Speaker 1: The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction two.
Speaker 1: Before we raise our curtain, we'd like to take time
Speaker 1: for a small speech. It amounts to this, thanks, thanks
Speaker 1: very much for your many, many, very wonderful letters in
Speaker 1: praise of our opening play long distance. Bowing to your wishes,
Speaker 1: we promise we'll repeat it later on in this series.
Speaker 1: Tonight's play is titled ground Floor Window. It was written
Speaker 1: by an extremely talented young author, Ernest Knoy, with Bill
Speaker 1: Redfield starring as Danny, and directed by Harry W. Duncan.
Speaker 1: Here is Radio City Playhouse Attraction two, Ground Floor Window.
Speaker 2: I've been sitting in this ground floor window of ours
Speaker 2: for twenty three years. Yes, ever since I can remember.
Speaker 2: I've watched the girls playing POTSI on the sidewalk, the
Speaker 2: boys playing stickball, dodging the cars, shooting marbles in the gutter.
Speaker 2: I'm twenty three, now twenty three. It was six years
Speaker 2: ago that I first saw you, a few with a
Speaker 2: new upstairs tenants. There was a big yellow moving van,
Speaker 2: the furniture, your father managing everything. I remember the first
Speaker 2: words your father ever said to me. The first words
Speaker 2: your father ever said to me were.
Speaker 3: Hey, you, You and the window. There's seven ninety one. Huh,
Speaker 3: I said, is it seven ninety one?
Speaker 2: He's asking him, but he's dopey. Yeah, what do you know? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a regular goop just sits there all the time.
Speaker 2: I can't see, Like I said, he can't even talk straight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: seven ninety one. All right, you're moving in? Huh? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Say the goof there. He ain't dangerous or anything, is
Speaker 2: he him? Nah? He can't even got a chair. His
Speaker 2: ma even has the tiest shoes for him.
Speaker 3: No, kidd Yeah, okay, rupee, this is the right place.
Speaker 2: We're home in the window, pops.
Speaker 3: Never mind, Now go find a souper and get the
Speaker 3: key to the apartment.
Speaker 4: He looks so funny.
Speaker 2: Go on, you heard me find a soper. All afternoon,
Speaker 2: I watched your father and another man carrying furniture and
Speaker 2: trunks into the house. It was dark before the truck
Speaker 2: finally pulled a word. The kids on the block were
Speaker 2: shooting bottle caps under the street land, and the ice
Speaker 2: cream man had been around twice. Jenny getting lazy.
Speaker 5: Let me fix you for this.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Ma, not yet. I'll stay up a while.
Speaker 5: You had a long day, Denny. You should riff Ma
Speaker 5: all day, you said, by the wo, let me alone?
Speaker 5: Will you you want? I should get you some ginger.
Speaker 2: It's called I don't want nothing, Ma, Just leave me alone,
Speaker 2: so you'll call.
Speaker 5: When you want to go to bed. All right, all right?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah ma, all right?
Speaker 5: Huh p.
Speaker 4: My name is Ruth. I moved in today upstairs.
Speaker 2: I saw hey, you amount if?
Speaker 4: I said, on the stoop by your win?
Speaker 2: No, what you mean, Dan?
Speaker 4: What's wrong with you? You make funny faces?
Speaker 2: Well, I can't help it.
Speaker 4: I'm Janser Papa. When he asked you a question this afternoon.
Speaker 2: I have trouble talking sometimes.
Speaker 4: Oh can you walk?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Will you run over?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I was born like this.
Speaker 4: You ain't really don't be, are you.
Speaker 2: No, it's just I was born with.
Speaker 4: That lady in the blue dress. She's your mother, ain't she.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: My mother died last year. She had double pneumonia.
Speaker 2: Oh that's too bad. Can a doctor do something else
Speaker 2: for me?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Well, my mother took me to the clinic when I
Speaker 2: was four. They told her they couldn't do anything.
Speaker 4: That's awful. What is it?
Speaker 2: Well, the doctor said, cerebral palsy. That means something isn't
Speaker 2: there in the park. That tells the muscles what to do. Oh,
Speaker 2: that's what makes me make funny faces all the time.
Speaker 4: You don't have to tell me if you don't want to.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't mind you. You won't laugh at me, though, No,
Speaker 2: I will laugh the rest of the kids on the
Speaker 2: block do right. I'm used to it. I guess they
Speaker 2: call me dope be dad.
Speaker 4: That isn't fairly netful, is it.
Speaker 2: No, it isn't my fault, Rupie, Ruthie.
Speaker 4: I gotta go upstairs tomorrow day.
Speaker 2: Good night, Ruth.
Speaker 4: Who's dods?
Speaker 5: Who are talking to?
Speaker 2: Denny?
Speaker 5: Girl from upstairs, the one who moved in today?
Speaker 3: Uh huh, she should shame herself with such a dirty face.
Speaker 2: Her name is Ruth.
Speaker 5: Such a nice neighborhood.
Speaker 2: She looks straight at me, Ma, So she looked at you,
Speaker 2: the one I should put you to bed. Oh no, no,
Speaker 2: that's all right, Ma. I want to sit up a
Speaker 2: while longer. You go ahead. I want to think. I
Speaker 2: watched you grow up, Ruthe. You washed your face now,
Speaker 2: and soon those long black braids gave way to a
Speaker 2: sort of soft tangle around your face. You went to
Speaker 2: Douglas Junior High School with the kids from the block,
Speaker 2: and after school. You used to sit on the high
Speaker 2: brownstone stoop just outside my window and report on the
Speaker 2: day's activities.
Speaker 4: The teacher don't like me, Dan right and go to
Speaker 4: the whole class, she said, I didn't do my homework.
Speaker 2: Well, did you well?
Speaker 4: Not exactly. I tried.
Speaker 2: You went to the movies instead. I saw you go by.
Speaker 4: Skip asked me to go. I don't see what good
Speaker 4: algebra does anyway.
Speaker 2: Did you have a good time with Skip?
Speaker 4: I guess so. We had a soda after you never
Speaker 4: seen a movie?
Speaker 2: Have you done well? Ma was gonna take me once,
Speaker 2: but she couldn't get anybody to carry me.
Speaker 4: It was a swell picture.
Speaker 2: I'll see one someday.
Speaker 4: What are you doing when I'm in school, Danny?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Watch the street, I guess.
Speaker 4: Don't you read well?
Speaker 2: I can't turn the pages so good. I used to
Speaker 2: have a teacher come twice a week, but not anymore.
Speaker 4: See I know what I'll read you Saturday afternoon. I've
Speaker 4: gotta read. I'm in Hope for school anyway, and I
Speaker 4: just as soon read it.
Speaker 2: He Ruthie that Skip calling you.
Speaker 4: Let him come over here if he wants anything.
Speaker 2: Hey, what you're doing Ruthie just talking, So don't be Dad.
Speaker 4: He passing you shut out?
Speaker 5: That's all right, sure day, don't mind, do you?
Speaker 2: No? We're old friends, ain't we?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 4: Never mind, Skiff, you shut up anyway.
Speaker 2: Poor girls are crazy, ain't they? Danny? Danny agrees with me.
Speaker 4: Why don't you go away?
Speaker 2: Skip, I'm going, I want to say, Ruthie.
Speaker 6: Uh, all the kids in school are going up the
Speaker 6: river on the dayline Saturday.
Speaker 2: You're coming, ancient, I don't know, won't cost much. Look,
Speaker 2: i'll tell you what. You come with me and I'll
Speaker 2: get your ticket.
Speaker 4: Well, I was gonna read to Danny said, we're going
Speaker 4: to Damn Mountain.
Speaker 2: Joe Bogga's father's giving a hot talk for the whole bunch.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Sims swell Ruth. Yeah, it's a lot
Speaker 2: better than just sitting on a stoop reading all afternoon.
Speaker 4: I don't know yet.
Speaker 2: Skip.
Speaker 4: I'll let you know.
Speaker 2: You went to Bear Mountain with Skip, Ruth. I wanted
Speaker 2: you to Skip. Was supposed to be very funny. He
Speaker 2: had an imitation of the way I talk and how
Speaker 2: my face moves. I never saw it, but all the
Speaker 2: kids in the neighborhood laughed. Every time. Saturday afternoon, I
Speaker 2: watched the little kids unscrew the top off the fire
Speaker 2: hydrant and run around under the water. I thought of
Speaker 2: you on the boat, with the wind blowing through that
Speaker 2: short tangle of hair. I think I enjoyed that trip
Speaker 2: more than you did. He came home way after twelve alone.
Speaker 2: The night was hot, and the whole street seemed to
Speaker 2: be weighed down under a smothering blanket. You sat on
Speaker 2: the stoop, and even in the dark, I could tell
Speaker 2: you were crying.
Speaker 4: I am not crying. It's just hop.
Speaker 2: Well. I didn't mean anything, Ruth. Then you have a
Speaker 2: good time. Well, how come Skip didn't bring you home?
Speaker 2: Your father will be awful, man, I don't care. Well,
Speaker 2: what's the matter? You are crying? Ruth.
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 2: Then something happened on the trip.
Speaker 5: It was Skip, wasn't it, Oh, Danny?
Speaker 2: He made quite of the way I talked.
Speaker 4: I tried to make him stop, but he wouldn't. He
Speaker 4: only did it because.
Speaker 5: They all lasted. Danny, it was awful.
Speaker 2: You mustn't mind.
Speaker 4: Slapskip as hot as I could, and then I ran
Speaker 4: into the cattle.
Speaker 2: Please don't come home with him.
Speaker 4: I couldn't stand it. Danny as long as island.
Speaker 2: They don't mean anything, Ruth. It's just that I'm different.
Speaker 2: I don't cry, Ruth. Please?
Speaker 4: Is that you, Rookie?
Speaker 2: It's Papa. He's been to Connolly's bar. I saw him
Speaker 2: go by around ten.
Speaker 4: Ruth, answer, Papa, Danny's drunk. What'll I do?
Speaker 3: Didn't I tell you to get home before midnight?
Speaker 5: Papa?
Speaker 3: Didn't I say before midnight, didn't I?
Speaker 2: Mister gawer, what do you want a Well, Ruth was
Speaker 2: here talking to me. Oh she was. She was talking
Speaker 2: to me. She was, She was back around eleven. Why
Speaker 2: are you lying half with it.
Speaker 1: Like that?
Speaker 4: Why you little Ruth?
Speaker 2: I want to get upstairs before I beat your head on.
Speaker 2: Mister Gower. You shouldn't do that, you overgrown idiot.
Speaker 3: If I didn't know that, your mama has to even
Speaker 3: wipe your nose for Yeah, I stay away from Ruthie, See,
Speaker 3: I don't want her hanging around here.
Speaker 5: Well, just stay away, Denny. That's what goller? Coming home
Speaker 5: drunk again, Denny, Denny keop crying, No, mar what's then?
Speaker 5: Can I do something for you? Annybody? You're crying nothing, nothing,
Speaker 5: all right? So let me fix the pillow behind your back.
Speaker 5: It's all crooked.
Speaker 2: Mars stopped, Denny. I can't stand it any longer. Let
Speaker 2: me alone, Let me alone, Let me alone. But my
Speaker 2: mother fixed my pillow and brought me a glass of
Speaker 2: water and wiped the tears out of my eyes. I
Speaker 2: sat at the window, staring out at the street. That
Speaker 2: night I dreamed I could walk.
Speaker 5: I was with you, walking by the ocean.
Speaker 2: We were running, hand in hand, sort of floating over
Speaker 2: the sand, running running, and then suddenly I fell. I
Speaker 2: couldn't get up, and you looked down at me and
Speaker 2: said quietly, cripple. I was screaming when I woke up,
Speaker 2: and my mother came running. She insisted on sitting up
Speaker 2: with me all night. I didn't dream again after that.
Speaker 2: You didn't come every day. You had a job after school,
Speaker 2: and I'd see you go out in the morning with
Speaker 2: your books and come back late in the afternoon. You
Speaker 2: weren't really pretty. I suppose you always looked tired, and
Speaker 2: you took a long time climbing the stool.
Speaker 4: Hello, Danny, isn't this a scort?
Speaker 2: You're tired?
Speaker 4: Sometimes I think you're lucky, Danny. I get so worn
Speaker 4: out in the store I fall asleep over my homework.
Speaker 2: It gets tiring just sitting too, Ruth.
Speaker 4: See you know what I mean, Danny. Here, I'll straighten
Speaker 4: a pillory. Wll me that you call it, Danny. It's
Speaker 4: all twisted there.
Speaker 2: I couldn't reach it.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, Dan, I didn't mean that. You know.
Speaker 2: Oh it's all right, Ruth. I never mind when you
Speaker 2: talk about it or anything.
Speaker 4: You're different from the other boys. I know, Danny, not
Speaker 4: only because you're crippled.
Speaker 2: It's sorry.
Speaker 4: I mean, it seems like I can always talk to you.
Speaker 4: Papa doesn't seem to understand understandy Sometimes I think you're older.
Speaker 4: There is on the whole block that's real. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I Danny, why did you seem kind
Speaker 4: of good?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, it seems so so old, old, as if
Speaker 4: you knew what was right. Oh, Dan, you always let
Speaker 4: me talk to you.
Speaker 2: Ruth.
Speaker 4: I get so tired. I need you to talk to Danny.
Speaker 2: You sat on the stoop with your in your hands,
Speaker 2: looking like all the sorrow in the world, and then
Speaker 2: you looked up and smiled at me, and I could
Speaker 2: see tears in your eyes, and I was glad, Ruth,
Speaker 2: glad you wanted me to listen while you poured out
Speaker 2: the troubles of your eighteen year old heart.
Speaker 1: The war was over.
Speaker 2: Now there was a big welcome home streamer stretching from
Speaker 2: our house across the street to seven ninety four. Who
Speaker 2: is that? It was Skip Parson on the sidewalk at
Speaker 2: the foot of the stoop. He stood looking up at
Speaker 2: me with his feet apart, leaning on a sort of
Speaker 2: steel cane that reached up beyond his right hand and
Speaker 2: clamped his arm by the elbow. Hi, Danny, Hello, Skip,
Speaker 2: swell to see.
Speaker 4: You while on the stoop.
Speaker 2: Hello, Skip, how you Rufie? I guess I kind of
Speaker 2: joined your club? Danny there, I'm sorry, Skiff. Well, I
Speaker 2: still got the leg, even if it is all scrambled up.
Speaker 2: How you've been?
Speaker 4: Danny?
Speaker 2: All the same? You look great, I mean, except for
Speaker 2: the leg.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But the surprise is Ruthie. She wasn't pretty when I
Speaker 2: went away. I'm sure you are, isn't she?
Speaker 1: Danny?
Speaker 2: You ought to know. I leave it to you.
Speaker 4: I guess never mind what the rbs Skip?
Speaker 2: Oh, free beers Mostly they're good, but at least accord.
Speaker 2: At Connley's. Did you notice me weaving? That's the combat
Speaker 2: infantry badge, isn't it. Yeah, I'll tell you a secret.
Speaker 2: It's the only one that means anything to me. The
Speaker 2: other stuff is the sweet, beautiful ladies off their feet coming.
Speaker 2: I didn't think of it. I guess I should have
Speaker 2: when you got home just in time, Skip, Ruth graduates
Speaker 2: high school tonight. Hey, that's swell. Congratulations.
Speaker 4: What you should have told me?
Speaker 2: I'd have brought your prison or something, maybe flowers. Why
Speaker 2: don't you go with her tonight? Skip, Mister Gower's working.
Speaker 2: Ruth won't have anybody there wasn't goofy.
Speaker 4: You need somebody in the audience to clap when they call.
Speaker 2: My name, holding handed passons, I called me, how's this?
Speaker 4: I gotta go get dressed now. Oh, your flowers are swell, Danny.
Speaker 5: I'm glad in about an hour or maybe a little
Speaker 5: longer outside a hurry.
Speaker 2: Well, I gotta shave see you, lady, Danny, have a
Speaker 2: good time. Skip. I saw you go off together to
Speaker 2: the graduation. It was almost dark, and the street lamp
Speaker 2: went on just as you passed under it. Our Skip
Speaker 2: was wrong. You weren't pretty, but the light caught the
Speaker 2: white flowers and your dark hair. They danced when you
Speaker 2: tossed your head and waved to me.
Speaker 5: That's the gower girl going to graduation. Yes, Ma, I
Speaker 5: think her father would come home to go with it.
Speaker 2: He's working, working, not working.
Speaker 5: A girl graduates only once. Who's dot with her?
Speaker 2: Skip Parson, he came home today.
Speaker 5: I already heard the shame of his legs. Such a
Speaker 5: strong boy.
Speaker 2: Oh she looked nice, Ma.
Speaker 5: She ought you made me buy expensive enough flowers. So
Speaker 5: much money for a little girl like that. Oh my, Still,
Speaker 5: you're right. Her father wouldn't get them in on graduation.
Speaker 5: A girl should have flowers.
Speaker 2: They were pretty. She had them in her hair.
Speaker 4: Lucky.
Speaker 5: Skip came home, so she had someone to take her.
Speaker 5: Everybody's got as troubles the whole world, nothing but troubles.
Speaker 5: So you want ice cream the next time the man
Speaker 5: comes around.
Speaker 2: He came home late. I heard you both laughing quietly
Speaker 2: as you turned the corner, and when you passed under
Speaker 2: the street lamp, I saw the flowers in your hair,
Speaker 2: wilted and yellowing. Skip had tucked one of them under
Speaker 2: his infantry edge like it was a button. Home, Dan, Hey, Dan,
Speaker 2: he's probably in bed, Danny, what do you want to
Speaker 2: wake him?
Speaker 4: For to tell him about graduation.
Speaker 2: Give him a break. Let I promise it didn't keep
Speaker 2: till morning. Danny won't mind.
Speaker 4: See. I wish she could have been there.
Speaker 2: Why did I clap that? Really?
Speaker 4: Skip? It's oh, Danny's been something sort of special to me.
Speaker 5: Oh, Skip, it isn't fair.
Speaker 4: Why should he be like that? It isn't fair. Hey, hey,
Speaker 4: take it easy.
Speaker 2: It's graduation night.
Speaker 4: He said he was graduate with me.
Speaker 2: Sure Danny's okay?
Speaker 7: Say say you're not in I mean Danny's Oh, Skip, Ruthie,
Speaker 7: let's walk out of the river.
Speaker 2: It's earlier. I can't.
Speaker 4: Papa will be home from work soon. You'll get mad.
Speaker 2: You've got lots of time, after all, you only graduate
Speaker 2: high school once. So I really promise Danny was up
Speaker 2: here to end. But the old man doesn't come home
Speaker 2: till three.
Speaker 5: What do you say?
Speaker 4: All right? Always came, Lucy.
Speaker 2: They're drooping anyway. You might as well throw them away.
Speaker 4: No, I'll fix the pin. I want to save them.
Speaker 2: We can make it to the river and back before
Speaker 2: your father comes home. I'd heard you when you called, ruth.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I didn't answer, but I waited
Speaker 2: up till you came back. I wanted to be sure
Speaker 2: you got home safely. I was afraid your father would
Speaker 2: come home and find you still out too, But he didn't.
Speaker 2: It was a week later when Skip came by again.
Speaker 2: He was wearing his old suit from before the war,
Speaker 2: but his arm was still braced against that twisted steel
Speaker 2: half crutch. He pulled himself up the high stool. Wow,
Speaker 2: it's quite a climb. Why if I sait awhile? No, Danny,
Speaker 2: You've got to help me me. I know, I got
Speaker 2: a nerve. All afternoon I sat in Conley's bar trying
Speaker 2: to figure out how I had to right. What's trouble, Skip, Well,
Speaker 2: remember when I was a kid, I used to call
Speaker 2: you a dope, Dan, Yes, I remember Ruthie socked me
Speaker 2: for at once.
Speaker 7: I was imitating you on the boat coming down from
Speaker 7: them out and see all off and sucked.
Speaker 2: I knew about it. Well, kids are like that, Danny.
Speaker 2: You know that, don't you. I didn't mean anything special
Speaker 2: I was. I was just you know, there isn't any excuse. Well,
Speaker 2: I don't mind anymore.
Speaker 6: Look, I know it is anything like it. I mean
Speaker 6: my leg in your trouble, they aren't in the same class.
Speaker 6: But this morning I saw two kids following me down
Speaker 6: the street, making like my brace with a steak.
Speaker 2: You'll get used to it. No, that isn't what I mean.
Speaker 7: I try to figure out how how I come up
Speaker 7: to ask you to help. I wouldn't have had the nerd,
Speaker 7: but Ruthie told me you always were a friend, Ruth.
Speaker 2: Ruth, Yeah, I need you, Danny. You're the only one
Speaker 2: who can help I. What's the matter? Nothing? You see?
Speaker 2: It's an old man. He wanted to see anybody goes
Speaker 2: crazy every night when he's working. Because I can't tell
Speaker 2: where she is. She's scared of him, Danny, What do
Speaker 2: you want from me? I gotta see you, Danny. I
Speaker 2: just got it. She's gonna meet me over at the park.
Speaker 2: She told her father she's gonna read to you. He'll
Speaker 2: ask you, Danny. You've got to tell him she was
Speaker 2: with you. I didn't know what to say to Skip, Ruth,
Speaker 2: so I stuttered like I always do when I get confused.
Speaker 2: Skip sat by the window and told me how pretty
Speaker 2: you were. You weren't really pretty, Ruth, even on graduation
Speaker 2: night with my flowers in your hands. I wanted to
Speaker 2: tell him there were lots of prettier girls, so many others.
Speaker 2: He could walk, he could find the others. Why did
Speaker 2: he have to come to me? Why did I have
Speaker 2: to help him? He stopped by my window before you
Speaker 2: went to meet him. He sat on the stoop the
Speaker 2: way you used to.
Speaker 4: How do I look to him? Oh?
Speaker 2: Fine, Rufe, just fine.
Speaker 4: I'm going over to the park to meet the sick. Yes,
Speaker 4: I know, Oh, Danny, I love him. What's the matter, Danny?
Speaker 2: This gets a good guy.
Speaker 4: He wants to get married and go to California. He
Speaker 4: knows a job out there where his leg won't matter.
Speaker 4: Only it wasn't for Papa.
Speaker 2: Can't you just go anyway? Yeah?
Speaker 4: But Skip and Papa don't like each other, Danny. Why
Speaker 4: is Papa like he is? He's not really bad. He
Speaker 4: worries about me that way, you know, And Danny, he
Speaker 4: don't need to worry. Why can't he be nice? Danny?
Speaker 4: Why can't he? Ruth, You've always been a friend, Danny.
Speaker 4: I've always been able to talk to you. Remember when
Speaker 4: I said I wanted to talk to you always, rum, Ruth.
Speaker 2: I can't even talk right hardly, even.
Speaker 4: If you couldn't move, walk or anything. You were my
Speaker 4: very best friend on the block. You were my best
Speaker 4: friend in the world.
Speaker 2: Danny.
Speaker 4: You could tell what I was thinking. You knew it
Speaker 4: without my saying anything. That's what I love about Skip, Danny.
Speaker 4: He's so gentle and sweet like you. Sometimes I think
Speaker 4: that you're Ruth. Danny. I'll write your offer.
Speaker 2: You're you're not going tonight?
Speaker 4: Are you tomorrow? Maybe?
Speaker 5: If Skip what I I hope you'll be happy, Ruth bens.
Speaker 4: Your head up, Danny. Well, your face feels hot, Danny.
Speaker 4: Are you all right at your fever or something?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, I'm alright far it's so hot, Danny.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow I'll say goodbye like always, just like I was
Speaker 4: going to school or something. But you'll know, Danny, that
Speaker 4: don't goodbye?
Speaker 1: Danny.
Speaker 4: Oh, Daddy, Who are.
Speaker 5: You talking to?
Speaker 2: Denny?
Speaker 5: Somebody's bothering at me, Danny. What's the matter why you're crying?
Speaker 5: That's no way for a man's wax. A man a
Speaker 5: man who can't even button his shirt or tie his shoes.
Speaker 2: What kind of a man is that, Denny?
Speaker 5: What kind of a man that drools and.
Speaker 2: Stammers when he talks like a baby?
Speaker 5: Denny, Your mom isn't you're my son? I lived in
Speaker 5: the house with you for twenty three years. Oh please,
Speaker 5: let's skip past. He went two years to award. Danny,
Speaker 5: your wall went onsome when you were born.
Speaker 1: I know, I know.
Speaker 5: Your Ruth. She's going away, but you've still got to
Speaker 5: live for heaven. So she goes away, Danny. It didn't
Speaker 5: take courage till the twenty three years sitting in a
Speaker 5: window watching the world run and play games.
Speaker 2: A man?
Speaker 5: Could there be more of a man?
Speaker 2: Mama? I love her, So now I sit by the
Speaker 2: window and watch the street all day. I watched the
Speaker 2: girls jumping rope and the boys playing stickball. You wrote me, Ruth,
Speaker 2: but I didn't answer. This is the letter I write
Speaker 2: in my head. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't
Speaker 2: put it on paper. I'm twenty three years old and
Speaker 2: I can't hold a pencil in my hand.
Speaker 1: That was Ground Floor Window Attraction two Radio City Playhouse,
Speaker 1: as written by Ernest Connoy and directed by Harry W. Junkin.
Speaker 1: Bill Redfield starred as Danny, and other members of the
Speaker 1: cast included Bernard Grant, Marilyn Erskine, Anna Karen, and Arthur Q.
Speaker 4: Bryant.
Speaker 1: The music was composed and conducted by the to roy Shield.
Speaker 1: Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company
Speaker 1: by Richard P. McDonough. Next week, the Radio City Playhouse
Speaker 1: presents of Unsound Mind, written by our director Harry W.
Speaker 2: Duncan.
Speaker 1: It is the story of Myra, beautiful, gracious, charming and
Speaker 1: without a soul. It is the story of Caleb, her
Speaker 1: war wounded husband, and of Jeff, the other man in
Speaker 1: her life. We sincerely hope you will be with us
Speaker 1: next Saturday when we bring you of Unsound Mind by
Speaker 1: Harry W. Duncan. Attraction three, Radio City Playhouse m Robert
Speaker 1: Warren speaking. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm