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DeMille greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen and a salute an extra special grade a four-star salute to 1941 we haven't got a crystal ball handy so we can't predict what the hit plays of this new year will be but we can make another prediction that whatever those hits are we'll have the cream of the crop right here in the Lux radio theater and that goes for the star crop too but tonight since 1941 is yet too young to have plays of its own we bring you a comedy that would be a hit in any year vivacious lady with two stars who'd pack any theater Alice Faye and Don Amici you'll hear Don as a young college professor in this adaptation of the RKO picture a professor who acquires a beautiful torch singer as a bride brings her back to college and totally upsets the academic calm of the campus Alice Faye is the lady the vivacious lady who won't put up with academic calm especially what it involves the man she loves it's a situation that produces called box office and that's how we want to start the new year you see our box office is very different from the kind they have in ordinary theaters and our box office reports tell a unique story they tell of an audience that covers an entire continent an audience we have to please in two ways with our plays and with our product Lux Flakes here in the Lux radio theater it takes plenty of good hard work to please you but once you've tried it we don't have to worry about our product pleasing you summing up for the year 1940 our box office story has a happy ending because the mailbag is heavier than ever from Boston Harbor to the Golden Gate more women are finding Lux Flakes indispensable at home and now we begin 1941 on a very optimistic note by raising the curtain on the first act of vivacious lady starring Don Amici as Peter and Alice Faye as frantic there's a hot time in the club Velasquez tonight cover charge $2 the Velasquez is strictly a formal spot that's why Peter Morgan looks so out of place a tired in a light spring suit and top coat he stands near the entrance his eyes roving anxiously around the room he's twisting his hat in his hands that's a mistake too no gentleman in a New York nightclub is permitted to remain in possession of his hat thank you say maybe you could help me I'm looking for Mr. Keith Beston have you seen Mr. we haven't seen anything but Mr. Beston since last Tuesday well then he's here the office table on the right near the wall thank you thank you well Peter looking all over for you this is the 10th place I've been in why professor you sound bitter we haven't got much time come on you have to hurry I sit down Peter I can't you know what time it is don't you realize we have to catch a train for old Sharon oh now don't you worry don't worry this is the last time I'm gonna act as your nurseman when you come to New York for one of these semi-annual products now come on no I'm not gonna budge from this chair till a girl I've just fallen in love with says she'll marry me also that's it well it's a good thing I found you all Peter she's beautiful exciting you aren't serious I am serious you haven't any monopoly on seriousness who is this girl a girl these things here like a bird listen Keith the 4 a.m. train leaves at exactly 4 a.m. and I'm gonna be on it and so are you waiter give this man a check I'm gonna get your hat and coat take your time for better there are sure and you mind if I use your phone go ahead but it'll cost you hello hello long distance please hey Charlie long distance all right I'll take care of long distance I want to speak to old Sharon Pennsylvania yes old Sharon 242 reverse the charge I want to speak to Peter Morgan senior and if you can't get him at that number try the university thank you he's the president you know yeah what's Roosevelt doing I mean the president of the university hello hello dad hello dad this is Peter there's a number going on this is hello dad dad I found him if you shout any louder you won't need that phone look dad I'm in a nightclub now now don't get excited I'm leaving right away what the mother doing she's fine what yes yes dad you know the type of girl you find in these places well if there are any entanglements I'll straighten them out all right dad goodbye thank you very much give my love to mother's phone don't share net oh hello how do you do with Keith I don't know he was sitting right here and I only disappeared while I was doing my number oh then you then you oh nothing I just didn't expect you to be I mean I expected you to be you're so different hey are you sweat I beg your pardon I said are you tight no no I'm not intoxicated if that's what you mean well that's what I meant all right no I'm just the only way I can explain it I can't well that's clear I thank you pardon sir yes we're gonna ask me to tell you he's gone to the hotel to pack you meet you on the train to old Sharon oh thank you yes well I guess I better get along yeah I guess you better that friend of yours needs somebody to take care of him well that's what I'm here for Keith and I cousins oh cousin yes you know you know I think he's a little wacky I've only known him a week but every night since he's asked me to marry him and every time I say no he gets wackier well I was appointed a committee one the folks thought it'd be an excellent idea if I came along and saw that he got home safely the good thing you're here look is there anything to matter with me what I mean is my hair on crooked or something the way you keep looking at me I'm getting a little uncomfortable I'm sorry you see this is the first time I've ever spoken to an actress well well I'm not exactly an actress I'm a singer oh oh oh you don't have to be afraid did you sing again tonight no no that was my last show oh I'll finish to finish have a cigarette no thanks something to drink no no I never use it I couldn't get anything deep yes yes I believe I would like something oh fine wait no no no not in here the food's terrible here oh well then well do you want to take me out of don't you oh yes yes I do I want to take take you out very much well how about it all right come on if you don't have to hurry home we might see something in New York huh oh well that'll be grand did you call soon no don't bother Charlie we're leaving I'm going out to see New York night night there's a novelty see New York did he go huh yeah yeah he went oh boy did I give him the run around boy will he be sore boy did we get rid of him see where's France oh boy did we get rid of him but France he went with him oh boy huh yeah he's showing a New York oh boy streets and old Sharon with shade trees flower gardens and great big roomy old houses with Ivy crawling up the sides of the wall and it's so quiet too I said it's quiet and old Sharon say if you're tired walking we could go for a bus ride take a bus ride yes I can't imagine a finer place to live down safely like a picture of heaven the way you tell it oh oh look did I miss something oh now that's an inspiration what is those buildings it's one of the greatest universes in the country right there wonderful isn't just to see it it gives you kind of a lift doesn't I don't believe I ever noticed say what are you well I'm a professor well not quite I'm an associate professor in biology my grandfather was president of old Sharon University my father's president now someday I'm gonna be hey that's really something isn't it nourishment and because of noxious gases which destroy the chemical balance of the soil the Martin's friends of mine are working on a tree that will thrive in city atmosphere well if they ever find one that live on carbon monoxide I guess I've got some things you know how I'm afraid I haven't talked in a great deal haven't you do talk a lot but I like sure I've never talked this much before I just realized I'm I'm trying to make an impression what you could let me say something I'd like to make an impression too oh well you don't have to say anything no no you speak for yourself and very eloquently to say it's late isn't it I guess I missed my train oh that's too bad oh yeah it's all right there's another one tonight I'll just get hold of Keith and make sure we're on it well well goodbye goodbye why I live here oh oh well it certainly has been wonderful I don't know when I've had such a good time seeing New York oh you know I never thought seeing New York was much of a thrill for you but it was really it look it's my turn now is there anything the matter with me no nothing at all bye bye wait tell me do you think things out carefully you mean small things are important everything well if they're small things I never do but if they're important things I never do either well I think you ought to think them out don't you because lots of times small things develop and do very important things yes but if you think things out they happen anyhow you mean there are some things you can't control I don't think you can control anything well that's that's the way I feel say did you kiss me well well I thought you kissed me well this is this is silly isn't but I don't mind do you know you know you round here blue eyes but six feet tall his name is Keith Beston I ain't seen him boss well will you look for him he can wait wait wait never mind there he is right Keith Keith Keith now come on wake up wake up Peter I keep listening the most wonderful thing has happened some people would say it's a miracle that's so but there's nothing particularly more actless about a Keith it's just a matter of chemistry you see an old to track cathode how cozy when we saw each other our chemicals began to work yeah finally I came to the conclusion that she's most wonderful girl in the world so Keith I know I know don't tell me you're in love oh no no I'm married married to cathode cathode what a funny name for a girl her name is Francie oh Francie or Francie is a very pretty name hey hey that's my girl I gotta go now keep out I'll see you in the morning hey wait wait what are you trying to do loser no I'm never gonna lose you better not it only took a day to happen but oh I'm in love with you for always thank you can stand it I'll try Peter what it keeps saying oh I leave his little finding is married so am I how much you get a drawing well I had a terrible time there was only one left on the whole train but you got it right here drawing we may oh wait Peter yeah Peter I've never been married before right no as a matter of fact I'm never gonna be frightened again now that I have you you're my wall to lean again well I've always tried to be a strong man in a way well my big strong and conservative man you can get your shoulders ready and carry me across our first dress oh no no Francie that's what people did a thousand years ago that's all stuff I beg your pardon I put me down all right buddy I know just how it is yeah well just how is it will you keep quiet can't a man make a mistake wait a minute isn't this drawing roommate car 71 yes this is drawing roommate car 71 and there's our ticket why it's the same as ours so what well Elmer what are you gonna do about this traffic well you shut up can't you see they're going look we just got married I don't know why it is every time I go on a trip with you something always that's all listen that's all now look dear why can't you be a nice baby and keep quiet before I pin your big ears back I wish you had a mother to go back to the next station oh I'll bet when you two grew up you're going to be a couple of nasty people can't seem to let's go well that's that well well we could go sit in the observation car yeah I guess we could come on oh we're here fancy hurry oh I know oh Peter yes Peter what is it a professor's wife has to do I forgot to ask you yesterday well mostly just keep the professor happy that's all oh you're gonna like old Sharon fancy and you like my family too oh and they're gonna love you I hope so never having had a family of my own I sort of have an illusion about one morning Peter oh good morning keep my friends see what are you doing here well I just thought of why remember I married you last night darling kiss wait a minute I married her well that's all right then we're cousins I can kiss my own cousin can I come on come on fancy oh there's your family Pete yeah hey the old man looks kind of calm I thought he'd be pretty excited when he heard you were married well I haven't told him yet oh you haven't told him yet no and save me two good seats on the 50 yard line well I didn't want to tell him over the phone you know how excited father gets over the phone why limit him to the phone he'd throw a fit any place say it sounds like I sort of walked into something right up to your beautiful neck lady Peter's father is Henry the 8th of old Sharon he cuts the heads off of our young Brian oh now wait a minute Keith I'm old enough to know what I'm doing I thought this thing out very carefully and if dad has anything to say let him say it to my face oh don't worry he will look maybe I'd better go someplace and wait until you've had a chance to straighten things out well you can come to my place it's a lovely place oh no no maybe I'd better Peter then you can tell them how wonderful I am and then I'll come over late no no I oh I don't I don't like this all right goodbye Peter goodbye Peter goodbye what do you mean goodbye I'll see you in just a few minutes carry your bag cousin Francie wait a minute who is that over there Peter's father well I figure that but who's the girl oh her her name's Helen just a girl Peters engaged to engage why he's a big on this only in the second degree she's something the old man whipped up you know blue blood and a black tongue thoroughbred come on no no wait a minute I want to give her the one sure don't tell me if I can see with my own eyes I sent you to New York to bring teeth home yes well I brought him dad I didn't expect you to be weak enough to allow him to bring that that blonde with him isn't that the girl you spoke to me about over the phone yes that's the girl but but that was before she's a nice girl dad Peter you're 26 years old when you were 12 I informed you and you still don't know one woman from another this is a subject that doesn't bear discussing now you may use the car and take Helen home I have a board meeting at the university but dad this way wait I'm on Peter I know it wasn't your fault what do you mean Helen Keith is allergic to blondes every time he gets near one he breaks out in a race oh yeah I didn't want to tell you this before but his best friend say that say what go on never mind dear why should you worry about it well I do in a way now what's she coming over here for oh mr. Morgan I want to thank you for everything you've done I had such a wonderful time in New York every time I think of it I break out in goose flesh all over how nice do you ever break out in goose flesh not lately I'll always think of you mr. Morgan is my cousin and I suppose it's all right for cousins to kiss goodbye isn't it mmm mmm there goodbye mr. Morgan well that was very pretty Helen that girl is it's all right darling we'll just consider her your wild oath but Helen I might say right now I don't think I fancy ready I'm ready you know something Keith what I have a feeling just a sneaky little feeling that someday I'm going to punch my husband's fiance right on the nose the curtain falls on act one of vivacious ladies starring Alice Faye and Don Amici mr. 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Ruick there are three very good reasons why new quick luxe is so popular first new quick luxe is so fast it bubbles into suds the touch of water why in water as cool as your hand it dissolves three times as fast as any of ten other leading soaps tested second here's the second reason women like new quick luxe it goes further gives you more subs ounce for ounce even in hard water than any of those other soaps third third comes the reason you all know luxe purity new quick luxe flakes are gentle and safe have no harmful alkali they're safe for anything safe in water speed thrift and safety new quick luxe gives you all three ask your dealer for a big box tomorrow it comes in the same familiar package at no extra cost to you and now our producer mr. de mille act to a vivacious lady starring Don Amici as Peter and Alice Fay as Francie it's later the same morning Peter Morgan jr. has arrived at home determined to break the news of his marriage in the living room he faces Peter Morgan senior Peter Morgan jr. takes a deep breath and plunges in now then I want to tell you something oh by the way Peter the student council meets this afternoon as a member of the advisory committee you're going to be there of course all right now dad oh yes another thing that I want to speak to you about we're having the usual spring difficulties between our male and female students a little early this season why there's entirely too much necking there's entirely too much fraternizing the locker room all right I'll take care of it now dad I want to explain to you about that girl at the station Peter I'm sure you'll be happy to know I've decided to give it no more thought as far as you're concerned yes but dad you don't quite understand the subject is closed oh no no the subject is not closed it can't be closed really this whole matter is distasteful well at the risk of proving myself a bore I insist on talking about it and I insisted you respect my wishes I'm sorry mother of anything the matter dear Peter insists on talking about a thoroughly distasteful subject while it isn't distasteful to me and I will not be treated like an infant don't shout shouting is the effort of a limited mind to express itself oh mother I I'm sorry quick quick get her to the sofa quickly now now now see what you've done I'm sorry I did I didn't get the smelling salts get the smelling salts I tell you you know your mother can't stand excitement mother mother I'm all right dear are you sure I'm so sorry mother but but sooner later be quiet haven't you caused enough damage all right all right oh Peter is it all settled have you told the folks Peter all right darling I'll be even more beautiful than I am is that my dear cousin Peter he wants you to take me to the prom tonight hello hello prom give me that phone hey Peter why bore Francie her first night here now not keep well so far everybody in the family who's met her loves her don't worry I will we'll meet you in the locker room all right thanks you mean you still haven't told now now don't worry everything is going to be explained tonight just as soon as mother and dad get here how do you think I like them I mean I mean do you think they're like me nothing like you ever happened to them organs before yeah that's what I'm afraid of good friends break it up break it up the locker rooms are over that way Keith now listen you listen your fiance is on her way over here oh Peter I've been meaning to talk to you about her not now darling please oh hello Helen where have you been checking your hat oh oh checking my hat yes yeah Helen I want you to meet miss miss Francie Brent how do you do oh yes I recognize you by your goose flesh oh yes it is nice having something that makes you stand out from the crowd your photonic friendships are becoming a little irksome he's sweet yeah I'll I'll be right back excuse me miss Fran come sweet who does she think she is well more down here here take it easy look at them dancing if she gets any closer to him she'll be behind him I can't stand it another second I'm gonna more down no no come here look at me look at me I'm shaking all over get outside I'll cut in on Peter and send him out to you now go on go on she was holding me Peter would I be too much of a boy if I suggested that you break off your engagement to that girl Francie dear the engagement is broken she doesn't know anything about it yet but I just want to take one thing at a time well you don't have to bite my head off about it guys we got here we are quarreling in public and nobody even knows we're married that's just it darling we can't even quarrel in public because you won't tell them we're married well on the other hand if we want to quarrel in public why shouldn't we quarrel in public all married people quarrel that's one of the nice things about being married and see all right now you stay right here I'm gonna tell them and Francie I'm I'm sorry I upset you oh no I I'm not upset about that it's just that I've got this hate well darling you you are shaking well nothing nothing to be afraid of the they're just my my mother and father that they'll understand well well then why are you shaking but oh well sympathetic action now hold your head up high and then count to a hundred that'll calm me down and give you courage all right go on hold it up all right now I'll just stay like that I'll be right right one two three four five six seven very funny I bet you thought that up yourself I wonder if you could stand the shock of my saying that I dislike you intensely look at me I'm brooding now will you go away not before I've had a few words with you Peter and I are planning to be married not that I think knowing that would make any difference to you well no see Peter needs protection against a certain type of woman well I could work on that are you going to mind your own business or must I really give you a piece of my mind I couldn't take the last piece you you little now now what did you go and do that for I only have to hit you right back are you contemptible little blonde who do you think you are hitting me now keep quiet you can't do that to me well how do you listen listen I don't want to fight well I do take that all right all right put them up tell your eyes now you want to fight huh you want to fight you got to come outside with me what is this Peter well it's somebody I want you to meet it it's a surprise dad I've sent key for mother I want you both to be right there well that better be good oh dad this is good right out here I'm running to a class are you all right did Helen hurt you much no not much but I was so frightened last night when I saw your father I just ran worried about you all night you know for a man of dad's intelligence he was pretty primitive about the whole thing he insisted on remaining upset so I just didn't tell him anything I hope I haven't ruined everything for now try not to worry too much about it just remember bad beginning good finish all I must be due for a load of happiness sure darling both of us well I'll run along oh keep said will you hurry up and settle everything so you could have his apartment back he stayed over at the dorms last night he says the beds are lumpy yeah yeah we've imposed on Keith long enough look you get yourself an apartment over at the Martha Gregory and I'll see you later all right keep yes miss right I just want to tell you I finished that paper would like to read it I'll see you in class miss right okay don't he miss Brent if you have any further questions I'll be glad to answer them later good morning professor thank you professor he's cute isn't he yeah Martha Gregory apartments I'll see if she's in just a moment sir what do you think you're going upstairs I beg your pardon but this hotel is for ladies exclusively I know it's why I sent her here I'm sorry but you'll have to remain in the lobby look I'm a botany professor see books books read the sign please during evening hours gentlemen will visit guests only in the lobby absolutely no exception all right all right will you call her up and tell her I'm down here yes I will thanks I suppose all right with you if we go out for a ride in my car oh yes sir I recommend River Road sir very quiet oh shut up yeah you realize this is the first time we've been alone since we were married when I'm alone with you I get the same sensation I got when I rode on a roller coaster for the first time thinking you're up in the clouds way up in the clouds and I love you funny we have to go in park some way to say that yeah anybody think I wasn't your husband including me better a girl fell than married I do Peter you think your father might be cooled off enough now so that we could tell him hot or cool we're gonna tell him tonight he's over the university now he's got to make a speech tonight well I'd better wait outside because my luck to sneeze and kill his point okay okay turn on those lights what Peter it's a cop evening folks nice evening isn't it uh yes yeah officer we were studying yeah study in what botany I'm in his class yes class 207 huh you see I'm a I'm a backward student and he's been coaching me I'll prove it to you I'll show you the book here well this is a new wrinkle all the comforts are home now now wait a minute officer just a second Peter Peter we can tell him yes officer I haven't been able to tell this to anybody else before but I'm gonna tell you we're married what yes we're married now I've heard everything get out of here before I run in and all for what for nothing for applause what is applause to him or he to applause that he should we've had will you sit down for a minute now now Peter I've got to rehearse my speech but I have something I want to tell you Mr. Noble is endowing us with a new library I want you to be there Peter well it just happens that this is much more important to me than Mr. Noble at the moment your problems are secondary what is he to applause or applause dad you know that girl that you think is Keith's girl what is he to apply well she isn't she is my wife what is he to apply what was that you said I said that that that girl is my wife and and dad I might add that that she's the finest wife any man could ever hope to have Peter are you mad I think I am sir and I hope it's a permanent condition I won't allow you to toss your life away well it's my life and I wish you'd let me do with it as I please after all the courtesy you must concede to any ordinary human being aren't you confusing courtesy and license out just a minute dad father are you all right what happened I'm all right it's this boy oh I was so right mother I'm glad you're here you be quiet you know your mother has a weak heart quiet I've been quiet long enough oh oh my heart oh she's fainted go get some more mother I'm sorry are you are you all right dear here give it to me you'll kill your mother dad this is something quiet until we can discuss this further I wish you wouldn't say anything about it to her all right I've always had to be very careful mother anything unexpected but not that marrying a woman is unexpected but I'm sorry about your mother Peter really I am but why should I be a shock oh you wouldn't be darling can't you break it to a gentle all I tried but dad was yelling so I fancy I'm awfully sorry well here's my prison the Martha Gregory why did I ever think of this as a solution ever since I came here I've been ducking corners sneaking around hiding places and if loving you means ducking and sneaking some more I'm willing to do it I don't want you to do it but it even that isn't enough don't you think I ought to go back to New York I could get my job back now don't you ever say that again that's my first order as head of this family Peter I'll see you in the you mean good night don't you and that what I did my darling Francie wait wait Francie Francie wait after a short intermission Mr. DeMille returns with Alice Fay and Don Amici for Act 3 of 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curtain rises on the third act of vivacious lady locked out from his lawful wife by the rules of the Martha Gregory apartments Peter decides to go upstairs anyway via the fire escape he's just outside Francie's partly open window and he hears her talking on the phone hello did you get that ticket yes yes the one I am from New York please send somebody up for my bags I'm leaving thank you oh Peter I'm not angry well you ought to be I know that if you were me and I were you I'd be angry and leave you but don't leave darling it's done difficult as it is like a one back down the fire escape before somebody finds out you're here Francie if you don't stop this I'm going right up in the hall and yell at the top my lungs and let everybody know I'm here I've got a right to be here now come on let's talk this thing over no no no I've made up but but what about our mind we're not supposed to have separate minds darling I married you and I was so proud and I'm still proud of it but I wanted you to be proud of me too well don't you see it it's not working yet why don't you let me go for a while anyway it's all my fault no it isn't I started off on the wrong foot so far of a perfect score for hurting everyone well if you go I'm going with you I think too much of a mother to do that even if you don't think enough of a not to see there I go I wish we hadn't started out like this it's done so quickly well I'd do it again I guess I would too and even then I'd have to do what I'm doing now don't you see it it can't work out as long as I stay and explode a bomb every time I make a move so I'll go and then and then maybe things can straighten themselves out and then maybe well oh Peter do I make anything yeah unfortunately I guess you do just the same I'm gonna tell a mother I'm gonna tell her tonight I'll break it gently she's got to know sometime goodbye darling I've got to pack uh Francie couldn't couldn't I just sit down watch you while you leave I promise I won't say anything or argue I'll just sit here all right darling please give me goodbye we try to be alone now that we are alone we have to say goodbye but do we have to darling you know we do goodbye darling will you write me every day please make it twice a day three times a day what will you say well I'll say dear Francie no no no make it stronger Francie darling yes Francie darling I'm miserable without you three times a day three times a day goodbye darling goodbye oh darling I can't go don't let me go Peter don't let me go now who's there the clerk I got your tickets for New York your train leaves in 15 minutes well never mind she's not going you can take those tickets back Peter who's in there with you what am I done who is it Francie oh go out the window quicker I'll see you tomorrow open this door goodbye darling goodbye yes friend you'll know this is against the rules open the door well where is he where is he what he what do you mean he well what's the matter with you I have a cold and it makes me hot oh well now you take some hot tea lemon molasses honey and butter and put them all together and it spells mother now get out of here well yes go through there's a miss Brent to see you miss Brent ask her to come in this way good morning good morning won't you sit down thank you mrs. Morgan Peter told me he was going to speak to you last night yes oh then you know oh mother I'm so glad we've been so worried about telling you and I I was so scared I'd lose him I know it sounds silly to fall in love with somebody so quickly but I just took one look at him and I said oh I said that's the man he's wonderful and intelligent too I think I think that's why I married you married him oh yeah didn't Peter tell you I haven't seen Peter since yesterday morning oh oh mrs. Morgan I think I'd better sit down oh mrs. Morgan I wouldn't have done this to you for the world or your heart would you would you like a glass of water I mean do you feel all right you know I think I'm going to feel fine may I have a cigarette oh but your heart oh nonsense but Peter told me you had heart trouble oh well maybe I do have heart trouble when it's convenient whenever my husband raises his voice it saves so much wear and tear morning I just came into oh excuse me I'm late for school come back Keith it's all right Keith mrs. Morgan knows everything oh yeah how do you feel Andy I feel wonderful fancy dear I don't mean to be one of those inquiring relatives but tell me what did you do before you married Peter I worked in the club the last place a club a nightclub well yes you see Andy wonderful wonderful tell me fancy what's the Laconga like huh the dance the Laconga I read so much about it in all the columns did they ever do the Laconga in your club oh yes sure it must be delightful I get anything to do the Laconga just one a frenzy uh why don't you show Andy how it goes oh I couldn't keep would you dear sure she would I'll give it the piano go ahead frenzy well well the first step is you take two steps to the left then you kick your foot out and then and then you go uh that's right it's a will you see it's a bump a bump oh oh nice one two three is that it's all together down one two three uh one two three uh one two three uh one two three I had a girl what's that girl it's mr Morgan mother the stranger turned his face to the wall and died well just one surprise after another isn't it mr Morgan there'll be no more surprises you came in just as we were celebrating mother knowing about Peter and me mother how very domestic I think you'd better sit down my dear you look like a very practical young lady well I'm practical enough to see that you don't approve of me did you expect to be approved of why shouldn't I be approved well a girl from a nightclub oh Peter you're impossibly narrow I asked you not to interrupt tell me why did you marry my son I love him and I want to be his wife miss Brent do you know what it means to be the wife of a university professor no but I'm getting an idea then you must realize your talents run under different directs mr Morgan you don't know anything about I know my son met you in a dance hall and before he had time to catch his breath well you put it so you'll understand it you hooked him oh I hooked him I hooked him for that very desirable but very underpaid job of his also his social positions I can't remember which that's what you mean is exactly in marrying you Peter is throwing away everything he's worked for and in the end you'll be as unhappy as he'll be the simplest solution of an unfortunate situation like this is a quiet divorce mr Morgan you're not grading papers or dismissing classes he's my husband very well if you insist on being unreasonable I shall be obliged to ask Peter for his resignation oh no no you can't do that that's enough Martha come along now I must be off to the university come on come on come on come here go there 30 years I've had it all for old Sharon for Alma Mater laugh when you want to cry and if you want to laugh don't laugh too loudly Alma mater your sons and daughters are through blue and we love you through and through even though you break my son's heart I'm still supposed to love you through and through well you can have your alma mater and here is one of her daughters that isn't through blue and won't love her through and through anymore are you coming my dear coming I'm going and I'm going to mr Morgan thank you now class we come to lepto spore angiot lepto delicate spore seed angiot case of vessel is that quite clear now mr Morgan yes I still don't understand inferred switch matures first the male or the female excuse me excuse me hey Pete Keith what are you doing here in this condition drowning your sorrow listen this is my class uh yes inferred switch matures first the male or the female when you get out of here dad showing this noble around the school with his million dollars they'll be here any minute professor uh yes what's the idea keep this is the first time you've ever done this this is the first time your wife's ever left you what did you say I said which matures first the male or the female I said your wife's leaving you on the four o'clock train just a minute what she can she is and your mother's going with her let's get out of here I've got to talk to you what what come on come on keep come on down to that locker room I've got another bottle there which is it professor the male or the female I'll answer your question just as soon as I return call pepper take this class I'll go after it's what I'll do you here I'll go after it my boy don't toss away everything you work for on a girl who'll only succeed in blackening the good name of Morgan blackening the good name of Morgan well that's fine as if I couldn't blacken my only when I get through he'll think France is too good for me take it easy take it easy I'll disgrace myself that's what I'll do oh Peter we're pals aren't we I mean I'd do anything for you you do anything for me I wouldn't you absolutely as long as it doesn't take after four o'clock all right and do me a little favor would you divorce Francie so she can marry me now what do you say no absolutely no answer mr. Morgan what mr. Morgan your father's in class he's got a man with him oh that's mr. noble he wants to know where you are will you tell him I should be there directly yes sir are you gonna class like this sure give me some more of that so I'm gonna blacken them well class come to order class is now open to discussion are there any questions yes my dear now what would you like to know what difference does it make silly are there any more silly questions oh now come come come come now you all must have just noodles and noodles of questions the neat answer I know I had I know cult pepper has haven't you called ever huh now come on speak up man speak up come on well yes I have sir you come from Texas don't you yes I do bless bless you that's dismissed Peter Peter I want to see you at once I sir am a black guard how am I doing in front of your class it's unpardonable what explanation can we make up well sir I thought that if I could do a good job of blacking the good old Morgan name she might fit right in so that's it is it yes that is it sir which convinces me all the more that you don't know what's good for you well that one of us must be wrong while you're a member of my faculty you must do as I say all right then consider me no longer a member of your faculty oh now now Peter you don't have to resign ah surprise surprise any more replace anything above the universe is not there you listen to me I love it here there's nothing in this whole world I would rather be than be a professor right here except a good husband to my wife what time is it oh it's it's four o'clock and I missed that train I won't let you go Peter you're not responsible for what you're saying I have no time to talk I have to catch the train because she's on well what do you care yes and mother is on it too what come on come on week two Peter oh I'm dizzy but Peter you beat her will you have another sandwich mother yes dear thank you oh I'm as hungry as a wolf me too I guess it must be this freedom I feel so free yes doesn't one feel free oh new yorker be so much fun so many gay places and we can go where we want to and do what we want to and wear what we want to without any husbands to watch out after us mother you don't feel good about leaving I know I don't fancy neither do I but what was I to do I had to go through with it oh it's all my fault you were married so long and I had to come along and cause all this trouble oh don't worry about me you've got troubles of your own doesn't matter about Peter and me I hardly know him oh what happened what happened we hit a car goodness anybody hurt nobody nobody was in it oh thank heaven we'll be on our way just as soon as the track is clear I'll say goodnight mother Peter I still don't see the necessity of placing the car across the track and having it wrecked there must be a more sane and less expensive way of stopping a train all right all right dad next time your wife leaves you I'll let you figure one out for yourself uh porter porter we're looking for two ladies one older and one younger the young ones are blind about five and the other one compartment decent so long dad see in New York oh oh excuse me I got oh france oh Peter how did you get here well you're going on a honeymoon darling and I couldn't let you go alone honeymoon's kind of silly without a husband isn't it oh yes Peter which is our compartment that one there oh all right up you go oh you're going to carry me across the threshold I'll say I am come on darling in you go well a nice thing can't you knock oh francy oh Peter in just a moment mr. de mill returns with dynamite and valor spay for their curtain calls now while we wait let's listen in on a conversation in an attractive tea room young mr. jones has taken his wife out for a celebration there's a pause in their conversation and then mrs. jones suddenly says bill why are you looking at that woman over there uh oh nothing dear it was but just well I was admiring her hand they're quite beautiful don't you think I dare say they are but mine would be too if I didn't wash dishes every day for you bill jones and there's where we'd like to give young mrs. bill jones a hint she could get compliments plenty of them about her hands in spite of dishwashing the secret is simple change from harsh soaps to new quick lux place it's a mighty inexpensive beauty precaution and one that millions of wives have learned new quick lux has no harmful alkali to dry out your skin it leaves hands soft white and lovely that's been proved in hundreds of scientific one hand test of five soaps widely used for dishes lux was mildest kindest to hands why not get a thrifty big box of new quick flux let it do your dishes in the jiffy and help you keep hands lovely too it's fast thrifty and it saves you from ugly red dishpan hands now here's mr. de mille with our stars we left our college professor and a certain very lovely blonde behind the third eye curtain and now presto we've got danamichi and alice fey right here at the microphone thanks cb certainly great to do a show here in the lux radio theater with alice fey now i'll bet you tell back to all the girls don't now that's gratitude for your cb i say something nice what do i get well you see mr. de mille if you've ever worked for the practical joker you learn to be on your guard sounds as though you speak from experience out oh that's an understatement one time after we've been shooting all day i went over to my dressing room on the set to take a little rest but don had beaten me to it the door was gone the curtain's missing the furniture scattered from one end of the stage to the other alice there's an old saying in hollywood scratch down on mechie and you'll find a cat and yama kid oh but he's such a nice boy that you have to forgive him for those things i'll tell you how alice forgives cb the next day i went to my dressing room for lunch and i found the door locked into the window i could see alice eating the last sandwich the other cat and yama kid i'm glad you two didn't tell me all these things until now i didn't know in what dangerous company i'd been all week what kind of company have you got for next week cb very distinguished company down next week our star is ronald colman making his first appearance here in almost two years and with him we'll have auto kruger and francis robinson the play is libel a great hit on broadway and one of the most exciting dramas of the courtroom the stage has ever produced you'll hear ronald colman as a war veteran faced with the almost impossible task of proving against the testimony of his friends and even his wife that he is himself it's a play off the beaten track and with ronald colman and the lead one that has thrills for all of us next monday night well i know that ronald colman is a guarantee of fine acting so i'll be listening good night mr demille good night don't belong everybody good night we've got another play coming up with your names on it i know our audience will be pleased to learn that again this year the lux radio theater has been selected as the outstanding dramatic program of the year this award comes from two polls of the nation's radio editors and critics conducted annually by motion picture daily and by radio daily so to you our audience whose support made these awards possible and to the radio editors who voted in both these polls i would like to express the gratitude and appreciation of our clients and of all of us here in the lux radio theater our sponsors the makers of lux flakes join me in inviting you to be with us again next monday night when the lux radio theater presents ronald colman in libel with otto kroger and francis robinson the successful b demille saying good night to you from hollywood don amici and alice fey will soon be seen together in the 20th century fox picture road to real alice fey's current picture is tin pan alley and don amici's is down argentine way both for 20th century fox the picture of a vicious lady was produced by rko studios whose latest hit is kitty foil starring ginger rogers heard in tonight's play where frederick mackay is keith lou merrill is mr morgan verna felton is mrs morgan jane drummond as hellan ralf sedan is clerk betty jean haney is june sally pain is hat check girl and arthur q bryan celeste rush walley mayor jack car and bob burleson our music is directed by louis silvers and your announcer has been melville ruick this is the columbia broadcasting system