‘The Duke Is Tops’ is a 1938 American musical film directed by William Nolte and released by Million Dollar Productions. The story follows Duke Davis, a stage-show promoter deeply in love with Ethel Andrews, a talented singer known as "The Bronze Venus." When big-time promoters from New York offer Ethel a chance at stardom, she refuses out of loyalty to Duke. In a selfless act, Duke orchestrates a deception to push Ethel toward success, but his own career collapses as a result. As Ethel struggles in New York, Duke reinvents himself in a traveling medicine show, eventually finding a way to reunite with her and create a dazzling nightclub act. The film is notable for featuring Lena Horne in her film debut and is considered a classic among 1930s "race movies," which were made for African-American audiences.
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Director: William Nolte
Producer: Harry M. Popkin
Starring: Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, Laurence Criner, Monte Hawley
Screenplay: Phil Dunham
Cinematography: Robert E. Cline, J. Henry Kruse
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Credits:
Director: William Nolte
Producer: Harry M. Popkin
Starring: Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, Laurence Criner, Monte Hawley
Screenplay: Phil Dunham
Cinematography: Robert E. Cline, J. Henry Kruse
#TheDukeIsTops1938 #LenaHorne #ClassicHollywood #MusicalDrama
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00:03:19the opening, eh? Now, the next time you're fired. All right, take your place. They're
00:03:28pretty busy, don't they, Sam? These dames are getting wet. Eating too regular. All the
00:03:35wrinkles are coming out. Oh, he's on the other side. But you better hurry. It's about curtain
00:03:42time. You'll have to knock them dead tonight, honey. The house is packed. That's great,
00:03:53dear. Now perhaps you'll get back some of the money you so foolishly put in your show.
00:03:58Foolish? Why, sugar. That's what I've been working for. To have a show of our own. With
00:04:04you, a star. You're sweet, dear. My lips, my makeup, you'll ruin them. All right, but
00:04:11you'll pay double after the show. Oh, you.
00:04:17Shh! Son! Please!
00:04:29Got a gal down in Dixie Land. Makes my heart beat to reach the past. Here's a train with the
00:04:37Sopper Band. Get out of my way, boys. I've got to dance. Blackberry, baby. I'm coming to you.
00:04:43Blackberry, baby. I'll hide it to you. I know time's the best till I can get the best. Blackberry, baby, I'm fine.
00:04:51Blackberry, baby. Ain't gonna fizzle. I'll be trapped in the shop at the whistle. I won't be satisfied till I am by your side.
00:04:59Blackberry, baby, you're mine. Blackberry, baby, you're mine. You lie and I laugh when we get together.
00:05:05You step and I step in Johnny Vannever. Blackberry, baby, you are my honey. Blackberry, baby, that's not the money.
00:05:13So, babe, I've got to be right now with you and me. Blackberry, baby, you're mine.
00:05:17Blackberry, baby, you're not as gorgeous. Blackberry, baby, you're not as gorgeous.
00:05:23When you always come around and we bring down the Sopper. Blackberry, baby, I'm fine.
00:05:29Welcome to Dixie. Here is your lady. All of the Sopper Band. Welcome to you, baby.
00:05:34We're here to satisfy. Watch a gal roll tonight. Blackberry, baby, I'm fine.
00:05:39That Andrews girl has got plenty of what it takes.
00:06:08I can give her a big break. Mason, I can't figure what your objection is.
00:06:15My objection is that it would ruin the lives of two fine young people.
00:06:19Look, Mason, how much do you pay that whole troupe? A $1,500 a week guarantee?
00:06:25Surely not more. Six months from now, she can make that much by herself.
00:06:29You're just a sentimental old fool. Maybe so.
00:06:33But I've watched those kids grow up on this circuit.
00:06:36Duke gave up a promising stage career to push Ethel ahead.
00:06:41Oh, he's done a fine job of it, too.
00:06:43Next season, she'll be the biggest attraction we have.
00:06:45Out here on the sticks, what'll it get her?
00:06:49You and I have made a small beginning. Don't know what our fate is gonna be.
00:06:57Chances are we'll get what we're deserving.
00:07:06We will be the top. Just wait and see.
00:07:11You and I have made a small beginning. Don't know what our fate is gonna be.
00:07:17Chances are we'll get what we're deserving.
00:07:28We will be the top. Just wait and see.
00:07:36I know you'll remember all I've told you.
00:07:43We'll see our dreams through.
00:07:47You'll remember.
00:07:51We'll work hard together while we're dreaming.
00:07:57Our plans have meaning.
00:08:01I know you'll remember.
00:08:07Fine cards luxuries.
00:08:11We'll have more than these.
00:08:16Don't care what people say.
00:08:22We stay together.
00:08:27Look at that personality. She's a cinch for the big time.
00:08:30Do you believe me when I rule?
00:08:33I'm with you.
00:08:36You hear that voice?
00:08:37That's what they buy.
00:08:42I know you'll remember.
00:08:46I know you'll remember.
00:08:58Did you wow?
00:09:02Listen to that applause.
00:09:03Come on, you two lovebirds. Out of the way.
00:09:06Yes, sir, Mr. Stage Manager.
00:09:12All right, girls. In your place. Let's go.
00:09:18Don't rip him, Duke. He's right.
00:09:20And I have to make a change.
00:09:21And I have to see Mr. Mason.
00:09:24herausge the sky.
00:09:27Oh, my God.
00:09:29He's right.
00:09:30When I see how many stars.
00:09:31He's a high one.
00:09:32Ladies and gentlemen.
00:09:33Oh, my God.
00:09:34Oh, my God.
00:09:34I know you can see him meet with us.
00:09:36We've got the resistance.
00:09:37Oh, my God.
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00:09:39Oh.
00:09:39Oh, my God.
00:09:40Oh, my God.
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00:10:51Oh, boy, that's great.
00:10:54I've been waiting a lifetime to hear news like that.
00:10:56I knew it would come sometime.
00:10:59When would you want us to report, Mr. Marshall?
00:11:01Us?
00:11:01What do you mean, us?
00:11:03You see, Duke, Mr. Marshall wasn't figuring on you.
00:11:07He wants Ethel to do a single.
00:11:10A single?
00:11:11Alone?
00:11:12The bronze nightingale.
00:11:15What an angle.
00:11:17Sensational.
00:11:18What publicity.
00:11:20My kind of a buildup.
00:11:21And she's in the bag.
00:11:23You can tag along if you want to.
00:11:24Tag along?
00:11:25I don't think you understand, Mr. Marshall.
00:11:28We've always been together.
00:11:29Always hoped to be.
00:11:31I studied Ethel.
00:11:32Taught her.
00:11:33Brought out the best dinner.
00:11:34It would be a great chance for her.
00:11:36Chance?
00:11:36Why, it's the break of a lifetime.
00:11:38What's her talent getting her here?
00:11:40I know all that, but I produced her show.
00:11:42Producers are a dime a dozen in New York.
00:11:44Well, I wouldn't be the first one to crash in.
00:11:46Why, I've heard...
00:11:47A lot of fairy tales.
00:11:49Ever been to New York?
00:11:50No.
00:11:50Then I'll tell you what it would be like.
00:11:52In and out of offices.
00:11:54Nothing today.
00:11:55Come back tomorrow.
00:11:56Just butting your head up against a stone wall.
00:11:59It would break your heart and hers.
00:12:02You wouldn't want to stand in her way, would you?
00:12:03Stand in her way?
00:12:05Of course not.
00:12:06New York has heard this.
00:12:08Think of her in life.
00:12:10Ethel Andrews.
00:12:11The bronze nightingale.
00:12:13A new star is born.
00:12:15Gaiety.
00:12:16Glamour.
00:12:17She's entitled to that.
00:12:19And I can get them all for her.
00:12:21What can you do?
00:12:23The, uh...
00:12:25Show just broke, gentlemen.
00:12:29Good night.
00:12:33Good house for the opening night.
00:12:57Isn't she beautiful?
00:12:58You can't keep saying.
00:13:00Why, she's a whole show.
00:13:03Come on, it's late.
00:13:04Let's go.
00:13:05It's a surprise from Duke.
00:13:30With his usual card.
00:13:32Ain't Duke a prince.
00:13:33Ella's the Duke is top.
00:13:35He's giving me a chance to do a number next week.
00:13:37And I sure have been rehearsing hard.
00:13:39You've been holding out on me, huh?
00:13:41You know better than that.
00:13:42Well, come on.
00:13:43Let's see it.
00:13:44Well, here goes.
00:13:59Ella.
00:13:59Ella.
00:14:01Ella, I want to speak to Ethel.
00:14:09I'm practically gone.
00:14:16Duke, darling, what's the matter?
00:14:18Oh, I guess I've been kind of selfish.
00:14:21Keeping you on this small-time stuff when you belong on Broadway.
00:14:25Dear, you'll be a dreamer all your life, and I wouldn't have you different.
00:14:28But don't you know that if Broadway is for us, we'll get there.
00:14:33Marshall, a talent scout for an Eastern Booking Circuit, has been watching you.
00:14:37He thinks you've got what it takes.
00:14:39Ethel, we show people live and strive for one goal, the big stem.
00:14:44And when opportunity knocks, we've got to answer.
00:14:48It's your chance, kid. Take it.
00:14:50Without you doing it.
00:14:51Don't say it, honey.
00:14:52I'll never tell you anything that isn't right.
00:14:55Because, well, you remember.
00:14:58Here I am.
00:15:28Here are the reports, Mr. Mason.
00:15:30Thanks.
00:15:34Oh, hello, Mr. Davis.
00:15:36Hello, Gladys.
00:15:38How are you, Mr. Mason?
00:15:39Well, Duke, you broke the season's house records.
00:15:42That's fine.
00:15:43How about Ethel?
00:15:44Have you made up your mind yet?
00:15:46Sure, but she hasn't made up hers.
00:15:48I've been arguing with her for the past two weeks.
00:15:51She just laughs at the idea of our splitting.
00:15:54Says it's ridiculous.
00:15:54Sometimes the surgeon has to cut deep and hurt.
00:15:58But it's for the patient's good.
00:16:01we all heard this
00:16:31the bronze nightingale a new star is born publicity glamour gays sometimes the surgeon has to cut deep and hurt but it's for the patient
00:17:01she has finished well two weeks i'm so glad for duke's sake
00:17:13i'm so glad you've given up that silly idea of our separating why i just couldn't stand it
00:17:27you couldn't stand it suppose you think of me for a change remember that
00:17:31our contract now listen ethel i've tried to reason with you for the past two weeks
00:17:37tried to be kind but you wouldn't listen i'll tell you something i can make myself a piece of money out
00:17:42of that here take a look five thousand dollars sure i can cash you in on this contract and i need the dough
00:17:49oh that's all i mean to you dollars and cents i don't think i ever knew you until now
00:18:03well that's on me i guess
00:18:09here you forget my part of the contract now you can collect
00:18:13well i'm glad you decided to be sensible i'll be seeing you sometime lots of luck
00:18:43and she never knew me until now
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00:19:17that's all that's all
00:19:35that's all
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00:20:09You're a great guy, but I'm not going to let you get away with this.
00:20:16It's the best thing for her, Elle.
00:20:18Best thing? I'm going right back and telling her the truth.
00:20:22Listen, Ella.
00:20:23You've got to promise not to say a word.
00:20:27Because, well, you remember.
00:20:39I'm going to let you know.
00:21:09I'm going to let you know.
00:21:15What?
00:21:17Hold the wire. Come in.
00:21:20Where do you go next week?
00:21:22Say, you'll play the last half of this one at Athens.
00:21:24And that's a season's work these days.
00:21:28Where do we go next week?
00:21:30Yes?
00:21:31Good morning, Mr. Lake.
00:21:33Remember me? I'm Duke Davis.
00:21:35I used to do a single for you.
00:21:36So did a lot of other hands.
00:21:38No, I don't remember you.
00:21:41It has been a long time.
00:21:43But say, I've got a brand new act.
00:21:44Oh, sure. I know.
00:21:46New gags. Classy songs.
00:21:48Swell wardrobe.
00:21:49I hear that every day.
00:21:50I know it by heart.
00:21:51It's got whiskers on it.
00:21:53Nothing for you.
00:21:55I guess you've heard that before.
00:21:57Anyway, in case you don't know it, Waterville's as dead as the last year's woman pants.
00:22:02But all I'm looking for is girl acts for the picture houses.
00:22:06Well, that's great, Mr. Lake.
00:22:08You know, I'm a producer.
00:22:09And that would be right up my alley.
00:22:11And the alley's so full of producers, the health department's kicking.
00:22:14Say, I do remember you.
00:22:18You and that Andrews dame.
00:22:19She was a good meal ticket for you once.
00:22:22Ought to be a better one now.
00:22:24She's a big time hit.
00:22:25Why don't you hang a touch on her?
00:22:27I'm thinking of doing the same to you, my love.
00:22:30I'm thinking of doing the same to you, my love.
00:23:00I'm thinking of doing the same to you, my love.
00:23:30There you are, Mr. Mason.
00:23:56A brand new show.
00:23:57I just finished writing it.
00:23:58I hope you've got something here, my boy.
00:24:00It's a wow.
00:24:01It's got everything.
00:24:03Heard from Ethel?
00:24:04No.
00:24:06Look, I can use my old people.
00:24:08They know my work, and I know what they can do.
00:24:11Of course, you'll have to stake me.
00:24:13I'm broke.
00:24:14If you're as good as you used to be, we'll manage to put on your show.
00:24:18That's swell, kids.
00:24:33That'll be all the day, 10 o'clock in the morning.
00:24:36Wait a minute.
00:24:38And that don't mean 10.30 or 5 after.
00:24:41It means 10.
00:24:43All right, Dizzlepuss.
00:24:44How's it shaping up to you, Sam?
00:24:47It's a lily.
00:24:48But, Duke, you always put on good show.
00:24:51I hope so.
00:24:52You don't have to say it, Mr. Mason.
00:25:14I know.
00:25:15The show did a nosedive.
00:25:17The breaks of our game, my boy.
00:25:18But I know where it's weak.
00:25:19Say, a couple of new specialties and tighten up on that comedy.
00:25:23Well, I can doctor up this show and two shakes of a pawnbroker's head.
00:25:26I'm sorry, Duke.
00:25:27But my bankroll just can't stand any more strain.
00:25:32Well.
00:25:35That's that.
00:25:36Anyway, thanks for giving me a break.
00:25:39I'm sorry.
00:25:40Sorry for the flop.
00:25:42Forget it, Duke.
00:25:48What did the boss say?
00:26:00Ah, Duke.
00:26:02We'll show him.
00:26:02This ain't the only circuit.
00:26:04No, Sam.
00:26:06Get yourself a job.
00:26:07You can handle a stage better than any man I know.
00:26:10I ain't gonna leave you.
00:26:12Yes, you are.
00:26:13Because I can't pay you.
00:26:16Here.
00:26:16Here.
00:26:18I'm splitting the bankroll with you.
00:26:28Good luck, Sam.
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00:27:41and followed by fortune and how is the bright star of the theatrical firmament
00:27:45the scintillating shimmering satellite to favor that what do you peddling these
00:27:50days beddling a vile word my boy I am engaged in revealing to suffering
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00:28:06how's business ah marvelous stupendous colossal I might even add that business
00:28:15is fair ham and eggs turn my eggs over please
00:28:21miss nothing doing mister this is no drugstore you stuck up for plenty
00:28:29already money talks from now on order ham and eggs over
00:28:36uh duke how about making that order double
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00:30:10you the time? I understand. Come on, Doc. No, Duke. I haven't been north of Alabama in two or three
00:30:21years. That's why I haven't seen you before, Doc. Oh, Duke, I want you to meet Prince Alagazoo,
00:30:27my faithful companion. Dippy Dodds. Hiya. Yes, sir, Mr. Davis. How are you? Oh, so you know the
00:30:33Prince. Dippy was property man on one of the Toby shows I was with. Yes, sir. I had a job in them
00:30:38days. Excuse me, Doc. When does I eat? Oh, does it? Tush, tush, my boy. Always thinking of
00:30:46your stomach. Yes, sir. Thinking. Step right inside, Duke. Step right in. Thanks, Doc. Here. Here's 15
00:30:57cents. Here. Go and get yourself a good meal. Say, Doc, you didn't rob a bank, did you? Run along,
00:31:04boy. You annoy me. I wish to speak with Mr. Davis.
00:31:08Make yourself comfortable, Duke. Thanks, Doc. I was just looking things over.
00:31:16Nothing like having a place of your own, is it? Ah, home, sweet home. Sit down, Duke. Sit down.
00:31:26Oh, get thee from behind me, Satan.
00:31:29As you have doubtlessly observed, a financial contingency does exist. In fact, I'm disposing
00:31:39of the remnants of my stock to keep this inner man alive. So you're broke. Well, no, no, not
00:31:47exactly. Only a very, very small matter separates me from a cool million. Yeah? What is that?
00:31:55Uh, $15. Listen, Doc. Cut out the act. Give me the lowdown. What's put you behind the eight
00:32:02ball? Well, now, the wholesale house has cut off my credit, and business... Has been rotten.
00:32:08Exactly. The suckers, that is, the customers, don't fall like they used to. Uh-huh. Still giving
00:32:14them that same old spiel and expect them to form a line with their money in their hand. Well,
00:32:19now, I guess that's about it. But, uh, it's a good spiel. It always was. That's out now. What you've
00:32:25got to do is entertain them. Give them something for nothing. Oh, no, no. No, no, no, Duke. That's
00:32:31against all my principles. But, uh, elucidate. What you need is showmanship. And that means Duke
00:32:38Davis. I'll bring your show up to the minute. How about it? Son, we're partners. 50-50. Ah, this speaks
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00:33:20Isn't that so, doctor? Oh, yes. Yes, indeed. To be sure. But, my friends, in order to be happy,
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00:33:41Step right this way. Yes, sir. Thank you. Now, before I tell you of this wonderful discovery,
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00:34:16Professor. Looks like business is going to be good.
00:34:43Sheriff, I ain't going to Stanford. Them fellas take all the money out of town. I don't see what I
00:34:56can do about it, Lodge. He's paid his license. That's so. But, Sheriff, I ain't going to put any
00:35:01pressure on you. But, just remember, it ain't far to election. That's all.
00:35:14Yes, indeedy. Yes, indeedy. Yes, indeedy.
00:35:27Good day.
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00:35:32Ink the inch be. Gotta be amscree. Your sappy's fixed. Very well, your highness.
00:35:39The prince hopes that you will all get what is coming to you. I sure hope we don't get what's
00:35:46coming to us. Have no fear. There'll be plenty for all. And now let me tell you of this wonderful
00:35:51elixir, compounded of rare herbs, gathered from the ends of the earth, from the icy wastes of the
00:35:56polar regions, the blazing heat of the Sahara Desert, regardless of cause. A pack of lies.
00:36:03I don't believe a word. Come on, Sheriff. I'll show them. Those are strong words, sir.
00:36:09Are you prepared to back them up? I sure am. As a respectable druggist, I...
00:36:13Ah, just as I thought. Friend, this man sells you a bottle of medicine, charges you a dollar.
00:36:21Maybe he cures you, and maybe he doesn't. Ain't so. I know this stuff ain't no good.
00:36:25You hold your lip, lied Smithers. I drunk two bottles of your medicine for my sciatica,
00:36:32and I'm paining yet. That wasn't for drinking. It was for rubbing.
00:36:42Thank you, lady, thank you. But need I go on, I see you get my point. There is no guarantee that
00:36:46what this man sells you and takes your good money for will cure your ailments. Now then,
00:36:50if you are suffering from sciatica, cold in the head, headache, or any other of the ailments that
00:36:54might come to plague you, just see what one bottle, one bottle, mind you, of Dr. Durando's
00:36:59marvelous universal elixir will do for you. Hold on a minute. Will that there stuff grow hair?
00:37:04Grow hair, sir? I'm glad you brought that up. I asked you to look at the good doctor and notice
00:37:08that luxuriant growth of hair. Why, four years ago, the doctor fell ill with synphalitosis of the
00:37:14metatarsal, a very dangerous disease, and all of his hair fell out. But thanks to the universal
00:37:19elixir, but why go on? Why go on, doctor? Show them what universal elixir has done for you.
00:37:50I knew it, I knew it. It's a fake. Now, sheriff, do your duty. I'll give you just five minutes to be
00:37:56one mile out of town. Oh, my. Oh, doctor, we're leaving. So I anticipated. Uh, Joe, Joe!
00:38:04Move those chairs. Start, start back. Oh, thank you. Uh, Dibbe, hook up the car.
00:38:20Well, it looks like old man Jenks is with me permanently. Don't let a little thing like that
00:38:32catch you. Why, when I really bear down, we'll be selling more stuff than any medicine show in the
00:38:36business. No. It ain't no use. Forget it, doc. I've got more ideas than a clock has ticked.
00:38:43And the first idea is, in the future, we're going to glue that wig on. Tight.
00:38:48Oh. For Pete's sake. Hayden. Ah, imp of darkness and demon of distaste.
00:39:02Smells like the coffee's ready. Now for the eats.
00:39:18Say, Joe, here's a good spot to turn off the main drag. Because them folks back there is show
00:39:34hostile. Looks kind of rough to me. Yes, but I ain't taking no chances. Okay, by me.
00:39:48Let me get that out for ya. Let me get some water here. Here, let me get some water here.
00:40:11Doc, the water thing ain't working. What, no water? No.
00:40:14Let me get some blankets. Let me get some blankets. Okay, quick. Okay. Quick, Doc, get some blankets right here.
00:40:19Dippy! Joe! Dippy! Dippy! Dippy!
00:40:33Hey! Dippy! Dippy! Joe! Dippy!
00:40:44Let's get out of here. Let's get out of here. Come on. Come on.
00:41:01Come on. Come on.
00:41:10Some christening, Doc. Through fire and water. We can't fail now.
00:41:15Yeah!
00:41:16Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:41:18Old bastard, romance should keep its favourite sweet.
00:41:22Let's not be true love's trespassers.
00:41:27Dissipatious only ends in defeat.
00:41:31Only ends in defeat
00:41:34Don't let our love song
00:41:40Turn into a bloom
00:41:43As long as life lasts
00:41:49Let's be true
00:41:51To one another
00:41:54Did I stir you right?
00:41:56She's got a papgy
00:41:57Heart stringed with sad melodies
00:42:01True love will guide us through
00:42:08Stormy weather
00:42:11Everyone should be true to his own
00:42:17Let's make sure before this chance has flown
00:42:21We won't disagree on anything
00:42:25Just get along together
00:42:29Like a romance in the spring
00:42:33Our love song must not
00:42:37Be lost on its crew
00:42:41Don't let our love song
00:42:48Turn into a bloom
00:42:52Everyone should be true to his own
00:42:59Oh, let's make sure before this chance has flown
00:43:05We won't disagree on anything
00:43:10Just get along together
00:43:14Like a romance in the spring
00:43:18Our love song must not
00:43:22Be lost on its crew
00:43:26Don't let our love song
00:43:33Turn into a bloom
00:43:37I like her and Broadway will more than like her
00:43:54She'll wow them at your century club
00:43:55Bring her up to my office in the morning
00:43:57Atta girl, Ethel
00:44:20I knew you'd do it
00:44:21Thank you, folks
00:44:40Thank you, thank you
00:44:42And now, folks, I wonder if you'd mind
00:44:44Stepping down a little bit closer
00:44:45So I won't have to
00:44:47Not too close, lady
00:44:48The kerosene from the lamp is leaking
00:44:49And is liable to get on your clothes
00:44:50Friends, I'm here to introduce
00:44:53Dr. Durando's universal elixir
00:44:55The average adult
00:44:57By adult, I mean a person
00:44:58Who has stopped growing at both ends
00:45:00And started in the middle
00:45:01The minute a man like that gets sick
00:45:05He runs to a doctor
00:45:06And the doctor tells him
00:45:08Which reminds me
00:45:09I had a patient come to me
00:45:11A little fellow with a glass eye
00:45:12He didn't tell me it was a glass eye, of course
00:45:15It happened to come out
00:45:16During the conversation
00:45:18Baby, you're gone
00:45:21Aha, you see it
00:45:22He didn't
00:45:24Anyway, this man went to another doctor
00:45:26A foreigner, an alienist
00:45:27This doctor told him
00:45:29You are not going to get well
00:45:30But to make sure
00:45:32You're not going to get well
00:45:33I will call in another doctor
00:45:35Now, the other doctor told him
00:45:38That he was threatened with paralysis
00:45:40Why do you laugh, brother?
00:45:42Don't you realize
00:45:43It's an awful thing to be paralyzed?
00:45:45Sure is
00:45:45You feel so rotten in the morning
00:45:47I don't know you, my friend
00:45:50But I think you show poor taste
00:45:52To laugh at so serious a subject
00:45:53Anyway, this man finally came to us
00:45:56And Dr. Durando
00:45:57Whom I shall introduce presently
00:45:59Diagnosed his case of stomach trouble
00:46:00Friends, do you realize
00:46:02That the death rate on stomach trouble a year
00:46:05Averages one death per person?
00:46:09Ah, you may laugh
00:46:10But that's a fact
00:46:11Dr. Durando put this man on a milk diet
00:46:14Until he was strong enough to take his medicine
00:46:16And that man would be alive today
00:46:18If he hadn't
00:46:19Died
00:46:19Oh, no, my friend
00:46:22If he hadn't held out the Saturday night's paycheck
00:46:24On his wife
00:46:25Now, before I go on with my talk
00:46:29I have a treat for you
00:46:30I should like to introduce
00:46:31The Durando and Davis
00:46:33World-famous quartet
00:46:35The Cats and the Fiddle
00:46:36Come along and swing it
00:46:37Let's go on, boys
00:46:38That's it
00:46:40He's a man that smokes that chaff
00:46:50That chaff
00:46:51Would take his fun to run down
00:46:53But if he's still alive
00:46:55When you smoke that killing chaff
00:46:58It would make you very tall
00:47:01It seems that this is going to fall
00:47:03Knock yourself just up my back
00:47:06I'll leave that killing chaff
00:47:09You'd think you'd blow your down
00:47:11But baby, you'd start having
00:47:13You give up
00:47:15Till you don't give them up
00:47:17But you said, man, I'd be it
00:47:19Everything will seem so funny
00:47:22Talk till things will seem so funny
00:47:25Yeah, I'll leave that killing chaff
00:47:28When you smoke that killing chaff
00:47:30Way a spirit
00:47:33Way a developed
00:47:35Way a son
00:47:35Way a fulde
00:47:36Way a fulgon
00:47:37Yeah!
00:47:39Oh, here, out a little fulgue
00:47:40Well, here, out in my neighborhood
00:47:42Way a fulgue
00:47:44Yeah, yeah
00:47:44Woo,ları
00:47:46Yeah, yeah
00:47:49Way a fulgue
00:47:50Yeah, yeah
00:47:52Da-dee-da-da-da-da
00:47:54Ta-dee-dee-dee
00:47:57Ya, yeah
00:47:58Yeah.
00:47:59Da-dee-da-da-da caveat
00:48:00La, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.
00:48:28Just to be a sad man, not red man
00:48:32Everything would seem so funny
00:48:35Don't you think it would seem so funny
00:48:38Yeah, to be a sad man
00:48:40We'll learn right when you're a high man
00:48:42Sad man, you're in the sky
00:48:44Man, you got a red man
00:48:47You've been so mellow
00:48:49You're like a cello
00:48:50We just won't stand killin' down
00:48:53Yeah!
00:48:58The Duke sure knows how to get him, don't he?
00:49:03You tellin' me?
00:49:09And now for the real treat of the evening
00:49:12It gives me a great deal of pleasure
00:49:14To introduce Dr. Durando
00:49:16The discoverer of Universal Elixir
00:49:18Himself in person
00:49:20Dr. Durando
00:49:28Yes, it's a man that has done more for mankind
00:49:35With his Universal Elixir
00:49:37Than all the doctors in the world put together
00:49:40What he has done to others
00:49:42He can do to you
00:49:44The doctor will sit by my side
00:49:46To verify any and all statements that I may make
00:49:49Is that so, doctor?
00:49:50Oh, yes, yes indeed
00:49:52Friends, as I look over your smiling faces
00:49:55The thought comes to me
00:49:57That a lot of those smiles may be covering up
00:49:59Sickness and suffering
00:50:01Maybe some of you are suffering with rheumatism
00:50:04Here are some copper neutralizing rings
00:50:07Guaranteed
00:50:08You do guarantee them, don't you, doctor?
00:50:10Oh, yes indeed
00:50:11Guaranteed to keep away rheumatism
00:50:13Just think, friends
00:50:14We are giving away free
00:50:15These marvelous manifestations of modern science
00:50:18And here, here are some chestnuts
00:50:21Chestnuts
00:50:22All the way from the land of the East Indies
00:50:24The land of mystic
00:50:26And magic
00:50:27Put one of these in your hip pocket
00:50:29And you'll never be bothered with sciatica
00:50:32Mister, I haven't got a hip pocket
00:50:35And a healthy lady like you
00:50:36Will never be bothered with sciatica
00:50:43And these chestnuts too are free
00:50:45With every bottle of Dr. Durando's Universal Elixir
00:50:48At one dollar a bottle
00:50:49Neighbors, we only have a limited supply
00:50:51You won't all be able to get a bottle
00:50:53We haven't got them
00:50:55Ouch!
00:50:56My corn
00:50:57Give a bottle to the lady with the corns
00:51:00I said give
00:51:01It's free to you, madam
00:51:04Now I tell you what I'm going to do
00:51:06When I ring this bell, the sale will stop
00:51:09When I ring it again, the sale will stop
00:51:11Not another bottle will be sold
00:51:15All right, folks, have your dollars ready
00:51:19All right, here you are
00:51:20Here's your neutralizer in the East and Inchester
00:51:22Take your time, now, folks
00:51:23Take your time
00:51:24Don't rush to set up for everybody
00:51:27All right, don't rush now
00:51:28Don't rush
00:51:30Those who suffer from
00:51:31Added indigestion, gas, sour stomach, cramps, sciatica, lumbago
00:51:36Rheumatism, gout, swollen joints, mumps, dandruff, fallen arches
00:51:40Or, if any of your family or livestock are sick
00:51:44Universal Elixir will cure them
00:51:47I don't care what the matter is
00:51:49One bottle will put new life and vigor into those old bodies of yours
00:51:54Give me two bottles
00:51:55Two bottles sold to Methuselah
00:51:57No, Dippy, I'm sorry, sir
00:52:00Only one bottle of this precious Elixir to a person
00:52:03Now, folks, time's up
00:52:08Say, give me a bottle of medicine
00:52:09All right, folks, always willing to be right with you
00:52:11Say, I've already bought that bottle
00:52:13Had my money out and everything
00:52:15I'm sorry, neighbor, but the bell just rang
00:52:18But he passed me up, I had my money out
00:52:20I came on purpose to get a bottle of medicine
00:52:22Come on, Doc, let me have a bottle
00:52:24I'm sorry, folks, but if I let that man have a bottle after the bell rang
00:52:28Everybody will want one
00:52:33Brothers, you're making it tough on me
00:52:35The only bottles I have left are those set aside for our next town
00:52:38Centerville
00:52:43Let me have a word with a good doctor
00:52:48It's a sell-out, Doc
00:52:49We can peddle all we got
00:52:53The doctor has agreed to my suggestion
00:52:55And to show you our hearts are in the right place
00:52:58Joe
00:52:59Yes, sir
00:53:00Break out that lot for Centerville
00:53:01And start selling again
00:53:02Okay
00:53:05I don't want to leave your town with any hard feelings
00:53:08Don't rush, there'll be Elixir for all
00:53:10And remember, a dollar spent now means hundreds saved later
00:53:15Don't miss this wonderful opportunity
00:53:17You'll never regret it, you'll never miss the money
00:53:20What is money compared to hell?
00:53:22No
00:53:24Hey, give me another bottle
00:53:25Slam, you bought five bottles already
00:53:31Time, time now
00:53:34Time now
00:53:35Here's everybody
00:53:36Sold, right here
00:53:37I have to move the next one
00:53:38That's right, here is
00:53:39All right, here's the leg
00:53:40Here's the gentleman running through it
00:53:41There's the next one
00:53:42Who's the next?
00:53:43Who's the next?
00:53:44Ah, Duke, I've been thinking perchance we should invade the Metropolis.
00:54:00No doubt.
00:54:01They've forgotten more tricks than we'll ever learn.
00:54:04We're doing all right as we are, aren't we?
00:54:06Ah, yes indeed.
00:54:08That vision of prophecy was mine when we encountered each other only a short year or so ago.
00:54:13Ah, how time has flown on golden wings.
00:54:16And tonight, we have reached the pinnacle of our success.
00:54:20That's a good line you sling, Doc.
00:54:25Station WEDK New York City now brings you your nightly hot shots from the hotspot by your spotter.
00:54:31Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
00:54:33This is the spotter with a spot of news.
00:54:35Hottest hotspot, 30th and Century Club, has cooled off after the first presentation of a new review
00:54:41featuring the erstwhile bronze nightingale, Ethel Andrews, who still warbles a swell pair of pipes,
00:54:46but is next when it comes to filling the heavy spot on the Broadway biggie.
00:54:50Some of the blame, or maybe all of it, pins on Fenton for trying to rush a gal from sticks to steeples in a few weeks.
00:54:57And one marshal, who authorized this one, should be forced to eat raw the egg.
00:55:02Look, Mr. Fenton, I can dope this show.
00:55:04Not on my money.
00:55:05I must have been dope when I let you talk me into it.
00:55:07That girl's a specialty, not a star.
00:55:10Well, why not go back to her first setup?
00:55:12Remember when you first saw her in Philadelphia?
00:55:14Fill her as a single.
00:55:15Remember her rave notices? Remember the variety?
00:55:17Yes, I remember. And I'm thinking about what variety will do to me now.
00:55:22As a producer, marshal, you're a good agent.
00:55:28Back to the sticks. I'm through.
00:55:35From pinnacle to pit, a bottomless pit, that's me.
00:55:40Don DeRondo's wonderful discovery is headed for a drain pipe instead of strain tripe.
00:55:46And all because of that devilish device.
00:55:49That broadcasting apparatus.
00:55:51Well, I have a mind to bust it.
00:55:53You understand, Doc. Don't you?
00:55:57Say, do. Can't I drive you down to the station?
00:56:00No, Dippy, thanks. I'd rather walk. I want to be by myself.
00:56:05Well, so long, fellas.
00:56:10Oh, so that does mean something to you.
00:56:19Where are we heading, honey? South?
00:56:21No.
00:56:22We're moving to another apartment.
00:56:24We can't afford all this now.
00:56:26A fortune teller told me once that I was a... a cyclist.
00:56:31A what?
00:56:32Somebody who can see things that some people can't.
00:56:35Oh, you mean a psychic.
00:56:37That's it. A cyclist.
00:56:39Well, I've been having notions about somebody down south.
00:56:43And I'm trying to forget the south.
00:56:45You're kidding yourself, honey.
00:56:47Anyway, Duke's down there and I've got a hunch he's in trouble.
00:56:51Maybe he's broke.
00:56:52Not much.
00:56:53Not much.
00:56:54You're forgetting a little matter of $5,000 he sold me for.
00:56:59Now, you listen to me.
00:57:00I've been hiding a lie and it's time somebody came clean.
00:57:03If Duke won't, I will.
00:57:05Then I don't want to hear anything about it.
00:57:06You're going to hear what I've got to say and it's all about him.
00:57:09Duke Davis double-crossed himself for you.
00:57:11He wrote that $5,000 check and didn't take a dime from Marshall.
00:57:15He thought he was standing in your way.
00:57:19Alice, we're not moving.
00:57:22We're sending the trunks to Pennsylvania Station.
00:57:25We're heading south.
00:57:28There's the baggage smasher.
00:57:34Gosh!
00:57:35Maybe I am a cyclist.
00:57:37We were just talking about you.
00:57:39Well, am I invited in?
00:57:45Duke!
00:57:48Duke, I just found out what you did for me.
00:57:51And I just found out what they did to you.
00:57:53All I want is 15 minutes with that Fenton fellow.
00:57:56Forget him, Duke.
00:57:57You can't hurt him.
00:57:58It wasn't his fault.
00:57:59Hurt him?
00:58:00I'm going to do him good.
00:58:02And you're going to wow him at that Century Club.
00:58:05Nothing can stop us now.
00:58:10And here's another bit of news from a local hotspot.
00:58:13Fertie Fenton, whose last Century Club show went sour on him,
00:58:17wasted no time in calling in a doctor.
00:58:19One Duke Davis.
00:58:21A newcomer from the sticks.
00:58:23The medicine is said to be new faces, novel ideas, and...
00:58:27Well, Fertie, you're either a genius or a glutton for punishment.
00:58:30Anyway, good luck with your new producer.
00:58:33Ladies and gentlemen,
00:58:35it gives me great pleasure to announce the return to your thriving community
00:58:40of this famous attraction featuring the bronze nightingale.
00:58:45On the inside, folks, on the inside.
00:58:47A sight of a lifetime.
00:58:49Guaranteed satisfaction.
00:58:51Are your money cheerfully refunded?
00:58:53Come one, come all.
00:58:54Come big, come small.
00:58:56The big show, the free show.
00:58:58The little ladies will pass among you with harmony and dances.
00:59:02They will do you so much good.
00:59:08Harlem.
00:59:13Harlem.
00:59:15Oh, Harlem is harmony.
00:59:20Life is a rhapsody.
00:59:22With a tune you can sing.
00:59:27There's a song in everything.
00:59:31Harlem is harmony.
00:59:35Oh, yeah.
00:59:37Harlem is living good.
00:59:39Hey, hey, hey.
00:59:41Don't have to knock on wood.
00:59:44Hey, hey, hey.
00:59:46When you seem to be wrong.
00:59:49Find a friendship in a song.
00:59:53Harlem is harmony.
00:59:58Have you got a little heart?
01:00:02Or an old banjo?
01:00:06You can strum a little, hum a little as you go.
01:00:12Hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:00:13Hey, hey.
01:00:14Have you got a little heart?
01:00:18Hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:00:19You can spread around.
01:00:20Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:00:21A little lead will help somebody well.
01:00:26Oh, darling.
01:00:28Daddy, daddy, hey, hey, hey.
01:00:31All the harmony.
01:00:33Hey, hey, hey.
01:00:35Love is the melody.
01:00:37Hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:00:38When my gal looks at me, gets my hallelujah key, Harlem is harmony, Harlem is harmony, Harlem is harmony, Harlem is harmony.
01:01:08The End
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01:05:47The End
01:05:48Back to the border, chop it to the down.
01:05:50Hey, hey, you see those cats, they keep the gong around.
01:05:53Thursday.
01:05:54Bop, bop, jibet, bop-a-dee-bo.
01:05:56Jube, jube, jibet, bop-a-do-be.
01:05:59In the swing.
01:06:18Jube, jubet, bop, jibet.
01:06:22Hey!
01:06:23Jubet, as if you stop it,compl irrational dogs.
01:06:28Hang on.
01:06:31Peace out.
01:06:31Peace out.
01:06:35Peace out.
01:06:37outsize the border.
01:06:39Peace out.
01:06:40Peace out.
01:06:42Peace out.
01:06:43Peace out.
01:06:45Please care for the radars.
01:06:46The End
01:07:16The End
01:07:46The End
01:08:16The End
01:08:46The End
01:09:16The End
01:09:46The End
01:10:16You and I have made a small beginning
01:10:21Don't know what our fate is gonna be
01:10:27Chances are we'll get what we're deserving
01:10:33We will be the top just wait and see
01:10:42I know you'll remember all I've told you
01:10:50We'll see our dreams we'll see we'll see we'll see our dreams through you'll remember
01:10:58We'll work hard together while we're dreaming our plans have a meaning
01:11:10She certainly needed her
01:11:18He certainly needed Dukes.
01:11:20Yes, and he needed her.
01:11:22We'll have more than these
01:11:26Don't care what people say
01:11:32We stay together
01:11:40You believe me win or lose
01:11:44I'm with you
01:11:48My love is yours too
01:11:54I know
01:11:56You'll remember
01:12:14I know
01:12:18I know
01:12:20I know
01:12:22I know
01:12:24I know
01:12:28I know
01:12:30You
01:12:32I know
01:12:34You
01:12:36You
01:12:37You
01:12:38You
01:12:42Just
01:12:44You
01:12:46You
01:12:48The End
01:13:18The End
01:13:48The End
01:14:18Don't care what people say
01:14:25We stay together
01:14:31You remember when I lose
01:14:38I'm with you
01:14:41My love is yours too
01:14:46I know you remember
01:14:52I know you remember when I lose
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