June 27, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction five
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Attraction five Special Delivery, starring Abby Lewis as Hilda, a
woman tormented by doubt and jealousy.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The script was written by Harry W.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Jenkin, who also directs the production. Here is Radio City
Playhouse Attraction five Special Delivery.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Maybe you don't believe in coincidence. Maybe you won't believe
all this could happen in one day, or that it's
too much to believe that Neil would telephone five minutes
after that letter was mailed. Maybe you'll say some coincidence,
or say it it's the same thing that picks one
train out of all the trains in the world, one
car out of all the cars in the world, and
one railroad crossing out of all the railroad crossings in
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the world.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
As as she writes, her hand sticks to the paper,
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the new heat is unmoving, solid, relentless. At the end
of the letter, she signs her name.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Your loving Dodd now Hilda, and that my fine prancing
husband will fix you. Ellen, Judge James T. Bradley, Ellen
A Mail Special Delivery. Ellen, for heaven's sake, what are
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you doing? Yes, missus Bradley. I want you to mail this.
It's a male special delivery. You'll need a thirteen and
a five. Here's a dollar get the stance at drug store. Yes,
Missus Bradley. If you hurry, you'll catch to one o'clock.
Pick up from the mail box at the corner. I'll
hurry Missus brad hits to mister Bradley's father in Washington.
It's very important. It's got to get their own time. Okay,
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Missus Bradley, I'll hurry her. Yes, youth Us Governor.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
M.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Handy Post Office, think Avenue and finish First Street, Pennsylvania,
six seven oh nine nights six seven a man Nae.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Post Office.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I want to inquire about a letter, Yes, madam, a
letter mail just now from New York to Washington air
male special delivery. When would it get there? But it
should be there by nine o'clock tonight, madam. If it's
marked special delivery, they'd send it out right away. You're
sure it would be there by ten. Of course I
can't guarantee it, madam, but you think it would be? Yes, madam?
All right? Thank you? Oh need you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Could you too? Hello?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Hilda? That you Hilda? Yes, you sound peculiar.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'm all right.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Is it still convenient for me to drop in to night?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was expecting you. Ellen has the rest of your
things packed, they'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'd like to see you, Hilda. What do you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Want a farm Farewell?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Hilda?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I got the evening old planned. We can toast each
other in life, to guess.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I wish you'd listen to reason reason you you're sat Hilda.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We can't talk on the phone. You're so mixed up
with love and hate. You don't know what to think.
I don't want to leave you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I love you.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I've told you that a thousand times. I've said it
so often that you almost believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Leep down, you believe it, don't you, Oly.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't know. One minute I could claw you apart,
and the next.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I con Hilda. It won't hurt you to talk to me,
will it?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It always has?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I love you, Darling. You can't just throw me out
like this. There's nothing with Sharon. There's never been anything
with Sharon.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
If only weak I could believe it's.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
True, dear, honestly true. I I just can't believe this
is happening to us. You can't mean it. Please see
me just once more, please, Hilda.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Neil, Neil, Do you really think we could get I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Sure we could. Oh, He'll that, Darling. I love you.
You can only trust me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But you're so Oh I know, I know, Saint, I've
eaten with jealousy.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's true, Hilda.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Only will I give anything? We could? I try not
to be just. You don't know what it's like one
minute I want, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Don't. Let's talk on the phone, Dear. I'll be up tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Just remember, no matter what else you think, I love you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Want to come for dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh, Held, You'll never be sorry. We can get back
together again. You'll never be sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I promise, maybe we can. Maybe I want you terribly.
I can't talk anymore. Come about it, all right, Held, goodbye, goodbye.
Why is it this one moment I'm lov him to
death and the next moment I want to kill you?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The letter Ellen? Never mind that letter Ellen, Helen Ellen.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Perhaps if I park in the shade, Missus Bradley, the
car w'd be cooler.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
This is all right, Brooks.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
What time is it?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Eh, twenty five past one, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But it says on the leftter box. If the pickup
is it one, Brooks, where can he be?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Heal'll be along?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It says one o'clock on the box. Why don't they
clear it at one o'clock? Do you think we'd missed him?
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Well? I wouldn't know, miss Bradley Brooks.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm going to ask for a lefterback. Do you think
he'll give it to me?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I wouldn't know, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
After all, I wrote it. It's not as though it
was somebody.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Else's letter, No, miss Bradley, not when you wrote it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
The devil doesn't come.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
He'll probably be along soon, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Or if i'd only called Ellen before she knew it, Brooks,
there he is.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I want me to come, leader, Missus Bradley Brooks, I
won't be long.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
A postman?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, lady, what is it?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Are you going to open that letter box?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:09):
That's what I get paid for?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Lady?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
How much?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
How much do you get paid?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
How much money do you make?
Speaker 8 (08:17):
I don't see is how that's any of your business?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Sorry? I didn't know.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
That's okay, lady.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You see I nailed my maiden name. I mean I
nailed and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You better get that straight, lady.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yes, yes, I nailed a letter. I wrote it too,
just a little over an hour ago. It's in this box.
I must get it back. What I must get it back?
I can prove I wrote it. I brought a sample
of my handwriting so that you'd know that I wrote it.
It's addressed to Judge Bradley and Washington. It's the email
Special Delivery, and it's terribly important that I get it back.
I forgot to put something in it that I should
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have and it's terribly lady.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
You're not making sense.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
What did you put in the letter?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Lady?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Listen to me, please, it's terribly urgent.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I'm listening all right, but you're not making sense what
I mean? There isn't a chance of you getting a
letter that's been.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Dropped in this bar.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Why I wrote it? It's mine. I shouldn't a w
it's a terribly bad, wicked level.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
I shouldn't now it's wicked.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Eh, What first you say you left something map? Now
it's wicked.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What is in the letter?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Lady?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'll give you five hundred dollars for that letter? You will, yes,
right now, I've got it here.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The money right from keep it there.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
What the cop?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
No, No, across the street.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He's watching us.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
It's broad daylight.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Now, don't start waving a hundred dollars bills to be
right under a CoP's nose.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Five hundred dollars for my letter must be some letter.
Will you give it to me?
Speaker 8 (09:37):
That's your car over there, big one with the chauffeur.
Make it a thousand.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I can't. I can't possibly give you a thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
I haven't got get it. Then I can't, okay, lady,
I can't.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I can't get a thousand dollars without my husband wanting to.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Know what we tell him.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Then this letter you having a little fun on the side.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh you all right?
Speaker 9 (09:58):
Have it your way, lady.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Here five hundred dollars like, no, take it, take it
and give me.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Rush that door again, and so help me.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
I'll layer one.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
That cup's coming over, and I shut up.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Can't you give it to give it?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Shut up?
Speaker 8 (10:08):
That cups coming over.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'll follow you in my car.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I followed you, all right, but beat it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Find the place is quiet, I'll follow you. I'm sure
you can hang on to a mail prop with a camera.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Don't worry, missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Where's he going?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Probably another box on.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
His room, watching traffic's getting heavier. Book, he's making that
light go on. Books, never mind the light go on.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I can't miss. I'm sorry you've lost I couldn't help
it out of rundown.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I'm just swear. Do you think you're going chucking?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I'm sorry, officer, but we're catching a train.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
No, ain't that's swell.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We're in the officer plea that it is terribly important.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Yes, it's also important that your bad traffic signals not
back up.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Officer.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Please, you mustn't look lady obstructing traffic. I'm telling you
to back up and wait for the green knock back up.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
As officer, you've lost your full Brooks. Well, I'm sorry,
missus Brandy, but if I kept on going, I had
to run down that policeman.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It's all right, Brooks, it's not your fault. I guess
you gotta take me home. You you US government? M
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M then Hope Post Office, Pennsylvania six seven nine.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
H Post Office.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Who's in charge of everything?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Just what was it you wanted?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Madam?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I asked you a perfectly plain question. I want to
know who's in charge of everything. Mister Rogers is a
postal superintendent, Madam, let me speak to him please just
a moment, Madam. Hello, Hello, mister Rogers, this is missus
Neil J. Bradley speaking. I must see you about something
very important. If I came right down to your.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Office, could you see me just what wasn't you wanted,
Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I can't possibly tell you about it over the telephone.
I must see you, mister Rogers. Please let me come
down well.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
If it's that important, try certainly. Eighth Avenue and thirty
first three.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Thank you, mister Rogers. I'll be down in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Come in, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Sit down, won't you?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Well? What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's hard to know where to start. Do you think
that people who aren't really basically bad can ever do
wicked things?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I've done something something gasping.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Missus Bradley. I don't know quite what you mean, mister Rogers.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Are you married? What are you well?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
As a matter of fact, I am why do you
love your wife? Missus Bradley? What are you talking about?
Do you why? Yes? Yes, of course I love my wife.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Do you love her so much sometimes you want to
kill her?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Really, Missus Bradley, I can't, for the life of me
understand what it is you want me to do.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, I I wrote a letter, a special delivery letter,
a letter, A dreadful, terrible letter. Let it isn't true
at all. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Have I since?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I got to get it back. If I don't get
it back, my husband's life and my life. I just
got to get it back.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
This is Bradley. There's no use here going on. You
come down here to get a letter back. It's quite impossible,
quite impossible.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Listen to me, Please listen to me. You don't know
what was in the letter. It wouldn't matter that two
lies will be hopelessly wrecked.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm sorry. How can you be so calous, Missus Bradley.
The moment a letter is mail, it becomes the property
of the address. See it's an absolutely unbreakable regulation regulation.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
This letter is murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Missus Bradley. You'd better go home. You're upset.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Please let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Please.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
My husband and I were very close. We were very
deeply in health. I think we could be again anyway.
He was overseas for four years Franks mostly. I took
it very badly. I was awful about it. I cried
at the beast provocation I imagined it, but with all
thoughts of French women. Now, Oh, I know I'm neurotic.
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I just can't help me that way. Jealous, I've always
been jealous. I fight it. I swear I'll never again
be suspicious or horrible, but I am. I was always
that for jealous of his work, his business, his friends, everything.
Then we lost a baby. I'm a little older.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Than you, missus Bradley. This is very hard on you.
Why don't you let me send you home in my car?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's no use.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I was afrazed that he was beginning to think that
I was too old for him, too old for him
to love. He began to see something of another woman,
Sharon Elders. I thought I'd go crazy. I used to
plan how I could kill it, then kill him. Oh,
don't look so stricken. I never got to the point
that I attempted murder, but I go on, I reached
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that point today.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
What do you mean there is murder in that letter?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Do I have to tell you everything? Can't you understand.
That's what I don't want to do.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
This is Bradley. I can't do anything for you, really,
I can't. I'd like to help you, but I can.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Why Why it's that I wrote it? Nobody else has
seen it, nobody It can't do anybody any harmless. You'll
give it back. I'll tear it up right here in
your office. You can tear it up yourself. Nobody will
ever know. I swear I'll never tell anybody. Never, Please,
mister Rogers. I'm nearly out of my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Missus Bradley. You will have to excuse me.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Just after I mailed the letter, Neil telephoned. He's coming
over tonight for dinner. And mister Rogers, if that letter's
delivered to his father in Washington, I'll never see me
again in my life. Do you understand that? Never again
in my life? You can't refuse me in the name
of common ordinary pity.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
You've got to listen to me.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I was going to kill it tonight. Yes, it's true.
I was going to kill him. I planned it all week.
I was cold and relentless and incredibly clever. Every last
detail was planned. The police would be food, everybody would
be fooled. It was perfect. It was a perfect murder.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And now you're not going to kill him. You're going home. Please,
Missus Bradley, let me take you home.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
You don't understand I was killing him tonight by taking
my own luck.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He would have followed me, because because.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
If I could get that letter back, no one would
ever know. Don't you see can't you understand?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You mean you actually planned to kill yourself and have
your husband take the blame.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, the letter was to his father, Judge Bradley. The
letter was part of the plot. I said that I
knew ne you would kill me tonight. The letter was
to be the final piece of evidence. Oh, I've been horrible,
jealous and awful, but I'm not bad, mister Rogers. Really
I'm not. I just can't help it. I'll never be
like this again.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Please help me, please, well, really, missus Braddley, you make
it so difficult.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
If you can't, you can't, that's all.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Wait a minute, give me the special delivery desk on
three special delivery airmail.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes, mister Rogers, shall never be sorry. I promise you,
if you'll help me, you will never regret it. I
swear on it.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hello, who's there? Oh Johnson? See if you've got a
letter for Bradley B R A D L E Y
in Washington.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
All right, they enter all special delivery letters in the book.
What when did you mail it?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Today? One o'clock?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
One o'clock today, air mail to Washington.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, m all right Johnson. No, No, that's all. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Well your letter's gone, Missus Bradley. It'll make the plane
that leaves for Washington in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
That's two Brooks. We're only ten more minutes, or we're.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Doing seventy, Missus Pratty doing.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Ninety, do one hundred. Please God help me, please, he'll
get it. Give me time, pleases.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Flight seven to Washington. Flight seven to Washington now loading
through gate.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Nothing to Oliva. Please?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Is that the next flight to Wash?
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Yes, madam, leaving in three minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I want a seat.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
I'm sorry, madam, the flight is four.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I've got to get on that plane.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
There might be a cancelation on flight eighth, madam. If
you care to stand by for an hour, I'll see.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
What I was in charge of the mail on that plane.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Well, just what is it you want, madam?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
If you'll keep quiet. I'll tell you. I want to
know who's in charge of the mail. Is that the
ship out there, the big silver one? Is that the
one that's going to wash it?
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Yes, madam, but it's quite impossible for me to get madam.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Madam, come back here, you.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Crank, go through there, madam.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Seven to Washington, A.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Mister you, I've got to get on this plane. Would
you sell me your seat for five hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I beg your pardon. I don't think I understand you.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Miss.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'll give you five hundred dollars for your seat on
this flight. I'm mostly sorry, but I have to be
in washing in myself.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Excuse me, let's me bye.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Please, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Let me pass your names.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Six. I don't have a seat, but I must get
on this plane because I've written a lot of this
being carried on, and I have to get to Washington
when the letter gets there, so that perhaps I can
stop it from being delivered to my father in law.
I should, madam, have you a reservation on this plane. No, no, no,
I keep telling you that. But just to put somebody
else off, I must be on this plate.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I must.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
I must.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But Madam, if you haven't a ticket, but I'm thinking
I don't want to ride for nothing.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Tickets left.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Will you see the ticket agent in the airport. Please? No,
it's this flight I want. I just been Washington before.
Let us, but I wrote it on this plane.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
It's very silly.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Would you mind stepping aside, madam?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Please?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You're preventing the passengers from boarding.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Your name, sir brandj see for mister B.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I wrote to this plane when I your name Adam
walk mej eleven stewardess. I must get to Washington before
that letter does. I may be able to explain to
my father and see six. Thank you Stewards. For heaven's sake,
listen to me. I've written a very silly letter that
I shouldn't have written. If I don't ken my husband's
your name, madam, missus George McDonald's please Stuart, and you'll me.
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I don't need to bother you, so I get on
this plane. If you don't let me explain the name, madam,
I'm sorry. I don't doubt that you're tricking urgent, but
you haven't the season I am scanned up.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't need to.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Madam.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
We're ready to take off. You must leave the ship.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Let me stay.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I'll give you five dollars if you let me stay, please, Adam.
If you won't get off, I'll have to have you
put off. Well, I won't, I won't get off. I walk,
I walk, mister Hill, mister Hills, will you help me? Seees,
I can't do anything with this woman. She won't get
off the ship. All right, I'll get off.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Should I drive you home now? Missus Bradley, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
What home now?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yes, mister Bradley will be home for dinner, some coffee, Neil.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
No, thanks? Aren't you well, Hilda?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yes, I'm fine, you seem i've the nervous, nervous. Never
seen you like this before, heild Up. Please don't worry
about things. It's all settled, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I guess so, you guess so. I don't want to
talk about it any more.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I don't understand you to night here.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I don't understand myself. What time is it?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Quarter after? Ten?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Minute?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What do you mean any minute?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You must have meant something.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It doesn't matter, hild Up. Please don't brood any more.
I thought i'd come up here and had we just settled,
it all. I even told the hotel.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'd be checking out to night. I thought maybe i'd
come back here to night. Hilda thought you'd want me to.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I do want you to.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You'll go for your bags? Now go right now, will
you please? It'll only take you an hour?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yilda? What is bothering you? You're shaking like a leaf.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What here is it? Reenacting so strangely? You'll evening? Please
don't cry, Hilda.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Tell me what it is. I can help, Darling. It
kills me to see you like this. There's nothing to
cry about. Now, everything's going.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
To be all.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Don't touch me, Hilda.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
You might as well go this. You shall stay any longer.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I thing. I've never seen you so upset. Here.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Drink this please, Hilda. Have some coffee please, I don't
want any coffee. Please here, drink it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's it's cold.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It'll do you good. I dropped that cup. You'd have
murdered me.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Don't what. Don't answer it, Hilda, don't answer it.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I tell you you can't answer it in that condition.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Leave it, leave it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Let it ring, Hilda, don't be silly. Hello, Yes, this
is Regent four, nine ninety seven. Oh, thank you. Washington
must be dead.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, hello, Dad, it's Neil. Well.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I didn't expect to be here either, but Hilda and
I have everything patched up.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well. I'm glad too.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
God help me you what.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
A letter from Hilda to night? What?
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You better talk to Hilda about it? Here? Talk to Dad.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No, I don't want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Control yourself.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Hell, that's something about a letter?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You will?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I know.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I don't want to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Just a minute, dad, Hilda, will you control yourself if
you write him a special delivery letter?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yes? Yes, at least lost.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
It or something?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
What? Talk to him? For goodness sake, stop crying, Jill me.
He'll tell you. The postman brought him a letter in
your handwriting special delivery.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
He took it out, laid down on the terrace railing
while he fume for his glasses, and it blew off.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
God a time.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
He got down eight flights to the street that had
blown in the Kingdom com or something here? Talk to him?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
What? What did you say? Hello?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
What?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It was nothing?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You have just heard? Special Delivery as written by Harry W. Jncan,
who also directed the production. Abby Lewis starred as Hilda Bradley.
Other players in the cast included ln Clark, Scott McKay,
Bernard Grant, Lannie Carville, Mildred Clinton, and Joel Marston. The
music was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Radio
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City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company by
Richard P.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
McDonough. Next week, Hit and Ron, written.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
By Max Schue, It is the story of a man
who made a mistake and made amends in the only
way he knew how. In the demanding role of Hal
Lawrence will be heard the young American actor Casey Allen,
whose brilliant performance some weeks ago in Radio City Playhouse
merit at a return appearance. We sincerely hope you will
join us next Saturday for Hit and Run Attraction six,
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Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
The people of the.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
War shaken lands of Europe, men, women and children still
look to the people of the United States for help
in this period of hunger and want. For just ten dollars,
you can send the care package to relatives or friends
in Europe, or if you have no particular person or
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will choose a family. For you, just send ten dollars
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cre New York. This is Robert Warren speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
This is end.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
See the National Broadcasting Company
Speaker 8 (29:06):
H H.
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction five
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Attraction five Special Delivery, starring Abby Lewis as Hilda, a
woman tormented by doubt and jealousy.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
The script was written by Harry W.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Jenkin, who also directs the production. Here is Radio City
Playhouse Attraction five Special Delivery.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Maybe you don't believe in coincidence. Maybe you won't believe
all this could happen in one day, or that it's
too much to believe that Neil would telephone five minutes
after that letter was mailed. Maybe you'll say some coincidence,
or say it it's the same thing that picks one
train out of all the trains in the world, one
car out of all the cars in the world, and
one railroad crossing out of all the railroad crossings in
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the world.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
As as she writes, her hand sticks to the paper,
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the new heat is unmoving, solid, relentless. At the end
of the letter, she signs her name.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Your loving Dodd now Hilda, and that my fine prancing
husband will fix you. Ellen, Judge James T. Bradley, Ellen
A Mail Special Delivery. Ellen, for heaven's sake, what are
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you doing? Yes, missus Bradley. I want you to mail this.
It's a male special delivery. You'll need a thirteen and
a five. Here's a dollar get the stance at drug store. Yes,
Missus Bradley. If you hurry, you'll catch to one o'clock.
Pick up from the mail box at the corner. I'll
hurry Missus brad hits to mister Bradley's father in Washington.
It's very important. It's got to get their own time. Okay,
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Missus Bradley, I'll hurry her. Yes, youth Us Governor.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
M.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Handy Post Office, think Avenue and finish First Street, Pennsylvania,
six seven oh nine nights six seven a man Nae.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Post Office.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I want to inquire about a letter, Yes, madam, a
letter mail just now from New York to Washington air
male special delivery. When would it get there? But it
should be there by nine o'clock tonight, madam. If it's
marked special delivery, they'd send it out right away. You're
sure it would be there by ten. Of course I
can't guarantee it, madam, but you think it would be? Yes, madam?
All right? Thank you? Oh need you?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Could you too? Hello?
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Hilda? That you Hilda? Yes, you sound peculiar.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
I'm all right.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Is it still convenient for me to drop in to night?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was expecting you. Ellen has the rest of your
things packed, they'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I'd like to see you, Hilda. What do you.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Want a farm Farewell?
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Hilda?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
I got the evening old planned. We can toast each
other in life, to guess.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I wish you'd listen to reason reason you you're sat Hilda.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
We can't talk on the phone. You're so mixed up
with love and hate. You don't know what to think.
I don't want to leave you.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I love you.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I've told you that a thousand times. I've said it
so often that you almost believe it.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Leep down, you believe it, don't you, Oly.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't know. One minute I could claw you apart,
and the next.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I con Hilda. It won't hurt you to talk to me,
will it?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It always has?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I love you, Darling. You can't just throw me out
like this. There's nothing with Sharon. There's never been anything
with Sharon.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
If only weak I could believe it's.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
True, dear, honestly true. I I just can't believe this
is happening to us. You can't mean it. Please see
me just once more, please, Hilda.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Neil, Neil, Do you really think we could get I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Sure we could. Oh, He'll that, Darling. I love you.
You can only trust me.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
But you're so Oh I know, I know, Saint, I've
eaten with jealousy.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
It's true, Hilda.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Only will I give anything? We could? I try not
to be just. You don't know what it's like one
minute I want, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Don't. Let's talk on the phone, Dear. I'll be up tonight.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Just remember, no matter what else you think, I love you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Want to come for dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh, Held, You'll never be sorry. We can get back
together again. You'll never be sorry.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
I promise, maybe we can. Maybe I want you terribly.
I can't talk anymore. Come about it, all right, Held, goodbye, goodbye.
Why is it this one moment I'm lov him to
death and the next moment I want to kill you?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The letter Ellen? Never mind that letter Ellen, Helen Ellen.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Perhaps if I park in the shade, Missus Bradley, the
car w'd be cooler.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
This is all right, Brooks.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
What time is it?
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Eh, twenty five past one, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
But it says on the leftter box. If the pickup
is it one, Brooks, where can he be?
Speaker 6 (07:20):
Heal'll be along?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It says one o'clock on the box. Why don't they
clear it at one o'clock? Do you think we'd missed him?
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Well? I wouldn't know, miss Bradley Brooks.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
I'm going to ask for a lefterback. Do you think
he'll give it to me?
Speaker 6 (07:36):
I wouldn't know, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
After all, I wrote it. It's not as though it
was somebody.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Else's letter, No, miss Bradley, not when you wrote it.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
The devil doesn't come.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
He'll probably be along soon, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Or if i'd only called Ellen before she knew it, Brooks,
there he is.
Speaker 8 (07:53):
I want me to come, leader, Missus Bradley Brooks, I
won't be long.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
A postman?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yeah, lady, what is it?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Are you going to open that letter box?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (08:09):
That's what I get paid for?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Lady?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
How much?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
How much do you get paid?
Speaker 8 (08:14):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
How much money do you make?
Speaker 8 (08:17):
I don't see is how that's any of your business?
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Sorry? I didn't know.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
That's okay, lady.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
You see I nailed my maiden name. I mean I
nailed and.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
You better get that straight, lady.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Yes, yes, I nailed a letter. I wrote it too,
just a little over an hour ago. It's in this box.
I must get it back. What I must get it back?
I can prove I wrote it. I brought a sample
of my handwriting so that you'd know that I wrote it.
It's addressed to Judge Bradley and Washington. It's the email
Special Delivery, and it's terribly important that I get it back.
I forgot to put something in it that I should
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have and it's terribly lady.
Speaker 8 (08:50):
You're not making sense.
Speaker 9 (08:52):
What did you put in the letter?
Speaker 8 (08:54):
Lady?
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Listen to me, please, it's terribly urgent.
Speaker 8 (08:57):
I'm listening all right, but you're not making sense what
I mean? There isn't a chance of you getting a
letter that's been.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Dropped in this bar.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Why I wrote it? It's mine. I shouldn't a w
it's a terribly bad, wicked level.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
I shouldn't now it's wicked.
Speaker 8 (09:12):
Eh, What first you say you left something map? Now
it's wicked.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
What is in the letter?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Lady?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I'll give you five hundred dollars for that letter? You will, yes,
right now, I've got it here.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
The money right from keep it there.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
What the cop?
Speaker 8 (09:28):
No, No, across the street.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
He's watching us.
Speaker 9 (09:30):
It's broad daylight.
Speaker 8 (09:31):
Now, don't start waving a hundred dollars bills to be
right under a CoP's nose.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Five hundred dollars for my letter must be some letter.
Will you give it to me?
Speaker 8 (09:37):
That's your car over there, big one with the chauffeur.
Make it a thousand.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I can't. I can't possibly give you a thousand dollars.
Speaker 9 (09:44):
I haven't got get it. Then I can't, okay, lady,
I can't.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I can't get a thousand dollars without my husband wanting to.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
Know what we tell him.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Then this letter you having a little fun on the side.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh you all right?
Speaker 9 (09:58):
Have it your way, lady.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Here five hundred dollars like, no, take it, take it
and give me.
Speaker 9 (10:03):
Rush that door again, and so help me.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
I'll layer one.
Speaker 9 (10:05):
That cup's coming over, and I shut up.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Can't you give it to give it?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Shut up?
Speaker 8 (10:08):
That cups coming over.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'll follow you in my car.
Speaker 6 (10:11):
I followed you, all right, but beat it.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Find the place is quiet, I'll follow you. I'm sure
you can hang on to a mail prop with a camera.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
Don't worry, missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Where's he going?
Speaker 6 (10:29):
Probably another box on.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
His room, watching traffic's getting heavier. Book, he's making that
light go on. Books, never mind the light go on.
Speaker 6 (10:36):
I can't miss. I'm sorry you've lost I couldn't help
it out of rundown.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I'm just swear. Do you think you're going chucking?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
I'm sorry, officer, but we're catching a train.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
No, ain't that's swell.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
We're in the officer plea that it is terribly important.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Yes, it's also important that your bad traffic signals not
back up.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Officer.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
Please, you mustn't look lady obstructing traffic. I'm telling you
to back up and wait for the green knock back up.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
As officer, you've lost your full Brooks. Well, I'm sorry,
missus Brandy, but if I kept on going, I had
to run down that policeman.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
It's all right, Brooks, it's not your fault. I guess
you gotta take me home. You you US government? M
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M then Hope Post Office, Pennsylvania six seven nine.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
H Post Office.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
Who's in charge of everything?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Just what was it you wanted?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
Madam?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I asked you a perfectly plain question. I want to
know who's in charge of everything. Mister Rogers is a
postal superintendent, Madam, let me speak to him please just
a moment, Madam. Hello, Hello, mister Rogers, this is missus
Neil J. Bradley speaking. I must see you about something
very important. If I came right down to your.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Office, could you see me just what wasn't you wanted,
Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
I can't possibly tell you about it over the telephone.
I must see you, mister Rogers. Please let me come
down well.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
If it's that important, try certainly. Eighth Avenue and thirty
first three.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Thank you, mister Rogers. I'll be down in twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Come in, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Sit down, won't you?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Well? What can I do for you?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's hard to know where to start. Do you think
that people who aren't really basically bad can ever do
wicked things?
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I've done something something gasping.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Missus Bradley. I don't know quite what you mean, mister Rogers.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Are you married? What are you well?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
As a matter of fact, I am why do you
love your wife? Missus Bradley? What are you talking about?
Do you why? Yes? Yes, of course I love my wife.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Do you love her so much sometimes you want to
kill her?
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Really, Missus Bradley, I can't, for the life of me
understand what it is you want me to do.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Well, I I wrote a letter, a special delivery letter,
a letter, A dreadful, terrible letter. Let it isn't true
at all. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Have I since?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I got to get it back. If I don't get
it back, my husband's life and my life. I just
got to get it back.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
This is Bradley. There's no use here going on. You
come down here to get a letter back. It's quite impossible,
quite impossible.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Listen to me, Please listen to me. You don't know
what was in the letter. It wouldn't matter that two
lies will be hopelessly wrecked.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'm sorry. How can you be so calous, Missus Bradley.
The moment a letter is mail, it becomes the property
of the address. See it's an absolutely unbreakable regulation regulation.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
This letter is murdered.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Missus Bradley. You'd better go home. You're upset.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Please let me tell you.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Please.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
My husband and I were very close. We were very
deeply in health. I think we could be again anyway.
He was overseas for four years Franks mostly. I took
it very badly. I was awful about it. I cried
at the beast provocation I imagined it, but with all
thoughts of French women. Now, Oh, I know I'm neurotic.
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I just can't help me that way. Jealous, I've always
been jealous. I fight it. I swear I'll never again
be suspicious or horrible, but I am. I was always
that for jealous of his work, his business, his friends, everything.
Then we lost a baby. I'm a little older.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
Than you, missus Bradley. This is very hard on you.
Why don't you let me send you home in my car?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It's no use.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I was afrazed that he was beginning to think that
I was too old for him, too old for him
to love. He began to see something of another woman,
Sharon Elders. I thought I'd go crazy. I used to
plan how I could kill it, then kill him. Oh,
don't look so stricken. I never got to the point
that I attempted murder, but I go on, I reached
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that point today.
Speaker 8 (15:45):
What do you mean there is murder in that letter?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't understand.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Do I have to tell you everything? Can't you understand.
That's what I don't want to do.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
This is Bradley. I can't do anything for you, really,
I can't. I'd like to help you, but I can.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Why Why it's that I wrote it? Nobody else has
seen it, nobody It can't do anybody any harmless. You'll
give it back. I'll tear it up right here in
your office. You can tear it up yourself. Nobody will
ever know. I swear I'll never tell anybody. Never, Please,
mister Rogers. I'm nearly out of my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Missus Bradley. You will have to excuse me.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Just after I mailed the letter, Neil telephoned. He's coming
over tonight for dinner. And mister Rogers, if that letter's
delivered to his father in Washington, I'll never see me
again in my life. Do you understand that? Never again
in my life? You can't refuse me in the name
of common ordinary pity.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
You've got to listen to me.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
I was going to kill it tonight. Yes, it's true.
I was going to kill him. I planned it all week.
I was cold and relentless and incredibly clever. Every last
detail was planned. The police would be food, everybody would
be fooled. It was perfect. It was a perfect murder.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
And now you're not going to kill him. You're going home. Please,
Missus Bradley, let me take you home.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
You don't understand I was killing him tonight by taking
my own luck.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
He would have followed me, because because.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
If I could get that letter back, no one would
ever know. Don't you see can't you understand?
Speaker 4 (17:21):
You mean you actually planned to kill yourself and have
your husband take the blame.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, the letter was to his father, Judge Bradley. The
letter was part of the plot. I said that I
knew ne you would kill me tonight. The letter was
to be the final piece of evidence. Oh, I've been horrible,
jealous and awful, but I'm not bad, mister Rogers. Really
I'm not. I just can't help it. I'll never be
like this again.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Please help me, please, well, really, missus Braddley, you make
it so difficult.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We didn't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
If you can't, you can't, that's all.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Wait a minute, give me the special delivery desk on
three special delivery airmail.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes, mister Rogers, shall never be sorry. I promise you,
if you'll help me, you will never regret it. I
swear on it.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Hello, who's there? Oh Johnson? See if you've got a
letter for Bradley B R A D L E Y
in Washington.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
All right, they enter all special delivery letters in the book.
What when did you mail it?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Today? One o'clock?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
One o'clock today, air mail to Washington.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah, m all right Johnson. No, No, that's all. Thanks.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Well your letter's gone, Missus Bradley. It'll make the plane
that leaves for Washington in twenty minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
That's two Brooks. We're only ten more minutes, or we're.
Speaker 9 (19:03):
Doing seventy, Missus Pratty doing.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Ninety, do one hundred. Please God help me, please, he'll
get it. Give me time, pleases.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Flight seven to Washington. Flight seven to Washington now loading
through gate.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Nothing to Oliva. Please?
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Is that the next flight to Wash?
Speaker 9 (19:31):
Yes, madam, leaving in three minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I want a seat.
Speaker 9 (19:33):
I'm sorry, madam, the flight is four.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I've got to get on that plane.
Speaker 9 (19:35):
There might be a cancelation on flight eighth, madam. If
you care to stand by for an hour, I'll see.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
What I was in charge of the mail on that plane.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Well, just what is it you want, madam?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
If you'll keep quiet. I'll tell you. I want to
know who's in charge of the mail. Is that the
ship out there, the big silver one? Is that the
one that's going to wash it?
Speaker 9 (19:50):
Yes, madam, but it's quite impossible for me to get madam.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Madam, come back here, you.
Speaker 9 (19:54):
Crank, go through there, madam.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Seven to Washington, A.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Mister you, I've got to get on this plane. Would
you sell me your seat for five hundred dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:13):
I beg your pardon. I don't think I understand you.
Speaker 7 (20:15):
Miss.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'll give you five hundred dollars for your seat on
this flight. I'm mostly sorry, but I have to be
in washing in myself.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
Excuse me, let's me bye.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
Please, I beg your pardon.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Let me pass your names.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Six. I don't have a seat, but I must get
on this plane because I've written a lot of this
being carried on, and I have to get to Washington
when the letter gets there, so that perhaps I can
stop it from being delivered to my father in law.
I should, madam, have you a reservation on this plane. No, no, no,
I keep telling you that. But just to put somebody
else off, I must be on this plate.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
I must.
Speaker 8 (20:45):
I must.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
But Madam, if you haven't a ticket, but I'm thinking
I don't want to ride for nothing.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
Tickets left.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Will you see the ticket agent in the airport. Please? No,
it's this flight I want. I just been Washington before.
Let us, but I wrote it on this plane.
Speaker 9 (21:01):
It's very silly.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
Would you mind stepping aside, madam?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
Please?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You're preventing the passengers from boarding.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Your name, sir brandj see for mister B.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
I wrote to this plane when I your name Adam
walk mej eleven stewardess. I must get to Washington before
that letter does. I may be able to explain to
my father and see six. Thank you Stewards. For heaven's sake,
listen to me. I've written a very silly letter that
I shouldn't have written. If I don't ken my husband's
your name, madam, missus George McDonald's please Stuart, and you'll me.
(21:32):
I don't need to bother you, so I get on
this plane. If you don't let me explain the name, madam,
I'm sorry. I don't doubt that you're tricking urgent, but
you haven't the season I am scanned up.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I don't need to.
Speaker 9 (21:50):
Madam.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
We're ready to take off. You must leave the ship.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Let me stay.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
I'll give you five dollars if you let me stay, please, Adam.
If you won't get off, I'll have to have you
put off. Well, I won't, I won't get off. I walk,
I walk, mister Hill, mister Hills, will you help me? Seees,
I can't do anything with this woman. She won't get
off the ship. All right, I'll get off.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Should I drive you home now? Missus Bradley, Missus Bradley.
Speaker 9 (22:28):
What home now?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Yes, mister Bradley will be home for dinner, some coffee, Neil.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
No, thanks? Aren't you well, Hilda?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Yes, I'm fine, you seem i've the nervous, nervous. Never
seen you like this before, heild Up. Please don't worry
about things. It's all settled, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I guess so, you guess so. I don't want to
talk about it any more.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I don't understand you to night here.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
I don't understand myself. What time is it?
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Quarter after? Ten?
Speaker 9 (23:26):
Minute?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
What?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
What do you mean any minute?
Speaker 8 (23:30):
Now?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You must have meant something.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
It doesn't matter, hild Up. Please don't brood any more.
I thought i'd come up here and had we just settled,
it all. I even told the hotel.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'd be checking out to night. I thought maybe i'd
come back here to night. Hilda thought you'd want me to.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
I do want you to.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
You'll go for your bags? Now go right now, will
you please? It'll only take you an hour?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Yilda? What is bothering you? You're shaking like a leaf.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I can't stand anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
What here is it? Reenacting so strangely? You'll evening? Please
don't cry, Hilda.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
Tell me what it is. I can help, Darling. It
kills me to see you like this. There's nothing to
cry about. Now, everything's going.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
To be all.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Leave me alone.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Don't touch me, Hilda.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
You might as well go this. You shall stay any longer.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
I thing. I've never seen you so upset. Here.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Drink this please, Hilda. Have some coffee please, I don't
want any coffee. Please here, drink it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It's it's cold.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
It'll do you good. I dropped that cup. You'd have
murdered me.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Don't what. Don't answer it, Hilda, don't answer it.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I tell you you can't answer it in that condition.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Leave it, leave it.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Let it ring, Hilda, don't be silly. Hello, Yes, this
is Regent four, nine ninety seven. Oh, thank you. Washington
must be dead.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
No, hello, Dad, it's Neil. Well.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
I didn't expect to be here either, but Hilda and
I have everything patched up.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Well. I'm glad too.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
God help me you what.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
A letter from Hilda to night? What?
Speaker 8 (25:27):
Well?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
You better talk to Hilda about it? Here? Talk to Dad.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
No, I don't want to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Control yourself.
Speaker 9 (25:34):
Hell, that's something about a letter?
Speaker 2 (25:35):
You will?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
I know.
Speaker 8 (25:36):
I don't want to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Just a minute, dad, Hilda, will you control yourself if
you write him a special delivery letter?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Yes? Yes, at least lost.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
It or something?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
What? Talk to him? For goodness sake, stop crying, Jill me.
He'll tell you. The postman brought him a letter in
your handwriting special delivery.
Speaker 4 (25:55):
He took it out, laid down on the terrace railing
while he fume for his glasses, and it blew off.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
God a time.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
He got down eight flights to the street that had
blown in the Kingdom com or something here? Talk to him?
Speaker 3 (26:05):
What? What did you say? Hello?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
What?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (26:17):
It was nothing?
Speaker 1 (26:49):
You have just heard? Special Delivery as written by Harry W. Jncan,
who also directed the production. Abby Lewis starred as Hilda Bradley.
Other players in the cast included ln Clark, Scott McKay,
Bernard Grant, Lannie Carville, Mildred Clinton, and Joel Marston. The
music was composed and conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Radio
(27:11):
City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company by
Richard P.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
McDonough. Next week, Hit and Ron, written.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
By Max Schue, It is the story of a man
who made a mistake and made amends in the only
way he knew how. In the demanding role of Hal
Lawrence will be heard the young American actor Casey Allen,
whose brilliant performance some weeks ago in Radio City Playhouse
merit at a return appearance. We sincerely hope you will
join us next Saturday for Hit and Run Attraction six,
(28:03):
Radio City Playhouse.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
The people of the.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
War shaken lands of Europe, men, women and children still
look to the people of the United States for help
in this period of hunger and want. For just ten dollars,
you can send the care package to relatives or friends
in Europe, or if you have no particular person or
family you wish to help, one of Care's member agencies
will choose a family. For you, just send ten dollars
to care c Are New York. The address again care
(28:55):
cre New York. This is Robert Warren speaking.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
This is end.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
See the National Broadcasting Company
Speaker 8 (29:06):
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