Speaker 1: The Damon Runyan Theater.
Speaker 2: Once again, the Damon Runy in Theater brings you another
Speaker 2: story by the master storyteller, Damon Runya, and this one
Speaker 2: social error.
Speaker 1: And to tell it to you here is Broadway.
Speaker 3: Thanks well.
Speaker 4: It is one morning along about two in the am
Speaker 4: when I am sitting in the Hotbox Club talking of
Speaker 4: this and that with Miss Midgie Muldouk.
Speaker 5: Now, Midgie is not a crow by any means. Although
Speaker 5: she is only knee high to a Pomerini for short one,
Speaker 5: I never see a better looking dot and is well
Speaker 5: known to understand that more than several citizens would like.
Speaker 4: Nothing better than to hear Miss Midgie Muldoon speaking soft woods.
Speaker 5: To However, she has nothing to do with the various
Speaker 5: high shots.
Speaker 4: So while we are talking, she stops in the middle
Speaker 4: of a sentence and says.
Speaker 6: Oh, no, here he comes again.
Speaker 5: Here who comes again?
Speaker 6: Coming in the door? Jack Madigan, Oh handsome Jack, Handsome Jack.
Speaker 6: No wonder he's so conceited. Couldn't you find a better
Speaker 6: name for it?
Speaker 5: But you will have to admit that Fitz, I.
Speaker 6: Can't stand him. Of all the people I can't stand,
Speaker 6: he's right on top.
Speaker 7: He sees you. Migi.
Speaker 6: Please don't go way Broadly, no matter what he says.
Speaker 4: Well, Mitchie, handsome Jack is not a very good citizen
Speaker 4: to cross in any way.
Speaker 6: Don't leave me alone, please.
Speaker 5: What if he asked me to go not politely?
Speaker 6: I'll handle him, only don't leave me alone with him.
Speaker 4: So I stay because Mitchie asked me to. But I
Speaker 4: know it is not going to be comfortable, because handsome
Speaker 4: Jack Madigan always strikes me as a guy who is rough,
Speaker 4: and I always figured the best you can get out
Speaker 4: of citizens like that is the worst of it.
Speaker 5: However, I sit tight, and it is because.
Speaker 4: I do that I am in on the beginning of
Speaker 4: a very strange story, indeed, one which I will tell
Speaker 4: you in a minute.
Speaker 2: I am now back to the Damon Runyon Theater and
Speaker 2: the famous story social error.
Speaker 4: Like guys say, I sit tight because Midgie Muldoon does
Speaker 4: not wish to be alone with handsome Jack Madigan.
Speaker 5: Well, it takes him maybe two seconds to come across
Speaker 5: the floor. He looks down and says.
Speaker 3: Hi, Mitgie, I was fine.
Speaker 7: Broadway how it.
Speaker 5: Thinks, ups and downs mostly down.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you got something to do Broadway, Not a thing, Jack.
Speaker 5: I am just whiling away the wee hours of the morning.
Speaker 8: Yeah, well they are pretty wee by now, and you
Speaker 8: look tired. Maybe you better beat it and crawl in
Speaker 8: the kip. I am not sleeping, I think you are.
Speaker 2: No, he is not going.
Speaker 7: You want him to stay.
Speaker 6: He's the only one I want to stay.
Speaker 7: Why do you keep giving me the brush? Midgie?
Speaker 6: It's the only thing for Dandre.
Speaker 7: Look, there ain't nothing wrong with me.
Speaker 6: Nothing that that be on yourself wouldn't cure.
Speaker 7: You got me wrong?
Speaker 6: I wait a minute. I've told you a dozen times
Speaker 6: I don't like you. I never will like it, So
Speaker 6: please don't hang around me. Don't send me flowers, candy, jewelry.
Speaker 6: I like to all right, so you'll keep getting them back.
Speaker 7: Look, just talk to me for a while without giving
Speaker 7: me the knife, will you? No?
Speaker 6: Good night Broadway and thanks for your copy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so long?
Speaker 7: Would you? Midgie? What I can maybe get your.
Speaker 6: Cab thirty dollars cabs on the street. I can locate
Speaker 6: one of them.
Speaker 8: Like always, I am poisoned to it, and I am
Speaker 8: a fourteen carrot golden laid sap for making a plate
Speaker 8: for it. There are a million dollars that would roll
Speaker 8: over and sit up if I give him a tumble.
Speaker 4: Well, Jack, do you ever think that maybe miss Midgie
Speaker 4: Modoom thinks that you think she is one of those dollars.
Speaker 7: I can never figure dolls. Maybe you do like that?
Speaker 8: Huh yeah yeah broad Way, Maybe I do.
Speaker 5: But you are not the only one.
Speaker 4: She puts the frost, non the pale faced kid, Red
Speaker 4: Henry big.
Speaker 7: Sam Bums two bit characters ain't one two in it
Speaker 7: with me? I see what do you see?
Speaker 4: Maybe if you lay off being such a tough character
Speaker 4: for a while, she will think different.
Speaker 7: What are you giving me?
Speaker 5: Well, she will have nothing to do with anybody who
Speaker 5: is not legitimate.
Speaker 7: That is why I say I can never figure dolls.
Speaker 3: I can neverbody ever figures a doal Jenk? Hi your bird?
Speaker 1: Well, well they've the dudes.
Speaker 9: Hi, when is your beef?
Speaker 3: Jenkins?
Speaker 7: Never mind?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, keep it to yourself.
Speaker 5: We are just talking about Midgie Modoom.
Speaker 3: Ah face bass is still a long way off.
Speaker 7: I Jenkin, shut up, I'll see you late.
Speaker 9: She just think of it, handsome Jack Madigan sour enough
Speaker 9: because of a Donald.
Speaker 5: Maybe he is on the level.
Speaker 3: Jack like a cork screwed.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I look, Dave, I see a lot of guys,
Speaker 5: tough guys, high shots.
Speaker 3: So so each one of them has.
Speaker 5: Got a place inside where things can hurt.
Speaker 3: Not Jack, maybe, okay, maybe, but until I see that
Speaker 3: guy do something by somebody, something that does not figure
Speaker 3: to put him and I went an end. I say
Speaker 3: he is not level. And they do not blame Mitgie
Speaker 3: muldoon for passing up by case of measles like that guy.
Speaker 4: Well, somehow I figured that day the dude is wrong
Speaker 4: about Jack, because there is something in the way Jack
Speaker 4: looks at Migie that makes me think.
Speaker 5: Here is a guy who is well lighted inside with
Speaker 5: what the poets call the old love light.
Speaker 4: He continues to be soft for her, and she continues
Speaker 4: to walk past him like he is someplace else. Then
Speaker 4: it is about a week later in the hot box club,
Speaker 4: which Dave the Dude o'ts I'm sitting with Dave and
Speaker 4: Jack when the scene is as fun as.
Speaker 3: Nice crowd tonight, very nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it is certainly not the food that brings
Speaker 5: them in.
Speaker 3: You what don't know better than to eat an here?
Speaker 4: Well, I think maybe because you are a friend of mine,
Speaker 4: the sandwich will not be all rubber and wood.
Speaker 7: Hey, Dave, there is your friend again.
Speaker 9: Huh ah. The Makyle Dame humhm. Every night she comes in.
Speaker 8: She is not choicy about her dancing parts, high society stuff.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Harriet mackiel.
Speaker 4: It seems to me I remember her getting into quite
Speaker 4: a few newspapers for one thing or another.
Speaker 9: Yeah, one thing of another.
Speaker 7: Dancing with Red Henry.
Speaker 5: There is something I cannot understand.
Speaker 4: And now, with all the toy in the world, and
Speaker 4: she dances with tough guys no offense, Dave Jack.
Speaker 3: She thinks it is smart romanty. She goes back towards
Speaker 3: society friends and tells them she dances with a safe flower.
Speaker 4: I think if I wish to dance with a safe flower,
Speaker 4: and I do not think that is likely, I will
Speaker 4: pick a nicer one than read Henry.
Speaker 9: Funny, ain't it him? Is this Mickyle Dane.
Speaker 3: She can take a pick of any society guy she wants,
Speaker 3: but she puts on the eye for guys like Ved Henry.
Speaker 3: So him is a guy like handsome Jack. He goes
Speaker 3: for a kid like Miggie Muldoon who will have nothing
Speaker 3: to do with hot shots.
Speaker 7: This let us leave me out of it. Huh sure, shure.
Speaker 3: But it is still very funny. And to make it
Speaker 3: even funnier, there is a guy named Basil Valentine.
Speaker 5: That is a name or a greeting guy.
Speaker 9: He stings for magazines. Now he wants to be tough,
Speaker 9: but is as mild as they come. He goes for
Speaker 9: the Mikyle Dame, who will have nothing to do with him.
Speaker 9: In fact, he never even meets it.
Speaker 7: Everything is all twisted around.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure is that Basil Valentine just sits here every
Speaker 3: night looking at the Mikyle Dane.
Speaker 7: Right now, she is looking at us.
Speaker 3: Then the one she comes over, you win your bet.
Speaker 3: She is looking at you, so she is looking at me.
Speaker 3: So what I see? You look like that before? Jack,
Speaker 3: you were about to be romantic.
Speaker 7: Nuts. She does not look like a million to me.
Speaker 5: No, but she has a few good evening day.
Speaker 3: Oh well, why are you, Miss McConn.
Speaker 8: Just fine, thank you.
Speaker 3: I don't believe i've met this gentleman. No, well, this
Speaker 3: is handsome Jack Madigan, May Jack, Miss mcind.
Speaker 7: How do you do good?
Speaker 3: This is Broadway? How are you am getting along?
Speaker 7: I hope you don't think I'm intruding? Not in that dress?
Speaker 3: Thank you, Hey sir, Miss McCann, thank you having a
Speaker 3: good time a little boy? May I have a cigarette?
Speaker 3: Mister Madigan?
Speaker 7: Help yourself light? Sure?
Speaker 8: So you're the famous handsome Jack Madigan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, real famous.
Speaker 3: Look I got some weight that don't enjoy yourselves?
Speaker 7: Yeah, see you later, Dave. Goodbye, Dave.
Speaker 1: Do you live near here, mister Broadway?
Speaker 7: Not far away?
Speaker 9: I was just asking, why, no reason in particular.
Speaker 7: Where do you live, miss macau.
Speaker 9: Why don't you call me Harriet?
Speaker 7: Okay, Harriet? Why did you ask me where I live?
Speaker 7: No reason? In particular? You're not very friendly, are you? Jack?
Speaker 7: Sometimes I am very friendly?
Speaker 6: I see I.
Speaker 3: Oh, I do wish that man in the horn room
Speaker 3: glasses would stop staring at me? Which one that one
Speaker 3: by himself at the table?
Speaker 7: Oh him Valentine. Every place I go there he is,
Speaker 7: he annoys me.
Speaker 9: It's possible, Miss mcgaul. What do you mean nothing at door?
Speaker 3: Not to do? I'm going to speak to Dave about
Speaker 3: that Valentine person.
Speaker 7: Oh, perhaps you'd do me a favor, Jay, like what?
Speaker 3: I don't like that man staring at me?
Speaker 6: Oh do you think it's funny?
Speaker 7: Sure?
Speaker 8: Because if you think I am going over there and
Speaker 8: talk to bad bassle, you are crazy. Talk to who
Speaker 8: bad Vassal Valentine bad Dazzle? Sure why he will kill
Speaker 8: anyone quicker than you can say scat that harns looking man,
Speaker 8: Miss Michael, Bad Basil can scarcely sleep good any night.
Speaker 8: He does not kill some guys?
Speaker 5: Jack, what are you saying?
Speaker 8: It is all right Broadway, Miss Michael. Here is a
Speaker 8: friend we can talk about bad Basstle.
Speaker 5: But he he seems so gentle.
Speaker 8: Looking, Miss Michael, I once know a hood who is
Speaker 8: so gentle looking that the people mistake him for a spaniel.
Speaker 7: But he ends up in the chair at singson.
Speaker 5: Miss michaiel you asked me a minute ago where I lived.
Speaker 5: I am now going there? Good night?
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I'll go.
Speaker 7: Maybe you would like to meet bad Basil.
Speaker 6: Huh well yes, but later, good night?
Speaker 7: Good night.
Speaker 5: Jack. The sandwich you eat is not that bad?
Speaker 7: What is the matter? I fix it up with the guy?
Speaker 7: Do I not? Who knows what will happen?
Speaker 5: Now you are so right? Who knows what will happen?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 4: Jake thinks it is very funny that he tells Miss
Speaker 4: Harriet Mikail that Bassil Valentine is a hot shot.
Speaker 5: Never does he imagine how this is going to affect
Speaker 5: him and Miss Midgie will do. But it does, and
Speaker 5: in a very strange way.
Speaker 4: And how this happens starts one night in midday's when
Speaker 4: I am sitting there and Dave the dude comes over
Speaker 4: to me and says, I have.
Speaker 3: Been looking on for you, Brodwayne.
Speaker 9: Well here I am.
Speaker 5: What is on your mind, Dave?
Speaker 3: And what are you doing? Then after tomorrow, if all.
Speaker 5: Goes well, I will still be breathing and maybe sitting
Speaker 5: right here.
Speaker 3: Why when I go to a party, Nope, I ask
Speaker 3: you to, I will be glad to good.
Speaker 9: Miss Harriett Mackiel is throwing one.
Speaker 4: Harriet Michael. I'll wait a minute, Dave, I belong there
Speaker 4: like I belong in the White House.
Speaker 3: A lot of your friends will be there, and Henry
Speaker 3: Harry Dohors, Mitsie the pale faced kid.
Speaker 5: Some of those citizens are so hot.
Speaker 4: It might be a farewell party before they leave on
Speaker 4: paid vacations at various institution.
Speaker 3: I know, but she thinks it is pretty cute to
Speaker 3: line up boys like that.
Speaker 9: It gives us something to talk about.
Speaker 5: Look, Dave, I would like to do you a favor and.
Speaker 3: Be there, But she is a good customer, and I
Speaker 3: would not like her to feel that my friends do
Speaker 3: not appreciate her hospitality. What time do I get there? Anytime?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: And by the way, yeah, where is Basil Valentine? I
Speaker 3: do not know what she wants him, especially and this
Speaker 3: I cannot figure. She'll be empty hers and rough citizens.
Speaker 3: So why does she want him?
Speaker 4: I think I know, Dave, this is going to be
Speaker 4: a very strange party. Indeed, and how right I am
Speaker 4: even I do not know what the time I say it. Furthermore,
Speaker 4: I do not wish to be at that party, but
Speaker 4: Dave is a very good friend of mine, and I
Speaker 4: like to do him favors, especially since he is likely
Speaker 4: to resent it if I refuse. So I go, and
Speaker 4: what happens there I will tell you in a minute.
Speaker 2: I'm now back to the Damon Runyan Theatre and the
Speaker 2: famous story social error.
Speaker 5: Like I say, I do not wish to offend Dave,
Speaker 5: would dude? So I show up at Miss.
Speaker 4: Harriet Macyl's fire, so do quite a few other sisters,
Speaker 4: while not in Who's who?
Speaker 7: But no, what's what?
Speaker 4: Especially if it is look, I am very surprised to
Speaker 4: see Miss Midgie Modoma, So I ask him why she comes,
Speaker 4: and she says, as fun as Dave asked.
Speaker 6: Me to come Broadway.
Speaker 5: I always think you never associate with hot.
Speaker 6: Shots, Migie, I don't, but Billy Dave's wife is a
Speaker 6: friend of mine. I couldn't say no.
Speaker 5: I guess you know Jack is gonna be here. Well,
Speaker 5: what if he is.
Speaker 6: Is he missed Mikile's latest?
Speaker 7: Well not exactly.
Speaker 6: I think he might like her.
Speaker 4: If you will look at her now, you will see
Speaker 4: that she is more than somewhat interested in bad Basil.
Speaker 7: Who bad battle Basil. Now I'm bye.
Speaker 5: You're cuted.
Speaker 6: That's a man who always hangs around.
Speaker 5: Dave's layer, but now he is bad Buzzle. I don't
Speaker 5: understand what it is like this.
Speaker 7: Hello Broadway Gie, Oh Jack, excuse me Broadway. No wait
Speaker 7: a second, Mitgie, No look, why do you not give
Speaker 7: me a break?
Speaker 6: Why don't you ask miss Mikiele for one?
Speaker 7: I am asking you, don't. I do not mind you brush,
Speaker 7: but do not laugh.
Speaker 6: It's very funny, handsome Jack Madigan letting Basil Valentine beat
Speaker 6: his time.
Speaker 1: Huh ah.
Speaker 8: The joke is on you, Midgie. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 8: I fix it up. I tell him Mikyle Donald Basil
Speaker 8: is a number one tough citizen. She believes me, and
Speaker 8: then' I what sure? I give the guy a break?
Speaker 6: Aren't you the big humorist? Anything for a laugh? Oh?
Speaker 7: No way?
Speaker 6: That poor little guy thinks he's going big. What will
Speaker 6: happen to him when she finds out?
Speaker 7: Why should you be blessed?
Speaker 6: Because I think it's a miserable trick.
Speaker 7: It is a gas.
Speaker 6: Sooner or later she'll find out what he really is
Speaker 6: and the two of you can have a big laugh
Speaker 6: at it.
Speaker 7: Look, Miggie, I did not mean for this to spread
Speaker 7: so sick. How do I know that Dame is gonna swallow?
Speaker 6: But she did. Now I'll tell you something. At first
Speaker 6: I couldn't stand the side of you. Then I thought, well,
Speaker 6: maybe you might be.
Speaker 9: On a level.
Speaker 6: But this puts me right back where I.
Speaker 7: Was with that.
Speaker 5: Midgie walks away and Jack looks after her like a
Speaker 5: dog that is lost. I know now that he is
Speaker 5: really level.
Speaker 4: Also, I know that he tips Basil to the gang,
Speaker 4: and this makes Basil happy because he.
Speaker 5: Figures that Mikyle Dow will now fall for it.
Speaker 4: The next thing I know, I hear Basil telling her
Speaker 4: how he knocks off ten hoods one weekend while he
Speaker 4: is on a pleasure trip, and I see she is
Speaker 4: looking at him with some respect. But in the meantime
Speaker 4: Jack is doing nothing but mooning a round. Then along
Speaker 4: about two am I am standing with Jack and the scene.
Speaker 5: Is as follows.
Speaker 7: Everybody has a good time, but.
Speaker 5: Me, Jack. I wish to ask you something, and I
Speaker 5: wish to hear the truth. You are really serious about midgie?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I am broad Way. I gotta do something to
Speaker 7: show her. I ain't too bad. I just hey, Jack,
Speaker 7: I have been looking for you, Okay, Red Henry here
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 9: Look, I'm doing all right with a Mikyle dame.
Speaker 7: You stick your nose in, go away, you get too
Speaker 7: much in the last class.
Speaker 9: I'm telling you I was doing all right. I heard
Speaker 9: about that gag with a Valentine Carricter.
Speaker 7: I tell you go away. You never do like me,
Speaker 7: So you do this, you queer me. You are right,
Speaker 7: I never do like you.
Speaker 9: Happy, But I'm going to tip the mcyle doll.
Speaker 7: See why do you not go away and clean up.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna fix it all up.
Speaker 7: Look, Red, leave the little guy have his fun. He
Speaker 7: his nuts about the dame. What are you kidd?
Speaker 10: I was doing all right.
Speaker 7: I don't like your nose sticking in away.
Speaker 4: Get lost, take a cure ashore because you cannot get
Speaker 4: the dog you want or your queer it for me.
Speaker 7: Shut up?
Speaker 9: You were heated up from Mitchie muldoon, but you get
Speaker 9: the frog.
Speaker 4: Cut it out, Handsome Jack Maddigan sitting on the back
Speaker 4: porch and the doors.
Speaker 5: Lock right red, you and I will take a little walk.
Speaker 7: There was a terrorist.
Speaker 5: I bet you've never seen New York from this high up.
Speaker 7: Shut up Broadway.
Speaker 3: He knows I am right.
Speaker 7: How does it feel to be chilled off? Jack? I
Speaker 7: will show you. Jack mcarty is going the rock. Get
Speaker 7: back Broadway. See what it killed me? Shut the door?
Speaker 7: Somebody shut him? You you you shut him? He is
Speaker 7: all right. I hit him in the hand, Jack, Look,
Speaker 7: maybe I better go.
Speaker 3: I will pay call us Radder.
Speaker 7: You are right. Hit my hand, that is all. There
Speaker 7: will be a terrible skin. Will not worsen everybody?
Speaker 5: Quiet?
Speaker 3: What happens here goes no fighter? Get it broad Way? Yeah, Dave,
Speaker 3: get the phone, call for my car. Sure you better
Speaker 3: be the jack.
Speaker 7: And look, Dave, I gotta.
Speaker 6: Explain, Handsome Jack Madigan.
Speaker 7: Parlor tough guy, Magee.
Speaker 6: I wonder what else you'll think I have to impress people.
Speaker 4: Well, the little affair is hushed up because none of
Speaker 4: the citizens there wish to answer questions, especially if they
Speaker 4: are asked by genders, and Miss Harriet Michiel is glad
Speaker 4: to listen to Day the dude because she does not
Speaker 4: wish the publicity. Red Henry is hustled a way, and
Speaker 4: it turns out the shot in the hand is nothing
Speaker 4: at all, because Jack is pretty fair with the rod
Speaker 4: just shoots the pistola out of Red's hand.
Speaker 5: However, he figures he is all washed up with Miss
Speaker 5: Midgie Muldoon.
Speaker 4: Then it is one night and I, Dave and Jack
Speaker 4: are sitting in Middy's when who comes up at Bassel
Speaker 4: Valentine and says.
Speaker 10: I'm very sorry to intrude, but I must speak to you.
Speaker 7: You look, you caused me enough trouble.
Speaker 10: I'm terribly sorry, but I've got to talk to you.
Speaker 9: I let him sit down. Jack thanks, How is bad?
Speaker 7: Basil him?
Speaker 9: Well, that's what I want to talk about, Carssel.
Speaker 5: Do you not tell Miss Harriet Mikaile the truth?
Speaker 7: No, I I've let her go on believing.
Speaker 3: I'm what you told her I was so what happens
Speaker 3: when she finds out the truth?
Speaker 7: I asked her her to marry me, and she said
Speaker 7: she would.
Speaker 9: What you are kidding?
Speaker 7: Oh, you have but she she wants me to.
Speaker 10: Correct something before we go away to be married.
Speaker 9: Come like something?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 7: She?
Speaker 10: She says that Jack committed a socially when he shot
Speaker 10: Red Henry the other night. Jack, you you've got to
Speaker 10: let me do something about it. If you don't know,
Speaker 10: I'll lose her.
Speaker 7: Okay. I will go to her and say you made
Speaker 7: me apologizeal but that's not enough.
Speaker 10: I have to strike you or something.
Speaker 7: Okay, strike me, but in front of her, Basil? What Dave?
Speaker 3: You go back until I damn the truth?
Speaker 10: I can't, Dave Jack Broadway eye.
Speaker 7: I love her that much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you will get over it.
Speaker 7: No, no, wait a minute, Dave Bassel, Yes, how would
Speaker 7: you like to shoot me? Shoot you? Yeah? Say in
Speaker 7: Dave's place night after tonight.
Speaker 8: I am not interested. I'm making a shooting gallery out
Speaker 8: of the hot box. I got an idea. Listen, nobody
Speaker 8: gets hurt. You bring the doll to the hot box.
Speaker 8: They've close up the place to outside customers early. What
Speaker 8: do you get that Basil comes in with the Mikayle
Speaker 8: dial seize me, pulls a rod, that's me?
Speaker 7: Have it?
Speaker 10: Oh no, no, I I might hit you.
Speaker 7: Not with blanks in the gun.
Speaker 10: You'll really do this for me?
Speaker 7: Sure? Why not?
Speaker 10: I'll never forget it, Jae.
Speaker 7: Go now beat it, God, get yourself a gun with blanks.
Speaker 5: Right away, Jack?
Speaker 10: Right away?
Speaker 9: Well, well, well, how do you like this what gets
Speaker 9: sent to you?
Speaker 3: Jack?
Speaker 7: All? Maybe maybe I know just how the little guy feels.
Speaker 4: At first, Dave is more than somewhat concerned about the
Speaker 4: whole thing, but then he begins to get a kick
Speaker 4: on it. It seems that Jack will fall down like
Speaker 4: you's here, Vasil will leave with Miss Harriet Michael, and
Speaker 4: everything will be fine. But as they say in books,
Speaker 4: quite a few things are liable to go.
Speaker 5: Wrong, and often do. Now I and Dave tell nobody
Speaker 5: about this arrangement, and it comes up two nights.
Speaker 9: Later that we are in the hot box.
Speaker 4: The only citizens there are those we know, and this
Speaker 4: includes Miss Mitchie muldoon I and Jack and Dave are
Speaker 4: waiting and the scene is.
Speaker 9: As fun as now.
Speaker 3: You are sure everything is all right?
Speaker 7: Chair? Sure? Sure? I get in touch with Basil. This morning.
Speaker 7: He is bringing the dame here. I am standing here
Speaker 7: with my back to the door.
Speaker 4: You know, something tells me I would not trust that
Speaker 4: little guy with a dud firecracker, much less a rascals.
Speaker 7: Stop worrying, Will you.
Speaker 3: Can't get bunny?
Speaker 9: Chance? Here they come.
Speaker 5: But it's all the same to you. I will step
Speaker 5: back out of the way.
Speaker 9: Yeah, go ahead, Here he comes.
Speaker 7: The muzzle of the gun he.
Speaker 5: Is holding is going in circles.
Speaker 7: Adan, Yeah, turn around. I do not want to shoot
Speaker 7: you in the back. Oh, hey, do not shoot me,
Speaker 7: bad basil, you've made your last social era. Look, give
Speaker 7: me a break, bad bassl Oh, you're going to get it.
Speaker 7: Jack got Jack Mitchie, get back you Jack Jack Mitch. Oh,
Speaker 7: you spoil the whole thing. She just hit shot you
Speaker 7: stepped in front of me.
Speaker 10: Please, she did what happened by this?
Speaker 7: Don't let me see that. Where did you get this? Well?
Speaker 7: I didn't have a gun.
Speaker 10: I borrowed this one from Red Henny Red Henry Red
Speaker 10: loaded it with blanks.
Speaker 7: I saw him. He thought it was a big joke.
Speaker 7: Going to help me.
Speaker 3: He pulled the switch. My luck. You'll get out of here.
Speaker 9: Go on, what the girl, We'll take care of that,
Speaker 9: and you, miss Mikyle maybe and I got.
Speaker 3: Enough of being cured.
Speaker 7: I didn't think he'd do it, but I did.
Speaker 3: Now get out, and if you ever come in this
Speaker 3: place again, I will patiently escort you through.
Speaker 9: The door on the end of my foot.
Speaker 7: But we better go, Harriet.
Speaker 10: And and I've got something to tell you, Migie.
Speaker 5: We have got to get you to a hospital.
Speaker 6: I'll be all right, Jack, you.
Speaker 7: You're not hurt. He stepped in front of me. Why
Speaker 7: met you?
Speaker 6: Why I held out as long as I could.
Speaker 4: Well, Midgie is only hitting the shoulder and turns out okay,
Speaker 4: and Dave fixes it, so everything is smooth over. Of course,
Speaker 4: no one is more surprised than Jack when he finds
Speaker 4: out that Midgie is in love with him.
Speaker 5: However, that is not the end of the story. The
Speaker 5: payoff comes later, and what it is I will.
Speaker 1: Tell you in a minute.
Speaker 5: It is a month after little party at the hot Box.
Speaker 4: That I am sitting at Middy's enjoying some marinate of
Speaker 4: herring when I am joined by Dave, the dude, who
Speaker 4: sits down and watches me for a minute and then
Speaker 4: says nice sweating, Oh oh, Jack, And Midgie's Yeah, it
Speaker 4: is very nice.
Speaker 5: They make a fine couple.
Speaker 3: Well is a good boy. She talks him into going legitimate.
Speaker 4: Well, he's in love. We have got to make allowances
Speaker 4: for that. It is very funny that we do not
Speaker 4: hear from Basil Valentine and the Mikayal day Oh.
Speaker 9: I almost forgot that they get married too.
Speaker 4: She marries him, but she finds out about the whole thing,
Speaker 4: and he is far from being a tough citizen.
Speaker 3: She is selling relieved to find out that Dazzle is
Speaker 3: not tough and is not apt to go around shooting people.
Speaker 3: That she marries him. However, she takes no chances like
Speaker 3: what it seems. She will not allow him to associate
Speaker 3: with anybody over ten years of age, and she will
Speaker 3: not allow him to hold anything more dangerous than a
Speaker 3: new black.
Speaker 2: And so ends the famous Damon Runyon story Social Error,
Speaker 2: listening again next week for.
Speaker 1: The Damon Runyon Theater. The Damon Runyon.
Speaker 2: Theater with John Brown as Broadway is directed by Richard
Speaker 2: Sandville and the story is adapted for radio by Russell Hughes.
Speaker 1: Bern Carstensen is in charge of production. This is a
Speaker 1: Mayfair production.