Lovers Villains and Fools

This is Helen Hayes and this is a simple story about actors. I guess I know pretty much about actors because I've been one for 50 years. The CBS Radio Workshop dedicated to man's imagination, the theater of the mind. Tonight the Helen Hayes drama group and Helen Hayes present lovers, villains and fools.

Helen Hayes has been known for years as one of the leading actresses of the American stage and lately as a New York theater. And now on tape, Miss Hayes. Thank you. I still haven't become accustomed to being a theater, but after all these years inside of theaters, I'm quite at home when talking about actors and acting. As I said

a moment ago, this is a story about actors. Throughout history, strange opinions have been held about actors by people outside the profession, people sometimes known to theater-focused civilians. Actors have been accused of being childlike, vain, feather-brained, irresponsible, and well sometimes not even quite respectable.

But whatever else they are, actors, are artists. They work hard to lend their trade. It isn't easy to be called on to be a lover for one instant and a villain the next. And then turn from being a villain into a fool, and so an act reaches for Shakespeare, whose plays provide him with all the examples of character he will ever need, no matter what

ever or wherever he plays. Tonight, Jack Manning, my young actor friend, has brought our group to the studio with a the Shakespearean repertoire of lovers, villains, and fools, and it might be wise to begin foolishly with a fool. The actor will be Dick Via reading a speech of lance, a foolish fellow and two