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Listen, where's Fred and Ethel? I want to get going.

Well, Ethel went down to call her father in Albuquerque to tell him that we're

arriving late this afternoon.

Hi. Oh, here they are. Hi, Rick. I'll go get the car, huh? Okay.

Well, Ethel, did you talk to your father?

For 20 minutes.

Oh, he was so thrilled.

Gee, I haven't talked to Daddy for so long, hearing his voice made me cry.

Hearing the amount of that phone bill is going to make me cry.

Gee, I'm anxious to meet him. What's he like?

Well, let me put it this way. With him and Albuquerque, I'm surprised they

have another Indian uprising.

Now, Fred.

Fred and Daddy never did see eye to eye. Daddy didn't want us to get married.

Oh? Fred, he's all over that by now. He's forgiven us for eloping.

I haven't forgiven him for not stopping us.

Listen, smart aleck, you've forgotten that while we're visiting Daddy, the

and the meals will be free.

On to Albuquerque.

Okay, the car's ready. Great.

Long distance, please.

What are you doing?

I'm calling Mother.

But you called her yesterday.

Well, yesterday was a whole day ago. I want to find out how the baby is.

Operator, would you give me New York City, Murray Hill 5, 9099?

Well, cut it short, honey. This is long distance. It costs a lot of money to

call long distance. Yes, dear, I will. I call every day like we're in the next

corner drugstore or something.

Hello, Mother.

Hello, this is Lucy.

Lucy!

Lucy!

We have a bad connection.

With your mother, it's always a bad connection.

Mother, mother, this is Lucy, your daughter, Lucy Ricardo.

No, no, dear, no message. I know she's on her way to California. This is me.

Mother, it's your daughter, Lucille McGillicuddy.

Hello, mother, how are you?

She knows who you are. Hang up.

How's the baby, dear?

Oh, I'm fine.

Yeah, well, give the baby my love, will you? And Ricky's love.

Well, all right, Mickey's love.

Yeah, and Aunt Ethel's love and Uncle Fred's love.

Now that everybody loves everybody, hang up.

All right, all right. Mother, I have to go.

Mother?

Mother? What happened? Were you cut off?

Well, what's going on, honey? This is long distance. Well, she went to get the

baby so I could tell him myself.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I want to hear the baby's voice.

Hello?

Hello, darling?

He said hello!

Good, you say goodbye.

No, look, see if he'll say hello to you.

Hello, son.

He said it!

I don't know, Fred, come here and listen to this. He said hello!

These prices, you're going broke. Oh, never mind that.

He said it clear as a bell. Hey, little Ricky, say hello to Uncle Fred and Aunt

Ethel now. Say hello.

Hi, Ricky. Hi, Ricky.

He said it! Did you hear him? How do you like that?

What a kid.

What a conversationalist. Only two years old. He's talking halfway across

country.

Halfway across country. Goodbye, son.

Come on, now. Let's hit the road, huh? On to Albuquerque. Come on, let's go.

I'll take that big cab.

Your sight for sore eyes.

Daddy, you remember Fred.

Oh, yeah. Hiya, Curly.

And these are my best friends, the Ricardos. How do you do, Mr. Potter?

How do you do? You must be Lucy.

Now, there's a shrewd piece of deduction.

And Ricky.

Yes, sir.

Commissar. Commissar.

Very good. Oh, I've heard a lot about you.

Well,

thank you. Well, let's all sit down and get the load off our feet. Okay, sure.

You can sit any place you want to. All right, honey.

Oh, I thought we'd never get here from Amarillo. What happened? It's been such

long day. Ethel, is this you?

Help! That's my baby when she was the flower of Albuquerque.

The most popular girl in town.

Why, they even elected her Miss Albuquerque of 1900. She was

pretty popular, huh, Mr. Potter?

Popular? She was so popular the boys used to buzz around her like bees around

honey.

She could have had her pick of any fellow in town.

And when I stopped to think how she... Oh, what's he used to going

back?

Well, how come with all the bees around her, I was the one to get stung?

Stung. Now, look here.

Mr. Potter, this is the first time that we've been around this part of the

country, you know. We've never been down, even around Albuquerque floor at

Really? Yeah.

You know very well, Mrs.

Potter, why she could have married the best of them. There was that Dick,

his name? Dick Arley. Yeah, and Hank Spear.

And Bill Hackett. Oh, say, he's the editor of the paper now.

He is?

Oh, I almost forgot.

He's coming over. He'll be here in a few minutes.

Billy Hackett? Yeah, Billy Hackett.

Yes, sir. When I told him that you were coming through town with the Ricardos,

nothing would do but that he come over and get an interview.

Oh, really?

Yeah. Oh, the whole town's in an uproar over this visit.

Is that so?

I even got so excited I didn't go to the store this morning.

I run a little sweet shop in Soda Fountain.

Our slogan is, you can lick our cones, but you can't beat our sodas.

Yeah, it isn't every day when we get a celebrity that comes to our town.

Well,

I hope that they're not going to make it.

Too much of a fuss about it. Well, they don't go overboard.

Oh, yes, they, but they're all going all out.

Really? Oh, they're going all out. Sure.

They even wanted to know if you'd put on a show.

A show?

Sure. How about it, Ricky? Oh, that would be fun. Let's do it.

All right.

I already told him you would.

It's all set up for tomorrow night.

Oh. Oh, you ought to see the marquee on the little theater.

You haven't any idea what it says.

What does it say?

Ethel May Potter, we never forgot her.

Ethel May Potter?

That's all he said?

Yeah, why?

Oh, no, I think it's just, you know, when you say celebrity, you know, I

that maybe... Ethel May is very big here in Albuquerque.

She's big everywhere.

You're exaggerating.

Why, I haven't done anything to speak of since I was in vaudeville.

Oh, yeah? Well, how come you're on your way to Hollywood to star in a movie?

Star in a movie?

Daddy, you misunderstood.

Ricky's going to be in the picture.

Oh, you're going to be in it, too?

Well, I won't exactly put it that way.

Now, don't you worry. If Ethel says that you're going to be in her picture,

you're going to be in her picture.

That's nice.

Oh, Daddy, you got it all wrong.

Well, that's what you wrote. No, what I meant was, Ricky is the star.

I'm just, uh... Oh, uh... There's my daughter for you. Modesty personified.

hasn't changed a bit.

You know, sir, she always was a shrinking violet.

Now, honey, never mind the false modesty.

Go ahead.

Tell us about your picture.

Yeah, Ethel, tell us about your picture.

Yeah.

Um... If Billy Hackett's coming over, I want to freshen up just a little.

Oh, Ethel May, take your own room. We haven't touched it since you left.

It must be a nice dusty mess by now.

Say, if you folks will just make yourself the home, I want to run down to

candy store and tell everybody how wonderful Ethel May looks.

Ethel May's picture.

How do you like that?

Oh, come now. What difference does it make if her father thinks it's her

picture? What? She didn't even try to deny it. Well, she didn't want to make

father look bad.

Why not? Everybody knows he's full of baloney.

Oh, come on now.

Promise me one thing. When the man from the newspaper gets here to interview

you, you make Ethel look good.

You tell him that she's going to be in the picture, too.

Well... There he is. Now remember, mention Ethel as much as you can. All

And honey, when he takes your picture, you insist that Ethel be in it too.

dear. Okay.

Hello. Hello.

I'm Billy Hackett of the Chronicle. How do you do? I'm Lucy Ricardo.

How do you do? This is Ricky Ricardo and Fred Mertz. How do you do? How are you?

Well, I've wanted to know you for a long time.

Thank you.

Yes, sir. I've always wanted to shake the hand of the man who married Ethel

You got the wrong fellow. That's him over there.

Oh. You're the winner.

Yeah, I'm the winner.

And you're Ricky Ricardo.

That's right.

Well, I've got a lot of questions I want to ask you. Oh, certainly. Sit down.

Anything you want to know. All right.

How long have you known Ethel May?

Now, let me see.

Billy Hackett! Ethel May! Oh, I'm so glad to see you. My daddy told me you

coming over. Oh, it's been so long. Ethel May, you were never pretty.

Well, I can't argue with that.

I'd like to get a few pictures.

All right. Will you stand right over there? Right over there where Mr.

is. Yes.

Get a nice informal shot of you now. Just relax there and let me have a

little... Mr.

Ricardo, would you mind moving just a little bit to your right, please? Sure.

Thank you.

I'm sorry,

Mr. Ricardo, but you're still in the picture.

a group of us. I've always wanted a good picture of all of us together. Oh,

that's fine. Right here. Everybody gather around Ethel May. You just stand

Billy tells you to.

Put your arms around her. Get all close together, you know. Fix them. Very

informal. Right around me.

Put your arms around Ethel May, please. Thank you very much. Right there. There

we are.

Now.

Got it. Oh, that ought to be a good one. Now for the big story. Sit down, Ethel

May.

Local girl makes good.

Ethel May Potter reaches stardom in Hollywood.

Now, I want to know the story, the human story and back of this. How did you get

there? How did it happen?

Was it a tough road?

And was it worth it? Now, those are the things that your friends from

Albuquerque are waiting to hear.

Yeah, your friends from New York are waiting to hear it, too.

Yeah.

Well, tell me, Ethel May.

And I'll put your story on the front page tomorrow.

Um... Go ahead, Ethel May. Tell them your story.

Yeah.

Well, uh... Oh.

Um... My Story

by Ethel May Potter.

You people who remain here in this lovely, quiet, peaceful... town

of Albuquerque, leading your dreary, uneventful lives.

Little do you know the heartache, the heartbreak, the hard work, the

that I went through to get where I am today.

When I was a small tot playing around

the yard of the Albuquerque Grammar School, when know that I was destined to

become the star of three continents.

That's wonderful.

And it gives me a great idea.

I'm going to make a series of pictures of you all over town. We'll take them in

the schoolyard where you once played and one back at the counter of your

father's sweet shop. Oh, that's wonderful.

And then we'll top it all off with a big close -up shot of the little theater

marquee. Oh, that'll just be great.

Well, come on, let's do it. Right now? Why, certainly. Oh, fine.

I think she's blown her top.

What do you suppose got into her?

I don't know, but somewhere along the line, shrinking violet got sanforized.

Why, she's Raven Man.

We'd better get out of this joint before she starts foaming at the mouth and

bites somebody.

Yeah, we'll leave tomorrow night, right after the show.

You mean we're still going to do the show?

You're darn right we're going to do the show.

I'm not going to leave this town with everybody thinking that I'm Ethel May's

chauffeur.

Now, I'll tell you what we're going to do. What?

I'll do an opening number, and then you do something.

Then I'll sing Babaloo, then you do something.

Then I'll sing Renata, then you do something.

Hey, Igarachi.

What is that for? I want to start rehearsing. Oh, she went out with the

cut the tape on a new road into the Indian reservation.

Yeah, honey.

Listen to this. What?

Glamorous star visits here on way to film capital.

Well, what did you expect after just this interview?

I bet she doesn't even mention us. Oh, yes, she does.

Ethel May Potter, who has been called to Hollywood to star in a widescreen color

spectacle, is motoring to the coast with friends. That's us.

How do you find that?

Oh, that's nothing. Try this on for size.

This evening, Miss Potter will appear at the Little Theater in a solo recital of

songs and readings.

Solo? Boy, she's really flipped.

Yeah, well, there's more. Remember the picture taken of all of us, the one with

our arms around Ethel? Yeah.

Hello.

Yeah,

either that or Ethel's grown five more hands.

Oh, here comes our shrinking violet now.

Yeah, the little shrinker.

They made her an Indian chief.

What's your name, Big Chief Hog -It -All?

What do you mean?

What do you mean? We read the paper, dear.

Wasn't that bright up a Lulu?

And what a Lulu.

I especially like the picture. Ethel in her trained hands.

Yeah, thanks a lot for mentioning my name.

Now, just a minute. I can't help what Billy Hackett put in the paper.

Freedom of the press, you know.

Freedom of the press, yes. But there wasn't a word of truth in it.

I beg your pardon.

There might have been a slight exaggeration here and there. Oh, Ethel.

Ethel, let's come over you. Solo performance.

Are you crazy or something?

Now, I can explain.

Everybody wanted me to do something special.

Something that I became famous for.

So, what with one thing and another, there just wasn't room for all of you.

You know, you might have insisted that we be in the show.

Yes, I might have.

But I didn't want to.

All right, come on. We're leaving for California right now. Now, just a

I can't leave now.

Oh, that's right. You have a show to do, haven't you?

Well, we'll see you on the coast.

Well, how do I get out there?

Well, call your studio. Maybe they'll send a special train for a big star.

Oh. I think you're all horrid. Now, just a second, folks. I'm sorry if Ethel May

is so popular there's no room for you.

But, gosh, there must be something we can figure out you can do.

Yeah, maybe we could be ushers in the theater.

Maybe we can put on aprons and sell your candy in the lobby.

Same. Oh, no.

Come on, let's get out of here. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I think we should stay.

What?

Well... After all, this is Ethel's hometown, and we should help her make a

impression. Now, just a minute.

We'll stay, Ethel, and when you're on that stage tonight, remember you've got

right behind you. Well, now, that's very nice of you. Thanks, Lucy.

Yeah, thanks.

Ethel, may I get up and change your clothes? We've got to go over to the

shop. I'm naming a Sunday after... Yeah, well...

What's the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? What did you want to say

that for?

Now, fellas, I just got to thinking about our dear Ethel May.

Now, you know, it's very hard to carry a whole show all by yourself.

Even if you're as big a star as she is.

She really needs somebody to back her up.

And that's where we come in.

We'll be right behind her. On the stage.

Ladies and gentlemen.

My friends, you don't know what a thrill it is for me to be on this stage

tonight. This stage where I got my start.

And I want you all to know that no matter how famous I become, I will never

forget you or Albuquerque.

But enough of the sentiment.

On with the show.

For my first number tonight, I have chosen a number that all of you love to

me sing. I had many requests for your favorite and mine.

Shortening bread.

Put on the skillet. Put on the lid.

Maybe he's gonna make a little short.

Shortening, shortening. Manny's little baby loves shortening.

Manny's little baby loves shortening, shortening.

Little baby loves shortening bread.

Mammy's little baby loves shortening, shortening. Mammy's little baby loves

shortening bread. They caught me with the skillet. They caught me with the

They caught me with the gal making shortening bread.

Mammy's little baby loves shortening, shortening.

Happy to.

Now, I think we should have a change of pace, don't you?

So, I'd like to sing an operatic song that I used to do.

My Hero from The Chocolate Soldier.

That's the funniest show I've ever seen, on or off Broadway.

I want to get a picture.

Lucy, Fred, Ricky, come on out here. I want to get a picture. Get the stool,

will you?

Ricky, you stand in the middle.

You here, just a little bit over here, honey.

That's it.

That's fine. Now, let me see.

Here, give me the stool.

See if that looks all right.

Yes, that's fine. Now, come on. You sit down here, right in the middle.

That's it.

That's the picture I want.

Ethel May Potter and Company.

Mr.

Potter was played by Irving Bacon and Bill Hackett was played by Chick

I Love Lucy is a Desilu production.

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz will be back next week at this same time.