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His favorite Hollywood sport is tennis, in which activity he is expert enough to be the frequent opponent of Sidney Wood, the ex-Davis Cup player.

10 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:01:43 in the radio play.

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- One is the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio where, with Rosalind Russell, he has completed Live, Love and Learn.

- The other is a lot in Beverly Hills, on which Bob has just finished building a new home with a beautiful library.

- And Bob is a man who really uses his library, for he's constantly seeking new screen material.

- President of the Screen Actors Guild, Bob devotes at least three nights a week to that organization.

- Though this fall he took time off to go to his farm in New York State for a few weeks of partridge and pheasant hunting.

- His favorite Hollywood sport is tennis, in which activity he is expert enough to be the frequent opponent of Sidney Wood, the ex-Davis Cup player.

- Bob is heard tonight as Richard Hannay, in The 39 Steps, adapted from the Gaumont-British film, which in turn was taken from the novel by John Buchan.

- Gaumont-British will shortly release The Girl Was Young, starring Nova Pilbeam and Derrick De Marney, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

- Ida Lupino is a girl I watch very closely, and suggest that you do the same... for every Lupino seems destined for greatness in the theater.

- To American film audiences, she's the best known representative of perhaps the oldest stage family in the world.

- 350 years ago, when acting was considered a crime in Italy, Alfredo Lupino, acrobat and troubadour, fled from Naples, turned gypsy, and eventually found welcome and fame in England.

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The 39 Steps (1937) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsQuotes with sound clips from the old-time radio play "The 39 Steps" (1937), based on John Buchan's novel, first aired on December 13, 1937 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Robert Montgomery (Richard Hannay), Ida Lupino (Pamela Stuart), Isabel Jewel (Annabella Smith), Gene Lockhart (Mr. Memory), Leonard Mudie (Professor Bartlett),

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