Lux Radio Theatre - Letter to Three Wives
Lux Radio Theatre - Letter to Three Wives
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Speaker 1: Lux Presents Hollywood Leader Brothers Company, the makers of Lux
Blakes bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Paul Douglas
and Linda Darnell. In Letter to Three Wives, Ladies and Gentlemen,
your producer, mister William Keeley.
Speaker 2: Reading quan Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Ladies and Gentlemen.
Speaker 4: As a motion picture director, I know the first requirement
of a good picture is a good story. So when
Letter to Three Wives received the Screenwriter's Guild Award for
the Best Written Comedy of nineteen forty nine, it was
obvious that Joseph Mankowitz had turned out an unusually clever
screenplay for the twentieth century Fox hit. It concerns a
letter written by a small town sire to three wives,
and how that letter threatens their security and happiness. Tonight,
we have Linda Darnell in her original role and co
starring with her. Also from the original cast is Paul Douglas,
who achieved enormous success on Broadway before he brought his
refreshingly different talent to the screen.
Speaker 2: We know you're welcome Letter to.
Speaker 4: Three Wives, just as we have welcomed letters from thousands
of wives about Lux Flakes. We're very grateful for these
letters because they tell us exactly why you like our product.
And with lux flakes, that isn't hard, is it? The
curtain risers on Sal Siegel's production Letter to Three Wives,
starring Paul Douglas as Porter and Linda Darnell as the may.
Speaker 5: I just finished the letter. In a moment, the messenger
boy will take it.
Speaker 6: Down to the dark.
Speaker 5: He'll deliver it to my three dearest friends, Deborauh and.
Speaker 6: We young in a good excursion boat.
Speaker 7: And to night.
Speaker 5: After the excursion, they'll all be together again the first
then a dance of the seasoning at the country fark.
I'm missus Ross, Addie Ross. But this isn't my story,
not exactly. It's the story of my three dearest friends.
Let's start with Deborah, shall we missus Brad Bishop. I've
known Brad a long long time.
Speaker 6: It was Bardo gave me my first black eye and
my first kiss. When Dad came out from the war.
Speaker 5: He brought a wife with him, Deborah. I.
Speaker 3: I wonder what.
Speaker 8: They were talking about at breakfast this morning. Brad, I
got your bag out in the hall.
Speaker 3: You're going somewhere, just to the office. But why the suitcase.
Speaker 2: Because I know these Saturday conferences they go on and
on and on.
Speaker 3: You didn't tell me you planned to be away overnight.
Speaker 2: Why I'm not planning anything of the kind. The bag
is just in case. What are you going to wear
to the dance?
Speaker 9: I bought the dress in Vogue you liked so much, Brad.
I don't want to go to the country club, not
without you.
Speaker 2: What are you so afraid of?
Speaker 10: It's the thought of going without you, Brad?
Speaker 3: Addie Ross?
Speaker 2: Well, what about Addie Ross?
Speaker 3: She used to be sort of your idea.
Speaker 6: Wasn't she.
Speaker 11: What's my not being there got to do with Addie Ross?
Speaker 9: I never knew you read Vogue, Brad, never thought men
bothered much about it.
Speaker 2: But I told you I picked the magazine up on
the train. In it, I happened to see a dress
that I thought would look very smart. I you, what's
wrong with that?
Speaker 3: Well, I I'd better be on my way. I have
to pick up reader. You'll fall about tonight, won't you?
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, Brad.
Speaker 12: It just happens that that dress you picked out of
Vogue is exactly the dress that Addie want to.
Speaker 5: Oh, Debora won't stay mad. I don't know she's too
much in love with Brad women so silly. Right now,
she's in front of Rita's house reader and George.
Speaker 3: Peaks, morning, George, where's reader?
Speaker 2: Or she's coming on? Behalf of the underprivileged children of
this time.
Speaker 13: I'd like to thank you over privileged ladies for sharing
your excess privileges with us.
Speaker 9: George, there's something different about you today, something odd.
Speaker 2: Looking, just that usual two headed school teacher.
Speaker 3: But there's no school on Saturday, and you're all dressed up.
Speaker 2: This so just my little blue.
Speaker 7: Sir, first Saturday of the trout season too, Brad says,
you never.
Speaker 2: Make so happens. I have something better to do, Debbie Darling.
Speaker 7: You'll just have to stop right at the station. I've
just got to get my script off.
Speaker 3: In the eight forty two?
Speaker 10: Do you mind?
Speaker 3: We bet hurry read it?
Speaker 2: Why George? Why Debby?
Speaker 3: What's George being so mysterious about? I wouldn't know. It
seems we're not talking. Oh I'm sorry, it's just one
of those things. Was he acting strangely? Oh? On, he
is not going fishing or all dressed up?
Speaker 7: We're so he is his blue suit on Saturday of
all things. Oh, do you mind if I turn on
the radio, it still isn't working. It's just as well
save myself listening to the murder of my little brainchild.
Speaker 3: Read a while on Earth. You do it five.
Speaker 9: Radio programs a week up until dawn, almost every night,
riding them.
Speaker 7: Why because each week in return I received two hundred
pieces of what Addie Ross calls the most RESTful shade
of green.
Speaker 9: In the world, adding again, why is it it sooner
or later we always wind up talking about Addie Ross.
Speaker 3: I wonder if she knows how much we do talk
about her, what we say, and how we feel about her.
Speaker 6: Well, now you've met Deborah and Rita? What about Loa made?
Speaker 5: Lora May's already at the dock. She's been waiting for
her friends to row.
Speaker 3: Laura May sell anyone there, you know? Just a husband
of hers running like mad to catch the train. But
where's Eddie? Isn't she here yet? Addie Ross left Tom
this morning? Left Tom? What are you talking about? She's
left for good?
Speaker 14: But why what happened must have been very sudden or mate,
for heaven's sake, tell us, Well, the doorman told me
she subleased her apartment last week, and yesterday she sold
her car.
Speaker 3: So much for your sudden decision. Well if that isn't
just like Addie. But but why such a big secret?
Oh who knows why Addie does or doesn't do anything.
Let's go on a boat. Wait a minute, Yes, young man.
Speaker 2: I got a message for the mess Dames, Bishop hollings
Way and Phipps.
Speaker 3: From the deer departed.
Speaker 6: All that.
Speaker 7: ADDIE's so tactful, she even puts us in alphabetical order.
Speaker 3: Open it up. No, no, let's wait for what to
her back from the boat trip.
Speaker 9: Knowing Addie, I mean, while is spoil our day?
Speaker 3: It's going to be tough enough taking care of fifty children.
She would spoil my day. Addie Ross never saw the
day she could spoil my day? All right, read it then,
dearest Debbie, Laura, May and Rita. As you know by now,
you'll have to carry on without me from here.
Speaker 10: It isn't easy to leave town, to tear myself away
from you three dear, dear friends who have meant so
much to me, And so I consider myself extremely lucky
to be able to take with me as sort of memento,
something to remind me always of my three dearest friends
whom I want never to forget you. See, girls, I've
run off with one of your husbands, love Addie.
Speaker 3: Well, if that's her idea, but she thinks she's kidding.
Speaker 10: If I ever catch up with that character, may I
suggest the captain seems to think, well, now he's getting
rude about you.
Speaker 2: Rude, But either they get aboard this couple we go
without him.
Speaker 10: Well, looks like Abbie has crown one of us queen
of the may Come on, girls, let's take a boat.
Speaker 5: Right, Nothing to do now except entertaining the kids and
have a nice relaxing boat trip.
Speaker 3: Girls, what are you looking so serious about?
Speaker 6: But it couldn't be your husband, Deborah? All yours are made,
and certainly not yours. Rita. Maybe it must be one
of them, isn't it?
Speaker 5: And you will know, poor things not for hours and hours?
Speaker 6: What are you doing, Deborah reading the kids a story? Ah?
Speaker 5: But I know what you're thinking about. You're thinking about
the time you married Brad. Now he brought you to
our town, and how you met us all that night
at the country club.
Speaker 2: There looks like we're the only ones weave.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it dies?
Speaker 2: Well, suits me have some more wine, Debra, I shouldn't
but I'm going to Who says you shouldn't bread, No,
I say I shouldn't.
Speaker 3: Well, let's see you're Porter Porter Holling's way.
Speaker 2: I do that too when I'm drunk. Try to remember names?
Speaker 9: Makes your wife have to excuse me. Porter, I'm trying
to get everyone straight. Brad's friends, I'm behaving.
Speaker 3: Like a fool. Don't you feel good my dance? Just
look at him?
Speaker 10: All I have?
Speaker 3: I don't know who're coming here tonight? My first night
in two oh, I could die.
Speaker 2: I feel that way too when I'm drunk. You want
to dance?
Speaker 3: I wanted bread to be Probably I'm.
Speaker 2: Not much a dance and makes me nervous?
Speaker 3: Why didn't I stay?
Speaker 2: Who can do a thing? Well, I don't leave it alone,
I always say, especially the rumba. And I have Spanish
butter or something like Laura May. My wife comes from
an old Spanish family named Finny.
Speaker 9: In many South American countries, there are many very distinguished
families with Irish names.
Speaker 2: Well, he looks good dancing with she looks good. He's
got class. But she dancing with a tramp, she'd look
like a tramp, got no class of her own. I
like class. You like class, Oh very much, you hit
the jackpot, Brad Bishop class plus money. Kind of on
the fingers of one hand in this town, throw away
some fingers even Let's see now there's Brad and uh
and who else? Yeah, it's Addie, Addie Erry Ross. Funny.
People always figured that someday Brad and Maddie would sort
of Brad and Naddy.
Speaker 13: So I we're gonna be danced properly, only on the
side of a hill on ice alibi.
Speaker 3: George is afraid of getting wrinkles in his new suits.
Speaker 13: Sit down, my first new party dress in the year
order thanks to my dear wife and her millions of
loyal listeners.
Speaker 2: Shall we drink them all one by one?
Speaker 3: Deadra how about some coffee, dear black coffee. Thank you, Reas,
thank you very much. I think you knew. Tuxedo has
classed George class.
Speaker 2: We thank you. Funny Think for a wife to give
her husband a tuxedo. Even funnier, think for a husband
to give his wife.
Speaker 3: Here's no funny, joy.
Speaker 2: I still don't think a woman ought to buy clothes
from a man. That's contrary to nature. Tell us about
nature forty what's a man's world? See something you want,
go get it. That's nature. That's why we were made
strong women week strong conquit provide for the week. That's
what a man's for. Teach our kids more of that,
be more men for those standards don't apply to me.
Porter in this man's world. I'm not a man. I'm
a school teacher. I know we'd get around of that,
all right. School teachers ought to be paid more? And
what happens if they're not? How does a school teacher
for five people?
Speaker 13: How does he pay the rent for the plays in
the poems of Shakespeare's sport?
Speaker 3: Been shooting off his big mouth again.
Speaker 2: George, You just shut up. Made it's time to dance again.
Speaker 10: You never know what he will come up with when
he starts knocking on that brandy bottle.
Speaker 2: You shut up, You just shut up. I told you this.
Speaker 3: Would be fun. Devery. We're all cows.
Speaker 2: But Johnny previous to Bishop, should I say, well, this
is an occasion with the compliments of Missus Adi rossa.
Speaker 9: Addie Ross boy, you were saying something before about Brad
and her.
Speaker 2: Uh where is missus Ross waiting? I don't believe she
has a right getz. That's Addie boy. Always the right
thing at the right time, and who who.
Speaker 3: Is mister Ross. Mister Ross took a potter about five years.
Speaker 2: Ago those such things. She gave him a heave ho.
Speaker 3: He went off for a paper one night and never
came back.
Speaker 9: Cryer was saying that Addie Ross has class, and he
knows class.
Speaker 3: Like I know navigation.
Speaker 2: Actually, what Annie has his taste? I can buy taste.
ADDIE's got class, haste and discrimination. Women.
Speaker 13: You they get the amount of magazines, but they're part
of Eddie's naturally quick.
Speaker 7: Also five Lights, White Side Walls, and the Heaton Van
deb When.
Speaker 10: The boys all agree on Eddie Ross and George Washington,
no one else, they're playing a waltz stibbor.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's show them a flash of old Vienna,
right please, if you don't mind before the floor gets crowding.
Speaker 3: You're sure you want me to do? Of course, I'm
sure you know something tells me this is going to
be quite a holl.
Speaker 6: All wived at the dance. Justice Deborah tripped over the
scene of her dress and.
Speaker 5: Then spawning, I maybe it was that last glass of
wine the trip there.
Speaker 6: Anyway, it made better scene.
Speaker 2: Really, my entrance completely drolling waters.
Speaker 3: Come on, you come. I can't stay at the pottle
of them all night. He's take me home, or he'd
take me now.
Speaker 7: Look, you've got the idea that everybody's just waiting for you.
Speaker 3: To come out. Maybe not but Braddie, because he's worried
about he's ashamed of me. And I wanted so much
to be.
Speaker 9: Wanting to do what I like, like Addie Ross, the
right thing.
Speaker 3: At the right time. But all I did was was if.
Speaker 7: What happened tonight could have happened to anyone not just
take my word for it and come on.
Speaker 3: There's brad out there on the terrace with someone. I
told you he was worried.
Speaker 15: Oh, I see that Addie finally got here too.
Speaker 6: That was a long time ago, wasn't it, Deborah.
Speaker 5: That's when you first heard about me, and a little
seed of suspicion took root. That's why you dread ever
going home today my letter? You're so shit is bad?
Speaker 6: Archer? Who knows? Maybe you're right, general lady.
Speaker 16: Maybe in the moment our stars will return with that
two of Letter to Three Wives.
Speaker 2: Here's our producer, mister Keeley.
Speaker 4: Act two of Letter to Three Wives, starring Linda Darnell
as Laura May and Paul Douglas as Porter.
Speaker 6: There's an excursion boat on the Hudson.
Speaker 4: River aboard our three young attractive wives, who a couple
of hours ago received the carefully timed letter from their
dear friend Addie Ross. Addie has told them that she's
run away.
Speaker 2: With one of their husbands, and no one.
Speaker 4: Knows better than each of the wives how easily he
might be her own.
Speaker 3: What's the matter? Debbie Kid said, all but I just
took a minute to enjoy the view. Well, I think
I've got the answer.
Speaker 7: Laura May, she's kept herself as busy as a bird
dog ever since we got on this boat.
Speaker 3: If you're busy, you don't have time to think, do you?
Depends what you think about?
Speaker 7: For instance, why your husband should suddenly decide to go
to New York on a Saturday morning Because Brad's hit.
Speaker 3: Lad, I'm talking about her husband. I saw Porter at
the station when I mailed my script. He nearly knocked
me down. Why should you think, I meant, Brad?
Speaker 9: Maybe because it might keep you from wondering why your
husband dressed up on a Saturday with no school.
Speaker 7: Your being a little too touchy about a perfectly innocent remark.
Speaker 3: It seems to me, don't.
Speaker 9: Let's stop this sudden bickering or be beginning to behave
like some movie about a woman's prison, not a bad
comparison of bed.
Speaker 7: I'll leave it to Eddie breaking the news to us
like this.
Speaker 3: Knowing we couldn't do a thing about it all day long.
Speaker 15: Well, dear, enjoy the view Eddie's gone on with Porter Vents.
Maybe great, but I don't think so.
Speaker 6: I only why.
Speaker 7: Didn't George go?
Speaker 2: And why?
Speaker 6: Is yes reader, why?
Speaker 5: But I don't have to tell you. You know you're
to blame, don't you. You know how George feels about
teaching school. You also know how he feels about your
trying to earn money writing those radio scripts. Do you
remember later at the time you insisted upon having those
radio people come to dinner. Mister and missus.
Speaker 3: Manley now listen to miss Sadie. They're very important people.
So let's get a couple of things straight. First. When
you announce dinner.
Speaker 12: I know, I know I ain't supposed to say soups on. Okay,
Then I've served for people for they're gonna eat here.
Speaker 7: They happen to be in charge of a great many
radio programs, including the one.
Speaker 3: All right, you know what I like about your program?
Speaker 12: Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand that.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. You brought a uniform.
Speaker 12: I hope that's kind of conny, but I'll wear it
if I got it.
Speaker 7: Well, Burke, Oh did you get the liquor and cigarettes
right here?
Speaker 3: Well? Where's the scotch, George?
Speaker 2: I didn't buy any too expensive, But the.
Speaker 7: Man is a shore who want scotch. People in show business,
well you know what I mean. Those kind always drink scotch.
Speaker 13: I know what you mean here, but I wish you
wouldn't say it in radio English.
Speaker 2: That kind, not those kinds.
Speaker 7: There are men who say those kind who earn one
hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 2: Or a man who say stick them up, who aren't
even more. I don't expect to do either.
Speaker 7: Nor are you expected to pay for the scotch.
Speaker 2: You're quite right. It's funny how it slips my mind on.
Speaker 6: Mane, don't be silly, darling.
Speaker 2: Rita isn't all less a little pretentious? All right?
Speaker 7: So I'm out to impress the boss. What do I
get for that thirty years.
Speaker 13: I'm sorry, I call up the liquor store and I
can sign over some scotch.
Speaker 7: All right, George, just one thing, please, no jokes about radio.
Speaker 2: All the time. For joking about it is past.
Speaker 13: Radio has become a very serious problem now, like juvenile delinquency.
Speaker 3: That's just what I mean, cracks like that. Oh here,
this came for you, this package an ideas. What at it?
Speaker 7: There's a card for George on on his birthday. If
music be the food of love, play on, Addie, Eddie
Ross Rita.
Speaker 2: Look Beethoven's String Quartet.
Speaker 3: Sure it's your birthday, and.
Speaker 6: I forgot all about it.
Speaker 2: I don't worry about it, Darling. I'm not much for
a bird, but you are.
Speaker 3: You're very much for birthday.
Speaker 2: Well, it's time you hit a lot on your money.
Speaker 13: Even so, what I'm memory, Addies, got almost a year
since we talked about Beethoven.
Speaker 2: Leave it.
Speaker 5: When the company came the Manley's port Lorne, George was
playing the Reford.
Speaker 2: That's what I mean, Missus Manley.
Speaker 13: Sometimes I just don't think we appreciate the miracle of
the phonograph.
Speaker 3: Of what kind of set is that? That radio phonograph?
Speaker 2: At least missus Manley, is just something one of my
students put together for me.
Speaker 17: Well, if I were you, I'd stick to the established trademarks.
Puritone say or a son of beltone?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Or I thought it sounded all right, mister Manley, didn't
you Porter? My set players too, and records different sizes,
mix them up any way. You like radio gets China
clear as a bell.
Speaker 10: Also television, except there's a television to get We're too
far away.
Speaker 2: Only television set in town.
Speaker 3: Like playing tennis without a ball.
Speaker 2: What do you want me to do about it? Build
your personal television station.
Speaker 7: You don't need a station, just yellow little louder, Missus Manley,
Are you sure I can't get you a drink before dinner?
Speaker 3: A cocktail perhaps O Scotch.
Speaker 17: Never touch alcohol in anyfore, mister Manley.
Speaker 13: Either no, Well, coming from show business, you might say,
I always imagine.
Speaker 2: Those kinds took a nicknaw. And then how about you porter?
Speaker 3: Yeah, your know this is manny.
Speaker 7: Mister hollings way here has a chain of seven department
stores all over the state.
Speaker 3: I know all about it. Oh, yours is too big
a light to be hit under a bushel.
Speaker 10: Mister Hollings' way, George, would you need a small thromo
Selza place.
Speaker 17: Your reportential giant?
Speaker 3: Sir, not too small, George. I'm doing all right, said
a potential giant.
Speaker 6: Get potential.
Speaker 3: Yes, somebody tells me I'm gonna have a giant around
the house.
Speaker 2: Got this whole state so up?
Speaker 3: But there are forty seven other states. Crack for Jack
with radio, I can put you into millions of those
homes for one half hour every week. He doesn't spend
that much time in his all home, so time. Yes,
thank you, Sadie.
Speaker 10: Well, if we're already higan, hey, allow me?
Speaker 3: Hey, what's with that off that you've got on? And
get along of that cap? What are you supposed to be?
Baby snooks? I can't wait to tell mar there's a
couple of things about you. I can tell your mind.
This quaint situation belongs in a true to light drama.
Are you too related? We just had the same governess?
You kill me? But it's it's just a small town,
missus Manley.
Speaker 10: Everybody gets to know everybody if you don't mind crossing
the tracks.
Speaker 2: Sadie is quite Asus Manley.
Speaker 3: Rarely he even gone night and day? And what are
your favorite programs?
Speaker 12: Anything, so long as it keeps my mind off my feet.
Speaker 2: How are you gonna put me in her house a
half hour every week?
Speaker 3: But Porter Sadie is not a housewife. Still, they have
a great influence over housewives. Your maid may not realize it,
but whether or not she thinks she's listening, she's being penetrated.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a good thing she didn't hear you say that.
Speaker 17: And after penetration comes saturation, and when she's saturated, she'll
find herself saying, madam, I suggest that you buy our
new washing machine at Hollings Ways.
Speaker 3: It's not Sadie, and I've seen it when she was
saturated to the eye.
Speaker 2: You don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 18: Just shut up and eat, Okay, giant, well reader, it
was quite an evening.
Speaker 3: I've never seen you in better form, George.
Speaker 13: Never I asked my opinion of their radio programs. I
said I'd rather not discuss the subject. They wouldn't let
me alone.
Speaker 3: But it would have been so simple, something noncommittal.
Speaker 13: Well, certainly she doesn't blame you for what I said,
and they aren't too bully about it.
Speaker 7: And you had to correct her on even that bad
missus Manley not badly, Oh, Georgia, I had told missus
Manley so much about you.
Speaker 3: One of the.
Speaker 7: Editors is leaving their agency. There's a job open one
hundred and seventy five dollars a week, and I told her.
Speaker 2: You told missus Manley I might be interested in working
for her.
Speaker 3: George, please listen to me.
Speaker 2: Come here, Come here, sit down for a minute. Look, Rita,
let's put aside my personal likes and dislikes. They're not important.
Speaker 13: I'm willingk to admit that to a majority of my
fellow citizens. I'm a slightly comic figure, an educated mayor.
Speaker 3: But nobody's asking you not to be. Think of the
good you could do, Maybe raise this tender.
Speaker 2: What's even worse than being an intellectual? I'm a school teacher.
Speaker 13: School Teachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry.
Speaker 7: In this richest land on earth, are quitting every year
to take jobs that fave them a decent living.
Speaker 2: That is unhappily true.
Speaker 14: And why not you?
Speaker 2: Because I can't think of myself doing anything else? What happened?
Do you think of we all?
Speaker 13: Chris, who'd teach the kids, who'd open their minds and
hearts to the real glories of the human spirit past
and present, who'd helped me along to the future. And
at that I've been luckier than most even without what
you were, and I've managed to keep our heads above water.
Speaker 7: It's quite a strain over a period of time, with
the water lapping at your chin.
Speaker 2: That's where you've been a great help.
Speaker 13: I'll admit it has upset my mainly go from time
to time.
Speaker 7: And your overdeveloped sense of taste and discrimination, which is
apparently equaled only by that of Addie Ross.
Speaker 2: Let's try to keep Addie up.
Speaker 3: I am fed up with taste and discrimination. I'm fed
up with your contempt for me and everything I try
to do. Oh, everything I say is nonsense.
Speaker 2: It's all this work. You're overtired to do too much.
Speaker 7: And what do you suggest I stopped doing my moronic
radio scripts, which came most of your bills. Calm down,
I want do I go back to washing, scrubbing, ironing,
and a life of taste and discriminating.
Speaker 3: I'm fed up with Addie Ross.
Speaker 2: What's it all about? Really?
Speaker 3: If music be the food of love, play on, give.
Speaker 2: Me excess of it? Certain up to me? Sick so die?
Speaker 13: From Twelfth Night by mister Shakespeare, which Addie and I
played in high school.
Speaker 3: I thought it was a very clever note, and there
was more to it than a childhood memory.
Speaker 13: Yes there was, but we won't go into that right now.
We're going to get a few things straightened out once
and for all.
Speaker 3: Sit out, Yes, professors, sit on.
Speaker 2: Look, Rita. Seven years ago I made the most perfect.
Speaker 13: Marriage ever devised by man, heaven or radio. My wife
was an independent, understanding woman. We thought the same thing
about everything from baseball to Beethove in those seven years.
I was never contemptuous of you.
Speaker 2: I was proud.
Speaker 13: But when that drooling pap began to change you, when
your independence turned to fear, when I watched to snivel
and grovel almost two walking commercials, I didn't like it,
and I don't like it.
Speaker 11: I want my wife, by reader, I want my wife again.
Speaker 7: George and Eddie, it must be George. Why didn't he
go fishing and his blue shoot.
Speaker 3: By the blue? Rita, Rita, devy want you? The kids
want to play some games.
Speaker 7: Oh, incidentally, Loura me, did you know Peter who was
at the station this morning?
Speaker 3: Look, honey, why don't I just tell you what you
want to know. I don't know whether Porter ran off
with Addie or not. But get this, I don't care
just as but as we are no matter what you say,
would why I've got everything I want? But everything.
Speaker 2: Lormie, Oh, you've come a long way out ride.
Speaker 6: You can't around the other side of the tracks. You
lived on the tracks. Remember when you used to working
Portal's store. Remember your first date with them? You had
it all worked out pretty carefully, didn't you.
Speaker 3: On well holler? Oh why you said, hey, are may
had a day with the blot?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 3: If I was you, i'd show more what.
Speaker 2: I got where may be something.
Speaker 3: With beads, but I God, don't eat beads. What's your
new job?
Speaker 12: Gonna be something secret like a spy, something you can't
talk about.
Speaker 3: In me office? All eyes.
Speaker 10: So I'm gonna disgrace the fair name of funny Wait,
let's nooseman, throw me out.
Speaker 3: On the street to a sink at a door to
mine name. And so you're behind on that icebox. Not
for all the ice boxes in the world.
Speaker 12: They can come and take it away, though Heaven knows,
it's one of the few joys I have in life.
Speaker 3: I come on be layoff her and deal the cards.
Speaker 12: Wait till the train goes by, and hang out to
your cheek.
Speaker 3: It's an express. They're not gonna take away your eyes box.
And I know exactly what I'm doing.
Speaker 12: Just remember you're my daughter and a decent girl.
Speaker 3: It's him, I guess. So you got everything?
Speaker 2: Where's your push?
Speaker 3: Right there?
Speaker 12: Only got in front, got a cave black long?
Speaker 3: Whoa, what are you waiting for? Relax? He just flew
his ball again. It ain't Gabriel, so relax, falla, mate,
what are you waiting for?
Speaker 10: That's what I was waiting for. The doorbell. Anybody wants
me can come in and get me. This ain't a
drive in.
Speaker 3: Well I never Oh, good evening, mister hollings Way, Nyda,
I've seen a Steugen.
Speaker 2: I just didn't know.
Speaker 3: My last name was Dougan. But I don't believe you
know my mother missus finny mother. This is mister hollings Way,
please to meet you.
Speaker 2: I'm sure how do you do?
Speaker 3: Won't you sit down?
Speaker 2: Well? I've got a table reserved for half past seven.
Speaker 3: Yes, you are late, aren't you? I won't be a minute.
Just get my bag? What's your bag? Right out?
Speaker 12: All night out.
Speaker 3: Ain't it bad.
Speaker 2: Icebox? What of mine? Right?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 2: Giant size with a super freeze box?
Speaker 3: Right huh?
Speaker 2: How long you have it?
Speaker 12: How long they've been on the market.
Speaker 2: Oh, a couple of years.
Speaker 4: That was one of the first.
Speaker 2: Oh wonder what's keeping her? Girl's always got things to do?
Speaker 3: They tell me? Why there? It is my personal house.
Silly of me?
Speaker 2: Ready, we're late.
Speaker 3: Good night, mother dear, don't wait up. Good night, Sadie Darling.
Good night, Sadie Darling. Good night, mother dear. And don't
wait up.
Speaker 12: If a daughter of mine ever really talk like that,
I could have toil out beer Again't got any champagne.
Speaker 3: Mar This is a nice place, mister hollings Gray.
Speaker 2: I come here all the time with other young ladies.
Speaker 3: You want to talk to about new duties.
Speaker 6: At the store.
Speaker 2: Let's not talk business.
Speaker 3: But I thought that's what this was for, mister hollings.
Speaker 2: Way, we'll get around to it. What do you do
with yourself after working hours a night?
Speaker 16: Well?
Speaker 2: I have my family and my friends, of course boyfriends.
Is that getting a little personal a girl like you?
I'll bet there's plenty who's out in front.
Speaker 3: I don't happen to be one of those girls that
talks about her private life.
Speaker 2: Mister hollings Way and what I do in my Oh, George,
you hear alone? Well read it? Paddie's with Patty. It
was the last minute I did.
Speaker 13: We figured you'd probably have another engagement.
Speaker 2: Who's idea?
Speaker 3: May I have a cigarette? Please?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you, mister.
Speaker 2: Fitz George fix, this is miss funny.
Speaker 3: How do you do?
Speaker 2: Billy along? Non? We just got here and stop by
the table on your way up.
Speaker 3: I love to or you have such nice friends.
Speaker 2: He's a school teacher, hasn't got a dime. It's getting
stuffy in here. I want some are Come on, let's
drive somewhere. You're smoking, but but you were out of cigarettes?
Didn't you ask George horn back there?
Speaker 6: Did I?
Speaker 2: You're smart? Thanks plenty smart.
Speaker 3: Miss Liptkey is leaving the store next week.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and you need a new assistant supervisor like flies around?
Speaker 2: Honey?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: You you and your boyfriends.
Speaker 3: I thought we'd settle that.
Speaker 2: I want to talk about it some more.
Speaker 3: What makes you so interested in my boyfriends?
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 3: I've got very definite ideas?
Speaker 10: Like what, well, there's never been anybody in particular, nobody special.
Speaker 2: Why they wanted to I bet what do you think
that you are waiting for that one guy to come along?
Speaker 3: I've got very definite ideas.
Speaker 2: What's he got to be? Like? This one guy?
Speaker 3: Someone who wants to marry me more than anything else
in the world.
Speaker 2: You sure got wrong ideas about things.
Speaker 3: They may be wrong, but they're definite. Well, well, tomorrow's
another working day. Shall we go?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's go. Look.
Speaker 10: I hope you don't mind my bringing it up again,
But but you do remember about miss Lookey leaving?
Speaker 2: And what about to my I?
Speaker 3: If you like, i'd like high five seven? Lower me,
you're quite a girl. Lower me, you're a ride.
Speaker 2: Now. I didn't have to worry about you.
Speaker 6: But now what lower me?
Speaker 2: What was it you to a rereader?
Speaker 6: You just don't care?
Speaker 2: I wonder.
Speaker 1: A pause now for station identification. This is CBS, the
Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 4: I'll play Letter to three Y will continue in a moment.
Speaker 2: Here's mister Keeley, our producer. The curtain rises on Act
three of Letter to Three Wives, with Paul.
Speaker 4: Douglass's porter and Linda Darnell as Laura May.
Speaker 2: For Deborah Rita and Laura Maylion.
Speaker 3: The excursion boat is still far from home.
Speaker 4: And it'll be hours yet before one of them knows
the awful truth that it's her husband who's run away
with Addie Ross.
Speaker 5: On your next date, you let Porter tissue? Didn't you
learner me just one kiss? But you knew would be
back from you eyes?
Speaker 6: And on this date it just happened to stop buy
his eyes.
Speaker 3: It's the most beautiful house I've ever seen. Its wich.
It's just about everything anybody'd want you name it.
Speaker 2: I got it.
Speaker 3: You were married once. Where is this her picture?
Speaker 2: My wife? I wouldn't even have her fingerprints in the house.
Speaker 3: Then who's this?
Speaker 2: Well, somebody I know.
Speaker 3: I bet I can guess Addie Ross.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: So that's what she looks like.
Speaker 2: You can't tell from that. Really, it's on me a picture.
Speaker 3: She's beautiful, all right. She sort of looks like a queen,
doesn't she.
Speaker 2: Like a queen?
Speaker 3: Orto, Look, I imagine you must be very good friends.
Speaker 2: I helped it with some investments. She gave me this
picture last Christmas.
Speaker 3: Almost a year ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just never bothered to pull it away. I
guess Porter, you know how I feel about you? Look,
I'm only human, you know I'm not so sure you are. No, no,
thank you're smart. So you told me I'm smart too.
I've been around. I'll bet it's and oh that you're
good at it. But you can't fool me. I know
all the answers and.
Speaker 3: Answer this one. Why pick on me? I've been watching
your work, miss Finny, and I think you're ready for advance.
Speaker 10: Let's have dinner and talk it over. There's a brand
new act for you. It's got a beard a mile long.
I didn't ask you what you asked me?
Speaker 3: And why me?
Speaker 2: Who were the full of girls not like you?
Speaker 3: You can say it again, not like me? And they
don't want what I want?
Speaker 2: All right? What do you want?
Speaker 3: Not a four dollars a week? Ways, I don't want
a new car, or for a code or a trip
to Hawaii? Say what any oven dgers, mister Halling's way,
name it. I want to be in a silver frame
on a piano, my own piano, in my own house.
Speaker 2: You mean you want to get married?
Speaker 3: Does that make me a freak?
Speaker 2: I've been married once once is enough. I'm just not
the type. Maybe you just haven't found the right girl. Well,
I'm not easy to get along with. I'm setting my ways.
I want to do what I want when I want.
But if it was just a question of the right
girl with many men in the world want to.
Speaker 3: Marry you, not if he thought he could marry Addie Ross.
Maybe I don't know all the answers, but I know
some of them. Well, it's like i'd better be getting home.
Speaker 2: Okay, if I call you a cab beswogging in the snow,
just telling to charge it to my account.
Speaker 3: Sounds like you keep the cabs pretty busy with this
sort of thing.
Speaker 2: I do a lot of business with them, store business.
Speaker 3: Well, don't get mad.
Speaker 2: Do you just keep needling me?
Speaker 3: Look, I insist on paying for that cab myself. But
I'm no spot to be proud. And tomorrow on I
count for pennies. What's tom on the day I start
looking for a new job.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna fire you.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna quit. What do you want to do that for.
That's a silly question coming from a man in those
all the answers. But don't let it worry your porter.
Maybe it's just a new twist and the same old act.
I'll call the cab, thanks, I'll pick one up at
the corner.
Speaker 10: Maybe you're right, Porter, Maybe I'm a fool, So maybe
you're the biggest fool in the world.
Speaker 6: Well me, before you knew it.
Speaker 5: It was New Year's Eve, your first New Year's even
home in a long long time. Ma was going to
a bingo party and your sister, Babe.
Speaker 3: Naturally we're Sadie tonight.
Speaker 2: Ma.
Speaker 3: Isn't she figuring it up? Sadie can't go to the
bingo party.
Speaker 12: She's got a job saving up champagne for missus Addie
Ross and friends. Guess he'll be there, huh for Holly's way.
Speaker 10: Isn't the time you got dressed more?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll git me Hi and Nick.
Speaker 10: Come on Indy yet unless she's beat her brains out
with a powder puff sit doun?
Speaker 3: Hey babe, Hey, how come you ain't dressed up?
Speaker 2: No, but I am.
Speaker 3: I'm going to a fancy dress ball. Yes what a queen?
A queen a queen and a silver frame.
Speaker 2: I'll get it.
Speaker 3: I'll go see what's keeping babe, I'll see who it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who are you? Oh? I'm chez miss Finnish. She'll
be out in my men of mister Holling's way. We
met somewhere. I work in your shipping room. You waiting
for miss Finny? Yes, sir, what's your name? Nick Butler?
Well we're just good friends, kind of me and miss Finney. Yeah,
but b I worked your shipping room three years. Mister
Hollings' way. Oh, here they come, baby, Oh.
Speaker 3: Mister Hollings' way, this is my sister, babe. My real
name is Georgiana.
Speaker 14: Oh what do you say?
Speaker 3: Baby? Happy you you mister hollings Way.
Speaker 2: I thought baboon face was waiting for you. He used to.
Speaker 10: I gave him the babe he goes with a dress.
I came to take you to a party, Addie Ross's party. Yeah,
she must meet another waitress.
Speaker 2: I told her we had a date and not to
expect me if you'd made other plans. Here.
Speaker 3: These are for you, Hawkins.
Speaker 2: Huh, thanks, put them on.
Speaker 3: I'm not going anywhere.
Speaker 2: You weren't going to let him die.
Speaker 3: Put them in the ice box. The orchits ain't paid
for either.
Speaker 2: Laura May. I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 3: I thought we decided to leave it alone.
Speaker 2: It's worse not seeing you, knowing you're here.
Speaker 3: Maybe I ought to leave town.
Speaker 2: Wondering about you, who you're with, who you're kissing it.
I can't sleep nights sleeping about you?
Speaker 3: So what what about the way I feel my sleep?
But then I'm not even human?
Speaker 2: Am I?
Speaker 3: I'm just a great, big epidemy.
Speaker 2: I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 9: What's the us?
Speaker 3: Porter? Tell Addie Ross, it's the cook's not out and
I had to stay home with the ice box.
Speaker 2: Okay, Laura, May, you win, I'll marry how about it?
Speaker 6: Thanks for nothing?
Speaker 2: And what kind of an answer is that?
Speaker 3: I don't know. It just felt like it. That's all
we'll do, all.
Speaker 2: Right, kid. We're starting out where it takes most marriages
years to get out in the open. No jokers. You'll
see you've made a good deal.
Speaker 9: Laura May or May if you want me, honey, I'll
be over to the Callahad a new year, Mam.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be married them, don't.
Speaker 5: And so they were married, and that's the long time
we all became such good friends, Laura May, Deborah, Rita
and I. That brings us right up together. The excursion
boat's returned, They the three wives of rushed home.
Speaker 6: There's a little discovery to be made. Which of their
husbands that I run away with one thing.
Speaker 3: I can tell you.
Speaker 6: It's not George Pops George.
Speaker 3: Darling, Oh Darling, going to George.
Speaker 7: Hello, Georgia, I've got to know something. I'll just die
if I don't know. Tell me this minute, George, and
tell me the truth about what. Why didn't you go
fishing today?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 13: Missus Manley? For if you want you to call her
some revisions she wants to.
Speaker 3: And you never dress up when there's no school far
your blue suit.
Speaker 2: Well that is a little story connected with why aren't
you going.
Speaker 3: To phone her revisions?
Speaker 7: Huh yeah, Missus Manley will get the revisions on Monday.
That doesn't suit her, she can find herself another writer.
Speaker 3: Rita, I mean it, George piece it's one answer my question.
The blue suit, Well.
Speaker 13: It's just at the high school Dramatic Club decided to
do Twelfth Night and they asked me to direct your
first rehearsala boost would be more approp knite fishing.
Speaker 2: Boots and.
Speaker 3: Adding knew about it?
Speaker 2: What your counts for?
Speaker 6: The note?
Speaker 11: She said, if music be the food of love, play
on and uh and uh, Well.
Speaker 6: That clears up, George, doesn't it? But what's double found
out in her bad said, oh yes, madam, and mister
Bishop phoned a little after four. He said, he's very sorry,
but he won't be home tonight.
Speaker 3: Well be home, well, being home, Brad won't be a whole.
Speaker 6: And now Norah May Mar's there with U Mars living
with them.
Speaker 12: Twenty eight bucks I lost today?
Speaker 3: Say he's right that race tax bookage. That isn't a track, Mar,
it's for horses. They fix things up among themselves. Say uh,
how come Porter so late tonight? It's seven point thirty?
You know, Ma, Porter may not be coming home at all?
You mean tonight any night? I think he's gone away
for good with somebody else. Ah, I don't believe it.
I do, Phora would never leave you for good, and
not for another woman. Why not? He's in love with you.
He's want hide me playing crazy in love with you?
Are you out of her mind?
Speaker 2: Why he thought I heard soft voices in here? Hello Potter?
What's the fight about this time? First? Jewelia case, my
children and me never fight. Takes me a drink? Will you?
I'm tired?
Speaker 3: And the reason we never fight being my children. Know
that I know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 12: Your free were clear, saw a may But I learned
a lot about men from him.
Speaker 3: May he rest in peace.
Speaker 10: Addie Ross left town today, Porter, and she took somebody's
husband with her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you seem real excited about it. Like I
told you we were having lamb for dinner.
Speaker 2: What do you want me to do? Sue somebody? I'm tired.
Speaker 3: I just figured that maybe you were the lucky boy.
Speaker 2: Then I must have broke your heart when I walked
in here.
Speaker 3: Funny you should mention my heart.
Speaker 2: So you figured I ran away with that? He had
it feeled. You don't have to tell me. I can
tell you.
Speaker 3: You ought to go on information? Please?
Speaker 2: Oh what I got in mine? That's what you thought
to yourself.
Speaker 3: You got to get a concession. It's some carnival. You're
a regular mind read three years of playing a good wife.
Speaker 2: Here's where I cash in. Here comes the payoff. That's
what you thought.
Speaker 3: I've been a good wife, the best your money could.
Speaker 2: Buy, strictly cash and carry.
Speaker 3: Isn't that what you wanted? Isn't that what you told
me out in the open. You made a good deal, kid.
Did you ever stop to think? Porter? That in over
three years is one word we've never said to each other,
Not even in.
Speaker 2: Fun to you. I'm a cash register. You can't love
a cash register.
Speaker 3: And I'm part of your inventory. You can't love that either.
Speaker 2: I asked you to mind me because I was crazy
about you. You didn't even ask me to give me
a chance to All you ever showed me was your
price tag.
Speaker 3: You got to get dressed.
Speaker 10: If we're going to the country club, we're meeting the
others there at half past eight.
Speaker 2: I'll be ready when you are. No quarter.
Speaker 3: It's still like my very firstash. Here, you and I
loan at the table.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but where's Red.
Speaker 3: You don't know know what. Let's just say he's been
detained for him. He didn't come home.
Speaker 2: Be sure you don't want to do I'm sure. See
a guy dancing with Laura May, a bookie, all the
barbershops and saloons in town, dancing with my wife.
Speaker 3: But he came over.
Speaker 2: He asked, very politely, did dance with anybody?
Speaker 3: But she waited to see me?
Speaker 2: Objective of pans eater.
Speaker 3: And you have no right to complain.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got no complaints. I'm happy. Joe from DoCoMo
Gray just look away from the world. Fine home, fine friends, everybody, Well, why.
Speaker 3: Don't you stop acting like a spoiled baby.
Speaker 2: What are you sore about you?
Speaker 3: You're so stupid.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute, have.
Speaker 3: You any idea how much Laura May is in love
with you?
Speaker 2: No, how much?
Speaker 3: So much he's afraid to tell you, afraid her.
Speaker 2: Me with She couldn't say with a straight face, Laura
May in love with me. But that's all she can
do to wait it out. Wait it out, Yeah, like
an amnuity. Tell of mature is like a stock machine
with pays off. That's what she's waiting for. Chance to
call it off, to collect the end of the lion fairs. Please,
I'll tell me about love and Laura May.
Speaker 3: Well, such a fine, relaxed atmosphere.
Speaker 7: Better take a look under the table, George, see if
there's a body hidden?
Speaker 3: Reader? What was it you called, daddie, don't the pier
dear the pardon? Well, maybe that's who's under the table.
Oh it's Brad.
Speaker 2: I don't understand this conversation at all. How drunk am
I thank you very much for the dance, missus Holling's way.
Speaker 3: Let's do it again sometimes I thank.
Speaker 2: You mister hollings Way. Yeah, he seems pleasant enough. Who
is he? Laura May?
Speaker 3: My business associate of my mother's.
Speaker 2: He's a bookie. A mother vets with him.
Speaker 3: Will everyone excuse me?
Speaker 2: Please?
Speaker 3: I think I'd like to leave.
Speaker 2: I'd rather google myself.
Speaker 3: If you don't mind what's going on here?
Speaker 2: Shut up? Will somebody tell me what this is all about?
Speaker 3: Later? I'll tell you later. Don't you really know? Porter?
Come on, Debby, let's know. I want to tell Porter
what he doesn't know. I want to say it out loud.
It don't be silly. I've tried hard to make believe
the way you do. Porter. But I'm not as much
of a man as you are. My husband has run
away with thatdy Rocks. Good night.
Speaker 2: Sit down, Dendy. Porter, please sit down for him and
let her go for it. He'll keep out of it.
Everybody else too. Brad didn't run away with Hattie Ross.
Oh I did.
Speaker 3: But but how you're here.
Speaker 2: A man can change his mind, can't he. Porter? You're
quite a guy. Yeah, not let her alone. Let her
go if she wants to.
Speaker 3: She'd have known him the morning anyway, that Brad wasn't
the one, She'd.
Speaker 2: Have had a tough night. She's just a kid.
Speaker 3: Hlia danced with.
Speaker 2: You, George just a minute reader. Okay, Laura May, you've
got it. They all heard me say I ran away
with another woman. You can take me for everything. You'll
ever watch.
Speaker 3: Like always Portwin. When you start knocking on that brandy bottle,
you'll come up with anything.
Speaker 10: I guess I've stopped listening because because if you said anything,
I just didn't hear it.
Speaker 3: Well, why don't everybody dance?
Speaker 7: You heard her?
Speaker 19: George war May, who are you? You bigger the way
you're crying? Let's dance.
Speaker 6: The night, everybody.
Speaker 2: Here's mister Keeley with our stars.
Speaker 4: The curtain falls on Three Endings for Three Wives, and
here are the night stars coming downstage. To add a PostScript,
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