, oh Jack Buchanan, darling, how wonderful to see you, how sweet of you to come. 30:23.000 --> 30:28.000 If I'd had my choice of one man in all the world to meet me here, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 30:28.000 --> 30:33.000 Tallulah, I waited fifteen long years to see you step off that plane. 30:33.000 --> 30:37.000 Oh, I'm sorry darling, we were held up at Channan's. 30:37.000 --> 30:40.000 I'm sorry. Did you have a rough trip over? 30:40.000 --> 30:44.000 Oh, not I. I'm an excellent traveler. I'm in very good shape. 30:44.000 --> 30:47.000 Yes, that's the word round London. 30:47.000 --> 30:53.000 I wrote you when I heard you were coming, but I suppose you've been so busy preparing for it. 30:53.000 --> 31:01.000 Oh, I had no idea. Packing, getting my passport, sitting for my passport painting. 31:01.000 --> 31:06.000 And of course you know, darling, all about those inoculations you have to take. 31:06.000 --> 31:10.000 Oh yes, yes, we know. When we heard you were coming, all London was inoculated. 31:10.000 --> 31:16.000 Applause 31:16.000 --> 31:19.000 Isn't he contagious? 31:19.000 --> 31:25.000 Do we have to stand here talking, Jack? Can't we go someplace else? I'm cold. 31:25.000 --> 31:27.000 That's not the word round London. 31:27.000 --> 31:32.000 Laughter 31:32.000 --> 31:35.000 Fifteen years? Has it really been fifteen years? 31:35.000 --> 31:39.000 That's right, Tallulah. And you can imagine what I was thinking when the plane landed 31:39.000 --> 31:43.000 and the door opened and out stepped a vision of feminine loveliness. 31:43.000 --> 31:46.000 But I waited for you. 31:46.000 --> 31:50.000 Laughter 31:50.000 --> 31:52.000 Oh Wilfred. 31:52.000 --> 31:54.000 No, no, no, it was Linda Darnell. 31:54.000 --> 31:56.000 Laughter 31:56.000 --> 31:58.000 Fifteen years. 31:58.000 --> 32:00.000 That's right, fifteen years ago, last July 3rd. 32:00.000 --> 32:02.000 No, no darling, it was July 5th. 32:02.000 --> 32:06.000 No, no, no dear, the 3rd of July. The date is indelibly inscribed in my memory. 32:06.000 --> 32:11.000 No Jack, I was supposed to say on the 3rd of July, but I decided to say over until the next day, the 5th of July. 32:11.000 --> 32:14.000 But the next day will be the 4th of July. 32:14.000 --> 32:16.000 Darling, in Britain there is no 4th of July. 32:16.000 --> 32:21.000 Laughter 32:21.000 --> 32:27.000 Tallulah, I never wrote you this, but I stood here for hours watching your boat disappear over the horizon. 32:27.000 --> 32:35.000 Little realizing then that someday, man would build huge birds of steel to conquer the skies and bring you back to these shores. 32:35.000 --> 32:43.000 All I knew that day was that I was desperate to see you sail away over the vastness of the fathomless and mysterious sea. 32:43.000 --> 32:47.000 You're making it sound as if I sailed on the Nina, the Peter, and the Sani Maria. 32:47.000 --> 32:49.000 Laughter 32:49.000 --> 32:51.000 Hey Jack, what's been happening in London since I went away? 32:51.000 --> 32:53.000 What's been happening in the last 15 years? 32:53.000 --> 32:56.000 Oh, nothing really, no, is that a thing? 32:56.000 --> 32:57.000 Laughter 32:57.000 --> 32:59.000 It's been rather quiet, you know. 32:59.000 --> 33:01.000 Laughter 33:01.000 --> 33:06.000 But when I was here it wasn't quiet. I can still hear those champagne corks popping all over town. 33:06.000 --> 33:09.000 Yeah, I come to think of it, there were things popping around here in the last 15 years. 33:09.000 --> 33:10.000 Laughter 33:10.000 --> 33:12.000 Oh, what times we had. 33:12.000 --> 33:14.000 Yeah, remember those days? 33:14.000 --> 33:16.000 I was thinking of the night zone. 33:16.000 --> 33:17.000 Laughter 33:17.000 --> 33:21.000 Tell Lula, what night? What night? Do you remember the best? 33:21.000 --> 33:24.000 SLR and Olivier, the secret hard way, so round to the truth. 33:24.000 --> 33:31.000 Laughter 33:31.000 --> 33:34.000 Tell Lula, do you remember our last night together? 33:34.000 --> 33:38.000 The night I got tickets to the theater and they moved into your place. 33:38.000 --> 33:42.000 There was something, something I wanted to ask you that night. 33:42.000 --> 33:47.000 But either you wouldn't listen or I just didn't have the courage. 33:47.000 --> 33:50.000 I thought of it as I saw you off in the boat. 33:50.000 --> 33:53.000 And for 15 years I've been waiting to ask you. 33:53.000 --> 33:57.000 Oh Jack, how sweet. Oh, what is it darling? 33:57.000 --> 34:01.000 I say for the tickets that night you still owe me 7 pounds 4 shillings. 34:01.000 --> 34:15.000 Laughter 34:15.000 --> 34:18.000 Comes now one of the most thrilling voices in all Britain. 34:18.000 --> 34:24.000 He was no stranger to our boys who were overseas during the war when he was known as the sweetheart of the 40s. 34:24.000 --> 34:29.000 So Ethel Merman, Diana Shaw, Georgia Gibbs and all the rest of you, watch out. 34:29.000 --> 34:31.000 Well here is Miss Lula Lane. 34:31.000 --> 34:41.000 Applause 34:41.000 --> 34:45.000 Oh Vera darling, come here. I heard you rehearsing several songs this morning. 34:45.000 --> 34:47.000 What did you finally decide to sing? 34:47.000 --> 34:48.000 I Am Loved. 34:48.000 --> 34:50.000 You and me both darling. 34:50.000 --> 34:51.000 Laughter 34:51.000 --> 34:53.000 By Cole Porter. 34:53.000 --> 34:54.000 And just you darling. 34:54.000 --> 34:58.000 Laughter 34:58.000 --> 35:06.000 Oh and I want you to know my dear, I make quite a concession allowing you to sing on our show because I usually take care of the singing here. 35:06.000 --> 35:09.000 Oh really? I didn't know you sang to Lula. 35:09.000 --> 35:13.000 Oh I must sing it out of my record. You'll adore it. 35:13.000 --> 35:20.000 I sing I'll be singing with all the old familiar places. 35:20.000 --> 35:26.000 At the part of my embrace there's always good. 35:26.000 --> 35:28.000 You see darling. 35:28.000 --> 35:32.000 Applause 35:32.000 --> 35:37.000 Oh but I don't think we're a competition to Lula. You see I'm a girl singer. 35:37.000 --> 35:44.000 Laughter 35:44.000 --> 35:58.000 Isn't he sweet. 35:58.000 --> 36:04.000 Bravo, bravo viriline, bravo. What a hit that gal would be in America. 36:04.000 --> 36:08.000 Applause 36:08.000 --> 36:17.000 Now darlings I want you all to meet one of the kindliest and dearest men in show business. A great performer and a wonderful person. Unselfish, unspoiled. 36:17.000 --> 36:19.000 And unemployed. 36:19.000 --> 36:21.000 Laughter 36:21.000 --> 36:23.000 One of America's most popular comedians. 36:23.000 --> 36:28.000 Oh yes so popular I had to come 3,000 miles to get one night's work. 36:28.000 --> 36:30.000 Laughter 36:30.000 --> 36:33.000 He hadn't played in a London theater in 20 years. 36:33.000 --> 36:34.000 By popular demand. 36:34.000 --> 36:38.000 Yes, yes. Mr. Pat Alex. 36:38.000 --> 36:45.000 Applause 36:45.000 --> 36:55.000 You know there was one item in that rather soggy introduction that I think should be corrected. Now just for the record of course other papers please copy. 36:55.000 --> 36:57.000 So what item is that Pat? 36:57.000 --> 37:05.000 Well my not having been in London in 20 years. You know a few years ago I made a movie here for one of the English motion picture producers. 37:05.000 --> 37:06.000 A rank? 37:06.000 --> 37:07.000 It sure was. 37:07.000 --> 37:08.000 Laughter 37:08.000 --> 37:16.000 And so having confounded the audience with this rare display of brilliant wit by appointment. Good night to Lula and thank you for the fee. 37:16.000 --> 37:17.000 Oh yes. 37:17.000 --> 37:21.000 No, no, no, no, you're not getting away with just one line. You're getting a lot of money to be on this program. 37:21.000 --> 37:22.000 A lot of money? 37:22.000 --> 37:27.000 Ten pounds. Twelve thousand pounds of course. 37:27.000 --> 37:31.000 Well how much is that when you thaw it out? A small puddle is it? 37:31.000 --> 37:36.000 Now Fred you come back here. You sound rather full on. You, Miss America. 37:36.000 --> 37:38.000 No, me Fred Allen. 37:38.000 --> 37:43.000 Laughter 37:43.000 --> 37:47.000 However you can think of me as Miss America if you like. 37:47.000 --> 37:50.000 How does Portland like it here Fred? 37:50.000 --> 37:52.000 Well I tell you Portland has been... 37:52.000 --> 37:55.000 I like it. I like London fine Miss Bankhead. 37:55.000 --> 37:59.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Fred Allen known professionally as Fawson Hopper. 37:59.000 --> 38:05.000 Applause 38:05.000 --> 38:08.000 You having a good time in London darling? 38:08.000 --> 38:11.000 Yes, except the money confuses me. 38:11.000 --> 38:19.000 The money? Well it's quite simple darling. You see first there's the pound sterling, then there's the shilling and there's twenty shillings to the pound. That's all there is to it. 38:19.000 --> 38:26.000 Oh that's easy. Twenty shillings make one pound. Now I can go shopping for some clothes. 38:26.000 --> 38:32.000 Well you look quite well in that gown you're wearing Portland. I've never seen you look so well. Have you put on a little weight? 38:32.000 --> 38:38.000 Oh no. I weigh the same. Two thousand two hundred and twenty shillings. 38:38.000 --> 38:42.000 Laughter 38:42.000 --> 38:49.000 Well that's right Portland. That joke was written for a New York audience and we'll hang around till they get over here to laugh at it. 38:49.000 --> 38:54.000 Laughter 38:54.000 --> 38:56.000 You know there's a little difference in time involved. 38:56.000 --> 39:03.000 It's not just the difference in time between radio in New York and radio here Fred. Have you ever thought of doing a radio show here in London darling? 39:03.000 --> 39:08.000 Do you think Britain would make an even exchange? Fred Allen for Vera Lynn. 39:08.000 --> 39:09.000 Laughter 39:09.000 --> 39:11.000 Well I don't know about that Fred. 39:11.000 --> 39:13.000 I'll throw in a dozen pairs of nylon. 39:13.000 --> 39:15.000 Laughter 39:15.000 --> 39:18.000 Fred, you sound quite anxious to work over here. 39:18.000 --> 39:22.000 Well things being what they are Tilo, I am quite anxious to work anywhere. 39:22.000 --> 39:23.000 Laughter 39:23.000 --> 39:33.000 You know I've been all through the old medium radio and the current medium television and now like many another American act, I'm ready for the new medium, England. 39:33.000 --> 39:36.000 Laughter 39:36.000 --> 39:42.000 It's strictly a business deal. England gives Vera Lynn to America and America gives England the business. 39:42.000 --> 39:44.000 Laughter 39:44.000 --> 39:50.000 I don't know much about this Fred, but I have a friend here in England who is quite an important thing in the entertainment world. 39:50.000 --> 39:51.000 Oh really? 39:51.000 --> 39:59.000 Oh Jack Cannon. Fred is interested in carving out a career for himself here in England. Now I thought you might be able to advise him on the kind of comedy he should do here. 39:59.000 --> 40:05.000 Well Fred, I've had an idea for a radio show for some years. I'm sure it will be popular with British public really. 40:05.000 --> 40:08.000 It's typical English humor and I'll be glad to give it to you. 40:08.000 --> 40:09.000 Well that's wonderful Jack. 40:09.000 --> 40:16.000 Now my idea is centered around a typical British neighborhood. I call it Buchanan's Muse. 40:16.000 --> 40:17.000 Muse? Yes. 40:17.000 --> 40:20.000 What's a muse? We don't have muse in America. 40:20.000 --> 40:21.000 Laughter 40:21.000 --> 40:24.000 Well Fred, no muse is good muse. 40:24.000 --> 40:27.000 Laughter 40:27.000 --> 40:28.000 Is that a... 40:28.000 --> 40:33.000 Laughter 40:33.000 --> 40:39.000 Jack, confidentially is that a domestic joke or is it for export only? 40:39.000 --> 40:41.000 Laughter 40:41.000 --> 40:44.000 I'm really sorry old boy. I'm afraid I lost my head. 40:44.000 --> 40:49.000 Well say there is as good a cue for a Tower of London joke as I have ever heard. 40:49.000 --> 40:51.000 Laughter 40:51.000 --> 40:54.000 Getting back to muse Jack, I don't think you quite cleared that up. 40:54.000 --> 40:57.000 Well now a muse in America might be called an alley. 40:57.000 --> 40:58.000 Oh? 40:58.000 --> 41:01.000 If I did this idea in America, I'd call it Buchanan's Alley. 41:01.000 --> 41:02.000 Oh? 41:02.000 --> 41:04.000 If you did it, Allen's Alley. 41:04.000 --> 41:06.000 Allen's Alley, I see. 41:06.000 --> 41:07.000 Laughter 41:07.000 --> 41:12.000 And this is the idea that you have been personally nourishing for years. 41:12.000 --> 41:13.000 Laughter 41:13.000 --> 41:18.000 Oh Fred, it's really a great idea. You'll make a million dollars out of it. 41:18.000 --> 41:22.000 Well say I know a girl in Paris who made two million dollars out of an alley. 41:22.000 --> 41:24.000 Remember Rita's alley? 41:24.000 --> 41:26.000 Laughter 41:26.000 --> 41:29.000 Applause 41:29.000 --> 41:32.000 Now let me show you how it works Fred. 41:32.000 --> 41:35.000 You simply walk along the muse and knock at people's doors like this. 41:35.000 --> 41:37.000 Come along I'll show you. 41:37.000 --> 41:38.000 Knock 41:38.000 --> 41:40.000 Hello Jack, glad to see you. 41:40.000 --> 41:46.000 Well as I live and try not to breathe as I wind my way through the dustbins if it isn't Michael Howard. 41:46.000 --> 41:52.000 Applause 41:52.000 --> 41:56.000 Michael, Michael this is Fred Allen. 41:56.000 --> 41:58.000 Oh that's too bad. 41:58.000 --> 42:03.000 Well I had to come three thousand miles to get insulted and in an alley. 42:03.000 --> 42:07.000 Michael, Michael, Mr. Allen's from New York. 42:07.000 --> 42:10.000 Oh New York, second greatest city in the British Empire. 42:10.000 --> 42:12.000 Laughter 42:12.000 --> 42:18.000 Now wait a minute, wait a minute Michael, wasn't there a slight fracas a little while ago? 42:18.000 --> 42:20.000 Didn't we settle that? 42:20.000 --> 42:23.000 We was robbed, all we needed was eight more seconds. 42:23.000 --> 42:31.000 Laughter 42:31.000 --> 42:35.000 You see Michael is one of Britain's favorite radio comedians. 42:35.000 --> 42:36.000 Oh really? 42:36.000 --> 42:40.000 Well actually I'm Britain's radio favorite number eight hundred and forty two. 42:40.000 --> 42:47.000 And believe me it's a great thrill and honor for me, an English comedian, to stand here on the stage of the London Palladium. 42:47.000 --> 42:53.000 Laughter 42:53.000 --> 42:59.000 Now not that I want you to get the idea that we English comedians are at all jealous of Americans coming over here, 42:59.000 --> 43:03.000 trying to find out who's pinched their jokes and getting paid for it at the same time. 43:03.000 --> 43:04.000 Laughter 43:04.000 --> 43:07.000 Michael what do they do when they get here most of them? 43:07.000 --> 43:14.000 Well they walk on the stage, they get hold of the microphone, they look at the audience with a dreamy expression in their eyes and they say, 43:14.000 --> 43:17.000 Gee. 43:17.000 --> 43:22.000 And for that they probably get two hundred dollars or in English money about three hundred thousand pounds. 43:22.000 --> 43:27.000 Laughter 43:27.000 --> 43:29.000 Gee they say. 43:29.000 --> 43:33.000 When I was fourteen months I could say, Gee Gee and what did I get? A toffee apple. 43:33.000 --> 43:36.000 Laughter 43:36.000 --> 43:40.000 And you try getting a toffee apple today without a timber license and see what he lets you do. 43:40.000 --> 43:45.000 Laughter 43:45.000 --> 43:46.000 That's an English joke. 43:46.000 --> 43:48.000 Laughter 43:48.000 --> 43:52.000 So one of the chief differences between the Americans and the English is their salaries. 43:52.000 --> 43:56.000 That and the fact that the Americans always eat their pork in the right hand. 43:56.000 --> 44:00.000 And if they don't ever want to see you again they always say I'll be right back. 44:00.000 --> 44:07.000 Laughter 44:07.000 --> 44:12.000 I like that I've had time. However, going back to money, I wish we could get here. 44:12.000 --> 44:18.000 There isn't really much difference between our two countries. After all President Truman has a daughter who sings. 44:18.000 --> 44:21.000 Winston Churchill has a daughter who acts. 44:21.000 --> 44:23.000 The father's just ad lib of course. 44:23.000 --> 44:24.000 Laughter 44:24.000 --> 44:28.000 In America you have New York. In England we once had London. 44:28.000 --> 44:30.000 Laughter 44:30.000 --> 44:32.000 That was during the war of course when we were a free country. 44:32.000 --> 44:37.000 Laughter 44:37.000 --> 44:42.000 In America you have Pittsburgh. Over here we have Manchester. 44:42.000 --> 44:43.000 Laughter 44:43.000 --> 44:46.000 Frankly there's nothing I'd always couldn't do about it. 44:46.000 --> 44:47.000 Laughter 44:47.000 --> 44:53.000 In New York you have the Bronx. And we have, well we haven't actually got anything quite like that. 44:53.000 --> 44:55.000 Laughter 44:55.000 --> 44:58.000 The last time I was in New York I had a wonderful time. 44:58.000 --> 45:02.000 Of course the restaurants are a bit different in New York. They sell food there. 45:02.000 --> 45:04.000 Laughter 45:04.000 --> 45:12.000 And the size, the size of these places. On my first night in New York I went to a place called Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. 45:12.000 --> 45:15.000 I hadn't reserved a table so the waiter put me right at the back. 45:15.000 --> 45:19.000 I didn't have a really good view of the floor show because I was so far back. 45:19.000 --> 45:22.000 In fact I was so far back that sitting next to me was Stalin. 45:22.000 --> 45:28.000 Laughter 45:28.000 --> 45:29.000 Was his face red. 45:29.000 --> 45:30.000 Laughter 45:30.000 --> 45:39.000 Applause 45:39.000 --> 45:45.000 Well Greg, what do you think darling? Do you want to try this idea in England? 45:45.000 --> 45:53.000 Well, I won't have to. You know while listening to these two gentlemen I copied down enough new material to be a big hit in America. 45:53.000 --> 45:54.000 I'm all set. 45:54.000 --> 46:01.000 Music 46:01.000 --> 46:07.000 We'll be back in a moment darlings with B. Lilly and the rest of our stars just as soon as I ring my chime. 46:07.000 --> 46:11.000 This is NBC, the national broadcasting company. 46:11.000 --> 46:20.000 Music 46:20.000 --> 46:25.000 Be at this station when the stars come in. Meet Groucho Marx and Ronald Coleman this Wednesday. 46:25.000 --> 46:30.000 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on Friday and Duffy's Tavern Saturday. 46:30.000 --> 46:34.000 Tomorrow night Thibaut McGee and Molly and Bob Hope and guest golfer Bing Crosby. 46:34.000 --> 46:39.000 They'll all be right here. 46:39.000 --> 46:47.000 The big show. This portion of the Sunday night feature of NBC's All Star Festival is brought to you transcribed by Aniston. 46:47.000 --> 46:50.000 For fast relief from pain of headache, uranus and neuralgia. 46:50.000 --> 46:54.000 And by Chesterfield, the cigarette that gives you something new. 46:54.000 --> 47:00.000 Something no other cigarette has. Chesterfield mildness plus no unpleasant aftertaste. 47:00.000 --> 47:05.000 And here again is the star of our show, Tallulah Bankhead. 47:05.000 --> 47:17.000 And now ladies and gentlemen, it is with a great deal of pleasure that I want to bring to you now a very old, old friend of mine, Miss B. Lilly. 47:17.000 --> 47:31.000 Applause 47:31.000 --> 47:35.000 Well, that was the nastiest reading of old I've ever heard. 47:35.000 --> 47:38.000 Oh darling, you know I didn't read it that way. 47:38.000 --> 47:40.000 Which way is that? 47:40.000 --> 47:42.000 Well, the way you think I meant it. 47:42.000 --> 47:45.000 Which way do you think I thought you meant it? 47:45.000 --> 47:53.000 B, you're being a bore. I simply said you're an old friend. I'd be the last one to have it mean anything else. 47:53.000 --> 47:56.000 You should be. 47:56.000 --> 47:58.000 And what do you mean by that? 47:58.000 --> 48:01.000 Oh nothing that you think I thought I think. 48:01.000 --> 48:05.000 We try to tell a swear to all. 48:05.000 --> 48:07.000 To all we forever be to young. 48:07.000 --> 48:08.000 B, Miss Lilly. 48:08.000 --> 48:09.000 What? 48:09.000 --> 48:12.000 You. 48:12.000 --> 48:14.000 Oh B, put yourself together. 48:14.000 --> 48:18.000 Yes, Miss Bankroll. 48:18.000 --> 48:24.000 B, every time we meet we start bickering. Now why do we do that when there are so many other people we can talk about? 48:24.000 --> 48:26.000 I mean other things we can talk about. 48:26.000 --> 48:31.000 Well, London for instance. Remember those long-gone-out bridge games you used to have? 48:31.000 --> 48:37.000 What games? Do they still play bridge or is it can't ask her now? What is the new fad among the girls? 48:37.000 --> 48:41.000 Well, it's same as always. 48:41.000 --> 48:43.000 Men. 48:43.000 --> 48:45.000 What games? 48:45.000 --> 48:52.000 As a matter of fact B, the last time I saw you here you came down to the boat to see me off with the handsome young lieutenant. 48:52.000 --> 48:55.000 Lieutenant? Is he still around? 48:55.000 --> 48:59.000 Here? Oh that was years ago. Just at the start of the war. 48:59.000 --> 49:02.000 Oh darling, darling, it was long before the war. 49:02.000 --> 49:05.000 Well I haven't seen him in ages. Oh he was such a bore. 49:05.000 --> 49:11.000 Oh that was. 49:11.000 --> 49:15.000 Oh I'm sorry darling. I just couldn't resist it. Please forgive me B. 49:15.000 --> 49:22.000 Why do you get me these arguments after all I see you so seldom. Only when I can bully them into putting you on the show. 49:22.000 --> 49:31.000 Oh just a minute Miss Blankhead. I just got that. What do you mean that war? 49:31.000 --> 49:38.000 Why are you still working on that one darling? Now look B, what I'm trying to say, we've been friends too long to be standing here bickering. 49:38.000 --> 49:40.000 I'm always so happy to see you. 49:40.000 --> 49:42.000 Well I'm glad to see you too Tallulah. 49:42.000 --> 49:43.000 Thank you Petsy. 49:43.000 --> 49:47.000 It's a surprise to see you still standing. 49:47.000 --> 49:49.000 I'm always glad. 49:49.000 --> 49:52.000 Well I see it's a waste of time talking to you. 49:52.000 --> 49:54.000 Oh Miss Blankhead. 49:54.000 --> 49:59.000 Portland Hoffa darling come here will you. I'm dying to talk to somebody sensible. How are you Portland? 49:59.000 --> 50:00.000 Oh I'm just. 50:00.000 --> 50:02.000 Are you having a good time in England? 50:02.000 --> 50:03.000 Well I've always. 50:03.000 --> 50:08.000 Oh good I'm so glad to hear it. Oh Portland this is Mrs Lily, Lady Peel you know. And this is Portland Hoffa and Mrs Fred Allen. 50:08.000 --> 50:15.000 Oh called it isn't it. 50:15.000 --> 50:26.000 Lady Peel you must be the Gypsy Rosalie of England. 50:26.000 --> 50:28.000 Very very well said Portland. 50:28.000 --> 50:33.000 They try to tell me I'm too bad. 50:33.000 --> 50:39.000 I saw you on television in America Miss Lily. You were wonderful. 50:39.000 --> 50:45.000 Oh television that's my medium. I adore it. Does anybody do any offers for television Blulah? 50:45.000 --> 50:48.000 Tell me Portland how is Fred enjoying London? 50:48.000 --> 50:53.000 Well Fred has to be careful of what he eats. He has a special diet. 50:53.000 --> 51:04.000 Television your medium indeed. I saw you on television indeed. And I love the close ups. Your face looks like four yards of corduroy. 51:04.000 --> 51:07.000 Fred can't eat anything with salt in it. 51:07.000 --> 51:12.000 Oh corduroy really. They told me I look more like dotted swiss. 51:12.000 --> 51:13.000 What they said. 51:13.000 --> 51:19.000 And the doctor said he could eat cheese. But he can't have milk or butter. 51:19.000 --> 51:21.000 I know the reason you won't go on television Blulah. 51:21.000 --> 51:27.000 Well I don't know what your reason is but my reason is that I don't care to be bothered with the new medium and all those new wrinkles. 51:27.000 --> 51:29.000 That's the reason I meant. 51:29.000 --> 51:41.000 And he can eat prunes and any kind of food with no salt in it. You have to have a certain feel for television. I feel it. I feel alive in it. I feel new excitement. 51:41.000 --> 51:43.000 Lady feel. 51:43.000 --> 51:48.000 Fred feels alright if he stays away from salt. 51:48.000 --> 51:52.000 Oh shut up. 51:52.000 --> 51:57.000 Who cares about how salty Fred is? 51:57.000 --> 52:07.000 And as for you B, if you ever come on my radio show and talk about television again, you'll be appearing in a new medium X-rays. 52:07.000 --> 52:12.000 Thank you Lulu Tabergenhead. 52:12.000 --> 52:14.000 I apologize. 52:14.000 --> 52:26.000 I know, I know. You're going to sing I apologize. Ladies and gentlemen, for three minutes Miss Beatrice Lilly will sing I apologize. After which the entertainment will resume. 52:26.000 --> 52:53.000 I'm sorry, so sorry. That's all I can say. Never knew how much you meant to me. Till I went away. 52:53.000 --> 53:11.000 It's my fault. All my fault. I know I'm to blame. I'd give anything if I could be back with you again. 53:11.000 --> 53:28.000 If I told a lie. If I made you cry. When you said goodbye. I'm sorry. From the bottom of my heart. 53:28.000 --> 53:51.000 I apologize. I apologize. I know I'm to blame. I must have been insane. Believe me. From the bottom of my heart. 53:51.000 --> 54:07.000 I apologize. I've been unfair to you. Please, please let me make amends. 54:07.000 --> 54:21.000 Don't say that you forgot the love we knew. After all, we were more than friends. 54:21.000 --> 54:40.000 I've had my day too. Now I'm asking you. Believe me. From the bottom of my heart dear. I apologize. 54:40.000 --> 54:54.000 I've been unfair to you. Please let me make amends. Don't say that you forgot the love we knew. 54:54.000 --> 55:10.000 After all, we were more than friends. 55:10.000 --> 55:29.000 I apologize. I am not accused. If it'll be me. From the bottom of my heart dear. I apologize. 55:40.000 --> 56:02.000 Thank you, B. Lily. And better luck next time. 56:10.000 --> 56:15.000 Oh, Mr. Allen. I beg your pardon. 56:15.000 --> 56:17.000 Yes, Mr. Sanders. What is it? 56:17.000 --> 56:20.000 You know, this is my first appearance on this show. 56:20.000 --> 56:21.000 Yes. 56:21.000 --> 56:27.000 Now, is it true that there's a clause in my contract that after this performance I must go out with the star of the show? 56:27.000 --> 56:36.000 Oh, yes. Yes, Mr. Sanders. If you will strike a match and hold it in directly in back of clause four, you will notice that it lights up. 56:36.000 --> 56:47.000 And it says, quote, your engagement on this show is not considered complete unless and until the star has been properly wined and dined to her utter satisfaction. 56:47.000 --> 56:54.000 Any commitment above and beyond this is made at your own risk. Dress optional. 56:54.000 --> 56:57.000 The American dollar is not worth that much. 56:57.000 --> 57:00.000 Oh, well, she pays for everything, Mr. Sanders. 57:00.000 --> 57:02.000 Does she have a lot of money? 57:02.000 --> 57:05.000 Oh, she is loaded. 57:05.000 --> 57:10.000 Yes, but does she have a lot of money? 57:10.000 --> 57:11.000 Oh, Tallulah. 57:11.000 --> 57:12.000 Yes, Beatrice. 57:12.000 --> 57:18.000 I'm not too fond of this arrangement after the show. Why do you get George Sanders and I get Fred Allen? 57:18.000 --> 57:25.000 Well, would you prefer it the other way? You go out with Fred Allen and I go out with George Sanders? 57:25.000 --> 57:30.000 No, no. Yes, no, yes. Oh, just a moment, Tallulah. The votes are still coming in. Yes, no, yes. 57:30.000 --> 57:31.000 Oh, please. 57:31.000 --> 57:36.000 You'll adore Fred. Oh, wishy. He said the funniest thing. We'll have you holding aside. 57:36.000 --> 57:40.000 I had plans on having a man do this. 57:40.000 --> 57:45.000 See, I adore Fred, you understand, but I just can't get you to seal those bags under his eyes. 57:45.000 --> 57:46.000 How could you? 57:46.000 --> 58:01.000 You won't notice the bags at all.