 Hollywood, California Monday June 21st the Lux Radio Theatre presents Leslie Howard and Alissa Landy in Musseer Bocair presents Hollywood this program tonight is your program that's your purchases of Lux toilet soap make the Lux Radio Theatre possible we are happy to bring you miss here Bocair and it's celebrated performers Leslie Howard Alissa Landy Pedro de Cordoba and Dennis Greene also our guest Ray Jones ace portrait photographer of Universal Studios and Evelyn Key latest discovery of our producer Cecil B. 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greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen our play tonight presents what almost any member of the diplomatic corps might call an international situation relating the romantic adventures of a Frenchman in England it stars two gentlemen born in London a native New Yorker and a lovely lady who first saw the light of day reflected in the canals of Venice Monsieur Bocair brought recognition to Booth Tarkington after eight years of literary endeavor had earned him exactly twenty two dollars and fifty cents last month the play figured in the news on the passing of Mrs. Ovid Jameson sister of the author Mrs. Jameson it was who took the manuscript of Monsieur Bocair to Samuel McClure and persuaded him to publish it she also convinced Richard Mansfield to star in the play version bringing new honors to the title role made famous by Mansfield is Leslie Howard who when the world war broke out left his job as a bank clerk in London to join the British Army theatrical entertainments behind the lines gave him and the urge to act he scored with American audiences in a series of play hits on Broadway climaxed with Barkley Square animal kingdom and petrified forest on the screen he's duplicated his record of success and is currently starring in Warner Brothers production it love I'm after writer singer pianist linguist Alyssa Landy of Metro Golden Mayor Studios is among our most versatile performers born in Italy of noble blood she draws up on her background of nobility for her characterization tonight of Lady Mary our native New Yorker is Pedro de Córdoba who makes his third appearance on our stage as Major Malino while Dennis Green the English actor recently seen with Mr. Howard and Hamlet plays Lord Winterset now in Hollywood the sun of this first day of summer drops behind the hills of Santa Monica into the cooling waters of the Pacific and with its fading light fade the lights of our theater curtain time is here and our stars make their entrance as the Lux Radio Theater presents Leslie Howard and Alyssa Landy and Monsieur Bocair with Pedro de Córdoba and Dennis Green it's a stormy night in the early part of the 18th century off the coast of England the full rig brigantine bound for Dover makes slow progress through the heavy seas and the spray-lashed quarterdeck captain Badger and commander the ship wraps out his orders Captain Badger that'll be all he put out a closed sail until the blow-in I'm going below tell a watch to keep me informed I will take you what do you mean by voting around corners like that you're near threw me off my feet a thousand who are you and what you doing on this day I was merely taking a breath of air but I find it rather damp come over here in the light I've never seen you on that before no Monsieur I've been keeping rather close to my cabin you're a lackey I'll let you a servant would be more correct Monsieur well get below where you belong we shall master he shall hear of your evidence at once miss sure there's some misunderstanding there certainly is this impedance scandal near knock me off my feet is he your lucky way he is my hair dresser then you should know better than to let him come on this deck your name sir sure you do not know your name sir most unfortunate miss yours I do not want my presence aboard to be known but since you make it imperative I am the Marquis de Millepoix Marquis de Millepoix ambassador from France I trust you will let this remain a secret between us I am on a special mission to England Captain Badger Captain Badger and I humbly beg your pardon excellency I had no idea that you were on board if I had that is more than enough Captain Badger yes you're excellent sir good evening to you you have made quite an impression on the captain monsieur de Marquis your highness please not here I'm your hairdresser not your highness don't forget that you better go back to the cabin they tell you your highness by the time our captain Badger lands it will be known all through England the time traveling incognito but is that so terrible but they know the time your friend no no no they know you are a friend to the Duke de Leon but I am not the Duke de Leon here he is securely locked in his cell in Vincennes let him stay there my friend no one in England will know of my escape force what your highness some wine please yes your highness however my dear Marquis I cannot travel further with you we must part at the end of this crossing I must travel my way alone but you cannot do that I will not hear but you are hearing of you I shall not be known as your hairdresser of course I shall become a man in my own right a Frenchman seeking a quartz a cure in the waters at Bath that will do they say that Bath is a gay place at this season oh your highness will you ever become sane again never I shall change my name of course I shall be known as monsieur monsieur bokeh mark the name friend bokeh you may hear of it in your travels in England your highness please please give up this mad scheme and return to France to be shut up in prison again oh no the Duke de Leon is dead long live monsieur bokeh yes citizens of Bath word has come from France that the Duke of Orleans has been imprisoned by the king's order hear you hear you so did you hear that Francois I'm still in prison in Vincennes yes monsieur it is very interesting oh very shall we continue our walk monsieur yes yes I'm delighted with bath Francois I find here a certain Francois monsieur that lady who is just getting into the carriage who is she do you know if I'm not mistaken monsieur she is Lady Mary Carline and if the boy who polishes your boots at the lodging house is not mistaken she is followed here in Bath by a crowd of suitors oh she's beautiful beautiful look she dropped something wait here yes you may drive on Thomas be careful very good my lady mademoiselle wait wait please one moment Thomas mademoiselle what is it please you dropped something mademoiselle I did the arrows it fell from your bouquet oh thank you monsieur ah he's nothing mademoiselle I'd willingly pick them up one by one if you would drop them that way you're very kind drive on Thomas no no wait wait you you wouldn't consider it I suppose consider what dropping them one by one hardly the bone ashes Thomas yes my lady bone ashes monsieur monsieur oh yes Francois I neglected to tell you the Duke of Winters said his lady mayor is most favorite admirer he is very influential in bath and not a man to have as an antagonist ha ha ha Francois you are not only a splendid ballet you are a diplomat as well tell me Francois what is uh what is bone ashes oh very fashionable your highness one goes there to drink the healing waters and to meet one's friends they're said to be gambling also if if one is interested oh I am very interested but in more than the gambling since you've returned to bath this season you've told us nothing about the Duke de Leon why was he in prison you must have heard some news when you were in their side Captain Badger I don't know more anything about it than you do Mr Lucy the story has it that King Louis of France arranged a marriage between his cousin the Duke de Leon the princess Henrietta well we know all that but what happened Captain Badger well Miss Charlotte the princess it seems was willing enough but the young Duke refused the match oh but why all there was some nonsense about not marrying unless there was true love on both sides oh how romantic and the King kept him into prison for that that's what they say of course the Duke is uh stupid uh to say the least miss you say ah here is major money now perhaps he'll know something about the Duke Miss Lucy I've been looking for you we want some information about the Duke de Leon tell us what he's like major money now I've never seen him but they say he's the best actor in Darcy he speaks English well loves cards and the dice and fortune favors him in both he's the finest swordsman in France is gay debonair and that's all I know ah but what did he look like why not ask a Frenchman I will there's a Frenchman stopping here at boss in public care we'll find out from him he's sure to know Monsieur Bocair yes who is this Monsieur Bocair I've heard nothing but Monsieur Bocair ever since I've come from France he seems to have completely captivated the ladies he's been coming here to bone ashes every evening for a week I do believe he's looking for someone and he's asked about my cousin twice what's that miss Lucy you mean he's asked after Lady Mary yes it is strange she assured me that she doesn't know him the Duke of Wintershire said she'll hear of this he's jealous of her even now and if this Frenchman he's trying to yeah he is now captain and good evening Monsieur Bocair ah Miss Lucy Miss Charlotte may I present these gentlemen Major Molino your servant sir your servant and Captain Badger Monsieur Bocair Monsieur haven't we met before I I don't believe so Captain Badger I'm sure I would have remembered it but there's something about you that perhaps I'm mistaken yes perhaps Monsieur Bocair have you ever seen the Duke d'Orléans what is it you say have you ever seen the Duke d'Orléans I beg you to forgive me but that gentleman the Duke d'Orléans he has made a great deal of trouble for me in my life is it you mean he is your enemy my very worst enemy I ask you to forgive me but I'd rather not speak of him just tell us that he's very handsome monsieur now I've heard he behaves very badly I can tell you nothing much more there but you will excuse me please I was about to take a stroll in the garden of course monsieur Monsieur Bocair Monsieur Bocair Major Molino forgive me for following you out here but I must speak to you at once if I can serve you I you can monsieur you are a Frenchman well you may know monsieur that I serve the English king and that I've recently come from the cost of France I take you to be a man of honor and I'm trusting you to be frank we have private information that the Duke d'Orléans has escaped from prison in Versailles no the miserable reaction why did he run away I've heard the food is excellent in that prison the French ambassador happens to be a good friend of the Duke and the young man persuaded him to take him to England in his suite I believe as a hairdresser the Duke d'Orléans hairdresser not really how many people know this in France the king the governor Vincennes and the English ambassador in England monsieur de mire poir you and I and you want to arrest the poor little Duke for the king of France no monsieur he has left monsieur de mire poir and it is my business to find him and protect him if any harm befall him here it might bring about serious consequences between England and France you can see that oh he is important this is young man I appealed to you and despair monsieur if you know of him if you can give me an idea of him I beg that you wait yeah yes I think it is time for another glass of the water as monsieur then you're determined not to help me I do not meddle in important secret matter your caution is commendable there's nothing more dangerous than to possess a secret ah yes monsieur there is there is one thing more dangerous a woman a true they go together no no no they do not you cannot have them both at the same time some women monsieur there's but one woman in all the world there she's over there by the fountain the lady with the roses you mean lady marry the lady marry yes you will present me monsieur oh what I shall consider at a great favor I shall ask her permission to present you but why should she refuse because she is a great lady monsieur and if you'll forgive me I am not a great gentleman very well monsieur I shall have to present myself adieu lady marry I'm afraid we've not met monsieur but we have have you forgotten the rose rose I've come to ask a favor of you tonight once I returned your rose to you now I ask I beg that you will give me one one that has not just fallen from your hand unnoticed I'm sorry monsieur that mademoiselle may I tell you something something just as it is in my heart is there room for anything there with all the pictures it must carry picture of all the ladies of the french court we've never been introduced monsieur boucair but I have heard something of you there was in my heart till this night the picture of one woman I've carried it with me for years now it is no longer a picture but a reality you you laugh at my prayers mademoiselle but better the laughter of a goddess than the smile of a mere woman possibly you prefer the laughter of a goddess to to what mademoiselle a mere rose from the hand of a woman I'm your captive lady marry if I give it to you it will mean nothing to you nothing to me well give it to me and tell the king of England to send all his great army to get it back again and what then then then I'll run away but the king's army it will not get the flower monsieur boucair if I give you a rose you shall take for an answering gift all a man's soul I'm afraid I must imitate you you shall represent the armies of the English king and I shall run away mademoiselle ah good evening winter set I've been looking for you this sir this is monsieur boucair monsieur the Duke of Winterfell your servant monsieur I was not aware that you were acquainted with lady Mary I took the liberty of making myself known to her it was a liberty oh please monsieur boucair was once kind enough to pick up a rose I had dropped that is hardly sufficient reason for his forcing himself upon you or is the standard of good manners slightly lower at the french court our manners at the french court monsieur are governed by one simple rule be always courteous or you never know whom you might be insulting perhaps I know more than you think you know what monsieur captain badger badger you'll know very soon monsieur boucair did you call me my lord badger you told me you recognized this man I did me Lord I couldn't place him at first but I'm quite sure now I've taken it upon myself to inform the rest of the company what's the matter here one moment major molliner perhaps you'll tell me what this is all about winterfell I will as you know my lady these rooms are for ladies and gentlemen only I desire you to look carefully at this person this person who calls himself monsieur boucair this is a strange request there is an explanation I have come to expel this fellow from the rooms publicly may I ask this stupid question why monsieur you come here and trust yourself among people of passion and birth do you what were you born that you do this were you born a gentleman no monsieur I was born a baby in all my life I have never seen one baby who was a gentleman have your jokes while you may monsieur for hereafter this place will be locked to you ladies and gentlemen this man sailed from France with captain badger he's nothing but a hairdresser for the marquis de mirepoix a hairdresser you monsieur you I'm a hairdresser monsieur major molliner is this true monsieur quite true mademoiselle do you stand against me too that is little else I can do excuse me please of course now get out if you ever show your face here again you you'll be thrown into jail and lashed by a fellow groom why not make the degradation perfect and say lashed by you my dear Duke you will leave bath before night you hear oh I shall not leave bath but if one must be a gentleman to gamble in these rooms then I shall bow to your higher birth but all gentlemen are welcome to my apartment where I will be pleased to engage them with the dice or the cards and always fair monsieur night or day for any stake for a shilling a thousand pound or ten thousand with the cards of the dice or if the Duke of Winters that prefers with this small sword good evening gentlemen and now we're going to take you for just a moment over to universal studios where a party of visitors is being shown around they've walked down real streets lined with stores and tenements with chateaus and brownstone houses they've gasped at a big moored ferry boat that turns out when you walk a little farther to be only half a ferry boat standing on dry land water and wave effects to be artificially produced when the need arises now our visitors are in one of the huge studio buildings the official guide is speaking and this is the star's dressing room at present being used by Diana Durbin oh it's thrilling to actually see this room look at the dressing table light all around it what a test for complexion well Jane everybody knows that movie stars have to be especially careful of their complexion and here's the lux toilet soap she uses biggest life movie stars have learned through long experience that lux toilet soap is an ideal protection against the choke pores that cause cosmetic skin if you're bothered by tiny blemishes dullness and large pores better begin today to follow the simple rules before you put on fresh makeup always before you go to bed use lux toilet soap when you begin to use this soap you will say to yourself i understand now why nine out of ten screen stars use it back now to mr de mille we continue the story of monsieur bokeh starring leslie howard and elissa landi two weeks have passed since bokeh was exposed as a hairdresser before the society of bath but still he's not given up hope of winning lady mary's attentions he's remained at the watering place where he's open to gaming house it's morning and in the reception room we find bokeh with major malinot who has just entered your highness ah my friend my very good friend i come to serve you find must put first to remonstrate remonstrate to beg that you declare yourself as the dick dolly on my friend there is no use you alone have found me out but still i make my little plan now your plans will break your heart if someone doesn't kill you before that you're throwing your heart away upon a coronet a book of heraldry i tell you lady mary is a stone to any better duke well i'm going to be a dupe perhaps even tonight what listen my friend you say i throw my heart away upon a stone you say she is a coronet in a book of heraldry but i say she is a woman and a woman with a heart someday you will know i speak the truth i will prove it to you and to myself if you would only tell her who you really are no no no i've told you that i still make my little plans tonight some of the high born gentlemen of the town come to try their luck with the cards among them my lord winter set winter set coming here he's been coming for a week as much as he despises me he loves the money i have permitted him to win tonight he comes again to cheat as usual cheat you always cheat at this time i plan to catch him at it he'd be very angry my friend but so will i there will be words perhaps even a fight oh no oh yes a fight oh your highness you must my friend listen in all my years they have never allowed me to have a fight think of that not one little fight of course i don't wish to hurt anybody and i haven't any bad feeling but i i don't think all the money i paid out for fencing lessons should be thrown away look my friend is it so terrible of me to want just one little fight but your highness what is this to do with your plan you say this we should we shall come to that the Duke of winter set and i shall play in the private room upstairs alone of course you will wait in the ante room until you hear me cough like this then you will send france wire to interrupt the game but put why your highness you will see my friend tonight you help me to catch me lord the duke cheating at car well well you win again me lord winter set almost 500 pounds shuffle the cards you talk as though 500 pounds were a fortune it's hardly worth the trouble of sneaking to this dirty thieves then then why do you come my lord why do any of us come here certainly not for the joy of being in your company bokeh oh no no no not for that you would like to be rid of my company but you would also like to win my money you have won much monsieur but tonight i think we play for something else what are you talking about very little red rose monsieur what we must sure be seated come in well for sir there's a gentleman here to see you hi yes yes if may lord will excuse me i will see him in the entrance i'll return in a few minutes oh don't belong i'm going to lady relevance party later and i haven't got any time to wait i know monsieur may you only know here you're hiding i've given the duke time enough to set the cards go out on the balcony and enter the cartel through the window stay behind the curtains there i want a witness he has worn wide sleeves so he may keep a car or throw in readiness well we shall see this is foolish i'm really pleased to stop saying that go along i'll return to the room well is monsieur the duke ready quite ready and i think since you were talking of stakes a while ago that we should raise the stakes tonight raise the stakes you want to ruin me i say three cuts of the cards and triple the stakes are you afraid i think i'm always afraid monsieur i'm afraid of the dark but that is what makes it fun life would be dull if one were not a coward then what do you say if we triple the stakes again what triple what we have already tripled you said that was the fun of life you go back on your word you know then draw a car of course very bad well what is it the 10 your draw monsieur what did i do with my snuff off the ace the ace by dad i drew the ace fortunate monsieur except that you drew it from your sleeve instead of the deck what may i see the other card you have concealed there what are you talking take your hands off me here they are thank you monsieur why you dirty only the king and the other race i fear you lack ambition monsieur i'm very disappointed in you everyone will be why you you dream that anyone in bath would take your word against mine major your word is not important now you're great major molly well okay what's your price this is my price monsieur you're going to take me to the lady relatives tonight you're going to present me there and introduce me to the lady Mary why you impudent nobody will question monsieur's guess so we will go together and to other balls later i won't do it monsieur you must do it they won't accept you there you forget that the lady mary knows who you are a hairdresser a barber the barber's throat shall be cut with his own razor i must choose some new disguise and rank ace oh no one shall know me shall i be a marquee with goatee v con with whisker at the side no no no out of deference to monsieur i too will be a duke say the duke the the duke the chateau ryan i shall assassinate my moustache and with my air done a la mode even you will not know me below and do you fancy fancy monsieur that i shall meet my dream well what is your answer well there's nothing for me to do but accept your turn that is too good of you major have i your word that this will be carried no father you have my word very well you shall go to the ball with me tonight but let me warn you i shall not be saddled with you any longer all i require me pardon all i beg of monsieur is one night's introduction after that i shall not need monsieur but you may need a steady hand and sword barber my friend perhaps i shall have my fight after all my one little fight well major you think i look like a duke it's a miracle your highness you're as different as night for day not like monsieur bokeh no more than i am good the barber has shaved himself major my poor moustache he's gone for a good idea what a man will not do for love i've often wondered at it monsieur has his grace introduced you to the lady marie no not yet he delays as long as possible i think but she's here i have seen her he has little taste for the job by walin i'm impatient for the delay and yet thankful to think my friend what if she should recognize me have no fear of that i'd hardly know you myself those clothes your hair this is who you're bearing about you i don't wonder they call you the best actor in paris monsieur oh my friend you give me strength aha the duke of winter set well father i've been waiting monsieur i've just been reassured by the major and i am prepared now to meet the lady she isn't here your eyes go weak monsieur she sits over there by the door i i promised you an introduction no more i cannot well be satisfied shall we go your pardon monsieur certainly monsieur well come along barba my only hope is that you'll know you for what you are that is my wrist monsieur oh lady marie yes winter set may i have leave me lady to present uh friend of mine a very old friend the lady who i should never have asked to be presented yes he has recently come from france and uh he is the duke the chateau ryan i'm honored thank you my lady the honor is mine may i escort you to the balcony lady marie monsieur have you forgotten you were on your way to see lady eliton what distinctly i heard you say so much you're very distinctly oh yes yes yes of course well excuse me my lady i shall return in just a few minutes well may i escort you to the balcony lady marie thank you the duke the chateau ryan yes yes me lady yes you have uh you have heard of me perhaps i'm sorry monsieur but i have not ah but you will me lady you will let it be the duke the chateau ryan we met lady eliton isn't he fascinating i wonder who he's the chateau ryan and they say lady marie is completely captivated by him but they met only a week ago with lady eliton yes i know that's what i can't know but the future with the set was the one who presented him last week and now he's burning with jealousy it's too amusing he goes out into the garden with her to see him bad girl hi and a favor me lord will you say i don't like that friendship like him your grace lacky another glass here yes you're great is that the way you feel the water i hate him then why did you introduce him that lady eliton why no fault of mine the naïve dimios curbie turn once but i've done paying for it i've done i say your grace people are looking let them look where are you going into the garden your grace come back come back your grace shall we sit here lady marie he asked if i would like to walk in the garden this year and you said yes well we have walked now i make another request may we uh stop walking please if you wish lady marie this whole week have i known you and only once have i seen you alone has there been any reason to see me alone the very best of reasons the first time to tell you that you are the most charming the most gracious the most beautiful of all ladies and now and now now to repeat it all over again not for the very same word with these same words yes well that is stupid is it not but cannot men cannot all be poets nor all poets you talk and even if i were the best of barns my tongue would still trip and my rhyme sound out of key when i try to speak of you millenie your tongue does not trip monsieur it hints rather that your adept at making pretty speeches ah that only proves the inspiration we english women have come to believe the two great smoothness of speech indicates the artist rather than your true your true lover mademoiselle your name in France we say it mary the english way i think is so much sweeter they say mary monsieur yes the english way is so much better mary monsieur you you say my name as if it were a prayer it is a prayer to me a prayer that i may call you by that name often i i think we should go in we're forgetting the guest must we go in it would be better do you doubt me me lady do you doubt my love for you is that why you turn for me that which is so near heaven must ever wear the snow it is so high but i'd rather the snow were not so cold toward me look at me mary no please why why mary i'm afraid that you would see the toward you all the chill has gone from the snow long long ago mary my beautiful what was that i heard nothing there's a man there a man hidden in the shrubbery over here a penchman making love the duke of winter set a neat lesson penchman your adept at fancy speeches winter set please it is nothing mademoiselle his lordship has lingered too long over the bottle it has given him false courage for your sword i wear no sword here then the worst luck for you oh no wine has unsteadied your hand are you hurt monsieur just a scratch on the shoulder stand away and let me run him through you can't murder the duke in cold blood the duke my lord winter set what has happened the duke of winter set has wounded an unarmed man lady mary i would tell you this so-called duke is of silence you sword gentleman if he dies under your whip you sword have been unstuck do your duty and be quick come with me one moment please lady mary a thousand thousands to be the cause of such a melee in your presence you are hurt lady mary you coward i would avenge you ma'am avenge me who is this man look at him that's all i ask look closely and remember the day he was expelled from bone ashes yes yes look mademoiselle look at me and remember monsieur bouquet i was about to tell you mademoiselle wait you believe me it seems you waited too long let me through let me through here i'll make you only know my friend your arm please what has happened the duke of winter set has pricked my shoulder it is nothing he lingered in the shrubbery until enough of this take him away my friend this is for me me one week from tonight i shall meet these gentlemen in the assembly rooms you shall be my second monsieur your heart take him away i shall leave myself but i promise you lord winter set that when we meet one week from tonight you will again be found in the shrubbery because for station identification this is the columbia broadcasting system we continue shortly with monsieur bouquet a few weeks ago a member of my staff brought a young girl to my office who had recently come to hollywood from her home in georgia her name is everland keys like thousands before she came without knowing anyone in the films without any experience at an actress but i thought i saw in her the essentials of a sensational new star though she's never faced a picture camera she'll have an important part in my next film the buccaneer and she's the first actress in more than 10 years who my place under personal contract in 25 years i've made three mistakes in choosing star material she may be my fourth i can't predict i can only guide her her success from now on rests with her and with picture audiences for the present let's see if i miss keys i'm just beginning to realize the tremendous opportunity you're giving me mr demille and the more i realize it the more frightened i become frightened of me you and everyone else in hollywood your name has been magic to me since i was six years old i know that i have a great deal to learn it's so much in fact that i can understand what made you give me a chance maybe you'll tell me now well some of the reasons may amuse you you impressed me because your voice wasn't squeaky you dressed simply acted like a lady and because i saw in your face a good screen on which to watch the emotions of life passed by when you gave me that lesson in diction the time i was introduced to you i thought at first you were just making fun of me why because i asked you to recite peter piper the pepper picker yes i guess so and that little piece of literature everland is one of the finest tests of diction i know i can see that now and i've learned it by heart would you like to hear me i would if you do it well peter piper the pepper picker picked a peck of pickled peppers a peck of pickled peppers did peter piper the pepper picker pick if peter piper the pepper picker picked the peck of pickled peppers where is the peck of pickled peppers that peter piper the pepper picker pick not bad ever not bad as a beginner i think the audience would be interested in your daily routine well i live at the studio club that's a residence club for about a hundred girls like me who are connected with pictures but don't make much money a lot of the famous stars helped organize it and this is the mill is one of the directors it's near paramount so i can walk to work stars like these are pits and morino sullivan used to live there too i go to the gymnasium every day and every other day i study with all of the hensdell at paramount learning acting and diction mr hensdell is teaching me a wide variety of characterizations these are excerpts from different plays then i act them out for him with one or two other actors who are also beginners i still have a george withdrawal that i'm trying to overcome right now mr hensdell is teaching me proper vowel sounds it may sound a little silly but i have to repeat such lines for him as how now brown cow and mumbo jumbo god of the congo i'm also learning to recite the raven what in hollywood has impressed you most the huge studios the handsome actors the climate or what i'm afraid what impressed me most of all of the little houses sitting up all over the hills that surround hollywood i haven't met any big stars i've never been to the trocadero and i haven't any board friends yet of course the biggest thrill i had was getting that contract from you next to that though is my being here in the lux radio theater on a program that i used to listen to back home when hollywood was just a dream but i didn't have to be told how good lux toilet soap is i've used it ever since i was a little girl i was delighted to find that it's the official soap at paramount studios too and to hear that it's preferred by practically every star in pictures i knew that someday i'd get to hollywood and i knew that complexion would mean a lot so i've given mine the best care in the world and that lux toilet soap lux complexions do help everland but what would you have done if you'd had to keep going from one casting office to another and never the sign of a job well that was something i just refused to think about mr demille my greatest hope is that i'll justify the confidence you've placed in me and i've never met it more than in saying thank you to you now good night star back to leslie howard and elissa landy and mrs bokeh it's the night of the promised meeting between mrs bokeh and the duke of winter set bokeh fully recovered from his wound is in his room dressing for the occasion transfer assists him our very best rescue transfer we must make a good impression at the assembly room tonight yes your highness i've had it widened at the shoulder it will be more comfortable over the bandage blended my arm must be free tonight françois free for the sword or to hold me lady you are really going to see it through your highness oh i'm looking forward to it they say the duke of winter set is the finest swordsman in the three kingdoms but not in the four no you can't dissuade me françois tonight i have my little fight the first fight of my life praise god it may not be your last not a sign of him here past nine o'clock and monsieur the barber doesn't dare to show his face i've heard that the marquis de mirepoix has just arrived in barf no doubt monsieur bokeh has resumed his former position to his excellency and can't get the evening off oh lady mary has just come in your pardon gentlemen lady mary my dear duke may i have the honor of accompanying you to the assembly room please not yet there's so many people in there are you faint ma'am i'm tired winter set tired of being scared at ever since that night i see them looking at and watching laughing there is one way of stopping their idle tongues ma'am and that is allow me to announce that you will shortly become the duchess of winter set it will save appearances appearances we waste our souls for appearances we sell our realities for them we paint pictures of ourselves smiling always and use our hearts blood for the pigment ma'am i'm sorry i am tired it may be unbecoming to remind you but you owe me at least some slight consideration for saving me from the imposter yes i owe you all that gratitude can give and i won't shrink from payment of my death and i may announce it if you wish you marry your pardon ma'am yes major mollino your cousin miss lucy asks if she may see you in the west room at once my cousin lucy is there something wrong oh i think not ma'am but she wishes to see you alone thank you major excuse me lucy lucy where are you may i lock the door lady mary you i'd rather no one interrupted us for a while major mollino said my cousin was here yes a shameful ruse lady mary but i'm the one responsible for it i had to see you alone i had to speak to you i'm not interested in what you have to sense you we had it all a week ago i said nothing then mademoiselle i had not the strength you your shoulder yes i'd been stung by a wasp it was nothing but the sky went round and the moon danced on the earth i didn't wish the wasp to see that he had stung me so i i said only what i had the strength to say then you're not an impostor mademoiselle i am but is that the end of everything have you no faith in romance you talk of romance now mademoiselle if you had known that i was just an impostor if i had told you that just mr bokeh with the heart of a lackey was asking for one rose would you have let me walk by your side there in the moonlight mademoiselle if you had known that this bokeh was honest though of peasant birth would you get intolerable but live may not just name you put me on the defensive when it's really you who should be i mademoiselle names what are they to me i've lived for them all my life names they are shadows they are not real do you need to tell me that this week has taught me that names are only toys do you suppose i i was proud of it proud because i thought you an honorable gentleman and it was to that gentleman that i gave my heart not for the book to shut over there in the moonlight we were so close don't please don't speak of it now mademoiselle one day you drop a rose i gave that rose back to you i am that man to whom you gave your heart i'm not just names and shadows i gave you back your rose now are you going to ask me that i give you back your heart look at me mary will you come back to France with me and prove that i'm not a mere name but a man a man you love all my life i've smothered every feeling has never spent me and at last there comes one one emotion that will not be smothered and kept down i thought i could go on hating you i might have if you hadn't come to see me here when you're hunting you now to the park and everywhere but i have seen you again i've seen your soul i don't care what you've done i love you you love an imposter tell me mary say you're not an imposter i love you then i can tell my secret i am an imposter no but now you're not you're you my love now that's all in true to us let me in let me in you need your mollusk close the door what is it my friend lock it quickly they know you are here someone saw you they're coming this way now we can escape the side door there'll be a carriage there a carriage will take us to the boat and then to france quickly please are there still time mademoiselle have you reckoned all the cars i love you he will go to france with me to the end of the earth oh mary i can't keep them out much longer hurry then my lady through the other door into the garden i'll meet you there in ten minutes would you do as i say quickly the side door i'll have the carriage there my friend didn't i tell you she was pure gold i can't call them co-op and miss my appointment with lord winter said ha ha now you're going to face them my friend face them now i can face the army of the english king i'm sorry to be late captain badger lord winter said is waiting for you mrs barba would you come out into the garden or must we drag you oh i'll come gladly this way then major molyneux you are my second this year you will see that fair play is done it may be rather trying give up this mad scheme tell them who you are not a word major no dueling gentlemen i beg you not to be settled sir but not here there will be a scandal the french ambassadors on his way and aside aha me lord winter said and his second good evening gentlemen are you ready barba i've been looking forward to this meeting for a week we are to use swords of course you expect me to fight a cutthroat barba with my bare hands one doesn't expect lord winter said to fight at all only to talk sad aside let me through lady mary go back to the carriage me lady this is no place for you no cad mam do you remember who this man is quite well isn't she book out you see me lord there are times when even i have cars up my sleeve on guard at your service must you know gentlemen put up your sword top the ambassador of his most christian majesty king loy of france the marquis de merebois at a time like this your master barba miss sure miss sure are you safe my dear marquis you come to spoil a very good fight couldn't you have waited a little while miss sure you need where your disguise no longer i know i know i have been forgiven again with his majesty king louis majesty king louis bought the only fight i've ever had in my life i shall never forgive him lord winter said challenge me because i've been your hairdresser my honor gentlemen i found against his mad humor but he insisted who is he one moment gentlemen there is one thing i must ask of you there is a man here who has forfeited his honor he played cards with me and cheated then on condition that i would not expose him he introduced me at lady relatives bore he introduced me at the cost of his honor then betrayed me to redeem it that liar that card cheat that cowered he stands there mr ledductor winter set by heaven i'll know the real name of the man who dares bring to the charge may i i suppose you must gentlemen permit me to have the honor to present to you his royal highness prince louis philippe de valoirly ducteur lyon ducte cha ducteur amour ducteur mon cobbier compte bouchelet first prince of the blood royal first pure france lieutenant general of french infany governee of dopany night of the golden priest grandmaster of the order of Notre Dame of moccamelle of saint lazarus in jr and cusney of his most christian majesty the king of france oh dear mondia what a memory he has his royal highness the ducteur leon the duke of olien's will hear from me within the hour monsieur and whoever carries your message will receive a sound beating from my server we throw up these gentlemen this way this way lady mary more senior it's a terrible mistake i've made forgive me forgive i know mademoiselle it is you who must do the forgiving i was an imposter but if you could love an imposter could you not love a prince but you it's impossible look at me ma'am your highness the lady is that the assembly are asking for a presentation to his royal highness the ducteur lyon the honor is his that first i must introduce to all these people the lady who is to be his duchess duchess that's only a name more senior and i'm done with names take one more senior presents me by that name the most beautiful in all the world mary my mary before leslie howard and elissa landi join us again we'll have a word with ray jones of the new universal studios every motion picture requires three types of photographers the camera man and crew who filmed the story the still man who takes a still picture of every individual scene and the portrait photographer who shoots those off-screen photographs of your favorites that you see in the newspapers and magazines mr jones is one of the latter an expert who during almost a quarter of a century in hollywood has photographed the stars at six major studios yes including paramount where i recall making 600 pictures for you and cleopatra i remember it particularly because 600 is about twice the number we usually take mr demille is one of hollywood's most ardent believers and still in portrait photography and the title of portrait photographer explained itself but as an ex stew man ray find out a few details on that phase of picture taking for instance why are so many still pictures never seen by the public many still pictures are made solely to help the director every set where a scene is shot every costume makeup and hairdress of important players as photograph this is to make certain that we'll know tomorrow exactly what the scene and actors look like today it eliminates movie bonus for instance in the road back at universal pictures were made of even the haircuts of all the leading male players we turn these pictures over to the barber who cut their hair every three days to keep it at the same length what about the 10-acre set universal built for that picture oh it's the largest standing set in hollywood it has 38 buildings a public square a battlefield cathedral and railroad station some of the other figures might also interest you there are 10 miles of barbed wire out there and 80 cases of authentic furniture imported from germany there were seven weeks of night work and the lighting was so powerful that airplanes reported seeing at 113 miles away during the day one man was kept at work doing nothing but walking clouds so the shooting wouldn't be interrupted at a crucial point by the passing of a cloud before the sun we're getting back to portrait ray what type of girl photographs best a girl who has a smooth soft complexion and a nice coat of suntan neither makeup nor photographic skill can take the place of a fine skin a poor complexion calls for lots of makeup and lots of makeup take away the fine effects that we create through lighting this is known by everyone in hollywood particularly the stars whom i know use lux toilet soap constantly to keep their complexions in perfect condition i think i can speak for all the photographers in hollywood and saying lux soap has made our jobs a great deal easier and our results the results a lot finer women fall into four general complexion types the very dark girl the very light girl the redheaded girl and the suntan girl she as i said is my favorite she's the only type who can be photographed well without makeup the best pictures you see will always be the ones that look the most natural and now my thanks to you all fine fade out mr gordon our stars shine again has become now to a brief session with leslie howard and the lisa landay thank you cb you know at least i'm mr and a million i beg your pardon and gordon that's quite wrong mr de millon i used to be neighbors i rather miss being away the mills had a very nice tennis court usually occupied by the howards when the de mills wanted to play and taking it taking it by and large you're a pretty good neighbor leslie in spite of the temptations you never once exercised your polo ponies on my front lawn oh but i might have if i ever had a chance to play polo over here that's something i usually must wait for it like it back to england keeping you busy are they well i'm too busy for polo i've just finished a picture for born brothers and i'm just going to begin another for wall to wanger have one's called standing i in that i play the vice president of a bank you know i used to be a clock in a bank once that shows you what perseverance will do and remind me of a charming louis carol verse about a banker's clerk he thought he saw a banker's clerk descending from the bus he looked again and found it was a hippopotamus if this should stay to dine he said there won't be much for us and i remind you of that very flattering and very touching but i think leslie's poetry in the scarlet timpanel was much better i'd heard you talk about you're doing a sequel to that picture well it's possible at least i'm going back to england this time and try my luck at being an active producer we'll do either the sequel to the pin panel or a picture called bonnie prince charlie you know playing in the shubo care for night makes me think of england too i was just a little girl when i first saw the play in london and dance the minuet that was long before i ever thought of becoming actress but i distinctly remember hoping that if i ever did become an actress i'd have the chance to play lady mary i always thought this was a charming part so you see wishes can come true and once again i'm indebted to that excellent lux toilet soap the last time you were here let's uh you were hard at work on a play have you finished it yes and i finished another novel too the play is set in hollywood now all i have to do is to find a publisher for the novel good night mr demille yeah and if you find any publishers or not hippopotamus or two just think about to you mr hollard and miss landi our thanks mr hollard appeared for courtesy of warner brothers mr landi metro golden mayor mr demille paramount and louis silvers 20th century fox where he is in charge of music for the new film we willy winky and here is mr demille next monday night the lux radio theater presents what is probably the greatest certainly the most exciting newspaper play ever written the front page by charles macArthur and ben heck the play brings to our stage one of the most remarkable gentleman of our generation a newspaper man who has brought a new style to journalism a new idiom to the english language and a new star to hollywood walter wenchell and starring with mr wenchell jones benet and james greeson one of the great news stories of the week and one of the great enterprises of the age is the round the world flight of amelia airheart tonight miss airheart is in java and next monday night if she continues her flight on schedule time she will be here as our special guest in the lux radio theater to tell you in person for the first time since her return something of her adventures on the trip however if miss airheart is delayed enroute she has graciously consented to keep her date with us here on july 5th our sponsors the makers of lux toilet soap join me in inviting you to be with us again next monday night when the lux radio theater presents walter wenchell and jones benet in the front page with james greeson and if possible a special guest miss amelia airheart this is sessel b demille saying good night to you from hollywood your announcer has been melda roi this is the columbia broadcasting system