 From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents William Powell and Miriam Hopkins in Tavares. Lux presents Hollywood. Romance, drama, and comedy come to you tonight under the title of Tavares. A smashing success of the stage and screen, telling the story of two exiled members of the Russian nobility who swapped their ermine for aprons. Our stars are William Powell and Miriam Hopkins with C. Henry Gordon, Lawrence Grossmith, and Heather Thatcher. Our music is conducted by Louis Silvers and our special guest is Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Before hearing from our producer, just a word about the product which brings you this program, Lux Toilet Soap. This white soap is truly an aristocrat among soaps, for it not only cares for the lovely complexions of nine out of ten Hollywood stars, but lovely women in every village and city, in cottage and mansion alike, depend upon its active lather to remove thoroughly dust, dirt, and stale cosmetics. 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In Latin, lux means light, and the light of the lux radio theater blazed a path across the country, along which our listeners welcomed me from coast to coast. In meeting so many of you, I didn't see the dim outline of strangers, but the clear smiling faces of friends. And one of the great thrills of homecoming is that I can again be your host and repay in some measure your hospitality to me. Tonight's play, Tovarish, was written in spare time by the French dramatist Jacques Duval, who devoted most of his working day to writing another play, which he thought would be his masterpiece. The so-called masterpiece expired almost as soon as it was shown to the public, while Tovarish became a dazzling success. Cheered in 24 capitals abroad, this play has a universal appeal, best summed up perhaps by its title, which means comrade. Tovarish was adapted for the American stage by the playwright who just pocketed the Pulitzer Prize for writing Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert Emmett Sherwood, and was fashioned into celluloid by Warner Brothers. At that same studio, Miriam Hopkins had just completed another Pulitzer Prize winner, the old maid, and in tonight's play, she becomes the grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna. The imperturbable William Powell, he of the ready answer and faultless deportment, returned to create his third characterization as a butler. You saw him bottle in My Man Godfrey and the Baroness and the butler. Tonight he responds to doorbells and to the name of Prince Mikhail. Three distinguished character actors also join our cast. See Henry Gordon as Commissar Gorchenko, Lawrence Grossmith as Charles DuPont, and Heather Thatcher as Madame DuPont. And now for the play. Deluxe Radio Theatre presents Tovarish, starring William Powell and Miriam Hopkins. It's a gay spring morning in Paris. The early traffic darts through the narrow streets and whirls merrily across the bridges of the River Seine. On one of these bridges, a man strolls slowly. His clothes are worn and seedy, but there's great dignity in his bearing. A touch of cold aloofness toward his surroundings. Reaching the end of the foot walk, the man steps smartly off the curb. A taxi cab lunges toward him and misses him by inches. A thousand fools, why can't you look where you're going? He stepped on the curb like a man walking on a fog. Are you a blind fool as well as a stupid one? You may come down from your taxi cab, Sukameem. Your Excellency. You may kneel in the gutter and beg my forgiveness. Prince Mikhail. Well, come, come. Your Excellency, if I'd but known it was you, I would tear my tongue out by the roots. Watch me, Your Excellency. No, no, no, no. That won't be necessary this time. You may stand up, Sukameem. Oh, Your Excellency. It is so wonderful to see you again, not since Petrograd before the Revolution have I been blessed by the sight of your face. Your Excellency. The Grand Duchess. How is the Grand Duchess? Her Imperial Highness, the Grand Duchess Tatiana, has done me the honor to marry me, Sukameem. Yes, yes, Colonel Traponoff has told me. She's very well. When I see her later, I shall tell her you send your undying loyalty, that you lay your life at her feet. Ah, yes. Come, Your Excellency. My, my taxi is at your service. Oh, thank you, but I think I'll walk. However, the Grand Duchess still enjoys an afternoon airing. You may call for her sometime. I will, Your Excellency. I will. Your residence, Your Excellency. Your... 24, Rue de l'Glazière. The alley to your right of four flights, door to your left. Knock twice. Your Excellency. Tatiana. What are you doing? What? Your darling has been polishing his boots. He's now resting in bed. He's drawing the covers over his wasted limbs and trying to forget that there is no coal in the stove. Do you mind if I hang this up to dry in here? Oh, no, my sweet. What in the name of Saint Christopher is that? Your shirt, darling. I washed it with my own hands. That is my shirt? That fragment? Yes, darling. Your shirt. Your only shirt. But what has happened to the tail? Well, you had no more handkerchief, so I had to cut some out. Out of my shirt? Well, you know very well I used up the last of my chemises. Oh, my darling. How can I beg your forgiveness? You sacrificed the last of your chemises and I complain at the loss of a mere shirt tail. You're a saint, Tatiana, a saint. You're sure of that? It's the very word that was used by my imperial master, Your Excellency Cousin. He said, in marrying Tatiana Petrovna, you marry a saint. Yes, he knew me very well. He was speaking of your devotion, but not of your manners, Tatiana. And is there anything wrong with my manners? Oh, you can't be blamed for... Blamed? You were born a grand duchess. You lacked the opportunity for social contacts that was given to the rest of us, gave you a bad start like... What do you mean? Wherever you go, I have to act as your interpreter and apologist. Get up. But why? Obey me. All right. And now, since you are such a good apologist, you will offer your apologies to me. My beloved Tatiana... Your apologies will be expressed in official form. General Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich Urratye aid the camp to his Imperial Majesty. Officer Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna is very humble apologist. Approach. Ouch. How dare you say ouch. You're an officer. You're not permitted to feel pain. Very well, Highness. The ouch is withdrawn. Oh, darling. Darling, darling. You're forgiven. Completely? Completely. Kiss me. How good it is to be Russian. And insane. Life for us is so very, very sad. And so very, very beautiful. And so tiresome. I'm starving. Oh, give me some money, Mikhail. Money? Yes, I'm going shopping. But surely not with money. Mikhail, don't tell me there's none left. There is a sum of 100 francs, Tatiana. That is all. But that is enough. And out at 100 we owe 80 to the proprietor of this lamentable hotel. Very well. You shall be paid. You're sure? But of course. I shall pay the landlord 80 francs and buy the food and bring back 80 francs. Tatiana, I don't understand your arithmetic, but I suspect the honesty of your intentions. Darling, do you trust me? Oh, then reason, my love. Then believe me. I swear by St. Peter and St. Paul. I swear to bring back 90 francs. I shall buy some cutlets of horse and some potatoes and I shall bring back 95 francs and two artichokes. Tatiana, you're very fond of artichokes, aren't you? No, I hate them. But while the grocer's selecting the poorest potatoes, I shall be left alone amongst the artichokes. I humbly beg that the father of all living may look the other way, that he will not see the grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna, cousin to the Tsar, arrested for stealing artichokes. No, since I'm never a rest. Mikhail, did you hear a knock? I'm under the impression that I did. If it's our friend the landlord... If it is, I shall deal with him. Enter. Madame Couture, who? I have a hat here for Madame Couture. We don't doubt it, my dear child, but she's not here. This is not where she lives, but the concierge told me. Oh, you, you are Russians. Yes, we cannot disguise it. And the lady, you are the grand Duchess. Oh, but I should have known it at once. Your Highness, permit me to kiss the henna. Charming, charming. Stand up, my child. It was all the concierge's fault. All the concierge is an idiot. Now, here, take your little hat box and... Wait. This box is rather heavy. Oh, no, thank you, Your Highness. A good day, Your Highness. Wait, I think I'd like to see that hat. No, Your Highness, it's not for me. I might decide to buy it, but open the box. I promise you, Your Highness, it is... Mikhail, open it. Certainly, Your Highness. But... Where? Well, at least it contains no high explosives. What is it? Some very interesting documents. Listen, my dear. Workers of France, rise. Join your Russian brothers in the United Front. Well, Mamuzel Spai, what do you want from us? What are you going to do with that money? 100 francs? We're going to buy art. The money you stole from Russia? Yes, stole. It came from the blood and the sweat of the millions. And now you hold it for yourself. I'll tell her to go. The Czar gave you four billion francs. We know and we want it four billion francs. Mikhail, make her leave at once. Not yet, darling. Who sent you here? Do you believe I tell you? No, but I don't mind asking. Was it Gorachenko? I don't know. But we do. You may tell Commissar Gorachenko that you found us, still in good health, though slightly undernourished. Tell him we prepared in any moment to be caught in one of the traps which he is so thoughtfully laying for us. And when he is caught us, he can burn us by slow degrees, but our policy will remain unchanged. Not a billion. Not a million. Not a thousand. Not a suit. Fine talk, you white-libered thieves. You think you're safe with your money because you're in Paris with gendarmes to guard you. But we know how to take back what was stolen from us. And when we do, we'll also take your miserable, worthless, evil life. A little beast of all the spies that have been inflicted on us, Mikhail. That one was the most ridiculous. You know, Tantiana, someday one of them will kill us. I don't doubt it. You're not afraid. Are you? No, my sweet. But they do want that money. You'll never give it to them. Not a billion. Not a million. Not a thousand. Not a suit. The carrots, the peas. That will be three francs, madame. Three francs? That's outrageous. Three, madame. And would madame like some artichokes? Arti... Oh, no. Give me some potatoes. Oh, madame. The very finest potatoes in Paris. You, madame, madame, I saw. What are you talking about? I saw the artichokes. You put three of them in your dress. You stole them. Stole them? Oh, it's ridiculous. Show them! Show them! Here, here, what is it? Why do you annoy madame? You are the police. Will you stand by and see me run? Or the man's man. Man, look at her. She bulges all over with artichokes. Hold your tongue. Watch your business. What? Go back. No one. You will be paid for artichokes. Who will pay me? Who? Aye, I personally shall pay you. Now go. Oh, the world has gone mad. A gendarme will pay. Oh, c'est ridicule. C'est bien. We are sorry, madame. You will be troubled no longer. The artichokes are yours. One moment, please. Why are you doing this? I have my orders, madame. From whom? Government, madame. The French government. They tell me whatever madame steals. What? Pardon. You pay for all I am to pay. I see. We are very much in your debt. Oh, not at all, madame. Not at all. Yes, my love. Mikhail, we shall have to move. Move? From this hotel? Perhaps from France itself. But why? Because we are wards of the state. Today I went to a new gross and I learned why I've been so successful. The French government, the benevolent French government pays for all the food I carry away. Pays for it? The swine putting us in their debt. Mikhail, we must pay them. We must find out how much it is and we must pay them every last soot. But how? Take the money from the bank. Never. Oh, but it would only be a little bit to save our honor. Surely heaven would forgive us that. No, Tatiana. I receive that money from the hands of a czar. It is into the hands of a czar, whoever he may be, that I shall give it back. Oh, my God. Mikhail, what are we going to do? There is only one possible solution. I must work. Work? Mikhail, even for fun you mustn't say such things like that. It isn't for fun. It's for food. But what could you do? Admiral Sukami works. He navigates a taxi. And Colonel Chopana works at the Cosby. Doing the dagger dance. I could do that. Two daggers on the belt. Another in the teeth. Here. Watch, Lieutenant. Oh, no, no. Hey. Oh. There, you see? You would be full of holes the first performance. No. But Tatiana, with starved would die of starvation. I refuse to die or to let you die. We must find a way to live, Mikhail. Tatiana? Yes? once heard of two of our people they went into service service he became a butler and she a maid butler and a maid how did they find the position I don't know oh yes yes the newspaper he told me he saw the newspaper oh quick where do we look this is it domestic situations vacant let me see there married couple number four Avenue Returbule butler and housemaid two rooms of their own on the sixth floor use of motor car to go shopping in one Sunday out of two central heating one Sunday out of two but wait we shall need references references we provide them at once sit down at the table and write what shall I say the undersigned grand Duchess Tatiana Petrovna states that she has had in her service how do you spell it with an S or a C which looks better see see then in her service Michelle pop off and his wife Tina pop off pop off will not do they'll think we made it up the name will be Dubrovsky you remember the dentist in St. Petersburg his name is Dubrovsky yes Dubrovsky they are faithful loyal exceptionally intelligent skillful honest and they do not drink do not drink do you suppose they have vodka in this house if not they soon will continue and I am pleased to recommend them in the highest possible terms and you sign yes but do you think we've said enough about our good points we mustn't exaggerate now we'll call in person are you ready yes but let's finish the vodka first by all means we may not be coming back this is for courage here a life for this are Tatiana Petrovna a life for this are Mikhail Aleksandrovich forward curtain falls on the first act of Tifaris and our stars will be back with us after a short intermission now here's a Hollywood restaurant and a young man and his young wife how about a dance beautiful I want to show you off show me off what an idea this place is full of beautiful women but I'd love to dance honestly John there's not a woman here half as beautiful as you that's what you think darling and I'm glad you do I hope you always 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belongings in a meagre bundle they arrive at the home of banker Charles Dupont they stand stiffly side-by-side in the drawing room as the banker and his wife examine them carefully and you're looking for a place yes mr. we saw your esteemed advertisement so we're here who were your previous employers his highness general prince Mikhail Alexander obiturate and his wife home period behind is the Grand Duchess Tatiana patrol now really you have references of course yes madam here madam this letter was written by the Grand Duchess herself this reference is most encouraging faithful loyal exceptionally intelligent evidently you please grand Duchess yes madam what wages you expect wages madam well how much do you really expect or how much you expect to be paid oh well we don't know madam well we don't know it all what did you receive in your last place oh see just what was it sat here Tina I can't quite remember it is not a billion and not a million not a house I should hope not perhaps you're not very familiar with French money that's it sir that's it exactly well it doesn't matter whatever it is I shall give 700 of the butler and 400 of the maids no that will not do I consider it a very good wage it's a most magnificent way no 400 for the butler and 700 for the mate well you arrange that between yourselves you are engaged oh may the great father bless you you will be here on a temporary basis have you addressed you Michelle address oh no madam how did you dress at our Highnesses in Russian fashion madam boots wide britches blue belt and bright red shirt with dagger in the chest very picturesque but I hardly think that would be quite the costume for our needs we should be proud to adjust ourselves madam there are four of us here Mr. DuPont your master the master myself the lady oh my lady and and our children Mr. George and then was there any children how wonderful children Tina well they're quite grown up now you may go to the kitchen that way please yes madam oh thank you madam miss you not at all my child run along to the kitchen Tina Michelle oh you first Tina thank you well I think they've made rather a good impression Charles I like his manner I like her better as I noticed that I saw the way you looked at her what do you mean she has a very noting expression most effective do you realize you're talking about a servant yes my dear but also a Russian Russian or sweet or animite I'm not interested in house maids and I don't at all like the implication that I notice her looks melting or otherwise hello oh come in George come in Helen father who were those two odd looking people we passed in the hall our new servants were judging by your mother's attitude I'm afraid they will not grow gray in our service really mother can't we ever have decent looking servants in this house is there anything wrong with that appearance he looks more like a waiter than a butler she seems a cheap impudent little thing oh be quiet I want you to understand that I will not let you treat these people I did under your feet as you did front one bit they would have been here now if it hadn't been for you mother please oh that's enough are you dining home tonight no I'm dining with the contest and more pending this to be a rehearsal that dreary Venetian fate and she wants me to be one of the musicians you're not going to try to play that guitar of mine it's for the benefit of the orphan heaven help them shut up oh goodness take stop fighting he's rude you're both rude insufferable where are you going George to the club I'm going to fence for the Aldenade the world champion then may heaven help you now listen Elaine don't yell at me you're too bright oh shut up I won't you're a vest mature thank you Michelle yes sir you always hum at your work did you say hum sir you were humming and mistaken you're quite right sir so I was it was a sensation of joy sort of being in your service it can't happen again sir I assure you and now sir may I fetch you some medicine medicine what for for your headache sir how did you know I had a headache I can see it in your eyes a struggle against intolerable pain you're very observant but medicine will do me no good this is a headache that only the guillotine could cure oh no sir there's a Russian remedy that is infallible my former master a prince of Russia made use of it quite often with immediate results you sure it's harmless utterly sir then go ahead and mix it thank you oh excuse me sir have you a shotgun why yes I have what are you talking about a very good sir thank you sir and Michelle come back here what do you mean by besting in on me like that madam wishes to know if you are ready to leave for dinner sir oh can't you knock knock what sir the door I'm not supposed to come first thing in the rooms without giving warning but I did give warning sir I scratched do you always scratch or always sir the Grand Duchess objected to knocking it frightened her it meant only one thing to her Bolsheviks and the Grand Duchess if you're pardon me for saying so my girl and the few hours you've been here I've grown pretty tired of the Grand Duchess and her peculiar ways in fact I'm beginning to understand why they had a revolution in Russia there would have been no revolution if it hadn't been for bankers you speak to me like that you're an insubordinate ill-bred foreign why no it sir I know it and I deserve the punishment you're going to give me when Russia was Russia a servant who talked back to her master was whipped and lifted by the ears and dipped into ice cold water they went too far in Russia we we don't do any of those things here but you must do them the master is the master and the servant is the servant beat me please please I can't be sure my sir you might have no intention to lift you by your ears then you forgive me sir yes but please please get up and you will give me the kiss of reconciliation what when the master forgives he gives the servant the kiss of reconciliation on the brow I see well good law here you are sir so you will scratch too you can't knock I suppose I'm very sorry sir have I offended you sir no oh no no no no no what is that is a water oh no sir it's a recipe sir there is no record a headache that could resist it is Imperial Majesty himself all right all right is imperial myth you're sure there's nothing harmful I know sir that if I have misrepresented the fact in any way the penalty for me will be a ghastly lingering death with red hot bayonet to my eyeballs never mind I believe you do not breathe sir drink it off in one gulp that's right sir you see anything sir butterflies yeah that will pass a cigarette sir yes what's in that infernal stuff a pure gin a hundred grains of salt 20 great drops of ether and 150 grains of gunpowder gunpowder yes sir I took that liberty of opening one of your cartridges gunpowder good lord if I like a cigarette I'll explode oh no sir the powder is damp they gone out for the whole evening well how do you like a job I say heaven be pray I join you and about gratitude especially for the bed what bed in our room didn't you notice it it's magnificent no I was looking out of the window at the view Mikhail we can see the cross on the orthodox church we can see Russia it is paradise oh I have to leave this place I shall die and I with you oh Tatiana my darling oh am I disturbing you not not sir are there any order sir I want you to clean these foils and wipe up the gloves and masks too yes sir and if you allow me sir I changed the point that a these are badly blunted no I change them I'm fencing with Natalia who was added like a ball oh that can't worry you sir why you have a good reach you fade the blade rather than engage it you fence I played at it sir does your opponent keep his pointed line no then I should not try to bind the blade too often sir or you'll be hit how may I show you sir I'm guy on guard sir so she offered I wasn't ready on guy on do she oh please Michelle let Mrs. George hit you one I don't want any favors on guard Michelle at your service sir this is your sister's calling sure have you gone crazy shut up oh he's a marvel come on Michelle very good sir that's enough I want you to tune this guitar tune it yourself I'm busy oh permit me mademoiselle oh you play the guitar oh yes and perhaps you could teach me oh I should be delighted thank you oh I'm talking to you for sir finding the blade to say I'm going to rush into yes mademoiselle it's called black eyes oh keep your guard up sir I'm not going to pray I should love one sir three cocktails and perhaps one for my dear wife mr. George that's better sir that's much better very good sir again we improve very rapidly wait a minute ghost Padine friend Duke comrade tov are rich oh no George to varish to varish to varish Michelle to varish Tina seems funny to think they've only been with us a few weeks I feel I've known Tina for years he's marvelous yes she is isn't of Elaine what how do you say in Russian I love you how do you know I looked it up oh what time is it half past seven and we want to be well out of here before those stuffy guests arrive for dinner we'll be out of here all right Michelle and Tina going to join us later at the Russian place to varish Tina what is the matter with you no nothing where are you going nowhere that's nice I just saw her in the light oh good evening mrs. George what are you doing fixing the flower please let me help you thank you mrs. George where does it go on the table here you're kind mrs. George kind what does that mean kind oh Tina don't you understand dear little mrs. George what do I not understand Tina it was blue you mustn't say it like that oh but I mean it you was the blue no no you're boss Lou like that the way you say it it sounds like a little sick dog I love you and it's right you should the master must love the servant and the servant the master I love you too mrs. George over don't you see I love you can't you understand that mrs. George you're a dear delightful little boy and I'm a housemaid you're not like any other housemaid that ever lived no no I'm superior I realize that oh Tina I have money I can make you happy as a princess a princess I only want to be as happy as a housemaid now you may kiss me Tina there and you mustn't think about me anymore Tina because this kind of foolishness bores me it bores me very much oh no Tina come here oh good evening sir what's going on here it's all my fault it was nothing of the kind I don't care to hear anything from you now kindly leave the room very well I shall kindly leave the room I regret very much that this has happened Tina you must not blame him sir he's such a sweet little boy I do blame him and myself for having allowed such bad manners to develop in my son come here Tina yes sir I want you to forgive me of course no no no you must forgive me in the Russian way the kiss on the brow all right you have the most extraordinary eyes Tina melting that's what they are melting and your hands your lovely little hand when you dress for dinner I didn't hear you come in Michelle I scratched sir he was scratched do you wish to use the blue glasses or the bohemian glasses for the moselle whichever you like my friend the blue glasses my moselle lane my daughter laying the table yes sir she expressed a wish to do so that's my soul you are to serve the cocktail and Tina my dear you serve the Sarkoorska concierge will be at the door he'll do their nonsense yes madam oh Charles have you spoken to them about our guest of honor well I was about to mention that uh madam and I appreciate the fact that your sympathies are with the cause of white Russia yes sir and naturally we understand your your devotion to your former employers and the prince and princess oh for heaven's sake Charles come to the point our guest of honor tonight is a representative of the Soviet government Commissar Gorchenko you heard of him well Michelle yes sir we've heard of Commissar Gorchenko I've never met him I suppose he's pretty much of a bore he's a most cultivated man madame with a very lively wit that malicious perhaps but keen it was he who composed that immortal sentence which was engraved on the door of the Ljubljanka prison four walls for punishment are three too many well we must try to forget the past Gorchenko is now representing the Soviet oil interests and oil as we all know is most effective in in smoothing out he was not always in oil sir general Gorchenko was chief of the investigating staff at the checker at that time my former master Prince Uratyev had some dealings with him really yes the conversation between them wasn't progressing as smoothly as Gorchenko wished so to enliven matters he placed the end of his cigarette the lighted end of course between Prince Uratyev's fingers you'll find him very interesting oh horrible when he was commissar of the fort of Klontstadt the Grand Duchess Tatyana Petrovna was in prison there I've heard a speak of him often he did not confine the cigarette trick to men prisoners only and he had others too very entertaining oh my dear I do hope you're not going to think of these debtful things when you're serving the soup oh madame we shall think only that we are your servants and that we must be worthy of your trust I of course I knew we could depend upon you Charles is it time for the beauty business don't worry I'll be ready Tatyana Tatyana don't look like that well the name sticks in my throat darling you recognize us won't he and then it'll all be over all the happiness we've had here one Sunday out of two you take that away from us like he's taken everything else there's work to do Tatyana we're servants in this house I'm ready now we'll go to the up to you Highness for station identification this is the plumb there broadcasting system you've just heard act you have to varnish starring William Powell and Miriam Hopkins they returned soon for Act 3 but now it's intermission time time to hear from the evening special guest but before we do a word about our product no one denies the fact that fresh fragrant skin is appealing it is easy to be sure of this important charm if you take the screen stars advice and make Lux toilet soap your daily bath soap too one of the very loveliest screen stars Barbara Stanwyck says a Lux toilet soap beauty bath is the best way I know to make sure of daintiness it leaves skin really sweet Miss Stanwyck is right because that rich active lather carries away every trace of perspiration dust and dirt you feel refreshed from top to toe and a light attractive fragrance lingers on your skin try it won't you make your daily bath a beauty bath with Lux toilet soap and now here's mr. DeMille with an introduction to our guest our play tells the adventures of the Grand Duchess Tatyana Petrovna we're about to present you now to another Grand Duchess who's widely known in this country and whose name stands for adventure dignity and achievement throughout the world our guest has lived two lives first as a princess of the Russian crown and cousin of the late Tsar then as a humble and penniless exile she's Grand Duchess Marie who escaped from Russia in the 1918 uprising when 21 members of her immediate family were killed who earned her first money knitting and embroidering and who since coming to this country has gained new fame and distinction as an author lecturer photographer and designer royalty steps to our microphone now as we switch to New York City and the presence of her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Russia thank you mr. DeMille your play tonight Tavarish is one which I saw three times and loved dearly the first time I saw it I sat and wet through the entire performance it brought back so vividly so truly the problem which I too had to face that of redesigning my life after its very foundations had crumbled in 1928 I arrived in your United States with a suitcase a typewriter a guitar and the first draft of a manuscript partly French and partly in Russian which I hoped someone would publish behind me lay a lifetime which even then seemed half like a dream a life so different from the one I live now that I sometimes wonder if it really did happen right now it seems so strange to think of a childhood spent in palatial halls surrounded by a retinue of servants with my nearest and dearest companion my brother Dmitry one thing was consistently drummed into our ears a saying which came down to us from my great-grandfather the Emperor Nicholas the first who would say to his children always act so that you will be forgiven for being born granddukes it was good advice and taught us a certain humility and the feeling that we must belong to the world at large a feeling that I as well as the two Russians in your play would indeed be lost without this feeling of humility has made many exiled Russians of noble birth successful at a more modest occupation it is the driving force which compels each of us whether known to the world as princess Tatiana or housemaid Tina to be the best princess or the best housemaid possible there were times such as my wedding to Prince William of Sweden when even being a grand Duchess was difficult indeed I can remember bewildering months of preparation a dress of silver claw heavy jewels which only grand duchess's war the weight of it all so great that once I sat down I had to be helped up but the world has changed much since then and although it has changed quickly it is not so fast as a proverbial Russian temperament can change it is our burden and our joy to be able to give ourselves swiftly to whatever mood ceases us as Tina and Michael so well portray I try to use this inherited tendency and make myself adaptable enough to fit into life in the United States happily it was not necessary for me to rely only on philosophy for long so I found a welcome on these shores and a place in your world I'm convinced that you fortunate people who accept your freedom as casually as you accept at sunshine a day do not realize nor appreciate as I do the real greatness of your country finding a home here has widened my horizon and continued my education and I'm indeed grateful for the warm welcome I found I agree for the past sometimes but I cannot regret the lessons I have gained through bitter experience life must be lived as it comes to us I know it is hard to be gay in the face of dreadful events but I put my face in the happy ending for Tina and Michael for myself and ladies and gentlemen for you too that was a royal treat madam now in Hollywood we present the third act of Sovarish starring William Powell and Miriam Hopkins to see Henry Gordon Lawrence Grossmith and Heather Thatcher it's a few minutes before dinner and Golochenko still has not arrived in the drawing room the DuPont entertain one of the other guests madam Van Hemet you hollanders that are a muckable people we've had to be Mr. DuPont and Golochenko what is he like I confess I'm a little nervous both very much I'm he can't be a creeper in my funny scene the right move and when he's in the wrong move the grace to keep ominously quiet or excuse me madam yes Tina shall we save the cocktail oh no no no please don't do that please don't excuse me what an earth I beg your pardon madam but just why did you cut see like that why is she here that's our housemaid oh she's a Russian yes she is the former grand duchess Tatiana patrol no no no no you're mistaken she was employed by the grand duchess she is the grand duchess I knew her veil in Peter's buck is her husband Rinsorati Fiatu Rinsorati I suppose that's Misha are you sure about this I promise you madam DuPont I couldn't possibly be mistaken Charles what are we going to do? Commissar Golochenko Golochenko oh Charles quiet Mr. DuPont I believe yes how do you do commissar very well thank you and my wife commissar madam DuPont how do you do madam then Hemet you already know oh madam from Hemet good evening it's the most distinguished gathering I feel ill at ease already you know how distinguished it really is but you see who else is here oh there are other guests who think hems are not the last yes there are others but not exactly guests would you have a cocktail sir thank you I oh yeah thank you oh do you have a sir yes sir I believe I will no commissar about the deal for the oil no your pardon monsieur I drink to you madam van Hemet the gathering is very distinguished indeed Mikhail wash this one again please isn't it clean look at that oh yes I thought it was part of the design it is China isn't it yet I love it I shall miss it very very sorely Mikhail madam DuPont has asked us to leave Katiana yes I was waiting for you to tell me that oh God must know that we've been good servants surely he'll find us another place yes I hope so too oh my poor tragic pigeon you weren't nearly so depressed when they burned down the house and destroyed all the beautiful horses in the stable and the Rembrandts in the library that was in Russia Katiana well and where are we now the kitchen of a French banker named DuPont no it is our kitchen Mikhail where is the air my darling it smells of onions and coal gas and brown soap but when you breathe it in it becomes the air of Russia cold and clean wherever we may go it will be the same in our lungs and our eyes and our hearts there'll be Russia may I come in what have you come for silver get out of here go to Chenkel pick him up with the coal tongs Mikhail and throw him out I should consider that inhospitable in the extreme it is my recollection that once madam was a Grand Duchess of Russia I am always the Grand Duchess of Russia exactly and I'm sure you haven't forgotten that in any house which is graced with your presence you are the hostess I am therefore madam your guest the dog is right Mikhail sit down ah thank you oh you keep your kitchen in admirable order does Monsieur DuPont know you're here no he thinks I'm the study looking at a very important document he wants me to sign I came in here to think more clearly and will it help you to think to see how I wash the dishes oh I'm sure you'll do it with flawless grace you should know I was given many lessons of dish washing when I was under your command in Kronstadt prison oh that was a rigorous school madam yes those who broke the dishes were shot beaten I see no reason to refer to that madam oh I hold no grudge daughter Chenkel no I'm sure you don't but I'd like to have you know that when I get back to Russia I shall have your eyes burned out in the sockets filled with Siberian salt and if you do come back madam the most horrible retribution you can think of will be no more than I deserve because I was guilty of the most unpardonable crimes it does me no good to hear you admit it I was guilty of sentimentality of sentimentality that's a rather quaint way of describing it I was referring to the moment of weakness when I permitted you to escape in that motorboat through the darkness you knew that boat was there yes madam why did you let me escape there was something in you that impelled me to neglect my obvious duty I could not rid myself of the belief that your usefulness to Russia had not ended that can't be the reason you're here now oh what it is in our Pennsylvania I uh I want you to do me a slight favor you have only to ask commissar and it will be refused I want you to write me a check for four billion francs is that why you came into our kitchen for a mere matter of four billion francs yes madam you would excuse me commissar it's time to take in the lemonade but first you will sign a check won't take a moment general for two hours I've been closeted in the air with a chauffeur a beauty dbf for the bank of France man upon hemat whose name is anglo-dutch oil and do form the represents the united petrol can you imagine why they were so cordial to me they want me to sign the transfer of the parkour and petrol pulse oil fields for the next 50 years and will you sign I've been fighting to avoid it what would mean 50 years of english dutch and french digging russian soil capitalizing russian resources drawing life but from the veins of our country keep up the fight commissar don't sign no I'm afraid I must general or have been commissioned to find credits and gold for the soviets of Ukraine and Ural for the manufacture of tractors if I don't find that money and that once some five million wretched peasants will starve to death I have no money well you have four billion francs that is not mine it was given to you unconditionally by Nicholas Romanoff it was given him by the czar I guess my damn that was 1917 but now you needn't continue goretchenko I have refused that money to all the scavengers who try to take it from me I've held on to that money as I've held on to my immortal soul I've even denied it to myself very well general I wish I could take you now into the czar's room at Sarcosello is it still there intact madam it's been preserved precisely as it was is my photograph still there yes madam nobody pays me to say it you have now a mustache no supply by a barbless visitor oh well he was condemned to 10 years penal servitude for less majesty oh for damaging the worker's property Prince Horatiev do you remember in that room on the wall behind the czar's desk a big map of all the rushes yes I remember them up at the bottom of it to the right are Mark Bakura and Petropoulos of all the undeveloped oil fields in earth they are the riches if I sign that agreement with the foreigners a part of that map will have to be torn away then don't sign well the peasants must have tracked us but not from me I received that money from the czar and who was the sergeant he was beyond your degraded comprehension ask of you madam who was the czar he was Russia yes he was Russia and therefore he's not dead and now the money will save him Mikhail it's for Russia Tatiana you want me to sign yes Mikhail give him the money Tatiana you loved the czar didn't you and understood him he wouldn't have let Bakura and Petropoulos go would he even at the cost of his throne his life no he wouldn't have let them go never from the depths of his grave he sees you and he says that you are fulfilling his trust from the very heights of the skies he's reaching down to guide your hand sign the check Mikhail very well your highness what is your christian name Dmitry Dmitry Gorachenko one of the most heartless, soulless, ruthless blaggards that ever desecrated the surface of this earth I have made this out balance of account the first check and the last Tatiana Petrovna Romanova Mikhail Aleksandrovich Oratyev the flag of the Romanovs no longer flies over soviet territories and I shall arrange with its central committee that it shall be affixed twice in the map in the room that was once the czar's it shall mark the spot that is Bakura and the spot that is Petropoulos and those flags will they be protected from vandals yes madame and could you also have the mustache removed from my picture no world that will entail a certain amount of red tape however it is a promise thank you that is all goodbye imperial highness goodbye to Varsh goodbye Russia Tatiana my dear are you ready yes I was I was just taking one last look at at how little room we shall never see it again like this you're beautiful tonight my darling I was the stressor's hour last grand ball and this cape after tonight I should put them away with my dream with my dream Tatiana mrs. George and Helene they'll be waiting go to the kitchen Mikhail wait for me mrs. Dupont I've been waiting for you here I want a few words with you very good sir I never dreamed that you could do such a cruel thing to us perhaps someday you will forgive me sir what do we understand perfectly that you and madame have every reason to detest us wish to be rid of us well no no no we do not detest you oh thank you sir in fact we well uh we respect and admire you but what will you do now the same sort of work we hope sir then if that is what you wish madame and I have been talking it over we Mikhail I'm ready your imperial highness oh please sir Dupont you were saying I was about to say if you are determined to continue with this sort of work then why not continue with it here you mean you wish us to stay well that is I mean it's for you to say before all the saints that I swear to you that never by word or deed should we remind you that we have ever been other than Michelle and Tina you may reduce our wages to nothing you may beat us with whips you may cancel every other Sunday we have free if you wish us to very well very well then that's oh mr. we are your slaves our lives are yours no no no I mean I mean that's enough it's well good night oh we are saved saved the russian god has saved us again never have two poor russians had greater cause for celebration come Tatyana oh our kitchen our dear darling kitchen oh look pigeon it's snowing it's so beautiful I'm so sad yes everything's so sad isn't even the happiness especially happiness no your eyes are full of tears they're the reflection of yours Tatyana no oh we're full can't we make up yes my darling fools now and forever come oh no wait I've forgotten something you jeweled your highness the milk bottles my prince if I don't leave them out for the milk man the russian god won't do it for me come be kind forward your highness the prince and the grand duchess of tovarish toss away their titles and face the microphone as William Powell and Miriam Hopkins and welcome back mr. demille it's surely good to see you in Hollywood again incidentally it appears that we've done a turnabout since I was here last at that time I was the one who had just come back from New York now at that time you had something to say not only about New York but about luck so and what I said still goes it's certainly a great help in keeping the complexion smooth and nice looking I know I use luck so all the time and from my observations around this town practically every actress regards it just as highly as I do but getting back to New York did you have a good time Miriam you should have seen the crowds at the station when I arrived the whole city was on holiday bands playing flags flying streets teeming with excited millions and to think they did all that just for you Cecil no bill for the opening of the world fair and and incidentally it's a great show now that union pacific is able to stand on its own two feet Cecil or its own two rails what are you going to focus your camera on next I really don't know what are you going to do well I'm scheduled to bring back thin man again oh but that was announced months ago William and you haven't started making it yet what goes I've been waiting for the doctors to tell me that I can go out and play Miriam present plan is for me to put on my gum shoes next month at MGM and start detecting again meanwhile many thanks Cecil and good night good night Mr. DeMille good night to Valish our plans for your entertainment next Monday will be announced shortly by Mr. DeMille assisting our stars tonight where Florence Baker as Mademoiselle Helene Dupont Jean O'Donnell as Monsieur Georges Dupont Helen Geddes as Olga Lou Merrill as Admiral Soucomine Ralph Sadan as shopkeeper and Frank Nelson as Jean Darme Louis Silver's appeared through courtesy of 20th Century Fox studio he directed music there for the new picture Rose of Washington Square be sure to listen to the new Lux daytime radio program The Life and Love of Dr. Susan the makers of Lux toilets will bring you this enthralling story about the love and problems of a young attractive woman doctor every afternoon Monday through Friday look in your newspapers for the time and station The Life and Love of Dr. Susan comes to you in addition to the Lux Radio Theater your host Mr. DeMille one of the great screen successes of recent months is reenacted in the Lux Radio Theater next Monday night angels with dirty faces this is a melodrama of New York of two boys raised in a breeding place of crime when they meet again years later one has become a priest the other an ex-convict miles apart in beliefs friendship holds them together until fate steps in ruthlessly to solve their problems you'll hear this superb drama with the same two stars who brought it to your theater James Cagney and Pat O'Brien and with them Gloria Dixon 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 James Cagney and Pat O'Brien with Gloria Dixon in angels with dirty faces this is Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood the announcer is DeMille DeRoy and this is the Columbia Broadcasting System