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Lux Radio Theatre - "Undercurrent" (Old Time Radio, 1953) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On November 30th, 1953, Lux Radio Theater brought episode 857, Undercurrent,
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  Speaker 1: to CBS. Adapted from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's 1946 film, it stars Joan
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  Speaker 1: Fontaine as Anne Hamilton Garraway and Mel Ferrer as her husband, Alan,
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  Speaker 1: a wealthy inventor. Anne enters Alan's polished Washington, D.C. social
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  Speaker 1: circle after their marriage, but his hostility toward his absent brother, Michael,
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  Speaker 1: soon places troubling questions before her. As conflicting accounts and
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  Speaker 1: signs of a concealed family history emerge, the young bride
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  Speaker 1: must decide what to believe about the Garroway household. This
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  Speaker 1: was Lux Radio Theater's second adaptation of the story. The
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  Speaker 1: first aired in 1947 with Katharine Hepburn and Robert Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: And now we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: From Hollywood, the Hollywood Radio Theater.
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  Speaker 3: The Hollywood Radio Theater.
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  Speaker 2: Starring Joan Fontaine and Mel Ferrer in Undercurrent. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: your producer, Mr. Irving Cummings.
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  Speaker 4: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Our play tonight is
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  Speaker 4: the thoughtful, successful story of a young bride who soon
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  Speaker 4: discovers her husband's mysterious hatred for his brother can bring
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  Speaker 4: complete disaster to her marriage. Undercurrent was one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's
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  Speaker 4: most successful dramas, And as our stars, we have invited
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  Speaker 4: one of our most popular actresses, Joan Fontaine, who co-stars
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  Speaker 4: with Mel Ferrer, high on the list of our distinguished actors. Now,
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  Speaker 4: Act One of Undercurrent, starring Joan Fontaine as Anne and
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  Speaker 4: Mel Ferrer as Alan Garroway.
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  Speaker 3: ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 2: It was a marriage no one would have predicted.
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  Speaker 4: Anne Hamilton, reserved, unaspiring, and Alan Garroway, the wealthy, celebrated
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  Speaker 4: inventor of the Garroway distance control. Garroway brought his bride
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  Speaker 4: to Washington. Their first night there, he displayed her before
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  Speaker 4: a large, select group of friends. When the friends had departed... Anne, darling,
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  Speaker 4: what is it?
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  Speaker 2: I thought they'd never go, Alan. Oh, you shouldn't have,
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't have. What, darling, I shouldn't have what? You
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have married me. Your friends asked, and they know
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  Speaker 2: it was a mistake.
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  Speaker 3: Anne.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I can't help it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even know what they were talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And they were laughing at me, Alan. I know they were.
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  Speaker 2: But I was so proud of you tonight. I was
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  Speaker 2: lost among them. Oh, what they must have thought. I mean, well,
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  Speaker 2: good grief. I don't even know how to dress. Is
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  Speaker 2: that all that's worrying you? I'm going to take this
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  Speaker 2: dress off and never see it again. Darling, it's a
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  Speaker 2: perfectly nice dress. Nice dress? It's eight inches too short,
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  Speaker 2: and it's only two weeks old.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Alan, you're stuck with a wife who doesn't know
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  Speaker 3: anything about clothes. She doesn't even know how to behave.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what, we'll go shopping tomorrow. It won't
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  Speaker 2: do any good. Oh, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry to be such a boob. I want so
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  Speaker 3: much to be right for you.
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  Speaker 2: Will you shut up? Well, I'll learn. I really will.
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  Speaker 3: I'll learn to talk like your friends. I'll learn to
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  Speaker 3: be like them. I don't know how the heck I'll
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  Speaker 3: do it, but I'll do it.
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  Speaker 2: If you do, I'll kill you. Darling, just tell me
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  Speaker 2: one thing. Who do you belong to? You. That's all.
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  Speaker 2: That's all that matters.
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  Speaker 1: Is it, Alan?
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  Speaker 2: Is it? And if you ever forget that, you'll be
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  Speaker 2: very sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Now, if Madame does not mind waiting, I will arrange
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  Speaker 3: to have some house models for her right away.
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  Speaker 2: Well, darling?
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I don't believe any part of this. A
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  Speaker 3: mink coat, a beaver jacket, 14 gowns.
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  Speaker 2: 12 pairs of shoes. Now relax. If I relax, I'll
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  Speaker 2: drop dead.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Alan, how could you let me wear that brown
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  Speaker 3: horror last night?
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  Speaker 2: I'm in love with you, darling. I didn't even notice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, but you must have. Oh, don't be afraid of
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  Speaker 3: hurting me. I don't know much about these things.
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  Speaker 2: Alan Garroway. Well, hello, Mrs. Foster. Ann is a neighbor
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  Speaker 2: of ours from Virginia, an old friend of my mother's. Mrs. Foster,
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  Speaker 2: my wife. How do you do?
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  Speaker 3: I'm delighted to meet you, my dear. When are you
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  Speaker 3: coming down to Middleburg? Well, if business eases up next month,
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  Speaker 3: I hope. Well, Alan, she looks like a fine, honest girl.
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  Speaker 3: You ride, of course.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I'm not very good at it. We're raised
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  Speaker 2: on horses in Middleburg, aren't we, Alan? Oh, but definitely.
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  Speaker 3: Alan's not a bad rider, my dear. But his brother
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  Speaker 3: Michael's the boy with the light hands. By the way, Alan,
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  Speaker 3: how is Michael?
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  Speaker 2: Michael is always Michael. I hope you'll excuse us, Mrs. Foster.
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  Speaker 2: We were just going to... Of course.
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  Speaker 3: I'm late for an appointment myself. I'll be looking for
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  Speaker 3: you in Middleburg.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Foster.
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  Speaker 2: Alan, you didn't tell me you had a brother.
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  Speaker 6: I haven't had time to tell you a lot of things, darling. Look,
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  Speaker 6: you pick out your hat, then. I'll wait out front
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  Speaker 6: and get some air.
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  Speaker 2: Alan, what's wrong, darling?
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  Speaker 3: You seem so troubled since we came back from shopping.
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  Speaker 3: You were surprised to learn I have a brother.
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  Speaker 2: But what a nice surprise. Where is he, dear? He
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  Speaker 2: spoiled my first day alone with you. Oh, it's so typical.
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  Speaker 2: Good old Mike.
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  Speaker 6: I meant to tell you about him, Anne. I've been
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  Speaker 6: putting it off. But one of these days, we'll have
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  Speaker 6: to go to San Francisco. Our factory's there. You'll meet
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  Speaker 6: people who know Mike, who adore him. He does that
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  Speaker 6: to people. My mother adored him. He was her favorite. Oh, Alan, please,
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  Speaker 6: if you'd rather not. When my father died, Mike and
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  Speaker 6: I took over the business.
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  Speaker 2: I was the engineer.
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  Speaker 6: That's when I started working on my distance control. We'd
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  Speaker 6: been making plenty of money when suddenly we began to
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  Speaker 6: run out of funds. Mike must have thought I was
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  Speaker 6: an imbecile to do it the way he did. It
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  Speaker 6: was just like putting his hand in the cash register.
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  Speaker 5: He was stealing from you? Your own brother?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Mike had bought a ranch in the country. He spent
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  Speaker 6: most of his time there. Anyway, I drove out to
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  Speaker 6: see him. When I told him what I'd found out,
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  Speaker 6: he said I'd never do anything about it. Not while
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  Speaker 6: Mother was alive. And I didn't. Mother was an invalid.
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  Speaker 6: She died the next spring.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, please, Alan, don't.
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  Speaker 6: There's not much more to tell. After she died, Mike
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  Speaker 6: just disappeared. Last I heard, he was in the Army.
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  Speaker 6: It was over three years ago.
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  Speaker 2: He disappeared because he was afraid of what you might
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  Speaker 2: do to him? Well, maybe.
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  Speaker 6: Mike's not afraid of me. And I keep thinking he's
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  Speaker 6: alive somewhere and hating me the way he must. I
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  Speaker 6: even felt I didn't have the right to marry him.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Alan, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Don't say that.
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  Speaker 5: He can't hurt us if we never let him come
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  Speaker 5: between us.
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  Speaker 2: Why should he? What's Mike got to do with us? Nothing, nothing.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll never think about him or speak about him again.
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  Speaker 2: But if anything ever does come up, you'll tell me.
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  Speaker 5: You'll let me know.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing ever will.
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  Speaker 3: Darling, I'm so deeply sorry for you. But I'm glad
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  Speaker 3: you've told me because it means you're not as sure
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  Speaker 3: of yourself as I thought you were. You need me
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  Speaker 3: even if it's only to help you forget.
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  Speaker 2: I need you very much. You may have a no-good brother,
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  Speaker 2: but you're going to have an awfully good wife. I'm
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  Speaker 2: so grateful to you for so many things. It's as
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  Speaker 2: though you've led me by the hand into a strange
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  Speaker 2: and wonderful world. A world to dream of. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: dream you're here, Anne, and you're mine, and I love you.
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  Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Galloway. Did you have a nice afternoon shopping?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yes, Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Hildebrand. Any messages? No messages, madame.
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  Speaker 3: That means that all your invitations for tonight have been accepted.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what I'd do without you, Mrs. Hildebrand.
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  Speaker 3: The perfect housekeeper. How many dinner parties have we given
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  Speaker 3: this month? Is it 210 or 211? This is your sixth, madame. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: would you mind looking at the table? I took the
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  Speaker 3: liberty of arranging the place card. You know, such a
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  Speaker 3: strange thing happened this afternoon at the bookshop.
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Galloway left a book there months ago to be rebound.
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  Speaker 3: He must have forgotten all about it. It's a volume
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  Speaker 3: of English poems. Oh, I'm so glad I found it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, madame.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, you'll notice I put Judge Putnam on your right.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes. Who is this one, Mrs. Hildebrand? Who is Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Henry Gilson, a new congressman from the Midwest?
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  Speaker 2: I wondered why you placed him in the doorway.
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  Speaker 5: He's no one important.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, that explains it. If that is all, madame, I
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  Speaker 2: had better go to see about the audience.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Henry Gilson. You're just not important, poor guy.
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  Speaker 3: We have something in common, the two of us. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I think you are important. Henry, you and Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Justice Putnam are changing places.
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  Speaker 1: Fair.
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  Speaker 2: Now, tell me, Congressman Gilson, just what part of the
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  Speaker 2: Midwest do you come from? Just what part of the
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  Speaker 2: Midwest do you come from? Iowa. Oh, I love Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: It's so big and so full of corn, isn't it? Yes, ma'am. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it certainly is. Excuse me for a moment. Shall we
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  Speaker 2: go into the other room for coffee? It was such
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  Speaker 2: a lovely dinner, Mrs. Garroway. Thank you, Mrs. Postgate. My dear,
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  Speaker 2: you're gone.
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  Speaker 5: What exquisite taste you have.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Madame Lefebvre. Oh, Anne, just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. Garroway.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, darling.
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  Speaker 2: Anne, are you trying to be rude to Judge Putnam?
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  Speaker 2: Why on earth did you have to seat him in
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  Speaker 2: the doorway? I thought the draft might do him good.
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  Speaker 2: He seemed so stuffy. I invited him here for a reason,
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  Speaker 2: you know that. Oh, I'm sorry, dear. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what got into me.
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  Speaker 3: I'll make it up to him right away.
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  Speaker 2: I believe your wife bewitched me, Garroway.
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  Speaker 6: Why, I haven't talked so much about myself in years.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't stop now, Judge Putnam. Not when you're telling
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  Speaker 2: us about your home. Charleston must be beautiful this time
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  Speaker 2: of year. It is, but I won't see it.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes I feel it really belongs to the people who
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  Speaker 4: take care of it much.
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  Speaker 2: More than it does to me. That's a very generous attitude, sir.
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  Speaker 2: My father always says how foolish we are to think
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  Speaker 2: that we really possess anything in life. Well, why would
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  Speaker 2: he say that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think Judge Putnam understands. No one ever really
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  Speaker 3: owns anything. All we have is a temporary use of it.
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  Speaker 3: It just isn't true to say, my this or my that.
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  Speaker 2: Not even my wife? Oh, well, that's different.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I read something today which says what I
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  Speaker 3: mean better than anything I've ever heard, and I'm ashamed
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  Speaker 3: to say.
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  Speaker 2: I memorized it. I'd love to hear it, my dear.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I found it in an old book of poems, um,
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  Speaker 3: This particular poem was marked, and I thought to myself,
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  Speaker 3: the man who marked this poem is someone I understand
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  Speaker 3: and someone who understands me.
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  Speaker 2: Remember it, Alan? Remember what?
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  Speaker 3: My house, I say, to talk to the sunny doves
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  Speaker 3: that make my roof the arena of their love.
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  Speaker 2: Our house, they say.
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  Speaker 3: And mind the cat declares and spreads his golden fleece
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  Speaker 3: upon the stairs. And mind the dog and rises stiff
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  Speaker 3: with wrath as any alien foot profane the path.
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  Speaker 2: That's charming, Mrs. Gatwick. Well, I may have left out
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  Speaker 2: a line or two, but that's the general idea. Anne,
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  Speaker 2: I think Dr. Fort would like another brand room. Of course.
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  Speaker 2: You see, Judge Putnam, poetry is one of Alan's hidden vices.
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  Speaker 2: That's a wonderful girl, Gatwick. Yes. Yes, she is. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a very lucky man.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, Alan, it was a nice party, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it went beautifully.
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  Speaker 6: Say, Anne, how about driving down to Middleburg tomorrow for
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  Speaker 6: a few days?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Alan, could we?
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  Speaker 2: The house where you were born, the house where you
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  Speaker 2: grew up. The poem came from. That's not my book.
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  Speaker 2: But it is, darling.
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  Speaker 5: You sent it to be rebound, remember?
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid it's a mistake. But they had the name. Garway, Middleburg, Virginia.
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  Speaker 6: No, it's a mistake, Anne. Uh, we'll leave right after breakfast.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe a little isolated for you down there. You know,
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  Speaker 6: there's no telephone.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no telephone. It sounds like heaven.
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  Speaker 3: Alan, will you hate being cooped up with me for days?
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  Speaker 2: Give me a kiss. And tell me why you ask that.
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  Speaker 2: Because I love you. And I can't help noticing when
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  Speaker 2: we're alone how... How a lot of the glow you
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  Speaker 2: have with people sort of goes out of you. And
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  Speaker 2: what's the matter? I don't know nothing. I just wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be reassured, I guess. Well, consider yourself reassured. About
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  Speaker 2: this book.
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  Speaker 3: If it's a mistake, I suppose I'll have to return it.
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  Speaker 2: But I hate to. What's the penalty for stealing books?
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  Speaker 2: Will you stop shoving that book at me? Can't you
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  Speaker 2: see I don't want to discuss it? Ellen! Don't you
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  Speaker 2: know by now whose book it is? You even memorized
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  Speaker 2: the poem he marked. I told you it wasn't mine.
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  Speaker 2: It's his.
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  Speaker 5: It's Michael.
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  Speaker 6: He got you, didn't he, Ann? The sweet, gentle boy
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  Speaker 6: who loved poetry. He understands you. Isn't that what you said?
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  Speaker 3: I memorized it only because I thought it was yours.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, of course you did. Now, Ann, that was very
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  Speaker 6: unfair of me. I shouldn't take it out on you
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  Speaker 6: the way I feel about Mike.
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  Speaker 2: Please, please forgive me. I forgive you, Ann. Well, this
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  Speaker 2: is it, Anne. This is Middleburg. Oh, what a lovely
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  Speaker 2: old house. Oh, it's a dream. George! We're here, George. George?
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  Speaker 2: Just a caretaker, darling. Back there are the stables. Orchards
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  Speaker 2: on the other side. You know that Mrs. Foster you met?
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  Speaker 2: She lives beyond that stretch of woods there. Alan, you
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  Speaker 2: have a dog. Yeah, that's Bates. Don't think Bates likes
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  Speaker 2: me very much. Dogs and horses never do. And a
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  Speaker 2: bad character, I guess. Hello, Bates. Come here, boy.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, now, don't you.
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  Speaker 2: Back away from me. You're supposed to be glad to
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  Speaker 2: see me. Come here, doll. What you carrying on like
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  Speaker 2: that for? Come back. Mr. Allen. Well, I'm sure glad
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  Speaker 2: to see you, sir. Well, Bates, all right, ma'am. This
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  Speaker 2: ain't your situation. George, this is Mrs. Galloway. I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: to know you, George. Place looks fine. Oh, it's just beautiful. Well,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, ma'am. You can get the bags out of
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  Speaker 2: the car, George. I'll show Mrs.
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  Speaker 8: Galloway.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I saved the living room for the last, ma'am. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here it is.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, how charming.
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  Speaker 2: I suppose it could be. A little grim right now. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: not grim, darling. A little lonely, perhaps. A little unused.
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  Speaker 3: Alan, I've been looking for pictures. I'd like so much
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  Speaker 3: to see a picture.
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  Speaker 2: Of your mother. Everything all right, sir? Oh, yes, George.
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  Speaker 2: Come in. Isn't there a picture of your mother somewhere? Well,
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  Speaker 2: there used to be, ma'am, but... I took them down, Ann.
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  Speaker 6: I've stored away most of the personal stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like to drive over to Mrs. Foster's? No.
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  Speaker 6: Well, not if you're tired, dear, but I want to
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  Speaker 6: speak to her about buying a section of those woods
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  Speaker 6: we passed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you run along, darling. I'll unpack while you're gone.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be back by dinner time.
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  Speaker 3: George!
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  Speaker 2: Yes, ma'am? Mr. Galloway, has he come home yet? No, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: Did you have a nice walk? I just came back
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  Speaker 2: from the stables.
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  Speaker 5: There was someone there.
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  Speaker 2: He just about scared me to death. A colored man?
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  Speaker 2: A big and fat? Yes. I'll teach that old Ben
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  Speaker 2: a lesson. No, it's all right, George. He went away.
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  Speaker 10: Ben, he's plumb out his head, ma'am. He don't mean
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  Speaker 10: no harm. I chased him off, and he just keeps
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  Speaker 10: coming back.
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  Speaker 2: He kept talking about the horses in the stables. I'll
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  Speaker 2: fix you a nice cup of tea, ma'am. George, wait.
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  Speaker 5: He warned me about the black stallion.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, ma'am. That horse ain't no good. Please don't
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  Speaker 2: go near him. He's Mr. Michael's horse, Ben said. Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: He was.
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  Speaker 5: I think I will have a cup of tea.
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  Speaker 2: Good and strong. George, that must be Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Garroway.
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  Speaker 10: I'll go, ma'am.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in here, darling. Who was it, Anne? Who was
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  Speaker 2: just playing that piano? Alan, why, darling, what's the matter?
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Who was playing that? Why, I was.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: You?
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Well, why did you play that piece? Well, I don't know.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: I play it often. Father taught it to me. Your
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: father taught you that? Yes, yes, he does play the piano.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: I'd forgotten. Well, that's a piece anyone might play, mightn't they?
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: Alan, your eye's cold. Oh, tell me what's wrong.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: My mother.
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: My mother died sitting at that piano playing that piece.
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: You see, Middleburg is not all happy memories from here. Oh, Alan,
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: I'm so sorry.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't mean to upset you, darling.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: Oh, I wish I could have known your mother. But
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: finding out that she loved that piece, too, makes me
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: know her a little, doesn't it? That's a bond between
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: us we didn't know about. Yes. I, uh, I guess
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: dinner will be ready soon.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, bring them in there, George. I'll fix the cocktails, ma'am.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: George, Mrs. Galloway must have been a wonderful woman. Yes, ma'am,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: she was. She was an invalid for a number of years,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: wasn't she? Yes, ma'am. But she laid up there in
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: her bed, never complaining, always smiling.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: This piano must have been a great comfort to her
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: when she did get up.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Piano, ma'am? Well, Mrs. Galloway never played no piano.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: She didn't, but she died sitting at that piano, didn't she?
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, no, ma'am. She died upstairs in her room, ma'am.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: George!
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Sir, dinner any time it's ready. Yes, sir. I'm starving.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Be ready in just a minute, sir. Ah, cocktails.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Well, we can use these, huh, dear? George's cocktails are
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: the best. Almost good enough for you.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Well? To us, darling. Yes, Alan.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: To us.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: To us.
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: We'll continue with Act II of Undercurrent in just a
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: few moments. Make a friend and you make an ally.
• 18:58
  Speaker 11: There's a thought for you to keep in mind, as
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: many another American has. Not too long ago, a request
• 19:05
  Speaker 11: was received by the United States State Department for help
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: in setting up a modern medical system in Thailand. The
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: man selected for the job was Dr. Ben Eisman of St. Louis,
• 19:15
  Speaker 11: whose work went far beyond the limits of his three-month job.
• 19:19
  Speaker 11: In Thailand, he discovered that 17 million people living in
• 19:23
  Speaker 11: the interior were being treated by only 700 doctors who
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: were sadly ignorant of.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Modern surgical techniques.
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: At every turn, he fought against strong native superstitions to
• 19:34
  Speaker 11: accomplish his work. With his small supply of instruments, he
• 19:38
  Speaker 11: removed a ruptured appendix from a young Thai girl and
• 19:41
  Speaker 11: performed a successful operation on the hair lip of another.
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: He did plastic surgery and worked with skin grafts, putting
• 19:47
  Speaker 11: in from 15 to 20 hours a day. In the evenings,
• 19:51
  Speaker 11: he completed two medical textbooks, which were translated into the
• 19:55
  Speaker 11: Thai language and were given free to any doctors or
• 19:58
  Speaker 11: technicians who asked for them.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Through Dr.
• 20:00
  Speaker 11: Eisman's efforts and with American medical aid, a program was
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: set up to raise the standards of health and medical
• 20:06
  Speaker 11: education in Thailand and nearby countries.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks to Dr.
• 20:10
  Speaker 11: Eisenman, America has won herself more grateful allies. In recognition
• 20:15
  Speaker 11: of his works, U.S. Envoy Edwin Stanton wrote these words
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: to Dr.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Eisenman.
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: You are one of the greatest ambassadors of goodwill America
• 20:24
  Speaker 11: has ever sent abroad.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Thus, Dr.
• 20:26
  Speaker 11: Eisenman had the personal satisfaction of knowing that by helping others,
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: you help your country.
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: And now our producer, Mr.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: Cummings.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Act II of Undercurrent, starring Joan Fontaine as Anne and
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Mel Ferrer as Alan. It's been a strange and troubled
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: 24 hours for Anne Garroway. Crashing against the peace and
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: loveliness of Middleburg are the tormenting doubts of what Alan
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: has told her, his brother Michael, his mother. It's after
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: dinner now. Alan has to drive to the village. As
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: soon as he's gone, Ann has a plan. I'm sure
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: you don't want to go to the village with me, Ann.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Do you mind, darling?
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: I am tired.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: That telegram this afternoon is from Jonas Warnsley. He's in
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: charge of the San Francisco plant. We'll be meeting him soon.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, Alan. I'm sorry, dear, if you'd rather stay on here. Oh, no,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: if you're going to San Francisco, so am I.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: You don't like San Francisco. Well, I won't be long.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: If you need anything, just call Joyce.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: All right, George. What is it? The stairway. I said,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: what is it, George? Nothing, ma'am. Nothing. What were you
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: afraid of just now? You knew I was in here. No, ma'am.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: I heard the car drive off and I thought you'd
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: gone too. No lights turned on in here. I turned
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: them off.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Who did you think was in here, George? Who used
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: to sit at this piano and play that piece?
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, please, ma'am. You aren't nobody, ma'am. That's not true.
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: Who did you think it was? Did you think it
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: was Michael?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: No, ma'am.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: Did Michael play this piece?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: He did, didn't he? Oh, Miss Galloway, please, please don't
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: tell Mr. Allen I was talking about Mr. Michael. I
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: won't tell him. George, Mr. Allen has been terribly hurt.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: We've got to find a way to help him. Just
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: tell me what I could do. No, there's not much
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: you can do, George, is there?
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: He'll be leaving soon for San Francisco.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: What has to be done, I must try to do
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: my best.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Well, I'm a prized dope, Ann.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Of all the places to take you, your first night
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: in San Francisco, another nightclub. Oh, but you said Mr.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Walmsley was to meet you here. Yes, I know, but... Alan,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: who was that girl, the girl you spoke to as
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: we came in here? An old friend. Sylvia Burton. Just
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: an old friend? Well, sort of.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Jealous?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: You bet. She's far too lovely for an old friend.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: You want to know something?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: You've got it all over Sylvia in every way. People
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: wouldn't even notice her with you in the room.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, darling, you're wonderful. Counting about every other woman. Good evening. Oh, hello, Wansley.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: May I present Mrs. Garroway? How do you do? I'm
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: very glad to meet you, Mrs. Garroway. Well, pull up
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: a chair. How are things going? Oh, very well, sir.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: Things are really breaking in Seattle. I suggest you fly
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: up there as soon as you can. Oh, anyway, I
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: brought some contracts along. You care to look them over?
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Do you mind, darling? Oh, no, you go ahead and
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: look them over. I'll run in the powder room for
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: a moment. I, uh... I just saw Miss Burton. Did you?
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Has your wife met her yet? Those contracts won't take.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Let me have them. Oh, hello, Mrs. Garroway. Oh, Miss Burton.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: How do you like San Francisco?
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's wonderful.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: So many bridges. Yes, so many to cross. I beg
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: your pardon? Oh, what do you hear from Michael? Oh,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: nothing much. Did you ever meet him, Mrs.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Garroway?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: No, I haven't, but I'm looking forward to it.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: You know, there have been some pretty unpleasant rumors about Michael.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Well, whatever they are, I'm sure they're not true.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Sorry. You know, it's strange, but I was beginning to
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: have a funny feeling that Michael might be dead.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Oh, no.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I'm sure Alan would know. Yes, I suppose he would.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: You know, Miss Burton, when I saw you before, I
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: wondered who it was you reminded me of.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: It's me.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: It's not your features exactly.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: It's just something intangible. Have you noticed it?
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: No.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, is that your glove on the floor there? Oh, thanks.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Maybe it's the way we dress or walk or something.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe it's... Miss Burton... Miss Burton? That's funny.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Why should she just walk out like that?
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Well, what do you think about Pat, Mrs. Garroway? Oh,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I'm very impressed, Mr. Wormsley. I only wish Alan weren't
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: here to see how impressed I really am. I imagine
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: he's in Seattle by now. Is there anything else around
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: here you care to see? Yes, I'd, um... I'd like
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: to see some photographs. Photographs? It's silly of me, isn't it?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: But it's such a big plant now and so impersonal.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: What was it like when it started, Mr. Wormsley? The plant,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the employers. Who was here in the beginning? Well, there's
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: a picture on that wall behind you, Mrs. Galloway. Oh, yes.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: That's what I mean. Why, there's Alan. Alan in overalls.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: And you too, Mr. Wormsley. Yes. But there's other three men.
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: Two of them are still with us.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: The other one is there, I mean. Who was he, Mr. Wormsley?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: His name was Carl Stoyer.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Wasn't my husband's brother working here then? Why isn't he
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: in the picture?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: He was at his ranch the day it was taken.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: His ranch? Oh, yes. What happened to the ranch? Well, Mr.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Garroway took it over.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Alan owns it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: You see, I.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: I'd like to see that, Raj.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm afraid that's not very practical. It's quite remote.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: The fog is bad this time of year. There is
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: a caretaker.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: But I'd like to spend the day in the country.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: You could give me the keys, Mr.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Wormsley.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: I'll send them to your hotel in the morning. Oh,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: and the directions, how to get there. I'll enclose a
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: map with the keys. You've been very kind. Thank you, Mr. Wormsley.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Good day, Miss Garland. You looking for someone, miss? Oh, hello.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I'm Mrs. Alan Garroway. How do you do? You're the caretaker? Why, yes, yes,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: I am. I've just been inspecting the house. Well, I
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: was just about to leave, but if there's anything I
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: can do for you, I'd... Tell me, did you know
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Michael Garroway? Oh, yes, I did. I'm a close neighbor
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: up the road.
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: He left here very suddenly, didn't he?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: I guess he was a rather unpredictable person. Well, anyway,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: I think this is one of the most charming houses
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I've ever seen.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: It has dignity.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: Doesn't look as though it's been shut up at all,
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: does it?
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, it doesn't. It looks well as
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: though it was waiting for someone. Waiting for someone? You
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: probably think that's foolish. I suppose it is. Is that surf,
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I hear? Are we that close to the ocean?
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: If you'd like, I'll show it to you. It's none
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: of my business, Mrs. Garroway, but did you have any
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: special reason to come out here?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Well, it was such a nice day, and I thought I... No, no.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I came to learn more about Michael Garroway.
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: You'd better watch the path. It's sort of rocky here.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Everyone seems to be so vague about him, except my husband,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: of course.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know why I'm bothering you with all this. Well,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: there's the ocean, Mrs. Garroway. Oh, golly.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: Golly, it's beautiful, isn't it?
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: You know, it's amazing. Michael's had so much. Why do
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: people do the things they do to themselves? Why doesn't
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: someone step in and stop them, help them?
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: What about those people who refuse to be helped? Useless
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: to even try.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, no, it's not. It's never useless.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: You feel quite deeply about it, don't you? You bet
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I do. Oh, that sea is near. Is there good swimming? No, no.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: There's a riptide.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, but it looks so calm.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: You can't always see that undercurrent, but it's there. Like life?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: That's right. Fog's starting to roll in. It'll be getting
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: dark soon. You going back to the house? Yes, in
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: a moment. You go ahead.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Thanks for taking me around and forgive my philosophical outlook.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't apologize for that. I think it was very
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: well said. Goodbye, Mrs. Carroll. His house. Michael's house. Just
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: as he left it. But the walls can't talk and
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the books, the chairs... What are you doing here? Alan!
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: What are you doing here? Alan, you frightened me so.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: You came here looking for something. I asked you not
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: to pry. I asked you to forget about Mike.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Alan, you didn't leave Seattle just because.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Wamsley telephoned me. He said you'd ask him for the keys. Yes,
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: I thought it was important that I come. You're my wife, Anne.
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: You've never even seen Mike, and yet he's managed to
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: get a hold on you and make trouble between you.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, darling, I'm only trying.
• 29:47
  Speaker 6: He had a diabolic cleverness about pushing people around.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: He always knew how to get his own way. You
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: keep saying had, and you... Is he dead? Not that
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: I know if he's dead. I hope he is. Alan,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: how can you.
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: How much do you think I can stand... He's got
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: you sneaking around corners trying to find out things about him.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: What have you discovered? I'm here to help.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Let's find out everything we can about him. A man
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: who liked music and books, wouldn't you say? The strong, silent,
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: philosophical type. He'd have read your poetry and told you
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: whimsical stories about his neighbors.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: You'd have fallen for that, wouldn't you, Ann? Oh, Alan,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: I know you're sorry, but that doesn't help. Why couldn't
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: you do as I ask? If there's anything else you
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: want to know, ask me now. Don't ask Wamsley or
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: the natives or the bellboys at the hotel.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Ask me. I'll tell you anything if you'll only stop
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: bringing him into our life.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I was wrong to come here if you didn't want
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: me to. But for you to shout at me and
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: treat me as though I were a criminal. Alan, whatever
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I did, I did for us. To try to find
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: out why it is he comes with Queen as because
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: of him. Our life together, he's.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Hurting our marriage and I, I want our marriage.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: We, we better start back to town. You want to
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: go up to our rooms, Anne? Or would you rather
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: have dinner first?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: I'd rather go up if you don't mind. I'd like to... Alan, wait.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: What's the matter? Listen to that woman over there.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: No, Galloway's rude, all right. His camp was all set
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: for reconversion.
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: Galloway knows all about reconversion.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Did you ever see his wife? Anne, please. No, I
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: want to listen. I saw her in Washington the day
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: they arrived.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: She couldn't have looked out of here.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Of course, the poor girl had on a Sunday. That's
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: for granted. We can go up now, Alan. What are
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you thinking about, Ann? Those women in the lobby are
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: going to let a couple of gossips throw you.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: I'm thrown by the truth. I was rather dowdy that
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: first night in Washington. You expected me to be, didn't you?
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: I what?
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: You could have waited for me to meet your friends,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: but the truth is, if.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: No one saw the before, you wouldn't get credit for the.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: After, would you?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Why should I want to do a thing like that?
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: So you could exhibit me as your own invention, like
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: the Galloway distance control.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: What do you mean by that? You know, Alan, I
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: think I have a glimmering now of why you married me.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I want to know what you meant about the distance control.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I meant nothing by it. All right, what else do
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: you think? Why did I marry you?
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: You wanted another girl, but she fell in love with
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: someone else. I happened to remind you of her. Only
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I was so terribly admiring of you.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: You thought if you could make me outshine her.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Why, you're mad. Yes, Alan, I sometimes think I am.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling as though I were living in
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: a dream, haunted by your obsession, your hatred for your
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: brother all around us.
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Anne, Anne, things between us look pretty black right now.
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: It's hard to talk, but I do want to tell
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: you that I love you. The way I acted at
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: the ranch was unforgivable. I'll never speak that way to
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: you again. I'll have to go back to Seattle. You'll
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: have a couple of days to think. But when you do,
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: try to keep a little old-fashioned trust and blind faith
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: in our marriage. I want our marriage to end. It's
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: very important to me.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Please try. Yes, Alan.
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: I'll try.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I'll try. Make a friend, and you make an ally.
• 33:22
  Speaker 11: There's a thought for you to keep in mind, as
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: many another American has. In 1864, Clara Barton gave up
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: a successful job in the patent office in Washington and
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: devoted the rest of her life to bringing physical and
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: mental aid to the wounded and dying on the battlefield.
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: At first, it was the soldiers of the American Civil War.
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: But when the war ended, she was forced to go
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: abroad to recuperate from nervous exhaustion. While she was in Switzerland,
• 33:49
  Speaker 11: Napoleon declared war on Prussia. Clara Barton was urged to
• 33:53
  Speaker 11: return to her own country, but she refused. She felt
• 33:56
  Speaker 11: it was her duty to remain in Europe and help
• 33:59
  Speaker 11: the wounded of this new war. It didn't make any
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: difference to her if they were French or Prussian. She
• 34:04
  Speaker 11: didn't ask the nationality of the sufferer when she stopped
• 34:07
  Speaker 11: the flow of blood from a soldier's wound. In spite
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: of many inconveniences and hardships, she traveled across the rugged
• 34:14
  Speaker 11: German countryside to reach the Prussian front lines. But there
• 34:18
  Speaker 11: she was told that the only way she could be
• 34:20
  Speaker 11: allowed into a front line camp would be as a
• 34:23
  Speaker 11: prisoner of war. Clara Barton agreed, and as a prisoner
• 34:28
  Speaker 11: until the end of the war, she continued to do
• 34:30
  Speaker 11: her work with the wounded Prussian soldiers.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: After the war, she remained in Europe to help the
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: defeated French.
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: When she sailed for home in 1873, grateful Europeans bestowed
• 34:41
  Speaker 11: on her many medals of honor, including the Gold Cross
• 34:44
  Speaker 11: of Remembrance, the Jewel of the Red Cross, and the
• 34:47
  Speaker 11: Iron Cross of Merit. Once again, an unselfish American had
• 34:52
  Speaker 11: discovered that by helping others, you help your country.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: We pause now for station identification.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: The curtain rises on Act Three of Undercurrent, starring Joan
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Fontaine as Anne and Mel Ferrer as Alan.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: It's the following morning.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: With Alan back in Seattle, Anne is making an uninvited
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: call on Sylvia Burton.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Very nice of you to see me, Miss Burton. You
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: have a reason for coming here, I suppose. There are
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: some questions I'm trying to find the answers to. I'm
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: rather curious about a few things myself. As far as
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: Alan is concerned, I despise him. Does that answer one
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: of your questions?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Not quite. I love him. It's not Alan I want
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: to know about. It's Michael. I can imagine.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: All I know is that he and Alan had a
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: terrible fight and Michael disappeared. But he seems to be
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: coming up more and more in our lives, wherever we go,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: whatever we do. I've got to know more about him.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: My marriage, my happiness, my future seem to depend on it.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: And you'd like to know how close Mike and I were.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: Well, we weren't.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: I tried, but Mike wouldn't have it. I used to
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: think it was because he had some sort of funny
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: sense of loyalty since I'd met him through Alan.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: He was that thing you have to look for with
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: a microscope.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: A gentleman.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: And that's the man your husband spread those lies about
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: stealing money.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: I believe my husband, Miss Burton.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Nonsense.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: You think he's lying, and I know he is.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Why? Because I'd been through this myself. When Mike disappeared,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: I went crazy trying to find out what happened to him.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: And did you find out? Only that he'd been at
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: his ranch. That was the last anyone saw of him.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Except your husband. You see, I still think Mike is dead.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: You mean he was killed in the war? No, I
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: don't mean he was killed in the war. Why hasn't
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: he written to someone? Lots of us would like to
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: know what happened at that last meeting, Mrs.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: Garroway.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Ask your husband.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: What kind of a fight was it, and what happened
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: to Mike?
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: How dare you speak to me this way?
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: I should never have come here.
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: It isn't such a shocking idea, Mrs.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Garroway. Not when you've lived with him. Hello? Mrs.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: Alan Garroway?
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: One moment, please.
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: Seattle calling. Here's your party, sir.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Hello, Ann?
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, Alan.
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: I miss you so, darling. I miss you very much.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: I haven't been able to think or concentrate on anything
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: but you.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm so glad you said that.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I'm so confused. Don't, darling, don't.
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: Ann, I have to leave for Baltimore in the morning.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: I can't very well get out of it.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: That's all right, Alan.
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: But I think it could work out.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Well for us.
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: If you like, you could go on to Middleburg. Take
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: the train. By the time you get there, I'll be
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: through in Baltimore and can join you.
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Yes, Alan, yes.
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: I'm going to devote the next few weeks to us.
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: We'll have a real honeymoon in Middleburg. You wait and see.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: I love you, Ann.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I love you.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: I love you.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: I wish I'd known you'd come into Middleburg, Miss Galloway.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: I wish you'd told me. Why, George, I don't think
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: you're glad to see me. Oh, no, ma'am. I'm real pleased.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: When will Mr. Allen be here?
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: He'll be here later tonight. George, why do you wish
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: I'd let you know?
• 38:36
  Speaker 10: Just so that I had a little time to fix
• 38:39
  Speaker 10: things up.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Such as out there, George? Out there by the stables?
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: A little time to tell whoever it is out there
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: to go away. Miss Gareway, there ain't nobody out there,
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Miss Gareway.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't mean old Ben either. Just now when
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: I was walking, the dog saw him.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: Bate saw him. Bate was all excited, jumping up and
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: down and wagging his tail.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: But you didn't see nobody, ma'am. No, no, I didn't.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: It was too dark and I was frightened, I suppose.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: I came straight back here.
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: Oh, let it pass. Please, Miss Gareway, let it pass.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I can't, George.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: I'm not frightened now. I'm going back to the stables
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: and look for my.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Bates? Bates, come here, boy.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Come here. There's no one here now, is there, Fate?
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: But he was here and you saw him, didn't you?
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: You saw Michael. He's alive, isn't he? I thought that
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Sylvia Burton was right, that Alan had killed him. But
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: everything that Alan said about him is true. Michael's here
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: and he's hiding. That's why George... Oh, Alan! Alan, how
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: could I?
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: How could I?
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: How could I?
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: It's all right, Bates.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: You can stop barking. Hey, that's no way to welcome
• 40:04
  Speaker 6: me home.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Hello, Alan. Mike.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: Take it easy. Better keep our voices down. Your wife's
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: in the house. You've seen my wife?
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. She didn't see me. Why did you come back?
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Wouldn't you rather know why I went away? I didn't
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: steal any money, Alan. You've been a long time denying it.
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: It'd be kind of tough to prove. You have the
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: books pretty well rigged. But that's not what kept me away.
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: was Karl Stoyer. Stoyer's dead, yes. Dead and buried. Just
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: a nice old German refugee who lived for one thing only,
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: to get back at the Nazis.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Do you remember that invention he was working on?
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: Every man at the plant was working on an invention
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: of some kind or another. That's right. But only Stoyer died.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: The coroner said it was an accident. He fell down
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: the cellar step. And what's that got to do with me?
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: It's got a lot to do with you. Stoyer had
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: a pet name for that invention of his. His fern,
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: he called it. He used to say, my fern will
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: fix the Nazis. Your brother and me, we know. Someday
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: my fern will pay them back.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Fern, fern.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: I couldn't figure it out until it dawned on me
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: that fern is a German word. It means distance. Fernstöring.
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: Long-distance control. That's why Stoyer died. He was murdered by
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: somebody who wanted his invention. The distance controller was mine.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: It was Stoyer's.
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: And it made millions for you. Well, has the money
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: been worth it, Alan? Has it been worth killing for?
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: You can't prove any of this.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Maybe not.
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: Is Wormsley the only other one who guessed? Because you're
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: paying him off, aren't you? Well, anyway, I wanted to
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: get out of the whole mess. That's why I disappeared.
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: But it seems it has to be faced. After all,
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: I have met your wife.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Here? Today? No, the ranch.
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: She thought I was the caretaker. She's a fine girl, Ellen.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: But she doesn't know about Stoyer, does she? Well, I'm
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: here to make sure she finds out. If you think
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: I killed Stoyer, what makes you think I wouldn't kill you?
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: I believe you're capable of trying.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: No.
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: Once I could have killed you. But not now. I
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: can't kill you any more than I can give Anna.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: I'm going to keep her, Mike, for as long as
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: I can. A minute, an hour, as long as I can.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: How can you think you have a right to her?
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: What gives a man a right?
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: There's love. Because I love her. You can take everything else,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: but not her, Mike. Not her. I never thought I would,
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: but I'm crawling to you. She loves me. She's helping me.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: I've got a chance now.
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: I can be all right. I never could before. What
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: chances does she have, Alan?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: I'll tell her. Well, I'll have to do it my
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: own time.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: Just a little time, that's all I'm asking, until I'm
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: sure of her.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I think you can be sure of her.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: Anne.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Anne, darling. Wake up, dear. I'm back.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, forgive me, darling.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Forgive me. Forgive you? I've been so wrong.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: I've got to tell you something, and I'm.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: So deeply ashamed.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: I thought such crazy things about you.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: I thought that.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: I thought you'd killed your brother.
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: No, darling, listen to me.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: I thought that, and I was going away. I'd never
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: see you again. You were going to leave me? I
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: couldn't have stayed.
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: I couldn't have endured.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: You couldn't have endured living with a murderer.
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Oh, but it's all over.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I know he's alive. I'm able to breathe again.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: Yes, and it is.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: It is over.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Then no one will ever come between us again. Oh, Alan,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: I want you to listen to me. You remember that
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I once told you that Michael was your obsession? Yes.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I was wrong.
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: I think he's my obsession.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: I want to drive him away, but there's something unfinished somehow.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: I think if I could see him, hear him speak,
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: then I'd know him the way you do, as a man,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: not a shadow, someone who was cruel and wrong and
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: was hurt you.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, I was so wrong about him. Everyone was. Everyone?
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Whom did you speak to about Mike? Sylvia Burton. She
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: thought you killed him. And you believed her. Were you
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: glad she was wrong? Glad? Oh, yes, Alan, yes. Then
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: why are you unhappy? That's what I'm trying to tell you.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: You're still here in my mind somehow. You've got to
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: help me. I don't understand it. Do you understand? Yes. Yes,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I think I do. You're in love with him.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: No.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: You're in love with him, aren't you? No, no. How
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: could I be in love with someone that I've never seen?
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, but you've seen a lot of Mike. A book,
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: a poem, his house, a girl who once loved him.
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: Aren't you jealous of Sylvia Burton? Why did you go
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: to her? What did you really want to know?
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Alan, please.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: You'd go to anyone who could talk about Mike. You
• 44:34
  Speaker 6: wanted to believe what they had to tell you. You
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: never believed me. You don't believe me now.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: Stop it, Alan.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Stop it. It wasn't my happiness. Our happiness. You were
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: trying to find it with him. Oh, that's not true.
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: You were so relieved just now. Not because I hadn't
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: killed him, but because he was alive. You'll go on
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: looking for him, won't you, Anne? And after you find him,
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: then what? Will you leave me?
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: Alan! Don't you see what you've done? You'll never leave me, Anne, never.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: George!
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: George! Good morning, Anne. Well, you're up early.
• 45:08
  Speaker 11: Didn't you sleep well?
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: George!
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: George is gone. I sent him into town. He won't
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: be back until evening. Alan, no. Alan, no. I thought
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: I'd go for a ride. That stallion will break down
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: the stall unless he gets some exercise. I thought we could...
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Why are you trembling, Anne? Sit down. Here. Have some coffee.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: Alan, I.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: Don't be afraid, Anne. Fear is no good. I know.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: But now I'm finally free. Drink your coffee, dear. Your
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: hand's shaking.
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: You're not going on being afraid the rest of your life,
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: are you, Anne?
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: Why run to your room?
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: You can't lock yourself in. I've got the key, Anne. Hey, there.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: Anyone else? Oh, hello, Mrs. Foster. Come in. Hello, Alice.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: Your wife up yet? Yes, I think so. Shall I
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: call her?
• 46:07
  Speaker 5: Well, it's a fine morning for a ride.
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, it is. You must have had the same
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: idea you're dressed for. Why, yes, I... Oh, there you are.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Welcome home, my dear.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: How about coming over for breakfast and a ride?
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: I'd like to very much. Wonderful. I'll expect you in
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: half an hour. How's that? Oh, but I can be
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: ready in just a moment. Well, if you... Biscuits for breakfast, Mrs. Foster?
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: With my own two hands. And just wait till you
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: taste them. Nothing like them in the whole world.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: Mrs.
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: Foster, there's something I must tell you.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: I must speak to you. Oh, that's fine, dear.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: We'll have a leisurely breakfast and all morning to get
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: acquainted in. See you soon, dear.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: I'll walk out with you, Mrs. Foster. I'll have to
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: saddle up the horses. What's the matter with the bride, Alan?
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: A quarrel? Oh, not a quarrel, exactly. Well, don't worry.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: It's natural, the first year, getting acquainted. What horse are
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: you going to ride? The stallion, naturally.
• 47:00
  Speaker 5: Well, just make sure you don't give him to her.
• 47:02
  Speaker 5: He's a mean one.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Alan. Alan, do we have to come this way? Can't
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: you handle your horse? I gave you the mare. But
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: I'm not a good rider, Alan. This cliff. I thought
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: if we took the trail along the cliff, you'd enjoy
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: the view. It is beautiful, isn't it?
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: Alan, keep your horse back, please.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: That's easy to say. I can't hold him in. But
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: there's not room for both of us.
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: The path is narrow, isn't it? Quite a drop to
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: the gorge, Anne.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: 200 feet. Alan, you're pushing me. Well, then use your spurs.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Go on ahead. Alan, Alan, please don't. Please don't. Please.
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: You want to leave me, Ann, don't you? You want
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: to go to Michael. I'll send you to him now.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Alan, no.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: No.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: You little fool. Go on.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: Run away.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: See how far you'll get. Ann!
• 47:53
  Speaker 8: Ann!
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: Did your horse throw you? That's quite a bruise on
• 47:59
  Speaker 6: your head. Or did you hit a low branch? It hurts,
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: doesn't it, Ann? But nothing's going to hurt you anymore.
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: I'm going to kill you, Ann. They'll think you broke
• 48:10
  Speaker 6: your stupid little neck when your horse.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Get away! Get away!
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Hello, Doctor. Doctor, this is Mrs. Foster.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: There's been a terrible accident. Alan Garroway, he's dead. That
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: stallion of his must have gone crazy or something. Kicked
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: him to death, it looks like. You'd better come right out, Doctor.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: His wife's been badly hurt, too.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: That music is beautiful, Anne. Who's playing? My father. My father?
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: He always does well by Chopin. I like your father, Anne.
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad he was able to come down here.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: So am I, Mrs. Foster.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: You're all right.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Staying on here at Middleburg all these weeks, doing your
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: getting well here, it.
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: Took courage to face it out. Most people would have
• 49:11
  Speaker 5: run away.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Hard to run away in a wheelchair.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Dr. Hill says by next week.
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: That's really why I stayed.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Not because of courage, I haven't.
• 49:22
  Speaker 10: Here you are, darling.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: One of Georgia's priceless egg tarts.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Father! Well?
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Who's playing the piano? I thought you were. You have
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: a visitor.
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: Oh, no.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: I can't see him.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not ready yet.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: You sent for him, Anne. Yes.
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: Yes, I sent for him.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I'll wheel you in. I can manage alone. You're Michael,
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: aren't you? Yes. I'm sorry, Anne. I should have told
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: you that day at the ranch. I think I knew.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Not at the ranch, but afterwards. I think I knew.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: You sent for me? Yes. I think I'd have come
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: in any case. I was just waiting until you were well.
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: Well, it seems that now I'm a very rich woman.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: Yes. It's wrong for me to have it. It belongs
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: to you. No.
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: No, it belongs to someone who's dead now. Carl Stoyer.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: His heirs, possibly.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: They must have it then. I'm a bad liar, Michael.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: I didn't send for you because.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Of the money. The lawyers could have handled that. I
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: wanted to know you. Now that you do.
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: I'm happy to know you, Michael.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you. There are other things I must tell you.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I won't forget Alan. I loved him very much. Not
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: at the end. It was gone then. But I did
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: love him.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: Anna, I almost got you killed. I was here the
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: night before. I saw Alan. Talked to him. I should
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: never have left. I looked for you, Michael. I went
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: away that night because....
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: Because I was full of guilt about my feelings for you.
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: I had no business to feel the way about you
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: that I did my brother's wife.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: I won't talk about it now, but... Someday. Yes, Michael.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: In a moment, our stars will return.
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: The town of Kotzebue, Alaska, had very little defense against
• 51:38
  Speaker 11: the fire which raced through it on a winter's night.
• 51:41
  Speaker 11: In a few hours, houses, stores, and other buildings had
• 51:44
  Speaker 11: burned to the ground, and many people were homeless. But
• 51:48
  Speaker 11: a unit from the 11th Air Division stationed nearby took
• 51:51
  Speaker 11: charge and made space for the people to stay overnight,
• 51:54
  Speaker 11: set up temporary shelters and mess tents. And the next day,
• 51:57
  Speaker 11: they set to work to rebuild the town. On off-duty
• 52:00
  Speaker 11: hours throughout the next few weeks, they worked as carpenters, painters, bricklayers, plumbers,
• 52:05
  Speaker 11: and electricians. And from their example, the people of Kotzebue
• 52:09
  Speaker 11: took heart. As the town was rebuilt, so their hope
• 52:13
  Speaker 11: for the future was rekindled. Such acts by you and
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: your friends today are shaping our world of tomorrow.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Now, Mr. Cummings with our star.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: And here they are, stepping forward to the footlights, Joan
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Fontaine and Mel Perez. Mr.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Cummings, what about next week's play?
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: It's a highly dramatic story filled with suspense that will
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: keep you right on the edge of your chair. It's
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: 20th Century Fox's Man on a Tightrope, the exciting adventure
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: of a circus owner who makes a wild dash for
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: freedom in a foolhardy attempt to escape from terror and oppression.
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: As our stars, one of the finest actors of stage
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: or screen, Edward J.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Robinson.
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: And co-starring in the part of his lovely daughter will
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: be Terry Moore.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, we'll be looking forward to that, Irving. Good night.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Good night. Good night. It was an exciting.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: Evening.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: The Hollywood Radio Theater is produced by Mr. Irving Cummings.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Our orchestra is under the direction of Rudy Schrager.
• 53:28
  Speaker 10: This is Ken Carpenter.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: Inviting you to join us next week at this same.
• 53:32
  Speaker 11: Time for another presentation of the Hollywood Radio Theater. Hollywood
• 53:47
  Speaker 11: Radio Theater is a presentation of the United States Armed
• 53:50
  Speaker 11: Forces Radio and Television Service.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: So so so.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: That was Lux Radio Theater's Undercurrent, first heard on CBS
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: November 30th, 1953. Good night, and thank you for keeping
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: classic radio company.