The Adventures of Maisie: Designing a Bridge

You all remember met for Golden mares famous Maisie picture in just a moment You'll hear Maisie in radio knowing the same glamorous are you all went to see and lost on the screen and Southern but first you're an officer And Southern as Maisie Yep, I'm Maisie like the man said

Maisie was here from Brooklyn, USA. I Remember I used to live near the river and there was a view from our window On a clear day you could look out and see the laundry hanging out in the line.

The boarding house I'm living in now ain't no Shangri-La either. And it's pretty far from Brooklyn too. But my room is clean and the other board is in line. Especially at Ejordi. Eddie's got educated brains too.

He knows everything. History, geometry, mathematics, and your pardon expression, physics. Everything that guy knows, except how to make a living and how to keep a date. I haven't seen Eddie in a couple of weeks now. We had a fight to see and it was all my fault.

But he apologized so I forgave him. Now I'm sorry Eddie again. He's made dates with me night after night and he's always standing me up. And after last night I'm really burning up at him.

Oh pardon me. There's somebody pummeling on my door. Pummeling? That's the word Eddie taught me. Gosh, the thing that man knows. Come in. Hello, Maisie, honey. Oh. Hello, Edward. What's the matter, sugar? You're looking at me as if you never saw me before.

Oh, I've seen it before, but not lately. Where were you last night? I thought we had a date to watch television. Oh, I'm sorry, Maisie. Well, that's all right, Eddy. I watched the shows by myself.

But believe me, it wasn't very romantic standing in front of the window that radio store with other strangers look honey and in the rain too it was terrible i can explain why i didn't meet you baby i was in the library wrapped up in browns hydro dynamic well you're lucky i didn't even have a slicker that's a

book on engineering macy i've been studying it for three weeks now you see professor brown has a new theory on making suspense i don't forget that engineering stuff at the you need a dime at it and all you've got for four years of college is a hunk of paper that says to whom it may concern but may and

if you ask me to whom it may concern don't seem to be very concerned oh I'm not so sure about that gi i ain't saying that being an engineer a nice but Eddie you got a job could be how much well the salary I'd say about 75 75 dollars a We were missioners.

Oh, kiss me, John D. Hey, Mady, do you, you look. Oh, she'll come pardon me. Sit down, Mady. We'll be so soon. Oh, baby. Eddie. I can come back later, Mady. I sort of feel a little bit in the way.

Oh, no, Mady. And I want you to be the first to hear the good news. Eddie's got a job. No. Well, congratulations. Yeah. Well, I'm afraid congratulations are a little premature. Premature? Premature? Premature. Wait a minute, I have to...

Oh, you don't have to look up in the dictionary, Nancy. That means I don't have the job. But yet. You don't? But I thought you... No, it's this way, honey. There is a draftsman's job open with a Bradley Engineering company.

The Bradley company? Say, that's a real big outfit. They employ about a hundred people with me. It'll be a hundred and one. That is, if old man Bradley likes my bridge. Eddie Jordan, what is your teeth got to do with getting a job?

Honey, that's why I was tied up to the library last night. Oh. Bradley advertised in the engineer's journal that he would award a job to the engineer who came up with the best sketch of a new suspension bridge that his company's contracted to erect over the river.

And you want it? Oh. That's a stupid question, isn't it, Maisie? Yes, stupid question. Did you win it, Eddie? No, but I'm going to. I got a swell idea from reading Professor Brown's new book last night.

Sonny, I've got a sneaking suspicion that it's just what the doctor ordered. Oh, you mean when Bradley gets a load of your sketch, he's bound to give you the job? That's right, Merton. Gosh, I'm so happy I could kiss you.

Oh, please, Eddie, you're an engaged man, practically. He means me. Oh, I'm glad. But I've still got some work to do in that sketch. I'm going to need the professor's book for reference. I'll see you when I get back in the library.

Oh, but, honey, couldn't I go with you? I get so long from being here by myself. I'll stay with you, Maisie. I don't get that kind of loathsome. Oh, look, honey, I've got to get that sketch into Mr. Bradley by tomorrow morning.

The competition closes then. See you later, babe. I've got to pick up my notes in my room and get to that library. And I hope Gladys hasn't wound out that fort. Yeah, I hope Gladys hasn't owned out that...

Gladys? Yeah, Maisie, that's the librarian's name. Gladys Horns-Wagel-Dorf. Oh, well I guess I don't have to worry about leaving Eddie alone with anybody with a name like that. She's probably one of those dried out old maids with a face like a prune, huh?

Ha ha! No prune? No prune. Oh, what's she like, Murk? Well, she's, um, quote, unquote. And Eddie calls her by her first name, too. Yeah, well, but that don't mean anything, Maisie. No, I guess I don't mean anything.

Well, I've got my notes. I'm off of the library. At just a minute, Eddie. I'll get my hat. Get your hat. What for? I just remembered. I haven't read a book in years. Daisy, not so loud. We're in a library.

I didn't say anything, Eddie. People are trying to read. Your shoes, Bob. Well, they bother me too. I'll never buy shoes on fail again. Shh. Eddie. There's a strange man trying to talk to me.

Oh, he just said... What? Please, this is a library. I know. I can tell by all the books. Maisies. That's much better. Over here, Maisie. She's pretty, isn't she, Eddy? Who is? Gladys. Look, Maisie.

I don't know what's cooking in that beautiful head of yours, but this is a library. I only come here to get books. Technical books. I'm working on a bridge. I've got plans. That's why I came along.

I want to find out what those plans are. Please, if you folks want to stay here, you'll have to be more quiet. Oh, sure, Grattice. Uh-huh. So this is Grattice, huh? Shh. Geez, miss. Some people come in here to read, and other people come in here for other reasons.

Maisie, are you out of your mind? What? Answer the man, ladies, as we can all go back to our silly reading. Oh, shut up. This is a library. You'll have to whisper. Oh, I'm sorry.

Hey, Mr. Shutter! Please! Now, if you can't be quiet, I'll have to ask you both to leave. Sure, sure. Don't mind, Maisie, Gladys. So you're the girl, Eddie, told me so much about. Yay! And you're the girl he told me so little about.

Gladys, I'd like to take out some of you. Oh, sure, Eddie. Don't get so excited, Gladys. You're not the something he'd like to take out, I hope. I'm talking about a book. I was using it yesterday.

Professor Brown's theory of hydrodynamics. Oh, it hasn't been low, not yet, Abby. You'll find it back in the technological section, as you know. Thanks. I'll be right back, Missy. I'd like to take out a book, too.

Anything particular in my honey? No. Just something to walk around with on my head. I want to improve my posture. Oh, oh yes. Eddie! Yes. And your book on suspension bridges just came in. It's way back in the last aisle.

In case you're interested, I'd be glad to always do. I never mind, dear. I think we can get along without you. But it's pretty dark back there. If you know what I mean. That's why we can get along without you if you know what I mean.

Come on, Eddie. Eddie. Please, Maisie, don't bother me. Can't you see I'm working? Well, the library's no place to work, Eddie. You got your Professor Brown's book, so how's about coming back to the boarding house?

Do you have to scribble things on paper? These aren't scribblings, Maisie. They're rough plans for that bridge sketch. I have to have it tomorrow, Mr. Bradley, remember? Well, why can't you take the book home and work on the plant there?

Well, you won't be disturbed by looking up. Lookin' up? Yeah, at that Gladys. Maisie, when I look up, I'm just thinking. Yeah, but I ain't so sure I like what you're thinking. Oh, for heaven's sake, Maisie, please let me start.

You'd be quiet. Don't you talk to my... Don't you dare talk to my girl like that. He really loves you. This has gone far enough. What's the matter, jealous? You're creating a disturbance. I'll have to ask you two to leave.

But the book I haven't finished, I... I'm sorry, Eddie. Do you know the rules? Yeah. Come on, Maisie. Oh, I'm sorry, Eddie. I didn't think. That's your trouble. You never think. Now I may never get to finish that bridge sketch.

Maisie, I could shoot you. Well, I deserve it, honey. But I'm afraid shooting is out. Too bad. Yeah, you have to use a bow and arrow. A gun is too noisy for a library. The adventures of Maisie, starring Anne Southeran, will continue in just a moment.

Gosh, Maisie, I'm sorry about giving you that bumster about Eddie and that librarian. Oh, this whole mess is my fault.

No, it's mine, American. I guess I'm just a drip. Huh? And like all this, I'm just something you can keep caring and can't turn off. If I just get my mouth shut, Eddie could have had that book he needs so much, it's only the plan to that bridge.

Oh, don't feel that way, Maisie. Well, Eddie, you'll get over it. He'll take you back. After what I did to him, he had to be out of his mind to take me back. Well, I don't aim to go through life with a crazy man.

Come in. Oh, Eddie, it's you. Yeah. I wish it weren't. Eddie, where? I'm not talking to you. Oh, nothing. Ask him where has he been? Okay. Eddie, where have you been? Hmm. Maybe he says, hmm.

Tell her I used a little political poll and I got myself a library card to take out technical book. Oh you did? Maybe he said he called... I heard him. Gosh Eddie now you can take out that book.

Yeah tell him. She says yeah. But I just came from the library and somebody else took out the book. Tell her. Oh maybe he just... Oh don't you imagine she? Can't you go to that somebody and borrow the book till tomorrow tell him?

Yeah Eddie. What she said, can't you? Bill Maddox is the one that borrowed it. He went to engineering school with me. Well, that makes it easier, don't it? Nice one. Oh, oh yeah. Does that makes it easier, don't it, Eddie?

Yeah, for Bill to get that job with old man Bradley. That book had all my notes on the bridge kitchen. So you mean he's going to submit your catch tomorrow to Bradley as his own?

Probably. Tell her. Oh, let's stop this. Tell him, game. This is serious. She says let's stop this teller game. This is Captain. Oh. Eddie, he can't do that. But he is darling. Little Billy Boy has taken a room at the Brighton Hotel, a nice quiet room, where he can work without anybody bothering him.

But he shouldn't get that job. He's not as smart as you. He's smarter. He has no girlfriend. Oh gosh. Oh ain't there nothing we can do ain't there? Nothing to keep him from turning in that sketch to Bradley in the morning?

Oh sure. Bill could suddenly get a nervous breakdown. And I know just a little woman who could bring it on, but fast. Oh! Hey, that's a wonderful idea, Eddie. I said something. Merton? Huh? Yeah, I'm gonna need your help.

What? Can you get hold of a Bellhop's uniform? A Bellhop? Yeah, sure. I know one of the fellas at the Brighton Hotel. We once double dated with a couple of chambermades and Bellhop's uniform? Yeah, for you.

Maisie, what's cooking in that head of yours? Don't ask questions, Eddie. Just get the work. Can you remember enough of that bridge sketch to get it done on paper by tomorrow? Yes, but Bill Maddox has a head start.

He's bound to get his finish and submit it before mine, I've given half a chance to concentrate. Yeah, but he ain't gonna get a chance, honey. He has one little chamber, maybe he's gonna drive him so crazy he won't be able to finish.

Come on, Mert. Oh, good evening, sir. And what can I do for you? Don't, child. I'm a sick man, terrible headache. I'd like a room, a quiet one. You have a reservation? I'm Philip J Bradley.

Not B, Mr Bradley, of the Bradley Engineering Company. Yes, I want a room just for the night. I can't sleep in my home. There's a cricket out in the garden, someplace, and the noise is driving me crazy.

Well, there's always room for you at the Brighton Hotel, Mr Bradley. Hey, you thank you. Okay. Oh, my head. I can't send the roar of that pen scratching. No, I'm a sick man. I can't send any noise.

Ed a terrible head. Mr. Bradley, I can let you have room number 701. Now I'm sure you'll find it very quiet because the gentleman away from the room above you and Mr. Bill Maddox also insisted on quiet, so I know you won't be disturbed.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. Mr. Maddox is going to be very busy working tonight. He's doing some drawing. Well, I hope he uses his soft pencil. In my condition, the slightest sound makes my temples throb.

I'll take that room. Good. No! It's not that awful clanging I can't stand this! Power of times! Oh, come in. Mr. Maddox. Mr. Bill Maddox. I'm the change I made here.

I just wanted to find out whether you're comfortable. Oh, well, very Miss. Oh, that's fine. We always like to have people who stay at the hotel. Excuse me. I'll give back to work. You see, I've got a very important bridge sketch. I've got a finish.

Oh, I used to play bridge one. Miss. Now, if we only had a third or a fourth, I was going to be... Huh? Now this cable goes here. And this one goes... Hey, you know something, Mr. Maddox?

What? You shouldn't sit in that street back chair. That rocking chair is much more comfortable. Nice cable, though. Miss, I can't work in a rocking chair. Rocking makes me sleepy. Well, it won't rock with me to the floor.

You look, Miss, I'm busy really. Oh, that's all right. I'm not. Hey, Miley! What are you want, man? Say what is this look Bellhop will you win this chamber man? The rocket is a fly.

You'll certainly let's do it man. Yeah, I just happen to have a hammer and nails with you. You're a houndling of a nail lady. You'll have a touch. That ought to do it. Yeah, we'll survive.

Please, will you please go away now? I'm working. I thought I told you to stop. Well, that ain't that hamman. He must be an echo. A mite. It's coming from room downstairs. Now, look, look, please.

I've got work to do. Now, you two get out of here. OK. Come on, Mite. At last. No, no, where was I? Oh, yeah. This cable, this cable goes. Yeah, it goes here. And the angle of information is.

Hello. You again? I'm sorry, but we've changed with me. It's got a sanity to happen now in each room. Okay, okay. Just sit down. Any place, but be quiet. Just... sure. No. Good. The angle of information is...

...is... ...the angle of information is... ...the angle... ...must you hum me. Well, I've got to do something to keep me occupied. Yeah. Mm-hmm. The angle... Come in. I didn't hear any knock. Who hung on you waiting for the last minute?

See you there it is now. Come in. Oh fine. Good evening sir. Would you care for a picture of ice water? Oh get out. Okay. Now where were you? Now where was I? To the end of the angle.

You'll be doing a ring if you change your mind. Get out! I'll never get this sketch finished. The angle. And the mousnetics. Does it annoy you that bad? What? What? The water. Sipping from that leaky sausage, my bastard.

I can't even hear it. Oh, of course you can. Listen, real close. Ew. Oh, yes, yeah, I can hear it. Now, it doesn't bother me now. Oh, but it might. Honey, ain't. A thing like that can get to be very annoying.

I'd better go in and fix it. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. Anything to get you out of the way. How do you think? No, that's key. Plumbers always start by banging on the pipe. I did. The good thing is gone.

Hey, couldn't it? Now I can get back to work. Oh, now it's running. I better hit these pipes tomorrow. Oh, they're echo again. Hey. Hey. Hey, why should I stop banging down there? Well, they're silly. I'm not banging down there. I'm banging up here.

What the flake if you watch old goats? Who'll go? I have the room just below you. Who's been pounding on those bikes? Yeah, that's what I'd like to know. I've been banging away to get you to stop.

And I've been banging away to get you to stop. Copy, Ted. Now look, I'm trying to get to work on some things. And I'm trying to get some sleep. And the slightest noise drives me crazy.

But then why will you hammer down things? Why would I hammer it? Yes, it's not making your voice to me. You stop raising your voice to me. I have to, you're taller. All right. Now what?

Both of you. I gotta sketch the finish. Put it out out. Out! Out! Put it in! Fire! Fire! Fire! I'm getting out of here. Oh my gosh. Where am I going? Where am I going?

Didn't you guess you're flying? Yeah. Okay, isn't it? Down the street I thought them fellows in here might like to go see it. Oh, you're running for mercy, you two. Now where's that for? Oh, it's got...

Oh, here it is, Maggie. Good. I'm gonna rush him back to Eddie. Do you have a kid love me even more when you see how much I helped him in getting that job of Mr. Bradley?

Gosh, you really mean it, Mr. Bradley? That draftman job is honest, a goodness mind? That's right, Jordan. Your sketch of the suspension bridge was head and shoulders above all the others. You start working this Monday.

Geez. Gosh. I don't know how to thank you, Mr. Bradley. Oh, what I need now is thanks, Jordan. It's a new head. The one I have now feels like a B-29s using it for target practice.

Mr. Bradley, sir, do you think you can put yourself together long enough to meet Maisie? Yes, Maisie. My fiancé. Oh, that. She's waiting outside to hear whether or not I... You know. And now with my new job, we can finally get married.

Everything that's happened, I owe to Maisie. Oh, sure. Sure. Bring her in, Jordan. And I always like to meet the little woman who stands behind the successful man. Thanks. Where do you meet, Maisie, boss?

You're just lovers. Come in, Maisie. Cheers. I mean, that's, you know. Uh-huh. Oh, that's wonderful. I'm so glad. Maisie, honey. I want my boss to meet you. Mr. Bradley, this is Maisie Revere. Yeah, I'm very glad to meet you, Mr. Bevere.

Thank you, Mr. Bradley. And I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Just a moment, Miss. They're that voice. It sounds familiar.

Wait till I find my glasses. Oh, I mean, Miss Bradley, you don't want to cover up those great, big, beautiful eyes with glasses? Oh, they're really not very big. Uh, lazy, honey. Mr. Bradley was kind enough to want to meet you.

And he has a splitting headache, too. He ain't the only one. Let's go, Eddie. What's the hurry? Wait a minute. There's something familiar about you. Me? You remind me of a chambermaid last night. She had to pursue your accent, sort of like she came from Brooklyn.

Oh, Riley. Oh, Arthur, Riley. Riley? Yes. Mm. It's about your bed is raw, but I'll tell you. Mm, Mazy, honey. Mr. Bradley's gonna pay me $85 a week. $85 a week? Uh-huh. I mean, it's almost 40 times, Paul.

Well, do you think you and Eddie here can afford to get married on that miserable bed? Oh, can we? It's a pipe! I You're the one who was banging away at those pipes crazy out Jordan and take this walking Chinese fortune fell with you Yeah, what about the job?

That's what I was afraid of And if I never see either of you again, I thank you Well, maybe Eddie, honey. I didn't respect... I didn't know that... Maisie would be answering me this. How can you get everybody so mad at you?

How can you get into so much trouble? How can you pull so many boners in one day? It's easy, Eddie. I get up early. In just a moment, we shall return to the Adventures of Maisie.

And here's Maisie. My job was pretty close for Eddie, but as the janitor said to the man who just missed the

cuspadora, close isn't good enough. I tried though. But as the saying goes, there's a certain place that's paid for good intentions. And the way Eddie feels now, I bet he wishes I was down there paving.

But am I worried that Eddie won't forgive and forgive? I am afraid that he's mad enough to call off our engagement. You don't too deny him. You've just heard the adventures of Maisie, starring and southern.

Maisie was written by Arthur Phillips. Original music was composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman. Supporting cast included Sidney Miller, Frank Nelson, Lorraine Puddle, Pat McKeon, Gerald Moore and Jack Edwards. Jack McCoy's fishing.