 From the archives of the greatest dramas in radio history, we proudly present Hollywood. Radio Theatre, starring Lorraine J. Phil Williams and Robert Mitchum in Till the End of Primes. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Chewley. Reading from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen, some seven billion servicemen from the Army, Navy and Marines have returned to civilian life. Many of them have been wounded. All have lost precious months and years of youth. And because of this, they've had to face many problems with adjustment. Problems that have their elements of humor, tragedy, and high remorse. And these are the elements of our play tonight. Oscar O's timely and dramatic scene hit Till the End of Primes. Here's a curtain for the first act of tonight's play, starring Lorraine Gay as Pat, Bill Williams as Cliff, and Robert Mitchum as Bill Cabochard, with Tony Barrett as Terry. A Saturday afternoon in the fall of 1945, a young Marine has just turned the corner, and started eagerly to a small cafe. Suddenly he stopped. Gives us into the cafe with amusement and wonder, and then enters. No tummy, Debbie. Cliff! Cliff Papa! Oh, Cliff, you're back! Nice, you're in. Well, look at those service ribbons. Dang, you did all right, son. You did all right yourself while I left here. This is a copar. Yeah, soft things tonight. Now look at it. Well, I've had a liquor license for two years now. Yes, you're even going to face the bank. Thanks, fuck that. Good going. How about it, thanks? You bet. But put your money away, German. We'll buy you anything here. Not until tomorrow. Oh, thanks. Say, have you seen Panky Barnes? Panky? Well, he ain't now wet enough for the last three minutes. Huh? Hey, Panky, Panky. Look what the Marine threw back. Cliff! Hiya, Panky. Hello, P. This is Cliff. When did you get in? I got off the plane an hour ago. Well, come on back and sit down. How was it, Cliff? Oh, it was all right. How was it with you? Yeah, it was fine. The minute I hit the flight ticket drove me mad. Yeah, I'll bet. Uh-oh, Pat. Pat Ruskin, Cliff Hopper. Hi. Hello. Are you in now? Well, if you aren't careful, you're going to get modeling. Yeah, that's right. Uh, you want him or me, Panky? No, believe it or not, I'm staying in the Navy. I'm crazy, eh? Oh, he's worried. Say, how are you folks? I don't know. You don't know? Well, I sort of figured out I'm surprising them this afternoon. Except they surprised me. They weren't home. I'm not stopping them. You going back to Johnson? Maybe. I don't know. Oh, all right. I hope you'll forgive us, Miss Ruskin. You're going away like this. I'm looking well. Where are those people you were with, Pat? Bring them over here. They're dancing. Oh, uh, would, uh, would you like to dance? If you would. Okay, Panky. Oh, you're a joker. Go ahead. Who are you taking, Miss Ruskin? My name's Pat. I just happened to be talking to people when you came in. Those other people don't matter. You came here alone? Yes, but I'm driving you home. You know that, eh? Mm-hmm. You're telling me. I'm glad you understand my language. Not many people do. Are you ready for it? Don't you want to say goodbye to me? I said goodbye to Miles. You ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Let's go. I'm sick of them leaving you on your own doorstep. But my folks still haven't come home. So this is where you live, huh? Mm-hmm. Not to get on the elegant side, but it's home. I say it with a friend of mine who works for the government, except she's been in Washington for the last three months. She's in my room, doesn't she? You have to go. Glad to be home? Mm-hmm. You want me to tell you about it, huh? Mm-hmm. Well, that's fine now. What have you talked about? Not much of a talk. Come on. What if I don't? You will. I like the way you kiss. Do you? And I've got something to tell you on this, too. Darling stuck his cap there, and funny things got to happen. I couldn't wait to put mine down. Don't be frightened. It isn't right. I don't think so. What is it? I like the thingy. Growing up. A year in the Pacific. A deep box swimming. And I really like the stick. Not too crowded. All those things. Half of them do nothing. If you look at the grown-ups, they're too good. If you're laughing at me, I don't like it. It's fine. It's fine, honey. So? That's a photograph on the table. Where is he? John Weston says he's on an OOS by my command. Where is he? My husband. Oh, I don't know what to say. I haven't had a picture here. I don't think I would have cared one way or another whether you were married or not. But this way, I don't like me and I don't like you. Hello. Where is he? He's buried in his bank. All right. I'm on his side. I'm sorry, too. And I will leave him. Don't you think that's better? In a minute. I met John about two years ago. He happened myself. In a way, he went up into the wild, blue yonder. Very carnivorous. He was killed on his third engine. There's something in the pocket with some of his things. Some of it opened up. I sent it to his son. You're going to get purple hearts to war with him. Yes, please. Something. Oh, I'll see you again. I hope so. I'd like to kiss you goodbye, then. But the loom is prepared. So long, pal. Goodbye, sir. Mom, I'll take care of anything. If you think that he came home, that's the only thing you can do. If he came home and be worried, he'll be here. If you're here now, Mom, I have no reason to cry. Look at me. I'm fine. Oh, my God. Yes, son. I've been saving these all the time you were gone. Okay, when, boy? Son, do you want to make him sleep? That's fine, Dad. We're going to go and understand that side of your mind, sir. Glad to have you back, son. Glad to have you back, Dad. I was just thinking he can go down tomorrow and get some new clothes for school. School? We'll be going back to college, dear. Well, as a matter of fact, I don't know what I'll do, right? I'd like to think about it, sir. Oh, well, maybe you're right. Think it over. Look up a day. Say, Mom, did anybody named Bill Cabochard try to reach me? Cabochard? Apologize to Mr. Cabochard. No, you didn't. No one did. That's not important. Guys have got so much to talk about. I don't know where to begin. I want to tell you where I've been and what I've done. No, no, don't talk about it, please. I know you don't want to talk about it. None of the boys have a... Please. Please, I'm sure you're all right, dear. Dear, I'm... I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I feel great. I haven't seen my parents for years week and night. The marriage, for $6,500, they know I can't go to school. The NYU studies, yet. I still don't know until I'm happy. I guess. I suppose this story was taken just about eight years ago. Oh, I guess. Anyway, here's your shaking face. I have a letter for you. Tell me, dear. Do you have a currency system? Very good luck. And don't say, dinghy. I..... The money's just beer. I can tell you. Thank you for that. I wish you nothing more, baby. I enjoy the wine. Don't mind. I'm glad. Let's go. You... Don't you know those two pretty demonstrate girls? No entrepreneurs are stupid. Stopping today without saying goodbye to me. Oh, come on. Oh, I can't get a date up there. Come anyway. What about you? Oh, don't worry. You can read them there. What about that? What do you mean? What about that? Oh, I skipped a detail this year. This is a girl. That's nobody. Not anymore. Okay, that's all I wanted to know. Yeah, I just convinced myself. I'm no icer. How about the coffee? What about drinking? We liked icer. So do I. But as long as we're here in front of the storm tonight. We'll copy, please. Okay. Come on, sit down. Uh, we're going to see right there. A little time you've never heard us. Yeah, tell me now. I'll look it up on the map. People will fall for this country. Dippalaw for us. I'll remember that. You've got enough to remember. I'm forgetting things. I'll have more room. You ought to try that sometime. I will, sometime. This is a late-time living, Dippalaw for us. A river through the mud-head. Anyone I know? A mud-head is a thing that's kind of like a water log. It's just a river going in a place. When it is, someone I know. What's that? It's one of the kind of it. The kind of it. She's older, isn't she? Oh, yeah, yeah. I guess she is. Excuse me a little bit. Hi, adult face. Close your mind. I'm getting a shake. Go ahead. Thanks. Anybody looking? What if they are? That doctor said they'd wear off in time. I'm fine, see? And all of a sudden, I start thinking, why don't you go home and think about not having time? I'm not going home. My folks would go nuts if they saw me like this. I couldn't take it. What do you live, Doug? Or is it Idaho? I got a 21-day pass. Hey. I guess I better take back at the hospital. Who ever you see would go home. Reminds me of myself. You're so strange. My mother made my dress and I was so convinced that it was awful. But every time a boy came up and asked me to go, I was just told to get out on the floor. I was just going to keep it with me off. I was panicking. And I finally said to myself, the truth I said, this is your first dance and it's going to be your last dance. And I'm going to stop you from being so disillusioned and beat this here and now. And I was having a big argument with myself. A cute little boy came up and asked a girl next to me. Before I knew what I was doing, I grabbed him. And I was dancing. And after that, it was a scene. You figure I can beat this by taking up dancing? Well, I'm feeling so good. Let them know. And if they don't like it, let them kill themselves. Let them kill themselves. Thanks. You're a good girl. That's right. Very good to smile. You OK now? Yeah, yeah. I think I'll get some air. Thanks again. So long. I hope you don't go home. You handled him well. Yeah. When the coffee's over, I'll get some more. Never mind. I'll speak. Well, I wanted to talk to you. I'd rather speak. OK. You'll speak. Can you break up? Yeah. Yeah, dad? Yeah. I'm very on downtown, Chris. See you tonight at dinner? Nope. Oh, yeah, I guess so. Chris, you've been home now for two weeks. Don't you think it's time you were settling down or something? I can't seem to get my mind on it, dad. Oh, no, that's just nonsense, son. Oh, you're on your feet today. I hope your child was like I played with you. Yeah, and I still have plenty of cash, dad. Thanks, anyway. Oh, what about college? It opens Monday. You don't have to mind about that yet. I made up my mind about one thing, and that's not to make up my mind for a long while yet. Sure, sure, sure. Oh, by the way that friend of yours, Bill, could we be over here in a half an hour? Yeah, that's great, dad. Glad to see something took you up, Chris. Well, see you tonight. Oh, there he is, ma'am. This is Phil Kavashar, the tipsy coagulant by way of Spiky Keep New Mexico. Come on, how did you know you were here? The tipsy coagulant is just as nice and lovely. Oh, right, ma'am. But a cup of coffee would be mighty fine. Well, it starts coming off. Well, yeah, where have you been and how's that hunk of metal in this town? Yeah, well, I'm getting like that from the plate, but in my own head. Sit down, ma'am. Let's get this shovel back. Thank you, ma'am. Well, what happened in San Diego? Well, I'm held by a couple of girls who are going to C-1 to get the nylon. You know me, I coagulant, and I got picked up by a couple of promoters who are going to play little red dogs. I figure they know I'm loaded by playing very cool. I clip them for 2,100 feet. Hubbell, hubbell, hubbell. You got it? I'm going to keep it. I'm cutting a train for Spiky Keep the night. The night? Yes, ma'am. Day after tomorrow, I lay this door on the line for a little rant and I raise a spear. Now, here's it. What have you got on the roster for the day? You tell me. Well, I got to make a slight social call. You got a social call? No, no, no. There's a boy that was laying next to me in the hospital. You know, Terry Sinclair, he could be a fry fighter. Pretty good, too, I guess. He doesn't got any legs anymore. Once Terry's in here, he'll sell the dollars for good luck. I got the luck, too, so I figured he laid 10% of the bill. He's home now, he's hearing all the things. Hey, what are we waiting for? What's going on, ma'am? I don't think it's my coffee. Miss Hopper, it's been a pleasure meeting you, ma'am. If you ever get the drink and take me to Mexico, you'll... I don't ever think I will. Well, let's go, kid. You want to come back with $2,100 bucks, baby? Yeah, this is real quick. What do you mean, it's mine? What's the price of that paper? That's $12 a paper, and I need it. Look, I want you to have it now. It's not going to happen. You, uh, take something out the window that happened? Yeah, take the kid in the back yard, punch him back. Yeah, my kid, baby. Looks pretty good. Yeah. You see, I used to be a boxer. But they're not funny boxers without legs this season. They'll take it easy. I'm okay, man. It's not a minuscule test. Listen to me. It's not when I can look out the window and see how it's going to turn around. All they see I'm in a working room is silent. They see how he can tell me. I'm working my kid every year until he's 16. That's when I had my first five minutes kid to be ready, too. You, uh, you ain't the only chance to end up with your life in the here, though, okay? Why not? I've got my life on my own now. I know you're giving me that. What do you want to be a care for anyway? Take a good leg to the hospital. Put it on, mate. Put it on. How'd I fix your legs? Oh, boy, you got no idea what I like. And the one they murdered me, the two I got them out of, like, that. Oh, boy, you just got no idea what a feeling I get with my mother looking at me like this. I get sick of my stomach and feel like I'm helping in the car. Let me back in the baby. He's 21 and I'm dead. Now listen, dummy, I'm pulling out for spanking chicks tonight. But when I get back, I want to see you with those legs on. I want to see you kicking them around like you were born with them. You hear me? Yeah. Yeah, I think that's okay. That's what a man said. Have a nice trip. Yeah. That's for five dollars, huh? Come on, Hopper. Stop right again, huh? I'll be back, Terry. I'll be here. Thank you for stopping by. First stop, yes. Well, I thought I'd better leave this money with you, Miss Kingsley. Money? What for? I owe this to Terry. I borrowed it from him when we were up in the hospital. You're serious? Man, that's $200. I wouldn't be giving it to you unless I was awfully sure. Don't you worry about Terry, Miss Kingsley. He's gonna be okay. Make it two more, will you, Scottie? Okay, sir. You know Bill, that's Terry. He's never gonna put on those artificial legs. Yeah, and what he says makes sense. That's what rocks you. You know, when I left him up at Mayor Allen, he was coming along good. I guess that's because there were thousands of guys all around us in the same space. The world was still on it. It was like when we hit the beat. Well, we were a team. Everybody together. But now it's the villains again. We're individuals with nobody to tell us what to do or when to do it. We're no one. Terry, you, me, all of us. Now it's been yapping for it. Now you got it. I'm all mixed up, Bill. I don't know what I want. Me? I don't want that Lance is sleeping quick. Hello, Pat. Excuse me a minute, girl. Yeah, sir. Wait a sec, sir. Thank you, Roman. Coco, I see you. I haven't been doing it all afternoon. Well, you've heard you've been. Making a special call. Anybody I know? You don't want to know him. You can't tell. I know a lot of people. What about tonight? Do you? Yes, I'm busy. I like to meet people. No brass buttons, but I'll get you to it. You like to meet people? I can't see anything, but you're right. You're sure about tonight. I'll get you to it. I'll get you to it. All right, Pat. I'll get you to it. How do you do? How are you, Captain? Well, I feel like a Pat. He's a babe, isn't he? My best friend. Oh man, his best friend's his mother. And I got a stone. Where you going? I got a stick. You got your pain, you remember? I got the package. Now take my advice, and get some condolence for all I do. Okay, okay, okay. Anything else, Pat? Yeah. Keep punching, Bill. Take it easy, Captain. You'll be good. Yeah. What great pastime is I could do these? I've been out. Call your mother instead of letting her worry your head off. I'm sorry, ma, I just didn't think. That's one of the trouble-kissed. You never do anything to me anymore. Ma, please lay off on me. There you go, ma. Your father and I like to talk to you for a minute. Oh, sure. Of course, your mother and I haven't been seeing you lately. You just like to ask you where you've been when you used to. I'm happy. That's the time to tell you that you've been very disappointed in your behavior. Why are you disappointed? Well, you come home, grab a bite of your teeth, then you ask again. I say you go about your own, very like it's been said before, but I don't think that's the sort of time I charge my buddy, ma. It's so hard to say a thing. Well, it's just like a returning boy. Yeah, I know. Maybe that's because old friends are three and a half years ago, dad. But you had plans. Talks about the period, about that? You're so sure. Well, maybe I have to make my own plans about the future, ma. Yes, we... You were supposed to go to the garden tonight. You were invited, too. Well, you go ahead, I. I think I'll have a beer and hit the spot. There's a cold place in the icebox, ma. That is a field better. Come on over and join. Thanks. I'll see. This is Clif. Clif? Is he here? About tonight. No, I haven't seen him. Oh, yeah, I know. Captain Winsor. I mean, when you get home, if I could come over and... Oh, that's the link. Tonight, I want to see you tonight. No, Clif. Let's go. I'm coming over, Pat. You're my best friend, remember? Why? Never mind. I'll see you later. In just a moment, we'll be back with the second act of Till the End of Time, starring Lorraine Day, Robert Nixon, and Bill Williams. The very tickling fiber of America is the United States Congress. The Philippine House are each alive and urgent, as the color and drama of the moment unfolds. Part of its color began in the Senate last year, when much of the maneuvering was done around giant silver urns or small black lacquered boxes that stood for years in the Senate chamber. Snuff came in with ruffle shirts, lace cups, and wigs. And somehow, perhaps as a symbol of those bygone privileged days, it never really went out. The original urns were huddling cases for the law-makers, and many a girl would spend it with the aroma of a legislator's favorite snuff. Today, the snuff boxes are largely unused, but a custodian still has orders to keep them fresh and full. They aren't the inspiration they once were, but the tiny black lacquered boxes are still very much there, a reminder of the significance that started when snuff came to Capitol Hill. Mr. Williams clearly returns to the microphone. We continue with the second act of tonight's play, Till the End of Time, starring Lorraine Day as Pat, Bill Williams as Bill, and Robert Nixon as Bill, your turn will be at the shutter. Past midnight, and for an hour now, Cliff Hopper, jealous, confused, depressed, has flown to the shutter surrounding that restaurant's house. Now he seems to return, and this will go after a tour of the city's right side. He also seems to accept an order at the night, then approach the front door. I'm sure there's a man following me. I told you I'd be there. You did? Oh, go, I told you. I had a reason for coming. Well, at least I thought I did until I looked at you now. I had a cigarette, had a drink. Then I had a something. I thought I told you I was going to be busy tonight. So you were busy? So I was busy. What do you want to see me about? I can stay it all in one minute. Fine, I'll tell you. I never thought I'd see a girl as rotten as you are. I still need your 50 seconds. Can I come in? Sure, come in. I brought you some hot coffee. Here. I'd run this coffee over the meter. You're still only 50 seconds? I don't know you or anything except the coffee, that coffee. Tell me how much I'll pay you and you can get out of here. Oh, come on, drink it. I'll tell you how I got my silver stuff. I don't want to know anything about you. Oh, I'll take a sip. Then I'll go. You've been calling. Have I? I'm sorry I said what I did. I came back to tell you. That's very generous. I know I shouldn't have acted that way, but I was beginning to think of you as my girl. Try to see it my way past your smile. They're like a smart girl like me. We had a choice to make and we moved it. So I met you because when we went away to war, he wanted to bring us home. That's why I married him. I wanted him to have that ring. But then I didn't count on him that the end of the war and John's coming home would be my dream. The war is over and John isn't coming home. And I'm stuck with my dreams. The first thing I said to myself, this was your first thing. And it's going to be your last. Unless you stop being so ridiculous, you're just here now. That's what the girl said to the children. That's exactly what she said. What am I going to do, please? What am I going to do? Well, right now, you're going to lie down on me. You're going to sleep and not think. No good to sleep. No good at all. I just realized, could I have a sit down? What do you want to see me about? Well, I want to get to see words. I'm lonely. Well, there are so many lonely people in this town and you've got to be lonely for me now. Does that make sense? There are a lot of things that don't make sense. Why was I so burned up when I saw you with that captain? When I saw you kissing. That captain was John's copilot. He was talking to Tom on his way. He talked about John. You know, he had a lot to do with it. He told me so much about John that I wanted to know it. But somehow, just for a minute, he only seemed to be John. Did I? Yes, I told him. Todd, I'm lonely, so there's nobody. Nobody? Well, my pal's gone back to New Mexico What's the matter with you, Todd? I don't know. I don't know what's the matter with me, either. You just don't seem to get along. You know why you're late? You have nothing to do with me, don't you? What are you, a clown? Well, I mean, you're a job. What kind of a job? I don't know. What have you ever done? I went to school and I went to war. Well, job, what do you help us? I guess I just don't sit in any case yet. Well, that's not a job. Please, maybe later on, but what do you do? Maybe later on, but don't invest in them. You think I could get in there? Go hiring them every day. Would it be nice being close to you all the time? A little bit. You know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm thinking about? I think I'd go to work Monday. That's a nice, clean decision. Todd, make it last through the day. I think I'm going to go home. Yeah, I'll go home. Goodnight, Todd. You know, it's a funny thing, Harvey. Now, take the four of us here. Now, we all work for Turner and something, don't we? Well, I've lasted for 10 days. No, no, no, no. What I mean is you and the Marines need the Navy, Bianchi here, the Air Force, and Benny the Army. Our fighting force, 100%, represented at the Radio Ascendement. Hey, you guys doing anything about joining up any of them veterans' organizations? No, no, not me. I'm not joining anything. Some of them have done some pretty good things. Well, I guess they have, but so many new ones are coming along, and I don't know which is good and which is rosy. Hey, I got a picture last night from one of those outfits called the American War Patriots. The American War Patriots? I haven't gotten nails in them every other day. Oh, I see. Yeah. What's wrong with this radio, your rejection? Well, I can't tell if the girls up there are going to put a transformer together. You've been rejecting a lot of good material lately. I call them as I see them. Anything you gave? That's far. Let me have it a second. I don't see a transformer. All right, try it now. What did I do wrong? Again? It dropped to a degree. All right, so it was off to a degree. Why don't you have a smoke, copper? There's a few digs into everybody. I've been in hot places. I know, man. If I hadn't been, I'd be sitting on a bench working there for three and a half years and I'd be as good as you. Oh, that's better, I think. Quit riding me. I'm not riding you. I don't need your help to use the layoffs before I start swinging. If you're fighting with help, I think I'd take you out. Ah, where's my coat? Hey, come here. There, sir. Hi. I saw you walk out of the tent. I could see you do. Why? Slippery. That's driving me to drink. Ah, that's foreman. I make up something out of myself and he starts to straighten me out and I get sore. Well, you're over it. And he'll forget about it. Ah, I've been thinking. I'll listen. Okay. Okay, I'm back from the war. I'm lucky. I've got two arms, two legs, and two eyes, right? Right. Right. Nine out of ten guys are going to be in the same state. Uh-huh, normal. Normal. Then what's burning me up? I'm edgy. I feel out of things, you know why? Tell me, we both know. Because I've been drowned. I'm robbed at a three and a half years. Somebody stole my time. Yes, you can't suspect the rest of your life worrying about lost time. I know that. If I'd have been in school, maybe I would have had an engineering degree. If I'd even made a good paternity, I'd have had a good... You've made a good paternity. Fourteen million members. Well, I have to be doing something. Anyway, I'm near you. But that's not much to make a career over. What about going to the beach to go walk in the pool? Sounds good to me. Okay. Do you know if there's 50 to five? No, no, I've had enough. It's good to know this stuff that you've got in you. First, I'll go to the beach. I flew up before, Alan. You'd have kept my eyes on that gate. No, it's okay. Just don't let that bench get you down. After you've learned every part of the radio, well, we'll probably transfer you to some other place. Yeah. I've got to start somewhere. You're doing okay. I'll get out to superintendent's office. Somebody down wants to see you. Superintendent? Don't get worried. Somebody from the Marines. Do your stuff. He's got it. That's right, Harper. We're Marines. We're Dorpais Novics. Here, you can check it up on him. No, you're doing all right. On the level, no sparks. No sparks. You've been out of the Corps a few weeks. You're kind of tough getting yourself reorganized. If you'll make out, you're no problem. I'd like to talk to you about one. Remember Perry Tinto? Perry? Oh, sure. Hey, he told me he'd make it. Yeah. I'd be a problem, too, if I had both my legs off. I'd like you to see me again. Superintendent? Sure, I was going to the beach, but I could stop off on the way. No, thanks, Harper. Just go to see our things back up, will you? I'm so glad you stopped by, Chris. Say, tell me, what are you here for, Dorpais Novics? I'm not a word. I thought you wouldn't write again. Oh, you got to write like your nose in here. I could write that. Yeah. I could write. Yeah, I always wanted to punch one of these bags. Come on, try. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You're going to do what you might as well do it right. I'll show you how to do it even in a few seconds. Now look. All right? All right, you have to keep your eyes on this button. Give it a try on the back, please. Here's what I'm giving you. Come on. Oh, good. Try it again. There. This is all right. You ought to keep your stuff, Perry. Wait a minute. Sonny, sonny, is that your dinner table? Yeah. Yeah, we've been. Yeah. You're giving me some books to read. About being a playboy and stuff like that. Talk about these good games. You're thinking of getting better. You can't do some footwork. You could have. You put those legs on it, David. Look, Perry, you're not feeling yourself or anybody else any good. But if you're going to lick this thing. Yeah, maybe. That isn't going to tell me this yourself. Well, maybe at least that is sound to a fix. No, Chris. I got nothing against top tag, dude. But it's going to give me a book that will teach a guy how to win a boxing championship with no legs. Oh, really? You're going to mean a house to be such a tag. You haven't told me how you knew that, have you, Terry? I didn't make it out, Terry. I guess I made it even worse. I see. Want to go in the water again? No, no. No, I just want to lie here on the sand. And if you stay here, I could give you the rest of my life. Live on the beach. Wind. Lie in front of a fire. And listen to somebody's portable radio. You're just nice. Right, Terry? That's just what I'm going to do. Right? Hmm? This is the best time I've had to stay here long. You might as well not keep on doing it. Not that long to here. And if everybody else has something to do. I won't get long to not be with you. You're my girl. Yeah, yeah. I'm your girl. Then a dog, Terry. I live on the beach till I go around the house. And then? And then we'll all be straightened out into the back door. So I'm going to still be there until I still won't wear a coat. I've got nothing to do with it. I just feel good here doing it. What about us getting married? So who? You and you and me. No. No, I'm leveling it. You just think you want to marry me. I know. You sure? I'm positive. That's good. Because it's the only thing you're positive about. I know what I want. You're lucky. I don't know what I want. You must have some idea. Because I don't think my idea of heaven is being married for a fellow who wants to lie around on the beach till you broke. Okay. You don't like my idea of heaven? What's good? I don't know. Sometimes I think that if I did get married again, I'd like to marry a man who knows who you're with for me. He'll deliver a hundred-room house and beat the 16-cylinder cars. He could bring me home to grocery. Somebody who doesn't yell every time I hire a new street, one of the kids who won't. You make me feel like a cheap pick-up. I'm not talking about you, but I'm talking about me. You're acting what I say. And sometimes I think about the quality. I don't know what kind of man I was talking about. But if I did get married again, I think I'd like to end up with more than just a gold star and nothing else. Are you still there? I live on Velvet. Where do I sit in? You're at the Velvet. That's great. Oh, darling. Ask me to go home, will you? I'd ask you only if not my car. Yes, you don't understand. All right, all right. Maybe you used the wrong word, but it's pretty clear what you're meant. You're ready? Let's take off. Robert Nixon and Bill Williams. Frederick Low is musically. He is a giant. He did not achieve his stature overnight. Rather, he grew into it. Low spent some years boxing as a band and weight, finding goals, giving writing lessons, and with Alan J. Lerner, writing musicals most noted for being unnotable. Finally, the chess team with the musical and a gruberant Brigadon, with the softness of Kundini-Bangini, and the joyful surprise of it's almost like being in love. But Low will probably be most remembered for my fair lady. For many words have been sent under single musicals to possibly the only thing left to say is that Low, with Lerner, appointed more people with George Bernard Starr's Pygmaean than Starr had. After that came Yeezy for the movie. Then Camelot, wait for a critical disappointment, with a musical triumph. Frederick Fritz Low retired a few years ago because of his health, a singable, hummable, soft revolting music. Back to your producer, William Keeley. Our certain rise is on the third act of tonight's play, currently in The Times, starring Lorraine Davis-Patt, Bill Williams-Escore, and Robert Nixon-Escore, with Tony Barrett-Escore. In the beating fight, in the center of his house now, Cliff Burns and Watkins-Patt-Starr disappear around the corner. He pauses a moment, then endlessly starts up a war, unaware that his old friend Bill-Escore is sitting on the porch set. Well, I just breathed in the town, if I hadn't looked yet. Well, I didn't wait in the house, came to call on you, and I just posed. You got 20 bucks? 20 dollars. Well, sure. Yeah, thanks. How you know any trouble? The 20 dollars I want to show you in my life, you look awful. You look kind of cute. Aw, to start making sense with you. You're supposed to be in New Mexico. What's the matter with you? My head is bucking wide open. The old trouble, I tell the police. Well, just, well, if every headache's a week, sometimes it's better sometimes like now. It's like plants in my soul. Well, why don't you go to the vet's and talk to him? If folks don't know anything about the silver plate, I don't want to worry. Come on in the hospital, doctor. Wait a minute, I've got a better idea. I'll buy you a drink. I've got 20 bucks now. We're going to the hospital. If you stop talking about a hospital, I want to buy you a drink. Okay, okay. Maybe a drink will do us both something. That's for me, sweetheart. That's medicine in the world. How do you feel now, Bill? How's the head? Man, I never felt better since I've been off a horse. Good morning. I'm taking you to the hospital. I've got other plans. I'm going to raise me some more dough and I'll go back looking for another ranch. Are you ready to tell me what happened to your 2,000 bucks? We're going to have a town called Vegas. Well, I get off the train at Vegas, see? On account of my figure, it's 5,000 bucks to buy me a better ranch than 2,000. All right? That's right. So I get in the game. Play, I lose. I'm flat. So I ask for a goodbye drink. I sit a while for you guys come along and toss me out of the joint. I land in the back of my head and suck for her. You never got the stinking fake New Mexico? Good idea. I hide out of the town. My head starts driving me crazy. So I get the room. I've got 800 bucks at home. So what? Look, as soon as you get to the head office, we'll do the first thing in the morning. Maybe I'll go in the ranch with you. Yeah, maybe you could. Maybe we could even work peri into it, too. You really could. But I'm not going to any hospital. This is going to stop by itself. You're not adopting? All right, then I'll deal it off, see? Oh, I get it all right. This is just a bright idea to get me to go to a hospital. You sit here. Where are you going? Telephone. I'm calling Terry. See what he thinks about this ranch idea. Hey, wait a minute. This is Cliff Harper. Oh. He'll have a joint back in town. That's Clayton, his dog's been acting up, and he won't let me take you to a hospital. Look, you know where to reach that fellow Gunnison from the rehabilitation office? Of course. Well, get a hold of him, will you, Terry? Tell him to come over here. All right, all right. All right, some joint down Western Avenue is called the Swine Club. I'm telling you, hurry. When is that guy getting hurt? I'll call him right away. Call him, sir. Call him, sir. Call him my buddy, Stickman. He'll have a joint. No, he's got the health care. Yeah. Yeah. But I'll tell you better if you need him. You're going to hit him. But I can't have him. Yes, you can, honey. You're a weird kid. How can I, ma? How can I? Then I watched you fight over 20 fights. Every time you got hurt, it hurt me too. But that doesn't matter. Because you're a good fighter, and you fight. You didn't do the cross. Look, ma. I'm washed up with spiders. Different kinds of fighters. I just stopped talking foolish, ma. What can a guy do when he's got no legs? I was a man who used to be late when he was 39 years old. He didn't quit. He started to be president. Think about it, Terry. Think about it, sir. You need me. He still may like you. Something came, but it's going to take you down as far as Western Avenue. What's the difference it makes, then? That's what Terry's got, isn't it? Sure. Very good. Sure. And now I'm going to make another phone call. Me too. Well, I'm going to call my girl. She should know everything I know. No secret. We're both calling. What's her name? What's her name? I'm discussing a big girl in Bob's view. What's that? What's that? Patricia, I'm Terry. You hear that phone? Patricia? How'd you like to go live on a ramp? No. There are a lot of things I could tell you, but none of them is as interesting as the fact that I'm slipped-buddy. Now, how about to say, a ramp here, Patricia? What kind of a ramp? A tall ramp. Do you like chicken? They're wonderful. They will raise chickens. Pry. Horses too. Maybe some pigs, even. No, no, we're... He's standing right here, right next to me. We're in a very exclusive run to the low and Western Avenue known as the Swan Club. In order to get in here, you have to push the door. Let me talk to you. Just let her talk to you. Hello. Patricia? Can you call the fine out if you'd like to go in with this ramp? I want just to know. Nothing else. Get out of there, please. You can come up here and talk. Are you giving me no financial? Yes, please. Very well, very well. That's all I wanted to know. I don't think we can tell on her, Bill. Ah, forget about it. We're going to have to raise women, too. Hey. Hey, look. What do you just mean? Terry. And he's walking. Let's go help him. Let me play it down like it was nothing at all. He had a load of him. Get down, will you? Hubba, hubba, hubba. What gives you that? There's a lot. Pull up a chair, Mr. Ginkley. We're going to get us a ramp closer than you and me. Ah, stop talking and get the man a drink, will you? There's a waiter. All right, get the waiter. Get him a drink from the bar. I'll make it a double, Terry. You got some catching up to do. Oh, sure. There's going to get us. Look, you didn't have to come here, did you, Terry? I think you said Bill was in trouble. How am I pregnant? I've been killing him. And I want to get him to a hospital. So I take a charge. He's going to see me at a better health. You got anything? No. Well, maybe a shift or something. Well, I could come here. I figure the size of the ramp depends on how much cash we can raise. Oh, here you are, Terry. Let's take her to that little little ramp. Could I see you alone for a minute? Yeah, you can see me alone for a minute. Excuse me, fellas. Why'd you come down here for? I'm just drinking. You might be something silly. Look, go on home and pack your bags. How do you do that? You might have to go to buy that ramp. But wherever you go, you're going to have to face the same problem. You'll see me crazy. You'll see me deeper. I'll see you crazy. You'll see that you'll drive me crazy. And you'll be happy. Excuse me? Excuse me. Oh, here we go. Right back to Johnny Reston. You put a picture back on the table? I'm going back with you all without you. Good to have you. You guys are just good at the drink. I hope you can hear everybody, good harvest. Hi, Arthur. How are you? My name's Mitchell. This fella here is Audi Larson. This is James Wader. Ah, hi. Then we all belong to the same company, so we ought to want it over. What do you mean the same crutch? Well, we're all like servicemen, aren't we? Are we? We want to get drunk. It's about our organization. You've probably heard of us, the American War Patriots. Know what we're going to do for you boys? How'd you like to have a bonus of $200 a month for the rest of your life? America for the Americans. That's a kind of free country we were fighting for. Well go ahead and make sure it is. Well of course, I don't know whether you men are eligible or not. We've got certain restrictions. What does that mean? Well, we're not interested in everybody, see? We got rules. For instance, there are some religions we don't like. You know Mr. Mickey, we had a friend named Matthew Cline. Matthew was very probably stuck to your right of your eye. Oh yeah? Yeah, but Matthew's dead on Grotto to now. So just for him, I'm going to stop him. And if I order to... Why you drunken father? Get back to get to work! Now you'd like to see the police rot in the state here to the hospital. You have to operate. I had a Peyton mate, so I wouldn't do it on looking for some insight. Everyone looking for it came to them, Doc. Who are you? Captain Gunnison. Marine Rehabilitation Office. Uh, the police called me. You need to operate on this boys' eyes. Right away. What? Yeah, Bill. If I make this trip, I'm going back to thinking to get me a carry-on job. I'm going to take a little longer to get that ranch. You'll be home. I'm looking. Looking really good. So you're going to be in there? Third floor? Can I wait here? Yeah, you can wait here. Oh, thanks. Hey, is that a bus please? Hey, you boys are in the class. But they're holding those three men in the middle of Austin, Vegas. You guys get an assist for mailing them. Oh, I called your mom. Yeah, I told her I'd be home. You'd better call my father. It's okay. I already did. You're stable. Yeah. So let's go carry on. You've got to get a pad or a paper. Straight away with the admitting office. Yeah. Right right here. Good. You're calling me. Soon as you arrive. I'll call you soon. The hospital they said you were still waiting here. How's your friend? I don't know yet. They haven't lowered him down yet. He's crazy. Yeah. Glad to see him, Dad. Anything you want to tell me? Yes. What happened tonight? I'm glad it happened. So do you. Told me that if you believe something, you better get out there and fight for it. Well, a lot of things have happened to me since I've come back. Well, I've got a good job, although I don't think I want to do it all my life. I'd like to be with my girl all my life if she'd let me. Good for it. Right now, standing here in the waiting room of the hospital, nothing decided. I'm better off than Terry and luckier than Tabitha. It'll take time, I guess. Sure. You didn't make yourself into a soldier overnight. You can't make yourself into a civilian overnight. You're going to stay here, Dad. You'll be a better one tomorrow. Don't wait for the same. This is what I get when I wait for you once you stay on. Huh? Twenty-three years ago. The night you were born, sir. The night you were born. Yeah, the doctor could stop by and still gonna be all right. Oh, oh, that swells his head. Well, I guess we can leave now. Four to six. Well, we can all have breakfast downtown. Oh. Well, look. Ma. How are you? You're fine. He's gonna make it, Ma. Thank you. Are you all right? Yeah, I'm all right. And I'm gonna stay all right. I know you won't. You couldn't have waited any. I told you if I didn't come right out, you'd go. I'm just a tough company. What? You here? They're in the car form. I had been with the family some time. But I've never seen a lot of them since now. Is that right, Ma? Well, it's just like that. I just came home. But I just now came home, and I looked around, and the sun was shining. Everybody I loved was waiting for me. I guess it's a pretty good world, Pat. Our trip falls on till the end of time. And here are the stars who got us off to set the promising stop in 1947. The rainbow, the Williams, and Bob Lipton. We've met a many thanks to you today. This is William Ceeley, saying good night to you from Halloween. Tonight, we're Clark Gordon and Tinky, Real Kerry as Mr. Hopper. But with him is Sergeant Gunnison, Regina Wallace as Mrs. Hopper, and Eddie Marr, Richard Benedict, Norman Fields, Ed Emerson, Tyler McBae, George Meese, Marine Gamel, and Charles Field. Our music is directed by Laura Silver.