WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:22.440 Elliot Lewis, Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Katty Lewis Elliott Lewis, 2 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:26.719 two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each week in their own 3 00:00:26.719 --> 00:00:30.800 theater, starring in a repertory of transcribed stories of their own. And you're 4 00:00:30.920 --> 00:00:44.640 choosing radios Foremost Players and Radios Foremost plays Ladies and Gentleman Elliott Lewis, Good 5 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:49.719 Evening, May I present my wife Kathy, Good Evening. Anton Chekhov was 6 00:00:49.759 --> 00:00:53.880 a great playwright and short story writer. He also wrote some wonderful one act 7 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.960 plays. Walter Brown Newman is a tremendously gifted young author who's written radio and 8 00:00:59.039 --> 00:01:03.560 motion pictures and television and about everything else that a gifted young author can write. 9 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.200 Anton Tchehov lived in Russia and is dead. Walter Brown Newman lives in 10 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.959 California and is alive, And tonight we're going to do his adaptation of Anton 11 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:38.159 Chekhov's wonderful one act play The Bear The Bird's Away used to sing, so 12 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:47.439 for your sake, No, they's sad. It's in the dope that comes 13 00:01:47.599 --> 00:01:57.519 truly love. Excuse me, ma'am, here's holing me And shortly come in 14 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:02.840 boys can't see to find my kerchief. Oh right there, mom, next 15 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:09.319 to the late lamented mustache cub. Thank you, Luke didn't mean to interrupt 16 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:15.840 nothing. I was only sitting here looking at his picture. Elegant, wasn't 17 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:21.240 he shorty? He purely was. Thank you. You'll both now be looking 18 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:27.759 yourselves this morning. Smell good too, ed penawd, Mom, I reckon, 19 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:30.439 I was fellers in the bunk house. You did gallon of ed peen 20 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.840 odd for stick him up. Didn't be shorty, we purely did well. 21 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:38.960 Colonel Roosevelt and his rough riders don't have a reunion every day all the boys 22 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:44.520 started for town. He hasn't. Me and Charter were affection to leave yourselves. 23 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:47.639 That won't be a soul left on the ranch. That's all right. 24 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:53.800 I used to being lonely. Now, or change your mind and come with 25 00:02:53.960 --> 00:03:00.039 us. No, mom, I'm gonna speak a little peace. I've been 26 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:06.840 cooked with this outfit ever since the poor defolk first old it and h I 27 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:10.400 well, mama, what you're doing yourself? You just eat right? You 28 00:03:10.639 --> 00:03:15.800 purely ain't. You're destroying yourself. Today's the day to make your heart bust 29 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:21.159 with gladness. It's that pretty here. Everybody's out for a good time by 30 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:24.520 eating the cattle on the porches and jaring life cheese. I laying there on 31 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:29.280 her back in the sun, a switching a tail and a pearl like an 32 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:35.159 organ. You ought to be doing the same, but instead you squatting this 33 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:38.000 parlor with the curtains down from one day to the next. And don't pleasure 34 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.879 yourself never. I reckon it the whole year since you left the house. 35 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:49.400 I'll never leave the house again. Buck lies in his grave, and this 36 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:54.479 is my grave. We're both dead, No, Mom, I just did. 37 00:03:54.680 --> 00:04:00.120 You ain't dead, and you can't be gnashing your teeth and wailing and 38 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.599 more than the dear department forever if he't right, never to see no one 39 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:08.719 or never to pay any called or nobody. We won't discuss it any further. 40 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:14.800 When Buck died, When Buck died, my heart died. I'll mourn 41 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:18.560 him the rest of my life. Wherever he is, he'll see how much 42 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:23.639 I love him. Or Mom, please let me harness black if for you 43 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:30.879 and drag it to town. Oh what'd I say? Lack? Who was 44 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:35.079 his favorite? What a rider he was? He looked like part of the 45 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:42.319 horse. Before you leave, give blackie, A lump of sugar, A 46 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:46.560 big lump. Yes, Mama, tell him to go away. I won't 47 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:55.199 see anyone. You go tell him Jory. Oh see my tears. See 48 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:59.439 how I forgive you, See how I love you. Please, Mom, 49 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.079 get hold of your sale. You can't understand? Why, sure I can? 50 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.879 I won't. My old woman took check one time. I just couldn't 51 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:12.360 bear it. Sarah, I'd say, it hurt curly and there, Sarah, 52 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:16.000 I'd say, I wish you'd get well for something. But Mom, 53 00:05:16.319 --> 00:05:20.439 you've got to get the bulls on it. Ma'am. There's a Phellow says 54 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.040 he's just got to see you. Didn't you tell him? I see noan 55 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:28.399 throw him out, throw it, ma'am. He stands about eighteen hands at 56 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:30.319 the shoulder. You have a gun on your hip. He's got two on 57 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:35.680 hiss and a knife in his boot. Ma'am, allow me to present myself, 58 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.079 Stephen Gregory, owner of the bicycle. Why I'm hearing a matter of 59 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:42.839 the greatest importance. What is it you want? Your late husband died twelve 60 00:05:42.920 --> 00:05:45.720 hundred dollars in debt to me. The interest on the mortgage on my place 61 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:47.680 is do tomorrow. I'd like you to pay me the money today. Twelve 62 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:51.759 hundred what four partly for oates bought and delivered, the other eleven hundred and 63 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:56.399 fifty piled up cutting for a high card. If my husband died in debt 64 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.160 to you, I have as I owe you. If he owed you money, 65 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:01.839 you'll be paid. Not today. I won't have a large enough sum 66 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.480 in the bank until the day after tomorrow, so I cannot oblige you this 67 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:09.600 morning. How if you'll excuse me, I'm in no condition to give financial 68 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.920 matters min and I'm in the condition which if I don't pay off that mortgage 69 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.759 will oblige me to blow out my brains. I'll take my ranch. You 70 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.199 will get your money the day after tomorrow. I want it the day after 71 00:06:17.240 --> 00:06:19.959 tomorrow. I want it today. You'll have to excuse me. I cannot. 72 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.800 You'll have to excuse me. I insist that you pay me. If 73 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:29.199 I can't, I can't. Is that final? That's final? Absolutely? 74 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:38.560 Positively, grassius, mootus grassius, and everyone wants to know why I can't 75 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.279 keep my temper. I'll thank you to leave my I need money. I 76 00:06:41.279 --> 00:06:44.560 spent all day yesterday riding from one dead beat to another. They owe me 77 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.160 a fortune. I can't collect a penny. Will you get out of your 78 00:06:46.439 --> 00:06:49.519 under? I'm seventy miles from home. I slept in a saloon last night 79 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:53.000 with a brandy cake for a pillow. I'd finally come here. It's my 80 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:56.519 last hope. And what do I get? I'm in no condition to give 81 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:00.879 financial matters my attention? Why shouldn't I be in an uproar? I distinctly 82 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:03.079 told you my banker would pay you the day after. I did write all 83 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:05.600 this way to see your banker, but to see you? What the devil 84 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.680 have I got to do with your bank You want to go after the boys? 85 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.240 Quick? Fetch them back now, sir? Will you leave? Or 86 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:16.319 will you stay here bullying a woman and a widow until my hands return? 87 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:19.759 Give you your just disease? Is it my fault you're a woman? Is 88 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.920 it my fault you're a widow? Do I have to pay off my mortgage 89 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:26.759 or don't I? What do you expect me to do when my creditors come 90 00:07:26.839 --> 00:07:29.959 strip down on my long John's pretend I'm a ghost, Luke, don't just 91 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:32.759 stand there, mission I go to Tim read that break his nose. Stilly 92 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.519 won't pay I beg Henry Dawson with a two by four and he won't pay. 93 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:40.839 And you, you are in no condition to give financial matters your attention. 94 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:44.360 Not one of you pays up just because I'm too gentle with you, 95 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.759 just because I'm wax in your hand, and misshut Up, who are you 96 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:50.439 talking about? Cut your heart out. I'll tell you this, ma'am. 97 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:54.399 If you think you can diddle me out of my money just because I'm a 98 00:07:54.399 --> 00:07:58.759 gentleman, think again. The picture has gone to the well once, tour 99 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:03.279 Sir. I have never diddled anyone, and I am not accustomed to being 100 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.319 addressed in that tone of voice. I've been as patient as I can, 101 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:11.240 but my patience is at an end. Good day, so it's my patience 102 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:16.800 at an end. Even a warm turns well. Right now, I'll be 103 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.319 a drip from long, beautiful manners. Your boss has just beautiful? Does 104 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:22.600 she thinks she can treat me like this and get away with it? Gout 105 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.639 she? I came here to be paid, and I will be paid. 106 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:28.800 Is it warm in here? I'm so mad, I'm dying of heat. 107 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:33.360 Why are the windows closed while the curtain's drawn? A lair in here? 108 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.960 I get so worked up with people, Shove me around, take advantage of 109 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:41.120 my good nature, treat me like I have no feeling my tender me. 110 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:46.759 Never me some whiskey or some water something front of them. Who can make 111 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:48.440 sense out of a woman? I leave it to you. Can you make 112 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:52.559 sense out of the way a woman thinks? Well, you gotta try and 113 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:54.440 understand. I'm going local. I need money so bad, and she won't 114 00:08:54.440 --> 00:08:58.960 pay because she's in no condition to give financial matterage Harry attention. That's the 115 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.840 way a woman thinks. It makes sense. You gotta try it on the 116 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:05.600 squahere's that drink. I'd rather try to reason with a mule and a woman. 117 00:09:05.639 --> 00:09:09.720 A mule will meet you partway. A mule's a miracle of logic compared 118 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:13.559 to a woman. I can't a five women, never could, don't now, 119 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.600 not likely toever. I get mad even when I see one from a 120 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:20.320 distance. Where is she little stretched out? Most likely she's been poorly. 121 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:24.519 She ain't used to see in folks, bourbon all right, in a bottle, 122 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:31.519 been poorly she ever since month died. Well, she's not putting anything 123 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.000 over on me, you hear me. Wherever you are, you're not putting 124 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.120 anything over on me with those temples, those bright eyes, those widows weeds. 125 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:41.759 I can't be deviled. I'm around. I've seen the elephant and heard 126 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:46.879 the owl. Please please, she's so low in spirits, Oh am, 127 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.360 I low in spirits. I'll match my spirits against hers anytime. For lonness, 128 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:56.519 fine hospitality, I must say, gorgeous hospitality. In the middle of 129 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:00.320 a conversation, she stalks out like a turkey head. Will you can't rides 130 00:10:00.399 --> 00:10:03.039 a bleamer, not all together? She used to having a gent call on 131 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:07.639 her not looking like you, I mean like I look, you're trying to 132 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.360 crowd me. Well, there's a mirror, right there's he said, where? 133 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:16.360 Uh? Well, maybe so a little dusty, but you can't ride 134 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:22.159 for two days without getting dusty. And my boots but how can I trouple 135 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:24.799 Billy Clay write his own pig penalty? My boots clean, and my pants. 136 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:28.120 I'd like to see her sleep in the floor of a saloon and rise 137 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.440 up with pressure pants. She was put out by my Appearance's boat well don't 138 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:37.200 exactly inspire confidence. Well, I know I shouldn't come calling on a lady 139 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:41.159 in her parlor looking like this, But she should have realized the circumstance. 140 00:10:41.200 --> 00:10:43.440 Common sense would have told her that's what I mean. A woman's got less 141 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.039 logic than a mule. Anyway, I'm not here on a social call. 142 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.399 I'm a creditor. There's no rules for how a creditors are dressed. Judge 143 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:58.080 the sea. Shut up, sir. I have grown unaccustomedly to the sound 144 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:01.919 of a man's voice in this house, and I can't stand shouting. I 145 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.320 must ask you to go and leave me in peace. Pay me my money 146 00:11:05.320 --> 00:11:07.960 and I'll go. I thought i'd made it plain. You will have to 147 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:11.240 wait till the day after turn. I thought I made it plain. I 148 00:11:11.240 --> 00:11:13.720 don't want the money the day after tomorrow. I want it today. If 149 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:16.039 I don't get it, I'll have to destroy myself tomorrow. You run those 150 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:22.240 curtains who opened this window? I opened the window. I drew the curtains. 151 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:24.120 You expect me to sit in the talk with no air? Am I 152 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:28.000 a gopher? Answer me that I need to breathe? How dare you shut 153 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:33.399 that window? Stand aside, sir? If people ask me why I get 154 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:39.759 angry, get out of my way? You fair? How dare you break 155 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:41.879 that window? I'm trying to change the subject. I'm not here to talk 156 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.919 about windows. I'm here to get paid. I don't have the money now, 157 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.519 and I'll sit here and wait until you do. Please, I'm not 158 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:54.039 neither am I? After all a popscull I had last night. But I'm 159 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:56.519 going to sit here till I get paid. Anyway. Have I got a 160 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.679 mortgage to meet tomorrow? Haven't I? You can be sick for a week 161 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:01.960 if you like, all right, and I'll sit here for a week. 162 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.919 If you're sick for a year, I'll sit here for a year. You're 163 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:09.120 not putting anything over on me with those widows, weeds, those bright eyes, 164 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:13.240 those dimples. I know those dimples. Now, maybe you'll understand that 165 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:33.320 I won't be diddled. You fail, You bear, You bear. You 166 00:12:33.399 --> 00:12:37.799 are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage to Nice play the Bear. 167 00:12:37.759 --> 00:12:43.480 There's outstanding dramatic listening in the daytime too. 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I'm talking about the twelve hundred dollars you owe me and the 177 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:45.320 market I have to me tomorrow. Don't raise your voice to me. How 178 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:48.639 dare you behave like this to a woman? Do you call it etiquette to 179 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:52.519 criticize a guest in your own parlor? I behave very well to a woman. 180 00:13:52.639 --> 00:13:56.000 No, you don't. You have no manners. You're an uncouth man. 181 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:01.919 Decent men don't talk to a woman like that. What a business? 182 00:14:01.320 --> 00:14:05.720 How do you want me to talk to you like an englishman? Ah? 183 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:11.039 My, dear dear lady, what ripping weather? What? What? And 184 00:14:11.320 --> 00:14:15.919 how well you look in mourning? I say that's stupid and rude. Stupid 185 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:20.000 and rude. I don't know how to behave to a woman in my time 186 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.840 ma'am, I've seen more women than you've seen bustles. I've had three duels 187 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.919 on account of women. I've thrown over twelve of them and been turned down 188 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:33.080 by man. You don't believe me. It's the truth. There was a 189 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:37.559 time when I moved after women like a sick calf, almost drowned myself in 190 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.840 colney water. Shoot sten send to make my voice soft and my breath sweet. 191 00:14:41.080 --> 00:14:46.840 Shaved every day, sometimes twice a day, and wore pink silk garters 192 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.080 on my shirt sleeve. I'm not at all into I made love passionately, 193 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:54.840 madly, softly, loudly, every which way I suffered. I howled at 194 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:00.200 the moon like a coyot. I sang love songs, whispered sweet nothing, 195 00:15:00.559 --> 00:15:03.919 joined the Emancipation League and made speeches urging boats for women. But not anymore. 196 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:09.279 You won't get around me like that. Now get around you who wants 197 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:13.919 to get a ride out a bellyful, soft cheeks, bright eyes, ruby 198 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:20.600 lips, dimples, the moon, dainty hands. I wouldn't give our cow 199 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:26.240 chip for the lat man. Now you listen me. All women present company 200 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:30.080 accepted. All women, big or small, thin or fat, older, 201 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.679 young, are unfaithful crooked, vicious, malicious, envious, vain, petty, 202 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:39.320 trivial, greedy, shallow, merciless, ruthless, lying, unreasonable, 203 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.799 and where brains are concerned or horned, toad can give cards, page a 204 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:48.919 little casino to anything in petticoats and still win the game. I'll speak from 205 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:54.679 experience. You look at one of these dainty creatures, all silks and laces, 206 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:00.039 all gentle smiles and soft sighs, and ngelic, positively angelic. So 207 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.879 when you look into her soul, what do you see? A buzzard and 208 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.159 the most aggravating thing of all. This buzzard, for some reason or other, 209 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.000 is convinced that of all the creatures on earth, it and it alone, 210 00:16:11.120 --> 00:16:14.200 is capable of love. Now I leave it to you, getting right 211 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:15.799 down to cases. Have you ever met a woman who can love anything but 212 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:19.639 a lapdog? When she's in love, can she do anything but blubber and 213 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:26.000 slobber? A man suffers, a man tears his heart to pieces, a 214 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:30.159 man makes sacrifices, And how does she show her love by fluttering her fan 215 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.360 with one hand and getting a good, strong grip on his nose with the 216 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.840 other. Ma'am, you have the bad luck to be a woman. You 217 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.200 know yourself. That's a woman's nature. Tell me the truth. Have you 218 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:44.960 ever seen a woman who is honest, faithful, steadfast? Of course you 219 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.919 have it. You'll find a cow who can play the mandolin before you'll find 220 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:56.759 a steadfast woman. You're quite finished. That's the gist of my remarks anyway, 221 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:03.320 And as you see it, when it comes to love, who is 222 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.160 it that's honest and steadfast? The man? Of course it's the man, 223 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:15.440 the man. Hah men, honest and steadfast? Did you ever you listen 224 00:17:15.480 --> 00:17:19.039 to me? I'm going to tell you about men. Where did you ever 225 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:23.680 get the idea that men are faithful in love? I'll tell you about men. 226 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.720 I'll tell you about the best man that ever lived, my late husband. 227 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:33.279 I loved that man. I loved him with every part of me, 228 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.559 every bone, every drop of blood. I loved him as no other man 229 00:17:37.599 --> 00:17:41.440 has been loved before. I gave him everything, my youth, the best 230 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:45.720 years of my life, my joy, my property, everything, I kissed, 231 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:51.319 the ground he walked on. I worshiped him. And how did he 232 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:56.799 repay me? He deceived me. There wasn't a day he drew breath that 233 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:02.720 he didn't deceive me. Books there, ask Luke. After he died, 234 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:06.119 I found a whole trunk full of love letters. And when he was alive. 235 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:11.079 It hurts to remember it even now. He'd leave me for weeks at 236 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:15.160 a time, go gallivanting all over the country. And in spite of all 237 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:21.720 that I loved him and was faithful to him, I'm still faithful to him 238 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:26.559 and true to his memory. I haven't stirred from this house since the funeral, 239 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:32.240 and I'll wear mourning for the rest of my life. Mourning. You 240 00:18:32.359 --> 00:18:34.519 think that fools me? Don't you think I know why you wear black while 241 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:37.279 you stay in the house. You want people to say, how spirit you 242 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:41.559 will for love of her husband? She buries herself alive? What sentiment I'm 243 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:45.599 under? You? Man? You renounce the flesh and the devil, but 244 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.640 you curd your hair and you sprinkle yourself with patulie. I smell it. 245 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:52.920 How dare you in self? Keep your voice down? I'm not one of 246 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.599 your hired hands. I won't be yell that you're the one who's yelling yet 247 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.279 out of here. Pay me and I'll go. You won't get a sense 248 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:03.279 I'll be hanging up, not one red penny just for Spike get out of 249 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:07.160 here and not your husband, and I'm not your intended so don't make a 250 00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:08.839 scene. I don't like. Get up from that chair and get out of 251 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:14.079 this house. That was my husband's chair. Get up from it. It's 252 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:18.720 with this chair. I come on with him with PRIs and I get insultd. 253 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:21.960 I have no time to waste and I'm forced to spend the day. 254 00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:26.759 This is gussie chair. There, there's a chair. You broke it. 255 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:30.839 You broke the chair. All I want is what's coming to me. I 256 00:19:30.880 --> 00:19:33.759 refuse to say another word to you. Leave this house and the cash is 257 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:41.480 in my hand, not before. Where's Lenny Jay? Lenny? They nobody? 258 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:47.200 Am mom short is going to get out? Gout out, get out 259 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:52.599 out fine, open handed, hospitalent. You're a hooligan, You're a rough 260 00:19:52.680 --> 00:19:56.920 neck. You're a monster, you're a bear. What did you call me 261 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:02.079 there? A monster? If you got to call me names, I'll call 262 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:04.200 you as many names as I want to. Do you think I'm afraid? 263 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:07.839 Do you think you can call me names just because you're a woman. You'll 264 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:11.039 think I let people call me names and take away my dignity without protecting myself. 265 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:15.759 We'll shoot it out. Hold on now, I'll wait six gods, 266 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:21.359 you're not scaring me one little bit. I wouldn't care if you were twice 267 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:25.200 as big as you, ten times as well. We'll shoot it out. 268 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:27.480 Nobody in sults. Mee gets away with it. I don't care if you 269 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:33.519 are there. Who there's the only men have to pay for insults? Who 270 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:36.880 made up that rule? Women are always screaming about equal rights. All right, 271 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.880 let's have equal rights all around in everything. We'll shoot it out good 272 00:20:41.680 --> 00:20:47.039 with six guys. And right now, right now, I'll get my husband's 273 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:52.559 son. You wait right here. I'm going to enjoy pumping bullets into your 274 00:20:52.680 --> 00:21:00.599 fixed skull right between the eyes, right between the eye. I'll bring her 275 00:21:00.640 --> 00:21:04.079 down like a chicken man. Woman's all the same to me when I'm at 276 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:08.519 something. Oh mister, please don't do this awful thing. He leave now 277 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.440 for his two league. He let it go. Just scare in her. 278 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:15.960 You don't choose she wants to fight. Well, that's emancipation, that's equal 279 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:18.640 rights. It matters like this. I support the new woman. I'll shoot 280 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:23.359 her on principle. But did she the heller? Though? Is she? 281 00:21:23.440 --> 00:21:26.359 A lot of women see the way she galloped off her a gun head up 282 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:30.640 and tail over the dashboard. I'll enjoy putting a bullet in your skull. 283 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:36.359 Did you hear her? And our eyes sparkled? She didn't back down, 284 00:21:36.400 --> 00:21:38.759 an anchil, Please please go. She's a real woman. That's a kind 285 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:44.000 of like a real womanly woman, not a drooping sack of marshmallow, but 286 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:47.599 with blood in her veins. All fire, all pepper, all gunpowder, 287 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:52.079 shit, a Roman candle, shame the killer. Oh no, I like 288 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:56.240 her. I positively like her dimples and all I like her. I'd be 289 00:21:56.240 --> 00:22:00.960 willing to tear up those ioues. And I'm feeling sereene again. I got 290 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:07.519 a grip on my temper. A womanly woman all right now. But before 291 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.839 we start, you'll have to show me how to use it. I've never 292 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.160 held a gun in my hands, my mom, But hey, do that 293 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:18.359 hasty. I'm gonna ride down the road and try to find the balls. 294 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:23.839 Please just pray for time. There's a fine weapon, man, good balance, 295 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:30.720 nice heft to it. It's as shiny as your eyes, nothing as 296 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.440 pretty as a cold forty five. Just show me how to hold it. 297 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:36.880 The butt goes into your palm like this, and you can either pull the 298 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:41.240 trigger with your pretty little finger, or flick the hammer with your tiny little 299 00:22:41.240 --> 00:22:45.240 thumb like that, just like that, and in aiming it. Uh, 300 00:22:45.400 --> 00:22:49.720 here, stand in front of me. In aiming it, put your head 301 00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:55.359 back a little and hold your arm out like this. That's it. Then 302 00:22:55.759 --> 00:23:00.720 when you're ready to fire, just squeeze the trigger. Squeeze, don't pull, 303 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:04.759 Squeeze like a lemon. Way here, give me your hand. Feel 304 00:23:06.920 --> 00:23:14.000 how gentle I squeeze? I just squeeze a gentle be liked it? I 305 00:23:14.079 --> 00:23:18.039 understand. I'm ready? Where do we shoot it out in the yard? 306 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.920 All right, let's go. But I'm telling you in advance. I'm going 307 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:29.799 to fire in the air well. If that isn't the why, because because 308 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:34.920 that's my business. You're not yellow? Are you? Are you? I'm 309 00:23:34.920 --> 00:23:37.240 not going to let you call out of this. You come with me. 310 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:41.480 I won't rest easy till I put a bullet in your head. Why aren't 311 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:45.839 you coming? Are you scared? Yes, I'm scared. You're a liar. 312 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:52.079 Why won't you fight? Because? Well, because I like you? 313 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:00.160 He likes me. He has the nerve to say he likes me. Come 314 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:03.440 on into the yard. Wait a minute, let me load your gun. 315 00:24:04.079 --> 00:24:11.720 Give it me. Uh, listen, you're still mad. I'm a little 316 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.920 mad too, but you know what I mean. I can't find the words. 317 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:22.039 The fact is, well, it's like this. Can I help it? 318 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:25.000 If I like you? Do you understand it's all I can do to 319 00:24:25.079 --> 00:24:27.519 keep from telling you I love you. Don't come near me. I hate 320 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:30.160 you. What a woman. I've never seen one like her. I'm a 321 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.799 gone goose. I'm done for. I'm a mouse in a truck. Get 322 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.359 away from me, watch and shoot. I'd enjoy being killed by a gun 323 00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:41.039 held in that soft little hand. You're driving me crazy. Don't talk without 324 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:44.880 thinking, and make up your mind right now, because if I once leave 325 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:47.119 this house, you'll never see hiding a hear of me again. Make up 326 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:49.279 your mind. I'm a rancher. I'm respected in the community. I have 327 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:53.440 eight thousand head of Cadillac and throw six whiskey glasses into the air and pulverize 328 00:24:53.480 --> 00:24:56.400 them before they hit the ground. I own the fastest horse in the county. 329 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:00.839 Will you marry me? I want to shoot it out, shoot it 330 00:25:00.920 --> 00:25:03.200 up. Out of my mind. I'm in love like a boy. I'm 331 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:06.559 happy as the jaybird. I love you. Get out, get off your 332 00:25:06.599 --> 00:25:11.960 knees. I love you as I've never loved before. I've thrown over twelve 333 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:14.680 women have been turned down my mine, but I never loved any of them 334 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:17.680 as I love you. I'm putty, I'm tapping, I'm wax. I 335 00:25:17.720 --> 00:25:19.079 offer you my hand, my heart, my parts in in my life. 336 00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:22.839 Shame on me, Shame on me. I'm mortified as I've never been. 337 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:26.880 I haven't been in love for years. I took an oath, and suddenly 338 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:29.720 I'm in love like a wolf in a trap. Marry me, yes or 339 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:33.599 no? You refuse? All right? Then, well nothing. Get out 340 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.519 of my house. No stop, no go away. I hate you. 341 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:42.279 I mean no, do don't go away. My head spinning. I'm angry. 342 00:25:42.559 --> 00:25:45.400 I don't know what I'm saying. Who are you waiting for? Get 343 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:48.880 out? Get out? Good bye, good bye, goodbye? Where are 344 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:53.480 you going? Stop? I don't get married, so so stay away from 345 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:56.960 me. I hate myself for this, falling in love on my knees like 346 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.839 a schoolboy. I love you. You think I want to love you, 347 00:25:59.880 --> 00:26:02.759 but I love you. It's the last thing I intended. Tomorrow. I 348 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:04.119 have to pay off my mortgage and stop my round up and hear you go 349 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:08.759 ahead, and and I'll never forgive myself for this. Take your hands away, 350 00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:18.799 get away from me. Let's shoot it out. Let's let's shoe mom, 351 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:26.759 mom, he read shoe boss mon Well, I just don't believe it, 352 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:34.319 Oh Luke, Yes, ma'am. Never mind feeding Blackie that lump of 353 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:55.160 sugar. The bear starring Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. In a moment, 354 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:59.240 mister and missus Lewis will tell you about next week's play. This Sunday 355 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:03.440 Night, Frank Love Joy Stars and the remarkable talent of Egbert Haw and CBS 356 00:27:03.519 --> 00:27:07.759 Radio's Theater of Stars. You may find it difficult to believe this tale of 357 00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:11.039 a talking race horse, but you'll find it easy to enjoy. Also Sunday 358 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:15.599 Night, here Lionel Barrymore on your Hall of Fame Playhouse, spotlighting another little 359 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:19.880 known hero of American history on most of these stations This Sunday Evening, Theater 360 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:26.279 of Stars and Hall of Fame Playhouse presented by CBS Radio and now once again 361 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:37.720 Kathy and Elliott Lewis. Oh. Thanks to Walter Brown Newman for a lovely 362 00:27:37.759 --> 00:27:44.000 adaptation. Can you talk dear enough to say that Horace Murphy tried unsuccessfully to 363 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:47.640 get the courage to throw me out of your house, and that Byron Kane 364 00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:52.960 escaped my violence earlier in the play. We've done several scripts by another Newman, 365 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.519 e Jack Newman, who is not related to Walterer, and his plays 366 00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:00.319 have a wonderful effect on all of you. You either violently dislike to the 367 00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.480 party and Eddie and Casey at the bat, or you were thoroughly delighted with 368 00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:08.279 them. Well, next week we give you an opportunity to once again either 369 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:15.359 violently dislike or be thoroughly delighted, as we present e Jack Newman's new story 370 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.599 statement of fact. Until then, thank you for listening, good night, 371 00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:33.319 good night. Music for tonight's story was arranged and conducted by Fred Steiner. 372 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.839 The Kathy and Elliott theme is by Raynobol, and the program is transcribed and 373 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:47.160 directed by mister Lewis George Walls speaking and remember listen while you work. Enjoy 374 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:51.880 Road of Life every Monday through Friday in the daytime on the CBS Radio Network.