Narrator

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Mr. Duro

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Narrator

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Mr. Duro

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Narrator

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Mr. Duro

Refreshers contain caffeine.

Narrator

From Hollywood, the Hollywood Radio Theater. Starring Tyrone Power and Linda Christian in the Mississippi Gambler. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings.

Mr. Duro

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. One of the most colorful eras of American history took place along the mighty Mississippi. It was a period of gorgeously gowned ladies escorted by impeccable gentlemen whose code of manners was determined whether dancing at fancy balls or gambling on the riverboats. Tonight, we recreate this era for you in Universal International's highly dramatic love story, the Mississippi Gambler. And as our stars, we have chosen a perfect romantic team. Tyrone Power and Linda Christian in their first appearance together on radio. Now act one of the Mississippi Gambler, starring Tyrone Power as Mark Fallon and Linda Christian as Angelique Dureau.

Kansas John Polly

I first met Mark Fox Allen in the spring of 1853. I was on the dock in St. Louis, waiting just for the likes of him. A green young stranger begging to have his bankroll lightened. I wandered over to the freight shed, took out a deck of cards and started laying them down in a barrel.

Mark Fallon

You sure having a time with those cards, mister. I've been watching you.

Kansas John Polly

You have?

Mark Fallon

I hope you don't mind.

Kansas John Polly

You don't mind at all, son. All I'm doing is making a fool out of myself. You see these three cards? Well, sir, there was this traveling man last night. He just laid these three cards down on the table and bet me $20 I couldn't tell him which one was the queen.

Mark Fallon

You sure he was a traveling man?

Kansas John Polly

Oh, no doubt about that, son. Even had his sample cases with him. Well, sir, I swore I knew where the queen was every time by jingle. And I bet my $20 you lost. Well, anyway, give me the cards to pay. Practice with him.

Mark Fallon

You know, you might end up a gambler.

Kansas John Polly

Gonna try it on the folks back home till I get my money back. Maybe get my money back right now. Me these three cards. Now, where's you a betting man, son? I got $20 here says you can't find that queen.

Mark Fallon

Done.

Kansas John Polly

All right. Which one's the queen?

Mark Fallon

You sure you want me to tell you?

Kansas John Polly

Why, son, you just bet me $20.

Mark Fallon

In that case, the queen's in your left hand, just where you palmed it.

Kansas John Polly

Looks like I made a terrible mistake. Professional, huh?

Mark Fallon

No, no, but I'm going to be. Congratulations. I never saw anyone switch cards that perfectly.

Kansas John Polly

You're the first one who hasn't complained about it. What's your name?

Mark Fallon

Mark Fallon.

Kansas John Polly

Me, I'm Kansas John Polly. Never heard of me.

Mark Fallon

Well, I'm new in these parts, Mr. Polly. I'm from New York.

Kansas John Polly

Active in gambling there?

Mark Fallon

Well, in a way. There was always a game going on in my father's fencing academy ever since I can remember. I finally got tall enough to sit in between fencing lessons.

Kansas John Polly

You're a decent looking young fellow, son. Now, why would you want to get mixed up in a crooked life like this?

Mark Fallon

I got different ideas about gambling, Mr. Polly. I'm gonna deal honest cards.

Kansas John Polly

Well, that sure will be a novelty on the river. I hope you're good, son. You'll be up against some mighty dirty competition. How much of a stake do you have?

Mark Fallon

$600.

Kansas John Polly

You can lose that in half an hour on these river books.

Mark Fallon

But I don't intend to lose. Now, if you don't mind, I think I'll get aboard.

Kansas John Polly

He walked down to the gang plan. Just as he reached it, a carriage came flying down the dock. Entered a young man and a girl. For a moment, it looked like those horses were running away.

Mark Fallon

Oh, now, boy. Easy now.

Narrator

Oh. Up there. Oh.

Angelique Duro

Get away from those horses.

Mark Fallon

Well, I was afraid you'd tip over, miss. High strung horses need a firm hand.

Angelique Duro

I've handled high strung horses for quite a few years. And when the time comes that I need help, I'll.

Mark Fallon

Easy now.

Mr. Duro

Easy.

Mark Fallon

Oh, boy.

Narrator

Oh. Oh.

Kansas John Polly

Oh.

Mr. Duro

There now.

Kansas John Polly

Thank you, sir.

Mr. Duro

That whistle frightened them.

Mark Fallon

Whistles will do that to horses. To beautiful women, too, sometimes.

Angelique Duro

You're an expert on both, I suppose.

Mark Fallon

Well, I'm interested in both.

Mr. Duro

Just a moment. My sister doesn't care to discuss your interests.

Mark Fallon

So it seems.

Mr. Duro

Better go aboard, Angelique.

Mark Fallon

I'll find a boy to drive these horses back to place.

Kansas John Polly

Quality folks, son. Real quality.

Mr. Duro

Oh, my.

Mark Fallon

You know them.

Kansas John Polly

But, dear, that. Take that little pepper pot over my knee and whaler.

Mark Fallon

$20 to 10. She looks back at me, Polly.

Kansas John Polly

Well, here's where I get my money back. She'd no more look back at you

Mr. Duro

than she

Kansas John Polly

looks like. I owe you a total of $30. Oh, you'll do fine on the Mississippi, son. You'll do just fine. That night I watched Mark at the card tables be dealt him on his deck. What was more remarkable, he won. He won from professionals and he won from gentleman. He didn't make any friends that night, but he sure made a pile of money. Among the heavy losers was the young man in the carriage. After the game broke up, he came looking for Mario.

Mr. Duro

I hope you didn't mind waiting for me, Mr. Fallon.

Mark Fallon

Not at all.

Mr. Duro

How much do I owe you?

Mark Fallon

$4,100.

Mr. Duro

This will more than cover it.

Mark Fallon

A necklace, Mr. Duro.

Mr. Duro

It was appraised for more than $7,000. Those are diamonds.

Mark Fallon

But this is a family heirloom. Your sister.

Mr. Duro

It's no concern of yours what it is. Does it satisfy the debt?

Mark Fallon

Yes. Thank you.

Mr. Duro

Good night, Mr. Fallon.

Kansas John Polly

We'd both been winners that night. And the next day, our immediate future looked mighty Rosy.

Mark Fallon

Over 3. $3,000 in cash, Polly. And it's all honest money.

Kansas John Polly

Looks like we're doomed to stay at the best hotel in New Orleans.

Mark Fallon

If we keep lucky. How long do you stop over there, Polly?

Kansas John Polly

Two weeks. Then I'm broke again.

Mark Fallon

How's that, Pharaoh?

Kansas John Polly

Can't help playing that game, even though I know it's crooked. Terrible having such a vice at my age. Are you a Pharaoh player, son? I said, are you?

Narrator

Oh.

Mark Fallon

I'll be back in a moment, Polly. Miss Dureau.

Angelique Duro

Well, what is it? What do you want?

Mark Fallon

I believe your brother made a mistake last night. This necklace. This is yours, isn't it?

Angelique Duro

Yes.

Mark Fallon

I wanted to return it to you.

Angelique Duro

How do you mean, a mistake?

Mark Fallon

Well, I won from him at cards. He'd been drinking a bitter. I don't think he'd have chosen this.

Angelique Duro

My brother doesn't take my property without my permission.

Mark Fallon

I'm sure of that. It's very beautiful. You must value it highly.

Angelique Duro

I've just one thing to say to you. I don't speak to strangers, nor do I accept charity from gamblers. Good afternoon.

Mr. Duro

Good morning, my sweet sister.

Angelique Duro

Laurent. How could you dare steal my necklace?

Mark Fallon

Your necklace?

Angelique Duro

You gave it to that gambler. He showed it to me.

Mr. Duro

I'm sorry, Leah, but I. I had to.

Ann Conant

Why?

Mr. Duro

Because I'm a fool. Sitting down with those card shops. They took all my cash and 4,000 besides.

Angelique Duro

And you take the one thing I love more than anything I have. The necklace was Mother's, grandmother's. It will break Father's heart. How could you?

Mark Fallon

I'm sorry.

Mr. Duro

Please liev. Please forgive me.

Angelique Duro

Poor Laurent. Nothing is important enough to ever come between us. Least of all a quarrel over again.

Mr. Duro

I'll make it up to you, Leah. I promise. Meanwhile, I'll think of something to tell Father.

Angelique Duro

We'll tell him the truth?

Mr. Duro

Yes. Yes, I suppose we'll have to.

Kansas John Polly

To Mark, there was no city in the world like New Orleans. He wanted to see every foot of it. Especially the street they called Exchange Alley.

Mark Fallon

I won't be long, Polly. An hour or two. I'll meet you here in the hotel.

Kansas John Polly

What's all this excitement about Exchange Alley?

Mark Fallon

I've dreamed about seeing it ever since I was knee high. My father told me all about the schools there. The finest outside of Paris, he called it. The street of the fencing masters.

Kansas John Polly

Playing with swords, huh? Well, just remember, this New Orleans is filled with the same breed of cat as that Duro fellow with a necklace. Uppity young Creoles. They want a duel every time you sneeze near them.

Mark Fallon

My best behavior, Polly. No gambling, I promise.

Kansas John Polly

Be back here at 8 o'.

Mr. Duro

Clock.

Kansas John Polly

Dinner at Antoine's, and I'll show you the out. Mark showed those young Creoles with their fancy French names that he was a match for any of them when it came to fencing. Among those he especially impressed was an elderly gentleman who kept staring at him.

Mr. Duro

Forgive my lack of manners, young man, but before you leave, I. I was hoping I might have a word with you.

Mark Fallon

Yes, sir.

Mr. Duro

First, may I say, it's been many years since I've seen such an exhibition of skill. May I ask whom you studied under?

Mark Fallon

My father. Charles Fallon.

Kansas John Polly

Fallon. Of course. I knew your face.

Mr. Duro

Reminded me of someone. Why, Charles Fallon once taught in Paris.

Mark Fallon

Yes, sir. Years ago.

Mr. Duro

I told my friends I remembered that low inside line attack you employ. Why, I was at your father's academy many times. He's well, I hope.

Mark Fallon

He died three months ago in New York.

Mr. Duro

I'm sorry. My apologies. Please take my card, Mr. Fallon. I'd enjoy having you call at my house.

Mark Fallon

Emile Duro. Is Laurent Duro your son?

Mr. Duro

Yes. You know him?

Mark Fallon

I met him and your daughter on the boat.

Mr. Duro

Splendid. They'll be quite delighted as I am,

Mark Fallon

I. I don't think they would want me to call, sir.

Mr. Duro

Why not?

Mark Fallon

I'm a river gambler.

Kansas John Polly

Ridiculous. No one with your skill at foils

Mr. Duro

could have spent much time at a gaming table. How long have you been on the river?

Mark Fallon

Less than a week.

Mr. Duro

Shall we say Tomorrow afternoon at 4?

Mark Fallon

If you wish, sir. Thank you.

Mr. Duro

Well, Mr. Fellow, now that we've seen the house and grounds, suppose we have a drink in here? In the study.

Mark Fallon

Mr. Duro, your home. I've never seen anything so beautiful.

Mr. Duro

My father built it almost 60 years ago.

Kansas John Polly

There's Daisy.

Mr. Duro

Angelique. Well, come in, dear. Come in. Where's Laurent?

Angelique Duro

He's in the library with George. George just invited us to dinner.

Mr. Duro

Angelique, you remember Mr. Fallon. He said you'd met on the boat.

Angelique Duro

I have no wish to meet him again, father. Angelique, what do you expect of me? I know the gentleman associate with such people as Mr. Fallon in coffee houses and gambling places. But I never heard of anyone bringing them into his home and presenting them to the women of the household.

Mr. Duro

I choose very carefully whom I bring into my house. And while they're under this roof, you will please show them every courtesy.

Angelique Duro

Yes, father. Good afternoon, Mr. Fallon.

Mark Fallon

Good afternoon, Mr. Rowe.

Mr. Duro

I must apologize for my daughter.

Mark Fallon

I think she was afraid of being embarrassed, sir.

Mr. Duro

For what reason?

Mark Fallon

This. She was afraid I might return it.

Mr. Duro

Her necklace.

Mark Fallon

Your son lost it to me on the boat. I know it must mean a great deal to you.

Mr. Duro

He settled a gambling debt with it. How much?

Mark Fallon

$4,100.

Mr. Duro

My bank will credit the amount to you tomorrow.

Kansas John Polly

No.

Mark Fallon

No, I. I don't want anything for it. And it is not your debt.

Mr. Duro

It's the only way I can accept it. Your wine, Mr. Fallon.

Mark Fallon

Thank you.

Narrator

All this.

Mr. Duro

All this business about the necklace, Laurent, Angelique's insulting manners. It's my own fault, Mr. Fallon. My life's caught up with me. Unfortunately, my own wild and reckless youth become somewhat legendary in New Orleans. My children have patterned themselves accordingly. They've been motherless since Leah's birth. I've never been able to be a stern disciplinarian.

Mark Fallon

The first time I met your daughter, I told her that high strung horses need a firm hand. I wasn't given a chance to say much more.

Mr. Duro

So another reason you came here today was to see her.

Mark Fallon

Yes.

Mr. Duro

You find her interesting?

Mark Fallon

Very.

Mr. Duro

She can also be charming. However, I. I should tell you, this young man she mentioned a moment ago. George Elwood. It wouldn't surprise me, Mr. Fallon, if someday Angelique and George were to marry.

Mark Fallon

Oh, I. Forgive me. I didn't know.

Mr. Duro

Oh, for the moment, George is just a friend, but a dear friend.

Mark Fallon

But then I. I may see your daughter again.

Mr. Duro

That, as you should know by now, will be entirely up to Angelique. However, there'll be a governor's ball in a couple of weeks. I. I think I can arrange an invitation.

Mark Fallon

A river gambler at the governor's ball.

Mr. Duro

I regard you as a welcome guest and a friend. Until you prove yourself something less.

Mark Fallon

I think you can trust me, Mr. Duro. Thank you,

Ann Conant

Father.

Kansas John Polly

Come in, dear.

Angelique Duro

George just told me you're driving with us to the ball. I'm so glad you are.

Mr. Duro

Am I so charming a chaperone? Or is it that you wish to keep George from proposing again?

Angelique Duro

Both, my wise darling. He wants to announce our engagement. It's all he talks about since he became president of the bank. He's going to settle down. He promises to work hard. He loves me and on and on.

Mr. Duro

It doesn't interest you?

Angelique Duro

It isn't that, dear. I just keep telling him we're too young to take such a serious step.

Kansas John Polly

His father always hoped.

Mr. Duro

You do, Mary.

Angelique Duro

And my father. What does he hope?

Mr. Duro

That your choice will be a wise one when you're no longer too young. Leah, Are you interested in Mark Felon?

Angelique Duro

Mark Fallon. How could you even think such a thing?

Mr. Duro

His name seems to arouse more emotion than most.

Angelique Duro

So there's a thorn when I step on it. You call him Mark?

Mr. Duro

I've dined with him several times these last two weeks. He's becoming very popular.

Angelique Duro

I don't want to hear about him. Why did you even mention him?

Mr. Duro

Because I want you to wear something for me tonight. Your mother always wore it at the Governor's ball. Here, Father. You will? Well, yes.

Angelique Duro

Oh, but I'm so ashamed. I couldn't tell you about the necklace. I knew how much it would hurt you. Lauren and I, we. We don't deserve you. The things we do. I don't know why. It just seems to be in our blood. Like a fever.

Kansas John Polly

Yes, in our bloodlier. But you and Laurent.

Mr. Duro

Pale little pomegranates compared to what I was once. Now, dear boy, brush those tears away and make yourself ready.

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Mark Fallon

Very kind of you to dance with me, Ms. Jerome.

Angelique Duro

It would have been a great pleasure to have refused you, Mr. Fallon.

Mark Fallon

Then why didn't you?

Angelique Duro

My necklace.

Mark Fallon

It becomes you.

Angelique Duro

So my father thinks. And so I'm dancing with you. But I'm amazed you could bring yourself to give it to my father. Weren't you able to sell it?

Mark Fallon

Is that what you think?

Angelique Duro

What else?

Mark Fallon

Well, you're right. Your father paid me for it. Your escort seems impatient that we finish our dance. He seems a very suitable young man.

Angelique Duro

He'll be delighted to hear that, I'm sure.

Mark Fallon

Suitable? I mean, for running a bank.

Angelique Duro

May I ask you one question before I leave you?

Mr. Duro

Of course.

Angelique Duro

Knowing how I feel about you, why did you humiliate yourself by asking me to dance?

Mark Fallon

Oh, as a matter of courtesy. If a man is going to ask a woman to humiliate herself, he should be willing to accept it first.

Angelique Duro

I don't understand.

Mark Fallon

Since you spare me only a moment, I'll tell you very bluntly. You and I are in love with each other. We always will be. We've known it since that first moment in St. Louis.

Angelique Duro

I could have you run out of town for speaking to me like this.

Mark Fallon

There's no need to run me out. I'll be leaving tomorrow. You're not ready yet for marriage. And I won't be ready until you come to me.

Angelique Duro

Why, you completely erotistic.

Mark Fallon

Yes, it does sound that way, put into words. But it's the only way a woman can be truly happy with a man.

Mr. Duro

Thank you for the dance, Mr. Rock,

Narrator

too, of the Mississippi Gambler. In a moment. With our American servicemen in many countries around the world, they have a wonderful opportunity to observe new customs and traditions. What might have seemed strange before is becoming pretty familiar to Them, for instance, take this business of superstitions or omens. In Holland and Germany, if you meet a left handed person on a Tuesday morning, that's a bad omen. In Sweden, if you turn around when starting out on a business trip, it's liable to turn out badly. German girls place their shoes at right angles by the side of their beds to bring a visit from their sweethearts. And in Japan and the Far east, there's a superstition to cover practically every event of the day. Well, all these things might sound strange, but as our servicemen have observed, we have plenty of superstitions too. Let's just count some of the things that are lucky or unlucky. Finding a horseshoe, lucky. Four leaf clover, lucky. A black cat crossing your path, unlucky. Walking under a ladder, unlucky. Breaking a mirror. Seven years bad luck. Spilling salt, unlucky. Unless you throw some over your left shoulder, knocking on wood, lucky. A rabbit's foot, lucky. Well, those are just a few of them. Lots of people carry a lucky coin or a charm of some sort. All of us have a lucky number. And whenever we have something good happen to us, we know it's our lucky day. People the world over are great believers in this business of luck. That's all the superstitions are based on. They're either meant to bring on good luck or keep bad luck away according to the customs and traditions of your own people. You do certain things to try to influence that luck. Now, the way of doing things may vary between different people, but the ideals are the same. These customs are important to the people who follow them. And our servicemen are helping to maintain goodwill by observing the customs of other people in other lands. Now our producer, Mr. Cummings.

Mr. Duro

Act two of the Mississippi Gambler. Starring Tyrone Power as Mark and Linda Christian as Angelique. With Gavin Gordon as Monsieur Duro.

Kansas John Polly

We left New Orleans, Mark and I, and went back to the river boats. It was a fine, easy life. Get gambling all night, sleeping and lazing all day and watching the sights along the riverbank. The weeks went by and our bankroll

Mr. Duro

grew fatter and fat.

Mark Fallon

What are you thinking about, Polly? Counting all that cotton money we won last night?

Kansas John Polly

I'm thinking about that cash you made me put in Elwood's bank in New Orleans, hundreds of miles away. And other fellas feeling it and fingering it. I'm not used to that.

Mark Fallon

You know what we're gonna do when we get enough, Polly? We're gonna build a combination restaurant and gambling place. Better than any other in New Orleans. Rich, exclusive, with Crystal and silver. Everything to lure the ladies and keep them happy while they gamble.

Kansas John Polly

Ladies gamble? Where'd you get that crazy idea?

Mark Fallon

Well, where else can they go when their husbands gamble? Tea parties, sewing circles, Sit home alone. They're bored, Polly. They want the same excitement their husbands enjoy, and we'll supply it for them.

Kansas John Polly

Not me. You try any crackpot ideas you want, but you're not gonna get me off this river.

Mark Fallon

You'll come running the minute I get those faro tables in.

Kansas John Polly

I like them better when they're on boats.

Mark Fallon

How long have you been on this river, folly?

Kansas John Polly

Almost 30 years.

Mark Fallon

Did you ever feel it was a lonely life?

Kansas John Polly

Yes. When I was young, I'd find myself wishing all the pretty girls would take instead of hiding in those houses ashore. Many a night I'd stand on the deck and look at them lighted windows over on the shore and I. Well, I sure thought a lot about it. Just like you're doing right now.

Mark Fallon

Yeah, it's no good. Come on, let's go down and start a game.

Kansas John Polly

Care to play a little poker, Mr. Fallon?

Mark Fallon

Five honest cards.

Kansas John Polly

Yes, Mark, you got me.

Mr. Duro

We.

Kansas John Polly

But, you know, sometimes I do get a terrible itch to take some of those suckers.

Mark Fallon

Didn't you tell me that you've made more playing honest than you ever did by cheating?

Kansas John Polly

No, only cheating a little.

Mark Fallon

It's more fun. We're not doing this for fun, Paulie. We're gonna build that place in New Orleans.

Kansas John Polly

Early in the game, a young man asked to sit in. I couldn't figure him out. Money in every place. But any fool who could see was neither a rich Southern planter nor a man used to much money. Mark wanted him to quit, but he'd

Mr. Duro

have none of it.

Kansas John Polly

He was cleaned up before midnight, excused himself politely, went up on deck and shot himself.

Mark Fallon

How is he, captain? Will he live? He's dead, Fallon.

Kansas John Polly

Apparently, his aim was a lot better

Mr. Duro

than his poker plane.

Mark Fallon

You win all his money? Yes.

Kansas John Polly

Well, now, don't go blaming yourself.

Mark Fallon

I heard how you tried to get him to quit. Is there anything I can do?

Mr. Duro

Nothing.

Kansas John Polly

He has a sister aboard.

Mr. Duro

But that's my job telling her.

Mark Fallon

I'd like to go with you, captain.

Kansas John Polly

All right, Fallon. Come along.

Ann Conant

Captain Everett. Good evening. Well, come in.

Kansas John Polly

This is Mr. Fallon, miss. We come to.

Mark Fallon

Well, I'm afraid we have bad news, miss.

Ann Conant

Your brother, Julian.

Mr. Duro

What's wrong? He shot himself, miss.

Ann Conant

Where is he?

Mr. Duro

It's no use, Ms. Conan, but I've

Angelique Duro

got to go to him.

Mark Fallon

I wish I could say different, but there's Nothing anyone can do.

Angelique Duro

No.

Ann Conant

Oh, no, he wouldn't. He'd never do that.

Angelique Duro

There's no reason.

Mark Fallon

Could you tell us, your parents or someone we could reach for you?

Ann Conant

We have no family. No one.

Angelique Duro

I can't believe it.

Ann Conant

Julian would never. He was carrying money for his firm. Someone else did it to rob him.

Mark Fallon

Ms. Conant, I. I'm afraid your brother. Your brother wasn't robbed, Ms. Conant. Very wisely, he left his company's money with Captain Evers for safekeeping. Isn't that so, Captain?

Mr. Duro

Yes. Yes, of course.

Mark Fallon

We'll be landing tomorrow. Miss. I'd like to offer my help. Anything I can do now or. Or in New Orleans, I'm very grateful.

Ann Conant

I don't know anyone there.

Mark Fallon

I'll see you in the morning, Miss.

Mr. Duro

Cornet.

Kansas John Polly

And Conant never knew that Mark returned her brother's losses. But getting the money back to his firm in Ohio involved a visit to the bank in New Orleans. George Elwood's bank. George Elwood, who was in love with Angelique Duro. When Mark brought Ann Conant to the bank, Elwood had a visitor. Angelique's brother, Laurent.

Mr. Duro

Sit down, Laurent. I'll be with you in a moment. Who's the girl with Fallon, George? Ms. Conant. Ann Conant. She's beautiful. Yes, she is. Well, present me to her. Oh, this isn't a very good time, Laurent. She just lost her brother. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. The fact remains I. I've never seen anyone so beautiful. Please, George, I've got to meet her. All right, Laurent, but you'll have to wait. She's got to sign some papers first.

Ann Conant

You've been very kind, Ms. Elwood. Thank you for your help.

Mr. Duro

That's quite all right, Ms. Conant. And now, may I present my friend, Laurent Durou? How do you do, Miss Conant? Good morning, Mr. Fallon.

Mark Fallon

Mr. Durou. You'll forgive Miss Conant she should get back to the hotel.

Mr. Duro

I understand. Of course. My deepest sympathy. If there is anything I can do, please let me help. Mr. Elwood knows where I may be reached.

Ann Conant

Thank you.

Mark Fallon

My regards to your father, Mr. Durham, and to Angelique.

Mr. Duro

Thank you.

Mark Fallon

They'll be delighted.

Mr. Duro

I'm sure to learn you're back in New Orleans.

Mark Fallon

Well, Polly, what news?

Kansas John Polly

I just saw the hotel manager. He promises to have a room for you, Ms. Conant, within an hour.

Ann Conant

Oh, you've both been so wonderful to me. You don't know how much your help is missed.

Mark Fallon

Oh, it wasn't help. We just like you, and Polly and I are Taking the boat north in a couple of days. And, well, if. If you'd care to go back home at the same time.

Ann Conant

Well, I. I haven't any reason to go back to Springfield now. We only live there because of Julian's worker. I'd rather live here. It's a beautiful city.

Mark Fallon

Yes, I think you'd be happy here. There are a lot of attractive people you'd enjoy knowing.

Ann Conant

Then I'll stay.

Mr. Duro

Good.

Kansas John Polly

We'll start looking for a place tomorrow.

Ann Conant

Will you be gone long?

Kansas John Polly

We'll be back at your doorstep in two weeks.

Mark Fallon

You're a very beautiful girl, Anne. And from the first moment you're seen in public, you'll be so busy you won't be able to keep track of us.

Ann Conant

No, that will never happen.

Kansas John Polly

Come in.

Mark Fallon

For Ms. Corant.

Mr. Duro

Sir.

Mark Fallon

Just bring them here, please. Yes, sir.

Mr. Duro

Thank you, sir.

Ann Conant

Camellias.

Mark Fallon

Yes, camellias. Oh, Mark, I. I'm sure there must be a card among.

Ann Conant

Oh, how could you have guessed? They're my favorite. Oh, this card. LA on D. Oh, yes. The man at the bank.

Mark Fallon

You've been seen in public already. Now let's order some lunch.

Kansas John Polly

And Conan stayed in New Orleans.

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Kansas John Polly

In the weeks that followed, Mark and I spent most of our time on the river. But whenever the boat returned to New Orleans, we'd hear more and more rumors of Anne and Laurentur and how madly in love he was.

Mr. Duro

It means I want to marry you, Anne. I love you. I can't wait any longer to tell you.

Ann Conant

But you can't be sure of what you're saying. You've known me for such a short time. It isn't.

Mr. Duro

You've become my whole life since the moment I saw you. I've never been in love before. I. I never knew anything could be so perfect. And yet such torture. I give you my life. Devotion. Will you marry me? Today? Now.

Ann Conant

I'm sorry, Laurent. You've been wonderful to me.

Mr. Duro

No, no, no, You. You can't refuse me. Not yet. I didn't have any right to ask you so soon. I'll wait for your answer till you've known me longer.

Ann Conant

Oh, Laurent. It's better that I tell you now. Please don't go on hoping I can never be in love with you.

Mr. Duro

Because you're in love with someone else.

Ann Conant

Yes, I am.

Mr. Duro

Mark Fallon.

Ann Conant

Yes.

Mr. Duro

How can you waste your love on a man like that? How can you throw it in the gutter to someone who doesn't even deserve

Narrator

to look at you?

Mr. Duro

Cheating you too. Cheating everyone. Has he told you that he's in love with my sister?

Ann Conant

Your sister?

Mr. Duro

He's been in love with her ever since he came here. You'd think of loving anyone like that.

Ann Conant

Just go, Laurent. Please. Leave them.

Kansas John Polly

That same night, Mark and I were back in New Orleans. We stopped off for a drink of the Rochambeau. At the bar was Laurenturro.

Mr. Duro

I've been thinking of you, Fallon.

Ann Conant

You couldn't have come back at a better time.

Mr. Duro

Do you mind if I ask you a question? Something troubling you, Jerome? Yes. How many women do you want? You're not satisfied trying to get my sister, huh? Hold on, please. Come on, let's get off. You keep out of this, Andre.

Ann Conant

You're lying to Ann about me, trying

Mr. Duro

to break us up. You want her for yourself in the flat you so thoughtfully gunpowder. You're a drunk, Buro. Go home with your friend and sober up till you can talk sense. Well, maybe that makes sense to you. I'll meet you at the Dueling Oaks if you can leave your women long enough.

Mark Fallon

Whenever you like.

Mr. Duro

Our seconds will settle that. All right, Andrea. I'm ready to go home.

Ann Conant

My fault, Mark. Please. Please let me talk to Laurent.

Mr. Duro

No, no, it has nothing to do with you, Anne.

Mark Fallon

This has been building up for a long time.

Mr. Duro

But you shouldn't have come here.

Mark Fallon

You know Polly, see that Anne gets home, will you? I must finish this.

Mr. Duro

Finish what?

Kansas John Polly

There's no need of this. You'll win hands down. A will dividing everything between Ms. Conant and me. Are you crazy?

Ann Conant

Then you do think something might happen?

Mr. Duro

No.

Mark Fallon

No, not really. Polly, you'll act as my second. Just don't make too many side bets.

Mr. Duro

Come in. I'm Andre Brion. I've come on behalf of Laurent de Roux. Oh.

Mark Fallon

This is Ms. Conant and Mr. Polly.

Mr. Duro

Mr. Fellow, I.

Mark Fallon

You can speak freely.

Mr. Duro

Thank you. If I may meet with your second sir to arrange a meeting.

Mark Fallon

Let's do without the formality. Shall we say tomorrow morning at 6 o'?

Mr. Duro

Clock? Very good. As the challenge party, you have the choice of weapons. Sir? Pistols.

Kansas John Polly

Pistols? You are crazy.

Narrator

They'll fight with swords.

Kansas John Polly

Tell that to Duro. Sword.

Mark Fallon

You'll Forgive my friend, Mr. Brion. He worries too much. My choice is pistols.

Mr. Duro

Thank you, sir. Good evening. Holly, get Ann home.

Mark Fallon

All right? Now come here. I want you to sign some.

Mr. Duro

Angelique.

Angelique Duro

I had to see you. You're going to kill Laurent.

Mark Fallon

Perhaps he'll kill me. Did you come to ask me not to?

Angelique Duro

No. Are you skilled with a pistol as you are with a sword?

Mark Fallon

Hardly. Perhaps you came to see me once more because I might not be alive tomorrow.

Angelique Duro

I came only because I thought some member of the family should thank you for not taking advantage of him.

Mark Fallon

You do me too much credit, Angelique.

Mr. Duro

I take advantage only of women. Surely you could spare me that kiss

Mark Fallon

for being so noble.

Angelique Duro

I despise you.

Mark Fallon

Now listen to me. You didn't know there was less advantage in pistols, now, did you?

Mr. Duro

Not until I just told you you came to see me.

Mark Fallon

And I thank you most humbly.

Mr. Duro

But when are you going to admit

Mark Fallon

to yourself that you use your brother as a shield?

Mr. Duro

That your devotion to him is because

Mark Fallon

you're afraid of life and men? Because your mother died giving you birth. You have a driving hunger to live. But until you're willing to be honest with yourself.

Angelique Duro

I hope he kills you. I hope he kills you.

Kansas John Polly

They faced each other the following morning at six o'.

Angelique Duro

Clock.

Kansas John Polly

Mark and Laurent Duro. This was the way of gentlemen.

Mr. Duro

I will count to three Masons.

Kansas John Polly

On the word three, you will turn and fire.

Mr. Duro

Are you ready?

Kansas John Polly

One.

Mr. Duro

Two. Mr. Duro.

Kansas John Polly

Duro had fired. On the count of two. Fired and missed.

Mr. Duro

I regard your conduct as disgraceful as it was delivered.

Kansas John Polly

You may fire.

Mr. Duro

Mr. Fallon. What are you doing here? Rentaly? It's your brother I want to see.

Angelique Duro

No, don't tell me what Happened. I have a right to hear.

Mr. Duro

Yes, Father. Is there anything you want to tell me? I'm sure you know all about it by now. How I fired on the count of two. And how that worthy gentleman preferred to fire into the air rather than. That's a matter. You will leave this house at your earliest convenience. Goodbye, Father.

Angelique Duro

No, no. You can't ask such a thing.

Mr. Duro

I have nothing more to say.

Angelique Duro

You do that to him when he needs you the most. You can't,

Ann Conant

Father.

Angelique Duro

Yvlance. I leave with him.

Mr. Duro

This house could be long without you, Leah.

Kansas John Polly

Angelique left her father and with Laurent went to live with George Elwood and his mother.

Mr. Duro

Been writing letters all morning, dear. Now put down that pen and we'll go for a drive.

Angelique Duro

I'll be through in a moment. George, you see these letters? Another month and you won't have any social life left. I've just turned down more invitations because

Ann Conant

you didn't invite Laurent.

Mr. Duro

Good. Keep on doing it. They're bores anyway. Just keep that chin high, Leah. Always high.

Angelique Duro

I will. George.

Mr. Duro

I love the way you walk through the public places with Aurora Knee like a queen, ignoring the cuts they give him. You're wonderful.

Angelique Duro

You and your mother have been wonderful too. George. The wedding invitations came this morning from the engravers. Here, look.

Mr. Duro

His Excellency Governor Paul Monet requests your present at the marriage of Mademoiselle Angelique Durault. I must send an acceptance. You sure she isn't marrying that Elwoodfellow? Because she's getting used to him living in his home?

Angelique Duro

Because he's been devoted to her all his life. The dearest and the sweetest person she's ever known.

Mr. Duro

And is there love hiding around somewhere too?

Angelique Duro

We'll find it, George. You'll find it. Darling.

Mr. Duro

Julie. You've come home.

Angelique Duro

I couldn't stay away, Father. And have a servant bring you my wedding invitation.

Mr. Duro

Thank you, darling. You and George. Are you quite sure, dear?

Angelique Duro

George and I grew up from childhood expecting to be married. Why, everyone in New Orleans has always said it's a perfect match.

Kansas John Polly

Yes, I know that's all very true,

Mr. Duro

but do you love any.

Angelique Duro

Yes.

Mr. Duro

That's all I wanted to know. Please sit down.

Mark Fallon

Mr. Duro. Yes, I. I received a wedding invitation this morning.

Kansas John Polly

Mark.

Mr. Duro

You and I, we can talk bluntly. You love her, don't you? Yes.

Mark Fallon

Yes, I love her.

Mr. Duro

Then put a stop to this. Go and get her. Do you really believe that?

Mark Fallon

She knows herself well enough yet to find happiness in marriage to anyone.

Mr. Duro

It was just a hope you'll come to the wedding? No. I'll go back on the river where I belong. If there's any message you'd like me to give Angelique.

Mark Fallon

Don't think me rude, Mr. Dureau, but if I had any message, I deliver it in person. Once, long ago, I told her I'd wait until she came to me. I'll continue to wait.

Narrator

The letters GYA signified German youth activities. And wherever such an organization exists in Germany, you know that there the way of democracy is being taught and encouraged. Our occupation forces are helping out through gya, developing healthy interests through group handicrafts and hobby projects. A girl by the name of Helga is one example. She was pretty confused when she joined a GYA group. Her father had been very much anti American and she reflected his ideas. Luckily, she won a trip to Switzerland in a handicraft contest. Once on the trip, Helga learned that the Swiss people and the American women in charge of the tour were very different than her father had pictured non Germans. She won't change overnight, but she wants to learn more about the workings of democracy. And her education is continuing through gya. Such acts by you and your friends today are shaping our world of tomorrow. We pause now for station identification.

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Mr. Duro

The curtain rises on act 3 of the mississippi gambler. Starring tyrone power as mark and linda christian as angelique. With gavin gordon as monsieur duro.

Kansas John Polly

Angelique, George Elwood were married. We stayed on the river for almost a year, Mark and I. But on one of our visits back to New Orleans, Mark's dreams started to come to life. It was going to be the finest dining place and gambling salon in town.

Mr. Duro

Well, I am your architect, Mr. Fallon. I think I can do whatever you want. Good. Good.

Mark Fallon

Now I'll be on the river most of the time. You'll continue to get your instructions from Ms. Conant here. He knows exactly what my wishes are.

Ann Conant

But Mark, how can I?

Mark Fallon

I couldn't have gone this far without you.

Mr. Duro

Please.

Ann Conant

I wish I had half your confidence.

Mark Fallon

And you'll also have charge of decorations and furnishings. I trust that. Pleases you, Mr. Kennerly.

Mr. Duro

It'll be a real pleasure, Ms. Collins. I'll have a complete staff at your service. As for you, Polly, you still won't

Mark Fallon

help me run it, huh?

Kansas John Polly

Not mean I'm investing in it, but you won't catch me wearing those droop flap tail coats like a co cow whacking flies.

Mr. Duro

I'll leave these revised plans with you, Mr. Fellom. Just sign them at your convenience. Yes, this will do.

Mark Fallon

We'll widen the archway.

Mr. Duro

That'll give a clear view of the gaming tables from the dining room and we can.

Ann Conant

Mark.

Mr. Duro

Well, don't you agree, Anne?

Mark Fallon

You see, by widening the archway, we're.

Ann Conant

Mark, I wish you were going to be here while the work's going on.

Mark Fallon

So do I. But we're getting in pretty deep, Anne. And I haven't made enough yet to bank the tables against any big losses.

Ann Conant

May I ask one more question?

Mr. Duro

Of course.

Ann Conant

Have you seen her? Angelique?

Mr. Duro

No.

Mark Fallon

I see her husband at the bank, of course. But we succeed very well in talking only about business.

Ann Conant

I shouldn't have asked. You've heard about her brother, but he left town.

Mark Fallon

It's the best thing he could have done.

Ann Conant

One of these days he's going to meet up with you. Mark, please be careful.

Mark Fallon

Now stop worrying. If you really want to help me, you'll invent a name for this place of ours.

Ann Conant

I already have. La Louisiana.

Mr. Duro

La Louisiana. Perfect. We've got our name.

Mark Fallon

Polly.

Mr. Duro

La Louisiana. Leah. You better hurry, dear. Our friends are downstairs waiting for us.

Angelique Duro

I'll be ready in a moment, George. Well, how do I look?

Mr. Duro

It's a beautiful gown, darling. But there's nothing even from Paris that could make you any lovelier.

Angelique Duro

Why, thank you, dear. George, you're staring at me.

Mr. Duro

Am I? Where are you, Leah?

Angelique Duro

What do you mean, where am I? I'm here. Now. Hand me my bracelet.

Mr. Duro

You're not here, Leah. Not really. Every time I hold you in my arms, you. You seem a thousand miles away. It's like holding a shadow that's drifting somewhere. No substance, no warmth.

Angelique Duro

Come here. Put your arms around me.

Ann Conant

Now, am I here?

Mr. Duro

We're never here. We're never alone. Ever since our honeymoon, always going, going, crowds and people. I love you, Leah, but I can't reach you. What's wrong, dear?

Angelique Duro

I don't know what you mean, George. I don't. When Laurent disappeared, I was frightened. But I'm not anymore. I do love you. And I've tried to make you happy and proud of me. Please tell me I haven't failed this much.

Mr. Duro

I don't know why I say it. I don't know what it is. I want too much of you. Don't, darling. I can't stay away from you. I can't even.

Angelique Duro

Yes, dear?

Mr. Duro

Nothing. Nothing at all. Come along, darling. I want to show you off in your new gown.

Kansas John Polly

I suppose that sooner or later it was bound to happen. The linking together of Ann Conan's name with Marx. Especially now that she was seen so often at the building of La Louise.

Mr. Duro

Well, gentlemen, Allan boasted about building a show place. It appears he's as good as his words. But who's that delightful creature talking to the architect? Don't be naive, Cier.

Kansas John Polly

Fallon's luck goes far beyond cards.

Mr. Duro

Having a companion like that beauty. That's a liar, Mr. K. I am not in the habit of lying, Mr. Duro. Let's come at the Lady Felon's a gentleman and my friend. I must ask you to retract that slander. I'll retract nothing. Oh, come now, Dureau. Men don't rent flats for women. Or let them design gambling palaces unless they. You leave me no choice. I'll name my second this afternoon. A pleasure.

Kansas John Polly

We were on the river when the duel took place. Mark hurried back as fast as he could. He had something to do tell Mr. Duro. And his heart was never heavier.

Angelique Duro

It's Mark Fallon, Father. You'll want to see him alone.

Mr. Duro

No, I'll stay angry. Stay. I'm grateful to you for defending Ms. Cornet. But you should have waited for me. I never ignored an insult to a lady.

Mark Fallon

Ma, you must hurry and get well. You gave me your word you'd be at the opening of La Louisiane.

Mr. Duro

No. No, I won't be there. No regrets. I've lived a long life. My era. It belonged to the sword fading with me. Perhaps for the best.

Mark Fallon

There is something I must tell you, Mr. Bureau.

Mr. Duro

You and Angelique.

Mark Fallon

Well, I've never faced a more bitter

Mr. Duro

duty than I meant to tell you.

Angelique Duro

Laura. It's Laura.

Mark Fallon

Yes. He came aboard at Memphis with a knife. I didn't recognize him at first.

Mr. Duro

He was bearded. It all happened so quickly. I was unarmed. I tried to hold him off.

Mark Fallon

We struggled.

Mr. Duro

Lauren went down.

Mark Fallon

He fell down a staircase. He fell on his knife.

Mr. Duro

No. Thank you for telling me, Mark. I couldn't hold you responsible in any way. Now I want to ask one promise.

Mark Fallon

Anything.

Mr. Duro

Protect Angelique. Always.

Mark Fallon

I give you my word.

Kansas John Polly

Mr. Dura died. If you are as. As long before he left the house, Mark asked George Elbert if He could see Angelique alone.

Angelique Duro

There's very little you can say. And even less I want to hear.

Mr. Duro

Angelique.

Mark Fallon

Once, long ago, I thought the odds were in our favor. Yours and mine. But it seems to have been my lot to destroy everything you have loved. Perhaps you knew that from the start. I won't intrude against again.

Kansas John Polly

Mark meant every word he said. But the time came many months later when he was obliged to call up the L. Woodhouse once again.

Mr. Duro

You're not welcome here, Mr. Felon. You choose to do business with my bank, but that hardly gives you social privileges. It's business that brought me here.

Mark Fallon

And it can't wait until morning. I've just come from the fencing academy. While I was there, three of your biggest accounts sought me out. Hewitt, Keith and Farrow.

Mr. Duro

They told me they're withdrawing their money tomorrow.

Mark Fallon

Need your bank in shape to stand it?

Mr. Duro

My bank is in perfect shape.

Mark Fallon

They claim to have seen confidential reports to the contrary.

Mr. Duro

If you're worried about your money, Mr. Felon, I'll be pleased if you banked elsewhere.

Mark Fallon

I was told you've transferred Mrs. Elwood's estate into your bank. It's causing talk.

Angelique Duro

That's ridiculous.

Mr. Duro

Is it?

Mark Fallon

Your father banked at the Southern Federal all his life.

Angelique Duro

I transferred the account for one reason. Because I wish to.

Mr. Duro

There'll be a lot of people at

Mark Fallon

your bank in the morning, Elwood.

Mr. Duro

You'd better be prepared to handle a run. If you have any more suggestions, you may see me there during business hours. I think you promised my wife never to intrude on her again.

Mark Fallon

I also made a promise to her father.

Mr. Duro

Good night, George.

Angelique Duro

Is there any danger?

Mr. Duro

Certainly not.

Angelique Duro

Then why did you ask me to

Mr. Duro

change my account as the day arrived that you believe over me?

Angelique Duro

George.

Mr. Duro

Let me alone, Angelique. Just let me alone.

Kansas John Polly

Three days later, Elwood's bank went to the war. George Elwood disappeared. And with him went $200,000. Mark and I. Well, we were just two more depositors who'd been cleaned up.

Mr. Duro

They warned me, Polly, but I. I just couldn't believe it.

Mark Fallon

I'm sorry I dragged you down with me.

Kansas John Polly

I always told you that depositing money made me nervous.

Ann Conant

It means the end of LA, LA.

Mr. Duro

And after all your work, Anne.

Ann Conant

Oh, you'll finish it one day.

Mark Fallon

We can start right now.

Mr. Duro

You got a new deck of cards, Polly.

Kansas John Polly

You mean that. Why, I got a dozen new decks. And the boat for St. Louis leaves tonight at 9.

Mark Fallon

Been keeping track of the sailings, huh?

Kansas John Polly

I've been missing those paddle wheels.

Mark Fallon

So have I.

Kansas John Polly

Well, I better get those reservations. See you later.

Mark Fallon

And I. I hate leaving you here alone after.

Mr. Duro

Well, after you're being so much a

Mark Fallon

part of all our plans.

Ann Conant

I'll always be grateful to you, Mark. But I haven't any claim on your life. I know that now. Even if this beautiful place had been finished, it never would have held you.

Angelique Duro

So.

Mr. Duro

If.

Ann Conant

If I can just see you and Polly once in a while and know that everything is well with you, I. I am.

Mr. Duro

You're wonderful. Thank you.

Kansas John Polly

In the months that went by, Mark never lost track of Angelique. He knew there had been no word from her husband. He also knew when Angelique finally decided to sell her home.

Mr. Duro

We will sign a bill of sale here, Angelique. The Larishers are in no hurry to take over. They said to move at your own convenience.

Angelique Duro

Next week will be fine, Mr. Hewitt.

Mr. Duro

I'm so happy to see you rid of this place, Angelique. To close this whole unhappy chapter of your life. You're going back to your own home?

Angelique Duro

I don't know. I haven't been there since my father died.

Mr. Duro

I think he would have wanted you to live there. There. Let me know what you decide.

Angelique Duro

I will, Mr.

Mark Fallon

He.

Angelique Duro

Thank you.

Mr. Duro

You aiming to stay over this trip, Mr. Felon? You orange?

Kansas John Polly

A mighty gay town this time of year.

Mark Fallon

I'll be leaving when the boat leaves, captain.

Mr. Duro

Tonight, 10 o'. Clock. You can count on me.

Kansas John Polly

Fine. Hey, ain't that Mr. Polly there?

Mr. Duro

Want to duck? Yes.

Mark Fallon

He.

Mr. Duro

He missed this trip. He had some business to attend to for me.

Mark Fallon

See you tonight, Captain.

Kansas John Polly

I've got good news for you, Mark. Better still, you can read about it for yourself.

Mr. Duro

It's right here in the newspaper, Angelique. Is everything all right, Polly? Yes.

Kansas John Polly

And this time I think you'll want to stop her. The court's handed down the decision. She's free. You know you promised her father you'd always look out for her. Go to her, Mark. Try to see her.

Mr. Duro

Wouldn't work out, Polly. It's better this way.

Kansas John Polly

Going back to her old home. She'll be there by now.

Mr. Duro

No.

Mark Fallon

I just told the Captain I'll be leaving again on tonight's boat.

Kansas John Polly

I guess you know your own mind, Mark. After all, I never saw a man win all his best.

Mark Fallon

Now let's get into town.

Mr. Duro

I've got some winnings to slip with you.

Kansas John Polly

I love Mark.

Mr. Duro

At the hotel.

Kansas John Polly

And I drove out alone to the old Duro mansion. I wanted to talk to Angelique, but

Mr. Duro

I couldn't bring myself to go in.

Kansas John Polly

The house was dark Deserted. But I knew she was there. Her carriage was standing in front. And I saw a candle and the light moving from room to room. And I wondered how she could stand

Mr. Duro

the loneliness and the men.

Ann Conant

I've come back, Father.

Angelique Duro

I've come back. Norah. But it's so empty. So empty.

Mark Fallon

When are you going to admit to yourself that you use your brother as a shield? Your devotion to him because you're afraid of life? Because your mother died giving you birth? You and I are in love with each other.

Mr. Duro

We always will be.

Mark Fallon

You're not ready for marriage yet. And I won't be until you come to me. Until you come to me.

Kansas John Polly

A moment later I saw a rush from the house and they carried to those high strung horses dashing down the drive.

Mr. Duro

Again. Better hold her trip, Captain. Looks like you've got another passenger.

Mark Fallon

There's a carriage coming down the wharf.

Kansas John Polly

Well, I'll be gone.

Angelique Duro

Wait.

Mr. Duro

Wait now.

Kansas John Polly

He did something.

Mr. Duro

Mr. Valent. Pull in your reins, lady. We'll wait.

Mark Fallon

I've waited a long time to see a sight like this.

Mr. Duro

Hey, where you going, Angelique?

Angelique Duro

I've come to you, Mark. Take me with you wherever you go. Wherever you go.

Narrator

Now here's Mr. Cummings with our stars,

Mr. Duro

Mr. And Mrs. Tyrone Power. Won't you please step forward and accept your curtain call.

Angelique Duro

Now, why don't you tell us about next week's play?

Mr. Duro

Next week we will bring you one of the fine sensitive dramas of a famous playwright, Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie, winner of the New York Dramatic Critics Circle Award. It was made into a beautiful motion picture by Warner Brothers. In her original role will be that brilliant actress, Jane Wyman. Co starring with those two outstanding artists, Faye Beta and Frank Lovejoy.

Angelique Duro

That will certainly be worth listening to. Good night.

Mark Fallon

Good night.

Mr. Duro

Good night and hurry back.

Narrator

Heard in our cast tonight were ted dicorcia as polly, alistair duncan as laurent, francis robinson as anne, john stevenson as george, william johnstone as the boat captain, fred mackay as andrew and bob bruce, bob griffin, herb butterfield, barney phillips, gain

Mr. Duro

whitman and eddie marr.

Narrator

The Hollywood Radio Theater is produced by Mr. Irving Cummings. Our orchestra is under the direction of Rudy Schrager. This is Ken Carpenter inviting you to join us next week at this same time for another presentation of the Hollywood Radio Theater. Hollywood Radio Theater is a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

Kansas John Polly

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