 Lux presents Hollywood the Lux Radio Theater brings you Joan Fontaine and Mark Stevens in from this day forward. Ladies and gentlemen your producer Mr. William Keely. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. 60 years ago today October 28th the Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York Harbor. Since then millions of people have sailed beneath her upraised torch to a new life and a brave new world. Our play tonight RKO's recent hit from this day forward deals with the most important of these millions our own men in uniform returning to the problems and complexities of present-day America. It's a story of love and hope against the background of this changing and exciting world and we're fortunate in having both stars of the picture. Joan Fontaine one of Hollywood's most accomplished players and Mark Stevens whose spectacular rise to stardom heralds a brilliant future. I imagine all of us are thinking in terms of from this day forward wondering what the future holds but how many of you know that Halloween which we observe on Thursday was originally a day of fortune-telling and prophecy. It was a day when young girls especially resorted to many forms of magic ritual to find out when and whom they'd marry. Nowadays I'm sure young girls depend more on their personal attractiveness to win a husband on the kind of complexion loveliness that Lux toilet soap care can bring and once you try Lux toilet soap and get acquainted with its form of magic I'm sure that you'll depend on it from this day forward. On to our play starring Joan Fontaine as Susan and Mark Stevens as Bill. Our curtain rises on Act One. It's mid-afternoon in New York City in front of a large office building a young man in uniform pauses before entering and turns to the girl at his side. Well I guess I better go on Susan. Where will you be? Oh I'll go and help Martha. Oh yeah that's right the moving day huh. What you looking for? Well that that card they gave me at the separation center I needed you're supposed to show it to him when you go to the employment service. Oh here it is. Well goodbye honey. Goodbye Bill. Hey wait a minute. Huh? Yes. Oh. That's better. Looks like you learned some bad habits in the army. Why I sure didn't do much kissing. Well maybe it was a good habit then. Oh Bill remember the first time you kissed me. Sure I remember the time we took the Hudson River dayboat up to Newburgh. Bill. Oh wait a minute I remember it was the time he had date with Victor Ballbrain and you found out you didn't have a date with him at all. No it wasn't it was on August 21st at ten o'clock. You're sure it wasn't nine twenty nine. Uh-uh because I was wearing my blue silk and I snagged my stockings and we were sitting in the club room of the Y and I said that you needed a haircut and then you got mad and then you kissed me that was the first time. You know baby you almost made me forget. Forget what? That's no time for memories I better get going. Oh good luck darling. Thanks. And don't worry because I know you're gonna get a job a good job. Sure I am. Don't you worry either. U.S. Employment Service. Mr. Hoffman on Momadal Rain. U.S. Employment Service. I beg your pardon. Yes. I want a job. Name please. William Cummings. Your discharge paper. Uh here. What kind of work did you do? I was totally laid off right now. You'll take this form please and this paper. There's several questions you'll have to answer. If you'll take it over to that table please. Oh yeah. Yeah thanks. Forms. Fill out the forms. Always a form soldier. Always some questions. What do you expect? I want a job. You gotta answer questions. Never ask. You love your wife. Like the kids. You ever been hungry scared? How do you feel about things in general? Why should it? Just answer the question soldier. Just answer the question. Yeah I guess I did. It's only thunder. I sure hope so. Cool things off maybe. Rain. Your home soldier and it's raining. Ah rain's lucky. That's what Susie said eight years ago just before we were married. I remember standing by the doorway. Rain's lucky for her she said rain's lucky. Hey get back in the doorway you get soaked. Who cares rain's lucky for us. Rain the day you came to New York and it rained the day we met. Sure it's coming down. Say you maybe we better not go to Martha's huh. Oh Bill she's just my sister. She'll love you. You're afraid too. Yeah a little bit. The subway's just down at the corner. Let's run for it. Okay. Ready. Here we go. Come on baby. It's time to bring your bow Susie. The apartment's a man. Oh we came to see you not the apartment. Susan I was wondering if you could take in a movie with us. I wish I could Bill but I can't leave this ironing. So where's Hank? Sleeping naturally. Oh I wanted him to take the kids to the park but the rain started. Oh it stopped raining now. Oh say we saw the kids outside you this while. Who's that Bob Beasley. Who else. Excuse me a minute. Timmy are you and Barbara playing in that gutter again. No I'm honest. Well then what are you fussing at him for mom. I ain't fussing. I thought you were going for a ride with Jake and Charlie. My mother-in-law Bill you'll probably get a fine impression of me but honest someday I'm gonna kill that game Martha. She lives upstairs Bill all day long she sits at the window yelling at the kids. Yeah Susie introduced me to her. You mean you've been up to see her. From the street we yelled through. It's bad enough to live in the same house with your mother-in-law but when she owns the building. Well the minute Hank gets a job we're gonna clear out of here so fast. Hello Susan. Oh so you decided to get up huh. How can I sleep with you yelling out the window all the time. Well Susie is this the guy. Oh stop it Bill this is Hank. How do you do. Glad to know your kid. And why don't you put on a shirt. What for my underwear is clean. You might just pretend to have some manners. Hey how about a little beer for our guests. In the icebox go and get it. Come out of the kitchen Bill. I'll give you the lowdown on these two days before you get sucked in. Excuse me honey if I keep on ironing. Do you like him Martha. I wouldn't mind ironing if it was. Do you like him Martha. Susie do me a favor think a good long time before you're going to get married Oh no wait a minute. No I mean it. Of course I want you to use your own judgment I haven't heard that for a long time. Remember how it used to work. Yeah I know Susie why don't you why don't I want. Why don't you learn something from Hank and me look at us why don't you leave Hank. Leave Hank. But he needs me and you need him and you love him don't you. Yeah yeah sure I do but that's got nothing to do with you you're different Susan I don't know it's so hard to figure out. Nothing like a good glass of beer you know something I'm glad it's Sunday I don't have to go out look for a job now well what was that you were saying oh nothing important I say yeah how did you and Susie happen to get together oh we met at the well now you take Martha and me we both had jobs at the same factory making cardboard boxes you and Susie gonna get married well we have Martha had an awful time deciding about us but finally she says okay and she gives up a career and we done it Susie gonna quit the bookstore well you know we talked about don't let her do it kid no sir well think up kid muzzle top say you're a great little talker ain't you oh oh sure so you huh oh not yet or your room at the YW huh as much of a life isn't but just don't go training it in for something worse oh I guess I haven't gotten me right to go bawling you out oh I sure you have Martha you got a reason well I don't see why you're so worried about Bill and me. Hey Martha! What is it? I see the way he looks at you and I... Hey Martha did you know that Bill here is a machinist? Well I've been one. Well he works at Tartley you know he brought his micrometer from the shop once and he measured my hair my hair measures 1.2 thousand. I guess you don't like a trade like that overnight. Yeah I guess you don't. He sets up lays too. Me? I'm gonna get a chicken for you. Oh sure. Now look you take a hundred chickens Bill you give them the benefit of the doubt they knock out 50 eggs a day at the end of the week you've got 350 chickens so at the end of the year huh you're lousy with them then all you do is sit back and watch them wake you get the picture. Yeah but first you got to get the job to get the money to get the chickens can I get in that picture all right sure but didn't I just read in the paper that instead of eight million unemployed there's really only. Uncle Jackson's father making go in the car too. Can we mommy? No it's too close to supper. Like she does when she don't have her way huh Barbara. Timmy. I just said she might. Oh let the kids go Martha. Oh well but get in there and wash first. Okay come on Barbara you see I told you. I think maybe we better begin along too Susie. Oh so soon? Yeah I guess. Say Bill I hear you're studying to be an artist. Now wait a minute Susie. Well it's supposed to be a sequence or something. Well you'd think that'll listen to Bill. All right it's just that I'm not much good at it again and it's kind of silly to talk about it but when you say Susie. Well bye Martha. So long sis. Don't forget what I said. I won't. Thanks for the beer Hank. Just don't do nothing I wouldn't do. You love bites. Goodbye Terry. Bye Barbara. Bye. Hey Susie. Yeah. Maybe I'll come in at bookstore and buy a book someday. Yeah why don't you Hank. Martha the kids can read it to you. You know we've been so busy walking I never asked you. Would you like the movie. Oh it was all right I guess. I liked it. Bill let's stop here a minute. Okay. You know whenever I take a walk I like to stop here. Now why. Because you once painted a picture of this. Bridge over the Harlem River. And tonight it's just like it was in your painting. Quiet and dark and the river glistening down there. And what. One lonely star in the sky. Yeah first time. Come on make a wish. Starlight starlight first I see tonight. I wish I may I wish I might I wish I wish it come true tonight. What do you wish. Oh that every day was Sunday. Do you know what I mean. Yeah me too. Susan a guy's got to be practical. A guy's got to try and look ahead. Yeah. A guy's got to depend on job for a living. What rights you got to think of marriage. What right. Well supposing he loses his job. Well I know you're you think you're Hank aren't Hank and my sister. No not especially besides they were that way because they eat maybe it's been hot today. You should see him in the water. All right take Hank then I don't get it. There's a guy with a wife and two kids and no job. Can you imagine how he feels. He must be sorry he ever got married. Martha loves him. Makes it even worse. I don't know what they expected or what they got handed to them as much of an argument for marriage is it. Is it. Susan how can I be sure of anything how can I promise the girl security or guarantee her happiness. Well you love me. Yes I ask him to marry you. Yeah I guess I am since you put it that way I guess I am he is surprised. No. Gosh I I never thought it'd be anything like this hot Sunday night high bridge in the Bronx. That's all I've got. Maybe there's not enough but you'll make a beautiful bride Susan. Oh bride's are beautiful because they're young and full of hope and the kind of all shiny inside. Martha was a bride once even though Marv easily. Yeah what else can I say that that I love you I've said that. What are we waiting for Bill are you afraid. Yes so my baby so my we got married that week back with the future we said why shouldn't we do all right. Yeah why shouldn't we. Except now today in nineteen forty six where am I looking for a job filling out phones questions more questions. Great to go home almost great I. Remember our first time just a tiny apartment I was well I remember what Susie said isn't wonderful she said to have a place where you can lock the door. Nobody else. That's all I thought about all day Susie about hurrying back home. Look a wedding for my boss a book an entire book on how to make good coffee after all the years you work in that bookshop you think Higgler give me some belly was very nice and didn't he give me three whole days off on a honeymoon well pretty soon maybe we can come to find somebody else I don't like my wife working darling I thought we weren't going to talk about that anymore yeah that's right say yeah Susie what would you do if you had twenty five bucks oh buy a house maybe or a car no I mean it what would you do what are you talking about well how do you like that I come home with twenty five bucks my way five dollars not only that I got a letter from the boss bill you didn't sure here go on read it dear Mr Cummings on behalf of the company may I extend congratulations on your recent marriage remember now as you work that you have three miles to feed three go on yours your wife's and that of the JJ Wilson machinery and engineering corporation JJ Wilson president okay where's the check right here so it's paid the order of William Cummings the summer twenty five dollars to buy something special for Mrs Cummings like like a new dress oh no you don't we're gonna buy your drawing board I got a drawing I mean a really good drawing board Susie we're gonna buy your dress drawing board I got a drawing board I got a dress now look how about a savings account we get one of those little books and then each week we hey and another thing JJ Wilson's got his eye on you sure he has he sent you a letter and a check didn't he oh honey he's got three thousand I'm waiting for and they all got letters and checks of course not but you see it's like I said JJ Wilson's got his eye on you Susie baby I've never even seen JJ Wilson the foreman gave me the check well Mr Wilson knows you got married doesn't he it's on my file it's routine well he sent you the letter yeah spelled my name wrong well the point is you got a check from JJ Wilson and Bill I'm so proud of you and I love you I love you or someday you'll know I am Susie someday he'll spell my name right well how are you doing Sarge I'm stuck with this thing well I'm kind of working at it Lieutenant you having trouble you shouldn't miss hey that's some list of jobs you've had oh you should be having a little trouble too I know I am I know who I am and where I live and what race I am those questions I can answer that's where I stop there's no space on the forum to say what you'd like to do you see I never worked before well maybe you learned something in the army that yeah learn to drop bombs yeah but that's no trade yeah I guess a fella's really out of luck until he learned some trade then he's safe hey like you for instance turret laid operator sure wish I could do that oh you do all right lieutenant yeah sure I'll do all right he thinks the guy is safe he's got a trade my huh keep telling that to yourself Bill sell yourself on that you're safe you're safe yeah but things happen that are bigger than the guy always trade you're a bomber dear the war is over no more bombs or or you're a turret laid operator and there's a depression no more jobs the day they hand you the pink slip you'd rather do anything to go home and tell your wife so you stop up and buy a drink buy another what do you mean I'm drunk now Bill I'm not mad good and I don't want to be a nagging wife good and I don't expect to know where you are every minute of the time even if it is half past 11 good and I don't want you to feel tied down in any way good will you stop saying good bill good now you knew mother and Hank were coming here today and you knew I made a special dinner with stuff peppers and everything you know how do you think they felt how do you think I felt I thought you were sick again noble accident or something and then come home like this okay so I'm drunk so what about your drunk is an old goat go on go to bed no what's that box it's my toolbox would you bring it home for that is my toolbox along my father made himself gave him before he died it's beautiful what I say come on what I say what do you mean well I proposed you on the bridge that night what I tell you you said you love me yeah yeah what else what you wanted to marry me yeah go on well you said you couldn't promise me happiness that's right what else a guarantee security I didn't I was right I'm always right remember that lovely little letter I got from JJ Wilson Bill that's a day I got another lovely little letter only this time he didn't single me out all the boys got one let me see him now I'll sit down I'll read it to you dear mr or you read it dear mr coming owing the circumstances beyond my control JJ Wilson machinery and engineering corporation is forced to cut down this production therefore I forget to say your services are no longer required well now you know honey spell my name wrong come here Bill oh Susie Susie I lost my job yeah yeah I know but it's gonna be all right maybe better I've still got my job and we save some money and uh 35 bucks well my salary won't go far either but what are we supposed to do break down and cry well I'm not gonna see you still got your trade and you got your tools and you got me oh Susie it's just that I love you so I oh well that kiss me and our honeymoon is over now isn't it baby listen Bill all it takes to make a honeymoon is just you and me do you understand that yeah I understand don't ever forget it Bill not ever in a few moments we'll bring you act too of from this day forward starring Joan Fontaine and Mark Stevens here's Libby Collins our Hollywood reporter what's new and exciting Libby well for one thing Mr. Keely this afternoon I saw Paramount's exciting new picture two years before the mast Charles Dana's classic tale of adventure aboard a sailing ship in 1834 life at sea was a bit rugged then wasn't it Libby oh that's understanding it Mr. Keely and while the picture was being filmed life for the cast was rugged too you know they built a full-sized reproduction of the ship complete with 90 foot mast I watched Alan Ladd and William Bendick shinny up that mast to fill the sails during a raging studio made storm was breathtaking and really dangerous as well and the love interest oh very exciting Paramount brought Esther Fernandez from Mexico to play the feminine lead Mexico's Academy Award winner mm-hmm she's known and admired throughout Latin America and she'll make a hit with American audiences too she's quite lovely how did she like us north of the border oh very much she told me one thing that made her feel quite at home and this will interest you Mr. Kennedy was finding Lux toilet soap in her studio dressing room it's her favorite beauty age she said well Lux hopes of passport to beauty anywhere Libby and Esther Fernandez is a beauty isn't she and those gorgeous costumes she wore in two years before the mast she made a delightful contrast to those seafaring characters Alan Ladd and Brian Donlett no she's a real Latin beauty all 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and one evening in particular that started when he called for Susan at Mr. Higgler's bookshop very much longer Susan oh Bill we're just closing now Bill any luck no well I'll just get my things is it all right if I leave Mr. Higgler oh yes run along Susan uh Mr Cummings how are things going with you any luck nope no job yet nope I see well good night Susan night Mr. Higgler right early in the morning don't forget hello the whole world have to know I'm out of work Bill oh Martha formed yeah hang find anything no she wanted to know if we'd take care of the kids tonight why not come on then Bill we'll have some stuff and go over you kindly open the wind up there hey Mark would you let me a buck no me and Martha were going over to Jake's to hit him for a long we got to get there don't we Bill and Susan we're waiting for him now my heart about it nothing do oh hi your kids you get a job yet Bill no hey you see my he ain't waking either I guess that makes us tramps Bill lovely woman my mother got six thousand bucks cash up there in our heart like a gangster sorry they're going to shake fine thing hit my brother for a loan every couple of weeks oh here comes Martha no luck with the old lady Martha well I got enough of car fare one way we can oh hello Susan hello Bill hi mother the kids upstairs yeah awful to rush off like this but we promised Jake we're going run along it's well of you to do this oh the kids are had supper and they're ready for bed if they're still hungry there's some dried prunes in the sink we'll be back early don't worry about anything thank goodness for Jake huh yeah I'd rather wait for it though oh well he can't have everything come on mother so you gotta kiss me too oh well there Timmy now Uncle Bill and I'll be just outside gee I should hook that can put the bite on Uncle Jake tonight yeah so do I now go to sleep Aunt Susie oh yes darling could I have a drink of water now you've had two already and I'm afraid oh no I wouldn't I wouldn't well yeah I guess I would it's there never mind go to sleep now won't you good night good night what do they want oh nothing just darling good night Uncle Bill good night I don't know how Martha does it well kids though wonderful oh Bill wouldn't it be something if Timmy I can't sleep now this is an outrage but I gotta talk to Uncle Bill about something well Timmy what is it well you see Uncle Bill if you will I can get you next meal for you what do you mean Timmy come on you go oh wait a second go on Timmy well I heard mom telling Papa you got canned from your job and that you didn't know where your next meal was coming from and I thought well I thought I'd get it for you Uncle Bill how oh it's easy I do it for Papa all the time I just go to the butcher and tell him I want a bone for my dog I bring the bone home and mom makes soup out of it I can do it for you and Aunt Susie tomorrow it's real easy Uncle Bill you bet people can't do it takes a kid doesn't the butcher ever get wise nah anyway anyway what he knows I ain't gotta do him well thanks Timmy I appreciate you you're off very much but well you get a little wrong your mom was kind of joking see mom don't joke about that well this time she was pop yeah but mom no sir look Timmy your mom was just joking I I lost my job sure but well what I mean what do you mean Uncle Bill what what Uncle Bill means that he's he's gonna find a job right away and you're not gonna have to worry about it see and everything's gonna be fine to me fine I figured you was gonna be like Papa and I wanted you to yeah we know all about it yeah now it's gotta be a joy okay just so long as you know Uncle Bill I'll talk again again good night Uncle Bill good night Timmy Susie I'm sorry if I made Uncle Bill feel bad but Timmy look everything's gonna be wonderful see and Uncle Bill's gonna get a job and your father's gonna get a job and you're never gonna have to worry about getting soup bones from the butcher you're gonna have steak to eat all you want see you're gonna have a dog a real dog and he's gonna have steak to eat. Don't cry Aunt Susie. Don't cry Aunt Susie. Just one moment. Well Sergeant you've answered all the questions. Well there's one I didn't answer. Which one is that? Oh you have to answer it. Well I'd rather not. But it's regulations. But I'm not gonna answer it. Well you don't seem to understand. That's the trouble I do understand that's why I can't answer it. Well well you better talk to Mr. Hoffman then. Okay I'll talk to Mr. Hoffman. Well that's his office right over there. Thanks. Hey you Mr. Hoffman. What's the trouble Sergeant? Well I've been trying to talk to that girl out there she keeps saying fill in the form fill in the form I can't seem to get through ahead what I'm trying to say. Finally she said I'm gonna see you. Sit down let's have your paper. Yes sir. You see if I do answer this particular question might keep me from getting a job and I need a job. Which question is that? Well I'd better give it to you straight. I have a police record. Oh let me see that form. You see I used to do a little artwork and my wife well she was working in a bookstore and her boss Mr. Higgler well it seems he wrote a book and he was looking for someone to illustrate it and one night when my wife came home she got 50 bucks. Higgler give you a bonus. Look who he's made out to. To me but what for? Oh because you're a great artist because you're my husband because I love you. Oh darling don't you see I told you about that book he'd written Mr. Higgler. Well he wants you to do some sketches. Are you showing my work? Of course and they convinced him just like that Bill. He's gonna pay me 50 bucks to draw. Oh no that's just in advance the full price is three hundred dollars. Three hundred dollars Susie we're rich. Oh it's even better than that your drawings Bill in a book oh darling darling. What do we do first I mean when you're a famous artist I know we'll build a house not a big house a medium house but big enough for Joe's boyfriends. Joe? Uh-huh I doubt it Johanna she'll be the oldest. Oh sure oh Susie you don't know how scared I've been I just didn't know what to turn next say by the time I finish the drawings maybe I'll hear from the union maybe they have a job for me when does Higgler want his drawings? In three weeks why that means my husband is earning a hundred dollars a week. Hey that's not bad that's not bad at all. But what connection had all that with the police rector Tarjan? Well I did the illustrations, characters, pictures mostly in the in the book was a biography. A biography of Judah R. Upton you've heard of Upton? Who hasn't? Well Higgler published the book himself and he still owed me over 200 dollars which I never got I wonder why. You William Cummings? That's right. I'm from police headquarters I have a warrant for your arrest. Warrant? What are you talking about? You illustrated a book by Gordon Higgler? Oh what about it? Mr. Upton's file a complaint criminal libel. Libel but uh well I've never even read the book Higgler wouldn't let me. My husband only drew what Mr. Higgler asked him to how could he know that? You don't have to come with me Cummings oh uh if I were you Mrs. Cummings I'd call in a lawyer. Oh he's right Susie. But who? Hank's brother. Try to get hold of Jake Susie right away. Relax Susie I told you a dozen times. Jake where's Bill where? They got Higgler in there now before the magistrate and as soon as they're done with Higgler they'll bring Bill in. Are you sure they'll let me in the courtroom Jake? Of course they'll let you in and look Susie all I want you to do is smile and look sweet. What you think Bill was a criminal? Susie I just spoke to Mr. Yegan he's the assistant district attorney. He says to plead guilty to being a concessory. He'll get off easy that way. Guilty of what? He didn't know anything. Jake uh yes George that's the bailiff. The judge is about through with Higgler. The defendant Gordon Higgler is hereby held for action of the grand jury. Bail is fixed at what is your suggestion Mr. Yegan on behalf of the people? One thousand dollars your honor. One thousand dollars next case. Your honor I'd like to make a recommendation in this next case. I'd like to suggest that the charge be changed to accessory to a criminal libel. For what reason? Our investigation has disclosed that the material charged to be criminally libelous was editorial content your honor and not the illustrations. Very well where's the defendant? Uh yes sir. William Cummings? Yes sir. You're represented by counsel? Counsel. Do you have a lawyer? Take a beasley your honor. Oh yes sir. How do you plead? Well I you see my lawyer. How do you plead? Well I just don't know your honor. Guilty or not guilty? Your honor. Yeah who are you? Oh I'm his wife and I just wanted to say that. Quiet now. If you have anything to say young woman this is neither the time nor place. I'm terribly sorry your honor. Susan you got to keep quiet. Let me alone. Your honor he didn't do anything. I got him that job it's my fault he didn't do anything. Well if you didn't do anything Mr. Cummings how do you plead? You're charged with being an accessory to a criminal libel. Guilty. Mr. Yegan? The people will accept bail of five hundred dollars your honor. Five hundred dollars bail. Put five hundred. Next case. Thank you your honor. I'll take care of everything. Oh you better wait for Bill and me out on the street. We won't be long. It's like I was just telling Bill Suzy in a few days there'll be a hearing see. Bill gives him the facts. He had to make a living see. He didn't know what kind of a book it was see. Higgled tall on what to do when he did it. But what do they do to Bill? You don't judge they'll say don't do it again. Jacob. Come on I'll ride you home. Thanks Jake. I think we just some more. Okay. Take it easy now. Suzy I feel it was all my fault. I haven't shown your drawings to Mr. Higgled. I've got to get a job Suzy. I've got to get a job. Well how did the case come out Sergeant? I was like Jake Beasley said Mr. Hartman. Suspended sentence and probation. Then what in the world are you worried about? Now where's that form? Here. Now where it says what kind of employment were you engaged in then just put down employer, self rate of pay $100 a week. How's that? That's swell Mr. Hartman. Now take this outside and wait for an interviewer. Good luck. Thanks Mr. Hartman. You in just a minute Sergeant. Oh the time you don't account for here on the farm you were unemployed then? Oh yeah. Do you want me to put down? No that's all right. We're not concerned with that. We're not concerned with that. Sure lady why should you be? Get your own problems. Or yours to me or mine to you. Births, deaths, anniversaries, anniversaries. Suzy and I we we spent our first anniversary moving. Rent was cheaper. Pork lights up if you climb over the trash cans. We got finished moving we went out for a walk all the way to that bridge over the Harlem River. I know what you're thinking darling. Oh gee there must be something we can do. Yeah like what for instance? Oh now don't get sore. You're right Suzy. Now I've been thinking. There's no reason why you've got a wand supporting me like this. You cut that right out. I've been thinking about getting out of town hitting the road. Maybe I could pick up a job in Detroit Cleveland. Oh yeah make me so darn mad. Okay I won't go out of town. Suzy. Did you think I forgot today? Forgot what? Our anniversary. A lot of guys do you know? I don't mind Bill. What do you mean you don't mind? I got a hold of a little money and I figured. Where'd you get it? Oh picked it off trees in the park. Bill you sold your toolbox. I just hawked it. Well. Well it's our anniversary. What are we supposed to do? Sit home and look at the toolbox. I got your presents Suzy. It's not much baby. What are you here? Gee it's a bracelet Bill. Oh it's gorgeous. Yeah yeah it's hey wait a minute I've been robbed. There's a stone missing. That's nothing. Yeah but but look there's another one missing. Oh it doesn't matter there's two. Eight stones that's a lot of stones. Here put on my wrist. Gee it's got a slide fastener and everything. Yeah it's a little stiff or something. I can't seem to. Well you put on my other wrist. Oh what for? Well my right one I use a lot and it might get in the way of things and get broken and my my left arm I don't use it so much. Oh sure. Oh Bill it's charming. It's just what it is it's what's just charming. It's darn fastener. Oh Bill. Oh oh Suzy it just broke apart just like that. Oh the stones Bill they fell all over the pavement. Well I got them. You look over there. Oh my head. Happy anniversary Bill. Oh same to you baby. Come on let's go home. We pause now for station identification. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System. In just a moment we'll return with a third act of from this day forward starring Joan Fontaine and Mark Stevens. Our guest tonight is a young lady who literally sailed into a picture contract. She's Miss Nan Leslie rated as one of RKO's most promising actresses and I'm going to ask her to tell you how she did it. Well Mr. Keely sailing is my favorite sport. Someone snapped my picture at the wheel of a boat and it appeared on the cover of a national magazine. An RKO executive saw it and offered me a screen test. Pretty exciting. I was thrilled of course but I wanted to finish high school. I began to study dramatics after school hours. A year later when RKO again offered me a test I jumped at the chance and here I am. What pictures have you done lately Nan? Well I had a part in Sister Kenny a small part but how exciting to be in the same picture with Rattle and Russell. That was luck to be in one of the big pictures of the year. It proved especially lucky for me for in my next picture the devil sums the ride I was given the lead. Well congratulations we'll be watching for you. And we'll see a very lovely new star. We're not surprised Miss Leslie that a photograph of you led to your first screen contract. If I may say so that luck's complexion of yours looks mighty photogenic. Thank you Mr. Kennedy. I've been a luxe girl for a long time. I've always known Luxe was Hollywood's favorite beauty soap so naturally I wasn't a bit surprised when I found out that Rattle and Russell depends on daily luck soap care too and what a complexion she has. Yes we're proud that Rattle and Russell is one of the nine out of ten famous and beautiful stars who use Luxe toilet soap regularly. Thanks for reminding us of that Miss Leslie and clear sailing to you. Lovely women everywhere trust their precious complexions to find white Luxe toilet soap. Why don't you try it. See if you're not delighted with the gentle cherishing care it gives your skin. And here's another tip you'll find Luxe toilet soap makes a delightful daily beauty bath too. The rich creamy lather leaves skin so fresh and sweet makes a girl sure of daintiness. Screen stars say they love Luxe toilet soaps flower like perfume a delicate fragrance that clings. Here's your producer William Keely. Our curtain rises on the third act of from this day forward starting Joan Fontana Susan and Mark Stevens as Bill. It's a few minutes later still in the office of the U.S. Employment Service Bill Cummings has just come before the interviewer Mr. Brewer. Well it was like I was saying Mr. Brewer I finally landed a job. It wasn't much but if you knew how we scrambled to find the dimes and the quarters and the dollars to get my tool marks out of Hark you'd know what the job meant to us. After that you went to work in a war plan. Yeah all of a sudden there were jobs for everybody even Hank we felt so darn good about it we almost forgot it didn't mean prosperity it meant war the plants close now. Oh is it OK. Go ahead. Thanks. But your job was a good one wasn't it. Oh yeah it was fine except for being on the night shift that is not the form. You didn't like the night shift. Oh night shifts OK. Yes sure. For a single man great for a married man well it got so when I get home Susan would be asleep and when Susan was awake I'd be asleep. It was like we were strangers almost. Darling there's liver and bacon in the ice box with a low on bread. Love. Yes if you see my husband. Tell him I miss him. Couldn't get bread. Got rolls. I saw your husband. He says he misses you too. Love. Oh I guess I was just dozing. Did you just come in. Yeah but now look baby it's five o'clock. I was waiting for you. Or you shouldn't have. Bill is for three weeks now we've been doing is leaving notes for each other and never get to see you. Susie you can't stay up to an hour just because I have to work at night. Well we've just got to accept the fact that's all. Come on now get to bed. Except the fact that's too sensible. Listen when you have to work all day you can't do without sleep. Oh I can manage. Now that's just it you can't. Where are you going. Wash up a bit. Now you just got to stick to routine that's all. I work at night. I get used to it. You. In bed. Nobody can do a job without sleep. I know I couldn't do mine. Thousands of people work at night. I was beginning to forget what you looked like. I didn't get my sleep but fall flat on my nose. Anyway I got a job baby and a good one. A little while maybe I'll get shifted today. I sure hope so. Meanwhile we. Hey where's my towel. Susan. Oh never mind I'll get one. You know honey I. I'm kind of glad you did wait up for me on a kind of a. Susan. Sound asleep. Rest well baby. I'll be seeing you. One of these days. Telephone Mrs. Cummings I think it's your husband. Oh at this time of night. Oh it's all right we were still up. Should I tell him to hold on. Oh yes please up. Hello Bill. Two weeks. With workman's compensation. Oh Bill. Got my hand caught the machine and busted a finger isn't it wonderful. What time will Mrs. Dixon be back. Not just a few minutes Bill. She only went to the drug store. Well that kid sure got a pair of lungs. I didn't even know Mrs. Dixon had a baby. Well if it's crying bothers you. Oh no no I don't mind. Well that's how they get their exercise. I told her we'd be glad to take care of baby while she came back. Say yeah what are you supposed he weighs. Oh I don't know he's hopefully heavy though. How old are you. Oh I guess almost a year. Well golly but she I hope Joanna is right here too. She better have. You know mother was saying the other day she got a lot of the kids clothes left over and when they were babies we could use ours. Well well if we had a baby where'd she sleep. Oh there's plenty of room in the bedroom for crib. You'd have to quit your job. Well I wouldn't have to work. Well you make enough now and. Oh Susie supposing we had a baby. Supposing it had come last winter when I was out of work. We'd have managed. I suppose you've gotten sick. Oh we'd have managed. I don't know. Gee I was a kid we really downed out. I want everything to be right for our kid. Well maybe we'd be lucky. Maybe if and when Joanna comes we'll be able to give her all the things we wanted to have. Yeah if we're lucky. Maybe if things keep going the way they are maybe next spring huh Susie. Oh yes Bill. Yes. On the form sergeant you don't list any children. No we only talked about a baby Mr. Brewer. We never did have her. You see a few months later the draft board said they wanted to see me and bang just like that I was in the army. I don't know court martial me or something. What are you doing. I'm trying to fix breakfast and I'm not going to let you out of here without you. Bill I told you last night I told you there wasn't any food in the house and you wouldn't let me go to the store. Hey what are you crying for. I'm not but there isn't any sugar in the milk sour. Oh Susie Susie it doesn't matter. You're going to be a doctor. Well the army will give me breakfast. Oh but I wanted to get breakfast for you. Okay then we'll have coffee together. I'm getting like black coffee. Bill cup leading. I just cut myself shaving I uh where's my styptic pencil. You what. My styptic pencil you know when I cut myself shaving I threw it out. You what. I was cleaning up and I saw something she didn't want at least I didn't think he'd ever want him again. I threw him off. Oh you threw it out. Oh Bill it wasn't that I was in a hurry you make me feel as though it was but Bill I was just cleaning up. Oh it's all right Susie it's just a little cut. Come on I can eat you. Oh Bill oh Bill. Hey the time. Oh it's six twenty five already. Oh keep calm baby. They'll call you a deserter. Never mind I'll make it for my sweater. Oh your sweater your oh here it is. My papers. Your papers yes and here your papers. Bill you're going to have your coffee. I haven't got time baby. Bill the army wouldn't want you without your coffee. Oh okay. I'll get the cups and sit down now wait a minute. Bill the coffee. I forgot to turn it on. Susie Susie. What am I going to do without you. Just take care of yourself. Goodbye darling. See you later baby see you later. Means for the tank repair outfit overseas Mr. Brewer. Same kind of a job performer would have only well maybe a little more responsibility. You did huh. How long. Any two years. Good night Sam. Good night Charlie. Well I can't promise you anything Sergeant. Yeah I understand. But with your experience in the back. See you downstairs. Don't get up Sergeant. There's someone I want to phone. Good night Miss Helmer. I hope he's still in. Hello Mr. Garrity there. Thank you. Look I don't want to keep you been swelling. Hold on now. Hello Garrity. This is Sam Brewer. Still looking for that foreman. Well I've got just the man for you. Good. What's that. Okay he will. Much obliged. Here's where you'll find Garrity. Take this card. Be there in the morning. It's just an interview Sergeant but he won't fill the job till he talks to you. Oh thanks Mr. Brewer. Good luck. I'm sorry to have kept you so long. Not at all. That's our job. Let me hear from you. Oh if you're going downtown. No I gotta go uptown. Thanks those Susie sisters she's moving today. The one you called my mother. Yeah. She and Hank are the kids. It looks like they finally gonna get their chicken farm. Well thanks again Mr. Brewer. Susie no don't you dare. Well I guess we'll have to tell him Susie. Yeah I guess so. Hank I'm gonna have a baby. You a baby. Susie congratulations. Thanks Hank. Hey Ma. Ma you know what she's gonna have a baby. Another. Susie. Hey Susie does Jake know. Nobody knows. I'm gonna tell Jake he's not helping the movie. Oh everybody will know now but Bill. Oh yeah I wish he'd get here. Hey Martha tell me what's it like. It isn't easy Susie. Well the doctor said I was born to have children. The doctor never had any. You just hang on to one thought all the way through. The first time you hold that kid in your arms you forget everything that happened and right away you want to have another one. Hey Susie what you're gonna call him. Johanna. Hey Jake. Johanna. What's the matter Susie don't you like kids. Oh you when are you gonna move the icebox. Plenty of time. Plenty of time. Take it easy. Now look Susie anything you want to know about babies just come to Hank. I can tell you all about. Oh yes. You can always. Bill in here. You look like you're moving. Hey Bill you hate about Susie. She's gonna have a baby. Hey what about the gas stove. Hello Bill you got a job. Wait a minute wait a minute didn't you hear what I was just. I got an interview for the morning. Ah interview. Gee that's well Bill. Certainly it's well you get a job okay. An interview. I tell you it's all. A few years you'll be buying a farm out in Jersey just like me and Martha. Susie about the baby I just saw the doctor. This isn't a Hank talking about a farm. The guys without a job he's got a wife and our baby to support. What's the matter ain't you got any faith in the future. But Susie I'm just saying this isn't any time to be making big plans. It's true Bill. The doctor said that we're gonna have a baby. How do you know what's gonna happen next. How do you know there won't be another depression. How do you know the world isn't gonna take another nose dive. I don't know who. Don't you put your finger in my face. Ah you're just like Papa was me rest in peace. Just look at Susie why you to death don't you know I'm not and him look at Bill just back from fighting the war and without a job no wonder the guys sunk listen stupid give them time will you time for what how's he gonna eat where's he gonna live without a job you'll get a job this year you was unemployment office it's a great thing sure sure but they can't find your job if there isn't any am I right or wrong they'll you tell me if I hey where'd he go at bill and Susie where'd they disappear to they're gone see try and get a word in edgewise with you experts both of you now I'll give you two minutes to get that ice box on the truck looks just the same doesn't it Bill our bridge and our river down there what is still shining there Susie you're sure the doctor couldn't be mistaken no he said you're gonna be all right yes you're strong enough aren't you couldn't be healthier well it sure looks like I better get that foreman job when I see him tomorrow foreman oh bill that's wonderful yeah you better get it Bill yeah scared yeah sure I'm scared honey but there's nothing wrong with being scared why we'll be scared lots of times starlight star bright first stars see tonight huh where I don't see any stars there aren't any darling we don't need them anymore spots go out to Susan and Bill as they face the future and our thanks go to our stars themselves as they face the footlights Joan Fontaine and Mark Stevens Joan we're especially grateful to you for hurrying back from New York to take part in tonight's show I wouldn't have missed it Bill well you're in New York on the business a pleasure John no just a vacation and some shopping mark well you deserve a vacation after your splendid work in paramount production of the emperor waltz incidentally mark I understand your latest production weighs 11 pounds and looks like a Stevens how is the new baby mark well I'd say he was a howling success John I imagine it keeps you pretty well pinned down well we keep him pretty well pinned up does it call you daddy yet no my wife isn't telling him who I am until he gets a little stronger well if it were a sheet you'd have to introduce a deluxe toilet soap don't tell me you use luck soap as a baby John well I use it faithfully Bill it's a wonderful complexion care well from a girl with a wonderful complexion that's praise indeed what's the good word for next Monday Mr. Keely next Monday night we have a treat not only for those who love exciting drama but for those who love great music too it's republic's brand new screen hit I've always loved you starting a great favorite of this theater Joseph Cotton along with Joe is Barry Sullivan and that brilliant discovery of the screen Catherine McLeod playing her original screen role in a deeply moving drama featuring some of the world's finest music sounds like a triple hit Bill we'll be listening good night good night and all our thanks from this day forth our sponsors the makers of Lux toilet soap join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening when the Lux radio theater presents Joseph Cotton Catherine McLeod and Barry Sullivan in I've Always Loved You this is William Keely saying good night to you from Hollywood we all know there's a silk shortage it's caused in part by the worldwide shortage of fats and oils used in the manufacture of soap industrial fats are used also in the manufacture of many other necessary items such as automobiles refrigerators washing machines paints and textiles that's why it's still urgent for american housewives to keep on saving used kitchen fats true cooking fats of all kinds are short too but with the increasing meat supply you will find it easier to fill your fat salvage tin don't waste a single drop of the precious fats so vitally needed to step up production of the household goods we all want and need save every scrap put the used fat in a clean tin can and take it as quickly as possible to your butcher he will pay you for every pound you turn in american women have been doing a wonderful job of saving fats and oils two of the most essential materials today if they will continue to save they can help immeasurably in speeding peacetime production mark stevens appeared through the courtesy of 20th century fox producers of darrel epsonyx the razor's edge heard in our cast tonight were eddy mar as hank and stone as martha and leo cleary norman field charles seal herb butterfield noreen gammill howard jeffrey norman nilson thomas mitchell cliff clark dorothy scott and alan lockwood our music was directed by louis silvers this program is broadcast to our men and women overseas through cooperation with the armed forces radio service our lux radio theater production of from this day forward has come to you with the good wishes of the makers of lux toilet soap hollywood's own beauty soap the confliction care used regularly by nine out of ten lovely screen stars this is your announcer john milton kennedy reminding you to tune in again next monday 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