 Lux presents Hollywood. Leverbrothers Company, the makers of Lux Flakes, bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring June Haver and Lon McAllister in Scudder Who's Scudder Hey. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keely. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. To the average city dweller, the title Scudder Who's Scudder Hey had an unfamiliar sound when 20th Century Fox released the picture, but film fans soon discovered its meaning and found unusual drama in this story of a boy and girl and their search for the American dream. Our stars are the same ones you saw on the screen, June Haver and Lon McAllister, with June in the kind of romantic role that first brought her to stardom and Lon as a boy who fights for what he believes is right. Scudder Who's Scudder Hey is a story of life on a farm, but these days Americans who live on farms drive the same car, see the same pictures, and use Lux Flakes just like their friends in town. As a matter of fact, farm housewives long ago discovered the extra economy of Lux Flakes. Here's the curtain now for Scudder Who's Scudder Hey, starting June Haver as Rad and Lon McAllister as Snug. It's a bright spring morning and at the McGill Farm, one of the neighbors has come to ask a favor. You sure concentrating on feeding them chickens, Rad? Oh, hi Snug, I didn't see you. Trying to hitch a ride into town. Paul needs a new drag chain. I figured you might be going in. Oh, gee, I'd love to Snug, but I got chores to do. Oh, well, OK, in that case, I'll walk then. Oh, but Ma's going in right away. She'll take you. Oh, swell. You don't look very nice to be going into town. Oh, then helping Paul all morning. Why don't you dress neat like your brother? I told you 100 times, stretch ain't no brother of mine. OK, step brother then. His mom married your pa, didn't she? I always think of stretch as your brother. You always think of stretch, period. Mom's going to buy me a new bathing suit this morning. What color should I get, Snug? I don't care. You don't care? Well, in that case, I think I'll get yellow. Stretch likes me in yellow. Say, you need a haircut. Yeah, so what? I'd love to get you mad, Snug. You're real cute when you're mad. Now look, Rad, I didn't come over here. Tell me some other time. Just get up to the house if you want to ride in the town. Good morning, Snug. You want a haircut, eh? Well, sit down. Make it snappy, will you, Frank? I'm in kind of a hurry. Oh, sure, sure. How's things out at the farm? Oh, all right, I guess. You know, I ain't seen stretching quite a spell. He ain't sick, is he? No, no such luck. Oh, now that ain't a nice way to talk about your big brother. Now lay off on me, Frank. He ain't no brother of mine, and he ain't so big no more. You think you could whip him in a fight? Could be. I'd sure like to try. Well, here I am. Any time you say. Oh, no, no, no, no. Take it easy, Snug. Take it easy. You didn't know that was your big brother under the towel, did you? You sure fell right into it, didn't you, kid, huh? You're kind of big via britches, ain't you, Snug? How will you get back in your chair, scratch? We was just joking. Maybe you were, but I'm not. Sit still or I'll cut your ears off. I'm in no hurry, Snug. You want to start something, you know where to find me. You bet I do. Yes, sir, E. Mighty big for his britches. Morning, Stretch. You sleep good, son? Breakfast's ready, ma. Just you sit right down. Oh, hot cake, sir. Something wrong, Stretch? These things taste as tough as they look. Wait till Milton, Snug, go out and I'll fix you another batch. Special. Morning. Well, I said good morning. I hear you. You ain't too big yet, young fellow, for me to learn you some manners. You tend to your son, and I'll tend to mine. Where is he? Where's Snug? How should I know? Probably going swimming in the creek. Swim's too much, if you ask me. Nobody asked you, and ain't you a crick? Morning, Pa. Hello, son. Late, ain't you? Yeah, I'm sorry. Morning. Get that dog out of here. I'll leave him be. He won't hurt none. Get that dog out of my house. Your house? Your house? You leave the dog stay. I said I want the dog out of the house. I say the dog stays. You hear me? Yes, sir. I heard you, Pa. Hey, where are my hot cakes? You're late. This is a farm, not a hotel. Fix the boy his breakfast. Let him fix it himself. Woman, I'm sick to death of your harping. I ain't got to waste no more of my life waiting on your good for nothing. Or once you're going to shut up and listen to me. Nine years ago, my Marty died, and you was all for joining hands in a home. You and stretch here along with me and Snug. No sugar cured hams was ever smoothed to the taste until you got me hog-died and married. Nobody held a gun in your ribs. From that moment of this here, your clammy hammered tongue ain't ever cease to swing. Ain't so much of a woman that keeps me from hauling off on you. It's a thought of how much you'd like to see me land in jail. So what are you going to do, Mr. Milton Domini? Do? I'm getting out. I'm through with you. I stuck it out as long as Snug here was little needed care, even as such care as you gave him. But that day is gone, and I'm going with it. I'm going back to sea. You're out of your head. You're afraid. You're stuck here till you die. I'll show you how stuck I be. I'm walking straight out that door, and I'm never coming back. Got a boy, Paul. I've done it, Stretch. I've done it. I'll run him out good. And he's brat along with him. Since you two are my nearest neighbors, I want you to help snugging me. I just made me out willsy. Your will, huh? You feeling sick, Mille? I'm feeling fine, Roland McGill. Just happens to have got a belly for that woman. Now read it. I hereby leave to my son Daniel Domini, commonly known as Snug, everything of which I die possessed, signed by Milton Domini in being present and in the presence of each other. Sign it here, Aurora. You too, Tony. Here. And you keep this will, Tony. If anything happens, I want you to see that Snug here gets hidden. Sure, Mille, sure. If you're leaving, Paul, then I am too. No. No, I want you to stay here, Snug. Look after my interests and your own. Will you do that for me? That's what you want. Thanks, Snug. Here. Here's $20 to cheer you up. Well, I've got to get to the bus station. You wait a while, and I'll drive you in. It's better I go now. So long, son. Take care of yourself. Good luck, Paul. You'll hear from me. All right. Your Paul is a fine man, Snug, but stubborn as a mule. Stubborn as a what? You heard me a mule. What do you know about mules? I aim to learn plenty, see? You want to buy me a team, see? Well, Snug, don't know what your plans are, but that saw two women wears on you. How about working for me? $8 a week with dinner. Sunday's off, and you sleep to home. Make it $10, and you got yourself a deal. You're hired. You can ride to town with me later on. Gonna pick out them mules. What you know about mules, Aurora McGill, you can put in my eye. A mule ain't no ordinary creature. Why, a mule? You're working for me, Snug. You're staying with him. No, I'm with him, son. But any day it gets so you can't stand his bellow, and you can come on over with me. Just you fix that fence of yours, Tony, before I get the law after you. Come on, Snug. Let's get to work. Off that swing and find me my town hat. Hey, Ma, Rad. Where's my coat? Where's my hat and coat? Oh, you always hollering. Morning, Snug. Howdy, Miss McGill. Hi, Rad. Well, what are you doing here so early? I hired him to work for me. I don't want you wasting his time lulligagging, you hear? Me? Why, Pa? I throw him back in the crick when I hook him as little as him. Rad, you're terrible. Look, Pa, even his ears get red when he blushes. Why ain't you in school? Oh, Pa, because it ain't time yet. Oh, oh, wait here, Snug. I'll get the car. Come on, Rad. We'd better get him a hat and coat. Kind of stuck on, Rad, ain'tcha? No, you frauds, Ney. I'm not stuck on her, you frauds, Ney. You quit calling me that dumb name, you hear? It's your real name, isn't it? Can I help if Ma took my name out of a book? My name's Bean, and everybody calls me Bean. You quit using that dumb name, you hear? You quit kidding me about, Rad, and maybe I will. Well, I still think you're stuck on her. Snug, come on there, come on. But you're shipped out with your Pa. Seems you were mistaken, then. Where you been all day? Well, I ain't been loafing. We're supper. Them and don't work, don't eat. OK, but don't figure on running me out of here like you did my Pa. This is still his place, and I'll be around, so don't get any idea that you own it. Now hear me, you snug. Work this farm or get out. I'm working over to McGill's. Then sleep over to McGill's. I'll sleep here whenever I please or nobody sleeps, and I'll eat here or nobody eats. Hark at him. Lay him down the lawn. That's the charge my Pa'll give me, and I'll carry it out until he gets back. Talks big, don't he mind? Maybe I can do something about that. When I was about 10, Stretch, and you was all a 15, you beat me up so hard I was maimed for a month. Don't seem to have done you any good, though. At least ways I ain't forgot. Now where's my supper? Big hurry, ain'tcha? I gotta get back and help Mr. McGill. They're bringing him his two new mules. New mules, huh? Maybe I'll just drop by. Yeah, and have Rad show him off to me. Oh, they're here all right, Snug. Those mules are just about tearing down the barn. Gee, they're sure pretty mules, Rad. Maybe your Pa ain't handling them right. Who can't tell who's making the most noise? The mules are him. Fellin' in town told me they're a mighty fine team. Only they ain't had but one driver. Did he tell that to Pa? Uh-uh, I don't think so. Sounds to me like your Pa may have got stuck. Well, if he did, he'll never admit it, not if it kills him. Stand still, you stubborn quitter. I'll bridle you if it's the last thing I do. Hands still, you hear me? If you want to get killed, get down here. Don't show him that bridle, Mr. McGill. I think that's what's scaring him. Tony always said that it's a good thing. The heck with Tony, I'll handle him. That's Crowder, Rad. That one's named Crowder. Crowder? Well, the man who brought him told me that's because sometimes he kind of crowds you if you try to get in a stall. Oh, fine. And that other one, that's Moonbeam. Moonbeam and Crowder. Stop yapping so much. And why aren't you in school? Pa, but it's past supper. Oh. Get that other mule in the stall, Snug. I'll get this one in there if I got to kill him first. Hey, Rad, understand you've got some new mules. Yeah, come on and see him, Stretch. They're two pretty, but what disposition? Oh, boy, this is better in a circus. Give me that bridle, Snug. I'll teach this mule who owns him. Pa, be careful. Hey, he's crowding against the stall. Don't stand there. Get me out of here. Stretch, well, do something. All right, I'll try. Hand me that pitchfork. Snug, Snug, you help him. Oh, he's got Stretch in a pitchfork, hasn't he? Oh, Snug, please. Oh, we don't deserve to be. Oh, all right, Rad. Trying to kill me, will you? Crush me to death, will you there? Ain't you done enough to him now? Stop it. Now, lay off. The other one's breaking down her stall. Double the frisky mules, you ask me. Frisky, huh? Get me my gun. I'll kill him both. Oh, crazy. Pa, calm down. You're hurt. Trotting me to death, trying to kill me? Yeah, now, wait a second. Why? There ain't no law against butchering your own stock. No, but why shoot him? I'll buy them from you. What? Yeah, $5 a week for a whole year. $5? That's only $260. I paid $300 for them two mules. Well, I'll give you $20 down besides. You'll only be out $20 on the whole deal. So, $5 each week out of your wages for a whole year. OK, here. Here's a 20 of my pa, give me. Anybody got a pencil? Yeah, yeah, sure, Mr. McGill here. Rad, you write down what I say. Daniel Domini, known as Snug, hereby promises to pay Robert McGill. Known as Roarer. Snug. I'll be still. $5 a week out of wages for a year. The value received in the shape of two mules. OK, I'll sign it. Letting all, if this contract is broken any time, the mules again become the property of said Robert McGill. Agreed? OK, sure. Now, get their mules out before they wreck what's left of my barn. Out. It's all right, Crowder. Take it easy, fella. Ain't nobody ever going to scare you or hurt you again. What do you aim to take them? None of your business. Just you bring them home and you see what happens. My mules are well-raised. I wouldn't take them within miles of you or your maw. Just get them out of here tonight. Rad, how about a little drive, huh? And maybe a movie? Oh, thanks, Dutch. I'd love to. Good night, Snug. Have fun with your mules. Yeah, Rad. Thanks. I ain't kidding you, Tony. They're mine. I just bought them off Aurora. You bought these mules? Yeah, only now I got to find some place to keep them. Just for tonight, I mean. That's a matter with my barn. Thanks, Tony. Well, you bought them off Aurora, huh? What'd you use for money? Well, I went in the hawk for my wages. Son, don't never go in the hawk for nothing. No? No, except maybe for a team like them. Boy, oh, boy, is them mules. Say, you etch it? Well, no, not exactly. Now, get them beasts in the barn and I'll fix us up some grub. Yeah, you're sure some cook, Tony. Any fool can make a chicken stew. Hey, what's that bottle on the shelf? I thought you swore off drinking. Oh, that's just cooking bourbon. You mind your riddles. You know, back home, she won't even give me a bite of food if I'm two seconds late. The book of revelations that get words for that woman's son? The abomination, the desolation. You said it. My trumeau is here. Now, don't start this. You know, you're one of the luckiest boys on the face of earth. What boy can look at a woman every day of his life and thank heaven she ain't his mom? Not one in a thousand. Now, about them mules. Must be something wrong with them. What's their blemish? Well, you ever hear about a one driver mule team? That's it. Yeah, I heard of them. Well, does that mean they're dumb or what? Boy, don't ever use that word around a mule. You think mules is dumb? No, I just said. Well, it happened that these counties that brag on a man with as much brains as a mule. But in all my born days, I ain't never met him. Now, what man don't eat his self-sick from time to time? But does a mule ever found her? Sure, he's got too much sense. You ever see a mule over drink when he's hot? Ain't mules as dumb as folks. So dumb they think a horse is intelligent. Well, ain't they? Well, what does a horse do when he puts his foot through a barbed wire fence? Well, I don't know. He saws it off. Yes, sir, he draws back in fright and saws the hoof clean off the joint. But not Mr. Mule. Mr. Mule lifts his foot up and out as dainty as a ballet dancer. Then goes about his business. Only fools that think horses got brains, and a dog's man's best friend. Why, a mule will lay down his life day by day for the right man until he dies. You talk like you love mules, better than dogs even. Well, grant dogs has got brains and hearing and feeling. Bet you have to feed the dog. But the mule feeds you all his life. And I own a team of them. Yeah, sure. It sure looks like you do. Hello, snug. Want a lick? No. Looks good, clean eyes. No, thanks, Bean. Working for Pop sure has made you crabby. You said it. Kind of hot, ain't it? Go away. Oh, gosh, I only asked if it wasn't kind of hot. Well, it don't get any cooler with you sitting around asking dumb questions. Bet you wished you went swimming today instead of working, huh? That's what Rad was doing. I ain't interested. I bet Stretch was interested. She snuck off real early this morning, took the skiff, and headed downstream. Took her new bathing suit, too. Are you sure she went with Stretch? What do you care if you ain't interested? Hey, here she comes, all dressed up, too. Hi, snug. Hello. You through work? Yeah. You tired? Anybody who works all day for your pod better be tired. Well, don't let him work you so hard then. Are you doing anything tonight? Yeah, important business. Oh, you and those mules. That's right, me and my mules. And in another week or so, those mules will do anything I want them to. Well, they can't go to the movies and hold hands with you. Good night, Rad. Well, I like that, after I practically invited you. I hope Stretch liked the yellow swimming suit. How do you know I was with Stretch? Uh-oh. B. I'll just wait till I'm back. You come back. Here's the gold finish. Britals, Tony. New bridles, big ones. Them ain't no common bridles, son. Them's mule bonnets. Come here, I'll show you. Oh, now, moonbeam girl, oh, now. Easy, easy, now, moonbeam. Easy, girl. You just sort of ease it on up. Get it back of their ears without ever touching them. Hey, see? Christ, Tony, you got a bridle. You see them ears, son? Proud. And they stay proud. Women folks wear their pride all over their legs and their eyes and their hair. But a mule's got it all in them upstanding ears. Tony, do you think I could ever learn to drive them? Could be. I drove many mules my day. Ain't done it in years, but you know these nights when I can still smell their sweat and hear way off that old Scudderhoo, Scudderhoo. What's that? Well, it means G and hard, you boy, but you won't find it in area book, nor in the memory of many living men. Hey, with my teens, they'd lean to the ground for me till they'd draw themselves to death. You ain't the only one's got mule fever. I still got it. And let me tell you, son, a man with a team of mules. Well, sir, he's in business. And you'll help me, Tony? Sure. Sure, I'll help you. You just give me a few days at tinkering with harnesses and such, and I'll see what I can do. Tony, Tony, look at him. When did you do this? You got him hitched to your wagon. Well, after a week of tinkering, we're ready to try him out. Now you settle down, boy. How's things going over to McGill's? Oh, all right, I guess. Old roar, still roaring. And that daughter? That's a sight in the yellow bathing suit of every nice evening. Yeah. Well, what about the mules? Well, there they are, son. Go to it. Me? You think I'm crazy, Tony? You're the one to drive them first. They're your mules? Yeah, but you drove mules before I was born. I'll just stand back here and watch. Yeah, well, guess did you see? Well, what? There. Now you watch how I hold the reins. All right, let's go there. Get up, Crowder. Here, up, Moonbeam. Come on, get. Come on, Crowder. Come on, Moonbeam. Come on, get to work. It ain't no use snug these mules won't budge for me. But why? I just don't understand it. Maybe if you get up there, see what you can do. Me? But if they won't drive for you, Tony, they won't drive for no one. Did you ever think on pride, son? Pride? Pride is broke more men, split up more homes, and cause more murders than any other creature of the mind. And just now, for a second, I wished for a gun so as I could kill them mules. It's like a roar would have done. Well, I don't know if I'd have blamed you, Tony. You don't mean that, snug. I wouldn't want you to. Now, them mules just flat refused to work for me. They ain't never kicked at me, nor crowded me. And they sure broke the back of my pride. After all I've been telling you how much I know about mules. Looks like I don't know nothing. Well, maybe it ain't like that at all, Tony. Maybe the mules just can't be bothered pulling a light wagon. You know that fallen log at the top of your pasture? Well, maybe if we put a chain to it and gave them a really heavy load. Maybe so. Well, yeah, mules has got their pride, too. Let's rust us out of drag chain and find out. I don't know, Tony. This log, it's a lot bigger, and I remembered it. Their legs is a whole lot stronger than you think. Now, now come on. Take the range and get them going. Gosh, Tony, suppose they won't even. Shut up now. Don't be putting the wrong ideas in the head. Mule even knows what you're thinking. Now go on. OK. Well, where do you want your old log dragged? Now you're talking. Any place down near the barn. OK, here we go. Come on, Moonbeam. Crowder, hop. Yeah, look at them grab a hoe. That's it, boy, that's it. 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Here's our producer, Mr. William Keely. Act two of Scudder Who Scudder Hey, starting June Haver as Rad and Lon McAllister as Snug. A couple of weeks have gone by, and with Tony as his teacher, Snug Domini is working small wonders with his team of mules. Now on a Saturday afternoon, Rad McGill has a visitor. Who's here, Rad? Superman. Oh, hi, Stretch. What are you doing over here? Oh, just having a drive-by. Well, we're busy sorting eggs. Bean, there's a dance in town. Night, Rad, want to go? Oh, sorry, but I can't, Stretch. You watch those eggs. They don't grow on trees, you know. Relax, small fry. Can't go, huh? It's a matter of getting a date with Snug. Snug? Don't be silly. The minute he's through work and here, he's off with those mules of his. I bet he's sorry he ever got stuck with them. Sorry? Why? He's driving them. Are you kidding? Your pa couldn't even get a bridle on him. I know, but Snug and Tony's got him, so they'll haul logs and everything. What's he going to do with them, sell them? Of course not. He's going to work out his year with Paul, like in the contract, and then he's going to get a job at the login camp. Make $15 a day, he says. $15 a day, huh? Well, uh, I'll be seeing you, Rhett. Now, what'd you do that for? Do what? Telling them all about Snug's plans. Gosh, Rhett, you talk too much. Who is it? What do you want? It's me, Mr. McGill Stretch. Now, what's on your mind? It's, uh, us business. Maybe if you come out here on the porch, you'll... Well? Well, take it easy, Ro. You know the mules Snug done you out of? Done me nothing now. I'll get my money back, won't I? Snug knew what he was doing. Them mules will drive. Drive? What can't be bridled can't be drove. You sort yourself. Well, I just now saw the mules are hauling their own weight as easy as kiss my foot. Yes, sir, these Snug sure stuck you good. You want to stick them back, or don't you? Go on. I'm going to take their mules down to the login camp. They pay $15 a day. That's 90 bucks a week, whispered it. Them mules ain't mine no more. You've got a contract with Snug, ain't you? Yeah, sure. Five bucks a week out of his pay. But if that contract gets broke, their mules are yours again. All you do is fire him. How would that help? Snug could easily get another job. Not if he's in no shape to work. Like, if he got beat up so badly. Now, I don't want any trouble, you hear me? Look, won't be no trouble. All you got to do is fire him. Fire him, huh? That's all, Aurora. And leave everything else to me. Why aren't you still awake? Hmm? Why aren't you asleep? I can't. I've been thinking about Pa. Pa? Do you suppose he says his prayers every night? I don't know, honey. Why? Well, if he don't, he sure ought to. And just in case he don't, I think I'm going to pray for him right now. We're going to church tomorrow. Save it for then. Oh, I'll pray tomorrow too. I think Pa's going to need all I can give him. Good sermon, Reverend. Right to the poor. Thank you, Mr. McGill. Thank you. And good morning, Reverend. Good morning, Rad. Well, how pretty you look. Why, thank you. And you too, Bean. Were you in Sunday school? Oh, sure. Mom always makes me. Well, good for mom. Well, Rad, if you're looking for stretch, don't waste your time. He don't never come to church bad as he needs. Oh, hush up and wait in the car. He loves stretch. Where? Not stretch, snug. And he's got his mules hitched to wagon. Hey, snug. Hi, Rad. One I should drive you home, Rad. Oh, that'll be fine. Want to come along, Jess? Sure. Want to ride, Jack? In the mule wagon? Sure. Come on, Larry will all go. I'll tell you now, wait a minute. I only ask Rad. OK, snug. We don't need a special invite. Thanks a lot, snug. Now, just a minute. Rad sits next to me, or nobody goes. Oh, for heaven's sakes. What a fuss to make. Oh, all right. Are you happy now? I'd be a lot happier if you hadn't asked the whole town. What makes you so mean? He's jealous, that's all. You shut up. Well, it's true. Hey, these mules sure drive good. Boy, this is fun. Snug doesn't think so. But maybe he'll think it's fun to go swimming this afternoon. Huh? Oh, sure, Rad. Thanks. Oh, that's all right. How about it, boys? Let's all go swimming this afternoon. Hey, so little I did. No, fine. By yourself or snug, go on in the water. I've been in the water. And quit staring at Rad. She's only trying to burn you up. Anyway, I got something to tell you. Well, skip it. Hey, Rad, cut it out, will you? What'd you say, Snug? Don't bother us, Snug. We're busy. Yeah, I've eaten. We want to be alone. You leave her alone. Temper, temper. Nobody's bothering me. Oh, quit showing off, Rad. I'm not going to stand for that. Is that so? Now, you listen to me, Snug Dominic. You may own their mules, but you don't own me. Rad, please stop acting. Take your hands off me. Hey, the way they fight, you think they were married. Hey, where you going, Rad? No, we couldn't come on back. Oh, you're all behaving like a bunch of kids. Oh, let her go if she wants to. Come on, Chess. Let's go after her. OK. Hey, Rad, Rad. Now, if you're listening to me, Snug, I'll tell you something about them mules of yours. What about them? Well, yesterday, I sort of heard my pop making a deal with Stretch. They're planning on getting their mules away from you. Oh, yeah? How? Well, Stretch is going to beat you up so bad you won't be able to work. Then you'll miss out on the payments, get it? Are you telling me the truth? Gosh, I wouldn't lie about something that makes my pop practically almost a crook. Does Rad know about this? Of course not. Do you think my own sister would be on her way to see Stretch if she did? What makes you think she's going to go see Stretch? Because she's been itching to all morning. And you acting so bossy gives her just the chance she's looking for. Thanks a lot, Bean. I'd sure like to see the fight. OK, if I come along. You stay right where you are and keep your mouth shut. Yes, sir, I sure fix Stretch good, Tony. Oh, still now. Ouch! Is that horse liniment? Yeah, that's horse liniment. I ain't never heard no horse complain, neither. Boy, it's a wonder I didn't kill him. You should have seen him, Tony. Well, there's one I won't be using for a long time. And there's an ear you ain't going to use neither unless you hold still. So poor old Stretch finally got what's been coming to him, eh? You know, I've been thinking, Tony. Now Stretch won't ever tell what happened today. Neither will his law, not in your life. And Rad won't tell either. Not after what happened to that pretty boy data hers. Well? Well, so with nobody telling, I can easy get Roar McGill to fire me. What are you talking about? Gee, Tony, you ought to borrow the brain of a mule. After he fires me, I take my team over to the login camp and we go to work full time. 15 bucks a day, partner. Less $5 a week to Roar. Well, sure. But now first off, we got to. Hey, somebody's coming. Oh, it's Rad. Well, you don't want to see her, do you? I'll run her off for you. Huh? Oh, yeah. Who do you think you're fooling? I'll get out there and talk to her. I had to come over, snug. Are you all right? I'm fine. Let me see. Oh, snug. Why don't you go look at his face. Maybe he'd like you to hold his hand. You've got a right to be sore, I suppose. And how? I hope I never see him again. Well, it's no skin off my nose if you do or if you don't. Oh, don't say that, snug. Please, unless you really mean it. Did you mean it when you said you never wanted to see him again? Hope to die if I didn't. Well, that's better. Oh, snug, your poor lip. It ain't nothing that don't hurt. You mean if a girl was to try to kiss you, it wouldn't be painful? Want to try? Uh-huh. Well, I've got to find out sooner or later. Did it hurt? I wouldn't be knowing by a little peck like that. Try it again. Did it hurt that time? Yeah, and it was swell. What is it, snug? What's Pa so mad about? Me, he just fired me. Listen, you can still hear him roaring. Fired you? But why? Because I left the tractor running, and when he started to ball me out, I told him to go jump in the creek. Snug! Oh, now, see what you've done. I've done just what I planned to do. Rad, I wanted him to fire me. Why? Snug Domini, if you don't start talking soon. Look, do you want to be Mrs. Snug Domini someday? Well, yes. OK then, you just keep quiet. Look, roar, I know I'm a sheriff, but I've got more important things to do. I tell you, it's in the contract. And if the contract's broke, them mules is mine. Yes, but the contract isn't broken. It's Saturday night, ain't it? And Snug ain't showed up to pay me my five dollars. But you fired him. Snug's working for the Logan Company. Darn right I fired him. Left my tractor running when I called him. I told you, Pop, called the sheriff. What's happened to Snug? Where is he? I don't know. I saw him about an hour ago. He can't find Tony. Tony? Now, Tony picked up their paycheck, but then he disappeared. Snug can't find him anywhere. Well, he better make it here by midnight, or Pop sure as heck will take back them mules. Tony. Oh, guys, what a relief. Where have you been? Tony, you've been drinking. Now, don't get mad at me, son. Will you see what I got in this bundle? No, never mind about that. I got to get over to McGill's. I don't get like this very often, Snug. I know. Tony, I know. Oh, sorry, Snug. I just found a bottle of cooking, Bourbon. Now, come on, let me have five dollars. Five dollars. Well, sure. I got to pay Ror. Oh, well, it's here someplace. I got it someplace. Here, well, first, let me show you what I bought. Tassels, Snug, you see? Red tassels for Crowder and Moonbees. The money, Tony. Where is it? You've spent it all. Spent it? It could be. Yes, it could be. I spent it all. No, Tony, Tony, don't pass out on me. Wake up, Tony. Listen to me. It's too late to try and borrow the money. I got to have five dollars or I'll lose my mules. Hello, Tess. I got something to tell you, Rad. It's about Snug. What about him? Well, it's just that, well, you know I work for the telegraph company. And well, a message just come through. I ain't supposed to talk about them. A telegram for Snug? For his stepmother. They notified her because, well, because she's the widow. Oh, no. Yeah. Oh, poor Snug. So will you tell him, Rad? Snug don't live at home no more. And even if he did, that old woman wouldn't tell him anyhow. Yeah, yeah, I'll tell him, Ches. Thanks for calling. Rad, you threw on that phone? Oh, yes, Ma. Ma, in the kitchen. He's here, Snug. Just walked in. And he ain't got the money, Rad. He just told Ma he ain't got the money. Ma, you've got money in the house. You must have five dollars. How could I, Rad? Your pod never forgiven me. Well, there must be something we can do. Ma, why do you suppose Pa so mean sometimes? He just can't stand being made into look foolish, I suppose. In the Bible, it says when people do bad things, they roast in eternal fire. Will pop roast, Ma, will he ha? I had the money more than enough. Only Tony took it and got drunk. Well, now that's just too bad. It moves me to tears. Well, you heard him, Sheriff. Now, do I get my mules or don't I? You got to face facts, son. But I'll give him the money on Monday and I'll double it then, 10 instead of five. Not if you said 50. But what good will the mules do you? They won't even drive for you. They'll drive or I'll kill them. I'm going to go to Tony's place right now. I'm going to take my mules. And you're coming with me, Todd, to see that it's done all nice and legal. Rour, don't take the mules. Please don't take them. They're talking nice and polite to me now, ain't you? Give me a hand, will you, Todd? These mules is kind of ornery. I can't. No, I've got the money for you. Rad. $5, Pa. I'm paying it for Snug. Go on, look at it, why don't you? It might be counterfeit. I wouldn't want my father cheated out of anything. Now, Rad, just a minute. Before I was old enough to go to church, you and Mom taught me the 10 commandments. Thou shalt not covet, you always taught me. Fine when you was to talk. Not a moment since you sold those mules to Snug, but what you coveted them and tried to get them back. No, Rad. Don't let him take them. You listen to me, Rad. I ain't going to stay for no more. That's right. Rour, bluster, you've done it all your life, scaring the wit's out of Mom and me. Well, you don't scare me anymore. You can holler till the cows come home and it still wouldn't make the wrong you've done right. Where'd you get this $5? She gave it to me, Mom. She didn't mean to double-cross you, honest. She didn't. It was just that, well, she knew this was wrong. Pa, how could you? How could you? Well, you got your money. Yeah, I got my money. I guess he keeps the mules, all right. Rad, don't cry, Rad, please. You're not late. Get out of here, scratchy. I don't feel like talking. Holy Moses, what happened to your face? I had a little smash off my car. Looks more like somebody wheeled the daylight out of you. Now, what do you want hanging around my place? About the mules. I don't want to hear about the mules ever again. You forget we got a bargain about them? Well, it's off. Get me it's off. You crazy or something? Now, harken, you stretch. I want no part of you and I want no part of mules, not snugs or anybody else's. OK, Rour, back out on me if you want to, but I ain't backing out C. You better not try to cross me up. What are you trying to tell me? If I can't have their mules, snug ain't going to have me to. And you keep your big mouth shut because if you start talking, I'm liable to talk, too. Good night, Rour. We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System. KNX Los Angeles. Before our stars return for act three of Scudder Who's Scudder Hey, I'd like to introduce lovely Dorothy Malone, a featured player at 20th Century Fox. Tell me, Dorothy, what do you do for recreation? Oh, watch other people make pictures, Mr. Keely. I just couldn't keep away from the set when Darrell Zanick was filming Pinky. A moving human story with a great message. You know, Jean Crane handles remarkably well the sympathetic role of the beautiful light-skinned Negro girl. Yes, and did you know they tested 17 top players before they picked William Lundigan to play that young doctor she falls in love with? And Pinky will be remembered, too, for the fine portrait of a cantankerous, but warm-hearted Southern aristocrat. Who but Ethel Barrymore could do justice to that part? Remember those scenes with Jean Crane as Miss Barrymore's nurse? They were shot over and over and yet, every morning, Jean's white nylon uniforms looked as fresh and crisp as ever. Thanks to Lux Flakes, Mr. Kennedy. 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Radd's father has gone into the house and slowly climbed the stairs. Where's your ma? She's at late, Pa. What are you doing there, Bean? I've been getting a drink of water. Why aren't you in bed? Well, there ain't any water in bed, Pa. Run along now, Scudder. Want to come and tuck me in? All right, I'll tuck you in. Oh, wait a minute. Long as you're up, stand against the wall there. Let's see how much you've grown, huh? How much, Pa? Oh, looks like more than an inch. Gee, I'm sure going to town. Pa, you're going to get them, mules. Don't you dast even mention that word to me again. Mules has a plague on this house. Now get to bed. I'm going. Did Radd come home with you? No. Radd's still over to Tony's. She'll be coming along presently. Oh, Pa's dead. There I did see. I'm glad it was you who told me about it, Radd. Thanks. I'm so sorry, Snack. That's the way you wanted it. I just wish he could have seen my team once before it happened. Are you talking to me anymore, Snack? It's OK, Tony. You couldn't help it. Evening, Radd. Hi, Tony. I heard what you said about Mules. You want this, Snack, it's his will. Yeah. You own more than team rules, Mules. You own the Pa's farm. What about stretching with Mules? I'll take the will over to Judge Weller in the morning. That piece of paper, Snack, is just like your Pa's first come back to knock them both out of that farm. There's a Dominic and there's a Gin in peace. Well, it's about time, Tony. Yeah, you know, that farm makes sort of a nice home for both of you. There it is, if that's the way you feel about it. Well, I take a lot of fixing up first. Well, it's pretty late, Radd. Come on, honey, I'll take you home. Well, just put Crowder and Moon being to bed, Snack. You still figuring up how much you made? You know, as I can tell, Tony, we made $114. We can half of it's yours. I don't want no part of it. Might get on another one then spending it's free. But you got to have some money. I'm eating regular. It's OK, we've got the sense of a mule. But you got the harder one. You going to ruin the Jews tonight? I ain't been washing up for you. Hmm? I figured I'd go into town and see what Judge Weller decided. You recommend Mules all right, Grintale? Sure. Who'd try and take the rules and all, if they got a little more or cooled off? Well, get your ride. Yeah, see you later, Snud. No, Radd will be down in a minute. Thanks, Miss McGill. Oh, here's a $5 all over. I could pay more if you let me. I'd sure like to own that team outright. I know. I spoke to a body again, but he didn't listen. He lays awake nights figuring out how can he even score with it. Not a chance. Well, he ain't got over it. Just happens, he's still pretty mad. It could even matter if he knew about Radd and me. He'd yell he's head off, but I'm glad. Well, here I am. Guys, you're really cute, Radd. Thank you. Well, are we staying home or are we going out? Well, I think I'd better steer clear of your pile for a little while yet. It's a wonderful night. We could pay a little skip up to the falls, maybe. Oh, what are we waiting for? Don't worry, Miss McGill. I'll have it home early. Well, it was. Now it's going to rain and boil everything. I guess you'd better head home this night before we get Grintale. No, we're a lot closer to the turn. Let's stop after it blows over. Snud, isn't that a boat over there for sure? Yeah, I wonder. Radd, that's his boat. That boat belongs to Stretch. Well, why would he be coming over to the turn? Oh, he's not home. It's the team, Radd. It's his way of getting back at me, the millows. Do you mean that Stretch would? Oh, hurry, Snud, hurry. He's there, all right. That's Ruff barking at him. Well, then Stretch wouldn't dare bring him. But Ruff knows and he'd let him in. All right, he'll probably. Hey, what was that? Somebody scream. Stay here, Radd. I'll soon find out. Well, Ruff, get out of there, boy. Get out of the way. Help me. Crowder. Crowder, get back. Back, Crowder. Hey, Stretch, can you move? I don't know. I guess I can. I ought to let you get out of that door like you got yourself in. Back, Crowder. Back. No, it's not what happened. It's all right, Radd. Come on in. Stretch. I guess he'll live. He just forgot that Crowder don't like strangers. But there's wires over there. What are they? Stretch can tell you, it's a trap. We're at a wire snare. We figured the clip of the millows looks like it didn't quite work out. Are you hurt, Bad Stretch? All right. Let me get off this place before I shove you back in that stall. What are you going to do about this? Plenty. But if you want to stay out of jail, just tell your mother to start packing her things, hers and yours. Stretch and his mom ain't likely to ever see me, either. No, I guess that's that. She used to know they piled up a lot of stuff in their car bombs to you. Let them have it, Sheriff. I told her to take everything that wasn't nailed down. I don't like evictions as a rule, but this one done my heart good. I'd be in one hour to get across the county line. And believe me, they'll cross it. Hey, Slug, you best let that place air for a while. Take a month to clear the smell of evil out of there. Where are they going now, Slug? Back to Tunis, please? I sure, Slug. Well, fix yourself a regular feast, you said of me. Well, later, maybe, Tony. Right now, I think we'd better get over and see Rags Park. I think it's about time we told him about us. He's not going to like it. Get off my land! I'll have you jailed for trespass, you hear me? Kind of stuck, aren't you? Stuck what you'll be if you don't get a new rad. If I kept you keep in company... Well, one problem at a time, Lord. Seems to me you'd have more sense than trying to have a tractor across a cloud field after such a heavy rain. Either way, you're fixed, Lord, so this ground hard and it'll take dynamite to get you out. And you're going to lose a pile of money with no tractor. Maybe even half a year's work. Get your nick over here while I can reach it. Now show you who loses what. You want me to pull you out? You pull me out. You and what? Me and my mules. You could try, couldn't you, Tony? I don't know. A tractor will get in two turns. It could be. I bet I could do it, Pa. Two mules doing what a 40 horsepower engine can't? You're all crazy. Well, maybe so. If you was a gold man and had the guts to make a real bet, I'm the one who'd bet you're plenty that it can't be done. Like what, for instance? Snow, you still owe me for their mules. I'll bet if their mules can pull this tractor out of the mud, you don't owe me nothing. No money, no work, and they're all yours. And if they don't pull you out, what then? Then they're mine to do it as I see fit. Well, go on, Snow, take them up on it. They can do it, take them up. Well, if I take the bet and you win, will you give me your leave to marry Rad? What gal would any sense marry the like to you? I would, Pa. Well, well, is it a bet? It's a bet. OK, I'll unhits the team. Come on, Rad. You mind if I holler in the few of the neighbors who are? This'll be something worth watching. Worth laughing at, you mean. Go ahead, call them in. This way, Trotter. Now, that could be, that's the girl. Go on, now, go on. Hey, hook that chain on the tractor, Tony. Get her, son. Just get this straight out of the mud. Clear out till the tractor can go by itself. In other words, straight ahead to solid ground. OK, set the tractor on and get off. I'll drive it. Well, hey, they'll need my help, won't you? Stand aside and stay put. OK, she's starting. Give me the reins, Tony. Better push there, will you? And folks over there will bear witness that I'll run you out of church for the rest of your life. You're burning up my gas. Get going. There, Trotter, there'll be no girls at you. And if you don't get this pack out, I'm switching back to a horsey. Hop now. Hop. Come on, London. Come on, Crawler. Big end, Trotter. Big end, boy. We'll return for their curtain calls in a moment. If you have trouble, trouble, trouble with washing dishes, change to luck, and they will bop, bop, bop, bop, or your trouble's away. Yes, these times of luck has done in a hurry. Rich suds wobble up fast, last longer. In fact, they wash more dishes ounce for ounce than any of 10 other leading soaps tested. They're thrifty, and they rinse away completely. Dishes die sparkling bright without wiping. Gentle luxe flake suds are wonderfully kind to hands, too. Leave them off, smooth, lovely. Here's Mr. Keely with our stars. It's always a pleasure to bring back for a curtain two such charming people as tonight's stars. And here they are, June Haver and Lon McAllister. It's nice to be here again. 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Heard in tonight's cast were Ed Begley as McGill, Tim Graham as Tony, Tony Barrett as Stretch, Norma Jean-Nelson as Bean, and Helen Spring, Bill Johnstone, Noreen Gamill, Cy Kendall, Eddie Marr, Charles Wolfe, Clark Gordon, and Howard McNear. Our play was adapted by SH Barnett and our music was directed by Louis Silvers. This is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to join us again next Monday night to hear Portrait of Jenny, starring Joseph Cotton and Anne Baxter. Well folks, the Lux Radio Theater's 15th anniversary contest for Lux Girls is in full swing. Who's the prettiest Lux girl born in 1934? See the pictures of your six local candidates and get voting instruction slip at your grocers. Choose your favorite, write her name on a Lux toilet soap wrapper and send it to this station. Remember you can vote as often as you wish. Listen for the name of the lucky winner from your area to be announced on the Lux Radio Theater November 21st. 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