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Speaker 6: Transcribe Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis Elliott Lewis,
Speaker 6: two of the most distinguished names in radio, opening tonight
Speaker 6: in their own theater.
Speaker 1: Starring in a repertory of stories of their own.
Speaker 6: And you're choosing radio's foremost players and radio's foremost plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4: Mister Elliott Lewis, Good, Evening, may I present my wife,
Speaker 4: Kathy Good Evening. Tonight is our opening night, and tonight
Speaker 4: is the first day of the new year. So we're
Speaker 4: going to do a comedy for you to start our
Speaker 4: new series.
Speaker 7: Something like a spray of confetti to go with the season.
Speaker 7: A story about a young man and his wife in
Speaker 7: nineteen fifty nice people, not rich, not poor, happy with
Speaker 7: each other, you know.
Speaker 8: Nice.
Speaker 4: So tonight we present String bow Tie by Morton Fine
Speaker 4: and David Freakin. My name in the play is Gerson Hapsmith.
Speaker 8: And I'm Laurie Hapsmith, and.
Speaker 1: We're married and we live in New York.
Speaker 4: The opening scene has to do with Laurie. She's got
Speaker 4: a seat on the Seventh Avenue subway. It's New Year's Eve, afternoon,
Speaker 4: and she's on our way home from work. At the moment,
Speaker 4: she's upset because the seated man next door is working
Speaker 4: the crossword puzzle and doesn't know the three letter word
Speaker 4: for the web footed diving bird of the Arctic Sea.
Speaker 8: Laurie knows awk M sixteen down.
Speaker 7: It's uk auk now extinct.
Speaker 8: It's very cold in the Arctic. Here's the paper.
Speaker 1: You work it out, yes, thank you. By that's Laurie.
Speaker 4: Easy to get along with, even on a subway where
Speaker 4: people are pretty tough to get along with. To make
Speaker 4: a point out of it, Laurie in a way she knows,
Speaker 4: makes herself smaller so that very large woman will have
Speaker 4: ample room on the seat.
Speaker 7: You crowded, dear No, not at all. Do you have
Speaker 7: a pencil? Oh sure, sure, Dearie.
Speaker 9: Wait, I'll find it somewhere. I got it here some
Speaker 9: place at my face.
Speaker 7: Oh here, thank you. I like to wear crossford puzzles
Speaker 7: on her way home. Oh thanks, they're extinct now, Dearie. Yes,
Speaker 7: I know swy which one honey across or down upstair
Speaker 7: on the advertisement where see the one between the termite
Speaker 7: service and the cheese crack is saw wee? Oh?
Speaker 8: You mean the picture of the man in a string
Speaker 8: bow tie sitting at.
Speaker 9: The piano schezzo a man's cologne to quicken the pulse
Speaker 9: of women. Oh you know something, why I understand perfectly
Speaker 9: the emotions of those four women seated at his feet.
Speaker 9: Oh look at that man, dearie.
Speaker 7: Uh huh.
Speaker 9: Let me know when we get the Times Square. Yesterday
Speaker 9: I ended up in Bronx Park just staring at him.
Speaker 7: That fella is a real beauty. Do you really think so? Huh?
Speaker 7: Just me?
Speaker 9: We all over town ladies standing around staring, admiring. Oh, no,
Speaker 9: wonder the way he sits there at the piano, hands
Speaker 9: poised over. Who knows what strange melody, the grace of
Speaker 9: that fellow. The passion is my husband down to his fingertips,
Speaker 9: smoldering written all over him.
Speaker 8: He's my husband.
Speaker 7: Ah honest. What's his name?
Speaker 8: Gerson?
Speaker 7: Gerson? Gerson?
Speaker 8: What Gerson? Halfsmith?
Speaker 7: Dearie, what let me ask you something? No?
Speaker 8: So we honey, this is Times Square?
Speaker 9: Who needs it? I've got a little shoping to do
Speaker 9: in Bronx Park. Gerson, I'm home, Gerson.
Speaker 8: Oh what are you doing?
Speaker 4: I was trying to ride a slogan for the agency
Speaker 4: what account lempkey water biscuit account. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 4: What rhymes with lemp key? Mh give me here, Laurie him.
Speaker 7: I want to tell you something lover her. It happened
Speaker 7: again today on the subway.
Speaker 1: Did I have a big house mobbed?
Speaker 8: Then there was a woman who sat next.
Speaker 1: To me, blonde brunette both.
Speaker 7: Oh honey, you're the heartbeat of the subway circuits. You
Speaker 7: know what that woman said about your picture? Zoue.
Speaker 1: You don't know the half of it.
Speaker 8: Tell me the half of it.
Speaker 4: Mister Honeywell at the agency called me in and said
Speaker 4: they formed a fan club in Bronx Park.
Speaker 7: Do me a favor, Gerson, Sure, kiss me anytime. Oh
Speaker 7: five million quickening posts in New York.
Speaker 8: Gerson, you're my man?
Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, Baby? You jealous?
Speaker 8: Why should I be jealous? Just to be missus Hapsmith
Speaker 8: is all I ever wanted?
Speaker 4: Crazy the way it happened four years ago and the
Speaker 4: model didn't show up, Mister Honeywell tapped me for the job,
Speaker 4: pulled me away.
Speaker 1: From my typewriter, thrust a string bow tie.
Speaker 7: In my hand and said this is it, Hapsmith.
Speaker 1: No, No, he didn't.
Speaker 4: He just told me to climb into the bow tie
Speaker 4: and run upstairs and sit in front of the piano.
Speaker 1: Four years ago, and they just released it.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 4: My pictures in every bus and subway in New York.
Speaker 4: You know what mister Honeywell said.
Speaker 1: To me today.
Speaker 8: He asked you for the bow tie.
Speaker 4: No, he said, this is it, Hapsmith. We've just landed
Speaker 4: the nine star meat account. I want you to pose
Speaker 4: for it in mutton chop whiskers.
Speaker 7: Oh no, you won't, not my Gerson, Not in mutton shop.
Speaker 1: That's what I told mister Honeywell.
Speaker 4: A place in an advertising agency for me is in
Speaker 4: the back of a typewriter making up slogans.
Speaker 8: That's telling mister Honeywell.
Speaker 4: Come on, let's get dressed baby. New Year's Eves, Manhattan.
Speaker 1: You wear the off the show, then you wear something
Speaker 1: for me too.
Speaker 8: What the string bow tie?
Speaker 1: You kidding?
Speaker 8: I wanna show you. Ah, you kidding to all of
Speaker 8: New York. The man in this string bow tie is mon.
Speaker 7: No listen, baby, I get the woman behind the man
Speaker 7: who quickens the pulses is me.
Speaker 8: You just run along something of that bow tigers.
Speaker 4: I don't even know how to tie at Mister Honeywell
Speaker 4: tied it for me.
Speaker 8: Anything, honeywell can do for you?
Speaker 1: I can do, mister Honeywell.
Speaker 10: They do you really want me to?
Speaker 1: Please? Baby? You don't have to say please to me.
Speaker 11: Erson, Just go get the bow tie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's the stat Come on. Oh, I don't know
Speaker 1: why you supposed to go out on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 7: Everything is so wonderful, even a crowded subway.
Speaker 4: I want to tell you something. But here we are,
Speaker 4: twelve feet.
Speaker 1: On the ground.
Speaker 8: Figures, there's two of us.
Speaker 4: No, I mean here we are you and I rushing around.
Speaker 1: In a subway and a crowd.
Speaker 7: Of people not crowded down the other end of the car.
Speaker 9: Gerson, Why did you have to pick a seat right
Speaker 9: under your pickles?
Speaker 1: Let me finish with you.
Speaker 4: Sorry, crowd of people and I feel like we're alone, Laurie,
Speaker 4: hurtling through space alone?
Speaker 7: Please? Could I just squeeze in here? Foot?
Speaker 1: Well here, I'll get up.
Speaker 7: Oh no, you don't.
Speaker 8: You just sit there.
Speaker 7: I squeeze in between you.
Speaker 9: You mind scooching over a little, madam.
Speaker 1: There we are, I'm over here, Laurie.
Speaker 7: Mister yeah, you're skirts though, aren't you?
Speaker 9: When you got on I told my girlfriend Janis, there's
Speaker 9: skirts of the man in the string boat tied and
Speaker 9: Janni said to me, she said, every time you get
Speaker 9: on the subway, you're touch dreaming.
Speaker 7: Really Jennis, Jennis, it's him.
Speaker 4: Wave to Jenny's Yes, all right, hi Janice.
Speaker 9: Young lady, listen, madam, you've had him since twenty third Street.
Speaker 7: Don't be ahog. I'm going to feel silly saying it,
Speaker 7: but I'm going to say it.
Speaker 8: This man is mine ha haha. Put your money where
Speaker 8: your mouth is, madam.
Speaker 7: Ask him, hey, skeats him? Are you hurt?
Speaker 1: She's my wife?
Speaker 7: Well if she is your.
Speaker 9: Wife, pray Tell who are those four girls on the
Speaker 9: advertisement who are scattered beneath your piano?
Speaker 4: Well they're models, that's all, just girls.
Speaker 7: So that's all. Are you honest, young lady? Yes, madam,
Speaker 7: beat it blow Go tell Janie.
Speaker 8: She wants you. Look Madam.
Speaker 9: You might be married to him and all, but I'd
Speaker 9: like to explain the facts of life to you. The
Speaker 9: minute he got up in that advertisement, he belonged to
Speaker 9: humanity female type.
Speaker 8: Can I fix your bot tye sketshi? Yes, go ahead, yes,
Speaker 8: where we get off, GIRs.
Speaker 1: The lady just wan belong to humanity?
Speaker 8: Gerson and they're waiting for you up there.
Speaker 7: Let's hurry before the door slams in your face. Gersy
Speaker 7: mm hm, you do a stunning wolf.
Speaker 1: Four or four is my favorite temple.
Speaker 7: I'm having a lovely time too, Oh, just dancing like
Speaker 7: this beautiful cafe champagne. You feel a champagne?
Speaker 12: Me too?
Speaker 7: Me too.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the table and have some more champagne.
Speaker 1: I love that song.
Speaker 8: What song song?
Speaker 4: The orchestra is just playing Tennessee wolves. Let it be
Speaker 4: our song. Here's our table.
Speaker 1: What are you singing? I song that's not the Tennessee walls. Baby.
Speaker 1: Our song goes like this.
Speaker 8: Oh oh, oh, oh, oh Mychael.
Speaker 12: Pardon me, friend, yes, what is it? You're the boy
Speaker 12: that posed for that pity few man.
Speaker 8: Give him a shirt?
Speaker 13: No, wait, don't bother with the pencil, friend, Just the question,
Speaker 13: are you am? I what the buster who sits at
Speaker 13: the piano?
Speaker 12: See?
Speaker 13: I only asked because you weren't a bow tie like him.
Speaker 13: You got a face like him. The only difference is
Speaker 13: you only got one dame and no piano.
Speaker 4: Come here, I'll tell you, yeah, I happened to be
Speaker 4: that chap.
Speaker 13: Well, I'll tell you what chap I happen to be.
Speaker 13: Just put your hand in my pocket and feel. That's
Speaker 13: right now, now'll take your hand out.
Speaker 12: What did you feel?
Speaker 4: A Smith weston thirty eight SnO No Series, nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Hey, Laurie, you know what was in his pocket? A
Speaker 1: Smith West?
Speaker 12: Let's leave, I said, sit down, you're him? How must do?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 12: That's all I want to know.
Speaker 7: I'll put you you talk to me like that again,
Speaker 7: and I'll scream.
Speaker 12: Well before you do, lady, I want to tell you something.
Speaker 12: You you know the Hudson Tunnel.
Speaker 1: Sure, we take from them all the time, and we
Speaker 1: go to Jersey. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, you know that concrete pedestal that the policeman stands on.
Speaker 12: It's just before you hit the jery Zy sign.
Speaker 1: Know it very well? You remember, Laura.
Speaker 12: It's my favorite mine too.
Speaker 13: That particular concrete pedestal is composed of five ingredients, sand cement,
Speaker 13: and three of my favorite boys.
Speaker 2: Just because they wouldn't pay any attention to me.
Speaker 12: So would you please?
Speaker 1: Would you pay attention to me?
Speaker 7: We're all ears?
Speaker 12: Shall watch boat to you? Now? Let's go celebrate New
Speaker 12: Year's Eve? Shall we? My way?
Speaker 6: You're listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage tonight's
Speaker 6: play The String bow Tie.
Speaker 1: Laurie, Yes, dear, is he still laving?
Speaker 7: Yes, dear?
Speaker 12: Keep walking?
Speaker 7: Come on, look look mister, why are you doing this
Speaker 7: to us? You want our money?
Speaker 12: What sheep walking?
Speaker 7: But who are you?
Speaker 8: Why are you picking on us?
Speaker 2: Nineteen fifty three is going to be a nice yeah,
Speaker 2: so do yourselves a favor.
Speaker 12: Live through it, all right, I'm back, all of us,
Speaker 12: Come on, let's go all right, Thomas take us home, mister.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's on account of this string bow tie.
Speaker 12: Huh, it's not a kind of that, hey, buster me. Yeah?
Speaker 13: How come that when you stuck your hand in my pocket?
Speaker 13: You knew right away without looking at The gun was
Speaker 13: a Smitt and Wesson ninety eighth Snubnose series nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 4: By work in an advertising agency. I wrote a slogan
Speaker 4: for it for Catalog. Oh yeah, how to go use
Speaker 4: a Smith Wesson and be sure?
Speaker 2: Oh you know, you just happened to be the fellow
Speaker 2: who made me switch from a cold forty five.
Speaker 7: I hate to louse up your testimonial, but I'd like
Speaker 7: to point a few things out to you.
Speaker 12: You're a title.
Speaker 7: This is a very serious offense, kidnapping us out of
Speaker 7: a nightclub, taking ring us to a place or places unknown,
Speaker 7: and for such a flimsy reason because my husband is
Speaker 7: on a subway card.
Speaker 12: I hate him? Me?
Speaker 1: What did I ever do to you?
Speaker 4: You'll see, look, sir, I just happen to be a
Speaker 4: fellow named Gerson.
Speaker 13: Halfs that just happened to be a fellow named William
Speaker 13: Bailey who hates you?
Speaker 7: Where are you taking us? You'll see, Gerson?
Speaker 8: What say something?
Speaker 7: Make mister Bailey realize that he's not dealing with a
Speaker 7: cardboard personality. Make him know what's in store for him
Speaker 7: if he doesn't let us off right away.
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Speaker 7: Effect this morning.
Speaker 1: You're a contractor, you have a contract. Guys. Come on,
Speaker 1: let's do this.
Speaker 3: A little snow and ice isn't stopping you, Not today,
Speaker 3: not any day. Shouldn't your flashing tape be working through
Speaker 3: it all?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, make me do that.
Speaker 4: Go on, mister Bailey, Yeah, this is madness, that's all
Speaker 4: you're going to say.
Speaker 8: Gerson, Gerson, you're my man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mister Bailey. Yeah. You don't think you're gonna get
Speaker 1: away with this, do you.
Speaker 4: What's the big idea of holding a gun on us
Speaker 4: and marching us out of a nightclub, making us walk
Speaker 4: down the street, making us get into a long black
Speaker 4: car and driving us away.
Speaker 12: What's the big idea that?
Speaker 7: Huh?
Speaker 4: This is civilization we got going for us here, fellow,
Speaker 4: there's no place in it for the primitive, the predatory emotion.
Speaker 1: You say you hate me, I don't hate you. My
Speaker 1: wife doesn't hate you. Although the seed is there.
Speaker 4: You think the world's against you, don't you. Well, somewhere
Speaker 4: down the line, you've been tricked, mister Bailey.
Speaker 1: Bill disillusioned. Oh now, lord, just because I paused for
Speaker 1: an ad.
Speaker 12: Hey, I know what.
Speaker 1: I'll take off the string bow tie and hunch that.
Speaker 12: Tie and I will break your arm here here and here.
Speaker 7: Listen you, you.
Speaker 1: Hulum renegade matter factor.
Speaker 7: You listen to me. You houdlm you leave my husband alone.
Speaker 7: It isn't his fault. He's wearing that string bow tie.
Speaker 8: I made him put it on. Anything that's going to
Speaker 8: happen should happen.
Speaker 7: To me, not him.
Speaker 13: Maybe maybe what a dame in a Hudson tunnel? Hmmm, dame,
Speaker 13: that'll pose quite a problem for a concrete mixer.
Speaker 2: Wonder if he knows the recipe? Just flow people come on.
Speaker 12: Inside?
Speaker 1: Oh my huh you like it?
Speaker 12: Eh?
Speaker 7: Oh well, you must be the greatest utelam of them
Speaker 7: all to be able to afford this, mister Bailey bernas
Speaker 7: in such beautiful tastes, such excusitic you ought to be
Speaker 7: proud of this place.
Speaker 13: Yes I am, I am, and I can tell you
Speaker 13: this lady, there is never going to be another place
Speaker 13: like it.
Speaker 7: Uh. The decorator, Yeah, Hudson song, the one in the middle.
Speaker 12: Uh, Carolyn, it's me, it's me. Come on out here.
Speaker 12: I got something for you.
Speaker 7: Oh, Billy, you brought him? Hi me, You're cute him.
Speaker 2: He's cute, Carolynn.
Speaker 7: He's cute.
Speaker 12: You like him?
Speaker 7: Man, tell him to walk around?
Speaker 12: Walk? Walk?
Speaker 1: What do you mean?
Speaker 12: Listen you, My wife wants you to walk, So do it.
Speaker 1: I don't understand.
Speaker 12: Stick his head right in the light socket, so help
Speaker 12: me out.
Speaker 7: Wait wait, wait, wait a minute, I'll explain it to him. Gerson. Honey,
Speaker 7: the man he's got a gun. He's pointing at it. You.
Speaker 8: He wants you to walk.
Speaker 7: You know how that bit goes first this foot and
Speaker 7: then that foot, and then before you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, all right, that's enough, come back.
Speaker 7: Well cute.
Speaker 12: You know why I brought him here, Carolyn.
Speaker 7: Because you love me, Billy, Billy loves me.
Speaker 13: I brought him here so that you can see in
Speaker 13: a flash this guy that you have been moping over
Speaker 13: since you saw that advertisement in the subway.
Speaker 7: Billy's good to me. What's your thank you?
Speaker 1: Gerson?
Speaker 8: You see, Billy, I told you you guessed his name
Speaker 8: was Gerson.
Speaker 7: He's cute.
Speaker 2: Shee, Carolyn, Carolyn, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I want proof to you, Carolyn, that this Geyson who
Speaker 12: sits in.
Speaker 13: Front of a piano on the skite so cologne ed,
Speaker 13: he is a Geyson like any other Geyson.
Speaker 12: He's just a guy. See, he is not somebody who
Speaker 12: every morning, noon and night you say to me, why
Speaker 12: you ain't you like him? Billy?
Speaker 7: Well look at him, you ain't.
Speaker 12: Hm.
Speaker 2: I can see that the only way to have piece
Speaker 2: and quiet around here is to do what we come
Speaker 2: here to do. So get the bottle, Carolin. You ever
Speaker 2: seen a bottle of this stuff Gyson?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, sure, that's Scarzo, the men's cologne that me
Speaker 4: and my bow tie and the piano is supposed to
Speaker 4: quicken pusses with.
Speaker 1: It's the large economy.
Speaker 7: Have some now, look, mister Bailey, Gerson just dabs that
Speaker 7: stuff behind his ears.
Speaker 8: He doesn't drink it.
Speaker 4: All right, mister, you got us up here and throw
Speaker 4: a bottle of cologne in my face?
Speaker 1: Now what do you want me to do?
Speaker 12: See that piano? Sure?
Speaker 1: Play? Sure? Then we can go.
Speaker 12: He can't play, she can and can't even play, so goodbye?
Speaker 1: Who says I can't play?
Speaker 7: Hey?
Speaker 13: Play sure, but that's good, that's fine, great, I'm glad
Speaker 13: that you can, so we can clear this up. Listen, Guyson,
Speaker 13: you got the bow tie. You stink of skite, so
Speaker 13: and now you're going to play. There is just one thing.
Speaker 13: You'll quicken my wife's pulse.
Speaker 12: And you are dead.
Speaker 1: So go play.
Speaker 7: Oh my, you like this, go go?
Speaker 13: Please note the vein of my wife's troke. There is
Speaker 13: a tribe there that wasn't there before. It's been seventeen
Speaker 13: years since I have seen that tribe.
Speaker 8: Why don't just take it easy, mister Carolyn Carolyn? He
Speaker 8: is good, isn't he?
Speaker 7: Carolyn?
Speaker 12: Good? Look at him?
Speaker 7: The way he sits there, the way he sits there,
Speaker 7: fingers poised over.
Speaker 8: Who knows what strange melody?
Speaker 7: Strange melody, the talents that Gerson has.
Speaker 8: Tell me, tell me all sorts of thing.
Speaker 13: Tell your husband to tin around, because I hate to
Speaker 13: give it the folks in the back.
Speaker 7: Just one second more, mister Billy Carolyn, Honey, yeah, he
Speaker 7: does all sorts of things. You think his piano playing
Speaker 7: is good? I do? I do?
Speaker 8: You want to hear him whistle.
Speaker 1: Oh my, guy said, yes, ma'am, whistle whistle?
Speaker 8: What I don't know anything?
Speaker 7: Our song? Gerson?
Speaker 1: Oh yes, well all right, oh.
Speaker 11: My, you like that?
Speaker 7: The Tennessee Watts is my favorite? That does it? You
Speaker 7: can have him?
Speaker 12: Huh?
Speaker 7: Don't you see he's not for me anymore? Those two
Speaker 7: made for each other. Listen to me, mister Baileyville.
Speaker 8: Why should I try to fight it or you?
Speaker 12: Why don't I just kill him?
Speaker 7: That's a good idea, don't you see? It's the only
Speaker 7: way get him out of our lives once and for all.
Speaker 7: This this man, this monster, this wrecker of home.
Speaker 8: Laurie, be quiet, you wrecker of home?
Speaker 7: I said, be quiet?
Speaker 2: What kind of a way is that for a lady
Speaker 2: to talk to her husband?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 7: This man gets his face displayed in the subway. And
Speaker 7: what happens after eight years? He's not mine anymore. He
Speaker 7: belongs to the world. Who needs it?
Speaker 12: Hey, lady, that is your husband.
Speaker 7: Yeah, killed and after eighteen years your life what is it? Shambles?
Speaker 12: Get rid of him, lady, do it not? Lady, he's
Speaker 12: your husband.
Speaker 2: You'll be doing a good There is no way to
Speaker 2: talk about your husband.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 12: Look, I'm older than you. And I know you you
Speaker 12: hide a fellow when you talk about him like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, poor boy.
Speaker 13: Yeah, you're married to him, So be married to him
Speaker 13: through thick and thin. Yeah, that's the only way we know,
Speaker 13: Carolyn and I. Yeah, come here and sit by me, Carolyn,
Speaker 13: now here.
Speaker 12: By my feet?
Speaker 8: Now, where was I through thick and thin?
Speaker 12: Yeah? Through thick and thin?
Speaker 13: Yeah, the years comedy, years ago, but it is always
Speaker 13: a pleasant thing to have by your side.
Speaker 12: One's helped me, Dear Billy.
Speaker 7: Move over, honey, I want to sit by his feet too.
Speaker 13: As one sails his ship through the great sea of life,
Speaker 13: knocked about by the storm and his strike.
Speaker 4: Let me sit down too, pardon me, I buy the
Speaker 4: storm and this.
Speaker 13: Uh yeah, knocked about by those things. Well, one has
Speaker 13: a friend. One reaches calm waters. Billy, Yeah, I.
Speaker 8: Feel so sentimental, me too.
Speaker 7: Play something for us, Billy on the piano.
Speaker 10: Oh well, all right, he's been taking lessons.
Speaker 7: For almost a month now, since you're at the adjacent.
Speaker 4: Mm h, come on, let's steal away so you, uh,
Speaker 4: mister Bailey. Yeah, by now, have a happy New year.
Speaker 12: Yeah you too, Remember what I told.
Speaker 8: You, lady, I'll remember.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's satisfying.
Speaker 7: Very I saved your life.
Speaker 1: It almost got me killed. You and your ideas. I
Speaker 1: didn't want to wear this stringbow tie.
Speaker 7: Yes, ring for the elevator.
Speaker 4: Dear, Well, come on, Laurie, let's go out into the
Speaker 4: world and have us a happy New Year.
Speaker 7: Can you make room for me?
Speaker 11: Dearie?
Speaker 7: Oh sure, say?
Speaker 1: Don't I know you?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 8: Of course we talked the other day. I borrowed a
Speaker 8: pencil from you to do a crossword puzzle.
Speaker 12: I know you.
Speaker 9: You're the girl who's married to that man in the
Speaker 9: string bow tie.
Speaker 8: That's right, And whatever happened to him?
Speaker 9: What do you mean he's not up there in the
Speaker 9: ad anymore? Now there's another gent The man's standing by
Speaker 9: a fireplace with those four hounds at his feet.
Speaker 7: Is that man in that ad? There in mutton chop whiskers?
Speaker 8: Oh zowey, you like him as well as the man
Speaker 8: in the string bowt.
Speaker 9: Oh better better look at those whiskers, dear How would
Speaker 9: you like to run your hands through them?
Speaker 8: I have huh he's my husband him you what.
Speaker 7: Did you do with the other one?
Speaker 4: Get rid of him?
Speaker 7: New year?
Speaker 9: Oh, dearie, let me ask you something about the new
Speaker 9: one in the Mutton Chop, Whiskers, sow Wee, The.
Speaker 6: String bow Tie, starring Kathy and Elliott Lewis now once
Speaker 6: again Mister and Missus Lewis.
Speaker 7: We'd like to thank our good friend and Sheldon Leonard
Speaker 7: and Mary Jane Croft who came down tonight to help
Speaker 7: us start the new year and our new series by
Speaker 7: playing mister and Missus Bill Bailey.
Speaker 4: Yes, and Martha Wentworth, the Lady on the Subway, Vivi
Speaker 4: Janis who helped fix my tie, and Byron Kane who
Speaker 4: couldn't spell awk. Now next week, Kathy, Well, just.
Speaker 7: Before we went into rehearsal today we got a copy
Speaker 7: of next week's play, The Drunken Sailor. It was written
Speaker 7: for us by a very fine new radio writer.
Speaker 8: Richard Chandley. It's a spy story, exciting.
Speaker 12: And well you'll see yeah.
Speaker 4: And a week after that, a comedy about a nice
Speaker 4: girl and the bum written for us by Richard Powell.
Speaker 8: Thank you all for listening. A very happy new year,
Speaker 8: good night, good night.
Speaker 6: The String bow Tie was written by Morton Fine David Friedkin.
Speaker 6: The theme for Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage was
Speaker 6: written by Ray Noble. Music for the program was composed
Speaker 6: by Fred Steiner and conducted by Lud Gluskin, Kathy and
Speaker 6: Elliott Lewis on stage is transcribed and directed by mister Lewis.
Speaker 1: George Wall speaking.
Speaker 6: And remember John lond As Yours Truly. Johnny Dollair brings
Speaker 6: you colorful mystery Friday nights on the CBS Radio Network.
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