 Hello there, this is the family doctor and when sir, how's the actor? Never felt better, doc. Never felt better in my life. My God, this takes me back to my undergraduate days in law school. Is that so? Yes. Many's the time I've trod the boards, delivering the immortal lines of the bard of Avon. Merrily, merrily shall I live now, under the blossom that hangs on the bow. That's from the tempest. I played the good fairy, Ariel. You did, eh? For all that I could ever read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. That's from Midsummer Night's Dream. I played Puck. You played what? Puck. You know, doc, the sprightly little fellow who darts in and out between the rose bushes. Oh, yeah. Of course, I was slightly more underweight then than I am at present. I can imagine. Ah, but this pageant's a fine thing for Cedenton, doc. Just think, the first annual Cedenton Festival and historical pageant. Great thing. It was a marvelous inspiration. Well, I can truthfully say, Judge Windsor, that I've never before seen you so enthusiastic about anything. Oh, I am, doc. I am enthusiastic. Well, I must taste along now and run over my speech before the performance. As Shakespeare says, I am slow of study. Well, so long, doc. I'll see you backstage. Puck, darting in and out between the rose bushes. Oh, what fools these mortals be. Oh, sir, the pageant's about to start. Is everybody ready? Yes. Dr. Adams, the glee clubs are just finishing their final song now. You go right on and introduce the pageant. Yes, yes, Mrs. O'Malley. I understand. Is everybody ready? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. to the courtesy of many drug company as the spirit of courage chief of police william quincey bill benzin as the spirit of progress mister franko malli at the spirit of life and the members of the combined boys and girls glee clubs of the cedarton union high school onward upward cedarton excelsior all right everybody ready to them well section of the past and greater yearning for progress and right and courage in the future all right take and don't forget to fall in front of the throne here i go way to your shield where's your shield i don't know the i feel so funny in the skirt i told you it wasn't a skirt it's a spot in costume here's the shield here oh thank you thank you now take run oh you pushed him under the stage flat on his face franko malli how can you laugh it's all right now he's picked himself up and all fair queen maybel i am the spirit of courage and what will go here at this court i bring memories of the past and inspiration for the future i bring on to the the noble procession of those staunch souls who build it on this virgin soil the foundations of the civilization which was to become cedarton let us sound the trumpets to call them back for a moment from the limbo of the forgotten past trumpets of but where the trumpets professor gondola trumpets can't you keep that horse quiet and that my good woman is something over which i ain't got any control what's the matter with chick why doesn't he go on he's gone up in his lines they all he's looking over here will do the prompt him then prompt him how can i you've got the script i've got oh yes let me trumpets here it is and as they march and and as they march we shall see we shall see what's the matter with that boy they're noble features they're they're noble features got now who's next to hang the spirit of progress oh yes uh chief venton are you ready yes but uh... it's kind of funny i got a sort of a tight feeling in my throat it's only a little stage fright now go on but it feels like i'm going to call you won't call now go on ride that horse on the stage but that's where did they ever get that you beefed it looks as though it hadn't been fed for twenty years i go on mr pennson i'm on here i go he is going to call he has my dear he has i am the spirit of progress and i give you what in the world has happened to that man stage fright i think you call it as our forefathers have done before us and as we well deal there goes the spirit of progress out the back door frankel malli it's up to you to save this performance i'll do my best my dear but i'm afraid never mine get up on that promontory all right anything i can do mrs. malli you can go on that page and see whether or not i'm a little all the way wait a minute he's getting up in maybell the style not recognize me me that i do walk out the whole i am the spirit of life i have more truth in poetry and what will fall here behold i come bringing you the light of those who have gone on before me those brave and noble spirits who have thus far guided our fair city toward its goal let all eyes be guarded now as i cling wide the portals of cedarton and behold the place of life and glory gracious what's happened to the life what's the trouble mrs. malli the lights have gone out i can see that i'm not blind doctor what do you mean get their attention how can i get their attention with no light i'll have professor gun will give us another player of trumpets all right i'll do my best that's a gondola awfully sorry that something has happened to the lights now at the request of the director of our pageant mrs. theodosia o malli i'm going to ask you to join the company there goes the first annual cedarton festival and historical pageant into the limbo of the forgotten path i'll never mind the old you did your best i guess there's nothing for us to do now but go back to hollywood oh i don't think so mrs. o malli oh hello dr. adams i i didn't know you were still here i wouldn't look at the pageant that way you know i'm not quite as good at quoting a sam winger but i remember something that bobby burns wrote once what's that the best laid plans of mice and men aft gang a-gee yes you're right doctor frank and i won't go back to hollywood we'll stick we'll stay in cedarton won't be frank you'll bet we will well come on let's go down and watch the fire this is the family doctor i'll be in to see you again right soon goodbye