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SURPRISE FOR THE BOYS
somebody to lend him a pair of pants, but nobody seems willin’ to do it. What a man! What a night! The warden looks like he’s gonna sock Blathery in the jaw. Wow! Ouch! He did! Blathery don’t need pants now. . . . They’ll have to get him a stretcher. Oh, my heart !
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Direction. — Fallow on Jilter.
Brady. — Fallow ? This is Brady.
Fallow. — Oh, hello, Brady. . . . How did you like the yam?
Brady. — How do you like this ? The office boy just looked up the University of Lodz in the encyclopedia. It doesn’t say anything about them teaching chemistry there or watchmaking or sword swallowing. But it does say this: “The University of Lodz is famous for its courses in advanced psychology.’’
Announcer. — You have just heard the first of a series of dramatizations of short stories from contemporary magazines by the Federal Theatre Radio Division. Tonight’s program was based on the story, “Surprise for the Boys,’’ by Herbert Lewis, which appeared originally in the magazine, Esquire. It was adapted for radio by Victor E. Smith and produced tmder the direction of Ashley Buck.
This was a presentation of the Federal Theatre Radio Division, a project of the Works Progress Administration, in association with the Mutual Network.
In addition to the usual facilities of the Mutual Network, this program came to you as an international exchange feature over the coast-to-coast network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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