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00:00♪♪
00:12The makers of Campbell's Soup present
00:15The Campbell Playhouse
00:17Austin Wells, producer.
00:19♪♪
00:29Good evening, this is Austin Wells.
00:32And our guest tonight is Miss Gertrude Lawrence.
00:35Gertrude Lawrence of Susan and God
00:38and a couple of other dozen successes
00:40in America and in England.
00:42Gertrude Lawrence, currently of Skylark,
00:45and tonight in one of the nicest stories
00:47ever to come out of Hollywood.
00:50Few movies of our time have won such quick success
00:53or lasted so long in the minds of those who saw it
00:56as the original of tonight's offering,
00:58Mr. Frank Capra's notable production
01:00for Columbia Pictures Corporation,
01:02Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
01:05But before Mr. Deeds goes to town
01:07and we go with him, Mr. Chappell,
01:09Mr. Ernest Chappell has an interesting meeting
01:12to tell us about, Mr. Chappell.
01:14Thank you, Austin Wells.
01:15As very quickly told, ladies and gentlemen,
01:17just the other day I was talking with a young woman
01:19who is a wife and a mother.
01:21In the course of our conversation, she said to me,
01:23You know, Mr. Chappell, I've heard you on the Campbell Playhouse
01:26telling us about Campbell's tomato soup.
01:29And now I'd like to tell you something
01:31about Campbell's tomato soup.
01:32And when I invited her to do so, she went on,
01:35Well, those bright red and white cans
01:37of Campbell's tomato soup you speak about
01:39have been on my family's pantry shelves,
01:42my grandmother's, my mother's, and my own
01:44for more than 20 years now, all told.
01:47And someday I'm sure they'll be on my daughter's shelf, too.
01:51Now, I guess many a woman listening tonight
01:53could tell a similar story.
01:54Perhaps you could yourself.
01:56Certainly there's something about the bright, inviting color,
01:59the enticing aroma, the keen, delightful flavor
02:02of Campbell's tomato soup that wins and holds friends
02:05through the generations.
02:07And that something, of course, is accounted for
02:09first, last, and always by the tomatoes Campbell's use.
02:13The tomatoes and a magic recipe.
02:15And here is news.
02:16This year's crop of tomatoes was exceptionally fine.
02:19So you'll taste what this means now
02:22in Campbell's tomato soup.
02:24Have you stocked up lately?
02:26And now, our Campbell Playhouse presentation
02:28of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,
02:30starring Gertrude Lawrence and Orson Welles.
02:42There's a sign, Cobb.
02:43This ought to be Mandrake Falls.
02:45Look, it rhymes.
02:46What rhymes?
02:47The sign. It's a poem.
02:49Welcome to Mandrake Falls
02:51Where the scenery enthralls
02:53Where no evil air befalls
02:56Welcome to Mandrake Falls
02:58What do you think?
02:59I think it's Mandrake Falls.
03:07Does Mr. Deeds live here?
03:09Mr. Longfellow Deeds?
03:10Yes, indeed.
03:11Won't you come in?
03:13Are you related to Mr. Deeds?
03:15No, I'm his housekeeper.
03:16I see. Perhaps you can tell us something about him.
03:18What does he do for a living?
03:19He owns the teleworks here.
03:21But that isn't where he makes his money.
03:22He makes most of it out of his poetry.
03:24His poetry?
03:25You mean he wrote all the signs we've seen around this town?
03:28Every one of them.
03:29Longfellow's famous around here.
03:31He makes a lot of money writing things on postcards.
03:33You know, Christmas, Easter, birthdays.
03:35Here's one they paid him $25 for.
03:38When you've nowhere to turn
03:39And you're filled with doubt
03:41Don't stand midstream hesitating
03:43For you know that your mother's heart cries out
03:47I'm waiting my boy, I'm waiting
03:50Isn't that beautiful?
03:51The very word I was searching for, beautiful.
03:53Well, I'll tell him you're here.
03:55Old man Semple must have been goofy
03:57To leave all his money to this yokel.
03:59How much do you figure the estate will amount to
04:01After the tax is deducted?
04:02About $20 million.
04:04Better be careful how you spring it on him.
04:06He's liable to keel over from the shock.
04:08How do you do, gentlemen?
04:09Oh, are you Longfellow Deeds?
04:11Yes.
04:12My name is John Cedar.
04:13You may have heard of my law firm in New York,
04:15Cedar, Cedar, Buddington & Cedar.
04:17I'd like to meet Buddington.
04:19And this is Mr. Cornelius Cobb.
04:21Won't you sit down, please?
04:22He handles our public relations.
04:23Ouch!
04:24What's this, cactus?
04:26It's a new mouthpiece for my tube.
04:28I keep losing them all the time.
04:29By the way, you gentlemen want to stay for lunch?
04:31No, no.
04:32We're here to ask you a few questions, Mr. Deeds.
04:35I suggest you sit down too, Mr. Deeds.
04:37You may feel faint in a minute or two.
04:39Mr. Deeds, are you the son of Joseph and Mary Deeds?
04:42Yes.
04:43Are your parents alive?
04:44No.
04:45I wonder if you'd be good enough to tell me exactly how they met their death.
04:50Well, my mother and father froze to death in a storm.
04:54They'd just got through delivering Sarah Perkins' baby in Pine Valley.
04:57That checks all right.
04:58It was a very cold winter.
04:59Mr. Deeds, does the name of Martin W. Semple mean anything to you?
05:05Not much.
05:06He was an uncle of mine, although I never saw him.
05:08Well, he passed on.
05:09He was killed in a motor accident in Italy.
05:11He was?
05:12Oh, that's too bad.
05:13If there's anything I can do, I'm...
05:14Prepare yourself for a great shock, Mr. Deeds.
05:17The shock of a lifetime, Mr. Deeds.
05:18I wish it was my lifetime.
05:20Mr. Semple left a great fortune when he died, Mr. Deeds.
05:24He left it to you, Mr. Deeds.
05:26Deducting taxes, it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million.
05:31You know, you're silly if you don't stay for lunch.
05:34Mrs. Meredith made some fresh orange layer cake,
05:36and you haven't really eaten fresh orange layer cake until you've tasted Mrs. Meredith's.
05:41Perhaps you didn't hear me, Mr. Deeds.
05:43The whole Semple fortune goes to you.
05:46$20 million.
05:47$20 million.
05:48I wonder why he left all that money to me.
05:50I don't need it.
05:51I made a mistake about who ought to sit down when this news was told.
05:54You see, Mr. Deeds, the farm of Cedar, Cedar, Buddington, and Cedar.
05:58Buddington.
05:59It's funny, I can't think of a rhyme for Buddington.
06:01Well, right now, Mr. Deeds, I think you'd better start packing.
06:04What for?
06:05You're coming to New York with us.
06:06When?
06:07Tonight on the 6 o'clock train.
06:08There are a great many important things you've got to take care of right away.
06:11You know, I've never been away from Mandrake Falls in my whole life.
06:15But I'd like to see Grant's tomb at that.
06:17That's the idea.
06:18Come on down to New York and see if you can find a rhyme for it.
06:31Cobb.
06:32Hey, Cobb, would you look at that sign?
06:35Well, long fellow Deeds, the pride of Mandrake Falls.
06:39First sign I've seen all day that wasn't in poetry.
06:42Say, am I going crazy?
06:44Why, what is it?
06:45Why, that tuba player in the band, isn't it?
06:48Mr. Deeds!
06:49Yeah, just a minute, uh, Mr. Cedar.
06:52Only, this is my last chance to play with the band.
06:55I kind of felt a little sentimental.
06:57Yes, yes, I understand, but we've got to get on the train.
06:59Yeah, I suppose, but the more I think of New York, the more worried I get.
07:03Well, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
07:06Of course, a fortune of your size involves a great responsibility.
07:10Yes, I know, but...
07:11But you'll have a great deal of assistance, just don't worry.
07:13I'm not worried about that.
07:15No?
07:16No, I was just wondering where they're going to get another tuba player for the band.
07:34Hello, boys.
07:35Hello, John.
07:36What happened, Freda?
07:37What's he like?
07:38A child, gentlemen, a mere child.
07:40Did you get the...
07:41No, Mr. Buddington, I didn't get the power of attorney, but I will.
07:44And if you'd stop demanding miracles overnight...
07:46It's not that, John, it's just that we can't afford...
07:48I know, I know, we can't afford to have the books investigated right now.
07:52Seems to me you've said that several thousand times already.
07:54But if they ever fall into anybody else's hands...
07:56Stop being scared of your own shadow, Jim.
07:59It hasn't happened yet.
08:00Stop being scared of your own shadow, Jim.
08:02It hasn't happened yet, has it?
08:04Goodness me, half a million dollars.
08:05Where are we going to get...
08:06Will you please stop?
08:08Just relax.
08:10Leave everything to me.
08:11It was I who got old man Sebel to turn everything over to us, wasn't it?
08:14Who got the power of attorney from him?
08:16All right, I'll get it again.
08:17I hope so.
08:18But suppose he starts to talk to somebody.
08:20Suppose somebody tells...
08:21I'll get it.
08:22Nobody's going to get near him.
08:24I tell you, we've got nothing to worry about.
08:27The boy's a fool.
08:30Come in.
08:37Mr. McIntyre?
08:38Sit down, Brenda.
08:39Did you send for me?
08:40I did.
08:41Well?
08:42Three days have gone by and what have you brought in on Longfellow Deeds?
08:43Nothing.
08:44Nothing but flat, dull, boring, routine drivel.
08:46I've tried everything, Mr. McIntyre.
08:48But there's a watchdog around called Corny Cobb.
08:50He's keeping Deeds under lock and key.
08:52A corn-fed bohunk falls into 20 million dollars and you can't find out anything about him
08:55because he's guarded by...
08:56Corny Cobb.
08:57The reason you're on this paper, sweetheart, is with a name like yours and a face like yours...
09:02It takes time to think how to get around, Corny, but I'll get it.
09:05Listen, sweetheart, if you get some stuff on this Longfellow Deeds, personal stuff,
09:09I'll give you your own column.
09:11On it?
09:12And your picture at the head of it.
09:13I'll get it.
09:14Keep four columns open on page one tomorrow.
09:16That's the way I like to hear you talk.
09:17I'll keep the whole front page open.
09:18What are you going to do?
09:19Well, if you care to break a rule and read your own paper,
09:22you'll find the story in the early edition.
09:31Ah, then, Mr. Deeds, how does that feel? Comfortable?
09:33It feels great.
09:34No kidding, Mr. Cedar, all these white marks this tailor's putting on my pants,
09:38they really mean something?
09:39Oh, yes.
09:41You ought to know, but it's the first time I ever had a suit made on purpose.
09:45Almost finished, Mr. Deeds.
09:46While I think of it, Mr. Deeds, I don't want to press the point,
09:50but things are piling up down at the office,
09:52and if you'd care to give us your power of attorney...
09:54Hey, I don't like the cuff turned over.
09:56You want, Mr. Deeds...
09:57One cuff turned over and one cuff straight.
10:00That would look funny, huh?
10:01Yes.
10:02I don't think you realize how much petty annoyance
10:06a power of attorney would save you.
10:08Your uncle never bothered about these trifling business affairs.
10:12He traveled most of the time, left everything to us.
10:14He enjoyed himself.
10:16You should be doing the same thing.
10:17By the way, where is all this money? In a bank?
10:19Oh, no, no.
10:20There's approximately a million and a half in cash.
10:23The rest is in stocks, bonds, real estate, other things.
10:26The accountants are working on the books now.
10:28I'll be ready in several weeks.
10:30Sounds complicated.
10:31Oh, yes, yes.
10:32That's why I suggested your letting us take care of it.
10:35I could have the power of attorney drawn up...
10:37You mean, besides being my lawyer,
10:39you want to take care of my investments? Is that it?
10:42Yes, you see, that's the kind of extra service
10:45a firm like Cedar, Cedar, Buddington & Cedar is glad to donate.
10:48You know, it's a funny thing.
10:49I haven't been able to think of a rhyme for Buddington yet.
10:52I wish you'd give that matter some thought, Mr. Deeds.
10:55Hmm?
10:56The matter of the power of attorney.
10:58Oh, yes, I will, Mr. Cedar.
11:00I'll give it a lot of thought.
11:02A fellow was in here yesterday,
11:03wanted to handle my affairs for nothing, too.
11:06It kind of puzzles me
11:08why a lot of people want to do my work for nothing.
11:10It isn't natural, so I guess I'll have to think about it some more.
11:13Do you have four or five buttons on the sleeve, Mr. Deeds?
11:15I don't know. What about it, Mr. Cedar?
11:17Oh, well, I...
11:19To tell you the truth, I'm not acquainted myself.
11:22You see, when an important matter comes up,
11:24you're no more good to me than if I didn't have an advisor.
11:27I guess I'll have to think the whole thing over.
11:35Now, from what I understand, gentlemen,
11:37he's quite childish.
11:39We'll have no difficulty getting him to put up the entire deficit.
11:42After all, it's only a matter of $180,000.
11:45I wish he'd come down.
11:47It'll only take a few moments.
11:48We happen to be very fortunate gentlemen.
11:50I've discovered that the young man is sympathetic towards music.
11:53He played the tuba in his hometown band.
11:56Oh, here he is now.
11:58Oh, hello, Mr. Deeds.
12:00Gentlemen of the board, this is Mr. Deeds.
12:03Now, I know you're a busy man, Mr. Deeds,
12:06so we'll proceed to business at once.
12:08The first business before this meeting
12:10is the election of the chairman of the board.
12:12With a sentimental gesture toward the best friend opera ever had,
12:15the late Mr. Semple,
12:17I think it only fair that his nephew,
12:19Mr. Longwell of Deeds, be made chairman,
12:22and I herewith nominate him.
12:24Second.
12:25All in favor?
12:26Aye.
12:27Carried.
12:28My congratulations, Mr. Deeds.
12:29I'm chairman, as easy as that.
12:30Oh, you honor us, sir.
12:32If you'll sit here, please, in the president's chair.
12:35The president's chair.
12:36The order of business calls for the secretary's report.
12:38Move we dispense with it.
12:39Second.
12:40We will dispense with it.
12:41Move we dispense with it.
12:42Second.
12:43Quite right, quite right.
12:44The next business...
12:45Wait a minute.
12:46What does the chairman do?
12:47Oh, he presides at meetings.
12:49That's what I thought.
12:50Well, if you don't mind,
12:51I'm kind of interested in the treasurer's report.
12:53I'd like to hear it.
12:54Oh, really, Mr. Deeds?
12:55I assure you that...
12:56Unless the treasurer didn't bother to come.
12:58Oh, yes, Mr. President, I'm here.
13:00The treasurer reports a deficit of $180,000 for the coming year.
13:05You mean you lost $180,000?
13:07I think I should explain to you, Mr. Deeds,
13:09that the opera is not conducted for profit.
13:11What is it conducted for?
13:13The opera is an artistic institution.
13:15We own an opera house, don't we?
13:16Yes.
13:17And give shows.
13:18We provide opera.
13:19I mean, we sell tickets.
13:20Of course.
13:21And it doesn't pay?
13:22Well, that would be impossible.
13:23The opera never pays.
13:24In that case, we must give the wrong kind of shows, I guess.
13:27Well...
13:28Incidentally, where's the $180,000 coming from?
13:30Frankly, we were expecting it to come from you, Mr. Deeds.
13:34Me?
13:35Naturally.
13:37It's your civic duty to keep the opera alive for the people.
13:40I don't see the point of keeping opera alive for people who don't seem to want the opera.
13:44Mr. Deeds, the opera...
13:45No, ladies and gentlemen, I'm afraid you'll have to get it from someplace else.
13:49Goodbye until the next meeting.
13:51And thank you for making me chairman.
14:07Buddington.
14:09Buddington.
14:11Buddington, Buddington.
14:13Hey, what's the matter, lady?
14:15Nothing.
14:16Nothing.
14:17I'm all right.
14:18You fainted right on my doorstep.
14:19Did I?
14:20I'm sorry.
14:21Can I help you?
14:22No, no, thank you.
14:23I'm all right, really.
14:24This is my house.
14:25If you want to come inside here, I'd rest.
14:27I'd be very...
14:28No, no, no.
14:29I'll be all right.
14:30Say, what's happened?
14:31I guess I walk too much.
14:32Been looking for a job all day.
14:34Found one, too.
14:35I start tomorrow.
14:36Thanks for helping me out.
14:37Goodbye.
14:38Goodbye.
14:39Oh, hey.
14:40Sorry.
14:41I guess I'm weaker than I thought.
14:43Have you had dinner?
14:44Dinner?
14:45Isn't that funny?
14:46I forgot to eat.
14:47Forgot?
14:48Yeah, I do that lots of times.
14:49I just get to thinking about something.
14:51You're not fooling me.
14:52You haven't got any money, have you?
14:53Frankly, no.
14:54Well, then you're going to eat with me.
14:55Maybe you can help me.
14:56I don't know where to go.
14:57I couldn't let you pay for my...
14:58I'd like one of those places where all the famous people go.
15:02I'd like to see some of them.
15:04According to the colonists, they mostly eat at La Malacca.
15:07La Malacca?
15:08You know where that is?
15:10Mm-hmm.
15:11It's on 52nd Street.
15:1252nd Street.
15:13Taxi!
15:14The La Malacca it is.
15:25You don't know how good this food tastes.
15:27I don't know how to thank you, Mr. Dean.
15:29I wish you'd let me help you some, Miss Dawson.
15:31Oh, please.
15:32I asked you not to talk about it.
15:33Sorry.
15:34You're the first person I've met in New York who didn't want something.
15:36Waiter!
15:37Oh, Green Mrs.
15:38Anybody come in yet?
15:39Anybody?
15:40Why, oh, nobody important.
15:42You'll be sure and point them out, won't you?
15:44Oh, Green Mrs.
15:45I'm a writer.
15:46Indeed, Mrs.
15:47I'm a writer myself.
15:48You know, I write poetry.
15:50Would you like to hear one of my poems?
15:52I certainly would.
15:53Here's one.
15:54A lot of people like this poem.
15:58When you've nowhere to turn and you're filled with doubt,
16:01don't stand midstream hesitating,
16:04for you know that your mother's heart cries out,
16:07I'm waiting, my boy, I'm waiting.
16:15For you know that your mother's heart cries out,
16:18I'm waiting, my boy, I'm waiting.
16:21Brenda, is that really true?
16:22Cross my heart.
16:23Let's hear your story.
16:25The season's most intriguing debut was made last night
16:28on the chic east side by one Mr. Longfellow Deeds,
16:31the multimillionaire postcard poet from Mandrake Falls.
16:35You heard me, Mandrake Falls.
16:38After wrecking the routine of the Stork Club
16:40by stubbornly refusing to surrender his hat, coat, and tuba
16:43at the checkroom along about 2 a.m.,
16:46our hero ruffled the fine feathers of the few remaining patrons
16:49in the 21 Club when he and Charles McCarney,
16:52famed Hollywood scripter,
16:54settled a major poetic controversy on the barroom floor.
16:57And before the debris in his wake could be cleared away,
17:00the Cinderella Man,
17:02New England's latest gift to the gaiety of our town,
17:05was back in his barouche and well on his way to Central Park
17:08for a breath of fresh air and a brisk swim in the seal pool.
17:12Cinderella Man, that's sensational, Brenda,
17:14extremely sensational.
17:16Is he really that big a sap?
17:17Yes, Mac, he's the original and there are no carbon copies.
17:20This story is a work of art.
17:21It'll be in all the school books.
17:23For a society girl, sweetheart, you sure can write.
17:25Thanks.
17:26Here's the part I like.
17:27As dawn rose over Times Square,
17:29Mr. Deeds was glimpsed feeding a bag full of donuts to a horse.
17:33When asked why he was doing it, our hero replied,
17:35I just wanted to see how many donuts this horse could eat
17:38before he asked for a cup of coffee.
17:40Ha, ha, ha, ha.
17:42When asked why he was doing it, I...
17:44Am I supposed to see him again?
17:45You certainly are.
17:47When can you make it?
17:48Tonight, maybe.
17:49I'm supposed to phone him at noon on my lunch hour.
17:51And in case Cobb starts snooping around,
17:53I've moved into Mabel Dawson's apartment.
17:55That's the girl I was at school with.
17:57I'm a stenographer now, you know,
17:59and my name's Mary Dawson.
18:07Come on, Deeds.
18:08Deeds, get up, it's late.
18:10What the hell happened to you last night?
18:12Look at this stuff in the papers.
18:13What did you do?
18:14You remember most of it.
18:15What do they mean, calling me Cinderella Man?
18:17You've got brains, friend.
18:18You'll get along fine.
18:19Just stop punching people in the nose
18:20and feeding donuts to a horse.
18:21Say, has Miss Dawson called yet?
18:23Miss Dawson?
18:24No, no, Miss Dawson.
18:25I'll have to phone her and apologize
18:26for not taking her home.
18:27Give me my pants.
18:28They aren't here.
18:29Give me my pants.
18:30I wrote her phone number down on my...
18:31Listen, Deeds, you have no pants.
18:32You came home without them.
18:34I did what?
18:35Matter of fact, you came home without any clothes on at all.
18:37You were in your shorts.
18:38That's silly.
18:39You know I couldn't walk around the streets
18:40without any clothes.
18:41I'd be arrested.
18:42That's what the two policemen said.
18:43What two policemen?
18:44The ones that brought you home.
18:45They said you and another man
18:46kept walking up and down the street
18:47shouting, back to nature.
18:49Clothes are a blight on civilization.
18:52Back to nature.
18:53I don't remember that.
18:54I don't remember that at all.
18:55I'll tell you what I do remember, though,
18:57about last night.
18:58I remember finding a rhyme for Buddington.
19:00Oh, yes, Mr. Deeds.
19:01How's this?
19:02By baby Buddington,
19:03daddy's gone a-huntington
19:05to get a little rabbit skin
19:07to wrap his baby Buddington in.
19:11You know, Miss Dawson,
19:12it's very nice of you
19:13to show me around like this.
19:14Oh, I enjoy it.
19:16The aquarium was swell.
19:18You know, if I lived in New York,
19:20I'd go to the aquarium every day.
19:23I bet you do.
19:24Well, not as much as I'd like to.
19:26Tell me, have you got any news?
19:28I mean, anything exciting.
19:29Anything exciting.
19:30Well, I've got news for you, Miss Dawson.
19:32What is it?
19:33I've got news for you.
19:34What is it?
19:35I've got news for you.
19:36What is it?
19:37I've got news for you.
19:38What is it?
19:39I mean, anything exciting happen lately?
19:41Sure, I met you.
19:42No, silly.
19:43I mean, what did you do about the opera?
19:45Oh, the opera.
19:46I had another meeting with the opera.
19:47You look awful pretty tonight, you know.
19:49Well, what did they say?
19:50Said I was crazy.
19:51Said I wanted to run it like a grocery store.
19:53Well, what are they going to do?
19:54Do you always wear your hair back like that?
19:55I wish you would be silly.
19:56I am.
19:57I think your hair is probably...
19:58There's Grant, too.
20:01I hope you're not disappointed.
20:04Oh, no, it's wonderful.
20:05Well, to most people,
20:06it's an awful letdown.
20:07Depends on what they see.
20:09Well, what do you see?
20:12I see a small Ohio farm boy becoming a great soldier.
20:15I see thousands of marching men.
20:17I see General Lee with a broken heart surrendering.
20:20I see the beginning of a new nation,
20:22like Abraham Lincoln said.
20:24I see that little Ohio boy being inaugurated as president.
20:29Things like that can only happen in a country like America.
20:32You sure can say funny things.
20:35It's not hard.
20:36You just got to remember whenever you look at anything,
20:39well, and most people are on the level, you know, simple,
20:43and then you see that the simple things really count.
20:47That's what you think, isn't it?
20:49I mean that most people are on the level and everything.
20:53Oh, sure.
20:54Sure.
21:07You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse production
21:11of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,
21:13starring Gertrude Lawrence and Orson Welles.
21:16This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
21:31This is Ernest Chapel, ladies and gentlemen,
21:34This is Ernest Chapel, ladies and gentlemen,
21:36welcoming you back to the Campbell Playhouse.
21:38In just a moment now, we shall resume our presentation
21:41of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.
21:43You know, because soup is a natural concern of mine,
21:46I've been interested in my reading to notice how often,
21:49in one way or another, a mention of soup occurs
21:52in the writings of a great man.
21:54For instance, about 200 years ago,
21:56one of the wisest men of all time,
21:58the immortal French philosopher Voltaire,
22:00wrote this about soup.
22:02He said, the best written book is a recipe for soup.
22:06Now, in view of Voltaire's statement,
22:08it seems to me very interesting also
22:10that at the Campbell's kitchens today,
22:12there is a great book which bears the simple title
22:14of the number one book.
22:16And written down between its covers
22:18are the recipes of every one of Campbell's soups.
22:21Each is essentially, and at base, a home recipe.
22:25But a recipe constantly improved through all the years
22:28during which in Campbell's kitchens,
22:30every day has been soup-making day.
22:33Campbell's number one book is, I should think,
22:35a book that the great Voltaire himself
22:37would have approved of with enthusiasm.
22:40And certainly it's a book so approved
22:42by all those good home cooks in this country
22:44who have turned their soup-making over to Campbell's.
22:47Are you among them?
22:49And if not, won't you give these fine-flavored,
22:51wholesome soups of Campbell's a trial?
22:54And now we resume our Campbell Playhouse presentation
22:57of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
22:59starring Orson Welles and Gertrude Lawrence.
23:01Please, gentlemen, please, please!
23:05Now if you'll kindly stop criticizing
23:07and make a few constructive suggestions.
23:09But John, you said that...
23:10Yes, yes, I know a week's gone by
23:12and we still haven't got that power of attorney
23:14out of Mr. Deeds.
23:15Well, it's ridiculous to have to worry
23:16about a boy like that.
23:18Look at these articles about him.
23:19He's carrying on like an idiot.
23:20Why, that's just what I was saying to my wife.
23:22I can't tell you who cares
23:24what you were saying to your wife.
23:25Well, all I can say is,
23:27unless somebody in this place
23:28gets a brilliant idea pretty soon,
23:30the firm of Cedar, Cedar, Cedar,
23:33Buddington and Cedar is in trouble.
23:47Seems to me like that's the first time
23:48that typewriter's been silent since you met that...
23:51What's his name, the Cinderella man?
23:53Oh, stop it, Mabel.
23:54You know his name.
23:56I was only quoting you, darling.
23:58Well, stop quoting me.
23:59What's the matter with you, Brenda?
24:00Nothing, I'm just nervous, I guess.
24:02Say, where did you and the Deeds guy
24:05go yesterday to the zoo?
24:06No, we just sat in the park and talked.
24:08Then a fire engine came along and he hopped it.
24:11Quite a clown, isn't he?
24:12He wasn't clowning.
24:13He's interested in fire engines.
24:15He's going to buy one for his hometown.
24:17Charming story.
24:18Mr. Wesson, is that the one you've been working on?
24:20Yes.
24:21Why don't you finish it?
24:22I can't write it.
24:23I don't know what's the matter with me.
24:25I have an unfailing instinct about such things
24:27and I think I can tell you.
24:28Mabel, that man is either the dumbest, the stupidest,
24:30the most imbecilic idiot in the world,
24:33or he's the grandest thing alive.
24:35I can't make him out.
24:36Uh-huh.
24:37I'm crucifying him.
24:39Why?
24:40I don't know.
24:41You wanted to be a successful newspaper woman,
24:43didn't you?
24:44Well, you've done it.
24:45Last year's glamour girl makes good.
24:47Yeah, then what?
24:48Search me, ask the gypsies.
24:49We think we're wise and sophisticated,
24:52you and I and the people we go about with.
24:54I'm beginning to wonder,
24:55maybe we're the ones who are crazy.
24:57That's an idea.
24:58Here's a guy that's wholesome and fresh
25:00and he looks like a freak.
25:02You know what he told me yesterday?
25:04He said he'd been walking along
25:05looking at the tall buildings.
25:07He decided they created a lot of grand palaces here,
25:10but they forgot to create the nobleman to put in them.
25:13He's balmy.
25:14Is he?
25:15I thought so at first.
25:16Now I try to laugh at him and it sticks in my throat.
25:20Hello?
25:22Wait a minute.
25:23It's the paper.
25:24McIntyre.
25:25He wants to know where is your deed story for today.
25:27Tell him to keep his shirt on.
25:28Keep your shirt on.
25:29He'll get it.
25:45Well, that's that.
25:47Let me see that.
25:48Schnabel dome.
25:49Never a dull moment with the Cinderella man.
25:52When hook and ladder company number 16
25:54arrived at the three-alarm blaze downtown
25:56in the middle of last night,
25:57guess who they found had driven them there?
25:59That's right.
26:00Longfellow Dee, the postcard poet,
26:02who last night added firefighting,
26:04ferry piloting, orchestra conducting,
26:06and subway switching to his already considerable repertoire.
26:09Tonight he attends his own reception
26:11for the higher-ups and offer circles.
26:13It's not expected that Mr. Dee...
26:14Oh, stop it. Stop it.
26:17I don't want to see anybody.
26:18I've got to get this off, and then I'm going to pack.
26:20Pack?
26:21Yes, I'm leaving town. I'm going...
26:22To Long Island?
26:23Yes, home. I'm quitting.
26:24I don't know what good you think it's going to do
26:25if you run away.
26:26Well, what else can I do?
26:27He's bound to find out sometime.
26:28I can't keep this up any longer.
26:30It's probably the photographer.
26:32Tell them I'm not seeing Deeds tonight,
26:34and then go away!
26:35Okay.
26:36It's Larry Dawson here.
26:37My name is Longfellow Deeds.
26:39Oh.
26:40Oh, yes, of course, Mr. Longfellow Deeds.
26:42Come on in.
26:43You're Mabel, her sister, aren't you?
26:45Huh?
26:46Oh, yes.
26:47Yes, yes, her sister.
26:49She's told me a whole lot about you, Mabel.
26:52She's told me a whole lot about you, too, Longfellow.
26:56Hello, Mary.
26:57Hello.
26:58I waited in the park over an hour.
26:59I thought maybe you'd forgotten.
27:00Well, I didn't think you could get away
27:02with your party and everything.
27:03Oh, I wouldn't let them stop me from seeing you, Mary.
27:05I threw them out.
27:06Threw them out?
27:07Yeah.
27:08You mean bodily?
27:09The whole party?
27:10Yeah, they got on my nerves,
27:11so I threw them out.
27:12I guess that'll be in the papers tomorrow,
27:15something else for people to laugh at.
27:17I don't mind, though.
27:18I had too much fun doing it.
27:20Should we go for a walk?
27:21Sure, if you'd like to.
27:22I'll just put my hat on.
27:23Excuse me.
27:24Oh, we're just leaving.
27:25It ought to be a nice night to go out
27:27in the lake and the park, don't you think?
27:29Any night's a nice night to go out
27:31on the lake in the park.
27:33I'm ready.
27:34You look beautiful.
27:35You know, she looks better every time I see her.
27:38Well, good night, and don't worry about Mary.
27:41I won't keep her out late.
27:43Oh, uh, all right.
27:46Good night.
27:58You know, I once had an idea
28:01I could do something with the money,
28:03you know, some good,
28:04but I haven't had a chance to figure anything out.
28:06I've been so busy here,
28:07I guess I'll think of something
28:10when I get home.
28:11You're going home?
28:12Well, a man ought to know where he belongs.
28:14I just don't seem to fit in around here.
28:18Mary?
28:19Yes?
28:21I was thinking,
28:22I wish you could come to Mandrake Falls sometime.
28:26The sky is beautiful, isn't it?
28:28Yeah.
28:29You know,
28:30within a couple of miles of my house,
28:33you can find nearly every kind of tree
28:35and bush and flower in the world.
28:38I used to spend hours in the woods
28:40just hiking around.
28:42It was wonderful.
28:43I'd generally take a girl with me.
28:46A girl?
28:47Oh, not a real one.
28:48I'd make one up
28:49just to have somebody to talk to,
28:50and she was beautiful, too.
28:53I always knew that someday I'd meet her.
28:55Mary, remember I told you I was writing a poem?
28:59Well, I brought it with me.
29:02It's finished.
29:03Here.
29:05Would you like to read it?
29:06It's to you.
29:08Yes, of course.
29:09Can you see to read it?
29:11Yeah.
29:13I tramp the earth with hopeless beat,
29:16searching in vain for a glimpse of you.
29:19Then heaven thrusts you at my very feet,
29:22a lovely angel too lovely to woo.
29:26My dream has been answered,
29:27but my life's just as bleak.
29:30I'm handcuffed and speechless
29:32in your present divine.
29:34For my heart longs to cry out,
29:37if it only would speak,
29:39I love you, my angel.
29:41Be mine.
29:43Be mine.
29:44You don't have to say anything now, Mary.
29:48I'll wait to hear from you tomorrow.
29:50It's wonderful.
29:52You'll hear from me about it tomorrow.
30:05Mr. McIntyre.
30:07Yes, Brenda.
30:08Mr. McIntyre.
30:09What's bothering you, Brenda?
30:11Mr. McIntyre, last night he proposed to me.
30:13Proposed to you?
30:14You mean Longfellow Deeds asked you to marry him?
30:16Yes.
30:17Cinderella Man Woo's Mystery Girl.
30:20Why, sweetheart, that's very terrific.
30:22If you print one word of that,
30:23I'll blow this whole place up.
30:24I'm sorry.
30:25I was just carried away with the idea.
30:27Well, I'm afraid I can't.
30:29I'm afraid I can't.
30:31I'm sorry.
30:32I was just carried away with the idea.
30:34You set out to make him the screwball of the century,
30:36and he made...
30:37Funny, isn't it?
30:38Hey, you haven't gone falling for that mug.
30:41What are you going to do?
30:43Tell him the truth.
30:44Tell him you're Brenda Bennett,
30:45the society columnist who made a stooge out of him?
30:48Yes.
30:49He'll probably kick me down the stairs.
30:50I hope he does.
30:51You can disappear, can't you?
30:53You needn't ever see him again.
30:54No, I know I needn't, but...
30:55Of course.
30:57You know how you feel about him.
30:59If you think it's better to take a chance on telling him...
31:02I do.
31:03I'm having lunch with him today.
31:04I'll tell him then.
31:06Well, I'll go and clean up my desk.
31:09It was nice here while it lasted, Mr. McIntyre.
31:16Well, Mr. Deeds, it's just as I suspected.
31:19What is it, Tom?
31:20You certainly made a suckle out of yourself.
31:23Remind me to find a rhyme for sourpuss, will you?
31:26Funny, it says enough to have you followed last night.
31:28Mary Dawson, huh?
31:30Mary Dawson, my eye.
31:32What about Mary Dawson?
31:33That dame took you for a sleigh ride.
31:34That New Yorker laughed at that for 20 years.
31:36She's the slickest devil crossing two times.
31:38What?
31:39All right, go ahead and hit me.
31:41But first, look at this picture in town and country.
31:43Brenda Bennett, lovely young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Randolph.
31:50Brian Bennett of Broadfields, Westbury, Long Island.
31:54And last year's most popular, Debutante,
31:56who was disappointing this winter's handsome stag line
31:59in favor of a reporter's desk on the New York Evening Mail.
32:02She's a reporter in the Evening Mail.
32:04Every time you opened your kisser, you were giving her another story.
32:07That's the dame that stuck that moniker on you, too.
32:09Cinderella Man.
32:11You've been making love to a double dose of cyanide.
32:13Shut up.
32:15Get me the newspaper on the phone.
32:25Hello, Evening Mail.
32:27I want to talk to Miss Bennett.
32:33Oh, hello.
32:35Mary, I...
32:38Mary, are you the one who's been writing those articles about me?
32:42No, that's all right.
32:43I just wanted to know for sure.
32:47Forget it.
32:49Don't bother about lunch.
32:51Somehow I don't feel very hungry today.
33:02You want me to pack your dress clothes, too?
33:04Now, what in the world would I do with a monkey suit in Mandrake Falls?
33:07Okay.
33:08All right, let me go.
33:09I want to see him.
33:10I want to see that guy.
33:11Get out of here.
33:12Oh, there you are.
33:14Who are you?
33:15I just want to see what a man looks like
33:17that can spend thousands of dollars on a party
33:19when people are starving all around him.
33:21Cinderella man, huh?
33:23You know how many families you could have fed
33:25with the money you paid out to get on the front pages?
33:27What do you want?
33:28Sure, go ahead and close up the opera.
33:30It's not making enough money for you.
33:31It'll throw 500 men out of jobs, but what do you care?
33:3420 million isn't enough.
33:35I'd like to melt it all and pour it down your throat.
33:38Shall I send for the police?
33:39No, you don't.
33:40Stick them up.
33:41What do you want?
33:43A chance to feed the wife and kids.
33:45I'm a farmer.
33:46A job, that's what I want.
33:48You're a moocher, that's what you are.
33:49I wouldn't believe you or anybody else in a stack of Bibles
33:51you're a moocher like the rest of them around here.
33:53Sure, everybody's a moocher to you.
33:55A hungry dog eating out of a garbage can
33:57would be a moocher to you.
33:59See what good your money's going to be
34:00when you're pushing up daisies.
34:02You never thought of that, did you?
34:03You never thought about all the people that are starving.
34:05They're moochers to you.
34:07All those people that are standing in bread lines
34:09not able to feed their wife and kids.
34:15I'm sorry.
34:17You get all kinds of crazy ideas.
34:20Lost my farm.
34:22Haven't had enough money to feed the kids.
34:24I didn't realize.
34:26You can do anything you want with me, mister.
34:29Well, sir, first off, I think you should have lunch with me.
34:34Then we'll have a little talk about the situation.
34:42Not just before the opening spring,
34:44but in the real news of today,
34:45is to be found on the home front.
34:46It comes from the Park Avenue mansion
34:48of Mr. Longfellow Deeds.
34:49Now, when a rich man gives away money,
34:51it's always a matter of some interest
34:53to whom and for what purpose he gives it.
34:55But when a young man of 25 announces
34:57that he's giving away his entire fortune
34:59of $20 million,
35:00that is, in every sense of the word, news.
35:03And what part of the population is it
35:05that is fortunate enough to benefit
35:07from this young man's capricious generosity?
35:09It's that much-neglected, much-suffering individual,
35:11the American farmer.
35:13$20 million is being placed in a fund
35:15to acquire land, cattle, and equipment
35:17to be given on terms accessible
35:19to the poorest farmer of this country.
35:21And all that this philanthropist requires of each farmer
35:24is evidence showing that he understands farming
35:26and that at such time in the future...
35:34Mr. Feeder, Mr. Feeder, please!
35:36Mrs. Muddington, please!
35:37Please!
35:38Please!
35:40Now, boys,
35:41you'll all be delighted to know
35:43that I've completed our arrangements
35:45for dealing with our friend, Mr. Longfellow Deeds.
35:48I found a distant cousin of his
35:51who's just signed a charming agreement
35:53with Cedar, Cedar, Buddington, and Cedar.
35:55So all we have to do now
35:56is get this Deeds yokel out of the way.
35:58And we're all set to go.
36:01Now, there's just one other thing
36:02to be taken care of, Buddington.
36:03Huh?
36:04Find out who wrote those articles
36:06about Deeds in the paper.
36:07Yes.
36:08And whoever it is, have him subpoenaed right away.
36:10Oh.
36:17All right, sir.
36:18Step over to that desk for further instructions.
36:20Thank you, Mr. Deeds.
36:21Thank you very much.
36:22Next, please.
36:23Tom, how many does that make?
36:24Eight hundred and nineteen.
36:25That all? It's going very slow.
36:26We need a thousand more.
36:27All right, next.
36:28Step up to the desk, please.
36:29How do you do, sir?
36:30What's your name?
36:31Ernest Byfield, sir.
36:32Where's your farm, Mr. Byfield?
36:33South Carolina, sir.
36:34What do you grow?
36:35Cotton and tobacco.
36:36What about knocking off a leg?
36:37I've got to get this business over in a hurry.
36:39I want to get back to Mandrake Falls.
36:40What price you get on those trucks, Mr. Byfield?
36:42Oh, my God.
36:43You want a kilo if you haven't been out of the house in two weeks.
36:45Maybe I'll have a sandwich.
36:46Mind waiting a few minutes, please?
36:47Oh, sure, sure, sir.
36:48If you like a sandwich, I'll give you one, too, please.
36:50Thanks.
36:51Never mind about me, Cobb.
36:52But order lunch for all the applicants.
36:53For all of them?
36:54Why, there must be 2,000 men out there.
36:55That doesn't make them any less hungry.
36:57OK, Santa Claus.
36:582,000 lunches.
37:03What's going on here?
37:04What are you doing?
37:05Out of our way.
37:06You long for La Deeds?
37:07Yes.
37:08I don't want to take you into custody.
37:09What do you mean, into custody?
37:11A warrant for your arrest.
37:12You'll have to come with us.
37:13What's up?
37:14What is it?
37:15I don't know nothing, buddy.
37:16All I know is the sheriff giving me an insanity
37:17warrant to execute.
37:18You're supposed to come with us to the county hospital
37:19until the hearing.
37:20Insanity?
37:21Who says he's insane?
37:22You tell him what it says, Charlie.
37:23Well, a complaint of this relative of the late Martin Central.
37:26The charges are that Mr. Deeds is insane and incapable
37:29of handling the estate.
37:32Well, wait a minute.
37:34We want to get a lawyer out called Cedar.
37:36Called Cedar?
37:37Well, as a matter of fact, Mr. Deeds,
37:38I'm from Mr. Cedar's office.
37:40He represents the complainant.
37:42He what?
37:43Mr. Cedar's the one that lodged the complaint against you.
37:46Your own lawyer.
37:47That's great.
37:48That makes everything complete.
37:50Exit!
37:51Deeds trial opens.
37:52Exit!
37:53Exit!
37:54Deeds insanity hearing begins today.
37:55Farmers roused.
37:56Police are recorded.
37:57Deeds hearing begins.
37:58Longfellow, Deeds hearing begins today.
37:59Exit!
38:00Hey, listen, Deeds.
38:01Cedar just sent for me.
38:02He wants to make a settlement.
38:03What do you say?
38:04I'm not interested.
38:05What are you going to do, just sit back
38:06and let them railroad you?
38:07That's pretty offensive.
38:08I'm not interested.
38:09I'm not interested.
38:10I'm not interested.
38:11I'm not interested.
38:12I'm not interested.
38:13I'm not interested.
38:14I'm not interested.
38:15I'm not interested.
38:16I'm not interested.
38:17I'm not interested.
38:18You know, Cedar, this pretty ephemera
38:19has never hit this town.
38:20If you don't let me get your lawyer.
38:21Oh, no, don't bother.
38:22Oh, you can't walk into that hearing
38:23without being ready to protect yourself
38:25and the clinchers.
38:26Cedar's too smart.
38:27That crook with a bunch of trained witnesses.
38:30Oh, leave me alone.
38:32OK, pal, OK.
38:35But I hope you change your mind.
38:38All right, officer, open up.
38:40So long, Mr. Cobb.
38:41Goodbye.
38:44Mr. Cobb.
38:45Oh, go away.
38:46I've been all over town talking to everybody.
38:47Haven't you done enough damage already?
38:48Now, listen, I've got my editor all lined up.
38:50The paper's back of him.
38:51I can get him the best lawyer there is.
38:53You're wasting your time.
38:54He doesn't want a lawyer.
38:55But I've got Sam Liebel.
38:56He's solo.
38:57He doesn't want any help from anybody.
38:59Listen to me, will you?
39:00You can take a bow for that.
39:01The swellest guy that's ever hit this town,
39:03and you crucified him just for a couple of stinking headlines.
39:06But there must be something I can do.
39:08You've done plenty.
39:09Now stay out of his way.
39:10OK.
39:12Your Honor!
39:14Your Honor, I have before me a series of articles
39:18written by a newspaper woman
39:20who was an eyewitness to Mr. Deeds' peculiar behavior
39:23since his arrival in New York.
39:25These articles, Your Honor,
39:27do not paint the picture of a man
39:29in whom the disposition of $20 million
39:32can safely be entrusted.
39:34Our institutions are a place of great importance.
39:39Our institutions are filled with demented
39:42who are forever giving away the Empire State Building.
39:48We present our first witness, Miss Brenda Bennett.
39:51Miss Bennett, please.
39:56Repeat after me.
39:58I do solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
40:00and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
40:02I do solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth,
40:04and nothing but the truth, so help me God.
40:06All right, be seated.
40:08Miss Bennett, are you employed by the evening mail?
40:12Your Honor, this is ridiculous.
40:13Will you please answer the questions?
40:15This whole hearing is ridiculous.
40:16Please!
40:17That man is no more insane than you are.
40:21It's a frame-up, it's a frame-up.
40:23They're trying to railroad this man
40:24for the money they can get out of him.
40:25Your Honor!
40:26Young lady!
40:27You are here to testify.
40:29Please confine yourself to answering the questions.
40:31Say it, Mr. Sater.
40:33Are you employed by the evening mail, Miss Bennett?
40:35No.
40:36You are under oath, Miss Bennett.
40:37I ask you again.
40:38Are you employed by the evening mail?
40:40No, I resigned last week.
40:42Prior to that time, however,
40:43you were employed by the evening mail.
40:45Yes, I...
40:46You were given an assignment
40:47to follow the activities of Mr. Longfellow Deed?
40:49Yes, but...
40:50Did you subsequently write
40:51a series of articles about him?
40:52Yes, I...
40:53You were present when the episodes
40:54you have reported took place?
40:56Yes.
40:57Are they true?
40:58Well...
40:59I ask you a question, Miss Bennett.
41:00Are they true?
41:01Answer yes or no.
41:02No.
41:03What things did take place?
41:04I told you just to make him look silly.
41:06But you saw them happen.
41:07Yes, I did, but...
41:08That's all.
41:09It isn't all.
41:10I'd like to explain...
41:11That's all, Miss Bennett.
41:12Come on, Miss.
41:13Come on.
41:14Your Honor, what kind of a hearing is this?
41:15He's not defending himself.
41:17Somebody's got to do it.
41:18Miss Bennett, please.
41:19I've got a right to be heard.
41:20Miss Bennett.
41:21I'm willing to listen
41:22to anything anybody has to say.
41:24It must be done in an orderly fashion.
41:26When you learn to show some respect
41:27to the court, you can return.
41:29Until then, you'd better go back
41:30to your seat and calm down.
41:32Now...
41:36Mr. Deeds,
41:37do you wish to say anything
41:38about the articles
41:39that have been handed to me
41:40written by Miss Bennett
41:41for the evening mail?
41:43No.
41:44All right.
41:45Proceed, Mr. Segal.
41:46Your Honor,
41:47I should like to ask
41:48Dr. Herman Mankiewicz
41:49if he'll be good enough
41:50to give the court his opinion.
41:52Dr. Mankiewicz, you know,
41:53is the eminent Romanian psychiatrist,
41:55probably the greatest...
41:56All right, Dr. Mankiewicz.
41:59The case of Mr. Longfellow Deeds
42:02in my carefully considered opinion...
42:04Would you say, Dr. Mankiewicz,
42:06that Mr. Deeds is insane?
42:09The symptoms are obvious.
42:12Instances of his high elation...
42:14Uh, Dr. Mankiewicz...
42:15Please.
42:17Instances of his high elation
42:20are his playing of the tuba,
42:22writing childish poems,
42:25and chasing fire engines.
42:28Oh, yes, there's no doubt
42:30he has an obvious case of manic depression.
42:33Meaning, Dr. Mankiewicz,
42:35in simple language,
42:37that this man is insane.
42:40Dr. Mankiewicz?
42:41Dr. Mankiewicz.
42:43Yes.
42:45Very positively insane.
42:49Order, please.
42:51Order in the court.
42:52Quiet, please.
42:54Mr. Cedar, your next witness.
42:55Your Honor,
42:56I have two witnesses here
42:57from Mandrake Falls,
42:59a city's old hometown,
43:01who will testify to his strange conduct
43:03throughout his lifetime,
43:05proving that his derangement
43:07is neither a recent nor a temporary one,
43:09nor is it...
43:10Yes, yes, let's get on with it, please.
43:13Will Mrs. Faulkner take the stand, please?
43:16Miss Faulkner and Miss Faulkner.
43:22What is your name?
43:23Jane Faulkner.
43:25This is my sister, Amy.
43:27Yes, Amy.
43:29Do you know the defendant Longfellow Deeds?
43:31Oh, yes, yes, of course we know him.
43:34How long have you known him?
43:39Since he was born.
43:41Yes.
43:42Elsie Paddard was the midwife.
43:44He was a seven-month baby.
43:46That's fine, thank you.
43:48Do you see him very often?
43:53Most every day.
43:55Sometimes twice.
43:57Must we have the echo?
43:58Ah, Miss Jane, you can answer for both.
44:01Now tell me,
44:02what does everybody back home think of Longfellow Deeds?
44:08They think he's pixelated.
44:10Oh, yes, pixelated.
44:13He's what?
44:14Pixelated.
44:16Well, that's a somewhat unusual word, Miss Jane.
44:19Can you tell the court just what it means?
44:21Ah, perhaps I can explain, Your Honor.
44:23Pixelated is an old New England word.
44:25It is derived from the word pixies,
44:27meaning elves or the little people.
44:30They would say the pixies have got him,
44:32as we would say a man is born.
44:34I see.
44:35Why does everyone think Mr. Deeds is pixelated?
44:39Does he do peculiar things, Miss Jane?
44:41He walks in the rain without his hat and talks to himself.
44:46Sometimes he whistles.
44:49And recently, he gave Chuck Dillon a something.
44:53Black tisowel.
44:54Why?
44:55For no reason, I guess.
44:57We always run into the house when we see him coming.
45:00Never can tell what he's going to do.
45:03He sure is pixelated.
45:05Oh, yes, he's pixelated all right.
45:08Thank you, ladies.
45:10That will be all.
45:11Order, please.
45:13Quiet in the court.
45:14Order.
45:15Quiet.
45:16Mr. Deeds, are you still unwilling to speak in your own defense?
45:21You have nothing to say in this court?
45:23Nothing.
45:25We must have quiet in the court.
45:27Mr. Deeds, in view of the extensive testimony
45:31and after very carefully considering all the evidence available,
45:35I think it advisable for your own safety
45:37that you be sent to a state hospital.
45:39You need medical attention.
45:40No, no, wait a minute.
45:43You can't do it.
45:44You've got to make him talk, Your Honor.
45:46Miss Bennett, please.
45:47You said I could speak.
45:48You said that you would listen to anything I had to say if I was rational.
45:51Well, I am rational.
45:53I'll take the witness chair.
45:54But he must be made to defend himself.
45:56Your Honor, what she is saying has no bearing on this case.
45:59Mr. Cedar, please let her speak.
46:01I know why he won't defend himself.
46:03That has a bearing on the case.
46:05He's been hurt.
46:06He's been hurt by everybody he's met since he came to this town.
46:09He's been the victim of every conniving crook in New York.
46:12So why should he keep quiet?
46:14Everything he's said has been twisted around to sound imbecile,
46:17and he can thank me for it.
46:19I handed the town a great laugh.
46:21This is a fitting climax for my sense of humor.
46:23Your Honor, this is preposterous.
46:25Certainly I wrote those articles.
46:27I was going to get a byline in my picture at the head of a column.
46:30But I stopped writing them when I found out that he could never fit in with our distorted viewpoint
46:34because his was honest and sincere and good.
46:37If that man's crazy, Your Honor, the rest of us belong in straightjackets.
46:40This is absurd, Your Honor. Absurd!
46:43This woman is obviously in love with the defendant.
46:45What's that got to do with it?
46:46You are in love with him, aren't you?
46:48Yes!
46:51Your Honor, I've got a couple of sentences worth I'd like to put in, too.
46:54I've been with this man since he came here.
46:56I can verify everything she's said.
46:58Silence! Order! Order!
47:02There'll be no more of these interruptions.
47:04In the interest of the defendant, I've tolerated a great deal of informality.
47:08If there is one more outburst, I shall have the courtroom cleared.
47:11Your Honor.
47:13Yes, Mr. Deeds.
47:14I'd like to get in my two cents worth.
47:16Well, of course. Of course, Mr. Deeds. Go right ahead, Mr. Deeds.
47:19I don't know where to begin. There's been so many things said about me.
47:24That was a pretty speech Mr. Cedar made about me at the opening of this hearing.
47:28If I were an outsider, I'd be sure the fellow he was talking about was crazy.
47:33I guess that's what a good lawyer is supposed to do, make things look like what they're not.
47:39Of course, Mr. Cedar has a right to think I'm loony.
47:42I once considered paying him $100,000 a year for his services.
47:47About my playing the tuba, it seems like a lot of fuss has been made about that.
47:52Of course, I don't see any harm in it, in playing the tuba.
47:58I play the tuba whenever I want to concentrate.
48:02That may sound funny, but most everybody does something silly when they're thinking.
48:06For instance, Judge, you're an O-filler.
48:08I'm a what?
48:09An O-filler. You fill in all the spaces in the O's with your pencil.
48:13I've been watching you.
48:15That may make you look a little crazy, Your Honor, just sitting around filling in O's.
48:19But I don't see anything wrong in it, because that helps you think.
48:23Other people are doodlers.
48:25Doodlers?
48:26That's the name we have back home for people who make designs on paper while they're thinking.
48:30Most everybody is a doodler.
48:33Did you ever see a scratch pad in a telephone booth?
48:36Dr. Mankiewicz here could probably think up a long name for it,
48:39because he doodles all the time.
48:43And, well, I play the tuba.
48:47Atta boy, D!
48:49Silence.
48:50Now, about my going around and hitting people.
48:55I hit people all right.
48:58You would have too, Judge, if they deliberately made fun of you.
49:02It's said in one of those articles that I chased after a fire engine.
49:05Well, who doesn't chase after...
49:07And as to throwing those society people out of my house,
49:10well, I threw them out because I didn't want to party in the first place, Your Honor.
49:13Your Honor, this is becoming a farce.
49:15I suggest that Mr. Deeds dispense with his side remarks and explain a few facts.
49:19For example, his wandering around the city streets at night in his underwear,
49:23feeding doughnuts to a horse.
49:26Well, Mr. Deeds...
49:28Uh...
49:29Yeah, they...
49:31Yes, Your Honor, they...
49:33Those things look kind of bad, don't they?
49:36Judge, I don't remember them.
49:38They probably happened all right,
49:40because I don't think a policeman would lie about a thing like that, but...
49:46I was drunk, Your Honor.
49:48It was the first time I was ever drunk in my life.
49:51Probably happened to you, Judge, I mean, when you were younger, of course.
49:55And about the Faulkner sisters, that's kind of funny.
49:58I mean about Mr. Cedar going all the way to Mandrake Falls to bring them here.
50:02Do you mind if I talk to them, Judge?
50:04No, not at all, Mr. Deeds.
50:05Faulkner sis... Jane!
50:07Jane, who owns the house you live in?
50:10Why, you do, young fellow.
50:12You. You own it.
50:14Do you pay any rent?
50:16No, we don't pay any rent.
50:18Good heavens, no, we never pay rent.
50:21Are you happy there?
50:22Yes, yes, indeed.
50:24Now, a little while ago, you said I was pixelated.
50:26Do you still think so?
50:27Oh, yes.
50:28You've always been pixelated, young fellow.
50:31That's fine.
50:32Now tell me something, Jane.
50:34Who else in Mandrake Falls is pixelated?
50:37I don't know.
50:38Have you figured it out?
50:40Uh-huh.
50:41Well, who else in Mandrake Falls is pixelated?
50:46Why, everybody's pixelated, except us.
50:49Uh-huh.
50:50All except us.
50:52Jane, how about the judge here?
50:54He's a nice man, isn't he?
50:55Now, do you think he's pixelated?
50:57Oh, yes.
50:58Yes, indeed.
51:01Uh, Mr. Deeds, you haven't touched on the most important thing.
51:07This plan of yours about giving your money away.
51:09I was getting to that, Your Honor.
51:10The plain fact is I don't want it.
51:11I never earned it, and so far it's brought me nothing but hard luck.
51:14Oh, see.
51:15If this man is permitted to carry out his farming plan, Your Honor,
51:18repercussions will be felt at once.
51:21It will rot the foundations of our entire government.
51:23Mr. Seed, personally, I don't know what Mr. Seed is raving about.
51:27My idea was very simple.
51:29I was going to give each family 10 acres, a horse, a cow, and some seed.
51:34If they worked a farm for three years, it was to be theirs.
51:37Now, if that's crazy, maybe I ought to be in an institution,
51:40but I don't think it is.
51:42What's more, Mr. Seed doesn't think so either.
51:44Right before the hearing started, he offered to call the whole thing off
51:47if I made a settlement with him.
51:49No objection!
51:50He wouldn't think I was crazy if he got paid off.
51:53That's a lie, Your Honor!
51:54Mr. Seeder, Mr. Seeder,
51:56you will please permit Mr. Deeds to finish.
51:58Anything else, Mr. Deeds?
52:00No.
52:01Yes, there is one more thing I'd like to get off my chest
52:04before I finish, Your Honor, please.
52:06Go right ahead, Mr. Deeds.
52:08Thank you, Judge.
52:09It won't take long.
52:10Mr. Seeder, will you come up here a minute?
52:12Mr. Seeder, will you step up here, please?
52:15Well, what is it, Deeds?
52:17Well, what is it, Deeds?
52:19This here, Seeder,
52:21a crack on the jaw in this courtroom of law.
52:28Silence! Order in the court! Quiet!
52:30Quiet!
52:32Mr. Deeds,
52:34there's been a great deal of damaging testimony against you.
52:37Your behavior, to say the least, has been most strange.
52:41But, in my opinion,
52:43you're not only sane, but you're the sanest man
52:45that ever walked into this courtroom.
52:46Case is dismissed.
52:52Deeds, you were wonderful.
52:54Well, Longfellow, darling, darling, I'm so happy.
52:56Dear, forgive me.
52:57What's that?
52:58Will you forgive me?
52:59Hey, Judge, I plead guilty.
53:00I am crazy.
53:01She's asking me to forgive her.
53:02Darling, darling, if you only knew how I felt.
53:04Nobody's going to forgive anybody.
53:05If there's any forgiving to do, you're going to forgive me.
53:07If anything had happened to you, I was going to kill myself.
53:09Nothing's going to happen to me or to you,
53:11only we're going to be together always,
53:12if that's all right with you.
53:13If it's all right with me.
53:15Why, darling.
53:16I want to kiss you something terrible, Brenda,
53:17only not here.
53:18I always figured when you and I got to know
53:20we loved each other,
53:21somehow it ought to be back home.
53:23Back home.
53:24Sure, Mandrake Falls.
53:25You say it with me.
53:26Welcome to Mandrake Falls.
53:27Welcome to Mandrake Falls.
53:29Where the scenery enthralls.
53:30Where the scenery enthralls.
53:32Where no evil air befalls.
53:33Where no evil air befalls.
53:35Welcome to Mandrake Falls.
53:37Welcome to Mandrake Falls.
53:46THE CAMPBELL PLAYOUT
53:52You have been listening to the Campbell Playout presentation
53:54of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,
53:56starring Gertrude Lawrence and Orson Welles.
53:59In just a moment, Mr. Welles will return to the microphone,
54:01and that brief interval gives me all the time I need
54:04to ask you this.
54:06Have you ever noticed that with most families,
54:08the favorite soup when company comes to dinner
54:11is Campbell's tomato soup,
54:13prepared as cream of tomato by adding milk instead of water?
54:16Chances are this is a favorite for company meals at your house too.
54:20And may I suggest you enjoy Campbell's served as a luscious cream of tomato
54:24not just when you have guests,
54:26but for family lunches and suppers as well.
54:29You'll find it a revelation in how fine a cream of tomato can be.
54:33Smooth as velvet, rich in tomato flavor,
54:36and of course, extra nourishing.
54:39Now wouldn't a glowing plateful of Campbell's tomato soup
54:41prepared as cream of tomato taste good to you,
54:44say, at lunch or dinner tomorrow?
54:47And now I see Orson Welles is back with us, Mr. Welles.
54:50Ladies and gentlemen,
54:52it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you our guest of the evening,
54:55that beautiful, talented, and glamorous and international star,
54:59Miss Gertrude Lawrence.
55:01Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
55:03Miss Lawrence was our guest here on the Campbell Playhouse,
55:06if you will remember, one evening last spring.
55:09Almost exactly one year ago when she played her own part of Amanda
55:13with us in Noel Coward's Private Lives.
55:16Yes, Orson, it was a lot of fun bickering our way through that one.
55:20But if you want to know, I've had a lot more fun tonight.
55:23Why, Gertie.
55:24Well, for one thing, that was a part I'd played hundreds of times before.
55:27And for another, that broadcast came right in the middle of the rehearsals for Skylark.
55:32And you know how that makes you feel.
55:34I have a rough idea, but as a matter of fact, ladies and gentlemen,
55:37I don't have to tell you that Miss Lawrence's apprehensions
55:42on that occasion were quite unfounded.
55:44Skylark is now in its seventh month on Broadway
55:47and one of the biggest hits of the current theatrical season.
55:50By all odds, Miss Lawrence's brightest personal success to date.
55:54I think perhaps the Campbell Playhouse proved to be an excellent rabbit.
55:58Why, aren't you nice, and I hope you'll always think of it as that, Gertie.
56:01I bet you'll come back very soon again.
56:03Thank you, Orson.
56:04Thank you, Orson.
56:09Gertrude Lawrence, of course, was Brenda Bennett tonight,
56:11and Mr. Deeds goes to town.
56:13Everett Sloan was Cedar.
56:14Paul Stewart was Cobb.
56:16Frank Reddick was the judge.
56:17Edgar Berrier, Mr. Buddington.
56:19Richard Wilson was a number of people,
56:21as were Mr. Howard Teichman and the Honorable Joe Cotton.
56:24The pixelated ladies were Jane Houston and Agnes Moorhead, the well-beloved.
56:28Benny Herman assumed the responsibility for the music.
56:33And in closing, I think you'll be interested to learn
56:36that the character of the bailiff and of Edwin C. Hill
56:39was rendered by Dr. Ernest Chappell himself.
56:41And now, ladies and gentlemen, as to next week's broadcast.
56:45It's a stage play and a smash hit
56:49with the Mrs. Hedda Hopper, Marjorie Rambeau, and Lucille Ball as our guests.
56:57A play by George Kaufman and Edna Thurmer, Dinner Date.
57:02You're cordially invited to listen to it, and until next week,
57:06my sponsors, the makers of Campbell Soups,
57:09and all of us in the Campbell Playhouse
57:12remain as always obediently yours.
57:27♪♪
57:44The makers of Campbell Soups join Orson Welles
57:47in inviting you to be with us in the Campbell Playhouse
57:50again next Sunday evening when we present Dinner Date.
57:54And as our guest players in Dinner Date,
57:57you will hear Hedda Hopper, Lucille Ball, and Marjorie Rambeau.
58:01Will you be with us?
58:03In the meantime, if you've enjoyed tonight's Playhouse presentation,
58:07won't you tell your grocer so tomorrow when you order Campbell's Tomato Soup?
58:11This is Ernest Chappell saying thank you and good night.
58:15♪♪
58:29This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
58:32♪♪