1948-xx-xx (020) The Better Man

Box 13 with the star of Paramount Pictures, Ellen Land, as Dan Holiday. Box 13, care of star times. Your advertisement in the paper has intrigued me. Naturally, I wonder whether you are serious or insane.

Either way, I think I should like to meet you and perhaps offer a proposition which may intrigue you. Incidentally, there is a hundred thousand dollars concerned. Sir, must that get your interest? If it does, I shall expect you at dinner tomorrow night.

I shall expect you at dinner tomorrow night at eight. It will be informal, so don't bother to dress. Yours for adventure, Charles Winthrop. There's a hundred thousand dollars interest me, ask. Brother, that much money would put new life in a mummy.

And now back to Box 13 and Dan Holiday's newest adventure, The Better Man. Well, it's Shud, Susie. Mr. Winthrop is one of the richest men in the country. Oh, sure. I remember now. He's a regular crisis.

Oh, what? Don't you know Mr. Holiday? Crisis was a rich king. Oh, don't you know, Susie. Creases. Not crisis was a rich king. Oh, someday I'll pronounce something right. You do, and you lose your job.

Okay, Susie, it's dinner tonight with Charles Winthrop. Okay, Susie, it's dinner tonight with Charles Winthrop to see what's on that mind of his. Cigar, Mr. Holiday? No thanks. More coffee, perhaps. I don't think so, thanks.

Curious Holiday? Very. All right, my boy. We'll take care of that shortly. Excuse me. I want to tell my butler he needs to stay around. William, William, come here a moment, will you? Whatever, Mr. Charles Winthrop had on his mind.

It was hugely funny to him. to it. All through dinner he had stopped eating, slapped his thigh and laughed. And I wasn't saying anything funny. I watched him as he told the butler what he wanted. I got a kick out of him. A short thin little man with a crisp gray hair that kept voting over his