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BEST BROADCASTS OF 1939-40
Girl. — No. I mean, is there any more to the wire ?
Sound. — Telephone rings . . . receiver off.
Girl. — Curley Enterprises. Just a moment, please. (To agent ) Time magazine on the line. Will you take it on the table phone ?
Agent. — (Going off) All right. (Sound of telephone receiver off .. . following conversation is background all the way through to end of scene ) Hello? Yes, this is him. Yes. Well, you see. Yuh. Uhuh. No, I discovered him in the boy’s possession. That’s right.
Sound
Second telephone rings . . . perspective with the girl.
Girl
Curley Enterprises. Well, he’s busy on another line. Who? Oh, yes ... he wanted me to tell you to order a special air-mail daily shipment of willow leaves from Florida. (Third telephone rings) Wait a minute, will you? (Fourth telephone rings . . . alter¬ nates with third . . . finally the flustered girl can stand it no longer, and she shouts to agent) You better hire some more secretaries!
. . No . . . No . . . Yes, sure . . . No, he hasn’t yet . . . Right ... I keep him right here . . . Stinky looks after him most of the time . . . Yes . . . What? . . . No . . . Oh, no ... I beg your par¬ don . . . Oh, by all means . . . From the very first, yes . . . that’s right . . . that’s right . . . Hm? . . . Not yet . . . Probably not for another week or two . . . Absolutely ... Well, we tried all kinds of tunes . . . no, sir . . . which . . . which are you referring to . . . No ... I don’t . . . Hm . . . Yes.
Music. — “Yes, Sir ” . . . transitional cue “ B ” rides over ringing telephones and conversation.
Agent. — Well, things are going in great shape, and Curley is making us a bundle of dough, when all of a sudden I get three visitors I didn’t figure on.
Doctor i. — We have been reading about your wonderful speci¬ men in the papers, and we have come to ask permission to examine it.
Agent. — Examine it ? What for ? 10