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It's called to marry with love by Richard Sherman This is one of those stories that people probably remember best because they recall their own emotions in reading it And although it's by no means an old story when most people first read to marry with love their lives were different And for that matter the world was different for it's a story dealing with American life in the years between the two wars And what a time ago that now seems Do you remember the Wall Street boom in the 20s and then the crash and then the depression and unemployment? Mr. Sherman's three characters in this story do for it was the background of their own love story Yes, I said love story one love story affecting three people the triangle you see and yet a triangle with a difference Anyhow good love stories of whatever shape never grow old So here we are in the right mood. I hope to enjoy Richard Sherman's to marry with love But before we begin here is Frank goss who has a message from the people who bring you these stories There are hallmark cards for every memorable occasion on your calendar for birthdays anniversaries holidays Yes, for every occasion that calls for remembrance for a friendly greeting a word of good cheer an expression of sympathy There is a hallmark card that says just what you want to say the way you want to say it and that identifying name on the back Hallmark well that says you cared enough to send the very best And now to marry with love on the hallmark playhouse Lawyers office in New York. It's growing dark outside Broadway is flashing her neon duels to dazzle the out-of-town customers Still how I'm sitting at his desk writing my dear Mary. I'm writing to you from my office It's less than an hour since you left and I've been sitting here thinking about you and jock Some days that we lived a long time ago Do you remember when moonlight in roses was the big song of the day? You and jock were crazy about it There was a total eclipse of the Sun in Rhode Island an earthquake and Santa Barbara in a real estate boom in Florida Shingled hair was a novelty and Jimmy Walker had just been elected mayor of New York City that all seems a long time ago doesn't At twilight you were standing in a rice-lit flower-strewn room at the Carpley Plaza Wearing an orchid corsage on a dark blue velvet dress whose hem was 16 inches above the floor and whose Waste lines slopped around your hips You turned away from your brand new husband and looked up at me We're laughing Wasn't it the keenest wedding you've ever been to honey. It was oh, I'm so happy. I could die Tell me that it'll never be more wonderful than it is Angel char we've got to catch your boat. We're trying not to get seasick. Hey, you dumb bunny Aren't you even going to take advantage of your chance to kiss the right? Help yourself. Oh, man. It's the only day. It's legal, you know I kissed you goodbye Later after you'd gone I wanted into the next room where people were dancing and celebrating your wedding I don't know what the orchestra was playing or what anybody was saying to anybody else. I only remember a song distorted full of pain going around and around my head like a requiem Somebody stole my gal You came back from your honeymoon and moved into that little apartment on East 38th Street You know the one with atmosphere instead of air You said I was your first dinner guest and I must have been because the meal was certainly terrible Well, I had a big lunch and I never eat much in this kind of weather I don't know what it is Mary, but my stomach hasn't been very steady the last few weeks Oh, no wait a minute honey, it could be lots of other things you haven't eaten anything yourself. Well, I cooked it So I don't have to eat it What and what happened everything came right out of the brides first cookbook all it takes is experience Mary You'll be better. Sure. You have to get better. It's been possibly get worse Never mind Mary, we're gonna give you an A for effort. Well, I've been thinking I'm gonna make a million dollars You'll outgrow that no, I'm not kidding. I'll do it in the market within no Five years maybe sooner. I know a guy downtown who's made The last four months, I've got a neat little nest egg now and even if I didn't have there's an arrangement known as margining Uh, it's a gamble and I don't like it Bill C. Hallam. The C is for cautious or candy. Well, you do it your way We'll do it ours Bill is so good to see you again We want you to come all the time bring your current passions Whoever they are you're the rain so you can have the parlor and alternate Friday You come off early enough. I did come Not as frequently as I want it to but probably more frequently than I should I brought a series of girls. I brought beautiful ones and bright ones and redheaded ones and a couple who were on diets Each of them would seem kind to me and still they stood in the same room with you Then I'd realize that whatever they were they And then one evening I brought Kitty Bryant Beautiful girl Beautiful and smart And I feel was a swell evening. I'm crazy about Jack and Mary. So am I How long have you been in love with her? In love with her You're you're a little upset aren't you? But she's married remember Yes, I remember As an old story and maybe not a very interesting one But it so happens by a peculiar coincidence that he's my best friend and so is Mary We just pan around together. Well, that's simply dandy isn't it? Damon and Pithius and the girlfriend Is it your impression that the best things in life are three No, that's good Because it isn't mine either That was in May the Roxy had just been open in the yield of France just launched There was trouble in Nicaragua. Helen Morgan was sitting on a piano And Coolidge did not choose to run And the whole city was going crazy over Lindbergh's flight to Paris. That was in May and in August on a Sultry's stifling afternoon. I went up to your apartment after work to meet Jack for a mid-summer bachelor's dinner You were supposed to be at Bar Harbor lying on a beach, but There you were in that hot apartment with your face as white as the sheets that cover the Bill if you sing kitty brand lately. Well, no, she's been tied up. So I gather I found this package on his dressing table Happy as a jeweler's box, isn't it? Yes, but look at the card. It says to kitty doesn't it? Oh, now wait a minute. That's something I asked Josh to pick up You see it's kitty's birthday, and I don't know very much about what girls like and Why are you looking at me like that? I'm gonna write to buy a girl a present Yeah Mary oh Mary darling, what a surprise. Come here. Let me look at you I didn't mean to cry this never occurred to me that I shouldn't look at it There's many reasons why you shouldn't but I told Mary you bought it for me to give kitty You shouldn't have said that I knew he was lying Funny I Thought you'd have the decency to lie to well have you reached the point where you don't trust me What would you think if you walked in upon something like that? I'll wait a minute you two You're not the kind of marriage that doesn't come along very often I'll fight fight to keep it not to get rid of it You're one of you will ever find another one like it You and jock my way that autumn to the mutants when he came back you were all freckled and healthy and There was a new radiance to both of you and right in the middle of a long Complicated story about a fishing trip. You suddenly stopped for King looked at jock And then you said shall we tell him darling my food is old enough What do you think well if we don't tell him he might hear about it at school? What's got into you two you not completely absolutely and completely We're going to have a baby bill. Do you ever hear of anything like that in your whole life? Imagine jokin me being a poppin a mom especially her anyway could tell them one look. She's underage couldn't You're the very first one to know Had the two nice people yeah everything in the world Everything in the world I walked home through the empty streets completely alone Devastatingly lonely All the way home. It wasn't you I was thinking of It was kitty brandt and an expression. She'd used Damon and pippies and the girlfriend But I thought of her question Is it your impression that the best things in life are free I? Had said no But in a couple of weeks if someone had asked you that question you and jock would certainly have a different answer Being married to you made all the difference in the world any question. I knew that Before mr. Hilton introduces the second act let us go back for a moment to a time many years ago Our scene is set on the spacious lawns of a white-pillared mansion in Virginia It is Monticello the home of Thomas Jefferson diplomat statesman and of late the president of the United States Mr. Jefferson is entertaining some family friends and a young lady asks him to tell of his happiest moment fully expecting to hear of the signing of the Declaration of Independence Mr.. Jefferson smiles and without hesitation in his careful cultivated tones answers I have known many my dear Happiest moments my heart is known are those in which it is pouring forth its affection That truth is known to many of us those who make hallmark cards know it too and on that truth They have built a tradition the tradition that every hallmark card regardless of the occasion is sincere warm and affectionate whether it calls for an expression of gaiety or wit sympathy or gladness any occasion for a friend to express his personal sentiments to another You will find the hallmark card exactly fitting your needs a card that says just what you want to say the way you want to say No wonder your friends receive hallmark cards with an extra measure of satisfaction For when they turn the card over as you did and see the name hallmark They know you cared enough to send the very best Now mr.. Hilton continues with the second act of the story. He's chosen for tonight Richard Sherman's to marry with love Richard Sherman's story to marry with love in his office late that night Attorney Bill Hallam is writing a letter to the girl. He didn't marry Jack phoned me on a hot damn evening and he sounded like he was in China instead of New York Receive this is wanting to help you but wishing I could say part I'm going on a cruise to the North Cape as soon as they let me out here. Well, that'll be good for years. Jock going to know No, Jock's working a lot He seems to have the feeling that money is the only important thing in the world now Back it looks as though we're going to be known as those wealthy wallaces Jock's founding financial dynasty Except for the dynasty has you know in the movies It's always a baby that cements the father and mother together for cheap. Oh, it's going to be an interesting experiment with jockeys Because it seems there isn't going to be anything baby everybody says the movie should be more like life. I Think life should be more like Oh You'll be nice to be rich. I'll have cars to match dresses and dresses to match moose We're going to be the gayest people in town. Jock and The gayest people in town You came back from the cruise with several trunks full of new clothes a different way of doing your hair and Irene Potter And her brother Sloane The three of you did the town together for weeks before I saw you when I finally did get to see you alone You said feel I decided to leave jock you I'm going to marry Sloane Potter. He's already in Mexico waiting for me. I'm waiting for jock to come home now So I can tell you you're going to my mind completely made up and nothing anyone says is going to stop Do you think you'll be happy with Sloane? Who knows? I'm not happy now Jock and I've been living in a vacuum for months. I Haven't been home for three days. I need to tell you know that throne pot as a playboy You can't tell me anything about Sloane, though. I know him much better than you do. Oh There's jock as a man who appreciates the value of a last-minute entrance Well, I borrowed you with my little story and I might have got bore him Bet you jock That the captain of industry. Oh, yes, of course Dumpty dumpty sat on the wall and then he was October 24 1929 the end of an era the end of a lot of things Instead of going to Mexico you went to a rented house and flushing with jock you and Irene Potter opened a candy shop jock's cuffs were frayed in his eyes puffy and I I Wounded what the two of you said and did and felt when you were alone Life or a form of it went on Newt Rockney crashed Gumdy was arrested making salt Edison died and Theodore Dreyse's slapped Sinclair Lewis Everybody was playing Tom Thumb galt and somebody wrote a song called happy days are here again But they weren't On Christmas Eve we were supposed to have a party, but when I arrived jock was home yet We sat there looking at each other across the small tree in the artificial fireplace with the gas log Merry Christmas It's a sentimental nice Why what are you thinking about? I was thinking about you. I was remembering how I used to Dream of being alone with you on Christmas I am and it's not at all the way I dreamed it would be What do you mean Bill? Mary What would you say if I told you that I was in love with you? Well, I'd say That's the type of thing you sometimes say when you're sitting with an old friend on a night like this And I'm very embarrassed about the next day But I am in love with you. I have been from the time you threw your first mud pie at the hole Don't please You and jock and I've been friends There's been an accident I was driving down northern Boulevard and I run over a guy that lives at this address I took him to the hospital, and I thought maybe you'd want to go He's alive if that's what you mean broke a couple of ribs. I'll drive you over in my car. I'll get a cold It wasn't my fault Why didn't he watch where he was going? I blew my horn. Didn't I? Fine Christmas. This is a fine Christmas Long time before jock was on his feet again. Lots of things happened in the interim There was a century of progress a new deal bank holidays Anthony adverse and a midget sat on Morgan's lap After that Christmas Eve, I thought it would be better if I wasn't near you So I arranged things to take me out of town business in Chicago business in California business anyplace Except where you were I Took girls out made love to them try to convince both them and myself that I was serious, but I Was still too faithful to you in my fashion You were the works with me, and I realized you always would be The night I finally returned to New York was repeal night, and I accidentally ran into you on the streets They're you fake love. How are you? Hey, why didn't you let us know you were in town? You look wonderful Bill. We've missed you. I missed you too both of you Let's get in someplace where we can sit down and talk, but I can't right now. I'm late for the point What did I call you next week? Oh, please do that bill. It's still the same number. How are things with you? Why things are wonderful. I've got a job with a woolen border, and I'm getting a promotion next month I'm doing it the slow way this time bill, but I'm getting there He's going to take over the entire New York office in another few months. You wait and see girl. I'm glad to hear it It's sure and calling Bill Anyone could see that you were headed upward you were safe Secure once more and I was there watching you as always on the outside looking in It was almost the way that been ten years before except for jock's eyes and that tiny white zigzag in your hair And then this afternoon you came into my office and sat by my desk. You smiled rather Sadly, I thought This isn't a social call Bill business You were in on the beginning and I thought you might as well be in on the end I've left I wanted to get a divorce and I want you to get it for me No, no won't be From now on I'm in the cat that walks by itself. You thought it over carefully. Yeah Already moved to the plus Mary Why are you leaving him? Well Bill I Stayed with him and I could be of help to him But now he has his business and I have mine We We don't need each other anymore with nothing Make me out a bill of complaint or a brief or whatever it's called Bill Say it's incompatibility say it's mutual fatigue Say it just say it's ten years I sat down to draw up your brief staring at a blank sheet of paper And then suddenly a door opened and I heard a voice Hello, Jack Come in sit down She's left me. I Don't even have a red dress. She wants a divorce. I know She was here. Oh, she can't yes She can and she's going to I take it easy John. Don't you don't know what she can mean to a man She's Please help me. She might listen to you because she knows you're disinterested Tell her that I won't interfere with her business plans. Tell her that the future isn't going to be like the past tell her Tell her she's all I have all I want She's engaged me as her counselor We have so much in common doesn't seem Just doesn't seem I sat alone in my office listening to things you'd said and perhaps forgotten I Thought of times passing in the way the years Shuttle into each other like the sections of a collapsible drinking cup We have nothing in common you said but you didn't say once that you no longer loved him And so I started a right And this is what I've written Here's your brief Mary a Brief made up of things that you and Jock have done Words you've spoken and rooms you've lived in Here are the years that you and Jock have lived together And I think if you look them over carefully, this is the only brief you'll want In any case It's the only brief that I can draw for you affectionately Bill hello, Jock This is Bill John I've written something that I'd like you to give to Mary Would you pick it up and take it over I'll leave it in the door the address of the honor and Jock When you give the envelope to her Tell her I sent it And you as a 10th anniversary present To Mary With love Tilton will return to tell you about next week's story Meantime, I'd like to remind you that there's nothing like one of those colorful hallmark dolls from the land of make-believe To make a child's eyes light up with joy There are 16 dolls in all little Miss Muffet Cinderella little boy blue and 13 other childhood favorites Each one wears a hat topped off by a jaunty plume. 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Hilton's own lovable and unforgettable Goodbye, mr. Chips Thank You Frank, and you know I must confess I'm looking forward to it But then too I'm looking forward to the week after that when we shall have miss Luanna Patton and Lionel Barrymore in Captain January, so plan to be listening these Thursday nights Now I'm sure you want to know who our actors were in to marry with love Those grand performers were Arnold Moss in the role of Bill Hallam Lorraine Tuttle William Johnstone be a benedict and Wally mayor and So until next Thursday on the hallmark playhouse. This is James Hilton saying good night Tonight story was adapted for radio by Jean Holloway our music was composed and conducted by Lynn Murray Look for hallmark cards that are so lonely in stores that have been carefully selected You'll give you expert and friendly service remember hallmark cards when you carry enough to send the very best This is Frank Gauss saying good night to you all until next week at the same time when James Hilton returns to present Simeron this program came to you from the hallmark playhouse. This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System