The World We Make

From Great Plays, tonight starring Jessica Tandy with less Tremaine in The World We Make by Sidney Kingsley. Tonight's play is based on a novel by Millen Brand and adapted for Radio by Elizabeth Hart. Now here's your host, the distinguished actor-manager, Mr. Walter Hamden.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another transcribed half hour of great scenes from great plays, presented on behalf of the families of the the Protestant Episcopal Church of your own community and the Episcopal Actors Guild.

Our play tonight is the story of a woman who made a new world for herself after her old one had gone down in ruins. Now the world we make. That morning I woke happy.

For a few seconds I didn't know where I was or who I was. that the sun was slanting across my bed, and that I felt light and strong and free. I sat up eagerly and looked toward the window, and then I remembered.

This was Greendale Sanitarium, and I was Virginia McKay. Virginia McKay, who everybody politely pretended was a living woman, although they knew well that she had died a year ago. In the afternoon Miss Regis took me to Dr. Shiller's office.

She kept smiling at me and giving me little pats, although I were a good child about to be rewarded with ice cream. I was very glad when she left me alone with Dr. Shiller. Sit down, Virginia. How nice you look.

Thank you, Dr. Are my parents here yet? They will be very soon. I don't think they'll come. Yes, they will, Virginia. They never had any time for me before. When my brother and I were little, we never saw them.