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Lux Radio Theatre - "Death Takes a Holiday" (Old Time Radio, 1937) · Lux Radio Theater | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Death arrives at Duke Lambert's Italian villa, taking the identity
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  Speaker 1: of Prince Circe for a brief holiday among the living.
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  Speaker 1: On March 22nd, 1937, Lux Radio Theater presented Death Takes
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  Speaker 1: a Holiday, episode 125, from Alberto Casella's play and the
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  Speaker 1: Paramount film adaptation. Frederick March reprises his screen role as
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  Speaker 1: Death and with Florence Eldridge as Grazia in a cast
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  Speaker 1: that also includes Kay Johnson, Arthur Byron, Gene Lockhart, and
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  Speaker 1: Howard Phillips. Produced by Cecil B. DeMille for CBS, this
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  Speaker 1: broadcast brings death into the Lambert household where he encounters Grazia.
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  Speaker 1: And now, our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Hollywood, California, Monday, March 22nd. ¶ ¶.
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  Speaker 3: The Lux Radio Theater presents Frederick March and Florence Eldridge
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  Speaker 3: in Death Takes a Holiday with Kay Johnson, Arthur Byron,
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  Speaker 3: and Gene Lockhart.
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  Speaker 2: Lux presents Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Our stars, Frederick Marsh, Florence Eldridge, Kay Johnson, Arthur Byron,
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  Speaker 3: Gene Lockhart, and Howard Phillips.
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  Speaker 2: Our producer, Cecil B. DeMille.
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  Speaker 3: Our guests, the celebrated screenwriter and adapter of Death Takes
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  Speaker 3: a Holiday, Mr. Walter Ferris. And the famous star of
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  Speaker 3: silent pictures, Miss Blanche Sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Our conductor, Louis Silvers.
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  Speaker 3: So do the makers of Lux Toilet Soap welcome you
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  Speaker 3: to another hour in Hollywood and to the 125th production
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  Speaker 3: of the Lux Radio Theater. Now, a word to the
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  Speaker 3: ladies in our audience. If there's a man in the
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  Speaker 3: room with you now, your husband, your brother, your sweetheart,
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  Speaker 3: what is he thinking about your complexion? Is it so smooth,
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  Speaker 3: so fresh and clear that he's bound to be admiring?
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  Speaker 3: If you're not quite sure, better begin today to use
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  Speaker 3: Luxe Toilet Soap, the soap with active lather. And be
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  Speaker 3: sure you're removing cosmetics thoroughly, too. Use Luxe Toilet Soap
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  Speaker 3: regularly before you put on fresh makeup, always.
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  Speaker 2: Before you go to bed.
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  Speaker 3: Women everywhere find this simple care guards against unattractive cosmetic skin, dullness,
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  Speaker 3: tiny blemishes, and large pores. Remember, too, that right now
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  Speaker 3: in Hollywood, actually nine out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Screen stars use luxe toilet soap.
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  Speaker 3: And now, our distinguished producer, ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Cecil B. DeMille.
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  Speaker 3: Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Throughout the thunderous years
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  Speaker 3: of the World War, an Italian soldier named Alberto Casella
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  Speaker 3: heard the command to die. It was blasted in his
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  Speaker 3: ears by a screaming shrapnel, whispered by gases that crept
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  Speaker 3: into shattered outposts, sung by the fatal choirs of machine guns,
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  Speaker 3: until death and Alberto Casella became bosom companions. Yet the
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  Speaker 3: soldier survived. Inspired by his grim associate of the trenches,
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  Speaker 3: he wrote the tender fantasy from which tonight's play, Death
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  Speaker 3: Takes a Holiday, was adapted. Casella's regard of death as
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  Speaker 3: an almost physical being... not cruel, but wise beyond understanding...
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  Speaker 3: may be interpreted in the lines he once wrote to
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  Speaker 3: a friend. Speaking of death, he said... Occasionally, we felt
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  Speaker 3: His Highness was on a vacation. Many a time, he
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  Speaker 3: willfully overlooked a comrade... later coming back to escort someone else...
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  Speaker 3: out of a tired, bleeding world. Death often seemed human
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  Speaker 3: to me. Originally produced in Italy... the adaptation of Death
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  Speaker 3: Takes a Holiday, met with great success on stage and screen.
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  Speaker 3: The leading role tonight, as in the film version, is
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  Speaker 3: played by one of the most discerning and believable performers.
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  Speaker 3: It has been my pleasure to direct Frederick March, who
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  Speaker 3: starred for me in Sign of the Cross. Freddie's presence
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  Speaker 3: here tonight can be traced to an attack of appendicitis,
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  Speaker 3: which sent him to the hospital from his desk in
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  Speaker 3: a New York bank. While recuperating, he decided to leave
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  Speaker 3: finance and turn actor, Playing in Denver, he met and
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  Speaker 3: married Miss Florence Eldridge, who is again this evening his
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  Speaker 3: leading lady. Hollywood has also brought new honors to Miss Eldridge.
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  Speaker 3: Featured in many films, we remember her best for her
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  Speaker 3: splendid performance as Queen Elizabeth in Mary of Scotland, and
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  Speaker 3: hear her tonight in the part of Grazia. Our Madame
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  Speaker 3: Alda is Kay Johnson, whom I saw on the stage
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  Speaker 3: in The Silver Chord, and brought to Hollywood to play
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  Speaker 3: the leads in Dynamite and Madame Satan. Before I could
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  Speaker 3: engage her for a third film, director John Cromwell made
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  Speaker 3: an engagement I could not interfere with.
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  Speaker 2: He married her.
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  Speaker 3: Arthur Byron, recently on the stage with Catherine Hepburn, with
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  Speaker 3: Catherine Cornell in St. Joan, and with John Gielgud in Hamlet,
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  Speaker 3: is heard tonight as Duke Lambert, Jean Lockhart as the Baron,
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  Speaker 3: and Howard Phillips as Corrado. Behind the wings of the stage,
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  Speaker 3: our stars have left their dressing rooms, the callboys shouting
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  Speaker 3: curtain times, and Deluxe Radio Theater presents Frederick March and
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  Speaker 3: Florence Eldridge in the romantic fantasy Death Takes a Holiday,
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  Speaker 3: featuring Kay Johnson and Arthur Barrett.
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  Speaker 2: A lonely road in Italy.
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  Speaker 3: A full round moon hangs low in the sky, bathing
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  Speaker 3: the countryside in ghostly radiance. An automobile purrs softly through
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  Speaker 3: the night, making its way toward the old castle of
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  Speaker 3: Duke Lambert.
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  Speaker 2: At the wheel is the Duke's son, Corrado.
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  Speaker 3: And beside him, Grazia San Luca, a lovely young girl
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  Speaker 3: who seems lost in a dream as she surrenders to
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  Speaker 3: the beauty of the night.
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  Speaker 2: You haven't heard a word I've said, Grazia. What? You
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  Speaker 2: haven't been listening to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I have. Really, Corrado. It's just this night. It's
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  Speaker 4: so beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I asked you when we were to be married.
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  Speaker 4: I know, dear. And I told you.
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  Speaker 2: You told me soon. You can't expect me to be
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  Speaker 2: satisfied with that. I love you too much. Far too much.
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  Speaker 2: And soon so easily becomes never.
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  Speaker 4: Please, let's not talk about it now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, why not?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't meant for talking this night. There's something miraculous
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  Speaker 5: in the air.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't you felt it?
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  Speaker 5: Like an old story you can't quite believe. And a
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  Speaker 5: strange shadow is following us.
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  Speaker 2: A shadow? You're imagining things.
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  Speaker 4: It's been behind us all the way.
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  Speaker 2: It's the shadow of a tree, perhaps.
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  Speaker 4: It isn't a tree.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a cloud across the moon.
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  Speaker 4: There are no clouds. And it is a shadow. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: it's close by. Sometimes we almost lose it.
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  Speaker 2: Very well, then. We lose it.
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  Speaker 6: Watch?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. So fast, Corrado.
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  Speaker 2: How's this?
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  Speaker 4: Faster, faster.
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  Speaker 2: Like it?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's glorious to go fast. It feels like wings.
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  Speaker 2: We are almost flying at this speed. The car won't
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  Speaker 2: do much more than... Grazia!
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  Speaker 4: Corrado!
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  Speaker 2: I can't see the road. Get down!
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  Speaker 4: Get down!
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  Speaker 2: Grazia.
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  Speaker 7: Grazia.
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  Speaker 4: Here, Corrado.
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  Speaker 2: Are you.
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  Speaker 7: Are you all right, darling?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Oh, thank God.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't a scratch.
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  Speaker 2: You, Corrado? No, nothing at least.
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  Speaker 4: No, not even a mark.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wonder we weren't both killed. It's a miracle, Grazia.
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  Speaker 4: Look at that car. I said there was something strange
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  Speaker 4: in the air. Something miraculous.
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  Speaker 8: Grazia, that shadow you saw. I saw it too, just
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  Speaker 8: before we crashed. It seemed to envelop the whole car.
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  Speaker 8: I couldn't even see the road.
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  Speaker 4: And I wasn't imagining things.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 4: What was it? What could it have been?
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  Speaker 10: We'd better get on to the house. You know, Father
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  Speaker 10: will be waiting for us. Here, give me your hand, darling,
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  Speaker 10: and stay close to me.
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  Speaker 7: And that was it, Father.
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  Speaker 2: We seemed to turn over and over endlessly. I'm sorry
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  Speaker 2: about the cars, eh? Never mind the car. I'm thankful
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  Speaker 2: that you both weren't killed. You're sure you're both all right?
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  Speaker 2: We haven't a scratch between us, Mother.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps you'd better go and lie down, Grazia. Thank you,
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  Speaker 4: but it's not necessary.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lucky night for all of us, it seems.
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  Speaker 3: We had a rather narrow escape ourselves this evening.
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  Speaker 2: Who, Father?
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  Speaker 3: The Baron Cesaria, Madame Alda, and myself. We were driving
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  Speaker 3: home from the village, and we ran into a street
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  Speaker 3: vendor's cart. We were traveling rather fast at the time.
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  Speaker 3: Must have carried the cart 50 feet, and the peddler
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  Speaker 3: with it. Good Lord, Father, he wasn't... No, luckily. We
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  Speaker 3: picked him up, and he seemed to be none the
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  Speaker 3: worse for it. It was a relief, I can tell you.
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  Speaker 2: The strangest part of it was that none of us
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  Speaker 2: even saw the cart. There seemed to be a cloud
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  Speaker 2: in front of us.
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  Speaker 4: A cloud?
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  Speaker 2: Well, not exactly that, perhaps. More like a shadow. A shadow?
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  Speaker 2: That's what we saw.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, just before we crashed. It doesn't seem possible. You know, son,
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  Speaker 2: I think... Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 3: I think the night has been playing tricks with us.
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  Speaker 3: And in the future, we'd better have our headlights cleaned
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  Speaker 3: more often.
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  Speaker 5: It was my fault you planned it. I asked Corrada
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  Speaker 5: to go fast. It felt as if we were flying.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Well, Grazia, we think you've been flying long enough. When
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  Speaker 3: are you going to fold your wings and become my daughter-in-law?
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  Speaker 3: We were speaking of that tonight. I've been trying to
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  Speaker 3: persuade Grazia to make it next month.
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  Speaker 4: Won't you, dear? I wish I could, but.
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  Speaker 2: It's only a question of making up your mind, my darling.
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  Speaker 4: You know I love you all and want to please you.
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  Speaker 2: You.
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  Speaker 4: But don't you see? I'm not ready.
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  Speaker 2: But why, Grazia?
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  Speaker 4: Because life is too full.
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  Speaker 5: There's a kind of happiness I want to find first.
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  Speaker 4: If I can.
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  Speaker 2: Aren't you happy with me?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, dear. But that isn't quite what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I knew how to tell you. There's something
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  Speaker 4: out there. Out there in the night, which I must
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  Speaker 4: find first and understand. Grazia. I'm going into the garden.
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  Speaker 2: May I come with you?
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  Speaker 4: I'd rather be alone, if you don't mind. Grazia's so
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  Speaker 4: strange at times. I don't understand her.
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  Speaker 10: I don't myself sometimes. She's so fine, so delicate, so
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  Speaker 10: utterly remote from us all. It puzzles me.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't worry, my son. You'll win her yet.
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  Speaker 11: Madame Alda, I believe the peddler thought you were an
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  Speaker 11: angel when we picked him up.
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  Speaker 2: Baron, Madame Alda, I hope you've both quite recovered from
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  Speaker 2: your shock.
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  Speaker 9: It was hardly a shock, Duke Lambert. More in the
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  Speaker 9: nature of a very intense thrill. I rather enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: Madame Alda lives for thrills.
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  Speaker 4: Well, why not? Is there anything better to live for, Baron?
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  Speaker 11: Only love, and you probably count that among your thrills.
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  Speaker 11: I know I always did, in my younger days, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Corrado and Grazia had a lucky escape tonight themselves.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we were driving home along the hill road when...
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  Speaker 2: What on earth was that? She's in the garden. It
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  Speaker 2: sounded as if she... Grazia! Grazia! You'd better see. She
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  Speaker 2: came from the fountain. This way. Corrado, Corrado, where are you?
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  Speaker 4: Here, Father.
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  Speaker 2: Corrado.
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  Speaker 4: There she is, Grazia, lying on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: Is it? Corrado, what's happened? I don't know. She was
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  Speaker 2: just lying here.
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  Speaker 4: She wounded old Lambert.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now, my dear, it'll be all right. Lift her
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  Speaker 2: up a little, Corrado. It's just coming. Grazia. Grazia.
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  Speaker 4: Don't let it come near me. Don't let it come
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  Speaker 4: near me.
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  Speaker 2: What happened, Grazia?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: There was something cold and terrible. I was sitting by
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  Speaker 5: the fountain watching the water. And then an icy wind
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  Speaker 5: touched me. But it wasn't the wind because all the
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  Speaker 5: leaves were still.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps you fell asleep and dreamed.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, I saw it.
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  Speaker 2: What? What did you see?
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  Speaker 4: A shadow.
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  Speaker 5: An enormous darkness. And yet it wasn't a shadow because
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  Speaker 5: the moon shone through it. Oh, Corrado, I felt something
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  Speaker 5: behind me running. It wasn't any sound, but I felt someone.
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  Speaker 5: And then it touched me. Something cold.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Grazia. Carry her into the house.
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  Speaker 12: I'll help you, Corrado.
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  Speaker 2: Stephanie? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Call Gratia's mother. Tell her there's nothing to worry about,
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  Speaker 3: but ask her to come. It's just a case of nerves,
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  Speaker 3: I think, but we'd better play safe.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Tadeli, have you searched the grounds?
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  Speaker 3: Pardon me, Your Excellency, but we found nothing. Not even
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  Speaker 3: a footprint, sir. Oh, there must have been something. I'll
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  Speaker 3: have a look myself.
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  Speaker 2: You clamber. My revolver is in the desk drawer, Tadeli.
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  Speaker 2: Give it to me, please. Yes, Your Excellency. Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell my wife I've gone out. Don't tell anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Very good, sir. Who's there? Who's there in that shadow? Answer,
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  Speaker 2: or I'll shoot.
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  Speaker 7: It will be quite useless against me.
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  Speaker 2: Stand back.
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  Speaker 7: You see?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you? What are you doing here?
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  Speaker 7: Shall I show you my face?
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  Speaker 2: Look, my friend.
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  Speaker 4: Good God!
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  Speaker 2: Who are you?
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  Speaker 7: I am not of your world. I am... How shall
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  Speaker 7: I describe it? The thought of vagabond space.
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  Speaker 2: I am....
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  Speaker 6: I was until I came into this garden.
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  Speaker 7: Death.
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  Speaker 2: Death?
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  Speaker 6: But please be reassured. I am not on my usual
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  Speaker 6: mission tonight. I have already stood beside one of your
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  Speaker 6: number tonight without harm. That lovely young girl in the garden.
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  Speaker 2: Then... Then it was you?
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  Speaker 7: Yes. And on the road I was there too and
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  Speaker 7: no one was harmed.
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  Speaker 6: Doesn't that reassure you that I have no fatal intentions? But.
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  Speaker 2: But why did you come here, if not on your
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  Speaker 2: usual mission?
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  Speaker 7: Why? That may be rather difficult to explain.
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  Speaker 6: However, I am about to take a holiday. I shall
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  Speaker 6: take only three days, and after that I must go back.
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  Speaker 6: But why?
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  Speaker 2: Why do you do this?
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  Speaker 7: For a number of reasons. For one thing, to discover
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  Speaker 7: why men fear me as they do.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know?
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  Speaker 7: How should I know? What could terror mean to me
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  Speaker 7: who have nothing to fear?
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  Speaker 6: Can you conceive how weary I am of always being misunderstood?
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  Speaker 6: Can you conceive how lonely I am when there is
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  Speaker 6: nothing that does not shun me?
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  Speaker 2: What is it you are seeking?
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  Speaker 6: There must be something here on earth to be known
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  Speaker 6: and felt. Something desirable that makes men fear me and
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  Speaker 6: cling to their life. I must know what it is.
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  Speaker 6: Will you accept me for these three days as a guest?
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  Speaker 2: As a guest?
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  Speaker 6: Don't be alarmed. As a mortal, of course. I assure you,
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  Speaker 6: I shall be quite a man of the world. Will
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  Speaker 6: it be a great trouble for you to put me up?
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. No, I... I have a suite
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  Speaker 2: of rooms prepared for an old friend who is expected.
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  Speaker 2: Prince Serki. Indeed.
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  Speaker 7: Prince Serki of the Talva Alexandri?
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: Prince Serki will not come to see you. Not in
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  Speaker 7: this lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 6: I saw him early this morning.
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  Speaker 7: Then... Then he... He's dead.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I did not know, of course, that he was a
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  Speaker 7: friend of yours.
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  Speaker 2: Poor Sucky.
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  Speaker 7: Tell me. Was the prince known to your family and
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  Speaker 7: your guests?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Excellent.
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  Speaker 6: I shall be Prince Sucky of Etalba Alexandre for these
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  Speaker 6: three days.
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  Speaker 2: What? Oh, please.
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  Speaker 6: Please understand that my presence in your house will not
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  Speaker 6: be a menace, but a protection... Thank you. But there
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  Speaker 6: is one condition on which I shall insist.
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 6: I am to be Prince Circe and no other.
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  Speaker 7: When I leave you now and return later in his person,
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  Speaker 7: I shall be mortal.
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  Speaker 6: And I must be treated as a mortal in every particular.
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  Speaker 6: No one under this roof must show repulsion or fear
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  Speaker 6: on pain of my instant displeasure.
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  Speaker 2: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 7: Let me put it this way.
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  Speaker 6: If my secret is divulged, I shall leave instantly at
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  Speaker 6: Circe and return in my proper person.
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  Speaker 7: Do I make myself clear this time? I.
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  Speaker 2: I understand, Your... Your Highness.
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  Speaker 7: So at last, I am to become mortal. change my
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  Speaker 7: whole person so none will fear me. I shall feel
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  Speaker 7: blood in my veins, the warm blood of life.
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  Speaker 6: I shall know what you know and feel what you feel.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: My hunger shall be appeased for an hour. My hunger
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: that is as old as time. Those that I love
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: need not be afraid. Not afraid.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: I am beside myself My holiday is just a treat,
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: a mad joke I play with life. But what a monstrous,
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: what a sublime joke.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: And you, you, my friend, will be distinguished among hosts.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: For none has entertained death before and lived. You may
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: expect me soon.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: I've never found anything like it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: But why at this hour? Unusual, but interesting, Baron.
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: My husband asked especially to see.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Everyone in the library. I don't know why.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Ah, here he is. Well, Lambert. I'm sorry to arouse
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you at this hour, my friends. It's important, believe me.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Lambert, Grazia's mother is here.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Ah, Maria. I'm glad to see you.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: I was so worried about Grazia when I heard.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: She'll be all right. Have you seen her?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: She's upstairs, resting. It isn't necessary for her to be.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Here now, is it? Why, no, my dear.
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: Well, Lambert.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: My friends. I.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I have received a message tonight from Prince Circe.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: Oh, so he's coming at last.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: He's coming. I, uh... I... I want to tell you
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: all something very seriously. This guest whom we're expecting is
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: no ordinary person. Now, if he should appear eccentric or
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: strange in any way, you must take no notice. Treat
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: him as a prince and a gentleman always. And above all,
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: you must not be afraid.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Lambert, I don't understand.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: And no matter what happens, you must never shun him
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: or protest or.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: or run.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't do any good if you did. You can't
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: run from... From what, Lambert? Nothing. I didn't mean.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Wilfred Ailey? His Highness Prince Circe. Circe. Welcome, Your Highness,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: to our villa. Thank you, my dear Duke.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: I am so happy to be here. We're more than honored.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: May I present my wife, Prince Circe?
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Your Highness is most welcome.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I have rarely been so charmingly received. And now, may
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: I present my guests? It will be a pleasure, Madame Alda.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: How do you do, Prince Circe?
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Ah, may I say I had not realized that the
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: women of your country... were so beautiful.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Your Highness is most kind.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I wish that we might never meet when you are
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: less beautiful, and I must be less kind.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: The Princess Maria, Prince Serki. Your Highness. Your Highness.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: The Baron Cesarea, sir. A statement who was once important
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: in the affairs of the world. who now looks back
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: on a long and interesting life.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: I am delighted to meet thee, Baron. At last. And
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I to meet you, Your Highness.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Considering your distinction and your age, it is surprising that
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: fate has not introduced us before.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Your Highness, my son Corrado. Ah, quiet. The son who
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: drives his car so furiously. I beg your pardon, sir?
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: My friend. Please, permit me to call you my friend.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Your Highness.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: Please make no change in your plans because of my
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: sudden appearance. I should like to join in your pleasures,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: if I may, and enjoy the hours with you. I
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: beg you not to make a stranger of me. Your
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: rooms are ready, Your Highness.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: My room? Yes, at your pleasure.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Then if you will forgive me, I think I will
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: go now. I have not slept for ages, and I
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: feel curiously tired.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Mother!
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Grazie.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I couldn't sleep, Duclan, but I was too restless.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: This is a guest I have not had the pleasure
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: of meeting.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Grazia, this is Prince Cerchi, the Princess Maria's daughter, Your Highness.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: How do you do, Your Highness?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: How do you do?
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: We have not met before, Your Highness.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Perhaps for a few fleeting moments. Yes.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, that is how it seems. A few fleeting moments.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I am happy to welcome you now, sir.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: Please, give me your hand, Grazia. Ah, so young and
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: firm and full of life. And it lies so trustingly
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: in mine.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: Is there any reason why it should not?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Grazia.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: You have done me a great kindness tonight. My friends,
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: my holiday begins most agreeably. Before we go on with
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: the Lux Radio Theater presentation of Death Takes a Holiday,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: starring Frederick March and Florence Eldridge, we're going to let
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: you in on a Hollywood beauty secret. We're going over
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: on La Brea Avenue to a little stucco house where
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: happy Mrs.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Thomas F.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Has been chatting with her friend Ethel over tea.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Ethel has suddenly looked at her watch.
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Marion, I had no idea it was so late. It's
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: a quarter past six. Gosh, I haven't left you any
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: time at all to rest. Oh, don't be silly.
• 23:46
  Speaker 14: I loved having you. I have plenty of time to
• 23:48
  Speaker 14: get dressed before Tom gets home. My bath only takes
• 23:51
  Speaker 14: two shakes, and it always rests me. I'll feel like
• 23:55
  Speaker 14: a million.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Tom will think you look it, too. We always talk
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: about the way you keep Tom so adoring. So long, Marion.
• 24:02
  Speaker 14: So long, dear.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Call me if you're home tonight.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Marion keeps Tom in love with her because she knows
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: this secret. One thing a man adores in any woman
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: is skin that's sweet. That's why Marion is devoted to
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: Hollywood's beauty bag. Lux Toilet Soap's active lather removes perspiration,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: every last trace of dust and dirt from the pores.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Its delicate, expensive fragrance lingers.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: After her luxe toilet soap beauty bath, Tom's sure to
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: greet his wife like this.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Hello, darling. How's my girl? Gee, you look so swell.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: I think I ought to take you out. How about it?
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: We could go anywhere, and I wouldn't find another girl
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: that's half as sweet. Why don't you protect daintiness? Keep
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: romance the luxe toilet soap way. we continue with Death
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Takes a Holiday, starring Frederick March and Florence Eldridge. Three
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: days have gone by, and the phantom death is still
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: a guest at the home of the Duke, still enjoying
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: his brief visit to Earth in the person of Prince Circe. Meanwhile,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: the world is an astounded witness to a series of
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: miracles in London. SS Cedric explodes at sea, sinks within
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: an hour, no lives lost. In Paris, man jumps from
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Eiffel Tower in attempted suicide, walks away uninjured. In Japan,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: island of Kobushima totally demolished by heaviest earthquake in history.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: All residents are safe.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: And so for three days, no life is endangered, no
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: living thing destroyed, while death amuses himself.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Now at conversation, now at yachting, now at.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: The gaming table of a fashionable resort where his luck
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: amazes other players.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: He's doubled seven times on the six.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: If he's right once more, you'll own the casino. You
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: mustn't double again, Your Highness. Oh, Baron, should I not?
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: You'll lose all you've won. Mademoiselle, shall I or shall
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: I not?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: Yes, say it. I think the world is all yours
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: to do with as you choose.
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: Your Highness?
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, Croupier? I'm very sorry, but it's against the rules
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: of the house to double a game. Oh, but look here.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: You make it necessary for me to take a great
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: deal of this metal away with me.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Your Highness. Very well, but I have no
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: use for it. Here, here. You divide it, please, among
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: those who need it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Baron? Baron?
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: Shall we go out on the balcony? Delighted. A magnificent gesture,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Your Highness. Magnificent. You make life exciting again.
• 26:49
  Speaker 11: I felt 20 years younger ever since you arrived.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You know, Baron, out here is the night. Crowded with beauty.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: And all of you, you heard inside in smoky rooms...
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: feverish over little games.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: One comes here to gamble, and one gambles to win.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: It seems to me that men have not begun to
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: discover the magnificence of this life.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Will you tell me what in the world you're looking for, Pensike?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I came here looking for a game to play, a
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: game worth playing. I have been among you almost three days, and.
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: What you do with yourselves still seems to me so
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: very futile and empty.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: There are only three games, money, love, and war. Have
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: you tried war?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Plenty of it. I could never make out what it
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: was they were fighting about. It's usually a flag, isn't it?
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Or a barren piece of ground that neither side wants.
• 27:50
  Speaker 11: Well, I suppose they fight to make themselves heroic for
• 27:53
  Speaker 11: someone they love.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, oh. It all comes down to one game. One game,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: that's what it comes to? Mm-hmm. One never grows tired
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: of love. Shall I tell you something, Baron?
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: This last great game of yours, this of which you
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: never tire, seems to me to be the strangest, the saddest,
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: the emptiest of all.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Can it be that you are inexperienced in such matters? Entirely.
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: Ah, you don't know what you've missed. One pair of
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: lips will change your mind for you someday.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Indeed. It depends upon the subject, Madame Aldous, for instance.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Madame Aldous?
• 28:34
  Speaker 11: She's quite taken with you, you know. She thinks you're fascinating.
• 28:37
  Speaker 11: You might try your game of love in that quarter,
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: Your Highness.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: You don't seem very interested. You were thinking of another, perhaps?
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: Perhaps.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Who, Your Highness? It is growing late, Baron. I think
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: we'll go back now.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Lambert, I must know what all this mystery is about.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Mystery, Maria? I felt it too, Father. I don't know
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: what it is, but you seem afraid of something. My
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: dear boy, please.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Lambert, who is this guest of yours?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Prince Circe.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I feel that you are concealing something.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Maria.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: And Grazia has been very strange these past three days.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Blissless.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Almost exalted. I think she is attracted to this man.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: I've seen it too. And Madame Alda.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: They couldn't be. Why?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: I mean... nothing could come of it. He wouldn't encourage them.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: And Maria, it's his last evening. He goes at midnight.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Why at midnight? That's his natural... That is... Oh, it's
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: a whim of his. Just a whim, nothing more. Your Excellency. Yes, Fedele.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: You asked to be informed as soon as Prince Circe
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: returned from the casino. Oh, yes. He's in the library,
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Your Excellency. Very well. You'll excuse me, Maria?
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Your Highness.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, good evening, my friend. You have returned early from
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: the casino. Yes, I was very bored.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: I had hoped that your last evening... Yes, my last evening.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: But it isn't over as yet.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: No, Your Highness. You haven't told anyone about me.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: None of your guests know my real identity.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: No one knows, Your Highness.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I wish that reserve kept without fail. I shall be
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in the garden for a while now.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: There's very little time left.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: And I still have not found your reason for existence.
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: Good evening, your highness.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Ah, Madame Alda, good evening. You're all by yourself.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, I felt that you would be out here. I've
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: been waiting for you.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Many people do, but none quite so cheerfully. Aren't you afraid?
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Of you?
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Well, perhaps I am a little. But my interest is
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: far greater than my fear.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Oh, I am glad. But if you knew... You.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Are so fortunate here, you people. I think I used
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: to despise you all with your little whims and desires
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: all leading up to nothing. Now, there is nothing I
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: want so much as to share them.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: I've so often thought all that of myself.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Oh, but my dear Alda, you can have whatever dreams
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: you wish. But suppose you had been sat down for
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: a few hours or a few days among the inhabitants
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: of the moon. And that was all the life that
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: you could have forever. And you knew no one there.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: And no one dared.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: To know you.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Do you really feel that?
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I am not one of you.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: Then I wish that you were.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: You do?
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I've waited for someone like you.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Even though I am not what I seem?
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, but you are.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: No, no. I am a fear, a shadow, a wandering thing.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Isn't there a story among your legends of a merman
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: who came asking a woman to love him so that
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: he might have a soul?
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: Well, if there is, I'm sure she'd give him what
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: he asked. I think she'd give up her own soul gladly.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: If she were in love?
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: You see, I have come asking for that.
• 32:40
  Speaker 7: Of me?
• 32:41
  Speaker 13: Yes.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: But also, it is impossible... Why?
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: Because you will take one step toward me and know
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: my secret and lose courage.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Try me.
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: You.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: You do love me?
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: How much?
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: More than life itself.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: You can give me a soul only if you know
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: me and can still love me.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Look into my eyes. Look deep. What do you see there?
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Shadows.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Look into those shadows.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Let your thoughts go to its wildest reach.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: I will you to know who I am. No.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: No. I want to live.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: You're afraid of me.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, let me go.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Please let me go.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: You're afraid. The mere thought of my real person puts
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: a chill around your heart.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Let me go. Kidding me.
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: Go then. Go back to your petty little existence. You
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: are not great enough for me, young.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: I am looking for a response such as you could
• 33:52
  Speaker 6: never give. I am searching for someone who knows and
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: is not afraid.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Such a lovely night, Your Highness.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: You? A very serene and lovely princess.
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: You do me too much honor, Your Highness. I'm not
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: really a princess, you know.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Let me call you so.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: I like to be called Grazia by my friends.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: How charming of you. Grazia, then.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: You make it sound like music.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: It is like music.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: It has overtones that go singing on and on. But
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: they are not sad, nor they are full of grace
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: and light.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, when you speak like that, I hear music too.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: Great sweeping chords.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: I could say so much more.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Your Highness is being very kind tonight.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: I wonder if I am being kind.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Perhaps I should have said gracious.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, not gracious either. I have discovered... that.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Even the mightiest must sue for certain favors.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: I should think Your Highness would never need to sue.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: On the contrary.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I am feeling strangely humbled for the first time in
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: my life.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: And I am feeling strangely thrilled and proud.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Grazie.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, you clamber.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Your mother is asking for you, my dear.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Your Highness.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Until later, Grazia.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Until later, Your Highness.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Your Highness. Yes? You'll forgive me, but... I'm worried, Your Highness. Worried?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: About Grazia. She's a lovely child. I hope that one
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: day she and Corrado will be... Enough, Your Highness. I...
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I hope that you are not thinking... Enough, I say!
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: If you don't understand, you're flamboyant. I've been caught in
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: this web of flesh, caught and tortured. I thought to
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: put it on like a garment and cast it off
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: as easily. But to put it off is to die.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: To die without having lived. To die alone, without loving
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: or being loved. And that I will not have.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: But it is fatal to love you. And you promise
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: to harm no one in this house.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Have you forgotten that in an hour I must go
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: with empty hands?
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Are you certain it will be with empty hands? Quiet!
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: I am an expert at conclusions, my friend.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: Grazia! Grazia! Here, Corrado.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, Grazia, I'm so glad to find you.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Why, dear?
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: You should be in the house, not walking out here alone. Grazia,
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: will you do me a great favor?
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: Of course.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: May I stay very close to you this evening?
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Because I love you, and I'm afraid.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: But there's nothing to be afraid of.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Grazia, why are you so strange?
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: I seem to be waiting for something. Let me stay
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: with you. It's not you that I'm waiting for, Corrado.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Grazia, you're so far away. Please come back to me.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: There's some awful danger.
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: I know it.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, no, not danger.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Happiness.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: Something I've been waiting for so long.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: Grazia.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: Please don't be unhappy, Corrado. I love you. In some
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: way I can't make clear.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: If I didn't feel so far away, I should be
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: in your arms crying and holding you close to me.
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: I want to do that. But somehow, I think I
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: never shall.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: You're trembling.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: I'm only a little cold. Will you get my cloak
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: from the hall?
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: I don't want to leave you. Won't you come with me?
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: No. I must wait here, Corrado.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: Grazie.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: I must wait here for him alone.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: We pause for station identification.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: This is the Columbia Broadcasting System. And this is KNX,
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the Columbia Station, Los Angeles.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: We call an intermission in our presentation of Death Takes
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: a Holiday, starring Frederick March and Florence Eldridge, to introduce
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: the dramatist who brought this play to American audiences. Formerly
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: instructor in English at Yale University, Walter Ferris is now
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: one of the screen's most valued writers. With such hits
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: to his credit as Under Two Flags, Maid of Salem,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: and Lloyds of London, he interrupts his work on Shirley
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Temple's film, Heidi, to be with us tonight. Ladies and gentlemen,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Walter Ferris.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. DeMille.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: There are no doubt people in our audience who think
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: me morbid for having dealt with this subject, but my
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: intention was anything but morbid.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Mr.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Cassell's brilliant and compelling conception of death on a holiday
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: suggested all sorts of fascinating ideas to me.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: One was this.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: I thought if I were to treat death as a
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: fellow who couldn't understand why people were afraid of him,
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: since his job was only to escort them from one
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: world to another, that those who saw the play might
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: cheer up a little. I thought they might go out
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: of the theater stepping a few inches higher than when
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: they came in, which was what Mr. DeMille and David
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Blasco achieved with their fantasy on death, The Return of
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: Peter Grimm. That, to my mind, is what every play
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: or motion picture should make an audience do, step a
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: little higher.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Whether the theme is comedy or tragedy.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: The adaptation of Mr. Casella's play must have been a
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: very difficult task.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: It was.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Adrienne Morrison, the mother of Joan Constance Bennett, asked me
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: to do it. At first I refused, but then the
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: theme haunted me so that I finally accepted and spent
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: nearly two years in writing the play you are presenting tonight.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Four actresses found their way to fame through the part
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: of Grazia. Rose Hobart, Helen Vinson, Margaret Sullivan, and Catherine Hepburn.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: But how did you happen to turn playwright? By playing
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: hide-and-seek with death myself, really.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Like Mr.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: March, I found myself in a hospital with lots of
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: time to think things over. Freddie got better and became
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: an actor. I became an author.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: You're both getting better all the time. Certainly, Mr.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: March has recovered splendidly. But I sometimes have doubts about myself.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: We've been very lucky in the stars we've had in
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: the part of death. First, Philip Merivale on the stage,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: then Frederick March on the screen. And now on the radio,
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: we have Mr. March and his distinguished wife playing together.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: And before saying goodbye, I should like to express an
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: author's gratitude to the Lux Radio Theater for the very
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: intelligent fashion in which it uses his material. It's been
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: a pleasure to be here and see how you present
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: a program in behalf of a product which we use
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: every day, both at home and at 20th Century Fox Studios,
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Lux Toilet Soap.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you. It's been a pleasure, Mr. Ferris, to have
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: you with us.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Death Takes a Holiday, starring Frederick March and Florence Eldridge.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: The time grows short. Death's holiday on Earth is almost over,
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: and soon Prince Circe must again take up.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: The black cloak of his real existence.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: In the garden, Grazia and His Highness sit hand in hand,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: gazing deep into each other's eyes. You kept your promise, Grazia.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: You came to meet me.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: Didn't you know that I would?
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Yes. I felt it deep within me. It is strange.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: We seem to understand each other so. We hardly need
• 42:36
  Speaker 6: to speak, do we?
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: Thoughts are so much clearer than words.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Then perhaps you can tell me what I've been doing here.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: I think I can, almost. Tell me.
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: I think you've been holding life in your hands, as
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: I do sometimes. I think you've been a little afraid
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: of its beauty.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: You do know.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: You wonderful, exquisite child. Something new has been born in me.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: And at last, I know the meaning of this life
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: men lead here. I know for the first time men
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: bear a dream within them. A dream that lifts them
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: above their petty lives. And that dream is love. You
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: have brought this to me, Grazia.
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: You have shown me a new world. A world which
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: you made for me and which we share together. And yet,
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: I am alone, too. Still alone.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: I think we'll never be alone again.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: We must, Grazia.
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: And I shall miss you so. I shall hear your
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: laughter in every wind that passes. I shall hear your
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: footsteps wherever they are. When our two worlds hold us apart.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: Why should we ever be apart? What is this that
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: will happen? Who are you?
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Prince Serkis.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: I don't mean that.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: You seem to come from a distant place. You're like
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: the mystery that's just beyond sight and sound. Always just
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: beyond my reach. Something that draws and... and frightens me.
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: Oh, Grazia, Grazia, please, do not be afraid of me.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: I am Circe who loves you more than any man
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: could love you. I am Circe who needs your warmth
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: and your beauty more than any man could need them.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Listen to me, Grazia. I am a great power. And
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: I am humble before you. And tonight, I must go
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: back to my... My distant kingdom.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: Will you take me with you?
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Take you?
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: I should be unhappy alone.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Take you?
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: Oh, no, not.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Do not tempt me. Papa, grazie. Grazie, please.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Give me one hour with you. Let me hold you
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: close to me. For you are the meaning of beauty
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: that I must know. Let me hold you in my arms, grazie.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: And know that I have lived Oh, my love.
• 45:17
  Speaker 14: My love.
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: Only the chimes of the hall clock. It's striking the
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: three-quarter hour.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Three-quarter hour? Oh, then soon it will be midnight. Midnight.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: I tell you, Father, she's slipping away from me, away
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: from all of us. Corrado, please. Maria.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: She's out there in the garden with him now. He
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: has some strange power over her.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: We must favor from him.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: We can do nothing. Stand there and say that. We
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: must do something. We can go out there together and
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: take him by the throat. If we could, should I
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: be standing here? Grazie is no danger there. There is
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: nothing to be alarmed about. But you're alarmed, Lambert. Yes, father,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: you're terrified.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: I must know why.
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: Lambert, let me go to her. No, no, wait.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Then I'll go. No, I forbid you to move. Then
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: tell me why I can't go. Give me your reason
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: or by heaven I'll kill that man.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: You can't kill him. But he can kill us. If
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: he but points out his hand, all of us... Who
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: is this prince? You don't know what you're asking. I
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: don't care. I only know that Grazia's in danger. Very well.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: He said if I reveal his secret, he will leave
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: instantly as Circe and return as.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Steal yourselves, if you are to hear it. He is
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: not Prince Circe. He is the one who waits, the
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: one whom all men dread. His majesty, death, amusing himself
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: on a holiday.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Father, death, death.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: So, my friend, you have broken your promise.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, I was desperate, sir. It's my son's life against
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: my promise. I had no choice.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: I am not used to these distinctions.
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: I thought we should part as friends with kindly remembrances.
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: But now my shadow has come between us.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Not already.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: No, I am immortal still for a few minutes. No
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: longer as Prince Sirki, but as myself with my own feelings.
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: In a few moments I shall be what I was.
• 47:36
  Speaker 6: And for me, too, there will be an end.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: But you are above pain and loss.
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: Am I?
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 47:43
  Speaker 6: I thought tonight I had reached the end of my experiment.
• 47:46
  Speaker 6: I had found love. But it was not the end.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Beyond that, I have found the pain of losing love.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: If I must lose it. But it must be lost
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: to you. Why? Because you are.
• 48:00
  Speaker 6: Death!
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Death! My dear Duke. Thank you for defining the problem.
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: Your Highness, won't you give her back to me?
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: It's your pain against mine. Why should I deny myself
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: because of your childish fear? You know nothing of the
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: meaning of death. I tell you, there is no death.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Only a life beyond. A richer, simpler life than yours.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: And infinitely more kind.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: But she is so young to die. Go with me
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: now and love would be triumph, not death. as it
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: is known to you.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, in God's name, please!
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Give her back to me! Give her back to me!
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: One lover must always lose, Corrado. But not like this.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Not with death.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: There are wolves between us, and I cannot reach your minds.
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: Why do men fear my coming?
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Death.
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: Death is but a word that you've been taught to fear,
• 48:49
  Speaker 6: a symbol of the unknown. And because of that word,
• 48:51
  Speaker 6: you keep her from me. I would only lead her
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: through the gateway to the life that lies beyond me.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Your Highness, we are not answered. Are we to keep Grazia?
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: Is she yours even now? But she doesn't know who
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: you are. Now, if she knew, what would she choose?
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, you're right.
• 49:12
  Speaker 6: Even Grazia was born to fear the face of death.
• 49:16
  Speaker 6: She would die with me now as Circe. But as death,
• 49:22
  Speaker 6: I cannot tell her. You gave me your word. Do
• 49:25
  Speaker 6: you think me bound by that?
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: An honorable man would be bound. Must I assume your flesh?
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: Must I assume your weakness? Then pity our weakness. I
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: have seen pity struggling in you. We beg the life
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: of Grazia... I bound myself to life and with it
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: to the petty rules by which it is lived.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: And now I must bow to it. What a monstrous comedy.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Where is he going? To fetch Grazia. Oh, what will
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: he do?
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: What will he do?
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: We must wait, Maria. He's been so long. What is
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: the time? Four minutes to the hour.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: Four minutes.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Shh, Maria. Your Highness, she is coming in. You'll give
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: her back to us? No. It is for her to choose.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Your Highness.
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: Come here, Grazia.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, Grazia, darling. I've been so frightened. Grazia, don't run
• 50:26
  Speaker 4: away like that again. Not in the night.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: But I was quite safe with Fincirchi, Mother. I love
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: to be with him. I must stay with him always.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: Grazia.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: He's kind, Mother.
• 50:38
  Speaker 5: And more tender than anyone I've ever known.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: Even more tender than you.
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: Don't, Grazia. You don't know what you're saying.
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: Why are you all so strange? Why are you suffering so?
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: I've found my love. There ought to be light and music.
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: Save her.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Oh, please, save her.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Tell her what you will.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: What is there to tell? You think there's anything I
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: don't understand? I love His Highness. And I must go
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: with him.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Your Highness, you must tell her.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: Say what you like. It will make no difference.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: It's nearly twelve, Your Highness. Yes, I know, Grazia.
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: Grazia, I came to this house in jest and made
• 51:20
  Speaker 6: love to you as a jest.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: You're trying to destroy my love because they wish it.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: It was not a jest.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Grazia, listen.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: You must stay here with those who love you. I
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: am going far away to a distant country. If you
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: went with me now, you could never see them again.
• 51:37
  Speaker 5: Why must you say these things to me? They can
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: make no difference.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: But you don't understand. My holiday is over. I am
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: going at once. I'm ready. No, no, no. You can't
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: come with me.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: Yes, I can. Shall we go now?
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: But you don't know who I am.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: You are my love. My love.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: You heard her? All of you? You wish me to
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: speak and destroy this happiness? You must.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: Oh, Garcia.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Grazia, my little love, please. It was not a jest,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: but I must go, dear, alone. Oh, no. Goodbye, my friends.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: Remember that there is only a moment of shadow between
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: your life and mine. And when I call, come bravely
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: through that shadow. And you will find me only your
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: familiar friend.
• 52:34
  Speaker 12: Now, Gracia, you see me as I am.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Good heavens!
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: As I am, Gracia.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: As dead.
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: That is why I must go alone. You understand now, Gracia.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: But I've always seen you like that. You haven't changed.
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: You have seen me like this?
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: Yes. Always. And I'm going with you.
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: Then there is a love which casts out fear. And
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: I have found it.
• 53:26
  Speaker 6: And love is greater than illusion.
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: And as strong.
• 53:32
  Speaker 13: As death comes for us here.
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: I'm here. Yes.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Yes, holiday is over. And with it, our play.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: But Frederick March and Florence Eldredge Rejoin us at the
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: microphone later. Along with the Gish and Talmadge sisters, Mary
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Pickford and Marguerite Clark, Blanche Sweet will always be remembered
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: among Hollywood's favorite stars at the silent screen.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Discovered by D.W.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Griffith, Blanche was in no small measure responsible for the
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: box office competition he constantly gave me. I thought the
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: best way to remove the competition was to acquire the star,
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: which I did. A million miles of film have run
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: through Hollywood's cameras since then. But as I welcome her tonight,
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: I see the same charming Blanche with the lovely blue
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: eyes who brought to silent pictures the eloquence of a
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: great performer. Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Blanche Sweet.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Cecil, and thank you all. Rather amazing, isn't it?
• 54:48
  Speaker 15: To think back to what pictures were like when you
• 54:50
  Speaker 15: and I began, long before we ever dreamed of speaking
• 54:53
  Speaker 15: to each other with a microphone between us. You know,
• 54:56
  Speaker 15: I was just 13 when I made my film debut
• 54:58
  Speaker 15: with the old Edison Company back in New York. My
• 55:00
  Speaker 15: salary was the staggering sum of $ 3 a day. And
• 55:04
  Speaker 15: I remember my first Hollywood film for Mr. Griffith at Viagra.
• 55:08
  Speaker 15: It was a one-reel thriller called The Lone Dale Operator.
• 55:13
  Speaker 15: At that time, you know, the names of the cast
• 55:14
  Speaker 15: were never mentioned by the leading studios, and Biograph made
• 55:17
  Speaker 15: it a point to always withhold the identity of their players. Then,
• 55:21
  Speaker 15: names were advertised by independent companies, who chose this as
• 55:25
  Speaker 15: a new means to combat opposition. So quite unwittingly did
• 55:28
  Speaker 15: the system featuring star personalities come into being.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Which do you remember, Blanche, as the most outstanding films
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: of your career?
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: Now, Cecil, that's not for me to say.
• 55:39
  Speaker 15: But I particularly like doing Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Anna Christie,
• 55:42
  Speaker 15: Judith of the Thulia, and, of course, your own production, The.
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: Warrens of Virginia.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: Recently, many of us saw you on the stage, playing
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: with Leslie Howard in Petrified Forest. After your success in that,
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: have you any thought of returning to pictures?
• 55:56
  Speaker 15: Well, I'm due back in New York this spring for
• 55:58
  Speaker 15: a play. I leave next month and expect to go
• 56:00
  Speaker 15: into rehearsal soon after. I'll miss listening to your program, Cecil,
• 56:04
  Speaker 15: when I'm in the theater. But I assure you, I
• 56:06
  Speaker 15: don't have to be reminded to keep on using Luxe
• 56:08
  Speaker 15: toilet soap. I hope I'm not a fussy individual, but
• 56:12
  Speaker 15: I am particular about what I use for my complexion.
• 56:15
  Speaker 15: I've used Luxe toilet soap for many years, and I'm
• 56:18
  Speaker 15: glad to have this opportunity of saying what a marvelous
• 56:20
  Speaker 15: beauty care it is.
• 56:20
  Speaker 4: Now, thank you again. Goodbye.
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  Speaker 2: Sweet, isn't she?
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: Patience, as Disraeli once remarked, is a necessary ingredient of genius.
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: And in calling back our leading man to the microphone,
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: with Miss Eldridge, I call back the most patient man
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 2: Forward, March. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
• 56:43
  Speaker 7: And Mrs.
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  Speaker 2: Frederick March. Thank you. Thank you, C.B.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know quite what you mean by patience, though,
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  Speaker 3: unless you refer to the fact that it's been nearly
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: five years since we last worked together. The sign of
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  Speaker 3: the cross, what would have been in another DeMille production tonight,
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  Speaker 3: has been worth all the patience in the world. Thanks, Freddy,
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  Speaker 3: but I referred particularly to the patient you exhibited in
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: the sign of the cross.
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  Speaker 4: You mean the time you fed my husband to the lions, Mr.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: DeMille?
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  Speaker 4: I think I deserve the medal for patience, not Freddy.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: This scene, Florence, was just before he was served to
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  Speaker 3: the lions. A jailer was supposed to enter with a
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: simple speech... Forgive me, but we must proceed. The emperor
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  Speaker 3: is waiting, excellence.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I remember that, yes.
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  Speaker 6: And the jailer was so terribly scared that he just
• 57:32
  Speaker 6: couldn't say the word excellent.
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  Speaker 3: Every time he'd ruin the scene by saying your majesty
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: or your highness or your lordship.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: And what happened?
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  Speaker 6: As I remember, after wasting hours, we went to lunch
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: while Mr. DeMille dug up another jailer.
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  Speaker 3: This new actor looked the part and he caught his
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  Speaker 3: cue perfectly.
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  Speaker 2: He glared at us fiercely and he declared.
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  Speaker 3: Forgive me, but we must proceed.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: The emperor is waiting, Excellency.
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: When I heard that list, they had to keep me
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: from throwing that jailer instead of Freddy to the lions.
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: Weren't you just a little bit frightened, Freddy, playing the
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: lion scene?
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  Speaker 2: Not a bit, my darling.
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  Speaker 6: You see, I had just found out that those lions
• 58:11
  Speaker 6: didn't like ham.
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  Speaker 2: Freddy tells me, Florence, that you and he are going
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  Speaker 2: back on the stage. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: We wanted to wait until our children were a bit older.
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: But now Penny's four and a half and Tony's a
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: little past three.
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  Speaker 3: Time marches on with the marches. Incidentally, C.B., Penny's a
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: great booster of yours. She told us to be sure
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: to give her love to the man who sells that
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: nice soap.
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: Well, after all, Lux Toilet Soap has been a standby
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: of the March household for a good many years, Mr.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: DeMille.
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: Not because just about everybody in Hollywood also seems prefer it.
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: but because it happens to be just about the finest
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: complexion care we know of.
• 58:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, and now, darling, don't you think it's about time
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: we went home and put the kids to bed?
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I do. Goodbye, Mr. DeMille. And to all
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: of you out there, our sincere thanks.
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: Goodbye, all.
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  Speaker 2: March goes out like a lion.
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: March, Miss Eldridge, our thanks. Ladies and gentlemen, this is
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: your announcer, Melville Rowe. from Mr. DeMille in a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: March will be next seen in the David O. Selznick
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  Speaker 3: Technicolor production, A Star is Born.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 3: DeMille appeared through courtesy of Paramount Studios and Louis Silver's
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  Speaker 3: 20th Century Fox, where he was in charge of music
• 59:21
  Speaker 3: for the new.
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  Speaker 2: Film, Seventh Heaven. And now, our producer.
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: Next Monday night, the Lux Radio Theater brings you George
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: Burns and his pixelated partner of screen and radio, Miss
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: Gracie Allen. The vehicle for these nitwits of the networks
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: is supplied by those sharp-witted satirists, George S. Kaufman and
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: Mark Connolly, and was the first play that brought them fame, Dulce.
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: In addition to Burns and Allen, our cast will include
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: four of the original players, Howard Lindsay, Wallace Clark, Elliot Nugent,
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: and Norma Lee. Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap,
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: join me in inviting you to be with us again
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater stars George
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: Burns and Gracie Allen in Dulce. This is Cecil B.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. This is the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: Columbia Broadcasting System.
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  Speaker 1: That concludes Lux Radio Theater's Death Takes a Holiday. Follow
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Lux Radio Theater for more classic broadcasts.