May 6, 2025 • 31 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chicago Motor Club presents the Wayside Theaters. Welcome to
the Wayside Theater, Ladies and gentlemen, your weekly radio headquarters
for dramatic entertainment. Your host, The Chicago Motor Club has
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Speaker 2 (00:57):
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Speaker 1 (00:59):
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Chicago Motor Club, Chicago, or call the special night operators
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Speaker 2 (01:46):
The Chicago Motor.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Club's Wayside Theater now presents the first act of a
friend of Gertrude's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Sleep Well upon nine eyes, Peace in my breast? Would
I sleep in peace so sweet to rest? Hence when
I to my ghostly father's sell his help to crave,
my dear have to tell, well, I.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hope you'll excuse my fusting in backstage like this between acts,
mister grantit or i'd make.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yourself right at home. I've only got a minute, though,
I'll have to go on again.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So yeah, well, I'm Art Smith at Perfection Studios. I
didn't like to go to Hollywood for me for four
well act a course. I've been watching your performance and
if you haven't got something, then I'm no talent, scareful,
I'm no actor.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm a medical student and I'm only halfway through my course.
I couldn't go to Hollywood. Forget the medical course. Hasn't
men time wasted? It'll help you play doctors when you're
acting on the screen.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yes, mister Grant, I've told mister O'Brien that you're the
young actor from Wisconsin. Mister Smith sent, I've mister O'Brien
won't be able to see you for at least two weeks,
but he's arranged the screen test for you.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
All right, Grant, Now tell a car your level us
a few minutes. Let's make this a good test, right,
action her? I love you, darling, you must believe me.
I love you. I love you.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Sorry, mister O'Brien can't see you. He's tied up.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well are all producers always tied up? I haven't seen
mister O'Brien since I came to the studio. Sorry, hasn't
even looked at my test. Suppose you call me next week.
But sir, I've been here in Hollywood four months now
and I haven't even been in a picture.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Soly I know people have been here forty years without
being in a picture.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Dear mister Grant, I regret to inform you we are
not taking up the option on your contract.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Effective today, you will be.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Dropped from the studio contract list two the years Henry
Brand Perfection Pictures, Central Casting.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
This is Richard Grant. Have you any work today?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Call later. This is Richard Grant.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Sorry, call later.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Call later, Call later, Call later, call later.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I've got to have money to eat.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
The state of California can assume no responsibility for people
like you.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And why are you always advertising for people to come here?
Speaker 8 (04:41):
On advertisements warn people not to come here seeking employment
lest they be disappointed. Next, Yes, madamout attractions are unlimited
for the tourist. Mile High Lake, San Bathed Beaches. California
is really paradise on Earth. Yes, paradise on Earth.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
I'm he's not interested in any more excuses or promises,
mister Grant.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I've got to have the rent.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You'll have to wait till I get a job.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
I'm afraid I'm sick of your kind coming to Hollywood
just because you've heard people get rich in the movies.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Started tiring to be an actor. You might go to
work like other people.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
You get out of here by tomorrow morning, or I'll
put you out.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
See Yes, missus Pearce, you make it all very clear.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
They always put rugs to cover the crack under the
door and stuff the keyhole.
Speaker 10 (05:32):
Yes, there is still a way out. Forget the medical course.
It'll help your play doctors when you're acting on the screen.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Hello here, your lovers of you a minute, act Haut.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Mister Bryle is tied up tut doctors Central casting call.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Later lay State of California, Mile High Lake, sunbathed beaches,
Paradise on.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Everything's ready? No, no, whoy is it?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
It's just the girl across the court. Please may I
bother you?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'm better open the door and get rid of her.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
I'm awfully sorry, but I've everything I need to get
dinner except salt?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Could you lend me some?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yes, I think so, Yes, that's good of you. Just
a minute. Excuse me for not asking you? In apartment's
a mess.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Here's the salt. You might as well to take the
whole shaker.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I'll bring it right back.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Please don't, I won't need it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Oh and.
Speaker 11 (07:04):
Please don't think me too forward. But well, the butcher
made a mistake when he sent my meat today, and
I've got a big thick steak here, just three times
more than I can eat.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Would you care to come over to my apartment and
help me get.
Speaker 12 (07:17):
Rid of it?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thanks awfully, but I couldn't you've eaten no, not recently?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Then you've got to come if i'd interrupted anything? Whatever,
it is. You can do it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Later, Yes, I could do it later.
Speaker 11 (07:34):
It'll be a great favor to me if you'll help
me with that steak. You see, I can't bear.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
To eat alone.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, that was the best steak I ever ate, Gridyard.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Now you've got to let me help you do the dishes,
all right, I might have had it with the first
steak I've had in months.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I've forgotten there were such things.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
A good dinner can do a lot to give a person.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
And you outlook on life, I think, okay, And if
I were you, I wouldn't do it now what Please
don't be angry, But I couldn't help knowing you thought
you'd rather end it all than go on.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I've seen the signs so often in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Must have been crazy. If you hadn't knocked when you did.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I knew least I was almost sure.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
How did you know?
Speaker 11 (08:24):
Don't you think I've noticed you since you first took
the apartment across from me in this bungalow court, I've
seen the discouragement etch lines in your face, and tonight,
well I.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Get the whole court at the landlady.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You don't know how rotten it's, Yes.
Speaker 11 (08:40):
I do, and and it's all given me a grand
excuse to tell you how much I like you. I
don't suppose I'd ever had the nerve to do it,
if if the circumstances hadn't been so desperate.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
U to think somebody's been caring whether I lived or died,
and I haven't even known it.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
I told you I was secretary to mister Black. One
of the us is at the Paragon Studio. I'm just
an ordinary person in an ordinary job. But you're not
ordinary like I am. And I'm going to speak to
mister Black for you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You mean, maybe he might put me in a picture.
Speaker 11 (09:13):
He could if he wanted to, want me to do
a little crystal gazing for you. Sure you're going to
be big in Hollywood, Richard. You're going to be great.
And I'm going to help you if I can, even
though I know that by helping you, I lose you.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The ladies and gentlemen, when you hear the name Chicago
Motor Club, you may get the impression that the many
money saving services of this old reliable organization are confined
solely to Chicago and Cook County.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
On the contrary, the.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Motor protection and pleasure of the Club's seventy eight thousand
member families are actually and literally worldwide. It's the only
club in this territory affiliated with the famous AAA, the
American Automobile Association. Unless you're a Chicago Motor Club member,
you can't possibly realize how important this is to the
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owner of a car. It means, for example, that no
matter where a member is in this country or abroad,
he has powerful and influential friends at his service because
of this important national and international alliance. For example, Chicago
Motor Club members were driving to either one of the
world's fairs are given countless courtesies and attentions along the route, as.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well as in either of the world's fair cities.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
And that same sort of worldwide American Automobile Association service
goes for Paris Friends or Paris, Illinois, of course friends.
This is only one of the many advantages connected with
the Chicago Motor Club membermbership. You'll find every club service
explained completely in a valuable free booklet yours merely for
the asking. You owe it to yourself and family to
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read it now. Just to make certain that nothing interferes
with asking for your free booklet, tonight, we're going to
see that. You have ample time to do so right
during this program, between the second and third acts of
our play, we'll present a musical intermission. You can use
the time to write down your name and address and
have it all ready to mail to the Chicago Motor Club,
Chicago or its nearest branch office.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Or you can just step to the.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Phone and call Franklin one eight one eight and request
your free booklet. Tonight and now, the Chicago Motor Club's
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Wayside Theater presents the second act of A Friend of Gertrude's.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right Road.
Speaker 12 (12:08):
Yes, I'm expecting Francois Repel, the stage director from New York.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I want to see him as soon as he arrives.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Yes, mister black.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Ah, mister Repel, it's good to you at last, Mercy monsieur.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
It is in enor to meet the producer of so
many distinguished motion pictures.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Take you well. We won't waste any time on formal
with this.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
I want you to direct the Laurus Muttin's new picture,
Great Star Laura's Great Chance for you.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I do not know much about pictures, but even I
know that Delores Martin is a Turkey.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
She is Are you saying I'm the tubaga.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
And maybe do Laurus has slipped a bit. But that
girl has more grammar than any starment pictures. When she's
handled right, all she needs.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Is the write director these photographs.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
This young man, who is he? Oh him? Oh, he's
not body.
Speaker 12 (12:57):
He's a friend of great roots, gets my secretary. He's
an actor. She asked me to do something for him.
But I can't be bothered with a nobody. Forget them.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
He's just a friend of God.
Speaker 13 (13:08):
Because he's a friend of your secretary.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
He is and nobody.
Speaker 13 (13:10):
So if he were my friend, it would be defiant.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
Yes, why, of course, anyone you'd pick out could be important.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Then I pick out this young man. Yeah, here's quite
a kid, that mister. But no, what is this sector's name?
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
I told he was a friend of Gordes.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Not his face so expressive. There is so much there.
I must see this young man. I want to work
with him.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
So seldom there's one fine material that looks like a
possible stuff.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
Mister, I've brought you out from New York to direct
important people.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Like that turkey Doloris Martin, All hun't I take your turkey.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
But I have a hunch these young men will work out.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
You make him miss Martin's leading man.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If he's as good as I think he will be.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
I take your turkey, you take my hunch, fair.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Enough, all right, But sometimes I wish I'd never left
the button business.
Speaker 14 (14:06):
What do you mean, mister Black giving me this Richard
Grant or whatever his name is, for leading man?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
What made you think for leading man I wanted?
Speaker 13 (14:12):
Nobody has tasted and he thinks, Hey, young man is color?
How that he stinks? Wait till you meet him, Miss Maltra,
scratch his eyes out.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
I can hardly wait.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No, he's a fine. The public will be crazy about him,
and we're going.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
To send out publicity saying you discovered him and gave
me his face chance.
Speaker 14 (14:30):
Well, you'd better keep him away from me unless you
want hatchet murder publicity.
Speaker 12 (14:34):
Mister come in, Richard, Yes, sir Richard at Less, you
have the chance to meet Paragon's greatest stuff, Doloris Martin.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh this is an honor, Miss Martin. They tell me
I'm to be your leading man. I'm not worthy of
such an honor, but if I got the chance, I'll
do my best to justify your faith in me.
Speaker 14 (14:55):
Oh, mister Grant, how sweet have you? Oh, mister Black,
he's charming. It's a pleasure to give this young man
his first big chance. There's so much to talk over,
mister Grant. Why don't we take a spin in my
car so we can get acquainted.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, I'll be delighted.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
I'll come along Ben and mister Black and mister Repel.
You've both been so sweet, and we'll all get along
beautifully on the picture, for we're all going to love
one another. God is is she crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Just infatuated. She fell for him the moment she laid
eyes on it. And when Dolors falls for the guy, well,
that boy couldn't get away.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
If pride and if you're smart, he won't try, at
least till the picture he's completed.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
It's a great angle her publicity, Richard Granton, do Laura's Martin?
How I wants now at Tormance?
Speaker 11 (15:43):
Oh? Going through?
Speaker 12 (15:45):
Get me Jones in publicity right away?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Richard and your arms full? Did you buy out a
grocery store?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Lady? Could you feed a hungry man?
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Certainly when he brings his own food.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Since you moved away from the court, I didn't think
you'd ever come back.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, I wouldn't forget our anniversary. And here's a key
bone steak to celebrate what anniversary?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Why? Just six weeks ago to night I had my
first steak dinner here, Gerrude.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Remember, of course I remember, And it's all happening.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
Just like I said, I owe it all to you,
to yourself, Dick, to no one else.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Only that south of mine couldn't seem to do much
about things that you came along. Oh, Gertrude, you're swell.
You've done everything for me. Do you do you think
you could marry a ham actor like me who really
doesn't deserve you?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Oh, Richard, do you really want.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Me to Well, that's a funny thing to say. Why
would I ask you if I didn't?
Speaker 14 (16:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I don't know. I just thought there might be a.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Reason, you funny kid? Do I really want you to
marry me? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I appreciate your asking me out to your home to
study my part with you if.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I have helped you even a tiny bit.
Speaker 14 (17:06):
I'm glad You've helped me a lot, and you're really grateful.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I try to be.
Speaker 14 (17:11):
Well, you don't act the way I think a grateful
young man ought to act.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
You might kiss me sometimes as though you meant it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Oh, I'm fond of you, Dolores.
Speaker 14 (17:21):
But well you see, Oh, I know you're in love
with someone else.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yes, who is she?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Gertrude Lord, mister Black's secretary. Yes, Oh, she got me
my start. I wouldn't even know you but for her. Why,
She's done more for me than anyone will ever know.
And she's never asked for a thing. She said i'd
get some place some day, and seems she was right.
And I said when I did, I wouldn't forget her
that someday i'd marry her.
Speaker 14 (17:49):
You sweet boy, I like you for that. It shows
how honorable you are. And I think I prize honor
above all else. I run along home, dear, even if
it is is reigning.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Oh, miss Martin, I'll tell mister Black you're here. I
haven't come to see mister Blackmith's lord.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I've come to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Oh, how nice. Won't you sit down?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
I'm going to get right to the point I want
to talk about Richard.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yes, you love him, don't you. Yes, Well, then you
wouldn't want to hurt him, would you. Of course, now.
Speaker 14 (18:32):
He's told me all about you and him, about how
you've helped him get started in pictures, and how much
he thinks of you for all you've done. And because
he isn't a cad but a man of honor, he
thinks he must marry you now. But he loves me,
he said he of course, he said he loves you.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
He wouldn't hurt you for anything.
Speaker 14 (18:48):
Now, you don't want to hold him to a foolish
promise he made you knowing he doesn't love you, would you.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I don't believe you. He does love me.
Speaker 14 (18:54):
He told me he didn't when he told me he
loved me. Oh no, no, it can't be true, my
dear child. I only want to help you. Of course,
I'm sorry if it hurts you, But it's better to
be hurt now a little and to be hurt a
lot later on.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Don't you think.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I haven't wanted to admit it, even to myself. But
Richard has grown away from him.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I can see you're a sensible.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Girl, Yes, very sensible.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
Just a moment, mister black, I'm designing my position here
at once.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
I've got to get away.
Speaker 15 (19:29):
If Richard Grant asks for me, you don't know where
I am tell him that please.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
No right.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
All I understand is it it's better.
Speaker 15 (19:37):
To be hurt a little bit now than a lot later.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
On comes to a close.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Before we continue with the third act of Tonight's play,
I want every motorist in the Wayside Theater audience to
take quick advantage of the Chicago Motor Club's free offer.
Instead of an announcement about club services, We're going to
substitute a musical intermission right now.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But don't just sit back and listen.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Friends, That music is being played to give you plenty
of time to ask for the Chicago Motor Club's free
booklet this very evening, without any delay or inconvenience. Just
step to the phone and call Franklin one eight one eight.
If you live outside Chicago, in Illinois or Indiana, you
may use this time to write down your name and
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address and have it all ready to mail to the
Chicago Motor Club, Chicago or its nearest branch office. Now
don't delay, friends, Here we go a musical intermission while
you write the club or call Franklin one eight one
eight for your valuable free booklet. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
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the third act of Tonight's play a friend of Gertrude.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
I was wondering if any vacancy had come up on
your Stanographic staff.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Why we never have vacancies in the spring. We let
girls go there, we never take them on. But surely
by now something must have opened up.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, our business usually picks up in the fall, but
it's off this year.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
We're letting girls go instead of taking them on.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Missus Murphy, I'm giving up my room at the end
of the week. I'm sorry, but I'll have to find
a cheaper one. Five dollars is more than I can
pay three dollars a week for this room. I can't
afford to pay that much. I'll just have to keep looking,
I guess. Richard Grant, the rising young star who has
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acquired new admirers with each picture, will attend the premiere
of his latest picture, The Real Romance, He held tonight
at the Carthay Circle Theater escorting his co star Dolori's.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
But the other day Richard told.
Speaker 15 (24:02):
This reporter, I shall never forget how much I owe
De Lauries Martin. We are glad to know Richard is
not the kind of forget those who gave.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Him a push on the way up yes, Missus Mudget.
Well have you got it? Won't you come in? Missus Mudget.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
No not Now you're owing me six weeks back prints,
and I've got to have it by tomorrow or else
have the room.
Speaker 15 (24:27):
I'll pay you just as soon as I get a job.
There are any jobs in California.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Well, I've got to have the rent tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Well, I am going to catch a bus and go
off to that premiere at the Carthay Theater. I'm leaving
early so I can see this new movie star Richard Grant. Ha,
there's a young man for you, not for me. Why
don't you go yourself. It's free to send and watch,
and i'd like company.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I haven't thus fair.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
I'll pay it for you. Me with my game leg
I hate to get on buses alone.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Come on, Well, here we are the Coffee Circle Theater.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Hopes.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
It's a beautiful California night with all the stars in
the sky out as well as the stars and the movies.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Hope you don't mind my little joke. I just can't help.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
But there are crowds of fancy of Hopes waiting to
see the stars.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Lucky we got here early so we can stand in
the front row, gertru Yes, sure, you don't mind standing.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
It's worth it to see Richard Grant. Wouldn't it be
wonderful knowing him? I don't think it'd be so wonderful.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Well, Sarah, who do you think is just arrived? The
stars of tonight's picture, Richard Grant.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
And Delores Martin. Here they are, and I'm going to
ask them to speak into the mic.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
All right, miss Martin, thank you.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
It's so grand to be here on this the happiest
evening of my life. I'll let you all in on
a little secret tonight. I've promised to marry Richard Grant.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh that's a wonderful no.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh no, And now mister Grant Beeves, Well, I want
to thank you all for your interest in our picture,
and I hope it'll please you when you see it.
And I want to say I'm a lucky man, too lucky.
I'm afraid you have won an angel like Dolores Martin.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I wish I hadn't come.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Now I'm going to give the fans here a surprise.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I'm going to have one girl come up.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
And meet our distinguished couple and then tell us over
the mic how it feels to meet Richard grand and
de Laurs Martin. You there, young lady, would you step up?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Please, Gertrude, he means Julie. Oh no, no, not met
over here?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Please?
Speaker 11 (26:32):
No?
Speaker 15 (26:32):
I can't really, Gertrude, say, won't you.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Let me through here?
Speaker 15 (26:37):
Please let me throw I've got to get away.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I must get through.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Don't let her get away?
Speaker 11 (26:54):
Good God forgive me. But I can't stand it anymore.
There's no place for me, no job, no one to care.
I have no money, and tomorrow I won't even have
this shabby little room. And now he's going to marry her.
Perhaps I could take the rest, but that I oh,
I don't want to live any longer.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
If living means being like this.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Over the door, Gertrude, let me in over the door.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Richard, it's Richard, Gertrude.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
What's the idea.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Why did you come here because I thought you might
try to do something? Desperate? Now what's it all about?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Why do you care?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Please?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I wish you'd go away, Gertrude.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Why did you run out on me like that? Didn't
you love me anymore?
Speaker 15 (27:38):
Surely must have known I didn't want to ruin you
by holding you to a promise you didn't want to keep.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Who said I didn't want to keep my promise.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
And not to night. But of course you should marry Dolores.
She's your kind, Richard.
Speaker 15 (27:49):
I told you from the first time, just ordinary and
like Delauris said, I don't belong with you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Laurus told you all that stuff, or she was lying.
Gertrude de Laurs always was a liar. If only you'd known.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
Can you say that about the girl you're going to marry?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What me married?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Laura night on the radio? She said, Oh, it's just.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
A publicity stunt, that's all. I think the law has
put them up to it. Thank Heaven, I found you tonight.
I'd turned Hollywood upside down looking for you. Not the
word together. I won't let you get away again.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
You're You're not just saying that out of pity?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Are you a funny kid? Don't you see? If I'm anybody,
it's because of you. I feel so humble before you, Gertrude,
I do.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Oh, Richard, I can't believe it's true. Good fall for
Heaven's sake, mister Brant, I see.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You found her right. It's very good. Missus muchet. Yes,
I found her.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Hi ran right on home, took a TAXI, wished so
much excitement, and now I'm going to marry the girl.
Wait WHI movie stars don't do such things, Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
But this one does. And by the way, Gertrude, the
Chamber of Commerce is right. California is paradise.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
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Week will be presented here in the Wayside Theater next
Sunday evening at this same hour. And don't forget, ladies
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dun Lap playing Gertrude. They were supported by Gail Henshaw,
Leslie Woods, Peggy Fuller, Brett Morrison, Herb Butterfield, and Bill Bouchet.
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The Chicago Motor.
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Club's Wayside Theater now presents the first act of a
friend of Gertrude's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Sleep Well upon nine eyes, Peace in my breast? Would
I sleep in peace so sweet to rest? Hence when
I to my ghostly father's sell his help to crave,
my dear have to tell, well, I.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hope you'll excuse my fusting in backstage like this between acts,
mister grantit or i'd make.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Yourself right at home. I've only got a minute, though,
I'll have to go on again.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
So yeah, well, I'm Art Smith at Perfection Studios. I
didn't like to go to Hollywood for me for four
well act a course. I've been watching your performance and
if you haven't got something, then I'm no talent, scareful,
I'm no actor.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
I'm a medical student and I'm only halfway through my course.
I couldn't go to Hollywood. Forget the medical course. Hasn't
men time wasted? It'll help you play doctors when you're
acting on the screen.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Yes, mister Grant, I've told mister O'Brien that you're the
young actor from Wisconsin. Mister Smith sent, I've mister O'Brien
won't be able to see you for at least two weeks,
but he's arranged the screen test for you.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
All right, Grant, Now tell a car your level us
a few minutes. Let's make this a good test, right,
action her? I love you, darling, you must believe me.
I love you. I love you.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Sorry, mister O'Brien can't see you. He's tied up.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Well are all producers always tied up? I haven't seen
mister O'Brien since I came to the studio. Sorry, hasn't
even looked at my test. Suppose you call me next week.
But sir, I've been here in Hollywood four months now
and I haven't even been in a picture.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Soly I know people have been here forty years without
being in a picture.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Dear mister Grant, I regret to inform you we are
not taking up the option on your contract.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Effective today, you will be.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Dropped from the studio contract list two the years Henry
Brand Perfection Pictures, Central Casting.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
This is Richard Grant. Have you any work today?
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Sorry?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Call later. This is Richard Grant.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
Sorry, call later.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Call later, Call later, Call later, call later.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I've got to have money to eat.
Speaker 8 (04:35):
The state of California can assume no responsibility for people
like you.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And why are you always advertising for people to come here?
Speaker 8 (04:41):
On advertisements warn people not to come here seeking employment
lest they be disappointed. Next, Yes, madamout attractions are unlimited
for the tourist. Mile High Lake, San Bathed Beaches. California
is really paradise on Earth. Yes, paradise on Earth.
Speaker 9 (04:59):
I'm he's not interested in any more excuses or promises,
mister Grant.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
I've got to have the rent.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
You'll have to wait till I get a job.
Speaker 9 (05:05):
I'm afraid I'm sick of your kind coming to Hollywood
just because you've heard people get rich in the movies.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Started tiring to be an actor. You might go to
work like other people.
Speaker 9 (05:14):
You get out of here by tomorrow morning, or I'll
put you out.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
See Yes, missus Pearce, you make it all very clear.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
They always put rugs to cover the crack under the
door and stuff the keyhole.
Speaker 10 (05:32):
Yes, there is still a way out. Forget the medical course.
It'll help your play doctors when you're acting on the screen.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Hello here, your lovers of you a minute, act Haut.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
Mister Bryle is tied up tut doctors Central casting call.
Speaker 8 (06:02):
Later lay State of California, Mile High Lake, sunbathed beaches,
Paradise on.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Everything's ready? No, no, whoy is it?
Speaker 6 (06:24):
It's just the girl across the court. Please may I
bother you?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
I'm better open the door and get rid of her.
Speaker 11 (06:33):
I'm awfully sorry, but I've everything I need to get
dinner except salt?
Speaker 6 (06:38):
Could you lend me some?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yes, I think so, Yes, that's good of you. Just
a minute. Excuse me for not asking you? In apartment's
a mess.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I understand.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Here's the salt. You might as well to take the
whole shaker.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
I'll bring it right back.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Please don't, I won't need it.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Oh and.
Speaker 11 (07:04):
Please don't think me too forward. But well, the butcher
made a mistake when he sent my meat today, and
I've got a big thick steak here, just three times
more than I can eat.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Would you care to come over to my apartment and
help me get.
Speaker 12 (07:17):
Rid of it?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Thanks awfully, but I couldn't you've eaten no, not recently?
Speaker 6 (07:24):
Then you've got to come if i'd interrupted anything? Whatever,
it is. You can do it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Later, Yes, I could do it later.
Speaker 11 (07:34):
It'll be a great favor to me if you'll help
me with that steak. You see, I can't bear.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
To eat alone.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Well, that was the best steak I ever ate, Gridyard.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Now you've got to let me help you do the dishes,
all right, I might have had it with the first
steak I've had in months.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
I've forgotten there were such things.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
A good dinner can do a lot to give a person.
Speaker 11 (07:59):
And you outlook on life, I think, okay, And if
I were you, I wouldn't do it now what Please
don't be angry, But I couldn't help knowing you thought
you'd rather end it all than go on.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I've seen the signs so often in Hollywood.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Must have been crazy. If you hadn't knocked when you did.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
I knew least I was almost sure.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
How did you know?
Speaker 11 (08:24):
Don't you think I've noticed you since you first took
the apartment across from me in this bungalow court, I've
seen the discouragement etch lines in your face, and tonight,
well I.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
Get the whole court at the landlady.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
You don't know how rotten it's, Yes.
Speaker 11 (08:40):
I do, and and it's all given me a grand
excuse to tell you how much I like you. I
don't suppose I'd ever had the nerve to do it,
if if the circumstances hadn't been so desperate.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
U to think somebody's been caring whether I lived or died,
and I haven't even known it.
Speaker 11 (08:56):
I told you I was secretary to mister Black. One
of the us is at the Paragon Studio. I'm just
an ordinary person in an ordinary job. But you're not
ordinary like I am. And I'm going to speak to
mister Black for you.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You mean, maybe he might put me in a picture.
Speaker 11 (09:13):
He could if he wanted to, want me to do
a little crystal gazing for you. Sure you're going to
be big in Hollywood, Richard. You're going to be great.
And I'm going to help you if I can, even
though I know that by helping you, I lose you.
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our play, we'll present a musical intermission. You can use
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Speaker 2 (11:32):
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Wayside Theater presents the second act of A Friend of Gertrude's.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right Road.
Speaker 12 (12:08):
Yes, I'm expecting Francois Repel, the stage director from New York.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I want to see him as soon as he arrives.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Yes, mister black.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Ah, mister Repel, it's good to you at last, Mercy monsieur.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
It is in enor to meet the producer of so
many distinguished motion pictures.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Take you well. We won't waste any time on formal
with this.
Speaker 12 (12:32):
I want you to direct the Laurus Muttin's new picture,
Great Star Laura's Great Chance for you.
Speaker 8 (12:36):
I do not know much about pictures, but even I
know that Delores Martin is a Turkey.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
She is Are you saying I'm the tubaga.
Speaker 12 (12:43):
And maybe do Laurus has slipped a bit. But that
girl has more grammar than any starment pictures. When she's
handled right, all she needs.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Is the write director these photographs.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
This young man, who is he? Oh him? Oh, he's
not body.
Speaker 12 (12:57):
He's a friend of great roots, gets my secretary. He's
an actor. She asked me to do something for him.
But I can't be bothered with a nobody. Forget them.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
He's just a friend of God.
Speaker 13 (13:08):
Because he's a friend of your secretary.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
He is and nobody.
Speaker 13 (13:10):
So if he were my friend, it would be defiant.
Speaker 12 (13:13):
Yes, why, of course, anyone you'd pick out could be important.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Then I pick out this young man. Yeah, here's quite
a kid, that mister. But no, what is this sector's name?
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
I told he was a friend of Gordes.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Not his face so expressive. There is so much there.
I must see this young man. I want to work
with him.
Speaker 8 (13:34):
So seldom there's one fine material that looks like a
possible stuff.
Speaker 12 (13:37):
Mister, I've brought you out from New York to direct
important people.
Speaker 8 (13:42):
Like that turkey Doloris Martin, All hun't I take your turkey.
Speaker 13 (13:46):
But I have a hunch these young men will work out.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well.
Speaker 13 (13:49):
You make him miss Martin's leading man.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
If he's as good as I think he will be.
Speaker 13 (13:53):
I take your turkey, you take my hunch, fair.
Speaker 12 (13:56):
Enough, all right, But sometimes I wish I'd never left
the button business.
Speaker 14 (14:06):
What do you mean, mister Black giving me this Richard
Grant or whatever his name is, for leading man?
Speaker 6 (14:10):
What made you think for leading man I wanted?
Speaker 13 (14:12):
Nobody has tasted and he thinks, Hey, young man is color?
How that he stinks? Wait till you meet him, Miss Maltra,
scratch his eyes out.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
I can hardly wait.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
No, he's a fine. The public will be crazy about him,
and we're going.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
To send out publicity saying you discovered him and gave
me his face chance.
Speaker 14 (14:30):
Well, you'd better keep him away from me unless you
want hatchet murder publicity.
Speaker 12 (14:34):
Mister come in, Richard, Yes, sir Richard at Less, you
have the chance to meet Paragon's greatest stuff, Doloris Martin.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Oh this is an honor, Miss Martin. They tell me
I'm to be your leading man. I'm not worthy of
such an honor, but if I got the chance, I'll
do my best to justify your faith in me.
Speaker 14 (14:55):
Oh, mister Grant, how sweet have you? Oh, mister Black,
he's charming. It's a pleasure to give this young man
his first big chance. There's so much to talk over,
mister Grant. Why don't we take a spin in my
car so we can get acquainted.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Well, I'll be delighted.
Speaker 14 (15:11):
I'll come along Ben and mister Black and mister Repel.
You've both been so sweet, and we'll all get along
beautifully on the picture, for we're all going to love
one another. God is is she crazy?
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (15:27):
Just infatuated. She fell for him the moment she laid
eyes on it. And when Dolors falls for the guy, well,
that boy couldn't get away.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
If pride and if you're smart, he won't try, at
least till the picture he's completed.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
It's a great angle her publicity, Richard Granton, do Laura's Martin?
How I wants now at Tormance?
Speaker 11 (15:43):
Oh? Going through?
Speaker 12 (15:45):
Get me Jones in publicity right away?
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Richard and your arms full? Did you buy out a
grocery store?
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Lady? Could you feed a hungry man?
Speaker 11 (16:05):
Certainly when he brings his own food.
Speaker 6 (16:07):
Since you moved away from the court, I didn't think
you'd ever come back.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No, I wouldn't forget our anniversary. And here's a key
bone steak to celebrate what anniversary?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Why? Just six weeks ago to night I had my
first steak dinner here, Gerrude.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
Remember, of course I remember, And it's all happening.
Speaker 11 (16:23):
Just like I said, I owe it all to you,
to yourself, Dick, to no one else.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Only that south of mine couldn't seem to do much
about things that you came along. Oh, Gertrude, you're swell.
You've done everything for me. Do you do you think
you could marry a ham actor like me who really
doesn't deserve you?
Speaker 6 (16:42):
Oh, Richard, do you really want.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Me to Well, that's a funny thing to say. Why
would I ask you if I didn't?
Speaker 14 (16:50):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:50):
I don't know. I just thought there might be a.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Reason, you funny kid? Do I really want you to
marry me? What do you think?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
I appreciate your asking me out to your home to
study my part with you if.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I have helped you even a tiny bit.
Speaker 14 (17:06):
I'm glad You've helped me a lot, and you're really grateful.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I try to be.
Speaker 14 (17:11):
Well, you don't act the way I think a grateful
young man ought to act.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Why not?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
You might kiss me sometimes as though you meant it.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Oh, I'm fond of you, Dolores.
Speaker 14 (17:21):
But well you see, Oh, I know you're in love
with someone else.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yes, who is she?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Gertrude Lord, mister Black's secretary. Yes, Oh, she got me
my start. I wouldn't even know you but for her. Why,
She's done more for me than anyone will ever know.
And she's never asked for a thing. She said i'd
get some place some day, and seems she was right.
And I said when I did, I wouldn't forget her
that someday i'd marry her.
Speaker 14 (17:49):
You sweet boy, I like you for that. It shows
how honorable you are. And I think I prize honor
above all else. I run along home, dear, even if
it is is reigning.
Speaker 6 (18:13):
Oh, miss Martin, I'll tell mister Black you're here. I
haven't come to see mister Blackmith's lord.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I've come to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Oh, how nice. Won't you sit down?
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 14 (18:22):
I'm going to get right to the point I want
to talk about Richard.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yes, you love him, don't you. Yes, Well, then you
wouldn't want to hurt him, would you. Of course, now.
Speaker 14 (18:32):
He's told me all about you and him, about how
you've helped him get started in pictures, and how much
he thinks of you for all you've done. And because
he isn't a cad but a man of honor, he
thinks he must marry you now. But he loves me,
he said he of course, he said he loves you.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
He wouldn't hurt you for anything.
Speaker 14 (18:48):
Now, you don't want to hold him to a foolish
promise he made you knowing he doesn't love you, would you.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
I don't believe you. He does love me.
Speaker 14 (18:54):
He told me he didn't when he told me he
loved me. Oh no, no, it can't be true, my
dear child. I only want to help you. Of course,
I'm sorry if it hurts you, But it's better to
be hurt now a little and to be hurt a
lot later on.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Don't you think.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I haven't wanted to admit it, even to myself. But
Richard has grown away from him.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
I can see you're a sensible.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Girl, Yes, very sensible.
Speaker 15 (19:20):
Just a moment, mister black, I'm designing my position here
at once.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
I've got to get away.
Speaker 15 (19:29):
If Richard Grant asks for me, you don't know where
I am tell him that please.
Speaker 14 (19:34):
No right.
Speaker 11 (19:34):
All I understand is it it's better.
Speaker 15 (19:37):
To be hurt a little bit now than a lot later.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
On comes to a close.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Before we continue with the third act of Tonight's play,
I want every motorist in the Wayside Theater audience to
take quick advantage of the Chicago Motor Club's free offer.
Instead of an announcement about club services, We're going to
substitute a musical intermission right now.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
But don't just sit back and listen.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
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If you live outside Chicago, in Illinois or Indiana, you
may use this time to write down your name and
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don't delay, friends, Here we go a musical intermission while
you write the club or call Franklin one eight one
eight for your valuable free booklet. And now, ladies and gentlemen,
(22:44):
the third act of Tonight's play a friend of Gertrude.
Speaker 11 (23:02):
I was wondering if any vacancy had come up on
your Stanographic staff.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Why we never have vacancies in the spring. We let
girls go there, we never take them on. But surely
by now something must have opened up.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Well, our business usually picks up in the fall, but
it's off this year.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
We're letting girls go instead of taking them on.
Speaker 15 (23:24):
Missus Murphy, I'm giving up my room at the end
of the week. I'm sorry, but I'll have to find
a cheaper one. Five dollars is more than I can
pay three dollars a week for this room. I can't
afford to pay that much. I'll just have to keep looking,
I guess. Richard Grant, the rising young star who has
(23:48):
acquired new admirers with each picture, will attend the premiere
of his latest picture, The Real Romance, He held tonight
at the Carthay Circle Theater escorting his co star Dolori's.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
But the other day Richard told.
Speaker 15 (24:02):
This reporter, I shall never forget how much I owe
De Lauries Martin. We are glad to know Richard is
not the kind of forget those who gave.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
Him a push on the way up yes, Missus Mudget.
Well have you got it? Won't you come in? Missus Mudget.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
No not Now you're owing me six weeks back prints,
and I've got to have it by tomorrow or else
have the room.
Speaker 15 (24:27):
I'll pay you just as soon as I get a job.
There are any jobs in California.
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Well, I've got to have the rent tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Well, I am going to catch a bus and go
off to that premiere at the Carthay Theater. I'm leaving
early so I can see this new movie star Richard Grant. Ha,
there's a young man for you, not for me. Why
don't you go yourself. It's free to send and watch,
and i'd like company.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
I haven't thus fair.
Speaker 9 (24:50):
I'll pay it for you. Me with my game leg
I hate to get on buses alone.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Come on, Well, here we are the Coffee Circle Theater.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Hopes.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
It's a beautiful California night with all the stars in
the sky out as well as the stars and the movies.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Hope you don't mind my little joke. I just can't help.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
But there are crowds of fancy of Hopes waiting to
see the stars.
Speaker 9 (25:20):
Lucky we got here early so we can stand in
the front row, gertru Yes, sure, you don't mind standing.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
It's worth it to see Richard Grant. Wouldn't it be
wonderful knowing him? I don't think it'd be so wonderful.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Well, Sarah, who do you think is just arrived? The
stars of tonight's picture, Richard Grant.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
And Delores Martin. Here they are, and I'm going to
ask them to speak into the mic.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
All right, miss Martin, thank you.
Speaker 14 (25:41):
It's so grand to be here on this the happiest
evening of my life. I'll let you all in on
a little secret tonight. I've promised to marry Richard Grant.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Oh that's a wonderful no.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Oh no, And now mister Grant Beeves, Well, I want
to thank you all for your interest in our picture,
and I hope it'll please you when you see it.
And I want to say I'm a lucky man, too lucky.
I'm afraid you have won an angel like Dolores Martin.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
I wish I hadn't come.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Now I'm going to give the fans here a surprise.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I'm going to have one girl come up.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
And meet our distinguished couple and then tell us over
the mic how it feels to meet Richard grand and
de Laurs Martin. You there, young lady, would you step up?
Speaker 6 (26:27):
Please, Gertrude, he means Julie. Oh no, no, not met
over here?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Please?
Speaker 11 (26:32):
No?
Speaker 15 (26:32):
I can't really, Gertrude, say, won't you.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
Let me through here?
Speaker 15 (26:37):
Please let me throw I've got to get away.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I must get through.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Don't let her get away?
Speaker 11 (26:54):
Good God forgive me. But I can't stand it anymore.
There's no place for me, no job, no one to care.
I have no money, and tomorrow I won't even have
this shabby little room. And now he's going to marry her.
Perhaps I could take the rest, but that I oh,
I don't want to live any longer.
Speaker 6 (27:14):
If living means being like this.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Over the door, Gertrude, let me in over the door.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Richard, it's Richard, Gertrude.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
What's the idea.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Why don't you leave me alone?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Why did you come here because I thought you might
try to do something? Desperate? Now what's it all about?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Why do you care?
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Please?
Speaker 6 (27:34):
I wish you'd go away, Gertrude.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Why did you run out on me like that? Didn't
you love me anymore?
Speaker 15 (27:38):
Surely must have known I didn't want to ruin you
by holding you to a promise you didn't want to keep.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Who said I didn't want to keep my promise.
Speaker 6 (27:45):
And not to night. But of course you should marry Dolores.
She's your kind, Richard.
Speaker 15 (27:49):
I told you from the first time, just ordinary and
like Delauris said, I don't belong with you.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Laurus told you all that stuff, or she was lying.
Gertrude de Laurs always was a liar. If only you'd known.
Speaker 6 (27:59):
Can you say that about the girl you're going to marry?
Speaker 2 (28:02):
What me married?
Speaker 6 (28:03):
Laura night on the radio? She said, Oh, it's just.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
A publicity stunt, that's all. I think the law has
put them up to it. Thank Heaven, I found you tonight.
I'd turned Hollywood upside down looking for you. Not the
word together. I won't let you get away again.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
You're You're not just saying that out of pity?
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Are you a funny kid? Don't you see? If I'm anybody,
it's because of you. I feel so humble before you, Gertrude,
I do.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
Oh, Richard, I can't believe it's true. Good fall for
Heaven's sake, mister Brant, I see.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
You found her right. It's very good. Missus muchet. Yes,
I found her.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Hi ran right on home, took a TAXI, wished so
much excitement, and now I'm going to marry the girl.
Wait WHI movie stars don't do such things, Oh.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
But this one does. And by the way, Gertrude, the
Chamber of Commerce is right. California is paradise.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
The Chicago Motor Clubs Wait nine Theater, miluccan On A
friend of Grtrus comes to Aslan. Another play of the
Week will be presented here in the Wayside Theater next
Sunday evening at this same hour. And don't forget, ladies
(29:24):
and gentlemen, the Chicago Motor Club's weekly broadcast of The
Parker Family tomorrow night at six point thirty over WBBM.
And now may I urge you to put in your
request for your free booklet this very evening. It explains
the many money saving services and benefits available through a
Chicago Motor Club membership at an unbelievably low annual fee.
(29:46):
Ask for your free booklet by sending your name and
address to the Chicago Motor Club, Chicago or its nearest
branch office. There's no obligation attached to this offer. If
you live in Chicago. All you have to do is
call Franklin one eight. Special night operators are waiting for
your call to Franklin one eight one eight Right now.
(30:54):
In the cast of tonight's play, you've heard our popular
stars Olin Soulagh in the part of Richard and Patricia
dun Lap playing Gertrude. They were supported by Gail Henshaw,
Leslie Woods, Peggy Fuller, Brett Morrison, Herb Butterfield, and Bill Bouchet.
This is Burnsmith speaking for the Chicago Motor Club.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
This is the w Bbmair Theater, Wrigley Building, Chicago,
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