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Pardon My Past
Screen Guild Theater · May 5, 1947 · 28 min · 4,840 words
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Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight, pardon my past. The starring players. This is Marguerite Chapman. This is John Hodyac. And this is Bill Demareste. Tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players and Columbia Pictures' amusing study of double identity, pardon my past.
It stars John Hodyac in the dual role of Eddie York and Francis Pemberton, and Marguerite Chapman and William Demareste in their original roles of Joan and Chuck. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in Pardon my Past.
Me, my name is Eddie York, and I saw plenty of action during the war. But the thing that happened right afterward, believe me that shouldn't happen to a dog face. We were walking along Fifth Avenue, Chuck Gibson and I, and we thought we had the world by the tail.
We had our discharge papers, some new civvies that almost fit us, two tickets to Beaver Falls, and enough cash in my wallet to start a mink farm. three thousand bucks. We'd save that out of our army pay and a couple of prep games on the boat coming back.
Yeah, I guess we were feeling pretty good until this mean-looking guy stepped up to us. Hello, Pemberton. What? You talking to me? You heard me, Pemberton. What, now, wait a minute, but you got the wrong guy.
Yeah, his name is Eddie York. You better blow, Mr. We don't like strangers. Pemberton, I got all of this to bring you in. Me? Bring me in where? Yeah, be that guy. You're out smackin' three ways from...
Uh-oh. A gun. A gun. Why didn't you say he was a cop? I got a car here. Get in. Now look here, officer. Move, I said. Okay, but you'll find out you've made a mistake.
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