 Great Scenes from Great Plays with your host Walter Handen and starring tonight Miss Peggy Wood and Mr. Otto Kruger in You and I. On behalf of the families of the Protestant Episcopal Church in your own community and the Episcopal Actors Guild we welcome you to another half hour of Great Scenes from Great Plays transcribed by famous artists of stage screen and radio and now I present your host the distinguished actor manager Mr. Walter Handen. Thank you and good evening. Tonight we have a love story you and I by one of America's greatest dramatists Philip Barry and adapted for radio by Edward Mably. This is a double love story really for we are to meet not only two deeply troubled youngsters but the boys parents Nancy and Maitland White whose love has grown richer wiser more mature with the passage of years and here to interpret the roles of this understanding father and mother I'm pleased to present two brilliant stars Miss Peggy Wood and Mr. Otto Kruger and now let's raise the curtain on you and I the White family live in a beautiful rambling old farmhouse on the outskirts of New York as we enter their comfortable book lined living room we find their son Ricky talking with Ronnie Duane the lovely girl who lives next door but Ronnie can't you get that into your silly head that I'm really in love with you that I'm well that you all can't found that Ronnie will you marry me Rick I can't imagine being married to anyone but you really I can and what's stopping us your career Ricky it takes years and years and a great deal of money to become the kind of architect you want to be and you're going abroad next month to begin studying now listen Ronnie I don't have to study in Europe I could take a job for now go into the factory what factory where father works make soap and toothpaste you mr. Warren told dad he'd start me at 3500 a year I'll study on the side at night school and and drift into architecture gradually besides dad supported me long enough suppose you got into business and had to stay put well dad gave up painting in order to marry mother do you think he's ever regretted it I know your parents are wonderfully happy Ronnie it's just that I want you so much more than anything else in the world and you love me now don't you yes Ricky I love you very much it's all settled Ricky hang the architecture I'll call mr. Warren at the factory tomorrow yes Mrs. White Ronnie dear you your mother just phone to say it's your dinner time who it's past I have to run bye Ronnie thanks Mrs. White goodbye dear goodbye mother sit down a minute yes son now mother hang on to your chair I think Ronnie and I are going to be engaged you want and Veronica yes well aren't you going to congratulate me oh Ricky it's beautiful but how soon do you expect to get married oh in a few months well what do you mean well in the first place may I ask what you intend doing about your architecture well I'm going to pass up architecture but Ricky maybe not for good buy and buy when we get on by and buy somehow that sounds reminiscent to me Ricky unless you study now you'll never be an architect that's as certain as death and my hay fever well what if I don't dad wanted to paint but you and he were married and he gave that up to advertise soap oh what I mean is it seems to me that you two have made a pretty good go of your marriage yes we have made an uncommonly good go of it but Ricky you've seen that drawer full of sketches I have in my writing desk before I send your father's clothes out to be pressed I always go through the pockets and there they are his sketches all nicely folded up and tucked away but what has dad's foolishness got to do with mine something very sad in that foolishness son his mind is on his business yes but his heart is in those sketches the thing that haunts my dreams is that one day maybe you'll come to resent me resent you his resent my coming between him and the things he might have done he might have been a great painter son dad knew what he wanted it was you you could hardly call him unhappy can't tell much by a whistle son hello family hello matey dear how are you darling hello son hello dad dad I'm going to marry Ronnie Dwayne that's oh congratulations my boy and upon the inheritance too what do you mean why haven't you come into a large fortune as well well not that I know how do you expect to marry Ronnie well she's got her own running expenses and I'm going to work I'm not going abroad Ricky there are a few things that as an older man I want to remind you of yes dad I have the word of your masters at school that you have a real gift for building design but you need technique and background three years in Europe will give Ronnie and I listen son the most important thing in a man's life is his work it's hard to get going for a while you need absolute independence freedom to think only only I I I and my work and after marriage well that's no longer possible but then on its you and I with you first always I'm sorry dad but it's got to be you and I for me too I simply can't give up Ronnie as I must say why do I think your son's making a very wise move to come into a good stable business like ours a more team Mr. Warren plenty thanks old Ricky's got what it takes I hope he isn't going to be a stubborn as that husband of yours though Mrs. White always after me to increase the advertising appropriation why don't you not till we find a way to promote the whole line as a unit soap toothpaste talcum and everything else well this is no time to discuss businesses well Ms. Warren has me booked up for some shindig tonight I have to go home and dress well nice of you to drop in Mr. Warren yes we do appreciate your interest in Ricky ship off the old block well goodbye folks don't bother to see me the door I can find my own way out goodbye honestly Nancy I get so fed up with that man at times I could throw over the whole works dear there's something I want you to do what is it leave business for a year you owe it to yourself matey I want you to devote a whole year to painting yeah it's a nice idea Nancy but I have very little outside my salary you know a little bit plenty for us well people would think I lost my mind people matey if you don't still think the bird in the bushes worth any two in the hand you might as well die oh Nancy it's no use the whole thing is just too absurd if you give yourself time to think of objections you won't start at all we've nothing set aside it doesn't matter matey the important thing is for you to begin your painting at once well I mean did you really think I could swing it course I do darling I know we can swing it it's done I finish the portrait come on come and see oh behold the dawn of a new epic of American art matey it's beautiful what a lovely girl those flesh tints her eyes made in a smile oh you know I feel awfully cocky with a husband who can paint like this no doubt about it I'm a genius where's Ricky I want him to see it well he's out getting his costume for the party tonight party yes you remember Ricky and Ronnie you're announcing their engagement I told you we were having some people in good darling how are the funds coming they haven't been lower since the day after our wedding trip well anyway thank goodness there's a picture for sale and the dividend do shouldn't that dividend be here now matey look at that pile of unopened lettuce you kind of looked at your mayor for the past week here's one from your broker maybe that's the dividend no no no it's not doodle Monday well let me see it's probably a circular great Scott what's the matter where's the morning paper is this it yes dear what's happened well my brokers warned me not to sell a they want me to sell rather maybe a false no no no here it is the stock's fallen lower than he said it would matey if you'd only seen this letter in time no I was too busy with my brushes to watch the market and read my mail a fine mess I've got us into me Nancy matey and his money they were soon parted weren't they huh money pool matey and his Nancy are still together aren't they yes thank heaven but where do we go from here it's nice out here on the porch what's the book Ricky it looks ancient yes it is ancient published in 1611 it's on architecture look at that door treatment isn't that great gosh if I could design like that I'd die happy it is pretty what's this piece of paper that's falling out Ricky it looks like building plans hey you aren't supposed to see that yet it's not finished what is it well if we can get that farm on the river road these are the plans for remodeling the barn tell me about it well it's a miniature reproduction Charles the second stables at wind you see I believe you can make any building beautiful even a cow shed without altering its original character have you made any plans for remodeling the house no no not yet well gee you know I think that south wing and make a good nursery oh no that wing will have to come down it spoils the outside symmetry but Rick the only other room we could use it be it'll be too far from the kitchen well Ronnie we can't ruin the whole design just to darling what on earth the matter with you you look awful hi I don't be a fool Rick I'm just thinking about the party tonight oh oh say when is our announcement going to be made well it was going to be made just before dinner Rick but I don't think I want an announcement made you mean we're going to a lope I mean we're not going to get married Rick oh it's too late to back out now darling no no it's just this side of too late Ronnie I wish you'd find some other way to kid me I well you see I'm such a fool about you that I can't play up to this I can't help it Rick but I mean it do you remember the day last autumn when you proposed well you were the nicest boy I knew and I thought surely I'd love you but I don't Ricky I just can't go through with it Nancy I just can't understand Ronnie doing such a thing all right how was he taking it well was he much upset it's terrible I suppose he'll get over it they always do but the thing like this takes the sweetness out of a boy hard yes Ronnie come in Mrs. White both of you please I wanted to be sure that you weren't hating me too much I'm afraid I'm very old-fashioned Ronnie and I find it difficult to regard jilting with anything but distaste oh Mrs. White you don't love him is that it love him oh if a year ago someone had told me I'd ever love anyone as I love Rick now I don't know why did you throw him over if I don't marry him he'll go abroad and study as he should you know what architecture means to him I stand between Ricky and the thing he wants to do Ronnie Ronnie you could do that when I Ronnie I think I'm one mother who considers the girl her son loves really good enough for him you're very brave Ronnie you're very fine you're doing something that I hadn't the courage to do well the truth is Ronnie we can't afford to send Ricky abroad now oh yeah I'm not a rich man I depended largely upon my salary and it stopped when I left business and Ronnie dear even if we could afford to send Ricky abroad it is it may be that you and your love would mean much more to him than any trip to Europe could possibly mean oh no mr. White you've been teaching him all this time to love something architecture and you're bound to stick by him until he shows what he can make of it well Ricky had the choice Ronnie six months ago and it was you he chose his choice was wrong we know that now must he wait until he's 40 for another chance I waited Ronnie and when I think of my wife I know that 50 years wouldn't have been too long to wait but Ricky can be a great architect mr. White give him his chance go back to your job please Ronnie you don't know what you're asking oh you can't expect every sacrifice parents have rights to I know one thing Mrs. White your husband's painting doesn't mean half as much to him as Ricky does that's why I know he can't let Ricky down mr. White what you won't do for duty you will do for love mother mother I have the painting let me in will you I'm coming dear careful don't let your clothes rub against it I think some of it's still wet now tell me what the car heart guest said about the painting well I wasn't in the room when they looked at it what you say to Mrs. Carrot just what you told me to I said it was painted by a protege of dads and we wanted to know what a competent art critic would think of it she said there were several collectors among her guests tonight yes I knew there would be and she'd show it to them by the way I ran into mr. Warren over there too is he a collector hardly he couldn't tell her Rembrandt from a comic Valentine he asked what dad's been doing with himself all this time oh you didn't tell him oh no no of course not I'll answer it hello no mr. White drove down to village for an errand I expect him back any minute this is Mrs. White may I take a message yes we'll be in we'll be glad to see him thank you yes goodbye who was it mother Mrs. Carrot Ricky this is wonderful one of their guests liked the painting so much he's on his way over here now to look at it again and make an offer for it oh gee that's great risky our little schemas work dad must be good to enters those people you know David Ewing's there he has one of the finest collections in America hello Maisie darling hello dad well I I have to get into my Troubadour custom that party tonight I keep forgetting I wish I could poor young sir matey tell me you love me I do haven't I ever mentioned that matey would you like to have David Ewing by your painting they didn't have it hung with all those Goyers and El Greco's and oh no not at all what darling take a deep breath we've sold your painting you so the what today viewing are you kidding well the truth is we're not sure who wants it but it's probably Ewing Ricky took the picture over to the car hearts said it was by a friend of yours and that you wanted their guests to see it and a purchaser is on his way here now to make it all you wonderful woman I wouldn't trade my family for any other honor I wonder if it is you you know Nancy if we sell this painting to David Ewing it'll mean that my reputation's made what I'd be able to send Ricky to Europe after all it sounds like Warren what's he doing yeah come on in Mr. Warren I do miss white well it's quite a hike over here from the car hearts white what on earth have you been doing with yourself no resting indulging if you neglected tastes you said I needed a rest you know I didn't say you needed six months I think that's not resting is rotting well I'm not here to talk vacations I saw this picture over at car hearts white I want to tell you that picture has human interest appeal you you found it interesting interesting enough to pay five thousand dollars for it but you are the prospective purchaser Mr. Warren you bet I am why it's the sweetest thing that I ever saw just look at that complexion if that doesn't trump all the old masters that I've ever seen those fellas at car hearts didn't know what they were talking about listen you say that Ewing and the others didn't think much of it that didn't change my opinion it's the most perfect type I can ask for your type or what for why to personify the Warren line of course advertising man advertising you've been howling for years for a big national campaign you know I wonder I wonder if it wouldn't be better to put something in her hand you know the art department could retouch it there they could put in a bunch of flowers or they could I got it a can of talcum a can I think Mr. Warren that it's great charm is it's refreshing freedom from artifice well you ought to know you're a woman and it's women we want to reach well I gotta get back to the cars now you tell your artist friend to get in touch with me and send the picture down to the factory now don't forget why we want you back in our advertising department now you just say the word well I'm gonna be going along now good night miss white good night good night mr. Warren well if it was criticism I wanted I guess I've had it maybe I'm sorry thank you dear what are you gonna do I don't know I don't know what to do I don't know if I should should let Warren have the picture no no it was no use thinking of it I suppose I really made a bust of everything you want to know what I think yeah I think you should let them have the picture what and admit that these six months have proved my failure failure no no it's proved just the opposite you found a way to combine a new talent for the one you already have oh darling if only everybody could make a living doing what they wanted to do oh do you suppose Ricky would take the money for part of it it it helped me to decide Warren said I could have my job again matey no no I don't suppose Ricky you'd take it not now here he comes well Ricky how do you feel well well folks if you if you really want to know I feel terrible and I I feel pretty silly in this troubadour outfit too here I am all dressed up and no troth to plight son how would you like to go about abroad as you planned you mean take the money from you and dad no no thanks a lot but I couldn't I'll manage all right right here at home and we have good news for you Ricky when you were born your grandfather took out a small endowment policy in your name and you're supposed to get it when you're 30 well this afternoon dad was told that it can come to you now provided we consider you old enough to expend it properly gosh that's knockout news except that now Ronnie's thrown me over son a man's happiness means a lot to those he loves and to those who love him as a tremendous lot so if you something that you feel it's your destiny to do something out of the beaten track unusual difficult you better begin doing it as soon as possible and if you wait matey chances are you'll never do it you'll turn philosopher instead philosophy to fill an empty heart it must be rather dreadful yeah it would be if one's heart were empty but when it's full already wait a minute dad I'm a fog now you sure you don't need that money yourself because if it would help you out of this hole it's yours you know yours and mother's and I don't think you understand Ricky oh oh I get it now mr. Ewing bought the picture and you're giving me the money aren't you Ricky mr. Ewing didn't buy the picture the money is your son if only I could share it with Ronnie Rick go tell Ronnie what we've told you and see what she says mother dad what do you know never mind what we know now stop arguing and try it now quickly before your luck changes gone oh my gosh I've got to find Ronnie oh thanks both of you you're the two nicest parents I've ever had heaven save a darling what all that hocus pocus about his grandfather was that necessary he wouldn't have taken the money from you not for the two of them oh good heavens it's after eight the guests are becoming any minute we have to get into our costumes yeah well what hideous disguise you've got for me the usual a harlequin oh no Nancy I think that tonight I should be something quite different but you hadn't any other costume maybe oh yes I have my smock tonight my love I shall appear as an artist now the bright untarnished new year is upon us and we all cherish the happy feeling of a fresh start a clean slate a new chance to make our lives and the lives of those around us better problems and misunderstandings are forgotten for a while as we wish each other a happy healthy and prosperous 1949 unfortunately the mutual affection and understanding of this joyful holiday are often all too temporary as the new year rolls along we must again face the frustrations and discords that beset us husbands and wives once again may find life together very difficult at times and parents may frequently fail to understand their children's hopes desires and problems tonight's tender and sympathetic play by Philip Barry was chosen to show why so many of us need help in solving our family problems even though our families may be closely knit with love and affection yes the situation that arose among the whites Nancy Maitland and Rick is typical of the kind of misunderstanding that can cause so much unnecessary grief and bitterness and sometimes even tragedy but there is one great insure source of help for all who have personal or family problems it is a source that has helped countless millions find strength understanding and happiness even in the most difficult times and despite the most complex situations and that source of help is found through the church and an experienced clergyman of course if you're already a member of the church you know how true this is but if you're not a member of any church won't you stop and consider very seriously right now how much a church might do in helping you meet the day-to-day problems of your existence as well as in providing you with extra inner strength in times of greater stress in choosing a church you may find what you want in the Episcopal Church because you're always welcome at your nearest Episcopal Church and its clergyman is ready and eager to meet and talk with you to explain to you what the Episcopal Church stands for and how it offers you a faith to live by in these trying times why not decide right now to visit your nearest Episcopal Church at morning services next Sunday you could make no better new year resolution you could choose no better way in which to get your new year off to the best possible stop this is Walter Hamlin again Peggy Wood and Otto Kruger as one member of the Episcopal Actors Guild to another I want to thank each of you for a delightful performance thank you Walter thank you all and may I take this opportunity to wish all our listeners a year of peace and happiness may I echo your sentiments Peggy and now Walter isn't this where you tell the audience what your first player of the new year will be it is Otto we're going to do AJ Cronin's never-to-be-forgotten story the Citadel and joining the Guild players in the role of Dr. Manson Mr. Walter Pigeon the music on our transcribe program tonight was composed and conducted by Nathan Crowell now an invitation from the church the Episcopal Church welcomes men and women alike to share in the opportunities for service represented by the church's wide variety of activities there's important work to do for those less fortunate than ourselves work that in the true spirit of the church makes better citizens of us all so after services this Sunday why not have a talk with your rector about