C A S T

<table>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>MACAULEY (MIKE) CONNOR</td>
      <td>JAMES STEWART</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>TRACY LORD</td>
      <td>JOAN TETZEL</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>C. K. DEXTER HAVEN</td>
      <td>JOHN CONTE</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>DINAH LORD</td>
      <td>Rosemary Rice</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>MARGARET LORD</td>
      <td>Vera Allen</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>SANDY LORD</td>
      <td>Oliver Thorndike</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>SETH LORD</td>
      <td>Howard St. John</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>ELIZABETH IMBRIE (LIZ)</td>
      <td>Audrey Christie</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>GEORGE KITTREDGE</td>
      <td>Don Briggs</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>

-A-

(OPENING)

BROKENSHIRE

United States Steel -- U.S.S. -- the industrial family that
serves the nation...presents the Theatre Guild on the Air.

(FANFARE)

Our stars -- James Stewart, John Conte, and Joan Tetzel.

Our play -- "THE PHILADELPHIA STORY" by Philip Barry adapted
for radio by Arthur Arent -- and produced on the air tonight
by the Theatre Guild -- one of America's foremost theatrical
producers.

(THEME: FADE FOR:)

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(MUSIC: UP AND OUT)

BROKENSHIRE (COLD)

And now from Pittsburgh, direct from the stage of the Syria
Mosque, before an audience of over 4000, the United States
Steel Corporation brings you James Stewart, Joan Tetzel, and
John Conte in "THE PHILADELPHIA STORY". And here is Roger Pryor
speaking for the Theatre Guild.

(APPLAUSE)

-B-

PRYOR

On behalf of The Theatre Guild on the Air we are very
happy to broadcast tonight from Pittsburgh. Our play,
"THE PHILADELPHIA STORY", brings to his home town our star
James Stewart who recreates the role of Mike, for which he was
given an Academy Award. Starred as Dexter is John Conti,
currently appearing in the Theatre Guild hit "Allegro", and,
as Tracy we star Joan Tetzell who also is appearing on Broadway
in the play"Strange Bedfellows." Featured as Liz is the popular
comedienne Audrey Christie, and as Mrs. Lord, Vera Allen.

-1-

NARRATOR

Ever read any of those "home decorating" magazines? If you
have, the chances are you've seen photographs of the
fabulous country estate of the immensely wealthy, socially
prominent Lord family just outside Philadelphia... Today
there is an air of expectancy about the place. You see, it's
the day before a wedding... Seated in the sitting room are
Mrs. Margaret Lord, her daughter Dinah, aged fourteen, and
her elder daughter, Tracy, the bride-to-be. Tracy is
unwrapping a package containing a wedding gift....

(PACKAGE BEING OPENED)

TRACY

...from Cousin Horace Macomber - one pair of poultry shears--

DINAH

They look crummy. What did he send you the other time, Tracy?

TRACY

No one sent anything the other time.

DINAH

Why?

TRACY

Well, when you run off to Maryland on a sudden impulse - as
Dexter and I did - What made you bring that up?

DINAH

Oh, nothing... Dexter's just back from South America. I
saw his car in front of his house this morning.

MARGARET

Why didn't you tell us, dear?

-2-

TRACY

Never mind, Mother, I'm not worried. The only trouble Mr.
C.K. Dexter Haven ever gave me was when he married me. You
might say the same for one Seth Lord if you'd just face it
squarely as I did, Mother, and divorce him.

MOTHER

That will do, Tracy! I will allow none of you to criticize
your father...I - I hope you'll be happy with George, dear.

TRACY

Oh, I will, Mother. Isn't George an angel?

MARGARET

George is an angel.

DINAH

Personally I like Dexter.

TRACY

You don't say! Well, guess I'll go upstairs and wash my
face. (FADING) Don't forget, Mother, George is coming to
lunch.

(DOOR CLOSES)

DINAH

She's awfully mean about him, isn't she?

-3-

MARGARET

Dexter? He was rather mean to her, my dear. What's that you're reading?

DINAH

Proof sheets. It's an article that's going to appear in a magazine called "Destiny".

MARGARET

Oh.

DINAH

It's all about Father - but you come into it.

MARGARET

About - your *father*! Where did you get it? Does your brother know about this?

DINAH

Sure. Sandy was pretty upset. I - I think that's what he went to New York about this morning.

MARGARET

Oh....What does it say?

DINAH

It says all about Father backing three Broadway shows for that
dancer - Tina Mara - and why he's living in New York, instead
of with us any more, and --

MARGARET

Great heaven! What on earth can we do it stop it?

DINAH

Couldn't Father sue them for liable?

MARGARET

But it's true - it's all - Dinah you're too young to understand
- that is, I mean -- (STOPS)

DINAH

Mother, why won't Tracy ask her own father to her wedding?

-4-

MARGARET

Because, dear, your sister has very definite opinions about
certain things.

DINAH

Oh.

MARGARET

She sets exceptionally high standards for herself. She lives
up to them, too - although other people aren't always quite able
to.

DINAH

Such as Father - and Dexter?

MARGARET

Don't you think you'd better get cleaned up for lunch, dear?
George will be here any minute and--

DINAH

Mother, do you like George?

MARGARET

I think he's very nice, dear. Of course, Dexter was nice, too.
In some ways it's a great pity that Dexter--

DINAH

I'll say it is. You know what I think, Mother. I think George
is a stuffed shirt.

MARGARET

Dinah! Go upstairs this minute.

DINAH

You go ahead, Mother. There's something I just thought of -
that I'd like to do - and then I'll be right up.

MARGARET (FADING)

All right, dear. But hurry.

(DOOR CLOSES)

-6-

MARGARET

In a few minutes, dear. We're waiting for George.... Son, what
about this absurd article about your father in Destiny? Did
you--

SANDY

I saw the publisher in New York this morning. I - I think I
fixed things.

TRACY

How?

SANDY

Never mind. By the way, I brought two guests along for the
wedding - Macauley Connor and Elizabeth Imbrie.

MARGARET

You mean you asked people to stay in this house, to come to
your sister's wedding, without even asking us?

SANDY

Now, Mother --

TRACY

Elizabeth Imbrie! I know that name. She's a <u>photographer</u> -
and a famous one! What are they doing here, Sandy?

SANDY

Just now I suppose they're brushing up and going to the
bathroom. They're very interesting people, Tracy. He's written
a couple of books and--

-7-

TRACY

I know -- now, I know! They're from Destiny Magazine! Destiny
sent them! Well, they can go right back again!

SANDY

No, they can't. Not till they get their story.

MARGARET

Story? What story?

SANDY

The Philadelphia Story.

MARGARET

And what on earth is that?

TRACY

I know, Mother!... So, it was a horse trade, eh, Sandy? We're
to let them publish the inside story of my wedding - with
pictures and so forth - in order to keep father's wretched
little affair out of their magazine! Is that it?

SANDY

I had to do it, Trace. It was one - or the other.

MARGARET

I don't know what the world is coming to! It's an absolute
invasion. Two strange people -- Sandy, do they know that we
know what they're here for?

-8-

SANDY

No. That was the deal. They're supposed to be just friends of mine.

MARGARET

I see. Well, you might as well ask them to luncheon, dear. We'll have to meet them sooner or later.

TRACY

I'll ask them, Mother...Where are they, Sandy?

SANDY

In the sitting room, by now.

TRACY

I'll give them a story! I'll give them one they can't get through the mails! (FADING) I'll teach them to come snooping into other people's houses --

(MUSIC: BRIDGE)

LIZ (FADING ON)

In here, Mike. I guess this is it.

MIKE (FADING ON)

Yup. He said the sitting room, Liz. I suppose that is contrasted to the living room, the ballroom -- the drawing room -- the morning room -- the -- what's the dope on this fine aboriginal family? What'd the office give us?

-9-

LIZ

Three measly cards, darling. By the way is it all right to
call you darling here?

MIKE

Not in Philadelphia. They mightn't understand. Let's have
the dope.

LIZ

Here you are.

MIKE

Thanks. Hmmm. Let's see now. Fiance, George Kittredge,
aged 32. Since last year, general manager Tri-State Oil
Company. Ex-wildcatter, Organizational genius --

LIZ

And up from the bottom. Started with a dollar twenty-five
and a busted shoestring!

MIKE

He sounds okay. Tracy Lord's first husband, C.K. -- can you
imagine what a guy named C.K. Dexter Haven must be like?

LIZ

I know a plain Joe Smith once. He was only a clerk in a
hardware store, but he was an absolute louse.

MIKE

It says here that C.K. Dexter and so forth plays polo. Also
designs and races sail boats. Nice occupation!

LIZ

Well, don't let it upset you. C. K. is out, and Kittredge,
man of the people, is in.

MIKE

Quite a guy, Kittredge. I wonder how he happened to fall for
Miss Tracy Lord?

-10-

LIZ

I imagine she's a young lady who knows what she wants when she
wants it.

MIKE

Yup. The young, rapacious American female -- there's no other
country where she exists.

LIZ

And would I change places with her, for all her wealth and
beauty? Boy, just ask me! ... What are you doing?

MIKE

I am going to lie down on this sofa. I am very tired. I am
also hungry. Kindly tell four footman to call me in time for
lunch.

(DOOR OPENS)

TRACY (FADING ON)

Hello, there. You're - er - oh, yes - Mr. Connor and Miss
Imbrie. How do you do. I'm Tracy Lord.

LIZ

Hello, Miss Lord?

MIKE

Hello.

TRACY

My brother Sandy says you're staying for my wedding tomorrow!
My, what a cunning little camera, Miss Imbrie!

LIZ

Oh, I carry it with me all the time.

TRACY

To snap things? How interesting. Are you going to snap
pictures of us?

-12-

LIZ

Duluth.

TRACY

Duluth! It's west of here, isn't it? Mr. Connor, are you and
Miss Imbrie living together?

MIKE

Why, no, certainly not!

LIZ

That's an odd question, I must say!

TRACY

I beg your pardon. I guess I was snooping. So sorry.

(DOOR OPENS)

GEORGE (OFF)

May I come in?

TRACY

Hello, George. Come in.

GEORGE (FADING ON)

Hope I didn't keep you waiting for lunch?

TRACY

Not at all, dear...Miss Imbrie, Mr. Connor -- my fiancée, Mr. Kittredge.

LIZ

How do you do.

(KNOCK ON DOOR)

-13-

TRACY

Holy smoke! What is this? A railroad terminal? Come in!
(DOOR OPENS)

DEXTER

Hello, friends and enemies! I came the short way, across the
fields!

TRACY (COLDLY)

Dexter! This *is* a surprise!

DEXTER

Is it?

TRACY

Miss Imbrie, Mr. Connor, this is my former husband, whose
name for the moment escapes me.

LIZ

How do you do.

MIKE

Hello.

DEXTER

Hello. Tracy, awfull sweet and thoughtful of you to ask me to
lunch. And Dinah was real cute over the telephone.

TRACY

Oh. Was she?...You know my fiance, I believe.

DEXTER

Sure, we've met. In Texas, wasn't it? How are you, Kittredge?

GEORGE

I'm all right, thank you, Haven.

DEXTER

Are you? You don't look so well. So tomorrow's the day, huh?

-14-

TRACY

It is.

DEXTER

Tracy, you don't look old enough to marry any one, even for the
first time - does she, Connor?

MIKE

Well, now, I really couldn't say.

DEXTER

George, what she needs is trouble to mature her. See that she
gets lots of it.

GEORGE

I'm afraid she can't count on me for that, Haven.

DEXTER

No? Too bad... Tracy, sometimes for your own sake I think you
should have stuck to me longer.

TRACY

I thought it was for life, once - but the nice judge gave me a
full pardon.

DEXTER

That's the kind of talk I like to hear. No bitterness, no
recriminations - just a good, quick left to the jaw!

-15-

(DOOR OPENS)

DINAH
Hello, everybody.

DEXTER
Dinah, my angel! Come over here and give me a kiss.

DINAH
Why, Mr. Haven! What a surprise!

TRACY
Dinah, I want to talk to you!

DINAH
I can't Tracy. I was told to come in here and make an announcement.

TRACY
What announcement?

DINAH
About luncheon. Luncheon is served.

(MUSIC: BRIDGE)

MIKE (YAWNS)
Liz, I'm sleepy.

LIZ
You ate too much for lunch -- I mean, luncheon.

-16-

MIKE

Let's go for a walk. See what this baronial castle looks like
from the outside.

LIZ

You mean you'd like to see "*the grounds*"?

MIKE

Yup. Especially the moat and drawbridge. You know, Liz, I
was thinking...(STOPS)

LIZ

What, Mike?

MIKE

Liz, answer me honestly: What right has a girl like Tracy Lord to exist?

LIZ

Politically, socially or economically?

MIKE

She's a new one on me all right. Maybe Philadelphia produces
a different brand of monkey.

LIZ

You're a funny guy, Mike.

MIKE

Why?

-17-

LIZ

Use the name Wanamaker in a sentence.

MIKE

I bite.

LIZ

I met a girl this morning. I hate her, but I -- (STOPS)

MIKE

You're wrong. You couldn't be wronger. Women like that bore
the pants off me. They --

(DOOR OPENS)

TRACY (FADING ON)

Oh, there you are!

LIZ

Hello, Miss Lord.

MIKE

We were just going for a walk.

TRACY

Would you mind staying a moment, Mr. Connor? I'd like to talk
to you.

MIKE

Not at all. Wait downstairs on the porch for me, Liz, will
you?

LIZ

All right. (FADING) Remember what I told you -- about
Wanamaker.

(DOOR CLOSES... A PAUSE)

MIKE

Well, what's on your mind, Miss Lord?

-18 & 19-

TRACY

Mr. Connor, I've been reading one of those books of yours. The
short stories -- why, they're beautiful!

MIKE

You like? Thanks.

TRACY

Why, they're almost poetry.

MIKE

Don't fool yourself. They are!

TRACY

That one called "With the Rich and Mighty" -- that's a fine
tale, Connor.

MIKE

I got that title from a Spanish proverb: "With the rich and
mighty always a little patience."

TRACY

Tell me something, will you? When you can write a thing like
that, how can you possibly do anything else?

-20 & 21-

MIKE

You'll never believe it, Miss Lord, but there are people in
this world who have to earn their living.

TRACY

Of course! I understand that, but -- people buy books, don't they?

MIKE

Miss Lord, the book you're talking about represents two solid
years work. It netted me something under six hundred dollars.

TRACY

But that shouldn't be!

MIKE

Maybe, but it is.

(DOOR OPENS)

DEXTER (FADING ON)

Hello, you two. Remember me?

TRACY

Oh, hello, Dexter. Shall I ring for the Scotch?

DEXTER

No, thanks. Not just now. Tell me, Mr. Connor: Do you drink?

MIKE

A little. Why?

DEXTER

Not to excess?

-22-

MIKE

Not often.

DEXTER

And a writer! It's extraordinary! I thought all writers drank to excess.

TRACY

Dexter, would you mind doing something for me?

DEXTER

Anything. Anything at all.

TRACY

Go home.

DEXTER

Oh, no, I couldn't do that. That wouldn't be fair to you. You need me too much.

TRACY

Would you mind telling me just what it is you're hanging around for?

MIKE

Excuse me. I think I'd better --

TRACY

No, please don't go, Mr. Connor. I'd honestly much prefer if you wouldn't.

MIKE

But I'm in the way here. I --

-23-

DEXTER

Oh, no. Do stay, Mr. Connor. As a writer, this ought to be
right up your street.

TRACY

That's right. Don't miss a word...Well, Mr. Haven? Begin!

DEXTER

All right. Tracey, you never looked better in your life --

TRACY

Oh, we're going to talk about me, are we? Goody.

DEXTER

It's astonishing what money can do for people, don't you
agree, Mr. Connor? Not too much, you know -- just more than
enough. Look at Tracy here. Look at her, Mr. Connor.

MIKE

I'm looking, thanks.

DEXTER

There's never been a blow that hasn't been softened for her.
There'll never be a jam that she won't be gotten out of - by
some one else, of course.

TRACY

If you don't mind, Mr. Haven, I'm not interested in myself at
the moment--

-24-

DEXTER

Not interested in yourself! My dear, you're fascinated!
You're far and away your favorite person in the world. Mr.
Connor, she is kindness itself. And generous to a fault --
that is, except to other people's faults. For instance, she
never had the slightest sympathy toward, nor understanding of,
what used to be known as my deep and gorgeous thirst.

TRACY

That was your problem!

MIKE

Listen - don't you think -- I mean --!

DEXTER

You took on that problem with me, when you married me --

TRACY

It was disgusting.

DEXTER

A weakness - sure. And strength is her religion, Mr. Connor.
She is without patience for human imperfection. And when I
gradually discovered that my relation to her was expected to
be not that of a loving husband and a good companion, but --
Oh, never mind!

TRACY

Go on, say it!

DEXTER

-- but that of a kind of high priest to a virgin goddess --

-25-

MIKE

Now, look, both of you -- I can't just stand here while --

DEXTER

And the night *you* got drunk on champagne, and climbed out on
the roof, with your arms out to the moon, wailing like a
banshee --

MIKE (FADING)

Well -- so long!
(DOOR CLOSES)

TRACY

I told you I never had the slightest recollection of doing any
such thing!

DEXTER

I know. You drew a blank. You wanted to! Mr. Connor, what
would you say -- Holy smoke. He's gone.

TRACY

Yes. I don't wonder you didn't notice though. You always
did get lost in your own eloquence. And in your contempt of
me.

DEXTER

Not of you, Trace. Never of you. You could be the darnedest
finest woman on this earth --

-26-

TRACY

Could I? Really?

DEXTER

But you won't -- not until you've learned to have some regard
for human frailty. It's a pity your own foot can't slip
sometime, Tracy. It's a pity.

(MUSIC: BRIDGE)

MARGARET

Tracy! Why, what's the matter, dear? Have you been crying?

Was it Dexter --

TRACY (FADING ON)

Never mind me. What is it, Mother?

MARGARET

Now, dear, I just want to tell you -- your father's here.

He just arrived.

-27-

TRACY

What for? What did he come here for?

MARGARET

Please, dear! Sssh! Here he comes.

SETH (FADING ON)

Margaret, I don't like it. I don't like it one bit.

MARGARET

What don't you like, Seth?

SETH

I don't like the spectacle my family is making of itself for the benefit of that young man and woman from that magazine! And I think the least we can do is inform them that we are all quite aware of their purpose here.

TRACY

All right, Father. I'll tell them.

SETH

I think it will come better from me, Tracy -- as head of the family --

TRACY (HARSHLY)

Of course -- in as much as you let us in for it in the first place.

SETH

Do keep that note out of your voice, Tracy. It's most unattractive.

TRACY

Oh? How does Miss Mara talk? Or does she purr?

MARGARET

Tracy!

-28-

SETH

It's all right, Margaret.

TRACY

Sweet and low, I suppose. Dulcet. Very lady-like...You've
got a fine right, you have -- after the way you've treated
Mother -- after the way you've treated us all -- a magnificent
right you've got to come back here in your best country manner
and strike attitudes and give orders and mess up things
generally, just as if you'd done --

MARGARET

Stop it instantly, Tracy.

TRACY

I can't help it. It's sickening. As if he'd done nothing
at all.

MARGARET

It's no concern of yours. If it concerns anyone -- well,
actually, I don't know whom it concerns except your father.

SETH

That's very wise of you, Margaret. What most wives won't
seem to realize is that their husbands have a reluctance to
grow old, I suppose the best mainstay a man can have as he
gets along in years is a daughter - the right kind of
daughter.

-29-

TRACY

That's interesting, to say the least.

SETH

A devoted young daughter who gives him the illusion that
youth is still his --

TRACY

How sweet!

SETH

-- for without her, he's inclined to go and search for it
again...but with a girl of his own, full of foolish,
unquestioning, uncritical affection --

TRACY

None of which I've got!

SETH

None. You have a good mind, Tracy, a pretty face -- in fact,
you have everything it takes to make a lovely woman except
one essential -- an understanding heart. Without it you
might just as well be made of bronze.

(SLIGHT PAUSE)

TRACY

That's an awful thing to say to anyone.

-30-

SETH

Indeed it is.

TRACY

So I'm to blame for Tina Mara, am I?

SETH

If any blame attaches, to some extent I expect you are.

TRACY

You coward.

SETH

No. But better to be one than a prig -- and a perennial
spinster, however many marriages!

MARGARET

Seth! That's too much.

SETH

I'm afraid it's not enough. I'm afraid that nothing is.

TRACY

Father, what -- what did you say I was?

SETH

Do you want me to repeat it?

MARGARET

Seth -- now I understand a great deal that I didn't.

SETH

It's all past now, Margaret. It has been for some time.
Forgive me. You won't have to again.

TRACY

Wait, father! Did you say "a prig and a--?" You mean -- you
mean I think I'm some kind of a virgin goddess or something?
Is that it?

-31-

SETH

If your ego wishes to call it that, yes.

TRACY (BURSTING OUT)

What's the matter with everyone all at once, anyhow?

MARGARET

Sssh, darling. Here comes Dinah. And she's got Mr. Connor
with her....Hello, Dinah, dear.

DINAH (FADING ON)

Hello. Hello, Father. How do I look, Mother?

MARGARET

I think that dress hikes up a little behind.

DINAH

No -- it's me that does....Father, this is Mr. Connor....

MIKE

How do you do, sir.

SETH

Good afternoon, young man.

DINAH

Mr. Connor says he's got something important he'd like to
tell you, Mother.

MARGARET

Really? Have you, Mr. Connor?

MIKE

Well, or -- it's rather hard to explain -- it's -- or --
about the reason we're here -- Miss Imbrie and me.

SETH

We know why you're here, Mr. Connor. We were just about to
inform you of that fact.

-32-

(SLIGHT PAUSE)

MIKE

I see. Well -- er -- that settles that, then.

(PAUSE)

TRACY

Well, where do we go from here?

DINAH

Isn't it time to go to the party?

SETH

What party is this, Margaret?

MARGARET

Your sister, Geneva, is giving a party for Tracy, dear.
You'll come of course.

SETH

It will be a pleasure. My arm, Margaret.

MARGARET

Thank you, Seth...Tracy, will you bring Mr. Connor and
Miss Imbrie in your car?

TRACY

Yes, Mother.

MARGARET

Dinah, you'll come along with Father and me, dear.

DINAH

All right...Mother, is everybody going to be there -- I mean,
us and Father and George and -- Dexter?

-34-

(AUTOMOBILE)

MIKE

If you don't like a party, get up and git, that's what I always say, take yourself a drive in the moonlight.

TRACY (SOMEWHAT HIGH)

A wonderful idea, Connor. I'm glad you thought of it.

MIKE

Question is, what'll George think? We've been gone nigh on to two hours.

TRACY

Have we? Stop the car, Mike.

MIKE

Huh?

TRACY

Stop the car.

MIKE

Does Madame mean turn it around and go back home - or just stop it?

TRACY

Just - stop it.

-36-

MIKE

Oh, I don't know. I would say that one of the prettiest sights
in this fine, pretty world is the rich enjoying its riches.

TRACY

Michael, you're a snob.

MIKE

How do you mean?

TRACY

I don't know. (PAUSE) Well, tell me something.

MIKE

All right.... Tracy, you can't marry that guy.

TRACY

George? I'm going to... Why not?

MIKE

I don't know. It seemed okay before, but somehow you
just don't seem to match up.

TRACY

Then the fault's with me.

MIKE

Maybe so. All the same, you can't do it.

TRACY

No? Come around about three P.M. tomorrow - I mean today--
(SLIGHT PAUSE)

-37-

MIKE

Tracy...

TRACY

Yes, Mr. Connor?

MIKE

How do you mean I'm a snob?

TRACY

You're the worst kind there is: an intellectual snob.

MIKE

Am I?... You know, you're quite a girl.

TRACY

You think?

MIKE

I know.

TRACY

Thank you, Professor. I don't think I'm exceptional.

MIKE

You are, though.

TRACY

I know any number like me. You ought to get around more.

MIKE

In the upper crust? No, thanks.

TRACY

You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you? You're so much thought and so little feeling, Professor.

MIKE

Oh, I am, am I?

-38-

TRACY

Yes, you am, are you? .... Your confounded intolerance furiates
me - I mean <u>infuriates</u> me. I should think, of all people,
a writer would need tolerance. The fact is, you'll never
- you can't be a first rate writer or a first rate human
being until you learn to - to have some regard for human
frailty. (STOPS) You know Professor.

MIKE

Lay off that "professor" --

-39-

TRACY

Yes, Professor.

MIKE

You've got all the arrogance of your class all right, haven't
you?

TRACY

Holy suds! What have classes to do with it? Mac, our night
watchman, is a prince among men, and Joey, the stable boy,
is a rat. My uncle Hugh is a saint and my uncle Willie is a
heel!

MIKE

So what?

TRACY

So there aren't any rules about human beings! You're teaching
me things, Professor. This is new to me. Thanks, I am
beholden to you.

MIKE

Not at all.

TRACY

"Upper" and "lower", my eye! You're insulting, Connor!

MIKE

If I am I'm sorry.

-40-

TRACY

Oh, don't apologize!

MIKE

Who the devil is apologizing?

TRACY

I never knew such a man.

MIKE

You wouldn't be likely to, dear -- not from where you sit.

TRACY

Talk about arrogance!

MIKE

Tracy...

TRACY

What do you want?

MIKE

Tracy, you're wonderful.

TRACY (HORSE LAUGH)

Ha! Don't make me --

MIKE

There's magnificence in you, Tracy, I'm telling you.

TRACY

I'm --!...Did you say I --?

MIKE

A magnificence that comes out of your eyes, that's in your
voice, in the way you walk. You're lit from within, Tracy,
bright, bright, bright!

-41-

TRACY

You - I don't seem to you - made of bronze, then?

MIKE

You're made of flesh and blood, Tracy - that's the surprise of
it. You're full of love and warmth and delight --

TRACY

Oh! (SLIGHT PAUSE) Don't stop, Mike. Keep talking - keep talking! *Talk*, will you!

MIKE

I think we'd better go home.

TRACY (HARSHLY)

Why? Has your mind taken hold again, dear professor?

MIKE

I wouldn't know.

(START MOTOR)

TRACY

Not scared or anything, are you?

MIKE

I wouldn't know what you're talking about. As a matter of fact, let's stop talking.

(CAR STARTS)

(MUSIC:

END OF ACT ONE

-41A-

BROKENSHIRE

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

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

THEATRE GUILD ON THE AIR
SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1948

HICKS

-41B-

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

Good evening. I'm speaking to you tonight from the stage of the great Syria Mosque auditorium here in Pittsburgh before an audience of more than four thousand.

And since I'm talking to you *from* Pittsburgh, it's only natural that I talk *about* this great Pennsylvania metropolis. Believe me there's plenty to talk about concerning the city that has become famous as the steel capital of the world. However, the biggest news in Pittsburgh right now is the magnificent program for the betterment of the entire Pittsburgh region through united community action.

This program built around a group called the Alleghany conference stresses human values as it moves steadily forward with *action*, as well as plans, to make Pittsburgh a cleaner, healthier, safer, more beautiful, and generally finer city in which to work and live. It's a carefully organized program that offers definite and practical answers to the challenge of such long standing Pittsburgh problems as smoke - floods - pollution of rivers - traffic congestion - inadequate housing and play areas. It's a program that's working right *now* and working well because Pittsburgh's business, civic and social leaders are really working together - and they have the enthusiastic support of every good citizen in the area.

(MORE)

-41C-

HICKS (CONT)

Naturally, the United States Steel Corporation with over one hundred thousand workers in this area is proud and happy to take part in this program and it is with this same basic spirit for moving ahead that U. S. Steel is spending millions of dollars for modernization and improvement of its facilities in the Pittsburgh district.

Ever since the Corporation began its operations right here in Pittsburgh, in 1901, it's been the policy of U. S. Steel to work as closely as possible with community improvement programs. And the same policy applies to every one of the communities all over the United States in which United States Steel subsidiaries are located. Indeed, this business of working closely with the communities it serves is one of the important activities of the industrial family that serves the nation - United States Steel.

-41D-

(THEME)

BROKENSHIRE

We pause now for station identification.

(TEN SECOND PAUSE)

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

PRYOR

And now the curtain rises on the second act of "THE
PHILADELPHIA STORY" starring James Stewart as Mike, Joan
Tetzel as Tracy, and John Conte as Dexter, and featuring
Audrey Christie as Liz and Vera Allen as Mrs. Lord.

ACT II

-42-

(CRICKETS)

NARRATOR

It is the porch of Tracy Lord's home, a short while later.

Tracy's brother, Sandy, is stretched out in a deck chair, a
bucket of champagne beside him...as Tracy enters....

TRACY (FADING ON)

Hi, Sandy.

SANDY

Hello, Trace. Welcome home. Where's Mr. Connor?

TRACY

Mr. Connor is putting the car away... (DEEP BREATH) Nice up
here on the porch. What time is it?

SANDY

Two A. M. In exactly thirteen hours you'll be a married woman

TRACY

Yes... I believe I'll have some champagne, please.

SANDY

I don't think so, Tracy. I think you've had enough tonight.

TRACY

Me? You lie.

(POURING) It never effects me in the slightest.

SANDY

Don't say that. It's unlucky. Besides, George will spank.

TRACY

George. What happened to him at Aunt Geneva's?

SANDY

He waited for you. Then he got tired of waiting and went home.

TRACY

Was he sore?

SANDY

He had a right to be sore. You and Connor disappeared for
two hours at least. Tracy - mind if I say something?

-42A-

TRACY

I don't mind.

SANDY

I don't think I'd spend any more time with Connor tonight if
I were you.

TRACY

Why not?

SANDY

Writers with wine sauce intoxicate little girls.

TRACY (LAUGHS UNCERTAINLY)

They sort of do, don't they?

SANDY

He's fallen for you, Trace. I could hear him bump.

TRACY

Really? Oh, I feel too delicious! Sandy, I feel just elegant.
Let's all go in for a swim.

(SCREEN DOOR OPENS)

MIKE (OFF)

Hello.

TRACY

Mr. Connor, I believe.

MIKE

Thought I'd get a little air. Thought I _needed_ it.

TRACY

I was just suggesting a swim -- you and me and Sandy. And
Liz. Sandy, get Liz.

SANDY

All right, I'll get her. (FADING) Don't either of you
budge until I get back.

(DOOR CLOSES... A PAUSE)

-44-

TRACY
Of course, Professor,

MIKE
Are you sure?

TRACY
Why, why, yes -- yes, of course, Profess --

MIKE
Come here.

TRACY (STOPS AS HE KISSES HER)
Oh! Oh, Mike! Golly Moses!

MIKE
Tracy, dear --

TRACY
Mr. Connor -- Mr. Connor --

MIKE
Let me tell you something --

TRACY
No, don't -- all of a sudden I've got the shakes.

MIKE
I have, too.

TRACY
What *is* it?

MIKE
It must be something like love.

TRACY
No, no! It mustn't be, it can't --

MIKE
Why? Would it be inconvenient?

TRACY
Terribly. Anyway, it isn't. I know it's not. Oh, Mike, we're out of our minds.

-45-

MIKE

No, we're not. Tracy, you're lovely. You --

SANDY (OFF...CALLING)

Tracy! You still there?

TRACY

Mike they're coming, Sandy and Liz!

MIKE

Who cares!

TRACY

It's -- it's not far to the pool -- only over the lawn --
just the two of us -- it'll be lovely now. Come on, Mike!
Come on! Bring the champagne.

(CRICKETS)

SANDY (FADING ON)

They -- Liz, they're gone! Holy Cow!

LIZ

Yes, indeed.

SANDY

Where do you suppose they went?

LIZ

I don't know -- and I'm afraid to guess. (YAWNS) Maybe I'd
better go up to bed.

SANDY

Wait a minute, Liz... Sit down,

LIZ

All right.

SANDY

Liz - you're in love with Connor, aren't you?

-46-

LIZ

People ask the oddest questions?

SANDY

Why don't you marry him?

LIZ

Well -- for one thing -- he's still got a lot to learn -- and
I don't want to get in his way yet a while. Okay?

SANDY

Okay. Risky though. Suppose another girl came along in the
meantime?

Liz

Oh, I'd just scratch her eyes out, I guess. That is, unless
she was going to marry someone else the next day.

SANDY

You're a good number, Liz.

LIZ

No. I just photograph well.

(WHISTLING IS HEARD OFF)

Who's that, do you suppose?

DEXTER (FADING ON)

Hello, friends and enemies.

SANDY

Hello, Dext. You're up early.

DEXTER

Haven't been to bed yet. Saw your porch light and -- Hi, Miss Imbrie.

-49-

DEXTER

I will. Good night.

(MUSIC: BRIDGE)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH...THEY STOP)

GEORGE (FADING ON)

Oh, it's you, Haven. I saw a light and --

DEXTER

Kittredge, more people see the light on this porch! They ought
to get it fixed.

GEORGE

May I enquire what you're doing here at this hour of the morning?

DEXTER

Oh, I just dropped in to see if the piano's been tuned. (SING)
'Oh, promise me that some day you and I --'

GEORGE

Don't be funny. I asked you a question.

DEXTER

I might ask you one, Kittredge: what do you think of this
fellow Connor - or do you?

GEORGE

Listen -- if you're trying to insinuate --

DEXTER

My dear fellow, I wouldn't dream of it! I was only --

-50-

(TRACY IS HEARD OFF SINGING, "ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT MERRILY
DOWN THE STREAM" AND IS JOINED IN THE ROUND BY MIKE)

GEORGE

Who's that?

DEXTER

How would I know?

GEORGE

But those voices -- they sounded just like --

DEXTER

Look, Kittredge: I advise you to go to bed.

GEORGE

Oh, you do, do you? Well, I'm staying right here!

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH ON GRAVEL AND VOICES ARE LOUDER)

DEXTER

All right, then -- take the works --

MIKE (FADING ON....STOPS SINGING
SUDDENLY)

Well, hello.

-51-

TRACEY

Hiya, Dext. Hiya, George!

GEORGE

Tracy! What do you mean by -- Connor, put her down! Put her
down this instant!

MIKE

Nothing doing. I like to carry her...You like me to carry you,
Tracy?

TRACY

Love it, Mike. Whee!

GEORGE

Connor, what the devil are you doing in that beachrobe?

DEXTER

Easy, Kittredge, old boy!

GEORGE

But -- but -- Connor, I _demand_ --!

TRACY

Out of the way, George. Wheee!

GEORGE (HORRIFIED)

Haven! -- just now, when she kicked at me -- did you see --?

DEXTER

She didn't kick at you, George. She's just feeling good.

-53--

MIKE

Say goodnight to the nice people, Tracy, dear.

TRACY

Goodnight, nice people! Goodnight! (FADING) Hello-oo, Mike!
(DOOR CLOSES)

GEORGE

Well! Well! I must say!

DEXTER

How are the mighty fallen! But if I know Tracy -- and I know her
very well -- she'll remember very little of this -- for the
second time in her life she's had too much champagne and she'll
draw a blank! What's the matter, Kittredge?

GEORGE

What do you think is the matter? You saw what I saw, didn't you?

DEXTER

You - you believe it then? The implications, I mean?

GEORGE

What else is there to believe!

DEXTER

I see. You won't be too hard on her, will you, old man?

GEORGE

I'll make up my own mind what I'll be!
(DOOR OPENS) Oh, you're back, are you, Connor?

MIKE (FADING ON)

Why shouldn't I be back? Carrying a woman to her room is all
in a day's work for me!

GEORGE

Why, you --! Get out of my way, Haven --

-55-

DEXTER

Gone.

MIKE

Oh.

DEXTER

He said we'll all hear from him tomorrow. He meant today, of
course.

MIKE

So he's a little mixed up, too. Maybe he's been drinkin'!!

DEXTER

...Come on, boy -- I'll help you to your room.

(MUSIC: BRIDGE)

TRACY (FADING ON)

Good morning, Dinah.

DINAH

Good afternoon, you mean.

-56-

TRACY

Is it? Golly, have I got a hangover! Where's Mother?

DINAH

She's talking with the orchestra, and Father with the minister,
and Miss Imbrie's taking pictures, ma -- Mr. Connor, he hasn't
come down yet.

TRACY

Oh!

DINAH

You know, Trace, I had the funniest dream about you last night.

TRACY

Yes, what was it?

(DOOR OPENS...VIOLINS ARE HEARD OFF TUNING UP.. DOOR CLOSES)

Hello, Mother.

MARGARET (FADING ON)

Well, thank goodness you're down at last! Turn around. Let me
see how you look....Yes, it's a lovely dress and you look
lovely in it, darling. Where's your father? You know, I feel
quite impersonal about this wedding. I can't quite grasp it.
Oh, dear, I've got to make sure about the flowers! (FADING)
Get dressed, Dinah.

(DOOR CLOSES...A PAUSE)

-57-

DINAH

About that dream I had, Tracy, it was certainly rooty-tooty,
all right.

TRACY

Was it?

DINAH

'Yes. I dreamt I got up in the middle of the night and looked
out the window... And guess what I thought I saw coming
out of the woods back of the house?

TRACY

I haven't the faintest idea. A skunk?

DINAH

Well, sort of. It was Mr. Connor.

TRACY

Mr. Connor?

DINAH

'Yes -- with his both arms full of something. And guess what it
turned out to be?

TRACY

What?

DINAH

You... Wasn't it funny? It was sort of like as if you were
coming from the pool --

TRACY

The pool? ...Dinah, I'm going crazy. I'm -- What happened,
then?

-58-

DINAH

Then he sailed right into your room with you and -- and that
scared me, so I just flew back to bed -- and pulled the
covers up over my head. Then in a little while I
went to your door and peeked in, to make sure you were all right
-- and guess what?

TRACY (AGONIZED)

What?

DINAH

He was gone.

TRACY

Gone? Of course, he was gone -- he was never there!

DINAH

I know, Tracy.

TRACY

Well! I should certainly hope you did!

DINAH

I'm certainly glad I do, because if I didn't, and if in a little
while I heard Dr. Parson saying, "If anyone knows any just cause
why these two should not be united in holy matrimony --" Well,
I just wouldn't know what to do. Of course, it was just only a
dream.

(DOOR OPENS) Good morning, Father.

SETH (FADING ON)

Good morning, Dinah. Good morning, Tracy.

-59-

TRACY

Father, I'm glad you came back. I'm glad you're here.

SETH

Thank you, child.

TRACY

And I'm truly sorry I'm a disappointment to you.

SETH

I never said that, daughter -- and I never will. Would you
like to take a stroll through the garden, Tracy?

TRACY

Oh, yes, father. Please. There's nothing I'd like better.

SETH

My arm, dear.

TRACY

Thank you, Father. And let me hang on to it, will you? I
think I'm going to need it today - desperately.

(MUSIC)

(END OF ACT TWO)

-59A-

BROKENSHIRE

THEATRE GUILD ON THE AIR

SUNDAY, APRIL 4, 1948

-59B-

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

HICKS

Since I'm speaking to you from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I think it might be a good idea if I straighten out a couple of very common misconceptions about this great American city.

In the first place, you'll be making a mistake if you think or talk of Pittsburgh as the "smoky city". Thanks to that civic improvement program I told you about earlier Pittsburgh is doing a great job of smoke control as part of a program for cleaning and beautifying the entire area.

You'll also be making a mistake if you think of Pittsburgh as just the steel capital of the world. Of course, it is that in terms of both men employed and tons of production, but it is also a vitally important center of activity for many other great American industries. And while it is one of the world's greatest production centers, it is also a great research center. Let me name for you just a few of the famous companies which center a large part of their research work as well as their production here in the Pittsburgh area. There's the Westinghouse Electric Corporation...the Gulf Oil Corporation... the Aluminum Company of America...Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, and H. J. Heinz, one of the world leaders in the food processing industry. And, of course, in the field of research there are the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research connected with the University of Pittsburgh and the world famous Carnegie Institute of Technology - better known as Carnegie Tech.

(MORE)

-59C-

HICKS (CONT)

Yes, these and scores of other businesses, industries, and
institutions contribute to the progress of Pittsburgh - and
they contribute to its progress as a community as well as an
industrial center.

Today, and in the days to come, these industries will keep
moving ahead steadily with faith in the future of Pittsburgh
and of America. United States Steel, the industrial family
that serves the nation, believes that Pittsburgh will always
be one of the foremost industrial and steel centers of the
world. And U. S. Steel is proud, indeed, of its long and happy
association with this vital and important community.

-50D-

(THEME)

BROKENSHIRE

PRYOR

And now the curtain rises on the third act of "THE PHILADELPHIA
STORY" starring James Stewart, John Canto and Jean Totzel.
and featuring Audrey Christie and Vera Allen.

# ACT III

-60-

(DOOR)

MIKE

There you are! Tracy, I've been looking all over for you..
Where've you been?

TRACY

Walking in the garden with Father, Mr. Connor. What's the
matter with your chin?

MIKE

Just a slight swelling. I guess I stuck it out too far last
night. Are you all right, Tracy?

TRACY

Me? Of course! Why shouldn't I be?

MIKE

That was a lot of champagne you put away last night.

TRACY

I never felt better in my life. And I had a simply wonderful
time. I hope you enjoyed it, too.

-61-

TRACY

Why --- why shouldn't I?

MIKE

All right, no dice. But understand -- also no regrets about
last night.

TRACY

Regrets? Why should I have?

MIKE

That's it! That's the stuff. You're wonderful. You're aces,
Tracy!

TRACY

Mike, you don't know what I mean! I'm asking you --- Is there
any reason why I should have -- no, please, don't! I'm afraid
to hear ---

(DOOR OPENS)

DEXTER (FADING ON)

Hi, Trace...Hello, Connor. How are you this afternoon?

MIKE

Me? Right now I think I could do with a drink! Know where I
can find one?

DEXTER

In the pantry. Just say Dexter sent you. And find Liz, she's
looking for you.

MIKE

Thanks. I'll find her. (FADING) But the drink comes first!

(DOOR CLOSES... A PAUSE)

-62-

DEXTER

What's the matter, Trace? You look like you'd just seen a ghost!

TRACY

A ghost? Oh, Dexter -- I'm afraid I -- I've done the most terrible thing to you!

DEXTER

To me, did you say? I doubt that.

TRACY

You don't know. You don't know!

DEXTER

Well, maybe I shouldn't.

TRACY

You've got to -- you must! I couldn't stand it, if you didn't!

DEXTER

But why me, darling? Where do I come into it any more? Aren't you confusing me with someone else -- a fellow named Kittredge or something?

TRACY

George!

DEXTER

That's right. Splendid chap -- very high morals. (PAUSE)

I was there last night, Tracy -- when you came back from your swim --

TRACY

You were?