The String Bow Tie

Transcribe. Kathy and Elliot Lewis on stage. Kathy Lewis, Elliot Lewis. Two of the most distinguished names in radio. Opening tonight in their own theater. Starring in a repertory of stories of their own and you're choosing.

Radio's foremost players in radio's foremost plays. Drama, comedy, adventure, mystery, melodrama. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Elliot Lewis. Good evening, may I present my wife, Kathy. Good evening. Tonight is our opening night and tonight is the first day of the New Year, so we're going to do a comedy for you to start our new series.

Something like a spray of confetti to go with a season. A story about a young man and his wife in 1953. Nice people, not rich, not poor, happy with each other, you know, nice. So tonight we present String Bow Tie by Morten Fine and David Friedken.

My name in the play is Gerson Hapsmith. And I'm Laurie Hapsmith. And we're married and we live in New York. The opening scene has to do with Laurie. She's got a seat on the Seventh Avenue subway.

It's New Year's Eve afternoon and she's on our way home from work. At the moment, she's upset because the seated man next door is working the crossword puzzle and doesn't know the three-letter word for the web-footed diving bird of the Arctic Sea.

Laurie knows. Auk. Hmm? Sixteen down. It's Auk. A-U-K. Now extinct. It's very cold in the Arctic. Here's the paper, you work it out. Yes, thank you. Bye! That's Laurie, easy to get along with, even on a subway where people are pretty tough to get along with.

To make a point out of it, Laurie, in a way she knows, makes herself smaller so that very large woman will have ample room on the seat. You crowded, dear? No, not at all. You have a pencil?