 Lux presents Hollywood Leaper Brothers Company the makers of Lux Flakes bring you the Lux Radio Theater Starring Charles Boyer and Madeleine Carroll in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Ladies and gentlemen your producer mr. William Keely Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen In the December readers digest you may have been interested to read as I was of the current revival of ghosts in England Unlike most Americans the English tend not only to believe in ghosts But to cherish them as an indispensable part of British life Tonight we ourselves present a very fascinating spirit in 20th century Fox's screen success the ghost and Mrs. Muir Our stars in this unusual romantic drama are Charles Boyer and lovely Madeleine Carroll Madeleine making her first Hollywood appearance since her distinguished record overseas While people say that seeing is believing. I'm not quite sure that that applies to ghosts Truly, you generally can't see them But you can often trace the results they have on people's lives as in our play tonight In the same way you can't see the qualities in Lux Flakes But you can certainly see the results both in the way Lux keeps those precious fabrics looking lovely longer And also the way it brightens the lives of busy housewives everywhere On to the first act of the ghost and Mrs. Muir starring Charles Boyer as Captain Greg and Madeleine Carroll as Lucy Muir Some 50 years ago in London a young and handsome widow Lucy Muir Left the home of the mother and sister of her departed husband and boarded a train With her went her small daughter Anna and a servant named Martha There the little one to sleep now mom. Maybe now you can tell me where we're going. You've been very patient with me Martha. I Suppose we are running away. I can't say I blame your mum nagging at your morning till night telling you what you could do and what you Couldn't do sinful it was mom. That will be enough Martha. Yes, ma'am We're going to a village called white cliff white cliff by the sea you've taken a house there mom I've been in touch with the leasing agent and mr. Coons. He has several houses for rent There must be one we can afford at least we'll be by ourselves good for you mom good for you We should be there soon We'll stay at the end till mr. Coons finds the house we want. Yes, ma'am. Oh, Martha. I know I'm doing right. I know Say mrs. Muir that you'll find no better home in white cliff than the Burnham Mount. It's newly built It's near the village and I can't understand why you won't show me girl cottage The description in your file is most intriguing. Oh, believe me madam girl cottage wouldn't suit you at all I suppose there's something wrong with it. Is it the drains? Well, I put up a house for rent mrs. Muir You may be sure there's nothing wrong with the drains. Then why shouldn't it suit me? Oh, will you kindly allow me to be the judge of that now about this time going to live in the house? I should be the judge mr. Coons I'm sure there's another agency in white cliff. Perhaps they have girl cottage listed also very well mrs. Muir Come I'll show you girl Well, you wanted to see girl cottage and I've shown you girl cottage now we can leave it's lovely and so close to The ocean and so far from a neighbor. I can't understand it. Why should a house like this remain empty? Well, it's been without a tenant for four years. Of course. It's terribly dusty, but mrs. Muir Who's that in there there in it's a portrait a portrait on the wall Oh, oh that yes the former owner captain Greg the room so dark for a moment. I thought it was someone real Well a sea captain that explains a scheme of decoration, doesn't it? Which is all in frightful taste. Oh, it's a delightful room mrs. Muir. I assure you this house will not suit you at all Nevertheless, I shall go upstairs There are only three rooms upstairs. They're all bedrooms at the main bedroom. It's quite ugly. It's draft. It's full of oh Well, see for yourself then Why it's charming and a balcony a balcony overlooking the sea But what's this a telescope captain Greg madam. He liked to watch the passing ships as I shall too, mr. Coombs, I suppose you have a reason for disliking this place so intensely, but I could become very fond of it Mr. Coombs, maybe now you know my reason Well, you would come I didn't want to show it to you but oh, no you had to see it Haunted how perfectly fascinating eight times. I've rented it eight times the tenants have left after the very first night What a pity mr. Coombs That laughter that was captain gray. It was indeed, but why does he haunt was he murdered he committed suicide? I wonder why Mr. Coombs, I've decided to take girl cottage you what it's so ridiculous Ghosts apparitions madam with your own ears, but you heard him yourself the wind in the chimney mr. Coombs Please arrange for us to move in tomorrow Time is it mama way past sleepy time Anna darling no more stories tonight No off to sleep with you. I love it here mama our own house and our own ocean Even the rain sounds different than the rain in London That's because we are so close to the sea darling You're not afraid of the storm are you? Why should I be afraid of course? We're snug and warm in our own little harbor Good night darling All tucked in is she mum she'll be asleep in two minutes me too mum Oh your hot water bottles downstairs mum on the kitchen table and the kettles on the stove Thank you, Martha It's storming out there for fair ain't it? I don't mind saying it's a bit scary like Martha a strange house and all in not a soul in a mile of us. Oh go to sleep silly I'll be up in a minute Why should Martha turn out the kitchen light you've got it candle light it What nonsense is this now now I'm hearing voices like mr. Coombs With these matches. It's not the matches. It's Very well captain Greg. I know you're here Are you afraid to speak up? Is that all you're good for to to frighten women? Well, I'm not afraid of you light the candle light it. How can I when you keep blowing out the matches light the blasted candle? That's better well You You are captain Greg who the devil ends would I be? I'm sorry. I called you a coward. I I didn't mean to embarrass you embarrass me I mean because of the way you died what the way I died madam Committing suicide who the devil said I committed suicide mr. Coombs said the fool I want to sleep in front of that confounded gas heater in my bedroom. I'm a restless sleeper I kicked the gas on with my foot for the stormy night like this so I shut my windows as in a sensible man would Well, won't you? Yes. Yes, I suppose so well the coroner's jury said it was suicide Because my blasted char woman Testified I'd always slept with my windows open. How the devil should she know how I slept. Oh, I'm so glad You have a strange sense of humor madam. I mean because you didn't commit suicide But if you didn't why do you haunt because I have plans for my house We do not include a buck of strangers making themselves at home I think it's very childish of you frightening people. Well in your case. I'll admit I Chartered the course with regret. You're not a bad-looking woman. You know, especially when you were asleep So you were in my room this afternoon while I was napping my room madam And I thought I dreamed it all but I knew I'd close the window and when I woke I found it open I opened the window because I didn't want another accident with a blasted gas I'm quite capable of taking care of myself good And you will break your gear and shove off tomorrow Preferably the first thing in the morning. I will not go the house suits me perfectly It's my house madam and I intend to turn it into a home for retired seaman, and you should have said so in your will I didn't leave a will why not because I did not expect to kick the blaster gas on with my blasted foot. I Won't be shouted at for one year. I've been shouted at and ordered a burden and I'm sick of it Temper all laugh dad either. I won't leave this house I won't I believe that stop that blasted blabbering madam. Oh, I love this house. I I can't explain it It was as if the house itself were welcoming me asking me to rescue it from being so empty You can't understand that can you all right? Then I'm a silly woman, but that's the way I feel So you love the house. Well, I admit that's a point and you did not frighten like the others That's a point too. All right, you must stay here madam, but on trial. Oh, thank you captain Grimm keep your distance woman I'm sorry. You made me so happy. No intention of making you happy. I merely want to do what's best for the house Then you'll go away and leave us alone. I will not go away. Why should I? Because of my child. I don't want her frightened into fit But I never frightened children into fits but think of the bad language. She'd learned all confounded madam My language is most controlled. Well Anna is much too young to see goes. Oh very well. I'll make a bargain with you Leave my bedroom as it is and I'll promise not to go in any other room in the house Then your brat and your servant need never know anything about me But if you keep the best bedroom, where should I sleep in the best bedroom? But oh in heaven's name madam. I am a spirit. I have no body. I Haven't had one in four years. Is that clear? But I can see you no no no all you see is an illusion like a blasted lantern slide It's not very convincing, but I suppose it's all right. Oh, it was was a fool for a helpless woman I am not helpless. Oh, well if you're so confoundedly competent You'll notice that your kettle is about to boil over. Oh, so it is. Thank you. Ah one thing more There's a portrait of me in the living room. I want you to removed to the bedroom must I It's a very poor painting. It's my painting. I did not invite your criticism Well, I only meant it doesn't do you justice. It's all right. All right. I tend to your hot water bottle What a sorry substitute good night. Good night. Good night, miss Good afternoon. It's about time you came upstairs You're waiting for ours. Why I agree to see you only in this room You'll talk to me like a gentleman captain Greg or I'll go straight downstairs Would have never said you could chop down my tree out there. I ordered it chopped out But thank you don't matter my I plundered that tree with my own two hands. Think how much prettier your garden will look with a rose bed I detest roses. I hope the whole blasted bed dies of blight Captain Greg if you insist on haunting me you might at least be more agreeable about it Why should I be agreeable? Well as long as we are living together I mean if we had to be thrown together so much Life's too short to be forever barking at each other. Your life may be short madam But I have an unlimited time at my disposal Then say something pleasant for a change. Well, that's a pretty dress you have on Thank you much better than smothering yourself in all that black crepe I happen to have been wearing mourning for my husband whom you didn't love How dare you say that because it's true. You're jealous because no one put on any mourning for you That shows how little you know about it some poor misguided female no doubt five poor misguided females to be exact I should think you'd be ashamed instead of boasting about it Why they misguided themselves never raised a finger to help. That's not what I've heard about sailors see men confound it Sailor sailor is a land lover's word now. Why did you marry him? Edwin? I I don't really know He seems so romantic. Hmm, but it was different afterwards. Hmm. Did he beat you? Oh, no poor Edwin never really did anything He was an architect, but not a very good one. I'm afraid he couldn't have designed a house like this Who did design it? I did of course It reminds me of something an Old song or or a poem magic casements Opening on the foam of Baylor seas in fair lands for loan Strange to find a sea captain quoting Keith. Oh, life can go slow at sea plenty of time for reading in the off-watches How wonderful it must be reading lyric poetry up in the crow's nest with a sheet belling in the wind See is blasted old madam. The sheet is a line a rope ropes can't belly I don't know anything about the sea except that it's romantic. That's what all landsmen think seaman no better Then why do they go to sea? Oh because they haven't got enough sense to stay home Like those two women at the front door. What two women look out the window. Oh No, who are they my blasted in laws? And Martha sure to send them up here. Well, well, what do you want of me? Well do something hide go away and decompose Dematerialize madam, but whatever it is do it quickly. They're on the stairs Oh, no fear they can't hear or see me unless I choose that they should oh, then please don't choose I'll get rid of them. Why don't you let me? You know, I've had considerable experience. No, you're not to do anything Talking to yourself. Oh my poor Lucy. So pale so fragile Madam you're Eva. How nice of you to call Martha said you were up here resting Oh, how can you rest in such an ugly room Lucy poor poor child and what a hideous portrait on the wall Would it face like yours madam you'd be wise to shut up Oh, no Why aren't us don't you take it down because I like it either liar Well, of course if you want a portrait of a strange man in your room. Well, that's up to you Oh Lucy, we have such bad news the gold shares your entire income. What about the gold shares? They're worthless the mine is closed down. No more dividends Lucy. It was all in this morning's newspaper So we've come to take you and Anna back home with us Even you're sure of this of course. No, don't make a scene in front of these swabs. I don't intend to make a scene Oh, of course, you don't you're my brave little girl Please mother Muir make her stop that catawalling or by Judas. I will take a hand. You keep out of this Lucy How can you talk to me like that? Oh blast. Eva did you hear what she said? Yes, mother I heard now stop snivelling, but I didn't mean you then just whom did you mean you're acting in a most peculiar fashion Lucy Obviously this dreadful place has preyed on your mind That's in your belfry Down what I mean. I I want to think but why with your income gone You'll have to come home with us. Don't do it Lucy. Do you want me to stay? Yes? Lucy are you out of your mind? You really mean it? Of course. I mean it Lucy Lucy I'm sorry mother. It's very kind of you, but I'm going to stay. I'll manage somehow So, please be good enough to shove off shove off She's insane. I I want nothing more to do with her. Well, you don't have to push me mother. I'm going Eva I'm not pushing you stop it mother. Please, but I'm not touching you Eva I'm out on the balcony Are you well? I've had just about all of this. I'm going to stand stop talking in riddles two days ago You shove those poor women out of this house Squealing like a couple of pigs that wasn't enough was it? What do you mean by pushing mr. Coombs down the stairs just now? I only hope that when I reach the afterlife, I'll have a little more dignity dignity You call it dignified throwing yourself at a herring gutted swab like Coombs I asked mr. Coombs here because he's the logical man to help me find lodges for the summer Lodges. Oh, oh, I made a mistake. Oh, forgive me my dear. I thought you wanted to sign Coombs on for a husband Mr. Coombs that walrus My experience that women will do anything for money And now you and your blasted experience have ruined everything. Why I could not allow lodges in any case They're worse than passengers at sea It's them or star not at all. I've solved your problem madam You're going to write a book book. Don't be ridiculous. It's all I can do to write a postcard But I can write a book and you can put it down on paper for me What sort of a book the story of my life right and swash this Right and swash by by captain X I don't think that's at all a nice title. It's not meant to be it's meant to be sensational like the subject But it takes months to write a book. What are we to live on in the meantime? Well, you have a little jewelry on it Oh blast your eyes madam. Will you understand you're trying to claw off a leash or you can't afford to be squeamish I do understand and and don't swear at all right and be sensible now Since we're going to be collaborators You may call me Daniel. That's very good of you and I shall call you Lucia My name is Lucy. No, no doesn't do you justice my dear women and Lucy are always being imposed upon but Lucia Now there is a name for a namazole for a queen. I Don't feel much like a queen. I feel frightened and confused Martha and I could always get along, but it's my baby. It's Anna. Well, don't you trust me? Oh, I do Daniel when I'm talking to you But when you're not here, I Well, it's it's asking a great deal to expect anyone to entrust our whole future To someone who isn't real, but I am real Lucia I'm here because you believe I'm here Keep on believing and I'll always be real to you Yes, get into town and pawn your blasted jury and don't come back without a typewriter Ah Yes blood and swash by Captain X That too of the ghost and mrs. Muir will continue in a moment Libby, have you any romantic tidbits for our audience tonight? Well, it's not a big name story, mr. Kennedy But a very unusual real wedding took place on the set of my wild Irish rose during the last week of shooting Oh, who were the lucky people two of the dancers in this fabulous new musical of Warner Brothers And just imagine Andrea King was the matron of honor She looked almost like a bride herself and hand embroidered white batista It was one of the costumes she wears in the picture and the best man Dennis Morgan Andrea's romantic leading man In fact, the entire cast of my wild Irish rose came as guests and they looked very colorful on their Celtic costumes Did the bride wear something old something new something borrowed something blue and Andrea saw to the new She gave her some gossamer sheer nylons with embroidered clocks of tiny seed pearls. You mean to wear Why certainly Andrea told her just to luxe them and they'd wear beautifully And I'm sure that's true because luxe flakes are so gentle even the sheerest nylons last twice as long You're absolutely right Libby those famous strain tests proved it Runs came sooner when stockings were washed with strong soap or rubbed with cake soap all kinds of stockings Nylons silk rayon and cotton lasted twice as long when they were washed with luxe flakes That's just like getting an extra pair of stockings every time you buy a pair and remember girls Luxe care prolongs the wear of everyday stockings as well as super shears So luxe them after every wearing Luxe stockings last twice as long We return you now to William Keely act two of the ghost and mrs. Muir Starring Charles Boyer as Captain Greg and Madeleine Carroll as Lucy Summer has come to whitecliff by the sea But there's no clamor of lodgers in girl cottage Instead week after week the constant platter of a typewriter as the ghost of Captain Daniel Greg Dictates the vivid story of his life to Lucy Muir well Why have you stopped typing you didn't finish the sentence It's it's that awful word Daniel. Well, it's a perfectly good word. I think it's a horrible word It means what it says doesn't it all too clearly? Oh hang it all Lucia if you're going to be produce will never get the book finished Now where was I upstairs? Yes? Yes, sir the customs of Marseille Different to any on any. Oh cares. This is not a blast literary epic It is the unvarnished story of a seaman's life. It certainly is unvarnished. All right All right smear on some varnished and but leave the guts in it. I Think there should be a chapter about your boyhood your school days never went to school I was educated by the vicar poor man. You must have had a dreadful time Oh, I suppose you were a model of all the virtues at 12 Certainly I was and Anna shall be the same and I is not fat as you probably were I wasn't fat I was skinny still worse hair ribbons and a thousand freckles probably I notice you still have freckles very few And I've been told they're quite becoming. Hmm. Let me see Yeah Good heavens the time. I get some sleep. We'll put in a full day tomorrow. Oh Lucia You're sure you've said nothing about my being here. I mean Martha knows nothing your little girl Of course not. They know I'm busy writing a book, but that's all You've been very thoughtful about keeping your promise not to to disturb them madam. I'm a man of my word and what words Daniel what did your aunt do when you ran away to see? Oh Thank heaven probably that there was no one around to fill our house with mongrel dogs and track mad on her carpets Did she write to you every Sunday for seven years. I was at sea when she died What are you thinking how lonely she must have been with her silent empty house and her clean carpets? Good night, Lucia Devil with your dawdling Lucia, but I'm so tired I sent us so to and the book is all finished. I can't see straight or think straight You don't have to think just write this down Do all who follow the hard and honorable profession of the sea? To the after-guard masters mates and engineers To able-bodied and ordinary seaman to stoker's carpenter's sale makers and sea cooks. I Dedicate this volume the end the end Well tomorrow you take it to the publishers Why did you write the book Daniel? It wasn't merely to save the house for me partly that and partly to help people understand Those poor devils who go to see for want of a better sense Well now about the publishers you'll go to Tackett and Sproul in Gretzmith Street. Yes, now be sure you see Sproul You once came in fourth in your trace Francis himself a seafaring man Daniel I Hmm What's to become of us? You and me well nothing's to become of me Everything's happened that can happen. Have you forgotten how many illusion such an earthy illusion When we were writing the book I was happy, but now when I try to think of the future. It's It's all dark and confused Like that fog out there tonight. Oh, you've been working too hard Couped up in the house too long, but I love it here Yes, but you should be out in the world meeting people seeing man I have no desire to see man Confounded you should you know you you are a very attractive woman. You owe it to yourself Yes, Daniel. Take the early train Lucia. Tackett and Sproul Gretzmith Street Impossible madam you can't see mr. Sproul without an appointment, but I have a manuscript here, and I'm sure a cookbook perhaps Gardening another life of Byron. Oh Really, Mrs. Muir. Oh Well, I'll mail you a notice when mr. Sproul can see you probably next month. Thank you surely You're not leaving Mrs. Mrs. Muir. I have no appointment. Then you shall have mine, but mr. Fairley. Oh, it's all right Albert. Just tell old Sproul I wouldn't wait well Aren't you going to thank me? It's very good of you, but but I'm afraid I can't accept you're a very beautiful creature I can do no less than insist that you take my appointment Well, Mrs. Muir, are you going in or shall I carry you in? But this much I do go I will not allow you to take up my time and I will not preview your manuscript shut up and sit down You blasted rampas. Oh dear madam Are you a would-be author or a would-be ventriloquist? I I don't know what you're talking about mr. Sproul I distinctly heard and such a nice-looking woman, too Mr. Sproul, please this book it isn't what you think it is at all. It's it's the Unvarnished record of a sailor's I mean seaman's life seaman What could you know about seaman or a great deal? Believe me? Hmm unvarnished to say shamefully so. Oh dear me well Well, perhaps I'll glance at it after all a sit down young woman sit down Oh Better take another walk mr. Fairley she's still in there with mr. Sproul must be starving Oh, I pitched the matriarch lunch some time ago. Hmm. I'll wait Albert. I'll wait Mrs. Muir, this is quite a book. Thank you. You're not going to pretend that you wrote it. No. Oh, no It's a man's book and what a man Captain X I'd like very much to meet him. Oh, I'm afraid that's impossible He he's away. Oh a voyage, of course. Yes a very long boy. Oh, bless my soul. What a story We shall publish it of course. Mrs. Muir. You just leave everything to me and Be happy that you know such a man. There aren't many like him these days. You appreciate that I think I do mr. Sproul and thank you very much Got so stuffy upstairs. I thought I'd wait for you down here mr. Fairley quite an appointment you had wasn't it? But it's pouring now and you haven't an umbrella. I'm quite capable of finding a cab. Oh now please I deserve a minute, don't I? Dear me, I certainly didn't bargain for this blasted rain. As you said you could find a cab Ruined your hat though, wouldn't it? Now if you asked me nicely Please would you mind? You're smiling. I'll be right back But why why shouldn't I ride to the station with you? Perhaps I too must catch a train I don't believe it really mr. Fairley the sheer brass the word you're looking for is brass exactly Still anyway, I should be grateful to you. You see mr. Sproul has agreed to publish my book You always had a weakness for feminine literature. Well, this book might surprise you It's surprising enough to find a lady author infinitely more exciting than her heroine could possibly be I assume you also write mr. Fairley. Uh, yes, uh Children's books forgive me mrs. Muir, but uh, I am uncle nedy Uncle nedy Ridiculous, isn't it? Why you're adored by half the children in the world. Oh, I love the little monsters My little girl is not a monster. I shall make an exception then. I look forward to meeting her mrs. Muir Uh, your husband also My husband is dead Oh, I'm so sorry Oh, what a liar I am. I'm not sorry at all as a matter of fact. I'm Uh, well, uh your book. Tell me about your book Uncle nedy, uh by godfrey what a load of bilge Daniel So you've been eavesdropping. I thought he said he had to catch a train too I rather think he only wanted to ride to the station with me The way he was smirking at you like a cat at a fishmonger's I found him rather charming Other charming now you're starting to talk like him. Well, how in blue blazes you want me to talk has better I think you're being extremely childish. You should have pushed him out of the cab In another minute. I would have Daniel why I believe you're jealous. Well, of course. I'm not jealous Jealousy is a disease of the flesh. I haven't had any flesh for years I've never known you to be more disagreeable And today of all days. Yes prouds bought the book Yes, and now I can buy the house just as we planned. I'm not so sure I want you to have the house after all I wish you'd stop this sulking You said yourself that I that I should see men. Yes. I said men not a perfume pencil pusher Anyway, I I shall never see him again. Well, that's what you think Where are you going? I'm disappearing always hated trains. Anyway, I'll see you later, madam Where's Anna? She's in the orchard with uncle nedy, but I didn't expect him till tea time every day this week He's cold. I can't be rude to him Martha. I can He's out there painting a picture. How exciting Whenever you're ready, we'll have tea in the garden. Yes, ma'am I'd like your little girl lucy. She's very wise. For instance How did she ever guess I wanted to be alone with you if you bribed her to go away? Aren't you interested in what I was painting before? You're quite accomplished, aren't you? I should think being uncle nedy would satisfy anyone. No, I also paint Uh under the name of runwa Oh, you're such a fool, Miles. You know, that's quite the nicest thing you've ever said to me And what if anything do you do as miles fairly specifically? I behave quite idiotically towards A young lady that I fell in love with In a publisher's office Miles, please lucy am I being unforgivably offensive? It's just that I'm Well, I I I don't quite know what to say. Then say nothing. Take a look at this canvas Why It's me You've been painting me in my in my bathing costume. Mm-hmm every morning. I've watched you and Anna on the beach Not too bad, is it? It's very flattering really lucy darling. It would take a thousand runwa's to Shouldn't have done that. You shouldn't have kissed me. That was unforgivable, wasn't it? I shall not go away even if you send me and I shall see you again Even though you forbid it. I'm sure I I have no control over where you go or what you do. Then you won't forbid it Miles, please If you do want to see me go away now Yes, lucy if you wanted my darling No wonder you wanted to plant a rose garden here Daniel perfect sitting to be kissed in You've been spying on me again. No merely happened to be haunting to be sent at him Why did you let him? I didn't he he took me unaware Ah now when a woman is kissed it's because she wishes to be kissed. That's nothing but masculine conceit. Well now what happens? Miles fairly is staying at the inn in the village as well, you know He'll either remain there or go away. It doesn't matter to me one way or the other I think it matters more than you'll admit. Well, then why bother to ask me? You seem to know my mind better than I do He puts brilliant in on his hair Most men do you can find an excuse for everything only because you're attacking him I know I know it's a natural human reaction. Oh, I wish you wouldn't be so superior just because you're Not alive and he is yes very much so. It's no crime to be alive. No No, my dear no Only sometimes it's a a great inconvenience The living can be hurt. I don't intend to be hurt But if I'm to go about in the world as you said it Well, it will mean taking risks and real happiness is worth almost any risk Well Watch your soundings luchiere I will Daniel I only wish you all alone in the garden Oh Have some tea mother. What that's odd now. I swear. I heard you talking Is uncle net he's still about no, he's gone. Mom. It's none of my business. But what's he up to? I rather think he's going to ask me to marry him and you'd be willing to I might Why shouldn't I because he ain't good enough for you. That's why not He's the kind of man no decent woman would associate with Martha. I've got a right to my feelings woman. I've got a feeling about him Oh, I'm sorry. It's it's just that I've been so worried about you lately, mom Don't worry Martha. I know he isn't perfect. But But he's real real I thought I was impervious to emotion But I'm not I need companionship and laughter and And all the things a woman needs. Well, I hope he could give them to you. I I'll go fetch anamom excuse me Well, Daniel Haven't you anything to say Let's see in the moonlight lucy and a warm summer night I could stay here forever my darling. I've never felt like this before my Hmm. How do you feel? I don't know Like looking down from high up All dizzy and And unsure you won't fall. I'll hold you It isn't right It can't be to feel like this. It is right because you're happy I should go back to the house. It's it's Anna's bed. Oh, just this one night. Can't you pretend you're forgotten? My is what's wrong darling. I'm jealous Or a little girl She's my daughter. I can't forget when you're with me. I want you to forget everyone else in the whole world You're a magician You make it seem all wrong to consider my duty And only right that I That I put my arms around you to be kissed To be loved Look here. Can you hear me? Hmm. I sleep, huh? I thought you were one woman with sense But you're like all the rest of them Lucia wake up. I'm talking to you Blast it all. I said it but No, sleep on Lucia sleep. I should have known You've made your choice the only choice you could make You've chosen life and that is as it should be whatever the reckoning That's why I must go away. I can't help you now Lucia Listen to me. Listen my dear You've been dreaming Even now you are dreaming Dreaming of a sea captain that haunted this house Of talks you've had with him Even a book you both wrote together, but you you wrote the book Lucia You and no one else A book you imagine from this house and from that portrait on the wall Now it's been a dream And in the years to come you'll remember it only as a dream And it will die As old dreams die At waking But how you would have loved the north cape and the fjords in the midnight sun Where the blue water rushes into green the forklands Where is southerly gale wipes the whole sea white as snow Ah what we both have missed Lucia What we both have missed Goodbye Lucia Goodbye My darling We pause now for station identification. This is CBS the columbia broadcasting system Before we bring you act three of the ghost and mrs. Muir I want to introduce a delightful young lady whom 20th century fox has recently added to his roster of young talent Miss jane nye In fact, jane is so photogenic that a portrait of her won her a screen test Have you met any of the top ranking stars yet jane? Yes, jone crawford I met her the first day she started work on daisy kenyon Oh, that's a picture jone was keen to play in from the moment she read the book And she was wonderful in the love scenes with dana andrews Yeah, jone knows how to get dramatic value out of a scene too Like the later scenes in daisy kenyon when she's married to henry fonder and she always looks so lovely I was on the set one day when her stand-in was posing in some lovely Lagerie similar to jones cost less delicate versions. I'm sure yes, but even these were lovely I could hardly believe it when the stand-in told me they had already been luxe a number of times And the jones even lovelier things get luxe too, but john kennedy ought to be interested in that I am jane, but it's not surprising Leading hollywood studios specify gentle luxe care for everything washable because it's so safe Well, I've been a luxe fan for years myself as a matter of fact jane Luxe under things stay lovely three times as long A scientific laboratory took a number of identical slips in 90s and washed them two ways One set with a strong soap the others the luxe way It wasn't long before those washed with strong soap looked faded and drab But the luxe ones stayed lovely three times as long. Well, that's a big help to any girl's budget Right And that means you can have three times as many pretty undies without spending any more Because instead of just replacing worn out faded ones you can buy extra undies and have three times as many Thank you, jane knife for being here tonight Back now to our producer william kealy Act three of the ghost and mrs. Muir with charles boye as captain greg and madeline carol as lucy The coming of miles fairly into the life of lucy muir has marked the passing of the ghost of captain gray But lucy is scarcely noticed his disappearance in her love for her handsome suitor And the excitement over the success of the book called blood and swash Imagine it martha a check for 200 pounds for mr. Sproul another 200 pounds for that awful book Lummi mom's such language and mr. Sproul wants me to go to london immediately some more papers to sign Don't you worry about n and me, but I can't possibly go to london. Mr. Fairley's coming. We're having a picnic. You mean he is I heard you martha Please remember that i'm going to marry him. Yes, ma'am By the way, I i've been thinking we might put that portrait of captain greg up in the attic Don't you like it anymore? It was so silly of me to hang it here in my bedroom. I I don't know what possessed me Yes, ma'am. Oh, I most forgot here boy brought this note for you from the village. Oh From the bank is it ma'am? No. No, it's from mr. Fairley Oh Oh, how dreadful he's been called up to london for a few days But it's not dreadful at all. I'll go to london too I'll see mr. Sproul as he wishes and I'll see myles. I'll surprise him martha quickly now fetch anna. I must say goodbye to her Yes, ma'am, I'd like to see mr. Fairley, please. I'm mrs. Muir Thank you, ma'am. If you'll wait in there, please Who is that hilda and mrs. Muir, ma'am? Oh Perhaps I can help you mrs. Muir. Did I hear you say you wanted to see my husband? Husband If you don't mind waiting, he'll be back soon I see Won't you sit down? No, I I'd better go I'm afraid I made a mistake Mistake mrs. Muir Yes I'm very sorry I think I understand my dear I'm sorry too. Truly. I am You see it isn't the first time something like this has happened Come now, mommy. Oh, but cried your eyes out. You're home now where you belong Oh, what a fool. What a fool. There there. He ain't worth it. Blast his eyes. He ain't worth it Wash day Yes, but it was exactly a year ago that we came here You remember that afternoon? I went upstairs and I lay down before tea. You're hidden for a cup of tea, mom No, Martha. I'm thinking of the dream I had that afternoon a year ago Such a strange dream Oh, well Anna will be coming home from school soon, mom Will you be taking her for a walk along the beach? Of course. I wouldn't miss it for the world My little girl, Martha. She's all my life now and most of mine too Soon there'll be no more walks All too soon She's growing up school then a university young men marriage Oh Martha it will be honest before we know it Before we know it Dear mother It's so strange here at the university So utterly different than whitecliff, but I love it darling If only I didn't miss you and Martha so much. I count the days Incredible Martha. I just don't believe it. Anna, Anna will be 18 on Friday Well, come on. We'll walk to the village. We must get her package off to her today And I'll be home on Saturday, mother. Don't worry. I haven't been thrown out of the university Just a wonderful opportunity to mow it down to see you and maybe darling Maybe to surprise you too. You see there's a young man on there Darling. Oh, I'm so glad to see you. Did you get my letter, mother? Yes, dear, but I don't understand. I wish you'd be more specific in your letters. I come on in bill Well, am I being specific now? Don't be shy bill. Here she is My mother How do you do? How do you do? His real name is Sir Evelyn and Anthony Scaven. We're thinking of getting engaged Anna believe me mrs. Muir. I I haven't even asked her yet We've come for your blessing mother and we haven't had tea Anna you You quite take my breath away bill darling. Just make a separate home in there. We'll sing out and we want you We'll be in the kitchen Two more for tea Martha Oh, just look at them. She's home. She's really home and you'll find a strange man in the living room I gather his name is sir Evelyn skate and Anna wants to marry him. I met him at a dance mother He's a subliftenant in the navy. You know my weakness for sailor men I've never been so happy in all my life Then I'm happy too darling and I won't waste time now with questions No, I can't make tea with such distractions going on out the garden now if you want to talk both of you Mother I've discussed it all with bill of course We won't get married till I'm out of the university But you ought to come and live with us when we do you and Martha. No darling. No Oh, but you must you've been alone so much of your life You're sweet Anna and I'm proud of you, but I love this house. I've been very happy here And I shall live here until I die With captain Greg. What did you say with the ghost of captain Greg Anna? What are you talking about? I knew the captain very well when I was a little girl first year We lived here used to have the most wonderful talk. You didn't it was all a game I'd made up of course sort of a dream game It was very real while it lasted And then he stopped coming suddenly I suppose I was growing too old and sophisticated for him Oh, but I grieved and grieved I even Mother darling you look as if you'd seen a Don't tell me you see him too No Anna no not for years. Well, then you did Mother you don't suppose he really haunted us. No darling things like that can't happen It was only a dream the same dream for both of us Perhaps I set you off by telling you about my dreams little girls are very impressionable I don't remember you're telling me. Oh, tell me now. I'd love to hear about them But I can't remember them very well Just bits and pieces of a phrase here and there a look I think I dreamed most of that book I wrote I must have I never could have thought of it All these years I've tried to remember but but I can't Do you know what I think? I think you fell in love with him too. I did nothing of the sort I wouldn't blame you if you had when did you stop seeing him after about a year? I dreamed we quarreled It was about a man uncle neddy Anna. You knew that miles fairly and I used to pray you wouldn't marry him And you were so right I saw him five years ago at a dinner party bold and fat and drinking too much and he cried It seems his wife finally had enough and left him And to think I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him Perhaps he did exist mother captain greg Perhaps he did come back and talk to us Wouldn't it be wonderful if he had Then you'd have something You know what I mean To look back on happiness No, darling We just made him up you and I He never existed I just wasn't intended to have that kind of happiness And I haven't missed it really I haven't Oh, I've been lonely at times, but there have been compensations You and now bill And dear Martha and this house The sea and the girls And memories I've had those you know even if it was a dream Now come along we'll join your young man for tea Dream I cannot blame her Was all my own doing I told her it was a dream. How long the gold has occurred Even Anna is older now than Lucia was when she first stepped into his house Anna long since married Children of her own role white and bright excited to be noble. I never thought she'd live to be 80 Lucia Lucia Hey him and what are you doing out on that balcony? Don't you know what the night air does to you? I'm coming Martha I'm coming What were you doing out there? I don't know. What difference does it make? I hope you remember what the doctor told you That I'm an old woman Well, so is he There was a letter this afternoon from Anna Little Lucy's engaged little Lucy To the captain of a transatlantic airplane Anna's very happy about it says it must run in the family airplanes I suppose she means Captains here you drink your hot milk I'm too tired. I And I have a funny pain in my arm No wonder standing out there in that fault sit down now and drink it while it's hot I don't want any hot milk now now. Don't get into a state. I am not in a state. I I just want to be left alone Bossing me around all the time. Well, I'll leave it on the table Take it or not. I don't care Bossing I'm tired Martha Martha I feel so Lucia At last You'll never be tired again Lucia or old again Look at you radiant Like the day you came here conchia Come my dear Our stars will return for their curtain calls in a moment Say liby. I uh, I have a riddle for you. I'm listening when are a cook's hands like a rose garden I can see you're dying to tell me when they're in flower Oh But when a housewife's hands are the color of a red red rose, she doesn't like it a bit It means she has a bad case of dishpan hands But she can do something about that just change from strong soaps to lux flakes for dishwashing Changing to lux takes away that red look makes hands soft and smooth again Smooth as white rose petals the way her hands used to be and the way husbands still prefer them Lux flakes almost make dishwashing a pleasure The suds feel so soothing and rich and they certainly get the dishes clean fast Lux is a real time saver. It rinses so perfectly. You don't need to dry the dishes Just rinse them with hot water and let them drain They dry without streaking and don't forget lux is as easy on the pocketbook as it is on hands Tests show lux suds are so much richer You can wash up to twice as many dishes with lux as you can with the same weight of 10 other leading dishwashing soaps Lux is thrifty Here's mr. Keeley at the microphone brought the ghost and mrs. Muir so vividly and happily to life Charles Boyer and Madeline Carroll Madeline, you don't know how happy we are to welcome you on this stage again And how proud we are of your war record overseas Well bill you can't imagine how happy I am to be back and to be teamed for the first time on lux With charles boy the feeling is mutual believe me madeline But I understand that in addition to all your other work overseas You had your own radio show in paris. That's right. Charles for about a year after the e-day We broadcast once a week in french to tell the french about america and american Well, everything i've heard from fans these past few years has been about a wonderful job You did for french american relations and you haven't done such a bad job either charles, right bill almost everything I heard in paris concerning hollywood was about charles boyer's french research foundation And what it was doing to create a better understanding and appreciation of france Thank you madeline, but coming back to this theater bill I'm sure your audience is keen to hear about the show for next week and i'm sure they'll be keen about the show itself It's universal international's quite recent screen hit ride the pink horse With his three fine stars robert mongumry wonder hendrix and thomas gomez That's the picture that bob himself directed isn't it bill? Yes, and it's a truly thrilling screenplay drama a story of mystery and adventure That should keep our audience guessing breathlessly what's coming next and usually i'll wager Guessing wrong sounds like a real hit bill will be listening in my house. Bonsoir. Good night. Bonsoir et merci bien Leave a brother's company the makers of lux flakes Join me in inviting you to be with us again next monday evening when the lux radio theater presents robert mongumry Wanda hendrix and thomas gomez in ride the pink horse This is william kealy saying good night to you from hollywood Charles boyer will soon be seen in the enterprise production arch of triumph Our music was directed by louis silvers And this is your announcer john milton kennedy reminding you to join us again next monday night to hear Ride the pink horse with robert mongumry wonder hendrix and thomas gomez Obsident one by three to one Yes, by an overwhelming average of three to one Families throughout america who compared toothpaste. They were using at home Preferred new pepsidant with iriam over any other brand they tried They said new pepsidant toothpaste tastes better makes breath cleaner Makes teeth brighter Yes with families who made comparison tests pepsidant one by three to one Be sure to listen next monday night to the lux radio theater presentation of ride the pink horse with robert mongumry Wanda hendrix and thomas gomez stay tuned for my friend erma which follows immediately over most of these stations This is cbs the columbia broadcasting system