 Lux presents Hollywood radio theater brings you Douglas Fairbanks junior and Joan Bennett in Nothing Sacred ladies and gentlemen your producer mr. Cecil B. DeMille greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen once upon a time our own time right now there was a little nobody who suddenly found herself rich famous and in love that's the story of Hazel flag in Nothing Sacred and compared to her story the adventures of Cinderella were as routine as a timetable one day Hazel flag is living a highly unexciting life in a quiet little village a day later she's off on a mad whirl of New York the toast of the town a national idol and the object of publicity so vast that even Hollywood must gape in astonishment she didn't want to be famous our only desire was a trip to the big city but a little innocent deception went so far wrong that she lost control of her life and of course her heart our bewildered heroine is played by the very lovely Joan Bennett and as the originator of all her adventures you'll hear Douglas Fairbanks junior in the part of a newspaper reporter whose talent for reporting the news is surpassed only by his genius for making it many of you have asked for this play and these stars in your letters and the postman is our number one advisor in this theater not long ago he brought us a letter from one of the women of our audience that's almost an adventure story in itself she wrote I traveled to Alaska recently by the Yukon River route at the junction of the Yukon and the Big Salmon River a quantity of freight was unloaded from the stern wheel steamer white horse along with sugar flour rice and hardware I saw a case of luxe toilet soap put ashore someone must have wanted it very much for already it had traveled hundreds of miles by steamer and train and from that point it was to go still further inland by plane then she adds loyally of course luxe toilet soap has been with me on every mile of my journey you know it's loyalty like that which inspires us in this theater on every mile of our journey through the season and now to begin an exciting evening we ring up the curtain on act one of nothing sacred starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. as Wally Cook and Joan Bennett as Hazel flag New York City the skyscraper champion where the city slickers and the wise guys peddle gold bricks to each other one of these gold bricks is being peddled right now in the banquet room of a Park Avenue hotel at a dinner in honor of the Sultan of Mazepan in all his splendor the Sultan sits at the head of the table while the toast master editor of the Morning Star holds forth on his virtues ladies and gentlemen when the morning star summoned you to this banquet I realized there were only two people qualified to introduce the great man we're honoring tonight either my humble self or that pearl among journalists Mr. Wallace Cook my great friend and star report thank you I want Mr. Cook himself to tell you of the great feat he performed not only for the Morning Star and for the city of New York but for mankind itself in interesting our guest of honor in this great project thank you as you know ladies and gentlemen our guest of honor the Sultan is a man of great culture when I first approached him with our idea he was in immediate accord you know our plan twenty seven halls of learning twenty seven arenas of art to be known as the Morning Star temple and for every dollar we contribute our guest has pledged himself to give ten ladies and gentlemen it is now my great honor to introduce to you a prince with a heart as big as his pocketbook that fabulous and magnificent potentate of the orient the Sultan of Mazipan this is beyond to you my friends peace and blessings of culture has Sultan of Mazipan it has been my privilege let me see that's all I ask just let me see it back there what's the trouble crazy yeah that's him that's him officer what's the matter here you realize you're interrupting the Sultan of Mazipan there ain't no Sultan that's my husband kick off the infancy toes big shot get on back to Harlem where you belong Sultan and rented robes tricks Morning Star Sultan of Mazipan is Harlem boot black ory until potentate shines nifty shoe well what have you got to say for yourself I'm sorry mr. Stone you're sorry you're sorry and the Morning Star is ruined well my fine oriental potentate I'm not going to have you arrested I'm going to put you on the payroll as a janitor thank you I want you always present in the local room where my reporters and mr. Wallace cook and drink to win constantly as a warning against fakes yes may I ask ain't mr. Cook a reporter anymore I wouldn't like for him to lose his job he was very nice to me no no mr. Cook has not been discharged your majesty for his own good in the good of the Morning Star I have removed him from the land of the living mr. Wallace cook is now editor in chief of the obituary column what is it now he does well tell mr. Cook I don't want to see him and now your royal highness get out of here and get to work yes yes you get out to I won't you're gonna listen to me I tell you I'm innocent I was just as fooled by that fake as you I believed everything he said just as you did and either you cut out these fat-headed monkey shines of yours and let bygones be bygones or I'm walking out of this fish trap right here and now you are under contract of the star for five more years you're not the position to resign unless you wish to retire from journalistic efforts over that period Oliver you're not gonna keep me pounding out obituaries for five years those are my plans mr. Cook that's gratitude I'm the best reporter you ever had I've handed you a hundred scoops it isn't fair Oliver it isn't human oh shut up Oliver I don't like to say this but the paper is going to rack and ruin without me look at this hmm what's that an item from the second page the second page mind you about a poor little working girl doomed to death from radium poisoning now what about it we covered it and we covered it Oliver you're getting old look one two three four five six lines on hazel flag and a poor little small town kid with a few months to live at the outside doomed death staring her in the face what does she feel what does she think doomed by radium poisoning don't shout at me listen Oliver there's a story in this kid that ought to tear your heart out where is it why hasn't the star got it I'll tell you because I'm stuck behind a water cooler on account of some whim of yours listen Oliver give me a chance will you say help me may I drop dead I'll redeem myself you ought to be shot for what I'm thinking what are you thinking I'm thinking that maybe you weren't the most tittering imbecile on earth I'm thinking that maybe you've learned your lesson Oliver's a help me I'll go up and see that kid tomorrow I'll dig you up a story that'll make this town swoon here's my hand all right all right I'm a sucker but go on redeem yourself thanks you won't forget it Oliver if I don't come back with the biggest story you ever handled you can put me back in short pants and make me the marvel editor I said good morning the station master yep fine you can tell me then do you know this girl in this picture here yep Hazel flag isn't it yep well where can I find her is she in the hospital nope oh just walking around her laughing and carrying on I spoke yep see my name is cook Wallace cook I am from the New York Star I'm going to be filing a lot of stuff in your telegraph office here don't think you're who says the Paragon factory owns this town they don't care to have any scandal printed what they say goes better take the next train back you're encouraging I'll say that look there's a fellow by the name of Enoch downer around here isn't there Miss Flags Guardian yep well what kind of fellow is he won't talk to you nobody to talk to you in this town except me they go home well if you don't mind I'll take a little stroll have a look at the sights first won't do you know good you said before yeah good morning you mr. in it downer yep well my name is cook yeah come in thank you mr. downer I'm up here from New York yeah yeah now I understand that you're Miss Flags Guardian yeah that's true isn't it yep good now may I speak to her please nope you mean she's not in that's right no well um she'll be back won't she nope she won't be back nope she don't live here oh well could you tell me where I could find that where did you say you were from New York now if you just tell me where I could you know what I think young fella I think you're a newspaper man I can smell them I've always been able to smell them excuse me while I open the window I'll tell you what I think a newspaper man the hand of heaven reaching down into the Meyer couldn't elevate one of them to the depths of degradation not by a million miles I think you're being a little severe toward my profession not much mind you but just a little nothing of the sort I'm a fair-minded man young fella but when you've been robbed swindle cheated for 22 years out of a fortune it's part of both a formulate an opinion from New York huh yep you don't happen to know of a newspaper called the Morning Star you have the honor Mr. Downer of addressing that newspaper's most gifted correspondent Moses in the mountain you're from the Morning Star stay right where you are don't move I'll show you something that'll freeze you listen I'm getting sick of this taffy pull where can I get a hold of hazel flag don't talk to me about hazel flag no siri here's the evidence Mr. Downer all I want is a simple answer what is miss flags address don't waste my time young fella here read that that's a copy of the essay I wrote read it go on did for tat give me your address and I'll pour over these interesting documents all night I entered this contest with a clean pair of hands who are the six greatest Americans read that I named them and proved why name them and write the essay about them the rule said and I wrote the essay the best essay you ever read young man and what happened did I win the ten thousand dollars no siri did I win five thousand dollars did they even try to save their faces by giving me one of the smaller one thousand dollar prizes not that gang of chicken thieves here's what they gave me read that but check for one dollar young fella for 22 years I've been down now try to be reasonable you can't harbor a grudge for 22 years besides maybe it wasn't the best essay sent in what's that well it's it's it's a difference of opinion that makes horse racing isn't it and if everyone thought I like about things all the men and they're trying to marry the same gal and what's more don't try to talk me out of this young man this is my grudge and I'll harbor till the day I die you can't blame a newspaper wait and see that's all the morning star had his chance to win my respect 22 years ago they saw fit to pass it up very well I'll prove to them before I die who the six greatest Americans are and who wrote the best essay I could do better in darkest Africa good morning good morning oh oh I beg your pardon oh it's all right say wait a minute aren't you aren't you miss Hazel flag I want to speak to you excuse me I I can't talk now oh but listen wait good morning in it morning Hazel come on in sit down just had a young fella in here from New York freshest paint I just stopped by Dr. Fennick's house did you see him no he was supposed to have those new x-ray plates this morning yeah he's got him all right he has yeah he was here a little while ago thought he might find you oh now you don't have to stand there looking so dramatic like a lies across in the ice sit down get some news for you oh I can't help feeling a little bad you couldn't either if you were going to die early it can stop giving yourself the ears of a dying swan according to the new x-ray plates you ain't gonna die unless you get run over or something what you heard me I don't like to chew my cabbage twice in it in a car I'm not going to die that's what the doc says you're fitter than the fiddle and stop gawking at me oh I've got to cry in it I can't help it come come come this ain't no way to behave you'd think it was bad news instead of good but ain't it gets so sudden the doc was mighty pleased he says that first diagnosis was a mistake says he got so he was seeing radium poisoning everywhere oh I've been awfully brave haven't I not to cry before please say I have well now that it's all over I I don't mind telling you he's all I felt kind of sorry for you sort of and I've been under a great strain you know I don't know what I'm so happy about it it it's sort of spoiled my trip what trip's that he's all I was going to take that 200 dollars you get for dying in Aconsville and go to New York and blow it all in and die happy and now I'm well that's a nice thing to say though that should get a two to bean snatch from the jaws of death grateful to dr fennec of course I'm it it's kind of startling to be brought to life twice and each time in Aconsville oh miss flag I'm I'm I'm Wallace Cook from the New York star I've come to see you I know it's hard for you to talk but if you just listen to me a little while I have nothing to say now sort of too late I know how you feel miss flag I won't ask you any questions about your ailment that's all right we just heard something the new x-rays have come and they prove that the diagnosis oh please don't cry I was thinking while I was waiting for you to come out I have an idea I want you to come to New York with me huh as my guest as the guest of the morning star now don't say anything till I tell you oh I won't say anything if you were my sister or somebody close to me I'd take you out of Aconsville get her alive miss flag oh I've always wanted to see the world outside before I mean oh it's tragic you've lived here all your life twice that long you poor kid you you've never been in New York oh my grandmother took me when I was three but I didn't appreciate it listen we'll show you the town we'll take you everywhere you will have more fun than if you lived a hundred years in this moth eatin yep and no pillage that's so very true is it a bargain oh I don't know it would be imposing on everybody and imposing in what way well I just thought it would be wrong to make people sad I mean I'd be kind of a killjoy wouldn't I listen I'll be frank with even if I sound like a ghoul you'll be a sensation the whole town will take you to its heart you'll have everything you ever dreamed of and you'll have it on a silver platter you'll be like a lamp with a magic lamp to rub you mean they'll like me just because I'm dying well that's a cruel way to put it no they'll um they'll like you because you'll be a symbol of courage and heroism well we'll um we'll talk about that on the plane an airplane you mean we're going to fly there sure we haven't much time I oh I'm sorry I I mean the sooner you'll get there the more time you'll have to enjoy yourself you know I was going to go before I saved a hundred dollars listen a hundred million dollars couldn't buy you the fun the morning star can give you come on oh no no I gotta take him with me who Enix mr. Donna you wait here you won't go away will you nope I'll go ask him will you wait here yep Enix Enix let me I don't care for scenery from this point of view oh but Enix that's the statue of liberty I've seen it miss flag yes mr. Cook I got in touch with Oliver by radio Oliver stone my editor he's too dancing in the streets waiting for us oh I hope he's nice like you well he's got a different quality of charm he's he's a sort of a cross between a snake and a werewolf but with a lovable streak if you care to blast for it you're getting nervous oh no no I just hope he doesn't have a lot of long whisker doctors around to bother me you know I'm not coming to New York to play guinea pig for a lot of scientists everybody knows that radium poisoning is incurable so so why waste any time in that direction don't you worry about that you won't be bothered at all you know I'm not going to bed till my teeth start falling out that's when I begin worrying isn't it Enix it's as good a time as any are you feeling now sailor honky-dory skipper look there's New York there she is in all her beads and ribbons and you're really going to see it right all of us work up a demonstration New York's going to lay its heart at your feet while the whistles blow the band's play in the camera's grind how about you sailor anything you care to say before we go into action I'm going to have a marvelous time whatever happens afterwards or I mean about my teeth falling out and all that I'm going to have fun I am I am well if that doesn't make him cry nothing will cry well why should they cry because you're the bravest kid that ever lived and there's no fake about it this time in just a moment Mr. DeMille and our stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Bennett will bring us act two of nothing sacred and now here's Libby Collins our Hollywood news reporter just back from a scouting expedition over at 20th century fox well what's the good word Libby the good word this week mr. Ruick is about one of the most promising young starlets in Hollywood see if you can guess who she is her 21st birthday is day after tomorrow she's a lovely natural blonde with violet blue eyes she's exactly five feet four inches tall weighs 120 pounds and best of all she has a lovely creamy smooth complexion let's see 21 this Wednesday blonde lovely complexion of course she's a luxe girl of course that's an easy guess with nearly every star in hollywood using luxe toilet soap but that doesn't say who she is so i guess i'll have to tell you she's mary beth Hughes mary beth Hughes oh i should have guessed but tell us more about her Libby well mary beth is working very hard for a career that her grandmother can be proud of her grandmother yes you see her grandmother was florophostic she played with Ethel Barrymore was in grand opera at one time mary beth says it was listening to her grandmother's recollections of the theater that made her want to become an actress she began studying for the stage when she was just a little girl later on after experience in stock company production she came to hollywood some chances to play bit parts followed it wasn't long before her striking appearance her ability and personality gave her the part of the young wife and four sons and she woke up next morning to hear herself acclaim the find of the season yes and she's been on her way up ever since her new picture is uh sleeper's west isn't it that's right mr ruick well that's a very interesting story you've told us Libby yes and here's something else that will interest you mr ruick mary beth says she uses luck soap every day never neglects her active lather facials no matter how tired she may be at night she says this luck soap care is just right for her skin really works thank you Libby and thank mary beth Hughes for us the next time you see her for the nice things that she said about luck's toilet soap you know rising young starlets out here in hollywood are clever young women they value the all important charm of a lovely complexion just as you do that's why they never neglect their daily active lather facials with luck's toilet soap won't you try these facials and see what they can do for you active lather does a thorough job of removing dust dirt and stale cosmetics give skin protection it needs smooth the rich active lather gently into your skin rinse with warm water then a dash of cool pat lightly to dry then see how fresh your skin looks how smooth and soft it feels take hollywood's tip try these luck soap active lather facials for 30 days remember nine out of ten screen stars use luck's toilet soap and now our producer mr demil act two of nothing sacred starring douglas fairbanks jr as walley cook and jone benet as hazel flag new york has taken hazel flag to its heart newspaper headlines boast of the doomed girl's courage skyriders fling her name across the heavens the city is riving at her feet screaming its anguish and loving every minute of it and hazel flag the gentle faker loves every second of it and walley cooks out she's seeing new york as no one has ever seen it before tonight she and walley are witnessing a wrestling match the medicine square garden he's gonna break the other man's arm walley here now here don't excite yourself too much it's just a fake what'd you say i said don't excite yourself too much it's just a fake who who's a fake those wrestlers the only square thing about them is the ring oh them the symbol of the whole town pretending to fight love weep and laugh all the time and their phonies all of them and i had the list oh no you don't don't say that using you to get a bonus and a buy line on the front page making good over your poor little pain rack body and i i'm worse than those fake wrestling i'm feeling fine tonight walley and you and the morning star have been so wonderful to me all those wonderful gowns and banquets and the theater tickets it's glorious stop looking so happy and gallant will you breaks my heart gentlemen i have just learned that miss hazel flag is in the audience i would like to ask this distinguished gathering to observe 10 seconds of silence in respect from this flag let her go mike one two three four ten they're so sentimental southern don't spare the engine what's that another nightclub yeah they're having a hazel flag night oh everybody's being so nice to me and you're the nicest yes i'm a real little boy scout mr cook could i get personal oh that's what we're here for to get personal proceed well i i asked several people but they didn't know didn't know what if you were married the answer in capital letters is no no no no i see i don't suppose newspaper men marry as a rule not after their 14 or 15 that's the dangerous age for journalists his ideals are not yet formed and he falls easy prey to elderly waitresses but once his finest night is born he waits for what for the sound of the fire alarm this flag waits to go rushing off to the fire well what fire is that mr cook love oh oh i used to hear about that naked yes it's gotten around have some more champagne oh you think i ought to know why not it's on the morning star all right you know i am having fun but sometimes i get kind of depressed too like last night when i came into the theater and everybody moan oh like that you think i was a case of walking cholera yeah you know i used to love new york when it would gargle over some celebrity danced in the streets with a neon light around its heart and i'm getting fit up with these tricked tears and phony lamentations over you i'm glad they're phony it makes everything all right in a way huh well what i mean is i i wouldn't want to feel i was really making all these people suffer oh they're not suffering they're weeping for pure joy ladies my little folk this is your old mc again little old harry bushwick thank you thank you but there won't be any jokes tonight folks because tonight there is one among us who adds a bit of unaccustomed drama to our little rebel she sits here eyes sparkling her face wreathed in a lovely smile drinking in the charms the glitter the gay sounds of life so drink your wine laugh and applaud while this little doomed child sits saying goodbye or last goodbye with a grateful smile on her lips and now i want you to meet her that little girl from akinsville that little soldier whose heroic smile in the face of death has run tears and tears from the great stone heart of the city i've owned miss fazal flag ladies and gentlemen ladies and gentlemen she's fainted hazel she's fainted folks hazel look at her speaks to me hazel darling she's going to be all right mr donnor the doctor's only way over now a few fellas have just been along home i'll let you know now i'm going to wait is it you suppose it's come in yes tell the doctor we want to know the worst we don't want him to spare our feelings we go to press in 15 minutes oh shut up with you i'll have to get back in there now she's been asking for me let us know in it we'll be waiting hazel hazel wake up open your eyes oh aina i'm disgusted with your heel getting drunk in the middle of a memorial i'm not drunk just had one little sip or so and then all those buffalos ran over me what what buffalo i might have been trampled to death don't yell somebody respectable could see you now that would be pretty wouldn't it shame on you take your shoes off take them off yourself it's three o'clock in the morning quiet quiet i dance the whole hey quiet i tell you that iterative fella is right outside you won't even that's getting late if anything happens to her we'll have to tear out our front page that's all that counts to you isn't it you third brain you've got a headline for a heart that poor gallant little kid standing in front of that goofy crowd smiling just smile don't waste copy on me wallace Oliver there's the sweetest loveliest kid in there that ever lived yes you said that before walley i'm true i can't play paul bearer any longer i'm resigned oh here he is well mr. downer is she gone she's all right gentlemen she's sleeping like a little baby oh are you sure just as if nothing had happened she'll probably be fitter than the fiddle in the morning what what's that dear dear dear delirious again answer that thing hello yes this is a nurse well i'll have to ask miss flag miss flag there are 20 little school children downstairs to sing for you mr stone arranged for it yesterday oh that's horrible i'll go mad later later hello a little later please morning miss rafferty good morning mr. downer how was the patient this morning feeling better it's hard to say mr. downer don't you think we should have a doctor in doctor we have a doctor he was here last night well that's strange why didn't he leave me any orders if miss flag has radium poisoning i think that mr. rafferty i imagine the doctor knows more about miss flag's condition than we do step outside please certainly mr. downer young ladies getting a little too inquisitive oh enic i wish we could have a doctor i feel awful i brought you something raw eggs just what you need now drink them right down they'll settle your stomach oh enic what's the matter with me nothing much you've got what is known as a hangover i've got something worse than that i've got a conscience i'm ruining aminic ruining oh wallace mr. cook oh him have another egg enic listen he thinks i've helped him become a great journalist and they're giving him a bonus and it's coming out the ten thousand dollars the old me if i'm not complaining why should he worry he thinks i've helped him and it makes him feel bad oh i can't stand it you know what'll happen when they find out that i'm a good for nothing fate they'll blame him they'll burn down the newspaper they'll have wallie lynch oh enic why did you let me come to new york if you're only as honest as you look mr cook is here to see miss flag do you feel able to speak to him tell him tell him to come in hello hello azel hello hello enic it won't hurt if i visit her a while no no no no the doc says she's doing very well for her last few weeks if you want me i'll be right outside i um i wouldn't disturb you hazel but i'm going away and i thought i might not see you again you're going away where oh uh just wall bennie oh what for just to see the governor wallace what for now hazel you mustn't get overwrought oh it's something about me i must know about it it's about the arrangements hazel what arrangements for the funeral what funeral yours oh have i shot oh no no everybody's got to have a funeral sometime oh but not like yours i mean i meant to keep it as a surprise it's better this way uh telling me in advance so i can get used to it i i hope it's going to be a little funeral well not exactly according to the present registration there'll be about 30 000 automobiles and a considerable number on foot who about half a million i think oh my oh that's not half enough to mourn for you i'm getting the governor to declare a public holiday for the occasion oh like send valentine's day i'm glad i told you hazel i want you to know now and always that i think you're magnificent please please don't say that you have to go away oh i'll be back by night i've got another surprise for you i'll not tell you no i've got to hear it tell me well i i promised you i wouldn't do this you wouldn't do what call in any doctor hazel i've broken my promise dr. emil eggelhofer is in town and i'm bringing him up to see you what for hazel he's the greatest expert on radium poisoning in the world there's always an outside chance just one in a million well i listen hazel i'm sorry but i've i've got to run to catch the plane don't worry now it's only a long shot but we can hope goodbye goodbye dr eggelhofer oh the little children are here what little children they're going to sing to inok this is the end don't ask any questions just listen to me we're caught dr eggelhofer is coming here tonight to expose me and walley no no no don't worry we've just refused to see oh there's only one way out there's only one way to save you and me and walley i've got to commit suicide in advance before that scientist gets to me i've got to be drowned oh shut up no i've got to do it i'll leave a note to the city thanking everybody you you get rid of the nurse for the evening and i'll jump into the river somebody's bound to see me jump in and you'll be waiting in a row boat and fish me out and i'll swim underwater and i'll change my name and hide away for the rest of my life and never never see him again oh oh where is he well find him find him i've got to find him hey oliver i spoke to the governor never mind never mind he's here now walley she's double crossed us who has miss hazel flag she's gone to some other paper she's gone into the river listen you weasel brain what are you trying to tell me hazel flag is committed suicide i don't believe it the hotel made founder suicide note the clerks are leaving the hotel five minutes ago we've got to stop get the fire department tell them to cover the waterfront from the battery to the bronze tell them yourself i'm going to look for a taxi yes sir where to i want to go to the docks quick the docks which one all of them started the battery and work up town on the west side stop at every place that somebody could jump into the river oh none of that now buddy none of that that's the college way out no no don't no i'm not going to commit suicide i i i i am looking for hazel flag oh well i just say so we'll get going here's another dock mister all right wait here now listen buddy this is like looking for a needle the whole city's out searching for that flag damn you'll never find it i'm still trying to be right back hey wait a minute look there's a dame where down there at the edge of the pier hazel hazel stop stay away hazel hazel let me go you're not going to jump you're coming with me no no no let me alone listen i'm not going to let you get out of where both of us can't swim save yourself i'm all right i'm hanging onto the pier pull yourself up walley platform under the pier you first that's a sweet trick you tried to play well why didn't you stay in albany this jumping off a pier like some hothead i didn't jump you pulled me with you scaring everybody out of the wits stop listen either you give me a word of money you won't try that again or i'll spank you good what's that fireboat they're dragging the river for you oh walley don't you think you ought to tell them you found me it seems unfair fresh air will do them good i want to talk to you walley are you are you really mad at me i'm mad at myself drooling away to you about the funeral that's what drove you to it oh to be really frank with you walley it wasn't that at all oh darling i i'd love to just sit here with you for the rest of my life hazel will you marry me what you hurt me will you marry me oh walley come on answer me oh but darling there's no future in it oh don't talk like i have i don't care about the future oh walley if things were normal i no i mustn't don't ask me just kiss me and let it go at that without ruining your life listen what is there better than life than we've got a handful of perfect hours that's all the luckiest ever get out of just a handful of hours to save and remember and i'll be there at the end sailor i'll be there waving you goodbye i'll be there just the same as if you and i had lived forever you'll grow old in my heart well walley you're not doing this only because you're sorry for me i mean suppose i wasn't going to die suppose maybe i was going to live oh a long long time would you still want me oh that's that's that's a silly question of of course i would okay then skipper no hazel we only have a few hours we can make them seem like years yeah i bet they will too after a brief intermission mr. de mill and our stars douglas fairbanks jr and jone benet returned for act three of nothing sacred have you ever walked through a 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economy tip to lux soap is luxurious yet its cost is ridiculously low because it's hard milled it can be used right down to the last thin sliver get three cakes of lux toilet soap tomorrow for your beauty bath supply a beauty bath i know you'll love we pause now for station identification this is the columbia broadcasting system the curtain rises on the third act of nothing sacred the excitement seems to be over hazel flag has been rescued from a watery grave and is on her way back to our hotel suite but there's more excitement to come as she opens the living room door she sees that enok has been entertaining a visitor it's all right hazel come in i was wondering what became of you good evening good evening oh excuse me hazel this gentleman dropped in for a little chat uh this is miss hazel flag mr uh why i don't believe i got your name my name is dr amyl egelhofer what dr who egelhofer well shall we begin the examination this means a lot to my newspaper are you sure you examined the right girl i'm not some imposter the only imposter in this case mr stone is the girl i examined there is no vestige no trace no symptom of radium poisoning whatsoever here are the x-rays to prove it you will receive my bill in the morning goodbye goodbye sandwalli in here yeah and get me four sluggers from the circulation department that dirty double caution hey oliver you want to see me i i have a bulletin and a new lead for you on hazel flag that's going to read that sour puss of yours into a nose gay of smiles so sit tight and tuck in your ears go right ahead mr cook well listen this flag is getting married tonight you can wish me luck old weasel brain it's me hey you stewed or something i came in for congratulations what's up what's eating i am sitting here mr cook toying with the idea of removing your heart and stuffing it like an olive hang on oliver you're going to screw it you've ruined me you've ruined the morning star you've blackened forever the fair name of journalism you and that foul mistake of nature hazel flag you've got some excuse for those words oliver let's have it quick excuse excuse look at that what is it an x-ray plate look at that skeleton not a bone missing down to the last healthy vertebrae intact and that's hazel flag the biggest fake of the century she hasn't got anything wrong with her at all oh i can't believe it it's it's like some miracle oh hello boys here we are who are you we're four boys from the circulation department oh three of you get to the walter hotel as quick as you can grab hazel flag and bring her to this office if you have to drag her through the street by the hair okay get going boys wait a minute so help me on her if you hurt that kid i'll knock your cold out bring me shut up go ahead boys you wait here me boss yeah i want you to stay and take care of this maniac keep your eye on him he's dangerous if he makes a move i suck him right oliver you're not going to hurt her shut up i'm marrying i get that into that thick skull of yours i don't care how we've been taken on what she's done i'm in love with her that's a beautiful frog i think heaven on my knees that she's a fraud and the fake on isn't going to die you're on your knees are you when the whole town's getting ready to laugh at us a whole little bit hurt around the world well let him laugh i'll do my own laughing back and i want to make one speech to our dear readers before they carry our heads off on a pike i want to tell them that we've been their benefactors we gave them a chance to pretend their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness you buddy what's your name me max i want quiet in this office max quiet so i can think so hazel flag's a fraud eh gag him come here sonny well when you start yelling foul remember she was just a circulation stunt for you quiet now bob let me go you used her like you used every broken heart you've ever found i'm getting sore now to inflame the public and help sell your papers that's enough slug with that female draculous you wish he did have radium poisoning i was welly oh he's coming around will i use sock them hard and now and now who no no who well who's molovinsky oh that's my brother you said him over get a girl remember oh listen what what's that get the mush out of your mouth man speak up oh he's a dumb cock with the snow you better let me talk to him you just get a more excited he's gone all right oh max this is mo what's on your mind uh-huh oh that's a shame well what is it what is it i'm getting go on go on mo i tackle easy uh-huh uh-huh you don't say look mo we hold a wire i'm gonna take up a mr stone well well he wants to know whether you can get a doctor this girl is sick who's sick this girl hazel flag it's a lie it's a lie attention i know listen listen ask him oh ask him what's he's sick man he just told me he says it's something like a d t's only the dope camp around him well is the nurse there just a minute hello mo this is max your brother max silverski he's getting wrapped now look mo don't fly off the hill or i want to know is the noisy there no not a nice noisy like a tootsie give me that phone i'm getting it hello give me the phone i tell you here's the noisy hello hello mr rafferty hello mr stone what she's got what pneumonia it's a lie i tell you temperature of 106 dying go back and take that temperature again i don't trust that girl till i get a doctor pneumonia it's like a farting from the gallows hello hello get me dr amal egglhofer quick listen Oliver i'm going over there and if you try to stop me so help me i'll get you if it takes all my life stop you why nobody's going to stop you now if that little girl is sick your place is by her side go ahead hello hello oh you are well cut out the shenanigans we haven't got any time to waste i'm on fire keep quiet for a minute and listen egglhofer is going to be here in 10 or 15 minutes dr amal egglhofer oh walley what do i do i knew you were taking a minute i heard about that temperature they were going to arrest me i couldn't get away i put the thermometer on the hot water and threw a fit oh walley you hate me i knew you'd hate me i told you i told you well let's not go into that now egglhofer he'll he'll expose me again keep your head and listen to me you hate me oh keep quiet it must have been a lot of fun playing me for the world's prize chump wallace cook king of the boom i didn't mean it really i didn't i'll keep quiet and listen to me get out of bed oh no let them arrest me and put me in prison you won't hate me so much if i'm behind the bar listen my dying swan this is no time to stop faking get up ouch you're gonna have pneumonia if you're gonna have it good you want me to stand in front of the window and catch cold no that'll take too long we've got to raise your pulse to 160 quick we've got to have you gasping and panting and covered in the cold sweat inside of five minutes oh we're going to fight fight come on come on delilah up with your jokes oh i can't i'm sick of faking and lying stand up here and fight oh what they use why fool them any longer because i love you ouch you hit me because i'm going to marry you and i don't want to spend my honeymoon hanging around sing sing blowing kisses to you in the exercise yard come on stop dogging and you've got to be bathed in perspiration keep going a little crook oh call me a crook you and your crooked newspaper how do you like this that's a baby come on keep moving i'll kill you dragging me around like i was a prize pig with a blue ribbon there's no blue ribbons on you baby just a big yellow sign mark fake oh i'm a fake i'm a fake what are you on that phony santiclose olive a stone slobbering and rolling over me that's for the morning star that's where you're not married keep on keep moving my little board i'll never forgive you as long as i live i'll kill you i hate you i just hate you you're gonna have plenty of reasons to hate me i'm gonna show you cards and spades and lying for the next 50 years i'm gonna pay you back for every lie you ever told i'm gonna flirt and lie and cheat and swindle right through to our golden wedding yeah yeah let me just hit you once all right come on come on there's a girl fast fast there's a girl keep moving i'm getting this oh listen to me and listen carefully when you come to i want you to remember what i'm telling what do you mean come to i mean when you regain consciousness i want you to keep keep up with that old fake see you're dying yeah let me just stop you once just once on the joy i don't care what happens i just heard the elevator door they're coming now don't forget about the fake yeah yeah say goodnight to papa now what are you gonna do this wait welly is she out why are you where have you been i stepped in the door at the beginning of round two you mean to say you saw the whole thing from the beginning mr cook and it won't work do you mean to say you stood there and let me beat up a defenseless woman i did mr cook and where's your sense of chivalry my chivalry aren't you just a trifle confused mr cook you hit her that's entirely different i love her wake up darling wake up now you can cool off now hazel the game's over what the game is over mr stone saw me suck you you mean to say that that whole thing was for nothing sorry why are you big hazel put down that lamp what's the matter with you are you trying to kill me oh listen let's be calm let's sit down and talk this thing over rationally whether you realize it or not miss flag we're all in a very bad spot break it walley let me see now it's all oh please please listen to me this flag the whole country is standing by waiting for you to die the morning stars practically promised them you'll be deceased before dawn oh shut up about the morning star i'm sick of the morning star and i'm sick of you i'm sick of the whole business this flag i wonder if you're aware of the traditions of a great newspaper do you realize what it means to those who carry a lot the torch of journalism from the highest editor to the lowest office boy the lifeblood of a newspaper miss flag is its integrity am i right walley word for word i wrote that speech for you ten years ago at the convention remember you can both talk all you want i've made up my mind you're what i'm through what do you mean you're through i'm going to confess i'm going back to akinsville they'll confess do you realize that just outside this room are some of the most important citizens of new york city and they're out there by special invitation from the morning star and why to pass on to the people of new york to the people of the world your last words for instance now this is no time for sarcasm what are you got me into this get me out use your brain mind stunts with that downer guy we'll blame the whole thing on him he went back to akinsville oh he would and we could use him now we could throw him to the wolves just when we need him he isn't here wait a minute i've got an idea uh-huh to bury her like they do in india you know like the yogis we can stick a tube down there to breathe through and dig her up in the morning with no harm done you don't know where you're going there she is hazel flag listen everybody hazel keep quiet if you'll just wait i'm sure we can fix the whole thing beaten to the dust the star will never rise again and it's all your fault oh let me alone i wish i really could die go some place by myself and die alone like an elephant like an elephant why not huh what do you mean have you have you got an idea listen oliver get me a pencil and paper and two tickets to Bermuda on the next boat what and then give me five minutes five minutes to write your story go on get going reprint it from the morning star read it read it radium girl disappears hazel flag goes to die alone doom girls last words quote dear new york we've had a lot of good times together you and i but even the best of times must end and so i have gone to face that end alone goodbye dear new york sincerely hazel unquote oh it's very sad isn't it very and look at this radiogram from stone hazel's funeral held today stop great success love and kisses oh how beautiful i wonder if i got many flowers truck clothes it's nice to know that people love i'm a little touched myself are you happy mrs cook ecstatic mr cook and while mr and mrs walley cook failed in quest of some peaceful island we bring back joan bennett and douglas fairbanks jr in person thank you mr demille oh and joan it's it's really been a great pleasure to do this play with you by the way yes dad did anyone ever tell you that you look exactly like that girl who created such a stir in new york who was that dug uh let me see the name was uh oh yes flag hazel flag range i don't remember any one of that name perhaps is the case of dual personality dug right now she looks and talks like joan bennett perhaps this will convince you mr demille something i was going to tell you about luck so go ahead joan we won't stop you all right i was going to tell you how much i enjoyed coming back to the lux radio theater this week and that lux soap is something i enjoy using all the time it's my regular complexion care and has been for a long time so you see when i recommend lux soap to anyone i know they'll like it of course they're like it they like lux soap if you could see the mail in my office you'd be sure of the never what's on the schedule for next week mr demille next monday night dug we have two stars who've never appeared in the lux radio theater before tyron power and anabella and our play is that engaging comedy the rage of manhattan it's a romantic mix-up with anabella as a beautiful and likeable fortune hunter and tyron power as the fortunate young man who loves her in spite of everything a perfect cast for the rage of manhattan next monday night well as far as i'm concerned her own power and anabella are the perfect answer for an evening's entertainment so i'll be listening at home next week good night good night everyone before i leave the stage i want to make an announcement of interest to all radio listeners the program grand central station will start a new series tomorrow evening i believe this program will richly reward your tuning in i've made a date with myself to listen and i know you'll be glad to hear it too your local papers will carry the time and station of this fine program our sponsors the makers of lux toilet soap joined me in inviting you to be with us again next monday night when the lux radio theater presents tyron power and anabella in the rage of manhattan this is sesil b demille saying good night to you from hollywood ladies and gentlemen here is an important announcement all services of the red cross so tremendously important to national events here at home in this country depend on your memberships volunteered during the annual roll call these are troubled days every american should belong join the red cross now heard in tonight's play where eddie waller is in a lumero as mr stone edward mar as max charles seal as dr egelhoffer and tobin as nurse edwin maxis bushwick arthur q brian as fight announcer jack kars earnest warren ash as taxi driver and pranese pilot as mammy douglas fairbanks jr is currently starring in the columbia picture angels over broadway of which he was also associate producer john bennett will soon be seen in the edward small production the son of montecristo nothing sacred was produced by david ocellsnik the producer of rebecca and gone with the wind which is shortly to be rereleased our music is directed by louis silvers and your announcer has been melville ruick the columbia broadcasting system