Speaker 1: Transcribe Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis Elliott Lewis,
Speaker 1: two of the most distinguished names in radio, opening tonight
Speaker 1: in their own theater, starring in a repertory of stories
Speaker 1: of their own. And you're choosing radio's foremost players and
Speaker 1: radio's foremost plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Mister Elliott Lewis.
Speaker 3: Good, evening, may I present my wife, Kathy Good Evening.
Speaker 3: Tonight is our opening night, and tonight is the first
Speaker 3: day of the new year. So we're going to do
Speaker 3: a comedy for you to start our new series.
Speaker 4: Something like a spray of confetti to go with the season.
Speaker 4: A story about a young man and his wife in
Speaker 4: nineteen fifty three.
Speaker 5: Nice people, not rich, not poor, happy with each other,
Speaker 5: you know. Nice.
Speaker 3: So tonight we present String bow Tie by Morton Fine
Speaker 3: and David Friedkin. My name in the play is Gerson Hapsmith.
Speaker 5: And I'm Laurie Hapsmith, and.
Speaker 6: We're married and we live in New York.
Speaker 3: The opening scene has to do with Laurie. She's got
Speaker 3: a seat on the Seventh Avenue subway. It's New Year's Eve, afternoon,
Speaker 3: and she's on our way home from work. At the moment,
Speaker 3: she's upset because the seated man next door is working
Speaker 3: the crossword puzzle and doesn't know the three letter word
Speaker 3: for the web footed diving bird of the Arctic Sea.
Speaker 6: Laurie knows awk.
Speaker 5: M sixteen down. It's uk auk now extinct. It's very
Speaker 5: cold in the Arctic. Here's the paper.
Speaker 6: You work it out, yes.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 6: By that's Laurie.
Speaker 3: Easy to get along with, even on a subway where
Speaker 3: people are pretty tough to get along with. To make
Speaker 3: a point out of it, Laurie in a way she knows,
Speaker 3: makes herself smaller so that very large woman will have
Speaker 3: ample room on the seat.
Speaker 5: You crowded, dear No, not at all. Do you have
Speaker 5: a pencil? Oh sure, sure, Dearie.
Speaker 7: Wait, I'll find it somewhere. I got it, hears done
Speaker 7: place at my face? Oh here, thank you. I like
Speaker 7: to wear Crossford puzzles on her way home.
Speaker 5: Oh thanks, they're extinct now, Dearie.
Speaker 4: Yes, I know swy which one honey across or down upstair?
Speaker 4: On the advertisement where see the one between the termite
Speaker 4: service and the cheese crack is saw wee Oh.
Speaker 5: You mean the picture of the man in a string
Speaker 5: bow tie sitting at.
Speaker 7: The piano schezzo a man's cologne to quicken the pulse
Speaker 7: of women.
Speaker 5: Oh you know.
Speaker 7: Something, why I understand perfectly the emotions of those four
Speaker 7: women seated at his feet.
Speaker 5: Oh look at that man, dearie. Uh huh.
Speaker 7: Let me know when we get the Times Square. Yesterday
Speaker 7: I ended up in Bronx Park just staring at him.
Speaker 7: That fella's a real beauty.
Speaker 5: Do you really think so? Huh? Just me?
Speaker 7: We all over town, ladies standing around staring, admiring. Oh no,
Speaker 7: wonder the way he sits there at the piano, hands
Speaker 7: poised over. Who knows what strange melody, the grace of
Speaker 7: that fellow.
Speaker 5: The passion is my husband.
Speaker 7: Down to his fingertips, smoldering written all over him.
Speaker 5: He's my husband. Ah honest. What's his name? Gerson?
Speaker 2: Gerson?
Speaker 5: Gerson? What? Gerson? Halfsmith? Dearie, what let me ask you something? No?
Speaker 5: So we honey, this is Times Square? Who needs it?
Speaker 7: I've got a little shoping to do in Bronx Park. Gerson,
Speaker 7: I'm home, Gerson?
Speaker 5: What are you doing?
Speaker 3: I was trying to ride a slogan for the agency
Speaker 3: what account lempkey water biscuit account. It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 3: What rhymes with lemp key? Mh give me here, Laurie him.
Speaker 5: I want to tell you something lover her. It happened
Speaker 5: again today on the subway.
Speaker 6: Did I have a big house mobbed?
Speaker 5: Then there was a woman who sat next to.
Speaker 6: Me, blonde brunette both.
Speaker 5: Oh honey, you're the heartbeat of the subway circuit. You
Speaker 5: know what that woman said about your picture? Zoue.
Speaker 6: You don't know the half of it.
Speaker 5: Tell me the half of it.
Speaker 3: Mister Honeywell at the agency called me in and said
Speaker 3: they formed a fan club in Bronx Park.
Speaker 5: Do me a favor, Gerson, Sure, kiss me anytime.
Speaker 4: Oh five million quickening posts in New York.
Speaker 5: Gerson, you're my man?
Speaker 6: Yeah, baby, Baby? You jealous?
Speaker 5: Why should I be jealous? Just to be missus Hapsmith
Speaker 5: is all I ever wanted?
Speaker 3: Crazy the way it happened four years ago and the
Speaker 3: model didn't show up, Mister Honeywell tapped me for the job,
Speaker 3: pulled me away.
Speaker 6: From my typewriter, thrust a string bow tie.
Speaker 5: In my hand and said this is it, Hapsmith.
Speaker 6: No, No, he didn't.
Speaker 3: He just told me to climb into the bow tie
Speaker 3: and run upstairs and sit in front of the piano.
Speaker 6: Four years ago, and they just released it. Now.
Speaker 3: My pictures in every bus and subway in New York.
Speaker 3: You know what mister Honeywell said to me today.
Speaker 5: He asked you for the bow tie.
Speaker 3: No, he said, this is it, Hapsmith. We've just landed
Speaker 3: the nine star meat account. I want you to pose
Speaker 3: for it in mutton chop whiskers.
Speaker 4: Oh no, you won't, not my gerson, Not in mutton shop.
Speaker 6: That's what I told mister Honeywell.
Speaker 3: A place in an advertizing agency for me is in
Speaker 3: the back of a typewriter making up slogans.
Speaker 5: That's telling mister Honeywell.
Speaker 3: Come on, let's get dressed baby. New Year's Eves, Manhattan.
Speaker 3: You wear the off the shoulder.
Speaker 5: You wear something for me too? What the string bow tie?
Speaker 6: You kidding?
Speaker 5: I wanna show you. Ah, you kidding to all of
Speaker 5: New York. The man in this string bow tie is mom.
Speaker 6: No listen, baby, I get The.
Speaker 5: Woman behind the man who quickens the pulses is me.
Speaker 5: You just run along something of that bow Tigers.
Speaker 3: I don't even know how to tie it, mister Honeywell,
Speaker 3: tied it for me.
Speaker 5: Anything, honeywell can do for you? I can do, mister.
Speaker 3: Honeywell they do you really want me to?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 6: Baby? You don't have to say please to me.
Speaker 8: Erson, Just go get the bow tie.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's the stat Come on.
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know why supposed to go out.
Speaker 5: On New Year's Eve. Everything is so wonderful, even a
Speaker 5: crowded subway.
Speaker 3: I want to tell you something. But here we are
Speaker 3: twelve feet.
Speaker 6: On the ground.
Speaker 5: Figures, there's two of us.
Speaker 3: No, I mean here we are you and I rushing around.
Speaker 6: In a subway and a crowd.
Speaker 5: Of people not crowded down the other end of the car.
Speaker 4: Gerson, Why did you have to pick a seat right
Speaker 4: under your pickles?
Speaker 6: Let me finish with you.
Speaker 3: Sorry, crowd of people and I feel like we're alone, Laurie,
Speaker 3: hurtling through space alone me?
Speaker 5: Please? Could I just squeeze in here? Foot?
Speaker 6: Well here, I'll get up.
Speaker 7: Oh no, you don't, you just sit there. I squeezed
Speaker 7: in between you. You mind scooching over a little, madam.
Speaker 5: There we are.
Speaker 6: I'm over here, Laurie.
Speaker 7: Mister yeah, you're skirts though, aren't you? When you got
Speaker 7: on I told my girlfriend Janis there's skirts of the
Speaker 7: man in the string boat tied. And Janni said to me,
Speaker 7: she said, every time you get on the subway's touch dreaming?
Speaker 5: Really, Jennis, it's him, wave to.
Speaker 2: Jenny's Yes, all right, Hi Janice, young.
Speaker 7: Lady, listen, madam, you've had him since twenty third Street.
Speaker 5: Don't be ahog. I'm going to feel silly saying it,
Speaker 5: but I'm going to say it. This man is mine
Speaker 5: ha haha. Put your money where your mouth is, Madam.
Speaker 5: Ask him, hey, skeats him? Are you hurt?
Speaker 6: She's my wife?
Speaker 5: Well if she is your wife, pray.
Speaker 7: Tell who are those four girls on the advertisement who
Speaker 7: are scattered beneath your piano?
Speaker 3: Well they're models, that's all, just girls.
Speaker 5: So that's all. Are you honest, young lady? Yes, madam,
Speaker 5: beat it blow Go tell Janice. She wants you. Look Madam.
Speaker 7: You might be married to him and all, but I'd
Speaker 7: like to explain the facts of life to you. The
Speaker 7: minute he got up in that advertisement, he belonged to humanity,
Speaker 7: female type.
Speaker 4: Can I fix your bot tye skets h Yes ahead.
Speaker 5: Yes, where we get off, GIRs. The lady just want
Speaker 5: to belong to humanity. Gerson and they're waiting for you
Speaker 5: up there.
Speaker 4: Let's hurry before the door slams in your face. Gersey
Speaker 4: mm hmm, you do a stunning wolf.
Speaker 6: Four or four is my favorite temple.
Speaker 4: I'm having a lovely time too, oh, just dancing like
Speaker 4: this beautiful cafe champagne.
Speaker 5: You feel a champagne?
Speaker 6: Me too?
Speaker 5: Me too.
Speaker 3: Let's go back to the table and have some more champagne.
Speaker 6: I love that song.
Speaker 5: What song song?
Speaker 3: The orchestra is just playing Tennessee wolves.
Speaker 6: Let it be our song. Here's our table. What are
Speaker 6: you singing? I song that's not the Tennessee walls. Baby.
Speaker 6: Our song goes like this.
Speaker 8: Oh oh, oh, oh, oh Mychael.
Speaker 2: Pardon me, friend, yes, what is it? You're the boy
Speaker 2: that posed for that pity few man.
Speaker 5: Give you a shirt?
Speaker 2: No, wait, don't bother with the pencil, friend, Just the question,
Speaker 2: are you am? I what the buster who sits at
Speaker 2: the piano? See? I only asked because you weren't a
Speaker 2: bow tie like him. You got a face like him.
Speaker 2: The only difference is you only got one dame and
Speaker 2: no piano.
Speaker 3: Come here, I'll tell you, yeah, I happened.
Speaker 6: To be that chap.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what chap I happen to be.
Speaker 2: Just put your hand in my pocket and feel that's
Speaker 2: right now. Now I'll take your hand out. What did
Speaker 2: you feel?
Speaker 3: A Smith Wesson thirty eight snob No Series nineteen twenty seven. Hey, Laurie,
Speaker 3: you know what was in his pocket? A Smith West.
Speaker 2: Let's leave, I said, sit down, you're him? How must do?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 2: That's all I want to know.
Speaker 5: I'll put you you talk to me like that again,
Speaker 5: and I'll scream.
Speaker 2: Well before you do, lady, I want to tell you something.
Speaker 2: You you know the Hudson Tunnel.
Speaker 6: Sure, we take from them all the time, and we
Speaker 6: go to Jersey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, you know that concrete pedestal that the policeman
Speaker 2: stands on. It's just before you hit the jery Zy sign.
Speaker 6: Know it very well? You remember, Laura.
Speaker 5: It's my favorite mine too.
Speaker 2: That particular concrete pedestal is composed of five ingredients, sand cement,
Speaker 2: and three of my favorite boys. Just because they wouldn't
Speaker 2: pay any attention to me. So would you please?
Speaker 5: Would you pay attention to me? We're all ears.
Speaker 6: Up both to you.
Speaker 2: Now, let's go celebrate New Year's Eve, shall we?
Speaker 1: My way, you're listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on
Speaker 1: stage tonight's play The String bow.
Speaker 3: Tie Laurie, Yes, dear, is he still laving?
Speaker 5: Yes, dear?
Speaker 2: Keep walking?
Speaker 4: Come on, look look mister, why are you doing this
Speaker 4: to us? You want our money?
Speaker 2: What sheep walking?
Speaker 5: But who are you? 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. Live through it, all right,
Speaker 2: I'm back.
Speaker 6: All of us.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's go, all right, Thomas take us home.
Speaker 3: Mister, Yeah, it's on account of this string bow tie.
Speaker 2: Huh, it's not a kind of that, hey, buster me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how come that when you stuck your hand in my pocket?
Speaker 2: You knew right away without looking at the gun was
Speaker 2: a Smitt and Wesson ninety eighth Snubnose series nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 3: By work in an advertising agency. I wrote a slogan
Speaker 3: for it for Catalog. Oh yeah, how to go use
Speaker 3: 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 4: I hate to louse up your testimonial, but I'd like
Speaker 4: to point a few things.
Speaker 6: Out to you.
Speaker 2: You're a titler.
Speaker 5: This is a very serious offense.
Speaker 4: Kidnapping us out of a nightclub, taking us to a
Speaker 4: place or place is unknown, and for such a flimsy
Speaker 4: reason because my husband is on a subway card.
Speaker 2: I hate him? Me?
Speaker 6: What did I ever do to you?
Speaker 3: You'll see, look, sir, I just happen to be a
Speaker 3: fellow named Gerson.
Speaker 2: HAPs that just happened to be a fellow named William
Speaker 2: Bailey who hates you.
Speaker 5: Where are you taking us? You'll see, Gerson? What say something?
Speaker 4: Make mister Bailey realize that he's not dealing with a
Speaker 4: cardboard personality. Make him know what's in store for him
Speaker 4: if he doesn't let us off right away.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make me do that.
Speaker 6: Go on, mister Bailey.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is madness, that's all you're gonna say.
Speaker 5: Gerson, Gerson, you're my man?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, mister Bailey.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: You don't think you're gonna get away with this, do you?
Speaker 3: What's the big idea of holding a gun on us
Speaker 3: and marching us out of a nightclub, making us walk
Speaker 3: down the street, making us get into a long black
Speaker 3: car and driving us away?
Speaker 6: What's the big idea that? Huh?
Speaker 3: This is civilization we got going for us here, Fellow
Speaker 3: there's no place in it for the primitive, the predatory emotion.
Speaker 3: You say you hate me, I don't hate you. My
Speaker 3: wife doesn't hate you, although the seed is there.
Speaker 6: You think the world's against you, don't you.
Speaker 3: Well, somewhere down the line, you've been tricked, mister Bailey,
Speaker 3: bill disillusioned. Oh now, lord, just because I paused for
Speaker 3: an ad. Hey, I know what. I'll take off the
Speaker 3: string bow.
Speaker 2: Tie and hunch that tie and I will break your
Speaker 2: arm here, here and here.
Speaker 3: Listen you, you hulum, renegade, matter factor.
Speaker 4: You listen to me, You houtlum. You leave my husband alone.
Speaker 4: It isn't his fault. He's wearing that string bow tie.
Speaker 4: I made him put it on. Anything that's going to
Speaker 4: happen should happen to me, not him.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe what a dame in a Hudson tunnel? Hmmm, dame,
Speaker 2: that'll pose quite a problem for a concrete mixer. Wonder
Speaker 2: if he knows the recipe? Just flow people come on inside?
Speaker 5: Oh my, uh huh?
Speaker 6: You like it? Eh?
Speaker 4: Oh well, you must be the greatest Hutlam of them
Speaker 4: all to be able to afford this, mister Bailey.
Speaker 5: Na in such beautiful tastes, such excusistic. You ought to
Speaker 5: be proud of this place.
Speaker 2: Yes I am, I am, and I can tell you this, lady,
Speaker 2: there is never going to be another place like it.
Speaker 5: Uh the decorator, Yeah, Hudson song, the one in the middle. Y.
Speaker 2: Uh, Carolyn, it's me, it's me. Come on out here.
Speaker 2: I got something for you.
Speaker 5: Oh, Billy, you brought him? Hi me, You're cute him.
Speaker 5: He's cute, Carolyn, He's cute.
Speaker 2: You like him?
Speaker 5: Man, tell him to walk around?
Speaker 2: Walk? Walk?
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: Listen you, My wife wants you to walk, So do it.
Speaker 6: I don't understand.
Speaker 2: Stick his head right in the light socket. So I'll
Speaker 2: help me out.
Speaker 4: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, I'll explain it
Speaker 4: to him.
Speaker 5: Gerson. Honey, the man's got it done. He's pointing at it. You.
Speaker 5: He wants you to walk.
Speaker 4: You know how that bit goes first this foot and
Speaker 4: then that foot, and then before you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, all right, that's enough, come back.
Speaker 5: Well cute.
Speaker 2: You know why I brought him here, Carolyn.
Speaker 5: Because you love me, Billy, Billy loves me.
Speaker 2: I brought him here so that you can see in
Speaker 2: a flash, this guy that you have been moping over
Speaker 2: since you saw that advertisement in the subway.
Speaker 5: Billy's good to me. What's your thank you?
Speaker 6: Gerson?
Speaker 5: You see, Billy, I told you you guessed his name
Speaker 5: was Gerson. He's cute.
Speaker 2: Shee, Carolyn, Carolyn, I'm talking to you.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want proof to you, Carolyn, that this Geyson who
Speaker 2: sits in front of a piano on the skiteo cologne ed,
Speaker 2: he is a Geyson like any other Geyson. He's just
Speaker 2: a guy. See, he is not somebody who every morning,
Speaker 2: noon and night you say to me, why you ain't
Speaker 2: you like him?
Speaker 6: Billy?
Speaker 5: Well look at him, you ain't.
Speaker 2: M I can see that the only way to have
Speaker 2: peace and quiet around here is to do what we
Speaker 2: come here to do. So get the bottle, Carolyn. You
Speaker 2: ever seen a bottle of this stuff, Gyson?
Speaker 6: Poor?
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, that's Scarzo, the men's cologne that me and
Speaker 3: my bow tie and the piano is supposed to quicken
Speaker 3: pusses with.
Speaker 6: It's the large economy.
Speaker 4: Have some now, look, mister Bailey, Gerson just dabs that
Speaker 4: stuff behind his ears.
Speaker 5: He doesn't drink it.
Speaker 3: All right, mister you got us up here and throw
Speaker 3: a bottle of cologne in my face?
Speaker 6: Now what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2: See that piano?
Speaker 6: Sure?
Speaker 2: Play?
Speaker 6: Sure, then we can go.
Speaker 2: He can't play, she can and can't even play, so goodbye.
Speaker 6: Who says I can't play?
Speaker 8: Hey play?
Speaker 2: Sure? But that's good, that's fine, great. I'm glad that
Speaker 2: you can so we can clear this up. Listen, Grayson,
Speaker 2: you got the bow tie. You stink of skite, so
Speaker 2: and now you're going to play. There is just one thing.
Speaker 2: You'll quicken my wife's pulse and you are dead. So
Speaker 2: go play.
Speaker 5: Oh my, you like this, go go?
Speaker 2: Please Note the vein of my wife's throat. There is
Speaker 2: a tribe there that wasn't there before. It's been seventeen
Speaker 2: years since I have seen that tribe.
Speaker 5: Why no, no, just take it easy, mister Bailey Greeny Carolyn, Carolyn,
Speaker 5: He is good, isn't he?
Speaker 2: Kron good?
Speaker 5: Look at him?
Speaker 4: The way he sits there, The way he sits there,
Speaker 4: fingers poised over. Who knows what strange melody? Strange melody
Speaker 4: the talents that Gerson has tell me, tell me all
Speaker 4: sorts of thing.
Speaker 2: Tell your husband to tlin around, because I hate to
Speaker 2: give it the folks in the back.
Speaker 5: Just one second more.
Speaker 4: Mister Billy, Carolyn honey, Yeah, he does all sorts of things.
Speaker 4: You think his piano playing is good?
Speaker 5: I do? I do you want to hear him whistle? Oh?
Speaker 3: My, guy said, yes, ma'am, whistle whistle?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 5: I don't know anything? Our song? Gerson?
Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, well all right, Oh my.
Speaker 7: You like that?
Speaker 5: The Tennessee wats is my favorite? That does it? You
Speaker 5: can have him?
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 4: Don't you see? He's not for me anymore? Those two
Speaker 4: made for each other. Listen to me, mister bailey Ville.
Speaker 4: Why should I try to fight it?
Speaker 8: Or you?
Speaker 2: Why don't I just kill him?
Speaker 5: That's a good idea, don't you see?
Speaker 4: It's the only way get him out of our lives
Speaker 4: once and for all. This this man, this monster, this
Speaker 4: wrecker of home.
Speaker 5: Laurie, be quiet, you wrecker of home? I said, be quiet?
Speaker 2: What kind of a way is that for a lady
Speaker 2: to talk to her husband?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 4: This man gets his face displayed in the subway. And
Speaker 4: what happens after eight years? He's not mine anymore. He
Speaker 4: belongs to the world. Who needs it?
Speaker 2: Hey, lady, that is your husband?
Speaker 4: Yeah, killed and after eighteen years your life what is it?
Speaker 5: Shambles? Get rid of.
Speaker 2: Him, lady?
Speaker 5: Do it not?
Speaker 2: Lady, he's your husband.
Speaker 5: You'll be doing a good deed bit, and there's.
Speaker 2: No way to talk about your husband.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm older than you, and I know you. You
Speaker 2: hide a fellow when you talk about him like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, poor boy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're married to him, So be married to him
Speaker 2: through thick and thin. Yeah, it's the only way we know,
Speaker 2: Carolyn and I. Yeah, come here and sit by me, Carolyn,
Speaker 2: now here by my feet?
Speaker 5: Where was I through thick and thin?
Speaker 2: Yeah, through thick and thin? Yeah, the years comedy, years ago,
Speaker 2: but it is always a pleasant thing to have by
Speaker 2: your side. One's helped me.
Speaker 4: Dear Billy, move over, honey, I want to sit by
Speaker 4: his feet too.
Speaker 2: As one sails his ship to the great sea of life,
Speaker 2: knocked about by the storm.
Speaker 6: And his stripe, Let me sit down too.
Speaker 5: Pardon you, I buy the storm and the strife.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, knocked about by those things. One one has
Speaker 2: a friend, One reaches calm waters.
Speaker 5: Billy, Yeah, I feel so sentimental, me too. Play something
Speaker 5: for us, Billy on the piano. Oh well, all right,
Speaker 5: he's been taking lessons for almost a month now. Since
Speaker 5: you're at the adjacent m h come on, let's steal away.
Speaker 3: So you, uh, mister Bailey, Yeah, by now have a
Speaker 3: happy new year.
Speaker 2: Yeah you too. Remember what I told you, lady, I'll remember.
Speaker 6: Who he's satisfying.
Speaker 5: Very I saved your life.
Speaker 3: It almost got me killed, you and your ideas. I
Speaker 3: didn't want to wear this stringbow tie.
Speaker 5: Yes, ring for the elevator.
Speaker 3: Dear, Well, come on, Laurie, let's go out into the
Speaker 3: world and have us a happy new year.
Speaker 5: Can you make room for me?
Speaker 8: Dearie?
Speaker 5: Oh? Sure, say? Don't I know you? Oh?
Speaker 4: Of course we talked the other day. I borrowed a
Speaker 4: pencil from you to do a crossword puzzle.
Speaker 5: I know you.
Speaker 7: You're the girl who's married to that man in the
Speaker 7: string bow tie. That's right, And whatever happened to him?
Speaker 7: What do you mean he's not up there in the
Speaker 7: ad anymore? Now there's another gent the man standing by
Speaker 7: a fireplace with those four hounds his feet. Is that
Speaker 7: man in that ad there in mutton chop whiskers?
Speaker 5: Oh zowey, you like him as well as the.
Speaker 7: Man in the string bow t Oh better better look
Speaker 7: at those whiskers, Dear How would you like to run
Speaker 7: your hands through them?
Speaker 5: I have huh he's my husband. Him to you, what
Speaker 5: did you do with the other one? Get rid of him?
Speaker 5: New year?
Speaker 7: Oh, dearie, let me ask you something about the new one.
Speaker 7: In the Mutton Chop, Whiskers.
Speaker 1: Sow Wee, The String bow Tie, starring Kathy and Elliott
Speaker 1: Lewis now once again Mister and Missus Lewis.
Speaker 4: We'd like to thank our good friends Shell Leonard and
Speaker 4: Mary Jane Croft, who came down tonight to help us
Speaker 4: start the new year and our new series by playing
Speaker 4: mister and Missus Bill.
Speaker 3: Bailey, Yes, and Martha Wentworth, the Lady on the Subway,
Speaker 3: Vivi Janis who helped fix my tie, and Byron Kane
Speaker 3: who couldn't spell awk. Now next week, Kathy, Well.
Speaker 4: Just before we went into rehearsal today we got a
Speaker 4: copy of next week's play, The Drunken Sailor. It was
Speaker 4: written for us by a very fine new radio writer,
Speaker 4: Richard Chandley.
Speaker 5: It's a spy story, exciting and well you'll see.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And a week after that, a comedy about a nice
Speaker 3: girl and the bum written for us by Richard Powell.
Speaker 5: Thank you all for listening. A very happy New Year, good.
Speaker 6: Night, good night.
Speaker 1: The String bow Tie was written by Morton Fine and
Speaker 1: David Free. The theme for Kathy and Elliott Lewis on Stage.
Speaker 6: Was written by Ray Noble.
Speaker 1: Music for the program was composed by Fred Steiner and
Speaker 1: conducted by lud Gluskin. Kathy and Elliott Lewis on Stage
Speaker 1: is transcribed and directed by mister Lewis. George Wall speaking
Speaker 1: and remember John lond As yours truly. Johnny Dollair brings
Speaker 1: you colorful mystery Friday nights on the CBS Radio Network.