Speaker 1: Author's Playhouse, Candy, my dear, you look beautiful. How are
Speaker 1: you well?
Speaker 2: I'm fine, mister DEMI just dying slowly, nothing serious.
Speaker 1: It's most becoming. Missus Stewart, thank you, mister. Things seem
Speaker 1: to have blown up in our faces, haven't they. My
Speaker 1: best girl and your husband have eloped. A rare woman
Speaker 1: or homemaker.
Speaker 3: Candy wanted to help decide Pam Peter's faith, but fate
Speaker 3: has a maddening habit of plotting its own course. Author's
Speaker 3: Playhouse presents Elizabeth Dunn's mirthful story woman's work.
Speaker 2: That's the very last bandage I'm folding this day. The
Speaker 2: Red Cross would be rehabilitating me if I do anymore, Candy,
Speaker 2: if you finish, come out in the hall with me
Speaker 2: for a minute. I've got something to tell you. All right,
Speaker 2: I'm coming. I hope you look all over dinner, that's
Speaker 2: put it mildly, Sit down and lend an ear. Baby.
Speaker 2: I have sinned, hope, darling. I have exactly twenty minutes
Speaker 2: before I have to go home and feed little David
Speaker 2: his supper. If you have anything sordid to say, you'd
Speaker 2: better hurry you when you're David, how old is he
Speaker 2: now six months. Why doesn't he feed himself? You're ruining
Speaker 2: that child. Oh, we're giving him a terribly sheltered life.
Speaker 2: Go on, what have you done? I have no idea,
Speaker 2: but I must have sinned because I'm visited by Pan
Speaker 2: next week. Makes sense. I am Pandora Pan Peters, the
Speaker 2: dear friend of my girlhood, whose talented neck I would
Speaker 2: gladly ring. She's coming here for a month, she and
Speaker 2: her horrid little airplane. Why I didn't even know you
Speaker 2: knew Pan Peters. You mean the war correspondence, the one
Speaker 2: who wrote the Pegasus as a lady.
Speaker 4: He's been to.
Speaker 2: Tehrann and Russia and goodness knows where, and now she's
Speaker 2: coming here to get over it. She must be perfectly fascinating.
Speaker 2: She's fascinating, all right. Even Lobby, my very own husband,
Speaker 2: is slightly in love with her. But it's my brother
Speaker 2: George who's causing the trouble. My brother George has been
Speaker 2: in love with Pan Peters ever since I brought her
Speaker 2: home from Miss March's for spring vacation in nineteen thirty.
Speaker 2: Why does he marry her? Because she won't. She's had
Speaker 2: millions of bows, but she won't get married. You see,
Speaker 2: she doesn't want to make a home, at least she
Speaker 2: doesn't want to make one. And brother George is as
Speaker 2: domestic as the bedrooms, slipper, Your brother George is a
Speaker 2: domestic I know, I know, a glamour boy of journalism,
Speaker 2: owner and publisher of Meridian, that unique newspaper is modern
Speaker 2: as tomorrow, the boy with a byeline. But he is domestic.
Speaker 2: Probably is a reaction from growing up with me. He
Speaker 2: wants his little wife to stay home picking oakum and
Speaker 2: dipping her own candles, and Miss Peters won't. Well, doesn't
Speaker 2: that settle Let's settle it when Pan gets here. Georgill
Speaker 2: come out every weekend and mope around like a disillusioned
Speaker 2: setter till about Sunday noon, when he and Pan will
Speaker 2: have a fight that'll make the clock strike out of
Speaker 2: sheer nervousness, and then he'll flounce off in rage and
Speaker 2: come back the next weekend for an encore. I don't
Speaker 2: see why George should have everything his way, But George
Speaker 2: is well, I mean, he's George, and you're going to
Speaker 2: put a stop to this nonsense. Me. Listen, George has
Speaker 2: almost got to the place where he'll take pen on
Speaker 2: any terms, even her own, and that mustn't happen. I'm
Speaker 2: very fond of Pan, but my adore George, and Pan
Speaker 2: would break his heart and ruin his life and make
Speaker 2: a hash of his career. Now, you and Bill make
Speaker 2: domesticity look positively attractive. I mean you sort of enjoy
Speaker 2: your house and your baby and everything. Well, I certainly do. Well,
Speaker 2: that's what I mean. And you do it so well, Candy.
Speaker 2: I want George to see it. I want to show
Speaker 2: him what a happy married life is like, what a
Speaker 2: real wife is well of all the ridiculous. Well, I
Speaker 2: suppose I'm to whip up a little five course dinner
Speaker 2: and a tull evening dress and a straw hat with ribbons,
Speaker 2: meanwhile singing the bell song from Lockby and giving the
Speaker 2: cradle a brisk kick and pass. You get things so quickly, dear,
Speaker 2: And shall I tell George that I make all of
Speaker 2: my husband's clothes out of skins?
Speaker 1: Listen?
Speaker 2: Are you going to help me? Or are you not?
Speaker 2: I'll help not that it will do the slightest good though,
Speaker 2: why not? Well, I mean, things just don't happen that way.
Speaker 2: For instance, I only got domestic after I got married,
Speaker 2: and I've noticed that most men don't seem to like
Speaker 2: girls who were just terribly domestic before they get married. Oh,
Speaker 2: never mind, never mind. Will you bring miss Peters and
Speaker 2: your brother George to lunch next sunner? I will, and
Speaker 2: you'd better make it good.
Speaker 5: See.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, what's the matter, darling, Phil, I've made a
Speaker 2: terrible discovery. I can't add all good.
Speaker 1: Heavens. I thought you're heaving incurable disease or something.
Speaker 5: Phil.
Speaker 2: Isn't the bank ever wrong?
Speaker 1: Never work? And banks run by machinery you can't win?
Speaker 5: Is not enough?
Speaker 2: Not what money?
Speaker 1: Wait? Two weeks ago we had what I should have
Speaker 1: described as route funny. What's happened to him?
Speaker 2: I haven't spent a cent of it. Honestly, Bill, the
Speaker 2: bag cakes that are something.
Speaker 1: You've made a mistake, you'll find it. Good luck, Honey.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to my newspaper.
Speaker 2: Listen, Bill. In this house, we run things as a partnership,
Speaker 2: don't we. You do certain things. I do certain things.
Speaker 2: I paint furniture, talk on the telephone, answer all letters
Speaker 2: from your family, and plant flower seeds right right? And
Speaker 2: you fix the fire, take care of the car, and
Speaker 2: get anything I happen to want after I've turned out
Speaker 2: the light and open the window. Right from now on,
Speaker 2: you all should do the bills.
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 2: There are certain things that are not women's work, and
Speaker 2: this is one of them. I'll do anything else you want, Bill,
Speaker 2: I'll weave and churn and vote intelligently like you, but
Speaker 2: I will not. I will not do the check anymore.
Speaker 1: Get away, I'll do it. You can get out on
Speaker 1: the roof. And men that shingled the blew off last January.
Speaker 2: Some women could even do that. Some women can. All
Speaker 2: that reminds me, Darling, Who do you think is coming
Speaker 2: to visit the Morgan.
Speaker 1: I was twenty three antaclause Stark Monty Woollie who, let's.
Speaker 2: Not guess Pandora Peters? Oh really, but aren't you excited?
Speaker 1: Sure, Harry too.
Speaker 2: The Morgans. They're bringing her here for lunch on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Really, it'll be fun to see.
Speaker 2: Fan again again. Do you know her?
Speaker 1: Certainly? I know I've known her for years.
Speaker 2: You never told me, You've never asked me. Do you
Speaker 2: know Winston Churchill? No generalize in her? Mary Martin, No, Well,
Speaker 2: don't say I never ask you. When did you meet
Speaker 2: pan Peters?
Speaker 1: Five or six years ago.
Speaker 2: Oh before you knew me? Yep, attractive? Very did you
Speaker 2: did you see much of her?
Speaker 1: Listen? I find that I can't add either.
Speaker 2: But did you do?
Speaker 1: You mean? Did I fall for No? I did not.
Speaker 1: I saw something of her, and so they did about
Speaker 1: forty other men.
Speaker 2: You know Hope's brother, George Demis in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows George Demi.
Speaker 2: He wants to marry her.
Speaker 1: Fine, congratulations George. Hope You'll be very happy.
Speaker 2: But Hope doesn't want him too. She thinks he'd be
Speaker 2: very unhappy because you see Bill, he's very domestic, and
Speaker 2: Hope says, Pat isn't a big home loving In fact,
Speaker 2: you a woman.
Speaker 1: All this prattle about people, my mind is going go away.
Speaker 1: Let me add in peace?
Speaker 2: Is that you Bill?
Speaker 6: There's left of me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Did you get the garden furniture washed? They'll all be
Speaker 2: here in just a few minutes. I want everything to
Speaker 2: look absolutely lush.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to do now? Build a wing
Speaker 1: on the house. It's just time before lunch.
Speaker 2: I never saw anyone so feeble. Why I do three
Speaker 2: times as much in one day.
Speaker 1: Women have more endurance, It's been proved. Uh, what's for lunch.
Speaker 2: Ham ham my good yokl We're having avocado pears and
Speaker 2: chicken ala bonfab that sin, corn bread and strawberries for dessert.
Speaker 2: Oh it's going to be heavenly, just like one of
Speaker 2: those French picnics that Renoi painted. I don't get dressed, dowling,
Speaker 2: it's late.
Speaker 1: How do I wear voating costume?
Speaker 2: Doling? Before you go? Just help me into this, will you?
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 1: Sleptover?
Speaker 2: It's an apron. It seems sort of appropriate, you know,
Speaker 2: Ad asked. He sent it to me for Christmas. And
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly how to get into it. But
Speaker 2: it's set on the cord for a busy little bride,
Speaker 2: so it must be very practical.
Speaker 1: Any little bride that gets in and out of this
Speaker 1: is bond to be busy turning around. See would it
Speaker 1: be simpler if I just tied your handed foot in,
Speaker 1: locked in a steel box and lowers in the East River.
Speaker 1: If I get you into this, you'll never get out again.
Speaker 1: And I can't see why you suddenly want to wear
Speaker 1: an apron to lunch anyway?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I hear a car coming.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's the best I can do with a darn thing.
Speaker 2: I'll go down now. Please get dressed fast. Hi, everyone,
Speaker 2: come on over here. We're a shady it's a little candy, dear. Oh,
Speaker 2: I rushed a head while they're still pushing each other
Speaker 2: out of the car. Oh, your garden and the lunch
Speaker 2: table there under the trees looks simply divine. Oh, the
Speaker 2: whole setup is perfect, Darling, good grief. Hope is that
Speaker 2: beautiful creature? Pan Peters? Yes, did you ever see anything
Speaker 2: like her? Flax were invented for a figure like that,
Speaker 2: and can't she wear them? Gad Hope, I feel as
Speaker 2: bunch and over stuffed as a feather bed. Don't be silly,
Speaker 2: you look sweet? Oh, here they come a common be
Speaker 2: introduced everyone to right. This is my precious brother George.
Speaker 2: How do you do, Missus Stewart, you are eyes Hello.
Speaker 2: He's the nicest male alive except for my very own
Speaker 2: dear husband, who I see sneaking off from the direction
Speaker 2: of your lunch table on Candy. This is Pandora Peters.
Speaker 6: So kind of you to let me come to missus
Speaker 6: Stuart when the.
Speaker 2: House guest of hopes is something rather of my Missus Peters.
Speaker 2: I read your book, Pegasus. I loved it.
Speaker 1: Why, thank you?
Speaker 2: That's nice as you. Oh here's Bill.
Speaker 1: Hi, everybody, it's Peter's I presume why Bill Stewart.
Speaker 2: I don't believe it?
Speaker 6: How absolutely wonderful I.
Speaker 2: Bill, open the ginger ale when you please.
Speaker 1: What a delightful spot this is, missus Stewart. Look at us.
Speaker 1: We look just like one of Renois's picnics in modern dress,
Speaker 1: except you. You're right off the canvas.
Speaker 2: You have a poetic soul. Mister Deming, do come and
Speaker 2: have some lunch. We all got into candy only has
Speaker 2: an eight three times a week. I simply couldn't do it.
Speaker 2: I can't boil an egg.
Speaker 1: This chicken thing is wonderful. I'd love to cook. How
Speaker 1: do you make it? Will you tell?
Speaker 2: Of course, I'll tell you. Begin with six little white onions.
Speaker 2: And when that fried Brad I sposed to get the
Speaker 2: press miles away from the palace, but one of the guards, well,
Speaker 2: he told me to be at the west gates eleven.
Speaker 2: So I'm left holding six wid onions while everybody else
Speaker 2: gets smuggled into a palace. Squere I was finally face
Speaker 2: to face with the print, and what could he do
Speaker 2: with so he laughed and said in Prince because he
Speaker 2: didn't well in English. Well, I don't know how you
Speaker 2: got here, young woman, but here you are. So what
Speaker 2: do you want to know?
Speaker 1: Because I asked him right off when it was.
Speaker 2: George, don't you want to hear how to make this
Speaker 2: chicken thing?
Speaker 1: He really does the end of pan story. First, Oh,
Speaker 1: there really isn't anything more to my sister. Hope, whom
Speaker 1: I love very dearly, is a half with Although I
Speaker 1: do want to know how to make this chicken thing.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I hate tag.
Speaker 1: Come and look at my tam power. It's getting to
Speaker 1: look perfectly delicious. That darted choked, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I say it's spin its Chinese version. I'm sure I
Speaker 2: had it once when we.
Speaker 1: Were dining with the youngs.
Speaker 2: It's funny. Stop.
Speaker 1: Well, come on, feast your rights on the American version. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'd forgotten that places like this still exist, Missus Stewarts.
Speaker 2: Oh, George call her Candy may I.
Speaker 1: I'd even forgotten that there were girls like you in
Speaker 1: the world, simple and uncomplicated. Your husband's very lucky.
Speaker 2: I often worst like myself. I beg your pardon, George,
Speaker 2: why don't you go and look at the tampella.
Speaker 1: Huh oh, I get it, and I go.
Speaker 2: Hope. This is a lot of nonsense. It's not proving
Speaker 2: a thing, Darling. Don't stop now, it's just beginning to
Speaker 2: take effect. Can't just see how George is basking. It's
Speaker 2: exactly the kind of life he wants for himself. I
Speaker 2: don't believe it. George wants things to happen. He doesn't
Speaker 2: want his women simple and uncomplicated, not for a minute.
Speaker 2: Sooner or later, George is bound to realize that pan
Speaker 2: sort of life is nervous and high strung, and geared
Speaker 2: to such speed that it has no time for the
Speaker 2: simple essentials. When did you make up that speech? It's
Speaker 2: just something I jotted down on the back of an
Speaker 2: old envelope. No, but honestly, Candy, it's true. Please don't
Speaker 2: let me down. It's the silliest plan I ever heard of,
Speaker 2: and I don't know why I ever let myself to it.
Speaker 2: But since I've started, I'll finish. Only I warn you
Speaker 2: if anything happened, don't be ridiculous. What can happen? Bill?
Speaker 2: What in the world are you looking for in your
Speaker 2: barrel drawers? This hour of the night snapshot?
Speaker 1: I've got some somewhere the picnic.
Speaker 2: We went on, which of our picnics do you mean?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I mean the one pan and I went on, I
Speaker 1: thought you'd be.
Speaker 2: Amused by Pandora is a funny sort of name, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Romantic?
Speaker 2: Mother?
Speaker 5: I suppose, But don't you.
Speaker 2: Think it's odd to name a child after the girl?
Speaker 2: Open the box and let all the trouble into the world.
Speaker 1: And she's got a head on her shoulders penhad. She's
Speaker 1: writing an article for George's paper on airplanes after the war.
Speaker 1: She asked me to help her. Seems to think I can.
Speaker 2: That's lovely.
Speaker 1: Well, why not? Aeroplanes are my business? For crying out? Lock,
Speaker 1: don I work for an airline.
Speaker 2: Yes, dear, I wonder why she doesn't marry George.
Speaker 1: Why should she?
Speaker 2: Well, Hope says she's been in love with her for years.
Speaker 1: The only way of being in love. I was trying
Speaker 1: to reform a girl. What's the matter with her? The
Speaker 1: way she is? Everybody else likes him? Oh I suppose, so, Oh, George,
Speaker 1: George makes me tired? Great DEMI good night.
Speaker 4: Good night? Hello, Hello Candy?
Speaker 2: Oh, oh, hello, Hope, Sorry I bellowed. So this has
Speaker 2: been the blackest day of my life, and I'm ready
Speaker 2: to tear my hair out.
Speaker 4: I know it's the hottest day of the year, but
Speaker 4: what else has happened to poison you?
Speaker 2: So on top of this heat, David picked today to
Speaker 2: cut his first tooth, and he's howled for six hours
Speaker 2: without taking a breath. And I had the most frightful
Speaker 2: fight with my laundress. I lost. Of course, I did
Speaker 2: the washing myself, and I didn't have time to wash
Speaker 2: my hair. And you should see me.
Speaker 4: No thanks, old girl, pardon me if I break into
Speaker 4: your dirge. But I'm going to have a dinner party
Speaker 4: for Pan. She leaves in a week or so, you know,
Speaker 4: and I want to be sure that you and Bill
Speaker 4: will come. It'll be on Saturday night.
Speaker 2: Your voice comes to me as from another world, hope.
Speaker 2: But maybe by Saturday I can pull myself together and
Speaker 2: be on hand. Who else is coming?
Speaker 4: Bill's boss, mister Dempstone, he's met Pan, and there's her
Speaker 4: devoted slave and George. Of course, all.
Speaker 2: Right, count on us, provided I live to Lynn. I'm
Speaker 2: tired and hot, and it's nearly six and Bill will
Speaker 2: be home any minutes, shouting for his dinner.
Speaker 4: Very well, I can take a hint. See on Saturday,
Speaker 4: dinner will be in seven.
Speaker 6: Well, there's Bill, goodbye, hope, Bill.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's me Bill.
Speaker 2: You've got to fix the garbage pail. I'm going mad.
Speaker 2: I can't get the top on tight. And every dog
Speaker 2: for ten miles around has been here all day, and
Speaker 2: besides it isn't sanitary.
Speaker 1: Oh hello, Candy, how.
Speaker 2: Do you do?
Speaker 4: Pen?
Speaker 2: Won't you come in?
Speaker 1: She is in Uh. I asked her for dinner. I
Speaker 1: was sure you'd be able to fix her up a
Speaker 1: plate of something.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, yes, indeed, sit down, Pen. How's everything going fine?
Speaker 2: Thank you? Where do you keep your plane laguardire?
Speaker 1: You see?
Speaker 2: Oh that's right near Bill's office, isn't it? He is
Speaker 2: quite near? How is your baby very well? Thank you?
Speaker 2: He's getting a tooth? Really? How exciting? Yes, isn't it?
Speaker 2: You know this conversation sounds like something out of Swedish
Speaker 2: and six Easy Lessons. Doubtless you think my only subjects
Speaker 2: of conversation or baby's teeth a little white onion.
Speaker 1: Pardon me for mentioning it, But how about some dinner? Honey?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, by all means, will you excuse me, Pad, I'll
Speaker 2: finish getting things ready, of course, Candy, dear, I do
Speaker 2: hope I didn't come at a bad time.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't be silly, h Come on, Candy, I'll help
Speaker 1: you with the dinner. What came over you, baby, shooting
Speaker 1: off like that? It wasn't very polite.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I don't know what Pam must think.
Speaker 2: Does it matter? Of course?
Speaker 1: It matters. You like her, don't you. She likes you,
Speaker 1: She said she wish you knew you were better.
Speaker 2: She's very clever, clever.
Speaker 1: And you're sort of pasthetic too, poor kid. She can
Speaker 1: do too many things, that's your trouble.
Speaker 2: She certainly can if she just stick to flying her
Speaker 2: airplane around the world and driving George Deming crazy. But
Speaker 2: I fail to see anything and the least pathetic about her.
Speaker 1: Oh it's a matter of angel. David been pretty tough
Speaker 1: on you today.
Speaker 2: No, nothing's too tough. Call the Duchess.
Speaker 1: Supper's ready, Hello, Candy, Welcome to our party, such as
Speaker 1: it is. Where's Bill?
Speaker 2: Where is he? I thought he'd come straight here, and
Speaker 2: he didn't come home to get me. Isn't he here?
Speaker 1: No, my pet? Neither is our guest of honor, precious Pandora.
Speaker 2: They're both missing.
Speaker 1: Now wipe that look of horror off your face and
Speaker 1: let's start this conversation over again. Candy, my dear, you
Speaker 1: look beautiful. How are you?
Speaker 2: Oh? I'm fine. Mister Deming, just dying slowly, nothing serious.
Speaker 1: It's most becoming.
Speaker 2: Missus Stewart, Thank you, mister Demings.
Speaker 1: Things seem to have blown up in our faces, haven't they.
Speaker 1: My best girl and your husband have eloped, and of
Speaker 1: course on the home front, there's no telling.
Speaker 2: What did he tell you all those two black cotted
Speaker 2: did he?
Speaker 1: Sister dear? Remember the Deming gun pressure jeans?
Speaker 2: And when I think what I paid them to have
Speaker 2: them walk out on me two hours before dinner and
Speaker 2: not a soul available in this whole town on a Saturday.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? My cook and my butler.
Speaker 2: I've telephoned every cleaning woman I know, and then to
Speaker 2: have pan laid on top of it and keeping bill
Speaker 2: with her. I knew I shouldn't give this party something
Speaker 2: told are having for dinner squabs and broccoli and vhy
Speaker 2: squabs and an nice thing that takes hours. Well, Hilda
Speaker 2: must have made that this morning. Then squabs are easy.
Speaker 4: Not for me.
Speaker 2: The only thing I know about squabs is how to
Speaker 2: eat them? There's nothing to do. Would go to ye
Speaker 2: oldie englishy tea room and very thoughts sickens me. Don't
Speaker 2: be silly. Where's an apron? Oh, Candy darling, you don't
Speaker 2: mean oh, I can't let you.
Speaker 1: Certainly you can let her. That's the kind of girl
Speaker 1: she is, and I will help. I have a very
Speaker 1: light hand with burnt toast.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go, George, Go cheer up your guests.
Speaker 2: Hope the dinner ready to George, where do you suppose
Speaker 2: those two are?
Speaker 1: How should I know? Anne probably decided to fly to
Speaker 1: Mexico and took Bill along. You never can tell about her.
Speaker 2: Well, you've always been able to tell about Bill always
Speaker 2: up to now. Personally, I think this is all your fault.
Speaker 2: Put those rolls in a pieplane.
Speaker 1: I want to heat my fault.
Speaker 2: If you had any sense you'd married ten years ago
Speaker 2: and taken care of her.
Speaker 1: Well haven't I been trying to?
Speaker 2: And why haven't you succeeded? Because you have some idiotic
Speaker 2: notion about the way she ought to be. You want
Speaker 2: everything your way, George Demming, And then you can't understand
Speaker 2: why girl Pan won't marry you. Here, Put this butter
Speaker 2: in the icebox.
Speaker 1: Now listen. All I asked is a home, the kind
Speaker 1: of home you have yourself?
Speaker 2: Why should you make all the conditions anyway? Suppose Pan
Speaker 2: said she would marry you unless you were good at
Speaker 2: putting up shelves. Why, I bet you can't even hang
Speaker 2: a picture? George Denning, I bet I can get those
Speaker 2: soup plates, will you? I haven't got a home myself anymore.
Speaker 2: The master seems to have departed, departed with Pan, so
Speaker 2: poody your beautiful domesticity.
Speaker 1: But he'll be back. You're married to him.
Speaker 2: What kind of a marriage do you think it is? Funny?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: No kind at all, Candy, no kind at all. Has
Speaker 1: Bill ever let you down before?
Speaker 2: Noir's what? Ah?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: The very first time he fails to appear, you decide
Speaker 1: he's not to be killed. He's off with a pretty girl.
Speaker 1: Therefore he's no husband of yours. When you divorces, oh
Speaker 1: can you?
Speaker 2: Of course I'm not. You don't understand.
Speaker 1: You're just one of those girls who want everything their
Speaker 1: own way. You're jealous for no reason. You're a baby.
Speaker 2: What the soup in the dishes? Would you please?
Speaker 1: There's no sense in getting mad at me. You just
Speaker 1: stay mad at Bill. I'll get it. Hope's busy in
Speaker 1: the other rooms. Hello, Yes, George Demmings speaking good Heavens
Speaker 1: where killed? Okay, I'll get a plane and be down
Speaker 1: there right away, Hope. I've got to go. A plane
Speaker 1: crash north of Baltimore. I've got to get there, be
Speaker 1: on the spotful of papers.
Speaker 2: Oh, Georgeorge, what's terrible plane crash? Oh?
Speaker 1: Bill, I can George Catcher, I've got her.
Speaker 2: I'm all right.
Speaker 1: Oh dear God, it's not them. Candy here, drink this quick.
Speaker 1: It's a transport plane owned by the airlines. Bill works
Speaker 1: for the American Eagle, a big one, twenty passengers. Oh
Speaker 1: are you sure positive?
Speaker 2: I'll answer it.
Speaker 6: The Sun.
Speaker 4: Hello Baltimore calling ready with your call of Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Hello, pass Where are you? Are you all right?
Speaker 6: Heyes, listen, Candy. Bill is out of the accident, and
Speaker 6: he said where there's been a plane crash the Eagle
Speaker 6: and the loss of people killed.
Speaker 4: It it's bad.
Speaker 6: Listen, Candy, this is important. He wants you to find
Speaker 6: mister Denstone. The office can't reach him.
Speaker 2: Mister Denstone is right here in the living room waiting
Speaker 2: for dinner.
Speaker 4: Then listen.
Speaker 6: Tell him. Bill tried and tried to get him when
Speaker 6: the news of the crash came, but he couldn't. And
Speaker 6: the other two big shots were on vacation. I forget
Speaker 6: their names, you know, And the planes at the field
Speaker 6: were grounded, and Bill was franzy because he knew somebody
Speaker 6: from the airline company ought to be here.
Speaker 2: So we came in my plane. What she says, blue
Speaker 2: Bill down, he couldn't find mister Denstone. Candy, Yes, pass
Speaker 2: George there.
Speaker 6: Tell George to come, Tell him to get a plane.
Speaker 2: George says, to come.
Speaker 1: Tell her I'm halfway there. Tell her she's got a
Speaker 1: honeymoon breakfast date with me and Elkton Maryland.
Speaker 2: He says, he's all the way, and be ready to
Speaker 2: marry him immediately.
Speaker 6: No, no, I've got a I'm in goolf talking in
Speaker 6: any way. I won't fight sat tell that so and
Speaker 6: so I won't be married without a piece of airboom
Speaker 6: later if I have to make it myself still into
Speaker 6: hurry up, So on.
Speaker 2: Candy, you steel my love.
Speaker 5: You'll be on for breakfast.
Speaker 1: Goodbye, Honey, these are the best mumklins you ever threw together.
Speaker 1: Why can't I have breakfast like this every morning?
Speaker 2: A fat chance of that? Go on about pam Well.
Speaker 1: All the way down, she kept saying how she wished
Speaker 1: we could have reached George so he could have come
Speaker 1: along and done a night with its account for the paper.
Speaker 1: And finally I said, I thought you didn't care so
Speaker 1: much for George. You just stared at me care for him?
Speaker 1: She said, I'm crazy about George. Thought you knew that.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, why don't you marry a man
Speaker 1: for Pete's sake? And she said, because George keeps winning,
Speaker 1: remodeled me into a chattel and it makes me mad.
Speaker 1: Then I said, well, listen, pat why don't you marry
Speaker 1: him and remodel George?
Speaker 2: Oh darling, how clever of you.
Speaker 1: And she started to me again, and then she began
Speaker 1: to laugh. She kept laughing and saying, well, why didn't
Speaker 1: I ever think of it? Everybody seems to think George
Speaker 1: is the ultimate product of civilization.
Speaker 2: Where were you then.
Speaker 1: Well, running into the storm. Then it was somewhere north
Speaker 1: of Balamore. Honestly, I didn't think she could make it.
Speaker 1: She wasn't half bird. We wouldn't have. I thought, this
Speaker 1: is it you know what, what, Bill, I was so scared.
Speaker 1: I couldn't think. It felt as though my mind were
Speaker 1: all glued up with fear. It was horrible. There was
Speaker 1: only one thought, way in the middle of my mind.
Speaker 1: You know what. It was? What I thought. If I
Speaker 1: die now, I won't see Candy grow old. I just
Speaker 1: got to see Candy grow old. Bad to be that scared.
Speaker 1: Oh was any more coffee?
Speaker 2: I'm glad you thought that. I mean especially glad because
Speaker 2: I thought you were getting a little tired of me?
Speaker 1: Is that why you've been acting funny? I put it
Speaker 1: down to hot weather. Tired of you.
Speaker 2: I thought maybe you like the glamorous miss Peters better.
Speaker 1: I'll get away, girl. You make me cross that.
Speaker 2: Well, she's so much smarter, and she's beautiful too.
Speaker 1: Sure, I know you're dumb and ugly, but if I
Speaker 1: deserted you, your father would be irritated. And I'm scared
Speaker 1: of your father. You know what I'm prepared to admit now,
Speaker 1: but privately, Candy, privately, that all women are smarter than
Speaker 1: all men. Oh no, well, they do just as much
Speaker 1: work and they look prettier. You look awfully pretty, darling.
Speaker 2: I feel so good now, I'm so thankful about everything.
Speaker 2: I would like to do something for you, something difficult
Speaker 2: and unpleasant. Were Johnny, would you like me to do
Speaker 2: the check book again?
Speaker 1: No, Angel, you have sons and married people off, but
Speaker 1: I will add and subtracts. You have heard Elizabeth Dunn's
Speaker 1: story women's work, adapted for Author's Playhouse by Elizabeth Copeland
Speaker 1: and directed by Herbert Latteaux. Candy Stewart was played by
Speaker 1: Miss Eleanor Jackson, Hope Morgan by Miss Rosalind Gastro and
Speaker 1: Pan Peters by Miss Lois Salley Wilms. Herbert was heard
Speaker 1: as Bill Stewart and Haskell Coffin as George Deming. The
Speaker 1: musical score was directed by Joseph Calichio. Next week, same time,
Speaker 1: same station, Author's Playhouse will bring you Arthur Wing Pinero's
Speaker 1: Strange Tale of England during the reign of George the Third,
Speaker 1: the widow of wasdale Head