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In this episode of the Luxe Radio Theater, we present "My Friend Flicka," a heartwarming story of a young boy named Ken, played by Roddy McDowell, and his deep bond with a horse named Flicka. Set on a ranch, the story explores the challenges and joys of growing up, responsibility, and the unique connection between humans and animals. Ken's father, portrayed by George Brent, initially doubts the wild horse's potential, but Ken's unwavering determination and love for Flicka reveal the transformative power of friendship and hope.

As the narrative unfolds, Ken faces various trials, including Flicka's injury and illness, which test his resolve and maturity. The episode captures the essence of perseverance and the belief in miracles, as Ken's dedication to Flicka ultimately leads to a heartwarming resolution. The performances by the cast, including Rita Johnson as Ken's mother, add depth to this touching tale of love, growth, and the enduring bond between a boy and his horse.

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The luxe radio theater brings you Roddy McDowell, George Brent, and Rita Johnson   in my friend flicker.   Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, mister Cecil b DeMille.  

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Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.   Among the grown ups of this world, there's usually something less than perfect understanding.   But between boys and horses,   there's a deep and abiding sympathy that leaves no room for bickering.   Not a word is spoken.   There's a miracle of communication and a lump of sugar, a pat on the head or a nuzzled cheek.   I had a horse when I was a boy, so when I heard what my friend Flicker was about, I knew I'd like it, but I was not prepared for the deep emotional experience   which the twentieth century Fox picture gives to all who see it.  

Roddy McDowell's fine performance as the boy and Mary O'Hara's   great story fit perfectly together.   And tonight, we've brought back an old favorite of yours.   George Brent as Roddy's father with Rita Johnson from the picture cast as his mother.   This drama has the power of simplicity.   It's a story of a boy on a ranch   and the outlaw horse who is his friend.   Together, they meet the joys and the pathos of their simple life,   a life perhaps we all may envy.   I believe it's plays like this which have given the Luxe Radio theater its reputation through the years and earned the loyalty which you have given to this theater and to Luxe toilet folk.   You know, it takes about 40 people   to bring one of these plays to the microphone   in addition to the actors.  

There are the engineers, writers, musicians,   sound technicians, stagehands, script girls, play readers,   research experts,   and just plain handymen like me.   All these people work all week so that you can have this hour of entertainment on Monday night, and you've certainly done your part magnificently.   You've given us many excellent suggestions   and we've given you a double feature, a fine play and a fine product, Luxor itself.   And here's the fine play right now, but the curtain goes up on the first act of my friend Flicker,   starring Roddy McDowell as Ken, George Brent as Rob, and Rita  

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Johnson   as Nell.  

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Around the lower meadow, they clash. The brood mares of the goose bar ranch, and their new folds.   Around and around again, There's the great stallion, Banner, its proud name flung out in the wind. And there's his lady, Rocket, her eyes rimmed with white as her graceful body sweeps through the high grass.   And there are the foals   running close beside their mothers.   Running because they're so new to the world and so happy to be in it, and because the morning sky is clear,   and the spring wind is fresh with the smell of tines from the mountains.   Yet this is the family of the stallion banner.  

This is the lifeblood of   of the ranch. Now toward the ranch house comes another horse.   This one wears a saddle, but no rider.   He runs free, his bridle whipping about his head.   Papa, papa look. What now, Elle? Look, papa. Here comes the grass, but there's nobody on him. Yes, Ken. Oh, boy. Here, boy. Go there. Oh. Oh.  

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That's the boy. Easy boy. Easy. Yes. Yeah, boss. What's the matter? Is that cigarette? Yeah, boss. Does he come back alone? Ken riding her? He won't. But yes, pal. Oh, they keep quiet. Oh, papa. Oh, gone that kid. Look at this bridle, snaps in half.   Hope Ken's all right. Oh, young one's full ride, boss. He's used to it. Well, there's always a chance of getting hurt. Saddle shorty. I'll better slow see. Yeah, boss. Oh, wait a minute. Never mind, Gus. Here he comes now. He's slipping. I bet he hurt his leg. Ken? Yes, sir? Come here. Yes,  

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sir. You alright? Sure. I'm alright. Just get my knee a little. Did cigarette toss you again? Yes, sir. Then she did your heels on her belly again. Didn't. Did you, son?  

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Yes, sir. Well, good heavens, Ken. Aren't you ever going to grow up? How many times have I told you not to tap your heels into it? And look at that bridle, the second one you broke in this week. I'm sorry, dad. Oh, Ken, did you find a saddle blanket?   What saddle blanket? This one. I I knocked it out on the rain yesterday afternoon. I was looking for it this morning. Growned with a saddle, I suppose, and forgot to cinch it properly. Yes, sir. Phew, wiz. Look. It's all hard. Will you keep quiet, Hildy? It it got caught on some bad wires, Adam. You're that dog gone to skit for losing and busting and forgetting. Dad. Never mind the excuses. There's your mother ringing for breakfast. Pull that horse out and come up to the house. Yes, dad.  

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Get on, Rob. It's all ready. Any mail this morning? Right over there. Where's Tim? Oh, he's coming. Cigarette tossed him again.  

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I don't know what I'm going to do with that boy. Doesn't seem to pay any attention to what I tell him. Always losing equipment or breaking it or spoiling it somehow. Oh, he's still a child. Well, he's old enough to have his wits about him. Never seen such a young one for walking around with his head in the clouds. Wondering he doesn't trip over his feet. Morning, mom. Come on, darling. Eat your oatmeal while it's hot. Now look at that. Rob, what is this? Ken's report card. Well, Ken, I suppose it won't surprise you to know that you haven't been promoted. No, sir. And here, maybe you'd like to see your mark. Well, let him eat his breakfast. Good. Just as a matter of curiosity, Kim, how do you go about getting a zero in English? Forty in history, seventeen in arithmetic, but a zero.   Just as one man to another, what goes on in your head?  

Well, haven't you got anything to say for yourself?  

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Nothing, sir. Well, what were you doing in that English exam? What were the questions you missed? We were supposed to write a composition. Well, couldn't you think of anything? Yes. I had it all planned. I was going to write the story of how you lost your polo, ma'am. How that wild albino came down from the meadow one year and stole it from Vanna. And then how she came back, but her foal that year was white, the albino blood, and how it was passed on every year. Then how Rocket was born, and she was so beautiful and everything that she could never be broken because that wild blood was in her. I was gonna write all that. Well, why didn't you? I I got to thinking. I thought we had time. I thought we had just begun when the school bell rang. So you never even got started? No, sir. Not a single word here. No, mom. Just daydreaming,   No, dad. I was thinking about About what?  

About  

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my colt. Your colt? You haven't even got a colt. Oh, dad. Give me a colt. Will you please? You'll get a colt when you learn how to treat one. You're going to buck up young man. Trouble is you don't cry. I do cry dad. Well, I don't see any proof of it. In the meantime, you'll spend an hour a day studying all the rest of the summer to make up your work.   Come in.   Good morning, missus. Oh, good morning, dad. Well, boss, much for the day. Good day to move the horses, Gus. Yeah. It's time they were off the middle. There's a storm cooking up in the Southwest. Can I help that? I've got to get four of the older horses in shape of the rodeo. That means foolproof.   Those three year olds have to be broken. Can't let them go any longer. Can't I help move them to see that? Great guns. No. Tough enough to move a hundred horses fresh as blazes after a winter out without a kid taking along to make them nervous.  



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Right out, Gus. Yeah, boys. Don't you want another cup of coffee with you? No. I've had enough. Gotta get started.   Pancakes, Ken? No, thank you. Oh, Kenny. You can ride any horse we've got on the ranch.   Why are you so set on having a colt? Oh, mother. It isn't just riding.   I want a colt to be friends with me. If I had one, I'd make you the most wonderful horse in the world. I'd feel it so it'd be bigger than any other horse on the ranch and the fastest. I'd scrawl it so it would follow me around wherever I went like a dog.   You see, mother,   I want a colt of my own.  

All my own.   Well, you'd better guacam start your stirring, Kent. Get it over with.   Kenny?   Kenny, wait.   What do you want, Harry? Where are we going, Kenny? No. You're not going. I'm gonna watch dad being in the horses. Alright. We can take the short cut and eat in half way coming back. Oh, no. No. You better stay here. It's gonna be tough enough to bring in a hundred horses. Order them as fresh as they did after winter out without having a girl tagging along to make them nervous. I'm coming. Old horses ain't scared of me. Oh, go on, Hilda. You better go back. I can come if I want. My father's the foreman. Well, my father's the owner of that ranch in that cell. Well, my father's the foreman and I can come if I want. Oh, alright.   Get back to the edge of that rock and step off and slide down in the meadow. I won't slip. Look here, Dee. See that big black spider? That's Bana. That one's rocker. Right in the middle. She's beautiful. Isn't she beautiful?  

Better get back. That's all. Look. Do you see how Banna handles them? They have to do what he wants or I don't need them. Do you hear me? Did you see? One of the layers wanted to come out and run, but he let me get back.  

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Okay, Tim. Okay, boss.  

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Welcome slowly on the way back. Okay, boss. Tim, come here.   What were you doing down here anyway?   I came to see the horse. So you have to fall down the hill and start him into a stampede. I I didn't mean to do it, dad. I didn't mean to scare him. You didn't mean you never mean anything, do you? Get up.  

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I suppose not to stand on that loft tonight. My apologies attitude. You'll catch it when you get home a bit. Oh, go away, Hilly. Ain't you coming? I'll I'll be up later.   What's that?   Look, Hilly. At the end. But she shouldn't be here. She must have come down from the whole pasture.   Jesus, look at her. Isn't she beautiful?   Almost a white name. That's the albino blood, but she's like banner too. She's got banner dead.   And she won like banner by the wind.   Oh, Jesus. If I could ever have a cold like that.  

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No more accounts for tonight. I'm out on my feet. How's the answer to your help? Oh, so so, I guess. Are we on the downbeat?   Well, I never had so many bills and less money to pay them with.   I don't seem to be able to sell the horses at a profit. But they're good horses with good blood. Mhmm. All about that albino strain.   Now you've got a crazy speak of them. Oh, you're trying to sell them. I wouldn't even get back the cost of raising them at the price anybody'd offer. I'd rather shoot them. I would too if there weren't a doggone fast.   You know, I always hope to just get one decent cold out of that time.  

Well, let's go to bed. Rob.  

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Mhmm. Give Santa a cold.  

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That's a little sunty cold this morning. And you know he didn't need to. No. He doesn't deserve a cold. Aren't you ever going to give him one? Sure. I've been expecting to. Maybe if he pays attention to his studies this summer.   By the way, did he study today? Well, he exposed himself to his work. Yeah. I know. Nothing I say makes any impression. Well, don't you please set his heart on having a cold of his own and can't think of another thing. But that's all backwards. You don't bribe children through that, Judy. It's not a bribe, Rob. No. What would you call it? No.  

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I just have a feeling that Ken isn't going to pull anything off.   And it's time he did.  

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Maybe a little thing like this would turn the trick. If that isn't a little thing, that isn't easy to break in school of cold. I'm not going to have one of my good horses spoiled by that boy's careless. Rob is important.  

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He's got to succeed at something. What he needs What he needs is to snap out of it. Well, if you wanna put it that way.   But I was going to say is he needs to grow up a little bit. And how will having his own pulse make him grow up? Oh, you know.   Something of his own. Responsibility.   He got something real and fresh and blood that he cared about more than all those things he goes learning about.   Well,  

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wait.   Don't go.   Now I I'd like to get cynical.   I'd I'd like to get closer to the boy somehow.   But every time I get all set for a get together session with him, he only hands me a phaser like I think he called today. Rob, didn't you ever want anything more than anything else in the room?   Yes.   Just one thing,   and I have it.   You now.  

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You do understand. You do, doctor.   Good morning, mom. Hello, dad. Morning. Morning, Teddy. Sit Sit down. Oh, Gus was in, Rob. Mhmm. He tells me Rocca break broke away from the home pasture last night. She did? He thinks she set a coast up here. Well, there wasn't one with her yesterday. I'll have to chase all over the range looking for her. I'll find you that.  

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Alright.   I'll go with you.   By the way, son,   I'm going to take back an order I gave you yesterday.   You can forget that hour of study. Oh,   thanks, dad. You can.   I'm going to give you a coat. A coat?  

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A coat of my own? Mhmm.  

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I'll give it to you, oh, a week from today. That'll give you time to look them all over and make your own choice. You mean I can have any coat on the ranch? Yes. A yearning?   That's right.   You ready to leave in ten minutes?  

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A coat of my own.   Keepers.   Maybe I can have the one I saw yesterday.  

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Any sign of a guess? No, boss. Why don't you ride over here and look for a day? No. Stay with me.   Ken, you may think it's funny my giving you a cold and what you deserve was a good hiding,   flunking all your exams and then pulling that stunt yesterday.   Well, I don't want you to think I'm letting you off. I haven't gone soft. Don't get that into your head. I expect just as much of you now as I ever did.   This isn't any reward because you haven't won any reward.   It's,   well, it's a partnership.   One of these days, I'm going to need your help. You have to be trained so you'll know how to give it.   Every man needs training, Ken. Listen.  

I got mine at West Point.   Now you're going to train a colt. I'll give you a little help just for first break.   She will have to train it, and it'll train you. Yes.   You know, Kim, you and your mother may have to take care of this ranch without me pretty soon. Why, dad? Will you be? Well, I may go back into the army any day now, son. You understand, don't you? Yes.   So I'm counting on you to make a good pony out of that colt   and let it make a man out of you. Yes. Well, I'll fix another heater, boss. No cones here either. Well, I'm not surprised. I rode all over this grove yesterday, and I'm sure I didn't leave any colts behind.  

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Besides, if Rocket had a colt, she wouldn't have left it. Dad, I saw a colt in the meadow yesterday. It got separated from that bunch in the stampede.  

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It was a beautiful, sparrow filly with a queen mane and tail. Queen mane? Sounds like that yearling of rockets. Rockets? Yeah. The filly started by banner last spring. That's what was the matter with rocket last night. She missed a little filly and went back after her. Yes. If she did lose a cold, she'd very likely to console herself with the yearling. She's local, that rocket.   Well, we should pick up a track around here.  

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Great boss. Well? There. There's a track. Alright. But he's into horse. See? Right there. That's a cat, boss. Yep. It's a mountain lion. Alright. Yeah. Big one. Gee. We haven't had one of them around here for a long time. It's a good thing we got the brute mares out of here yesterday. Yeah. That's what happened. The cat got rockets hold. When, Gus? Tracks not very fresh.  

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Maybe two days old. Two days? Then it couldn't be. It couldn't be the one I saw yesterday, could it? No. Of course not. You saw a yearling yesterday.  

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Just we better keep an eye out for that cat. Here, boss. I go up around Castle Rock with a gun one day.  

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There she is, dad. There's Walker. Yeah. That's the yearling with her too. There they go. Look at that 31, dad. She's almost as fast as Walker. She sure is. What a pretty little flicker she is.   Litter?  

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What does that mean, dad? Speed is for little girl.  

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Licker.   That's what I'll call her.  

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My coat. Your coat? Yes, sir. That's the one I want. Rockets, Philly? Yes, sir. Well, I certainly hope you make a wiser decision than that. You know how I feel about Rocket, that whole line of horses. But she's fast at them. They're the worst horses I've got. There's not one among them with any real sense. The mayors are hellions and the stallions are outlaws. They're untamable.   Oh, Dana. Nobody's ever been able to tame them. You want a horse that'll be offended here, don't you? Yes, sir. Well, heaven, you'll never make a friend out of that, silly. No offense in the world will ever hold her. No. You'll change your mind.   No. I want her dad. Oh, okay, Ken. I promise you could make your own choice. But remember, Rocket's local and ten to one, the Colt is two. Dad, she may not be. Bella's her father. Alright. Alright. It's up to you. We'll bring her in the next day.  

That's what I stopped by for, Rob. Thought you might have something fast I could use. Well, I told you last fall about Rocket. Not interested. Charlie, with all your race horses, you haven't got anything like Rocket. That she never can outrun any animal you've ever seen. Oh, you're crazy. Wouldn't like to make a little bet on that, would you? Hello, Charlie. Well, hello there, Mel. No. No. Don't get out. Well, what are you two talking about? Rocket.   You know, if I could get a mare that could really run without training That's rocket. She'd make a fortune for you if you could break her. I got a bronco buster who can break any horse that has ever fold. And as you can do it, if she's worth breaking. She worked it, didn't I just tell you? How much do you want for her? 500.   You got a stopwatch?  

No. But I've got a speedometer.   She's down in the lower pasture. We'd get around on the road there and chase along after her in the car. We could flock her that way. Alright. Come on.  

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What do you say, Charlie? Great. Gun. She's like a locomotive. Does she always run like that with her nose in the air? Yeah. She's a stargazer. Look at that speedometer. 30 miles. Gasparov's aircraft flying. Go. Go and rocket. 32,   30 three. She does 35. I'll fire. Thirty four? Thirty five. Jumping deeper. Well, what do you say? It's a deal. If you deliver her to my range, sound and wind and limb. But just how you're gonna do that, my lad, is anybody's guess. You leave that to me. I'll have her in my truck this   afternoon.  

Hey there, boss. Get in.   Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get   in.  

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Get   in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Get in. Don't swing that trailer on the curves. Remember, Charlie expects her delivered in good shape, and don't skin her up. Okay, boss. Alright. Get her out of here.  

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Well, that's that now. You mean that's $500?   It'll come in mighty handy, won't it? I guess we can use  

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it. $500  

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and rock it off the ranch. Oh. What the Oh. Stop. She's hurt. Oh,   no. Mom, what happened with that? No. Look, Kenny. Rocket. She was in the trailer and then she reared up.   Go go in the house, dear. Rocket. Go inside, dear. Take the trailer off here.  

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I'll be right back to help you with it. The outpost. Grow, Rob. She's finished. She rahed up. She hit her head on the gate down there. She's dead. Oh, poor Rob. Well, there's one thing I can still do. I can get rid of every albino horse on the ranch and I'm going to them. You're gonna sell them? To William. William?  

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They're too good for William. Only by his horses, doesn't he? But he buys any kindest horses and he doesn't pay anything. Whatever he pays is good enough.  

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Hello? Hello, Williams?   This is Rob McLaughlin.   Look, Williams. I got a load of horses for you. Yeah. Those albinos. Rockets whole tribe.   Alright. Alright. At your own price.   Good.   Yeah. There are nine of them. Wait a minute. There may be 10. Ken,  

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come here. Yes, sir.  

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I'm gonna give you a chance to do a sensible thing. I want you to choose another colt and let me sell flicker to mister Williams with the rest of those jigheads.   For your sake, I'm asking you to do this as well as mine. So Flicker? What's the use of having another rocket on your hands? Did you just see what happened to her? Well, I'm going to tame Flicker. But you can't. It's impossible. Sometimes bad horses get tamed. You don't want a local horse, do you? I want Flicker. Look at me. Dad please.  

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She's mine. You gave it to me and   she I want her dad.   I want Flicker.  

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Alright.   Sorry to keep you waiting Williams.   I thought there was one more,   but there are only nine.  

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In a few minutes, mister DeMille and our stars George Brent, Roddy McDowell, and Rita Johnson   will return in act two of my friend Flicker.   And now let's try to catch up with a busy lady who has quite an unusual job.   There it goes. The whistle that means the end of the daytime shift at central aircraft.   Miss Emery oh, Miss Emery, won't you let us have a few minutes? Two at the most. I've got a line of girls waiting for me. Miss Emery, did you ever think when you got your nurse cat that someday you'd also be beauty adviser at a great airplane factory? Hardly, mister Kennedy, because no one ever thought a few years ago that beauty council and factory work would go together.  

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But practical, hard headed management has found that it pays. Well, tell us why, won't you? Well, to put it briefly,   executives have been discovering that when spirits are high, work is good.   Of course, every woman knows that when she looks her best, she's likely to be feeling her best and so doing her best.   That's why we urge the girls to take good care of their hands, their hair, and their skin.   Even suggest right nail polish helps morale, you know. Yes. I can see that it would.   What do you tell the girls about complexion care, miss Emery? Well, we tell them there's no one thing that contributes more to a girl's good look than a smooth, lovely skin. Do you make a practical suggestion? Yes. We stress regular care. No skipping beauty care at bedtime just because you're tired.  

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A complexion care must be gentle too, one you can depend on. Well, that sounds as though you were going to mention luxe toilet soap any minute now. Well, it just happens that my own beauty care is luxe toilet soap, mister Kennedy. I've used it for years. Well, I'm sure of one thing, miss Emery. That gorgeous luxe complexion of yours must have quite an influence with the girls in backing up what you tell me. Oh, thank you, mister Kennedy.  

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As a matter of fact, luxe toilet soap is a great favorite at the plant. So many of the girls find that regular active ladder facials give them real beauty help. Thank you very much, miss Emery.  

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It's true that not only nine out of 10 screen stars, but women everywhere   find that this famous white soap does give skin the gentle protecting care it ought it had.   Now here's a shopping suggestion.   Luxe toilet soap, Hollywood's beauty soap, tomorrow.   We pause now for station identification.   This is the Columbia Broadcasting   System.  

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Act two of my friend Flicker, starring George Brent as Rob, Roddy McDowell as Ken,   and Rita Johnson as Nell.   Flicker has lost the freedom of the pasture.   She's learning now that to be a friend of man,   she must submit to the flash of a rope around her neck   and the high bars of the corral.   Her slicker's blood is out of the wild albino,   a breeding of the open prairie land.   Now get that door closed.   Yeah. Well, that's fair. Yeah. Well, that's best. Sure. It's a vile one, boss. Come local, that silly. Leave her in there to think it over. Hey. She's putting mad. She's around the side there. She's coming through the side window, boss. Get around there quick. There she goes right through the glass. Make her. Make her from that.   Oh,  

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That gun is still wrapped up, miss. Oh, are you, Tim? Please. Sorry. He's doing the best he can. He's cut straight to that horse.   I don't think she'll pull out of it. Maybe it's just as well. If it hadn't been this way, it would have been another. The loco horse isn't worth a pull it to take to shoot it. Oh, litter.  

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Penny,   eat a bit. I'm not hungry, ma'am. Please, Penny.   Do I have to? You heard what your mother said. But but pretty she  

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I thought maybe I could pull down and see how she is. Your mother said to eat. Let him go to a rob. She can't do her any good. Doesn't tend to pull her inside the fence and put nothing on her cut. She snapped out of it. She's got water and oat. Rob, let him go. Alright. Alright. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go on.  

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Oh, Flicker.   You haven't heard a lot, Flicker.   I didn't mean to hurt you. I just wanted you to be mine, and and that means you have to get to know me.   That's why we brought you here, Flicker,   so we could be friends.   I'll stay here with you as much as I can. I'll come here every morning and every night and every day ask for a technician of health until you get well again.   Oh, get well, Flicker.   Please be alright.   Please, Flicker.  

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Twelve   half past ten. Guess I better hit the head. Rob.   Mhmm. Rob, I wish to be a little nice at a time. Why? He's done against everything I've told him to do. Taking that wild albino,   insisting on keeping it. Crazy nag. Well, it's been hard on him too. He's all broken up worrying about it. Well, so am I. I'm burned up. What's it all for? Just gonna have a horse to train, why didn't he pick a decent one? When I would have thought of something, made a man of him. What can he do with this poor little filly? Give him a little time   now. Where does the artist is changing, Kenny? He's learning. Learning what? Sit under a tree all day and moon over her? No.  

He's learning to face that. I haven't noticed him facing any fact. We will.  

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If you just watch for   Well, what's your sister about this morning? Flicker. She's better. Oh, coming along. Mhmm. She's almost well. Except we're all healed up and she's eating like a horse.  

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That one. Oh.  

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Maybe we're going to have a pleasant summer after all. But she doesn't turn out to be another rocket. Oh, I hope not. We'll find that out when we'll put a holder on her. Honey, Sunday. This morning, mom. I'm sorry. What kind of matters is that? I'm sorry. Good morning, mom. Morning, dad. Morning, Ken. Coffee, Ross. Thanks.   Ken, now that Flicker's better, I want you to remember that you have some other duties. Oh, yes, sir. You can give some of your time to your cold but not all of your time. Oh, I want, dad.  

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Oh, dad. Mhmm.   Could you come down and look at Flicker this morning and see how she is? Well, will her highness let you get near her? Well, not too close. She's still a little scared. But she let you look at us on the other side of the fence. I speak of her. Okay.  

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We'll get down after breakfast and give her the one to her.  

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Great.   Good morning, Flicker. Hello, Flicker. Dad's coming down to look at you so be a good girl and don't run away, will you? Well, she does. That's good. Fine, Ken. Yes, sir. A cup girl nearly out except for the one on the right front leg and it's almost well. I think she's blue.   Dad,   do  

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do you think she's local? I'd have sworn her by the way she's behaved ever since she was born.   But But we've never seen her except when she was scared out of her wits. Oh, every horse looks wild in the eye when it's terrified. She tried to go through that fence and she knew she shouldn't. Yes. Well, we'll forgive her that one. The point is, will she learn? Can she learn?  

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We   we've got to find that out, don't we? I mean, if she is local,  

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maybe I'll never get her trained. Of course not. And there's no maybe about it. Son, what have I been telling you all these weeks? Didn't you understand?  

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What did you think local meant? Sort of goofy or wild or hard to handle.  

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Oh no. It's much more serious than that.   There can be insanity among animals and bad blood can carry it on.   And that albino blood isn't safe for anybody to have. But you said maybe it's just because she seems scared. Well that's right. We won't really know until we see how she responds to training.  

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Bad. How can I train  

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her? All you can do is try to win her confidence.   You know, son, if you take everything away from a living creature, freedom, friends, his home, habits, and happiness,   it'll turn in sheer need and desperation of the one thing that's left.   In this case, that's you. Me?   Yes. You're her whole life now to make her life. Oh, I will, dad. I will. Give her love and companionship   and talk to her. Will she understand me? Of course.   And a horse can tell you a lot of things too if you watch and expect it to be sensible and smart.   Pay attention to all the little signs,   where it moves its body, the ears,   the eyes, and the whinnies. That's his way of talking to me. That's right. There's the neigh of terror, scream of rage,   the whinnies of nervous impatience, the nick of long or hunger, offendedness.  

You learn its language and it'll learn yours.   And never forget,   horses understand everything you say to them. Everything, dad? Everything. You mean  

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you mean if they're not local?  

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Yes, Kim.  

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Alright, Slick. I know you're hungry for your roach, but I'm hurrying as fast as I can.   There. There you are. Come and get it.   Good, isn't it, Flicker?   Oh, Flicker, you do understand me, don't you? Now eat it all so you'll be big and strong like Banner. You know, you've got a very smart father, Flicker. You've gotta forget all your wild ways and be just like him. Who you talking to? Flicker. All parts of the can't understand people's talk. Well, that's all you know. Flicker understands everything I say. And what's more, what you're expecting me? Ah, cool. Well, maybe you don't know, but of course, he's got a language all alone. There's an air of terror, a scream of rage, the whinnier of nervous impatience, the knicker of longing.   See, there's knicker of hunger.  

Mhmm. Ken?   What? Ken? Can you wiggle your ear? Oh, go away, Hildy.   Mom? In the kitchen, Ken. Oh, you're I'm in, mom. Mhmm.   Oh. What's in your mind, Kim? Wanna speak to me about something? Yes, mom.   Well?   Mom,   did you ever want anything terribly?   Most everyone wants something, Dick. But you're grown up. You're married.   You've got daddy me. Well, you're finished.   But I should be still be wanting,   should I?   But people do care.   Everyone?   Always, mom?   Don't you ever get really finished?   I wonder.   Maybe sometime.   A minute or two.   What is it you want now, Ken? Oh, mom. I don't think it'll be alright.  

Not local. No. Perhaps she isn't local, dear. We don't know yet for sure. But   if she is Ken,   wanting won't change.   If she is, it'll look bad for her, won't it? Well, let's see what happens when we try to hold the breaker. Does she have to be hold of rope, ma'am? We've got to find out, don't we? Supposed so. But   but what does she hold, miss?   She loves you, doesn't she? Oh, yes. I'm sure she does. Well, that shows she's intelligent. Oh, does it, ma'am? Well, it's just a way of putting away fear.   Don't you understand, Kim,   that if you find love,   if a person or an animal finds love it's the same as finding safety.  

It's comfort and friendliness and help.   I've even longs for it. It. And if Flicker's found it yet doesn't have sense enough to know she's found it and goes on being crazy and silly with fear then then   then she'll be local.   Yes.  

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Start getting the hay in tomorrow, Gus. Sure, boss.  

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Now I'm hiring some hands for the next week or so. Get heated last. I'll be ready. Good. Hello, son. Dad, I've been thinking.  

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Don't you think it's about time that   the be hoardable flicker?  

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What's that?  

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I I think we ought to find out now. You know what it means, Ken. Yes. I know.   It it'll prove well or not to whether I can have a trainer.  

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I'll leave it to you, Sam.   When do you want to try? Well,  

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I thought   I  

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thought   today.  

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Alright. It's all over here, Kent. Yes, sir.  

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Murder.  

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Fabulous murder. Have your rope ready, Tim. Just in case. All set. Murder. She's turning. Did she come, dad? See? Yep. Alright.   Now put your band down around her neck and tie it in a loose knot. Go ahead.  

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Like like this? That's it.   Easy, flicker. Easy.  

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Now take your belt off and slip it through the bandana. That's it.   Now take a hold of the belt and lead her around.   Go on.  

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Yes. Yes.   Come on, flicker.   Come on, girl.   That's right, flicker.   Don't be nervous. You'll feel alright.   Don't be nervous.   Alright. Now bring her back. Yes, sir. This way, flicker. Ask the girl.   Yes, dad?  

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Well, son, I'd call that hole to Brooklyn. But it isn't a hole to dad. Followed your son.   She walked along with you without fear.   That's not But but how did she get hold of those dad? That's the way we break horses on the Goose Bar Rides.   You'll figure it out for yourself.  

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Come on, Gus. Let's get out of the sea. Oh, mom. Did you see?   She's not local.   She's not local.   Hello, Gus.  

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Penny,   think maybe you better come to the pasture right away. What's the matter? Is it flicker? Yeah.   The leg from the barbed wire. I I think maybe seduct infection.   Infection? Is it bad? She's lying down. I think maybe it is very bad.  

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Hurry up, Tim. We've gotta get that hay in before tonight. Okay, boss. Rain in the air, boss. Yeah. Going to storm. Dad. What's that? Dad, I'd like to talk to you. What about? Repet, Tim. It's about liquor. Liquor for the love of my kin. Can't you see I'm busy? This is no time to be worrying about that filly. I'm sorry dad. I didn't know you. Just a moment.   What is it, son?  

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Is Flicker worse? Oh dad, she's so sick.  

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Will you come down and see her? Maybe you can do something to help her. Alright. I'll come and have a look at her. Keep it going here, Tim. Come on, girl.  

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Here she is dad.  

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Keep lying down again. I love it. What's happened to her? She's been getting lost with Finn. Finn? Oh, I can count every rib. I'm afraid she ain't going to pull out of it, boss. Pull out of it. She's dead already.   How long has she been like this? She's been going down fast the last few days. It's the fever. It's burning her up. She's going to die, dad. She'll die unless we do something. I'm afraid it's too late, Ken. We we'll have to put her out of her misery. Dad, please.  

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Oh, no, daddy. You can't. You can't do that. I'm sorry, Ken.  

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But it doesn't fair to an animal to let it suffer like this.   Look at her. She's burning up. What? She can hardly breathe.  

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Oh, Nick.  

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Gus, you know what to do. There's a gun in the shed,   and pick a time when Ken is not around.  

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Oh,   Nick.  

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After a brief intermission, Mr. DeMille presents Ronnie McDowell, George Brent and Rita Johnson   in act three of my friend Flicker.   Now here's Sally and,  

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looking a little puzzled too. Mister Kennedy, I've got a letter here from my young cousin Joe in the army   and, well, I can't understand a word of this sentence. Read it, Sally. Maybe I can help you. He says,   was in the limps line this week, Sally. I'm okay now though. The doc slipped me some shutters  

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and sent me packing for my snore sack. That's elementary, my dear Sally. It means Joe was at sick call. The doctor gave him some sleeping pills and sent him to bed.  

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Any more? Yes. He goes on to say,   the eagle flew yesterday which gives me enough pocket lettuce to go to town someday.   I'll have to get flicked up with a chilli bowl first and  

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Goodness mr. Kennedy, you'd better translate that. He means yesterday was payday and so he has enough paper money to go to town.   But first he has to get a haircut.  

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Well now at last I'm coming to something I can understand.   He says,   and say when it comes to slicking up that package of luxe soap you sent me is okay.  

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Boy, the lather's wonderful. What kind a man likes? He might even have said 'luxe soap slicks a man up' by the numbers.   That's army talk too Sally, and it means with precision and efficiency.   Sally, it looks as though that present of yours made a hit in any language.  

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Well, mister Kennedy, I've always noticed that the men in our family enjoy using luxe soap just as much as I do. Sure, Sally. Why not? Men like a little luxury too.  

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A bath with that rich creamy luxe soap bladder makes an end feel like a million.  

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Did you know, mister Kennedy,  

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luxe toilet soap is a best seller in all branches of the service? Yes, Sally. And there are lots of good reasons for it. For one thing,   luxe toilet soap costs so little, and being hard milled, it lasts such a long time. You can use it right down to the last thin sliver. But most important of all, men go for that rich active ladder that gets off the day's dust and grime with neatness and dispatch.   Does it gently too.   Yes, Sally, as a soap for face and hands, and as a bath soap too. Luxe has everything.  

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Yes. And it's nice to know it's one of those little everyday luxuries we can all afford. Right, Sally. So here's our tip to women everywhere.  

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Let all the family enjoy using this fine white soap. And remember, Luxe toilet soap is hard milled,   it lasts,   and it's easy on your budget.  

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Now, our producer Mr. DeMille.   After the play we'll have a chat with our stars,   and   a surprise guest star.   Now the third act of my Friend Flicker'   starring Roddy McDowell,   George Brent, and Rita Johnson.   In the morning, before Ken is awake,   a rifle shot will bring an end to Flicker's suffering.   Now in the quiet of the night, the boy steals silently from the house down to the pasture   to whisper a last goodbye to his friend.   But Flicker is not there. Flicker.  

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Flicker, where are you?   Flicker.  

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Then at last, he finds her.   Flicker has stumbled to the stream,   and she lies there on her side, her head in the water. Oh, flicker.  

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My soul, little flicker.  

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There's a spark of life still burning in her.   All night, the boy crouches beside her in the icy   currents, his young arms cradling her head,   holding it clear of the stream,   whispering words of comfort,   fighting off death.   In the morning,   the boy is close to death himself.  

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Well, doctor.  

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Give him one of these pills every hour. I'll call the few him again tonight. He's a pretty sick boy, isn't he? He's very sick, Rob.  

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What happened to him?   He went down to see his coat last night and she was lying in the scene.   That sound in there this morning.   We don't know how long.   Perhaps all night. I see.  

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Well, you would better have this prescription built right away. I'll take you into town and bring it right back. Come on.   No.   Don't worry, darling.   You'll be all right. I'll leave,  

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bring this out.  

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Hello?   No, missus. It's me.   How's the little boy, missus? Oh, I can't tell you this. Poor little fella.  

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Gus,   is Flicker dead?  

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No, missus.   Him and Mary fixed her up in a blanket sling.   She can't stand alone, but she drank the bucket of water like a good one. Did   did Bob say you didn't have to shoot her? No, missus. But I just couldn't do it. When I found him like that this morning,   see him, little boy, I look at it.   I know what you mean. If the plant is frank yet,   you could live, baby.  

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You could?   Sometimes I think dark miracles can still happen.  

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It was the cold water washing the fever out of her.   But it was more than that.   It was Ken giving her courage.   All night, that little fellow sitting by her and saying,   hold on, Flicker.   I'm here, Richard.   Put two of us together.   Storm coming up, missus. Big one.   I'll stay here, I guess. Maybe you need me.  

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Oh, Rob. I thought you'd never get here. Made it as fast as I could. Road washed out. I had to go the long way. How is he? He seems a little better. He's domestic. Oh, good. Here's domestic. I'll get it from that away.   Well, Gus, did you do it that time? Boss, I just couldn't. Well, I gave the order. You had plenty of time. Just couldn't do it. Where's the rifle?  

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I left it in the bunkhouse. No. Go and get it. I'll do it myself. Oh, Rob. Please don't. Ken knows she's alive. He thinks she'll get well.  

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Given something to hope for. It would have been a lot better if that poor little filly was shot weeks ago. It's meant nothing but trouble and misery for all of us. Look what it's done to Kim. I wish you wouldn't, Rob. You need to know. You don't hear the shot. In the storm, you think it's thunder. No. No. You'll know it's alright. Sorry, Mel. It's just no use letting sick animals live.  

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It's alright darling.   It's alright.   But you're just dreaming, dear.   Mom? I'm here, darling.   It's raining.   It's down there. The past The rain won't hurt a dog.   Lickham's been out in thunderstorms all of her life.   That was dad's time that you just woke,   wasn't it, Yes. He   told me. And then   when he went out and didn't   he know?   Yes.   Down   to down to the passenger. Okay.   I know she's sick.   She's so sick. We can't allow Adam to be muffin at the supper. Maybe she'll get better.   It could happen again.   Remember what you said?   It was something you wanted   awfully bad?  

Yes, dear.   What was it?   I've wanted it ever since a few years after you were born.   What was it, ma'am?   It was a little girl, Kim.   Oh,   we wanted the same thing,   didn't we?   How do you mean, darling?   You know what   little girl?   You mean, sweetie?   Lick   her?   Little flick her? Okay. Oh, Ken.   Ken, dear.   No, darling. It was a shot. No. No. It was thunder.   It was   thunder. Yes. This is the head.   Let's go.  

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Rob?   Oh, Rob. Yeah. Yeah. Oh,  

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Rob. You alright? Sure.   Why? Ken's asleep and Gus is with him.   I got worried about you.   Was that Flicker? Yep.  

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But I  

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oh, I heard a shot. It was the mountain lion. I took a crack at him. Did you get him? No. But I will before morning. But  

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what about Flicker?  

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You said you were going to Yeah. I know. I know. But I couldn't do it. That darn little fool who wants to die, she'll have to do it by herself.  

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Ken had the shot.  

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Yeah? How'd he take it? Well, he took it.  

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Did he question it?  

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Didn't seem to rebel. Well, if he wakes up and asks, I don't think you better tell him she's still alive. But Rob, She may be dead by morning. Wouldn't surprise me. He's accepted her death now.   If he knows she's still alive, he'll be all upsetting it.   I will tell him. You better get along up to the house. There are cats still around. I don't want her wandering around in the dark. Are you going to stay here? Let Phillip hide up like that. The cat will probably come back. Can't leave it.   Bob. Bob. Now go along there. Why don't you? Bob, look over here  

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in the tree.  

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Alright.  

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He'll move. I can see his eyes, Rob. Quiet.  

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If we move, he'll spring.   Alright.   I've got a sight on him now.   Mhmm.   Yeah. That's finishing.   Easy, quick cat. Easy, girl.   That cat won't bother you now.   Well, young fellas, how's it feel to be out again? Fine, dad. He's still a little saggy and the legs dropped. He had to stop and sit down a minute. Minute. Up you go, young fellas. I'll carry her for a while. Thanks, dad. Well, the doctor said to walk, didn't he? Well, we'll walk. Where are we going?   Oh, I thought we'd take a look down the home pasture.   I've got the yearlings in there again. Oh, the yearlings. Sure.  

Still want the cold, don't you? Well, you can pick one out. That's Anyone on the ranch. Dad, I don't wanna pick one out now. Why, kid? See, not now.   There they are. Some beauties in that pack, Ken. Oh, please, dad. Look, Ken. That  

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one over there. Why why   no. It's like flicker.  

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It is flicker.  

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Yes. Yes. But I thought I didn't shoot her. I couldn't.   That shuttle for the mountain lion. Oh. I killed it. Oh, Flicker. Flicker.  

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Come here. It means that it's your friend.   Easy, Ken. Flicker, Flicker.   Oh, dad. Look. She knows me. Hello, Flicker.   He did get gentle, didn't he there? Gentle as a kitten.  

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She's given us a lot of trouble, son.   She's taught us a few things too.   Important things,   your responsibility,   and me that there is such a thing as hope beyond hope.   And sometimes when things are at their lowest ebb,   all we need do is have a little more love,   a little more patience,   and a little more faith.  

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Dad,   does she know what we're saying now?   I think so.   And now she's asking if she can run again.   Go on, Flicker.  

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The curtain falls on my friends flicker,   and our very good friends George Brett, Roddy McDowell, and Rita Johnson  

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answer your applause with a well earned curtain call. Thank you, CB. And I'd just like to say that Roddy is the biggest trooper for his size I've ever seen. What's your ambition, Roddy? Well, miss Johnson, I hope someday you give a checker chance in a polly work.  

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That's a pretty big ambition. Think you'll make it? Oh, I practice anytime I can find a pigeon. Oh, I mean a partner. I dated my dad before he went to sea with the merchants. Keep it up. Competition is good for the soul, Roddy. Yes, sir. Sometimes it's good for the lungs too. Before when my father went in the navy, he and I used to see who could hold his breath for the longest. You can find the score on the wall of his old working hand. What the winner get, a chocolate soda? Or maybe a sundae, miss Johnson. I'd like to buy you one of my special sundaes sometimes.   I'd love it, Roddy. What's in it? Well, you know those pumps they have in the soda fountain with the chocolate and raspberry and other stuff? Mhmm. Well, you take out a dish of ice cream and you put a squirt out of each pump on it. Then you hold your breath for a good long time.  

It sounds a little complicated, Roddy. Now I like simple things. I think that's why I'm so fond of black soap. You see it's very easy complexioned here, Doesn't take much time, and that's important when you're busy. Now, lux soap is made for girls who are both beautiful and busy readers. And believe me, things are gonna be beautifully busy around this microphone next week. What's the play, CB?  

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It's Philip Barry's sensational hit, The Philadelphia Story.   A two time hit, first on Broadway during a long run, and later as a Metro Goldwyn Mayer picture.   And our stars will be   well,   I I told you we'd have a surprise guest tonight.   It's one of next week's stars,   Robert Taylor.  

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Hello, everyone.   You've held back the most important part of the news, CB.  

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I I guess Bob means the rest of our cast. We'll have three stars in the Philadelphia story next week. Robert Taylor,   Loretta Young, and Robert Young.  

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Yes.   Bob Young and I are both delighted at the opportunity of working with Loretta.  

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I think we're going to have a swell time here next week. Lucky for us, we caught you all during a week off from picture.  

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What's your latest over at Metro Goldenea, Bob? It's called Bataan, Phoebe, and there are a lot of great fellows in it. George Murphy, Tommy Mitchell,   Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Desi Arnaz,   and a very promising newcomer named Bob Walker.   The story's about an incident in the Philippine campaign that involved 13 men and not a single woman. No women.  

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That's a novelty for pictures.   The word batan   will always stand for something very noble in American history,   So I'm I'm anxious to see what the picture is like. It's a trendy, Bob. How much longer will you be in Hollywood?  

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Just a short time, CB. I have one picture to finish, which won't take long. And then ladies and gentlemen,  

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Bob enters the Navy air corps.   We wanted to have him here just once more before he left.   That will be next Monday night when we present Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, and Robert Young in the Philadelphia story.  

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Glad to be aboard, Stevie. I'm expecting a great show, Bob. Good night. Good night.  

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Good night.   We get to have you, Bob.   Our sponsors, the makers of Luxe pilot boat, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night. And the Luxe radio theater presents   Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, and Robert Young   in the Philadelphia story.   In the Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from   Hollywood.  

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Heard in tonight's play were Leo Cleary as Gus, Mary Lou Harrington as Hilde, Fred Mackay as Tim, Norman Field as mister Sergeant,   and Charles Steele as the doctor.   Our music was directed by Lewis Silver.   And this is your announcer, John M. Kennedy, reminding you to tune in next Monday night to hear Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, and Robert Young   in the Philadelphia story.  

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Food rationing and shortages don't worry me. I make sure my family gets enough vitamins and minerals. I just buy BIMs and add them to my family's meals. You see, BIMs are scientifically   designed to help make meals complete.  

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Right. For BIMs give you all the essential vitamins and all minerals commonly lacking.   They're pleasant to take too. Children love them.   Ask for VIMS at your drug list. V I for vitamins,   double m s for minerals.   VIMS.   This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.