April 25, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Kathy and Elliott Lewis. Say, Elliot Lewes, two of the
most distinguished names in radio, appearing each week in their
own theater, starring in a repertory of France Tribe, stories
(00:29):
of their own and your choosing radio's foremost players. In
radio's Foremost plays, Ladies and Gentlemen, Elliot Lewis, good evening,
May I present my wife, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Good evening.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We don't know where you live. We live in a
very quiet suburban community.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
We know approximately where you live on your letter heads
and the post marks on your letters.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But if you live in, say, Kansas City, we don't
know where in Kansas City, in the city, or in
the suburbs or way out of town.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But we live in the suburbs, and living there, we've
found that we have many things in common with our neighbors.
We disagree on many things, but also we agree on
many more.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And if you were able to put those remarks into
the form of a radio drama, you could get quite
a story out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
A young man named Arthur Ross did just that, and
tonight we're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So if you will listen now to a circle of wheels,
(01:45):
Good morning, dear good morning, dear.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Orange juice? Are prunes?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Isn't today Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Prunes on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You weren't feeling very well on Saturday and we had
them instead of orange juice, or orange juice was Sunday instead?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, I'll sit down in the minute. Yes, why don't
you start on your prunes?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I'd better go light doctor today.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
SATs in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I know, I know, but I hate to eat too
much when I'm going for a physical. With all that
pressing and pushing, I might get sick upset stomach.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But you'll be at the doctor's.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of course. Only if i'd come to him because I
had an upset stomach, that would be different. But I'm
going for an annual physical, and if I get sick,
he'll say why didn't you come sooner? Why did you
wait for your annual physical?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That happened to me once, Remember that's exactly what I remember.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I felt like such a fool.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I kept telling him I felt fine, only he didn't
really believe me.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like to go to the doctor's and feel fine.
The way we go for our annual checkup. I admit
I kind of enjoy seeing him frown all the way
through it looking for something, and then straighten up and say, Alan,
Alan Burke, yours sound as a top fit as a fiddle.
He always says, sound as a top fit as a fiddle.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He seems so pleased and we feel good.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Sure, why not? He works hard to keep us fit
and we don't let him down. It's the way I
feel at the office when my salesmen go out after
a meeting and boost their ratings up fifty and a
hundred percent. They don't let me down.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Do you mind if I ask how you're coming along
with Charlie McCready's.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
No, No, I don't mind at all. I'm coming along
all right with him.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yet all right, he doesn't ride you anymore?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, no, not really. I mean he does sometimes, but
now I understand him.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's very important.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yes, I admit it's a little hard to take once
in a while, but a job is a job, and
we can't have everything our own way in life.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But you do a lot of his work, and he
takes credit for it.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I wish you hadn't said that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm sorry only.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Because it's true, absolutely true. His smiling face and funny
talk when we have coffee that doesn't throw me off
a bit. He doesn't like you, not really, that's what
fools me. We have coffee, he's fine, like an old friend,
and then boom in front of the boss. He belittles me,
(04:25):
takes credit.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Why don't you kill the boss?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I hate that, Charlie McCready. I really hate him because
I can't tell the boss.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Maybe he doesn't mean it, mean it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Who cares if he means it, he does it?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I mean, maybe that's just his way. Maybe he he
can't help.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, I've got a right to be Perhaps you're right, and.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Since you understand more than he does, I, I mean,
really understand more, maybe you should overlook it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I am the stronger one, really, even if it looks
like he's pushing me around, that's right, dear, Even if
it seems like he's getting the best of everything. I
am the stronger one.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You certainly are.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And if I show how much I've resented him, it'll
only make him worse.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Small people like Charlie McReady would react that way.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Maybe we should ask him over sort of ease the tention.
That's right, he isn't a bad sort.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I find many nice things about his wife.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And a man who's so pleasant at coffee. There must
be something basically good in him. You know a man
who's so good natured.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I do well, and it sounds like a very smart
thing to do.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All right, Old Charlie is not a bad sort at all.
I mean, once you try to get to know him.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm glad you're not letting your emotions run.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Away with you.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Eight fifteen. I better get going.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Do you want my afternoon appointment the doctor? I can
take your morning one.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, no, this is fine.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You'll let me know what the doctor said.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Of course, when will you ask Charlie after I see
the doctor.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
One thing at the time, always, one thing at the time.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Good Bye, Allen, good bye Elsie, Allan. Yes, Elsie, you
didn't eat much dinner either, mm.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I said you didn't eat much? Dinner? Wasn't very good?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The dinner, Oh yeah, very good.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I I got home so late and the doctor's eye
didn't have time to really fix the kind of dinner
we usually had.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I wasn't very hungry, neither was I. What did the
doctor say about you?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh fine, fine, he said, I was sound at the top.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What did the doctor say about you me?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh fine? Just great? It as a fiddle.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's good, Allan.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, I'm glad you're feeling so well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You you l look fine.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You never looked better, dear, I said you, Alan, I
said you never looked better.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I shouldn't, I should look terrible.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Do you feel terrible? Do you have a pain? Are
you keeping something from me?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's the point. There is no pain, nothing, Allan.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Tell me, Allan, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's incurable? Hm, No, but it's nothing anyone's ever had,
no one ever. There aren't any books on it. There's
never been any research. There aren't any medicine, helen and
whatever it is. They don't even know if I have it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But uh, the symptoms.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
There aren't any symptoms, no signs. I told you no apes.
I never even knew I had the wheel in my liver.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A wheel in your liver.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yes, a wheel, a carg A small wheel that fits
in perfectly. They a strayed me from every angle. It
isn't disturbing anything, and they can't take it out because
no one's ever taken of wheels out of the liver.
Elsie Kelsey, what is it? What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Alan?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What's happening to us?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I have the same thing. No, Alan, Alan, what is it?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, he didn't tell me you. The doctor didn't even
warn me about you.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It is Alan, what's happening.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
To us, nothing's happening is it's a mistake, an error,
an obvious error. Of course, his X ray machine went
on the blank. It must photograph right through the tabletop.
And we just happened to be the first two patients.
He must be now right now tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It takes so long.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Doctor is preparing something, something he wants to show us.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Are you worried about what about it?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Wheel? Say it wheel in the libery?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh? How can you say it? Just like it?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Because there's nothing to it. It's a mistake, an error
in his X ray machine. We haven't failed. It's his machine. Alla,
Elsa came, he read, mm hmm, turn off that light switch. Please.
Now there you see your X ray both of the
thoracic olumba region.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
There there it is all I see it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Of course it's there. Now doctor, you must fix that machine.
You must and here's a third X ray. Oh find
the wheel. Huh, it's gone. You fix the machine. That's
my liver. There is no wheel. And I had my
assistant take a picture of me on the same X
ray machine.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Then we really have it.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You do what now? Doctor? I would like to say,
operate if you have to, but I can't. There's nothing
wrong with your sad rates, your heart, your metabolism.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Can it siling, doctor Bob.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
There's no infection. Your liver is functioning without trouble or abnormality.
But we can't just walk around with a h A
wheel insider, two wheels. I know she has one and
I have one. No, no, Look, these are the X
rays I just took of you. Since your last visit
this afternoon, you each obtained another wheel, Elsie, Elsie, step
(10:34):
aside here, Elsie inhaled it. Eh right, it's fine. Good.
You're cheaping something from us stuff I've told you all.
I know you're protecting her. You knew there were two
wheels there all the time. I tell you, when you
were here this afternoon, you've only had one each. You
grew a second one since then, Crewe nobody grows wheel
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kept you and your wife. That's an out and out lie, Alan, Elsie.
I know you're disturbed, but all we can do right
now is wait and see see what where it leads us.
Right now, we know that your bodies are growing a
new wheel every eight to ten hours.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
An we'd better go home.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage
tonight's play A Circle.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Of Wheels, Gloverales ten Rais is coming and glovery its
place at what's that?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, don't know what to do with it? Yeah, what
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I'm gonna show you how to make that rains to
yours really pay off if they're instead of speliment though
every month. What you've gotta do is stop saving it
regular life night. Thank I gotta start saving him before
you get a taste for that. That way you're not
gonna miss. So what you're doing is you sock that
day's away in a Satan's program, and you're really.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Gonna have something when you get back home.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It piles up back n they'll see your finance officer
now before the rays comes in and sign up for
a big ten saved the puzzle. They get a big
ten percentage of down your money tights as much as
you get.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
From bank from.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Savings alone, and believe me, you're not gonna get ten
percent again.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The rest of your line.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Take advantage of being in a second, don't perceive.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Suck that pay raise away in Savan's deposit, can pile
up on this big for a white future yet side.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's eleven thirty Allen, come to dead?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, Elsie, did you put out the porch light?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Good?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
There were three note bottles out there that you want
to put three up?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's Thursday.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I always get an extra court for baking on Friday.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh yeah, good night, Elsie, Good night Alan. No one
must know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh I'm so glad you're talking about it. I can't
stand not talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Nobody, not our friends or relatives. Nobody, absolutely nobody must
know about the wheel.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
What good will that do?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
How will we get to to a specialist if they
don't hear about it?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
There aren't any specialists, is the yes, of course, and
our doctor will say a word.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
We couldn't tell people anyway. They wouldn't believe it. They'd
think we we we were crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'd just like to see somebody say that. I'd just
like to see them say we're crazy after they look
at those X rays.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It isn't going to be easy keeping quiet. When I'm
afraid of something. I have to talk and talk and
talk about it, like talking enough words about it makes
it get out.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Of my system. All right, talk if you want to,
But just remember weird different.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Now our friends would understand.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Would they? Would they really remember what happened to Joe
that was different?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That was something he did it. It was kind of
crazy because he liked to.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Ride around and winter at the top of this convertible
down he really liked to And our friends kept saying,
Joe's trying to be eccentric.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know what, you heard them, It isn't the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You could see that. Oh, it's exactly the same. And Marsha,
what about Marcia?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And Marcia was different? You didn't like her yourself after.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
She changed, But doesn't that prove it?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But we're the same. We're the very identical, same people
we always.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Would they think so? Would you think so if it
was a couple of our friends. If a couple of
our friends suddenly had this, wouldn't you feel uncomfortable around them?
Not want to be around them.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'd try to understand, and I'd try to see their viewpoint.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Cry, sure, you try to understand them, like they were
something strange. You said it, you just said it yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, well, we're not We're not something strange.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
We're different, not that different, different enough not to be
the same, different enough to make people feel funny around us,
different enough to make people think we've changed and what.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We feel on who we are, but not telling would
be living.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Alive or living alone.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I've never heard you talk.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Like this before, Allan, I never thought you had the
little belief in our friends.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I know them, I know myself, I know you. We're
just like them.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
When do we go to the doctor again?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Saturday?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Good night, Alan?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Good night? El see.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Alan?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Would you please take in one of the milk bottles?
I don't think I'll do any baking this week? What
did the doctor say?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Seven? There's seven wheels now h seven?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Same as you?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Why us? Why does it have to happen to you
and me? Why? What have we done in our lives
to deserve this?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I haven't done anything, al And I've been a lawyer wife,
a faithful wife.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, I know you have. I didn't mean that and
end you. I've never looked at another woman. Never. Every
night i've been out, you've known bowling on Tuesday night
and Wednesday nights we sat in and Thursday cards playing
bridge every Friday is that it was it wrong to play?
For a tenth percent of point.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Is that it We won't anymore. We won't play, We'll stop.
I'll call the gardens and tell them we won't play anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I always helped out people every year, didn't. I contribute
to every charity even more than we could afford, didn't. I?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yes, that's right, you did.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Even when Charlie insulted you and said you're a cheap
stake for not giving as much as ebo.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I didn't tell him off. I didn't insult.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We did the same things they did.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Why didn't this happen to them?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
We read the same newspaper and the way.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The same friend?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Why the why not?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Why not? We're no different from anybody? We novels.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It is first the question why?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Thank you? If nothing? Perhaps you're right, but you must
admit it's a very difficult thing to accept. Twelve wheels, doctor,
(17:45):
are you sure? Twelve? It's beyond the realm of known science.
There's nothing I can do to help you. The socket
joining the thigh bone to the femur has been displaced
by interlocking cogs. The first and second vertebrates are converting
at this moment, at least now we can see it
from the process. As nearly as I can tell, you
are rapidly displacing your own bodies with machinery.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Robot tuck.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's not in my field, robot doctor. I have an
MD friend who is also a working physicist. He works
in the field of relativity. I have another friend who
is a mechanical engineer, and another scientific colleague who is
one of the foremost experts in digital and analog computers.
A beggar pardon mechanical brains, high arrange of consultations.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Why doesn't the doctor con.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It takes time to round up such important.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
People, I can I just can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
He's our family doctor. He'd never lie to us.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Would you like some coffee?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What I mean is I can't believe it's happened to.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Us, either, can I? But a fact is a fact,
and there's no getting around facts. I want to scream,
it wouldn't help. I want to cry, upset yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But I'm still human.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm still not yep, I'll see Elsie. All we can
do is wait, wait for what for?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
We're using cogs to take a sober city and wait
while it goes on.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Would you'd like to go for a walk?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So many things I wanted to do, so much to
fix up in the house.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
New curtains.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
We don't have to wait here for the doctor's call.
If you want to go for a walk, I can
call him from time to pay.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Into the living room.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Walk, it would help.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You haven't asked me to go for a walk in
a long time.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I thought it might help.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Used to ask him to go for a walk because
it was so nice holding hands. We could do that,
But you weren't thinking of it for that reason. Well
that too, You didn't really remember.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Been so long.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We've only been married five years. It isn't that long.
It's long when a husband, Yes, when a husband.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Takes his wife for grant, loses the love they had,
throws it away.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Are you saying another woman? No?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
There are other ways, lots of other ways to the
wife out of her love.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I did what a good husband should.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You worked, period, that's all.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I worked and paid bills and kept the cars running,
I kept ordered.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh yes, so you did your job all right?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Oh yes, Well what else did you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Spend all day at home with you? Hold your hand?
All the time. What's the husband for to.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Love his wife, to work to love his wife and
make her feel like, no matter what happens, she's safe
because she's.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Loved, safe and happy.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I did my duty. I fulfilled it duty. That's all
I've ever heard from you. You just now, now, just now,
I asked you to go for a walk, And what
are you talking about? The house? How you were going
to do this? And that was it? The house? And
always this house? You like it? Sure in the beginning,
in the beginning it was fine. Only then it was
just a place to live.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And what is it now?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
A trap? A snarling trap. Whenever we had a problem,
once you used to talk to me about it and
we'd get over being mad. Only in the past couple
of years you just put up something new for the freezer,
or cleaned out the spots on the dining room rug,
or plant a petunia patch instead, and go right on
being mad at me.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I never thought you noticed that, you even noticed anymore
if I was mad.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Or happy or loved notice, how could I miss it?
And it even passed the point where you were fixing
it up for me? It was just so people could
admire it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
What else did you expect you wanted a place to
bring business context people you did business.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
With, You like a nice home to bring them to you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Sure, you've always suggested at first you did bring them home.
You'd say, bring them home all your business deals, and
I'll close it with a good dinner at Chantz curtain.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I did what I thought you wanted me to do.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Sure, but not at my expense.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Can you say I ever once that I ever failed
my duty.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
As your wife housewife? But duty as a housewife, No,
that was fine. That as a wife.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yes, only when you forgot to be a husband.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Only when you got so wrapped up working like a husband,
you forgot to be one?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
What of you? Couldn't you have been both? Couldn't you
find time for this house and me? Couldn't you? I tried,
so did I, and then stopped.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I wanted to do more.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I wanted to tell you a thousand, a million times
about what I felt. I never thought you wanted to know.
I used to spend Did you know? I used to
spend half my days crying? Sometimes? No, I didn't then,
even now, even though all you could do is say no,
I didn't without any.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Feeling, without feeling, without it sometimes. Do you remember when
I used to go out to the garage to work
on the table. Do you know why it's taken almost
two years to finish it? Because I never worked on it.
I used to sit there staring at the wall, and
I used to keep saying, if only she'd want to listen,
if only she'd want to know what was going on
(22:56):
inside me, just once, that's all.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Sometimes I saw it.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You never said anything.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You were always so strong willed, like you never needed
anybody like to be angry. If I said, I know it, I.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Oh, darling, Ellen help, oh sweet, right, sweet darling.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So many years waste, so much we wanted to say,
but all the inside, never telling, never stay.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Walking around like a robot?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
What will it be like not to be able to
cry anymore, for a laugh, to feel no deep inside
stirring FI.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
We didn't for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No we won't.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
There's a little time left, a little to love each
other again.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's Elsie, Oh well, Elsie, oh my darling.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Daring old media.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Gentlemen. First, I will show you the old X rays.
You will follow the course of the growth of wheels
in the bodies of mister and missus Burke. You see
them clearly, and now the lad has played taken in
your presence. For they're gone. Bah, they're gone. The wheels
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are gone. That's impossible, gone gone, doctor. In the first
X ray you take with witnesses, your claims are excluded.
You are a charlatan. There are no wheels in their
liver or these or famuels or vertebrae or anywhere else.
Good day, sir. Yes, I don't understand. I don't. I
(25:04):
don't understand. Alan, you saw them. They're there in the
other X rays, Elsie, don't you? Oh yeah, yes, then
where are they in the new X rave? But done?
I know you got some special treatment. You went to
someone on the side away from me. No, No, that's impossible.
(25:25):
There's no one, absolutely no one who knows anything about this.
And I refuse to believe in magic. So do we? Then?
What happened? What we fell in love again?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
We were always in love.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Then we were able to admit it again and enjoy it.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's a pity. You'd better take an X ray of
yourself immediately. We grow overnight, you know, and we're.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Not having Charlie McReady for Dinner Ever or.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Anybody like him.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Night Doctor, A Circle of Wheels starring Kathy and Elliot
(26:24):
Lewis on stage.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It was our great pleasure this evening to have Whitfield
Connor join us for the first time. He was a
terribly confused doctor.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
A few weeks past we did a story called The Cellar.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Door, and you seem to enjoy it very much. Thank
you for writing to tell us.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It was written by Bernard Girard, who then wrote another
script for us, which we're going to do next week.
It's called New York's a nice place to visit, but
I wouldn't want to live here.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Until next week. Thank you for listening. Good Night, Good Nice.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
On Stage has come to you through the worldwide facilities
of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 2 (27:26):
ES.
Kathy and Elliott Lewis. Say, Elliot Lewes, two of the
most distinguished names in radio, appearing each week in their
own theater, starring in a repertory of France Tribe, stories
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of their own and your choosing radio's foremost players. In
radio's Foremost plays, Ladies and Gentlemen, Elliot Lewis, good evening,
May I present my wife, Kathy.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Good evening.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
We don't know where you live. We live in a
very quiet suburban community.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
We know approximately where you live on your letter heads
and the post marks on your letters.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
But if you live in, say, Kansas City, we don't
know where in Kansas City, in the city, or in
the suburbs or way out of town.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
But we live in the suburbs, and living there, we've
found that we have many things in common with our neighbors.
We disagree on many things, but also we agree on
many more.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And if you were able to put those remarks into
the form of a radio drama, you could get quite
a story out of it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
A young man named Arthur Ross did just that, and
tonight we're going to do it.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
So if you will listen now to a circle of wheels,
(01:45):
Good morning, dear good morning, dear.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Orange juice? Are prunes?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Isn't today Wednesday?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Prunes on Wednesday.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You weren't feeling very well on Saturday and we had
them instead of orange juice, or orange juice was Sunday instead?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, I'll sit down in the minute. Yes, why don't
you start on your prunes?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I'd better go light doctor today.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
SATs in the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I know, I know, but I hate to eat too
much when I'm going for a physical. With all that
pressing and pushing, I might get sick upset stomach.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
But you'll be at the doctor's.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Of course. Only if i'd come to him because I
had an upset stomach, that would be different. But I'm
going for an annual physical, and if I get sick,
he'll say why didn't you come sooner? Why did you
wait for your annual physical?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That happened to me once, Remember that's exactly what I remember.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I felt like such a fool.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I kept telling him I felt fine, only he didn't
really believe me.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like to go to the doctor's and feel fine.
The way we go for our annual checkup. I admit
I kind of enjoy seeing him frown all the way
through it looking for something, and then straighten up and say, Alan,
Alan Burke, yours sound as a top fit as a fiddle.
He always says, sound as a top fit as a fiddle.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
He seems so pleased and we feel good.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Sure, why not? He works hard to keep us fit
and we don't let him down. It's the way I
feel at the office when my salesmen go out after
a meeting and boost their ratings up fifty and a
hundred percent. They don't let me down.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Do you mind if I ask how you're coming along
with Charlie McCready's.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
No, No, I don't mind at all. I'm coming along
all right with him.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Yet all right, he doesn't ride you anymore?
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, no, not really. I mean he does sometimes, but
now I understand him.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's very important.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yes, I admit it's a little hard to take once
in a while, but a job is a job, and
we can't have everything our own way in life.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
But you do a lot of his work, and he
takes credit for it.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I wish you hadn't said that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm sorry only.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Because it's true, absolutely true. His smiling face and funny
talk when we have coffee that doesn't throw me off
a bit. He doesn't like you, not really, that's what
fools me. We have coffee, he's fine, like an old friend,
and then boom in front of the boss. He belittles me,
(04:25):
takes credit.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Why don't you kill the boss?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I hate that, Charlie McCready. I really hate him because
I can't tell the boss.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Maybe he doesn't mean it, mean it.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Who cares if he means it, he does it?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I mean, maybe that's just his way. Maybe he he
can't help.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Well, I've got a right to be Perhaps you're right, and.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Since you understand more than he does, I, I mean,
really understand more, maybe you should overlook it.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I am the stronger one, really, even if it looks
like he's pushing me around, that's right, dear, Even if
it seems like he's getting the best of everything. I
am the stronger one.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
You certainly are.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
And if I show how much I've resented him, it'll
only make him worse.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Small people like Charlie McReady would react that way.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Maybe we should ask him over sort of ease the tention.
That's right, he isn't a bad sort.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I find many nice things about his wife.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
And a man who's so pleasant at coffee. There must
be something basically good in him. You know a man
who's so good natured.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I do well, and it sounds like a very smart
thing to do.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
All right, Old Charlie is not a bad sort at all.
I mean, once you try to get to know him.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm glad you're not letting your emotions run.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Away with you.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Eight fifteen. I better get going.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Do you want my afternoon appointment the doctor? I can
take your morning one.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
No, no, this is fine.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
You'll let me know what the doctor said.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Of course, when will you ask Charlie after I see
the doctor.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
One thing at the time, always, one thing at the time.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Good Bye, Allen, good bye Elsie, Allan. Yes, Elsie, you
didn't eat much dinner either, mm.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I said you didn't eat much? Dinner? Wasn't very good?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The dinner, Oh yeah, very good.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I I got home so late and the doctor's eye
didn't have time to really fix the kind of dinner
we usually had.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I wasn't very hungry, neither was I. What did the
doctor say about you?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Oh fine, fine, he said, I was sound at the top.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
What did the doctor say about you me?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh fine? Just great? It as a fiddle.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
That's good, Allan.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, I'm glad you're feeling so well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You you l look fine.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You never looked better, dear, I said you, Alan, I
said you never looked better.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I shouldn't, I should look terrible.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Do you feel terrible? Do you have a pain? Are
you keeping something from me?
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That's the point. There is no pain, nothing, Allan.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
Tell me, Allan, what is it?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
It's incurable? Hm, No, but it's nothing anyone's ever had,
no one ever. There aren't any books on it. There's
never been any research. There aren't any medicine, helen and
whatever it is. They don't even know if I have it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But uh, the symptoms.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
There aren't any symptoms, no signs. I told you no apes.
I never even knew I had the wheel in my liver.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A wheel in your liver.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yes, a wheel, a carg A small wheel that fits
in perfectly. They a strayed me from every angle. It
isn't disturbing anything, and they can't take it out because
no one's ever taken of wheels out of the liver.
Elsie Kelsey, what is it? What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Alan?
Speaker 3 (08:13):
What's happening to us?
Speaker 1 (08:16):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I have the same thing. No, Alan, Alan, what is it?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
No, he didn't tell me you. The doctor didn't even
warn me about you.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It is Alan, what's happening.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
To us, nothing's happening is it's a mistake, an error,
an obvious error. Of course, his X ray machine went
on the blank. It must photograph right through the tabletop.
And we just happened to be the first two patients.
He must be now right now tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It takes so long.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Doctor is preparing something, something he wants to show us.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Are you worried about what about it?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Wheel? Say it wheel in the libery?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Oh? How can you say it? Just like it?
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Because there's nothing to it. It's a mistake, an error
in his X ray machine. We haven't failed. It's his machine. Alla,
Elsa came, he read, mm hmm, turn off that light switch. Please.
Now there you see your X ray both of the
thoracic olumba region.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
There there it is all I see it.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Of course it's there. Now doctor, you must fix that machine.
You must and here's a third X ray. Oh find
the wheel. Huh, it's gone. You fix the machine. That's
my liver. There is no wheel. And I had my
assistant take a picture of me on the same X
ray machine.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Then we really have it.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You do what now? Doctor? I would like to say,
operate if you have to, but I can't. There's nothing
wrong with your sad rates, your heart, your metabolism.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Can it siling, doctor Bob.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
There's no infection. Your liver is functioning without trouble or abnormality.
But we can't just walk around with a h A
wheel insider, two wheels. I know she has one and
I have one. No, no, Look, these are the X
rays I just took of you. Since your last visit
this afternoon, you each obtained another wheel, Elsie, Elsie, step
(10:34):
aside here, Elsie inhaled it. Eh right, it's fine. Good.
You're cheaping something from us stuff I've told you all.
I know you're protecting her. You knew there were two
wheels there all the time. I tell you, when you
were here this afternoon, you've only had one each. You
grew a second one since then, Crewe nobody grows wheel
(10:56):
kept you and your wife. That's an out and out lie, Alan, Elsie.
I know you're disturbed, but all we can do right
now is wait and see see what where it leads us.
Right now, we know that your bodies are growing a
new wheel every eight to ten hours.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
An we'd better go home.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
You are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage
tonight's play A Circle.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Of Wheels, Gloverales ten Rais is coming and glovery its
place at what's that?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, don't know what to do with it? Yeah, what
I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
I'm gonna show you how to make that rains to
yours really pay off if they're instead of speliment though
every month. What you've gotta do is stop saving it
regular life night. Thank I gotta start saving him before
you get a taste for that. That way you're not
gonna miss. So what you're doing is you sock that
day's away in a Satan's program, and you're really.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Gonna have something when you get back home.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
It piles up back n they'll see your finance officer
now before the rays comes in and sign up for
a big ten saved the puzzle. They get a big
ten percentage of down your money tights as much as
you get.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
From bank from.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Savings alone, and believe me, you're not gonna get ten
percent again.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
The rest of your line.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Take advantage of being in a second, don't perceive.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Suck that pay raise away in Savan's deposit, can pile
up on this big for a white future yet side.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It's eleven thirty Allen, come to dead?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Alan?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yes, Elsie, did you put out the porch light?
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Good?
Speaker 1 (13:06):
There were three note bottles out there that you want
to put three up?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's Thursday.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I always get an extra court for baking on Friday.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Oh yeah, good night, Elsie, Good night Alan. No one
must know.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh I'm so glad you're talking about it. I can't
stand not talking about.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Nobody, not our friends or relatives. Nobody, absolutely nobody must
know about the wheel.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
What good will that do?
Speaker 3 (13:33):
How will we get to to a specialist if they
don't hear about it?
Speaker 1 (13:36):
There aren't any specialists, is the yes, of course, and
our doctor will say a word.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
We couldn't tell people anyway. They wouldn't believe it. They'd
think we we we were crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'd just like to see somebody say that. I'd just
like to see them say we're crazy after they look
at those X rays.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It isn't going to be easy keeping quiet. When I'm
afraid of something. I have to talk and talk and
talk about it, like talking enough words about it makes
it get out.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Of my system. All right, talk if you want to,
But just remember weird different.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Now our friends would understand.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Would they? Would they really remember what happened to Joe
that was different?
Speaker 2 (14:18):
That was something he did it. It was kind of
crazy because he liked to.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Ride around and winter at the top of this convertible
down he really liked to And our friends kept saying,
Joe's trying to be eccentric.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You know what, you heard them, It isn't the same thing.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
You could see that. Oh, it's exactly the same. And Marsha,
what about Marcia?
Speaker 2 (14:38):
And Marcia was different? You didn't like her yourself after.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
She changed, But doesn't that prove it?
Speaker 2 (14:43):
But we're the same. We're the very identical, same people
we always.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Would they think so? Would you think so if it
was a couple of our friends. If a couple of
our friends suddenly had this, wouldn't you feel uncomfortable around them?
Not want to be around them.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I'd try to understand, and I'd try to see their viewpoint.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Cry, sure, you try to understand them, like they were
something strange. You said it, you just said it yourself.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Well, well, we're not We're not something strange.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
We're different, not that different, different enough not to be
the same, different enough to make people feel funny around us,
different enough to make people think we've changed and what.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
We feel on who we are, but not telling would
be living.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Alive or living alone.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
I've never heard you talk.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Like this before, Allan, I never thought you had the
little belief in our friends.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I know them, I know myself, I know you. We're
just like them.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
When do we go to the doctor again?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Saturday?
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Good night, Alan?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Good night? El see.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Alan?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Would you please take in one of the milk bottles?
I don't think I'll do any baking this week? What
did the doctor say?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Seven? There's seven wheels now h seven?
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Same as you?
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Why us? Why does it have to happen to you
and me? Why? What have we done in our lives
to deserve this?
Speaker 3 (16:26):
I haven't done anything, al And I've been a lawyer wife,
a faithful wife.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
No, I know you have. I didn't mean that and
end you. I've never looked at another woman. Never. Every
night i've been out, you've known bowling on Tuesday night
and Wednesday nights we sat in and Thursday cards playing
bridge every Friday is that it was it wrong to play?
For a tenth percent of point.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Is that it We won't anymore. We won't play, We'll stop.
I'll call the gardens and tell them we won't play anymore.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
I always helped out people every year, didn't. I contribute
to every charity even more than we could afford, didn't. I?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yes, that's right, you did.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Even when Charlie insulted you and said you're a cheap
stake for not giving as much as ebo.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I didn't tell him off. I didn't insult.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
We did the same things they did.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Why didn't this happen to them?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
We read the same newspaper and the way.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
The same friend?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
Why the why not?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Why not? We're no different from anybody? We novels.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It is first the question why?
Speaker 1 (17:23):
Thank you? If nothing? Perhaps you're right, but you must
admit it's a very difficult thing to accept. Twelve wheels, doctor,
(17:45):
are you sure? Twelve? It's beyond the realm of known science.
There's nothing I can do to help you. The socket
joining the thigh bone to the femur has been displaced
by interlocking cogs. The first and second vertebrates are converting
at this moment, at least now we can see it
from the process. As nearly as I can tell, you
are rapidly displacing your own bodies with machinery.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Robot tuck.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It's not in my field, robot doctor. I have an
MD friend who is also a working physicist. He works
in the field of relativity. I have another friend who
is a mechanical engineer, and another scientific colleague who is
one of the foremost experts in digital and analog computers.
A beggar pardon mechanical brains, high arrange of consultations.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Why doesn't the doctor con.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It takes time to round up such important.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
People, I can I just can't believe this is happening.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
He's our family doctor. He'd never lie to us.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Would you like some coffee?
Speaker 3 (18:53):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What I mean is I can't believe it's happened to.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Us, either, can I? But a fact is a fact,
and there's no getting around facts. I want to scream,
it wouldn't help. I want to cry, upset yourself.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
But I'm still human.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm still not yep, I'll see Elsie. All we can
do is wait, wait for what for?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
We're using cogs to take a sober city and wait
while it goes on.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Would you'd like to go for a walk?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
So many things I wanted to do, so much to
fix up in the house.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
New curtains.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
We don't have to wait here for the doctor's call.
If you want to go for a walk, I can
call him from time to pay.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Into the living room.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Walk, it would help.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You haven't asked me to go for a walk in
a long time.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
I thought it might help.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Used to ask him to go for a walk because
it was so nice holding hands. We could do that,
But you weren't thinking of it for that reason. Well
that too, You didn't really remember.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Been so long.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We've only been married five years. It isn't that long.
It's long when a husband, Yes, when a husband.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Takes his wife for grant, loses the love they had,
throws it away.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Are you saying another woman? No?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
There are other ways, lots of other ways to the
wife out of her love.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I did what a good husband should.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You worked, period, that's all.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I worked and paid bills and kept the cars running,
I kept ordered.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Oh yes, so you did your job all right?
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Oh yes, Well what else did you want me to do?
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Spend all day at home with you? Hold your hand?
All the time. What's the husband for to.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Love his wife, to work to love his wife and
make her feel like, no matter what happens, she's safe
because she's.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Loved, safe and happy.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I did my duty. I fulfilled it duty. That's all
I've ever heard from you. You just now, now, just now,
I asked you to go for a walk, And what
are you talking about? The house? How you were going
to do this? And that was it? The house? And
always this house? You like it? Sure in the beginning,
in the beginning it was fine. Only then it was
just a place to live.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
And what is it now?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
A trap? A snarling trap. Whenever we had a problem,
once you used to talk to me about it and
we'd get over being mad. Only in the past couple
of years you just put up something new for the freezer,
or cleaned out the spots on the dining room rug,
or plant a petunia patch instead, and go right on
being mad at me.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I never thought you noticed that, you even noticed anymore
if I was mad.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Or happy or loved notice, how could I miss it?
And it even passed the point where you were fixing
it up for me? It was just so people could
admire it.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
What else did you expect you wanted a place to
bring business context people you did business.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
With, You like a nice home to bring them to you.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Sure, you've always suggested at first you did bring them home.
You'd say, bring them home all your business deals, and
I'll close it with a good dinner at Chantz curtain.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I did what I thought you wanted me to do.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Sure, but not at my expense.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Can you say I ever once that I ever failed
my duty.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
As your wife housewife? But duty as a housewife, No,
that was fine. That as a wife.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yes, only when you forgot to be a husband.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Only when you got so wrapped up working like a husband,
you forgot to be one?
Speaker 1 (22:03):
What of you? Couldn't you have been both? Couldn't you
find time for this house and me? Couldn't you? I tried,
so did I, and then stopped.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
I wanted to do more.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
I wanted to tell you a thousand, a million times
about what I felt. I never thought you wanted to know.
I used to spend Did you know? I used to
spend half my days crying? Sometimes? No, I didn't then,
even now, even though all you could do is say no,
I didn't without any.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Feeling, without feeling, without it sometimes. Do you remember when
I used to go out to the garage to work
on the table. Do you know why it's taken almost
two years to finish it? Because I never worked on it.
I used to sit there staring at the wall, and
I used to keep saying, if only she'd want to listen,
if only she'd want to know what was going on
(22:56):
inside me, just once, that's all.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Sometimes I saw it.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
You never said anything.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You were always so strong willed, like you never needed
anybody like to be angry. If I said, I know it, I.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Oh, darling, Ellen help, oh sweet, right, sweet darling.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
So many years waste, so much we wanted to say,
but all the inside, never telling, never stay.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Walking around like a robot?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
What will it be like not to be able to
cry anymore, for a laugh, to feel no deep inside
stirring FI.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
We didn't for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No we won't.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
There's a little time left, a little to love each
other again.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
It's Elsie, Oh well, Elsie, oh my darling.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Daring old media.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Gentlemen. First, I will show you the old X rays.
You will follow the course of the growth of wheels
in the bodies of mister and missus Burke. You see
them clearly, and now the lad has played taken in
your presence. For they're gone. Bah, they're gone. The wheels
(24:38):
are gone. That's impossible, gone gone, doctor. In the first
X ray you take with witnesses, your claims are excluded.
You are a charlatan. There are no wheels in their
liver or these or famuels or vertebrae or anywhere else.
Good day, sir. Yes, I don't understand. I don't. I
(25:04):
don't understand. Alan, you saw them. They're there in the
other X rays, Elsie, don't you? Oh yeah, yes, then
where are they in the new X rave? But done?
I know you got some special treatment. You went to
someone on the side away from me. No, No, that's impossible.
(25:25):
There's no one, absolutely no one who knows anything about this.
And I refuse to believe in magic. So do we? Then?
What happened? What we fell in love again?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
We were always in love.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Then we were able to admit it again and enjoy it.
I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's a pity. You'd better take an X ray of
yourself immediately. We grow overnight, you know, and we're.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Not having Charlie McReady for Dinner Ever or.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Anybody like him.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Night Doctor, A Circle of Wheels starring Kathy and Elliot
(26:24):
Lewis on stage.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
It was our great pleasure this evening to have Whitfield
Connor join us for the first time. He was a
terribly confused doctor.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
A few weeks past we did a story called The Cellar.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Door, and you seem to enjoy it very much. Thank
you for writing to tell us.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
It was written by Bernard Girard, who then wrote another
script for us, which we're going to do next week.
It's called New York's a nice place to visit, but
I wouldn't want to live here.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Until next week. Thank you for listening. Good Night, Good Nice.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
On Stage has come to you through the worldwide facilities
of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
Speaker 2 (27:26):
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