April 25, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Kellie Lewis Elliott Lewis,
two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each
week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of
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transcribed stories of their own. And you're choosing radio's foremost
players in radio's foremost plays, Ladies and Gentlemen, Elliott.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Lewin, Good Evening, May I present my wife, Kathy Good Evening.
We're privileged tonight to introduce to you a new author.
The young man is better known as an actor and announcer,
but as you will soon hear, he also can write
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more than his name.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
May we present Tom Dixon Good Evening.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The play is called an Ideal Couple, and since Tom
wrote it and also has the other gifts Elliott mentioned,
he will play the radio announcer in the story.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So, Tom, Kathy, here we go with an ideal couple.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh, missus Johnson, I'll bet you say that to all
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the boys.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know all the boy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh you are the sweetest talking middle lady we've met
in a long long time. Mister Johnson, how do you
ever hold your own being married to a woman with
such a way with words? It's all right, all right,
I'll tell me. When is this gift of gab of
hers most apparent? Well, you know, I'll bet it's twice
as powerful when the little darling wants and you have.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Huh, at least twice.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
All let's get on with a more serious aspects of
the situation. Missus Johnson. Do you know why the Johnson's
are on our programs happy though married?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I think I do.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How about you, mister Johnson, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You mean you don't know why you're here?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh, do you have a surprise coming to you? Because
the judges have decided that Missus Johnson's letter was the
best received in this month's contest, which makes the Johnson's
are ideal couple on Happy Go Mary, I told you
out of surprise to you, mister Johnson.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
How do you feel now? Bewildered? Bewildered?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
How about you, Missus Johnson?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
How do you feel?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'll bet you do well. Before we tell you about
those grand surprise gifts our sponsors have lined up for you,
let's sketch in a bit of your married life to
prove that you deserve to be our ideal couple. How
to start with, missus Johnson, how long have you been married?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Twenty five years this month?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Twenty five years? Now that deserves a hand. How how
long did you know each other before you became engaged?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh, we knew each other from the time we were children,
but we didn't start going together until stand finished college.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now, how did your first date come about?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We really didn't have a first date.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I went to a high school graduation party with another
bowl and well, you know how those things happen, do I?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Uh, mister Johnson looked pretty good.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, Now I wanted to listen to the song Larry
Robbins is gonna play on the organ? Larry, do you
know what that song is?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, that's one of the songs that was popular in
those days when you two fine people first met. A
song that we understand was played at that party. Missus
Johnson was just talking about. Mister Johnson, did you come
to the party alone?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
As a matter of fact, I did. Gee, how ye,
I've forgotten how cozy these hometown parties were after the
glamour of the university. Sounds a bit silly. Stand Nothing
there was quite like this. You mean no party at
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state had Leolo Webb in attendant. Huh is that obvious? Obvious?
Would a swat in the nose seem obvious? I've been
staring at her all night. She certainly has the bloom.
That's the word you're searching for, my friend? Why don't
you ask her to dance? I'd liked her with Kamas Benton,
didn't she? I'll let the great Jim Benton scare you off.
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Bill is just a passing fancy with that lad. Why
does he let her sit on the sidelines? Well, he
swaps jokes with the boys. Maybe the jokes. You're safer?
What do you mean by that? Crack? Nothing? Nothing at all. Besides,
she's not sitting on the sideline. She's heading this way.
But she asked one of us to dance. That it's you.
Oh you must be crazy. Bet you buy it? Okay,
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Oh stand me.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Why did you get back from the university?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Uh? Well yesterday, Yeah, it was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's wonderful, just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Have you back?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Uh? This is a lady's choice down there. I thought, Oh,
that did be kidding?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
T A two A two dancing? Oh brilliantly?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Dance?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Would you care too.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Uh uh yeah, he'd be delighted. Hellout, hollered good evening. Leola, Well,
don't just stand there, old man. Get going. Oh yes, ah,
it was very nice of you and Leola to invite
me to dance with you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
M wasn't nice to me at all. I just wanted
to dance. It was one of the handsomest man in
the crowd.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Johnson, you owe me a dollar? What deal?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That awful? Howard Rhymes want all?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh? Nothing, Eh, that's just no bet we are what
do you see?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And Howard is a friend?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh I don't know. We've been friends all our lives.
Why do you ask?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's curious?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You're with Jim Benton tonight, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I suppose you could call it that you know?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And dance very well to thank you? You dance beautiful,
just beautiful, I tell you. I think bat Benton must
be a bit silly and the head night. What do
you mean Denny passing up a chance to dance with
you for a few Oh spoke too soon here he goes.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Really just my luck.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Wonder what got into mister Benton?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh what do you mean? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I mean, isn't that just like him?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Then?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We ignore a girl all night and then just when
you start to have a little bar.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So she asked you to dance.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That you accepted, of course, as a matter of fact,
I didn't. You didn't, No, I was too scared. A
friend accepted for me.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, so much for your first romantic meeting. Now let's
get to the proposals. And mister Johnson, don't tell me
you let her do that too?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No, I did that all right?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How was he, missus Johnson? Romantic?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
My?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Do you think you were romantic?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Mister Johnson? I guess you could call it that. Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Did you get down on your knees?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh? I I want farther than that. I was. I
was flat on my stomach. Yeah. That was a nicest
picnic spread I've eaten in a long time.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And the spot, the brook, the trees, wildflowers. I haven't
felt this good in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Why should you feel so extra special good today?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Aho? A lot of reasons. The food was good, the
spot is lovely, the grass feels good against my belly
excuse me, stomach. And and the greatest reason, I guess
is because you're here really sad I mean it, You're wonderful.
It's just too bad marry and Bob couldn't come after
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accepting your invitation and everything.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Oh you know Bob and Mary always changing plans at
the last second.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, they do seem to be happily married, though.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I suppose though Bob certainly is my idea of a
good husband.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh who is? Who's what your idea of a good husband?
Jim Benton?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Me marry Jim Denton with Jim Venton were the last
man alive. I've been old, maide.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh, I don't like a nickel for every time mister
Denton proposed to.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Me, I I thought all the girls considered him such
a whale of a catch.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Not this young lady.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Of what type of man would you uh l like
like to have for a husband?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Uh's somebody that's uh considerate, steady, easy to get along with,
good looking too maybe?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I see why'd you ask them?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well? Well, leolah uh I yes.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Leola, I don't qualify for looks much, but I have steady.
I think I'm considerate, and people say I'm easy to
get along with. We've been seeing each other pretty steady
for almost a year now, ever since Jim Benton left town.
And I honestly think you're the most wonderful girl I
could ever hope to know. This might seem sudden to you,
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but I've thought about us an an awful lot. And
the more I think, the more I uh, the more.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I I go I under Stanley.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
The more I think we could be happy together. I
love you so very much. Please marry him?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Huh m Stanley, of course I'll marry you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh, well, how do you mean, mister Johnson? You were
flat on your stomach?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Uh? Well, we were on a picnic and I was
stretched out on my stomach in the grass.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And you accepted his proposals, even though he spoke it
from that unromantic posture.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I certainly did.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm glad you did too, I bet Now about arguments?
Did you have many disagreements in your twenty five years
of married life?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh? Just a few, little one, I.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
See, mister Johnson, How did you suckle your quarrels?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Uh? Or we compromise? Compromise? She saw things her way
and I saw things her way.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There they're no douggie, darling. Mommy's right here to see
your little man doesn't cry there, Leo.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I think you picked Douglas up too much. Aren't you
gonna spoil him?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Spoil him with love and affection, spoil him trying to
make up for the things.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
His father doesn't give him?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
What things?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
But do you think it's right to raise a child
in a one bedroom walk up apart?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
May not be right, dear, but it's all we can afford.
Lots of kids grow up strong and healthy and worse place.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Not my son. I'll not raise my son in this dirty,
ugly little flat.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's not dirty and it's not ugly. Howard says he
thinks you've done a wonderful job decorating for Howard.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
What does he know about decorating.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I just thought you'd be pleased.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I'd be pleased if you'd stop spending so much of
your time with Howard. Well, he's not a good influence
on you. He's lazy, he has no ambition he please in.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
The first place. I don't spend all of my time
with Howard. And besides, I'm not a child. I'm not
liable to be influenced that easily. Now, please, let's just
stop this. You're tired, and I don't blame you, but honestly,
we're doing fine. Now tell me the truth.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Aren't we compared to Alison Jim Venton? We're doing quite bad.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Jim Benton inherited a factory and one hundred thousand dollars.
How can you compare us to Jim Venton? Be reasonable, dear.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Be reasonable?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Why don't you start being reasonable? I don't worry about myself, Danny,
but we've got a son.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now. You have responsibilities. You can't afford to let yourself
be pushed around.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You can't afford to let yourself be talked out of
a rage that you deserve.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You've got a son.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Tell me what it is you want of me, Leola.
I want to make you happy. I'll do everything in
my power to make you happy. Just tell me what
it is you want. I mean them. I swear to you,
I mean them.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You've got to stop sitting around, Stanley. You've got to progress.
You're you're too easy going for your own goods.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You used to tell me you liked an easy going man,
but you.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Aren't going at all.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
You're at a standstill. You don't seem to have any ambition.
You're so ridiculously content and you haven't got anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I have a lovely wife and a fine son, and
a job and a place to live. What more do
I need?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Do you think Jim Benton would be?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Always come back to him? Venton was born with a
silver spoon in his mouth. He's a drunk, a boor,
and a vicious snob that you owed him up as
a shining example of manhood. Why, I don't know. Sometimes
I think you wish you'd married him.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
He had only to ask me what you heard me?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh? I'll see you lady?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Does it really matter? Why?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Doggie?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Did that mean? Old daddy?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
If yours slam the door and make my little baby
boy cry?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Saw things her way and you saw things her way.
Oh that's pretty good, mister Johnson. It's just such a
sense of humor about serious matters that made you and
missus Johnson this month's ideal couple a happy though married.
And now in just a moment, we'll continue your story.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But first.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage
tonight's play an ideal couple with warm weather here and
people outdoors more often, this is a good time to
get safety minded about our timberlands. Nine out of ten
of last year's foremost fires were man made. Americans have
a vital stake in our woodlands and their contribution to
national defense. Don't burn them up, let them grow, Crush
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cigarettes out, really out. Douse campfires thoroughly, turn them over,
and duse them again. Prevent forest fires, save America's timber reserves.
And here we are back on happy though married. So far,
we found that this month's ideal couple mister and missus
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Stanley Johnson. At at a party, he asked him for
a dance. He proposed, while lying on his stomach on
the grass at a picnic, that they face their little
differences with humor and compromise. Just a few more questions
and we'll present them with a host of sas surprize
gifts from our sponsor. For instance, how about vacations It
just more separately?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, uh, the first feel we spent separately, but we've
spent them together ever since.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Why did you start off separately?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I liked to fish, but Leola didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I learned to like fishing.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
All about that, she learned to like fishing.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Oh, there's one quirking good meal, my friend, So it was.
So it's not a Stan anything now. Why Yeah, Like
I've known you for a hundred years. I can read
your moods like a book. E've been gathering wool all
through lunch. What's that nothing, Leola? She find out we're
still having lunch together. Yeah, look, Stan, don't let it
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get you down. You can just as easily skip these lunches.
Don't be blue boy, you're forgetting our annual two week
quest for those beautiful mountain trout is only a month away. Yeah,
it's a matter. Leola wants to go along. Oh, she
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said she hated to be away from me. She said,
she realized I needed a rest, but she thought it
was selfish of me to go away along when she
doesn't get any time off with any of her friends,
what with the boy and everything. Uh and uh what
kind of surprised me? Because well, you know, she doesn't
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really like the great out of doors as she calls him,
and and it's real sweet of her to wanna go
along with us when she doesn't really like it. Then
with you? What go along with you? She knows I
won't go, She goes, Why do you say that? That's
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not true? She said? What a good time. The three
of us wouldn't happen. She didn't mean it. She wants
you fifty two weeks out of the year. She certainly
doesn't wanna give you up for two weeks to me
and some fish. She's gonna horn in on that too,
so she'll take everything you have that's you and descry
how that's enough. It's true, your poor stupid jack. Can't
you see it's true. I said that's enough. I'll cut
it out. You have no reason to talk about her
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like that. She's my wife. Cut it out, alright. I'm sorry, Stan,
That's all right. I did. I don't talk about it anymore. No, really,
it's quite right. I had no reason to speak that way.
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I'm sorry. Talk as if I were unhappy. How I
tell you I'm not unhappy. Okay, Stan, Let's forget I
mentioned it. Huh. Those fishing trips were fund that they
were my friends, that they were maybe next year.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Oh my hole, my missus Johnson, you feel me just
like that, she says, I learned to like fishing. Oh no,
wonder you're an ideal couple. Well, we're getting close to
those payoff gifts from our sponsors. But first, let me
ask you about your family. Did you raise any children?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Just one?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
A boy or a girl? A boy, Douglas, and judging
from the gleam in your eye, Missus Johnson, he's mama's pet.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He's a wonderful boy.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Mister Johnson, does Douglas favorite.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You are his mother? Well? There, the boy was really lucky.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, he looks like me and he acts like his money.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
After a thorough review of the case of the People
versus Douglas Johnson, in which the defendant has been found
guilty as accused, the court passes the following sentence. The
theft of two hundred and fifty dollars represents a major crime, but,
in the opinion of the court, since this is the
defendant's first offense and the money has been returned, society's
demand for punishment in this case might only make a
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hardened criminal out of a sensitive, restless boy. Therefore, the
court sentences you, Douglas Johnson, to two years in prison,
sentence suspended. You are hereby placed in the custody of
your parents for the duration of said sentence.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Court dismissed. Oh, Doug, Doug, my faith, I'm glad you're free. Son.
I can't say that I'm happy about the whole thing,
but maybe it's touch you a lesson.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Lesson.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Indeed, Doug would never have taken that two hundred and
fifty dollars if you've given him a little more spending money.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No boy of eighteen needs more than I know.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Then there's the line. When I was a boy, I
only got one dollar a week for your folks were poor.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
We're not to insist on raising Doug like you belong
to a family of paupers. I know my boy, he's
not a common thief. You'd only give him a decent.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I can only say, mister Johnson, that if your son
is as handsome as you and as charming as his mother,
he must be quite a boy. Well as our ideal couple.
You've enjoyed a rich, full.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Life together all.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What about the future, missus Johnson, what are your plan?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I think I'll start spending a little of that money.
We've worked so hard to say.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Huh, stack and new hats every day. How about you,
mister Johnson, what do you want to do with the future.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Well, now that I'm fifty five, I think I finally
acquired the wisdom to start living like a kid of
twenty five.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Man, for the twenty five years we've been sneaking lunchesiness,
back alley, greasy spoon. I've always wound up by saying,
how's a carking good meal, or words of that general effect.
Today I can't honestly say that why not, Hollie, I
thought the steak was pretty good. A meal is more
than food stand an occasion for comradeship, the conviviality and
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general good cheer, and you, my lifelong crony, have been
anything but the ideal companions for such an event.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'm sorry. There you sit a retired businessman. You've achieved
a goal that few men ever reached. He should be
bursting with pride and happiness. I know, I just seem
to have lost interest in things. Lost interest in thing? Then,
my boy, you've lost more than that. You've lost your life.
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They've squashed you down to a size of worm. Who
don't be avasive. Your wife, Leola, your son Doug, that's
who I seen, the two of 'em.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
They've knocked the stuffings out of a wonderful guy and left.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You whatever it is that you've become. Okay, No, don't
shut up. You're right I'm sorry, but it's stings to
hear someone put in the words the secret thoughts with
which you've lived intimately for years. I'm fifty five, I
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have money, position, a wife, and a son, and I'm
terribly unhappy because none of it gives me pleasure. Then
you're only fifty five? And why don't you do something
about it? What can I do to change it? Now?
We even lost the power to hope? How does a
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man get that way? What makes you play act?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Being the ideal husband? For so long? You? You haven't
loved Liola for years? Have you have?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No? Not for years? Alright, then why do you stay?
I don't know. First it was Doug, I guess. Then
it was a sense of duty lightly habit, Habit's gonna
be broken, you know how? Right to start with? Why
don't you join me in my life's big moment? That
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world cruise? I was telling you about you gone for
one whole big beautiful year, love to have you along.
I leave next Friday night. I couldn't.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Then do I have to start painting the dreary picture
of your future?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
If you don't make the brain No, I'm fully aware
of those horrors. A trip around the world will be fun, alright,
to make up for all those fishing trips we never had.
When are you leaving next Friday night? Alright, I'll go good,
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that's just fine. Stand, I promisely all. I'd go to
a radio broadcast with her on Friday afternoon she wrote
a letter or something I don't know. Then we'll leave
Friday night. Friday night. Then you'll be free of it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Stand on Friday night. Oh and I'll bet at fifty
five Mitester Johnson, you'll put to shame any squorth of
twenty five. Well, there they are, ladies and gentlemen. The
Johnson this month's ideal couple on our program, Happy though married.
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Missus Johnson's letter, awarded first place by our judges, is
going to win for this ideal couple the following wonderful prison. First,
a set of beautifully matched wardrobe trunks. Inside you'll find
clothing for both of you to last for years. We
secretly got your measurements. Besides clothing, you'll find jewelry, shaving accessories, toiletries,
sewing kit, even shoelaces, everything needed to clothe and keep
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a man in white and comfort for a long, long while.
Because In just thirty seconds, you will be whisked from
the studio and taken by a special limousine to the airport.
A plane is waiting there to fly you to the coast,
where you'll board one of the largest luxury liners, a
bloat the start a six month holly paid cruise and
tour of the of Europe. All this to start right now,
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because you are our ideal couple.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
On your way and oh my eyes.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
An ideal couple starrying. Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage.
In a moment, mister and missus Lewis will tell you
about next week's play. Tomorrow Night, there's music in the
air on CBS Radio, music and songs of foreign born composers.
Here baritone host Donald Richards, soprano Kamala Williams, tenor Clark Dennis,
song stylist Betty Cox, and Alfredo Antonini's Orchestra with avalon
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Swedish Rhapsody, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I'm Walking Behind You, and
many other top hits.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Remember Tomorrow Night.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
On most of these stations, there's music in the air,
and now once again, Kathy and Elliott Lewis.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Tom Dixon's venture into writing an ideal couple with Tom
playing the program master.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Ceremony and Paul Freese grew young and then old with us.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Next week we're going to do a play about the
same kind of people, same age and circumstances, and also
with a child, and by showing the other side of
the coin, see what else can be done with three lives.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The story was written by Shirley Gordon, and she calls
it a day to remember. It's fine listening for this
time of.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
The year until next week. Then thank you for listening.
Good night.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Nice music for tonight's story was composed and conducted by
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Fred Steiner. The Kathi and Elliott theme is by Ray Noble,
and the program is transcribed and directed by mister Lewis.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
George Walsh.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Speaking Sunday afternoons, hear the World Music Festivals on the
CBS Radio Network.
Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage. Kellie Lewis Elliott Lewis,
two of the most distinguished names in radio, appearing each
week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of
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transcribed stories of their own. And you're choosing radio's foremost
players in radio's foremost plays, Ladies and Gentlemen, Elliott.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Lewin, Good Evening, May I present my wife, Kathy Good Evening.
We're privileged tonight to introduce to you a new author.
The young man is better known as an actor and announcer,
but as you will soon hear, he also can write
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more than his name.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
May we present Tom Dixon Good Evening.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The play is called an Ideal Couple, and since Tom
wrote it and also has the other gifts Elliott mentioned,
he will play the radio announcer in the story.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
So, Tom, Kathy, here we go with an ideal couple.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Oh, missus Johnson, I'll bet you say that to all
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the boys.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I don't know all the boy.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Oh you are the sweetest talking middle lady we've met
in a long long time. Mister Johnson, how do you
ever hold your own being married to a woman with
such a way with words? It's all right, all right,
I'll tell me. When is this gift of gab of
hers most apparent? Well, you know, I'll bet it's twice
as powerful when the little darling wants and you have.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Huh, at least twice.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
All let's get on with a more serious aspects of
the situation. Missus Johnson. Do you know why the Johnson's
are on our programs happy though married?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I think I do.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
How about you, mister Johnson, I'm afraid not.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You mean you don't know why you're here?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
No, No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Oh, do you have a surprise coming to you? Because
the judges have decided that Missus Johnson's letter was the
best received in this month's contest, which makes the Johnson's
are ideal couple on Happy Go Mary, I told you
out of surprise to you, mister Johnson.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
How do you feel now? Bewildered? Bewildered?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
How about you, Missus Johnson?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
How do you feel?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
I'm just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I'll bet you do well. Before we tell you about
those grand surprise gifts our sponsors have lined up for you,
let's sketch in a bit of your married life to
prove that you deserve to be our ideal couple. How
to start with, missus Johnson, how long have you been married?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Twenty five years this month?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Twenty five years? Now that deserves a hand. How how
long did you know each other before you became engaged?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Oh, we knew each other from the time we were children,
but we didn't start going together until stand finished college.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Now, how did your first date come about?
Speaker 3 (03:27):
We really didn't have a first date.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
I went to a high school graduation party with another
bowl and well, you know how those things happen, do I?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Uh, mister Johnson looked pretty good.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Huh?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Well?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yes, Now I wanted to listen to the song Larry
Robbins is gonna play on the organ? Larry, do you
know what that song is?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
No?
Speaker 1 (03:56):
No, that's one of the songs that was popular in
those days when you two fine people first met. A
song that we understand was played at that party. Missus
Johnson was just talking about. Mister Johnson, did you come
to the party alone?
Speaker 2 (04:08):
As a matter of fact, I did. Gee, how ye,
I've forgotten how cozy these hometown parties were after the
glamour of the university. Sounds a bit silly. Stand Nothing
there was quite like this. You mean no party at
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state had Leolo Webb in attendant. Huh is that obvious? Obvious?
Would a swat in the nose seem obvious? I've been
staring at her all night. She certainly has the bloom.
That's the word you're searching for, my friend? Why don't
you ask her to dance? I'd liked her with Kamas Benton,
didn't she? I'll let the great Jim Benton scare you off.
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Bill is just a passing fancy with that lad. Why
does he let her sit on the sidelines? Well, he
swaps jokes with the boys. Maybe the jokes. You're safer?
What do you mean by that? Crack? Nothing? Nothing at all. Besides,
she's not sitting on the sideline. She's heading this way.
But she asked one of us to dance. That it's you.
Oh you must be crazy. Bet you buy it? Okay,
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Oh stand me.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Why did you get back from the university?
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Uh? Well yesterday, Yeah, it was yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
It's wonderful, just wonderful.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Have you back?
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Uh? This is a lady's choice down there. I thought, Oh,
that did be kidding?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
T A two A two dancing? Oh brilliantly?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Dance?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Would you care too.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Uh uh yeah, he'd be delighted. Hellout, hollered good evening. Leola, Well,
don't just stand there, old man. Get going. Oh yes, ah,
it was very nice of you and Leola to invite
me to dance with you.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
M wasn't nice to me at all. I just wanted
to dance. It was one of the handsomest man in
the crowd.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Johnson, you owe me a dollar? What deal?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That awful? Howard Rhymes want all?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Oh? Nothing, Eh, that's just no bet we are what
do you see?
Speaker 3 (06:09):
And Howard is a friend?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh I don't know. We've been friends all our lives.
Why do you ask?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
That's curious?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You're with Jim Benton tonight, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I suppose you could call it that you know?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And dance very well to thank you? You dance beautiful,
just beautiful, I tell you. I think bat Benton must
be a bit silly and the head night. What do
you mean Denny passing up a chance to dance with
you for a few Oh spoke too soon here he goes.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Really just my luck.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Wonder what got into mister Benton?
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Oh what do you mean? Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I mean, isn't that just like him?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Then?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
We ignore a girl all night and then just when
you start to have a little bar.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So she asked you to dance.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That you accepted, of course, as a matter of fact,
I didn't. You didn't, No, I was too scared. A
friend accepted for me.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Well, so much for your first romantic meeting. Now let's
get to the proposals. And mister Johnson, don't tell me
you let her do that too?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
No, I did that all right?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
How was he, missus Johnson? Romantic?
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
My?
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Do you think you were romantic?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Mister Johnson? I guess you could call it that. Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Did you get down on your knees?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh? I I want farther than that. I was. I
was flat on my stomach. Yeah. That was a nicest
picnic spread I've eaten in a long time.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
And the spot, the brook, the trees, wildflowers. I haven't
felt this good in my whole life.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Why should you feel so extra special good today?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Aho? A lot of reasons. The food was good, the
spot is lovely, the grass feels good against my belly
excuse me, stomach. And and the greatest reason, I guess
is because you're here really sad I mean it, You're wonderful.
It's just too bad marry and Bob couldn't come after
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accepting your invitation and everything.
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Oh you know Bob and Mary always changing plans at
the last second.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, they do seem to be happily married, though.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
I suppose though Bob certainly is my idea of a
good husband.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh who is? Who's what your idea of a good husband?
Jim Benton?
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Me marry Jim Denton with Jim Venton were the last
man alive. I've been old, maide.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Oh, I don't like a nickel for every time mister
Denton proposed to.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Me, I I thought all the girls considered him such
a whale of a catch.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Not this young lady.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Of what type of man would you uh l like
like to have for a husband?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Uh's somebody that's uh considerate, steady, easy to get along with,
good looking too maybe?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Uh huh?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
I see why'd you ask them?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Well? Well, leolah uh I yes.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Leola, I don't qualify for looks much, but I have steady.
I think I'm considerate, and people say I'm easy to
get along with. We've been seeing each other pretty steady
for almost a year now, ever since Jim Benton left town.
And I honestly think you're the most wonderful girl I
could ever hope to know. This might seem sudden to you,
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but I've thought about us an an awful lot. And
the more I think, the more I uh, the more.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
I I go I under Stanley.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
The more I think we could be happy together. I
love you so very much. Please marry him?
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Huh m Stanley, of course I'll marry you.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Oh, well, how do you mean, mister Johnson? You were
flat on your stomach?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Uh? Well, we were on a picnic and I was
stretched out on my stomach in the grass.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And you accepted his proposals, even though he spoke it
from that unromantic posture.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I certainly did.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I'm glad you did too, I bet Now about arguments?
Did you have many disagreements in your twenty five years
of married life?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh? Just a few, little one, I.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
See, mister Johnson, How did you suckle your quarrels?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Uh? Or we compromise? Compromise? She saw things her way
and I saw things her way.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
There they're no douggie, darling. Mommy's right here to see
your little man doesn't cry there, Leo.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
I think you picked Douglas up too much. Aren't you
gonna spoil him?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
Spoil him with love and affection, spoil him trying to
make up for the things.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
His father doesn't give him?
Speaker 2 (11:51):
What things?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
But do you think it's right to raise a child
in a one bedroom walk up apart?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
May not be right, dear, but it's all we can afford.
Lots of kids grow up strong and healthy and worse place.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Not my son. I'll not raise my son in this dirty,
ugly little flat.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's not dirty and it's not ugly. Howard says he
thinks you've done a wonderful job decorating for Howard.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
What does he know about decorating.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I just thought you'd be pleased.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
I'd be pleased if you'd stop spending so much of
your time with Howard. Well, he's not a good influence
on you. He's lazy, he has no ambition he please in.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
The first place. I don't spend all of my time
with Howard. And besides, I'm not a child. I'm not
liable to be influenced that easily. Now, please, let's just
stop this. You're tired, and I don't blame you, but honestly,
we're doing fine. Now tell me the truth.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Aren't we compared to Alison Jim Venton? We're doing quite bad.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Jim Benton inherited a factory and one hundred thousand dollars.
How can you compare us to Jim Venton? Be reasonable, dear.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Be reasonable?
Speaker 4 (12:46):
Why don't you start being reasonable? I don't worry about myself, Danny,
but we've got a son.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Now. You have responsibilities. You can't afford to let yourself
be pushed around.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You can't afford to let yourself be talked out of
a rage that you deserve.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You've got a son.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Tell me what it is you want of me, Leola.
I want to make you happy. I'll do everything in
my power to make you happy. Just tell me what
it is you want. I mean them. I swear to you,
I mean them.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
You've got to stop sitting around, Stanley. You've got to progress.
You're you're too easy going for your own goods.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You used to tell me you liked an easy going man,
but you.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Aren't going at all.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
You're at a standstill. You don't seem to have any ambition.
You're so ridiculously content and you haven't got anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I have a lovely wife and a fine son, and
a job and a place to live. What more do
I need?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Do you think Jim Benton would be?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Always come back to him? Venton was born with a
silver spoon in his mouth. He's a drunk, a boor,
and a vicious snob that you owed him up as
a shining example of manhood. Why, I don't know. Sometimes
I think you wish you'd married him.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
He had only to ask me what you heard me?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Oh? I'll see you lady?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Where are you going?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Does it really matter? Why?
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Doggie?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Did that mean? Old daddy?
Speaker 4 (14:24):
If yours slam the door and make my little baby
boy cry?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Saw things her way and you saw things her way.
Oh that's pretty good, mister Johnson. It's just such a
sense of humor about serious matters that made you and
missus Johnson this month's ideal couple a happy though married.
And now in just a moment, we'll continue your story.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
But first.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
You are listening to Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage
tonight's play an ideal couple with warm weather here and
people outdoors more often, this is a good time to
get safety minded about our timberlands. Nine out of ten
of last year's foremost fires were man made. Americans have
a vital stake in our woodlands and their contribution to
national defense. Don't burn them up, let them grow, Crush
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cigarettes out, really out. Douse campfires thoroughly, turn them over,
and duse them again. Prevent forest fires, save America's timber reserves.
And here we are back on happy though married. So far,
we found that this month's ideal couple mister and missus
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Stanley Johnson. At at a party, he asked him for
a dance. He proposed, while lying on his stomach on
the grass at a picnic, that they face their little
differences with humor and compromise. Just a few more questions
and we'll present them with a host of sas surprize
gifts from our sponsor. For instance, how about vacations It
just more separately?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, uh, the first feel we spent separately, but we've
spent them together ever since.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Why did you start off separately?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
I liked to fish, but Leola didn't.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
I learned to like fishing.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
All about that, she learned to like fishing.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Oh, there's one quirking good meal, my friend, So it was.
So it's not a Stan anything now. Why Yeah, Like
I've known you for a hundred years. I can read
your moods like a book. E've been gathering wool all
through lunch. What's that nothing, Leola? She find out we're
still having lunch together. Yeah, look, Stan, don't let it
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get you down. You can just as easily skip these lunches.
Don't be blue boy, you're forgetting our annual two week
quest for those beautiful mountain trout is only a month away. Yeah,
it's a matter. Leola wants to go along. Oh, she
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said she hated to be away from me. She said,
she realized I needed a rest, but she thought it
was selfish of me to go away along when she
doesn't get any time off with any of her friends,
what with the boy and everything. Uh and uh what
kind of surprised me? Because well, you know, she doesn't
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really like the great out of doors as she calls him,
and and it's real sweet of her to wanna go
along with us when she doesn't really like it. Then
with you? What go along with you? She knows I
won't go, She goes, Why do you say that? That's
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not true? She said? What a good time. The three
of us wouldn't happen. She didn't mean it. She wants
you fifty two weeks out of the year. She certainly
doesn't wanna give you up for two weeks to me
and some fish. She's gonna horn in on that too,
so she'll take everything you have that's you and descry
how that's enough. It's true, your poor stupid jack. Can't
you see it's true. I said that's enough. I'll cut
it out. You have no reason to talk about her
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like that. She's my wife. Cut it out, alright. I'm sorry, Stan,
That's all right. I did. I don't talk about it anymore. No, really,
it's quite right. I had no reason to speak that way.
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I'm sorry. Talk as if I were unhappy. How I
tell you I'm not unhappy. Okay, Stan, Let's forget I
mentioned it. Huh. Those fishing trips were fund that they
were my friends, that they were maybe next year.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Oh my hole, my missus Johnson, you feel me just
like that, she says, I learned to like fishing. Oh no,
wonder you're an ideal couple. Well, we're getting close to
those payoff gifts from our sponsors. But first, let me
ask you about your family. Did you raise any children?
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Just one?
Speaker 1 (19:22):
A boy or a girl? A boy, Douglas, and judging
from the gleam in your eye, Missus Johnson, he's mama's pet.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
He's a wonderful boy.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Mister Johnson, does Douglas favorite.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You are his mother? Well? There, the boy was really lucky.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Well, he looks like me and he acts like his money.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
After a thorough review of the case of the People
versus Douglas Johnson, in which the defendant has been found
guilty as accused, the court passes the following sentence. The
theft of two hundred and fifty dollars represents a major crime, but,
in the opinion of the court, since this is the
defendant's first offense and the money has been returned, society's
demand for punishment in this case might only make a
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hardened criminal out of a sensitive, restless boy. Therefore, the
court sentences you, Douglas Johnson, to two years in prison,
sentence suspended. You are hereby placed in the custody of
your parents for the duration of said sentence.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Court dismissed. Oh, Doug, Doug, my faith, I'm glad you're free. Son.
I can't say that I'm happy about the whole thing,
but maybe it's touch you a lesson.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Lesson.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
Indeed, Doug would never have taken that two hundred and
fifty dollars if you've given him a little more spending money.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No boy of eighteen needs more than I know.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Then there's the line. When I was a boy, I
only got one dollar a week for your folks were poor.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
We're not to insist on raising Doug like you belong
to a family of paupers. I know my boy, he's
not a common thief. You'd only give him a decent.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I can only say, mister Johnson, that if your son
is as handsome as you and as charming as his mother,
he must be quite a boy. Well as our ideal couple.
You've enjoyed a rich, full.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Life together all.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What about the future, missus Johnson, what are your plan?
Speaker 3 (21:23):
I think I'll start spending a little of that money.
We've worked so hard to say.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Huh, stack and new hats every day. How about you,
mister Johnson, what do you want to do with the future.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Well, now that I'm fifty five, I think I finally
acquired the wisdom to start living like a kid of
twenty five.
Speaker 7 (21:49):
Man, for the twenty five years we've been sneaking lunchesiness,
back alley, greasy spoon. I've always wound up by saying,
how's a carking good meal, or words of that general effect.
Today I can't honestly say that why not, Hollie, I
thought the steak was pretty good. A meal is more
than food stand an occasion for comradeship, the conviviality and
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general good cheer, and you, my lifelong crony, have been
anything but the ideal companions for such an event.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
I'm sorry. There you sit a retired businessman. You've achieved
a goal that few men ever reached. He should be
bursting with pride and happiness. I know, I just seem
to have lost interest in things. Lost interest in thing? Then,
my boy, you've lost more than that. You've lost your life.
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They've squashed you down to a size of worm. Who
don't be avasive. Your wife, Leola, your son Doug, that's
who I seen, the two of 'em.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
They've knocked the stuffings out of a wonderful guy and left.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You whatever it is that you've become. Okay, No, don't
shut up. You're right I'm sorry, but it's stings to
hear someone put in the words the secret thoughts with
which you've lived intimately for years. I'm fifty five, I
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have money, position, a wife, and a son, and I'm
terribly unhappy because none of it gives me pleasure. Then
you're only fifty five? And why don't you do something
about it? What can I do to change it? Now?
We even lost the power to hope? How does a
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man get that way? What makes you play act?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Being the ideal husband? For so long? You? You haven't
loved Liola for years? Have you have?
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No? Not for years? Alright, then why do you stay?
I don't know. First it was Doug, I guess. Then
it was a sense of duty lightly habit, Habit's gonna
be broken, you know how? Right to start with? Why
don't you join me in my life's big moment? That
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world cruise? I was telling you about you gone for
one whole big beautiful year, love to have you along.
I leave next Friday night. I couldn't.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Then do I have to start painting the dreary picture
of your future?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
If you don't make the brain No, I'm fully aware
of those horrors. A trip around the world will be fun, alright,
to make up for all those fishing trips we never had.
When are you leaving next Friday night? Alright, I'll go good,
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that's just fine. Stand, I promisely all. I'd go to
a radio broadcast with her on Friday afternoon she wrote
a letter or something I don't know. Then we'll leave
Friday night. Friday night. Then you'll be free of it.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Stand on Friday night. Oh and I'll bet at fifty
five Mitester Johnson, you'll put to shame any squorth of
twenty five. Well, there they are, ladies and gentlemen. The
Johnson this month's ideal couple on our program, Happy though married.
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Missus Johnson's letter, awarded first place by our judges, is
going to win for this ideal couple the following wonderful prison. First,
a set of beautifully matched wardrobe trunks. Inside you'll find
clothing for both of you to last for years. We
secretly got your measurements. Besides clothing, you'll find jewelry, shaving accessories, toiletries,
sewing kit, even shoelaces, everything needed to clothe and keep
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a man in white and comfort for a long, long while.
Because In just thirty seconds, you will be whisked from
the studio and taken by a special limousine to the airport.
A plane is waiting there to fly you to the coast,
where you'll board one of the largest luxury liners, a
bloat the start a six month holly paid cruise and
tour of the of Europe. All this to start right now,
(26:03):
because you are our ideal couple.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
On your way and oh my eyes.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
An ideal couple starrying. Kathy and Elliott Lewis on stage.
In a moment, mister and missus Lewis will tell you
about next week's play. Tomorrow Night, there's music in the
air on CBS Radio, music and songs of foreign born composers.
Here baritone host Donald Richards, soprano Kamala Williams, tenor Clark Dennis,
song stylist Betty Cox, and Alfredo Antonini's Orchestra with avalon
(27:04):
Swedish Rhapsody, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I'm Walking Behind You, and
many other top hits.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Remember Tomorrow Night.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
On most of these stations, there's music in the air,
and now once again, Kathy and Elliott Lewis.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Tom Dixon's venture into writing an ideal couple with Tom
playing the program master.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Ceremony and Paul Freese grew young and then old with us.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Next week we're going to do a play about the
same kind of people, same age and circumstances, and also
with a child, and by showing the other side of
the coin, see what else can be done with three lives.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
The story was written by Shirley Gordon, and she calls
it a day to remember. It's fine listening for this
time of.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
The year until next week. Then thank you for listening.
Good night.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Nice music for tonight's story was composed and conducted by
(28:21):
Fred Steiner. The Kathi and Elliott theme is by Ray Noble,
and the program is transcribed and directed by mister Lewis.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
George Walsh.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Speaking Sunday afternoons, hear the World Music Festivals on the
CBS Radio Network.
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