Lux Radio Theatre - Made for Each Other

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Harold's Old Time Radio

Episode: Lux Radio Theatre – Made for Each Other
Date: July 7, 2026
Host: Harold’s Old Time Radio
Starring (Radio Play): James Stewart as Johnny Mason, Marcia Hunt as Jane Mason

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Overview

This episode features a full broadcast from the Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of "Made for Each Other." Rather than ending with "happily ever after," as most romantic stories do, this drama follows the real ups and downs of marriage between two earnest, ordinary Americans. The episode explores the challenges faced by newlyweds Johnny and Jane Mason—work frustrations, financial struggles, difficult in-laws, and, ultimately, the life-or-death crisis of their infant son. The radio play, starring Hollywood’s James Stewart and Marcia Hunt, is filled with humor, heartfelt dialogue, and classic 1930s-1940s radio style, offering listeners a window into both the era's family storytelling and its star-studded nostalgia.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Marriage Begins

• The play opens with Johnny returning to his law firm, freshly married—a surprise to his colleagues and especially his boss, Judge Doolittle, who had hoped Johnny would marry his daughter, Eunice.
• Notable moment (03:54): Johnny accidentally hands Judge Doolittle a love note instead of a legal deposition, revealing the rushed marriage to Jane.

“It says, ‘To the party of the first part, I love you. Signed, party of the second part.’”
– Judge Doolittle reading Jane’s note, (04:05)

2. Honeymoon Interrupted

• The young couple’s plans for a romantic Bermuda honeymoon are quickly dashed as Johnny’s work gets in the way—granted only ten days due to the firm’s pressing case (“Higgins against Higgins”).
• Judge Doolittle’s lack of sentimentality is played for humor:

“Honeymoons are a waste of time.”
– Judge Doolittle, (04:55)

3. Meeting the Mother-in-Law

• Jane meets Johnny’s overbearing mother, who is highly skeptical of the marriage and Jane’s suitability. The scene is tense but laced with comedic touches about in-law dynamics (07:07–09:21). Mrs. Mason faints upon learning the couple are already married and planning a family.

“I hope and pray that day [marriage] won’t come for many years.”
– Mrs. Mason, (08:35)

4. Life Together – Domestic Comedy and Class Frictions

• Scenes of domestic adjustment with Jane, Johnny, and his mother living under one roof; financial stress, lack of privacy, and generational conflicts abound.
• Humorous moments about household mishaps, dinner parties gone awry, and Jane’s lack of domestic skills. Despite setbacks, their affection endures.

“My partnership with Jane’s all the partnership I need.”
– Johnny Mason, (19:29)

5. Struggles at Work

• Johnny, overlooked for a promotion, watches Carter (the manipulative office sycophant) become junior partner. Jane pushes Johnny to demand more from his boss—but the results are not immediately successful and the couple face a salary cut instead (31:36).

“Either I get a raise and a junior partnership, or accept my resignation, effective immediately.”
– Jane prompts Johnny in rehearsal, (30:15)

“I’m asking everyone to take a 25% cut in salary.”
– Judge Doolittle, (31:36)

6. Family Tensions Peak

• Ongoing quarrels between Jane and Mrs. Mason explode on New Year's Eve, with feelings of loneliness and misunderstanding coming to the surface (35:00-39:41). Johnny, overwhelmed, briefly contemplates divorce, but the couple reaffirm their love in a bittersweet moment.

7. Tragedy Strikes: The Baby’s Illness

• The drama escalates as their baby falls gravely ill with pneumonia. The local hospital lacks the needed serum, which must be flown from Salt Lake City in a raging storm.
• Johnny’s desperate efforts to raise money and charter a plane create tension, urgency, and showcase his transformation from passive dreamer to determined father (44:55-47:10).

“My baby’s dying. Do you understand that?”
– Johnny to Judge Doolittle, demanding help, (47:13)

8. Prayer and Hope

• As hope dwindles, Jane, Johnny, and Mrs. Mason gather in prayer, sharing a moving moment of humility and reconciliation (52:36).

“Just ask Him, darling. He’ll know what you want.”
– Johnny to Jane about prayer, (53:19)

9. Resolution and Happy Ending

• The serum arrives against all odds thanks to a daring pilot and Judge Doolittle’s support. The baby recovers, and Johnny is finally named a partner at the law firm, vindicating his struggles and affirming the couple’s resilience and devotion (54:51–55:46).

“I’ve given you a partnership, my boy.”
– Judge Doolittle, (55:44)

• The episode closes with a joyful note as the baby speaks his first word, delights everyone, and finally, Johnny and Jane are off for their long-delayed honeymoon.

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Notable Quotes (with Timestamps)

• On marriage:

  “It all happened just as suddenly as that. I was walking on the common up in Boston, and she had a cinder in her eye… and that’s when you married her?”
  – Johnny & Judge Doolittle, (04:20–04:34)

• On career frustration:

  “What are you, a man or a mouse?”
  – Jane, challenging Johnny, (29:07)

• On prayer and love:

  “Oh, Johnny, I don’t know how to pray. — Just ask Him, darling. He’ll know what you want.”
  – Jane and Johnny, (53:09–53:19)

• On overcoming hardship together:

  “You can’t be lonely, either of you, as long as you have each other.”
  – Mrs. Mason, (49:23)

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Important Segments & Timestamps

| Timestamp | Segment Title/Event | Key Content / Development | |------------|--------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------| | 01:07 | Show Introduction | Lux announcer introduces cast, “story after marriage” | | 03:09 | Johnny returns to the office, surprise | Reveals secret marriage | | 07:07 | Jane meets Mrs. Mason | Tension, social comedy | | 14:35 | Domestic scenes, new life stress | Work-life strains, mother-in-law friction | | 19:00 | Frustrated ambitions | Johnny loses promotion, Jane encourages him | | 24:06 | Birth of the baby | Comic hospital waiting room scene | | 35:00 | New Year's Eve showdown | Family argument, themes of isolation and reconciliation | | 44:23 | Baby falls ill | Tension, struggle to get medical help | | 52:36 | Prayer at baby’s bedside | Emotional climax; humility and hope | | 54:51 | Partnership and baby’s recovery | Happy resolution, career success |

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Memorable Moments

• The comic mishap at the office when Johnny submits a love note instead of a legal document.
• Mrs. Mason fainting upon learning of the marriage.
• The recurring motif of the "cinder in the eye" as a symbol of fate in Johnny and Jane’s meeting.
• The emotionally-charged scenes in the hospital, including the collective prayer.
• The suspenseful “serum flight” segment, echoing contemporary fears and hopes.
• The relief and joy upon the baby's recovery and Johnny’s professional success.

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Tone and Style

The episode features quick, witty, and earnest dialogue characteristic of Golden Age radio, with a blend of screwball comedy, sentimentality, and real-life blues. The adaptation plays up both the pathos and warmth of post-Depression American domestic life, as well as the clever banter between loving, if sometimes exasperated, spouses.

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This summary covers the main content and emotional journey of the episode, while capturing the spirit, humor, and tensions of a classic Lux Radio Theatre broadcast. It provides both the arc of the story and the memorable exchanges that make this play a resonant slice of old-time radio storytelling.

Transcript

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[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Lux Presents Hollywood. Deluxe Radio Theater brings you James Stewart and Marcia Hunt in Made for each Other. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Most stories of romance and marriage end with the phrase and they lived happily ever after. Just how it's accomplished is left to one's imagination. But our drama tonight from the screen hit Made for each Other starts where others leave off and tells the best part of the story. What happens in the marriage of two lovable and average Americans. For those lovable Americans, we have two amiable and more than average stars, Jimmy Stewart and Marcia Hunt. A promising combination to usher in the holiday season. Apart from romance, the title Made for each Other suggests many things, from apple pie and cheese to California and sunshine. Or should I say Florida and sunshine? And to thousands of women, I am sure that it suggests fine fabrics and luxe flakes. A letter from one of our listeners reminds me of a previous Monday night when I referred to luxe flakes overseas as literally worth its weight in gold. She politely reminds me that when it comes to laundering precious fabrics, Lux is worth its weight in gold. At home, too, and figuratively, at least. I'm sure she's right. Fine fabrics and luxe flakes are most assuredly made for each other. Here's the first act of our play, starring Jimmy Stewart and Marcia Hunt as Johnny and Jane Mason. High in a New York skyscraper is the law firm of Doolittle, Dolittle, Smiley and Hutch. Dignity is definitely the keynote of their impressive office. But on this spring morning, dignity is lacking in the extreme, for the whole staff is gathered in the reception room, each co worker well supplied with rice and old shoes. Suddenly, the door swings open and the office boy dashes in.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Hey.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Hey, he's coming. Johnny Mason. Do you see him?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Sure, I saw him.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

He's on the elevator.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Get the shoes ready.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Quiet.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Here he comes.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Hello, kids.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hey, what's everybody looking at?

[Eunice Doolittle]

A fine trick you pull on us, Johnny Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

What are you talking about?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Congratulations, Johnny. Congratulations.

[Judge Doolittle]

Thanks.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now, wait a second. Wait a second. Catchy. Now, wait a second.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Gosh, can't a fella get married?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

It isn't unusual, is it?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Or is it Mason?

[Judge Doolittle]

Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Just because a guy happens to go off.

[Judge Doolittle]

Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, good morning, Judge Doolittle.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Come into my office.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, sir. I was just on my way.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Never mind.

[Judge Doolittle]

Come in and close the door.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, sir.

[Judge Doolittle]

What was all that racket out there?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, they somehow found out that while I was up and down, got the

[Judge Doolittle]

deposition in the case of Higgins against Higgins.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, sir.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Here it is.

[Judge Doolittle]

Let me see it.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Go on, go on.

[Judge Doolittle]

What about the uproar?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, after I got the deposition, I had a few hours to spare.

[Judge Doolittle]

What kind of nonsense is this? This isn't the deposition.

[Eunice Doolittle]

It isn't?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

No.

[Judge Doolittle]

It says, to the party of the first part, I love you. Signed, party of the second part.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Boy, all of that. Wrong paper. That's a note from Jane, my wife.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Your what?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, that's what I'm trying to tell you. I got married.

[Judge Doolittle]

You got married.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

It all happened just as suddenly as that. I was walking on the common up in Boston, and she had a cinder in her eye.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, what a cinder. A piece of cinder.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

And she stopped, and I stopped. And that's when I took the cinder out of her eye.

[Judge Doolittle]

And that's when you married her?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

That's right. Oh, I got the deposition first. That took two days.

[Eunice Doolittle]

I see.

[Judge Doolittle]

Pretty quick, wasn't it?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, sir.

[Judge Doolittle]

I imagine Eunice will be rather surprised at this.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Your daughter. Oh, she can't be any more surprised than I am. Hey, Judge Doolittle, you know, when people get married, they usually go on a honeymoon.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Nonsense.

[Judge Doolittle]

Honeymoons are a waste of time.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, sir, but you know how women are. And if it wouldn't inconvenience you, how

[Judge Doolittle]

about Higgins against Higgins? It'll inconvenience them, won't it?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

No, sir. That is, if you'll pardon me, I've arranged a continuance with the opposing counsel.

[Judge Doolittle]

A continuance, eh? All right, Mason, take a week.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

A week?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, well, I'm afraid I couldn't very well make it in a week.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

You see, we were going to Bermuda.

[Judge Doolittle]

Ten days, then.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, we were sort of hoping for a month.

[Judge Doolittle]

A month?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Four weeks?

[Judge Doolittle]

Yes, sir.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

You see, Jane's waiting out in the

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

car for me, and I told her we could probably stay down there for now.

[Judge Doolittle]

See here, Mason, Higgins against Higgins is much more important than Bermuda. You'll see all that's necessary in 10 days.

[Eunice Doolittle]

It's a very small act but I.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Ten days, Judge Doolittle.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Ten days.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yes.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, go on, Johnny. Go on.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, the boss was swelled, Jane. I. I showed him your picture.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You didn't.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, Johnny, he was marvelous. I couldn't congratulate me enough.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, then you didn't have any trouble about the month off?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, well, no, not what you'd call trouble. The only thing is that.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Go on.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, I didn't exactly get a month.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, of course, if I'd insisted, I.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Darling, how long did you get?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, I compromised on ten days.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Ten days, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yeah, but I have it all planned, darling.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

And the boat takes two days to get there and two days to get back.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

That's a whole six days.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

A whole six days.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I know, darling, but old Granite Pussy

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

just doesn't believe in honeymoons. It's not bad, though, you know.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

After all, it'll help with my mother.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

What'll help with your mother?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, we won't have to leave her

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

for such a long time.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, when you phoned her this morning, what did she say?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, she was fine.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Fine.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You told her about me and getting married and all?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, I sort of broke the ice.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yeah.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, how much ice did you break?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, I told her that while I was up in Boston, I ran into several people.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Didn't you tell her about me at all?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, I kind of thought it'd be fun to surprise her, you know, surprise.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, I think you'd better see your mother by yourself.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, no, no, Jane. No, I should say not. I have the whole thing planned, move by move. Now, look, we'll start at the beginning.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I'll tell her that while I was walking on the common, I met you. And so, Mother, after I got the

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

sender out of Jane's eye, we walked along together.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

How interesting. I'm sure. Would you have some more tea, miss? I didn't catch your last name.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I don't think Johnny mentioned it. I will have some tea, thank you.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Yes, John. Go on, dear.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

And then we kept walking some more. And then we had a bite to eat.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Yes, go on.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

We had a bite to eat and. And I. I told her I was crazy about her.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

What did you say?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

We were just as surprised as you are, Mrs. Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yeah, it was love.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Right after the cinder came out.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Oh, dear. You.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You know, miss, my name is Jane.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Oh, yes, of course. Jane. John. So young and impulsive.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now, Mother, this is different.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Jane, my dear, are you visiting relatives here?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, yes and no. You see, I came down with Johnny

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

from Boston together last night.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Oh.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

You see, Mother, we Thought that since we were engaged.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Engaged? But what did your family say about it?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I have no family. I was going to night school, taking a course in journalism.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

She gave it up when she met me. I'm sort of a postgraduate course.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

My dear, if you have any opportunity for a career, by all means, follow it through.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, but don't you think marriage is a career in itself?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Oh, indeed. But one shouldn't rush into it. Pell mell. There are too many things to learn.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, Jane will learn them after we're married.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Don't worry, Mother.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I hope and pray that day won't come for many years.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, you.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

You don't think we should get married?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Emphatically not. Please understand, I have nothing against Jane. I'm sure she's a lovely girl.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, I'm glad of that, Mother. Because, you see, you know, when she asked if she.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

You asked if she was visiting relatives. Well, as a matter of fact, she's visiting one right now. She.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Mother, we.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

We're married, Mrs. Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, Mother.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now, people get married sooner or later and go on honeymoons. And when we come back, we'll find a new apartment and you can stay with us. Jane insists on it. And then we'll have a little family.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

A family? Oh, Johnny, she's fainted.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

All ashore that's going ashore. All ashore.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Well, it's time for me to leave, I suppose, guys.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Don't look so sad, Mother. We'll be home in 10 days.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I know.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Goodbye. Goodbye, Mrs. Mason.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Don't let him have too many strawberries. And see that he wears a hat in the sun. I will.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Take it easy, Mother.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

He almost had a sunstroke once.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

That was 14 years ago.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

And if he gets seasick, don't forget the pills I gave you. Oh, and take care of yourself too.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Thank you. Goodbye, Mrs. Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Come on, we'll wave to you from the rail.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

No, you stay here. I couldn't stand to see the boat leave with you on it, John.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Goodbye.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

So long, Mother.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

And I'll see you in a couple weeks.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Take care of him. He's my only son.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I will.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Funny things, Mother. Let's go in the stateroom, huh?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Come on, let's unpack. We've got lots to do. Darling.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

No, no, let's just sit here and think.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

All right.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

You know, this is the first time in my life I've been away from America.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Me too, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hey, Janie.

[Dr. Healy]

What?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hey, you remember when I took that cinder out of your eye?

[Listener/Letter Reader]

How could I forget?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

You know I threw it away.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I should have kept It.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

If it weren't for that cinder, maybe we'd never met.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Ah, Johnny, don't say that. We had to meet.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Maybe. But I. I don't know. I. If it hadn't been for that cinder, though, you know.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Johnny, isn't everything just beautiful?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hey, hey, that's us. We'll pull out pretty soon.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Bon voyage, darling.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Bon voyage, sweetheart. What's that?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I don't know. Go see a man.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hello, Mason.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Just caught you in time.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, Carter.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, nice of you to come down, Jane. There's Mr. Carter of the office. How do you do, Mrs. Mason?

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Well, good thing I got here.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

You've got just five minutes to get off the boat.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Get off the boat?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, don't mind him, dear. Funny sense of humor.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Yes.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Doolittle hasn't. He wants you back in the office right away. What are you talking about? Higgins against Higgins. Well, what about Higgins against Higgins? Higgins against Higgins goes on the calendar next week.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, they can't.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, Carter.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

No, no. I got a continuance for a whole month. Except the other attorney didn't sign it.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Judge Doolittle had the case reset for this week.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, what does that granite push think I am, a puppet?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Some kind of a pawn? He can push around like a. Like a pawn?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Like a pawn.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It's out of the question.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Is that what you want me to tell Judge Doolittle?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Yes.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, now, Jane.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Will you excuse us a minute, Carter?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Certainly, but you'd better hurry.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

That's telling them, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yeah, sure, Jane, but look, now, I mustn't be too impulsive, like Mother says, you know, Higgins against Higgins. My most important case.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Not as important as our honeymoon day.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

No, no, of course not, darling. But I don't want to lose my head. Now, you see, darling, a lawyer is a little like a doctor or a soldier.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You see, you're not giving in to them.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, no, no, not exactly, but maybe we could go on the honeymoon after the case is settled. I could turn the tickets in now.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, no, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

But Judge Doolittle said.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I hate Judge Doolittle. And I hate Higgins against Higgins, but I can't. And that nasty little man out there, Carter, I hate him.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I know. You probably hate me, too.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Johnny. And it would have been so beautiful.

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[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hello?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Anybody home?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, I've been worried to death.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yeah, I got tied up in court.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I didn't know whether I'd get home time for the party or not.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, did you bring the wine for the dinner?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Sure. You see, old Granite Puss is favorite brand.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, hurry, darling. They'll be here any minute.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, all I got to do is save and change my shirt.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Don't use the guest towels. Yours is on the second rack.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Okay. How's it been going?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, everything's just lovely. And ultimatum from Annie? She's quitting tonight. Tonight? That's all right, though. She'll see us through dinner.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

All right.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, what are we having for dinner?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Roast beef. Say, that was certainly a brilliant idea of yours, inviting your niece Doolittle at the last minute.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, she's the judge's daughter, isn't she?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

What could I do?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

And that impossible twerp Carter, Well, Yona's

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

had some sort of a date with him.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I had to ask.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You know, I've always had an idea he had something to do with canceling our honeymoon.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

It's going to be different when my name moves up in the door.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Dolittle, Dolittle, Smiley, Hutch and Mason.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Johnny, really?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Practically up there now. I won the appeal in Higgins against Higgins.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, you're marvelous, darling.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Hey, you're all dressed?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Uh huh. Well, except for this. Hook me up, darling.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Where? Where'd I hook you?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Those hooks in the back.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh. Pretty nice neck you got there.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You know, as nice as Eunice Doolittle's.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, what do I know about Eunice Doolittle's neck?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Never even noticed she had a neck

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

there.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I think I got them all down.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

All hooked up.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Thanks, dear. Now run out and see how Annie's doing in the kitchen, huh?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Okay.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, and hurry. Johnny. Jane.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Your guests are here, my dear.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, good evening, Judge Doolittle.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Well, well, well.

[Judge Doolittle]

Good evening, Mrs. Mason.

[Eunice Doolittle]

This is my daughter, Eunice.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

How do you do?

[Listener/Letter Reader]

How do you do, Mrs. Mason?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You know Mr. Carter. Yes, we've met.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

We're a little early, I'm afraid.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, no, not at all. It's just eight o'.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Clock.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny should be Jane. Yes, dear?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

You know, I was just thinking, I'll bet old Granite puss will be late. He's always here.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Uh.

[Judge Doolittle]

Oh, good evening, Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, oh, yes, good evening, Judge. I, I, I have great news for you, Judge. We're having roast beef tonight, Ms. Mason.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Dinner's ready. Do you want it now or will

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

you eat it cold?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, shall we sit down? Annie, you may serve the dessert, please. That's what I'm doing, ain't I?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

But Annie, this isn't the ice cream. Maybe it don't look like it, but

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

that's what it is.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

But what happened to it?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Somebody defrosted the icebox.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

It's a little accident, folks.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It looks just delicious, Mrs. Mason. Annie, the wafers. What's wafers? Crackers.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, crackers.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Couldn't figure that one out. Judge Doolittle. Johnny tells me you've won the appeal in the Higgins against Higgins case.

[Judge Doolittle]

Yes. At last.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Is it true, Judge Doolittle, that something's going to happen in the firm next week?

[Judge Doolittle]

Yes.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

We're appointing a junior partner and Daddy's consulted with me.

[Judge Doolittle]

Quite a job to pick the right man.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I shouldn't think so. Surely. If it's a question of merit, John,

[Judge Doolittle]

as a rule, I always trust my own judgment, but there's nothing like a woman's intuition.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

That's why Daddy consulted me.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

And the new partner will be beginning next Monday.

[Judge Doolittle]

The new name of the firm will be Doolittle. I, of course, will head it as I have for the past 25 years.

[Eunice Doolittle]

And very capably smiley.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

More naturally.

[Judge Doolittle]

Doolittle, my brother.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Do hurry, Daddy.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Hutch.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

And.

[Eunice Doolittle]

And Carter.

[Judge Doolittle]

Congratulations, Carter.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Thank you, Judge Doolittle.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Thank you.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

That's nice.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, Carter, congratulations.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Look, I'd like to propose a toast.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

A toast to the new partner.

[Judge Doolittle]

Well.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, I'm sorry. We seem to have run out of wine. I'm sorry. Will you give me the dishes, Mother? Just hand them over.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Careful, son.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Somebody left their peas.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

It was Judge Doolittle.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

John, the gravy sure sticks on this.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I didn't want to say anything, but you must admit now that if you hadn't rushed into this marriage, there'd have been no question about the partnership.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

What do you mean, Mother?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

If you'd have married Eunice Doolittle, and you could have, you'd have been in Mr. Carter's place.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Jane's got more on her little finger

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

than Eunice Doolittle will ever have if she lives to be 900.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

But, son, Jane is.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Mother, Mother. Now there's something else. I don't like to mention it, but it isn't any too easy for Jane, all of us living here like this. I wish you'd try and understand, but

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I only had your good in mind when I mentioned the partnership.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

My partnership with Jane's all the partnership I need.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Me, too, Johnny. That's all I need.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Must you eavesdrop?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, she wasn't, Mother.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

You're both siding against me.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now, Mother, I don't think we are.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I've got all I can bear.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Don't add anymore.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

We're not trying to, either.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

The dinner was the most humiliating experience of my life.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Of course, it was for us, too.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Not me. I don't care what they say, and

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I'll be blamed for it. That's all the consideration I get around here.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Consideration? You don't need the consideration.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Jane. Jany, darling.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Johnny. I didn't want to do that. But it's just me, I guess.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Don't worry, Janie.

[Orderly Meds Announcer]

Someday.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Someday I'll have a partnership of my own. My own office and my own practice and my own firm.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, sure. That's right. And I know a swell name for it. Mason Against. I mean, Mason and Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yeah, Mason and Ma. Huh? You mean. You mean Father and Sean?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Doctors can be wrong, you know. But our doctor thinks there'll be another lawyer in the family pretty soon.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, you mean. You mean then you and me are. I mean, you're a baby lawyer,

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

and I want him just like you.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, Jane, congratulations.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

We'll return with Act 2 of Made for each Other, starring Jimmy Stewart and Marcia Hunt, in just a moment. Most people get a thrill out of being able to say when they see a famous star. Oh, yes. I knew her when she was a model or I had a date with her in high school. Tonight we have as our guest a young lady on the threshold of her screen career. So one of these days you may be saying why. I heard her on the Lux radio theater. She's Ms. Jane Nye.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Goodness, Mr. Keeley, you make me feel as self conscious as when I had to recite in front of the boys in high school.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

But I hear you took your screen test for 20th Century Fox Very calmly, Jane.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Honestly, I did have the jitters. But I'm learning how to camouflage them.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

You certainly are. You play your role in State Fair like a veteran.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Well, Jean Crane and Dana Andrews are grand people to work with. And I still pinch myself at my good luck.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Perhaps your blond hair and dancing blue eyes help Lady Luck along.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Thank you, Mr. Keeley. That helps to make up for missing some of the fun in the picture.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

What do you mean?

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Well, everybody else goes to the State Fair, but I stay home. However, at the fair they get splashed by some rambunctious pigs.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

I'm sure that Lux took care of that in no time, eh, John?

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

I know that 20th Century Fox, like other leading Hollywood studios, depends on Lux for all their washable costumes.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

One of the wardrobe girls told me that, too. I wear a darling pink cotton dress in a picture, and it was luxed every time I wore it.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Luxe care is especially important in Technicolor pictures because any fading would be noticeable on the screen.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

That dress stayed the most luscious color all the time.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Is pink your favorite color, Jane?

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Almost, Mr. Kennedy. I like pastels especially, but not washed out ones.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

That's why thousands of women luxe all their nice colored rayon and cotton dresses, blouses and sweaters. Tests prove that colors stay lovely up to three times as long with gentle luxe care. Strong soap, hot water and rough handling can make fabrics soon look faded and drab. You can depend on this promise. Anything safe in water is safe in Lux. Here's your producer, Mr. William Keeley.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

The curtain rises on Act 2 of Made for each Other, starring Jimmy Stewart as Johnny and Marcia Hunt as Jane. The standard witticism of maternity nurses is the doubtfully humorous remark, we've never lost the father yet. But Johnny Mason, like many fathers before him, is not so easily convinced. His knees are shaking. His face has contorted with terror as he awaits the advent of his future law partner. Nobody looks at him. He nobody speaks to him. Johnny Mason is a lone and lonely man in a woman's world.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Hey, nurse. Hey, Speak to me, Nurse. Nurse, speak to me, will you, please?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Yes.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Look, look.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Tell me. How about it now?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

About.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

How about what?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

About my baby. My baby.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Oh, you want to know if he's arrived yet.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Sort of the general idea, yeah, if you don't mind.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, it won't be long. And remember, we've never lost a father yet.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Hey, nurse, Is that him? Is that my baby?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

No, and don't you come another step closer.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, if he's my baby.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Please, this is not your baby.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, when's my baby coming?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Now, don't worry.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

We've never lost a father yet. I know, I know. But you better be careful this time, that's all.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You'll just have to be patient.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Be patient? Have you ever been a father?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I'll die on my feet if I don't.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Hey, hey, doctor, how about my baby?

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Young man, I am not your doctor.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

You aren't, huh?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, do I have a doctor? Why doesn't somebody speak to me around here? Why doesn't somebody tell me something?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Gosh, I stand on.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

They won't even look at it.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Fine thing.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Please.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Are you Mr. Mason?

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

What?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Who, me?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yeah, yeah, I've been standing around here.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

What's that?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

This is your baby, Mr. Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

That's my.

[Eunice Doolittle]

My.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

My girl.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

It's a boy.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Jane.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Jane, how's.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, she's fine. Mr. Mason, aren't you a little pale?

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Oh, me?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

No, I'm all right.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I never felt shit.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Intern. Intern.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

A stretcher, please. Father trouble again.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

It's a touch of colic, I know.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

No, Mother, he's just hungry.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I'm sorry, my dear. It's Col.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

He's cried for five minutes. Johnny, where's that bottle?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Coming, dear. Here you are, fella. Just warmed up.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Right?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Hey.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hey, look, he's smiling at me.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

That's gas.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh,

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

give me that bottle, Johnny. You answer the door.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, whoever it is, I'll tell him we're not here.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Well, at least he stopped crying.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You see, he was hungry.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

If he was fed on time, he wouldn't cry.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I know, Mother, but the bottle wasn't warm enough.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Why wasn't it?

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[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I won't say anything. I won't say anything.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

What's that, dear?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Nothing, Mother. Who was it, Johnny?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, it's the mailman. A present for the baby from old Granite Push.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Well, how thoughtful.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I bet it's a summons.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hey. Hey, look. It's a bank book.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, the old darling. How much?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, 10 bucks.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

$10. I hope it doesn't plunge Doolittle into bankruptcy.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I think it's very considerate of Judge Doolittle to think of the baby's future.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, it isn't much, but gorgeous a start, isn't it?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Why, of course. That's the proper spirit, John.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, it isn't that. Johnny, come in here, please. In the bedroom, will you? Watch the baby, Mother.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

That's what I'm doing. He'd choke if it wasn't for me.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hey, what's the matter? What's the idea?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, how long are you going to stand for it?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Stand for what?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Judge Doolittle's contempt for you. His intense unappreciation of your work.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, what's that got to do with the $10?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It isn't the $10. It's what it means. He holds you at just that much, no?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I suppose so.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

The $10 from anyone else would be swell, but not from Doolittle. You do all the work in that office and Doolittle knows it.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yeah, I know. The bills are piling up and Christmas is coming and, well, the income just doesn't match the outgoing.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

And still you let Doolittle take advantage of you. You deserve a raise. Why don't you tell him that?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I'd lose my job.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You won't lose your job. You're too valuable. If you left, Doolittle would come Crawling. Begging you to come back.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Crawling, huh?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

No, you don't know old Granite Push.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

All you've got to do is speak up. Don't ask for your rights, demand them. What are you, a man or a mouse?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I'm a mouse.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You're not either. You're too modest. You don't appreciate yourself, honey. You're not having the things you should have.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, neither are you. You remember when I got you that wedding ring? Later? I was gonna get you a big one with the diamonds and the mink coat of it.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I want them, Johnny. And I want a honeymoon in Bermuda and an apartment large enough so the baby doesn't have to sleep in the dining room. You can get them for me if you get what's coming to you.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

If only.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I'll tell you how. You just walk in and say, judge Doolittle, there's something I've got to say to you right now.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

What'll he say?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, he'll say, sit down, Mason. What is it? And you'll say, judge Doolittle, I've been working for you for five years. I've given you all that's in me, every ounce.

[Judge Doolittle]

Yeah.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

No, wait.

[Orderly Meds Announcer]

No, no.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

He'll say, there's no doubt about that, Ma. And I'll say, all right, Judge Doolittle, what are you gonna do about it?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I hate to think what'll happen then.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

No matter what he says, you say, either a raise and a junior partnership or accept my resignation, effective immediately.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Effective immediately? Effective immediately. I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Some of these days,

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, some of these days is tomorrow.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, yeah, but how can I do it?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You walk into his office, you say, judge Doolittle, I've got something to say to you right now.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Say it.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Judge Doolittle, I've got something to say

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

to you right now.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Either I get a raise and a junior partnership, or else. Judge Doolittle, I've got something to say

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

to you right now.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Either I get a raise in a junior partnership.

[Judge Doolittle]

Mason, what in the world are you doing?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, me? I was just rehearsing.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Rehearsing?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, it's very important, sir.

[Judge Doolittle]

It's more important you answer your buzzer.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Come in here.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I'm sorry. I guess I must have been busy rehearsing.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Sit down.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yes, sir.

[Judge Doolittle]

Mason, you've been doing mighty good work lately.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, thank you, judge.

[Judge Doolittle]

You've been capable, loyal, right from the start.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, that's mighty nice of you, judge.

[Judge Doolittle]

These are extraordinary dimes for all of us.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, they are? Yes, sir.

[Judge Doolittle]

Some of our biggest clients are affected.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, yeah.

[Judge Doolittle]

Most of them claim it's all they can do to stay in business.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

They do, huh?

[Judge Doolittle]

So they're cutting expenses right and left, and we're the first to feel it. Naturally, we have to do something about it.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Judge Doolittle, there's something I always say

[Judge Doolittle]

to you right Tighten our belts. I'm asking everyone to take a 25% cut in salary.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, but Judge Doolittle.

[Judge Doolittle]

I'm glad you understand, Mason. It warms my heart to see such a splendid spirit of cooperation in one of my men.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Thank you, sir.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Yes.

[Judge Doolittle]

By the way, Mason, please answer the buzzer next time.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Johnny.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Mason, your wife's on the phone.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

My wife? Well, tell her. Tell her I won't be home. I mean, tell her I won't be home till.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny? Johnny, is that you?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, it is. The great John H. Mason, big shot lawyer.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Good morning, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Good morning.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

How do you feel?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I feel fine, fine.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

What time is it?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

What time is it? Four o', clock, five o'?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Clock?

[Eunice Doolittle]

High noon.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, it's just three, isn't it?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, if you knew what time it

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

was, why did you ask me what time it was?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

What difference does it make anyway what time it is?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I feel fine.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You better go to bed, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, must I be told like a child?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Are you going to sleep?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yes, while I'm in bed.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Of course I'm going to sleep.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Do you think you'll be comfortable?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Of course I'll be comfortable if comfortable.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Don't you think you'd be more comfortable

[Listener/Letter Reader]

if you took off your hat?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Maybe I would.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Can I help?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

No.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

And I don't need any help. What are you looking so funny about?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Better go to sleep, dear.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now, you'd think I was on the witness stand or something. A man comes home looking for a little peace and quiet and what happens? Why didn't I phone you? Why didn't I come home for supper? A million questions Fired a out of folly.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I ran into Doolittle this afternoon. I was out for a walk with a baby. He was in the park.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

All right, let me have it.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Tell me what you really think of me. Tell me I'm a failure, a weakling.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Tell me.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

I.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Jane, I. Oh, Johnny, you fool. What does it matter if you get a raise or a partnership or anything?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I'll let you down, Janie. I always let you down.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, don't say that.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I'm no good.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It was my fault for interfering. I'll never do it again. Never. We've Got each other. You're all I have and all I want.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

And.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Please, if you feel bad, I'll die.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Jane, I don't.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Johnny. Look at me and tell me you don't feel bad.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Jane, I don't feel bad.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I feel fine.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Honest, I do.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Johnny, the next time you go out and get plastered, you better take me along with you or I'll get a divorce.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

You better get a good lawyer.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I've got a good lawyer.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Johnny, will you close that window, please? You know, I have a cold.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, I'm sorry, Mother.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I just wanted to hear the crowd.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Looks like a big New Year.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Yes, for some folks.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

How's the baby, Jane?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I just looked at him. He has the sniffles.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

All babies have sniffles this time of the year.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

He caught it from you, Mother.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Me? That's simply ridiculous. He's had sniffles all day. When I took his temperature, that's when

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

he caught your cold.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

He certainly didn't. He had no temper.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It's all right, Johnny. It's just the sniffles.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I suppose I ought to stay in my room all day.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Mother, please. It's New Year's Eve.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

It's just like any other day. As far as I'm concerned, you're both perfectly willing to leave me all alone to wait for the New Year when it's probably the last New Year I'll ever see. Not that it matters, I suppose.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, gee, where's Mother?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now, why do you keep saying things like that?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Look, Johnny and I aren't going anywhere. We'll celebrate right here at home.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

How's that?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

That's fine.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

There's nothing in the house to eat.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, I'll run over to the delicatesse and get some bologna and stuff like that.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Mustard, Johnny and pickle.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

You know I can't eat those things before going to bed. I never did approve of Annie, but I certainly miss her cooking.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

That doesn't say very much for mine, Mother.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Oh, you'll learn, my dear.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I won't say anything. I won't say anything.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

When I was married, all well brought up girls knew about cooking.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Mother, please.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Why, Jane, what is it?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I can't cook. I can't keep house. I don't know how to bring up a baby.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I don't know what you're talking about.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, yes, you do. You presented me from the very first moment you saw me. You resented me because you wanted Johnny to marry Eunice Doolittle.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I've done nothing of the sort. But they were engaged.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I was never engaged to Eunice Doolittle.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Not what you'd call engaged, perhaps.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, and even if I were, you shouldn't keep mentioning to Jane.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I don't understand why she's so touchy about it.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Touchy? That's why you hate me.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Jane, stop.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

No, let her go on. I know my place here. I'm only a guest. An unwelcome guest.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, now, please. Now, what's the matter with you two?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Nothing's the matter with me.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I never interfere.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It's her house. Mother, it's not my house. I'm a stranger around here.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Jane, please.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Everything I say is wrong, everything I do is wrong.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Just because I happen to mention you

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

in the studio, I'll stop it, both of you.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Very well. I won't say another word.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now, you see what you made me

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

say to Mother, you said it to me, too. Don't I count?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, sure you do, Jane. Only Mother's an old lady. Why can't you get along with her?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Why can't she get along with me? You don't know how it is. You're at the office all day. Between taking care of the baby in the house and listening to her criticize everything, I can't stand it anymore.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

All right, then you don't have to.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, where are you going?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I'm going out.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Where, Johnny?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I don't know. Anywhere. As long as I get away from this wrangle.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You don't want me to go with you? I'm sorry, Johnny. Really I am.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, you don't have to apologize.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Would you rather I didn't come with you? All right, Johnny, I don't mind.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

No, no, come on. It's all right.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You're sure you don't mind?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, no, certainly I don't.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Come on.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, we'll have a good time. You just wait and see.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

More wine, sir? No, there's nothing the matter with it, sir.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

No, no, no, no.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

It's fine.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Yes, sir.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, what's happened to us?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I don't know.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Didn't we always promise we'd never keep anything back?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yes.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Then why don't you tell me?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I try it too, and it won't come out.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

What do you want to say?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, maybe I played you a dirty trick when I took that cinder out of your eye.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Did you?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

You'd never have married me if it hadn't happened.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, don't say that, John.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

All my life I. I've run away from things.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, I'm not going to run away from this. I want to face it.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

What have I done up to now

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I've been a failure.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Johnny.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

No.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

You.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

No. Yes, Jane, I have.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I've gotten nowhere at the office. I'm in debt. Now it looks like my marriage goes on the rock.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

No, Johnny.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

No.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It's been my fault too.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

No, no.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I've been the one that's made the mess of things.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Even my own kid has to sleep in the dining room.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I've made a household drudge out of you, Johnny.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I love being a household drudge.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

You're tied down. Tied down to the house and baby.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Maybe we shouldn't have had him, Johnny.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

The baby. You're not sorry about him?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Crazy about it. Crazy about you too. Wouldn't die for either one of you.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

But no, no, that wouldn't work either.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

I don't even carry life insurance. Let's be sensible about it, Jane. I'm no good for you.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Maybe. Maybe it's the other way around. You were doing fine until I came along. Well, what is it? Do you want a divorce?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, I'm trying to look at it sensibly, that's all. From your viewpoint, I never thought this

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

would be our New Year's. But anyway, we've finally got something to celebrate. Well, happy New Year.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Happy New Year.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I guess we must be pretty intelligent people to come to a decision like this and be so sensible about it.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yeah. Yeah, I guess. I guess we must.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Everything didn't go wrong, though. We did get a baby out of it.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

New Year's here.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I think I'll go call up the house and see how the baby is.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

There's a phone in the lobby. I'll go with you.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

No, I'll be right there.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Jane, Let me in. Let me into the booth. Jane, I want. Jane, listen.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Wait.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Hello?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Go on, Mother. Yes, I'll come. I'll come as fast as I can.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Jane, what is it?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

At the house. Where? All right.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

What's happened, darling?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, what's the matter?

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

The baby.

[Judge Doolittle]

The baby.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

What's the matter?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

They've taken him to the hospital. Something's happened. Oh, hurry, Johnny, hurry.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

We pause now for six minutes. This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System. Act Three of Made for each Other, starring James Stewart and Marcia Hunt, will continue in a moment. What are those Letters, Libby?

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Letters from our listeners, Mr. Kennedy. You know, week after week, we tell our millions of friends how wonderful Lux is for stockings. But this week. Well, I thought I'd let our friends tell us.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Good idea. What do they say?

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Well, here's a letter from Mrs. Josephine Arthur of Lincoln, Nebraska. She says I have a pair of

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

rayon hose, which I got about six months ago. I've worn them regularly, washing them in luxury flakes every night and they haven't a single run.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

I think luxe flakes deserves the credit

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

for this long wear.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

I wouldn't use any other soap for washing my hose.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

That's very wise of Mrs. Arthur, because strain tests have proved that rubbing with cake soap or using a strong soap makes runs come quickly. Lux cuts down runs over 50%.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

And listen to this one. Ms. Dorothy Fiskus of St. Louis, Missouri writes, I am a hospital technician. Almost a year ago I purchased three pairs of 45 gauge rayon hoes. I have washed them daily, always using luxe flakes. Today I still have the same three pair of hose and not one of them has a run. I think that's quite a good record, especially since I'm on my feet all day long.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

They're extremely interesting letters, Libby, because they bear out exactly what scientific strain tests have proved that stockings last twice as long washed with luxury. You can see why so many makers of stockings, over 90% of them, recommend Lux for all kinds of stockings.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Ms. Fiskus also says, hopefully now that the war is over, perhaps I won't have the difficulty I did for a while in getting Lux.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

We Hope so too, Ms. Fiskus. But if your dealer doesn't have Lux the first time you try, try again. More is on the way. You've discovered for yourself. Lux is worth waiting for. Here's Mr. Keeley at the microphone.

[Grainger Announcer]

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[Grainger Announcer (Alternate)]

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[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

We continue with Act 3 of Made for each Other. Starring Jimmy Stewart as Johnny and Marcia Hunt as Jane. Only a few hours have passed, but to Johnny and Jane, they've been eternity. In the waiting room of the hospital, they sit close together, hardly trusting themselves to speak while just down the hall, their baby fights for life with every breath. At last, the door opens.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Dr. Healing.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

How is he, doctor?

[Dr. Healy]

Well.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, tell us, please.

[Dr. Healy]

Your baby has pneumonia, type 14. I'm afraid I. Well, I'm afraid I can't give you much hope.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It's that bad?

[Dr. Healy]

Yes, There's a new serum which has worked in cases of this sort. However, the hospital's trying to get it now.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Trying to get it?

[Dr. Healy]

There's none in New York. We've called the laboratories in Salt Lake City for a supply to be sent by air as soon as possible.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

How soon will it be here?

[Dr. Healy]

I wish I could say. We've just been advised that a storm's raging out there. No pilot will make the trip tonight.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Then we can't get the serum?

[Dr. Healy]

I'm afraid not in time. However, I'm hoping that. Hoping?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, that isn't enough. I'll find a pilot.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, we've got to. We've got to.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hello?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Hello, Is this the Salt Lake Airport? Well, my name's Mason. I'm in New York City and my baby has. Oh, you know about it, huh? Well, is the serum at the airport? Well, when can you leave? Tomorrow? No, no, you gotta leave tonight. The baby needs it now.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

All right, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, he's talking to somebody else. Hello?

[Dr. Healy]

What?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

$5,000. Sure, sure, I'll get it. It'll be at Newark Airport waiting for you. Will you start right away? Will you try?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Will you? Will you try?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Okay, Johnny. $5,000.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I know, I know, but I'll get it. You stay here. Jane, if I've got a roll, rob a bank. I'll get it. I'm coming through this time.

[Eunice Doolittle]

This is an outrage. You don't dare waken Judge Doolittle.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Is this his room?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Mr. Mason, you must leave immediately.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Doolittle, come on, wake up.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Mr. Mason, please. He'll be furious.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Doolittle, come on, wake up.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Who is this?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

That's Mason from the office. I've got to talk to you.

[Judge Doolittle]

You must be drunk.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I'm not.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Now, look.

[Judge Doolittle]

This is your way of celebrating the New Year.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Now, you listen to me.

[Judge Doolittle]

No.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Now you listen to me for a change. When you asked me to take a cut, I took it, didn't I? And then I had to make my baby sleep in the dining room. And that's where. How he caught his cold.

[Eunice Doolittle]

What are you talking about?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I'm talking about my baby. He's got pneumonia. And I need $5,000.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

That's.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

That's what it'll cost to get the serum from Salt Lake.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

And you're gonna let me have it?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

My baby's dying.

[Eunice Doolittle]

He's dying.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Do you understand that?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Your baby?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Well, why didn't you get in touch with me sooner? I'm terribly sorry, miss.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

I don't. I don't need sympathy. I need serum. Every second counts.

[Eunice Doolittle]

All right, Mason. All right, Simon, my checkbook and a pen.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yes, sir, judge. Thanks. Thanks.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Thank you, sir.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Hello? Hello.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Yeah.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Yeah, it's the airport, huh? Okay, put him on. Hey, can't wait. That bug in New York wants me to fly a plane there.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Oh, tell him he's nuts. We couldn't get a ship off the ground. Yeah, not a. Hello?

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Hello there. Yeah. Yeah, Mr. Mason? Yeah? The serum's here, but it's impossible to take off. What can I do? I know how you feel. I gotta. What can you do with a guy like that?

[Dr. Healy]

Give me that phone.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Wait a second, Mr. Mason. Conway will talk to you.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Look, Mason, what do you think this is, a suicide club? You can't expect any guy in his right mind to fly a plane a night like this.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

But a ship wouldn't stand a chance

[Eunice Doolittle]

of getting through, huh? Oh, now, look. Holy smoke. Now, wait a minute, buddy.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Take it easy.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Hold on a minute.

[Dr. Healy]

Hey, Hatton.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Yeah, Hatton. Look, let me borrow your plane.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Are you crazy?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

You ought to know how it is.

[Eunice Doolittle]

You got kids of your own. I'll give you half the money if you loan me the crate.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Suppose you crank it up.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Then you can keep the whole five.

[Eunice Doolittle]

I won't need it.

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Okay, Conway, but you're nuts.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Hello, Mason?

[Airport/Radio Operator]

Relax.

[Eunice Doolittle]

I'll highball her into New York tomorrow.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Jane, has Johnny called yet?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Yes, he's waiting at the airport.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

What did he say?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Just that the planes left Salt Lake.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

How long will it take to get here?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, 14, 15 hours. I don't know. It'll be too late.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Shall I get you a coat, dear?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

The doctor says he's going fast.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Here, dear, put my coat around your shoulders.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

If my baby dies, I want to die too.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Jean, dear, you mustn't feel that way.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I can't help it.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

You mustn't let John know you feel that way. He loves the baby too, as much almost as he loves you.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Poor Johnny. He'll be so lonely if the baby.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

He'll have you, Jane, and you'll have Him. And you can't be lonely, either of you, as long as you have each other. Mother, you know when you're lonely, really lonely, when you've no one to share things with, not even a loss.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Mother.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

That's when you're really lonely.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Mother, I haven't understood. You are lonely, aren't you?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, Mother.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Rock Springs, Wyoming. Conway calling Rock springs. Conway and NC 24. Over Rock Springs. Relay this message to Newark. Blizzard increasing. Ship icing up. Making a detour south toward Denver. Denver, emergency. Losing altitude. I'm on instruments. Can't even see my waste yet. Relay north. Conway calling Denver.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Tell Newark, Denver calling. Coming Conway. Denver calling Conway.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Denver, Colorado, calling. All stations to Newark.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Standby to try contact. NC 24.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Emergency. Fast contact with Conway in middle of message. Try contacting him and relay all messages to Newark. Denver.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Have you. Have you heard anything more?

[Eunice Doolittle]

I tried about an hour ago, Mr. Mason. I'll try Allentown again. They might have heard something.

[Judge Doolittle]

Well, hurry, please.

[Eunice Doolittle]

This. This waiting is terrible. Newark calling Allentown. Do you read me? Allentown?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Come in, Newark.

[Eunice Doolittle]

What's the latest on Conway in NC24?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Haven't heard a thing for eight hours.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Did you check Iowa City?

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Yeah, about 10 minutes ago.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

And they just checked with Omaha.

[Eunice Doolittle]

No word of any kind of things come through. Let me know right away if something does.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Okay.

[Eunice Doolittle]

That's it, Mr. Mason.

[Judge Doolittle]

Well, do planes go this long unreported?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Longer, sometimes, Judge Doolittle. Of course, in weather like this.

[Dr. Healy]

What?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Well, maybe his radio went out. That happened.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yes.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Yes, that's what I think, Johnny.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Yeah.

[Eunice Doolittle]

You can look at it this way. Stands to reason Conway got out of the low pressure area when he passed the Rockies. Why, certainly, it.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

It stands to reason. Yeah. Yeah. You've been swell, Judge. You two, Murphy and all the operators and the superintendent. You've all been fine. To stay here all these hours trying to give me hope, but there's no use. I can't just keep calling up the hospital to say that there's no news. It isn't fair. So I guess I'll go to her. But I want to thank you. Thanks a lot, Murphy. Yeah.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Murphy. There isn't a chance, is there, Judge? If Conway is still up in that crate, it's a miracle.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Holy.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

I can't.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I don't know how.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, Johnny, you've come.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Oh, Johnny. I don't know how. I've forgotten how to pray.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Just ask him, darling. He'll know what you want.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, dear God. You know. You know how much he means to us. We've only had him such a little while, and we. We want to see him grow up to be a man who. Please help our little baby. He's so small, so helpless. Oh, please.

[Jane Nye (Guest Actress)]

Please.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Please.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Hello, newark?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Hello, newark. Hello, newark. This is newark.

[Judge Doolittle]

Who are you?

[Dr. Healy]

Who is it?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Hello, newark.

[Eunice Doolittle]

This is conway from salt lake. I'm coming in, newark. I'm coming in.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Jane. Johnny.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Jane, my dear.

[Judge Doolittle]

Mother.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

What is it?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Dr. Healy? Is it. Is it all over?

[Dr. Healy]

No, my dear, it isn't all over. The baby's sleeping soundly, normally for the first time.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

Johnny.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Johnny.

[Judge Doolittle]

Did they tell you the news? Conway got through with the serum.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

What?

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Judge Doolittle brought him to the hospital himself.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

The baby's going to get well.

[Dr. Healy]

We administered the serum as soon as it arrived.

[Eunice Doolittle]

He's picked up amazingly.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

He's going to be well.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, Jane.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Dear God. Thank you. Thank you,

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Mason.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Come in. Sit down.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, sir.

[Judge Doolittle]

Mason, I want to congratulate you on the handling of the Higgins against Higgins case.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Yes, sir, but you see, our boat leaves in an hour.

[Judge Doolittle]

Higgins and Higgins are so pleased, they've decided on us to settle the second case.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

A second case?

[Judge Doolittle]

And I'd like to have you try it, my boy.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Oh, but, Judge Doolittle, I've got reservations. We're sailing this afternoon. Jane and I are going on our honeymoon.

[Judge Doolittle]

Come outside a minute, Mason.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

But, Judge, Jane and I are due at the. Jane, what are you doing here?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Look, Johnny, I brought the baby down to show you.

[Judge Doolittle]

Follow me, both of you.

[Eunice Doolittle]

All three of you.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

But, darling, why did you bring Johnny? We've got to be at the dock.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Have you stopped for a minute? I've got something to tell you about the baby.

[Judge Doolittle]

Here we are. Come over here, Mason.

[Orderly Meds Announcer]

Look.

[Hospital Staff/Doctor]

At what?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

At the door.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Look.

[Judge Doolittle]

Read it on the door, my boy.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, just say, law Officers Doolittle, do a little smiley.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Hutchinson, Carter and Mason.

[Judge Doolittle]

I've given you a partnership, my boy.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

The partnership, Johnny.

[Judge Doolittle]

And incidentally, you'd better get down to the boat. There's some extra reservations waiting there for you.

[Eunice Doolittle]

The bridal suite.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well, thanks, Judge.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, the baby. I forgot Johnny. We rushed down the minute it happened.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

What Happened?

[Eunice Doolittle]

Is he all right?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Johnny, the baby can talk.

[Eunice Doolittle]

Oh, go on, baby.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

They don't believe us. Come on, darling. We'll prove it.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

But he can't talk. Janie's too young.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Show them, darling. Come on, dear. Don't be afraid now.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Speak up.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Come on now.

[Mrs. Mason (Johnny's Mother)]

Say Daddy.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Say Daddy. Daddy. Come on now. Please, darling. Say Daddy.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Well,

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

what do you know? I thought you were kidding.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Before our stars return for a curtain call, let's stop in for a moment at the supermarket. Betty Smith is there, scanning the soap shelves.

[Dr. Healy]

Where?

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

There goes a box of Lux in her. Type of Nancy Gray is looking too, but not where she's going.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, excuse me. I'm sorry. Why, Nancy.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Hello there.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I haven't seen you since you got back from your honeymoon. Oh, that was a month ago.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

How does it feel to be a housewife?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Oh, it's fun cooking. But the dishes. I'm not a glamour girl anymore.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

You look pretty good to me.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It's my hands. Well, they never look like this when I was pounding a typewriter.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Mmm.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

A bad case of dishpan hands.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

It makes Jim feel bad because we can't have a maid. How do you stand it, Betty?

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Anything wrong with my hands?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, no.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

And I wash dishes three times a day.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

How in the world Nothing but Lux

[Listener/Letter Reader]

goes in my dishpan. That strong stuff you have there is swell for some purposes, but not for my hands.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

I was only trying to watch the pennies. But Lux is thrifty. It makes such rich suds.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

A box lasts much longer. It would fix up those hands of yours in short order.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Really?

[Listener/Letter Reader]

You just take a box and try it. Bet you'll see an improvement in less than a week.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Sounds easy. It really works.

[Listener/Letter Reader]

Before you know it, your hands will be just as soft and smooth as ever.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Changing to luxe flakes for dishes is good advice for any housewife who's having trouble with red, rough, dishpan hands. Scores of women prove that changing from strong soaps to Lux gets rid of dish pan redness. Budget watchers like it too. It's been proved that Lux does up to twice as many dishes ounce for ounce, as any of 10 other leading soaps tested. We return you now to William Keeley.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Once more, the spotlight turns on Jimmy Stewart and Marcia Hunt as they come back to the microphone for a well deserved curtain call.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Thank you, Bill.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Jimmy, I understand that as soon as this program is over, you're packing to go home for Christmas.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

That's right, Bill.

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Back to Pennsylvania, the town where I was born and raised.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

How about you, Marsha? What's your hometown?

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Well, I was born in Chicago and raised in New York. I guess I'm strictly a city girl.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Well, I back you both up. I come from Pennsylvania and from a city, Philadelphia.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Did you get your start in acting there, Mr. Keeley?

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Yes. Our football team needed uniforms, so we put on a play. I was 16 and played an old man of 60. I must have been pretty awful. You started your acting career in high school, didn't you, Jim?

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

That's right, Bill. The senior class presented what they called a comedy each year.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

Was that pretty high class humor, Jim?

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

Oh, yeah.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, as I remember, one line in

[Johnny Mason (Alternate or same as F, conversational)]

which an old Henpeck character says to his wife, he says, oh, how I

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

miss the old spittoon now that it's gone. And she says, she says. She says, you've always missed it. That's why it's gone.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Well, that answers Marsha's question.

[Jane Mason (Marcia Hunt)]

And a question for you now, Mr. Keeley. What is Lux presenting next week in this theater?

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Next Monday night, of course, is Christmas Eve. And since that calls for something rather special, we are presenting David O. Selznick's moving and absorbing drama, I'll be seeing you with two of Hollywood's finest players, Dorothy McGuire and Joseph Cotton. It's the touching story of a girl and a soldier, both on furlough for the Christmas holidays, whose sudden love is shadowed by a haunting secret creating one of the screen's most gripping and dramatic situations.

[Johnny Mason (Jimmy Stewart)]

Well, it ought to make a great play for you, Bill.

[Dr. Healy]

Good night.

[William Keeley (Producer/Narrator)]

Good night and happy holidays. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Flakes, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday evening when the Lux Radio Theatre presents Joseph Cotton and Dorothy McGuire in I'll Be Seeing you. This is William Keeley saying good night to you from Hollywood.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Fire isn't so plentiful now that the war is over because soap takes oils and we're still short of them. Those we used to get from the Pacific still aren't coming in. Now that butter and shortening are no longer rationed, there is less fat than ever for industry. Until we can get more oils and fats from other sources. Your government asks you to save every drug of used fats from your kitchen. Saving used fats is just as important now as at any time during the war. More fats for industries will help ease the shortage of fine oils for soaps. Your butcher will actually pay you for the used fat. You turn in 4 cents for every pound. Jimmy Stewart will next be seen in the Liberty Films Frank Capra production. It's a Wonderful Life. Marcia Hunt appeared through the courtesy of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, producers of they Were a King Expendable. Tonight, the Canadian government pays tribute to the motion picture industry of Hollywood, its studios and stars for their cooperation in Canada's war financing program throughout nine Victory loan drives. At a dinner which is right now being given to leading members of the industry, Canada's Ambassador to Washington, the Hon.

[Eunice Doolittle]

C.B.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

pearson, will express his gratitude and his thoughts for future cooperation in the following words. Your industry, ladies and gentlemen, has as much power as any single agency of man to heal the wounds of war and knit together the pieces of a shattered world. This program is broadcast to our men and women overseas through cooperation with the Armed Forces Radio Service. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. And this is your announcer, John Milton Kennedy, reminding you to tune in again next Monday night to hear I'll be seeing you with Joseph Cotton. Cotton and Dorothy McGuire.

[Eunice Doolittle]

The spry treat of the week, spry holiday magic spice cake made lighter, finer, richer the spry way. Flip the tested spry recipe from December leading women's magazines. And remember, only spry all vegetable shortening gives you spry cake making magic. Get spry tomorrow. That's S P R Y.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

Be sure to listen in next Monday night to the Lux Radio Theater presentation of I'll be seeing you with Joseph

[Eunice Doolittle]

Cotton and Dorothy McGuire.

[Lux Radio Theater Announcer]

And why not tune in a half hour early to hear Joan Davis over

[Eunice Doolittle]

most of these stations. This is cbs, the Columbia broadcasting.