Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio SETI Playhouse Attraction twenty
Speaker 1: five Ladies and Gentlemen. Here's the director of Radio SETI Playhouse,
Speaker 1: Harry W. Duncans.
Speaker 2: Thanks Bob, friends. The story we have for you tonight
Speaker 2: is not a nice story. It is, however, a true
Speaker 2: story as it deals with the truth in a human situation,
Speaker 2: and we feel that once in a while radio can
Speaker 2: do with true and realistic stories. Our star is miss
Speaker 2: Elsbeth Eric, one of New York's most talented actresses. She
Speaker 2: plays the very difficult and penetrated role of Martha Hillman.
Speaker 2: Here then, with Elsbeth Eric as Martha and Adelaide Klein
Speaker 2: as her mother, is tonight's play machine Attraction twenty five
Speaker 2: on Radio City Plans.
Speaker 1: Martha Hillman works in a factory. It's a good factory,
Speaker 1: good pay, good working conditions. Martha's job consists of soldering
Speaker 1: together two copper wires which.
Speaker 3: Protrude from an aluminum ring.
Speaker 1: The ring, after several additional operations, may end up in
Speaker 1: any one of a dozen electrical devices. All Martha knows
Speaker 1: is this one job. She is a human machine, efficient, quiet, dependable,
Speaker 1: A big, overweight, twenty four year old bad complexion machine.
Speaker 1: She is also generous and kind and the hardest worker
Speaker 1: in her department. Okay, Yet, Martha goes on working for
Speaker 1: a few minutes, then turns off her soldering iron, puts
Speaker 1: down her work gloves, and finds herself at the end
Speaker 1: of the line of girls checking out their worksheets before
Speaker 1: going to lunch. She waits patiently her turn at the
Speaker 1: supervisor's winter.
Speaker 4: Very Bishop for thirty two sixteen effective Bishop four thirty
Speaker 4: two sixteen. Okay, Martha Hillman six forty five ford defective times.
Speaker 5: Think you're the last one?
Speaker 6: Yeah, six four five four defectives for I don't know
Speaker 6: how you do it?
Speaker 5: That Bishop, kid took all morning to do four hundred
Speaker 5: and thirty two. She's knew, isn't here, she's leaving getting married.
Speaker 7: Well, you're seeing you, Jeane.
Speaker 5: Hey, just a second, Martha. Missus Forrest up in person
Speaker 5: now wants to see you.
Speaker 8: See me?
Speaker 5: Yeah, down this morning. Want you to drop into her
Speaker 5: office for your lunch before. I don't know she hasn't
Speaker 5: done anything.
Speaker 9: Look, kid, all I know that is Missus Forrest just
Speaker 9: wants to see you.
Speaker 5: Better go up for you eat.
Speaker 6: It's I'm the fourth floor room four to eight.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, can't understand why she wants to see me.
Speaker 10: Don I don't know, Matha, come in, she's down, Matha.
Speaker 11: Thanks, Marca.
Speaker 5: Is some news for you, some good news, good news.
Speaker 10: We're going to promote you.
Speaker 12: Don't you think it's about time? I don't know, em
Speaker 12: planning to send you up to the thirty fourth Tea warehouse.
Speaker 12: You'll be working on mister Ralph up there, traffic and shipping.
Speaker 12: We have five girls under you, and there's an increase
Speaker 12: of seven dollars.
Speaker 5: A week thirty Forestry.
Speaker 10: Yes, don't look so sad, Martha.
Speaker 5: It's a promotion. Would that mean I'd ever get down
Speaker 5: here at all?
Speaker 10: Not unless you visit the night shift.
Speaker 5: I can't go, missus forest.
Speaker 10: What did you say, Martha.
Speaker 5: I'd rather not take the other job than a promotion.
Speaker 10: My dear girl, you're not serious.
Speaker 5: Yes, I I'd rather not. I don't understand this is
Speaker 5: a promotion.
Speaker 10: A rays of seven dollars a week. We've liked your work,
Speaker 10: Eve insteady and reliable and punctual.
Speaker 5: Just don't want to go up to thirty Forestry, that's all.
Speaker 10: But Martha, it's closer to where you live. It's a
Speaker 10: short ride in the subway, better pay, nicer work.
Speaker 8: It's a promotion, Martha.
Speaker 5: Don't you understand that a rays of seven dollars a week?
Speaker 5: Only the money?
Speaker 10: But Martha, why I thought you'd be delighted. I thought
Speaker 10: you'd be thrilled.
Speaker 5: We've always been very nice to me, Miss Forest.
Speaker 4: But I don't want to go.
Speaker 13: Is it for some personal reason?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 7: At home?
Speaker 5: Perhaps?
Speaker 6: Is there some trouble at home?
Speaker 10: I don't mean to intrude Matha, but it's so well,
Speaker 10: it's such a good chance. I hate to see you
Speaker 10: just just turn it down.
Speaker 7: I have to go.
Speaker 10: You don't have to know, but I'll be very disappointed
Speaker 10: in you if you let me down.
Speaker 9: You wouldn't fire me if I didn't go, of.
Speaker 10: Course, not math How can you talk that way? Nobody
Speaker 10: wants to fire and not just stay where I am?
Speaker 8: Martha. I wish you'd be frank with me.
Speaker 5: Do you want to go?
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 9: Thought?
Speaker 10: Oh no, Martha, you mustn't cry about it. You don't
Speaker 10: want to go, or that's all there is to it. Look,
Speaker 10: supposing you think it over to tomorrow at noon, I'll
Speaker 10: keep the job open to this.
Speaker 5: I don't change my mind.
Speaker 10: But you'd meet new people, make new friends.
Speaker 5: It's a wise step in your career.
Speaker 4: I don't want to meet any new people. But I
Speaker 4: don't want to make any new friends.
Speaker 5: I want to stay here.
Speaker 12: I like it here, all right, Martha, that's the way
Speaker 12: you want it. I'll keep the job up until tomorrow
Speaker 12: noon to change your mind.
Speaker 6: Come in and let me know.
Speaker 8: That's all, Martha, that you Martha, Mamma, oh.
Speaker 6: Baby, I just made it a nice picture of lemonade,
Speaker 6: and I thought it would cool us off.
Speaker 7: Boys.
Speaker 9: It never feel good to say I bet.
Speaker 5: Some boil, aren't you? Absolutely it was.
Speaker 6: Do I wash my hair? I feel better now here.
Speaker 6: I have a nice glass and told lemonade beer. No, baby,
Speaker 6: we just didn't have enough money this week to buy
Speaker 6: any deer.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, them makes fine, thanks Ma, taste good?
Speaker 9: Huh yeah, well.
Speaker 3: Well m.
Speaker 6: Martha, Uh well baby. A missus Forrest phoned me from
Speaker 6: the plant this afternoon. She's a personal lady. She told
Speaker 6: me all about this, the new job.
Speaker 5: She seemed to think you're to take it.
Speaker 6: She said she hoped I didn't mind her phoning, but
Speaker 6: that she couldn't understand why you didn't want to go.
Speaker 9: I don't want to go.
Speaker 6: Don't pick at your face, Matha, Why don't you want
Speaker 6: to go?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 6: Well that's no reason, honey.
Speaker 8: Okay, so sorry, good pauty force he's closer in a ray.
Speaker 5: Seven dollars a week that pays the rent.
Speaker 7: No pays the rent.
Speaker 5: We can pay the rent. I want to make now.
Speaker 6: At the times like this, I'm sure we should follow
Speaker 6: it was alive?
Speaker 9: Oh that Martha.
Speaker 6: Oh no, let's not get anywhere round, mar could. I'm
Speaker 6: only trying to advise you to help. Leave your face alone, MafA.
Speaker 6: You'll make it bleed if you keep picking at it.
Speaker 5: Why, I'm tired.
Speaker 6: Let's have dinner, hunt Why why just answer me that
Speaker 6: one question?
Speaker 5: Knocky because I don't want to now, let's drop it.
Speaker 6: No, I won't drop at Martha Hillman. You just got
Speaker 6: to come to your senses. I never heard of anything
Speaker 6: so silly in my life. If you're behaving like I
Speaker 6: got still be cut when you lay off.
Speaker 5: Honest, I'm tired out now, let's drop it.
Speaker 6: Seven dollars a week, a raise of seven dollars a week,
Speaker 6: and you're being airy fairy. Well you'll learn, young lady.
Speaker 6: I suppose you think you should have missus Forrest's job
Speaker 6: seven dollars a week isn't good enough.
Speaker 5: I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 6: Opportunity only knock. He wants to remember that decided it
Speaker 6: didn't Though you were so crazy about this job you
Speaker 6: got nod.
Speaker 5: I get fine.
Speaker 6: One day you like it, next day you hate it.
Speaker 6: When you make up your mind, will you please your faith? Alone?
Speaker 6: Sad enough now without your picking it all the time.
Speaker 7: When you shut up? For Heaven's sake, lay office, Why
Speaker 7: don't you.
Speaker 6: Make up your mind. Since you're not getting married, you
Speaker 6: might to go and get ahead in your work. Because
Speaker 6: if you don't shut.
Speaker 7: Off when you shut up, well are you getting married?
Speaker 6: Why but you any boys around here? When I when
Speaker 6: I was your age, I was married for three years.
Speaker 6: If you don't want to get married, and you don't
Speaker 6: want to be a success in your job, what do
Speaker 6: you want?
Speaker 5: I just want to be left alone over you get
Speaker 5: Stop it before I get mad.
Speaker 6: Don't you talk to me that way, young lady, and
Speaker 6: stop painting them down and be care about lemonade?
Speaker 7: Who spit all of you?
Speaker 6: But you don't get Have you gone crazy?
Speaker 7: What I'm telling you? If you don't shut your mouth
Speaker 7: and get dinner. I'm that you want to take all
Speaker 7: of you yet? Yeah yeah, yeah about this job. I
Speaker 7: work hard all day. You make me sick with your
Speaker 7: You have to have you yet, don't just shut up
Speaker 7: and leave me alone.
Speaker 6: You're an ungrateful, rude, nasty girl. That's what you are,
Speaker 6: an ungrateful, stupid, rude, nasty.
Speaker 5: Mount Shut up.
Speaker 7: I haven't got enough caught up with heaven to listen
Speaker 7: to you all night.
Speaker 9: Make me sick around all day?
Speaker 7: Doesn't do what was? Your hair just sucks me?
Speaker 13: It suck me.
Speaker 6: I don't There's no use just throwing yourself on that
Speaker 6: chicken mom helming girl. I don't care what I do.
Speaker 6: You can stand that job until you're rough.
Speaker 7: Bove me alone alone.
Speaker 9: I wish I would dip well, I should think you would.
Speaker 7: Mop Please leave me alone? Oh what to use anyway?
Speaker 5: I wish I was? Then you shouldn't talk like.
Speaker 8: Hi do I.
Speaker 7: Take that job? Hate the fact reader, take missus as
Speaker 7: like hate this, take a lot. I hate everything. I'm
Speaker 7: going away and maybe alone.
Speaker 6: You make your face already your cry so.
Speaker 7: It's ram so what doesn't make me get rid of
Speaker 7: red blue or Greek? Mother?
Speaker 6: Please stop stop.
Speaker 5: Crying like that.
Speaker 7: I hold time, this goes on.
Speaker 5: Sure I go to night school, so watch sure I
Speaker 5: work on the fact me.
Speaker 7: One good does it do me?
Speaker 5: What good does it do me?
Speaker 8: When I'm like this, hold on so fastin.
Speaker 7: Trembles all over my face?
Speaker 5: Mother?
Speaker 9: Please don't please stuff all the time.
Speaker 7: He would do me any gordeous, because.
Speaker 5: You're so nervous, that's what.
Speaker 7: Wouldn't you be nervous looking like you have them sneezles.
Speaker 7: I can't stand it anymore, that's all.
Speaker 9: I just can't stand it anymore.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go away someplace and never ever go back
Speaker 7: here again. Say I'm just gonna go away somewhere. I'm
Speaker 7: not gonna go on working and working with never anything
Speaker 7: dis goo for it. Never and I never did me.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 7: If I start beating all the other I never get
Speaker 7: me dinner.
Speaker 9: Baby, Please don't go on so it's danced.
Speaker 7: They never go to dancers, never do anything. I want
Speaker 7: to go out.
Speaker 9: I want to have dates.
Speaker 7: Why can't it be like you and McCauley. Why why
Speaker 7: can't I? Because I'm fat and I've got sembles them
Speaker 7: too tall and too big?
Speaker 6: Mouth a baby? Please stop crying?
Speaker 7: Clean you just.
Speaker 6: Don't know what it's like.
Speaker 4: One time I went to the company dance, I said,
Speaker 4: I said, all night, all night long.
Speaker 7: I just sat there and had it be good nation.
Speaker 7: But then like I was enjoying.
Speaker 9: Sure, they think I'm good natured, just like an old cow.
Speaker 9: And nobody, nobody, one of those sturdy.
Speaker 7: Nesty stuck up guys would have me even once. Not
Speaker 7: one of them make up Bob.
Speaker 10: Bob he's a sky.
Speaker 11: And shipping busy, lives on the same street the puris.
Speaker 11: He was the only one well enough and enough common or.
Speaker 6: Common O.
Speaker 7: Dear God, I.
Speaker 6: Go and make upper mode.
Speaker 13: Baby.
Speaker 6: It's not as bad as a please, so fad you're
Speaker 6: big bone, a big girl.
Speaker 5: Stop it.
Speaker 6: I can't stand with your sabbage mob Please, honey, the
Speaker 6: Bob Tully. You like him, well, of course I like you.
Speaker 9: Oh, I don't like him that way. That's what you mean.
Speaker 5: I don't care if you.
Speaker 9: Ma please get supper in my office.
Speaker 6: You got nice hair, baby, yeah, unnaturally curly.
Speaker 9: And you're a good girl, Martha.
Speaker 6: You're kind and good and smart. Don't you care about
Speaker 6: those dances and everything? You're just the kind of you
Speaker 6: had any sense at Tolley picked for a wife.
Speaker 9: Oh, okay, I'm sorry, Ma, sorry, I don't know what
Speaker 9: God is to me.
Speaker 6: That's all right, baby, you're upset.
Speaker 13: Let's have suffering.
Speaker 6: Maybe go to a movie we'll talk about in the morning.
Speaker 6: In the morning, huh more toast, dabies coffee? No, thank
Speaker 6: you should eat more breakfast, work all morning on one
Speaker 6: slice a toast and one cup of good time for
Speaker 6: cigarette m M gordat So I have a smoked Sure,
Speaker 6: take your time, honey, Martha. M you're my own daughter, Martha.
Speaker 6: And well, Honey, I do anything that would help to
Speaker 6: make you feel happy. I know you would, So I look, Martha,
Speaker 6: can't you just say everything we are thinking? Real, honest
Speaker 6: and straight from the shoulders daily?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 9: I have Well, look, honey, have.
Speaker 4: You always felt like this?
Speaker 6: I mean, have you only felt sort of well, self
Speaker 6: conscious about being what about not being it's pretty or
Speaker 6: some girls?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 6: And have you well, have you want to doble half
Speaker 6: of me?
Speaker 3: Say all?
Speaker 7: This?
Speaker 5: Martha is your idea? You know?
Speaker 6: Have you always wanted to have more dates with tellers?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 6: And this Bob fellas well? Supposing me ask you to
Speaker 6: marry him? Drop dead now, Martha, you promise we'd be real. Honest,
Speaker 6: I'm only trying to help. Is the asher to marry him?
Speaker 6: What would you say?
Speaker 5: Say? Yes, you like him? Huh?
Speaker 6: Is he the reason you didn't want this promotion so
Speaker 6: that you could stay where you might see him once
Speaker 6: in a while?
Speaker 9: Yep, you love him?
Speaker 4: Maybe?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 6: Well, then you got to you've got to so what
Speaker 6: Well if you never try, if you just sit around
Speaker 6: and never try, you know hard time.
Speaker 7: But why make youse?
Speaker 6: I mean, how do you think I got your father
Speaker 6: to propose?
Speaker 5: You didn't weigh one hundred and sixty eight.
Speaker 6: But you're big in the bones, baby, You're not sad.
Speaker 5: It's just a big girl over, big all over. Couldn't
Speaker 5: you just.
Speaker 6: Say he lives here on creamont that's right?
Speaker 5: Couldn't you just kind of.
Speaker 6: Meet him accidentally some night, accidentally, is right? And maybe
Speaker 6: ask him in for supper in here?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Why not?
Speaker 5: Why not?
Speaker 6: I'm a good cook. We use all the best china.
Speaker 5: I think i'd gone nut, or at least you could try, baby.
Speaker 6: I'm only trying to help. My mother doesn't like to
Speaker 6: see a baby miserable.
Speaker 5: I'm miserable now, mother was last night. I'm fine together,
Speaker 5: but couldn't you try?
Speaker 6: Couldn't you just kind of happen to meet him on
Speaker 6: the way home from work and just casually ask him
Speaker 6: in for dinner.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna look at the subway every night for a
Speaker 4: month and pounds. I don't know if that's what you mean.
Speaker 6: Which you'll try her, babies, please, it's nearly eight o'clock
Speaker 6: to buy.
Speaker 5: Mom. Thanks for.
Speaker 6: Well, thanks, but you'll try.
Speaker 5: Sure, Sure, Mom tries. Maybe I could ask him for
Speaker 5: supper some night. Maybe I couldn't well, Love, how fun
Speaker 5: are you doing in this neck of the world?
Speaker 3: Are up here? I live here on Treemont?
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, isn't it a small world?
Speaker 13: Has to all.
Speaker 5: You walking my way? Sure? I'm so subway awful, honestly.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Schooler today though, And it's that hospital two weeks ago
Speaker 4: we nearly died.
Speaker 14: Not a yeah, And I sure we'll be glad to
Speaker 14: get out of that joint. Oh yeah, I'm quitting getting
Speaker 14: another job over in Jersey. My brother in law's got
Speaker 14: a garage over.
Speaker 13: There, wants me to go in with them Jersey.
Speaker 5: Well, isn't it just fine?
Speaker 3: I figured I wasn't getting anywhere with old Jogis.
Speaker 5: Everybody says you're twice as smart as they have me
Speaker 5: sense it.
Speaker 3: He can give you his job and it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: Now I am leaving the end of this week.
Speaker 14: This week came, I noticed money, So you're leaving.
Speaker 5: He wears a shipping department fall apart and a frank hem.
Speaker 5: He says, you're the strongest man they ever had in chipping. Sure,
Speaker 5: that's true. Said you do more boxes in the day
Speaker 5: than any other guy that got it's just my good living.
Speaker 5: I'll bet you're not so good living. Yeah, that you're
Speaker 5: a wild one. You think so I can sell?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You man?
Speaker 14: Uh you uh you live around here, Martha, No, it doesn't.
Speaker 7: That spete everything.
Speaker 5: I've walked clean pastop that's your fascinating conversation. Well, the
Speaker 5: least you can do is walk back with me. It's
Speaker 5: only half a block. Well, look, I said, I haven't come.
Speaker 5: It's only a staff.
Speaker 15: Okay, man, Gee, women shure are queer.
Speaker 3: Nothing ever makes me forget where I live.
Speaker 5: Being so attractive for me, Well you are, gee, Milton.
Speaker 5: That's our supervisor. She thinks you're the best looking guy
Speaker 5: on the planet. You know she's got supervisor.
Speaker 3: I don't know her.
Speaker 5: He's a nice girl. Gosha'm hungry. My always has swell dinners.
Speaker 4: I always say a good home cooked meal taste better
Speaker 4: than anything you ever get at the Waldorf ast story.
Speaker 1: Do you go there?
Speaker 14: Oh?
Speaker 5: Not for not for weeks, since weeks.
Speaker 7: There's this this guy from out of town.
Speaker 5: He always takes me there. But it's it's a jerking
Speaker 5: you rely died.
Speaker 7: I'd rather have one of myn's.
Speaker 5: Home cooked meals than anything you eat out much, Yeah,
Speaker 5: all the time. Must get tired of it.
Speaker 3: I don't mind it.
Speaker 4: Don't you ever get real anxious for a good old
Speaker 4: fashioned home cooked meal.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: I go to my sister's in Jersey's on weekends.
Speaker 5: Hey, Bob, I got a swell idea. What why don't
Speaker 5: you come in and have stopper without?
Speaker 3: Why don't you tonight show?
Speaker 5: Why not? If you're leaven the plan, I won't ever
Speaker 5: get a chance to ask you again.
Speaker 3: And that's nice to yet, but I still have a
Speaker 3: previous engagement.
Speaker 5: I was saying, well, I'm busy later myself.
Speaker 9: Not anything I couldn't break.
Speaker 4: But I did promise a guy that I'd go to
Speaker 4: a show with him, right, so you could come here
Speaker 4: and then even leave just as soon as you want
Speaker 4: to do?
Speaker 5: Is that place?
Speaker 7: What do you say?
Speaker 3: WHOA, Well, I guess it'll be all right. I can't
Speaker 3: stay though, fine.
Speaker 4: Not fine that you can't say, But I've really got
Speaker 4: to go to this show with this guy anyhow, So
Speaker 4: it'll be.
Speaker 5: Fine, won't it? Come on?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 4: Marphy momy tickled at death. He never gets tired of
Speaker 4: me bringing guys home for meals.
Speaker 5: Mother me, honey, thanks.
Speaker 7: Mama, don't sit in the living room.
Speaker 6: I washed the slip cover and they're still wet.
Speaker 7: Honestly, I never saw that to wash in my life.
Speaker 6: If we had today, I thought I never Oh, Ma,
Speaker 6: this is.
Speaker 5: Bob Lawson, this is my mother. Well, mister Lawson, this
Speaker 5: is still coming for dinner. Ma, I hope you got
Speaker 5: something wonderful.
Speaker 6: Oh well, isn't that silly? I washed the slip cup
Speaker 6: of out of chesapel sooner and I well, we'll just
Speaker 6: sit on them anyway.
Speaker 3: Look, don't go in any trouble, missus home when we
Speaker 3: can sit anywhere.
Speaker 6: Well, it really pretty wet.
Speaker 5: Couldn't we bring in the kitchen chairs?
Speaker 12: Ma?
Speaker 3: Why can't we sit in the kitchen?
Speaker 5: Oh, that's suppose we bring in the kitchen chairs.
Speaker 8: No, no, miss I'll get them.
Speaker 7: You'd even go on the living room and ober in
Speaker 7: the chairs.
Speaker 9: Wouldn't it.
Speaker 4: See the day Ma would wash everything hotly. She's the
Speaker 4: most particular housekeeper ever, So honestly, you could eat off
Speaker 4: the floor.
Speaker 5: Well this is home, sweet home.
Speaker 3: Oh it's real nice.
Speaker 5: Ge knows slip covers are still pretty damp. Guess we'll
Speaker 5: just have to sit on the kitchen chair.
Speaker 6: We are, we are. Slip covers were so dusty.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid you just have to have a safe Oh
Speaker 3: that's all right, missus helman Martha.
Speaker 5: You sit on the No, no, no, you said, Anna,
Speaker 5: I'll get the other chair.
Speaker 7: Mother, you keep up coming for a while, All right.
Speaker 6: Sit down, mister lawson.
Speaker 3: Well what about you?
Speaker 7: Oh no one?
Speaker 6: Do I have to say about dinner anyway?
Speaker 3: Get okay?
Speaker 6: Mama said, you just up.
Speaker 9: The street a bit.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that's that's right.
Speaker 7: Well, I'm real.
Speaker 6: Glad you came.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too.
Speaker 6: Well, if you'll excuse me just a moment, I'll just
Speaker 6: see about dinner.
Speaker 7: There's a magazine right day.
Speaker 5: Next to you, a helmet. Take your time.
Speaker 3: I'm ot say.
Speaker 5: Why the night you pit?
Speaker 6: Martha washed by after dinner. We've got nothing.
Speaker 7: Good night, mother Gonta.
Speaker 6: Let me know madame the subway and whose slip covers
Speaker 6: soaking wet?
Speaker 9: And I look such a mess.
Speaker 6: I washed the whole afternoon. Any beer, No, I'll go
Speaker 6: down and get someone. And we got no media me no,
Speaker 6: I thought we just had eggs tonight.
Speaker 7: We can't get an eggs.
Speaker 9: I'll go right down to the Supermarcos. It's nearly six star.
Speaker 6: What the Jewish Harley in there? Close to I phone
Speaker 6: this morning? Missus life stick told me.
Speaker 5: Catch your snooze.
Speaker 9: Fans here?
Speaker 5: Who wonder what we're doing?
Speaker 6: You go on in our manage. You go and put
Speaker 6: on your black pumpy and use the good Yeah I will.
Speaker 9: I wouldn't you know you'd washed those?
Speaker 6: You may get dinner there here? What what we're doing?
Speaker 6: Go on, I'll get dinner. I'll get something the madberry's,
Speaker 6: mister Lawson.
Speaker 5: I put them up my bell.
Speaker 3: Oh no thanks, missus Hillman. They make my eyes swell up.
Speaker 3: Hey what, Yeah, it's silly. I'm allergic to raspberries.
Speaker 4: Oh, I've got a friend's allergic to dog here. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you're honestly, every every time she comes within a mile
Speaker 4: of a dog, she gets our eyes and Jesus soft.
Speaker 6: What about coffee's lawson?
Speaker 14: Well, no, but I tell you i'd sure like a
Speaker 14: glass of milk if your mother, would you get Bob's
Speaker 14: and milk.
Speaker 6: I'm afraid I use the glass of the milk in
Speaker 6: the scrambles.
Speaker 3: Well, look, that's okay.
Speaker 13: I got some water glass.
Speaker 6: Okay, not very cold. I'll get the nice Oh.
Speaker 3: No, this is fine, honest, I'm fine.
Speaker 5: Maybe the slipcovers would be dry.
Speaker 6: We can take these chairs back to the living room.
Speaker 6: It's cooler and they all.
Speaker 3: Look Honest, folks, I gotta be going. I got another
Speaker 3: previous engagement.
Speaker 5: Should go, then you might as well, as you've got
Speaker 5: a day.
Speaker 6: He's got a day, I know, but you should make
Speaker 6: him hurry.
Speaker 3: Well, I do have to go. And well it's it's
Speaker 3: been swell. Thanks very much, Mark. Then missus Hillman, I'm.
Speaker 6: Sorry about the wine. I don't know what happened to it.
Speaker 6: It was wonderful when we had it last Christmas. I
Speaker 6: guess it must have have maanded too much.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, look I guess I better run along now,
Speaker 14: I guess you had.
Speaker 3: I I certainly enjoyed those scrambled eggs.
Speaker 7: That's good, and.
Speaker 3: I certainly was pleased to meet you, missus Hillman.
Speaker 6: Saying here and then I go, go, how is my dog?
Speaker 9: He's gone?
Speaker 3: Well, what'll so long? Everybody? Don't buy the miss helmet.
Speaker 7: I can find the door. That's all right, I'll say
Speaker 7: to the door. It's been real nice.
Speaker 6: Have you lost come again?
Speaker 5: Fine?
Speaker 9: This is He's a real nice bob Oh matha baby.
Speaker 6: I'm real sorry about the wine. I never got to
Speaker 6: get beer today with Bernstein's clothed. Doesn't that I'm sorry
Speaker 6: if everything wasn't just right. But honestly, honey, I washed
Speaker 6: the whole attenute.
Speaker 9: If you only let me know outfit I got.
Speaker 6: Oh, I know, slipcovers. If I'd known, I could have
Speaker 6: washed them any day. Honestly, I nearly died when you
Speaker 6: both came in because I thought right away about the
Speaker 6: slip covers, and it'd be awful city on straight chair
Speaker 6: and everything.
Speaker 5: You stop this but eggs.
Speaker 6: Honestly, tomato soup and eggs, some dinner and no milk
Speaker 6: and no beer and wet slip covers on fanto doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: I han't you understand.
Speaker 5: If we did turkey and budding.
Speaker 6: Can't you get it too doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: When the lunch whistle blows, Martha doesn't hear it. The
Speaker 1: constant noise about her has trained.
Speaker 5: Her or shut her ears.
Speaker 1: She goes on working for a few minutes, then turns
Speaker 1: off her soldering.
Speaker 3: Iron, puts down her work gloves.
Speaker 1: And finds herself at the end of the line of
Speaker 1: girls checking out their worksheets before going to lunch. Martha
Speaker 1: waits patiently for her turn at the supervisor win.
Speaker 10: Mary Bishop three eleven twenty defects in Mary Vicious.
Speaker 5: Three eleven twenty defective one of a good thing to
Speaker 5: get married, Mary. You're sure not much use around here.
Speaker 5: I's thinking at the end of week, I'll never ever
Speaker 5: have to touch a start of nine as long as
Speaker 5: I live.
Speaker 7: Hof Brother am I.
Speaker 4: Bart the Hillman seven o two note effectives Martha seven
Speaker 4: O two no defective.
Speaker 6: Oh Martha, at the rate you work, it's a wonder
Speaker 6: to me.
Speaker 5: You're not provident of this joint?
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, sure, you have just heard.
Speaker 1: Machine has written and directed by Harry W.
Speaker 15: Duncan.
Speaker 1: The part of Martha was played by Elsbeth Eric Ma
Speaker 1: was Adelaine Klein. Other players included Grace Keddy, Phil Sterling,
Speaker 1: and Anne Totoniac. The music was composed and conducted by
Speaker 1: doctor Roy Shield. Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the
Speaker 1: National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 3: McDonald. This is Harry Juncan again.
Speaker 2: Next week on Radio City Playhouse. Stephen Vincent Vinet's Great
Speaker 2: story Alimentals. It is the story of a young man
Speaker 2: who made a bet of ten thousand dollars that loved
Speaker 2: was stronger than hunger. Be with us next week for Elementals.
Speaker 2: I fractioned twenty six on Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 15: Good Night, everybody, Bob Warren speaking.
Speaker 1: This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.