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

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

You can hear this line at 00:01:19 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And here beside me, our producer and your host, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille!

- Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

- The 39 Steps lead an old friend and a newcomer, Robert Montgomery and Ida Lupino, to the stage of the Lux Radio Theatre.

- Since here last, Robert Montgomery's been rushing back and forth between two lots.

- 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.

[...]

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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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