May 23, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction eleven.
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Radio City Playhouse Attraction eleven presents The King of the
Moon by Joseph Schule. The production is directed by Harry W.
Jenkin and stars Ian Martin, the brilliant young character actor
who delighted Broadway with his performance of Finian in Finian's Rainbow.
Here is Radio City Playhouse Attraction eleven The King of
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the Moon. Our play starts in a suburban garden in Dublin,
with a lot of things all growing green, which, considering
the ancestry of the man bending over the scallions, is
only logical.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
His name is in keeping two. It's Michael Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's a sad thing to be over fifteen, never to
have seen the world, never to have been the great
things you might have been. It passes by seeing nothing
but a pot bellied business man weeding in his garden
after supper, a man with the dreams gone out of him.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Michael, must you be pottering about neat garden all evening?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I know, Margaret, who is it with complaining yesterday about
a week?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
I know they could wait another day. I sent the
twins after the movies, and Mike has gone to a
dance with that young Robert school. And I don't like sitting.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
All alone in the varana with a doll book, all right,
didn't come and sit down here and watch me. Oh,
you're interfering with me train of thought at.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
The moment, mighty, Are you sure you didn't leave anything
at the office today?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Of course I'm sure. And for the third time, very well,
I really asked no on the customary part of yourself.
I presume, I suppose that bench will hold you.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You matried a few pounds yourself, and you're a nose there.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's my family responsibility. Isn't contending with a nag and weight? Now?
When you get on with that book and leave me
to weed and tiftic?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Is there trouble at the office? Have you been quarreling
with Tim again?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I have been quarreling with Tim for twenty nine years.
It's not a thing I give a thought to.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now I'm like to answer mysteriously. Now is there nothing
you left behind you at the office?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Whom?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And you will tear up a fistul of fine new
carrots and heave the match you have? You asked me
that again?
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I'm lost in my book. But before you bury
your norse in the weeds again, you might take a
look at the setting sun. You know a touch of
beauty would do no harm to your war.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Though I have looked, there's no need for making it
a hindrance to my work. I can feel God's beauty
warm on the back of my neck and seeping down
into my heart, and the voices of the earth come
to me through the fingertips.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Well, if a poet for a husband tonight, No, not
a poet.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
But a man that might have been many things twenty
eight years ago? Who knows?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Who knows what?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Who?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Nothing? Get on with your book twenty eight years ago
on the spring, and me twenty five and two years
out of the army and into the insurance business with Tim,
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while the world and it's far places of the great
things to be done swum round in my head and
filled my heart with dreams. I can still remember the
sing of the blood in my veins. That one the
morning I go whistling down to the office and pour
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over my insurance cards, and gather a lot of them together,
and throw them out of the window and go crashing
in on Tim as he Saturday's dead, Tim, Must you
rattle the pillins out my teeth every time you come in?
I've come to tell you of my decision, have you no?
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I have. I woke up this morning with it fully
farmed in my head. I quit. Oh is that all?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You're a good friend, Tim, and you were a good
officer and taken me into the business. Was kindly meant.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But I have been turning things over very seriously in
my mind since we had the fight yesterday, which one,
the one over the accident policy.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
That's much of a fight.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
No, But when it was over and I walked out
of here, and I caught myself feeling the slightest possible
of tremors about how you took it when I called
you a pig headed reactionary. Indeed, it handon me suddenly
that I was a mite worried about what you'd think.
I was on the verge of becoming careful about what
I said. And oh, timboy, beyond that lies the region
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of terror. The time when I look upon you is
the boss. When I'm afraid of being fired, a slave
to be paycheck and no longer a freeman. Oh, it's
a horrible visita, horrible, but a distant one. I'm free yet,
I'm as good a man as you are, not the
one to shrink from saying so death.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
I'll grant you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Though I may have but one hundred and fifty dollars
in the bank, where you've ten pounds. Oh, that'll adjust
itself in time.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Stay with the business long enough, and we'll both have
one hundred and fifty dollars in the bank.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I gather that you're willing to have me go, that
you impugne my ability.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I do nothing of the kind. I'm firing you again.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh no, I've had the first word on that.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Cli And this time you'll stay fired for a couple
of months till I'm good and ready to.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Take you back.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That, of course, is ridiculous, in a left handed invitation
to stay, which I cannot accept. I have quit, definitely
and for good.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
And what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Tim? How should I know? And what should I care?
What I'm going to do. I'm young and strong, with
a health bounded in me. In the wide world before me,
there's golden African coffee in Brazil, and diamonds heaven nosewhere
else there's great railways to be owned, and ships to
be sailed, and the very kingdoms of the stars. But
a step away from our science, we may see a
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man of this earth, the king of the moon, before
we die. And am I not as good a man
as any? I'll wear no man's collared him, not even yours,
though of all of them I've founded, the least a
brazen is not. So I'm grateful to you, boy. I'm
friends with you, and I hope I always will be.
But I'm off to freedom in the old way.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Go ahead, and one of these days, as I've warned
you before, I'll be sick of your.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Nonsense, nonsense, and you with your bottom glued to a
swivel chair in your nose to the grinds tone already
ha ha, goodbye here, Tim. So there I am out
on the streets, a freeman of my free will, and
the ways of the world thrown open to me. The
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shops are good to look at, on the tall buildings
of the fine cars, and i'd rowe award someday. And
I'm striding along with a good free stride, and looking back,
and I forget, what will you where you're going? And
there was my first glimpse of her said as she
came out of the rug store, wearing the red hat
Jaunty on her head. And I still say it's the
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best hat she ever had, and a jar of cold
cream in her hand. And now she's sitting on the
sidewalk with a red hat over one eye and the
cold cream oozing out onto the pavement beside her, and
me standing over her, looking sheepish.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You always charge up the street when your eyes on
the back of your neck.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You get me alone.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
How would you look at my dress?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Oh, I'm sure it was an accident which I should
regret to my dying day. And you exaggerate. I was
merely glancing back over my shoulder.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Your clumsy load.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, it's a pretty hat, and maybe it does
belong over that eye, but it gives you the suggestion
of a skull. Now if you were to push it
back at it, indeed, that's better. Now turn around and
I'll give you a bit of breshion off in your back.
Your pardon will very well do it yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Thank you, And now if you will indicate the direction
in which you're going, I'll move off in the other.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There's another thought which occurs.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Well, I haven't the time to hear it.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'll be delighted to buy you a bucket of cold
cream if you'll allow me to pour out my apologies
across the table. I mean to see if maybe a
small steak and a double banana split could win a
smile of you where I have failed.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
That is impudence heaped upon injury. And no matter how
I need strange men, I never accept the first invitation
from them. And further apology should be addressed to Dublin
five four, two nine eight Miss Margaret Dylan. And the
best day is Thursday, good morning.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So there I am with the lands of the world beckoning,
and the seas and of the ships to take me there.
And I chained to the town on the street in
the back bedroom at missus Silverstein's for forty eight hours,
all because it's Tuesday, and Thursday morning, bright and early.
I rushing for the telephone in Caprick. There wouldn't be
a Miss Margaret Dylan at that place, would there? Sure
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the fridge? Thank you very much? Six times. It wasn't
two hours of a fine spring morning before she answered
and allowed herself to be coaxed to a movie with
Douglas Fairbanks, climbing over house tops and jumping from cliffs
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and filling the brain with thoughts of the adventures that
might be had, and a fine, full blooded quarrel we
have on the way home, with me telling her of
the road fever in my veins, and her thinking it's
handle is that I have no job and no ambition,
and preaching the cause of the sedentary that end up
with automobiles and duodenal ulcers and generally revealing a disgusting
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narrowness a viewpoint, and we decide to continue the argument
on the following Tuesday, though she saw a very little
point in it, since she'd already said the last word.
So for the Tuesday, I decided to try dancing. And
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we come to a restaurant where there's a little music,
and we sit down, and she's wearing the red hat
and her eyes are blue beneath it, and she finds
a smile for me, and the chains i'd felt settled
upon me were jingling like silver bracelets, and in spite
of my best effortences, was a pleasant sound, and I
couldn't forvear telling her I was glad to see her
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and been thinking of her, and she said she'd been
worrying about me in my worried ideas, and then Almis
Tom the waiters healers came that great off Tim, Hello.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
The Michael Michael. It's good to see.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You, and I'm glad to see you, Tim, and in
such good company.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Yes, I've been wondering about you and waiting for you
to come round again.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm still in the same mind as when I left him.
Are you looking for someone?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
No, well perhaps they'll find a table for you back.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
It seems a very crowded place tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes it does well, Tim. I've you seen your own
one of these days.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Aren't you? Won't introduce me to the young lady?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I had not thought of it, however, Miss Dillon, This
is mister Morab.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Delighted, Miss Dillon.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
How do you do?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Mister Morrab Michael and Miss Dillon? Would you take it, amiss,
if I were to join you?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Feeding alone is the most distasteful business to a sociable.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Man, as the act of a gentleman, and a favor
to a friend when you get the devil.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Out of you, would you mind, Miss Dillon?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Not at all, mister Morrn, not at all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Not at all, And she looks at him with a
great deep smile she'd never given me. And he plants
himself at the table and has the impudence that dance
with her, And the evening's ruined, except once in a
while when I get her away from his endless babble
for a dance, and then it's worse.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I think you're rude and stupid, and I cannot see
how you've ever kept a friend, judging by the way
you treat mister Moran.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
You've not said a civil word to them all evening.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
If it had the barest trap of decency, it'd never
have butted in on us and beating your ear drums in.
But it's talk about the insurance business. Who wants to
hear about the insurance I do?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
It's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's not the insurance that's interest in you.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We'll sit down now.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
And then we're going home at the end of a
lovely evenings till the three of us, and him lying
himself back in the face about where he lived so
that he could walk with us all the way to
her house, and only leaving it is at the gate
when I kick him in the shin, and well, are
you he'd made a careful note of the address.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
You know, mister Moran is very nice.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I can only say for him that's sold to a
glue factory and boiled down, he'd make the world's finest an.
He's the only satisfacment I've got is known that he
has a three mile walk home.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Oh he hasn't, he said he lives only a little
way from here.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
He's a liar among other things.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Oh well, at least hee the man with ambition.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And I'm ashamed of you for leaving your job with him,
and all the fine chance of the offiture.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I'd have seats of automobiles where he has one, in
towns where he has houses before I'm finished.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
And how are you going to get them?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh, Margaret, the way is the success are endless to
the man with brains and hands and courage.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
And every one of them requires work.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm not afraid of work. I look about, see the
world and what it has to offer, and shape it
to my hands. When you come dancing on Thursday, nope,
why not because.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You cannot afford the money until you get yourself work
and stop dreaming your way through life.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I am not dreaming my way through life. My plan
for definite, definitely, that's what they are. I'll wear no
man's collar and set her down into the first comfortable
rutted which I happen to find myself.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
And I not waste the time of anyone.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Who'd walk out of a job in such prospects with
a fine man like mister Moran.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Good night, mister Ryan.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
So there I am walking home in the moonlight, please
the air again, and taking a savage kick at every
stone on the road as I passed. And the next
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morning it's still spring, when the world is as wide
as ever, and there are grand opportunities for a young man,
and Duluth and San Francisco, Dundon and Auckland, and fortunes
to be made in Indian, Golden Africa, and the panthers
waving in South American, all the world to be seen.
And I not have to see it that him thirty
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years old, he is getting on for middle age, and
solid in his rut as a mid course. But it
comes to me suddenly that he is six feet tall,
with curly hair and blue eyes and such, and there
is the possibility that a woman might see something in him.
And so after a bit of that sort of thinking,
I get up from my chair in the garden and
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walk downtown and go in and knock on his door
with my pride riising my throat like a wet sponge,
and he says, come in. And there he is with
his feet on the table and a thumb to his mouth,
as though we'd been biting it. Comand and him, where.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Did you meet her?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Who?
Speaker 7 (15:58):
And what have you been doing?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I have no idea of whom you are speaking the one.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I'm a reasonable man and never too fixed in review
point to change it.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I've always been of the opinion that you were a
harmless lunatic, but miss Dillon seems to have it so
firmly fixed in our head that the only worthwhile people
in the world are the dreamers and the men with imagination.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Then what did you say?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
I said that you've thrown a spell over Miss Dylan,
which inclines her to believe that you have courage instead
of being lazy, and brains instead of the gift of
the gab.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
And she's made a.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Reluctant convert of me.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I'm merely growing old before me time by staying here
and trying to.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Build up a business.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I'm going to leave it what and see what the
world offers in the way of large opportunities and adventure.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
But for what's going to happen to the business.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
To this business, anything that happens will be an improvement.
It can go to blazes.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh and I suppose you'll be bragging to Miss Dylan
of your great resolve.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
I'll be informing her Abbert on Thursday night after or
already you've known of for exactly one week. That's a
start which can be overtaken.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We'll say about that where's mister didn't work?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
But you can be going to a Michael. You cannot
come in here the.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
President and your old president. I think it's only right
to tell you that your shameless, feminine duplicity has resulted
in the wrecking of not one life, but of two.
I cannot go back to the business, even if I
wanted to, because Tim has now decided to close it
up and go off hunting Ivory in Africa or see
us in Lapland.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Has he indeed? And what have I to do with it?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Everything you belabored to me, you've praised to him, and
he now thinks I was right, for I know I
was wrong, and is off to do as I am
now not going to do.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I have become entangled with two madmen, and the sooner
you're both out of my life, the better.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Dining with him tomorrow evening. There's no way to get
him out of your life.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
That's no concern of yours.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
And you have no cause to be interested in the
fact that we'll be dining at the Moresby at age fifteen.
And now would you leave me to my work before
the President comes in here and throws you.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Out the Moresby eight fifteen. Well, good evening to you, Ball,
Good evening, Michael.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
And why the devil should you be happening along here
at this minute?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The Moresby is a public eating place, and I'm prepared
to pay my bill. I am also prepared to join
you if invited. We're expecting my grandfather, who makes.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Noises with his soup, and his older sister, who is
a suffragette.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
You won't find the company entertaining.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Perhaps if MS didn't did not object, I might fill
in the time until they are rive.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Sit down, Michaels and wipe those skulls off your faces.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Both of you. Thank you, Margaret fred I understand that
you're off for TASMI or baruchest and Tim I am not?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Or was it Greenland? Perhaps I'm staying right here in
this town. I'm remaining in the insurance business. I shall
be buried here.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I shall be glad to go to the funeral, Miss Dylan.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Would you care to dance with pleasure?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Mister Moran, It wasn't the sort of dancing to worry
a man. Tim's face was like Asa Craig, and he
held Margaret with the grip that is used for shoving
a large chest of drawers from one car to another.
The entire conversation, so far as I could see, consisted
of three sarres from Tim. Finally the dance ended, and
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there was a solemn, shifty smile in the back of
Margaret's eye when they returned to the table.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I am now going to pounder my nose, if you'll
both excuse me.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
She told you we will go to be here. Perhaps
she didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
A man with any decency would not have come trail
and after us.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Decency is a strange word your mouth.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I've been hearing more about your singular virtues.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I'm sick of the sounding your name.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Indeed, I find it incredible and only a step this
side of madness.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
But there's no question about her.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
She prefers you to me. She doesn't, she does. She
told me so, she didn't so many words.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And so she came back, and the clouds were billowing
under her feet, and the band was playing heavenly hymns
about her, and there were stars in her hair, and
a shower of rose petals falling about her from the clouds.
And I stood up at the table and held out
my arms as wide as was seemley, and greeted her
with a brilliant smile that must have won her. And
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she said, sat.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Down and stop making a spectacle of yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Margarets. Ah, Now, Margarets, would you dance with me? Ye stopping? Oh,
my darling, I'll shower you with diamonds. I ransacked the
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kingdoms of the moon for you. It's forty fo each
in the roads right, and goobo poian behind you when you.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Travel ambition to become the world's greatest traffic problem.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Have you gone mad?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I think so? I knew your heart was the dreamer's
heart to ah, did you?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Indeed?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Kim's gonna stay in a business letting?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
And so are you what you're good to ask you tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You're going to take you outside right after this dance,
and Michael, if you refuse, I'll never.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Speak to you again.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Mark, all the trouble I've been to put in a
word for you, a word with Tim, I never needed
a word put in for me with Tim.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Well you've had it now, remember after this dam.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And so the dance ended and we came back to
the table, and Tim and I looked each other very
hard in the eye, and then we looked at Margaret,
and then he got up, and we turned together and
walked away without a word, And out of the corner
of my eye, I saw Margaret look around her and
hold her handkerchief just a bit above the table, and
then let it drop. Meanwhile, Tim and I stood in
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the lounge and looked at each other hard again and
shook hands very solemnly.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
We've been hornswoggled by the world's most designing female for
our own good, very well, for our own good. But
I'm sad at the thought of what your married life's.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Going to be like. And I wish every happiness.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I'm not saying mine that just because I'm soon to
be a married man. I'd stay in the insurance business.
I'm wearing no chains yet.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
The clank of them is deafinitely this minute. Ah, but
it's a pleasant sound of death. And want to make
an old bachelor envious.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And out cheer up, tim boy.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
There's other women in the world, none like her, and
I wish I'd never set eyes on her.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Come on back, and we start back, and we get
in sight of our own table, and our head snap
up and our eyes goggled because without a draft decoset,
we're seeing double. There are two Margarets at the table,
or rather there's my Margarets and another that might have
been born a year or two before her at the margin,
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and our feet bring us to the table without her
having anything to do with it, and Margaret favors us
with a sweet, wide eyed smile, and I suddenly remember
the sight of that draft handkerchief.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
What dor gabe? So you two with all of my sisters, Moira.
This is Michael Ryan and this is Timothy Moran.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
How do you do take a chair again, mister Moran?
I only sat down for a moment.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I'm not another table with whom two of my girlfriends.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
We thought you'd have been here.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
And listen to the music coincidence, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It is? Indeed, do take a change to Moran.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I'd not think of it.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I must be getting back to me things anyway.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Nonsense, two girls alone are no more miserable than three.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
You'll stay with me.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I'd not think of intrude.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Nine year to be far from an intrusion, and we
insist there's a high heaven and the lights of the stairs.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
I'll stand no more nonsense from the Dylan family.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Sit down, woman, or I'll pick you up in my
arms and sit you down myself.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Very well, if you determined you spots.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That was twenty eight years ago, and it was the
last shore for either of us ever.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Maid ahway, that's the last.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Oh well, if you're finished at last week going.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
A fine clean garden, is it?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Michael Ryan? I last thank you once more and for
the last time, did you know?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
And no?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And no, I did not forget anything at the office.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
And I wish I'd not baked the cake and got
in sherry and asked him.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And more to come over to No you do.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I be ashamed for the first time in my life.
And I'm hurt too, are you now? You don't even ask.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Me why I was thinking of something else, whatever they
came of that red hat?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
What red hat?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So when you were wearing when I first bumped into
your side of the drug.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Store, that was a blue hat. They gave it to
the cleaning woman fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You never heard another as good, and it was red.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It was blue.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Do you not think I can remember what you would
wear in the day I met you?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Well, with such a memory. The pity you can't remember
the day you married me.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
If you think I've been unable to perceive the drift
of your hints and questionings all the evening, you're still
underrestimate me after twenty and more years. If you'll go
to my coat and put your hand in the right
hand pocket, you'll fight you're looking, Oh my god, did that?
As I have been maintaining with entire truthfulness. Forget it
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that the.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Ah darling old blackguard.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Alone in Michael, this little weading you can do by.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The light of the moon, the moon, and I once
wanted to be king of it. Ah, Well, there's been
no one else set foot on the moon either. Maybe
it'll be Michael Junior who plants the name of ring.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Maid that was king of the moon. As written by
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Joseph Schule. The production was directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Duncan.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Ian Martin, recently starred in Finian's Rainbow, was heard as
Michael Andre Wallace was Margaret. Other players were Roy Irving
and Grace Kendy. The music was composed and conducted by
doctor Roy Shield. Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the
National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
McDonough. Beginning next week, Radio.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
City Playhouse will be heard on Saturdays at eight o'clock
Eastern Daylight Saving time over most of these NBC stations.
Our first offering in this new time is Mother by
Stanley Robert Metta. Think the psychological study of a strange
and sadly confused woman. Be with us then next Saturday,
September the eleventh, at eight o'clock or Mother Attraction twelve
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on Radio City Playhouse, Robert Warren speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction eleven.
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Radio City Playhouse Attraction eleven presents The King of the
Moon by Joseph Schule. The production is directed by Harry W.
Jenkin and stars Ian Martin, the brilliant young character actor
who delighted Broadway with his performance of Finian in Finian's Rainbow.
Here is Radio City Playhouse Attraction eleven The King of
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the Moon. Our play starts in a suburban garden in Dublin,
with a lot of things all growing green, which, considering
the ancestry of the man bending over the scallions, is
only logical.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
His name is in keeping two. It's Michael Ryan.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
It's a sad thing to be over fifteen, never to
have seen the world, never to have been the great
things you might have been. It passes by seeing nothing
but a pot bellied business man weeding in his garden
after supper, a man with the dreams gone out of him.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Michael, must you be pottering about neat garden all evening?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
I know, Margaret, who is it with complaining yesterday about
a week?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
I know they could wait another day. I sent the
twins after the movies, and Mike has gone to a
dance with that young Robert school. And I don't like sitting.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
All alone in the varana with a doll book, all right,
didn't come and sit down here and watch me. Oh,
you're interfering with me train of thought at.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
The moment, mighty, Are you sure you didn't leave anything
at the office today?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Of course I'm sure. And for the third time, very well,
I really asked no on the customary part of yourself.
I presume, I suppose that bench will hold you.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
You matried a few pounds yourself, and you're a nose there.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
That's my family responsibility. Isn't contending with a nag and weight? Now?
When you get on with that book and leave me
to weed and tiftic?
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Is there trouble at the office? Have you been quarreling
with Tim again?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I have been quarreling with Tim for twenty nine years.
It's not a thing I give a thought to.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Now I'm like to answer mysteriously. Now is there nothing
you left behind you at the office?
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Nothing at all?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Whom?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
And you will tear up a fistul of fine new
carrots and heave the match you have? You asked me
that again?
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Now?
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, I'm lost in my book. But before you bury
your norse in the weeds again, you might take a
look at the setting sun. You know a touch of
beauty would do no harm to your war.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Though I have looked, there's no need for making it
a hindrance to my work. I can feel God's beauty
warm on the back of my neck and seeping down
into my heart, and the voices of the earth come
to me through the fingertips.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Well, if a poet for a husband tonight, No, not
a poet.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
But a man that might have been many things twenty
eight years ago? Who knows?
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Who knows what?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Who?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Nothing? Get on with your book twenty eight years ago
on the spring, and me twenty five and two years
out of the army and into the insurance business with Tim,
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while the world and it's far places of the great
things to be done swum round in my head and
filled my heart with dreams. I can still remember the
sing of the blood in my veins. That one the
morning I go whistling down to the office and pour
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over my insurance cards, and gather a lot of them together,
and throw them out of the window and go crashing
in on Tim as he Saturday's dead, Tim, Must you
rattle the pillins out my teeth every time you come in?
I've come to tell you of my decision, have you no?
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I have. I woke up this morning with it fully
farmed in my head. I quit. Oh is that all?
Speaker 6 (04:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (04:33):
You're a good friend, Tim, and you were a good
officer and taken me into the business. Was kindly meant.
I appreciate that.
Speaker 7 (04:38):
Go on.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
But I have been turning things over very seriously in
my mind since we had the fight yesterday, which one,
the one over the accident policy.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
That's much of a fight.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
No, But when it was over and I walked out
of here, and I caught myself feeling the slightest possible
of tremors about how you took it when I called
you a pig headed reactionary. Indeed, it handon me suddenly
that I was a mite worried about what you'd think.
I was on the verge of becoming careful about what
I said. And oh, timboy, beyond that lies the region
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of terror. The time when I look upon you is
the boss. When I'm afraid of being fired, a slave
to be paycheck and no longer a freeman. Oh, it's
a horrible visita, horrible, but a distant one. I'm free yet,
I'm as good a man as you are, not the
one to shrink from saying so death.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
I'll grant you.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Though I may have but one hundred and fifty dollars
in the bank, where you've ten pounds. Oh, that'll adjust
itself in time.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Stay with the business long enough, and we'll both have
one hundred and fifty dollars in the bank.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I gather that you're willing to have me go, that
you impugne my ability.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
I do nothing of the kind. I'm firing you again.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh no, I've had the first word on that.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
Cli And this time you'll stay fired for a couple
of months till I'm good and ready to.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Take you back.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That, of course, is ridiculous, in a left handed invitation
to stay, which I cannot accept. I have quit, definitely
and for good.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
And what are you going to do?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Tim? How should I know? And what should I care?
What I'm going to do. I'm young and strong, with
a health bounded in me. In the wide world before me,
there's golden African coffee in Brazil, and diamonds heaven nosewhere
else there's great railways to be owned, and ships to
be sailed, and the very kingdoms of the stars. But
a step away from our science, we may see a
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man of this earth, the king of the moon, before
we die. And am I not as good a man
as any? I'll wear no man's collared him, not even yours,
though of all of them I've founded, the least a
brazen is not. So I'm grateful to you, boy. I'm
friends with you, and I hope I always will be.
But I'm off to freedom in the old way.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Go ahead, and one of these days, as I've warned
you before, I'll be sick of your.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Nonsense, nonsense, and you with your bottom glued to a
swivel chair in your nose to the grinds tone already
ha ha, goodbye here, Tim. So there I am out
on the streets, a freeman of my free will, and
the ways of the world thrown open to me. The
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shops are good to look at, on the tall buildings
of the fine cars, and i'd rowe award someday. And
I'm striding along with a good free stride, and looking back,
and I forget, what will you where you're going? And
there was my first glimpse of her said as she
came out of the rug store, wearing the red hat
Jaunty on her head. And I still say it's the
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best hat she ever had, and a jar of cold
cream in her hand. And now she's sitting on the
sidewalk with a red hat over one eye and the
cold cream oozing out onto the pavement beside her, and
me standing over her, looking sheepish.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
You always charge up the street when your eyes on
the back of your neck.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
You get me alone.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
How would you look at my dress?
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Oh, I'm sure it was an accident which I should
regret to my dying day. And you exaggerate. I was
merely glancing back over my shoulder.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Your clumsy load.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
You know, it's a pretty hat, and maybe it does
belong over that eye, but it gives you the suggestion
of a skull. Now if you were to push it
back at it, indeed, that's better. Now turn around and
I'll give you a bit of breshion off in your back.
Your pardon will very well do it yourself.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Thank you, And now if you will indicate the direction
in which you're going, I'll move off in the other.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
There's another thought which occurs.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Well, I haven't the time to hear it.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
I'll be delighted to buy you a bucket of cold
cream if you'll allow me to pour out my apologies
across the table. I mean to see if maybe a
small steak and a double banana split could win a
smile of you where I have failed.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
That is impudence heaped upon injury. And no matter how
I need strange men, I never accept the first invitation
from them. And further apology should be addressed to Dublin
five four, two nine eight Miss Margaret Dylan. And the
best day is Thursday, good morning.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
So there I am with the lands of the world beckoning,
and the seas and of the ships to take me there.
And I chained to the town on the street in
the back bedroom at missus Silverstein's for forty eight hours,
all because it's Tuesday, and Thursday morning, bright and early.
I rushing for the telephone in Caprick. There wouldn't be
a Miss Margaret Dylan at that place, would there? Sure
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the fridge? Thank you very much? Six times. It wasn't
two hours of a fine spring morning before she answered
and allowed herself to be coaxed to a movie with
Douglas Fairbanks, climbing over house tops and jumping from cliffs
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and filling the brain with thoughts of the adventures that
might be had, and a fine, full blooded quarrel we
have on the way home, with me telling her of
the road fever in my veins, and her thinking it's
handle is that I have no job and no ambition,
and preaching the cause of the sedentary that end up
with automobiles and duodenal ulcers and generally revealing a disgusting
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narrowness a viewpoint, and we decide to continue the argument
on the following Tuesday, though she saw a very little
point in it, since she'd already said the last word.
So for the Tuesday, I decided to try dancing. And
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we come to a restaurant where there's a little music,
and we sit down, and she's wearing the red hat
and her eyes are blue beneath it, and she finds
a smile for me, and the chains i'd felt settled
upon me were jingling like silver bracelets, and in spite
of my best effortences, was a pleasant sound, and I
couldn't forvear telling her I was glad to see her
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and been thinking of her, and she said she'd been
worrying about me in my worried ideas, and then Almis
Tom the waiters healers came that great off Tim, Hello.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
The Michael Michael. It's good to see.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You, and I'm glad to see you, Tim, and in
such good company.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Yes, I've been wondering about you and waiting for you
to come round again.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I'm still in the same mind as when I left him.
Are you looking for someone?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:19):
No, well perhaps they'll find a table for you back.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
It seems a very crowded place tonight.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yes it does well, Tim. I've you seen your own
one of these days.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Aren't you? Won't introduce me to the young lady?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I had not thought of it, however, Miss Dillon, This
is mister Morab.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
Delighted, Miss Dillon.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
How do you do?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Mister Morrab Michael and Miss Dillon? Would you take it, amiss,
if I were to join you?
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Feeding alone is the most distasteful business to a sociable.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Man, as the act of a gentleman, and a favor
to a friend when you get the devil.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Out of you, would you mind, Miss Dillon?
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Not at all, mister Morrn, not at all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Not at all, And she looks at him with a
great deep smile she'd never given me. And he plants
himself at the table and has the impudence that dance
with her, And the evening's ruined, except once in a
while when I get her away from his endless babble
for a dance, and then it's worse.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I think you're rude and stupid, and I cannot see
how you've ever kept a friend, judging by the way
you treat mister Moran.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
You've not said a civil word to them all evening.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
If it had the barest trap of decency, it'd never
have butted in on us and beating your ear drums in.
But it's talk about the insurance business. Who wants to
hear about the insurance I do?
Speaker 5 (12:38):
It's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
It's not the insurance that's interest in you.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We'll sit down now.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
And then we're going home at the end of a
lovely evenings till the three of us, and him lying
himself back in the face about where he lived so
that he could walk with us all the way to
her house, and only leaving it is at the gate
when I kick him in the shin, and well, are
you he'd made a careful note of the address.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
You know, mister Moran is very nice.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I can only say for him that's sold to a
glue factory and boiled down, he'd make the world's finest an.
He's the only satisfacment I've got is known that he
has a three mile walk home.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Oh he hasn't, he said he lives only a little
way from here.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
He's a liar among other things.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
Oh well, at least hee the man with ambition.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
And I'm ashamed of you for leaving your job with him,
and all the fine chance of the offiture.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
I'd have seats of automobiles where he has one, in
towns where he has houses before I'm finished.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
And how are you going to get them?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Oh, Margaret, the way is the success are endless to
the man with brains and hands and courage.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
And every one of them requires work.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm not afraid of work. I look about, see the
world and what it has to offer, and shape it
to my hands. When you come dancing on Thursday, nope,
why not because.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You cannot afford the money until you get yourself work
and stop dreaming your way through life.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I am not dreaming my way through life. My plan
for definite, definitely, that's what they are. I'll wear no
man's collar and set her down into the first comfortable
rutted which I happen to find myself.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
And I not waste the time of anyone.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Who'd walk out of a job in such prospects with
a fine man like mister Moran.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Good night, mister Ryan.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
So there I am walking home in the moonlight, please
the air again, and taking a savage kick at every
stone on the road as I passed. And the next
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morning it's still spring, when the world is as wide
as ever, and there are grand opportunities for a young man,
and Duluth and San Francisco, Dundon and Auckland, and fortunes
to be made in Indian, Golden Africa, and the panthers
waving in South American, all the world to be seen.
And I not have to see it that him thirty
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years old, he is getting on for middle age, and
solid in his rut as a mid course. But it
comes to me suddenly that he is six feet tall,
with curly hair and blue eyes and such, and there
is the possibility that a woman might see something in him.
And so after a bit of that sort of thinking,
I get up from my chair in the garden and
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walk downtown and go in and knock on his door
with my pride riising my throat like a wet sponge,
and he says, come in. And there he is with
his feet on the table and a thumb to his mouth,
as though we'd been biting it. Comand and him, where.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Did you meet her?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Who?
Speaker 7 (15:58):
And what have you been doing?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
I have no idea of whom you are speaking the one.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
I'm a reasonable man and never too fixed in review
point to change it.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Now.
Speaker 6 (16:09):
I've always been of the opinion that you were a
harmless lunatic, but miss Dillon seems to have it so
firmly fixed in our head that the only worthwhile people
in the world are the dreamers and the men with imagination.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Then what did you say?
Speaker 6 (16:23):
I said that you've thrown a spell over Miss Dylan,
which inclines her to believe that you have courage instead
of being lazy, and brains instead of the gift of
the gab.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
And she's made a.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Reluctant convert of me.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
I'm merely growing old before me time by staying here
and trying to.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Build up a business.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
I'm going to leave it what and see what the
world offers in the way of large opportunities and adventure.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
But for what's going to happen to the business.
Speaker 6 (16:48):
To this business, anything that happens will be an improvement.
It can go to blazes.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Oh and I suppose you'll be bragging to Miss Dylan
of your great resolve.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
I'll be informing her Abbert on Thursday night after or
already you've known of for exactly one week. That's a
start which can be overtaken.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
We'll say about that where's mister didn't work?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
But you can be going to a Michael. You cannot
come in here the.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
President and your old president. I think it's only right
to tell you that your shameless, feminine duplicity has resulted
in the wrecking of not one life, but of two.
I cannot go back to the business, even if I
wanted to, because Tim has now decided to close it
up and go off hunting Ivory in Africa or see
us in Lapland.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
Has he indeed? And what have I to do with it?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Everything you belabored to me, you've praised to him, and
he now thinks I was right, for I know I
was wrong, and is off to do as I am
now not going to do.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
I have become entangled with two madmen, and the sooner
you're both out of my life, the better.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Dining with him tomorrow evening. There's no way to get
him out of your life.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
That's no concern of yours.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
And you have no cause to be interested in the
fact that we'll be dining at the Moresby at age fifteen.
And now would you leave me to my work before
the President comes in here and throws you.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Out the Moresby eight fifteen. Well, good evening to you, Ball,
Good evening, Michael.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
And why the devil should you be happening along here
at this minute?
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The Moresby is a public eating place, and I'm prepared
to pay my bill. I am also prepared to join
you if invited. We're expecting my grandfather, who makes.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
Noises with his soup, and his older sister, who is
a suffragette.
Speaker 7 (18:43):
You won't find the company entertaining.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Perhaps if MS didn't did not object, I might fill
in the time until they are rive.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Sit down, Michaels and wipe those skulls off your faces.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Both of you. Thank you, Margaret fred I understand that
you're off for TASMI or baruchest and Tim I am not?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Or was it Greenland? Perhaps I'm staying right here in
this town. I'm remaining in the insurance business. I shall
be buried here.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
I shall be glad to go to the funeral, Miss Dylan.
Speaker 7 (19:13):
Would you care to dance with pleasure?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Mister Moran, It wasn't the sort of dancing to worry
a man. Tim's face was like Asa Craig, and he
held Margaret with the grip that is used for shoving
a large chest of drawers from one car to another.
The entire conversation, so far as I could see, consisted
of three sarres from Tim. Finally the dance ended, and
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there was a solemn, shifty smile in the back of
Margaret's eye when they returned to the table.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
I am now going to pounder my nose, if you'll
both excuse me.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
She told you we will go to be here. Perhaps
she didn't.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
A man with any decency would not have come trail
and after us.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Decency is a strange word your mouth.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
I've been hearing more about your singular virtues.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
I'm sick of the sounding your name.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Indeed, I find it incredible and only a step this
side of madness.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
But there's no question about her.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
She prefers you to me. She doesn't, she does. She
told me so, she didn't so many words.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
And so she came back, and the clouds were billowing
under her feet, and the band was playing heavenly hymns
about her, and there were stars in her hair, and
a shower of rose petals falling about her from the clouds.
And I stood up at the table and held out
my arms as wide as was seemley, and greeted her
with a brilliant smile that must have won her. And
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she said, sat.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Down and stop making a spectacle of yourself.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Margarets. Ah, Now, Margarets, would you dance with me? Ye stopping? Oh,
my darling, I'll shower you with diamonds. I ransacked the
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kingdoms of the moon for you. It's forty fo each
in the roads right, and goobo poian behind you when you.
Speaker 4 (21:19):
Travel ambition to become the world's greatest traffic problem.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Have you gone mad?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I think so? I knew your heart was the dreamer's
heart to ah, did you?
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Indeed?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Kim's gonna stay in a business letting?
Speaker 5 (21:34):
And so are you what you're good to ask you tonight.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
You're going to take you outside right after this dance,
and Michael, if you refuse, I'll never.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Speak to you again.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Mark, all the trouble I've been to put in a
word for you, a word with Tim, I never needed
a word put in for me with Tim.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Well you've had it now, remember after this dam.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
And so the dance ended and we came back to
the table, and Tim and I looked each other very
hard in the eye, and then we looked at Margaret,
and then he got up, and we turned together and
walked away without a word, And out of the corner
of my eye, I saw Margaret look around her and
hold her handkerchief just a bit above the table, and
then let it drop. Meanwhile, Tim and I stood in
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the lounge and looked at each other hard again and
shook hands very solemnly.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
We've been hornswoggled by the world's most designing female for
our own good, very well, for our own good. But
I'm sad at the thought of what your married life's.
Speaker 7 (22:38):
Going to be like. And I wish every happiness.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I'm not saying mine that just because I'm soon to
be a married man. I'd stay in the insurance business.
I'm wearing no chains yet.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
The clank of them is deafinitely this minute. Ah, but
it's a pleasant sound of death. And want to make
an old bachelor envious.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
And out cheer up, tim boy.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
There's other women in the world, none like her, and
I wish I'd never set eyes on her.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Come on back, and we start back, and we get
in sight of our own table, and our head snap
up and our eyes goggled because without a draft decoset,
we're seeing double. There are two Margarets at the table,
or rather there's my Margarets and another that might have
been born a year or two before her at the margin,
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and our feet bring us to the table without her
having anything to do with it, and Margaret favors us
with a sweet, wide eyed smile, and I suddenly remember
the sight of that draft handkerchief.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
What dor gabe? So you two with all of my sisters, Moira.
This is Michael Ryan and this is Timothy Moran.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
How do you do take a chair again, mister Moran?
I only sat down for a moment.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
I'm not another table with whom two of my girlfriends.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
We thought you'd have been here.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
And listen to the music coincidence, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (23:56):
It is? Indeed, do take a change to Moran.
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I'd not think of it.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I must be getting back to me things anyway.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Nonsense, two girls alone are no more miserable than three.
Speaker 7 (24:06):
You'll stay with me.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I'd not think of intrude.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Nine year to be far from an intrusion, and we
insist there's a high heaven and the lights of the stairs.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
I'll stand no more nonsense from the Dylan family.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Sit down, woman, or I'll pick you up in my
arms and sit you down myself.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
Very well, if you determined you spots.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That was twenty eight years ago, and it was the
last shore for either of us ever.
Speaker 8 (24:38):
Maid ahway, that's the last.
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Oh well, if you're finished at last week going.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
A fine clean garden, is it?
Speaker 5 (24:58):
Michael Ryan? I last thank you once more and for
the last time, did you know?
Speaker 7 (25:02):
And no?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
And no, I did not forget anything at the office.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
And I wish I'd not baked the cake and got
in sherry and asked him.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
And more to come over to No you do.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
I be ashamed for the first time in my life.
And I'm hurt too, are you now? You don't even ask.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Me why I was thinking of something else, whatever they
came of that red hat?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
What red hat?
Speaker 3 (25:25):
So when you were wearing when I first bumped into
your side of the drug.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
Store, that was a blue hat. They gave it to
the cleaning woman fifteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
You never heard another as good, and it was red.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It was blue.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Do you not think I can remember what you would
wear in the day I met you?
Speaker 5 (25:40):
Well, with such a memory. The pity you can't remember
the day you married me.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
If you think I've been unable to perceive the drift
of your hints and questionings all the evening, you're still
underrestimate me after twenty and more years. If you'll go
to my coat and put your hand in the right
hand pocket, you'll fight you're looking, Oh my god, did that?
As I have been maintaining with entire truthfulness. Forget it
(26:04):
that the.
Speaker 8 (26:04):
Ah darling old blackguard.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Alone in Michael, this little weading you can do by.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The light of the moon, the moon, and I once
wanted to be king of it. Ah, Well, there's been
no one else set foot on the moon either. Maybe
it'll be Michael Junior who plants the name of ring.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Maid that was king of the moon. As written by
(27:06):
Joseph Schule. The production was directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Duncan.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Ian Martin, recently starred in Finian's Rainbow, was heard as
Michael Andre Wallace was Margaret. Other players were Roy Irving
and Grace Kendy. The music was composed and conducted by
doctor Roy Shield. Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the
National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
McDonough. Beginning next week, Radio.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
City Playhouse will be heard on Saturdays at eight o'clock
Eastern Daylight Saving time over most of these NBC stations.
Our first offering in this new time is Mother by
Stanley Robert Metta. Think the psychological study of a strange
and sadly confused woman. Be with us then next Saturday,
September the eleventh, at eight o'clock or Mother Attraction twelve
(28:11):
on Radio City Playhouse, Robert Warren speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
This is NBC, the National Broadcasting Company
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