 dedicated to the strength of the nation we hail yes proudly we hail starring gale storm in where the heart is United States Army United States Air Force presentation and all here is our producer the well-known Hollywood showman C. P. McGregor greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen welcome to your theater of stars where the glamorous headline names of the motion picture world join us for your entertainment in plays we know you'll enjoy our star is beautiful gale storm and the title of our romance drama where the heart is in our story gale portrays the bewildered and of a little British war orphaned who has been given to her care when she learns to see the world from the child's perspective she finds her own life fully enriched and gives happiness to those about her we'll have the curtain for act one of where the heart is immediately after this important message from Wendell Niles looking for a career as an executive in aviation United States Air Force is selecting a limited number of young college men and women to prepare them for important non-flying jobs as officers in administrative and technical fields fields such as management communications research and air transport you'll get six months of training at Air Force officer candidate school learn how you can qualify get details at your US Army and US Air Force recruiting station now once again our producer the curtain rises on act one of where the heart is starring gale storm as Helen Alexander from the time Helen Alexander was a little girl she devoted her leisure to serving others as a consequence she'd never had time to marry or even to become interested in any of the men who wanted to marry her in her middle 20s Helen found herself a reasonably successful career girl who had just about given up all thought of having a family then she received a cablegram from England advising her that she was the only remaining relative of her sister's daughter Helen's sister and her husband had been killed during the blitz and Helen had assumed that their daughter had suffered a similar fate since she was still alive Helen sent for the little girl immediately she arrived today and Helen and her niece Elizabeth Westmoreland have just entered Helen's New York apartment welcome to your new home Elizabeth thank you miss Alexander why don't you call me at Helen I'd like to it's just it it's just just what dear well I've known you for such a short time I'd hate to have you think that I was too familiar why you poor formal little darling call me anything you like here let me take your coat and as soon as we've had lunch we'll go shopping and get you a new outfit new outfit coat stresses shoes socks everything wouldn't you like that oh yes but but I don't have any clothing coupons we don't need clothing coupons Elizabeth I didn't know what would you like for lunch anything you have will be very nice how about a couple of boiled eggs two eggs well if you don't think you could eat them oh I can't eat them but really miss Alexander you shouldn't do that do what child trade in the black market it isn't fair to lovers oh well you don't understand without coupons as many eggs as I can eat if the barbie's catch you you'll have to pay a fine and they'll put your picture in the paper and none of your friends or neighbors will speak to you and in this is it yes ma'am you didn't fear that I'll be caught trading in the black market they catch them every day but there is no black market here then how can you get these things there's no rationing here darling no rationing what sort of a country is this would you like a glass of milk while I'm getting your eggs ready may I have as much of that as I want to of course you may and as soon as you finished eating we'll go shopping for your new clothes miss Alexander yes Elizabeth would you please kiss me good night I'd love to pleasant dreams darling thank you I'm sure they will be milk and eggs and oranges and bananas and all those clothes without coupons and it seems though I've been dreaming all day when you awaken in the morning you'll find it's all very real good night dear good night aunt Helen Elizabeth what's wrong what are you crying about nothing nothing I was just thinking about my friends back in the home I wish that they could have had some of the things I had today and I wish that I want Helen I miss them so of course you do darling you're lonesome and homesick but you'll get over it no I won't in the morning we're going to enroll you in a school where you'll meet new friends they'll help you forget your homesickness I wonder if my new schoolmates will like me of course they will darling why before schools over tomorrow you'll be thinking of them as old friends they were hateful on tellin they taught me about everything I said the way I taught I'm sure they didn't mean anything by it Elizabeth then why did they follow me around to make sport of me because they're children and thoughtless the children in the home weren't like that when a new child arrived we all tried to be very gentle and loving you had a great common bond in the home dear I wish I'd never left it Elizabeth oh I am sorry I'm telling I didn't really I'm sure you didn't darling I just don't want to go back to that school I'm afraid you must why they don't like me it isn't that dear they just don't understand you but that won't last long after all you do have what we call an English accent and it does sound strange to American ears even to yours even to mine but it'll be forgotten in a few days and the children will stop teasing you now run along and wash the tear stains off your face and we'll have lunch this afternoon we'll go back to school and you can start all over again maybe for those horrid boys see you and come over here they won't come while I'm here why not I'm Sandy Edwards oh they don't like me much I licked them all at once well not all just a few at a time oh my what's your full name Elizabeth Westmoreland say that again will you Elizabeth Westmoreland you just come here from Boston no from England oh I figured you were a foreigner of some kind words your dad do he's up in the sky gosh an aviator do you think you could get him to take me up he's dead oh my mom's dead so is mine they were both killed in the war gee that's tough I didn't ever know them really but I wish I had they look awfully nice in their pictures so does my mom I'm sure she does who takes care of you my aunt my dad takes care of me of course I'm tan I could take care of myself I'm sure you could you are you want to see me stand on my head if you like okay of course I lean my back against the tree just a little the boys at the home didn't yeah where's the home in England I lived there before my aunt brought me here what kind of place is it a home for war often it's very nice rarely if you don't have any people of your own I don't think I'd like it oh I'm sure you would everyone was very kind why why sometimes they had mistress even kissed me goodnight I know I wouldn't like that why I don't like being kissed especially by women well I do that's different you're a girl I suppose you're right of course I'm right you're gonna hide here all night no just until those boys move on well I'll move them for you oh you couldn't could you you just watch oh do be careful they'll run if I say boo Lee Sandy not much whatever happened I must have forgot to say boo oh I was afraid there were too many of them that wasn't it I think they hit me when I wasn't looking in the eye you going home now I suppose I might as well sure well see you tomorrow what will your father say about your eye nothing really no that's why I think going home is the best part of the day no matter what happens at school dad can make me forget it it must be very comforting doesn't your aunt do that for you I don't really know you see I've only known my aunt since yesterday gosh we don't seem to understand each other very well when the boys tease me this morning until and thought it was all nonsense she said I was just being too sensitive it makes it awfully lonely yeah dad says everybody has to have somebody they can depend on you can't even depend on your own and you're coming home with me but I really should get permission for my aunt she's out to worry nah if she does mean as you tell me she won't even know you're gone what can I do for you lady this is the Bureau of missing persons isn't it yes that's right who's missing your husband my niece oh how long she's been gone well she didn't come home from school this afternoon well that's only three or four hours ladies she's probably playing with some friends no I checked at the school and she doesn't have any friends well that is she just arrived here from England and she and her schoolmates didn't get along at all they made fun of her English accent and well I wasn't as sympathetic as I should have been and if anything should happen to her I'd never forgive myself the part they think of my story where the heart is starving their storm to bring you an important message from your government ladies and gentlemen our army and our Air Force are critically short of positions and that is over 2,000 volunteers from these two professions are urgently needed today to safeguard and care for the health of the men and women who has members of the United States Army and United States Air Force are serving you and me at home and overseas young positions and that is particularly those who did not serve in the armed services during World War two have been asked by their government to act now to volunteer for duty at once if you are one of these young positions or dentists please write or wire either the Surgeon General of the United States Army or the Air Surgeon of the United States Air Force at once and volunteer your services if you know one of these young positions or dentists please call his attention to this urgent message thank you the curtain rises on act 2 of where the heart is starring Gale Storm as Helen Alexander when Helen's English niece Elizabeth Westmoreland failed to return home after school Helen was panic-stricken she rushed to the school but Elizabeth wasn't there and neither the teachers nor the other children could give Helen any clue as to where she might have gone blaming herself for the child's disappearance Helen hurried to the Bureau of Missing Persons and reported Elizabeth missing and while Helen was leaving no stone on turn to find her Elizabeth was calmly visiting the home of Sandy Edwards oh I didn't know we had company this is Elizabeth Westmoreland how do you do this Westmoreland how do you do Mr. Edwards Elizabeth just came here from England yesterday dad she's gonna live with us she's going to live with us and what does your family think of the idea Elizabeth or didn't it seem important enough to mention I just have an aunt Mr. Edwards and she gave you permission to come and live with us I told Elizabeth you'd handle her and if she gave us any trouble I say perhaps we'd better have a drink while we think there's over would you care for some milk miss Westmoreland oh thank you mr. Edwards what about you Sandy sure dad I'll get it never mind I feel the need of a little milk myself isn't he swell Elizabeth wonderful Sandy I do hope he likes me he likes anybody I like did you have any boyfriend at the home in England oh yes dozens of them dozens certainly and dozens of girlfriends too girlfriends don't count but in this country you can only have one boyfriend at a time that is really absolutely and if you want to be my girlfriend and I gotta be your only boyfriend oh you are my only boyfriend Sandy okay then you can be my girlfriend am I interrupting something Elizabeth and I were just getting a getting something straightened out I say here's your milk Elizabeth oh thank you mr. Edwards and Sandy thanks dad what's yours well I was so Thursday I had mine out in the kitchen oh now as opposed we sit down and discuss this little matter of Elizabeth sir living with us oh I sure to wear room would be oh I think it's lovely mr. Edwards well before we go into that tell me a little about this sudden decision to leave your aunt what she mean to you oh no mr. Edwards aunt Helen's very kind I don't think she is dad please Sandy if you're on his kind Elizabeth why don't you like her I do like her mr. Edwards I love her still you rather not live with it it was my idea dad I figured that out son see Elizabeth how smart he is in a way must have been some reason for your accepting Sandy's idea Elizabeth do you mind telling me what it was well my aunt and I just don't seem to understand each other mr. Edwards I believe Sandy said that you just arrived here from England just yesterday well of course it's up to you but I really think you should give your aunt a little more time before walking out on her leaving her all alone I hadn't thought of that being all alone and it's getting late she must be worried sick about your not having come home from school oh well perhaps I'd better go home and see if she isn't worried you can come right back why don't we all walk over together I'd like that good maybe if I have a chance to talk with your aunt we can work out some sort of a land lease deal Elizabeth where have you been over at Sandy's where perhaps I can explain I'm Dan Edwards Sandy's father Mrs. Miss Alexander won't you come in thank you but when I came home from work I found Elizabeth and Sandy waiting for me I was so worried I can imagine this is Sandy aunt Helen he fought the boys who teasing me oh how do you do Sandy oh he's going to let me be his girlfriend I um I wonder if I could speak to you alone miss Alexander well of course why don't you show Sandy your playroom Elizabeth all right she will play yes come on Sandy okay won't you sit down mr. Edwards thank you I hardly know how to say this miss Alexander but well I've had the same problem you're facing and I thought that possibly you might benefit from my experience well thank you mr. Edwards now if you will just tell me what problem it is that I'm facing I'll be even more grateful oh well Elizabeth wanted to come and live with us why that's ridiculous I'm not to a child miss Alexander particularly an unhappy child why should Elizabeth be unhappy because you let it down today really mr. Edwards I didn't mean to be so blunt but from what Elizabeth told me the greatest blow she suffered today was you're admitting that her accent sounded strange even to your ears well it does of course it does but when you told her so you took away the only prop she had to lean on you surely she should be able to understand that eight when you can't understand her I suppose you're a child psychologist I happen to be a plumbing salesman who loves kids enough to try to see things through their eyes and of course you're very successful my boy doesn't want to run away from me and he apparently had no difficulty convincing Elizabeth that she should come and live with us I think you've said enough mr. Edwards I'm sorry I presume to advise you miss Alexander I won't do it again now if you'll find Sandy for me we'll be on our way good evening mr. Edwards good evening miss Alexander may I come in of course I hardly expected to see you again after last night that's why I'm here I'm terribly sorry that I was so rude you weren't you were quite right would you care for a drink no thank you I'll just stay a minute I was resentful last night only because I came to your house a perfect stranger and offered unsolicited advice I'm very glad you did as I started to say I was resentful only because I'd been terribly worried and was blaming myself for all the dreadful things which I imagined might have happened to Elizabeth when you confirmed my opinion of myself I turned my resentment against you I don't blame you a bit how is Elizabeth today Sandy hasn't come home yet so I haven't had a report she's in much better spirits in fact she and Sandy are at my place now they love the new playroom and I was hoping that Sandy could stay for dinner of course he can I thought that perhaps you'd come to then after dinner you could give me some more advice that was a wonderful dinner hun better than last night much and the night before and the night before that and good Lord how many nights of Sandy and I had dinner here 20 I really haven't counted them Dan well it's been wonderful while it lasted while it lasted we can't impose on you forever Helen well it's no imposition Dan Sandy's been wonderful in helping Elizabeth adjust herself and you yes you've been a great help to me I see you've done wonders for Elizabeth too nothing that you couldn't do oh yes you have you've well you've taught her to understand what it is to have a father and you've done the same for Sandy oh what I mean you've been more like a mother to him than any woman he's ever known how old was Sandy when your wife passed away Dan less than a week and you never remarried why oh I guess I didn't want the responsibility for picking Sandy's stepmother oh I figured that when he was old enough to know what he wanted I let him pick his own I see when do you think you'll be old enough Dan is old enough now why haven't you ever married Helen no one asked me surely you don't expect me to believe that it's true at least the right ones never asked me that's more like it have you any idea what the right one would be like oh yes that is he'd be not too short and not too tall about average height yes it doesn't you have to have a lot of money oh no no I'd want to take care of the house for him about average circumstances mm-hmm how old should he be well about average yes sounds like a pretty average man I'm surprised one of them hasn't grabbed you along before this because he isn't average really he's fall above average and patience and kindness and understanding oh well there aren't many who can fill that well I don't want many just one well I sincerely hope you find him Helen you'll make him happy you'd make any man happy well I better click Sandy in the long so early man it's way past Sandy's bedtime I'm gonna break the news to him he'll be pretty disappointed and upset so what about well Sandy picked you for his new mother and he did he told me so on the way over tonight I was going to ask you why haven't you because I know that I couldn't come up to the standard you've said I'm a long ways from being far above average and patience and understanding and not to me Helen do you really think that that is could you would you of course I would Dan you don't think I'd let anything disappoint Sandy do you our star dale storm the return for a curtain call after this timely message from Wendell Niles this is important this is urgent over 2,000 young physicians and dentists are needed as volunteers at once for service in the United States Army or United States Air Force these positions and dentists are required to safeguard the health of the men and women who are serving our country in the armed services if you are a physician or a dentist you are needed now right or wire the Surgeon General of the United States Army or the Air Surgeon of the United States Air Force at once volunteering for active duty let me repeat that right or wire the Surgeon General of the United States Army or the Air Surgeon of the United States Air Force today or see your local US Army and US Air Force recruiting station and I'll back at the microphone our star gale storm gale I welcome you to proudly we hail and congratulate you on your recent contract with Universal International thank you CP and I might add I'm very happy with it you should be with a seven-year contract and a technical or picture to launch my debut it's called curtain call at Cactus Creek with Donald O'Connor Vincent Price Eve Arden and Walter isn't that a satire on Western pictures I think it boils down to that when we were just finishing some of us were figuring out how we would exploit it and what were your conclusions well we decided it could be called a technical or Western musical comedy drama satire and even a fantasy I guess especially that part where Donald dreams he's a Western hero sounds very interesting and I'll be sure to catch it now tell me what's your personal schedule these days was not much spare time CP but I am doing some concert vocal study with dr. theater gun sauce I'm glad to hear that you have a lovely voice thank you well we know you as a very sweet and wonderful wife and mother of three fine boys in a beautiful motion picture star I understand you find time to work for your church yes that's the Hollywood Beverly Christian Church we think it's pretty fine it just goes to show when somebody comes we here in Hollywood just like everyone else over the country go to church you know dr. Lewis Evans Oh certainly he's the pastor of the first Presbyterian Church of Hollywood that's right he invited me to his church last Sunday and I had a pass for a reserved seat at 20 minutes to 11 there were 2,000 people waiting outside and I couldn't get in even with a pass CP you come to our church next Sunday I think I can use my influence and get you in okay you've got yourself a new member I'll be looking for you now tell me who's your star next week next week gail and ladies and gentlemen bill Williams stars with us in time out a bang up action story of a prize-fight champion whose ambition courage and skill takes him to the top of his profession the fight for the world's championship our story opens at the battle for the championship crown and there's a reserve seat at ringside for everyone for the battle of the century fine I'll be listening goodbye CP goodbye gail ladies and gentlemen and bill Williams steps into the squared circle for time out until then thanks for listening and cheer y'all from Hollywood Gail Storm appeared for the courtesy of the Hollywood Squadron in committee with the ranges for the appearance of all stars in this program. The gift was by Bill Hampton and the music by Eddie Dunn Center. The program is transcribed in Hollywood for an easy first time. Wendell Niles speaking.