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Bridge of Mercy

Screen Guild Theater · March 5, 1939 · 29 min · 3,350 words

The transcript of “Bridge of Mercy”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast March 5, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Everybody. Tonight, your neighborhood good golf dealer joins the golf oil companies in presenting this new series of programs. Reviews, musical comedies, and dramatic shows. All the varied entertainment forms of Hollywood. So welcome all of you to the Motion Picture Stars own program. Welcome to the Golf Screen Dills Show. With Paul Muni, Nozzamine Hutchinson,

Colonel Atwell, Louis Alberny, Harry Bradley, Wheaton Chambers, Russell Gleason, George Hackathorn, George Irving, John Millejohn, our musical director, Oscar Bradley, and Hollywood's favorite master ceremony, George Murphy. Ladies and gentlemen, that long list of names you've just heard represents one of the most unusual cast of film players ever to appear in a radio play.

It will be virtually impossible to see a picture coming out of Hollywood without at least one of these characters appearing in it. The reason behind this, blocking to the colors, is the subject matter of the play itself.

Radio, as far as we know, has never been the medium for a discussion, so controversial a subject. But before the curtain rises, John Conney. Ladies and gentlemen, have you ever driven over a back-country dirt road that had crosswise bumps or ridges on the hills?

Well, those bumps are called thank you, Ma'am's. Now, thank you, Mams, were built partly to hold the wagon wheels so that the horses could rest when they got tired. Well, when you're on a modern concrete road driving up a steep hill, and your motor begins to knock and ping, what your car need is not a rest but something to stop that motor knock.

And that's just what Gulf No-Knock's Ethel does. If you heard a knock in your motor halfway up along steep hill, and if you stopped and got a tank full of Gulf No-Knock's gasoline, That motor knock would disappear almost instantly.

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