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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction seven.
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Attraction seven on Radio City Playhouse is an experiment in laughter,
the story of Fanny, a very unusual and fabulous old lady.
The script is written by our director Harry W. Junkin
and stars the young American comedian Grace Keddy. Here, then,
with our best wishes for a chuckle or two, is
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Radio City Playhouse Attraction seven. Fanny. Fanny is sixty nine
years old, which is almost seventy. Fanny is worth sixty
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nine million dollars, which is almost indecent, and Fanny is bored,
very very bored, which is almost incomprehensible. In Hill City,
Fanny Mofron is considered a character. She lives in a
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house that compares favorably with Buckingham Palace, and local rumor
has it that her bath towels are made to order
from a Canadian ranch min She believes that her age
and her money will allow her to do anything, and frankly,
well they do this morning. For some unaccountable reason, she
feels an intense and primitive verge to be nasty, as
nasty as possible to anybody. So when her doorbell rings
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appears in her sharp old eyes and brushing her butler aside.
She answers the door herself.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Listen, Sonny, my husband's ashes are in here in the
metlin and earn the way you're ringing that doorbell. I
that even disturbed him.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I'm sorry I didn't turned up straight?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Are you deef a bit off your noodle?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't quite know what is uh is? Missus Mottronim
that's me?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You got anything to say? I don't want.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I'm the piano tuner, Pierce pianos? You telephoned?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Didn't you a piano tuner?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you set up you on tele like you could
find something better to do than tune pianos.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
What is this?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You were a time coming? What come in coming in here?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Holy smoke? What is this a museum?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Meaning?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We don't stout? Put your stomach in Were you in
the army?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Look, Missus Montrain, I don't know what's the matter with
you today. Maybe you're always like this, So I'll just
give you all the information. I'm Joe Kirkland. I'm twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I was in the Marines. I was wounded twice.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I'm working for Pearson Company. Halftime and the rest of
the time I studied piano. My parents went to the
Methodist church. They were fine people. They're both dead and
I'm here to tune your piano.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And not to have a row en no tui and
guess what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I don't like musicians.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's tensing no hair in the Yeah, would you like
to see mine?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
If you're so smart play something and that you're lousy.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I'm darned if I don't think you're doing this on purpose. Oh,
you're told, Look missus Montrain.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
My price for tuning pianos is ten dollars for recital
it's it's higher.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
How much, well, one hundred dollars?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Good dear? What end me in my purse? This tide?
Oh you know what purse?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
When you see what here?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Thanks? Let me see. Yeah, here are a hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Hey? Kind of like your face? Joe here, you're fresh,
But that's good. I like young fellows with spirit, especially orphans.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
William was an orphan. That's my husband. Rest is soul
s up in seven. Now he'll be boss and everything,
but that swelling he'll be Now you play something.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Real good and maybe I'll have a proposition to make.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, but I am that.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
What's the matter? Can't you rip off something for a
hundred bucks?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Well, missus Mokran, for a hundred bucks, so I'd rip
off my right foot and boil it, you.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Know, Rachmanny knocks pray you Yes, I think so, and
play it and real fest I like things that are fat.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Okay, that ain't it that you don't even know it?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
How much?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Another one hundred, Missus Montran, you have just tossed two
hundred bucks down the drain.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Quick time?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Okay, Fanny.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Joey, Yes, sure have been keeping your part of the bug.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm beat. That's nine hours today.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Here's your first week's pay.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh, missus Montrain, are you sure that you you want
to do?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He made a bargain, Yeah, you're putting up the money
in I think, Joey the idea.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What fifty bucks a week means to me? Like a
rain drop in the Atlantic.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Fifty it was supposed to be forty. Forty is all
I got from the.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Piano company gave your rain.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But Missus Martin, I just.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I got between sixty and seventy million doss seven seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Millions regards They stops splashing your tongue out over fifty
bucks a week. Ain't even spin man. You stick to
the bargain I asked you for, and I'll put up
the green stuff. You work for two years of that
during piano live here with me, And if.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You ain't the best piano player in the country, you
got to go to work in moral business.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, okay, And no more of this, missus mottron stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
We're pardon So it's Penny and Joe.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay, okay, Fanny.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
One too free fall one too free fuck woo woo woo.
How a dingle?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I need of you?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
By madam?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, Joey, would you please be a good boy in
waiting the car for me? On account I just gotta
have a talk with madam about something private?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh sure, Fanny? Oh well, Louie, by madam you Thursday Thursday.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I want to talk to you, madam. Oh like something
stops flattering? Maybe madamany see, I ain't got that much
to say. How's the kid doing? Oh it is so sad?
No good eh, no good? Oh jeez? Money seek me
coming on?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
What like the angel he play? Oh you mean he's okay, madam?
Fanny here's the artist, the great artist. Everything I know
I have teaching debe it is over, Madam for someone,
and don't talk American Europe. Oh, madam, he won't be
seeing Joe again. But I like it except little present here.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
You blot a thousand, a thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh do you do, madam? Funny you owe the moose
food kids? Poor long madam.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Listen, girly, this is missus William Matron speaking.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I don't believe in holding the line. Can I get
two tickets of light New York night nine o'clock or
can't I? Huh, listen. I don't care about flight schedules.
I want an airplane at nine o'clock. See, but there
isn't a plane at nine o'clock and there is now, Girley, Yes,
let me talk to say Food does own that airport.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
But Madam you didn't have a reservation.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Don't believe in him, I said, I don't believe in him.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Well in that case, madam, you, I'm saying at this.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Hotel and I'll boil you and biscuit batter madam police.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You using perfume, Sonny, I take your partner.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yes, think, madam, I you must moderate your life.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I'll moderate you you. I'll buy the joint.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's what.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
There's five thousand bucks. Yeah, take a look. There's a
thousand dollars bill.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Home a few.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I want the top floor of this joint with a
nice bedroom for each of us, in a studio for
my young friend to practice the piano in. Oh, send
up a piano too. And if I have to wait
five more seconds, I lose my temperance by the joint.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Oh goodness, goodness, front boy, front boy, May I help you?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Madam?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Just thinking looking furniture department with Maybe you can just
what was madam looking for?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Service? Nowlip from you, mule head? Where can we sit down?
I beg your pardon why and stop shaking?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Stand up straight to look a body in the eyes,
you nervous murderer, I said, dear, you said they.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Bought a house yesterday. It's no, no furniture. No, I'm
living in an hotel for six months.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Want the house very well. We'll certainly be glad to
do anything.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, everything you can, not anything you can. Here's twenty
thousand dollars bills.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
CO.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
There's thousand dollars bills, twenty of them.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Madam, I think i'd better bring the manager over.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Get down.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Don't need the manager. Want this house fixed up bright tonight.
It's six up to night?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Why not, madam? I mean, nobody ever.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Expects to have listen kit Mouse, five thousand of that's
for you. It's fifteen thousand left. Hire some men, get
as many people as you need to give you a
hand with it. I want to play Ferny from breakfast
to bridges.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Fix it up only, Madam. I just don't understand.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Another thousand for six thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You can't understand. I'm sure I will a thousand more
if you do a good job.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Get many people as you need. And I want two
stoves electric for coocon and.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
A cook stow for bacon break Oh yes, and the
best cano you got.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I'm aimant a sleep in that house tonight.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
But I have no idea that the truth.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Never mind about the taste, just one nice comfy furniture,
don't care much about curs. Get some bttles, Oh yes,
ten cases of beer, clear clear beer.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Can't you stop shaking?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
It's just one day. I getting it done in one day.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Have all the truly tugninies I ever seen your it?
Can you can't you. Maybe I better talk to the
owner of this joint. What's his name?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Gimble?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
That's turned snappy, Joey, you're seting me a rip snorter?
Sure is snappy piano place?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Well, snappy isn't quite the word. But honestly, Fanny, it's
not bad. I think I'm ready what she said?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Sure, debut?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yeah, Fanny, I think I am. We've been nearly a
year in this host. I think it's time to come
out into the open.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Good.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
What about Madison Square Garden?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh, Fanny, honestly, he look it's big any Oh, no,
it's it's Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I want to rest the joint for two weeks from Monday. Eh,
I just want to rent the plate that's saws.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah, two weeks from.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Look Sunday. This is missus William Matron. See if there
is any talking over to be done, you will come
up and see me. And what about the Monday after that?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Horrow it?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What he do?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Oh? He does?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yay?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well wait till you hear Joe.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
How about September the thirteenth New York Philharmonic. You sold
any tickets for it yet?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Box office opens tomorrow? Well, don't bother I'll buy him all.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We'll give the orchestra a holiday. Yeah, don't have to understand.
I'll buy all the tickets and we'll send.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The orchestra home. I'll be down to sea in the morning.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But just remember that my young friend's making his a
beauty in Carnegie Hall on September the thirteenth. If I
have survived a joint.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
We did it, Patty, Patty.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We did it, love Joey Old. Okay, there again in fun.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Okay, Patty, Manny, we're in, We're in. We did it
at the doom.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'm telling you that that can in half. Just you
go to bow again.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No, no, that's not I.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Didn't come on you and me going out to get
banged up.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Coffee Fanny, sh up, hangover.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm trying joke.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
This for oysters and me tell me fel and whimpered.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh what a night, what a life?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Gosh, Fanny, I feel swellsh sh yeah, try to eat
some breakers.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Have an ice boa today, Joe Pete all the abuser,
swell wonderful.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
One of the maids.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
So good.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's spelling down now what he said, edge the top
of the columns, edge the bad part.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Only on rare occasions in the list Senator where mister
Kirkland's fingers and his musical sounds completely on report. However,
it must be remembered that this young artist does not
yet reach full musical maturity.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
He's right too, and I don't like it though, hear
me saying that, Fanny, don't be silly. Down's a brilliant man.
The New York Times wouldn't employ him if he wasn't
he knows and he's right.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Abstas and shave the body of breakfast.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right, I don't forget. We've got to watch a
date with your don't want.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
To be late?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah, you see m hm hello Hello New York Times
say girly just too does on the New York Times.
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You want anything?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, Fanny?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, Joey with that for a minute, will you?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What is it, Fanny?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You ever thought about getting married?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Now?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
What in the world brought this on?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I've been thinking. I don't like this thought you being
a virtuoso, your age, so life and.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Do you're good now, Fanny, there's to be none of that, understand.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Nice for the young girls. Young girl works for a living?
Uh huh, don't like he sends the artist friends don't
like the women.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No chesshot tall fanny. If you pull anything romantic on me,
so help me out. I'll go back to Hill City
and tune pianos.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Now I'm mad, Okay, okay, I wouldn't think of interfering
with your private life. Now where the devil is a boddy,
start looking for a nice working girl in this town.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Sampancy, lady, you like them bracelets? Thank you Saints preserved me.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Madam?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
May I show you something, dearly? It's better concealed one, Madam,
you mean you really won one hundred yards of garden home,
not skip it you're told anyway? Empty seer's real, deary.
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That means they ain't that figure.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yours the real thing, girly the Flora dollar battle that
chemy fish.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
The violets are lovely, I say.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
May I put them on your car.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
That would be really nice if your deary don't use perfume.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Dude in the flower department. No, there's no competition for roses.
Oh no, that's real sweet. What's you name, deary, June Carlic?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
File for me, dear in real teeth? Sure they are? Yeah,
you're a right pretty child. You're three too. About fifty
cents for the vile. How about some roses, some lovely ones?
Just over there, you healthy, dearly. I'll tell you a secret.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
If I felt any better, i'd well I bust.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Know just how that is. You're that way myself, not
your seventy Yeah, you're sure a lovely child. You gauged
or anything? No, not yet, Okay, I'll take a dozen roses.
Don't mind me asking all these personal questions. But I
wondered how it was a pretty girl like you wasn't married.
I'm just waiting for the right boy. Better make it
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two dozen roses?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Certain?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And girlie, what you're adds my brair?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
That's five fifties ninety six stricks inside? You live with
your folks? Just my mother Jane divorced.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
You know my father was killed in the war.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
A hero's dog.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Pardon nothing nothing? Oh and Dearie, wanting more? Has there
ever been any insanity in your family?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I want you to meet some friends of mine.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Your fanny.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
This is Missus Carling, my young friend, Joe Kirtlin.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Missus Carling, how do you do, mister Kirklin?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Come in, Dearie, don't be shy Joe. This is miss
June Carling. June, this is Joy.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Uh, well, how do you do.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
I've heard a lot about you.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh you have, Fanny. It seems to me your joke.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Go on with your practice and we'll be having some
early supper downstairs, and then missus Carling and June meet
going to prayer meet.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Nice to meet you, Missus Kirkland.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Fanny, can I speak to you for a moment practicing?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Joe, we won't deserve you to come on?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Goodbye, Fanny.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
I guess I might as welcome to prayer meeting to.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Fanny.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Joe and I thought we'd run up to the corner movie.
Wouldn't you like to come?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
No? Come on? Something bothering you?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Fanny? Ah, shut up, both of you. Leave me alone.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Fanny, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Going back to hill? Sticky? What you and June have
this nice little house each other? You don't need me, say,
young folks, be alone. You don't need me. I've told
you I've set TI ten thousand a year on you,
and so now the motion.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Joe, she's serious. Will stay home?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Give me a go, Yah, won't stay home? Go on
to the movie, kissing Sammy. Don't need me?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
She was a big shot pianist, famous making his own money.
I'm going back to Hill City, my god.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
But let me handle this, Joe.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Fanny, Fanny, what set me?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Whisper something?
Speaker 8 (25:04):
What will?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I was honest in January.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well now say that's real, sweet, real sweet young folks
should have kids, lots and lots of you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
See, we meet you terribly. How could I manage the
baby and everything if you weren't here? Okay, you can't
leave now, you just can't. He god, you wouldn't want
to leave. Your should not believe. I should hope not.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Medical center if I can get in, meaning they're booked
up so far ahead. They didn't think they could take
me unless there's a cancelation. How can you have a
cancelation if you're having a baby.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Well, sometimes things happened, Fanny. Oh gosh, oh goodness, medical
says there. Well you kids get to the movie?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Are you sure you won't come?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Bye? Sent me here, go on, go on, we'll be back.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Early about eleven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Mind you do you should be getting not to sleep?
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Five mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
See m hm fa yen.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It gets used to be New York Peleophone numbers, mhmm, Hello, Hello, Yes,
say girlie, Just who does own this here?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Medical Center?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
That was attraction seven on Radio City Playhouse the Story
of Fanny as written and directed by Harry W. Duncan.
Fanny was played by Grace Kendy. Joe was Joel Marston.
Other players included Connie Lemke, Larry Gates, Elaine Ross, Mildred Clinton,
and Anne Patoniac. The special music was composed and conducted
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by doctor Roy Shield, with Joe Kahn at the piano.
Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company
by Richard P. McDonald. Beginning August twenty third, the day
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after tomorrow, Radio City Playhouse will be heard over most
of these stations on Monday evenings ten thirty to eleven o'clock. Now,
due to many many requests, our first offering in this
new time will be a repeat performance of Long Distance
by Harry W. Junkins. The challenging role of Missus Leon
Jacks will again be played by Jan Miners. So be
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with us then on Monday, August twenty third, ten thirty
pm for a repeat performance of Long Distance by Harry W. Duncans.
That's Attraction eight Radio City Playhouse Robert Warren speaking This
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is NBC is a national broadcasting company.
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction seven.
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Attraction seven on Radio City Playhouse is an experiment in laughter,
the story of Fanny, a very unusual and fabulous old lady.
The script is written by our director Harry W. Junkin
and stars the young American comedian Grace Keddy. Here, then,
with our best wishes for a chuckle or two, is
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Radio City Playhouse Attraction seven. Fanny. Fanny is sixty nine
years old, which is almost seventy. Fanny is worth sixty
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nine million dollars, which is almost indecent, and Fanny is bored,
very very bored, which is almost incomprehensible. In Hill City,
Fanny Mofron is considered a character. She lives in a
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house that compares favorably with Buckingham Palace, and local rumor
has it that her bath towels are made to order
from a Canadian ranch min She believes that her age
and her money will allow her to do anything, and frankly,
well they do this morning. For some unaccountable reason, she
feels an intense and primitive verge to be nasty, as
nasty as possible to anybody. So when her doorbell rings
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appears in her sharp old eyes and brushing her butler aside.
She answers the door herself.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Listen, Sonny, my husband's ashes are in here in the
metlin and earn the way you're ringing that doorbell. I
that even disturbed him.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I'm sorry I didn't turned up straight?
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Are you deef a bit off your noodle?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I don't quite know what is uh is? Missus Mottronim
that's me?
Speaker 4 (02:28):
You got anything to say? I don't want.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I'm the piano tuner, Pierce pianos? You telephoned?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Didn't you a piano tuner?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
If you set up you on tele like you could
find something better to do than tune pianos.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
What is this?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
You were a time coming? What come in coming in here?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Holy smoke? What is this a museum?
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Meaning?
Speaker 5 (02:55):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
We don't stout? Put your stomach in Were you in
the army?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Now?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Look, Missus Montrain, I don't know what's the matter with
you today. Maybe you're always like this, So I'll just
give you all the information. I'm Joe Kirkland. I'm twenty four.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I was in the Marines. I was wounded twice.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
I'm working for Pearson Company. Halftime and the rest of
the time I studied piano. My parents went to the
Methodist church. They were fine people. They're both dead and
I'm here to tune your piano.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
And not to have a row en no tui and
guess what's wrong with that?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I don't like musicians.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
It's tensing no hair in the Yeah, would you like
to see mine?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
If you're so smart play something and that you're lousy.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I'm darned if I don't think you're doing this on purpose. Oh,
you're told, Look missus Montrain.
Speaker 6 (03:44):
My price for tuning pianos is ten dollars for recital
it's it's higher.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
How much, well, one hundred dollars?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Good dear? What end me in my purse? This tide?
Oh you know what purse?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
When you see what here?
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Thanks? Let me see. Yeah, here are a hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Are you serious?
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Hey? Kind of like your face? Joe here, you're fresh,
But that's good. I like young fellows with spirit, especially orphans.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
William was an orphan. That's my husband. Rest is soul
s up in seven. Now he'll be boss and everything,
but that swelling he'll be Now you play something.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Real good and maybe I'll have a proposition to make.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Yeah, but I am that.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
What's the matter? Can't you rip off something for a
hundred bucks?
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Well, missus Mokran, for a hundred bucks, so I'd rip
off my right foot and boil it, you.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Know, Rachmanny knocks pray you Yes, I think so, and
play it and real fest I like things that are fat.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Okay, that ain't it that you don't even know it?
Speaker 3 (04:57):
How much?
Speaker 6 (04:59):
Another one hundred, Missus Montran, you have just tossed two
hundred bucks down the drain.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Quick time?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Okay, Fanny.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Joey, Yes, sure have been keeping your part of the bug.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
I'm beat. That's nine hours today.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Here's your first week's pay.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh, missus Montrain, are you sure that you you want
to do?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He made a bargain, Yeah, you're putting up the money
in I think, Joey the idea.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
What fifty bucks a week means to me? Like a
rain drop in the Atlantic.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Fifty it was supposed to be forty. Forty is all
I got from the.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Piano company gave your rain.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
But Missus Martin, I just.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I got between sixty and seventy million doss seven seventy.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Millions regards They stops splashing your tongue out over fifty
bucks a week. Ain't even spin man. You stick to
the bargain I asked you for, and I'll put up
the green stuff. You work for two years of that
during piano live here with me, And if.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
You ain't the best piano player in the country, you
got to go to work in moral business.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Okay, okay, And no more of this, missus mottron stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
We're pardon So it's Penny and Joe.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Okay, okay, Fanny.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
One too free fall one too free fuck woo woo woo.
How a dingle?
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I need of you?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
By madam?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, Joey, would you please be a good boy in
waiting the car for me? On account I just gotta
have a talk with madam about something private?
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Oh sure, Fanny? Oh well, Louie, by madam you Thursday Thursday.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I want to talk to you, madam. Oh like something
stops flattering? Maybe madamany see, I ain't got that much
to say. How's the kid doing? Oh it is so sad?
No good eh, no good? Oh jeez? Money seek me
coming on?
Speaker 6 (07:33):
No?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
What like the angel he play? Oh you mean he's okay, madam?
Fanny here's the artist, the great artist. Everything I know
I have teaching debe it is over, Madam for someone,
and don't talk American Europe. Oh, madam, he won't be
seeing Joe again. But I like it except little present here.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
You blot a thousand, a thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh do you do, madam? Funny you owe the moose
food kids? Poor long madam.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Listen, girly, this is missus William Matron speaking.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I don't believe in holding the line. Can I get
two tickets of light New York night nine o'clock or
can't I? Huh, listen. I don't care about flight schedules.
I want an airplane at nine o'clock. See, but there
isn't a plane at nine o'clock and there is now, Girley, Yes,
let me talk to say Food does own that airport.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
But Madam you didn't have a reservation.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
Don't believe in him, I said, I don't believe in him.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Well in that case, madam, you, I'm saying at this.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Hotel and I'll boil you and biscuit batter madam police.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You using perfume, Sonny, I take your partner.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yes, think, madam, I you must moderate your life.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I'll moderate you you. I'll buy the joint.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
That's what.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
There's five thousand bucks. Yeah, take a look. There's a
thousand dollars bill.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Home a few.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
I want the top floor of this joint with a
nice bedroom for each of us, in a studio for
my young friend to practice the piano in. Oh, send
up a piano too. And if I have to wait
five more seconds, I lose my temperance by the joint.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Oh goodness, goodness, front boy, front boy, May I help you?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Madam?
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Just thinking looking furniture department with Maybe you can just
what was madam looking for?
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Service? Nowlip from you, mule head? Where can we sit down?
I beg your pardon why and stop shaking?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Stand up straight to look a body in the eyes,
you nervous murderer, I said, dear, you said they.
Speaker 4 (10:50):
Bought a house yesterday. It's no, no furniture. No, I'm
living in an hotel for six months.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Want the house very well. We'll certainly be glad to
do anything.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Yeah, everything you can, not anything you can. Here's twenty
thousand dollars bills.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
CO.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
There's thousand dollars bills, twenty of them.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Madam, I think i'd better bring the manager over.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Get down.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Don't need the manager. Want this house fixed up bright tonight.
It's six up to night?
Speaker 5 (11:21):
Why not, madam? I mean, nobody ever.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Expects to have listen kit Mouse, five thousand of that's
for you. It's fifteen thousand left. Hire some men, get
as many people as you need to give you a
hand with it. I want to play Ferny from breakfast
to bridges.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Fix it up only, Madam. I just don't understand.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Another thousand for six thousand bucks.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
You can't understand. I'm sure I will a thousand more
if you do a good job.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
Get many people as you need. And I want two
stoves electric for coocon and.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
A cook stow for bacon break Oh yes, and the
best cano you got.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
I'm aimant a sleep in that house tonight.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
But I have no idea that the truth.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Never mind about the taste, just one nice comfy furniture,
don't care much about curs. Get some bttles, Oh yes,
ten cases of beer, clear clear beer.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Can't you stop shaking?
Speaker 5 (12:21):
It's just one day. I getting it done in one day.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Have all the truly tugninies I ever seen your it?
Can you can't you. Maybe I better talk to the
owner of this joint. What's his name?
Speaker 5 (12:34):
Gimble?
Speaker 4 (13:05):
That's turned snappy, Joey, you're seting me a rip snorter?
Sure is snappy piano place?
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Well, snappy isn't quite the word. But honestly, Fanny, it's
not bad. I think I'm ready what she said?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Sure, debut?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yeah, Fanny, I think I am. We've been nearly a
year in this host. I think it's time to come
out into the open.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
Good.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
What about Madison Square Garden?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Oh, Fanny, honestly, he look it's big any Oh, no,
it's it's Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
That Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I want to rest the joint for two weeks from Monday. Eh,
I just want to rent the plate that's saws.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah, two weeks from.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Look Sunday. This is missus William Matron. See if there
is any talking over to be done, you will come
up and see me. And what about the Monday after that?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Horrow it?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What he do?
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Oh? He does?
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yay?
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well wait till you hear Joe.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
How about September the thirteenth New York Philharmonic. You sold
any tickets for it yet?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Box office opens tomorrow? Well, don't bother I'll buy him all.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
We'll give the orchestra a holiday. Yeah, don't have to understand.
I'll buy all the tickets and we'll send.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
The orchestra home. I'll be down to sea in the morning.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
But just remember that my young friend's making his a
beauty in Carnegie Hall on September the thirteenth. If I
have survived a joint.
Speaker 7 (15:32):
We did it, Patty, Patty.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
We did it, love Joey Old. Okay, there again in fun.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Okay, Patty, Manny, we're in, We're in. We did it
at the doom.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I'm telling you that that can in half. Just you
go to bow again.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
No, no, that's not I.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Didn't come on you and me going out to get
banged up.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Coffee Fanny, sh up, hangover.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
I'm trying joke.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
This for oysters and me tell me fel and whimpered.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Oh what a night, what a life?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Gosh, Fanny, I feel swellsh sh yeah, try to eat
some breakers.
Speaker 3 (16:49):
Have an ice boa today, Joe Pete all the abuser,
swell wonderful.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
One of the maids.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
So good.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
It's spelling down now what he said, edge the top
of the columns, edge the bad part.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
Only on rare occasions in the list Senator where mister
Kirkland's fingers and his musical sounds completely on report. However,
it must be remembered that this young artist does not
yet reach full musical maturity.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
He's right too, and I don't like it though, hear
me saying that, Fanny, don't be silly. Down's a brilliant man.
The New York Times wouldn't employ him if he wasn't
he knows and he's right.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Abstas and shave the body of breakfast.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
All right, I don't forget. We've got to watch a
date with your don't want.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
To be late?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Yeah, you see m hm hello Hello New York Times
say girly just too does on the New York Times.
(18:17):
You want anything?
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, Fanny?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, Joey with that for a minute, will you?
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What is it, Fanny?
Speaker 4 (18:25):
You ever thought about getting married?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Now?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
What in the world brought this on?
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I've been thinking. I don't like this thought you being
a virtuoso, your age, so life and.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Do you're good now, Fanny, there's to be none of that, understand.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Nice for the young girls. Young girl works for a living?
Uh huh, don't like he sends the artist friends don't
like the women.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
No chesshot tall fanny. If you pull anything romantic on me,
so help me out. I'll go back to Hill City
and tune pianos.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Now I'm mad, Okay, okay, I wouldn't think of interfering
with your private life. Now where the devil is a boddy,
start looking for a nice working girl in this town.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Sampancy, lady, you like them bracelets? Thank you Saints preserved me.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Madam?
Speaker 4 (19:43):
May I show you something, dearly? It's better concealed one, Madam,
you mean you really won one hundred yards of garden home,
not skip it you're told anyway? Empty seer's real, deary.
(20:04):
That means they ain't that figure.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Yours the real thing, girly the Flora dollar battle that
chemy fish.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
The violets are lovely, I say.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
May I put them on your car.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
That would be really nice if your deary don't use perfume.
Speaker 8 (20:46):
Dude in the flower department. No, there's no competition for roses.
Oh no, that's real sweet. What's you name, deary, June Carlic?
Speaker 4 (20:57):
File for me, dear in real teeth? Sure they are? Yeah,
you're a right pretty child. You're three too. About fifty
cents for the vile. How about some roses, some lovely ones?
Just over there, you healthy, dearly. I'll tell you a secret.
Speaker 8 (21:18):
If I felt any better, i'd well I bust.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Know just how that is. You're that way myself, not
your seventy Yeah, you're sure a lovely child. You gauged
or anything? No, not yet, Okay, I'll take a dozen roses.
Don't mind me asking all these personal questions. But I
wondered how it was a pretty girl like you wasn't married.
I'm just waiting for the right boy. Better make it
(21:45):
two dozen roses?
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Certain?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And girlie, what you're adds my brair?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Yeah? What is it?
Speaker 4 (21:52):
That's five fifties ninety six stricks inside? You live with
your folks? Just my mother Jane divorced.
Speaker 8 (21:59):
You know my father was killed in the war.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
A hero's dog.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Pardon nothing nothing? Oh and Dearie, wanting more? Has there
ever been any insanity in your family?
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
I want you to meet some friends of mine.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Your fanny.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
This is Missus Carling, my young friend, Joe Kirtlin.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Missus Carling, how do you do, mister Kirklin?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Come in, Dearie, don't be shy Joe. This is miss
June Carling. June, this is Joy.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Uh, well, how do you do.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
I've heard a lot about you.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Oh you have, Fanny. It seems to me your joke.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Go on with your practice and we'll be having some
early supper downstairs, and then missus Carling and June meet
going to prayer meet.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Nice to meet you, Missus Kirkland.
Speaker 6 (23:17):
Fanny, can I speak to you for a moment practicing?
Speaker 4 (23:19):
Joe, we won't deserve you to come on?
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Goodbye, Fanny.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
I guess I might as welcome to prayer meeting to.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Fanny.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Joe and I thought we'd run up to the corner movie.
Wouldn't you like to come?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
No? Come on? Something bothering you?
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Fanny? Ah, shut up, both of you. Leave me alone.
Speaker 8 (24:19):
Fanny, what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Going back to hill? Sticky? What you and June have
this nice little house each other? You don't need me, say,
young folks, be alone. You don't need me. I've told
you I've set TI ten thousand a year on you,
and so now the motion.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Joe, she's serious. Will stay home?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Give me a go, Yah, won't stay home? Go on
to the movie, kissing Sammy. Don't need me?
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
She was a big shot pianist, famous making his own money.
I'm going back to Hill City, my god.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
But let me handle this, Joe.
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Fanny, Fanny, what set me?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
Whisper something?
Speaker 8 (25:04):
What will?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
I was honest in January.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well now say that's real, sweet, real sweet young folks
should have kids, lots and lots of you.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
See, we meet you terribly. How could I manage the
baby and everything if you weren't here? Okay, you can't
leave now, you just can't. He god, you wouldn't want
to leave. Your should not believe. I should hope not.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
Medical center if I can get in, meaning they're booked
up so far ahead. They didn't think they could take
me unless there's a cancelation. How can you have a
cancelation if you're having a baby.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
Well, sometimes things happened, Fanny. Oh gosh, oh goodness, medical
says there. Well you kids get to the movie?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Are you sure you won't come?
Speaker 1 (25:55):
No?
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Bye? Sent me here, go on, go on, we'll be back.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Early about eleven o'clock.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Mind you do you should be getting not to sleep?
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Five mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
See m hm fa yen.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
It gets used to be New York Peleophone numbers, mhmm, Hello, Hello, Yes,
say girlie, Just who does own this here?
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Medical Center?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
That was attraction seven on Radio City Playhouse the Story
of Fanny as written and directed by Harry W. Duncan.
Fanny was played by Grace Kendy. Joe was Joel Marston.
Other players included Connie Lemke, Larry Gates, Elaine Ross, Mildred Clinton,
and Anne Patoniac. The special music was composed and conducted
(27:20):
by doctor Roy Shield, with Joe Kahn at the piano.
Radio City Playhouse is supervised for the National Broadcasting Company
by Richard P. McDonald. Beginning August twenty third, the day
(28:04):
after tomorrow, Radio City Playhouse will be heard over most
of these stations on Monday evenings ten thirty to eleven o'clock. Now,
due to many many requests, our first offering in this
new time will be a repeat performance of Long Distance
by Harry W. Junkins. The challenging role of Missus Leon
Jacks will again be played by Jan Miners. So be
(28:27):
with us then on Monday, August twenty third, ten thirty
pm for a repeat performance of Long Distance by Harry W. Duncans.
That's Attraction eight Radio City Playhouse Robert Warren speaking This
(29:01):
is NBC is a national broadcasting company.
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