 Vix, the makers of Vix Vapor Rub, Vix Vatronol, Vix Cockdrops and Vix Inhaler brings you the matinee theater starring Victor Jory and featuring Janice Gilbert in the request performance of the romantic swashbuckling story The Pirate of Orleans We bring you the Pirate of Orleans today because the continual requests for this fine play the votes for the Paramount picture till we meet again and The love story of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett are still coming in in great numbers and one of these fine plays will be presented next Sunday Now here's a good thing to remember when you catch a cold The best known home remedy for relieving miseries of colds is Vix Vapor Rub Ladies and gentlemen today our story deals with the stirring days of the early 1800s We take you now to the high seas of adventure to the decks of a tall ship With one of the boldest swashbuckling adventures that ever sailed Jean Lafitte the pirate of Orleans Have you met Jean Lafitte yet? No, I can't say that I have Well, my dear he's the most handsome thing you ever saw in your life. Oh, is he married? No one knows They're all sorts of stories. I've heard that he's married to an Indian princess a Spanish Countess and a Viennese dance What does Mr. Lafitte say to all this? What does Mr. Lafitte say? I Have it on very good authority that Jean Lafitte stopped an entire revolution once one man against thousands And whose authority do you have it? Why on Lafitte's of course What do you know about Lafitte Tom Lafitte well he and his brother have a very fine blacksmith shop and they just bought a store a Blacksmith a store why I've heard that he's the leader of the pirates of Barataria. Oh nonsense Whatever Jean Lafitte is. He's positively not a pirate The boss is a white flag going up. Are you sure? Take a look for yourself A boat and come with me I'll remove the crew and passengers and take the ship back to Barataria That's too fine a ship to destroy. Come on men. Let's see what prize we've captured Get this whole Dominic look at those silks and those spices We'll get good money for this treasure in New Orleans was a very pretty girl Did you notice boss way over the starboard? She was standing her hair was like sunshine on a yellow corn Dominic What are my orders about women on captured ships? Oh, but couldn't we make an exception? It just once I Like that girl with the yellow hair. I'd even Mario Me Dominic on the no circumstances is any woman on any captured ship to be approached for any reason whatsoever Convoys to it or touched on less by the captain See on less by the captain. We'll see that you remember it. You wouldn't look well in irons Dominic No, I wouldn't all right. You start listing the things down here. Will I go above? We're setting sail at once I'm asking too much. Would you mind telling me where you're taking this if you wish to give me a title? It's private here not Paris. Where were you going? New Orleans? That's where you will be taken Who are you? What's your name? Constance Winthrop? Is your father general winter? Yes, he is and what are you doing on a Spanish ship? I was visiting friends in Spain if it's any of your business Oh, you'd be more careful of your tongue in the presence of Pirates I'm not afraid of you. You'd better be just like us not to make you walk the plank higher to the yard I'm give you the spanking of your life. You do that to a woman. Yes If I thought you were trying to be on equal footing in a man's world You have a little to learn about women pirate. I'm not interested in being taught miss Winthrop. Oh, you're impossible You're a conceited egotistical arrogant self-centered and some magnificent exciting fabulous power Now I think you better get back to your cabin before I make you walk the plank tie you to the order more What was that other thing I mentioned miss Winthrop? Oh, why I loathe you I should say privatee Where is that music coming from? That's Dominic playing his fiddle You shouldn't be on deck. You should be in your quarter. No No, let me look at the moon for a moment Pace the salt on my lips feel the wind around me I'm sorry. I was so rude this afternoon. I lost my temper doesn't matter women are as changeable as the weather I don't pay any attention to their moods. I Wish you liked me better. Why should you care what I think of you in the morning? You'll be in New Orleans You'll have left my world Perhaps I I'd like to stay in you'd like to stay on a pirate ship. I think I would If it was your ship, that's because there's a moon tonight in the air is sweet and someone's playing a fiddle Some other day when the decks were running with blood in the air was heavy with the smell of death. You wouldn't like a pirate ship What is your name? I have none You're a hard man to get to know that's right and after tomorrow I'll never see you again. I hope not you put a rope around my neck Come the earth getting cold. You better turn in Have you ever kissed a woman pirate? Oh A thousand would you kiss me? Good night. Good. Bye Or are you afraid afraid? No, but you should be why because to me you'd be just one more woman that I kissed next week I wouldn't even remember it, but if I kissed you If I kissed you miss Winthrop you'd never have hotter lips for another man in your life You're a modest man, aren't you modest? Why should I be modest? I'm a handsome magnificent exciting fabulous pirate You're a conceited egotistical arrogant thief. I hope I never do see you again The temptation to put a rope around that neck might be too great. Good night Good night my lady. Good night. Yes Dominic What is we're at anchor now? We're ready to take the price and she's into new Orleans. You're coming up to see them No Seniorina looks as though she had been crying. I guess of myself. It would do any good Aren't you even gonna say goodbye? No Take them in All right, boys. All right We made quite a hole this tree. We won't be able to dispose of it for a while. I'm afraid We're in a little trouble my brother trouble. Hi, what happened? Governor Claiborne has sworn to stop all privateering He says he's going to wipe out that a terrier, but it's the last thing he does in this world And he says he's going to hang the leader before all of you all has he named the leader. No Well, then what are you worried about in the eyes of all ends were respectable citizens decent and peace-loving Maybe and maybe not people have always had suspicions. Well, that's not worry about it I'll have a bath and a shave and then I'll go pay a social call on Governor Claiborne Perhaps fatigue. I haven't had tea with the governor for a long time now and Too long for such good friends to be apart. I Tell you Jean I'm going to rid new Orleans of those pirates if it's the last thing I do I don't blame you Scotland so no one's safe around here anymore. I may call on you for help I'll be glad to help in any way I can Have you Hello conscience my dear, I'd like you to be a very good friend of mine. This is Jean Lafitte my niece miss winter of miss Philippine. How do you do? She's staying with me until her father's return This is a pleasure, mr. Lafitte. Very great pleasure miss Winthrop But I'm afraid I must looking at my shop before it closes. Well, then I'm very happy to meet you, mr. And I trust we'll meet again soon. Thank you miss Winthrop. Good day. Good day governor come again soon John That's a very handsome man uncle. That's a very dangerous man I'm convinced that he's the leader of the privateers. He doesn't look very dangerous to me. Are you positive? I'm so positive. I'm going to put a price on his head and send my men after him tonight Come in miss Wimph Sit down You'll find that corner chair the most comfortable. Thank you. Would you care for a sherry? Thank you. No Your manners have improved since last we met sir. I changed with the environment Why did you come here? My uncle knows who you are told him. No, of course not I don't know how he found out if it's true that he knows why didn't he keep me there this afternoon What match would he have been for you? He was alone in the house tonight. He will come with troops He doesn't think you suspect that he knows so naturally wouldn't expect you to try to escape Well, then I must be on my way. There are some men to be warned. Oh, hurry then and take care of yourself. I I suppose This time I never will see you again Constance once I told you I'd kissed a thousand women It was a lot. I know I've only kissed two or three hundred How many men have you kissed? Very few you offered me a kiss. Why? Such a foolish reason. I'm afraid I I Just want to kiss you. Will you kiss me now? I should say not not after the way you acted I was never so humiliated so I Told you not to kiss me might as well have said Stop breathing Goodbye, Constance. Goodbye Thank you. When will I see you again? When will you see me again? You'll see me when the moon rides in a certain way that you remember seeing before in the midnight sky You'll see me when you see a ship riding an anchor with a battered look about her and you'll See me when you hear someone laugh in a certain way or someone shout or perhaps cry and you'll see me Every time someone else kisses you I will not but I'm never to see you again I can forget you in a minute. Oh, you'll see I can forget you all right Then you're not the girl for me my beauty. Goodbye John. Goodbye. I hate that man I hate him in just a moment the second act of the pirate of Orleans starring Victor Jory In just a few days now Spring will be here. 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Lafitte is considering an offer Mr. Lafitte his Majesty's government is prepared to offer you the sum of $30,000 in return for your help in capturing the city of New Orleans and Full pardon for you and your men Does the opera interest you the offer interest me very much. I should have time to think it over very well Mr. Lafitte as you know, we are ain't good just outside your harbor. Yeah, we shall await your answer John oh John so glad I found you. I have to talk to you. How did you have to better Terry? I persuaded one of your men to bring me to you John there's terrible trouble in New Orleans the British are close by there aren't enough men to defend the city General Andrew Jackson has just arrived in his ill with a fever and can't get men. What do you want me to do about it? Why why help General Jackson defend it of course. Are you forgetting there's a price in my head in New Orleans? Oh, I'm sure you could get a partner. I want you early and safe And I want you safe in New Orleans. I don't want safety. I've never wanted it. I don't want it now I want a deck under my feet and a gun in my hand and a worthy prize coming in on the horizon And I thought I loved you Are you having a decent honorable motive in you? I thought you were a fearless man that would fight for a principal that I see now You're only a thief after all you'll only fight for a prize Goodbye, Mr. Lafitte. Forgive me for taking up your time General Jackson you've heard my offer now then will you grant a pardon for me and my men so that we may fight for the United States? The United States is most grateful, Mr. Lafitte We accept your help with deep thanks and your pardon shall be granted Almighty God Except our humble thanks for the victory. We have just won Mr. Lafitte America and New Orleans will always be grateful to you It hadn't been for your help and the help of your men We would never have won such a great victory. Thank you general Jackson We were fighting a great cause now my boy going out there and dance and have a good time You're the hero they are and all the ladies are waiting to dance with you Tell you about myself Well, let's see a year or two go south of the Canary Islands. Oh very south of the Canaries I Defeated an entire native army single-handed or by yourself. Oh, Mr. Lafitte Just imagine nothing. I picked them up two by two and cracked their heads together Do tell me about yourself, Mr. Lafitte. Well now let's see One time six or seven months ago somewhere north of Haiti Very north of Haiti as a matter of fact I decided to hunt for treasure on the ocean bed So I put one knife in my teeth and one in each hand and I dove in I came face to face immediately with six sharks Oh, and what happened? They ate me. Oh So I wiped out the entire nation of cannibals single-handed Then I was a little tired Camel got tired of carrying me. I carried the camel I had a harem of sixty wives. I had a thousand and sixty I slept for the next hundred and twenty years I was wondering if I was ever to have a pleasure of dancing with the lion of the evening I've been hearing stories about you. I understand you defeated an entire native army single-handed. I could never lie to you Constance As a matter of fact, it was only a brigade. I also understand that you carried a camel Small camel and that you slept a hundred and twenty years, but only fitfully my dear only Let's let's not dance Let's go outside by the water for a few minutes. It's hot in here. All right smell that scene Just smell it Drink it deep inside you saber it and taste it and Don't let it get away from you What do you think of when you close your eyes and smell the sea? I think of a house somewhere beside it And I see you in that house Looking as though you're a part of it. I See little boys with your eyes and and your trick of shaking your head when you're angry Running in and out of the house banging doors and filling it with laughter. What do you see? I see I See sails filled with wind Sometimes I see that is smooth and swelling and sometimes rough and challenging and ready for a brawl. I See China and the Indies and cargos of silks and spices. I see islands tropic trees against a yellow moon and bananas and dates and coconuts within the reach of your hand I See clips For the mountains been down to see who's coming in the harbor and I see harbor lights blinking a welcome You smell the ocean and you see the ends of the earth And I smell it and see home and that's the difference between us So this is where I say goodbye Constance my dear. Oh, no No, stay try it here. You might like like it. I couldn't live the life of an honest man I've had no practice Do you want to domesticate me like a cow or a dog? Do you want to put milk into my veins instead of blood and chain me to a fireplace? I'd be so irritable inside a week that you'd hate me. Do you love me? Constance what's the good of that? I'd like to know you've never said Yes Yes, I love you. I love you and I Suspect the for the rest of my life. I'm going to have a great emptiness in my heart But still you'll leave me. Yes Still I'll leave you When are you going tonight tonight? Yes, the pride is riding a dinker now outside the harbor Well, you'd rather have a ship than a wife. I'm certainly not going to argue with that's the Snap your fingers at me. Tell me to go and be hanged. There are plenty of other men in the world You know just as attractive as pirates and much more honest, but not as attractive as I am I'm a very special person even for a pirate. You certainly are you haven't got a heart where your heart should be You've got a cutlass careful. Don't let yourself trip over that cutlass. You might get your feelings hurt. Oh, I Love her now. We're on the same footing as when we met with that. I bid you an affectionate good night and goodbye. I I won't kiss you this time. I don't want to make it any harder for you to forget. No, don't worry. It won't be hard Good night my beauty and goodbye John John Well Dominic we're off on adventure again a yeah boys, where are we bound? I don't know somewhere south We're off in a long trip this time Dominic. Are we running away from somebody? Yes Dominic. You might say we are We're running away from domesticity from cottages and ruffled lace curtains We're going back into a man's world myself. I like a man's world with women in it That's your great weakness Dominic Well, it's late. I think I should turn in for a while. Tell the man at the wheel Our course is steady as she goes south southeast. Hi, I said, I'll be Hello Dominic Dominic stop playing that fiddle. It isn't gonna help one bit What are you doing in my quarters on my ship? I'm measuring your portholes for curtain you I can't stand windows without curtains You'll have to make me back. I'll make you no concession. You're going right back to New Orleans. Oh, no I'm not I'm going to China and the Indies for silks and spices I'm going to see traffic trees against a yellow moon and Cliffs where the mountains bend down to see who's coming in the harbor I'm going with you. That isn't the life you want. You want cottages and fires and things You want a home? You're my home. Oh, don't send me back. Sure. I love you. I belong with you I don't want you here. Oh, yes, you do Who are you going to tell about the stars and the winds and the weather and who are you going to brag to about your conquests? And who are you going to kiss? If not me no one I am sufficient of them myself. I see you're the king. Hmm. That's right Well move over King. You're going to have to share your throne. There's a pirate queen now, too But I don't put your arms around but I tell you try to look as though you like it You're a baggage in a shrew and a bad tempered scrap of womanhood if ever there was one Oh, yeah, I suspect you're a punishment. That's been visited on me for some sin in my youth. Kiss me Oh, but that do love me. You can be very sure of that. I do love you Everything's all right, boss. Everything's wonderful Dominic. Everything is wonderful Oh, then this is a good time to tell you I got a wife with yellow hair down in the hold. No, no This is not a good time, and I tell you some other time Good night, boys Hey, good night Darling, you're so wonderful. Yes, I am Yes, I must admit it. I have a good ship and a good crew and a good wife Until I tell you something. 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