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00:00The Makers of Campbell's Soups presents the Campbell Playhouse.
00:24Orson Welles, producer.
00:50Good evening, this is Orson Welles.
00:52Sixteen weeks ago tonight, I joined the Campbell Playhouse, and if you remember, we dramatized Rebecca.
00:58Well, I'm pretty sure if you remember Rebecca, you will never forget Margaret Sullivan.
01:03And I know you're glad that Margaret Sullivan is back with us again.
01:06With us this evening to play Magnolia in Showboat.
01:10Now, I've tried to make our radio version of Showboat as true to its original as possible,
01:14but don't worry, the Campbell Playhouse wouldn't dream of being so different as to do Showboat without Helen Morgan.
01:21Helen Morgan as Julie.
01:23Wonderful, wonderful Helen Morgan with an old song which is new to her, new to Showboat, and maybe even new to you.
01:29And then there's William Johnstone, who's playing Gaylord Ravennaud.
01:34Ray Collins is playing Wendy, and I'm playing Captain Andy Hawks.
01:37Finally, Edna Ferber herself, Edna Ferber, who wrote Showboat,
01:41comes to our microphone and begins tonight her career as an actress.
01:45Begins it in the service of one of her finest stories, and in the character of one of her most famous creations, Parthy Hawks.
01:53Ladies and gentlemen, the big show will start in just one minute.
01:56Come one, come all, it's the rage of the river to quote Captain Andy, it's the sensation of the century.
02:02In one minute, ladies and gentlemen, Showboat.
02:05Just before we start, a word from Ernest Chappell.
02:08Up to a comparatively short time ago, vegetable soup, more than any other, had been associated with the traditional home soup kettle.
02:20For years, many housewives followed the old-time custom of making this soup in their own kitchens, until one by one they discovered Campbell's.
02:28They found that Campbell's vegetable soup had the same good flavor, the same nourishing quality they themselves had always striven to get.
02:36Now, if it happens that you are one of those who haven't made this discovery, and if you still think good vegetable soup can only be made at home,
02:44may I suggest that you try Campbell's vegetable soup?
02:47I'm sure its convenience will appeal to you immediately, it's ready to serve in almost no time at all.
02:52But what is even more important is this.
02:55You will find in Campbell's vegetable soup the same good homemade character and the same homey flavor that you'd look for in the finest kettle of soup you ever made in your own kitchen.
03:06Campbell's have kept faith with time-honored home traditions in making this soup.
03:10You can tell that in the taste of your first few spoonfuls.
03:14Expert home cooks sipping this soup critically nod their approval.
03:19So won't you give Campbell's vegetable soup a trial?
03:22Take a note of it in planning tomorrow's meals.
03:25And now Margaret Sullivan and Orson Welles with Helen Morgan and authoress Edna Ferber in Showboat.
03:36If you are an obituary of old South Clark Street in Chicago's gay nineties, you may remember a still.
03:42Nola Ravenel, soubrette.
03:45And that amazing slow smile that's still talked about among the older writers on the dramatic pages.
03:51Some of the same men who today print four-column pictures of her daughter Kim, Kim Ravenel, on the front pages of the Sunday sections.
03:58To Magnolia, it all seemed like a vague dream now.
04:02Those long years in Chicago with Ravenel, months of heartbreak and failure after he'd gone away.
04:08The years of success.
04:10Playing Chicago, playing the circuits, playing the East.
04:13And then at 60, retired, living with Kim in New York.
04:16Watching Kim's success.
04:18Knowing all the right people, going to the right places.
04:21A strange dream world in which she'd been living all these years.
04:25And now suddenly back.
04:28Reality in that piece of yellow paper delivered to Kim's dressing room the night before.
04:32Crumpled now from being held in her hand all day as the train carried her south.
04:37Back towards the river.
04:39Back home.
04:41Parthenia Ann Hawkes died suddenly 8 o'clock before evening show.
04:46Cotton Blossom playing Cold Spring Tennessee.
04:49Sympathy.
04:50Company.
04:51George Doc Bernato.
04:56You've just gone, Gaga Mother, that's all.
04:59Staying on this miserable boat all these weeks and making me come all the way down here to get you.
05:03We're going back to New York on the night train and on the 10th we sail for London.
05:07No, you do, Kim.
05:08I don't.
05:09I'm staying here.
05:10You're what?
05:11I'm staying here, Kim.
05:12With the showboat.
05:13You can't mean it, Mother.
05:15Flopping up and down those wretched rivers in this heat and the flies and the mud.
05:19You could be with me in London or on the island.
05:22Or even in New York in this house.
05:24Be cool, dear.
05:25Kim.
05:26Yes, Mother?
05:27Kim, listen to me.
05:29I've made up my mind.
05:31I'm staying here.
05:32Mother, I don't understand.
05:35Of course you don't.
05:36How could you?
05:37Listen, Kim.
05:39Listen to that.
05:41I can hear the Goliaths are playing for miles around, up and down the river.
05:45In a little while there'll be twilight.
05:47That's the most exciting hour of the day.
05:49They'll begin to light the lamps inside the auditorium and the searchlights along the bluff.
05:54And people will start coming in, down to the landing, along the riverbanks, down the roads.
05:59The farmers and their wives, river folk, hangers-on.
06:02And by seven they'll all be here.
06:04There won't be an empty seat.
06:06Crops have been good along the river this year.
06:08Even the boxes will be filled.
06:11And then presently the show will start.
06:15It hasn't changed, Kim.
06:17It hasn't changed at all.
06:25It's been years since Nola Ravennau was Magnolia Hawks,
06:29the rage of the river, the sensation of the century,
06:32the queen of the cotton blossoms.
06:34The cotton blossoms.
06:36That's what Captain Andy's showboat is called.
06:39Green trimmings and gold letters a foot high,
06:41Captain Andy Hawks' Cotton Blossom Floating Palace Theater.
06:45Now raising the company, not counting the crew,
06:47Andy Hawks himself, captain and owner,
06:49with 35 years' experience on keelboats, steamboats, packets, and showboats.
06:54A little nervous, wiry man with a horrible habit of clawing and scratching at his whiskers,
06:59hung like brushes just below his white canvas cap.
07:02There was his wife, Parthenia Ann Hawks,
07:04a bulky, frigid female with a long horse face
07:08and a New England passion for discipline.
07:10There was Julie Dozier with a rich, deep voice.
07:13There was old Windy, Pilot, and George Schultz, and the rest of them.
07:18Year after year, the cotton blossom floated down the river.
07:21It started out in April and got back in September.
07:23And year after year, they gave the same place.
07:25East Lynn, Lady Audley's Secret Tempest and Sunshine,
07:30Madcap Marjorie, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
07:33Year after year, they grew more successful.
07:36And then one morning at Mobile, Captain Andy made a shocking discovery.
07:40In the night, his ingenue lead had packed her trunks and left.
07:44Left with a black-moustached gambler who had followed her down the river from Paducah, Kentucky.
07:49And that afternoon, the captain's cabin, a great battle was fought
07:52over the fate of the girl with a pale face and a large mouth,
07:55whom America years later was to applaud under the name of Magnolia Ravennaud.
08:00At this time, she was just 16, and her name was Maggie Hawks.
08:06My own daughter, an actress, over my dead body, Hawks.
08:11And you know, Leeds ain't hanging around on trees, no sir.
08:15Take us a week to get one Chicago, another week for her to learn her parts,
08:18and then maybe she won't be no gang good.
08:20Maggie could go in there tonight, she'd be great.
08:23I won't hear of it.
08:24Now, Partie, you're just working yourself out.
08:26I'd be proud of her stepping in and saving us money.
08:28We've got to close up if she don't.
08:30Rather have her in her grave.
08:31She knows all the parts.
08:33Why, I never allowed her to step foot on this filthy scowl
08:36with a lot of riffraff that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
08:39Now, listen here, Partie and you Hawks.
08:41We got the biggest advance sale we had this season.
08:43Yes, the docks downstairs raking it in with both hands.
08:45If you had the least bit of gumption in you,
08:47instead of sitting there whining and carrying on, I'd...
08:49What's the advance?
08:50Well, 300, not anywhere near four o'clock.
08:52Oh, well, have it your own way then.
08:54It's no use arguing with you.
08:55But remember, it's against my wishes and over my dead body.
08:59And if any harm comes of it, I'll know where the blame lays.
09:03Magnolia!
09:04Magnolia, why ain't you on the stage rehearsing?
09:07How do you think you'll be able to go on tonight
09:09if you don't do no rehearsing?
09:11Magnolia, the mysterious comedy tragedian,
09:22seer to believer, the ray to the river,
09:24the sensation of the century,
09:26seer tonight, folks, in the fastened pride
09:28set forth in unrivaled scenery
09:30and costumes by her side.
09:32Mr. George Shultz, favorite from Duluth to New Orleans,
09:36for ten years leading player with Mr. Booth,
09:38Mr. and Mrs. Means and a score of other luminaries.
09:41After the show, there's a concert with singing and dancing
09:43and costing 15 cents extra.
09:45But it's worth it.
09:46It's worth it, ladies and gentlemen.
09:47I can tell you to hear Miss Julie Dozier,
09:50fresh from Triumph Beach,
09:52in the latest numbers from her repertory.
09:54Bring the children.
09:55Come one, come all, the Cotton Blossom Trophy
09:58is just one big happy family.
10:01Happy family.
10:11What, have all your friends deserted you?
10:14No, but friendship is too cold a passion
10:17to store my heart now.
10:19Oh, give me a friend in person to a sweetheart.
10:23My dear Miss Brown, Miss Lucy.
10:26Oh, please don't call me Miss Brown.
10:29Lucy!
10:30Defender of the father.
10:32Will you be a poor man's bride?
10:35Oh, yes, Henry, yes.
10:38Lucy, my own.
10:43Bravo, bravo.
10:46Now, folks, folks, for them that paid their 15 cents
10:49and got a first-rate concert,
10:51first on the program, ladies and gentlemen,
10:53the one, the only, the inimitable Julie Dozier
10:56will render her latest triumph from the East
10:58with the song that stopped the show in New York
11:00that brought them cheer into the feet of Baltimore,
11:02the song that they're still crying at in Boston,
11:05Why No One to Love,
11:07composed and written by Mr. Stephen Foster.
11:10Ladies and gents, Miss Julie Dozier.
11:28No one to love in this beautiful world
11:34Full of warm heart and bright gleaming eyes
11:43Where is the warm heart that nothing can find
11:50That is lovely beneath the bluest sky
12:00No one to love, no one to love
12:08Why no one to love
12:16What have you done in this beautiful world
12:24That you're sighing of no one to love
12:35APPLAUSE
12:43Strange woman, Julie Dozier,
12:46with her white face and her deep-set, dark, dead eyes.
12:50In the four years she was on the Cotton Blossom,
12:52Magnolia got to like her better than anybody else in the world,
12:55except Captain Andy, maybe.
12:57In a way, she had a lot to do with what happened to Magnolia
13:00in later years.
13:04Julie.
13:07Who is it?
13:09Oh, Magnolia.
13:10Can I come in?
13:11I couldn't go to sleep. I was so excited.
13:14I heard you singing.
13:15Come in and shut the door.
13:17Julie, listen.
13:20I want to tell you something.
13:22And I want to ask you, do you think I could ever be an actress?
13:25A real actress, I mean.
13:27Why, sure, honey.
13:29You were wonderful tonight.
13:31A little scared, maybe, but...
13:33Oh, see, they loved you.
13:35Mama doesn't want me to be an actress. Not really.
13:38Besides, I'm not pretty. Mama says I'm not.
13:41Oh, when you smile, you are.
13:43You've got the loveliest smile I ever saw.
13:46Have I, Julie?
13:47Listen to me, Magnolia.
13:50I'm going to tell you something,
13:52only it's a secret.
13:54Yes, what?
13:55When you grow up,
13:57don't smile too often.
14:00But whenever you want anything very much,
14:03or like anyone,
14:04or want them to like you,
14:07smile.
14:09I guess maybe you'll learn that without me telling you.
14:12Well, good night, honey.
14:15Oh, Julie, I don't want to go yet.
14:17They'll be wondering where you are,
14:19and then Parthy will be after us.
14:21Good night.
14:23Good night, Julie.
14:26A year later, Julie was gone.
14:29She left in a way that Magnolia never forgot.
14:32One morning, they put in at Lemoyne, Mississippi.
14:34It was late April.
14:36The cotton blossom was only a few weeks out of St. Louis,
14:39on her way down the river.
14:41Hey, Julie!
14:42Julie?
14:43Julie!
14:44Yeah?
14:45It's Papa and me, Julie.
14:46Can we come in?
14:48Hello, Julie.
14:49It's chimney.
14:50It's dark in here.
14:51And them shades down.
14:52Say, Julie,
14:53guess you got an admirer in this town.
14:56What do you mean?
14:57Somebody stole your picture,
14:58frame and all, right up out in the layout.
15:00Lobby.
15:01Put up another.
15:02Now that's going.
15:03Julie, what's the matter?
15:05Are you sick, Julie?
15:06Well, are you now, Julie?
15:08Well, now, ain't that a shame.
15:09You can play all right tonight, though, can't you?
15:12No, I can't play tonight.
15:15Don't ask me.
15:16Well, if you're sick as all that,
15:17you better see a doctor.
15:20I'll be all right after a while.
15:23Hawks!
15:24End the hawks!
15:26Oh, here I am partying down here in Julie's room.
15:29Come on down.
15:30What you doing down there sitting around the cabin?
15:32I'll wager with the best advance sale we've had
15:34since we started out.
15:35Here it is 11 o'clock and half the house gone already.
15:37I never played this town before.
15:38License always too high.
15:39They're starved for some play acting.
15:41What's the matter with her?
15:42Well, she's sick.
15:43Well, so long as you're all right for tonight, Julie.
15:45Say, she won't be.
15:47Why?
15:49Won't be?
15:50Why, she ain't sick, is she?
15:52I mean, sick as she is, Mama.
15:55Well, what you doing sitting here for, Maggie?
15:57Go fetch a doctor.
15:58I don't want a doctor.
16:00Person's too sick to play.
16:01They're sick enough to have a doctor.
16:03Play in Xenia tomorrow.
16:04Goodest stands we got.
16:06Probably won't be able to open there neither
16:08if you're sick as all that.
16:09Oh, I'll be able to play tomorrow.
16:11How do you know?
16:13I'll be all right as soon as I get out of this town.
16:17I get out of this town?
16:18That's funny.
16:20Well, what is?
16:22Just come over me.
16:24Julie.
16:25Yes?
16:26You took sick at this very town
16:28the time we came down river last year.
16:30Well, nothing so funny about that.
16:32Soon she heard we wasn't opening here
16:34because the license was too high.
16:35She got well all of a sudden.
16:37Oh, leave me alone, can't you?
16:40Well, I may not know much.
16:42Why do you think a girl didn't have the rights to feel bad?
16:44Now, pardon you.
16:45Get along.
16:46We can't show tonight.
16:47We got to leave now.
16:48Sure you won't be feeling better by nighttime, Julie?
16:51Oh, leave me alone, can't you?
16:53Oh, sure, sure, Julie.
16:55Now, party scat.
16:56Here, Captain Hawks.
16:58Hawks down there.
16:59Now, what's that?
17:00Stop, Captain.
17:01Seems like there's something up.
17:02How do you mean?
17:03Sheriff's outside on deck.
17:05What is it?
17:07Our license plate?
17:08He's working around here.
17:09Is anybody on the way?
17:10Well, it seems like he wants to have a look
17:11at all the folks aboard.
17:12He ain't no state to be reasonable.
17:14Just ask him coming down now.
17:15All right, let him come.
17:16All right.
17:17Please, Captain, don't let him come down.
17:18Don't let him.
17:19Who's captain of this here boat?
17:21Well, I am.
17:22What's wanted with him?
17:23Hawks, his name.
17:24Captain Andy Hawks.
17:2520 years in the rivers.
17:26Well, Cap, who are you?
17:28Sheriff of this town.
17:30Understand you got mixed color in your show.
17:32Mixed color?
17:33What's that?
17:34What do you mean, Mama?
17:35Hush, Maggie.
17:36No such thing.
17:37No such thing on this boat.
17:39Name of the Negress is, let's see, Julie Dozier.
17:44Julie?
17:45Yeah.
17:46Which one's her?
17:47That's me.
17:49You Julie Dozier?
17:51I am.
17:53Who's been telling you this stuff, Sheriff?
17:54The fellow who lives here.
17:56Seen a picture when he come to buy tickets to your show.
17:59This fellow says you was born here.
18:02That's right.
18:03Your mammy was colored.
18:08Well.
18:09Yes.
18:10Well.
18:11You're done here now, Sheriff.
18:13Because if you are, you can get out.
18:15Or have you got something more to say?
18:18No.
18:19I guess I'm done now.
18:21I'll be going.
18:23Only let me tell you this, Captain Hawks.
18:25You better not try to give no show with mixed blood in this town tonight.
18:29Just thought I'd warn you.
18:32Bye, Captain Hawks.
18:34Bye, ma'am.
18:36Maggie, you come away from here.
18:37No, I want to stay with Julie.
18:42Julie.
18:43Now.
18:44You're not going to cry, honey.
18:46Why, it's only like.
18:48It's only like I was going.
18:50Going the way we do winters.
18:53After we close the showboat.
18:55Tell me.
18:56It won't be coming back again when it's fresh.
18:59Oh, heaven.
19:00And our business folks are always meeting up.
19:03Ain't that so, Captain?
19:05Yeah.
19:06Sure thing, Maggie.
19:07Come on, Maggie.
19:08You got your practicing to do.
19:09No, no, no.
19:10I want to stay with Julie.
19:11Much.
19:12Mom, I don't see why I can't stay here with Julie.
19:15Please, I don't see why I shouldn't.
19:17Well, Julie.
19:19What do we do?
19:21I'm going, Captain Andy.
19:23Don't worry.
19:24I'm going.
19:25Well, I'm sorry, Julie.
19:27It's too bad.
19:28You're the best actress we ever had in this boat.
19:32Well, I better go.
19:33My things are all packed.
19:34Julie.
19:36Yes?
19:38I just wondered.
19:39Are you fixed for money?
19:41Oh, I'm fixed all right.
19:44I've been saving.
19:45You treated me well, Captain.
19:47Yeah?
19:49I'd like to say goodbye to Magnolia, if you don't mind.
19:55Julie, you know how part of the thing is.
19:58She don't mean no harm.
19:59But, well, I guess she feels you and Maggie maybe shouldn't.
20:04I see.
20:05You know, women folks are funny that way.
20:07Okay.
20:08Well, I guess I'm ready.
20:10Yeah.
20:12Goodbye.
20:13Goodbye and thank you, Captain.
20:15You've been awful good.
20:18And Captain, tell Magnolia goodbye from me.
20:23Sure will.
20:25Goodbye, Julie.
20:27Goodbye.
20:32Years later, when Magnolia was married and living in Chicago,
20:35she saw Julie once again.
20:38Julie looked an old woman by then.
20:40She passed her on the street,
20:41and by the time the carriage had stopped,
20:43Julie had disappeared.
20:45But there could be no mistake about those deep, dark, dead eyes
20:49set in that white face.
20:56Soon after Julie had gone,
20:57life went on as usual on the Cotton Blossom.
20:59Three months went by.
21:00They floated down the river, Memphis, Vicksburg,
21:02Natchez, Baton Rouge, and then at the end of August,
21:05they reached New Orleans.
21:06And there, a second disaster overtook the Cotton Blossom.
21:09Their leading man left them, George Schultz.
21:12He came to the box office where Andy and Potty were busy
21:14counting up before going ashore.
21:16He looked very pale, but determined.
21:18He had a letter in his hand.
21:20I gotta go, Cap.
21:21Go? Go where?
21:23Well, what do you mean, Schultzy?
21:25It's from her.
21:26From my wife.
21:28She's in the hospital at Little Rock.
21:30That gambling fellow left her.
21:32She ain't got a cent.
21:33Oh, now, Schultzy.
21:35I wouldn't do it for myself, no matter what,
21:37but it's her, Captain.
21:39It's for her, not me.
21:41Yeah, Schultzy, but...
21:42I gotta go, I tell you.
21:44You can pick up somebody here in New Orleans.
21:46There's a dozen better actors than me
21:48laying around the docks this minute.
21:50Well, I got to talk to a fellow a while ago down on the wharf.
21:53I said I was an actor on The Cotton Blossom.
21:55He said he'd acted, too.
21:57Maybe he'd like the job.
21:58Yes, I suppose he would.
22:00What do you think this is, a bum boat?
22:02Plenty of wharf rats in New Orleans
22:04would like nothing better.
22:06He ain't no wharf rat, Mrs. Hawks.
22:08There he is, down there yet.
22:10Take a look at him.
22:11Down by that stern wheeler there.
22:13I'd go ashore and talk to him if I was you.
22:15What? Him? That fellow down there in the brown suit
22:17with the yellow cane?
22:18Yeah, that's right.
22:19I couldn't go up and talk to him
22:20about acting on no showboat.
22:22He's a gentleman.
22:24Maybe, but nobody feels like one
22:27with a crack in his shoe.
22:30Huh?
22:31Yes, he's got a crack in his shoe.
22:33I can see from here.
22:34I can't say I like the looks of him especially,
22:37but we can't be choosers.
22:39Well, Hawks, what are you waiting for?
22:48Ladies and gentlemen, it's my good fortune
22:51to present to you tonight
22:52the most magnificent company of playards
22:54ever assembled on the Mississippi.
22:56Magnolia Hawks, you know her and you love her,
22:59a favorite from Duluth to New Orleans.
23:01And by her side,
23:03the sensation of the century,
23:05the rage of the river,
23:07Mr. K. Lord Ravenal.
23:15That he and Magnolia should fall in love
23:18was inevitable as the cosmic course.
23:21She'd never met a man like K. Lord Ravenal.
23:24Magnolia hadn't.
23:25He was the most handsome man
23:26she'd ever seen in the best dress,
23:28even though his clothes were new.
23:30Maybe it was because he was so clean and elegant
23:32that he seemed different,
23:33but it was more than that, really.
23:35He had such nice ways,
23:37always polite and gentle
23:38and doing little things
23:39that no man she ever knew
23:40would have bothered his head about.
23:42From the first day he came on board the Cotton Blossom,
23:45everybody adored him,
23:46everybody, that is, except Parthy.
23:48I think he was the only juvenile left in the world.
23:52Matter of fact,
23:53I can't see where he's such great shakes of an actor,
23:56rolls those eyes of his a good deal
23:58and talks deep-voiced,
24:00but got hands quite so woman's
24:02and flutters with his fingernails.
24:05I'll wager if you look around New Orleans,
24:07you'll find something queer for all he talks so high
24:11about being a ravenel of Louisiana
24:13and his folks governors in the old days.
24:15And inscriptions about him in the church and what not.
24:18Shifty, that's what he is.
24:21Mark my words.
24:22The best juvenile lead ever played the river
24:24has never heard that having clean fingernails
24:26hurt an actor any.
24:27Oh, it isn't just clean fingernails.
24:29It's everything.
24:30I can't bear the sight of him.
24:32Clever and soft-spoken,
24:34thinks he can get around a woman my age.
24:36Well, I'm worth a dozen of him
24:38when it comes to being smart.
24:40I wonder where he is now.
24:42What do you want with him?
24:43Don't want anything.
24:44Just to know where he is, that's all.
24:46Well, he's inside.
24:47Inside where?
24:48Magnolia, listening to her.
24:49You left him to stay alone with your child?
24:51Oh, good heavens, partner.
24:52What's the harm in a gentleman
24:53listening to a little piano playing?
24:54I'd like to know.
24:55Now sit down, partner.
24:56I'll do no such thing and you won't either.
24:58Come along inside where we can keep an eye on the two of you.
25:01Oh, partner.
25:02You hear me, Hawks?
25:03Oh, all right.
25:05That's pretty tune you're playing there, Magnolia.
25:08Yes, isn't it?
25:09She'd do better by it if she did more practice in.
25:12I don't get time, Mama.
25:13What was rehearsing?
25:14Seem to have time enough for all sorts of foolishness,
25:17if you ask me.
25:19Papa.
25:20Yes, Maggie?
25:21You know, Mr. Ravenel was just telling me
25:23about being all the way to Paris.
25:25Oh, that show, Ravenel?
25:26Yes, Catherine.
25:27Paris?
25:28That's old sticks.
25:29I've never even been to Chicago.
25:31Well, it's not so much,
25:32but it has got some nice things about it.
25:35I was to New York once.
25:36Oh.
25:37There's a real town.
25:38Yes, sirree.
25:39If I was a girl,
25:40I'd soon enough tire of this sort of poppin' J talk.
25:43You can listen to music, party.
25:45It does seem you've managed to get around a lot
25:48for a young man, Mr. Ravenel.
25:50I have, ma'am.
25:51Most folks would say it didn't look right of you.
25:54That so?
25:55Takes a pile of money, don't it?
25:57Well, I...
25:59Well, however'd you come by so much?
26:01Not by your acting, I'll lay.
26:03I was telling Andy just now,
26:05I don't see that you're any great shakes as an actor.
26:07Now, see here, party.
26:08A body can take an interest in a young man, can't they, Hawks?
26:11I just say that most folks would have it
26:14that no young man could come by so much money on it.
26:17Mama.
26:18Eh?
26:19I think I'll go to bed.
26:21And about time, too.
26:23Come in, Hawks.
26:24I'll be along in a minute.
26:25Good night, Mr. Ravenel.
26:27Good night, Miss Magnolia.
26:29Come along, Maggie.
26:30Come along.
26:32They floated down the river hundreds of miles
26:35Of willow fringe streams
26:37Flowing blue in the sunlight
26:38Olive green in the shade
26:40Wild honeysuckle clambering over black tree trunks
26:43Bare, unpainted cabins
26:45The color of the sandy soil
26:47Sometimes the river was a great broad stream
26:50Rolling down to the sea
26:51And sometimes it was a shallow, narrow stream
26:54Little more than a creek
26:55Through which the cotton blossom went slowly
26:57Dicking away cautiously
26:59It seemed no time at all
27:00Before they played all the bayous
27:02And on their way up the river again
27:03And back at the docks in New Orleans
27:05Fifty-six, hundred, fifty-eight, seven hundred
27:07Twenty-five, seven hundred
27:08Twenty-five
27:09Papa!
27:10Huh?
27:11Oh, Papa, it's almost four
27:12And you haven't even changed your clothes
27:14Can't leave this money laying around buttons, can I?
27:16Banks let me on the side door afterwards
27:18So as I can bank it
27:19He says he's got a carriage and two horses
27:20And he'll drive out to the lake
27:21Oh, gosh almighty, Magnolia
27:22It ain't gonna turn out an unreasonable woman
27:24I'm sure it won't
27:25It ain't gonna turn out an unreasonable woman
27:27I'm sure it won't
27:28It ain't gonna turn out an unreasonable woman
27:29Like your ma, are ya?
27:30Where's Mama?
27:31Isn't she ready either?
27:32Yeah, she's ready, all right
27:33Dressed up, fit to kill, I don't know where she went, though
27:35Saw her a while back, hustling the shore
27:37Had a long talk with the sheriff
27:38And then flew off to town
27:40Can't go without her
27:41She might as well just sit down and relax
27:42Okay now, fifty-six, seventy-eight
27:44And I...
27:45Miss Magnolia
27:47Oh, how beautiful you look
27:49Huh? What?
27:50You're looking very beautiful yourself, Miss Magnolia
27:53Say, Ramnell
27:54Oh, yes, Captain
27:55Yeah, mighty handsome looking suit of clothes you got there
27:58Ain't, uh...
27:59Thinkin' of leaving this, are ya?
28:01Why, no
28:02Give me a turn
28:03Oh, no cause for that, Captain
28:05First time you saw me, I was in temporary difficulties
28:08Sort of thing that can happen to any gentleman
28:10Now, as you can see
28:12Things are better
28:13Yes, sirree
28:14Certainly can
28:15Now
28:16I'll tell you what, Ramnell
28:17You...
28:18You stick with me and I'll raise you to...
28:20Uh...
28:21Twenty
28:22Uh...
28:23Uh...
28:24Twenty-five
28:25Twenty-five?
28:26Uh...
28:27Uh, thirty a week, huh?
28:29Uh, there ain't a juvenile on the river that's ever got anywhere near that
28:32Let's not talk money now, Captain
28:34Uh...
28:35Unless, uh...
28:36Unless you'd like to advance me fifty for a week or so
28:38My pleasure, pleasure, Ramnell
28:39Pleasure to be here, sir
28:40Thirty, forty, twenty-five and fifty
28:42Thanks
28:43What I really came in for was to ask if you and Mrs. Hawks and Miss Magnolia here
28:47Would take dinner with me tonight
28:49There's a restaurant I know
28:50Oh, Papa, please
28:51Now, Maggie, you know you're not
28:52Oh, she's gone off, nobody knows where to
28:55Oh, Mr. Ramnell, we were going to take a drive out to the lake
28:57Men have dinner assured
28:58He hasn't even changed his clothes and it's almost four o'clock
29:00Papa, it is four o'clock
29:01Now, Maggie
29:02He just don't care anything about me
29:03Oh, Maggie
29:04It's all this old boat and business and money
29:06We're going, just give me another thirty seconds
29:08It'll be too late to drive and that's what I like best
29:10Well...
29:11If you trust me, Captain, I know where I can get a fine turnout
29:13Chestnuts, the highest effort, but safe, sir
29:15If we start right now, we're...
29:16Oh, if I can, can't I?
29:18But, Maggie, if your ma ever comes in here, you know...
29:20She's not here, is she?
29:21Oh, heck, I don't see her since the third month
29:23Of course not
29:24Well, we meet at six for dinner
29:25At end one, sir
29:26At end one
29:27Oh, come on, Mr. Ramnell, hurry
29:29Yes, Miss Magnolia, I'm coming
29:30Good afternoon, sir
29:31Good afternoon
29:32Thirty-five, seven-hundred, fifteen, fifteen, fifteen
29:35Twenty-five, eight-hundred, twenty-five, fifteen
29:38And eight-seventy, eight-seventy, two
29:41Eight-seventy
29:42What?
29:43Oh, what is it?
29:44What?
29:45Hawks
29:46But two of them with me own eyes, I tell ya
29:48I saw them
29:49What's wrong with you, woman? Gone clean crazy?
29:51He's a gambler
29:53And a murderer
29:54Who's a gambler and a murderer?
29:55He is
29:56For two cents I'd murder you
29:57Come howling in the air when a man's trying to run his business
30:00Listen to me, you fool
30:01I've been to the chief of police
30:03And the perfect gentleman if ever there was one
30:05And he's killed a man
30:07Chief of police killed a man? What man?
30:08Ramnell
30:09Ramnell killed a man
30:11Oh, good heavens, when?
30:12A year ago
30:13Right in this very town
30:15Oh, well, they didn't hang him, did they?
30:16Hang who?
30:17Ramnell
30:18Ramnell
30:19Ramnell
30:20Why, no
30:21Said he shot himself to death
30:22Well, he killed a man and let him go
30:23Yes
30:24Well, what's that prove?
30:25Eh?
30:26Prove to you're right, too, don't it?
30:27All right, what of it?
30:28What of it?
30:29This very minute your own daughter's out
30:31With a murderer
30:33What?
30:34Mrs. Hawks, ma'am, when I was nineteen
30:36I killed a man and for twenty-five years and more
30:38I've been as respected as...
30:40Hey, Posse, what...
30:41Oh, boy, there's Doc
30:43Mr. Bean, somebody fetch some water
30:45Posse's pleaded
30:48THE CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE
31:04You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Showboat
31:07Starring Margaret Sullivan and Orson Welles
31:09With Helen Morgan and authoress Edna Ferber
31:12This is the Columbia Broadcasting System
31:19Magnolia
31:34This is Ernest Chapel, ladies and gentlemen
31:36Welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse
31:38In a moment or two we will resume our presentation of Edna Ferber's Showboat
31:42This is the story of a glorious institution
31:45Now all but vanished from our American scene
31:48The great days of the showboat are past
31:50Drawn with the customs and manners of a more leisurely age
31:54How times have changed since those days
31:56Dining, then, was an event
31:58A meal of many courses
32:00It started with a great gleaming tureen of savory hot soup
32:03And went on to the meat course
32:05With many side dishes and finally some substantial dessert
32:09We in our day have modified our view of eating
32:12A new knowledge of what is good for us has tempered our eating habits
32:15Soup has held its own
32:17Indeed today soup is not only enjoyed as an opening course
32:20But also as the main dish of many lighter meals
32:23Knowing this, women welcome the fact that good soups are readily available
32:27In red and white labeled cans marked Campbell's
32:30Delicious soups they are too
32:32Chicken gumbo, hearty vegetable soup, beam with bacon soup, chicken noodle
32:37These and many more Campbell's make in the time-honored homemade way
32:41How many of you tried in your home?
32:44Now we resume our Campbell Playhouse presentation of showboats
32:47Starring Orson Welles and Margaret Sullivan
32:49With Helen Morgan and authoress Edna Ferber
32:57Magnolia, as you may remember, never remembered very clearly what happened that afternoon
33:02Gaylord Raveneau drove her far out into the country to a little church with a graveyard
33:06And they got out of the carriage and walked around under the trees
33:08And there were graves there with the names of Raveneau on them
33:11That's what he said
33:13His father and grandfather and way back beyond that
33:16He said she didn't remember much about the ride back to town at dinner or anything
33:20Up till showtime except Gay's smiling at her and her smiling back at him
33:27Hawks, that murderer goes or I know that's final
33:31Oh, Posse
33:32You can tell him tonight
33:34Ain't the best juvenile he'd ever played the river
33:37Now that scene's beginnin'
33:38Willin' to sacrifice your own daughter, are ya?
33:40For the sake of a few dollars?
33:42Sacrifice? Just lettin' her speak civil to a handsome young fella?
33:45There, watch now
33:47Just see him out there lookin' at her
33:50Oh, he's a darn fool if he didn't
33:51You mean to tell me you'd see your own daughter married to a worthless woman?
33:55Can't a man look at a girl without having to marry her?
33:57Having to marry her?
33:58If I was a girl like Maggie, I'd run off with him
34:01That's the truth
34:02She had any spirit left after you devilin' her for 18 years
34:04She'd do it
34:05That's right
34:06Put those ideas into her head
34:07I'm not putting ideas into her head
34:08How do you know who he is?
34:09He's a rabble-ro
34:10He says he is
34:11Oh, didn't he show her the church?
34:13Oh, Hawks, you're a zany
34:15I could show you gravestones
34:17I could say my name was Bonaparte
34:19And show you Napoleon's tomb
34:21But that wouldn't make him a grandfather, would it?
34:23Hey, folks, folks
34:25Go on, it's too loud
34:26People out front can't hear the show
34:28Now, Posse, hush up and listen to the show
34:37Dad, have all your friends deserted you?
34:40Mama's gonna make Andy send you away
34:42No, but friendship is too cold a passion to stir my heart now
34:48Will you come with me?
34:49Oh, give me a friend in preference to a sweetheart
34:52How can I?
34:53My dear Miss Brown
34:55Miss Lucy
34:56Marry me
34:57Oh, please don't call me Miss Brown
34:59Quinn
35:00Lucy
35:01Where do we play tomorrow?
35:02Marry me there
35:03Defender of the fatherless
35:06Will you be a poor man's bride?
35:08Darling
35:09Oh, yes, Henry, yes
35:11Lucy, my own
35:13Darling
35:24Magnolia, for heaven's sake, take your time
35:27The minister will wait
35:29Okay
35:30Where did you think you were going?
35:32To a fire?
35:33I don't know
35:34I guess I was afraid Mom would light out after me
35:36Did you see you lived with both?
35:37I don't think so
35:40Today I've got my breath
35:42Come on, let's go in and get married
35:43Oh, now, hold on a minute
35:45We've got to be engaged first
35:46Engaged?
35:47Of course
35:48Give me your hand
35:49Oh, the other one, silly
35:51Well, I've never been married or engaged to anything
35:53I'm so excited
35:55Oh, gay
35:57Gay, a diamond
35:59You like it?
36:00Oh, it's so beautiful
36:02I've never seen one before
36:04Just look at the sun dust to it
36:06That's nothing to what the sun dust to you
36:08Oh, crazy
36:10You want to get a kiss?
36:12You mean in broad daylight?
36:15Right here in the minister's front yard?
36:17Why not?
36:19Well, of course we are getting married
36:28Well, Hawks, now I hope you're satisfied
36:31Those were the first words she said when she heard they were married
36:34Just the first words
36:35She didn't stop talking for ten whole days
36:37And she finally did let up a little
36:39Because, well, because she was tired
36:44She'd just worn herself out
36:45And when the baby came, they called her Kim
36:47It was the captain's idea
36:48Because she was born on the river
36:49While the cotton blossom was riding a storm
36:51Near the border lines of Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri
36:54K-I-M
36:55Then when Kim was two, the captain bought a new boat
36:58Had it built in St. Louis
36:59With some newfangled arrangements
37:00Instead of the kerosene lamps for footlights
37:02And she was called Cotton Blossom Two
37:05It was April before she was ready
37:07Late in the year to start downriver
37:08But the captain didn't care
37:09He wanted to try the new boat
37:11No sooner had they started
37:12Than the rains began
37:13They got as far as Natchez
37:14And turned and started upstream again
37:16Then early one morning before dawn
37:18Only a few miles out of Cairo
37:20A squall caught them
37:21And it was all
37:22The whole course of Magnolia's life had been changed
37:25Hey
37:26Hey
37:29Hey
37:30What happened?
37:31Huh?
37:32What was that?
37:33I don't know
37:34Hey, get up, get up
37:36What is it, Captain?
37:37Get up
37:38Sounds like we lost our mooring
37:39I think we lost the mooring
37:40You better get some clothes on, Gage
37:41Come along
37:42Yes, sir
37:43Hey, Doc, get up
37:44Magnolia
37:45You better get dressed
37:46Grab the baby warm
37:47Get in the cabin
37:48I'll be back
37:49Gage!
37:56Mama, is that you?
37:57Magnolia!
37:58Quiet, Mama
37:59Kim's asleep
38:00How do, Maggie?
38:01Windy
38:02Is everything all right?
38:03So quiet suddenly
38:04Yeah
38:05Soon as daylight came
38:06The squall quieted right down
38:07Is everything all right?
38:08Got off the snag
38:09If that's what you mean
38:10There's something wrong
38:11What is it?
38:12Where's Papa?
38:13Where's Papa?
38:14I don't know
38:15I don't know
38:16I don't know
38:17I don't know
38:18I don't know
38:19I don't know
38:20I don't know
38:21I don't know
38:22I don't know
38:23I don't know
38:24I don't know
38:25Where's Papa?
38:28Well, he was bobbing around the deck
38:30Of course, he had no business giving orders
38:32That was my job as a pilot
38:34But he always did that, ma'am
38:36I never minded it
38:37What's happened to Papa?
38:38Where is he?
38:39Had to be the fastest channel on the river, too
38:42He was leaning over
38:44Trying to snatch her
38:46It was dark and the rain and all
38:49Windy
38:50What's happened?
38:51He was gone before we could get to him, Maggie
38:54With the rain and the dark and the current
38:57We did all we could
38:59Ain't no use
39:01Not in this part of the river
39:04He's dead, Maggie
39:06He's dead
39:13With Andy gone, things were different
39:16Might have worked out for a while
39:18If Parthenia Hawks hadn't been what she was
39:22The first to go was the pilot, old Windy McClain
39:24About a month after Andy died
39:27Here now
39:28What do you mean?
39:30Ah!
39:31Yes, I'm speaking to you, Windy McClain
39:34What is it you want, Miss Hawks?
39:36If I've had those steps to the pilot house scrubbed once
39:39I've had them scrubbed ten times this week
39:42Well, what's the matter with them?
39:43What's the...
39:44Look at them
39:45All muddied up
39:46What's that side ladder for, I'd like to know
39:49I've told you before
39:50Miss Hawks, ma'am, I'm no hired hand
39:53I worked with Andy Hawks 25 years
39:55I pay you, don't I?
39:57And good pay it is, too
39:58Well, the thing is, you can't run a boat like you would a kitchen
40:01Well, I'm not going to have it
40:03You traipsed in all over spitting your filthy tobacco
40:06And leaving muddy tracks
40:07Ma'am
40:08Well?
40:09You're Hawks' widow
40:11No need to remind me
40:12That's why I said I'd go on working
40:14Same as if Andy was alive
40:16If you'd no mind to stay on, there was nobody begging you
40:19I figured Maggie's husband would be the boss after all
40:22Well, I'm running this boat
40:24Fact is, ma'am, I ain't no petticoat pilot
40:27Fact is, I guess I lost my taste for rivers since Cap went
40:32Lost my nerve, too, I guess
40:35I'm through
40:36Hmm
40:38Your money'll be at the office for you
40:41Thanks, ma'am
40:48Look, Magnolia, I can't stand this
40:51I'm sick of this scowl and everything that goes with it
40:53I know, darling
40:54It's partly just driving us all crazy
40:57Anyway, Magnolia, I'm no actor
40:58I don't belong here
41:00If I hadn't happened to see you the day your father offered me a job
41:04I wouldn't be here now
41:06Are you sorry, Gay?
41:07Oh, darling
41:08It's the only luck I've ever had that lasted
41:11Magnolia, what we ought to do is to clear out of here
41:14You've got something coming to you from your father
41:16We could very
41:17What are you two jabbing so hard and fast about?
41:20Mama, listen
41:21Yes?
41:23We were just wondering, now that Papa's gone
41:26Yes?
41:27Well, or maybe it wasn't crazy trying to go on
41:31What do you want? Have us leave the river?
41:33Why not, Mama?
41:34And what's to become of the Cotton Blossom?
41:36Oh, I don't know
41:37We'll have to talk about it
41:38We are talking about it
41:40Now listen here, Magnolia
41:44Hawks left no will
41:46Just like him
41:47I've got as much say as you
41:49Mama, there's my share in this boat
41:51I want it
41:53You mean money?
41:54Yes
41:55What would you have me do?
41:57Sell the boat right out from under me?
41:59Captain Andy left insurance
42:00And he had money in the bank
42:02There's enough for you to buy Magnolia's share in the showboat
42:05If you want it
42:06What'll you do with the money?
42:07Oh, Gay, we'll probably invest it in some business
42:10Yes
42:11Monkey business
42:12Oh, Gay?
42:13I'm leaving here
42:14I've had enough
42:15What about Magnolia and her child?
42:17They can come or stay
42:18That's for her to decide
42:19I'll be packing, Magnolia
42:20Oh, Gay?
42:21Well, now, you see
42:23Walking right off and leaving you
42:27Come back here, child
42:30I'll give you the money
42:32But mind
42:34Don't you come sniveling back to me when it's gone
42:37And you and your child haven't a penny to bless yourself with
42:40What it'll come to in the end, mark my words
42:42I wouldn't come to you for help
42:44Not if I was starving to death, and Kim, too
42:46Oh, there's worse things than starving to death
42:48I wouldn't come to you no matter what
42:50You will
42:52Just the same
42:53I'll take my oath on that
42:56And remember this
42:57When he's run through every penny of your money
43:00You needn't look to me for more
43:02You can come back to the boat
43:04You and the child
43:06I'll look for you
43:07But Kim
43:09Never
43:19Nothing was too good, Gaylord Ravenel
43:21That first winter they lived in Chicago
43:23They had a suite at the Sherman House
43:24A nursemaid for Kim
43:25A pair of English hackneys to drive them
43:27To the races in the afternoon
43:28And to the theater in the evening
43:30And that winter for the first time
43:31Magnolia tasted champagne, wore sables
43:34Sat in a box at Hooley's
43:36And saw the hoochie-coochie dance at the World's Fair
43:38It was all very pleasant and luxurious
43:40And strange
43:42Almost like a dream
43:44And through it all, Gay was beside her
43:46Handsome and elegant and thoughtful
43:49Laughing at her wide-eyed enjoyment
43:51And then, one day, suddenly
43:54Their money was gone
43:56Simply gone
43:58I'm sorry, Magnolia
44:00I haven't got it
44:01Gee, darling, how do you mean you haven't got a hundred dollars?
44:03You know, it's that green velvet dress you liked so much
44:05You told me to get it
44:06Now, this is the third time they've sent a bill
44:08So will you give me the money?
44:09Or write a check if you'd rather
44:10I tell you, I haven't got it, Magnolia
44:12Well, tomorrow we'll do
44:13But please be sure tomorrow that you...
44:15I can't be any surer tomorrow than I am today
44:17We haven't got one hundred dollars in the world
44:20And that's a fact
44:22But, darling, we had thirty thousand
44:25I know
44:26I'm afraid it's gone
44:28I've been running bad luck for weeks
44:30Bad luck?
44:31At what, Gay?
44:33What do you mean?
44:34Pharaoh
44:35But, Gay, we had thirty thousand dollars
44:38Thousands don't last forever, my dear
44:40Besides, last week I took a flyer
44:43A flyer?
44:44Yes, a tip on the market
44:46The stock market, dear, stocks
44:49Oh, you wouldn't understand, Magnolia
44:51But all of it, Gay?
44:53You didn't lose all of it on the market
44:55Well, no
44:57Some of it on the market
44:59Some of it at Pharaoh
45:01How much, Gay?
45:04How much?
45:05Oh, what does it matter? It's gone
45:07But, Gay, how much at Pharaoh?
45:09A few thousand
45:11How many? Five?
45:13Yes, five
45:15More than five, Gay?
45:17Well, nearer ten, probably
45:20I don't remember, Magnolia
45:22What does it matter how it's gone? It's gone
45:29Once a month came a letter from Parfait
45:31Nevertheless, it came addressed in a firm, small hand to the Sherman House
45:35Crops are pretty good, so business is according
45:38I put up great gel last week, a terrible job
45:41But I can't abide this store stuff
45:44No real grapes in it
45:46Well, I suppose you're too stylish for the cotton blossom by now
45:50And Kim never hears of it
45:52I got the pictures you sent
45:53I think she looks kind of peaked
45:55Up all hours of the night, I suppose
45:57And no proper food
45:59I've never heard of such a thing
46:01Well, I will close, as goodness knows
46:04I have enough to do without writing letters
46:06Where they're probably not wanted
46:08Still, I'd like to know how you and the child are doing
46:11And all
46:12Your mother, Parfenia Ann Hawkes
46:16Dear mother, Gay is more than good to me
46:20I have only to wish for a thing, and it is mine
46:24Everyone says Kim is unusually tall and bright for her age
46:28Gay speaks of a trip to Europe next year
46:31I have a new fur coat
46:33He's very good to me
46:35Never an unkind word
46:37You're very, very happy
46:40Love, Magnolia
46:42Magnolia and Ravennau moved
46:45The first of those endless changes that marked their life in Chicago for the next twelve years
46:50They left the plush and ice water and fresh linen and rich food
46:53And luxurious service of the Sherman House
46:56They moved to a shabby family hotel
46:59Sort of actor's boarding house on the north side
47:01Just across the Clark Street Bridge in Ontario
47:04It was within walking distance of the places, Gay said
47:07And by places, she knew that he meant
47:11Jeff Hankins and Mike McDonald's and Prince Varnell's
47:14And other establishments on Gambler's Row
47:17Where he spent his days
47:19Every day for twelve years
47:22And always it was famine or plenty
47:24The streets were brown, sometimes a bad street would last for weeks
47:27First the Malacca cane would go
47:30Gay had a reputation for paying his debts
47:32And Ravennau's cane was always worth a few hundred dollars as a pledge
47:35At one of the pawn shops near Clark Street
47:37And then next some of the fine English clothes would vanish
47:40And last, always last, a diamond engagement ring
47:44There were times when even the Ontario Street Hotel became an impossible luxury
47:48That meant rock bottom
47:50The rumour was that they took a room at three dollars a week
47:52In a frowzy rooming house on Ohio Street
47:55The three of them in one room
47:57And boiled coffee and eggs and cooking over the gas jet
48:00And every day around noon, Gaylord went down to the street
48:03Elegant as ever, freshly shaved
48:06His gloves on his hands and headed south towards Clark
48:09It was night when he returned
48:12Sometimes long after midnight
48:14Magnolia! Say, Magnolia!
48:16What is it, Gay?
48:17Come on, Magnolia, we're leaving this rat's nest, hurry!
48:19Oh, you don't mean tonight?
48:20No, it'll only take a minute, I'll wake up the landlady, she'll help
48:23Oh, no, no, I'd rather do it myself
48:25Oh, Gay, Kim's asleep, can't we wait until morning?
48:27No, we're going tonight, this minute
48:29Come on, hurry!
48:30I need a killing, Magnolia, six thousand
48:32And here is your ring
48:34Where are we going?
48:35Sherman House
48:36Oh, would you like to try the auditorium for a change?
48:38Room overlooking the lake, huh?
48:39How would you like that?
48:40Oh, Gay!
48:41Next week we'll run down to West Baden
48:42Do us good
48:43During the day we can walk and drive
48:45Or ride
48:46You'll learn to ride, Magnolia
48:47In the evening we can take a whirl at my...
48:49Sam Maddox's place
48:50Oh, darling, don't play there, not much I mean
48:53Let's try to keep what we have for a while
48:55Oh, nonsense
48:57May as well give Sam a chance to pay our expenses
48:59Remember the last time we were down?
49:01I won a thousand dollars at roulette alone
49:03And roulette's not my game
49:04Gay!
49:05Yes, Nola?
49:06Gay, I want to talk to you
49:08Well, does it have to be now?
49:09Yes, Gay, listen
49:11Do we have to go on like this?
49:13Darling, haven't you been listening?
49:15I'm in the money, we're moving out of here
49:17What more do you want?
49:18Oh, Gay, that's just it
49:19Everything one day and nothing the next
49:22We ought to be living in a house, a little house
49:24Where it's quiet and peaceful
49:26And Kim can play like other children
49:27Now, don't get dramatic, Magnolia, by heaven's sake
49:30Besides, we've had that all out before
49:31But why can't we do it?
49:32Why can't we live like other people?
49:34In between?
49:35Enough!
49:36And none of this horrible worrying about tomorrow
49:38I can't bear it
49:39You should have married a plumber
49:40Come on, Magnolia
49:41Get your things packed, let's go
49:43I've got a carriage waiting downstairs
49:46Then came a bad streak that lasted longer than the others
49:49McCain was gone, the English suits
49:51Magnolia's diamond ring
49:53They'd been in the rooming house on Ohio Street now for three months
49:58Gay, you're early
49:59Emma
50:00I stopped in at the Sherman house
50:03This letter was there for you
50:04Oh, for Mama
50:06Yes
50:09Gay?
50:10Hmm?
50:12Mama's coming
50:13Coming here?
50:14Yes, listen
50:15I've never been to Chicago
50:16I want to see the stockyard, the Grand Opera House
50:19The Masonic Temple, Marshall Fields
50:21Lincoln Park and the Chicago River
50:23No
50:24I'll put up at the Sherman house where you are
50:25Providing it's not too expensive
50:27And I want you both to understand I mean to pay my own way
50:30I'll not be beholden to any living soul
50:33Well, we'll have to move back, Gay
50:34Where?
50:35To the Sherman house, that's where she thinks we live
50:37Well, that's outlawed
50:38But Gay, we haven't any choice
50:39And I haven't any money
50:40And you've got to borrow it
50:41On what? Security?
50:42I don't mean business borrowing
50:43They're your friends, all those men
50:45What men?
50:46The men at those places
50:47The men you've known for so many years, those gamblers
50:50They've all been trying to borrow from me
50:52But Mike McDonald, Hankins, Barnell
50:54They've all had thousands of dollars from us
50:56All the money we brought to Chicago
50:58Won't they give some of it back?
51:01Magnolia, you're priceless
51:03There's nobody like you
51:05Gay, how can you act like that when you know how serious it is?
51:08I'm not going to have Mama come here and see us living like this
51:10I'm not going to do it
51:11Do you think for a minute I would?
51:12Well, then what are you going to do about it?
51:14I don't know
51:16I don't know, darling
51:18But I'll do something
51:19I've been in holes as deep as this and managed to crawl out
51:22I'll do something
51:24That was the last time she heard his voice
51:27Next morning, when she left the house, he was still sleeping
51:31It was the day she went to school to see Kim
51:33It was winter and it was dark in the streets by the time she got home
51:36The door of their room was locked and when she opened it
51:38Before she'd lighted the gas
51:41She felt the room was empty
51:43Deserted
51:45On the dresser was an envelope
51:47Her name on it in Rabinow's neat, delicate hand
51:49I know you, darling
51:51I'm going away for a few weeks
51:54I'll return when your mother is gone
51:56I'll send for you
51:58You'll find $300 for you on the shelf under the clock
52:04Should be enough for a few weeks anyway
52:07I love always, Kate
52:23You see, Kim
52:25It's a long story
52:27Oh, Enola
52:28No, don't say that, Kim
52:29I'm not sorry
52:30I'm not sorry for anything I ever did in my whole life
52:33I've been a lot of places
52:34I've seen a lot of things
52:36But in the end, this is where I belong
52:40I love it
52:41The rivers, the people, the showboats
52:44And the life here
52:46I don't know why it bred in me, I suppose
52:50Yes, Kim, I do know why
52:52Your grandfather died when you were too little to really know him
52:56You knew him well, Kim
52:58You'd know why
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53:47to go to all the trouble of making vegetable soup at home
53:50You can prove it by serving this great family favorite tomorrow
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53:58what a big hit it makes with them, too
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54:28the kind of vegetable soup you'd expect
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54:32Why not try it tomorrow?
54:34Remember to ask your grocer for Campbell's vegetable soup
54:38And now Orson Welles brings you his guests of this evening
54:41Ladies and gentlemen, I think you know everybody here
54:44Margaret Sullivan, who was Magnolia
54:46whom you have seen so many times in movie houses
54:49and in theaters giving so many fine performances
54:52is our guest on the Campbell Playhouse for the fifth time
54:55In fact, the last thing she did before she was Bridget Haywood
54:59her mother, which she is, was the
55:02if you remember, the nameless heroine
55:04of our radio version of Rebecca
55:06Miss Sullivan, it's very nice to have you back
55:08It's nice to be back, Mr. Welles, it always is
55:11I know you know Miss Morgan
55:13and I know you love her just as much as I do
55:15Ladies and gentlemen, Helen Morgan
55:17Mr. Welles, thank you for another chance to play Julie
55:22I suppose I know Chabot about as well as anybody
55:27May I tell you, it has never seemed more real to me than tonight
55:32Miss Morgan, you are very kind
55:34And now, ladies and gentlemen, because Miss Edna Ferber
55:36made her debut tonight as an actress
55:38and as you will agree, a very good actress at that
55:40in the role of Parthy Hawks
55:42and because she wrote Chabot
55:43and should have something interesting to tell us about it
55:45I've banished all banter and bandanage
55:48from our customary afterpiece
55:50and asked her to take the floor and say what she will
55:53Miss Edna Ferber
55:57Today in 1939, I never could have written Chabot
56:02I am too agonized at what I see and hear in the world about me
56:07Chabot carries no message
56:10It is just a romantic novel about a rather glamorous phase of American life
56:16Since it was written in 1926
56:19and this is 1939
56:22There must be in it a quality that strikes a sympathetic chord
56:27It never could have been written in a war-torn world
56:31A writer should feel free to write as he pleases
56:35and in these times, he's deprived of that feeling
56:39Those millions of you here in America
56:43who have chuckled over Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer
56:47Those of you who have thrilled to that majestic piece of prose
56:51at the Gettysburg Address
56:53who have read and heeded the wise sayings of Benjamin Franklin
56:57whose pulses have quickened to the beat and march of Walt Whitman's poems
57:02If you love these things
57:05and believe in their beauty and worth
57:09save them
57:10for long, long after the rulers of people are dead
57:14the literature of a country lives on
57:18You who are listening to the Orson Welles program tonight
57:22make up your minds
57:24what kind of world you want for your children
57:28Walt Whitman told you
57:31listen to what he said
57:35Long, too long America
57:38traveling roads all even and peaceful
57:42you learned from joys and prosperity only
57:45but now, ah now
57:47to learn from crises of anguish
57:50advancing, grappling with direst fate
57:54and recoiling, not
57:56now, to conceive and show to the world
58:00what your children, en masse, really are
58:05traveling roads all even and peaceful
58:10you learned from joys and prosperity only
58:13but now, ah now
58:15to learn from crises of anguish
58:18advancing, grappling with direst fate
58:21and recoiling, not
58:24now, to conceive and show to the world
58:27what your children, en masse, really are
58:34Thank you, Miss Fizer
58:36And thanks to you, Miss Sullivan and Miss Morgan
58:39Please come back to us again on the Campbell Playhouse
58:42whenever you will