Broadcast: 3rd December 1945

Starring: Marvin Miller, Various

Added: Dec 01 2008

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation,” said Henry David Thoreau. How well that little Alferd Smithers who never read a word by Thoreau in all his life knew the meaning of that phrase, all the nagging dullness of a humdrum existence and a tiresome wife. Yes the saucy little servant girl Alfred had married in London so many years before had become a lazy little housewife whose untidy home had miraculously survived the blitz. Now with the coming of peace Gracie Smithers sat in their dingy front parlor night after night reading murder mysteries and yawning while Alfred gazed blankly at his Daily Express and wished he were rid of her, wished it with all his might…