Lux Radio Theatre - The Bishops Wife

Lux Radio Theatre - The Bishops Wife

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Speaker 1: Lux Presents Hollywood Leaverer Brothers Company, the makers of Lux

Blake's bring You the Lux Radio Theater, starring Tyrone Power,

David Niven, and Jane Greer in the Bishop's Wife, Ladies

and Gentlemen, You're a producer.

Speaker 2: Mister William Keeley.

Speaker 3: Readings from Hollywood Ladies and Guvernlemen, home again after an

absence of a year and a half, is one of

America's favorite stars, and he's here tonight to lend an

extra thrill to our holiday season. I mean, of course,

Tyrone Power, who joins David Niven and Jane Greer in

our Christmas present to you, the delightful play The Bishop's Wife.

Samuel Goldwyn's fine and sensitive screen production won your hearts

as well as your applause, and those who saw the

picture will have a special welcome tonight for David Niven,

who plays his original screen role as the Bishop. I'm

sure most of you are quite busy these days with

last minute shopping and getting the house in order for

the holidays, a time of year when you'll need plenty

of Lux flakes. In fact, there's a most unusual holiday

use for Lux flakes on your Christmas tree, which we'll

tell you about later. Now the curtain for Act one

of the Bishop's Wife, starring Tyrone Power as Dudley, David

Niven as the Bishop, and Jane Greer as Julia.

Speaker 2: It's a late afternoon in.

Speaker 3: December, in a rather shabby section of a large city.

Two old friends have an unexpected meeting.

Speaker 2: Julia.

Speaker 4: What a wonderful surprise, my dear beautiful Julia.

Speaker 5: Professor Wadridge, But what are you doing here?

Speaker 4: I'm about to negotiate the purchase of a Christmas tree.

Speaker 5: I didn't know you celebrated Christmas. I thought you had

no religion.

Speaker 4: I don't, but I like a Christmas tree. Reminds me

of my childhood. Can you imagine me? I've admitted a child.

Tell me how's Henry.

Speaker 5: Oh he's well, I suppose, but so tired.

Speaker 2: And worried raising money for the new cathedral.

Speaker 5: Slow work, Professor, and you, how's your book coming?

Speaker 2: Oh?

Speaker 4: Splendidly, greatest history of Rome since Gibbons.

Speaker 5: I wish it'd run so late. The Cathedral Committee's meeting

with Henry. I really should be there.

Speaker 4: Well, one of these days we'll have time for a

nice talk again. Oh, here for Henry's Cathedral fund. This coin,

it has very little value, I'm afraid, just an old

Roman coin. I picked it up years ago in Italy.

Speaker 5: It's a wonderful contribution.

Speaker 2: Nonsense.

Speaker 4: It might be called the widow's might, only I'm not

a widow Julia who wants the matter nothing.

Speaker 5: Or if Henry and I could only spend Christmas back here,

why we were so happy with you, with all our friends.

Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5: It was really very childish of me.

Speaker 2: Goodbye, professor, goodbye? Why, professor? How good to see you again?

Who are you?

Speaker 6: And how well you look after all these years? Well

don't you remember me? And let's see it. It wasn't Vienna.

It was Vienna, beautiful old Vienna, when I was lecturing

on Roman history, and what splendid lectures they were, and

what a one you were with the ladies.

Speaker 2: Fancy you remembering that.

Speaker 6: I've been standing on the corner watching you, Professor. You

and Julia, you know Julia in a way, Yes, a

poor girl, she's unhappy.

Speaker 2: Yes, when were you in Vienna?

Speaker 6: Oh? Many times I'm interested in Julia, Professor and Henry.

What seems to be their trouble? Oh, no, special trouble

I imagine Henry's a bishop now. Oh, yes, that used to

be his church over there, Saint Timothy's perishing neglect.

Speaker 2: It's such a nice little church. Well delighted to have

seen you again, Professor Strange.

Speaker 4: Unless I've completely lost my memory, I've never seen that

fellow before in my life.

Speaker 5: Julia, I'm terribly sorry. I'm so late, Henry.

Speaker 2: Has everyone gone, yes, dear, some time ago?

Speaker 5: Not another argument, Henry, Missus Hamilton.

Speaker 2: Missus Hamilton is a selfish, vain old.

Speaker 6: She made it very clear, Julia, either we build the

cathedral the way she wants it, or it won't be

built at all. Oh, at a ghastly meeting.

Speaker 5: You didn't give in to her.

Speaker 2: Indeed not. I made it very clear. I have no

intention of being strangled by her purse strings.

Speaker 5: Oh, Henry, I'm proud of you.

Speaker 6: I had the most unchristian impulse to take the blueprints

and give her a good whack over a mink coat.

Speaker 7: I beg your pardons, Yes, cass away, mister Trapp's on

the phone, and tell him the bishop will call him back,

please after dinner.

Speaker 5: Yes, Missus brow Henry, what's happened to you? Two words

to our marriage.

Speaker 2: That's a strange question to ask.

Speaker 5: Now, we used to be so happy. We used to

make other people happy. Henry, that was your gift. You're

no finance here, and you're no promoter cow telling to people,

flattering and begging.

Speaker 6: It's got to be done, Julia. I want this cathedral

to stand like a great beacon. I want his light

to shine. I want yes, yes, yes, Henry. Oh, here

here's a contribution I collected.

Speaker 2: Oh what is it.

Speaker 5: It's an all Roman coin from Professor Weatheridge.

Speaker 2: What does you think I can do with it?

Speaker 5: Well, it's the beginning. Now. All you need is just

another four million.

Speaker 6: Dollars, Julia, don't be flipping about this. Well, if dinner's ready,

let's have it over with. I've got a lot of

work to do tonight.

Speaker 5: The soup's very good, Matilda. Oh, thank you, missus Brown.

Speaker 2: Oh Julia, I'm I'm sorry. I was so thoughtless.

Speaker 6: Just I was just thinking tomorrow, perhaps we could spend

the day together, Henry, call on the professor.

Speaker 2: Maybe have lunch at Michelle's.

Speaker 5: Michelle's. Oh, it's been years since we been Please forgive me, yes,

Miss Cassaway. Well, I've been trying.

Speaker 7: To explain to mister Trevor, but he simply insists upon

talking to you.

Speaker 5: Oh, Julia, he's on the cathedral committee, isn't he. I'm

going ahead, Dear, you'd better talk.

Speaker 2: Trevor. Very well, mister Trevor, I'll be there ten thirty

tomorrow morning. Good night. You may as well go home now,

Miss Cassuway.

Speaker 5: But there's still a great deal of work to do.

Speaker 2: See, you're a secretary, not a machine. I'll run along,

thank you.

Speaker 7: Oh and don't forget you have a speech to make

tomorrow at the Junior Assembly.

Speaker 2: Oh what time?

Speaker 5: It's a luncheon meeting one o'clock.

Speaker 2: Good night, Bishop, Good night, Miss Cassaway. Oh God, what

am I to do? Can't you help me? Can't you

tell me?

Speaker 6: Oh God, please please help me. Yes, it's good eeting.

Oh what can I do for you? That isn't the question, Henry,

Oh for what is it? What can I do for you? Look,

I'm afraid you must telephone from the appointment. I'm in

the middle of dinner. I know, Henry, But you ask

for help, you know, I asked who told you I

asked for help? Well, you are known to be a

good man, and you were heard I was instructed to

come here in answer to your prayer.

Speaker 2: Who are you? I'm an angel? I beg your pardon,

an angel, an angel. I knew it. I knew it.

Speaker 6: I've been working too hard. No, no, no, now, don't

be alarmed. I know it's hard to believe, even for you.

But this is my district. And I do you mind

if I sit down?

Speaker 2: No?

Speaker 6: No, please do. And now let's see. You have some

problems concerning the building of a new cathedral. Yes, oh,

here's a picture of it, beautiful, magnificent.

Speaker 2: Well, Henry, do you believe? I am what I say?

I am? Oh?

Speaker 6: How can I have nothing but your word for it?

But you are a bishop, You of all people can

trust the word of an angel? Or what do you

propose to do? Perform a miracle if necessary? Oh, why

don't you? Why don't you create a cathedral with a.

Speaker 2: Wave of your hand? No, you wouldn't want me to

do that, would you. How would you explain it? Well,

I am Henry.

Speaker 5: Is anything wrong?

Speaker 6: Oh?

Speaker 5: Well, I'm sorry? I didn't know you had a caller?

Speaker 6: Oh, how have you been, Julia? I'm Dudley. Henry is

engaging me to help him with his work.

Speaker 5: You mean you're going to be his a sistant.

Speaker 6: That's it exactly. I'm going to try to help Henry

to get some relaxation.

Speaker 5: Oh that's just what I've been praying for. Oh you too, Henry,

I'm so relieved.

Speaker 8: Here.

Speaker 5: Where do you come from, Dudley?

Speaker 6: Oh all around, Julia, This man claims that he's an eye.

I've been doing social service work downtown and Julia, if

you don't mind, I must talked to this gentleman alone.

Speaker 5: We were just having dinner. Dudley, won't you join us?

Speaker 6: Well, that's very kind of you, but I really must go.

I'll see you both in the morning. In the morning, oh, yes, right,

and early.

Speaker 5: I wait in the dining room, Henry, good night, Good.

Speaker 2: Night, Julia. Are you Are you sure you're an angel?

Speaker 6: I know it isn't easy, Henry, but you've just got

to take me on faith.

Speaker 2: Yes, but for how long?

Speaker 6: How long will it take until you can utter another

prayer and say that you have no further need of me?

Then I'll be gone and forgotten. Julia is waiting Henry. Yes,

I know, but I still learned to say, Dudley, Dudley,

where are you?

Speaker 2: Dudley?

Speaker 5: Henry you look so pale. Do I sit down? Dear Henry.

What's the rest of Dudley's name. I don't know why, Henry,

you're trembling. I'm not surprised the less a man would quiver. Well,

you'll feel better after you've beaten Matilda's baked your favorite dessert,

dear angel, food cake. Henry, Henry Bishop Brown.

Speaker 2: Oh, good morning, miss Catsuway.

Speaker 5: I was just in your study, sir. There's a man

in there. He says, he's your new assist.

Speaker 2: Oh, then he did come back.

Speaker 5: He says, we're going to be working together.

Speaker 6: Yes, it doesn't seem much I can do about it. Well,

we'll run along to the office. Was Cat's away, I'll

go in and see it. Yes, sir, Well here I

am Henry, completely at your service. I may interest you

to know I didn't sleep twenty minutes last night. I

don't mind adding I'm in a highly nervous condition. Oh, well,

then the first thing we'll have to Oh, good morning, Julia.

Speaker 5: Good morning Dudley. It's a lovely day. Lovely Henry and

I are going out together.

Speaker 6: Oh, Julia, I'm terribly sorry, but we can't. I got

to see mister Trevor at ten thirty in and after

that as the Junior Assembly.

Speaker 5: Did you promised, Henry?

Speaker 2: Yes, I know I did.

Speaker 5: Dudley could represent you at those meetings, couldn't he could?

Speaker 6: I that's out of the question, expect me. Would never

do if I sent an assistant. Excuse Usdudley. I want

to speak to my wife, of course, in the hole.

Dear Julie, you see the trouble is well that man

in there.

Speaker 2: Oh, I can't.

Speaker 5: Explain, even try, Henry. You mustn't think this is the

way it is, this is the way it always will be. Well,

I'll tell Matilda she can have the day off a

Christmas shopping. I'll take care of Debbie. I'll see you

at dinner. Henry.

Speaker 2: What are you doing, deadly?

Speaker 6: I'm just looking through your files, Henry. While I see

that missus Hamilton has pledged a million dollars to the

Cathedral fund, but she hasn't sent her check. Ill, never

mind that file. That's work for a bookkeeper, not an

work for a bookkeeper. Well, so you're beginning to believe

in me. I don't know who you are. I don't

know where you came from or who sent you. I

only wish you'd make haste because the cathedral must be built,

and obviously that's the most important thing.

Speaker 2: Well, because Julia must be happy.

Speaker 6: It's going to be difficult to help you, Henry, unless

i'm sure of what it is that you really want. Yes, well,

I'm afraid you will have to excuse me. Mister Trevor

likes punctuality. We'll run along, Henry. This file is in

an awful mess. I think i'll reorganize it. I still

think you're wasting your time on unimportant Well, nothing's unimportant, Henry.

Remember we're interested in even the lowliest sparrow bringing in

she ringing in the shes. Oh hello, Debbie, Well, come in,

come in.

Speaker 9: How did you do that? Just now, all those cards

and Daddy's file? He just waved your hand and they

all jumped out of the box and jumped in again.

Speaker 6: Oh that, well, it's just my system of rearranging card files.

Speaker 2: Do it again some other time.

Speaker 9: You deadly, aren't you? Mommy told me. Mommy says you're

very nice.

Speaker 2: Well, that's extremely kind of Mommy.

Speaker 9: She said that maybe with you here, maybe we'll get

to see Daddy once in a while.

Speaker 2: Yes, maybe we will.

Speaker 5: Debbie that'll be enough out of your here. Come along.

Speaker 2: Yes, so you're going out to the park.

Speaker 9: I'm going to play in the snow.

Speaker 2: Goodbye, Deadly, goodbye, Debbie.

Speaker 5: Have a good time, Julia Dudley. I didn't expect to

see you here.

Speaker 2: Oh. I often walk in the park.

Speaker 6: Well, Debbie seems to be having a fine time, regular snowbird.

Speaker 5: Aren't you supposed to be working?

Speaker 2: I always take a off before lunch, relaxing. You know.

Speaker 5: I wish you could convince Henry of that.

Speaker 2: Speaking of lunch, Julia, I thought i'd go to Michelle's.

Speaker 5: Ever been there, Michelle, Yes, we used to go there

often years ago.

Speaker 2: How about going there today?

Speaker 5: You and I to Michelle's. No, No, I couldn't.

Speaker 2: Why not? Surely you don't think Henry would mine.

Speaker 5: No, No, it isn't that. Well, you see, Matilda's off shopping,

and I'll have to look after Debbie. Oh, yes, yes, sir,

but here's Matilda now well, no, Missus Brom Matilda.

Speaker 10: I just thought, Missus Brom, I just thought that, if

you wish, I'll take Debbie home.

Speaker 5: But Matilda you're shopping.

Speaker 2: Oh.

Speaker 11: I finished it.

Speaker 5: I finished it so quick.

Speaker 11: It was just like a miracle.

Speaker 2: You don't say.

Speaker 10: I thought Debbie might like to go home and make

Christmas cookie.

Speaker 5: I'm sure she'd love to.

Speaker 11: Well, then, Missus brom, I'll just go and.

Speaker 2: Get it, well, Julia, Michelle's.

Speaker 5: I think that would be very nice, Dudley.

Speaker 2: Yes, just a.

Speaker 5: Minute ago, when you said you saw Matilda.

Speaker 2: Yes, Oh it's nonsense. Oh what's nonsense?

Speaker 5: You were looking the other way when you said you

saw her.

Speaker 2: Oh I was I mean?

Speaker 5: I mean, I thought you were silly of me. Quite here, Dudley,

I'll say goodbye to Debbie.

Speaker 2: Julia, Julia, I'm home, Julia.

Speaker 11: Why Bishop, I thought you were out for lunch?

Speaker 6: Shall we cancel my appointment? Matilda and Missus Brahman Debbie here?

Speaker 10: Well, Debbie's upstairs, sir. But missus went out to lunch

with mister Dudley.

Speaker 2: Oh well, she said, Dudley.

Speaker 11: Oh why, yes, sir, I thought you knew, sir.

Speaker 2: Oh yes, of course.

Speaker 5: Oh dear, I'm so glad you knew about Michelle's. It's

so nice to be back here again. Only only well,

you seem to know so much makes me feel uncomfortable.

Speaker 6: Well, in that case, I'm sorry I ever learned anything

you have memories of this place, haven't you.

Speaker 2: Yes.

Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, it was in this restaurant

that Henry asked me to marry.

Speaker 6: Yes, I know you know. I mean, I know how

you must feel. There's a fortune teller over there. You

care to have your palm read?

Speaker 3: No?

Speaker 2: Thank you? Would you?

Speaker 7: No?

Speaker 2: I know too much about myself as it is.

Speaker 5: And I know so little about myself.

Speaker 2: Oh really, May I look at your hand?

Speaker 5: Can you tell fortunes too?

Speaker 2: It's not too difficult.

Speaker 5: Well what do you see?

Speaker 6: I never noticed, Julia? Your eyes are green. I see

a great deal of happiness. I see a woman who's adored.

I see a rich, full life.

Speaker 5: Do you see Henry's new cathedral?

Speaker 2: Uh?

Speaker 6: No, No, I don't. And Debbie no need to worry

about her. She'll be like you, Julia. She'll have youth

and beauty no matter how old she lives to be.

Speaker 5: I wish I.

Speaker 2: Could believe you.

Speaker 5: May you haven't looked at my hand once. I simply

don't know what to think of you, deadly, whether you're serious?

Oh no, well that table over there, No, No, don't look.

Three ladies all in the cathedral committee they're simply glaring

at me. Well, he saw you holding my hand.

Speaker 2: My hand.

Speaker 6: Oh well, then, if you'll excuse me, I'd better do

something about it, hadn't I.

Speaker 5: What did you do to them?

Speaker 6: Now?

Speaker 5: They're smiling at me. Look they're waving.

Speaker 2: Well, wave back, Julia.

Speaker 6: Oh yes, I didn't do anything to them, just introduced myself,

chatted a moment. They're really very friendly, Julia. They promised

to drop by our table.

Speaker 2: A little later.

Speaker 5: Dudley, May I make an understatement?

Speaker 2: Oh please?

Speaker 5: Do you are a very unusual man.

Speaker 2: I'll let you in on something, Julia. You're quite right.

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Speaker 3: Keeley, Act two of The Bishop's Wife, starring Tyrone Power

as Dudley, David Niven as the Bishop, and Jane Greer

as Julia. Reliable authorities tell us that the Christmas season

is the happiest time of the year, but it's anything

but that for young Bishop Henry Brown, determined to build

a cathedral, he can't raise the money, and if that

isn't trouble enough, he finds his prayers have been answered

in the person of a young, handsome and full fledged

angel named Dudley, who seems to find the Bishop's wife

for better company than the Bishop.

Speaker 5: I enjoyed lunch very much, Dudley. Why don't you think

we'd better go home?

Speaker 2: I thought you'd liked to walk.

Speaker 5: Oh I do, but totally wait. There's a friend of mine,

Professor Wedridge. Professor Waite.

Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, what wonderful luck meeting you again this man.

Speaker 2: Are you with him?

Speaker 5: Yes, of course, Dudley. This is Professor Weadridge.

Speaker 6: Oh, the professor knows me well, the University of Vienna.

Speaker 2: The young man. I don't believe you've ever been near.

Speaker 5: Vienna Dudley is Henry's new assistant.

Speaker 2: Do you mean you really know this dum Of course

I do. Well.

Speaker 4: In that case, how about dropping into my humble diggings

for a bit of mule time show.

Speaker 5: I'd love to, but only for a moment.

Speaker 2: Come along, Dudley, it's just around the corner.

Speaker 5: Well, professor, why are you going to show us your book?

Speaker 2: My book? Never? Please? Oh you're writing a book you

didn't know. You didn't tell me.

Speaker 4: I described the book and detail in the course of

those lectures I gave him Vienna, Julia. I'm now certain

this fellow's an impost.

Speaker 6: Oh oh that book? Oh I thought you finished that

one years ago?

Speaker 4: Oh oh, I see no. No, For twenty years I've

talked about that book. But in all that time I

haven't written a word, not one word.

Speaker 5: But why not?

Speaker 4: Because I can't think of anything original to say, just

the same old monotonous history.

Speaker 2: Rise Dust.

Speaker 4: Never could find the right words, either to tell you

a pretty girl or to write a book.

Speaker 2: Even when you had this coin to inspire you.

Speaker 5: Well, that's the coin you gave to Henry.

Speaker 2: Professors as I borrowed it from Henry's desk and you

wasted your time. It's worthless.

Speaker 6: On the contrary, this coin is one of the rarest

of all antiquities. Only one hundred of these coins were

minted by Julius Caesar two thousand years ago. That was

when Cleopatra visited Rome. Presumably these coins were used to

pay her hotel bill. Why that's amazing, And nobody knew about.

Speaker 2: It to accept Caesar's wife, and she had the coins destroyed,

but this one she overlooked.

Speaker 6: It's an unwritten chapter in history, and you, professor, will

write it.

Speaker 2: Do you know any more stories like that? Oh? Any

number of them? Oh you're a curious fellow.

Speaker 5: Have you just begun to notice that where do.

Speaker 2: You come from? Well?

Speaker 6: What if I told you that I come from another planet?

Would you believe me? I don't know.

Speaker 5: I'd believe you, Dudley, and.

Speaker 6: You'd be right, Julia. As always, we all come from

our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's

what makes life interesting.

Speaker 5: Oh, it's getting linked. I must be leaving really.

Speaker 4: Oh sorry, professor, my wine bottle wasn't empty. We could

say goodbye with another drink empty. Yes, I had barely

enough with the bottle.

Speaker 2: It's half full. Well, save it for next time, Professor.

Speaker 4: I'm really getting old when I can't see what's inside

a wine bottle. Dudley, Yes, my friend, there's one thing

that troubles me greatly.

Speaker 2: Well. To write a history is a tremendous task. I

wonder will I have time to finish it. You'll finish it.

You'll have time.

Speaker 4: I don't know why i'd ask you that question, How

would you know? Yet somehow I believe you. You see, for

quite a while now, every time I passed the cemetery,

I felt as if I were apartment adding.

Speaker 5: Goodbye, Professor, come and see us, please, I will, I will, goodbye,

and God bless you.

Speaker 2: I'll pass that recommendation along. Thank you, Professor.

Speaker 11: They are coming up the walk now, Bishop, Missus Brahm,

and mister Dudley.

Speaker 2: Oh they are well. I hope dinner isn't spoiled until days.

Speaker 11: Oh no, sir, I have sort of a feeling they

might be late.

Speaker 2: Very considerate of you. Henry, good evening, Julia.

Speaker 5: I'm sorry I'm so late, dear.

Speaker 2: Hello, Henry, good evening, Dudley.

Speaker 5: We have the most marvelous time. Oh wish you'd been

with us.

Speaker 2: Yes, I wish I had.

Speaker 5: Is Debby asleep yet.

Speaker 2: She's waiting to see you.

Speaker 5: Oh good, I'll go right up.

Speaker 6: I trust you spent a profitable afternoon, Dudley. Oh yes, yes,

did you have a profitable afternoon?

Speaker 2: Henry? Not very Dudley. I'd like to see you for

a moment. I mean here in my study.

Speaker 6: Certainly this won't take long, but i'd rather not be interrupted.

You'll excuse me if I lock the door, Dudley, I

simply cannot go on like this. Can you prove to

me that you are an angel?

Speaker 2: Proof?

Speaker 6: You mean a document? Oh surely you, of all people,

should know that angels need no passports. I'd be a

lot happier if I could see you perform a miracle.

Speaker 2: Oh what kind?

Speaker 6: Well make this desk rise up and fly around the row, Henry, Henry, please,

I didn't come here to do tricks. I'm surprised at you.

Speaker 2: I don't believe you are an angel at all. I

think you're a demon.

Speaker 6: Right on, Henry, No, no, don't say that word. Well anyway,

now you'll know how I feel. Yes, Now, wait a minute, Dudley,

I'm not sure yet. There's another man right the door.

I locked that door, if you just don't walked out

dud lip.

Speaker 2: Wait a bit of the dud lip. Now I've locked again, Dudlem.

Speaker 5: Upstairs, Dear, just say good night to Debbie. Oh oh

anything wrong?

Speaker 6: Oh no, no, no, no, oh, you look very well, Julia.

Speaker 2: You're very bright and gay.

Speaker 5: I feel gay, Henry.

Speaker 2: I think I think you're an excellent wife, Julia.

Speaker 5: Why, thank you.

Speaker 2: I'm proud of you.

Speaker 6: I'm proud of the well ordered life we lead, and

I want you to know I think the credit for

that is due to you.

Speaker 2: Much more than to me.

Speaker 5: Thank you again.

Speaker 6: Dear.

Speaker 2: Do you think I'm an excellent husband?

Speaker 5: Of course? Dear Henry, I hope you're going to take

things easier now. I mean with Dudley here, I think

he's very able, you do, yes, he knows so many things.

What for instance, well you should have seen him this

afternoon we met Professor WebBridge. Why Dudley knows more about

history than he does.

Speaker 2: He should he'd been at it longer. What. Oh, nothing,

I've got to see Debbie. Now.

Speaker 8: Ye.

Speaker 9: Don't you know any stories, mister Jedfrey?

Speaker 2: Oh? I know hundreds of stories. Debbie.

Speaker 5: I think it.

Speaker 9: Would be very nice of you to tell me one.

Speaker 6: Well, I know a story that happened many, many years

ago about a boy who lived in a little town.

Speaker 5: What was his name.

Speaker 6: His name was David. He was a shepherd in the

town where he lived was called Bethlehem.

Speaker 9: Oh, I knew bed for him. That's where the star was.

Speaker 6: That's right, Only David lived long before the star. Well,

one night, David was out in the hills tending his sheep,

playing the harp and singing, and then all of a sudden,

an angel came down and spoke to him.

Speaker 9: How did David know he was an angel?

Speaker 6: Oh, he didn't know. And that's the way it always is.

Angels come down and put ideas into people's heads, and

then people feel very proud of themselves because they think

it was all their own idea. Well, anyway, this angel

spoke to David. One of your lambs has strayed, he said.

So David put aside his harp and went out into

the darkness to find the lamb. Of course, the angel

guided him, and when David found the lamb, he saw

a great ferocious lion there. Oh, dear, So David said

to the lion, you get away from that lamb. And

the lion said, you get away from me, or I

lead you too.

Speaker 9: Did David run away?

Speaker 6: Oh no, no, The angel put another idea into his head,

and David took out his sling and hurled a stone

right between the lion's eyes.

Speaker 9: He shared him good and right.

Speaker 6: Yes, I think it did. And David picked up the

lamb and carried it back to the fold. And then

he felt so happy that he took his harp and

he made up a newse on. It started like this,

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He

maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth

me beside the still waters. Oh, come in, Henry, I

think you can tell the rest of this some other time.

Speaker 9: Well, good night, Daddy, Good night Darling.

Speaker 2: Now, if you're ready, Dudley, so is dinner. Thank you, Henry.

Thank you.

Speaker 5: So right after dinner, Henry, we'll get a taxi go

down to Saint Timothy's.

Speaker 2: Saint Timothy's tonight.

Speaker 5: Of course, dear requires rehearsing for the benefit Henry. We

promised mister Miller.

Speaker 6: Oh, Julia, I telephoned missus Hamilton this afternoon, Henry. I

apologize to her for some of the things I'd said

I had to him. She said I might call on

her tonight, but the rehearsals just to be you A

million dollars for Missus Hamilton, dear, is far more important. Besides,

mister Miller will be delighted to see you.

Speaker 5: Here as Bishop, Henry. Besides, I just don't like going alone.

Speaker 6: My evening seems quite free, Henry. Oh no, no, no,

definitely did not. You've done enough already. Well, I was

about to suggest that I see Missus Hamilton and you

take Julia to Saint Timothy's.

Speaker 2: You and Missus Hamilton. Oh no, well, just a suggestion, Dudley.

Speaker 5: Would you mind very much going with me Julia?

Speaker 6: Yes, Henry, Well, I think that might be a very

good solution.

Speaker 2: Thank you, Dudley. You're welcome, Henry.

Speaker 5: This is Raume. Oh, I'm delighted to see hello, mister Miller. Oh,

this is mister Dudley, the Bishop's new assistant. Well, mister Dudley,

a pleasure, thank you.

Speaker 6: The Bishop will try to get here later, mister Miller,

something important came of of course, he's such a busy man.

Speaker 5: He didn't want to delay rehearsal. And Missus Romer, I'm

terribly embarrassed. I look over there, only two of the

boys have come. It's just too difficult. I suppose trying

to compete with basketball and Christmas.

Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry, mister Miller, they'll all show up. Hire

you boys? Hi, what do you sing me a for soprano?

Any good?

Speaker 5: I doubt it?

Speaker 2: Oh? How about giving out?

Speaker 5: You mean a law?

Speaker 2: Well you've got rupert with you? Are you rupert?

Speaker 5: Hi?

Speaker 2: Well? What do you say by me? Fine? I'll start

you off at the piano.

Speaker 9: Manger, all grid.

Speaker 2: For missus Brown. Look, here comes some of the other balls.

Speaker 5: Oh, yes, maybe basketball isn't so important. After a moment.

Speaker 6: Staring, starking, you can be proud of them, mister Miller.

Speaker 2: They sing beautifully. They've never so sore, never, Look, they're

all here. Now I don't understand it.

Speaker 5: Henry, could hear this like angels?

Speaker 2: Better? Believe me works?

Speaker 13: I'm so relieved, Bishop Rome, you needn't make any further apologies.

Speaker 6: Oh, thank you, missus Hamilton. And in view of your generosity,

George B. Hamilton, Memorial Chapel shall be located wherever you

specify in the new cathedral.

Speaker 5: Well, now we're getting somewhere aren't we.

Speaker 13: Oh there's another matter, that window depicting Saint George and

the dragon. Yes, I should very much like the countenance

of Saint George to resemble my late husband.

Speaker 2: Oh who do you see as the dragon? Oh?

Speaker 5: An a dragon?

Speaker 2: Thank you.

Speaker 6: Well, Now that we're in such complete accord, would you

mind very much if we postpone the details.

Speaker 2: Julia's waiting for me at sin Timothy very well.

Speaker 5: We can go over the plans when I transfer the funds.

Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Well, that's strange.

Speaker 5: Is anything the matter?

Speaker 2: This chair? I can't get up. It's stuck to my

I mean I'm stuck.

Speaker 5: To it, stuck to the chair.

Speaker 2: Yes, it doesn't seem quite right, does.

Speaker 13: It, stevens Steven's come here please, there is something wrong

with the bishop's chair.

Speaker 2: It must be then new varnished. That furniture people should

have warned us. I do hope I'm not harming the chair.

Oh this is preposterous, awkward situation, isn't it.

Speaker 6: Perhaps you'll give a little pull at the back, Steven

Say yes, sir again, please.

Speaker 2: Your trousers, sir. I'm afraid if we pull anymore, missus Hamilton,

might I use the telephone.

Speaker 5: Yes, of course, it's right over there.

Speaker 2: Can you walk after a fashion?

Speaker 4: That chair?

Speaker 2: It clings to him like your brother?

Speaker 5: Well, do something, Stephens, call the shop, give a plumber.

Speaker 6: Hello Matilda, this is a bit of bron I'm at

missus Hamilton's. I want you to come here at once

with another pair of trousers. Hmmm, well what difference does

it make? Just bring me another pair of trousers.

Speaker 2: Thank you.

Speaker 5: I'm so sorry this has happened.

Speaker 6: Oh if I could only get in touch with Julia

or Dudley. Dudley, this is all his doing.

Speaker 5: Dudley, No, no, Bishop, don't be nervous.

Speaker 2: Have a chair, Bishop, I have a chair.

Speaker 5: I can't imagine what happened to Henry. He was so

sure he'd meet Is there?

Speaker 2: Well, well, I suppose he's detained at missus Hamilton's.

Speaker 5: Oh of course, you know, Dudley. It's a strange thing.

You seem to be able to make me feel as

if everything's going to be all right.

Speaker 6: Everything could be all right for everyone, Julia, if people

would only learn to behave like human beings.

Speaker 5: That's a lovely night, isn't it. Oh driver, could you

take us through the park please?

Speaker 2: But that's out of your way. Lady, you're getting bored

with us.

Speaker 14: Driver, say, I'll drive it by way in Mexico City

if you want me to. That's the trouble with this country.

Too many people don't know where they're going. They want

to get there too fast. I'd call you two very

unusual people.

Speaker 2: Oh thank you. You're very perceptive.

Speaker 14: You know your destination, but you're in a hurry to

get there, and you're not reluctant to invest an extra

four bits for detouring.

Speaker 5: Oh that was really a close one.

Speaker 2: Holy smoke.

Speaker 14: Did you see the way I missed that truck like

like a miracle.

Speaker 2: Yes, I know, but just don't overplay your hand. Hey, hey,

look they're ice skating over there. So they are, Julia,

we're going ice skating.

Speaker 5: No, we mustn't. It's too late. We couldn't. Do you

really think we could?

Speaker 2: You can stop here, driver, we're going ice skating. Oh

and you too? Well, this is it, Sylvester. What do

I owe you?

Speaker 4: Not a set?

Speaker 14: My friend want to know why, because you and the

little lady here have restored my faith in human nature.

Speaker 2: Well, good night, Dudley, good night Julia, Good.

Speaker 5: Night, Sylvester.

Speaker 6: Sylvester is a noble soul. His children and his children's

children will rise up and call him blessed.

Speaker 5: Oh, this has been the most wonderful evening I've had

in years.

Speaker 6: It's the most wonderful evening I've had in centuries. You're

a beautiful skater, Julia. In fact, you're beautiful. Well, oh

you come home? Oh hello, Henry, Henry, what happened to you?

Speaker 5: I thought you were going to meet us at Saint Timothy's.

Speaker 2: What happened to you? It's almost ten o'clock.

Speaker 5: You'll never guess, Henry. We've been ice.

Speaker 2: Skating, ice skating.

Speaker 5: Yes, you should have seen Dudley. He's marvel as Henry. Oh,

and those boys at Saint Timothy's. The way they sang

it was simply heavenly.

Speaker 6: I'm sure it was. Did you have a successful meeting

with missus Hamilton? Quite satisfactory?

Speaker 2: Thank you good.

Speaker 5: I'll be right down, Henry, Dudley.

Speaker 6: Yes, Henry, whatever went on these last few hours, there's

one thing I'm sure of. Julia is absolutely blameless, of

course she is. But you you deliberately stopped me from

joining you by the seat of my pants, Henry. You

you had sent me to represent you with Missus Hamilton.

I would have gone, but you didn't, so I represented

you with your wife.

Speaker 2: Oh is that part of the normal duties of an.

Speaker 6: Angel, or sometimes Henry, angels must rush in where fools

fear to tread. I haven't the faintest idea what that means,

and I don't want it explained to me.

Speaker 2: In any event.

Speaker 6: You can go now, Dudley. I have solved my problem.

Missus Hamilton is giving the money for the cathedral. But

that was a foregone conclusion, providing you were willing to

make a slight sacrifice of your principles. Don't you think

it's worth it for this glorious edifice. I'm not so

sure of it's glory at a time like this.

Speaker 2: Oh, you're not.

Speaker 6: These are rather lean years for the world, Henry. So

many people need food, so so many needs shelter. That

big roof could make so many little roofs. I'm dealing

with a materialistic, selfish woman. She wouldn't listen to talk

like that.

Speaker 2: Did you try? You came here so that I could

have a cathedral.

Speaker 6: Well, I've got a cathedral, and I want you to

get out of my house and out of my life

and away from Julia. Suppose you pray for that, Henry.

After all, it was prayer that brought me here. Very well,

I'll pray, Henry. I'm afraid that's no prayer. It was

right from my heart. I want you to go, Julia.

Doesn't Julia, get out, Get out. Julia is about to

come down those stairs. Don't let her see you like this, Henry.

Try to calm yourself. Dudley he's gone.

Speaker 5: Oh the piece of way. She wants to say good

night to him.

Speaker 2: I just told you Dudley is gone. But how should

I know?

Speaker 5: But why did he leave her suddenly?

Speaker 2: Because I got rid of him. I told him to

go away. I fired him. Why because he's incompetent. He's

no good at his job, and I cannot stand the

sight of him. Henry. Believe me, Julia, I know what

I am doing.

Speaker 1: He paused, now for station identification the CBS the Columbia

Broadcasting System.

Speaker 3: After a brief intermission, Our Stars will return with Act

three of the Bishop's Wife. Our special guest Tonight is

the well known dress designer of the Samuel Goldwyn Studios.

Mary Willis, who's responsible for many of the stunning fashions

we see on the screen.

Speaker 8: What was your latest assignment, Mary, My Foolish Heart for

mister Goldwyn. That picture fascinated me, so I hated to

see them finish it.

Speaker 3: You know, Susan Hayward is splendid in the highly emotional

role of a woman who gives everything for love, and.

Speaker 8: Dana Andrews is the man in her life was never better.

He's one of my favorites.

Speaker 2: Yes, the tender love scenes are beautifully done.

Speaker 8: Miss Hayward a great interest in the details of her

costumes for My Foolish Heart, especially stockings. She insisted they

be very sheer and fit perfectly, and she always insists

on Lux flakes to keep them that way.

Speaker 1: Mister Kennedy, these tiny diamonds of Lux are the favorite

stocking care of a great many stars.

Speaker 8: We always use them at the studio. The SuDS wonderfully

fast and freshened nylons in a hurry. Besides, we find

stockings last much longer.

Speaker 2: That's been proved by scientific strain tests.

Speaker 1: Identical stockings rubbed with cake soap or washed with a

strong soap went into runs much sooner than.

Speaker 2: Those washed with Lux flakes. The Lux stockings lasted twice

as long.

Speaker 8: Miss Hayward likes to choose a single stocking shade that

blends with a variety of costumes, and then orders it

in quantity.

Speaker 2: A thrifty idea for a girl on a budget.

Speaker 1: If one pair's damage the odds, stocking can always be matched.

Lux Flakes keep colors truer, make stockings last longer too,

no wonder. Over ninety percent of the makers of stockings

recommend lux Flakes. Here's our producer, mister William Keeley.

Speaker 3: The curtain rises on the third act of The Bishop's Wife,

starring Tyrone Power as Dudley, David Niven as the Bishop,

and Jane Greer as Julia. Two days have passed since

Dudley disappeared, much to the relief of Bishop Henry Brown.

And now it's early evening on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 5: Here's the list of your calls, Bishop, ending at missus Hamilton. Oh,

and there's a taxi waiting for you outside.

Speaker 2: Thank you, Miss Cassuway.

Speaker 6: If you're through typing my salmon before I'm back, just

leave the copies on my desk, Yes, sir, I'm sorry

to keep you so late on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 5: Oh, it's all right, sir, Bishop Brown.

Speaker 7: Yes, there's still no word from mister Dudley.

Speaker 6: It's Cassaway. I discharge mister Dudley. There's no reason to

all to hear from him. Yes, sir, now, if you

don't mind, please tell missus Braun that the taxi is waiting.

Speaker 5: We can go to the Trapsters first, Henry, then the

vander Junior.

Speaker 2: Hi Jia, Sylvester, Well.

Speaker 5: What are you doing here? Well?

Speaker 14: When the call came in for a cabby, sure height

tailored over here.

Speaker 2: I was hoping to be another skating party. Hey, where's Dudley.

Speaker 5: I don't know.

Speaker 2: Look, you've gotta.

Speaker 5: Preacher with you.

Speaker 6: Yes, this is don't don't tell me a wedding, you

and Dudley, Sylvester.

Speaker 5: This is my husband, Bishop Brown.

Speaker 2: How do you do? Oh? And now, if you don't mind,

we'd like to go to.

Speaker 6: North Maple Street by taxi cabs, Sylvester not ice skates.

Speaker 2: Good evening, miss Casaway.

Speaker 5: Mister Dudley, did I startle you? Oh? Yes, I didn't

hear you come in. But where have you been?

Speaker 2: Oh? Here and there, miss Casaway.

Speaker 7: We've been so worried about you and poor Missus. She's

been popping in and out of here all day? Have

I seen you?

Speaker 2: Have I heard from? Where is she?

Speaker 5: She and the bishop are making Christmas call.

Speaker 2: Oh they'll be home, Oh yes.

Speaker 7: Sir, after Missus Hamilton's. Then they go to Sintimothy's for

the midnight service.

Speaker 6: You should be home to miss Cassaway. I'll type that

sermon for you.

Speaker 5: Oh no, no, the Bishop told me.

Speaker 2: Christmas Eve you should be with your family.

Speaker 5: Well if you really, Oh, thank you, mister.

Speaker 2: Dudley, Merry Christmas, Mildred, Oh.

Speaker 5: Merry Christmas.

Speaker 6: Dudley Henry's Christmas sermon a new cathedral, Missus Hamilton's magnificent gesture,

money pledges needed. Sorry, Henry, but that's no sermon for Christmas.

I suppose you tell them. Suppose you tell them the

story of an empty stocking. Once upon a midnight clear,

there was a child's cry, a blazing star hung over

a stable, and wise men came with birthday gifts.

Speaker 2: We have forgotten many things during the centuries, but not

that day is calling, sir.

Speaker 6: I'm Dudley Stevens, Bishop Brown's new assistant. Would you mind

telling Missus Hamilton.

Speaker 2: I'm here. I don't believe she's expecting you, sir.

Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sure she isn't. Yes, sir, I'll wait in

the music room. The music room, sirs, there's a harp

in there. I wonder if she'd mind you. I'm afraid

she would, sir. Well, in that event, you'd better hurry

off and tell her. Yes, sir, I shall, who are you?

Speaker 2: Oh, good evening, Missus Hamilton. This is a beautiful harp

you have.

Speaker 5: My buckler said you told him your bishop room's assistant.

Speaker 6: Yes, Missus Hamilton, the Bishop will be along a little later.

That music you're playing, I thought you'd recognize it.

Speaker 5: There's no one living who knows that composition except me.

Speaker 6: What a shame that Alan Cartwright died that only you

and I would know his music.

Speaker 13: Alan Cartwright died nearly forty years ago. You couldn't have

known him.

Speaker 6: I'm much older than you think, Missus Hamilton. Tell me

about him? About Alan Cartwright, what is there to tell?

Speaker 13: He was the only man I ever loved, but I

was afraid of poverty, so he went away and I

never saw him again.

Speaker 5: Why am I telling you this?

Speaker 2: And so you married the rich George Hamilton.

Speaker 5: I made George happy, I think, And since he died.

Speaker 13: I've spent a fortune honoring his memory in empty monuments.

Speaker 5: How did you know about Alan Cartwright?

Speaker 6: It doesn't matter, Missus Hamilton. They're at the front door now,

Henry and Julia.

Speaker 5: I can't see them now.

Speaker 6: Yes, yes, you'll see them. You'll go to the hall

and you'll greet them in your usual warm hearted manner.

Speaker 2: You'll come with me and you'll stay what you done. No, no,

I'm afraid I can't. I have a great deal of

work to do. Now, don't keep them waiting.

Speaker 5: How do you do, Missus Hamilton? Julia? How nice of

you to come and see me and Henry.

Speaker 13: Merry Christmas, Henry, I said, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Merry Christmas, Missus Hamilton.

Speaker 5: Oh, no more of this Missus Hamilton business. My name

is Agnes. And now we cannot.

Speaker 13: Oh he's gone, Oh, he's gone, already gone.

Speaker 5: Dudley, he was here.

Speaker 2: I might have known it.

Speaker 5: But where did he go? How that poor man?

Speaker 7: He said he had so much work to do. Really, Henry,

you must make him take some.

Speaker 2: Reast trying to make him do just that.

Speaker 7: Oh.

Speaker 5: I can't thank you.

Speaker 7: Enough for sending him to me meeting Oddly, Oh, I

know it sounds ridiculous, but meeting him has been the

greatest spiritual experience.

Speaker 2: Of my life.

Speaker 5: How did you ever find him, Henry.

Speaker 2: Or less of an accident, I suppose.

Speaker 5: Or more or less of a miracle?

Speaker 13: Oh it was. It was talking with this wonderful, understanding

man as As Henry.

Speaker 5: I've suddenly changed my mind about the cathedral you have. Yes,

I'm going to give my money to those who.

Speaker 13: Need it, to the poor, the homeless, the unappreciated, and

I want you to direct the spending of it.

Speaker 5: Now you see what Dudley's done, Henry, Yes, I see,

and you understand.

Speaker 2: Missus Hamilton, Julia forgive me, but I have to leave.

Speaker 6: There's someone I must see immediately, Henry. Henry, my dear fellow.

Sit down, Sit down, Professor web I just had to

see you. I'm delighted, Henry. Here a glass of sharing. No, no,

thank you, Oh but I insist, Henry. Do you see

this bottle? And now watch I fill two glasses. Behold

the bottle is still half full. And what's more, the

sherry itself. It stimulates, it warms, it inspires, But no

matter how much you drink it never inebriates. And the

contents never diminish, always half full. Dudley's been here, yes,

and that bottle isn't all. He told me to look

up some ancient texts in the library which no living

scholar has ever been able to decipher. I read them

as if they were English. Let's face it, Henry, this

Dudley fellow is not like the rest of us. He

says he's an angel, an angel. That's funny. Nothing stopped

me from saying at that time.

Speaker 2: Angel. He says he's an angel from heaven.

Speaker 6: That I'm not so sure about an angel.

Speaker 2: It's too bad. He's such a nice fellow.

Speaker 6: He's brought nothing but disaster to me. Oh that's absurd.

He and Julia were here the other day. She seemed

happier than she'd been in years. She made her despise me.

Are you sure that's why I've come to see you?

Do you think it's all my own fault? Professor, You

don't have to answer. I asked for this in more

ways than one. I suppose that Dudley came to me

just to confirm that I had already lost Julia's love.

There's anything I can do, Henry, There's nothing anyone can do.

Speaker 4: But there must be You and Julia love each other.

You always have only partly true. I love Julia.

Speaker 2: Well, then why don't you fight for her? Fight? How

can I fight against But you have a.

Speaker 4: Tremendous advantage over him, advantage over an angel. Precisely, he

is an angel. Julia's a creature of earth. She's a woman, Henry,

and you're a man. Yes, yes I am. If I

were you, i'd get myself home. Home, That's where he'll

be waiting for Julia. Excuse me, a happy christ.

Speaker 5: Henry, is that ju Dear?

Speaker 6: Hello, Julia, Dudy. I came to say goodbye. I have

to be moving along.

Speaker 5: Oh, well, where will you be going?

Speaker 2: Wherever they send me, they my superior officers.

Speaker 5: Will we ever see you again?

Speaker 6: Well, they seldom send us twice to the same place, Julia.

We might form attachments.

Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 2: No, of course not, Julia, Julia, I don't want to leave.

Speaker 5: Why.

Speaker 6: There are a few people who know the secret of

making heaven here on earth, and you were one of

those rare people.

Speaker 5: You frighten me, Dudley. I think you ought to go.

Speaker 2: Julia, Please don't send me away.

Speaker 5: What are you saying that?

Speaker 2: I'm tired of being a wanderer.

Speaker 6: I'm tired of an existence which is neither hot nor cold,

hungry nor full.

Speaker 5: No, you must go away here and never come back.

Don't look at me like that.

Speaker 6: No, all right, Julia, it's all right, my darling, cru upstairs.

Year I'll handle this alone. As for you, Dudley, I

have never before had to fight an angel, But I

suggest you.

Speaker 2: Take off your coat and put up your dukes. Now,

why do you want to fight me?

Speaker 6: Because you're a thief trying to steal the love that

belongs to me, Henry, do you realize that as an angel,

I could quite possibly destroy you with a bold of lightning.

I don't care, Julia. He's more to me than my life.

I'm not going to lose her. Ah, Then I have

news for you. I'm going I'll accept that as a

fact when I see it happen. Oh No, you won't,

because when I'm gone, you will never know that an

angel visited.

Speaker 2: This house, and Julia, what about her?

Speaker 6: There will be no memory with her either, or with

Debbie or the Professor or anyone else.

Speaker 9: Oh.

Speaker 6: I don't trust you. You may, Henry, because your prayer

has been answered.

Speaker 2: That's not true. I prayed for cathete. Oh no, Henry,

you prayed for guidance, and that's been given to you.

I'm being paged just a minute, please goodbye, Henry. If

we should need you again, will you come back?

Speaker 6: Not I I am requesting an assignment at the other

end of the universe. Is that because I was so difficult? O? No, no, no,

This difficulty was in me. When an immortal finds himself

envying the mortal trusted to his care, it's a definite

signal of danger.

Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I heard you the first time.

Speaker 6: Now I'll go upstairs. Take her in your arms, Henry,

and kiss her for me. You lucky Henry, Julia, Julia Darling.

Speaker 5: You'll wake Debbie.

Speaker 2: Are you all right?

Speaker 7: Oh?

Speaker 5: Yes, of course I am, Henry. Did you get that

for Debbie?

Speaker 2: Get watch for Debbie?

Speaker 5: That little angel there on a bed? Well, no, I

can't imagine. Where can Henry, Henry? What is it?

Speaker 4: I don't know.

Speaker 2: I have the most inexpectable feeling of happiness. I so why, Oh, Julia?

I love you, Julia, I love you.

Speaker 6: Listen the bells, who say to you it's almost midnight

you'll have to hurry.

Speaker 2: Oh my sermon, it was all about the cathedral. Will

never do now.

Speaker 5: Don't worry, dear, You'll think of something, something even better.

Speaker 15: Merry Christmas, Henry, Merry Christmas, Darling, long, long.

Speaker 4: Night.

Speaker 16: I want to tell you the story of an empty

starting Once upon a midnight clear there was a child's cry,

a blazing star hung over a stable, and wise men

came with birthday gifts.

Speaker 2: We have forgotten many things through the centuries, but not

that night.

Speaker 6: We celebrated with stars on Christmas trees, with the sound

of bells, and with gifts, but especially with gifts. You

give me a book, I give you a tie. Aunt

Martha has always wanted an orange squeezer, and Uncle Harry

could do with a new pie.

Speaker 2: Oh, we forget nobody, adult or child.

Speaker 6: All the stockings are filled, all that is except one,

and we have even forgotten to hang it up, the

stocking for the child born in a manger.

Speaker 2: It is his birthday we are celebrating. Don't let us

ever forget that. Let us ask ourselves what.

Speaker 6: He would wish foremost, and then let each put in

his ship loving kindness, warm hots and a stretched out hand,

and the tolerance all the shining gifts to make a

piece on earth.

Speaker 2: Our stars will return for our curtain talls.

Speaker 1: In a moment, Libby, since you gave your prize recipe

last week for making Christmas snow, we've been swamped with

letters asking us to repeat it.

Speaker 12: Well, I'm not a bit surprised, John. It's such a

novel decoration for a Christmas tree. The branches look as

if they were covered with freshly fallen snow.

Speaker 2: The kids especially have asked about it. You said it

was easy. It is.

Speaker 12: They can do it without any help from grown ups.

Just add two cups of lukewarm water to a large

box of Luxe flakes, Whip with an egg beater until

it's the consistency of thick whipped cream. Then spread the

mixture on the tree branches with your fingertips. It dries

in about an hour and it.

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cups of water to one large box of lux flakes. Now,

here's mister Keeley with our stars.

Speaker 3: Our most sincere thanks are do our stars with the

joy they've brought to this audience tonight. And here they

are Tyrone Power, David Niven and Jane Grier.

Speaker 2: Tie.

Speaker 3: It's good to have you back in Hollywood after all

these months.

Speaker 6: Well until you well, I'll try this again once more,

until you've been away a year and a half.

Speaker 2: You never know how good home looks, you know.

Speaker 6: I was just figuring up the other day in the

last four years, I've only been here ten months. I

guess you're ready to settle down. Well for a few days, David,

and then Linda and I are going down to Mexico

City to spend New Years with her family.

Speaker 5: You travel as much in real life as in the Prince.

Speaker 2: Of Foxes Trench's Century Foxes. That is nice to know

you haven't, James, you bid, David Well.

Speaker 3: Tie, you certainly had an exciting role in the picture,

and your performance merits our congratulations. And this would be

a good time to congratulate Jane on the recent arrival

in her family.

Speaker 2: Two boys must be a household, Jane.

Speaker 5: Oh, two aren't nearly enough, but I will say the

lux flick's consumption is running rather high.

Speaker 3: Well, we certainly can help you out there. There's some

of the wings for all of you to take home.

Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Bill. What about next week's play?

Speaker 3: It's a gay musical, David the Warner Brothers hit My

Dream Is Yours, and the stars will be June Haver

and Jack Carson. My Dream Is Yours is a delightful

love story full of sparkling songs in just the right

mood to top off the Christmas season.

Speaker 2: That's a wonderful holiday play.

Speaker 3: A good Night, good Night the Traditionally, this is the

time for an old American custom, going home for Christmas.

It's a time of joyful reunion, the time to strengthen

the ties that bind each family together and in the

family is our only hope for the future. For from

deepen our hearts and our homes must come the fulfillment

of the age old promise of Christmas. The promise of

peace on earth and goodwill among men.

Speaker 2: All men.

Speaker 3: On behalf of Leber Brothers Company and of us and

the Lux Radio Theater. May I wish all of you

the happiest of holidays, and we invite you all to

join us again next Monday evening when the Lux Radio

Theater presents Jack Carson and June Haveer.

Speaker 2: In My dream is yours.

Speaker 3: This is William Gely saying good night to you and

Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2: Dave Nivin.

Speaker 1: We'll soon be seen in the Alexander Card production The

Elusive Pempernell Jane Greer Peered through the courtesy of RKO

producers of Holiday Affairs starring Robert Mitcham and Janet Lee.

Heard in tonight's cast where Willard Waterman is Professor Eleanor

Audley as missus Hamilton, Francis Robinson is Misscassaway, and Bill Johnstone,

Gilbert Barnett, Phillip teb Nourene Gamill, Anne Whitfield, Howard mcneer,

Eddie Maher and Alan Reed Junior. Our play was adapted

by S. H. Barnett, and our music was directed by

Lewis Silvers. This is your announcer John Milton Kennedy reminding

you to join us again next Monday night to hear

My Dream Is Yours starring June Haver and Jack Carson.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to listen next.

Speaker 1: Monday night for the Lux Radio Theater presentation of My

Dream Is Yours starring Jack Carson and June Haber. Stay

tuned for My Friend Irma, which follows over these same stations.

This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System