Broadcast: 7th May 1944

Starring: Harold Peary

Added: May 08 2005

Come with us now to Summerfield in the merry month of May. For the first time this season the sun is hot today, really hot and life in Summerfield has slowed down to a walk, birds are singing and children stop to listen to them, flies are buzzing and people are thinking it’s time to put up their screens but are not doing anything about it. There won’t be enough business down in the whole town today to pay the overhead on Peavey’s drugstore and the great Gildersleeve, where is he? Well the commissioner is in his office at the city hall with the door closed, his coat off, his feet up on the desk, the window wide open and the afternoon sun warming his back. A stack of mail under his feet remains unread but he’s reading over and over a note from his ladylove. He knows it be heart now every word and still he reads it because it seems to bring to him the sweet music of her voice…