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Is today's suffering of fate worse than
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a movie, even though he has
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He is Uncle good Heart, hero
of an afternoon program. The magnificent Montague

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feels that by merely being in Hollywood
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soul to the devil. Not even
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to make is Shakespeare's Macbeth can soothe
his guilty and tortured mind. It is

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morning in the little bungalow the Montagu's
have rented in Beverly Hills. Lily,

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his wife and one time leading lady, and Agnes the Maid are up preparing

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for the great man's first day at
the studio. Peggoty Easy, Peggotty Easy,

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the Hollywood residents of Edwin Montague and
Lily Bowam of East sixty first Street,

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New York. Agnes the Maid on
this in what do you want o?

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Empire Studios? Now? Montague ain't
up yet. Huh? You want

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me to wake him up at seven
in the morning? Are you a kidding?

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I'm too young to die? Does
he like California? He's nuts about

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it. He hides under the bed
old until the sun goes down. Then

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he gets up, screams, and
goes back under the bed. Mm okay,

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who is that, Agnes. The
studio they say, your husband's still

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for his makeup and test. At
eight o'clock. They're sending a car for

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him. Oh, I hope he
gets there this time. He's been stoleing

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them off for all week. Oh, Edwin is so miserable. He certainly

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is now, Agnes. They talked
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he feels he's committing treason to the
New York Stay that Ham, Agnes,

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Remember he's my husband. Okay,
mister Ham, please, we must help

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him through this mental crisis. Edwin's
never forgiven the movies. He thinks.

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When they came in it was goodbye
theater, and here he is making a

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movie. Goodbye movies. Edwin will
be wonderful in the movies. Why do

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you think the picture companies were so
anxious to sign him because they're Baxter to

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the wall that they go out in
mouth of his the only voice left in

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the country that can be heard in
the movie theaters above the crackling of the

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popcorn. Oh no, Agnes,
think what can we do to make Edwin

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happy here in Hollywood? I know, let's sneak out tonight and burn the

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city to the ground. Agnes,
DearS, if I tell you something,

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will you promise on your honor never
to breathe the word but to Edwin.

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If he finds out, he'll be
furious. What is it, Honey?

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I like Hollywood, so do I. That's sunshine every afternoon. I plunk

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the carcass down on the patio and
let it splash all over me. I

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tell you, if you close your
eyes, it's kind to believe you're not

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at Coney Island. And imagine having
a little garden. Everything grows so first

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out of here. I mean,
that's what's bothering mindagu He's afraid his beard

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will start bearing fruit. Stop being
skidding and Shelley night. I want to

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put a smudge pot under it now, please, Agnes, don't mention his

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beard. Has he had enough trouble
out here with everybody mistaking him for Gabby

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Hayes, Poor Gabby, Poor Gabby. I wonder when Edward Edwards up every

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morning the same thing, He opens
his eyes and then he realizes he's in

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How I would you better get him
his breakfast. The studio car will be

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here for him. Hurry. He's
doing his morning vocal exercises already, the

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voice of the turtle. Good morning, good morning, good, good morning.

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Gabby. Down down, be good. I'll go out in the backyard

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ing up all those bones you buryed
Edwin. Isn't it a lovely morning?

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The sun is shining, the birds
are singing. My nerve and my nerves

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are screaming, Edward. Look out
of the window. It's midwinter, and

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the flowers are in bloom. A
warm breeze is blowing. The trees are

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waving. Aye. Yes, all
it just seems to have blended into one

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glorious symphony. And he's whispering to
me, Hey, stupid, what are

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you doing out here? Get back
to New York Boy in the Golden West,

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Agnes, Why don't you go down
to the railroad station and meet a

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train head on? Edwin? Be
fair about California. See how beautiful Hollywood

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looks, nestling at the foot of
those purple mountains. All for a camera,

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oh for an avalanche, Edwin?
Be reasonable, not try and enjoy

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yourself, Lily. I'm I had
been for the first time since I came

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to this land as a nutburger.
I'm happy you are as I reached the

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decision, Lily, I'm not going
to make that movie. We're going back

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to New York, Edwin, we
can't go back yet. I'm only ten

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on one side, my dear,
I will consider it a personal pleasure to

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be allowed. Can your other's side
when you're not serious, Lily, I

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can't do it. I can't be
a part of this, saiduloid siren that

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has lured the public away from the
theater of Shakespeare. Abbott and Costello have

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taken the place of Romeo and Juliet
when they're counting on nov the voice of

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aboudy you that hascd in so many
theaters, the golden lines of Shakespeare.

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To be or not to be?
That is the question. Will never be

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able to say he went that away? But edwhen they're doing Shakespeare's Macbeth Win

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Montague and Macbeth with free dishes,
No, Edwin from man whose uncle Goodhart

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on the radio five times a week. At least nobody knows it's me.

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But the studio is giving you a
new name. I know, Raoul randol

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Oh. No, I won't make
that picture. I want to get back

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to New York with clean hands.
I want once again to stand shoulder and

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shoulder with my fellow actress of the
theater who haven't visited the stage for Hollywood

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Gold. I want to join their
ranks again. And the Unemployment Insurance office

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all right, like this, back
into your bottle of alcohol. Ed When

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you have to make that picture,
you signed a contract. Never let them

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assume me. Let them take all
my wildly possessions. Some possessions, a

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bust of Shakespeare and a pair of
ton tights, Magnus. I've always meant

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to ask you, who do you
go to to have your head shrunk?

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Oh? No, Edwin, sensible. They're going to make you a big

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star, Edwin, Montague and Hollywood. This is the end of bella logosi.

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Please keep your mouth closed. And
they have enough canyons out here.

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When you sign a contract and you're
going through with it, Montague, Montague,

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what are they doing to you?
They're like vultures descending on a dead

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horse. A dead horse that reminds
me breakfast is ready. It's game time.

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Here's where I play Hide and go
seek with Tomaine Edwin. The studio

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is sending a limousine, and don't
forget you have your uncle good heart broadcast

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this afternoon, the movies and radio
all in one day. Oh, the

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rogue and peasants slay on. I
take the mirrors of the house today.

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I can't look at myself, lucky
you, Agnes, my dove. Why

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don't you you go out, find
yourself a nice young man and work out

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a suicide pack? Edwin, get
ready, I can't face it alone.

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I want you to come with me. Oh, I can, ed when

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I want to do some gardening.
Her husband's poor body is being broken on

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the rack and she is planting petunias. They wears your hunt. Oh please

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when rather not thea. I understand
you, who have remained true to this

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theater. You have refused Hollywood offer
so many times in our long career.

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You can't bear to see my vile
degradation, your once proud husband, a

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movie actor, Edwin? Do they
please come with me? All right,

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Edwin? I will take my autograph
book you Mike Ben into Luise for Zender.

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Oh there's a cop from the studio. The tumbrel is hears take me

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to the guillotine. Come, Edwin? By this so long, honey,

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goodbye, goodbye, Raoul. Well, well, well, Raoul Randolph,

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you're here, welcome to Empire Pictures. Thank you. I'm speedcockman of publicity.

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This is my wife. I'm god
to know you, missus Randolph.

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Well, I'm not mister Styles,
mister big himself. He wants me to

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bring you right in to see him. This way you go in. I'll

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wait here, Edward, right this
way, we'll barge ride in. Well

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Styles, ha, hi he how
do you do? Row? Baby?

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You got here? Row? Mister? My name is Edward Montague. It

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is a name that he still remembered
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I would appreciate it. Sure,
anything you say, Raoul. Remember I'm

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behind you. You're my baby.
We're going all out on you. You're

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gonna be a big star. You've
got Empire behind you, baby. Sound

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good to you, sweetheart. Mister
Tetton. From your conversation, I don't

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though whether you're planning to make a
picture with me or take me to Diagona

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of Paul. How did you get
that speed Hiagara of Paul? Hold it

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in the head of Happer. Now
look, Raoul, baby, I want

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you and Steve to get together out
of the publicity build up. Hever have

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you named in the papers? For
the last twenty five years, my name

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has been a byword in the drama
sections of the New York Press. Oh

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local staff, Speed here is going
to make the name of Raoul rand Now

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a household word. We'll make him
forget does take over? Speed? Well,

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we got to get an angle,
see an angle. Of course you

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are a little older, and we
talked, I have aged considerable. It's

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entering this room. I got it. I got it. Raoul Randol older

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than Pienza, but he's still got
that springtime in his heart. Great,

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great, great, that's it.
Put that on the teletype Russia right over

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to Loela. Luela, who?
Luela? Who? Look? Baby,

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don't even say that in the joke
around? Oh what I said? Are

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you married? Raoul? That was
my wife I introduced you to. She

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happens to be the famous lily boy
of the New York State. You married?

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Uh where we'll hush it up,
hush it up, sure, baby,

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We got to make the housewives feed
your available. Look, sweetheart,

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is this emotion picture studio? Are
Lonely Hearts Club? Lonely Hearts Club?

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Speed punched that up a little and
shoot at the wind show. You might

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blow it up in a whole column. Things I never know until now about

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Raoul. Right now, we gotta
get a romantic angle. I got it,

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I got it. We'll cook up
a hot romance between you and marjor

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remain, me and marj Remain.
I'm dying to see the stove that's going

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to be cooked up on How we
gotta get moving on some pictures. See

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did you did you bring your baby
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Yeah? Yeah, I'll take you
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for the fan magazines. You know, human trust stuff, chasing some bathing

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beauties around the pool, maybe one
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a girl's body shows you're human,
not one of them stuffy, hybrow actors.

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We want to get you down to
the public level. Down. I'm

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practically dragging my dear speed. If
any picture of Beederbore bathing suit or my

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head on a girl's body appears to
daily paper, I show you the next

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edition of that paper will feature a
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the main gate of Empire Studios.
And it won't be strict photography. No

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no, wait a minute, sweetheart. You listen to me, baby,

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I came out here to appear in
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do it in order to protect Macbeth
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I think you will have all the
dignity of you here at the zero

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Rah, Well, Raoul, what
do you think we are barbarians? This

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is a prestige picture for us.
Why I've had writers on that script for

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six months, punching up the lines, polishing the dialogue, polishing Shakespeare's dialog,

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punching up the line. Oh,
Shakespeare in your immortal grave. I

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can hear you spinning now, Raoul, you're unhappy, sweetheart. Look you're

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the boss. Just tell us what
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are you happy? Yes, daddy, this is the adull. Welcome on.

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Let's get going with the test.
Yeah, we gotta get you in

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front of a camera. See what
kind of makeup to you? Is how

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you look? We got to find
out. You know, from certain angles

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you can look twenty years younger,
making sure who knows that a little luck

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we might have another George Raft and
I George raph by bo Boyhood idol come

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on, come on, let's get
going. This test is gonna be great.

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You'll be wonderful. And of course
I have a little unfamiliar with the

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technique. Oh you'll be in great
hands. We have mister Mayllard Pitch,

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best dramatic teacher in Hollywood, grammatic
teacher. Yeah, this way Maylard's waiting

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on the sound stage. Through here
a dramatic teacher. Mister Fenton, I'm

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I'm Sarry a baby. I hope
you acquitted the fact that I've spent twenty

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five years in the country's leading Shakespeare
director. Just leave everything to Maylar through

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this start, Okay, mister Pitch, he can go ahead. He's here.

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Hell, I'm mister fan. And
this is Ray Rando. The name

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is rom Okay, sweetheart hit rolling
out of that screen test, and I

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want to see this by this afternoon. Yeah. Well, now, any

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acting experience, mister Rando a little. I understand the lead in your high

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school play pta minstrel goes that sort
of thing. Well, I'll be frank

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with you, mister Randolph. This
thing they're putting you in the back bear

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magbet of God. Yes, indeed, that's right. It's by Shakespeare.

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Very difficult, and I won't be
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I have your absolute attention and you, mister Fitch, please don't interrupt.

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We have so much spade work to
do, mister Fitch. I'm sorry.

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I don't want to lead you on, but obviously they haven't told you.

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I am Edwin Montague who Edwin or, as certain critics insisted on labeling me,

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the Magnificent Montague. Yes, well
that's all very interesting, mister Randolph,

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but we have much too much to
get done before I can possibly release

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you as an actor. You will
release me as an actor, mister Fitch.

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You are a follower of the drama. The name of Edwin Montague means

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nothing to you, absolutely nothing.
But of course I'm not judge, mister

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Randolph. I haven't been in touch
with the little theater movement in years,

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more interested in professional actress. Now, well, shall we get on with

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it? Let me hear your voice. I want to see if there's anything

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to start with. Now, say
how now, brown Cow? You see

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I want resonance, but I'll explain
to you what residents mean later. Just

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now, how now, brown Cow? And don't be nervous. I won't

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bite you shall we how no brow
cow again you are a stupid a jazz

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mister Randolph. As long as you
continue these schoolboy pranks, I cannot help

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you on the rocky road to being
an actor. You as low and disimble,

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as special of humanity as I never
seen outside of a snake pit.

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You are going to make me an
actor, mister Randolph. It is not

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my practice to impress students with my
theatrical background. I find many times that

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it over osdom. But in your
case, may I acquaint you with the

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fact that, prior to coming to
the studio I had spent three solid years

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with a Pasadena community playhouse rarely,
and before that I was senior to matter

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coach at Hollywood High. Oh,
Master, I will never doubt you again,

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I should think not. Now we
have to make the test. I

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have selected the scene from Macbeth.
You see, it's Macbeth with Lady Macbeth.

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Now where Macbeth had just murdered the
king and his conscience starts bothering him.

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Now you see in this scene,
missinks, I heard of voice cry

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sleep no more Macbeth. No,
no, no, raw no no no

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this way, methinks I heard a
voice cry sleep no more rhythm, rhythm,

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rhythm, rhythm. That's exactly it. You got it. Now,

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let's do the test and get it
over with. Get the cameras ready,

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lights, We're ready, mister Randolph, I shall take lady. Oh no,

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you will do you? Where's them? Where's the door? Raoul?

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Lily, Lily? Will you please
step into the studio? Lily and my

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lady? Back there a lily boy, but who happens to have played the

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role opposite to me for two solid
years the Blaskof on Broadway, where we

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set a new record to the wild
a claim of all the new of your

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critics. What is it they were
doing the middle scene? I too seem

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to Oh no, Evan, please
don't ask Day. I know how stream

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strongly you feel about movies, but
this is just test. You must do

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it for me, all right,
all right on your toes. This is

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an event. We who have performed
Macbeth before the most critical audiences in the

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world, must today rise to new
and glorious heights. Todayly we are performing

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perform mister Maylard Pitch of the Pasady
Community Playouse and Hollywood high the camera roll,

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mister, we are ready, very
well. Here are the scripts,

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scripts of parts on your scripts,
do I, Edwin Montague, who spent

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twenty five years steep to the immortal
Macbeth, need a script, Take it

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away, get ready to roll.
We'll take it right after where I Macbeth

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have killed the game and come to
you, conscience stricken, are ready,

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cameras roll them. Go ahead,
lily, These deeds must not these deeds

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must not be thought after these ways, so it will make us mad with

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hot I heard a voice cry,
sleep no more. Macbeth does kill sleep,

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murder, sleep a murder asleep sleep
and ravels up the knitted sleep up

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and knits up the ravel's sleeve of
Woa of care, of care, the

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life of each day's death, the
death of each day's look, death of

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each day's life. That's it,
mister Randolph. Thank you, And he

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wanted me to use a script.
Thank you, thank you. I'll wait

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for you out in the hall.
Well, mister Millard Fitch, did that

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come up to the high and lofty
standards of drama of Hollywood? High?

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That was quite an interesting interpretation of
Shakespeare. Mister Montague, however, I

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personally know well, Raoul baby,
mister Fitz, show you how we do

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things here. Oh yes, he
gave me an excellent idea of how you

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do things here. Good man,
isn't he? He was with the Pasadena

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Community Playhouse. You know they had
a fight like tigers to get him.

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Who was after him? Compton Junior
College? Compton Junior College? Where's Speed?

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I'll have some tuning over the Cydny
skolls Hereio Speed, Speed? You

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got the song right here? Styles
and that terrific good look Ralph sweetheart.

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The boys just came up with some
terrific songs for the picture. Want you

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to run through them? What?
Ted? Do you sing it? Songs

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for the picture? But you can't
do a musical without song. Shakespeare's Macbeth,

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a musical in technicolor. I told
you we're going all out get these

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songs. Wait till they hit the
jukeboxes. What's that one? Styles?

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The one I like from the battle
seat. Yeah, you mean I will

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not yield to kiss the ground before
young Malcolm's foot or my body? I

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throw my wall, I chewed Macbell. That's it? Back d up back

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dup, isn't that yeah? On
McDuff, Yeah, that's it. Here's

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here's what you say here it speed
one Dantree and dum dum baby. I

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like your style, baby, I
like your stuff. But if you want

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that now for me, immack up, Oh that's your right between the eyes.

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Didn't it roll? Not quite there? Or get this way? You

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know the whole play Mac that takes
place in Scottland. So I had been

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led to believe it's it's that thing
about burnham Wood, immortal line though burnham

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Wood to become to Dunce and and
the pole, and then I get this.

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You see it's a little Scotch number
you in kilts speed country, m

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dumb dumb, No burnham would come
to Dunceni in my last sea by my

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side. It's a bro bra stop
stop, I know, I know,

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Row. You don't have to tell
me. You want to know if we

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have a ballad for you? Yes, it's my ballad? Where's my ballad?

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Lit? Here's this? That's be
the dgacy you mean? Is this

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a dagger that I see before me? The handle todd by hand, let

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me clutch. That's it. That's
it. I'll get the picture you standing

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there with Lady Macbeth and the Verandah
in the moonlight, and then you sing

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your ballad. Take it speed turn
to the dumb Is this to Dago that

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I see before me? Or visit
you? O? Lady Lady Macbeth,

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come let me clutch you in my
arm. Oh stop stopping you gentlemen serious

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surprised, aren't your sweetheart? Thought
this was going to be just another one

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of those little bee pictures. We're
going all out for my baby. Now

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for the title of the picture,
We're leaving it all up to you.

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The title for Macbeth. Yeah,
we boiled it down to two. Do

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you like this one? Lady Macbeth
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Yeah, personally I like it.
It has dignity. But if you've

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got a dirty mind, you can
make your own meeting. Bye. Let

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me throw this one at you.
Lady Macbeth has her flee. Lady Macbeth

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has her flee. Yeah, you
know Scotland Highland playing. That's do something

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I guess go over their heads across
that one outspeed see how we do things

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out here? And God something bothering
your baby? Oh no, no,

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I'm fast to go on or wait, will we check you out in that

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costume that Texas Ranger outfit Texas Ranger
in Scotland Yeah. You see in the

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first ree of you and Lady Macbeth, we're getting Esther Williams, you know.

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Yeah. Now, the both of
you come over to America fleeing from

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persecution by the tzar. Yeah,
you go s to the covered wagon,

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a couple of Indian fights, never
misses, and check the color. You

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hit Dodge City and you stick out
a ranch. Ye. Then along comes

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McDuff, a cattle rustler. Yeah. You and Lady Macbeth are tapped by

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him in the middle of the desert. And then then comes the climax.

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Lady Macbeth swims for help. Yeah, in the desert. How else she

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gonna get Esther Williams in a baby? So get with it, sweetheart,

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and with it. Well, that's
what I'm planning to do. Baby,

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that's feed. That's it. Good. Now, may I acquaint you with

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my plan? Shoot, that,
sir, is just what I'm intending to

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do. I shall get into my
Texas Ranger outfit, pull out my trustees

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section and shoot you both squarely between
the eyes. At my own expense.

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I will order a tombstone for both
of you, and we'll simply say here

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lies sweetheart and baby. Now law
wait don't rowl me Macbeth in technicolor charm.

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It'll be beautiful, beautiful, My
dear friends, My father from New

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York overlooks the East River. Every
afternoon of garbage scowl passes my window.

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I assure you that garbage scowl will
look like Cleopatra's barge compared to this picture

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you are planning, Randow, This
picture will make you. It has already

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made me sick Hill. How do
you think, myny stretch of your emergies

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that Iwin Montagu will be a part
of this technically turkey you're planning to foist

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on the already punch drunk movie public. But Raoul, quiet, I refuse

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to be a party to this Hollywood
horse opera you are going to put out

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as bacbear. All right, we
can change it to a prison picture.

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Hey, speed, shoot that to
Lluella Speed. Here's another piece of Hollywood

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chip chap for Luella. Raoul Randolph
alias Edwin Montague is not going to make

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what picture for what studio unless it
is done exactly as Shakespeare wrote it.

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As Shakespeare wrote it, I'd never
heard of such a thing. Listen to

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reason, sweet Shakespeare wrote it.
Oh no, oh, will be the

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laughing stock of Hollywood. It'll lose
a million dollars. You have a contract,

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as Shakespeare said, So what are
those your last words? Exactly?

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You asked for a drown Raoul ran
out by the power vested in me by

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Empire Studios. You are here by
suspended. No, no, styles,

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No, you can't do that to
a human being. I'm suspended by Empire

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Studio. It's a living death.
You know what this means. You cannot

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work for another studio until we lift
the suspension. You mean I can't even

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hand Doctor Kildare a scalpel. No, they can't even use my voice in

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a cartoon. No, I can't
even tune Jean Autrey's guitar. No,

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in other worlds, you will see
to it that I can never work in

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Hollywood again. Exact turtle, and
you have made me the happiest man in

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the world. He side, where
side Hell, Lily, I've got both

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shirts all back the New York Here
we come, Edward. This is ridiculous.

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We came three thousand miles from now. We're going back. But I

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go back and hon his his fam
with clean hands. I have refused to

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start. I have refused to just
spoiled my beloved shakespy ed. Maybe they

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listen to reason, this is a
fine how do you do here? I

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am going back to New York without
a tan. My friends are gonna think

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I spent the winter in a newsreel
theater. I guess the minute I'm on

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the train for New York, you
may bask in the sunshine of my smile.

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The sunshine and you smile. That'll
be a day. Here are your

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Hollywood sports shirts, slacks and moccasin's. Well, I put them in the

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insinerator, burned them all the way
as the station. I will fling the

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ash into the lobby of Crahman's to
the honeys. Hate to leave, my

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little god. I was just planning
my geranium lily. When we get back

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to New York, knowing, dear
ag this is house kidding, there will

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be dirting to plant them in my
den. We've readed this house for months.

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The landlord can use the money to
finally put a roof of that a

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living room, Edwin, I keep
telling you that's the patio. Who cares

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we're going back. He's side well
side, I come in, roll,

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baby, you're still here. We
got here in time gentlemen, don't tell

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me you came all the way here
to tell me that you have a new

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jump tune called Stompin' with Macbeth.
Mister rand Alp, I come with great

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news. Tell them, tell him
rand Out, brace yourself. Here it

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come. The suspension has been lifted. Oh no, you can't do that

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to me. Were fools, Raul. We hadn't seen that screen test you

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made with your wife with my wife. It's dynamite. We want you two

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together. Ha, what a team. We are not going to do that

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song and dance version of Macbeth.
What Macbeth? You were right on that,

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We're not doing it. You're no, We've got something greater than Macbeth.

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We have plans for you and your
wife. It will make you the

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greatest acting team in history. Edwin
Lily acting together again. I'm so excited,

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I can't see straight. Our studio
has a million dollar property. For

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twenty years, we've been trying to
get the perfect couple for it. You're

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it to a tee. They're perfect. What is it? Romeo and Juliet?

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Bigger than that, Caesar and clearbarton't
make me laugh. It's bigger than

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that. Wait till this announcement hit
the world. Empire Pictures proudly presents history

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and missus Edwin Montague in What Is
It? Jigs and Maggie join us again

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next Friday night at the same time
for another visit with The Magnificent Montague,

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starring Marty Woolley, created and directed
by Natt Hiken, written by Nat Hiken

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and Billy Friedberg, and Seymour was
Lily Pert. Kelton was Agnes. Included

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in tonight's cast were Alan Reed as
styles Feton, Wally Mayer as Speed,

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and Jim Bachis as Mayllard Fitch.
This is Eddie King, saying stay tuned

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for Duffy's Tavern, which follows immediately. This is NBC, the national broadcasting company Boom