Speaker 1: This is Radio City Playhouse. Ladies and gentlemen, here's the
Speaker 1: director of Radio City Playhouse, Harry W.
Speaker 2: Duncan thank you, Bob Warren. Friends.
Speaker 3: This week we are honored to present a young author
Speaker 3: new to Radio City Playhouse, mister John Bethune b E.
Speaker 4: T h U n E. Bethune.
Speaker 3: It is a name we think you will do well
Speaker 3: to watch because for brittle and penetrating radio writing, mister
Speaker 3: Bethune is in a class by himself. We hope to
Speaker 3: present more of his work in the very near future.
Speaker 3: The name of our play is Deadline and stars Claudia
Speaker 3: Morgan as Marsha Robbins, Paul Nugent as Benson Todd, and
Speaker 3: Bernard my grant is Jerry Deadline by John Bethune. Attraction
Speaker 3: twenty seven on Radio City Playhoffs.
Speaker 5: Hello, Sphinx Club. Can I speak to Louis in the bar? Please?
Speaker 5: What's he doing? Hello Louis? This is Marsha Robins, Marsha Robins,
Speaker 5: Benson Todd's secretary. Yes, listen, has mister Todd been in tonight? Well,
Speaker 5: if he comes in during the next half hour, will
Speaker 5: you tell him I called Louis. It's very important. I
Speaker 5: think he's forgotten something, and it's very urgent that I
Speaker 5: get hold of him. All right, thanks, goodbye. That's the
Speaker 5: way the story began, me chasing Bencentad all over town.
Speaker 5: Perhaps you wonder why I don't write a book about Bencentdd. Well,
Speaker 5: it's a fair enough question. A book dealing with one
Speaker 5: of our more outrageous drama critics would be bound to
Speaker 5: have a certain celebrity value of nothing else, and as
Speaker 5: a study in advance to megalomania, it might even have
Speaker 5: a certain clinical value. But unfortunately it's not quite as
Speaker 5: simple as that. In the first place. Having spent five
Speaker 5: hair raising years as Benentdd's personal secretary, I find it
Speaker 5: rather difficult to viewing with the proper detachment and reverence
Speaker 5: of a good biographer. I wouldn't dare write a book
Speaker 5: about him, fictional or otherwise. However, there is one rather
Speaker 5: illuminating episode in the saga of ventent Todd which I
Speaker 5: think I can safely repeat. It happened only last season
Speaker 5: on that now famous evening when the Vaughan caught Me
Speaker 5: production of Macbeth opened on Broadway. Perhaps you remember it
Speaker 5: was a Forgotham theater.
Speaker 6: Will it not be received when we have marked with
Speaker 6: blood those sleepy two of his own chamber, and use
Speaker 6: their very daggers that they have done it.
Speaker 7: Who dares receive an others as we shall make our
Speaker 7: griefs and clamor roar upon his death.
Speaker 6: I am settled and bend up each corporation to this
Speaker 6: terrible feat away, and much the time with fairest show.
Speaker 4: Fall's face must hide.
Speaker 2: What's the false heart?
Speaker 8: That?
Speaker 2: No snouting in the.
Speaker 9: Snogging in the hobby?
Speaker 5: My dear, isn't it thrilling?
Speaker 10: Marvelous?
Speaker 5: Simply won?
Speaker 4: I'll give you on it doesn't run away?
Speaker 5: Well, someone gave Bridge something some We've seen everything else,
Speaker 5: But didn't you love the dirty old ladies with beers.
Speaker 2: It may be hot stuff in the movies, but on
Speaker 2: the stage, Oh brother, but you.
Speaker 5: Must admit his beautiful.
Speaker 4: Because beer another good thing. Shakespeare never lived to see it.
Speaker 5: I can't wait to read the.
Speaker 9: Critical goes one of them now, Benson Todd just going
Speaker 9: out the door.
Speaker 4: Bencing today. Boy, I'll bet he gives it a roasting.
Speaker 1: Brother.
Speaker 7: You can say that again, mister mister Wait a minute tree,
Speaker 7: excuse me, mister.
Speaker 2: T It happened, by any chance to be speaking to me.
Speaker 9: Yes, yes, I am.
Speaker 7: I I saw you leaving in the theater and I
Speaker 7: want to have a word with you. What about Well,
Speaker 7: I don't blame you for leaving, mister Todd.
Speaker 2: One act of this thing is plenty, mister Todd.
Speaker 7: I'm missus Vaughan Courtney. Really, I don't blame you for leaving,
Speaker 7: mister that once, but I just wanted to explain.
Speaker 8: Moments, Courtney. Did your husband notice my leaving? Did he
Speaker 8: send you out to way lamey and.
Speaker 5: Asking me notic you leaving?
Speaker 9: And he'd be furious if he knew that.
Speaker 8: Then I suggest you go back into the theater before
Speaker 8: he finds out you're asking me to change my opinion
Speaker 8: of his performance.
Speaker 7: I wouldn't think of asking you to alter your opinion,
Speaker 7: mister Todd. I know quite well that Vaughn is inadequate tonight.
Speaker 8: Inadequate, My dear missus Courtney, your husband's acting this evening
Speaker 8: is inexcusable.
Speaker 7: No, no, not altogether. That's why I followed you out.
Speaker 7: You see, mister Todd, for the past few days, Vaughn
Speaker 7: hasn't been at all well. In fact, his doctor ordered
Speaker 7: him not to go on tonight.
Speaker 2: Then why did he well he had to.
Speaker 7: All the publicity was out, and the advance said, well
Speaker 7: that names Vaughn insisted that he goes through with it,
Speaker 7: but his stomach's been upset all afternoonly feels wretched and well,
Speaker 7: if the opening could only have been postponed a couple
Speaker 7: of days, I know one could do a splendid my.
Speaker 2: Dear missus Courtney, this is no concern of mind.
Speaker 7: Yes, yes, I realize that, But mister tidd if you
Speaker 7: could just mention something in your review, just a sentence
Speaker 7: explaining that Vaughn felt so wretched and had a temper.
Speaker 2: Missus Courtney, I'm about to proceed to my favorite bar
Speaker 2: and write a review.
Speaker 8: I have no intention of turning it into a medical report.
Speaker 8: It's a matter of supreme indifference to me whether your
Speaker 8: husband is suffering from Chilblain's hydrophobia, galloping consumption of opposite.
Speaker 8: He's giving an outrageously bad performance of a magnificent role,
Speaker 8: and I fully intend to say so good night.
Speaker 7: No, no, please, please, mister Tidier. You don't understand what
Speaker 7: this production means to him. It's not just a publicity
Speaker 7: stunned in.
Speaker 5: Spite of what people think. V's or Vaughn feels very
Speaker 5: deeply about acting.
Speaker 9: He's been studying and planning this night for years.
Speaker 7: It's terribly important to I mean, well, if you were
Speaker 7: an actor, you'd understand, now, mister Todd. Couldn't you possibly
Speaker 7: come again tomorrow night or the night after?
Speaker 5: I know you'd feel that born with.
Speaker 2: Mister Courtney, I have a deadline to meet.
Speaker 8: You'll have to excuse me. A firtle lobby is no
Speaker 8: place to stage your sob scene.
Speaker 11: So if you don't want I should have known that.
Speaker 11: Good night, evening, mister Todd.
Speaker 4: Evening guys, I thought you were covering Macbeth tonight.
Speaker 2: One act was as much as I could stand.
Speaker 4: That's so hard. Huh, Well, what will be?
Speaker 2: Same as usual? Please?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Better make it a double I beg your pardon.
Speaker 12: Share but uh you're Benson Todd, aren't you?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: Why I thought so?
Speaker 12: I wasn't quite sure. Yes, I hope you don't mind
Speaker 12: my budding in like this. But my name is Edgar Fish.
Speaker 12: You have my sympathy, thank you. I mean, yes, mister Todd.
Speaker 12: I've just been reading your new book.
Speaker 2: You know criteria I seem to recall it. I just
Speaker 2: want to say, how much I enjoyed it, thank you.
Speaker 13: Yes.
Speaker 12: As a matter of fact, I think it's the best
Speaker 12: book on the American theater that I've ever read.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, I read through it twice. Didn't you
Speaker 2: understand it the first time? What?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 12: Yes, yes, I understood it all right, although there were
Speaker 12: one or two points where I didn't quite see eye
Speaker 12: to eye with you.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 12: For instance, in your chapter on the Catharsis of Comedy,
Speaker 12: you said that Shakespeare's idea of comedy is insulting to
Speaker 12: an intelligence. Oh yes, yes, very pointedly, don't you remember?
Speaker 12: Of course, I'll grant you that the values of comedy
Speaker 12: are transgent, but the basic elements of comedy haven't changed. Well,
Speaker 12: that's why I feel it, my.
Speaker 8: Dear young man. Yes, oh nothing, never mind, gus take
Speaker 8: my check out of this.
Speaker 12: Oh, mister Todd, you're not leaving.
Speaker 2: I am, indeed, but I wanted to ask your opinion.
Speaker 2: I never express opinions unless I'm paid for it. But
Speaker 2: mister Todd, thank you.
Speaker 4: Good night. Guys.
Speaker 8: Can I think but, mister Todd, you young man, the
Speaker 8: fact that you happen to have read one of my
Speaker 8: books does not constitute an introduction, though, does it?
Speaker 2: Entitle you to bore the pants off me.
Speaker 4: Good night.
Speaker 5: Hello store club, This is Marsha Robbins of the Morning
Speaker 5: Chronicle speaking. Can you tell me mister Todd's there? No, no, no,
Speaker 5: no to god Benson Todd. That's right. Well would you
Speaker 5: find out please? It's very important. Yes, I'll hold on.
Speaker 5: Come in beautiful, Oh, Jerry, Well take your flesh somewhere else.
Speaker 5: I'm busy.
Speaker 4: Oh come now, sat a way to welcome the man
Speaker 4: you love.
Speaker 5: Please, Jerry, I'm in no mood for fun and games plenty.
Speaker 5: We go to press early tonight. Well, what so I
Speaker 5: haven't gotten mister Todd's copy yet? Why not because he
Speaker 5: hasn't come in yet, you dope?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, don't have to bite my head off.
Speaker 5: Well, don't ask me stupid questions.
Speaker 4: Not asking stupid questions.
Speaker 5: Hello, Yes, he isn't well, has her reservation? I see? Well,
Speaker 5: look if he comes in during the next few minutes,
Speaker 5: would you ask him to call his office?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: Please, as soon as he comes in. Thanks very much.
Speaker 5: Good night.
Speaker 4: What's the matter? Has the critical mind going on the
Speaker 4: bat again?
Speaker 5: I don't know, but wherever he's gone, he's certainly hidden
Speaker 5: his track.
Speaker 4: Well, if he's covering a play. He could gone asleep.
Speaker 4: It's happened before I know.
Speaker 5: But I've checked the theater. He left at the end
Speaker 5: of the first height, wouldn't you're not? And I'm hanged
Speaker 5: if I can find out where he went?
Speaker 4: Is the rabar near the theater?
Speaker 5: I've tried every brass rail on the forties?
Speaker 4: How about the fifties?
Speaker 5: Well, that's what I'm doing. Now, what's El Morocco's number?
Speaker 4: How would I know? I'm a reporter and not a columnist.
Speaker 5: Well look at that for me, will you. I'm going
Speaker 5: to try the partment again.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, waitait.
Speaker 5: Please, I've got to find I know.
Speaker 4: But listen, if he's left his review till this lady
Speaker 4: who most likely folded in, won't he Well he doesn't
Speaker 4: usually no, But if he does, and you're on the
Speaker 4: wire all the time, how is he going to get
Speaker 4: it through?
Speaker 5: I'm supposing he's forgotten all about the early deadline.
Speaker 4: Supposing he has.
Speaker 2: It's not your fault, Oh, isn't it?
Speaker 5: You don't know, Benson Todd?
Speaker 4: Well, what does it matter anyway? It's just another drama.
Speaker 5: Review, my dear Jerry. That's the whole point. This isn't
Speaker 5: just another drama review tonight? It's news. I'll come good, Lord,
Speaker 5: don't you read the papers? Vaughan Courtney opens and Nick
Speaker 5: deest tonight?
Speaker 4: So what so?
Speaker 5: What's so? Everything? Headlines? League lights, fan paars autographs, Hollywood
Speaker 5: in tights, Grandma Boy brings Bard the Broadway?
Speaker 2: Why to read the publicity?
Speaker 5: You'd think? Vaughan Courtney wrote me this.
Speaker 4: I'll bet Benson Todd is Bernie?
Speaker 5: Is he ever a Hollywood movie hero daring to appear
Speaker 5: on the New York stage in Shakespeare? You can imagine?
Speaker 4: What does he say about him?
Speaker 5: Oh, something to the effect that of Macbeth's were never
Speaker 5: a tragedy before? It most certainly would be tonight?
Speaker 4: Is that all all he can do? Better than that?
Speaker 5: I think he's saving the barrage for his review.
Speaker 4: It should make rather spirited reading.
Speaker 5: If he ever gets here to write it. What's the
Speaker 5: time now?
Speaker 4: Oh, relax, he'll turn up.
Speaker 5: Well, he'd better, That's all I can say. He's in
Speaker 5: bad enough at the front office now if he misses
Speaker 5: this deadline. I hate to think what will happen?
Speaker 2: Good evening, mister tomber Johnson got a table his son?
Speaker 2: How many are there just myself.
Speaker 1: How would you like the corner in the bark?
Speaker 2: This ways up? Will this one do some perfectly?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: By the way, sir, You're office telephoned Miss Robbins. She
Speaker 2: seemed very anxious to get in touch with you. Should
Speaker 2: I have an extension connected?
Speaker 8: No, thanks, I'll see about it later. Just bring me
Speaker 8: a double scotch with very little eyes and very little water.
Speaker 2: Very good time, make it too, john.
Speaker 4: Oh? Hello, hello?
Speaker 9: Mind if I join you?
Speaker 2: Not at all too Johnson?
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, well glad to see me.
Speaker 4: Should I be?
Speaker 9: I'm not quite sure. I haven't seen much of you lately.
Speaker 2: No, I've been too busy to food. Now look, Wendy,
Speaker 2: if you're going to start, I'm sorry.
Speaker 9: How did the opening go?
Speaker 2: Which one?
Speaker 13: Well?
Speaker 9: Tonight like that, wasn't it?
Speaker 13: So?
Speaker 9: I'd love to see it.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine.
Speaker 9: Well, i've never seen Van Courtney except on the screen.
Speaker 2: I should have thought that was more than sufficient.
Speaker 9: But I've always liked him in picture.
Speaker 2: What it's French, Wendy. It means everyone to his own taste.
Speaker 9: Terribly hard to please, aren't you?
Speaker 5: By the way.
Speaker 13: Friedman's new show goes into rehearsal on Monday, yes, I know.
Speaker 13: I went round to his office yesterday. Well, well no,
Speaker 13: I couldn't get into seams. They said they'd never heard
Speaker 13: of me, should they have? Well, yes, after all, you
Speaker 13: said you'd fix.
Speaker 12: It for me.
Speaker 2: I said what you said you'd fix it for me?
Speaker 5: About getting a part on me?
Speaker 2: My dear girl, I did nothing of the sort.
Speaker 9: But of course you did, don't you remember you promised?
Speaker 2: But you can't go back just a minute, Wendy. I
Speaker 2: take it you feel I'm under some sort of obligation
Speaker 2: to you. Is that it?
Speaker 9: Well no, not exactly, but you did say you'd speak
Speaker 9: to Friedman.
Speaker 8: You seem to forget that I'm a drama critic, not
Speaker 8: an actor's agent, Benson. My function is reviewing the stage,
Speaker 8: not peppering it with aspiring engine use from Minnesota. You
Speaker 8: promise if you take my advice, Wendy, you'll just forget
Speaker 8: the whole incident.
Speaker 5: I see.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 4: I have a good night, No, thank you.
Speaker 8: I don't want one.
Speaker 2: I don't want anything you sept apart from Freedman show.
Speaker 9: That's a pretty rotten thing to say.
Speaker 2: But true. By the way, why don't you try your
Speaker 2: whiles on Freedman.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't have believed you could be so completely careleous.
Speaker 2: You'll have to work fast though. He goes into rehearsal
Speaker 2: on Monday.
Speaker 9: Remember I won't be here on Monday, going somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're in Minnesota.
Speaker 9: I didn't think.
Speaker 2: So we'll have a nice trip.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Why I guess that's my exit cue.
Speaker 2: You should know you claim to be an actress.
Speaker 9: Yes, well, goodbye, mister tuk.
Speaker 2: Goodbye one day. That'll lot next time. Yeah, you are,
Speaker 2: thank you Johnson. I'll take them both. Oh, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: isn't the young lady coming back? I hardly think, Sir Johnson,
Speaker 2: I hardly think so. Well, well, well, if.
Speaker 8: It isn't fancy boy Todd himself. Hello, Max, how's the
Speaker 8: world's greatest producer? I aren't sure at the opening when
Speaker 8: they let you in? Unfortunately, yes, worked out on it.
Speaker 8: One act was planted.
Speaker 2: You know you got a lot of nerve tied.
Speaker 8: So have you judging by that last little stinkle of yours?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, what makes you think you can review a
Speaker 8: show like Macbeth when you only see the first act?
Speaker 8: My dear Max, it isn't necessary to eat a whole
Speaker 8: egg to find out it's putrid.
Speaker 2: Very funny, or to use that sometimes. I probably will.
Speaker 2: When is your next production? What do you care you
Speaker 2: won't get in to see it?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Still licking your wounds? Eh, you can call it that
Speaker 2: if you like. What's the matter, Max? Don't you take
Speaker 2: it anymore? Sure?
Speaker 10: Sure, I can take it if I have to, But
Speaker 10: I don't have to take the kind of shmow wise
Speaker 10: cracks you hand out.
Speaker 4: Yes, I do say.
Speaker 10: You know you're gonna wake up and find yourself looking
Speaker 10: for a new sheet one of these days, Todd, And
Speaker 10: you can take it from me. There are plenty of
Speaker 10: guys around town will make a point of seeing you
Speaker 10: don't find one.
Speaker 2: I see you know nights. I believe I've been underrating you,
Speaker 2: I'll say, yes.
Speaker 8: I've always maintained you couldn't possibly be as vulgar as
Speaker 8: one of your productions.
Speaker 2: Apparently I was wrong?
Speaker 4: Were you don't? Okay?
Speaker 5: Todd?
Speaker 4: Do you vest for at once to open?
Speaker 5: But where on earth do you suppose it can be?
Speaker 4: Look, you've asked me that fourteen times and I still
Speaker 4: don't know the answer.
Speaker 5: It should have been here a half hour ago.
Speaker 4: But there's no need to get yourself into a dither
Speaker 4: about it. It won't be the first time he's missed
Speaker 4: the deadline.
Speaker 5: No, but it may be the last. And if he
Speaker 5: gets the AX, i'll probably get.
Speaker 2: It too good.
Speaker 1: Then you can marry me.
Speaker 4: We'll buy a nice little rose covered cottage in Brooklyn
Speaker 4: and live happily ever after.
Speaker 5: Oh, go to ah, there he is Hello? Yeah? Oh, no, No,
Speaker 5: he's not well. I couldn't say for sure. He's supposed
Speaker 5: to be here. Now, is there any message? Well? Who
Speaker 5: shall I say? Was calling? Hello? Hello? You know that's funny.
Speaker 5: That's the third time she's phoned in the last hour.
Speaker 5: I don't know, some woman.
Speaker 4: Oh, what's so funny about it?
Speaker 5: Nothing? Only each time I ask her who's calling? She
Speaker 5: hangs up on me.
Speaker 4: Very discreet. I'd say, just the same.
Speaker 5: I'd like to know what goes on.
Speaker 4: Probably one of our critical colleagues girlfriends. I'm totally leads
Speaker 4: a pretty shady love line.
Speaker 5: I gather, you don't altogether a mister Todd, you gather correctly.
Speaker 4: For my money, he's a great a jerk.
Speaker 5: You'll have to admit, he's a great a critic.
Speaker 4: Nuts, he's a lousy critic. Oh, I say so, And
Speaker 4: of course no, not necessarily, but I. Well, I certainly
Speaker 4: can't have any use for a critic who despises the
Speaker 4: theater as much as Todd.
Speaker 5: Does despises the theater. Whatever gave you that idea?
Speaker 4: Well, isn't it obvious he pans every place?
Speaker 13: He?
Speaker 5: Oh, come, now, of course he does.
Speaker 4: I've never read a review of his yet that didn't
Speaker 4: play the hide off the offer, insult the actors, a
Speaker 4: snare at the producer.
Speaker 5: Maybe they deserve it, but that's not the point. For
Speaker 5: what is the point?
Speaker 4: Simply that the critics should be constructive, not destructive? Oh
Speaker 4: my god, Well, it's true. Critics' job is to contribute
Speaker 4: something to the theater, not sit back and make cheat
Speaker 4: cracks at it. After all, it doesn't take any great
Speaker 4: brain to write the sort of stuff Todd does. Any
Speaker 4: fool can.
Speaker 5: Jeer, including yourself.
Speaker 4: Si oh, for the love of Pete. The female mind?
Speaker 4: What I said, the female mind? Why is it that
Speaker 4: a woman can never discuss any subject for three minutes
Speaker 4: without making a personal issue of it.
Speaker 5: For exactly the same reason that a man can never
Speaker 5: discuss any subject of three minutes without being patronizing about it.
Speaker 4: I'm not being anything the kind. I simply stated that
Speaker 4: a dramatic critic should be constructive and not daystru.
Speaker 5: And I simply stay that you don't know what you're
Speaker 5: talking about. Oh, shut up, I said, shut up.
Speaker 4: Look here, Marget, there's.
Speaker 5: Mister Todd quick handing my pencil. Please all right, please
Speaker 5: come on give it to me. Hello what No, it's
Speaker 5: not well, I haven't got it yet. Mister Todd hasn't
Speaker 5: come in. I don't know, but all right, you don't
Speaker 5: have to yell at me. It's not my fault. Yes,
Speaker 5: I heard you. Okay, you'll get Todd's copy as soon
Speaker 5: as it's ready. Oh yes, he's raising the roof, Jerry.
Speaker 5: He's not kidding. They're holding space. I've got to do something.
Speaker 4: Well, I guess there's only one thing you can do.
Speaker 4: Write the review yourself.
Speaker 5: Don't be fun.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm serious. If Sloan's yelling for copy and Todd's
Speaker 4: not here, somebody's gonna write it.
Speaker 5: Well, it won't be me.
Speaker 4: I can tell you that, right, I will get your pencil.
Speaker 4: I'll dictator. Look, just a minute's time to waste sloans.
Speaker 5: Wait, Jerry, this is crazy. Jerry will never get away
Speaker 5: with it.
Speaker 4: Come on, come on, make with a pencil.
Speaker 5: Oh okay, my impetuous young friend. But don't say I
Speaker 5: didn't want you.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 4: Okay, let's see where's the playing the goat?
Speaker 8: Uh?
Speaker 4: Take this? Have the immortal Bard been.
Speaker 2: Present to the Gotham Theater to night he would have he?
Speaker 4: No, no change that. Try this it is perhaps Wait.
Speaker 5: A minute, I think I've got it the opening sentence listen.
Speaker 5: Shakespeare wrote Macbeth as a tragedy, but tonight on the
Speaker 5: stage of the Gotham Theater it emerged as a comedy.
Speaker 5: How's that brilliant?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 2: I wish i'd said it.
Speaker 5: Oh, why, mister Tata, I didn't hear you come in?
Speaker 2: Perhaps I should have not.
Speaker 5: Well, I've been trying all over town to find you,
Speaker 5: I mean by telephone. I was afraid you've forgotten me.
Speaker 2: Early deadline, very considerate.
Speaker 4: Excuse me, mister Todd. Your your mouth is pleasing.
Speaker 2: I'm quite aware of that fact.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: And just what may I ask?
Speaker 4: Are you doing? Help? Well? I was just helping Marsha,
Speaker 4: I mean miss Robbins. We thought if you didn't turn up,
Speaker 4: we might get your copy ready.
Speaker 8: Really well, when I require your services and this department,
Speaker 8: I'll let you know.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, I'll thank you.
Speaker 4: To get out of my office and stay out of
Speaker 4: it now just a minute talk, Yes, I heard you. Please, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm going, But someday this paper is going to get
Speaker 4: wise you and close the door behind you.
Speaker 8: And now, miss Robbins, if you have no objection, I
Speaker 8: should like to express my opinion of tonight's opening in
Speaker 8: my own words. Play comes entirely meaningless through the garbled
Speaker 8: mouthings and idiotic posturings of this presumptuous Hollywood heart.
Speaker 4: Frobiod see who the devil that is and tell him
Speaker 4: I'm out?
Speaker 5: Hello? Who's calling? Please? Just a moment. If missus Vaughn
Speaker 5: caught me, she seems Robert.
Speaker 2: Fat give me that.
Speaker 8: Missus Courtney, you've already bothered me quite enough for one evening.
Speaker 8: Now in the vernacula of the pool room, will you
Speaker 8: and your husband please go away somewhere and drop dead?
Speaker 2: Where was I?
Speaker 13: Uh?
Speaker 5: Idiotic posturings of this presumptuous Hollywood heart rub ah.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 8: In fact, mister Vaughan, Courtney's Macbeth is unquestionably the worst
Speaker 8: performance of that role it has ever been my misfortune
Speaker 8: to witness on any professional stage, either.
Speaker 9: Here or.
Speaker 4: In fact, mister Vaughan Courtney's Macbeth is unquestionably the worst
Speaker 4: performance of that role it has ever been my misfortune
Speaker 4: to witness on any professional stage, either here or abroad.
Speaker 4: My gosh, Masha, how can you write that stuff?
Speaker 5: I shouldn't think you'd be bothered reading it after the
Speaker 5: way he kicked you out of the office tonight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that trip still, I've I've got to admit the
Speaker 4: guy does have style. Just just listen to this oyatka.
Speaker 4: In the second soliloquy, Macbeth appeared to be coping not
Speaker 4: so much with the pangs of an uneasy conscience as
Speaker 4: with the twinges of a faulty intestine. Yep, well please, Jerry.
Speaker 5: I've heard it once tonight, and I don't think it's
Speaker 5: either clever or.
Speaker 4: Amusing, says, what's the matter with you anyway? Oh?
Speaker 5: Nothing, just tired, I guess.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kindly one with the other papers are out here? Well,
Speaker 4: I'd like to see what the other critics say. HELLOI
Speaker 4: got any morning papers there?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 12: I got a news just came in.
Speaker 4: Let's see it wants some more coffee, honey.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's too bad about that movie?
Speaker 4: Guy. What movie guy us here on the front page?
Speaker 4: Actor dies on stage?
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 9: Who?
Speaker 4: Vaughan Courtney?
Speaker 5: You're kidding?
Speaker 4: No, look.
Speaker 5: Vaughn Courtney, Hollywood filmsd died tonight in the stage wings
Speaker 5: of the Goten.
Speaker 4: Oh no, that's too bad. Yeah, yeah, it says stricken
Speaker 4: with a cute appendicitis. During the first performance of Macbeth,
Speaker 4: the idol of movie going millions, collapsed before a horrified
Speaker 4: first night audience and was carried from the stage by
Speaker 4: members of his company. When did it happen right in
Speaker 4: the middle of the show during the third acd.
Speaker 5: Brother, this is the payoffs? Todd's really done at this time?
Speaker 5: He wasn't even there, Holy.
Speaker 4: Cat, But he reviewed the whole show exactly. Oh my
Speaker 4: aching back. Will this raise a stink?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 4: Will the chief read that bit about the faulty and.
Speaker 5: Tested totally reads the last paragraph?
Speaker 4: Why what does that say?
Speaker 5: Read it yourself?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Since the text has been so obviously mutilated to veil
Speaker 4: the star's shortcomings as an actor, we can only regret
Speaker 4: that they didn't follow through. Why prolonged Macbeth's demise for
Speaker 4: five acts? Mister Courtney would have done us all a
Speaker 4: great favor had he arranged to meet his maker in
Speaker 4: the middle of the second see what I mean, Holy
Speaker 4: suffering cow.
Speaker 5: Well that's the story. Not exactly an edifying tale, but
Speaker 5: I think if you scratch between the lines a bit,
Speaker 5: you'll detect a certain moral tinge. At any rate, if
Speaker 5: I ever get around to writing that book about Benson Todd,
Speaker 5: I'll certainly include it. However, the likelihood of that is
Speaker 5: rather slim. I'm afraid, for one thing, Jerry threatens to
Speaker 5: divorce me unless I spend a little more time with him,
Speaker 5: And for another, well being the new dramatic critic for
Speaker 5: The Chronicle keeps me pretty done busy these nights.
Speaker 2: Believe me.
Speaker 13: Done.
Speaker 1: You have just heard Deadline Attraction twenty seven on Radio
Speaker 1: City Playhouse. Deadline was written by John Bethune and the
Speaker 1: production was directed by Harry W.
Speaker 4: Duncan.
Speaker 1: Claudia Morgan played Marsha Robbins. Paul Newton was Benson Todd,
Speaker 1: Bernard Grant was Jerry. Other members of the cast included
Speaker 1: Charlotte Holland, Marilyn Erskine, Bob Dryden, Eugene Francis, and Steve Gellers.
Speaker 1: The music was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield.
Speaker 1: Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company
Speaker 1: by Richard P.
Speaker 4: McDonough.
Speaker 3: This is Harry Jonkan again. Next week a radical and
Speaker 3: complete departure from our regular format. We're sure you will
Speaker 3: be charmed and delighted with two moods from the past,
Speaker 3: a type of radio entertainment we have never attempted on
Speaker 3: Radio City Playhouse. Next week, it's a fraction twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Good night, everybody.
Speaker 1: This program came to you from New York. Bob Warren speaking.
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