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Jamil greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen one of the keystones of democracy is the magic formula that pursues American youth from the first grade to a college degree Raiden Reiten and arithmetic and somewhere in the memory of most of us there's a deep appreciation of some great and humble teacher who we used to think made life miserable for us so tonight we turn back the years and remember cheers for Miss Bishop with a warmly human story of one such woman a teacher and us in a small American college and we bring it to you with Martha Scott and William Gargan in the original the original stars of Richard Rowland's fine motion picture just released by United Artists you know when we raise the curtain on one of these Monday night plays we're presenting the finished product of a good deal of hard work and experiment the kind of work it takes to get the best out of the best materials of course that's a tradition in any theater and particularly in this one because the little package behind it Lux toilet soap has the same kind of background no finished product is any better than the amount of work and care that goes into it and that's one thing that makes Lux toilet soap a name which stands for the best in millions of American homes and we have that very much in mind when we raise the curtain and say Lux presents tonight it presents an exquisite love story but cheers for Miss Bishop is more than that it's a drama of the unsung heroin the kind you'll find in your hometown and every town a woman who has given the full measure of devotion to an ideal of service it's a story that's very close to my heart because both my mother and father were school teachers at one time and if it weren't rather a selfish thing to do I'd I'd like to dedicate our production to them but a good many other people have some well-loved and long-remembered teacher in mind too so we let each listener silently make his own dedication as we raise the curtain on act one of cheers for Miss Bishop starring Martha Scott as Ella Bishop and William Gargan as Sam Peter with Mary Anderson as Amy on a windswept plane somewhere west of the Mississippi River stand the ivy covered walls of a small university for more than half a century it has weathered the storms of the prairie land and now it's growing old with dignity and grace in a little house just off the grounds a white haired woman sits at a window looking out across the campus she is Ella Bishop senior member of the faculty in almost 50 years of service she has grown old oh good evening Sam I didn't hear you come in knock three times nobody else home no all alone sit down Sam you're all I wanted to see just thought I'd stop in for a second on my way home by way of an innovation tired of sitting here looking backwards great waste of time what happened at the trustees meeting yesterday wasn't there had to go with a pretty prairie to see about some land I'm buying more land I don't have to stay already all from one little grocery store you've been a great success Sam so do you well me I'm just an old maid school teacher with a lot of wonderful memories remember the day you drove up to the house and your brand new delivery wagon do you realize that's over 50 years ago 50 years I must have been 22 I was 17 the day Midwestern opened September 1888 there's only one building then Central Hall and I remember how thrilled I was to be a student at a real university President Cochran made the opening at best me auditorium I'll never forget what he said that day you have walked miles to get here and that every day for four years you'll have to walk those miles through rain and sleet and snow but I know this the end will pay you for those hardships because the end is wisdom wisdom is first cousin to freedom and freedom is the glory of our nation and of our people freedom is the glory of our nation in our people oh doesn't that give you a thrill must yes Ella drink your milk you've had nothing since breakfast of course it was the oh he has the most wonderful voice and the most wonderful eyes is he married Ella who am I President Cochran oh Amy what are we going to do with this romantic mind is nice of yours well goodness I didn't say anything I just asked if you were married did you finish shutting those peas Amy I'm doing it sometimes I think Amy is a little boy crazy no she isn't much just 14 oh Sam Peter Sam he's got a new delivery wagon look I want to tell him about college oh Sam didn't get in today I'm here the first thing in the morning first delivery cross my heart bar Bishop all right Sam faithful old dog Trey Harrell not too pleased with faithful old dog Trey at the moment didn't come to hear about my first day at college he just came about some old apples new apples September sweet what a nice name what a nice world Sam and you perched right on top of it huh the very tip top are you sure you don't want to enroll it isn't too late look Al see the name on that cart Sam Peter I know it's something of your very own something you started not just my old now it's good glory I know book learning isn't everything but just you wait always the day you graduate you help me decide which of the millions of teaching offers I'll accept I can't I will you know for a smart girl you sure have some mighty put in head notions L imagine figuring that you're cut out for a teacher good glory Sammy don't think I'm going to spend all my life teaching do you oh that's all right then I've got scads of time but but someday L I'm dear you mustn't and I just know you too well and well stop what stop stop answering questions till I rest you know some girls take an awful lot for granted remember the day you graduated you were mighty proud of all those teaching offers I expected that didn't get one I never could understand that neither could I that's why I went to see President Cochran that's right I drove you over in the way you know of an opening and any of the schools around here I mean just the prairie grade schools well do you President Cochran well I'm pretty busy with the fall enrollments mischievous and I'm trying to arrange for a new member of the faculty young woman to teach freshman English girl I've watched pretty closely for four years an intelligent girl I think anyway she seems to me to have one quality which is mighty important to the teaching profession loves and understands folks President Cochran do you because I know you couldn't me I can't help thinking you might mean President Cochran do you mean oh dear dear dear there's a heap of repetition in that sentence for a teacher of freshman English oh President Cochran I'm really scared the first day school opened wasn't I though I stood alone in that empty classroom looking at the rows of seats in my heart was heavy as lead for an hour before the students came I rehearsed my opening to devote the first ten minutes to the writing of a very brief theme on the subject of my favorite season oh no no I'll have them write on some subject that will teach me something about them their life ambition that's it I've got to understand them if I'm going to help them learn anything good morning hasn't the teacher come yet good morning I'm you know I wonder what she's like most of her a lot old hags young man I'm the teacher oh oh yes ma'am yes ma'am but don't be worried I I'm just as frightened as you are Anton Radcheck will you read your theme please yes ma'am my life's ambition is to be a great astronomer because ever since I can remember the stars to me have been comfort and beauty and like friends thank you Mr. Radcheck Miss Minna feels Miss Minna feels well except to get learning I ain't got no special life ambition yet quiet please quiet Miss feels Mr. Radcheck I'd like both of you to come to my office please after class Professor Wick studied astronomy at Yale Mr. Radcheck and both he and President Corcoran have agreed that if there's a student at Midwestern who wants a course in astronomy he shall have a course in astronomy oh miss Bishop report to professor Wicks in the morning thank you ma'am thank you so it just occurred to me Minna that you might be interested in the librarians course it would be an interesting job wouldn't it Minna oh yes miss Bishop but miss Bishop yes Minna I I have got a life's ambition now miss Bishop it's to be just like you wonderful that first year of teaching I'd never been so happy in my life and then then there was the night of the Glee Club concert you couldn't go with me no I had a cold you were very nice about it Sam I've often wondered Al was that the first time you met Del Thompson funny the way it happened I'd made some maple snow candy and put it on the window to cool it slid down off the sale when I went out on the roof to get it of course the window closed behind me it would and there I was trapped on the roof fire brigade oh no thank you I'll come down all our rescued maiden are you sure you can make it oh you mustn't ruin the most time-honored romantic scene in all the world of fairy tales extend your tiny foot Cinderella I'll put your slipper on well funnily enough my name is Ella I'm Ella Bishop and I'm the Prince and the slipper fits so now it only remains for me to carry you into the palace oh please don't be absurd don't you be absurd no please you can't go plowing through snow and glass slippers you'd catch your death of pneumonia and then you couldn't live happily ever after I want to be put down here please oh no not on a snow-covered porch I'll have to carry you inside oh please say I just thought carrying a young lady across the threshold there's a no legend about that isn't there well really put me down this minute please right in front of the fire there when I save lives I save them thoroughly thank you very much mr. delbert Thompson well you're not Cinderella at all you're a witch with a gift of second sight no I'm just a schoolteacher of average intelligence who lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody's business oh we all know for instance that you are a brilliant young lawyer that you're coming to live with judge Peters that you to be his junior partner and underneath your picture in your class book it said mad bad and dangerous to know well man shouldn't you in kindness ask the junior partner to sit down I'm sorry I can't my mother's at a concert tonight and we must observe the conventions at all cost at all cost well I'm glad to have been in service miss Bishop thank you so much and I'll pay my respects to your mother real soon she'll be delighted maybe I ought to stay till she gets home oh no no I'm sorry oh well I tried no harm done no harm good good night princess tension what's that Amy you're supposed to be dancing with me not looking around for Ella is your nose a little out of joint sound you mean about del Thompson rushing L mm-hmm no Amy honey I'm not jealous well judging from the way he's been swarming around or he sure must be crazy about her who is there they are now it's awfully good-looking isn't it why Amy you see more interested even than L does well maybe I am and she seems pretty interested to me Ella Bishop take this man for your lawful wedded husband and do you delbert Thompson take this woman for your lawful wedded wife I do I now pronounce you man and wife how may I kiss the bride it's the end of all dream a little house all your own a warm fire in the heart to be married in June as soon as school closed I've been working on my wedding dress for weeks it was beautiful one night Amy was alone downstairs when del was to call I found out later that she was trying on my veil with her back to the door that's how del came to her for me the most beautiful bride in the world Amy Amy I thought don't talk crazy I mean what a crazy mistake yes yes of course Amy do you have my veil oh hello del Amy put it in the spare room please with the dress all right well del you shouldn't have seen the veil I hope it isn't bad luck how could it be bad luck I didn't mean that seriously but you aren't supposed to see the wedding finery before the wedding day Ella why can't this be the wedding day darling we can keep it a secret till college is over if we have to but they're not we can drive to Maple City we can be married tonight darling I have to go to Central Hall tonight a special meeting Ella listen I can't hear there's a girl who's an accused of cheating and an examination I know she didn't cheat and I'm the only one who can help her I can't desert her del all right Ella will you drive me over certainly well yes I'm going to have a game of cribbage with Judge Peters could you two drop me del well didn't let me off the night isn't the moon beautiful I thought you were going out on the river with Larry Winslow very no I'm sick of wasting my time on those children right here del please I'll wait for you well I know don't I'll be very late good night dear good night give my love to judge Peters Amy now it's too beautiful a night for cribbage shall I take you home oh no please it would be heavenly down by the river could we drive down there or what all you from del the next day came to me in class he said that something terrible that happened that he must see me alone I was frantic I rushed back to the house to wait for me nothing terrible you said tell me del tell me nothing's happened it is terrible it's about I'd give my right on to spare you this you must believe that just what is it you want me to believe are you trying to make it difficult Ella if you won't tell I will yes I'm sure Amy will supply all the lovely details it was all your fault anyway Ella if you hadn't left him for a stupid board meeting it's not like I'd taken anything you really cared a lot about Amy oh I know what you are thinking but it isn't so I didn't plan anything it just happened oh crummy L you need to look at me that way I didn't mean to do anything besides it doesn't give you any license to treat me like dirt that's what you're doing you treat me like dirt I'm going to my room not excellent I tell you left him alone you didn't you know there's a game that we men like to think is a game played exclusively by the ladies it's called conversational bridge so just for a minute let's listen in on a round of this fascinating game being played at Mrs. Johnson's home don't turn round now but is that may sound as if the next table didn't she used to live next door to the Johnson's years ago yes she just moved back to town looks wonderful doesn't she so young goodness wonder how she does it I'll say one thing she certainly has lovely skin hurry girls they're waiting for us to finish this home well our bridge players might be surprised to learn how very simple Mrs. Saunders beauty care really is she just follows the same easy routine that thousands of pretty women all over the USA are finding so effective ask her about it and she'd tell you here every night I take a luck soap active lather facial 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and Sam Peters are talking quietly the room is filled with memories some gay some sad memories of a day when Sam and Ella were young they were to be married in June and it was June when Dale Thompson took Amy away as his wife I wanted to run away to run away and hide never had to speak to another soul I sent my resignation to President Corkman he came to the house just received your letter Ella I thought it easier to write you see mother and I are going to New York President Corkman it's an assistant librarian's position I see well of course it is a hard job teaching it never pays much I know and lots of the time it's a headache wondering if it's worthwhile why President Corkman you can't feel that way you're inspired I mean you give young people courage and confidence ideals oh I'm trying you see Ella I heard a blink and talk at Gettysburg and he talks sense you know we've got something wonderful here in this country the idea of people being free but it's got to be taught and retaught to each new crop of youngsters the value of freedom Ella your father homesteaded on this prairie remember what his first car and look yes it was small and green you couldn't believe it would ever grow that's it and human beings are harder to raise than corn but when they're raised if they're raised right they're worth a lot more perversal well I certainly didn't intend to deliver a lecture of course we must accept your resignation but are you sure your New York library needs you as much as our own seed corn here in Midwestern President Corkman may I have that letter I've changed my mind right home for me getting quickly oh Sam what is it isn't Bob no I'm afraid it's going to be a shock Amy's back Amy she's going to have a baby come back alone yes she's alone there's nothing to be frightened about Amy he just left he just went away and he didn't come back oh we didn't know I was gonna have a baby I was going to tell you should have told him I didn't love me never loved anybody but you the doctor says you need rest you will be kind to me won't you well all I've got in the world this is your home Amy go to sleep now doing I'm stirring the water well it won't boil any quicker for that just leave it alone Ella why does it have to you know does it always take this long oh no I well then what's the matter there isn't anything wrong is there Sam please I'm very busy give me that small kettle I've got to go up mother mother show right poor little lady you like to see the baby she's fine healthy girl a girl now sure miss Ella there holding the baby comes natural to you miss Ella I'm going to keep her I'm going to color hope as I watched her year by year growing into a lovely young woman I was proud do you remember Sam when she first entered Midwestern about 1900 I remember her first day in school she ran over you with a bicycle no that wasn't hope it was a girl in a class and I've been accusing hope of it for you I was coming along the walk in front of old central in the next thing you know I was lying in a flower bed nobody heard here no but I'm mad as I had a cheap freshman aren't you yes ma'am then don't you know that entering freshman are not allowed to ride their bicycles on the campus yes ma'am but I thought you mean you should have thought a pretty mark against you before you even get into college that is if I were going to take the time and trouble to report oh thank you ma'am I'm terribly sorry well sorry myself shouldn't have lost the temper come and see me when you get home sick Central Hall Ella Bishop now scat and wheel that time yes I will goodbye you sure you're all right oh I'm fine thank you well then perhaps I could come to your office to miss Bishop I have messages for you from three of your former pupils they took extension work on to me at Columbia why you must be John Stevens who has been looking forward so much to meeting Ella Bishop well we're so excited about having you join our staff I planned a very elegant reception a little welcoming tea in my office very dignified well it's just tea time now isn't it come along yet no your young sophomore is late as usual hope and what about your bow hope you really must oh you don't have to worry and Ella when the kids at college ask me if that's a romance between you and Johnny Steven please hope oh do you object to me calling him Johnny I think he's terribly attractive don't you and Ella hope if you've any idiotic notions about Professor Stevens and me hello folks any customers for a sleigh ride oh good evening Sam the roads are slick and the moon is bright and you're out of luck I call Sam I'm going skating with Richard and and Ella's expecting hope is expecting Professor Stevens for an academic evening good night folks good night is Stevens coming Ella bringing in your book won't you stay and listen Sam you could do with a little brushing up don't know why I've never had more feeling for books wish I had don't wish it I wouldn't change you for the world he wouldn't marry me either but you may yet unless this fellow Stevens Sam I want you to help I must tell you something what is it oh but there's Stevens has a wife a wife she's in Virginia they haven't seen each other for some time oh well why doesn't he get a divorce how wonderful to find someone in Oak River who doesn't shudder at the word oh if it's for your happiness thank you Sam excuse me good evening Ella I've been trying to persuade Sam to stay and meet your new friend Mr. Barry isn't it yes the little minister I'm afraid it's out of my class now if it were Frank Mary well the meeting had only one witness a weaver and he said solemnly afterwards they didn't speak but they just gave one another a look and I saw the love light in there beautiful isn't it the life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another would you mind reading that again just the last sentence the life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story and writes another suppose that's true isn't it we dream so many beautiful things but most of them never Turkey and Maple City for a clandestine dinner and we'd both be dismissed if they found us out and I love it don't you more than I can say but I have to ruin it Ella I had a letter today to read you just one paragraph oh no John not tonight it has to be tonight I know I was never the right wife for you but I can never consent to a divorce you must know what it would mean to my family I am sorry I can understand what about us that they may seem your special wine for the lady or Vito thank you Seiko Vito I should know but I don't little Italian town or Vito it's sunny warm it's planted in warm sunlight I remember once seeing a beggar there with a beautiful flower in a ragged hat he was perfectly happy a beggar with a flower in his ragged hat I stayed there for weeks and weeks I ate chestnut bread with the peasants and drank the new wine and I was perfectly happy Ella why can't you sail for Europe in June why can't I join you there you're up with you I could sail first and join you in Italy will you will you John a special flower for the lady thank you Jack John will you take me home now we've had three wonderful hours in or a to there are some people who never go there's no time in or Vito why can't we stay is it asking too much too much or too little I don't know I only know that I would stay also gladly John if I could follow my heart but you and I being as we are they'd be tomorrow and sometime we'll be glad we spent just this little time in or Vito goodbye John flowers you're forgetting them thank you flowers for the lady the wonderful lady it's been perfect all of it haven't you forgotten something too forgotten a kiss special kiss goodbye John goodbye my darling or Vito so you're a teacher you set yourself up to carry a beacon for boys and girls to see by who will present Martha Scott and William Gargan in act three of cheers for Miss Bishop now I'm going to see if Sally 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DeMille returns to the microphone curtain rises on the third act of cheers for mrs. Bishop with the gathering dusk the present has vanished into the shadows of the room and the past emerges clear and vivid in the memory of Ella Bishop hope was just 18 when she became engaged with Clark she told me one day about a wedding dress that her friend had worn her mother same evening I brought hope up to my room and gave her my dress and the bridal veil that I had never seen you could have it made over anywhere you like they're yards of material oh I wouldn't have a change for world but it was never finished no it was never finished oh and Ella and Ella darling I never thought this was it for you yes I know I shouldn't ask but well you know I I always thought that you and Professor Stevens made in that fashion no dear no of course not but he did resign so suddenly last year and so many people thought so many people have so many wildly romantic thoughts my dear but do you like the dress oh I couldn't have dreamed a dress I'd rather be married in unless well well you're not old and Ella not really old are you sure you won't well yes darling I'm very sure new here is this where you register no that building over there thank you ma'am oh do I have to pay my entrance fee first no anytime this month all you have to do in there is to sign your name or make a cross thank you ma'am I ain't got no money until next week to get me a college education my pap is selling to with a finest pair of Jenny mules in a whole state of North Carolina let her shine I sort of suspected you were from the south yes and what's your name John McCree but you can just call me snapper well I'm Ella Bishop I teach freshman English and you could do with a little snapper yes I'm I reckon I could Ella Bishop President Corcoran you're looking bonnie Ella did you have a good summer good enough how's everything with you with Scotland just as beautiful as you remembered it just as I remembered it even to the misty moisty where they and Brussels the exposition well I had rather sad news in Brussels Ella oh yes I'd arrange to John Stevens there you remember Stevens well just before we were to meet I heard that he was killed in the train wreck in Italy yes what is it I never knew no one knew you've changed a lot in the next few years yes I grew better and old 1998 President Corcoran resigned and President Watts took his place I seem to feel all my friends slipping away from me didn't like President Watts and I thought he didn't like me I must insist that every member of the faculty carry out my ideas I demanded certain changes in the curriculum and I've made him president but you haven't made them interesting to your students you're calling me a bad teacher now look here present what have you're asking me to resign I'm not I know from your past record how valuable you could be but the college right now is at a turning point can go ahead or it can slump to nothing it can't remain as it is a hobbled ahoy and fathers cast off clothes I won't listen to you anymore I'm sorry that's all you had after 25 years of teaching you dare tell me I'm a bad teacher well you can go ahead and ruin Midwestern but you're not going to humiliate me a hobbled ahoy and fathers cast off clothes that's what you said well if this college was good enough for President Corcoran it's plenty good enough for you Mr. Watts good afternoon good afternoon President Corcoran President Emeritus or is it Emeritus I was always going to look it up and sit down Ella dear sit down I've been meaning to come and see you oh I should have come to see you now that I've retired you're the busy one oh President Corcoran why Ella bless you what's wrong my dear oh that man what oh so that's it do you know what he said about our college he called it a hobbled ahoy in fathers cast off clothes he did a hobbled ahoy in fathers cast off clothes well that's pretty good Ella he's right my dear you see you and I we knew the first stop so naturally it looks big to us now it is big it's magnificent compared to what we started we but we are too close to it Ella now what's this come in with a fresh viewpoint fresh as the word always talk about modern methods there what Midwestern needs Ella well even you my dear could do with a bit of modernizing oh no no no I'm not criticizing my dear oh no no no I know that you've got a heart and mind and spirit as potentially young spring itself President Corcoran what you don't know about handling people me and old maid young as spring and me loving it and loving Midwestern too way I do love then stay and help our driving friend what is a driver Ella you see that's why I picked him the passing of President Corcoran was a great shock he died as he lived quietly beloved by everyone who knew him in the following year I lost mother Hope and Richard were living in California you were the only one I could turn to say faithful old dog train hope the daughter was born in 1924 it's hard to believe that she's a young lady now old enough to be a sophomore at Midwest hello Gretchen I'm just surprised to see your favorite grandly I haven't bothered you in ages I'm not surprised anything these days what's on your mind my pet oh love hmm what a novelty this is it's a man I met in Chicago he's quite a well-known explorer but and Ella he's married I see can't he get a divorce no his wife won't agree to it it wouldn't be an open scandal I could go along as a member of the expedition secretary or something oh and you can't know I think I can understand yes almost anything but this you've been content to say in one spot but I've got such a yonder go places magic carpet places rich wong exciting and Ella you're not listening oh yes I am it must be your own decision dear and there's one thing you must consider the most important thing of all reputation no you'd be cutting yourself off for motherhood that's what's stopping me I think that any woman who's half a woman would oh forgive me and her and beside you had much to bring up darling I had your mother I remember the first time I held her in my arms she was practically brand new and she was crying and I was terrified to pick her up but I did she stopped crying and began making little contented peeping noises like a chicken that was so satisfying and the feel of her was too that warm little body against mine but but it it couldn't be good flesh of my flesh those are thrilling words question you're right of course I can't go with him one slightly used magic carpet for sale cheap thanks great I don't mention it any time I go again how long have I been talking Sam oh a couple of hours living in the past again I will not live in the past as you share a Sam will drink to the future the future well I'll be getting along al no sit down can't I did I probably couldn't get up and besides I'm expecting three more old bachelors for dinner and bridge old bachelor doesn't give you a twinge of conscience well anyway if you feel like a hand later I might it there well if you do just how I say am I will oh I met president Crowder on my way over he asked me if I give you this note thank you Sam good night my dear miss Bishop I would greatly appreciate your calling on me tomorrow at your convenience the recent meeting of the board of trustees a resolution was passed recommending the retirement of faculty members of a certain you haven't even started to dress I'm not going and Ella it's the last dinner in old central hall they're going to tear it down tomorrow I'm sorry dear I just decided after all I've been to 51 alumni banquets 51 times have I sat through an hour of bad food and three hours of bad speeches it's no good to it you're not fooling me one bit darling I know how you must feel sort of the well if you do know how I feel you'll run along like a good child have a good time and leave me here with my well my New Yorker I want to catch up on some Broadway plays now that I'm retired and a lady of leisure I may get to New York yet sorry lamp high but you've got to come tonight Gretchen I've absolutely decided and I've absolutely decided to you're coming to the dinner so go on and get hurry and Ella do you realize I'm over 70 I don't believe it where the orchids I brought you and stick them on all right why's that pit no not at the waist pads on the shoulder much snappier I must above all things be snappy Sam waiting for it evening I'll hello Sam I cornered you to take my arm gonna make an entrance ready it's all for you well you're the guest of honor keep a stiff upper lip Anton Rajek astronomer extraordinary winner of the Nobel Prize mr. Rajek ladies and gentlemen I am sure that this bishop will remember the day when I a simple farm boy said to her my life's ambition is to be a great astronomer or if she doesn't remember I could manage to trip over another chair now John McCrae United States senator this bishop probably doesn't remember senator McCrae but if you just call me snapper she might but I'm sure she'll never forget the day that I announced English ain't what I come for miss Menor field world famous historian my ambition in life is still to be just like you miss Bishop miss elevation for your irreplaceable gift of human sympathy and because you exemplify to all of us what the American spirit can be your university bestows on you the highest degree in its power I won't even try please say that I've had a long life I've seen the brave the gallant and the kind they keep coming on the best in this country so now for no central and I are retiring to make way for modern buildings and methods it seems an appropriate time to quote the words of our great founder words that inspired us when I was very very young wisdom is the first cousin to freedom and freedom is the glory of our nation and our people so here's to our nation she's young she's growing too fast she makes a lot of mistakes but somehow she does manage to keep her people free may she take me home excitement tonight a little too much for you you just rest now take it easy good old dog tree always thinking of me Sam there's a question you've been wanting to ask for stop don't you go answer in any questions till they're asked see I've got scads a time L all the time in the world all the time on cheers for Miss Bishop and at this moment our chairs are for Martha Scott and Bill Gargan and the fine performances they gave tonight thank you Mr. Mill I'm happy to be back in this theater again and the same goes for me CB it must be rather strange sensation to grow 50 years younger mother and the twinkling of an eye from 70 some odd to 20 some odd 24 to be exact Mr. DeMille but that was the part I like best playing Ella Bishop when she was 70 I think I'll have a lot of fun when I'm that old won't you Bill I'm looking forward to it Martha well I'm somewhat closer to it right now than either of you and the prospect doesn't bother me one bit you'll probably celebrate your 70th birthday CB by directing a television scene with 2,000 extras mostly Indians that's the right smart idea Bill I'll put it on the calendar you should work for CB in a picture sometime Martha he took me to it on a trip to Hawaii to make four frightened people that sounds like a vacation not work what part did you play I was one of the four frightened actors don't let him fool your mother he was a tower of strength well he certainly wasn't cheers for Miss Bishop there's just one thing more I have to say Mr. DeMille and that's about luck soap I think women everywhere are grateful for the help it gives them and caring for their complexions I know I am I've used it for several years but I think a day or two would be enough to convince anyone just how good luck soap is there aren't many people left who need convincing on the subject of luck so Martha but I'm confident we'll do it what's on the boards for next week here CB a full hour of action adventure and romance bill but we have a name for it and the name is flight command and we have three other excellent names to Robert Taylor Walter pigeon and Ruth Hussie the original stars of the Metro Golden Mayor picture the plays a roaring drama of the United States Navy in the air of the fighting men who wear the wings of the Navy and of the women they love I thought it was a thrilling picture Mr. DeMille and I'm looking forward to hearing it on the radio good night good night good night 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 Robert Taylor Walter pigeon and Ruth Hussie in flight command this is Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood Martha Scott will soon be seen in the Columbia picture they dare not love heard in tonight's play were Griff Barnett as Corcoran Fred Mackay as Dell Fred Shields as John Stevens Shirley Ward as Mrs. Bishop Kathleen Fitz as Gretchen Betty Jean Haney as Hope and Tobin as Minner Hans Conrad as Radcheck Lou Merrill as Watts Bob Burleson as McCray Earl Ross as Crowder and Celeste Rush as Stenner our music is directed by Lois Silvers and your announcer has been Melville Royce is the Columbia broadcasting system