Speaker 1: Author's Playhouse.
Speaker 2: Authors Playhouse presents Tonight, a story of romance south of
Speaker 2: the Border.
Speaker 3: In Mexico City's gay hotel Pizzaro.
Speaker 2: One of the world's few remaining luxury hotels. It's well
Speaker 2: be a crowded with tourists, three of whom we're particularly
Speaker 2: interested in. Before we go any further, though, it might
Speaker 2: be a good idea to make the acquaintance of the
Speaker 2: persons in question. Hi Kramer, the reporter, For example, I.
Speaker 4: Got a telegram from the office. A character with the
Speaker 4: name of Manchester Smallwood's coming in this morning. The magazine
Speaker 4: wants us to cover his arrival with story and pictures.
Speaker 4: And then his photographer petit Mary Jane Fraser.
Speaker 5: Don't disturb me. Genius at work. This picture of Manchester
Speaker 5: small Wood in the throes of a samba is going
Speaker 5: to be the crowning point of my career.
Speaker 2: And less, but by no means least mister big himself.
Speaker 2: Manchester Smallwood, will you be kind enough to put away
Speaker 2: your camera.
Speaker 1: I do not wish any pictures taken. My affairs are
Speaker 1: definitely not your concern.
Speaker 2: Now, if all of this leaves you with the impression
Speaker 2: that all is not too neighborly among the northern good neighbors.
Speaker 2: You're right, but it all leads to merriment and Mexico
Speaker 2: Beginning on an early morning of a bright, warm day.
Speaker 3: It's too beautiful for work, but just.
Speaker 2: Right for idling in the sunshine. Mary Jane Fraser and
Speaker 2: Robert Carson's story Southern Exposure.
Speaker 6: Good morning, hankle, dear, meet.
Speaker 1: A different woman.
Speaker 5: I'd love to where Oh, very funny, very funny, mister Kramer. Look,
Speaker 5: this is our first day in Mexico City. I have
Speaker 5: no pictures to take, you have no story to write
Speaker 5: for our magazine of the Masses. We go to Sandborn's
Speaker 5: for breakfast, a nice, long, luxurious breakfast. Then we'll go
Speaker 5: sit in the park on a sunny bench with the rest.
Speaker 1: Of the box.
Speaker 3: Huh.
Speaker 4: I got a telegram from the office, a character but
Speaker 4: the name of Manchester. Small Wood's coming in this morning.
Speaker 4: They want us to cover his arrival.
Speaker 6: What's he coming for? To fight a bull?
Speaker 4: He's not coming to fight anybody. This is good neighbour
Speaker 4: stuff with our sister Republic, A big delicate deal.
Speaker 6: Why is he news? Is the Truman Committee after him?
Speaker 4: He's probably gonna see the presidents here and everybody. You
Speaker 4: seem politically ignorant.
Speaker 5: Honey, Well, I'm not ignorant. I just can't think without
Speaker 5: my breakfast, that's all. What's cooking with this Manchester?
Speaker 4: Oh, Manchester is a hot man for putting the fix
Speaker 4: on Latin America's troubles. Every time there's a heartache south
Speaker 4: of the border, does mister Anthony. He speaks Spanish with
Speaker 4: a strong University Wisconsin accent.
Speaker 6: I don't get it well.
Speaker 4: As Manchester was a child lawyer back in the days
Speaker 4: when they were calling for a new deal. He had
Speaker 4: a deck that wasn't marked, so they dragged him into Washington.
Speaker 4: He's been there ever since. Nothing flashy about Manchester, but
Speaker 4: he gets resolved.
Speaker 6: Never heard of him. Shall we go to breakfast before?
Speaker 4: I think, they say in New York it's important if
Speaker 4: it was me now, i'd photographed the guy and.
Speaker 3: Here his pitiful little story.
Speaker 5: Right after breakfast.
Speaker 3: Later, his plane gets here in forty minutes.
Speaker 1: I checked with the desk.
Speaker 6: Oh, you diamond, lagree.
Speaker 5: Why does life have.
Speaker 6: To be so bitter for a lone woman?
Speaker 3: A woman must suffer, my child.
Speaker 4: It's the woman who pays, especially if she can get
Speaker 4: a good job like you have. Go Senorita and procure
Speaker 4: your little picture taking black box.
Speaker 1: Where now riving?
Speaker 5: No, don't let anyone get away handy. Now, one navy guy,
Speaker 5: and if I charged him for looking, I could make
Speaker 5: a fortune. One fat Mexican signor a lady with a
Speaker 5: baby to ask her hank, that might be small when
Speaker 5: she's carrying.
Speaker 3: No sarcasm, sweetheart, this is big time. You're a sneering
Speaker 3: at hey. I think coming up as our man, he's
Speaker 3: the last one.
Speaker 5: Up speaking is an acute professional.
Speaker 6: I should say.
Speaker 5: The lad's no pinup boy. But there is character in
Speaker 5: his kisser.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: He looks a little like Gary Cooper playing Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well come on, we'll give him a chance to
Speaker 4: free the slaves.
Speaker 1: Uh, mister small one Manchester, That is correct, sir.
Speaker 4: I'd know you any place, especially when you give me
Speaker 4: your name. How you feeling enjoy.
Speaker 1: Your trip very much? May I ask your name?
Speaker 3: Yes, you may, but it just take up time and
Speaker 3: we have work to do. Now.
Speaker 4: I have the honor of representing Lenz, the greatest weekly
Speaker 4: picture magazine.
Speaker 3: In the world.
Speaker 5: He's pretty Stick him in the doorway.
Speaker 1: I beg your pardon.
Speaker 4: I'll just back up. Look at the lady with the camera.
Speaker 4: Let's see a big, happy smile. This can be quick
Speaker 4: if you'll cooperate.
Speaker 5: No small, but I've changed my mind. Go back in
Speaker 5: the plane and come out for me, and then low
Speaker 5: as you do so, I'll have a little light over you,
Speaker 5: and let's see your teeth.
Speaker 1: Madam? Would you be kind enough to put away your camera.
Speaker 1: I do not wish any pictures taken.
Speaker 5: Oh I don't think you understand. We're from a picture magazine, Lynch.
Speaker 1: I understand perfectly, and I don't want my picture taken.
Speaker 5: Are you kidding?
Speaker 6: Everybody wants his picture taken.
Speaker 1: There is always the exception that proves the road. Madam.
Speaker 1: I am that exception. Good day.
Speaker 5: Did you hear what he called me?
Speaker 6: Madam?
Speaker 5: They can't do that to me?
Speaker 4: Follow me, eh, madam. This requires a little diplomacy. We'll
Speaker 4: nab him in customs.
Speaker 5: Hey, I could steal a shot from here?
Speaker 6: Not very clear?
Speaker 3: Oh no, that wouldn't be ethic. Only beef about fuzzy
Speaker 3: stuff at the office.
Speaker 4: Somebody has to make that boy see the light, and
Speaker 4: I'm just the cookie to do it.
Speaker 3: He's begging for the super X treatment. You wait here
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 5: Hang on a minute, he'll be at our hotel. He's
Speaker 5: got a reservation there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it isn't all.
Speaker 4: He's got strong principles too, doesn't drink besides, and doesn't smoke.
Speaker 3: His only bise is taking long walks alone.
Speaker 5: Hush your chatter, son, and make what they're running. Supporter's
Speaker 5: piling his luggage.
Speaker 3: Into a can.
Speaker 5: And if we too are homeward.
Speaker 6: Donner, pardon me.
Speaker 5: I hear you're going.
Speaker 6: To the Pizarro that's our hotel. Do you find if
Speaker 6: we share a ride?
Speaker 1: Not at all, Mary.
Speaker 5: Jane Fraser, you've already met my father here.
Speaker 6: Get in daddy.
Speaker 3: Coach now, then, mister Smallwood, leave me. Have your views
Speaker 3: on the deal you're handling here, and make them colorful.
Speaker 1: I am in Mexico entirely unofficially. The purpose of my
Speaker 1: trip is rest in relaxation. I do not desire to
Speaker 1: have anything credit about.
Speaker 3: Fine. Fine. I hear you're going to meet with a
Speaker 3: lot of high government officials.
Speaker 1: You have been misinformed.
Speaker 4: Look Smallwood, now we better be frank with each other.
Speaker 4: This is getting us nowhere.
Speaker 1: I'll be frank with you, mister Kramer. My affairs are
Speaker 1: definitely not your concern. I won't answer any of your questions.
Speaker 1: I suggest you stop bothering me.
Speaker 5: This man I don't like him.
Speaker 4: Eat your breakfast and don't quibble. He's a fine, upstanding kid.
Speaker 4: They probably told him to come down here with a
Speaker 4: clamp on his lip. You know, one reason he's done
Speaker 4: so well is because he never gets into any trouble.
Speaker 4: You mustn't confuse his public life with his private life.
Speaker 4: His private life's undoubtedly awful.
Speaker 5: His public life is going to be awful by the
Speaker 5: time I'm through with him.
Speaker 3: And you will arrange that house Snorita by means.
Speaker 6: Known only to myself.
Speaker 5: I may put a flour in my hair, wear a
Speaker 5: long black dress, and carry castanets.
Speaker 6: Remember the story of Carmen.
Speaker 3: Nope, never knew the dame. But I expect to get
Speaker 3: a lot of laughs out of you, and maybe a
Speaker 3: jail senter.
Speaker 5: Oh, don't worry, Pappy. Tomorrow's Sunday. I always behave that day. Monday,
Speaker 5: we cover all the sides of Mexico City. I'll be
Speaker 5: under your eagle eye.
Speaker 7: And Tuesday, Ah, Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Don't go too quickly here. Let me help you. Are
Speaker 1: you badly hurt? Madam?
Speaker 5: I don't know my ankle.
Speaker 1: You haven't fractured it.
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, no, it's only a bad sprain.
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 1: Well in that case, you mustn't put any weight on it.
Speaker 1: I'll carry you. Shall it be the hotel?
Speaker 6: Oh you're too kind.
Speaker 5: It's so dark out here.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, this is my hotel.
Speaker 1: Can you place an arm about my neck?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 6: Small Wood? This is so unexpected.
Speaker 1: Oh it's miss Fraser, not at all, you see, in
Speaker 1: order to facilitate our progress under what might be difficulty.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't dream of causing you difficulty.
Speaker 6: There is that better?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yes, quite Perhaps if.
Speaker 5: I leaned my head on your shoulder I could RelA.
Speaker 1: That is certainly a point to consider.
Speaker 6: Considered and sound satisfactory.
Speaker 4: Are you comfortable?
Speaker 1: Yes? Very that is Your light is a feather to hold.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 6: You're nice to take pity on poor little meat.
Speaker 1: Not a bit my good fortune. I didn't know you
Speaker 1: enjoyed strolling in the evening.
Speaker 5: Oh, I adore the simple pleasures walking reading.
Speaker 1: I assure you. It's a pleasure to be of service Manchester.
Speaker 5: You must be for whom the girl's scout.
Speaker 6: You're so very.
Speaker 1: Sweet, not at all. I hope to be able to
Speaker 1: get you safely through this crowded lobby.
Speaker 5: Do you see Hank around?
Speaker 1: Yes, I believe he's there at the desk.
Speaker 5: Oh, uncle, Henry, what's happened?
Speaker 1: Mary Jane's speak to me? Please get miss Fraser's key.
Speaker 1: I must take her to her room. She'll need hot
Speaker 1: water for her ankle more.
Speaker 5: Oh please don't worry about me, Manchester. I'll be all right.
Speaker 5: I only hope you didn't wreck your back carrying me
Speaker 5: up to my room.
Speaker 1: Not at all. I liked it, I mean helping you.
Speaker 5: You're awfully strong, not at all.
Speaker 1: That is no stronger than any man my size. Mister
Speaker 1: Kramer could have carried you just as well.
Speaker 3: Oh no, he couldn't.
Speaker 5: It was so wonderful your being there. I don't know
Speaker 5: what I'd have done. I was friping out of my wits.
Speaker 1: You're very brave for such a little girl. Oh yes
Speaker 1: you are.
Speaker 5: Yes, something bothering you, mister Cramer. No, how can I
Speaker 5: ever thank you?
Speaker 6: Manchester?
Speaker 5: I know I've put you to a great deal of trouble,
Speaker 5: not at all. You know, we seem to have so
Speaker 5: many things in common that I'd like to talk over.
Speaker 5: We ought to wait a minute. What about tonight? Hank
Speaker 5: and his girlfriend and I have planned a little celebration.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, you remember.
Speaker 5: Could you join us?
Speaker 1: Uh celebration?
Speaker 5: Yes, you know, a nightclub or two, and maybe a
Speaker 5: ride along the Paca.
Speaker 6: I own an open taxi.
Speaker 1: It sounds delightful. I shall be happy to join all.
Speaker 6: Let's swell, let's make it to eight o'clock.
Speaker 1: Eight o'clock it is.
Speaker 4: I look forward to seeing you and you, sir, Yes,
Speaker 4: not at all, Mary Jane. Not that you didn't use
Speaker 4: that old lady in distress chestnut that I.
Speaker 8: Did that I did.
Speaker 5: There he is walking up and down the pasello and
Speaker 5: a fellow Anglo Saxon takes a fall right in front
Speaker 5: of him.
Speaker 6: Turns out to be a girl.
Speaker 5: From his own hotel, so he picks her up. I
Speaker 5: had my arms around his neck and groaned and whispered
Speaker 5: in his ear the whole trip. And by an odd coincidence,
Speaker 5: I was wearing a perfume called Bewilderment.
Speaker 1: You see what happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they don't go for that anymore. Turned ankle
Speaker 3: trick was washed up in the nineties.
Speaker 5: History Henry has a habit of repeating itself, And.
Speaker 4: You have a habit of being right, Well, when do
Speaker 4: I hear the rest of the plot?
Speaker 3: Now, fine, We're.
Speaker 5: Going to do a story on how marvelous Manchester spends
Speaker 5: his spare time during a mission to Mexico with My
Speaker 5: angle is to furnish him with some spare time and
Speaker 5: photograph it.
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 5: Yours is to take down his thoughts, if any, and
Speaker 5: furnish a continuity if any. With luck, we ought to
Speaker 5: be able to give him quite a reputation in the
Speaker 5: nation's capital.
Speaker 6: Do you mind to coin a phrase?
Speaker 3: Not at all?
Speaker 4: What about Manchester is going to? Furthermore, that guy, though
Speaker 4: backward in many respects, it's too smart to fall for
Speaker 4: such an open and shat routine.
Speaker 5: Now you mark my word, you mark mine. I've turned
Speaker 5: the fatal powers of my fascination on him. If he
Speaker 5: bought the ankle stuff, you'll buy anything. There's a little
Speaker 5: left to do except knock him off.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks for the interview.
Speaker 4: Be careful at poison dripping from your fangs doesn't ruin
Speaker 4: your Toothbruce, Hey, you surprise me.
Speaker 6: You're not speaking Frankly.
Speaker 5: I expected to tread a few measures with you might
Speaker 5: leave me a main woman, And here I am floating
Speaker 5: around like sixty.
Speaker 1: I learned to dance very thoroughly as part of my job.
Speaker 1: You never know whose wife you'll have to dance with
Speaker 1: in the light of duties in an agreement might be
Speaker 1: recolized having on their own toes.
Speaker 5: I see on your room mode major hemispheric solidarity. Do
Speaker 5: you ever have to make love in the course of
Speaker 5: your duty?
Speaker 1: Not at all?
Speaker 6: Oh, that's a pity, Manchester.
Speaker 5: Why do you say that life and love inseparable?
Speaker 1: You know so, the philosophers tell us. True, I hadn't
Speaker 1: given the money thought before.
Speaker 6: Oh, but you should.
Speaker 5: Well, you're forgetting that love makes the world go wrong
Speaker 5: in some way or another. It's behind all our right.
Speaker 5: You'd find that out if you knew more people.
Speaker 1: But I do. I meet scores of them all the time.
Speaker 5: Oh, those people you meet a stand which their real
Speaker 5: selves away. It's not like the guy who parades along
Speaker 5: Broadway between two wards. You barely see him, but you
Speaker 5: can't miss what he's advertised.
Speaker 1: But these people don't advertise. They're not commercial.
Speaker 5: Oh you grow younger by the minute, honey shop. Look,
Speaker 5: everyone who is dead advertises something beauty, brains, poverty, wickedness.
Speaker 5: Only I have to be able to distinguish the real
Speaker 5: thing from the build up he gives himself.
Speaker 1: You amaze me. Let us take a specific example. I
Speaker 1: see it for teeth, figure, curly brown hair, and deep
Speaker 1: blue eyes. Now tell me, miss Fraser, what other hidden
Speaker 1: quality should I search for.
Speaker 5: Well to make it colorful? Let's say teach read the
Speaker 5: seat and jump plain skullduggery.
Speaker 1: You try too hard to deny the evidence as an eyewitness.
Speaker 1: I believe you are a forthright and lawyers too kind
Speaker 1: hearted to take advantage of anyone and heard.
Speaker 5: I'm really a double crossing count.
Speaker 1: Not at all. I shall prove how long you are
Speaker 1: to leave us.
Speaker 5: Practice on me some other times. Right now, I want
Speaker 5: Hank's girlfriends to know that you cut a mean rug.
Speaker 1: I hope Senorita Cary will favor me with a dad.
Speaker 6: I'm sure she will. And here we are too a matha.
Speaker 5: You won't have to spend the whole evening waltzing with Willie.
Speaker 4: Henry Gramer is the name, and I'll thank you to
Speaker 4: have a little respect for my twin text little that's possible.
Speaker 5: What I want to get across to Amatha is Manchester's
Speaker 5: play with the sumber Oh signor you like the man
Speaker 5: with Manchester Spanish gold a Mama, he's our gifts to
Speaker 5: Mexico and it comes to free. Then we must speak together, Jeremy,
Speaker 5: do you find our country interest?
Speaker 1: Whoa see Senorita me magusta machismot. I'll make it.
Speaker 3: There's your chance, baby, make with a camera.
Speaker 5: Manchester that's got the device I have in my hand
Speaker 5: is the thing I keep for recording many a jolly moment.
Speaker 5: And then I put the photographs in my album and
Speaker 5: spend the lonely evenings remembering what big.
Speaker 6: Times I've had.
Speaker 5: Would it know your Manchester if I committed this plan
Speaker 5: back to the film.
Speaker 1: Of course not.
Speaker 5: Now, how about a special one of you, framed with
Speaker 5: these cunning little wine gods.
Speaker 1: I would love to.
Speaker 3: Lookay, he'll be giving away no secrets to tell you.
Speaker 4: You're out with a gent who's getting himself photographed right
Speaker 4: into oblivion.
Speaker 8: Well you mean that character small right. I'm glad he
Speaker 8: is not Spanish. She's a musical language, but he makes
Speaker 8: it sound like basic English.
Speaker 1: Oh my years.
Speaker 4: It's stillers have a pretty quick repete well too, But
Speaker 4: we're staying right out here until the murder's over.
Speaker 8: Now with that many flashboats and all the angle she
Speaker 8: is covering him from.
Speaker 1: Mary.
Speaker 8: Jane is committing it all right, but you will have
Speaker 8: to go back for the main events.
Speaker 3: What are you saying?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 8: Night, Jane wants to shot of Manchester doing this number,
Speaker 8: and I promise to take him on.
Speaker 5: He should look cute doing that little jump in the middle.
Speaker 3: Of woman's in humanity to man And don't you like
Speaker 3: to stay?
Speaker 8: Okay, it's senior small Wood?
Speaker 6: Have you forgotten us?
Speaker 8: Zamba?
Speaker 1: This music is what we have been waiting for. I
Speaker 1: hear sanreta carrec pardon that's please, not at all.
Speaker 5: They make cheese and Wisconsin, of which we have with
Speaker 5: us a sample brand.
Speaker 3: I ought to wash your mouth out with Scott.
Speaker 5: Don't disturb me. Genius at work. This picture of small
Speaker 5: Wood in the throes of a samba is going to
Speaker 5: be the crowning shot of my career.
Speaker 8: You know I mean it.
Speaker 1: You are very good SENDI not at all.
Speaker 5: Oh, this has been a wonderful party. I hope all
Speaker 5: my exposures were right. Then I'll have some swell memories
Speaker 5: for a cold, rainy night back home.
Speaker 4: Leaving well enough alone, I should say we'd better shove
Speaker 4: off y'all said about.
Speaker 1: We'll join you in the fall year immediate. Right now
Speaker 1: that we're alone this phraser, I just want to say
Speaker 1: that this has been one of the happiest nights of
Speaker 1: my life, and that I hope the pictures turn out well.
Speaker 6: Thanks so do I.
Speaker 1: Although I may have seemed to pay a good deal
Speaker 1: of attention to Senorita carry, my thoughts were actually elsewhere
Speaker 1: on you, to the exact, you are my main interest.
Speaker 6: Well, I'll be done. When did that start.
Speaker 1: When you pretended to sprain your ankle and let me
Speaker 1: carry you? I never enjoyed lifting anything so much as you.
Speaker 5: So that's what he tells me at the table last night.
Speaker 3: Don't kid yourself.
Speaker 4: The pride of Madison's catching on or was wise from
Speaker 4: the start. His next step is to take your cute
Speaker 4: little camera and bust it over your cute little head.
Speaker 4: And cameras are hard to get these days, So a.
Speaker 6: Man who can dance, maybe I should go easy on
Speaker 6: him from now on.
Speaker 3: What do you mean from now on?
Speaker 6: Oh, that's when.
Speaker 5: I started to tell you he wants to come along
Speaker 5: on the rest of the trips we have to take.
Speaker 6: And I've been saying thinking hank All last night.
Speaker 3: You feel a little strained. You shouldn't overdo it, you
Speaker 3: know the first.
Speaker 6: Time, save you're poisoned. Arrow's friend.
Speaker 5: My conscience isn't bothering me yet, it's well trained. Look
Speaker 5: the guy is direct and honest, smart in his own
Speaker 5: government way. He's got a dignity I like too, And
Speaker 5: after the Wolves of Three Continents, he's a refreshing change.
Speaker 4: Then one day he'll be seeing himself in the pages
Speaker 4: of Lens and there'll.
Speaker 3: Be another change.
Speaker 4: He won't be associating anymore with the female of the species,
Speaker 4: which rumor has it.
Speaker 3: Is deadlier than the male.
Speaker 4: Well, here we are in Tasco, after what I call
Speaker 4: a good week's work.
Speaker 3: The town's the same, but I'll never be We've.
Speaker 5: Only put in a day. And besides, remember the vacation angle.
Speaker 5: You not only have a story on Tasco, but you
Speaker 5: got it firsthand, not out of.
Speaker 1: The National geographic I guess I'll always remember Tasco a
Speaker 1: beautiful place, the drive up out of the valley and
Speaker 1: over the mountains to fifty six hundred feet high, and
Speaker 1: life in another century.
Speaker 5: And I'll always remember you Manchester. You've been a right
Speaker 5: guy about all these pictures. I've got you in a
Speaker 5: boat at Zacamulco, there's one of you in the National
Speaker 5: pawn Shop looking at the Hawk diamonds, one at the
Speaker 5: flower markets, and there's the other one of you met
Speaker 5: bullfighters Eustis, and now you and Tasco keeping company with
Speaker 5: a burrow.
Speaker 4: I hope that's present company accepted. If not, as soon
Speaker 4: will be because I'm getting sleepy. Speaking of the pastoral
Speaker 4: scene reminds me. I've often thought that after this world
Speaker 4: conflict is over, I'd be perfectly happy to retire to
Speaker 4: a farm and watch the milk cams fill up. Cows
Speaker 4: are a pretty good company when you get to know them, you.
Speaker 6: Know, I'd like to get to know a few cows myself.
Speaker 1: My cows, perhaps why not?
Speaker 4: I think we better shut the barn door now and
Speaker 4: get going. This kind of conversation is bad for my
Speaker 4: hay fever.
Speaker 1: Do you wish to retire? Also? Miss Fraser, by the.
Speaker 6: Thing for my thoughts in either sense of the words, I.
Speaker 1: Admire your unflagging spirit.
Speaker 3: Well that's not a pleasure you're likely to overindulge.
Speaker 1: See you're two in the morning.
Speaker 6: Good night, run approaches Hank all.
Speaker 1: Shall we walk down the hills of the plaza, watch
Speaker 1: the people maybe, or have some refreshment in the pulk carrier.
Speaker 5: Oh, it sounds like the perfect ending.
Speaker 6: Let's go.
Speaker 1: Lovely, isn't it. The flickering lights from the crest of
Speaker 1: this hill.
Speaker 5: Oh, it's almost too beautiful.
Speaker 6: Nights like this UN's fair in what way?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: They make me go all soft and sentimental.
Speaker 1: Do you have some particular objection to feeling sauce and sentimental?
Speaker 5: Definitely, A working girl can't afford romantic sauces. They never
Speaker 5: pay time and a half for.
Speaker 1: Overtime five ten dollars and cents perhaps, But they might
Speaker 1: have other compensations.
Speaker 6: Name one.
Speaker 1: Well. Marriage is generally recognized as the outstanding consummation of romance.
Speaker 5: Wedding bells are for sweet young things with starry eyes.
Speaker 5: In career women, that's the light that failed.
Speaker 1: I've noticed nothing but a sparkle in your eyes.
Speaker 5: It could be you know.
Speaker 6: Early in life I invested in a book called how.
Speaker 5: To Take Pictures and make enemies or keep the love
Speaker 5: light glowing to hypnotize her subject. Remember our first meeting.
Speaker 1: That is a source of constant pain to me. I
Speaker 1: bitterly regret and apologize for my lack of insight.
Speaker 5: Oh, no, hard feelings, take it eating. Besides, it was
Speaker 5: all in the routine.
Speaker 1: I realized that now I also have realized your advice
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 5: Excellent, and which golden rule is bead.
Speaker 1: Learn about life and love?
Speaker 5: Oh fine, I ought to charge you a slight fee.
Speaker 5: Now that you're a satisfied customer.
Speaker 1: I'm not yet thoroughly happy.
Speaker 5: Oh that'll never do. What's bothering?
Speaker 1: Now? How to overcome your prejudice against love?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 5: I have nothing against the stuff? Just been too busy,
Speaker 5: that's all.
Speaker 1: Is a photography going to occupy.
Speaker 5: Your entire life, probably until I need blinkers and a
Speaker 5: pair of wooden legs.
Speaker 1: Don't you ever consider another existence?
Speaker 6: Certainly I do.
Speaker 5: On a night like this sight, I dream of a
Speaker 5: cottage by a brooks with a road leading past us.
Speaker 6: All the people in the world can go down that road.
Speaker 5: But I never even look up from my knitting, because
Speaker 5: I'm just a farmer's daughter and I don't know a
Speaker 5: thing about a camera.
Speaker 1: Couldn't it be as wonderful a dream if you were
Speaker 1: a farmer's wife, wife's daughter.
Speaker 5: I won't equipped it's only a dream.
Speaker 1: Then, let's take reality. Look down a task, go below
Speaker 1: us here. Think of all the people down there who
Speaker 1: have met and loved and are now engaged in raising children. Economically,
Speaker 1: they have much to desire and the solid diet of startup.
Speaker 5: I speak to the point you were telling me about
Speaker 5: the people who've met and loved.
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, well, I've got a funny name, and I'm
Speaker 1: not much to look at.
Speaker 5: You look a little like Gary Cooper in The Dog Who.
Speaker 6: Never mind?
Speaker 5: What were you saying?
Speaker 1: Just that I love you. A man doesn't get rich
Speaker 1: working for the government, so I have practically nothing to offer. Nevertheless,
Speaker 1: I want you to become my wife.
Speaker 6: What I don't know what to say?
Speaker 5: Manchester. This is so sudden, and.
Speaker 6: I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 1: I know it is. Passion has carried me away. Please
Speaker 1: forgive me. I'll see you tomorrow. Will you shake hands?
Speaker 5: Of course? Good night? Not at all?
Speaker 6: Well, how do you like that?
Speaker 5: Alone? With flickering lights? People who met and loved? Tascal
Speaker 5: not much use standing around.
Speaker 9: I guess I do wish to retire after all.
Speaker 3: Okay, if it's okay, break it up.
Speaker 4: It's not a four to eleven alarm the sanway.
Speaker 1: It isn't hurt.
Speaker 4: There's no damage done. So just step away, so the
Speaker 4: smoke and clear out, all right? Now, Tell Daddy, why
Speaker 4: do you want to burn this joint down?
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 5: I was burning the negatives of the pictures I took
Speaker 5: of Manchester, and they flared up for a minute and
Speaker 5: got away from me.
Speaker 1: Why are you destroying them?
Speaker 5: Oh hank, he proposed to me. I can't double cross
Speaker 5: a man who wants me to be as bride.
Speaker 3: When did this change of heart occur?
Speaker 5: Well, he knew me better than I did myself.
Speaker 6: After all?
Speaker 3: Are you in love with him?
Speaker 5: I don't know. It may just be the altitude or fatigued.
Speaker 1: I heard the commotion. Is there something the matter?
Speaker 5: Yes, there is, Manchester. I've been a bad girl. I
Speaker 5: took all of those pictures of you to use in
Speaker 5: a lens.
Speaker 1: I know you know that is why I was doing
Speaker 1: all I could to help you get them.
Speaker 5: Weren't you forgetting the exception to the rural business?
Speaker 1: Exactly? I'm sick of being an ambassador of goodwill and
Speaker 1: of having people shrink at my spanning.
Speaker 3: Meaning us no doubt, and.
Speaker 1: Taking such care of how I act you.
Speaker 4: We have had moments when we loved you for yourself alone,
Speaker 4: small Wood.
Speaker 1: I wanted those pictures of yours to come out and
Speaker 1: cause me trouble in Washington. Then I could resign and
Speaker 1: get in the army where I belong. As long as
Speaker 1: I keep doing all right, they won't let me go.
Speaker 5: In other words, you've merely been leading me on.
Speaker 1: Not at all. I want you to be my wife,
Speaker 1: as I stated previously. This evening, however, I accept that's
Speaker 1: the deal.
Speaker 5: Let's say good night again, and this time we're not
Speaker 5: going to shake hands.
Speaker 3: This is going to be a most interesting finish. I'm
Speaker 3: very happy to have a ring sights.
Speaker 5: Well, no, you don't hang. This is one continuity that
Speaker 5: you went strictly from imagination.
Speaker 4: Wait outside, what National Geographic doesn't funny?
Speaker 5: Seems like that Outside? I am going to kiss Manchester
Speaker 5: and it may knock him cold.
Speaker 2: You have heard Robert Carson's story Southern Exposure, adapted for
Speaker 2: Author's Playhouse by Mary C. Quinn and directed by Harry Bubeck.
Speaker 2: The cast of Author's Playhouse Tonight included Geraldine Kay as Mary,
Speaker 2: Jane Olin Sole as Hank Kramer, Clarence Hartzel as Manchester, Smallwood,
Speaker 2: and Cheer Bramson as Senorita amata Akire. The Mexican background
Speaker 2: melodies were sung by Senor Luthio Garthia, and the musical
Speaker 2: score was conducted by Joseph Galligil. Next week, same time,
Speaker 2: same station, Author's Playhouse will bring you Frederick J. Lipp's
Speaker 2: dramatic story of a man whose mind snapped, and of
Speaker 2: how he came back to the world he had once
Speaker 2: known and cherished. Cry for the Hunted