The Night Before Christmas

Ladies and gentlemen, here is the director of Radio City Playhouse, Harry W. Duncan. Thank you, Fred. Good afternoon, everybody. It seems to us that there are few things more appropriate as a Christmas gift to Radio City Playhouse listeners than a story by the Inimitable Paul Gallico.

Since 1936, when he first entered the short story field, he has been published regularly by such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Cosmopolitan and Esquire, and today we welcome him to Radio City Playhouse.

Here then, with our very best wishes is our Christmas day broadcast. Lyle Sudro as Terry Brown, Bernard Grant as Al Vogel in, plus the night before Christmas, by Paul Gallico, attraction 66 on Radio City Playhouse.

It is four o'clock in the afternoon of Saturday, December the 24th, in the city room of the Daily Blade. Once everybody has gone home, a couple of office boys are yawning on the call bench.

Free rewrite men are pecking away at their typewriters and watching the clock. At the head of the room, tech sports the city editor is talking earnestly into the telephone with a hundred look on his face.

Near the door, Perry Brown, the Daily Blade's best reporter, is chatting with Al Vogel, his photographer. They're both about to leave for Rusty's party when Perry's telephone rings. Hello, Perry Brown. Oh, hello, Rusty. Yes, we're just leaving.

I'm all cleaned up. The tree... The tree comes? Good. No, now if all of the sitting on my desk will leave together. Oh, honey, I'm gonna trim that tree with diamonds, rubies and sapphires. running to dole vogue says that'll run into dough huh darling if you play holy night I'll cry yes I will I get very sentimental about Christmas