Take a Letter Darling

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Tonight, the Screen Director's Playhouse is pleased to present a most distinctive blend of love and laughter. Here transcribed as our adaptation of the motion picture comedy, take a letter, darling. Starring Fred Macburry and Rosalind Russell, and their original roles of Tom Bernie and the Greggers.

Here now is the first act of our radio version of take a letter, darling. Courage. Pure, raw, courage has bolstered many a man in the hour of crisis.

Picture the explorer penetrating the heart of a savage jungle. The condemned man, lightly facing his firing squad. Courage, you say? But can it compare to the daring of the man, who, friendless and alone, stands sturdily in a strange office, stared at by Secretarian's denographer, as he points half-heartedly at a letter of introduction?

Is this the Atwater McGregor advertising agency? Yeah! I've got a letter of introduction to A.M. McGregor. Yeah? Yes, it's about a job. You? Yes, me. The new one? Yeah. Yeah, the old one just left.

Fine. Kind of tough on the old one. Oh, it'll be tougher on the new one. The old one, the new one. What is this? Right through that door. Just take a chair. You find a...

Thanks. Hey Maggie. Hey Maggie, are you gonna shake that butter please? Oh no, just a minute. That letter is for A.M. McGregor. I.M.A.M. McGregor. You? A woman? Look, nylon's. Ain't it the truth? Well, are you through examining my credentials?