 dedicated to the strength of the nation we hail hail starring Nancy Guild in the people next door the United States Army and United States Air Force presentation and our here is our producer the well-known Hollywood showman CP McGregor thank you thank you very much and readings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen welcome to your theater of stars where the famous personalities of the motion picture world join us in plays we know you'll enjoy our star is the beautiful young actress Nancy Guild who appears for the first time in radio before our microphone the title of our bright comedy the people next door we'll have the curtain for act one in just a moment but first here is your announcer with this important message choose the career that offers all five the US Army offers you these five keys to a successful future one the right job for you to continuous training in your job three planned advancement for lifetime security five travel and recreation yes men choose the career that offers all five find out about the five keys to a successful future at your nearest army and Air Force recruiting station now once again our producer the curtain rises on act one of the people next door starring Nancy Gile as Pat day on a street that I know of there are two houses that is two particular houses and what a difference like night and day and what a coincidence you see George and Pat day live in the day house and mr. and mrs. J from the night that's K and I ght live in the night house gee was the day house is all white with green shutters and creamy curtains that nice windows that wink at you when you go by but next door the house is brick blue brick and peers with hotty distinct at the little white house through narrow bloodshot windows and it has a mahogany door that sort of frowns and says we don't want any well in the dayhouse Pat the effervescent little manager s of the day establishment is making orders like crazy out of little pieces of toast and some sort of goo Pat's patricial misanthrope day it ain't Santa Claus is George where is my one and only treasured razor blade come again the one I've only shaved with three times oh that one yeah that one I vaguely detect a slight note of the witness pleads guilty in that first sentence oh well George you know that new dress I'm making it go on but just remember anything you say can be used against you well new dresses have to have patterns and they have to be cut out and I couldn't find the scissors razor blade yike remind me to divorce you first thing in the morning insufficient grounds mental cruelty hey I know what if I might be so blamed inquisitive the nights yeah yeah they're cold and the days are wet and without razor blades and the necessary simoleons to buy new ones and maybe I could use an oyster shells George I read in a book once about a quiet you babbling Brooke we've only got four wine glasses yeah that makes sense me with a face like a powdered soap ad and you crop up with we've only got four wine glasses so there'll be six of us for dinner four from six leaves to correct is the very devil now where are we if six of us are going to have shabbily with our dinner four wine glasses aren't enough catch catch clear as the coffee you generally make which ain't no Algenon I don't catch catch you're thick I said the nights didn't I next door yeah a fine good terrific super duper so what so I'm going over and borrow a couple of wine glasses and maybe I said just maybe I can vamp the old geezer vamp the old geezer what for so as I can borrow a razor blade so as you can shave your ugly face horse now catch catch well that's the day house like bubbles in a glass of sparkling burgundy but now the switch to the night house next door to the living room in fact and what a living room mahogany paneled walls bold legged French chairs that go ah a couple of ancestors glaring down under the guilt frames in the wall kibitzing mr. and mrs. night's whiskey oh and a black marble fireplace with the darndest thing on it a dry ad chasing a cupid holy mackerel I'll bid three clubs and it's yours you know Jebediah something must be done about those young people next door and what have they done now their dog was in our garden again this morning call the police there's a law regarding the responsibility of dog owners why I just can't call the police somehow Jebediah they're such children they remind me of orphans in the storm such irresponsible children they're both out of the adolescent stage from what I've seen of them oh I know Jebediah in years perhaps but the way they live hand to mouth and they don't seem to care they both Twitter like birds in a cage and what they exist on heaven only knows doesn't he have a job but doesn't he work oh she told me last week that he's inventing something a great innovation of some sort no doubt no doubt that is my dear precarious and stupid hopes to sell it when he's finished hmm very unsound very unsound indeed having parties two and three times a week living as if they had a champagne income I tell you Abbey there ought to be a law someone ought a legislator bill making it illegal for people who contribute nothing to society except a lot of nonsensical flub debris oh but Jebediah those two children aren't causing any harm nor are they causing any good I tell you young people today are going straight to the devil in a handbasket straight to the devil is precisely where they're going no wonder the world is in the condition it's in this younger generation completely lacks all sense of moral fiber oh come now Jebediah they're not as bad as all that you were young once yourself you know indeed I was indeed I was but let me tell you I was a sensible young man there was nothing full of it egypt about me had there been my father would have taken it out of me with a burnt stick well what have they done that's the point not at all it isn't what they've done it's what they haven't done yes indeed what they haven't done they flit about like grasshoppers they toil if not neither do they spin it I should have to think where they're heading straight into perdition that's where Abigail straight into the jaws of perdition I've always thought that perdition was a place I didn't know it had jaws oh Abby that's only a figure of beats my dear metaphor so to speak oh dear just still sit still I'll see who it is probably somebody looking for somebody else good evening hello how are you I'm fine thank you I'm Mrs. Day you don't know me we live next door I've come begging won't you come in please Mrs. Knight is in the living room thank you screwy night isn't it looks like it might pile up to a dry drizzle and simply boo boo buckets and buckets I mean hello there I've come seeking arms my dear shut the door Jebediah I wonder I know it's terrible and simply awful of us but could we borrow a couple of wine glasses we've got company coming for dinner and well well we did have six but when the Jamersons were over last week two of them went bung wine glasses just to Mrs. Knight and I'll drag the back first thing in the morning we'll be grateful like mad of course my dear come into the living room what sort of wine glasses do you wish what sort of wine are you saving well George he swears by the Almighty that it's shabby but for a dollar and a half it's not finished 29 I hope you don't mind terribly not in the least my dear George claims he can drink his out of a milk bottle but I don't imagine that will look very Lottie da do you then you don't want only two glasses my dear glasses should match you know supposing I lend you six oh gee oh thanks a billion Mrs. Knight have you enough silver oh I think so mostly counting the ones we got with the box top coupons I shall lend you some silver after all a party must be well done you know and I just happened to think I have a damask tablecloth that I haven't used for years would you like to use it oh Mrs. Knight now now now I'm only too glad to do it we have so much and how is your husband well crazier than ever he's horrified at me going begging like this he swears to leave me oh the big dope should know he can't leave me do you want to know a secret what is it my dear the storks made a nest in our chimney you mean to say yes I do and oh boy I hope it's a boy you poor dear girl oh no no lucky lucky me that goonie husband of mine leaves me alone so much it'll be swell just having someone to talk to oh and I can't tell you how grateful I am for the glasses we're throwing a wing ding we do want to make it nice you're perfectly welcome my dear oh yes just one more thing gosh we're beggars oh mr. Knight yes mrs. Day could I ask an extra special favor yes of course what is it could you possibly see your way clear to lend that goopy husband of mine a razor blade what cooks your handcuffed or something I got my arms full hey Ricky a loot what goes on you little pirate glasses scads of them and enough silver to start a mint sterling too here help me yeah oh don't drop them they're forced by Chalini or somebody crystal Chalini didn't make glass your crackpot where have you been on a quiz show or something nope I've been turning on my wiles come again you know they're the peachiest people what people are the peaches the night's look Ophelia lump-lump stop talking in Sanskrit and start giving with the low down on the low down else I break every bone in your fragile little body you know what I like about you George why the nice things you can say to a girl you make my heart go pity pads and stop running around the raspberry boys it isn't Mayday what'd you do burglar nights no bye just went sashaying over to see them put up my case and here we are yeah aren't we yep and look sweet Alice surprise what's that a brand new unused guaranteed to be a sharpest place is razor blade for me to you with my fond love and affection very truly yours Pat for me yes a nice new razor blade we pause briefly from our story the people next door starring Nancy Gile to bring you an important message from your government choose the career that offers all five the US Army offers you these five keys to a successful future one the right job for you scientific aptitude tests determine the right job for you to continuous training in your job specialized training and educational courses prepare you for advancement in your field three planned advancement under the Army's advancement plan your skill and efficiency will assure periodic promotions for lifetime security you as an army man are guaranteed regular pay and liberal retirement benefits in sickness your medical care is provided without cost and your regular pay continues five travel and recreation in the Army you will enjoy the finest recreational facilities and opportunities for worldwide travel remember you have 30 days vacation with pay each year yes choose the career that offers all five get full details at your nearest Army and Air Force recruiting station the curtain rises on act two of the people next door starring Nancy Gile as pat day on that very special street that I know of the arc light is hissing and sputtering all manner of horrid gossip to the blue brick house while mixing up a fresh batch of yellow light and the pavement in which are swimming all manner of crazy things beetles and nets all keeping time to the very gay music that pours in a laughing cascade out of the windows and smiling door of the day house but next door in the blue brick house Jebediah and Abigail Knight are upstairs in bed not asleep though how could anyone sleep with that racket going on so Jebediah grunts and snorts and spins like a flying saucer and reaches that precarious mental state in which is described in colloquial terms as my my isn't that awful Abbey I'm going to call the police there are laws in this community to protect decent citizen now you'll do no such thing Jebediah irresponsible imbeciles creating an unholy disturbance at this time of night I'll admit they're a bit noisy Jebediah but it's only 10 o'clock time all decent people were in bed Jebediah what we're getting terribly old oh nonsense and with it we're becoming nasty and grumpy people what the world's come over you Abigail when that little missus day came over this evening to borrow the wine glasses I couldn't help thinking Jebediah she was like a breath of spring morning air she reminded me of a bouquet of first violence with her eyes sparkling like dew drops there are a pair of irresponsible jack-o-nips not a thought in the world beyond the tip of their noses borrowing wine glasses and a razor blade I don't know what the world's coming to going straight to the dogs Jebediah do you remember when we were first married I remember we didn't throw wild parties and borrow razor blades but we had taffy pools and hay rides and I used to borrow a cup of sugar once in a while from mrs. Perkins next door different different we assumed our responsibilities I worked like a dog so that we might eventually be secure which we are Jebediah and what does it mean you and I live alone in this old house we have money enough in the bank to buy anything we want but we don't want anything well you and I remind me of to dried up with it apples Jebediah in the bottom of a dark barrel oh I know those children next door careless irresponsible here today gone tomorrow but listen to them laugh how long has it been since we've laughed Jebediah I can see nothing enviable in their wine cackling Jebediah I'm worried about those children for the first time in more than 20 years I know what it means to worry nonsense they don't worry about themselves so why should you disturb yourself that's just it my dear they don't worry about themselves they don't worry or seem to care where tomorrow's meal is coming from and there's a baby on its way their deliberate misfortunes are no concern of ours abrogate perhaps not theirs Jebediah I'm thinking of the baby a helpless little wave coming into a world to parents who borrow wine glasses and having the vaguest notion of how much care and protection babies need I'm thinking Jebediah of our own son if God had only been willing that he should have lived somehow I wonder about the fairness of it all we who could give our child everything under the sun every advantage and yet our child was only born to breathe once or twice and return home I never even had the chance to hear him cry and there's the days happy and carefree as locks and their baby already sliding down the moon beams or perhaps I'm just a silly sentimental old woman Jebediah but I can't help feeling a dreadful responsibility for those foolish people next door well flat on my face you think I'm goofy come on come on well what's the flamin ruckus look only jump in Joseph at Patricia crackpot day what cooks isn't that the sweetest bassinet you've ever seen and look at these quilts real down yeah and look at these boxes George oodles and gobs of dresses and nightgowns and and dozens of doodads and there's even a bottle for sterilizing in a folding bathtub suffering great atma hit a belt Pat you you didn't charge all this stuff did you know well then how come I don't know what do you mean you don't know look murder tried the one about the fairy godmother went out with mustache cops all I know is George that this afternoon a truck drove up from the Emporium the man said are you Mrs. Day and I said yes and he said Mrs. George Day and I said yes and he said this stuff is for you and just then a taxi rolled up and five more fell out honest George that's exactly what happened somebody is nuts I even called the Emporium and said they'd made a mistake but they said no they hadn't we had the right name and this was the right address that's all they tell me maybe we have got a fairy godmother George well fully I don't want any fairy godmothers cluttering up the place I'll be perfectly able to buy our own stuff on the time comes get my invention sold and well Patricia send all this stuff back they won't take it back I've already asked well they can't do this to me whoever it is well I'll go to the law I'll take it to the Supreme Court George Sylvester Day is not never has been never will be an object of charity because I've got my self-respect and if necessary when George Sylvester Day Jr. is born he can sleep in a shoebox I've been scuttled and maligned and then yes yeah humiliated oh stop waving your arms and screeching somebody's at the door and furthermore if I catch up with this snake in the grass what somebody's at the door see who it is oh maybe it's some more pixies with a carload of Chippendale furniture and 42 grand pianos yeah oh I beg your pardon good afternoon Mr. Day how do you do I'm Mrs. Knight from next door is Mrs. Day at home yeah she's she's home won't you come in thank you Patricia hello there Mrs. Knight I'm terribly sorry to burst in on you this way Mrs. Day not in the least I hate to be an imposition my dear but I'm baking some apple tots and I was just wondering if you could lend me a cup of sugar we love you don't you don't you die he's the most adorable baby I've ever seen Mrs. Day that is a little pig he gained another two ounces this week he eats like a horse oops a daisy my sweet and you'll get all ready for a trip in the pea green boat oh bother I forgot his night count would you hold him for a moment Mrs. Knight while I get it oh I'd love to hold him over you go darling to your fairy godmother come on darling come on that's the big boy I'll just be a moment I am your fairy godmother darling and oh what fun it's been and what fun it's going to be for a long long time anybody will you it's our secret just between you and me yes you see I had a little boy once just like you only he couldn't stay very long I guess he had other things to do and you know I'll bet if you could only talk you could tell me about him before you get older and forget I I know that you knew him you must have been very good friends darling I think that's the reason you decided to come here to the people next door mind me Georgie of what mr. Knight that's it mr. Knight people who live next door shouldn't be so blame formal if Patricia is going to be Pat and Abigail is gonna be Abby you've got to stop calling me mr. Knight the name Jebediah so you Georgie from here on out I'll be just the name's Jebby Mrs. Day the name is Pat mr. Knight okay okay Jebby hey Jebby yes do you think you could find your way clear to lend my screwy husband a razor blade the curtain falls in the final act of the people next door our star Nancy Gile will return for a curtain call after this timely message from Wendell Niles valuable professional assignments in the Army Medical Department are now available to a limited number of young doctors in these positions doctors have a chance to work closely with top specialists in the various fields of medicine and keep abreast of the newest developments in the finest modern medical equipment in addition to regular pay and allowances they receive $100 per month professional pay for details write the Surgeon General Department of the Army Washington 25 DC now once again our star and our producer Nancy since this is your first appearance in our theater I want to officially introduce you to our audience and compliment you on a fine portrayal thank you CP but confidentially your microphone scares me to death what after working with Orson Wells and black magic and a little thing like a microphone frightens you that was a wonderful experience for me to make that picture in Italy with him but mr. Wells is exhausting not frightening like a microphone and what way well as you know the entire cast except for just a few of us we're all Italian or French so when mr. Wells discussed anything just anything at all with us or with mr. Rattle the director he didn't exactly whisper so the cast thought he was quarreling with you and with the director we yes that's it and being energetic and a very hardworking person we'll keep pace that's all and that is exhausting and another thing I played two parts one is mr. Wells wife and the others Marie Antoinette well mr. Rattle for strictly a morning man and I know Orson is an afternoon and evening worker exactly so with two parts I worked hard every minute which was doubly difficult I can appreciate that that now what have you been doing in the past year and a half in pictures I know you're under contract to 20th century Fox well I've temporarily retired for the most important job in the world I have a little daughter oh that's fine Nancy how old is she now Elizabeth Anne is just six months old oh you should have brought her along with you oh no I shouldn't see P you'd put her in radio and she's entirely too young to know what she wants to do but I let her listen to you every week well I appreciate that anyway by the way who is starting with you next week next week Nancy and ladies and gentlemen we shall have the Queen of the West none other than lovely Dale Evans to star in a great Texas story of water rights feuds and romance titled troubled waters don't miss it that should be good and we'll be listening goodbye CP goodbye Nancy be sure to listen next week ladies and gentlemen for Dale Evans in troubled waters until then thanks for listening and cheerio from Hollywood arrangements for the appearance of all stars in this program script was by Kimball S. Sant music of Eddie Dunstead this program is transcribed in Hollywood for release at this time Wendell Nile speaking