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How will I pass the time. You're going to stay home again tonight. I've had a hard day at the office. I think I'll go out and lie on the hammock catch the breeze. You shoot the breeze all day and catch it at night. My boy. Too bad Miss Tuttle and Miss Kelly both took vacations at the same time. Leroy that doesn't concern me one bit. I can get along with our girls. Besides there are plenty of fish in the sea. Your line is just a little weak. Young man I haven't missed either one of them enough to even think about replacing them. Where's Miss Kelly coming home. I don't know. I bet she's been busy at that summer resort. Leroy. I can see her being paddled around in a canoe by some good looking dope trailing her toe in the water. No wonder she isn't writing. I didn't expect her to write and the fact she hasn't doesn't concern me one bit. Ah. Watch it young man. Yes Bertie. I forgot to give you your mail when you came home tonight. Oh some letters. Well a postcard. It's a picture of a hotel by a lake. Say it's for me Kelly. Oh brother and he didn't care. She wrote. Let's see what she said. Leroy stopped reading over my children. Why did she sign it? May X X. Can't she write her own name. Leroy then X is more important than anything on the car. Much. Leroy it isn't much. Corp. Planned time. Say she misses me. Now why does she take so long to write? Well I see now. This card was sent to the wrong address. She missed you all right. She didn't even know where you live. That's great. She's been over here for dinner. Well I probably had her so dazzled she didn't know where she was. George I knew May had written. What a fine hand. What a fine woman. Yeah I'll bet she's the prettiest girl of that resort. But she took time out to write to me. The breeze came up too. Why don't you go out in the hammock and cool off. I should get out of the office. But I think I'll stop in at PB's and show him my postcard for May. I could hardly sleep all night. Here's a wonderful little letter from a girl can do. Postcard rather. Hello PB. Hello Mr. Jonas man. What can I do for you this morning. PB guess what I got in the mail yesterday. A bill. No not a bill. Now you should have I sent you one. Well I didn't get it. And don't give up. You'll get it today. Yes. If you want to pay a bill I can tell you how much it is. I didn't come in here to pay my bill. I came in here to show you a postcard. It's $14.35. PB I'm not interested in my bill. Well I am. Well I'll take care of it in due time. Well it's due. So matter of fact this is the bill I should have sent out on the first till it's due. All right. Now how about paying some attention to my postcard. It's from my girlfriend. Miss Tuttle. No for me. May Kelly. You don't say. Hey look this is a picture of the place he stayed. This is her room right up at the top of the tree. She's living in a tree. PB she's living in a hotel. That's her room on the fourth floor right over the tree. That tree could come in handy in case she forgets her teeth. All right. Now about this bill let's do it. Look at the way she signed the card PB. Two exits. Is that two votes for you. You bet. And I like that kind of voting. I'll be glad when she gets home. I guess you will. May is quite a girl. She didn't forget me. Mr. Joe just leave on. I wouldn't get too excited over a postcard. PB a girl doesn't write to you unless she's thinking about you. Right George I'm going to make it a point to call on May more often. Glad to hear it. That would be good for the candy business. Say it wouldn't be a bad idea to meet her at the train and take some candy. Yes sir. I think I'll call her travel agency and find out when she's coming home. May I use your phone. That'll make a nice impression on it if I meet her at the train. Yeah with your boxy candy. Hello. Tell me travel service. This is Brockmoreton P. Gildersley. Oh you remember me. I'm calling to see when you expect me. Hey thought I'd meet her at the train. Oh you're expecting you tonight at six o'clock. I'm going to wrap up the candy. Thank you. Thank you very much. Don't bother to have anybody else meet her. The situation will be well in hand. Goodbye. She'll be home tonight. That's what I hear. You don't have a fancy box of candy ready to go to you. I've already put it on that bill. Let's do. This is Unmai's card. The more significant they become. It's a beautiful time today. Three o'clock in the afternoon and in three more hours she'll be here and then in another three the moon will be up. I'm glad I thought about inviting her for dinner. She's coming home this evening. Did you not post card. No I learned this by phone. Oh she called you on the phone long distance. No birdie. I phoned her office and they told me. So I thought I'd surprise her. Meet the train and bring her here for dinner. Yes sir. It's just dinner for two birdie. You get the idea. I'm way ahead of you. I'll let Leroy get on to PD's and eat you like that. Yes sir. I want everything to be a little extra special birdie. Oh yes sir. You want everything super duper special. Yeah. And I like candles on the table. Soft light. I'm way ahead of you. We might have a little dinner music. Yes sir. Birdie will cook the dinner, light the candle sir, the table and spin the record. Good. I'll depend on it. Yes sir. Mr. Gelsie why don't we play some of the records you bought to take to that young lady at the swimming pool who was gone when you got there. Well that's the type music may well like. Yes sir. Birdie what are you laughing about? No wonder you such a popular bachelor. Well? A girl drops you a postcard and you go all out. Well that wasn't an ordinary postcard for you. No sir that one had X's on it. You bet. Yes sir that card was extraordinary. That card was exceptional. One you didn't expect. No birdie. So you're going extra all out. I'm rushing down here. The train isn't late. If it is instead of carrying a box of chocolates you'll be carrying a box of chocolate milk. Yes look Leroy I gave you a ride as far as the default now run on to Peely's and get your dinner. Not a plenty of time. I want to watch the train come in. You've seen trains before. Not with Miss Kelly or Kisser. Young man you shouldn't be here when I meet Miss Kelly. Oh she won't know I'll have her. Miss Leroy here comes the train now scoop, scram. Hey what a surprise this will be to May. You'll just leave you know how to impress the women. Yeah people are getting off but I don't see May anyway. Oh there she is. May. Why'd she turn around and walk the other way. I guess she didn't see me. May. I'm glad to see you. And what a beautiful time you have. Let me look at you up close. But I'm so happy to see you. Well I'm happy to see you too. Although I didn't expect to. Well I wanted to surprise you. You certainly did. Oh there you are May. Yeah yes come on over Sam. Hey here's your hat box. Oh is this May's. Thank you for bringing it over I'll take it. Why should you take it. As in Stan I want you to meet an old friend of mine. This is Throckmorton Gildersley. How do you do. I'm Stan Murray. Nice meeting you Stan. Now come along May I have a big surprise planned this evening. But Throckmorton you don't understand. You will have dinner at my house candlelight. And then moonlight. Well this sounds interesting. Oh are you still here. Oh yeah tell you this. I got your postcard May. Of course I knew you'd be writing. Then I called the travel agency. Throckmorton listen to me. Stan is my fiance. Fiancé. We're engaged. Engaged. May. You put X's on your postcard. Well I wrote the card on Friday and I met Stan Saturday night. You mean it happened that fast. See. Oh you know how it is in the summer. Throckmorton when you're away and everything. Oh yes. Well I'll get our luggage May. Throckmorton can we drop you someplace. I've already been dropped. 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Whether they're beautiful fancy ones or the simple day in day out favorites. They'll taste better than ever made with Miracle whip. That's why Miracle whip has become America's favorite salad dressing. Outselling the next 20 leading brands of salad dressing combined. Just be sure you see the name on the jar you buy. Miracle whip salad dressing made by Kraft. Great Gilda Sleeve finally got a postcard from his girlfriend Mae Kelly. He read too much between the lines. He met her at the train with candy under his arm and plans for dinner. She met him with a handsome man on her arm and plans for marriage. Came like a bolt from the blue birdie. Yes I thought that train whistle sounded a little mournful. That pushy stand walked away with her and there I stood with a gun in my face. Yeah and chocolate running down your sleeve. Well the candy had melted by that time. What are we going to do with all this dinner. Leroy said he'd come home and eat with me instead of going to Pee-Vee's. Sure. Personally I'm not very hungry. Mr. Gilles Sleeve you shouldn't take it so hard. After all you didn't have any strings on her. Did you. Well not exactly. Heck no he didn't want it until we had a salad daughter. Leroy that's not true. Her engagement just made me realize I missed the boat. Well boats are like street cars. It'll be another one along any minute. There ain't many boats like that dream boat. No indeed. What does Miss Kelly's intended do Miss Kelsey. He was a lifeguard at the resort. Yes. What do you do Saver. I don't know. Wait till he gets to the altar. He'll be the one yelling for help. Leroy please. Must have been a whirlwind courtship. She's only been gone two weeks. Well you know how it is Bertie. Summertime romance. Moonlight and big doses. Yes. Well let's forget it and eat. Leroy it isn't that easy. Okay let's eat and then forget it. We might as well. You want the candles let Miss Kelsey. Oh no let's just turn on the lights. Heck no. Can you take this so lightly. Oh I can mean it that way honk. I want this dinner to be just the way you planned it. We'll light the candles and I'll sit at Miss Kelly's place. Oh I guess I guess we can skip the soft music. Yeah please do Bertie. If I hear any soft music I might cry. Oh poor Missy girl please. If it means so much to you why don't you put up a fight. What. Don't let that lifeguard push you around. Well. If I ask you I'd get that Miss Kelly back. It may be too late Bertie. It's getting later let's eat. Get that Miss Kelly back. Bertie they're engaged. But you know her better than Missy is. Ain't you. I'd love her to drop. I thought if I came here to my den and buried myself in a good book I could forget May. It's 8 30 and I wonder what May and that stand are doing now. The moon's coming up. They could be parked out by my reservoir. I never did trust a lifeguard when he's off duty. Yeah I can just picture them now out there in the moonlight holding hands. Why didn't I put a fence around that reservoir. It's been wonderful. We've known each other always. Oh there's never been anyone but you. That's his name. Gilder slob. They're chasing right into the reservoir. Brock Morton is a very nice man. Yeah but I'm too late with too little. We set the date darling. There's no reason to wait. Shall we say tomorrow. Tomorrow. Let's seal it with a kiss. You'll receive good hold of yourself. You have to stop thinking about it. You're just torturing yourself. Well now that I know she's gone it won't do any harm to tell her how I feel about her. I'll just go to her house and say May now that you're being married I just want you to know if he hadn't asked you I would have. He'll be there. Old muscle bound might take it the wrong way. I'll sit down and write her a letter. I'll bear my heart. Why George why should I be the only one that's sad. Let her feel a little of this too. My beloved May. He I've never written that to anybody. This is the last letter you'll be getting from me. And for this letter. I doubt if you can get only one out of that machine. Oh don't you have some stamps in your cash register. Not anymore Mr. Gildersley. Why. Because we keep them in the machine. All right I'll use the machine. It seems silly to buy three stamps when you only have one letter to mail. I'd like some more letters. I'll probably never write another letter to a girl anyway. This is sort of a farewell message to me. I thought you just got home. Yeah but she brought somebody with her. You don't say. She's engaged. P.D. Well it was only yesterday you got the postcard with the accident. She wrote that the day before she met him. My my. Mrs. P.B. and I were engaged four years before we were married. And I thought that was a little hasty. P.B. weren't you ready. No I was but my pocketbook wasn't. Well with May and Stan it was love at first sight. Oh I can see where a man could lose his head pretty fast over Mr. Joey. Yeah I was about to propose to her myself. Well the target mentioning that. Well a man doesn't talk about these things. I know I haven't a chance but I wanted to know I'd have married her if that pushy lifeguard hadn't come along. Are you sure that isn't the reason you're writing. What. Because you know you haven't a chance. P.V. are you insinuating I don't mean what I say in this letter. I don't know what you're saying. You can't read it to me. No. But I got down the cases and confessed my feelings in black and white. Putting it in writing has gotten a lot of men in trouble Mr. Joey please. Well I wanted to give her something to think about on her honeymoon. That letter must be dynamite if she's going to think about it on her honeymoon. Disloaded P.V. and I wanted to get it before she leaves. By George I don't think I'll mail it. I'll take it over to her apartment tonight and drop it in her mailbox. Are you going to steam off the stamp or do you think what's in the letter will do the trick. All right P.V. I'll admit it's a touching letter but I want her to feel my loss of it. Nineteen. I wouldn't be the worst catch in the world P.V. No. When that lifeguard bleaches out Ms. Maykelly might have a rude awakening. That could be. The day may come when she'll wish she had a good solid water commissioner instead of a handsome lifeguard. Tiptoe open the porch drop my letter in the mailbox and vanish out of her life. Here goes part of my heart. Now she'll know. I dropped more. Hello May. I thought I heard someone at the door. Yeah me. I'm so glad to see you. Won't you come in. Well I don't think I should be under the circumstances. Don't be silly. You would what about Stan. Oh he isn't here. Come on in. You sure he isn't here. Oh Throckmorton come in. Yeah. You know when you met me at the train I didn't have a chance to tell you how thrilled I was to see you. Oh. Sit down here on the couch by me. Don't sit on the edge relax. Well it just doesn't seem the time or the place to relax. It's early. Won't he be back this evening. Throckmorton. Yes. Stan won't be back ever. He won't. I'm afraid our engagement was a mistake. It was. Fortunately both of us realize it in time. Oh but you know how it is. I'm impetuous and so is Stan. I'm just beginning to realize I am too in a way. I suppose ours was the old story. Not many summer romances stand up when you get back home. I guess it was the dancing the moonlight. The canoe rides that made me forget for a little while. How much I thought of you. You're so solid and dependable. You'd never do anything rash like me. Oh I don't know. I'm sure Stan can really want to get married. Come to think of it I don't either. Throckmorton. Yes. When you met me at the train I began to see you in an entirely different light. The candy you brought. The dinner plans you made. Oh you were wonderful. No may let's not be too impetuous. I may not be the man you think I am. Well that's another thing I like about you. You're modest. Do you suppose it's possible for a girl to fall out of love and in again. All in the same day. Throckmorton I know why you came here tonight. Because we're being irresistibly drawn together. No I came up here to mail a letter. And if you don't mind I think I should get it out of your mailbox. Are you going to give it to me personally. No I better keep it. I wrote it when I thought you and Stan were going to be married. Why Throckmorton did you threaten to do something desperate. I'll say. I'll be around some day. That was close. We'll be with us again in just 30 seconds. Nothing goes quite so well with the hamburgers. We all like so much as really good coleslaw. And to be sure your coleslaw is at its delicious best. Make it with Miracle Whip salad dressing. Miracle Whip will give it a wonderful flavor. A flavor that's peppy and just sharp enough. A flavor your whole family will like. Treat your folks to some good coleslaw soon. And remember to make it even better tasting than ever. Make it with the one and only Miracle Whip salad dressing. There's only one thing to do burn this letter I wrote to me. I'll toss it in the fireplace. Hello Leroy. You're starting a fire in the summertime. I'm just burning my bridges. No I get it. Birdie's right on. What? You've got a postcard for your lid. No Leroy. Miss Kelly had you practically engaged 24 hours after you met the train. Yes yes. What is it Birdie? The doubtless. I think it's from Miss Cobble. Hey I bet she wants you to meet the train. Not me. I've met a train. Good night folks. This is a combination by Jack Mason. This is John Heaton saying good night for the craft food company. This is the famous line of craft quality food products. Be sure to listen in next Wednesday and every Wednesday for the further adventures of the great Gildersleeve. Picnic coming up. 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