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Force recruiting station today serve yourself and your country be a volunteer now back to your host CP McGregor the curtain rises on act one of the gold digger and the minors starring Brenda Marshall as Wanda Morgan the daughter of a famous mining engineer Wanda Morgan decided as a little girl to follow in her father's footsteps and Wanda has had cause for regretting the decision almost ever since making it in state school of mines even though she led her class Wanda was regarded as a lovely and talented freak and since graduating she's had no luck in combating the prejudice against feminine mining engineers at the moment she's in the private office of her employer and fiance Randolph Sherman mining consultant begging for a chance at some fieldwork oh but Randy you know that I'm a better engineer than most of your fieldman perhaps but I'm not engaged to marry any of them want and now why don't you forget mining and set a date for our wedding because I don't intend to set that date until I've had at least one chance to prove professionally that I'm as good a mining engineer as my sheepskin says I am well in that case I'm afraid I'll spend the rest of my life being a bachelor why because my dear even you should know by now that you're not going to get that chance mines are run by men and they're going to that's what's wrong with mining now possibly at any rate men prefer their women centred with taboo rather than wreaking of mine mark and no man is going to take the responsibility of sending a woman underground we're falling rock my house wives are hit by cars while shopping for their families and men are willing to take the responsibility for their becoming housewives that's different like a broken bones a broken bone no matter how it's acquired all right all right all right let's talk about something I don't want to talk about anything else now look for the last time Randy will you or won't you give me a chance at one field job I won't goodbye now where are you going well if I can't get a field job from you all get one from someone else where will you get one I don't know I'll try the school employment office or the mining companies or the employment agency someone's going to give me a chance go when you get tired of being turned down remember that your old job and your future husband are still here so you see Dean Johnson I just have to have a chance to prove to myself as well as to everyone else that I'm a capable mining engineer well I appreciate your attitude Ms. Morgan and I respect you for it but the school has no calls for female mining engineers I tried to warn you when you were an undergraduate I know you did Dean but I'll try some of the smaller mining companies big ones have already turned me down whoever heard of a woman minded engineer I wouldn't let a woman set foot in my mind even there's a visitor mine is not for women judging from this application Ms. Morgan you have a thorough knowledge of mining theoretically I'm the world's greatest unemployed mining engineer well I certainly hope that we can place you I don't I beg your pardon oh it's nothing I simply meant that I'm practically past hope I'm just going through the motions well am I to understand that you don't really want a job I do more than almost anything in the world it's well it's just that I'm nearly convinced that no one wants a woman mining engineer well it may take a little time I know and while you're waiting for a call would you be interested in stenographic work door to door selling no thanks I didn't think you will but you and I always try and I'm sure you do oh well I'll be right with you sir well thank you very much indeed I wear well goodbye and what can I do for you sir I'm looking for a mining engineer oh well we certainly can help you there what did you earn a mining engineer oh a mining engineer I thought you said my name I'm Ms. Morgan come back come back no but I almost did this man this man this morning is this man this man wants a mining engineer oh no oh you don't sure I do what's so unusual about that well I suppose nothing really but you see I'm a mining engineer you a mining engineer but certainly she is her application for the job right here look at all the colleges he attended well I I'm not exactly looking for a mining engineer I see what I really need is a geologist well I don't suppose you'd be interested by the fact that I led my class in geology at State School of Mines well actually I expected to hire a man and you wouldn't consider hiring a woman I didn't say that but I have a partner who might not approve where out of the mine prospect hole really we're not mine it's just a couple of gold days why do you need a geologist then we've been working some high-grade stuff and last week we lost the vein I thought maybe a geologist could help us find it again well I'd like a chance to try well she's very competent Mr. Reed Bob Reed I'm Wanda Morgan and she's very very competent Mr. Reed in all my years of handling job applicants Ms. Morgan is the finest miner ever to come to this half oh not a minor really as a matter of fact she's the only one oh you were very lucky to find her what are you willing to pay well that's the hitch if we can't find the vein again I don't care about the money Mr. Reed yes miss more please I'll take the job on a contingent basis if I relocate the missing vein you pay me if I don't you owe me nothing well I certainly couldn't ask for a better deal than that but I certainly could meanwhile you supply my transportation to the mine and my subsistence while I'm there it's a deal wonderful when do you want me to start right now I'll drive it to the mine tonight if you give me your address I'll stop by and pick you up about eight o'clock that'll give you time to get your things together and it's a lot more comfortable driving in the desert at night Randy I don't need your advice furthermore I'm going to start on that job right away well at least I'm working I forbid you to take the job I can hardly hear you Randy I said I'm it's strange but I can't hear you at all now Randy give my love to your mother Mr. Reed's waiting Randy I'll have to say goodbye there must be something wrong with this line goodbye ready Mr. Reed ready who was that the boyfriend the last time I saw him he was my fiance I'm not so sure of our status right now oh well let's go yes let's before I change my mind beautiful night yes I can't understand your fiancee letting you go on a job like this well he wasn't very enthusiastic about it as a matter of fact I'm not as enthusiastic about as I was well Joe my partner Joe Hatton thought it was a silly idea to bring in a geologist in the first place he may not be very polite when he finds out that I brought a woman is he a woman hater well not exactly I think I shouldn't have let you come out here on a contingent basis because Joe may not agree to it well look in that case I'll thank you for the chance and forget about it Mr. Reed you are a gentleman this morning what's wrong I didn't have my mind on driving almost missed the turnoff that we leave the road here and cut off across country hang on and save your breath there won't be much chance for talking I guess it's getting light yeah and here's the mind such as it is where that shank behind it oh it doesn't look like much doesn't well if we can just sneak in without waking Joe we'll be able to get a little sleep before the battle begins well I managed to get some but well that last two or three thousand miles were pretty rough I know what you mean that's why we make the trip at night the motor had burned itself out in the sun well come on if we're quiet maybe that's you Bob yeah Joe not bad Joe this is Miss Morgan oh hello my partner Joe Hatton Miss Morgan how do you do Mr. Hatton where's Bob been hiding you I just met Miss Morgan today Joe this work a lot more interesting than some silly geologist Miss Morgan is a geologist Joe we can tell that by looking at it she's a what I brought her out to find the vein to try to find it Mr. Hatton we are not gonna do it I beg your pardon you're right ahead but you're not gonna mess around that mine why not Joe because we have enough work following our own leads not vain without chasing some woman's intuition how much did you pay her why nothing is yet she took the job on a contingent basis and if I don't find the vein for you Mr. Hatton you owe me nothing that case lady we owe you nothing because you're not even gonna look for that vein I'll drive you back to town myself we pause briefly from our story the gold digger in the miners starring Brenda Marshall to bring you an important message from our government attention veterans the US Army and the US Air Force have a special message for you former servicemen with military occupational specialties and radio radar electronics and other critical categories were interested in returning to active duty on a regular or reserve status are urged to find out about the special enlistment opportunities now available get full details about these opportunities today at your nearest US Army and US Air Force recruiting station the curtain rises on Act 2 of the gold digger in the miner starring Brenda Marshall is Wanda Morgan determined to prove that her education as a mining engineer had not been wasted wanted to fight her fiancé Randy Sherman went looking for a field job then when a young prospector Bob Reed gave her a chance and drove her out to a small desert mine his partner Joe Hatton confronted Wanda with the same unreasonable masculine prejudice against feminine miners which had previously stymied her career desperately one day is fighting back we can't drive back before tonight anyway why not let me look at your prospect we're driving back right now but mr. Reed said it wasn't possible to make it in the sun mr. Reed isn't going neither are you Joe huh if you do you go alone now just a second but I brought Miss Morgan out here so I'm responsible for a safe return and I won't let her make that trip during the day the motor had burned out before he got halfway to town I suppose you're right you know I am I'll drive her back tonight okay keep away from that glory hole in the meantime we'll talk about that lady right now miss Morgan needs some rest we need them both rest I'm going down the shaft to check a hutch feel any better miss Morgan physically yes mr. Reed why don't you call me Bob mr. Reed makes me feel stuffy all right Bob and may I call you Wanda certainly hey is mr. Hatton always as charming or is he just putting himself out for me I don't know what to say I warned you with he might not be very polite but I didn't expect him to attempt to order you off the property he was quite pleasant until you told him that I was a geologist yeah well Joe's dad was an old-time beguessened by gosh prospector and Joe resents the scientific approach I see well perhaps if Joe's father had known a little geology Joe wouldn't have to be prospecting in the desert today as a matter of fact Joe's old man in his burrow struck it rich several times what threw it away on some boomtown binge no no no Joe's loaded he's just out here helping me oh oh then this is really your claim and mr. Hatton hasn't any right to keep me from inspecting it as a matter of fact my claim the one Joe came out to help me develop it joins this one down the hill Joe traced some high-grade float up here and insisted that this was the place to sink the shaft well and whose name is this claim registered we registered both the claims jointly as I said Joe doesn't need the money and I do I see how did you happen to lose the vein I mean did it did it just pinch out or is the structure seriously faulted if I knew I wouldn't have hired a geologist who's forbidden even to go near the mine simply because she's a woman well Joe's marriage didn't work out it made him pretty bitter can you imagine what it did for the girl it made her financially independent but getting back to the lost vein about 10 days ago Joe and I got a report from the essayers office that was really sensational so in your enthusiasm you either put down too much hole or miss the dip and when you fired the next shot you lost the vein yes does geology teach you that well it's happened before well when Joe comes back if his hunch didn't work out I'm going to insist that he let you have a look your hunch any good no I thought maybe the outcrop would show me something but it didn't the country rocks granted isn't it Mr. Hatton that's right you're always on a limestone bed adjacent to it well as long as your hunch didn't work out do you mind if I take a look yes I do well she can't hurt anything Jones you might be able to see something we've missed I've just been down there checking everything there's anything I missed no female geologist will find it I might surprise you there yes you see I'm beginning to have a hunch too Mr. Hatton sure it isn't female intuition it isn't strong enough for that yet but you're building it up by leaps and bounds what are you driving it well I think that for reasons best known to yourself you're afraid to have me inspect the mind wonder you were a man I'd clutch you for that you'd probably do it anyway if Bob weren't here so it's Bob and one of that way you wonder why they don't want women around mines relax Joe I brought Miss Morgan out here without checking with you if you insist on her staying out of the mind well she will stay out of the mind take her down let's see what women's intuition can do in hard rock here let me help you thanks well here we are and wonder we're still writing the bucket oh well I'll let myself down first and then haul it up for you you you mean we have to go down the shaft in that or bucket we're only down 30 feet well it could still be a nasty fall well you're the boss but you can't expect to be if you don't inspect the mind I know well all right but they never said anything about this in school it's perfectly safe as long as you stand in the center of the bucket like this well here I go I can wait my turn ground floor all out well what do you think of our elevator well I don't think Mr. Otis has a thing to worry about you wanted to be a mining engineer you know I know well where did you lose the thing you've done the drift over here may I use your life sure now here's the limestone bed Mr. Hatton mentioned this is the depth and where's the prospectors pay why we always take the tools out what do you see something that makes me think my feminine intuition is Mr. Hatton called it was right Bob what do you mean well your vein of high grade or wasn't lost it was covered over what I can't actually see it because of this fake surface that's been put over it some sort of quick hardening imitation rock where right here dig down you'll find your vein again are you sure I'll stick the reputation I'd like to make as a mining engineer on it oh I wonder what Mr. Hatton will have to say when we confront him with this we're not going to confront him with it what it's his claim he discovered it but it's it's registered in your name too I know but I don't want to say anything about it Wanda I'll pay your fee though I brought you back tonight come on let's go up on top well what you find exactly nothing exactly nothing I knew you wouldn't you're extremely clever aren't you Mr. Hatton I've managed to make a living out of mining have you I understood that you inherited your money some but I've managed to pick up a little on my own I can understand that as long as you cheat only your friend Wanda what do you mean cheat my friends she doesn't mean anything Joe take out of this bother you have an answer to my question Miss Morgan and she's not going to oh yes I am I found your lost vein Mr. Hatton found the way you'd covered it over I told you not to mention what you'd found hey what's going on here keep away from me Joe I've got a gun Bob get away or I'll shoot you'll have to Bob I'm gonna find out what this is all about how do you feel Mr. Hatton Wanda Wendy oh Wanda how in the world did you get here I flew out with a man from the employment agency in my excitement over actually getting someone a job I forgot to have you execute this assignment of salary Miss Morgan have you just signed here that can wait oh no it can't I've dealt with people like you before surely or don't think I'd cheat you the other couple didn't either but because I was curteous enough to wait until after he'd kissed there they forgot all about me and the agency they were married and the first child was six months old before they remembered to send me my feet well you'll just have to take your chance now tell me what happened Wanda the men I was working for where are they let over here miss Morgan your fiance court Bob as he was leaving we have him wrapped up for safe keeping Joe tells me you're as good a geologist as any man in the field Wanda then I prove my point from now on you can have any job you want wonderful I'll start a week from Wednesday a week from Wednesday what job my honey moon unless you've changed your mind oh I haven't changed my mind but do you call that a job well I'm going to work at it keeping you happy raising a bunch of little mine I knew it I knew it it'll be years before I get my feet the falls in the final act of the gold digger and a minor our star Brenda Marshall will return for a curtain call after this timely message from Wendell Niles young man volunteer today for enlistment of the US Army or the US Air Force the Army and the Air Force wish to meet their manpower requirements with a greatest possible number of volunteers hundreds of jobs in a wide variety of career fields in both the Army and Air Force are open to volunteers who can qualify if you are single and between the ages of 18 and 34 get full details at your nearest US Army and US Air Force recruiting station today now back to our star and your host CP McGregor Brenda I'm glad that you and your husband Bill Holden are taking a well-earned rest from your tour among Paramount exhibitors at least stopping long enough to come in and do another show with us well CP Bill and I've been touring the principal city since mid August of course I've been a little homesick to for the children but homesickness isn't the real reason why we returned you've got to get the children ready for school again now let's see of the three Virginia is the oldest yes Virginia's 12 and then there's West West is six and your little boy Scotty he should be about four yes Scotty's just four and what a toughie he is with an older brother and the kids in the neighborhood he has to be you know to be able to hold his own and he thinks he's old enough for school he goes around the place in his blue jeans fist in his hip pockets ready to fight anyone who says he isn't we call him the mauler that's cute now I guess you'll be thinking about your trip soon yes we'll be on our way again in a few days it's going to be more hard work but still a lot of fun oh and by the way I saw your picture air court trail and I'm going to urge our listeners to be sure and see it I not only thought both you and George Montgomery are fine but your producer Edward Small and the excellent supporting cast deserves a lot of credit aren't there United Artists releasing it thank you so much yes United Artists are releasing your court trail well Brenda if you and Bill happen to be listening to your radio next week wherever you are tune us in I think you'll like this story we have on tap oh tell me about it well next week Brandon ladies and gentlemen a favorite of mine and I'm sure of yours Mark Stevens joins us in a hilarious comedy titled peace it's wonderful Mark is very fine in this comedy the story is about a couple who seek but the wife charmingly calls the beautifully beautiful truth her husband pretty much of a realist winds up on the roof wrapped in a sheet and talking to a goat that he buys for the occasion of hermiting when the wife sets fire to the house both husband and goat receive an awakening and a much needed soaking from the local fire department you're right it sounds grand and we'll both be listening goodbye now CP goodbye Brenda gentlemen Mark Stevens returns to our microphone to star in a zany comedy peace it's wonderful till next week then this is CP McGregor saying thanks for listening and cheerio from Hollywood stars in this program scripted by Bill Hampton the music for Betty Dunstaff program is transcribed in Hollywood for release at this time Wendell Niles speaking