Canary Yellow

Cathy and Elliot Lewis on stage. 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 play.

Ladies and gentlemen, Elliot Lewis. Good evening. May I present my wife, Cathy. Good evening. In the six months that Elliot and I have been doing on stage, we've been very lucky in the kind of stories that have been made available to us.

Somebody said once that an artist is as good as his tools. A painter needs paint and palette, a musician needs instruments. A piano player without a piano is not easy to identify. And two actors without a script, especially on radio, are not likely to be very entertaining.

Since this program started, we've been delighted to play the stories of the E. Jack Newman, Shirley Gordon, Richard Chandley, Antony Ellis, Walter Newman, Shelby Gordon, and many others. And we've been even more pleased that you've liked these fine craftsmen and have remarked the same to us in your letters.

Shirley and E. Jack especially. Tonight we add a new author. The young man's name is Thonas Calhoun. His home is in Galveston, Texas, and this is his first radio script. And it's called Canary Yellow.

Now I'm gonna give you some razor blade. As you are in your own beat-up- I'm Harold Drake, ladies and gentlemen.

Don't believe everything my good friend Foster says about me. Not everything that is. He much maligns me. In my case, an actor was made, not born. An actor was made through a process of self-preservation and in spite of a bilious yellow canary costume with a bill yet.