"[MUSIC PLAYING]" "Candy, drinks, candy cigarettes," "Chewing gum candy, cigarettes, cigars." "[QUARTET TUNING]" "[QUARTET PLAYING MUSIC]" "Now calm down, Ethel, you're as nervous as a filly" "In her first race." "Are you telling me?" "Come on!" "Get a move on ya." "Get to your places." "Oh, nearly missed the opening, eh?" "Now, the next time you're fired." "All right, take your place." "Keep you pretty busy, don't they Sam?" "These dames are gettin' worse." "Eaten' too regularly." "All their wrinkles are coming out." "Where's Duke?" "Oh, he's on the other side." "But you better hurry." "It's about curtain time." "You have to knock 'em dead tonight, honey." "The house is packed." "That's great, Duke." "Now perhaps you'll get back some of the money" "You so foolishly put in your show." "Foolish?" "Why, Sugar, that's what I've been working" "For, to have a show of our own with you a star." "You're sweet, Baby." "My lips, my makeup you'll ruin them." "All right, but you'll pay double after the show." "Oh, you." "[CLAPPING]" "Shh." "Silence!" "Places!" "(SINGING) Got a gal down in Dixieland," "Makes my heart beat to beat the band." "Here's the train trestles over them." "Get away boys I've got this [INAUDIBLE]." "Blackberry baby I'm coming to you." "Blackberry baby I'm headed to you." "[INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] get the band." "Blackberry baby you're mine." "Blackberry baby ain't got a thistle." "I'll be traveling sharp as a whistle." "I won't be satisfied 'til I am by your side." "Blackberry baby you're mine." "You laugh and I laugh when we get together." "You step and I step and [INAUDIBLE] ever." "Blackberry baby, you are my honey." "Blackberry baby the sun is sunin'. [INAUDIBLE] got" "To be right there with you and me." "Blackberry baby you're mine." "Blackberry baby your smile is largest." "Blackberry baby your [INAUDIBLE] gorgeous." "When [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE]." "Blackberry baby, you're mine." "Welcome to Dixie, here is your lady, all of the South, man," "Welcomes you baby." "We're here to satisfy," "Watching our own tonight." "Blackberry baby, you're mine." "That Andrews girl's got plenty of what it takes." "I can give her a big break." "Mason, I can't figure what your objection is." "My objection is that it would ruin" "The lives of two fine young people." "Look, Mason, how much do you pay that whole troupe?" "A $1,500 a week guarantee?" "Surely not more." "Six months from now she could make that much by herself." "You're just a sentimental old fool." "Maybe so, but I've watched those kids" "Grow up on this circuit." "Duke gave up a promising stage career to push Ethel ahead." "Oh, he's done a fine job of it too." "Next season she'll be the biggest attraction we have." "Out here in the sticks, what'll it get her?" "(SINGING) You and I have made a small beginning." "Don't know what our fate is going to be." "Chances are we'll get what we're deserving." "We will be the tops, just wait and see." "I know you remember all I've told you." "We'll see our dreams through." "You remember." "We'll work hard together while we're dreaming," "Our plans have meaning." "I know you remember." "Fine cars, luxury, we'll have more than these." "Don't care what people say." "We stay together." "Look at that personality, she's a cinch for the big time." "(SINGING) You believe me win or lose, I'm with you." "You hear that voice?" "That's what they're buying." "(SINGING) I know you remember." "[APPLAUSE]" "Did you wow!" "Listen to that applause." "Come on you two lovebirds, get out of the way." "Yes, sir, Mr. Stage Manager." "All right girls, in your place." "Let's go!" "Don't rib him, Duke, he's right," "And I have to make a change." "And I have to see Mr. Mason." "MASON:" "Duke, Mr. Marshall is a talent" "Scout for an Eastern circuit." "He thinks Ethel has big-time possibilities." "Oh boy, that's great!" "I've been waiting a lifetime to hear news like that." "I knew it would come sometime." "When would you want us to report, Mr. Marshall?" "Us?" "Whaddya mean, us?" "You see, Duke, Mr. Marshall wasn't figuring on you." "He wants Ethel to do a single." "A single?" "Alone?" ""The Bronze Nightingale," what an angle!" "Sensational!" "What publicity!" "My kind of a build up and she's in the bag." "You can tag along if you want to." "Tag along?" "I don't think you understand Mr. Marshall." "We've always been together, always hope to be." "I studied Ethel, taught her, brought out the best in her." "It would be a great chance for her." "Chance?" "Why, it's the break of a lifetime." "What's her talent getting her here?" "I know all that, but I produced her show." "Producers are a dime a dozen in New York." "Well I wouldn't be the first one to crash in." "Why, I've heard..." "A lot of fairy tales." "Ever been to New York?" "No." "Then I'll tell you what it would be like." "In and out of offices, nothing today, come back tomorrow." "Just butting your head up against a stone wall." "It would break your heart and hers." "You wouldn't want to stand in her way, would you?" "Stand in her way?" "Of course not." "New York is her dish." "Think of her in lights." ""Ethel Andrews, The Bronze Nightingale."" "A new star is born." "Gaiety, glamour, she's entitled to that" "And I can get them all for her." "What can you do?" "[APPLAUSE IN BACKGROUND]" "The, ah, show just broke, gentlemen." "Good night." "Good house for the opening night." "Isn't she beautiful?" "And can she sing!" "Why, she's a whole show." "Come on, it's late." "Let's go." "It's a surprise from Duke." "With his usual card." "Ain't Duke a prince?" "Ella, the Duke is tops!" "He's giving me a chance to do a number next week," "And I sure have been rehearsing hard." "You've been holding out on me, huh?" "You know better than that." "Well, come on let's see it." "Well, here it goes." "[SCAT SINGING]" "[KNOCK AT DOOR]" "Ella." "Ella, I want to speak to Ethel." "I'm practically gone." "Duke Darling, what's the matter?" "Oh, I guess I've been kind of selfish," "Keeping you on this small-time stuff" "When you belong on Broadway." "Dear, you'll be a dreamer all your life" "And I wouldn't have you different," "But don't you know that if Broadway is for us" "We'll get there?" "Marshall, a talent scout for an Eastern booking circuit" "Has been watching you." "He thinks you've got what it takes." "Ethel, we show people live and strive" "For one goal, the big stage, and when opportunity knocks," "We've got to answer." "It's your chance, Kid, take it." "Without you, Duke?" "Don't say it, Honey." "I'll never tell you anything that" "Isn't right, because, well, you remember." "[MUSIC PLAYING]" "Here are the reports, Mr. Mason." "Thanks." "Oh, hello, Mr. Davis." "Hello, Gladys." "Hi ya, Mr. Mason." "Well, Duke, you broke the season's house records." "That's fine." "How about Ethel?" "Have you made up your mind yet?" "Sure, but she hasn't made up hers." "I've been arguing with her for the past two weeks." "She just laughs at the idea of our splitting," "Says it's ridiculous." "Sometimes the surgeon has to cut deep and hurt," "But it's for the patient's good." "[QUIET SINGING IN THE BACKGROUND]" "MARSHALL:" "New York is her dish." "The Bronze Nightingale." "A new star is born." "Publicity, glamour, gaiety." "MASON:" "Sometimes the surgeon has to cut deep and hurt," "But it's for the patient's good." "Gee, it's been a swell two weeks." "I'm so glad for Duke's sake." "[KNOCKING]" "DUKE:" "Good evening, Ethel." "Yes, Duke come on in." "We've just about finished packing." "I'm so glad you've given up that silly idea of our separating." "You couldn't stand it?" "Suppose you think of me for a change." "Remember that?" "Our contract." "DUKE:" "Now listen, Ethel, I've tried to reason with you" "For the past two weeks, tried to be kind," "But you wouldn't listen." "Now I'll tell you something, I can" "Make myself a piece of money out of that." "Here, take a look." "$5,000" "Sure, I can cash in on this contract, and I need the dough." "So, that's all I mean to you, dollars and cents." "I don't think I ever knew you until now." "Laugh's on me I guess." "Here, you forget my part of the contract." "Now you can collect." "Well I'm glad you decided to be sensible." "I'll be seeing you sometime." "Lots of luck." "And she never knew me, until now." "[APPLAUSE]" "(SHOUTING) Ethel, Ethel." "Duke!" "You're a great guy, but I'm not going" "To let you get away with this." "It's the best thing for her, El." "Best thing?" "I'm going right back and tell the truth." "Listen, Ella, you've got the promise" "Not to say a word, because well, you remember." "What?" "[KNOCKING]" "Hold the wire." "Come in." "Where do you go next week?" "Say, you pay the last half of this when it happens," "And that's a season's work these days." "Where do we go next week!" "Yes?" "Good morning, Mr. Lake." "Ah, remember me?" "I'm Duke Davis, I used to do a single for you." "So did a lot of other hams." "No, I don't remember you." "It has been a long time, but say, I've got a brand new act." "Oh, sure, I know." "New gags, classy songs, swell wardrobe." "I hear that every day, I know it by heart." "It's got whiskers on it." "Nothing for you." "I guess you heard that before." "Anyway, in case you don't know it," "Vaudeville is as dead as the last year's woman's hat." "About all I'm looking for is girl" "Acts for the picture houses." "Well that's great, Mr. Lake." "You know, I'm a producer and, and that" "Would be right up my alley." "And that alley's so full of producers" "The Health Department is kicking." "Say, I do remember you, you and that Andrews dame." "She was a good meal ticket for you" "Once, ought to be a better one now." "She's a big-time hit." "Why don't you hang a touch on her?" "I'm thinking of doing the same to you, my love." "DUKE:" "There you are Mr. Mason, a brand new" "Show I just finished writing it!" "I hope you got something here, my boy." "It's a wow!" "It's got everything!" "Heard from Ethel?" "No." "But look, I can use my old people." "They know my work and I know what they can do." "Of course, you'll have to stake me." "I'm broke." "If you're as good as you use to be," "We'll manage to put on your show." "That's swell, kids." "That'll be all today." "10 o'clock in the morning." "Wait a minute!" "And that don't mean 10:30 or five after, it means 10:00!" "All right [INAUDIBLE]." "How's it shaping up to you, Sam?" "It's a lily, but, Duke, you always put on good shows." "I hope so." "You don't have to say it, Mr. Mason, I know." "The show did a nosedive." "The breaks of our game, my boy." "But I know where it's weak." "Say, a couple of new specialties and tighten up" "On that comedy, why, I can doctor up" "This show in two shakes of a pawn broker's head." "I'm sorry, Duke, but my bankroll" "Just can't stand any more strain." "Well that's that." "Anyway, thanks for giving me a break." "I'm sorry." "Sorry for the flop." "Forget it, Duke." "What did the boss, say?" "Ah, Duke!" "We'll show him this ain't the only circuit." "No, Sam, get yourself a job." "You can handle a stage better than any man I know." "I ain't gonna leave you." "Yes you are, because I can't pay you." "Here, I'm splitting the bankroll with you." "Good luck, Sam." "Good evening." "Good evening." "Psst." "Psst." "Oh, as I live and breathe and gargle my tonsils, Duke Davis." "Doctor Dorando, the old boy himself." "How are ya?" "Riding the quest." "Favored by fame and followed by fortune." "And how is the bright star of the theatrical firmament?" "The scintillating, shimmering satellite to the..." "Save it, Doc." "What are you peddling these days?" "Peddling?" "A vile word, my boy." "I am engaged in revealing to suffering humanity" "This peerless remedy, this amazing healer." "Doctor Dorando's Universal Elixir." "That's fine." "Sit down." "How's business?" "Ah, marvelous, stupendous, colossal." "I might even add that businesses is, ah, fair." "Ham and eggs, turn my eggs over, please." "(CLEARING THROAT) Um, Miss." "Nothin' doing, Mister." "This is no drugstore, you've stuck us for plenty already." "Money talks from now on." "Order of ham and eggs, over." "Ah, Duke, how about making that order double?" "Sure." "Oh, ah duplicate the order, young woman," "And keep my eggs honest..." "Lookin' me in the face." "Another order ham and... sunny up." "Finished, Doc?" "Alas, yes." "[CRICKETS CHIRPING]" "Ah, Duke, a thousand thanks." "Perhaps you will accept a slight return for your hospitality." "That's all right, Doc, you know you're welcome." "Come clean, now." "Up against it?" "Well, now, I, I am suffering a temporary setback, but, ah," "Come over to my headquarters and we" "Will discuss about this at length." "Oh, well, have you the time?" "[LAUGHTER]" "I understand, come on, Doc." "DOC:" "Why, no Duke, I haven't been north of Alabama" "In two or three years." "That's why I haven't seen you before, Doc." "Oh, Duke, I want you to meet, ah, Prince Alakazzo," "My faithful companion." "Dippy Dodds, hi ya." "Yes, sir, Mr. Davis." "How are you?" "Oh, so you know The Prince." "Dippy was property man on one of the Toby shows I was with." "Yes sir, I had a job in them days." "Excuse me, Doc, ah, when does I eat, or doesn't I?" "Tush, tush, my boy, always thinking of your stomach." "Yes sir, thinking." "Step right inside, Duke, step right in." "Ah, here, here's $0.15." "Here, go and get yourself a good meal." "Say, Doc, ah, you didn't rob a bank, did ya?" "Ah, run along boy, you annoy me." "I wish to speak with Mr. Davis." "Make yourself comfortable, Duke." "Thanks, Doc, I was just looking things over." "Nothing like having a place of your own, is it?" "Ah, home, sweet home." "Sit down, Duke, sit down." "[SCREECHING MEOW]" "Oww!" "Get thee from behind me, Satan." "As you have doubtlessly observed," "A financial stringency does exist." "In fact, I'm disposing of the remnants" "Of my stock to keep this inner man alive." "So you're broke." "Well, no, no, not exactly." "Only a very, very small matter separates me" "From a cool million." "Yeah?" "What is that?" "Ah, $15." "Listen, Doc, cut out the act, give me the lowdown." "What's put you behind the eight ball?" "Well now, the wholesale house has" "Cut off my credit and business..." "Has been rotten." "Exactly." "The suckers... ah, that is that customers... ah," "Don't fall like they used to." "Ah ha, still giving them that same old spiel" "And expect them to form a line with their money" "In their hands." "Well, now, I guess that's about it." "But it's a good spiel, it always was." "That's out now, what you've got to do" "Is entertain them, give them something for nothing." "No, no, no, no, Duke." "That's against all my principles." "But, ah, elucidate." "What you need is showmanship, and that means Duke Davis." "I'll bring your show up to the minute." "How 'bout it?" "Son, we're partners, 50-50." "Ahh, this speaks of brighter and better days" "For old Doc Dorando." "First of all, I'd talk about the customers." "Forget the medicine, something like this." "Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me" "Great pleasure to announce the return of..." "Famous Doctor Dorando to your thriving community." "He brings you the benefits of a lifelong dedication" "To the study of the alleviation of human suffering." "The doctor's happiness, naturally, is your happiness." "Isn't that so, Doctor?" "Oh, yes, yes indeed." "To be sure." "But my friends, in order to be happy, you must be healthy." "Ain't that the truth." "Mister, I've got a powerful misery in my left shoulder." "Ahh, a very serious condition, but the doctor's Universal" "Elixir will make you a healthy man." "Have no fear, step right this way." "Yes, sir." "Thank you!" "Now, ahem, before I tell you of this wonderful discovery," "This universal elixir, let us have music." "Professor." "Ladies and gentlemen, Professor Duckbill, wizard of the strings" "Will now entertain." "Strike it up, Professor." "Looks like business is going to be good." "Sheriff, I ain't gonna stand for it." "Them fellows take all the money out of town." "I don't see what I can do about it, Large." "He's paid his license." "That so?" "Sheriff, I'm not going to put any pressure on you," "But just remember they ain't [INAUDIBLE] election, that's" "All." "[GUITAR MUSIC STOPS]" "[APPLAUSE]" "Yes indeedy, yes indeed." "Good day." "[SPEAKING GIBBERISH]" "You sap, he's fixed." "Very well your highness." "The Prince hopes you will all get what is coming to you." "I sure hope we don't get what's coming to us." "Have no fear, there'll be plenty for all." "And now let me tell you of this wonderful elixir compounded" "Of rare herbs, gathered from the ends of the earths." "From the icy wastes of the polar regions," "The blazing heat of the Sahara Desert, regardless of cost." "A pack of lies." "I don't believe a word, come on, Sheriff, I'll show them." "Those are strong words, sir." "Are you prepared to back 'em up?" "I sure am, as a respectable druggest, I..." "Ahh, just as I thought." "Friends, this man sells you a bottle of medicine," "Charges you a dollar." "Maybe he cures you, and maybe he doesn't." "Ain't so, I know this stuff ain't no good." "You hold your lip lied, Smithers." "I drunk two bottles of your medicine for my sciatica" "And I'm paining' yet." "That wasn't for drinkin', it was for rubbing'." "[LAUGHTER]" "Thank you, lady, thank you." "But, need I go on?" "I see you get my point." "There is no guarantee that what this man sells you and takes" "Your good money for will cure your ailments." "Now then, if you are suffering from sciatica," "Cold in the head, headache, or any other of the ailments" "That might come to plague you, just" "See what one bottle, one bottle mind you," "Of Doctor Dorando's marvelous Universal Elixir" "Will do for you." "Hold on a minute." "Will that there stuff grow hair?" "Grow hair, sir?" "I'm glad you brought that up." "I ask you to look at the good doctor" "And notice that luxuriant growth of hair." "Why, four years ago the doctor fell ill" "With sinfaletosis of the metatarsal," "A very dangerous disease." "And all of his hair fell out, but thanks to the Universal" "Elixir but why go on, why go on?" "Doctor show them what Universal Elixir has done for you." "I knew it, I knew it." "It's a fake." "Now, Sheriff, do your duty." "I'll give you just five minutes to be one mile out of town." "Ah, Doc, ah, we're leaving." "So I anticipated." "Ah, Joe, Joe." "Move those chairs." "Start packing." "Ah, Dippy, hook up the car!" "Well, it looks like Old Man Jinks is with me permanent." "Don't let a little thing like that getcha." "Why, when I really bear down, we'll" "Be selling more stuff than any medicine show in the business." "No, Duke, it ain't no use." "Forget it, Doc." "I've got more ideas than a clock has ticks." "And the first idea is in the future" "We're going to glue that wig on, tight." "Ooh." "For Pete's sake." "Hey there." "Imp of darkness and demon of disaster." "Smells like the coffee's ready." "Now, for the eats." "[CRICKETS CHIRPING]" "Say, Joe, here's a good spot to turn off the main drag, 'cause" "Them folks back there sure hostile." "Looks kind of rough to me." "Yes, but I ain't taking no chances." "OK by me." "Suffering [INAUDIBLE]." "Doc, the place is on fire." "Here put your foot up here, Doc." "Let me get that out for you. [INAUDIBLE] Doc," "The water thing ain't working." "What no water?" "No." "Get some blankets." "Ok, quick." "Quick, Doc!" "Dippy!" "Joe!" "Dippy!" "Dippy!" "Dippy!" "No!" "Get out of here!" "Let's get out of here!" "Come on." "Come on." "Ha ha ha." "Some christening, Doc!" "Through fire and water, we can't fail now!" "(SINGING) Oh, [INAUDIBLE] romance should" "Keep it's [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE]." "Match that the true love's trespasses" "Dissipation only ends in defeat." "Don't let our love song turn into a blues." "As long as life lasts, let's be true to one another." "Did I steer you right?" "She's got it, hasn't she?" "(SINGING) our hearts [INAUDIBLE] with sad melody." "True love will guide us through stormy weather." "Everyone should be true to his own." "Let's make sure before this chance is flown." "We won't disagree on many things." "Just get along together like a romance in the spring." "Our love both must not be lost on it's [INAUDIBLE]." "Don't let our love song turn into a blues." "Everyone should be true to his own." "Oh, let's make sure before this chance is flown." "We won't disagree on anything just" "Get along together like a romance in the spring." "Our love both must not be lost on it's [INAUDIBLE]." "Don't let our love song turn into a blues." "[APPLAUSE]" "I like her in Broadway, well, more than like her." "She'll wow 'em at your Century Club." "Bring her up to my office in the morning." "That a girl, Ethel." "I knew you'd do it." "[APPLAUSE]" "Thank you, folks." "Thank you, thank you." "And now folks, I wonder if you'd mind stepping down a little bit" "Closer, so I won't have to... not too close ladies." "The kerosene from the lamp is leaking" "And is liable to get on your clothes." "Friends, I'm here to introduce Doctor" "Dorando's Universal Elixir." "The average adult... by adult I mean a person who has stopped" "Growing at both ends and started in the middle." "The minute a man like that get's sick he runs to a doctor" "And the doctor tells him... which reminds me," "I had a patient come to me, a little fellow with a glass eye." "He didn't tell me it was a glass eye, of course." "It happen to come out during the conversation." "Ain't he a [INAUDIBLE]." "Ah ha, you see it." "He didn't." "Anyway, this man went to another doctor," "A foreigner, an alienist." "This doctor told him, you are not going to get well," "But to make sure you're not going to get well," "I will call in another doctor." "Now, the other doctor told him that he" "Was threatened with paralysis." "[LAUGHTER]" "Why do you laugh, brother?" "Don't you realize it's an awful thing to be paralyzed?" "Sure is, you feel so rotten in the morning." "I don't know you, my friend, but I think you show poor taste" "To laugh at so serious a subject." "Anyway, this man finally came to us" "And Doctor Dorando, whom I shall introduce presently," "Diagnosed his case as stomach trouble." "Friends, do you realize that the death rate on stomach trouble" "A year averages one death per person." "Ah, you may laugh, but that's a fact." "Doctor Dorando put this man on a milk diet" "Until he was strong enough to take his medicine." "And that man would be alive today it he hadn't a..." "Died." "Oh no my friend, if he hadn't held out" "The Saturday night's paycheck on his wife." "Now before I go on with my talk I have a treat for you." "I should like to introduce the Dorando and Davis" "World famous quartet, The Cats and the Fiddle." "Come along and swing it for them, boys." "(SINGING) He's the man that smokes that jive." "That jive will take you for a dive." "One sip you will arrive." "When you smoke that killing' jive." "It will make you very tall." "Seems that if you're going to fall," "Knock yourself out for a ride." "I mean that killing' jive." "You will think you'll blow your top." "Baby you start laughing and you can't stop." "Now won't you give him a smile 'cause" "He's a sad man not bad man." "Everything will seem so funny." "Darkest days will seem so sunny." "That feeling will arrive when you smoke that killing' jive." "[SCAT SINGING]" "Sad man not bad man." "Everything will seem so funny." "Darkest days will seem so sunny." "That feeling will arrive when you're a high man, [INAUDIBLE]" "Man, you're in the sky, man." "You're on the rip, man." "You'll been so mellow, just like a jello" "When you smoke that killing' jive." "Hey, Duke sure knows how to get 'em, don't he?" "You telling me?" "And now for the real treat of the evening." "It gives me a great deal of pleasure" "To introduce Doctor Dorando, the discoverer of Universal Elixir," "Himself in person..." "Doctor Dorando." "[APPLAUSE]" "Yes, it's a man that has done more for mankind" "With his Universal Elixir than all" "The doctors in the world put together." "What he has done to others, he can do to you." "The doctor will sit by my side to verify" "Any and all statements that I may make." "Is that so, Doctor?" "Oh, yes, yes indeed." "Friends, as I look over your smiling faces" "The thought comes to me that a lot of those smiles" "May be covering up sickness and suffering." "Maybe some of you are suffering with rheumatism." "Here are some copper neutralizing rings" "Guaranteed... you do guarantee them don't you Doctor?" "Oh, yes, indeed." "Guaranteed to keep away rheumatism." "Just think friends, we're giving away free these marvelous" "Manifestations of modern science." "And here, here are some chestnuts all the way" "From the land of the East Indies," "The land of mystic and magic." "Put one of these in your hip pocket" "And you'll never be bothered with sciatica." "Mister, I haven't got a hip pocket." "[LAUGHTER]" "A healthy lady like you will never" "Be bothered with sciatica." "[LAUGHTER]" "And these chestnuts too are free with every bottle" "Of Doctor Dorando's Universal Elixir at $1.00 a bottle." "Neighbors, we only have a limited supply," "You won't all be able to get a bottle, we haven't got them." "Ouch, my corn." "Give a bottle to the lady with the corns." "I said "give."" "It's free to you, madame." "Now I tell you what I'm going to do, when I ring this bell," "The sale will start." "When I ring it again, the sale will stop," "Not another bottle will be sold." "All right folks, have your dollars ready." "All right, here you are." "Here's your neutralizer and Eastern India chestnuts." "Take your time, folks." "Take your time, no rush, enough for everybody." "All right, don't rush now." "Don't rush." "Those who suffer from acid indigestion," "Gas, sour stomach, cramps, sciatica, lumbago, rheumatism," "Gout, swollen joints, mumps, dandruff, fallen arches." "Or, if any of your family, or livestock, are sick" "Universal Elixir will cure them." "I don't care what the matter is, one bottle will put new life" "And vigor into those old bodies of yours." "Give me two bottles." "Two bottles sold to Methuselah." "No, Dippy." "I'm sorry, sir." "Only one bottle of this precious elixir to a person." "Now folks, time's up." "Say, give me a bottle of this stuff." "All right, folks [INAUDIBLE] be right with you here." "Fair, I've already bought that bottle." "Had my money out and everything." "I'm sorry, neighbor, but the bell just rang." "But he passed me up, I had my money out." "I came on [INAUDIBLE] to get a bottle of medicine." "Come on, Doc, let me have a bottle." "I'm sorry folks, but if I let that man have" "A bottle after the bell rang, everybody will want one." "[CROWD SHOUTING]" "Brothers, you're making it's tough on me." "The only bottles I have left are those set aside" "For our next town, Centerville." "[CROWD SHOUTING]" "Let me have a word with the good doctor." "It's a sellout, Doc, we could pedal all we got." "The doctor has agreed to my suggestion," "And to show you our hearts are in the right place..." "Joe," "Break out that lot for Centerville" "And start selling again." "[CROWD SHOUTING]" "I don't want to leave your town with any hard feelings." "Don't rush, there'll be elixir for all." "And remember, a dollar spent now means $100 saved later." "Don't miss this wonderful opportunity," "You'll never regret it, you'll never miss the money." "What is money compared to health?" "Hey, give me another bottle." "Scram, you bought five bottles already." "Ah, Duke I've been thinking perchance" "We should invade the metropolis." "No, Doc." "They've forgotten more tricks than we'll ever learn." "Doing all right as we are, aren't we?" "Ah, yes, indeed." "That vision of prophecy was mine when we encountered" "Each other only a short year or so ago." "Ah, how time has flown on golden wings," "And tonight we have reached the pinnacle of our success." "That's a good line you swing, Doc." "[BELL TONES]" "RADIO ANNOUNCER:" "Station WEDK New York City now brings you" "Your nightly hot shots from Hot Spot Buyer Spotter." "PROGRAM HOST:" "Good evening ladies and gentlemen." "This is a spotter with a spot of news." "Hottest hot spot, Ferdie Fenton's Century Club," "Has as cooled off after the first presentation" "Of a new review featuring the erstwhile Bronze Nightingale," "Ethel Andrews, who still wobbles a swell pair of pipes, but is" "Nixed when it comes to filling the heavy spot" "On the Broadway biggie." "Some of the blame, or maybe all of it," "Pins on Fenton, for trying to rush the gal from sticks" "To steeples in a few weeks and one" "Marshall who authorized this one should" "Be forced to eat raw egg..." "Look, Mr. Fenton, I can dope this show." "Not on my money." "I must have been dope when I let you talk me into it." "That girl's a specialty, not a star." "Well, why not go back to her first setup?" "Remember when you first saw her in Philadelphia?" "Fill her as a single." "Remember her rave notices?" "Remember the variety?" "Yes, I remember and I'm thinking" "About what variety will do to me now." "As a producer, Marshall, your a good agent." "Back to the sticks, I'm through." "From pinnacle to pit to bottomless pit, that's me." "Don Dorando's wonderful discovery" "Is headed for a drainpipe instead of [INAUDIBLE], and all" "Because of that devilish device." "That broadcasting operators, why, I have a mind to bust..." "You understand, Doc, Don't ya?" "Say, Duke, can I drive you down to the station?" "No, Dippy, thanks." "I'd rather walk." "I want to be by myself." "Well, so long, fellows." "ELLA:" "Oh, so that does mean something to you." "Where we heading, honey?" "South?" "No, we're moving to another apartment." "We can't afford all this now." "A fortune teller told me once that I was a, a cyclist." "A what?" "Somebody who can see things that some people can't." "Oh, you mean a psychic." "That's it, a cyclist." "Well, I've been having notions about somebody down South." "And I'm trying to forget the South." "You're kidding yourself, honey." "Anyway, Duke's down there and I've" "Got a hunch he's in trouble." "Maybe he's broke." "Not much." "Your forgetting a little matter of $5,000 he sold me for." "Now, you listen to me." "I've been hiding a lie and it's time somebody came clean." "If Duke won't, I will." "Then I don't want to hear anything about it..." "You're going to hear what I've got to say" "And it's all about him." "Duke Davis double crossed himself for you." "He wrote that $5,000 check and didn't" "Take a dime for Marshall." "He thought he was standing in your way." "Ella, we're not moving." "We're sending the trunks to Pennsylvania Station." "We're heading South!" "[BUZZER]" "There's the baggage smasher." "Gosh!" "Maybe I am a cyclist!" "We were just talking about you." "Well, am I invited in?" "Duke, I just found out what you did for me." "And I just found out what they did to you." "All I want is 15 minutes with that Fenton fellow." "Forget him, Duke." "You can't hurt him, it wasn't his fault." "Hurt him?" "I'm going to do him good." "And you're going to wow 'em at that Century Club." "Nothing can stop us now." "PROGRAM HOST:" "And here's another bit" "Of news from a local hot spot." "Ferdie Fenton whose last Century Club show went sour on him," "Wasted no time in calling in a doctor, one" "Duke Davis, a newcomer from the sticks." "The medicine is said to be new faces, novel ideas and... well" "Ferdie, you're either a genius or a glutton for punishment." "Anyway, good luck with your new producer..." "Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure" "To announce the return to your thriving community" "Of this famous attraction featuring" "The Bronze Nightingale." "On the inside, folks, on the inside a sight of a lifetime." "Guaranteed satisfaction or your money carefully refunded." "Come one, come all, come big, come small." "The big show, the free show." "The little ladies will pass among you" "With harmony and dances." "They will do you so much good." "[SINGING HARMONY]" "(SINGING) Harlem." "Harlem is harmony." "Life is a rhapsody with a tune you can sing." "There's a song in everything." "Harlem is harmony." "Harlem is living good." "Don't have to knock on wood when you seem" "To be wrong, find a friendship in a song." "Harlem is harmony." "Have you got a little [INAUDIBLE]" "Or an old banjo you can strum a little, hum a little as you go." "Have you got a little love, you can spread it all around." "(Spread around.) A little deed will help" "Somebody [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE]." "Harlem is harmony." "Love is the melody." "When my gal looks at me, gets my hallelujah key." "Harlem is harmony." "Harlem is harmony." "Harlem is harmony." "Harlem is harmony." "Harlem is harmony." "[BAND PLAYING]" "[APPLAUSE]" "(SINGING) Cooks and the butlers have a night a week to put" "Their hands together, cheek to cheek." "[INAUDIBLE] dance [INAUDIBLE] high and low." "Thursday evening swing." "Things get good 'bout half past two," "In the [INAUDIBLE] Susie Q. That's one night we ain't blue." "Thursday evening swing." "Hot bands play Georgia swing." "Lordy how the [INAUDIBLE]." "The Harlem [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] swing in high wire." "[INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] big shots" "And doctors breaking them down." "Turning it down." "Hey boy, you see those cats they keep the [INAUDIBLE] around." "Thursday evening swing. [INAUDIBLE]" "(TRUMPET-LIKE HUMMING)" "Hot bands play Georgia swing Lord [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE]" "Harlem [INAUDIBLE] [INAUDIBLE] down" "You go swinging high and wide." "Big shots and doctors breaking them down." "[INAUDIBLE] and [INAUDIBLE] chopping them down." "[INAUDIBLE], you see those cats they keep the [INAUDIBLE]" "Around." "Thursday (SCAT) Thursday (SCAT) evening swing." "[APPLAUSE]" "[APPLAUSE]" "[APPLAUSE]" "[APPLAUSE]" "(SINGING) You and I have made a small beginning." "Don't know what our fate is going to be." "Chances are we'll get what we're deserving." "We will be the tops, just wait and see." "I know you remember all I've told you." "We'll see our dreams through." "You remember." "We'll work hard together while we're dreaming." "All plans have meaning, I know you remember." "She certainly needed Duke." "Yes, and he needed her." "(SINGING) We'll have more than these." "Don't care what people say." "We stay together." "You believe me win or lose, I'm with you." "My love is yours too." "I know you remember." "[APPLAUSE]" "[APPLAUSE]" "(SINGING) Don't care what people say, we stay together." "You remember win or lose, I'm with you." "My love is yours too." "I know you remember." "[BAND PLAYING]"