(REVISED)

-12-

JOE

Oh! Well, no thanks. I got a lot of Latin to translate.

CHARLIE

Okay, you take the dead languages and I'll take the live women.

JOE

Besides I got a girl back home and uh--- Jennie's her name. We're going to be married.... I think.

CHARLIE

---Well, all right, I'll give you a rain-check on it.

(MUSIC: BRIDGE.....)

HAZEL

Jenny don't you ever worry about you and Joe Taylor having to wait so long before you get married?

JENNY

'Course I worry, Hazel. And Popper's always telling me I'm a fool to even think of marrying a doctor.

HAZEL

Why does he have to be a doctor, Jennie?

-13-

JENNY

Because his mother wants him to be. Her father was a doctor
and her husband is a doctor, and if her darling son Joey
isn't a doctor, this whole town will get sick and die.

HAZEL

Gosh, I don't envy you. With his mother against you,
there isn't much you can do.

JENNY (WISELY)

Oh, I wouldn't say that, Hazel. There might be a lot I can
do. Might take a little time, but I think there's a lot
I can do....

(MUSIC: BRIDGE.....THEN UNDER....)

NARRATOR

And so, in not very subtle ways, that were none the less
disturbing to Joe, Jennie began to do what she could do...
Her letters to Joe began to read something like this...

JENNIE

Remember Hazel Skinner.... She was over to see me today, and
I bet your ears burned... Hazel is going to marry a man named
Bobby Martin. He is only one year older than you, but he is
making lots of money selling automobiles.... His family
wanted him to be a lawyer, but he says the trouble with the
professions is that you study years and you're an old man
before you make any money..... I guess that's all the
news... Fondly.... Jennie...

(MUSIC: UP A MOMENT....THEN UNDER.....)

-14-

NARRATOR

When Joe was a senior in college, Mr. Brinker took a serious step ... the kind of step fathers used to take to keep their daughters from marrying the wrong boy ... he took her to Europe ... and Jennie kept up her series of disturbing letters ...

JENNIE

Dear Joe...I met a charming boy named Bertram Woodhaven.
His father is in the coal and lumber business too.

(MUSIC:.... UP FOR A BEAT THEN UNDER....)

JENNIE

Bertram is teaching me how to swim.... we're learning a
new stroke,

(MUSIC: UP THEN UNDER....)

JENNIE

Bertram is teaching me how to tango.

(MUSIC: U....HIGHER THAN BEFORE...THEN UNDER.....)

NARRATOR

As it would be for any man, this was too much for our Joe....

-14A-

JOE (UP)

Hey, Charlie, how about your girl's sister.... Emily, the
one that's going to be a nurse? She still available for
a date?

(MUSIC: UP THEN OUT.

SOUND: FOOTSTEPS WALKING SLOWLY ON SIDEWALK.... NIGHT SOUNDS)

JOE

I'm afraid this date hasn't been much fun for you, Emily.

EMILY

Why not?

JOE

Well, here I am seeing you home, and up to this point I've
done nothing but talk about Jennie. Let's talk about you.

EMILY

We don't have to.

JOE

Maybe we don't, but I'd like to know something about you?

EMILY

Why?....We'll -probably never see each other again.

JOE

Sure we will.

EMIQY

We'll see.

JOE

Now, look, I told you why I want to be a doctor... now tell
me why you want to be a nurse?

-14B-

EMILY

I suppose I'd sound a little noble if I said I like to help people.

JOE

That's obvious from tonight.

EMILY

You helped yourself. You talked yourself out of it... your being mad at Jennie.

JOE

You listened.

EMILY

I'm an expert at that.

JOE

Jennie doesn't know how much she owes to you.

EMILY

Take my advice. Don't tell her.

JOE

You think she'd be jealous

EMILY

If she's human.

JOE

Where are you going when you start nursing?

EMILY

Charlie thinks his Uncle, Doctor Denby, can use a fine upstanding one hundred percent American girl like me in his office in Chicago.

-14C-

JOE

Did you ever think ... you might get married long
before you became a nurse?

EMILY

I don't think there's much danger of that.

JOE

Why?

EMILY

Why? Well, because I always seem to be going out with
fellows like you on the rebound. And like a fool I always
let them talk themselves right back into love with their
old girls.

-14D-

## EMILY

I figured you must have been for a long time... This is where I live.

## JOE

Oh.

## EMILY

You don't have to see me to the door.

## JOE

Well...thanks for a ...well, for being so nice, and --

## EMILY

--Thank you, Joe. I had a fine time.

## JOE

Not much, I'm afraid. But ...well, maybe we can have another date sometime and...and I won't talk about Jennie all the time.

## EMILY (SMILING)

Just half the time?...

## JOE

Yes. How about next Friday?

## EMILY

Are you sure you want to. Or are you just being polite?

## JOE

I'm sure.

## EMILY

All right. Good night.

## JOE

Good night. (SOUND: FOOTSTEPS AS HE WALKS OFF...) See you Friday.

-14F-

(MUSIC: AT END OF SINGING SEGUE & HOLD UNDER)

(TELEPHONE RINGS)

(PICK UP PHONE)

EMILY

Hello?

JOE (FILTER)

Hello, Emily. This is Joe. I, er - just remembered - I've
got another engagement Friday night, so I won't be able to
stop around. I, er - I'm sorry, Emily.

EMILY

...It's -- all right, Joe. I - don't mind...

JOE (FILTER)

Gee, thanks, Emily. 'Bye.

EMILY

Goodbye, Joe..

(PHONE DOWN)

(SHE SINGS AGAIN) "We have nothing to remember

So far, so far..." (BREAKS INTO TEARS)

(MUSIC: UP A MOMENT, THEN SEQUE & DOWN UNDER NARRATION)

NARRATOR

Toward the end of the summer, Jennie wrote that it was all
over between her and Bertram Woolhaven and she was coming
home. And then on a lovely evening in August, she was home...

-17-

JOE (CONT'D)

But tonight you're no star,
Nor a song that I sing;
In my arms, where you are,
You are sweeter than spring;
In my arms where you are,
Clinging closely to me,
You are lovelier, by far
Than I dreamed you could be,
You are lovelier, my darling
Than I dreamed you could be...

JENNIE (AS CHORUS FINISHES HUMMING..)

I love you, Joe.

JOE

I love you, Jennie.

(MUSIC: OUT....)

JENNIE

Going to medical school next year?

JOE

Sure. You want me to, don't you?

JENNIE

Yes, I suppose so, but ... well ... Popper keeps saying that
if you went in the coal and lumber business with him, you
could be rich in a few years and---

JOE

---You mean instead of being a doctor?

-18-

JENNIE

(REALIZING IT IS TOO SOON TO PULL THIS)

Whatever happens, Joe, it's got to be you who decides.

I'd never influence you one way or the other. You make up
your own mind, darling.

(MUSIC: THEN UNDER...)

NARRATOR

And Joe did make up his mind.... He went to medical school....

And Jennie waited for him, and made new plans for him,
plans which she mentioned to Mrs. Taylor every now and
again...

(MUSIC: OUT....)

JENNIE

You know Mr. Taylor, my Popper thinks it's a shame for Joe
and me to have to struggle along for years when he's got
this wonderful coal and lumber business, and he could teach
Joe and—

MARJORIE

...Jennie, what would you do if Joe refused to give up
medicine?

-20-

JENNIE

We'd go to some big city or someplace. I'd help him get to
be the richest doctor in town.

MARJORIE

Jennie, aren't you confusing success with wealth?

I think my husband is a very successful man. He's doing
work he likes for people he likes...and he's got the kinds
of home he needs.

JENNIE

Like all mothers, you just want your son to do what you
want him to do.

MARJORIE

That's not true. I want him to do what he'll be happy at.
I don't want him to be forced to live by someone else's
false ideas of success.

JENNIE

You don't like me; and you never did...and I always knew it.
But I feel better now that war's declared.

-21-

(REVISED)

## MARJORIE

So do I, Jennie... So do I.

(MUSIC: BRIDGE...THEN UNDER....)

## NARRATOR

But there was no war between Jennie and Mrs. Taylor because
two days later...two days later, Joe's mother suffered a
heart attack and died... and then Jennie had it all her own
way.

(PAUSE)

And two years later, when Joe finished medical school, we
were all invited to their wedding...

(SOUND: CHURCH BELLS...GENTLY TOLLING IN B.G....)

## JOE (SPEAKS)

With this ring...I thee wed...

## CHORUS

Two more lovers
Were married today,
Wish them well!
Wish them well!
Wish them well!

Brave and happy,
They start on their way,
Wish them well!
Wish them well!
Wish them well!

-22-

## CHORUS (CONT'D)

They have fatith in the future

And joy in their hearts,

If you look in their eyes

You can tell...

How brave and happy

And hopeful are they.

Wish them well, wish them well,

Wish them well, wish them well, wish them well....

SOUND: AS THE MUSIC SWELLS DURING THE LAST PART OF THE CHORUS...

BRING IN CHURCH BELLS RINGING OUT LOUDLY....

MUSIC AND SOUND BLEND FOR FINISH OF THE ACT....

END OF ACT ONE

THEATRE GUILD ON THE AIR
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1951

-22B-

U.S. STEEL'S MESSAGE (1)
AS BROADCAST

HICKS

Good evening, I am speaking to you tonight from the huge Masonic Auditorium here in Detroit, Michigan, where nearly 5 thousand persons are assembled to witness this 250th broadcast by the Theatre Guild on the Air. Five thousand others attended a special preview performance of "Allegro" here this afternoon. (PAUSE) And right now, I'd like to introduce Louis C. Miriani President of the Common Council and Acting Mayor of Detroit.

MAYOR MIRIANI

Thank you, George Hicks. I understand that this year United States Steel Corporation is celebrating its 50th birthday. Of course everyone knows that U. S. Steel has a great record of industrial progress ... of supplying so much of the nation's steel in peace and in war throughout the past half century. Naturally, I am glad to say "Happy Birthday" to U.S. Steel on behalf of Detroit. But somehow we can't help but feel that your 50 year old company is just a youngster because here in Detroit we are celebrating our 250th birthday. In fact, this special Detroit broadcast of yours is the "grand finale" to a year-long observance of our birthday festival.

HICKS

Well, Mr. Miriani, I think Detroit deserved this year-long festival. Certainly, the world recognizes Detroit as the global center of automobile manufacture.

(MORE)

-22C- U. S. STEEL'S MESSAGE (1) (CONT'D)

HICKS (CONT'D)

It's also in the front rank as a maker of adding machines, office equipment, rubber products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, paints, machinery and machine tools. (PAUSE) It was in this city that the motor companies first taught mankind the marvels of mass production. It was this community and its automotive products which made necessary the building of the vast network of roads which bind our nation together. It is particularly appropriate that in the audience tonight are some 90 of the top industrial leaders of Europe. They arrived in the city today as part of the International Productivity and Management Mission, under the sponsorship of the ECA. For the next few days, these gentlemen, representing leading industries in a dozen countries, will visit Detroit's great manufacturing establishments.

MAYOR MIRIANI

We could go on for a long time about Detroit, George. For example, I'd like to tell our audience about our city's fine colleges and schools, its famous Belle Isle and 250 other city parks, its 1,916 churches representing all denominations, its fine museums, its beautiful neighboring communities. But I know this radio time is precious. So, let me close by saying that Detroit is very grateful to U. S. Steel for this opportunity to tell millions of others about Detroit ... and we are very proud to have you of U. S. Steel and of The Theatre Guild on the Air here in Detroit tonight.

HICKS

-24D-

HICKS

Thank you, Mayor Miriani. We are glad to be a part of this birthday festival of yours. And now to you, and to all of Detroit -- a Happy 250th Birthday from the Industrial Family that Serves the Nation -- UNITED STATES STEEL.

(SHOW MUSIC)

REID

And now the curtain rises on the Second Act of "ALLEGRO" starring Jane Powell as Emily, John Lund as Joe Taylor, Jenny Delmar as the story teller, and featuring Roberta Jonay as Jenny Brinker and Douglas Watson as Charlie Townsend.

-22E-

(SAT. REVISED)

(3 BEATS)

BROKENSHIRE

You are listening to The Theatre Guild on the Air presented
by United States Steel Corporation.

NARRATOR

Yes, we were all there in the church to wish Joe and Jennie
well...that was in 1928... The second year of Joe's practice,
was the first year of the depression...

MUSIC: OUT

(SHOW MUSIC)

HAZEL (OFF)

Hey, Jennie, what are you doing?

REID

And now the curtain rises on the Second Act of "ALLEGRO"
starring Jane Powell as Emily, John Lund as Joe Taylor,
Kenny Delmar as the story teller, and featuring Roberta Jonay
as Jenny Brinker and Douglas Watson as Charlie Townsend.

You got a chinchilla coat in these times.

HAZEL (COMING ON)

Not me...In the magazine. In Vogue. Look!

JENNIE

Let's see...Man. To think some girls actually get coats
like this.

-23-

## ACT TWO

MUSIC: PICK UP THE "WISH THEM WELL" MUSIC FROM END OF ACT ONE ... WITH CHORUS...IN B.G...AND FADING OUT...AS NARRATION STARTS.

### NARRATOR

MUSIC: OUT

### HAZEL (OFF)

### JENNIE

Hi, Hazel, I'm hanging out my wash. What's the matter?

### HAZEL

I wanted you to look at the new chinchilla coat.

### JENNIE

### HAZEL (COMING ON)

### JENNIE

Let's see...Mmm. To think some girls actually get coats like this.

-2-

HAZEL

And they're the kind who don't do any housework.

JENNY

Look On the opposite page...an Article.

HAZEL

Let's see... Jenny... "Money Isn't Everything."...

JENNY

I don't want everything. I'll just take money.

MUSIC: INTRODUCTION FOR MONEY ISN'T EVERYTHING...START BACK AT
APPROPRIATE PLACE...)

HAZEL

Let's see what it says.

(BINGS)

Money isn't everything,

What can money buy?

CHORUS OF GIRLS

An automobile so you won't get wet,

Champagne so you won't get dry.

JENNIE

Money isn't everything

What have rich folks got?

CHORUS OF GIRLS

A Florida home so you won't get cold,

A yacht so you won't get hot.

HAZEL

An orchid or two

So you won't fell blue,

If you have to go out at night...

-25-

JENNIE

And maybe a jar
of Caviar

So your appetite won't be light.

HAZEL

Oil tycoon and cattle king,
Radio troubadour...

Belittle the fun that their fortunes bring,
And tell you that they are sure...

Money isn't everything.

CHORUS OF GIRLS

Money isn't everything,
Money isn't everything.

Unless you're very poor.

MUSIC: FINISH SONG --- THEN UNDER ...

NARRATOR

In the Spring of that year, Joe went up to his Class
Reunion ... and there he met again his old room-mate,
Charlie Townsend, and Charlie's uncle, Doctor Bigby Denby.

(SOUND: CHATTER OF REUNION VOICES IN E.G...)

CHARLIE

Joe, guess who Uncle Denby here's got for a nurse?

JOE

I don't know who?

-26-

CHARLIE

Emily. Remember Emily in College. The night you were mad
at Jennie and --

DENBY

---Now, Charlie, you'll have the rest of the week-end to
reminisce with Joe here. I've got something important I
want to talk over with him. First, can I order you another
drink, Joe?

JOE

Thank you I---

CHARLIE (SLIGHTLY DRUNK)

Watch out, Joe, he wants to oil you up before he lures you
to the big city to be a hand-holding doctor for all our
uppercrust hypochondriacs.

DENBY

...What Charlie never seems to get through his head is that
the uppercrust get sick too. And if you're going to be a
doctor to them you've got to play their game.

-28-

JENNY

Well, I supposed you're worried about whether you could
handle a big city practice.

JOE

I could handle it all right. Why do you suppose they
want me?

JENNY

Well, I ... Goodness, I think you're the best doctor in the
world. It only looked to me as if you might be afraid to
handle ...

JOE

Afraid? Of course I'm not afraid. It's only that ... my
father ... needs me here.

JENNIE

You know when you told me this, the first thing I thought
of was we'd soon be so rich you could give your father
enough money he needs to complete the
hospital.

JOE (THINKING ABOUT IT)

You think so.

JENNY

Why of course.

JOE

That's an idea.

MUSIC: BRIDGE...THEN UNDER...

-29-

NARRATOR

Joe went to Chicago. He went, much to his own surprise and
to the surprise of Emily, who was now the nurse at
Dr. Denby's fancy clinic.

MUSIC: CONTINUE UNDER

EMILY

What are you doing here, Joe? In a set-up like this?

JOE

What do you mean, Emily?

EMILY

I seem to remember on that one date we had in College, you
were full of high ideals, integrity.

JOE

Sure. I still am.

EMILY

You won't be after six months of this place.

-30-

JOE

I'm only going to stay in it long enough to make a little
money, and then...

EMILY

...Famous last words! You'll get to like it, and then
soon you'll be an expert at yatata yatata.

JOE

What's that?

EMILY

Every afternoon at five, no matter what, you have to show
up at some fancy cocktail party where the conversation all
sounds like yatata yatata.

JOE

Noe me. Not this baby. You wait and see.

EMILY

I'll wait.

-31-

MUSIC AND CHORUS...START "YATATA YATATA" IN BACKGROUND AND
BRING CLOSER AS WE GO ALONG...)

NARRATOR

Within two years Joe found himself less and less a doctor and
more and more a politician, a promoter, a rumba dancer, a
cocktail party reconteur. Then one evening, Emily came to his
apartment during one of these parties.

(MUSIC: OUT)

EMILY

I'm sorry to take you away from your party, Doctor, But-

JOE

---It's all right, Emily. I brought along a drink for you.
Here.

EMILY

Thanks. I don't feel like one just now.

JOE

Well, all right...What have you got there?

EMILY

X-Ray films. Gilbert Martin's.

JOE

But I've already looked at them, Emily. I told you to phone
him and tell him there was nothing to worry about.

EMILY

Perhaps you'd like to take another look at them, Doctor.

-32-

JOE

What do you mean? Think the aging doctor's eyes are going back on him. Let's see.

EMILY

You were in such a hurry to leave this afternoon. Don't blame you, of course, when you're giving a party for Brook Lansdale and all those important people, but ... see what I mean about the X-ray?

JENNY (OFF)

Joe...Joe? (COMING ON) Oh, Joe, here you are. Hello, Emily?

EMILY

Hello, Mrs. Taylor.

JENNY

Joe, you must come up. Mrs. Lansdale is about to leave and she wants to talk to you. Mrs. Brook Lansdale.

JOE

I know. Twenty million dollars and she can't sleep.

JENNY

She wants to talk to you, Joe, about donating three hundred thousand dollars towards our new private pavilion. I guess that's about as important to you as anything else can be right now, isn't it, Joe?

JOE

I'll go right up to her.

EMILY

Doctor, shall I phone Mr. Martin and tell him he is just fine and dandy?

-33-

JOE

Er...No. Wait until the morning. I'd like to look at it in the office. I don't trust this light.

JENNY

Joe, Please. Mrs. Lansdale!

JOE (GOING OFF)

All right, all right. I'm going.

JENNY

The trouble with Joe is he's inclined to give too much time to the little things and not enough to the things that count.

EMILY

Oh, I think he's learning, Mrs. Taylor. He's learning fast.

JENNY (FADING)

Well, if you'll excuse me, Emily....I'm sure you can find your way out. Good night...

EMILY

Good night...

MUSIC: START INTRO FOR "GENTLEMEN IS A DOPE..."

EMILY

The boss gets on my nerves
I've got a good mind to quit.
I've taken all I can.
It's time to get up and git,
And move to another job,
Or maybe another town.
The gentleman burns me up.
The gentleman gets me down.

-35-

EMILY (CONT'D)

The gentleman doesn't know

How happy he could be...

Look at me crying my eyes out,

As if he belonged to me...

He'll never belong to me.

MUSIC: UP FOR FINISH...THEN SHORT BRIDGE...

JOE

You send for me, Doctor Denby?

DENBY

Oh, yes, Joe. Come in and sit down...

JOE

Thank you.

DENBY

I wanted to tell you that you've won the regard of Brook
Lansdale for your work in the clinic...and the approval of
our...biggest trustee is even more important than my approval.
Eh?

JOE

Well, Doctor Denby, that's--

SOUND: TELEPHONE RINGS...

DENBY

Excuse me. Hello...Mr. Tubb?...Chairman of what committee?...
Yes, I know it's the worst slum in the city. Quite right,
Mr. Tubb...A cesspool. A disease hatchery. I agree...No,
I will not go to the Mayor...No, Mr. Tubb, our policy at the
hospital is to keep out of politics...(SUDDENLY INFURIATED)
And I say to you...What?...You...you...

(SOUND: RECEIVER BANGED DOWN)

-36-

DENBY (CONT'D)

Do you know what that man called me? An old vitamin pot...

Do you know what else he called me---

SOUND: DOOR OPENS

Charlie, come in here. There was a fellow just on the phone,
and do you know what he called me?

CHARLIE

A mechanical bottom jabber.

DENBY

Was that you on the phone, Charlie?

CHARLIE

Yes.

DENBY

Well if that's all---

CHARLIE

---Uncle...Uncle!

DENBY

What?

CHARLIE

I just heard you fired Carrie Middleton on the Fifth Floor.

DENBY

Yes. She was stirring up trouble among the nurses.

CHARLIE

I seem to remember an old photograph at home. You and
Carrie Middleton at the Chicago World's Fair when she was a
student nurse.

-37-

DENBY

Yes -- well I...

CHARLIE

Don't you think that's pretty rugged for a woman whose
been here twenty-five years. To fire her for that!

DENBY

My boy, there's such a thing as discipline... loyalty.
We must do many things we don't want to do. Duty...
We must be good soldiers.

SOUND: DOOR OPENS...

EMILY

Doctor Denby, Mr. Lansdale is waiting.

-38-39-

DENBY

Well, all right, Brook... Yes, coming Brook.

(SOUND: DOOR)

CHARLIE (ON)

Look, you two, you don't need to give me that fishy
stare. He's only my uncle by marriage.

JOE

Charlie, I'm sich of Lansdale, coming in here and
ordering us around like office boys.

CHARLIE (IMITATING HIS UNCLE)

Tut tut tut, my boy, Duty... Duty...

EMILY

You must be good soldiers.

JOE

I'm sick of it.

-41-

of counterpoint...

The need of it?

EMILY

CHARLIE

We cannot prove the need of it.
We know no other way
Of living out a day,
Our music must be gallopping and gay!

We muffle all the undertones,
The minor blood and thundor tones,
The overtones are all we care to play.

Hysterically frantic
We are stubbornly romantic
And doggedly determined to be gay!

Brisk, lively,
Merry and bright!

Allegro!
Same tempo

Morning and night!

Allegro!

Don't stop whatever you do,
Do something dizzy and new,
Keep up the hullabaloo!

JOE

ALL THREE

EMILY

-43-

Sue's in love with May's husband,
What are they to do?

Tom's in love with Tim's wife,
She's in love with Sam.

Sam's in love with Tom's wife,
So they're in a jam.

CHARLIE

They are smart little sheep
Who have lost their way...

ALL THREE

Blah...Blah...Blah...

CHARLIE, JOE, EMILY AND CHORUS

Brisk, lively,
Merry and bright,
Allegro!

Same tempo

Morning and night

Allegro!

Don't stop, whatever you do

Do something dizzy and new

Keep up the hullabaloo

Allegro! Allegro!

Allegro! Allegro!

Allegro! Allegro!

END OF ACT TWO

-43A-

BROKENSHIRE

You are listening to "ALLEGRO", produced by The Theatre Guild on the Air, and presented by the United States Steel Corporation.

And here, again, speaking for United States Steel is
George Hicks.

Mr. Mirland mentioned, too, that this is also U. S. Steel's 50th birthday year. Well, back in 1901, when the Corporation was first established, an important event was also taking place here in Detroit. In that year, for the first time in the world, mass production methods were used in manufacturing an automobile. The car weighed only 750 pounds and sold for $650.00. The total production that first year was 7 thousand cars.

You all know how swiftly that infant industry has grown. It was only 15 years later - in 1916 - that automobile production for 1 year alone exceeded 1 million cars. Throughout the past half century of tremendous growth, the steel industry and the automobile industry have marched forward together hand in hand - and each has had a profound influence on the other.

(MORE)

U. S. STEEL'S MESSAGE (2)
AS BROADCAST

HICKS

Tonight's Theatre Guild on the Air presentation is coming to you from the stage of the huge Masonic Auditorium here in Detroit. It is U.S. Steel's tribute to the great city which is observing its 250th birthday ..., and as Detroit's Acting Mayor Miriani said earlier on tonight's program, this Detroit broadcast is serving as the grand finale of a full-year 250th birthday observance. It's a milestone for U.S. Steel, too. By a happy coincidence, this radio presentation of "Allegro" is the 250th broadcast in the Theatre Guild on the Air series - brought to the radio listeners of America over a 7-year period by United States Steel.

Mr. Miriani mentioned, too, that this is also U. S. Steel's 50th birthday year. Well, back in 1901, when the Corporation was first established, an important event was also taking place here in Detroit. In that year, for the first time in the world, mass production methods were used in manufacturing an automobile. The car weighed only 750 pounds and sold for $650.00. The total production that first year was 7 thousand cars.

You all know how swiftly that infant industry has grown. It was only 15 years later - in 1916 - that automobile production for 1 year alone exceeded 1 million cars. Throughout the past half century of tremendous growth, the steel industry and the automobile industry have marched forward together hand in hand -- and each has had a profound influence on the other.

(MORE)

U. S. STEEL'S MESSAGE (2) (CONT'D)

HICKS (CONT'D)

Today, the automobile industry is the greatest single
consumer of steel - using approximately 20 per cent of total
domestic finished steel production. Many of the greatest
strides that have been made in the development of today's
more powerful, safer and more beautiful automobiles have
come about through the development of better and stronger
steels, innovations in steelmaking processes, production of
special alloy steels and many other triumphs of the steel
industry. Incidentally, today's cars average about 2550
pounds of steel and contain as many as 70 different
varieties of steel, each made to fit a particular need.
(PAUSE)

Naturally, U.S.Steel has a good sized portion of its family
serving the busy Detroit area. Offices are maintained here
by 11 members of that family -- U. S. Steel Company, American
Steel & Wire, Cyclone Fence, National Tube, American Bridge,
Michigan Limestone and Chemical, the Bradley Transportation
and Isthmian Steamship Company. Others such as Oil Well
Supply and United States Steel Supply also serve the Detroit
market, as well as U. S. Steel Export Company, with offices
across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Yes, we feel that we are an integral part of Detroit --
and that is why we are particularly glad to bring tonight's
salute to Detroit from the Industrial Family that Serves the
Nation -- UNITED STATES STEEL.

(3 BEATS)

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BROKENSHIRE

You are listening to The Theatre Guild on the Air
presented by the United States Steel Corporation.

(THEME)

BROKENSHIRE

We pause now for station identification.

(TEN SECOND PAUSE)

(SHOW MUSIC)

REID

And now the curtain rises on the Third Act of "ALLEGRO"
starring John Lund, Jane Powell, Kenny Delmar and featuring
Douglas Watson and Roberta Jonay.

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ACT THREE

MUSIC: OPENING MUSIC... THEN OUT...
(SOUND: DOOR OPENS...)

EMILY

Morning, Doctor Taylor.

JOE

'Morning, Emily. Anybody waiting?

EMILY

The Zoo is packed ... You look kind of low today, boss.
Getting sour on rich city people?

JOE

No, why should I? But this fancy crowd of hypochondriacs that
we get ... Who's out there now?

EMILY

Well, Mrs. Lansdale's just arrived and --

(SOUND: DOOR OPENS)

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MRS. LANSDALE (COMING ON)

I knew you must be in by now.

JOE

Mrs. Lansdale, I --

MRS. LANSDALE

Nurse, why didn't you tell me he was in here?

EMILY

He asked me to --

MRS. LANSDALE

- What I've got to say won't take long. Dr. Taylor the other
night I was just dozing off about two in the morning when the
phone rang. It was my husband to say that he'd be home late.
It then occurred to me that most nights I lie awake wondering
when and if he is coming home.

JOE

He works too hard .... He ...

MRS. LANSDALE

So I put a detective on him... It seems that my husband has
got himself a girl... Here's a carbon copy of the report.

JOE

Mrs. Lansdale, this is a private matter that --

MRS. LANSDALE

--Oh, I don't care if the nurse hears. The papers'll have it
tomorrow when I fly to Reno.

JOE

Well, is there anything you want me to do? Want anything to
quiet your nerves...

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MRS. LANSDALE

No. I want to enjoy this... You might read that detective's report when you get time. It'll give you quite a kick. (FADING) Good afternoon.

(SOUND: DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES...OFF)

JOE

Emily, isn't there anyone in that waiting room with a broken arm or a gallstone? Is there anybody out there worth a doctor's time and knowledge? Can't you scare us up a ruptured appendix or a pair of infected tonsils? What kind of practice is this anyhow...I've got to spend my time reading reports of private detectives who spy on wives and husbands...And, Emily, do you know who Mr. Lansdale's girl is?

EMILY (AFTER A PAUSE)

Yes, I do.

JOE

Does everybody know....except me?

EMILY

They seem to.

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JOE

Do you know what is very sad about this? The heartbreaking part of it is that I don't care....I must have stopped loving Jennie some time ago, and I don't know it...not until this minute!...Somewhere in this rat race, somewhere along the line we lost each other...Now she's Lansdale's girl, and it means no more to me than just another cheap little setup, like so many that pass through this office everyday...They have no faint resemblance to love. There's nothing real about any of it...nothing real about the whole place.... What am I doing here? What am I doing here?

(MUSIC: DURING LAST OF ABOVE BRING IN INTRODUCTION FOR "COME HOME" AS HE ALMOST SHOUTS "WHAT AM I DOING HERE?".... MARJORIE STARTS TO SING....)

MARJORIE (FILTER)

Come home, come home,
Where the brown birds fly
Through a pale, blue sky,
To a tall green tree,
There is no finer sight for a man to see....
Come home, Joe, come home!

(MORE)

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## MARJORIE (CONT'D)

Come home and lie

By a laughing spring,

Where the breezes sing

And caress your ear.

There is no sweeter sound for a man to hear,

Come home, Joe, come home.

Come home, son, come home.

(SHE FADES OFF ON THE LAST FEW BARS OF THIS...AND ON THE
LAST NOTE SHE IS BARELY AUDIBLE...)

## EMILY (COMING IN OVER LAST SUNG
NOTE)

Feeling better, doctor?

## JOE

What?...Oh, Emily..yes, I...I was just remembering something.

I....

## DENBY (OFF...COMING ON)

Oh, Joe...Joe! Mr. Landsdale here has something to say to
you. Charlie, come in and listen to this.

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EMILY (DRYLY)

Well, gee willikers!

LANSDALE

I hope you're not so tongue-tied, Joe, when you get in front
of the trustees. Come on, Joe, we're late...

JOE (GOING OFF)

Yes, of course.

DENBY (GOING TOO)

I know one little lady who'll be proud of her husband
today!

(SOUND: DOOR CLOSES OFF)

CHARLIE

What're you thinking about, Nursie?

EMILY

Just thinking how hard it is for man like Joe to...get off a
merry-go-round after it gest going fast.

CHARLIE

I can understand a girl getting stuck on a fellow like
Joe. Wouldn't blame her.

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EMILY

You wouldn't! Thanks, pal.

(PAUSE)

CHARLIE

Want to take the day off and go to a burlesque show?

EMILY

I don't know. I think the dedication ceremony will be funnier.

(MUSIC: BRIDGE)

(SOUND: SMATTERING OF APPLAUSE)

LANSDALE

And now, gentlemen, it is my pleasure and honor to present the man to whom we are dedicating this bronze tablet in the new private pavilion...Bigby Denby, M.D....Physician, scientist, humanitarian...and better than all these...an executive!

(SOUND: APPLAUSE)

LANSDALE

To use his own phrase, he has been a "good soldier". Bigby Denby has for years...(FADE) given up all ideas of personal comfort

CHORUS

(CROSS FADE ...BEGINNING WITH "YEARS")

Broccoli Hogwash Balderdash, Phoney, Baloney, Tripe and Trash.

No one knows where his youth has gone, No one knows where his heart has gone,

But the talk talk talk goes on and on and on and on and on
Yatata yatata yatata yatata yatata yatata, yatata, yatata...

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(CONTINUE SOFTLY AS DENBY STARTS HIS SPEECH)

DENBY

Mr. Chairman, trustees, friends... The cup of my happiness
runneth over. My heart is so full, words fail me. (FADE)
And yet I feel I must in some small way, thank the people--

CHORUS

(CROSS FADE... CUE IS "ME")
The prattle and the tattle,
The gab and the gush,
The chatter and the patter
And the twaddle and the tush
Go on and on and on and on and on!

DENBY (FADING BACK ON)

My co-worker, my young but very talented friend, Joseph
Taylor, Junior... The youngest man ever to receive this
appointment.

(SOUND: APPLAUSE... FADE IT QUICKLY AND HOLD IT LIGHT UNDER
CHORUS)

(SOUND: APPLAUSE STOPS...)

JOE

Ladies and gentlemen, this comes to me as a complete ...
surprise. I look upon this appointment as a challenge. One
must approach with deep humility the task of succeeding so
illustrious a predecessor as Doctor Bigby Denby.

(SOUND: APPLAUSE)

He has been an ornament to medicine,
An ornament to his city
An ornament...(PAUSE)

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JOE (CONT'D) (A DIFFERENT NOTE IN HIS VOICE)

It takes a special talent to be an ornament.

I am not blessed with this talent!

ALL

What? What's that he's saying? Did you hear what he said?

Etc...

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CHORUS (START QUIETLY IN B.G.
DURING THIS)

One foot, other foot

One foot, other foot

(KEEP THIS UNDER JOE'S SPEECH)

JOE

I must therefore....I must therefore decline the appointment.

JENNY

You can't do that, Joe.

JOE (DOWN)

Please, Jenny. (UP) I have another offer in a small hospital,
where my father is physician in chief. I'll be his
assistant.

JENNY

You fool.

JOE

Please, Jenny.

JENNY

You talk like an idiot school-boy. The big city is a wicked
place and all the people in small towns are good and pure.

JOE (QUIETLY)

No, I don't say that. **You** came from a small town...Big
towns are filled with good people and bad people, good
doctors and bad doctors, ans so are small towns. I just
happened to strike the wrong crowd. So all I can do is go
back amoung people I know I can help...abd start all over
again. I'm going home!

(SAT. REVISED)

-55-

DENBY

Joe, you can't do this. What'll I tell the papers.

JOE

Why don't you tell them just what I said?

LANSDALE

Tell the papers he's just a small town doctor.

JOE

Okay, tell them that!!!

CHORUS

Now you can do whatever you want.

Whatever you want to do..

EMILY

Doctor Taylor, wait a minute...Can you use a nurse back there?

JOE

Come on, Emily.

CHORUS

Here you are in a wonderful world

Especially made for you.

CHARLIE

Hey, what about me?

JOE (OFF)

Come on, Charlie.

ALL (WITH INCREASING VOLUME AND SPIRIT)

One foot, other foot

One foot, other foot,

Now you can do whatever you want,

(CONTINUED)

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(SAT. REVISED)

BROKENSHIRE

The curtain has fallen on The Theatre Guild on the Air
production of "ALLEGRO" sponsored by the United States Steel
Corporation. We express our thanks to our stars, Jane Powell
as Emily, John Lund as Joe Taylor and Kenny Delmar as Bigby
Denby and to Roberta Jonay who was featured as Jenny Brinker
and to Douglas Watson who was featured as Charlie Townsend.
Our thanks also to the other members of the cast whom you heard
in these roles.

As Marjorie Taylor, Shannon Bolin

As Dr. Taylor, Bob Shackleton

As Hazel, Pat England

As Brook Lansdale, Elliott Reid

As Mrs. Lansdale, Florida Friebus

And as the singing voice of Joe, John Baker of the Metropolitan
Opera Company.

And now here again is Elliott Reid with a word about next week's
play.

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'REID

Next week, ladies and gentlemen, The Theatre Guild On The Air
will bring you Rosalind Russell and Walter Abel in
"Good Housekeeping" a modern comedy of a wife who believed
that keeping house included keeping the reins on her husband's
ambitions and an eye on her daughter's romances. We hope
you'll be with us. Thank you.

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BROKENSHIRE

Remember, next week, on the U.S. Steel Hour "Good Housekeeping" starring Rosalind Russell and Walter Abel.

And remember, too, that the trademark of United States Steel -- U.S.S. -- on any steel product is your guide to quality steel.

(THEME)

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BROKENSHIRE

The Theatre Guild on the Air is under the supervision of
Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn, with Armina Marshall,
executive producer. S. Mark Smith is editor. Music was
conducted by Harold Levey.

John Lund may currently be seen starring in the Paramount
Picture "Darling, How Could You".

Your announcer -- Norman Brokenshire.

The United States Steel Corporation hopes that you will be
with us next Sunday at the same time.