What Every Woman Knows

Great scenes from great plays with your host Walter Hamden and starring tonight Miss Gertrude Lawrence and Mr. Dennis King in What Every Woman Know, which week at this same hour, the families of the Protestant Episcopal Church in your own community and the Episcopal Actors Guild invite you to share the dramatic inspiration of great scenes from great play as transcribed

by famous artists of stage, screen and radio. And now here is your host, the distinguished actor, manager, Mr. Walter Hamman. Thank you and good evening. Our play tonight is an old favorite. One I'm sure you're going to enjoy.

It is James Embarrays delightful drama, What Every Woman Knows. And here to play the roles of Maggie Wiley and John Chan, I'm privileged to present two of the theatre's truly great stars. Ms. Gertrude Lawrence and Mr. Dennis King.

Thank you all, I'm very happy to be here as a guest of the Episcopal Actors Guild and of course working with Gertrude Lawrence is always a pleasure. Thank you, Dennis. You know Mr. Hamden, I've looked forward to this visit for a long time and especially to playing Maggie Wiley, she's one of my favorite characters.

Yes, Ms. Lawrence, she's an unusual person in many respects as we will find out very shortly. So let us raise the curtain now on what every woman knows, adapted for radio by Howard Taichman, with music composed and conducted by Nathan Crowell, and starring Gertrude Lawrence as Maggie Wiley and Dennis King as John Shand.

To the north of England is a strange and wonderful country called by name, Scotland. Its scenery is as rugged and grand as the character of its men, and its skies are a soft and delicate as the charm of its winner. In the well-appointed home of the owners of the Rock Granite Quarry in a small Scottish village, two of these rugged men are spending evening discussing a rather