 presents Hollywood Lever Brothers Company the makers of luck toilet soap bring you the luck radio theater starring Van Johnson and Esther Williams in easy to wet with Virginia Gray ladies and gentlemen your producer Mr. William Keely greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen the real test of any star's popularity is at the box office and tonight we present two artists who have that box office magic both as individuals and as a team they're Van Johnson and Esther Williams and they star in the Metro Golden Mare screen success easy to win just what makes a popular romantic team is inexplicable but I think one reason why these stars rate so high with you is because they're so typically American Van Johnson with his ingratiating smile might be the boy next door and Esther Williams who literally swam her way into our hearts proves that an outdoor girl can also be glamorous and feminine tonight they play their original roles in easy to win a blithe and lively comedy about a newspaper reporter and a lady who makes news you know American girls are famous for that easy to wed look and luck's toilet soap helps them look that way their beauty is natural but even natural beauty needs protection and the complexion care like luck so now here's the first act of easy to win starring Van Johnson as Bill Chandler and Esther Williams as Connie with Virginia Gray as gladness it's early evening in the cocktail lounge of a fashionable hotel two old acquaintances have a sudden meeting Bill Bill Chandler well you don't seem very happy to see me I'm delighted from Brooklyn to Bombay a stab in the back spells Haggerty but I've been looking all over for you all now Bill why don't we just bury the hatchet yeah yeah sure fine where would you like it no no come on come on let bygones be bygones up and that's okay with me goodbye and give my love to forward you still are working for mine too oh yeah yeah sure I'm managing editor now that's all you know someday you'll smart enough and give you a job to the janitor listen Chandler another crack like that and I will personally sue me for libel oh by the way how's the paper doing these days libel suit I get it and if you'll excuse me I have work to do what work I'm back in my old racket Haggerty I'm through with headlines and the rats that write them so long now now wait a minute you're too intelligent just to be a hopper with a dance band you're a newspaper man and a very good one you mean you want to give him a job back let me hear the press is raw again same salary same desk everything like you had before only something new has been added a hot libel suit by a dame named Connie Allen Barry who told you that I saw the story we killed this dog after the first edition but that's the addition I happen to read only a dope like you would have touched the story like that what she's doing for two million bucks who does she think she is just Connie Allen Barry yeah I know all about a spoiled arrogant engaged to a different guy every month the crown princess of cafe society that's her reputation and she thinks is worth two million when I get through this great great you're back on sound not quite so fast during the short time I was with the paper I squared more than a million a half dollars worth of libel suits and what did I get 125 bucks a week yeah but now look Bill now first of all I seem to possess a peculiar talent for settling libel suits right when they concerned dames yes and right now you've got a view I just happened to have the clipping with me here Constance Allen Barry socialite daughter of financial tycoon JB Allen Barry named husband stealer by irate Senora in hair pulling match at Mexican Garden Party so we made a little mistake miss Allen Barry wasn't even there now look I'll talk to far what I'll get you a raise I'll give you my word I'll just what I had in mind a little raise you know to tell you the truth Haggerty I've been expecting to hear from you all week okay okay buddy got there a contract five thousand dollars down fifty thousand when the suit's dropped fifty thousand bucks are you not okay okay let's forget it no no wait a minute wait a minute let's let's let's just be reasonable on second thought I don't think I want the job at any price I'm all set with the dance band for six months a lot of dough all expenses you ought to be arrested break stars and give me that paper up to you pal fifty thousand is a lot less than two million she'd collect to she'd run that alleged newspaper right out of business okay now it's time now before we get the you bill Chandler oh yes mr. Bartlett wants to sit down no I've just got a second the boys tell me you're looking for a job with my band I wouldn't get help you out channel but we're all filled up thanks all the same mr. Bartlett but I've just signed with mr. Haggerty here good glad you're gonna break why you dirty no good double crack it easy Haggerty well telling me that you were all nobody twisted your arm besides you'll get your money's worth now the Allen Buries are in Mexico City I grab a plane register at the same hotel and meet the little lady perhaps she comes to my room huh but just for a cocktail of course all perfectly innocent except to our private detective who why is my wife you've got a wife now no but we'll hire some attractive girl to marry me when the right time comes she stages a pretty scene ensues Connie for alienation of affection sensation let Connie go to court with a libel suit after that and see what she collects yeah but we got to get a girl for you to marry yeah somebody we can trust yeah hey wait a minute I got the girl oh my my girl we're supposed to get married on Monday okay so we postpone it for a little while where did you find this this lady at the club continental she's quitting tomorrow she's a singer see and then she dances you were gonna marry her on Monday you think she'll go for this deal why the girl is crazy about me all I have to do is ask naturally she'll go for it listen to me one Haggerty this is the end marry me off to another guy to this blonde baboon baboons are very smart gladdy look it's just for a month gladdice maybe only 30 days well that's just 30 days too long if you don't want to marry me just say so well of course I want to marry you but this comes first the paper will go bankrupt no other town and paper give me a job's an office boy will they know you like I do oh you guys are breaking my heart honey honey look would I permit you to help me like this if I didn't consider you practically my wife would you ask your wife to hook up with that eight and eight can do anything a baboon can do and let's leave personalities out of the show we and it won't be a real marriage all you have to do is go to adjust the piece and say a quick I do what do you mean it won't be a real marriage if I say I do he says I do the judge says you bet you do we're married yeah but I know a justice who will play along with it you go through the ceremony see only he forgets to sign the marriage certificate it's a phony then Chandler goes his way you go your way I go your way and everything clicks you've got to do this for me gladdy you got it brother the things I do for that newspaper okay oh now you're talking honey let's go yes let's now pronounce you man and wife we have Mr. Chandler aren't you going to kiss the bride oh of course and may I kiss the bride why not everybody else is well worn aren't you gonna kiss the bride I'd like to see anybody stop me he's a friend of the family now oh a very old friend of the family I hate to disturb this friendly gesture but I have to catch a plane to Mexico remember where spending your honeymoon in Mexico and just me she's been there before well here's your marriage certificate thank you how much do I owe you oh anything you think it's worth here's a dollar and a half well glad he maybe you'll want to save the certificate for your hope chest hey wait a minute it's signed why of course this agenda he signed it he did well what do you know then I married why you double cross was haggity's idea huh well I want a photographer I can hire one in Mexico but he tells me to come down to the plane and bring my camera okay now just do me a favor spike when we get there keep your eyes open your mouth shut and your camera focused you got any ideas yet naturally I know just how to meet Miss Ellen very she likes to swim so when we get to the hotel we head to the pool understand well I ain't exactly stupid mr. Chandler she doesn't like to have a picture taken so you take a picture she puts up an argument I come along I smash your camera you get tough I hang one on your chops and before you know it Connie Allen Barry and her old man are showering me with gratitude see how easy it can be now listen carefully I'll give it to you what's more hey Miss Allen Barry hey yeah that's it Miss Allen Barry thanks a lot just a minute I'm sorry but I did not want my picture taken that's too bad but I already took it give me that bill not a chance so you're the girl is going to sue the star but too many smuggler who say how about a statement to go with the picture certainly not and I don't want to just dive into the pool honey and cool off now you keep out of this mr. doesn't want a picture taken right get your big mix off my camera before it before you watch oh maybe that'll teach you a lesson I'll get you for this William Chandler I don't think you'll have any more problem with him Miss Connie are you all right certainly father just a little argument with a photographer oh that young man who helped you who is he I don't know well yes mr. Alan Mary make a note of that name William Chandler he said yes William Chandler sir very kind of you to join me for cocktail with Chandler not at all sir very nice of you to ask me well I I wanted to thank you for your kindness this morning that photographer oh he was probably from some scandal see do you know I did test that sort of thing mr. Allen Barry you to a while last year I sent one of them to a hospital my my publishers never did quite forgive me publishers yes I'm a writer right now I'm doing some hunting yarns hunting yeah who have them now that's very interesting you know I'm quite a duck hunter you are dad oh well Connie what happened to those women from Los Angeles oh I ran out on them I simply can't be bothered with people you meet in hotels mr. Chalmers my dear who saved your life how do you do oh yes the gala had thank you so much well you don't have to worry about that picture the camera was ruined personally I'd like to ruin the photographer mr. Chalmers Chandler Chandler Chandler yes mr. Chandler is a writer my dear how amusing what do you write mr. Oh I've done a few are you enjoying Mexico well I've always been a father did you work for my horse no Connie I did not dare you can buy a horse here I want my own you ride mr. Chalmers Chandler yes I've written the Kentucky Derby a couple of times but hunting is really my sport big game moose ducks anything on the line Miss Allen those ladies from Los Angeles all right well I shook them off I'm afraid not miss I overheard them in the lobby they're planning to join you in the dining room oh no I hope you don't think I'm presumptuous but if you'd like to avoid company any more company that is yes young man well it would be a pleasure to have you at my table it seems we're about to be indebted to you once again mr. Chandler charmers oh Chandler shall we dine with your luck father look at the menu while duck wonderful do you care for duck mr. Chandler do I care for duck the one thing in the world I do care for is duck in any shape or form but especially on the wing you're really a duck and am I well I don't have to work I spend practically all of my time duck duck hunting ducks have their points all right but give me a Canadian hunker why up in my hunting lodge in Canada I'm the waiter is waiting for them oh shall we say duck duck duck duck thank you seniorita duck what a sport the whirl of wings in the cold gray light of dawn I tell you this nose will in the world like it oh yes there is there's one that beats it when you take aim and fire and the feathers flying your bird comes fluttering down to the water you're right you're I stand corrected why I remember once up there in Canada I was using a small one to duck the world over but say what you will in Canada they come the two hours we've had nothing but not since I'm just warming up I'm terribly sorry miss Allenbury would you care to dance thank you I believe I would you're very much at home on a dance floor aren't you Mr. Chandler well when I have a partner like you yes you're as light as this will down receiving things this'll they're really quite prickly you know I can hardly concentrate must be your eyes oh they're beautiful your eyes remind me yes I know sparkling diamonds deep staff oh no no on the contrary they remind me of marbles marbles yes a couple of Aggies I want as a boy crystal clear and cold as ice really I presume you're an authority on eyes Mr. Chandler oh no not eyes marbles I was champion of my neighborhood for years how quick you know I believe you've made quite an impression on my father he's convinced you're a great duck hunter well maybe I am I think you're a great hunter to Mr. Chandler now what is that supposed to mean let's just drop it shall we and if you don't mind I'd like to get back to you oh thanks thanks hello the weather again today well no no I had it all fixed up for her to have cocktails here in my room tonight but she didn't show up she had a headache she sent some friends instead not being funny how's my wife glad he won't talk to me still sorry and if you don't I know just what I'm doing now and I just wait until tomorrow I'll be sending for gladdy any minute now just hurry up curly that's all I got yes just wait until tomorrow morning Miss Ellen Barry how's your headache oh hello there it is left me just as suddenly as it came on and how was your little cocktail party last night oh very enjoyable I'm glad now that you didn't come oh I hope you didn't mind my friends dropping by they seem so anxious to meet you that lovely Mrs. Burns Norval and her charming daughter yes they were so far superior to most people one meets in a hotel I thought you'd get along with them Babs is one girl in a million and so rich too or didn't you know oh yes yes her mother told me she told me several interesting things I had no idea you were so fragile fragile me yes you damaged so easily I fascinates me shoes for two million dollars just think of it that libel suit of yours gives me a new light on you just who I said is this one the girl Joan of Arc Florence Nightingale Madame Curie where's she done to get such a reputation discover panacea aren't you being a little absurd you just a moment you don't understand I don't know don't tell me let me guess and do be careful you might injure yourself you should be kept in the glass Miss Allen Berry that was a nice right cross it was even more than that was probably the first sincere just do you ever made good morning Miss Allen very off she slaps my face I get on a plane and here I am Haggerty oh yeah just dandy five days in Mexico and she slaps your face so the wonder boy lays a big fat egg huh Haggerty will you kindly hush my wife nobody's hushing me I have my ticket to Reno on my hotel reservations and my lawyer and no grounds anyway Papa Allen Buries asked me up to his lies in Canada for a weekend of duck hunting oh well what do I do bust in on you and the old man Connie'll be there all right that was no farewell slap so when do you go tomorrow good now gladi you'll be there the next night oh I can see it all now alone in the mountains just you and Connie in the ducks midnight gladi appears the trusting bride that you deserted crush stricken I bust up the joint I was a detective in the photographer the cases in the bag Bill congratulations I always knew you deliver you know what I think I'll wear pink there's only one hitch pitch I look terrific in pink duck hunting the tales I have told Allen Berry about my duck hunting with curl what's left of your hair I've never even held a gun in my hands just talk your way out of a genius we'll be up there Saturday we're busting in on you and Connie Allen Berry at midnight and it better be worth the trip in a few moments we'll return with act two of easy to wed act two of easy to wed starring Van Johnson as Bill and Esther Williams as Connie with Virginia Gray as gladness for 24 hours Bill Chandler has been reading up on duck hunting but now it's the dawn of a new day and at the edge of a duck marsh Connie and her father are waiting for the mighty hunter to show up I told you he wouldn't show up father 10 minutes late already home nonsense I walk him up myself well I'll bet you 50 shares of tell-and-tell he can't hit the side of a barn why he's the best in poor men on duck hunting either the next father darling for an inveterate chairman of the board you're very naive but he's the most impossible self-centered then why did you come up here you had a weekend all planned at home didn't you well I had to protect my favorite father and there you see there is now over here oh no you look at the equipment he's got isn't this the life ain't nothing like it are you catching cold no no no just a frog in my throat we're old friends my but you are loaded down aren't you just my usual equipment Miss Ellen very late let's get started shall we all by all means if you don't mind I'd like to try my luck alone alone suppose I just wander up there Mr. Allen very weather ripples a swifter in the reeds a thicker wise man that's one of my favorite blinds to oh we're here in case you get hungry thermos of coffee sandwich well thanks but I've got a snack right here in this hamper what you do come prepared don't you that an extremely large hamper Mr. Chandler I have an extremely large appetite Miss Allen very I see well you didn't bring along a dog did you have here that you know I think you shoot it still fetch it he's the best retriever in Canada shake hands with the man fetch it nice doggy nice boy take it easy will you oh I'm afraid he's taking a dislike to you he's really quite human you know oh well I I guess I can do my own retrieving I really look quite attractive with a duck in between my teeth fetch it smell something in your head for Mr. Chandler yes he seems to go on fetch it go with him go with him well well what what do you mean well what new clothes new gun new decoys new everything he's after something fathered dear but it's not duck oh for heaven's sake can't he now come on let's settle down and do some well dad now do you believe me hasn't fired a shot well an experienced hunter like Chandler doesn't shoot at just any bird oh there he goes again a duck horn isn't that awful terrible but by gully it works you saw that last flight I still say he would have fired if he knew how the child the man's a sportsman he wanted to give us first call hey dad's here to come look look here to come again by George the finest fight of hunkers I've seen in years now watch yourself honey be ready for him honey cut it out cut it out will you fetch it I'm just doing what the book says I get a load of this the mating call of a redheaded pin tailed witch and when you look at the birds all relax but you don't think I'd shoot one of those things do you I've got my bird right here see here in the hamper that puts it back in town so it's the biggest hunker he's sold in 20 years now if you'll just step aside I'll fire off this field piece and we'll be all set that ought to convince them incidentally dog it's a very good thing you can't talk oh this is fine this is just dandy you know it's 11 o'clock take it easy will you gladdy hunting lodge of Allen berries can't be much farther nothing but wood might so dark out there you can even find you always said you wanted me to take your writing in the woods sure now with the detective and a photographer in the backseat yeah well I just concentrate on what you're gonna tell that Allen very damn okay Connie Allen buried you have taken from me the one thing in the world that I love my husband pretty good huh well I don't see Ethel Barrymore having a nervous breakdown well you don't have to worry about me brother what about love a boy what if she's still slapping his face there don't be silly he's got 50,000 bucks writing on this romance now come on try it again all right Connie Allen buried you have taken from me the one thing in the world that I love my husband I may only be I don't know about you too but I'm just about ready to pull it up what a wonderful day it's been oh come on have some more coffee dad oh not at this hour you know Bill I'll say it again that was the finest hunker that ever let a V formation across my marshes and you bagged him clean as a whistle oh it was really nothing Mr. Allen very nothing at all a marvelous shot marvelous well see you both in the morning night good night you're tired too aren't you well me no why you've been looking at your watch all evening have I mm-hmm well since you're not tired we've got work to do what see this bag yeah Aggies Aggies you mean marbles sure crystal clear and cool as I remember oh Connie Mr. Chandler prepare to defend your title you mean you shoot marbles too I'm a very remarkable girl I'm beginning to think you're right there are many sides to my nature young man depth you little dream of I'll make a study too well here we go how's my grip not bad not bad for an amateur well move your thumb a fraction of the right there now what now you get a bead on your Aggie you get a bead on your Aggie all right tighten up on the thumb tighten up on my thumb now let her fly ah okay ready I think I'll take that little green one on the end hey not bad yeah okay now here goes the blue one uh this will require a slight curve in a decided spin now now now you just watch ah do you give up oh that's wonderful that's wonderful you're a funny kid very different from the girl in Mexico hmm I feel different you know bill it's this place it's all tied up with my childhood we've had some heavenly times here every minute completely filled like today it's been pretty perfect hasn't it mm-hmm and it's costing me a fortune young man oh what do you mean I bet my father that you tip your hand the first 24 hours tip my hand yes you see at first I well I I thought you were just another fortune hunter chasing 50 million dollars on the hook I see well I know it sounds silly bill but well I thought you had something up your sleeve an oil well an invention or well the last one had an emerald mind oh Connie would you believe it I even bet you couldn't hunt I'm glad I lost Bill don't apologize for suspecting people Connie bring every coin you meet there are lots of wooden nickels in circulation you better go to bed no oh I want to talk you see Bill you're the first person in years that you're in for it my lad what the story of my life oh honey come on now listen you got to hear about the kitten that died when I was six and my great aunt Missilda who married at 82 and divorced at 83 really and and all those twisted newspaper stories about my romances and why they were not romantic bill there aren't going to be any more twisted stories Connie I was but it was still oh nothing holy mackerel it's 12 o'clock well what happens at 12 o'clock that my dear I hope you will never know good night Connie but they are waiting at us what's the idea you're supposed to be making love not so loud not so loud Connie's gone what are you doing chasing her I had to stop you before your gut there it seems you mean I'm not going to get the bus up the joint she she left this afternoon she's back in New York who are you trying to kid channel how come you didn't phone us because I didn't have a nickel for the phone booth in the duck blind now you better get out of here before somebody sees you buying Romeo one look at you and the dame takes a powder I'm sorry Haggerty yeah yeah yeah yeah I'll fly out of here in the morning suppose we meet in my apartment late tomorrow afternoon okay with you gladi why to play in my next move that's why Connie Allen Burry is going home to Long Island I may have to work fast okay your apartment five o'clock why don't you mind your own business I say we got all the evidence we need to set up is perfect a setup's crazy I haven't got a chance look the Allen Berry dame was in the woods with you wasn't we weren't in the woods we were in the lines you told your trusting wife here that you were going away on business but you're live you went to the Allen Berry lodge to keep a rendezvous with Connie our private detective will swear that he followed you there yeah but her father was there too you're way off your rocker Haggerty you came home with circles down to here you're called to the little woman you criticize her biscuits you you're your striker she strikes your back you strike her back oh it's in the bag is neither case of alienation of factions I've ever seen they throw you out of every court in the country now look I'm just beginning to get a real in with the family give me time and I'll have an open and shut case bill we've got a perfect case and we file suit tomorrow we'll make the noon addition to the paper how big will my picture be well as big as Connie or better be Haggerty please give me just one week I guarantee no no no no not a chance she's walked out on you twice you know channel I'm beginning to think you're losing your grip well so long gladi I gotta get back to the office well I I better get going too you know gladi I I can understand him tossing me to the dogs for the newspaper but when he does it to the woman he loves who's tossing who to what dog ah don't you see we haven't got enough evidence to convince a jury of low-grade morons if he springs this the Allen Barry's a bound to smell a framework you think so and to think that Haggerty would do this to you the girl he pretends to love oh think of a publicity I am that's why I went for this deal in the first place you see Warren said I'd do a lot for my career he did did he well let me ask you something would Bernhard do it would Cornell Hayes Fontaine do it well no but I'm not in a class yet with those dames my dear girl while you have everything fire beauty temperament Haggerty doesn't even know the real you I do he stifles you he holds you down yeah yeah who does he think he is why you could sort of the heights but Haggerty won't let you the big heel oh my heart bleeds when I think of a girl with your talent hooping in a nightclub why you could do great things Shakespeare Mullier Ibsen that's it Ibsen I can see you now in a doll's house are you kidding I'm five foot seven and Shakespeare Hamlet ah Hamlet that reminds me are you hungry uh-uh just thirsty oh forgive me for not thinking of it before a room service please oh and no failure you'd make flowers reading your shining hair and a crazy smile in your face room service this is mr Chandler we'd like a drink please send up a magnum of champagne oh no no no don't get a magnum get a whole quart right away please thank you tell me more about Shakespeare Bill uh oh and pour me another glass of bubbly huh come my therapy let us down the sweet craft of Bacchus who's that just Shakespeare for bottoms up ah you know what what you're cute uh uh uh uh remember Warren Haggerty who oh well uh a girl can certainly hug her own husband and you are my husband aren't you and after all these are our last moments together what do you mean well if you file suit tomorrow I'll have to go away to prove we're alienated oh I'm gonna miss you gladi you don't want me to start suit tomorrow do you for your sake no no I don't well then I won't now how about him look giving a failure a nice big kiss I couldn't do that why not well it's just not in the play oh no wonder a failure went nuts what did he do well let me show you oh oh I feel funny I feel awful funny I wouldn't be a bit surprised now Hamlet stood like this he placed a candle at her feet yeah and another at her head I looked terrific in candlelight and then he crossed her arms like this like this and folding his tent like the Arabs he silently stole away so long Ophelia gee that's the nicest brush off I ever got I'm delighted to see you Bill now now tell Boswell to get some chunks and come on in for a swim thanks Connie but I never dunked this time of year but the water's warm that's because you're in it that's all very nice young man but you're not fooling me what's wrong Bill well I I said I'd never mention it again Connie but all the Bible soup but what on earth has that got to do with us plenty Connie for your own sake you've got to drop it aren't you taking this much too seriously Bill after all it's my fight well that that makes it mine too doesn't it you you really care that much Connie if I had two million dollars I'd give it a settle this thing right now you're sweet look at you you've got water dripping down your face give me it Bill it's all over here always I'm getting you all wet darling just ring me out baby and hang me up to dry you don't seem to realize what this means to me I can eat I own this newspaper if Connie Allenberry takes the case to court I lose everything and what have you done I had it all fixed Mr Farwood alienation affections only glad they backed out but what's Kendall been doing all this time just this miracle worker you sold me I don't even know where he is he's disappeared I don't find out do something you better I'll do something to follow what I'm going to go out to Long Island and see Connie Allenberry myself you're right miss Allenberry it was my fault I had no right to run that item well it's nice of you to admit it mr Haggerty for the rest of my life I'll be I'll be haunted by the knowledge that I've wrecked 500 lives those poor people who work on the paper think what will do to them no money no jobs and all because I mr Haggerty you're right they shouldn't have to pay for your mistake oh I knew you'd feel this way miss Allenberry thank you I'll see to it personally that every set I collect from the libel suit goes into a trust fund for them you mean you're not dropping the case well of course not I have a cause now to help those people but the paper it'll go under it'll fall yes yes I suppose it will but as you say the main consideration is to get money for those poor unemployed people where are you darling oh here I am dear oh but what are you doing them oh uh this is mr Haggerty from the morning star mr Haggerty mr Chandler not uh not William Chandler the writer yes bill does hunting books that must take you to so many interesting places mr Chandler oh it's all the day's work mr Haggerty wonder if you might consider doing something for our paper oh of course it would be a great departure from what you're doing now oh I'm sorry but I seem to have my hands full yes yes haven't you and after all I came here to discuss the case but now there's nothing more to discuss is there a certain reason oh how do you do mr Allenberry and you can tell mr forward that we're not entertaining any representatives of his yellow paper in this house I'll make a point to tell him mr Allenberry goodbye mr Chandler glad to surprise having seen you here again one maybe I didn't hear right you heard me gladi channel's out there now at her house been seeing her every day why he told me he hadn't seen her since Canada the big two-timer look don't you see he's been protecting her he's in love with the dame that's why he's been stalling and disappearing and lying to you now if I were you gladi I get out to Long Island right now here here's the address who with her huh with Connie Allenberry huh oh you just wait till I see him I'll tear the roof off the place oh that's my baby and don't forget phone into details a minute you're finished we pause now for station identification this is cbs the columbia broadcasting the curtain rises on act three of easy to wear starting Van Johnson as bill and Esther Williams as Connie with Virginia Gray as gladus well it's a little later dinner hour at the Allenberry mansion but bill Chandler's appetite has suddenly deserted him a sense of impending disaster tells him he'd better get out and fast and dad you should have seen mr Haggerty's face but I told him about the trust fund oh it was really wonderful just don't allow him in here again right here don't you think I'm right bill what bill you're miles away I know I will be I was I was just thinking this time tomorrow I'll be dining at the sky room at the airport why well just dinner with my publisher he's flying to the coast on the 13th but today's the 13th oh no tomorrow's the 13th sir Friday the 13th bill today is Friday why of course it is oh this is terribly he's got a contract waiting for me I've got to see him what time does his plane leave 9 30 well then you can still make come on I'll drive you bill no no no finish your dinner I insist I've got my own car outside good night well strange yes they didn't do it hello so you finally got home oh hello gladi don't you have a publisher huh oh you've been handing me a line of 40 chatter all week long and all the time oh gladi you know now that that doesn't sound like my ophelia I don't blame you for being upset gladi but it hurts me to know that you don't trust your hamlet now look honey I want you to slip into your new green dress you're terrific and green I'll pick you up in 20 minutes we're going dancing and when I have you in my arms holding you close I'll explain everything how's this for a headline spike eras accused as husband stealer connie allenberry sued for alienation of factions by mrs. william chandler well we'll fill in the gory details when we hear from gladi yeah but I yeah I wonder what's keeping the longer we wait the better the story you know I'll bet the old man's trying to bribe her yep yep rich father tried to go war and honey gladi where have you been dancing yeah but but uh what about the allenberries well uh bill and I talked it over and decided against easy haggity easy kill a story spike go on go on kill it and keep your voice down bill and I aren't used to shouting haggity what would you say if I were to tell you that I've practically gotten connie allenberry ready to drop the libel suit I'd say that you were a no good double crossing liar and I'd be right I'm William I refuse to listen to you being insolvent not four hours ago I heard your two-timing Romeo gooling sweet nothings in the connie's diamond studded ear how do you like that bill told me all about it that's merely his technique now the allenberries are giving a big party tomorrow night I'll be there you go right ahead darling I trust you I'll get her to drop the case once and for all providing you don't decide to barge in again yeah I can't you be more subtle like bill yeah but how do I know you can get connie to drop the case you'll just have to take my word for that's good enough for me lamby well maybe it is the best way I'm sorry I blew up I think nothing over and now shake hands I want my two boys to be friends that's it come on William good night Warren oh I don't get it for us I just don't get it at all to timing conniving rat making gladdy believe he's in love with it well it will he will he we won't get away with it how are you gonna stop I'm gonna wash up that allenberry case once and for all and channel along with it now first of all spike we're running a phony item in the society cow what do you mean phony well I mean the item will appear in only one copy of tomorrow's newspaper not one copy is going to gladdy and you are going to deliver it in person but but what are you gonna say stand by brother just stand by yep that's right gladdy one tells me to take it here to you in person see it is right here on the society page give me that a little birdie tells us that the charity fiesta at the albury estate tonight will mark the engagement of miss constant's albury to mr. William channel happy couple expect a marriage in the month and honeymoon of mexico city the romantic spot of her first meeting I don't know why warren told me to bring that doesn't this is the end hello boss boss this is spiked oh gladus went for all right boy did she blow her top where is she's on the road boss going along island there are 200 guests out there and I well just what do you want I told you what I want I want my husband Bill Chandler there must be some mistake I'm his wife and I can prove please please if what you say is true you'll have every opportunity to prove it oh trying to bribe me huh now if you'll just sit down I'll return your husband to you as quickly as I can find what is it dad I don't understand just tell me one thing honey are you in love with Bill Chandler oh yes dad terribly I never dreamed I could care so much for anyone but what's wrong I'm afraid he's married I don't believe I don't want to believe it either honey but there's a girl in the house who says she's his wife now where's Bill no no just a minute dad let me find him it's my problem well you better hurry my dear I I don't know how long I can keep that girl what are you trying to tell me Bill I I don't know where to begin I I've got to ask you a question the most important question I'll ever ask you go ahead Bill have you had many proposals proposals well that depends marriage proposals oh not enough to turn my head I'm asking you to marry me Bill is that the question yes oh but Connie yes or no Bill oh will I now not now darling now you mean soon I mean now tonight is there a preacher in the house no no not here darling we'll take the car and disappear oh Bill I thought I'd lost you you can never lose me didn't you know well my hunch was right Spike I knew he'd bring her back here to the hotel now you're you're sure they got married oh for sure I'm sure I followed the car they went to a justice of a piece of them got hitched when it's glad he coming what did she say oh she's on her way here now when I told her what happened she said she'd tear that husband blonde hair out by its dark roots hey hey there she is now well boss oh we got him cold Spike we do you just wait here oh I glad this is a surprise oh I'll just say it is I'm sorry to bust up your honeymoon Miss Allenberry but this man happens to be my husband this is the little lady I was telling you about Connie Miss Gladys miss nothing Mrs. William Chandler's the name get it I look forward to meeting you Bill told me so much about you he told you about you don't come back here I just don't want Warren Haggerty to miss anything come on in Haggerty did you hear everything or shall we start all over again well Mr. Haggerty how nice to see you well Gladys you keep out of this now as Mrs. William Chandler I beg your pardon this is Mrs. Chandler yes he's a just married oh that's just what I'm talking about what a darson no we aren't there I'll show you the certificate what a story Constance Allenberry married bigamon you print that you'll have another libel suit in your hands you married me didn't you that one doesn't count doesn't count doesn't count there's a certain Mr. Joseph Simpson your lawfully wedded husband don't hand me that I've been divorced from Joe Simpson you obtained your divorce and you could hand by mail all you could hand our voices were ruled illegal three years ago I looked it up in the hall of records yesterday I also consulted my lawyer too bad Haggerty Gladys and I were never really married Bill don't forget the letter oh yes the letter the letter Mr. Haggerty here from Mrs. Chandler what letter read it she was so touched by your plea for those 500 starving employees you dropped the suit Connie Miss Allenberry I mean Mrs. Chandler oh I don't know how to thank you I can't thank you Allenberry Aris Marry's miracle man what a yarn what a scoop what a dad Mr. Haggerty aren't you forgetting something oh yes yes yes my hat no your hat and Mrs. Simpson oh Mrs. Simpson oh that's like gladi gladi you know gladi that that Mrs. Simpson really kills me I got a dash baby call me at the office wait a minute you want a real scoop I'll give you one I learned that my you could hand divorce was no good so I got a second divorce from Joe Simpson and Reno you watch go look that up in your hall of records now where do we stand let's sit still this is all for you are all terribly smart weren't you all working for the happy ending Haggerty wins his case Chandler wins his girl where do I come in well you had a lot of fun making me fall for you didn't you Bill okay so I fell oh you're a pretty poor excuse for a husband nobody else is gonna get you're not up it kills us both now gladi just for you you're ten times worse than he is you double cost me for the sake of a newspaper gladi snow now wait a minute I'm leaving and don't try to stop me no you can't walk out on me now oh be still be still let me handle this you two diplomats have done enough this way gladi we'll talk this over alone hey what's the idea lock in the door I want to make sure you'll listen to me if you dare offer me money so I wouldn't think of it well what else is there to talk about you I have a pretty fair notion of what you've gone through oh I'll just bet please let me finish gladi any woman can be starved by neglect though those little attention bill page you probably seem so much greater because you weren't getting any at all from Haggerty why well I bet he never noticed the clothes you wore and how lovely you look the way bill did you don't really want bill oh I I know I know you've got it now it won't work gladi marriage isn't built on spite it's built on love it's it's too important look I've been pushed around all my life see from now on I do the pushing yeah and I do the talking too so just sit down and get another air for what are they talking about in there how do I know now look you so you settle the libel suit that's okay but you're not going to deny you tried to make love to gladi no I'm not you're not it's all in a day's work well what do you think we're going to pay you fifty thousand dollars for to make love to my girl if the necessity arose yes but I assure you I wasn't putting forth my best efforts oh I suppose gladi isn't good enough for you I didn't say that insult gladi will you when you've had this coming for a very long time yeah I've been looking forward to it don't you see gladi she would door war and Haggerty it's written all over you everything you've done and said proves it I don't love war and Haggerty and I always will what's that but it sounds like they're fighting fighting wait a minute sucker didn't you hear gladi's just now hey she's worried about me I've got an idea a bloody nose always gets them my whole still find everything Mr. Allen will they start explaining well dad it was like dead honey you mean to tell me you married him yes father I did but you see it's like this well then who is this woman calls on easy to wear but you meet our stars again as they take a curtain call Van Johnson Esther Williams and Virginia Gray you know Van is a veteran here but we welcome Esther for the first time thank you Bill it's been fun and we hope this is just the first of many appearances here you know Esther you and Van make a perfect team well thank you but you know we've had a little experience making pictures together yes we've made swimming musicals dancing musicals and singing musicals and the two of you have just finished the Duchess of Idaho for MGM what's that one about completely different this is a skiing musical well it doesn't swim in it I'm not going to go oh you're very sweet but but I do that too but the next assignment I have is a dandy we're going to make a picture in Honolulu oh and it's so economical for the studio what do you mean then well naturally it's your swim over well my son is going along he's only six months old so I think we'll take the lorley half a year old well couldn't he swim halfway I do hope you'll be careful of that lovely luxe complexion in the Hawaiian sun thank you Bill luxe soap has always been my complexion care I wouldn't think of going without it huh the same goes for me Mr. Keely oh by the way oh what about next week's play next week we present an exciting aviation drama the story of a flyer whose personal life is as violent as the storms he encounters its flattery is hurricane from 20th century fox studios and the stars of this fast-moving adventure story are marino hara Richard Conte and Veronica Lake I know you'll enjoy it sounds wonderful Bill good night good night and thank you there's a passion flash from hollywood it's a blouse it's a slip it's both in one and perfect for suits after williams has one of these new blouse slipped in nylon the blouse top has loads of tiny tucks and baby lace the slip half ends in a deep ruffle of course Esther insists on luxe flakes care for it just as she does for her gorgeous silk and rayon lingerie wrong washing methods soon fade colors often damaged lace actual washing tests prove that luxe flakes care keeps lingerie enchantingly lovely three times as long be sure to get luxe flakes tomorrow give all your nice washables that lovely luxe look leave our brother's company the makers of luxe toilet soap join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening when the luxe radio theater presents marino hara Richard Conte and Veronica Lake in slattery's hurricane this is william kealy saying goodnight to you from hollywood and johnson and extra williams appeared by arrangement with metro golden mayor producers of Nancy goes to rio starring and southern and jane powell heard in our cast tonight where jim vacas is haggardy bill johnston is mr allenberry and eddie marr is spiked our play was adapted by s h barnett and our music was directed by lois silvers this is your announcer john milton kennedy reminding you to join us again next Monday night to hear slattery's hurricane with marino hara richard conti and veronica lake