This is Let's Talk to Lucy starring Lucille Bourne. A very warm welcome to you all. I'm Gary Morton,

and now let's talk to Lucy. Hi, this is Lucy, and I'm down in Palm Springs. I'm spending some time

at our Palm Springs home at the moment, and waiting for the kids to get down here.

And in the meantime, I ran into one of the bright new stars on the television horizon.

I found Mr. Bill Bixby on the golf course today.

And I realized that I didn't know Bill well enough.

A few things I wanted to find out about him, so I ask him to come over and talk with me so that you can listen in.

Now then, hi, Bill.

Hello, Lucy.

And thank you very much for being with us today.

As I say, you are one of the bright new stars, and I like talking to bright new people and finding out what makes them tick.

Now, you told me something that surprised me today.

You said that you were one of the entrants that I turned down at the beginning of my workshop.

It wasn't that you turned me down.

It was that you did not feel that I was ready for your workshop,

but you encouraged me to go on and

to study with somebody else and learn a little bit more so that I would be ready for the

level that you were working at that time, which was because you were planning, as I recall,

and did, how the students work with you, you worked with all the students, and then you

actually put a show on television.

Apparently, you were way ahead of the students, I wasn't very a student saying that. Well I sort of messed up in one area. When I came in,

as you know, we all did a scene for you, a dramatic or a comedy or any kind of a scene. I seemed to

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