1 00:00:11,519 --> 00:00:24,480 The Magnificent Montague. Worry Marty Way, Yes it's the Magnificent Montague. The 2 00:00:24,519 --> 00:00:29,399 Saturday Night Transcribe feature on NBC's All Star Festival of Comedy and Music, Mystery 3 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:33,479 and Drama, brought to you by Chesterfield, the cigarette that has for you 4 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:39,039 what every smoker wants. Mildness puts no unpleasant attitise, the cigarette that brings 5 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:43,240 you Bing Crosby and Bob Hope by the makers of anison for past relief from 6 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:47,920 the pain of headache, You writer from eu Algia and by RCA Victor world 7 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,439 leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television. Before we 8 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,719 hear from the Magnificent Montague, let's hear from two fellows who have something in 9 00:00:57,799 --> 00:01:02,240 common, Bab Julia. 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Let's sum it up musically by chester Feel Chesterfield, 19 00:01:37,799 --> 00:01:41,920 the one that goes its case. Yes, Chesterfields a milder, milder, 20 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,560 possmol after taste, Open the pack and give them a sniff, then 21 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:57,079 you smoke them. When Ed when the magnificent Modelule left the Shakespearean States to 22 00:01:57,120 --> 00:02:00,560 become Uncle good Heart, the star of an the Little radio program, he 23 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:05,640 felt his downfall was complete. But today, with a radio salary check coming 24 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:09,000 in regularly good food on the table, his thoughts of ever returning to his 25 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:15,400 beloved stage growed Bimmer and Bimmer. In his breakfast time in the Montague apartment, 26 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:20,039 Lily Edwin's wife and former leading lady, is setting the table, and 27 00:02:20,159 --> 00:02:23,400 Agnes, the Montague made, is in the kitchen preparing the master's morning meal. 28 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:34,439 Something is burning. What's that, Agnes? Is something? Booty here? 29 00:02:35,199 --> 00:02:38,199 I asked you something, Booty, Honey, I couldn't hear you I'm 30 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:44,000 in the middle of cooking the magnificent monster's breakfast. It's something boomy, naturally, 31 00:02:44,039 --> 00:02:46,439 I said, I was sucking his breakfast? Is his to stready? 32 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:53,159 Almost it's on the floor. All I have to do is I did I 33 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,719 wish you pay a little more attention to Edwin's breakfast. It's his first meal 34 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:00,960 for twenty five years. I've been trying to make it his last on a 35 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:07,680 really egg. Oh, Edwin's coming. Now comes the throat running at it. 36 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:19,000 Thank you, Mary Lanta. Something's burning. Oh for a moment, 37 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:23,599 I thought Agnes got her head caught in the oven. If it happened to 38 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,280 you, you could always grow another head. I would like to grow another 39 00:03:28,319 --> 00:03:32,319 foot, and I know just where I would put it. Oh, please, 40 00:03:32,759 --> 00:03:37,680 we have one morning without these arguments. Now bringing Edmund's breakfast. Okay, 41 00:03:37,759 --> 00:03:43,840 why do I put on my rubber gloves as looks a little rundown. 42 00:03:43,919 --> 00:03:46,360 Why don't you take her down to a filling station for a spring checker? 43 00:03:47,719 --> 00:03:52,400 No, well, nothing serious, Just have her oil change and put some 44 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,680 air in her head. Stop read the newspaper. Here's a drama, said 45 00:03:57,759 --> 00:04:00,919 John. What possibly could be happening with the other Now that I'm not at 46 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,680 it mean the radio section. There might be something about my uncle good Heart 47 00:04:03,759 --> 00:04:08,759 program here ater. What the theater meant to is how you could lose interest 48 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,639 in it. The theater is dead. It is now nothing but a hobby 49 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:17,800 for television actors, right, Edwin, read your radio section. I'll read 50 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:23,120 the drama page, Edwin, Listen something about Max Gland. He used to 51 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:27,839 producer on your Shakespearean plays on the Great Impresario. What is Max the moron 52 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:33,040 up to now? Listen? It said Max Gland, one of Broadway's most 53 00:04:33,079 --> 00:04:41,360 beloved producers. Beloved. That's a newspaper word for no talent has just been 54 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:46,040 made casting director for Rodgers and Hammerstein. Well they've seen their last hip. 55 00:04:46,879 --> 00:04:49,959 Oh, I'm so glad to Max. Listen to this. Golan is already 56 00:04:49,959 --> 00:04:55,120 at Worth choosing actors for the touring company of Rogers and Hammerstein's great musical South 57 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,480 Pacific, The Living Max Golland picking her road company. Eh, when he 58 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,439 gets through Rogers and Hammerstey won't have to hit the road the way. Why 59 00:05:03,439 --> 00:05:08,920 are you wasting my time with these tidbits of trivia? Trivia? Ed was 60 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,920 a fair used to be our lives. When you took the job in radio. 61 00:05:11,959 --> 00:05:14,959 It's just something temporary until you could get a good roll on the stage. 62 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:18,360 Let's cfl he's dead. Let's face it. Radio is the coming things, 63 00:05:18,519 --> 00:05:27,000 young lie. There's your breakfast, Henry Aldrich, Really, I guess, 64 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,560 with meat prices the way they are, why don't you go out and 65 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:34,120 have your tongue pickled when you beat your broadcast? Now, eat your breakfast. 66 00:05:34,199 --> 00:05:36,759 Yeah, I eat your breakfast. I got a bet riding that says 67 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:42,639 you can't get it down. I just leave him alone. Eat your breakfast. 68 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:47,120 You should live so long. Oh, this has been a great morning. 69 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,720 By the way, Ed, won't you just phone Max and congratulate him. 70 00:05:51,079 --> 00:05:55,680 I'm through with the finish. Oh, by the way, catch my 71 00:05:55,839 --> 00:06:00,519 uncle good Heart program Today, I nurse a copper spaniard, go back to 72 00:06:00,639 --> 00:06:04,680 help Ah. Then it opens his eyes and sees me. It's the best 73 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:11,319 thing I've ever done. Goodbye. I got to catch that program when the 74 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:15,639 conference spaniel opens its eyes and saves him. She'll be interesting to listen to 75 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:23,240 a dog or mad from coast to coach. Do you realize what's happening to 76 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:26,879 my husband? He's lost his interest in the theater. He's not planning on 77 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:29,800 ever going back to it. That's the first good news that theaters had in 78 00:06:29,879 --> 00:06:33,199 years. If he was offered a good part in the play, that would 79 00:06:33,199 --> 00:06:38,920 stimulate his interest. Egg swears my coat. Where you're going to the Rogers 80 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:51,720 in Hammerstein office, I'm going to see Max Darland. Y'all, miss Kovac, 81 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,000 I can't audition any more people. If there's anybody out there, please 82 00:06:56,040 --> 00:07:01,839 go what oh missus Monnague? Send her right in, Dad, I haven't 83 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:08,079 seen really, Lily. Look at her beautiful as ever? Who would think 84 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:14,879 that for the last twenty five years you've been married to the thing. Oh 85 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:17,360 Max, I just brought by to congratulate you on your new job. How 86 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,720 do you like it? Like it? It's like a vacation, a vacation 87 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:26,120 after fifteen years with your husband working in assault. Mine a'd be a vacation. 88 00:07:28,399 --> 00:07:30,279 No, Max, let's not start getting excited again. You're right, 89 00:07:30,279 --> 00:07:34,959 Lily, it's passed and gone. Fifteen years of producing plays starring your husband. 90 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:40,120 Yes, the years just went. Yes, and my stomach went with 91 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:44,839 him. Lily, my picture's been in the medical journal. I had a 92 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:49,839 new disease, montague itis. Easy, Max, do you know what montague 93 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:57,079 itis is, Lily, beards before your eyes. You come home to kiss 94 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,800 your wife, she's wearing a beard. Has a beard, your dog has 95 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:05,240 a beard. I couldn't take it anymore, Lily, I couldn't take it. 96 00:08:05,639 --> 00:08:09,120 Oh Max, I'm sorry, Lily, but just talking about it brought 97 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:16,079 back the old symptoms. That why, Lily, what Max? What a 98 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:24,079 lovely beard? Stop it. Next, let's talk about you. I read 99 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,160 that you're cast in the touring Company of South Pacific for Rodgers and Hammerstein. 100 00:08:28,279 --> 00:08:31,680 It's a since every actor in town wants to play the French planter, the 101 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,000 part Ecio Pinza play. Oh, you have to be careful who you get 102 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,720 for that, you're telling me, And that's about the calls for a great 103 00:08:37,759 --> 00:08:41,279 actor. He must be elderly, but yet have that mature appeal. That's 104 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,000 right. He must know how to speak French. I know. He must 105 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,399 have a reputation on the stage to be able to be an attraction pretty dom. 106 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:50,279 Next, it just came to me, what next. There's only one 107 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:56,960 man in the world who could play that part, Edwin Montague. Lily, 108 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,960 I'm on the road back to health. I can't take jokes like that. 109 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:03,039 Max, I'm serious. You're working for Rogers and Hammerstein. Now their success 110 00:09:03,039 --> 00:09:07,279 has been based on pulling away convention and being daring. What do you mean 111 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,159 Look at South Pacific native Ezio Pinza, an opera star, and put him 112 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,840 in a musical comedy. So you can be just as daring by taking Edwin 113 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:20,200 Montague, the greatest living Shakespearean actor and putting him in South Pacific. Edwin 114 00:09:20,399 --> 00:09:24,240 Montague in South Pacific. The whole idea is crazy. Maybe it is, 115 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:28,679 but think Max, what if it works? Yeah? What if it works? 116 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,360 Oh? No, she actually has the voice, the bearing, the 117 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,200 experience is a daring move in the tradition of Rogers and Hammerstein. And you 118 00:09:37,639 --> 00:09:41,000 thought of it, Max, I thought of your name. People remember think 119 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:54,240 of the critics love in the box office. Oh it's you. Hello, 120 00:09:56,279 --> 00:09:58,519 she's out there'd you go? Oh no, Rena? At she smart? 121 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:03,399 And yes, why don't you surprise as for Mother's Day? And quit? 122 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:09,440 By the way, did you hear my uncle good Heart broadcasts out to do? 123 00:10:09,799 --> 00:10:16,120 Yeah? I gotta admit what's sensational? Not badly that last speech when 124 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,000 the cocker spaniel opened his eyes. Now you mean life is back, little 125 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,639 one once for to see the sun come up The trees, the flowers, 126 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:28,879 the open skies. That's it. Best speech I ever had to say. 127 00:10:30,159 --> 00:10:35,200 Oh did you say it? I thought it was a cocker spaniel. How 128 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:41,000 this would you be interested in the proposition whereby your day off becomes permanent? 129 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:46,320 Why my wife insists on having you in the house. That must be Lily, 130 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:50,159 I'll get it. Hello, Hello, honey, Oh Edwin, you're 131 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:54,200 back on the broadcast. Don't get near any and they have fleas. Hello, 132 00:10:54,279 --> 00:10:56,919 Lily, closed it off. Wait wait, I have a surprise for 133 00:10:56,039 --> 00:11:03,080 you. Surprise. Yes, come in hello Edwin. Oh no, hello, 134 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:09,759 man, that sounds like mister Gimble meeting mister Macy. Well, let's 135 00:11:09,759 --> 00:11:15,320 sit down. We have so much to talk about. Oh Edwin, we 136 00:11:15,399 --> 00:11:20,320 have good news for you. Yeah. Max has a wonderful idea. Listen, 137 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,759 Max is here off. You're one of the greatest starring roles on Broadway, 138 00:11:24,879 --> 00:11:28,320 the starring rule man. Yeah, Edwin, this is something new, 139 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:33,480 a character that just fits you. He's an elderly man. Elderly but with 140 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:41,879 great charm, sex appeal, savoarfare, really continental type talks, French talks, 141 00:11:41,960 --> 00:11:48,360 French Bona pets her old Ni sa Sante halcy bacture. Well, for 142 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:56,639 us all translation your father's mustache. What's the name of the Playmax, South 143 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:03,480 Pacific? Never heard of it? Who wrote it? Rogers and Hammont You've 144 00:12:03,519 --> 00:12:05,559 been away too long. It's the biggest hit on Broadway. It's been running 145 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,799 for two years. What is it? Drama? Melodrama? Cagety well, 146 00:12:09,919 --> 00:12:16,039 Edwin? Eh, it's a musical comedy, you know, singing and dancing, 147 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:22,200 singing and dancing. Excuse me, I have a pretzel in the oven 148 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:30,879 now, Edwin. Maxcland leave this house. Edwin listened. He wasn't content. 149 00:12:30,919 --> 00:12:33,039 I have brought my Shakespearean career to an untimely end. You know, 150 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:37,679 wants to end my days? Is the chorus? Boy Heaven, you're being 151 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:41,559 ridiculous, not a Max. I'm starting to see beards again, Edwin. 152 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:43,200 It's a play that won the pultts a prize. Really, I don't care. 153 00:12:45,519 --> 00:12:48,519 The Pults are prime. Montagu's are play with great depth and feeling. 154 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:52,440 The part you play made pins of the biggest star on Broadway. It made 155 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:56,039 a star out of an opera singer. Imagine what I could do with it 156 00:12:56,039 --> 00:12:58,360 when I give it the famous Montague touch better known as the kiss of death. 157 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:03,720 Even we have no time to lose. You were studied apart till the 158 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:07,919 when next takes you to the director. Nothing can go wrong. You do 159 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:11,759 comedy with my voice and sex appear a cat. The years I wasted doing 160 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:31,720 Shakespeare. We'll be back with a magnificent montgule in just a moment. The 161 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:35,440 next time you suffer from pains of headache, neurytis, and euralgia, take 162 00:13:35,639 --> 00:13:39,759 Anison. You'll bless the day you heard of this incredibly fast way to relieve 163 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,240 these pains. Now the reason Alison is so wonderfully fast acting and effective as 164 00:13:43,279 --> 00:13:48,080 this Anison is like a doctor's prescription. 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Montague, the bulwark of the Shakespearean theater, is 173 00:14:39,039 --> 00:14:43,759 preparing himself to take over the Etsiopenza role of the French planter in South Pacific. 174 00:14:45,519 --> 00:14:54,960 He is rehearsing Pooppa love a bear, Ga Hoopa, leve a girl, 175 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:11,639 comea wa shell, Mademoise her Yes, Hassaker May Edwin lovely? That 176 00:15:11,919 --> 00:15:15,480 was lovely, wasn't it? Agnes? Harry Colin on a lose slate? 177 00:15:18,039 --> 00:15:22,320 Edwin, it sounds wonderful? Does five times? You sound just like Benza 178 00:15:22,399 --> 00:15:26,840 When Kinza has Langadis, call one of the elevator boys and have him walk 179 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:37,440 Agnes. When Max takes you to meet Rogerson, Hammerstein's director, mister Brooks, 180 00:15:37,639 --> 00:15:41,440 please, Oh that's Max. I'll let him in. Hi, Max, 181 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:46,039 Hello. Max Edwin already knows the part, even the souls he does. 182 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,519 Would you like to hear me sing a few of the songs that no, 183 00:15:48,679 --> 00:15:52,879 no, no, no, I'll hear you with the audition later, 184 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:58,200 sort of get it all in one lump. We better get going. Is 185 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,360 everything arrange, Max. Yeah, the director Benton Brooks is expecting us. 186 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:06,799 He'll have a piano player there. I'll get it. The residence of Aco 187 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,559 Montague. Hello, hello, kidding, why don't you get into town? 188 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:23,919 Sure? Come right up? Staff? That all right here? What can't 189 00:16:23,919 --> 00:16:26,879 you at least wait until you get up here? Now? I won't run 190 00:16:26,919 --> 00:16:33,720 away. What a disgusting exhibition? Who was that amance? Your father? 191 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:41,279 Oh no, what is he doing in tow all Cyril Montague? Is he 192 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:45,320 still around? He must be pushing two hundred and a girl still be safe 193 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:48,879 around him. Let's slip out the back door. Ed when he's your father 194 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:52,320 and the retired and undefeated monarch of the Shakespearean state, Let's go out here, 195 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:56,080 Lily. He just lives to make trouble for me, Edwin. I 196 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,399 just like to stay and say hello to old Cyril. It'll be fun. 197 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:02,279 Max. Do you remember how much fun it was when he'd dropped in the 198 00:17:02,279 --> 00:17:04,319 middle of our rehearsal telling me how to act, you how to produce? 199 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:10,680 The director had to direct. I remember, where's the back door there, 200 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:17,960 I'll get the door. Hello, mister Montague, as my passion flower, 201 00:17:18,839 --> 00:17:30,400 hem me here you lovely Wench give me a kid. Hello, Dad, 202 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:36,200 gad, you get more ravishing every day, kiss me, you little devil? 203 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,880 Watch him, honey, he pinches like a lobster. Dad. You 204 00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:47,480 remember Max Garland? Hello cyril yad Max? You still alive? Yeah? 205 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:52,480 Well, where's Edwin? Where's that boy of mine? Hello? Hollow? 206 00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:04,960 Our father has offered as you to drop here, Oh father, half my 207 00:18:06,079 --> 00:18:07,559 life I spent trying to teach him how to talk like an actor. And 208 00:18:07,640 --> 00:18:18,440 what comes out? Hello father? Please Dad, Please Dad, don't stop 209 00:18:18,519 --> 00:18:21,759 that again or leave Edwin alone dead. This is a big day for him. 210 00:18:21,759 --> 00:18:25,079 He's going to audition for a part in a plane. Montague has to 211 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:29,599 audition. Isn't the name of Montague enough to get the part? Oh Dad? 212 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:36,799 Oh Dad? The five generations Montague's have refused to audition in order to 213 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,759 get apart. Some never worked today in their lives, but they never Audi 214 00:18:44,720 --> 00:18:48,279 tried and explain this is a very important role. It's completely different from any 215 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,960 role he's ever played. Different. Yes, it's called South Pacific south pcippic. 216 00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:59,519 He glad they've discovered a new play by Shakespeare. Yes, South Pacific 217 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:03,519 has nothing to do with Shakespeare. A Montague and the play that has nothing 218 00:19:03,559 --> 00:19:07,519 to do with Shakespeare. Dad, if you let me hush, mind your 219 00:19:07,599 --> 00:19:14,519 manner's son. If this South Pacific is not by Shakespeare, what is it? 220 00:19:14,839 --> 00:19:17,319 Well, Dad, times it change? Come? Come come? What 221 00:19:17,519 --> 00:19:27,480 is it a musical comedy? Oh, let's get the water. Never mind, 222 00:19:27,559 --> 00:19:33,160 I'm all right, I'm all right. It's just test that it's hard 223 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:37,200 for a father to face the fact that his son is a no talent. 224 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:47,839 Bob, please follow, go, Please follow a Montague in a musical comedy. 225 00:19:48,599 --> 00:19:51,480 Let me go. From this day on, I shall wear a black 226 00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:59,799 band on my sleeve. My son is dead, mister Montague, South Pacific, 227 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,000 No away from me, Max. There's blood on your hands. You 228 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:11,119 took my head when a clean American boy and led him astratt But mister Montague, 229 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,759 if you buy throwing my boy a Montague on a stage to dance and 230 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:23,640 sing with half naked Hussies, it's not Dad, this is ridiculous. South 231 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,920 Pacific is a beautiful and dramatic production. Don't tell me about musical comedies. 232 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:33,880 I've seen all of them. The Florida Daughters Sextet, mad Cap Mitzi Sliding, 233 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:40,559 Billy Watson's Beef, Trust Girls Getting Gertie's got her those hussies and tights 234 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:52,759 kicking and carrying on, and that is not for my boy. There be 235 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,920 only see for yourself. Yes, mister Montague, here's a ticket for to 236 00:20:56,000 --> 00:21:00,240 day's matinee of South Pacific. You'll see what we mean. Yes, Dad, 237 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:03,079 you just yes, Dad? If you do, Yad? What a 238 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:07,559 stupid brad. Now'll the fallow nobody after your d's in the first place. 239 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:08,880 I old enough to make up my own mind. I don't need any help 240 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:15,119 from you talking to your father like that. Edwin, go to your room. 241 00:21:29,839 --> 00:21:33,640 I'll wait a minute. They're waiting to hear him at Let's go. 242 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,920 You believe me, that's the right thing for Edwin. Now you take that 243 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:40,440 ticket and see South Pacific. We'll meet you here for dinner. For ninety 244 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:44,200 six years, I've kept the name of Montague clean, and now my own 245 00:21:44,400 --> 00:22:08,799 son in a musical comedy. He'll send me to an early grade. Saka, 246 00:22:10,079 --> 00:22:12,240 here said miss Come in, gentlemen, I told you Max, it 247 00:22:12,319 --> 00:22:15,920 was a ridiculous idea Montague in a musical comedy. It was an idea. 248 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:19,119 We'll find something for you, won't We broke Oh, definitely, But for 249 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,480 South Pacific you must admit, mister Montague, the role calls for well, 250 00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:26,640 I know, I know a much younger man when I hope you're not disappointed, 251 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,759 well, little toy, But it would have been ridiculous, those love 252 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,599 scenes, it would have been unbelievable, young girls singing to me, I 253 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,559 gotta wash that man right out of my hair. Awfully nice of you to 254 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:41,720 invite me up for dinner to meet the great snirrel Montague. He was my 255 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:45,759 boyhood idolo. Glad to be back from seeing South Pacific. Where did you 256 00:22:45,839 --> 00:22:49,440 hear what he says about your South Pacific? He won't be your idol anymore, 257 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:56,160 the old school, and so am I. He's right Montague means Shakespeare 258 00:22:56,839 --> 00:23:00,559 at the old man. Get ready for some snarling criticism. Oh god, 259 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:07,279 u Manchilday evening you will be a sting old man. How'd you like the 260 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:15,079 show? Me high? We'll call you on high. Father, don't tell 261 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:18,599 me you liked South Pacific? Liked it. It's the greatest show I've ever 262 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:21,640 seen. And you think my son will star in it? That's just it, 263 00:23:21,799 --> 00:23:23,599 Dad, I'm not in it. You're not in it. You were 264 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:30,039 right. Musical comedy isn't three? And what is for you Heaven snows Shakespeare, 265 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,759 wasn't I remember you? To be? Not to be? That is 266 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:37,960 the questune to more. I still get lautrous when I think of it. 267 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:41,079 Will you please stop? It wasn't because of my acting. It is too 268 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,400 old for the bar. Too old an actor is never too old. Well, 269 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,799 this particular part called no matter what it called for, it can be 270 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,359 altered, altered again. I played Huckleberry Finn at the age of sixty three. 271 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:00,200 I made a few slight changes. I merely made Huckleberry Finn of fun, 272 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:07,079 loving middle aged boy. Nonsense is it? But mister Martague, South 273 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:12,319 Pacific can't be changed? Now? Who is this man? This is mister 274 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,039 Benson Brooks, who's directing the auditions for South Pacific. Mister Montacue, this 275 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,599 is the proudest moment of my life. I never dreamed i'd ever meet my 276 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:23,720 idell. Mister Brooks. You have a very good show there. But if 277 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:26,720 you'll step into Edwin's Den with me for a few moments, I think I 278 00:24:26,799 --> 00:24:30,160 could show you with a few little changes for you. Excuse me please? 279 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,240 Of course, Gosh, who'd ever think I'd be talking to Cyril Marthagul this 280 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:42,119 way? Now take that Edwin your father just won't give up trying to change 281 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:48,799 South Pacific. But Edwin Brooks isn't going to change a place that's for the 282 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,920 smash hit for years. That's not it, Lily, you realize what's happening. 283 00:24:52,440 --> 00:24:56,400 My father, first time in his life, is doing something for me. 284 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:02,920 He's fighting for me. They that thought just struck me. It frightens 285 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,359 me. What is it? Delay? I think my father likes me? 286 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,839 Of course he dies here they come Max, get Rogerson Hammerstein on the phone 287 00:25:12,839 --> 00:25:17,079 at once. But why don't questions get them on the phone, mister mothercare 288 00:25:17,119 --> 00:25:18,839 It's amazing that we'd never saw it that way. Well, you were so 289 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:22,920 close to the play. What is it? That's two minutes with your father 290 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:26,279 and I found out what was wrong with South Pacific. Something is wrong, 291 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,079 is wrong, it's glaring. The central character, the French planter, is 292 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,680 wrong. He should be an old hermit. That's me. The way the 293 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:37,160 part is now, I'm not too old for it. The way the party 294 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,920 is now, you're too young. Too young. But the way you describe 295 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,799 the character, there's only one man who can possibly play it, young woman 296 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:52,480 Springtime. Oh no, father, you wouldn't take the part he isn't getting 297 00:25:52,519 --> 00:25:57,279 it. I just phoned. The part's already been catch Oh well, father, 298 00:25:57,599 --> 00:26:03,839 aren't you ashamed of your so edwin. It's time you learn you come 299 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:08,680 from an acting family and Tunaka, A good part is thicker than blood. 300 00:26:10,559 --> 00:26:33,079 That's my pop. Here's a word from RCA Victor. 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