 hello from hollywood ladies and gentlemen this is cp mcgregor speaking and welcoming you to another performance of proudly we hail a program presented by your war department through the courtesy of the hollywood coordinating committee we present mister zachary scott the star of our play a good deal written by tom petty with music by eddie scravanic the man coming down the flagstone walk is jeff carter the novelist home to sell his rundown virginia state something's been going on around here i have an idea your jeff carter well i've always thought so myself but i'm beginning to doubt it well what a funny thing to say i'm sally randolph mister carter you know the last time i visited greenoaks the caretaker was an elderly colored man named sam winston why am i how old sam has changed sam hasn't changed a hair he's just as lazy as ever i'm from the real estate office you'll telegraphed us to meet you at greenoaks as you only had a few hours in which to make arrangements so you are miss randolph sales and development agency incorporated i'm the whole company now that my father's passed on i've been gone a long time but i recall the name of randolph didn't your father used to live in your it's about time you're waking up jeff carter that cottage across the roads where he lived and i still live there well i remember you you were a little tyke in pigtails when i left here ten years ago come on inside let's get this settled are you sure you want to sell greenoaks jeff carter of course say the windows open everything is spotless no covers on the furniture wait a minute when did i put this place on the market two years ago next month old sam never kept this place like it is today as someone already living here of course not why don't you stay here for a week before you sell the place that's impossible and leaving a new apartment in new york and have a date with the decorator tomorrow night you do have a buyer don't you yes i have a buyer jeff why don't you stay at greenoaks just for one night you could fly back i'm beginning to remember too many things in a few minutes i've been here you're right maybe it would help you to remember all of those things one of those things i'm remembering is that you were a very insistent little girl remember how you wanted to ride my pony yes and i got to ride him too won't you stay just one night before you sell greenoaks maybe if there were enough memories that's strange talk from a real estate agent don't you want to make a commission not on greenoaks not unless i'm sure sure what sally sure that you want to sell it come on i'll show you the grounds i'll bet it's been ten years since you were here it's been seven and there are a lot of things i don't understand the last time i saw greenoaks the place had grown up in grass and weeds the house was run down and and now everything is spotless the flowers blooming the grass cut hedges trimmed where's old sam we'll go find say those rose hedges are new they're not two years old they'll be two years old this winter and the barns are freshly whitewashed i don't tell me sam did that on his own old sam's a better worker than you think jeff maybe greenoaks means more to old sam than it does to you look sally i'm a writer not a sentimentalist i know the carters have owned greenoaks for a hundred years now i'm the only car to left i'd rattle around in a place like this now that i've got that off my chest let's find this caretaker of mine i think you'll find him up by the summer house fixing the steps i don't think it'll be necessary for me to go along i'll stop at the office no no i'd rather you stayed with me sally there's something i want to look into and i'll need your help all right if that's the way you want it howdy miss sally oh hello sam howdy mr jeff miss sally told me you was coming home today sam you old rascal what's gotten into you you've been working mr jeff i worked so hard since your pa was alive i feel like i've almost been working in my sleep well you've done a remarkable job but i still don't understand it oh my shucks mr jeff it ain't hard to understand when you know miss sally she's a driving lady anyhow miss sally worked hard on me to keep this place looking nice now sam i've been suspecting as much i'm going to have a word with you young lady thanks sam we'll have our talk later yes sir now sally what's it all about i love green oaks jeff i guess i've always loved it when you turned it over to me to sell well i didn't want to sell it i wanted to fix it up well i helped sam fix it up you aren't angry are you jeff yes but not with you i'm going to stay here tonight sally to find out what it is that bothers me we pause briefly from our story a good deal starring zachary scott as jeff carter to bring you an important message from your war department i have a message for all veterans you men who are wearing that gold discharge button in your lapel many of you are finding that civilian life is not everything you expected it to be everyday former servicemen are re-enlisting in the army and here's why they know that few jobs in private industry can offer such a high starting wage few civilian positions can pay in addition to free food clothing lodging medical expenses seventy five dollars a month which is the starting pay for a private in the army an ambitious veteran knows that opportunity for advancement in the army is good in addition to his pay he can get dependency allowances low-cost insurance the use of army px's commissaries and amusement facilities at reduced rates he knows that after twenty or up to thirty years of service he may retire on a substantial income at no cost to himself he knows that the army is a team of scientifically trained skilled men who everyday contribute to the advancement of culture and human progress is that any wonder that so many veterans are taking advantage of the opportunities that the new regular army can give them compare these benefits with those available to you in civilian life then go to your nearest army recruiting station and enlist it's a good bet in any man's league and now act two of our story a good deal starring Zachary Scott as Jeff Carter a week has passed and Sam is serving breakfast to the master of green oaks and the master is still Jeff Carter morning miss Sally good morning Sam Sally come on in and have a cup of coffee well thanks Jeff I'm afraid I'm a very troublesome client but I finally made up my mind about selling the house about time too then you're gonna sell no Sally no sale this time but I'll see that you don't lose your commission oh who cares I'm so happy that green oaks is gonna stay like it is that I don't give a hoot about commissions well I do there's one thing though I haven't decided one important thing oh what's that I don't know what to do with green oaks Jeff I thought you'd live here you've been here a week and I I just oh you mustn't go Jeff why Sally does my going mean that much to you I thought I might arrange to keep the house open and come back for short visits from time to time I don't believe you'd ever find anyone to look after green oaks not like Sam and I have cared for oh what's wrong with you and Sam and possibly a housekeeper continuing to look after the place no now you'll have to count me out this time then you were just fixing it up to sell it you are disappointed about losing the sale listen Jeff I never did want green oaks sold and I don't want it sold now come out on the terrace maybe I can explain why come on do you know Sally you are a very very puzzling young lady please Jeff you've treated me like a little girl long enough after all you're only five years older than me but I can't help it Sally you're still little Sally Randolph with the pig tails come on start explaining I'm sorry I've changed my mind about explaining things you'll have to figure it out yourself you see what I mean you're the same unpredictable little girl how about dinner here on the terrace tonight I'm returning to New York tomorrow we'll settle everything dinner at seven it's a deal sure as nice to be serving dinner out here makes me feel like old times this Sally you sure look scrumptious oh thank you Sam bring the coffee up to somehow Sam come on Sally my you've been awfully quiet tonight Jeff is it because I didn't wear my pig tails I've been an awful fool Sally it took an evening dress to make me realize you've grown up well of course I've grown up I've been working dreadfully hard at grown up for a long time now here we are let's sit here where we can look down at the house Sally I'm going to tell you why you didn't want me to sell green oaks and you found out Jeff you know yes I found out I found out a lot of things in the last week the first thing I found out is that you don't find it easy to part with things you love and I do love green oaks possibly not as much as you do but I love it then why don't you stay here maybe I will it all depends you see green oaks doesn't mean much unless you are around I don't believe you found out anything oh yes I have I found out that you're lovely that you've grown up and I found out why you don't want me to sell green oaks why Jeff because you can't bear the thought of any other woman living in green oaks is that right Jeff Carter you're trying to make me admit that I'm head over heels in love with you is that such a difficult thing to admit darling yes it is especially when you don't think enough of me to I found out one other thing the most important of all Sally Randolph I found out that I love you well I love you even more than you love green oaks it took you a million years to find it out slowpoke I think I knew it ten years ago when you really were a little girl in big pale oh Jeff I've dreamed of this all my life here's your old coffee in as hot as it would have been on the terrace Sam I want you to be the first to know you're serving the new mistress of green oaks shucks you ain't telling me no news Mr. Jeff me and Miss Sally knowing about it more than two years what do you think we've been fixing up for this is C.P. McGregor speaking I hope you've enjoyed our proudly we hailed story starring Zachary Scott before leaving you Don Forbes has an important message from your ward apartment for all of us recently the army has been undertaking the job of converting from a wartime to a peacetime army many people think this means demobilization retaining only a skeleton token armed force in uniform no impression could be more erroneous by july nineteen forty seven we will need an army of one million seventy thousand trained soldiers to execute the various tasks that fall to a victorious nation at present we have nearly a million volunteers in the uniform of the regular army but there are still men in the army with a commendable record of long and arduous service will be deservingly released in the months to come today our army is continuing its ever increasing program of scientific research and development every day army technicians are making new discoveries in the utilization of radar to forecast weather the development of automatically controlled aircraft and others which benefit not only the scientific advancement but the progress of the world is it just man we want in the army any man emphatically not we want intelligent ones men of vision were willing to learn and be trained in the technical skill or trade we want to have a productive career for themselves in this age of electronics jet propulsion and medical advancement we cannot afford to fall behind in scientific development the army and the train technicians in it are unceasingly working experimenting studying to keep up with and a step ahead of scientific progress that is the type of man we want one who is anxious to be a member of a forward organization such as this i need not go too deeply into the advantages to the individual man of a regular army enlistment the new unprecedented pay scale is above average even the man who is just starting his training how many men can start out in their profession at a salary of three thousand dollars per year taking into consideration food clothing lodging medical care and other expenses the new regular army soldier starts at an overall pay as high as that and three thousand dollars is just a starting figure if you're interested in a well-paying career and want more information about the advantages offered go to your local army recruiting station today thank you zachary scott for appearing on this program probably we hail will come to you again over this station next week listen in