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Speaker 1 (00:02):
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve Tonight,
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a first play by a new author, Mother, written by
Stanley Robert Mednick, a most talented young American for whom
we forecast and he'd better not disappoint us a brilliant
future with the production directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Jenkin.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Here is Stanley Robert Mednick's first radio play, Mother, Attraction
twelve on Radio City Playhouse. It's seven o'clock on New
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Year's Eve in New York, the most exciting night of
the year and the world's most exciting town. The officers
and the RCA building are still brightly lit. The restaurants
and bars are crowded. There are parties everywhere, although some
of them show signs of breaking up. Everybody is having
a wonderful time, everybody except Mary Adams. Mary is thirty,
and she never seems to have a really good time.
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And she's just a little bit shy, too shy for
her own good.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Come on, Sylvia, let's go. It's seven o'clock. Okay, very
but it's a beautiful thirty Well are you coming or not?
Got my scream?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yes, yes, sure, the screens they're drunk. I'm all drunk.
It's disgusting. I'm glad. I'm not like them getting drunk
just because one rotten year is ending in another beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, what for Paine's sake? Mary, You've been happy to
leave for an.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Hour and I just standing.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They're goalking. Do you want me to walk to the
subway with you?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I don't Well, yes, yes, sure, I don't want to
walk to the subway with her. All she'll do is
tell me about the date she's having tonight, how handsome
he is, how he dances. So Ellen, I'm not interested. Actually,
they go to a dive to have dinner, then they
go dancing with hundreds of people, coughing smoke in their faces,
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and then they come home they'd drunk and say they
had a wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well what are we waiting for?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Look a bit of funny?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Mary? Is anything right? No, nothing is the matter. For
a minute, I thought you were sick or something. I'm fine.
Shall we go? Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Why am I walking with her? Why didn't I tell
her I had some last minutes shopping to do. Now
she's gonna boast, boast and boast, like all of them.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It is crazy. Sylvia Ray in New York City.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
On New Year's But I'm still good I have. But
are you going to say? No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'm going to stand a quiet evening at home. Oh
oh what.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I was just thinking?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But I know what she was thinking. She was thinking
about me not going any place tonight. She's probably glad too,
I know that type. Oh why should I bother? After all,
I must stay home tonight. It isn't right to keep
an invalid mother home alone, especially on New Year's Eve
when there are drunks all over. Mother would be very
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unhappy and frightened if I didn't stay home with her.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Here's the subway coming down. As a matter of fact. No,
I just remember, I have to get something down the streets.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh I'll wait for you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh no, you don't have to. It'll take some time.
You better go on ahead of me. I'll see you
later in the week.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Okay, marry good night, Happy here, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
There. I'm rid of her, Thank Heaven. Now I'll wait
here for a few minutes till i'm sure her train
is gone. Then i'll go down. Why didn't I go
with her on that train? I was afraid, That's why
I'm jealous. Afraid she talk about her dating jealous because
I've never had one. Oh, I must get this silly
talk out of my head. I know very well the
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only reason I haven't had a date is because I
haven't had time for any but with mother ill for
as long as I can remember. In my job in all,
let the others waste their time on dates. I'll take
care of my mother. M hm, oh, well, I suppose
your train has left. I can go down now.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He's startled me.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What does a strange man want with me? It looks odd.
I must get away from him, I must. I'll run
down the subway steps. There are people there. He can't
try anything if there are people around.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I'm a stranger here, miss, and I was wondering if
you could direct me to Fifth.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Avenue, three blocks west.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Is that all?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's all? Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You will?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know I've told him what he wanted to know.
Why doesn't he leave? Why is he just standing there?
He thinks he's going to make time with me?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Is there's something else?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Well, miss, yes, I'm a stranger here.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
He already told me that. Why is he stalling? Why?
I know because I'm a cheap pickup, that's what he thinks. Well,
he's greatly mistaken, and that he make just one, just
one sassy remark, and I'll scream for a cop. I
know these types, prowling around for helpless when he's probably drunk.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You say you're a stranger here.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Is I realize this may sound sort of queer, but
since I know absolutely nobody in New York, I was thinking,
oh that is well, I hope you don't think I'm
trying to be fresh, But well, it's this way. Are
you busy tonight?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Busy tonight? Why I've got my eye a handy. I'll
call a cop. I'll scream, yell, I'll hit him.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Imagine saying that to me. To me, mother will be
furious when she hears this. She always tells me not
to wear red. People think the wrong things like this,
prowling bomb.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Am I busy tonight?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well I am busy.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I am busy. I have to stay home with my mother. Well,
I've got to tell him. I just can't stand here gaping.
I can't say I'm not busy. You want me to
go with him? I don't want to go with him,
do I? He doe? I do but he may murder
me for all I know. I wonder if he would know.
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He looks nice, he looks harmless. I've got to say something,
for Heaven's sake. But what will I say? I'll say
I have to go home to my sick mother. But
I don't want to. I don't I want to go
with this man. I have all things to think, I like.
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I just can't go with them.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Mother's home ill. As a matter of fact, I'm not
busy tonight, so wonderful.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Do you think you'd mind having a bite with me
and then maybe go dancing?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Oh, I can fix that. My name is Harry, Harry Wilson.
I come from Cleveland, Ohio. Work in an office there.
I'm thirty three years old, live with my parents when
i'm home, and I'm not married. Now tell me what's
your name?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Mary? Mary Adams?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, I shouldn't have told him. Now, I won't leave
me alone. I don't care. He's a nice, friendly man,
he's lonely. He's just looking for a companion. I'll go
with him. I have nothing to lose. Of course, I'll
go with him. I deserve a good time. I leave
mother alone for once. Fifteen years, I've spent New Year's
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even home with Mother. Oh, but Mother needs me. She's sick.
So what she's sick. She's made me sick fifteen years.
Maggie yelling, preaching it's because i've herd that I'm an
old maid. Oh, I've got to get these thoughts out
of my head. Mother is the loveliest lady in the world.
I love her deeply. She all sacrifice so much for me,
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and I think of leaving her alone on New Year's Eve.
I can't go with gentlemen. I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Mary Adams just play Mary.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Mary. That's a wonderful name. Well, now that we know
each other, is it okay?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, I can't go.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Well, brought up lady doesn't allow herself to be picked
up at night by strangers, even by nice, harmless looking strangers.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, yes, I will go with you. Well, no, I've
done it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I've consented. Now I have to go with him. So what,
So I'll go with him, and I'll have a wonderful time.
I'll enjoy myself for New Year's Eve for a change.
I'll have a good time for once in my boring life.
But I better call mother she'll worry otherwise. If I'll
stop at drugstrong Coller, Oh, maybe I better not, she'll
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yell at me and Ryan. She'll tell me all sorts
of things. Now, she'll tell me I'll be the death
of her. Yet I won't call her, Oh but I must.
She'll think I was running over. She has enough worries.
I don't want to add to them. But if I
do a phone, she'll insist I come home. I won't
call her. I don't care what worry she has. She
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certainly gives me enough.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Harry, I have a funny feeling this is going to
be a wonderful night.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I like that music to you very much. It reminds
me of years ago, way before the war. I was
in college. Then we used to have music like that
at all our dances.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
What are you studying at college?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Medicine?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Thing?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You're adopted?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Oh no, I'm not. These things sort of interrupted my plan. Well,
war came along, and when that was over, I didn't
feel like spending six or seven years more in school.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And what do you do in Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I work in the office of a departments. Not very exciting,
but I managed to live, and every so often I
get a few days off and I travel around. That's
how I happened. Comes in the ark.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh I see.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh he is a nice fellow. I'm awfully glad I came.
Mother would like him too. Why don't I invite him
to the house for dinner some night? No, I better not.
After all, the only reason he took me out was
because he had no one else. I'm sure he wouldn't
want to see me after this. Why should he. I'm
no raving beauty. He's only seen me at night under
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lights and looked different in daylight.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
What were you thinking of, Mary?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I think? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, this wasn't anything. I was just wondering if you
were engaged?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now? Why did I have to say that? What difference
does it make? He says, yes, I'll be disillusioned all evening.
Oh I ought to be shot.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't need to snoop by asking you were engaged.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh no, I'm not engaged. I was before the war,
but things didn't pan out. She's married now to garage
mechanic in Los Angeles. Very happy too, I hear, Are
are you attached to anybody in particularly?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, he just asked. That's to be polite. He knows
inwardly that no man would look twice at me. He
was a very kind man, But I wish you wouldn't
pity me. Don't like people to pity me. And no,
now he only asked me to go out with him
because I looked lonely at the subway. Oh now, that's
a silly thought. He asked me to go out because
he wanted to. No man out of pity asks a
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strange girl for a date, especially on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh no, I'm not attached to anybody.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Well, were you ever engaged? Oh? Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
When I graduated from high school, I went with a
fellow for a few months. Then I found he wasn't
exactly my type.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I lied, I lied, like Sylvie and the rest of them,
just to make an impression on a silly man. Mother
would be furious, if she knew. Mother's always furious. Well,
so I did lie. I didn't hurt anybody, at least
he wasn't my type at all.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
At any rate, you don't have to worry. I bet
a hundred fellows bother you or we well, not exactly see.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I have an in good mother. She takes up most
of my spare time. I don't usually have time for
such things as days.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Oh that's too bad, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
In five minutes, New Year'll be Yes, you're in and
we're going to.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Play on lang.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Say now, until then, we're like all of you to
come out on the dance floors. We can all celebrate
a wonderful new yet together, shall we dance?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Mary?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I don't dance well, Harry.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
And neither do I, but at least will be better
than being the only ones at the table.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Okay, but I warn you.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
It's almost midnight. Yes, and I always feel kind of
sad on New Year's and brings back so many memories.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
For me too.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
For me too, memories of sitting next to a radio
hearing the crowds of Times Square yelling their heads off
while mother told me not to listen to such drivel memories.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What memories does it bring back for you, Harry? Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Sor?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
It's mainly about Leela, the girl.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I was engaged to her.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
She was a sweet kid.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But you said things didn't pan out.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
They didn't. Oh you know. She wanted to run around
when I wanted to stay home. Just wanted me to
go into business.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
I wanted to live one place, she another, But I
remember her.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, if you were engaged to her, why not.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Remember her? Sure he remembers her. He's probably married to her,
probably has four kids or something. He's just bringing me along,
wanted to take for New Year's. It makes up some
silly lies about as being a stranger in New York,
not knowing anybody, that he lives in New York. He
thinks I'm a pick up. That's what he thinks. I
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was crazy to go with him. I'm so ashamed of
what mother will think. Well, it's still not too late.
I'll go home. I'll make some excuse, I'll say it's
all been very nice, but I really have to get home.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Happy New Year, Mary, Happy New Year, Harry, Mary. Would
you mind?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Would I mind?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
He wants to kiss me. I mustn't let him. It's
not right. Think a mother. She wouldn't like it. No, no, no, no,
I mustn't kiss him. I mustn't, I must.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I wouldn't mind. Harry.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
You're an awfully lovely girl, Mary, Mary. What's happening? Why
are you crying?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I always get sent a let alone, Lucy. Nothing, there's
nothing wrong happen here, Harry. I do wish the band
would stop playing that song.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Don't you like him?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Usually?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yes, but right now I want something light and gay,
something bouncing.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Your Yes, you know, it's absolutely amazing. What an hour
ago you were nervous and jumping every few seconds. You've
seen a million miles away. No, No, you're somehow changed.
I don't know you're you're suddenly bubbling. What even your
eyes it's glitterate.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It just stands to be lighting the heavier.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It's not the lighter.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Thank you, Harry, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh that's the first real compliment I've ever had. Oh
he is nice. And what if he is married or engaged?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
His mind?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
For now and nothing else matters? What about later? I'll
never see him again and that will make me feel
even worse. No, I won't think about it. I'm having fun,
really i am. I'll worry about later later.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Hey Mary, you're a million miles away again.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No I'm not, Harry, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I'm right here next to you.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It's still raining, So what I hate things out of season.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It should be snowing now, And what would you be
doing if it were snowing? Walking is never what we're
doing now.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
That's different walking in the snow. I love to hear
the crunching sound of my boots plowing in. I love
that cold wind that makes my nose red. My mother
thinks I'm weird when I tell her these things. She
always tells me I'll get pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
My mother is the same. Can't see the poetry? And
walking in the rain?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What do you like about walking in the rain?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Mean we like to sing in the rain? Sure? Haven't
you ever sung in the ring? And you've missed a
wonderful experience. There's nothing like it, the whole april. Sollers
make come your way away? How they bring the flowers
that blow in.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Tight hair.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
It's New Year's Eve. That's a night where people let lose.
People are supposed to do what they want. And I
want to sing, Oh no, Harry, don't so when it's raining,
I have no regress. Come Mary, because it isn't raining rain,
you know it's raining vile. Let's come on mary things.
And when you see clouds upon a here you soone
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will see sing Mary clouds of that a deal. That's
the way. So keep on looking for a bluebird and
listening for this song. Whenever a real sour one it is, Yes, Harry,
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what's up?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Let's cross the street quickly?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Why see what's happening?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's coming down the street. I don't want to see. Please,
I have my reasons.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Okay, Mary, who is it?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Long?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Girl? She's working in office with me. Don't look now, Harry.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I think it's too late. She's spotted it. Oh no,
she's coming here.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
But she sees you.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
It looks as if you're purposely from avoid.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah. Hello Sylvia. He so this Ria had to get
down the street. No, and you didn't want me to
wait for you. Oh aren't you going introduce me? Of course, Harry.
This is Sylvia Miller, Sylvia, mister Harry Wilson. Please did
Hill Wilson. This lug of mine's named Brian or something.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
He'll say hello.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He'll be to say hello, love boy. Hello. Oh Sylvie,
you marry, you play all your.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Big talk about spending is quiet evening, get home and
then you go praying about just like oh.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The rest, mister Wilson.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Your girl married, always putting on airs afs some good
idea about being better than everybody else.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Even though she's only been with us two weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I think you're not, but I guess she ain't last
all I married?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh what's the matter?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Did I say something wrong?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
As usual? And just a little bit moil.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I shall be stop gabbin.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I want to get gone. We've been paying the towel
red all night and he still okay okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We gotta go.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Not married.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Good bye, Mars to night, say.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Goodbye. I'm sorry. Harry's terribly sorry. She's not my friend.
You think i'd have a friend like her, Well.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Don't get work, doth Mary. She was only drunk. She
didn't even know what she was saying. And she probably
won't even remember having met you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, no, I suppose she won't. Yes, she will. She'll
have a fine time in the office telling people that
Mary Adams was running around on New Year's Eve with
a man who kicked her up. And she'll be telling
the truth too. Everybody will laugh when she tells her.
It'll get back to mother. I won't be able to
deny it either, because it's all true. But still not
too late. Still can break away from here. I'll tell
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him I have to go home. I'll tell us it's
still not too.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Late, Harry. It's getting late, Harry. I have to be
getting home.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Oh, it's not that late, but it is.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
My mother asked, well, she wants me home early.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Okay, Mary, I'm going home alone alone. Oh no, you aren't.
You think I'm the type of let my dad go
home alone on New Year's Eve with drunkards roaming all over.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I must go home alone, Harry, Why I must? That's why?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Look, Harry, I have to tell you something. I lied
to you earlier this evening when I said I wasn't engaged.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I am.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But you see, my fellow and I had an argument,
or it wasn't really anything, just a silly quarrel. Well,
I just wanted to fight him, and that's why I
let you pick me. That's why I went out with
you tonight. But I realized it was a terrible thing
to do.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I'm just leading you along on a string, and you're
too nice for that. And that's why it's best to
say goodbye now, to forget about tonight. I see, don't
think too lowly of me, Harry. After all, tonight was
just for laughs. Oh no, what was well, it was
for laughs.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You make up with your boyfriend, you can tell him
what a hilarious time you had on New Year's Eve.
Was a jerk from Ohio.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Don't say such things.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
It's true. That's what Leela did. That's what most girls do.
I thought you were different. I thought you were sweet
and kind. I thought you were a kind who'd understand
a fellow like me. I thought i'd like to see
you again. I wanted to see you again. No, I say,
it was just wasting my time. Your friend was right,
You're no different from the others.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So long, Mary carry Wait, wait, Harry, Come that, come
that Harry.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh why can't this someway go faster? I want to
go home. That couple over there necking, necking in public?
Haven't they any self respect?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Why should I bother? I don't behave like them. I
behave very sensibly this evening. I did what was right.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I did.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh, why do I have to lie to myself? That's
the reason I didn't let him take me home was
because I'm stupid. I like me, But I threw him
over simply because I was afraid of what Sylvie would think.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
My mother would say.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It's my fear, my indeodic, ridiculous fear that made me
give him up. I have only myself to blame, only
my soul I'm almost home, just down the block, then
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up the steps. Oh, thank heavens. What will I tell mother? True? Oh, no,
I hasn't. She'll yell, no, rat, she'll laugh. Maybe she
won't even believe me. I know what I'll tell her.
Sylvia's date suddenly got sick and still, and I went
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to the movies.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I am.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I tried to get her on the phone all evening,
but the lines were tied up because of the holiday.
Oh maybe she's sleeping. Maybe she won't even hear me.
Come in. Well here I am. There's a light on
in the Browns. I wonder why. Oh oh Mary, Oh
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missus brown up a bit late tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I know, you know, the new year and all.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
We even had a little shin dig a while ago.
Just broke up. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I rang you up bell to see if you were home,
but I guess you weren't. No, I had an appointment.
Well I'm gonna run now.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Mothers expect money now, Mary, please, you know perfectly well, Mary,
you've just got to get it through your head.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean, you've got to realize on it. Stop marry
Your mother's dead.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
She's been dead for over two years.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just got to realize it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
She isn't dead. You're lie. You've always lied to me.
She is instead.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Mother's not dead. Mother.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
My New Year's Eve is a climax, a climax of
many things. Something ends and something begins on New Year's Eve,
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and sometimes something both begins and ends. That was Mother
Attraction twelve on Radio City Playhouse, written by Stanley Robert Mednick.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
The production was directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Duncan.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Members of the cast included Sylvia Davis, Abby Lewis and
potoniak Ross Martin and Eugene Francis. The music composed and
conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Radio City Playhouse is supervised
for the National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
McDonough.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Next week, we are happy to welcome Miss jan Minor
to a third appearance on Radio City Playhouse. She will
be heard as constant in a tent and moving story
written by our director, Harry W. Duncan. We hope you
will be with us, and that you will note our
new time and broadcast day Saturday at eight o'clock. Be
with us then next Saturday, eight o'clock or Soundless Attraction
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thirteen on Radio City Playhouse, Robert Warren speaking, This is NBC,
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the national broadcasting company.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Mm hmm
The National Broadcasting Company presents Radio City Playhouse Attraction twelve Tonight,
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a first play by a new author, Mother, written by
Stanley Robert Mednick, a most talented young American for whom
we forecast and he'd better not disappoint us a brilliant
future with the production directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Jenkin.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Here is Stanley Robert Mednick's first radio play, Mother, Attraction
twelve on Radio City Playhouse. It's seven o'clock on New
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Year's Eve in New York, the most exciting night of
the year and the world's most exciting town. The officers
and the RCA building are still brightly lit. The restaurants
and bars are crowded. There are parties everywhere, although some
of them show signs of breaking up. Everybody is having
a wonderful time, everybody except Mary Adams. Mary is thirty,
and she never seems to have a really good time.
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And she's just a little bit shy, too shy for
her own good.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Come on, Sylvia, let's go. It's seven o'clock. Okay, very
but it's a beautiful thirty Well are you coming or not?
Got my scream?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yes, yes, sure, the screens they're drunk. I'm all drunk.
It's disgusting. I'm glad. I'm not like them getting drunk
just because one rotten year is ending in another beginning.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, what for Paine's sake? Mary, You've been happy to
leave for an.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Hour and I just standing.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
They're goalking. Do you want me to walk to the
subway with you?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Not?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I don't Well, yes, yes, sure, I don't want to
walk to the subway with her. All she'll do is
tell me about the date she's having tonight, how handsome
he is, how he dances. So Ellen, I'm not interested. Actually,
they go to a dive to have dinner, then they
go dancing with hundreds of people, coughing smoke in their faces,
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and then they come home they'd drunk and say they
had a wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Well what are we waiting for?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Look a bit of funny?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Mary? Is anything right? No, nothing is the matter. For
a minute, I thought you were sick or something. I'm fine.
Shall we go? Sure?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Why am I walking with her? Why didn't I tell
her I had some last minutes shopping to do. Now
she's gonna boast, boast and boast, like all of them.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It is crazy. Sylvia Ray in New York City.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
On New Year's But I'm still good I have. But
are you going to say? No, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I'm going to stand a quiet evening at home. Oh
oh what.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I was just thinking?
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Hm.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
But I know what she was thinking. She was thinking
about me not going any place tonight. She's probably glad too,
I know that type. Oh why should I bother? After all,
I must stay home tonight. It isn't right to keep
an invalid mother home alone, especially on New Year's Eve
when there are drunks all over. Mother would be very
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unhappy and frightened if I didn't stay home with her.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Here's the subway coming down. As a matter of fact. No,
I just remember, I have to get something down the streets.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh I'll wait for you.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh no, you don't have to. It'll take some time.
You better go on ahead of me. I'll see you
later in the week.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Okay, marry good night, Happy here, Happy New Year.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
There. I'm rid of her, Thank Heaven. Now I'll wait
here for a few minutes till i'm sure her train
is gone. Then i'll go down. Why didn't I go
with her on that train? I was afraid, That's why
I'm jealous. Afraid she talk about her dating jealous because
I've never had one. Oh, I must get this silly
talk out of my head. I know very well the
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only reason I haven't had a date is because I
haven't had time for any but with mother ill for
as long as I can remember. In my job in all,
let the others waste their time on dates. I'll take
care of my mother. M hm, oh, well, I suppose
your train has left. I can go down now.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
He's startled me.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What does a strange man want with me? It looks odd.
I must get away from him, I must. I'll run
down the subway steps. There are people there. He can't
try anything if there are people around.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I'm a stranger here, miss, and I was wondering if
you could direct me to Fifth.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Avenue, three blocks west.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Is that all?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That's all? Oh?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You will?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know I've told him what he wanted to know.
Why doesn't he leave? Why is he just standing there?
He thinks he's going to make time with me?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Is there's something else?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (05:49):
Well, miss, yes, I'm a stranger here.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
He already told me that. Why is he stalling? Why?
I know because I'm a cheap pickup, that's what he thinks. Well,
he's greatly mistaken, and that he make just one, just
one sassy remark, and I'll scream for a cop. I
know these types, prowling around for helpless when he's probably drunk.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
You say you're a stranger here.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Is I realize this may sound sort of queer, but
since I know absolutely nobody in New York, I was thinking,
oh that is well, I hope you don't think I'm
trying to be fresh, But well, it's this way. Are
you busy tonight?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Busy tonight? Why I've got my eye a handy. I'll
call a cop. I'll scream, yell, I'll hit him.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Imagine saying that to me. To me, mother will be
furious when she hears this. She always tells me not
to wear red. People think the wrong things like this,
prowling bomb.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Am I busy tonight?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well I am busy.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
I am busy. I have to stay home with my mother. Well,
I've got to tell him. I just can't stand here gaping.
I can't say I'm not busy. You want me to
go with him? I don't want to go with him,
do I? He doe? I do but he may murder
me for all I know. I wonder if he would know.
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He looks nice, he looks harmless. I've got to say something,
for Heaven's sake. But what will I say? I'll say
I have to go home to my sick mother. But
I don't want to. I don't I want to go
with this man. I have all things to think, I like.
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I just can't go with them.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Mother's home ill. As a matter of fact, I'm not
busy tonight, so wonderful.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Do you think you'd mind having a bite with me
and then maybe go dancing?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
But I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Oh, I can fix that. My name is Harry, Harry Wilson.
I come from Cleveland, Ohio. Work in an office there.
I'm thirty three years old, live with my parents when
i'm home, and I'm not married. Now tell me what's
your name?
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Mary? Mary Adams?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh, I shouldn't have told him. Now, I won't leave
me alone. I don't care. He's a nice, friendly man,
he's lonely. He's just looking for a companion. I'll go
with him. I have nothing to lose. Of course, I'll
go with him. I deserve a good time. I leave
mother alone for once. Fifteen years, I've spent New Year's
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even home with Mother. Oh, but Mother needs me. She's sick.
So what she's sick. She's made me sick fifteen years.
Maggie yelling, preaching it's because i've herd that I'm an
old maid. Oh, I've got to get these thoughts out
of my head. Mother is the loveliest lady in the world.
I love her deeply. She all sacrifice so much for me,
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and I think of leaving her alone on New Year's Eve.
I can't go with gentlemen. I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Mary Adams just play Mary.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Mary. That's a wonderful name. Well, now that we know
each other, is it okay?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Well, I can't go.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Well, brought up lady doesn't allow herself to be picked
up at night by strangers, even by nice, harmless looking strangers.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Well, yes, I will go with you. Well, no, I've
done it.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
I've consented. Now I have to go with him. So what,
So I'll go with him, and I'll have a wonderful time.
I'll enjoy myself for New Year's Eve for a change.
I'll have a good time for once in my boring life.
But I better call mother she'll worry otherwise. If I'll
stop at drugstrong Coller, Oh, maybe I better not, she'll
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yell at me and Ryan. She'll tell me all sorts
of things. Now, she'll tell me I'll be the death
of her. Yet I won't call her, Oh but I must.
She'll think I was running over. She has enough worries.
I don't want to add to them. But if I
do a phone, she'll insist I come home. I won't
call her. I don't care what worry she has. She
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certainly gives me enough.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Harry, I have a funny feeling this is going to
be a wonderful night.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
I like that music to you very much. It reminds
me of years ago, way before the war. I was
in college. Then we used to have music like that
at all our dances.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
What are you studying at college?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Medicine?
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Thing?
Speaker 2 (10:38):
You're adopted?
Speaker 5 (10:39):
Oh no, I'm not. These things sort of interrupted my plan. Well,
war came along, and when that was over, I didn't
feel like spending six or seven years more in school.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
And what do you do in Cleveland?
Speaker 5 (10:51):
I work in the office of a departments. Not very exciting,
but I managed to live, and every so often I
get a few days off and I travel around. That's
how I happened. Comes in the ark.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Oh I see.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Oh he is a nice fellow. I'm awfully glad I came.
Mother would like him too. Why don't I invite him
to the house for dinner some night? No, I better not.
After all, the only reason he took me out was
because he had no one else. I'm sure he wouldn't
want to see me after this. Why should he. I'm
no raving beauty. He's only seen me at night under
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lights and looked different in daylight.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
What were you thinking of, Mary?
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I think? Why?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Well, this wasn't anything. I was just wondering if you
were engaged?
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Now? Why did I have to say that? What difference
does it make? He says, yes, I'll be disillusioned all evening.
Oh I ought to be shot.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I don't need to snoop by asking you were engaged.
Speaker 5 (11:49):
Oh no, I'm not engaged. I was before the war,
but things didn't pan out. She's married now to garage
mechanic in Los Angeles. Very happy too, I hear, Are
are you attached to anybody in particularly?
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (12:02):
No, he just asked. That's to be polite. He knows
inwardly that no man would look twice at me. He
was a very kind man, But I wish you wouldn't
pity me. Don't like people to pity me. And no,
now he only asked me to go out with him
because I looked lonely at the subway. Oh now, that's
a silly thought. He asked me to go out because
he wanted to. No man out of pity asks a
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strange girl for a date, especially on New Year's Eve.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Oh no, I'm not attached to anybody.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Well, were you ever engaged? Oh? Yes.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
When I graduated from high school, I went with a
fellow for a few months. Then I found he wasn't
exactly my type.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I lied, I lied, like Sylvie and the rest of them,
just to make an impression on a silly man. Mother
would be furious, if she knew. Mother's always furious. Well,
so I did lie. I didn't hurt anybody, at least
he wasn't my type at all.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
At any rate, you don't have to worry. I bet
a hundred fellows bother you or we well, not exactly see.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I have an in good mother. She takes up most
of my spare time. I don't usually have time for
such things as days.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Oh that's too bad, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
In five minutes, New Year'll be Yes, you're in and
we're going to.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Play on lang.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Say now, until then, we're like all of you to
come out on the dance floors. We can all celebrate
a wonderful new yet together, shall we dance?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Mary?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I don't dance well, Harry.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
And neither do I, but at least will be better
than being the only ones at the table.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Okay, but I warn you.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
It's almost midnight. Yes, and I always feel kind of
sad on New Year's and brings back so many memories.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
For me too.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
For me too, memories of sitting next to a radio
hearing the crowds of Times Square yelling their heads off
while mother told me not to listen to such drivel memories.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
What memories does it bring back for you, Harry? Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Sor?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
It's mainly about Leela, the girl.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I was engaged to her.
Speaker 5 (14:02):
She was a sweet kid.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But you said things didn't pan out.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
They didn't. Oh you know. She wanted to run around
when I wanted to stay home. Just wanted me to
go into business.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
I wanted to live one place, she another, But I
remember her.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, if you were engaged to her, why not.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Remember her? Sure he remembers her. He's probably married to her,
probably has four kids or something. He's just bringing me along,
wanted to take for New Year's. It makes up some
silly lies about as being a stranger in New York,
not knowing anybody, that he lives in New York. He
thinks I'm a pick up. That's what he thinks. I
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was crazy to go with him. I'm so ashamed of
what mother will think. Well, it's still not too late.
I'll go home. I'll make some excuse, I'll say it's
all been very nice, but I really have to get home.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
Happy New Year, Mary, Happy New Year, Harry, Mary. Would
you mind?
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Would I mind?
Speaker 3 (15:13):
He wants to kiss me. I mustn't let him. It's
not right. Think a mother. She wouldn't like it. No, no, no, no,
I mustn't kiss him. I mustn't, I must.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I wouldn't mind. Harry.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
You're an awfully lovely girl, Mary, Mary. What's happening? Why
are you crying?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I always get sent a let alone, Lucy. Nothing, there's
nothing wrong happen here, Harry. I do wish the band
would stop playing that song.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Don't you like him?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Usually?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yes, but right now I want something light and gay,
something bouncing.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Your Yes, you know, it's absolutely amazing. What an hour
ago you were nervous and jumping every few seconds. You've
seen a million miles away. No, No, you're somehow changed.
I don't know you're you're suddenly bubbling. What even your
eyes it's glitterate.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
It just stands to be lighting the heavier.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
It's not the lighter.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Thank you, Harry, thank you.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
Oh that's the first real compliment I've ever had. Oh
he is nice. And what if he is married or engaged?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
His mind?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
For now and nothing else matters? What about later? I'll
never see him again and that will make me feel
even worse. No, I won't think about it. I'm having fun,
really i am. I'll worry about later later.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Hey Mary, you're a million miles away again.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No I'm not, Harry, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I'm right here next to you.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
It's still raining, So what I hate things out of season.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
It should be snowing now, And what would you be
doing if it were snowing? Walking is never what we're
doing now.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
That's different walking in the snow. I love to hear
the crunching sound of my boots plowing in. I love
that cold wind that makes my nose red. My mother
thinks I'm weird when I tell her these things. She
always tells me I'll get pneumonia.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
My mother is the same. Can't see the poetry? And
walking in the rain?
Speaker 2 (17:31):
What do you like about walking in the rain?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Mean we like to sing in the rain? Sure? Haven't
you ever sung in the ring? And you've missed a
wonderful experience. There's nothing like it, the whole april. Sollers
make come your way away? How they bring the flowers
that blow in.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Tight hair.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
It's New Year's Eve. That's a night where people let lose.
People are supposed to do what they want. And I
want to sing, Oh no, Harry, don't so when it's raining,
I have no regress. Come Mary, because it isn't raining rain,
you know it's raining vile. Let's come on mary things.
And when you see clouds upon a here you soone
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will see sing Mary clouds of that a deal. That's
the way. So keep on looking for a bluebird and
listening for this song. Whenever a real sour one it is, Yes, Harry,
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what's up?
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Let's cross the street quickly?
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Why see what's happening?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's coming down the street. I don't want to see. Please,
I have my reasons.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Okay, Mary, who is it?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Long?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Girl? She's working in office with me. Don't look now, Harry.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I think it's too late. She's spotted it. Oh no,
she's coming here.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
But she sees you.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
It looks as if you're purposely from avoid.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah. Hello Sylvia. He so this Ria had to get
down the street. No, and you didn't want me to
wait for you. Oh aren't you going introduce me? Of course, Harry.
This is Sylvia Miller, Sylvia, mister Harry Wilson. Please did
Hill Wilson. This lug of mine's named Brian or something.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
He'll say hello.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
He'll be to say hello, love boy. Hello. Oh Sylvie,
you marry, you play all your.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Big talk about spending is quiet evening, get home and
then you go praying about just like oh.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The rest, mister Wilson.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Your girl married, always putting on airs afs some good
idea about being better than everybody else.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Even though she's only been with us two weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I think you're not, but I guess she ain't last
all I married?
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh what's the matter?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Did I say something wrong?
Speaker 2 (20:03):
As usual? And just a little bit moil.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
I shall be stop gabbin.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I want to get gone. We've been paying the towel
red all night and he still okay okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
We gotta go.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Not married.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Good bye, Mars to night, say.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Goodbye. I'm sorry. Harry's terribly sorry. She's not my friend.
You think i'd have a friend like her, Well.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Don't get work, doth Mary. She was only drunk. She
didn't even know what she was saying. And she probably
won't even remember having met you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
No, no, I suppose she won't. Yes, she will. She'll
have a fine time in the office telling people that
Mary Adams was running around on New Year's Eve with
a man who kicked her up. And she'll be telling
the truth too. Everybody will laugh when she tells her.
It'll get back to mother. I won't be able to
deny it either, because it's all true. But still not
too late. Still can break away from here. I'll tell
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him I have to go home. I'll tell us it's
still not too.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Late, Harry. It's getting late, Harry. I have to be
getting home.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Oh, it's not that late, but it is.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
My mother asked, well, she wants me home early.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Okay, Mary, I'm going home alone alone. Oh no, you aren't.
You think I'm the type of let my dad go
home alone on New Year's Eve with drunkards roaming all over.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
I must go home alone, Harry, Why I must? That's why?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
Look, Harry, I have to tell you something. I lied
to you earlier this evening when I said I wasn't engaged.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
I am.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
But you see, my fellow and I had an argument,
or it wasn't really anything, just a silly quarrel. Well,
I just wanted to fight him, and that's why I
let you pick me. That's why I went out with
you tonight. But I realized it was a terrible thing
to do.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
I'm just leading you along on a string, and you're
too nice for that. And that's why it's best to
say goodbye now, to forget about tonight. I see, don't
think too lowly of me, Harry. After all, tonight was
just for laughs. Oh no, what was well, it was
for laughs.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
You make up with your boyfriend, you can tell him
what a hilarious time you had on New Year's Eve.
Was a jerk from Ohio.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Don't say such things.
Speaker 5 (22:16):
It's true. That's what Leela did. That's what most girls do.
I thought you were different. I thought you were sweet
and kind. I thought you were a kind who'd understand
a fellow like me. I thought i'd like to see
you again. I wanted to see you again. No, I say,
it was just wasting my time. Your friend was right,
You're no different from the others.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
So long, Mary carry Wait, wait, Harry, Come that, come
that Harry.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Oh why can't this someway go faster? I want to
go home. That couple over there necking, necking in public?
Haven't they any self respect?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Why should I bother? I don't behave like them. I
behave very sensibly this evening. I did what was right.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I did.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Oh, why do I have to lie to myself? That's
the reason I didn't let him take me home was
because I'm stupid. I like me, But I threw him
over simply because I was afraid of what Sylvie would think.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
My mother would say.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
It's my fear, my indeodic, ridiculous fear that made me
give him up. I have only myself to blame, only
my soul I'm almost home, just down the block, then
(24:21):
up the steps. Oh, thank heavens. What will I tell mother? True? Oh, no,
I hasn't. She'll yell, no, rat, she'll laugh. Maybe she
won't even believe me. I know what I'll tell her.
Sylvia's date suddenly got sick and still, and I went
(24:42):
to the movies.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I am.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I tried to get her on the phone all evening,
but the lines were tied up because of the holiday.
Oh maybe she's sleeping. Maybe she won't even hear me.
Come in. Well here I am. There's a light on
in the Browns. I wonder why. Oh oh Mary, Oh
(25:15):
missus brown up a bit late tonight.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I know, you know, the new year and all.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
We even had a little shin dig a while ago.
Just broke up. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I rang you up bell to see if you were home,
but I guess you weren't. No, I had an appointment.
Well I'm gonna run now.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Mothers expect money now, Mary, please, you know perfectly well, Mary,
you've just got to get it through your head.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I mean, you've got to realize on it. Stop marry
Your mother's dead.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
She's been dead for over two years.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Just got to realize it.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
She isn't dead. You're lie. You've always lied to me.
She is instead.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Mother's not dead. Mother.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
My New Year's Eve is a climax, a climax of
many things. Something ends and something begins on New Year's Eve,
(26:27):
and sometimes something both begins and ends. That was Mother
Attraction twelve on Radio City Playhouse, written by Stanley Robert Mednick.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
The production was directed by Harry W.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Duncan.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Members of the cast included Sylvia Davis, Abby Lewis and
potoniak Ross Martin and Eugene Francis. The music composed and
conducted by doctor Roy Shield. Radio City Playhouse is supervised
for the National Broadcasting Company by Richard P.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
McDonough.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Next week, we are happy to welcome Miss jan Minor
to a third appearance on Radio City Playhouse. She will
be heard as constant in a tent and moving story
written by our director, Harry W. Duncan. We hope you
will be with us, and that you will note our
new time and broadcast day Saturday at eight o'clock. Be
with us then next Saturday, eight o'clock or Soundless Attraction
(27:52):
thirteen on Radio City Playhouse, Robert Warren speaking, This is NBC,
(28:20):
the national broadcasting company.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Mm hmm
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