 Hollywood, California Monday January 4th the Lux Radio Theatre presents Spencer Tracey Virginia Bruce and Francis farmer in men in white with Frank Riker and Paul Guilfoyle Presents Hollywood our stars Spencer Tracey Virginia Bruce Francis Farmer Frank Riker and Paul Guilfoyle our guests Dr. Frank G. Hyzer distinguished position and author of an American Doctors Odyssey and Miss Edith Head motion picture dress designer our producer Cecil B. DeMille whose picture the Plainsman is playing this week in Principal Cities throughout the country our conductor Lois Silvers the makers of Lux Flakes greet you with best wishes for the new year and a cordial invitation to be with us each Monday night through 1937 welcome everyone many times if you asked yourself this question How can I dress smartly on a limited budget? Well, here's an answer in just two words Lux Flakes these gentle effective soap flakes free of harmful alkali Keep your washables looking fresh and just like new so much longer Don't forget anything safe in water alone is safe in Lux the economical way of dressing smartly And now the producer of the Lux Radio Theatre ladies and gentlemen Mr. Cecil B. DeMille Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen Milwaukee founded by the Indians was discovered by the French and is noted for its Germans But one of the natives of which the city is most proud is an Irish American named Spencer Tracy Six years ago while Spencer was playing the lead in the last mile on the New York stage Clark Gable then not as well known as Tracy was playing it on the road For both men the last mile was the last lap in a race for Hollywood But it wasn't until about a year ago that Spencer gained full recognition And now while hard at work in the MGM production captain's courageous He is being mentioned as an outstanding candidate for the 1936 award of the motion picture academy Virginia Bruce and Francis Farmer Are both renowned for their loveliness and their voices Virginia was about to enroll in the University of California at Los Angeles when director William Baudin Enrolled her instead at Fox Studios Broadway then reversed the usual order took Virginia from films and made her a showgirl in two ziegfeld productions Returning as an MGM star her latest picture is born to dance Francis Farmer is that handsome young lady from Seattle who is probably the screens outstanding find of 1936 Not long ago this paramount discovery returned to Seattle to see herself in her recent picture come and get it It was shown at the same theater in which she once worked as an usher Earning part of the money which put her through the University of Washington Tonight she is heard as Barbara Denon Virginia Bruce as Lara Hudson And Spencer Tracy as dr. George Ferguson Frank Riker plays dr. Hochberg And paul guilfoyle dr. Levine And the lux radio theater bills all five in sydney kingsley's Pulitzer prize play Men in white Of a medical school in new york It's near the finish of the graduation ceremony In which a score of hopeful young physicians are to receive the reward of their years of study Among the graduates is George Ferguson High in his class and higher in the estimation of his instructors He stands with his fellow students as they recite the words of the Hippocratic old An oath to which physicians have bound themselves since the days of ancient Greece Solemnly swear to the most sacred in my life To be forever loyal to the profession of medicine And just and generous to his members To lead my life And practice my art In all brightness and honor To hold myself aloof From all voluntary wrong and corruption And I do swear That I will give those deadly drugs Even if solicited That whatsoever I shall see or hear Of the lives of men Which is not fitting to be spoken I will keep it in vile and secret Please, ladies, do I swear And now, if you be true to this, your oath May prosperity and good repute be ever yours The opposite, if you shall prove yourselves forced war Gentlemen, doctors, I greet you in the name of medicine Yes, Dr. Hockberg Congratulations, my boy Thank you, doctor I don't mind telling you it feels pretty good You're going into St. George's hospital for your internship You mean you fixed it for me? It didn't take any fixing, my boy They want you there, so do I Now you'll work for me for a year if you want to If I want to, I'm the luckiest man in the world Oh, thanks Well, then a year or so in Vienna with von Eiselberg You haven't changed your mind about that Oh, no, I'm still going to go if I can manage it Good, good Well, what about Laura? Does she know George? Oh, sure Why, Dr. Hockberg? Oh, nothing, I just... Oh, yes, I know what you mean No, Laura's all right, she understands It'll be a long time yet before you're ready to practice I've told her that We've been over the whole thing a dozen times I'm glad Laura's a fine girl, George, but Well, I wouldn't want anything to interfere with your studies I know I've plenty to learn yet Plenty to read, whole library's full I'm looking forward to it and so is she Fine, I like to hear you talk like that It leads me to expect big things of you St. George's Hospital? Who? One moment, please, I'll see if I can reach him Hello, Miss Sharpe? Will you try to reach Dr. Ferguson on the call system, please? On the call system, he's not in his office Thank you Hello? One moment, please Ferguson talking? Hello? Ferguson talking? Yes Who? Oh, I see Why, uh, ask him to come in sometime this afternoon Hello, switchboard I'm in the library, be here for about 10 minutes Right Oh, George Yes, Dr. Hochberg? George, I wanted to meet Dr. Levine Dr. Ferguson How do you do, Dr? How do you do? Dr. Levine has brought some X-ray plates, both lungs Would you take a look, George? Hmm, that shadow there, the right apex Yes, I was afraid of that Oh, don't be an alarmist, Levine Have you examined this putum? I brought a specimen My, uh, my microscope is broken Well, we'll look at it here You take it, George Certainly I'll have the path lab checkup on this Is it anything important? My, uh, my wife Oh, I'll attend to it at once, Dr. Langston Do you think I'll come back this evening? Oh, sure, yes The reporter will be ready then Drop into my room, 106 106? That's my old room You interned here? Are you the Levine? Why, of course Sure, Bellevue, aren't you? Yes, 23 Yes, Professor Dury mentioned you quite often Dury? He still remembers me? Oh, he thinks a great deal of you George here is one of his prior's pupils, too In here nine months Our house surgeon House surgeon? Oh, that's fine I was house surgeon, too Yes, I heard You're going to study abroad, Dr. Ferguson? I hope so I plan to study with Sauerbrock in Germany But, uh, I couldn't get there Where are you going? To Vienna I'm going with Van Iselberg And a wife along to keep him in company Oh, you're going to be married? Yes, it'll be a honeymoon trip You'll find it difficult mixing the two I know Van Iselberg It's going to be very difficult You don't know Laura And after a year in Vienna, I'm working with Dr. Hochberg So, you see, the real labor won't begin till I come back to Europe Oh, I'll drive you, George With a whip, huh? Lucky Yes, I once looked forward to all that Well, come on, Levine We'll go down to X-ray and read these pictures properly And don't worry about the specimen, Doctor Thanks, thanks And remember, there's only one Hochberg Every minute with him is precious I know that Goodbye, Doctor See you tonight Hey, George Yes, Shorty Who was that? Max Levine? Yeah I heard of him He was headed to be a big shot around here Yes Looks like he doesn't own a dime right now Whatever happened to him, do you know? He... Oh, what's the difference? Ferguson Yes, Doctor I just saw 401, a mighty sick boy Maintaining another transfusion We'll have to go pretty deep to find out We'll have to go pretty deep to find a good vein, Dr. Gordon That's just what I'm worried about If it comes up tonight, I want you to be here to do it Tonight? Yes, the three donors on call Well, this is my night out And my fiance has made arrangements I'm afraid I won't be here I'm sorry, Ferguson When the house needs you Well, I'd like to, Doctor But the same thing happened last week I can't disappoint my fiance again Or I won't have any Uh, Dr. Gordon Couldn't I do that transfusion? I'm afraid not Ferguson has followed the case from the start He knows the veins we've used Well, what do you say, Ferguson? All right, I'll stay Thanks See me in my office about eight One night a week off and it's It's tough, George Sorry, I couldn't help you out Dr. Ferguson Dr. Ferguson Hello Oh, hello, Laura No, no, no, no, it's all right Where are you upstairs? How's your father? All right, I'll be right up Right up Dr. Ferguson Where's Dr. Ferguson? See you later Here, what is it? Dr. Ferguson A woman just came in on emergency With a lacerated throat She's bleeding terribly Dr. Crane told me to tell you That he can't stop it Get her up the operating room quick On your toes shorty Get everything ready Right Mack, McDonald Locate the staff on that assist Operating room B and on the run It's an emergency Come on, I'll go on Oh, you feel fine That's why I want you in here for another week Rest that heart of yours Hockey's right, Dad You ought to stay Now don't you start, Laura Oh, but it's so foolish I have an important deal on, honey Biggest deal in years A lot of money, John Yes, a lot of money And what good will it do you If you don't live to enjoy it? Well, it can still buy my little girl a honeymoon I could spend my honeymoon right here And have a swell time As long as it's with George By the way, where is that man, Hockey? Upstairs, busy Oh, well, can I get him on the phone again? Better wait, he's in the operating room Oh Yeah, they make a slave of that boy And he doesn't get a dime I can't see it Well, he's not here for the money He's here to learn If he wanted to make money He wouldn't have chosen medicine in the first place You know, when he comes with me His pay is only going to be $20 a week But there's a chance to work The next five years are crucial years in that boy's life They're going to tell whether he becomes an important man or not George is an important man right now, Hockey To me To you, I... No Don't I count? Of course you do, dear Hello George How are you, darling? Hello, Mr. Hudson How are you, George? Come to take my temperature, I suppose, huh? No, no, not this time Why so glum, dear? To a date? Oh, just tired, I guess Excuse me, please What is it, Ms. Jemison? Time for Mr. Hudson's sunbuff Oh, go away Come along now, come along Let go, let go I got some phone calls See you later, Laura All right, Hockey Bye, Dad Goodbye You're lovely today Kiss me, darling Oh, I've missed you these last few weeks I've been busy, dear I know And there'll be three more months of it, won't there? Three months I don't know how I can live until then There'll be long months for me, too You know, George, you've spoiled everything for me What? Oh, I don't seem to get a kick out of life anymore Unless you're around It's not very often, is it? Darling, we'll make up for it all later on, honestly I don't know if we can You see, dearest, the way I feel If I had you every minute from now on, it wouldn't be enough I wish I'd lived all my life with you I wish I'd been born in the same room with you And played in the same streets I'm glad you missed them They were ordinary and gloomy They might have touched you, changed you Look at me, Laura About seven months ago, there was a boy here who had been blind from birth We operated on him successfully One night I showed him the stars for the first time He looked at them a moment and began to cry like a baby Because he said they were so beautiful And he might never have seen them And when I look at you, Laura, I get something of that feeling I can't tell you how large a part of me you've become, Laura Dr. Ferguson Dr. Ferguson Oh, Dr. Ferguson It's no use, Laura That's my call Dr. Ferguson No Let me go, please, darling Oh, you spoiled it Dr. Ferguson Dr. Ferguson Yes Oh, yes, doctor Are we ready? I'll tend to all that Right All right Go on, go to work I won't be needed for half an hour yet Well, I have to go to my hairdresser To make myself beautiful for the night anyway Laura, dear What a night we're going to have Doris asked us over there, but I want you to myself Laura, I've got some bad news You won't be upset, will you? What is it? I can't make it tonight I have to stay in Again Don, I'm so sorry I tried to duck out of it, but I couldn't There's a transfusion I have to do What time is it always? No, you better not It depends on the patient I've just got to be around and ready Are you the only one here who can do that transfusion? Well, Dr. Gordon seems to think so George, they're overworking you and it's not fair Oh, I don't mind it so much for myself or me No, well, I do I was planning so much on tonight Well, don't you think I was, Laura? All week I've been looking forward to it Yes, I know George, I'm so low What's our life going to be like? Well, pretty grand, I should say How can it be? How can it be? Oh, dear, now We'll go out tomorrow instead Our Saturday's more fun anyway Well, it's not just tonight, it's all the night Darling, you're exaggerating No, I'm not Well, what do you expect me to do? I want to get out, I want to enjoy myself But I can't, that's all I can't George, I know this is important to you And if it's going to help you I can go on like this for another three months For another year and three months But when we come back to New York Let's arrange our lives like human beings Well, you could open up an office And have regular hours, specialized Well, if I work with Hockberg, darling I won't have the time to go into practice That's just it I know Hocky I'll never see you then But Laura Darling, I've plugged all my life Just in the hope that someday I'd have a chance to work with a man like Hockberg Well, I couldn't go on this way, I just couldn't I'd rather break off now and try to forget you Laura, don't say a thing like that Why mean it? It would kill me But I'd rather die quickly than my slow torture Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Ferguson They're calling you Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Ferguson Ferguson talking, yes Who? South 218? We'll call Dr. Cunningham, it's his case What? When? What's her temperature? Pulse Did you ask for food before she became unconscious? No, no more insulin, absolutely I'll be right down No, I have to go now, Laura Please, please don't worry Laura, I'm speaking to you Oh, as bad as that Yes Well, things will straighten themselves out No, they won't I'll see you tomorrow night, dear Right? Yes, but think it over, George We'll have to come to some decision Oh, Laura, will you please? I mean it, absolutely All right, Laura Virginia Bruce and Francis Farmer Continue in a moment with men in white Meanwhile, we'll stroll down Sunset Boulevard We might see a movie star too Oh, I say There goes a stunning girl driving that dream car Maybe she's an actress Oh, she passed the red light And there goes the officer's whistle Oh, lady, and would you be going to a play or perhaps Or do you think you're one of their movie stars? 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How's her temperature, nurse? Subnormal, doctor There, you see, sir Well, what of it? Nurse, prepare some insulin Forty units I beg your pardon, doctor But isn't this in contrary indicated here? No, it's our last chance Doctor, I mean no offense But I've studied this case history It looks like shock, not coma Suppose you let me handle this case, young man Prepare that arm, nurse What? Yes, sir No, no Please, doctor Call in one of the other men Ask them, anybody There's no time That insulin's going to prove fatal Get out of here, will you? I don't want any interruption While I'm treating my patients Give me that hypo... I say no Get away from that patient Here What are you doing? Take your hands off Stand over there and don't bother me Nurse, shock position quick Yes, sir Floor, nurse Stereoglucose, quick And a hypovodrunilin There's glucose here, sir How much? 50 grams Good, half of it will do Apply the tourniquet, right arm Nurse, nurse, some hot packs and blankets Yes, sir Quick, come on, hurry What do you think you're doing? I'll have you brought up before the medical board I'll have you thrown out of this hospital You can't... All right, all right Had me thrown out, I don't care But you're not going to kill this baby I've never heard of such a thing, right? You ready, nurse? Yes, sir Let's have the glucose Swab that arm Never mind the iodine, just alcohol You all pay for this, young man That patient's life is in your hands Make it some hot packs, doctor Yes, cover up Hot packs all around her A hypovodrunilin is already, doctor Give it to me Not all we can do You report downstairs, Ferguson At once I'm sorry, I've got to stay with this baby Did you hear what I said? Dr. Ferguson, she's opening her eyes Keep those blankets on her Dr. George Yes, dear Thirsty A lot of drink You bet, sweetheart Water Yes, sir Here, here you are, darling Drink this What happened? Nothing, nothing, dear You just fell asleep, that's all Come on, now Bottoms up There, that girl Dr. George, will my operation hurt me here? Oh, no, no We'll fix that up in a minute Doctor Morphe in the 12th Get it, nurse? Yes, sir I'll report you, of course Meddling young puppy Over in the circumstances, I guess I can afford to be lenient This time But if you ever dare interfere again In any of my cases I wouldn't think of a doctor See that you don't Well, now, young lady, how about getting some sleep? Okay, Dr. George Close your eyes All right, but don't you go away No, no, I'll be right here Come on, now, close your eyes Here's the morphe in Dr. Shh She won't need it Yes, sir Did Did Dr. Cunningham say anything to you? No Pretty kid, isn't she? I was scared we were gonna lose her She has hair like lords What doctor? Oh, nothing, nothing I think it was wonderful of you to stand up against Dr. Cunningham Never mind that You better clean up that mess Yes, sir Here, what's the matter with you? I'm sorry, I was just nervous, I guess Cunningham been treating you too? No, sir This is my first case with the sick child and I got to like her an awful lot Oh, I see What's your name? Barbara Denon You're going to be a swell nurse, Barbara Thanks Now take my advice, I know just how you feel Your nerves are all tied up in a knot, you want to yell Well, I feel the same way myself Get as far away from here as you can tonight Have a good time, relax, forget the hospital Tomorrow you'll be all right I can't, I have an examined Materia Medica tomorrow Materia Medica? All right, I think maybe I have some notes that might help you I'll leave them with the orderly on the first floor You can get them on your way down Thanks That may help you a bit, you want it to cram all night anyway They're calling you, sir Yeah Are you on duty here now? For a while If she wakes with any pain, give her that hypo If her temperature goes below normal, call me, I'll be in it Dr. Ferguson Tonight too? Yes, tonight too Dr. Ferguson All right, all right Dr. Ferguson Shut up Dr. Ferguson I'm trying to get that water 9-0-3-2 Hello Hello, Laura How are you, dear? Feeling better? Well, look, dear, I can make it tonight after all What? Oh, don't be silly But, darling, we'll work that out Now listen, Laura, that chance to work with Hawkburg is one of the best breaks I've ever had You don't expect me to throw it over like that at a moment's notice No, no, darling, I don't want to even talk about it tonight I'm tired, Laura, it's been a rotten day Three operations I just can't think I can't make an important decision tonight Oh, Laura What are you doing, punishing me? All right, then I'll call you tomorrow Come in Oh, good evening, I'm sorry if I disturb you Oh, no, no, no, come on in, Dr. Levine Thanks, dear Did you get that lab report on my wife? I'll see if it's ready Hello? Pat, lab, please Sit down, won't you, doc? Thanks Hello, Dr. Finn? Ferguson What about that sputum? Oh, it's under the microscope now All right, Dr. Finn I read it through, William Thank you It'll just be a few minutes I hope it's nothing Poor Catherine She's had so much Things are so different when I was here Before I married Yes, Professor Dury told me Dury? No, I know just what he says Levine, the fool, wealthy mother A chance to work with Hochberg to be somebody Throw it all away for a pretty face Your mother? She hasn't come around to your way yet? No When I married Catherine, my mother disowned me It must have broken her heart But still, she was doing the right thing from her point of view Poor Catherine I didn't count on that Eastside, tenements Fifty-cent patients Poverty, dirt, struggle and human sacrifice Medicine Why do we kill ourselves for it? I don't know I often wonder myself whether it was worth the grind Working my way through college and med school Med school too? Oh, yes I don't see how you kept up with classes I managed Terrific grind No, it wasn't much fun But still, I guess it's the only thing I really want to do My father used to say, above all is humanity He was a fine man, my father A small-town physician of state When I was about 13, he came to my room one night And apologized because he was going to die His heart had gone bad on him And he knew that if he gave up medicine and took it easy He could live for 20 years But he wanted to go right on Wanted to die in the harness And he did Above all else is humanity That's a big thought Yeah, it's so big that alongside of it, you and I really don't matter very much That's why we do it, I guess You're right, of course Oh, it's not good too much suffering It kills things in you A doctor shouldn't have to worry about money He shouldn't have to worry about anything except his job And we can't allow outside forces or things or people to interfere with us We can't And if they do, we've got to buy them out Even we have to tear out our hearts to do it I'm afraid I don't follow you I'm sorry I guess that was a little bit off the track Just something personal Oh, yes Dr. Ferguson Yes? Dr. Finn sent this report down Oh, yes, thank you Well, what does it say? Levine, it says that you'd better read it yourself, Dr. Oh, God, I knew it I knew it I wish I could tell you how sorry I am Tuberculosis My poor Catherine Now what are we going to do now? She'll come through, all right You'll see now Perhaps if you took her to a drier climate Maybe, maybe That means giving up the little practice that I have Means starting all over again I don't know if we can do it We're not young any longer I don't know Is there anything I can do, Dr? Nope Uh, what, uh I came down for those notes Oh, yeah, oh, yes, of course I forgot, stupid of me Let's see now Well, what was it? Materia Medica? Yes Yeah Well, I had them here someplace Well, I hate to disturb you That's all right Pathology, histone, you know There's too much trouble, I'll just Materia Medica here, there you are Thanks Not at all I hope there's some help Is, is there anything wrong? Anything wrong? No, of course not Are you sure Dr. Cunningham didn't No Because it would mean anything I'd go right down and tell them all Everybody, just what happened No, it's not Cunningham What is it then? Oh, it's just, I don't Don't mind me tonight You work very hard, don't you? Work? Why, sure I work What else is there but work and work? You know, Doctor, what I thought Dorothy was going to die I got the feeling like I, like I can't put it into words Ah, I know I know that feeling You, too? I've got it right now, Barbara Now, I'm tired of work And blood and sweat and pain The fellow in 341 is dead And Levine's wife is going to die You begin to wonder what it's all about And why on earth does anything make any difference Yes, that's the feeling And you get so lonely And you feel tomorrow it's me And the only thing that matters is just being alive Just being alive now, isn't it? Yes You, you kids have a pretty tough time, don't you? Grind all day and lights out at 10 o'clock, huh? And only one night out till 12.30 I haven't taken mine in two months There's just nobody Nobody at all You're a sweet kid, Barbara Am I? Yes Yes, I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that Oh, it's all right I wanted you to kiss me Please don't feel that I I wanted you to I don't mind, really, I don't It was my fault more than yours You are sweet, Barbara What, what are you going to do tonight? I was going to study, but it's my night off Then let's get out of here Let's go someplace where we can forget We ever saw the inside of a hospital I want to hear some music I want to laugh for a change I want to forget that there's pain and suffering And will you come with me? Oh, yeah All right, meet me outside the North entrance I'll have a car and make it as fast as you can I want to get out of here What are you thinking about? What? Oh, nothing much You're so quiet You're not having a very good time, are you? Sure Aren't you? Grand I'm not very talkative Oh, I don't mind Just being here with you, I... I guess I'm too talkative You could do a lot better than me There must be plenty of fellows at the hospital No At least I haven't met them But I've seen you so often Worked right next to you You didn't even know I existed, did you? Sure I'm glad you found out though You're a funny kid I guess you think I'm pretty fresh telling you this But I don't care, it's the truth Let's have another, shall we? Oh, I don't think I should Oh, sure, sure Hey, wait here Wait here Yes, sir How about a couple more here? That's why I came back here tonight To see you and to see George He isn't in I know, but I'm going to wait for him And just what you want me to do, Laura Advise him not to study Not to spend a few years making himself A few years You say it so casually As if it were nothing It is nothing A lifetime is nothing in the study of medicine A good doctor must know how to A good doctor must know how to cure people of disease And sickness If he can do that, that's all he needs Laura, you love George Don't you? Yes And you want him to be happy? Of course I do Why do you suppose I'm here now? Because I couldn't bear to think that I'd hurt him But I know where his happiness lies Perhaps even better than he does He wants to be a doctor, Laura And he wants me Oh, Hockey, I can make him happy I know I can If he goes into practice, we'll have some time to ourselves Time to Time to do nothing Laura, you don't know what that boy's work means to him But I do No, you don't You don't What time is it? I don't know, why? Don't you think we'd better go now, George? What for? We're not in a hurry You came here to forget something But you haven't forgotten it, have you? Oh, what's the difference? Oh, I'm sorry He looks so low and discouraged tonight I thought if I went with you, I could help somehow You really want to help me, don't you, Barbara? Of course I do If you'll only tell me how Just sit tight, that's all And don't pay too much attention to me Let me pity myself a little, I like it Oh, don't talk like that, please, don't Hey, wait here, wait here No, George, we're going back Oh, no, don't be silly, the evening's just started But it hasn't, it's over You'll get in trouble if you stay Please, darling, I... Please come, George I think that was a policeman back there on that side street What of it? You're going awfully fast, we're in the city now, George It's all right, let him stop me I'm a doctor, I'm hurrying back to the hospital to watch people die Oh, slow down, please There's a man in the public ward screaming in pain A little boy who'll never walk, he hasn't any legs George, stop it, stop it They're waiting for me, I've got to help them I've got to sit by their beds and hold them down While they ride and torment I've got to... Hey, mister Don't mind me, but watch out for her Easy, you fool Barbara, Barbara, look at me Look at me, Barbara Get the operating room ready at once It's an emergency case, one of our own girls A nurse? Yes Hello, this is Dr. Hockberg And Dr. Ferguson comes in telling... Oh, he is Well, send him to the operating room right away Emergency George has just come in You're putting him to work quickly enough He'd want to do it I said before that you didn't know what it meant to him But perhaps you'd like to see for yourself If you can understand it What do you mean? Come to the operating room Watch him work Watch him take a bruised and broken body And make it human again Well? All right Why not? I'll get you a sterile cap and gown Hello? Hockberg talking I want a sterile cap and gown for Ms. Hudson Take it to the operating room Oh Yes, sir Nurse, where is she? Why don't they bring her in? They will in a minute Did you see her yet? Yes, sir A few minutes after you brought her in Oh, is she? Well, she's regained consciousness She asked for you She... I'd lay out the instruments if we must lose any time Come in Evening, George Good evening, Dr. I... Laura George, dear What are you doing here? Well, Dr. Hockberg said I might... George! What's happened to your face? It's all cut It's nothing, dear On an autopsy We had an accident Who? Who, George? It's all right, dear Dr. Hockberg The girl, she... She's pretty badly hurt Concussion? Possible fracture Laceration? Head and neck and arms It's pretty bad Attention to you, Dr. Hockberg Bring her in Carefully, Mrs. Hudson It's all right, Barbara You'll be all right, dear Over here How is she? George George Yes, Barbara What's happened to me? I feel so funny I hurt George And I... I can't... I can't... Now, we... We're going to fix you up, Barbara You'll be all right You won't let them hurt me anymore? Of course not Will you be there? George, darling Please be there I'll be there Don't feel bad It wasn't your fault I wanted you to kiss me Come on Come on, put her on the tip Yes, sir George, what did that girl mean? Laura, I'm awfully sorry What did she mean? Don't touch me Do you want to unsterilize my gown? Ferguson, we are waiting We're ready, sir Yeah, I'm coming If you want to watch, Mrs. Hudson, you'd better... No, thanks I'm head enough Laura Ferguson, are you ready? Yes, sir I'm ready Identification This is the Columbia Broadcasting System You're listening to K.M. X, not Angelo's The voice of Hollywood Helen White, starring Spencer Tracy Virginia Bruce and Francis Farmer continue shortly 12 years ago, a young lady whom I recognized as a teacher at the Hollywood School for Girls where my two daughters were students walked on my set at Paramount I ventured to ask what new mischief those two DeMille kids had been up to Oh, the girls are fine, I was told I'm here to go to work You see, Mr. DeMille, I've just been hired as your new wardrobe designer So a school mom turned into one of Paramount's cleverest creators of costumes Her name is one you've seen many times on the screen Ladies and gentlemen, Ms. Edith Head You've been listening to a play about men and white, ladies and gentlemen Here's something it may interest you about women and white Women and white are very rarely seen in films because pure white is one of the most difficult colors to photograph But in Jack Benny's new picture, College Holiday you'll see a big dance number in which pure white is successfully screened It's a dance that starts off with a Grecian ballet That's called for a background of white Grecian temples white statues, warriors in white armor and 60 girls in white wigs and immaculate white dresses But we succeeded in filming this all-white sequence is due in no small measure to Lux Flakes Every night the costumes worn by Gracie Allen Martha Ray, Mary Bolland along with those with the chorus were laundered in Lux Each morning they appeared as immaculately white as the snow which we never seen in Hollywood And though they were washed at least a dozen times before the scene was finished you can see them now in our wardrobe looking just as lovely and new as the day the dressmakers finished them We'll be using lots of Lux Flakes too in making our new film, White Kiki Wedding in which Big Crosby and Bob Burns are starred Since it's late in Hawaii, white summery costumes will predominate And incidentally in this picture for the first time in my life I had to design a costume for a pig I mean a real pig Thank you, good night Good night Back to men in white starring Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce and Francis Farmer George Ferguson, his face drawn with care is just entering Dr. Hochberg's office Oh, come in George How's Miss Denning? Her fever's down a little Good I hear you watched the case all night Well, that was the least I could do What a mess I've got her into the poor kid Yeah, now, now, don't take it like that She was such a pretty little thing Now, she... What's going to become of her? She'll never see again, I know Now, don't worry, we'll take care of her We'll find something I wasn't thinking of money That's not going to help her much What about her life? It's shot to bits There's only one decent thing to do I'm going to marry her if she'll help me George, George, stop talking like an idiot What about Laura? I'm going to marry that girl What for? I have to take care of her, don't I? Oh, I see, I see So you saved some money then? Out of what? Then how are you going to help her? How are you going to take care of her? I'm going into practice If you think you can provide for both of you By first starting practice then you just don't know I'll manage somehow, I'm not afraid of that George, you saw Levine yesterday You know he's practically starving He asked me to lend him $20 I don't see what that has to do with me You didn't know him six years ago He wouldn't let me help him then He was so sure, so confident And better equipped for practice than you are Possibly But at least he loved Catherine But you don't love this girl It was an accident, for that you want to ruin yourself Dr. Hochberg, please, it's no use I've thought of all that, it doesn't make any difference There's only one decent thing to do and I'm going to do it And I'm going into practice If you do that, George, you're through You're finished All right, then I am, why not? What good is a profession that can't give you bread and butter After you've sweated out 10 years of your life on it? And if I can't make a go of practice I'll find a job at something else I won't starve, I'll always make a living Dr. Hochberg George, you're going to be sorry for this Dr. Hochberg Dr... Hello, Dr. Hochberg, yes? Yes? What? When? Prepare a hypho caffeine Adrenaline, wrong needle, at once Who is it, do you want me? No, no, no, no, you sit here, I'll be back in a few minutes Hockey, hockey, wait I can't stop now, Laura Go to my office, George is there But I don't want to see him now, I came to see you You better speak to him, he's going to marry that girl I'll be down as soon as I can, Laura George Oh, oh, come in, Laura I just saw Hockey He told you? Yes, but I don't believe it, it's not true It is true, Laura I'm going to marry her and I'm going into practice Funny, isn't it? Only yesterday I asked you to do that And you refused Cases are different, I've got to do it now How long have you known this girl? Does that matter? I've ruined her life You love her, don't you? I love you, Laura Yes, I'm sure you do I don't care whether you believe it or not, it just happens that I do Let go of my arm, you're hurting me I'm sorry I don't understand this, George What's it all about? It doesn't make sense Where did you go last night? What did you do? We went to a roadhouse, I asked her to go I'd had a rotten day yesterday, things kept piling up until I thought I'd bust This kid came to my room for some note, she was sympathetic She was lonely herself She's in love with you? She thinks she is It's just a kid affair, that's all But she understood, and I needed that last night You and I quarreled and I didn't want to give up working with Hockberg I didn't want to give you up, I didn't know which way to turn She was there? Yes Still you say you love me? If I hadn't, I'd have called quits yesterday Told you I was going to work with Hockberg, whether you liked it or not, going to Vienna alone Well, why don't you go then? Go on and do it now if it's so important to you I won't be around to distract you, go on You won't You're going to marry a girl you say you don't care for All right, make your beautiful gestures, marry her I'm going to You think you're being brave and strong, I suppose But you're not, you're a coward You're doing it because it's the easiest way out Because you're afraid people will say things about you because you've no backbone Yes, Laurie, you're right I have no backbone when I almost let myself be talked out of a chance to work with Hocky And maybe to do something fine someday But right now I have no choice I'm not doing this because I give a rap what anybody says or thinks I'm doing it because that girl's life is smashed and I'm responsible And I want to try and help pick up the pieces and put them together Oh, Lord, don't I knew how you felt about Hocky and I shouldn't have existed I've been selfish, but it was only because I loved you so much And I still do That's the way I am, George I can't help it George Yes, Doctor Miss Denin, she wants to see you Is there anything wrong? I am afraid so That adrenaline I ordered was for her, George You mean she's asking for you, you would better go to her Yes Yes Hocky, what's happened? Embolism, she's gone into a collapse Does it mean? There's nothing we can do, Laura Nothing George Yes I asked them to send you to me I... I didn't know I wanted you to be near me just for a little while You don't mind? Mind? I'm not afraid I'm not afraid, George, but if I could just hold your hand Barbara Oh, Barbara Don't talk, darling I can call you that now, can't I? There's so little time left And I've loved you for so long You didn't know But I have, George That's why you mustn't feel bad about anything Barbara, is there something I could do? Stay here with me A little while Just a little while George, Dean How is she, George? She's... Only a few hours ago, she was pleading with me for a chance to live She was so young, she didn't want to die Stop it, George Stop torturing yourself, please These things happen, it might have happened to anybody Couldn't we have done something, Dr. Hockberg? I tried everything Caffeine intravenously, adrenaline directly into the heart Useless That little blood clot in the lung and we're helpless 40 years I've spent in medicine and I couldn't help it Then what's the use? What good is it all? Why go on? It takes everything from you and when you need it most, it leaves you helpless We don't know anything, we're only guessing, George There isn't a man in medicine who hasn't said that and meant it for a minute All of us, George And you're right, we are groping We are guessing But at least our guesses today are closer than they were 20 years ago And 20 years from now, they'll be still closer And that's what we are here for There's so much to be done in so little time in which to do it One life is never long enough It isn't easy for any of us But in the end, our reward is something richer than simply living Maybe it's the kind of success that the world out there can't measure Maybe it's a kind of glory, George Yeah, question as much as we will When the test comes, we know Don't we, George? Yes Well, I'll reduce that fracture at ten, schedule the appendix at three Yes, sir Oh, darling, I'm so sorry George, let's get away from here Let's go someplace where we can talk this thing over quietly and simply No, Laura, this is where I belong Yes, you're all right I've got to stay I understand Well, when you come back from Vienna's, Hucky, I'll let you off for a night, give me a ring I'll be around, and maybe someday we'll get together anyway We will Won't we, George? Yes, yes, of course I'll be there for you I don't care how long it takes I'll be here waiting Dr. Ferguson? They're calling you Dr. Ferguson? Yes We're called I will But darling, Ferguson talked What's our temperature? Respiration All right, keep your eye on her Have an oxygen tank prepared until McDonald's to stand by I'll be there right away But Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce and Francis Farmer will be with us again shortly Deluxe Radio Theatre now presents a physician whose practice encompasses the world Dr. Victor G. Heisser, world-famous hygienist Dr. Heisser is president of the International Leprosy Association Author of important medical books And of the national bestseller, an American doctor's odyssey Once again, our stage extends across the continent We take you now to New York City To introduce a great humanitarian Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Victor G. Heisser Thank you, Mr. DeMille I congratulate you and the Lux Radio Theatre on your splendid productions And the great enjoyment they provide to so many Man's lifespan has been doubled in the last half-century We have knowledge available to make an equally great gain in the future Radio is one of the great hopes of science for speeding up the general use of its knowledge The men in white, as you have played tonight, are engaged in repairing the damage disease causes My efforts have been mainly directed at the prevention of disease This mission has carried me 16 times around the globe And into more than 40 countries Our greatest obstacles were ancient superstitions For instance, in the Philippines, we found the natives believed boiled water was poisonous And when we finally drilled an artesian well, they wouldn't go near it If God had intended us to drink water out of a whole drill into the earth, they said He would have put it there Some of our work resembles a detective story In Palestine, they were trying to stamp out plague Dead rats have always been associated with plague, but they could find none Finally, I suggested tearing down a wall near one deathbed Well, there was a rat We sniffed around some more And a neighboring blacksmith admitted seeing the most extraordinarily strange rats We finally traced them to a refuse heap in a vacant lot Underneath it were hundreds of rodents dead from plague Searching further, we found a store with rice from Rangoon, the world's most notorious plague center Well, there was a source of the plague We quit being detectives then and set about being scientists to eradicate it On Wednesday, I shall sail for Africa on another long expedition There's no telling what we'll find this time I hope that something of what I've said will help you realize it's true What I've said will help you realize the tremendous needs of man And the great satisfaction there is in fulfilling them Also, you may understand more clearly why a doctor in devoting himself to his career Is not losing his life, but gaining at a thousand fold From Hollywood, Dr. Heizer, we send our thanks to you in New York And now, ladies and gentlemen, our stars in alphabetical order Bruce, Ms. Farmer and Mr. Tracy I've just two things on my mind, Mr. DeMille First, I want to wish everyone a very happy new year And second, I want to say this Every Monday night I've heard the stars get up here and say how much they enjoyed being on the Lux Pro Group Well, now I know they weren't just being polite It's been a grand experience and many thanks I surrender the microphone to my alphabetical neighbor, Ms. Frances Farmer As a comparative newcomer to Hollywood, Mr. DeMille I'm afraid I am not any source of news I've worked rather hard these past months But nothing could have pleased me more It's meant the fulfillment of my earliest ambitions A chance to act To pictures, to the people who attend them And to the Lux Radio Theater, my sincere thanks And now, our man in white, Spencer Tracy Thank you I owe a lot to Hollywood, Mr. DeMille But having spent so many years on the stage, I admit I've been lonesome more than once for the legitimate theater Tonight you've given me the opportunity to get back again behind the footlights and I'm very grateful But men in white does a great deal more than satisfy an actor's ego It's an enduring tribute to what I feel is the finest profession in the world You hear a lot these days about commercialism People wonder what's happened to the humanity and the sacrifice that glorified the past It's still around us In the men in white of your hometown and mine Men whose sole objective in life is that we might be well And I hope that tonight we have succeeded in reflecting upon the family physician A little of the honor, which along with our bills we may have forgotten to pay him Good night Mr. Tracy, Ms. Bruce and Ms. Farmer, our thanks Ladies and gentlemen, this is your announcer, Melville Ruick Before Mr. DeMille returns with the announcement of next week's stars and play May I say that Mr. Tracy and Ms. Bruce appeared through courtesy of Metro Golden Mayor Studios Ms. Farmer and Mr. DeMille Paramount Mr. Gil Foil, RKO, and Mr. Silver's 20th Century Fox Where he was in charge of music for the new film, One in a Million Ms. Bruce will soon be seen in Universal's picture, Class Prophecy And here's Mr. DeMille My enthusiasm in looking forward to next week's program is one, ladies and gentlemen, I think you will share For next Monday night, the Lux Radio Theatre presents two of the finest performers in the film, Capital Claudette Colbert and Fred McMurray For each, it is a return engagement to our stage And you will hear them in the same story in which they scored such a great success together on the screen The Gilded Lily Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes Join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night When the Lux Radio Theatre presents Claudette Colbert and Fred McMurray and the Gilded Lily This is Cecil B. 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