 the story of dr. Kildare What's the other house I enter there? Well, I go for the benefit of the sick And what's the weather things I see or hear concerning the life of men? I will keep silence there on counting such things to be held as sacred trust. I will exercise my art The story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought to you those famous motion pictures now this exciting heartwarming series is heard on radio Just a moment the story of dr. Kildare First your announcement as dr. Gillespie Dr. Kildare, I've called you up to my office on an extremely important and confidential matter It's about dr. Gillespie and his office. Oh, what about the doctor who dr. Kildare in Blair general? We have one of the finest most modern best equipped and beautiful hospitals in America Oh, and there is only one blight on the structural beauty of this building dr. Gillespie's office it resembles the back room of a taxidermy shop Why the furniture was antique in President Lincoln's day But a man of his position to sit in an office as old-fashioned and plus it up with every conceivable Memento and souvenir as here's is Well, I just won't tolerate it or humor him anymore I'm dr. Crew I think if you try to move one stick of furniture in that office, you're going to run into a stone wall That roll-top desk is as much a part of dr. Gillespie as his staffer skull dr. Would a man continue to use an 1880 style stethoscope or a 1900 style operating table just for sentimental reasons? He would not Now here here Take a look at these drawings Dr. Leonard Gillespie's new office Dr. Karoo, are you serious? It is of course. I'm serious They were drawn by Derek Ollingham the finest modern architect of our day as you know He designed my country home in Connecticut and if I must say so it's the show place of Conway Well, I'm afraid Conway Connecticut and dr. Gillespie are impressed by different things Well, it's not just a matter of design doctor What his present office is actually on Senate? Hmm. That's true. Yes Dr. Gillespie is getting along in years a new more convenient office will actually make work easier for him Yes, I suppose it would but why did you call me here, dr. Break the news to him. Well, no, no the the workmen were supposed to come in next weekend But Ellingham called dr. Nowrago and said that he was bringing them in at three o'clock today I knew what me to get dr. Gillespie out of his office. Oh, he has to get out and stay out until next Monday All right dr. Karoo. I'll do it, but it's gonna take some thinking. Oh, I have everything planned Yes, here are the keys to my Connecticut place take Leonard up there for the weekend I've already arranged for stuff doctors take care of things while you're gone. Wait a minute It's a 2 30 now. You say the workmen are coming at three. That's right And so you have to do anything anything you can think of but get him out of that office and out of the hospital until Monday morning Parker gets somebody to run over to dr. Gillespie's room throw some of his things in a suitcase and enough for a weekend To bring them back here right away. I'll explain some other time Parker. This is an emergency. Oh, yes, dr. Gillespie right away Good afternoon dr. G Oh good afternoon Jimmy Isn't this a wonderful day? Oh, it's too wonderful to stay indoors. Oh, I don't know I haven't enjoyed my work in months as much as I have today Something you wanted well, I thought I felt like taking a few days off and thought you might join Well Jimmy, it's nice of you to think of me But I'll save my days off for some other time. Oh, you could go fishing, you know I around reading detective stories listening to the radio. I've already arranged it with dr. Crew. He'll put replacements on for us Well now I can see you've gone to considerable trouble to get away and dr. Crew also let us take his kinetic at home for the weekend. Oh really now Yes, I hear that's quite a fancy place. I suppose it's done in crew's usual bad taste Well, there's one way to find out we could look at it. Oh, I don't think it'd interest me that much And stop looking at your watch. You wear a hole right through the crystal. It's 250 What are you catching a rocket ship? No, we're going to drive you ready now and I wait a minute I didn't even say I was going come on. I've had some of your things packed now Jimmy Let go my arm. I'm not leaving here for any vacation. I don't need one Thanks Parker very much just keep the door open because we're on our way away where stop pulling me on way Connecticut here we come How do you feel now dr. Gillespie relaxed and very happy good You know Jimmy I have to agree Maybe it was a good idea that we did get out of the office for a few days That's what I was trying to tell you, you know when you were driving. I was just thinking about things about what in particular My office mostly. I guess one of the reasons I don't like to leave Blair general even for a day Is that office you? Mean you like it the way it is. Oh, I wouldn't have it any other way Every piece of furniture every book every little memento and that office means something to me I Probably kill anybody who tried to change as much as a chair in that office Sorry, why don't you pull over there and have me drive? You know you look a little Rouge Connecticut Palace Wait, we put on some light and get a better look come on You like it when we get settled down inside and fire in the fireplace a couple of hot drinks This place is so modern instead of a fireplace. It's probably got an atomic pile Lights here somewhere Isn't this house beautiful inside? Yeah beautiful It looks like Buck Rogers bathroom all Chrome and those chairs there made out of burlap and wire just a matter of getting used to it Everything in the world is going to look like this in time. You know it's inevitable There is one place that'll hold out my office Maybe it'll be known as the last of the comfortable rule Dr. Crew this is dr. Kildare. I'm calling from your library in Connecticut. I know dr. Gillespie's a little suspicious. I hope I won't lose his friendship over this You don't have to whisper that I don't think so. He hates your house here That's what he said. He hates modern architecture of any kind and furthermore He said if anyone ever changed his office, he'd kill him. Yes, I think he means it and one more thing He hates your house here so much that he wants to come back to town tomorrow morning He said he'd walk back if necessary Gillespie, did you enjoy your weekend? Oh, I did I did wonderful jelly wonderful Those trouts were out of this world. They were indeed, but I don't imagine you had a very good time Well, oh your car breaking down losing your billfold and identification Time choking on the fish bone Why of all the things that happened to you would was there unbelievable? I have to tell the truth. They are but I managed to survive Well, dr. Gillespie here's your office. I think I'll run along to mine No, no, no step in for a minute. Come on. We'll see what's on the calendar this Monday morning Welcome back and dr. Kildare. Good morning. Is that a new desk you have? It is brand spanking new. What's that? It's called a supersonic and a communication relay system and amplifier a supersonic Looks like a ray gun Just a minute dr. Gillespie. I want you to know I have nothing to do with this one forever My office. What have they done to my office? I'll see you later Parker Don't you think out here now? Where is my furniture gone? Where's everything that was mine? I just can't be my office. Oh, I'm afraid it is dr. Gillespie Dr. Kildare So that's what it was all about. I'm sorry dr. Gillespie Apologize for your scheming worked all right, isn't it? You got me out of my office long enough for someone to rip it apart and replace it with something that looks like the inside of a spaceship just the dr. Karoo wanted wanted to modernize the hospital you realize that in all this world The only thing I had that was mine was that office It's where I entered as a young man and grew old every inch of wood meant something to me Now Dr. Gillespie, I think once you use it a while you'll find it five times as light and convenient as your old office Yes, I think so. Well, let me tell you something you can pass along to your co-conspirator Karoo I won't set foot in that chamber of horrors if I live to be a thousand years old To the story of dr. Kildare in just a moment Dr. Gillespie, we want you to just please try out your new office. Won't you do that much? Yes, Linda You can do that much. Yeah, I can do that much splendid But I won't we thought you would appreciate a new office that would make your work easier and more pleasant. Yes We thought you'd appreciate it. Yeah, you keep out of this Karoo Jimmy I never thought the day would come when you'd turn up. That's ridiculous I haven't turned on you dr. Gillespie. You shanghide me away to that surrealist heaven up in Connecticut. Well, this This nincompoop here committed architectural mayhem on my office Dr. Karoo, wait a minute dr. Gillespie Do you mean to say you're just going to sit here behind this card table in the laboratory and call it an office? I am not that you will practice from your new office. I will not I Wouldn't be caught treating a torn cuticle in that shellac stable of electronic nonsense But you're so progressive in everything else. I don't understand you dr. Gillespie It's fairly simple to understand. I've had several office and good one to attend research laboratories in an advisory capacity And I'm thinking seriously of accepting one that makes sense to you He certainly talked that way this morning What any of us do oh, I don't blame you or dr. Karoo. We were just trying to help him That's the things you get now now now Parker in spite of the way dr. Gillespie's been acting the situation isn't completely hopeless. Oh, no, I think that Secretly dr. Gillespie's tickled to death with the new phones the intercom and automatic filing system I think he even likes the leather chair and the carpet There was something about that old roll-top desk that we just can't replace I guess he did have a feeling you know Parker if we were to replace that desk without him knowing Then somehow get him back into the office. We wouldn't have anything to worry about Excuse me Parker Hello Oh, did you locate it? Where what auctioneer easily I'll go right over Invaluable asset in anybody's home Move it out boys genuine Grand Rapids tomb style roll-top desk was formerly the prized possession of a famous doctor of our city It Parker that's dr. Gillespie's dad. Don't you let them tell it to anybody else? All right, who's gonna start the bidding? Do I hear I'll buy that desk mr. auctioneer. Oh the man in the great coat. All right buddy. Let me hear you bit $50 Buddy you just bought yourself for this ready dr. Kill there's a moving man Just the week was before mmm It's almost three o'clock. He should be coming along any minute. Oh the elevator just stopped that must be him Come on. We can slip inside the lab Leave the door open a crack Here he comes He's going into the office now watch this he'll be so happy Inside now can't miss it bought it right there where it used to be He'll probably want to be alone with him Be looking through it wonder what for you're through hiding in that laboratory with dr. Kildare come out here. Oh something's wrong Yes, dr. Gillespie I suppose you and dr. Kildare brought this old piece of junk back here What why we thought you wanted it dr. Gillespie which we thought had to make you change your mind about leaving well You thought wrong. It hasn't changed my mind one bit That's supposed to answer to all our problems. Well apparently it isn't Look at this. This is strange. Dr. Crew. Look at this drawer isn't as deep as the others Why it has a false bottom way, so it has can you take out that false bottom dr. Kildare? Yes, hand me that letter opener, please. Here we are Perfume yes with drawers empty and must have been something in there that dr. Gillespie valued very highly So that's it. It wasn't a desk. He was so interested in as what must have been in this door Come in Dr. Kildare I'm dr. Kildare your nurse said I'd find you down here Remember me the auction house the name is beastly. Oh, yes, mr. Beedly. This is dr. Crew how to do hi dark. I come down to bring in this Package of letters. Yeah, I thought you might be able to get them back to the guy to belong to Well, it's all dr. Sierra. Oh, what do you know about that? Let me see those By their letters from Marley third to dr. Glaston This one's dated July 15th 1913 Dylan and last night when you took me home from the nurse's dance. I could hardly say goodbye at the Hmm, I can't read them. Not neither could I dr. Crew what do you say we get them in the hands of the only person who has a right to read them? Of course of course From the way dr. Gillespie's acted so far. That's not going to be a very simple thing to do He has every right to be sensitive. I think I have an idea that might work Why these are letters I wrote to Leonard when I was in nurse's school and he was just an intern Yes, he saved them all these years Molly Imagine that old goat Molly dr. Crew and I have done something very wrong in moving dr. Gillespie's desk out of his office. We nearly lost these letters It is serving right if he lost them He might try to blackmail me someday and he hasn't been angry at us for trying to decorate his office Even for getting rid of the desk, but he's been very upset about losing these letters I never thought he'd keep anything like this. He still thinks they're lost And I can understand why he complained about everything but the letters and I can understand why he wants them back He was really pretty touchy about everything. He threatened to leave bled Now Molly I can't put them back nor can dr. Crew but if you were to take them to him, I'm sure things could be worked out Well, I wrote those to him over 40 years ago. I'd feel funny taking them down to him now I I just couldn't do it dr. Kildare Well, then let me ask you this question Did dr. Gillespie ever write any letters to you letters to me? Well, of course he did You should see what he wrote me the night after he took me to the interns Cotillion just before he graduated I've got the letter right here Molly, do you mean you've kept his letters all these years? Well, I You see I Well, Molly Give them to me dr. Kildare. I'll deliver them right now How's it going dr. Kildare you know as much about it as I do Molly birds been in there with him for a half an hour Well, I can't send the suspense any longer just going to have to wait and see what happened For one I'm not going to wait this new intercommunication system works both ways, you know You wouldn't dare listening on dr. Gillespie. Wouldn't I be close to miss Parker pushy I was so heard enough haven't we dr. Kildare. I think we've heard just about all we need to hear Parker yes, doctor. Would you please tell Diana Werner? I won't be able to meet her for dinner. Oh No, I'm the standby physician and I have a feeling I'll be working. Oh, yes Very good Wait a minute and second thought Parker. Don't tell Diana anything I think I'll write her a letter in just a moment We will return to the story of dr. Kildare. Yeah, how are you this morning? He's awful. I just want you to know dr. Kildare that he's been on the phone all the time Okay, well dr. G having fun here in the new office. You mean I want to tell you that after giving it a fair trial I really like it. I thought you would once you got used to it There's one thing I like most about it. What's that? Well, it seems that in wiring all these electrical devices They cross some wires or something really what happens? Well, they're the green one The window shade is supposed to go up. Mm-hmm, but they don't Look what does go up when I push it? See what I mean I've just heard the story of dr. Kildare starring Lou Ayres and Lionel Barrymore This program was written by E. Jack Newman and John Michael Hayes and directed by Joe Bigelow Original music was composed and conducted by Walter Schumann Virginia Greg was heard as nurse Parker and Ted Osborne as dr. Karoo others in the cast included Betty Blythe and Tony Barrett dick joy speaking