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Mr. Markham, you paid $3,000 for that antique clock when $3,000 was a lot of money. So of course it's not correct. It's three minutes off. It's nine o'clock. That's right. And you've been pacing and waiting and asking me the time since seven. Give us, take three minutes. You want I should put the orders back in the icebox? Refrigerator, Mildred, not icebox. None of us are getting any younger, Mr. Markham. And that's what they call it when I grew up. Your tires straight stop filling with it. I'm leaving now. When you go down, tell the doorman that I can't see her. Huh? Who? Who are you waiting for? What's the big secret? I mean, I can't see anyone tonight. I'm, I'm indisposed. You're what? Sick? Mr. Markham, you're never sick. What's the deal? Are you up to something? And that's just the beginning of our story. A new adventure in radio listening. Five nights of exceptional entertainment every week brought to you in Elliott Lewis' production of The Sears Radio Theater. 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Only sad drunks use to run themselves down like that. Just give the doorman my message that I don't want to see anyone. Where's that novel, the book with the yellow and pink cover? I put it on that shelf. You keep leaving it around. I keep leaving it around because it's part of my work, maybe. I'll get it. No, I'm not here. Why, Mr. Markham, I can see it through the peephole. Oh, nothing to be scared of. She's just a girl with a bicycle. A what? I swear she's got a bicycle with her. Hi, I'm expected. You may be, but not that bicycle with its muddy wheels. You, Mr. Markham? You were expecting me, right? I was, and I wasn't. Don't be mad because I'm late. I'm never on time. You ride a bicycle in Manhattan? I'm a wild bird who loves to fly. You are free of wheel and turkey. Standing there with your bicycle, you remind me of Ethel Barrymore. Who? Herb entrance in the corn is green. Oh. Betty Davis did the role in the motion picture. Didn't see it. Catherine Hepburn on television. Am I hitting the correct level yet? Where can I park my bike? Leave it there in the hall. Good night, Mr. Markham. I hope you'll be feeling better soon. You're not feeling well? I'm great with remedies. What's wrong? I... well, nothing. Don't be bashful. I can't be embarrassed. Please, I... Oh, come on. Don't be like those women who are always hinting at some vague female complaint. I just don't feel like myself, that's all. Kind of achy and tired? Uh, yes, something like that. A good rub-down helps no matter what you got. How can you be sick with your coat on? Why? Sitting around in your own apartment, fully dressed. Coat and tie and all. You can't be sick like that. Take off your coat and shirt and I'll massage your back. No, no, please. Come on, let go of your coat. Okay, keep your shirt on as they say. Lie down. Really, this isn't what... My hands are warm and I promise not to tickle. There. How does that feel? Well... Stimulating. Too hard? I feel almost too healthy. Thank you, Tony. Your name is really Tony? Yes, Tony with an I. What? Tony, it's spelled T-O-N-I. Not with a Y, that's a boy's name. Tony with an I, how Tony? I don't get you. Tony, the kind of Tony that means high tone, stylish. Never heard of that. Must be an old-fashioned word. I'm an old-fashioned person. Tony, I have a Tony. You have a what? A Tony. You don't know what a Tony award is? It's given for outstanding work on the New York stage. Oh, like in television, the Emmy. You could say that. I did say that. You don't know what a Tony is, yet you want to write a play. Maybe I want to write a play. What'd you think of it? My novel there, that festive summer? Isn't it an icky cover? Yellow and pink? It's very good. The cover? The story. Well written. Are you going to help me adapt it for the stage? If I decide to do it. This producer wants to put it on Broadway and he says you write plays. That right? Yes, I write plays. Did you think I got that Tony award for being the best usher? Okay, okay, you write plays. Let's face it, I'm ignorant. In the town where I was brought up, there weren't any stage plays. They did have books, didn't they, such as in my library here. Wow, you got a lot of them. Who are those guys on the wall? All those pictures. Who are portraits of the great playwrights, Sophocles, Plotis, Marlowe, Johnson, Shakespeare. Oh yes, I recognize him. Who's that? Looks like an old vaudeville performer. That's Molliere, the greatest writer of French comedy. Hmm. May I get you a drink? What do you got? Everything. Anything. Name your poison. What? That's another old expression. I'm not used to a choice, places I go, it's beer or cheap muscatel. This 20 year old scotch, just a bit younger than you are, is very good. Or if you like I'll break out a bottle of champagne. Got diet soda? No. Some mineral water will be fine. Are you expecting someone else? No. What's all this food? Or derv, for you. I'm an honored guest, huh? I'll have some caviar, liver pate. I hate this kind of junk. Perhaps next time if there is a next time, Mildred, my housekeeper will send out for a pizza. Your novel has possibilities as a stage play, we might make it work. I told the producer I'd think about it. Doesn't the prospect of having a play on Broadway excite you? Perhaps. If you say it like that obviously it doesn't mean much and you shouldn't get involved. Involved? What's involved? You write a play, it's put on, so? It's a long, laborious, frightening process young lady. Perhaps you should stick to novels. I don't know that I intend to do that either. I wrote a book. It doesn't make me a lifetime writer. I just wrote down a lot of personal stuff I wanted to get off my chest. You could have told a bartender. Don't make me out a dedicated author. I'm not trying to make you anything, I'm trying to figure you out. It's simple. My publisher wants a big stage and screen hit out of this first novel, so I'll be rich and happy and I'll give you my second novel, in case I should write one. And the stage producer put me in touch with you. They wanted an experienced old pro to help me. I really don't know if I have the time, so many other projects and my social life is full, parties, openings, club acts to catch weekends in the country. Well I'll tell them that we met and... I didn't say no. You don't seem overly enthused. As with you. But we might work together and make something of that festive summer. Okay, let's try it. See how it goes for a few days at least. You'd better get to bed and get over whatever you got. I have a date with Al. It was for much earlier, but as I say, I'm never on time. Tomorrow morning we'll begin. Tomorrow already? Well, okay. Get well. I assure you I'll be in top shape. I couldn't take another of your massages. Here's national automotive sale. 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Good afternoon. I'll beat him to that. Good morning, Mr. Markham. Ooh, it's colder in here than outside. If there's nothing more, Mr. Markham, I'll be leaving. Thank you, Mildred. See you tomorrow. What's this? Just some preliminary sketches of the first scenes. Of the play? So many pages. I just toss them off during the night. I sometimes work all night. I don't think I can do that. Yes, I imagine what with Al and all. Al? Me and Al? What are you implying? Don't get upset. I'm not going to lecture. About what? Well, if you leave here late in the evening for a date with Al and you come back the next afternoon wearing the very same clothes... I see, Sherlock Holmes. You deduce that I haven't been back to my place all night. It's none of my business. Right. You must realize how we wild young people are. However, for your information, I may wear the same outfit for a week. Clean underwear, of course. I won't speculate any more. If we are to work together, we will have to adjust our schedules to coincide. I can work anytime. Fine. Now? Now? I don't feel like it now. Basic problem with the tone of the play is trying to reconcile the tragedy of the father with the commonplace comedy of young love. Whoa, wait just one minute. Tragedy of the father? The old man isn't tragic. And that about being commonplace? Oh, come, Tony. You can't really believe that this is such an unusual story of young love. It's the ordinary story of millions of girls. Ordinary? This is different. I don't understand your umbrage. I think you handled the situation admirably subtly, allowing the reader to enjoy the humorous aspects of young puppy love. There was nothing subtly humorous about this puppy love. You're joking. You mean you didn't intend it to be funny? Funny? Yes. Well, it's touching, of course, in a lightweight sort of way, but my dear, you'll know the difference when a real love, a mature love, comes along. You? Me? Me? Surely you don't think that I mean that you and me... When it comes to women, you can't trust any guy, no matter what his age. You bring me here and always send the housekeeper away. In the first place, young lady, it's presumptuous of you to think you're my type. Secondly, you have the gall to suggest that were I in the mood to indulge in a romantic interlude, I would have to resort to an elaborate procedure. I assure you, I have no monkey business in mind, just the business of playwriting. Business? Yes, a skillful craft. One must craft a play to appeal to an entire audience, not just moon-struck teenage girls. Boy, it'll be difficult enough to try to surmount your title that festive summer. I can just hear the soupy title song for the Beach Party movie version. For your information, Beach Party movies were passed a years ago, but then so were you. Radio Theatre will continue after this message from your local station. Hello, I'm Robert Merrill. 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I gotta go. Goodbye. Good evening. And just how did you... A Mildred let me in before she left? You'll have to give me a key. Mildred said this is your haircut day. I wasn't expecting you today or ever. Never expect or don't expect anything of me. I read your outline for the play. It's not bad. You're too kind. But about that love scene... It's difficult. It's a case of taking a stream of consciousness passage from the pages of a book and presenting it visually. It'll play. It'll what? It will play. That is, it will look and sound right with actors on the stage. How does it go? What's all there on the page? Show me. Well, the man enters and... Come here on the sofa and show me. What? Come on. Now then. He takes her by the shoulders. Demonstrate. And draws her to him. He looks into her eyes and says something about emeralds. I can't recall and I can't read the page without my glasses. Her eyes aren't green. They're gray. Well, you made the girl's eyes gray, but your own are green as emeralds. He draws her closer and says I've changed since I met you. All for the better. Don't say anything. You can't imagine what it's done for me having you come into my life. You walked through that door fresh, young, pretty, you know, beautiful. Bringing life to me again. I'm not young and I hate to think of trying to survive a rebuff from someone about whom I care so much. Love is not too strong a word. Oh, my dear darling man. You see, I was right. Your young heroine could be seduced. Not just strong armed. You were just acting. What are you trying to prove? Why did you want to make a fool out of me? It was just a dramatic exercise. I mean, I didn't think of it that way. You wanted to teach me a lesson, to humiliate me. And you did. I'd better go. Please don't. What's really deeply disappointing, hurtful, painful is that I didn't expect anything so cruel from you. All people so kind, so considerate, such a gentleman. Well, I... Please. I'm sorry. Hard is it that there isn't anything perfect about it. Why wouldn't a country cloud like me be flatter to have a distinguished writer who is also distinguished looking show an interest in her? Seduced? You wouldn't have even had to say, baby, love me. All you'd have to do was snap your fingers. Darling. Get lost. All right. I hope you don't get a week of sleep tonight, thinking about it. This charade. Damn, the master outwitted at his own game. I wonder how loudly I'd have to snap my fingers. I can't keep working on and on like this. You young people, learn not to burn the candle at both ends. Live moderately as I do. Never been sick a day in my life. Let's take a break. You want some coffee or a soda? When I say break, I mean let's break out of here. We do nothing but stay here and work. We never go out for a walk or to an art gallery or out to lunch. I've come to the conclusion, Mr. James Markham, that you don't want to be seen with me. What are you babbling about? I'm serious. You think I'm a gutter snipe. You'd be ashamed to be seen in public with me, to have your friends know you're working with me. Now, to show you how ridiculous that is, I'll tell you what. I'll give a party and introduce you to everybody. There'll be celebrities, entertainers, writers, some of the finest minds around. No, no, don't do that. I'd have nothing to say to them. You'll be there to listen. You can't have it both ways. First, complaining I don't introduce you to my friends, and then complaining that you'd be out of your element so you don't want to meet my friends. This weekend, a party. That European diplomat? I never saw a real-life person with a monocle before, and I told him... That you'd only seen one on a dummy, Charlie McCarthy. That line for your second novel. You had a catsip? I could not be out of catsip because I never have any. What are you, a food freak? What would you use catsip on, not that beef stroganoff? I'll see what you have in the kitchen to cover the table. James! James! Margaret, darling, how are you? Nice of you to come. Oh, I always come to the parties the distinguished Mr. Markham gives. Doesn't happen often these days. I just wanted to introduce someone. Then it's true, you and... Oh, no. No, Margaret. After all the tempting offers you've had from a variety of women and turned down graciously, of course, is that the pretty little thing? Well, yes, that's Tony. Ah, how quaint. You don't usually see denim cut-offs at a dinner party. Introduce us, James. Tony, I want you to meet Margaret Mason. How do you do? Hello. Aren't you going to say something flattering? That you like my work? What do you do? Tony, Margaret has been a star of stage and screen for longer than you've been alive. Oh, sorry, Miss Mason. Are you one of Jim's old flames? Neither. Neither flame nor old. And I've never heard anyone call James Markham Jim, not even his mother. I must circulate. Tony, mind your manners. Why do you dislike me, Tony? I don't know you well enough to dislike you. Resent me then. Unfortunately, I'm not any sort of rival to you for James Markham. I'm not in competition for James Markham. But I guess I'm greedy. I want him all to myself while we're working on this play. Oh, you have him all to yourself. He doesn't do anything but write. He told me about his busy schedule, parties, openings, weekends in the country. What nonsense. I haven't seen him at a party for years. He hasn't been out since his wife died and his plays began to bomb. So you have him, little one. I should resent you. You like him or beyond? He has many lovable qualities, several of which only a woman of my age can appreciate. He admires you. Why aren't you two together? If I knew that, young one, we'd be together. Try to get along. Be gracious in your ignorance. 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If you don't mind sharing it, I'll have some of that cherry. You have much better taste in liquids than your friend Tony. Oh, no, Tony taught me all I know about rare and expensive wines. She's an expert. Tony? Cheap muscatel, Tony. Here. Thanks. Cheers. This Tony can't be that Tony, so you must be mistaking me for someone else. No, no, you're James Markham, the famous playwright. For a long time, Tony has talked of nobody else. Now I know you're mistaken. Tony never heard of me before. Some producer suggested we collaborate, and that was only recently. No, you're mistaken. Tony picked you out to work with her. For years, she's admired your work. Quote, the best of modern playwrights. Unquote. My Tony hasn't read or seen two plays in her life. Why, she didn't know any one of these playwrights on the wall there, except Shakespeare, which any great school pupil knows. Sophocles, Marlo, Molière, the prince of French comedy. She thought he was an old-time vaudeville performer. Molière? Are you kidding? In college, Tony did her master's thesis on Molière. In French. She, what? You didn't see through her. You, a student of people. I suppose she wants you to believe in her natural, untutored prodigy. She admires you, Mr. Markham, because of what you've achieved in the world of writing. Tony doesn't care about writing. About as much as she doesn't care about breathing. What Tony really wants and needs is a secure nest with no hassles where she can be free to write. That wild bird in a secure nest? Can't you provide that nest? Yes. So could you. You have no right to her, Mr. Markham. You've had your life. Let Tony and me have ours. I think what's good for her and her long-range happiness. What's the book, Jim? A collected place of Molière. The vaudeville performer there on the wall. A producer's asked me to do a modernized version of one of his plays. It's an early work titled La Femme Savante. I know Femme means women or ladies. I guess Savante must be a family name. It's not one of his early works. And the title translates The Learned Ladies. Uh-oh. It's so early in the morning I wasn't thinking. Yes, my wild, untutored songbird. Al told me of your excellent upbringing. You deceived me about Al, too. You led me to believe that he was a wild-eyed savage taking his pleasure where he could grab it. And he's a respectable young man who wants to marry you. Which seems an honorable intention. Marriage seems to be in again. These days. I'm not everybody. I'm me. I don't want to be like everybody else. I want to be different. Look, the reason I seem to be interfering in your life... Seem to be... ...is because I like you very much. I care too much about you to have you... You care? No way. You care for me as a source for a play. Wrong. Tony, if you don't stop this posturing, you'll become what you want everyone to think you are. You act cheap. You talk cheap. The thing you do well is right. You're incredibly talented in that, but you're still a child in temperament. And you'll dissipate that talent unless you learn discipline. Speaking of posturing, how about you? Me? Yeah. First, you lie to me about your social life. You don't have one. Then you act so nonchalant about whether you'll work on this play or not when the truth is you're dying to write another hit. You want it so bad, you can taste it. Is there no end to your vulgar expressions? Under all that formal, gentlemanly veneer is just one thing, pure naked ambition. It's true. I do concentrate on writing. One can't expend energy in every direction and still accomplish anything. At your age, you mean? Touche. Well, you're always tweeting me about my youth. The difference is you have a chance of getting over youth. Where's my coat? Draped over the desk where you threw it. I won't be back. I'll send you a gift. You don't have to send me anything. A farewell gift. When I get to the end, I'll send you my completed draft of the play. But... Do with it as you will. Use it as shelf paper or to start a fire in the hearth. I give it to you. Hurry up, Al. Finish those pages. I want to read them. I can't hurry too fast. You're studying Jim's script like it was a financial sheet. I want to make sure I gather the significance of this. It's just a draft of a play. He's got things in here that aren't in your novel. Such as? Such as he has the father contemplating suicide. You're joking. No. And it's written with great conviction. Lord. Oh, no. You told me how Mr. Markham identified with the father in the book. And, like, he was attempting to be a father figure to you? Who could that be at this time of night? Hello? Hello, Tony? Yes, who's this? Margaret Mason. The old actress, remember? Sure. What is it? I've been trying for hours to get James on the phone. No answer. I know he's in his apartment. Well, then why wouldn't he answer? What could be wrong? Look, Miss Mason. I don't want to alarm you, but I think something serious is going on. What? No time to explain. If you want, meet me and Al at Jim's apartment as soon as you can make it. I don't really think that what he wrote in the play about suicide that he tried something like that in real life. Suicide? Suicide? What are you saying? James! I'll just get the door open. Jim! I'd better use my key. Ah, good. He didn't put the chain on. I hear something. What? What is it? Oh, it sounded like a shot. Well, then you're right. He shot himself. Oh, hurry! What is it? What's all the noise? Who's there? Oh, Jim. He looks all right. Sort of. Goodness, you missed. Missed what? That shot we heard. Shots? What shot? Is someone shooting? That bang! Oh, that! I just on-corked another bottle of champagne. Pop! Leave it to James Markham to commit suicide by drinking himself to death with the best French wine. What are you all doing here? I'm not expecting guests. No guests come to see me. Is my tie straight? You're not wearing a tie, sir. I'll make you some coffee. No, you don't. I've invested too much time and expensive champagne to get to my present state of fogginess for you to try to clear my head with that molasses-like brew of yours. I'm amazed. Even drunk, he can talk like that. Drunk? And with no necktie. It must be a relief to all of you to discover that James Markham is human after all. Jim, it's good. What? What's good? The play. I loved it. So did Al. Ah, Al! There you are. Will you hear a minute ago? I didn't see you. I didn't see much, clearly at least. Good evening, Al. Or good morning, whatever. Al, have you and Tony yet reached, as they say, an understanding? Yes. I would never commit suicide. What are you talking about, Tony? You know what I'm talking about. That scene concerning the father. Oh, yes, I remember it vaguely. Not vaguely. You made that man contemplate suicide so vividly. There's nothing like that in my novel. Oh, the implications are there. The old man is, well, an old man. He feels useless, unwanted. James, how could you identify with that? No, Margaret. You felt like my father? Well, my father wasn't like that at all. And I didn't say he was. And you aren't like that either. You've tried to make it tragic again. We went all through that once. Tragic. You're so implausibly young in your outlook. Young. I must agree with her, Mr. Markham. Being old doesn't mean one has exclusive rights to problems. Old or young, life can be cruddy. And life can be wonderful. And I'm here to help you make a marvelous play out of this. We're going to do some daring things. We're going to risk and reach. Really? You and me? You're returning. It'll give us both something to live for. That dark, gloomy, suicidal stuff is no place in that sense of summer. And about that carnival scene... We aren't going to discuss work now. You're the one who's always saying we should get down to work while we're going to work and we'll work till we get it right. Tony, it's almost sunrise. Well, if nobody'll let us work, let's go out for some supper or breakfast. Marvellous idea. Capital. Some of those little greasy spoon cafes are still open. You, James, you go out. We'll show him some people and life. Let's go. I have to be at work in a few hours. Oh, come over here on your lunch hour and pick me up. Okay. How romantic. Well, Margaret, since the young'uns will be abandoning me this afternoon, how about you and I? I don't know what you have in mind, James. You attractive old devil. But fine. It's a date. Brass-plated lamps. One switched on. The finely-plated antique sap and shade illuminated the furniture softly. Another lamp turned on. And another. The patio doors blew open. The gloom-brass-plated lamp nearby, with its heavy base built for stability, did not budge. 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