Speaker 1: The Damon Runyam Theater. Once again, the Damon Runyam Theater
Speaker 1: brings you another story by the master storyteller, Damon Runyam.
Speaker 1: And this one may be a queen can tell it
Speaker 1: to you. There is Broadway Thanks.
Speaker 2: This is a story about a guy and a doll.
Speaker 2: The guy's name is Jack O'donahue, who is a shoe clerk,
Speaker 2: and the doll's name is Ida Peters, who is one
Speaker 2: of the advantages of being on the First Road. A
Speaker 2: musical comedy where the view is good. It begins on
Speaker 2: a summer night sometime back in Bryant Talk at sixth
Speaker 2: Avenue and forty second Street. Various citizens are enjoying the
Speaker 2: night air and the benches are in good use. But
Speaker 2: it soon happens that Jack is sitting on one that
Speaker 2: has nobody else on it. That is until up walks
Speaker 2: Ida Peters and sits there. Then the scene is as fox.
Speaker 3: Uh, excuse me, miss, what for? What do you see?
Speaker 4: I look, I came here to get a breath of air.
Speaker 4: I am not trying to find company. It so happens
Speaker 4: this was the only empty spot I.
Speaker 3: Know that, miss, But you see my hat? What you're on? It?
Speaker 4: Oh, oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: It's okay, it's not a very good hat here, thanks, yeah, well,
Speaker 3: good night.
Speaker 4: Uh just a minute, Hi, I'm sorry I blew my
Speaker 4: top like that.
Speaker 3: Poor kid's all right. I guess you thought I was
Speaker 3: being freed.
Speaker 4: Sure, but I should have known better. You should uh
Speaker 4: huh when you got up just then the light hit
Speaker 4: your face.
Speaker 3: Well, now I'm sorry for what I should. Never stand
Speaker 3: in the light. When I was a little kid, the
Speaker 3: other kids called.
Speaker 5: Me, but they caught you froggy.
Speaker 3: Oh I've outgrown up a little.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 4: Well, good night, miss good night. Hey, hey your hat?
Speaker 3: Oh thanks?
Speaker 4: He good night, Yeah, good night.
Speaker 2: That is the way it begives Donald like Eyda Peter's
Speaker 2: who may not be the best looking in the world,
Speaker 2: but does not have to move over for anybody. And
Speaker 2: JACKO Dane, you, who does not represent a Donald's dream
Speaker 2: and never will. Now what happens is considered practically incredible
Speaker 2: by everybody.
Speaker 6: And what that is I will tell you in a minute.
Speaker 1: And now back to the Damon Runyon Theater and the
Speaker 1: famous story maybe a Queen.
Speaker 2: Well like I say, Ida and Jack meet up in
Speaker 2: Brian Park and this meeting goes on for quite a
Speaker 2: few nights. If anybody asks Hider why she goes there,
Speaker 2: it is a little better than six to five. She
Speaker 2: will not know, that is until one night when they
Speaker 2: had taken a little war.
Speaker 4: Jack, I'll have to leave you in a little while.
Speaker 3: Leave. Are you going away?
Speaker 4: No? No, not leaving town? If that's what you mean,
Speaker 4: that's what I mean. I'll stick around for a while. No,
Speaker 4: I I'm meeting somebody at midnight.
Speaker 3: Oh here in the park. No, it's eleven forty.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 3: You got a date.
Speaker 5: Huh, how'd you know?
Speaker 3: I never kid myself?
Speaker 4: What do you mean?
Speaker 3: I'm all right to take a walk with in the
Speaker 3: park if we stay out from under the lights. But
Speaker 3: I guess it stops there now.
Speaker 4: Look, maybe your trouble is thinking bad things about yourself. Sure,
Speaker 4: you're not handsome. I wouldn't even call you a nice
Speaker 4: looking Your nose isn't all wrong, your mouth slants in
Speaker 4: a funny way.
Speaker 3: But you're beautiful.
Speaker 4: But you've got nice eyes. They're well, honest and clean.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 4: I guess I like you better than any guy I've
Speaker 4: ever met.
Speaker 3: How big a field is that?
Speaker 4: Pretty big?
Speaker 3: Jack? Mm hmm, pretty big?
Speaker 4: I admit it. I wish you wouldn't to me, but
Speaker 4: I keep things on the level.
Speaker 3: You want me to walk you to the edge of
Speaker 3: the park. No, will you be here tomorrow night?
Speaker 4: Will you?
Speaker 3: It's the only time of day I look forward to.
Speaker 3: It's the only time anytime matters, the only time New
Speaker 3: York looks good to me.
Speaker 4: Jack, cut it out?
Speaker 7: Okay, okay, so you kiss me? That gives you a
Speaker 7: ticket to what I love you. I don't love you,
Speaker 7: I guess No, I don't love you.
Speaker 4: I never will.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 4: Oh, for the love of mine, I.
Speaker 5: Do, Eida, But forget it.
Speaker 4: Forget I said it. Forget you said it. Why I've
Speaker 4: got a date in ten minutes.
Speaker 3: You're going to keep it?
Speaker 4: Yes, I am. Well, don't look at me like that.
Speaker 3: I was wondering. I was wondering about tomorrow night. No,
Speaker 3: good night?
Speaker 4: Goodbye?
Speaker 3: Oh sure, goodbye? What's the matter? Why'd you stop by?
Speaker 4: Same time, same tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: So now Ida is in love with Jack, and he
Speaker 2: certainly is more than somewhat gone about her. But all
Speaker 2: it ever amounts to is those meetings in the park,
Speaker 2: and why well I find out about two weeks later
Speaker 2: when I run into Ida in Mindy's or she runs
Speaker 2: into me while I am sitting there.
Speaker 5: Hello Broadway, Hello, I just sit there.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 2: The show is going all right?
Speaker 4: Fine?
Speaker 5: Anything wrong wrong?
Speaker 4: Why do I look at uh huh? Yeah, everything's wrong?
Speaker 4: You know Jack o'donahue slightly. He's a clerk. He hasn't
Speaker 4: got a dime and he never will have.
Speaker 2: There are some people who have the neck of being
Speaker 2: able to stay flat broke.
Speaker 4: Well, why does it have to be him?
Speaker 8: Is he very special?
Speaker 4: Extra?
Speaker 2: I am listening Broadway.
Speaker 4: Take a good look at me.
Speaker 8: It is a pleasure.
Speaker 4: What do you see?
Speaker 8: M lots?
Speaker 4: I'm good looking.
Speaker 2: There is no exaggeration in that.
Speaker 4: Lots of guys go for me.
Speaker 2: That is a well known fact.
Speaker 4: I could do all right, Yes you could, but not
Speaker 4: if I marry Jack, he asks you tonight. But I won't.
Speaker 4: I swear I won't it. Why should I? I can
Speaker 4: do better? Lots better?
Speaker 3: That is true.
Speaker 4: You ever live in a one room flat in the
Speaker 4: tenements in the summer, it's so hot the air is
Speaker 4: like a blanket with hot water poured over it in
Speaker 4: the window. You put on all the clothes you've got,
Speaker 4: and still you freeze. You hear the kids yelling, and
Speaker 4: the neighbor's fighting. You ever live like that?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: I do? You want to go back to it?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 4: Then why should I?
Speaker 2: I have got no answer to that.
Speaker 4: I can do all right. There are a hundred girls
Speaker 4: who did all right, grab themselves what they could, even
Speaker 4: titles like a duchess countess.
Speaker 2: Why shouldn't I maybe even get to be a queen?
Speaker 8: Huh?
Speaker 4: Why not?
Speaker 2: What about Jack o'donne?
Speaker 4: Oh shut up, Okay, I didn't mean that.
Speaker 2: I look, if you want advice, I have got none
Speaker 2: to give. If you ask me for something good in
Speaker 2: the fourth and hire Lee, okay. If you want to
Speaker 2: know where there is a quiet game where somebody can
Speaker 2: turn a few bobs, okay too. But if you were
Speaker 2: asking me to put up a sign inside you telling
Speaker 2: you which way you should go, I am sorry. I
Speaker 2: am all out of that kind of advice. In fact,
Speaker 2: I never touched the stuff.
Speaker 5: Sure, I get it.
Speaker 4: It's all up to me.
Speaker 8: Huh, it is all up to you.
Speaker 4: I guess I had it figured out before I saw you. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I know I did.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: The next night, Idam meets Jack in the park as usual,
Speaker 2: but this time she has got something to tell him,
Speaker 2: and the scene is as fun.
Speaker 3: There quiet tonight, Ida, m hm, anything wrong, nothing's right.
Speaker 3: I'd like to make it all right, Ida, if you'll
Speaker 3: give me half a chance. Jack, Look, let me get
Speaker 3: this all out before I get myself twisted so I
Speaker 3: can't talk. Last night, I asked you to marry me
Speaker 3: because I love you and you love me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love you, but I don't love what you mean. Besides,
Speaker 4: I'm getting married.
Speaker 3: You're a kid.
Speaker 4: No, I'm going away with him next week. Who you
Speaker 4: don't even know. Amy's from out of town. Saw me
Speaker 4: in a show.
Speaker 3: Money.
Speaker 4: You make it sound like something dirty.
Speaker 3: No, just just something in the way that's right, you know.
Speaker 3: Right here, I should get up off this bench and
Speaker 3: say a lot of words. I should tell you you're
Speaker 3: doing the wrong thing, that you'll be sorry. But I can't, Eida,
Speaker 3: I just can't. Good luck.
Speaker 4: Wait a minute, Jack, listen, don't be sore.
Speaker 3: I'm not. I guess it takes a spot like this
Speaker 3: to make a guy realize what a dope he really is.
Speaker 4: Listen, I love you. I'm going away, but I'll be
Speaker 4: back a year from the night right here to see you.
Speaker 4: Right sure, sure are both of us just like the
Speaker 4: first night we net her? Right here every year on
Speaker 4: the same date.
Speaker 3: Why why are they?
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe it's just that I I gotta
Speaker 4: have that much left of us. If you get married,
Speaker 4: do the same. You mean that, I swear it.
Speaker 3: Jack, Okay, Ida, I'll be here every year, same date, same.
Speaker 4: Time, so will I.
Speaker 2: Well, there are some people who will say that this
Speaker 2: is a crazy idea and it will never happen. But
Speaker 2: if you will wait, I will tell you how wrong
Speaker 2: some people can be. And I will also tell you
Speaker 2: what happens because of it in a minute.
Speaker 1: And now back to the Damon Runyon Theatre and the
Speaker 1: famous story. Maybe a queen.
Speaker 2: Well Ida does get married, and she does leave New
Speaker 2: York and the guy she marries has more than enough
Speaker 2: of the stuff that makes the world go wrong in
Speaker 2: an expensive way. Then it is a year later, and
Speaker 2: the scene is the same spot in Bryant Park where
Speaker 2: Ida and Jack first meet. It is exactly the same time,
Speaker 2: And what happens is this, Hi.
Speaker 3: Hidah, Jack, Jack, how are you pretty good? Goleta sit down?
Speaker 4: Sure of course I am. How you been wonderful?
Speaker 3: Oh you look swell, You're You're as beautiful as ever.
Speaker 3: But are you happy? Ida?
Speaker 4: I've got what I want, well, makes it okay?
Speaker 3: I guess how's your husband?
Speaker 4: I I don't know. We've separated.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: Don't be somebody else has asked me to marry him.
Speaker 4: I can go to Reno and get a quick divorce.
Speaker 3: Sure, that's easy.
Speaker 4: The man who wants me to marry him is wealthy,
Speaker 4: wealthier than the first. But Jack, you and I?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what about us, Sada? What about us?
Speaker 4: We love each other? You still love me.
Speaker 3: I have never been able to talk myself out of it,
Speaker 3: nor I You're leave it now?
Speaker 4: Yes, kiss me goodbye, same time, next year, same place,
Speaker 4: I'll be here.
Speaker 2: So Ida and Jack leave it that way, and the
Speaker 2: next year they meet, and the next meantime, Ida keeps making.
Speaker 6: Good scores for herself.
Speaker 2: We are keeping count along the stem and the book
Speaker 2: shows four husbands and some financial arrangements which are certainly
Speaker 2: not five and ten. But there is never a word
Speaker 2: of bad talk, and she tells each husband about Jack
Speaker 2: and their meet. We figured this is a smart angle
Speaker 2: because not one of her husbands is able to put
Speaker 2: a smudge against him. Then one night I run into
Speaker 2: Jack o'donna hue in Middy's and the scene is as follows.
Speaker 3: Hello, Broadway, just fine, Jack, How you doing? Oh good?
Speaker 2: I guess you do not mind my mentioning you do
Speaker 2: not look so good.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got a call a call.
Speaker 2: You see a doctor tomorrow. How is Idal? Oh?
Speaker 3: I saw her tonight. She's fine. You wouldn't recognize the Broadway.
Speaker 3: She's a lady, real lady. She even talks different now
Speaker 3: and she's been all over the world. Told me all
Speaker 3: about the places you read about. The beer Itz can
Speaker 3: even whistle stops in Africa and India.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, Ida moves around quite a bit. But no matter
Speaker 2: where she is, she always turns up in Brian Park
Speaker 2: on the same day.
Speaker 8: Huh.
Speaker 3: She never misses me gee a year ago, slow Jack.
Speaker 2: What will you do if she ever does miss one
Speaker 2: of those meetings? She won't Maybe something.
Speaker 8: Will keep her away.
Speaker 2: Nothing could listen to me, Jack, I watch you now
Speaker 2: for a long time. You are sick, broke.
Speaker 3: Oh, I got a few dollar in a second.
Speaker 2: What I am trying to say is that someday item
Speaker 2: might not get to Brian Park fee a date. You
Speaker 2: have got to think about that right now. You keep
Speaker 2: alive for just one day.
Speaker 3: A year, that's right. Broadway three hundred and sixty four
Speaker 3: days I'm dead. One day I come alive.
Speaker 2: She might miss one of these years.
Speaker 3: She won't stop saying it.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jack, But meantime, if you have a name, I'll
Speaker 2: get along.
Speaker 3: It's okay, go see it doc. Huh sure, sure tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay, Jack. Meantime, take it easy.
Speaker 3: Sure, I always take it easy.
Speaker 2: And some more years go by, and some more we
Speaker 2: watched Jack, And for every one year the rest of
Speaker 2: us live, Jack puts on about five. He gets gray,
Speaker 2: and it seems he cannot hold on to it die.
Speaker 2: He just does not care. And meantime, i'd repeat us
Speaker 2: adds to her score. We see her picture in the
Speaker 2: papers quite a bit, and always in society. Each your
Speaker 2: husband is a step up for her, until finally she
Speaker 2: hits dead center at the target. I read it in
Speaker 2: the Bledge, so does Jack, And when they meet again
Speaker 2: in Bryant Park, the scene is as follows. I read
Speaker 2: all about it, idam, it's well, thank you, Jack. I
Speaker 2: guess this will be our last time.
Speaker 3: To get it.
Speaker 4: What makes you say that? Oh Jack, you're sick. Broadway
Speaker 4: told me you won't see a doctor.
Speaker 3: Oh I'll be all right. I didn't mean I was
Speaker 3: going to kick off. I just meant you'd be living
Speaker 3: in Europe. How that you're going to marry a prince.
Speaker 4: Yes, I walked up the ladder without missing a single run.
Speaker 4: There's no place else to go. I guess this is it, Jack,
Speaker 4: what I've always wanted.
Speaker 3: They see he's a pretty nice guy.
Speaker 4: Yes he is. And I told him about you, Jack.
Speaker 3: Oh what did he say?
Speaker 4: It was one of the conditions under which I'd marry him,
Speaker 4: that i'd see.
Speaker 3: You every year, all the way from Europe if I
Speaker 3: have to.
Speaker 4: Yes, he hasn't country. There was a revolution, But.
Speaker 3: He's a prince, and you will be a princess.
Speaker 4: Princess Ida Peters, Watkins, Van Goring, Courtright, Benson, Morgan, Stooping
Speaker 4: de Moins. The last name will be on my stationary.
Speaker 4: The others were the wrongs.
Speaker 3: But you will be here next year.
Speaker 4: I promise. I've never missed.
Speaker 3: Please don't ever.
Speaker 4: No matter what happens, I'll be here.
Speaker 2: So Ida Peters marries a guy who carries the handle
Speaker 2: of Prince Paul de Morrat, and she becomes the Princess
Speaker 2: de mort And from what we hear and read, this
Speaker 2: is probably her last time at batt in matrimony. She
Speaker 2: has got what she wants, and each year she turns
Speaker 2: up in Brian pot to meet Jack o'donahue. Then it
Speaker 2: is some time later. Either and the Prince are in
Speaker 2: New York in their hotel.
Speaker 8: Either.
Speaker 5: My dear, where are you right here?
Speaker 8: I have just received this cablegram.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 8: Please read it.
Speaker 4: Oh what does this mean?
Speaker 9: Exactly what it says, my dear, I'm no longer Prince Paul,
Speaker 9: but King Paul, the fifth King Paul.
Speaker 8: The people want me back.
Speaker 9: I this will give me the chance to do what
Speaker 9: I want for my country, and you you will be
Speaker 9: a queen. No, no, no, but of course, what is it?
Speaker 8: My dear, you look frightened.
Speaker 4: I was just thinking of what someone said a long
Speaker 4: time ago.
Speaker 8: Oh what is that?
Speaker 4: Nothing?
Speaker 9: I cannot blame you for being so stunned. I was
Speaker 9: the same when I received the cable gram. But now
Speaker 9: I must cancel all engagements. There's no time to waste either.
Speaker 9: Take only what you will need on the plane. We
Speaker 9: shall have the rest of our luggage sent over later.
Speaker 4: When when are you leaving?
Speaker 9: We are leaving immediately, my dear, I have charted the plane.
Speaker 9: It leaves in half an hour.
Speaker 4: I'm not ready.
Speaker 9: Where a suit, my dear, well, Please do not stand
Speaker 9: there looking, Paul.
Speaker 4: There's something I must do first.
Speaker 9: There is nothing you can do first. I must be
Speaker 9: in my country tomorrow afternoon at the latest.
Speaker 4: Paul, I'll join you there later I cannot.
Speaker 8: They will want to see you. Think of a tighter
Speaker 8: we will.
Speaker 4: I'll join you later the day after tomorrow. There's something
Speaker 4: I must do tonight.
Speaker 8: Oh this Jack Cord Donahue. Yes, no, that is over.
Speaker 4: Please Paul listen to me.
Speaker 9: No, you will listen to me for a long time now.
Speaker 9: I put up with this sentimental nonsense you feel.
Speaker 3: For this man.
Speaker 4: It's not nonsense, that is all it is.
Speaker 9: As long as I am an x a patriot, it
Speaker 9: does not matter. But now that I go back as
Speaker 9: king and us Queen must not be one bread.
Speaker 5: Of scandal scandal.
Speaker 4: There's never been any scandal about me.
Speaker 8: You do not understand. There will be those who will
Speaker 8: ridicule talk.
Speaker 4: Let them.
Speaker 5: I cannot afford it.
Speaker 4: I cannot go with you tonight.
Speaker 8: Are wasting time?
Speaker 3: Get ready?
Speaker 5: No, I will say it once more. Get ready, Paul,
Speaker 5: I can't.
Speaker 4: You don't understand, Jack.
Speaker 8: I will hear no more of that it is over finished.
Speaker 4: I am going to meet him.
Speaker 9: You are, yes, Then you force me to say something
Speaker 9: I do not want to say either.
Speaker 8: Look into the mirror. Look what do you see?
Speaker 9: A woman of forty, a woman who has lived quite
Speaker 9: a good deal, a woman who is no longer as
Speaker 9: beautiful as once she was. I am sorry, but it
Speaker 9: is the truth. You have no money of your own anymore.
Speaker 8: But you have. I gave you the jewels, everything I die.
Speaker 5: I give you this chance to go with me.
Speaker 4: If you do not take it, it is not a threat.
Speaker 4: Believe me, you wouldn't do it.
Speaker 5: But yes, but yes, I have my pride too.
Speaker 9: If you stay here tonight and meet this man, it
Speaker 9: is a slap in my face that I will not take,
Speaker 9: even from you.
Speaker 8: Ida. What are you doing?
Speaker 4: Leaving you everything here? This ring? This is mine? The
Speaker 4: rest is yours.
Speaker 8: You are making the decision.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Paul, it is one I should have made
Speaker 4: years ago. Broadway, Broadway, Hello, there have you seen Jack?
Speaker 3: Jack?
Speaker 4: No, he's not in the park.
Speaker 2: He is not. Oh this is the night you had
Speaker 2: the date with it.
Speaker 4: But he's not there.
Speaker 7: I just left.
Speaker 2: I do not see him for some time. In fact,
Speaker 2: almost the wall.
Speaker 4: Help me find him. Please help me find it.
Speaker 2: Okay, I take it easy. You call his hotel.
Speaker 4: Yes, he left him plenty of time to get to
Speaker 4: the park by eleven, but he wasn't there. I waited,
Speaker 4: he wasn't there.
Speaker 2: How long do you wait?
Speaker 4: Five minutes?
Speaker 8: Well, maybe you.
Speaker 2: Do not give him enough time. Come on, we will
Speaker 2: go to the park and see.
Speaker 4: You see he's not here. Broadway this is the place.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I see he is not here.
Speaker 5: Where is he?
Speaker 4: Broadway? Where is here?
Speaker 2: Very excited?
Speaker 4: He's got to be here.
Speaker 3: He's got there.
Speaker 2: There is a taxi pull enough, although I do not
Speaker 2: think Jack has enough taught to take a cab from
Speaker 2: here to five feet away.
Speaker 4: Good Way it is. It's Jack.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but come on, look buddy, please let me get
Speaker 9: your to a hospital.
Speaker 3: Take me over there. Jack hid the honey?
Speaker 2: Are you hackey? What is the matter?
Speaker 5: He stepped right in front of me, ran out on
Speaker 5: the street.
Speaker 3: I was I was late. I I was trying to hurry.
Speaker 9: Honest, it wasn't my poor He steps right in front
Speaker 9: against the light. He won't let me take him to
Speaker 9: a doc or a hospital. Sammy, get here, tell me
Speaker 9: kill me.
Speaker 5: If he did, I think he would have Jack Broadway,
Speaker 5: real bad.
Speaker 8: Look, Let's get him to a doc or something.
Speaker 3: Please, oh no, never mind, it wasn't your fault. Go away,
Speaker 3: Please go, mister I.
Speaker 2: It is okay, Heller. We will take care of him.
Speaker 3: You got my number?
Speaker 2: Sure, sure, let me sit.
Speaker 5: Down here here.
Speaker 6: Take it easy, Jack, Sure.
Speaker 4: Stop that driver. We're going to the hospital.
Speaker 3: No, no use, I'm telling you it's no use. I'm
Speaker 3: kind of busted inside.
Speaker 4: I would have waited for you, Jack. I would have.
Speaker 3: Waited, honey, but I always like to be here first. Gee,
Speaker 3: I I'm sorry I was late late.
Speaker 4: You I'm the one who's late.
Speaker 3: Very late.
Speaker 2: Well, there is not much more to tell. We get
Speaker 2: Jack to a hospital and the doc tells us that
Speaker 2: he has a fifty to fifty chance if his lungs
Speaker 2: are okay, but they are not. It is some hours
Speaker 2: later when I and I to leave the hospital and Jack.
Speaker 2: There is nothing more to do. But the story is
Speaker 2: not over. And what the payoff is I will tell
Speaker 2: you in a minute. Well, everybody is sorry to hear
Speaker 2: about Jack, and everybody says that I'd have beat us,
Speaker 2: gives him a bump shake. What do they know about it? Anyhow?
Speaker 2: I do not see Ida until a long time. Actively
Speaker 2: when I stop in a place for a cup of
Speaker 2: coffee about three in the morning, and who is there?
Speaker 2: But she sees me, gives me a smile and says.
Speaker 5: I'm very glad to see Broadway and me you it
Speaker 5: is a long time.
Speaker 2: Why do you not come around anymore?
Speaker 4: I'd have to pass the part?
Speaker 5: Well, you could go the other way, I can't.
Speaker 2: You.
Speaker 4: You were looking well, okay, I guess you never changed.
Speaker 6: I am a landmark.
Speaker 2: If I change, a lot of people will lose their
Speaker 2: way around this there. Sure I see by the papers
Speaker 2: that the prince is now a king.
Speaker 5: Yes he is, and you could be a queen?
Speaker 4: Like rolling off a log.
Speaker 2: What are you going to have me? Coffee?
Speaker 4: Coming right up? You know? I'll bet this is the
Speaker 4: only coffee joined in town with a waitress whose ex
Speaker 4: husband is a king.
Speaker 1: And so ends the famous Damon Runyon story. Maybe a
Speaker 1: Queen listening again next week for the Damon Runyon Theater.
Speaker 1: The Damon Runyon Theater with John Brown as Broadway, is
Speaker 1: directed by Richard Sandville and the story is adapted for
Speaker 1: radio by Russell Hughes. Bern Carstensen is in charge of production.
Speaker 1: This is a Mayfair production