The Virginian – Lux Radio Theatre (11-02-36)

Summary

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Old Time Radio Westerns: The Virginian – Lux Radio Theatre (11-02-36)

Podcast: Old Time Radio Westerns
Host: Andrew Rhynes
Episode Date: January 11, 2026
Original Broadcast: November 2, 1936 (Lux Radio Theatre)
Starring: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Helen Mack, John Howard
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille

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Episode Overview

This episode presents a digitally restored classic radio adaptation of Owen Wister’s iconic Western novel, The Virginian, as dramatized by Lux Radio Theatre in 1936. Hosted by Andrew Rhynes, the podcast invites listeners into the vibrant, sound-rich golden age of radio drama, focusing on tales of the American frontier. The episode explores themes of justice, loyalty, love, and the harsh realities of Western life, brought to life by an all-star cast led by Gary Cooper.

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Key Discussion Points & Dramatic Segments

1. Introduction and Cast (03:45–08:16)

• Cecil B. DeMille welcomes the audience, sets the Hollywood atmosphere, and introduces the star-studded cast.
  • Special mention of Gary Cooper's rising stardom and authenticity as a Western lead.
  • Quotes DeMille (04:27): “A man as shy and human as Gary Cooper is a complete novelty. On a Hollywood soundstage, he's as refreshing as a breeze off the prairie.”

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2. Arrival in Medicine Bow – Character Introductions (08:16–13:35)

• Medicine Bow is bustling with rambunctious cowhands.
• The Virginian, a quiet yet respected cowboy, reunites with old friend Steve.
• Immediate tension introduced with Trampus, a brash antagonist.
  • (09:54) Trampus to Virginian: “Yeah, well, when I want to know anything from you, I'll let you know, you long legged son of a...”
• Molly Wood, the new schoolmarm from Vermont, arrives, immediately catching the eyes of both the Virginian and Steve.
  • (12:05) Virginian, playfully misunderstanding her: “I reckon you're the new waitress at the Lone Star Hotel.”
  • (12:07) Molly: “Oh, no, I'm a teacher.”

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3. Frontier Courtship – Virginian & Molly (15:58–22:06)

• The Virginian awkwardly courts Molly, highlighting cultural differences between refined New England and rugged Wyoming.
• A memorable comic instance regarding introductions before dancing.
  • (16:32) Molly: “In New England... a man always asked to be introduced to a lady before he asked her to dance.”
• Their budding relationship is tested during a discussion of Romeo and Juliet:
  • (19:39–20:29) Virginian’s practical critique of Romeo's rope-ladder balcony scene amuses and frustrates Molly:
    • Virginian: “Traipsin’ up a ladder, that ain't my idea of a real man... I'd just take her like this.” (leading to a bold, impulsive embrace)
    • Molly: “You're just as sure of yourself as ever, aren't you?”

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4. Frontier Justice and Moral Dilemmas (22:42–37:23)

• Virginian discovers friend Steve is cattle rustling with Trampus, warning him of the severe consequences.
  • (22:58) Virginian: “That's rustling, Steve.”
  • (23:43) Virginian’s loyalty/pain: “You and I have been friends too long to find ourselves lined up on opposite sides...”
• Despite warnings, Steve falls in with the rustlers.
• The rustlers are caught. Steve faces lynching.
  • (31:23) Virginian, after Steve’s execution: “He was my friend, Shorty... He never even looked at me.”
• Notable Quote:
  • (31:58) Steve’s farewell letter, read by Shorty: “So long. I couldn't have spoke to you without playing the baby. Steve.”
• Heartbreaking fallout as Molly learns of Steve’s death and confronts the Virginian.
  • (36:36–37:00) Molly, in anguish: “Your friend and you murdered him.”
  • Virginian defends the Western code: “It's a question of right or wrong. I did what I thought was right, Molly. It was right.”

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5. Reconciliation and Climax (43:04–52:55)

• Days later, Molly chooses to stay in Wyoming, seeking understanding.
  • (43:11) Molly: “I didn't leave after all... I’m going to stay.”
  • (43:56) She’s moved by the honest, hardworking people: “People like that can't all be wrong. They're kind and good.”
• The romantic arc is restored; the couple reaffirms their commitment.
  • (44:18–44:25) “Will you forgive me for what I said?” – Molly
  • “That’s easy.” – Virginian

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6. The Final Showdown (47:00–52:55)

• Trampus returns, publicly challenges the Virginian to leave town or face him in a duel by sundown.
  • (48:14) Trampus: “This country ain’t big enough to hold the two of us. I’m giving you till sundown...”
• Despite Molly’s pleas, the Virginian stands his ground, explaining the immutable code of the West.
  • (50:28) “It’s something in the feelings of a man deep down inside. Something a man can’t go back on.”
• The climactic duel concludes with the Virginian killing Trampus.
• Emotional reunion as Molly rushes to him:
  • (52:44) Molly: “Don’t ever leave me ever again.”
  • Virginian: “Sure. I promise. But I still don't understand women, Molly.”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• DeMille introducing Gary Cooper:

  "On a Hollywood soundstage, he's as refreshing as a breeze off the prairie." – DeMille (04:27)

• Virginian’s take on Romeo and Juliet:

  “That Romeo and Juliet? Yes, ma’am, I finished it... Traipsing up a ladder, that ain't my idea of a real man.” (19:39–20:29)

• Steve’s farewell note, symbolizing friendship and loss:

  “So long. I couldn’t have spoke to you without playing the baby.” (31:58)

• Molly’s cultural struggle:

  “It’s this life. It destroys every human feeling a person's got. It's destroyed you. It's made you cruel and ruthless and cold blooded. Well, it won't destroy me. I won't let it.” (37:36)

• Virginian on Western justice:

  “It ain't a question of friends or enemies. It's a question of right or wrong. I did what I thought was right, Molly.” (37:16)

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Special Segments & Guest Appearances

• Richard Klein (Paramount trainer): shares wellness tips and Hollywood stories.
  • Encourages listeners: “Take a tip from these famous people... find time to exercise. I guarantee you’ll be amazed at how much more work you’ll be able to accomplish.” (41:45)
• Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist): delivers a witty, affectionate monologue about Hollywood’s quirks and personalities, closing with, “But don’t get me wrong, I love Hollywood.” (54:49–57:54)
• Host Andrew Rhynes bookends the restored audio drama with brief context and thanks, keeping focus on the story.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Start of play / cast introduction: 03:45
• Virginian and Steve reunite: 08:16
• Molly arrives in Medicine Bow: 12:05
• Virginian asks Molly to dance: 16:09
• Romeo and Juliet debate: 19:39
• Virginian confronts Steve over rustling: 22:42
• Lynching of Steve: 31:00
• Molly discovers truth, confronts Virginian: 36:32
• Molly decides to stay: 43:03
• Trampus challenges Virginian: 48:00
• The duel / finale: 52:11

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Episode Tone & Authenticity

The adaptation maintains a balance of earnest western authenticity and period-specific humor, particularly in the interplay between Molly and the Virginian. The drama’s justice-versus-friendship theme is handled with earnest, moral complexity, underscored by moments of tenderness, regret, and hope for the frontier’s future.

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Final Thoughts

This meticulously restored drama offers a vivid, heartfelt slice of early western storytelling, capturing both the romance and the raw moral dilemmas embedded in frontier life. The performances are lively and deeply engaged, and the episode preserves the cinematic sweep of the original radio broadcast while making it accessible to modern listeners.

Not to miss: The Virginian’s tongue-in-cheek literary critique; the poignant fallout after the lynching; and the final, redemptive embrace between Molly and the Virginian—timeless moments that speak to the genre’s enduring power.

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Transcript

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[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

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[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hollywood, California Monday, November 2. The lux radio theater presents gary cooper in the virginian with charles bickford, helen mack and john howard. Lux presents Hollywood. Our stars, Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Helen Mack and John Howard. Our guests, Sidney Skolsky, noted Hollywood columnist, and Richard Klein, physical trainer of picture stars. Our producer, Cecil B. DeMille I our conductor, Louis Silvers.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

We wish you could all be with.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Us tonight in our theater on Hollywood Boulevard, not only to meet our stars, but also the many other screen celebrities whom I see just beyond the footlights awaiting the curtain of another great show. But wherever this hour finds you, a hearty welcome from Lux. This program comes to you with the good wishes of the makers of luxury toilet soap. The Soap preferred by 9 out of 10 Hollywood stars and is yet so inexpensive that every girl can use it every day. Our message is to use all the cosmetics you wish, but remove them thoroughly the Hollywood way with luxe toilet soap, whose active lather cleanses the pores and keeps your skin soft, smooth, always lovely. Our show opens with word from our producer, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Here in the hometown of movies, we are so used to stars who grit their teeth, clench their fists and crash their way into the limelight that a man as shy and human as Gary Cooper is a complete novelty. On a Hollywood soundstage, he's as refreshing as a breeze off the prairie. Last month, the Cheyenne Indians up in Lamedeer, Montana, tried to give him a name they called Gary Comaist. He was mighty pleased to become a member of the tribe until he discovered that his new name means tall, handsome one. Gary was an unknown actor in Westerns when he was called in by the Paramount Studios for a screen test. Entering the room, he faced an office filled with producers and executives. The long young man from Montana looked at the expressionless faces, swallowed hard, smiled feebly and bolted for the door. But his personality clicked. They gave him an important role in Wings and Gary's been soaring steadily upward ever since. I welcome him tonight as a fine actor, a sincere co worker, a fearless man and a close friend. Charles Bickford is also a most welcome addition to our cast. Charlie left the stage to work for me in Dynamite, my first talking film, and has appeared in four of my pictures since, including the Plainsman. Charlie's no mean antagonist as a villain. In fact, it took an African lion to put him in the hospital. He will be heard tonight in the role of Trampus. Our leading lady is Helen Mack, who has been on stage and screen since childhood and is one of the most unspoiled young actresses in Hollywood. She is heard as Molly Wood. The role of Steve is played by John Howard, co star of the film Valiant is the word for carry. And now up with the curtain as the Lux Radio Theatre presents the Virginian. Written by Owen Wister starring Gary Cooper with Charles Bickford, Helen Mack and John Howard. Wyoming in the early 1900s, The dusty little town of Medicine Bow is humming with activity. And though it's only 10 o' clock in the morning, the Maverick Cafe is filled with a noisy rowdy gang of cowhands whooping it up on their one day off. From the street comes a tall, quiet spoken young cowboy known to his friends as the Virginian. As he steps up to the bar, he gets a loud welcome from an old pal. Steve. Hey you God dang mangy soup fed buzzard.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Who are you passing by, Steve? Nobody else but well Steve, you ornery, low down cousin to a bald beaver. What in place are you doing here?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, nothing special.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Flew into town about a week ago. Well, I'm sure glad to see you, Steve. Say, it must have been four years since we was riding together.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Four years or more. Yes sir. Say, I heard about you being made foreman over at the Box X Ranch. It kept me laughing for a week.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, well, what have you been doing?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

All the same as usual, working some and playing some. Mostly playing, sure.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You no good weasel. You're just the same as always. Ain't no account to nobody nowheres. Ain't you ever going to settle down be say what for.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Buenosia, senor.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh hello Nina, how are you?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Muy bien.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, let me introduce you to an.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Old pal of mine.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, hello Morning, ma'.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

He's very handsome.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, Just a minute.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Sure, he's a real lady killer, Nina.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Gee, you better watch out for this hombre, ma'. Am. He's a low down, double barreled liar. Don't you believe a word he says. Oh, yeah.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

Hello.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

What's the argument, boys? Oh, hello, trampers. Step right up and join in. I don't know what it's all about, Nina, but whatever it is, I can settle it fair and square. No in my favor. Once you get in, Trampus, just blow it in a beat your time with this lady. Come on, Nina, or buy you a drink.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

But senor, I am with these gentlemen.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

You mean you were with him. Come on.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

No, stop. I want to stay here.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, I ain't arguing with you, sweetheart. I'm telling you. No.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Let me go.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Wait.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

There ain't no argument, Trampus. We're getting along just fine. Not that it's any of your business.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Who'S talking to you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'm just telling you.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah, well, when I want to know anything from you, I'll let you know, you long legged son of a.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Wait a minute. If you want to call me that, Miles, you're getting mighty touchy, ain't you, about something? You better be leaving, Trampus. Sure.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Come on, boys. I'll trim the hide off you in a game of stut. Say, I wouldn't mix a Dunn with.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Trampus if I was you. Trampus and me just don't mix at all. Hey, where's the Virginian? Somebody want me? Hey, Nebraska here. Oh, oh, oh. Hello, boss.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Say, the Wyoming special can't get through to the station on account of them cattle blocking the right away.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

All right, I'll tend to them. Come along, Steve.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Sure, I'll help you clean them up.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Get up there. Get on.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Get on.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Hey, head them.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

All right, Nebraski, show them along.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

All right, get along there. You get along.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, I guess that fixes it.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Thanks, Steve. Well, look at who's here. Where? That girl over there. Just got off the train, I reckon.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, she sure is a fine looking female. I'd kind of like to make her acquaintance.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I seen her first, Steve.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, what's the matter with her?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, she's backing up like a scared calf.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, hey, look at her.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

She's scared of that milk cow down there.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, ma'.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Am.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

That cow won't hurt you none, Steve.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'll go and rescue the fair lady. Rescue her from what? A moocow? Don't stop me now.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, get away. Get away, please. Oh, get away, I said.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, get out of here.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Get out of here, you ornery devil. Go on. Go on. Get out of here. Well, the critter's gone, ma'. Am. I reckon you're safe now.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh. Oh, thank you so much.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It's a mighty lucky thing I happened along. A wild steer is an awful, ornery critter.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, it did frighten me just for a moment.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

If that steer had seen you face to face, just like I'm doing now, ma', am, he couldn't have been so mean.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, thank you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I reckon you're the new waitress at the Lone Star Hotel.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, no, I'm a teacher.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Oh, the new school, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

That's right. I've come all the way from Vermont.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, that sure is fine.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, thank you again for rescuing me.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Oh, that's all right. Anytime at all, mister.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, mister.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

What's the matter, little girl?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

You see my Bossy?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Bossy?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

What?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Why, no, she's my milking cow.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I was leading her home when she ran away, and I can't find. Oh, there she is. Bossy. Here, Bossy. Here, girl. Here, Bossy. Oh, so that's your wild steer, A milking cow.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, you see, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thank you so much, Mr. Cowboy. It was so brave of you to rescue me from Bossy.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Look, ma', am, it was like this.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Don't you think you'd better go and rescue that little girl? I'm sure she'd be quite impressed. But if you tried to make a fool of her, she'd probably slap your face. Good morning.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Good morning, ma'. Am. I'm sure sorry it wasn't a real steer. My Lulu gal today See, she wears a big white hat and I'll bet your life when I'm in town Easy, boy. Who's that, The Virginian? That's right, Judge. I thought I recognized you. The Darker wasn't sure on your way to that welcoming party they gave him.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

For the new school, Mom.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I suppose that's where I'm heading, Judge. And me too.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

They say she's a mighty pretty girl.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, she sure is.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Say, the Valley ranchers had another meeting.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

This afternoon about rustlers. Yeah, the patience is plumb give out. I tell you, the country's going to the dogs when it pays a man better to steal than to work. It ain't everybody that's stealing cattle, Judge. Some is, and it's up to us.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

To find them out.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You know, Judge, I got an idea that ain't gonna be so awful hard once we set our Minds to it. What do you mean? You got any suspicions? Maybe. Who? Well, it's only a suspicion, Judge. Cattle rustling's a nasty thing to pin on a man. Unless you got proof. Tell me who it is. I'll get the proof. No, I reckon I'll wait a while. And if I was you, Judge, I wouldn't say nothing about it to the welcoming party. No use spoiling the school. M' am's first social gatherer.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, I guess this is where we wash up, Trampett. Yeah. Sure sounds like a good time in there. Sure does. Hey, Steve.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

About what I was saying before. You ought to get smart. Cow punching. Ain't no way for a fellow like you to make a living.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I know it.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Trampers. A cowhand's dumber in a low coat. Steer freeze all winter and bake all summer, and for what? $30 a month in key. Sure, Making money's easy if you know how. And if you're smart. Well, what's on your mind, Trampeth? Nothing I want to talk about now.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

When?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

See me tomorrow. I think you'll be interested.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Hello, Steve. Oh, hello. Why, I thought you was going to wait for me tonight.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, you was late and Trampus dangled by, so I sort of come along with him.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, you ain't very choosy about your company.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Maybe you'll explain what you mean by that.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Nothing, Trampus, nothing. But maybe I ought to compliment you, Trampus. You got so many calves this year, I reckon it keeps you all wore out branding them.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

You're liable to talk yourself into a heap of trouble, my friend.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Since when was I your friend, Krampus?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

All right, that suits me.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

See you later, Steve.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, Steve, how about circulate around to the dance? Sure.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Come on, let's go in. Hey, there's your new school mom over there. Yeah, she looks mighty pretty in her Vermont dress. Don't she?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Say, she'd look good in an Injun squaw blanket. Well, here goes.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Steve, you gonna ask her for a dance.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

And I'm going to get it. Evening, ma'.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Am. Oh, good evening.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Would you care to try a turn at dancing?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Huh?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I said, would you care?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Yes, I hear you. You're from Virginia, aren't you?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, ma'. Am. That is, I was born there.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I always thought that Southern news had such good manners.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That's correct, ma'. Am. Leastways, thick. They should have.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, in New England, where I came from, a man always asked to be introduced to a lady before he asked her to dance.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I ask your pardon. Ma', am, will you excuse me for a minute?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Certainly.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Thank you, ma'. Am. Hey, Shorty.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Come here.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah? What do you want?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You know the new school, ma'? Am? No.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Sure, I know her.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, I want you to introduce me. Formalite.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Sure.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah. Come on over.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Thanks, Shorty.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, Miss Wood. Yes, Miss Wood, I'd like to present an old friend of mine to you. We call him the Virginian.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Very pleased to meet you, ma'.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Am. Oh, yes. You're the gallant young man who rescued me from the tame cow.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

What's that?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Tame cow.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It's all right, Shorty. I'll see you tomorrow, huh?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, so long, boys.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, well, Would you like to dance, ma', am, or should we sit down?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thank you. I am a little tired.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'd rather talk than dance. Can't talk and dance at the same time anyway. Should we go outside?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Very well.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

This way, ma'. Am. Nice and quiet out here.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Yes, isn't it?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, sure is. Miss Wood, there's something I'd like to say to you.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Do you mind if I say something first?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I suppose you feel very proud of yourself for what you did the other day.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes. No, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, ma'. Am. Yes, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Is that all you can say?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, ma'. Am? No, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, I don't think you're a bit funny.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, ma'.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Am. Stop it.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, that's better. Now we're going to get along fine.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

You said you had something to say to me.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, I reckon you said it already. I was just going to apologize to you on account of acting up like I did about that cow.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, I see.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Now that's all over and we've been formally introduced and all. I'd like very much to go riding with you someday.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, would you?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, ma'.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Am.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You ain't afraid of me, are you?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, why should I be?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No reason at all. I'm as gentle as a plow horse. And I'm powerful interested in education.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, then I do hope he come to some of my classes. I have several little boys just your age.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'd sure be proud. Only I don't reckon I could get away from work to go to school right now.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, but you could get off to go riding.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

All right.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Thank you, ma'. Am. I'll be calling for you up at the schoolhouse. Well, how do you like the new horse?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, she's marvelous. What's her name? What are you Laughing at?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, her name is Sir Henry, but I call him Hank for short.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, he's a nice horse.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You want to get off here for a while?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

All right.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Easy now. There you are.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thanks. Oh, it was wonderful to ride out here. I love it more every day we come.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I reckon I do, too. Never noticed the country much before, but coming out this way with you all the time, I like it fine.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

You haven't told me about that book I lent you last week. Did you finish it?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That Romeo and Juliet? Yes, ma', am, I finished it.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Don't tell me you didn't like it.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, I ain't read any poetry before, but as soon as I get the hang of it, it'll be as easy as reading the patent medicine catalog.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Didn't you like the story?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, they raised a mighty strange breed of men in them days. But in some respects, this Romeo was a pretty good only.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, indeed. Just a pretty good hombre.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes. He had his enemies and he killed them. Shows he wasn't no coward and proves he was quick on the draw.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Why, you approve of killing your enemies?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, no, no. Not if there's an honorable way out. No, ma'. Am, but them enemies was particular ornery. They had it coming to them.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, what else? What didn't you like about Romeo?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I didn't like him in that balcony scene.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

The balcony scene? Why, that's the most famous scene in the play.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Maybe so, but not for me. What's his idea in traipsing up and down a rope ladder anyhow? Why didn't he go in through the front door?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Don't you understand? Their families were enemies.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

The traipsing up a ladder, that ain't my idea of a real man.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, what would you do? Go in and kill her father. That would be nice.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, I wouldn't have killed him. But I'd have had a showdown with him, man to man. And if he was too stubborn to call off that fool feud, I'd have grabbed Juliet right off that balcony and married her.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

That was just what he was planning to do.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, I know. But he couldn't stop playing actor on that balcony. Wasted so much valuable time, he got them both killed.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

What would you have done?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, I ain't no Romeo. But if I loved a gallon and wanted her, I wouldn't fritter away the time on no rope ladder making up poetry.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, what would you do?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'll show you. I'll just take her like this.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Let me go. Stop it. Stop. Oh.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

There.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That's what I'd do.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

You're. You're just as sure of yourself as ever, aren't you?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Molly, don't play act with me. We don't fool each other. We ain't on no balcony. Molly, don't you think the spring is the prettiest time of the year to be married?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I don't want to be married.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Oh, Molly.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, not yet anyhow. I've got my school and I'm just getting started.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

And teaching school, that ain't no woman's job in life.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

It's mine. Why, I like you and I admire you, but I'm not sure of myself yet. This country is so new and strange. I feel like an alien, an outsider. Oh, I don't know how to explain it, but I just feel that I'm. Well, different.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Women are funny, Molly. I don't understand them.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, I'm glad you think you don't. What was that?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Sounds like a calf balling. I better find out what the trouble is.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I'll go with you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, you better stay here. I'll be right back. Come on, boy. Hello, Steve. Oh, hello.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I didn't know you was coming up this end of the range.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Oh, I'm just kind of drifting around.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I've just been putting a monogram in a couple of strays.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, so I noticed. Steve, there's no use talking around things. You've been putting Krampus brand on somebody else's calf.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, what about it?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That's rustling, Steve.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, what's a few calves more or less to a man that's got thousands? I'm sick of nurse baiting somebody else's cows around for no more than enough to keep you in smoking tobacco.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Don't talk that away, Steve. You and I done a lot of loco things together. But there's some things that ain't only loco, they're plumb wrong.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Now you take life too seriously.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

This whole country's taking things more seriously. I ain't trying to lecture you or play Sunday school on what's right or wrong. But the ranchers around here are plum sick of having their herds trimmed out. And they'll soon be posses out with ropes on their saddles.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, I'm trying a nice limber one to make it easy for them. If they catch me.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You blamed hard headed fool.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

What are you gonna do, turn me in?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Nobody's talking about that. I reckon I couldn't be sore to you no matter what you did. But listen, Steve, you and I have been friends too long to find ourselves lined up on opposite sides in anything like this.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Aw, shucks. How do I know what I'm gonna do? This country's getting too civilized, too solemn. I got a notion I'll be moseying out to the gold fields or someplace.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No need. You leaving, Steve? You know, you can stay on here as long as you want. Just so you don't do nothing crazy.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

And if I do?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

We ain't gonna talk about that. Not till the time comes. Only I'm just hoping the time never does come.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Gary Cooper will be back in just a few moments to continue the story of the Virginian. But now let's go to the airport in Burbank. Out beyond the huge Warner Brothers studio as the 5:30 plane takes off for New York. In the crowd are two girls. Let's listen.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

That must be a pretty important letter, all right. That we should drive way out from Hollywood just to send it off in the 5:30. Is it important? It's an air mail. Special delivery to Bill Butler. Oh. Anyway, I think it's fun to see planes off. A lot of other people do too. Look at the crowd. What? Well, they're not looking at the plane. Look at those mics and lights over there. Oh, they must be shooting a picture. Yes. Isn't that Ann Southern? Yes, it is. Anne Southern. Doesn't she look like a million? Some snappy suit she's wearing. Some snappy, snappy complexion too. I wish I had one like it.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Ann Southern's complexion does look lovely. It will continue to look soft and smooth and clear because this youthful star protects it. She knows that enemy to good looks, cosmetic skin comes when you're careless. Here's what this charming star says. Of course I use cosmetics, but I don't risk unattractive cosmetic skin. I use luxe toilet soap because then.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

I know I'm safe.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

That's good advice for you. Lux Toilet Soaps lather is active. It removes every trace of dust and dirt, stale rouge and powder that might remain to choke the pores. It's when the pores are choked, the tiny blemishes, a dull, lifeless look. Enlarged pores. Tell you you're getting cosmetic skin. Remember, put luxe toilet soap on your shopping list. Buy for your complexion the same care 9 out of 10 screen stars use. Once again, Mr. DeMille, we continue with the Virginian, starring Gary Cooper, with Charles Bickford as Trampus, Helen Mack as Molly Wood and John Howard as Steve. Several weeks have passed since the Virginian warned Steve against rustling cattle. But the warning went unheeded. We find Steve now with Trampus and two other men engaged in running a herd. It's late at night and they've made camp in a rugged hideaway deep in the hill country. Trampus, squatting beside the fire, gloats over their victory. Not so bad, eh, boys? 300 head of cattle worth more than 75 apiece. Better than herding for a living, ain't it, Steve? I'm still herding them cows.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

We've been running them and running them.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hard all day long. This ain't no picnic at all. You'll have your picnic, Steve, when we cash in on them. Hey, Pedro, put another stick on the fire. Wait a minute, Trappers. I'd let that fire be. It's big enough now. If anyone's following us, they'll see it. Shows shooting. What's eating you, Jim?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Getting scared?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Ain't no use asking for trouble. Let the fire load. Hey, listen, when I want a fire, I'm gonna have it. There's anybody following us, there's 40 miles back. Tooling our heels. Yeah, hunting for cow tracks underwater. Well, I'm gonna dangle down the ravine. See how greasy's getting along. Night hurting them critters. Right back, Steve. All right.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Listen.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

What's that? Ain't you never heard cattle before, Jim? It sounded like they was being disturbed or something.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Calm down, boy. You're all on edge. Sure everything is all right? Yeah, maybe.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

But I'll be glad when we get rid of them cows, I'll tell you that. What if they do catch us?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You can only die once.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah. What's life anyway? Few winters waiting for spring. Few summers wishing they'd last. And then your little six by three. Six feet under the ground, that's all. Might as well be now as later.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Hell, that ain't the way I feel about it.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I ain't itching to die just yet. Ah, come on. Let's think of something cheerful.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Sure.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

We sing something to cheer you up.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

My boy. Pedro. Make it low and sweet.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Oh. Whoa, boy. Whoa.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

What's up, boss?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Look down there. That fire. It's them. It's the rustlers. Easy now. The cattle must be down in that ravine. Nebrasky, take three men and round them up. Sure. Shorty, you skid around to the north and come up on the campfire from there. Take Honey and Baldy with you, but leave your horses here.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

All set, boss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Judge, you stick with me. Okay. When I whistle, Shorty, you and your men close in.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah, won't they be surprised down there?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

All right, now, spread out, everybody, and come in easy. You want to make sure we get them all on the.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I always like that song. What the.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

What was that?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I told you they would get their gun. We got them, boss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

All right. Now, stay right where you are. Comoist, Thomas. Why are you calling cards, boys? Thanks for the ditty, Pedro. It was real entertaining. Hello, Steve. Hello. I was afraid I'd find you here. Yeah, I warned you, Steve. Sure.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

It's all right.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, where's Trampas? Trampus?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, he ain't here. Me and Pedro and Jim were hunting by ourselves this trip with five cups.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Over there on the rock. You must have been drinking with a cup in each hand.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, Boss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Boss. Oh, here.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, we got the cattle, all right.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

But whoever was at night herding them ducked. We'll get them later.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

What do we do now, boss? I say string them up. That goes for me, too.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Now, wait a minute. You got anything to say, Steve?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I guess not.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You're sure of that? Yeah. All right, boys, you know what to do. Sure we do.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Let's have your rope, Shorty.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

Now, there.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

There's a good tree right over there.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

No.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

No. I don't want to die. I don't want to die, sir. But I tell you, I don't want to die. Shut up, Jim. Got to take your medicine, Graceful.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, come on, boys.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I guess we're all set. Ain't you riding in with us, boss?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, I'm staying here, Shorty. I got. I got things to do and things to think about.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I know how you feel about Steve.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I mean, he was my friend, Shorty. I know.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

He sure went game, though. Not a whimper out of him.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

He never even looked at me. Not once. He never said a word.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I reckon he wanted to, boss. You see, when he was getting things ready, Steve gave me his gun. He said to give it to you, boss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

To me? Yeah.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

There's a note that goes with it.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

He wrote it while he was waiting. Give it to me. Here it is. I. I can't see so good. Would you read it to me, Shorty? Sure.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

It says so long. I couldn't have spoke to you without playing the baby. Steve.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Steve. Well. Well.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Will you be riding in now, boss?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, no, you go long. I'm heading over to Lost Valley. What? I got things to do. I got a hunch that Trampus went that way. I'm going. To keep your head down, Reezy. See?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Be sun up soon. I ain't taking no chances of being spotted.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

We gotta get away from here.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

They hung Pedro and Steve and Jim. We gotta get away from Us. We'll make it all right. We gotta watch our step. Now, take it easy. We'll stay here till dark. Then we'll head south after that.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Krampus. What's the matter, Krampus? Look down there. Someone is coming. He blows. Well, if it ain't the Virginian. See the Virginian?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

He's a wrong.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah. Hand me that rifle.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Out all by himself, eh?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Looking for me?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, he's looking for the last time you hit him.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

He's down.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Come on, Greasy. I reckon we can start moving now.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Whoa.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hello, Nebraski. How's the Virginian? Well, he's still unconscious, but the doc.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Says he's out of danger.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Did you bring the medicine?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, here it is.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Say, you know, the Virginian ought to be in a hospital, a school, Mom's house. Ain't no place for him. Well, what'd they fetch him here for anyway?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, they didn't fetch him. His horse brung him right over there to that door. His horse? Funny, ain't it? No taint funny. Say, he's been hanging around here so much, the horse thought it was home.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Shorty, did you bring the medicine?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I got it right here, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, thank you, no.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

You ought to get some shut eye, ma'.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Am. You look all wore out.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, I'm all right. I'm not a bit tired. Anyway, there's too much to do.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You're sure taking good care of him, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

As long as he gets well, that's all that counts.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, Nebraska, I meant to ask you, have you seen Steve around?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Steve? Why, ma'? Am. Steve? No, ma'. Am.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

No, ma'.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Am.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

We ain't seen Steve lately. You see, he. Well, he don't work for the Box H no more.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, I thought it was funny he hadn't come around. Well, if you see him, tell him his gun is here. The Virginian had it with him that night.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yes, ma'.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Am.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yes, I sure will tell him.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That is, if.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

If I runs across him.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thank you. Excuse me, boys.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Say, don't she know Steve was I.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Meant to warn you about that.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

She don't know a thing.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Thought it might be better if we didn't say nothing.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, sure. She ain't used to things like that.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yes, you knew Steve pretty well. She'd be pretty upset if she knew the Virginian had a hand in on it.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, how's the patient today? Oh, I've been up and around, Judge. Feeling fine. Good boy. What's the doc say about you? All fixed. He Says I can get out now, anytime. Only Miss Molly, she's been taking such good care of me. I kind of hate to leave. I can't say I blame you none. You know, there's been some talk lately down around the town as to how we all might be doing a little celebrating sometime this spring. Celebrating what? Oh, a wedding. You mean me and Miss Molly? How about it? Well, I wouldn't go putting no bets up if I were you, Judge.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

What's that?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Not if I was you. You ain't gettin married. Oh, I didn't say that. You say don't put up no bets. Sure. You know, it don't look so good for a judge to go around gambling on a pretty sure thing. I reckon it don't, son. Oh, morning, Ms. Wood.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Good morning.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Just talking about you.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Will you?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, just this minute.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Judge. Henry, I wonder if you'd mind leaving us for a while.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Why, no, ma'. Am. Certainly not. Just getting ready to leave anyhow.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thank you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, so long. So long, Jed. See you soon. Sure hope so. Morning, Ms. Wood.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, Molly, why didn't you tell me?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

What's that?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Why didn't you tell me? You knew I'd find out sooner or later.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I reckon you're talking about Steve.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I am.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, I thought you knew, Molly.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I didn't know. Not until this morning. I. Oh, it's horrible. Horrible.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It had to be.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Molly, you were there. Why didn't you stop it? You could have stopped it.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, you see, I was leading the posse.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

You?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

But Steve was your friend.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It didn't make much difference then.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Your friend and you murdered him.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Murder?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

What else can you call it?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Molly, don't talk like that. It was hard enough. Don't make it any worse. Somebody had to do it and I was in charge. That's our kind of law.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Does your kind of law tell you to kill your friends?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It ain't a question of friends or enemies. It's a question of right or wrong. I did what I thought was right, Molly. It was right.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Do you think I'll teach my children to believe that? Do you think I'll help raise a new generation to approve of murder?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Where you come from, they have policemen and courts and jails. We ain't got that. So when we have to, we do things our own way.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I see it now. It's this life. It destroys every human feeling a person's got. It's destroyed you. It's made you cruel and ruthless and cold blooded. Well, it won't destroy me. I won't let It. I'm leaving here just as soon as I can.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Leaving?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Molly, you don't mean that.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I do mean it.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Then you're. You're leaving me too?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Yes, I'm leaving you too. I'm leaving everything that's base and mean and ugly. No. Now, please get out and let me alone. Let me alone.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

We pause for station identification. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. It's the pride of California that it produces bigger things than any state in the Union. Hence, it was with consternation that California learned some 30 years ago that a baby had been born in Maine. Weighing 16 and a half pounds, his precocious muscles rivaled those of the mythical stone crusher Paul Bunyan. There's a legend back in Maine that when his mother took the heavyweight infant for his first ride in a perambulator, the baby leaped from the carriage and, bowing gracefully, said, come on, Moore. You get in and let me push. That may be a tall story, but I can vouch for the fact that he was a United States Marine when only 14 years old and three years later was a strong man in vaudeville. Today, California at last claims him not only as physical director of Paramount Studios and a radio physical trainer, but as a singer and little theater actor as well. Ladies and gentlemen, Richard Klein.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, thank you, Mr. DeMille. What would you like me to do? Sing, act or give you a workout?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I've heard you saying. I've seen you act, and I've thrown myself on your immerses in the gymnasium. Tonight is my turn. All right.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I hope I can take it as well as you, Dick.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Gary Cooper tells me that you're responsible for that educated fist he swings in the plainsman.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Gary's really one of the best boxers in Hollywood. Along with George Raft, Sir Guy Standing, Jack Okey and, strangely enough, Ida Lupino. But I'm proudest of Gary. He's a real example of what regular exercise can do.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Many people still believe that the life of a picture star is a round of parties, anything but a round of boxing. One of the reasons I asked you here is to correct that impression.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, outside of farmers, none live a more regular, healthy life than film stars. It's a matter of necessity. If they didn't, they'd never be able to stand the strain. A well balanced diet, plenty of sleep and the proper exercises are absolutely necessary. So they may give their best.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

You might be a little more explicit.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, their taste in exercise varies. Carol Lombard and Claudette Colbert prefer tennis. Cary Grant and Randolph Scott go in.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

For punching the bag.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Bing Crosby. And incidentally, Mr. DeMille, like the rowing machine. Vladis and Adolphe Monju do lots of riding. And Marlene Dietrich and Mae west keep their famous figures by pedaling a stationary bicycle. I've been doing my darndest to get WC Fields inside of the gym. But he insists he gets all the exercise he needs. Juggling a half dozen grapefruit every morning. My gymnasium, by the way, is one of the most historic buildings in Hollywood. It started out as a Barn. Then in 1914, Mr. DeMille turned it into a studio. It was there that he made the first feature length picture, the Squaw Man. Keeping fit has become so important in Hollywood that in the near future every.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

New player at Paramount will undergo a complete physical examination. When signed, all of our executives will.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Also be expected to report regularly. Take a tip from these famous people, ladies and gentlemen, and find time to exercise. I guarantee you'll be amazed at how.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Much more work you'll be able to accomplish.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

How much better you'll feel. Do your exercising where you can step into a shower immediately after. And if you want to get the ultimate good from both exercise and shower, my advice is to use luxe toilet soap. I believe in physical culture of the skin as well as the rest of the body. It's part of my business to know what's best for a healthy skin. Lux never leaves the skin dry, as many soaps do. It has a pleasant aroma and its cleansing qualities are distinctly superior. You can be pretty certain that when the stars go for something the way they do for Lux Soap, it must be good. And thank you, Mr. DeMille, and so long.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Good night, prodigy. And now, now back to the virginian. Starring gary cooper with charles bickford, helen mack and john howard. It's several days later in the corral at the Box H Ranch. We find the Virginian saddling his horse. Strolling up to the gate comes Molly Wood. She stands for a moment watching him, then speak timidly.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Good morning, Molly. I mean, good morning, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

May I come in?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It'll be a pleasure to have you, ma'. Am.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thank you. You see, I. I didn't leave after all. Yes, ma', am, I. I changed my mind. I'm going to stay.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Are you?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, aren't you glad?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That all depends. You see, folks has to be made for this country. It's rough and it's wild and it takes a strong stomach to stand for some of the things that go on out here. If you can't stand it, it's best not to stay at all.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

You think I'm a weakling, don't you?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, ma'. Am. I just don't think you understand our side of it.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Perhaps not. But I've decided to try. I've been doing a lot of thinking since the other day. I've looked around me, at people like Judge Henry and Shorty and Nebrasky and their wives. People like that can't all be wrong. They're kind and good.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, ma', am, they are. But they don't ever let themselves forget the reason they're here. They're building a new country, ma'. Am. It's a big job.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I know, and that's why I'm staying. I want to help.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

We sure need it, ma'. Am. Any help at all and yours will be right welcome.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thank you. And now, will you. Will you forgive me for what I said to you?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Forgive you? Well, that's easy.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

And will everything be just as it was between you and me?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That's up to you, Molly.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I want it to be.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I've been wanting it, too.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, darling.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, Joe.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Joe. Oh, hello, trampers. Ain't seen you around here.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah, I've been traveling. Set up around Joe?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Sure.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, Creasy, come and get it. Say, Joe, town's getting mangy with cowhands. What's up? Heyday?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, a wedding.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

The Virginian's getting hitched to the new school, Mom. A Virginian, huh? You'd think he wouldn't marry her.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I heard she saved his life.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah. I do seem to recollect something about him being shot a while ago. Injuns, wasn't it?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, Somebody plugged him in the box back.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

You don't say. Too bad I didn't finish him for good. Come on, greasy, drink up.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, boys, boys.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Hey, when's the wedding, Miss Molly?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, when's the big event? Speak up, Boss, it ain't going to be till tomorrow, so you can stop pestering right now, you bunch of mangy mavericks.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Say, Miss Molly, do you mind if we borrow him for a spell?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, can I trust you?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Oh, we'll all be very good. Pretty good.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Not too good.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Which is the honest man?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Not one of them.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, all right. I'll trust all of you. You can borrow him, but not for too long.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Go on ahead, boys. I'll meet you in a couple of minutes.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

See you over at Joe's place, boys.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You don't mind me going with him, do you, honey?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Of course not. The boys have their rights to you just as much as I have.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I won't be long. Anyhow, we'll have plenty of time alone where we're going. We'll travel west till we find just the place we want to make our home.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

I hope you'll never be sorry.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I hope I'll always be able to make you happy. And to keep you happy, that's going to be my main aim in life.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, I love you. Well, you better run along now. The boys are waiting for you.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Come on, boys, one more round. Yeah, come on.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Take it easy, boys. I got to get married tomorrow. Set him up, Joe.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Sure, sure. Say, there's a friend of yours in town.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah? Yeah, fella named Krampus. Krampus? Did he mention he was a friend of mine? He said plenty about you, all lit up and talking big.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Said he'd drop in again in case there's any interest to you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, it ain't.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I think he's looking for trouble myself.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Wouldn't it be just too bad if he found it? Say, boss, we'll take.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Take this thing off your hands if you want.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yes, and save you the trouble. Just say the word.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Any or all of us.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, thanks, boys. This is a matter between us, too. I'm only hoping they don't drift around.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah, but a fella don't get married every day.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That's just it. You got to think of her. Who else am I thinking of?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Come on, boys.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Step right up and name him.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

There he is, Boss, coming in the door. Well, look who's here. Enjoy your place? Getting sort of crummy, ain't it? Never used to let mangy foreman hang around. Shut up, Trampus.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Easy, Shorty. It's all right.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Set him up, Joe. You know, Gracie, it seems to me I hear of a fella around here who got shot in the back. Well, so far as I know, the only way that can happen to a fella is when he's running away.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

She running away?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Let me handle this, will you, boss?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

No, I don't want no trouble, Nebraska.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I'm sick of this palavering around. Listen here, you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You speaking to me, Trampus?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yes, you. You've been spreading a lot of talk around about my dealing in cattle. I'm having a showdown with you here and now, Krampus.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'm trying not to have any trouble with you just now.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Yeah, you've been dodging it for five years. You've been talking plenty trouble to keep out of my way. But I got you corralled now, and I'm calling your hand.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

All right, what have you got?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I've got the belief You're a lion. White livered skunk. This country ain't big enough to hold.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

The two of us.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

And I'm giving you till sundown to get out of town.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It's too bad you had to say that, Trampus.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Get out. Get out by sundown or I'll shoot you on sight. Come on, Greasy, let's get out of here.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Boys, I'd like you to oblige me in this by not interfering.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Sure, we understand.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Sundown. That's less than a half an hour now.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Going to tell Miss Molly?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Not till it's over. She wouldn't understand about this. She's raised different. Well, we won't say nothing, Boss. I got Steve's gun over at the hotel. Reckon that'd be the one to use. I'll go over now and fetch it. Come in.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, here you are.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Sure, Molly.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, it's been so terrible waiting for you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Your head about Trampus being in town.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Everyone's talking about it. They say you've got to leave by sundown. I. I wanted to run out and find you, but I didn't. I waited quietly in my room.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'm sorry you had to be worried, Molly.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

What? Doesn't matter. Nothing matters except that you're here. Let's don't think about it. What should we do now?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Now? Nothing now. It ain't quite sundown yet.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

What?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I know it's a heap worse for you. I. I wish it. I wish you didn't have to wait alone. But it won't be for long.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Why? What do you mean?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I did my best. I let him say things to me no man ever said before. If I hadn't been thinking hard of you, I reckon I'd have killed him then. I gave him a chance to quit, but he'd gone too far. It'll have to go on now.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

What are you going to do?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'm not going to let him shoot me.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

But we can go away. It's not too late. You can go away and leave him here.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I've got to stay.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, no. There must be something else. There must be. Well, I think what it means. Killing in cold blood.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You don't think I want to do this?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, I tried to forgive the other killing those cattle thieves and Steve. I forced myself to think of it as you did. Law and order. But this. This isn't the same. You don't have to do this.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

If folks came to think me a coward, I couldn't look them in the eye ever again. Or you either.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, that's just Pride.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I don't know what you call it, but it's. It's something in the feelings of a man deep down inside. Something a man can't go back on. If anybody happened to say I was a thief, I couldn't let them go on saying it. It wouldn't matter what other people thought. But I'd have to know inside of me that I thought enough of my own honesty to fight for it.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

And it's to be like this always? When will it ever end?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

There'll always be killing to do until this country ain't a meeting place for men like Trampas.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Then think of us. Our life together.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

That's what I am thinking of.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Your life has always been your own. But now it isn't. You've given it to me. Don't take it away.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I can't think of that now.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

If you do this, there'll be no tomorrow for you and me.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'm sorry, Molly. It's got to be done.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, no, don't go.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Come back.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Please come back. You can't leave me like this. Yeah.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Hello, boy. Hello, Shorty.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

And it's sundown.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, I just seen Trampus. He's in Joe's place. Yeah. I guess I'll take a walk down that way.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Listen, boss, stay on the sidewalk. You don't want to be stepping in one of them mud holes when you're taking aim.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'll be all right. I'll walk with you.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Peace. That is, if you don't mind.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Of course not. Come on.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Watch out for the loose boards, boss. This walk is full of them.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'll watch it. Feel all right? It's fine.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

We're all with you, boss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I know it. There. There he is.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Just coming out the door. He sees you, boss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah. I'll go on from here. Alone, Shorty.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Sure, boss. And lots of luck.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Thanks.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

It's sundown, Virginian.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I know it. Trampus.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I warned you.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, I'm waiting.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

You won't have. All right.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

You never touched me, Shorty.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh. You got him, boss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

He's dead.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

In a cold mackerel.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Yeah, I reckon he is.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Where is he? Where is he?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

I'll.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Let me through. Please. Please let me, miss.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Molly. Molly.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, you're safe. Oh, thank God it wasn't you. Thank God.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

It's all right, Molly. No need to cry.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Don't ever leave me ever again.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

But what you said before about there not being any tomorrow. Don't they count?

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Nothing counts except that I love you. Promise me you'll never leave me. Promise.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Sure. I promise. But I still don't understand women. Molly.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

We take our leave of the Virginians, but not of Gary Cooper and Helen Mack who come back to the microphone a little later. Activities of the motion picture world draw more newspaper men to Hollywood than national affairs draw to Washington. Outstanding among them is Sidney Skolsky, whose column Hollywood appears daily in the New York News and in many other papers here and abroad. Formerly author of the column Tintype in the New York sun and behind the News in the Daily News. Sid has also been press agent for such dispensers of beauty as Sam Harris, Earl Carroll and George White. He would probably be offended if I said he is the best liked film reporter. Sid is a member of that resolute minority who believe in hewing to the line of news and letting the quips fall where they may. Ladies and gentlemen, Sidney Skolsky.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

When you call me that partner, smile.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, how are you, Skulsky?

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

I've got myself exactly where you want me.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

You'll never get there, Skalsky.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

I mean, I'm as nervous here as I make you when I visit your movie set.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, you look like one of my pictures. Four frightened people, all four of them. I sound like a straight man. And when a columnist goes straight, that's something. That'll be enough, Skalsky. Get on with your Hollywood wash.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

Pretty subtle. Nobody'd ever think you were talking about luxury.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Can you do better?

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

Well, I don't use publicity blurbs in my column and I don't intend to start with this program. But I can truthfully say I've seen Lux soap in homes of movie stars that I've visited. And I don't believe actresses keep Lux around for the same reason they keep emeralds.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Well, now that you're here, make the worst of it.

[Sidney Skolsky (Hollywood Columnist)]

Don't worry, I will. Hollywood is a place where Kay Francis now keeps her diary in shorthand. Where Gloria Swanson has eight photographs in her bedroom of Gloria Swanson. It is a town where you need an umbrella to walk through a mist. It is a town where you heard of it leaving a party, said to the hostess, I had a lovely evening, but this wasn't it. Where Francis X. Bushman, who was once the Clark Gable and Robert Taylor of his day now owns a hamburger stand opposite the 20th Century Fox studio and is still serving his public. But don't get me wrong. I love Hollywood. Hollywood is a place where Victor McLaughlin, playing a scene for his picture the Magnificent Brute was told to run up a flight of stairs and then fall when the villain Fired the first shot from his gun. McLaughlin failed to do this, and when asked why by the director, Victor answered, I'm McLaughlin. It takes more than one shot to get me. It is a town where Simone. Simone doesn't pull down the shades in her apartment and rents have gone up in that neighborhood. But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood. Hollywood is a place where Douglas Fairbanks has his name written on the bands of the cigars he gives you. It's a town where you can drive into a drive in stand and bring home a cake of ice wrapped in cellophane. Where the first thing Robert Taylor had to do to be a picture star was to pluck his eyebrows. Where at the preview of the picture Pigskin prayed they had a scene showing girls going to Yale. But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood. Hollywood is a place where Ginger Rogers, for a wild evening goes bowling with James Stewart on Wilshire Boulevard. Where John Barrymore gives a great performance ordering a cup of coffee in the Brown Derby. It is a town where director Van Dyke, making the flicker Eskimo took artificial snow to the Arctic. Where Gene Harlow wears a mink coat and with nothing underneath it but a pair of silk pajamas. Where Gene Fowler now signs his letters Gene Fowler, author of Jack London's White Fang. But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood. Hollywood is a place where Charlie Chaplin keeps a huge dictionary in his bathroom. Where Garbo and Rex o' Malley doing a dance in Camille fell to the floor. O' Malley helped Garbo up and rather embarrassed, said to Greta, oh dear, how could I have tripped over your tiny little feet? It is a town where Joseph von Sternberg raised a beard and when asked why, answered, I'm tired of looking at my face and I'm not the only one. But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood. Hollywood is a place where Carol Lombard can be seen reading a story in a fan magazine titled Clark Gable's Romantic Flight. It is a town where Irving Berlin, at a party asked what song the fellow at the piano was playing, only to be told it was Alexander's Ragtime Band. Where Ted Healy asked his stooge Jimmy Brewster, who do you think will get in? Roosevelt or Landon? And Brewster answered, what's the matter with the guy we got in there now? But don't get me wrong, I love Hollywood and always will as long as it supplies such good copy. Good night. Thank you.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Good night, Sid. We bring back the Virginian Gary Cooper and the school mom, Helen Mack.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thank you, Mr. DeMille. The only thing I missed tonight was seeing Gary ride a horse. And he does when he really gets out in the open.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, riding is nothing extra special, Helen. Back home in Montana, we learn to ride them most when we're kids. When more kids rather are pushing a kitty car. I guess I cut my first teeth on saddle leather.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Is that why you pick Gary for the part of Wild Bill Hickok and the plainsman, Mr. DeMille?

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Partly, Helen. Actually, he's a perfect portrait of Hickok in look, size and manner. Then there's a similarity between the Virginian and Wild Bill. The Virginian is the ideal American character in romance, short on speech and long on action. And Wild Bill Hickok is the ideal American character. In fact, Hickok was not a bad man. He was a patriot.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Well, then how did he get such a reputation as a killer?

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, he's supposed to have killed between 60 and 100 men, not. Not counting Indians.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

And nobody counted Indians in those days.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Oh, they were just used for practice, probably.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

The fact is, Hickok killed only in defense of law and order. And as he said himself back in the 1870s, there's no Sunday west of Junction City. No law west of Hayes, said he. And no God west of Carson, said he.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

It was to change all this, to bring respect of law to the west that Hickok devoted his life, finally losing it when shot by Jack McCall, who killed him for the strangest reason ever heard. Because he admired him so much.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I guess it's because all this is true that I got such a kick out of making the picture. It was real.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Including the danger in riding between two horses to escape an Indian ambush. I think you did something many stars would have avoided. However, that was in the script. What wasn't in the script was your stopping the six horses that stampeded across the prairie. Running away with the stagecoach.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Well, after all, I had to stop them. The one they were running away with was me.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

While you were running away with the picture? I hope we'll soon have another picture for you to steal.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

When Gary steals a picture or a broadcast, it's really grand larceny.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Oh, Helen.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Helen, as far as I'm concerned, I wish this program could go on for another 60 minutes.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Anything after your performance tonight, Helen, would be an anti climate.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Then all I can add is that when it comes to radio programs and soap, give me Lux every time. They're both toughs.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

I'll vote the same ticket and include you, Helen.

[Molly Wood (Schoolmarm)]

Thanks, Gary. Good night, everyone.

[Andrew Rines (OTRWesterns Host)]

Good night.

[Narrator / Cecil B. DeMille]

Good night, Helen. Good night, plainsman. Of the thousands of stories that relate the adventures of a modern Robin Hood, none has won such enduring popularity as Alias Jimmy Valentine, which comes to us next Monday night with Pat o' Brien in the title role. With Pat, our three other Hollywood stars, Madge Evans, Alan Jenkins and William Frawley. Our sponsors the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater stars Pat o' Brien in Alias Jimmy Valentine with Madge Evans and an all star cast. This is Cecil B. DeMille saying good night to you from Hollywood. The renouncer has been Melville Ruick. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

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