The First Year

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight Lady Esther brings you two of your favorite entertainers. They beloved Aussie and Harriet. Otherwise Aussie and Elson and Harriet Hilliard. In a delightful story of marital misadventure, the first year, based on the famous play by Frank Craven.

And here they are, the Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in the first year. Kind of like Princeville, a girl is apt to have problems at times. Take a pretty Grace Livingston, for example. young fellows proposed to her, first Dick Loring.

I've got a job with a railroad grace construction engineer, and that's just the beginning. Baby, I'm telling you I'm going right to the top. And then Tommy Talbot. You're so pretty, Grace. Sweet. And a good cook, too.

Honest, you're the only girl I ever loved. And Grace is a fairly ambitious girl. So of course she marries Tommy Talbot. But woman like, she makes one condition. Tommy, I want to get out of this deadly little town.

I want to travel, go someplace else to live. I want to live excitingly among exciting people. I mean a big town that's really alive, say a place like Joplin, Missouri. Would Grace, I've got my real estate business here, and it's growing too.

I couldn't just lock the place up and move to Joplin. Grace, you're asking something impossible. So, naturally, about a year later, we find a young couple living in Joplin, Missouri. And living is just about all they're doing.

You understand, Mr. Talbot? I don't like to press you. No, no, I must say you've been very reasonable. Look, how long we've been in that apartment. 11 months. And how many months do we owe?