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The Campbell Playhouse · December 17, 1939 · 56 min · 10,087 words
The transcript of “Theres Always A Woman”, an episode of The Campbell Playhouse first broadcast December 17, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Campbell Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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The motion pictures and even the radio and the living stage have made it clear by now that the female of the species is not only more deadly than the opposite sex, more desirable but also more durable in times of stress and more to be relied on for the solution of even the bloodiest murders.
and in case these observations may seem as irrelevant as they are certainly irreverent, let me break down right here and admit the subject of tonight's broadcast is the bloodiest of bloody murders. Now, as to the ladies.
Time was when all the girls used to do in a mystery story was to scream, scream loudly and be grasped at by horrible, a clutching clause, but all that's been changed. And the heroines of these modern romances are ladies of pot.
They are not the ones to find themselves clad only in something filming and feminine being carried off by a gorilla whose identity You will be subsequently requested not to divulge They are not susceptible to hypnosis to the blandishments of sinister Latin and they never faint They are accomplished in the use of firearms and can escape from anything including suspicion
But the gentlemen I am sorry to say have degenerated in our new fiction into a pretty pathetic low among human things. There seems to be no excuse for us. I say us because tonight I am fated to a tenth before this microphone, the portrayal of one of these wretched beings.
No, the lady blood hounds could do without us if they didn't still insist just for appearances on the old traditional turn out of likely suspect there's always a woman which is tonight's story contains no less than two murders and miss mary wilson miss wilson is one of the most promising of the talented and personable young
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