Talk of the Town

Gentlemen, tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players and Columbia Pictures' Charming Story, The Talk of the Town. It stars Virginia Bruce as Nora, Alan Josslin as Dilge, and Ronald Coleman in his original role as Michael Leckett.

The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in The Talk of the Town. Extra wall of meals go up in fire! Arson, murder, newspaper headlines. Frankly, I wasn't even thinking about them that night.

You see, we'd rented our country cottage for the summer. To a college professor, a Mr. Lightcare. Dean of some big law school in Boston. He was coming down the following morning and I was whipping through the house, trying to get things into shape.

It's a lonely place, and very quiet. No sound that might accept the rain until there's the door. The front door. Open him slowly. And I don't know how I even managed to move, but suddenly I was standing there with an iron poker in my hand and...

No, you don't! Not another step! I... I'm moving, I'll let you have it! I'll brain you off! Leopold, Leopold, deal! What's in the Shelley-Nora? Deed! He was out like the health on Thursday night. And I must say that lying there on the floor, his head cut open and his clothes all sobbing from the rain.

He rather looked like a hunted murderer, but then he opened his eyes and his voice was gentle, almost reproachable. Michelle, do I look like a man who burned down a factory? Maybe. Maybe not, I don't know. You were always the wildest boy in the class.

You were always the prettiest girl. And afterwards, such a reputation. Speeches on street corners, petitions, meetings. What's the matter with you anyway? Some people write music, some people write books, I make speeches on street corners.