A Poetic Tragedy

Kathy and Elliot Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis, Elliot Lewis, two of the most distinguished names in radio. Appearing each week in their own theater, starring in a repertory of transcribed stories of their own and your choosing.

Radio's foremost players in radio's foremost plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elliot Lewis. May I present my wife, Kathy? Good evening. I should like to tell you about the play that Kathy and I have selected for this evening.

It's a play of New York, of the theatre, and of an actress and a producer. The actress is young, very new to the theatre, and as a matter of fact, very new to New York.

The producer is, well, a very unusual sort of producer. Elliot, you forgot to say she was from Pittsburgh. Who? The actress, the part I play. I mean, I think it's important, don't you? The actress is young, very new to the theatre from Pittsburgh, and as a matter of fact, very new to- Have you mentioned about the producer?

Your part? How he makes his money? No, Kathy, I have not. Don't you think it's important? Well, it comes out later in the story. Well, it wouldn't do any harm to mention it now, would it, there?

Kathy, would you like to take over the introduction? No, dear. I think you're doing it beautifully. The actress is young, very new to the theatre from Pittsburgh and as a matter of time. It was fall, it was winter, it was spring, it was New York, it was Broadway and Phyllis Randall was an actress.

On a successful actress, on a recognized actress, but an actress nevertheless. Sustained by hope and conviction, conviction and hope. Sustained by the knowledge that some day, somehow... I'm sorry we're not casting today, try later.