 welcome to hollywood yarn forces radio and television service brings you the hollywood radio theater starring Dana Andrews and Ruth Roman in the blue gardenia ladies and gentlemen your producer Mr. Irving Cummings greetings from hollywood ladies and gentlemen sometimes in a moment of great emotional stress we commit a foolish and regrettable act and tonight's exciting drama the blue gardenia it's an impulsive telephone call that leads to an accusation of murder as our stars of this intriguing mystery from Warner Brothers we have Dana Andrews and Ruth Roman now act one of blue gardenia starring Dana Andrews as Casey and Ruth Roman as Nora almost every large American city has a newspaper called the evening chronicle not every evening chronicle has a reporter and featured columnist whose byline is Casey Casey's specialty is the human interest story which you may find almost anywhere even in the main office of the West Coast telephone company at the moment he's in the office of the director of public relations oh yes mr. mail our business has shown a phenomenal expansion since the war for instance I have some comparative figures in the file here well that's alright mr. Mitchell I'll take your word for it we are now considering the year 1953 Mr. Mitchell yeah let's say that stuff for the financial page my readers interested in people in your case that means the telephone girls who they are what they look like what's behind the voice that says number please ah well I can show you some pictures about girls that we're running in our new advertising campaign these are some pencil sketches made by the office on the series this one is Jane she's our youngest operator and tenera she was actually born in red with the turkey yeah oh mr. Mitchell the artist who did these drawings was the Harry Prebble quite as a matter of fact yes he specializes in women you know he's certainly does come to think of it that mr. Prebble is doing another sketch right now one of our prettiest girls too did you like to see him mm-hmm I'd like to hear now crystal don't turn your head I want a complete profile look mr. Prebble I can't do everything at once either I posed for you or I answer mr. Mayo's questions one or the other then let's concentrate on this the mail it would be a pleasure now where do we leave all so you said you were from Chicago that's right oh and my phone number is granite 732 3 granite 732 3 thank you don't bother to call mr. Prebble I expect to be out every evening for the next five years what is this between you two love it first flight come on Casey finish up with a girl I wish there was something you could write about me mr. Mayo but I'm afraid my past is all in the future hey maybe you better try Nora Nora what's the special about her well she's engaged in one of the real heroes of the Korean war that's all that's good enough lead me to us that's mr. Mitchell your office is holding you can take the call in one of the booths in the hall outside okay thanks mr. Prebble as a call for you all right hello darling I know you told me not to call you there but I've just got to talk to you just a second but you want to talk to don't hang up Casey maybe that's for me good be here if he wants to speak to darling I guess my call must be in the next booth Harry Harry is that you hello honey Harry I've just got to see you right away look Rose I'm tied up now call me at home I can't you change the number and I can't get it from the operator Harry you promised me that if anything I said I can't talk now so take it easy I'll call you sometime Harry oh Harry no yeah I got your call Casey yeah do me a favor will you Harry tell Crystal and her friend I had to go back to the office the editor wants to see me on the double something big breaking something real big for me I'll see you Harry and good luck with Granite 7 3 2 3 I bet look will you please come out of that closet then what did you know he said lead me to where he said meaning Nora then comes the phone call and that's the last I saw of Mr. Mayo see why you didn't introduce him to me after all I'm your roommate too you were busy on the switchboard remember Sally so was Nora all right so I'm a beast the case he Mayo wanted a story and it's Nora who's engaged to the big war hero oh Nora what did they'll say in that last letter about coming home and how much did they look you for it you like it oh yes I adore it and thanks for getting it in black it'll look good on all other but you don't mind if I wear it first just for tonight well seeing as it's your birthday okay thanks a lot there seems a wasted scenery to get all dressed up like this and then just send evening at home the way I want you know honey Homer and I wouldn't mind you're coming along on our date tonight Homer might even forget the movie and take a dancing no I know it's sweet of you Kristen does anybody smell smoke oh I know it's still on the other Sally I asked you to turn off the oven sorry Nora you know I just can't concentrate I ain't dinner downtown so well so for me that's the end of food until breakfast wait a minute maybe we've still got some hamburger in the refrigerator hamburger on Nora's birthday not if I can help it Sally you're not going to the market I just got time it goes in 10 minutes Nora yes did you buy this bottle of champagne just for tonight oh yes it's been on ice long enough I'll take it honey a word of advice from a veteran drinking all by yourself is no good I won't be alone oh of course not you've got bills photographed to keep you company yes I have sure I've watched you set the stage the dining table set for two bills photo propped up by a napkin and now champagne for a toast to the big man who isn't here well what's wrong with that I can pretend he's here can't I oh honey it's your birthday you want to be with people well I'll be with Bill and I saved his letter the one that came yesterday I waited tonight maybe I'm the one who's stupid maybe pretending is better than the real thing what it isn't but it's better than nothing at all oh oh that's Homer downstairs you're sure you won't come along no thanks crystal all right all right I'm coming oh Nora yes save me the champagne core I will good night to you darling and now to wish me a happy birthday Bill no wait that's what your letter is for you and Nora I've been wanting to write this letter to you for so long but instead I've written to you about other things things that aren't nearly so important remember when I collected that load of shrapnel in the leg will they ship me to the hospital here in Tokyo that's how I met Angela she's my nurse we're in love we're going to be married no who is this Harry Preble oh the artist look honey let's stop playing games you told me to be out every evening for the next five years and yet here you are getting ready to have dinner with me well I'm sorry Mr. Preble but I'm afraid you've made a mistake we'll discuss my mistakes over cocktails I come on hop in a cab and meet me at the blue gardenia they've got the best Chinese food and top mr. Preble you don't understand maybe I do you've got a date no I didn't and he stood you up huh okay then what's holding you back well I nothing really all right the blue gardenia I'll be there in ten minutes blue gardenia for the lady you know I'm sorry May I'm fresh out of blonde Mr. Mayo so nice to hear your voice again no thanks may I'll do everything not like the old days yeah I'll tell you what may look me up at the bar after I've had a drink or two maybe I'll buy one of those God in you I will miss you male thank you well if it is mr. fourth estate himself hey Harry I was hoping I'd meet somebody a new now why you remember this morning at the phone company when the editor called me back to the office yeah you said it was something big the biggest I'm to cover the next series of each bomb test out in the Pacific no more hack work for me boy only top assignment I see and you said you were hoping to meet somebody here that you knew that's right and I asked why well when you have some good news don't you like to have somebody to tell it to oh it's so funny you if you want an audience what if you get married because it's cheaper to talk to you purple you're young lady she come now thanks Louis young lady now at table and Louis bring us two of your Polynesian pearl divers and heavy on the rock this is a coincidence I just talked to your friend crystal oh you didn't talk to her you talked to me I I'm one of Crystal's roommate no kidding I told you you made a mistake stored I like to make honey mind if I sit down your table that's right I probably shouldn't have come it's just silly impulse you see it's my birthday and I just bought this new chance your birthday then this is a real occasion Louis those drinks better be for us yes Mr. Preble are those wondering how we call them Polynesian pearl divers mostly ice and pineapple juice aren't they Louis whatever you say Mr. Preble can I get high and one of them you want to I don't know what I want only only to forget the early part of this evening okay tonight starts as of now to us to us what's the name of that tune blue gardenia pretty was the song name for the cafe cafe for the song which I Harry you're listening sure Louis the lady will have another pearl divers okay honey why not just ice and pineapple juice and soft trade women's garden have you saved one for me may of course Mr. Mayo you brought me love oh I have how well nobody's ever given me five dollars for a gardenia before and Mr. Preble did tonight five dollars his date must be pretty terrific I gotta see this day they just left me I'm sorry to say it but I wish that girl wasn't with Mr. Preble you know something may so do I what do you know I'm starting to rain rain rain go away come again another day still feel okay honey wonderful so wonderful snow this gardenia Harry what does he remind you hmm South Seas Southern Cross above Carl Reese lovely maiden bathing at the foot of a waterfall that's me isn't sure okay hop out of me well after my apartment I've been invited a few people in good every girls would have a party on her break no more to drink Harry please oh come on one glass of champagne can't hurt you well then just one Harry we're all the people you invite they'll be along that's a wonderful place to give a party you can see the whole city from these windows and a real fireplace to make it cold what was that just found there can we have some music I see you like that well I'll turn on the phonograph I've got a special record here to remember our first date remember it blue guy Dean yeah oh Harry I've got to sit down you wanted to dance oh I've got to sit down and show her take off your shoes honey just relax everything's all right everything's all right oh no it it isn't you wrote me that letter letter oh why did you have to meet Batman oh darling you know I love you you do honey I love you Bill I love you that's what I wanted to hear I knew you'd be a good kid oh no I don't come on baby give me a kiss no it's late I've got to go home there's no hurry there is my shoes what happened to them maybe I've got them maybe I won't let you have them unless you act nice Harry please are you going to be nice no stay away if you don't yeah what do you do I'll use this hey give me that poker get away give it to me I want you and overseas have a wonderful opportunity to observe new customs and traditions they find to that these ideas aren't so strange after all for instance take this business of tattooing on some of the islands of the Pacific the natives adorn themselves with tattoo marks indicating the group they belong to or the gods they worship among the Brahmins and Mohammedans a tattoo is used as a mark of cast although the cast system is rapidly disappearing in Japan skilled artists create truly beautiful designs using a human body instead of a canvas well all this might sound strange but tattooing is not unknown in our culture however as some of our servicemen have observed it's well it's a little embarrassing when the fellow with a tattoo that reads John loves Mary takes as a wife a girl with the name of Josephine or the young man with a beautiful anchor on his chest finds himself in the army or the Air Force from another standpoint the beauty marks worn by some women of Western civilization are nothing more than a form of tattoo and the same thing is true about other customs and traditions of all countries a way of doing things may be different but the ideals are the same these customs are important to the people who follow them and our servicemen are helping to maintain goodwill by observing the customs of other people in other lands now our producer mr. Cummings act two of a blue gardenia starring Dana Andrews's Casey and Ruth Roman as Nora Nora Larkin should never have gone out with Harry Preble should never have had all those drinks and she's never had gone to Harry's apartment but what was done was done and when Harry came taught her with that look in his eyes Nora reached out for the only weapon at hand a firepoker Harry I warned you right I'll go home with us the night and the rainstorm baths now it is morning in Harry Preble's apartment a group of sober face men are busy with cameras tape lines and fingerprint kids that she must erase the poker over his head and let him have it who let him have a cabin I'm okay see what are you doing on a routine murder case I happen to hear the police call them a car radio from the address I thought it might turn out to be something for the society page no now this guy was an artist oh oh hey I'll give a look around and see if you can find some pictures of artists models you know something that yeah got you case so you're right an assistant now I guess it don't let out here you call him back he thinks I just like the captions for his photograph where's the body of the corona just took it who found it cleaning woman and I mean a real cleaning woman she wiped the fingerprints off the cocktail glasses and the fire poker and then discovered the body now no clues then now a couple a lace handkerchief para suede pumps size five and a half that they've been in a real hurry unless you're the kind of girl who always walks home in a talking feet after killing the boyfriends yeah maybe she always wears blue guardians blue guardians huh we found one on the sofa broken off at the stem yeah I'll leave that point of that below I just wanted to listen to keep your hands off it maybe captain Haynes hasn't checked it yet now we have the cleaning woman said that record was still playing when she let herself in this morning I see Oh captain you said this guy was an artist yeah that's right girl blue guardian by any chance with the victim's name be Preble I thought you knew sure Harry Preble huh I you knew it I knew it I know a story when I see one captain maybe you and I can write this together I got a pretty good idea for chapter one yes Louie remember Louie take young lady to table mr. Preble order many drinks for young lady all right and what did she look like blue gardenia very busy last night blue gardenia always busy that is why Louie not look close at ladies sometimes but if you saw this girl again you'd know her wouldn't you wouldn't you Louie yes Louie no I know you can't see me but can you remember anything like the girls perfume something about a voice or it was a friendly boy friendly and quiet Mr. Mayo today it was capital capital yes it ruffles like no other material capital thank you may the police have already been here thanks to you mr. Mayo they question every single operator who pulls one of Preble sketch it and did they find mr. Mitchell that one of the girls checked in late this morning they were on time all of them sorry mr. Mayo but you'll have to look elsewhere for your mother is correct operator give me the number of blue gardenia restaurant I'm sorry I cut you off sir please excuse me feeling any better honey oh no my head's coming a piece I'm still not talking about last night well there's nothing to talk about I just went out got tight well well visitors again who where down at the end of the board Casey Mayo and some guy hey isn't he Chinese no the other one crystal I I don't feel well will you take my calls for a moment for sure honey maybe you better go and see the nurse yes I have well I've never seen nor with a hand over before no and I bet you never will again long distance hello long distance yes sir this is operator 27 and better known to her friends as kind of 7 3 2 3 ladies may I introduce my friend Louis Wong glad no you know you Mr. Wong maybe you'll introduce your friend Mr. Mayo didn't I see you yesterday you didn't make much of it sorry well we go the way oh Mr. Mayo yes maybe you can tell us why the police are suddenly so interested in the girls nightlife such silly question such as madam when was the last time you went strolling in the rain without tissues and that was one of the deli what's it all about I'm sorry the answer will cost you seven cents sex page one of the evening chronicle coming away what do you think the way you looked at at least 50 girls which one was it we did not see girl not here Mr. Mayo city room male Casey this is Haynes have you gone nuts by that captain I'd say you've just read my story about Harry Prebble you like it oh sure yeah especially this line friend captain Haynes of homicide the murder is you're looking for a captain was wearing a taffeta dress probably black uh-huh it probably was I checked with a girl who does our fashion page he says everything's black taffeta this year that you tell you the taffeta was a murder that's not bad captain you might have I use that line look Casey if you got any real clothes I want them you know what the penalty is for withholding information from the police who's withholding just keep reading my column captain you'll find it all there well okay I want you to go back to Prebble Department and photograph everything in sight I gotta find a new angle some new gimmick for the next edition I don't get what's so important about this story case with news beautiful girl kills the defender virtue that's big news and maybe something extra in case you may always pay him okay but how do you know that this this blue gardenia girl is beautiful maybe she's a dog they're always beautiful what do you call it the blue gardenia that's it out that's my gimmick blue gardenia murder case is expected to break wide open within a matter of hours the clue it may well lead police to the murderous the top of the dress probably probably black probably black probably bright red that type of girl doesn't wear black what type of girl the type who will go out with Harry Prebble well maybe she was just lonely the world maybe she was tired of food in one room apartments in a career in the elevator or at a switchboard or behind a manicure table maybe she wanted more excitement sure no doubt her right her voice was quiet and friendly as she drank half a dozen Polynesian pearl divers in the blue gardenia she was just Harry Prebble's kind of doll a flashy blonde putting on an actual stop it stop it will you look more honey I'm sorry I'm just so tired after all day on the switchboard my nerves are same here we've had enough blue gardenia let's turn in okay I'm first in the bathroom aren't you always Nora yes I know what's wrong with your nerves you do yeah when I woke up this morning and saw you passed out on the couch your dress soaking wet and everything I knew something had happened oh honey I don't blame you for doing it doing it yes I found Bill's letter on the dining table I read it a guy joked with me like that I go out and get tanked too thanks Crystal oh it's nothing really all right Sally ready or not here I come the clue which may well leave the place to the murder is the tacit rest probably black Crystal Sally who are you night watch man don't you know it's against the law to burn incinerators at the dock oh sorry I forgot oh you forgot you you're not going to make me put it out looks like it's too late now I don't let it happen again and won't know never again blue gardenia case yeah I need a new angle something that'll drag that game into this office before the cops get what what why should she come to you because I want an exclusive simple isn't it Casey isn't there anything in life for you besides a headline yeah two headlines you realize now one week from now I'll be out the South Pacific I can't just walk out on the same you've left games before haven't you know that's something else that kind of deal is easy not for me I always hate scenes I stall a bust up until I'm leaving town then I write the day my letter yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah why not why not what a letter listen an open letter to an unknown murderous dear blue gardenia I hope you'll read this letter because I want to help you when I say I that means my newspaper and me tell us your story if we get it first we'll go all out for you that includes hiring the best trial attorney by now you must be frightened out of your whip you don't know which way to turn there's no place to hide nowhere to run except to me so take my advice my advice blue gardenia better than your phone booth and the diamond the rest of your life dial Madison six oh oh two five and as for you're very and at least a female no place just out I don't want any dinner please leave me alone I'm sick of you two watching everything I do and everything I say everywhere I go honey what's gotten into you selling it I were just concerned about you they're not just self these days oh I'm not so you both inspire you admit it well leave me alone and don't try to follow me what about I don't know tell me I'm beginning to be afraid terribly afraid just tell me what size police batch you're aware I'll come over and pin it on your chest how are you captain hold on a second will you captain hey oh the size of the passion is very important lady but tell me first what size shoe do you wear an art house Cinderella that means that last call makes the tense confession so far how many ponies are there in this town I read your later okay lady tell me how I can be sure you're the blue gardenia the newspapers said the police found his shoes weren't they swayed shoes maybe go on they were size five and a half feet the rubber heel was loose on the left shoe am I right look where you're calling from a phone booth on the street it sits right next to the service station at the corner where's the washroom yeah yeah go on no no I'm not ready yet hello the gardenia are you still there hey fella he falls off the hook hello gardenia gardenia oh gardenia who is this highway patrol officer mcmanus where's the girl I was just talking to that girl I don't see any girl around here because she saw you first okay officer thanks for the near miss hey case yeah you think she'll call again I don't want no well it's been a couple hours all right I'll I get the message going home you mean it I hate to leave you here alone it's almost midnight go on I said you're losing up my game of solitude okay okay see you in the morning hello do you remember a phone call earlier tonight the one that was interrupted all right just which call was that about the shoes sorry five and a half feet I know the girl who phoned you I I'd like to talk to you about it where you know a block from your office okay come on up here there's a self-service elevator on the side street get off on a second floor that's the city room you feel alone yeah alone all right in five minutes in a moment act three of the blue gardenia the story is told about a couple of tourists who are going through an art gallery in Italy one man obviously tired of sightseeing announced to everyone within hearing ah you call this art nothing but faded paint and cracked canvas we got better stuff on our calendars at home an american serviceman overheard this and saw how it offended the Italians he turned to the man and said sir the paintings here are not on trial the people who come to see them are well the frowns of disapproval on the faces of the Italians were erased by smiles of understanding and the incident was widely repeated it was a small thing but even small things can have tremendous results such acts by you and your friends today are shaping our world of tomorrow we pause now for station identification the curtain rises on act three of the blue gardenia starring Dana Andrews as Casey and Ruth Roman as Nora in the dark and deserted city room of the evening chronicles Casey Mayo waits tensely for the minutes to pass and then in the corridor outside the automatic elevator Casey reaches for the light switch oh hello won't you uh sit down please not yet figure red yes local girl what are you a local girl the morning race here does it make any difference no not really it's making conversation well mr. Mayo I want to explain about the first phone call why my friend didn't call you back he was too frightened or maybe she didn't trust me that was it so she asked me to to talk to you look I don't want to sell myself to you or to your friends I told you I mean her all we want is an exclusive story we'll pay for it with the best criminal attorney in town but but perhaps the police will never find oh they will and they won't be so generous either how did your friend meet Preble at the phone company no she didn't tell him anyway they were good friends no she went to his apartment didn't she he said they'd be other people mm-hmm mr. Mayo she had a lot to drink she wasn't thinking she wasn't thinking period that's what she told me she doesn't even remember killing oh the old amnesia alibi now maybe you're worrying too much about your friend sounds to me like she can take care of herself I don't know what look how about a hamburger what I've been cooped up in this office here all night no dinner there's an all night joint up the oh no no I don't want to be seen believe me it's perfectly safe it's one of those hangouts that these are empty or you can't get in just a thought of one of those juicy hamburgers and a cup of coffee coffee and a whole part of your want come on let's go you first walk into my office I thought you were the blue guy didn't you what changed your mind you're coming here with me you wouldn't have risked that besides you just aren't her type oh what type am I the type that looks very becoming the dam of mustard on the tip of your nose I have not but I do that again what that was the first time that you walked into my office the first time since I found out about about my friend you haven't found out very much it's clear up till the time she went to Preble's apartment the rum drinks the flour he bought her even after that when he put the record the blue gardenia yeah pretty strong let's see I think it's listed here on the jukebox yeah that's a nice song too bad it was background for murder Mr. Mayo you're not going to print any of what I told you not until I talk to the blue gardenia self and it better be soon the police have her shoes they're checking the stores to find who bought them oh Mike why don't we owe you two hamburgers and five coffees $1.40 Mr. Mayo okay it's here on the table thank you Mr. Mayo I'm going to talk to my friend if if I didn't get her to call you no no more phone stuff you tell her to meet me here 340 tomorrow afternoon why 340 because that gives me just time to make the sunset additional crystal I hope you didn't wait up just for me no I just got home Homer took me to the blue gardenia tonight what a mob everybody wanted to sit where the murderers sat and everybody thinks that he did want some milk no I'm turning in good night Nora asked a homer phone for the date I decided to borrow your new black carpet address I couldn't find it I I sent it to the cleaners then I noticed your pumps were gone the black suede pump really honey I've been putting everything together a big mystery about the night of your birthday where you went who you were with and your jitter is ever since Nora baby wasn't you a Nora baby Mr. Mayo oh Mike is the girl come in who hello Mr. Mayo oh well granted seven three two three you know I suspected you from the start you did I did that's funny you look smart enough to have gotten rid of trouble some other way oh I could have but it just happened that I didn't do it you see I'm allergic to gardenia any color now what are you doing here because the real girl is ready to give herself up to you but before she does I want to be sure you meant what she told her last night oh where is she who's behind us treat her right Mr. Mayo now you know yeah Mike some coffee over here as long as you got when Harry Prebble called I made the date Kristoff date and Nora Larkin a country kid in the big city winds up killing a man she'd never been out with before but last night you said your friend I mean you but you did remember doing it I must have there's no other explanation more coffee Mr. Mayo oh thanks Mike okay just holler if you do Mr. Mayo I know I should have told you the whole story last night but I wanted time to think I I had to be sure I could trust you and you're sure now I'm sure so what do we do right I don't know you don't know you know right I didn't expect you to be the girl oh what's that got to do with it you promised in that letter you'd help me didn't you mean what you said no they don't just see you know I thought the killer was just another cheap dame if I'd had any idea that it was no more lies please I've had enough on Nora that's okay Casey my boys will escort her you let me into a turn take her along boys hey wait a minute you made a mistake now it's the other way around isn't it you have a cozy tooth and with a wanted killer and forget to let homicide know about it or am I wrong did you tell Mike to tip us off Mike no sir rain I was on my idea you see first I read Mr. Mayo's letter to blue gardenia in the paper then last night I see him come in here with some dame it's 3 a.m. and then here they are again now so I begin to figure see I add up then I go to the phone pretty good detective work on Mr. Mayo maybe you'll do a story about me huh yeah and obituary I hope some headline a case paper mister no beautiful killer caught by columnist go on Peter what's wrong with your buddy that's a good point you can't mean that much to you she might have to go in a drugstore a minute I need an aspirin long time since you've needed aspirin because of some dame will you shut up about her okay hey that music what about it you heard canned music before they pipe the stuff into half the stores in town well when we first checked over Preble's apartment you turned on his phonograph you played this record yeah that's right a cleaning woman that that was the record on the phonograph when she found the body well well don't you see it isn't the same record that was playing when Nora blacked out come on now let's forget about the aspirin now do you see what I mean captain no I don't you drag me up here to Preble's apartment you play as phonograph and say this is the wrong record but where's the proof nor is the proof she said she heard only one piece of music played here and that was a blue garden he says she's confessed I've got the evidence to convict her I'm happy captain a woman's life is involved we can't let her go to the chair because of a wrong piece of music all right why do we go from here where take a look at the label on this record well see where it was bought now rose music shop help you gentlemen we hope so uh jeffie here of harry prebble for who hasn't a good customer of ours or was you know anything about this album of records he bought here police mm-hmm the Haynes homicide oh well miss miller handle mr prebble's account just a second that rose can you come up front please I'm unpacking that you're putting this here well let it go there are some policemen here to see you the police it's about prebble I'm afraid Casey this is just a wild goose chase we're not going to learn anything here okay so we keep trying oh wait a minute what was that I gave him out back come on yeah rose rose hold on where's the washroom that door right there that's the smith you better call an ambulance a police ambulance yes sir no you don't miss miller you want to get those cuts bandaged and then when you feel better I want to be with harry harry prebble yes we're in love with him yes I knew I didn't have a chance with all these other women when he walked out I crawled after him and that night I went to his apartment I still had the keys I walked in and found him with that with that woman you mean Nora larkin yes she was passed out on the floor and harry was holding the fire poker he said they'd been fighting I told harry he had to take me back he said he would but all the time he was pushing me towards the door I knew he wanted to be alone with her I grabbed the poker away from him and then with all my might miss miller and miss miller I'm Casey mayo the chronicle I wrote a letter to you on the front page of the paper maybe you read it I promise to help you to be your friend that promise still goes on your call to providence road island sir to p o baker they will be a short delay hello operator yes sir I'd like to place a person-to-person call please oh you very cute mr. mayo gee we thought you were still out in the Pacific watching all those h-bombs here my plane got in this morning now uh how about my person-to-person call oh would you repeat the name of your party sir miss Nora larkin thank you sir operator yes ma'am will you please tell your party that miss larkin is not ready to talk to you then would you please leave a message operator yes sir say that mr. Casey mayo deeply regrets certain mistakes he made in the past he'd like another chance boy if you only tell him well I heard you the other night operator yeah please tell your party that miss larkin is not free to talk now but she suggests an appointment call later tonight seven o'clock dinner cori mr. mayo yes maybe a human input story uh-huh very human and very interesting read all about it in the evening conical in a moment our stars will return make a friend and you make an ally there's a thought for you to keep in mind as many another american has lowest cast knew how important friendship is in 1836 he resigned as secretary of war to accept the post of ambassador to france it wasn't too long after his arrival there that he became friends with king louis philly but making friends with the french people was another story anti-american propaganda had been too well planted over the years but one day cast witnessed a street fight with the appearance of armed troops the fighters fled leaving a group of bystanders about to be fired on stepping out in front of them cast told a commanding officer that he as well as the frenchman with him were innocent spectators and that to fire on them would be murder the officer apologized and ordered his men to put up their guns the incident marked the beginning of louis cast's friendship with the french people gradually despite the attempted smears by other nations cast strengthened the understanding between his country and france and he was eventually responsible for the signing of a treaty by america france and england a treaty which guaranteed freedom of the seas to all nations once more an american had proved to the world that by helping others you help your country now here's mr. comings with our stars and they're coming forward for a bow dana andrews and ruth romans now i know you must have a hit for next week everything isn't it another of your 20 great yes one of our greatest war pictures the story of the foot soldier of world war two battleground winner of the photo play gold medal award for metro golwin mayer and a stirring tribute to our fighting men and as our stars we'll have that fine actor in first citizen of hollywood george murphy and one of our most talented and popular artists band johnson an excellent choice erving tonight goodnight and to hurry up was produced by erving comings our orchestra is directed by rudy schrager this is your announcer ken carpenter inviting you to be with us again next week at this same time for another presentation of the hollywood radio theater is the united states armed forces radio and television service