I Have Been Looking For You

Title I Have Been Looking For You
Description Episode #2
Message Text Announcer: The Mutual Broadcasting System presents the second of a series of dramatic stories written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, and featuring Ernest Chappell. In this week's story, "I Have Been Looking For You," we have as our guest the star of stage and radio Miss Claudia Morgan.

Chappell: Quiet, please...Quiet, Please!

[Theme music in and behind]

Announcer: This week's story is entitled, "I Have Been Looking For You."

[Theme music out]

Man: I have been looking for you. Your name?

[Music starts in background]

I do not know your name. Perhaps you are Anitas[???], Allegia[???], or Bernice. You are Mary, or Alice, or plain Jane. You are Mercedes, Babushka, Collette...Where are you?

[Music crescendo and then out]

I heard your voice when I was a child. When I was new in school. When I was a tender lad, unknowing.

[The following two are overlayed over one another starting at the asterisk]

Man: I heard your voice as I passed
  • the school room door.

    Woman: Seven times seven are forty-nine. Eight times seven are fifty-six. Nine times seven are sixty-three.

    Man: But I pushed to door ajar and looked, but there was only a school room full of children and a teacher at the desk. The cadence of your childish voice hung in the sunny air in the school room, but I couldn't find you. And wondering, dreaming, I closed the door. [sound of door closing] And went my way on to the confusion of another school room. But your voice was with me and I have not forgotten.

    [music up and behind]

    Many times I heard your voice, Love, as I grew older. There were other girls in my boyhood; sweet, cream-rinsed girls I remember now through the years. Helen with the yellow curls. Gladys, the tomboy, on her bicycle. Paula, in the library. Kate--dark. And Jenny. And crippled Margaret. And my playmates taunted me because I had no girl of my own.

    [music out]

    But I smiled a secret smile as I turned away and walked homeward along the elm shadowed, [music back behind] the flower sweet streets at night, for, always, you were somewhere.

    [Woman starts singing in the background]

    Man: And I knew I should find you one day, somewhere.

    [Woman stops singing, music up but still in background]

    Man: How many years have passed us now? How many summers? How many yesterdays? How many heartbeats? But I knew that I should find you. I saw you in the distance sometimes: a gay red bathing suit on a beach; a fluttering cotton scarf on a winter hillside against the snow. But, when I ran to greet you and call you mine, you were gone. You had vanished.

    [Music up and then into the background]

    Man: A day came when I was a young man and went away to make my fortune. My heart ached as the little station grew smaller in the distance, for I knew I saw you there, waving farwell. Was it to me? And I thought frantically of leaping from the train and returning, but a cloud of dust swirled up behind the train and when it was gone, you had vanished.

    There was another glimpse of you, I thought, as the train roared through another little town, and the gay crowd on the station platform waved and called. And I knew then. I knew that wherever I should go, you would be also. And tears came to my eyes as I thought, perhaps, I should never see your face, but always follow you and never catch up.

    [Music up and out]

    [4:10 into episode]
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    Submission Date May 01, 2003