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The famous tycoon cannot be disturbed just now.

5 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:04:14 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Firecrackers, ballet dancers, romance and income taxes are about to descend upon us.

- It's curtain time for Act One of 'You Can't Take It with You'...

- The fifty-seventh floor of the Kirby Building, tallest and most impressive structure of a great American city.

- On a door opposite the elevator is a brass plate bearing the legend 'Anthony P. Kirby Company, Bankers'...

- And behind seven other doors marked 'Private' is the inner sanctum of the great Kirby himself.

- The famous tycoon cannot be disturbed just now.

- With his son Tony and a small group of associates, he's engaged in the ceremonial dance of modern business... a very important conference.

- Gentlemen, we're going ahead exactly as planned! Our company will be the largest individual corporation in the world! Particularly with Ramsey lined up!

- Why, we'd control the whole field of production!

- Exactly, gentlemen.

- But Ramsey would never permit himself to be absorbed by anybody.

- Oh, won't he?

- Earlier this year, Ramsey floated a new issue, didn't he? What for? For expansion, new production facilities! All right.

[...]

You Can't Take It with You (1939) Sound Clip

You Can't Take It with You (1939)Quotes from You Can't Take It with You (1939), Lux Radio Theatre play broadcast in 1939, based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Actors: Fay Wray (Alice), Robert Cummings (Tony), Walter Connolly (Grandpa Vanderhof), Edward Arnold (Mr. Kirby), Lou Merrill (Kolenkhov), Sally Payne (Essie),

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