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Remember the Day-Design for Scandal

Screen Guild Theater · November 15, 1943 · 29 min · 4,158 words

The transcript of “Remember the Day-Design for Scandal”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast November 15, 1943. 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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presents the Screen Guild Players. The Screen Guild Player tonight, remember the day.

The starring players... This is Olivia de Havilland. And this is Walter Pigeon. Lady S to presents the Screen Guild Players in a radio adaptation of the 20th Century Fox Screen success. Remember the day from the story by Philohiggly and Philip Dunning.

and starring Olivia de Havilland as Nora Trinnell and Walter Pigeon as Dan Hopkins. In the banquet room of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, political big wigs are waiting for Dewey Roberts to speak, accepting his nomination as party candidate for the presidency of the United States.

But while the politicians wait, Dewey Roberts sits in his hotel suite talking with an old friend. Nora Trinnell, who was his school teacher, back home in Indiana. Remember the day you kept me after school and made me write, I beg your pardon, five hundred times, Miss Trinnell?

Very well, Dua. That was the day I met Dan Hopkins, and we had our first argument. Oh, I remember, you wanted to take the class to see a matinee of Midsummer Night's Dream. And Dan had a schedule to play an important ball game.

27 years ago. Yet, when I close my eyes, I can still see Dan coming through that classroom door. I beg your pardon. Are you Mr. Nell? Yes. I'm Dan Hopkins, one of your colleagues. Oh yes. How do you do?

Well, Mr. Nell, it seems we got our signals a little mixed. Yes. Yes. You see, I've scheduled a very important baseball game for tomorrow afternoon. Well, I'm afraid you'll have to postpone the game, Mr. Hopkins.

But that's impossible. Now, why don't you postpone your matinee? Well, you see, I can't. It's the only matinee they're playing. Oh. Well, I'm afraid we're in the position of the irresistible force in the immovable object, aren't we?

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