Speaker 1: The makers of Campbell Soups present the Campbell Playhouse. Arson
Speaker 1: Wells producer.
Speaker 2: Good Evening, Miss Dawson Wells.
Speaker 3: Sixteen weeks ago tonight, I joined the Campbell Playhouse, and
Speaker 3: if you remember, we dramatized Rebecca Well, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: if you remember Rebecca, you'll never forget Margaret Sullivan.
Speaker 2: And I know you're glad that Margaret Sullivan.
Speaker 3: Is sack with us again, with us this evening to
Speaker 3: play Magnolia in Showboat.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 2: I try to make our radio.
Speaker 3: Version of Showboat as true to its original as possible.
Speaker 2: But don't worry.
Speaker 3: The Campbell Playoffs wouldn't dream of being so different as
Speaker 3: to do Showboat without Helen Morgan. Helen Morgan is Julie, Wonderful,
Speaker 3: wonderful Helen Morgan with an old song which is new
Speaker 3: to her and new to Showboat, maybe even new to you.
Speaker 3: And then there's William Johnstone who's playing gay Lord ravenel
Speaker 3: Ray Collins is playing Wendy, and I'm playing Captain Andy Hawks. Finally,
Speaker 3: Edna Ferber, herself, Edna Ferber, who wrote Showboat, comes to
Speaker 3: our microphone and begins tonight her career as an actress
Speaker 3: begins it in the service of one of her finest
Speaker 3: stories and in the character of one of her most
Speaker 3: famous creations, Parthy Hawks, Ladies.
Speaker 2: And gentlemen, the big show will start in just one minute.
Speaker 2: Come one, come all, it's.
Speaker 4: The rage of the river.
Speaker 3: To quote Captain Andy, it's the sensation of the century.
Speaker 4: In one minute, La cambal show boot.
Speaker 2: Just before we start, a word from nice Chapel.
Speaker 1: Up to a comparatively short time ago, vegetable soup, more
Speaker 1: than any other, had been associated with the traditional home
Speaker 1: soup kettle. For years, many housewives followed the old time
Speaker 1: custom of making this soup in their own kitchens, until
Speaker 1: one by one they discovered Cambell's. They found that Campbell's
Speaker 1: vegetable soup had the same good flavor, the same nourishing
Speaker 1: quality they themselves had always driven to get. Now, if
Speaker 1: it happens that you are one of those who haven't
Speaker 1: made this discovery, and if you still think good vegetable
Speaker 1: soup can only be made at home, may I suggest
Speaker 1: that you try Campbell's vegetable soup. I'm sure it's convenience
Speaker 1: will appeal to you immediately. It's ready to serve in
Speaker 1: almost no time at all. But what is even more
Speaker 1: important is this. You will find in Campbell's vegetable soup
Speaker 1: the same good, homemade character and the same homey flavor
Speaker 1: that you'd look for in the finest cuttle of soup
Speaker 1: you ever made in your own kitchen. Campbell's have kept
Speaker 1: faith with time honored home traditions in making the soup.
Speaker 1: You can tell that in the taste of your first
Speaker 1: few spoonfuls. Expert home cooks sipping this soup critically.
Speaker 4: Not their approval.
Speaker 1: So won't you give Campbell's Vegetable Soup a trial? Make
Speaker 1: a note of it in planning to Morrow's meals? And
Speaker 1: now Margaret Sullivan and Arson Wells with Helen Morgan and
Speaker 1: authoress Edna Ferber in show Boats.
Speaker 3: If you were an obituary of old South Clark Street
Speaker 3: in Chicago's gay nighties, you may remember it still Nola
Speaker 3: Ravenel soup brettes and that amazing slow.
Speaker 2: Smile that's still talked about among the older.
Speaker 3: Writers on the dramatic pages, some of the same men
Speaker 3: who to day print four column pictures of a daughter
Speaker 3: Kim Kim Ravenel on the front pages of Sunday sections.
Speaker 4: To Magnoli had all.
Speaker 3: Seemed like a vague dream now, those long years in
Speaker 3: Chicago with Ravenel, months of heartbreak and failure after he'd
Speaker 3: gone away, the years of success playing Chicago, playing the Circuits,
Speaker 3: playing the East, and then at six day retired, living
Speaker 3: with Kim in New York, watching Kim's success, knowing all
Speaker 3: the right people, going to the right places, a strange
Speaker 3: dream world in which he'd been living all these years,
Speaker 3: and now suddenly back reality. In that piece of yellow
Speaker 3: paper delivered to Kim's dressing room the night before.
Speaker 4: Crumpled now from being held in her hand all days.
Speaker 3: The train carried her south back towards the river, back
Speaker 3: home Parthenia. Anne Hawks died suddenly eight o'clock before evening
Speaker 3: show Cotton Bosom playing gould Spring, Tennessee Sympathy Company.
Speaker 2: George, Doc Bernato, You've just come.
Speaker 5: To another, that soul staying on that miserable boat all
Speaker 5: these weeks and making.
Speaker 6: Me come all the way down here to get you.
Speaker 5: We're going back to New York on the night.
Speaker 6: Trailing on the tenth we stay off for London.
Speaker 7: No you do, Kim, I don't.
Speaker 8: I'm staying here. You're what I'm staying here. Kim with
Speaker 8: the show boat.
Speaker 6: You can't mean it, mother, flopping up and down those
Speaker 6: wretched rivers and this heat and the splies and the mud.
Speaker 6: You could be with me in London, around the island.
Speaker 9: Or even in New York.
Speaker 7: And it's cool that, Kim.
Speaker 8: Yes, Mother, Kim, listen to me. I've laid up my mind.
Speaker 8: I'm staying here.
Speaker 6: It's mother. I don't understand.
Speaker 8: Of course you don't. How could you listen to, Kim?
Speaker 10: Listen to that.
Speaker 8: I can hear the caliza playing for miles around, up
Speaker 8: and down the river. The little Rider will be twilight,
Speaker 8: that's the most exciting hour of the day, and begin
Speaker 8: to light to land inside the auditorium, and the search
Speaker 8: lights along the bluffs, and people start coming in down
Speaker 8: to the landing, along the river banks, down the road,
Speaker 8: the farmers and their wives, other folk, hangers on, and
Speaker 8: by seven they'll all be here. There won't be an
Speaker 8: empty seat. Crops has been good around Oliver good here.
Speaker 8: Even the boxes will be filled, and then presently the
Speaker 8: show will start. It hasn't changed, Kim, It hasn't changed.
Speaker 7: The tolls.
Speaker 3: Been years since Nola Ravenol was Magnolia Hawks. The rage
Speaker 3: of the River, the sensation of the century, the queen
Speaker 3: of the cotton blossom, the cotton blossoms, that's what Captain
Speaker 3: Andy's showboat is called. Green trimmings and gold letters A
Speaker 3: foot high. Captain Andy Hawks cotton blossoms, floating palace theater
Speaker 3: I raising the company, not counting the crew. Andy Hawks
Speaker 3: himself captain and owner, with thirty five years experienced on keelboats, steamboats,
Speaker 3: packets and showboats.
Speaker 2: A little nervous, wiry.
Speaker 4: Man with a horrible habit of clawing and scratching in
Speaker 4: his whiskers.
Speaker 2: Hung like brushes just below its white cambon's cap.
Speaker 3: There was his wife, Flathinia and Hawk's, a bulky, frigid
Speaker 3: female with a long horse face and a New England
Speaker 3: passion for discipline. There was Julie Doser with a rich,
Speaker 3: deep voice. There was old Windy Pilot and George Schultz
Speaker 3: and the rest of them.
Speaker 4: Year after year the cotton blossom floated down.
Speaker 3: The rivers started out in April and got back in September,
Speaker 3: and year after year they gave.
Speaker 2: The same place.
Speaker 3: East Lynne's Lady, Audley's Secret Tempests and Sunshine mad Cap Marjorie,
Speaker 3: Uncle Tom's cabin year after year they grew more successful,
Speaker 3: and then one morning at mobile, cap'n Andy made a
Speaker 3: shocking discovery. In the night, his agen elite had packed
Speaker 3: her trunks and left left with a black mustached gambler
Speaker 3: who had.
Speaker 2: Followed her down the river from Paducah, Kentucky, and that
Speaker 2: afternoon the captain's cabin, a great battle was fought.
Speaker 3: Of the fate of the girl with a pale face
Speaker 3: and a large miles, whom America years later was to
Speaker 3: applaud under the name.
Speaker 2: Of Magnolia Ravenon. At this time, she was just sixteen
Speaker 2: and her name was Maggie Hawks my own.
Speaker 6: Daughter, an actress over my dead body.
Speaker 3: Hawks Anty, No, these ain't hanging around on trees now, sir,
Speaker 3: take us a week to get.
Speaker 4: One car in another week for her to learn her parts,
Speaker 4: and then maybe she won't be no gang.
Speaker 11: Good.
Speaker 4: Maggie could go in there tonight, she'd be great. I
Speaker 4: won't hear it now, party, are just working your tailboard.
Speaker 4: I'll be proud of stepping in saving us money. We
Speaker 4: got close up. If she don't rather have her in
Speaker 4: her grets, she knows all the parts.
Speaker 12: Why I ever allowed her to step foot on this
Speaker 12: filthy scowl with a lot of riff rafts that I
Speaker 12: wouldn't touch with a ten foot part.
Speaker 4: Listen here, party in your hawks. We got the biggest
Speaker 4: advance here we had this season. Yes, the doxdown says
Speaker 4: record and with both hands, if you had the least
Speaker 4: bit of comforting instead.
Speaker 3: Of sitting there whining and carrying on, you must see
Speaker 3: advanced three hundred, not anywhere near four o'clock.
Speaker 12: Oh well, have it your own ways, and it's no
Speaker 12: use arguing with you. But remember it's against my wishes
Speaker 12: and over my dead body, and if any.
Speaker 6: Harm comes of it, off, I'll know where the blame lays. Magnolia, Magnolia,
Speaker 6: Why ain't you on.
Speaker 13: The Saints rehearses?
Speaker 6: Do you think you'll be able to go on to
Speaker 6: night to he don't soon know?
Speaker 14: Rehearses Magnolia, The mysterious comedy.
Speaker 15: Tragedians here, the Believer, the rays of the River, the
Speaker 15: sensation of histories here, the.
Speaker 4: Night folks in the Possimos bright that fourth in unrivaled scenery,
Speaker 4: hand costume.
Speaker 15: Fire side, Mister George will Favorite from De Luce to
Speaker 15: New Orleans for ten years, leading player with mister Booth mister,
Speaker 15: and this is means and a score while the luminaries.
Speaker 2: After the show, there's a.
Speaker 4: Concert with singing and dancing and carting fifteen SAIDs extra.
Speaker 11: But it's worth it.
Speaker 3: It's worth it, ladies and gentleman, I can tell you,
Speaker 3: dear miss Julie Doser, fresh.
Speaker 4: From triumphs each to the latest number.
Speaker 16: From a repertore.
Speaker 11: Bring the children on one, Come on a cotton Russian trophy.
Speaker 16: It's just one, mag Ham.
Speaker 2: What have all your friendly with you?
Speaker 4: No, but friendship is too cold. A passion to start
Speaker 4: my heart now?
Speaker 13: Oh, give me a friend and cousin free heart, My.
Speaker 4: Dear Miss Trows, Miss Lucive.
Speaker 8: Oh please don't call me miss Browns.
Speaker 16: Lucive Sender.
Speaker 4: Will you feel poor Man's flies? Oh yes, yes, Lucy,
Speaker 4: my own albums, Oh for them?
Speaker 3: At pay the fifteen tents, you got a first rate
Speaker 3: concert first on the.
Speaker 15: Programmat and gentlemen, the world, the only, the inimitable Julie
Speaker 15: Dojor will render elated triumph.
Speaker 4: Me the song Toper Show, New York, The Botum Chair
Speaker 4: and the people Bolivar, the song that They're skilled crying
Speaker 4: at in Boston, Why No One in Love composed and
Speaker 4: written by mister Stephen Foster.
Speaker 11: Ladies and gents, Miss Humidota, no one.
Speaker 9: Who knows in the US, all of one and gride
Speaker 9: be lies ver is a wone.
Speaker 17: I'm nothing confine, but he's lovely.
Speaker 10: We need the blues color.
Speaker 17: No one love, no one who loy.
Speaker 13: No one who love?
Speaker 9: What have you done you that your high.
Speaker 13: One?
Speaker 16: Love?
Speaker 4: Strange woman.
Speaker 2: With a white face and the deep set, dark dead eyes.
Speaker 2: In the four years she was.
Speaker 3: On the Cotton Blossom, Magnolia got to like her better
Speaker 3: than anybody else in the world except Captain Andy. Maybe
Speaker 3: in the way she had a lot to do with
Speaker 3: what happened to Magnolia later years.
Speaker 13: Who is it, oh Magnolia?
Speaker 2: How can I come in?
Speaker 8: I couldn't go to the bar so excited.
Speaker 10: Come in and shut the door.
Speaker 8: Julie, listen, I'm gonna tell you something, and I want
Speaker 8: to ask you.
Speaker 6: Do you think I can ever be an actress? A
Speaker 6: real actress? I mean, who was sure? Honey?
Speaker 10: You were wonderful tonight. A little scared maybe, but oh jee,
Speaker 10: that loved you.
Speaker 8: My mamma doesn't want me to be an actress, not really.
Speaker 6: Besides, I'm not pretty. Mamma says, I'm not.
Speaker 10: Oh, when you smile, you are. You've got the loveliest
Speaker 10: smile I ever saw. How about Julie, listen to me, Magnolia.
Speaker 10: I'm going to tell you something. Only it's a secret. Yes,
Speaker 10: what when you grow up? Don't smile to Wolfson. That's
Speaker 10: whenever you want anything very much, unlike anyone or one thing.
Speaker 13: To like you smile.
Speaker 10: I guess maybe you'll learn that without me telling you. Well,
Speaker 10: good night, honey, Julie.
Speaker 13: I don't want to go yet.
Speaker 10: They'll be wondering where you are, and then Parsy'll be
Speaker 10: after it. Good night, good night, Julie.
Speaker 4: A year later, Julie was gone.
Speaker 3: She has in a way that Magnolia never forgotten. One
Speaker 3: morning they put in a morning Mississippi.
Speaker 2: It was late April. The cotton blossom is only a
Speaker 2: few weeks out of Saint Louis. On her way down
Speaker 2: the river.
Speaker 11: Hey Julie, Julie, Julie, Yeah, propping me, Julie.
Speaker 13: Can we come in, Julie.
Speaker 3: Jimmy talking here and them shaded down, say, Julie, I
Speaker 3: guess you got an admired in this town.
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: Somebody tell your picture framing all right up out in
Speaker 3: the layout lobby, put up now there, Now that's going
Speaker 3: surely that's matter.
Speaker 13: Are you sick, Julie?
Speaker 4: All right, Julie, and I ain't that a shame? You
Speaker 4: can play all right tonight?
Speaker 2: Oh can't you?
Speaker 10: No, I can't play tonight.
Speaker 4: If you're sick, so old act. But it's your doctor.
Speaker 10: I'll be all right after a while.
Speaker 14: Fuck in the hawk.
Speaker 4: Oh here, I am potty down here in Julie's room.
Speaker 6: Come on doing down there, sitting around the gabbing. I'll
Speaker 6: wager with the best.
Speaker 12: Advanced saying we've had since we started out here.
Speaker 6: It is eleven o'clock and half the house gone already.
Speaker 4: I never played this town before. License soil is too high,
Speaker 4: and it's tied for some play acting.
Speaker 6: What's the matter with her?
Speaker 18: She's sick?
Speaker 6: Well, as long as you're all right last night, Julie.
Speaker 4: Say she won't be?
Speaker 18: Won't be?
Speaker 6: Why she ain't sick?
Speaker 19: Is she?
Speaker 6: I mean sick?
Speaker 8: Yes she is, Mama.
Speaker 6: Well what you're doing sitting here for mage? Go catch
Speaker 6: your doctor.
Speaker 10: I don't want a doctor.
Speaker 6: Persons too sick to play.
Speaker 5: They're sick enough to have it up there playing Xenia tomorrow,
Speaker 5: Buddha stands we got probably won't be able to open
Speaker 5: there either.
Speaker 4: If you're sick as all up.
Speaker 6: Well, i'll be able to stay tomorrow. How do you
Speaker 6: know I'll be all right?
Speaker 8: It's as soon as I get out of this town.
Speaker 12: That's funny, Worious, that's come over me, Julie. Yes, you
Speaker 12: took stick at this very town time we came down.
Speaker 6: River last year.
Speaker 4: That's so funny about that.
Speaker 12: Soon she heard we wasn't opening here because the license
Speaker 12: was too high, she got away all.
Speaker 6: Of a sudden. No, leave me alone, can't you? Well?
Speaker 6: I may not know why.
Speaker 3: I think a girl didn't have the right field, Ben,
Speaker 3: how far you get along hand of that ticket office?
Speaker 4: We can't shown. We gotta leave.
Speaker 6: No, sure you won't be feeling better of a night time, Julie.
Speaker 7: Oh, leave me alone?
Speaker 4: Can't you sure? Sure? Julie?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 16: Party scat you here?
Speaker 11: That's hose off on?
Speaker 4: What's that?
Speaker 16: God, Travin?
Speaker 4: Seems like there's something up, honey, mean.
Speaker 16: Sheriff outside on desk?
Speaker 2: What is it? Our license?
Speaker 4: Praates walking around here as anybody don't know what else?
Speaker 18: Seems like he wants to have a look at all
Speaker 18: the folks are boardings here.
Speaker 4: Ain't no state to be reasonable. Just that's him coming
Speaker 4: down now, all.
Speaker 11: Right, let him come he's getting to.
Speaker 17: Let him come down.
Speaker 16: Him telling you this?
Speaker 4: You where I am? What's wandering with him? Hawks? His
Speaker 4: name Captain Andy Hawk, funny.
Speaker 2: As in Rivers.
Speaker 4: Well, if who are you cheer for?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 13: Down?
Speaker 4: Understand?
Speaker 18: You got mixed color in your show?
Speaker 6: Mixed what's that?
Speaker 8: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: I'm hush, Maggie, I'll start stay on this boat. Maybe
Speaker 4: the negress is let's.
Speaker 18: See Julie doja? Yeah, which one's her? That me?
Speaker 4: You Julie dojom? Who's been telling you this stuff?
Speaker 18: Shir fella lives here? Seen a picture when you go
Speaker 18: to buy tickets to your show? This fella's as you
Speaker 18: was born here? That's right, Your mammy was colored.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, well.
Speaker 4: You've gone here now, Sheriff. But if you are, you
Speaker 4: can get out or have you got some more to say?
Speaker 20: No?
Speaker 18: I guess I'm done now I'll be going.
Speaker 21: Well then let me tell you this, cat Hawks, you
Speaker 21: better not try to give no show with mixed blood
Speaker 21: in this town and night.
Speaker 2: Just thought i'd worn yet.
Speaker 18: By cab Hawks.
Speaker 6: Bye, ma'am Maggie, you'll come away from here, you know
Speaker 6: I want to stay through it.
Speaker 10: No, you're not going to cry, honey. Why it's totally
Speaker 10: like toning, like I was going, going the way we
Speaker 10: do windows after we close the show, boots, it.
Speaker 8: Won't be coming back again when it's spirits.
Speaker 6: Oh and all business folks are always meeting up?
Speaker 13: Ain't that so? Capton? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I sure think, Maggie.
Speaker 12: Come on, Maggie, you got your practice in.
Speaker 13: March.
Speaker 11: I can't say you do.
Speaker 4: Well, Julie, what do we do?
Speaker 10: I'm going to Captain Andy, don't worry, I'm going.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Julie. It's too bad. That's actus we haven't
Speaker 4: had us both a little better going. But things all
Speaker 4: peck Julie. Yes, I just wanted to fixed for money.
Speaker 9: I'm fixed, all right.
Speaker 6: I've been saving. You treated me wrong, can.
Speaker 8: I'd like to take it good bye.
Speaker 18: To make no if you don't mind, Julie.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 2: You don't mean no harm.
Speaker 3: But well, yeah, she feels you and Maggie maybe shouldn't
Speaker 3: h I see, you know, women folks are funny that way.
Speaker 17: Okay, Well I guess I'm ready. Yeah, goodbye, goodbye, and
Speaker 17: thank you Captain, you've you've been awful good and.
Speaker 13: Captain till Magnorious goodbye.
Speaker 2: For me, sure will.
Speaker 4: Goodbye Julie.
Speaker 3: Years later, when Magnolia was married and living in Chicago,
Speaker 3: she saw Julie once again.
Speaker 2: Julia looked an old woman by then.
Speaker 3: She passed her on the street, and by the time
Speaker 3: the carriage had stopped, Julia disappeared.
Speaker 2: There could be no mistake about those deep, dark, dead
Speaker 2: eyes set.
Speaker 4: In that white face.
Speaker 2: After Julie had gone, life went on as usually on
Speaker 2: the cotton Bosom. Three months went by.
Speaker 3: They floated down the river Memphis, Vicksburg, Matchez, Baton Rouge,
Speaker 3: and then at the end of August they reached New Orleans.
Speaker 3: From there, a second disaster over took the cotton Bossom.
Speaker 3: The leading man left them. George Shultz came to the
Speaker 3: box office where Andy and Party were busy counting up
Speaker 3: before going ashore.
Speaker 2: It all very pale, but determined. He had a letter
Speaker 2: in his hand.
Speaker 18: I gotta go cat the o' go player.
Speaker 2: Well, what do you mean, shorty, It's from her, from
Speaker 2: my wife.
Speaker 18: She's in my hospital.
Speaker 22: Look, little Rocks had Kambling fellow left her.
Speaker 4: She ain't got a cent on a short See. I
Speaker 4: wouldn't do it for myself, no matter what.
Speaker 2: But it's her, captain, It's for her, not me.
Speaker 4: I gotta go.
Speaker 22: I tell her you can take up somebody here in
Speaker 22: New Orleans. There's a dozen better actors and me laying
Speaker 22: around the darks this minute.
Speaker 4: Well, I got to talk old.
Speaker 22: Fellow while ago down on the wall.
Speaker 4: I said I was an actor on the Cotton Blossom.
Speaker 4: He said he'd acted too.
Speaker 2: Maybe he'd like the.
Speaker 6: Job, Yes, those he would. What do you think? This
Speaker 6: is a bumboat? Where are your wharf rats in New Orleans?
Speaker 5: Would like nothing better?
Speaker 18: Ain't no wharf rat?
Speaker 22: Missus hawks there? He is down there yet, say a
Speaker 22: look at him? How about that stern wheeler there?
Speaker 3: I'd go ashore and talk to him, for I was
Speaker 3: you Hart here and that fellow down there in the
Speaker 3: brown shoe with the ellow.
Speaker 11: Canes, Yeah that's right.
Speaker 4: I couldn't gone and talk to him about acting on
Speaker 4: no show boat.
Speaker 12: He's he's a gentleman, maybe no, but feels like one
Speaker 12: with a quack in his shoe.
Speaker 6: Huh, Yes, he's got a quack in his shoe. I
Speaker 6: can see you from here. I can't say I like
Speaker 6: the looks to him especially, but we can't see choosers.
Speaker 13: Well, Hawks, what you're waiting for, a gentleman?
Speaker 16: What good fortune? Thank you? Tonight in the most magis
Speaker 16: a company of free arts. Every single on the Mississippi.
Speaker 15: Magnolia Hawks, you know her and you lover a favorite
Speaker 15: from the Loop and the Orleans and Fireside, the sensation
Speaker 15: of the century.
Speaker 4: The Ring of the River, mister Klord.
Speaker 19: Ravenel, that he and Magnolia should fall in love was inevitable.
Speaker 2: As the cosmic course. She'd never met a man like
Speaker 2: gay Lord raven Or Magnolia hadn't. He was the most
Speaker 2: handsome man she'd ever seen, in the best dressed, even
Speaker 2: though his clothes weren't new. Maybe it was.
Speaker 3: Because he was so clean and elegant that he seemed different,
Speaker 3: but it was more than that. Really, he had such
Speaker 3: nice ways, always polite and.
Speaker 2: Gentle, and doing little things that no man she ever
Speaker 2: knew would have bothered his head about.
Speaker 4: From the first day he came on board the Cotton Blossom.
Speaker 19: Everybody adored him, and everybody, that is, except carthy.
Speaker 12: Person that think he was the only juvenile left in
Speaker 12: the world. Matter of fact, I can't see where he's
Speaker 12: such great shakes of an.
Speaker 6: Actor, rolls those eyes that here's a.
Speaker 12: Good deal, and fox deep voiced, but got hands, whites
Speaker 12: a woman's and fusses with his fingernails.
Speaker 6: I'll wager if you look around New Orleans you'll find
Speaker 6: something queer for all.
Speaker 12: He talks the high about being a ravenel of Louisiana
Speaker 12: and his folks governors in the old days, and inscriptions
Speaker 12: about him in the church and what not. Shifty, that's
Speaker 12: what he is, mark.
Speaker 4: My word, best unally ever played the rivers. Never heard
Speaker 4: that haven't clean fingernails hurting?
Speaker 6: Actually, oh, it isn't death clean fingernails. It's everything. I
Speaker 6: can't bear the sight of him, collaborn and soft, soapie
Speaker 6: and sirk. He can get around a woman my age. Well,
Speaker 6: I'm worth a dozen of him when it comes to
Speaker 6: being smart. I wonder where he is? Now?
Speaker 4: What do you want with him?
Speaker 6: Don't want anything, just to know where he is. That's
Speaker 6: all he's.
Speaker 11: Inside, inside where he.
Speaker 6: Left him to stay alone with your child.
Speaker 4: Hen's party. What's the harm the gentleman listening to a
Speaker 4: little pianet of playing I like.
Speaker 6: To I'll do no such thing. And you won't either.
Speaker 6: Come long inside where we can keep an eye on
Speaker 6: the tour.
Speaker 16: You hear the hawks?
Speaker 4: All right, that's pretty tuni you friend there might go there.
Speaker 18: Yes, isn't it.
Speaker 6: She'd do better by it if she did more practice
Speaker 6: in I don't get time.
Speaker 8: What was rehearsing?
Speaker 14: Seemed to have time enough for all sorts of foolishness.
Speaker 5: If you ask me, yes, Papa, yes, Maggie, No, mister
Speaker 5: Ravenel was just telling me about being all the.
Speaker 8: Way to Paris.
Speaker 4: Are not sure?
Speaker 6: Yes, Paris as all sticks. I never even missed Chicago.
Speaker 4: It's not so much, but it has got some nice
Speaker 4: things about it. I was New York watched Oh there's
Speaker 4: a real time, Yes, bye with a girl.
Speaker 6: I'd stud enough tire of this sort of poppin Jay Tormy.
Speaker 4: You can listen to music party that see.
Speaker 12: You'll manage to get around the lock for a young man,
Speaker 12: mister Ravenel.
Speaker 6: Most folks would say it didn't look nice of you.
Speaker 6: Make sure takes the pile of money, don't it will?
Speaker 12: Whoa?
Speaker 13: However?
Speaker 6: Did you come by so much? Not by your action?
Speaker 6: I'll lay I would tell it Andy, just now, I
Speaker 6: don't see that are any great shakes.
Speaker 11: There's an actress seat.
Speaker 6: My body can take an interest in. A young man
Speaker 6: can't see hawks. I just say that most folks would
Speaker 6: have it that no young man could come buy so
Speaker 6: much money on it. Mama, eh, I think I grew
Speaker 6: a bit, and about time to come.
Speaker 4: In hawks A minute night.
Speaker 6: Mistagnolia, Come along, Maggie, come along.
Speaker 3: They floated down the river, hundreds of miles of willow
Speaker 3: fringed streams.
Speaker 19: Flowing blue in the sunlight, alives green in the shape
Speaker 19: wild honeysuckle, clamoring over black tree.
Speaker 3: Trunks, their unpainted cabins, the color of the sandy soil.
Speaker 3: Sometimes the river was a great broad stream rolling down
Speaker 3: to the sea, and sometimes it was a shallow, narrow stream,
Speaker 3: a little more than a cry.
Speaker 4: Through which the cotton blossom slowly.
Speaker 2: Sticking away cautiously.
Speaker 4: From town to town. It seemed no.
Speaker 3: Time at all before they played all the values, and
Speaker 3: on their way up the river again and back at.
Speaker 4: The docks in New Orleans fifty six.
Speaker 2: Very fast.
Speaker 4: And if I haven't huh, almost have you even changed
Speaker 4: her clothes?
Speaker 3: Hand me there's money laying around buttons, can't I banks
Speaker 3: letting on the side door afterwards, so I can thank
Speaker 3: who hated d oh gosh, all money man ain't going
Speaker 3: to turn out an unreasonable woman like your MAA yes.
Speaker 8: Where's mama?
Speaker 13: Isn't she ready either?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: She's ready all right, dressed up fit to kill. I
Speaker 4: don't know where she went though, So a while back,
Speaker 4: husting the show, I had a long talk of the
Speaker 4: sheriff and it flew up. The town can't go without it.
Speaker 4: And I just wasn't unrelaxed, you know, for six eight and.
Speaker 2: Oh how beautiful?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 4: What are you looking very beautiful yourself?
Speaker 2: Say a Ramna.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, Jeff money him up the suit of clothes
Speaker 4: you got there and taking the believers?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 6: Well, no.
Speaker 4: Give me turn no cause for that, Depp.
Speaker 21: First time you saw me, I was in temporary difficulty,
Speaker 21: this sort of thing that can happen to any gentleman.
Speaker 4: Now, as you can see, things are better, Yes, siree,
Speaker 4: I certainly can. And any what ramnel you, you stick
Speaker 4: with me and I'll raise it to twenty.
Speaker 2: Tie five.
Speaker 4: Thirty a week.
Speaker 13: Huh.
Speaker 4: They ain't a juvenile on the river has ever gone
Speaker 4: anywhere near that.
Speaker 21: Let's not talk money now, unless unless you'd like to
Speaker 21: advance me.
Speaker 2: Fifty for a week.
Speaker 4: Pressure, pressure Randall. Presently here, sir, thirty forty forty five.
Speaker 21: And what I really came in for was to ask
Speaker 21: if you and missus Hawks and miss Magnolia, yeah, would
Speaker 21: take dinner with me tonight.
Speaker 2: There's a restaurant dynam.
Speaker 4: Please Now, Maggie, you know your mind he's gone off.
Speaker 8: Nobody knows where to mister Ram. We're going to take
Speaker 8: a drive out of the lakeman have dinner. Sure hear me?
Speaker 6: He changes clothes. Is almost four o'clock.
Speaker 9: Probably is for Maggie.
Speaker 13: I don't care anything.
Speaker 6: About it's always going boating business and money.
Speaker 4: We're going just giving on a Surrey second too late
Speaker 4: to drive.
Speaker 8: And that's why I like this.
Speaker 4: If you trust me, Captain, I know where I can
Speaker 4: get a fine turnout. Yes that's the highest steppers.
Speaker 18: But see, sir, if we start right now, if.
Speaker 4: I can can I But Maggie, if your mind ever
Speaker 4: comes are here, you're not here?
Speaker 13: Is he heck?
Speaker 18: I don't see how in thirty much?
Speaker 21: Well we meet your chick for dinner and then't want
Speaker 21: to ant. Come on, yes, miss Magill, I'm coming good afternoons.
Speaker 2: Right fifteen.
Speaker 4: Twenty five fifty and a seventy h seventy two seventy.
Speaker 4: Oh what is it?
Speaker 13: Hawks?
Speaker 6: But with me own eyes, I tell you I thought, what's.
Speaker 4: Wrong with your woman? Gone king crazy?
Speaker 6: He's a gambler and the murderer.
Speaker 3: A gambler and the murderer he is for two fansie murder?
Speaker 3: You come how and the young man's trying to run
Speaker 3: his business.
Speaker 12: Listened to me, you fool, I didn't the chief of
Speaker 12: police and the perfect gunson.
Speaker 6: If ever there was one, And he's killed a man?
Speaker 4: Chief police, kill the man?
Speaker 11: What man?
Speaker 13: Ravenel?
Speaker 12: Ravenels killed a man good heaven, twin year ago, right
Speaker 12: in this very town.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I didn't hang him, didn't they hang ho Ravenel?
Speaker 4: Why no?
Speaker 6: Said he shocked himself to hen point?
Speaker 4: Killed Let him go?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 4: What's that proof?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 4: Prooves are your right? You don't it?
Speaker 13: All right?
Speaker 19: What of it?
Speaker 13: What of it?
Speaker 6: This seventy minutes? Your own daughter is out with a murderer?
Speaker 2: What missus?
Speaker 4: Hawk's man? When I was nineteen, I killed a man,
Speaker 4: And for twenty five years and more I've been as
Speaker 4: respected that hey party, what oh there fish to me?
Speaker 4: Sho many fish and water party expeded.
Speaker 1: You are listening to the Campbell Playhouse presentation of show Boats,
Speaker 1: starring Margaret Sullivan and Austin Wells with Helen Morgan and
Speaker 1: authoress Edna Ferber. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. This
Speaker 1: is ernest chappel, ladies and gentlemen, welcoming you back to
Speaker 1: the Campbell Playhouse, and a moment or two we will
Speaker 1: resume our presentation of Edna Ferber's show Boats. This is
Speaker 1: the story of a glorious institution, now all but vanished
Speaker 1: from our American teams. The great days of the showboard
Speaker 1: are passed, gone, with the customs and manners of a
Speaker 1: more leisurely aided. How times it changed since those days.
Speaker 1: Dining then was an event many courses. It's started with
Speaker 1: a great gleaming turin of savory hot soup and went
Speaker 1: on to the meat course, with many skide dishes and
Speaker 1: finally some substantial desserts.
Speaker 4: We and our day have modified.
Speaker 1: Our hue of eating, a new knowledge of what is
Speaker 1: good for us.
Speaker 4: As tempered our eating habits, soup has held its own.
Speaker 1: Indeed, today soup is not only enjoyed as an opening course,
Speaker 1: but also as the main dish of many lighter meals.
Speaker 1: Knowing this, women welcome the fact that good soups are
Speaker 1: readily available in red and white labeled.
Speaker 4: Cans marked Cambells. Delicious soups they are too.
Speaker 1: Chicken gumbo, hearty vegetable soup, bean with bacon soup, chicken noodle.
Speaker 1: These and many more Cambells make in the time honored
Speaker 1: home made way.
Speaker 4: How many of you tried in your home?
Speaker 1: Now we resume our Cambell play ours presentation of show Boats,
Speaker 1: starring Arsonwells and Margaret Sullivan with Helen Morgan and authoress
Speaker 1: Edna Ferbert.
Speaker 2: I know is you may remember.
Speaker 3: Never remembered very clearly what happened that afternoon. Gay Lord
Speaker 3: raven Or.
Speaker 19: Drove her far out into the country to a little
Speaker 19: church with.
Speaker 3: A graveyard, and they got out of the carriage and
Speaker 3: walked around under the trees, and they were graved there
Speaker 3: with the names of Ravenel on them.
Speaker 19: That's what he said, father and grandfather, and way back
Speaker 19: beyond there, he said.
Speaker 3: And she didn't remember much about the ride back to town,
Speaker 3: at dinner or anything after a showtime except gaze smiling
Speaker 3: at her and smiling.
Speaker 2: Back at him.
Speaker 6: Fox that murder of gold ride the hole.
Speaker 4: That's fine, all passy.
Speaker 6: You can tell him tonight.
Speaker 4: He's the best juvenile he'd ever played the rivers. Now
Speaker 4: that seems beginning.
Speaker 6: Willing to sacrifice your own daughter? Are you for the
Speaker 6: sake of a few dollars?
Speaker 4: Sacrifice? Just letting her speak civil too? A handsome young
Speaker 4: feller there.
Speaker 6: Watch now, just see him out there looking.
Speaker 4: That one's time? If you didn't you.
Speaker 6: Mean to tell me you see your own daughter married woman?
Speaker 4: Can't a man look at the girl and out of
Speaker 4: him to marry her?
Speaker 9: To marry her?
Speaker 4: I was a girl like Maggie, I'd run off with him,
Speaker 4: That's the true. She had any spirit left after you
Speaker 4: dellen a for eighteen years.
Speaker 6: She George, that's right, put IDs in her head.
Speaker 9: How do you know who he is?
Speaker 6: He says he is.
Speaker 4: Did he show her the church?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 6: Hawks here? I could show your gravestones.
Speaker 12: I could say my name was Bonypart and show your
Speaker 12: Napoleon's tomb.
Speaker 6: But that wouldn't make him my grandfather, would it?
Speaker 4: Hoops? Hoops? Who would allowed people out for the kid?
Speaker 16: Hear the shoe?
Speaker 4: I shall and listen to the show.
Speaker 6: Bob, have all your friends?
Speaker 4: Is that is you?
Speaker 6: Ma is gonna make andersend you away?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 4: But friendship is too cold a passion to sun my heart?
Speaker 6: Now will you come with me?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 6: Give me a friend in preference to a sweetheart.
Speaker 16: Oh can I my.
Speaker 2: Dear miss Brown?
Speaker 16: Miss Lucy, Oh, don't call me wrong? When Lucy?
Speaker 4: Where do we take me?
Speaker 19: There?
Speaker 17: The thunder of the fatherlist that fright?
Speaker 4: Will you be a poor man's bride? Dumb?
Speaker 13: Oh?
Speaker 4: Lucy, my own?
Speaker 16: I know you, for Heaven's sake.
Speaker 18: Take your time.
Speaker 2: The minister will wait here.
Speaker 4: Where did you think you were going?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You were fired.
Speaker 22: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I just aspring Mamma, right, I'll ask me.
Speaker 4: Did you see he lived the boat?
Speaker 6: I think so?
Speaker 18: And here I've got my breath.
Speaker 6: Come on, let's go in and get married.
Speaker 2: Hold on a minute, we've got to be engaged.
Speaker 4: First engaged, of course.
Speaker 18: Give me a hand the other one, stilly, we've been married.
Speaker 11: Don't gage anything.
Speaker 6: I'm so excited. Okay, diamond, you like it?
Speaker 13: Who's so beautiful?
Speaker 8: I've never seen one before.
Speaker 13: Just look at the senders to it.
Speaker 4: It's nothing to do with the senders to you. Crazy,
Speaker 4: You don't I get a kiss?
Speaker 13: Mean?
Speaker 6: God daylight right here in the minister's front yard.
Speaker 8: Why, well, of course we are getting married.
Speaker 13: Well, hawks, now, I hope you are satisfied.
Speaker 3: Those were the first words she said when she heard
Speaker 3: they were married, just the first words. She didn't stop
Speaker 3: talking for ten whole days. And she finally did let
Speaker 3: up a little because it's well, because she.
Speaker 4: She was tired.
Speaker 2: She just worn herself out. And when the baby came,
Speaker 2: they called a Kim.
Speaker 3: It was the captain's idea, because she was born on
Speaker 3: the river while the cotton Bossom was riding a store
Speaker 3: near the borderlines.
Speaker 4: Of Kentucky, Illinois Missouri. K I am.
Speaker 3: Then when Kim was too, the captain on a new
Speaker 3: boat at a built in Saint Louis with the new
Speaker 3: fangled arrangement instead of the kerosene lamps for footlights, and
Speaker 3: she was called cotton Blossom too. It was April before
Speaker 3: she was ready, late in the year to start down river.
Speaker 3: This captain didn't care. He wanted to try the new boat.
Speaker 13: No.
Speaker 4: Sooner they started and the rains.
Speaker 2: Began, They got as far as Matches and turned started.
Speaker 4: Up stream again.
Speaker 3: Then only one morning before dawn, only a few miles
Speaker 3: out of Cairo.
Speaker 2: A squaw caught them the wall.
Speaker 4: The course of Magnonia's life had been changed.
Speaker 16: Hey, like we're lost on morn.
Speaker 4: I think we lost him.
Speaker 13: Morn.
Speaker 16: You gotta get some pos on gates come along.
Speaker 15: Yeah, no, yeah, you better get them.
Speaker 13: I'll be.
Speaker 6: That you and i'd know.
Speaker 13: Quiet Mama came to sleep.
Speaker 2: Hell do Maggie?
Speaker 6: Whinny's everything all right? So quiet?
Speaker 8: Suddenly?
Speaker 18: Yeah, soon as daylight came, the squarell quieted right down?
Speaker 6: Who is everything all right?
Speaker 4: He got off the snag If that's what you mean.
Speaker 8: There's something wrong?
Speaker 13: What is it?
Speaker 9: Where's Papa?
Speaker 4: Well he was bobbing around the deck.
Speaker 18: Of course he had no business given orders. That was
Speaker 18: my job as a pilot.
Speaker 4: But he always did that, ma'am. I never minded it.
Speaker 6: What's happened to Papa? Where he had to be the
Speaker 6: pasted channel on.
Speaker 18: The river tools he was leaning over, trying a snacker.
Speaker 18: He was dark, and the rain and all of whinny
Speaker 18: what happened? He was gone before we could get to Maggie.
Speaker 18: And with the rain of the dark and the current,
Speaker 18: we did all we could. Ain't no use, not in
Speaker 18: this part of the river.
Speaker 6: He's dead.
Speaker 7: Luggy he did.
Speaker 3: With Andy gone, things were different, might have worked out
Speaker 3: for a while if Farsenia Hawks hadn't been what she was.
Speaker 3: The first to go was the pilot of Wendy McLean
Speaker 3: about a month after Andy died.
Speaker 13: Hill.
Speaker 6: Now what do you mean? Yeah, I'm speaking to you,
Speaker 6: Indy McClean.
Speaker 12: If I've had those steps to the pilot house scrubbed,
Speaker 12: what's five hadmscrubbed ten times?
Speaker 6: This week?
Speaker 16: We'll the mare with him?
Speaker 4: What's the look him.
Speaker 6: All muddied up? What's that side ladder for her? I'd
Speaker 6: like to know I've.
Speaker 4: Told her before this shalks meim, I'm no hired hen I.
Speaker 15: Worked with Andy Hawk's twenty five years.
Speaker 6: Hey, you don't, I and good say it is so?
Speaker 4: Where the thing is?
Speaker 18: You can't run a boat like you were a kitchen.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm not going to have it.
Speaker 12: You traced in all of what's picking your filthy toback
Speaker 12: and leaving money tracks?
Speaker 4: Ma'am, Well you're a Hawk's witter.
Speaker 6: No need to remind me.
Speaker 4: That's why I said I'd go.
Speaker 18: On working the same as if Andrew was alive.
Speaker 6: Have you'd no mind to stay on? There was nobody began.
Speaker 18: I figured Meg his husband be the boss.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm running this boat.
Speaker 4: Fact is, ma'am, I.
Speaker 18: Ain't no petticoat pirates. Fact is, I guess I lost
Speaker 18: my taste for Rivers since cap went. Lost my nerve too.
Speaker 4: I guess I'm through.
Speaker 11: Hm.
Speaker 6: Your money will be at the office.
Speaker 18: For you, say, ma'am.
Speaker 2: I can't stand this.
Speaker 18: I'm sick of the scar and everything that goes with it.
Speaker 2: I'd just crims.
Speaker 4: How crazy, Magnolia. I'm no heck, I don't belong here.
Speaker 21: If I hadn't happened to see you the day your
Speaker 21: father offered me.
Speaker 3: A job, I wouldn't be here now, are you sorry?
Speaker 13: Gay?
Speaker 4: It's the only luck I've ever had that lasted, Magnolia.
Speaker 4: What we ought to do is to kill out of here.
Speaker 2: You've got something coming to you from your father.
Speaker 6: We could very ready you to get in so hard
Speaker 6: and fast about Mamma.
Speaker 8: Listens, Yes, you were just wondering now that Papa's well, Oh,
Speaker 8: maybe it wasn't crazy trying to go on.
Speaker 4: What do you want?
Speaker 6: Haven't leave the rivers? Why not, Mama? And what's to
Speaker 6: become the captain blossom? Though I don't know.
Speaker 8: We'll have to talk about it.
Speaker 6: We are talking about it now. Listen here. Magnolia Fox
Speaker 6: left no will just like him. I've got as much,
Speaker 6: say as you, mammas. Is my share in this boat?
Speaker 6: I want it? You mean money?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 6: What would you have me do? Sell boat right out
Speaker 6: from under me?
Speaker 21: Captain Andy left insurance and he had money in the bank.
Speaker 21: It's enough for you to buy Magnolia's share and the
Speaker 21: show boots if you want it.
Speaker 6: What will you do with the money?
Speaker 5: Oh, Gay will probably invested in some disness, yes, monkey Disneys.
Speaker 2: I'm leaving here. I've had enough.
Speaker 6: What about Magnolia and her child?
Speaker 4: They can come or stay. That's one hundred the tide.
Speaker 18: I'll be taking no Gay.
Speaker 6: Well, now you see walking right off and leaving you
Speaker 6: come back here, child.
Speaker 12: I'll give you the money, but mind, don't you come
Speaker 12: sniveling back to me.
Speaker 6: When it's gone and you and your child having a
Speaker 6: penny to bless yourself with. But that's what it'll come
Speaker 6: to in the end.
Speaker 13: My work wouldn't come to you for help.
Speaker 8: Not if I was starving.
Speaker 4: To Disney Kid show, there's worse things than starving.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't come to you, no matter what you will
Speaker 6: just the same. I'll take my oath on that, and
Speaker 6: remember this. When he's run through every penny of your
Speaker 6: money and even's looks to me for more, you can
Speaker 6: come back to the boat, you and the child.
Speaker 13: I'll look for you, but him.
Speaker 3: Never nothing was too good, Gay Lord Ravenal. That first
Speaker 3: went and they lived in Chicago. They had a suite
Speaker 3: at the Sherman House, a nurse maid for Kim, a
Speaker 3: pair of English hackneys to drive into the races in
Speaker 3: the afternoon at the theater.
Speaker 2: In the evening that went of.
Speaker 3: The first time Magnolia tasted Champagne, wore sables, sat in
Speaker 3: the box at who Is, and saw the Houci couci dance.
Speaker 4: The World's Fair was all.
Speaker 3: Very pleasant and luxurious and strange, almost like a dream.
Speaker 3: And through it all Gay was beside her, handsome and
Speaker 3: elegant and thoughtful.
Speaker 4: Laughing at her wide eyed enjoyment.
Speaker 2: And then one day.
Speaker 4: Suddenly the money was gone pretty good. I'm sorry, Magnolia,
Speaker 4: I haven't got it.
Speaker 8: See darling, Eve mean you haven't got one hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: You're that green velvet dress you like so much. You
Speaker 6: told me to get it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 8: This is the third time they sent the bill to
Speaker 8: wall to give me the money.
Speaker 6: I'll wad to check if your brother.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you I haven't got it.
Speaker 8: Magnolia, Well, tomorrow will do, but please be sure to
Speaker 8: marrowt you.
Speaker 4: I can't be any sure tomorrow than I am today.
Speaker 2: We haven't got one hundred dollars in the world, and
Speaker 2: that's a fact.
Speaker 6: But darling, we had thirty thousands. I know.
Speaker 2: Afraid it's gone.
Speaker 4: I've been running bad luck for weeks, bad luck.
Speaker 13: But what gay.
Speaker 4: Pharaoh day?
Speaker 13: We had?
Speaker 6: Thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: Don't last forever, my dear. Besides, last week I took
Speaker 4: a flyer fire, yes, sir, a tip on the market,
Speaker 4: the stock market, the stocks the way.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't understand magnolia.
Speaker 6: But all of it gay. You didn't lose all of
Speaker 6: it on the market.
Speaker 4: Well, no, some of it on the market.
Speaker 2: Some of it it fell.
Speaker 6: How much gay her?
Speaker 13: Let's oh, what.
Speaker 4: Does it matter's gone?
Speaker 6: The gay? How much it so?
Speaker 13: Few?
Speaker 4: Thousand?
Speaker 6: How many?
Speaker 13: Five?
Speaker 2: Yes? Five more than five gays? Well, year's ten? Probably,
Speaker 2: I don't remember. Magnolia.
Speaker 4: What does it matter? How it's gone?
Speaker 2: It's gone.
Speaker 3: Once a month came a letter from party No more
Speaker 3: or less. It came addressed in a firm small hands
Speaker 3: of the Sherman house.
Speaker 12: Crops are pretty good, so business is according I put
Speaker 12: up great jail last week, a terrible job.
Speaker 6: But I can't buy this sort stuff, no real rates
Speaker 6: in it.
Speaker 5: Well, I pose you to Silas for the cutting blossom
Speaker 5: by now, and Kim never hears of it.
Speaker 6: I got the pictures, you sense.
Speaker 12: I think she looks kind of picked up four hours
Speaker 12: a night, I suppose, and no proper food.
Speaker 6: Never heard of such a thing. Well, I will close,
Speaker 6: as Goodness knows.
Speaker 12: I have enough to do without writing letters where they're
Speaker 12: probably not wanted. The Still, I like to know how
Speaker 12: you and the child are doing, and all your mother
Speaker 12: Parthenia and hawks, dear mother.
Speaker 7: Gay is more than good to me.
Speaker 6: I have a rich wish for a thing, and it
Speaker 6: is mine.
Speaker 8: Everyone says Kim is unusual at all and right for
Speaker 8: her age.
Speaker 10: Gay speaks of a trip to Europe next year.
Speaker 8: I have a new fur coat. He's very good to me.
Speaker 6: Never an unkind word.
Speaker 7: You're very very happy. Love.
Speaker 6: I agno you.
Speaker 2: Magnola and raven Or moved.
Speaker 3: The first of those endless changes that mark their life
Speaker 3: in Chicago.
Speaker 4: For the next twelve years.
Speaker 3: They left the prush and ice water, fresh linen and
Speaker 3: rich food and luxurious service of the Sherman House moved
Speaker 3: to a shabby family hotel sort of actors boarding house
Speaker 3: in the North Side, just across the Clark Street Bridge
Speaker 3: in Ontario.
Speaker 2: This was in walking distance of the places Gay said,
Speaker 2: and by places she.
Speaker 3: Knew that he meant Jeff Hankins and Mike McDonald's and
Speaker 3: Prince Varnell's and other establishments on Gambler's Row.
Speaker 2: Where he spent his days every day for twelve.
Speaker 3: Years, and always it was famine or plenty, no middle ground.
Speaker 3: Sometimes a bad street would last for weeks.
Speaker 2: First the Malacca cane would go day had a reputation for.
Speaker 3: Paying his debts, and Ravenov's King was always worth a
Speaker 3: few hundred dollars as a pledge.
Speaker 2: At one of the pawn shops near Clark Street.
Speaker 3: And then next some of the fine English clothes would vanish,
Speaker 3: and last, always last a diamond engagement ring. There were
Speaker 3: times when even the Ontario Street hotel became an impossible
Speaker 3: luxury that meant rock bottom.
Speaker 2: Then it was that they took a room at three dollars.
Speaker 3: A week, in a frowsy rooming house on Ohio Street,
Speaker 3: the three of them in one room and boil coffee
Speaker 3: and eggs and cooking over the gas jet. And every
Speaker 3: day around noon gay Lord went down to the street
Speaker 3: elegance is ever freshly shaved his gloves on his hands,
Speaker 3: and headed south towards clock.
Speaker 4: Good night.
Speaker 3: When he returned, sometimes long after.
Speaker 4: Midnight, Magnolia, the Magnolia.
Speaker 11: What did he come on?
Speaker 4: Magnolia? We're leaving this rightch nest.
Speaker 18: Hurry, we're telling not now.
Speaker 5: You don't mean to night.
Speaker 21: No, you only take a minute.
Speaker 2: I'll wake up the landlady you.
Speaker 8: Oh no, no, I'd rather do it myself. Oh will
Speaker 8: Kim's asleep.
Speaker 6: Cad, we wait until morning.
Speaker 21: No, we're going to night this minute. Come on, hurry
Speaker 21: and it is killing Magnolia six.
Speaker 2: Thousands and here here's you're in?
Speaker 13: Where we're going?
Speaker 6: German house?
Speaker 21: Or would you like to try the autotomium for a
Speaker 21: change room overlooking the laker?
Speaker 4: How'd you like that?
Speaker 13: Ya?
Speaker 4: Next week we'll run down to West Beton.
Speaker 2: Do us good.
Speaker 4: During the day we can walk.
Speaker 9: And drive or ride.
Speaker 4: You'll will learn to ride Magnolia. In the evening we
Speaker 4: can take a whirl at my Samtic's place.
Speaker 8: Oh, darling, don't play there, not much.
Speaker 6: I mean, let's try to keep it.
Speaker 4: We have no since, may as well give Sam a
Speaker 4: chance to pay our expenses.
Speaker 21: Remember the last time we were down, I won a
Speaker 21: thousand dollars at row let alone.
Speaker 2: And that's not my game.
Speaker 11: Kay?
Speaker 18: Yes, no day, I want to talk to What does
Speaker 18: it have to be now?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 13: Day?
Speaker 16: Listen?
Speaker 6: Do we have to go on like this?
Speaker 4: Darling?
Speaker 6: Haven't you been listening.
Speaker 4: I'm in the money, we're moving out of yet what
Speaker 4: more do you want, David?
Speaker 8: Just everything one day and nothing the next. We ought
Speaker 8: to be living in a house, a little house where
Speaker 8: it's quiet and peaceful and king can play like other children.
Speaker 4: Now, don't get dramatic magnolia.
Speaker 21: By heavens see besides, we've had that all out the force,
Speaker 21: So why can't we do it?
Speaker 8: Why can't we live like other people? In between? Enough another,
Speaker 8: this horrible worrying about tomorrow.
Speaker 13: I can't bear.
Speaker 4: You should have married a plumber.
Speaker 21: Come on, Magnold, you get your things, Pagnisco, I've got
Speaker 21: a carriage waiting down stairs.
Speaker 4: Then came a bad streak that lasted longer than the others.
Speaker 3: A cane was gone, the English suits, Magnolia's Diamond Green.
Speaker 3: They've been in the rooming house in Ohio Street now
Speaker 3: for three months.
Speaker 11: Kay, you early.
Speaker 4: That stuffed in at the Sherman House.
Speaker 2: Let it well for you.
Speaker 7: Oh it's for mama, yea, Kay, Morman's coming coming here.
Speaker 8: Yes, listen, I've never been to Chicago. I want to
Speaker 8: see the stockyards, a grand opera house, from the sun
Speaker 8: at Temple Marshall Fields, Lincoln Park and the Chicago River.
Speaker 8: I'll put up at the Sherman House where you are providing.
Speaker 8: It's not too expensive, and I want you to go.
Speaker 8: To understand, I mean to pay my own way. I'll
Speaker 8: not be holding to any living soul. Well, we'll have
Speaker 8: to move back day to.
Speaker 6: The Sherman House.
Speaker 8: That's where she thinks we live now.
Speaker 7: No, today, we haven't any choice.
Speaker 4: And I haven't any money.
Speaker 18: You've got to borrow on what security.
Speaker 8: I don't need business borrowing. They're your friends, all those
Speaker 8: men man the minute, those places.
Speaker 6: The men you've known for so many years.
Speaker 18: Those scamblers, they've all been kind to borrow for me.
Speaker 8: But Mike McDonald, Hankins, Vonnell, we've all that thousands of
Speaker 8: dollars for all the money we brought to Chicago.
Speaker 6: Want to give some of it.
Speaker 18: Back right now?
Speaker 2: You're you're pricey.
Speaker 4: There's nobody like you. Gee, how can you.
Speaker 2: Act like that?
Speaker 8: And you know how serious it is. I'm not going
Speaker 8: to have Mama come here.
Speaker 6: And see us living like this.
Speaker 8: I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 10: You think for a minute I would.
Speaker 8: What are you going to do about it?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know, darling, but I'll do something. I've been
Speaker 4: in holes as deep as this and managed to crawl out.
Speaker 2: I'll do something.
Speaker 3: That was the last time she heard his voice. Next morning,
Speaker 3: when she left the house, he was still sleeping. It
Speaker 3: was the day she went to school to see Kim,
Speaker 3: who was winter and it was dark in the streets.
Speaker 4: By the time she got home.
Speaker 3: The door of her room was locked, and she opened
Speaker 3: it before she'd delighted to guess.
Speaker 2: She thought the room was empty, deserted.
Speaker 4: On the dress.
Speaker 2: There was an envelope her name honored him raping her
Speaker 2: with knee delicate head.
Speaker 4: I know you're darling.
Speaker 8: I'm going away for week. That was turning your mother's school.
Speaker 8: Oh I'm not send boy, you'll find three hundred dollars
Speaker 8: for you on the shelf of the clock.
Speaker 6: Should be enough for two weeks in the way.
Speaker 13: I love always.
Speaker 7: Okay, I don't think, Kim.
Speaker 8: It's a long story. Oh Nolla, No, don't.
Speaker 6: Say that, Kim.
Speaker 7: I'm not sorry.
Speaker 8: I'm not sorry if anything I ever did in my
Speaker 8: whole life in a lot of places.
Speaker 6: I've seen a lot of.
Speaker 8: Things, but in the end, this is where I belonged.
Speaker 8: I love it, the rivers, the people, the show boats,
Speaker 8: and my life here.
Speaker 10: I don't know why it's.
Speaker 16: Bad in me.
Speaker 6: I suppose that's Kim.
Speaker 8: I do know why your grandfather died when you were
Speaker 8: too little to really know him.
Speaker 6: You and well, Kim, you'd note wise.
Speaker 3: This concludes the Campbell Playhouse presentation of Edna Ferber's Showboat,
Speaker 3: starring Margaret Sullivan, Austin Wells, Helen Morgan, and the authoress herself.
Speaker 3: Thiss Ferber has something special to say to us tonight.
Speaker 18: And in just a moment, Austin Wells will bring her
Speaker 18: back to the microphone.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, here.
Speaker 4: Is Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 1: When you taste Campbell's vegetable soup, I'm sure your verdict
Speaker 1: will be the same as that of millions of others
Speaker 1: who agree it is so good that it's a waste
Speaker 1: of time and energy to go to all the trouble
Speaker 1: of making vegetable soup at home. You can prove it
Speaker 1: by serving this great family favorite tomorrow. And if there
Speaker 1: are children at the time, I know they'll show you
Speaker 1: by their busy spoons for a big hit it makes
Speaker 1: with them too, And while they're enjoying it, they'll be
Speaker 1: getting the nourishing benefits of fifteen fine garden vegetables. If
Speaker 1: you have thought there never could be another vegetable soup
Speaker 1: as good as the homemade kind, then this is important.
Speaker 1: Campbell's vegetable soup is made the good home way, from
Speaker 1: the simmering of its invigorating beef stock to the careful
Speaker 1: blending and cooking.
Speaker 4: Of its vegetables.
Speaker 1: It's so good and so substantial that it's almost the
Speaker 1: meal in itself, the kind of vegetable soup you'd expect
Speaker 1: from the finest foam soup kettle. Why not try it tomorrow?
Speaker 1: Remember to ask your grocer for Campbell's Vegetable soup.
Speaker 3: And now Ursonwells brings you his guests to this evening,
Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, I think you know everybody here. Margaret Sullivan,
Speaker 3: who is Magnolia, whom you've seen so many times in
Speaker 3: movie houses and in theaters, giving so many fine performances,
Speaker 3: is our guest on the Cambel play House for the
Speaker 3: fifth time. In fact, the last thing she did before
Speaker 3: she was Bridget Heywood Heyward's mother, which she is, was
Speaker 3: the if you remember the nameless heroine of our radio
Speaker 3: version of Rebecca, Miss Sullivan.
Speaker 2: It's very nice of you back.
Speaker 6: It's nice to be back, mister Wells.
Speaker 8: It always is.
Speaker 2: I know you know Miss Morgan, and I know you
Speaker 2: love her just as much as I do.
Speaker 4: Ladies and gentlemen, Helen Morgan.
Speaker 10: Mister Wells, thank you for another chance to play Julie.
Speaker 10: I suppose I know Shoebote about as well as here anybody.
Speaker 10: May I tell you it has never seemed more real.
Speaker 6: To me than tonight.
Speaker 3: It's more than You're very kind and now, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 3: because Miss Edna Ferber made her debut tonight as an actress,
Speaker 3: and as you will agree, a very good actress at that,
Speaker 3: in the role of Parthy Hawks, And because she wrote
Speaker 3: show Bolt and should have something interesting to tell us
Speaker 3: about it. I've vanished all banter and van denage from
Speaker 3: our customary after piece.
Speaker 2: And asked to take the floor and say what she will.
Speaker 4: He said, Miss fibber.
Speaker 6: To day in nineteen thirty nine, I never could have
Speaker 6: written show Boat. I am too agonized at what I
Speaker 6: see and hear in the world about me. Showboat carries
Speaker 6: no message.
Speaker 5: It is just a romantic novel about a rather glamorous
Speaker 5: phase of American life.
Speaker 6: Since it was written in nineteen twenty six and this
Speaker 6: is nineteen thirty nine, there must be in it equality
Speaker 6: that strikes a sympathetic chord. It never could have been
Speaker 6: written in a war torn world. A writer should feel
Speaker 6: free to write as he pleases, and in these times
Speaker 6: he's deprived of that feeling. Those millions of you here
Speaker 6: in America who.
Speaker 5: Have chuckled over Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, those of
Speaker 5: you who have thrilled that majestic piece of prose, the
Speaker 5: Gettysburg Address, who have read and heeded the wise sayings
Speaker 5: of Benjamin Franklin, whose pulses have quickened to the beat
Speaker 5: and march of Walt Whitman's poems. If you love these
Speaker 5: things and believe in their beauty and worth. Save them
Speaker 5: for long, Long after the rulers of people are dead,
Speaker 5: the literature of a country lives on you, who are
Speaker 5: listening to the orson Wells Program tonight.
Speaker 6: Make up your minds what kind of world you want
Speaker 6: for your children. Walt Whitman told you. Listen to what
Speaker 6: he said.
Speaker 9: Long too long.
Speaker 6: America.
Speaker 20: Traveling roads all even and peaceful, You learn from joys
Speaker 20: and prosperity only, But now, ah, now to learn from
Speaker 20: crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst faith and recoiling nut.
Speaker 6: Now to conceive and show to the world what your
Speaker 6: children are. Must really are. Traveling roads all even and people.
Speaker 5: You learn from joys and procterity only, But now, ah,
Speaker 5: now to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grattling with
Speaker 5: direst faith and recoiling nut.
Speaker 12: Now to conceive and show to the world what your
Speaker 12: children really are.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Miss Further, and thanks to you, Miss Sullivan
Speaker 3: and Miss Morgan. Please come back to us again on
Speaker 3: the Campbell
Speaker 2: Play House whenever you will