 Lutz presents Hollywood. The Lutz Radio Theatre brings you Wallace Beery in the Champ with Josephine Hutchinson, Noah Beery, and Bobby Lyson. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. There's a very select gallery of screen portraits that have become living memories to the people of our time, and that's about as near as any screen mortal can come to immortality. Wallace Beery's portrayal of the Champ won him a special Academy Award in 1932, a portrait still so vivid that only Wallace Beery could bring the Champ back to life in the Lutz Radio Theatre tonight. Besides the award to its star, the MGM Picture also won Academy Honours as the best original screen story of the year. So we think we have what is a blue ribbon bill backed, of course, by our blue ribbon product, Lutz Toilet soap, which has won the award of confidence from millions of women throughout the country. The Champ is the story of a father and son whose devotion took plenty of hard knocks but never went down for the count. The father happens to be a prize fighter, a former champion, but that isn't the important thing in the story. The Champ's greatest battle was fought, but wasn't fought in the ring at all. It was fought within himself to become a champion as a father, and that brings us to Dink, the vagabond son of this vagabond father. Anyone who saw the picture will remember the tear-stained face of Jackie Cooper as he stood by the Champ against the world. Jackie's about seven years too old for the part now, but we asked him to help us out by suggesting a young actor to play the boy in the Champ tonight. His suggestion and our choice was Bobby Larson. Bobby is the lad who read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the picture Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Wallace Beery's in friendly company tonight, for his brother Noah Beery is here to play the part of Tony. And as Linda, we have Miss Josephine Hutchinson, one of Hollywood's most able dramatic actresses, so we ring up the curtain on act one of the Champ, starring Wallace Beery in the title role with Josephine Hutchinson as Linda, Noah Beery as Tony, and Bobby Larson as Dink. Just below the California border lies the sprawling little town of Tijuana, famous during the Prohibition era as a mecca for American tourists. Its muddy unpaved spritz were an endless procession of bars and gambling halls, where tourists and native rubbed shoulders in an atmosphere of desperate gaiety, of noise and smoke, and the spicy odors of Mexican food. The streets are ablaze now for a Saturday night, and the town is at its merriest. Threading his way through the crowd comes a ragged dirty-faced boy, Dink Purcell. Though he's only seven, he walks with confidence for Dink is at home in this boiling border town. Not me, no sir. I ain't gotta find him. There's a couple of guys waiting up the Greeks. They got a fight lined up for him. A fight? Your old man ain't had a fight in a long time. That'll make no difference. He's still the greatest fighter in the world. Sure, Dink. I didn't say nothing. If the chant wins this fight, he said he's gonna buy me a horse. A real horse? Now whatcha think? A wooden one? A real horse. A man, old man. Come on, Jonah. Help me look for the champ. Okay. Maybe he's down to Louis. If I get a crack at this big mix, I'll be right back where I was, Louis. Yeah, top of the heap. World's champion again, eh? I'll be the world's champ again. You watch and see. Sure, I'll watch. That's a buck for you, old man champ. You wanna play now? Sure, sure, sure. Hey, champ, champ! Well, well, if it ain't the little spitball, how you, Dink? Jay, champ, I've been looking all over for you. Mr. Waters are up at the Greeks. They're waiting for you. They are, Joggorn. I forgot about it. You gotta straighten up, champ. Come on. Sure, sure. Hey, Jonah, get some ice and tell Curly to open a can of tomatoes. Okay, Dink. Say, watch the matter with you. I'm all right. They've been there for over an hour. Gosh, champ, what did you have to go forget? You might've spoiled everything. Hey, Louis, listen to that kid of mine bawling me out. He's ruffling me, that kid is. Oh, Dink, I'm gonna be good from now on. Honest, no kidding. Yeah, you said that yesterday. I know, I know, but this time I'm mean and honest. Here's the ice, Dink. Okay, put the back of his neck with it. Oh, cut it out, will you, Dink? Tomatoes again. Come on, champ. Drink this. Listen, I don't like that stuff. You gotta straighten up. Come on, drink it. One, two, three. That's right. That a boy, champ. That's terrible. That's soft. Feel all right now? Sure, I'm fine. Fix your hat. We gotta look right. Let me meet those guys. Where are they? Come on, bring them on. They're at the Greeks, I told you. Sponges there, too. He's giving you a big buildup. What do you mean, Sponges giving me a buildup? I don't need any buildup. I know, champ. Sponges just helping. That's all. Now, come on. And don't let on to him that anything's wrong, huh? Don't you worry. They won't guess, Dink. Providing nothing gets me away. This picture shows a champ wearing a diamond belt. Looks great, don't he? Yeah, he looks fine, Sponge, but after six years ago, what we want to know is how does he look right now? Same way. Absolutely. Here, be here in a minute. You can see for yourself. Yeah, that's what we're waiting for, Sponge. Well, now suppose we talk dough, huh? Now, my idea was this. Andy can still draw a big gate in San Diego or anywhere. How are you, boys? How's your, how's everybody? I, I'm funny, Sponge. He, he's working on the gym. Well, sit down, champ. You must be tired. Yeah, thanks. Well, gentlemen, what's your proposition? I was just talking that over with the boys, champ. I was saying... Wait a minute. Let us do a little talking for a change. How's your condition, Andy? Oh, me? I'm fine. Better than ever. You only have to look at me to know that. Yeah. He tore 300 bags loose last week. Didn't he, champ? Sure. Stand up, Andy. What for? We want to take a look at you. Okay, sure. What do you think, huh? Feel that arm? Hard as a rock. I'm as good now as... Partly must've been something I had. Yeah. Seen enough, Harry? I guess so. Well, now that we're all set, what about the gate? We ought to get 20% at least. We're giving it to you, Sponge. All of it. Huh? The fight's off. Sorry, Andy. No can do. I don't get you. No? You've probably heard this before. Maybe the night you lost the championship. Booze fighting and price fighting don't make sense. What are you talking about? There's nothing to matter with me. Nothing, see? Sit down, Andy, before you trip over your stomach. Come on, Harry. Yeah. Sorry, champ. Well, that settles it. Now, fine time, you pick, champ. The night of all nights you had a... Oh, shut up, shut up. Warren, go on and get out of here. Okay. Get out. Hey, Dink, come here. You don't believe what that guy said about me? About me not being right when I lost the champion? Do you, Dink, huh? No. You know I wouldn't lie to you, would you? Yeah. Sure. Had a boy, had a boy, I guess... I guess I'll hit the hay. Oh, I don't bend over. I don't lace your shoes. Oh, no. I can do that. Oh, give me your foot. Dink, listen. I would have been all right tonight. Only there were some people who invited me. Well, you know how it is, don't you? Sure. Lay down on the bed. I'll put your pants off. Oh, you don't have to treat me like I couldn't take care of myself. Oh, go ahead. You ought to get some sleep. Oh, what's that? A dart. Here, I'll ask the guard, huh? Yes, so. Here, Dink. Spit on it, Dink. Go ahead. Go ahead for luck. Spit on it. Okay. Attaboy. You know things are going to change now, Dink. You wait until you see... I'm going to behave myself from now on. Word of honor. I'll even quit gambling. You like that, wouldn't you? You hear what I said, Dink? Yeah, Herja. Oh, are you coming to bed? In a little while. Dink, I'm awfully sorry. Honest I am. Good night, Dink. Good night, champ. Here, wake up. It's morning. Dink, wake up. Come on, get out of bed. I've got something to show you. What? Listen, Dink, you remember that doll you spit on last night for luck? Well, I took it out this morning and it sure brought it. Eight passes, one after another. Yeah. I thought you wasn't going to gamble no more. Well, I forgot it, Dink. I won plenty of money, though. It ain't wrong when you win, is it? Here, look. See this watch? I got it for you. Thanks, champ. What's the matter? Nothing is swell. Well, I guess I'll get dragged. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Come over to the window here. Now look down there. See? See what sponge has got down the street? He's got a horse. You think you could cotton to that? You mean that to that? Yes, the horse is yours. Mine? Here, here. Come back here. You ain't got your pants on. You can't run around without your pants. Easy, fella. Easy boy. Take it easy. Oh, gee. He's wonderful. Where's your game, champ? I'm running from Joe. And he's mine? All mine? Sure, just like what I said. He's a race horse, any. Well, he ran in a race once. It could be one of those. Couldn't he sponge? Oh, sure. After I work on him for a little while, he'll make the grade. Gee. His name is Butterfly. Butterfly. That's a heck of a name for a horse. We gotta change it. Okay. What do we call him? I know. We call him Little Champ. You're the big champ because you're the best fighter in the world and he's Little Champ because he's gonna be the greatest race horse in the world. Say, that's not a bad idea. And we can start and you're ready and end the race right away. Sure. Sponge will have him set in no time. Oh, gee. Thanks, champ. Here he is over here. What'd you find out, Johnny? The Hobbes is way against us, D. Huh? Little Champ. They've got him now at 20 to 1. Yeah. Who's the favorite? Of course, by the name of Blue Boy is the favorite. There he is over there. See? They're taking pictures of him. Come on. One side, please. One side. Oh, Mr. Carlton. Mr. Carlton. Yes? I'm from the San Diego Herald. Would you and Mrs. Carlton mind posing for a picture with Blue Boy? Not at all. Well, Linda, we're going to have our pictures taken. Oh, how nice. Blue Boy is Mrs. Carlton's horse, isn't he? He is. A birthday gift from my husband. And he's the favorite today. Who? My husband? All right now. Little to the right, please. There, that's it. Thank you very much. Not at all. Horses to the post, please. Yucky's up. See, Lee, I wouldn't bet on that horse if I were you. You wouldn't? No, if you got any money, it better put out of my horse. Very yes, just going out. He does look mighty good. Good? He's going to be the winner. Then we'll be sure and bet on him. What's his name? Little Chin. And what's your name? Dink. What's yours? Linda, I think Dink's a very nice name. Well, Linda ain't a bad name, neither. Tony, dear, put $50 on little champ. Sure. I'll see you up in the box. You won't be sorry, lady. No, ma'am, you sure won't. Oh, I haven't been introduced to this gentleman. Oh, he's Juna. I pay him. Juna, she dances, Mrs. Linda. How do you do? Yes, ma'am. He's colored. So he is. A very nice color. Snap it up, folks. Snap it up. Oh, hello, Mr. Carlton. Hello. 50 to place on little champ, please. Hey, give me 20 on little champ. 20 on little champ, excuse me. Mr. I... Hello, Andy. Oh, hello, Carlton. I thought you never came out west. We're spending the winter in California. We, meaning, yes, Linda and I. Yeah, well, that's good enough. No more bets, folks. They're at the post. What took you so long? Why, you look as if you'd seen a ghost, Tony. I have, Linda. I saw Andy. Andy? Where? Look down there, by the rail. Yes, I see him. You see that boy with him? Why, it's... it's the same one who... Tony. Yes. Come on, take it easy. Take it easy, Dink. Take it easy. Come on, little champ! Keep your hands to yourself, will you, Dink? Look at him. He's coming up. He's getting at it. If you don't quit slawing me, I'll murder you. It's all right. It's all right. Oh, he's broken his leg. Oh, champ! Take it easy. He's all right, kid. Look, he's getting up. He's okay. He's just winded. That's all. Oh, gosh. I gotta see him. I gotta see him. Think the nag's okay, Sponge? Yeah, I guess so. He looks all right from here. Tough break, huh? Tough on the kid. Well, it's not so good on us, neither. We're clean again. Ah, we've been broke before. Come on, let's get out of here. Andy, yeah, what do you want? I'd like to see you alone. Okay, come on. Andy, is Dink Linda's child? Is he? Yeah. What about it? She'd like to see him, Andy. Yeah, so what? Well, I think you ought to let her. Why? She watched the both of us up a long time ago. Didn't she? Didn't she? That was a mistake, Andy. You're married to Linda. I'd known it since she was a child and loved her. Yeah, you was her class. I was just a runner-up who couldn't make the grade, so she gave me the gate. I'm sorry, Andy. Yeah, that does a lot of good. Let Linda see the boy. Not a chance, not a chance. The courts gave me custody of the kid, and I'm keeping it. Besides, you got a kid of your own, ain't you? Yes, we have a little girl. But Dink is also Linda's child. No, no, no. She's got you and a new kid. I got Dink. We all stay just as we are. She'd give anything in the world to talk to him, Andy. Anything? How much? I wasn't thinking in terms of money. Okay, and okay. Now, wait. All right, Andy. Here's $100. Bring him over to the hotel tomorrow. There'll be another hundred. All right? Well, I'll tell you. I got a sleep on it. If I decide that I don't want it to seem, why, I'll send this back to you so long. The curtain falls on Act One of our play as the champ debates whether or not to let Linda see their son. Before Wallace Beery and Josephine Hutchinson return for the second act, we have a brief intermission, and Mr. Roick and our trio investigate an interesting subject. Are you ready, Sally and Irene and Mary? Yes, but first I'd like to ask you a question, Mr. Roick. All right. Do you ever read the Lost and Found section in the newspaper? Yes. Once in a while I do. Why? Well, the other day we were looking at the Lost Column. And here's the thought that came to us. Yes, if the Lost and Found section said, Lost a lovely complexion somewhere between the time I was 16 and today, reward Ms. Jay. That would be tragic. And you could read between the lines too. Ms. Jay probably didn't know when she lost her complexion beauty or how. She just woke up one day and realized her skin was no longer smooth and clear. But we know that a nice complexion didn't disappear in one day. No. Probably Ms. Jay had been making one mistake for a long time. 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Act two of the champ, starring Wallace Berry in the title role with Josephine Hutchinson as Linda, Noah Berry as Tony and Bobby Larson as Dink. It's only a few miles from the champ's dingy quarters in Tijuana to the sedate beauty of the American hotel in Caliente. But it's a new world to Dink. In the living room of his mother's apartment where the champ has sent him, without a word of explanation, Dink is bewildered and ill at ease. At last the door opens and Linda comes in. Hello, Dink. Oh, hello, Linda. I'm so glad to see you again, Dink. Yeah, I was wondering. Why? Well, what a conical isn't that dough for yet to raise. Oh, that doesn't matter. Ain't that the reason you want to see me? No, it was a lot more important than that. Oh, see, this ain't a bad dump you got here, Linda. I'm glad you like it. Yeah, the champ and me ain't fixed up as well as this, but our joints, more lively, is right over the Greek saloon. I like to listen to piano playing while I'm waiting for the champ to come home nights. Does your father leave you alone often? No, he takes me most every place, especially when he shoots dice. I'm good luck to him. You like your father very much, don't you? The champ is the greatest guy in the world. See, you want to meet him sometime, Linda? I... I have met him, Dink. Hasn't your father told you who I am? No. Well, has he ever talked to you about your... your mother? Oh, yeah. She kicked the bucket before I was born. Is that what he told you? Well, it hurt at some place. Dink, try to understand. I'm your mother. Oh, no. Yes, Dink, I am. My mother? Then why didn't you live with the champ and me? Well, your father and I disagreed. I'm married to Mr. Carlton now. Then you ain't married to the champ anymore? No. Oh, well, then you ain't my mother. How could you be? Oh, Dink. Oh, what you're crying about. Dink, I am your mother. Nothing that happened between your father and me can change that. Well, that's all right. You want to cry about it. I like you. Do you, Dink? Do you really? Sure. Well, I gotta go now. Dink, I wish you'd kiss me. Oh, no. I don't kiss Dames. Please, Dink. Oh, what's a good Ned? I'd like you to. Well, okay. So long. So long, Dink. Come down until you want us sometime. I'll show you around. What's happened, darling? He doesn't even want to know me. Well, don't say that, darling. He just doesn't understand yet. How could he? Oh, Tony, if he grows up in that background, I'll blame myself all my life. We've got to get him out of it, Tony. We've got to. Dice, be good to me. Come on, Papa. One mile to go, yeah. There she is, little Phoebe. Come on, let's shoot the whole works. Hey, hey, think it easy. Champ, you're way ahead of the game. Don't bother me. Where's Dink? Hey, Dink, Dink, come on here. Wake up, wake up. Come on, kid. You know what to do. Make the dice lucky for me. Come on. Oh, champ. I run out of speed. Come on. Don't give me that. Okay. It's a blank champ. Maybe we're going to hit the hay soon. Sure, soon. Aether from the cavern. Come on. That ain't hard to make. Come on. I'm dying on my feet, champ. Come on, homeboy. Oh, we can't quit. Now, Dink, we're going good. Come on. That does it. Come on. Holy Mikey, one again. Hey, champ. Hey, what? Guy outside wants to see you. Oh, get out of here. Go on, I'm busy. He said it was important. His name's Carlton. Oh, yeah? Okay. Here, Spines, take the dice. You shoot your own dough, though. Oh, okay, champ. I want to speak to you. Yeah, well, spell it. Andy, Linda and I have a proposition to make you. Yeah? We want to give you, uh, we want you to give us, Dink, for six months. Why? Why? Because, because we want to help him. We want to do something for the boy. Like what, for instance? Well, sending him to school, giving him a different environment. He's got plenty of environment right here. I'm busy. Now, wait. I know that you love him, Andy, and Dink loves you, but put this sort of a life for a kid. Come on, give the boy a chance. If you love him, Andy. I had a hunch shit pull something like this. Well, I got to do a lot of counting to keep them smacking you down. Look, you see this dough? I got pretty close to four grand here. I'm going to send that kid to school, and I'll get him dressed up, too. Him and me is going to travel. What do you say to that? We wanted to get nasty, Andy. We could take that boy away from you. You're not a good father, you know. You. Go on, beat it, Carlton. Go on. I'm sorry. I thought I'd give it to you straight, Andy. Give me those dice. Come on. Give me those dice. Come on. Spit on them, Dink. Oh, he's asleep, champ. He's out like a light. Hey, hey, Dink. Never mind. Let him alone. Let him alone. I'm shooting a hundred bucks. Come on, dice. Show him some ruling. Come on, dice. Hot doggy, watch him go. Come on. We're closing up. Want to sign that paper? Oh, yes. I'll sign it. Sign right here. That's Dink's horse, Spidey. I must have gone nuts gambling him away that way. That kid's going to die when he. Finds it out. Yeah, I know. I'll tell you. If you can get the money within the next couple of days, I'll let you have him back. Okay, thanks. Dink. Dink, come on. Wake up, Dink. We're hitting for home. Gee, what time is it, champ? It's morning. You want me to carry you? No, I got legs. Had better look, champ. Yeah, yeah. Gone a lot of it. Well, tomorrow's another day. Little champ will make it all back to us in his next race. Dink, listen. I got to tell you something. What's the matter? We ain't got little champ anymore. I lost him. Lost him? Yeah. You, you lost little champ? Oh, no. I'm getting back, Dink, just as soon as I get the money. But you're keeping to me. But don't take all of that way about it, Dink. I didn't mean to do it. It just happened. Come on now. Get that chin up. Everything's going to be all right. Come on. Give me a smile. Sure. I, I'm smiling. That's the way. I'll get him back, Dink. I don't know how, but I'll get him for you. Bucks, Linda. I wouldn't have come to you for it only. Another kid loved that horse, and I promised to get him for it. You understand, don't you, Linda? Yes, Sandy. I haven't got it now, but I can send it to you. Gee, thanks, Linda. I can't tell you how I appreciate it, if there was anything that I can do for you. Of course there wouldn't be, would there? There might be, Andy. You could reconsider about letting us have Dink. Take him away from me? Can't you see how much we could do for him? A good home, a decent atmosphere, friends. We'll send him to a good military school. Yeah, I know all about that. Yes, and you've said no. But what right have you to say no? Why don't you let Dink decide? Perhaps he'd like to stay with us. Ask him. Okay, Linda, I'll ask him. You will? You promise? I promise. On the order of tortillas. Right, champ? Yeah. Send him down to Jose and bring us some more water, will ya? Yeah, right there, will ya, see. You want some more meat, Dink? No, more corn. All right, here, help yourself. Oh, say, I got to ask you something. What? Well, you wouldn't like to go to military school, would ya? No. No. What's it like? Well, it's like a prison. You wear a uniform, you know, one of those uniforms, and you got to march all the time and they wake you up in the morning with a bugle. You wouldn't care for that, would ya? No. No. And you wouldn't care to live in a great big house, would ya? You know a dump as big as a barn? I mean the sort of a place where you, where you got to be dressed up all the times and you got to wash all over three or four times a day. Wash three times a day? Yeah. Nothing doing. You've got the right idea, Dink. And don't. Listen, I don't suppose you'd be crazy about going to one of them, their colleges, and sitting in a room where you got to read books all day. That's out, huh? Books, not for me. That's out. Sure, I kind of thought that you'd feel that way, but I had to ask you, you know. Hey, Ken. You got him, Whitey? Yeah, I got him. Got who? Now, who do you suppose? Little champ. I'm buying him back for ya. Oh, champ. Where's he at? Down at my place. Oh, gee, I gotta see him. Oh, so long, champ. Oh, thanks, champ, but you... So long, champ. He's kind of happy, isn't he? Yeah. Got my dough, Andy? Oh, yes, oh, sure. 300 bucks, wasn't it? You know how much it was? Well, here you are. One, two... Oh, wait a minute. What's the number on this bill? Otter Eden. You starting that again? Okay, okay, okay. Lend me 10 bucks, and I'll buy you a drink, too. Throw the champ a plate, Junior. Sponge says he looks like Man of War, when he can't run as fast yet. All he need is practice. That's all. It's like the champ. He didn't know much about writing when he first started, as later on, when he's a world's champion, it's the same with a horse. Sure. Say, something going on across the street, Dane? Yeah, let's go see. Look, that is Chef Man. Well, somebody's getting pinched. Somebody landing in jail today, yes, sir. Hurry up, I want to see who. Let go of me, will you? Let go of me. Go on, take your paws off of me. Can a guy speak his mind about being dragged down this jail? Oh, gee. It's, it's champ, champ. Oh, hello, Dink. Oh, champ, what you with? I guess I did it again, Dink. Vamos, come along, you. No, let him alone. It can't take him. He's my father. Yeah? Well, that's too bad. Come on, move along, out of the way. Come on, come on. You can see him now. But you come out soon, eh? Sure, sure, sure, will. Hello, champ. Hello, Sponge. Gee, you look awful. It's a matter, ain't you slept, any? No, no, I, I've been thinking. Boy, what a joint. Say, what happened anyway? I hear you're acting up down at Joe's, and by the time I get there, they got you in a can. What's the beef, champ? Oh, what's the difference? Okay, okay. Where's Dink? Is he coming? Sure, sure, he's on his way now. He, he stopped off or something. Listen, I've been thinking all over. I'm giving Dink to his mother. Huh? I'm giving him to her. I ain't no good, and he'll be better off with her. It'll be tough making him go, but he's got to. Well, gee, champ, what'll you do without him? What'll he do without you? Well, after a while, he'll forget me. Kids always do. Hey, champ, I'm here, champ. Here I am, champ. Hello. Gee, what a dump, huh? Oh, look, I bought you something to eat, champ. I told Chilly Mary to make it special for you. Look, just what you like. I ain't hungry. Take him home, Sponge. Pack his stuff. Take him over to the hotel to his mother. What? What for? Because I say so. You're going to stay with her from now on. Oh, no, champ. I want to stay with you. Do you? Well, you, that's tough. Because you're not going to. Oh, what am I going to do with her? You're going to go to school, learn things, grow up to be somebody. Let her feed you for a while. I'm tired of feeding you. You're eating all the time, and I'm tired of having you hanging around, following me everywhere I go. I won't eat so much, champ, and I won't hang around you. I'll stay with the Greeks and wait until you come home tonight. No, you're going over to her. I'm saying you are, so you're going. I wish you wouldn't send me, champ. I'll go to school here. I'll be somebody when I go up. Somebody like you. No, no. You're going to your mother's. Do you hear me? I don't want any sniveling out of here. No back talk. No, champ. I ain't going. I ain't. You're going. I ain't. I'm staying with you. Like, did you hear it? Get out. That learned you to argue. Go on, beat it. Okay. Okay, champ. I hit him. I hit him. Hey, champ. Champ, what's the matter with you? Slamming your hand against the wall like that. You want to break it? I hit him. I hit him. Champ, stop it, will you? I hit that kid of mine. 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We'll have some fine times together, just you wait and see. Are you sure you won't have some dinner, dear? It's fun having dinner on the train. No, thanks. I ain't hungry. But, Dink, you... All right, darling. Oh, I forgot to tell you, I've got some good news for you. Tony pulled some strings in Tier 1 before we left, and your father's home again. You mean you... you got him out of jail? That's right. Well, thanks a lot. Was he all right? Yes, he was fine. Did he... did he ask about me? Of course. And Tony told him you were getting along so nicely. Oh. That's what you'd want to tell him, wouldn't you? Oh, sure, sure. I wouldn't want him to think that I... Well, you know. Of course. You... you have a little cold, haven't you? Oh, yeah. I've been running something awful. Oh, Dink, I'm so glad you're here. You got a snap out of it, see? I thought everything would be okay when he sprung you out of jail, and now you're worse than ever. You know, another couple of nights without some shut-on, you're going to be a wreck. Oh, quit worrying. I'm okay. Okay for what? Listen, champ, if it's a kid you're worrying about, we'll... Nix, you keep out of this. That kid's in a good spot, and he's going to stay there. Don't worry, Sponge, I'll... I'm all right. I'm just nervous. Soon as I get some sleep, just a couple of hours. Hey, champ. Wilfer. What was that? I don't know. I could have swore that there was a... Hello, champ. Dink. I thought I was going to see how you were. Dink. Oh, dink. Oh, cheap, cheap. Outside, Sponge. Come on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Gee, dink. I'm awful glad to see you too. Me too. I... I got a little cold. So bye. Gee whiz, but you look swell. That suit ain't got much life to it, but it ain't bad. And say, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you've got a manicure. Yeah, it'll wear off, though. What happened to your hand? Well, that nothing. I just scraped it. Wait a minute. How'd you get back here? I... I ran away, champ. I just didn't like it up there. I mean, it was okay, but... Well, you was right about the washing business. Three times a day, all over. Oh, gee, I... I'm sorry, dink. It was all right, but I'm gonna stay here now, champ. I gotta... Okay, dink. You know what? I ain't had a drink since I got out of jail. And I've been off the dice too. Gee, that's great. And start tomorrow I'm going in training. Yeah? Yeah, I'm going to see them promoters in the morning. I'll make them get me a fight. Looky here. Let me... I'll show them. Look at that footwork, dink. Gee, you're lightin' your feet. You betcha. Here. Feel that muscle. Boy, it's like iron. Steel. Is there any reason why I couldn't make her come back? No. I'll do it. I'll send you to school and I'll get you a lot of nice clothes. And as for manicure and say, I'll have a girl fallin' this round just to take care of your fingernails. Oh, couldn't we get our man to do that? Sure. What's up, dink? I'm gonna do some sparring. Oh, boy, give it to him, champ. The old one-two. One-two. Ah, one-two. Add up, boy, champ. That's what'll happen to the next guy that I go up against. Hey, champ. You busted the washbowl. Oh, that's all right. Forget it. After my next fight, we're gonna wash in a sink. None of that three times a day stuff, either. Oh, boy, am I glad I come back. Come on. Come on. Give it something. Any snap in it, will ya? You was a three-legged elephant. You couldn't be no slower than that. Lay off of me, will ya? He'll be okay, Sponge. Yeah. He'd be great at the Girl Scouts' taffy pool. Well, this is a fight he's going into. Oh, five gong, will ya? Oh, why do you think it's sucking him, champ? I ain't worth the trouble. You mean you ain't got the strength? Yeah. All right, all right, that's enough. Going up to the room, take a sponge bed. I'll be okay. Just wait until I get going. I'll kill that gong. Yeah, well, get going now. Up to the room. We got more to do this afternoon. Okay, I'll see you later. Yeah. Well, Sponge, how's he look? Oh, hello, Whitey. You were watching, weren't you? Yeah. And you ought to know, don't bet no dough on him. I figured that. He's all shot, Whitey. He just ain't in him anymore. Wins all gone, huh? Nothing left to play a harmonica with. You know, that Mexican's gonna make goulash out of him. That ain't so. Huh? Say, where did you come from? Look what you beat a dink. I'll tell the champ what you said. Oh, next, next. You don't want to do that, kid. Well, don't say things like that about him. He's gonna come back. He's gonna let the stuffins out of that peluca. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Sure he is, Dink, sure. Going my way, Whitey. Yeah. I want to ask you a couple of more things. I've been talking to some of the boys around here. Dink, hey, Dink, wait up. I ain't got time, ma'a, Jordan. I gotta see the champ. Listen, Dink, this is important. What? I just hear something. It's all against us, Dink. Those gambler fellas are laying six to one. The champ don't last three rounds. Six to one? Oh, they're crazy. That's what they're betting. Listen, that champ's gonna kill that guy. He, he's in great shape. Maybe so, but they don't lose those gambler fellas. And they all say he's gonna get laid back. Oh, shut up. Go and beat it. Okay, Dink. Just thought I'd tell you. Six to one? You ain't got a chance. The champ ain't got a chance. Little champ. Hello, hello, Dink. Come on in. Boy, some work out, huh? Yeah, tired champ. No, well, a little. I had a lot of catching up to do, but I'm doing it okay. Champ, I want to talk to you about that. About what? About this here fight racket. I don't like it. How come? I thought you was all for it. Well, I've been thinking it over. You know, champ, I like you lots better when you ain't training. Yeah? Yeah. For instance, when you got a couple of drinks and you, you're a lot of fun. I thought you didn't like me drinking. I was wrong. Not that you quit gambling. I don't get a chance of spitting your dice anymore. Huh? I got practically nothing to spit on these days. Yeah. I know, but look how I used to lose all my dough. We're much better off since I quit. I don't know. We used to have a lot of fun. Now you're crying the most of the time, and we don't see much of each other as we used to. Oh, it's all on account of this fight. Oh, what are you talking about? You was the world's champion once. Everybody knows that. Now what do we care about you being champ again? And putting this Mexican ain't going to get you much. If I win, and I'm going to win, it'll get me 10 grand. Oh, who cares about that? I do. With that dough, I'm going to send you to school. We're going to travel. I don't have to go to school. You didn't go, did you? No, that's why you're going. Say, you're not trying to get me to throw that fight, are you? No, champ. Okay. Then I'm going to fight, see? And I'm going to lick the stuffing out of that guy. You understand? Sure, sure, champ. Class preliminary, we're on next champ. Yeah, if the doc here ever gets through with me, what do you say, doc? I'm okay, eh? Now just a minute, Andy. I want to listen to that heart again if you don't mind. Oh, cut it out. There's nothing wrong with me. I never felt better in all my life. Well, what do you say, doc? Okay? I guess so. There you are. I told you so. You're in pretty fair shape, Andy, but don't go at it too hard. You've got to be a little careful. The old heart isn't any too strong. Oh, what do you mean? Well, it's pumping pretty hard. Oh, it always does that just before a fight. When I won the championship, it was doing nip-ups. May I come in? Hello, Carlton. Hello, Andy. Where'd you come from? We came down to see the fight. Linda's outside. She'd like to speak to you, Andy. Yeah. Okay. Outside, everybody. Go on, doc, so long. So long, Andy, but remember, take it as easy as you can. Don't put too much strain on the old pump. Oh, stop worrying. I'll be around when you die from your own pills. Go on. Good luck, Andy. Good morning, Linda. Hello, Andy. Hello. What's it all about? You want to take Dink away again, huh? No. We know we can't do the impossible. We're not going to try it anymore. Well, that's good sense. You're going to see a fight tonight. I'm taking care of the kid from now on. Andy, I'm bidding $5,000 on the other fellow. What? That's great. A real pal, huh? You don't understand. We're betting that money for you, Andy. I don't get this. What do you mean for me? Look, Andy, when we came down here, we heard that... Well, the odds are pretty much against you. They say you can't stand another fight. No, they're crazy. Maybe they are. Anyway, we don't want you to run any risks. If you find the fight isn't going right, don't worry. You'll have the money for Dink anyway. Yeah, now listen, Linda, I got my chance tonight, the chance of a lifetime to make good with that kid, and I'm going to do it. Dink's going to be out there watching me, see? And when it's always going to be proud of him, everything's going to be all right. I hope so, Andy. Good luck. Same here, Andy. Here we go. The cholo kid. Andy, one and a half. The former heavyweight champion of the world, Andy Purcell. Make him come to you when he doesn't have that left. Sure, sure. Now listen to me. You can't last the top speed, see? Stay away until you hear him wait for an opening. When you get it, keep right after him. Okay, Spines, leave it to me. Hello, Dink. You're going to see some fighting tonight, kid. Sure. How do you feel, champ? Oh, I feel great. If love's okay? Sure. Go ahead and spit on him for luck. Sure. Good. I can't lose now, Dink. Sit down there and get a load of this. Good luck, champ. Finish him. Yeah, he'll finish himself if he ain't careful. We still got 15 rounds to go. Stay away. Don't do what I say. I'll kill you. I'm okay, Spines. Let me alone. You win, holding out? He's been... he's been hitting me here in the heart. It's okay. But cover up. Would you left higher? Moving closer on the clenches. He can't touch your heart, Dan. I get... I... I... Looking worse every round. Oh, Tony, look at his face. He's being cut to pieces. I can't stand it. I'm going outside. Wait, darling. I'll go with you. Come on, Monterey. He didn't get him in this round. Kill him, Monterey. Hi, the champ's through. He's staggering all over the ring. Come on. Get him, Monterey. Kill him. All right, champ. Come on, champ. The bell saved you. Boy, snap out of it. Snap out of it, champ. You hear? Okay. Okay. You all right? Yeah, sure. Can you go back there, champ? Are you sure? I'll toss you in the towel now if you give me the word. Oh, I gotta finish. I gotta let me fight Sponge. Okay. Okay, champ. How do you want me? You want to see the punch that... Hey, champ, what's the matter? Nothing. I... I've got to... Take it easy, Dink. Sure. Go ahead. What do you think? Chance? Not one in a million. There's nothing I can do. Nothing. Hey, champ, what happened? Are you okay? Sure. Come here, Dink. I want to speak to you. What about, champ? Look, Dink, your mother's here. You know that? She came down to get you. This time, I... I think that you ought to stay with her, Dink. Why, champ? Why can't I stay with you? Because, well, they know you's kid lizarding. I ain't staying around much longer. Understand? Oh, gee, champ? Oh, come on. Come on. That ain't no way to act. Listen, she's your mother, see? You ought to call it that. No more of this Linda stuff. For me, Dink. Huh? Okay, champ. Add up, boy. And remember, keep your chin up. Keep your chin. Everything's going to come out all right. Give me a smile. Champ! Oh, my darling. My poor darling. He's gone, mother. The champ's great spirit lives on in his son. Wallace Berry, Josephine Hutchinson, Norbury, and Bobby Larson are returning to our stage. I think Bobby's about the youngest actor who's ever taken a curtain call at our microphone. Well, he may be young, CB, but he sure pulls his own weight in the boat. I think he's the coming champ, Wallace. Yeah. Say, Mr. DeMille, could I ask Mr. Wally a question? The floor's all yours, Bobby. You used to be with the circus, didn't you, Mr. Wally? Sure. I was nurse-made to the elephants. That's what I want to ask you about. Is it true that elephants never forget? I should say it is. Every time a circus comes to town, a couple of elephants look Wally up. With a trunk full of memories, I suppose. You know, we used to have one elephant. We called her Big Mom. She always got scared in the thunderstorm. Every time it thundered, she couldn't sleep unless she wrapped her trunk around my arm, Bobby. Temperamental elephant must have been an armful. Mr. DeMille, can you imagine a fellow putting a swell job like elephant training just to work in the movies? Confidentially, Bobby, I can't. You know, I think that Wally gets a little homesick for the circus sometimes. Well, no, when I hear that train whistle about four o'clock in the morning and I think about getting the tent down and the animals loaded and how cold it was sometimes, then I just turn over in bed and go back to sleep. I'm not homesick anymore. That must be a very comfortable feeling. Before we go, Mr. DeMille, I want to say something about the product behind this program. I use luck soap regularly myself and have for several years because it's such a help to a good complexion. So gentle and yet so effective. Active lather, I think Mr. Rowe, it calls it. Anyway, it's a grand soap and I wouldn't be without it. And now, Mr. DeMille, we're all anxious to know what you're planning for next Monday night. Next Monday night, we have a very special treat for Lux Radio Theatre listeners. We're going to present a drama that was one of the great successes of the year on the screen. Goodbye, Mr. Chips. And our stars will be Laurence Olivier and Edna Best. Goodbye, Mr. Chips, as a story of a man who spent his whole life as a master, a teacher, and a boy's school. He tells of the love that brought light and color to Chips, of the ambition of his life and how it was achieved. As our special guest, we'll have James Hilton, the author. Goodbye, Mr. Chips, as one of the great stories of our time. And we're particularly proud to produce it here next Monday night. It was a fine picture, Mr. DeMille, and it'll be a fine radio play, too. Good night, everybody. Bobby, I'll take you down to see the elephants some day, Monty. Oh, gee, thanks. Good night. So long, CB. Good night. And like those elephants, we'll never forget the champ. 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 Theatre presents Laurence Olivier and Edna Best in Goodbye, Mr. Chips. This is Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood. This is Melville Roy, inviting you to enjoy the popular Lux Daytime program, The Life and Love of Dr. Susan. Dr. Susan is putting up a brave fight to help Pat Briggs stay clean and straight, but two women who hate and fear Dr. Susan have joined forces to plot against her. Here tomorrow's episode of this thrilling story. For the time and station, see your newspaper. The Life and Love of Dr. Susan comes to you in addition to the Lux Radio Theatre. And don't forget to send 50 cents, three Lux Toilet Soap wrappers, and your name and address to Lux Toilet Soap, Meridan, Connecticut, and you'll receive six beautiful original Rogers Silver Plate teaspoons in the original Allure pattern. Herd in tonight's play were Lou Merrill as sponge, Stymie Beard as Jonah, and Gail Gordon as Louie. Wallace Berry appeared through the courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor. His latest picture is Thunder afloat. Josephine Hutchinson will be seen in the forthcoming Edward Small production, My Son, My Son. 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