Well, I rushed right home, worked straight through till morning, and there it was. And I've been at it ever since.

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

You can hear this line at 00:56:04 in the radio play.

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- Not so long ago, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra played Ida's symphony, 'Aladdin and the Lamp.'

- Oh, thanks for the nice boost, Bob.

- You know, composing's really very exciting, although I had no thought of attempting it until two years ago.

- It was just about this time of year. I was riding in a taxi-cab down Hollywood Boulevard.

- The street was crowded with Christmas traffic, when all of a sudden, the noise seemed to take the form and tempo of a melody.

- Well, I rushed right home, worked straight through till morning, and there it was. And I've been at it ever since.

- What's your latest composition?

- Something I've just sent to London. The score and book for a musical comedy.

- Look, I hope no one is going to get the impression that I think I'm a great musician.

- In fact, I know so little that I often use a code to take the place of notes and musical symbols until I have time to figure out what I'm trying to do. I use the letters of the alphabet for a code.

- If you ever saw one of my scores, you'd think someone had spilled alphabet soup on an orchestration sheet.

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