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Heaven Can Wait

Screen Guild Theater · May 7, 1945 · 29 min · 4,725 words

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Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight. Heaven Can Wait. The Starring Players, this is Walter Pigeon. This is Susan Hayward. And this is John Carradine. Tonight, Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in 20th Century Fox's gay comedy of Matrimony, in the Now and the Hereafter.

Heaven Can Wait. It stars Susan Hayward as Martha. Walter Pigeonas Henry, John Carradine as his satanic majesty, King Lucifer, and Arthur Q. Bryan as the Assistant Devil. The Lady Esther, scream guild players, and Heaven can wait.

Please, sub-basement level, auditorium of black mass, executive officers of the powers of darkness, main entrance to the bottomless pits of hell, pretty sent tours full in fernow, Private apartments in the Prince of Darkness, the arch fiend, the father of all evil, his satanic Majesty King Lucifer.

Oh, please, watch your step. Our housing problem is simply terrific. Really, I sometimes think the whole world is going to, er, coming to hell. Do sit-arms to er... Uh, Van Cleve. Henry Van Cleve, your Majesty.

Have you a reservation? No, you see, I didn't know I was coming until Tuesday. I, er, passed on at 9.36 in the evening. Mm-hmm. You should have called it once. The numbers right in the directory. Mephistopoly. Zero. Double zero. Zero.

Well, I wanted to stay around a day or so. See what my relatives would say about, you know. They said only the kindest and most generous things. That's how I knew I was dead. Well, frankly, Mr. M. Trev, I shouldn't even consider your application for the Miffins.

Oh, your majesty. However, I'd like your appearance. You haven't the heir of the casual, one of the mill sort of cinema. Thank you very much. So if you can meet our requirements, we'll be only too glad to accommodate you.

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