In this captivating episode of Luxe Radio Theatre, we are transported to the enchanting world of "National Velvet," a story of dreams, determination, and the bond between a girl and her horse. Mickey Rooney stars as Mi Taylor, a young man returning from service, alongside Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet Brown, and Donald Crisp as Mr. Brown. Set in a quaint English village, the narrative unfolds as Velvet wins a horse named Pie in a raffle and dreams of entering him in the prestigious Grand National. With the help of Mi, who battles his own fears and past, Velvet embarks on a journey of training and perseverance, driven by the belief in Pie's potential for greatness.
The episode beautifully captures the themes of ambition and courage, as Velvet's unwavering faith in her horse leads her to defy societal norms and enter the race herself. Supported by her family and the enigmatic Mi, Velvet's story is one of youthful determination and the pursuit of one's dreams against all odds. As the race unfolds, the stakes are high, and the emotional journey of the characters is both inspiring and heartwarming, making this episode a memorable tale of triumph and the spirit of adventure.
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Luxe presents Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, mister William Keeley.
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Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, we welcome to this theater a young man whose popularity has made him sorely missed during his absence in the service. I refer, of course, to Mickey Rooney, playing tonight the last great role that he created before going in the army. With Mickey on our stage are lovely Elizabeth Taylor and Donald Crisp from the original screencast. They appear in Metro Golden Mare's thrilling and enchanting screen hit, National Velvet, the story of a boy and girl and a horse who brings them dreams of glory in a little town in England. And speaking of England, a friend of ours in Nova Scotia forwards a letter she received from relatives in London thanking her for a package which she sent. The letter says, I don't know who was more thrilled, the children or their mother. It was really exciting to see a package of Luxe Flakes again.
I felt like washing all my precious things immediately. Well, I'm sure the gratitude for Luxe Flakes is a feeling that we in The United States share readily with our English cousins. Another token of hands across the sea. We cross that sea now with the opening act of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney as my, Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet, and Donald Crisp as mister Brown, with Janet Scott as missus Brown.
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Three weeks now, I've been on the road, and sundown this day, I'd be in the village of Soules. For someone lived in Soules whom my father once knew. I was resting at the crossroads when I saw them, a girl and a horse. Running away, the horse was, and there was the child cutting the beast off and stopping him, like she'd been doing it every day of her life.
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Woah, boy. Woah. Oh, what a lovely boy he is.
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Oh, you're a sweet boy. I don't know how your stalking velvet. I was trying to sniff a heart on him when he tore noose. What's his name, mister Eats? He's a murderous pirate, not deserving of a name. Oh, no. Not pirate.
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He's a gentle one, aren't you, boy? I'll just call him Pie.
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Oh, you're a pretty one, Pie. Trouble with you, Bill, that you love any horse, don't you? Oh, yes. Yes, mister Lee. I still don't know how you stopped him. A little one like you, among you, a robber, you pirate. Come along here. You
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should be in school. Shouldn't you, girl? Oh,
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I didn't see you. Well? School's over. It's summer holidays. Where are you going?
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To that village.
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My father's the butcher there. That's nice. I have two sisters and a brother.
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That makes it chummy. What have you got? The whole world. My father left it to me. Isn't I beautiful? Who? Mister Reed's horse. I grant she's got vinegar. Short back, well ribbed. Nice mover, alright. The way he jumped past your femme. I gotta be jumping too. I got business in Sewell's. Who with? Missus Herbert Brown. But
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but that's my mother. It is, Honest. Honest she is. And I'm Velvet Brown.
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Velvet. What kind of a name is that? Queer as my own. Is it? Mhmm. I'm called my.
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My tailor. My.
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And you know about horses, don't you? What if I do? Oh, but to know about horses is wonderful. Come on, my. I'll take you to my
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What did you say your name is, boy?
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My Taylor, ma'am. Where does he come from? I found him, father. I found him on the road. Is that any excuse for being late for supper? Come eat, boy. Eat. Oh, thank you, sir. Meredith, sit down. Yes, father.
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This is my sister, Edwina, my sister, Malvolia, and my brother, Donald. How do you do? How do you do? Beat yourself a Donald? I am.
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You're just rolling it around and around. Now swallow. I can't swallow. It isn't slighty.
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I was sick all night.
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Arnold, you're telling a story. Yes, father. And you know what a story is? What is it? Never mind. Just say you're sorry. I'm sorry, father. Well, you're sorry for what? For being sick all night. That boy will be a lawyer Monday. That'll be what are you doing? It's my brace, father. My brace hurts my cheek when I eat. Hurt or no hurt? That brace cost £4.10. How many times must I tell you? Do you want a face like a rabbit? She'd rather have a face like a horse. That's enough, Mallory.
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Now then, mister Taylor, you have something to tell me about your father.
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Yes, ma'am. Well, I, I showed you your name in his address book, ma'am. Yes. And, you said that you knew him? Yeah. I. So I oh, well, I I found the book among my father's belongings after he died. And I I thought that since I was passing through Sewell's that maybe you well, maybe you could,
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just get
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No. No. Thanks, ma'am. I I think I'd better be getting along before it gets too dark. Where will you go? If you stay on the road, you're sure to find another town. Yes. But it's harder to find on an empty stomach. You can go after supper.
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Missus Brown, please to pass the potato.
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What is it you want, Velvet?
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I'm worried about father. Father,
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are you sure you feel well? I thought I told you to leave us alone for a few minutes.
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Your mother and I are talking to mister Taylor. But if you don't feel well, don't you think you better have a helper in the butcher shop? I never felt better in my life. Just for the summer. There's more sheep come to market in summer than winter.
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Yes. That's true. But however it may grieve you, child, I feel fine.
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Now then, mister Taylor. If she's talking about me being a butcher's helper, she's wasting her breath. Well, that's agreed. Still, there's a small bed in the stable, mister Brown.
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Yes. There is, missus Brown. You can have it for tonight, my tailor. Oh, thank you, mother. Thank you, father. Well, show him to the stable, Velvet, and then get to bed. Maybe I'd rather not stay. I Then show him to the road. I'll stay.
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Just for tonight though. Thank you.
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What are you doing, missus Brown? Working on the account books. Did you forget you brought home £12 cash? Or put the money away till morning? You look tired. It's you who must conserve yourself. After all, more sheep in summer.
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Now you know their small sense in hiring that boy. You could do worse, mister Brown. Tin Bob would be fair, I think. Tin Bob a week because he's the son of Dan Taylor? Did I ever ask for a favor because I'm the son of my father? He won't get favored. Oh, I'll see to that whenever you fear. Look in on the girls, would you, mister Brown? I am a little tired. I will. Put the money in the cupboard and get on with it. Is that you, father? It is. And why aren't you asleep like your sisters? I've been riding my horse.
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Oh, you're a sweet one, Pie. Easy now. Easy boy. What's this pie business? A new horse? Oh, he's the loveliest thing, father. He belongs to mister E. Oh, you should see him. Now calm yourself or you'll be losing your supper again.
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I'll take Jacob dog for a walk. Good night, father.
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Come on, pie. Straight down the road now. Faster boy. Faster, my lovely.
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Come in. I'm glad you're not asleep, mother. That's disturbing you, Velvet. You're all lighted up. Mother,
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did you know my Taylor's father? Perhaps when you were a swimmer? When you were having your pictures in the paper? Way back, I mean.
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Way back. Do you know how I came to swim the channel? Was my Taylor's father showed me how. His father? He was my trainer. It was he told me what to do. Free the spirit in me. Made me do it when I was ready to give up. Why didn't you tell my about his father? It isn't the time for it. There's a right time for everything. But he'd be so happy, mother.
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It'll give him something to go on with. He needn't go.
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Mother. It's not charity.
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He'll work his way. Oh, I know he will, mother.
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May I go and tell him? Tell him he can stay, but no more. We'll not let him trade on his father's name. If this stuff is there, it'll show.
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Wonderful mind. The room's a little shabby, but but you can make I haven't said I will stay in. Oh.
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No. I'm, I'm considering. Don't you think you'd be happy here? It isn't the happiness. I'm considering it's what it'll get me. It's for the lack of considering that people stay poor. Have you ever been quiet for a few hours and and just think?
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All the time. All the time about horses. You've got a horse right in this barn? Miss Ada, she pulled the delivery card. Don't you love a horse as mine? I hate them. I don't believe it. You know too much about them. I can tell. That's when you really hate something. When you know too much about it. But you will stay here, won't you, Mike?
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I I'll stay.
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My. What is it? You'll have to get over your hate of horses.
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Why?
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Because I love them so. Every night, I pray to God to give me horses, wonderful horses, and to let me be the best rider in England.
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She went back into the house. And later when the lights were all out, I went back to the house too. And I put back in the cupboard £12 I had stolen. I would stay for a while in Soules and be a butcher's boy.
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Alright, lad. Scrub down the chopping blocks. They're all scrubbed, sir. Oh. What's the boy to do now, missus Brown? There's mister Eads' order and Velvet's brought the card. Oh, you know the Eads' farm boy? I'll join father. Nonsense. He must learn by himself. Oh, please father. There's the road to eat and the road to toppers. Oh, it's very confusing. Right. We'll do our good, mister Brown. Sharpen her appetite. Yes, father. Sharpen my appetite. Well, what are you waiting for, boy? Take the meat and go. I yes. Missus Brown, now mind you, I'm not against this Taylor lad. But not for him. Well, now you'll allow that tramping the road's not a proper upbringing.
And would you guarantee there wasn't a bit of lying and sharp dealing about him? I guarantee there is.
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But what's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
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Yes, missus Brown.
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Did you have to bring your dog along too? Oh, but Jake has lost your ride in the car. Don't you, Jake? I know why you wanted to come out here. There's Ed's pasture and there's Ed's horse. Yes. There's pie.
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My, what have horses ever done to you?
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Nothing. There's got to be a reason. Alright. Alright. I took a spill once. You'd hate him too if you had any sense. What's a horse? An animal that earns his keep by breaking his neck? I'm a horse, and I'll be one till I use my head again.
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My would you mind? Oh, alright. Alright.
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Go on and look at him if you want to. I do want to. He's so beautiful. Jacob. Jacob. Jacob. Come back here, Jacob. Why he's going in the pasture? He's chasing after time. Jacob. Jacob. What kind of a horse is that letting a dog scare him? He's running away again.
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Pawn. Let him go. Stonewall will stop him. He's running right forward. Pawn.
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He didn't do it. I don't believe it. He didn't. Didn't didn't do what?
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That that wall. He he jumped that wall. Give me give me that cord. What cord? From that meat parcel. Hurry up. I've I've got a major
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I don't know why you want to measure me through his wall, my. I'll tell you why.
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Do you know what that crazy horse did? When he jumped over that wall,
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he leaped to Beecher's Brook. He did? Yes. But he's gone. My, we've got to find him. He's Ede's horse. Let Ede find him. My, what's Beecher's Brook?
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Did you ever hear of a race course called Aintree? Aintree? Oh, forget it. It never happened at all. Forget I ever mentioned it. Mister Reed found his crazy horse. And being a man of wisdom, he set about getting rid of him. Next morning in the window of the butcher shop, this hall of pigs
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Oh, wow. They're rattling him, mother.
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Mister Reed's hoarse the pie. They're rattling him. When is the raffle, mister Brown? Saturday next. In the shop. In the shop? Well, mister Reed asked for it as a special favor. Well, you shouldn't have left me here along with him so long. Father, is it really true?
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Could mister Reed's horse be one for a shilling? Well, if you won, you'd lose. What good is the brute? Oh, do take us in tickets, won't you?
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You won't have to buy raffle tickets, mister Brown. I'll get them. What's that? Here. 4 shillings. 1 for each of the girls. And here, one for Donald. Oh, my grandma. Boy, are you challenging Boy? Uh-huh.
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Are you challenging my authority in this family?
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No, sir. I'm buying raffle tickets. That's all. You'll have to choose your own numbers, girl. Oh, my. You're wonderful.
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62. 60 2. I'll take 62. We'll get the tickets after lunch and and pin them in the by, boy. Oh, and Boy.
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It's one thing to outthink a man, but quite another to outsmart him. And who will say which is which, mister Brown?
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Eat your lunch, girls. Eat.
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Well, hello, Velvet. Hello, mister Hallam. Nice of your father to help mister Reed with the raffle. I hear you've been saying you're going to win. Of course. I'm to win. And what's the lucky number? 62. Number 62. There's ways of arranging it, Nafal as a clever man.
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Oh, I didn't bother him, mister Hallam.
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I just arranged it with Garth. We're all gathered and asked my friend, mister Brown, to reach in the fishbowl and determine who to take home that handsome jelly for the price of a Jenny. Look at that. The winning number doesn't stick to mister Brown's fingers. What's that you imply, mister Hallam? I imply there's some here that feels the horse is already won. Oh, I There's your daughter There's your daughter, Belvitt, been telling the village the horse is as good as hers. Come here, Hallam. I said come here.
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Well, put your hand in the box and pick the number yourself. I refuse and you can't make me. I can break your head. Look lively, mister Hallam. Pick a number. No. Alright. I will. Now draw it out. Come on. What is it? What is it? The winning number is 113.
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Mister Brown. Mister Brown. It's Velvet. What's that? What's the matter with her? Oh, fate that she had, mister DeBrant. Fainted right away.
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I'm sorry. I fainted, mother. It's alright, dear. Just lies still a while.
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Sometimes it
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frightens me. What, dear?
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The things I see. I see things as big as life, and I I think they're real.
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Like right now. What do you see now?
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Out of the window. The whole village coming here. They're bringing me the pie.
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I suppose it's because I wanted him so much. Don't fret, girl. If you see things that way, you'll build it. Look. It is the whole village.
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You've won him, girl. The horse is yours. The pie? He he might Mister Hallam drew a number that hadn't been sold. So we had to start all over again and out came 62. Oh, that's Or the old fool was fit to die. I don't know why I'm so pleased. Saddled with a crazy horse I don't need. And if there isn't enough trouble in the world, you people arrange to draw it out of a fishbowl.
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My, come in here. You're supposed to be resting, though. My, what's Beacher's Brook at Pyleage Dover? Beacher's Brook is the sixth jump of the Grand National Dame Tree. The greatest horse race in the world. That little floating around just lie down there. Your mind will blame me. Mud, would you do something for me? What? Just walk high up and down under the window. And have you fainting again, noon. Calm my heart, my. I'll just
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shut my hide and listen.
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Hut. Hut. Boy, come on, Pie. Now she's listening for you. Hop there.
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Hop. Look alive. That's it, Pie. Faster. Oh, you're a sweet one, Pie. Now then, here's a jump. Easy there. Oh, well done, Pie. Come on now. Faster.
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Just a moment, we bring you act two of National Velvet starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Chris.
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Sorry. I'm a little out of breath, Libby. Well, you shouldn't try imitating those acrobatic leaps Doug Fairbanks Junior makes in Sinbad the Sailor.
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After all, he was the combat commando before he made this new picture for RKO. Well, I I saw Marina Hera out front. I I wanted to see if she's as lovely as she looked in those Technicolor shots. Oh, well, I hope you told her how gorgeous she looked in those Arabian Nights costumes. That I did. And all those harem girls in Sinbad the Sailor were gorgeous too. RKO knows how to pick them. Weren't they lovely?
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Did you know RKO interviewed 240 girls before they selected 25?
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How did they ever decide? Leg. Legs. They did look good.
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Legs were the final test. You see, with those sheer costumes, the designers couldn't use any camouflage tricks. The girls' legs had to be perfect. And I guess every girl who applied wore her very best stockings for the interview. I've never seen so many trim looking legs. Never a stocking wrinkle or a run. Oh, there couldn't have been that many pairs of new nylons in Hollywood at that time. No. Indeed. And you can be sure most of the girls had treasured their stockings with luxe flakes. After all, smart girls in Hollywood, just like smart girls all over the country,
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insist on luxe for stockings. Oh, that's not surprising when you consider how much longer stockings last with luxe. If anybody wants proof,
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just look at those strain tests we've talked about before. Weren't the results amazing?
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A well known laboratory started with identical brutes of stockings, washed them two ways. Those washed with a strong soap went into runs mighty soon. But those that were washed with luxe flakes took strains like veterans. They lasted ever so much longer. In fact, twice as long. So no matter what kind of stockings you wear, gentle luxe is thrifty care.
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We return you now to William Keeley. Act two of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney as Maya, Elizabeth Taylor in the title role, and Donald Crisp as mister Brown.
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Winning a horse in a raffle is one thing. Keeping that horse is another. It was mister Brown who was all for making the pie earn his oats, but the pie was not born for work. Smashed the cart and scared half the village out of a year's growth before I had him back in his stall again.
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I'm frightened, my father said he'd still buy cats me. If anybody sells a pie, I might as well die. No. No. No. I I don't think he meant Oh, he couldn't. The pie's too wonderful and noble and great.
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Greatly crazy.
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My. That stone finch you said was Thomas Beecher's Brook.
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3 times this morning, this pie sailed over. I ought to be whipped for even mentioning Beecher's Brook. You'll talk and dream of it until I get sacked.
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My.
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Could the pie win the Grand National?
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Who do you think you are? I'm the owner of the pie. And does that give you leave to think you could take the richest, grandest prize a horse ever won? Why, that's for kings. And you're just a wisp of a butcher's daughter who should be playing with a dolly. The pie is a king. A king without money or a jockey or a trainer? And you're a pa wanting to chop him up for a cat's meat. But if we had the money and you were the trainer,
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would you know where to find the jockey? Look at you. It's like your ma says, all light it up. There's something terrible you've done, Dovin. I feel it. Answer me, ma'am. Without all the other ifs, yes. I could get a jockey. Would it be Weatherbeat in London where the horses are entered for the Grand National? Would this be the kind of letter to send to Weatherbeat?
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Give me that letter.
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You're not sending it, Velvet. But I did last week, and they've answered me. You have to help me fill in the entry blank. Did they also tell you you'd need a hundred pounds to enter? Oh, we'll come to that later. Velvet,
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do you know what you're bringing on yourself with this craziness? To get him fit. You'll be riding, riding over fences and ditches and high stone walls till you're weary and worn to a shadow.
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And for what? Tell me that. For what?
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It's his chance to be great. It's for the glory of it for him.
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It's your chance too, my. My chance will come when your pa sends me packing. Now leave me alone.
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The Grand National.
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My. Did you put that up to this? It's me that said it was folly, ma'am. A hundred pound standard jockey fees, money for a horse van, and all folly for nothing. A horse is is not good enough? It's a score of things. 30 jumps, ma'am. The hardest course in the world. Training a month on month. It'll be folly for nothing. Tell me, my
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what's wrong with folly? Well, Velvet, come with me. There's an old scrapbook in the trunk in the attic. I think it's time to look.
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Your scrapbook, mother. Pictures of you swimming.
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Velvet, Mai spoke of a jockey fee. Doesn't he ride? Did. How does Bill once, though? I nearly drowned once, but I went back to swimming the very next day. Velvet, this picture here, this man was my father.
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My father?
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Yes. My trainer. There was greatness in him. In you too.
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Often, I just sit and wonder about you. You don't think like the rest of us, mother. You think here, way in the back of your head. And I've watched you do the same.
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We're alike, Velvet. I too believe that everyone should have a chance at breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was 20 when they said I couldn't swim the channel. You're 12. You think a horse of yours can win the Grand National? Your dream has come early. Yes, mother. Here's something else in the trunk. A bag filled with gold sovereign. Mother,
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you're prize money for swimming the channel. And there's a little more somewhere, paper money.
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But this will be for your entry fee. Gold sovereigns for luck. Oh, mother.
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Mother. We'll win for you, mother. We will.
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Win or lose. It's how you take it that counts. And knowing when it's time to go on to the next thing. The the next thing? There's a time for everything, Velvet. For having a horse in the Grand National, for being in love. Yes. Even for dying. All in proper order at the proper time.
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Mother, who who is going to tell father?
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I'll do the telling. I don't think your father believes too well in the importance of
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folly. And so it was. I took my clean collar off the nail and I packed my bag and into it with a heavy sack filled with shining gold sovereigns. I'd soon be off to London, to Wetherby's, making an entry in the Grand National.
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I'll be off with you, ma'am. Good luck. Thanks to you, ma'am. Goodbye,
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mister Brown. My lads, you can't say that your big chance did not come to you in the village of Sewelles, going to London with a hundred pounds in your pocket. Missus Brown wishes you good luck. I wish you a good time. Yes, sir.
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What did you mean by that, a good time?
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How many mutton shops make up a hundred pounds? How many thousand? Making calculations, mister Brown? I am. And I'll lay my two ears on this chopping block if you ever see the color of your sovereigns again or the hide of master Taylor this side of doomsday.
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There was someone in London I knew. Name of Greenford, an agent he was for jockeys. We met at a pub and the mugs of beer that slashed our table were large and heavy. But why didn't you go to Manchester to find a rider? Why why Manchester? Because that's where you used to ride. Wasn't it, lad? Now what's your game? I I told you. I got papers for Wetherbys. Likewise, the entry fee, but I got no jockey.
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Entering a horse would never run anywhere? Why don't you take your hundred quid and throw it in the River Thames?
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Well, because it ain't mind a fling.
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That oars ain't going to win the national and you know it. Yeah. I know what I know, but what can I do? You have to use your wits. The oars that's taking the Grand National is being quoted now at 40 to one. That's 4,000, mister Taylor, for the man who wages a measly hundred. 4 4 thousand pounds. And all I ask is a little commission for placing the bit.
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What what do I tell them in Sewell's?
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Tell them you met a tart like me in a pub, and I've pinched it off you. Yeah. And a day after Aintree, you come back to London and live like quality the rest of your days. Now where's that under liquid? Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. What's this, Ochratron?
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You got this bag watered. She she gave me that to spend.
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Saved She was glad to give it to me. Oh, lady. Sweet on you. Is she?
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Not old. Not old. Not sweet on me. Just trust me. Trust me. Give me that bag. Hold on now. Drunk, I am, but not so drunk as you think. See if I've been too, but it's not in my books, mister Greenford. What stealing on Wednesday. Thanks for the beer. I'm late for
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Write it back so soon, mister Taylor.
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I hope you took of me at my word and had a right good time. Here. Here's your receipt for your money at Wetherby's, and you get £5 change. What's that? I'll be back at work soon as I change my clothes.
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Yesterday, you calculated how many mutton chops made a hundred sovereigns, mister Brown.
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Today, I'll calculate in mutton head. I made a mistake. No need for too much humility.
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A little from you goes a long way.
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What happened, London? Tell me, my did you find me jockey? No. And be grateful for what you have, Velvet. I can't help it. I want it all quickly because I don't want God to stop and think. I wonder if I'm getting more than my share. The jockey will have to wait. There's lots of agents in London. I'll write some letters for you, but that's all. You've bit off a big piece of dream for yourself, and now it's all your own show, Velvet. My, I can't do it without you. The National's no business of mine. Your pal won't stand for me chasing about with a race horse. But he'd you knows what to do and how to train
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him. Half the pie's in my heart and half's in yours. I swear by the pie that whatever he wins, half is you. Thanks. I'll buy me a bowler hat with my hat. A castle with your hat, Mai. The pie is going to win.
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Half half the sweeps, A man could get a real start. Buy a livery stable in a lively little town. Drop anchor. Raise some young ones like Donald. Alright. Alright. You've got a deal. Shake hands on it? Shake hands. You dream of glory for your pie. As for me, I'll take the cash. Oh, come here. Come here. I've got something to show. A map? Yeah. This here is a map of the course at Aintree. Twice around the course they go. That's 30 jumps and all. It's mostly a job of training them to jump and jump and keep on going. That's the first five jumps here, our thorn hedges. We can teach the pie on the fences over by mister Eads. Now the third jump here, this one, there's a ditch on the takeoff side. I can dig in one, and then there's a garden.
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Faster development. Faster. He's got a ditch for the clear steady now. Steady go. That's it. That's it. Turn him around and try it again. Lift his head. Keep it that way
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now. I'm the man who hit this one.
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Beacher's brook. There's a bad drop on the landing side. See? But if we take him over the wall often enough, it might not scare him so much. Go ahead now. Be careful. Don't jerk his head. I know.
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I just it's still as a company near him, Hendrick. Watch.
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Fast it fair, Velvet. Fast it fair once again now. Once again now, girl. She did it, mom. She What are you waiting for? Try it again. Yes, ma.
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I Build it. Grover, what's the matter? I know. Don't I I just get excited. I can't
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Oh, then stop getting excited. Do it again.
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Yes, ma. I'm ready. Oh, isn't you wonderful, my? Isn't he lovely?
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That's how it went. Week after week, whenever we had a few moments together. Velvet from school, me from the shop, running and jumping, jumping and running. She in the saddle and me telling her what to do as best I knew. And then, one afternoon deep in winter, she comes rushing into the stable thinking Pi and me'd be ready for her. But we aren't ready. Pi is down on the stable floor, shaking and wheezing, sick of the death.
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What is it, my? What's wrong with him? I don't know.
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Pneumonia, I guess.
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Pie, tell me. Tell me what hurts. Is it very bad, Pott?
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I'll get a vet. No. No vet.
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There isn't a good one in town. My please, you can help him. He's ours and mine.
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Would you trust me, Velvet? I'm I'm not very lucky. I I might guess wrong. But would you trust me? Yes. You won't hurt him more than me. Alright. Then get some blankets. Get some whiskey. Hot water. Hurry, Velvet. We don't
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so tragedy stalks our house, does it? It's late, mister Brown. Better go to bed. But I'm not going to bed. Don't you think Velvet will catch her death out there in the stables? It's not to be helped. She's beside herself. You need your sleep, mister Brown. When tragedy stalks the house once in ten years, I can stay up. I haven't sit up so late since Donald arrived, which of course was just before the dawn. I'll have some tea. Speaking of Donald,
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look, the stairs. I sleep too much, mama. I'll decide that. Back to bed.
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Is the child in the habit of coming down at this hour? You heard your mother back to bed. How will I fall asleep, papa? That is the general purpose and intention.
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I've been sick all night. You haven't. Why haven't I? Now don't let him start whining. You changed my sheets in the middle of the night and the new ones were cold. I changed your sheets for a very good reason, young man. Now get on up. Oh, you're alright.
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I must have been sick all night long.
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My? Oh. Yes. Come in, lad. You're cold. A drop of tea.
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Thank you, ma'am. Do you mind if I have a little tea also? Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Well, never mind. I can wait here. Give me your cup. Any change? No. Are you worried about the animal?
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Well,
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he's sick. And I wouldn't be surprised if you and missus Brown were sick too. Matter of a cool hundred pounds with those racing people. What are you going to do? Take the carcass to London and demand a refund? We're not thinking about the money, mister Brown. Oh, no. Not you, missus Brown. You're a woman of deep feeling and faith.
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I mean, master Taylor's half interest in the wing. Mister Brown, remember once you entered a spelling competition for 5 shillings? Was it love of spelling or the love of 5 shillings? Oh, now now that was entirely different, missus Brown. It was the love of 5 shillings. Don't be ashamed of it. Sometimes even money can be a faith. I I'd I'd better get back to the bar. Yes. You have. And you'd better get up to bed, mister Brown. It's close to 05:00. And what about you? I'm knitting.
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In time of crisis, the head of the house should not be found sleeping in bed. I'm staying up, missus Brown, if it takes all week.
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Mother. Father. It's Polly. He's alright. He's fine. Steady, child. Steady.
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My cured him. He's on his feet again. Bear the horse is up and you'll be down. You haven't eaten, haven't slept. Is it fair to impose illness on the household? Oh, I won't be ill, father.
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I could sit up a thousand nights. Look. Look what time it is. Three and one half minutes from 08:00 in the morning? I'll be late for school. Goodbye, mother. Goodbye, father.
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Are you permitting that child to go to school? I like the spirit that makes her want to go after sitting up all night. But she'll collapse by afternoon. She'll be home in half an hour. What? This is Saturday, mister Brown. There is no school.
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Well, bless me so to you.
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And so was the pie cured and came by his strength, which he'd sorely need. For it's twice around the course at Aintree, in 30 jumps, in the greatest race a horse can run-in all this world.
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We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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In just a moment, our stars will return with act three of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Chris. Screen stars are often asked their formulas for success. Our guest tonight says hers is work hard, do your best, listen and learn. She is lovely blonde, Dorothy Patrick, one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Dorothy captured the role of missus Jerome Kern in Metro Bolden Mare's superb new musical
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till the clouds roll by. You give me too much credit, mister Keeley. I did need an opportunity. Well, you made the most of it, Dorothy.
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Any woman would be proud to have you represent her on the screen.
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Would you mind if I pass those orchids along? Not at all. Well, I'd like to give mine to Robert Walker. As Jerome Kern himself, he made a wonderful screen husband.
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Van Heflin is a darling too. I can see you approve the men in the cast, Dorothy. How about the girls? Well, naturally,
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Judy Garland and June Allison should get the very nicest orchids of them all. In those big Technicolor production numbers, they're simply lovely. And your favorite number? Well, one that interested me especially was the setting for Look for the Silver Lining, which Judy sings in till the clouds roll by. Mister Kennedy,
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you'd have been interested in the scene where Judy was washing simply mountains of dishes and singing like an angel. Then she must have been washing them in luxe flakes. Why, that's right, mister Kennedy. The suds were that high. Women like those rich suds, miss Patrick, because they mean luxe flakes go further. You know what? It's actually been proved that ounce for ounce, luxe washes up to twice as many dishes as other leading soap systems. Well, I saw Judy's hands after dozens of takes, and you'd never guess you'd been doing dishes. Credit luxe flakes again, miss Patrick. Women who care about their hands use luxe for dishes because it doesn't make hands rough and red as strong soaps do.
That's been proved scientifically. So it's not surprising that when a studio shoots a dishwashing scene, they use luxe suds to protect the star's hands. And that lady's is the very same luxe thousands of women all over the country use for dishes to keep their hands soft, smooth, and lovely.
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Why not try it for your dishes tomorrow? Here's your producer, William Keeley. Act three of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney as my, Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet, and Donald Crisp as mister Brown.
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There came a day when I stopped training the horse, and Velvet stopped riding him. And that was the day before we left for Aintree.
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That night, mister H stopped by the house. And what time will you be leaving, mister Brown? I'm not crazy man. I'm staying home where I belong. It's Velvet and master Taylor and the horse in a hired van at 05:00 tomorrow morning. Boy,
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got a jockey here to ride the Brute? We're meeting one there tomorrow. Name of Ivan Taske, sir. In that case, I've a pound note to wager. Here you are, lad, to win. That's a pound wasted. I'll put it in the book with the other bets, mister Edith. Are there bets? You're the tenth man here today, mister Reid. Eleventh.
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Thank you, missus Brown. Eleventh. It's bad enough to see this family wasting its money. But when I see the village of Sewelles throwing good money after bed,
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it's enough to make me lose my faith in humanity. I'm glad to hear you've got faith in humanity, mister Brown. As for me, I'd sometimes sooner put my faith on a horse.
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It's come, boy. The van for the horse is here. And Velvet? Saying goodbye to her mother. Master Taylor, I, now, you'll understand. I I'm not a frivolous man, but I'd like to risk a couple of pounds. Put it on the pie for me. Yes, sir. And, you know, I'll not be angry if you say nothing about it to the missus. No. Good luck, boy. Thank you.
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What's the jockey's name again, Mike? Ivan Taskey. Now get some sleep, Velvet. We've got a long way ahead of us. Mike, do you think you'll like the pie, mister Tally? He'll like them alright. How do we know these jockey clothes are going to fit him? All jockeys are the same size, same brain, same vision.
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Seeing the world from the height of a horse. And what's that you're doing?
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Taking my braces off. I told your mother I'd take care of you, Velvet. Oh, just as once, my. I've got all the rest of my life to wear them.
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Alright. But get some sleep. We'll be meeting Tasky first thing in the morning. More coffee, mister Tassky.
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No. No. Thanks. So this is miss Brown.
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Such a little girl. Her money's as good as anybody's.
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And wait till you see the pie. He's a real horse, mister Tassky. And what does it matter? Tomorrow I ride him. Tomorrow night I go back to Paris. Such a little girl. Only in England can it happen that a child brings a plow horse from the field.
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He's not a plow horse, mister
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mister Tasky. We'll take you to see the pie now, mister Tasky. Once you see him, you'll realize what You are serious? Why
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not? Say hello? Get the feel of him? Shake his hand. Give him calling, Carl. Make ball.
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Yeah. Yeah. May maybe it is foolish.
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It'll be just as foolish for mister Taffy to ride him. Tell them. Tell them. The little girl does not like me. You may be a fine rider, mister Taffy, but the pie would know your heart's not in it. He would know you. Don't believe in him.
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Mister Taylor, what you call her? Crazy.
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Right? No. No. No, mister Tasky. Truthful. Come on, Velvet. Let's go back to the van. I'll try and find us another jockey. Thank you, Mike.
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Mike, is that you? Yes.
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I didn't mean to be so late. I've been looking everywhere.
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No luck?
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No. Tried everything and asked everybody. There'll be no race tomorrow for the pie. Searching for weeks for a rider and then you say, no. Thank you, mister Tasske. Teske. Goodbye. But, my, he just didn't believe. He's a rider. He's a rider. Things happen in a race, fellas. Not with the pie.
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He'd know. My why don't you ride him yourself? Do you wanna know why?
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I'll tell you why. It's been going around in my mind all night. Sure sure I was a jockey once. And one fine day, I rode at Manchester. There were three of us going for the final jump together. And I saw a chance to win and I took. It was me that did it. There was a tangle of reins and horses and jockeys,
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and one of the jockeys got killed.
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That's why I don't ride anymore because I'm afraid. I'm all soft and yellow inside, so I don't ride. That's why I'm no good to you when you need me the most. Oh, no. No, my.
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It's you that kept me going. There's greatness in you, my. No. There's there's nothing in me. Oh, no, my. No.
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I I left her there crying. And late that night, after she had gone to bed, I came back for the pie, and I led him over to the course. Dark it was, save for the stars. But the horse was deserving to see something of all he was going to miss. I wasn't a yellow coward. I'd ride you myself high. But you wouldn't know me, would you? I've never been up there in your back. She's been the only one. Except except if I if I get on your back now, if I give you the chance to learn the weight of me. Pie. Pie. I'm doing it. I'm getting up in the saddle. Go on. Throw me. How dare you throw me?
Pye. Pye. Pye. Pye. Straight down the course. Get it. Good luck at it now. Tomorrow, you'll not have the chance, For we'll be flying down here like the devil himself was on our heels. And up there in the stands, the king and queen will be watching us. Freeze around Pai. I came back to the van. I'd wake her up and tell her tell her how I'd ride the pie myself, that I I wasn't yellow anymore, that I'd do this thing she wanted so badly. But when I got to the van, the lamp was lit and it was velvet. Wearing the jockey silks are marked. Look,
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my. Look. They fit me. They fit fine. What in the name of all that's crazy? The pie's going to raise my, and I'm going to ride him. They'll never know I'm a girl. If you cut my hair, I'll be exactly right. And get your silly little neck exactly broken.
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Forty horses and riders ready to trample you over. I'll not let you do it, Velvet. Oh, please, my Besides besides, there's no need for it. Suppose Velvet, suppose I told you that that just now just now tonight, I
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I found us a rider. I should still want to ride him myself. My I know you're angry, but you'll understand. If you ever rode a horse again, you'd want to win. That's how I feel.
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So now it's the glory of winning you want for yourself. Is that it?
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Yes. Well,
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perhaps you're right. Perhaps that's what I'd want if I'd ever ride again.
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Alright.
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Alright. He's yours. Oh my. I know you're thinking. I know you're thinking. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. There's lot of things we have to do. One chance in a hundred that will fool them. My hair. What? You're my scissors.
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Go ahead and and short at the back now. Short.
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Oh, Velvet.
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I wish your mother were here.
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She is here.
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She didn't find me. You'll be disqualified at the end when they find you're a girl. You'll have to forfeit the prize money. They may even send you to prison for fraud. But if there's trouble, you tell them it was me that did it. Do you understand? It was me that put you up to it. There won't be any trouble. Mine. Now listen. There's a lot of tricks you'll have to learn when you're No. Use mine. Well, girl, do you think a race like this is won by luck?
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No. It's won by knowing the pie can win and telling him so.
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How do I tell of the race that was run the next day? The 40 horses and 40 riders flying down the straightaway, soaring over the jumps, the pounding of the hooves, and the shouting of the jockeys, and the whole wild delirium of it all. 40 it was that started, but not a dozen were left for the finish. And me too scared to look at the jumps for fear she'd be the next one down. But the jumps are behind now and down the stretch they come. As you fill up and snug and make even shake them apart. I stood there. My head started bursting. She couldn't have won. But what my brain could not believe my own eyes saw. They saw the pie in front and going away, and then it happened. She just seemed to melt from the saddle, and there she was on the ground. And the next thing I knew, I was pounding on the door of the track hospital.
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What happened to her, sir? What happened to her? Is she alright? She only faded exhausted. Oh, I She? How did you know? Here. What do you know about what do you know about her? I wanna repeat that, ladies and gentlemen. Just as the flight passed the post, the white of hell will be done. This is in a fashion of the rules. The Wayne Jockey must knock this lunch until he reaches the enclosure.
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They let her out of the hospital. But it was hours before we got away. Report as policemen, celebrities, questions, cheers, and and glory. And the same all over again when the van stopped and the villagers saw.
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Mother. Mother. We won. We won. Are you alright, girl? Are you alright? Oh, yes. Yes, father. Mother,
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were we the best in the world? Yes, Velvet. The best in the world.
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Isaiah Brown, what's the bow tie for? Oh, Lord Derby wears a bow tie. She's got a couple of champion racehorses too. And her daughter heard that he was going to prison for fraud?
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If you heard the wireless, mister Hallam, you know there won't be any charges.
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Englishmen treat their heroes better than that.
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They were satisfied to disqualify Velvet and the horse. And made her forfeit all the money? Would you expect them to be both forgiving and generous? Pet your daughter. Come on, missus Brown. Come on home.
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Telegram's cablegram's letters. The music hold once you've held it. The American cinema, there's a fortune of money in this. Yes, father. They want you and the horse to go to America and act in the cinema. But I told you, father.
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I can't drag the pie about for people to stare at.
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Mother, I can't. It's your father talking to you, dear.
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If you had seen what he did for me,
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he burst himself for me. And would it burst your own childish heart to stare at an account of £5,000 in a good bank?
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I can't help it, father. I'd sooner have that horse happy and go to heaven.
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Velvet, run along, dear. Change your dress.
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Well, your mother said to run along. Yes, father. Now, missus Brown, I put it to you calmly.
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Is that a good reason for throwing away a fortune,
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unwilling for people to stare at a horse? There'll be a dispute till the end of time, mister Brown, whether it's better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.
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Where are you going? All telegrams, cablegrams, and letters. Into the fire. Into the fire with every last one of them.
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I'm sorry you find me packing, mister Brown. I meant to leave without any goodbyes. I'd, left a note, you know. You're taken to the empty roads again, but why, boy, and where? My father gave me every road in the kingdom, and now I'm ready to look him over, sir. I don't understand
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you. And then perhaps I do. Perhaps you're right, my.
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That's the first time you ever called me, my.
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I get your meaning. But there's character to be considered when a man takes a stranger under his roof? Rightly so. But I've been wrong, and I'm sorry. To be frank, I thought you'd steal that hundred sovereigns.
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To be frank, I nearly did. But what kept you from it? I don't know the pie. Perhaps, maybe it was Donald or missus Brown. Perhaps it was Velvet. I I don't know. Does Velvet know where you're going? I told her someday I'd be leaving. I I I don't like goodbyes, mister Brown.
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Give me your hand, mine.
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Thank you. Would you say goodbye to Velvet for me? And missus Brown, she's a fine woman, sir, but I I don't have to tell you that. There's nothing better I'd like than to go away with her thinking
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well of me.
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She does.
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Goodbye.
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Goodbye. Goodbye, Jacob Doug.
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Goodbye, sir. God bless you, lad. Jacob, dog, how can there be so many currents in such a little puddle?
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Please go, mother. My gun.
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He's gone. I know, Velvet. The world's opened up again for him. He'd shut himself away from it. He was angry with it, but that's over. I think he'll come back. That's what he said once.
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He said, only way to come back is to go. But, mother, we've never told him what he wanted to know. His father, remember, mother, how we wouldn't tell him because it wasn't the right time. Shouldn't he know now, Martha? Yes. He should. He's earned it.
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Father. He can't be far up the road. The pie could find him, Velvet. Thank you, father.
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Thank you.
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I'm obliged, Velvet. Obliged to you for telling me about my father.
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So it's staying now mine?
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No.
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But you'll come back someday. Please come back, mine.
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I will, though. I will.
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I'll be back. Goodbye, Mike.
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Guys.
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Don't have a word about stars. We'll be next week's play in a moment. Say, Sally, how good are you at guessing games? Well, that depends on what clues I get. Well, suppose I told you I was thinking of something that helps pretty under things stay lovely longer. Oh, poo. That's too easy. Every girl knows that's luxe flakes. Well, I've seen slips luxe as many as 30 times, and they were just as bright as they could be. Oh, you're spoiling my fun, Sally. My next clue is going to be that this care keeps on these lovely not only longer, but three times as long. Test proved it. Well, Natch,
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when you wash nice undies the wrong way and use a strong soap, they fade in no time. But you didn't give me a chance to say Luxe is thrifty too. I'll say Luxe is thrifty. Well, I can wash undies for nearly two months with just one big box of Luxe flakes. Now can I ask you a question? Certainly.
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Do I get a box of luxe flakes to keep? Well, I'm sure we could give you a box, but I imagine a bright girl like you will use it instead of keeping it. Because if you use it every night to luxe Mondays, you'll keep them lovely lots longer. Here's mister Keeley at the microphone.
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In this season of awards, I wish I could pin a medal on tonight's cast with a special citation for our three stars, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Chris. Mickey, I know our audience is as happy as I am to have you back in our theater again. Thanks, mister Keeley. It seems like old, old times. Incidentally, Elizabeth, I understand that while you were making National Velvet, you and the horse who played the pie became devoted friends. Mister Keeley, they were more than friends.
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I think they were sweethearts.
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Oh, well, I certainly loved him
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just as much as Velvet did in the story. They got so chummy, in fact, that the studio finally gave him to Elizabeth.
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Yes. And she handled him better than anyone else can. But Elizabeth, that's has other talents too. She's authored the best selling book for children. And Mickey has just written and published another original song. How about singing it for us, Mickey? No. No. No, Elizabeth. Not on the stage. My voice sounds better in much smaller places.
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A smaller place? Yeah. The, shower. Oh, well. Well, Mickey, we look forward to catching it on the radio and also to seeing your new Metro Golden Mayor picture, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. Speaking of pictures, mister Keating, what's on the fire for next week here? Next Monday night, we bring our audience a thrilling story of adventure and romance from Paramount's colorful screen hit, Frenchman's Creek. And our stars are Joan Fontaine and David Niven. Miss Fontaine appears in her original role in a drama throbbing with excitement and suspense. The story of a buccaneer who steals both love and riches in the lawless era of Elizabethan England. Your audience ought to love it, mister Keeley, and good night, sir. Good night and all our hardiest thanks. Good night. Good night. Eva Brothers Company, the makers of Luxe Lakes, Join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Joan Fontaine and David Niven in Frenchman's Creek.
This is William Keeler, saying good night to you from Hollywood.
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Tommy is typical of many youngsters with an eye for a good business proposition.
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Mom, can I take this can of use back to the store and keep the money? Why, yes.
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But what made you think about doing that all of a sudden? Well, heck, mom. They got a big sign in the store about it. They're paying real money for this used fat now. Yes. You may be surprised at how much dealers are paying for used fats these days. It soon comes up. You see, used fats are still needed very much. This country and the whole world are still short of oils for making soap and other industrial products. So whether you let Junior keep the change or use the money to cut down your grocery bills, it pays to save every drop of used fat. Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor appeared by arrangements with Metro Golden Mayer, producers of the new murder mystery, The Lady in the Lake. Donald Crisp will soon be seen in the enterprise production, Ramrod.
Aired in our cast tonight were Janet Scott as missus Brown, Norman Field as Ed. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. And this is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to tune in again next Monday night to hear Frenchman's Creek with Joan Fontaine and David Niven.
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Spry. When you bake and fry Fry. For your cake and pie Fry. Get your shortening pie.
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Reliance fry. Yes. It's fry for pastry so tender, flaky, not sweet. Any pie filling tastes more delicious. You'll say pastry is extra delicate, better tasting with Spry.
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Reliance Spry. S b r y. Reliance Spry. S b r y.
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Be sure to listen in next Monday night to the Luxe Radio Theater presentation of Frenchman's Creek with Joan Fontaine and David Niven. And why not tune in later tonight to hear the Joan Davis Show? This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Friends, your most precious assets these strenuous days are your good humor and your good health. And one way to safeguard both humor and health is to see that your folks get the right start each day with a delicious nourishing breakfast. For a full share of well balanced nourishment, make it a breakfast that includes Grape Nut flakes because well balanced nourishment is what you get in every helping of toasted brown Grape Nut flakes and milk. You get proteins and minerals such as iron, calcium, and phosphorus. And you get two of the important b vitamins, niacin and vitamin b one for good appetite, steady nerves, and energy.
So for better health and better humor, you'd better say, I'll take a package of Grape Nut plate.
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That was the last number of the tenth program in the new great nuts plate series, and we'll be with you again next Sunday night at the same time, broadcasting from New York. I'd like to salute the offices of men at the new maritime training station, which is being dedicated at Catalina Island on December 15. Good luck to you men. And good luck to you I'd like to salute the officers of men at the new maritime training station, which is being dedicated at Catalina Island on December 15. Good luck to you men. And good luck to you,
Luxe presents Hollywood. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, mister William Keeley.
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Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, we welcome to this theater a young man whose popularity has made him sorely missed during his absence in the service. I refer, of course, to Mickey Rooney, playing tonight the last great role that he created before going in the army. With Mickey on our stage are lovely Elizabeth Taylor and Donald Crisp from the original screencast. They appear in Metro Golden Mare's thrilling and enchanting screen hit, National Velvet, the story of a boy and girl and a horse who brings them dreams of glory in a little town in England. And speaking of England, a friend of ours in Nova Scotia forwards a letter she received from relatives in London thanking her for a package which she sent. The letter says, I don't know who was more thrilled, the children or their mother. It was really exciting to see a package of Luxe Flakes again.
I felt like washing all my precious things immediately. Well, I'm sure the gratitude for Luxe Flakes is a feeling that we in The United States share readily with our English cousins. Another token of hands across the sea. We cross that sea now with the opening act of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney as my, Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet, and Donald Crisp as mister Brown, with Janet Scott as missus Brown.
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Three weeks now, I've been on the road, and sundown this day, I'd be in the village of Soules. For someone lived in Soules whom my father once knew. I was resting at the crossroads when I saw them, a girl and a horse. Running away, the horse was, and there was the child cutting the beast off and stopping him, like she'd been doing it every day of her life.
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Woah, boy. Woah. Oh, what a lovely boy he is.
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Oh, you're a sweet boy. I don't know how your stalking velvet. I was trying to sniff a heart on him when he tore noose. What's his name, mister Eats? He's a murderous pirate, not deserving of a name. Oh, no. Not pirate.
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He's a gentle one, aren't you, boy? I'll just call him Pie.
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Oh, you're a pretty one, Pie. Trouble with you, Bill, that you love any horse, don't you? Oh, yes. Yes, mister Lee. I still don't know how you stopped him. A little one like you, among you, a robber, you pirate. Come along here. You
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should be in school. Shouldn't you, girl? Oh,
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I didn't see you. Well? School's over. It's summer holidays. Where are you going?
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To that village.
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My father's the butcher there. That's nice. I have two sisters and a brother.
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That makes it chummy. What have you got? The whole world. My father left it to me. Isn't I beautiful? Who? Mister Reed's horse. I grant she's got vinegar. Short back, well ribbed. Nice mover, alright. The way he jumped past your femme. I gotta be jumping too. I got business in Sewell's. Who with? Missus Herbert Brown. But
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but that's my mother. It is, Honest. Honest she is. And I'm Velvet Brown.
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Velvet. What kind of a name is that? Queer as my own. Is it? Mhmm. I'm called my.
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My tailor. My.
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And you know about horses, don't you? What if I do? Oh, but to know about horses is wonderful. Come on, my. I'll take you to my
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What did you say your name is, boy?
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My Taylor, ma'am. Where does he come from? I found him, father. I found him on the road. Is that any excuse for being late for supper? Come eat, boy. Eat. Oh, thank you, sir. Meredith, sit down. Yes, father.
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This is my sister, Edwina, my sister, Malvolia, and my brother, Donald. How do you do? How do you do? Beat yourself a Donald? I am.
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You're just rolling it around and around. Now swallow. I can't swallow. It isn't slighty.
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I was sick all night.
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Arnold, you're telling a story. Yes, father. And you know what a story is? What is it? Never mind. Just say you're sorry. I'm sorry, father. Well, you're sorry for what? For being sick all night. That boy will be a lawyer Monday. That'll be what are you doing? It's my brace, father. My brace hurts my cheek when I eat. Hurt or no hurt? That brace cost £4.10. How many times must I tell you? Do you want a face like a rabbit? She'd rather have a face like a horse. That's enough, Mallory.
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Now then, mister Taylor, you have something to tell me about your father.
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Yes, ma'am. Well, I, I showed you your name in his address book, ma'am. Yes. And, you said that you knew him? Yeah. I. So I oh, well, I I found the book among my father's belongings after he died. And I I thought that since I was passing through Sewell's that maybe you well, maybe you could,
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just get
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No. No. Thanks, ma'am. I I think I'd better be getting along before it gets too dark. Where will you go? If you stay on the road, you're sure to find another town. Yes. But it's harder to find on an empty stomach. You can go after supper.
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Missus Brown, please to pass the potato.
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What is it you want, Velvet?
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I'm worried about father. Father,
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are you sure you feel well? I thought I told you to leave us alone for a few minutes.
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Your mother and I are talking to mister Taylor. But if you don't feel well, don't you think you better have a helper in the butcher shop? I never felt better in my life. Just for the summer. There's more sheep come to market in summer than winter.
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Yes. That's true. But however it may grieve you, child, I feel fine.
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Now then, mister Taylor. If she's talking about me being a butcher's helper, she's wasting her breath. Well, that's agreed. Still, there's a small bed in the stable, mister Brown.
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Yes. There is, missus Brown. You can have it for tonight, my tailor. Oh, thank you, mother. Thank you, father. Well, show him to the stable, Velvet, and then get to bed. Maybe I'd rather not stay. I Then show him to the road. I'll stay.
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Just for tonight though. Thank you.
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What are you doing, missus Brown? Working on the account books. Did you forget you brought home £12 cash? Or put the money away till morning? You look tired. It's you who must conserve yourself. After all, more sheep in summer.
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Now you know their small sense in hiring that boy. You could do worse, mister Brown. Tin Bob would be fair, I think. Tin Bob a week because he's the son of Dan Taylor? Did I ever ask for a favor because I'm the son of my father? He won't get favored. Oh, I'll see to that whenever you fear. Look in on the girls, would you, mister Brown? I am a little tired. I will. Put the money in the cupboard and get on with it. Is that you, father? It is. And why aren't you asleep like your sisters? I've been riding my horse.
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Oh, you're a sweet one, Pie. Easy now. Easy boy. What's this pie business? A new horse? Oh, he's the loveliest thing, father. He belongs to mister E. Oh, you should see him. Now calm yourself or you'll be losing your supper again.
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I'll take Jacob dog for a walk. Good night, father.
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Come on, pie. Straight down the road now. Faster boy. Faster, my lovely.
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Come in. I'm glad you're not asleep, mother. That's disturbing you, Velvet. You're all lighted up. Mother,
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did you know my Taylor's father? Perhaps when you were a swimmer? When you were having your pictures in the paper? Way back, I mean.
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Way back. Do you know how I came to swim the channel? Was my Taylor's father showed me how. His father? He was my trainer. It was he told me what to do. Free the spirit in me. Made me do it when I was ready to give up. Why didn't you tell my about his father? It isn't the time for it. There's a right time for everything. But he'd be so happy, mother.
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It'll give him something to go on with. He needn't go.
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Mother. It's not charity.
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He'll work his way. Oh, I know he will, mother.
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May I go and tell him? Tell him he can stay, but no more. We'll not let him trade on his father's name. If this stuff is there, it'll show.
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Wonderful mind. The room's a little shabby, but but you can make I haven't said I will stay in. Oh.
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No. I'm, I'm considering. Don't you think you'd be happy here? It isn't the happiness. I'm considering it's what it'll get me. It's for the lack of considering that people stay poor. Have you ever been quiet for a few hours and and just think?
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All the time. All the time about horses. You've got a horse right in this barn? Miss Ada, she pulled the delivery card. Don't you love a horse as mine? I hate them. I don't believe it. You know too much about them. I can tell. That's when you really hate something. When you know too much about it. But you will stay here, won't you, Mike?
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I I'll stay.
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My. What is it? You'll have to get over your hate of horses.
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Why?
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Because I love them so. Every night, I pray to God to give me horses, wonderful horses, and to let me be the best rider in England.
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She went back into the house. And later when the lights were all out, I went back to the house too. And I put back in the cupboard £12 I had stolen. I would stay for a while in Soules and be a butcher's boy.
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Alright, lad. Scrub down the chopping blocks. They're all scrubbed, sir. Oh. What's the boy to do now, missus Brown? There's mister Eads' order and Velvet's brought the card. Oh, you know the Eads' farm boy? I'll join father. Nonsense. He must learn by himself. Oh, please father. There's the road to eat and the road to toppers. Oh, it's very confusing. Right. We'll do our good, mister Brown. Sharpen her appetite. Yes, father. Sharpen my appetite. Well, what are you waiting for, boy? Take the meat and go. I yes. Missus Brown, now mind you, I'm not against this Taylor lad. But not for him. Well, now you'll allow that tramping the road's not a proper upbringing.
And would you guarantee there wasn't a bit of lying and sharp dealing about him? I guarantee there is.
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But what's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?
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Yes, missus Brown.
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Did you have to bring your dog along too? Oh, but Jake has lost your ride in the car. Don't you, Jake? I know why you wanted to come out here. There's Ed's pasture and there's Ed's horse. Yes. There's pie.
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My, what have horses ever done to you?
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Nothing. There's got to be a reason. Alright. Alright. I took a spill once. You'd hate him too if you had any sense. What's a horse? An animal that earns his keep by breaking his neck? I'm a horse, and I'll be one till I use my head again.
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My would you mind? Oh, alright. Alright.
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Go on and look at him if you want to. I do want to. He's so beautiful. Jacob. Jacob. Jacob. Come back here, Jacob. Why he's going in the pasture? He's chasing after time. Jacob. Jacob. What kind of a horse is that letting a dog scare him? He's running away again.
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Pawn. Let him go. Stonewall will stop him. He's running right forward. Pawn.
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He didn't do it. I don't believe it. He didn't. Didn't didn't do what?
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That that wall. He he jumped that wall. Give me give me that cord. What cord? From that meat parcel. Hurry up. I've I've got a major
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I don't know why you want to measure me through his wall, my. I'll tell you why.
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Do you know what that crazy horse did? When he jumped over that wall,
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he leaped to Beecher's Brook. He did? Yes. But he's gone. My, we've got to find him. He's Ede's horse. Let Ede find him. My, what's Beecher's Brook?
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Did you ever hear of a race course called Aintree? Aintree? Oh, forget it. It never happened at all. Forget I ever mentioned it. Mister Reed found his crazy horse. And being a man of wisdom, he set about getting rid of him. Next morning in the window of the butcher shop, this hall of pigs
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Oh, wow. They're rattling him, mother.
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Mister Reed's hoarse the pie. They're rattling him. When is the raffle, mister Brown? Saturday next. In the shop. In the shop? Well, mister Reed asked for it as a special favor. Well, you shouldn't have left me here along with him so long. Father, is it really true?
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Could mister Reed's horse be one for a shilling? Well, if you won, you'd lose. What good is the brute? Oh, do take us in tickets, won't you?
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You won't have to buy raffle tickets, mister Brown. I'll get them. What's that? Here. 4 shillings. 1 for each of the girls. And here, one for Donald. Oh, my grandma. Boy, are you challenging Boy? Uh-huh.
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Are you challenging my authority in this family?
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No, sir. I'm buying raffle tickets. That's all. You'll have to choose your own numbers, girl. Oh, my. You're wonderful.
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62. 60 2. I'll take 62. We'll get the tickets after lunch and and pin them in the by, boy. Oh, and Boy.
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It's one thing to outthink a man, but quite another to outsmart him. And who will say which is which, mister Brown?
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Eat your lunch, girls. Eat.
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Well, hello, Velvet. Hello, mister Hallam. Nice of your father to help mister Reed with the raffle. I hear you've been saying you're going to win. Of course. I'm to win. And what's the lucky number? 62. Number 62. There's ways of arranging it, Nafal as a clever man.
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Oh, I didn't bother him, mister Hallam.
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I just arranged it with Garth. We're all gathered and asked my friend, mister Brown, to reach in the fishbowl and determine who to take home that handsome jelly for the price of a Jenny. Look at that. The winning number doesn't stick to mister Brown's fingers. What's that you imply, mister Hallam? I imply there's some here that feels the horse is already won. Oh, I There's your daughter There's your daughter, Belvitt, been telling the village the horse is as good as hers. Come here, Hallam. I said come here.
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Well, put your hand in the box and pick the number yourself. I refuse and you can't make me. I can break your head. Look lively, mister Hallam. Pick a number. No. Alright. I will. Now draw it out. Come on. What is it? What is it? The winning number is 113.
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Mister Brown. Mister Brown. It's Velvet. What's that? What's the matter with her? Oh, fate that she had, mister DeBrant. Fainted right away.
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I'm sorry. I fainted, mother. It's alright, dear. Just lies still a while.
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Sometimes it
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frightens me. What, dear?
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The things I see. I see things as big as life, and I I think they're real.
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Like right now. What do you see now?
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Out of the window. The whole village coming here. They're bringing me the pie.
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I suppose it's because I wanted him so much. Don't fret, girl. If you see things that way, you'll build it. Look. It is the whole village.
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You've won him, girl. The horse is yours. The pie? He he might Mister Hallam drew a number that hadn't been sold. So we had to start all over again and out came 62. Oh, that's Or the old fool was fit to die. I don't know why I'm so pleased. Saddled with a crazy horse I don't need. And if there isn't enough trouble in the world, you people arrange to draw it out of a fishbowl.
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My, come in here. You're supposed to be resting, though. My, what's Beacher's Brook at Pyleage Dover? Beacher's Brook is the sixth jump of the Grand National Dame Tree. The greatest horse race in the world. That little floating around just lie down there. Your mind will blame me. Mud, would you do something for me? What? Just walk high up and down under the window. And have you fainting again, noon. Calm my heart, my. I'll just
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shut my hide and listen.
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Hut. Hut. Boy, come on, Pie. Now she's listening for you. Hop there.
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Hop. Look alive. That's it, Pie. Faster. Oh, you're a sweet one, Pie. Now then, here's a jump. Easy there. Oh, well done, Pie. Come on now. Faster.
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Just a moment, we bring you act two of National Velvet starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Chris.
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Sorry. I'm a little out of breath, Libby. Well, you shouldn't try imitating those acrobatic leaps Doug Fairbanks Junior makes in Sinbad the Sailor.
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After all, he was the combat commando before he made this new picture for RKO. Well, I I saw Marina Hera out front. I I wanted to see if she's as lovely as she looked in those Technicolor shots. Oh, well, I hope you told her how gorgeous she looked in those Arabian Nights costumes. That I did. And all those harem girls in Sinbad the Sailor were gorgeous too. RKO knows how to pick them. Weren't they lovely?
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Did you know RKO interviewed 240 girls before they selected 25?
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How did they ever decide? Leg. Legs. They did look good.
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Legs were the final test. You see, with those sheer costumes, the designers couldn't use any camouflage tricks. The girls' legs had to be perfect. And I guess every girl who applied wore her very best stockings for the interview. I've never seen so many trim looking legs. Never a stocking wrinkle or a run. Oh, there couldn't have been that many pairs of new nylons in Hollywood at that time. No. Indeed. And you can be sure most of the girls had treasured their stockings with luxe flakes. After all, smart girls in Hollywood, just like smart girls all over the country,
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insist on luxe for stockings. Oh, that's not surprising when you consider how much longer stockings last with luxe. If anybody wants proof,
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just look at those strain tests we've talked about before. Weren't the results amazing?
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A well known laboratory started with identical brutes of stockings, washed them two ways. Those washed with a strong soap went into runs mighty soon. But those that were washed with luxe flakes took strains like veterans. They lasted ever so much longer. In fact, twice as long. So no matter what kind of stockings you wear, gentle luxe is thrifty care.
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We return you now to William Keeley. Act two of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney as Maya, Elizabeth Taylor in the title role, and Donald Crisp as mister Brown.
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Winning a horse in a raffle is one thing. Keeping that horse is another. It was mister Brown who was all for making the pie earn his oats, but the pie was not born for work. Smashed the cart and scared half the village out of a year's growth before I had him back in his stall again.
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I'm frightened, my father said he'd still buy cats me. If anybody sells a pie, I might as well die. No. No. No. I I don't think he meant Oh, he couldn't. The pie's too wonderful and noble and great.
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Greatly crazy.
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My. That stone finch you said was Thomas Beecher's Brook.
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3 times this morning, this pie sailed over. I ought to be whipped for even mentioning Beecher's Brook. You'll talk and dream of it until I get sacked.
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My.
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Could the pie win the Grand National?
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Who do you think you are? I'm the owner of the pie. And does that give you leave to think you could take the richest, grandest prize a horse ever won? Why, that's for kings. And you're just a wisp of a butcher's daughter who should be playing with a dolly. The pie is a king. A king without money or a jockey or a trainer? And you're a pa wanting to chop him up for a cat's meat. But if we had the money and you were the trainer,
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would you know where to find the jockey? Look at you. It's like your ma says, all light it up. There's something terrible you've done, Dovin. I feel it. Answer me, ma'am. Without all the other ifs, yes. I could get a jockey. Would it be Weatherbeat in London where the horses are entered for the Grand National? Would this be the kind of letter to send to Weatherbeat?
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Give me that letter.
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You're not sending it, Velvet. But I did last week, and they've answered me. You have to help me fill in the entry blank. Did they also tell you you'd need a hundred pounds to enter? Oh, we'll come to that later. Velvet,
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do you know what you're bringing on yourself with this craziness? To get him fit. You'll be riding, riding over fences and ditches and high stone walls till you're weary and worn to a shadow.
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And for what? Tell me that. For what?
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It's his chance to be great. It's for the glory of it for him.
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It's your chance too, my. My chance will come when your pa sends me packing. Now leave me alone.
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The Grand National.
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My. Did you put that up to this? It's me that said it was folly, ma'am. A hundred pound standard jockey fees, money for a horse van, and all folly for nothing. A horse is is not good enough? It's a score of things. 30 jumps, ma'am. The hardest course in the world. Training a month on month. It'll be folly for nothing. Tell me, my
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what's wrong with folly? Well, Velvet, come with me. There's an old scrapbook in the trunk in the attic. I think it's time to look.
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Your scrapbook, mother. Pictures of you swimming.
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Velvet, Mai spoke of a jockey fee. Doesn't he ride? Did. How does Bill once, though? I nearly drowned once, but I went back to swimming the very next day. Velvet, this picture here, this man was my father.
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My father?
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Yes. My trainer. There was greatness in him. In you too.
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Often, I just sit and wonder about you. You don't think like the rest of us, mother. You think here, way in the back of your head. And I've watched you do the same.
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We're alike, Velvet. I too believe that everyone should have a chance at breathtaking piece of folly once in his life. I was 20 when they said I couldn't swim the channel. You're 12. You think a horse of yours can win the Grand National? Your dream has come early. Yes, mother. Here's something else in the trunk. A bag filled with gold sovereign. Mother,
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you're prize money for swimming the channel. And there's a little more somewhere, paper money.
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But this will be for your entry fee. Gold sovereigns for luck. Oh, mother.
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Mother. We'll win for you, mother. We will.
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Win or lose. It's how you take it that counts. And knowing when it's time to go on to the next thing. The the next thing? There's a time for everything, Velvet. For having a horse in the Grand National, for being in love. Yes. Even for dying. All in proper order at the proper time.
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Mother, who who is going to tell father?
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I'll do the telling. I don't think your father believes too well in the importance of
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folly. And so it was. I took my clean collar off the nail and I packed my bag and into it with a heavy sack filled with shining gold sovereigns. I'd soon be off to London, to Wetherby's, making an entry in the Grand National.
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I'll be off with you, ma'am. Good luck. Thanks to you, ma'am. Goodbye,
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mister Brown. My lads, you can't say that your big chance did not come to you in the village of Sewelles, going to London with a hundred pounds in your pocket. Missus Brown wishes you good luck. I wish you a good time. Yes, sir.
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What did you mean by that, a good time?
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How many mutton shops make up a hundred pounds? How many thousand? Making calculations, mister Brown? I am. And I'll lay my two ears on this chopping block if you ever see the color of your sovereigns again or the hide of master Taylor this side of doomsday.
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There was someone in London I knew. Name of Greenford, an agent he was for jockeys. We met at a pub and the mugs of beer that slashed our table were large and heavy. But why didn't you go to Manchester to find a rider? Why why Manchester? Because that's where you used to ride. Wasn't it, lad? Now what's your game? I I told you. I got papers for Wetherbys. Likewise, the entry fee, but I got no jockey.
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Entering a horse would never run anywhere? Why don't you take your hundred quid and throw it in the River Thames?
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Well, because it ain't mind a fling.
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That oars ain't going to win the national and you know it. Yeah. I know what I know, but what can I do? You have to use your wits. The oars that's taking the Grand National is being quoted now at 40 to one. That's 4,000, mister Taylor, for the man who wages a measly hundred. 4 4 thousand pounds. And all I ask is a little commission for placing the bit.
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What what do I tell them in Sewell's?
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Tell them you met a tart like me in a pub, and I've pinched it off you. Yeah. And a day after Aintree, you come back to London and live like quality the rest of your days. Now where's that under liquid? Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. Here. What's this, Ochratron?
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You got this bag watered. She she gave me that to spend.
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Saved She was glad to give it to me. Oh, lady. Sweet on you. Is she?
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Not old. Not old. Not sweet on me. Just trust me. Trust me. Give me that bag. Hold on now. Drunk, I am, but not so drunk as you think. See if I've been too, but it's not in my books, mister Greenford. What stealing on Wednesday. Thanks for the beer. I'm late for
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Write it back so soon, mister Taylor.
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I hope you took of me at my word and had a right good time. Here. Here's your receipt for your money at Wetherby's, and you get £5 change. What's that? I'll be back at work soon as I change my clothes.
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Yesterday, you calculated how many mutton chops made a hundred sovereigns, mister Brown.
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Today, I'll calculate in mutton head. I made a mistake. No need for too much humility.
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A little from you goes a long way.
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What happened, London? Tell me, my did you find me jockey? No. And be grateful for what you have, Velvet. I can't help it. I want it all quickly because I don't want God to stop and think. I wonder if I'm getting more than my share. The jockey will have to wait. There's lots of agents in London. I'll write some letters for you, but that's all. You've bit off a big piece of dream for yourself, and now it's all your own show, Velvet. My, I can't do it without you. The National's no business of mine. Your pal won't stand for me chasing about with a race horse. But he'd you knows what to do and how to train
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him. Half the pie's in my heart and half's in yours. I swear by the pie that whatever he wins, half is you. Thanks. I'll buy me a bowler hat with my hat. A castle with your hat, Mai. The pie is going to win.
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Half half the sweeps, A man could get a real start. Buy a livery stable in a lively little town. Drop anchor. Raise some young ones like Donald. Alright. Alright. You've got a deal. Shake hands on it? Shake hands. You dream of glory for your pie. As for me, I'll take the cash. Oh, come here. Come here. I've got something to show. A map? Yeah. This here is a map of the course at Aintree. Twice around the course they go. That's 30 jumps and all. It's mostly a job of training them to jump and jump and keep on going. That's the first five jumps here, our thorn hedges. We can teach the pie on the fences over by mister Eads. Now the third jump here, this one, there's a ditch on the takeoff side. I can dig in one, and then there's a garden.
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Faster development. Faster. He's got a ditch for the clear steady now. Steady go. That's it. That's it. Turn him around and try it again. Lift his head. Keep it that way
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now. I'm the man who hit this one.
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Beacher's brook. There's a bad drop on the landing side. See? But if we take him over the wall often enough, it might not scare him so much. Go ahead now. Be careful. Don't jerk his head. I know.
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I just it's still as a company near him, Hendrick. Watch.
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Fast it fair, Velvet. Fast it fair once again now. Once again now, girl. She did it, mom. She What are you waiting for? Try it again. Yes, ma.
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I Build it. Grover, what's the matter? I know. Don't I I just get excited. I can't
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Oh, then stop getting excited. Do it again.
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Yes, ma. I'm ready. Oh, isn't you wonderful, my? Isn't he lovely?
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That's how it went. Week after week, whenever we had a few moments together. Velvet from school, me from the shop, running and jumping, jumping and running. She in the saddle and me telling her what to do as best I knew. And then, one afternoon deep in winter, she comes rushing into the stable thinking Pi and me'd be ready for her. But we aren't ready. Pi is down on the stable floor, shaking and wheezing, sick of the death.
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What is it, my? What's wrong with him? I don't know.
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Pneumonia, I guess.
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Pie, tell me. Tell me what hurts. Is it very bad, Pott?
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I'll get a vet. No. No vet.
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There isn't a good one in town. My please, you can help him. He's ours and mine.
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Would you trust me, Velvet? I'm I'm not very lucky. I I might guess wrong. But would you trust me? Yes. You won't hurt him more than me. Alright. Then get some blankets. Get some whiskey. Hot water. Hurry, Velvet. We don't
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so tragedy stalks our house, does it? It's late, mister Brown. Better go to bed. But I'm not going to bed. Don't you think Velvet will catch her death out there in the stables? It's not to be helped. She's beside herself. You need your sleep, mister Brown. When tragedy stalks the house once in ten years, I can stay up. I haven't sit up so late since Donald arrived, which of course was just before the dawn. I'll have some tea. Speaking of Donald,
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look, the stairs. I sleep too much, mama. I'll decide that. Back to bed.
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Is the child in the habit of coming down at this hour? You heard your mother back to bed. How will I fall asleep, papa? That is the general purpose and intention.
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I've been sick all night. You haven't. Why haven't I? Now don't let him start whining. You changed my sheets in the middle of the night and the new ones were cold. I changed your sheets for a very good reason, young man. Now get on up. Oh, you're alright.
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I must have been sick all night long.
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My? Oh. Yes. Come in, lad. You're cold. A drop of tea.
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Thank you, ma'am. Do you mind if I have a little tea also? Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Well, never mind. I can wait here. Give me your cup. Any change? No. Are you worried about the animal?
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Well,
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he's sick. And I wouldn't be surprised if you and missus Brown were sick too. Matter of a cool hundred pounds with those racing people. What are you going to do? Take the carcass to London and demand a refund? We're not thinking about the money, mister Brown. Oh, no. Not you, missus Brown. You're a woman of deep feeling and faith.
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I mean, master Taylor's half interest in the wing. Mister Brown, remember once you entered a spelling competition for 5 shillings? Was it love of spelling or the love of 5 shillings? Oh, now now that was entirely different, missus Brown. It was the love of 5 shillings. Don't be ashamed of it. Sometimes even money can be a faith. I I'd I'd better get back to the bar. Yes. You have. And you'd better get up to bed, mister Brown. It's close to 05:00. And what about you? I'm knitting.
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In time of crisis, the head of the house should not be found sleeping in bed. I'm staying up, missus Brown, if it takes all week.
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Mother. Father. It's Polly. He's alright. He's fine. Steady, child. Steady.
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My cured him. He's on his feet again. Bear the horse is up and you'll be down. You haven't eaten, haven't slept. Is it fair to impose illness on the household? Oh, I won't be ill, father.
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I could sit up a thousand nights. Look. Look what time it is. Three and one half minutes from 08:00 in the morning? I'll be late for school. Goodbye, mother. Goodbye, father.
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Are you permitting that child to go to school? I like the spirit that makes her want to go after sitting up all night. But she'll collapse by afternoon. She'll be home in half an hour. What? This is Saturday, mister Brown. There is no school.
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Well, bless me so to you.
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And so was the pie cured and came by his strength, which he'd sorely need. For it's twice around the course at Aintree, in 30 jumps, in the greatest race a horse can run-in all this world.
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We pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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In just a moment, our stars will return with act three of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Chris. Screen stars are often asked their formulas for success. Our guest tonight says hers is work hard, do your best, listen and learn. She is lovely blonde, Dorothy Patrick, one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Dorothy captured the role of missus Jerome Kern in Metro Bolden Mare's superb new musical
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till the clouds roll by. You give me too much credit, mister Keeley. I did need an opportunity. Well, you made the most of it, Dorothy.
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Any woman would be proud to have you represent her on the screen.
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Would you mind if I pass those orchids along? Not at all. Well, I'd like to give mine to Robert Walker. As Jerome Kern himself, he made a wonderful screen husband.
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Van Heflin is a darling too. I can see you approve the men in the cast, Dorothy. How about the girls? Well, naturally,
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Judy Garland and June Allison should get the very nicest orchids of them all. In those big Technicolor production numbers, they're simply lovely. And your favorite number? Well, one that interested me especially was the setting for Look for the Silver Lining, which Judy sings in till the clouds roll by. Mister Kennedy,
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you'd have been interested in the scene where Judy was washing simply mountains of dishes and singing like an angel. Then she must have been washing them in luxe flakes. Why, that's right, mister Kennedy. The suds were that high. Women like those rich suds, miss Patrick, because they mean luxe flakes go further. You know what? It's actually been proved that ounce for ounce, luxe washes up to twice as many dishes as other leading soap systems. Well, I saw Judy's hands after dozens of takes, and you'd never guess you'd been doing dishes. Credit luxe flakes again, miss Patrick. Women who care about their hands use luxe for dishes because it doesn't make hands rough and red as strong soaps do.
That's been proved scientifically. So it's not surprising that when a studio shoots a dishwashing scene, they use luxe suds to protect the star's hands. And that lady's is the very same luxe thousands of women all over the country use for dishes to keep their hands soft, smooth, and lovely.
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Why not try it for your dishes tomorrow? Here's your producer, William Keeley. Act three of National Velvet, starring Mickey Rooney as my, Elizabeth Taylor as Velvet, and Donald Crisp as mister Brown.
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There came a day when I stopped training the horse, and Velvet stopped riding him. And that was the day before we left for Aintree.
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That night, mister H stopped by the house. And what time will you be leaving, mister Brown? I'm not crazy man. I'm staying home where I belong. It's Velvet and master Taylor and the horse in a hired van at 05:00 tomorrow morning. Boy,
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got a jockey here to ride the Brute? We're meeting one there tomorrow. Name of Ivan Taske, sir. In that case, I've a pound note to wager. Here you are, lad, to win. That's a pound wasted. I'll put it in the book with the other bets, mister Edith. Are there bets? You're the tenth man here today, mister Reid. Eleventh.
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Thank you, missus Brown. Eleventh. It's bad enough to see this family wasting its money. But when I see the village of Sewelles throwing good money after bed,
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it's enough to make me lose my faith in humanity. I'm glad to hear you've got faith in humanity, mister Brown. As for me, I'd sometimes sooner put my faith on a horse.
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It's come, boy. The van for the horse is here. And Velvet? Saying goodbye to her mother. Master Taylor, I, now, you'll understand. I I'm not a frivolous man, but I'd like to risk a couple of pounds. Put it on the pie for me. Yes, sir. And, you know, I'll not be angry if you say nothing about it to the missus. No. Good luck, boy. Thank you.
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What's the jockey's name again, Mike? Ivan Taskey. Now get some sleep, Velvet. We've got a long way ahead of us. Mike, do you think you'll like the pie, mister Tally? He'll like them alright. How do we know these jockey clothes are going to fit him? All jockeys are the same size, same brain, same vision.
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Seeing the world from the height of a horse. And what's that you're doing?
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Taking my braces off. I told your mother I'd take care of you, Velvet. Oh, just as once, my. I've got all the rest of my life to wear them.
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Alright. But get some sleep. We'll be meeting Tasky first thing in the morning. More coffee, mister Tassky.
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No. No. Thanks. So this is miss Brown.
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Such a little girl. Her money's as good as anybody's.
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And wait till you see the pie. He's a real horse, mister Tassky. And what does it matter? Tomorrow I ride him. Tomorrow night I go back to Paris. Such a little girl. Only in England can it happen that a child brings a plow horse from the field.
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He's not a plow horse, mister
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mister Tasky. We'll take you to see the pie now, mister Tasky. Once you see him, you'll realize what You are serious? Why
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not? Say hello? Get the feel of him? Shake his hand. Give him calling, Carl. Make ball.
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Yeah. Yeah. May maybe it is foolish.
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It'll be just as foolish for mister Taffy to ride him. Tell them. Tell them. The little girl does not like me. You may be a fine rider, mister Taffy, but the pie would know your heart's not in it. He would know you. Don't believe in him.
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Mister Taylor, what you call her? Crazy.
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Right? No. No. No, mister Tasky. Truthful. Come on, Velvet. Let's go back to the van. I'll try and find us another jockey. Thank you, Mike.
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Mike, is that you? Yes.
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I didn't mean to be so late. I've been looking everywhere.
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No luck?
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No. Tried everything and asked everybody. There'll be no race tomorrow for the pie. Searching for weeks for a rider and then you say, no. Thank you, mister Tasske. Teske. Goodbye. But, my, he just didn't believe. He's a rider. He's a rider. Things happen in a race, fellas. Not with the pie.
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He'd know. My why don't you ride him yourself? Do you wanna know why?
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I'll tell you why. It's been going around in my mind all night. Sure sure I was a jockey once. And one fine day, I rode at Manchester. There were three of us going for the final jump together. And I saw a chance to win and I took. It was me that did it. There was a tangle of reins and horses and jockeys,
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and one of the jockeys got killed.
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That's why I don't ride anymore because I'm afraid. I'm all soft and yellow inside, so I don't ride. That's why I'm no good to you when you need me the most. Oh, no. No, my.
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It's you that kept me going. There's greatness in you, my. No. There's there's nothing in me. Oh, no, my. No.
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I I left her there crying. And late that night, after she had gone to bed, I came back for the pie, and I led him over to the course. Dark it was, save for the stars. But the horse was deserving to see something of all he was going to miss. I wasn't a yellow coward. I'd ride you myself high. But you wouldn't know me, would you? I've never been up there in your back. She's been the only one. Except except if I if I get on your back now, if I give you the chance to learn the weight of me. Pie. Pie. I'm doing it. I'm getting up in the saddle. Go on. Throw me. How dare you throw me?
Pye. Pye. Pye. Pye. Straight down the course. Get it. Good luck at it now. Tomorrow, you'll not have the chance, For we'll be flying down here like the devil himself was on our heels. And up there in the stands, the king and queen will be watching us. Freeze around Pai. I came back to the van. I'd wake her up and tell her tell her how I'd ride the pie myself, that I I wasn't yellow anymore, that I'd do this thing she wanted so badly. But when I got to the van, the lamp was lit and it was velvet. Wearing the jockey silks are marked. Look,
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my. Look. They fit me. They fit fine. What in the name of all that's crazy? The pie's going to raise my, and I'm going to ride him. They'll never know I'm a girl. If you cut my hair, I'll be exactly right. And get your silly little neck exactly broken.
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Forty horses and riders ready to trample you over. I'll not let you do it, Velvet. Oh, please, my Besides besides, there's no need for it. Suppose Velvet, suppose I told you that that just now just now tonight, I
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I found us a rider. I should still want to ride him myself. My I know you're angry, but you'll understand. If you ever rode a horse again, you'd want to win. That's how I feel.
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So now it's the glory of winning you want for yourself. Is that it?
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Yes. Well,
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perhaps you're right. Perhaps that's what I'd want if I'd ever ride again.
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Alright.
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Alright. He's yours. Oh my. I know you're thinking. I know you're thinking. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. There's lot of things we have to do. One chance in a hundred that will fool them. My hair. What? You're my scissors.
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Go ahead and and short at the back now. Short.
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Oh, Velvet.
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I wish your mother were here.
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She is here.
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She didn't find me. You'll be disqualified at the end when they find you're a girl. You'll have to forfeit the prize money. They may even send you to prison for fraud. But if there's trouble, you tell them it was me that did it. Do you understand? It was me that put you up to it. There won't be any trouble. Mine. Now listen. There's a lot of tricks you'll have to learn when you're No. Use mine. Well, girl, do you think a race like this is won by luck?
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No. It's won by knowing the pie can win and telling him so.
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How do I tell of the race that was run the next day? The 40 horses and 40 riders flying down the straightaway, soaring over the jumps, the pounding of the hooves, and the shouting of the jockeys, and the whole wild delirium of it all. 40 it was that started, but not a dozen were left for the finish. And me too scared to look at the jumps for fear she'd be the next one down. But the jumps are behind now and down the stretch they come. As you fill up and snug and make even shake them apart. I stood there. My head started bursting. She couldn't have won. But what my brain could not believe my own eyes saw. They saw the pie in front and going away, and then it happened. She just seemed to melt from the saddle, and there she was on the ground. And the next thing I knew, I was pounding on the door of the track hospital.
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What happened to her, sir? What happened to her? Is she alright? She only faded exhausted. Oh, I She? How did you know? Here. What do you know about what do you know about her? I wanna repeat that, ladies and gentlemen. Just as the flight passed the post, the white of hell will be done. This is in a fashion of the rules. The Wayne Jockey must knock this lunch until he reaches the enclosure.
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They let her out of the hospital. But it was hours before we got away. Report as policemen, celebrities, questions, cheers, and and glory. And the same all over again when the van stopped and the villagers saw.
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Mother. Mother. We won. We won. Are you alright, girl? Are you alright? Oh, yes. Yes, father. Mother,
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were we the best in the world? Yes, Velvet. The best in the world.
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Isaiah Brown, what's the bow tie for? Oh, Lord Derby wears a bow tie. She's got a couple of champion racehorses too. And her daughter heard that he was going to prison for fraud?
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If you heard the wireless, mister Hallam, you know there won't be any charges.
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Englishmen treat their heroes better than that.
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They were satisfied to disqualify Velvet and the horse. And made her forfeit all the money? Would you expect them to be both forgiving and generous? Pet your daughter. Come on, missus Brown. Come on home.
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Telegram's cablegram's letters. The music hold once you've held it. The American cinema, there's a fortune of money in this. Yes, father. They want you and the horse to go to America and act in the cinema. But I told you, father.
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I can't drag the pie about for people to stare at.
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Mother, I can't. It's your father talking to you, dear.
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If you had seen what he did for me,
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he burst himself for me. And would it burst your own childish heart to stare at an account of £5,000 in a good bank?
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I can't help it, father. I'd sooner have that horse happy and go to heaven.
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Velvet, run along, dear. Change your dress.
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Well, your mother said to run along. Yes, father. Now, missus Brown, I put it to you calmly.
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Is that a good reason for throwing away a fortune,
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unwilling for people to stare at a horse? There'll be a dispute till the end of time, mister Brown, whether it's better to do the right thing for the wrong reason or the wrong thing for the right reason.
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Where are you going? All telegrams, cablegrams, and letters. Into the fire. Into the fire with every last one of them.
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I'm sorry you find me packing, mister Brown. I meant to leave without any goodbyes. I'd, left a note, you know. You're taken to the empty roads again, but why, boy, and where? My father gave me every road in the kingdom, and now I'm ready to look him over, sir. I don't understand
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you. And then perhaps I do. Perhaps you're right, my.
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That's the first time you ever called me, my.
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I get your meaning. But there's character to be considered when a man takes a stranger under his roof? Rightly so. But I've been wrong, and I'm sorry. To be frank, I thought you'd steal that hundred sovereigns.
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To be frank, I nearly did. But what kept you from it? I don't know the pie. Perhaps, maybe it was Donald or missus Brown. Perhaps it was Velvet. I I don't know. Does Velvet know where you're going? I told her someday I'd be leaving. I I I don't like goodbyes, mister Brown.
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Give me your hand, mine.
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Thank you. Would you say goodbye to Velvet for me? And missus Brown, she's a fine woman, sir, but I I don't have to tell you that. There's nothing better I'd like than to go away with her thinking
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well of me.
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She does.
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Goodbye.
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Goodbye. Goodbye, Jacob Doug.
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Goodbye, sir. God bless you, lad. Jacob, dog, how can there be so many currents in such a little puddle?
[00:54:00] Unknown:
Please go, mother. My gun.
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He's gone. I know, Velvet. The world's opened up again for him. He'd shut himself away from it. He was angry with it, but that's over. I think he'll come back. That's what he said once.
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He said, only way to come back is to go. But, mother, we've never told him what he wanted to know. His father, remember, mother, how we wouldn't tell him because it wasn't the right time. Shouldn't he know now, Martha? Yes. He should. He's earned it.
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Father. He can't be far up the road. The pie could find him, Velvet. Thank you, father.
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Thank you.
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I'm obliged, Velvet. Obliged to you for telling me about my father.
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So it's staying now mine?
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No.
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But you'll come back someday. Please come back, mine.
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I will, though. I will.
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I'll be back. Goodbye, Mike.
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Guys.
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Don't have a word about stars. We'll be next week's play in a moment. Say, Sally, how good are you at guessing games? Well, that depends on what clues I get. Well, suppose I told you I was thinking of something that helps pretty under things stay lovely longer. Oh, poo. That's too easy. Every girl knows that's luxe flakes. Well, I've seen slips luxe as many as 30 times, and they were just as bright as they could be. Oh, you're spoiling my fun, Sally. My next clue is going to be that this care keeps on these lovely not only longer, but three times as long. Test proved it. Well, Natch,
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when you wash nice undies the wrong way and use a strong soap, they fade in no time. But you didn't give me a chance to say Luxe is thrifty too. I'll say Luxe is thrifty. Well, I can wash undies for nearly two months with just one big box of Luxe flakes. Now can I ask you a question? Certainly.
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Do I get a box of luxe flakes to keep? Well, I'm sure we could give you a box, but I imagine a bright girl like you will use it instead of keeping it. Because if you use it every night to luxe Mondays, you'll keep them lovely lots longer. Here's mister Keeley at the microphone.
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In this season of awards, I wish I could pin a medal on tonight's cast with a special citation for our three stars, Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Chris. Mickey, I know our audience is as happy as I am to have you back in our theater again. Thanks, mister Keeley. It seems like old, old times. Incidentally, Elizabeth, I understand that while you were making National Velvet, you and the horse who played the pie became devoted friends. Mister Keeley, they were more than friends.
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I think they were sweethearts.
[00:57:13] Unknown:
Oh, well, I certainly loved him
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just as much as Velvet did in the story. They got so chummy, in fact, that the studio finally gave him to Elizabeth.
[00:57:22] Unknown:
Yes. And she handled him better than anyone else can. But Elizabeth, that's has other talents too. She's authored the best selling book for children. And Mickey has just written and published another original song. How about singing it for us, Mickey? No. No. No, Elizabeth. Not on the stage. My voice sounds better in much smaller places.
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A smaller place? Yeah. The, shower. Oh, well. Well, Mickey, we look forward to catching it on the radio and also to seeing your new Metro Golden Mayor picture, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy. Speaking of pictures, mister Keating, what's on the fire for next week here? Next Monday night, we bring our audience a thrilling story of adventure and romance from Paramount's colorful screen hit, Frenchman's Creek. And our stars are Joan Fontaine and David Niven. Miss Fontaine appears in her original role in a drama throbbing with excitement and suspense. The story of a buccaneer who steals both love and riches in the lawless era of Elizabethan England. Your audience ought to love it, mister Keeley, and good night, sir. Good night and all our hardiest thanks. Good night. Good night. Eva Brothers Company, the makers of Luxe Lakes, Join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening when the Luxe Radio Theater presents Joan Fontaine and David Niven in Frenchman's Creek.
This is William Keeler, saying good night to you from Hollywood.
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Tommy is typical of many youngsters with an eye for a good business proposition.
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Mom, can I take this can of use back to the store and keep the money? Why, yes.
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But what made you think about doing that all of a sudden? Well, heck, mom. They got a big sign in the store about it. They're paying real money for this used fat now. Yes. You may be surprised at how much dealers are paying for used fats these days. It soon comes up. You see, used fats are still needed very much. This country and the whole world are still short of oils for making soap and other industrial products. So whether you let Junior keep the change or use the money to cut down your grocery bills, it pays to save every drop of used fat. Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor appeared by arrangements with Metro Golden Mayer, producers of the new murder mystery, The Lady in the Lake. Donald Crisp will soon be seen in the enterprise production, Ramrod.
Aired in our cast tonight were Janet Scott as missus Brown, Norman Field as Ed. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. And this is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to tune in again next Monday night to hear Frenchman's Creek with Joan Fontaine and David Niven.
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Spry. When you bake and fry Fry. For your cake and pie Fry. Get your shortening pie.
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Reliance fry. Yes. It's fry for pastry so tender, flaky, not sweet. Any pie filling tastes more delicious. You'll say pastry is extra delicate, better tasting with Spry.
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Reliance Spry. S b r y. Reliance Spry. S b r y.
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Be sure to listen in next Monday night to the Luxe Radio Theater presentation of Frenchman's Creek with Joan Fontaine and David Niven. And why not tune in later tonight to hear the Joan Davis Show? This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Friends, your most precious assets these strenuous days are your good humor and your good health. And one way to safeguard both humor and health is to see that your folks get the right start each day with a delicious nourishing breakfast. For a full share of well balanced nourishment, make it a breakfast that includes Grape Nut flakes because well balanced nourishment is what you get in every helping of toasted brown Grape Nut flakes and milk. You get proteins and minerals such as iron, calcium, and phosphorus. And you get two of the important b vitamins, niacin and vitamin b one for good appetite, steady nerves, and energy.
So for better health and better humor, you'd better say, I'll take a package of Grape Nut plate.
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That was the last number of the tenth program in the new great nuts plate series, and we'll be with you again next Sunday night at the same time, broadcasting from New York. I'd like to salute the offices of men at the new maritime training station, which is being dedicated at Catalina Island on December 15. Good luck to you men. And good luck to you I'd like to salute the officers of men at the new maritime training station, which is being dedicated at Catalina Island on December 15. Good luck to you men. And good luck to you,
