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become Uncle good Heart, the star of an the Little radio program, he
felt his downfall was complete. But today, with a radio salary check coming
in regularly good food on the table, his thoughts of ever returning to his
beloved stage growed Bimmer and Bimmer. In his breakfast time in the Montague apartment,
Lily Edwin's wife and former leading lady, is setting the table, and
Agnes, the Montague made, is in the kitchen preparing the master's morning meal.
Something is burning. What's that, Agnes? Is something? Booty here?
I asked you something, Booty, Honey, I couldn't hear you I'm
in the middle of cooking the magnificent monster's breakfast. It's something boomy, naturally,
I said, I was sucking his breakfast? Is his to stready?
Almost it's on the floor. All I have to do is I did I
wish you pay a little more attention to Edwin's breakfast. It's his first meal
for twenty five years. I've been trying to make it his last on a
really egg. Oh, Edwin's coming. Now comes the throat running at it.
Thank you, Mary Lanta. Something's burning. Oh for a moment,
I thought Agnes got her head caught in the oven. If it happened to
you, you could always grow another head. I would like to grow another
foot, and I know just where I would put it. Oh, please,
we have one morning without these arguments. Now bringing Edmund's breakfast. Okay,
why do I put on my rubber gloves as looks a little rundown.
Why don't you take her down to a filling station for a spring checker?
No, well, nothing serious, Just have her oil change and put some
air in her head. Stop read the newspaper. Here's a drama, said
John. What possibly could be happening with the other Now that I'm not at
it mean the radio section. There might be something about my uncle good Heart
program here ater. What the theater meant to is how you could lose interest
in it. The theater is dead. It is now nothing but a hobby
for television actors, right, Edwin, read your radio section. I'll read
the drama page, Edwin, Listen something about Max Gland. He used to
producer on your Shakespearean plays on the Great Impresario. What is Max the moron
up to now? Listen? It said Max Gland, one of Broadway's most
beloved producers. Beloved. That's a newspaper word for no talent has just been
made casting director for Rodgers and Hammerstein. Well they've seen their last hip.
Oh, I'm so glad to Max. Listen to this. Golan is already
at Worth choosing actors for the touring company of Rogers and Hammerstein's great musical South
Pacific, The Living Max Golland picking her road company. Eh, when he
gets through Rogers and Hammerstey won't have to hit the road the way. Why
are you wasting my time with these tidbits of trivia? Trivia? Ed was
a fair used to be our lives. When you took the job in radio.
It's just something temporary until you could get a good roll on the stage.
Let's cfl he's dead. Let's face it. Radio is the coming things,
young lie. There's your breakfast, Henry Aldrich, Really, I guess,
with meat prices the way they are, why don't you go out and
have your tongue pickled when you beat your broadcast? Now, eat your breakfast.
Yeah, I eat your breakfast. I got a bet riding that says
you can't get it down. I just leave him alone. Eat your breakfast.
You should live so long. Oh, this has been a great morning.
By the way, Ed, won't you just phone Max and congratulate him.
I'm through with the finish. Oh, by the way, catch my
uncle good Heart program Today, I nurse a copper spaniard, go back to
help Ah. Then it opens his eyes and sees me. It's the best
thing I've ever done. Goodbye. I got to catch that program when the
conference spaniel opens its eyes and saves him. She'll be interesting to listen to
a dog or mad from coast to coach. Do you realize what's happening to
my husband? He's lost his interest in the theater. He's not planning on
ever going back to it. That's the first good news that theaters had in
years. If he was offered a good part in the play, that would
stimulate his interest. Egg swears my coat. Where you're going to the Rogers
in Hammerstein office, I'm going to see Max Darland. Y'all, miss Kovac,
I can't audition any more people. If there's anybody out there, please
go what oh missus Monnague? Send her right in, Dad, I haven't
seen really, Lily. Look at her beautiful as ever? Who would think
that for the last twenty five years you've been married to the thing. Oh
Max, I just brought by to congratulate you on your new job. How
do you like it? Like it? It's like a vacation, a vacation
after fifteen years with your husband working in assault. Mine a'd be a vacation.
No, Max, let's not start getting excited again. You're right,
Lily, it's passed and gone. Fifteen years of producing plays starring your husband.
Yes, the years just went. Yes, and my stomach went with
him. Lily, my picture's been in the medical journal. I had a
new disease, montague itis. Easy, Max, do you know what montague
itis is, Lily, beards before your eyes. You come home to kiss
your wife, she's wearing a beard. Has a beard, your dog has
a beard. I couldn't take it anymore, Lily, I couldn't take it.
Oh Max, I'm sorry, Lily, but just talking about it brought
back the old symptoms. That why, Lily, what Max? What a
lovely beard? Stop it. Next, let's talk about you. I read
that you're cast in the touring Company of South Pacific for Rodgers and Hammerstein.
It's a since every actor in town wants to play the French planter, the
part Ecio Pinza play. Oh, you have to be careful who you get
for that, you're telling me, And that's about the calls for a great
actor. He must be elderly, but yet have that mature appeal. That's
right. He must know how to speak French. I know. He must
have a reputation on the stage to be able to be an attraction pretty dom.
Next, it just came to me, what next. There's only one
man in the world who could play that part, Edwin Montague. Lily,
I'm on the road back to health. I can't take jokes like that.
Max, I'm serious. You're working for Rogers and Hammerstein. Now their success
has been based on pulling away convention and being daring. What do you mean
Look at South Pacific native Ezio Pinza, an opera star, and put him
in a musical comedy. So you can be just as daring by taking Edwin
Montague, the greatest living Shakespearean actor and putting him in South Pacific. Edwin
Montague in South Pacific. The whole idea is crazy. Maybe it is,
but think Max, what if it works? Yeah? What if it works?
Oh? No, she actually has the voice, the bearing, the
experience is a daring move in the tradition of Rogers and Hammerstein. And you
thought of it, Max, I thought of your name. People remember think
of the critics love in the box office. Oh it's you. Hello,
she's out there'd you go? Oh no, Rena? At she smart?
And yes, why don't you surprise as for Mother's Day? And quit?
By the way, did you hear my uncle good Heart broadcasts out to do?
Yeah? I gotta admit what's sensational? Not badly that last speech when
the cocker spaniel opened his eyes. Now you mean life is back, little
one once for to see the sun come up The trees, the flowers,
the open skies. That's it. Best speech I ever had to say.
Oh did you say it? I thought it was a cocker spaniel. How
this would you be interested in the proposition whereby your day off becomes permanent?
Why my wife insists on having you in the house. That must be Lily,
I'll get it. Hello, Hello, honey, Oh Edwin, you're
back on the broadcast. Don't get near any and they have fleas. Hello,
Lily, closed it off. Wait wait, I have a surprise for
you. Surprise. Yes, come in hello Edwin. Oh no, hello,
man, that sounds like mister Gimble meeting mister Macy. Well, let's
sit down. We have so much to talk about. Oh Edwin, we
have good news for you. Yeah. Max has a wonderful idea. Listen,
Max is here off. You're one of the greatest starring roles on Broadway,
the starring rule man. Yeah, Edwin, this is something new,
a character that just fits you. He's an elderly man. Elderly but with
great charm, sex appeal, savoarfare, really continental type talks, French talks,
French Bona pets her old Ni sa Sante halcy bacture. Well, for
us all translation your father's mustache. What's the name of the Playmax, South
Pacific? Never heard of it? Who wrote it? Rogers and Hammont You've
been away too long. It's the biggest hit on Broadway. It's been running
for two years. What is it? Drama? Melodrama? Cagety well,
Edwin? Eh, it's a musical comedy, you know, singing and dancing,
singing and dancing. Excuse me, I have a pretzel in the oven
now, Edwin. Maxcland leave this house. Edwin listened. He wasn't content.
I have brought my Shakespearean career to an untimely end. You know,
wants to end my days? Is the chorus? Boy Heaven, you're being
ridiculous, not a Max. I'm starting to see beards again, Edwin.
It's a play that won the pultts a prize. Really, I don't care.
The Pults are prime. Montagu's are play with great depth and feeling.
The part you play made pins of the biggest star on Broadway. It made
a star out of an opera singer. Imagine what I could do with it
when I give it the famous Montague touch better known as the kiss of death.
Even we have no time to lose. You were studied apart till the
when next takes you to the director. Nothing can go wrong. You do
comedy with my voice and sex appear a cat. The years I wasted doing
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is in the making. Montague, the bulwark of the Shakespearean theater, is
preparing himself to take over the Etsiopenza role of the French planter in South Pacific.
He is rehearsing Pooppa love a bear, Ga Hoopa, leve a girl,
comea wa shell, Mademoise her Yes, Hassaker May Edwin lovely? That
was lovely, wasn't it? Agnes? Harry Colin on a lose slate?
Edwin, it sounds wonderful? Does five times? You sound just like Benza
When Kinza has Langadis, call one of the elevator boys and have him walk
Agnes. When Max takes you to meet Rogerson, Hammerstein's director, mister Brooks,
please, Oh that's Max. I'll let him in. Hi, Max,
Hello. Max Edwin already knows the part, even the souls he does.
Would you like to hear me sing a few of the songs that no,
no, no, no, I'll hear you with the audition later,
sort of get it all in one lump. We better get going. Is
everything arrange, Max. Yeah, the director Benton Brooks is expecting us.
He'll have a piano player there. I'll get it. The residence of Aco
Montague. Hello, hello, kidding, why don't you get into town?
Sure? Come right up? Staff? That all right here? What can't
you at least wait until you get up here? Now? I won't run
away. What a disgusting exhibition? Who was that amance? Your father?
Oh no, what is he doing in tow all Cyril Montague? Is he
still around? He must be pushing two hundred and a girl still be safe
around him. Let's slip out the back door. Ed when he's your father
and the retired and undefeated monarch of the Shakespearean state, Let's go out here,
Lily. He just lives to make trouble for me, Edwin. I
just like to stay and say hello to old Cyril. It'll be fun.
Max. Do you remember how much fun it was when he'd dropped in the
middle of our rehearsal telling me how to act, you how to produce?
The director had to direct. I remember, where's the back door there,
I'll get the door. Hello, mister Montague, as my passion flower,
hem me here you lovely Wench give me a kid. Hello, Dad,
gad, you get more ravishing every day, kiss me, you little devil?
Watch him, honey, he pinches like a lobster. Dad. You
remember Max Garland? Hello cyril yad Max? You still alive? Yeah?
Well, where's Edwin? Where's that boy of mine? Hello? Hollow?
Our father has offered as you to drop here, Oh father, half my
life I spent trying to teach him how to talk like an actor. And
what comes out? Hello father? Please Dad, Please Dad, don't stop
that again or leave Edwin alone dead. This is a big day for him.
He's going to audition for a part in a plane. Montague has to
audition. Isn't the name of Montague enough to get the part? Oh Dad?
Oh Dad? The five generations Montague's have refused to audition in order to
get apart. Some never worked today in their lives, but they never Audi
tried and explain this is a very important role. It's completely different from any
role he's ever played. Different. Yes, it's called South Pacific south pcippic.
He glad they've discovered a new play by Shakespeare. Yes, South Pacific
has nothing to do with Shakespeare. A Montague and the play that has nothing
to do with Shakespeare. Dad, if you let me hush, mind your
manner's son. If this South Pacific is not by Shakespeare, what is it?
Well, Dad, times it change? Come? Come come? What
is it a musical comedy? Oh, let's get the water. Never mind,
I'm all right, I'm all right. It's just test that it's hard
for a father to face the fact that his son is a no talent.
Bob, please follow, go, Please follow a Montague in a musical comedy.
Let me go. From this day on, I shall wear a black
band on my sleeve. My son is dead, mister Montague, South Pacific,
No away from me, Max. There's blood on your hands. You
took my head when a clean American boy and led him astratt But mister Montague,
if you buy throwing my boy a Montague on a stage to dance and
sing with half naked Hussies, it's not Dad, this is ridiculous. South
Pacific is a beautiful and dramatic production. Don't tell me about musical comedies.
I've seen all of them. The Florida Daughters Sextet, mad Cap Mitzi Sliding,
Billy Watson's Beef, Trust Girls Getting Gertie's got her those hussies and tights
kicking and carrying on, and that is not for my boy. There be
only see for yourself. Yes, mister Montague, here's a ticket for to
day's matinee of South Pacific. You'll see what we mean. Yes, Dad,
you just yes, Dad? If you do, Yad? What a
stupid brad. Now'll the fallow nobody after your d's in the first place.
I old enough to make up my own mind. I don't need any help
from you talking to your father like that. Edwin, go to your room.
I'll wait a minute. They're waiting to hear him at Let's go.
You believe me, that's the right thing for Edwin. Now you take that
ticket and see South Pacific. We'll meet you here for dinner. For ninety
six years, I've kept the name of Montague clean, and now my own
son in a musical comedy. He'll send me to an early grade. Saka,
here said miss Come in, gentlemen, I told you Max, it
was a ridiculous idea Montague in a musical comedy. It was an idea.
We'll find something for you, won't We broke Oh, definitely, But for
South Pacific you must admit, mister Montague, the role calls for well,
I know, I know a much younger man when I hope you're not disappointed,
well, little toy, But it would have been ridiculous, those love
scenes, it would have been unbelievable, young girls singing to me, I
gotta wash that man right out of my hair. Awfully nice of you to
invite me up for dinner to meet the great snirrel Montague. He was my
boyhood idolo. Glad to be back from seeing South Pacific. Where did you
hear what he says about your South Pacific? He won't be your idol anymore,
the old school, and so am I. He's right Montague means Shakespeare
at the old man. Get ready for some snarling criticism. Oh god,
u Manchilday evening you will be a sting old man. How'd you like the
show? Me high? We'll call you on high. Father, don't tell
me you liked South Pacific? Liked it. It's the greatest show I've ever
seen. And you think my son will star in it? That's just it,
Dad, I'm not in it. You're not in it. You were
right. Musical comedy isn't three? And what is for you Heaven snows Shakespeare,
wasn't I remember you? To be? Not to be? That is
the questune to more. I still get lautrous when I think of it.
Will you please stop? It wasn't because of my acting. It is too
old for the bar. Too old an actor is never too old. Well,
this particular part called no matter what it called for, it can be
altered, altered again. I played Huckleberry Finn at the age of sixty three.
I made a few slight changes. I merely made Huckleberry Finn of fun,
loving middle aged boy. Nonsense is it? But mister Martague, South
Pacific can't be changed? Now? Who is this man? This is mister
Benson Brooks, who's directing the auditions for South Pacific. Mister Montacue, this
is the proudest moment of my life. I never dreamed i'd ever meet my
idell. Mister Brooks. You have a very good show there. But if
you'll step into Edwin's Den with me for a few moments, I think I
could show you with a few little changes for you. Excuse me please?
Of course, Gosh, who'd ever think I'd be talking to Cyril Marthagul this
way? Now take that Edwin your father just won't give up trying to change
South Pacific. But Edwin Brooks isn't going to change a place that's for the
smash hit for years. That's not it, Lily, you realize what's happening.
My father, first time in his life, is doing something for me.
He's fighting for me. They that thought just struck me. It frightens
me. What is it? Delay? I think my father likes me?
Of course he dies here they come Max, get Rogerson Hammerstein on the phone
at once. But why don't questions get them on the phone, mister mothercare
It's amazing that we'd never saw it that way. Well, you were so
close to the play. What is it? That's two minutes with your father
and I found out what was wrong with South Pacific. Something is wrong,
is wrong, it's glaring. The central character, the French planter, is
wrong. He should be an old hermit. That's me. The way the
part is now, I'm not too old for it. The way the party
is now, you're too young. Too young. But the way you describe
the character, there's only one man who can possibly play it, young woman
Springtime. Oh no, father, you wouldn't take the part he isn't getting
it. I just phoned. The part's already been catch Oh well, father,
aren't you ashamed of your so edwin. It's time you learn you come
from an acting family and Tunaka, A good part is thicker than blood.
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