 dedicated to the strength of the nation now heard on more than 1,000 radio stations proudly we hail starting Jane Wyatt in our big brother the United States Army and United States Air Force presentation and now here's your producer the well-known Hollywood showman CP McGregor thank you thank you greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen welcome to your theater of stars where your motion picture favorites appear in plays we know you'll enjoy that charming actress of New York stage in motion pictures Jane Wyatt is our proudly we hail star Jane appears in our comedy as Helen Dixon it's a sophisticated story titled our big brother in which Helen the wife sets out to tame a lion hunter in order to save her husband's love with amusing complications we'll raise the curtain on act one right after this brief message from Wendell Niles here's a chance for you young men to travel yes you'll travel abroad and be paid for it you may now enlist directly into one of the two famous U.S. Army divisions now stationed in Japan these proud outfits who covered themselves with glory in the recent war are the first cavalry division and the 11th Airborne and if you apply now while quarters are still open you may become a member of either of these see your local U.S. Army recruiting station right away now once again our producer the curtain rises on act one of our big brother starring Jane Wyatt as Helen Dixon it wasn't that young Bill Dixon wasn't in love with his beautiful wife Helen Dixon by far from it he had his feet on the ground all right Bill did and was going places in the world but he was an impressionable young man maybe he read too many sophisticated books once he read a story by Oscar Wilde that could be the clue to Bill's behavior that bright crisp crunchy morning in October Bill and the charming young Helen were at breakfast both were reading the paper and exchanging newsy items over the coffee cups well sportsman show attracts thousands to city well so the Countess and Lucy is really suing for divorce African exhibit to feature lions elephants and Sophie the gorilla she was the former Dolly Dunn Kirk you know Africa makes me wonder I wonder whatever became of my big brother Lance I didn't even know you had a big brother named Lance I haven't heard from him for years last time I did here he was hunting big game in Africa it's kind of sad the way families can drift apart or else be dragged apart like the Count and Countess he's contesting the divorce no any objections look darling any man who try to keep his wife against her wishes is the nearest of mere mice maybe he loves her well where's the man's pride maybe thinks more of his bride he's a mouse well I got a lot of work at the office this morning but a hurry up one minute William what would you do who went what suppose I wanted a divorce you mean if you wanted to marry somebody else yes what would you do I'd let you why I'd let you you mean to say you just give me up just like that on one condition I'd have to be convinced that the other man was a better man than I am for me to let you marry an inferior man would be impossible you're telling me otherwise no objections William Rob Roy Dixon how dare you sit there stuffing your shirt and mouthing those insulting things you asked me a question didn't you I told you I suppose you think you're so sophisticated just being civilized I suppose you think you're so broad minded just being modern that's all Dixon get out of here I hate you to pieces and and you can cross Broadway in 42nd Street against the red light you haven't heard the end of this you you you you Liberty Helen my school days chum take it easy the impudence of that man thing sitting at my table and telling me that anytime I didn't want him anymore I am free to pick up my body pins and go home I could scream I believe I will scream don't look now but I think you've just broken the lease hello oh okay we'll grab for Mr. Dixon and I'm Mrs. Dixon may I take it and go ahead please mr. William Dixon yes Billy boy yes yes I've got it all thank you goodbye I'm all ears but I've got a hairdresser who can fix it Billy boy arriving today pier 53 steamship Xavier scholar meet me at pier I'll be carrying my bow and arrow who signs it Robin Hood sign your long absent brother Lance he's Bill's brother quite an adventurous person I understand and if he's good looking hey Lance hey Lance over here he comes Helen is he beautiful hello there hello you wouldn't be Bill Dixon would you not have yet to do it all over again well Billy boy how you've grown that'll hold you for a while William oh gee Lance it's sure swell to see you again oh this is Helen my little wife I've grown too hello hello well let's let's not just stand around here the hotels are jam-packed Lance but I got the dandiest room in the world for you right in our own apartment yes isn't that lucky about the expert room I mean and this will be your room Lance I hope you'll be very comfortable where can I put my bow please it's my favorite weapon I'd hate to have anything happen to it do you always hut with the bow and arrow Lance sure it's sporty gives a quarry a chance you take your sportsmanship very seriously don't you I like a good game well played and fairly played any good game well I just how do you mean Lance your bills big brother I know I can speak frankly to you knowing that you will cooperate for Bill's sake cooperate and what in keeping our marriage together there hasn't been a rift there will be unless I can be absolutely sure my heart that Bill would fight like fury to keep me against all comers what could I do I want you to pretend you're falling in love with me I'll go see if I can find a nice hotel oh no please I've got to make Bill realize that he wants me very very much that's so important to a woman believe me I don't think you understand just how very odd that sounds Helen but will you do it well I'm Bill's big brother well that's why you and you alone can do it you owe it to him look could I think about it tonight of course now may I have a pen and some ink please I have a very important letter to well no sooner had we turned in for the night than my native boy came bounding into the camp shouting Simba Buona Simba meaning lion how exciting oh Bill I seized my powerful longbow and strung it hastily you can take your time about stringing us we're in no hurry oh hush William go on man that lion must have been wounded because he sprang into our clearing blood in his eye I whipped out an arrow and drew my bow the lion came straight at me roaring hoarsely what did he do and at the lion a cough drop I raised my bow and let fly well sir that heavy hunting arrow went clean through the beast excuse me I'm going out for a walk call me when Mickey Mouse comes on with you I'm sick of big game he may be sick of it but I think our medicine is going to do him a world of good man you're playing a very dangerous game Helen hello William how goes it one a nice office you got here Billy boy you've been shopping together you too Lance and I just had lunch together thought we'd just drop in and say hello to the man who pays the bills hello man who pays the bills hello woman who runs them up hey we just had a look at the sportsman show last day today oh then I suppose you'll be tracking back to good old Africa any minute now well no Lance is going to stay a while he he's got to finish his book book what book yes Helen what what the book you're you're writing of course me of course your book tracking the wild safari remember oh oh you mean my my book there Lance has been writing a book in his room and he can't be now why not is he writing it on our wallpaper oh no silly but an author gets in a certain mood in a certain place and that's where he has to work anyway wouldn't it be nice to have your own brother be the author of a best-selling book yeah that's sort of what it's at well I've got to get a few chapters written before dinner I'll see you later folks right right so long Helen bye bye Lance say when can I see a few chapters of that book what book Lance's book I got a friend in the publishing business if he likes the first chapters he might give him an advance so he can rent a nice lonely large out in the wilderness where he can write like crazy oh he'll like that yes he he'll like that let's be honest Helen you don't want Lance to go away he's charming and glamorous and he shoots a better line than I do William he's your own brother yeah and he's a mighty good man that'll make things a little easier anyhow better make what things easier than what nevermind little girl you run along now now Lance when Bill comes in through that door you've got to be showing me how to shoot a bone arrow now begin talk archery talk well you see my dear you hook these three fingers around the bowstring show me better better put your arms around me yeah then you draw the arrow back slowly and smoothly look out oh Bill headhunters oh I'm sorry Bill it it slipped oh well then let's try it all over again I'll just step out so I see she's really a very apt pupil yeah apt to kill somebody me I catch on slower things but I do catch on William you're pale I don't tan as richly as some people we know Helen the time has come for me to talk to you alone report briefly from our story our big brother starring Jane Wyatt to bring you an important message from your government fly with the United States Air Force yes young man you may become a pilot with Uncle Sam's great Air Force aviation cadet pilot training is open to you qualifications are you must be unmarried 20 to 26 and a half years old and have completed two years of college or the equivalent if you meet these requirements get your application for cadet pilot training right away any US Air Force recruiting station or Air Force base will provide you with the necessary papers when you complete your pilot training you'll be commissioned a second lieutenant in the US Air Force reserve and you'll fly Air Force planes with the best of them and listen men you'll earn up to three hundred and thirty six dollars a month as soon as you win your wings if you put your application in now you'll be able to qualify for the aviation cadet class that starts in July act now the curtain rises an act two of our big brother starring Jane Wyatt as Helen Dixon it is just a few moments later in the Dixon apartment Bill Dixon is sadder but no wiser man still does not know of the perilous game Helen is playing to test his love for her having found Helen in his brother's arms supposedly learning how to shoot a bow he has decided to have a showdown with her they are alone in the kitchen while Lance awaits the results in the living room Helen let's face it squarely you're in love with Lance aren't you you know that you're the only one i've ever loved you mustn't let your loyalty make you say things to me that you don't mean but i do mean it i know that everything's been honest and above board between you and lance what'd you say nothing anyhow Lance is a good man he's a better man than i am i couldn't have lost out to a better guy lost out to you won't even have to change any of the initials on the silver of the linens and that's worth something these days William robroy dixon what are you babbling about not going to stand in your way but you're not in my way you're free to marry Lance i'm free to in that way we still keep you in the family once a dixon always a dixon i always say free to marry lance of course honey i've known from the beginning ever since he arrived here i'm going to talk to lance now heart to heart he did it the prime evil gook went and did it i'll murder that bum where's bill where that white peddler go hella now i'll have his scout for this i'll mow him down i'll report him to somebody for something that's what i'll do helen bill's gone for a walk and i advise you to just calm down and look at things clearly for a moment look at things clearly when my husband doesn't care enough about me to fight for me tooth and nail your pride is hurt naturally what about losing that nice little guy of mine what about that oh but do you care husbands don't grow on trees that one does now you see here to hell and let's be honest with each other let's admit that we love each other oh i love you how did a lion ever bite you in the head i love you i love you as only one who has lived close to the earth close to life can love deeply beautifully and during the hotel that the confessions magazines i love you you're crazy i love you as surely and as truly as you love me go away now don't touch me say it say you love me say it i don't you do i doubt if i even like you somehow i'm gonna be married helen a patrol tree we are anyway you say darling i don't want to marry you it's the only way i'll accept you that's real peachy of you but i don't love you i do not love you you do not love you love you i do not i'll leave you alone to think it all over but i'll never leave new york without you i'll be the same easy helen easy sister does some rosin on your reason it's slipping think of it madea the colossal nerve of the man making love to me so send him to me the impertinence the nerve of the lunatic the gall of the wild madea i'm going away the downtown i've booked passage on the ss pranetic for this evening oh look peanut rain let me talk to bill let me explain that it was all a hoax big fun see no can't you see it won't change the ugly truth that bill was ready to to give me up without a without a decent struggle no madea i'd i'd better start packing now it's nicer you to come console me like this madea but i'm a man of principle and i stick to my principles it's possible to stick to your principles until you've gummed up the works no man with real self-respect would prevent his wife from marrying the man she really loves particularly if that man is a better man than he is you know bill you know what ails you do i look bad you've got a gunga din complex what he too was a better man than somebody gunga din madea i consider the incident closed you mind if i look at the afternoon mail no no go right ahead with one grand gesture he closes the incident and opens the mail well look at this uh please remit this account long overdue it's a letter from the publisher i sent lancers manuscript to let's see what it says it's a better manuscript than others gunga din dear bill i've read your brother's chapters on his african exploits and i consider it an adventure story of the first magnitude get that madea the first magnitude the book is written with authority and real skill it breathes action romance titanic conflict get that madea i tell you you gotta hand it to my big brother you gotta give him credit i'd like to have a co-signer though listen we liked your brother's book enormously my brother my big brother let's see it goes on however there is one small hitch much as we admired the book we admired it even better several years ago under the title bring them back alive by frank buck go on go on or in few words your brother's book is a ranked plagiarism a theft of the worst order in our code of ethics my big brother i can't believe it oh say it isn't so my brother wouldn't do such a thing lance wouldn't steal somebody else's book my pal he which would steal his brother's wife would steal a stranger's book i have spoken could it be that helens relatives were right after all about my relatives begins to shape up like a real case for them no no dixon would do such a thing i'd disown lance that's convenient anyone who'd do such a thing is no true dixon and is not a better man than i am gunga din where's my hat helens not gonna marry lance dixon i'll see to that yes yes you'll get home and you'll find the inevitable note on the dresser stained with tender tears inevitable what's this a note on the dresser from helen sorry bill but i just couldn't go on knowing that i didn't mean as much as life itself to you i just guess unselfish that way i just guess it's because i loved you that way and expect it as much from you your fresh shirt came today your socks are all mended use up the cream in the refrigerator and and don't wash your new wool sweater in hot sun take care of yourself i'll be all right goodbye willy good luck finally but wings on a monkey she can't do that yes that's frenetic well we'll see about that you're not running off with lance what do you care throw away go to work give me that handbag i won't let go let's go i gave it to you indian giver let go i say you had your chance let me go you don't want to go i can tell i do want to go you've got tears in your eyes i'm allergic to wild oats which is what you sow i don't sow you do so just a minute hey hey just a second can't we arbitrate it's you yes but i've done it for years you're just in time for a poke in the kisser listen i came down here when i found helens not to you crumpled up on the living room floor now he's always lousing up the house like that but always bill my love affair with helen was nothing but a hope a hoax that doesn't matter bill wouldn't fight to keep me in and that does matter but helen you're wrong bill's right here ready to throw punches into me for your sake that's right put them up big boy bill i did not make love to helen oh you were breathing like a locomotive that's all that if i seemed to make love to you it was because i wanted to frighten you back to your senses i i don't love you and i never did but what's wrong with me nothing i just planned the whole thing far in advance and where did you steal that yawn the american woollen mills helen do you remember several weeks ago when you first approached your scheme to me i uh i asked you then for a pen and some ink well i wrote a letter to myself well here it is postmarked five weeks ago and still sealed bill i want you to read it and where did you copy this from chesterfields letters to pel mail i'll read it all right in that letter i tell in advance everything that i did i planned what i did to teach you kids a lesson and that letter proves it yeah that's what this letter says all right you see i have a very lovely wife back in yohannesburg africa you have you mean you're married helen don't look so unhappy about it yes i'm married i too told my wife that if a better man than i am came along oh brother i see and besides setting us straight you saw your chance to play the other man of the infernal triangle right yeah i wanted to get his point of view smart girl not so stupid and now i'm going to set you straight robin hood don't be so dawn modern new corny gentlemen knock yourselves out being noble forget it that was popular when knighthood is that bad i prefer to have and to hold now listen to me if that's red blood and not beat bar circulating in your veins you get back to south africa and get that wife of yours away from that other man whoever he is okay i'll book passage first thing in the morning you'll go right now but my passage i could have my ticket here that's the old fight helen hurry now but helen i don't look now but your ship's leaving well i hope so long last goodbye by robin hood now hurry so long but i'm coming back to stay yeah boy with my wife that'll be wonderful how'd we see you right so long goodbye there he goes my big brother william who's your girl helen who's your fellow willie dixon willie loves helen well there he goes my big brother in law the curtain falls in the final act of our big brother our star jane white will return for a curtain call after this timely message from wendell niles you men who are graduating from high school this year here are some reasons why the u.s army is such a good deal for you for one thing you can continue your education study courses through college level are available to you as a soldier through the united states armed forces institute you can take all those subjects you didn't have time for in high school in addition you'll learn to master a trade or skill and the best part of it is that you can select the type of training you want yes there are more than 60 different trades or skills to choose from such things as radio automotive mechanics and many others you make your choice of training even before you enlist in other words you look over the field if you aren't accepted for the school of your choosing you're not required to enlist get all the facts right away at your u.s army recruiting station now back at the microphone our star jane white and our producer we are proud to present our star at this time in the traditional gesture of the theater the curtain call a gay portrayal jane white and congratulations thank you cp it was a pleasure i assure you since your last visit with us jane i'm happy to see further congratulations are in order oh yes pitfall your last picture for one boomerang which received a photo play award and gentlemen's agreement each picture had something of special significance for me and i love working in all of them now that your latest picture is behind you what are your plans well i i want to remain california at least for a while could it be the child's lot and group that is keeping you here oh you've heard about it yes jane i would like to hear more well you you know it's all shakespeare and with charles lotton you're one of the great authorities on shakespearean verse oh yes we're fortunate indeed to have the benefit of his knowledge and experience i understand the 12 of you are screened from several hundred how often do you meet three nights a week we've been meeting for the past few months now and well we uh we exchange ideas and uh we are learning to read the verse it's all quite fascinating it just goes to show that even a star must and does continue to study well jane thank you again for a fine performance i was happy to do it cp but before i go what is your next play bill next week jane we have a highly amusing comedy almost a lady starring constant smore a gay story of a fission secretary who tried to jump the hurdles of high society obstacle one fiery temper sounds grand i'll be sure to listen goodbye tp goodbye jane wire join us next week won't you ladies and gentlemen when we present the comedy almost a lady starring constant smore until next week this is cp mcgregor saying thanks for listening and cheerio from hollywood jane wire appeared to the courtesy of the hollywood coordinating committee which arranges for the appearance of all stars on this program story by milton geiger with orchestra under the direction of eddie scruvani remember proudly we hail next time presents constant smore this program was transcribed in hollywood for release at this time randall now speaking