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The Halls of Ivy · 1950 · 29 min · 4,040 words
The transcript of “Poetry Reading”, an episode of The Halls of Ivy from 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). The Halls of Ivy plays The Halls of Ivy free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Welcome again to Ivy. Ivy College that is in the town of Ivy, USA. It's Saturday afternoon and the Ivy campus has the deserted air of the United States destroyer when the crew is away on shore leave.
But there are two still on deck, Commodore William Todd Hunter Hall, otherwise known as the President of Ivy, and his good mate, the former Victoria Cromwell of the English Theatre. There's reason for the halls to be aboard, but to Doctor Hall the reason is far from good.
I don't know why I stand for it year after year. I lose pounds. My nerves are shattered by the mere anticipation of it. But they love it so, Tardy. It doesn't event for them to look forward to. They don't have much fun, you know.
My dear Victoria, to use the word fun when speaking of the Ivy Women's Civic Reform League is ridiculous. Self-improvement is rarely fun, particularly when the necessity for it is so evident. Dr. Hall, please remember you are speaking of an organization which I have been invited, even urged to join.
And which for five years, to my certain knowledge, you have successfully ducked. I wish you luck for the next five. I'll find more for me. The one real inducement is that I could at least hear you read a poem to them once a year. Personally, I think it's much too good for them.
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